Everybody got forced and Donnie here. We are ripping and not personals. We're hoping 2023 Beaumont draft baseball jumbo This is eight bucks case number 59. Let me go ahead and read the names and teams And ton H. Padres and Mariners Brett B twins Christopher and pirates Aaron has the Rockies Eric W. Orioles Mets Farhan with the Royals Frank P with the Blue Jays Gary a Astros Holland with the Cubs Jacob F. Guardians Jeffrey H. Rangers and Nationals John H Diamondbacks John S. Red Sox Angels John a Dodgers Joseph C. Rays Josh S. Brewers Justin K. Reds Carter with the White Sox Kevin S. Paper Base spots Lisa with the Giants mark a Braves Matthew M. Phillies Michael B. Cardinals Mitch D. Yankees Marlins Patrick G. A's and Sean C with the Tigers. Good luck everybody Yeah, Passon is awesome. He's the one guy. He's like one of the guys that ESPN that like is on point He's got good takes. He's gets the scoops. Was he um, he's the best dude Was he the guy that like almost predicted like the first round of the draft almost like a hundred percent? He's a more of a baseball guy. Oh, but um, who was the guy that had the tree fall on him? He literally had a tree fall on him. Um, he was out for like two weeks Or like a few months and then it showed how bad everybody else was at the baseball reporting and like the scoops because it was like All these weird misleading reports and like incorrect reports are like dang, dude, where's Passon? We need to share it back in town. I used to remember. I don't know who was the name that Devon put in chat But there's a guy during the draft NFL draft. He like almost had the whole first round like 100% accurate think he missed like one or two players. I was like, wow Which is it which is basically a hundred percent if you miss one or two You can't account for people being insane and taking like like he he Projected the Texans moving up to take Anderson third and strata second That I was like interest. That's crazy. That's interesting All right, here we go y'all. I don't know how many people would have predicted predicted that I Probably a solid amount, but then getting most of the rest of the first round right as well as on top of that is just right From Tatum Butler Edwards and so that's cool. I'm in I'm in on that right so paper bases its own spots fractures of Honeyman and Alex Ramirez Dude, that's things to come. Sorry, man We actually are supposed to get some pretty nasty weather yesterday and yeah, it did not happen At least in like our area I think it was farther west and like Ocala area that hit pretty hard because there I was seeing like photos and stuff of just like The gas station had like the roof like peeled up and stuff. Wow. Yeah, so we avoided it Dylan Campbell Dodgers first bowman autograph First hit Dodgers Refractors of you Andrew Vargas and noble Meyer Thank you. How was like really cold? It's probably the worst part, right? 11 oh about a foot of wet snow Dude the Midwest yikes. Yep. Get out of there light blue Waldrop for the brain Rainer Arias Chase Davis Let's stick with Purple first moment is cunning him the 250 Orioles just gonna do an auto recap this time guys were to go out That one Refractor okay, so you got power now that it's coming coming around coming arounds white blue paper to 499 Eldridge Giants Glass of Colt Emerson Zavala and Forester Refractors Yes, I didn't Goldwave coming up should be a nice auto here. Come on. Let's see it.  He's got some decent upside the caro redfield Plus it's gold. It's gold first. Good. That's good to get Who doesn't like gold? Refractors of K Denton that has a Dent in the Denton. Yeah, well not hot, but I'm not I'm not gonna send a box chopper. That is just a base refractor non-numbered I Don't want to laugh at the amateur dentin and dentin. Yeah, it was it was slightly I think it's poor I'm sorry Rockies. I'm sorry. I think that's poor taste that It's just How do you not say fuchsia lunar crater to 199 Hackenburg Braves? Not for actor Crowell and key for Lord Yes, he's never had that happen and I Green paper out of 99 you got Kendall George Dodgers Yeah, I'm good without it happening either bowmeester purple first-moment autograph for the Orioles Jackson bowmeester Jonah Cox, Ryan Clifford huge hits in the first box here Couple number dollars is all right. So give it up a bit Lunar glow Nolan McLean Mets fractures of Levinson and Jason Shorio You're gonna follow the Guardians this year. I am gonna try I'll try to keep you up to date. Okay mood ring for the Orioles. That's gonna be Enrique Bradfield on the short print Just ask Jake that refractor Grant Taylor. I pull Jake how is my favorite baseball team the Guardian is doing and he'll know much more about Yeah, so of course that guy he's like Jose Ramirez and And There's an orange first-moment Shrey Morgan 18 of 25. That's trade the ray Sweet Shrey Refractors of Campbell and Luis in alicunia Box two, let's see how we're doing on the next case. We still gotta get that one filled up again teams all heavily discounted Let me know do that. Sorry and to hit f5 refresh a lot of teams a lot of teams a lot of teams 20 20 to go So I'll be behind after this first case. Let's go ahead and get the next one filled up So we just keep on ripping Keep us busy refractors of Montez and pink knee Give Donnie stuff to do before he goes to his meeting. Yeah, I'm I'm high up now that beatings It's totally true if you have to say it like that blue wave Camp Alderman Marlins first-moment autograph sweet hit fish. They were pretty marked down dude 119 of 150 Refractor of James Wood and Cooper Engel I'm happy Business business business. Yes work work work When you do go to this meeting, I'm gonna use you go turn the AC down Gonna blow Mike bow for the Brewers refractors of Lindsay and AJ Ewing Okay, what would you like it to Or just open the window blue refractor and all in McLean Mets color match numbered 53 of 150 Mets factor Picard and cooler. I Wish we do that. It's pretty nice outside. That would be cool But then we probably have like ridiculous noise always coming through. Yeah, a crow flies in like Guess you need a screen. Oh, yeah, so see what the driving school next door Sean Sullivan we'd be hearing a lot of honks Funny to me Yeah, that and the so there's like a CDL Driving school right next to us. It's literally probably like 20 feet outside of our building So they do some like a driving and so you hear like them using the brakes or learning how to use like the clutch Yeah, first one auto Alex Clemmy for the Guardians. It's very noisy Fracture house Kendall George answer at certain times Fuchsia and aqua Tai Pete to one of nine Mariners paper Like blue of how you lead tigers refractors of Spencer Jones Dylan Campbell that night for some reason There's always like that one car with their speakers way too loud He's driving around that is true They'll go over to that little like warehouse over there because it's still vacant There was some guy doing donuts over there and like You know like peeling out and stuff doing all this other crazy stuff for like I swear to God like half an hour Well, we're doing inventory in New Year's Day Yellow to 75 AJ Ewing for the Mets. He needs new tires Fracture of Mike Bove and Jackson holiday Like I personally haven't done donuts. I don't know what the appeal is, but I guess it looks cool You just go fast and you spin and I don't know. It was just playing with Big motors, I don't know Brayden Taylor glass for Fracture Emerson, Canard Elgato I'm gonna try it at my center later. Yeah I think my car would probably stall out and just like break down before I even was able to do a donut with it And your like comes on Well, no, that's it. That's that's a feature of my center. It's always on. Oh, okay, cool Refractor first moment auto Ralphie Velasquez guardians awesome. Hey my guy to 28 of 499 Okay, he's pretty solid so far a factor Tommy Troy and Tanner Hall of Second Boxing Fractures of Watts Brown and Camden Minacci What do you guys want to talk about? What's the what's the next topic of the day? Uh, I know most people are at work right now I could this game purple refractor and Ricky Bradfield for Baltimore 2 of 250 on the first moment Had field on the action now Hackenberg and hit refractors. Did dream on come back yet? I Think he's I don't know if he's playing he got reinstated though. Can we just never see him on the battle organ? He could sit a retirement that Adam Silver the commissioner convinced him not to Yeah, most people don't like him you Yeah, I don't like him. I don't hate him though. He's got issues, but You know People mad at him, but that's how everybody played in the 90s But then they also say that they missed how the basketball wasn't 90s It was rough and then someone plays like that. I'm like good. I'm out of here. So it's like he shouldn't be doing I don't like I don't I don't like that stuff 90s basketball back. It was cool But it was also like back in the 90s. They were throwing haymakers and kicking people They were like clothesline people in the paint like I didn't watch basketball in the 90s. I don't know Yeah, you like clothesline. You just get hit hard Fractor Humber Busch jr. For the Padres Xavier Isaac. It was more hockey than was basketball. Is that a certain point? Oh, I Don't find that it's fine if you like that. I don't prefer that not that I hate it I think they called too many soft fouls today. I agree with that as we're an officiating thing and in the way that they let like I Don't know things weren't officiating in the player thing first moment Auto K. Denden for the Rockies the Fractor Nivens and Apollo Like second half the Magic Game one out there last night they called like a A few fouls they'll call like three fouls and then like maybe five minutes of each other against the magic So on the magic so like we said like the wolves the line and it was just like it was is bad light blue to 499 Bushier's Padres. I Agree, there's a lot of weak stuff. That's called light blue Horvath Orioles lunar glow Delgado Yankees refractors of Rodin and pirata Like it's a little high-scoring now, but I do like that we get to see like some of the talent shine a little more Than like tackling somebody in the 90s But this is gonna be a little more balanced. I think obviously it'll never be a hundred percent perfect Fuchsia lunar crater to 199 Blake Mitchell or Royals Royals. Yeah, exactly took slam ball no trampolines fractors of Weninger and Boyd. I still do slain ball They tried to bring it back. I don't think it'll ever be a thing again It's cool, but Wyatt Langford Refractor Hunter Holland Jadenham.  I don't know. Do they do this every year? Didn't they just merge with the XFL they didn't do a merge, but yeah, I have no idea. I don't watch it I'm not hating on it. I just don't watch it first woman auto camp alderman for the Marlins To be fair, I actually like the XFL Huna and Meryl. I think it's fun. Like if it the game is on I'm watching it That's cool. I just don't like oh the right. I got to see this off the Columbus, Georgia Cavaliers are playing the What's another team I could make up real quick the Kansas City? Commandos United Football League. I think that's the new US FL refractor a Wyatt Langford Rangers and a Colesco The XFL like actually has talent on their teams of that.  Okay, okay Okay, okay. That's what I thought I heard someone said that speckle Grayson hit Diamondbacks So that's cool. Yeah, I keep Gonzales and I might know Bonilla like if Orlando had a team There's a decent chance. I would go to a game because I don't because it's good.  Oh, yeah, that's why I didn't want to go I was like, oh, they have a team but they were the best team But they were so we watched Sean and I watched a couple games because they would be on like Sunday evenings, dude Yeah, I that I couldn't watch we had we changed. I was like, dude, you got to change it. This is so bad It was really bad. Yeah, they had a respectable team. I would go. Okay. There you go If it was like less than like 40 bucks a ticket Glass of Troy for the D-backs refractor Koshal and do know Yeah, so he's bringing like a face to it get some money involved That's cool. That's cool Orange paper to 25 Mike bow for the Brewers What green auto Alberto Rios angels first bowman number 59 of 99 nice Rios. Yeah, we're not doing the light The light. No, no the light. I'm gonna make lean and cross We try need a box maybe Yeah, I Don't know what the light though. Oh, yeah, so made the lights light blue of Jacob Barry for the Marlins Refractor of a royal of Raddenburg Then they have the who had Josh Gordon as a team that I'd want to watch that's the Sea Dragons See Seattle Sea Dragons, right? Yeah, that was my team Then they had been to duchy Glass diamond Braden Taylor to 150 for the raise That's many diamond that refractor Clark and Trey Morgan They had another Really good receiver to you know if your land of team was actually somewhat decent at all I would try to go to a game are the polar bears good. I wouldn't request the day off to go to a game The solar bears are fun. Are they good though? They're solid They're not like great, but they score goals and they got a decent chance to win pretty much every game they play There are definitely better teams in ECHL, but You also only spend like 18 bucks a ticket, right? I need to get in one of the One of the season ticket holder group my brother used to be in one because he had season tickets when he lived here Yeah, and like It's cool because you have in the groups and people are trying to sell tickets you get them without the fees They just transferred to you refractor Abner and hero Wyatt because it's like you have to be a scene ticket holder Be accepted into the Facebook group You just say hey looking for whatever whatever tickets for this game and people will be like, okay Yeah, you can have these for like face value. No fees. It's like, oh, that's that's huge because you buy a ticket master at 18 bucks the fees are gonna be like 10 bucks a ticket at that point, right? Ticketmaster First one with auto twins Brandon winnaker Winnaker frackers of Jorge and McGraw. So do you by chance know if They inherited like the XFL rules or the USFL rules or like do they combine them? I think they also kind of merged kind of wonder how what was the PAT change again like you had to go So, yeah, there's no kicking you'd have one point a little ever send Mariners 3.10 So I like that a hundred percent get rid of the kicking. Yeah, you get to choose what you want to do. I Like that a lot That would improve the NFL. I think quite a bit Paul Skiens blue refractor first woman Bryce Eldridge out of 150 Giants The less kicking we can we can have in NFL games. I think the better the factor goods. He had as in Jaworski Don't like don't eliminate the field goal necessarily, but like kickoffs dumb Punting is necessary. I actually like the kickoffs Because there's some so ways that they didn't have to get rid of it I think because they want that commercial break like every time like that from commercial Here's the kickoff and we'll be right back But it's like every time Here's like blue to 499 Holland for the red like some of the players are they're really good only get to play special teams Oh, yeah, sir. Can fish after like expertise like Josh Kribbs was electrifying But he only really did kickoff but with the rule changes that they have made to like limit like injuries and stuff And you can't have like the five blockers or whatever. It's it's it doesn't happen anymore But that's what makes it exciting because it's rare first woman auto Jack Mahoney for the Rockies Especially when a full-back Collier CJ capis for the touchdown. I need a who is the Patriots all I'm in Dan Connelly. I think you return He didn't make it to the end zone, but you got like got 20 or more dude Oh my it would have been the best play in NFL history if the Packers would have just like not tackled him Light blue Cole Foster Giants refractors of Gutierrez and Cole Cary There was one coach. I think in the XFL last year like every time they're doing a PAT When Yeah, it's at the 10 right for three. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I do that every time Every single time because even if you get it Like half the time that's true with it, dude true And aqua lunar crater to 125 seven subios for the Braves horse is a big analytics guy Fractur Cole Miller and Adrian Santana big analytics guy I'm just saying like if you have a chance to get three points and it's just ten yards Why don't you just go for it rather than like five yards is the difference between like okay between one and five That's a big difference for yards, but five and ten is not that big of a difference in my in my true But also depends on who you're playing what your personnel is just put Steph career quarterback What about the those high school coaches that are like never punt they don't have a kicker on the roster never punt never kick field goals Yeah, it's always fun. It's just like every eight-year-old on Madden That's everyone now go for like fourth and 20 like I didn't get it dang it. Why this game is rigged We all had a friend we were younger you play Madden against they'd go for like fourth and 26 because they kept Trying to do some reverse and then they got tackled for a loss like eight yards They did some other play they're running like just a bunch of dumb plays like just use rigged for a hail very every time Not good at this game. Yeah What's the all I'll go or whatever the Ford? Yeah, how very not Hail Mary. It's what's the other? What's it called where yeah over where like there's like this they kind of veer off like the seam opens up Yeah, chase Davis refractor of Mercedes and skeins Yeah after all 15 yard lines We all we all had at least one kid in our neighborhood or that you knew refractor first auto Marlins again Jake Delio this time. I'll get that one dusted off. That was me my buddy for 99 You were the one that just like played normal in one factor McDaniel and JC young.  We're calling for three What if we what if you're losing by one point and all you need was two points? Why did you decide to go for three when you only did two three baby three? He's one like a Steph Curry Jersey.  No, it's the XFL you just go for it. It's the XFL, dude Like coach, why do you make that decision at the start of the year? We say we're only going for three is I want stick with that Move over three a rule they should put in place this year is Patriots get number one pick. Yeah, that's a rule They should put in place only Yeah, just like a one-time commissioner override Like you know what bears you had number one last year We're trying to make this fair easy easy for quarterback. That's for sure Opens a space you can do different things you can throw it to like You can even roll like a screen or something theoretically you probably wouldn't but like you could do like a little slant and get it Like there's a lot you could do anyway 17 to go here guys 17 to go on the next draft jumbo case Guys, I was leaving soon. They're out the Josh Gordon every time Donnie's leaving soon guys It's probably for like 10 minutes I'll be back to annoy force Donnie And do minimal work No work yeah for real dude Soplin's peacecake. I want to do minimum work When do I get to do that? Well Can't force I know You can't win your 55. I Don't think so Yeah, do you need your cardio? That's true. Shipe. How we doing Shipe guys all teams are at a very very low price Can you put that on Facebook? Yeah, thank you. This isn't signed in yet Ask Rich later. Yeah, Sam. Sam more than the yesterday Okay, so Anyone gonna go with the What are we what are we betting on this weekend? What are the oh some parlays people are whipping up? I'm gonna try to get a like a $1 parlay. It's gonna pay out like 50k somehow Yeah, I'll give you should have won that and I'm early for the Red Sox I'm trying to think like think all the is there pre is there if there's Premier League on Saturday We can really string some crazy stuff together mood ring of Langford for the Rangers Fractor of Bradfield and Malaya I'm so mad last night at the game. I looked at half time the magic are down by 30 at halftime But anyway, it was like the line was 25 and a half at halftime and I was like, oh, you know what? Like the magic aren't gonna have two really bad halves in a row And I just didn't bet it before the half start like yeah, I just forget about enjoy the game Should have bet it dude. They lost by like 20 or something. I think the second half. I was glad I stayed First moment auto Colt Emerson Mariner sweet hit Seattle Time prospect there Fractures of Floyd and Bessio Unless you want to pay Full price for Papa John's. I don't think anybody wants to do that. I feel like in this area They have raised the prices to account for I probably have lost is they're taking because the magic win a lot of games now It's like $30 for a large pizza a light blue quest that twins lunar glow Emerson Mariners refractor of winnaker and in Los Santos That's only the offset here. I feel like they've done that because I think it's like it's close to 20 bucks for a large pizza now For like a couple toppings. Isn't it something like that? Yeah, it's about 20 That is terrible. You just go to local pizza place at that point and get much better pizza for the same price And you're helping a local business Speckle Camilo Diaz Astros off John's isn't local Fracture peanuts are more Johnson. They're not necessarily a Small small business Donnie if you haven't heard we're not in Ohio anymore, so they must be look they're not no hi They used to be but they're not Not my hometown Find people of Ohio are like this place. Thanks. Cooper angle refractor. Los Romantes Now they open them up In central for like let's go to the land of chain restaurants central Florida land Hey, he's a sparkle Enrique Bradfield jr. First moment autograph 55 of 71 Orioles Someone got them sheep. Congrats. Yeah as a mag Eric W. Congrats, sir Thank you for helping us fill up Sick one there 55 of 71 of the sparkle AJ Ewing and James Wood That's the number Other than just someone I honestly don't know if there's a specific reason why this is 71. It's a bit odd. I don't know That's very it's not a weird numbering. I guess and that's refractor of cooler and Lindsay like usually I'm wondering if it has to do like maybe the year Bowman came out or Something else. I don't know. It's a decent question. I don't maybe there is no reason maybe someone just like 71 Yeah, okay, the spun the wheel of fortune I land on 71 light blue to 499 Jayce young for the Tigers. No, that's letters Blue refractor Anthony Gutierrez the 150, Texas Tass refractors of Sullivan and Picard Beacock sold tolling all the game sausage purple auto for the pirate zander mooth out of 250 It's a decent color in this case zander mooth Fractor of Dylan Campbell and of brady house 14 to go now down to 14 Yeah, Sapphire will be fun. So guys there's some sapphire randoms up for uh with Sam tonight There's also some like jumbo and sapphire mixtures for tomorrow. We got someone from that. It's live tomorrow So we started our sapphire breaks this evening Should be pretty fun The draft sapphire has an auto per box and three parallels on average. So it could be kind of loaded It seems like it seems like it is gonna be I didn't see any ribs yesterday. I was a little busy I haven't obviously can't watch right now. So I know some other breakers ripping something yesterday So I wanted to check it out, but It is an auto per box in draft sapphire Make sure you check out the checklist It's not every single auto from bowman draft is in it like brady's not in it. For instance, it's a shorter list Obviously, it's sapphire But make sure you check it out all those first bowman the base set is all in there the base set is on it But not every auto is in there So it should be fun. So brady base dealer or no, uh, no no brady. They don't have that insert in it. Okay It's like the chrome base set and then got you Okay, I think like A little less than half of the total autos or maybe around there, but it's all the big all the big autos are in there Langford schemes clark purple the 250 ariash giants Fractur of mike bove jackson holiday, and there's a few of like the not so huge names, but still good The auto checklist is crazy I believe I believe that lisa 20 something. Yeah, it's like 25 or 6 or 7 Was going over yesterday, but yeah the mariners in my opinion are the deepest team in sapphire They because all of their big guys are in it was like the rangers have rangers have a bigger chase, but they have one chase Same with like the tigers refractor of winnaker and davis and de los santos Mariners are kind of stacked in it They have pete emerson and um And for mellow Hey guys get your sapphire spots Fusion litter crater mets davis and guttillas out of 199 or fractures of pink knee intermark johnson. Okay Appreciate y'all we're getting closer on this next one here getting closer So i've got to be taken away 14 to go 14 to go Whoever wants to stay can never wants to work to go work Oh What a working day I was thinking about that too. I was like wait they both have a meeting they have a call at 12 All right, the person that's in the front of the shop is top loading for lane Uh the paper is its own thing Yeah Fractor of trosser and wiggins Yeah, we'll go to the 85 degree room Um all set things the top was like right here I think i can handle it. Yeah these stacks are just i'll move them over later go ahead Blue refractor auto saving sabios for the braves You go braves that's number six out of 150 refractors of garaboman and maraudis We're going to every room today apparently All right, guys, we still got work to do on the next one. We've got good one champs later prism football later light blue montario yankees lunar glow holiday orioles fractures of green and vatrano. We should just set up a studio in the manager's office Yeah, right for days like today Virtually top load we need like the the bank thing where it goes through Yeah, right put the cards in that Got max clark. No, because if shan would be sending like Rube notes, though Absolutely It's a transformative talent jaco will send a 250 for the a's We're receiving a parcel your trash Lane is yelling i hear lane yelling Crawford driver heard him say bingo. I think that guy's losing it over there So what are you working on today? Anything you can disclose to the people. Yeah, actually So we're working on a loyalty program For you guys on this side of the site. It's hard to talk about that on fanatic side gold paper to 50 died or supposed to Paula. Yeah, we're going on a loyalty program. So y'all could start getting rewarded for sticking with the lingo sabayos refractor. Yeah revamps a loyalty program Rolling out soon nothing will happen to like your current points or anything. You don't have to do anything basically Yeah, but you do nothing except for you'll have to just sign up whenever it rolls out Yeah, everything transfers over the right. Yeah, everything transfers jaco Wilson first woman auto for the a's Yeah, we'll have to do like an FAQ on that There's gonna be lots of content behind it. We tried to push it out for the check early There's a lot that goes into it Basically like building out whole separate websites That's like attached to ours, but yeah, it works essentially the same But there's like Some different like tweaks to it that like benefit y'all Yeah, it's it's fully a bit of a calling out It adds stuff. It doesn't take anything away from it to add stuff And we're gonna work on a Like a prompt at checkout to where you can hopefully this is still not definite. We're working green grass to 99 marcello Meyer Red Sox But to where you can use like the exact amount of points you need instead of like They have to like hash out like $50 and then they get like Right. Yeah. So if you don't use all of it, it just kind of goes away Exactly. So we're working on a prompt to where you can use the exact amount you need By the way, if that does happen in the meantime, let us know and we can look at the order and see that like it wasn't fully used We can just add more like that's Not an issue glass of bradfield orials refractor maya and ret louder because I think someone used they got break credit for like consignment once And we have like after like 200 it goes like three four five and they Had like 40 bucks that they didn't use they just wanted to have the whole thing So hopefully we'll be able to To not have to worry about that. It should be fun First one with auto rock rigio yankees Yeah, we'll have all the questions answered I think refractor bradfield all the questions that we can think of I'll come up with questions guys I will interrogate the other managers Me really It has been interrogating me light blue soda twins Now who else can I bother about it de los Santos tide floyd your answer is going to be I don't know that's how Yeah, I'm going to drop your I'm going to like link your email and chat so much our skin I mean, that's fine light blue paper to 499 hurley for the dbx sparkle brady smith for the Dodgers Fractors up tomorrow johnson and branna winnaker So then this will go in the chrome basket at the bend and then this will go in the paper Paper is its own purchase spot in this Or just big like the number the number of paper gets sorted in top of it. But yeah 12 to go 12 to go everybody. Oh, we may just kind of break what fills after this Um, it'll be a little behind here, but nothing crazy top scrum black Eight to go every team on sale as well. I'll play for that one. What is the ac at is? It's warm in here pretty pity They open up the window or something nice outside Did you get bad weather last night? We usually can't hear rain the way like our ceiling and roof was set up the last night we could hear it So I assume but I was fast asleep by the way I know you're farther north by a good bit like we didn't get like a ton where I was We got some pretty heavy rain and stuff, but I don't it wasn't anything Dramatic like none of the neighbor's trees were Broke all right or out is the 199 Jays a future lunar crater Hawk and Munoz Seemed like it was west and north of us Like the bad stuff they had some gnarly tornadoes and like Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale, really? Yeah, they had an electric tornado a couple days ago. Oh, what now electric tornado It's whenever like a tornado goes to the power lines and starts light stuff on fire Kendall George on the auto class of 2023 for the Dodgers fractures of donnell and questad Guys make sure to like the stream we do appreciate it Helps us out Subscribe if you're not already subscribe follow on twitch Sign up for sms on the site create an account on the site if you if you join and especially if you Join breaks and you have created account do that lunar glow Campbell Dodgers get rewarded for what you spend Refractor burns and rata. I'm just kind of setting the autos of the sides. It's easier to you can get those done first Don't forget about consignments aqua fuchsia paper to 199 K. Morris Mets consignment tab on the site with info there Fuchsia lunar crater to 199 Emmett Olson for the Marlins Fractures of Clark and Reed Shaw and Celestyn Massive, I mean that's a big cars mag nothing massive massive the Bradfield is nice It's been a it's been a solid case been a decent amount of color at least First moment auto Quinn McDaniel for the Giants Fractures of Anderson and Castro is that a It's front of the shot I guess Dylan's going into the in a jake seat now Hopefully, yeah catches on to that light blue paper to 499 Cooper Engle guardians refractors of Zanatello and Gilbert Someone's watching locally they're coming to the front of the shop now. Oh, yeah Green the 99 Arias Yankees better hurry Fractor Rocco Forte Brooks Lee Rocco fortnight as uh sam calls him So are you on this rock band train on fortnight as well? Lane hasn't stopped talking about it the last two days Yeah, Lane I saw that he like because you can see like your friends like high scores and stuff And like I saw that like, you know, like jaden will play and like Or whatever Christian or whoever and then I saw lane was playing because you can see like what game of they're playing And it's like lanes are like, oh lanes in on it.  He has to play rock band with a friend I play it First moment auto is alberto rios for the angels I enjoy it. I only play drums though refractor walton and mahiya That's what we were talking about. I was I loved guitar hero when I was younger and then whenever rock band came out I was like so jealous of all the kids that had rock band because of drums Yeah, the drum the drums are fun Light blue is guanipa for the guardians refractor of seth keener and thorenton Aqua wave is christian cambell redsox number to 199. Sorry 125 on the camel Whitman and riley refractors something like that morning josh Still morning Also morning if you're if you're shawna it's morning until like 5 p.m It's definitely morning for josh that's Vase It's way too early out there Oh, right 12 to go on Bowman next still Top strung black is at eight definitive is at 10 Six to go on goodwin. So after this we're gonna break what's full We're gonna break whatever is full Next I remember josh will trust me. I remember I remember all of our customers that we meet It's cool getting to meet all you guys seeing you in person. So a to go on top strung black. Here's the definitive link Oh, he's yelling again Although that's Sorry breaks I just saw a spam email In the email that said james.  Remember that? That was funny Six to go on goodwin. Let's pull some glow in the dark space patches The fractures of teddy mcgraw and filibabra dan calls me force of the ph PhD What's up, dany Happy afternoon, everybody That means we're like halfway through the work week light blue to 499 Elijah green for the uh gnats You know that guy green auto it's a 99 christian knapsack Fracture of bowmeester and Jorge Unfortunately, the guys are now artists and make their thumbnails. Yeah, I made that thumbnail You we can you can change it. 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Like if I go top load now, it's like so different Yeah, also when you sleep on your shoulder wrong that really hurts Yeah, I have that just because of ball I have to I've got to the point where if I'm not laying like if I don't fall asleep on my back One of my shoulders is completely trashed the next day done for I have that because I'm 31 So I guess it's the same effect Purple to 250 is Gonzalez mariners got a bunch of hardware holding the right shoulder together and then the left I left one through for 20 years, you know You gotta make the stack gigantic Let me get that on your way He's all good Cool, let's go ahead and recap guys Some of these will be in order. I think they were in order when Donny was doing it not throw anyone in the bus I'm sorry. I didn't know they needed to be in order. They do not need to be in order That is like an optional thing. Got it. But all the autos here. 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How the Bemidji Sheriff's Department is getting prepared for Hockey Day Minnesota by making sure they have enough people at the site and on the ice of Lake Bemidji. Sheriff Ernie Beidle says the team has been working on a safety plan ever since Bemidji was announced as the 2019 Hockey Day Minnesota location. Many agencies will be utilized including the Bemidji Police Department and the Bemidji Fire Department. The state is even providing extra funds and resources to increase security. Coming forward we'll have extra deputies on during this event, not only on the lake but also working at the event. And then the state of Minnesota freed up some towards zero death money. Our initiative, TZD money for added enforcement for DWI's that weekend. So we'll have state patrol coming down and help us out. Been in touch with the Department of Natural Resources, we'll have extra DNR officers working in the lake also. Sheriff Beidle says their main concern will be people out on the lake. Hundreds of fish houses are expected to be on Lake Bemidji during Hockey Day. It's important for everyone to watch their speed and drive slowly. Also you should know how to check ice conditions. If they're going to be out on Lake Bemidji, out on the ice, to be very careful where they go, you know, we have variable thickness of ice and areas that didn't have snow pack. Ice and ice are nice and frozen but the areas that did have a snow pack, they're slush. And so they need to be very careful. They venture off any of the plowed roads out there unless they're prepared they could get stuck out there and we don't want that to happen. Sheriff Beidle says another way people can increase safety measures is by utilizing the shuttles as much as possible to help keep some of the traffic off the roads. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Hi, I'm Michelle Howie. I'm from the University of South Australia and I was a 2015 New Colombo Plan Scholar studying in Korea, interned at Telstra in Hong Kong and now I'm the technical lead of Telstra's 5G Innovation Centre on the Gold Coast. We can't deny that Asia is really leading the way in technology and innovation and it's really exciting to be here in an Australian company utilizing my experience to help forge those long-term partnerships with with local businesses and with global partners. When international partners come here to innovate with us then they feel more comfortable and we get better results because I'm able to relate to them and I'm able to better understand when they're coming from and join those dots so to speak. I do see myself in the future working with Asian businesses, particularly Korea, because I think I have a good understanding of both the Australian and the Asian culture, Australian and the Korean culture and how they can sort of complement each other, especially in innovation and technology. I'm so passionate about what we're doing here and it's you know even though my scholarship finished three years ago I still continue to think about how it's impacted my life and every day from the study I do on the weekend to the food that I eat, the friends I hang out with and yeah every step along the way I'm still thinking about how that experience changed my life.


So in this module we will look at what was the policy framework for achieving the objectives which we have discussed in the last module and what was the strategy. So according to 11th five-year plan the approach would be intersectional. So all the different areas which affect gender equality will be discussed and integrated meaning their gender, social concerns, security, economics, all these areas will be because they are interrelated and they affect gender policy they will be discussed the approach will be intersectional. It will also be transformative meaning thereby that it will try to change not only the laws and rules but also the social norms through training, mainstreaming, education and other areas. It will also be the strategy to achieve this will be multi multi-dimensional so that only one dimensional will be not focused for example economic or political or civil all the different dimensions will be considered and implemented. So the policy framework for gender equality comprised of improvements in legislation were required so wherever legislation was required to improve the laws of women for example in domestic violence it was done or it was planned to be done. The second was legislation enforcement so okay legislation is there but what would there be enforcement so that was another issue which was looked at. Then a addiction of anti-woman cultural traditions and norms so again not only the political and legal but also the social was also focused on. Dismantling of parallel informal judicial systems meaning thereby jirgaz and all the other such kind of institutions which are against woman empowerment and discriminatory will be eliminated and Pakistani laws and Pakistani courts will prevail all over Pakistan and one of the things which has been done by the current political setup is that FATA has been integrated into Pakistan so laws that were previously not implemented in FATA and jirgaz system which was institutionalized in FATA has now ended so it will take time to change the social now but as far as the legal issues are concerned that have been addressed. Lastly speedy justice to survivors of violence so violence cannot be eliminated by laws only and if the perpetrators of violence are not punished so if they are domestic violence laws they need to be enforced so that there should be a threatening or there should be something which force which will force men to behave and not hit women. So to achieve these policy objectives the strategy was adoption of a holistic approach to formulate and implement policies and laws to improve the holistic approach enforcement machinery to be made gender sensitive so that is one a major issue the enforcement machinery whether it's courts lower courts or police or other law enforcement agencies like Rangers or other thing they are all not as sensitive to gender issues as they should be so there should be be trainings and capacity building of these law enforcement agencies so that women are allowed to survive and prosper. Another strategy was practices based on illegal cultural family and customary norms to be analyzed vis-a-vis the cultural legislative package and its impact to be highlighted so any laws or any any cultural practices which are against women will be made illegal and unlawful by coming up with legislative packages. The next was the capacity of organizations so if even if law enforcement agencies and courts want to be less discriminatory to women if they have don't have capacity if they don't have budgets and money they cannot be they cannot provide equal rights to women so if there are no women police stations if there are no areas where for example child care institutions in legal courts or around legal courts where women can leave their children and tend to their court or intend to their cases then women will remain facing discrimination even if the laws are changed so the capacity of the organizations and institutions have to be improved another thing to improve the capacity is to bring more women in decision-making places so if women are the decision-makers they of course will take care or be more reasonable or less discriminatory as far as women are concerned other women are concerned another area which this strategy links it is research so that all the laws that are developed or implemented are based on research and of course legal empowerment will be improved through legal and awareness more awareness and free legal assistance and monitoring thank


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Is raising funding part of your strategy to grow like that? I think that in general, like I really value optionality, like I value investors and them giving us a perspective, but I also think at the end of the day, Kim and I still want to be in control of what we're building because we care about the Asian American community. So that's definitely a big part of it for us. And then in terms of the strategy long term, for us at the end of the day, the product is food. And so I just think I've seen brands just like raise too much and then feel like so much pressure to grow so quickly. And then it ruins their company culture. And I think it just puts a lot of pressure on what could have been great companies. And so we're being very diligent and thoughtful about that.


What is the hardest Linux distribution that I've ever personally tried? This is a question that I get a lot from viewers of the channel. They want to know what the hardest distribution I've ever tried because I've tried so many. What's the hardest as far as difficulty? What's the hardest as far as ease of use? You know a lot of people imagine that some of these Linux distributions some of the ones I try on camera Some of these I guess look more difficult or less user-friendly than others and people want to know Which ones I guess caused me the most pain the most grief and you know We should actually talk about this because this is actually not a very easy question to answer and Like so many things. It's subjective. You know, what's difficult for me It's not what's going to be difficult for you for example arch Linux You guys know how much I love arch Linux and arch Linux based distributions But arch Linux mainline arch I find to be a really easy Linux distribution I find it to be rather New user-friendly in a lot of ways because the installation process for arch Linux really isn't that hard Yes, you have to enter some stuff at the command line, but it's pretty simple You know, I don't know 10 15 things at the command line and in under 10 minutes You've got the base arch Linux installed and that's really easy really simple in my opinion and then maintaining Arch Linux after you've got it installed is also Rather simple and for me for my workflow The things I want to do on my computer if I was ranking these distributions One to ten with ten being the hardest to use the most difficult one being the easiest Honestly, I put arch Linux at around a three, you know Maybe even as low as a two right? It's really low on my skill of difficulty Another distribution a lot of people imagine is really hard really difficult is gen 2 and I've Installed gen 2 many times over the years played around with the gen 2 I've also played around with a lot of gen 2 based distributions. I've installed Several gen 2 based distributions actually on this workstation behind me a few years back I remember I ran a Sabion Linux, which is gen 2 based for a while on my machine like for a few weeks I ran calculate Linux for a month or two on my main production machine both of them gen 2 based But gen 2 much like arch Linux. It's a command line installation, but it's not difficult The only thing with gen 2 is it's time-consuming. It's tedious because all the packages have to compile Right when you install software right it compiles the software which takes a lot of time It's not hard. It's just a lot of time That's why I don't typically run gen 2 or gen 2 based distributions nowadays It's just I just don't have the time to fool with them. They're not difficult They're no more difficult than say something like arch Linux, which I've already told you arch is really kind of user-friendly I think gen 2 in a lot of ways is user-friendly other than the time aspect Involved so if I was gonna rank gen 2 from 1 to 10 on you know one being easy to use 10 being the most difficult I probably ranked gen 2 somewhere in the I don't know that four to five category Maybe kind of mid-range and when I look back on the history of my channel and some of these Distribution installations and first looks that I've done over the years One of the distros that caused me the most frustration on camera And it was mostly my fault was Nix OS when I first took a look at Nix OS for the very first time About five years ago, you know that thing I struggled getting Nix OS Installed and working properly mainly because I didn't research it at all Which I typically don't with these distribution installation and first looks I don't want to do too much Research in it because I do want to approach it as kind of a average user average user You know computer user they don't read the manuals, right? They just install something and go and Nix OS was definitely not a distribution that you could do that with at least not when I first tried it five years ago now very recently here in the last Six months or so just in the last few months Nix OS now has a graphical installer uses the Calamari's installer So now your grandmother could install Nix OS But when I first tried it you had to write a config file in this Nix OS specific syntax language you had to write a config file that actually Determined how your installation went when you went through the command line installer and man that thing that was a chore It wasn't a chore if I'd actually knew what I was getting into going in but that's certainly That's on a more difficult level having to do that then say Reading the arch wiki and going through a arch install or reading the gen 2 wiki and going through the gen 2 installation You know I would say that at least the older versions of Nix without the graphical installer If I was grading it on a scale of 1 to 10 as far as difficulty I put that thing up there You know like a 7 or an 8 right that that's that's getting up there because again I struggled with that now I'm a very experienced Linux user and the first time I installed Nix it was it was a disaster if you guys I don't recommend you go watch my very first video on Nix OS because it's a complete total train wreck It's not a good representation of what Nix OS is but if you want to you can go back and watch that and laugh at how Horrible it was trying to get that thing to work some other distributions that have frustrated me both on camera and off camera are distributions like GNU Geeks and parabola and Trisco and some of the free software foundation approved distros those distros that are 100% Fully free and by fully free I mean they use a 100% fully freed Linux kernel the Linux Libre kernel and the reason I Struggle with those is because I actually don't have any hardware that can run any of those Linux Libre distributions Without issue because of graphics drivers Wi-Fi drivers Sometimes I can't even get the distributions to boot up. You know to actually run through an installation I've had that problem actually with Geeks on this machine Not lately. I had this the last time I tried to install Geeks on this machine I couldn't even like get the ISO to boot up, right? I couldn't even get to the installation itself So, you know, these Linux Libre distributions are they difficult? It's not necessarily that they're difficult. It's just I can't run them because of hardware in Compatibilities, right? It's because I don't have equipment that can run that fully freed Linux kernel as such You know where would I place those on a difficulty scale? Well, if I could run them many of them would be rather easy Trisco as a boom-to-based parabola. It's arch-based I'm sure they're they're just lovely distributions Good new Geeks is a little more difficult and I have played with GNU Geeks on some of my test laptops Where I can get it to install although I still have Wi-Fi issues because of the Wi-Fi chips in those machines But GNU Geeks very similar to Nix and that you got to write a config file that config file has to be written in Scheme, which is kind of a lisp variant and it's not new user friendly I would say if I was judging that on a scale of 1 to 10 I probably put that very similar to Nix OS the old versions of Nix OS without the GUI installer No around a seven or an eight is probably where I put GNU Geeks now the new versions of Nix with the Calamari Installer now we got a bump Nix back down to like a two or three right Nix OS now I would say is rather easy to use for Anyone that has used Linux probably for six months or more, but again this whole thing is subjective You know me saying what I find easy what I find difficult it'll be different for me then it will be for you mainly because of Different workflows different experiences the number of years I've used Linux compared to maybe how many years you've used Linux and some of the distributions that I have more experience with You might have less experience or vice versa one of the things I can tell you You know I've had this question posed to me hundreds maybe even thousands of times What's the hardest Linux distribution you've ever used ET and I will say the reason I have such trouble answering that not Typically, I don't answer it is because many people imagine that I'm going to base that decision on how hard the Linux distribution is To install right I'm gonna base it on the installation process And the truth is I don't find the installation process of any Linux distribution To be all that difficult right they're all easy if you follow the instructions all of them There's no Linux distribution that if you read the instructions you will say it's difficult Unless there's no documentation unless it's something that's like beta software alpha quality software But any standard Linux distribution that's been around for a while and has some documentation Anybody can install those things so I I don't base how difficult a Linux distribution is necessarily On the installation process for me what makes a Linux distribution hard for me is really How often I have to Upgrade from one major version to the next that's something that really bothers me Especially when I first switched to rolling release distributions about five years ago when I started the YouTube channel especially I needed to move to rolling release distributions to have the latest and greatest software and Even before then I was really bothered by the fact that distributions like the Interim releases of Ubuntu or the releases of Fedora that I would always have to Upgrade from one major version of Ubuntu or one major version of Fedora to the next and many times What I would do is I would format the drive and just do a clean install of that new major version because I've had so many Upgrades break like the major upgrades from you know one version of Ubuntu to the next so many of those have filled on me Over the years in the past that I just don't trust them So I would it's like every nine months I was wiping out my Ubuntu machines and moving to the next or with Fedora You would have to move like every 12 or 13 months. It's about a year But Fedora never releases on time so typically you get about 13 maybe 14 months of support on the Fedora releases But it's about a year and then you got to move to the next one and I hated that right I found that very tedious like you know people find things like Gen2 tedious for the compilations right for the compile times I find having to upgrade from one major version of a distribution to the next a very tedious process a process that even after going through hours of the upgrade process Many times that upgrade fails. I don't like that I find those distributions the interim releases of Ubuntu the the Fedora releases, right? I actually find those distributions are to use for me And I know that's gonna shock some people because most of you watching this probably use Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based distribution or Fedora right those are two very popular GNU slash Linux distributions and everybody will tell you Ubuntu is easy to use Everybody will tell you Fedora is easy to use and for me You know, I'm not gonna say they're they're difficult But I for what I want to do on my machines I find that those distributions get in my way more than something like Arch Linux for example As you can see with me trying to answer this and rambling on for a little while This is a difficult question to answer It's one of the reasons why I never answer these kinds of questions as far as what's the hardest Linux distribution What's the most difficult Linux distribution? It's because It's again, it's subjective It's all opinion and these opinions everyone's gonna have a different take on this a lot of this depends on What you're trying to do on your computer because for certain jobs Certain Linux distributions are better at that particular task than others So picking the wrong distribution for the wrong job. Yeah, that's gonna make things very difficult But typically if you pick an appropriate Linux distribution that's designed for what you're trying to do on your computer honestly There's no hard ones. I To be honest somebody that's tried probably 300 Linux distributions over the last 15 years, you know tested them out on either physical hardware or in virtual machines I've probably installed Linux various distributions Maybe even as as many as a thousand times and I've never found any of them Difficult as far as there was something challenging to them There's there's nothing challenging But if you don't know something going and reading the wiki or reading a man page or whatever it happens to be going and reading the Documentation is almost always the answer and if that's not the answer then that distribution is probably broken Right if there's something you can't go read documentation and overcome Then that's not a you problem That's not some kind of deficiency in you. You're just not smart enough to get that Linux distribution No, no, you're not the problem that distribution is the problem. It's probably not ready for prime time It's probably either beta quality software that shouldn't have a public release yet, or it's probably been abandoned Nobody's really actively maintaining it and I typically don't I don't showcase those kinds of Linux distributions on my channel I never show something that I know is broken or after testing it for a while. I discover is broken I don't do that all the Linux distributions though that you guys have seen me show on camera. I don't think any of them are difficult and Honestly, I don't think you should find any of them difficult either if you go into these things with the right mindset These guys


Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police Usman Akali Baba has reiterated the commitment of the Niger Police Force to maintaining a sustained fight against illegal bunk-ring pipeline vandalism, economic sabotage and other criminal elements in the country. This came on the heels of the achievements recorded by the IGP Special Task Force on petroleum and bunk-ring while raiding some suspects and exhibits in the Port Harcourt River State Capitol. Included by the Acting First Public Relations Officer, CSP Ulu Muiwa Adejabi, Inspector General of Police, the IG review that 42 suspects were arrested while 41 trucks of illegal petroleum products were impounded. Adejabi, given details of the success made by the Special Task Force, said 21 of the suspects have been charged to court, with 17 still under investigation while four convictions have been secured in courts. 10, 13 suspects have been arrested in connection with illegal drilling of petroleum products by the Special Task Force of the University alone. Two container body talks, these guys to be loaded with full stock, were also impounded by the Special Task Force after a total stop-and-search by our women at I-20s Task Force. The IG explained that the successes were achieved in rivers and water lilies. They collected and purchased and purveyors of adulterated petroleum products within the country. In line with the initial addition of the Special Task Force, it means so much that the technology during the policing are the ones who have the best committed technology. They want to urge victims and other criminals, and those who are having mind, to train criminals to continue to trouble and use the police. Stay clear. The Inspector General of Police commanded the effort of the commander, IGP Special Task Force, on petroleum, illegal bunkering and steam for their diligence even as he called for frequent operational patrols in a bid to curb the incident activities of illegal bunker traders and economic supporters.


Betty Jean Graham, and I am the outgoing director of the Division of Extramural Operations at NHGRI. Who were your mentors at NEI, the National Eye Institute, and how long did you serve there? So, Israel, we call him Izzy Goldberg, was my supervisor and mentor at the Eye Institute. He was also the mentor of my position as a grants associate, which was an NIH-wide position that provided opportunities for Ben Scientist to move into science administration. So, he mentored me for a year there, and then he hired me at the Eye Institute. And that was from 1979 to, I think, 1981. Could you talk a bit about your work at the NEI? Well, NEI is separate from the Division of Research Grants. There is some connection with me and the Division of Research Grants. At the Eye Institute, I was a regular program director, first-time program director. But during my time there, I came across an issue that I thought was not quite equitable to those who were applying for research grants. And that is, those who knew how to request their summary statements did that. They could write and say, please send me my summary statements. And they tended to be those who were well-funded. So, as I always like to say, the little people, and I know that's not correct. But for the people who didn't really think they had a voice, they didn't know that they could write and request their summary statement. And the whole issue there was, you cannot submit an amended application if you don't know what the issues are. So, you have to see what were the concerns in your application before you could address them in a way that would deal with the deficiencies that were identified. So, I did ask him if we could automatically send out those summary statements. And Izzy said, no, you can't do that. But you could write to them and let them know that they could request it. So, as a result of that, at that time we had secretaries. So, my secretary and I, for about three council rounds, would probably write about 200 or so snail mails to let people know that they could request their applications. And at some point, I realized that, you know, this is very inefficient. And what about applicants and other institutes? What did they do? They didn't know about this. So, that's where the Division of Research Grant comes in, which is now the Center for Scientific Review. So, I composed a memo that was approved by both Izzy and the equivalent of the EPMC Extramural Program Management Administration, so that requesting that the summary statements be automatically released. So, that would take me and the secretary out of it and everybody who had an application would get a summary statement. And they agreed. So, that worked out very well, except that once people started getting their summary statements, they then noticed that I don't see anybody on the roster that has the expertise to review my summary statement. So, the problem there was in those days, ad hocs, which most study sections will have these days to cover expertise that isn't currently available in the standing study section, they were not included on the roster. So, yes, an applicant could get a summary statement and see that there wasn't anybody there for the record who could review their application. So, I wrote another memo that was approved by both Izzy and Ron Gallow, who was in the equivalent EPMC rep. And that was sent to the director of the Division of Research Grants. And they agreed that that was something that could be fixed. So, I think as a result of that, once you get your summary statement and see what the deficiencies are, it's so much easier to address them. And not only that, but you could get funding, you know, more likely than if you were just like throwing darts in the dark. So, I think that was, in my estimation, sort of a game changer for applicants because it made NIH's business more transparent. In your experience, what made Izzy, Israel Goldberg, such a good mentor? Well, I think the good part about Izzy was that he was not wedded to any dogma. He was very flexible. He was one to think outside the box. And as an example of that, he was my mentor in the grants associate program. Traditionally, most of the people who were in the program would do like two or three-week shadow groups, and they would shadow somebody, and then they would move on to the next. And he recommended that, you know, maybe you should take fewer assignments, but with more in-depth attention to what's going on. And that turned out to be quite useful for me because I would spend maybe a couple of months or so really drilling down on an issue that was of interest to whatever institute I was working in and provided something that was beneficial and also provided me with some insights into some of the issues and how they could be addressed. Based on your experience, why is it that the most obvious solution to a problem is often overlooked? So I think a lot of times it's in the implementation. You know, there were no written rules about applicants couldn't get their summary statements. I think it's how a policy or guideline is implemented. And I've noticed throughout NIH that always happens. And I think some of it could be that the people who are getting involved in the implementation are not so much the ones who are boots on the ground. So you get to see all the bumps in what's going on. And unless you have somebody who is looking at those or kind of feel that, well, why is it done that way? Can we do it a little better? That's what is needed. But we have to work together because I couldn't have done this by myself. DRG at that time, they had to be willing to consider that. So it's okay to not do things right all the time, but it's also good to be open to changes. And I think that was the beauty of what happened with the summary statements. What was your role in the development of the diversity action plan at the NHGRI? So when the genome project first started, I could probably say there were not any people of color who had the expertise to do genomics. And so what happened was that we convened a group, and I did not do this on my own, but that was, you know, Elka Jordan was involved with this. Francis was involved. We convened individuals who had had successful programs for people of color. We brought them here to the NIH, and there was a meeting talking about the various elements. And one of the recommendations that came out of it was that we had like the sequence in centers and the database groups. They recommended that since these are sort of real incubators for genomics that these centers would be ideal for training individuals in genomics. So we started out with requiring individuals who had sequencing programs and database programs to have a minority action plan, which was part of the application process. And they wouldn't get funded unless the minority action plan had a very good rating. But we came to realize that the rating of the minority action plan within the context of a really serious sequencing program, a database program, didn't really get a rigorous review. So at some point we pulled that out and made it another activity code, said it was a separate application, but attached to the sequence in centers and databases. We changed the name to the diversity action plan because the winds of change with diversity in minority is always changing, so we changed it to be in sync with that. And basically it's the same concept. What are some of the issues that still persist in the implementation of the diversity action plan? I think the one thing that I have been very concerned about is that we did put a lot of effort into this and we're still not where we want to be. And this is a really huge problem. It's one that we can't fix. We depend on the people that we support to fix it. But it gets all jumbled up in kids being admitted to universities, having to retain them, and giving them the kind of mentorship that they really need. Because most of the people who are maybe trained in non-research intensive institutions, they don't have the research skills and the critical thinking skills for research. I mean they do have courses that they take, but research acumen is a very different skill and you have to do it. So there's still a void in that and we're trying to change it, but it's a hard problem. Going forward, how can the NHGRI work to address these issues? I think it's a multitude of problems. It's academic preparation. A lot of it just depends on how you're treated by your academic mentors, even the peers you work with. It's kind of like not obvious, but there's clear that there's something underneath the surface that would make people feel like they are not part of the group. And I have to say in my own education and research experience, I've never had that. Maybe I have, but I just didn't pay any attention to it. But I've always felt that wherever I've landed that somehow the people I have been involved with have respected me. And I mean, I worked hard. Nobody gave me anything, but it's still a work in progress on so many levels. And it depends on the attitude of both individuals. You know, like if you're out there looking for this person is discriminating against me, I've always felt that you find what you're looking for. But what you find could be very small compared to a much larger area that's there that's positive. And if you continue to focus on that little bit that you're looking for, that you're going to miss out on what's there for you to have. I'm not saying everybody does that, but I think I've seen a lot of that. How can large institutions and individuals work together more effectively to forge changes for the greater good? That's a very hard question because I think one person can't do that by themselves. It's always people interacting with each other and how those interactions go. And it's different for each two pairs. So there's no common formula other than seeing the potential of that individual, respecting them, and trying to see where they are and how you can raise them up to the level that you think based on your knowledge of the field they should be. And so as a result of that, anybody working in that environment will have different needs and different amounts of time required of the mentor. And when the mentor is busy writing applications, writing amended applications, dealing with administrative things, it's hard. It's not easy. And you really have to be dedicated to see that there's something of value in this person that I as a mentor want to bring out and make them the best that they can be and whatever it is they want to be. I just think these are things that can't be cookbooked. Unfortunately, it's really individuals interacting with each other. I just don't think it's...of course the institution can set standards, but you can't make people do things. People have to want to do things, and that's how you get the most out of them, that they want to do things, that they see this individual as potential and they want to help that person blossom. You can't legislate that. You can't regulate that. It has to come from the two individuals that are working together. It takes a lot of time.  You can't go halfway and say, I'm done. You haven't come up to where I want to be, so I'm done. It's consistency. And I think when people think you care about them, they are much more open to whatever you suggest. During your tenure, how has the NHGRI approached bringing people of different backgrounds into the field of genomics? Well, let's just start out with genomics when it first started. I mean, the people who became genomic scientists were really biologists, biochemists. They were not genomicists. It was the addition of informatics, statistics, technology that made genomics, taking it from being a geneticist to genomicists.  You didn't try completely new things. So genomics required a melding of biology and informatics, technology development, engineering, and all of that. So the mathematicians and the engineers and the informaticians were always outside of biology.  But they weren't an integral part of the program. So one of the things that we did was to try and encourage those groups who normally hadn't been part of genomics into genomics. So we started out with naively thinking that we could use the regular postdoc program.  So there was no way we could attract them into genomics. So one of the things that we did was to then develop a career development program in which traditionally for K awards, you have to show that you've been, you know, really working in the field and you're ready to take off in your area. With genomics, if you want to get mathematicians, they were not working in biology. So they didn't have the big CVs that most people in biology would have. So that was one thing. The review criteria didn't require them to show that they had multiple peer-reviewed applications in this area. The other thing that we did was that we sort of moved up the salary requirements to the level, the executive level of whatever, which is the highest that you could get in government. But it had to be consistent with what that person at that level would be paid at their institution. So now you had the salary was attractive and then the requirements not watered down, but reviewers were looking more at the potential of the individuals to contribute to genomics. And so that's how we brought into the field a lot of these other people. And I know this past year, one of our first K awardees, he's now, he has gotten, he's at the National Academy. And he attributed to his, what, how NHGRI or NHGRI was able to afford him this opportunity. And we have a lot of other examples like that. In your estimation, is there a problem in genomics training in which mathematics is emphasized over biology or vice versa? I think the real game changer here is that we've started now with what we call team science. So everybody's intellectual knowledge comes together to make the whole. And so now, instead of being ancillary to the project, you are now an integral part of the project. And it's really amazing how individuals in math, bioengineering, informatics, they really get up to speed with, you know, the biology part of genomics very quickly. So, you know, and I think part of it is students in college are not aware of this being another opportunity for them. Most of them are looking at maybe finance or actuarial people or things like that. So it's just a matter of bringing and attracting them to the field and having them work with really bright and exciting people and on fabulous projects. Yeah, but that's the other thing, too. A lot of these companies are drawing off because what they offer still academia can't reach that, nor can they be paid off of grants at those levels. So it is still a challenge, but there are people who want to do it. What was the motivation for opening up the NIH T32 Institutional Training Grant Program to Juris Doctorates or JDs? Again, you know, NIH has a feeling that, you know, we only train PhDs and MD PhDs or MDs postdocs. So Jean McEwen Kean was in the ethics program, and many times she was approached by JDs who wanted to do a postdoc in genomics. And so she and I made the proposal to the training advisory committee and got a little pushback, but they finally allowed us to allow JDs to apply for postdocs and K awards. And I'm on a committee in Unite that's revamping the T32, and so now JDs will be one of those degrees that will be considered for postdoc work. So that kind of legitimizes it, and hopefully other institutes will take advantage of that to bring in ethics people into their programs. Because it's kind of ridiculous. Ethics is important to NIH, and you're not going to support the training of people with JD degrees. It makes no sense. What have been some of the effects of that change in NIH policy? Well, I just think NIH will get better advice on these issues. And you know, bioethics is something like informatics. It can springboard into different disciplines, scientific disciplines. So I think it just enriches it because there are always going to be ethical challenges with whatever you do. And you need that expertise. How did you address the inequities in the NIH loan repayment program? So that was an interesting thing, and again it goes back to how things are implemented. So the loan repayment program is government-wide, and each agency decides how it wants to implement it. Well, NIH, their implementation was just for, and this is to retain people in research.  So we had an NHGRI had a panel from our council to look at what are the training needs. And one of the things that they identified was we needed more genetic counselors as researchers. So we had the background that the NIH loan repayment program was only for MDs, PhDs. And again, if you make the rules, you can change or break the rules. So we went to the loan repayment office and we tried to make the case that NIH could do this if they wanted to, and we didn't get any traction there. I then took the case to the extramural program, NIH-wide group, to see if they would endorse it, didn't get any traction there. But for some reason, NIH-OD agreed that that was a good opportunity to open up the program to people who were not necessarily with PhD or MD, PhD degrees, but who had expertise critical to the research enterprise. And so we decided to focus for now on the genetic counselors, and we've had a lot of good applications, which means that the community finds that this is a need. So it was good. And again, I think it's just seeing where there are pressure points and whether you can just sort of make a difference in whatever you do. And it doesn't have to be huge. Sometimes small differences are just as important. What advice do you have for staying motivated and inspired over the course of a long career? I think we have to understand that people work for different reasons. Some people work because they need the money, and that's all that's important to them. So they come to work 8.30 to 5. They do their job, and they go home. Then you have others who have a real commitment to what they're doing. And so they may, although not required, they may just go a little bit more to do what they think is necessary. So I don't categorize people or think everybody should be the same. I mean, just like you have some people, as soon as they hit retirement age, they're out of here. And then you have a lot of scientists in the intramural program who are 92, 93, 97 years old because they love their job. And I think that's what it's all about. I don't think I could get up in the morning for 51 years with just thinking, oh, this is another day. No, that is not what drives me. What drives me is the fact that perhaps today I can make a difference. And I try to think about that all the time. Is there anything else you would like to add? Well, I guess the only thing I would like to add is that I have had a wonderful career at NIH and CHDR and NHGRI. And I hope that everybody would have that same experience. It's nothing like enjoying what you're doing. And I think part of it is because the people you work with respect you and your ideas. They don't believe in you. And so it just works well. But on the other hand, I have an obligation to do the best I can.