It's decaying on back like I never left cuz I'm cooking up content like a chef shooting videos like a step curry So here I'll subscribe cuz it's time for us to slide Topless slide baby. Huge shout to everybody in the triple season if you're not a part of crew You would like to be make sure you smash the scrub and give me a thumbs up I don't forget everybody to throw them seas up in the comment section if you're a part of crew Hey today, we're about to go ahead and get busy and I'm glad you guys are with me Our first pickup is from a home Depot. We are picking up some items like three cabinets a countertop and some other items We're gonna drive 12 miles for 50 53. It's time to get busy. Let's go Hopefully got this joint ready so we can move fast and get this cash and have a blast Hello, how you doing? I have a roti order to pick up H 1902 34 38 99 Do you want to go down to the canopy over there? Oh, it's over there? Yeah, okay? Yes, sir, they talk she called you on the phone, right? Yeah. Okay. I just want to make sure so this is one part of it I'll go grab the other car. Okay. I'll put this in the van. I'll come back. All right. Thank you Yeah, they got a whole set up didn't they they want to give right Oh, yeah, cuz most I'm sure people try to come and get stuff and they can't fit it Well, you know, there's There's one driver. We have what I like, but he always shows up and like it like It's not big enough for us the stuff right like the first time I saw him The order was for four toilets, which he oh really you can only fit two and as you guys can see We got everything strapped up now. It's time for us to go out and get these bucks.  I might have an order from oh I got the other dough so it's tough. I have your home Depot order here. Okay, so it's a couple is like three cabinets and a Countertop interesting. Okay. This is for Victor. Give me one minute. Okay. If you want to you, can you help me grab this countertop first? Because I want to The bigger item I got getting us right, baby, but the move fast.  How you doing, sir, I'm living a dream.  We had to pick up We actually got this yesterday, baby So I already knew was gonna least make 125 and go out there and drop it has been way better Than it is than it was yesterday and a day before but we have to go ahead and scope get a problem like Chris Go, we are picking up a load. We have 38 deadhead mouse 14 loading mouse of 52 miles altogether for 125 guess what about to pick up the prize and drive? Let's go just like that. We are here at the pick up location. We are super early We like 40 minutes early. Let's see if we can get busy right quick I'm talking about Yo, I got a rush right there Hopefully they got this joint ready so we can what up hit the road What's going on with you boss? I'm have a load to pick up to go to Franklin Park That's it That's what I'm talking about Give me these every time just like that my guy Russ pulling up so we can go ahead and get fun These all day long nice and sweet Jackson ain't here today Jackson ain't here today. Oh, yeah Get that money gotta get this money on the stand. You can just be right there, brother Do you have the paperwork? Yes, sir You get paperwork to make the paperwork Now after we strap it up and stop and what what what what strap it like it's hot Set this joint, baby Even the small ones gotta get strength and just like that we going it's time to get it on. Let's go and Just like that. We are here at the drop off coming up a socks off We're trying to boil like hot sauce now. I'm down mom I'm gonna get right and get our pockets tight, baby Good morning. How you doing? I? Have a drop off from you for from Glenview, okay? Yes, sir I'm not about to get us right your name ran right ran your name is ran are you in That's my initials are you Ron oh, okay our old Ian Ron. Yes, I got Ron. I remember you from last time. Yeah, oh, yeah, right I got the YouTube channel. Yeah My god, Ron, you just signed down. Thank you very much. Guess what baby? We just got We got us another order by the guard hanging order. We are picking up some items We're gonna draw 52 miles and we will receive a payment of 137 97 don't forget to thank you Lord for our blessing. We'd like to get this money when he's stressing. Let's get it How you doing sir you work here? I don't think you speak English I guess I'm going here. It's like seven different businesses back here I know this is the business, but I don't know which door to go to so I gotta talk to my god See how you doing boss? I have an order to pick up It's PO 72864 Oh park right here, okay, this van right here, okay? 2000 years late and just like that my guy about to pull up so we go ahead and get these bugs You know about so it's a few boxes and just so you guys know this is an inside delivery So I'm gonna have to pull out the dolly stick this stuff inside so we can slide. That's what it says on the app I don't know. Maybe we can get that. They got a fork to go up with that join off We gonna get busy and I'm not but I'm definitely ready to hit the road and get this over with Perfect Precinct you boss. You have a good one. Don't need any paperwork or anything or no Yeah, I got you now after we strap it up thin stop and what what what strap it like it's hot Strap it like it's hot.  That's about like it's hot Strap it like it's hot. That's about like it's hot. That's about like it's hot Stravity just like that. It's time to hit the road. Y'all already knows Just like that we are here at the drop-off location. We'll keep on skating to date here Oh, they got a maestro date for tip the kiddos. You know I'm talking about let's take the kids at all costs Hello, how you doing? I have a delivery for a pat. I'm at the perfect. Is it yep? Okay Does she need to sign? No, okay, perfect. Let's take a photo and everything So am I coming in this this way or through the side door? No, that sounds good. If you don't mind bringing it over to the side door. Okay. All right. We'll do all right. You're welcome Don't need any paperwork or anything or no Yeah, I got you know I'm just supposed to come like it came on the app and I was pushing it to grab And this comes in on the app and I just pick it up and bring it here Did you what about this box here? Oh, it's the same So it's four of something missing so if you could just Record somewhere. I'm missing four and I'll have to call later because I Without any paperwork. I don't know what I'm missing. Exactly. I Could put the notes in here Customer Is missing Four items And you pick these up in the warehouse this morning, yeah, I picked them I picked them up directly from there and came right here, okay? Because you guys are an hour early oh I'm too early So everything's gonna sit here now would not be frozen so so it's the such thing is coming too early Yeah, so they told me to be at the pickup location in 1030 really yeah No, they were supposed to be already delivered between one two closer to two Okay, this is not been a smooth operation so and we are good to go and just like that is it a video I hope you guys enjoyed the content today. We made 31350 Nipsey where I think I got a grip G now. I want to talk to you guys about something before we go I want to say huge shout out to everybody who made the comments huge shout out to everybody in the triple C's Shout out to everybody who like in the video who subscribe to the channel and everything are hugely appreciated We got we are over 50 we are over 60,000 subscribers right now and the goal is a hundred K Before the end of the year and you need to be a part of that baby If you are not subscribed make sure you spend a scrub and do not forget to like the video and throw them seeds up I also need you guys to start giving me more likes So it's gonna push us out on our YouTube algorithm We can get some more subscribers and I told you guys when we get to a hundred thousand subscribers I'm giving over a thousand dollars away So if you want some of that money, baby, make you spend a scrub and again and order for you to win some of that Money you must be subscribed now I want to talk to you guys about I get a lot of comments from different people saying you should do this You should do that with the scarf up in go over here go over that huge shout out to my guy or girl I'm not sure which one it is arrest Hillary. I guess we're arrest Hillary Clinton I think that's what they say I don't even know if I want to be sent it's on my YouTube channel because guess what they might try to come arrest me Hey, oh, no problem. Hey guys that right now. So they said you got to get your own Exclusive account with some local businesses get with some home builders contractors to pick up for them They all buy from the same wholesalers all they got to do is text you an order number location and when they need it On the job site your van will be perfect for delivering kitchen cabinets showers light fixtures, etc Guess what? We just did deliver some kitchen cabinets and some some countertops They can't have the stuff on the job site till they need it. So it doesn't get damaged They're gonna pay you five times what these apps are paying I absolutely agree that they're gonna pay me like way more than the actual pan But I do I do want to challenge this a little bit because I think that a lot of times We think on our driver in that they're that the app is waking way more money than they make it sometimes It's not the case for like home Depot orders or low orders I know for sure the lows or they pay very low on that like when I deliver some of this stuff I literally have asked customers myself how much they pay for and then tell me it's a lot of stuff I told you guys I do that y'all don't see on camera So I don't put it on the camera So I had to deliver some cabinets to a customer before and I asked how much they pay They told me $35 and I got like $34 so That that could be the case on that on lows orders home Depot orders I'm not very sure but I'm pretty sure see what you guys got to start doing is like doing a little bit more research Like if you go on Google and then you're gonna go type in home Depot You're gonna act like you're gonna buy some cabinets and see how much you're gonna charge you for delivery And then you can find out how much we really make it how much they get it and how much we get and we don't Get very much for the home Depot orders and the lows orders and stuff like that I do know that it's definitely a great way to get some business Believe you me. I talked to real estate people. I talked to concerts. I talked to a lot of different people about I give our business cards every day. That's all I'm gonna say, baby. I do it way more than you guys may think Pretty often I give our business cards to a lot of different people But a lot of different people are stuck In their ways and they want to do how they want to do it. They do they probably been doing it for 20 years So they already have they system on how to do it now I want them to change how they're doing something they've been doing it for 20 years already They already got a pickup truck. They already got a cargo van They already got so and so we're gonna go pick this stuff up. Why would they use me? I understand that it sounds good in theory when you type it on the computer and you think like you could do this You I thought of it all baby. Believe you me. I thought of it all I've done research on it all and I'm still doing research and I'm still having enough business cards to people And eventually like I said before One day it's all gonna happen, baby And just remember these days. That's all I'm gonna say remember these days because Everybody look at it right now and some people say you only make this much You're looking at right now, baby. This is not This is a marathon not a sprint r.r.p. Nipsey, baby. This is a marathon. 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Hey there, njroute22.com here with a really quick I always say really quick. It's never really quick. This is an update to this Shania or Shania, Shania, I think we determined what we're gonna call it Shania It's a box wine to red Monastrel from Spain You know, I tried it once or twice a few weeks ago It was a 2015 and my local liquor store, Bourbon Street One of the local liquor stores we have was out of stock. I said order me some more, please It took like two or three weeks and they got a 2017 and I'm like, ah, what's the big deal? The big deal is I looked it up and it's 15 Percent alcohol. I don't know. Can you see that?  Can someone donate a Sony a5100 to this channel, please? I got one for three weeks and the videos were fantastic. This is not good I'm sorry, I'm struggling right now. That was that was that behind the scenes sip You don't even see what I'm sipping but I'm sipping this. Is that I'm gonna add a couple footnotes here the Shania 2015 that I was Drinking in the previous video.  They passed the two bottle test. Everything was fine. Everything was fine But this this new 2017 that came in at a 15% Yes 15% 18% let's go 20% forget forget about it This had a much more like a purple color and it was it looked more lively than Then the brown kind of dead looking 2015 the 2015 was 14 and a half percent It passed the two bottle test.  It's it's a better flavor. It's a very good flavor Look look how fired up and they must put some a crack freaking cocaine in this. I'm like, I'm fired up I'm never fired up and I had a long day I drove six hours with a cancer-ridden dog all over the state of New Jersey with kids and screaming people and all sorts of anger Why am I feeling good mom because I'm alone and everybody's asleep but probably a good conclusion to make right now that I was um, I think that was a Mike Meyer Saturday and live reference of this may be Anyway, believe me. I have by the way, here's here's how it works with this with the box wine any box one I think some crappy ass bottle of wine that has a screw top It doesn't even matter if has a screw top it can always use these rubber stoppers these freaking plugs and I pour the wine Into these bottles to make sure I just drink two physical bottles of wine and no more well, I mean sometimes I drink more but That's how I measure. I don't do do it by the cup because you can lose track one miss Measure or wrong if you forget one and you're all of a sudden way over the limit or way under the limit I'm not gonna do it. I do it by bottle. It's easier to two measurements, and then you're done I think I'm wearing the inaugural inaugural inaugural tie-dye made about 10 or 12 tie-dyes Just I never made a tie-dye before and I think this is the first one So this may be like season two of these wines, but I highly recommend the Shania red wine monastrel 2017 so far the 15% monastrel is treated us nice. I May come back as like the concluding Like bombshell seen at the end of the video might be like wow. I missed the 2015 14.5 so I felt x% better I Don't think I'm gonna feel bad but This is the king of box wines as I believe Enhance their their throne to the point where I think they're unstoppable There are some my French Bordeaux's I'm gonna try and apparently like 26 bucks or 25 bucks for the similar size. It's like it's still under Five dollars. I mean under seven or eight dollars a bottle of wine Why not let's try a French Bordeaux in a wooden box. I guess that's our gimmick. The gimmick is the wooden box.  I'm gonna try the wine. Anyway The cardboard box and I feel like I'm getting a box from Amazon Prime But the wooden box you feel like you're getting more man It's it's probably like like five percent stronger than cardboard Whatever the cake. I'm rambling the Shania Shania Shania 2017 is Is so far been like a really delicious wine compared to the 2015 Taste wise enjoyment wise looking on like all fired up. They must put some some sort of like a pharma in here I don't know that may be reason for you not to buy it, but I Like it a lot. I like it a lot. I like it a lot and I'm gonna try to find places that can You know get it and sell it to me cheaper than then Bourbon Street Bourbon Street is They're very pragmatic business owners and they know how to Tap into the highest profit margins I have other friends in the wine industry that will help me save some money So I don't know whatever It'll amount to like a $20 bill at the end of the year But the the 2017 Montestral is a huge improvement over the 2015 and that's it. That's all you have to say I might not do a day after Unless it's bad, but I might do it anyway if it's good So let's just keep it at that. I think I have a good glass and a half left of Wine in by the way, don't look at the label on this. This is just my measuring decanter So talk to you later guys. Bye


Oh, that was accidentally sick. How's it going everybody done today here? And we are back with some more guilty gear strive online rank badges and this time We are taking an old dragon ball fighters rivalry and heading into strive with the exact same one. Oh chip Just moving quickly it shows this gamer kind of sick It's actually I've never even seen Ramlethaw's like she just pops down with the swords. Yo, this color looks so sick on this stage Oh, my yeah, they all I didn't know that these colors were places exclusive until yesterday because I'd actually mostly played on PC but uh For Yuki they look amazing. All right, let me see if I can't start off with a bit of chip action.  Yeah, sir. This is going about exactly how I expected Yeah, uh I'm a scared wait. Don't do it. Oh my god the DP and yeah I'll be feeding it to an RC. Not only are you a better guilty gear player than me But chip is also a very hard character to deal with because you're so fast. It's always doing so much I know yes, there's a lot to chip that that uh is going on here But yeah, I've been I haven't gotten into the celestial flurry up. I've almost gotten in a few times Yeah, well the highest I got was four eight that I got the motor back down the four six, so I'm getting mixed I'm getting perfect. Perfect. I've been oh the celestial floor system I've been so close But the thing about me is and I'm not I'm not calling anybody out right in the comments This is totally fine if you do this, but you could technically if somebody beats you once you could technically leave and run But I ain't no coward, bro. Somebody beats me once. I'm readying up again Yeah, I was definitely fighting a Giovanna player the other day who was just destroying me But I just kept running it back over and over again. Yeah, I'm not I'm not running away, dude I'm if I'm gonna lose. I'm you're gonna watch the tears form in my eyes as you beat me Overhead oh my goodness. I am in excruciating pain right now Yeah, this is chip. I have a few other characters that I play as well, but chip just um I Ain't gonna lie my weakness and guilty gears defense and chip is the character that has to play the least amount of defense You know what let me do it. Let me do a bit of mix. Oh Never mind I messed up the mix. I'm gonna have to burst.  Oh, there's your burst Man, I was watching goichi play fair much the other day and goichi was playing chip And I did not think that was gonna kill me goichi was playing chip and he just kept using j2k like a lot And I'm like, is that but that got like or is going to just like no, yeah Yeah, I feel much fear in Federich someone on my timeline mentioned. He was playing chip as well So I was like, alright, let me see um Let me see how he plays a chip and don't get me wrong I was spamming the move as well because it's annoying But he was just spamming it a lot. So I was like, alright fine I'll just spam the triple jump try to come down when they don't expect you can I get the overhead here? Bro, I don't know What's happening to me And people have the audacity to say hey look Or like Lord night or or Bro, yeah, I don't understand when I say I'm new to guilty gear and I don't have a clue I'm doing in this game. I am brand new to guilty. You don't have a clue what I am doing in this game Yeah, that is guilty.  I just got a third jump my way out of there. Oh My god chip has two doubles on straight Yeah, he can he can jump up to three times. Oh my god. Oh my god Please get off me. It's so good Somebody help me. I look like that was me. I look like I knew what I was doing for all the five seconds And I'm now I'm very afraid again and I'm in the corner and I pain It's an RC. Oh my goodness chip is so much fun And it's sweep though the sweep range, oh you jumped over it, but the sweep range is pretty good. Oh, no I've always been I have whatever I get hit by this ram come. I'm like I'm jealous Combo, I'm proud It is the it is this thing. I'm destroyed this man Lost one sword though. Please. Please. I'm just I'm just a I'm just a small girl He's too fast. He's too fast. I don't know what to do. I just ran it to a charge dust No, I missed I might love that more you dropped it and I use my burst. I'm so sad. Oh, I think the kicks That's a comming at right and I kept the command grab is one of his strongest tools I have not ever went like I don't know if it is If you have to read it, but I just like it's so instant every single time Like I don't know how to look out for it at all. Yeah, no, I think it's reactable. It's just that um He can go into it from so much and that he has so many other fast options like I Don't I don't blame me for for not see you getting jump bigger. Oh god Actually super punishable on block. I'll take it. I am just being treated like a punching bag Oh, no. Oh, no my positive my positive bonus There's no place to go. There goes half my elf. Great. I Need you to die in two combos because I'm not gonna get much more than that.  Thank you. I'll take it. Thanks.  I Tried a 6p, but I'm too early. Let me out of here Don't mind me. Don't mind me. I'm just oh I'm on me. I'm just doing my thing. Just my name jumping a lot We're just doing my thing and jumping a lot bro. Don't mind me. Oh, you got it. Oh my dead. Oh No, I'm just tosses out, please Oh We got a lot of the boy boys. I had so much meter to use.  Oh My god, did not think I was gonna reach not beta blade chip not beta blade This is not the time to be beta blade. Oh my god. Oh my god. These these these these these aerials, man They're killing me. Oh nice nice no wrong sort I'm not used to actually landing hits Please please.  I should have just hit that for us. That was supposed to be another beta blade I just wanted a beta blade my way into it. I think I'm actually a Do you mind if I switch to a bit of Anji? All right, we've undergone a bit of a character change now I'm playing Anji and Lotus is on Kai We both have a some beta experience with Anji. Yeah, I'd probably be better off playing Anji as well Well, my man Kai's eyes are glowin Yeah, I don't know why he let he was just staring straight into the soul Yeah, I definitely got works with Anji that I do with Kai, but I actually kind of like Kai's got a sword. So Yeah, no, I was gonna say Kai is actually a he's looked kind of sick. I don't know why I'm just rolling Higher low. I'll take it. Oh Fujin. He's the Fujin character. He just fuzis. Oh, excuse me Yeah I Just struggle mid-screen with Anji so much Whoa, I just wanted to I just wanted a fireball. I didn't mean to do a whole DP there. Oh nice Call-outs Oh Not the butterfly, not the butterfly. Oh, no, I should have used shouldn't use forward punch. Oh I'll take it. I'm struggling to get this slide. I'm trying to do 26k and I just cannot for the life Me get the info though There it is Yeah, that is a that move is so good. All right, I'll just take the low That would have been beautiful had I been able to combo. Oh Huge whiff Wasted opportunity. Oh, no, I actually try to counter that pretty heavy. Well, why am I I am suffering right there counter? Just do it. There we go. There's the counter No, I really try to get him say it too. I heard him say it watch him stand up and I still Just like Slash for you Ken. All right, I don't you get some way. Woo. I'm just a lot of fun. It's again. Like I said midscreen It's just I really struggle with Anji But I could probably you know learn. Oh my god. I'm getting mixed. Why do I also suffer there? Help help help I Thought part of me really hope that he would somehow a bird All right, all right, all right, all right made a mistake I probably shouldn't be fusing from that far. I'll take the trade. I trade me there. I'll have to take it Fine by me. Just have a bit No, I forget that dust is overhead. Yeah, no dust is a Honestly dust a lot of people don't know but dust is like such a go-to good punnett if they do something unsafe Yeah, I think like most supers are possible with like a fully charged us, aren't there? Yeah, yeah, that full that full punish dust is as long as you know your dust punish It's really good. I mean I don't from us my character like that on G1 was just Made up. It was just me doing a couple buttons You got those if only I knew the combo off a bit Hey, when I accidentally do the bird Damn, I actually do the setup. All right. All right. That was you you got me out of the air though I'm sorry. I'm sorry to figure out a little bit slowly, but I have not been able to play That's good gears. I want it lately I just feel like I've been all over the place and so scattered that I haven't been able to sit down Just grind out a lot of matches Well that oh My god, I'll take it. I'm just gonna hit by everything. I'm just gonna hit by everything Oh didn't hold it. I didn't hold it for the combo. That's the one place where I know the combo Okay, I wanted I wanted to grab. I'm man enough to admit it. I did want to grab Is awkward is getting real awkward. I Just want to let the butterfly set up geez I'm struggling. Oh my god. Oh, that's not good.  I thought the game was over.   I'm trying to oh god Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'll take it What if I just Yes, that was a good idea Yeah, yeah, I tried to count really yep to your own I was really open Too early for the bird man. I'll just burst. I really didn't have a choice. Oh the challenge I didn't expect it The thing is right now in this game is I actually don't know and a lot of instances where it's okay for me to challenge They're not anyway. So a lot of times I get lucky and sometimes like that my point is a counter super and I The counter super as well. I'll definitely take it. But yeah, when I go for that override, you can just challenge me It's a like that's the biggest risk. Yeah, cuz I have to bring that fan over my head.  Oh Wow, I actually might have been able to get the link there. Oh my god I'm bad at the game, man. Can I air dash, please? Do I even have my air dash button set on PlayStation? I do. I'm nervous. Oh I'm nervous But I don't know why I think didn't think you were gonna go. Oh, I think you just run up and throw hands All right, hold on then if you want to oh god. All right, this is effective strategy trip me up That's the overhead. Oh, no, it didn't kill Nice I'll take it. I'll be honest. I was too failed super. I want to throw up a super than RC and just run behind it And I just I failed twice. That's your controller is getting low You want to call it right there so we can just get on to your war video? Sure, man We'll call it right there, but that was some good guilty gear went through a couple of characters Hopefully you enjoyed it if you did and you want to see more I definitely let us know we'll probably come back in a while after we're all more comfortable with the game But if you didn't join like I said down below Let me know your favorite moment and your favorite character from guilty gear and make sure to hit the like button and subscribe Check out the videos on your screen. Load is any last words help me


The federal government has suspended the empire program indefinitely. This was disclosed by Bertha Edu, minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation. According to her, the suspension was a result of some irregularities observed within the scheme and noted that an investigation will be launched into our funds where it is suspended since the beginning of the program. There was also a promise from the federal government never to owe again noting that this restructuring and transformation will birth an expanded program to reach beneficiaries aged 18 to 40. The previous age limit was 35. The new program would be targeting 5 million beneficiaries in five years at a pace of 1 million per year under the graduate and non-graduate streams. The empire program was launched by president Muamadubuwari's administration to tackle youth unemployment and help increase social development. Joining me to discuss this is Afolabi Imokwidi, CEO Investments Ltd. Former senior special assistant to the president on job creation. And if I have the privilege of saying it, I always probably call him the father of empire. I know it was much more of his ideation translated into policy. Afolabi, good to see you, good. Hello. Thank you, thank you so much. Okay, I can hear you now. Afolabi is actually in transit somewhere. We want airport somewhere to run to Canada, but you know what, I gotcha, gotcha as they usually say. Afolabi, it's not going to be funny. I guess somebody like you may be called upon to also give account of how empire was implemented. Junior Yaira, given what the minister just stated, I would want to respond to that. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me, I think since this last interview all five countries have had to go to this message with great attention. Although, what they need to understand that government is a continent, how do we initiate this kind of empire administration between the 2020 and 2019, which are now established in the 2020, precisely the kind of which used to be in the presidency. Although, they are going to use many industries and they have the formables that supervise all the sites. And so, unfortunately, during the 2020, we were highly not managed or speak to anything that came out of any of our schools. And that, although it was broken up, there would be a hundred of them, but we had to process it. And I'm sure now, they will also be able to do this presidential program along with so I do know what they are going to do. But at the very point in time of the code of environment, we would speak to the fact, speak to numbers and speak to what we need for our future future. So, you are pretty much expecting their call at any time for accountability. That's part of democracy anyway. Exactly. But I don't quite know that. We don't know the code. I imagine that my successor's office between 2020 and 2023 would perhaps need to explain better to the prime minister. And at my point, we handled that. So, I imagine that people that can go just at any point of their speech, what we did. Afalabi? I wouldn't want to say I was... I wouldn't want to... Okay, let me put it this way. I felt I knew how you, in some respects, you were quite instrumental to the idea that ultimately became empire. What inspired it? What pushed you to it? What made you think about it? And we didn't get... We subsequently get further questions to the implementation. But what inspired it? Yup. So, we actually feel that Nigeria has been played and has worked and joined its groups. We really have a GDP which is used to represent our own work on economy growth. But then, our GDP was indeed growing. I'd like to talk about about 2015. So, our GDP grew in many ways. At the same time, this was also an era that was called the kind of oil-fired boom. You know, 2011, 2013, of course we started having the GDP in 2014, 2015. But the point is, even in the time of our idea, our group was not resorging in jobs. So, we started to train with job-based groups. And that's what we did. I was brought in at that time to study how to try to really understand what is the project, why. But having jobs, trying to do things, we did do at that time. Because we joined Nigeria and we liked markets. And I found that economy was there to be jobs. So, you know, our economy was also part of the production to come together. Land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship. And so, all of these factors were there to create jobs. And so, if you are having a solution where you are now in jobs, you need to understand what we are doing. So, we went into national job creation strategies and documented 2016, March 2016 precisely at that time. And what we did was to look at those various sectors of the economy. And look at the sectors that we felt would give us a large number of jobs for which construction was a great program. ICT technology was one and there was a look at retail trade also retail trade. And might be we knew that there was many other sectors that were potential sectors like the society sector, the mining sector and a few others like that non-oil and these sectors or non-oil sectors. But the goal was in a short time what would we do in the sectors to create the jobs. So, what we then did during that study was we found across each of these sectors if you look at the sectors that are better popular of the building across each of the sectors and skills, relevant skills and acquisitions and skills the legal quality of skills was a cross cutting talent across each and every one of the sectors. So, we needed to begin to look at how do we address that issue in the short retail and for them we also understood that the fact that you you train people for the jobs because not people the jobs are to be created so meaning therefore that we needed to engage in a type of work integration having the industry having the industry in the front end so we called it in my life industry program the industry sectors were in the front and the skills training was done in the back end of the type of recovery situation and the goal therefore once you finish once you get done the graduates in the markets so this is the last one and the end part OK Afalabi I must confess at this juncture to my public that I've known Afalabi since the days when we were old and fought for the skills empowerment of young Nigerians about 9, 10, 11 years ago and when he started you know when he was invited to join the government as a result of the presentation he did to the newly elected administration of Bwari then and when he was ideating the empower two of the training schools that I envisioned and that I run I have a training school that I'm a part owner of automotive mechatronics and one in building and construction we actually worked with them initially but at some point especially after the election of President Muhammad Bwari and the political minders put their fingers to it you got disillusioned some of us who wanted to do it the right way also got disillusioned I remember you flew to Lagos one day and came to my office and said I'm going to work away from this I was even telling you some of the some of the words he used you should be very, very careful because they could see you as the enemy of the government but eventually you resigned so what instructed the disillusionment why the disillusionment so I think the the point will be the what so I think like I said we got into this particular finding what we did to them which is one of my thoughts the last step impact was not created because we never the President Bwari to do that the government had the deep research I'm just like any other government you spend your way and so we made decisions so it's one of those ways and we really needed the ways that you know and then you also mentioned so that's one of those things where they go and the time when they believe and then people read so before we had a look we had a 500% we had called the value the first 100% in one value scale and I'm glad you mentioned your growth in industry with all the limits and the idea of the construction the point for me is we wanted a situation where these young people not only get trained but they get absorbed and you know the value change if you remember what you also have done at that time we had trained our technicians for only a type of property and we became the store manager for the automatic repair and service in the industry for the stations that was the kind of wonder now AFOLABI AFOLABI I guess I must have done myself the greatest dictator of a program like this is time and is unfortunate We may have to do this again at some point. I'm really very grateful that you took time off connecting the flight. I will do it again. I just want to say thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Today we start a new segment. It's going to be a very short segment but every day we will have the story of how Nigeria came about. The 500 years that led to Nigeria and the 63 years that we have lived. Places, personalities and major projects and today we start with this. Today's story about River Niger. The name Nega originates from the Latin word Nega meaning black which some said was applied to the river due to some parts of its waters that is muddy and dark colored. The river became widely known as River Niger during the colonial era which came into being after the 1885 Berlin conference that is traditionalized colonialism in West Africa or the River Niger and the river Congo areas of Africa. Nigeria was named after the river Niger as it is one of the major geographical features that played a significant role in the country's history, economy and culture. The name Nigeria was suggested by a British journalist Flora Shaw, the trophy wife of one of the first generation British colonial administrators Lord Frederick Lugard. And it was officially adopted in 1914 when the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectories with the colony of Lagos took place. It must be stated that I bet the ethnographical aperture of the long winding river this back to millennia, the 18th and 19th century explorers of River Niger enriched us with the literary accounts of the scars and cast. Mongol Park 1771 to 1806, Scottish explorer who made two expeditions to West Africa including a journey along the Niger River in search of the source of the river. His travels provided important insights into the geography and people of the region. Hugh Clapton 1788 to 1827, Scottish explorer who made two major expeditions to West Africa and traveled extensively in the region including the area around the Niger River. Clapton, along with his team, reached Sokoto, a major city along the Niger, making important observations about the kingdom and its people. Richard Lander 1804 to 1834, British explorer and assistant to Clapton on a second exploratory journey that led to his Clapton's death in Sokoto. Hugh, along with his brother John Lander completed the journey down the Niger River started by Mongol Park. They were the first Europeans to successfully navigate the entire length of the river and brought back valuable information about the region. Henrych Bath 1821 to 1865, German explorer and scholar who embarked on a five-year journey across West Africa including an exploration of Niger River region. His detailed observations and writings greatly expanded the understanding of the region's geography, culture and history. Alexander Gordon Lang 1793 to 1826, Scottish explorer who made an ill-fated attempt to reach the city of Timbuktu in present-day Mali by following the course of the Niger River. He faced numerous challenges and was ultimately killed during his journey but his efforts contributed to the growing knowledge of river Niger and its surrounding areas. These explorers played crucial roles in mapping, documenting and advancing knowledge about river Niger and the regions he flows through. John Newton 1823 to 1895, British explorer who embarked on a journey to explore the Niger River and its surrounding territories. Newton conducted geographical surveys and documented his observations of the region's flora, fauna and societies. River Niger is one of the major rivers, the far longest after rivers Nile and Congo in Africa. It holds great significance for Nigeria. The source of river Niger can be traced to the Guinea Islands located in southern Guinea, south eastern Guinea. From the source, the river runs its way through Mali, Niger, Benin Republic and Nigeria, finally reaching the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The river has a total length of approximately 4,180 km, 2,700 miles. As river Niger flows through different regions, countries and nationalities in West Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, it is referred to by several names. In the Ausa speaking areas, it flows through, it is known as quora or quora, which is the name of the large river state of quora. To solidify its Ausa full and indominated traditional leadership and majority Islamic religion. In the Ausa speaking ocean state, it is called Oya or the Oya. In parts of Kogi state, the river is called Egera or Eba. In the Ego speaking and Ambra state, it assumes the name Orimeli or Oshimeli. Finally, as it reaches the Niger Delta in the Delta state, it is called Fokados River. River Niger plays a crucial role in the socio-economic life of Nigeria, transportation. River Niger sounds as a navigable waterway providing a means of transportation for people and goods. Water supply. The river is a vital source of fresh water for irrigation, domestic use and industrial activities. Hydroelectric power. Nigeria harnesses the power generated by the river through hydroelectric dams such as kanji and jeba dams. Fishing and aquatic resources. River Niger supports a thriving fishing industry providing a source of food and income for many communities. Cultural and tourism value. River Niger is imbued with cultural significance and plays a role in traditional practices and celebrations of local communities. One prominent one is the, it also attracts tourists and appreciates its scenic beauty. Cultural religious values and natural wonders. And that is it on the show tonight. I am Bola Oba. Have a good night.


Oh, thanks you. Just let me get my stuff going here. Yeah, so as already mentioned, my name is Christian Stonna. I work from the Oslo office for the Qt company, where I've been for the last 12 years. Last four years, I've been working on the 3D offerings of Qt. But yeah, that's enough about me. Let's just dive in. So these are the topics I want to go through today. I'll start by looking at the 3D offerings in Qt and try to answer some questions around that. Before I take a look at what Qt Quick 3D is and what it provides, this is not going to be a deep dive into 3D. I'll try to keep it very simple, using a very simple example and building on that, just showing off how to get easily started with Qt Quick 3D and basically showing how easy it is to use. I'll also take a look at mixing 2D and 3D content with Qt Quick 3D and Qt Quick. That's one of Qt Quick 3D's strong points. So I'll take a look at two ways of doing that. I think that will be interesting. After that, I'll take a look at the new features coming up in Qt Quick 3D 462 and say something about what we think will come post-62. Yeah, so these are the offerings of 3D offerings in Qt today. We have Qt 3D, we have 3D Studio and we have Qt Quick 3D. Of course, all of these provide 3D support in some way, but in a different way. First off, we have Qt Quick 3D, which is a high-level abstraction with low-level APIs. What I mean by that is it has a considerable barrier to entry. It has new concepts like the entity component system and a fully configurable frame graph. It's extremely flexible with what it can do, but I also think it's something that targets more advanced users that has requirements that are outside the two other offerings we have, 3D Studio and Qt Quick 3D. There's also a fair amount of abstraction on Qt 3D, which I've also mentioned here. That's mostly for a bit historical for how we ended up with Qt Quick 3D. We actually tried to put Qt 3D under 3D Studio, but at the time we had run into severe problems scaling down to the entry level embedded hardware we saw our users having using. That got us into a bit of a problems and we had to backtrack a little bit. We then came up with Qt Quick 3D as a replacement for, together with 3D Studio as a replacement. No, sorry. There's many 3D solutions here. Qt Quick 3D will, together with Design Studio, will be a replacement for 3D Studio in the future. 3D Studio is a very design-centric solution. It has a very tight engine to open GL. It also has concepts that feel fairly foreign to Qt, or that Qt already had better solutions for states and components. It also had declarative languages to describe its own scene format, materials, effects. We felt that didn't really fit with the unification story we tried to do for 2D and 3D. In the same way Qt 3D works, it's very self-driven, so we have extra straps needed to integrate and sync it with Qt Quick. I know there's been improvements to Qt 3D lately to improve on this, but this is more a historical context. We also wanted something even more high-level and easy to use, and something that just fitted into the Qt Quick story already and integrated well there. The result of all that is Qt Quick 3D. It has very high-level concepts, like camera light model, and those can easily be inserted in existing Qt Quick applications to add support for 3D. Qt Quick 3D is a very passive module in the sense that it only does what it's instructed to do, which is normally, it gets its drive from Qt Quick. So it's more of an extension of Qt Quick than a separate thing. Yeah, I'll then go into which one I should choose. Well, as I already said, Qt Quick 3D together with the science studio will replace the 3D studio from old, eventually. So that leaves only Qt Quick 3D and Qt 3D, and I think in most cases the right choice would be to pick Qt Quick 3D. It covers most 3D cases and integrates really well with Qt Quick, and I think the 3D needs of more advanced users will be identified by those that actually have that requirement, and they'll see if Qt 3D is the right choice for them compared to Qt Quick 3D. Christian, short comment, we still see the start slide, so you need to start advance the slides, and I don't know if you need to press the arrows. Okay, so then I'm feeling, oh, it's not, okay, there it's changing. Okay, it wasn't changing. Sorry about that, I didn't actually notice that. Yeah, so I think this is where I'm at, yeah. So the primary goals for us when we wanted to create Qt Quick 3D was that it should be simple and easy to use. It should have high level concepts like camera light model, and you should just be able to put that into your quick scene and get 3D content. We also wanted that there was no prior knowledge needed from the user about 3D. Of course, we had to back that with the excellent documentation, which I think we have been very good at adding. We also wanted it to be lightweight, similar to how Qt Quick initially was made. It's very embedded, centric. So we always keep an eye on that, that we have really good performance on embedded, and I think that's something that benefits the desktop in the end as well. Another thing that was very, at least I feel very strongly about is that we needed a code and a rendering that was easy to understand and reason about, and be able to easily see the flow data and code. And yes, and that's also something I think we've been able to maintain, even while we've been adding new stuff. Another key thing was that we needed it to integrate with Qt Quick. Mixing 2D and 3D content should be easy and inexpensive. So we needed, we didn't want to always go through off-screen rendering. We didn't want the renderer to be completely detached. So we needed the renderer to be able to talk to each other as well. That's what I mean by the unified rendering. One benefit of doing that and getting that is also that we can get really good-looking text, but not just text, like any Qt Quick item that's rendered directly into the scene with 3D transforms will look fairly good. The last important point for us was the tooling. We needed excellent tooling. We needed to have at least something as good as the 3D Studio for designers. It needed to be good for both designers and developers, not just one of them. So that's been in the back of our mind and that's something that's important for us. And it's something that's much more important when you're doing 3D. There's much more involved with lighting and positioning and stuff like that. So artists are usually used to working in very visual tools. So if you look at the architectural overview of Qt Quick 3D, you can see it sits on top of the RHI together with Qt Quick and it has its own scene graph with special items and we have a tight coupling between the two renderers. We don't do 2D rendering in the 3D engine or 3D rendering in the Qt Quick engine. We didn't want to destroy that by adding more complexity to either of them but instead we made that it's so that they have really good communication and can do inline rendering, jump from one to the other. Another point I think is worth taking up is asset and asset conditioning. This is also something again that's more important or more visible when you're doing 3D. Often the content you create comes from content tools like Blender, Maya, Substance Painter, those kinds of tools and they will export into some format like GLTF or FBX or their own formats and we need to condition those assets into something that's efficient for our real-time renderer because when those are exported they are exported with fidelity in mind and not necessarily efficiency. So that's where the conditioning comes in. We have this tool called Balsam interestingly enough which is our main conditioning tool that converts formats to QML components and it also then generates the textures and materials and everything that's needed to then put that into your application. It also has other things like you can do texture compression and yeah that's what I can think of at the moment. In addition we have the shader gen tool that's an experimental tool. Again it hasn't changed. Sorry about that. It removes. So we have the shader gen tool which is an experimental tool. It generates materials at build time by inspecting the scene and then trying to figure out what materials that will be needed in the application so that we don't need to do that at runtime and then therefore saving a lot of time. That's a fairly complex operation so that's why it's still experimental. We haven't seen that much use for it yet but that's something we're going to invest more. I also want to mention that it doesn't actually generate driver specific shader binaries but it generates spare v byte code that can be consumed by the Qt RHI later so it generates materials in essence. The next item here is the runtime loader which is a new item for Qt 6.2. That is what it says it can load the same assets at runtime. It at the moment supports glTF2 and what it does is a bit opposite of the Balsam tool. The scene is not generated at build time but it does it at runtime so it creates all the objects at runtime and you can reload with different type formats and now different models and you can use the runtime loader which is a special node to move and interact with the model or even scenes. It's fairly new so the API is not that extensive yet. Let's look at a minimal scene and how that looks in Qt Quick 3D. This should be fairly familiar at least the beginning here. We have a window and we have a view which view 3D which is a view into our 3D scene. We have a camera and a light and a model and that's it. I've set the source here to be a cube that's a built-in primitive and of course I've given it a material with the color green and yeah that's how easy it is to get started. It doesn't take much to get something on the screen and it doesn't take that much to get something more impressive like this. I've stole this model from the glTF2 sample library. I'm not that worst in the 3D tools that I can create something like that myself yet but again this is the same example. I've only changed the model to be the runtime loader here online 30 and I've given it source which is the glTF2 binary format file and for some extra effect I've added a light probe which is a HDR texture which it will use to light the model giving a more realistic lighting condition here and just to show that same texture you can see the reflection of the texture in the helmet in the shiny parts. I also said that the background mode to use the skybox mode which means it's going to use that light probe to to build the skybox as well. Yeah so the message here is that you can get something something fairly nice like this fairly easily. Yeah so let's move over to mixing 2D and 3D that means we do we have two modes for this there's a textured path and a direct path or inline path for both 2D and 3D. Scenes can still be rendered into textures that's still a flexible way to do it if you need to apply say that scene on a model that's not flat say a cylinder or something like that but both 2D and 3D items are defined in the same same scene. So if we look at the example here we have a button on line 27 which is just defined in line in our 3D scene and that's pretty much all it is to it. The DIST item which is a Qt Quick control item a button will then be rendered in line by the 2D engine so Qt Quick. What will happen is that when we get to this item it will branch off to the Qt Quick engine with the 3D transform and that will position and draw the the item as expected. The nice thing of this is of course that there's no need to go through offline rendering and so we don't pay any extra cost for that which we have discovered costs a lot on some devices. The drawback of this is of course it's flat as I said the textured mode you can apply to a model you cannot do that here unless it's flat you can push position it so it is on a flat surface but it's still going to be a flat item. I also highlighted on line 31 that the coordinate system in the 2D world and in 3D world are slightly different with the Y position flipped. The consequence of that is that if you want to position the quick item in the 3D scene you should be aware that you either need to do this or maybe better wrap the item in a node and then you can position it more logically in the 3D scene. Another thing to to be aware of is anchoring. Anchoring actually works but it when anchoring to a 3D item it will use the the center of that object as its reference point so you might need to put some an offset to to get what you want. Yeah and then we have the texture path which is a bit more involved as you know need to to set a material on some model that you want to render that source scene to so you can see here on line 33 we have a texture it has a source item property which you can give your cute quick item and that will then be rendered into a texture and become the texture and you then can apply that to a model. This is very flexible but again there's some caveats here especially when it comes to zooming and getting close to items that are going through a texture they will not appear that crisp they will get blurry the same way as you would if you scale an image you'll get some of that if if the size of the the item is not very correct and that's usually not that easy when you're constantly moving the camera or scaling items so here I put both of the the modes side by side of course I've exaggerated the the left side which is the texture path a little bit but it shows the kind of effect you will get when you go through a texture and this texture as you saw in the in the example is is on a rectangle here and of course when you get closer the texture will get stretched to to fit as as the the rectangle gets bigger. The opposite happens or not the opposite but as you can see for the the inline rendered or direct rendered item it stays really crisp the same with the texture but also the the lines from the button it looks really nice and and crisp and it will do that at whatever distance you are to it it will it will render with with from crick crick ready with the correct information and 3d transform so new features in 6.2 are instancing which I've shown here that's a tech was tech preview in 6.1 we lifted the tech preview for 6.2 so it should be be fully usable and I don't think we did any big changes to it yeah I came up with this horrific example again this is the exact same example I started with the only difference is I put the push button as a texture on the the cube and put instancing using random instancing having random position and colors for it I think there's about a thousand cubes here yeah so instancing is of course about drawing the same object multiple times and then doing it in one draw call which makes it very efficient the bad thing of course is that there's only one of these cubes that is the real one and that you can push next is particles we added 3d particles that is that's the 3d version of the the particles you might be familiar from Qt Quick this also was tech preview in 6.1 but that also has been lifted now for 6.2 it uses instancing for the model mode which you see here there's two modes for doing particles there's the model version and there's a sprite version both instancing and particles have excellent blog posts I recommend looking at those I'm not going to dig deeper into this today so yeah please have a look at those runtime asset loading I already mentioned so in the picture here I've also enabled instancing for that that's also supported so I don't remember how many models were used here but same thing we're doing instancing with that whole model with random position and color the API as I also touched on this the API for this is is not that extensive yet it's completely new now for 6.2 and so we're investigating ways to give better access to the sub components at runtime but that's something that will come in later versions last feature added for 6.2 is parallax occlusion mapping that's a more advanced technique for doing bump mapping or normal mapping for those that's familiar with that basically that's trying to fake depth the appearance of depth in the in a model using textures and without adding adding extra vertices to the model and yeah that's it's pretty nice it gives a really nice realistic look yeah so what's next tooling that's gonna be a big point for us we're gonna spend some time getting a design studio up to speed with the the new stuff in Qtquake for 6.2 and hopefully close the gap with 3d studio soon so so those using 3d studio will get a nice transition over to Qtquake 3d and design studio we're also going to look at the asset pipeline and add better and more support for formats there I'm not completely sure what we planned there except that that's that's a topic we're gonna do in parallel with the improving design studio and of course getting feedback we want more feedback about what what's working well and what what's missing and what what people would see yeah I think that's it thanks for listening in and maybe if there's some questions we can take them now yeah thanks Christian yeah and I'm sorry sorry about the slides that I don't know what yeah no problem um so there's one question from Hannah she's asking are there any plans for Qtquake 3d and AR VR applications or team VR or open XR or yes to all I would say we're experimenting with this there's I don't think we have like a version set for that yet but there's versions and prototypes floating around testing this so definitely something that will be coming okay and Nuno asks can you show and I don't know if it's already done so maybe he asked can you show an example of loading the gltf at runtime interacting with it um and do you import the camera lights and animations at runtime and how do you expose them in QML yeah so I cannot show that here we the code is available already and there's an example showing it off that's the one I showed yeah so it does load the whole scene so it does load cameras animations and the whole the whole lot from the scene the problem is that as I said the API is fairly limited yet I'm investigating ways to expose those things of course you can have multiple cameras and animation tracks and we need some way to to expose that but at the moment we don't have that and it would require using private APIs but fully possible if you're willing to to to dive into those private APIs okay yeah that's good for questions folks saying it again Christian yeah thanks


The next group that I'm hoping we'll be able to speak really honored that you're here today to share your story with us. It's Mission Trust from the home community and specifically some folks from the resident council of that community. Mary, if you're ready. Good morning. My name is Mary C. Flotis. I reside at 1515 Mission Road with my husband and I am the face. One of the faces of gentrification along with a resident neighbor of mine, Mia Chavez. Gentrification is a shift in an urban community towards wealthier residents and our businesses and in increasing property values. In our case, the only wealth we have is our faith and love of our family ties. Our wealth is not monitored. Legal governments may favor gentrification because of the increased tax base associated with new high income residents as well as other perceived benefits of moving poor people. Actually, let's call it what it really is and that is displacement. I know that gentrification is occurring all over the world and not just in our community in San Antonio, Texas. But I do not live all over the world. I reside at 1515 Mission Road Mission Trust mobile home community. Gentrification has been occurring since the third century AD and just because it continues to happen, this does not mean that this is just or fair. When this involves people's lives and the way it impacts our lives. Our community did not want the rezoning to pass, but this point is moot now. Whether our community favored this change or not does not mean that anyone has the right to treat us as if though we do not matter because we most certainly do. No one should have to live through what we have continued to go through on a daily basis. Just last night we had another water line break. My husband and Mr. Valdez, another resident fixed the problem because the maintenance man was not available. And while the manager was contacted, he has nothing in place for such emergencies.  Because the owner has failed to maintain this property, these occurrences which are happening, water issues, not to mention the raw sewage that is seeping out of some of the residents living area. While co-compliance has been contacted and the manager and the owner are aware of these problems to date, there has been no action taken to remedy this problem. We still have, we still live here and continue to pay rent. We are not living free, living there free and we are not asking for anything other than for the responsible parties to step up to the plate and make things right. An interview that Lauren Graham from Channel 4 had with Consulwoman Viagran for District 3, Viagran stated that what we are going to do is to make sure that we follow through with all the commitments that the city was made and that we that were made. I can tell you that the incentives that were made by the developer is not a viable plan. What they propose is something close to $4,000 and it's a case by case basis. Moving costs, Alamo Movers mobile home, Joe Richardson is $2,400 to move a mobile home. We have a porch and patio cover and our storage sheds to tear down and we put back up those costs are $800. Our Amendia, the AC people who have to disconnect and reconnect are conditioned at $600. Two guys moving, they charge $450 for a $90 an hour for an estimated five hours. Mission Road mini storage will have to store our furniture before we move is $99 a month plus the boxes, $52.56. The phone, AT&T, I'll have to have that disconnected and reconnected is $49. The hotel to stay at because where are we going to stay while the move is being made is $260. Utilities to reconnect $1,500, the water to reconnect $1,800. The land purchase, if you're looking to purchase land and not go to one of these mobile home communities that they're trying to say that they're not telling us where to move but yet they have a list for us. Earnings money $1,500, subject $1,000, attorney fees for the contract on the land $300, title county fees $200, title search fees $57, recording fees $174, courier fees $40, title commitment $380, tax certificate $470, appraisal $400, property survey $350, total of $12,881.56. And that's not counting the subsistence for down the meals and incidentals that the government federal government allows $66 a day per person to survive to eat while they're out of their home. There was a question asked of me which by a reporter which will remain unnamed. His question was that people were asking him while they were not taking sides why just why we just didn't find some land and move. My response to him was that's a very good question and I'll answer that for you right now. I told him that we attended several meetings with certain council members and a proposal was made. What if we were to acquire some land for the residents and make all the necessary living conditions that go along with just living whether it be a mobile home or a house. Where is that land? Then we had another proposal made by another city council person who suggested what if each resident was given $30,000 for moving costs? I replied that is a good idea. Where is that money? We are not looking to make money from this. We are just wanting what is fair enough to cover our moving expenses. If it comes to that, we will have to move. We should not have to pay anything out of pocket. I believe at the end of all of this, that this journey we are on, that God has a better plan for all the residents. So how does the reporter and his story that was Murray Flores and she says she doesn't expect to move. You give your report, you give your interview and yet at the end and everybody that's out there is watching the news and they're saying the stubborn woman won't move and that was not what I told him. What I said if it comes to that, then we will move. I did not say I did not expect to move. This plan is one the city wanted, the landowner and the developer. So they need to step up to the plate to do right by the residents of Mission Trails Mobile Home Community. The San Antonio Express News dated May 6, 2014 states that the city coffers has assets of $6.4 billion. So there's many there to be had to be used. Those that they use for incentives for the developers can also be used for people that are being displaced. In the future, when there is a development being proposed, the city needs to take a closer look and make sure that this is about growth and what is good for the city. And not let greed be the driving factor in all their decisions. Do not continue to build over people's lives. It's pretty ironic that our own mayor is being nominated for HUD Secretary. If the people of San Antonio couldn't be helped at the city level, how will the nation benefit? I wrote some questions down, just in case folks were kind of in terms of speaking to situations in your own neighborhoods. So I think Andy from Tel Aviv, if you're ready to come up. Some of the questions that I wrote down were just how has gentrification impacted your community? What have you experienced? Maybe you haven't experienced anything directly, but what have you observed your neighbors experiencing? What are your primary concerns in your neighborhood about how the cities approach gentrification? So you don't have to answer all of them, but any of those would be good places to stick to. Thank you. Thank you very much. My name is Angie Ruiz and I'm a resident of the Tobin Hill Historic District. I can readily say that I may be the gentrification baby of this situation. And I started off my, during my birth, living in the area in the downtown area at 211 Arroyo Alley, which became the hemisphere area. We in turn, of course, moved out, moved over as close as we could to the circular area that we were so accustomed to. This community was condemned, but was such an all-American community of Polish, Jewish, and Mexican immigrants, with ourselves as a first generation of children attending excellent education system, excellent schools, with Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, and all kinds of churches in that community. It was just an all-American community with people knowing each other and being part of the community in every way that you could think of. Well, this turned out that we would have to move out and we anticipated doing that before we were forcibly ousted, like some of the people that went through this experience. We moved over as close as we could and we moved down Gonzales Street, which is close to the Esfidipo, which was known as the railroad station at the time. And so we were very happily living there, close to the downtown area, still having the good schools, Catholic schools, and whatever. So here comes the expressway, purchased our home, and we had to move on. So we decided that we wanted to be close by to where the children were going to incarnate work. And my choice was Tobin Hill and became in love with the neighborhood. When I first saw the home that I bought, I went into the living room and loved the historical architecture that this two-story had and made the best of it and had a very good living area. This was in 1966 when I moved into Tobin Hill. In the early 1980s, I received a letter from Mr. Zachary from the construction company that he was interested in purchasing my home because he wanted to expand the Humana Hospital that had been built and wanted to develop a clinic area and a shopping area from McCulloch to St. Mary's from East Park to Elmira. This was his intent of erasing all the homes and making this clinic area and of course a business area. The thing that saved us was our neighborhood association. They built a good structural association of dedicated people and in 1987 formed our first neighborhood plant. And that's what saved Tobin Hill from Mr. Zachary tearing down our beautiful architectural homes and a very happy community at the time. It needed it all work, but we had a good association and I can say that is the most important factor right now that you have a good functioning neighborhood association. We're not working very hard and we need to retain those neighborhoods. In 1982, the city said they wanted to preserve these communities. The tourism was advancing and they felt that these neighborhoods were an asset with the architecture, the history behind them and helped us in every way. Helped us monetary wise, even send us to computer lessons so that we could have our newsletter and have a good functioning neighborhood. This worked very well but it seems like the city has forgotten about looking in on the associations and looking at these communities of people that need to live within the central area. The thing about it is that the encroachment began with a hospital wanting to purchase in which they did. They bought quite a number of homes in the Tobin Hill area and tore them down. Of course, San Antonio College eminent domain came in and also destroyed quite a number of architecture. In the 70s it had started already with a developer tearing down some of our northern part of Tobin Hill. So that had been completely destroyed.  And so the thing that really helped us was working as a group with the association and trying to preserve everything possible. It's gotten to the point where we're being encroached. The latest thing was Laurel Street was going to be blocked by the hospital because they were building their ICU unit and they needed the street along with the area in order to combine the hospital with the parking garage. It was a decision made by the planning department, by the association which is presently in effect, and by our councilman. But it takes three people to really work hard and dedicate yourself that this was unfair. This was not very healthy, not very safe, and not really a contribution to the neighborhood. So we presented a map with all the properties that the hospital had purchased and all the properties that they still had. And the reason why this street was very essential. And Tobin Hill has some streets that are not 90 degree intersections, they're T-intersections, they're curved in certain areas. And we made our justification that the time element of an ambulance or the fire department coming in would be detrimental and dangerous to the community as well as to the hospital. We presented this and other factors that were not stated by the hospital that the city council needed to know. And we saved that street but it only took three persons to do this. And the dedication should be there, that we should still be there working for our community. I'm no longer a president of the association, I passed it on at the time that I was appointed with the Senator and Independent School District for ten months and continued working. And so I'm still working and I'm still trying to save some of the properties that we have now. We have the Broadway, the Pearlboro that's coming in, so far so good it hasn't demolished any of our residential areas. It's progressing rather well but it may come into play where some of our homes may be destroyed if we allow it. So I'm just saying work hard and keep at it and let's erase some of this gentrification. Thank you very much. Hi, good morning. I have really been appreciating everything that I'm learning and I just thank you for having this conversation. My name is Luis Anas, I was raised most of my life in the east side of San Antonio. I remember from my early childhood living in the Victoria Courts and after my dad retired from working several years at Casarillo, he used some of that money to put a down payment in a home on Paso Jondo Street near Walters and so that was like the house where we grew up. Unfortunately he was deported and my mom was left to take care of all of our family on her own and as a homeowner you really have, it's your responsibility to keep up with the foundation or any problems that come up. We had leaks on the roof and it's just a lot of, she's working most of the time. Eventually we had infestations and stuff so we were too young to help her out and so she decided to leave to Mexico to reunite with my dad and she took most of the kids with her and I stayed behind with my brother at an aunt's house and she gave the house away to my aunt. Since then we've been renting, we've been renting and we always think like, I don't know why did you give it up, you should have brought another way to keep this home because now as a renter you're really forced to move and you're really up to the decisions of other people. So we've seen rent go up, we've been paying rent from like $5.50 to like recently $600 and now we pay $8.50 and so it's just really lucky now that our family is really united and we all live together and so all of us working were able to make rent, pay utilities, afford food and everything that comes with, we try to live a good life for your families. But $8.50 is a lot and they're like, well why don't you go to housing, you'll pay like $2.50 at the most or $3.50. But the waiting list is so long and then they want you to live wherever they want you to live and it's still at the date of housing sometimes too. So I still live in the east side, I'm a community health worker with Martins Street Women's Center, part-time basis and even having graduated from the university, I can't afford to live on my own without my family. And I've seen, it's just for me it's like boggling how these new condos on Cherry Street and then I have a sign that says starting from $170,000. How anyone could afford to buy a home that expensive. I'm sure credit has everything to do with it. My credit's like really bad because of the student loans and stuff but now we want to be homeowners, we would like to stay in our community and I really feel like my story is kind of like a lot of people's because not everyone is a homeowner. There's a lot of renters who want the opportunity to buy land and feel secure in something that you call your home. But when you have these high-rise condos that doesn't even have a yard and I'm just like how can anyone live like that? How is this healthy right in front of an industrial site? If that's what they want, fine. It's just like really putting everyone else who working really hard cannot ever dream of coming up with so much money. I really hope that the new Wheatley Quartz, they've torn down a housing project in the east side. I really hope that most people are able to come back and that they have access to a lot of resources, good educational programs for their kids. In the years that I've grown up in the east side, it really has been non-existent. Our Houston Street, our new Brownfield Street Avenue, there are some small businesses and I love that, but there's still a lot of empty buildings there. And sometimes there's nowhere to turn. I just remember being a teenager and just being on the streets and just playing on the streets and seeing a lot of stuff because there was not a recreation center there that had like awesome programs. There is Dawson Park, there's always been Dawson Park. I give thanks to Dawson Park because it got me playing basketball and took me off the streets. But it's like few and by the quality there's Lockwood Park. And now Martin Street Women's Center is renting that space which is awesome. But for seven years it was like empty and there was no parks and rides. There was the basketball court and like the park, but there was no staff there to like engage kids in real meaningful activities where they could play at night.  There's this beautiful, there was this beautiful like Martin Luther King painting that has since been like, they kind of like painted over it. But there's still, there's a lot of things that they're missing, they're spending so much money on projects. But like the very simple things like having a beautiful mural of MLK, it's like faded and torn up and it's not inspiring and he needs to be honored. There's a statue of him on Houston Street. That space needs to be honored and maybe more flowers or something. I don't know. There's more and more activities around the area. I really dream of our neighborhood flourishing. I just hope that the city pays attention and has a conversation with the people so that we can. And that's the way that I've learned talking to other people. That's how great ideas come about. I just wish that the city would sponsor more events where it was a real public engagement and not only if you could afford to go to this meeting. Thank you. I'm Rachel Jennings. I'm an instructor at San Antonio College. And I also am a member of Travis Park Uniting Methodist Church. I wanted to talk about the impact that gentrification has had on Travis Park and on our church and all of the people who make use of Travis Park. I'm very familiar with the park. I first was introduced to it in 1999. I did not own a car at the time. I did not drive to get to work at the University of iconic Word. That year I had to take the bus and I changed buses at Travis Park. And I immediately recognized that we had a community there. A lot of bus riders, of course, change buses at Travis Park. There's this community of bus riders that's impacted. And there is the homeless population that's always been there. And since attending Travis Park Church, I've continued to be very familiar with that park. I'm there very frequently. And I was there just this morning, in fact, and I'm sure a lot of you have seen these changes, but they're happening very rapidly. This is something that's been planned, apparently, for a number of years, although we didn't know about it. But now it's gone into a phase of some very fast changes. So I wanted to talk about those changes. They've planted flowers, which is nice. There's beautiful flowers growing. And they've cleaned it up. They've added a number of areas to this small square that make it very sort of unfriendly to working class people. To people who might want to just use the park because they're passing through, but also to bus riders, to city workers, and to the homeless population. It's really intended, obviously. I don't think there's anything mysterious about this. It's obviously intended to make the park attractive, maybe to people who, to tourists, who stay in the hotel nearby the St. Anthony Hotel, or to people in the new condos and apartments on Broadway. And that's the population they're wanting, they're wanting the rest of us to stay away. There is, just yesterday, I noticed for the first time, this is what they call the popcorn wagon, which is a concession stand in the middle of the park now. I noticed the prices. I'll read some of these prices to you. There's bottled water for $2. A chili cheek dog is $3.50. A corn dog is $3. Cotton candy is $4. A pickle is $1.75. Sunflower seeds, $2. Nachos, $4. Frito pie, $4.50. You can get a large lemonade or iced tea for $3.50. Or a small one for $2.50. So I can't afford those prices. So, most people can't. So I think it's mostly well-off tourists, again, and expensive apartment dwellers are trying to appeal to.  It's very small. I noticed it has a little water fountain for dogs that dogs can use. Very few people seem to use it. I have noticed maybe a couple of people with their dogs who use it, but not large numbers. But it does take up space, which I think is what they're wanting to do. They're wanting to keep people out of the space. So they have iron railings around the little dog park. They also have the little architectural exhibit, this art exhibit. Which is very abstract. It's made with these kind of wooden beams. For me, the language of this abstract art is very unfriendly because it has these little white triangular shapes. It looks to be canvas or something, but to me what it looks like visually are like knife blades or something. Or sharp scales that are very sharp and penetrating. It does not look friendly. And it's surrounded by an iron chain with little posts. So you're not allowed to go near this art exhibit. And in fact, there are signs telling you to not climb on the art exhibit to stay away. So they have signs telling people not to go near. So again, that's a lot of green space where they do not want us to be at. And especially the homeless people. They do not want homeless people there. I did notice that they have signs advertising the park that tell us the hours of the park, which I guess would be from something like 5 a.m. to I think 10 p.m. or something of that kind. So actually, it's 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. are the hours. 5 to 11. In the night, if you're homeless and you need a place to sleep, I'm assuming they would kick you out. So they have those hours, they're maintaining. There is a very constant police presence in the area. The popcorn wagon even has video surveillance and audio monitoring. Again, just to keep track of people and what they're doing. And everything about it is designed for middle class people. If you go to a water fountain, it has a regular water fountain, and then you can also get filtered water.   So there's those sorts of little amenities that are clearly designed for middle class people, very affluent people to make them feel more comfortable. They have put in one of those meters, you've probably seen them around the Haven for Hope, that say, do not support panhandling, make a change here, and you put coins to make a donation to Haven for Hope. They have one of those at Travis Park now where you can make a donation to Haven for Hope. So what they're telling you is do not give money to homeless people, do not support homeless people because they do not want homeless people in that park. And I've seen a radical drop-off in the homeless people there in the park. There are a few who'll come in. I did see a man about a week ago who was lying on the grass and stayed there for about four hours or so. I noticed, so he was undisturbed for several hours. But for the most part, people are not there. They're used to on a Sunday morning, it used to be hugely crowded with people, many of whom were homeless. That is not the case now on a Sunday morning. More people will go into the Corazon Ministries for breakfast early on this Sunday morning. There's actually more people who'll do that. And I think the reason is because there are still people around who need food, who need to eat to sustain themselves. So they'll go in for food. After that they'll leave. They used to stay around the church. They enjoyed the 11 o'clock service. They leave after that because they're not welcome in the park. So where do they go? Between 8 o'clock and 11 o'clock, where would they go? And they have to figure out where to get lunch. Where do they go for their next meal? So those are all very real things that are happening in the park. Oh, I should also mention the bicycles. And again, that's a wonderful thing to have the bicycles that you rent. It's $10 a day for 30 minute intervals. But again, it's designed to attract these affluent tourists and whatnot. This is what those bicycles are there for. So that's having an effect on people. That's the effect of gentrification on Travis Park. And we have heard rumors, and I don't know much about this, but the rumors is that developers are wanting the whole street of, I think it's Travis Street to make it into what they're calling an adult playland for clubs and bars and whatnot. And they would actually want our church, they would want to put like a music club in the church. So that's, again, the nature of development in San Antonio. Thank you. So at this time we have about 25 minutes till noon. And at this point it would be really great to maybe we could segue some of our commentary to thinking about solutions. And also hear from Mike and any of the representatives from I think there's districts one, three, five, and I don't know if folks from 8K or something that come. But in particular, we, like I said, we're the ones who are impacted by these forces. And so we should be at the helm of developing solutions. And we actually got a policy tool that is useful, I think, to folks in office or folks who can take the tool back to the people you're representing. A recent report that came out from right to the city called Rise of the Renternation Solutions to the Housing Portability Crisis, which gives a whole kind of range of different, I mean part of the focus is the national level and sort of reforms that have to happen on that level. But a large focus is also local suggestions that we can use in our communities here. I think one of the big kind of points that they make that's relevant here is that housing policy is not just about affordability narrowly, which is kind of the way that it usually gets discussed. But actually we have to talk about housing security. So housing that's not just affordable, it's free from forces of speculation and displacement. And also housing that's community controlled. So when community is able to have cooperative ownership over land and also the structures on the land, that's when you can create the most, housing that is the most secure and actually the most affordable as well. So I think there's a few different copies of this floating around, but if they can make their way into the hands of the elected folks who are representing here today, that would be great. And if not, let me know and I can get you a copy. But there's another report that also came out. I didn't bring it with me, because we only have one copy, but it's produced by an organization in the Bay Area called Casa Husta, Just Cause. And they have produced a report in coalition with actually the public health department there. And the report is called Development Without Displacement, Resisting Gentrification in the Bay Area. So if anybody's interested in that report, I can also forward you the link. You can download it for free on their website. But it also includes a lot of different sort of concrete policy solutions to a lot of the... Their situation is slightly different there, but there's tremendous overlap between what's going on there, what's going on here, what's going on in New York City and other places around the world. So if y'all are okay, I'd like to invite folks who are representing different state and city offices just to kind of share your thoughts based on the testimonies that you've heard. And maybe there can be a kind of informal discussion, Q&A, where we can start to sort of think through what would solutions to these situations look like in the case of San Antonio.