to make things even better for those out there listening. It wasn't just the five-man on the contract that she won last week. It was a jock contract and a five-man award. So and on top of that, she had the opportunity to price out four other projects that were negotiated jobs. So very exciting week and the GovCon EDU family. Very exciting week for Randy, but I wanted to bring this video today to share because a lot of times we tend to only see the upside, right? When we when we look at that chart that shows the icebergs, we look at the upside and we don't see what happened below. So I wanted to share with you that today because I thought that that was important and so few people actually watched this video. This video was shot back in 2018 and I want you to see where Randy was at in 2018 because I think that capturing this experience and sharing this will help some of you out there who may be in discourage and need a little bit of encouragement. Let's listen. Sam, like you know like set up the company as a management company? Okay. Yes. Listen, you can put as many next goes as you like. You can put whatever next code you like. In fact, I've had contracting officials reach out to me to take on jobs because they needed to get them out and done and they told me what next goes to add to my profile in order to do the jobs. Oh, okay. That's when you get that's when you that's when you start having relationships with people. So as you go along the process, right? So it's not like it's a nice, it's not a one one and done and you can go through and you can add on take them off, you know, change them. It doesn't matter. The only time that it really starts to matter is if when you apply for one of your small business certifications, that's when they look at your primary next code. But up until then it doesn't really matter. Okay. Well, I am starting to work on the woman own certification. So then you need to make a decision which one now what's interesting about this video is that Randy mentioned she's working on the woman own certification. And in fact, none of her contracts awards were based on any type of certification. So what's interesting is that again, like a lot of people out here who start off with the myth of the certification, and that's what we're going to use to drive contract opportunities. Ultimately, at the end, she didn't use any of those certifications. The other thing that I want to point out was in the beginning, she talked about setting up a management company and having all these next codes. And ultimately, what ended up being her success was what we said here, which was the forming the relationship with the person. And let me let me just share this so you can see from the standpoint, this video was captured in November of 2018. I just wanted to show that to be by her. But ultimately, in the beginning, she asked about NAX codes and setting up multiple NAX codes and set up a management style company and registering a SAM and becoming woman owned business. And none of that, right? She didn't use any of that stuff. So a lot of people out there are thinking that are getting my NAX codes, getting my SAM registration, getting my profile set up. Yes, I'm taking some steps. And you have taken some steps. But ultimately, at the end of the day, it's relationships that's going to drive. We're going to have to be the activity that really counts at the end of the day. So until you have gotten from behind your computer and you've talked to some people, emailed some people, reached out to some people, talked to a federal human, as Judy Brett likes to say, that's where it's going to make all the difference in the world. That's going to be your primary code for that. Okay, because I remember you saying that you can limit yourself based on the, I guess, the averaging, right? Right, yeah. So, right, right. Yeah, I mean, I listened to you. I listened. No, no, yeah. So which, so I'm looking at your event management codes. So out of the five, six, one, 1920, and then a seven, two, one. I don't know if you heard that event management code. Okay, all our projects today have been in construction and she's looking at event management code at that time. 110. Yeah, that one's not going to work. That seven, two, one, one, one, ten. I emailed back and said, okay, I realize it's not going to probably work for us because when I went and dug a little bit deeper, like who were the actual vendors, it seems like that is actually hotels providing that service directly. So I'm like, okay, that's not us. So I know I need to stick with the five, six, one, nine, two, zero. And you see that's how you come, that's how you make a decision based on process elimination. By the way, what's interesting is that I actually, now that I'm looking at this video, I'm laughing because I capture in a white t-shirt, but I was recording these calls and offering free calls to people who agreed to have their cells recorded to share with others later. And I'm very happy that I was able to capture Render Store. But look, look at what she's talking about, event management codes, multiple NAGs codes, limiting herself. And so all of these things, right, that at the time were so critical and so important to her today, none of that stuff matters. And I want to share that with folks. And also let's, let's look at a couple of things because I think this is important for people to remember out here because one of the things that I like to say is that people don't quit, right? So you have to stay interested and we're playing the long game. By the way, there's another story that I like to share in this video as well. But here, right, so that video was 2018. Randy's asked me questions. Now fast forward to 2020, which is again November 2018, so you're two months out of December and February 2020. So it's just over a year where now Randy went from being the person who's asking questions about all these NAGs codes to having SAP opportunities because of the relationship she built, people were looking for. Please. Yeah. What's going on guys? Hey, it's one. Edith. Cheers. No, I mean, pretty flyers. There's people out here who are in these areas that have the ability to do some of these projects and share her story and talk a little bit about some of those opportunities. Maybe we could pull some people out from the woods and from the backyards and the boondocks who can do some of these contracts because the government has the need. They've got the opportunity. So again, let's pay the whole picture. Just give it a step for those newbies out here who are unfamiliar with it. Randy, you didn't know this. How long ago? You didn't know this too long ago. Yeah, I know. I still feel like a newbie, but I have a lot to feel. So following your course, finding the gatekeeper, which is the ostubu, the small business liaison, I started there. Okay. I want to stop because here we have this video on finding the ostubu. So again, I'm bringing in all the content that this is, by the way, everything on here is free. So I'm bringing in all the content that we have. And like she said, finding the ostubus. If you haven't watched this video already, breaking the government contracting code using ostubu, that's the videos that she's referencing. And then the course, you know that we have the course at govconjines.com forward slash pricing. So let's go ahead and hear it listen around and continue. Met her at the very first federal event that I went to. And I kind of just have held on to her since August of last year. And I didn't even have a client when I first met her. I just knew I wanted to hear what they were doing in our area. So when I did have officially my client and working on that space that I made the appointment, I was able to get in to see her. And she's definitely an advocate for small business.  So we were able to go and pull a teaming agreement together with a company. All right. So, so it's interesting is that like Randy said, when she first started, she didn't have a client. Randy realized early on that she didn't have the capacity to take on projects herself. And so she needed more capacity to be able to service the government's needs. A lot of us have to get serious and be honest with ourselves in terms of where we're at, compare it to what the government's looking for. And we discussed that and some of my other content that we have on here. I didn't even reference that video, but we have to look at what is your capacity and what do you have the ability to do right now, right? Given the resource that you have, not if the government gives you money, not if somebody lends you money, not if you get that credit loan, not if you improve your credit. Right now, where you're at, we have to be serious with ourselves and say, okay, this is what I have the ability to do. Does this work for the government? If it does not, then we have to increase our capacity by teaming with someone that has the ability to execute and deliver or at least meet the minimum requirements that the government's asking for. And so that's what Randy did. And I sent her an update because I'm always in contact with her to keep that relationship. By the way, something else that I forgot to mention is that she referenced that she met this person at an event and the person was an advocate for small businesses. That is so critical. When we talk to folks out there and we're saying to them, find your advocate, find the person. Look, I talked to a lot of people and a lot of folks get discouraged because they say, Eric, well, I spoke to this person, they didn't call me back. I emailed this person. They didn't respond to me. That doesn't mean that that person has any particular feelings towards you or that there's any type of disconnect. You're looking for the person who is in the mindset of needing an advocate at this moment. And so we just continue to network, build relationships, talk to folks out there until we find that true advocate, almost like in social media, true fan. So Randy found that one true advocate and she's been holding on to that person ever since. Going and I forwarded our new capability statement with the teaming agreement partner information and she was intrigued and like, okay, come back in. Let's have another meeting. And this time I pushed on her to have, can we have some contracting officers? Can we have some decision makers besides yourself in the meeting? I think that's so valuable. And it's crazy that only 2000 people have actually watched this video here because all of the information that Randy's given are gems. She's dropping jewels. People ask me, Eric, when I go to meetings, what do I say? What do I do? Randy had a meeting. By the way, for those of you who have not already subscribed, make sure to subscribe to our channel. Give me a thumbs up if you liked the video. And also if you have a chance and you want to receive more information, sign up for our newsletter. We have a new letter that's more than 10,000 people out there. And we let you know about all the events, all the happenings, everything that we're doing upcoming and the future. So make sure to subscribe to that as well. But I want to go back to something which is interesting. Randy said that in this particular video, she had the meeting. And then the second time she had a second meeting, which is the capabilities briefings, she told you exactly what she did. So a lot of people out here, you can learn from the people who are ahead of you, the people who have come before you, learn from what they did. Randy explained to you in this video exactly what she did. She said the second meeting I pushed on her to bring some decision makers in the room. That's, that's, that's gold.  And she's like, well, I can't guarantee it, but I will try. And I hadn't spoken to her in about a month or so. And then I reached out to her again. Okay, we're planning on meeting. Again, can you have contracting officers, whoever there? And she was like a little snarky. I can't control what they do. I'm like, I know, but I'm so appreciative of you even trying, right? That was my response. And when we got there, sure enough, she had two contracting offices and an engineer for me, which was ironic that, you know, I had already gotten the forecast list because that was one of the things you taught us. Hold up. She said she brought a forecast list because that's one of the things I taught you. Are you actually doing the activities? Gain access to the forecast list. Okay, this video, take a look at the date, 2017, May 2017, we lined this stuff up. She's doing the activity. She's telling what she's doing. All of this information is here. How many people are may have made it to we're at the 14 minute mark? How many of you have actually stayed to watch the entire 14 minutes? Those of you who have stayed, do you see how this makes sense? Do you see how this adds up? This is the formula. This is the magic. This is where the magic starts to happen. Stay interested, stay consistent, put in the work, find your advocate. These are the things that is going to lead to success. So I had already gotten the forecast list and had emailed that actual engineer since last October. And so when he said, oh, I've never heard. I said, well, I've emailed you. So one of the things I like to say is we take a three prong approach, right? So we come at them from all angles. All right. So now we've got here. And this is what we teach in the course is that Randy had already looked at the forecast list and looked at projects. So she already had an idea of the project. She already emailed the engineer. Okay. And then when she set up the meeting with the Ostebu that brought in the contract and contract officers and the engineer, she, her email was already in this person's inbox. So now they could start connecting to the dots and finding out that Randy is a serious candidate and she ain't going nowhere. And that's the important thing. Let me tell you exactly when. And I pulled it up right there in the meeting. That's Randy, by the way, y'all know Randy. That's Randy. She did me the same way. I pulled it up right there in the email and said, oh, don't worry, it was October 21st. And he's like, oh, okay, let me go find it. And he's like, oh, I see you now. So anyway, so those opportunities, he didn't delete your email. That's right. That means he hadn't even probably checked it. But there you go. But at least he still had it. So what does that mean? Don't give up. Don't give up. Don't give up. This is a 45 minute video. If you have not watched this video, take out your notepad, go to this video and watch it now. So anyway, the two contracting officers both just talked about the SAPs that they do, which is a simplified acquisition purchases. All right. So Randy just mentioned simplified acquisition. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. All right. One hour 30 minute video, okay, with Judy discussing micro purchases. All right, simplified acquisition. Why are we only have 1200 views?  All right, Judy, it's telling you your first contract you'd really like to win for what and with who. Put that in the chat because that's going to give us something to play with on our topic tonight.  Yes, I love it. I started it off just in case you slow pokes were messing around. So the first contract with what agency you like to win and who you like to win it with. So again, Randy, we are all I'm doing is essentially showing you how all these things intertwine. And I hope the folks that are still on and continue to watch this will learn how these things start to intertwine. And as you become more familiar with the jargon, more familiar with the terms, and you start doing the activities, you can start really connecting the dots on that. So again, I just wanted to reference this of the particular video that we have that discusses my purchases. Let's go back over here to Randy and see what Randy's talking about. And there are $150,000 less for that particular agency. And one of them said that, you know, she's had to bid jobs, like one job four times, for example, before she could even get anyone to take it. Anyone hear that? She had to bid one project four times for anyone to take it. One of the things that I like to say is that, again, these people are having the same problems, the same challenges. We think that it's so competitive. And there's so many people out here that we don't have a shot. And she just told you this came from a contracting officer that said, sometimes I have to bid the same project four times, four times to get a person to show up. Now, with Randy's assistance, we can put it out to people in our network. And that's what we do. How many of you are on the email list, if you're on my email list, have seen the emails we ask you for. Again, even look at the title of this particular video. All right. What does it say? SAP opportunities and going unfulfilled nationwide. We were looking for people in Texas. We were looking for people in North Carolina. We were looking for people out in California to help us fulfill these requirements. Recently, we put out a request for, what was that? And New Jersey, we put out a request for people. So again, we are trying to help bridge the gap for folks out there who are really serious about this and we're really interested in this. Randy is dropping some jewels.  And my client at the time kind of my client kind of shut that down. I'm like, okay, all right, well, we can't but we'll focus here in Texas. So that's how it started. Now, someone asked a question in the chat about your industry. Construction. Okay. So again, I think that you get the gist, right? There's a lot of things happening and a lot of moving parts. But really, the gist of it is, again, I wanted folks out here to see, to understand how in just a short time and really, I mean, from the time that the November 2018 video to this video, you know, this is around a year's time because if you figure just in between 19. So it's just over a year and a couple of months that Randy had already built this relationship up. And in fact, it started back in August. So it was under a year that it took her to actually make this connection and make this relationship. And so within less than a year's time, she built the relationship. And now, moving forward, she was given the chance to help some folks at the contracting level fulfill opportunities around the nation. And that's where we create this video. And then fast forward to today's news of winning multiple contracts. Now, even though the five million is the one that's most widely celebrated because of the large numbers. In fact, she's done probably close to six other projects at the simplified acquisition level. So again, you know, for the folks out there who are wondering, what does it take? It takes consistency, it takes staying interested, it takes participating. We, you know, we showed this video because it mentions, are you marketing the same way to Austin booth during COVID? And the answer is yes. And again, in fact, we, this field only has 360 views, right? And but people asked me the question 300 times on my emails, what are we doing during COVID, right? And we can't do capabilities briefings, we can't do this, this and that. This is a short video that discuss this, this thing. And if you look here in the background, that guy right in the middle is Chris Facy who won a $21 million contract. So I just want to show people out there because we do have a goal and our goal is to help 200 companies out there, small businesses, achieve $5 million. And so today we have successfully, we have four companies that have hit that mark. And we want like for one of you to be one of those companies as well. So I just wanted to share that with folks. I hope that this video helps some people out here there. I hope that and encourage some people and inspire some people. If you have not already signed up on our email list, sign up for our email list, hit the like button, subscribe so you can receive all notifications of when we go live. 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Over the next 24 hours there's gonna be a lot of bad and unfortunate news going around the NFL because it's cut-down time Teams have to go from 90 men to 53 men and they have to do it all within these next 24 hours It has to be finalized now Of course, they're gonna be some guys that get cut and they're gonna get re-signed by their respective teams They're gonna get some guys that are cut that get re-signed by other teams And then unfortunately there's gonna be some guys that are cut Where the opportunity in the NFL is over and that's a wrap So that's gonna be really unfortunate really unfortunate Something else that was unfortunate too Was y'all responses to me trying to bring Bashar Perryman back to the Ravens I was looking at some of the responses some of the quote tweets some of all that I said man I'm getting cooked. What's going on? But anyway moving on to the encouraging news that we got from the Baltimore Ravens today, so We got a report from Jeff Zribick and he talked about mr. Tyus Bowser And he said Tyus Bowser who is on the NFI list the non football injury related list Was working out on an adjacent field somewhere? Okay, hey because and even though that's small it is encouraging because we just have not been hearing anything whatsoever About Tyus Bowser. We have not been hearing a thing like oh is is is he closer coming back? When is it gonna be like John Harbaugh was asked about Tyus Bowser the other day? And he gave one of those John Harbaugh answers one of them super general injury answers and whatnot And I think they asked when he's gonna be activated on active roster when he's gonna be back And he was like oh you'll see that transaction when you see it something like that But John Harbaugh was not letting anybody know much of anything I wonder one of John Harbaugh like I don't even know but I want to look like I don't know So I'm gonna tell y'all that y'all won't know until y'all know cuz that's what I'm gonna know but anyway With Tyus Bowser, that's good news. That's really good news because that means he's closer He's closer and really over these next 24 hours by tomorrow at 4 p.m. Eastern time We will know Tyus Bowser Tyus Bowser's week one status And we might even know his weeks one through four status by tomorrow I don't expect him to play in week one. I I wouldn't even expect him to be on the normal roster I think he'll probably start like on the the physically unable to perform lists or something like that So he'll have to miss the first four games of the year because I think I'm pretty sure they change the rules For the physically unable to perform list because it used to be when you were on there You go miss the first six you had to miss the first six games But now I think and y'all let me know if I'm wrong because I have been before and I will be again But I think it used to be six games But now I think it's four games if you start on the physically unable to perform list So I've that's what I think is gonna happen with him So we'll see but it is nice that Tyus Bowser's back on the field running in stuff and doing this thing So cool. All right, but another guy who has been missing in action for way less amount of time I mean, we just saw him a couple weeks ago and we ain't seen him since It's Tyler, honey Tyler, honey, we've been wondering where's Tyler Hunley is in my a is Just literally just now there are rumors about Tyler honey being trained. Oh, hold on now, buddy. Whoa But anyway, Tyler, honey Who has been sidelined the past couple of weeks? With a hamstring injury that said he was also working out on the adjacent field too So that is a beautiful thing And that's what we like to hear Because Tyler honey getting back close to being healthy again And again when he first went out they made it sound like it was super minor and I was thinking Alright, it's preseason Tyler. Honey probably got a little banged up or whatever, but Raven's just being extra cautious. We ain't seen him since We ain't seen him since But now that he's getting closer to being back because again if he's working out on the opposite end That's a good thing. So shout out to Tyler. Honey for that now long with the encouraging news Just got some Unfortunate news too There were some more roster cuts and some of those roster cuts were a linebacker Kelly Sanders offensive linemen Jake Goudon and Also a big fan favorite somebody who a lot of people had high hopes for and that was a Marilyn wire receiver Dante Demis Jr. Dante Demis Jr. Just had that really big catch the other night and now he's cut he'll be a free agent and Anybody would be able to sign him and they could I believe they could claim him on waivers because he hits the waiver wire So we'll see what happens with him, but this is one of those stories. It's just it's just it's tough, man It's tough now while I did not anticipate Dante Demis Jr. making the roster Because I just I continue to say there was so much in front of him It was just too much in front of him I know some people thought after that big catch that he had which was great the other night that oh, yeah He's gonna be that wire receiver six you gonna make I just I couldn't see it Because it was just so much stacked in front of him Ravens have done so much at wide receiver this offseason alone For the the new the new faces they brought in the returning guys that they got it was just For him to make the team it would he would have had to be whoo Randy Moss out there in preseason and more But this does not mean just because he got cut from the Ravens. It doesn't mean that it's over Hopefully it's not over Hopefully he can catch on with somebody else like get it catch on because he's a wire see well Yeah, hopefully he can catch on with somebody else And just make it happen because you never know man. Yeah, we hear about these stories all the time Oh, man, I was cut from this team initially And then I got signed by this other team and my career took off look at James Harrison Ravens had James Harrison in there James Harrison Superbowl champ beast strongest man in the world. It felt like it one time James Harrison He was a Baltimore Raven They cut him Ravens used to have priests homes now they had him a little longer now Y'all remember priests homes running back for the chiefs who went off who would always go crazy Ravens also had Raheem Oster I know y'all remember him, but um, yeah, they had him too and he ended up going to a couple other teams and going off So it happens it happens. So it just just because they cut from one team It doesn't mean that it's a wrap now like we said earlier. Unfortunately for some guys it will be a wrap It will be the end of the line for them, but That's that man So, yeah, that's uh, so that that's that's all we got for now, man another defensive tackle Keem Caesar and trade bots the third They were also cut as well. Oh and in Corey Mayfield. He got cut earlier too So, yeah, man It's it's crazy out here. It's crazy out here. It's busy out here. It's a lot going on right now With not only the Baltimore Ravens, but as you all know just the NFL as a whole I'm sure y'all been getting notifications left and right seeing all sorts of stuff happen everywhere So yeah, man, that's tough business like we always say it's a tough tough business But anyway team keeping clean, I love y'all make sure you subscribe to the channel So you don't miss not one single update so you can stay all the way informed and more Well, not only the Baltimore Ravens, but just the NFL as a whole I love y'all make sure you leave a like on the video if you like what you saw I appreciate y'all supporting the channel. I appreciate y'all telling people about the channel And we out


Ecology is not an academic subject. Ecology is the basis of our existence. We as a generation of people have this responsibility that in the next ten, fifteen years' time, at least at the policy level, all the right things happen. But fundamentally the most important thing is human beings have lost connection with what is life and everything that nourishes life and sustains life around us. This is the disaster we are manifesting in it. I wondered if you could talk to the kind of leadership you think is required to generate this kind of concern around conservation and the environment. The reason why I see that ecological concerns have not become… everybody's concern is simply because activists have been taking an attitude of being against everything that is for economic well-being. We've always pitched economy versus ecology. That's the fundamental thing that I wanted to change in India. I actually said this. I am officiating the marriage between economy and ecology because these two things can't go against each other. There is no way to do it. You have to go together. I think that is the basic message that needs to go, that we need not destroy businesses, we just have to transform businesses. And the necessary time, room and policy support is needed to transform businesses. Ecological sustainability is mostly understood as pollution coming from cities or industries or whatever. But what is missed is the biggest disaster on the planet is actually agriculture. It's the degradation of soil, which is the real issue. Everything else can be attended to and reversed in a matter of few decades. The degradation of soil across the planet is not something that you can turn back. It will take fifty to hundred years. There are only two ways to regenerate the soil. One thing is the leaves from the trees and the animal waste and the human waste. Well, the trees are gone long time ago. The next thing is the animal waste. Without animals, you cannot enrich the soil. You cannot enrich the soil with bags of fertilizer. I wondered whether, you know, in the relationships in the ecosystems around us, you see a certain spiritual process in conserving the environment. Essentially, spiritual means your experience of life has gone beyond your physical self. So if you experience yourself beyond this body, what will be your experience? Naturally, it will be an inclusion of life around you. So what I exhale, the trees are inhaling. What the trees exhale, I am inhaling every moment of our life. But somehow we are going around without any consciousness about this. So spiritual process is not aimed towards ecology, but ecology is just a part of our existence. Ecology is not an academic subject. Ecology is the basis of our existence. To bring this experience to people large scale is very, very important because you can teach as much as you want, you can campaign as much as you want, but people shape their lives according to their experience of life. Especially those people who hold positions of responsibility and power who can make a difference in the world, their experience of life has to become much more inclusive than the way it is right now. I must tell you a little example.   Well, which didn't work out about ten, twelve years ago, they insisted I must do a program. I did a program, so everybody turned up, all my schoolmates, my school teachers, my college teachers, all kinds of people that I knew for a long time. So my English teacher at the end of the program came and hugged me and she said, now I know why you didn't let me teach Robert Frost. I said, ma'am, why would I not let you teach Robert Frost? I like Frost. I even went to his place and I have, in his own voice, recital of poetries. I said, why would I not let you teach? She said, don't you remember? And she reminded me, what happened was, we were always studying English poets and she's introducing American poetry to us and she came and she started reading, she introduced Robert Frost saying, is a great poet. And the first poem she started off, woods are lovely, dark and deep. I said, stop it. I don't want to listen to this man who calls tree a wood. She said, no, no, Robert Frost, I said, I don't care how great he is. A man who calls tree a wood, I'm not going to listen to that guy. So this is just like a tiger looks at you and thinks breakfast. So this has to change in our mind. A tree is not a table, a tree is not a chair, a tree is not furniture. A tree is a phenomenal life and it's a basis of our life. This has to become a living experience for everybody. Only then there will be sustainability. Individuals need to alter their attitudes towards consumption or are there larger solutions needed? The individual people are powerful today. One thing is, there is social media. They can do a lot of work sitting at home. They need not go anywhere. They can do impact the world in many ways. Apart from that, most nations on the planet are democracies. If the citizens do not manifest this and make it very clear, a democratically elected government will not do anything. They will do populistic things. We are willing to sacrifice a few conveniences for a larger and a long-term good. If we do not express that, no government will make any policy. Governments move at their own pace. You do not expect a huge massive cargo carrier to just make a U-turn like that. I'm very clear on this. I'm just looking for a one-degree turn. If you make a one-degree turn and hold it, there will be a U-turn. And you mentioned this morning that you also managed to bring together bits of the Indian government who'd never met before. The different ministries. There is water management ministry. There is irrigation ministry. There is rural development ministry. There's agricultural ministry. But they never meet. So we got them to meet for the first time and look at what they could do together. That's what made a huge difference. And now the Planning Commission or the Niti Aayog as it is called today sent out a notification to all the twenty-eight states that this Valley for Rivers policy is the official policy you must implement. Many states have already taken it up. In some we are directly participating. Rest we are consulting. I'm trying to talk to a lot of activists and tell them the problems that they're protesting against. First, can you find a solution? Look through that. If you can find a solution, suggest the solution rather than just protesting against a problem. For example, all these software... I mean soft drink manufacturers where single-use plastic is going around. They shifted from bottles to plastic because it was far more convenient for them. The reason why you cannot recycle this bottle easily is because there is a paper label. So we started doing a little bit of research. What is the solution? How can we print on this? So there is a company in Chicago who's manufacturing a certain kind of dye which will come out just like paper label on the plastic. If you do that one thing, all these plastic bottles can go in for recycling. A business which is using this and they know it is a major polluting factor they can suggest, see, this is the change if you give us some incentives, we will shift. So the business has to collaborate with the government to suggest, see, these are the changes we would like to make. But we want this kind of policy benefits. Our idea of what is profit, what is a successful business has to go through some transformation. It's not one day's job. It needs to happen over a period of time. Definitely it's happening today. A whole lot of businesses are looking at how they can impact ecological sustainability. This was simply absent 25 years ago. They're investing in this direction. Once people put their money in a direction you can trust that they have intentions. See, the next 25 years probably in the history of humanity is going to be very crucial in terms of what kind of corrections we make. If we take care of the soil, rivers, forests, agriculture, human health everything will be taken care of. If we turn this around in the next 10 to 15 years if we do all the right things in the next 10 to 15 years I believe in 30 to 40 years major change will happen in a positive way. But let's say we leave it for another 25 to 30 years and then try to turn it around in my estimate it will take 100 to 150 years to turn it around because we're crossing a certain line. After you cross that line turning it back is going to be so much more difficult. So we as a generation of people have this responsibility that in the next 10, 15 years time at least at the policy level all the right things happen. Why I'm insisting on the policy is only when there is a policy change the budgetary allocations are there and a sustained movement towards that is there. Particularly major populations in the world like United States, Europe, China, India if we make the right policies right now in the next few years within the next three to five years I would say then I think the rest of the world will follow. One major advantage for Asia is we are very sundry. So harnessing solar energy is going to be a major thing technologies still need to go further but there are many solutions coming forth. I think this entire system that we went into in starting from early 20th century this power distribution grids this must go, power must be generated where it is used. Right now you will see in any city probably because yesterday I drove into Kuala Lumpur around 9 p.m. and every road was jammed what's happening in every city is those who live there work here those who live here work there I don't understand why. So these are simple changes we can make so I designed what's called as a one building cities we insist on calling them cities I'm talking about 50 acres of land you build only one acre, 50 floors and rest 49 acres you just leave it make it forested, make it water bodies no waste going out of this land easily it can be done people will live much better everything can be right there they can live there they can work there children can go to school there they can shop there once a week if you want to go out somewhere you can go but daily there is no need to pull out your automobile. Before we launched the Rally for Rivers our project Greenhands had planted little over 33 million trees which has changed the green cover in one state but now with Rally for Rivers we have signed MOUs with six different states in the next eight years for nearly seven billion trees and this is government funded and most of it is going to be done by the governments many states have already announced one kilometer along the river side they're planting but now 62 to 64% of the land is owned by the farmers you're not going to talk to them about ecological sustainability because they're just struggling for a livelihood so we have created what is called as agroforestry with which we have shown that easily you can multiply your income three to five times in a matter of five years if you shift fundamentally the most important thing is human beings have lost connection with what is life and everything that nourishes life and sustains life around us this is the disaster we are manifesting in the form of ecological thing but the fundamental thing is we've become psychological beings not living beings we have to transform them into living beings


I think we can start. Good afternoon. Thanks for coming. Last year I was here to talk about custom fields in Drupal 8. It's not a mistake, just one word missing there, okay? It's been changed to custom entities in Drupal 8. Right. I'm Deji Akala and I work for Katgeminar UK and I've been in the Drupal world since the days of 4.0. Something that was late 2005, early 2006. So I've seen the transition from 4 to 5 to 6 to 7 and to 8 now. Before we look at custom entities, let's talk about the entity itself. What's an entity? Well, you can say it's a thing or an object, right? And you can also consider that as something as property and behavior. So it's just like a class, you know? And a couple of years ago, there was a long discussion on that issue, use the term entity instead of object, right? And that's because they couldn't decide whether to go for object class entity. And if you trace the history of entities in Drupal, it started from the days of FlexiNode. And then CCK, then fields, oh, that's a good idea. You can just create something, a content app, add fields. And then that made life a lot easier. Then the idea of fields, then we graduate there towards entities. And then talk about fieldable entities and non-fieldable entities. However, Drupal 8 has sort of brought entities to a different level altogether. And then you find different types of entities, things like nodes, users, blocks, comments, everything is now entity, right? So it seems as if everywhere you look in Drupal 8 code, an entity jumps at you, right? So maybe time Drupal 9 comes out, or maybe 10, it's going to be entities everywhere. You can't work with entities, just like OOP, how should I say it now? Purists or gurus see classes everywhere. It means it's just one line of code. It's a class. So maybe we come to that entities everywhere in Drupal. And Drupal 8 also crystallizes entity types, right? There's a config entity type and there's a content entity type. And I would like to think of the config entity type as information about your site. And then content entity as information on your site, something that your users come to visit your site for no matter what that is. So they come for content and that's what they've come for, right? So we've got config entity types and also content entity types. And core comes with a number of this, a number of these config entity types and content entity types. We look at what that at config entity type does an at content entity type. So if you were to go on the core modules directory and then search for at config entity type, you see this one, right? Plus some other test types. But these are the ones that we actually need. You can see. And then the other side, you've got the content entity types, right? And if you look closely, you can see block content type on one side. And on the other side, you've got block content. You've got contact form identity type, contact message as the content entity type for that. There's node type, node. But there are some that have no um, counterpart on the other side. User is only content. You can see view config entity type on one side. So that means core has given us a lot, a lot built in, a lot's been built in. And let's have a closer look at the content entity type. You see that one, you can go from your entity type to your sub entity type and then your entity. For instance, node as entity type, right? When you go to your content types list, um, um, your installation, what you see there is the sub entity types, right? Uh, things like, uh, it comes with an article and page. Yep. So those are the two right. And then when you create a page, create an article, that's, that's like, um, that's, that's just the real entity. It's like an instance. So content types can be seen as a little field, right? A set of fields considered together. So you notice them and then you've got fields like you've got title, body, image tags and comments. That makes your article. And then for your, for your new, for your page, you can have that's just title on body. Maybe you want to create a news, right? News can then be tied to body image and category tags and where you can just select, um, the terms to tag the news item with. So node is the entity type. If you want to talk class is your base class and then, uh, article, the sub entity type, uh, your content type, your bundle can be seen as maybe subclass or a standard class. Uh, and then the article itself arsenal fan, maybe the title will be arsenal, same old, same old, right? So that's just the entity or just the, uh, the, the, the class instance. So yeah, right. And, um, um, the beauty of, uh, Drupal 8 and even prior, prior to that is that you can create your own content type, right? You can create it and in Drupal 8, it comes with only body fields, which is not even quasi. So you can pin that, right? Um, you can also, uh, uh, you can also add, add, um, add fields, right?  These are things that you can export, right? The configuration of your site, right? You can, you can bundle fields, right? And then, export them and then, uh, and then they've, and then we can, um, you don't, you don't, you don't have to write code. You don't have to do anything. However, you have to think about, um, the, the extras that call adds to your content types, things like, um, menu, comment path, um, uh, promotion to a front page or not, uh, or no front, the author and everything. And, um, country modules may also add some, some fields that you don't know about, right? So some people say, well, well, well, well, well, uh, I can use nodes everywhere. So that means I can just, uh, from, from, from, from alter out all those things that are not, uh, required. You don't, you don't want comments. You don't want, um, just like menu path. I can always, um, um, from alter them out. Yeah. What's all this fuss about entity then? Well, that's not cool. And, um, and also the code still gets brought anywhere. You're only hiding some of the, some of the effects of that. Um, right. So we've, um, we've, uh, come to the point now that there are some ways in which we can still use nodes everywhere, but we don't want to go that good. We just want to go with our, um, entities.  So how do we then start? I'll, um, um, we'll go over, uh, something that, um, I've been working on for some, for some time is still sandbox. It's, um, great book, um, application in Drupal 8. So one of the things to consider there is, um, how to record grades, right? How to record grades. Uh, for instance, you've got, um, a star. Okay. Uh, which is a distinction. And then you've got a very good. And then, and then B and then C and then EF. Um, yeah, also, it's not always that, um, a letter is used for groups, right? I know that in Polish, uh, we don't use letters. We have six, so you don't say, and then five, uh, but then that's also complex because you've got five plus.  So these we can ask about letters. Just have to add back if you mind. And as it much dreaded two minus minus, you see, uh, yeah. So you also need to think about the, the grid ranges, right? For, for instance, maybe March 101, you can say 90 to a hundred is your A star, but for three to one, oh, it's 95 to a hundred. That's your A star. So you need to find a way in this grade book, uh, application to specify different ranges for the same letters and then, um, group them to, to, to, to get that, right? So, um, we're not, we've not come up with, uh, this too, right? Um, great letter set. That's a group of letters, right? That may be from zero to out to a hundred. You can have five ranges there, uh, of letters. And then for maybe for a different course, you want to have more letters, right? So you've got, so you've got this grid letter sets and then the grid letters. So your grid letter sets won't really have much, maybe just the label is enough. So, um, we use config entity for that one. Okay. The config entity type for your grid letter sites and for your grid letters, with then the content entity type. Uh, okay. What about the fields? Yeah. I've said label for grid letter set should be enough. Um, but, um, but for the grid letters, you need the labor, you need the description and also you also need things like the lowest grade, the highest grade and then weight. Maybe you enter them differently. You want to be able to adjust the weight. That's also the need to allow, if you, if you want to allow, um, others to add fields, to your content entity types. That's also something to be considered. So yes, it's possible. So that's another question you need to consider when you're talking about your entity. You want to make them fieldable or not? Uh, then you have to think about the, the forms, right? For hours, we probably need to just add edit and then the delete confirmation and then lists. We also have to have a way of managing the list, right? And we can have the list of grid letter set and then you can add anyone, edit or delete as you wish. So, um, in triple seven, you always start to think about this as an, oh, there's a module for that. I like that. Last year I mentioned it too. Okay. So, and then, and in your custom mode, you have to think of hooks to implement, right? Uh, there are things like a hook entity info, entity property info, the schema that's going to, where you inform Drupal about the fields that you, about, um, about the, about the database schema for your entities, right? And then maybe insert, update or delete hooks, right? Right. But, uh, in Drupal 8, it's a different altogether. So, that's, somebody gave me this statement after last year's presentation and, and I like it. That's a class for that in, in Drupal 8. You have to think class module comes in, but, um, it plays very, uh, little role in, um, in Drupal 8. Okay. So, um, like, like, like I said, um, you still need your custom module, but for your hooks, in most, in most cases, you will now start dealing with, uh, annotations, what, and then what's that? It's just a comment, a comment that has special meaning in Drupal, right? Uh, even in, even in code generally, you find it in symphony, Laravel, you find annotations. Uh, yes, you find that everywhere. It's comments with special meaning. So, I'll follow this in pattern as, um, as last year, I'll just show you some, some stops. And then we then look at the code, walk through the code. And if we have time, we can then add a few things to the functionality. So, yeah. So that's what an annotation looks like. I can see the comment, right? You can see at config entity type there. We'll have a look at that. This, this just stops, right? It just won't do anything at all. And for the grid letter, you can see the content entity type there. So that's a good starting point for us. Like I said, there are missing parts, which we will look at, we will look at later. That Drupal, that namespace, Drupal grid book entity, that's some, that tells Drupal where to find your code. Okay. Right. We're now moving closer to what's looking at, looking at some, some, some code now. So you still need your, you still need your info file. It's now Yammer file. And then you also, the modifier is very, very small, as you are going to see. In fact, that's, that's the only hook that needs to be implemented at all for this to, for this to work. You can see it's very small. So you end up with something like this. Okay. You can see there's a lot of fires there, but we'll have a look at them shortly. Okay. So let's have a look at this. Let me just show you the, so that's what this looks like now. Hmm. This is way too big. Sorry about this. I try to make this smaller. Okay. So let's just leave it as, as a command minus. Oh, command, command minus. Yeah, let's just, no, it doesn't work. Yeah, it doesn't work. It doesn't work that command minus. Let me try it. Let me, is it, this didn't work like two minutes ago. Oops. Yeah. Is that, is that any better? Any better? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. Yeah, you can say, oh, this is no good. It's no good at all. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think let's just leave it as, let me just remove this two bars, right? Let me remove the two bars. Yeah. Does that look better now? Yeah. Yes. Good. Okay. Right. So you can see that, so that it made. And then this one dashes the root and on top of the page, that's what you want there. That's what you want on top of the page when you go to that, right? No, I can't. We have just clicked on top there. Okay. Good. So here, these are just the parts. What hook menu is it going to use now? You now have that in the root file. We shall see what, what happens. Okay. Now the most important part, yeah, is here. So let's start with our grid letter set. That's the config, right? Now, that's just ID and the labor handlers. These are like controllers, controller classes that that's for the access controller. That's for the list builder. Like when you want to see the list of the list of grid letter sets. And then these deforms are here. Config prefix. That's when you, when you export, you find them, the fires is named your module dot config prefix. And then, and then, and then the ID of, the ID of the grid letter set that you've created. We shall see later. Bundle off. So our grid letter set is a config entity and then the bundles that will be grid letter set we, we've specified here as grid letter. Okay. The entity keys, that's what you, that's what identifies the grid letter set. We shall see where that comes in. And then this, these are links that Drupal will generate for us. And then we shall see how to refer to this later. Let me show you now. Let me show you that now. You see, you see, entity grid letter set list form entity grid letter set list form. You can see it here. You can see it. So that's the path. And when you go to that path, you will now see this, this help text there at the top. And then config export where you want to export. What would you like to export? This one is just, it's just like, you know, it's just like normal. That's what you've extended. You haven't done anything at all to it. These are just methods that we can comment out. And it still works, right? So, of course, the interface, let me, let me remove this interface. You see, it works because really just extended that, that class. Now, implements grid letter set interface. That's just, I've specified some methods that I want implemented in my class. Let me just quickly show what that's all about. And you can see it here, grid letter set interface. So, so this method must be implemented, but they're not essential for my config entity. They're not essential because I just want to find a way of getting all grid letters in a set nicely sorted. And then I just want to get a total of all grid letters, right? Just to demonstrate the possibilities. We shall see where this comes in later. Now, grid letter is more interesting. Yeah, I think it's manageable, okay? Now, you can see, it's the same at the right, that's the one that entity, the labor, you've got the handlers. Now, since we are storing some content, you need to, you need to tell car about, so that's the base table. And that's the data table. That's where the fields we now store their data. So you can see this are the entity keys. And then these are the same links, the same type of links, right? And then you want also to say the entity type, the entity type for this, the config entity type for this one, which is what we've specified before. Bundle off was grid letter, and bundle entity type is grid letter set, okay? All right. So now, these aren't the only entity annotation properties you can specify. I'll show you where you can find the others. You can see it's also the same. You've extended the content entity base. Remember, content entity type, you extend content entity base. And then as best practice, you also have to implement your interface. This is just a bunch of get us and set us for our properties, right? Remember, we're talking about properties and behavior earlier on. These are just get us and set us. But this is what needs to be implemented.  You can see. So it determines this. Class must be abstract or implement method base field definitions, because I've extended that class, okay? And these, and these fields are defined here are my base fields, right? It's possible to also define default fields per bundle. Then you need to implement a different method. That's called bundle field definitions. I think that's what that method is called. So you can see this base with definition. That's the type and then you've got the label, the description, settings. Let me show you. You can also create entity reference fields. And this one is for the grid letter set. Here display options for the form. You've got the view, display options, how you want them displayed. If you want, do you want this field configurable from your, from your field display? I'll show you that where you've got manage fields, manage form display, manage view view display, which I see that in a second. So that, so this field will now appear in that list. And that's the lowest and that's the highest and that's your weight and some other things that you need, right? Okay. So these, so this method is the only one that's required, right? That's where you define your fields, right? And so you don't need to worry about exporting your field configuration, your field storage config, right? You just, you define them here. And, and when you, when you enable this model, these fields would be automatically created for you. Okay. So that's that one. Now, I promise to show where the, where you can see the, where you can see the, what is it called? The annotations.  You go to config entity type. You don't see much here. However, if you read the comment, it says annotation properties of entity types are found on Drupal core config entity, config entity type. So you don't go there. It says config entity, config entity type. You can see it here. So you don't see much here. You can see config prefix, config export. These are the properties you want to export it. The ones we specified earlier on. But if you look at extends, you will see a lot more. You can see entity keys. That's the key of when you were looking at the annotations earlier on. You saw the entity keys, right? You see your ID. You see your class. There's more here. Handlers, array, links. So if you, if you go through here, you will see properties that you might be interested in in defining. You can see libdrupal core, entity type, bundle of. You can see all those ones. So that's where you find the annotations that you can use there. Okay. Okay. Let's quickly enable this because time is, time's really going. We're gonna, not a good day to be a goner. Let's go to DCL. By the way, I've set up this before. Hopefully it doesn't crash and burn. Oh, yes, we've got that. Oh, it's not, yeah, it's not, yeah, this is not the best. However, here you see grid letters, right? So you can see the total letters that was calculated first and that in that class. You can see default. I'll show you where that default is from in a second. Yeah, I'm just conscious of time, you see here. So we can list grid letters. There's no grid letter for us to see here. Yes. Now, I didn't show you where the, I didn't tell you there's going to be default grid letters. Did I? No, I didn't because I forgot. Now, let's go back. Of course, we know config, configuration files are, they go in this folder, config. So on install, whatever is here will now be created for you. So we can see model set, which is the config prefix we said later on. Default does the ID of this grid letter set, which is, and there is something that needs to be done. You need to tell Drupal about the schema for that something that says, now this has the ID here is type string and the label is ID, label is just mapping. That's to describe what's, what's in this, what's here, right? Okay. So when you install your module, you don't see that it goes to that config folder and whatever is there, it installs it for you. So that's why we got that. So, and I said earlier on that list of all grid letters sets, that was the, that's what's in the hook help that we implemented earlier on for this something. So yeah, here, least grid, grid letters, there is none. So let's add one. My favorite, excellent lowest, maybe we say 94.99 highest 100, which I don't think anybody can score if you're in my class. It's all right. So let's, let's just, let's quickly add a B, maybe B, let's just put that as 80, 85. It doesn't really matter whatever we put the adjustment to them or something. Oh, and then, oh yes, we need, we need an A, we've forgotten an A. So let's put that as maybe, was that, did we have 94? It doesn't matter. Anyway, this is just a demo. So let's have 85. We can put anything there. Yeah, let's just leave it like that. Just want to show that this can drag that, drag that. Yeah, so it stays where it was before. And then when you, yeah, you can see three steps. That's sort of grid letters. You can add a different grid letter set for let's say Drupal. Yeah, maybe you have, maybe you're running a Drupal course, right? And then you can, yeah, we don't, so there's no grid letters set. There's no grid letters for that one. Yeah, you can see. So that way you can bond to grid letters into sets and use them as you like. Okay. I also, ah, yes, I think I should, I should just demo this quickly. Now you can see here, it simply says grid letters. Yeah. If you go back, it says grid letters, but it doesn't tell you anything. So what we need is to do something. Ah, this is just, oh, let's just move this. Okay. You know what? I've got some there. So grid list form, where are you written? So in fact, this way you can change page titles, isn't it? Let's say list, right, grid set list form. Yeah. I think it's this one, hopefully. So you're not saying, so title, title callback, where you want to get the page, the page title, run the code here in this control, in this class, run that method, the page title. So, so you can see that controller. Sorry, guys, I think because we changed that. So let's do this. By the way, the code for this demo, I'll show you where you can, where you can find it. There are some other things that this is just introduction and to walk you through the code. There are lots of things that we've not considered, we've not covered at all here. So if we go here now, ah, that one is dead now. So that tells you where that one is. And then here, yeah, it's not here. This return loss is default, yeah. So you can then add for that one. One quick thing, you know, we're talking about fields, right? There's no way here for you to add fields to anything, right, to the grid letters, right? Yeah. But we want to be able to sort of do that. Let's quickly have a look at that. You need to do something to your annotation. You need to add a key there. Because you want this field, right? So, so that way you want to edit a grid letter set. So you want to be able to add fields to the grid letters in that set. Okay, so we shall see how that works. So that's all you need to define there. However, before you can see the links, when you visit that page, there's something you need to add to, yeah, that's still empty now for the tasks, right? That's for, secondary tabs in seven, six, that kind of thing. So that's now, you can then sort them out here in your Yammu Fire here, links task. So let's quickly, how are we doing for time? On battle? Oh, okay. That's no good. Yeah, well, we can see that. So we see that. So that's, this idea of the two places you need to change. Because we did the annotation change, we can just do something like that. So here now, hopefully, hopefully, there's something there, you can see my name from display, you can see everything. Yes. When you go there, this is no physical present yet. It tells you, you can do anything yet. You see, description lowest, highest. These are your base fields, right? You can only change them. You can only change the order because, remember the view display options in that bundle field definition, we said, true. That is why you want them to be able to change the order here. So let's make something happen. Let's make something happen. Let's add something here. I just said, I hope this works because, because yesterday, let's say Drupal camp field. It doesn't matter. It's just there. Yeah. Good. Yeah. So that's that. Now you can see form display. So you cannot change it. You cannot change the text. I don't know whatever you like that. And you can see that here. You can drag and drop anywhere you like and save. That's the demo. That was very fast. But yeah, we've, we've seen, we've seen step by step how to tackle this problem. Now, practically, how did I get into, into this, into fields, into entities, Drupal. What I did was a couple of years ago when Drupal 8, when there was some momentum, some code released, I found two contribute poll and profile, right? That was taken out of Drupal 7 core. I walked on them. As, as core was, was being changed, I was just learning trying to make them work, right? So I adopted those two modus and then as the code became stabilized, I was upgrading some of my own modus, right? I created a couple country field, a language field, plus, plus a couple of others, right? That are available. Address field also, simple address field for Drupal 8. And also, also, like I said, I've got a personal project called PHP Edu, right? That's supposed to be a model for Drupal, right? It's coming along. And this great book is part of that. So when this proof of concept works, then I can then upgrade the sandbox to a real model, right? So these are different ways I've, I've adopted to learn to get into Drupal 8 and also speaking to. So if you, if you are going to speak, then you have to show something, right? That's works. And luckily for me today, it has worked. So, yeah. So I'm going to quickly show you. In fact, this is not the only thing for, yeah, I hope it doesn't mind. Let me show you a couple of other things. Like I was saying, let's just use this window. We're not coming back here. So for great book, there is still a lot of concepts that have not been covered. So you can see there are more entities there, like a great category item, great score, lots of other stuff, right? Great scale. So if you're, if you're in education and you're thinking about Drupal 8, something like, talk to me afterwards, right? There's, there's stuff that you can, that you can work with. Good. Good. So you find, you find the past media, kind of like this year, 2016. And for the code that I quickly showed you, you find a bunch of modules there for that, for that, it is free, open source. Yeah. Yes. I do the cool stuff to Twitter, I don't tweet regularly now, but yeah, you can see me there. Yeah. Once again, thanks for coming.


These are the best basketball performance sneakers for wide footers and heavy guards coming from a heavy guard guys Yes, and Andrew not only a heavy guard a heavy guard with very wide feet Listen guys a lot of people have been asking us for more basketball performance sneaker content Of course, we used to make a ton of basketball material in the past This is kind of just a way to update people because people want to hear about this And I'll tell you this Andrew most sneaker reviewers on YouTube have narrow to normal feet They do not have wide feet, and they're not heavy guards. We need wide foot Representation that's what this list is for so hopefully if you are a wide footer and you're wondering like all these new shoes Are a little too narrow the arches this way blah blah blah hopefully this video helps you Okay, or if at least you learn more about your foot so that you can identify shoes for yourself So make sure you like subscribe and turn on your notifications Andrew, but you know what is one thing an item that fits any size Small us off. I know this is random to talk about in a sneaker video But it is our very own chili oil check out the instagram or the website you can buy it right now It is delicious Italian Chinese got a little bit of truffle in it goes great on everything I'm telling you guys I'm built like Eric Gordon, Andrew Eric Bledsoe, Kyle Lowry, Jameer Nelson, Baron Davis, Deron Williams, Ray Felton, Jamal Tinsley Johnson, but don't don't say Khalid El Amino Wow, if you say Cal Lowry, you know Cal Lowry is trendy on the internet. Oh man Yeah, I'm sick But yeah, so I guess David how can people identify their feet because some people actually don't even know if they have wide feet Yeah, well, here's the thing a lot of feet they come in sort of different shapes and sizes So you can measure the width for me. I'm a 2e, but it's true You could even have a skinny foot and have a crazy bunion that shoots out like a weird angle I'm not necessarily referring to that situation. I can only speak for my situation I actually have a normal arch for example, Andrew. That's gonna impact it as well. Yes. You have a flat arch Yes, I have a fallen arch shot out to the flat footers out there Also, I have a fairly narrow foot But I didn't really need anybody to tell me that because every time I laced up a pair of shoes I would have to tie it super tight. You got to choke your laces to get that fit. Yeah, I've I've thin ankles too So it's like overall. I just kind of have a skinny foot Right, right, right. So there is other factors that play here Like you said even like ankle size and like foot volume and like mass and like depth There's all these stuff like mid-foot shapes and stuff like that Did you know they've even categorized like different races of people how their foot is uh, and me and you would fall under Mongolian big shock What about orient? That's not us. Oh, yeah, that or yeah, I guess we would be orient or Mongolian depending on the toe size Wow, these are some funny little like graphics. Yeah um, Andrew my number one Shoe for heavy wide-footed guards that you can buy right now that I actually think is heavily heavily underrated Is the jordan 37 mid into a lesser extent the jordy 37 low I'm telling you especially the mid the leno weave upper It can really accommodate a wide midfoot and a wide forefoot and this shoe Andrew gives you crazy bounce because of this gigantic carbon fiber shank plate and double stack zoom in the forefoot because Andrew If you're a heavy guard, you probably want a lot of pop and you probably want a lot of energy return Because you're going to throw a lot of energy into the shoe right you can't get that mushy cushioning or else You're just going to be flattening it like a pancake and I'm not going to lie Nike does have a monopoly on the super pop in the forefoot No, in terms of giving you the crazy energy return from the midfoot shank carbon fibers and things like that Zoom air double stack zoom air. It is an amazing cushioning to be honest. Now. I will say this Andrew the traction on these Is like barely getting it done. Why why for some reason this traction pattern unless the court is very clean It will struggle on dust and this is actually the chinese pair It's a pf with an even wider forefoot.  You will slip out. Okay, so so clean courts only for this Yeah, so that is the unfortunate downside, but you know, that's the reality Nothing's gonna be perfect guys not every shoe is gonna be like 10 out of 10 at everything next up andrew I've got the big three 3.0 pro. This is definitely something I can recommend You know who's wearing this still in the mba right now Yeah, kcp continue this call. Well pope And um, yeah this andrew is like a beefed up harden three and the harden three You got to tell some stories about that. Yeah, I love the harden three. It's one of the best shoes Uh with full length boost and I thought it was it was a great shoe Uh, I wish that they just built upon it and made that better and that would have been They could have kept going right like why didn't adidas make this big 3 3.0 pro that also dim witty warm So david tell us about big three hold it up more towards, uh, your left side your left side. Yeah, yeah So this is a chinese shoe brand. Yes, but it's a high quality chinese shoe brand And it's where would you rank it to leaning because most people know leaning way of wade All right, so there's basically like two tiers of chinese shoe brands But they still even have like their own tiers within them leaning is by far the most expensive wow tenon an amazing shoe You know why I didn't make the list andrew it's for narrow footers This shoe is the highest end shoe from a second tier brand 361 but you would say it's comparable to a nike or maybe an adidas I would say this is a a better version of an adidas shoe because With the injected nitro nitrogen injected foam pellets andrew Chinese brands are giving you more energy return than adidas is right now because would you agree with me? Injected sometimes boost is kind of mushy and it doesn't necessarily give you the bounce back Boost is a little bit inconsistent with the implementation. Yeah, like adidas is bounciest technology is probably bounce pro not boost, right? Um, moving on andrew number three. I've got the jordan 34 mid I'm telling you this is an incredible shoe Yes, if you're more than 2e 3e 4e, this is not going to be for you. I think as a 2e I barely crammed in there.  It'll help you with your verticality jumping up in the air It'll just make things feel a lot easier when you're just moving Laterally but specifically front to back right and there is a reason why all the marathon winners are setting world records in The vapor fly percentages right now because they also have a gigantic carbon fiber shank played in them Yes, they do so they're giving the uh the spring back effect moving on here I've got the lebron 10 and the lebron 10 elite This is like an all-time shoe. Yes. I mean this is a a lot of people think this is air max andrew This is air zoom max.  Yes, you should be wearing this shoe And uh, I believe they retro too So you don't get the retros if you can't get the old version, but you know you just gotta pay the resale listen um Moving on in this is sort of an extension of the lebron 10 but with a little bit more flexible upper You can get this for cheap right now number coming in at number five is the lebron 18 I see a lot of people still have the 18s man Yeah, and this is uh, it has double stacked zoom in the front, but then it has a big max air in the heel Surprisingly, I will tell you guys one thing that for a narrow footer like myself I can somehow wear the lebron 18 low Right, I think the low is meant for medium regular footers The regular 18 might be a little bit wider I have I can't really wear those but I can wear the 18 lows for some reason if you have knee pain Get yourself some lebron 18s immediately. You could get the EP twos Like I said the EP's and the pf's from china and or the xdr rubber It does make the traction 10 to 15 percent worse. So you have to judge it's very situational, right? You have to know what type of quartz you're playing on and almost in a way even how your foot strikes are If you're an incredibly shifty player traction becomes a higher priority for your individual situation Moving on number six. We got the why not 0.1 This was a classic shoe from and uh, interestingly enough, Andrew They they like stopped using the zoom setup with just full length zoom in it Right like now. They're just only doing zoom strobel And obviously they've uh, ended the westbrook line now moving on number seven Andrew is the peak tai chi flash 2.0. I actually had it with me. I can't find it right now But this is actually another cheaper chinese brand pica But this is one of their higher end shoes for for lou williams and the cushioning on this for heavy guards Was insane You know why because it took china's version of bounce china's versions of boost and another little like gel puck insert Called a pea soon puck and combined them all together in the forefoot So but the only down multiple techs I'll say the only downside was the pea soon gel it wears out kind of quickly Okay, uh, moving on to number eight and we've got the lebron 15 low. I know you can wear this shoe too It was okay. It's it's definitely got a wide base. I've seen a lot of heavy dudes I've been balled up by many heavy guys in this shoe Yes, and i'll tell you this the way that the outsole is curved the heel to toe transition for a heavy guard Is incredible dude. It is a really cool looking shoe too And then uh, they should retro this honestly. They got the battle knit uppers moving on andrew. I am You know putting an asterisk by this number nine I'm talking about the zoom bb nxt and the gt run which are actually very similar shoes to each other Interestingly enough right now andrew the gt run being worn by victor wendman yama. Wow bb nxt was being worn by I believe ben Simmons and uh mason plumbly So definitely some really heavy dudes Um, I would say this shoe was really crazy because you got triple stack react in the heel And you had double stacked zoom in the front, but the only thing was I did get an achilles strain in this line So if you think that's maybe just a freak thing that happened like it's maybe maybe not everybody's gonna go through No, I all right. Depending on how your body is Your achilles may get extra strain from wearing the bb nxt or gt run because the cushioning is very high It can be very mushy, but then the cut of the shoe is very low. That's what my orthopedic surgeon told me Wow, he said that this shoe does not have good if kittly support moving on to number 10 andrew We're back with lee ning. We have the yushuai 14 boom and boom low I have the boom mid right here. This is an expensive shoe. Jimmy butler wore this for multiple years Yeah, so I actually think this is a really good shoe. It's a little hard to put on But the only thing I will say and I do really like to shoe is the four foot cushioning with the foam It's like there's a lot of it, but I wish you could even get more bounce back effect from it But it's just tough for like the boom cushioning to imitate the feeling that zoom gives you Um, also the you know, I think if it's not on a clean court, it is kind of questionable Moving on and we're talking about the kairi infinity e p the wide foot version Have you seen any shoe be worn more recently than the kairi infinity is such a popular shoe? I would say it's a very much go-to like Sneakers shoe if you just need one for like you can get a pair probably for 90 bucks right now I would say it's definitely worth right because you're gonna get zoom in the heel zoom in the front Yeah, it's really flexible for any sort of like non pro player really gives you everything you need I'm moving on and or the number 12 the jordan 31 Man, this was such a classic shoe the upper it's gonna stretch to your foot They had the zoom unit protrude out of the bottom. However, I will say this and the traction was like a four out of 10 Dang Once you get to your tractions below a six It could ruin your whole day because if you slip out you can get injured Moving on to number 13 andrew We're just going to go through the jordan line real quick and uh talk about it real quick for how it was for wide heavy guards because Jordan was kind of heavy and most of the shoes are built for heavier guys to wear right um enter jordan 28 Had a crazy bounce effect. However, the zoom bags in the front would explode Right, right. They would pop that issue jordan 29 to jordan 30 pretty high ranked too narrow for me jordan 31 Like we said amazing cushioning But uh, I feel like basically the traction was too bad The jordan 32 was a little too narrow for me the jordan 33 had a horrible fit Nobody liked those in the whole nba except lamarcus aldridge moving on to jordan 34 amazing But it is expensive and i'm not gonna lie this shoe does break down fairly quickly Like you don't have that many wares and shoe where the blue void resell is like 400 dollars right now So do you want to buy a shoe or do you want to go get the jordan 37 for a hundred dollars right now? Yeah, that's a good shoe. It's very light though. Yeah jordan 35 Maybe even better than the jordan 34, but it had a crazy eclipse plate Judd out into your foot and literally something like I wore it one time I couldn't even walk for like two hours afterwards the jordan 36 That's a dope shoe a lot of double stack cushioning in the front great for heavy guards. However the traction 50 50 and it was a little too narrow and of course like we said, you know jordan 37 great for me I love this shoe. I think that the formula 23 puck in the heel a lot of people say it's too hard But actually on the later versions like for example this undefeated colorway It is softer Like but yeah, I know on the earlier colorways this heel part was like actually really painful for some people before the break And the jordan 38 just dropped. I can't even get my hands on a pair right now Nike, you know the nike in new york doesn't even have them But this looks like a pretty good shoe But shoes that I recently got that I think are also good for heavy guards and the katie 16 Wow now katie usually that's my line that I love and it fits narrow footers very well But you're saying this might be the first katie that wide footers can wear Yeah, I believe the katie line is shifting away from stuff that is more for lighter smaller guards Or lighter wings to heavier wings Because this shoe is heavily based off the penny two and the penny two is a little bit more of a maximalist shoe So shout out to the katie 16 I will say that it took me four or five wears to break it in on the sides But finally, you know, it did break in but I will say this this traction pattern can also struggle on dust So it really depends it's kind of situational Andrew new balance Everybody's talking about the two-way v4 Everybody's talking about new balance, but I'll tell you this. I'm going to try them on I just do not believe in the new balance cushioning because the kawaii line It's weird because kawaii is so heavy There's no cushioning Moving on and we've got the gt jump to you know, I don't have it yet But you know, it's a little bit soft in the heel for me But for heavy guard guards with wide feet, maybe looking at the ep pair and uh, and what do you think about what poom has been doing lately? Obviously with the scoot henderson line the uh pooman nitro pro or the mbo3 Yeah, I mean, I feel like scoot is Is he I wouldn't maybe classify him as a heavy guard, but he's definitely not a light guy I don't know. He might be heavy though. Is he considered heavy? I mean look at his body Well, then you gotta check out his shoes. Yeah, so that's why I'm looking at the pooman nitro pro Let me know what you guys know in the comment section below. So um, ultimately. Yeah, that was my list Of shoes that you can buy right now Whether in retro format or the current format for guards andrew that have wide feet and their body is heavy And they probably take heavy steps And you know why I think this is so important because so much advice out there is not tailored for this niche demographic, right? So I I mean I just feel like that People need to think about the shoes they have because a lot of people what they do is they just buy a shoe and most people They don't want to Be a sneak or freak about it. They just want to buy one shoe Hooping it until it's worn out even if it kind of chafes their foot or squeezes their foot They don't understand how bad that is for your foot if you continually playing a shoe that is too narrow for you Yes, if you are playing basketball and you're not thinking about what type of foot you have Do you have bunions? Do you have an extra big midfoot? Do you have an extra wide forefoot? Does your pinky toe kind of curl out in a world weird way? Why would you put yourself through that pain because you're not Having all the optionality on the table like if you've already broken in a shoe Your foot should not keep aching after you play basketball There's something is wrong three times max to be honest So the reason why I have a lot of recent shoes on this list is because I truly believe that sneakers are like cars Even though yes, I agree. Maybe they may be cheaping out on some of the material items They're using way less leather now or even going leatherless But I generally think and this is not a crazy statement even though some old school heads They're like so trapped in the 90s shoes get better just like car tech Andrew cars They get better right cars get better sneakers get better guys And uh, you just got to know what is the right one for your foot But that means you got to study your foot know your foot know what type of arts you have Know your widths and things like that what you like what you don't like Do you like a really tight fit? Do you like a really loose fit? Everybody is going to be different. It's situational. It depends on what court you're on It depends on even how you play if you play full court You might need a shoe with a really stiff carbon fiber shape plate to propel you down the court Like a marathon runner if you're only playing half court You might want to just get a loose shoe this very good ladder really like a kairi Yeah Listen guys, let us know what you guys think in the comments section below A lot of people were asking for performance basketball sneaker content We hadn't given you guys one in a while Let us know what you think in the comment section below what shoes are great for you Andrew you might need to do a narrow lighter list soon Maybe I will let me know in the comments if I should and until next time everybody we out. Peace


OK, we're now live. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed, right? So good morning everybody to members, officers and any members of the public who are viewing the live stream of this meeting. So this is the meeting of South Cambridge District Council's cabinet and my name is Councillor Bridget Smith and I'm the leader of South Cambridge District Council and I'm the leader of the community and we have all members of our cabinet present today, including Councillor John Batchelor who's just recently joined and is leading on housing for us. I want to introduce them all. They all have their names attached to their pictures so you can work out who they are and we have we have quite a number of senior officers with us as well. So I'll just go on to see who else is present. The Chamberlain present, please, who is the chair of our scrutiny and overview committee. Right, do we have a representative from scrutiny and overview, please? No, I'll take that. Chair, it's Councillor Richard Blunt. I'm a member of scrutiny and overview. I'm not here officially as a representative, but I'm a member of the committee. And indeed, councillor, leader, I'm here as well. Councillor Anna Bradnam as a member of scrutiny and overview, but not expecting to speak today. No, OK, that's fine. Well, thank you very, thank you very much to both of you for introducing yourself as well. Similarly leader, I'm here, councillor Claire Daunton. I'm a member of the scrutiny and overview committee. Thank you, thank you to speak to it. Thank you very much. Yes, we haven't got a report from them, which is probably why we haven't got the chair or the vice chair present at this meeting. So do we have any other members of the council present who'd like to introduce themselves? Apart from the ones who've already done so. Yes, please chair if I may please. Yeah, councillor Henry Batchelor just here to observe. Thank you. Thank you very much. I've just seen councillor Heather Williams's name pop up. Would you like to introduce yourself? Hi Heather Williams and I represent the morning board. Thank you very much indeed. So I'm just going to get up the name so I can actually ask people. But somebody like next person, please. I see if I can get the names up. Nobody, nobody else. I think that's everybody. It's everyone. Jolly good. All right. Well, thank you very much indeed. OK, so I have one announcement I would like to make. Following a motion at a recent council meeting, I am just announcing that councillor Tumi Hawkins, who is currently our lead member for planning, will continue to do so, is going to take on the additional responsibility for equalities as part of her cabinet role. So thank you very much for agreeing to do that, councillor Hawkins. And we look forward to hearing from you regularly on the subject. So moving on to any apologies of absence. John, have we received any apologies, please? Good morning, Lisa. We've received no apologies of absence from cabinet members. But we have received apologies of absence from councillor Judith Rippeth, the vice chair of the scrutiny and overview committee. Thank you very much indeed. So moving on to declarations of interest. So do any members have interest to declare a relation to any item of business on this agenda? If an interest subsequently becomes apparent later on the meeting, just raise it at that point, please. Good morning, leaders. This is councillor MacDonald. So I declare an interest as a member of the board of the investment partnership. And accordingly, so I'll leave the meeting when we come to item nine. Thank you very much. And if we could have that noted in the minutes, please. Any other declarations of interest? Nope. OK. So moving on to minutes of the previous meeting, which start at page one. And I'll just go through them quickly page by page. If that cuts on to me Hawkins. Sorry, did you have a declaration of an interest or a matter for the minutes? I'm sorry, chair, not a declaration. But I think there was a belated apology from councillor Chamberlain that councillor Williams, Heather, wanted to tell you about. Thank you very much. councillor Williams. Thank you, leader. I just put on the chat that councillor Grenfell Chamberlain and asked me to pass his apologies on. He's not able to attend today. That's fine. It's not it wasn't. It's not like him not to submit apologies. So I'm not sorry. We missed those. He's unexpected. That's fine. He's a stickler for these things. OK, do it right. I've got the chat up now. So yes, if people would indicate if the cabinet members can wave at me, but to anyone else can put it in the chat that they wish to speak please. So any anything in relation to page one? Page two. Page three. Page four. Page five. Page six. Page seven. Page eight. Page nine. And page 10. OK, that's fine. Thank you very much indeed. So do you members approve the minutes? Agree. Agreed. Thank you. Anyone wish to vote against the proposal to approve the minutes? Anybody wish to abstain? Yes, I wish to abstain as I wasn't present. Thank you very much, Councillor Batchelor. That will be noted. So cabinet therefore agrees the approval of the minutes as a correct record by affirmation. And moving on to item five. Do we have, I believe we've received no public questions ahead of this meeting? OK, good. So item six, which I shall introduce. So this relates to the Oxcam arc, which has now produced a set of arc environment principles, which are setting high standards for the environment for everything that goes on within the arc. And I've been fortunate enough to chair an arc environment working group, which is consisted of considerable numbers of experts both from government, government officers such as DEFRA, Natural England, the Environment Agency, and a lot of NGOs, including the RSPB, who've played a very, very significant role in this. But also the universities, the nine universities who are represented across the arc, and also the LEPS and Anglia Walker and so on. So a set of principles have been put together and have been published, and they've now been accepted by the arc plenary, which is the body which represents all the local authorities and the LEPS across the arc, and which there is representation on from all the council leaders, apart from those for Buckinghamshire. So they have accepted these. They have accepted that they are highly ambitious. They set really high targets, and they're not going to be easy. But if the arc is to be truly a green arc, which is what the leadership wants it to be and which government is supporting, and these environment principles have landed very well with government, we're led to believe, which is very encouraging, they need to be ambitious. There's no point in doing things by half measures, really. So the next stage for these principles is for them to go to all the authorities throughout the arc and for them to be accepted by each of those authorities. They are now being worked up by the arc itself into an environment strategy, which again, will come back to us and hopefully will then fit in very comfortably with all our own policies and our own local plans, and they will include things like doubling nature, which is an ambition that we already have. But there's also going to be a big focus on water, very much in reference to the challenges we have here of water shortages this end, but actually it's challenges of water management in terms of flooding elsewhere in the arc. But particularly if the arc is going to result in lots more house building, there has to be better use of water, but there has to be better management of the wet natural environment as well so that we don't see tragedies such as talk streams running dry. And these aren't problems as we know that we can sort out on our small local level, they can only be sorted out on a regional level. So the fact that we are part of this larger spatial plan gives us opportunities to do some quite radical things to improve our own environment, but to make sure that all development, including things like East West Rail that happens in the arc are built to the highest environmental standards. So we are asked to, let me just get this right. We're asked to endorse the shared environment principles which appear in your paper at annex one and to be support the development of an arc environment strategy which will provide for how the principles can be delivered. So I'm proposing this and I believe Councillor Aiden van der Waier is going to second it. And Councillor Van der Waier, do you want to speak to this item, please? I'll say a word of honour just very briefly. This is a really excellent document and the contents is great in the way you set out them. I think the real significance of it is the impact it's going to have. It has come out of the arc. So it's come from all the councils and the leaders involved in the arc and that gives it a lot of weight with government. Who's obviously leading on the policy on the arc in particular the spatial framework. But also we'll give it a lot of weight with local authorities when considering planning policies in particular. So I think the approach and the way that it sits in the development of the arc I think is going to be extremely effective. So it's really exciting. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes, I'm very excited by this and I must thank our chief executive Liz Watts who has put considerable effort into this as well as the lead officer on the working group. And she's still a very steady but quite speedy ship actually. And so are there any questions for any cabinet members on this item? No, and any questions from any other members of the council? Righty ho, good. So that's, I'll take that as enthusiasm. People share my enthusiasm for this. So the recommendations have been moved. So do members agree with the proposal as previously stated? Agree. Thank you. Anyone wish to vote against the proposal? And anyone wish to abstain? Thank you very much. So cabinet therefore agrees the proposals by affirmation. Right, so moving on to item seven. So we've got now come to the point on our agenda where we need to consider whether to exclude the press and public from the meeting. And this is because the next items contain information which is commercially sensitive. Members of the public are advised that if cabinet agrees to exclude the press and public, the video stream will end. I therefore propose that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with section 100A brackets four of the local government act 1972 on the grounds that, if present, there would be a disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in paragraph three of part one of schedule 12A of the act brackets as amended. Is that seconded? Hansela van der Waier, do you want, I think you're seconding this, aren't you? Absolutely, yes indeed. Thank you very much. Do members agree with the proposal? Agree. Agree. Thank you. Anyone wish to vote against? And anyone wish to abstain? Okay, so cabinet therefore agrees the proposal by affirmation. Members of the public who are watching, this means that the video stream will now end. We thank you for joining us to view today's cabinet meeting, albeit a very short one. And I note that the next meeting of cabinet is scheduled to take place on Monday, the 24th of May, 2021 at 10 a.m. and we look forward to seeing you then. So Liam, could you please confirm when the live stream has stopped?