Hello there, so this New Year's Eve, which is, what is that, Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever it is? I'm going to be doing a live stream, a countdown to the new year. I've decided to do this because I've just moved into my new apartment, and I haven't done a live stream in a very long time because I've had very bad internet where I used to live, but I just checked it out. The internet here is fantastic. In fact, I upgraded it to the best plan so we can make sure that I can do live streams. So I will be doing an end of the year live stream. I'm sort of working together what I'm going to be doing for it because usually when I do live streams I just turn it on and people ask questions, and that's it. But I'm actually going to come with prep. Come with prep this time. And what I want to do is a kind of year review live stream where I go through of, actually this year, just to be clear, I have put out, I'm pretty sure I'm at something like 104 videos, which is way more, I mean when this year started, I thought I was going to like totally quit YouTube. I was so annoyed by it. In fact, I still am, but somehow I ended up doing the equivalent of two videos every week. So I want to do a review of everything we've learned together on the channel, just to sort of remind you. And so it's going to be, I'm going to go through all 12 months, all the stuff that I've talked about on the channel, and other things relevant that might not necessarily be on the channel. It's not going to be a personal biography, although I have done a bunch of stuff. I might mention the stuff that I've done that many of you know in the past year. So I want to have a year review live stream, and it's going to be a countdown to the new year. And I'm also going to probably have clips, it's not going to be a full live stream.  I think I'm going to play videos for everyone and other stuff like a lot of other live streams do, because I'm actually preparing it. In fact, I actually have a lot prepared already. Now I will say, I'm not quite sure what the time is going to be. Now I did say it's going to be a countdown to the new year, but I don't know what time zone I want to treat as being the real beginning of the new year. Now I, of course, am on the east coast of the US. Now I would just assume that that is going to be our new year, and I'm going to have a countdown to that. But I'm actually probably going to be doing something with people in real life. For, believe it or not, I do have things besides the internet to do. So what I might actually do is sort of, I mean, we're probably going to have something or another at our house. And I don't want to be weird, and I don't want to be in my room live streaming all night. That's weird. So I'll probably take breaks for other videos, but what I'm getting at is I might have the climax our new years be in maybe a time zone out in the west of America, or maybe in a good Atlantic time zone or something. I haven't quite decided, but either way, I'll update you. So there will be an end of the year live stream with me actually preparing stuff. That's what I'm trying to get across, just to celebrate the fact that I now have real internet. And I do want to make live streams sort of a semi-regular thing now that I can use it, now that I'm actually paying for decent internet. It's actually fantastic. I think, I don't know what our plan is supposed to be, but it's literally like 10 times the bandwidth I had at my last place. So anyway, that's about it, and I'll keep you guys posted. Subscribe to my RSS feed. I'll probably put up another informational video or something, or the live stream will probably pop up before I actually go live, so you can see it before then. But anyway, I will see you guys when that happens.


You know the guy sitting beside me? Are you the Prince of Nigeria or Prince of Ghana? The Prince in Nigeria. The Prince in Nigeria. Which one of Nigeria? Odoruo, which is an Oshun state. Wow. So you guys, people who are watching this, you are more than welcome to the Kingdom of Odoruo. If you're ever in Nigeria, just hit me up. You're more than welcome. And who accommodate you? You're more than welcome to come visit. We will accommodate you. We will accommodate you. You're more than welcome to come visit. Dynast love visits in African countries. That is one of the first time that you visited Africa. Tanzania, December 2011. I went to Tanzania, loved it. What was the mission going to Tanzania? I just, well the mission was I was going to go to Brazil.  But that, those plans fell through. So a friend of mine encouraged me to go to Tanzania. So I went to Tanzania. I just wanted to experience Africa. I really didn't have any, I didn't have an agenda really. I just wanted to go because my friend said go.  And since then, I don't even see you in Tanzania anymore. But I've been seeing you around West Africa. I'm West Africa. My heart is in West Africa. I'm a West African cat. And how many African countries have you been so far? I think like 14, 13, 14. Something like that? Yeah. But something that I don't understand. Dennis can come to Ghana today and leave the next day. Dennis can go to Nigeria and leave the following day. But Dennis, why don't you move to any of these countries? Okay. Well, first of all, I've been in Ghana for four days. I was in Nigeria for almost two weeks. It's in the works. It's in the works. It's in the works. So I'm looking for land now, going to start building in. It's going to happen. You have your Nigerian passport right now? Uh-huh. Was it? I'm Nigerian. You're Nigerian now? Yes. Wow. Acquiring that passport, was it like difficult to get it? No. I mean, I basically was immigration asked for where I provided. So. Amazing. Dennis, I want to know, how has the experience in Africa been like, since 2011 to now? How has the experience been like? I'm enjoying, you know, especially when I go back to the places I've been to, seeing the gradual improvement. So I'm enjoying that. And also to the diaspora, many people in the diaspora, them being sparked and motivated to travel to Africa, they come experience the motherland. Because at the end of the day, if you're black, you're an African. So why not come to Africa? Wow. If you're black, you're an African. But you know for sure that some of our brothers don't want to accept the fact that they're Africans. Do you have anything to tell them since you've been in and out in Africa? They're lost, you know. It's one of those things. It's just, you know, we just, we laugh at them, you know, we feel sorry for them. But you know, we got to, we have to move on, you know.   Good luck. Dennis, there's this question that I know for sure that a lot of Africans on your page want to know. When you come to Africa, there always are the, maybe the village part of Africa. Right. That's why you keep on going. I had this city in the city. In the city, so. Sometimes you're in the city, but most of the time the vlogs that you show, basically like outskirts of the city and stuff, why is that? That's where the culture is. I mean, as the city's developed, I mean, the city's are getting better, infrastructure's getting better. But the cities are in my opinion, and some people might get offended, nothing more than copycat versions of, they're trying to duplicate the West. And I don't see that being unique or authentic. So when I come, because when I first started coming to Africa, I was coming, you know, I had, I was working in corporate America, so I had limited to vacation days. So why go to a major city that's, I guess, trying to be like the Western counterparts, when I live in LA, I lived in Atlanta, and they're just, they're trying to copy those formats. So I only experienced the culture in the villages, so that's where I want to spend my time. And that's, you know, that's where I ended up. And I know sometimes some Africans get offended because... Oh, well, they're insecure. That's all. They're insecure. You know, I think a lot of Africans suffer from, what I want to say, they want to be white people.  So since white people told them that what you do in the village is backwards, they've adopted this mindset. You know, I don't come to... The last thing on my mind when I come to Africa is white people. So I think that's what it is. You know, they seek white approval. And because of the images and the way that Africa's been documented by white people, you know, they make the village, you know, our indigenous spirituality, they make it seem as it's evil, it's backwards. And so a lot of us are forced to have adopted that.  I'm not here. I don't come to Africa to compete with white people. You know, I think that's the problem. It's just this mindset we have. Because I read a comment on your channel, someone was saying that diners are feeding into the negativity out there because like some of us, we hardly get to see Africa this way. But when diners go to Africa, this is exactly the same Africa that he shows that. I saw in the comment section, some of you, I read those comments from Africans that some of them were so mad. Like, hey, at least, like, you know, there are a lot of African Americans out there, a lot of African diaspora who are actually following you to see Africa through you. So why don't you like balance the equation for us? You know, sometimes maybe you're in the city just because I saw your video on Instagram. I was like, you know, I could take flights to Kumasi. And then all this one I never knew. Well, I knew I could fly. I just know it was that cheap. Okay. Yeah, I didn't know it was that cheap. Good. So we want to know, can you sometimes balance the videos for us? Like, because you do videos on YouTube. If you don't know diners on YouTube, but the YouTube name is Search for Wuru. You got to subscribe. You got to subscribe right now and go support the brother. I mean, like, he has been to so many African countries more than me. But anyway, I just wanted to know, can you balance the equation for us? Because this is what a lot of Africans on the channel have been saying. Like, we are following you just because we want to see Africa through you. We have never been to Africa. But we always see Search for Wuru at the village part of Africa. Yeah, we're supporting the people. I would say this.  Okay. Buy an airplane ticket. And they could come to Africa and document it how they want. Dainese love voodoo. Yes. Dainese, why do you have so much love for voodoo? The last time I did a voodoo video, I lost 1,000 people following my channel. Again, again, our people have been brainwashed and to believe it.  You know, a lot of our people have been brainwashed and are thinking that the Western standard is the only standard to go by. Before white people showed up to West Africa, we were animus, we practiced voodoo, we practiced ifa. We had our own traditional religions that our ancestors crafted specifically for us. The only reason why you were a Christian is because white people forced you to be a Christian.  So, I don't understand why. Now, black Americans or diasporas, we somewhat have an excuse because we've been disconnected from our spirituality. But for an African born in Africa, to not embrace their indigenous spirituality and replace it with something foreign, it makes no sense to me. Like, it just makes no sense to me. It just makes no sense to me. It just makes no sense to me. Like, it just makes no sense to me. You'll never hear the Chinese talk down on his indigenous Confucianism, whatever it's called, you know, and replace it with Christianity. You'll never hear the Indian talk bad about their religion and replace for their Christianity. But for some reason, the Africans denounce his own spirituality and replace of the religion that the colonizer forced on him. It makes no sense. So, again, those thousands of subscribers, they're lost. There's this question I really want to ask you. There are people that I normally see on social media claiming like Pan-African, I'm Pan-African, I'm full Pan-African, but a person like that has never stepped his foot in Africa. Right. What do you say about people like that? Well, Marcus Garvey, he never stepped foot in Africa. Okay. I think the, if your intentions are to eventually step foot in Africa once you have the resources to, then yeah, but I think a lot of, even Pan-Africanists, they're scared to come to Africa. I notice that. Like, they don't, they, they want to be Pan-African in America, but they don't want to come to Africa. Why is that? I guess they feel into the negativity. I run into a lot of them. And you know they're serious or not. No, but the, which means you have to address this issue when if someone is scared, he calls himself Pan-African, he's scared of coming to Africa. If you haven't message to tell that person, what are you going to tell him? Stop being scared. You know, I hear the, well, the flight's too long. I'm a Pan-African. I'm a Pan-African. But I can't fly to Africa because the flight is too long. No, that should be. Yeah, it's scary. All right, literally just to, so you can step on the soil, you go fly direct from JFK, New York to Dakar, Senegal. And it's like a seven hour flight. You watch a movie, you take a nap, you land. You know, so there's no excuses. So we hear that. Now as far as the money issues, you know, that's a real issue for a lot of people. But I think a lot of times it's either mis-priorities or a lot of them are just scared, you know. Well, Dennis, before I let it go. Go ahead. I know a lot of the Black Americans or maybe Africans in the diaspora feel like when they come to Africa, they'll not be accepted. You've been an African-American, traveled within Africa. Nigerian, I'm Nigerian. So that should tell you right there. I'm so sorry. Like, you've been a Nigerian. Well, I'm a Black American Nigerian, I guess. But for those that say that we're not accepted, I'm Nigerian. So that should tell you right there. I was received. I've been received everywhere I went. Oh, the countries have been true. I've been received. Nobody hates it because you're... No one hates me. I think what happens, there are a lot of Africans who immigrate to America, who, I guess, since they don't want to offend the white people, they carry themselves a certain way, which can, I guess, I would want to say, upset a lot of Black Americans because the way they carry themselves or their attitudes are, they want to be seen as different from those Black Americans. And I think the way they go about it a lot of times, it rubs Black Americans the wrong way. So with that being said, if the immigrants are the first people that you come in contact with from Africa and they rub you the wrong way, then it's like, okay, if they're like this here, I just only can imagine, in regards to their home, how they are. But that's not the case. That's not the case. And I think that has been somewhat the problem. But my experience overall has been, from immigrants to the continent has been great. But the people that continue to, I guess, try to leverage this, Africans don't like us, they have no intentions of coming to Africa anyway.  You know, you don't want to go to Africa.  But then you're in Europe who colonized Africa, brought you over here, stuck you on plantations, which are still pretty much on for 400 years. But then you still want to go to their homeland, but you don't want to come to Africa. So a lot of these people aren't serious. They're just using that, we call it Negro stalling tactics. All right, they're not serious about coming to Africa in the first place. So they'll use every excuse or stalling tactic to not come. But then they have no issue with walking around and being around white people every day in America. Like some African-Americans ask me, did these assholes Nigerians, if they were involved in the slave trade, right?   Like I said, they're not serious, just ignore them. Dynast, I feel like Dynast love Africa by heart because even his costume right now, it's everything African, Dynast. I love the fact that you love Africa and I love the fact that you're traveling in Africa. Like your trip was actually an inspiration to me to start my whole Africa to the world trip because I see African-American, like I told you I had classmates from African-Americans who were my classmates, but all of them were scared to come into Africa and I saw you traveling, eating, but the other side of Africa, I was like, Dynast is doing the other side of Africa. I think this is not showing the other side. I'll come and show you the other side. So you know what? You can follow Dynast, go check out his videos, go subscribe, go support the movement. That is, it belongs to him to hit 100K. I know, right? So guys, go to search for Huru. Thank you. Search for Huru. Also, next tour is coming up in March to Nigeria. Please visit Nigeria with me. Nigeria is an absolutely beautiful place. We're going to go to Makinu of Otoruo. We're going to go to Oshun State. We'll be in Lego. So please come and join us in Nigeria in March to date. So on March 20th through the 26th, hit me up. Just go to Dynastamir.com. Dynastamir.com. Send me a message. Until next time. Voting. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you finally.


Well hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. Guess what we're doing? Just guess. I mean, I'm sure you probably guessed by the title of the video, but we're doing VLOON! I'm so so excited. I've got lots and lots of fun things going on this month. I'm not going to be uploading every day. I'm just going to let you know that because I'm going to be in Alaska for two weeks in June. That being said, I'm going to be kind of MIA with the vlog situation while I'm there because I'm not going to have Wi-Fi, but when I get home I will be uploading. So do you guys want to see my mess? That's my mess. I am currently getting ready to film my, this is just a hot mess right now, but I need to figure some stuff out. I need to film my month view, which I'm going to be doing right now. And then also I'm going to be doing my budget. And then at like 1230, 1245, I need to leave because I am going to go and hang out with Jodi from Life's Organized Chaos as well as Jen McIntosh. She runs a blog. I will put it down below if you are interested. But anyway, she is in Minnesota speaking at a homeschooling conference I believe, if I remember right. So anyway, her flight is coming in today and then Jodi and I are going to hang out with her for a little while and I have some coffee. Well, they're probably going to have coffee. I'm just probably going to sit there because you know. So anyways, yeah, that's what's happening at the moment. Let's get Doyle dog on camera. Speaking of Doyle dog, he is going to hang out with his favorite grandma today because my mom is going to be coming over. I just talked to her and she's like, I want to wear a wrap. Wash you today. I'm like, well, I'm leaving for a good portion of the day. She's like, that's okay. I'll just hang out with Doyle. I'm like, perfect. So she's going to hang out with Doyle dog. And then yeah, I'll bring you guys along for the coffee situation. And I'm going to stop this video now and get on to my regularly scheduled content. And I'll see you guys in just a moment. So the favorite mother is here helping. And there she is. There's Doyle. This dog, I swear. That's his spot, by the way. He does sit at the table like a normal human being. Yeah, we are having for lunch tuna fish sandwich. And then my mom's favorite chips. These are like the way better brand chips. And then she also requested grapes. See here. Yeah, she really wanted fruit. So anyway, yeah, so my mom's actually going to stay here while I leave. And she's going to take care of Doyle, apparently. Doyle. Doyle. Well, there he is. So I'm going to leave here probably in like 20 minutes. And I'll take you guys along on my journey to go see Jen and Jody. It's like the J club. So I'm in downtown St. Paul. And it is really, really bright out. I've got a gift for Jen. And I need to go across the street. Right back there. That's where the coffee bean is. And thankfully across the street here, there is a special parking spot. Oh my gosh. Anyway, I'm going to go in. I'm a little early, but I think I'm going to figure out what to drink, slash eat, slash do. And I'll see you when I see Jen. No booze this time. Look who's here. It's the J and J. I talked about this before. I will link all of their stuff below. You better go check it out. Well, hello, I am in the car. I just went to... Well, you can't see it. I'm too close. I went to Staples and got some printer paper because I had a $5 off coupon that was just emailed to me. And I was in the St. Paul area. So I decided to hit up Roseville and go to Staples. People have asked in the past, what is my printer paper of choice? And here it is. This is it. The premium color, laser, and copier paper Staples brand. I must say that this printer paper is like super satisfying. So if you guys ever order from Favorite Daughter Shop, that's what you're, you know, if that's what everything's printed on. So anyways, but now I am headed to Michael's on my way back home because, and there's a Michael's in the small, I didn't even think of it, but they have an online order for me to pick up. I need more of the bins to like store washi samples and also full rolls of washi because I'm doing like a little revamp of the way I'm storing some things. And yes, I will eventually show you guys like my process, I guess, with the shop. But I think that should be like a dedicated video plus I want to move everything upstairs at some point. So it's just kind of the way it is right now. So I feel like it's not really done and it'll be more done when I get my upstairs bedroom, not my bedroom, but the guest bedroom then converted into an office. But that'll probably happen. I'm guessing that's gonna happen before the end of the year. But anyways, I am off to Michael's and it was so much fun hanging out with Jody and Jen. So much fun to see them and I saw Jen like a month ago and I saw Jody like a week ago. So it was kind of cool to see everybody again. But yeah, Jen's here for a conference and hanging out for basically a day and then she's going back home. So yeah, but it was really cool to see her and I'm sure I'll see her in Las Vegas next year for Go Wild. But like I said, I'm gonna link all their stuff down below so go check them out. Jen is not a YouTuber, but she runs a blog. So we all should go check it out. And she, her Instagram is beautiful and I love it.  So all right, well, let's go to Blaine and go to Michael's. I'm super tired. Don't know why. My mom says I've had a big day. The dog is sitting here. He's not still sitting here from the last time I was here, I promise. And I just had some corn sherbet or sorbet, if you will. Mom's eating some too. She's taking a well deserved break where I'm just tired for no reason. See everything that I got done while she was away. I wrapped all this washi for her. She's such a good worker and I don't get paid anything for all this. No, but I do give her food. That's true. I do give her food and limited diet cokes. That's the deal. But I'm gonna make some more of these right now that have my logo on them. Very exciting. Oh, and those bins are what I picked up at Michael's. They're just extra like washi storage bins that I needed because yikes, y'all. Yikes. So I'm gonna get to stickering some bobbins. Oh man, look at this. What kind of shenanigans are these? So I've been ruling the Paul Bunyan plaid here. I like to call it the Minnesota plaid. I love it. It's kind of mesmerizing though, but it's like the Buffalo plaid. Yeah, it'll be up in the shop soon. You call it the Buffalo plaid. I call it the Minnesota plaid because I got a lot of shirts in this plaid. I think you got one of those shirts at the State Fairgate last year from Minnesota Bond. Yes, yes. But I like it when it's all laid out like this. It just looks like so cool. And just FYI, the reason that we do this is so we can catch any errors in the patterning as well as sometimes if they have a white background that'll be kind of stained a different color. So it's like quality control is why we roll them out like this because I know I'm gonna have a lot of questions about it. But and to answer the next question, no, it does not lose any of its adhesiveness. So yeah, but it's just to catch pattern and quality control issues. That's what I'm working on. Yeah. Now I gotta wind them all up. And I have been diligently filling this bad boy back up, but it seems like I'm not doing anything. But I am. I swear I'm doing something, but it's just we are having breakfast for dinner. The madness, the madness. So mom's looks the same. She requested milk today. And then I'm just gonna have some water. That's Doyle's plate. He's still sitting there. He'll get that a little bit later when it cools off. But yes, yum yum. All right. So the favorite mama just left. Doyle is standing guard. He's sad. But um, while my mom and I were eating, we noticed this. You guys see that right there? That's Doyle's toy on top of the little artichoke urn looking thing. Apparently he's redecorating. Hey Doyle, are you redecorating? Yeah. He's got a lot of toys out right now. I need to put those away. So yeah, but I'm going to end the vlog here. I hope you guys are excited that balloon is happening. I like I said before, it's not going to be an everyday upload. But I am going to upload as much as I can. And then obviously the very, very end of balloon, which will be the last half of balloon, I'm not going to have internet access. So those will go up, you know, in July when I get back. But I wanted to take you guys along on my Alaskan cruise. Oh, I'm so excited about that. You guys, I'm just so pumped. And then regular content will be coming up very soon as well. So anyway, that's it for me. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did thumbs it up, thumbs it down. I prefer an up, but if you want to thumbs it down, that's okay too. Feel free to subscribe. You can hit the bell for notifications when I post videos. An email will be sent to you. And that's it. That's all I got today. So anyway, hope you guys enjoyed and I will see you all in the next one. Bye guys. Well, folks, it's time to kick it old school. So you can feel cool.


This is Kevin Birkitt with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. For a few minutes, we're going to discuss the details and benefits of the Alabama Horticulture Enterprise Budgets. Each horticulture file generally follows the same format. To find the files, visit acys.edu, click on the topic of farming and farm management. Under this section, you will find profit profiles and enterprise budgets. Click on the enterprise budget you'd like to look at. The first page is a summary page and gives basic information. At the very top, it states the area, crop, and specifics of production. In this case, we're producing an acre of strawberries with six-foot spacing, 7,260 feet of drip tape, and 16 gallons per minute of irrigation. All of these factors affect the total cost. Expenses will be separated into categories like seeds and plants, supplies, labor, and a couple other categories. If someone wanted to check a specific expense, like fertilizer or seed cost, they can reference this page. Or if they wanted to estimate of growing this crop, this page may be sufficient. The goal is that a producer uses this and the following pages to develop a similar file for their own farm. These files are a good starting point. A farm can take them and then make adjustments as necessary. The second page gets into the details of the budgets. It has several columns and then corresponding information below that. On the far right, you will see the total cost column. Each of these entries make up the categorized totals we saw on the first page. The sixth column over, you will see a category that says MTH, which is short for month. The first entry is for June. The budget lists in sequential order all the activities expected to grow the crop. In this case, the first activity listed is completing a soil test. It estimates it would take half an hour of hand labor and the cost of the test being $7. The second activity is disking the field. The estimate is based on a 10-foot disk and a 75-horse power tractor. Machinery cost comes from calculations and tables, so don't expect to be able to calculate exactly what's listed here. The budget continues throughout the year until it gets to the end of the crop or harvest. The goal is including all activities the farm might have and the associated expense. While it's not considered a production guide, it does provide a lot of information. Some files are relatively short, others are several pages long. If a farm does not have a particular cost or activity, they can take out the entry from their own modified budget. The last page is additional information to help market the crop. It is based on the total costs and entries of the previous pages. On the left, you'll see percent, yield, and unit. 100% yield is what would be expected from a good crop. In this case, it's estimated you would get 3,075 four-court buckets to sell. A four-court bucket averages about six pounds. To multiply that out, you'd be around 18,450 pounds of strawberries per acre. Towards the top, it has different break-even price combinations. As we know, both yield and prices are variable. As you move towards the center, you'll see 100% yield and 464 per bucket, and it's out to zero.  There are two numbers with each combination. The top number is revenue over direct expenses, and the bottom is revenue over total expenses. For the most part, we are concerned about covering our total expenses. While this does not always tell a producer exactly how much money can be made, it lets them know that based on their costs in yield, they would not want to sell for less than 464 a bucket. This helps when negotiating with different buyers. Having an understanding of costs and then what the farm wants to make in revenue allows them to set a fair price and evaluate market opportunities. To evaluate potential returns, multiply estimated price by estimated yield, and then subtract the enterprise budget total. Use this information to plan your year and determine the best options for your farm. Meeting with other businesses, bankers, and organizations like Farm Service Agency, this information may be useful. After budgeting, possible next steps for producers would be keeping financial records, analyzing results from year to year, and then trying to make improvements. For more information, visit ASUS.edu or reach out to your local extension office.


Can five mystery boxes beat a booster box? We're about to find out. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video. Today we are pitting five of the new mystery boxes that basically we're just, I mean they have sleeves which are cool. Versus a raging battle booster box. This was sent in by Luis who also sent us that ancient sanctuary booster box that we opened up yesterday. Go check that video out. It was insane, it was an awesome opening. He sent us this. So it's us, which is the five mystery boxes. Okay, not looking good for us. Versus the raging battle booster box, Luis. Before we get into it, the giveaway is everything out of these mystery boxes. So including the sleeves. So you will get five packs of sleeves as you win this. That's honestly the best thing probably, but we'll see if there's something awesome like a legacy pack inside. All right, let's break into this raging battle booster box from Luis. Let's see if we can pull him a ghost rare power tool. How insane would that be? That would be pretty awesome. Let's rip it off. So he is trying to beat us though. So we're trying to beat him. So if he pulls a ghost, we're really gonna need to pull something amazing. All right, so we're gonna do a couple of packs of raging battle for every booster box two to three because it's about 2.4 times as many packs because there's no sleeves in here. That's kind of the part of the booster box unless they have those special ones with four. So maybe we'll just do two and see what happens. Level returner, is that a sangan? Nice, all right, very cool. Wonder clover, we got the evil thorn. This used to be a lot of money in terms of like comments, but now it's not. Crimson fire. Wait, this looks like one of those mirror force cards. I think this is one and just the fire instead of the actual shield part. Morphotronic bind, okay. We got the bone temple block. We got the master gig. Forbidden chalice, oh, whoa. That's a pretty nice ultra rare card. All right, they are off to a great start on this raging battle booster box. This is one of the best cards in the set. You can also get this, wait. That's, wait, is that an ultimate rare? It's not an ultimate rare. This one has a very unique like North American print ultimate rare look to it, but it's not. If this was an ultimate rare, this would be crazy money, but ultra rare is still pretty good.  So what a way to start that booster box. That is going to be tough to top out of a mystery box, to be honest. The good thing about the mystery boxes, they have guaranteed sleeves. That's going to be at least like what, 30 plus dollars in value right there. So that's going to really help their cause, but forbidden chalice might have just neutralized that right off the bat. So Mino and Centaur, we get the Gigastone Omega. O'Chama Reds actually worth it. Maybe a dollar. He actually might have gone under a dollar. Kwaki Mirror Guardian I think is using at emancipator deck. So that's funny. Mystery box time. This one feels thick. This one feels like it might have a chance to beat the booster box. I don't know, well, by chance, I mean there's more packs in here. If it is Dark Neo Storm though, there's not a lot of good cards in there to actually like beat us. So let's see. We're going to start off with Dark Neo Storm. Okay. It's a special edition. Nice. We've got sleeves. We knew those were in there and those are nice for you guys to win. And a dark crisis. All right. Very cool. By the way, I don't think I said what you have to do at the end of the giveaway. So just like this video, be subscribed, turn on notifications and let me know who he thinks is going to win the booster box or us. I know what you already have a head start if you guys heard this. You guys know they got forbidden chalice. So here are the promos. I don't think those are really too valuable there. Let's go with the Dark Neo Storm. Let's see if we can pull the legendary fusion destiny. We did it last time. Let's see. We have Alter Guys Haunted Rock, Deligious Dragon, Filo, and a no material. Nice. This is a nice secret rare. I mean, nice by like two and a half bucks, but that's going to be added up. So that's a good start with these sleeves already. Not bad start for the mystery boxes. Mystery boxes said they're not going to take this lying down. They're going to try and win this one. This one's going to be sick. So here we go. Let's see if we can pull something amazing. Dino wrestler with the Salamangreat Phenic. We get the draw hand. World Chalice Guard Dragon, Armoreduke, and Dirge of the Lost Dragon. It's just super, very cool looking. Like the circles look pretty dope on that. All right. That's nice. And then the final pack of the special edition. So far a secret rare. Can we get fusion destiny? One of the best cards in the set. Let's go. Deus Excrawler. We got the Crealtar. The Amphibious Quarm. Swarm fish? Swarm ship? Why am I going to say fish? I don't know what I'm talking about. Lodges Flames Super Rare. There's no fish there. What am I talking about? I don't know, but Dark Crisis knows because it's going to be the Exodia Necross. Here we go. That pack open like crazy. Let's go. Two, three, four. Do that for a little special there. We got the final countdown. That's worth a couple of bucks right there. Add that to the tally. Gage Gigo, The Fairy of the Spring, Spell Reproduction, Archvene's Roar, Keldo, Shenato's Ark, Infernal Queen Archvene, and the O'Jama Trio. If you guys have not seen my Junior Journey episode, on MBT's channel, go check it out. O'Jama Trio played a part. Back to Raging Battle. And by the way, if you guys have not heard last couple of videos, I've been on Twitch. I went five days in a row this week. Then I had to leave for Hartford so that broke the streak. But five straight days of streaming, it's been a lot of fun. So I want you guys to go check that out if you guys are interested. It's been a lot of fun. We've been doing Nuzlocs and going to do some more master duel at some point. Ooh, a Rockstone Warrior. And Snowman Eaters is a good one as well. I don't think he's actually worth a dollar though, but still a pretty nice pull for Edison. Rockstone Warrior, Super Rare. So if you guys do want to go check that out, I would appreciate it. It's been a lot of fun live with all you guys who have been there. So you guys know who you are, the MVPs. Okay, two pulls out of Raging Battle so far. This might actually be a decent battle because so far we've got the sleeves. We've got a final countdown and we've got a Secret Rare on that side. On this side, we've got a Forbidden Chalice and a Super Rare. It's going to be interesting. Oh, and there's the Cover Guard right off the bat. A Power Toe. Like it's going to be interesting. Power Toe's like nah, ain't happening. That is just the Ultra Reversion, not the Ultimate or the Ghost, but still Cover Guard, you can also pull an Ultimate or a Ghost in the same box. So if we do that, that's going to be very tough to beat. That adds to the tally. I don't know what that's worth. Probably around like 20 bucks or something though. So that's pretty nice. But wait, 50% of you guys are not subscribed to the channel according to this graph. So go down below and click that subscribe button. All right, Raging Battle, one more here for you, at least one more. Cause we, yeah, we've only got like eight more packs potentially in these mystery boxes. So we got to do a few, I think I was doing my math wrong there. Yeah, per box we got to do different. Okay, Iron Core, Wreck and Power, Vanguard of the Dragon. Yeah, no one had heard of this card and when I used it in the auction, so I can't even remember the name of the series anymore. It's been so long, rip, RIP. All right, Wreck and Power. This is pretty good pull so far out of this box. Trap Stunt, very good card. Morph Tronic Bind, Calming Magic, very cool Junk Rocks and a Morph Tronic video. Incredible stuff here, incredible stuff here, but the mystery boxes still have a chance. That's all I got to say. By the way, you guys can win everything out of that mystery box, make sure you enter the giveaway, turn on the notification, and then know when cents are in the deep sea diva. This card's actually been going up a little bit. Very nice, very good card in Edison and potentially in regular Yu-Gi-Oh! as well soon. One more pack then we're gonna go back to another mystery box. I think it's about that time. Power, Tool, Dragon, Ghost Rare, Ultimate Rare. I can't even feel the Ultra like the fourth pack or something, that was crazy. Automatic, I put it automatic instead of automatic. All right, Double, Tool, CD and Trap Stunt again with the Tree Otter, what? What is that thing? Okay, I guess it's a Tree Otter but that is very strange looking. Back to the mystery box. So we know we are gonna get sleeves in here. This one doesn't feel as thick. So like literally guys, I mean, there is literally a hack where you just grab these on the shelf and if it's not like bulging, then it doesn't have the extra thing in it, which is kind of weird. Then we have Soul Fusion. Okay, wait, that's different? That's different? Okay, and Dark Neostorm. Okay, and then we got our sleeves. Okay, so sleeves are cool. Dark Neostorm literally in every pack. They must have a lot of this that they need to get rid of. But yeah, at least we've got the fusion destiny potential. We'll take that. We've got the world legacy. Dave's Crawler, Pegasus Wind, Puzzle Amino, Memories of Hope and the Super Quantum White.  I don't know. I don't know what's going on, but okay. Soul Fusion. Let's pull something cool out of here. Like Pankratops, Common. I don't think he's actually worth much but he is very, very cool to see. We've got the Galaxy Brave, DDD Flame, High King, Gengis, Gengis, Gengis. There we go. I'm gonna get Foxy. Oh, and look who it is. The Pankratops. Such a good card printed as a common. And along Gearsue, the Orcus Orchestrator. Okay, Orcus Orchestrating, very nice. Back to the booster box. So far, pulls have been pretty incredible out of here. What can we do out of this next pack? We have the Automatic Laser, Lava Dragon, Urgent Synthesis and a Swallow Flip. Swallow Flip, what does that even mean? Is it talking about, oh, another snowman eater, very good.  Is that what we're talking about here? Cause I'm not sure what, that doesn't look like a bird. It looks like a dude. I don't know what's going on there. I really don't know, but we're gonna continue on like I do. This is, I think, the 10th pack. So we gotta open a few more before we can open the next mystery box, Lava Dragon, Reckon Power, Master Gig, Natural Tune and Spell of Pain. You will know pain when you pull pain. That was not a very good pain voice, by the way. Let's keep going. Let's pull something amazing for Luis and also beat him with our mystery boxes. Let's do it. That's best of all worlds, best of both worlds, I should say. Attack of the Corner Rat, but I guess there's not both because you guys are also included because you get the giveaway. So it is all of all worlds. I was right. Berserk King, Black Whirlwind, Black Calood, oh no! The Aleximo Special and the Phynexian Seed. Okay, final pack over here. Let's open this bad boy up. What's gonna be inside? We have the Quacky Mirror, Doom. Attack of the Corner Rat, Gigstone Omega, Mirror of Oaths. Moja, we got the Moja, Tune or Capture Junk Box, Dorn of Malice and Black Whirlwind. Back to the box of mystery. This one is feeling thick, guys. Let me tell you what will be inside. I'm guessing a Nark Neo Storm, Dark Neo Storm, Special Edition. We have, very nice, cool. And Dark Crisis, cool. And our pack of sleeps, which we knew was in there already. All right, Dark Neo Storm. Bless us with a fusion destiny. We're opening so much Dark Neo Storm out of these. We got the Salamangrae Phenic, Whirling. We've got the Coldless Silat, Corsavia Testament, Philo and Valkyrie Arita, Ultra Rare. I don't know if that's worth anything or not. Honestly, I have no idea if that'll even count towards over a dollar, but it's an Ultra Rare. So, feels like it might. I feel like it won't though, because it's Valkyries and I've never heard of them being good before. Slide Dolphin, we got the Puzzlamino. Fire Guardian, okay. Well, Chalice and Mayakashi Winter. Okay, I thought that might've been it since it is a Spell Guard. So far, only an Ultra that probably isn't worth too much. Let's see if we can get something else. New Flamvelle Lady, Crealtar, the Altar Guy Saundered Rock, Assault Mode, Amphibious Worm Ship. Maybe that's why I said fish, because it was Amphibious. Ah, I figured it out. Enlojus Flame, all right. I'm slowly figuring out my own craziness. Dark Crisis, Exodian Necross. Skill Drain would also be huge in terms of this battle. That would be a big one, because that's just a rare and it could be 30 plus dollars or something like that. Thousand Needles, we're out of the mind's eye. We've got the Incantus and Ordeal, Ultra for Tribute, Dark Schwabian, Chick the Yellow, Shadow Knight, Archfiend, Archfiend's Roar. Great, mind you guys, that there was our Skill Drain Splot and... Oh, and a Guardian Seal. Okay, Ultra Rare wasn't the Exodian Necross, but still pretty amazing. And Ultra Rare, I really don't know if that's gonna really give much value, but it's still really cool. And you guys can win it. Back to Raging Battle. Pretty cool pulls. I really don't know who's ahead right now. It's gonna be interesting. Those sleeves are gonna be a game changer in terms of the value. Oh, and an Earthbound Immortal, Kickapakaboo. I think I said that right. Something like that, Mohawk, okay. I was a little confused if I said that right and I, very nice. That is probably actually worth a little bit, because these do not have mini prints. I think Legendary Collection 5Ds is like their only reprint. You might be able to see them in there, but that's about it. So this is really one of the only places to get them. They also have Ultimate Rare Forms. We've not pulled an Ultimate Rare out of this box yet, so that'd be pretty nice. Kwakimura Doom, Alien Dog, Attack of the Corner Rat, and Against the Wind. It's, look, it's collute. That's, that, look, it's Nim Nim. It's Against the Wind. All right, very nice. Tuner Capture. With the wind, your heart's jammed enough for more dust than trying to knock you down. Okay, that's the wrong theme song. It's like Arch-V, isn't it? All right, Natural Tune, Kwakimura, Attack of the Corner Rat, Giga Stone. And one for one. This is a really good card. Isn't that on the ban list, though? Blackling collute yet again. Oh, look at this. Another little print dot. That's actually pretty sick. One more pack. We'll get back to those mystery boxes. Here we go. Very interesting battle we have on our hands right now. We've got the Natural Tune, the Mino Incentar, Spined Gilman for Edison. Very nice for those D.Va decks. And Delta Crow, Answer Reverse, Anti Reverse, and another Deepsea D.Va. That's two of those. We're pulling a lot of good rares out of here so far. Not necessarily the super rare, but the actual rare. Back to the mystery box. This feels like a two packer. Opening it up. We have Soul Fusion, okay, cool. And Dark Neo Storm, shocking. And then we have another pack of sleeves, which you guys already knew. Dark Neo Storm, but do we know that we're gonna get the Fusion Destiny? Remember when we opened this first one and we were like, yeah, Fusion Destiny's in here. We probably won't get it, and then we got it. World Gears of Theorological Demergy. Okay, I don't know what that is. You're in danger. That's pretty cool. I don't know what that ultra rare is. It's a Link, so maybe it'll be good. Never heard of it before, so probably not. Soul Fusion, give us some good Thunder Dragon stuff. Let's go. World Dino Wrestling, cool. Until Noble Arms are needed once again. Psalmangrate, Jag Jaguar. Parallel Panzer. Some Summer Summoner, very cool. You love to see that guy. He's funny, but by not worth too much. Back to the box. This battle is very intense. I think it's actually pretty close. It's coming down on the wire. It might be a photo finish. We've got the Kwaki Mirror Doom, Attack of the Cornered Rat, Gigastone Omega, Mirror of Oaths, and the play set of Deepsea Diva? That's actually sick. Wow, a play set of Diva is really nice. Okay, this is not a bad box at all. Three Deepsea Diva on the rare slot. Usually you get like one to zero of a rare. Pretty cool. We got the Double Tools, C and D. We got the Morphotronic Bind, Trap Stun. Swallows Nest, wow, that's really, Ojama Country used to be a $10 rare as well, but finally got a Repair, which really killed the value. Swallows Nest, good for those Harpy Decks and Dual Links for a long time. The next pack, let's go. We are getting low on packs in the box, and we are down to one mystery box left. Let's see, Mino and Centaur, it's crunch time. Earthbound immortal, Piscu, Asilu Piscu, and the Ojama Blue, that just does not sound right. I probably said that in the wrong way, but yeah, these have the craziest name. You tell me how to pronounce it, okay? I want to hear it from you, right? Come on, I don't hear it. All right, I'm not, exactly. I'm the only one who's saying it, so I got it right. Wow, that is like, what, three Ultras? No, four Ultras. We got the Chalice. We got Chalice. We got two Earthbound Immortals, and we got Power Tool. Four Ultras in one box. That's pretty insane. Spine Gilman, another good guard. Urgesensis, Supremacy Berry, Alien Dog. Another, that's three Snowman Eater too. Man, this has been a great box. Okay, it's time for the final mystery box. Then we will hop in to the final four, Raging Battle Packs. Final four, you know what I'm saying? It's like basketball. Not really, okay. Nice, cool. It feels like a skinny one. We have the same two packs. All right, very mysterious. I had like no idea what was gonna be in there. Crazy, such a good mystery box. Let's continue. I am glad that these sleeves are actually nice though. So, that's a plus. Let's go. Onto Dark Neostorm, Destiny, Alter Guys. If the world chalice, Justice C.R., Justice R. Secretware, I know this does have a few dollar value. That's gonna help. I mean, every couple dollars counts in this battle. Soul Fusion, can you get something else to top it off and give them a chance? It's gonna be very, very close. Dino, Ressler, King, Rexel, Midspility Barrier, Galaxy Brave, Necro Valley Throne, A Super Rare, Clock Wiver. Wait, is that the cover card? Cool. And yeah, that's it for the mystery boxes. This is gonna be a close one. It'll all depend on how much those sleeves are valued at, to be honest. Because I think that these Ultras have been pretty good ones too. We've got the Bone Temple Block, the Master Gag, Attack of the Corner Rat, Morphotronic Repair Unit, Spell of Pain. You will know pain. Let's pull a ghost rare. Four Ultras and a ghost. That'd be a nice ratio. Spine Gillman again, Urgent Synthesis, Supremacy Berry, Alien Dog. And another one for one. These rares are cracked. Literally insane rares. Like we're pulling the best rares you could pull out of here. Second and last pack. Let's go, Spine Gillman, Morphotronic Bind, Mirror of Oaths and Deepsea Diva Number Four. Wow, and another collude. What in the world? What an insane box. All right, Louise, you're looking good. I think these rares are probably gonna carry them over the top because I think that Diva's probably gonna wear two, three bucks or something like that. Final pack, let's do a little pack trick for the final pack. We have Morphotronic Scoping, Wicked Rebirth, Morphotronic Vidion, Automatic Laser, the Lava Direct Home, Urgent Synthesis, Quaking Mirror Doom, I think it's next, and Tree Otter. All right, so much for the good rares. We just pulled a Tree Otter in the last pack. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this. Shout out to TCG Trust, The Cards, Tom and Fall Show, Tomato Juice, Stanley, Mike, and Anthony Gekko. Backstream moves to Junior Bartting, and then it's high show JT Show, David FJ, Josh Evans, Clayton Fitzgerald, 87, John Nolan, and Brett Palmer. 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What is going on guys today? I am back with another destiny video And today I have a couple of little sneaky glitches for you guys now. It's a late-night video Just gonna do it before I go to bed just to get one out there for you guys to enjoy now a few guys I've got an exotic emotes. You can actually glitch it with your other dances now It looks absolutely epic with certain dances with me. I've got the spicy Raymond Exotic emotes right here, but if I select that and quickly spam my other dance button I do more of a dance while still having the holograms of the spicy Raymond And I can't imagine how this looks with a salt one because the salt one in my opinion is the best. I Just thought yeah, I just figured it out I might as well share it with you guys and also me you guys love this sort of thing I've actually puzzled so many people in the tower when I've showed it to them They're like, how is he doing that some people have clocked on and done it back to me because obviously it's pretty simple to do I can't believe I ain't seen anybody else post a video or even talk about it But yes, I just think it's pretty cool. It seriously is So there we have a exotic emo glitch show to speak There we go. We throw the ball. Yes, you know that you better clap for me That's the one I want. I love that table one I absolutely love that table one, but you can do that. What can you do that? No, you can split your table though. Okay, so now I'm going to show you guys an out of map glitch For the tower now this was showed to me by two jays on twitter yesterday So big shout out to him But it's relatively simple to do haven't been exploring much because out of map glitches for me Don't really do anything But I know I like you guys I love this sort of thing and you love to explore which is fine So basically what you want to do is you want to come up to the floor is lava balcony right here And then you want to actually do the challenge and I can't see that Oh, there is it's in that corner there. Couldn't see the light there for a second So, yeah, here we go. We're going to get there without dying. Oh, yeah, I almost died Yeah, so, yeah, we should be fine now If we can get into this today, there we go There we go whoop whoop and done So we've got the buff now this gives you gives you like an ability buff here We can see that you can move faster and jump higher So what you want to do is you want to make your way towards Ikora and that part of this tower space So let's get down there as cool as possible I also noticed a kitty I don't know if you guys have ever seen that within this tower But actually spider cat which was actually about 20 minutes ago that it will still be there But we can always hope let's see you want to jump up on there Just like that and jump up on here just like that Oh, it is lucky. You can see it's still there Ha ha, little kitty See It was a different color that's how much it's changed your color So what you want to do is you want to jump up on here and you can see it's like metal construction whatever that is you want to teabag your way into it So you kind of walk through And then you land nope. Nope ain't working me enough to fall down a bit I'm gonna get to there. So It is a bit of a bit of a difficult one to do There we go Just done it. Then you want to jump onto this Thing here jump onto this and then jump left and there we go jump left again There we go. Now, um, it can go a few places here. Like I said, I haven't really explored Um, isn't my sort of thing, but I always wondered what was behind them doors Now we've got a few doors that look like that within this tower I always wondered what's behind them I thought it was going to be a future event of some sort But obviously not because there's nothing here Which is weird and you can't get back through it that way. Nope, and I've just killed myself. But yes Simple as that guys get exploring if you find anything decent Let me know on twitter at dpjsc08 linked within the video description Now if you do fall off and die you do lose your both and that is the end of that But yes guys a simple quick and easy nice little Glitch late night video for you guys is currently Almost 3 a.m. Here. So yeah, I've got to get up early as well I've got to take my girlfriend to work and my daughter to school. So I better get to bed But yes guys, hope you enjoyed the late night video. Thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Hey, Aloha, and welcome to Stand Energy Man here on Think Tech, Hawaii, where community matters. And we like to talk about all things energy, and of course we like to do transportation energy in particular, but we also are getting to a point where transportation energy and grid energy are starting to merge as we get more electric vehicles on the road. We start to see that cohesion between grid and the power you have to generate from the grid to charge your vehicles or to make hydrogen for matter, you know, that matter using electrolysis. But anyway, there's that load that we're going to be putting on the grid in the future. If we're going to try and get our transportation sector cleaner, there's a kind of emerging there. Like I've told several people, when it comes to transportation and people have arguments about it's going to be only a battery power or hydrogen or hybrid vehicles, and I don't remember who I got this from, but somebody said it's not a silver bullet solution, it's a silver buckshot solution. It's going to take plug-in vehicles, it's going to take hydrogen vehicles, it's going to take hybrid vehicles, it's going to take biofuels, it's going to take mode shifting, it's going to take live work play, urban planning things, it's going to take everybody's efforts to reduce vehicle miles traveled and get as many clean fuels out there as we can. But we also get into discussions about pure electric versus hydrogen and one of the things that I'm always hit with off the bat, like if I did a word association on hydrogen, the first word on anybody's mouth is Hindenburg or H-bomb or something like that. And it's really frustrating for me because I went on the internet this morning and I just said, you know how many Mariah fires have they had? They've got like 5,000 Mariahs in California, between three and 5,000, I don't remember how many exactly. And they've been running over there with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, even before that with some other Toyotas and Hyundai's and things like that, Honda Clarities. And I couldn't find any hydrogen vehicle fires, but just in the last two weeks I've heard of at least two Tesla fires. And I have a graphic just to show you that, you know, whenever you're storing energy, whether it's in a battery or fuel, it's got a lot of potential. And people think batteries are pretty benign, but this is what happens. This video here is a European photo. They tend to stay on the internet longer because somehow the fires in the US seem to be deleted pretty quickly. But this is a Tesla that caught on fire in Europe, I believe in Austria or Switzerland. And if you don't get the firefighters there right away to put the fire out, it's a pretty devastating fire. So I just encourage people, if they do drive electric vehicles and the vehicle does ignite to get out of it really quickly because that fire gets really hot and it goes really quickly. So don't be taking your time thinking you're in a battery vehicle, so it's really safe and you need to just, you can afford to take your time to get out. It's not really safe. You do need to get out, especially lithium fires get really hot, really fast. And there's not a whole lot you can do to stop them unless the professional firefighters there were the right equipment to put it out. So just a caution thing. Hydrogen vehicles haven't even heard of any fires on the hydrogen vehicles. I heard of a trailer fire about a month ago or a month and a half ago. And that was it. And it was pretty benign. So anyway, whenever you're driving or using fuels and energy storage and any kind of density, you always have to have safety precautions. I like Teslas. I think they're great vehicles. They're impressive vehicles and I really want to see more of them on the road. But just like anything else, you have to drive them safely. You have to operate them safely and you have to grade it for contingencies. So if you drive a Tesla, I hope you're using solar to charge it up so you're not just oil burning off of HECO. But be careful if you do have an incident or your batteries are cut from a piece of metal on the road or something, that you take the precautions and get out of the car right away. Next up, I'd like to show, before we get to our guest today, show a short video that leads into our discussion today. And it was put together by a company called Hyperspective here in Hawaii. And it's basically talks about microgrids. So if we can roll that video. There are over 300 million people in our country. And the vast majority rely on large scale, centralized power grids for their energy. But the infrastructure is aging and it is vulnerable. Natural disasters, cyber attacks and other threats can leave large swaths of the country without power. Fortunately, there is an alternative. A renewable energy microgrid represents a different path for the future. Renewable microgrids generate power from sources like solar, wind, hydrogen, waste to energy and geothermal. That power can be stored within the localized system using technologies such as advanced batteries, hydrogen, flywheels, pumped hydro and others. These microgrids can provide reliable and efficient energy transmission, especially to critical facilities like hospitals, airports and military bases. Unlike our current large scale systems, microgrids eliminate single points of failure and are therefore more resilient to disasters, threats and power outages. Our current energy infrastructure loses a lot of money. Grids outages cost up to $33 billion annually. They are expensive to build, expand and maintain. And they're inefficient, losing more than half of the initial energy to factors such as line loss, spending reserves and theft. Microgrids solve these issues and greatly reduce transmission loss and maximize efficiency. They also reduce carbon emissions and eliminate imported fuel costs, keeping money within our local economy and even create new local industries and jobs based on clean, renewable energy. Our energy grid was built over 100 years ago when energy needs were simple. With the increased complexities of energy demands, power sources and transportation, now our old grid struggled to keep up. We required new ways to generate, store and deliver energy. Renewable energy microgrids are a potential long term solution that will provide safe, clean, reliable and efficient energy for generations to come. So I think that video gives you a good start into our discussion today. And who we've got for yesterday is Ryan Wibbins. Ryan, thanks for being here again. Yeah, thanks for having me. My regular most favorite electrical engineer, and especially in the state of Hawaii. Don't tell John Baught off that. Ryan is here every third week in the month to talk to us about mostly grid stuff because that's his kind of his specialty is working on microgrids and grids and interconnected grids. And what we're going to do today is talk a little bit about being that Hawaii has a goal of 100% renewable on the grid by 2045. Kind of talk about what that really looks like and what changes are going to have to happen between the grid that we have now and the grid that we anticipate by 2045 and some of the challenges that HECO has and things like that. So Ryan, thanks for being here today. And I know you've done a little bit of thinking on this subject since we met last and had you on the show because we had to skip you last month. So you put some rain power into this. I'm going to turn it over to you and let you get started on what this is going to look like. What's our grid going to look like in 2045 or 2040, right before 2045? Sure. So it's going to be vastly different in a sense that we're just switching from our conventional generation sources over to our renewables. A few forces come in at play to direct that in, let's just say, a couple of directions. But some of the forces at play would be the government-side mandate that says, hey, we're going to get there. We're going to be renewable. But then you also have the financial side of the open market that are making their own decisions on their own. And both of those are going to happen in parallel and not really fight each other but work with each other to define what that's going to be in the future. It's not just one person that gets to say, yeah, it's going to be A, B, and C, because we've already seen the high increase in the amount of rooftop solar. That's an individual making a decision that it's good to me, either I want the renewable power or it makes sense to me financially. So when that decision gets made by a lot of people, that changes the grid on its own. I mean, we do have some revelation that enables or prevents people from doing that in certain areas for technical reasons that are very important. But when you combine those two, what does it look like? It is because of the financial capabilities of rooftop solar and as the battery systems that are out there today are decreased in price and the new technologies developed. What happens is the primary generation sources that we have right now start to become distributed so that that generation starts to happen at my house, at your house, at our corporate facilities, in your neighborhood. When that power moves closer, it changes the way we are today from a large centralized unit. But it also changes with the difference that happens in between those two points. So just because you're generating your own power doesn't mean it's always there. There may be some downtime that you need to expect in that time as well. Now we need the cooperation between our decentralized grid to communicate and move the power to where it needs to be. So it's very complex in making that switch. It's not just moving where the generation is, but it's a communication between the devices to make sure that I'm down, I need power to come from this direction. Can that line even, even is it capable of transmitting the power to me? But is that generation source that's out there capable of ramping up? And is that the most economical sense to happen? So it becomes a very smart grid, it's a term that's been used for a long time, but it becomes a very intelligent system making decisions very quickly. As compared to right now, we're a very smart system, but we're making isolated decisions. Now we're going to switch and be very distributed. Well let's kind of paint a picture of what the grid looks like now. Basically you have several power plants that generated a pretty steady state and they have to maybe even spin, but basically run some generators idling in case there's a big surge in the system. So Electric Company has kind of a good balancing act to do, but they have good control over their generators pretty much. But when you start getting a lot of solar and wind in there, now you have other sources out there in the grid that are providing power, but a big cloud comes over and all the PV starts to drop off on what it produces or the wind stops and the turbines slow down and they drop off and Hawaiian Electric now has to ramp in and put a bunch more power in. What happens when you get to the point where there are no generators? You're only looking at renewables. I mean, are we going to have to have some kind of base load power that mixes in with the renewables, like some kind of large battery capacity or hydrogen storage with fuel cells or backup generators where we actually have to keep generators going even though we're all renewable just to cover those loads? What does it really look like when HECO has to manage the grid assuming it looks similar to what we have? Or are they going to have to completely look at a different style grid where you have islanded and dispatchable pieces that they run, that they maintain? You go to a neighborhood and say, okay, we're going to sell you the equipment to run your solar in your house and everything, we're going to help you maintain it, we're going to fix it when it's broken and that's part of now HECO's new services. What are the kind of options out there from where we're at now to where we're going to be going? Sure, so right now, the large generating plants are, they're producing the power quality from a voltage frequency and what we'll call power and reactive sides of electricity but for most people, let's just assume that power is the only thing that we're concerned about, which is only half of it. When you start to get all the distributed generation that starts to make their own decisions on producing things and maybe it's just renewable too, making their own decisions on when I'm going to produce, when I'm not going to produce, the primary generating plants are either baseloaded and then you have other plants that are compensating for that lack of generation that just hit on the solar and so they're quickly ramping it up or maybe it was already spinning and we're ready to fill that gap when it's even, that just be like a solar plant in one location as we distribute it across a lot of different places, it gets even harder because each one of those is individually making their own decision on what they want to do to provide power quality, let's say, provide the power that needs to happen at that instant in time. The less and less muscle that the primary generating plants are producing, so as they go down in their capacity that they're producing and the distributed comes up, it's kind of like an arm wrestling match that the distributed generation, now if they were to get high enough that that gets to be the prime mover and the decision maker of what that power quality is going to be from a voltage and a frequency real and reactive power standpoint, then what used to be the base plant now is kind of getting muscled around. So we can't just make that switch today and say, okay, all those other distributed generation assets, they got it, it's fine because they haven't been made traditionally manufactured to perform in that way. The network together. Yeah, they can, but we're not exactly sure how that's going to behave and to what level of quality that's gonna happen at. So even if we were to flip that switch today and just say, okay, turn on the capability, let's just say it works, they're not going to operate because they're an inverter, they're not gonna operate in the same way that the primary rotating machine used to or still does operate is your solar inverter is simulating a rotating machine. It's constantly turning on and turning off, turning on and turning off to simulate as if it was a generator spinning. Just in that difference that it's operating, it controls voltage, frequency, real and reactive power differently than the rotating equipment. Kind of fakes it in a way. So we need something to bridge that gap at the same time. As we become more more distributed, there's likely something that we are putting in place to make up that gap between, I'm gonna say, handing over the keys to the power quality or I would say more so studying the transition that's taking place over time. So something to network everything. It's a network, but it's also a power quality issue because we wanna make sure we're getting all the voltage we need, the frequency, the right real and reactive power. Some devices aren't as great or they're not currently programmed or financially incentivized to provide the reactive side of the power. So as until those financial incentives come into play, there may be something that we're missing on the reactive side to fill that void. All right, we're gonna take a quick break now and we'll be back in 60 seconds to explore this a little bit deeper. And maybe we'll even talk about how much real solar do you need out there and how many acres of solar do you need to actually give a lot with the power that they need. Aloha, I'm Keeley Ikeena and I'm here every other week on Mondays at two o'clock PM on Think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii Together. 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Stan the energy man here with Ryan Wubbins from Burnsa, McDonald. Again, my very favorite electrical engineer on the planet, especially here in Hawaii. So Ryan, we're talking a little bit about kind of the balancing act that HECO performs now and the transition is not simple going to this distributed power system and everybody kind of producing their own, maybe having their own battery systems, the different kinds of power between spinning generators and solar with inverters and those kind of contrasts. So obviously it's not a simple solution. Is there any place that you know of on the planet where literally a fairly large swath of territory is run just by intermittent renewables? Not hydroelectric dams or not, you know, something like that but something that's just intermittent like we're kind of anticipating here in Hawaii. Is anybody doing anything like that or networking those things? At this scale, not that I know of. There are remote islands in the Caribbean and across the Pacific that can do it but their demand for power quality is what I would consider less or the amount of downtime they can experience would be more. When we talk a large size load, is it possible to convert to 100% renewable? The first answer would say yes, yeah we can but we'd have to draw a line on how renewable we want to be. Let's say it's 100%, okay well how much do you value your power quality in respect to time? Is it 99% of the time you want power? Sounds like a lot. To a hospital that sounds terrifying. They need 99.99999. Yeah they can't afford an interruption.  Folks are on life support. Exactly, you can't, in like a data center state, you don't even wanna blip. You can't even stomach the one cycle or three or four cycle loss in time. That's what drives the difficulty for renewables because of that intermittency because you gotta fill that gap. You might have a cloudy day, you might have four cloudy days, six, seven, eight, nine cloudy days that they're just wearing on your reserves that you have in behind you. So yeah, you can be 100% renewable but some of those places that are doing that right now have the ability to lose power, to my knowledge. Okay, so they're a little bit less risk averse. They can afford to take some risk here and there. Yeah. Like maybe their hospital has some blinkless capability in their system, extra battery backup or something on critical equipment, things like that. Okay, so, but give us a rough idea. Let's just speak of Oahu. If Oahu, with its current loads, which, how much is that, around a gigawatt? Yes, yesterday I looked at the renewable watch. I think we peaked out around 1,100 megawatt hours and that one peak, I think it was 1.1 gig. Yeah, so we're just around a gig in terms of average power production like Ico's gotta come up with. Yeah, nice round number of about a gig and if you multiply that by 365, you come out. Well, it's around 3.65. You could say we were using around four, was that four million gigawatt hours, four million megawatt hours a year on Oahu. If you were to just take that number and convert it down using something, let's say it's 15 watts per meters per foot squared, which is a reasonable number to use right now. First solar panel. Yep, multiply that through using, see which way I wanna go on the math. It comes out to be somewhere around 10 square miles, go up seven to 10 square miles of solar panel.  That would cover just that number that you need on an annual basis. That's the very minimal. That's without going to those 0.999s and making sure we have all the power reserves. That's just enough. Let's store it during the day. We had a great average sunny day. Every day is the same. We ride through the next day, 10 square miles. Next time I could show you a picture of what that looks like. But in practical terms, you need more than 10 square miles. Absolutely. You gotta plan for some of the equipment to be down from a maintenance perspective. Geographically matters on where you put everything because the transmission lines have to get it from A to B and sometimes because a unit is down, A is now transmitting all the way to where C is. You need a lot more. And when you start to stack on some of these reserves that we place, mostly because our risk adverse is we can't lose power. We don't want to. You start to go to maybe we need 20 square miles. 20 square miles is the same thing of when I was looking at it. Basically all the residential and commercial area from Diamond Head, all the way at the shoreline, wrap in Pearl Harbor in the airport to the stadium and wrap it all the way back every valley in there. That came out to like 20, 25 square miles on my quick check. That's one solar panel with no gaps. So it takes a lot of solar, just solar, to accomplish what we would want. Now it's still, as you start to distribute it, put it everywhere you possibly can. You start to make leaps and bounds in getting to where you want to be. But it does add up to get to our level of reliability that we want to have. That's in addition to the whole technical battle that we deal with, who's providing and what kind of power quality is each device providing back to the grid. So what kind of role do you think and do you think it'd be important that we consider ocean thermal, wave motion, some things where we take this production offshore where we have more acreage sea than sitting on land? I think you're gonna have to grab anything you can that would be considered renewable or sustainable. If that's not taking from something else in large amounts, geothermal's a really great one because that is just an immense amount of energy that's hanging out there. Some companies and other countries are looking into floating solar. I mean, we have a lot of water out here. It would be very difficult in a very harsh environment, but there's a lot of square footage there. 10 square miles is actually pretty easy to obtain offshore. So it's maybe one day that's going to become a little bit more of an option. Floating wind, not just offshore wind is becoming more of an option as well. Where we're hard on the Pacific is it's very deep, very quickly, whereas a lot of offshore wind right now is a little bit more shallow waters, I think, than what we're dealing with. Like North Sea is, about how deep do you think they're going? I don't know, deep enough to get there. Out here it'd be very hard, but floating wind is out there in the last company ever. It said they wanted to be competitive by 2030 against land-based wind. You know, just having fished around Hawaii a lot, just three or four miles off a line and you're in a mile deep water already, and it gets deeper after that pretty quick. You got some areas like penguin banks between Oahu and Molokai that get 25,000 or so. You'd probably put something out there, but then you're competing with fishermen who want to fish and stuff too, so. Yeah, there's no perfect solution at all, and it's going to probably be, just like I say, a buckshot solution, all the above. We may need some wind, some solar, some offshore, some onshore. Storage, how important is storage when we're talking about renewables? Storage is what gets us, it's what gets us to 100%, unless we find the magic fuel that's going to give us on-demand power reliably all the time. Storage is what makes that final leap in addition to power quality issues. Storage is costly right now because we haven't needed it for the last 100 years we've been operating in a grid that isn't based on storage. It resides in a pile of coal, not immediately available and dispatched. You want to diversify your storage portfolio just as much as you're going to be diversifying your generation portfolio because you're going to want that deep, long amount of, I want to say, massive energy scale, massive energy storage scale type power bank. At the same time, you want to have your really high efficiency, quick hitting storage and using those two in unison because the one that's big and deep is not likely to be something to be very quick and very round trip efficient. Otherwise, we'd be doing that all over right now and we haven't found the technology to quite get us to be that really high efficient, massive scale of energy storage. But on a smaller scale, I'm still talking in the megawatts, one to 10 to even the 100 megawatt battery that's planned here, that on the battery platform, your round trip efficiency is still, it's really high, but it's a one time, when that square footage, when that battery bank is spent, it's gone and there's only so much square footage we have for generation, there's only so much square footage we have for storage. Yeah. It's obviously a pretty complex scenario that he goes dealing with and we'll keep working with him and see how they're headed in the future, but believe it or not, we blasted through 30 minutes talking about the future of why he's grid and covered a lot of territory, more than 10 square miles probably and we'll have to hit this next week. How about next time that we get together, why don't we look at that option to be maybe make a couple outriggers out of a couple oil tankers and see how much solar we can get out there and see what kind of dent we could put in a floating platform. If I have a feeling that floating solar would be a lot less obtrusive offshore than floating wind turbines, at least if they're big ones like we have here and I don't know how the big wind turbines would work on a boat as with that much sail area, they may actually tip boats over and stuff. So we'll look at that for next time. So next, watch us the third week of next month, Brian will be back and we'll be talking catamarans with solar on, trust me, but thanks for being with us on Standard Energy Man this Friday. Have a great weekend and we'll see you back here next Friday and talk more energy. Aloha.


Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 105 and we are going to talk about Fair Process Managing in the Knowledge Economy idea in brief. As we all know that knowledge economy is something required by the contemporary world and to establish a knowledge economy, we need to have knowledge workers, we need to have knowledge management and we need to have knowledge enterprises who are there to create an environment of organizational learning. Now, in this knowledge perspective, when we work, remember there are certain ingredients of the knowledge economy in which the most important thing is that the people are there to come up with their true capability, innovation and creativity. For that purpose, remember, being a leader, you should always invite input from employees for any change. For any change, we welcome their ideas. Always remember that we have to explain the reasons of change so that the people should not be resisting. People should not be having objection to that particular change and we can utilize that change better, implement it better and institutionalize it. Again always remember that we have to share performance expectations with our employees and until we share performance expectations with them, they would not be able to demonstrate what is expected from them. We have to tell them that what are the key result areas they have to achieve, what are the key performance areas they have to visualize and what are the key performance indicators that they have to accomplish. So performance expectations, objectively or subjectively, they should be shared. And another important thing we have to bear in mind, always respect the human, always respect their capabilities, always respect that they can do the things in a rightful manner. Therefore, remember that when we are talking about fair processes, there are different things that we need to talk about. For example, let your decency be fair, the things should be clarified, shared and demonstrated. Number two, channel people's energy towards organizational goals, then develop an environment of trust and cooperation and the people would not be able to demonstrate what they are supposed to demonstrate. Another important thing is, as a leader, develop their commitment trust and innovation and as we all know that they should be not only inventing things but also commercializing those things which is the true spirit of innovation. So to bring that true spirit of innovation, it is necessary to have a trust based on them. Last but not the least point is that welcome the idea and creativity. So whatever the thoughts of their mind, whatever the way they want to do decency and making, whatever their novel ideas are, you should welcome them. Because of that, an encouragement will be created in the employee, they will feel enthusiastic, they will feel a sense of involvement and belonging. And that will help them to work better for the organization. Dear students, if we conclude all this, then remember that it is necessary for us to recognize the capabilities of people. Every person needs a unique capability. So it is the most important thing for a leader to be aware of that unique capability. Thank you.


Hello everybody hooded cobra commander 788 here and this is just a quick look at the 1989 python patrol crimson guard for our theme month. We've been looking at python patrol toys and I promise there were some decent python patrol figures but the ones we've looked at this month have been pretty rough. I have to thank a friend Steve for donating this figure to me. Thank you Steve. This figure is pretty rough and a lot has already been said about this figure by other reviewers and so how much can I add. There is a lot wrong with this guy. This is supposed to be a crimson guard figure but you might notice that there's very little crimson on this crimson guard figure. Also it's a much simpler figure in terms of paint applications. We lost a lot of paint applications in the translation from the first version to the python patrol version. We have fewer paint applications on the head, no painted stripes on the legs, we have less detail on the shoulders and the chest instead of having the cobra symbol we have this lattice pattern no more patch on the shoulder and so we've lost a lot in translation. What we gained is a crimson guard figure with very little crimson and lots of other colors that are just kind of slapped together almost at random and don't match up very well. We do kind of have a consistent gray color from top to bottom but then we have this yellow that's just sort of there. He just has a yellow shirt that matches nothing else for no reason other than they just had to give it some kind of python patrol color scheme. There were better python patrol color schemes they could have done better and the crimson guard is a popular figure so you would expect them to put extra effort into making a good second version. This is a figure that did not make the cut for a full review this month. As you may know or you may not know, one rule I have on this channel is that I try to review the first version of a figure before I review subsequent versions and I have not reviewed the first version of crimson guard yet. I'm saving that for something special so it may take a little while before we get to this figure for a full review. I can promise though when we do get to it I will have plenty to say about it. For now that's just a quick look at it thank you for watching and thank you for watching all of the python patrol and slaughter's marauders videos this month. I'll be back soon for another full review. Until then don't forget to find me on Facebook, Twitter and Patreon and my website HCC788.com. There is a full vintage GI Joe toy review coming up this weekend. I will see you then.