। । । परड़ाँ आप बजाँ और आप बाधन जुप आप उभोग परड़ूए। अव विखाँ साथ की शुब आप यो बज़त्याग, आप भी अईद़़ाँ अपज्वोग योबज़ूए। stanbul ुआदश ूदश ूदश ुआश ूदश ूदश is constitutional lawyer basically with petitions and administrative matters, way the beginning of my career. That's just a little bit of an introduction about me and nice question, thanks for the question and writing is a passion with me it's it's something that I'm very very, very, very crazy भी वेंगेर घादिः मेंं सब आद बोगर सकता है में वोगरिमार्वैंएं वीगेर जान्धागा घादिन को बिघ्गादिः। और और में र्पावावाद ब्रज्श्या सेगों फी। परदओह मभ�iğागे मै कन चलनگित दाछता हैं खते analyses... एह साः लग वेश моя कंऩरबो थोINAUDIBLE परमावागेगेगेग। खते वह थे बहिलकेगा कि कह�ोग कर वो ठुए वावावाखेगेस One टinfect him of life. औixed वो श वीड़ी तेसी बग़ लेगेग equation. हम चहीवMon congrats to god on the अगर देशांगे और प्रशी़ जाए। पार लिए मुठीश्या्गे प्रशी़। जा जो लिए मोंगाने खॉश्वर्ठ쪽에 भावार नोगा रीजा of the heart combining the feelings of what I think about everything । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । is like more of it is like making a movie canonical or it's like writing your home. Everything is about expression of feelings. That is what writing to me is and that is why writing will always memorable already in the audience and author rather than那麼 of Paul Mitchell speaking writing is about telling the world you are point of view just like artist put on the point ौp point u fu fin they dh dhu wa a pain dhu dhu dhu e ौp in fact it is a picture drawn with words ौp and it has to be a point of view that is very close to your heart ौp that's right ौp you can't just write about anything you want ौp expect that there will be heart in ौp expect there will be feeling in it ौp expect that there will be a connect in it between you and your reader ौp for example in my book called fear of God Another book is about my own frustration over the corruptials... This book is about corruption... this book is about vigilantism...llow it is a thriller that is soon going to be made into a movie again... क्या दीर्वाई क्या का चिल्फर्वाउंए सवह न प्रश्उद्पने रहाई आनकाई क्या आपकांगोंगें प्रश्उद्पने रहाई अग्चा यहाल वो भी ज़ुग़ रहाहने बस्प्ल़े किः क्या जो दिर्वाई लेकसचा शूता ख़ेगा। तु तु तु at confront him when when when when you are in the mistake is a affront to law as such it is a disrespect to law it is disrespect to enforcement of law and pulling names and throwing names at people. अगर तु तु तु तु at confront him when when you are in a mistake is a affront to law it is disrespect to law. तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु तु त�wang was," and it's an energy that never fades until you're able to come out with it." It needs a whole lot of conviction for you to write, it's not something that you can- I've seen a lot of authors who come up to me and say, I've started this book, I've written down all the ideas above this book. I have written three, four chapters in this book and then I don't know what to do. That's because there's a lack of conviction if you what is your belief system and how strong is that belief system and what you want to say about that belief system and if there are any fiction readers in this among these audience they know that a person likes would say for example Kashmir and Syanghi writes purely about Indian mythology आद्शोग आदें कहाते को बंग खाएर मुझ at the present day context. आदें और दो अगागा मैंखोलगी योगा को बना बीद्श्वारे मैंदश्वार게 खलके एक तुव्वारे İlk continuing the Bhimana translates about... ...is a thriller based on the temples of India... ...so therefore, ...what that comes to mind in my mind, ...that idea needs to convert to paper. It has to come out and I have this great urge that I have to... ...communicate that idea to my readers तुरrespondिती मुबस्ःन का अगश्णी से अगश्णीका है, मिखने का तुरश्सिता है, और औत जमा है, एक वो आसी और टुद पोँगा का, पहाँ नादवेदा। इसे त्रिल्रे सब अग्धी तावरी ध्वरी प्री त्रिल्रे, प्रुठाश में और तुवनी रईगदा अग्धी प्रुठाश में अगधी नदाजुर भेदा ये अग्धी तुछदर बूर्ग भूगत्यों। Because, sometimes we tend to miss the building to be in. And then, i fuse that with quantum science. Which is a very futuristic science. So typically what drives an author to write Is the idea She is a relentless energy that goes into him To bring out that idea And to communicate that to his audience That is what you know makes me write. I hope you get answers. Yeah. Back to that question, it is quite enter things have been wrong with that. तो गडनाउस्ल नहीं के औस्सी ज़ोगने कने कगर्ऎा वियेकननाउसी और प्रेश्टीतू, after that do you for any author of a young person who wants to take into writing like you said blogging writing. तो सम्प्ट और वहता यह थोगने औत बराया, और सम्भिल प्रेनत, वह मेंने काई वह दो वहब रही तांग, how do you write that book, and how do you structure within your mind, how do you start writing it down. गतws fi নORE MAND, गत वर दोस stories.  आदवार या आद्वार हीज़ा नहीं, दिक और आद प कराईट था. वोग्चा, या वादिल या ची हतते off. भी बूब भी जोग़ा सेगे नहींंने वेज़े कर्व्सासरात गर और बुछ नहीं नहीं के देविव. बुवाब अँगो चानी बाउग. लग़र एग सेडा, एस रहे है, वो तो वीचन गराइ. एका, यह ईलको हँई, 59 भी भिचने आश्तर लग लग़ा.  मेरी  कुद लग वीट्वोहाँधा पाजली तुचा।  मैं सक्दूए बगर। अगर करेडन बगर शुभ्ट の औक ज़ादूर। किसात यस सब नब वो नाँ ताब च देश्वात। तटली आप थी दितिये करकिट ज़ेपना। ययी समझता। my work is about the compliance that also has that one idea about importance. Now taking this one idea,条以 experienced the main idea for both the положions andOur presentation, टीएडिल्ँत करष्सी, around it in terms of corruption ils of corruption. When atoire gave me about corruption  अदिल्गठ bottlenec иногда from the ideas, the take from real life characters and stories that šeसता खागी न equilibrium stories that we have read about or seen, arest,  logistics of the entire system that is being run available for sale.  अक खेल आज़ार, च़िज़ी, इसंग़ टलगी हूँझर. Makaj began below Le believe इस अरीग ऐठत горद उनी च्यों तबोग� some तर्च, य 좕क जाख, च्यों जुईचु. The litter created this character called Jack Reacher, A modern day sort of night,  blond. ज�inin प् marsh. ॐ calorREAM in AI and in a wayad that leechildce books are sold every nine seconds, are sold for several times in the world. Every nine seconds one of its books are sold. That is the power of that character called Jack Liche. So to me a character is very very important when you are writing a book. So, two things which I know is an idea, a concept of what the end will be and a very very strong character. These are the things that a young writer must keep in mind when you are structuring your book and when you are writing this book. If these three things fail, the book's failed. Most importantly, if the character's failed, the book fails. if you are not able to identify with your hero, if you are not able to hit the villain, if you are not able to laugh at the comedian, the movie is a flop, right? So the characters are the ones that take the book forward, the story forward, anything that you want to say, the point of view that you want to get across, the characters are the ones that take them forward and therefore those characters must be very interesting, their life must be interesting, what makes them tick, what makes them do, what makes them stop doing something is very important when you are writing a book, it may be a love story, it may be an action thriller, it can be a mythology, it can be a fantasy unless the central characters of the book are strong, as a writer you have failed your hero, that is my belief and I have given you examples of how great characters have turned books around So that is my opinion of a book, my opinion of what a structure of a book is, three important things, the beginning or the idea, the end of the book, how you want to conclude the book and the characters that are going to take the story forward you are able to get these three ingredients correctly, you are as an author, as an artist, the art of writing is something that you have succeeded, I am not talking about the business of writing here, I am talking only about the art of writing and you have succeeded in that For that matter any author once he writes, does he visualize that his book will be 200 pages, 300 pages, how many chapters, what does it go behind the mind when you actually start structuring that So I always believe and I am sure that lot of other authors have said the same thing because I always believe that the book writes itself You really don't know, you can't say whether you can stop the book at 100 pages or whether you can stop the book at 300 pages Most of my books, as a thumb rule maybe or as a very unofficial thumb rule, most of my books are at least 80,000 words Roughly translated it comes to around 300 to 350 pages on a paper bank So that's the size of the book that I write But if you ask any author how big do you think your book is going to be, I don't think they'll know, I mean I don't know if J.K. Rowling ever thought when she was writing Harry Potter That she'll write seven books out of it, she must have had an idea but imagine she wrote about the same characters in the same story for seven books That's brilliant, I mean the story, the conviction, your idea of communicating it is so strong, the book can go on, it's also about how readable it gets Okay you can write a 1000 page book but who's going to read it So then you'll have to also look at how big you can get the book without getting it boring And that's also very important when you're writing a book or when you're deciding the size of the book So when you write a book say for example if my book is an 80,000 word book That means when I first finish my draft it's almost 100,000 words Okay now after that I do a lot of editing, my first draft gets over in say about three months From there on for the next six months I'm only editing them, I'm only fine-tuning the story, it's like a sculpture You have to go on chipping away and making it as crisp as possible, editing is very important So how much time do you want to spend on it, the larger the book the larger will be the editing work So all of these things will be important to consider when you're looking at the size of the book that you're writing So Mike you taking from Harry Potter you said that first and the first instance it could have been that there's a concept of one book And probably while you're writing it you also do not perceive or conceive for any author that it can be seven editions, eight editions And sometimes you feel that the entire idea in the first book is over probably it cannot push that But then how do you push that envelope to further writing on those particular parameters It depends on whether the idea can be grown, it's all about the idea I mean you're taking Harry Potter into account, so there's this little child that she's created, a magical child The second book was a little bit more about that magical child, the third book was a little bit more about the magical child Because then there is this huge villain who can move mountains and then there is a little child facing him The idea was so potent that she took the idea for seven books until that child became 17 years old And the actors who acted that part also grew with the story So it all depends on the idea and how much of potency that idea has got I mean you take a look at any of the James Bond movies, you take a look at Lee Childs, Jack Reacher that I was talking to you about Twenty one books about the same character, but different stories Same with James Bond, same with any other thing, but there are other authors Who cannot write about a character for more than one book That idea is over, that idea is communicated, it's done, I'm moving to the next idea That would be the thought flow of some other writers So it's about how strong your idea is and how much you want to explore and grow that idea I'm writing a trilogy for which my first book Shatru was a prequel to that trilogy It's based on Indian mythology, I wrote a prequel and six years later I'm bringing out my first part of my trilogy Which is getting published this year And then three other books are coming, two other books after this one Now I think it's three books, I honestly don't know, maybe it will become five books Depending on how strong the idea is, how good the characters are and how my audience receives it all Once we're talking of the audience, like one is that the blueprint, rough draft, rough sketch for the book Now while you are writing at the same time, whatever question I'm taking I'm not talking straight to you But I'm also talking for the audience who are watching us live on the YouTube and Facebook To the effect that at the same time we have also two things When the book is to be lost, what way it can have its own effect Just like a movie launch, like people go to Kapil Sharma etc Or there is some way out, how to hammer your point, how do you hammer the nail at the head Are there specific strategies or what is about it? There are strategies Unfortunately for us writers and authors don't have the same amount of deep pockets that film produces So authors generally can't afford Kapil Sharma so to speak But then we do our own promotion So the business of writing then comes into play In India globally what happens is the publisher takes the responsibility of publicizing the book Along with printing and publishing and distributing the book The publisher also takes responsibility of publicizing the book In India that's not the case In India the publisher prints the book And then distributes the book through the normal trade channels to all bookstores or to Amazon Or to Flipkart etc And then leaves it there Doesn't do anything after that Then it's up to the author again to promote the book And therefore the art of writing stops there and the business of writing starts there So if I want my book to be a success If I want to see any amount of royalty out of that I have to compete with 90,000 books that are coming into the market on a yearly basis in India Today along with my book that is going to be published and released this year There are another 89,000 books coming into the country Every year only in fiction And how many book shops do you have And in those book shops what is their capacity Hardly 2000 books Maximum 5000 books So where are these 90,000 books going Who is reading them Who is reading them Is anybody even seeing these 90,000 books in the market That's where the business of writing comes That's where marketing comes That's where creating a brand comes So then the author doesn't create a brand for his book The author creates a brand for himself Because you buy James Hadley Chase That's a brand You buy Robert Ludlum That's a brand You buy Amish Tripathi That's a brand Ashwin Sanghi No matter what books they write You buy the brand It's like buying Colgate toothpaste So for the young author It's very difficult for him to understand that concept He thinks he is going to write a book Somebody is going to publish it Somebody is going to the bookstore And it's going to be a super success Not so Their reality hits the author He falls to the ground He doesn't know what hit him He has published his book along with him 89000 authors that year have published books His book is lost in the crowd Unless he builds a brand for himself He has his own set of readers And they like the books that he reads And they appreciate the ideas And that's when the author is able to sell his books How do you create that space within space? Sorry? How do you create that space within space? Marketing is today for an author The easiest form of marketing is online marketing Your social media Of course nothing takes the place of a good book No matter how well you market If your book is not good it will flop And no matter if you don't market Your book will have a moderate success Because it's a hit But the more you market The more your book becomes a success Social media is a form of marketing Advertising is a form of marketing Nowadays giving interviews on newspapers Is a waste of time Because today's newspaper is waste of time It's very garbage in garbage out So it has to be a consistent form of marketing That the author has to do And each author has found a way of doing that I have found a way of doing that There are other authors who have found a way of doing that You will have to be consistently visible And be able to express yourself there People should like the person that you are The writing that you have And the ideas that you are able to convey And that should be expressed Just like beyond law Has got the kind of Viewership it has because of the subjects you have chosen It's because of the way you have conducted it And therefore it has created a brand for itself Same for an author It doesn't happen with one book It happens with many books It happens over a period of time And with a lot of work that you have to put in In terms of communicating who you are to your audience That is again Slightly into the business of writing a book Because you are there I think that Vikas has dropped off So until he joins Or maybe we can Anybody who wants to ask questions Anything that you want to say I joined again Because you are there I am sorry there was some goof up Now You said marketing is a strategy But few takeaways What you can say that At least There is some common baseline in everything What are the thumb rules for a youngster To think about how he can create That space within that Amazon That bookstores An imprint on the some person Like you said it's a huge thing That you can create Within that entire world You are just less than a molecule Or you create that space Amongst the people that you actually create So let me give you a perspective First before I come to that Let me give you a perspective Today The India is the second largest Hub For For English For English Books In the world The second largest Can you imagine We are the second largest consumer Of English books in the world And most of those English books Are text books Or Your school books To be a college It could be self help And fiction It is later to be a 790 billion Rupee market In the next 3 to 5 years But production costs have increased So after the pandemic And therefore because of paper increase Cost of increase etc Publishers are publishing lesser We have piracy issues in this country I mean It's commonly sold on the roads But they are not original books They are all pirated books And therefore authors are getting impacted And publishing houses are getting impacted As a result of that There is also a loss of what is known as Diplio diversity People want to read the same thing Over and over again There is no diversity in which You want to read different things These are all some of the disadvantages Of the current thing But In this huge market And the growing market Where there is a lot of scope Extremely high scope for authors And in the fiction category You have crimes and thrillers As the highest category of books That are sold in India today The art of writing a book Is crazy fun The business of writing a book Which for which you want The tips for the young authors Is a very very deep pool of water Where if the author Is not careful he can drown I have seen a number of authors Who have published once And they have gone They are finished They don't know what happened to their books They don't know what happened to their writing characters Everything must be Planned in the business of writing Just like any other business You have to have a budget for market You have to know the right marketing And this happens for authors By trial and error It happened to me by trial and error I burnt my fingers I burnt cash Trying to understand What is the best method through which you can You know Get visibility And you know what I learnt at the end of the day And this is the biggest tip to all My author friends The biggest thing I learnt is No matter how much cash you burn Consistency is important You have to be there You have to keep writing books Your books need to get Need to be published You have to consistently be In the eye of the public Avita Bachchan Did not become a superstar with one movie In fact The first five movies that Avita Bachchan did So consistency is the name of the game And that's what I understood You have to be there And then market Amazon has its own marketing plan For authors Now if you go to a publisher They'll put your book on Amazon That's the easiest marketplace to sell But then there are thousands and thousands Of books on Amazon How is your book going to be different Amazon has marketing plans for authors So choose those marketing plans Go to book communities like Goodreads Put yourself there Try to get as much reviews as you can Don't buy reviews Get as much reviews as you can Good reviews And there are good reviewers who will review your books And put them up on Amazon And so forth The thumb rule is that in Amazon If you have about 20 to 30 reviews Your book is bound to do well In the first one month If you are able to get 20 to 30 people To read your book And put up the reviews on Amazon Your book will do well So these are some of the tips That you'll have to understand You'll learn few more You'll know more than I have learnt In the future maybe But these are some of the things That you need You have to be in the limelight You have to keep writing Nobody became a One book wonder except for One flu over the cuckoo's nest That lady who wrote it And then she wrote the sequel for that book 40 years later So that was the only book I know That you write one book and it's a best seller It broke all barriers And then the author stopped writing after that Doesn't happen to everybody You have to keep writing You have to have those ideas If you think that you are going to Be a lover of love Practising law is a much more Look at him Look at him bet for people But if you have a love for writing You will make it And you will be a success You will be an Ashwin Sanghi You will be a Robert Ludlow So don't worry about that But you must have consistency That's the biggest tip that I know The consistency gives the confirmation of cash also Indirectly Yeah Because ultimately it is the love What you write and you create The entire space of yours Or what you say the Darwin's theory Survival of the fittest Whatever you write Survival of the fittest is A fact of life in today's life Because no matter which profession Whatever you are doing Unless you are good at it today You can't hope to Be a success In a way it's good It's called meritocracy But in a way It also means that you will have to keep Improving yourself Fine tuning yourself Bettering yourself And then you fall into a rat race I managed for a very long time In my life not to fall into a rat race I write my books because I love to write Thankfully for me My books are appreciated They are welcomed and they are well read And therefore I am encouraged to write I mean if you look at the reviews For my book on Amazon You'll be surprised So I am encouraged to write And that's important That you should be encouraged You should be appreciated Any artist loves to be appreciated So that's another thing That your work is appreciated There is qualitative work Satisfaction for you So before we end for the day According to you success as we all say That there is no success without you So first of all it is your mindset Your yourself That which is required As I say that what we say Since you were talking of mythology And all charity begins at home So the success also begins from you itself Confidence see I have this I have this thing about So to me faith and conviction Will get you success Hope is a beggar Faith is a conqueror Having hope means that You are hoping somebody will buy your book You hope that somebody will Appreciate you Somebody will publish you Hope is a beggar Hope is a conqueror Hope is a conqueror Hope is a conqueror Hope is a beggar If you have faith that you have That you have a good book in your hand If you have faith as a lawyer That you have a good case in your hand Or you have a good point in your hand You will win You will succeed Faith is a conqueror Hope is a beggar Now if you believe in that And move along with that There is no way you can fail It's good to have hope But don't rely on hope Have faith in yourself I am reminded of the word faith They say that if the mother Or the father throws the child in the air And he or she still giggles Because he or she has the faith That the parents will catch up So that's the story Pardon That the parents will catch it That's the conviction And that's why the child laughs more Than the mother in the air So that's on the parting note We part for the day And thank you Mr. Vazhan It was a pleasure connecting with you And tomorrow friends Again, 9 o'clock schedule Back to the legal business Individual solubilies Proceedings, latest witness in NBC 2018 So stay connected with us tomorrow at 9 am That's why CA Manoj Anand Thank you


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with another 2019-2020 Panini Revolution basketball break Chinese New Year edition. This is a random team break, not 12, but 2. Just keep that in mind. 2. Next one is in the store already. That's number 3. One spot gets you two teams and all card ship and all 30 teams are in. Very nice. Big thanks to these folks here. Let's double you up. There are all the teams right here. Just want to make sure I got the right list, right? Chris down to John. Yeah, okay. All 30 teams are in, just making sure. Roll it, randomize it, three into two, five times for each list. After five, we've got a bunch of Aaron Kayes all the way down to Jeremy 33. Three into two, five times for the teams and fifth and final time. After five times, we've got my Lakers on top all the way down to the Boston Celtics. And we've got the Nick Cam above my head. That's where the case just went. And he'll start ripping those so we can get a good head start on this break. Oh, I like that Nick camera. It's nice and crisp. Yeah, it's nice. See all the cards there? Even after COVID, we're doing this. Yeah, I think so. It's just easier. Right. A lot of room. We are not in this area. Yeah, you can dance around. Yeah, get some of that aerobic going. Burn some cows. All right, Aaron, you got the Lakers, Heat, Bucks and Pacers. Jason with the Knicks, Jeremy 33 with the T-Wolves and the Hawks. Jeff with the Pelicans. Nice. Mitch with the Sixers, Jeremy 33 with the Blazers. Jared with the Suns. John, your last spot mojo teams are the Hornets and the Clippers. Ryan L with the Magic. Ryan H with the Mavs. Ryan L with the Wizards. Mitch with the Pissons. Jason with the Bulls. Ryan H with the Warriors. Josh with the Cavs. Jared with the Jazz. Ryan with the Rockets. Ryan L. Gavin with the Kings. Chris with the Raptors and the Nuggets. Ryan L with the Thunder. Josh with the Gris. Jeff with the Nets. Gavin with the Spurs. And Jeremy with the Celtics. So let's get all this on one page here. Let's sort by column B by team. All right, so there you go. Any trades? Ryan, what's going on? Ryan E, what's going on? So there's the first half right there once again, just to get a look. All right there, Josh Horton has the Gris. Yeah, that's kind of a weird run. Jeremy 33 got the Hawks again and he'd trade for the Hornets again. If John is in the room, my camera's set here too. All right, anyone else need to see their team again in case you missed it the first time? Or maybe the font was a little too small in the previous one right there. In the basketball mixer? Shoot me an email on that and let us know. Send me the video of the break where you won that spot. I'll take a look at it. I don't think I would have forgotten it because all the numbers lined up correctly. Maybe it was a previous basketball mixer, not today's. But shoot us that email anyway and we'll take a look into it and we'll figure it out. All right, looks like no trades so let's roll. What's up Logan? TWC trade window closed. Four left on the football mixer? Is that really happening tonight? Are people just teasing us? Is the most random of breaks when it comes to getting a hit? Or is this the most random? No, I don't think so. All right, so here's the final printout right here. I feel like there's got to be more breaks that have a more random selection of hits than this. Usually any product with, I would say any product with a massive checklist, you know, you're going to find a lot of variance from break to break. All right, good luck everybody. So there's Jaren Jackson Jr. That's what the new year parallels look like. Everything's shipped so you'll be getting everything ladies and gentlemen. And then the more shorter printed ones will have like a green or gold foil. That's just a regular one, not numbered. Everything ships. There's Matisse Tybald. Anthony Davis. And people don't understand that, huh? The whole price thing, they think we're actually charging them. They must be like nine-year-old kids. They gotta be. I can't imagine any adult thinking that. I mean, this is a lot of zeros. Donovan Mitchell, the 88, I seriously can't imagine any adult. Maybe just make it sold out. There's no more. Right, right, right. Okay. That I can see a confusion. Yeah. We put a billion dollars on it. I don't get it. How are you guys seeing 16? It's a billion dollars. Who's going to pay a billion dollars for these hit packs? 37 out of these? Jasper Scammers. Rippin' off people. Oh boy. One day folks, we're going to write a, after Nick and I retire, we'll write a tell all book about all the silly things that has happened over the years. Another box. Griff will take the hit pack. No, no, no. Best he can do is a million. We look them all up. They go to the team that they're currently on for the mixer. If they're undrafted, the undrafted guys, it's a lot of them have signed to teams, but if they haven't signed yet, then they're randomizing one. Zion? Regular Zion. Just signed to the Redskins. Thaddeus. Oh, sorry. The Donovan Mitchell to 88 went to Jared and the Jazz. The Kobe White went to Jason Burndage and the Bulls. And the Zion, that's the Pelicans. That goes to Jeff with the Pels. Bossman is doing well, Jeremy 33. We've got him away from the public as much as possible. He's healthy. He's fine, but I don't think he thinks he's downplaying the seriousness of the situation, at least at first. Now, but I think we're all working kind of staggered hours. So we're all avoiding each other as much as possible, being safe, being sound. Yeah. And I'm sure he's doing a lot of pushups at home now. Not much else to do. He's doing a lot of, uh, a lot of prison workouts. All right, the Tyler Hero for Aaron and the Heat. The Hachimura for Ryan L. and the Wizards. Here's the next box right here. And lead off with De'Aaron Fox. There's Nasir Little, Julius Randall, Draymond. And there's a green, Jared Jackson Jr. 35 out of 88. Josh Kay remembers when, uh, when Bossman would do breaks.  That sounds, it sounds about right. Uh, that goes to the Grizz, Joshua Horton with that one. There's Jason Tatum. Well, he, he is a Navy man.  The Revolution Box are terrible. When you pull it out, it makes that noise. Well, you also have to watch out because when you put your thumb right, you can like slice your finger there. That's not good. All right, Sal Horford. Remember that one soccer break was it flawless soccer?  I struggle with those hockey names, but yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's fair game, but that was a good moment. All right, there's LeBron James. Sprule. Oh yeah, the guy that, the guy that choked his coach. I thought you know a lot of old school guys. I figured you would have known with Trell Spreewell. The only way I've known old school guys now is because of cards. Hmm. Spreewell. Spreewell I'd never heard of. I was like, Choked his coach. Who was the coach that he choked? Not Vinnie Del Negro. Right. John fact. Another Zion, Jeff T. Carlissimo. Right. PJ Carlissimo. They got in a, they got in a fight at practice or something like that. There was a disagreement and then he put his hand, he put his hands. I'm sure he was not gasping for air, but I think the story is now he choked him up, but I'll bet what really happened was he just put hands on him in the neck area.  I don't know if there was. 30 out of 88, Dan Smith Jr. Knicks. Those are the days pre-COVID. When you can, when you can choke your coach. John Morant. What was the punishment for that? Well, what happened?  Fired by the team. Was he released? I'm not sure what the, it's always like Lawls, he choked a coach and then it's like, what were the consequences of that? Nice John Morant, Josh Horton with the gris. Just a base, John Morant. There had to have been consequences. PJ Washington, New Year. Is PJ Carlissimo still with us? Or has he left this mortal coil? All right. Three more boxes left as you can see on the Nick Cam. I have all of them right here. Emma used to be so cool. Yeah, there was, he was suspended for a year since Jared Phillips, right? Yeah, I figured there had to be some hefty thing. There's Jalil Ogilfor, Taco Fall. Wow, we're down to two in that football mixer? Wow, people rising to the challenge.  We'll show you. All right. Darius Garland, New Year. John Wall, New Year. We've got a green. Brandon Ingram, 84 out of 88. Curtis, what's up? A trolley? What are we talking about here? Use BAM out of bio. Another John Morant, which we'll save. Just a base John Morant though. KZO Paula, New Year. Another LeBron James with the Lakers. All those LeBron James as we'll add up too, Aaron with the Lakers. Last dance tomorrow. Oh, whoa. That's in the last dance mixer tomorrow? Wow. Can be like a million dollars. I've heard of him. That's a million dollar break right there. I see that on the Nick Cam up there. That guy looks familiar. I know who he is. What is that graded to? PSA-8. That's solid. All right, one more box to go. Let's try to finish strong here. Jared has some additional information about Spreel going back in time. Spreel said he had his hands around the deck of P. J. Colesmo, Coach of the Warriors, but he said the marks on Colesmo's neck were made by his nails and prove he wasn't choking the coach. It feels a little potato-potato to me. Jordan Sticker. Whoa. The whole set we had. Whoa. 86 as well, right? RJ Barrett, New Year. I mean, how many are you going to put them? I mean, that's a lot. The whole set? Are you guys looking at that right there? A little preview of tomorrow's last dance mixer? RJ Barrett, New Year going to Jason and the Knicks. That's going to be fun tomorrow. That's my big plan tomorrow. Last dance, two episodes, maybe. Is it two or one? They're doing two a week until they finish 10 episodes next five weeks. Yeah, and I think Piston's stuff tomorrow too.  Oh, really? Yeah. Rodman does? No. Oh, Jordan? Jordan. Well, that's it, ladies and gentlemen. Not as exciting as the first case, but pretty solid. Got the RJ Barrett, some Jaws, some Lebrons, some Green, a couple of Zions. Right there. There you go. And there you have it. That was Eight Box, a random team two of 2019, Panini Revolution, basketball Chinese, New Year edition. Thanks for watching. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'll see you for the next one. Bye-bye.


So we're gonna try and do this jump-drift one more time. Oh, that's bad Almost reverse entry. I mean, okay, I will take that What's up everybody welcome back to the channel, I'm EvilRabbit here on torque drift for episode three We're here today to take a look at all the tracks that are in the torque drift beta So definitely still been having a lot of fun with this big Thank you to the game devs for allowing me to make this content So we are going to get into it as we have a bunch of drift things set up Which we can get into Tandems, but I kind of want to take this episode and show you guys the track so In the practices you see we have oceans drive the yard Session in the slab Hakano or Hakone and however you say that and Cali banks so in practice session the tracks are full circuit So we're just gonna start off at the yard and we'll go track by track give you guys a little rundown on the tracks We are running the 618 horsepower LS turbocharged s15 so The yard is pretty sweet because it has this very awesome jump drift to start and in practice session You do game money so The yard has this awesome jump trip in the beginning Which we were actually not that bad on the jump trip normally Totally wrecked the car out because it's so low But it's cool because they do have the clubbing points and such in the tracks In practice so you can get a chance to practice the lines That was just a tap, but we are good. So that's a little bit. I probably Should have tried to use my finger to handbrake and stand the gas so I don't lose my power So this track is very nice. It's very uh, I guess you could say sleepy It's got a some elevation changes, which Totally screwed up there. There's a lot of elevation changes in this track, which is nice The jump drift is probably my favorite part about this track As you can see like in practice session, you can just get you know get sideways have fun with it Get practice on all the lines now Each time you do tandem sections in the actual game, there's certain sections of it So it's not always the same section a certain section of the track. That's a little tap So that was the yard or the yeah the yard. So we're gonna try and do this jump trip one more time. Oh, that's bad Almost a reverse entry. I mean, okay, I will take that So the yard is a lot of fun with that jump drift section You do need to raise the car up because I did notice every time I take the jump drift I kind of smack the front end of the car down and do some damage to it and We'll lose our bumper there. So that's the yard That's one of the tracks that are in the game. So we're going to go back to the menu check out another track here on torque drift And get more into it. So we have the yard now. We have ocean drive, which is another Pretty sweepy track. I mean all the tracks are pretty sweet. These ones are pretty long Cali banks and the slab are pretty short tracks And they don't loop around you kind of have to flip it around to continue driving the track So we are here at the next track And we're going to rip this today. So like I said, I am definitely enjoying this torque drift beta If you guys are do not have the beta make sure you guys try and get into the beta I'll leave the link in the description box below on where you can request a beta link through games So I do have a lot of fun just throwing practice laps trying to tune the car a little better trying to get these clips out here There we go. So a quick transition this way Click it back trying to hold angle We lost some drift points there, but we're going to try and get these clips in front of our car so it is a lot of a Lot of clip points and these tracks are pretty big So it is a lot of points and like I said, you do gain money when you're drifting just in practice As you can see up top we are gaining like 41 dollars You gain a dollar for every thousand. That was a really hard flick and then you can make that So you could spend here all day and just drift the tracks and have fun with it. Hopefully soon Maybe they will do special events, which I did see a custom event tab, but it's not available yet where we can maybe make Make some Custom like I guess sections or lobbies and such and maybe just you know have open sessions with friends Just get Tandems and stuff. I don't know how that's gonna work in there I did try and get a contact with the devs to see about when an actual release date is because I know a couple you have The comment asking when it's actually gonna be released. So I did send a message out to the game devs to see if I could find maybe a possible release date I know I believe they have no more Android spots. I'm not sure if they have any more Apple spots available for the actual beta So I'm definitely glad that I was able to get a spot in the beta and they allowed me to Start bringing you guys content for those who do not have the beta So this is like like I said, this is a very long track and As you can see it just keeps going Well, we lost our bumper we lost our rear bumper we are in the little donut section of the track It's almost like a roundabout So it is a roundabout so, you know, we're gonna have to throw this in a roundabout for the horizon three style And I believe it just moves background to the end of the track So I definitely have a lot of fun just kicking it sideways when there are events that I don't either don't want to compete in or Already have been in it. I don't feel like doing again So I do like trying to go backwards on the tracks trying different sections trying to fine-tune my line and also fine Tune the car and as you see, this is a very very long track Right now. I'm now we're near the clipping points on those turns and we're gonna smack barriers Luckily didn't flip our car. This car is pretty pretty mangled What is the drift car luckily don't pay for repairs because that was so much more interesting if we had to pay for repairs I totally forgot how long this track was but uh, there's a lot of s-sections So there's a lot of cool sections that I believe they don't use yet So it'll be sweet if they implement all of them and allow us to do all the sections and see we are back Pretty much close to the beginning waiting to see the little lights Which is the beginning? That was a hard wall. I believe it is right after it's asked right by the boats It's back to the beginning of the track Oh, maybe I was wrong. So this is a very long track. You can just spend a lot of time just getting sideways on this track and Throw in some lines trying to get some wall rides and stuff We still have not completed one lap on this track yet And we've been going for a very very long time Unless we did complete a lap and I wasn't paying attention, but I don't think we did Because I don't remember this turn because I would have probably blasted that wall already So this like I said is probably one of the biggest tracks out is this ocean drive There is the mountain circuit which we'll get into here, too Which is a lot of fun because you can run it uphill or downhill so you can run it both ways how we feel like it and Yeah, that's like I said, this is an extremely long track. I don't think oh, oh Apparently we can try and fit to do the grind Oh Jump drift out of there But the physics are actually kind of funny when it comes to hitting walls and barriers I mean the car would probably launch just like it did on me if you were to hit the barrier at that speed So I think Yep There we go. This is the beginning of The track where it all starts so as you can see this track is extremely long and and Extremely fun So if you guys have not just ripped these tracks, you know, make sure you give it a shot and just send these tracks And have a lot of fun just getting silent and seeing more of the track So we're gonna head to the next track now because we finally finished that ocean drive track You drift practice and the next track is the slab. So the slab is just basically a Quick track. There's really no Loop around so you kind of have to run it forward and backwards. So it's a quick track So we are gonna run our S15 and all these because I am loving this new S15 with the upgraded wise fab in the front and all the power of the LS So the slab is, you know, just initiating in there kicking it trying to run it out wide here and trying to run it in between the wall and that about hitting it and You can pretty much link this entire track if you can use your index finger and Keep on power because I seem to keep losing power when I hit handbrake and get off the throttle so I'm trying to use my index finger and My thumb for throttle like I said the slab kind of Goes this way and then pretty much ends right here So in order for you to go back to do it again You would pretty much just have to flip around and run it backwards, but you don't get cooking points when you run it backwards You would actually have to just cut this way and Cut back into Into the track So you can still see where the cooking points are even if they're not highlighted for your time's Score so the slab like I said, it's a quick little Little track, but it is a fun. It is a fun sweeping track. Definitely good for Tandems I've had a lot of very interesting tandem battles at the slab Which we'll get into more and then we have This track the next track. I can't even pronounce it correctly. So Pardon my language on not saying that correctly We're just gonna hop right into it. I'm just giving you guys an overview of all the tracks Here on torque drifts on the beta not sure if they're gonna need more tracks. Hopefully they do so this one is a quick tight initiation and Usually I tend to lose power there because I don't use my index finger and It's a kickback.  You would think the barrier would not Stop us, but it did so like I said This track is not a track that I've actually driven a lot on definitely gonna be probably driving a lot more on this track to get used to it We should have been wider on that section But I it is really cool how they have the clipping points on the practice session to so you can kind of get a feel of Trying to get the certain lines down on these tracks Feel like my LS is dying for some reason. It does not have the power. I wanted to at the moment probably need to fine-tune the clutch and The brakes We just completely Failed on initiation So if you guys are still enjoying these truck trip beta videos, let me know down in the comment section down below I said I am trying to contact the game dev to see about when Possible releases for everything and I'm releasing in this different box below for those who want to try and Request a beta invite Not like I said, I'm not sure how many spots are available still for each platform I do not believe there's any Android platform spots left And I'm not sure on iPhone platform. Oh, what's this long figure? Oh, I forgot about that We're just gonna kick the heartbeat break in there and see if we can't stay on throttle and we died So that's the only thing I'm finding is a little bit flaky with the game You try and use the break off the wrong get back on the car doesn't like to get back on So kind of got to use your finger your index finger Or your pointer finger and your thumb it's simultaneously to stay on throttle. So you don't lose our pms Kind of like that And it helps out a little bit better so that's this track, so we're gonna head to the next one and Actually, it's after this turn so we're gonna head to the next track, which I believe is going to be the mountains right here What did I just do? We have gears No, I didn't even know that was a thing. I just tapped in the middle of the screen and apparently we have Techometer that's a thing. Oh So we are running 22 pounds of boost in third gear Apparently, this is a thing and you can see the RPM drop. I did not even know that that was a thing You can't see your drift points though so that's the only thing I'm not sure if this is the thing that you can do in the normal but uh I just tapped into the middle of the screen and Got a cluster Well See look finding things about in the beta that I didn't even know existed until now See you guys saw here first something anybody else knows about that unless they do and Nobody said anything next track. We are going to is the mountain circuit. It's probably the longest and Most glitchy track when it comes to frame rate because there's a lot of stuff. I am running on High settings so on ultra settings, I believe so hopefully my frame rate is not too bad And we don't have a lot a lot of frame rate lag So the mountain circuit is a lot of fun to drift. There's a lot of nice turns on a lot of sections in this And it is a very it's a narrow track. So it is almost like Pajimikaido in Forza But not Pajimikaido As you can see because we're running a lot of close wall runs As well as wrecking our car You're pretty much doing a lot of close calls as you can see right there frame rate issues Because normally we run about 60 frames a second but right now here on this we're only running about 33 so the track is pretty pretty frame rate heavy I think it's because of all this scenery and we are stuck It probably has to do like I said with all the scenery and did I break my car or did I glitch the game? Apparently we glitched the game and had to restart so that's the first for me So like I said this this track is very Very cumbersome on a phone My iPhone tends to get pretty warm When I'm playing on this track and the frame rate with one car tends to drop a lot Normally we were running about 60 frames a second, but In this track we're only running about 30 and when you get another car involved on there the frame rate can tend to drop a lot Just because it's a big open track with a lot of scenery I'm trying to get control of this so you guys can actually get I see some of these turns that are in this track They said if you guys do have the beta you guys have frame rate issues in This track as well. I don't want to drop my graphic settings just to run this track but I may have to because There's some pretty bad frame rate lag Especially when you get a second car on there. Oh, that was nice wall tap flick Like I said, this track is very big. It's very fun Especially when you come back down on the downhill section, which I will definitely run down No, that was a really nice wall ride if I would have been able to pull off of the wall I think we're gonna pull our Cluster back this Apparently we're still running 20 pounds boost a lot of boosts 13 volts on our 13.8 103 on our temp Car, I think we only have five years in this car So like I said, if you guys are playing on this and you guys have frame rate issue on this track Let me know down the comment section down below because I think there's a lot of people that have a frame rate Issue on this so I'm hoping that maybe that frame rate issue gets fixed I thought we're gonna go over the bridge But we didn't but like I said, this track is a lot of fun if you can get it right and don't get frame rate, you know Screwed up on when trying to drive So I just wanted to bring you guys the tracks that are here in the beta for this episode You guys a little idea of the tracks. You do not have to gain. You're just some of the tracks I'm not sure if there will be more tracks coming when the game is actually released I will any information I have I will bring to you guys when I get it Just like I said, I did send a message to the game devs to see if they know if possible or if they will give me the possible release date It's not a matter if they will or if they know and they may not want to Give that to somebody like me But then again, you never know so These are really nice sleeping turns if I wasn't at 17 frames a second because Frame rate dropped dramatically through certain sections And I believe we're coming close to the end of this Section I mean I will take this really long wall ride though, but I wasn't getting drift points Oh, it's because we're ending So that was the end of that track. I think I turned off my drift points. I think you can turn them off You can't So this is the end of the bottom section So we're gonna go finally to the Cali banks, which I have shown you guys a few times I can try and get a clean run on Cali banks So it seems for some reason when we try to go to Cali and a tandem we get some serious frame rate lag When I'm recording. I don't know if it's just because of it being a tandem because see right now I'm wondering we are in just a practice session and we have 60 frames a second and we are pretty good here at Cali banks right now Not dropped. See it's a hasn't dropped But we are on an online set and it seems to drop to like 12 which makes it pretty much undriftable So I'm probably gonna end this episode off here. My phone is getting very hot I could also be it because this game does And heat up the phone a little bit especially when I'm recording it to and streaming it to a TV through the Elgato into my recording software and everything so until the next time guys like thank you guys for watching I'm evil rabbit. Hope you guys enjoyed this and I'm out


And a board member of the Christian Transhumanist Association. He formulated the New God Argument, a logical argument for faith and love that is popular among religious transhumanists. Lincoln is CEO at Thribus, a human enhancement company, and is married with Dorothy Vancry-Kanjack, which you pronounce upon me, Vancry-Kans, and they have three children, Lincoln. So I get the honor of telling you a little bit. I'm doing a seven right now, I'm told. I'm gonna up this to a ten in just a second. I get the honor of talking to you this afternoon about the history of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. And as anybody who's studied history knows, that's impossible to do with much accuracy in any way, let alone when you need to do it in, you know, ten or fifteen minutes. So what I'm going to tell you, it may be less history and more story, so take it with a grain of salt. And if there are inaccuracies as I go along, then most of you won't know better, so that will be okay. And those of you who do know better, probably like me, or you wouldn't be here at this point, so you'll probably kind of roll with it. So I was recently online and got caught in a conversation where somebody heard about the Mormon Transhumanist Association for the first time and they thought, wow, that's really cool. And they tweeted something to a prominent transhumanist whose name is up there for you. Anders Sandberg, he was one of the original authors of the Transhumanist Declaration, which most secular transhumanists have adopted years as a good representation of what transhumanism stands for. He was mentioned in the tweet when he heard about the Mormon Transhumanist Association and this was his reply. By transhumanist standards, the Mormon Transhumanist Association is an ancient institution. And for those of you familiar with the transhumanist movement, he's right. Transhumanist organizations have a tendency to not last very long. They get swept into existence and then things evolve. Transhumanists love evolution and then they die like things do in evolution. And it happens all the time among transhumanist organizations. Not many survive long. Not many grow very large. And the Mormon Transhumanist Association is one of those that has survived and has grown. And it is by far the largest religious transhumanist association organization in the world, despite the fact that Mormonism is not the largest religion in the world. And despite the fact that people of other religions and other spiritual movements have tried to get transhumanist organizations going on behalf of their faith or on behalf of their spirituality, they just haven't worked as well. They haven't grown as fast. They haven't caught as much interest. And we've heard some of the reasons for that this morning. I'm not going to cover that. Mormonism does have a unique relationship in many ways with transhumanism. So, I'm going to tell you a story about how we got to 2017 and share with you some of the events that I think of as important that have shaped the association over the years, starting in 2006 when the association was founded. What we have here is a picture of the 14 founders of the association. And you'll notice that one of them's not like the others. And some of you might be thinking that I'm talking about Shari, I'm not. But yes, there was one woman among our founders, and that's awesome, but that's not the one I'm going to draw most of your attention to right now. The one I want you to notice in case you haven't already is in the bottom right corner. One of the founders of our association actually very really was pseudonymous. He or she, as the case may have been, did not want to be publicly known, and so used the name Martin Wood. That name is on the list of our founders to this day. And although Martin Wood did not use that picture as his or her avatar, that picture is symbolic of where Martin Wood comes from. And if you want to know more about that story because I don't have time to tell that right now, you should talk to Joseph West. Where are you, Joey? Right there, raise your hand. There's Joseph West. He's one of the founders there on the right. He can tell you more about the story, about why there's a Spock with a beard guy in the bottom right corner who went by the name Martin Wood. So those are the 14 founders. Many of those founders are here today. Some of them have spoken, others are yet to speak. The first thing the founders of the association did is we put together a website because that's what transhumanists do when they start new organizations. They put up a website. And often it doesn't go much beyond that, which is why there's so many dead transhumanist organizations. So we put up a website. You can see this is actually a cool screenshot. I love this screenshot of our original website because it captured one of the things that has always been a fun, exciting, inspiring topic of conversation among Mormon transhumanists, and that is the relationship between technology and resurrection. Yes, many Mormon transhumanists are audacious enough to believe that God expects us to figure out how to use technology to raise dead people from the dead. That sounds totally crazy to a lot of people, and I don't blame them. But if you want to talk about that with seriousness, go find a Mormon transhumanist. And odds are you'll find one, one out of two, that will love this idea and talk your ear off about it. So especially if they've ever worked at ancestry.com.  After putting up this website, now I'm in an eight and a half. All right. So after we put together the website, we thought, okay, well, we need to get more formal about this, and we put together a constitution, and we adopted the constitution, and the two most important things in that constitution were the transhumanist declaration, which Anders Sandberg and other prominent secular transhumanists had already put together years before. We adopted that. That's one of the positions we stood for. We also put together the Mormon transhumanist affirmation. Let's picture it up here on the screen. And that was our way of expressing in more, more many terms some transhumanist ideas, the things that inspired and motivated us. And in summary, what really moved us as the founders of the organization is this desire to express our faith more practically, more substantially, with more action, with less superstition, with less hesitation and apathy or hands-offness or passiveness. We thought that to be a Mormon, to be a Christian, is something we should immerse ourselves in in action with our full hearts, our full minds, our full strength. And if we're going to use our full minds and our full strength, that means science, full mind. That means technology, full strength. Without those things, our discipleship felt inadequate. And so we set out to put together an organization that would advocate these ideas, share these ideas, and hopefully make them more popular. And they have become somewhat more popular. There's a lot more people in here than 14 and then a lot more people that identify as Mormon transhumanists around the world now than 14. So after we put together the Constitution that we adopted those things, we went to the World Transhumanist Association, which was the largest organization of secular transhumanists in the world at the time. They've since changed their name to Humanity Plus. They do still exist. They're one that has managed to survive somewhat over the years. They've had their ups and downs. And we said, hey, we want to affiliate with you. And they go, Mormon transhumanist, that is the weirdest thing we've ever heard of. And they were right. It was pretty weird. We talked to them. We negotiated with them. And this is a picture of the original board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association. Some of them were still on the board when we approached them about affiliating with us. Notably, you'll see the third from the left over here, that's Nick Bostrom, very popular transhumanist, both generally but particularly among Mormon transhumanists. There's a lot of high esteem for Nick Bostrom's work. And if you go over to the right side of the table, at the very back, you've got James Hughes, who's popular among Mormon transhumanists. He's spoken at one of our conferences. And then coming forward, the closest two on the right are Julio Prisco and Mike Latoura, who both ended up later joining the Mormon Transhumanist Association, although neither is Mormon. One of them is a Buddhist. The other, I have a story about later, but at the time was atheist, and we'll talk about that in a few minutes. So we affiliated with them eventually, and that was really cool. They debated it, they voted on it, they chose, yeah, we're going to affiliate with these guys. They are strange, but they're transhumanists. They seem authentically so, so why not? And we did it and we affiliated. After that, one of the first things we did is we decided, okay, now that we've got a constitution, we've got these ideas, we want to go share these ideas. The first people we wanted to share these ideas with were Mormons, other Mormons. We thought we're going to go tell other Mormons about these really cool ideas that we've got. And the place that we chose to do that first was Sun Stone in Salt Lake City. They held annual conferences up there. So we worked really hard. We made Carl Youngblood really mad because we kept him up all night long and away from our camping trip one summer. We actually had a camping trip planned and we decided we can't go on our camping trip because we have to finish this paper and he's never forgiven me for it. You can ask him. And so we put together this paper and we went to Sun Stone and we presented it and it was really interesting what happened. We had a lot of people that came to our presentation going, wow, those are really cool ideas. How do I get involved? And the association started growing. So we did that in August of 2006. Late in 2006, we started the first of what we might consider our humanitarian projects. This is Rosetta at home. We started telling each other, hey, we're about more than talk. We want to do some things to help people, to use technology to help people. And we thought, well, we don't have many resources to do that. What can we do? Various, I think it was maybe Carl and Bryant Smith. I don't remember exactly whose idea it was. But we came up with this idea, hey, we're going to put together a Rosetta at home team. Basically what this is is this allows people all over the world to contribute spare cycles on their computers, to calculating protein folding, which can be used in medical research. And we ended up becoming one of the best contributors to this project in the world. I think we're in the 90-something percentile of contributors to this project as of today. Anyway, so that's something early on that demonstrated, hey, we wanted to do more than talk. We wanted to act. End of the first year, we doubled in size. It was huge. We went from 14 members to 29 members. It was amazing. 2007. 2007 began with us publishing an article in Sunstone magazine. It was the cover article. It was called Transfiguration, and it introduced a broader set of Mormons to the ideas of Mormon transhumanism and how the ideas of transhumanism were complementary to the ideas of Mormonism. That started attracting some more attention. And then we decided, hey, well, we've taken the good news of Mormon transhumanism to the Mormons. It's time we take the good news to the transhumanists. And what better place to do that than in the virtual world of Second Life? So we sent our virtual missionaries into the virtual world of Second Life, and we started giving presentations on Mormon transhumanism in Second Life. And this is virtual me on the left giving a presentation about Mormonism, teaching transhumanists what Mormonism is in this Second Life world. We also thought, hey, this new fangled Facebook thing, we better start a group there. We didn't know whether it would go anywhere or not. Today we have nearly 1,000 members in our Facebook group, so it did end up going somewhere. And by the end of that second year, we had 48 members in the Mormon transhumanist association where you're not going to take over the world anytime soon, but we're growing. 2008. In 2008, we thought, okay, well, we're meeting on Facebook. Maybe we should also try to meet in persons, each other face to face. I mean, transhumanism is cool and all. Maybe we'll get mind uploaded eventually. But in the meantime, it's nice to meet real people in the flesh from time to time. So we started setting up meetup groups. The original meetup groups for the Mormon transhumanist association were actually held in Salt Lake. I think Joey or his brother Andrew organized, then we called them a round table. And a lot of us from Utah Valley would drive up there, but it turned out over time that the highest concentration of our membership ended up being in Utah County. So over time, we moved them back to Utah County. And eventually we made this cool meetup website to kind of help structure that. We have a large meetup that happens every month now in Utah County. I think there's like 90 members in the meetup group, but we usually get between 10 and 20 people at the meetup. And then we had this really audacious idea, hey, we're taking the good news of Mormon transhumanism to the virtual world of Second Life. Maybe we should set up a presence there and have our board meetings there and who knows what kind of cool stuff can happen in the spirit world. Well, we did that. We rented some space on a Mormon island. There is a Mormon island in Second Life. It's still there. It was at the time, still is there today. And on this Mormon island, they have created some virtual temples. They've created some virtual high-rises for offices. We went and we rented the top of the high-rises. The high-rise was called Inspired Technologies. We rented the very top floor of it to have our board meetings. And we thought, hey, we can reach out to other Mormons in this virtual world. And we started doing it. And within two months, the owners of the Mormon island in Second Life came to us. I'm at nine and three quarters. They came to us and they said, you guys are bad Mormons. We thought, why are we bad Mormons? And they told us, because you're affiliated with Sunstone and attending Sunstone Symposiums is incompatible with having an LDS temple recommend. Can we talk about this? No, we've made up our minds. They kicked us off their island. Yes, the narrow-minded Second Life virtual Mormons kicked Mormon transhumanists. Oh, and they also said, and your name implies that you have a relationship with the LDS church that we don't think you really have. Wait a second. You call yourself the Second Life Mormons? Yes. You don't see the irony in this. Apparently not. Anyway, they kicked us off of their virtual island and things in Second Life kind of started tapering off from there. We didn't do so much there after that. August 2008 was the first time we presented the New God argument. This is a popular argument among religious transhumanists generally, but particularly among Mormon transhumanists. It's an argument for faith in God, based on contemporary trends in both science and technology. So it's not based in religious principles. It's based in secular science technology trends. And from those trends argues that you should trust that superhumanity already exists is more compassionate than we are and created our world. You should trust that. And if you're interested in learning more about that and you should be because it's a really cool idea, you should go to newgodargument.com and you can learn all about it. End of the third year, 67 members. 2009, we became involved in the first conference that we ever sponsored. This was held at Claremont Graduate University in California. It was put together by Richard Bushman and we got called in to help and it was a cool event. Terrell Gibbons was the keynote speaker there. End of that year, 83 members. So still growing at a pretty gradual pace. 2010, we began that year with another problem. So not only did the Second Life Mormons want to get rid of us, but it turned out there were some transhumanists that didn't like us either. And so those transhumanists, who were rather anti-religious, happened for a short period of time to gain control of the World Transhumanist Association or what it had become named as at this point was Humanity Plus. And they decided when they heard about the affiliation that they had with us, horror of horrors, how can we be affiliated with religious transhumanists that they're insane people anyway?  They decided to terminate the affiliation. We were disappointed, but we were undaunted and elections came up for the World Trans... for the Humanity Plus Board of Directors. Several of us, many of us actually, were voting members of that organization and we made it an issue in the vote about who we would vote for, about whether they thought that they would... the new members would affiliate with religious transhumanists or not and we voted in people who supported us to the extent we could and we talked to the existing board members that were on the board already to figure out what their positions were and it turned out that there was just a kind of a minority of board members in the organization that were there for a temporary time in leadership that didn't like us. New board members came in place, a new chairman came into place and within a few months we were actually affiliated again with that organization. So unlike the second life Mormons, the Humanity Plus transhumanists recognized the air of their ways in a very short period of time and we remain affiliated with them to this day. Later in that year, we helped sponsor the transhumanism and spirituality conference at University of Utah, had two great keynote speakers there. One of them was James Hughes, who was one of the founders of the World Transhumanist Association and the other one, this is an awesome picture, the other one was Max Moore, who is the third from the front. Max Moore is kind of like the founding father of modern transhumanism, a very influential person in the secular transhumanist movement and yes, that is Max Moore sitting in LDS Church General Conference with Brent and a few other members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association that aren't here right now, but Brent is here. Brent and Max have something in common, they're both atheists. What they don't have in common though is that Brent is a Mormon atheist. Yes, that kind of weirdness does exist in our association too. If you want to hear more about it, go talk with Brent. He would love to talk with you about it. End of 2010, we were up to 104 members, so still our gradual growth. 2011. One of my favorite things that happened in 2011 is a fellow that you've probably heard of before, his name's in the upper left-hand corner, Sam Harris. He's one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the new atheists, the guys with horns, the evil atheists. They're not evil, right Brent? We love atheists in the MTA. We get along just fine with some of them. Anyway, some of them don't like us very much, but in this particular case, Sam Harris, although he did not directly say so, appears to have come across the New God argument and asks this question on his blog, go and read it and it's still up today. Should we be Mormons in the Matrix? He says in this blog post that he came across an argument about God, that he wasn't sure how to get over, how to refute, and it was the simulation argument is what he refers to directly, and then of course he associates Mormons with it, which makes me suspect, and I asked him but he never responded to me, whether this was his response to the New God argument. So if you're interested, go to his blog, or you can just Google at Sam Harris, should we be Mormons in the Matrix? And you can read about Sam Harris's take on the New God argument, although he does not reference it directly. He does reference Mormons directly and he does reference the simulation argument directly. Whether or not this was a direct response to the New God argument or not, I don't know. He didn't reply to my email. Maybe he will someday. And of that year, 2011, we were up to 133 members. 2012, we published most of this book from Mormon Transhumanist Association members. This is a book that resulted from the conference we had with Richard Bushman and Terrell Givens, and most of the speakers of that conference were Mormon transhumanists. Most of the essays in this book were written by Mormon transhumanists. You can get this book on Amazon.com today, if you'd like. Then for the first time ever, we held the first conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association in 2012. I was privileged to be one of our keynote speakers for that conference. The other keynote speaker for that conference was Julio Prisco, who you saw was on the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association and who at that time was an atheist. He came out at our conference in 2012 as a believer, no longer an atheist. And he has transformed himself over time into one of the leading religious transhumanists in the world. He lives in Europe. He is a major proponent of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, a major supporter of it, and a close friend. One of the highlights really for me over the years was relating with him and learning about the things that have transitioned him from being an atheist transhumanist into a religious transhumanist. That's inspired me a lot, and I've learned a lot from him. Consider him a good friend. That year we also established our YouTube channel. It is an awesome YouTube channel. If you've not looked at the MTA YouTube channel, you should. Tons of excellent resources there, much inspiration, many things to learn about. Good stuff. Go look at our YouTube channel. By the end of that year, you'll notice something different happened. We started growing much faster. I don't know exactly what caused it. Maybe it was the book that came out. Maybe it's that we started having our own conferences. Maybe it was that God saw that Julio Prisco became a religious transhumanist and had time to kick off the millennium. I don't know what it was, but whatever it was, we started growing faster. 2013, we started extending our humanitarian efforts a little bit more. We set up a Kiva microlending team for the Mormon Transhumanist Association. You can see that today we've loaned nearly $10,000 in microloans. We also had our second annual conference. Our keynotes at that were Richard Bushman and Aubrey de Grey, who is well known for being an advocate of radical life extension. Later in that year, we also sponsored a lecture by Amit Goswami at University of Utah. He's kind of an interesting guy. You can watch his presentation if you like. All of these presentations are available on our YouTube channel. Of that year, our faster growth rate was continuing. In 2013, we had 365 members. 2014, our next conference, we had Adam Miller, Natasha Vita Moore, the wife of Max Moore, who you saw was also a speaker at another one of our conferences, spoke at this conference. We also sponsored a panel discussion between Mormons and atheists in Salt Lake City that year, which was an interesting event to attend. There was lots of catcalling between Mormons and atheists in this packed room. It was actually really an interesting experience. Then we also sponsored that year a conference on religion and transhumanism in California with some secular transhumanists. That was a cool experience. Ted Peters here is a well-known theologian who talks a lot about transhumanism. He was our keynote speaker at that conference. In June 2014, we published the only official position of the Mormon Transhumanist Association besides the transhumanist declaration and the Mormon Transhumanist affirmation. Those are official positions of the association. But this year, the board of directors of the association felt strongly that we should take another official position. This was in response to the period of time when John DeLynn and Kate Kelly were excommunicated by the LDS church. We put out a statement about what we felt was the importance of reconciliation within the Mormon community. If you want to read the details about our thoughts on the importance of reconciliation, I invite you to go check that out on our website. We also upped our game on the humanitarian front. We started funding various humanitarian projects in Africa. This is my favorite one. This is a cool picture of the Mormon Transhumanist Association Science and Literacy Center in Africa. We helped them lease this space for a year to teach children science and literacy. Stuff like this is where some of the money that you donate goes when you donate to the Mormon Transhumanist Association. End of that year, 478 members. 2015 started that year with a great conference again. We had Christine Haglund speak. We also had Ralph Merkel, well-known for cryptography and cryonics, things like that. He was a fascinating, really funny guy. He gave a great presentation. And this was the first year, first time that we ever had a peer-reviewed publication on Mormon Transhumanism. This was published in Theology and Science, the Journal of Theology and Science. What is Mormon Transhumanism? It's available also. Actually, you can get it for free if you go to my blog. But if you want to pay for it, you can go to the ordinary places to get peer-reviewed journals. I just mentioned this earlier. Several of our leadership participated at the Samford Conference on Transhumanism in the Church, where we spoke and interacted with mainstream Christians on the subject of transhumanism. And although I wasn't at this conference, I heard that we pretty much blew them away. They were surprised how profoundly Christian we are while also being authentically transhumanist. I think they learned a lot by interacting with the Mormon Transhumanists that were there. End of that year, 562 members. 2016, this is last year, we modified the Mormon Transhumanist affirmation. We added in some things that we thought were implicit in where we were, but we wanted to make them more explicit. And so, we added in some commentary on the Gospel of Christ, which is fundamental to what motivates us. A lot of people who aren't aware of what motivates the Mormon Transhumanist Association become confused about what the role is of the Gospel of Christ in relation to Mormon Transhumanism. And I often find myself reminding them that it's fundamental to what we're doing. It is the driving force behind what we're doing. We feel like we are being better disciples of Christ as I described earlier by using our minds and our strength to their fullest as expressed in science and technology to console and to heal and to raise each other up together. So, we wanted to make that more explicit. We did. We modified the Mormon Transhumanist affirmation to include it. We also wanted to point out that we don't insist on any one narrow interpretation of that. We want to be an ecumenical organization. So, we added something that made that statement. That's number two. And then at the end of the Mormon Transhumanist affirmation, we added a statement that is basically a summary of Joseph Smith's grand fundamental principles of Mormonism. If you want to learn more about those, Don, raise your hand. We have an expert on that subject. Don has an awesome story about this. He too was, he left Mormonism for a period of time, thought he might be able to be an atheist. Turns out he was wrong. He wasn't able to do that. He tried another religion for a while. Turns out that was a bad choice too. Not a bad choice, a learning choice. He came back to Mormonism eventually, and he has written a superlative article on the history of Joseph Smith's grand fundamental principles of Mormonism. And basically there's three important things that he pointed out that Joseph Smith claimed were part of an unfinished reformation that we're all involved in, in Mormonism. And those are encapsulated in this last one. The first one of them was friendship. The second was truth. Let it come from once it may. It doesn't just have to come from Mormons. And third, relief. Sending relief to each other, giving relief to each other. We wanted to incorporate those things into the basic principles on which Mormon transhumanism is founded, so we did that. We also had a change in leadership. We decided that it was time to make a change, that this association is not about anyone person leading the association. It's about the ideas and the sharing of those ideas and about the community and the relationships and the possibilities that that community and relationships make possible. So we thought it was time to make a change, and the board of directors appointed Chris Bradford to be our new president. And you've heard from him this morning. And then we had a great conference. We had Rosalind Welch at the conference. We had Eric Steinhardt as our other transhumanist keynote. Many of you were at that conference last year. It was a great conference. And then something really cool happened. The New Yorker gave us some excellent attention. Shared Mormon transhumanism with many more people than had ever heard of it before. We were on the front of the technology section of the New Yorker for over a week. We were the trending article there. Really cool article. It's not super long. Go read it if you haven't read it. And then at the end of last year, we made another very important change to leadership. We brought our new CEO on board, Blair Osler. And Blair has been tasked with growing the organization, diversifying the organization, strengthening the organization, basically doing everything that the rest of us just yap about. And she's already off to an amazing start. So that's how 2016 ended. And here we are in 2017. I'm happy to be here with you. I've been inspired by what I've heard this morning. I can only imagine that's going to continue to be the case this afternoon. Thank you for being here.


Supporters of Mr. Obie, Labour Party presidential candidate, popularly known as Obidians, shut down Erdogan State Capitol today. The one-million-man march, which commenced as a Michael O'Para Square-grounded vehicular movement within the Metropolis. A marbled crowd, which increased as the team advanced, moved round the major roads in the state before returning to O'Para Square. Commuters, who were facing a cooling task and accessing some parts of the state, had resorted to alternative routes. Obidians' supporters, who cut across various political divides, marched through the capital city, singing solidarity songs as they moved. The rally was very peaceful as the excited participants conducted themselves in a very peaceful manner. They said, BTOB, and I meant that they don't have structure. Look at the structures. The youths are taking back their country. This country must be good, whether they like it or they don't like it. What you're seeing here is more than two to three million people marching in En-Goo. Obidians, the youths are walking up to take back their country, and they are doing it. What I'm asking every individual here, pick your PVC, take your PVC, and you have a new Nigeria. With these youths, a new Nigeria is possible. So, leaving their jobs, leaving their occupations, and they are here today to say that we believe in the passing of O'Pi and Tadati, and we know that come 2023, the country is going to take a new shape, and we're going to move in the forward direction. Right now, we are tired. That is what we said.


Transgenic arrays resulting in diversity of integrated sequences, TARDIS, is a new technique that allows researchers to create thousands of genetically unique transgenic organisms from a single cell. This technique uses two steps. First, creating individuals with experimentally introduced sequence libraries. Secondly, extracting and integrating individual sequences or library components from the larger library cassette into engineered genomic sites. This allows for the transformation of a single individual, followed by lineage expansion and functional transgenesis, resulting in thousands of genetically unique transgenic organisms. The technique was demonstrated using kinohub ditus elegans, but it could also be adapted to any system where experimentally generated genomic locky landing pads and diverse, heritable DNA elements can be generated. This article was authored by Zachary C. Stevenson, Megan J. Mordek-Schawecker, Stephen A. Bantz, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to join you today and to explore together how an inclusive digital transition can work for the benefit of everyone. As UN Secretary-General's special advocate, I am delighted that digital public infrastructure has been selected as one of this year's high impact initiatives. Over the past 14 years, we have seen a remarkable difference that digital services can make to people's lives, through access to payments, finance, healthcare, education and more. Across the globe, millions of small-skill farmers and small businesses are now paid and making payments with their phones. During the COVID pandemic, countries from Togo to Singapore sent emergency digital payments directly to vulnerable households at unprecedented speed. And benefits like these cannot be taken for granted. There are risks and pitfalls along the way. And ensuring we get this right is one of the greatest challenges and opportunities of our time. So how do we ensure that digital services are accessible to everyone? By creating digital public infrastructure that is fair, interoperable, open and inclusive, enabling essential public and private services for the common good. These are built on an open and interoperable architecture. It ensures that all participants in the ecosystem enjoy equal access, aligned with global best practices, enabling innovators to build multiple applications on top of the core DPI layers. This means designing DPI that puts people first to meet the needs of the vulnerable safely and securely. Plus, it can guard against monopolies, shifting the balance of power from the providers to consumers. Easier said than done. And yet, during my country visits as a special advocate, I have witnessed many successful examples of inclusive DPI design in action. In Brazil this July, I saw how the safe and secure sharing of data was helping millions of people unlock their data capital and gain access to more competitive and tailored financial services. This was based on learnings from early pioneers, such as the UK. In Morocco this March, I saw how our digital ID ecosystem was being developed with a modular open source identity platform. Last October, in Dar es Salaam, I learned about the critical role to be played by Tanzania's low cost, low value, interoperable payment system. We have also seen the impact of the India stack, which includes foundational digital ID, an interoperable payment interface, and account aggregators as some of its core DPI building blocks. In only six years, this has enabled an 80% financial inclusion rate. I think that would have taken nearly five decades without a DPI approach. We all have a role to play in sharing these experiences, to spread the benefits even further. The G20, the UN, and the international and regional financial institutions can help governments and central banks exchange knowledge. The World Bank, and emerging platforms like Co-Develop, can mobilize the finance needed to scale up essential infrastructure. They can also partner with countries to review and advise on infrastructure choices to ensure that they are safe, fair, and inclusive by design. New global platforms like the Digital Public Goods Alliance can bring more voices into the conversation. Its forthcoming global 50 in five campaign offers us a bold vision for 50 countries to design, launch, and scale at least one component of the digital public infrastructure stack in five years, which I hope we can rally around. I'm also encouraged to see work starting by the UN tech invoice office, UNDP, and Co-Develop to improve safeguards and guardrails to mitigate and address potential risks. As the only patron of the G20 global partnership of financial inclusion, I would like to offer my congratulations to the G20 GPFI and Digital Economy Working Group, as well as the G20 Indian Presidency. You have helped to forge a new consensus on how to shape DPI in the future. By bringing the public and private sectors together around digital public infrastructure, I believe we can make real progress on the sustainable development goals. Finally, I look forward to today's discussion. Thank you for your commitment to building a digital financial system that truly works for everyone.