Good morning everybody. I'm so glad to see everybody here in a super full room. So welcome to New America's 2017 annual conference. I'm Veronica Mooney, Director of Events at New America. And we are thrilled to share the day with you in a room of 300 of our best public problem solvers that New America has. I hope you've had a chance to grab breakfast and coffee right outside. If not, we'll still serve until about nine o'clock. But in the meantime, as you get settled, we'd like to go ahead and set the stage on the work New America is doing to activate deep impact and the possibility of American renewal. To give some opening remarks and frame the discussion, we'll have today. I'd like to welcome to the stage New America's president and CEO and race lotter. Thank you. So this is our annual coming together of the New America community. All of our staff, all of our fellows. Now our fellows is a category that continually renews and expands. We have all of our national fellows, who are our sort of intense application. This year we had 500 applications for our national fellows, our people who write wonderful books and write musicals and novels and documentaries on important public problems. This year we also have our California fellows, who are our civic entrepreneurs in the Bay Area and indeed in California as a whole, who are joining us. And we have our newest group of fellows, our fellows who are technologists in the public interest. These are engineers and designers and product managers and data scientists who are applying technology to solve public problems in the same way that we traditionally apply law and economics and policy expertise. And I'll talk a little bit more about that. Our board, our supporters, our friends, often when people ask me what is New America, a question all of us wrestle with, the easiest way to describe it is that we are an extraordinary community of writers and thinkers and researchers and analysts and technologists and social entrepreneurs who believe in the possibility of American renewal. We celebrate our present every year and last year we recounted our past. And I, for those of you who were not here, I'm going to do the mini version of that. Last year we had both Mike Lind and Ted Halstead, two of our founders along with Cheryl Schweninger and Walter Russell Mead. Talk about why they created New America in 1999 and they talked about wanting a new generation of public intellectuals, which as I said at the fellows conference yesterday meant people who could write about important public problems in English, in lively, vibrant English that would attract a broader audience than the normal think tank audience. We in this room, many of us who went to public policy school or who led a public policy school or who come to Washington, we feed on white papers and that's great, but we knew America was founded to reach a broader audience. And so we started with our fellows program for a new generation of public intellectuals. And we were also founded because our founders understood that digital technology would revolutionize this country as much as the steam engine electricity and the internal combustion engine did, and that as it did it would disrupt everything. That's an overused word, but it is an accurate word. It means how we work, how we live, how our families are organized, everything about the dimensions of our lives is driven off by these huge technological revolutions that take often decades to ripple through. So our founders actually didn't just say, well, we have disruption, they had a set of ideas for the America that they saw coming. And Ted Halstead and Mike Lind published a book called The Radical Center in 2001, and they had a set of ideas around a new social contract, and indeed New America has worked on the new social contract or the next social contract for much of our time. They had an idea of citizen-based portable benefits that would replace employer benefits, employee-based benefits. Universal health, this was again in 2001, they looked forward and said there is absolutely no way we can have the society we need without universal health, and New America played a key role in developing the idea of the individual mandate, which became the backbone of the Affordable Care Act. And then finally individual savings accounts alongside means tested social safety net. So that was one set of ideas. It is not necessarily the ideas that all of us subscribe to now, but I offer it because we had a vision of needing new public intellectuals, needing new answers, and indeed a view that those ideas would not come from the right or the left, but from what they called a home for the ideologically homeless. So that's our past, and today we're going to celebrate our present. You're going to hear from people who are part of our community, who are working on all sorts of things all day long, but what I want to do in the rest of this talk is talk about our future, the future of New America and what I see as the future of America as a whole. So we're dedicated to renewing America in the digital age, and the theme of this conference is renew America, and as I said at the core of much of our work are the problems and the opportunities created by digital disruption. What our founders saw in 1999 is ever more present today. One of the things we've done over the past year with Bloomberg has to run the shift commission on the future of work, workers and technology. We started with the premise that the predictions for how many jobs will be automated range from five to 50 percent. If it's 50 percent or even 20 or 30 percent, you are thinking about wiping out truck driving, which is the largest occupation for men in most American states, and that's coming much faster than most people anticipated that it would. So thinking about the problems and the solutions caused by digital disruption, think about how that applies to our programs. Open Technology Institute, it's very clear that is about the internet and digital technology, digital information technology being open and secure and accessible, right? So all those issues, the vision of what an open and secure internet needs to be and the policies we need to get there. When you look at our education program, well, our problems with education were not just created by digital disruption. We had plenty of problems with our educational system before the internet and there are many different causes. And of course, a lot of our work has been around financing of education. But if you think about many of the solutions, there you see genuinely new possibilities, particularly in higher ed and K through 12, around radically personalized education, which is a a paradigm shift so big that we, you know, we still think education happens in a classroom from the log cabin to Princeton University today. That doesn't have to be and many of the folks in our education program can imagine a radically different future for education. And we are working on the problems created by digital technology in our early ed program. Indeed, every time I read anything from the early ed program, I think, OK, I didn't raise my kids very well. They were looking at screens way too early and maybe I wasn't coaching and mentoring them enough in the process. But our work on early ed is really in part around how do you provide what kids need without relying entirely or even largely on screens? If you think about political reform again, those problems are not created by digital technology, although there's certainly been amplified in this last election, you could say we've got a whole new set of problems, obviously created by social media. But a lot of those problems are simply deep dysfunction and corruption. And they've happened in the last century and they're happening in this one. But again, if you think about solutions, the possibility of radical participation, whether it's through money or volunteers or engaging your your elected representatives, digital technology creates all sorts of opportunities that then allow us to imagine radical reform. I talked about future of work. The newest category of fellows and programs is technology in the public interest. And again, our new TPI fellows are here now. We opened the fellowship competition in January and February, knowing that lots of people were going to come out of the U.S. Digital Service. And those of you who were at dinner last night heard Todd Park talk about the creation of the U.S. Digital Service in the Obama administration, the recognition. And this recognition was at the core of why I wanted to be the president of this great organization, which was that in this century, when we look at public problems, any of them, politics, education, the economy, family policy, foreign policy, every public problem we care about solving, we are going to use technology as much as we use law and economic incentives, incentives and area expertise. And so our vision in this program is that you have a sprint team of engineers who can think on product. It's not just engineers, it's engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, lots, the all the people who work with digital technology and think about how can you improve the child welfare system, how can you improve veterans administration, how can you improve education, think about the college scorecard in the education department. Technology in the public interest imagines bringing all of that to the nonprofit sector. So thinking about just as a lawyer might think I can work in a law firm or I can work in government or I can work in environmental defense or at New America and OTI, a technologist will think the same thing. And when we change that definition of what tech careers look like, a whole new generation of people will want to be in technology. As Todd said last night, and I'll just quote him, I might not be so tendentious, creating apps to get sushi to rich people faster may be a great way to make a fortune, but it doesn't motivate people to create a better world. And if we can redefine what technology careers look like, we again, we'll have a whole new generation of people who choose them. And finally, our national network. We have our California fellows here. We have Dan Lurie and our Chicago staff here from New America, Chicago, which is our latest hub. In times of rapid change as fast as we are seeing it, no matter how smart we are and no matter how knowledgeable we are, we are not going to come up with solutions just by thinking. And I say that as someone who's made my life coming up with solutions just by thinking. I don't think we can do it now. I think we far be it for me to say research and analysis and writing is not important, but so many of these solutions are coming from the bottom up. They're coming from the people who are actually in the cities and the community rural communities where these problems are most acute and they are coming together and figuring out new solutions. Some of that is government driven. Some of that is business driven. And a lot of that are is civic driven by social entrepreneurs of many different kinds. So the vision of New America as a national action network is a vision of a new America that has all the people in DC who are doing the work we are doing, but we are connected to people in Indianapolis and St. Louis and Chicago and Chattanooga and New Orleans. I'm not I'm not predicting. Don't go thinking these are places we are. I'm saying those cities across the country and that our hubs in those cities are then connected to communities around the state. That is a network of national renewal. So that's why we talk about renewal in the digital age. And I know that some of you think that's already dated. I welcome another term. It was information age. I like digital age. I think it's much more accurate than information age. I welcome suggestions. Digital technology does seem to me to be the key innovation that has given rise to so much of this like steam or electricity. But I'm we're open to suggestion if you can come up with something better than the digital age. But what I want to talk about now is why renewal. Why do we keep talking about renewal. Some of you hear that as just another way of talking about make America great again. Some of you think renewal that not just new America but renewal isn't that like a nostalgia for an older America that we want to return to. I don't think so. And I want to spend the rest of this time explaining why. So make America great again is nostalgia for an era in which we had rapid economic growth. We had post war prosperity and we bestowed the world as one of two superpowers. It is also an America that was deeply segregated and deeply oppressive for women. I'm old enough that I have firsthand memories. I'm not going to say I grew up oppressed but I certainly grew up without any opportunities for women. I did not know a single woman professor doctor engineer. I knew one woman lawyer and obviously for African Americans for GLBTQ Americans for countless other minorities that is not a time people look back to and say gee that was that was great America. I get that but renewal is something else. It's not nostalgia for a particular period in American history. It's renovation. So think about the difference between a tear down and a renovation between taking your house and actually this is happening in Princeton and wiping it out and starting over and renovating an older building. So when you renovate you keep the foundation. And in this country I would argue the foundation are a set of values that our founders proclaimed even if they didn't live up to them in the way that we expect them to live up to them today. Liberty democracy equality justice. I would add tolerance and faith but after those first four people can agree to disagree. Still those values enshrined in our founding documents are the foundation. The frame is our Constitution reinterpreted amended as need be nevertheless the same Constitution. We are not France. This is not the Fifth Republic. It is still the same Constitution just like you'd keep most of the frame of a house that you were renovating. Again you might change some you might amend some but it would be the core. And then you strip away things and often get back get down to something better.  When you renovate you also find things that once looked great and you now see as profoundly ugly and indeed dangerous. If you think about the what we often have to destroy when we renovate a building but you then take that building and you modernize it and you update it and you fit it to the times that you are in. And that happens again and again indeed in houses. You can walk in and know exactly when the house was last renovated by the colors in the kitchen. Avocado for the 50s you know cherry wood probably for the 90s and whoever who knows right now. But that process happens over and over again and indeed in the radical center and in much of the writings of Mike Lind and many others. There's a description of at least three Americas before now. The founding America Lincoln's America New Deal America. Those are the big three where we renewed the country. We kept the Constitution but we renewed what it meant and we renewed our laws and we renewed our society. So I want to conclude by imagining and this is my imagining although it's based on the work of many of you as well as my own thinking. What would a renewed America look like in 10 20 or 30 years. So we would I imagine we start by renewing our farming right. Our use of the land we will be farming sun and wind. There are places in America you see that already. I was in Southern California driving from LA to Indian Wells and you come through the mountains and there are farms of sun and wind. There are those farms outside Indianapolis. Indeed Indiana is the fifth most state in the union in the use of solar energy. You might expect it in California. I guarantee you didn't expect it in Indiana just as an example. We'll be farming vegetables and food that people actually eat. E.G. people who are connected in cities to farmland because we will be growing meat or we'll be making it we'll be actually making it in factories or we'll be growing it in the way we grow vegetables. We will we will have transformed the current industrial farming for reasons of health for reasons of economy and for reasons of technology. We'll also be renewing our manufacturing and that again you can see happening already. You can see it in Heartland hubs where you're starting to think about manufacturing as part of the Internet of Things right. The digital revolution has been mostly software. It will now be increasingly not just hardware but things and where are the places in the United States that have manufactured things. They are not California and New York. They are the Heartland. They are Cleveland and Chicago and St. Louis and Indianapolis and Minneapolis and many other Heartland cities. We will be renewing our economy much more broadly. So in the shift commission report there were three scenarios of what the future of work looks like that I found particularly compelling. One is the care economy and care does not just mean physical care of children and old people. Care means investing in others. Eds and meds is the care economy but it's just getting started. The explosion of coaching jobs and advising jobs. Atul Gawande just gave his TED talk on how medicine will shift to telemedicine with coaches for doctors. Teaching moves from my sitting up here and lecturing all of you to the flipped classroom where you learn what I would lecture online but then you don't just do it on your own. You have a personalized coach. We're already seeing an explosion of coaches although it's generally just code for therapy so we have executive coaches and career coaches and life coaches and that's fine if that's a better way to go but there's a huge explosion combining big data with enabling people to reach their highest potential. That's the care economy. The craft economy. We're going to see a renewal of cottage industry. We're already seeing it in craft beer as when Jim Fallows was here a couple of years ago he stood up and said how do you know that a city is renewing the presence of a craft brewery. That was one of his 11 things. The other was cheap real estate which is equally important. But craft brewers are just the beginning. The master brewers, master masons, master builders, all those names, master Smith's those Anglo Saxon names but they're also in every other language here. They referred to craft and we'll see a renewal of that craft but on a much more high tech basis because when 3D printing really comes into its own and you can see it already you can print extraordinary things like furniture but it's not going to just be anybody who can do that. There will be craft again. And finally what I think of as the cleanup economy. Who's going to what's going to happen to all our strip malls right when we think about renewal we should start with our physical infrastructure. Route one where I live is nothing but strip malls and they were all built between 1960 and now they are dying right retail shops in strip malls. You can see now that they're already empty. What's going to happen to them? We're going to tear them down. We're going to create new structures for the ways we will live and work in in a renewed America. Few more things renewing our families and here I don't know that Mia Bird song is here this year. I think I celebrated her last year but she's one of our California fellows who argues that the African-American family is not dysfunctional. Not this deviant departure from a two parent two kid norm but actually a deeply resilient and flexible and adaptable structure to constantly change to constant change and often disaster it's ways that people come together and support each other under rapidly changing circumstances. I would argue that all American families need to be that way whether they are biological or as is often much more the case they're the people we love renewing our politics equal protection of the law will come to mean equal participation in shaping the law and implementing the law that is a work of our of our political reform program the papers it's not just equal money it may never be equal money but it does have to be equal participation the work of Holly Russ and Gilman on participatory democracy the work of many of our tech folks on how you participate in actively providing government services and monitoring the provision of government services and finally the room as I said the renewal of our infrastructure new America has always been on the forefront of renewing our physical infrastructure now we are working as hard as we can to ensure that our digital infrastructure is open to all so last we can't renew this country if we all do not also renew our identity what does it mean to be in an American and yesterday many of us heard George Packer list four different American identities I will not go through all of them but he essentially said we need a new American identity our American identity is up for grabs at the after this election and Marsha Chatelain one of our new America fellows who is at Georgetown raised the question she said it's clear what our identity is you as a white man just don't want to recognize it you don't want to acknowledge that we have a deeply racist identity and that's what came out in this election that in fact the majority of Americans want to go backwards want to go backwards to a world of segregation and deep deep deep oppression for African Americans and then Zia Haider what another one of our fellows a wonderful novelist said how can you possibly talk to the other side if you're calling them deplorables or racist or sexist or everything else that is a fault line right now and I'm going to be talking to Chimamanda DJ about just that question how do people address people on the other side of a horrific political divide I'll just give you my answer there is no one answer but it is a question we must grapple with and we must be able to grapple with openly and at a place like New America if we can't talk about it God help the rest of the country so we could take the view that we really need a second we are effectively on the brink of a second civil war there are people of color and their white allies on one side and white Americans on the other and the issue is white supremacy are we going to be the country that many Americans appear to want to go back to or are we going to be the America that frankly demographically we know we're going to be which is a majority minority country with a different definition of what un-American looks like I don't think we can afford a second civil war the first one was the bloodiest conflict in our history and even if it's not fought on battlefields it will be fought in every city across the country and the violence will destroy countless people I think we need a concept of American identity that sees the best in each other while recognizing very clear limits as to what is legitimate in political discourse and in personal discourse I think you can say you can condemn racism where it where it is or sexism or any other ism but you can also look at people who voted differently and recognize the fear and the anxiety and the loss and the ignorance that underlies why they feel the way they do and recognize it hear it and then respond to it to do that we have to find good things in our past as well as bad I grew up in Charlottesville Virginia Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner and he slept with his wife's half-sister and father and children with her we know that he was also a revolutionary for his time to say that all men were created equal even if that meant all white men of property was still revolutionary it was the birth of something genuinely new and those same words are there for interpretation first all men then all women and then really all people meaning not just on paper if we can find some good things as well as bad things if we can hear each other if we can feel the emotion underneath the hatred and the rage and the and the deep anxiety we can find a common vision of a renewed America and this organization can be an engine of that renewal thank you very much


Welcome to vlog 17 What's up everybody take down here welcome back to the vlog so last week was pretty amazing I got to do a lot of stuff and it did share all that stuff with you guys in previous vlogs But I did get the whole week off. I wanted to kind of get a week to cool down No recording. I did do my uploads for you guys, but it did no recording nothing really for YouTube I just wanted to basically recuperate and regain my energy because I noticed it's been going down in some videos a little bit So now I'm back Monday and Tuesday recorded nine videos, which was amazing tonight. I get the house to myself So I plan on recording 10 to 15 videos. I will explain why I'm doing it in bulk later on in the video Basically a quick explanation is I just want to kind of get as much videos recorded and out of the way Before time comes that I can't do it anymore, which is coming up pretty soon But right now I have some food. I ordered a bacon cheeseburger. Actually, let me just show you what I got Basically just ordered a bacon cheeseburger from a local place platter with the fries gravy on the side and Ice tea because I don't drink soft drinks anymore But yeah, so I'm just gonna eat this really quick and then we'll carry on with the vlog I am Full and sadly I have to go and record like I said 10 to 15 videos So let's start that hopefully I'll regain my energy in a minute, but let's get the recording done Okay, so now even though I am full I do have a lot of work to do a lot of videos I want to record and start editing as early as tomorrow. So I do have a lot of stuff. I have to do up first I Have my knife a collection. I'm going to be redoing that just because I added a new knife to my collection I also have my wish unboxing. I'm going to do and yes, that is a pile of t-shirts So let me explain that really quick Okay, so for the t-shirts sitting next to me whenever I do videos the reason for that It's a little secret. I do here on YouTube. I Record my videos back-to-back and if I were to wear the same shirt in every video Especially if I were planning on uploading those videos all in the same week I know I'd probably get the comments saying you're disgusting Change your clothes and all this other stuff and I just want to avoid it because it's honestly not the case I'm always changing my clothes. I really care about my hygiene But I know I get those comments, especially if I were to upload those videos where I wear the same shirt all in the same week I know I get those comments So I usually record one or two videos in one shirt Then I'll change into another one and then I'll change into another one depending on how many videos that plan on recording But that is why I always have t-shirts next to me whenever I'm making my videos and plan on recording multiple ones at once Okay, so I just finished recording a bunch of my videos. I am done. It is late I have one video left to record and that is a taste test video on Lay's Pizza Chips It should be good But after that I'm just gonna relax for the night because right now I'm starting to get extremely tired. I recorded including the next one I'm gonna do 15 videos tonight It is almost one in the morning. I am exhausted I've never recorded that many videos in one single day and this week I recorded I think it's at 24 videos because I recorded nine earlier this week So I guess the plus 15 that makes it 24 videos that beat my record Now the reason I am doing this and the reason I decide I'm gonna start making my videos Whenever I have the chance to record them and kind of recording them in bulk is Because I did say I plan on getting back to work soon as I'm recording this I just have my two exams left to right and then I'm getting back to work But by the time you're watching this it's already likely happened and I'm already working whenever I get back to work I'm gonna be working as a security guard and whenever you come in as a security guard new you are the rookie You have to do a lot of doubles you have to do a lot of nights And there's gonna be a lot of times when I cannot record for you I might be able to record a couple vlogs on break or something like that when I'm working I'm gonna try to do that for you guys. Okay, so tomorrow is my first of three exams I thought I only had two exams. I have three so I've been doing practice tests all day. I'm getting near 100% I'm ready for this first exam. Hopefully I pass. I'll keep you guys updated But hopefully I can get the first one knocked out easy. Okay, so I decided to take a few minutes to take a break for my test Let me show you what I'm doing Homemade Salsa time Okay, so I'm trying to hurry right now about to head out to go and write my final exam for the course Hopefully I can finish it first attempt So I'm not gonna have to go back and then whatever I'm done I actually just have to go for my provincial test. I thought I had three exams But I only have one to complete the course and then I have to do my provincial test So I'm gonna be going to do that now I will give you guys an updates when I am home, but hopefully I can pass wish me luck Okay, so I'm back from writing my final exam. Honestly, I think I did pretty good I won't know the results till they email me my certificate and let me know how I did if I did pass That's what they're gonna do. If not, I'll have to go back and write it again But I'm pretty confident that I passed it was 75 multiple choice questions I had an hour to write it I was actually done in half an hour and had time to go over my questions to make any changes But I don't think I had any changes to make and I left still pretty early once I was finished that So it didn't take the full time and I prepared this weekend by doing about 40 Practice tests online and it was pretty good It really made me confident that I could do this and I think I passed I'll let you guys know If I did if I get the email if I get my certificate, I'll let you guys know But as of right now, I'm pretty sure I passed Okay, so I'm really excited today because I have received my Certificate for completing the security guard commissioners course This has been about three months of hard work and determination And I'm really happy that I got its completes and I'm happy that I get to start somewhere So now that I have this done all I have left is to write my provincial exam And that's just to get into working and then by doing that I'll be able to get my license and such to be able to be a security guard and find work here in Ontario But my plans don't stop here This is just so I have a backup plan to what I'm really going to be trying to go through for and that is border security And I'm gonna be talking about that soon in another video I'm gonna be breaking down everything that I am gonna be planning for myself But I'm just really happy that I finally passed the course and I finally got my certificate So I just wanted to share that with you guys. Okay, so I am gonna end today's vlog here I hope you guys did enjoy. I loved making it everything from this vlog was from this past week I really enjoyed making it Everything from me having that whole night where I can make all my videos and give you guys the behind-the-scenes footage I put in this vlog and also you guys seen that I was preparing for an exam I took the exam and I passed the exam so I gave you guys a little bit of everything But the only question I have for you guys is Do you guys want my vlogs to remain around this length you guys want me to extend it to about 10 or 15 minutes? I always try to avoid that But if you guys would rather a little bit longer vlogs just because mine are every three weeks and they're not every week I might be doing that for you guys let me know down below But it is an idea I have right now, but I'm gonna leave this one here and I will see you guys in the next vlog Please take care peace


Ukrainian forces destroy Russia's Uragan system UAV control centre in south. Ukraine's defence forces have destroyed the enemy's UAV control centre, an electronic warfare station and a command post of a motor rifle regiment of the Russian armed forces in southern Ukraine. Ukraine's operational command south said this in a post on Facebook. The Uragan 1M is a recent Russian artillery rocket system. It was deployed to replace both the aging Uragan 220mm system that was adopted back in 1975, the SMERSH 300mm system that was adopted in 1987. Both of these systems are extremely capable and are widely used by the Russian army. This artillery rocket system is extremely effective against area targets such as concentration of troops and armoured vehicles, artillery batteries, airfields. The Uragan 1M is a multi-caliber system. It can carry two pods with various rockets. This system can launch a rocket with various calibres including pods with 300mm rockets of the SMERSH and 220mm rockets of the Uragan. It can fire all current SMERSH and Uragan rockets. The Uragan 1M is based on the Belarusian MZK-T7930 special-wheeled chassis with 8x8 configuration. The vehicle is powered by a YA-MZ-A46 turbocharged diesel engine.


Alright everybody, how are we? What is going on? Welcome back to another episode of Not Making Gains, what am I talking about? Welcome back to the NFL's top 100 of 2019. We're at number 97, which means we've only done three. We've got 97 to go. His name is Byron Jones. He's a cornerback for the Cowboys with the big star. We all know the Cowboys uniform, and I'd love to go to a Cowboys game actually inside that dome. Do they call it the dome? Let me have a look. It's an amazing stadium, isn't it? Cowboys Stadium, AT&T Stadium.  AT&T Stadium is a retractable roof stadium in Arlington, Texas. It serves as the home of the Dallas Cowboys and was completed on May 27th, 2009.  So it played host to the All-Star weekend for the NBA in 2010. That might have been why it was built, possibly. But we're not going to find out. 105,000 people. The record attendance for an NFL game was set in 2009 with a crowd of 105,121. It seats 80,000, making it the fourth-largest stadium in the NFL. But the maximum capacity with standing room is 105,000.   He went from safety, now playing cornerback, and making plays, and actually made it to the Pro Bowl his first time playing cornerback. I think for me, that made me understand, like, okay, you can be something special, man, you got to keep it going. Okay. I'd have to say cornerback is the easier position than safety, right? Because safety, you're going to be covering field, whereas cornerback, you're most probably going to be covering a man. Is that, is that, is that right? Let's see. I mean, that's a big change. I mean, those are two completely different positions. People don't honestly know how hard it is to transition from playing safety to just being on the island, playing corner against some of the best receivers in this league. Being on the island, playing corner. What does that mean? Playing cornerback on the island. It's often said that the cornerbacks are on an island with their receiver. Okay, every great cornerback should be skilled in both forms of defensive coverage, press coverage and man-to-man coverage. These two techniques give corners their defensive edge, allowing them to block the receiver from catching a ball, but in each, the cornerback must be careful to not get a pass interference, caught on the play. Correct. Man-to-man coverage is arguably the most difficult technique to do successfully on the field, and corners play man-to-man more than anyone else, so it's hard.  The wide receiver always has the advantage, because he gets to make the first move and knows where the ball is headed. That's exactly right. Man-to-man is easy to understand, but hard to do well. Find your man, cover your man, and don't let him catch the ball. Alright, Byron. That's off to him. Let's go. Cowboys cornerback Byron Jones isn't exactly a household name, yet. But in 2019, he found himself one-on-one with NFL Elite. And that's the kind of play that Byron Jones has been leading the Cowboys to expect all year. Byron Jones been a lead for maybe four years now, who haven't got a chance to be in that top 100 list, but that's someone who definitely deserves it. For a person who can change positions and do it as well as he's been doing this year, he definitely deserves to be in that top 100 list. Vocal with his team, I would say, communicates very well.  Good physical corner, tall corner, long arms. Tall corner, eh? Let's have a look. Let's get some stats on the man. Byron Jones, 6'1", my height, 185, 200 pounds, 91 kilos. Pick number 27, my lucky number. Round number one, 2015 draft. He's been at the Cowboys the whole time. He was selected to the Pro Bowl last year. Wow, that sounds like hyperbole. Actually not. 12'3". That's incredible. Okay, that's why he's a good corner. Man, that's just unbelievable.  Did it say that? Holy moly. 22.13 seconds in the 200, 48 seconds in the 400 meters. He set a new combine and world record for standing broad jump by leaping 12 feet 3 inches. Oh, that's just disgusting. 4.43 for the 40-yard dash. Vertical with 44.5 inches. 18 reps on the bench.  He's destroyed to understand the value of a true shutdown corner. That was the only game where I wasn't going to, and that kind of like accelerated, okay, this guy can be a really good corner. Yeah, you can. Got the speed, got the hops, that's for sure. I'm taking a part of the field away for the team. No receiver can get away from a man. The defensive guys appreciated that. They're not fast enough, they can't jump high enough. That's what football is about. I didn't hear that. It's a big benefit to the defense, and the defensive guys appreciated that. You know, get a slap on the back from the guys up front because they may not keep it up. That's what football is about. We run, we hit, and we stay on top. So we don't give up. Watch him up top. See, and it's not just jumping in the air. It's broad, right? It's broad jump.  He could probably jump from this side of the room to the other in about one second. But he kangaroo. He's like a gazelle. What are those legs made of? He's just always getting a hand there, right? He'd be so frustrating as a receiver. Damn, man. Those are some unbelievable stats, that's for sure. All right, guys. That was number 97, Byron Jones, cornerback for the Cowboys. In the next video, our fifth for the day, we're going to be looking at Carson Wentz. Quarterback for the Eagles, who went down. He went down late last year. And then I don't believe he played last season. Is that right? I'm not sure. I'm going to check that. But what I do know is that, believe it or not, I've actually got my own little Carson Wentz around here somewhere. Where are you, man? Must have left it at home. Damn. Anyways, let's crack into it. Number 96, Carson Wentz. I will see you guys very shortly. Have a great day and peace out.


Live from Chicago, Illinois, it's theCUBE. Covering VeeamON 2018, brought to you by Veeam. Welcome back to day two of VeeamON 2018 in Chicago. My name is Dave Vellante, and I'm here with Stu Miniman. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. Dante Orsini is here. He's the senior vice president of BizDev at Island. Cube alum, good friend of theCUBE. Great to see you again. Great to see you. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. So what's happening with Island these days in the world of cloud service providers? Well, Dave, it's been insane for us. I mean, obviously Veeam's a huge partner of ours. We've been working together for what, seven years now, I think. And it's just amazing to see the growth of this company. I mean, we've integrated Veeam, our relationship. We started off basically providing managed backup many, many moons ago, right? But six years ago, we started to build our own platform on top of VMware, on top of Cisco, on top of HPE. And customers really wanted to see more control, right? They wanted greater levels of security. They really wanted a true enterprise cloud, right? So to do that, we had to enhance the VMware stack. And we had chosen to basically take Veeam and integrate them via their API. So today, if somebody deploys anything in the world with Island, it's automatically backed up by Veeam, right? So if you fast forward a bit, as you see what Veeam's done to innovate with cloud and multi-cloud, they've really helped build our business, right? So Dante, if you go and look back, kind of before the whole cloud wave, the typical service provider, they would have one of everything. You'd walk down the aisles and the, you know, whatever it was, an EMC box, a digital box, whatever it was. Did virtualization change that?  Yeah, that's a great question.  But I think what we've done is we quickly standardized, right? So we leveraged Cisco UCS from a compute perspective. We leveraged some of their storage platforms for things that we do with Veeam Cloud Connect Backup. We actually helped them drive the validation of that product before it came to market. So we operated scale with them, same thing with Veeam. So we're the largest cloud provider in the world right now. As far as leveraging Veeam technologies. Now, in addition to that, on the storage front, we also, because the demands of the environment, right? We really wanted to deliver a secure cloud service. So, you know, encryption is table stakes and has been for years, right? So HPE Nimble plays a critical role for us there. So that's really our stack. Cisco from a network and a compute perspective, VMware at the hypervisor, right? And HPE from a storage perspective. So it sounds like you've taken some very cost-effective platforms, Nimble, Veeam, et cetera, and then architected an enterprise class solution. So you guys are adding value around that as an integrator and then obviously a service provider. Yep, correct. And I think, you know, the market is demanding more and more from a cloud provider, right? People want true transparency. They want control over the infrastructure. So for us, it's like, how can we develop an API so we can make this platform extensible, right? And then still work with customers that are struggling with the promise of cloud, right? And Stu, you see this all the time, right? Yeah, yeah. And Dante, one of the things we're discussing here is it's a very hybrid world, you know? As Veeam said, we've got, you know, customers are doing lots of sass. They're using service providers. They have their own data centers. They're using a few public clouds. One of the things I've been watching real closely is companies like Island and the other cloud service providers, Amazon and Microsoft, you know, aren't the enemy anymore. Well, we actually have to partner with them on some services. We do some things locally. Maybe give us your viewpoint as to how that's changed in the last couple of years. Yeah, great question. So I would tell you that we're not quite there yet, Stu. And also from my perspective, right? So you guys know, we're known best for delivering disaster recovery as a service. That's where we've made a name in the space. But the irony is we've really focused on building this enterprise cloud infrastructure, right? So an IaaS platform. And ironically, that's a majority of our revenue, right? So when we look at public, clearly it is a hybrid world, right? So where we spent a lot of time is investing in how can we highly automate the integration, right? Because we know that people are going to have workloads everywhere. So the idea is to think about it from a recovery perspective. If I'm predicting your traditional workloads and you've got a dev team that's using various different services that are proprietary to a public cloud, that stuff's got to talk to each other, right? And a true resiliency capacity, right? So we want to make sure that people could actually highly automate and orchestrate a failover to us, a test to us, but also integrate the connectivity portion of that, right? So making sure that all these things can talk together is important. Now, you understand as well as I do, as these cloud architectures change, become more modern, and then more service-driven, the traditional, I'm going to move from point A to point B, it's no longer in play, right? It's how can I have more diversity amongst my vendor base? So if I'm using containers, I've got a globally distributed architecture, if I can deploy some of that with Island, and some of that, and maybe using Kubernetes, right? That gives me diversity for recovery. Oh, yeah, Dante, you hit on one of the key things we've been, as an industry, struggling with, that pace of change is just so rapid. How do you internally deal with that pace of change? Is to architect something today and tomorrow there's something new? And tell us what you're hearing from your customers as to how they make their decisions and sort through this constant changing rubric. Yeah, well, it's definitely insane. We see all sorts of various different use cases, right? Depending on the industry and that pressure to innovate, right, at the speed of light, is really people struggle with it, right? So I think from our perspective, there's a couple of things that we're doing. One, we actually wrote our own assessment application. We call it Island Catalyst. And this was really designed to help both our customers, as well as our partners, because we go to market through a lot of partners as well, to help streamline this pre-sales process for a customer. So again, we focus squarely on the VMware infrastructure stack, right? So being able to pull an inventory of what somebody has in their environment and then go through and select resource pools and VMs for whatever the purpose, whether they're looking to lift and shift workloads or whether they're looking to protect them from a backup or DR perspective. And we're able to mitigate all the challenges associated with that. So to your point, as people are looking at cloud, it's like, okay, is this cloud thing real? And how's it applied to my business, right? What can I really do with this? And oh, by the way, I got to deal with my budget also. So what's this stuff cost? So we've got some really smart people, but you can't scale our smartest people globally, right? So we wanted to really drive that into an application and it's really helped get people to outcomes much quicker. So do it right first. If you reverse back a few years ago, VMware was calling Amazon a bookseller.  You know, they kissed and hugged last year. So you must have loved that, first of all, because it was like, great VMware specialist. We'll just drive a truck through that opportunity because we get service provision, cloud, VMware stack, boom. Okay, now fast forward, they've got this little kumbaya thing going on. How do you now differentiate from that? Yep. Yeah, that's a great question. So first of all, you know, VMware obviously a very strategic partner. I think they've got a long road ahead of them, right? On some of the things that they're doing, right? And I think the promise of where they're going is great, but I still think that there's a lot of folks that struggle with the idea. I mean, think about commingling my traditional workloads and then trying to integrate cloud-native services on top of it. I think it's a tall order, right? So we'll see where it goes. We're keeping a close eye on it. But in the interim, for us, we continue to see folks that are saying, look, I want to get out of the data center business. I've built my data center on VMware and I need to have much greater levels of control and visibility and you need to make this easy on me, right? So from that perspective, we've been able to do really, really well. We work with a lot of service providers that are looking for that level of consultative approach but also want to realize the benefits of a cloud, right? So the point being is I want a true cloud but it needs to be enterprise class. And I also need to know that I might need help architecting that migration, right? All right. Well, that's the key, right? I mean, you're not going to get that from an Amazon. They're not going to come into your shop. They're not going to hold your hand through it. They're not going to help you build the architecture out. It'll help you manage it on an ongoing basis, right? Dante, it's May 2018, so I'd be remiss if I didn't ask about GDPR. Hey, Stu, I love you, man. This is great. So you guys know we operate globally, right? And have for, you know, over a decade. So GDPR, we were way out in front of this. So I'm not sure if you follow the, the BSI came out with a new standard 10012, I believe. I think our compliance and DPO officer would be pretty proud of me remembering that one. But it's, it's tailor made for GDPR, right? So we've been pre certified, one of four companies that did it. We do a ton in the security side and the compliance side. I nearly go hand in hand. We went through a global audit last year on the back of some of the ISO work we do with the CSA, the Cloud Security Alliance, and actually came out with a Gold Star certification. Sounds juvenile, right? Gold Star, woohoo, right? But it's a big deal. Only Island and Microsoft have actually achieved that level of certification. Yeah, so on the compliance side, we're way out in front of GDPR. We're doing a lot from a thought leadership perspective and educating both our partners in the marketplace. And I think it's going to be very interesting to see what happens with Brexit also, right? And I think you'll see the rest of the world kind of find their way to their own type of regulation. So what are all those acronyms mean for your customers in terms of GDPR compliance? How does that turn into value for them and make their life easier? Can you explain? So I think right now the whole market's been kind of, in my opinion, has been ill-prepared for this. And so you see a lot of people scrambling, right? So being able to identify what data is going to fall under that regulation, how you treat the data, how you're able to account for the data, and also destroy the data and validate that, is frankly I see some of the biggest sweeping change in marketing. I see marketing people really scrambling, right? Because they have to make sure that they double opt in. I mean, because the fines for breaching this are unbelievable, right? So I think you're going to see the regulators make an example out of certain people, right? No doubt. Quickly. And there's going to be some examples. They're going to go after the guys with deep pockets at first, but the fines are, I mean, what are the fines? 10% of turnover? No, 4% of turnover. 4% of your previous year's turnover. Which is insane. Yeah. That's going to hurt. Yeah, or something like 20 million pounds, something like that. Which ever is greater. Greater, yes! Yes, exactly. Yeah. It's pretty onerous, all right. Dante, Veeamon 2018, we'll give you closing thoughts. Fantastic event, right? Just super appreciative for our relationship with Veeamon. They've been behind us. They've been behind this whole cloud provider community. I mean, guys, you can know this, Ratmir and team had the ability to go take this stuff to a public cloud many moons ago. They chose to enable a managed cloud provider market first. So we are very grateful for that. Awesome. Hey, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Great to see you. My pleasure. As always. All right, keep it up everybody. Go Yankees. Oh, whoa. Go Yankees. Okay, well, we're on the topic. Here we go. Listen, you can't beat the Red Sox in April. Yeah, you know that, right? Yeah, here we go. So it's going to be interesting to see. I mean, I have predicted the Yankees are going to take the East and I think they go into the World Series, but you got to be excited as a Yankees fan. Could be a good year. I've always liked Brian Cashman. I think he's one of the best GMs in the business. And I watch his moves at the trading deadline. He's going to beef up the bullpen and I hope the Sox can hang tough with them because anything can happen. It's true. Anything can happen. All right, great to see you. Great to see you guys. Thank you. Go Sox. Keep it right there, buddy. 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