I have the same feeling I had when I would react to a one-punch man reaction I don't know what the f*** to expect and I think that's exactly why I love these Animes today we're gonna do episodes 3 and episodes 4 because one episode is Not enough for me I want you guys to let me know one thing down below what do You think of mob psycho season one or better yet what do you think of mob Psycho in general those first two episodes were really weird and it was slow-paced But I enjoyed it probably because it is static of the show and the comedy of course the comedy and let's not forget Ballsack kids dad is in it. We just started we just started man, you know And they're saying that the guy on or they say and fight on hold on am I watching the dub to the sub You know there's minus 10 points for not saying tatakai, okay? The word fights is no longer available.  I don't know but damn Man, I've said this before But this is supposed to be like middle school high school I remember kids that looked like this.  I'll feel you wait. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. You see this as one Is that what the name of the studio is manga manga want manga I'm so sorry for saying that if you want to kill me you you have the right to but is that what what the One is because I've seen all over one punch man And now this where satama was holding like a one magazine or something or a manga. I'm sorry Are they playing pie show where's not go Lyra, bro, did the animation just change did they switch studios? mid-intro to the season Accurate depiction of high school right here You have kids that look like this and they're supposed to be 14 But I think they were left back 10 years and now they're just passing as a child And then you have every other normal-looking person like me on this dude's shoulders Mob you chose the wrong club Exactly who needs muscles when you have psychic powers That remind me of Gabby from attack on Titan at one CC. Yeah, she was like I'll never forget that I'm telling you when I go to Japan.  I think I think you're an extraterrestrial life form Man what's the OST is going on beautiful Dude has superpowers and only wants to be as popular who needs women when you have powers Yo if I could read girls minds I Would be even more self-conscious than I already am because sometimes I catch them looking at me dirty And I think it's some horny shit, but they're probably thinking wow this kid's really ugly this tomato looking fat Motherfucker.  I was I was joking. Okay. Do I look like one of those freaks? She's a hot voice I want to say that it's probably a dude on the day Does this happen in Japan People just Walk up to you and start spitting dialogue from a film That's the name of the episode.  Is this what Japan is? Is this gonna happen to me once I get off my flight in March by the way, I'm going to Japan in March. Oh Oh, it's no way a suspicious group This is totally normal Kimi mo Shinzan I don't need to see his face. No, he's a perv.  Did he say anything funny? Am I missing something?  I'm never smiling again.  I'm going to help That's how I want to be for the rest of my life like this guy in the middle That's what life is about bro. If you don't look like that at that age. I'm sorry, but there's something wrong with you What am I watching what did mob just walk into This is why I don't do religion bro This is why man my brother He had like a baptism for like his Christian church and we went there and everybody's smiling and singing and playing the guitar The banjos dunking their heads in the water and they start speaking to tongues and I'm standing there like Bro, am I in an anime right now? Is this what hell's like? And it's crazy because they're there they believe in God, but I feel like I'm at a Satanic worship circle Yeah, get on camera put it on twitch expose these happy bastards That what they do they have to do that when it comes to religion bro. These people are weirdos. No, no, no No, no, no, no, don't tell me he's smiling don't tell me he's smiling wait Since mob is has powers when they put the mask on him. Is he gonna be smiling? No, I bet you're not if I'm right You have to subscribe and like the video if I'm wrong Dislike the video and unsub Start circle jerking Man, what is this episode?   I'm never looking at a happy person the same again I'm gonna take their brainwash.   I would never smile people who've never smoked before Are missing out on half of their lives Exactly Grab the nearest drug dealer and take everything he has that's how you live life Yo one punch man mob psycho writer, please get me to voice that From any for any character in your future seasons. I could do it perfectly. Tell me not guys I'm convinced this is what the Pope is like and everybody that worships him No, no, no, no, I'm gonna play game with you Yeah, oh I bet it's not milk He's at 58 now. Are we really going to 100 by the end of the season?  What is come? I don't think he's laughing. I think he's dying. I want to see Machima drink milk like this Yeah Stay depressed What a power that is even if I had that power I'd never use it You know what this is like after watching episode 8 of chainsaw man and then watching this after See, do you know what my mind is going through right now?  We're almost at a hundred. What's the season five episodes long?  Oh, I feel you Bob bro.   I want to see mom versus Saitama now The OST to this Now he looks like an anime character Oh, he's the main character. He's mob.  It's not even one percent to this writer But I like where this is going right now. This is interesting.   I like to judge people before I even know them Did you really just say that I'm the main character in this world this guy knows it's an anime Don't say good morning like you're an everyday human being like this is supposed to be normal Not even that because surprise mob look at him.  He doesn't even see it In This is what people do in japan schools. I was playing game boy. Is this why y'all are so smart Are these the conversations we have at the lunch table? Is that a mcdonald's cup? Oh my god, man I love the uniqueness to this anime man.  It's called mob donald's they changed the logo to red and said This is new Yeah, yeah, we're anti simp on this side Yo, I gotta listen to this OST on my long drives.    Do y'all really read all of this at once? Seems a bit hard to close up has a lot. No way Man I don't know how to feel Charisma my foot popular my foot That was surprisingly beautiful I wish my brother would talk to me like this You know what man, I'm gonna say I'm I am convinced All of my japanese viewers everybody in japan has psychic powers because there's no way y'all are this smart and this creative I'm telling you y'all y'all have to have psychic powers that only japanese people know of And and you cannot risk telling that to anybody else. That's not japanese.    They said it again I never got one of those. How are you? I'm a girl, but I couldn't read that fast I'll be waiting for you at ankle park. Please come. Okay. I'd actually get a letter like that I go to the park and it's to do still happens to be still happens to be guys.  Yeah, I just said that Why does this guy look like this like he came from the from the wrong century Oh, okay When you put on a girl that told me you're a girl for sure I love how they're protecting mom now. This is so awesome. Yeah, I protect our own Oh, I definitely want it off him definitely bro.    I love how he's low key helping him now. I like this friendship.  Oh my god. This is fun. Look at his legs. No, man I'll see you with those. Okay No Body bags, that's what this was running towards them Oh god, is this the club I had to join Shizuke ga shichou chou demo arunda. Wait, is he have psychic powers too? Are you a delinquent zoo?  This guy's spitting poetry now.  Was he at the cool kid powers? Dad that was nice.  Bro, it's a school fight. Why are you summoning hami hami, huh? Dude, just use solar beam. What is he venus or? It's over He's giving about Yeah, here we go It's over. You know what man? It's different and that's why I really like it so far Is it I feel like one punch man got me quicker This is a little bit slower paced But I don't mind that like some people don't like slow paced things they hear slow paced and that's like a negative But to me it's not really negative. I like Take it at times sometimes sometimes things are way too fast And I think that was the idea of one punch man Like like fight after fight after fight craziness if the craziness if the craziness and this definitely does have its craziness But it's at a slower pace and I like that it's building the characters more I really like mob. He has powers, but he doesn't want to use them Especially against humans that don't have powers. He respects his powers and he wishes he was normal It kind of reminds me of like a superman story Where superman as he was a kid and a teenager Didn't want to be superman because all of his friends were normal and he felt like the weirdo the outcast And he just wanted to be like them I like that all he wants is love and this just shows you no matter what power you have in the world the money The strength if you don't have love You're gonna be sad Wow, that was actually deep. I'm proud of myself. Anyways, like I said, I enjoyed this. It's fun It's a fun show and I can't wait to see where this goes. He hit a hundred in episode three.  I have a feeling it's going to go to a thousand percent somehow some way But it's the one punch man creator.  Anyways, I'm done Like the video subscribe if you want if not just don't then never come back I never want you here again. Bye


Ii nilsen Mandela said that it doesn't matter how many hours you get to how much money you have, but how many people's life have changed. And that no money in this world can pay for the happiness of someone who was blind. And when you take that iPad and they tell you, doctor, or my child, I can see. We are very, very gratifying and that's why we keep on going back all the time. My name is Helen Andume. I was born in Sumet and it was during the colonial apartheid time when we were colonized by South Africa. My name is Wadumaya, one and only Anoian village where from Ghana. Beautiful, the Anointed one. No, not Anointed, Anoing. Oh, Anoing, oh no, you are not Anoing at all, we love it. We just love the way you are marketing Africa, putting it out there for the world to know that Africa is not what is perceived in the western world that maybe that you are just on trees like mangas eating banana. There are incredible people on this continent. And you are one of them. Thank you for putting me among those. That is why I am here today. You started sending me your profiles. Telling me that one thing that they even love about you is about the charity that you do. Actually giving people the chance to see again. And I don't know if that is true but I think we need to hear from you. I come from the town in Northern Namibia. Almost maybe let me so 400 km from the northern borders with Angola. And during the war when we were fighting to liberate Namibia, of course many young people were leaving the country to join Swapo. And Swapo was the organization fighting to liberate Namibia. And it was that time based in Zambia and of course also Angola. And many people were leaving the country to go and join the struggle. And some of us also heard that if you go to Swapo you will get the best education because the education that was in Namibia by then, it was a system of education where black people's education was not on par with the white people's education. The schools where there was a big disparity there. Okay, we left, we were four girls. We escaped at night, came at the borders in Angola. And the South African soldiers were patrolling the border. And remember the grace of God we managed to cross the borders and then went into Angola. In Angola we found Swapo soldiers or the freedom fighters already there receiving these new kids who are coming from Namibia. Okay, also during that time there was war in Angola between, that was 1975, among the three parties. Unita, FNLA and MPLA. But MPLA by then they were the ones ruling the country and they were the true representative of the Angolan people. And the president was Agostino Neto who later died of course. And then through the war we managed to pass in Angola and sometimes you come into a town you are in the middle of the war, in the middle of the night while you are sleeping the bullets all over flying on top of you there. Then you move on, you come into the town you find only corpses on the bodies lying all over and imagine the tender age of 15 seeing all this. It was very terrifying. And we managed to go through all these wars and I know even our car even broke down we had to walk for something like more than 100 kilometers. Yes, yeah, walking. Going towards the borders of Zambia and Angola to enter into Zambia. So later on the car they managed to repair to get reinforcement. It was repair, they found us walking and went in the car, proceeded. We came now at the borders between Angola and Zambia now there was a river, the Kwandu River. Now how to cross this river? We didn't know how to swim coming from Namibia. Swimming pools were just for white people. The only water that we used to plunge in is when it rains when the water comes with all the dead that's where we used to play and swim. I won't say swim because we didn't know how to swim. And now they brought a dugout canoe this was an Angolan man with a dugout canoe and we were told that now you have to get into this canoe. What? And we started crying there with our little suitcases we started crying and said we are not going to go there we are going to fall in the river. And it took them maybe more than an hour for them to convince us. In the end we agreed we went into the canoe and we were really shaking. One canoe went in one canoe and then our suitcases were in the other canoe. And then we went into this canoe sailing now and then you found that there were some narrow strips and then suddenly you come into a big area and mind you this is the river, the Kwanto River where South Africa reconnaissance used to come looking for Namibian freedom fighter for our swap of guerrillas so that they can bomb them. And we crossed we were shaking there but as children after 10, 15 minutes we started loving it. We still started singing our liberation songs but the moment we come into this open big area then we keep quiet. We became so scared and then we passed again. If you tell me to do that today I will never do it because that is where the hippos are that's where they breed their children the crocodiles how I don't even want to think about it. And then we crossed came into the Zambia people were already receiving us waiting to receive us in Zambia went to Zambia we were now in a camp that we built ourselves and schools were there hospital they got all these people some Namibians left already in the 60s to join the liberation struggle our former president they left in the 60s already and they were there they received us we built our schools the teachers we had some Namibians who were studying all over the world America, England, whatever they were recalled to come back so that they could teach these young people who just left Namibia even one of the doctors like Dr. Libertina Amadila she became my adopted mother later they were recalled to come and start clinics and to treat sick people in the refugee in the Swapo refugee camps okay fine on the diplomatic front also we had our Swapo leaders negotiating seriously with other African countries so that they can take some of these children into their country to go to schools there and that's how some of us how I landed in the Gambia somewhere went to Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria Senegal, the Gambia River Sierra Leone, Liberia we were spread all over and I ended up in the Gambia and that's why I told you the story my first landing coming out on the plane for the first time the first country that I landed into was Accra and we were staying there Kotoka International Airport and that's why when I went back two years ago I was looking for this Kotoka International Airport that was nowhere to be seen the whole place have changed completely yeah it has changed completely which year was that when you 1976 1976 that was my first time going to Ghana and of course 2018 I would just went there with my son and my niece just to show them where I went to school to and also Ghana of course where I landed first and to take them also to to Cape Coast to see where the place the place of Northern East how Africans were taken from their motherland for 400 years to the Americans so I want to know you landed in Ghana for how many days before going to Gambia like 10 days what were you doing in Ghana in the past 10 days normally just been shown around the place and to also because there was a group of Ghanaian students who went before us so just to stay with them and of course they were also looking forward for people who are coming from the refugee camps to tell them what is the latest how the fight is going whether we are making progress just to connect also with others while we are waiting to go to the other countries and it was also during holiday that time they were all on holiday so from there we went to Sierra Leone we stayed also maybe a week in Sierra Leone left some students there and then we continued further to the Gambia you schooled in the Gambia? I still in the Gambia that's why I did my secondary school then from there what happened? after secondary school of course I came back to Angola I finished my secondary school when you finish your secondary school you go back to the camps in Angola in the refugee camps because you must know also the people were still coming the refugee camps were becoming bigger and bigger you have in Zambia and then you had in Angola and then you go like for one year you teach the small kids in the refugee camps so you are giving some assignments to do before you go to university and when I came back I work in Luwanda in our Swapo office in the transport office we are the one taking care of the logistics and making because Swapo was getting a lot of donations from other countries especially the Scandinavian countries clothing, food and we load them on trucks because they can be transported to the refugee camps or also the battlefields where our soldiers were they also need food they need clothing they need soap they need medicine everything was transported so where did you have your university education? after one year I stayed there so then I was told that now the scholarship opened to go to Germany that time it was the German Democratic Republic so I went to Germany and that's where I did medicine I wanted to go and do fashion actually my first preference was fashion and medicine was number two second preference and our secretary of education who later also became the minister of education and later the prime minister told me that this fashion of yours is not going to work independent Namibian will need medical doctors then fashion designers so you are going to do medicine I just didn't understand this how can fashion not be important you know when you were young so I had this guiding angels and in Africa we brought up that when an elder says something you don't answer or refuse so I said okay I'm going to do medicine so I went to do medicine in Germany so lucky enough when I finished medicine when I finished my studies that's 1989 then also we were being repatriated back to come to Namibia there was no independence and now it was not independence we had just been repatriated back to United Resolution 435 went into action we were now told to come back home people were coming back home to take part in the elections and like I said thanks God swapo on the elections after being one I came I worked in the hospital as an intern doing my internship and after my internship I went back again to Germany to specialize and that's how I specialize in ophthalmology I specialist you know what I got to know you because you are an I specialist one of the things that everyone is talking about you is you being notable for the charity work that you are doing you are actually giving a lot of people the chance to see again you could be in your office, treat people maybe one day will tell you you see a magician again so we just want to know what really inspired you to do what you do like in terms of like giving back to the society yeah and you know when we were in the refugee camps and sometimes Semnyoma Komile Semnyoma will come and tell us young people you have to study very hard you have to go and give back to the opress Namibian to our opress Namibian back at home we have to go it's only education which will make it possible for us to develop our country and of course taking into consideration that all my studies were never paid for my parents it's no way where my parents were even going to have the money to send me to school and when I finished my medicine you came you come back home here and then you find that like when I was in my internship people also have eye problems but they really don't complain about the eyes they just say my chest or my stomach those are the problems that they give you but you know that and you see many people are going blind and then I also wanted to do occupational medicine to specialize and then my Auntie Libertina she's also a medical doctor with these little hands I think in ophthalmology we need so I went back I did ophthalmology and came back and when I came back of course I started now this program actually I started the program with some Americans I met in an organization called Surgical Eye Expedition and they are based in Sanda Barbara and before that I went to India because when I finished my specialization I said how do I go home with all the high tech here in Germany if things are going to be might be tough for me and then my professor my German professor told me why don't you go to India you learn a lot there and I did that I went to India I was there for 8 months and I saw so many diseases that I only read in textbooks and my Indian colleague were diagnosing or diagnosing diseases or seeing diseases just by looking with the torch while in Germany we have to use the magnifying slit limb I said how do you do that then later I will take this patient put them on the magnifying slit limb and then what I see is exactly what they were telling me I said wow this is what I needed to providing proper healthcare with the little that you have and that was very impressive and that's also where I learned how to go out into the village collect these patients and give them signs do surgeries there and give them signs bringing the health to the poor people in the village if you go to the village you find empty coca cola tins and whatever coca cola is marketing itself in the village where are we as doctors we should also market ourselves into the villages and okay I said my education was never paid off by my parents it was because of swapo that I got where I am so it's better I have to go and give back I was given back I must also give back started this program surgical eye expedition and since 1997 with my first eye cam we went to do the screening up north there in the place called Rundo and we screened so many people more than 500 people were screening and we booked more than 200 to come for the operation but when we went back three weeks after we went back only maybe 80 people came and we say why where are all of them now it was going around in the villages that where have you had someone operating on an eye it was unheard of this little girl this little girl just went to damage your eyes even though they were already blind they couldn't see they just went to damage your eyes fine we went we did this 80 people and then we went back home those who came in who could not see just being pulled on the stick they went back on their own working free when we went back they followed we couldn't control the crowds at all there were so many and even those who were operating doctor we have come back for the second eye come come come come look at all these ladies here women I brought them along they were also blind like me and the interesting thing she was working in front with her one eye seeing and all the others are holding on her this one is holding on her dress the other one on the other dress very interesting thing to do and it just bring tears to your eyes and that's how it started every year we go to like 3-4 places to flow regions and we did this one thing which I have to mention here is that my government was very receptive and they helped a lot with the logistic for us to bring medicine or help to the people who needed it most it was very well coordinated thing and you can do this also when you have the government that is also willing to do their part and help we have been doing this since 1997 until today you know you come somewhere after you have done your surgery and then I go around you find this woman who came who couldn't see anything she is sitting down there eating fish and taking out all the bones many thanks you that you get doctor now that I can see I'm going to work on my field doctor now that I can see I'm going to see my grandchildren doctor now that I can see my pension money somebody will take my pension money I will see my pension money this happiness it just fuels you to keep on going back it's very difficult to organize such an item but you think about the innocent person in the village that just keep on pushing just keep on pushing put a smile on someone's face I think Nelson Mandela said that it doesn't matter how many hours you get or how much money you have but how many people's life have you changed and that no money in this world can pay for the happiness of someone who was blind and when you take of that iPad and they tell you doctor or my child I can see that is very gratifying and that's why we keep on going back all the time I want to say that keep up the good work congratulations because we are from Ghana and we heard about you that's why we came over here now I just want you to come to Africa we all live in Africa Namibia is in Africa so we want to know do you believe that there are opportunities in Africa that young Africans can I mean mine opportunities on the continent of course there are many many opportunities on the African continent we for the millennia to take part for the millennia to grab one thing is this the entitlement it must stop and waiting for sometimes waiting for governments it must stop do your part but it is also true the Gawa government must also set up incentive and institution to help this couple young people to come up it's not that when these young people are coming I have this project whatever no go away whatever next time you find is the Chinese who are coming to do the thing thank you which means that I have to ask you this question we have a lot of Africans living in the diaspora they keep on complaining Chinese West coming to Africa to invest in Africa but they are there do you think it's time for them to get involved on the change that is going on on the continent you were in Germany you stated in Germany you should have stayed in Germany for a while decided to come back and change don't you think you have a message for your fellow brothers and sisters living in the diaspora they should come back and contribute and do their part but also don't just push them to come back when you have not created incentives for them to come back to but the thing is that you came to create I came because my government was there also to help me they created this environment for me conducive environment for me to working but if you don't do that for the young people they will remain where they are but the most this happening thing we went out as slaves been taking slaves to go and build the Americas but today no we are not being taken by the white people as slaves we are instead going ourselves in the canoes whatever those boats rubbish boats I'm very sorry to say that but terrible condition the way now they are living the Mediterranean what is our African what are our African leaders doing about it how do they feel seeing our young people dying on the seas how do they feel yesterday we were taking slaves no because you didn't create conducive environment for our young people to flourish in their living and mass are you trying to say that there is a problem with African leadership I think there is if you don't create proper conducive environment for your young people to flourish in they will run away if you are taking if you are allowing other people to come and plan everything I mean look at the mining who is mining our gold who is mining our platinum who is mining our whatever you find that our people are nowhere there to be seen what do you expect they run away if you had a chance to change one thing in the continent Africa what would that be wow very difficult question I don't know difficult question if even it's not one if you have many things universal health coverage that is what I want to have in this continent where you don't have to pay and am in the leg to get proper health treatment that's what I want is there a problem with our healthcare system there is if you don't have money you don't get the best treatment that's why people those who have money they go to Europe or maybe not to India look at the medical tourism people going to India is because that the Indians revolutionize their health system they are making manufacturing medicine most of the majority they are the biggest makers of vaccines also where are we as Africans here why can we be the same we are the most educated people if you go to America top doctors are Africans especially from West Africa from your country they are there can they come back because we have never created conducive environment for them to work in this has resulted in a brain drain exactly brain drain it is so bad it's very very bad final message to each and every African watching us right now final message no I wish all the Africans very well we must hold hands put our hands together to make a better Africa for our grandchildren we have the wealth we can do it we have the wealth we can do it exactly we have the wealth diamond is here gold is here platinum look at Congo very rich they have almost every metal you can think about we can do it thank you thank you so much for talking to me I really appreciate your time


The only reason the narcissist comes back There's really only one reason why a narcissist will come back And it's because they're going through hard times It's because something has gone wrong Because before they left you they did things that were insulting and unfair Which is how you should know that they were already involved with someone else Because they're only talking to you that way when they don't need you Because they've already got someone else lined up to take your place They're entertaining someone else And this new person is making them feel like they don't need to respect you anymore Because they're already on their way out of there So they begin to act recklessly They become more aggressive And it makes you wonder what caused those feelings and opinions It makes you wonder what is their motivation or reason for doing that Or for holding that position against you But it's because they're entertaining someone else They're talking to someone And it's given them the courage and confidence to disrespect you They feel like they can treat you however they choose to Because they don't need you now so they don't care Which is why the disrespect is always followed by them leaving you Because they've already made plans with this new person So now they feel like they can treat you however they like You will see them moving on And trying to establish something with someone else But they will still come back Even after everything they've said about you They will still be lurking in the shadows As though they're waiting for something They will still be checking in on you And it won't make any sense to you Because they already told you they're done with you So you didn't even expect them to care But narcissists have to create a problem They have to create an issue So that they can justify their reason for leaving you Because they know that they've been doing you wrong behind the scenes But they need to uphold their false image Because they want to look like the good person So they have to make it seem like it was something you did that caused everything Even though you may not have done anything wrong They just thought the grass was greener on the other side They were looking for the next shiny new toy And they thought they had found someone who could replace you So they created a state of fake disturbance, confusion and uncertainty So that they could make the breakup happen more quickly But that's not the cause of it That's not what really went down They were just so involved with this other person And they felt pressured to do something Because this other person wanted them to take action And it had an effect on them It was too much for them to bear So they had to go and cut you off They had to move forward But when they did that it was actually the beginning of their demise Because things always look good in the beginning But that's all that it was Because narcissists are addicted to the beginnings of something And that's all that they're seeking They're not interested in anything that happens after the beginning Which is why when things are about to move past that point They will leave and try to start again with something new Because they can't find fulfillment in anything further than that Which is why this cycle will always repeat itself After they've been with you for a while it will get boring Even though you've done nothing wrong That's actually a part of the problem Because the more practical and useful you are The less attractive you will be to them It will make them bored and restless And they will be wanted to seek something else Because they need something new So then they will try to replace you And in the beginning it may be fun for them But when things start to get serious And it's time for them to invest more of themselves They begin to realize that it's just the same thing happening again The same thing that they just ran away from So they could have just stayed in the same place But they went somewhere else because they thought they were going to get a better deal But they didn't So once the newness wears off and the fun is over They start to think about you again And that is why they're monitoring your activities That is why they're keeping you under observation Because they know what they did to you They know they did you wrong But when they come back they can say that they were always checking on you They were always thinking about you But they weren't thinking about you when they were involved with someone else They only came back because something went wrong If everything is going well for them and they've got what they need They will never come back to you They will only come back if they need something from you Or if they can use you for something Thank you for watching If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up Share your thoughts in the comment section Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications If you would like to support the channel You can 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Good afternoon. I am Celeste Watkins Hayes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Racial Justice. Housed at the Ford School, the Center for Racial Justice is a cross-disciplinary space that aims to foster deep relationships between research and advocacy to uncover the voices of the unjustly silenced, challenge us to live up to our democratic ideals, and offer sound policy prescriptions for a more equitable and just society. It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you to the Ford School's annual event in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring today U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves. Mr. Graves' efforts as a champion for inclusive economic development are especially fitting with our goals here at the Center for Racial Justice to harness public policy as a tool of racial equity and to spotlight the voices of the changemakers who are doing this critical work. Deputy Secretary has decades of experience in the private sector, government, and nonprofits, through which he has been dedicated to ensuring that economic opportunity is inclusive and broad-based. He has a demonstrated history as a champion for community development, including leadership in the federal government's efforts and the economic recovery of the city of Detroit under President Obama. Don Graves also has a rich family history connected to the Commerce Department. His four-times great-grandparents built a successful horse-and-buggy taxi business in Washington that once stood at the site of the department's headquarters. And their son went on to own a premier hotel just blocks away and become one of our nation's first Black patent holders. We'll hear more about that later. Today's event reflects the theme for the University of Michigan's 2022 MLK Jr. symposium. This is America, which explores the many images of America as defined and interpreted through history, popular culture, and present-day events, juxtaposing an idealized version, vision of America, with some of the harsh realities using the teachings and observations of Dr. King as a lens. In doing so, this is America challenges all of us to do our part to transform this country into a community that we want to be, want it to be, and purport it to be. This conversation will be moderated by my colleague, Michael Barr, Dean of the Ford School, and faculty director of one of the event's co-sponsors, the U of M Center for Finance, Law, and Policy. We encourage you to ask questions in the YouTube chat box or tweet your questions to hashtag policy talks. There will be time at the end of the live event for these audience questions, including those received in advance. With that, I ask you to join me in welcoming the 19th Deputy Secretary of Commerce, John Graves, and my colleague and our Dean at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Michael Barr. Thanks so much, Celeste, for that great introduction. Secretary Graves, my friend, it is just wonderful to have you here at the Ford School for Martin Luther King Day. Dean Barr, it is so good to be with you on this day of celebration, reflection, and service, and to have this conversation about equity and inclusion, which was at the core of everything that Dr. King fought for his entire life. That's just so true. I was thinking this morning that you and I started working together about a quarter of a century ago. You started out your professional career as a community organizer when we first met, and I wonder if you could reflect on that. You share that background with President Obama. That's not a bad way of starting out your career to share with Barack Obama, the origin story. How do you think that shaped your subsequent career and the Treasury and the White House and the private sector are now running this vast organization? At the core, what it's helped me to do is better understand people and communities. If you don't have that knowledge, that touch point, if you can't see how people are living, the challenges that they face every day, the opportunities that we have in those communities, how are you going to develop a good and effective public policy? How can you ensure that your nonprofit organization is actually serving the needs of the community? How can you make sure that your business is tailored to the needs of your consumers, that it's a responsive public corporate citizen? For me, it's allowed me to better understand the point I'm driving at, the ways that we can be better stewards of the American tax dollar and effectuate good public policy. It must be hard. How do you integrate the voices of communities, of community activists into the work you do at the Commerce Department? The number two official at this vast organization, you're sitting in Washington, it's very easy to get removed from that. How do you think about bringing those voices into the work that you do now? That's a really great question. One of the things that a lot of people, they think about the Commerce Department and if they don't know all the 13 different bureaus that we have here, they may think, oh, it's the Department of Business or the Department of the Industry. They focus on CEOs and frankly, nothing could be further from the truth in a lot of ways. Yes, we work with businesses, we work with corporations to make sure that the economy is growing and works for all Americans, but we're really the Department of People and Communities. We have the largest number of scientists who are close to it in the entire federal government. We have the best data in the federal government with the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we have National Institutes of Standards and Technologies, the Patent and Trademark Office, so many different parts of government that are focused on data and the impact on communities actually resides at the Department of Commerce. So when the Secretary and I think about our work, it has to be rooted in people, in communities, the effect that policies not just from commerce but across government have on those communities and the only way that I know to really have that work that we're doing rooted in communities is to have that connection with communities and making sure that not only are we talking with communities and talking with those who help bring voice to the voiceless, as Dr. King would have said, which includes nonprofits and advocacy organizations, but it's also making sure that the people who populate this department represent the broad diversity of our country. It's something that the President has spent a lot of time focusing on. And in fact, the very first set of executive orders he signed were to drive diversity and inclusion and broad-based equity. And the way that we do that is to make sure that people who sit in these positions, like mine and others across the department and across government, actually, as I said, reflect that diversity. But as importantly, also have the lived experiences of the folks we represent across this country. It's one thing to sort of get it from an academic perspective, as you know, but it's a whole different matter to actually spend time in a community understanding what people are going through, having relatives who are dealing with challenges. So part of the thing that we're doing, and I know you've done this throughout your career, Dean Barr, is to make sure that we are very connected with people, with communities, and that the perspectives that they had are reflected in the work that we're doing. That's really wonderful to see, you know, again, somebody at the very top of the Commerce Department with that set of values and mission being so clearly articulated. And I know it makes a big difference to the work the Department is doing. You mentioned Dr. King's approach of giving voice to the voiceless, and we have a lovely couple, Hal and Carol Cohn, who have just provided support to the Ford School to do precisely that through a new collaborator for social policy and with that same ethos in mind. I wonder, Don, whether, if you don't mind, if you would talk a little bit about your family, the title of our activities today at the University for MLK Day is This is America, and that's a phrase that is meant to explore all the contradictions inherent in the American story, the tug and pull of values both upheld and dashed. And in many ways, your own personal family history going back now generations embodies that theme, you know, as Celeste Watkins Hayes said, former enslaved men and women who became owners of their own business on the site where the Commerce Department is now, your family's relationship with Frederick Douglass. You and I were looking at his home on the Chesapeake Bay last summer. What does that journey of your family mean for you today? So maybe take some time really to tell the story to our audience because I think it's a powerful story about the complexity of the American experience. I think you're right. The American story is very complex and I know it's easy for media and for the story books to try and portray things in one direction or another. But I use my family story as a touch point for the work that I do. It's sort of poignant for me every single day for me to come into the building and walk on the very land that my ancestors owned and operated a business on which they lived and toiled and shed blood and tears. My four times great grandparents were able, fortunate enough, to be freed slaves who ran that business, started a business and were able to be successful with the business. And then their son, his name was James Wormley, was able to start his own business, building off of the business of his own parents. Just like so many in the American story that we've seen over the course of history, you pass on the opportunity, you pass on a business or some skills. And so he took that business and turned it into a set of essentially small bed and breakfast, if you will, boarding houses. Eventually, building up enough of a business that he was able to own and operate a hotel in the mid to late 1800s. And the story books don't usually tell you about these African Americans who in those days were actually quite successful and I think would be considered millionaires today based on what they were worth back then. He built that hotel and he served the generals of the day in the Civil War, the senators and members of Congress and presidents. And it's not lost on me that the very agreement that ended reconstruction in the south and ushered in decades of Jim Crow and the escalation of violence against African Americans and other minorities, the systemic intimidation and eventual disenfranchisement of Black voters, that agreement was actually crafted in the hotel in the parlor owned and operated by my three times great grandfather and it's actually called the Wormley Compromise or the Wormley Agreement. He was a man who was a confident and caretaker to all of these leaders in the country and by at least some accounts of the day, he was actually cradling Lincoln's head when he took his last breath. So for me it's a touch point that there's huge possibility in this country that there's a chance it may be smaller than it should be but there's a chance that you can do amazing things. The problem is that for too long that chance has been too small, that the opportunity hasn't really been available for most Americans, certainly not for for most African Americans and other people of color. So for me the thing that I'm focused on is making sure that we open that aperture, that we're creating greater opportunity, that we're putting people in a position where they have the chance to take the ideas, the dreams that they have and then if we can give them just that little bit of opportunity, that possibility, they can turn those dreams into a reality and lives of dignity because that's what everyone in this country really wants is the opportunity to live a life of dignity. We just have to make sure that it's more broadly based and that the systemic challenges like racism that we're ushering those out the door creating more opportunity for the folks that have not had opportunity in the past. You now, Secretary Graves, have this opportunity that's vast at the Commerce Department to try and write a new story, write a new American story of economic opportunity. What are some of the strategies or policies you've been pursuing to try and make that happen? Well, I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about what the president has done in part and we're working obviously closely all across the administration to implement some of this work, but the American Rescue Plan when we were still dealing with the pandemic, making sure that people had the resources and support that they needed to get by when they couldn't work, when our economy was really gasping at the time. So implementing the American Rescue Plan, but now just last month we were able to pass the bipartisan infrastructure law and that's going to make long-term systemic changes to our communities. A lot of people hear about roads and bridges and things like that, but what people may not realize it's things like the biggest single investment in public transit. We know that for people of color and especially in low-income communities across the country, that public transit is a huge challenge for folks that are just trying to get to work or get to their doctor appointment or get to school. Biggest investment in clean water, making sure that and I know folks in Michigan are very aware of this issue, making sure that we're replacing our pipes and our systems so that people can have this basic fundamental right of clean water. We at the Commerce Department are actually in the process of deploying more than 40 billion dollars to make sure that we're able to do what the president has said all along of getting every household in America, every family access to quality high-speed broadband in an affordable way. And I stress the affordable way because for so many folks who live in underserved communities, so many folks who are struggling for resources, the ability to pay for broadband even if it's available in their community is too big a challenge. So we want to make sure that we're delivering broadband that last mile in communities across the country, especially rural areas, so we can get the broadband to your home, but also making sure that it's affordable and that people have that chance to access it with quality equipment. But it goes well beyond that. As I was saying, the Commerce Department is a data heavy organization and we've been really focused on making sure that we're using our data most effectively so that we can make better policy decisions across government and work with the state and local government, work with philanthropies so that the dollars and the investments are actually being used most effectively at community. So some of the things that we're doing are the Census Bureau has its open innovation lab to try and find ways to be more creative around the ways that we use our existing data sets or look at new data, our data for everyone's summits where we're finding ways to democratize data, the opportunity project, the good job challenge effort, our job quality initiative. So there's a range of things that we're doing, all getting at the issue of reducing inequities across our system.  I've looked at these issues a lot. I go back to the Kellogg Foundation study that they did that showed if we were able to eliminate the challenges of systemic racism across our country and across our economy, we could increase our GDP by $8 trillion. If you take an economy that's, I don't know, $22, $23 trillion, I think was the last number I saw, that takes us to more than $30 trillion economy. So that would actually have a huge impact, not just on those communities that have been so disenfranchised and so disconnected from the economy, but would have a broad based economic impact that every American would feel. The other part of this, and then I'll hush up and turn it back to you, the other part of this is rebalancing our economy. And we've seen this directly in the pandemic in ways that I think most Americans did not realize. We need to rebalance our economy where we can value labor a bit better, where our folks like our frontline workers, our caregivers, our teachers, those working in grocery stores, those driving our goods and products to market and to our ports, that we're valuing those jobs in ways that we haven't in the past. And I think that if we're creating better quality jobs, higher quality jobs, we're going to get to a place where the economy is going to work more effectively, where we won't have the types of supply chain challenges that we're having right now. And I think that our economy will grow significantly. That's just a wonderful array of activities that you're undertaking. Just again, it expresses the vastness of what commerce can do. I know in particular that Secretary Graves, you've spent a lot of time in your career focused on supporting minority-owned businesses that have been shut out of the economy. And obviously the pandemic exacerbated those disparities even more. What kinds of strategies have you guys been pursuing to try and address the needs of minority-owned businesses? There's a lot of things that we've been doing and that we're going to continue to do. I know that the SBA is trying to make sure that they are more effective at providing capital to minority businesses. We saw the challenges at the beginning of the pandemic in getting access to those funds, particularly the programs that the SBA was implementing in the previous administration, that those programs were not as effective as they could have been. So SBA in particular is looking at capital constraints, making more dollars available in ways that are more equitable. Also, Michael, as you know well, we had this wonderful program at the Treasury Department called the State Small Business Credit Initiative, which was I think more effective at getting to minority communities, getting to businesses owned by minorities and women, more so than maybe other federal programs. And we have the opportunity now to sort of supercharge that program thanks to funding from the American Rescue Plan. So Treasury is working on that. One of the things that came with the bipartisan infrastructure law that the President had touted and we got passed last month was making an agency that's part of the Commerce Department, the Minority Business Development Agency, giving it statutory authority. It had been created out of an executive order and was continued every year as a result of that. But now it has statutory authority, it has the weight of law and it gives us the ability to work with every federal government, really the congressional imprimatur, to push those agencies to do more around contracting, around procurement, not just from the federal lands, but also when we put out dollars investing in communities, making sure that those dollars are effectively going to communities and to businesses all across the country, not just those that have traditionally been successful at getting those contracts. So it's a range of work that we're doing, but there's a whole lot more that we can do. Thanks very much. I want to switch gears and ask just a fun question. You and I shared a boyhood love of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA that many people probably haven't heard of, but I love. Could you talk a little bit about what it's like now to be overseeing that agency and the work it's doing? It is, that's a fun question. Yeah, you and I both have geeked out about NOAA for a long time. What I don't think everyone fully appreciates with NOAA, if they've even heard about it, is the full range, the vastness of this wonderful bureau here at the department. NOAA in addition to looking at our oceans and our atmosphere, it has the best, the highest quality data on climate and climate impact in the entire federal government. The research that they do, the men and women of NOAA is replete with things that I don't think anyone would know is available to the American public. One particular part of NOAA that really everyone deals with on a daily basis, and I bet they didn't know it was part of NOAA, is the National Weather Service. So in addition to providing your local meteorologist at your local news channel with the data that helps drive your local forecast, it's helping businesses make better decisions on weather, how to make better decisions on investments around climate. It's our NOAA core, which is the commissioned officers that fly our hurricane hunters into the eyes of storms. People are ships that do research all across the globe to make sure that we have a better understanding of our oceans and our climate. One of the things that we've been really focused on with NOAA is making sure that we are looking at these issues and the data with an equity lens. Making sure that as we think about environmental justice that we are providing the type of data and then solutions to deal with climate change, from an environmental justice lens, that we're looking at finance ready planning, that we're looking at the impact that our investments have with that type of a lens. We've had a number of grants that are very focused on this issue. I think that NOAA has put out just this past fall $16 million to historically black colleges and universities on education in that area, but we're also holding roundtables across the country to look at, to talk with our community partners and to look at these issues. I could go on and on, but as you said, NOAA, you and I have a deep love for NOAA and at some point I'm hoping and maybe you can come with me to get to our research station in Antarctica for one. There's research stations all across the globe, but that one would I think be a particularly fun one to visit. That sounds pretty amazing. Secretary Graves, we're starting to get a lot of questions in from the audience, so I'm going to switch gears and begin to ask you audience questions. One of them is from your old friend, Bill Bynum, who is on the line listening and Bill is, for those who don't know, is the CEO of Hope Credit Union and affiliated organizations and Bill is currently teaching at the Ford School as a Towsley policymaker and residence and is just a wonderful colleague. So Bill has a question, can you speak to the role of CDFIs in collaboration with your efforts at commerce in advancing economic justice? Well, Bill, I'm glad to hear that you're on. Bill Bynum is a national treasure and thank you for the question. As Bill knows and Dean Barr knows, I've spent a good portion of my life working on working with CDFIs, Community Development Financial Institutions, and they are absolutely critical to our ability to ensure that economic development, community development is inclusive, that we're focused on finding pathways to deliver credit and capital to communities that are often left behind. And it's something that we at commerce are also very focused on. In fact, one part of our department that I have not yet touched on, which is just as important as anything, is the Economic Development Administration. And EDA, it works with state and local economic development organizations and puts out just a ton of grants to support economic development. One of the things that we had coming out of the American Rescue Plan, $3 billion worth of grants focused on local communities. And part of our focus is a $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge where we're asking regions to apply for this funding to transform their local economies. And equity has to be at the core of it. And we've asked these organizations to make sure that they include CDFIs, because we know that CDFIs deliver for communities in ways that, frankly, other financial institutions aren't able in those hardest hit and lead serve communities. So we spend a lot of time thinking about CDFIs and partnering with CDFIs. And Bill, you know where I am on this. We're going to find new ways to partner with CDFIs across the country. I next have a student question. Secretary Graves, how do international trade and international relations factor into discussions of rebuilding an equitable economy? Really great question. And the thing about the Commerce Department is I think I dare say we are the only department in the federal government that touches everything. So you've heard about our work domestically and on economic issues domestically. We're also a department that focuses on international issues, foreign policy and national security, particularly our Bureau of Industry and Security and the International Trade Administration. So that question is particularly important as we've seen what's happened over the last few years, the challenges around our supply chain, the retrenchment that we saw over the previous four years. We're rebuilding our relationships because we know that it creates great opportunity for our businesses. That when we're engaged bilaterally and multilaterally across the globe, it means that our people have the opportunity to innovate, to drive economic growth and that it's again broadly based. So we're actually, you may have heard that President Biden is very focused on his Build Back Better World effort that is building on top of our Build Back Better strategy here in the United States. And that's an effort to work with our partners, the G7 in particular, to drive investment in the developing world, in low and middle income countries all across the globe. It's finding ways that we can help them invest in their infrastructure, build their economies in partnership with us. Creating linkages, the International Trade Administration is doing this on a daily basis, linkages between our businesses, particularly our small and mid-sized enterprises, with businesses in those countries. And that the ITA on a daily basis does this work, not just abroad, but we have our centers here in the United States that create those direct linkages, our US Export Assistance Centers, the work that we're doing with SelectUSA to bring in foreign direct investment in the US. So we can rebuild our relationships around the globe, strengthen our relationships, lead with our values and principles, and do it in a way that actually makes our economy stronger for the long run. We've got another question from the audience. Combating systemic racism will require significant collaboration with the private sector, while there are obviously win-win scenarios that reduce systemic racism, there may be other ones that require tough trade-offs. How do you discuss these topics with the private sector? Well, this is the good thing. We have conversations with the private sector every day. And I'm empowered by the President, as is the Secretary, to be very frank and open with companies. There are a lot of things that we can do together, and we are going to, as I said to the previous question, we're going to lead with our values and our principles. And we think that in the long run, the ability to remove those barriers and eliminate systemic racism will work out for the companies just as much as it does for our workforce. We also want to highlight those companies that are doing a good job. In fact, we're working with the Malcolm Baldrige team that does the Baldrige awards, that focus on the best practices around innovation, corporate practices, to highlight those companies that are driving diversity and equity internally and with the work that they're doing. Of course, there are times where some companies are perhaps not doing the things that they should do and are operating illegally or otherwise. And of course, we leave it to the regulators and to our partners at the Department of Justice to do the things that they need to do. But we're really going to make sure that we promote the values of diversity, equity and inclusion. It's something that it's pushing on a very open door so far. Folks want to do the things that they can do internally. We've been working with the SEC, we've been working with the FTC about ways that we, again, lift up best practices, that we identify standards that the private sector can use to measure and evaluate what they're doing in terms of inclusion and their internal hiring practices, etc., and investments in smaller businesses and minority businesses. All these sorts of efforts, I think, are making a difference. But there's going to be a lot more work that needs to be done on that front. Secretary Graves, you have another friend who's listening in. Kerry Duggan writes, what lessons from your work under President Obama in Detroit inform your approach in your current role? Well, that's a great question. Thanks for listening or watching, Kerry. Another great graduate of the University of Michigan, Go Blue. The work that we did in Detroit, at least from the federal side, was groundbreaking. It was the culmination of what the Obama administration had been doing in smaller ways up until we got to Detroit. But you'll recall that a lot of folks there, I'm sure, will recall, Detroit was going through the types of challenges that no American city had really seen before. There were a few other instances of bankruptcy, but for decades, it wasn't just the Great Recession, but for decades, Detroit had been having real challenges, losing 250,000 people over the course of a decade. The blighted homes, tens of thousands of blighted homes, I think, was 60 plus thousand blighted homes. The streetlights, somewhere around 80,000 streetlights were inoperative. Those were our massive challenges for a city that had also lost a lot of its expertise. And what we were able to do in close partnership with the mayor, who's a dear friend, Mayor Duggan, and with leaders all across the city was, first off, to listen. We learned that it was important not to come in with our prescription, but to understand what people wanted, what the community was saying, so that we could address those challenges and find new solutions, but then to have a whole of government approach. And this is something that the President asked, then President Obama asked, then Vice President Biden to lead these efforts. It was a whole of government approach, bringing all the different departments together to work collaboratively. And that's essentially what we're trying to do now. The President has done this with our infrastructure law, but in a range of different ways, we're taking a much more collaborative approach, because the American people don't think about necessarily the Census Bureau or the Minority Business Development Agency or the Federal Highway Administration. They say, the federal government, what can you do for me? So we have to meet people where they are and deliver results to them with our expertise across all of government. Thanks very much. I know we're almost out of time. You've got a crazy busy schedule today. I thought I might ask one last question really on behalf of our students, which is when you're thinking about where our students are when they're coming out of school, the perspective they might have, how can they navigate their own path towards advancing the public good? Well, I will try and give a brief answer, because this is something that's personal to me, because it's sort of driven my career. First off, I go back to that point of being connected to people and communities. You always have to, if you're doing a job in public service, public policy, you have to make sure that you're connected to people and communities you're purporting to serve. So that's at the core of this. The other thing is to remember that your career is going to take a lot of twists and turns. If you had told me even 15 years ago that 10 years ago that I would be sitting here as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, I would tell you that you were smoking something. But you just never know which direction your life is going to go. And the key is making sure you hold on to your hopes and dreams and your principles. Don't ever give up your principles. Even if you take a job that you think will not be directly affecting the things that you care the most about, remember that there are other ways to stay connected. You could serve on the board of an organization. You could volunteer in an area that really drives you. But you're going to find over the course of your career that opportunities will present themselves that you would never have imagined popping up that will take you back to where you want it to be that's sort of at the center of who you are. And then something that a former boss of mine once said that has really driven me throughout my career. You have to have, and I should say this, it's a direct connection to the Commerce Department. My boss and I were friends with former Secretary Ron Brown who unfortunately perished when his plane crashed in Europe almost 30 years ago now.  So it was sort of personal. And he was actually giving a speech to examiners at the Office of the Comptroller of the currency that day when we got the news. And he changed his entire speech around. And he said to the examiners, he said, you have to have a sense of urgency about that which you were called to do. Because life in times are tenuous. And it hit home. But over the course of my career, I didn't realize just how important that particular comment was. We never know how much time we're going to have on this earth. And so if you feel something, if you feel called to doing this work, make sure that you're finding ways to do it. Again, you don't have to have that as the core of whatever job you're doing. But make sure that you're finding other ways to do it. You're staying connected to those things that are most important to you, that drive who you are, that make up your core values. Because you just never know if you're going to have, from one day to another, if you're going to have the chance to make any meaningful impact in that arena. So for me, if there's one takeaway, it's go get it. Keep your values, your principles at the core of who you are and remember that urgency. Thanks so much, Secretary Graves. Just a delightful conversation, a great way to end with personal and I think compelling advice. Thanks to all of us, all of you who are listening today to celebrate Martin Luther King Day with us here at the University of Michigan at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. And for everyone from the University of Michigan, go blue. Take care, Secretary Graves. Thanks so much for being here today. Thank you, Dean Barr. Good to be here.


The actual size of the park is 315 acres, and by comparison that's almost exactly the same as Breckinridge. It's one park, one concept. However, physically, Worsbawg Parkway now splits the park. Actually, the parkway had been started for years before it became a park here. But I think it was the juxtaposition of time was that just happened. I don't think there's any fault to be found here. But we certainly need to cure it. The park has a master plan. It's won all sorts of awards nationally already. And it was designed by a team of architects from Harvard. And the concept was to join the two parts with a land bridge. And that's the master plan. Now, land bridge is something that looks like a natural feature when you start. But underneath it is an underpinning of steel gurres.  It's wide enough so that the animals will go back and forth across it. It will be something that there's nothing like it in the state of Texas. In fact, the closest one might be, there's one in New Jersey, there's one in Banff, Canada, and several in Europe. The technology is there. It would be an icon for San Antonio, just along with the Alamo and some other sites that everybody wants to see. That land bridge is about a $20 million project. So it is the most expensive. You probably need about $35 million to finish this park altogether to make it 100%. But the development of the park is only about 60% done. More trails, we have cleared out all of the invasive species. And so you'll see the grasses and the flowers that were here at the time of the Alamo. It's a good natural history lesson. You'll actually see the way this place looked about 1840. We also are building an old Texas house and we are bringing that back. That's a $250,000, $300,000 project. So we have this historical component of this park. Now we also have an entertainment portion. First-class children's playground on both sides. So you have two playgrounds. The surface of those playgrounds are kind of a spongy rubber so if the kids fall they're unlikely to hurt themselves. And then we have dog parks on both sides. And that's very, very popular. In fact, it might be the most popular. And then in between you have a lot of hiking trails and a lot of educational things. This is a real education center, so people can learn a lot here. And then we also practice good conservation methodology. Yeah, it is part of the education component and this stuff goes on every single day out here. They're not old kids. We have one on all the animals. We have one on the trees and the flowers and so forth. So it's a really, it's a great educational effort for the people of San Antonio. So lots of things here to learn. But if you just want to get out and have a good time, it's also a great place. You can come here and have a picnic. You can come here and play basketball. We have outdoor basketball courts. It's far the whole city. It's not for any particular area. Because in an urban environment we kind of, we learned to kind of shield a lot of that out. And in doing that, we lose so much of the enjoyment of life.


At Ellis Brigham we take ski testing really seriously and this involves two different ski tests. The first one is done early in the season. Everything's put through its paces and compared we make the decisions what we're going to stock. Later on in the season we bring staff out to Austria. Here the staff test all the skis that we've decided to go in the range. This means we can make sure we've made all the correct decisions but it also means that when you come into any of our stores the staff there can give you personal advice. They know exactly how the ski skis because they've been on them. Okay so with super shaped magnum it's 72mm under foot. It's got a 13.1 meter radius so that makes it pretty lively. It lends itself to be in a p-ski more than anything so there's a little bit of rocker on it which we indicate here. So that little bit of rocker gives you your easier turn initiation. So obviously as a brand we're now using a lot of graphene in our skis and our skis so that reduces weight but also increases power. So in the magnum we put the graphene under foot and that acts a bit like an internal plate so it beefs the ski up under foot giving you a better edge grip and then in the tail of the ski we've got our curse technology which gives you a boost coming out of the turt. It's a ski that's been around for ages so we're used to getting good comments about it. General references they make up to its stability and solid edge grip but still quite easy to access the power that's in that ski. So I've just done a run on the head super shaped magnum. It's a bit of a timeless ski this one but every time I get on it I forget just how good it is. I started off at the top doing some shorter turns not skiing too fast it's nice it's lively it's pretty quick and then a little bit more speed into the ski and you can feel the power skiing it on the flatter bit nice and stable I didn't feel any trouble getting onto the steeper bit then I can really let the ski go a bit more. Short turns medium turns it's got quite a short radius but it's still happy in a longer turn you can do that the snow's choppy out there it's not great but I still felt like I wasn't getting smashed around it's got enough power that it'll get through the harder snow. Yeah big smiles when you ski this ski and I think maybe people underrate it a little bit because it's been around so long but there's a good reason it's been around so long you ski it you love it that's exactly how I felt when I was on it I forgot how good it was


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com here with 2016-2017 Panini Immaculate Basketball. FOTL first off the line. Really nice stuff. We've got some exclusives here. This is the first, first off the line that Panini ever did. So pretty great stuff, obviously you can chase legends and whatnot. Big thanks to everybody here for getting into the action. Whether you bought spots straight up or whether you won spots in those mosaic filler breaks, we appreciate it. Thanks for getting in. And there's the teams right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Two and a three. Five times for names and teams, one, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. After five we've got Michael down to Gary. Two and a three. Five times for the teams, one, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. Five, we've got the Orlando Magic down to the Washington Wizards. All right, so Michael with the Magic, Chris with the Nuggets, Daniel with the Pelicans, Jeremy 33 with Portland, Ryan with the Cavs, Takumi with the Timberwolves, Joe with the Kings, Takumi you've got my Lakers, Ryan with the Mavs, and Atlanta Hawks going to Jeremy 33.  So let's get all this on one screen. Dave's got the Grizzlies up for trade if anybody's interested. Remember this is the 2016 draft class. Let's flip screens for a second. I'll be back to that just a bit, but we marked these boxes one through five. We did box two the other night, and now we're going to roll the die, and we're going to see which box we're going to do one, three, four, or five. If I roll a two or a six, I'll just roll again. And then once we finish off a box, then I think we'll just go one, two, three, four, five, six on the dice roll if that makes sense. And it's five. So we're going to do the bottom box right here. These we'll save for next time. So next time we'll go one, two, three, four, five, six on the dice roll. All right, any trades? Trade window going once. Trade window going twice. Trade window closed. Let's see what we got. So there it is. There's the first off the line sticker right there. Here's the final printout right here. Hot off the presses. Good luck. Now the card on the bottom right here should be out of five. There's also a redemption in here. Unfortunately, this is old enough where, man, this is part of the risk of doing older product, of course, as you know, redemption. So they're expired, but Panini is actually pretty good about doing something for you redemption-wise. So always, always check in with them. They'll be able to work something out for you, especially for a higher end set like this. All right, we'll use that blank card to hide the hits. Here's Marc Assault, one out of 25 for the gris. That'll be for Dave. We've got a triple relic, Trevor Orisa, 31 out of 99, two-color triple for the Rockets that'll go to Takumi. The redemption is going to be historical significance, Del Curry. I actually don't know where does the checklist assign Del Curry? I don't remember where Steph's dad played. Looks like all Del Currys on the checklist. Harold insignia? No, historical significance. Historical significance, card 11, Charlotte Hornets. So that'll be for Michael Sclafani, yeah, Charlotte, and a free top loader, why not, bam. Next up is Terry Cummings, 78 out of 99 bucks. That'll be for Jeff, a couple more to go than the out of five, Nice Brandon Ingram, Scripps Autograph, 39 out of 99. That'll be for Takumi and the Lakers. Here we are, one more, it's Michael Beasley for the Heat, 32 out of 99, Miami, Brian. And the out of five is going to be another Laker, Jordan Clarkson. So Takumi with the Brandon Ingram Autograph. And now you've got the Jordan Clarkson five out of five. There you go, Ann. All aboard, the Big Head Express, whoo-hoo. Thanks everyone for getting in. That was 1617, Panini Immaculate Basketball. First off the line, we've got a few more boxes, so keep your eye out for more of these breaks in the store and we'll do some more and hunt for some more monsters. I'm Joe for jazzyscasebrakes.com. I'll see you next time for the next one, bye-bye.


The study applies a process-based biogeochemistry model to evaluate how inter-annual changes in wetland inundation extent might have influenced carbon dynamics in the region between 1993 and 2004. The results show that consideration of inter-annual variations in wetland inundation extent resulted in regional estimates of net methane sources of 67.8 tGCH4YR1, which is intermediate to model estimates using two static inundation extent data sets. In contrast, consideration of inter-annual changes in wetland inundation extent resulted in regional estimates of the net CO2sink of minus 1.28 pGCYR1 with a persistent wetland carbon sink from minus 0.38 to minus 0.41 pGCYR1 and an upland sink from minus 0.82 to minus 0.98 pGCYR1. The study also indicates that wetlands play a disproportionately important role in affecting regional greenhouse gas budgets given that they only occupy approximately 10% of the total land area in the region. This article was offered by Qian Lai Zhuang, Su Dong Xiu, Yu Jie He and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.