We have a new Freedom Partner Spotlight today, Rally Rally 82. He focuses on Call of Duty and Fortnite competitive gameplay, and he's promoting Freedom. In his channels tab, you see that shiny F over there? Thank you, and this is our way of returning the favor. If you also want to get promoted on The George Show, just email support at freedom.tm. I'm going to run a promo video that Rally Rally 82 asked us to play, but first I have a task for you, Rally Rally 82. I want you to go to heartbeatmoments.com and click this add to Chrome button. The link is down there in the description below, and all of you as well watching this video do the same. Then I want you to go to your favorite videos, like this one, and press the H key to create your favorite moments. So we can see what you think are your best kills or your most exciting gameplay moments in your Fortnite or Call of Duty competitive gameplay. Let's say this was an exciting moment right now. I'm just going to press the H key. Because heartbeatmoments is installed, it just created a moment. That means I can now jump to that moment at any time in the future. Let's create a few more before we show you that jumping behavior. Let's say right here was an exciting moment, and we'll do one more right here was an exciting moment. Now these may not be exciting moments, but you get the idea. When you come across an exciting moment on any YouTube video, press the H key, and they will all get stored here. Now you can tweak the moments. Let's say this isn't perfectly right. Let's skip ahead a second, second, second, second to get there is the exciting moment. Great. Let's do all this Fortnite one or Fortnite kill one and then click save. Now everyone can see your exciting moments on heartbeat.love, all the things you love. This is www.heartbeat.love. Now really, really to when you collect the moments that you love, they will appear here under your My Heartbeat page. See these are the three I created, including the one I edited with Fortnite kill one. Now you can edit the moments here as well on heartbeat.love just as you can with the Chrome extension. See, I can click edit and I can nudge the moment forward, back, close that until I get to the exact moment. Then I can save it. I can also add an end time if you want to put a start and a stop point. The benefit of a stop point here, end time, is that when you're playing moments, they'll only play from that moment, that's timestamp to the end of timestamp and then skip to the next moment automatically. If you don't add an end time, then you have to manually click to each moment. It doesn't obviously doesn't know when to stop, but it's optional. And then you can share your moments with friends and family just by clicking copy link or share on Facebook and Twitter or share your My Heartbeat link with everyone. And the link, I'll show it to you in another window here, is right here. So this is My Heartbeat link. You can see in my URL, it looks like this, heartbeat.love slash heartbeat slash and then a unique ID. In the future, we're going to support handles like just at George Venous, just like you can use handles on YouTube. But for now, you have a direct link with an ID like a channel ID.  And then if you click follow, the follow button comes here. I'll show you an example. If I go look for stunt chicken, which is the guy that made 353 moments, you see that follow button, I click it and now I'm following stunt chicken, just like subscribe button on YouTube.  And then if you go to heartbeats, it'll show all the moments of all the people you follow. So you'll never miss an exciting moment from the people who you have a shared interest with. So we connect strangers based on common interest. All right, Rally Rally 82, that's your task.  Roll it! Again, Call of Duty and Fortnite competitive gameplay. I think that's enough. You can see the video by clicking that I up there, or you can click the link down there in the description below to see the whole thing. So thank you Rally Rally 82 for being a loyal freedom partner. Now guys, some of you have been asking about partnerships. Freedom Talent is our talent management agency. That is what Rally Rally 82 is partnered with. As Freedom Talent, we help you grow faster on YouTube. You can check out our website at freedom.tm. TM is for team. You see, we help you grow faster. It's right there in writing. Now heartbeat is something new. We are building heartbeat as a platform to help you grow faster, but not just freedom partners. This is for all creators.  We are building heartbeat because we wanted creators to be able to make money from their first piece of content that they upload and get paid a penny when they earn a penny which is what YouTube once was. It is no more that. So we are bringing the YouTube that once was back. We're not building a new YouTube guys. You can't upload videos to heartbeat. You upload videos to your YouTube channel. Then you use tools like heartbeat moments and heartbeat photos to create multi-format content on heartbeat that pays you a penny when you earn a penny and helps your YouTube channel grow because the videos here are embedded. These could be your videos on your channel playing on heartbeat that gets you more traffic from people visiting heartbeat that are interested in your content. So focus on your heartbeat channel. It will help your YouTube channel grow faster. You will make money on heartbeat and you'll make money on YouTube once you reach YouTube's requirements for making money. And it's like peanut butter and jelly to great tastes that taste great together, heartbeat and YouTube. Now in the future we will also support Facebook and Instagram and Twitch and all the other video platforms out there including Twitter or X.com not sure what to call it these days X. And then we'll have a truly multi-platform multi-format product for all creators. It'll be a creator's wet dream because you'll also be able to do writing. You will be able to write Wikis, video Wikis, an invention that we created not Wikis which are just mostly text and photos but Wikis. And you can see our prototype at bi.ki. World's first Viki by George right here. And right now you cannot edit this but we're gonna combine all the editing power of Wikis and the community features that Wikis are famous for where everyone can contribute to everyone's articles to improve it as a team. Teamwork makes the dream work right? We will incorporate all that into heartbeat.love. So what do you have to do? You have to go to heartbeatmoments.com to get the Chrome extension right here. Then you have to use it, press H while watching any video to create your library of favorite moments. Then you'll be able to share those moments with everyone on heartbeat.love, all the things you love. If you have photos, go to heartbeat.photos and you can upload by dragging and dropping all the photos from your computer or your cell phone to your heartbeat photo library. This is a better way to view your photos. It's like Google Photos or iCloud but no clicking. Look, I just hover. Hover. You see your photos. It's so much easier to share and browse photos when there's no clicking. All you do is you sign in with your Google account. It's free. Heartbeat is free. It'll always be free. You are only going to be charged in the future if you buy virtual gifts. Let's say there's a little flower we have in the heartbeat store that you want to send to a friend on heartbeat. Okay, we'll charge you some money for that. We will never charge you for just using heartbeat. That will be a free service. In the future, if you upload like a thousand photos, we might need to charge you for storage but that's just because we're going to have to pay for storage ourselves so we'll pass it on to you. As much as we can, we're going to offer these heartbeat services for free for everyone and we'll only monetize on digital goods and advertising. When someone clicks an ad on heartbeat, let's say we have an article talking about Valheim, the game Survival MMO and someone clicks an ad, then we pay the writer his share. We pay everyone who contributed to that article their share, not just the writer but if the writer used someone's photos, we'll pay him. And if the writer used some moments from you in his article, we'll pay you, the guy who created the moments. Every contributor gets paid, not just the person who wrote the article. That's not what YouTube does, guys. A little itchy here, sorry, scratching my back. YouTube only pays the channel owner and the channel owner then has to pay everyone and of course he doesn't even know some of the people whose content he used like musicians or artists so he doesn't even have a way to pay those people. He will because when a writer uses someone else's work in his article, he doesn't get any less money. He makes exactly the same amount of money as if he didn't use other people's work. So how do those people get paid? We pay them from our cut, from the freedom cut, from the heartbeat cut. That's how we will incentivize everybody to use everybody's work for free but we'll still pay everybody whose work is used from our share. It's a very similar model as we used when we were building the YouTube business as freedom the MCN because we also paid, let's say, recruiters from our cut. So if someone brought a YouTube channel to freedom, then we would pay from freedom's cut, not the YouTube's cut, a percentage of the revenue for one year for the person who brought the channel to us as our way of saying thank you for spreading the love. It's the exact same business model for heartbeat which is we pay everyone fairly and writers will always get paid 100% of what they are owed regardless of whose content they use and we pay everyone whose content was used from our cut. How does that sound guys? We're still building heartbeat studio. That's coming next to heartbeat.love, look for it soon. Then we're going to add the wiki and community editing features to heartbeat.love and then we're going to put photos, writing and moments into a single platform under a single domain that you will then be able to type just h.ki. H key. No, seriously, the world's shortest domain name, h.ki, enter. We'll take you to the unified heartbeat platform when it is ready. So again, combining photos, combining video clips, moments, binding, writing, articles, blogs, micro blogs, everything under a single platform that will be called heartbeat. We'll have a heartbeat studio where you can see all of your revenue and views and analytics just like on YouTube studio. We'll pay you a penny when you earn a penny. We'll pay all contributors fairly. We will have community wiki editing features just like on wikipedia and fandom and all the other wikis out there. We are building the creator's wet dream. It's going to be called heartbeat. Like it's already called heartbeat. But right now they're separate sites because it's very difficult to build a unified platform, combining all of these formats. It's never been done before. It doesn't exist in this world until we build it. You know the old saying, if something doesn't exist, build it yourself. That's the theory. That's what we're doing, basically, with heartbeat. I hope you are as excited as I am to be on this journey, to walk this road together with us because we are building heartbeat with you. Tell us what you like. Tell us what you don't like. Down there in the comments below are email support at freedom.tm. We are building this together as a community. A community of creators building a tool for the creator economy that doesn't exist in the world today. How's that for the spirit of freedom? Which is, we all help each other grow together as a family. Freedom family. The heartbeat family and all the things that will come with it. We're going to have music on heartbeat. We're going to have gaming on heartbeat. We're going to have vlogging, travel, all the things that you currently enjoy across many platforms, but we'll always be building the tools that help you grow on YouTube as well. And on Facebook and on TikTok and on Twitter and Instagram and all these other platforms, we're not trying to become the one, the ring, what is it? The one ring to rule them all. That's right, one of the rings. Well, no one will ever be the one ring to rule them all in this world. There's too many smart people building great products on other platforms. What we do is we integrate, we help all the platforms work together as one for you, the creator. Embed YouTube videos, Facebook videos, Twitch livestreams, Twitch videos. All of that will be done when we build the whole unified platform. For now, we have what we have, photos, moments, viki coming, studio coming with monetization and views and all the analytics. And yeah, just stay tuned to The George Show as we make more, we release more features, I'll be making more videos. And we also will be looking for more partners to feature, like Rally Rel 82. So email support.freedom.tm if you want to get featured. Put freedom in your channels tab. That's a nice way to help cross promote between ourselves. And let's grow together as a family, freedom family. Until the next episode, I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom. We don't have any heartbeat shirts yet, gotta get those. And we're gonna be building Freedom as a talent agency for creators together with heartbeat, which is a creator's wet dream, combining all the platforms and content types into one unified platform in the future. And we're gonna grow together. All right, I hope you're as excited as I am. I hope you got your exercise today. I went jogging yesterday in the Dubai heat. It's still pretty hot in Dubai, like 40 degrees Celsius. But I went jogging for three kilometers. It's actually 2.6 kilometers, one lap. I did it in 14 minutes and 10 seconds. 14 minutes and 10 seconds for 2.6 kilometers. It's about a 17-minute 3K run. If I were to continue running for 17 to 3K. What's your time for running? If not, you don't know, find out. Get a stopwatch. Run 3K. See how you do against me, a 48-year-old man who's admittedly a little out of shape. But I'm trying to solve the problem, working the problem. Are you? Not? Why not? Let me be your motivation. Actually, I just turned 48. Had my birthday a couple of days ago. So happy birthday, George. We got a lot of birthday wishes from many of you. Thank you so much for that on LinkedIn, Facebook, email, WhatsApp. It's funny. When it's your birthday, you suddenly become flooded with messages. Like, oh my god, 20 notifications. Oh yeah, that's right. Happy birthday notifications. Yeah, yeah, that's. You'll never forget your birthday because your friends will remind you. So it's really nice to see you. My daughter baked a cake. Abby made a chocolate fudge cake. She made it with love. It didn't taste very good. But she's not a baker, and she hasn't done it that often. So I'm sure she'll get better over time. But thank you, Abby, for the beautiful cake. Didn't really finish it, but the thought that counts. Right, guys? All right. Until the next episode, get your exercise. Go to heartbeatmoments.com. Try out heartbeat photos. And let's grow together as a family. I'm George. You've been watching. 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broke out the amounts to be per check rather than per journal entry in the general ledger so that we can match them out to the bank statement. That's gonna be one of the common type of problems that we do face within the bank reconciliation. We wanna make sure that we are inputting the same grouping into our books as the bank reconciliation, the bank statement so that it's easier for us to just tick and tie them out and see which amounts are tying out to the banks. If we don't do that, we can still reconcile but it's a little bit more difficult because then we have to combine amounts and find which ones match out and I'd rather just have it be checking, ticking and tying them for an example like this. What we're gonna do now is just tick and tie everything out. I start from going from the bank statement to our books meaning I'm gonna check everything off on the bank statement and see if it has cleared the books and then go the other way, go from the books back to the bank statement to double check everything. Before we start that, we're gonna have our two components of the bank reconciliation. One's gonna be the bank side and one's gonna be the book side and so we'll start with the beginning balances so in terms of the beginning balance it's gonna be the ending balance here but it's the beginning balance for our reconciliation. This is where we are at before we put any reconciling items in. So this is the balance in other words as a February 28th on the bank statement and that's gonna be 99296 and then we have the book balance. This is the book balance at the end of the month but the beginning of our bank reconciliation and that's gonna be 99116. So at the end of the day we're gonna get to this ending balance down here and hopefully they will then match and if we tick and tie everything out we think that they should have to match. Now just to note where we have started here just to get an idea of this. Remember that all of this blue stuff that's the stuff we checked off already that should match out to the beginning balance now that's all the cleared stuff that has happened thus far within the business. So if we highlight that this plus this plus this minus this minus this minus this plus this plus this minus this minus this I'm holding, I'm letting go I'm holding down control and clicking on the blue items. Blue item, blue item, blue item. And then just looking down here and let an Excel sum that up it sums it up to 109.415. The blue items that we checked off in other words are our cleared balance. Those are our beginning balance. So that matches our beginning balance that has already cleared. The blue items are here. Then we're gonna record our activity and check off all the activity that happened in the bank statement as of February in our books as of January and February depending on when we wrote the check. So we wrote some of these in January some of them in February which have been cleared in February here on the bank statement. Let's take a look at that we'll go through the deposits first and we're just gonna tick and tie this information out. We have the 956 on the deposit and the only thing we have other than the deposit really is the date and that date is not gonna match our date because we wrote the check date as of the point in time when we made the deposits and it takes a little bit of time for it to clear the bank. So note the date will always be closed but sometime after the deposit date in our books. And that's why it's important to get the deposits matched up correctly so that we can match this stuff out as easy as possible. I'm just gonna highlight these. I'm gonna make them green. Say we found that and we found that so we're good there. Here's the 12, 250. We're just gonna do the deposits first. That's gonna be something that we wrote in February. So we found that. I'm gonna highlight that here. We're gonna highlight that there and say we found that. Here's the 825. I see it on both sides. So we're gonna say here it is there and here it is there. So those are gonna be the deposits and yes, we have this other one but we're going from here to here now so I'm not gonna worry about this other deposit yet. What we're gonna do now is go through the checks and here's the check. We really have a little bit more detail. We still have the date but we also have the check number. Now our general ledger isn't showing the dates and the check numbers because it would get too long and messy if we had the problem with that there so we tried to shorten it out but we typically would have a little bit more information in terms of check number when marking the stuff off in a computer system and that can give us a little more help. Note the dates will be even further off however because we wrote the check and the date at the point in time when we wrote the check and it takes a lot longer for a check to clear the bank so the dates here are gonna be much later. So we'll go ahead and check these off. So here's the 11. We see it there. I'm just gonna make it green. There's the 11. There's the 500 and I know this is a tedious task but it is, this is how it's done and then there's the 500 and there's the 360. Here's gonna be the 360. There's the 3539. Here's the 3539. There's the 630. Here's the 630. So we've tied all those out and that's all information that we actually wrote in January and didn't clear the bank until February. Then we have the 1,359.  Then we have the 168. So we had to skip them. Notice they're not quite in the same order. That's okay. That could happen on the bank statement. That's fine. That's the one just because of when, it depends on how the bank statement's being ordered. If it's ordered by date, then that's likely to happen because it's likely that different people deposited their checks at different rates. So we're gonna say this is gonna be this item. Here it is here. We have the 123. There it is there. Here it is here. We've got the 380 or the 830 here. And here we've got the 648. That's gonna be here. And it's a skipped a few. So we didn't see a couple of those. That's okay. It's not in order. We're gonna just check them all off. And then we have the 3513 here and here. So now we've tied everything out that are the checks. Then we have these two items, the withdrawals and the bank service charges. Those are gonna be items we don't see over here. I don't see the withdrawals and we don't see the bank service charges. And so those are gonna be items that we're gonna have to adjust for. So I'm gonna make these yellow and say that I don't see these over here. I'm gonna have to do something about that and see what happens or see what we can do about it. And then we'll go from the other side. We found all these highlighted ones. Let's see, double check the ones that have not been highlighted. We have this deposit here. It's not over here. So I'm gonna make that yellow too and say we gotta do something about that. These two are here. I don't see them over here. So we're gonna make that yellow. These two are over here. I don't see them over here on the bank statement. We'll make that yellow. And this.


Hi, today's episode of We Are Only One is brought to you by MtGox, mtgox.com, and USGoCoins.com, 1-800-HOTCOIN, and Mese Grill, M-E-Z-E-G-R-I-L-L.com. Hi, everybody. Welcome to episode 6 of We Are Only One. I'm Jude Byrne, and today I am honored and delighted to have as my guest Reverend Diane Burke, the co-founder and spiritual director of One Spirit Interfaith Seminary and One Spirit Learning Alliance. Welcome. Thank you, Jude. I'm delighted to be here. Thank you for having me. Oh, it is our pleasure. I love One Spirit. That says so much right there. I know that you brought a video for our audience to see a little bit about One Spirit as a learning alliance with classes as well as an interface seminary. So we're going to show you a little bit right now to get a feel and then love you to take us through it. Okay? Sure. Thank you. The thrust of the seminary has always been very much on becoming the kind of human being who through our very presence invites and supports other people to grow and to open to being in the world in a more open-minded, open-hearted, inclusive way of being. One Spirit Learning Alliance grew out of a deep friendship I had with my oldest and dearest friend of 35 years, Diane Burke and the mix of her, the depth of her teaching about the great spiritual traditions and the practical learning I had about how to operate in the world. And neither of us had planned to do this. It just kind of emerged almost as a natural part of the conversation we've been holding since we met in college and spent 10 hours in dialogue. I think the heart of that work for me has really been expressed by something that Tolstoy said and that is grow spiritually and help other people to do that. It's the meaning of life. And I think it's that deep sense of purpose that has not only informed everything we do, but that's the common thread that draws people to that program and that experience. I began my role here as the coordinator of the admissions process and it has been a fascinating journey from holding the space just for the seminary, for the two classes of the seminary, to continue to watch the evolution of the people that show up at our door. The level of spiritual maturity, of understanding, of even educational background of the people that are showing up at One Spirit continues to remind us how we need to evolve the program and what has happened in order to keep evolving the program to match the level of the person that shows up at our door. And the program moves, the students move, the program moves, the student moves and it just continues. It's just an evolution. Hopefully we're going to be educating presidents very soon. We had some very interesting feedback on Saturday. We had a new presenter on Islam and one of the things he shared with me afterwards is what an interesting experience it was for him to be with our students because most of the time he teaches people who are very strongly rooted in a particular religious identity and affiliation. And our students, some of them still have a strong affiliation but many, their primary identification is no longer with a specific religious and cultural group but with the family of humanity and the family of creation itself. It's very moving to be a part of this community. I think that you're really getting a flavor for this that this is not a workplace alone. This is our spiritual home, our emotional home. We're not only working on One Spirit here but we're working on our own personal little One Spirits together. For us ministry is a very broad umbrella of which conventional understandings of what clergy do is only one small piece. The other thing that has always informed my own understanding is something ascribed to St. Francis. He said there's no use walking anywhere to preach or teach or serve or whatever. If you're walking isn't you're preaching. What's most powerful? That was great. Covered a lot there. Can you tell us some more about One Spirit and the different things people can expect there? We began One Spirit in August of 2002 and the idea of it really was born in the aftermath of 9-11 when my sense of the real urgency of this work that can be a force for peace, for understanding, for healing in the world really began to expand. I had been involved in training and ordaining interfaith ministers since 1988 and had been working on developing training programs and curricula for that purpose since then. In 2001 I discovered that the vision that I had was larger than the actual institutional container in which I was working and it became clear that the right thing to do was to begin a new organization. The name One Spirit Learning Alliance and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary came to me one morning in a meditation and a follow-up conversation with my friend Michael Pragola and through an amazing series of synchronicities in which the universe clearly seemed to be supporting this idea we were able to get the organization started in a very short period of time and open our doors in September of 2002. Our flagship program is the Interfaith Seminary training which trains and ordains interfaith and interspiritual ministers. Since we opened our doors we've ordained over 600 ministers who are not only from all over the United States but from all over the world as well. We have students and graduates in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South America. It's really become a global movement and in addition to the seminary we also offer courses in this kind of inclusive spirituality and inclusive approaches to personal and spiritual development that are open to the general public as well as some professional trainings specifically in interspiritual counseling and a new program that we started last year in integral mentoring and ministry. Wow, that sounds like quite a very ambitious and beneficial offering that the world needs so much right now. I think almost the use of one spirit to me is visionary at the time. I think in the 80s it was kind of different from now and the inclusiveness which is so important and at the core of spirituality. I also heard that you have learning, distant learning and online offerings for people who may be out of the country or could you speak to that a little bit? Is that would the seminary program be part of that? Yes it is. Our live classes are held in New York City and all of them are actually audio recorded live so that people anywhere in the country or anywhere in the world are then able to download the audio recordings from a secure student website and participate in the program that way as well as in online discussion forums and conference calls, study groups and those kinds of things. That's great. I'm sure some of our viewers will be checking out your website. Yes I would say actually about half of our student body each year take the course by distance learning or by online participation. I'm sure that's enhanced your offering to be able to do that. Can you combine being in person sometimes and online others if you're traveling or you come to town? Yes absolutely. We encourage our distance learning students to come to New York for classes whenever they're able to do that and we actually have had students fly into New York every month. The classes meet once a month on a weekend and we've had students fly into New York every month from places like Chicago, Seattle, California, London and other people come maybe once a year, two or three times a year and at the end of the year there is a residential intensive of final retreat that all of the students come to the New York area to participate in. I actually know some friends of mine from Miami who one of whom was a rabbi and one of whom was a Buddhist and so they both really enjoyed it as well as several friends of mine from California who've taken this. So I wonder if you could give us a little slice of a day in the life at the interfaith. What would that be like? Be studying teachings from all various disciplines? Yes in the first year of our training we consider the first year of the seminary really a kind of personal foundation for interfaith and interspiritual ministry. So the focus of the study in the first year is an introduction to the world's religious and spiritual traditions including eastern traditions, the Abrahamic western traditions, indigenous spirituality, Native American African based spirituality as well as some of the newer modern revelations that are continuing such as 12-step spirituality, new thought spirituality, a course in miracles and in addition to that also an exploration of some of the basic psychological principles that anyone who is going to be involved in spiritual service involved in supporting the spiritual lives of other people need to be familiar with. In addition to so actually so every month we have a presenter who comes in from a different religious or spiritual tradition rather than having an academic professor teaching about religions we bring in either clergy or lifelong practitioners of different paths and different traditions to share the richness of their spirituality from the viewpoint of someone who is actually living it. During the month the students will be reading about that particular religion or spiritual tradition in terms of its history, its beliefs, its observances and rituals and also delving into the sacred texts of that tradition and having a direct experience of the kinds of spiritual practices that we often associate with the various religions. What you find actually is as you begin to explore spiritual practices you find that almost every religion includes almost every type of practice yet sometimes in our minds we associate certain religions with certain kinds of practices. So for instance we may think of the practice of mantra which is the repetition of a sacred phrase or a sacred word with the eastern traditions with Hinduism or Buddhism even though again the repetition of a sacred phrase is found in pretty much every religious tradition. So the month that students are studying Hinduism they'll be invited to work with the spiritual practice of mantra the spiritual practice of repeating a name of God or a sacred word and they can do that within the context of their own spirituality so it doesn't need to be a Sanskrit word someone who is Jewish could work with a Hebrew mantra someone whose Christian could repeat the Jesus prayer you know whatever is meaningful to them individually but just to have a sense of what that type of practice brings into their own spiritual life in the same way when we study Islam we invite people to pray five times a day which is one of the central practices of Islam. Again they're not being asked to do the salat the traditional five times a day prayer of Muslims but just to see what effect it has on their spiritual life if they make a discipline of praying five times a day. So our exploration of these traditions is very experiential as well as academic and intellectual because we want people to have an opportunity to have a firsthand experience of the richness and the spiritual treasures that each of these traditions offers to the human family. It sounds like a spiritual trip around the world but in great depth and as you were speaking I just feel like you're putting on ancient wisdom and combining it with the tradition but also the thought of now and really feeling how that would be. I can't help but think that that would further understanding and communication among nations to do that. Yes I think that one of the things that happens as people study these different traditions is that they begin to glean the common threads that are found in really the common heritage of human wisdom that belongs to all of us. We're living in such an interesting time because it's really the first time that these ancient ancient teachings are widely available to whoever is really drawn to seek them. I read recently that one in five I think Americans but possibly beyond that as well now consider themselves spiritual but not religious and what they're looking for is not so much the sense of particular identity that comes with being aligned with a specific religious tradition but that direct experience of spirit that experience of connecting with the source of being that is really what gave rise to all of these traditions in the first place and people are looking for ways to tap back into that deeper river of experience where we really can feel our shared humanity as well as our shared true nature or divine nature as well. Yes I remember the book One Human Family was it the family of man the family of man yes in the 70s had pictures of and it was so soulful of people all over the world and how interconnected we all are and I think I would say in my experience more than one in five gravitate more towards spiritual than the religious I think people are finding more heart and soul in an eclectic approach of delving into spirituality as opposed to a tunnel vision and an absolutism of I have the truth and no one else does. Yes and again I think people are hungry for experience rather than dogma yes people are less interested now in being told what to believe than they are in finding ways of connecting deeply with their heart with their capacity to love with the compassion and caring for other human beings and for the earth itself and creation itself that naturally bubble up in us when we do tap back into that source the family of man was actually a book that was very alive in my own early adolescence and the impulse to that kind of inclusive sense of the family of humankind the family of creation the sense that there is a deeper unity underneath all of the religions and all of the religious teachings is something that really has been part of my life since I was a very very young child I remember as a little girl being taken to different houses of worship and to my amazement and surprise I felt at home in all of them but I thought that I wasn't supposed to feel that way I thought that I was supposed to feel at home in my own religion which my birth religion is Judaism and that I was supposed to feel respectful in the houses of worship of other religions but my experience was actually quite different my experience was that I somehow felt at home in all of the places where the divine was being honored and celebrated many many years later I came across a couple of poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi that really expressed that sentiment in a way that that I was so delighted to recognize my own experience and I'd love I'd love to share those with you love Rumi what is praised is one so the praise is one too many jugs being poured into one huge basin all religions all this singing one song the differences are just illusion and vanity sunlight looks slightly different on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other one but it is still one light what you are looking for has many names and one existence don't search for one of the names move beyond any attachment to names every war and every conflict between human beings has happened because of some disagreement about names it's such an unnecessary foolishness because just beyond the arguing there's a long table of companionship set and waiting for us to sit down how beautiful and I think that that is probably the best expression of the spirit and the intention behind everything we do at one spirit as anything that I could that I could say I was just I had the vision of a table set on the premises and going and partaking of spiritual nourishment as well as emotional exchange it sounds delightful I have not taken any classes but I have attended a special event which was lovely the fire of grace with Andrew Harvey and I said I don't know how to pronounce the data yes she was exquisite yes that was a lovely evening with Ruby and what you say you know I think I have worked with leaders in different thought systems and beliefs and I've spent a lot of time recently out west working with earth wisdom teachers of a pre Mayan tradition and I find their words very similar to yours as far as the importance of oneness the importance of not getting lost in the unnecessary foolishness and really coming to a deeper level of a heart centered connection that we are all one and we really need to drop the veil of separation right now for for the good of all and the good of the planet I agree completely and I also think it's important for all of us to recognize that while our deepest nature intuitively knows the truth of that our conditioning makes it so easy to fall into creating a sense of separation in so many different ways and that the inner work of being able to move beyond those barriers is is really the work of a lifetime you know I think we're in a time right now where particularly in the west where we have such a strong sense of individualism that learning how to function within community and as members of a community is really one of the most important skills we can develop and one that is not really taught as part of our basic systems of education one of the things that we do particularly within the seminary program but really in everything we try to do at one spirit is to use the process of creating spiritual community as kind of a crucible for people to be able to explore whatever it is that gets in the way of their being able to experience and express that knowing of oneness and that deeper love and compassion that is so fundamentally part of who we are so we look at you know I often think that the people who come to one spirit come because they have a very deep longing in their lives to live in this world as a presence of love as a presence of healing and peace to have a beneficial impact on the lives of people around them and what tends to happen when someone feels that longing and says yes to it is that we're asked to look at everything inside of us that really gets in the way of our being able to do that so all of the places that we tend to shut down the places that our heart contracts rather than opens the places where we find ourselves caught in judgment and I'm right and you're wrong and all of those kinds of things are very much a part of the inner work of preparation for becoming an interfaith inter spiritual minister so each month as we look at different religious and spiritual traditions people are asked to look at where am I uncomfortable with this where does this trigger judgments in me where is it hard for me to really open myself to experience the wisdom and the beauty that's contained in these teachings and to just very gently be willing to look at that and see if we can set it aside in the same way our interactions with each other in community I sometimes in the first class say to students there will be many times over the next two years that you will find yourself wondering what am I doing here there will also be times that you will look around at your classmates and find yourself wondering what are they doing here and those places where we kind of rub up against each other where despite our aspiration to be loving to be compassionate to be open-hearted we find ourselves feeling irritated and challenged and judgmental and all of those kinds of things really become such a crucial place for us to be able to do the inner work that lets us become more transparent to to the flow of spirit through us it sounds like a great opportunity for personal growth and then communal growth yes which very now you mentioned a phrase interspiritual could you comment on that a little bit yeah should we watch the next part of the video well that'd be great we will be waiting for it to come but recently mentioned interfaith moving to interspiritual this ministry is a very broad umbrella of which conventional understandings of what clergy do is only one small piece the other thing that has always informed my own understanding is something ascribed to st francis he said there's no use walking anywhere to preach or teach or serve or whatever if you're walking isn't your preaching what's most powerful about diane's teaching is the degree to which it's heart-based but yet built on a solid foundation too often in our society we have separated our thinking our feeling and our doing and you know i believe that the great traditions all agree that the longest journey is the journey of allowing the mind to sink into the heart and only when those two become integrated can we really act with skillfulness in all aspects of life on this planet there are really two levels of understanding of what's needed in our world today one is certainly the the more traditional understanding of interfaith which has been that people with strong affiliation and identification with different traditions find a way to come together and move hopefully beyond simply being civil to each other but but trying to actually engage in conversation where they can understand each other's point of view and worldview a little more openly I think that we are really on the cutting edge of something that has emerged on the foundation that that kind of interfaith work has made possible and it's something that Wayne Teasdale was writing about and he coined the term interspiritual which I think is a more accurate description of the approach that we take which is that again our identification is less firmly anchored in one specific tradition and more in the the deeper mystical river of experience and revelation that all of the traditions grew out of and from there we look at what are the the treasures as Michael was saying the the core teachings but even beyond the teachings the richness of practices for tapping into that unifying ground of experience that allows us to really come together and meet in in the heart that's lovely and an idea whose time has come yes yes I think that part of the impetus for our starting one spirit is that emergence that I was speaking of there of the movement from more traditional expressions of interfaith which were really grew out of a kind of dialogue in which people of different religious backgrounds wanted to come together to understand each other's beliefs observances ways of understanding the world and those efforts clearly are still incredibly important and necessary in our world today but a beginning desire that people engaged in that work began to feel to be able to join together at a deeper level of encounter and a deeper level of actual spiritual experience every one of the religious traditions grew out of the revelation either of the particular founder of that religion or a group of sages who had that experience of directly tapping into that oneness into that unity of being that really is the source from which all of creation arises and each one of them developed methods if you will practices to try to help other people have that same deep experience as people began to get to know each other better some of these interfaith leaders they began to recognize that at the deepest levels of their respective spiritual practices the reality that they were encountering was really one and the same and that they could begin to learn from each other's practices in ways that could enhance their own understanding and their own ability to tap into those those deeper states that sharing of practices across traditions that sharing of experience is what Wayne Teasdale in in his amazing book The Mystic Heart uh referred to as inter spirituality or inter mysticism and what he says in that book is that mysticism itself is in a sense the universal religion of humankind and that inter mysticism or inter spirituality will be the spirituality of the third millennium mm-hmm so i think that the the sense in me and in michael and the others who joined with us to start one spirit really reflected the desire to move from an emphasis primarily on interfaith to a stronger primary emphasis on inter spirituality and again i think in the experience of many many people now particularly people who consider themselves spiritual but not religious that sense of finding value from exploring deeply a variety of practices from across traditions has really opened up their own spiritual lives i i feel like i've been an inter spiritual inter mystic for a long time and not aware of it and i'm really resonating with this concept and energy and consciousness and i think many people who have been seekers mm-hmm will totally identify with this and and benefit from it and and with the world the communications with the internet and all the exchanges and dialogues to me it just seems so rich and such an important concept as we when we need that unity consciousness that we are one and and that consciousness only one tv is that's what it means that we are all one yes and we are only one is the name of the show yes and i'm thank you for enriching that concept for me that inter spirit and inter mystic too because to me it was always so presumptuous that one group would have the answers to the 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so thank you all inter spirit and the third millennium what do you see and feel about that i think that we're really as many people have have been feeling and have said that we are on the cusp of a new evolutionary expression and movement of consciousness that will take that experience of oneness or unity and bring it to a level of expression in our day to day lives that we can barely even imagine at this moment in time i love the metaphor of the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly that from the standpoint of a caterpillar there's no way to imagine life as a butterfly in fact a dear friend of mine showed me a cartoon a few years ago that i love that was two caterpillars walking along the ground in a butterfly passes overhead and one of the caterpillars turns to the other and says you're never going to get me up in one of those things and i think that that there are parts of us that resist the the call to growth that is really happening on the earth right now but one of the things that i love in the scientific description of that process of metamorphosis is that at a certain point in the life cycle of the caterpillar cells begin to emerge in the caterpillar that are called imaginal cells and these cells contain the blueprint the dna blueprint of the butterfly rather than of the caterpillar the immune system of the caterpillar reacts to them as if they're foreign uh invading cells and attacks and destroys them but they continue to be uh generated and then they begin to cluster together and as they cluster together they grow in strength so that the caterpillars immune system can no longer overpower and destroy them and in fact the immune system the defenses of the caterpillar break down and the process of transformation of caterpillar into butterfly is set in motion i think we are very much at that time in in our history right now that uh that there is a sense of a new humanity a sense of a new consciousness that is wanting to be born on the earth it has been prophesied in many of the religious traditions and as people wake up to the the kind of sense within themselves of wanting to grow into something more wanting to grow into the fullness of their their being and to understand what it really means to be a full human being they are gravitating and finding other people who share that same impulse and those same feelings and are beginning to come together so that we are i believe individually but also coming together in collectives to help midwife this new birth i think that uh people who are drawn to the kind of ministry that we train people for are people who feel very much a desire to be midwives to that spiritual unfolding on the planet and and in the lives of of the people around them and i think it's important to understand that ministry is really a very very broad expression it is not at all limited to what we think of as a traditional clergy person standing in a pulpit and preaching on sunday mornings or friday nights or thursday nights or whenever the the religious gathering is that that ministry really is about spiritual service and being as i said a midwife to this new consciousness that's wanting to be born so for for example what you're doing with this show is an expression of authentic ministry because you're helping other people to wake up and to pay attention to what's stirring inside of them i also think that another part of what's happening right now at this moment in history is is the necessary integration of our spirituality into our daily lives that spiritual awakening can no longer be something that only happens in monasteries or on mountaintops that it really needs to be brought right into the midst of our lives in this world and into engagement on behalf of justice on behalf of compassion that can really address the enormity of suffering that exists in our world today so i think it's a time that we are also being asked to find ways of marrying our spiritual lives with our engagement in the world as agents of change and transformation not only in the inner realms but in the very institutions and social structures that exist in our world as well i couldn't agree more and you said so many things that touched so many bing bing bing want to thank you for your comment about the show that is the intention of bruce wagner and ed gel and myself and anyone connected to only one tv and i'm sure the intention of one spirit as well is is providing practical tools as well as spiritual insights and teachings having guests like you and bringing the sense of community together in whatever medium that is if it's online if it's in person if it's at a community event education like the learning alliance provides but realizing that we are one and we you know we need each other to we're here to help each other we're here to love and not just follow our own path if you will in the inner direction which of course is key to realizing that we are all interconnected but also as you were speaking about taking it to the community and having the tools and the realization and helping sharing the light with others who may for their because of their worldly situation may may not see the light as easily at this particular moment in time and i've heard the phrase sacred activism used and in particular by andrew harvey who i know is a colleague and a dear friend of yours yes i wonder if you could i'm sure that one spirit um does a lot of community outreach and sacred service and sacred activism i wonder if you'd comment a little bit on that there are a variety of expressions that one spirit as an organization but also that our our graduates are engaged in one of the projects we were involved in last year was working with an organization in new york city that deals particularly with the elderly homeless to provide them with clothing uh there's very few organizations that deal with that specific population and that's one of the uh projects that one spirit as a community has supported our graduates have been involved in working in many parts of the world we have one graduate who has been doing a lot of work in Haiti particularly with the young girls who are part of a system i believe called the rest of it system where uh young girls are basically sold into almost like indentured servitude with a promise that the families they'll work they'll be working for will educate them but often that does not actually happen and this one graduate of ours has started an organization to work with girls in that situation in Haiti another one of our graduates uh is part of an organization that works in a hospital in Uganda teaching the hospital specializes in the treatment of tb and uh this woman teaches self-care to the hospital staff we've had other graduates who've been part of groups that have gone to the Congo to work with the women who have been uh the victims of of the really systematic rape that has been used as a as a terror tactic there so there are many different expressions that that people have but i think that the uh the understanding is that spirituality is incomplete unless it expresses itself in loving service and tangible expressions of compassion in the world so our our students are expected to be engaged in some form of community service throughout their their two years of study and uh many of the the courses that we've taught over the years in our public offerings have also been centered on uh what you're what you described as sacred activism Andrew Harvey's work and i'm i'm very blessed to be a part of the core faculty of Andrew's Institute for Sacred Activism which is in located in Oak Park Illinois wonderful he's going to grace us with his presence in December wonderful we're closing in and i wanted to mention i'm not sure of the date but i know there's an open house coming up if you could tell people yes the open house is on wednesday august 17th the program begins at 6 30 there is information on our website which is www onespiritinterfaith.org people can pre-register for the open house that's helpful for us in knowing how many people to plan for uh our next series of classes begins in september so i would really encourage anyone who feels moved by what we've been talking about today and feels a sense of longing to be of service in this world even if they don't know how that what form that service is going to take to visit our website and to consider this particular training it is profoundly transformative and life-changing for everyone who goes through the training program i'm sure it is i'm feeling drawn to it myself do we have another clip of um we'd like to show people can you tell us what this clip is i think this is uh just the uh it's the closing of the video clip that we've been looking at and it has some final scenes from our commencement ceremony which is our public celebration of our newly ordained ministers and typically it's held at the glorious riverside church here in new york city wonderful thank you i feel we have graduated in the spirit it has been such an honor and a blessing to have you here as our guest i hope you will come back again i would love to would you like to close us out with some blessing some words of love for all those listening my deepest prayer for the whole of the human family and through us for the whole of this magnificent and beautiful and bountiful creation in our lifetime may the love of power be replaced by the power to love thank you that was so beautiful thank you and i i was thinking of something which is actually very similar to that it's a poem i read this morning by hafez and it says um the sun never asks and it's the sun talking to the earth and it says the sun never asks the earth to say thank you or you owe me with a love like that it can light up the whole world i sort of paraphrased it but it's very close in embracing through love that we are one yes so we send our love to everyone have a beautiful day many blessings namaste


I just want to say how excited I am to be here. This is a third year in a row that we've had this wonderful facility open to the public. Last year there were over 150,000 people who came and had a had a great time down here. Families came, young, medium and older people came to skate and enjoy activities. We're going to have some great activities here again this year. There will be concerts, lots of family fun activities, and of course there will be skating on this beautiful rink. And we're really happy to be part of this, the opening of the Robson Square ice rink. We feel that it's a very important community outreach event, very positive, and it builds on a great Canadian tradition of outdoor skating. And I know many of you had the opportunity to be here during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and it was the site of many, many great performances and a lot of activity. I was so thrilled that we were able to open it again last year and again this year. Last year we had a school program here where students could come, their schools could make arrangements to come, and we had over 4,000 students come and enjoy skating with their class. And it is great. I was a family doctor before I became a politician and it's certainly great to see physical activity that's so important for all of us incorporated into a really fun activity that families can do together. We're in the heart of downtown Vancouver. This square is a place where people come to celebrate and just generally have a good time.


I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com. I'm joined by my co-host. Hi everybody, I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org, and SAP is an area that we focused on. Since we started theCUBE, really it was our second ever CUBE event, was SAP Sapphire. We've been watching the innovations and the transformation of SAP. Michael Leeper is here. He's the director of global technical infrastructure at Columbia. He's the director of the SAP Saffire. He's the director of the SAP Saffire. He's the director of the SAP Saffire. Infrastructure at Columbia Sportswear, a great apparel company. Michael, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. It's fun to be here. It's, you know, EMC World's a great time just to explore the technology and really connect with peers that are doing some really cool things in this industry. Yeah, a lot of innovation here, a lot of new messaging that we're hearing from the Federation, if you will. So, you know, early on EMC and VMware specifically talked about virtualizing any application. I think Paul Moritz, at one point, used the term software mainframe and then the marketing guy's got to hold that so he can't say that anymore. But he said, our intent is to be able to virtualize any application, any workload. SAP is obviously one that you'd point at and go, that's probably not where you'd start. No, I'd be certain. If you guys have successfully virtualized SAP, talk about that a little bit. Absolutely, so yes, to start with, we are 100% live on SAP, 100% virtualized, really on top of VMware technology and ultimately a pair of VBlock 700s where we run our SAP platform. But our story starts really almost three years ago now. When we set out as an IT organization and try to figure out how we could make ourselves better, how we could provide a better service to the company and really provide a platform that we could scale and meet the needs of the business today and going forward. And so we set out on a process to really start virtualizing our world. We went in about an eight month period from 25% virtual to 90% virtual. And we completely worked that process to really totally modernize our platform. Get it on top of Cisco Compute, on top of EMC Storage and VMware Hypervisors and got to our point that the app was virtual. There was no debate, was it physical or not? It was gonna be a virtual app. And when we got done with that is when my CEO gave me a call one December afternoon and said, hey, by the way, I just bought SAP. Said, it's time for us to move off our legacy ERP system that ran on IBM Power. He said, look, this is going to be our crown jewels for the company going forward. How do we properly build and support a platform that really takes us as a company forward? On SAP it provides a world-class infrastructure to move forward. And I sat down with my teams and we spent a couple of days really debating what was the right way to do this? Was it IBM Big Iron? Was it x86? Was it physical? Was it virtual? And we came to the same conclusion. We needed to run this virtual. That's what we were good at. That's where we were trained and skilled on. We believed there was not a risk here. It was a greenfield implementation. We knew how to run enterprise-class workloads on VMware. We were going to set out and do that. So early conversations with our friends at EMC, with our friends at VMware, and ultimately our friends at SAP, said, hey, can we do this? Is this really how we get full in, all in support? And all three of those guys came to the table with, they had our back. They said, absolutely. The way of the future is to virtualize SAP. You guys know what you're doing. We will help you through that process. And in less than three or four months, we had built out a full production class workload on SAP, on VMware, and really we've never looked back. Michael, we had a chance to start to cube here four years ago at EMC World 2010. And then what was interesting was, Dave and I were instantly tapped to fly to Sapphire. And we'll be there next week as well. And you'll be there. And we've interviewed you guys in the past. But let's just kind of look at what EMC's doing here today. And we kind of got a feel for what's happening with SAP. And SAP's had amazing messaging. So EMC and SAP, for the past four years, I can attest, personally, I've been on the ground on all events, has been right on a trajectory to where they're doing today. So not a lot of, not a lot of diseconomies of scale. They've said all the right things. But go back four years ago. There was really, really hard problem to virtualize SAP. And to make that happen, had a lot of business benefits. Can you just take us through just the past four years? Because a lot's changed. And talk about some of the specific things you had to overcome and the advancements that you are now gaining from that. Absolutely. So really, in any virtualized landscape and that maturity that you have to build up as a company to really get yourself virtual, you have to work through a lot of things. The early days is we started virtualizing just kind of core SQL databases. Not tier one stuff, but that kind of tier two, tier three work. We had to start working into that. We believe from an infrastructure perspective that we knew we could support that, we could provide the performance we needed. But you know what, my DBA teams, my app teams, they weren't quite sure about it. We had to prove to them that this technology was the right way to do it and how we could provide them features and capabilities that they could not get on a physical-based platform. So we had to really work through some situations there, earn some trust with the business, earn some trust with our vendors to really provide a platform that was unquestionably the best one we could put to the business. And as we started working through some of those things, you start finding more and more advantages to the platform. You start getting more and more wins. So to your point earlier, you're not going to start your virtualized journey by virtualizing SAP, but it's definitely where you need to go because you're not going to really see these benefits of this ultimately flexible, highly scalable architecture until you start really virtualizing those tier one applications, those big boy applications that you run your business on and you're classically spending time and resource on things that really are no longer providing value to the company. So we get to sit down now and look at our platform and say, look, we're not spending time racking and stacking physical servers. We're not spending time trying to figure out how to ratchet performance up because we hit a performance issue. We have two or three dials we turn and we can add capacity and add performance instantaneously back to our business without having to spend time rearchitecting our environment. So your application heads, you said they weren't sure. You're probably understating that. There's probably a little bit more friction. And so talk about how you got through that. Was it top down? Was it your CEO? Was it Erika Joling? Well, so I'm not a small man. So there might have been situations where I stood up and looked down at them and said, we're going to do this and that's worked with my mother. It's worked with my kids. It kind of worked with my peers a little bit. But at the end of the day, we had to come to an honest conversation about how we could make these things work for them. And so we started to do things like have a conversation around how much capacity and how much performance were they using in a physical world today. So take a mid tiered SQL database architecture. They were running four procs, maybe 128 gigs of RAM in a physical world. For us to virtualize them, we guaranteed them that same configuration. We knew really going into it. We were going to over provision the heck out of it. But the way I made them feel comfortable was telling them, look, I will give you everything you need. And so we over provisioned early on, a lot of capacity into our platform.  I was okay with that because I knew what the end game was. I couldn't force them into that position to start with, but I needed to get them to start taking some steps along the way. So we started over provisioning things. Knowing in the background that once we got things virtualized, I had way more tools and way more data in my fingertips to look back at them and say over the last year, your app has never consumed more than X. I'm going to take back, not all of it, a good chunk of it that you've never touched. And not just this quarter, not just this week, but this year in some of these scenarios, we can start pairing back some of that overallocation and truly start leveraging our investments in technology into other parts of the business.  There's some back room deals that you had to pull with, with my DBA teams or my development teams, they trust me on this one. We're going to make it better for you. Trust me that if something does go bump, we got your back and we will fix this for you. And then ultimately give them what they were asking for. So eliminate the concern, is VMware going to hurt me? Guess what? I will give you 10% more than you're using today. And just sit back and let's watch it. And that gave you great operating leverage as you were able to free up that asset. Absolutely. And you start getting wins, right? You start building credibility. I get a win here. I get a win here. I get this team liking it. I get this team seeing the advantages. We get this team, this team able to do things they never could do before. And all of a sudden the whole company's moving in that direction. So I'm interested in the migration. If I understand it was a migration from Unix. So my SAP deployment was a green field deployment. We were coming off of a legacy JD-Edwards system that we've been running as a company for about 15 years. We put JD-Edwards in when we were still a private company, about 200 million in sales and had grown to almost a $2 billion global company. That ERP system, not a knock on JD-Edwards, it just was time to be replaced. And when we sat down and tried to figure out what our new platform was going to be, SAP and specifically the Imperial Footwear Solution for SAP ECC was the way of the future for us. So we didn't have to worry about some of the legacy data or legacy configurations moving forward. We got the advantage of building green field. But what I didn't have was any sort of requirements, right? And we've talked a lot at times around SAP and SAP project requirements. My project teams, and I'm now almost three years into this thing, I still don't have performance requirements for what I need my systems to run. We went through some basic quick-sizer tools, did some overall engineering with SAP, but we didn't know what we needed. We really needed to get into this environment with a platform that we could start with and then grow with the company so that we never held the company back. So did you get some kind of solution from EMC or a solution architecture? What did they do? What did EMC do to sort of reduce your risk moments? EMC really had our back. We sat down with them and said, look, we're going to virtualize SAP. No debate. This is what we're doing. We're on EMC technology. What EMC was able to do was bring some of their solution experts into the table, guys that were really pushing the envelope on technology, pushing the envelope on configurations and sitting down with my guys and craft not only the environment that was perfect for us, but leveraging the history and the other scale that EMC has as a global company that's pushing technology with other customers to really put together for us the right fit and the right platform for Columbia. And that was a services engagement? There were some services for sure. There was a lot of it, some of our overall relationship and partnership ability with them. There's some freebies in there? Nothing's free, absolutely. But they became good friends of ours. We really worked through these processes together so that we could have a joint development and a joint platform that not only EMC, but SAP was also very proud of and we could leverage going forward. I mean, I always find SAP's conversations like this are interesting with the EMC because these are real business deployments that not like proof of concept. You guys did as SAP said in theCUBE a couple of years ago, changing the airplane out during mid-flight at 30,000 feet, kudos to that. But I really want to ask you something more specifically around EMC and SAP and EMC in particular. We're hearing a lot at this conference around transformation and a lot of the conversations are about business value and it's about services. A new breed of services. We had Accenturon, we had CloudTP.com on yesterday. You're seeing acceleration, faster time to value. You guys did some stuff early, some real pioneering work with EMC. Take us through what EMC did. I mean, obviously EMC had some chops and they're beefing up their presence on the services side from being just a storage vendor to actually doing this. So take us through what EMC delivered. So in the early days, we were first crafting this concept and crafting these platforms. EMC brought to the table not only their classic storage and configuration-based engineering staff, but also honestly some very talented SAP staff including EMC-badged SAP technology guys as well as SAP technology guys. As SAP and EMC were really building out their center of excellence and putting together their platforms, we were able to leverage that entire community of engineers, that entire community of knowledge and experience to really build a world-class environment before this was done kind of by the book. We kind of wrote the book in a lot of this and it was a lot of trust and a lot of belief that we were doing the right thing and that we would be able to look back and say, in a couple of years we built a platform that we are ultimately proud of and that truly was changing the game when we did this. So it's a long partnership, strong partnership between SAP and EMC to truly move the ball forward. Michael here with Columbia Sportswear, I'll see you guys deploying real business value in midstream, you guys done a few years paying off big dividends with EMC, congratulations. Thanks for coming on the queue. We'll see you next week at Sapphire. The queue will be at Sapphire for a quick programming note and plug for us. We'll be in Orlando next week for SAP Sapphire for the fourth consecutive year and looking forward to it. It will be in Vegas too. It will be in Vegas. Keep an eye out for the queue, we'll have semi-casts going on next week. We'll be right back with our next guest here. Exclusive coverage from EMC World SiliconANGLE. We'll be right back. Great, thanks guys.


I'm Kathy Marston. I'm the Founder and Director of Pre-Veter, Texas Women. And we've got a panel tonight of those of us who are formally incarcerated, local activists, and criminal justice reformers, to present to you on this topic of any master incarceration. In terms of me answering why I'm here tonight, the short answer to that would be because I, why I did the work I do is because I have to. The long answer would be that 13 years ago tonight, I was driving in Shirts, Texas, so here in this area, and I'm a local gal, I went to Randolph and I went to Trinity. And I drove in front of Clemens High School and the Shirts Police officer had somebody pulled over for speeding and by the time I got to FM 309, he had his lights on behind me and I pulled over into the dark business of the site, the lit up gas station instead of the gas station. And that's where he told me I had been speeding. I asked him how fast I had been going. He couldn't answer the question. He got angry and much like Sandra Blanzik, he asked me to get out of the car. He slammed me face down into the hood of my car. He handcuffed me.  Those charges were dismissed. But that was the first time the state of Texas called me at Cornell, because let's face it, there's no presumption of innocence in this country just by the 6th Amendment. 12 years ago today, the Austin police found my abusive ex-boyfriend and his friend on top of me after my ex had smothered, strangled, and beat me for 90 minutes so that I was bruised and bleeding. My foot was broken. They called them off with me and they told me to stand up and put my hands behind my back. For the past 12 years, I have been called a domestic violence offender. I spent more than nine years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice related to that original arrest where I defended myself against my batter. My batter had me in a stranglehold and I had to bite his arm. I only had me in that stranglehold or I wouldn't have been sitting here tonight.  Those were the only changes he had. I had bruises on my back, et cetera. While I was in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the staff there froze me, broiled me without air conditioner in the summer, denied me minimal care, blocked my outgoing mail for a year and a half, put inmates in my cell with me who had assault records so that they assaulted and threatened me. And when I reported those inmates via the grievance process, they dug up a disciplinary case and put me in solitary confinement or special cell restriction for a period of time. Those were just some of the dignities I suffered. While I was still in prison, I utilized the grievance system. Now, if there was a grievance system everywhere in my authority for your workplaces, do you go to school? The court system is a grievance system. And I wrote grievances. I filed two conditions of confinement, law students, myself protesting while I was in there. I wrote legislators. I wrote activists. I wrote outside academics. I published while I was in prison. I was on the steering committee for the 2014 International Conference on Penal Abolition, which took place on Algonquin Territory and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. And for ICOPA, I helped from prison. I was writing and talking about what kind of program we should have, having diverse presenters. Women, LGBTQ, make sure we have prisoners of color or persons of color on the panel. My work was presented for me. I have a PhD and I was published before I went into prison. And I published, of course, on this issue of wrongful arrested women. And I also wrote about strategies of written and non-written resistance by female prisoners in TDCJA. And I also wrote on LGBTQ issues, the conflation of sexual orientation and gender presentation in prison. There's a little bit, there's a term in TDC, I don't know if it's in the federal prison, it's stud broad. And this is a term that kind of confuses women who want to present, gender present as male with lesbians. So the biggest thing, the reason I guess I'm really curious, I also created Free Battle of Texas Women while I was in prison. Before I went into prison, I had heard about free battle women in California.  Sherry told me back around 89, 90. They had Women Against Violent Endings was a group in the Texas prisons. Those of you who are familiar with the Sin by Silence Laws in California, they have a group Convicted Women Against Abuse. Well, at that same time, there was Women Against Violent Endings. So I had originally just collected the anecdotes and demographic and information and TDC number of each prisoner. I'm a writer, I have a PhD in communication. I have 29 years of professional communication experience I've worked for two major newspapers in the state. And I thought, I'm gonna write a book about this, but then I realized that I needed to do something more. And that's where I started publishing writing legislators. Once I was released in July, 2014, I began showing up at the legislature. The first time I went to the legislature was November, 2014. And I didn't meet Jennifer then, but she was the speaker at the Texas Families Rally for Justice Rally that was there at the State Capitol. And Tiffa was one of the sponsors of that. And I was still on parole then. I've asked my sentence about a year ago this month. And I was too afraid to go into legislative offices. And well, I've been in legislative offices about three more times since then. Trust me, I'm not afraid anymore. And they invited me. Senator John Whitmire is the chair of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee. And his staff invited me to write an interim charge. So the legislature doesn't meet him until 2017, but all of these people who are seasoned criminal justice reformers can tell you, this is not the time where nothing happens. This is the time where we need to be continually working with legislators now to make things happen. So I wrote an interim charge for an interim study. We haven't had an interim study on the topic of persons incarcerated related to defending selves or children against batterers or other domestic violence for worse defenses. Since the 91 legislation, we did not get the interim study. I curled up in a little vol for about a week at the beginning of November when I found out. And then I went to Joe Strauss's office. He's here in town. He's the speaker in the house. And I contacted the Lieutenant Governor's office and I went on. I have continued media outreach and publications.  It came out in Guavadi, which is the online transnational feminist journal. Then that was turned into a book called Crossing the Borders. It's an LGBTQ book. I've written poetry that's appeared. One of those poems was on the death of my friend, Molly Hunziger, who died on June 19, 2011. It was 105 degrees that night. It was probably about 130 degrees in her under-condition cell. And we were about the same age. I think they're about 42 or 43 at the time. Some of you may have seen, I just had a guest column up here, and they expressed news on Saturday, bias in prisons, battered women. I had a piece come out in an international criminology journal last month. It's a massive review of the state, local, national, and international statistics in the area of incarceration of women and wrongful arrest of battered women. I do public speaking. Like I'm doing today, I've spoken at local universities. I've spoken to the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Committee. I did that in October. I spoke on the prison show. One of the resource lists in the back of the one I put together has the prison media. The prison show has been around since 1980. And they cover criminal justice reform issues. It's every Friday from 9 until 11 p.m. And they live stream it at www.kpft.org. They also archive the shows. So I will be going to Houston again in about a week. And I'm going to be on the show again on the 22nd. I spoke to the South San Antonio chapter of TIFFA. As free battered Texas women, I also correspond with 21 incarcerated battered women. I got three letters this week alone. And that membership builds. I always enclose three of my business cards. I tell them, pass them out. They are organizing on the inside. They're learning what time terms like self-defense and defense of third party means. But we have about a dozen allied groups too. I put together materials like some of the handouts that are on the back table. And I'm still writing grievances. Even on the outside, we've talked about Bay on the Box and the Second Chance Act. I had to file a complaint against a San Antonio area employer who made it really clear that I was denied a job, that I was way overqualified for an education and profession, because they thought I was still in parole. And when I pointed out that I had provided materials to shows not in parole, then they had another excuse so I filed a complaint with the EEOC. So that's some of the way and that's some of the things you can do. And the handouts.


Hello everyone, I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate the use of data loader. So it is used to do insert, update, upset, delete and export operation. So let's understand the setup, how to set up data loader. So this is how data loader looks like. So it is already installed in my system. Now I'm going to tell you how you can set up data loader in your system. So you just need to jump to your org and here you can search for data loader. So this data loader option will be available. So here you can see we have two options. You can set up data loader for Windows and you can set up data loader for Mac. So before downloading data loader, you can just open the installation instructions. So first time opening Windows installation instructions. So if you are setting up your data loader for Windows, so before downloading and installing data loader, you just need to install Java runtime environment version 11 or later. So here you can see this link is available. If you open this link, so through this link you can download this free version. If you download it and then if you go to this page and like after installing Java runtime environment, if you click on download data loader for Windows, so it will be installed and you just need to follow the instructions like step number two and so on. So whatever is mentioned here with this link, Windows installation instruction. Similarly, you can open this Mac installation instructions. So here you can see for Java runtime environment, we have a link. So through this link, you can install .dmg file and after that, you need to download data loader from the setup and you need to follow these instructions. So these instructions are available with both Mac and Windows. If you follow these instructions, you will be having data loader installed in your system and one icon will be available on the desktop through that you can launch your data loader. So this way it will look like, right? So this way you can set up your data loader. Now once your data loader is installed and you are having its icon on the desktop and you are able to launch it, so you need to link your data loader with your Salesforce org. So you just need to click on any button and here you will see these two options, authorization or like authorization, org authorization, you can say, and password authorization, right? So if you select org authorization, so here we have two environments, production and sandbox. So as per your environment, you can select and you can click on login. So it will open this pop-up where you can enter username and password. So let me just go back and have my username. So what you can do if you don't remember the username, so you can just go and search for users and you can copy your username and you can paste it. Then just type your password and click on login. So it will send you a verification code. So like I have already connected one time. So that's why it is not sending me verification code. But first time it will send you verification code on the email. So you need to enter that and then click on allow. So here you can see it is saying login successful, right? So if this message is available, it means your org is connected with data loader. Second option is this password authentication. So you can simply type username, password and the URL and just click on login. Right? So you can choose any way whichever you like. So I'm using developer edition org. That's why I chose environment as production. If you are working on real-time projects, so you might be having a sandbox environment. If you want to link that, you can select sandbox as well. Right? Now you can click on next and from here you can do particular operation. So this way I hope you understood how we can set up data loader in our system. So next, let's understand how we can insert records through data loader. So for that, we need to create some data in the Excel sheet. So I'm going to work with account object, right? And if I compare data loader with data import wizard. So in data import wizard, you have a limit of 50,000 records. In one time, you can insert 50,000 record. But in data loader, this limit is 5 million records. In data import wizard, you have limited standard objects for those you can import or insert the data. But in data loader, you will be having all standard objects for which you can insert the data. And as well as you can use custom objects as well. So here I'm going to use these four fields related to account. So I'm filling this. So this way I created one record and I'm just copy pasting it and it is 102. Here I'm changing the value. Right? So this way these two records are available in the sheet. Now I'm going to download this sheet as a comma separated values. So you can see the sheet is downloaded as info-account, right? Now I can use this CSV file with data loader so that records will be inserted. So before that I'm jumping to accounts and doing a refresh so that we can see like how many records are already there. So you can see total 24 records are available, right? Now let's jump to data loader and click on insert. So here you can see we have this checkbox like show all Salesforce objects. So right now it is showing limited objects. If you click here it will show all available objects standard as well as custom. And you can search your object in this list so that you can save your time. Then from browse you can select your CSV file. So here it is info-account.csv. I'm opening it. Now I need to click on next. So initialization succeeded. Your operation will contain two records. Okay. Now here we need to map the CSV headers with the fields. So you just need to click on this create or add it a map. If you have any existing maps so you can use that as well. So I'm just clicking here. So you have these buttons like if you want to clear mapping or you want to auto match. So I clicked on auto match. So you can see first column is showing CSV headers and second column is showing the field of account object. So they are mapped like account will go to account. So the active will go to active and will revenue will go to and will revenue and so on. If you want to save this mapping for future use you can save.  And then next. Now here. Staff 4 says like select the directory where your success and error files will be saved. So in the download folder, your success and failure files will be available. So if you want to change this location so you can browse. So let me choose documents and open so in documents success and error files will be available. So I'm just clicking on finish. So you have chosen to insert new records, click yes to begin. Do you want to proceed? Yes. So insert started and here you can see two records were successfully inserted and zero errors. If you want to view success or view error, you can click. So if you click on view success, it will show results like this. And if you click on view errors, so there is no error. So that's why it is not showing any error. If there is any error, you can see it here. Also success and error files will be available in documents as well. So just click on. Okay. So insert operation is done. Now what we can do, we can come here and do a refresh. So we have 24 records. Now if I refresh, so you will see. 26 reports. So you can see total 26 items. And you can see at the bottom 26 is the count. And here we have these, those two records account data one, zero one account data one, zero two. If I open this record so I can see all the details which I provided annual revenue name. Active is yours and description is insert data loader. So this way. The third operation is completed. Now if you go to your documents, so you will be able to find those success and failure information. Right. So if I, if I open the documents. So, so here, like I'm going to show you the file. So in this documents you can see like these success and failure information are available. So this is success file and this is error file. Right. So this way demonstrated you how we can insert records. Now let's understand how we can update existing records to data loader. So for that we will be using same sheet and if you want to update existing records so for that we need IDs. So right now we have only two reports I'm going to update both the reports so I'm going to copy their IDs manually. So this record is open. I'm just copying this ID from this URL. Paste it here. So you might be thinking if we have lots of records so do we need to copy these IDs manually. So answer is no. We have export operation. So through export, we can extract all the data together and we can update and then apply update DML. Right. But for demo purpose like I have only two records so I just manually copy these IDs so that I can quickly show you update because we have export operation as well so I will be showing you that as well. So you will realize like export will be having IDs populated automatically. So you don't need to manually copy those IDs. So just understand the process right now. So you can assume like you have already IDs already given in the sheet. And here I'm going to update these so it will be update and update. Right. So I updated the description only with IDs. Now I'm going to download it as CSV. Now I need to click on update account browse. So in the downloads, I need to find. Yeah, this is the updated one. I'm opening it clicking on next initialized. Then I need to map these so auto mapped. Click on OK. Next, then finish. Yes. So two successful updates, zero errors. Okay. Now just go here, do a refresh and test both the records, whether their description updated or not. So you can see description updated. So this way I showed you how you can update the records. So you understand now how to absurd records through data loader. So absurd basically means to update some existing records and to create some new records. So I'm just copy pasting it. So I'm creating one new record, and I'm going to update to existing records. So I'm changing the description. So these records like two records will be updated through absurd and one record is being created through absurd operation. So now this record is not having ID. So those records which are not having ID, they will be created the records which are having ID, they will be updated. So I'm loading the CSV. So it is info account to so moving here clicking on absurd account browse, then this one open. Next, you can see three records will be operated. Okay. Next. Then create or edit a map, then auto match. Okay. Next. Finish. Yes. So you can see the operation has fully completed. There are three successful absurd and zero errors. Okay. Now come here. So you will see one more record here under accounts. See one zero three is there. And if you open one zero one, if you go to details. So this record is updated. Now let's understand delete records through data loader. So you can delete particular records. So I'm going to delete this one. So for delete also you need to prepare CSV having ID populated. So I'm going to delete it. So I'm downloading the CSV. So this time it is info account three. Now, I need to go here, click on delete, select the object, select the CSV file, click on next initialized one record, then click on okay. Then you need to match so ID will be mapped because we are going to just delete. So if your CSV is containing only ID that is also okay, then click on finish, then yes. It is showing the warning like basis on your recycle been limit records will be there. Like overflow records will be deleted permanently.  So you can see this operation is successful. Click on okay. Now come here. So this one zero one won't be available anymore under account. And if you want to verify it. So what you can do, you can search for recycle bin and under recycle bin your record will be available. So you can see account data one zero one is available here. Okay. Now let's understand export records through data loader. So export means whatever existing data is available you just need to export and one file will be generated automatically. So just click on export account. So choose a target for extraction. So this extract dot CSV file will be created. If you want to choose any other file you can, and you can choose the destination so I am choosing documents. Right. So in documents extract dot CSV will be available. Next, now from here you need to choose the fields. So I'm choosing account source active. So these fields I'm choosing and I'm going to choose ID as well. Right. Then here I'm applying the condition like active equals. Yes. So if this condition is matching so I'm adding this condition so you can see this as so clearly is created. So account source active alert note annual revenue ID these fields will be queried from account where active field is equals to yes. Now click on finish. So you have chosen to perform an export click yes to begin do you want to proceed. Yes. So you can see 14 records extracted successfully. If you want to view extraction. So here is the file. Right. So you can see it is having IDs by default. So at the time of update I told you like through extract you will be sorry through. So you through extract you will be having the file where IDs will be available. Now you can add it these data and you can just use this CSV for update or absurd operation. And you can find this file in your download folder or whatever folder you will be selecting when you will be demonstration you will be implementing it in your org. So I clicked on. Okay, I'm closing this. Okay. Now, you might be thinking what is the difference between export and export all. So basically, if you want to export the records which are available under the object as well as the reports which you have deleted. And those are available under recycle bin. So if you want to export both. So you can click on export all. So let me show you how it works. So I'm choosing only this field and clicking on finish. So here you can see. You have chosen to perform an export of all records, including deleted records. Click yes to begin. Do you want to proceed right so this way I hope you understood the difference between export and export all. So you can run this in your system so that you will be able to understand like how these things are working. So this is all about data loader. So I hope you understood all the operations which I demonstrated in this.