say, hey, do questions as we're going, which if you feel fairly strongly about a question you have, do feel free to interrupt me. But otherwise, we'll try and save all the Q&A towards the end. A little bit about myself, I won't spend a lot of time on me because that's not why you're here, but really, I'm Kelly Tetherton. I'm the director of web experience at Clarity Partners. I've been doing this sort of thing for over 20 years now. Lots of different platforms, lots of different roles. I used to be a hardcore developer, and now I'm more of a pointy-haired boss. Lots of different clients. I've done private sector clients. But now with Clarity Partners, we're very much focused on public sector clients, largely in the Chicago state of Illinois region. And I mentioned that only because, again, what we're going to focus on with this case study is a public sector client. And if you've worked with government and private sector, you know they move at very different rhythms. There's a lot of times in this talk where I'm going to say your mileage may vary, and that's my first one, is your mileage may vary, depending on the type of client you have. I do have information about Clarity and lots of cool stickers and my business cards up front. So if we do run out of time and there's more questions that you have, feel free to reach out. But here's what I wanted to focus on is Chicago Park District. So I'm not going to dive deep into the technical details behind what we did for Park District, but I do have the link to the Drupal.org case study that we did about Park District so you can find out a little bit more about what's going on under the hood. But just so you understand a little bit about Park Districts, because I think people hear the term Park District and they think it's a very cozy mom and pop kind of thing. But Chicago has tons of green acre space, over 600 parks, lots and lots like thousands of events and programs that they do every year. And they are genuinely trying to serve all of Chicago, Northside, Southside, all different income levels, the whole kit and caboodle. So when you talk about dealing with know your audience, they have a real problem because they have such a diverse audience that they're working with. In terms of the website itself, they get a range from between 100,000 to 500,000 views per day. It's very spiky and very seasonal. Back in February, the ice rinks pages were getting tons of traffic in a few weeks, because even though the weather doesn't tell us so, summer is right around the corner, their beaches pages are going to be very, very popular. Having said that, there are a few consistent pages that over and over and over again were clearly the places that people were going to. The programs offerings, the parks, the events, the jobs. Jobs were always a really big one. So why did we move? We started the project about a year ago, and we launched just before the end of 2017. So this is still relatively recent. But the reason that they wanted to move was they were on a very old customized platform. And this was a case of nobody did anything wrong, it was just this platform had been slowly customized over the course of five or six years to the point where nobody really owned the code anymore, and nobody really understood what was going on. And it made it very, very difficult for them to add new functionality, because it was a classic case of nobody really understands the code anymore, so you'd make what you thought was a really simple change over here, and it would totally break something over here. So they needed something that was more stable and really more future-proof than what they had. They had also, again, when they initially launched, they said it was about five or six years previously, and about, I want to say, three and a half or four years ago, they did refactor the design to be responsive. I have it in quotes there, because they really couldn't deal with truly making it responsive through and through, and so they made the major pages responsive. So if you went to the home page, it worked well on your mobile device, but you'll see later on that there were some pages where they just sort of said, we're not dealing with this right now. But as with just about anybody who's got a website out these days, they saw their mobile traffic going up and up and up, and they realized that they really needed to have a truly responsive site. So what did we know when we started? We actually knew a heck of a lot. Park District had analytics, has analytics going back well over 10 years. They know where people are going seasonally, month to month. They have done very, very quick Google user surveys, so they had some feedback from users, and we did a fairly extensive benchmark in comparison analysis for them, which is what that pretty Excel spreadsheet graphic is there. We had compared the Park District site to, I believe, six other very large Park Districts as well as something like, I think it was a dozen or 15 other sites that Park Districts had pointed to as featuring designs that they really, really liked. So we knew what people had done over the course of time. We knew where people were going. We knew what other Park Districts were doing in terms of vocabulary and features that they were highlighting. So then the question is, well, if we have all of that data, why would you bother doing a user focus group? And really the problem is, is that data only takes you so far. So this was a classic, I wouldn't say argument that we had, but certainly a series of discussions that we had with Park District was, they have a series of photo galleries on the site, lots and lots and lots of photos from events that they've done at various parks, and consistently it didn't matter when you looked at the data, that was like at the bottom of the list of pages that people were going to. And so we, Clarity Partners, was saying to Chicago Park District, okay, well, when you're focusing on the new version of the site, you really wanna focus on the pages that people wanna go to, and they would come back to us and say, well, people aren't going to the photo gallery pages just because we haven't highlighted it enough. If anything, we needed to make it prominent on the homepage. So we don't know why people are doing what they're doing, and that's really why you wanna use a focus group, is find out what people are actually thinking when they're going places, especially since the Park District folks that I've worked with and have worked with have been at the Park District for 10, 15, 20 years, some of them. I've worked with them for over 15 years at this point. Guess what, we're all thinking inside our own heads. If you say facility, I can guarantee you it means something different to you than what it means to the folks at Park Districts. So the other thing to do is to get really external validation. You think that people respond to a certain term or a certain navigation label in a certain way. How do you know? It's just because you've been saying to each other for 20 years. In Park District's case, again, because they were a public sector entity, they also had the bonus of publicity from using a focus group. That's not minor for them because for a government entity, if you were gonna spend big bucks on something like a new website, you better be able to go back to your constituents and explain why you spent the big bucks on this new website. And for them to be able to say, oh, and we were using feedback from Chicago City residents was huge. But bottom line, we really needed to know how people were using the site. So this is the point at which I will break and I will confess we had a secret weapon that not everybody has. We were able to use a group known as Smart Chicago. They're now known as City Tech. They did a reorganization at the end of 2017. They are really focused. This is a group that's focused on improving lives in Chicago through technology. They've been doing this for several years and they have a built-in audience of testers. They started out with just focusing on the city of Chicago. They've expanded to Cook County, which encompasses more than the city of Chicago. They have a very specific methodology, which is that's really the URL that I've got there for the cutgroupbook.org, if you wanna find out more about that. They were very invested in working with park districts to figure out their goals. And I will talk about alternative options later. So even if you don't have a secret weapon like an organization like Smart Chicago, there's still some useful things to pull out of this. But for us, it was huge that they already had a built-in audience of testers that we were able to tap into. So the first place to start, in terms of, again, our experience, but I think that would be useful for you folks too, is in terms of where to start, is think about your demographics and who do you want to do the testing. This sounds like a simple and obvious place to start from, but it's not necessarily, and it's worth reminding yourselves why you would be doing a focus group in the first place. For instance, I don't live in the city of Chicago. I live in Evanston. I don't want our effort to be put in a situation where people who are outside of the city of Chicago are answering these questions, and then if management within Park District reviews these results, they could then dismiss it by saying, well, half your testers weren't living in the city of Chicago. We're not gonna take their responses all that seriously. So think about who you want to do the testing. Now, in Park District's case, they wanted people from Chicago, duh. But they also wanted people, a mix of people who had and hadn't used the website and who hadn't hadn't used their programs, because they really wanted to know if they were getting their messages across. They also wanted a mix of families and singles, again, to see how people were responding to finding the information they had. The next step that we had was developing the questions. What are the pain points of the site? Can people find the information that they want? We knew fairly early on that we needed to make our questions task oriented, but that was actually a little bit harder in the execution than we initially thought, because the next step after we started developing questions was then having to eliminate questions. So the way that we started was we just had a shared Google spreadsheet between Clarity and Chicago Park District, and it was a classic case of it took us forever to get the first two, three, four questions, and then it was like the floodgates had opened, because this was the first focus group they'd done, and so they realized, oh my gosh, all these things I've wanted to ask users for decades, I finally have a chance to ask. And so we started out with over 50 questions. At this point, our main contact at Smart Chicago, who's a very smart, very diplomatic woman, came back to us and said, that's wonderful, that you have so many questions. You need to keep it under 10. 50 is not gonna cut it. You can't ask people to go through 50 questions. So then it was, okay, well, now that we have these questions that all of us really care about one way or another, how do we get rid of them? So what makes up bad questions? Well, bad question rather, well, some of them were too vague. Why would you visit ChicagoParkDistrict.com? What are you looking for? How are people supposed to answer that? What is your opinion of the photo usage on the site? Which pages are informative? Or which images are informative? Which images are really decorative? You can smell the internal argument coming off of that question. You can't ask focus group users to solve your internal arguments like that. We also had questions that were too narrow. Again, if the goal is to solve the most problems for the most people, asking about incentive and reward programs, that's really pretty narrow and is answering a question for one marketing person within Park District.  Most people don't know that parks have local advisory councils. Why are we wasting our time asking these types of questions? And then we had questions that were ultimately not solving a problem. How would you find and apply for a job? Well, as I mentioned in an earlier slide, jobs is one of the top places that people go. People are already finding that information. Likewise, how would you register as a vendor if you wanted to do business with CPD? I can guarantee you that if you are a vendor in the city of Chicago and you want to work with the city of Chicago, I could bury those pages 10 levels deep. I could take them away from links and navigation and people would still find them. If you want to find them, if you're dedicated, you'll find them. So what made a good question? Good questions were questions were really, really focused and narrow, but almost kind of like a scavenger hunt. Give people specific information to find. We did try to make it as you know, as ginned up as these questions are as real to life as possible. So search for a park that's closest to this library. We ended up using a local library to do the focus group, which is where that question came from. Find the hours for an indoor pool closest to your home. Then there was a trivia question, fun trivia question, which turned out to be one of our toughest actually, which is find out the year the Buckingham Fountain was installed. Now, one of the things I should have said earlier, which is interesting about Smart Chicago is they will work with civic organizations to conduct things like these focus groups, but their flip side is they are required as an organization to be completely transparent. So the URL that I have there lists the full set of questions that we asked, the full set of raw responses that we got from users, the initial summary report that Smart Chicago provided to us and the final full report. So again, if you wanna dig in further, it's definitely the information's available for you. So then the experience, and again, this is part of why I think I'm hoping it will be somewhat useful for you guys is what was it really like once we got down to it? Scheduling. So again, caveat, I'm working with a government organization so they're moving at their own speed and their own pace. That said, one of the collateral damage elements of working with Smart Chicago is they needed to do their own scheduling. It took about six weeks from the first discussions to the actual testing itself. We needed to figure out who's available, physical space, equipment, all of that kind of thing. I'm mentioning this because I think it's important to do user focus group testing if you wanna find out why people are doing certain things, but you also need to do it in a timely fashion so that it's useful and it's gonna matter to your project. So unless you have all the time in the world and all the money in the world, which almost nobody does, you have to get these results back when they're gonna matter before you've really set your design in stone, your information architecture in stone before you've made all those decisions and started developing. So again, I think it's useful to remind you about the scheduling element just so you can scale appropriately. Getting the people. So obviously we had Smart Chicago who was really getting the participants, but Smart Chicago, no fools they, although they had staff that were also doing the proctoring, they wanted us to do the proctoring as well. So Clarity staff and Park District staff to do the test proctoring. I cannot emphasize enough getting a client to be part of that experience is invaluable. So there's one thing to be able to produce a report at the end that's very tidy and wrapped up and easy to digest. And there is another to have your client sitting with you with a visually impaired woman trying to navigate her site for an hour and a half and absorbing that and then understanding, you know what, we do need to take into account ADA compliance because it's really affecting people. It's huge if you can get a client to even sit in and experience that from the sidelines if nothing else. So then we had all our pieces in place. We were ready to do this. We had 28 testers who were confirmed. I think we had something like 23 or 24 who ultimately showed up. We had 30 to 45 minute testing slots over three and a half hours. I think it was a Tuesday afternoon. We had scheduled it, I believe, from four to 7.30 in the evening. We had our staff identified from both the Smart Chicago and the Clarity Park District side. And then, Sonia, again, our contact at Smart Chicago, said, okay, you, Clarity and Park District folks, you need to come in and we'll have an hour, hour and a half meeting. We'll run through the procedures.  Why do we have to do an hour and a half meeting ahead of time? Hugely, hugely useful.  She also went through just the basics of we're gonna usher people in, we're gonna have them sign up, we're gonna have them sit down. Here's where you're gonna do things. But then she actually had us run through a process of running through the testing with each other, which was hugely useful because we're getting, we're capturing the user's feedback as they're doing it, but we're also sort of backgrounding and recording a script in our head as proctors because after we've done the test, we're also separately writing up what our experience was observing the users. The reason for doing this is you can ask a user, well, how easy did you think it was to find information XYZ? And most of the time people are really overly kind and they'll say it was really easy to find information XYZ. And then you as a proctor can say she spent seven minutes trying to find Buckingham Fountain. This wasn't easy at all. And you have to keep that in mind as you're doing this. So it was super useful to do this initial run through because we realized that it was really difficult to do this sort of double sync at the time and also to get the reassurance that if you don't have to write full proper English sentences and paragraphs, just write things that are understandable enough so that they're bullet points and when you come back to those bullet points they'll make sense to you. So the test itself had some surprises. The first one, physical space matters. So the room that we were in is probably but was probably maybe two thirds or three quarters of the size of this room, which we thought was tons of space. We had tables, we had chairs, whatever. And that wasn't quite right. So the test, as I mentioned, was run from four to seven, 30 in the afternoon, which was great, except that that was basically right at Chicago's rush hour. So we had all of these carefully slotted 30 to 45 minute slots and people weren't able to get there right when they meant to get there. And so people were stacking up and we were running out of room as people were coming in. Physical space matters. And that's also why the actual test experience took long as people were coming in later than we were expected, but they were also really, really invested in the test. So even though we had stripped down to I think it was roughly 10 questions, people were really invested in doing the right things and we were trying to take all these notes and most of these tests took roughly an hour even though we had scheduled 30 to 45 minutes. I've already mentioned we had a very, very painful experience with one particular user who was visually challenged, but it was incredibly useful to see her experience. And then one other thing that we weren't expecting that I only mentioned, because I think a lot of larger sites will have this, is there's the main park districts, www.chicagoparkdistrict.com site, and they have tons and tons of ancillary sites as well. There's a site that's entirely separate that takes care of registration. There's a site that's entirely separate that takes care of their loyalty program. Users would get lost in these external sites as they were going through the tests and even though we didn't really care about their experience on these other sites, it wasn't really in the spirit of the test to say, don't worry about that, we want you back on this site. So there was some time wasted over that. It was really, really hard not to help the people who were doing the testing. Because we had scheduled or constructed our questions really as scavenger hunt items, when was Buckingham Fountain installed? What are the pool hours? We already knew the answers. And so it was very hard not to say, click here, you'll find the answer here, especially since really wasn't expecting this last point, which is the users were really invested in this. And even though we had told them up front, if you don't find the information, it's fine. We just want to find out what your experience is. They really didn't want to be wrong. They were super invested in getting the right answer and it didn't matter if it took them 10 minutes to get there, they were going to get that right answer. And that was again, something that we weren't quite prepared for. So what were the actual outcomes of this? We did have some fairly specific outcomes that came out of it. So these might be a little bit hard to see but these are before and after pictures of the homepage. The before picture isn't that bad really, but there's a lot of information on there. And we had been from the beginning sort of advising Park District, you really want to have a cleaner homepage. And as with all organizations, even though it doesn't matter as much as people think it does, there was always a battle royale for real estate on the homepage. It was huge to get the focus group results back because again, you can see this on the Smart Chicago page. One of the initial questions that we had asked users was what action do you want to do when you come to the homepage? And Sonia again, very gently and diplomatically as she was presenting the summary report to us basically said, I have never seen as fractured a set of results for people just didn't know what to do on the homepage. They didn't know if they were supposed to click that big green banner or the main hero image or anything. So we had a very strong case to say it's not just us saying you need to clean up your homepage or your users literally don't know what to do. So we got a cleaner homepage out of it. We also got a very clear focus on mobile usage. We had a set of users that came in that only tested on mobile devices either their smartphones or tablets that we provided for them. So even though Park District was already leaning that way if there were design elements where they were like, I'm not sure if we want this or not. And we would say it has to look good on mobile. Remember, it has to look good on mobile. That drove a lot of our design decisions. We streamlined searching. Again, it's a little bit difficult to see but the image on the left, there's that column on the far left. Those were all different and they dropped down too. Those were all different search options and it became very, very clear when we're asking users to search and find things. They got completely lost in so many options. So we simplified the searching quite a bit. Highlighting the mapping options. This was interesting because this was definitely one of the surprises that we just weren't expecting. It's a little bit hard to see on the image on the left but where that little blue line is in the middle, there was a tabbing system across the page. The second tab on that page is a map. No one, no single user knew that there was a map there. So it was definitely one of the design outcomes was we need to put our maps absolutely in everybody's faces. So a few things as I'm trying to auctioneer through this to wrap up. What if you don't have something like Cut Group or Smart Chicago available to you? There's still things you can do. On your own, clarify your goals, develop your questions, find neutral testers. Neutral doesn't have to mean I don't know the person. It could just be it's not a person associated with this project or it's not a person who's already deeply invested in the outcome of this project. And an oldie but a goodie, we had the advantage of a couple dozen users to test. Five is usually enough. Five is gonna get most of your feedback that you need. And finally, just remember that you do need to give them some incentive but the incentive can vary. It could be a Starbucks card. Smart Chicago gives their users Visa cards. Other people I know have used just a raffle ticket. You don't even have to give everything to everybody. And finally prep for the test for sure. If you wanna use other resources, just know that there are online resources of various kinds and you can do paper sorting, paper prototypes, card sorting, A-B testing with Google, you've got options.  Quick wrap ups. We are hoping to do a second test with Park District because we'd really like to close the loop and find out did we in fact solve our pain points and also surprise, surprise. We're still fighting over real estate on the homepage. So already a couple of times people said we need to do another focus group to find out if this would work.  Last three things just to say, if you don't remember anything else, focus on what you wanna get out of your user testing because that really drives why you're doing it. Prepare, prepare, prepare. And be ready to be surprised. Your users are gonna find things that you weren't expecting for sure. So having said that, obviously I have to wrap up. I'll be wrapping up some things here, but again, I was afraid this might happen. So do grab my contact information if you have any questions later. Thank you. Thank you.


It's Zoom Zoom. I'm sure you know it in English. I'm going to try and teach it to you in French. French is not my first language, but hopefully it will help you. Do we all know Zoom Zoom in English? Yeah. Do we need to go over it in English? Just a refresher? We're good? Okay. So Zoom Zoom is the same. Do you want me to do it first? I'll say it and then you repeat it. Okay.  Zoom, salam salam. Zoom, salam salam. Zoom, salam salam. Do we want to try it all together then? Yes. OK. And then, we're going to do the countdown this time. So countdown in French is sing, cat, toie, dee, ee, bleu, bleu, bleu, bleu, bleu, bleu. We'll do it all together with the song and the countdown. Soome, soome, soo, you sunshine all day. Soom, soome, soo, you sunshine all day. Cie bou bou le four, yes shé, maFilpe c'est. Soom, soom, soo, you sunshine all day. Nick happy. To va au bead. The boom. Thanks. I think that's the only one I have to share.


Today, we find out which is better, new Photon Hypernova or new OTS-21? What's up, guys? We're back with another Versus video, and we have 24 packs of OTS-21 versus a booster box of Photon Hypernova. We've had pretty great luck with both these sets so far, but today I want to find out which is better. Now, I'm recording this in pre-release, so I don't know exactly how the prices are going to turn out. I think we're going to have it out the day of release, so the prices are probably going to be a little different because we're editing it before pre-release and during pre-release. It's going to be a little different, but let's see which can win based on the prices that we have right now. Our giveaway for this video will be two Structured X, the Sacred Beast, and Saga of the Blue Lines White Dragon for all you Yu-Gi Boomers out there just like me. Like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know what you think will win. Photon Hypernova or OTS-21? Now, we have a ton of potential amazing polls in here. OTS, obviously, has the ultimate rares. Photon Hypernova has some crazy secrets and Starlight Rares, of course, which we probably won't pull, but we'll have to see. Rescue Ace HQ. There's just a lot of good potential in here. We're going to have to see what we can actually get. I do have like, we finally actually have updated sort of prices on OTS-21. We'll see if it actually matters. Couple of bases. We've got the Minnaruka. We've got the Vala Ice Jade Manifestation, Dynamondo, the Gravity Ninja Ice, this script. We've got the Diabolantis and the Homunculus. I like to call it. It's not actually what it's called though. I hope you guys saw yesterday's case video because yeah, we went a little crazy. It was awesome. Do not miss that video. It was some great polls of votes on Hypernova. Double trap hole of spikes. Pretty weird, but we've already seen some weird stuff out of OTS-21. I mixed them up, but it doesn't seem to matter. Double Rescue Ace. Okay. One, two, three, four. Let's see if we can get a nice Starlight. Here we go. Cache to our Big Bang. Galaxy Summoner. We got Casamola. Super Producer. Xe's Align. Giant Ballgame. Shell of Chaos. And Fairy Ant at the Circular Sorcerer. Okay. We're starting off a little weak. That's okay. A lot of packs to go, guys. Nothing to worry about. We can get something big. We just got to get something on... Most sides probably don't have a lot of points right now. We've got the Havness. So this is already at one. So, you know, got hit by the Bandlist. Awesome. Bandlist kind of crushed that guy. So, you know, the tier limits in general are kind of hurting a little bit in terms of value, I'm guessing. Couple of Aces. Awesome Guard. Infinite. We've got the Fierce Tiger. The Bastralist. The Yaga-Ramaru-Ramaru. We've got the Chaos Beast. A lot of the Branded. Scareclaw-Cash-Tira. And Dogmatica Matrix. Super Rare. Starting off hot with approximately zero pulls. Let's see if we can change that right here. A booster box worth of OTS. Will they be able to win? Number 29 Mannequin Cat. It's a different card, so we cannot get mad. Not the same Super Rare like last time, which is good. That's a plus. Now, can we get a Starlight? Again, Circle of the Faries. We've got tier elements. Or tier limits. Okay. Gigantic Thunder Cross. Yaga-Ramaru-Ramaru. Emperor Summonite. Cash-Tira rides hard. Okay. Ultra Rare. Nice pull. Very solid. First money pull for Frotes on Hypernova. That's good. Ultra Rare will take that. Let's see what we can get out of OTS-21. Can they respond? See? Scareclaw-Cash-Tira. See, like, this is a common in this set and a super in this set. It's really weird. It's very weird. I don't understand how that works. I think. Let me compare them when we pull it again just to make sure that they're not, like, similar cards. And I'm just thinking they're the same. Yeah, it's pretty weird. We got Kassimola, Ice-Jay Manifestation, Galaxy Summoner, Mental Tuner, Gishki Grimness, Branded Befallen, the Monochroid, the Diabolantis. And the Pressured Planet Raid Saw. That is the second best secret rare in the set. Oh my goodness. Whoa. Okay. Huge hit. Huge hit alert for folks on Hypernova. This is our set. I don't know why, but for some reason, this is our set. Another massive card. Wow. Okay, OTS. You're going to need, like, an ultimate rare. Even the ultimate rare is, I think, only Fin Rear gets above that card. So you literally have to pull the best card to beat that now. Scareclaw-Cash-Tira. Another one of those. Oh my gosh. What a box so far. Two Cash-Tira cards. Our Photon Hypernova Random Box Luck from Locals has been insane. Mental Tuner, Gishki, Chaos Phantasm. We got the Galaxy 100 Intimidating Ore, Gigantic Thunder Cross, Photon Emperor, Foreronic Advent, Super Rare. OTS-21. What can you do to recover and win this battle? It's going to need something big. Tabari the Sky Ninja. That is not going to cut it. OTS-21. That is not going to cut it. One, two, three, four. Let's go. We have Focused Aquamere, the Mineruka, the Defanging, the Big Bang, the Monochroid, Land Flipping, Branded Befallen. See, Scareclaw-Cash-Tira. Look at this. So there's a, it's a common in this set and then it's already got a super reprint. How does that even happen? These sets came out at like the same time. It's really weird. I don't know what's going on there. And then Dogmatic Alba. Pretty strange. I'm not sure how that works, to be honest. OTS. You are going to need a Fenrir. Bless us with an Ulti Fenrir. Abyss Actor, Light of the Branded. That is not an Ulti Fenrir at all. I can't believe we pulled the Wraith Soth or whatever it's called. That is insane. I don't know how to say that. Wraith Soth. Tear Lemons, Perglia, Defanging, Time Stop, Overlap, Super Producer, The Bald Rocky. We've got the Align and the Ultimate Great Insect. Still a lot of packs to go. 48 total packs opened in this video. So quite a few packs. A lot of potential to pull some good stuff. Testudo, Errat, the Galaxy Expedition, Rescue ACHQ for, you know, let's take the third time already. But that one card really made photon hypernova just kind of go crazy here. Let's see. Can we make it happen? Can we pull a starlight now? Just really put it away. Bio-Insect, Liberty, Fierce Tiger, Light of the Branded, Biskript, Gishki Grimness, the Castira Overlap, and the Queen Butterfly, the Neus. Okay. The butterflies are added again. Now can we get the Fenrirs added again? Sacred Sword of the Seven Star. It's cool to see that again. A major attraction in number 29, Mannequin Cat. So pulling basically the same super. I tried to shuffle them a lot, but it didn't seem to really work that well. One, two, three, four. Bio-Insect Armor, pretty cool. Bisk Actor, Fierce Tiger, Munghoo, the Tally Ho, the Diabolentus, with the Corp of Chaos, Meteor Rush, Terminating Ore, Planet Patrol Ship, and Jord. Ultimate Rare. Come on. We need one. We need a big one. We have Mysterious Puppeteer and the X-Purly Happiness. Okay. Another super rare photon motive. We got one secret, one ultra so far, both grade cards. So we're looking pretty solid in terms of value on that side. Anything else is just going to be put in the cherry on top for that box. Pretty good. Numeron Creation, Evil Eyes Unleashed, Giant Ballgame, Yagamaru, Ice Shade. Okay. That's a bad one. So, okay. Finally got a not a grade card in that box. Now OTS is your chance, man. Galaxy Expedition and Tier Elements Merly, which would have been good, but you know, Tier Limits, I, Tier Limits. I keep saying Tier Elements. I can't help it. So have it. Yeah. That's, that's not great now after the ban list. One, two, three, four. Photon Hypernova, PHHY. Let's go. Sour Scheduling, Chaos Stuff. You love to see that Yagamaru. We got the Dramatic Story, Land Flipping, Gold Pride, Nitro Head. So a lot of packs to go. So a lot of chances for OTS. It's not over yet. We cannot give up. Ultimate Rare could turn it around. Rescuase HQ.  You know, it takes a couple of boxes usually. It doesn't seem like that's the case. Gishi Grimness and an Evigishki, Nerimanius or a Nerimanus or something. I don't know. That's a very difficult name. There's some crazy names in Yu-Gi-Oh. That's just a thing. That's just the thing Yu-Gi-Oh has. We've got Mud Dragon of the Swamp and a number 29 Mannequin Cat. More repeats. Who would have thought? It's an OTS 21. Who would have thought? One, two, three, four. Can we get something big? Catched her a Big Bang. You're certainly having a Big Bang in this battle. We got the Focus Aquamere. Got the Photon Emperor, the Gigantic Thunder Cross, Core of Chaos, Shell of Chaos. And there's a Secret Rare Wave Bridge. I don't think that one's kind of iffy. So that's open to the door for OTS 21. Just got to believe that you can pull something big. That this can happen. That it will be amazing. It will be epic. Network Trap Hole Photon Sanctuary. Black for the counter. Okay, that's not it. I mean, that's the car that we started off pulling like a million of those the other day. One, two, three, four. Gishki Necromir, Kassimolar, the Ice Jade Manifestation, the Basil Trice, the Branded Befallen, Meteor Rush Monochroid, Diabolantis, Core of Chaos, Dimensional Alitrope Varus. Wow. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's definitely a cold stream. We had a Big Seeker Rare, nothing since. Tier Elements Merly. Tier Elements Merly. I said that right the first time. One, two, three, four. Starlight Rare. Now that would be pretty crazy. Now that would be awesome. Focus Alchimere Springens, Kaimei, Core of Chaos, Gigantic Thunder Cross, Yagamamaru, Photon Emperor, and Chaos Witch. More Chaos stuff. Love to see that. I like the Chaos stuff. I think it's cool. What do you guys think? You guys think that OTS can come back? I don't know. Time Space Trap Hole and Black for the counter. That is just like a friggin' token. You're like, oh, awesome rare we got there. I mean, the tokens are cool, but like getting multiple of them. It's like, okay, maybe not. All right. Ice Jade Manifestation. Ice Jade, you love to see it. Basil Trice, Mental Tuner, Gishiki Necromiror, Gigantic Thunder Cross, XC's Align, Dynamondo, Chaos Beast, and a big welcome. Welcome, Labyrinth. I think that's going to be a decent card. That's not terrible. Not too, too bad. What are we down to? Like six-ish packs each? Something like that? Yeah, let's get expedition. We need an ulti here. Like big time. Scareclaw Cache tier. That's not an ulti at all. Okay. Now, this is seven left here. So we probably have, yeah, seven here and six of the other, the OTS. Manticore Smashing. I think it's a really cool artwork. Cool card in general. Chaos Phantasm, Gishiki Necromiror, Bio-Insect Armor from Weevil Underwood. Summonite, we got the Monochroid. Landflipping, branded, befallen. A vis actor's dress rehearsal. Okay. Just another super. OTS 21. Let's go. We have Trap Hole Spikes, Sacred Sword of the Seven Stars, Tear Lemons Merly. Tear Lemons Merly. I said it wrong yet again. All right. One, two, three, four. Don't worry. Starlight Rare will make up for that mispronunciation. Chaos Phantasm, the Sorry, got Pearlegia, the Fangy Chaos. How did I just say that? Creation, Ballgame, Diabolantis, and Sneaky C. He's sneaky and he's a C. Where's the Ulti? OTS 21. Did I shuffle?  Time Space Trap Hole.  We don't have any Ultis. It's rough. It's a rough opening, but don't worry. Photon Hypernova. There's still a chance. One, two, three, four that you can blow it. This is what I'm saying. Or there's a chance you could put it away with the Starlight right here. Scareclaw to Fanging, Photon Time Shop, Scareclaw, Cash Tira, Light of the Branded, Abyss Script Dramatic Story, Gishki Grimness, and the Abyss Dragon. So it's four packs left of each. So yeah, a few, not many. Ultimate Rare is needed here to win this. And that's not it. That's a Tabari the Sky Ninja. Photon Hypernova has a huge lead right now. Like a massive lead. One, two, three, four, I think. I mean, I could be wrong. These Supers could be worth like 12 bucks. And in like pre-order status, they could actually be. Vala. We got Bistro Baldrock. We got the Shella Chaos. Photon Emperor. The Gravity Ninja. Gold Pride. Star Chorongens. Three packs left. OTS. You need the Fenrir to bring it back. We've got Abyss Actor. We've got Amaze Attraction and Tabari again. Okay. Now it's not good to see the doubles here. Photon Hypernova. You have three packs. Only two for OTS-21. So it is very grand. One, two, three, four. But theoretically, there could be two oldies in there. Circle of the Fairies. Caster of Big Bang. Vala. Abyss Actor Liberty. Dramatocyst. Okay. Landflipping. Numeron Creation. Evil Eyes Unleashed. The Giant Ball Game. And the number 12. Number 12 is added again. Two packs of each. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to open Photon Hypernova first because they're ahead. And we're going to see if OTS can come back. One, two, three, four. Taliyah of Spring. I mean, I think they're ahead. Circle of the Fairies. I don't see how they could actually be behind right now with like a huge card. Chaos Beast. Dynamondo. Baldrake. And Chaos Archfiend. They're just adding on to the lead. That's an Ultra Rare. We have gotten two secrets. So it's probably Starlight or Bust at this point. Maybe another Ultra. I'm not sure. Haven't kept up. Focus Akamir. A couple of Aces. The Ruka. Vala. Graveny Ninja. Unleashed. Numeron Creation. Grimness. And another Super Rare. So that means it's coming down to these final two packs right here. We basically need like back to back Ulties to have a chance. Maybe a Fin Rear could bring them back. We'll have to see. Fin Rear could be huge. Let's see if it'll happen. Ultimate Rare. Let's go. Mischief of the Gnomes. And they Sprite Red. I'm probably a decent card, but I think Sprite's got murdered by the ban list. And our final chance. We need that cash tier of Fin Rear. Ultimate Rare. Fin Rear? He's like a friend, but you know. Okay. Come on. This has to be an Ulti for a chance for OTS. Let me know in the comments. Do they have a chance? Will this be the Ulti? Let's go. Network Trap Hole. Come on. The Versus Battle. It ends here. Mud Dragon of the Swamp. It's Photon Hypernova, the champion of this battle. We have to see. I'm struggling. We have Sprite Red back to back. And that is 24 OTS Duds. And that means Photon Hypernova is your Versus champion. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this. 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Nigerians now have alternative to PDP APC, the Kwankwasso is quoted to say. Well, that's the much we can take this morning on the punch. We go to the nation news, a few of the headlines, a big one there, Buhari's declaration in Bauchi. Tiniwee's incoming president. So what the president is saying, why North should vote for ex-governor PDP abandoned region to Boko Haram. That's from the Pauchi rally. Caught to DSS charge terrorist negotiator Tukul Mamu. Caught to DSS charge terrorist negotiator Tukul Mamu. Some of the headlines. Look at some other system premises. Well, let's turn our attention to the daily trust news people. Nigerians fear massive losses debt line draws the near. We're talking about the old Niren note. Business owners give January 20 feet as debt line. Business owners give January 20 feet as debt line. And food prices stores traders reject all notes. Family reject all notes as bright price or really. NPC begins training of 786,741. You know, workers for the census. Excitement is Buhari Commission's 1.5 billion Lekidipsi port. Orhanese places that is 7 million are bounty on iPop leader. And passengers or airline counts losses as passengers stranded as workers ground the airport. These are some of the headlines on the daily trust news people this morning. Very quickly take a few off the front page of the Vanga or the Guardian rather 65 million narrow losses. NPA shots Lagos port over Buhari's visits. It's quite interesting. Freight forwarders kick as cargoes get trapped. Police unleash dogs on them. Buhari Commission's 1.5 billion dollar Lekidiport Lagos rice meal. Excuse me. Lekidiport can handle four times a papa tin can cargoes. I don't know who said that but that's what someone at the commissioning said. Quite interesting picture of President Buhari with the governor of Lagos state, Dakbar beauty governor, a basic governance from the southwest part of Nigeria with him. We can also see a picture of stranded passengers at one of the airport Lagos airport over that same suspended strike. All right, tell look at more of these as we go on as well. PSE denies supporting elongation of IGP's tenure. Nigeria records 123 confirmed cases of the Theria and 38 deaths. Some of the headlines on the front page of the Guardian. Let's bring in Chris Kendi Wando at this point. Chris will start with the story on the front page of the Guardian. We hear that apart from the roads that were shot or close to public vehicular and human traffic yesterday because of President's visit. He is saying he's going to Senegal by the way. I don't know if he's coming back to Lagos to continue the commissioning today because there's some things he's meant to do today as well. But apart from the roads that were closed, we hear that the NPA shot the Lagos port. This is the Niger Port Authority total closure of the Lagos port following the President's visit. 65 million Naira lost yesterday as cargoes got trapped is what they are saying. There was a total closure of the facility and restriction of access to the port by users. What are your thoughts on this development? Yes, thank you, we need to put certain things into perspective. I was listening to you put a few before the commencement of the NPA headlines. And you were talking about the issue of the roads, the movement, but something is obvious that both of you seem to, it seems that you don't go beyond the territorial land, Negi and Iboyi as big boys and big girls. You don't go beyond that.  Yeah, you know I'm very sure because from what both of you are saying it's obvious you don't go beyond that. There's a lot that have been put in place for those in terms of the roads for the benefit of our viewers watching us. Now, if you move on that as it will see that after the second tour gates, that's supposed to be the second tour gate through Leki, up to Ajah, moving to Sangotedo, down to Aweyaya, there is massive construction going on. In fact, if you are used to VGC, if you get to VGC, you may not know this because there's also a very big impute here. Well, Ma'am, this is here. She didn't say anything. Thank you, Chris, for the information. This is here. Wait, wait, let me enlighten you a bit. Because she stays there. Yes, that road has been expanded and that I think is part of the development. But the key one is not equal to that. The key one is that the route from Ijebudi to Aweyaya has been completed. The fact is that the Bogustek government left by Dapa Beodu has constructed from Ijebudi to a certain point, okay, on that as it is, there Legos started there from a leko, a leko, if you know a leko very well, leko, down to Ekweyaya. So that as it has been opened up is a large response of route. So what that means is that very good, majority of the vehicles coming from the south east, south, south and the rest of them that are coming, especially tankers and the rest of them that come through the only access through Berga, entering to Ojota, going through Apapa Oshu, the expressway and also for those of you that are also in the mainland. When you come to, when you are going to come to Joelekba, you see that line up of tankers from there up to Apapa that will not happen again if that's the mechanism. So they have no business coming into because they come through that place, enter from Ijebudi as it is, through Ekweyaya and they clear out from there. So that vehicle also the trucks are going to be lifted from the deep sea. So there's a lot of questions but that does not necessarily mean that or that you will not have trucks coming also on this other as it is. So a lot of, a lot has been put in place in that but definitely the fact remains that there is going to be a huge regular traffic on that route. Once that deep sea has been opened, don't forget the airport is also coming there. There is another airport that is coming there.  Bex, it will be is that which the opening of, the president have is just, we commissioned that as it is from Eleko to Ekweyaya. That is one of the project is into commission. So I think it's well thought out and they have solutions to some of this. It might not be total but it's also to resolve the problem we presented those of us in the mainland I have been heading to Apapa. Most of those traffic we can move to that as it. Okay, but the government of Lagos state did say that they were going to ensure that the access route to the port was changed to six lanes. And it's what we're wondering if that has been done. Yes indeed you are right. No, but Chris, Chris. Especially from Ajah to Eleko. So, so. Can you tell us, are you aware of that if that has been done? I mean, Kofi, just before, just before Chris, you know, I mean continues with his thoughts it's a good thing that you mentioned that but not as you have thought that we don't move around. I have of recent time move around that particular route. I mean, if it's the same route you and I are talking about the same route that if you're coming, you know through Ekweyaya if you're coming from Bini or you're coming from Asaba you have to navigate that way you know through Ekweyaya. If it's the same route we're talking about I don't see any six lane construction there. I know that there's construction going on that's going on but you know it's some part of the road because you still have some part of the road that's not been graded.  So I'm just wondering and the construction you know we there's also a diversion just like you have mentioned around the VGC access which is you know the aspect of it but you know that's been going on for a long time and we don't even know how fast you know we're going to get to that point because it looks like 2023 might come to an end and that project is still you know going to be worked on. So we're still you know trying to understand how government seem to manage the movement of you know goods, peasants with all of these projects they're very good but how do they intend to manage that with the poor road network? The essence of that project is to ease off the concentration in the mainland. That is a problem they need to ease off the concentration why you are having so much traffic is the fact that let's take the tankers everybody come from across Nigeria to Apapa to come and pick fuel that is a major problem and you continue ask yourself why is this so and the problem is also because most of the other refineries are not working if the refinery in worry is working those in the south side and south is to go to worry if the one in Kaduna is working those coming from the north we go to Kaduna we go to Kaduna and there's supposed to also be one in worry so those are the issues everybody comes into that so the essence is to be able to then the seaport practically the seaport in Nigeria none of them are functioning except that of Apapa there's supposed to be one in Koko there's supposed to be one in Kalaba there's supposed to be Potakots also are supposed to have one even Onisha there's supposed to be a port in Onisha that has not been judged so you can see that massive movement so what they are doing now is trying to now focus and make sure that they move some of these things to their land towards the equal area so that you call me you don't need to call me to the Kuduru Road you don't need to call me to Lagos if I express way since the way that place is shown they are moving some of these things away from there then also realize that we only have one airport if you are living in Nigeria or you are living in a quay or you are living anywhere and you must catch a flight going out of Lagos either internationally or locally it's either you are living by 2am to pick a flight a local flight to any part of the cotton from there as is but with the cargo airport that the airport that you are also living in that also is so what I am saying is is a gradual thing that would I would say about 80% of that route has been done I don't know whether I was not counted whether it's 6 or 18 or but I know I have been there of this land they who stayed for a long time Lagos did not just finished joining in a quay and majority of that close to about 80-90% of that route is done it might be expanded with time yeah Chris very quickly please thank you for the information and Messias now also told us where she lives thank you very much but I am why is the city was coming from it should have been there what are your thoughts on on the pension because the paper is talking about a closure or restriction or strict access control that was implemented at the Lagos port which meant that that's PTML area of Tinkan Island since last weekend because the president was meant to visit there to commission lubricant factory set up by MRS today but he's in he went to CityGal yesterday so I don't know how that's going to work and so so we're hearing that the freight for others and you know people who do business they could not access the place in their complaining that's number one number two because looking at what's on the front page of the guardian I want to talk about the rice factory the inimota equal do some people feel it's a not it doesn't make economic sense because we don't have rice we don't plant rice in quantity enough to supply that factory in Lagos you have to bring it from from states outside Lagos so just please talk about those two stories the closure of community what is not necessary that's crippling economic activities of Lagos state because the president is coming to the Tinkan center the president doesn't have to pass through the road all they need to do is have him on a chopper wherever he is he's in a cage and you have him on a chopper he drops he drops there commission what he wants commission and leave that is why if you look at the president of next state once a first one drops you will see a smaller chopper like helicopter I will pick him up and take him to wherever he's going to you don't see him you don't see them shutting down the highway just because the president is coming to a statistic or whatever at the only time I have seen highway short even if it was not even short it was I think it was short it was not even short it was a short was during the burial the burial ceremony of the king of England and you can see where of hours that that here's was moving you still see people moving around and the rest of them but this part of the country we want to play the ostrich but probably it's for security reasons but I know that the government have put so much in place and have been announcement in the first one week on the various diversions that was going to happen in the island and mainland and even the Apapai area and Nigeria's have been told but that is how we roll that is how to play our game here but I believe that shutting down the practically the only one support that we have just because the president is visiting doesn't make any economic sense to alright Chris quickly and messy hall sorry just quickly the earlier one I researched was the yes the rise well well don't forget that the legal state government invested in that rise project in I think it will be one of those states guys they have because they have rise funds in the legal state and it has a a collaboration between the legal state and I think of the state government and so I probably think that they are bringing they bring those rise to the legal states for the don't forget that even if you build that rise in in good there whatever it comes you are still going to transport it back to the legal states and so I don't know the rationale behind setting up that but it will also be an opportunity for them to create job for the Christians and also probably make the rise cheaper in the legal state like I don't know the rationale behind a million having that rise in the petitioning project and now bring it to the gust for million I don't know why so Chris let's look at the punch quickly the punch talks about the power outage that disrupted the APC rally and stops the president's speech and also the presidential candidate's speech to Nobu right there but what's of interest is the APC national working committee's intention to probe I mean I thought that that's how we roll and we know that we don't have a constant power supply is there anything to probe feels like we're you know trying to be very acting different let's say are you not happy that that power went off how can you say that in fact any where the president go they should like to go that is what should be wherever he goes and they are not using generator and they should put him on that power or whatever you call it so that in life person you don't want to spend their confidence in the asshole and also in state houses where you have generator running 24-7 they don't know what we are going through so what I just in fair years it was a picture of what the masses are going to what are you going to prove that the generator didn't work or that the supply went off yes definitely have to if you have been doing what you are supposed to do then you won't have that embarrass me it was very I was happy you know why I'm happy the president didn't make his speech the black bearer of APC also didn't make his speech so let me if you see what they are going to compare with you say you are going to supply electricity to nitrogen for 8 years you couldn't do anything you couldn't increase the capacity and continue blaming where you ask them they say oh if PDP was there for 16 years where did they do it I had somebody on my program on Friday inside politics we seek here at one of the TV stations which I was there every Friday and the person will say what will APC use to campaign he say oh don't forget that PDP was there for 16 years it's take time for you to be able to ride around I say to take 8 years to ride around is that possible is that what you are going to tell Nigeria why we should go there so what they can investigate from here in Dhonkou they don't know what will be suffering I am present in my house I have not had life past 24 hours Chris if you were happy that there was power outage when the president was about to speak I was not happy about it I am very happy I am not happy about it because it's my president and I don't think that you know that's quite embarrassing if you are president you are not to agree now if you have not the right to go so I am happy that you should take the right to go wherever he is talking so that you can please what Nigerians are feeling and I am not being sarcastic about this I am just being true and that is fine that is what we are going to now there is no petrol there is no electricity you know what you may see you know how much you spend to be able to power the generator in your house you power for your vehicle you go and buy black market I know the problem here is that the police stations are not even selling into jerry cans for you to be able to power your you know that very well so you have to resort to black market for you to buy because if you queue after 4 hours I queue for 4 hours sometime last week to buy fuel then they go to the point I wanted to buy energy for my generator they said they are not selling so I have to look for ways to buy black market but I am still depressed they should take the life I am very happy about it I am not happy I am alright Chris is very quickly the independent national hydro commission on the foreign page of the nation through its chairman Professor Mahmoud Yacobu yesterday said the commission staff remain non-partisan he is always saying he spoke to BBC News Africa he said the election results will be transmitted electronically as provided by law so the headline on the foreign page of the nation is we remain non-partisan INAK assures Nigerians and he says the commission staff will remain non-partisan that is what they are setting up INAK stated and by the constitution the 1999 constitution last month the INAK dependent that is supposed to be independent a lateral commission independent but I left me that independent is not total on to the power to appoint the chairman of INAK is removed from the office of the president I think the national assembly should have the power to appoint appoint the INAK commission because the situation where sitting president appoint chairman of the electoral board that to me is a good partisan but I am happy that the INAK chairman is saying that they have been depended and there will be no partiality I hope that will also trickle down his staff because in the past election we have seen where most of most INAK officials have compromised their job and were not independent and neutral enough and that became a problem and you come to see that a lot of the people that were involved in the electoral practices are not being prosecuted which is why I like this current chairman where he said that he wants the national assembly to pass the electoral commission of France tribunal that is a tribunal that the INAK and NGOs have been pushing for some time now at the national assembly was that tribunal that act is passed and the set of it will save them the problem of going through the records of the courts what how anybody arrest anybody the electoral market just go there and ensure within weeks that that will be taken care of unlike what we have now we are offenses and issue relating to election takes month and every year to be prosecuted I hope that so that INAK will be as independent as supposed to be and very very neutral in the coming election Chris thank you very much he says that long claims that the commission is close to the all progressives congress that we should look at the previous elections the state elections recently that they've been conducting of late he says different political parties have won in different elections in different states so it's not true that INAK is close to APC the ruling all progressives congress Chris thank you very much for a time Chris Candy Wando executive director African governance and leadership initiative which honors Vasum in Lagos so I appreciate your time Chris and enjoy the rest of your week and go yes and go if you take a drive to Awoyaya and there I won't go to Awoyaya sir I won't go Chris Chris Chris last time somebody was in middle with me from Awoyaya or in VI I left the mainland and got to to VI it to aniru to aniru not that construction is going before the person for two hours it told me I am at my junction two hours I am coming out of my junction two hours I won't go there sir hehehehe well we have to go now thank you so much have a great day thank you you too I thank you you know what it means to drive from that axis I really feel for those who stay who live around there may see it's not easy so fingers are crossed then I am just hoping to see all the construction that is going on we have a short break ahead when we come back we look at vision sector issues and of course a strike vision sector labour unions has been called of what's the impact being on the sector 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I just bought it on the way home Did you put that ad in the paper? Sure? It's on the streets already. I just say in it. Yeah a copy of it right here Let me see it sure lays out nice Madam Roberto reader and advisor are you in trouble or doubt worried about business love health or family affairs or anything pertaining to the welfare of your life How do you like that pretending to matter what problems may be I can help you call and consult me for reliable advice Well, that's it. It's not bad. There is a madam Roberto. I'm in a hook. I can't reach it and turn around How does it look very good? Let's put the turbine on see how the whole thing Wait a minute don't put that turbine on yet the earphones gone underneath. Oh, yeah Would you move the crystal ball closer to the closet the other night the wire was so tight I couldn't turn my head I wouldn't mention the other night if I were you Elsie It wasn't my fault that the earphones went out of order and I couldn't hear you Besides why did now kill me when the phones went out? How did I know they weren't working? She's got the mic in that closet and you got the phones on your head I can't hear anybody but myself that must be pretty dull very funny. I'll see when are we gonna leave this town leave Well, we just barely got here you've been promising me. We'd go to Hollywood. Oh stop with that Hollywood all the time But what about my career? How am I ever gonna get to be a star if I don't get to Hollywood look Peggy We can't quit here. I got 12 prospects lined up. Maybe we get some new ones from this ad you got anything on the prospect. Yeah It's all the dope I could get on them Hey, do I have to remember all of that no Elsie'll have it in the closet. You just listen come on We better start rehearsing this stuff. Oh, when are they coming? Most time is 8 30 tonight. It'll be a semi-private meeting like the last one now put on those earphones. Let's get to work Now madam Roberto, I have here on these sheets of paper the questions that are most bothersome to these people Tear them up, please and throw them away. Yes, madam Now through the powers she alone possesses madam Roberta will peer into the mysterious crystal ball and answer your questions I am studying But it is difficult keep talking kid I hear voices But they are far away Some of you people are not holding hands in the chain the way the madam instructed you I must have help from you if you want me to answer your problems. Here's a good one Mrs. HL letters for me has the madam any message for Mrs. HL Have her stay after the meeting. I have a message for Mrs. HL Well, Mrs. HL, please come up to the front of the room.  I and Mrs. HL What is your message madam Roberto? I I Cannot reveal it here. It is too personal. Oh, thank you madam bless you And now ladies and gentlemen take the hand of the person seated next to you and form the chain again Madam Roberto, do you have any further messages Peggy rush the rest of them off fast? Let's get to work on the sucker in that same city at the local FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is walking over to the desk of agent Stan Kimball. Hello Stan. Hi Jim. When did you get into town? About 15 minutes ago Oh, I didn't know you were being transferred out here. Oh, I haven't been I've been chasing and just missing three swindlers for a Couple of months now every time I close in on them. I find they've just left town I know the feeling but don't look so discouraged. You'll catch up to him. We'll catch up to them.  Yeah, your agent in charge just assigned you to work with me. Well How about filling me in on the background? Okay? Well, this little tree was wanted in five states for larceny Conspiracy to defraud illegal fortune telling an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution One of them and Al Watson. He's done time twice what for swindling both times his wife Elsie she was acquitted each time for lack of evidence. I mean this new setup They've been using in the last few months. They have a young blonde girl working with them. She uses the name of Peggy Garvey You think they're here, I'm pretty sure they are the ticket seller at the station in Albuquerque He remembered selling them three tickets from there to here Well one trouble with trying to find a fortune teller here is that there are a couple of hundred of them spread over the city Well, we've got pretty good descriptions on them Stan. Let's get an alarm.  Well, you've been gone long enough. I think like this takes time I found out what I wanted though. This Mrs. Lincoln has a hefty gob of dough. Good. Let's get back to work then They can't keep the old slob waiting too long Peggy. Yeah Look, I want you to play this like you're already in Hollywood and this is your screen test I will now do you remember everything I told you I think so all you got to do is remember It's like Hollywood. Okay. I'll be in the next room. Al you go get Mrs. Lincoln. I'll see you later Okay, Peggy. All right Mrs. Lincoln. Yes, come right this way. Madame Roberta will see you now. Oh, thank you I'm sorry I've made you wait this long, but Madame Roberta has been concentrating. I understand Madame Roberta, do you have any message for this troubled person? I am listening to the voices in the air Queen of the occult What do those voices tell you? They say that this troubled person has suffered some terrible misfortunes Oh, that's true. So true. They tell me that there is someone who wishes you great evil Yes, I know who that is.  Madame Roberta. Is there any way in which this troubled one can be delivered from the curse of her hex? I am listening The voices say that if you will bring all your possessions to me I will be able to deliver you from the hex. Oh, thank you. Thank you But this must be done within the single turning of the earth The madam means that if the hex is to be taken off it must be done by tomorrow at the latest The voices say you ought to bring to me all of your cash Because that too is hexed. Oh, I will Mrs. Lincoln, you can go home and sleep tight by tomorrow night this time. You'll have no more money trouble Little luck. The Adams custom company here in town saw one of our little trio are robin a turbine But the trail ends there. Didn't they get any address at all? No, Mrs. Watson Whatever name they're using now came in pick the stuff up. No alterations. No deposits. No nothing I hope this isn't another close, but no cigar to you That isn't all the police located the taxi diver at the railroad station who picked them up the night they arrived here Where did he take them to the central hotel, but they're not there anymore Well, they couldn't work this window out of a hotel room. All my guess is they found a house and rented it That's always been there for him. Jim, let's call on all the fortune tellers alphabetically Wish we didn't have to take that much time, but I guess that's about the only thing to do. Okay, let's get that list We made up and start calling I'm right here What's been happening the Lincoln Dane came here about an hour ago. She had all the stuff with her the cash, too Yeah, $7,000 worth of it. Hey Has she been in there with Peggy for a while? Yeah, what's going on? I don't know I've been waiting for them to break it up. Stick your head in and give Peggy the sign I don't want to disturb the deal. Look, she don't know enough to ad-lib this law Look, but honey do as I say Al stick your head in there. Okay Mrs. Lincoln Where is madam Roberto? She went out that other door. She told me to meditate. She said I must have absolute quiet Oh sure you go ahead Mrs. Lincoln Keep meditating Peggy isn't there.  Come on. Let's check on that. She just stayed with the customer There's something funny about this. What do you mean? Oh, why should you leave the old thing? Maybe she ran out of words? Let's find out There's no one in here. Are you sure? Well, do you think I'm blind? Hey look, what wait? Here's a note on the bed. Let's see it. Wait. I read it Well, what does it say? What does it say? 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So all in all a man is very fortunate if his health age income his home and its location Qualify him for an equitable assured home ownership plan The way to find out if you qualify is to get in touch with your equitable society Representative look in the phone book or write care of this station to the equitable society That's equi TA BLE the equitable life assurance society of the United States Now back to tonight's fire the unhappy medium It is an axiom among those who do not know the habits or characteristics of criminals that there is honor among thieves As illustrated by tonight's case from the files of your FBI nothing could be further from the truth Thieves and especially swindlers Recognize no such thing as honor because to recognize it would be to admit that there is such a thing as a code of ethics As a set of rules by which human beings were better able to live with each other The swindler cannot allow himself the luxury of a conscience and without that there is no such thing as honor Any thief would willingly and anxiously steal lie cheat or even murder No matter who it hurt so long as he gained from the criminal act And that is as true of female thieves as it is of men for the motto of criminals of both sexes is the same that motto is He who steals and runs away Lives to steal another day Tonight's file continues as the two FBI special agents get out of the car in front of the swindlers house This is the place all right Stan look they even have a sign on the front lawn. Well all this hulkham is perfectly legal in this town Hope they're still here. Oh, they probably will be I don't think they suspect we're just close to them You never know about this trio. They make the score quick and then move on. Hey look What doors open yeah, you got the warrant. Yeah, come on. Let's walk in They're here. They're being pretty quiet Come on, we better look around this room first. Okay, so I'm sitting in the chair below Pardon me. Oh, please be quiet. I'm meditating All right, I see We're special agents the FBI Yeah, my credentials. What do you want here? You've seen a man and a woman about 45 and a young blonde girl about 21 or two Oh, you mean Professor Williams and Madame Roberto. I think so. Yes. Where are they please? Well, Madame Roberto is in her room. She's concentrating on what I'm removing some evil spirits from my money Ma'am, I think we'd better start at the beginning and get your whole story Oh, where have you been? I just went back to talk to the hostess. Hmm. You even table hop on planes I wanted to find out when we get the Hollywood sit down and we get there. You'll know it Well, there's one good thing about all this what once we get the Hollywood We shouldn't have too much trouble finding out. How do you figure that? Well, she'll look for a job acting we can nail her that way If you hadn't encouraged that acting we wouldn't be trying to nail her at all Are you gonna start that again? Well, you're the one who told her she had talent You had her right away to that acting school that fixed everything. I did it because we needed her to run off with 7,000 Elsie we'll get the dough back. I'll get it back and I'm keeping it from now on I'm treasurer. Well, don't I get nothing. Mm-hmm. Yeah You meditate Mrs. Lincoln, when did you first hear of this madam Roberto? There was an ad in the newspaper. I see what do what did this ad say? It said that madam Roberto would help people to solve their problems and you answered it. That's right Why are you asking me all of these questions? Because I'm afraid you've been the victim of a group of swindlers Yes, I'm nobody else in the house. I've looked through every room. You find anything that might give us a lead I didn't look for any clues to tell the truth. I just went from room to room to see if there was anybody around Oh, I'm sure that you'll find your mistake in sir about there being swindlers I mean Mrs. Lincoln are those papers in front of you yours? Well, yes This is the deed to my house and these are stock certificates. I own and these are my war bombs Why did you bring them here? Madam Roberto was freeing them from evil spirits Is that all you brought? No, no, I brought $7,000 in cash, which madam Roberto was removing the hex from also How long ago did she start doing that mrs. Lincoln? Well, she left here about an hour ago to take the money back to her room. She said she could work better there And she left you here to meditate? That's right. Mrs.  I think the first thing to do is start searching this place See if we can find any lead and where they've gone Well, where have you been now down in the lobby what were you doing down there? Did you think Peggy was going to come over and meet you? We'll find it. We'd better we don't this hotel Don't get paid look. I know just what to do this doll wants to be an actress, right? Right, okay Then she's got to sign with this central casting place or with an agent if she wants a job And if she's not there we'll check on some of those hotels for actresses. She'd be likely to live in one of them places Oh, why don't you get on the phone and call up? I did any luck?  We'll have to we'll make up a list of places to check We'll each take half come on. She must have had her bags packed by the time mrs. Lincoln arrived Sure looks that way. What's it? There's a note that was on the floor. Hmm. What's it say? You're Elsie and Al I'm sorry to do this to both of you, but I have taken mrs. Lincoln's money for myself I know you will both be mad, but my career comes first. I'm off to Hollywood Sounds like a double-cross. Yeah This can only mean one thing if she's gone to Hollywood for a career stand. She must want to be an actress. Yeah Look wastebasket's pretty full. Let's see we can find anything else in here.  Sounds like a double-cross. Yeah This can only mean one thing if she's gone to Hollywood for a career stand. She must want to be an actress. Yeah Look wastebasket's pretty full. Let's see we can find anything else in here Let's see if we can find anything else in here, huh? Just dump it on the bed. Oh, that's fine. Looks like correspondence of some sort here, Jim. Just circulars, though. Here's a batch of... She must have had her bags packed by the time Mrs. Lincoln arrived. Sure looks that way. What's this? Here's a note that was on the floor. What's it say? Here, LCNL. I'm sorry to do this to both of you, but I have taken Mrs. Lincoln's money for myself. I know you will both be mad, but my career comes first. I'm off to Hollywood. Sounds like a double cross. Yeah. This can only mean one thing. If she's gone to Hollywood for a career stand, she must want to be an actress. Yeah. Look, the wastebasket's pretty full. Let's see if we can find anything else in here, huh? Just dump it on the bed. Looks like correspondence of some sort here, Jim. Just circulars, though. Here's a note that was on the floor. What's it say? Here, LCNL. I'm sorry to do this to both of you, but I have taken Mrs. Lincoln's money for myself. I know you will both be mad, but my career comes first. I'm off to Hollywood. Sounds like a double cross. Yeah. This can only mean one thing. If she's gone to Hollywood for a career stand, she must want to be an actress. Yeah. Look, the wastebasket's pretty full. Let's see if we can find anything else in here, huh? Just dump it on the bed. All right, sir. There. Oh. Looks like correspondence of some sort here, Jim. Just circulars, though. Here's a batch of envelopes. Wait a minute. These are addressed to the girl. Peggy Garvey? Yeah. Stan, look at these addresses. Albuquerque, Denver, Kansas City. These are all the places they've been before. Places where I've just missed them. Anything in the envelopes? Um, no. But they're all from the same outfit, the International School of Dramatic Art. There's one, two, seven envelopes. Let's look in the other room, Jim. Maybe we can find a better lead there. Oh, wait, Stan. I don't know if we need a better lead. Let's find a phone. I've got an idea. Well, where have you been this time? I'm sorry, honey. I thought you said meet you on the other corner. I said in front of the drugstore. Oh, come on. You told me it never rained in California. You want me to put in a fix with the weather? I want you to take me to Peggy. Where'd you find her? Where did she live? Right in that apartment house. Mm-hmm. And I didn't even have enough money to buy an umbrella. You will have enough in a couple of minutes. Look, are you taking bows? It took you two weeks to find her.  Yeah, this is one. Go ahead. You know what apartment she lives in? Yeah, right here on the ground floor, 117. Down this way. Here it is, 117. Out of the way, you little crook. Kelsey! Out of the way! Didn't think we'd find you, huh? Al, we didn't come here for conversation. We want our money.  I don't know to what you are referring. Huh? I said, I don't know to what you are referring. Look, whatever you're eating, swallow it. We can't understand you. That's diction. Diction? We don't care what you call it. Just come up with that 7,000. I don't know what to use. The 7,000 you took from old lady Lincoln. Now, where is it? I'm using it. I need it for my career. Al, case those dress your guards. Okay. Get away from them drawers. That's shifted diction out of her. Hey, look, keep away from there. That's my money, and I... Here it is, right on top. Look, looks like most of it's here, too.  Don't bother counting it. We'll do that back at the hotel.  Step back inside.  How are you, mister? I'm a special agent of the FBI. I've got warrants here for the arrest of all three of you. You've got nothing on us. I guess is. We've got enough for you to serve long terms in a federal penitentiary. Well, honey? Now you'll know where I've been. Al Watson and his wife, Elsie, were tried, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years in prison for violation of the National Stolen Property Act. A young Confederate, Peggy Garvey, was given a five-year sentence and then placed on probation. And thus your FBI ended the careers of three greedy swindlers. The clue which led the two special agents to the apartment in Hollywood came from the International School of Dramatic Art. Special Agent Taylor reasoned that since the young blonde had gone to the trouble of notifying the school of her previous changes of address, she might do the same thing again. Within a week, the school received the change of address and notified the local FBI field office which relayed the information. And so, once again, it was not a brilliant stroke of inspiration which closed a file successfully for your FBI, because those inspirations come far apart, and the reputation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is too solid to have been based on hunches. It was hard work which closed this case, hard work in searching diligently and then following every clue to the logical conclusion. A conclusion which ultimately led to the stamping of a word across this particular file, the single important word, convicted. We'll tell you about next week's case from the files of your FBI. Friends, if you were impressed a few minutes ago by what I told you about the Equitable Society's Assured Home Ownership Plan, if the idea appeals to you of a low interest rate first mortgage combined with life insurance to protect your home against death and hard times, then I suggest that you get in touch with your Equitable Representative.  So contact your Equitable Society Representative without delay, or right care of this station to the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an unusual story revealing the cunning tactics of an elusive murderer, its subject, extortion, its title, student of violence. The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Life Assurance Society's broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious and any similarity thereof to the names of persons living or dead is accidental. Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner. The author was Jerry Lewis. Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacey Harris. This is Your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This is Larry Keating speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community and inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time when the Equitable Life Assurance Society will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Students of violence on This Is Your FBI. This is ABC the American Broadcasting Company.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that the present price of a machine is $529. If its value decreases every year by 8%, then what was its value two years ago? The compound interest formula is a is equal to p into 1 plus r upon 100 raise to power n. The value of the growth factor is 1 plus r upon 100 and the value of decay factor is 1 minus r upon 100. With this key idea, let us proceed with the solution. According to the question, we are given the present price of a machine is $529 and its value decreases every year by 8%. We have to find the value of the machine two years ago. Let the value of the machine years ago be p. The value of the machine has decreased every year in two years. So, the time n is equal to two years. So, we shall use the compound interest formula using the decay factor where the decrease rate r is equal to 8% per annum. So, using the formula, the present value of the machine will be p into 1 minus 8 upon 100 raise to power 2 dollars. Given that the present value of the machine is equal to $529, so $529 is equal to p into 1 minus 8 upon 100 raise to power 2, which implies p into 100 minus 8 upon 100 raise to power 2 is equal to $529. This implies p into 92 upon 100 raise to power 2 is equal to $529. Now, 4 into 25 is 100 and 4 into 23 is 92. So, this becomes p into 23 upon 25 square is equal to $529, which can be written as p into 23 upon 25 into 23 upon 25 is equal to $529. This implies p is equal to $529 into 25 into 25 upon 23 into 23. Now, 23 into 23 is $529, so p is equal to $25 into 25, which is equal to $625. So, the value of the machine 2 years ago was $625, which is our answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


It is with a deep sense of humility, honor, and gratitude that I once again address you in observance of the festive season as the parliamentary representative for the constituency of Denry North. The love, kindness, and generosity of spirit that characterize our interaction with each other truly make the festive season the most wonderful time of the year. Whether it is enriching out to others or simply doing more to help the lives of people around us, Christmas brings us together in a mother that few other celebrations are able to. It is a time of year when we choose to forget the stresses and strains of everyday life and celebrate the occasion for what it is, a chance to enjoy the company of the people we love and appreciate. The year 2016 was a very eventful one for our country, the highlight of which was the general election of June 6, which the United Workers Party won convincingly. Notwithstanding the UWP's national victory at the polls, you in Denry North once again reposed your collective confidence in my ability to lead the charge for our beloved constituency in the parliament of our country. You elected me for a second time as your parliamentary representative and for this I will remain eternally grateful. The campaign in Denry North was very exciting but cried brutal at times and so as we continue to emerge from the dust of a grilling election campaign, it is my sincere hope that we allow the spirit of the season to nurse and soothe the political wounds and scars obtained in the process. Elections are over and we must embrace each other with love and harmony for the continued progress of our community and country. I have stated previously that the real enemies of progress in Denry North and the Mabua Valley are not the supporters of the UWP or the supporters of the SLP but instead the real enemies of our progress and advancement as a people, a poverty, crime, alcoholism, unemployment and inadequate supply of quality drinking water, child sex abuse and so on. We worked well together during the last five years. Some of our notable achievements include the construction of a brand new concrete road and bridge in Dubone. The construction of the main Granivier Alba Bridge, the construction of brand new concrete roads in Alemon Grand Riviera, Grand Ravine, Belmont, Austin Hill, New Village Richfonds, Tillerisos, Denyer Riviera, Tama Zoo and Olio. The construction of footpaths in Lapelle and Olio, the recommissioning of the Granivier and Lapelle playing fields, the total rehabilitation of the Denyer Riviera Combined School, the awarding of boosters and tuition support for almost 400 students, the training and certification of 40 single mothers in hotel housekeeping, the fencing of the guided day care in excess of $100,000 worth of equipment and support to youth and sports organizations, the provision of approximately one kilometer of sidewalk infrastructure on the Larisos Ridge Forman Road, housing assistance and the provision of care for the elderly and so on. As we pause for a much needed break, I urge you to continue subscribing to the ideals of the festive season, kindness, generosity, treasuring your loved ones and accepting others for who they are on my behalf and my family's behalf and behalf of the constituency group and staff at the Dennerinov constituency office. I want to take this opportunity to extend season's greetings to each and every one of you, in particular the people of Gran Riviera, which form Gran Rivien, Belmont, Denyer Riviera, Gadet, Larisos, Lapelle, Despin and Olio and may God continue to shower his richest blessings upon you throughout the ensuing year. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who worked for me, not only in the end of the year, but in the end of the year, for five and a half years in government. I want to thank everyone who came out of the Dennerinov constituency for a good year. I want to thank everyone who came out of the Nefla. I want to thank everyone who came out of the Dennerinov constituency for a good year. Thank you and best wishes to everybody.