We can get started. So this talk is going to be about the embedded GPU space and what's going on, what's been happening, and what you can look forward to in the future. But before we get into that, who am I? My name is Robert Foss. I live in Germany. I'm a software engineer at Colabra. And I work in the open source graphic space. So that means doing kernel work, Mesa work, Android work, Wayland work, that kind of stuff. It's all over the place. But this is going to be a talk about the different graphics vendors and what you can look forward to. So let's get started. The first vendor I want to talk about is Intel. And they have a very, very long history of being good, solid, open source contributors. They started in 2004 with the i9-15 driver, and it's never stopped, essentially. They're still doing super good work. And their driver supports the very latest OpenGL and Vulkan standards. And this is what their timeline of development looks like. It's a bit truncated because none of the other vendors have been around for that long. So it starts at 2009. But there's a few interesting features of this diagram. One is that all of their hardware is supported. That's not the case for every vendor. But since Intel has been around for such a long time, all of their hardware is very, very well supported. Another interesting feature is the blue driver, the blue dot, the Iris Gen 8 Plus item. And the Iris driver is the name for Intel's new graphics driver. And it is as open source as the old one, but it's using the same driver framework that the other open source graphics drivers are using. It's called Gallium. And it's a framework for building a graphics driver. It gives you a lot of stuff for free. And Intel has chosen, since about one or two years ago, to look into building a Gallium-based driver.  This driver is included in the latest version of Mesa. And it performs better in some circumstances than the previous one that has had 15 years of development poured into it. And that's quite impressive. Specifically, they quoted CPU performance and lower CPU overhead as being a large contributing factor to wanting to switch. And that's good news for not just Intel, but it's good news for all of the GPU driver vendors. Because that means the resources that Intel pour into testing and development goes to all of us, essentially. Whether you're on a Vivante GPU or an ARM GPU or whatever, you're also going to see some benefits from this, be it better stability through testing or better performance through optimizations. So that's very interesting. And the last, almost equally as interesting part, is the Gen 12 GPU. So it looks like just another one of their integrated GPUs. But Gen 12 is, as far as I understand it, going to support being run as a dedicated GPU. So this is going to mean that they're going to offer a higher performance, dedicated, separate GPU. I would assume that it's going to be used for primarily server enterprise-type workloads. So it's probably not going to be in your next gaming rig. But who knows? The graphic support is there, anyway. So on to the next vendor, AMD. They're also a really good open source citizen. They've been around since 2009 in this space when they decided to start opening up their documentation for their GPUs. And providing this documentation essentially means that you don't have to reverse engineer their driver in order for you to start writing your own new driver. So taking away the reverse engineering work really lowers the threshold for a driver to emerge. And since then, a lot of AMD drivers have emerged. There's almost too many. I'll go into it, but there's a forest of slightly different AMD drivers. All of them, or all of the current ones, support the latest OpenGL and Vulkan standards. So you can expect it to work with anything, essentially. And this is what the timeline looks like. So if you look to the left, the blue ones are drivers or they're platforms that are supported by the kernel Radeon driver. The Radeon driver targets the really old hardware. Think the past 15 years up to like five years ago. Super old hardware. And the red dots on the timelines support everything else, essentially, up to the very latest GPUs. The ones released a few months ago. They are all supported upstream, both in the kernel and on Mesa, which is very nice. But apart from the Mesa driver, AMD also supplies their own user space driver. That is also open source. And one is called AMD GPU, and the other one is called AMD Vulkan. And they support OpenGL and Vulkan, of course. These are not the community drivers, but they are fully and totally open source, but they're maintained by AMD, essentially. AMD also provides resources for the community drivers, which seems like a crazy amount of extra work. Not just going with only the community drivers, but I can also see their point of view of wanting to reuse a driver across all platforms. But a driver like that is not something that can be included into the Mesa or kernel project. Then there's NVIDIA, which is a very interesting story. They've been around for a long time. Since 2010, there's been an open source driver called Nouveau. NVIDIA has never really contributed towards it. They have, in the very limited case of Tegra, which is their embedded platforms. They've contributed some code towards the Nouveau project. The Nouveau project supports the latest OpenGL standards, but it doesn't really matter. It's still not usable, and we're going to get into that. So if you look at the reverse engineering timeline here, this is essentially all of the GPUs that have been released by NVIDIA in this time span. And if we look at the support for GPUs in the upstream kernel and Mesa projects, it's also essentially all of the GPUs. But it's still not usable, because in order for you to make the GPU go faster or go fast, you need to load a firmer blob provided by NVIDIA. This allows the GPU to increase the frequency at which it's operating from the baseline, the lowest safety levels, to the actual performance levels. This blob exists in the driver. They ship, and it is usable. You could use it with the open source drivers and just load it up. However, they, through legalese, prohibit this from being allowed. So while it's entirely technically possible, Debian can't, for example, ship this blob. Nor can you nor can I. Only NVIDIA is allowed to ship it. So that effectively means that Nouveau is not useful. You can't use it. And this is something that would be super simple to fix if people were interested in doing that. Then there's imagination. So we used to see a lot of imagination GPUs in a bunch of different places, from Apple devices, which is maybe not what this talk is targeting, but to single board computers and a bunch of things. They're not quite as common anymore. They also have essentially no upstream support at all. Imagination has written a sort of stub kernel driver, but it can't be accepted into the Linux kernel since there's no user space 3D driver that actually uses it. They have a few Mesa patches floating around, but they don't even try to offer 3D support in them. So that essentially means that that can't be merged either. So until they change their mind, there's not a lot to be said for imagination either. Unlike many of the other drivers, the community has shown very little interest in reverse engineering their GPUs. That's partly because they're very complicated. They're slightly different from the other sets of GPUs. But unfortunately, that means that no one has really picked this up in a serious way. Imagination is the last vendor that I know of that doesn't have any type of open source GPU, which is interesting, and something that they maybe should take note of. There's a trajectory here, and the trajectory is that every GPU has an open source driver, except for them. Onto Qualcomm, which is a much better story. So the Fridrino driver, which targets the Adreno GPUs of Qualcomm, has been developed since 2013. And Qualcomm has been supporting this GPU. Or at least lately, they've been supporting it directly and indirectly with actual developer time, which is really nice to see.  So Qualcomm bought the mobile handset of AMD in 2009, including their GPUs, which is why there are GPUs called Adreno. It's a word play on Radeon. This is what the reverse engineering process has looked like for the Qualcomm GPUs. These are all of their GPUs, so every single one is supported. And this reverse engineering work was done by Rob Clark and Elie Merkin and others in the community. And if we look at the results of that, you see that there's not a lot of lag between a driver being reverse engineered and it being supported in the upstream projects. Maybe it's six months a year at most. It's just pretty incredible, given that to reverse engineer a GPU, it's not a trivial task. And this is partly done just for fun, because people enjoy it. Or very few are paid to do this reverse engineering work. And then we have Broadcom, which is, I guess, a very recent citizen to the open source driver community. In 2015, they started developing the VC4 driver. The VC4 is the GPU that's in the Raspberry Pi. Or rather, the Raspberry Pi 1 through 3. The Raspberry Pi 4 ships the VC5 GPU. Oh, sorry, 6 GPU, I believe. And there was essentially no reverse engineering done for this driver, since it was sponsored entirely by Broadcom. And they clearly have documentation in-house. And they essentially hired a community person, Eric Anhalt, to write this driver. And he did until very recently. So this is what the timeline looks like for Broadcom. It's not a lot of GPUs in there. There's the VC4 and the V3D driver. The V3D driver targets VC5 and VC6 GPUs. The next vendor is Vivante. And a driver was starting to be developed in 2015 for their hardware. Originally, it was entirely community-driven. And it was based on reverse engineering since 2012. Since then, reverse engineering and development has been sponsored amongst or some of it by aircraft suppliers. If you saw the talk before mine, there is a real problem with long-term support and GPUs and proprietary drivers. If you want to offer long-term support, that's not the one year or five years or even 10 years. Or in the case of aircraft suppliers, like 20 years, you really can't rely on a vendor both being there and being willing to supply you with an actual proprietary driver with the latest fixes. So some of the people in our industry have chosen to just forego the proprietary driver and sponsor the development of a new one. And this is what the reverse engineering timeline looks like. And it resulted in a driver rather recently. So this driver is shipped now as far as I know. And in actual aircrafts, and it's used should be like a sign of a vote of confidence. To further illustrate where this driver is, here's a benchmark. It's just a random benchmark, basically. And it shows that the open source driver has essentially 80% of the performance of the proprietary one. And I would say that this is like a worst case. If your application performs poorly, the situation can surely be improved. Or if you have a weird use case that maybe isn't supported by the proprietary driver, that's something that could be added as well. So let's look at the last vendor here. They're sort of the last ones to the party. They're not entirely willingly at the party. But there's some really exciting stuff to be said about ARM. So in the past years, since essentially 2012, there's been a very slow burning type of reverse engineering effort. In 2012, a guy called Luke Verhagen started reverse engineering the Mali 400 series of GPUs. They're pretty low-end, relatively simple GPUs. And he created a prototype, which unfortunately was never truly open sourced. He gave some talks about it. And it did work, at least in some cases. But since the code was never really published, not a lot happened. And the effort sort of died out until 2017, where Keyang decided to pick up the work. Keyang is a developer at AMD, which is interesting. This is pretty common. A thing you see quite often in this space, where a developer of one company is prohibited from contributing towards his driver. So he develops a driver for another company instead, because he has the knowledge. And he wants to make an open source driver, but he can't make it for his own hardware. So in 2017, Keyang picked this up for the Mali 400 series. This driver is called Lima. And in 2018, there a new driver for the Mali T series and G series of GPUs called Panfrost. It was created by Alyssa Rosenschweig and Connor Abbott. And this is essentially the current middle and high end AMD GPUs. And they've been reverse engineered from scratch. And very recently, both Panfrost and Lima have landed in the kernel and the Mesa repositories. So they're fully supported by, or not fully supported. They're supported by open source drivers, both. And currently, the Panfrost driver runs Wayland, runs 3D apps. And Collabra has decided to contribute towards it, too. And we do contribute to full-time engineers to working on this, so we're trying to push this forward. But this started as a community process. And without the community, we wouldn't be anywhere, essentially. If you're curious about what this looks like, we have a demo at our booth. You can come play some SuperTux cart with us. We're all pretty terrible, so I'm sure you'd win. So that's very exciting. But there's some more stuff coming down the line. So a big thing is OpenCL and OpenCL support. And it's been a big thing for a long time because it's essentially a large step from not supporting it to supporting it. And the community interest, unlike for 3D, is a lot smaller. So we depend on client work, essentially. A client would have to come to us and say, we want OpenCL. Make this happen. Here's a bag of money. And then we could go into development mode. Currently, a few of the drivers, however, are seeing some interest in some work being done to support OpenCL, the Fredrino driver, the Nouveau driver, and the EthnaVib driver. So these are mostly intended to be used in the embedded space. And the work itself has come in the form of enabling a new or the most modern compiler intermediate representation that Mesa supports, called NIR. So NIR is one part of enabling OpenCL. The other part is having an OpenCL compiler front end that works and is compatible with NIR. And that essentially means LLVM and getting LLVM to support recent OpenCL features. Some work is being done in this space, too. It's also not done, but hopefully we could see OpenCL support merged into LLVM soon, maybe this year, maybe next year. Then there is Vulkan Compute, which is already working for the two big driver developers in the Mesa space. So Intel and AMD have Vulkan Drivers, and their Vulkan Drivers already support Vulkan Compute. So that's very interesting, and especially how it relates to OpenCL. If you ask Kronos, the standards body that are responsible for both Vulkan, OpenCL, and OpenGL, they will tell you that Vulkan Compute is not an OpenCL replacement. It's not meant to be. So that might be an interesting data point, even if the support for some of these drivers is pretty good for Vulkan Compute. It may not be something that you should hope too much for in terms of solving your embedded Compute issues. And then there's Cycle. And Cycle is a layer that is intended to be built on top of OpenCL, essentially. So think of it as CUDA, essentially. It's a single source language that allows you to compile both the Compute kernel and your application in a single source file. It also solves some other issues. So that's something to look forward to. And that's also a standard that's backed by Kronos. As for the bigger picture, some drivers are extremely mature and have been around for a long, long time. Some are newer, yet still very mature. The community drivers now all share the same code base, especially with Intel now moving to using the Gallium framework. This is very much the case that what benefits one driver will likely benefit the others as well, be it stability through testing or better performance through optimization. There's a lot to be gained for everyone when one of the vendors makes some contribution. Reverse engineering, a driver. From reverse engineering to having something actually upstream takes something like one to seven years. That's pretty hand-wavy, but it's a number. Maybe the average is a lot closer to one or two years. And Compute is still on the way, as it always has been. We'll see. Maybe next year, maybe the year after that. But maybe the more interesting question to ask yourself, why do you even care about running open source drivers? Why does it matter? My NVIDIA proprietary driver works just fine. It's great. It's performance. It supports all the use cases I have. But there are some real important thoughts or things to think about this. If you want to support your product for a seriously long time, be it one year or 20 years, getting a vendor to actually support their proprietary driver is, A, going to be hard, or B, going to cost you a lot of money. So that's an important question to have in mind when choosing what software stack you want to use, especially if you're developing actual physical products. And the performance of the open source driver is mostly on par, sometimes better, sometimes worse, with the proprietary ones. It really depends on which vendor we're talking about here. But for Intel and AMD, that's certainly the case. For Vivante, it depends on your application. For ARM, it's, I don't know. If it's working, we're very happy. The performance is maybe good in some cases, but it's not competitive with the proprietary blob. Another very important question to ask yourself is how are we going to debug this thing? If you have simple debugging, your time to market is going to be lower. That's just a fact. Getting the insight that you need to solve an issue immediately really matters. And it matters when you're in the most critical phase of development, like bringing a thing up. If you don't have any insight, it'll just take you longer. And lastly, having old hardware supported for a long time and means that maybe you'll see new features added to your old hardware, especially when it comes to the community graphics drivers that share the Gallium framework. Like, you get a lot of stuff for free, just because it's the same code base. If you make an improvement to one driver, it may be available to the other ones. And yeah, what's not to like about that? And that's essentially it. That's everything I wanted to say. Does anyone have any questions? Shit. How to do it? There's barely support for OpenCL as it is. So I would say no. But the intention is, of course, to do it as well as possible. And when you're developing support for a feature like OpenCL, a big one, having the debug tools that other people will need yourself is something that you want, right? You want your development to be easy. And then as a result, other people's development process will be easy as well. But as for the actual way to do it, I can't tell you that. All right. I think that's the general thing about the open source space, or sorry, the compute space, especially within open source. There's a lot to be done, and some of the work is underway, and some is yet to start. Any other questions? Yeah. For panfrost? It's upstream. Oh, it's already upstream? Yes. We're running the upstream version in our booth. So in Mesa already? In Mesa and in the kernel. Yep, it's there. You can run your normal desktop. We run GNOME Shell on our demo. It's just. How are the notifications about the show? No, none. Yeah, it just works. I mean, it's not flawless, but it does work. Any other questions? Sorry, louder. Not for that specific benchmark? No. I didn't look into it. I just ran a benchmark to have some numbers to show you that the performance, while not always better, is competitive, or in the right ballpark. I'm sure if you wanted better performance, it could be improved, specifically for that case or other cases. Any other questions? So the Panfrost driver targets both the G-Series and the T-Series of ARM GPUs. However, we're only currently using or testing against the T-Series. The G-Series is further out, I think. It's been reverse engineered to a large extent, but very little actual development has been done towards supporting that platform. I mean, there is a project like that, but unfortunately, I don't think Panfrost is on there. It's called Mesa Tracker. So for the other drivers, like Atnaviv, you can have a look at that. Panfrost should maybe at some point have that enabled as well. All right, any more questions? In that case, I think we're done. Thank you all for coming.


I gotta tell you, China did a pretty smart thing in doing the ultimate headache for Bitcoin and crypto. And we're going to talk about that in a second. But before I do talk about this, and this new report that just came out, and they're taking a look at Web 3 and really going forward, I'm an American. I'm heavily patriotic. I love this country. I served in the military for eight years. I was a combat medic. And I gotta tell you, the things that we're doing here in America make no sense to me whatsoever. And there are some things that are going on with just leave us in the dust. And I think sometimes a lot of the countries around the world are taking a look at us and going, what is going on over there? First of all, if you've been living under a rock or haven't heard, Biden and McCarthy reach a tentative US debt ceiling deal, which will allow us to spend more money, potentially even print more money in the future, and just kind of move forward as our debt starts to spiral out of control. And that's great. And I don't think that anybody was under the disillusion that this wasn't going to happen. But here we are. And then there is one thing though that I found quite interesting. The deal would suspend the debt limit through January of 2025, while capping spending in the 2024 and 2025 budget. So we've got a great idea here, which is to keep the debt ceiling under control. However, let's be honest, we're going to keep printing money. We're going to keep going into debt. And that at some point, we will collapse. And that's really what it comes down to, unless somebody gets us out of this mess. But that is what is going on. And that's what the markets we're talking about about. When this happens, it'll be great. And the market responds in crypto by exploding. I'm just kidding. It went up 2% in 24 hours. Not a big deal. Bitcoin's up 2%. Ethereum's up a little bit. Tethered, nobody cares. Cardano, 3.7. Not anything good. 5% for Solana. It's pretty good. And that's all we have. So I know people were really excited about this. I really, when I took a look at them, like, it doesn't matter, because they're just going to raise it again. Does anybody believe we're not? And it's not going to collapse. Now here we are. So that's the good news. But this is what I want to talk to you about today. This and some other things. So China, as we all have known for quite some time, has an amazing ability to ban crypto, unban crypto. And then all of a sudden just kind of give the signaling to the world that they are not going to allow crypto, digital assets, Web3. But now they've taken a little bit of a U-turn. And I thought it was just a great play, because they're going to be in control of everything as America came and figure out debt ceiling. And of course, friend of the show, just kidding, Gary Gensler is protecting us harder. So this just came out yesterday. Beijing releases White Paper for Web3 Innovation and Development. So Beijing released Web3 White Paper to promote the industry's development. The timing is interesting, according to Binance CEO. And here's what we have. Web3 Innovation, Development, White Paper, Document States. Web3 Tech is an inevitable trend for future internet industry development. This isn't just some newspaper saying it, this isn't just some guy who knows a guy. This is from the Beijing Municipal Sciences and Technology Commission. The commission aims to construct Beijing as a global innovation hub for digital economy. Cities Che Yang Nailed It District will spend at least 100 million yuan, that's about 14 million, every year until 2025 to really bring things up to speed. The White Paper states that Beijing aims to strengthen policy support and accelerate technological breakthroughs to promote the Web3 industry. And this is on top of the fact that Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission released a new rule book for the crypto industry last week. This is whatever it was talking about and they were so pumped up. And now we have another report that really pumps a bit more where retail investors can start trading crypto from June 1, which is coming up pretty soon, a couple of days or so. Hong Kong's attempt to attract crypto firms in the region comes at the same time as a regulatory crackdown on crypto in the U.S. That's why I say this is a beautiful play by China. Well done, China. Well done, Xi Jinping president for really, really doing the ultimate head fake and just leaving things in the dust. So you got to ask yourself, what the heck's Web3?  If you don't know, don't worry. A little hard for me to understand. Here's a little graph, a little diagram to help you out. So Web 1.0, if you're old like me, you can remember this. This is from the 1990s to 2000, which for the web, it was only read-only pages. You could just go there. It was a blog. Somebody was writing things. You couldn't interact whatsoever. You couldn't buy anything. Nothing else happened. Then we got Web 2.0, which is where we could buy things. We could start to stream things like Netflix, Amazon web service, and you could read and write. And you could post things everywhere else and you could buy things. It was great. And now we're getting into Web 3.0. One thing you will notice here is that Netflix, Meta, Google, Chrome, Amazon web service, it's all a centralized organization. Web 3.0, we're trying to do it decentralized ways. We're trying to create websites not in just one place, one centralized app, but something like Unstoppable Domains, where it can be decentralized, built across all the different blockchains and stored throughout. Private and secure. And really what it comes on to is read, write, and own digital assets. How you do that? Well, most of the time, for most of us, we'll use like a MetaMask wallet or something like that.  We've talked about this. I don't really have a problem moving forward. But that's essentially Web 3.0. You're going to be able to own and transfer, spend funds, digital assets, and crypto on the internet with a more of a decentralized play. So for this one, and then people will say, well, what do you do with that? Well, of course, we've talked about this digital assets. But here's what I've been doing lately. Just a little info for you. So Web 3.0, and people talk about blockchain gaming and things like this. I know you're looking at this like, that's goofy, Rob. Why would I play games? Well, this is a Web 3.0 game. This is called Benji Bananas. There's also another one called Blast Rail. What I like about these two games, first of all, they're built on Polygon. I like Polygon. I invest in Polygon. When I see different organizations building on Polygon, I like that because that means that my investment is doing pretty decent, right? Same with Blast Rail. And there's a plethora of ones out there. Also, what's cool about this game is that you can earn Apecoin, right? So a lot of you out there, statistically on my channel, you're between the ages of 33 to 55, and you may not be a big gamer. Neither am I. And so some people will say, I'm an adult, Rob. I don't game. Fine. But I guarantee most of you do this. Maybe you peruse Twitter feed a lot, or maybe you scroll a lot on Facebook when you get nothing else to do. You can do that. That's fine. Or maybe you can download this game right here, which is available for on your phone, Android and iOS. Maybe you earn a little Ape as you're waiting to do things instead of perusing into that dark pit, which is the toxicity, which is Twitter. I know I do the same thing. So there's this one. There's one called Blast Royale. And just a goofy little game. You can earn things, again, built on Polygon, buy these things, swap things, fill them out. And this is what it looks like. So like, these are the games themselves. Here's the actual, here's the Blast Royale. Again, not a big gamer, but they're very casual games, kind of fun. And then you got this one down here. Here's the game itself. Actually, this one is one of my favorites because it's like mindless. And all you got to do is very simple. Hold here, earn some tokens, and there you go. I will say this, I'll preface it with this, as far as like with Benji bananas. If you want to earn those things, you got to connect your wallet. Remember, we talked about Web 3.0 Metamask. You got to verify your membership pass. You got to buy that. That's an NFT. I know some of you were like, I'll never do that. It's not for you. It's like $40 or $50.  Before you ask, no, I have no affiliation with Benji bananas or Blast Royale. None, zero zip. But I think it's interesting that Polygon's being built on it. And that's what we have. So that's just something to get us through the conundrums and the boringness right now of the crypto market. Things are moving sideways. Let's be honest. It gets kind of boring, doesn't it? You know, it's not boring. Meme coins. Meme coins are amazing if you want to gamble. And here's the thing before I go on. I'm not a big gambler. I live in Vegas for two years. Peruse the casinos every so often. I've had friends who were in the casinos all the time playing and losing money like crazy. There's a huge difference. There's a huge difference between a degenerate gambler or the person who every so often decides to put a couple dollars or pennies in the slot machine, the one-armed bandits. Big difference. But with meme coins, they're gambling. Let's just be honest. So this was, I said, I put this, I said just to be clear. Meme coins don't do anything, right? Unless I'm missing something. And everybody's like, yeah, essentially they don't do squat. Now Dan here from Crypto Capital Venture goes, I understand this thought that meme coins don't do anything. It's technically true by disagree. I think they amplify an underlying cornerstone of crypto culture community. And we hear that a lot. And then Tom Crown says, yeah, that's right. Of course, Ben's like, I don't care. Meme coins are used to scam people out of their money through the allure of a strong community. Without them, how would scammers get their ex-liquidity? And then Jordan says, gambler's paradise, which is right. Jordan sums it up perfectly. It is a gambler's paradise. This is just it. With meme coins, just so everybody's clear, if you go into a poker tournament and everybody puts, there's 10 guys and they put a thousand bucks in, not everybody's leaving them with a thousand bucks. First place might get 5,000. Second place might get three. Third place might get 2,000. But the other seven guys, they're not going home with anything. So I cannot stress this enough. This is gambling. This is gambling. And it's okay. Because that's what life's all about, right? I think it is. Like, I could eat totally strict and just live on salads and raspberries and, I don't know, whatever, healthy food. And that would be it. But then there's doughnut every so often. I might want to partake in a doughnut because they're delicious or go through McDonald's drive-thru. Trash food. Trash food, right? You do that every day, probably get diabetes. Do that every so often, not so bad. So let me sum this up. Gambling, it happens.  Or are you going to be there every so often? I'm just asking the question. And then I get to take a look at this because I've been pretty critical of Pepe. But you got to honestly ask yourself, if it's gambling, I know it's gambling. And I'm not thinking to myself, oh, the guys over at Pepecoin are giving me financial advice because that's ridiculous. Pepecoin is like this. Like, what are you going to do? Like, if you put this in, this is April 29th, about a month or so ago, just know the all-time low, all-time high and all-time low, you're down 66% from the all-time high. But from the all-time low, 2,500, you're not going to hit the all-time lows and then sell the all-time. It's not going to happen. Sorry. But what if you could do this? What if you got into this memecoin here and then you're driving it up?  Okay, I'm up 10x, 20x. Okay, I'm going to sell right here because I know that this is the top and I'm the smartest trader of all time. And then it drops and you're like, I'm a genius. I knew it the whole time. And then it does this. Okay, now maybe you waited for this one. Now that's the top. You're gambling, right? And then it goes down. You're like, I'm a genius and it does this. Okay, that's the top. That's the top. I knew it. And it goes down and down and down. I'm a genius. Maybe you buy it back. Maybe you didn't.  You didn't do it. Don't lie to me.  It's gambling, right? You put in 50 bucks, 20 bucks, 10 bucks.  If you sell your kids and kidneys and take a second mortgage or a third mortgage on your house, we've got problems. Don't do that. That's dumb. And then you go, all right. So that's Pepe coin. This is, I always want to call it snack, but I think it's snake. Or maybe it's sneak. I don't know. But this is a Cardano meme coin. And over seven days, again, the same thing. You got here and you're like, ah, they dumped on me. Okay, I sell here top. Then it goes down. You're like, I'm a genius. Again, you're gambling. And you're going here and you sell up here. You're like, I'm a genius. I sold the top. It goes down here. And then it goes all the way up this way. And you sell, you see what I'm getting at? The same thing. Now, all-time low year only up 120%. That's pretty good. What if you put in, you know, 50 bucks and you take it out at 100%? Hey, I made another 50 bucks, 100 bucks gamblers, or you could be the ultimate gambler and get into the ultimate meme coin a long time ago. Do you know that? I didn't know this. Doge Quinn's been around since December 2013. Go figure. Did not know. I think I actually went before that, but I could be wrong. And you could have held this and then just say, you know what? Sell on the top, baby, a penny and a half January 2018. I'm a genius. And then it goes here. Maybe you buy that again or you don't. And you come here and then here's the problem with the generic gamblers. When it starts to go up super high like this, all the degenerates think, if it went up from six cents or a penny and a half or not even a penny to 58, 72 cents, because the all-time high was 73 cents. It's down 90%. The problem with degenerates is they get here and they say, well, if it went to 72 cents, 73 cents, it's going to go to a dollar, right? That's what all the guys at TikTok told me. So they got to be right. They wouldn't screw me over. And then it goes down here and so on and so forth. So again, to me, meme coins are this. It's just a Western standoff. This is all it is. And it's just people looking at you and you're looking at me, when are you going to sell? Are you going to sell now? You're going to sell here.  I don't know. And all people are doing is just waiting to dump on each other. That's really what it is. That's really what it comes down to. Gambling. Gambling, gambling, gambling. Again, am I saying you can't gamble? No, because we live in a free society. I'm pretty sure. We're still in America, comrade. I think. Hope. So do whatever you want to. But these types of coins, they may have run their course. They may not have. Pepe might go up to $10. I don't know. It's ridiculous. Snake could go up to whatever it does. And Dogecoin, if Elon keeps talking about it, could definitely go up to what is it at now? $0.07, maybe it goes to $0.10 or $0.12. But it's pretty hard. Here's a new one. Flip it. Flip it token. It's a meme coin. It's a gambling play. They're going to have a game, something like that. And guess what? It hasn't been released yet. In 19 hours, it'll be on Uniswap. Here's your opportunity if you want to gamble. This will be the way. And you can pick anything you want to. You can go Pepe, Snake, Snake, whatever, Dogecoin. You can check this one out. Here's what it is. It's just a meme coin. It's just a goofy meme coin. Here's the tokenomics. $42 trillion trillion trillion with a T. 98% of it, it says all these tokens will be added to Dex liquidity and lock forever. They're not going to be locked forever. They're going to stick them on Uniswap and you'll be able to buy and trade. Again, when are you going to buy it? Are you going to buy it up here? Are you going to buy it down here? Are you going to sell it here? Are you going to sell it here? It's just a game. That's all this is. And then also down here, 2% of marketing, 2% will be distributed equally among at least 25 initial influencers who promoted the project. And guess what? Guess what? I wasn't reached out by them. I was reached out by 10 set and they gave me some tokens. And I'm going to tell you, I'm going to be totally honest with you right now. I have tokens in my wallet. I've already given or I'm giving away stuff for my community. If you don't know the community, it's a very small community for digital asset news. And I won't tell you how to get in there, but it is. And what it's going to be is, I know some other places will say, I'll never dump on you. I will dump on you. If you get this token and you say, I'm holding forever, whatever else, I will still dump on you because I have these tokens. I'll just be honest with you. That's just the truth because it's gambling. Here's the address. Here's the roadmap. May or may not work out. Staking empty game. Here's the mentions and it's not just me talking about it. It's a bunch of other different people. So again, you don't have to get into this. You don't have to buy this. I'm not telling you that it's going to solve the mysteries and problems of the economic finance world in the entire globe. I'm saying it's gambling. I want to make that crystal clear because I think I said gambling 50 times already. But again, that's what it is. And also, I may or may not be streaming tomorrow on my second channel, Van Degen, and maybe giving away some of these tokens. Maybe I will. Maybe I'll livestream this listing on Uniswap and see where things go because let's be honest, it's kind of boring. I'll do a little bit and that's it. So let me make this crystal clear. I will dump on you. I will dump on you hard if you think that I won't and that these aren't just some things to last forever. Just gambling. And that's it for today. So look, like today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing. Everything we talk about is pretty tough. Well, this is very time sensitive, but that's it for today. Right now, I'm going to do a little answer all your questions, the best of my abilities, and we'll go from there. It's a beautiful Sunday morning. But let's see what we got.


have been here to date. So we're gonna go ahead and get started. You all with our program as follow for the second annual Reverend Dr. Christopher Vaughn Cockrell Leadership Award. So we appreciate and we acknowledge the life of Dr. Christopher Vaughn Cockrell here at New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church is serving as our pastor. Um and then as well, we recognize him for the work that he did here in the Burlington community in Greater Vermont, as well as things he did across the world by his time on Earth. Um so again, thank you. We welcome you all that's here in the building with us at the Richard Kim Center here today. Um as well, we acknowledge those that are on the zoom. Um as well, we acknowledge the two recipient recipients of the award today. Um but we would also like to take time and give a round of applause to the family of Dr. Christopher Vaughn Cockrell as well. So you all we're gonna follow the program as printed. Um so um at this time frame, I might ask Reverend Hughes if he'll come up and open this up with prayer this afternoon. Thank you. Let us pray. Eternal God, we thank you. Father, we thank you for an opportunity to be here once again. God, we thank you for bringing us together, but we also God, we bless you that it is an opportunity for us to celebrate in our unity. Father, we thank you also that you've given us an opportunity to reflect upon a man who's made a difference in this church. And Lord, I pray as we come together this afternoon and we lift up these folks who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in our communities that we remember Lord God that it is by your power and it is by your might. It is by your strength, Lord God, that any of this is possible because we are in dude with these natural talents and skills and abilities only by you, oh God. So we thank you, Father God, that we can keep focus on keeping the main thing the main thing today, Lord God, and that is you. So we bless you. We honor you. We give you the highest praise, oh God. We pray that you would be amongst us in this place in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. All right. So while Reverend Hughes is coming back up to the podium, you all I I felt a knowledge and say who I am that will be me MC your service for today. So for those in the service in the sanctuary and those that are on zoom and those who have not met me, my name is Joe Buford, and I serve here as a deacon in New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church. So at this time frame, we're gonna go into our musical selection, which will be the Negro National Anthem led by Reverend Hughes. Standing up. Black National Anthem stand for the Black National Anthem, please. Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring ring with the humble knees of liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies. Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the presence has brought facing the rising sun. Let us march on till victory. Stony the road he tried. Bit of a chair felt in the days we had died. Stay home to the place for which our father sighed. Way that the tears have been watered. We treading our path through the blood of the sloth. Till now we stand where the white gleam of our bright star of our wheat. Thou who has brought us far. Thou who has brought us far. Thou might lead us into the keep us forever in the path. We pray. Star feet stray from the places our God where we met thee. Let our heart drunk with the wine of the world we forget. Shadow beneath thy head. True to our God. True to our name. Amen. Thank you Reverend Hughes for leading us in that national anthem. So you all at this time frame we're gonna ask that Deacon Winston-Longmore he's gonna come forward and read for us our scripture reading for today and then follow by that will be the the name of church history reading by sister Christine Hughes. So for those that are online Deacon Longmore will be reading from 2nd Timothy chapter number four versus five through seven. So at this time frame as Deacon Longmore to come forward. Thank you. Amen. It's blessed to be here with everybody today celebrating just what just celebrating yeah celebrating what our pastor just left for us and what he's gonna continue to do even though he may not physically be here with us. Amen. He had a huge impact on Noel from this community. So I like to read I'm I'll be reading 2nd Timothy chapter four reading and verses five through seven. Amen. I'm reading the King James version and it's going to read but you be watchful and all things endure afflictions. Do the work of an evangelist fulfill your ministry for I am already being poured out as a drink offering and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Amen. So at this time you all will have sister Christine Hughes with our name at church reading. It's such a blessing to be here. What an honor it is to be remembering Pastor Cockrell this way and to be honoring members of our community for their leadership and their courage. And this is I always have so much fun reading our history. There might be some things that are actually left out of here but I'm going to do my best with this because we're so proud. We new alpha is black history right. Black history is American history and we really like the idea of celebrating local history and local members of our community. A lot of folks are you know bringing in all the big name people and all of that but we feel like as a community and as a church that was established in Burlington Vermont we want to honor our local leaders. So that's a little bit of the background of this new alpha missionary Baptist church. A member of the American Baptist Conference and the United Baptist Convention of New Hampshire in Massachusetts was founded in 1989 by Pastor Rodney Patterson in Burlington Vermont the largest city in the state. It opened to serve God and worships in the African American tradition. The church's debut was reported nationwide in the newspapers including the Burlington Free Press, Los Angeles Times, the New York Times as well as Jet Magazine. Reverend Patterson arrived in Burlington in July 1988 to accept an administrative position at the University of Vermont. On September 25th of that year he founded New Alpha Mission. It was housed at Christ Christ Church Presbyterian Church on the University's Redstone campus. New Alpha's congregation included town and gown attendees from UVM and nearby Vermont campuses such as Middlebury College and Northfield University US that's a US military academy in Vermont and from Platsburg also from military bases plus black and white neighbors foreign and domestic from local and regional communities. On February 5th 1989 was the founding ceremony of New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church making it the first black church officially established in Vermont. Reverend Gordon Humphrey Sr. Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church of Chicago along with 32 of his church members and the Reverend Jerome Lee of Spring Creek Baptist Church were present to help organize and launch New Alpha. Like God's word, the New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church congregation is supportive of all who seek the way the truth and the light from Genesis through Revelation. In 1989, New Alpha's outreach initiatives began in earnest by supporting hilltop light ministry's mission to Africa and the church's choirs ministering at civic affairs that included Martin Luther King celebrations, commencements and Burlington Jazz Festival. Outreach ministry also included prison visits and other services. Resurrection Sunday 1990, another long-standing tradition began when New Alpha fed homeless community members in Burlington. In 1990, New Alpha launched its first gospel fest, which was ecumenical in spirit and held on the UVM Redstone campus. In 1991, New Alpha relocated to the first congregational church, United Church of Christ whose pastor was the late Reverend Robert Lee. This site made New Alpha more accessible to the greater Burlington community. In spring 1994, founder Patterson left New Alpha for a position at Michigan State University. Reverend Keith Bigelow and other ministers pastored for one year. Reverend James Williams Sr. was called to New Alpha pastor and he was installed July 9th, 1995. He served for two years. In 1997, New Alpha prayerfully launched a steering committee to find its next pastor. Meanwhile, the church family continued the annual gospel fest tradition, moving to the Flynn Theater in 2000 for a service of praise and worship in concert with the Burlington Ecumenical Choir. Reverend Leroy Dixon accepted the call to pastor at New Alpha on October 1st, 2000. To God be the glory. From 2000 to 2016, under Reverend Dixon's leadership, many ministries and church family traditions were established. In 2001, New Alpha formed its first Children's Gospel Fest Choir led by sister Evelyn and sister Deb Harris. Many gospel fest concerts were held under leadership of Dr. Wanda heading Grant with the help of so many others like music minister Dr. Dexter Chris, Minister John Hagwood, local businesses, local musicians and the Burlington Ecumenical Choir. Regular weekly Bible study was established, fishes and loaves ministry served homeless, provided holiday baskets, sponsored sock drives back to school drives and faithfully served community members in need. And we're still doing that. HIV AIDS ministry and a prison ministry were also established. New members classes were held, babies were dedicated, baptisms were held at First Baptist Church. This is where it gets good, right? Marriages performs adult choir, Reverend Ramona, Dela Cruz, Guadalupe of Hezboah house church ministries was ordained. Deacons and Deaconesses were ordained. August family outings were established. Christian Education Department established Vacation Bible School Youth Choir under the direction of then deaconess Margaret Burgess who's now Reverend Burgess, usher board and men's fellowship, church revivals back to church Sunday campus outreach, joint worships. We've been busy joint worship Sundays, women's prayer breakfast, land evangelism ministry, Juneteenth gospel concert and a women's auxiliary. Another musician that I am leader in the church of Sister Mary Guillory and from the amen from 2016 to 2020 during this time while we were without a pastor, New Alpha was blessed to have many local and out of state preachers don't join us to deliver the word under the direction of Deacon Grant. Assistant assistance from Reverend Dale Edwards and the steering committee. Our pulpit was supplied and praise be to God. Some of our guest preachers include Reverend Joseph Casango and his wife Catherine Casango, Reverend Bob Wyand, Trevor Hambridge, Reverend Patrick Jackson, Reverend Joseph Ataman from Ethiopia, Reverend Karen Mendez, Bishop Don Ray, Reverend's Keith and Bobby Bagley, Reverend Ola Tynes, Reverend Kenneth Young, Reverend Sean Thompson, Reverend Jeff Williams, Reverend Dixon and even our founding pastor Rodney Patterson came back and blessed us with a couple sermons here and there and worked with us on on our gospel fest that we managed to squeeze in right before the pandemic. And of course, our own ministers, Reverend Junior Selman, Reverend Burgess and Deacon Grant, Reverend Dr. Christopher Von Cockrell was hired as interim pastor. This is starting in 2020 up to 2022. Reverend Dr. Christopher Von Cockrell was hired as interim pastor in June 2020 while we continue to pray for a permanent pastor. New Alpha began its first virtual Sunday worship service in March 2020. We presented our last live gospel fest at the Flynn. Even in the midst of trouble, we continued expecting greater. Tuesday night, Bible study and Friday night prayer hour were established. Watch night service was established in 2020. Virtual gospel fest was held in March 2021. We installed Pastor Cockrell on May 15, 2021. The women in the upper room ministry was established under the leadership of our late pastor, Reverend, Reverend Dr. Christopher Von Cockrell. And in the middle of a pandemic, our church has grown. Praise God, we have out. We have held outdoor services and supported the Black Lives Matter March in Battery Park, provided backpacks for children. Thanksgiving baskets handed for gift cards to children and children and families in our community. Thanks to Sister Tanya Mitchell's leadership and generous donations from the Buford family and Sister Juané Buford, who donated three 32 laundry baskets with cooking utensils along with feeding Chitin's donation of 35 turkeys. We were challenged by Pastor, Pastor Cockrell to raise money for our building fund. Our instructions were get 221 people to give $21 each. It was the women against the men. That was fun. Our deadline was December 31, 2020. The women won the competition. Praise God. We participated and we did. It wasn't a scandal. We won. We participated. Hey, we participated in the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance's annual first African landing day with our outreach ministry in the gospel brunch with Platsburg State Gospel Choir at the city of Burlington R.E.I.B.'s office, office's first citywide Juneteenth celebration last summer. And some of the four, I don't know. Reverend Mark Hughes, my husband, preached for the first time at New Alpha in 2020. New Alpha had its first virtual Kwanzaa celebration led by sister Adline Robertson. Many of our children and grandchildren brought forth their presentations of success through the year and plans for their future. As a church family, we have been blessed with deacons and training, a new church secretary, new members, new ministers, new babies, new marriages. By the grace of God, New Alpha has over the years gained many victories and suffered losses. We honor all the lives that have gone on to glory and especially the lives of youth we have lost with the passing of Al Michael Robertson and Dalton Chris. Gone too soon. To God be the glory for all the things he has done. Amen. Amen, New Alpha family and friends.  Just to put that out there for everyone that may not be familiar with New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church and to hear all the great things that have happened in New Alpha and the things that are continuing to happen and what the future holds for New Alpha. So, you all, we have a lot to be thankful for. We've been blessed. We've been through ups and down, but New Alpha is still standing here. We've had some very strong church leaders come through New Alpha in this New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church to be relevant, present here in the Burlington and greater community. So we appreciate their great works. And that's another reason, you all, while we're here today for this second annual Dr. Christopher Vaughn Cockrell Leadership Award. It's to acknowledge them. As sister Christine said, we're knowledging those in our community that we know that we work with and that we see that we see on a day to day basis. So we're going to continue on with the program as blended. At this time frame, we'll have remarks by our very own Reverend Barbara Lynch Bell from New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church. So at this time, Reverend Bell, we're turning it over to you.  So we'll give it a we'll give it a second here. You all, if if we're unable to get Reverend Reverend Bell on the phone for remarks, we're going to proceed as follows in the program and then up next will be Sister Adeline. So we'll give it another five seconds. And so to see Reverend Bell, if you're on the line right now. You hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Amen. We're turning it over to you now, Reverend Bell, for remarks. We can hear. Amen. It is it is a blessing to to it's a blessing to be where we are today and to be able to honor you on behalf of Pastor Cockrell. When I when I sat and I thought about what I could possibly say as I began to think about Reverend Cockrell and his leadership abilities and who he was as a leader, who he is as a leader because he still lives on in our hearts. And Reverend Cockrell was a builder. As a leader, you have to learn one how to follow and he follows some great leaders along his journey. Then he began to have a vision for everything in every one day. He came and contacted you. And I know that sounds kind of strange, but he was a visionary. He is a visionary. His vision still lives on in us today to be spiritually astute and knowledgeable and to be able to lead no matter where we where we are and where we're going. And as we honor those today who are receiving this award. I don't take it like lightly because when I think about just yesterday being his birthday, Pastor Cockrell's birthday, it's a great time to honor one. And when I look back over his leadership in my life, he taught me how to stand. He taught me how to endure. He taught me how to see beyond the norm of whatever it is wherever I am to know the abilities that God has given me. He's a great leader. He's a great leader. I told Sister Christine last night, yesterday, Reverend Tucker will have new alpha and those who knew him owning the state of Vermont. He's that he was that inspiring. He was that encouraging. He was that much of a builder. He had hopes and dreams. And as you go from this day forward when you receive this award today, keep that inspiration, pick it up, take it, go with it. The encouragement to be able to encourage others, to strengthen others, to guide others, to lead others. Reverend Tucker and I'm going to close by saying that he was one. He is one that left a mark on the world. And as you receive this award as leaders, as as markmakers, go inspiring knowing that this is not just about you only, but it's what you've done with those in the community, in the schools, wherever you are, wherever you're going. I just want to encourage you to pick up the spirit of Reverend Tucker to be able to build others, strengthen others, guide others, lead others, encourage others. That makes a great leader. So as I close right now, we give God the glory, the praise and the honor for our leader, Pastor, the late, great Reverend Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell and to you, New Africa. I pray that as you go forward from this second annual leadership awards that you be strengthened and you grow and you remember all that he taught us and know the spirit that he had leading him and guiding him, that he wants us to walk in in the name of Jesus. Amen. Good to see you all. Amen. Thank you, Reverend Bell. And we appreciate those humbling words. And to the war recipients, we're also glad to look and see within you all as well that you exhibit some of those same leadership characteristics as the Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell. And we look forward to seeing how you continue to matriculate and grow in your own right self. So at this time frame, I'm going to turn it over to Sister Adeline Robertson, and she's going to go over the dynamic Black History Month proclamation reading. Thank you. Wonderful celebration. Great honor today. I do like us to just say a happy birthday, belated birthday because our late great as Mr. Bravo would say, Reverend Christopher Bunn-Cockwell, his birthday was yesterday. So it's so fitting that today we're celebrating him and honoring those in leadership on his behalf. So happy birthday. Happy birthday to our late pastor. So the new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church Resolution, creation of the Reverend Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell Leadership Award was established on February the 25th, 2022. The resolution resets. Whereas Reverend Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell was anointed and appointed to pastor and lead new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church from June 2020 till November 30th, 2021, and labored tirelessly teaching and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. And whereas Reverend Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell ministered to new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church and the broader community with deep love, always expressing the Lord's grace in his own life and affirmative to those historically overlooked and underserved preaching the word to new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church and the Burlington community in simplicity, clarity, and with great power, transforming lives of many. And whereas Reverend Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell served as a catalyst to unite the people of new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church, the greater Burlington community and national friends and family and worship and fellowship, study and prayer, outreach, education, and spiritual support throughout the COVID-19 global pandemic. But it resolved that in honor of the late pastor Bunn-Cockwell, there is established the Reverend Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell Leadership Award and being further resolved that the church historian of New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church shall memorize the faithful service and outstanding leadership of Reverend Dr. Christopher Bunn-Cockwell by placing this resolution on record. Amen? Amen. Thank you, Sister Adeline, for that wonderful reading you all and for that proclamation. At this time frame, Sister Tanya Mitchell. OK, I thought Sister Tanya and Brother Richard was about to say they were about to come out, like a duet or something.  Sister Angie at AMB. So no, in all seriousness, you all, those that didn't know Pastor Cockwell, he was also a jokester. So we're going to go back to being serious again.  So at this time frame, yeah, oh, yeah, Walmart, yeah. So at this time frame, we're going to turn it over to Sister Tanya. She's going to bless us with a song at this time frame. Amen. God bless everybody. This is a blessing. This is history. This has changed being broken. Yes, I see change falling off. I just thank the Lord for that, because God is so good. When I see my daughter sitting here, I see how far we came from when I was 16 years old. And basically, we were brother and sister, mother and daughter. That didn't make no sense. But yeah, yeah, get it? OK. But as I sit here, and I'm thankful, I'm thankful for how far we have come. And I see that God has answered prayers. He answered my prayers when I was on my knees. You know, at 18, talking about give us a fresh start, Father, because I want to be a good mother to her. You know, and my children. So I just thank the Lord and He's blessed us. I'm sorry to give you out of the speech. Well, I'm going to sing a song, y'all all know.   To finish down there in New Orleans, when Pastor Cock will be like, baby, you on program tomorrow, the next Sunday, and the Sunday after that. He'll be Peacock proud to hear you deliver that song that way. So we appreciate you and your obedience. There's us to tying it. Thank you. Thank you. And may God continue to bless you and your family. We've all had family members that gone through some similar situations and trials. But to see where you are now and where you're progressing, that's that matriculation I was talking about earlier that, y'all, we got a lot to be thankful for. And you know, the task that lies ahead of us is never greater than the power which is behind us, right? Giving thanks and honor to glory to God for that. Amen. Amen.  And she's going to come up and we're going to proceed with our award presentation at this time frame. Amen. Oh, before we do that, I'll apologize. So Pastor Cockrell's daughter, Kristen Cockrell, is on it. We want to turn the floor over to Kristen Cockrell and family. See, she has any comments or remarks that she would like to say before we begin with the awards presentation. So Sister Kristen, the floor is turned over to you and your family. Amen. Good morning. Good morning. Can everyone hear me? Good morning. Can everyone hear me say congratulations to the participants for today, to the new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church, who has been amazing. I'm so happy to see you guys still thriving, just so that all of my problems are passing. But I just want to say congratulations, and I hope to see you guys with Kristen next year. Amen. Hey, thank you, Kristen. Thank you. Thank you. So I'm going to turn it over now. Sister Adline, the floor is yours. Thank you, Sister Kristen Cockrell. We are grateful. Well, I am honored to present these awards to some fabulous young women in our community. The first award I would like to present, the Reverend Dr. Christopher Vaughn Cockrell Leadership Award for the adult was nominated to Tanisha McGree. And we call her TT. So TT, if you would please come and stand with me. Amen. Amen. So the Reverend Dr. Christopher Vaughn Cockrell Leadership Award, February 25, 2023. The Reverend Dr. Christopher Vaughn Cockrell Leadership Award recognizes outstanding leadership in the Greater Burlington community. Tanisha McGee is recognized for her outstanding leadership and exceptional contribution to the Greater Burlington community. Tanisha's leadership started where it matters most, in her home. From her early years, she led by example, caring for her and serving as a mentor, role model, and friend to her siblings. As you stated, when her mother came up so elegantly, proudly talked about her. Her strength, independence, and tenacity led to her future engagements in employment at the Boys and Girls Club, where she would direct her acquired skills towards community speaking into the lives of countless youth in Burlington, including my own grandchildren. Thank you. She completed both high school and her associates in Vermont, where Tanisha was recognized for academic achievement. Mrs. McGee continues to serve the youth of her community as a teacher at the Integrated Arts Academy in the Burlington School District. Yes, amen. TT has served in this crucial role in Burlington over the last five years. Notable and reflected of the labor of her love, she continued serving the youth of our community, where her passion started well over a dozen years ago, a dozen, 12, OK? The Boys and Girls Club in Burlington, TT loved and committed to the youth of our community are a shining example of an outstanding leadership which will leave an inevitable print on the lives of the youth in our community for generations to come. Her commitment, devotion, and attention to details have earned her a distinction that will never be forgotten. Recipient of the Reverend Dr. Christopher von Cockrell Leadership Adult Award goes to TT, amen. So just so you know that her resolution will go in there. The resolution of New Alpha, her letter will go in there, and she also have a wonderful gift, a nice gift card. Thank you. Want to say some words? I want to thank everyone, and I appreciate it. I want to thank my mom for giving birth to me. It ain't bad. And being the best leader, I know. So thank you so much. Yes. So we have another award. So this award is for the Youth Award. And this award will go to someone that's dear to my heart, my beloved granddaughter, Niaela Mitchell. So New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church, the Reverend Dr. Christopher von Cockrell Leadership Award. February 25, 2023, I'm sorry. The Reverend Dr. Christopher von Cockrell Leadership Award recognizes outstanding leadership in the greater Burlington community. Niaela Mitchell is recognized for her outstanding leadership and exceptional contribution to the greater Burlington community. Niaela has demonstrated leadership through academic excellence, reflecting in her continuous attainment of honor role over the vast majority of her academic career. Sharing her talents in theater, dance, and vocal endeavors, like the Vermont Resistance Revival Choir and Gospel Fest, the power of Ms. Mitchell's expression is always on the forefront and uplifting for all who experience her. She has shown commitment in the areas of activism through initiatives like her creation of social media platforms to enable Black youth discussions on racism. She also revitalized the Social Justice Club and has been known for speaking truth to the power and pointing out and calling injustices such as discriminatory, disciplinary processes and curriculum shortcomings in her school. She has also led her team in calling out other teams into accountability for inappropriate racist behaviors. Mrs. Mitchell's athletic leadership is unparable as a second year basketball varsity starter, freshman, MVP, and captain of her team in her sophomore year. She has demonstrated, she has dominated the sports and stands out as one of, if not the best, in the state of Vermont. Go, Niaela. Leading the team in points, rebounds, and blocks. Niaela Mitchell's academic, athletic, and racial justice leadership distinguished her as a bona fide youth leader. Her commitment, devoted and attention to details, has earned her a distinction that will never be forgotten. Recipient of the Reverend Dr. Christopher Von Cockrell Youth Leadership Award is Niaela Mitchell. I just want to say thank you all for coming and supporting me, TT. And I think I would say I really thank my parents because they're the ones who get you there. Really supportive. My dad always comes to my games when he can. He's always loud. And I love that about him. My mom's always been supportive, making sure I have what I need. But yeah, I'm going to continue to do great and make this community proud. Thank you. Wait, hold on. So also, Niaela will receive her citation, the award letter, and also she has a gift inside as well. Thank you all. Yeah, this is the important parts. Thank you all. Thank you, thank you. Congratulations again to the award recipients, sister TT and sister Niaela. You all keep up the great awesome work that you all are doing. Respectfully, you know, Frederick Douglass once said, without no struggle, there is no progress. And we look towards to seeing again, you all, your growth and your development and the opportunities that you all have in store for you all. So before I turn over to Reverend Hughes, I'm going to check with Deacon Grancy if there's anything. We're good. Check with the Richard Kemp director. Sister Christine, we're good. All right. Hey, so before we give this public service announcement, again, I want to say thank you to the family of Dr. Christopher Von Cockrell for all of, for, we appreciate Dr. Christopher Von Cockrell for his service here at New Alpha in Burlington and also Greater Vermont, as well as First Lady Cockrell, Sister Christine, and then also Christopher, and then also their lovely grandbabies. So also I want to say thank you to the Richard Kemp Center for allowing us to use this wonderful facilities here, as well as to the New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church for putting on this wonderful, amazing event here at the Richard Kemp Center. To our award recipients, again, congratulations. Congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. And also I want to say thank you as well to those who are in service with us today in this fellowship, as well as those that are on the Zoom watching this. And also thank you for meeting the TV channel. Seventeen is also here recording this wonderful event for us for people to see in perpetuity into the future. So we appreciate, we acknowledge you, we're thankful. I turn over to Reverend Hughes. Somebody say amen. Somebody say amen again. That was a good time. You know, we started late because we black folks. And but still, if you look at your clock, we finished on time. So let me, for those who are in the room, you don't know this, but there was, there's 10 to maybe 12 to 15 other folk that was online the entire time. Let me just say that one more time. So it's 10 to maybe 12 or 15 other folks online the entire time. And as I'm counting the folk in the room, you count them, is we had a pretty good full house. And this is just the second year. I know there's a lot of other stuff that's happening, happening across town and other things that have happened because it's Black History Month. So that's what we do. But I just want to thank all of y'all for stopping just for a minute today to acknowledge these folks here. Because these guys, these are the heavy hitters. These are the legacy makers. These are the folks that are making the moves for us tomorrow. I'll be 60 next week. I'm almost done. Okay. So these are the folks that are going to carry this thing forward. So this is a big deal. Let me just give a couple of shout outs real quick. Okay. I want to, I want to thank my wife, Christine Hughes, Sister Hughes for really being in the struggle, really being in the struggle. I'm the one to get the front row seat and I get the flag that goes with it. But it's, but it's, but I just really, honey, I really want to thank you for all of the hard work that you put into this because I was watching you. I was watching you and I was helping you. Hey, man. That's what he used to say, right? Let me, let me also give a special shout out to my dear sister, Adline, who's really always behind the scenes and doing that work. I love you. I love you. We were talking on the phone this morning.  And I know I want to choke you too. She said, she said, I don't want to choke you as much as you think I do. But she didn't say she didn't want to choke me though. Hey, man. But let me just leave you with this though because it's a conversation that we had this morning. Well, let me finish. Deacon Grant, thank you so much for being an integral part as you always are. And showing up with the money too. Hey, man. And let me see. Yeah, for all everybody who are involved in this process, it's because this is good. This is good for us to do good stuff. So back to sister Adline. I just want to leave you with this. We're having that conversation this morning and this is what we said. This is serious now for a minute. I'm just going to take you serious for a minute. It's just, I said, you know, I said it's really about us loving on each other along the way. Because I know this is probably not going to turn out as nice as we would like it to be. It's probably not going to be as much, it's not going to be everything we imagined, but it will be exactly what God wants it to be. And the journey that we take along the way is what's important. As we walk through this process, as we take steps, incremental steps together, together along the way as we build these things together, that is what counts to the Lord. It is how we treat one another. It's how we love on one another along the way. How we are patient with one another and how we are kind to one another along the way. So I thank you. I thank you for the opportunity. Even though, you know, it didn't seem like it was going to come together at the end, it came together. Exactly the way God wanted it to come together. Amen.  Father God, I thank you for all of those who come. Father, I thank you for everybody that's online right now. I thank you for every single person and every family that's represented here. And Father God, I pray that you would plant in the hearts and the minds of those who have come, Lord, our responsibility to look after one another, to care for one another, to check in every now and then, to edify the church, Lord. It is our job to lift one another up. God, you said in your word that it's most important that we love you with everything that we have and that we love our neighbor as we love ourselves. God, help us not to forget that. Help us to remember, Lord, that everything we need is in the body. And if we just come to the body, we will have everything that we need and everything that we desire. Keep us together, Lord God. Help us to remember, Lord, that it is your will that we would love one another, that we would care for one another, that that is what is most important to you and that we would glorify you, God, that we would lift you up, that we would give you all of the glory and the honor and the praise, Lord God, because it is you, it is you alone who are worthy today, oh God.  We give you all the glory and the honor and the praise because that is what we were made for to worship you, oh God. So we thank you today, Father God. Keep everyone who is here. Keep everyone who is online, Lord God. Bring us back together on tomorrow, Lord, for your worship service in this place, in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen, amen, and amen.


What are we gonna do when it's crunch time? How do we clean up one of the things we gotta do that's most important, the first, the biggest, the best, the first thing you do when you throw the discus? You have to start on balance, super critical. We're gonna talk about pillar one in this video and we're gonna talk about how if you get on balance that's gonna be the game changer. So let's check it out. Here's Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation and in today's YouTube video, what we're going to discuss is the setup. We talk about pillar number one, pillar one is the entire beginning of the chain reaction and it is oftentimes super missed and one of the quick fixes we wanna do in crunch time part of the season is we wanna be able to clean up movement and we talk about this and we have another video that's gonna include this but today I'm gonna talk about specifically about how critical it is to set up your pillar one because we have to establish balance and balance throughout the throw is going to increase acceleration and power and that means big distance. In today's video, one of the things we wanna talk about is if we're in crunch time we're getting all this wind and we talked about it in another video about the high heel and the things that cause over rotation and what we wanna understand is with things we wanna do is we're trying to be able to set the position of separation hip shoulder and arm shoulder and one of the things we talk about in our system is we want separation because we create stretch reflex. Stretch reflex is gonna start creating the right type of movement and that's one of the big things behind the chain reaction and why we're having so much success are throwers and coaches are having tons of success with it. So one of the things that we focus on at Airtate is that we are trying to get our throwers to eliminate a lot of wasted motion. So we're cutting down on multi-winds. You know, when you see kids doing this type of thing we wanna eliminate that. We want to control and we wanna set that separation and stretch reflex correctly. So one of the things we're gonna do is we're gonna teach you this. So in our system we call this a wind up one. It's very similar to some of the movement that you've seen out of some of the best discus throwers in the world. Andres Guzdias, he does a very static start and if you look at Gerd Cantor he had a pretty static start. So when you look at some of these great throwers you're gonna notice that they have more controlled Lars Riedel had a pretty static start. So for some throwers that's gonna work and then we look at, who's probably one of the greatest discus throwers pound for pound in the history of sport is Anthony Washington. And he started with a very controlled position and his son Turner Washington who through 227 is a senior in high school just a few years ago, very similar start, controlled movement, right? And it can work. And these are athletes that are showing that you can have tremendous success. So one of the things I would recommend is we have so many guys that are just creating so much wind time. So again, in our system we call this kind of a wind up one start. What we're gonna do is control the motion and that's gonna allow the athlete to set the line and move into the throw. It's really that simple. So if we're during crunch time one of the things we wanna do is get rid of all the excess motion. So remember one of the things we do in the throwing chain reaction system is we train positions and we train throwing. They're two different things but they obviously go together. That's why we call the throwing portion of it pillar connection. And so what this does is this is a simple way to eliminate a lot of excess movement to get throwers on track fast. So coaches, this is a great tip for you to try and throwers that are coaching yourselves out there because we know so many of you unfortunately just don't have a coach at your school or maybe you have a coach who's trying but he's a brand new thrower and he's self admittedly doesn't really understand how to coach the throw. So this is one of those simple things that will help so many of you super quick. I want you to try it.  We're gonna review one more time. So we're gonna make sure that we're here. We're gonna stay more controlled and we're gonna be able to come around. So we're gonna be able to feel that motion into the throw. I'm getting a little old so my movement might be not as smooth as it used to be. But at any rate, let's take one more peek at look at Guzdias. Even if you look at Perkovich, she has some up down but you're gonna notice she stays very center on her wind and that's one of those key tips. And then she kind of up and moves very dynamically around and into the throw. So this is a very simple way to help get your throwing on track really fast. And the start of the throw is the entire beginning of the chain reaction. Pillar one is we refer to as the trigger. Pillar one is so critical. There's a ton of variables. Ironically enough, it's the one thing where we do, we have very simple drill progressions inside our program but they're super effective and they make a big results and it's the dos and don'ts and the positions that matter the most. So hopefully you found today's video helpful. If you did hit that subscribe button, turn on that notification. Be sure to give us a thumbs up and thank you so much and we'll see you on the next video. Be sure to check out our next videos. Be sure to subscribe. Visit our website for free videos. Click the links below. We have links to our free mini course. Check out our websites for camps and different detailed information. 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