This is now on the legacy on the watch of Terry Font. No, it's we turn the page But now I want to see how he maneuvers these nine picks this year This draft is the marker of what direction this organization is going to go in This is a new era of Falcons football This is a new page in the organization's story with this new front office and with this new coaching staff The coach and GM going into their second year the draft it is the foundation of where your team is built It's unlike any time of the year the process is so long and it's so methodical and it requires so many pages of reports It's a true Organizational team effort everybody feels a part of this thing because there's an opportunity to make your team better and better in a hurry I Love this time of year if you get it right and we know this you can change your franchise immediately Overnight you can become a different team if you get the right guys After the 2021 season the NFL draft really starts in Mobile with the Dresden senior belong final offices are there Most teams and tire personnel player personnel departments are there to see these guys And it's the first time that scouts get a chance to talk to players This is an opportunity for a lot of these coaches and GM's and Personnel people to actually sit down and talk to these guys and get to know these guys a little bit more than they do Just on what's on written on paper what they see on tapes important moments for some of these kids as they try to extend their careers When you're evaluating players you can't just you're never just gonna look at production and bringing the most productive players, right? We're looking at traits as we sit here at the senior bowl I actually like to watch from the top and I have my iPad right in front of me I can look up stuff and he likes to get right up close and really see him And so he's down there in the rain because he wants to be close to the players and that's a part of his process So that's important. That's how passionate he is about the evaluation process and that's special when you have Coaches the GM scouts they descend on these practices and they devour that practice tape One two three four times over and over again, and they get to meet with everybody It's a real opportunity to find guys that can stand out who may not be the juniors coming out But our guys that have earned the right to have the spotlight shine on them for one week in Lobia Right when we leave here the scouts are coming in on Monday, and we start our meetings all day You know every day and starting on the draft Setting that preliminary board getting the names up there going through the background the character the makeup the evals Talking it out for the first week and then watching the tape The February meetings are very important because it's just the scouts each area scout the national scouts over the top guys They can go through their area and and go by positioning and when there's a lot of passion on a player You really feel it in that room, but it's all just based off football That's what February meetings are is just just we always talk about paint the picture You know whether it's talking about the the character of the player or it's talking about the tape You know I should be able to shut my eyes and listen to you talk and and get a feel for the guy We got to find make sure that we got the right fit for us And so the scouts do a tremendous job. They've got a lot of the background Obviously, they've watched years of tape We get caught up and we give our opinion And then a day like we're saying here's how we coach this guy here's how it would fit And then you got around the scouts have done all the background checks to make sure that you're not There's nothing that you're missing. We want to know more about less as opposed to less about more So we don't want to board with 400 players up there. We want to board with 150 players and I'm just throwing numbers out there. It can be 125 We're gonna narrow it down to the players that fit us It's busy when the football fields are quiet in February You get all the scouts who don't all live in Atlanta. They live across the country, right? They all come home and it's a chance where you can be open and free with your opinion It's everyone's involved and and everyone has a voice and everyone we don't want group think we don't want everyone to agree We want everybody to have their opinions and the pains are based off of real research A lot of film a lot of gathering information for us the coaches is we're you know, we're kind of late to the party So we talk about collaborative. I mean the scouts have put years of work and getting to know the player Obviously we come in after the season and I try not to make snap judgments So I like to watch the tape to start out without reading the reports or creating any kind of bias And then there's constant conversations It's important not for the Falcons just to make a Terry Fontenot and Arthur Smith decision It's about a Falcons decision and that's when those Falcons decisions really start to be made What's coming next is the Combine and you start to actually see some of these players that we've been talking about again This is where the evaluations come into play We're excited to be here at the Combine and this is an important exposure We went through a very productive round of February meetings and now we get into this part of the process And I know different people see the Combine different ways But this is a very important exposure for us any touch point with the players that we can have is Critical if you handle this week the right way it can be very productive. So we're excited about being here it's a big puzzle the draft free agents everything's a puzzle and Every part of the process is a piece of that puzzle. So in the Combine interviews workouts numbers, you know Their body types all that stuff is extremely important. They're trying to Get measurable Tangible numbers that you can compare comparative statistics. How far can this person jump how far can how fast can this person run? And less 40s how fast can offensive linemen go 10 yards? How how agile is a wide receiver? How accurate is that quarterback and you see it on those workouts and that's important Well, the most important thing is the makeup We're we're here working to build a championship roster one player at a time and to build a championship roster You have to have championship makeup and you have to have the right kind of culture as you get to know Every one of these players, you know, it's you try to figure out how they learn what they're about what makes them tick because at the end of the day, this is a relationship business between coach and player and Understand how they learn best and this is just a small part of it as you're building this as you're building kind of the the entire Bio so when we get down in late in April, we make the best decision They know the makeup and how the kids wired. How does he work? How does he grind? How does he respond to adversity? What type of person is he teammate? You know, is it real? Is it fake? Is it fraudulent? You know all those things that that are so important of what we're trying to build here and it all starts It all goes back to makeup it all starts with makeup the measureables and the statistics and all those things matter It's all a part of the equation, but number one is always gonna be the makeup the further and further along in the process The more and more you get to know the player the closer and closer you get to the player I think at this point, we know who he is as a football player the combine and the pro day They're kind of like icing on a cake the confirmations of this physical skill set and what he's capable of doing The most important part of this process is getting to know the player at this point the person who the person is You want to bring good people you want to be bring people that you know will work You want to bring people who gonna be good representatives of the Atlanta Falcons? I think this is the part where you really get to know the person the person that you're bringing into the family Guys pro day listen pro day for a lot of scouts is even more important than the combine because you get the touch and feel them You get to put them through realistic drill that you're going to use on game day College pro day is kind of that one of the last major Checkpoints, so it gives you an opportunity to be comfortable in that environment But it also gives scouts an opportunity to talk to your family Your friends Coaches and that's really what the pro day is about pro days about answering any lingering question that you still might have about a player we start going to the pro days and Private workouts and this is a really important exposure because you get to get a good feel for these players and see how they're wired Who's football smart all those exposures are really important We are counting down now literally it's been months and then weeks and now it is literally days and hours before we find out Where this draft is going to go? This is that keep your head down in grind mode. This is when you are pouring over Information remember the scouts have gone out and they've gone out and looked at players. They're looking at tape You broke down pro days you looked at what they did at the combine So there's a lot of number crunching. There's a lot of film There's a lot of where do we see these guys in our system? this time of year obviously optimism runs runs higher and We're excited because there's a there's unknown. There's excitement It's the closest thing you're gonna get until the season starts a little bit of adrenaline rush Thursday Friday and Saturday Five picks in the first 82 selections. You have an opportunity to draft five legitimate players who could either make it an immediate impact and or Contribute to the long-term prosperity of this roster You have got fantastic players that have the chance of turning around the fortunes of an NFL team Over three days of the NFL draft and the teams that can do it great are the ones that have the most success Are you ready for the NFL draft? This draft is the big one for Terry Fontenot because I think this starts his clock But we also get a chance to see our team Change a little bit tonight. We get a chance to see what direction this team is going to now take And there's so many options that we can go with tonight at eight overall There's so much work that's been done and if you're disciplined you've got a process like you're gonna feel calls you know guys trading around and you You need to plan ahead and if you don't you don't want to get to be a prisoner of the moment and overreact And that's where I think a lot of mistakes are made so you guys stay disciplined There is an excitement like there's a clock one and down But you've got to trust your process and not overreact and just be a prisoner in a moment You never know what's gonna happen on draft day, especially when you're at eight there seven variables in front of you And so you really don't know what's gonna be there at eight So we have to make sure we stack the players and we feel very good and very comfortable with what's going to be there And we talk about this a lot about how the the person and the makeup is the most important thing for us Once we were able to pull that magnet off the board. We're really excited Drake Yes, sir. How you doing man? Good. How are you? Want to be a Falcon? Yes, I've been wondering to go there ever since I met y'all no doubt man. No doubt man Look, we're excited about getting you here in the building We know the way you're gonna go to work and you're gonna be a part of something special. All right, ma'am The Atlanta Falcons select Drake London wide receiver USC They're gonna play tall ball in Atlanta with Kyle Pitts and Drake London. That's a basketball team They're putting together there for Marcus Mariota and obviously there's a lot of guy giving talent there He's also a very tough competitive smart He fits all those characteristics and all the intangibles that he fits He fits our ethos and we knew that he'd be a great fit here Hey, hey What's up? How are you doing? How you doing man? I'm doing great man. You want to be a Falcon? Hell, y'all better go. You ready to come to Atlanta? Ready. Let's do it.  Yes, sir. All right. I took this on because they don't know Hey, hey listen everything happens for a reason right? Hey, Daniel How you doing? You ready to roll? I can't wait. I'm ready. All right, man. You want to be a Falcon? Yeah, I'd love that coach first down second down third on in fourth down. All right from picky right here If you want to be a Falcon you want to be a Falcon? We're fired up to have you and congratulations. Yes, sir. Thank you so much If you'd have told me these are the eight players that we'd drafted I would have wouldn't have believed I would have said There's there's no way they're the right eight for us Again, not just because of all the talent that they have But because of who they are as human beings when you go all the way back from the beginning to now If you'd have told me these are guys we're getting I wouldn't believe and we just couldn't be more excited What an incredible weekend it was for our Atlanta Falcons from just an athletic wide receiver standpoint What he can do He's a really good player Arnold epic Katie from Penn State who if you look at the highlight reel I mean crazy one-band gang I like the pic. I think he's explosive. He is a guy that rushes the passion Troy Henderson brings that element He's going to be able to come in and run around and make place for you I feel good about Ritter. They liked him from the start. We know what we're getting in Desmond Ritter He played a lot of games at Cincinnati. He's a quarterback. He knows what he's doing to his love alone He's got a little bit of size on him, but he's a stud that the resume speaks for itself Tyler Algier I love this bit. This guy runs so hard Mike and he's gonna come in. He's gonna compete. We got some dogs Shaper can plug in a guard. I like that Fitzpatrick is a great pick for this team He is a worker dude talk to anybody at Georgia. They love him. They'll tell you this guy comes ready to work I like this draft. I like what we did I like the way they addressed all the needs and how that this thing filled out We're taking one step at a time We're thinking about today and everything that we have to do today to get better. We believe in that locker room We're gonna continue to add and we're gonna continue to get better And we're gonna go out there and compete at every single thing we do You should believe because we're gonna focus on the process focus on the details and we're gonna get better every day


Yes, way to represent, way to model authenticity in all of our movings and beings and our inquiry. I'm so excited about this next conversation that's happening. It's been pure comedy in the back. Before we get to it, I want to just invite you all, I want to invite you to move, to take care of yourself, and to come closer. And I'm wondering, is anyone excited about the party tonight? Yeah, it's like 15 food trucks and two live bands and, you know, cocktailing and all of that under that glorious full moon. Did anyone else enjoy the full moon the way I did last night? Just, yes, in her largeness, her wonderfulness. And there's also these great book signings that are happening today. If you haven't stopped by the bookstore or connected with any of the authors, I know Vikram is signing his new book, Edgar Villanueva also, my sister friend Morgan Simon and Mary Ann Schnaul are all doing book signings at the bookstore today. So please stop by and purchase their book, meet them, talk with them. And I'm just, I'm excited about that. And I'm excited about the new conversations that are bubbling up, that always bubble up here at Socap. And, you know, if you want to start a conversation or you see something or thinking about now or over the past years that hasn't been brought up, this is your time, this is your opportunity. I'm part of a group of folks who, seven years ago, started thinking about a project called Impact Hub Oakland. That was actually a business that is thriving in Oakland, California. That was really sparked from a conversation here. So I know that, you know, the juices are flowing here, the opportunity, the sparks are here, we are the sparks. So this title of this conversation says, Cross Sector Collaboration for Lasting Impact and Racial Equity. We decided to rename it in the back to Zombies, Polar Bears and Racial Equity.  And they're laughing at it that way out there. Let me just start with the moderator. The moderator this morning is Cynthia Mueller. She's the Director of Mission Investments at the Kellogg Foundation. Y'all clap it up for the Kellogg Foundation. For the past few years here at Socap, the conversation on racial equity has been put front and center, really laid bare. And Cynthia is part of this team. They have made a commitment to where the conversation, the lens of racial equity is across all of their programs. In fact, they call the program their DNA. And so that's what has to be part of how we begin this conversation by really honoring and celebrating who we are and what we know and coming and meeting each other at the place where we are at. And so when I asked her about her background, she said, oh, native Alaskan. And I said, what does that mean? And, you know, she's like, well, it means First Nations, indigenous, that I come from the background or the identity of the folks who are NUPAC and Haidia. And I said, well, this is a really beautiful opportunity. And so she's going to be leading this conversation with Dibati Rohati, Dipti, I'm sorry, Dipti Rohati, as well as Dwayne Marsh and Napoleon Wallace. A little bit about each of them. Dipti is the head of Slack for Good and Public Affairs at Slack. I asked her what was bringing her joy and she said, of course, my kids. And when I asked, which is always a wonderful answer to hear from parents. But when I asked her if she had stopped at the installation out front and the question of being what is it that you love and hope to never lose through the climate change, she said polar bears. And then we got into this conversation on, well, that's like the quintessential answer when we talk about polar bears. But when I asked what does racial equity look like at Slack, she said it looks like empathy and then dropped this beautiful jewel that says, no one person is the full truth. And so I thank you for holding that space today. Dwayne Marsh serves as the VP of Institutional and Sectoral Change at Race Forward. You all might know that Race Forward just joined forces with the Center for Social Inclusion. And so his work is really around the collective soul and his hope that we don't lose that to climate change. And so he's going to be talking a lot about his work in that sector. And then I have Napoleon Wallace, who I just met, activist co-founder and lives in Durham, North Carolina and grew up in a town of 120 folks. I was like, really? That's what I'm talking about, graduate of an HBCU and also hopes that he doesn't lose his town. What are we going to lose to climate change as the water shifts, as the wind shifts, as the land shifts and as we acclimate to what is happening on the planet? And so that kind of conversation is important for us to have, but I also want to center the conversation around joy. And he is excited about their particular social justice lens around the municipal bond sector and asking questions again. Why did Ferguson happen? Why do these uprisings happen? What happens in protest? And so join me in welcoming Cynthia Mueller, Dibati Rojati, Duane Marsh and Napoleon Wallace to SoCAP 2018. Excellent, excellent. Well, thank you. And I'm Cynthia Mueller. I'm so excited to be here. I'm generally excited if you know me generally, but I'm really excited to be here and moderating this conversation about collaboration and how to promote lasting racial equity. I think I just want to sit on a moment. Actually, we were having a very good time back there. I think it was all the donuts. We're deep deep in a moment of, for this said, there is no one holder of truth. Like, just sit on that. And when we think about what we know and what we understand as investors, as social enterprises, as companies, how do we determine what truth actually means? And so when we're talking about racial equity and collaboration, we're talking about how do we change systems? And in changing systems, it's about creating options. And how do you get to options? You have to go outside your own sphere of relationships and networks and influence. And that's really uncomfortable for many reasons, especially as we are all working in this space and trying to establish deep and meaningful change for the communities we most care about. And so I want to start off with you, deep deep, in terms of talking about what Slack for Good has been doing with the last mile and returning citizens. I mean, Slack is an incredibly successful company. And what are they doing bringing in returning citizens to code? Sure. So in general, Slack, if you don't know, we're an enterprise software company. We build software that hopefully makes your working life more pleasant, productive and productive. The next chapter program is a program where we are taking three formerly incarcerated individuals and training them to be engineers at Slack for a one year long apprenticeship program. We've been working on this for about three years and we build enterprise software. We are not experts in racial equity, nor would we ever claim to be. And that's why we have wonderful partners like the Kellogg Foundation, The Last Mile and John Legend's Free America, helping us figure out how to structure a thoughtful, equitable and sustainable program. Our goal for this program is really threefold. The first is to create honestly high paying job opportunities for those individuals who are formerly incarcerated. Secondarily is to shift perceptions about the capabilities of these individuals who have committed a crime, but still have amazing, amazing talents. And finally is to create a blueprint for other technology companies on how they can hire from this underrepresented population within our communities. So that's really what we're working on, our apprentices start on Monday. We're very excited to welcome them to Slack. That's great. Napoleon, can you talk about the founding of Activist and what you all are really focusing on the mini bond piece and specifically talk about kind of how you saw the different systems, particularly with the rating systems and how that really has informed how you guys are developing this product. Absolutely. So one way to start that conversation is to talk a little bit about kind of what the municipal bond market is. So municipal bond market for folks that, you know, don't have depth of knowledge in that. It's a $4 trillion social kind of public good market that undergirds not just our local economies but our, you know, kind of local communities and in many ways kind of our society. And this market, despite its size, it's a debt market. Despite its size, has really been immune to some of the impact. We'd say ESG sort of risk considerations that have shown up in a lot of other places in the traditional sort of investment market as well as in the traditional sort of equity market as well as in the traditional sort of fixed income market. And we think that, you know, a lot of that has had to do with this increased separation of what we call the citizen bond holder. So if you think about over the past 40 years, the folks that used to invest in municipal bonds when it was a $250 million market or $250 billion market, the folks that were investing back then, they were locals that knew the investments were going to be impacted by those investments and in many ways had the kind of foresight to know that if they chose to have some erosive or extractive sort of interest around their, the way that they got their money back that that would affect the communities they were investing in. And what we've seen is as this space has grown between the investor and the citizen, the citizen investor, that we've also created this dissonance of how the dollars going into a community have affected the people in those community and what the community has been willing to do to get its money to pay back the bond holders to, in many ways, have become the principles. It's a bit of an agency issue that we see. This is how Ferguson happens when they say, let's take 25%, let's get 25% of our revenue to pay back general obligation bonds from fines and fees, aggressive sort of pursuit, civil forfeiture of individuals and then you have the outcomes and you have the interactions and outcomes like you have in a community like that. It's how we get a flint where you have these, a community that is trying to find a way. Well, there was a little bit of, we'll say there's current conversation about whether there was some fraud associated with that, but there wasn't a G in the ESG kind of placed on that community. And so activists and what we do is we are a municipal bond research fund that tries to integrate ESG, social justice as well as an advocacy voice in communities where we recognize that as folks are trying to pay back the bond holders or improve fiscal outcomes, in many cases, the places where those dollars are mined from are the participants and citizens and residents of a community that are the most vulnerable and least able to speak up for themselves. And how, just one quick follow-up, so in building out this product, what types of partners have you had to lay or to establish to really start to develop this product, really understand the municipal bonds? I mean, is it just activists? Is it folks that you've dismissed in the field? Like how has that played out? Absolutely. So, I mean, the municipal bond market, we're trying to affect change in a very large market, that has been around for a really long time and has traditional market forces like any other market. And so the ways in which we've had to do that is you can only get that done through collaboration. And that's collaboration with a number of partners that are engaged at every level. So we have engaged with banks who are issuing because we can tell them the company that you are, the place where you're about to make an issuance, there is some risk there that you want to be thinking about and that could affect the pricing of the bond and probably should affect the pricing of that bond. We have the similar relationships with local municipalities where we're going into municipalities and talking with leadership and saying, we recognize that you all don't see this as a current issue. And we also recognize that your debt holder or not debt holder, the ratings agency, doesn't necessarily see this as a critical issue immediately because they normally think over a two-year time horizon. But this is a five to 10-year issue that if you don't deal with, it will come back to buy and it will cost you kind of like your fiscal strength as a municipality. And that's only come from all of those sorts of partnerships. That's great. I think it's really interesting when you think about partnerships and the work that all of us do. I mean, all of us are pushing the boundaries on how we are building out these programs. And I think it comes from a place of humbleness of none of us are the sole source of truth. None of us know the answer and without strong partnerships and additional perspectives, none of us can accomplish anything that we're trying to. Absolutely. Dwayne. Yes. Tell us about care. What you guys have been up to.  You've got this incredible network. Yes, so we don't usually associate movement and movement building with government. In fact, a lot of people think of that as a place that innovation goes to retire, if not worse, right? But we've seen different, a new generation of jurisdictions that are looking for solutions. They're trying new approaches to get different results for the communities they serve. And when it comes to interrogating their most critical issues, jobs, education, housing, criminal justice, inevitably when we dig into that, it comes back to race. And the question is, what do we do about that? You name an aspect. That could be in an audience with 15 departments from an agent, a jurisdiction. Every department will look at their outcomes, disparities by race, literally life to death, life expectancy, infant mortality. These things aren't natural, right? They don't occur because, just because. We have to figure out why they happen and really resolve that. Why we formed GEAR, Government Alliance on Race and Equity. It's a membership network that's driven by members. It really pushes the question on how do we not just recognize that racial inequities have to be addressed but take action? And so we put those theories into practice. We provide service to that network. We support the individual members. We share practices that are promising. We look at how we can actually do subject area-driven action, including issues like sustainability. And we look at solidarity, because even though there are now dozens scores of jurisdictions throughout the country doing it, it can be lonely work. Institutional transformation is hard. So whether it's the Twin Cities looking at how they close their skills gap and not being able to have a workforce because of the differences in African American and other races and whites in terms of their outcomes around job attainment, if it's looking at Charlotte, they're looking at their land use patterns and how they do planning for the future that's really more equitable, whether it's looking at Albuquerque where they're trying to figure out how do we actually make our procurement more equitable so people can participate in that economy or a place like Seattle where a lot of this work emerged, really trying to go to maturity and figure out how to sustain the work. We try to support all these places. Ultimately, it's about institutional transformation, really positioning jurisdictions to take on just about anything. And I can already see that, you know, the possibilities, even in the agreement we're talking about some of the partnership possibilities, but really it's because while we really can't change our systems and our society without government, government can't do it alone. And so that's really the theory of change we have around this work. One follow-up point. So when you are, when someone approaches you and has an idea or a seed of an idea, what do you all recommend in terms of what's in place in order for a partnership or initiative to move forward? Like what in your experience? We really are trying to figure out how jurisdictions can normalize the conversation on race, build shared analysis, but also hold at the same time this duality of the need for urgency, right? Because this took hundreds of years to get here. You know, oh, it's going to take us hundreds of years to fix people's lives are at stake. We don't have that kind of time. And so how you hold that urgency and look at the long game, critically important. We try to operationalize systems, use data and tools and there actually are racial equity tools that jurisdictions can apply to figure out how you can get a different set of results with the programs you run. And then there's organizing. And that's not just organizing. We usually think of that as community organizing against the institution because they feel the institution has failed them. But organizing within our jurisdictions across silos and again, bridging into new arena as well. And then recognizing that we need new relationships with community that aren't just about input or even engagement, it's leadership, ownership, and a co-design of these processes. Yeah. Tiff, you talked about the humility that Slack had to have in order to develop this program. Talk about that point when you realize that Slack couldn't do it alone and that you didn't have all the answers. And what did that end up looking like when your own search is kind of setting up the partnership? Sure. I mean, we're pretty honest about our failures at Slack. It's something that we talk about. And so this program we've been working on for three years. So I took our CEO to San Quentin to last mile almost three years ago. And we were just blown away by what the program was building, the passion, the intelligence, the commitment of the students that we met. And we tried to hire one of their first graduates. So we were so inspired. We gave this one gentleman, and he's okay with me using his name, Allie Tambora, a stipend when he was released. We sent him to Hack Reactor, and we tried to hire him. And it wasn't enough. We thought that the coding skills that we were able to give him would be enough to have him work and thrive at Slack. And I think when he didn't pass the interview, we realized, oh my goodness, it's not as simple as we wanted it to be. And then we reached out to Kellogg knowing that it's a much broader, much more systematic issue we were trying to solve for to really think about how do we build a program that addresses some of these major systemic issues and to build it and work with our partners and to structure the program correctly. And then the last mile, obviously working with Kellogg. And then with Free America when we think about how to shift perceptions around this community. So it was very humbling to say we tried. It's not going to be as easy as we wanted it to be. And we're going to need a lot of help. And thankfully, the Kellogg Foundation stepped up and has been honestly just a gift in telling us how to think about these issues. But it was humbling. It was definitely humbling. We're like, wow, this is going to take a lot more work than we thought. Well, and I think from just to jump in on from the Kellogg perspective, I think what was really, it was humbling from our perspective because working with an organization like Slack that has tremendous respect here, here in the Valley and, you know, and the number of people that customers that it actually reaches and realizing here is a immediate need. We as this large institution with our processes that, you know, might be a little slower than what you guys do. Sometimes. Slack, it was incredibly helpful and insightful for our team to see how quickly you all could mobilize but also how we need to step up as well and be able to respond to these opportunities. Yeah. I mean, it's a good balance, right? We need one million engineers. And there are two million formerly or incarcerated individuals. It's math. Talent is equally distributed. There are some very talented folks. Yeah. We're incarcerated. So they should be making some money. Yeah. Napoleon, so the product that you all are building is incredible, especially when you think about the history as you share the community market and I think about the rating systems and the assumptions that they've made over time and you shared a little anecdote with me back so you can talk a little bit more about how this field is ripe for change and how you all are mobilizing for those individual investments. Absolutely. So there's a lot of great empirical research on the municipal bond market in terms of things that actually matter in fiscal outcomes and then the difference between that and things that are considered important to ratings agencies. So one example in 1968, we stopped redlining in housing, like, you know, Fair Housing Act. It wasn't until about 20 years later that we stopped including race as a consideration in local municipal ratings.  Housing values do affect municipal bond, you know, kind of fiscal outcomes, municipal fiscal outcomes. But there are all these sorts of like nuggets like that that we don't think a lot of folks are looking at. One of the things that we've really been, that we really found in the development of this is we started out with this idea that we need to bring ESG and ESG lens risk perspective. My background is around that work, high yield investments. Like, how do you bring ESG to the municipal bond market? We recognize that there are significant exposures around environment. We can be pretty clear about how those are impacting. I'm from a state that just had two 50-year hurricanes in a three-year period. So, you know, we recognize that resilience matters a lot. And there are bonds girding that. We have seen on the social piece that the way you treat your residents and your employees really matters in terms of talent you're able to retain, the engagement when something like OPEB comes up, isn't it? Like, how you deal with that? As well as the communication or relationship between your community members and, you know, the city. And then on the governance piece, any sort of governance issue has massive sort of negative outcomes. So, we've already seen that that matters. But the place we're trying to go now is that we believe that that's not enough. Sunlight disinfects, we get that. That's really important. But just knowing ESG risk without some sort of mobilization around it isn't enough. In the corporate market, when you look at equities, folks recognize what a risk is. They'll say, you know, there's significant risks of the CEO being the board chair. And an entire community of investors have galvanized around that issue and made a point of ensuring that in the companies they're invested in that that's not happening. In the municipal bond market, you have things that are just as important, just as critical to fiscal health, but there's no galvanizing community of investors, community members, local elected officials, otherwise getting together and really trying to force the issue to a municipality of you need to change this practice. And so that is what we're building toward now because we think that, you know, nationally, we are a state, we are a country and all of our locals have been supported by access to credit. And we feel like we're in a place where if we don't start to recognize some of these risks and really push those to the forefront as being critical to the sustainability of our credit system for municipalities, we're going to end up with some real grave consequences not in a 20-year horizon but in a 5, 10, 15-year horizon along the way. Sounds like you guys need a network of municipal governments who have an alignment on racial equity to share your values, perhaps. I don't know, it's just a possibility. Do you know one? I've done some work, yes. We were joking behind that we were going to make some commitment and I think that to move forward, and I think what really resonates in all of these different, your different organizations is that in order to embed this racial equity, no one of our institutions are the institution that has the playbook, right? We know what we know. We have the data. How do we use the data? How do we validate what works, what doesn't? But also, how do we pull in the right players at the right time, at the right pace, right? You know, I remember when we had the conversation about returning citizens, right? The whole term, the words that we are using to talk about these communities to, you know, how are we positioning in the right agencies and how are we engaging in this about how we're preparing them? So before we add, I just want maybe quickly each of you, you know, like, you're in the middle of this. You're in this, and it's not perfect, right? This is us taking a leave because systems change is not perfect. And apparently we're trying to change a system that's fundamentally been in place for centuries that we all are participants of. What would you leave for others who are thinking about strategic partnerships to promote this lens of racial equity? Girl. I want to go first. Sure. I would, we, when I got some friends in the crowd, would say that a few things, one, and this is going to be very specific to our work, we all live in place, we all live in a community and we all love our communities. There's no question about that.  So I think that we have a responsibility to really put our own sort of investment lens around the places that we live and recognizing that, you know, the players that are trying to improve or change, in many cases, they might not sound like us. They might not look like us. They might not be pursuing things in the same way that we are. But if we could get to where we're all thinking along the same timeline, we're not just thinking about the political window or we're not just thinking about the municipal repayment window or the budget window, but we're thinking along the longer term that there's an alignment there that could really help to change and a coalition there that could really help to change some of the kind of core concerns that we have in our local communities. And I would just push that out to anyone. If anybody is doing that sort of work now, we'd love to hear about it. Three things I guess I'd say. One, move with courage. Talking about race, not an easy thing to do. And this moment for our country in particular, very divisive topic and polarizing in a way that doesn't serve anyone. Well, maybe it does, but doesn't serve our collective good. And so we have to be able to step into those spaces and recognize we may not be comfortable in them, but we have to make that progress. Second thing I'd say is build network to the whole theme of this cutting across collaborations. When our network got New York City to join, we were thrilled at the thing of the largest city in the country. We were thrilled when Fort Collins, Colorado joined. It's a college town just north of Denver because we know that these issues cut across demography. They cut across geography. They cut across political ideology. There's not a single place in this country that's not dealing with issues around race. The last thing I would say is just how we should move in the world and anything, but particularly on this issue, consistency, integrity, and delivery, right? Be consistent in what you're talking about. Have integrity in how you do this work. Deliver in what you promise. And I think we'll find ourselves in a much better situation for the short and long term. That's right. That's right. And I think speaking from a perspective from corporate philanthropy, many times it seems like it's not okay to try something new and make a mistake. And it is. That's how you make lasting changes. It's okay to make a mistake. It's okay to take your time. And it's okay to ask for help. As I said before, we are really good at building enterprise software. We are not necessarily the best folks to build out a racial equity program without a lot of help. And so it's okay to ask for help and it's okay to make mistakes. That's our panel. Thank you so much. You can find everybody online and have a great rest of the conference. Thanks.


The F-35B Lightning II lands in Okinawa and the South Korean President visits the Marine Corps Museum this week on the core report. F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter landed for the first time in Okinawa, Japan. The aircraft flew over 700 miles from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 made the landing at Kadena Air Force Base on Monday, June 26. Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in visited the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia, June 21, 2017. He visited the Chosen Fue Monument to pay respect to those who fought at the Battle of Chosen Reservoir. Today, I will plant a Hawthorne tree here. They say the nickname of the Hawthorne is the Winter King. This is to forever remember the Battle of Chosen Reservoir and your heroic fighting spirit that shined through the freezing cold of minus 40 degrees. The 2017 Department of Defense Warrior Games are being held from June 30th to July 8th in Chicago. Visit facebook.com slash warrior games to check in on teams from the Marine Corps Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and U.S. Special Operations Command, as well as the United Kingdom Armed Forces and the Australian Defense Force as they compete. That's all for this week on The Corps Report.


At Big Data SV 2014 is brought to you by headline sponsors WAN Disco. We make Hadoop Invincible and Actian accelerating Big Data 2.0. Welcome back. Jeff Frick here on theCUBE. We're at Big Data SV 2014 in the heart of Silicon Valley at the Hildon Santa Clara just across the street from Strada over at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Back for another great segment. I've got with me this segment, John Chrysa, VP of Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks and Greg Kleinman, I think a first time on theCUBE, Director of Business Strategy at Red Hat. So welcome back. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks. So let's just jump right into it. Big announcement a couple of days ago of a new relationship, new partnership. So why don't we jump in and dig into the media? What did we announce two days ago? Sure. I'll start and Greg, you can go. It's a deepening of our strategic alliance between Hortonworks and Red Hat. We're super excited about this partnership and what it means for the enterprise in terms of their ability to adopt Apache Hadoop within their organization. Three principal elements around that. We're doing a bunch of joint engineering all in the open. We're going to have joint go to market activity and we're going to do collaborative support. So we're super excited about this partnership and we can sort of drill into what that means. Yeah. We also are very excited about this being Red Hat's 100% open source heritage. We're happy to partner with Hortonworks, which is also 100% open source company. And to really bring Hadoop into the enterprise and to wrap around some Red Hat enterprise technology to try to make it easier for large enterprises to adopt the Hadoop technology. And so that really appeals from the spectrum of users, from the analysts, the data analysts, and the scientists to the application developers, the operators who have to keep the infrastructure running, and the big data architects who have to bring all the data together for those application developers.  I mean, how is it actually going to make it easier for the guy sitting waiting to implement some of these tools? Great question. And there's work that has already been going on between Hortonworks and Red Hat before in terms of making Hadoop easier to deploy, for example, around an open stack. But this will certainly strengthen through the engineering efforts of integration, for example, of Hortonworks data platform form with JBoss. And so that deepened integration will make it easier for all the JBoss developers to create new applications, which is really one of the key use cases for Hadoop, creating net new analytic applications. So that engineering integration will make it easier for them to adopt that technology. And really, it's not filling a hole so much as taking the platform to the next level and taking a comprehensive platform approach. Okay. Yeah. And so the JBoss suite, the data virtualization product in particular, we did some certification with Hortonworks platform to certify it. And what that allows us to do is to capture the data inside of HDP and combine it through virtualization with data sources outside. So more traditional SQL databases, OLTP systems to bring the data up a level, combine the Hadoop data with the enterprise data, and then allow developers to write applications that can analyze data across all those data sets. So it really enables developers and data scientists to now kind of take the next step and to a new set of applications that they can now write against data that involves more than just to do. Okay. And what about on the business side in terms of go-to-market activities, sales activities, partner activities? Absolutely. Well, you'll see in the enterprise market we'll see a lot more joint go-to-market activities with Hortonworks, whether it's reference architectures that we're building out to help the enterprise, practitioners understand how the technologies work together and what the use cases are, but in addition to things like webcasts and other joint go-to-market activities that, you know, will really serve to educate about how these technologies work together, what the benefits are that the enterprise can gain. Yeah. And so one specific area where we'll be jointly promoting is the OpenJDK capabilities. So that's something that's built into Red Hat Enterprise Linux today and OpenJDK really allows developers to write applications that can be deployed across any scenario, so physical, obviously on Enterprise Linux, but also in a virtual environment and then also in a cloud environment. And as John mentioned, Red Hat and Hortonworks have been working together upstream in the open-source community, specifically OpenStack.org. We're on something called the Savannah Project, which is all about bringing Hadoop to OpenStack to a cloud infrastructure, private cloud infrastructure, which basically allows enterprises to get all the greatness of Amazon EMR, Elastic MapReduce, except inside their private firewalls. So that's a great capability. We really think that when that becomes available later this year that that'll really accelerate things for Hadoop, because now they'll have a very elastic infrastructure to run Hadoop on. Yeah. So I just want to follow up on that a little bit. Greg, about the convergence between maturation of the cloud, if you will, both private and public, and the growth of that as a preferred infrastructure to solve a lot of problems, with the big data side and the Hadoop side, and the 1 plus 1 makes three effect of that happening. Yeah, no, we definitely view it that way. It's definitely a 1 plus 1 equals 3. We view big data and specifically MapReduce and Hortonworks data platform as the killer app for the cloud, because it's big. So it requires a very large infrastructure. But it's really agile that the Hadoop and analytics market really needs agility. And so what that means is they need to be able to expand and contract on demand. And we think that that requirement from the users and the analysts and the developers down into the infrastructure, cloud is a great fit for that. And that's why we're excited to be working with Hortonworks upstream and then pull that down and make it supportive along Red Hat or Price Linux OpenStack platform. So I know in putting partnerships together, it's always best if there's a customer that's kind of driving it, there's a sales opportunity that's kind of driving it. Was this driven by a particular use case or a particular customer that was wanting, needing, requesting this, or was this just something more generically you saw in the marketplace that needed to be done to benefit both companies? I'd say a little bit of both. I think both of us have, we have a lot of joint customers where Hortonworks are working and Red Hat obviously is the kind of standing for Linux and the enterprise. So we've been certified on RHEL since the very beginning of having an offering and so there's absolutely multiple customers. Now that said, just in terms of how we're seeing Hadoop being adopted, companies want to A, leverage the existing skills they have. They have lots of skills on JBoss and OpenJDK and so this helps them further enable those skills. And so it's really taking up and picking up the emerging need around the enterprises and making sure that that is solid enterprise grade and ready to be adopted by the market. Excellent. So we've a lot of talk here at the show about, you know, there's a lot less hoodies and sweatshirts and a lot more suits and I'm wearing my tie and reference to Dave Vellante who had to fly back to Boston, hi Dave. But I think almost more of like a pioneer analogy where, you know, there was a lot of early pioneers and the bad part of all the pioneers get arrows in the back and eventually the guys come through to build the infrastructure that put the train in place. You know, what does this mean in terms of the maturation of Hadoop and big data in the enterprise and, you know, hardening it, there are kinds of phrase about what does enterprise ready mean? What does this mean in that evolution and how far down the path are we? Good question. So yeah, I do think it's maturing and the fact that we're joining forces and we're both targeted on making Hadoop more enterprise ready and it's in response to our customers, right? So we have lots of joint customers together, lots of people run HDP on RELL and they've come to both of us either together or separately and say, we want to move this into the mainstream, we don't want it to be a silo anymore, therefore we need you guys to help us integrate it, right? And that's why the J-Bus stuff is important. We also have a Red Hat Storage Initiative where we can do analytics in place on data inside of Red Hat Storage. We built a plugin upstream for that and then the infrastructure side, right? They're saying we run our RELL today but we're moving towards the cloud. Can you bring Hadoop to the cloud for us? And so all of that is market and customer driven and so I do believe that's a natural maturation, right? They look at their infrastructure, they look at Hadoop and they say, how can I bring this in? Because I don't want it to be an island, right? I need to be able to manage it with my enterprise tools, I need to be able to run it on my enterprise infrastructure and I want to use my existing developer tools and that's exactly the three areas we're trying to address. Yeah, and I like your analogy. I think this really is moving from the Wild West into more of a mature infrastructure. This is one of the things that's really laying those tracks and laying that groundwork and so, and from our standpoint, 2013, lots of companies really using proofs of concept and really building out their applications, kind of testing it, now they really want to get into production. It needs to be hard and enterprise grade and that's one of the major benefits of this partnership. Yeah, that's great. So we're kind of wrapping down to the end of the show here. We're day three, but I know both of you guys have big shows coming up, so I want to give the opportunity for a little plug for Red Hat Summit. We're excited, the Cube, I think it's going to be at the Red Hat Summit for the very first time. I think it's at Moscone, so we're excited to be there. So what can people expect? Rush out and get registered. There's some exciting news things that we can expect from Red Hat Summit, give you a chance to give a little plug. Sure, so we're excited about having the Red Hat Summit here on the West Coast, for us West Coast people, be it in April, I think it's the 14th or so, of up in Moscone, as you said. And again, you'll see a continuing of innovative solutions, both upstream and supported in enterprise products in exciting areas like cloud. You'll see a lot happening on cloud, a lot happening on big data, as well as open hybrid cloud. So we'll continue to kind of move the pendulum over and move the ball forward for enterprises. Great, and John, of course, you've had theCUBE at the summit many, many times. We're excited to be back there again, I believe it's in June.  Thanks. So yeah, Hadoop Summit in San Jose. Coming back, it's the eighth year of Hadoop Summit. So it's the oldest, largest Hadoop gathering.  But to your point, there is a little less of the hoodie type activities. There'll be more business focused tracks. So it's really a little bit of something for everybody, if you wanna learn to be, three or 4,000 of our closest Hadoop friends will be there, and I think it's gonna be a great event, and that'll include Red Hat and others. Great, so as we come to the end of this show, Big Data SV 2014, what are kind of your parting thoughts in terms of stuff you've seen outside of your own announcement, obviously, which is exciting, that's a little bit different than where this was at Big Data NYC in October as we've moved forward three or four months. And then what can we expect between now and Big Data NYC 2014 and about six months from now? Sure, so I mean, I've seen some just very interesting technologies over at the conference here. I would say that it's more about the applications that are getting built than tools that sit on top of Hadoop, a lot of innovative, interesting little companies that are building things specifically to make Hadoop easier to use and a variety of targeted areas. I think we'll see more of that. I had some conversations with folks about applications that they were building to meet specific industry needs, healthcare, and others. So I think that is really the trend. It's making, now that the platform is more cementing itself, applications will be built on top of that and we're just gonna see more of that evolve in this year. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think that there'll be a lot of excitement around the application development environment. Red Hat, we're gonna be working towards with Hortonworks, towards things like OpenShift, where we can move it up even a level up to a platform as a service. There'll be some innovation down at the infrastructure level as we make the transition over to cloud. So that'll be exciting later this year as well. Great. So I'll give you the John challenge that sees out here. If you had to wrap it up in a bumper sticker as we drive away on Highway 101, what would it be for this show? For the show, I'd just say Hadoop is ready for the enterprise to adopt and put into production. Yep. No, I would say same thing. Well, come on, you gotta come up with a new bumper sticker, right? I can't let you off that easy. Let's see.  That's all good. That's all great, super. Well, Greg and John, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really exciting announcement. It'll be fun to review in a couple months, both at your show at Red Hat Summit as well as Hadoop Summit as well as Big Data NYC 2014. No, what's been the progression? How are enterprises adopting and taking advantage of this opportunity to move the ball forward? So again, thanks for coming on. Great, thank you. Jeff Rick here at Big Data SV, day three, wall to wall coverage, extracting signal from the noise as we'd like to do, get the smartest guys we can find, bring them on theCUBE, ask them the questions that you'd like to ask them if you were here and get the answer. So we'll be right back with our next guest in just a minute.


Welcome to WISIS 2022 forum here in Geneva. With me is Gosia Lusciak, who's from Denmark. You're the director of the Young Reporters for the Environment, which sounds like a wonderful organisation. What do you do? Hello, nice meeting you. And thank you for the invitation for this. I'm working for the Foundation for Environmental Education, which is a non-governmental charity organisation working globally with over 100 members. And we are working on sustainable development, educating societies about this and inspiring for actions. We have also members who are other non-governmental organisations. They are independent, but they are implementing our programmes. And one of the programme that is part of the Foundation for Environmental Education is Young Reporters for the Environment. And I'm coordinating this programme. And YRE is a programme that is for students from age 11 to 25 years old, or wider as well, who wants to express their thoughts through digital tools and prepare articles, photos and videos and other stories about environmental issues that bothers them, talk about them, critically think and also inspire others for actions. And what we do, we also try to work through constructive journalism. So the students also present the real picture of the story. They think critically about that. They show different aspects. They ask experts to talk about it. They want to be inspired. They want to think, but still we can do something. And through the voices of you, we want to inspire the societies and tell to them that still, even with small steps, we can change the world. We can take some actions that have positive influence on this. And if we work together, we can really make the impact. And you spoke there about young people feeling overwhelmed by all the things that are going on in the world. And one of the themes of this is 2022 forum, of course, is resilience and wellbeing. So like you said, able to help these people make a positive action to cope with everything. That's what we are trying to do. And also, because the program works globally, we're also trying to connect you from different countries through digital media and talk to each other, see the different perspective of the same environmental problem and look for solutions. Ask some experts and try to find if there is something that can be done or what is the influence of production that is happening with our clothes through different countries when what is the way of the beginning of the production to the moment when they can be recycled or maybe reuse or looking for the circular economy processes and all these aspects. And also, I'm here as well for the award that we have received for the Why Are You Stays Home Challenge? And this was one of the activities that we invented immediately when the pandemic started. And the students were in lockdowns in houses. Sometimes we really started feeling depressed and like that they don't have contacts with other youth, they don't know what to do. And we invented activities for them. When they could inspire each other, talk about it through using social media or other virtual platforms. So that made a really, really huge impact on their activities. We got hundreds of youth and thousands of youth involved globally in these activities. And we realized as well that it was very inspirational also for our members who started doing similar activities on national level and it was built on a cascade way. So we think that it is so important also to include youth and give them opportunities also to use different technologies, different opportunities to find for themselves a niche when they can see themselves very useful and active to talk about environmental issues, to see that they are hurt as well. And that's what our program is helping to do and kind of inspire them with activities and feel that they are the ones who can make change and they are not the only one. They are the large network of youth globally. So clear how that program has helped towards the sustainable development goal on the environment and you've been recognized for that. Gossia, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much.


As dunkers we want to be as lean as possible the more ripped we are the lighter We are the more strength we have with our muscles and the more efficient they work the higher We're gonna fly and that is the goal Yo, welcome back to dunk tip Tuesday every frickin Tuesday this week. We're talking about how to get How to go next level? I'm gonna give you the three keys So let's get into it by the end of this video You're gonna have a 95% of your diet covered and I'm gonna teach you how to go next level how to get those Intricate details things that I didn't believe my body can do and I want to share that with you So let's go, but of course we have the comment of the week. Let's go. Let's see what we got Aurelix Bremert great name if this will be the comment of the week We'll have to say you are my fire the one desire believe when I say I want it that way I know the song that you're talking about but I can't really oh my Fire we got the new red light going we're switching up the theme fire is the mood So you're right on point Aurelix Einstein literally means one stone in German stay hard like a stone or David Goggins What that's a great comment by Flo Wow, and now I'm just gonna end it with Pablo's on this Pina. Let's go I've been waiting for this since Wednesday of last week. Don't like baby. I love it. Thank you for the comments I'll yell your name if you leave a comment. So if you want to get some energy for your name fuel Let's go.  You want to cut out the processed foods if you get a balanced meal of protein carbs fats and veggies? That's it. That's it. That's all you need to do for your diet But the thing is you got to start small. So we always talk about habits and building these routines You're not gonna cut all those things out the sugars in the processed foods Instantly, it's not an easy thing to do. However, you've been eating is very ingrained in your routine So start super small one of the biggest keys I tell people is start with one meal a week. Just say okay every Monday morning That's a great day because it's like so much energy so much motivation every Monday morning I'm gonna eat healthy. So now you have one meal and even if you can even start smaller instead of having like a terrible breakfast You have one item. That's healthy. That's how small I want you to think about these things But again when it comes to the carbs, a lot of people think of carbs. They're not good as dunkers We need a lot of energy. That's healthy carbs complex carbs So things like oats sweet potatoes quinoa brown rice is even good those things stick with that keep it super simple That's what I did for a long part of my journey when I was learning about my body learning about my energy Which I have another video on about energy I'm really big on how to maximize your energy and a big part of that is the nutrition So try to cut out the processed foods anything that's cheap anything that's in a bag And if you guys think that eating healthy is expensive I'm here to tell you that's not the case. I was eating sweet potatoes and quinoa and Rice and beans and those things are very very cheap vegetables are very very cheap So you don't want if you want to get like healthy healthy crazy healthy snacks meaning like the really delicious things Then they might get a little pricey, but if you're just trying to go dunk life mode Energy mode straight health mode. It's pretty easy to eat healthy again stick to the healthy proteins You could have meat chicken fish Stick to the get a lot of veggies get a lot of greens another tip with the diet is get all the colors think about Greens and reds like peppers or tomatoes and think of yellows like squash your bananas Get all the colors get the browns like the quinoa and the and the rice and then get your veggies Of course with the greens I think I might have said that already but the carbs are the ones that I see the most people slip up with because The the meats are okay. It's pretty it's better to get the lean meats It's better to get the ethically sourced meats good energies coming from that's a whole another topic of the energy That's coming from the animal you're actually eating that's next level, but with the carbs a lot of people eating breads and pastas And they're just don't sit well with your stomach They're not well that all the nutrients are not there because of the way people have been processing this wheat and gluten That's why I stay away from that. It's made my inflammation go down So there's a host of benefits that come from eating healthier sources of carbs, which again our quinoa sweet potatoes things like that So just look into a complex carbs if you want more details you can ask me as well leave a comment Whatever. Alright, so the next one is hydration Simply put try to get a gallon a day now again with the habits this becomes a habit That's a lot harder than you think I like to recommend holding a gallon jug I have a jug over there that's 64 ounces I take it with me everywhere I go because it helps me keep drinking throughout the day and another one is if we go Back to the energy chapter energy episode I talk about sleep and if you're drinking all the way to the night It's gonna interrupt your sleep So you don't want to drink water up until you sleep So you got to fill fill it in your day You got to drink it early in the morning you got to drink it midday and drink a lot throughout the day So you can get to that gallon but the point is if you try to get that gallon You'll see how much water that is and doesn't necessarily mean you need a full gallon every single day But you'll go to see if you start measuring you'll start to see how little water you may be drinking Water is good for everything your cells your brain You need it for your body to be able to be running smoothly So the more water you can take into your body not the more it's not the more the better You can't have 10 gallons, but you get what I'm saying the more you can put water in your diet and also cut out back to the Nutrition in the diet part if you cut that out if you cut out the sodas if you cut out the sugar drinks You'll see a huge difference very fast even the carbonated drinks the bloating and different things like that Which leads me into the last part which is the next level so we talked about the diet We talked about the hydration now I want to teach you how to go next level and a big part of it is the body awareness Understanding what you're stimulating when you're working out as dunkers We want to be as lean as possible the more ripped we are the lighter We are the more strength we have with our muscles and the more efficient they work the higher We're gonna fly and that is the goal So a quick tip is that you're not always gonna look crazy shredded not like me But the things I've worked at this so there were some days where I looked shredded Sometimes I don't but now you keep upping that level you keep upping your baseline Just like jumping not every day you're gonna feel your peak But you're gonna have a lot of low days right but on those but if you keep raising your low days your low They start to look like really good high days right that's the same with getting shredded is some days You might feel crazy shredded another days you might feel not even close to what you looked like right So keep that in your mind as the flow of your body goes and get to know it So things like salt things like the carbonated drinks They may make you hold more water which may mean look like you're not as shredded Just keep that in mind and then when it comes to the muscle building Understanding what you're doing is really helpful. So are you stimulating growth? Do you want to grow size or do you just want to get leaner? So there's different ways to work out when it comes to that the quick thing for me is when you want to grow size you got to Cause a lot of muscle breakdown right so when I do like my chest or something like that I'm causing a lot of muscles to break down. I can feel it pumping up almost like a balloon You're constantly pumping it up right but recently about two three months ago I started yoga and it's a lot of isometric work and my forearms got ridiculous because I'm doing push-ups and holding myself For a long time in the class for for the whole hour, right? I'm always on my hands in my forearms So they got really cut up and I also noticed my abs make a huge difference because a lot of isometric holds And that is just kind of burning burning burning. That's the way I work. That's the way I've learned To interact with my body is a very intuitive way of working out So notice what you feel if you're holding and you're just burning burning burning I like to think of that as conditioning the muscle So that's gonna help it get leaner and leaner and leaner But again a lot of times people just need to grow size because they might be super lean But if you get or they might have a little bit of chub, but if you get more muscle, it's gonna protrude right? So you need the muscle to get bigger as well as get lean So I would say a lot of times you just need to get more size for those people that have have no Experience with it as at all because a lot of us are playing basketball or dunking different things like that We're already in pretty good shape cardio vascular Lee, but if you get more muscle, that was a tough word If you get more muscle you will be able to start to see more lean and then it's just a balance get more muscle Get more lean work on the strength working like conditioning work on the size again It goes back to your journey where you're at in your journey. Do you need more strength? Do you need more size? The only reason you need more size is to get more strength So if you maxed out your strength level at your current size You may need to get bigger to have more capacity for strength But a lot of times we just the leaner the better and that's why I wanted to hit this topic because I think it's such a huge part of Athletic performance and dunking and just living life on the highest frequency you can and that's what my videos are all about So thank you for watching. Hope this helps you live and experience life on a higher frequency Just to enjoy more and have the best life you possibly can and achieve your dreams This is dunking is just one of them. Have a great frickin week. Thank you again for watching and I'll see you next week Let's go. Ah, let's go the dunk project, baby A live coaching community with me for any athlete that wants to get their bounce up strength speed and of course technique So I'm gonna be watching your form really watching your workouts making sure you do it perfect And on top of that We're gonna be working on everything outside of the dunk training the mindset the nutrition the rehab the Prehab the energy. Let's go. I'd only five ten if increase my vertical over 12 inches I want to help you do the same and this is where it happens. Let's go.


Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel LaModulist. Today, I will demonstrate the sewing tutorial for the David comma and part top that we did previously and in this tutorial, I will also cover some sewing techniques that you can also apply to any of your sewing projects. So let's dive in. These are some of the tools and materials I've prepared to achieve the David comma top. White heavy crepe fabric for about one yard. Silk lining also one yard. Hair cloth for fusing also one yard. Underwear tricot lining, I will only use a small piece for the midriff part. Under wire or boning channeling, I've pre-cut it into seven pieces. Tailors chalk, dressmaker spins, pattern weights, bust hem or bust ball, regular pencil, fabric shears. A lint stiffened quickspray, I will use this for the tricot fabric to stiffen it. Iron for pressing and fusing. Half yard of plastic boning. A lighter to mold the boning. Jacket zipper and my trusty sewing machine. As you can see, I've already put sewing allowances to each of my patterns. For the side seams, center back and shoulder slope. I've used 4 eighths of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. For the under bust seams, necklines, armholes, hem and back dart, I've used 2 eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. At the hem of the front midriff, I will remove 2 eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter sewing allowance. Next at center front at hem, I will mark out 1 4 eighths inches or 3.8 centimeters. From this mark, I will connect a line towards the notch at under bust seam, previously waist dart. From the notch at under bust, mark out 2 to 8 inches or 5.7 centimeters. And from the first mark near center front, mark out 1 6 eighths inches or 4.5 centimeters. And connect these two marks creating a diagonal line. Next from side seam, mark out 4 eighths of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. And square a line like so. From center front, mark in the half of the width of the boning channeling. For example, half centimeter. This measurement will depend on the width of your boning channeling. Next, connect marks by squaring a line. These lines represent where I will place the boning channeling. And by the way, notch these lines while cutting it on your transparent fabric. For the bust stop and back patterns, I will cut them on my crepe fabric. I've also marked the bust points, back darts, and notch the darts. I've also cut the bust stop and back patterns on my lining and interfacing fabrics. So before I cut the midriff, I'll spray first the stiff and quick spray on my tricket fabric. And give my fabric a press to stiffen it. I will also fold this in half and press. Next, I will place my midriff pattern on the fold of my fabric. By the way, guys, do not forget to notch the channeling placement lines before cutting. As you can see, I have already marked the boning placement lines using my tailor's chalk. Using my chalk, I will square in the boning placement lines, just like what I did earlier on the pattern. After that, I will carefully place the channeling on the placement lines and paint the channeling onto the midriff, like so. After painting the channeling onto the midriff, I will sew it like so. To sew the channeling, I have used a compensating presser foot. This presser foot will help me sew the edges of the channeling neatly. After sewing the channeling to the midriff, I will give it a press to remove the chalk markings. And here is the midriff, fully assembled with boning channelings. I have also removed the excess of the channeling. Before sewing the darts, I will use first the haircloth interfacing through my main fabric. And to sew the darts, I will only draw one sewing line reference to each one. From the notch of the dart, I will square in a line towards the bust point. I will do this to the rest of the front and back darts. Next, I will match the notches and fold the dart until the bust point. And pin everything in place. And there you go, this is how to prepare the darts before sewing. And I'll do the same procedure to the rest of the self and lining darts. Next, I will sew the darts exactly at the sewing line reference. Next, I will remove the excess of the front darts. From the line reference, mark out weights of an inch or 0.6 cm. And I will also do the same procedure for the lining. Next, I will also sew the waist darts of the back self. And the waist darts of the back lining as well. After that, I will press the front and back darts to keep it flat and neat. Next, I will attach the front bust top to the midriff. To do this, at the center of the front bust top, I will clip it but not beyond the sewing allowance. And face both front bust top and midriff right side to right side. And pin in place at the under bust seam. I'll start sewing at one side first, stopping at the middle. And continue sewing at the other side. And this is how it looks like. So basically, it's like sewing an inverted sweetheart neckline. And this is how it looks like at the back. Next, I will attach the lining. And this is how it looks like with the lining attached. Next, I will press the under bust seam to keep it flat and neat. And I will topstitch at the under bust seam by 1 mm to combine the self and the lining together. To sew the neckline, I have to face both lining and self together right side to right side as demonstrated. And pin the necklines in place in preparation for sewing. I will sew the self and lining necklines according to my allowance, which is 2.8 of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. And I will clip or snip the curve the seam of the neckline to lay it flat. Next, I will turn this around like so. Next, I will push all of the seams at the lining side and give the neckline seam a press. And topstitch the lining side by 1 mm from the seam line. And again, give the front neckline a press to lay it flat. And I will do the same procedure for the back pieces. Next, I will attach front and back shoulder slopes together. To do this, open the back and front bodice. Match the neckline seams together as demonstrated. And pin at the shoulder slope in preparation for sewing. And I will sew the shoulder slope according to my allowance, which is 4.8 of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. I will cut off the intersection between the neckline and the slope to avoid bulking. Next, I will press the seams open for a clean finish. Before we prepare the armholes for sewing, let's mark out 5.8 of an inch or 1.6 centimeters at the underarm of the back bodice. We will stop sewing at this mark to properly attach the back, self and lining to the side seam. Next, roll one side of the bodice towards the first armhole that we will sew. And then grab both lining and self armholes and turn to face right side to right side. Push everything inside before sewing as demonstrated and match the shoulder slope seamline. And pin the armhole in place in preparation for sewing. And as you can see, I skipped the 5.8 inch mark and proceeded to sewing the armhole. And clip or snip the allowance of the armhole to lay the seams flat. And turn everything inside out. And press the armhole for a clean and neat finish. Next, to insert the boning, I'll simply place it on top of the channeling and cut the boning like so. And decrease its size by 5.8 inch or 1.6 centimeters. I decreased the boning size to have a space for the sewing of the bias tape at the hem. Next, I will use a lighter to mold the sharp edges of the boning as demonstrated. And insert the boning inside the channeling. And I will do the same thing to the rest of the boning and channeling. To sew the hem, I will cut a bias tape on my fabric about 1 inch or 2.5 centimeters thick. I will pin the bias tape at the hem in preparation for sewing. Next, I will sew the bias tape to the hem by 2.8 of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. And next, I will give the bias tape a press for a clean look. And again, I will sew the bias tape by 1 millimeter away from the seam line. And by the way guys, this is called a Hong Kong finish. Next, cut off the excess of the bias tape neatly. And as you can see, I've already finished one side of the seam and hem and I will demonstrate the other side. From the underarm at side seam, mark down the armhole allowance which is 2.8 of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. And from the hem, mark up the sewing allowances for me it's 2.8 of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. Next, place the front bodice exactly at the markings from point to point as demonstrated. And pin in place. I will sew the front bodice first to the back bodice itself. After that, I will sew in the back lining like so. Next, I will cut off the excess allowance at the underarm to avoid bulking. And this is how it will look like. Before sewing the hem, I will give the side seam a press for a clean finish. And as you can see, there's still 2.8 of an inch or 0.6 centimeter of sewing allowance here at the back hem. Next, I will face the back self and lining right side to right side. Pin the hem in place in preparation for sewing. And I will sew the hem according to my allowance which is 2.8 of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. After that, I will give the hem a press for a clean finish. Next, I will permanently close the center back in my serging sewing machine. And now that the center back is serged, I can now attach the zipper. And by the way, I am using a metal jacket zipper. I've sewn the zipper to 8 of an inch or 0.6 away from the teeth using my single presser foot. And lastly, I will press the center back to flatten the seams at the zipper. Et voila! So this is the front, the mid-riff and the bonings, the side seam, and the back with the metal jacket zipper. Anyway guys, I hope this tutorial gave you enough tips on how to sew the David comma top. And I have also created timestamps so that you can access each chapter if ever you want to use the separate sewing techniques on your future sewing projects. And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to comment down below. And I will reply as soon as possible. If you're not subscribed yet to my YouTube channel Loma Deliz, make it sure to hit that subscribe button. And if you like this video, give it a huge thumbs up. And I will see you guys again on the next tutorial. Abiento!


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What's up everybody? Jason from jasperjasebasecasebrakes.com. We just sold out 2020 Panini Contenders football six box break pick your team's number 11 And again guys Fresh case here the customer name that bought in So we have a Blake right there, and if you have a little character sign, you mean you want that a little team filler random There you go 14 teams right there Fresh case guys Six box halfer So for the people watching live and if you're watching this on a replay but more for the people live The eminence filler is down to about four left Once we sell that out we give away the last spot in eminence And then we can break open some eminence basketball And then we have one left in the elite extradition filler for transcendent where you can give away three spots So that depending on what sells up first It'll be the next two breaks. We probably do All right, so six boxes in the left six boxes on the right see if we can a little roll here whoop One two three for the left four five six for the right side Five one two three four five six So let me write on these really quick all 12. So this would be for number 12 All right Oliver just sold out the elite extradition which would be coming up after this All right, good luck guys David and Just ruin the whole show. Thank you for letting me know People are gonna know we're not we're not here. That's why there wasn't enough people watching We're about to get like 200 people start watching right now Thank you, man. I always forget to put that up there Did you look at that David see as soon as I put it on Ryan's like what I miss he wasn't even watching just because of that. So I hear David. All right first box guys. Good luck Rookie's in the front this time We got a Richard Lawrence for the Cardinals Remember these will go left right at the end of the break. Oh, how about a little Herbie? Rookie your contenders numbered four out of 149 and Jerry Judy rookie ticket for the Broncos And a Robert James Proce Ben Danaki Cowboys Willis Nice you are. Good luck, man. I mean those pack fillers are can always be pretty rough, but You know better chances a better Better price to win a spot then, you know buying it straight up people rather take that risk But good luck, man Yeah, that's sold out we'll do that after the elite extradition filler our next one guys I'm gonna drew log number to MVP contenders to 149 John Taylor and Jonathan Taylor rookie ticket was a Colts Derek with that one Darnell Mooney bears Don't show that don't show that 250 points Kelaway Zach Bond Rookie ticket for the Saints Chase Claypool box two in the books All right guys to go to the next box. Let me quickly just top of these rookie tickets LaVisca Chanel Junior rookie ticket Derek Brown. Look at that Stub rookie ticket to 95. These are pretty cool. We're left to right on these Big odds Chris Struveller van Jefferson LaVisca Justin Jefferson and we got The Ernest Johnson for the Browns another to a burrow to a burrow Zach Bond, that's another ticket right there for the Saints. That's going to Nancy Lamar winning tickets You got a Denzel Mins rookie the air contenders number to 149. It's pretty nice All righty three boxes down guys three more to go So far we got in some good names You get the huge banger though. All right next one. We'll five days I think he's been sending some stuff to her personal and the store, but yeah I sent my sons silver prism five day and then My Herbert colored last five day And then some other stuff like my Genesis and like my other Nebula like one-on-ones and stuff like that to see what they grade like ten day We'll see some Eagles green or sorry. No you goes green la Michael P. Ryan Whoa KJ Hamler 11 out of 49 is that rookie roundups? Yeah All right, nice Two on cards I did you really David. That's awesome, man Good luck Sweet. Yeah, I think you just picked up today for this week. So yeah, if you drop off tomorrow I think that'll go out for next week, right? I think you picked up right when I'm right when I went live Cephas Yeah, I mean Basically, I mean we're kind of just like the hub the middle, you know the middle the middle man really just We try to do this on our own It just it was just too time-consuming and a lot of stress on top of what we already do here. So It was just easier to partner up with a dude like that that already does it on a consistent basis weekly and Basically, you know, you just go through him, but you could just drop off at our store, you know Which is just so much easier for customers. I think people like or like I said if you hit nice Cavan Wallace, you know, you hit something really nice from our break. You can quickly You know do the process of grading through him and then he just takes it from our store, you know So it's much easier that way Logan Wilson her beloved and we got Mark Ingram Yeah, exactly quickly just fill out the form do the process that you need to do and then there you go boom done So yeah, I think people like that That gives you the right Rex. Well, see that's the one thing I learned David is that People have marks cards that are certified PSA submitters or dealers like If you send it with the right people for some reason, I don't know they got some crazy connects where I feel like Turnaround time is much better than I've heard from other people and sometimes when you do it yourself It could take so long Which again, I don't really grade much. I'm gonna start grading now that we have this You know, we're part of a marks, but it's just I don't know.  How is it? How does it so fast like that or how's the turn around time that quickly compared to other people I've heard that Taking them so long. I think you're wrong Rex We've already sold and already completed Like 20 something we only have what 40 spots left to fill and That's including all the fillers. I believe because I have the list right here with me my doc and so far We've completed 19 spots including fillers R&B's We're gonna do the elite extradition. We're just gonna give away another three and Then of course Bowman's best gives away six and you know and he gives away another six with two of them So we're much closer than that Come on Rex don't confuse the people until I need gold and number two ninety nine I'm a little confused Rex, but I'll let you I'll let you continue to write in the chat Because there's only 58 spots total in transcendent So if you're saying there's 56 left including fillers then we haven't we've only would've sold two spots I'm a little confused. So I'll let you be Are you trying to say that there's 656 spots to sell out Bowman's best elite and NT Did you count up all the spots? If you're saying that then that makes more sense All right, all right you guys well the NT has actually been selling really fast guys. I mean, I don't know if you guys have seen it Chase playful Chavon digs Calbus there you go, and then we would just also have to sell out you know The full spots too, right? Don't want to show the code but another points being given out So we'll give away these to customers as well I'll stick to what I I think I do best which is just break and pull some good hits Darius Anderson the fact that the fact that Rex actually counted up all these spots He's really determined to break open this transcendent now Because he's in the break Devon Hamilton. All righty guys. Good luck last box Nothing super super crazy has pulled out of here guys. So the next six boxes could be pretty monstrous I'd love to do that second half tonight as well. We can always put up a team filler.  I Rex added up how much more Filler spots now. Alrighty guys. Well, good luck. Last box.  I've seen I've seen I already pulled a couple Could be a I you too as well We'll find out soon Lonnie, I think there's still a couple we got to do man There are only four spot break giveaways since the mixture is kind of pricey. So I assume that We've done one the next filler is two of them So, let's see. I'll give you like an answer right now, man So besides the nine or eight spots we have to sell left. So one two three four one two three four So probably like about two more pack fillers including the spots straight up So the one that's already on there plus two more I'll put it in the show notes once I go through the orders And I'll take off some of them that I already sold out and stuff Since that was a bigger price here to make sure those ones If we put too many spots in the pack flows then it gets really pricey All right, you guys well good luck. Oh, it's a rookie ticket variation RPS car number 134. That's not burrow somebody else Joshua Kelly Okay, that's not the charger. I was expecting There you go charger All right, Gary with the chargers.  We got some good players here guys But man nothing super super crazy. So man, there could be some really really nice stuff hiding in the second half Go get your team straight up guys if you guys want to try to get it done tonight Remember we can always do a team filler which will probably do guys. So this is the chance to oh, sorry I'll put Philly This is your chance to To go grab your teams You think maybe they could potentially hit in the second half. So I'll do a little recap as well We'll do some randomizers for the two Points and for the left and right So of course some numbered cards Ricky that you're contender stuff These will all be left to right and if there's two of the same for the same will split them up evenly If not, they'll all go left or right From the backside left right We have two points And let's do a quick recap Joshua Kelly chargers. We got Browns delpit Willis Colts Hamilton Jaguars back-to-back Clevon Chassan the 49 Digs for the Cowboys Darius Anderson for the Colts Cephas for the Lions Wallace for the Eagles Gandy Golden to 99 for the Washington football team Logan Wilson for the Bengals LaMicape Rhyme for the Jets We got KJ Hammond for the Broncos For the Cardinals here, that's Chris Struveller Johnson for the Browns Zach Bonn for the Saints We got a rookie ticket stub to 95 of Derrick Brown LaVisca Chanel Jr. Darnell Mooney Callaway Bonn again Judy Laurence Proche Denuchy Willis Jonathan Taylor and a little Herbert number to 149 So there you go guys. That was a break. So again, let's randomize for the points We'll just copy and paste the teams top to get Some points added to their batch And then sorry and then we'll go left or right over here Alrighty guys, so let's dice roll it We got ourselves a one and a six for seven times. Good luck one two three four five six and Seven and final time Seven times Bears and Eagles so bears will get 250 points Which will be Michael and Eagles Going to mark. All right, cool. Yo now let's go left or right. That'll be a seven One two three four five six Seven Going to the left side left. I appreciate you guys remember. This is number 11 number 12 is in the store Let's get those teams going Jaskies case breaks.com


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