Good afternoon everyone. It is now six o'clock. Let's go ahead and begin today's meeting of the open government task force and who will be doing a special meeting today. Can I have the roll call, please? Council Member O'Crepe. Here. Council Member Fleming. Here. Chair Alvarez. Present. Let the record show that all members are present. All right, let's go ahead and move on to public comment. If we can have you. For individuals attending on zoom, you can go ahead and use the hand raised feature. We do have a hand raised for public comment one moment. Gregory fear and I have given you permission to unmute your microphone.  Yes, I do. Thank you. Your time begins now. Thanks. I just wanted to thank all of you for meeting. You know that I'm a avid activist in the city and always interested in what the city council is up to. And it's been a while since you guys had a meeting and I always appreciate when you do. So I just wanted to welcome you to the airwaves and to your pursuit of an open government process. Thank you so much. There are no other hands raised for public comment and no public comment in the room. Thank you very much. Let's go ahead and move on to item number four. I'm sorry. I remember three approval of minutes, and I will be abstaining as I wasn't present for the November 14th meeting. As well as everybody would you like to approve these minutes if you have an objection. Hi, good evening. Jeff Burke city attorney's office. So actually you don't have to have been present and if two of you weren't there then you probably couldn't take a vote to pass it. The minutes but you actually can approve the minutes if, if you trust the secretarial skills of the person who crafted it. And I have no reason to believe that they're not correct. So you can feel comfortable in voting to pass the minutes, even if you weren't present. I appreciate that guidance, sir. And with that being said, there's no objection from either council members will go ahead and approve the minutes from November 14 2022. Seeing no objection, they are approved. Let's go ahead and move over onto item four schedule items for one presentation. Open government task force simplification subcommittee overview. If you'd like to present the item please. Yes, thank you. Good evening council members I'm Daniel gardenio violence prevention program manager here today to provide you with an overview of the open government task force implementation subcommittee, and also a brief history about the open government work that the council and the city has done in the past. So next slide please. Thank you. So in 2014, Mayor Scott Bartley convened the mayor's open government task force. This task force was utilized or it utilized a process of community engagement and formal discussions and hearings from local and state leaders on subjects of communication and community engagement. It consisted of 10 members and two supporting members, and throughout the process, it became apparent with our community that there was a growing sense of mistrust with our government. And the task force itself concluded that the city, despite adhering to and sometimes exceeding the state's legal requirements still had critical work to do. Openness and engagement should become a city priority in order to meet the changing expectations of the community. So with that they compiled a list of recommendations, and they presented it to city council on December 2 2014 which the city then adopted. Within those recommendations there were four broad sets of goals. Next slide please. Thank you. So first goal were was around immediate actions for council, one being setting a council goal of open and transparent government. And the next setting three strategic objectives for the organization, including hiring a communications director, adopting a sunshine ordinance or open government ordinance and creating a mission that incorporated community engagement into it. Slide please. The next set of goals were around developing a culture that values public engagement, and this included genuinely engaging and partnering with neighborhoods, volunteers, businesses, institutions, and organizations which support our community. And establishing Santa Rosa as a leader in civic engagement with a goal of increasing openness transparency and accountability, closing the communication loop and acknowledging the value of community input, wisdom and participation, increasing opportunities for diverse community engagement and effective participation and building a strong civic infrastructure which includes education around engaging in local government. Slide please. The third goal was around developing a culture that focused on communications. So the first one being creating a communications director position. Initially they created this position as a community engagement director position, where they packed in community engagement and communications into one position. So we hired the first director in October 2015, and then the subsequent director in March of 2017. And then they, they learned from that experience that we needed to separate out the community engagement and communications component. And so in 2018 they created the communications and intergovernmental relations officer position, which is now currently being filled by long Peterson. And the last objective within that goal is to overhaul the city's website that was completed in 2017, and I believe zero is currently looking at how to better improve the current city website as well. Next slide please. My goal for focused on developing policies that promote openness. This included drafting and adopting an open government ordinance that supports sharing transparency and open government through policies that exceed minimum requirements and statutes for meeting public records. This was passed in December of 2020 and has been implemented since then. Additionally, there was an educational component around this including creating a guidebook to participation in local government and a series of civic one on one videos to go along with that guidebook. Next slide please. So that was the mayor's open government task force. Then, at some point along the road I believe was in 2017, no 2018, the Council's current subcommittee was created. That subcommittee was created to specifically take the open government ordinance that have been drafted and see it across the finish line. That was about two years worth of work where we met on a monthly basis with city clerk and the city attorney to get the ordinance to where both city staff felt comfortable with it and then also receiving public input and making sure it was reflective of what the community wanted. After taking it to council in December 2020 and having it implemented the subcommittee then received updates on implementation and also discussed the city's lobbying ordinance, the campaign finance regulations, and then the various outreach tools that we developed to go along with the ordinance including the guidebook and the civic one on one videos. Next slide please. I just wanted to point out to alignment with other city plans. So the 2014 report of recommendations was very robust and does align with quite a few of our other city plans that have been created and implemented since, including our community empowerment plan, most specifically around creating an organizational culture that values public engagement with all community members and increasing access to public engagement opportunities and our commitment to diversity equity transparency and access. Next slide please. And then finally, alignment with our Santa Rosa equity plan. Aligning. So a couple points from that plan city aligning its mission vision and values to include the principles of diversity equity inclusion transformation, bridging and belonging, developing and implementing structures and standards includes including policies processes procedures to foster a culture of language access and justice and communications and public participation decision making processes. Next slide please. As well as implementing re examining and empowering equitable and effective city wide external communications and engagement standards and policies. And, in addition to that proactively identifying and responding to individual and community needs complaints and systematic challenges through listening empathy honesty and collaboration. Next slide please. So with that, I know that was really quick and a very broad overview. And now that the open government ordinance has been adopted and implemented, along with some of the educational materials and tools and the implementation of a variety of other city plans. What is the next steps for this subcommittee what is your vision for how we use this time here. Thank you. Thank you for the excellent presentation. Do I need to use this for the AV. Okay. Otherwise, I think you could hear me talk. It's a little weird. Does this subcommittee function as per the charter or ordinance. So it says stop. So it's at the pleasure of the mayor. Correct. Okay, so my question would be what goals has the city council set in our last session. We just did our goal setting. Yeah, I don't have we set that could be implemented, if any, through this task force. And if there are none, perhaps, then bar in the community coming forward with something then perhaps the subcommittee is no longer needed in an active state. I don't have the current goals in front of me. I'm sorry. Yeah, and to follow up on council member Fleming's comment if we're serving in this capacity at the pleasure of the mayor has the mayor expressed any goals or or thoughts about what this committee should accomplish. Not that I'm aware of and I think it's up to this subcurrent subcommittee to figure that out. I do share the concern of the idea of what is the actual need of this committee if there's a need at all, and how can actually adjust the messaging that we're going to be producing if we see the need for this committee moving forward. What needs are within the community and how can we implement a message that's actually being heard by the target community. I think for me, if we're going to ask the question of what is the goal is to formulate a plan and assist them where we can actually engage the community at their level, opposed to what we've seen in the past of just developing a message and kind of seeing where it sticks if there's not an emergency or something that is a great concern to the greater wide city of Santa Rosa. And I'd be particularly interested in the public whoever's attending hearing from them if they have any goals for us. And then suggesting that if they don't that we wait for the direction from the mayor or the council at large or the community. I do agree and I believe we do have an opportunity for a public comment on this item. Unless we have any other comments. Yes, sir. Yeah, I was just going to concur with council member Fleming. I think we just recently got a draft version of our finalized goals. And I think once that is finalized maybe either all of council or maybe starting with the mayor can can whittle their way through that to figure out what exactly we can accomplish here on this task force and then maybe we have some direction outside of obviously the the public's input. Yes, absolutely. So it sounds, I think we're on agreement that we do need some direction from our mayor to really formulate or actually give us a reason or reason of existing and how to formulate our energy here. So it's an agreement with the council as a whole. And with that, unless we have any other comments, please. I just wanted to say that one thing that we've done with other subcommittees in the past is sometimes the chair will look at the goals. So, if we're unable to come up with something today, and in the future you see something that you think that we should bring forward. That's one other avenue. And then another thing that I've seen happen is that we can subcommittee can go dormant, but not cease to exist because I think it'd be a difficult argument to say that we shouldn't exist at all. There's going to always be things that are going to come up, but perhaps now is not a moment where there is one of those things. The question that arises is for the mayor who implemented this committee, was there anything that was an emergency or something that he saw at the time for the need for this committee to exist in the first place? I know there was a little bit of unrest. Yes. But I believe to add to that, there was a list of at least 10 things which the committee was addressing. And part of that was the non-citizen voting amongst other issues. And since then, we have as a council introduced a seat program or seat collaborative, which helped address a lot of some of these issues, which didn't exist when the list was being formulated. Correct. That's correct. And that's why I had shown some of those slides up there as to where we align with the equity plan. I believe there is plans for the very new future to form of, I think it's called the vibe committee, which will be an internal working group of city staff to move those recommendations forward. Very well. Since I'm new here. And from my own notification, what overlap do we have with, say, the community advisory board and the board of community services? Are there things that they would tackle that we wouldn't or we would tackle that they wouldn't? That's a really good question. They actually have on their, under their chartered scope, the civic engagement piece, community engagement and providing input on community engagement strategies. And helping to educate the community and get them more involved in our local government. For community advice board, I can't speak to the board of community services. So a lot in common. A lot in common. Okay. Yeah. And if I'm mistaken, this community here serves to disseminate the information to the community as well. Yeah. For a lot of the other committees and boards that exist. So I mean, even at that level, I see the importance of this committee, but I believe the shared feeling is we would like some direction from our mayor to see if there's a particular direction that we should be pursuing. Yes. And in that direction. There are no further comments. Let's go ahead and open up for public comment, please. So item number 4.1 we're opening it up to public comment for all members who are participating via zoom. Please go ahead and use the hand raised feature. We do have one public comment. Gregory fearing. Do you see the timer on your screen for three minutes. Yes, I do. Okay, go ahead and begin your public comment your time begins now. Thanks a lot. And it is the old. I mean, as you all remember, there was an open government task force which came up with a report. Three years ago, four years ago. And so my suggestion is that you all dig out that report and look at the many recommendations that it made and conclude either individually or through the mayor or through the chair. If there's anything in that report that still needs to be done. That's it. Thanks. Thank you. There are no other hands raised for public comment and no public comment in the room. We're bringing it back to council. Well, that's great direction. I appreciate the comment. And what I want to see moving forward is more public participation as that is key to transparency and open government. So hopefully in the future we'll have plenty of additional college, but the point was very well made and we're well received. And there's something that I hope to carry in the discussion with the mayor. The list that was in the recommendations that were made in the past. Any additional comments, please. Yeah, I do think that Mr. here on this point is well taken that if we could get some direction to finding that report it's a shame so many reports get written and we don't. And we inherit there's three people who just inherited a board. So, I'd be willing to take the time to read the report. So I can point me in the right direction. Yeah, we'll make sure to get it to all three of you. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. With that saying being said, moving on to the same item in a different form which is I remember five featured agenda items. Right. What a perfect segue right. Well, I think we'll move on to this item, but I think it's clear. I'm hoping that we made it clear that we do need additional guidance suggestion direction. So I think we'll move on to our reports from the past that we can definitely use to to develop that conversation. My suggestion would be that since you know no two of us can speak together that that the chair gets direction from the mayor and then through our attorneys or the clerk lets us know when you believe it would be wise for us to resume meeting. Very well. With that being said, we'll carry the conversation forward with our mayor as well as our legal counsel to develop a agenda or at least present agenda. And you're right, we can't speak to each other since she would be the fourth. But yes, definitely develop a conversation about the future direction of the subcommittee. Thank you both. With that being said, we don't need a public comment for number five million. We should write very well we'll open up public comment for feature agenda items from the public if you'd like to carry that forward. This is now the time for public comment on item number five feature agenda items. Those who are attending over zoom please go ahead and use the raised hand feature. I am not seeing any hands raised over zoom and no public comment in the room. Thank you very much. And that takes us to item six, the German. It is now 622. Thank you all for attending. And in the future, let us create more public participation and go your favorite basketball team. Thank you.


What's up guys in this video? I'm going to showcase to you guys how you can convert shooting photos and videos with this to this This is the shift cam pro grip with additional pro lenses Let's dive in unbox this and see what this can do So I ordered this kit around October 2020 so it's taken one whole year for it to actually arrive So for me, I wasn't disappointed whatsoever. This is the pro grip This is the photography pro lens kit and this is the in-case lens mount You need all of this to create the setup that you just saw but essentially the entire kit that you see here cost $199 if you want the pro grip just on its own It's a hundred and forty nine dollars the latest pricing information including all of the accessories that you can buy for the shift cam Set is in the description below Now I'm going to go ahead and unbox all of these and also showcase some example photos I've taken with both of these lenses one is the 60 millimeter telephoto lens The other one is the 18 millimeter wide angle lens now one of the reasons I really wanted to try this out is to take my photography that I use from my iPhone to the next level Of course, you can use this with Android phones as well for me personally it works best with iPhones It's tailored a little bit more for that But one thing I really like about this is that this is the most ergonomically designed and most comfortable grip for a Mobile phone I've ever used there's plenty of them on the market if you go on Amazon You can see a whole bunch of these but just holding this makes it feel like you're holding a DSLR or mirrorless camera That's the whole purpose of this set Let me go in and unbox some of these things show you how to set it up Show you some sample photos I've taken and let me know what you guys think so just starting off with the pro grip itself For me personally, you know, this is so comfortable to have in your hand This is a wireless charging plate as well If you wanted to go out and get a full day's worth of photo shoots and videos It's perfect to have a wireless charger in built into the grip itself So this is where the phone slots in this actually rotates very easily and it is very solid to portrait mode So you can quickly turn to landscape mode like this two buttons there You have the Bluetooth connect button and the wireless charging on and off button there It comes with this very nice strap to support your hand You have the shutter button there, which is in a perfect position making it ergonomically fit to your hand There's also a 3 eighth hole adapter there just at the top so you can mount yourself any additional accessories This does come with one. I'll showcase that in a second Then at the bottom You also have another screw there that you can also mount to maybe a tripod or anything like that And then you also have the USB C charging port there So you can charge this for a power bank to turn it on unless you just hold the shutter button for a couple of seconds You'll see the blue light here will indicate that it's gone into Bluetooth pairing mode If you wanted to turn the wireless charger on you press the button there and you'll see This is the battery percentage level of the actual pro grip So right now it's around 100% as I fully charged it It's very simple. It's very easy to use fits most phones But if you have a very small mini phone Then this comes with a few adapters here that you can just place inside there And then you just clip it into the holes at the top just making it a little bit more of a tighter grip This also comes with the USB C to C charging cable This is the cold shoe mount that you can place on the top and then mount something like a light Which I showcased at the beginning of this video So that is very convenient as well. And one thing I don't really talk about much is the user manuals You know, they've done a very good job with beautifully designed user manuals I know something that a lot of people don't talk about but for me I was just so impressed with this, you know It just comes with very easy to follow instructions how to set it up, you know, you got discount codes They really care about their customers and making sure everyone has all of the information they need Without a lot of additional jargon interfering with whatever you're looking for so for me You know, I'm really impressed with that. So with the lenses The first thing you need to do is mount the in case lens mount and it means in case Because you need to place this inside a case Now if I do this, you basically just place it over the camera lenses of your iPhone Place the case over that Like so, so it locks this mount inside the case and it's pretty solid Compatible with most cases as well as it is very thin Then you have the lenses So you have yourself a microfiber cloth. So this is my 18 millimeter wide angle lens Then this is the 60 millimeter telephoto lens So I'm going to showcase some sample pictures using both of these but just to show you how to attach it It's very easy. This is the wide lens on the iPhone 12 Pro. This is the 23 millimeter one So I'll just screw that into there and essentially it converts that into a telephoto lens like so And then you can just use this for you know, pretty much all of your photography If you really wanted to get up and close and it uses the primary wide-angle lens on the iPhone 12 to give you that super clear quality Telephoto to 60 millimeter depth Using the Pro lens and one of the reasons why you would want to get a pro lens like this and attach it to your phone is Because when it switches between the lenses on your phone itself, they have different variations of quality as well So the ultra-wide quality and the telephoto quality on the lens on the iPhone 12 are different to then using the primary Main lens on the iPhone 12 Pro, which is of the highest quality Converting that through a very high quality lens like this It utilizes the main quality lens and its metadata so you can get the highest quality image possible Including video recording using these additional lens attachments So that's pretty easy to do and then once you've done that you grab the pro grip You slot it into place like so very easy and you can be confident it's not going to Shift out of place at any time and there you have that set up in this carry case. You also get this This is a lens mount for anyone that has problems mounting The other lens mount behind the case or perhaps you don't even have a case This is what that will be useful for so if I just take this lens off for a second And let's say you don't have a case that suits this mount and it keeps adjusting Then you have this additional mount that will pretty much fit over any phone any case And you tighten it by just screwing that on the front Of course, you would lose the visibility of One of the lenses as it covers it just on the right specifically for the iPhone 12 Pro But this is a quick and easy solution for those people Maybe don't have a case or they don't have the right phone or whatever it may be And you just want to place it on there and then remove it rather than leaving that mount Inside the case at all times. So it's great that they thought of various different options to satisfy all different customers another thing you can actually just place this as a stand like so and You can just have it on your bedside table on your desk and it becomes a very nice stand for your phone It's got a 75 degree viewing angle, which I think is pretty nice And you can also switch it between portrait and Landscape and that becomes a very nice way to watch videos on your phone So it's so convenient to have use this as a power bank wireless charger Not only that there's even more capabilities of this Let's say for example, you want to charge your AirPods Pro and you can do that by connecting the USB C port on there And then charging Your AirPods like so So I think that's really convenient having the option to charge other devices using the USB C port Which becomes 20 watt charging or you charge your phone with the wireless charger at the same time using a 15 watt QI wireless charger in built into the device So this program is so great. The last thing I wanted to do is just showcase to you guys Is this cold shoe mount attachment that comes with it? So you simply will need to just Open up this hole at the top and then you'll need maybe a screwdriver just to screw this in To the right position Just make sure it's quite tight There we go, and then now you have a cold shoe mark so you can play something like a light into there very easily Tighten that there you go You now have an additional accessory So it doesn't even need to be a light could be anything else that has a cold shoe mount on it could be a wireless microphone Connected to your iPhone as well So that is great to have the option of multiple different attachments Shift cam also provide multiple different accessories as well if you wanted to check that out Right, so now that I've shown you guys all of this Let's go ahead and take a look at some of the sample photos. All right guys So the first set of pictures I'm going to showcase are the 60 millimeter telephoto lens now Just remember both photos were taken using the wide main camera on the iPhone 12 pro One has the lens attachment, which is the right-hand side picture The other one doesn't have any lens attachment to it So as you can see from the first picture, you know, I'm very impressed with this You still see all of the details and you don't get that much of a loss of quality Just because it has zoomed in a little bit, you know The iPhone 12 pro main wide camera is 26 millimeters in focal length and having that increased to 60 millimeter Using the same quality lens of the iPhone 12 pro. I think it's just done a great job and it is a few more examples You know, so this really showcases the capabilities of these lens and how it gives you distortion free Telephoto quality pictures now, let's go a little bit in the other direction and check out the wide angle lens So the ultra wide angle lens on the iPhone 12 pro is 13 millimeters But I'm using the 80 millimeter pro lens, but don't forget it's on the 26 millimeter wide angle camera on the iPhone 12 pro So as you can see from the first picture, you don't really get that distortion of angles when you do go ultra wide I think you get a lot more in the picture But you still get a very top quality photo at the end of the day. Now, here's a few more examples You know, this is something that will be perfect for those people that want to get landscape photography Or just a lot more in your picture than you do with just the main wide camera Of course, a lot of people are happy enough, especially in very bright daylight conditions to use the Inbuilt ultra wide lens on the iPhone 12 pro But if you just want to maybe target things at a little bit more low lighting conditions Maybe in the evenings then having that additional lens using the capabilities of the main wide lens on the iPhone 12 pro Is something that you really would benefit from so for me I'm super impressed and the final test I wanted to do is the stabilization test So I recorded a quick video clip using the shifts cam pro grip and also just by using the phone handheld and I'm walking on the sand because that is the most unstable surface and that will really test to see How shaky the footage is and I wanted to see how smooth it could be using a pro grip like this Now, I know there's a lot of things that can help you stabilize footage There's a lot of attachments even tripods I just wanted to showcase to you guys quickly how much of a difference just by recording videos using this program It helps with stabilization and you can see immediately just how smooth it is with the shifts cam pro grip and You know, I was walking exactly the same way on exactly the same sand and for me I was super impressed with this So I'm holding the shift cam guys and I've got it into portrait mode just testing out the stabilization Here on the beach So I'm walking in the sand and the sand does make things a little bit shaky when you have a phone in your hand because you keep sinking into it But overall the grip is so nice. It's so much easier to hold the phone And if I'm going to be taking selfies or vlogs like this I think this is just great and especially by having the wireless charging capabilities on it You can pretty much use this all day long and you won't run out of battery So for me, I'm really enjoying This nice little new gadget by shift cam. So that's it guys Everything from the nice rubber silicone grips the ergonomic design How it just feels in your hand how soft it feels how easy it is to use and connect to your phone every time This is the perfect grip solution for converting your phone And whether it's an iPhone or even an Android phone to a DSLR mirrorless camera type setup with additional accessories like lenses Even with our lens this just works perfectly fine And you can just use this anywhere you go for your photography or you're filming easy to set up or you just have it on your desk You can use it as a power bank amount just to place your phone on there There's multiple different use cases for this. I think personally it is well worth the price They've done a very great job with this product any questions you guys have as usual. Make sure you drop them down below I'll try to answer as many as I can if you did like this pro grip make sure to give this video a huge thumbs up I have new videos out every week with cool gadgets like this So make sure to subscribe so you don't miss those ones and I'll catch you guys next time. Take care


Welcome back to the 21 convention. I hope everybody enjoyed their quick little break. Our next speaker is head of live training at the Social Man. He's been in the industry for approximately five years and it's his third time speaking at the 21 convention. Welcome Nick Sparks. Yeah! Let's give it up for me. Oh no. How's everybody doing today? Yeah? Pretty amazing convention that Anthony puts on year after year. Round of applause for Anthony. This is cheesy. This is just... I'm gonna do it anyway. So I had about like 15 or 20 minutes or so prepared where I was just gonna talk about myself, give you a little intro, talk about my past, let you really get to know me for a while, right?  So I decided to cut that portion, unless somebody does. Would anybody like to hear about my history, my past? All right. I appreciate that guys. You're very sweet. Thank you. Or would you rather I just kind of just cut into advice, things that might actually be beneficial or helpful for you? Yes? Show of hands for the intro. Show of hands. Thank you. I appreciate it for the actual content. Show of hands. All right. Well, thanks guys. I appreciate it. Try not to take that too personally. I'm out of here. Whatever. I don't need this conference. Okay. So what I wanted to talk to you guys about today, aside from myself, is approaching. Approaching women. That's it. Other times I've been all over the place today. I just want to talk about this one thing in particular right here. And why am I going to do that? This is a good question. You might say, why wouldn't you want to talk about that? But this is a good question.  It's not necessary. You don't need it. It's completely superfluous to you finding a mate, to you dating, to you having happy, successful lives when it comes to women, when it comes to everything. Don't need approaching. What's true? Don't need it whatsoever. The vast majority of people, think about it. Think about all of the people you know in your life right now. Friends, family, acquaintances. How many of these people actually, on a regular, consistent basis, are stepping outside of their personal bubble of friends and just walking up and talking to random strangers. Not only just talking to random strangers, but getting positive, like, jovial reactions. Not only getting these positive jovial reactions, but with the women, like, getting attraction within five to 10 to 20 minutes and getting phone numbers and going further. How many people do you know that actually do that? You can probably count them on one hand. Two if you know a lot of people, but that's really stretching it even then. My point being is that this whole, being this social superman, this whole, like, going out and talking to anyone and lighting people up, it's a rarity in our society, in our world. A lot of people, most people, the vast majority of people, don't possess this ability. Very, very rare when you find someone that's just so naturally outgoing, they light up everywhere. Most people go through their entire lives every once in a while having a couple cocktails and talking to a stranger at a party or a friend's thing, but usually they date people through social circles. They take a class and they meet somebody through there. Online dating is becoming huge right now. You can date a couple new girls every single week and never do a single approach. You don't have to learn this. Most guys will be happily married and never even worry about approaching, approaching, approaching. So why do we care so much about it?  Well, obviously it's not. Obviously there's something there that's so valuable that we want it, right? Yeah, there's only a few rare people that have that ability that do this all the time, but why can't we be that person, right? Why the hell can't we be in that one percent of individuals? Certainly a noble goal to try to live up to. Why not? Good question. And how many times we've all been in that situation at the grocery store, at the coffee shop, at the park, walking down the street, at the party, at the bar, saw that girl. Oh my God, heart skips a beat. She goes walking out of our life forever. We wonder what could have been some variation. You've all been there. You've all understood it. And you didn't say hi. You didn't approach. You didn't say anything. Why? Oh, if I just knew what to say. If I just had the right thing to say or, oh, I couldn't move. I couldn't think fast enough. I froze. You don't want to freeze. You want to know what to say.  You want that person to be in your life. If there is a chance of it happening whatsoever, you don't want to miss that chance. Two ways you can go about living life. One, dictating what happens, what you get. And the other, just whatever life hands to me. Most people go by doing the same old, same old and they're fine, but very, very few people step outside that box and say, no, I want something else. I want something different. I want to take this into my own hands. And that's why you're here. That's why we actually care about approaching because we're sick of just taking whatever is handed to us. We want to change our cards. We want to turn in, get a new hand every once in a while. And this skill, this, this noble social ability that very, very few people have gives us that opportunity. And yeah, I know you guys have all talked to girls. You guys have all done approaches. You guys have all like put in reps and everything. And I'm sure some of you very well might be able to. How many guys, be honest, is there anyone in this room right now who when you see that girl in any situation that just makes you melt, you will not even hesitate before walking up to her and saying something anywhere within, if she's like within a block radius of you. How many guys can honestly put their hand up and say, I would never hesitate in that situation? I can't do it. Sure as hell can't do it. And so yes, even though you guys have done it before, you're not satisfied. Very, very few of you are satisfied. How do I know this? Because I've been coaching guys for five years. And if there's one thing I hear more than anything else, yes, I help guys have better conversations with girls. Yes, I help guys get more sexual and escalate things, of course. But if there's one thing I hear more than anything else, I want more opportunities and I'm sick and tired of letting those opportunities pass me by. The one thing I hear more than anyone else, it's still the biggest thing that for whatever reason, doing this for how many years, people are just not satisfied. That's why I'm talking about this today. So what gives me the right to talk about it? Why should I even be the one to speak to you about it? Well, our coaching programs at the social man, this isn't a plug, I swear I didn't mean it to be this way, but our coaching programs at the social man, they're not perfect. We're working on improving them every single day. But one thing that we do nail is there's not a single guy that walks through our program who spends a weekend with us that has any problem approaching like a machine afterwards. Some guys conversation we still need to brush up with, some guys, you know, flirtation, escalation still needs a little bit of work. But if there's one thing I can always guarantee is you will not walk away from that weekend having any problem approaching whatsoever. Bold guarantee. How can I make something like that? Good question. The reason why guys walk out of our programs without having any problem in this area whatsoever is because after one of our programs, the guy is no longer making the two big mistakes that the vast majority of men make who are struggling with this stuff. When it comes to approaching women, the vast majority of people make it if you're still struggling with consistency. You're making at least one of these two mistakes, not maybe not all the time, but enough of the time that your consistency isn't where you want it to be.  And let me make it clear.   I wish I could do that. I can't. You're going to be able to understand what I'm talking about from an intellectual standpoint. It's very simple. I promise it won't go over anyone's head. And it's probably stuff you've thought of before. It's probably stuff you've heard before. It's probably stuff you were already doing when you were on. And you didn't even think about it. And you were having a great time and talking to everyone. So this won't be any any big secret. And it probably won't be anything that 99% of you haven't done. But the problem is in some situations, you revert back, you make these mistakes.   And that's why you actually care about what I'm going to be saying next.


Hey everyone, welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of Women in Data Science 2023. As every year we are here live at Stanford University profiling some amazing women and men in the fields of data science. I have my co-host for this segment, it's Hannah Freitag. Hannah is from Stanford's data journalism program. Really interesting, check it out. We're very pleased to welcome our first guest of the day, Fresh from the keynote stage, Gayatri Ganu, the VP of Data Science at Meta. Gayatri, it's great to have you on the program. Likewise, thank you for having me. So you have a PhD in computer science. You shared some really cool stuff. Everyone knows Facebook, everyone uses it. I think my mom might be one of the biggest users and she's probably watching right now. Who don't, people don't realize there's so much data behind that and data that drives decisions that we engage with. But talk to me a little bit about you first.  Yeah, I was a STEM kid. I grew up in Mumbai, India. My parents are actually pharmacists, so they were not like math or stats or anything like that. But I was always a STEM kid. I don't know, I think it, I think when I was in sixth grade, when we got our first personal computer, and I obviously use it as a backman playing machine. I use the games. But I was so good at, and I honestly believe, I think being good at games kind of got me more familiar and comfortable with computers. Yeah, I think I always like computers. Yeah. And so now, you Lee, I'm looking at my notes here, the engagement ecosystem and monetization data science teams at Facebook. And I talk about those, what are the missions of those teams and how does it impact the everyday user? Yeah, so the engagement is basically users coming back to our platform more. There's no better way for users to tell us that they are finding value on things that we're doing on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, all the other products than coming back to our platform more. The engagement ecosystem team is looking at trends, looking at where there are needs, looking at how users are changing their behaviors and helping build strategy for the long term using that data knowledge. Monetization is very different. Obviously the top, top apex goal is have a sustainable business so that we can continue building products for our users. And so, but I said this in my keynote today, it's not about making money. Our mission statement is not, you know, maximize as much money as you can make. It's about building a meaningful connection between businesses, customers, users.  For users to find like goods and services and products that they care about and that they can connect to.   Everything we do in the ads world is also always first with users as our, you know, guiding principle.  Also during the pandemic, you touched a bit upon in the keynote speech. Can you tell our audience what were like special or certain specific programs you implemented to support especially small businesses during this time? Yeah, so there are 200 million businesses on our platform. A lot of them small businesses. 10 million of them run ads. So there is a large number of like businesses on our platform who, you know, use the power of social media to connect to the customers that matter to them to like, you know, use the free products that we build. In the post pandemic years, we built a lot of stuff very quickly when COVID first hit for business to get the word out, right? Like they had to announce when special shopping hours existed for at-risk populations or when certain goods and services were available versus not, we had grants. There's a hundred million dollar grant that we gave out to small businesses. Users could show sort of, you know, show their support with a bunch of campaigns that we ran. And of course we continue running ads. Our ads are very effective, I guess, in, you know, getting a very reliable connection with, from the customer to the business.  We support, I talked about two examples today. One of them is the largest black-owned, woman black-owned wine company and how they needed to move to an online program.  And, you know, they saw 60% lift and purchases or something like that.  And, you know, now more than ever before, I think people can connect so directly with businesses. You can WhatsApp them. I come from India. Every business is on WhatsApp. And you can, you know, WhatsApp them. You can send them Facebook messages and you can build this like direct connection with things that matter to you. We have this expectation that we can be connected anywhere. I was just at Mobile World Congress for MWC last week where I'm obviously talking about connectivity. We want to be able to do any transaction, whether it's post on Facebook or Colin Uber or watch on Netflix if you're on the road. We expect that we're going to be connected. Yeah. And what we, I think a lot of us don't realize, I mean, those of us in tech do, but how much data science is a facilitator of all of those interactions. As we, as we guide you guys, we talk about like any business, whether it is the black women owned wine business, great business or a grocer or a car dealer. Everybody has to become data driven because the consumer has the expectation. Talk about data science as a facilitator of just pretty much everything we're doing and conducting in our daily lives. Yeah. I think that's a great question. I think data science as a field wasn't really defined like maybe 15 years ago, right? So this is all in our lifetimes that we are seeing this. Even in data science today, people come from so many different backgrounds and bring their own expertise here. And I think we, you know, this conference, all of us get to define what that means and how we can bring data to do good in the world. Everything you do, as you said, there is a lot of data. Facebook has a lot of data, Meta has a lot of data. And how do we responsibly use this data? How do we use this data to make sure that we're representing all diversity, minorities, like machine learning algorithms don't do well with small data, they do well with big data, but the small data matters and how do you bring that into algorithms? So everything we do at Meta is very, very data driven. I feel proud about that to be honest because while data gets a bad rap, sometimes having no data and making decisions in the blind is just the absolute worst thing you can do. And so, you know, the job as a data scientist at Facebook is to make sure that we use this data, use this responsibly, make sure that we're representing every aspect of the, you know, three billion users who come to our platform, yeah, have data serves all the products that we build here. The responsibility factor is huge. You know, we can't talk about AI without talking about ethics. One of the things that I was talking with Hannah and our other co-host Tracy about during our opening is something I just learned over the weekend. And that is that the CTO of chat GPT is a woman. I didn't know that. And I thought, why is she getting more aware? It's just a lot of conversations with their CEO. Everyone's using it, playing around with it. I actually asked it yesterday, what's hot in data science? I was like, should I ask that to Mary Selton? What's hot? But I thought that was phenomenal and we need to be talking about this more. This is something that they're likening to the launch of the iPhone, which has transformed our lives in chat GPT. And its chief technologist is a female. How great is that? And I don't know the stats around this, but I think CTO is even less, it's even more rare to have a woman there.  And it's going to take some time, but yeah, yeah, she is a woman. Isn't that amazing? It's wonderful. Yes, there was a great, there's a great fast company article on her that I was looking at yesterday and I just thought, we need to do what we can to help spread. Mira Murati is her name because what she's doing is, one of the biggest technological breakthroughs we may ever see in our lifetime. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. I also wanted to share some stats. Oh, sorry, go ahead Anna. Yeah, I was going to follow up on the thing that you mentioned that we had many years with like not enough women choosing a career path and STEM and that we have to overcome this trend. What are some, like what is some advice you have like as the vice president, data science, like what can we do to make this feel more, you know, approachable and accessible for women? There's so much that we have done already and we want to continue to keep doing. Of course conferences like this, these where, you know, and I think there are high school students here, there are students from my alma mater's undergrad here. It's amazing to like get all these women together to get them to see what success could look like, what like being a woman leader in this space could look like. So that's, you know, that's one. At Meta, I lead recruiting at Meta and we've done a bunch to sort of open up the thinking around data science and technical jobs for women, simple things like what you write in your job description. I don't know whether you know this, or this is a story you've heard before. When you have a job description and there are like 10 things that you need to, you know, be good at to apply to this job, a woman sees those 10 and says, okay, I don't meet the qualifications of one of them and she doesn't apply. And a man sees one that he meets the qualifications to and he applies.  We have goals. Facebook's always been pretty up there and like, you know, speaking out for diversity and Shell Sandberg has been our chief business officer for a very long time and she's been like amazing at us, like pushing for more women. So yeah, every step of the way, I think we made a lot of progress. To be honest, I do think women choose STEM fields a lot more than they did. When I did my computer science, I was often one of the one or two women in the computer science class. It takes some time for it to percolate all the way to like having more CTOs and CEOs, but it's going to happen in a lifetime.  And it is true. And dropped a mic, girl. And it is going to happen in our lifetime, so we are excited about it. And we have responsibility in helping make that happen. You know, I'm curious, you were in STEM, you talked about computer science being one of the only females. What, one of the things that the any2b.org data from 2022 showed some good numbers. The number of women in technical roles is now 27.6%, I believe. So up from 25, it's up in 22, which is good. More hiring of women. One of the biggest challenges is attrition. What keeps you motivated to stay where you are, doing what you're doing, managing a family, and helping to drive these experiences at Facebook that we all expect are just going to happen? Yeah. Two things come to mind. It does take a village. You do need people around you. You know, I'm grateful for my husband. You talked about managing a family. I did the very Indian thing and my parents live with us and they helped take care of the kids. My kids are young, six and four, and I definitely needed help over the last few years. It takes mentors, it takes other people that you look up to who've gone through all of those same challenges and can advise you to sort of continue working in the field. I remember when my kid was born, when he was six months old, I was considering quitting and my husband's like, to be a good role model for your children, you need to continue working.   Cheryl Sandberg said this to me in my second month at Facebook, she said that women drop out of technical fields. They become managers. They become sort of administrative more in their nature of their work. And her advice was don't do that. Don't stop the technical. And I think that's the other thing I'd say to a lot of women, technical stuff is hard. But keeping up with that and keeping sort of on top of it actually does help you in the long run and has definitely helped me in my career at Facebook. I think one of the things and Hannah and I and Tracy talked about this in the open and I think you'll agree with us is the whole saying of you can't be what you can't see. And I like to see, you can be what you can see. That visibility, the great thing that Wids did is having you on the stage as a speaker this morning so people could understand everyone. Like I said, everyone knows meta. Everyone knows meta. And so it's important to bring that connection of how data is driving the experiences, the fact that it's user first, but we need to be able to see women in positions like you, especially with Cheryl stepping down moving on to something else. Or people that are like YouTube influencers that have no idea that the head of YouTube for a very long time, Susan Wojcicki, is a woman who pioneered streaming.  But we have to be able to see and raise the profile of these women and learn from them and be inspired to keep going and going, I like what I do, I'm making a difference here. And I can be the sponsor or the mentor for somebody down the road. Absolutely. And then referring back to what we talked in the beginning show that data science is so diverse and it doesn't mean if you're like in IT, you're like sitting in your dog room, coding all day. But you know, to show the different facets of this job and make this appealing to women for sure. And I said this in my keynote too. You know, one of the things that helped me most is complimenting the data and the techniques and the algorithms with how you work with people and you know, empathy and alignment building and leadership, strategic thinking. And I think honestly, I think women do a lot of this stuff really well. We know how to work with people. And so, you know, I've seen this at Meta for sure. Like, you know, all of these skills, soft skills as we call them, go a long way and like, you know, doing the right things and having a lasting impact.  Oh, I can't wait to see that happen. There's some interesting female candidates that are already throwing their hats in the ring for the next presidential election. So we'll have to see where that goes. But some of the things that are so interesting to me, here we are in California in Palo Alto, technically Stanford is its own zip code, I believe. And we're in California, we're freaking out because we've gotten so much rain. It's absolutely unprecedented. We need it. We need a massive drought from extreme drought, legally, technically, for many years. I've got friends that live up in Tahoe. I've been getting pictures this morning of windows that are covered. Yes, actually, yes, that were windows, like second story windows are covered in snow. Climate change.  Yeah, we had a talk today about discovery. Yeah, which is amazing. Yes. So I want more people to know what data science is really facilitating that impacts all of us, whether you're in a technical role or not. And data wins arguments. Yes, I love that. I said, this is my life today. There's always going to be doubters and naysayers, and I mean, but there's hard evidence, there's hard data, like, yeah, in all of these fields. I mean, the data that climate change, the data that the data science that we have done in the environmental and climate change areas and medical and medicine professions, there's so much more opportunity and like how much we can learn more about the world. Yeah, it's a pretty exciting time to be a data scientist. We're just scratching the circus with the potential and the global impact that we can make with data science. It's been so great having you on theCUBE. Thank you so much, I love. I'm going to take data wins arguments into my personal life. I was actually just a quick anecdote, funny story, I was listening to the radio this morning and there was a commercial from an insurance company. And I guess the joke is it's an argument between two spouses and the voiceover comes in and says, let's watch a replay. And like if only then they got the data that helped the woman win the argument. I will warn you, it doesn't always help fit arguments I have at my hands. Okay, I'm going to keep them in the middle of my mind. Gadry, thank you so much for sharing. Thank you for your opportunity. And being a great female that we can look up to. We really appreciate your insight and your time. Thank you. All right, for our guests for Hannah Freitag, I'm Lisa Martin, live at Stanford University, covering women in data science 23. Stick around, our next guest joins us in just a minute. The software and technology industry for over 12 years now. So I've had the opportunity as a marketer to really understand and interact with customers across the entire buyer's journey. Hi, I'm Lisa Martin and I'm a host of theCUBE. Being a host on theCUBE has been a dream of mine for the last few years. I had the opportunity to meet Jeff and Dave and John at EMC World a few years ago and got the courage up to say, hey, I'm really interested in this. I love talking with customers. Give me a shot, let me come into the studio and do an interview and see if we can work together. I think where I really impact theCUBE is being a female in technology. We interview a lot of females in tech. We do a lot of women in technology events. And one of the things I've-


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Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have a little double upload today because there is some very big information about icon moments being confirmed. Yes, just like last year, EA dropped the dynamic images for all these icon moments, which are probably gonna be coming out sooner than you think. We might have icon moments in FIFA 22 this Friday. So I wanna take a look at some of these cards. A couple of them already have confirmed stats as well from the leaks, but a look at a lot of dynamic images. Some of the new ones look really, really cool. So I wanna take a look at those and also talk about how, again, icons this year are definitely not as hype, but these icon moments cards are the, of course, best version that every icon will see this year and they change from year to year so there's a lot of hype with them. So I wanna take a look at the images that we see here and how it could affect the market as people are probably gonna start to sell some icons even a little bit more as we head throughout this week because these icon moments are very, very near. So if you're excited for the best version of icons to come out in this game this year, make sure you hit thumbs up on the video and subscribe if you're new. Let's look at these images and talk about these cards. I'll post the link to this in the description if you wanna take a closer look yourself. Obviously all the icons are in here so we're not going to look at every single one because there's a lot of images, but I just wanna highlight a few of these and the ones that we know confirm stats of. I love these first three dynamic images. All with the World Cup trophy. Casillas, Cafu and Canavaro. These are all brand new dynamic images for these cards. I mean, Cafu we even have a stats leak for. We'll take a look at that, but Canavaro, look at that. That is an insane dynamic image. I love the dynamic images that include trophies, right? It's so, so, so cool. So I'm excited to see a Canavaro card. Like of course, if you think winning the World Cup would be like a pinnacle moment. So hopefully they juice up those cards a little bit extra if they're flashing back to that moment in time in that icon's career. Now we're gonna start off with a pretty big image and an actual stats leak here. Wayne Rooney. Now this is a brand new icon to FIVA 22. A lot of people are hyped about this card. That's why I wanna talk about him right off the bat. We have an official stats posted for Wayne Rooney. He is gonna have 90 pace, 91 dribble, 95 shooting and 90 physical along with 85 passing. So over his prime icon in this game already, that's not a huge upgrade, but he is getting plus three shooting to get him up to 95. He is gonna get plus one pace, plus two passing. I think it's like plus three dribbling and plus one physical. So a pretty solid upgrade. Now one thing I'll say about this too is with icon moments, EA also does upgrade skill moves and weak foot. We are hoping for some four star skills action on this Wayne Rooney card. That would be terrific. So that's how our icon moments Wayne Rooney is gonna look. Everybody's gonna want this card and want to try him out. And he's probably gonna start off very, very expensive when he has dropped in the game. But that's a pretty dope looking card for Rooney. Let's keep looking down the list. There's a lot of images to get through here. Robin van Persie, Ronaldinho. Those are both brand new images never seen before. Ronaldinho's image looks really, really dope. That's a cool one. We have not seen that image before. So I'm excited for that one. Fernando Torres, we actually have stats for him as well. I think that's very, it's a different image from his card last year in FIFA 21, but it's not too far off. Again, you see here, these are the official stats, which this is the thing about icon moments too. Some of the stats are better from the year before and some of them are not as good. So Torres has higher dribbling than last year. He has 91 dribble, but they dropped his pace. So last year in FIFA 21, he had 96 pace and 90 dribbling. This year he has 94 pace, but they did give him one more dribbling on the card. So maybe that's a little bit less hype for moments Torres over his card from last year. They also dropped his physical from 82 to 80. So maybe a bit of a bummer for that card there, but that's how it's gonna look. Maca Lele has a pretty dope dynamic image. Petr Cech, R9, there's a big one. It's a new image, never seen that before. One of the things you're gonna notice in here, as we see Terry-Henry, that's a new image, but for Pelé, right? This Pelé dynamic image is the exact same one that we saw in FIFA 19 for his card. And it seems like as we're going through a lot of these images, there's some repeats, but a lot of the repeats are from FIFA 19, which was the first year of the icon moments. So just kind of keep that in mind that some of these, yes, they're different than last year, but they're also the same to what we had in FIFA 19 or maybe even FIFA 20. You're gonna notice that as we go through a few of these cards here today. So that's Pelé's dynamic. Maradona, this one's pretty cool, right? Maradona with short hair. That's a pretty interesting dynamic, not one that we have seen before. Cantona looks like a pretty good card. We have stats for him as well. This is one that got an upgrade, 94 Eric Cantona, plus two pace and plus one shooting compared to his card from last year. A lot of people did this moments Cantona from last year, of course, a new icon, five star skills. And this was like one of the first icon moments, SBCs that we actually had. So he got plus two pace, plus one shooting. That's a really cracked looking card. That's a W, in my opinion. New dynamic image as well. There's Beckham. Gattuso with the bandage around the head. That's kind of a cool image. Puyol looks so majestic with the flow. Lampard, Gerard, these are all new images. Shevchenko, that's a new one. Here's a duplicate one. Johan Cruyff from FIFA 19. A lot of you guys will remember this card. I'm pretty sure they released like a Cruyff SBC, which I know I remember doing back in the day, but that Cruyff card looks really dope. Same dynamic image there. Rio looks scary in his image. This here, that'll be a cool one. Figo is there and Zagi, Del Piero, that's a brand new one. Rude Hulet, that's also old from FIFA 19 as well. If we take a look at this dynamic image, of course, that is the exact same one. So Hulet's got the same image. Zidane with a new one. Yashin, same as FIFA 19. Yusebio, same as FIFA 19. Pushkas is right there. Etto looks really sick. Closer looks pretty dope too. Vieira is a new one. Vidic, Kakao looks pretty cool. Javi, there's a new one. Roberto Carlos. Baggio is the same as FIFA 19. Essian is a new one, but then you have some dupes right here. We have Maldini, Best, and Rucosta, and Ravolo. Those are all the same as before. And Desai. Vanessa Royes might be new as well. Zola, Owen, Keen, Giggs, Skoles. Raul's looks pretty scary. There's Shearer, Trezeguet, Emmanuel Petit. That one, he's looking pretty tough in that image. So that's a dope one right there. I'm a fan of that one. Skulling down through the list again. Nedved right there. Van der Sar with the glove. Nesta doesn't look super special. Crespo looks dope. Litmanin, Mateus, and Balak, I think both. I don't know about Balak actually, but that Mateus for sure is the same as the FIFA 19 version, which I remember I had in my squad as well. Yeah, there's the FIFA 19, Mateus. Same as this one. Ococha, Deco, Socrates is the same as before. Stoichkopf is the same as before. Luis Hernandez looks new. Butra Guenio, similar. Bobby Moore, I think that might be a new one. But a lot of these. Linnaker, I think it's new. Laudripe is old. Bergkamp looks pretty dope. Clivert, Schmeichel, that's a new one. Overmars, I think that might be new as well. Blanc is old. Nakata, Veron, that might be new. Sol Campbell, Guardiola, I think is a re-up. Here's another one that we have stats for. Ronald Kuhnman, he actually got a pretty sizable upgrade. 82 pace on his moments card this year. These are his confirmed stats. 91 shooting, 91 passing, 88 physicality, 93 defense, and 82 dribble. And that's a pretty sizable upgrade. It is the same dynamic image as his FIFA 19 card of course. But I believe even last year in FIFA 21, he didn't have, he didn't have, he had like 77 or 78 pace. So the fact that we will have 82 pace this year is very, very nice for that card. Carl Salberto, that's not a new one. Gatencha looks cool. I think Pirlo's looks pretty dope actually. And Soda's Dragwa, look at that. Those are pretty dope. Dogglish, we've seen that before. Rush, we've seen that before. Zambrato, we've seen that one before. Ashley Cole, Philip Lam, that one's pretty cool. Schweinsteiger is pretty dope. And then there is Succare. So that's all the images. Again, that link is down below in the description. I think we have a couple more leaked stats. Van Persie, of course, this is not his dynamic, but 88 pace, 95 shooting, 88 passing, 92 dribble, 77 physical for that card. And then Casillas as well, the one that we saw. He's gonna have 97 reflexes, 62 speed, 95 diving. So there's probably gonna be some more icon moments leaks as we go throughout this week leading up to the actual cards getting released in this game. Now, how is the market gonna be affected by this, right? Again, a lot of icons are already so cheap this year, and we were even looking at this on last night's YouTube video. It's just, you look at a lot of these prices and it's just, it's insane how cheap some of these cards are, but I really think what you would see impacted the most are gonna be some of these primes, especially some of these prime icons that are pretty expensive. Some prime icons that are still over two million coins, I would keep a watch on these.  Yes, these icons, the prime moments when they come out later on are gonna be very expensive, but still in the same right, you know, there's gonna be a lot of new icons that people wanna go out and try. So I think that is gonna drop some of these primes and some of the other icons already withstanding in this game. I think it's gonna drop some of their values, you know, like a Eusebios, two million coins, 2.1 mil. I still think that this Eusebio would drop off of it with a new one coming out. And of course, some of these icon moments are gonna have stats that we have not ever seen before, like some pretty big boosts, really, really cool cards.  How good are they gonna make Mateus? Mateus' moments card always looks disgusting, right? Because you look at his prime and he's on the verge of getting 90 pace and 90 shooting. And you just look back to the Lothar Mateus of last year. This was his card, right? He had 91 pace, he had 90 shooting, 85 dribbling, 93 defense. So they give plus twos and plus threes in most of these stats for some of the icons, but then you had some crazy upgrades last year as well. And this is what we're really gonna have to look out for this year is, where's Vieira? Maybe I just gotta search him up unless I missed him, but I gotta find Vieira because Vieira's moments card last year had an incredibly massive upgrade from where it was in FIFA 20, yeah, FIFA 20. Look at this upgrade, 89 pace on this Vieira. He was 87 pace in FIFA 20, but he had 86 shooting, 84 passing, 87 dribbling, and then 92 defense, 93 physical. So they dropped his defense and physical just a little bit, but then they gave him a huge pace boost from last year and even from his prime card, look at that, plus six pace and plus six shooting for Vieira last year. So as we look through some of these cards, know that the stats are not all gonna be the same as they were, even if the image is the same. So like on some of these, we had the same dynamic image as we did in FIFA 19, like for Kuman, right? But the stats are not gonna be the same as we saw. The lead Kuman stats are better than what we had in FIFA 19, even with that same image. So that's just kind of something to keep in mind, is that the stats should be different. And that's where the fun is, right? That's where the fun is with a lot of these cards. So yes, I do expect icon prices to drop off a little bit. What this also means is that we are not very far away from icon swaps too. Probably in the next week, icon swaps too would be getting talked about and potentially getting released as well. So you're gonna have a lot of icon prices probably dipping a little bit when the moments come out. Now one thing that I'll mention as well is that they don't release all of the moments at one time. What they usually do is they release them in waves. They'll release like maybe 30 of them, 30 of them and then 30 of them. So it'll probably be a two to three week window where they release these icon moments cards in the packs. So one of the ways that you can watch out for this is like, let's say with Wayne Rooney, right? Wayne Rooney is a very high, very in-demand icon card. His prime card, as we just looked, is like 600K, right?  That might cause some bounce back on some of these icons that don't actually get in the packs for the new sets of icon moments as they release them. So that's gonna be something to watch out for and then continue to watch out for like the leaks this week, right? You know, if they say like this year, even though Butro Guanyo has a reused dynamic image or something, let's say they're gonna release the new version of Butro Guanyo is gonna come out like this Friday or something.  And like if the upgrades are really, really insane and we see that from the leaks or from something that EA posts, then you're probably gonna see some more accelerated panic selling on a few of those cards. So it's just about, this game is about to turn into very hype for icons again. I don't really know what promo is coming out this Friday, but a lot of times what EA do is whatever promo they're dropping, they make icons a part of it. And as we said earlier in yesterday's video, again, they're really pushing icons right now. Two icon upgrade SBCs yesterday and two icon player SBCs. They're pushing that hype to you, getting you ready, get you thinking about icons before we actually see the moments drop very soon. So it's a very exciting time of the year. I know these icon moments have changing stats and that's the coolest part about them, but those are the confirmed dynamic images that we just looked at again. That link is down below in the description. And yeah, it's gonna be a fun time. I can't wait to see icon moments, not just in packs, but also through icon swaps and SBCs. Cause last year for icon swaps too, there was an icon moments. There was like icon moments packs I think involved and also icon moments players involved in icon swaps too. They really need to do that again this year too to keep it fresh. And just because where the power curve at is in this game, these cards are already so insane. They're gonna have to release out those icons and make them decently attainable so that people actually wanna go out and use some of them in this game instead of other special cards that are already so juiced. So that's a lot of information about icon moments.  Of course comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you are new. It has been Nate the Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


Hey, Sifu David and this video we're gonna show you the five self-defense moves that everyone should know and yes We are giving away these free DVDs. Accelerated Wing Chun system quick start DVD normally retailing for 129 bucks, but enter the contest all you need to do is to subscribe Click the notification bell and like and comment on this video and you'll enter automatically into the draw every week We're gonna give away a free video. So good luck This is so simple that you can learn these in the next 10 minutes and you'll be able to use it in the fight Even if it happened right after this video This is how simple it is that any Tom, Dick or Harry can use these techniques right away At the end of this video, you're gonna see bonus technique number six and we're gonna show it to you. So stay tuned. Here we go Number one is the chivalrous kick It's so fast and Chinese called them more younger, which means the kick with no shadow It's so fast and so unpredictable that it's called the shadowless kick. Can you see a show?  Don't do that. Okay And it's gonna hurt. Okay, so this is the most powerful one of most possible one of most deadly kicks in the existence of kung fu Called a boi in the shadows click so Good thing he's covering his balls. Otherwise, they will be polarized All right, so that's the technique number one shadows cake The technique number two is the power pop see in the sequence Okay, watch that next video we're gonna do which is why you don't punch in the street fight Why don't you punch in the street fight because you might break your knuckles because the head is hard So instead you're gonna use a power pop All right Because your hand is a lot safer safer to use than a fist and it's got more surface So it's less time less chance for you to miss the strike Punch is only your knuckles Your knuckles if you have a palm you get your whole palm here bigger surface means less chance of missing and it's safer for you Okay, boom, especially if you're going to punch the face Okay, even in training people get their teeth the opponent's teeth in your knuckles and that's not pretty you guys have stitches All right, so our students that's happened So make sure that you don't punch in the street fight unless you're really accurate and you punch really accurate here Or here, but if you punch here, then you get you need stitches if you punch here You break your knuckles the hard part you need to punch the soft part Which is a chin or the throat they add or the body very safe to punch the body. So the next one is the power pop All right technique number three is Power slaps so remember the sequence is coming in wow shadow escape power mom boom and then he's going backwards and the power Think about baseball bat if you have baseball bat, can you hit harder poking the bat? Okay, hit harder if you swing the bat probably if you swing the bat So it's very natural motion a natural way to generate a lot of power by swinging Okay, I just only shoulder Here's a slap, right? So imagine that you saw it on the guys I'm only going 50% power with the helmet and how that feels He's okay, so I'm only doing 50% power He's wearing the Bottle circle helmet and it still hurts. So this is a very powerful technique. It's called a power slap Just in the shoulder right now. Yeah, you can hear the power. All right, so that's going boom to the guys back of the head Boom to the temple. It's a boom just right to the face Boom right here. You're gonna have here's ringing. You probably lose hearing for the next One hour if you're ringing So don't do this to your partner when you're training make sure you have the technic gear and he may be a perfect protective gear Don't do it as hard as you can. Okay, so just slowly just place it here. Just push it here boom, okay Power slash that's technique number three. So the first sequence that works very well is Charlotte's kick boom power slap power slap Okay Very useful very good technique very good combination. You can practice even at home Just shout let's take power palm power snap power snap to the ball Okay, so this is how it's up here in power snap to the ribs to the ribs and the power snap underneath Okay, in power slap underneath your ball So those are the first three techniques and stay tuned You're gonna show you the next sequence and three more awesome techniques that you must know Super simple to use super simple to learn nothing here. That's complicated. All right, so let's go on to the next part Technique number four is the flinch blocks. Why is it so effective? Why is it you so useful? It's because you do it naturally anyway when you hear a loud sound what do you do? Whoa, what's that? Okay, when you see a bright light flashing in your face. Whoa, what's that? Okay, when somebody ambush you say thing happens. Whoa, what's that?  You know what it works really well So why not use it in self-defense because you're already doing it. You don't even have to train This is something you're already doing naturally without even thinking. So now you're gonna make it even better flinch by Okay, any attack. I don't need to know what it is.  Okay, most high like me is going to be punching. All right So this will block most of the Most of the hand attacks are coming. So this is the wrong way of doing it. Well, see I'm leaning back He's gonna do another one, right?  All right, so like that. Okay, boom Like that. Okay, so I want my elbows Most likely to touch his chest. I'm not gonna be going boom with my elbows like that I'm just going to be worry about touching his chest my elbows like that No, I know I'm in this position for the next attack for the next group. I'm gonna show you Okay, so number one please block is I'm gonna drop and then like a bee Okay, so this is natural. He's punching. Oh, this is not something that happens The next thing I want to train myself to do is go in and back up Like a bee All right, so that is technique number four the flinch block It's going to help you with pretty much any hand attack and it's not hundred percent But it's simple. You're already using it. You already program your mind already program to do this Right, so why not use it and create it into the technique? Okay, so technique number five is where it's perfectly with this It's coming in and then you're in this position, right? You can feel your touching so you don't need to see you just stand up boom and Boom and then use your head knock his chin back like that head, but All right, why is it so powerful? You know that which is the hardest bone on your body is the top of your skull Okay, that is the hardest bone in your body and you take the most force So why not use it? You don't even need to train it if you train knuckles It takes a while to get your knuckles to be tough if you train your shins to kick like a Muay Thai It takes a while to train your shins to get tough But this doesn't take much because your heart head is already hard. This is the hardest bone in your body So why not use it in attacking? Okay, so boom and then here Stand up and wrap the chin. Okay, this will knock it back And then the third and then last bonus technique. We show you is Is the push kick All right So bonus technique number six is the push kick very useful In any self-debate situation and it's so easy to learn because you just lift in your butt and then pushing forward with it Okay, so you're here pushing you can push on the balls Okay, you push on the solar plexus a little bit higher Or you just push in the pelvic bone right above the groin Boom and you can see the guy buckling like that. Okay, so even though But as long as you push somewhere on the center, he's gonna go backwards. Okay, so a very powerful technique What I like to do is to use my the the balls of my foot Maybe in step to push a boom in step because you get more penetration Into his gut The guy's got might be he might be fast a lot of meat here. So you push with your heel So much surface pushing against all that fat.  Maybe I steal a toll booth. This is dangerous Don't do it.  Okay, so that is the bonus technique number six So there you have it the five self-defense techniques that you must know Anybody can learn these these are so simple. It doesn't even take much training. All right So you can use these even today in the fight. So I'll see you soon in the next lesson Make sure you subscribe to this channel to get all the latest lessons and videos that I'm releasing on this channel Make sure you click the bell next to the subscribe button so you get instant notification of all the new videos that are coming out And you'll be the first to see them


Josh, you got a hold of one there in that fifth inning. Just overall, how did you feel at the plate tonight? Well, pretty good. First step, I was able to put a barrel on a two-strike account. Just barely missed it. Second, that went well. And then next two of the best, pitchers did a really good job locating on me. And I tip my head to those guys. It's positive overall for you tonight. When you look collectively at your night, you take more positive than negative from it? Yeah, I mean, I feel good overall.  And if they're doing that, they're executing. It makes it for a tough AB. You were talking about you hitting the ball hard and some of the underlying numbers being there. Is that easy to accept when the results aren't necessarily there? Yeah, I mean, I feel for the better part, since I've been back, I've felt pretty good at the plate.  I was able to put some work in. Like I said, overall, I felt pretty good with the approach. And I was able to put a barrel on two balls today. And the other two ABs guys made good pitches. Aaron Boone continues to voice his confidence in you, saying you're going to get going. It's close. It's close. What does it mean to you that your manager continues to do that? I mean, I think he sees the work that I'm putting in. I think he sees the abats as to how it's going. And like I said, I felt pretty good overall since I've been back, minus a few days. But yeah, I mean, it's nice to have that confidence from your manager. And at the same time, it's a grind. We're out here playing our tails off and looking to make something happen. What are your career? Have you been someone who kind of needs to play through any struggles or something at the plate? I mean, I'd say throughout the course of my career, I've played pretty much every day. But I mean, for all of us, I think as hitters, we get more comfortable and more pitches that we see, the more pitches that we face.  And I have put up good numbers right now. And I kind of get the results day in and day out that I want. But I feel like I'm going about in a pretty good manner. Take away from the fact that you have six or seven homers, but it's been a grind to find hits in other ways? I'll say your question one more time, sorry. You have six or seven homers, but it's been a grind to find hits in other ways?  And at the end of the day, I feel like what I can control is how I go about my abat, the process of the abat, and trying to make those adjustments to where I feel like I've been in good positions to hit. And for the better part of it, I felt pretty good. Tonight was, I think, just one of those instances where last couple of weeks, you guys made some good pitches. Could you tell me how you feel about the A's? Possibly leaving this stadium and moving to Vegas after you came up with this team. I mean, definitely the A's just mean something to me for coming up in the form system and in the organization. And there's still some coaches over there that were a big part of my career and success. And the fan base here was always great for when I was here. At the end of the day, that's the business side of baseball that isn't always pretty. How do you feel for the fan base? I mean, from playing here, there's a lot of diehards. And it might not always be sold out, but the people that are huge fans of this team, they bleed it and they live it. And you respect their fans here.


He definitely emphasized it. You know, probably something, maybe having a team to go out there, be physical, you know, and win at the point of attack, whether it's offensive line, defensive line, and so you definitely respect that about him and know what he demands up front. And, you know, on the perimeter as well, you know, having a physical team, he's proud of us being in good shape. And that's why, you know, we train what we do and he definitely wanna have a tough football team on the field as a group as the whole team. Yeah.  And I think that's what we're working towards. Here, I'll say it a couple of times this year, you know, always being somebody that the offense gotta account for is something that I take pride in, obviously, and on a personal level, you know, you always want stats, but you gotta, you know, you do the job that's to ask you and to make the plays when they're there, you know what I'm saying?   So, you know, at the end of the day, when they watch the film of me, you know, I put my best foot forward and still make some good impact and I'm enjoying playing right now. You know, you look back on the games, that's a good thing about division games. The second time around, you got some tape from the same year to, you know, to compare to, and nobody, your team will come out and do the exact same thing, but it is something to go back to and reflect on things you could done better and be able to have that second chance, you know, to go out there and try to get a win against a good opponent, you know, looking at it as a team, you know, we was in the fourth quarter within three points, you know? Couple mistakes, you know, let the game to get a little straight at the end, but still, with a couple of minutes left, we're still in position, two position game.  They got a, they're good at every level, front, quarterback, skill, same thing on defense side of the ball, every level, they got great talent and so you got to be on your tip top game, you know, they got great head coach, you know, to get the man the best out of them and so it's going to be a great challenge, man. You know what, that's probably been like true for a minute. After probably one year, I didn't have that, we had a Justin Zimmerman, he up in Buffalo now, but while I was Zimmerman, probably the only one I remember that can get with me, you know what I'm saying? So, we don't really train a little different around here nowadays, but I know I can put it up there. I haven't done a one-rep match in a minute, but I can move some weight, you know what I'm saying? I can move some weight, I can move a little something, so, you know what I'm saying? Oh man, I might let y'all in a little something.  Off-season, I might put some up for you, man.  So, to go throw all that weight on there during the season, you know, you think it's going to be a little skewed. So, I might drop something for you in the off-season. I'm sorry, D-Led, the word from Brady. I mean, you know, I'm seeing the same thing everybody across the league seeing, man.   So, I mean, seeing the same thing everybody else seeing, putting up crazy numbers, getting the ball out fast, still got some pepper on it to get it out deep. You know, he's making all the throws, man. So, somebody, you know, I mean, what can I say? Yep, so representing, children have care of Atlanta this year. Been great partners of mine and things they stand for. And so, we had a special kid design some, design some cleats for me this year. So, y'all keep an eye on that for us. And that would be a, so maybe drop a little video, give me a little shout out or something. But so, yeah, it's gonna be fun. And I'm excited with my partnership with children. You know, I did a couple of commercials for them and then visits for them. You know, whether it's going to do some things with, you know, kids are not doing too well, whether it's on holidays or, and also encouraging like parents to take their kids to different sports injuries and stuff like that. So, because they specialize on so many, you know, good things that's so specific to children in Atlanta area were fortunate to have something like that. So, wanted to shine some more light on things children in healthcare doing and I'm glad to be a part of it. It actually was a contest they had. They had, I had to choose from, I remember they sent over to a couple different designs and which is all cool design, like four or five different designs and sent it over to my team. You know, my mom sent it to me.  So, who did it? And we kept looking at the name on the cleat. It was the same name. It was like, oh man, this pink kid did all these and so it came up with a couple cool different designs and we ended up choosing one. That's the one I'm aware on the game and he came up with a whole bunch of different designs. Super, super talented kid. Oh, that's my go-to. That's my go-to for Thanksgiving. You know what I'm saying? Ask the family. My responsibility is make it cheap. You know what I'm saying? Judah, man, that's a good, that's a good friend of mine. I respect the game. You know, love to watch the places at Baltimore, man. He tear it up in New England. Talked to him after the game we played and I, you know, I saw the statement come out what he said and I just, I didn't know who that man was. Not just that. No, so man, it's all love. It's all love. Hey, people like what they like, but the mac and cheese, man, that's a must have and that's what I do for my family. So yeah, yeah. Yeah. Thank you. All right. That's great.


Hello, my name is Troy Toman. I'm the Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure at Rackspace. Rackspace is a hosting company that provides hosting services to our customers on both dedicated gear, private clouds, and public clouds. And we really focus on our service and the ability to offer that in a consumer way for our customers. So doing continuous delivery in an infrastructure product has been a real learning experience for us over the last couple of years. A lot of established best practices focus on continuous delivery with multiple deployments a day. But they typically are user-oriented websites or things that are easier to build that in. And when you're talking about running infrastructure on a large scale, and in our case, it's literally hundreds of thousands of virtual servers, thinking about continuous delivery, we had to take the concepts and do things a bit differently. I think also when OpenStack was first put together, it was a very release-minded approach about thinking about deliverable products every six months. And so what we've been trying to do is take our learnings of trying to pull from trunk on a regular basis. And right now, we pull from trunk once a day. We try to deploy every one to two weeks. So we're not doing anything like multiple deployments a day yet. But as we learn through that process, what we've been doing is working with the community to adapt their processes to move to the monthly milestones, to think about doing automated tests off of trunk on a regular basis to make sure that changes going into the process aren't breaking trunk, and to basically sort of work cooperatively to make continuous deployment an easier process, not only for rack space, but really for anybody in the OpenStack community. I wouldn't say we've been able to quantify, you know, with real discreet numbers what the benefits of continuous delivery are, but I think what we feel is in our ability to move things into production in a faster way. So in particular, we're seeing features that came in with Grizzly. We were running months away from waiting from the actual Grizzly release. And so it allows us to either move new features in without having to wait for the rest of the community to catch up in a way that might need our particular use case, or because we're running at such an extreme scale, which is not common, we often run across bugs or issues within the code and bottlenecks that need to be fixed that we can then fix in trunk and pull down into our environment and not need to maintain a separate fork. And that was really important for us. What we didn't wanna do is get in a situation where we felt like rack space had to run in a different version of the code than the community was working on. And by the fact that we're pulling from trunk so regularly, we can actually let our developers work upstream in trunk on a regular basis and pull that into our production environment and not have to worry about making bug fixes or changes in say a local rack space branch and then figuring out how to push them up later. So it really allows us to stay on the leading edge and stay in the community and not get too far separated from what the rest of the community is doing. And so I think we're many ways we're exploring new territory, but I think that's the exciting thing about being in an open source project is it's not the perspective of just rack space. It really is rack space and Dell and HP and cloud scaling and piston and Nebula sort of all coming together and providing these different points of view and we're finding the right way to bring those into something that we probably wouldn't discover on any one company's turf. And so that's the amazing part of it. And there's a lot more to do, but really excited about the pace at which we've progressed over the last several releases.