What's going on everybody? Got Kyle here with late sports cards and we are ripping 2023 select baseball six box number six Um, this one was random team style. We did a randomized for the break had John in with the Orioles down to air and g with the marlins Good luck here guys. Let's do it some select baseball Yes, yes, good luck everybody. Thank you mark Again guys, if you are enjoying the stream, please do hit the like button um Helps us out quite a bit Really appreciate that everybody and we do have a release day tomorrow gold standard football We'll have sam over here in the morning and then we'll have lane over on fanatics live as well tomorrow morning There's a hack wilson for the um Hack wilson for the cubs.  No, it's a allen trample on the scope I'm getting you've given sam quite a few nicknames. Oh, yeah, most of them not extreme friendly, but I'll tell you most of them Exactly alice amirah's mets on the silver prospect Good luck. Good luck everybody See what we got Again nine to go on champions league. Um You wait for museum collection. There's a gill mcdougal the 125 Infuego is dustin harris filler tricolor body miller dodgers And to 199 we got brewers salfre look on the silver jersey Milwaukee Got common arrow go race Silver daniel susak. This one is ricky tideman. That is a cracked ice to 23. That is pretty youth explosion for the blue jays Cracked ice ricky tideman teedman Tricolor is jud fabian, right? I thought we were uh, I thought we were almost there Justin crawford silver. This one is james wood on the uh, jersey auto nice one. They're nationals chiefs Yeah, I think we're gonna I think we're on the same page there But I was saying earlier man every time I think it's gonna be a blowout or obvious when it is it is the opposite usually So maybe uh first two weeks, you know, maybe mr. Unlimited will have a day. I don't know Steve carlton tricolor Got to be unlimited I want to send you that video man and please do he is He's ridiculous tyler soders sodersstrom green to 75 nice color match there for the ace Silver ricky teedman. There's a infuego masataka So ridiculous Old himmy Frank thomas this one is to 199. It's gonna be bobby witt on these silver jersey What do you think royce? Yeah, you uh, you're on the same page Blake the same page or what? I have a feeling he is I'd have to think he is Maybe not though And guys just one to go in boondestliga soccer coming up next One to go in boondestliga and nine to go on the museum collection Really nice stuff and coming out of museum haven't had to haven't uh ripped any in a while I think you might have remixed it, but I like Yeah Silver is harry ford and auto it's a 99 nice one there rookie auto kyle harrison Picture for the giants tricolor patrick martinez red sox tom siever As a sport cast I really heard much of him, but no not really in general. I like patrick though. Yeah, I like patrick But you can't understand about You have calcy in my home's advantage see that all that'll do it that'll do it the 75 we got lou boudreau In fuego of jordan walker Hopefully calcy's ankle can hold up. Yeah, I need him. He's gonna be heavily taped tonight, but he should be uh He should be good to go Yeah, he's 64 and a half. I think it was there's a jim tommy tricolor Don't let me down and jackson jove.  There was too much uh, it's too much traffic on the side. He wasn't able to get it yet It's still in the mail To 125 nice one there. Seattle.  He got one order. Don't worry josh He's got one Silver veal there's a kumar rocker silver Oh man, i'm gonna order one to your house and then bet the over slam the over slam it Hi Silver musina and this one is masatake yoshita on the base rookie jersey Yeah, I hear that. Yeah, right everybody's That's the thing. That's the thing man Um, I forwarded your email site. I saw you had a couple emails earlier. I forwarded them to our shipping department Um, I just remembered that senior name. Um, courtee should get back you in the morning on that She left about six o'clock. So Thank you, uh, Nathan grabbing one in um museum collection. They ate to go a museum and we got a gold It is a Twin it's gonna be tony oliva on the gold. Um What he's called diamond level diamond level to 10 nice one there twins been seeing some great color out of this case, man four more Good luck everybody box number three The swell sea jersey man How many of those do they actually sell? That's crazy swell sea swell sea I know the uh, the eagles have a swift in the kelsey on the team. So Could just get that going Wrong team, but not right names Tri-color jacob melton astros Conor norby Yeah, I got you shipe. I didn't even read. I saw this uh I saw it was related to shipping. So I forwarded on bob lemon Hopefully not uh, we can get something done for you Trailer oh man Oh, man There's jim bunny to 125 trailers, right filler Just like we are full on boondestliga. Thank you, joseph. We'll get boondestliga soccer going next guys eight box case Full on boondestliga now next one. We're filling his museum collection soccer canerco. There is the 49 red white and blue gavin williams one is for cleveland Yeah, I yeah, it's all bad brandon. It's all bad shipe It's all bad Rolls off the tongue it does there's a vince colman and a infuego that one is dusty There's a kin griffey on the jersey Stinging the nostrils a bit Maybe it's a real panther Oh Excuse me, it's me with bits of real panther nomar garcía para 125 It's infuego Diego cartaya How's wearing the shirt the other day? ridiculous There's a scope brooks robinson numbers of cow Don Sutton Just one our two baseball breaks today or basketball breaks today got contenders optic pyt Got two, uh 10 boxers. That is it for um some basketball today if you guys are interested in some basketball There is for oakland rookie autos hyler sodar strom to 75 red white and blue Hey, what's up bret? It has been pretty good man. We hit a uh Gold vinyl one on one the last one and a bobby wit to 10. It has been solid This is a nice cracked ice is excuse me. Diego cartaya The rpa there for the Dodgers cracked ice at 23 These are sick looking there nice one Dodgers It's been solid right definitely man Been digging it T. Higgins with a broken rib. I'll go with Gabe. I'll go with Gabe local, uh, ucf guy 75 michael bush Dodgers I'll go with Gabe Davis silver zack vine one's a silver numbers of carleton fisk cold young Right you guys box number four And we are filled up on boondus league of soccer coming up next appreciate that guys Get some names typed in and do a random there It's a errands of volatile 125 white Gabe davis man There's a cowman zarda Fuego cow Harrison Yeah, Gabe's definitely falling off a bit in fantasy, but he can he can get a you can get josh thrown to me anytime so I think he's a good pick anyway Out of those options. I guess kj osborne might have a pretty good week though with uh with j jettas on ir kumar rocker name really think about that And jim rice this one is a 23 another atomic cracked ice that one is for boston Nice one there red sox jim rice the 23 Hall of famer You did nice Is that down in miami or something? Try color jim rice Really? Yeah, I guess he has been uh Yeah, let's say he was Color egger martinez the 125 my brother's been to finway. I've never been Filly skyline inside the jacket Silver joe morgan this one is the ego cartaya again there rookie um for the dodgers rpa cartaya not numbered Peyton palettes palette Righty guys, let's get some spots moving on museum collection. Oh nice one there for the uh pirates That's willy starchel on the tie-dye number to 25 Nice little throwback there. Love the tie-dye and select man One of my favorites sport has been looking pretty good. I mean he's always he's always ready to catch man David cone try color. He does get overshadowed a bit, but There is rookie indy rodriguez 199 Pirates again there Piazza scope is my piazza Once again there for the Mets It's weird when they put piazza in the dodgers jerseys and some of these cards. I don't I don't ever think of piazza as a dodger It is strictly Mets Silver harry for this one's masataka on the uh jersey rookie jersey red sox Yeah, I I don't know what to do with uh drake london shape. I don't know what to do with him There's a joe tori silver And silver on these selections is going to be a jc young tigers Alrighty two more box number five Thank you, uh, josh josh taking the raptors in both of our um contenders optic and anwar taking the pistons Thank you guys. Those will be our only two big basketball breaks of today if you guys are interested Two um two 10 boxers of contenders optic They are p y t style Get those going after some soccer Got finance boonus league of first then museum collection silver tim wakefield r.i.p Tim wakefield and this is francisco alvarez youth explosion silver For the Mets Nice one there Mets youth explosion silver. I believe that should be the 199 I don't remember Mitchell. I don't believe any autos yet. I don't believe any autos yet There's a reggie crawford silver And to 23 this one is wade boggs the 23 on the auto for boston another um hall of fame To 23 that one's 14 at 23 the chicken man Swatch signatures red socks Red socks killing on the hall of famers right now Mo Rivera Wade was Yeah He ended on the race. He was like one of the first people on the raise I think Tri-color angel martinez keep it going Gave i've been liking thielen victor. 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I believe green to five say unstoppable of um, francisco They used to call me lefty williams Back in the day They're playing the dolphins. Okay. Yeah Yeah This one's sweet. It is a cool papa bell. That one is uh, select names. We'll have to do a random for this one Select names cool papa bell Do a random to all teams at the end there Just a minute to uh, not numbered is a indy rodriguez jersey It's a cool-looking card man. I like that set and we'll get some soccer going next raleigh fingers silver And to 199 d backs on the jersey is jordan lawlor Go mitchell. There's a d-back jordan lawlor He briefly came up this year and then uh got sent back down They got d backs are pretty pretty set right now and what they got going on. So You got sent back down. There's a big poppy red socks to 125 Harrison writes all rights redemption redemption Silver is itchero and redemption is bobby miller rookie jersey autograph silver that will be dodgers Dodgers bobby miller Paul um, uh, let me see erin. Um erin g has the pirates the pirates Um the pirates in the marlins in this one Pirates in the marlins Anwar taking a few teams in um bowman chrome you as well And clayton taking f and q. Thank you guys Oh, you are Wrong get out of here There isn't a chain on so I guess it is hard to identify at the moment, but that is uh, that is incorrect He is the he is the fins man. He is the fins man He is the fins man He's chains coming out chains coming out Look what look what you did victor There's a bob feller for the guardians to 125 in fuego is urie perez There was a willy stargill, um to 25 for the pirates was pretty sick, uh um erin I don't remember on autos just yet, but that was pretty sick This one is ben sheets And indy rodriguez. That's a jersey for the pirates The huge cowboys fan Go bucks. There's a urie perez marlins tricolor Goal box Immersion handcock this one is the 23 another one the 23 atomic or Elvis martinez blue jays A lot of atomics here white gabriel hues to 125 colorado And guys eight to go on museum collection. Um soccer get that going. We got a um boondust league of soccer coming next tricolor ichiro Jordan lala Oh bison's What that's a bison Who's the bison's mark mcguire is that um Not one of the south dakota state or something like that jimmy ron's there on the jersey auto nice one there philly signature swatches jimmy ron's a little throwback Oh triple a got you got you got you There's a evan carter silver Evan carter unstoppable. Well, he has been unstoppable this post season man. Holy cow He had one uh one at bat where he didn't get a hit against the race or a walk. 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He did not um He did not ever play in the mlb Here's a 23 a relvis martinez Got indy rodriguez jordan lawlor indy rodriguez masataka indy Ken griffey, there's gavin williams masataka yoshida jackson job silver bobby witt and south frailic silver Autos we had the 75 youth explosion ricky tyman or to 49 49 Uh jimmy roland's jersey auto for the fillies to 23 wade boggs. Um, boston We had dago cartaya rpa jim rice the 23 as well for boston dago cartaya the 23 jersey auto to 49 tyler sodar strum a's 49 brooks lee for the twins. We had silver kyle harrison for the giants james wood nationals jersey auto Um, uh, blue jade's the 23 ricky teedman had francisco alvarez for the mets and bobby miller ricky auto jersey silver Or the dodgers Alrighty guys, let me roll two dice. I'll set up a random real quick and we will get it going It's gonna be seven times seven times on our random get it all set up. This will be for a cool papa bell All right guys. Good luck here got the orials down to the a's all teams in here seven times One Two three four five six seven guardians guardians Get the cool papa bell. All right guys, that'll do it for a select six box number six get some soccer going next. Thank y'all


The Democratic Party just can't quit Donald Trump and going into the midterms the DCCC chair Sean Maloney is saying Yeah, it's actually really important that we hyper-focus on Donald Trump because electorally that's still really beneficial Except we just tried this out very recently Terry McAuliffe practically ran a campaign on Orange Man bad and he lost They literally sent out mailers in Virginia tying Glenn Yankin to Donald Trump and that Didn't work. They lost So why would they continue? What is obviously a losing strategy? Well, because they don't think it's a losing strategy They genuinely believe that somebody who politically has no power currently should be their main focus as opposed to anything else a Single policy as Max Greenwood of the Hill reports in an interview with the New York Times Representative Sean Patrick Maloney the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Contested the notion that Trump had lost his potency as a talking point for Democrats arguing that Virginia Governor Elect Glenn Yankin made a concerted effort throughout his campaign to distance himself from the former president That in itself He said was proof that Trump is still a tremendous liability for Republicans even when he's not on the ballot himself Glenn Yankin ran like a teenaged girl in a slasher movie away from Donald Trump. Maloney told the Times They're making fun of him on Saturday night live for how much he tried to run away from Donald Trump for some Democrats Yankin's victory underscored the limits of their Trump-centric strategy prompting them to urge the party to focus more on policy issues and legislative Accomplishments in 2022 when their razor-thin house and Senate majorities will be on the line Maloney acknowledged that his party's losses in Virginia and other states last week ought to be a wake-up call That we're not getting the job done on messaging But he also argued that the situation is more complicated than simply saying that an anti-Trump message is no longer effective The competitive congressional districts are in largely suburban swing areas and in those areas Glenn Yankin underperformed Mitt Romney He said referring to the US senator and 2021 GOP presidential nominee I think it's more complicated than people are saying Trump's toxicity continues to be a tremendous liability with suburban swing voters And therein lies another issue with their strategizing They're going after suburban swing voters rather than trying to mobilize their own base I mean Democrats like Barack Obama will complain about how you know, the voters just frequently They don't they don't show up young people don't show up because you know You're disappointed and you don't think that the last politician in office made enough progress But you've got to show up except maybe they'd show up if you gave them a reason to show up I mean look at the way that the negotiations Took place with regard to bipartisan infrastructure and build back better progressives got basically marginalized and They got no say And you expect young people to be excited about that.  You have this gigantic unawakened Political behemoth in Millennials and Gen Z years and you're just completely Not trying to win them over at all like there's there's no effort being made there Instead you want to go after suburban swing voters They are so clueless and this is the head of the D triple C saying this and to make matters worse It's not like Sean Maloney is the worst of the worst when it comes to the D triple C heads There's been a lot of really bad D triple C heads Sherry Bustos was one of them and Sean Maloney is better on a number of Areas but having said that though strategically Democrats just they don't know what they need to do They think that just hyper-focusing on Donald Trump is going to be the ticket No, I will grant them that yes, Trump does have a lot of sway Over the Republican Party still but the evidence that you should still focus on Donald Trump is that Glenn Yonkin Was running away from Donald Trump and they did a skit on SNL About how he was running away from Donald Trump. Who cares what SNL says?  I've heard But this is par for the course Democratic Party operatives are like the biggest scam artists in the country and they still continue to give the Democratic Party horrible advice against common sense and They still get paid millions of dollars every single year. So let me tell you How wonderful that? Anti-trump strategy was for Terry McAuliffe Let me put it into perspective for you because he talked about Donald Trump so much that it became a meme and guess what Glenn Yonkin Made an ad about that. So, you know, you hear about how oh well Glenn Yonkin was really afraid to be you know equated with Donald or compared to Donald Trump rather and they even made skits about him on SNL But Glenn Yonkin ran a much more effective campaign when it comes to messaging because he took their anti-trump message And he used it against them to make it seem as if Terry McAuliffe had no policy substance. 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So you can expect that in 2022 when Democrats inevitably run the same failed strategies. And it's not just that they're wrong to think that hyper-focusing on Trump instead of policies is a good electoral strategy. The Democratic Party operatives in numerous articles after the Virginia loss, they're saying that, well, you know, this is very clearly a rejection of the far left policies, except how is this a rejection of the far left, the quote, far left, when we have a moderate president and moderate senators dictating all of the party's agenda? It just, it's honestly, it feels like they're being purposefully obtuse. Like they want to lose because that's just easier. You know, being in a position of power, there's a lot of pressure. There's this expectation that you deliver for your constituents, but I think it's much more easy to just remain out of power and fundraise off of Donald Trump when there's no expectation that you deliver. So I mean, I don't know what it is, but that's what we're going to see if Democrats continue with this failed strategy and they're not helping themselves. I mean, if they were going to brag and, you know, give young voters, for example, who they need to mobilize to win a reason to get on vote, they can do the bare minimum. Joe Biden can cancel student debt via executive order. He can legalize marijuana, but they're not doing it. They passed their bipartisan, so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, and they're trying to brag about that when it is woefully inadequate as it relates to climate change. It is actually a net negative when it comes to the climate change emission or the CO2 emissions that we're producing. And who knows if we're even going to see them pass, build back better. And if it is something that's passed, then you can, you know, guarantee it's going to be worse than it is now. So it's just, it's frustrating.  They're not this dumb. They're not that dense. There's no way. I refuse to believe that. I think that they want to lose to an extent. Maybe some Democrats want to win, but a lot of them would be happy if they kept their seat but lost the majority because, hey, then we could just sit back and send out a thousand emails to our constituents about how Donald Trump said this. And then he said that. And there's zero expectation that we deliver for our constituents. That's genuinely what I believe is the case with a lot of Democrats. I don't know the proportion. Maybe it's 50 percent, maybe it's 40 percent, but a lot of Democrats, they prefer to not be in power because they just want to be comfortable. They just want to hang on to the seat. And right now they see that there's a lot of momentum for climate change action. There's a lot of momentum to expand Medicare and that makes them feel uncomfortable because then they have to go against their corporate donors. They don't want that. So instead, they're just, they're coming up with this just insane strategy to hyper focus on somebody who's no longer president. Sure he may run again, but he's not the president right now. He's not going to be the president in 2022. So for them to hyper focus on Donald Trump, they're intentionally doing something that is a losing strategy. And I just, I feel like more people need to point that out. It's absurd to me, honestly.


We're at the three-point contest. We have Brent Whitter and Jason Barres from Random Lake. Chris Wright along with Jeff Wolfe. We're gonna be covering an all-star game in a little bit. Kind of a neat thing. We're having out here today, Jeff. Yeah, I think it's a great opportunity for these guys who thought their high school careers were over to come back and get together and play a little bit more basketball. Either with teammates or people that they've played against or wanted to play against in the past. They might have done it as youngsters, but now we have all the visions here and we've started out with this three-point contest, which is, you know, checking the who's the best shooter out there in the county and who's gonna have the best opportunity to come out here and show it. Yeah, and I don't think it's Jason Barres on our left here. I think that is Joe Léminès from Sheboygan Christian. Brent Whitter is on the far court right there. We're not quite sure how many points. The top two scores in this event will move on to an all-star, or excuse me, a finals event. They have 25 shots. They have to get off in a minute and a half. And Jeff, just watching these two guys, I'm tired just watching them shoot all the shots. Lucky they're young, because by the time this is over, they'll get up a lot of shots.  That's Nick Larson. He's from Sheboygan South. He had over 40 shots. And then Zach Bauer from Elkar Lake is shooting in the corner on the, I guess you could call it the north end. So you've got the opportunity to put in each of the, I believe that each of the four or first made baskets are worth one point. And then the money ball would be your fifth shot and give you two points. Yeah, kind of like they do in the regular all-star game. They get five shots from five spots. Here, it's a little different because they're not taking the ball off a rack. They're being rebounded and passed to it. So, you know, if you catch it in rhythm, I think it gives you the advantage of having to have just pull it off a rack. It's not a normal shooting position. And so if you can get in rhythm, I think you can do a good job out here. Yep. Nice, simple. Should be a left-right. Nice step right into your shot. Zach from Elkar Lake goes a little bit the opposite way from traditional right-left. Well, Nick Larson is just hitting everything. Yeah, he's a good shooter. I know he had over three pointers this year for Coach Shaw at South. We'll see Nick in the all-star game as well. We will not be seeing Zach from Elkar Lake. Down to 17 seconds and both of the competitors are finished. Not getting scores updated to us. You know, it's a great idea, Chris, for these guys to get out here and do something like this on a county-wide basis. It'll be a learning experience for everybody. You get out here in the first year and you figure out what works and what doesn't. And you move from there, but hopefully it'll become an annual thing for the boys and hopefully you can get something going for the girls too. Like Peter, that's the shooter right there on the south. He's from Howard's Grove. Howard's Grove had an outstanding season. And on the other end, Matt Sizelwitz, he's from Keele. Now, they haven't played some of these kids basketball for about a month. So, kind of interesting if you probably don't get all the great shooting that they've had over a long time. Especially in these small schools, a lot of these kids move on. Other sports? Yeah, track or baseball is now in the spring for all the sports and golf. Well, hopefully they've been able to get in the gym somewhere or just get out on the outside of all the weather. It hasn't been great. How badly do you want it?  That's a lesson for anybody. You don't have to get an indoor basketball court.  What a concept. I still tell that story to my students. We went to camp. One of the great stories from Coach Wolf when we went to camp was, I see a lot of basketball hoops in the county, but I don't see a lot of people using them. That's unfortunate because you can have all the greatest equipment in the world on the best basketball and shoes and everything else. But if you don't get out there and practice, it doesn't mean anything. Right. I still tell my students that all the time. Coach, tell them that they should go out there and use them. There's a nice crowd here today, Chris, for the first year of this. Nice to see the people out here supporting it. Oh, yeah. All right. Now we have Delvin Farnstable. He's the big shooter, three-point shooter for Schwoig & Lutheran that led them to a state championship. He can shoot it. Yes, he can. And then we have Alec Schmidt. That's Alec Schmidt. He's from the Falls. Both these young men will be playing in the game. The Falls had a nice season as well. 16-8. The thing when you're shooting these shots out here is that, you know, you don't have to shoot a real jump shot. I think that, you know, when you're shooting, just get a nice comfortable rhythm going, follow through. And we're both doing a nice shot about here doing that right now. I think they're both in rhythm. Just remember the follow-through. The more you get tired, the more difficult that seems to be. Drop the hands, drop a little bit, and you end up shooting short a lot of times. There's Delvin right there. Like I said, he's only off about three weeks since the last time he played in the state finals, so... He's got a high arching shot. Yeah, and he loves the corner. This is his spot right here. Bingo. Coming down in the last few seconds. I want to hit that money ball. He gives you two points there. Our last two competitors. This is Ethan Wanser. He's from Cedar Grove. And Mitch Weicker from Ozaki will be on the south end. This is Ethan right here. Find that rhythm. Important, too, to get a good pass from the guys that are out here rebombing for you. I think they're probably pretty good passers at this level. Lot of lefties out here. Yeah. Haven't seen that many left-handed guys all in one spot at one time in a while. Don't tell Mike Martin that. There's Ethan getting a couple in there. That little bit of a rhythm there. Hold that follow-through up. Money ball. Getting tired. 10 seconds. And here's the total. We'll see what we got. We're going to have a final two. Tabulating the results. Penny Maletsky, athletic director out here. She was one of the scores. You know she'll be right. Penny does everything. First class, first rate. She'll get it right. Coach Greenwood. Men's coach out here. They had a nice season. They lost in the finals. They had a lead in the state championship game, UW-Shabuagan, and ended up losing a close game. He's done a real nice job out here in reviving the interest in the program. People would come out and support it because I think it's vital for our community in the Shabuagan area to have a vibrant university. And now it's part of the Green Bay campus, and the Shabuagan campus of the Green Bay institution of higher learning. It'd be great if people come out here and support the Wombats. I know Coach Greenwood gets to a lot of high school games too, which I think is very important. Get himself out there. Like Pendrent from College Girls. He'll be taking on Brent Whitter. No surprise there. The way he can shoot. Both these guys are good shooters. So this should be quite competitive during the first round. You kind of get in your feet wet, kind of get comfortable out there. Let's face it, not everybody. Three-way. Here we go. I doubt he might be in there the way he was shooting. You've got that right. So north, south, Nick Larson makes it as well, and he ties. We'll see what happens in the finals here. Tired? Will these kids be tired on the second round? Or is it just not like the NBA where they all start where they have to do what, like three or four rounds? I would say with their youth, they should be all right.  You got to keep your legs, get your power. That right there, Blake Petron. So he made one there. And another. Brent's got a couple as well. Blake's on a roll. These guys are hitting out. All of them making a bunch here. That money ball is so important. The fifth shot. You get that two points for one shot. I know that Brent, this is Blake here. Brent is a gym rat. There's Brent. Is there early in the morning shooting ever since he was a freshman? He's got nice form, nice release, high release, good follow through. Blake's making a bunch here as well. And there's the big, big one there. And Blake moves down to last spot. Brent kind of steering them in there. Got it to go. 25 seconds on the clock. Oh, Brent. Brent looks a little tired. Have to tell his baseball coach. More running. Played a double header yesterday in Kokona. Boy, that's slurred by Brent Whitter. Yes, nice finish. See what Nick Larson, Nick Larson had a big first round. He's going to be the, going here. Clean that south and they know how to shoot the three. Three for three. Four for four. Wow. I wonder if Nick will take a few of these in the game, coach, because he's got it red hot. He might be too tired by then. Ah, they're young. They can bounce back quicker. He's shooting well though. No form breaks. Nice release out in front. Nice follow through. Dang. He got them all. He was doing that in the first round too. So I'm surprised when I didn't hear his name. But glad he's in it because he's going to win it. He's putting on an exhibition. Wow. I think Nick Larson is going to be your champ. Wow. And oh my. Wow. That was great shooting. That was outstanding. I think he only missed two of the whole round. Hopefully he'll be playing somewhere maybe here. That last shot, coach, to fall to win it. 25 to 23. Nice way to start the day afternoon with great shooting exhibition. Right. When we'll be back, we'll be having more basketball action. So we'll take a break.


Hi everyone, Joe for jatsbeescasegraves.com with our final random number block, RnB, random number block, randomizer for Picker Team 3, which is coming up in a separate video. This is for a bigger group of teams right here. That's how it works. Zero gets any and all redemptions for that group of teams, including one of one redemptions. Big thanks to this group here and the numbers right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Six and a four. Ten times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Nine and ten. Mariners have Taylor Tramel. Where did that happen? There must have been some move between Rolando Lewis down to Travis Abramson. Sorry, we're watching baseball highlights right now. But he got his first major league hit. Six and a four. Ten times for the numbers. One, two, three, four. And tenth and final time. After ten, we got zero down to two. Now, remember, zero gets any and all redemptions, Rolando, for that big group of teams out there, including one of one redemptions. This rarely happens, but we just got to make sure everyone knows that. But Travis, you'll still get live one of ones. You'll also get five. Josh with nine. Sean with seven. Ben with four. Travis with one. Omar with three. Travis with eight, six, and two. Let's order these numerically right here. Let's box these up. Center it up. And we'll print and rip. Separate video for the Panini one. Pick your team three. Jaspy's case breaks out.


first, I'm last alphabetically. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Good to see everyone here tonight. Good evening. Good to see everyone here tonight. I certainly want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting. Those of you all here with us tonight and those of you all who are watching us at home for this meeting, December 2, 2019. I'm going to call this meeting to order. And first, I would like to ask you all to please join me in a moment of silent meditation. Thank you. And now, Council Member Rees, would you please lead us in the pledge to flag? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, colleagues and members of the public. If it's your practice to do so, and if you're able, please rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, for the nation and about, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much, Council Member. And now, Madam Clerk, would you please call the road? Mayor Schuyl, Mayor Pro Tem Johnson. Here. Council Member Alston. Here. Council Member Caballero. Here. Council Member Freeman. Present. Council Member Middleton. Here. Council Member Rees. Here. Thank you very much. We're now going to move to a special moment that we have every two years in the life of the Durham City Council, which is our organizational meeting. And if you don't have an organizational meeting agenda, they're at the door for you if you would like to have one. I'm first going to recognize Durham County Board of Elections Director Derek Bowens and Phil Lehmann, the Chair of the Durham County Board of Elections, for the certification of the November 5, 2019 municipal election. So if you gentlemen would like to come to the podium here, that would be great. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the Council. This is one of the few fun times we get at the Board of Elections to come and certify an election and honor the successful candidates. Thank you for inviting us and it's a pleasure to be here. The first thing we have to do officially is to present the final certification of the election with all the results broken down by precinct with all the totals. This is the official election results signed for by all five members of the Board of Elections. And I'll ask Mr. Bowens to bring it over to the City Clerk. Before I present individual candidate certificates, I would just like to say briefly that this was a very successful election. Successful for us as well as for those of you who were just elected. Congratulations for that. We had a total of 36,304 citizens voting in the election, which represents 18.5% of eligible voters. That is a very good turnout for municipal election. By comparison, if we look at the results of the 2015 municipal election, which is the last time we had at large candidates elected and a fairly low profile election for mayor, the totals were 19,494 votes, which represents 10.8% of the electorate. So by comparison, you can see that we almost doubled the turnout in 2019 as compared with 2015. So I think we should all feel good about that. We are always trying to get the turnout as high as possible, but relatively speaking, we did pretty well. The election went very smoothly. There were no delays. There were no equipment malfunctions or other significant problems. I'm also very happy to report that we did a hand count of selected precincts as part of the audit process. And in all those hand counts, the results came out 100% accurate. There was no discrepancies at all. We should get something we feel good about and you should too. And I would like to also recognize and thank the incredible job our precinct of voting officials, the incredible job that they do. We had 388 basically volunteer precinct officials to conduct the polls on election day. I call them volunteers. They do get a small amount of compensation, but they do it out of civic pride and civic duty. And they work from before 6.30 in the morning to after 7.30 in the evening. They're there all day. They don't go anywhere else. And I think that conducting elections, which is a very important governmental function, but I think this is one of the rare, probably the only one that I could think of where actual regular citizens conduct, you know, take care of the government function. I think that's I think that's remarkable. I think they're the unsung heroes of our election process, and they deserve deserve our appreciation. I also want to recognize the fact that we now have a very wonderful staff at the board of elections, and we have been led by an outstanding director, Mr. Derek Bones, who has been with us for about two and a half years and has done an outstanding job and is being recognized and rallied around the state for the great job that he's done here. Right now, we are looking forward to the 2020 elections, and as many of you know, today was the first day of candidate filing for the 2020 elections. And we expect to approve or review plans for early voting in about 10 days. So we are moving quickly ahead on that. With all that being said, I would like to present the certificates for the successful candidates in the 2019 municipal election. I'll have Mr. Bones, if you don't mind, bring them up and present them to the candidates. We'll start with our Honorable Mayor, Steve Shuehl. Congratulations, Steve. Next, our Mayor Pro Tem Gillian Johnson. Congratulations, Ms. Johnson. And we have Council Member Charlie Reese. Congratulations. Councilwoman Javier Caballero. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Layman. Thank you very much, Mr. Bones. We appreciate your service. We're glad you're here. And if you want to leave early to get home in time for the Duke game, you certainly have our permission to do so. But we're very appreciative of your work. Thank you all so much. Really appreciate your being here. And next, we're going to have the swearing in and the qualifying of the Mayor by Chief District Court Judge Patricia Evans. And I'm going to ask my wife, Lea River, to join me. I bring you greetings on behalf of the Durham County District Court bench where I honor the service of your Chief and all of the great city of Durham, County of Durham's Chief. And now you will raise your right hand and repeat after me. And congratulations. Thank you. Well, thank you. All right. So I when I say I will say your full name. I, Stephen Matthew Shue. Do hear by solemnly swear. Do hear by solemnly swear that I will support and maintain that I will support and maintain the Constitution, the Constitution and laws of the United States and laws of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina, laws of North Carolina, not inconsistent wherewith, not inconsistent therewith and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and impartially and impartially discharge the duties of my office discharge the duties of my office as mayor as mayor of the great city of Durham of the great city of Durham. So help me God. So help me God. Thank you. Next on our agenda is the swearing in and qualifying of city council members by district court judge Shamika Reinhart. And I'm going to ask first Mayor Pro Tem Jillian Johnson if she would join Judge Reinhart and her family. So we can make first of all congratulations. Alright, well deserved. Alright, if you will repeat after me I state your do hereby. Do hereby soundly affirm that I will support and maintain the constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina, of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of my office as council member of the city of Durham. Alright, Judge, are we ready for the next candidate next council member? Yes, we are Mr. Mayor. Thank you. And we will now have the swearing in of council member Charlie Reese who will also be joined along with Judge Reinhart by his family. Alright, so you might need a little help. Well, congratulations, Charlie Reese. Are you ready? I state your full name. Charles Evan Reese. Do hereby soundly swear that I will support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina, not inconsistent therewith and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of my office as council member of the city of Durham. So help me God. So help me God. Thank you. And now council member Javier Caballero will join Judge Reinhart and her family is here with her as well. So congratulations. Are you ready? Put your left hand up I will raise your right. I state your full name. Do hereby soundly swear that I will support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina, not inconsistent therewith and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of my office as council member of the city of Durham. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you, Judge. Always good to have you and Judge Evans here in the council chambers with us come anytime you want. We will now have remarks by the reelected and elected council members. And I'm going to start with council member Javier Caballero and congratulate her again on her initial election to be a member of the Durham City Council. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening. Thank you. Thank you to everyone here in attendance and all those watching at home, including lots of my family, I especially want to thank my mom. It is an honor and privilege to stand before all Durham residents tonight. A few nights after the election, I shared the follow. I'm humbled by this opportunity and will work hard every day to make progress on the challenges facing our city, from community safety to sustainability, from housing affordability to inclusive economic development. I look forward to working with everyone to make Durham a city that is truly equitable and truly conclusive. And so I commit myself this evening to accomplishing that vision of a city that is truly inclusive and equitable, a city that is for everyone. How can I actualize this vision? I believe it will take all of us. I think it's possible because I have hope and I believe we can. Yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent for many in our community. I appreciate Advent because for me it is an important time to reflect. In my house, we celebrate Advent a little differently because no one in my house would consider themselves a person of faith besides me. We have an Advent wreath and each of our candles still symbolize hope, love, joy, and peace. But our kids find a quote or reading that represents each sentiment, but it doesn't have to be religious. And then we share something we're hopeful for the first week continuing the theme. Since yesterday, represented hope, I have been thinking through what gives me hope. And this city and the residents who called Durham home give me hope. When faith leaders and community members surrounded Samuel Oliva Bruno's car to prevent him getting detained by ICE, it gave me hope because so many came to defend one of our most vulnerable residents. When teachers and other public school allies marched on Raleigh in May and then again a few weeks ago in Durham to demand a budget not only for better working conditions for them, but for more and better resources for our kids, it gave me hope. When the largest affordable housing bond in the history of North Carolina passed with 76 percent of voter approval, meaning so many more of our neighbors will have housing, it gave me hope. And so my challenge to each of you, and a challenge for me, is to continue to be hopeful. We are witnessing very difficult times here in Durham, in the U.S. and around the world. There have been protests from Chile to Hong Kong, and it is easy to fall into despair. But in Durham, I believe when we can keep doing the hard work that is necessary for everyone to live a life of dignity. Thank you, la lucha sige. And now I'll call on Council member Charlie Reese. Congratulations on your reelection. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council colleagues, city staff, honored guests, and people of the city of Durham. For the last 1,455 days, it's been my privilege to serve as a member of the Durham City Council, not that I've been counting. I've worked as hard as I can on each of those days to earn the trust and confidence that the people of this city placed in me when they elected me to this office four years ago. And I'm proud of the work we've done together as a council during that time, make Durham a safer, more prosperous, and more affordable city for all our residents. I ran for reelection to the Durham City Council this year, not because I believed we'd solved all of Durham's problems, but because we're making real and meaningful progress toward doing so. And because I wanted to continue doing this critical work with amazing colleagues I respect and admire. And because, despite the fact that this is the hardest job I've ever had, this is also the very best job I've ever had. Now that I've taken the oath of office for a second time, I have 1,463 more days to keep working hard on behalf of the people of this city, and I couldn't be happier about that. Now it's time for me to thank some folks and I promise it won't take too long. First and foremost, thank you to my family for your love and support. Folks often asking me how my wife Laura puts up with me and this crazy life we lead together. And all I can say is this, she is the best of wives and best of women. And I owe her everything. Thank you, Laura. I love you. I'm sure all of you will be happy to hear that my daughters, Elle and Gwen, have once again agreed to share their daddy with the people of the city of Durham for another four years. Thank you my darlings. I love you both very much. I also want to say thank you to my parents, Kenny Mary Reese, who came all the way from South Carolina to be here with us tonight. Thank you very much. And thank you to my hard-working campaign staff who powered me to victory on election day, Dolly Reeves, Phil Seib, Levan Barnes, and the person who put together in Bull City together, Rachelle Sparco. And finally, thank you to the people of the city of Durham. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for again placing your trust and confidence in me. As I have often said, I work for all the people of Durham, regardless of who folks voted for. That's why I try to be present in as many parts of the city as possible, listening to as many voices as possible, with the understanding that in my spare time, I'm also trying to be a husband and a father. And finally, I want to say a very special word to my colleagues here in the Durham City Council. I think all of us know we've had kind of a tough year together this year. We haven't always agreed on every issue that's come before us, and we weren't all on the same page in this year's City Council elections. And that's just fine. And maybe that's even healthy. But it would be all too easy to drag those differences and even a few hard feelings into our next year on the council together. Friends, let's not do that. If we truly want to solve the problems facing our city, we have to be able to face them together as a council. For my part, I am ready to start a new chapter in our collaboration together for the good of the people of this great city. I hope and pray that each of you will join me in setting aside our differences and recommitting ourselves to our partnership together here on the Durham City Council. Because as I've heard it said not too long ago, we're all in this together. In closing, let me just describe how I hope that we can all try to do our jobs over the next 1,463 days. Where our city is working well, let's build on those successes and celebrate what's right about Durham. Where our city is broken, let's fix it using every tool at our disposal to right what's wrong about Durham. And when we discuss issues of public policy in this body, let's always, always keep front and center the concerns and the voices of Durham's working families. So here's to the next 1,463 days. I don't know about y'all, but I'm ready to get to work. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member. And now Mayor Pro Tem, Jillian Johnson, congratulations on your reelection. Thank you. And thank you to you all. I'm so excited for this opportunity to continue to serve this community for the next four years. And we'll continue to work hard every day to build a Durham for all to make this city a model for innovative public policy and good governance. I'm going to start with some thank yous. First, I want to thank my family, especially my partner, Paul, my kids, Elias and Langston for their support and for tolerating my many evenings away doing this job and especially on the campaign trail. I want to thank my campaign staff, especially Rochelle Sparko and Marion Johnson, Luchurst and LaVon Barnes for all their work to put me back in this seat for another four years. A big thank you to all of the organizations and folks who were involved in the campaign, all the volunteers who did an incredible amount of work to make this happen. And a huge thanks to my council colleagues, Javier and Charlie, who were the only reason that I stayed sane and functional through this long and exhausting campaign. And of course, my deepest gratitude for the people of Durham for placing your trust and faith in me to continue to do this work. We have a lot of work to do to make the city the kind of community that we all want and deserve. And we know that we have huge challenges facing us and we know what they are. And we've spent a lot of time on the campaign trail talking about our city's challenges. So today I want to focus a little bit on our strengths and the things that I love about this community. Number one, our people love this city. I've seen Durhamites go on full friends, full fledged recruitment missions to get friends from other cities to move here, flying people in, taking them on tours and offering to pay like relocation expenses to get people to move to the city. And it's just because they love this community so much and they want everyone else to love it too. People often struggle to tell you why they love Durham because it's not just one thing. The city is a part of us and it's an important piece of who we are. Number two, our robust democracy. Durhamites are not people who sit on the sidelines and wait for things to happen to them. Our communities are engaged, they pay attention, they show up for our neighborhoods, they care about what happens in this city. People join political and neighborhood organizations, they run for office, they get involved in their schools, they organize in their communities. We are people who are willing to have important conversations and are ready for even more of them. Number three, we truly value inclusion. Durham is a community that welcomes people from all walks of life. We have two refugee resettlement agencies in this community bringing people from around the world to start new lives in Durham. And then we also have people who are descended from the enslaved people at Stagville Plantation whose families have been here for generations. We overwhelmingly reject bigotry and seek to build a community that values all of our residents' life experiences. And finally, we are a city of changemakers. We put our ideas into action in exciting ways. Every month on City Council we get emails and phone calls from people who live here with new ideas that they want to bring to the city of Durham. Already our new participatory budgeting program is being used as a model in cities like Atlanta and Richmond. Our program to help residents get driver's licenses restored and old charges expunged is getting national attention at the National League of Cities. And our work across governments to fight back against mass incarceration is being touted as part of a national movement to build safer communities. We have a lot of challenges but we also have a community of people who are ready to meet them to get real results and to make real change for the people of our city. Some of the changes I'll be working hard on for the next four years are of course to provide more affordable housing for low income folks in our community. To create robust violence prevention and intervention services. To provide more opportunities for authentic relationship with city government through equitable engagement, community conversations and participatory budgeting. To provide more inclusive economic opportunity and of course to move towards a more sustainable community. And I'm looking forward to working with residents and organizations to meet these goals and invite everyone in Durham who wants to get involved to join us. Thank you again and let's all work together to make Durham a city where all of our residents can thrive. We're all in this together. Thank you. Thank you very much. And now I believe it's my turn. Yes it is. I want to again thank Judge Evans and Judge Ron Hart for being with us here tonight as well as our elections board chair and director. Thank you all so much for being with us. I also want to say it's our custom to recognize other elected officials who are here with us. I see Senator Mike Woodard. We're glad to have you back in the chamber's mic. I see Damon Siles, Carver Alderman who for some strange reason has decided to be with us in Durham City Council for which we are very grateful. I see school board member Natalie Byer, Natalie. Thank you so much for being with us. And did I miss any elected official? Marsha Morey was here. Was Marsha here? Marsha Morey, representative Marsha Morey was here earlier and may still be here. And Sheriff Burkett, thank you, Sheriff. It's great to see you here. Thank you so much for being here. And finally I want to say we have a former council member, Larissa Seibel, who's also here with us tonight. Larissa, glad to have you. I want to thank the people of Durham, the voters who participated in this past election, no matter who you voted for. Thank you for making Durham the rip roaring democracy that it is a place where every voice is heard. I also want to thank my fellow mayoral candidate, Pastor Sylvester Williams, for his friendship and for the important ways in which he continues to serve our city. My friends, what I feel more than anything else tonight is the weight of the awesome responsibility that falls upon my shoulders as I enter my second term as the mayor of Durham. In my first two years as mayor, I've come to understand what a privilege it is to serve in this way, what a gift it is to be entrusted by my community, by the people of the city that I love, with this job and all its challenges and opportunities. In the 150-year history of Durham, 35 people have held this position before me. I have been fortunate to know nine of those former mayors and to call each one of them my friend. And here's what I can tell you about all of them. While they sometimes differed in political philosophy or fell on opposite sides of an issue, all of them served our beloved city with deep devotion and I seek to serve with that same devotion. I do feel driven to do this work. I wake up every morning burning to get to city hall to get the next big initiative moving to confer and strategize and to push us always forward, forward, forward. And it is true, as most of you know, that I send my last emails well after midnight. What I pray for is the ability to do this work not just with drive, but with care, with wisdom, with patience, with a listening ear and an open heart with humility. And I ask each of you in this room to please help me along that road. I have so many partners in this work. My wonderful city council colleagues are amazing city staff, community leaders from every corner of Durham. And I'm specially fortunate to work with professional leadership of our city government. During my first term as mayor, the city council hired both a new city clerk and a new city attorney. And I want to say now to city clerk Diana Schreiber and city attorney Kim Raeberg that you were both doing an outstanding job. We are so lucky to have you. You each replaced a respected leader who had served in this community for decades. And that's very hard to do. You have big shoes to fill, both of you and each of you all has been more than up to the mark. And our city manager, Tom Bonfield. Tom now in his 12th year of service to our city. And I will say that there is not a finer city manager anywhere in this country. Durham was recently named by Wallet Hub as the fourth best run city in America. This is an incredible accolade and Tom Bonfield deserves the lion's share of the credit. Tom, thank you for your friendship, your guidance, your steady hand on the tiller. Thank you for the fabulous job that you do leading the work of our city. To Tom, to Kim and Diana, you all have my full faith and confidence. And I know you have the confidence of the council as well. And then there is my daily partner in love, in family, and in our shared work and yearning for a society that is just my beloved, Leo Rupert. Babe, for 45 years, I've been so lucky to share all of this with you and I am so grateful. As I reflect on my first term as mayor, there are two moments that define to me the heart of this great city. The first event took place on April 10th of this year, the actual 150th birthday of Durham, when an explosion rocked Duke Street and our community. It was a day of terrible tragedy and loss. We mourn the lives of Mr. Kong Lee and Mr. J Rambo. We grieve for their families and the families of the injured. At the same time, it was a day that gave me a great sense of gratitude for our incredibly brave, incredibly professional first responders. For Mr. Rambo himself, who came to the site to try to cut off the gas, for the firefighters who cleared the coffee house and truly saved a dozen lives, for those same firefighters who were literally blown down and concussed by the explosion and who somehow got up and got to their truck and turned their hoses on the fire. I feel enormous gratitude for the emergency medical responders. When I arrived on the scene shortly after the blast with Chief Zoldos and Deputy City Manager, Bo Ferguson, I saw people blood streaming lying near the corner of Morgan and Duke streets, each of them already attended by a medic administering the care they needed and getting them into an ambulance and off to the hospital. I feel tremendous gratitude for the folks at Duke Hospital and Duke Regional who activated their emergency protocols to take in the flood of patients, several of them severely injured. I feel pride when I remember watching how our leadership coordinated their work on scene, especially our brand new fire chief, Chief Zoldos, who's here tonight, literally experiencing a trial by fire. I will never forget the courage of our firefighters standing up against that roiling ocean of fire with their hoses just a few feet away. And when they grew tired, another wave of firefighters took their place. I'm proud too of the outpouring of generosity from our community in the wake of the explosion, the businesses and volunteers who provided respite and food to our first responders, the folks who established GoFundMe pages to support the families of the victims and to provide relief to the restaurant workers who lost their jobs from the blast. Eight months after the explosion, we continue to mourn and we continue to offer our support. And we look forward to the reopening of the St. James restaurant shortly after the new year. And we celebrate too, a city that can produce heroes, heroes, like the ones I saw on Duke Street in front of that blazing fire. Durham grit. That is what defined us on that day. And that is what defines us every day. The second moment which revealed the big heart of the city to me was a very different sort of event. And it occurred shortly after the polls closed on November 5th when the results of the affordable housing bond referendum began to roll in. I hoped the bond would prevail. I thought it would, but I had no inkling of the enormous margin of victory it would enjoy. A whopping, excuse me one second. A whopping 76% of Durham's voters supported the bond. The bond won a majority of voters in every single precinct. And this just wasn't any bond. I'm proud to say that it was the largest affordable housing bond by far in the history of the state. The bond program is bold, it's ambitious, it's complicated to explain and it faced plenty of objections, including some political potshots and some very legitimate concerns. Despite all this, the bond won a smashing victory because Durham's people want to share our prosperity. We said yes to a tax increase in order to house our neighbors who can't afford housing on their own. Now we need to implement the five year affordable housing plan endorsed so emphatically by our voters. It will start slowly, it will take time, there will be bumps in the road. But in the next five years because our voters said yes to a different future for our city, the work we do on affordable housing will lead the state and the nation. Like our response to the explosion, the bond referendum too tells the story of our big hearted city. This big heart extends especially to our most vulnerable communities. While the Trump administration is squeezing down the number of refugees permitted into our country, Filippo Grande, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees just spent a full day in Durham touring our refugee resettlement agencies. He chose to come to Durham because of the way we embrace our refugee community. In Durham, we welcome and we embrace all people. No matter your gender or religion, your race or language, your country of origin or your documentation status, we want you and we love you. If you are a Latinx immigrant struggling to stay in this country, Usted es bienvenido en Durham. Usted es bienvenido si eres de México o Honduras o Colombia o El Salvador. Usted es bienvenido en Durham si está documentado o si usted es in documentado. El presidente quiere construir un moro de odio a través de nuestra frontera sur. Esta odio no va a ganar. In Durham, el amor va a ganar. In Durham, in Durham son bienvenidos en nuestras escuelas, en nuestros lugares de trabajo, en todos los lugares públicos. Queremos que usted y su familia para vivir y prosperar aquí en condiciones de seguridad. In Durham, le acogemos con los brazos abiertos y con corazones abiertos. In Durham, we welcome you with open arms and open hearts. When I was sworn into my first term as mayor two years ago, I articulated what I believe to be this community's vision of our common future, a vision confirmed in the results of this past election. Here is a vision that we, the people of Durham, have forged together. We, the people of Durham envision a prosperous, innovative, green and welcoming city that thrives on diversity and difference, that puts racial and economic justice at the top of our civic agenda, that defends the vulnerable among us, that cherishes robust, respectful debate on difficult questions, that demands nonviolence in our homes and in our streets, that embodies the belief that all residents get an opportunity to share in our newfound prosperity that serves as a progressive beacon for the South and the nation. It is a beautiful vision. But forging that vision is actually the easiest part of our task. The hard part is still in front of us and that is making this vision real. That implementation work is going on every day, inside and outside of city government. And in my state of the city address in a couple of months, I'm going to talk specifically about how we are working to make that vision real. On that night, I'm going to talk about our plans to take on gun violence, about the implementation of the Affordable Housing Bond, about our economic development program rooted in our racial justice work and about how we're going to combat climate change at a local level right here in Durham. We all know the challenge we face. We know that 20% of Durham's people, mostly people of color, are still living in poverty, in our prosperous city. We know the consequences of this poverty. We also know that we are responsible for changing this as hard as the task may be. Which brings me to the word of the great labor leader and socialist presidential candidate of the early 20th century Eugene Debs. Debs found his common humanity with those in the deepest need and in the darkest circumstances. And he said, while there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. While there is a soul in prison, I am not free. In Durham, we are not yet free. But one of Durham's own, the great John H. Wheeler, in whose memory our federal courthouse was named just a few short weeks ago, told us how to change that. Mr. Wheeler had a motto. The fight for freedom, he said, begins every morning. I'll be here tomorrow morning at City Hall, beginning this work anew. And I know all of you, wherever you are tomorrow, will be doing the same thing. Together, let's make the city we love a city for all. Thank you. Thank you. And now we're going to have our designation of the Mayor Pro Tem. And it is my privilege as mayor to nominate the Mayor Pro Tem. And it is my privilege as mayor, particularly, to nominate my friend and colleague, friend of many, many years, and former student. I feel it necessary to say that again. Tell me everything I know. Jillian Johnson to be our next Mayor Pro Tem. And I will accept a motion that that appointment be affirmed. I moved. It's been moved and seconded that Jillian Johnson be our Mayor Pro Tem for the city of Durham. Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Please close the vote. And the motion passes 7-0. Thank you so much. Congratulations, Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you. Mayor Pro Tem, I believe you are now to proceed to this microphone and be sworn in by the city clerk. State your full name. I, Jillian Johnson, do hereby solemnly affirm that I will support and maintain Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of my office as Mayor Pro Tem poor of the city of Durham. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. And that concludes the organizational meeting. We will follow this with our regular meeting, but we will first have a five minute recess. We will reconvene at 7.52. Thank you all for being here. Absolutely. All right. The time is 7.52. How are you doing, Ray? And we're back. Happy holidays. Move the consent agenda. All in favor, aye. All right. The time is 7.52. Form, Mr. Mayor. Yeah, yeah. Say your vote on that, too. What's going on? How are you? It's all your fault, you know.  How you doing? I'm going to call this meeting to order. I told you. I'm going to call this meeting to order. I'm glad to see you. I'll call this meeting back to order at 7.52. Actually, we're at 7.53. And we'll now move to we had our organizational meeting. And we have no ceremonial items tonight other than the ceremonial items that we just had. If my wife would please come to order. OK, well, that didn't work. And now we'll proceed to announcements by the council. Are there any announcements by members of the council? Any announcements by members of the council? OK, we'll now move to priority items by the city manager. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council, good evening, everyone. And I do not have any priority items this evening, but would like to take the opportunity on behalf of the city administration and all of our city employees to congratulate you, Mayor Shul, Mayor Pro Tim Johnson, and Council Member Reese on your reelection, Council Member Caviero on your election, and certainly want to reiterate that all of us are ready to be here tomorrow morning with you, Mayor Shul, and begin the work along with the returning members of city council to help further all of your goals and the community goals for the benefit of our everyone. So thank you and congratulations again. Thank you, Mr. Manager. I do remember when I was elected in 2011 to the city council at 8 o'clock the next morning, you called me on the phone. So you're definitely ready all the time. We appreciate it. Madam Attorney, any priority items? Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Madam Mayor Pro Tim, members of the city council, it's good to be with you this evening. Congratulations to the newly constituted city council. I echo all the remarks made by Mr. Bonfield and we have no priority items. Thank you very much. Madam Clerk. Good evening, everyone, and congratulations. Ditto what city manager Bonfield said and I have no priority items. Thank you very much. We will now move to the consent agenda. The consent agenda can be approved by a single vote of the council. These are items that have previously been considered by the council. An item can be removed from the agenda by any member of the public or any council member and if it is so removed will be considered at the end of the meeting. The first item is item one, approval of city council minutes. Item two, Durham city county environmental affairs board appointment. Item three, human relations commissioning appointment. Item four, Durham and workforce development board appointment. Item five, affordable housing performance audit, September 2019. Item six, comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year end of June 30th, 2019. Item seven, the strapping exchange affordable housing development option agreement for the reuse arts district. Item eight, loan commitment to Durham housing authority development ventures ink for the JJ Henderson seniors new construction phase 1A. Item nine, professional services contract with Raimi Kemp and associates ink for Woodcroft Parkway extension. Item 10 bid report. Item 11, proposed acquisition of 54.61 acres of 1041 communications drive Durham NC. Item 12, design build services with Monteith construction corporation for fire and emergency medical service, EMS station 18. Item 13, utility extension agreement with Pinecrest Duke LLC to serve the Pinecrest residential development. Item 14, utility extension agreement with Eno River dialysis owners LLC FKC Eno River. Item 15, contract ST302 street repairs and repaving project 202. Item 16, contract ST301C paving services 2020. Item 17, contract amendment number eight for ST264C professional services related to favel road improvements. Item 18, contract amendment number one for additional design services for SW 52D LaSalle street pedestrian improvements. Tip number EB 5703. Item 19, trenchless pipe repairs, SD2018-03 amendment number one. You have now heard the consent agenda and I will now accept a motion for its approval. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda. Madam clerk, please open the vote. Please close the vote. And the motion passes seven zero. Thank you very much. Unless there is any more business to come before this body, I will declare this meeting adjourned at seven 57. All right. All right. Thanks everybody.


I had a cool idea for a problem-solving technique where you call someone and ask them if they know the answer to your problem. If they don't, you ask them to call someone else and see if they know. I call it a dialing tree. In my day job, I'm an engineer and designer, a sort of fulcrum between purely abstract concepts for products and devices and the nitty-gritty details of how those concepts are actually realized. Of course, that's not really remarkable. Almost everyone has to make plans and execute them in the course of a workday, but it's kind of my job to turn cool ideas into concrete plans for stuff that will actually work, most of the time. One of the most challenging parts of that process is knowing how long to spend looking for the best possible answer and when to roll up my sleeves and implement the best answer I've found so far.  In one case, you spend hours working hard in a particular direction, get 90% of the way to done, and suddenly realize that you could have gotten the same result in half the time if you just thought a little bit harder before you started. Or even worse, that the answer that you've been slaving away on isn't going to work. In the other case, you keep putting off getting started, tying yourself in knots trying to find a solution that's more efficient or more clever or categorically superior in some fashion to the other ideas that you've had so far. Until finally, your time runs out and you end up slapping something together at the last minute, or realizing that you'd have been done already and saved huge amounts of time and resources if you had just gone with the simplest answer that sprung to mind. This is just one of the many issues that we all run into when we're trying to solve problems. In Thunk 101, I detailed a smattering of strategies and methods that can make the process a little easier and less fraught with uncertainty, but I recently stumbled onto a strategy that seems to be relatively unknown that I thought would make a compelling addition to the toolbox. But before we get there, let's discuss one of the metaphors that a lot of professional problem solvers use to think about the exercise, solution space. In many ways, coming up with good answers is like optimizing a massive equation. You need something that costs under this amount. You need it to be made from one of these materials. You need it to do this thing, or that thing, or hopefully both. You're combining and tweaking a whole bunch of different variables to try to maximize some things, like efficiency and effectiveness, and minimize others like cost and waste. The solution space is the set of all possible answers to the problem. Every single combination of those variables that will somehow solve what you need solved.  Those answers are clearly inferior to other answers, but they still technically satisfy the requirements of the problem and are included in the solution space. This metaphor is useful for a few reasons. First, it encourages a questioning attitude towards the parameters of the problem itself. In our example, welding the door open would be an acceptable answer if the only problem we were trying to solve was how to keep a door open. But by exploring that solution space, we realized that the real problem is how to keep a door open sometimes, and not others, which narrows our solution space considerably. Second, trying to locate the furthest extents of what physics allows helps to break up some of the preconceptions we might have carried into our solutions, so we have some perspective on the whole range of possibilities. We might have only come up with a brick and a wedge for door stops initially, but there are so many other answers that would technically satisfy the requirements. Why not use the hinges? Maybe the top of the door? It might well end up that the best solutions are the most obvious ones, but parachuting in from way the hell outside gives us at least a quick overview of the whole landscape of solutions, so we can feel more confident that the one that we're pursuing seems like a good bet, that we're probably not missing anything particularly clever and that we can get started without feeling too stupid later on. Of course, this metaphor kind of just reframes the problem in a new context. How can we be sure that we're actually finding the outermost boundaries of our solution space? How can we be sure that we're capturing every nook and cranny of it? In a recent episode of the rationally speaking podcast, Ed Boyden, one of the researchers who pioneered the creative and massively influential technique of optogenetics, shared a method that he and other revolutionary scientists in the Dysaroth genetic engineering laboratory used to come up with every possible answer they could for a problem, which he called a tiling tree. The idea is similar to a binary search algorithm in computer science or the practice of differential diagnosis in medicine. You start with an incomprehensibly large set, your solution space, and break it down into smaller chunks by splitting it in half repeatedly until you finally whittle it down to something that you can parse easily, and if necessary, test. Importantly, you want every node of your tree to fork into two binary possibilities, so you can be sure that you're not leaving anything out by forgetting some category that doesn't spring to mind. Every node is either x or not x. So, for the solution space for door stops, let's split it in half somehow. Maybe door mounted and not door mounted. That might seem like a weird place to start, but it doesn't really matter. Every single possible solution is still contained under each of these nodes. Now, let's split door mounted somehow. Again, it doesn't really matter how, just that we do it. Maybe into moving and not moving. Hmm, that's weird. This node describes a set of solutions to our door problem, which are door mounted and can be engaged and disengaged to hold the door open, but don't move at all. I guess electromagnets? Maybe some sort of adhesive. Over on the other side, we've got not door mounted devices that move. This eliminates things like wedges and bricks. How about some sort of latching mechanism in the floor? These are solutions that I might not have come up with if I was just given a blank sheet of paper to fill with ideas, but because the set of nodes expands exponentially with each level of branching. In just two steps, I've discovered a couple nodes that describe a part of the solution space I didn't even realize was there. If I really wanted to be sure that I'd explored the space adequately, I might set an arbitrary minimum search depth, going four or five levels deep. Who knows what sort of weird stuff I might find. Maybe the next time that you're having trouble solving a problem or deciding when to stop solving a problem and when to start working on it, you might use a tiling tree approach to make sure that you've got a decent handle on what sort of solutions are possible and which ones look the most promising. You're still going to screw up at some point, of course, but at least it won't be because you didn't look hard enough. What sort of problems have you encountered where using a tiling tree approach to search a solution space might be a very useful tool? Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget to follow us, subscribe, and share, and don't stop thunking.


Thank you very much indeed and it has been a real pleasure to be here this morning to listen to the range of innovations across the universities here in Ireland, it really is inspiring. As I was introduced I'm part of the 10 team in Manuth, we're the transformative engagement network and over the last three years or so we've been involved in working with universities in Africa and Zambia and Malawi around issues of climate change and food security, trying to change the methods and mechanisms of engagement with vulnerable communities who have most to suffer from losses of food security or climate change. So our masters, our project speaks to a number of the grand challenges for higher education. And we need to think about transition and how we can begin to inform it. We live in a world characterized by change, unprecedented global change from environmental, economic and sociological perspectives. One of the common characteristics about contemporary change is that we can begin to characterize it as wicked problems. And wicked problems are those that are extremely complex, that tend to move across boundaries, spatial boundaries, environmental boundaries. And that generate feedbacks among social, economic and environmental spheres that can create deep uncertainties in terms of how we can begin to approach them and begin to manage them. And they also create deep and ethical and moral questions. And at local levels begin to challenge us about what are the obvious solutions, the appropriate responses that are often contested. So within our project we have begun to ask those questions. And in doing so we have to move beyond disciplinary perspectives to begin to embrace ideas of interdisciplinarity. We're beginning to integrate the insights and lessons that can be learned from multiple disciplines. I'm bringing them together to think about the roles, the integration of ideas, experimentation, different types of evaluations of learning that can provide graduates with the skills for dealing with complexity and change in the modern environment. A second grand challenge that requires transition is the dominance of western epistemologies and western knowledge in how we deal with global scale problems. Northern epistemologies and science technology tend to dominate the kinds of responses that are put forward in terms of responding to global change. And that's despite the fact that many of the most vulnerable are far removed from science. They're much closer to culture and of different ways of knowing that are important to integrate into the kinds of learning that we develop in order to develop sustainable solutions over the longer term. So in meeting these challenges and against that backdrop we have developed an international interdisciplinary master's on transformative community development. And that master's seeks to bring together knowledge from different disciplines. We're beginning to move beyond the ivory tower to properly engage with communities, to give them a voice in the types of learning that we try to produce. In terms of developing the master's we developed our project on partnership. Partnership across multiple scales. A partnership that recognized the value of different ways of knowing that different disciplines and different people bring. Partnerships that recognized collaboration among institutions, that recognized the value of different disciplines. Integrating disciplines like geography, adult and community education, sociology, biology, hydrology and land use management. To create an interactive master's or an integrated interdisciplinary master's around climate change and food security with communities. To begin to develop the flows of knowledge, the flows of information that make the voices of the most vulnerable important in our learning. And critically in moving towards those partnerships was the identification of communities of practice by each of our African partner universities. They identified communities of small holder farmers, those that are vulnerable to climate change and food security, to build and scaffold our learning around. Our students, we're not traditional students, there were those who worked with communities in different guises. Agents for example of government, of national and local government. Those who worked with national and local non-governmental organizations. With the idea that these students would become our agents of transformation. Going back to their workplaces, working with these communities and putting in place the pedagogies of transformative learning to enact long term and sustainable change. Our masters were developed on blended learning. In the first year, our students undertook courses on Moodle that were developed across the disciplines through collaboration and interaction across academics from each of our partners. And coupled with that blended online experience, we're on site discussions that their function was to ground learning within the experience and the lived realities of communities. In the second year, students then went on to think about the research topics that had to be based on demonstrating interdisciplinary skills. That required them to integrate or to engage with communities in a meaningful way. And often most important to begin to think about and critique their own ways of working with vulnerable communities. And our project had multiple outcomes of interest. For example, we assessed or evaluated learning outcomes and identified, for example, that most of our students experienced transformative learning outcomes. Shifting worldviews, changing the ways in which our learners acted and engaged with communities. And one example of one of the reflections made by our students, I have in a quote here, who is an agricultural extension worker. On reflecting about the course, the student identified that my participation in this program has made me appreciate that within any community there's a wealth of knowledge and experience. Which if harnessed can be used to change communities for the better. I've come to realize that members of communities are assets, not problems. They have answers to the problems they face. Those problems faced in communities can best be solved by community dwellers themselves. And she now sees her role as enabling people in communities to act together to find solutions to their problems so that they can achieve their desired goals. For communities themselves, the outcomes were very tangible. Increased levels of linkages with local universities that provided a voice or a mechanism through which the needs of the most vulnerable could integrate or interact with policymakers at national and international levels. For the academics ourselves, of course there are important outcomes. Engaging in a project like this requires risk taking, requires being open to new knowledge and requires engaging with people beyond the ivory tower, moving out of our comfort zones. But if we are or have the challenge or the courage to do that, the level of engagement of deep learning that can happen for the academic is extremely important. And finally, for our universities themselves, the linkages that have been developed are sustaining and long-lasting, both for Minuth and for our colleagues in Zambia and Malawi. In terms of the capacities that have been developed in learning in different ways, and finally in terms of the friendships that have been developed over the course of the project. Thank you very much.