So, Allison, is it normal to have video calls as part of the foundation's meeting system? I just was wondering, because I know there is lots of requirement basically to record this, that's why I'm recording this, but from an easiness standpoint, you know, basically to be able to communicate easier as a rather habit of a video calls, but it's going to be much trouble basically to get that recording and such. We can just keep doing it over text in this case. Just because the business of the merger has lots of details we have to talk about. Hi, Nate. Good morning. Jessica is saying he's on the calls, so maybe something I think is confused. Hey, Jacek. Yeah, sorry, I didn't see you at first, and that's why I was double checking with you. Okay, sounds good. I think we're ready to go. So, we have Allison and Nate as well on the call, and I'm casting my screen for the Etherpad for the UC just to get everyone in the same view of the agenda basically after today. So, Nate and Allison, I know you guys have probably been following what was happening, but basically we had an election period for the UC ending I think mid-February, and there was no nominations for it. We have been talking for a while to basically merge the UC and the TC into a common committee. Basically it encompasses all the responsibilities of both committees. There are some ongoing initiatives happening within the UC that we want still to continue on, but the consensus right now, and Jacek correct me if I'm wrong on that, is that we want to have this merger happen before the upcoming elections. We don't want them to run into the same situation again where there is no candidates coming up. So, we would like to have the responsibilities either moved over or some sort of arrangement to happen before the upcoming elections in August. That's correct, okay. There was an email centre basically about the discussion that we had and whether the impact on the bylaws on the merger. If I understand correctly, in order to merge UC and TC, it has to be a bylaws change, which means every representative of every company has also to agree to that, which will take, as the guys in the TC said, years to happen. Obviously no one wants that. We'd like to have it as much smooth as possible. That's why I'm trying today to basically, in this meeting, find out what the UC wants to transition. So basically what are the core responsibilities that we want to ensure that they move over to TC? To have them very clear that those are the parts where we want over in the merger committee. And if there is any sort of timeline, I know it might not happen today that we talk about all of this, but more specifically about the goals, what are the things we want to... Sorry about that. Any of you guys in Canada? It has been an amber alert since yesterday, and that's why it's buzzing right now. So the goals of the UC, we've talked about the goals of the UC before. We went through a cycle of basically pinpointing what is a UC, what does it do, and what are the responsibilities of it when Amy and the rest of the guys were around. And I think today we can probably talk about those specifically just to, as I mentioned, nail them down. So I'm not sure if you guys can see my screen, right? So I think I'm maybe able to just open this in a little bit. You may sec. Let's pull this up from different... I'll listen from the part of the bylaws. Can you maybe give us an idea on what needs to happen for a full merger, like from a structure perspective? Okay, that's fair. So I'll just paste right now the goals that we have found in the last round. They'll be under today's agenda. So those are the goals. So we found two goals during the last round of checks on the goals of the UC. From a charter is basically to represent user community, the board community, and the board that committed an Opus Tech Foundation and the rest of the committees as well. Keep track of Opus Tech deployment and usage. This is something that we have been working, I think, heavily with you, Alison, and the rest of the guys on the survey, other stuff like that. Help share user stories and experience. We felt that last time we haven't been doing this as much as we wanted, and working with user groups worldwide. And this is something also we wanted to, with a revamp of the ambassador program is to more encompass that. Right now, ambassadors specifically focus on user groups, but there is no outreach for the community from their perspective. So we wanted to have this happening as well as part of the ambassador program. And from the bylaws is basically manage the working groups that are not under the TC or the board of directors. I think this is an area that we might, and maybe you guys can correct me on that, we might downside on that. Basically, there is lots of groups who have been reaching out with two, but I don't think separation is now as much needed. In other words, under the new committee or the TC slash UC merger, the same working groups can be there and can be talked with through the common committee. It doesn't have to be specifically UC for that. And selecting the UC chair, which is basically internal governance. So how I view it is representing the other committee is a big thing. We need, under whatever committee that has, that gets out of this merger, that this needs to still exist. We don't want just to be a technical representation. We want also to be from a user space perspective that end users who use like the common open stack ecosystem, plus the actual deploy or the operators of the open stack. So we want this in the new committee. And this was something that I wanted the merger to basically put a very focus on that. Because this is the biggest part that the user committee basically does is representing of the user community. Does anyone have, sorry, go ahead. I think if you also mentioned an idea of having dedicated users and dedicated members under the common committee, the thought response for the UC or user committee community representation, but not basically labeled as user community members, but not on a different committee. So I think this also works as a good idea if that's because it just ensures that the community is well represented. And that it's not entirely a technical aspect of it operation as well as well as end users are also seen in that picture. Okay, so the second goal and you guys can interrupt me anytime if I'm going too long on a specific item, keep track of the open stack deployments usage. And this is, I think right now, mostly the survey rate. So it's an easy to transition the thing over to the committee. Okay, it makes sense. And it's mostly collecting information from the end user community rate. That makes sense. So I think, yeah, this item is easy to transition. Again, we have there's no way of how to merge without impacting the bylaws, which we basically have to maybe I'll go back and read this email and we can all think about more about what exactly are the streamlined options, the easy options to integrate because we would rather have this in the upcoming round instead of having another election and basically waiting for no members from the community to join. So the other thing is helping sharing user stories and experiences. Also, you might know better than me in this. So I don't think we have done much in that perspective. We want it to be more involved. And this is basically the purpose of the ambassador program event. But not actually, there hasn't been much done in the past few cycles. Is that fair to say, whatever buddy, whether it's, you know, TC slash UC merger, to be a hand in that to be a help handed that makes that much easier actually transition. It's if we have limited goals, which I see right now, mostly the representing the other community, it's easy to move that over to a new body without having lots of basically tales to finish. So lastly, this is something actually I wanted to be more the ambassador program to be involved in. And I think that you see also saw it as well in the last proposal we submitted for the ambassador program event is being more involved on keeping the community vibrant, basically reaching out the community, I would reaching and getting the community involved in events that we organize, plus also the user group. Maybe maybe I would say I wouldn't say mentoring or more of hands on if someone needs any assistance, they need to have someone from the foundation or the committees to basically assist with that. So I think this is something that we have been doing. So the ambassador program has been there and as well as the user groups as ops meetup and other stuff like that. So I think this needs to still be existence in whatever new body under whether it's user committee labeled members or the new body has to dedicate time for that. What do you guys think? So I think we're in sort of agreement that from the charter perspective, there's two goals we want to have a specific existence under the new committee, which are representing the community and working with the user groups worldwide, which is basically ambassador program slash any kind of other representation. But when it comes to keep it track of open stack deployment and usage, this can easily to transition either to the TC or to the foundation because it's already has been done in the past few cycles as well as the helping share the user stories and experiences. So those can be moved over much easier. We don't want we don't want this specifically to be under the new committee. As long as they are being done, we're happy about that. Is it fair to say that? Okay, that makes sense. Okay, so let's check the by laws. So yeah, so the managing the open stack working groups under TC or board of directors. So right now there is a limited set of that. And last, this round, actually, we had issues about correspondence, we would try to reach out to some of them and there was no much updates happening. That's why I think this needs to be amalgamated with the TC or whatever working groups exist. And it doesn't have to be a special handling of that. Basically that the UC does not need to manage those groups. That's at least how I see it. And those work groups can either be transitioned if they are still active, or if they're not active, they can just be closed. And if someone is interested now, they can apply again to open them. What do you guys think? Yeah, I think I have some discussions from that. So just one sec, I'm trying to pull that up. Yeah, I have individual emails from August on that. But yeah, I'll probably have to maybe, maybe for the next meeting, I'll just compile a list together of the last correspondence. And maybe I'll just reach out in the in this coming week to get an update on that. If we have had any updates since August, I'll just do that first. So I'll just reach out to the working groups, see if there's any kind of update, or if there's any activities, and compile a list for that hopefully by next week or the week after. And basically I reach out to that. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, and then basically selecting the UC chair. So this is internal governance. I'd like us to continue to have a chair in this period. Just from a, I wouldn't say leadership perspective, but just for keeping things happening from discussions with the TC and such. So I'm not whether Jsuk or myself, anyone, it's just two of us. So we'll probably sort it out in the upcoming meeting if you're fine with that, Jsuk. I think from your time perspective, you know, can we dedicate time for that? And we can reach whoever wants of us. Make sense? Okay, so actually, that's went much faster than I thought. So okay, so now we have that I think two goals and an action item that representing the other community is a goal that we want to be transitioned over. And as well as the working with the user groups. And now also, we want to see if the working groups want to be moved over or there's no need to move them because they are inactive. So the thing I haven't actually I read maybe glimpse through it is the bylaws implications. But yeah, I think I'll have to go back and read of those bylaws implications. Because I don't want the UC to exist as an empty body. Rather, I know that bylaws seems a very long thing to happen. But maybe we'll discuss back on the TC channel on that. Ask what are the possible ways of merging with bylaws changing? And how fast can this happen? Last I heard it was few years. I really hope this is not true. Because the idea sorry, go ahead. Or maybe could move over those like those options and go through them and leave the body empty for until the bylaws are changed. Would that make sense? Okay, that's fair. Okay, so I think maybe for now I'll just go back and read about this and the rest of us can do the same that existing ones and I'll see it from the discussion on the TC as well how things are happening on that. And by coming week, I will be able hopefully to compile the list on the working groups. And we could move from there. Makes sense. Okay. Sam is good. Okay, thanks everyone for today. And yeah, again, sorry about the video call thing. I know it is just a bit of trouble getting it organized. But I'll get the recording out. Alison, is it good to share it with you? And then you can post it somewhere that everyone can reach or? Okay, sounds good. Okay. Thanks guys. You have a good one. Thanks, Nate. See you guys.


We learned some more details over the weekend about the more personal consequences of the sun splashing a photo of Matt Hancock snogging his aide. Part of that is that Hancock, as well as leaving his job, has left his family. The Sunday Times report that Hancock told his wife he was leaving her on Thursday evening immediately after he learned his affair was about to be exposed. He even woke up their youngest child, aged eight, to break the news. Martha Hancock had had no idea her husband was cheating on her with his university friend and had considered their marriage happy and stable. Now Matt Hancock left his wife to be with his now former aide who also left her husband over the weekend. Both parties had three children. Now sources quoted in the papers all agree that this is now a serious relationship between Matt Hancock and Gina Collodangelo. Her friend is quoted in the mail on Sunday describing them as a, quote, love match. However, there are conflicting accounts as to how long they've been together. So according to the Sunday Times, insiders believe the affair had been going on for months by the time the COVA video was recorded on May the 6th. That has been contradicted in the mail on Sunday. They quoted friends who said they'd only been seeing each other for six weeks. Now the timing here matters not just for the sake of, you know, it's interesting how long have they been together. How long has the affair been going on? But it also has some quite serious political ramifications because if they've been together for a long time, then it's quite possible that when Matt Hancock appointed Collodangelo to be an executive, a non-executive director of the Department of Health, they were already in a relationship. If they've only been together for six weeks, then obviously, you know, that wouldn't be the case. They were already close friends. In any case, it probably should have been declared, but it's obviously clearly more serious if they are in a romantic relationship and it was not declared. I mean, it's going to be difficult for us here and now to decide which one is true. You might think, though, that if you have left your wife and kids in the case of Matt Hancock or left your husband and kids in the case of Collodangelo, that would be a surprising thing to do if you've only been together for six weeks. So it's potentially more plausible that they have been together for a long time, which would raise the question of were they in a relationship when she was appointed to this well-paid and very significant role. Worth also saying that in any case, the simple fact Matt Hancock has left his wife to set up a life of his former aide has apparently annoyed local conservatives so much that insiders believe he could get deselected by West Suffolk members before the next general election that was in the times. To be honest, I'll believe that when I see it.  Why are you talking about Matt Hancock leaving his family on many levels, though, the relationship between Matt Hancock and Collodangelo and how serious it was, how long it has lasted does have some serious political ramifications, doesn't it? Well, yeah, it does. And the first thing I want to say is that people's personal lives are messy. None of us would like it if you went digging through decisions we've made and late night texts we've sent, something embarrassing would be in there.  That's just the way of the world. And so this isn't coming from a perspective of saying having an affair alone should disqualify you from high office, because I don't think that. What I do think is the really critical thing here is, did the nature of their relationship mean that there wasn't the correct oversight in hiring her in the first place? Because she had her parliamentary pass, not through Matt Hancock, but through Lord Bethel, through somebody else. There was no record of her appointment back in March. And then also you've got this question of what her role was as a non-executive board member at the Department of Health. It was to monitor and to scrutinize what was going on in the department. And that includes Matt Hancock himself. So one, that means that at any point, them having an affair means that she cannot be trusted to do the job that she has paid with taxpayers money to do. And two, if the affair was going on before she was hired and also before she had her role as an unpaid advisor to the Department of Health, well, then it means that there was deceit, that there was attempts to conceal the true nature of the hiring and why it might have been that Matt Hancock would have wanted her around. And also it would have concealed the fact that she cannot do, cannot be trusted to do the jobs that she's brought in specifically to do. And then you've also got this business of, you know, charmocracy, or as I just like to call it, corruption more generally, that you can get these lucrative contracts if you've simply got the mobile phone number of Matt Hancock or if you used to like run a pub that he liked to go to Gina Collard Angelo's case. It's well, maybe he fancied me since university. And here I am. I'm a director at what's it, Luther Pendragon. Is that the lobbying firm who represent amongst their clients, British Airways and Accenture, both who won contracts with the Department of Health during the pandemic? You know, it is this again, somebody who's got the right kind of relationship who's in the personal good books of the health secretary, getting unfettered and improper access in order to essentially squeeze a government department of taxpayer money so it can be funneled away to private interests. Right. And that's why the affair matters. It's not just about, you know, whether or not you consider somebody has an affair beyond the pale. It's actually about what is concealed within that whole tawdry cloud. In terms of what Luther Pendragon do, the Guardian in their description say they specialize in crisis and reputation management. So presumably she'll have a lot of work to do over the next couple of days.


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Today, we're going over all the Air Jordan set to release this month in June and we definitely got some very interesting releases this month So let's go ahead and get started with the first shoe. We have the Air Jordan one zoom comfort arose from Harlem What do you think about this shoe? I actually kind of like it. What? I think it's gonna be a good seller. I like this too What's wrong with that? Hey, why would you like? This is hot Yeah, I think no, I think it's a good shoe is give you that old look and a new look Vibed to it. Yeah, I think they get rid of laces I think if they do the black laces so you kind of got like a Chicago color blocking Yeah, giving you the off-white ones Yeah, that vibe where the mix of Travis Scott and it kind of like it was the originality But they kind of going off of that. I know they kind of biting So you got that aspect and then you got the brown on the heel on the back in you got the zigzag stitch around the Tongue the Nike leather on there kind of wrapping onto the midsole compared to typically Yeah, that's what's different about that. I like that kind of overlapping on that area You got the yellow laces now. This is zoom comfort So it's gonna be like a way more softer bottom the materials on the outsole and you'll see that in the pictures And it's that stitching on the toe. Yep So you got stitching around the area I think this should do good And then you got the green kind of like the rose on one foot So that's the black side right there on the left swoosh and the other swoosh is gonna be red So it's kind of got different elements. So look at the swoosh right here. I still don't like the yellow I also give that McDonald's vibe, right, right, but I don't like yellow But it's a good popper for that, you know, it pops real good. So what is retail and I have they ever done that in soul Like I mean the soul like that before yeah, they do the zoom open. Yeah, they be doing like so It's just a different like the classic Air Jordan one bottom Just like the all red or the all leather or all the red already all rubber and then you got the the air unit is inside Between the rubber and like the old like the yeah, so kind of encapsulate it, but uh, yeah, so this is $150 it's a women's release. I don't know what sizes they're gonna do on these But obviously with the women being the designer and everything it makes sense of that aspect. I think on the women's side It's a little high price for women. Why would I be saying that 150 bucks cuz the shoe is so small like I want Yeah, it's less materials But I think it was a man size like a man if they come up with a man size 150 be cool Yeah, okay, so overall it's a pass for me. It's a cop for you. Yeah, okay So I was gonna skip over but we got to go over all the ones the Air Jordan 37 low EYB. Oh, I like it Let's roll with it. I mean go ahead. It's just a basketball shoe But you know what it kind of got me that that LeBron feel okay, I'm all yellow ones are some other way Yeah, yeah, and so yes, it's hard to find on the first they're coming out That's what I feel like watching the video today, but so this is like This is like usually like the EYB L stuff is like Typically like a PE kind of thing. They'll make it like specifically for the teams and stuff and then now they're starting to introduce it to be a more like releases and everything But this is like definitely like a hoop shoe. It'd be different if it had like Yeah, and then they say they did like a Jordan one or eleven or six or five or whatever like that Then those would be like the rare ones that would come out and you'd be like damn You got to pay $1,200 for that pair knees coming out of what? No, retail is like a hundred ninety five Jesus Christ under ninety five you coming for a hundred ninety no, no, no, I think maybe like one sixty five one sixty five I think it'd be okay But what ninety five is a little steep for me overall I think and we'll see the we'll see the A little bit of this month, but I think this is gonna be a definitely a month where a lot of people can save some money But that's a pass for me as well. I didn't go save money Okay, so this one is actually an interesting one because it's a kid's release it's similar to the white cement threes Right, it's called hide-and-sneak is what one of the names that they gave the shoe But it gives you that elephant print vibe to the shoe And actually has an elephant that goes along with it as like a little lace Is he gonna get the prints right this time? Well, yeah, I mean these look a little bit. Those look good though Overall the shoe looks solid. It's clean. It's a clean shoe Obviously a kid shoe being white.  Oh, that's dope. So it kind of gives you that What Jordan Brand is also trying to do is like increase the educational side of the consumer for the kid and none Like oh the elephant print the elephant that goes with it right right make it different shoes They have like it says like black red bread like different things like that and like is like little markings on When they start that couple years ago, so I don't do enough like it will I mean we don't look as many kids really Oh, okay But at the same time they have been integrating it and I do like how they've been adding that aspect to like tell That history and keep that like story going in for the new generations that are coming up to be But they should start doing that for the adults to know because like, you know me I like to hang tags all the stuff to go with it everything I think I'd be dope because you could put it on the shoe right as well like within the laces Yeah, no, that'd be dope. They y'all need to do that for adults, too I mean, I'm not personally rocking that big old elephant thing on my laces, but at the same time I like the aspect of like So for me, that's a cop I would call it a cop in that situation What would you rate those out of 10? I give my solid seven solid seven. That's cool You can't go wrong with us. So this one right here. This one's very clean low top, too Is everybody sleeping on a little plane? So what is this clean? Yeah, the Jordan to UNC low. So It's almost give me that dad vibe shoe. Yeah, you know that real clean not nothing too crazy 160 bucks is a Retail on these and that's the shoe right there. I think these are fired. I think that's a perfect price point it's gonna be great and I think this shoe ain't gonna sit long. I think people don't like this shoe for the summertime. I think I Know people don't like twos like that For this one in particular it is fire it's clean, but it's still a Jordan to it's a low top People are you know money ain't right for everybody to just be going out buying all these more lines So I get that they give off some lunch a three line two lines. You can get a pair of shoes It's funny because we always you know everybody in the community How to get the money oh my god, they want to get the money that you know I actually I'm not even gonna start emphasizing for that because I'm trying to have empathy for the people like I don't got the bread The dude said I have no sympathy for somebody sitting on the couch Hey, but sit here watching But no for real though people yeah, you're right, I'm not even Today yeah So you got the UNC with the Jordan wings logo on the tongue with the rubber that's clean on that throughout Nike air on the inside Clean with the UNC vibes on the back in it's just overall clean shoe. That's a clean shoe. They did a very good job But I say the retail was 160 bucks right here. So this is a cop for you. Oh for sure. Definitely a cop Yeah, all right next up right here. We got DJ sneaker head Academy That's the sponsor of today's video. Nice usually got sponsors from everybody else, but you know This is so I got the community. I got you know, we got the live stream meetups We got giveaways every month with speaking it out. I'm filming a video tonight I'm gonna announce the winner for the next giveaway. We got the full course. I got crash courses in there We teach everything sneakers related to hustle the grind real estate finance setting up businesses all the different stuff You're a part of the stuff. What do you think? I'll let you talk about the community this time in today's sponsorship No, I'll just say what I see in there is just respect and people and knowing that you have a voice and somebody can talk to You can talk to somebody and learn something and there's not people out there always just oh this this and this and this your proof Your your whole thing is proof of what's happening So it's not like you can not see it right like if you get in the community and you see you'll see it Right like that's my biggest thing. You'll see it and it's it's fun seeing everybody engage in the community And comment and doing stuff and watching people hit on releases and helping each other on trades and doing different stuff Yeah, as well So there's more to just oh get the course or whatever No That's just another blueprint right line to help you and if you ever need to refer to it or anything like that But there's a lot of things that'll help, you know Take everybody to the next level and that's always my goal So I hope everybody succeed because the more people succeed around me the more I can succeed as well So unless you got to do There's just better for everybody I don't know if you guys want to join hit the link down below in the description join the community get signed up Or if you want to just get the purchase if you just want to purchase the hobby to hustle program I have that separate as well But I always tell people hop in the community that way you can get full engagement and get the program But again to each his own do whatever you want, right? I would love to see you guys on the inside now Let's take it to the next shoe because we got some more terrible stuff to go over this month for sure So this next one is called the air Jordan to low look up in the sky or something Yeah, I forgot what it's called But tell me this doesn't give you like that DJ Khaled vibe like that Miami like and I'm saying They did good on the last one and he blew it on this one. I think honestly I think this one is solid though. I don't think it's I don't think it's bad me But I think it's sorry. I think it's solid like this is a shoe that oh I can get this on on a good price I think they're gonna have good quality materials and everything like that on the shoe Somebody's gonna add this. It's a pretty neutral for the most part and you can mix this with a lot of different fits I think it'll be a solid shoe I think it's gonna sit I think the last pair do a lot better and I think that the last one is better for sure I think the color tones is wrong and You're gonna get messed up with outfits that you can wear with it No, it's not you just don't know how to pull off all the fits because you wear all black all the time That's the other problem right there Look up in the Navy this has to do you see the skyline on the insult I get it to what Jordan's original dunk and So they align it all together and it makes a lot of sense and for a release like this I think a summertime vibe. I think it's a solid shoe. I don't think it's the best shoe ever I don't think I think it's a solid sneaker.  I get a six. I give it a six I'm not gonna give it no seven so 160 bucks for those same thing on that and as you can tell just overall as we've been going Throughout the month. There's just nothing that's really popping like that right and it's a lot of low tops Yeah, a lot of low because it's summertime. It's summertime. Get it right now. I'm a high top wear a year I'm gonna get it. He's just clean though, but you like the black found Travis Scott. Oh, oh, yeah The first sure okay now you saying these clean Okay, so the if you go haze Air Jordan 5 low the whole upper is 3m reflective. Oh where these so it's like a kind of like I Guess you I don't know I mean I already said that with color, but for you I don't know if you can tell I see it just great. Yeah, so it's more of kind of like a purpleish undertone to it Okay, and then it's got like the yellows and everything on here Yeah, and it just and it's like the gray on here is kind of like got a green or a blueish undertone to it So it's kind of like it's just not really meshing together. Well, I mean on the colors of the shoe I don't know it. I see it is okay I think the sock liner the sock liner is a little bit too much. I don't know You'd be struggling with the colors too. So you might just be like it's all gray He colorblind So the best choice so on the bottom right here. You got gray You got that milky translucent You got the red jump man below that and then as you can see from a reflective picture right here all 3m Which means what soon as you wear the shoes the crease is gonna come across the toe You're gonna have issues with that. It's gonna look terrible. No, but it'll be cool the first time you wear it after that You're gonna be like why did I get I got something to reflect and they look good Which one is the one that you tore up? Come on not that pair is another pair All my shoes you like these more than little top twos the ones For sure, okay. I'm going the other way for sure I think if you gave those so would you get the other ones a six. What do you get these? I give them seven and a half to a closer. Oh, no Clean right there Hey, those are the cop before one ninety or maybe one eighty five Those is like one twenty five Maybe well, I got a little different taste. I'm a taste a little higher. This is yours. This is higher Higher please Okay, right here wash black Air Jordan one og high clean colorway I think it's just another neutral shoe for somebody to have if you are looking for an entry-level Air Jordan one for your collection Yeah, and need to go with a lot of outfits. It's definitely entry level dress up dress down like I think this is for one Of those type of sneaker heads. I think for people that have a lot of shoes in their collection. They're gonna be like You know I'm saying it look like the materials was kudos They don't look bad But I just wouldn't cop to I wouldn't I wouldn't be hot It wouldn't be how my list what I wanted now probably yet at a decent price probably yeah, but I'm not gonna rush out to get it I think no, I'm getting more into this like you got the you got like that sale color midsole But then it's like pure white on the right the leather right and I kind of just like it all to be one way That's what I was talking about before. I know I know More and more now. I'm like I wish it this white Up the color to hold me better. Yeah, it didn't pop as much. So um, I don't know I think it's a cool shoe I think like I said a solid entry level especially with the black sock liner You don't have to worry about it getting all dirty and that's a plus You know I'm saying so there there's elements to this shoe that makes sense, you know black bottom I think they should do more black like like liners almost shoes I don't know. I think overall solid shoe. I give it a six as well for me Yeah, I think it's a cop for strong six But I think it's one of those shoes that like you find for below retail retails 180 bucks next thing You know you're getting 140 150 Yeah, that's cool So I don't know. I think that's a another one definitely on a list now next up right here You know, I love the shoes with the meanings and the dope stuff to it. What's the meaning? So this one is the Air Jordan 2 The wings Air Jordan 2 so they have the wings program and basically they use the money And then they put it into their scholarship foundation And they give it to all the kids and they put them through scholarships and put them in college All the different stuff and then the kids get to go do Jordan brand experiences together and they become like this community It's like a bunch of different stuff that goes along right right and they make it for at the end of the year for graduation And like all these different things so and they do different shoes every year and everyone has like money that goes back to it And they do like premium exclusive ones different either way this is one for this year and I think it's solid originally I was like solid So what the hell is on the side of the shoe and I was like are those wings and I was like and with the meaning on it Yeah, it's good a strong nine. I mean, I think it's dope. Everything is doing this clean shoe. I Mean You know as we like the kids. Yeah, you know, we want to help kids and everything else a lot So that's it right there 100 or no 210 bucks is the price so typically Jordan 2 is gonna be a little bit cheaper like 190 or some There's premium stuff that they're gonna add to it or different designs that might cost a little bit more for that or whatever And I think I'm not 100% sure 100% sure cuz I didn't do all the research yet But Howard is one of the people who was like one of the founders of Jordan brand the OG's back in the day I think the H was for the sock line or the insult right here Representing him and him being a collaboration of this year's project and stuff But again, I didn't do all the research so they can correct me in the comments or whatever they're gonna do that Yeah, I don't I don't I didn't look into everything That's why I'm like it's better than not looking to everything because then they could tell us and Conversation and stuff, but I like how they added that as well if that is what it's for Just to kind of like show how much to him as well That's a good-looking shoe and I got his like with the H on the back and then you can see like that It's a kind of like that metallic like yeah candy paint on the back You know say it's not just like that Matt or like that less finish to it So it's got that sparkle to it. I think I think this is a solid solid. So they did a good job on the shoe Now this is one of those shoes It's like it might be one of those situations where like comes out at retail and it's kind of just sitting and people don't know And it later it might go up or you might get it for a good deal, but I think We've seen white and green shoes already come out when it comes to We've seen shoes like that. They sit there for a while and then two years later.  Mm-hmm lightning force thunder force is all going it. They're all gonna go Oh, and they're sitting right now just above retail. Why would you like my buy investments, too? That's all I'm saying. There's some shoes that are going to rise Yeah, and people are sleeping but we talk about that in the community Right if people want to get in y'all be sleeping on the community y'all better get in if you want to know the inside Hey, I'm just here to help man, man. It's pretty money out there for everybody. Okay So this one right here is the Jason Tatum one, right? So you are very like wishy-washy when it comes to it just comes to the colorway It's a colorway. This is one of the ones I do not like This is horrible Colorway, I feel like I like the the style of the shoe itself That's because it looks like the Jordan 11 love, but the colorway sucks the IE I think I think for me. Yeah, I'm definitely not copping these I Think that they have different stories behind all the colorways that they do just like they do with Jordans and everything like that but We're not in the era right now of people wearing like Legit performance basketball shoes like in the street Right, right, right. You know I'm saying remember the era Well, I don't know if you remember but like you know early to tell them that oh, you don't remember Well, I'm just saying like like 2010 to 2015 This was the era of like people was rocking Katie fours with jeans Great Lebron's with jeans and Kobe's with jeans and different stuff like that like not just sweats Like he was pulling off real fits with these type of shoes, right? I'm not seeing people pulling up with some denim on with these type of shoes You're like am I gonna hoop in these right? Which one is it right? I'm like there's a lot of truth to that because people don't switch up. Yeah, but okay retail 120 bucks though That's pretty good. That's solid to for any parachutes damn near solid. That's pretty I'm still ain't copping them, but That's a good price. It's rarely come out for 120. That's solid So before I show you this next low top I got to show you the low top that I just got and I got another one in the mail I'll show you those when I get them cuz what you didn't got I got some shoes right here. This is clean This colorway is dope Gator one loves like this. I like these I'm a blue person like royal blue like really cobalt blue is my really my color We had this debate. Remember we was talking about was it blue and orange and blue and yellow Yeah, yeah, it was like which one looks better, but this blue and orange right here. Look I don't like orange But when it comes to these type of like and then look at that sad right there woman. It's fire.  I was just showing you and this is more great, huh? No, it's like a tan. It's kind of it might have like a slight But it's mainly like a tan. It's not white white. Yeah, like this matches the mince all and everything But either way another pickup. I'll make sure I get a review for you guys as well Again, if you're in the community, I've already shown you guys these and I'm actually helping somebody in the community Get a pair of pees soon. So Y'all better step up your game. Yeah, man. I'm just thinking about it. We got it. We got some more stuff They got a little in there. Yeah, they're They got anything. Oh, yeah, I can't see that What's on the review later? Those are clean. So this is the low top That's coming out. So we saw the other one member was a high top and I had the white with the elephant print This one's got the black with the elephant print. So I think this is a you know This is a better color way. Yeah, I think these are way better. Yeah for the low top So it's called the black cement low top. Oh, oh Retails a hundred and forty dollars, which I think is kind of stiff But it's a for a low top You gotta remember Jordan ones is the cheapest ones to make So they keep raising the price each year ten dollars ten dollars Remember they used to be 140 and 150 with 60 with 70 now they 180 now the low tops Remember they used to be like 90 90 500 110 to 120 But the thing is is people still paying for them. Yeah, I know and I get it There's inflation all different types that goes along with it. Right. And yeah, either way.  This is a cop for sure. I think they get a full nine Man, I'm trying to think is this a shoe that I want to wear this summer. I think well, you got to get it Once I get it in person See see there's a thing is your mouse case said don't want to wear these this summer you ain't even got this you yet Other people like I hope I can cop these this summer You gonna find them People like it's hard. I'm like no, it's not. No, it's not if you do your work do the work Okay next up right here white infrared so the Jordan sixes The infrared sixes the black and infrared that we wear all the time, right? And I got the white one the white leather with the infrared on there, right? Okay, so this is the six colorway, but they put it on the Jordan seven so as you can see right here Oh, yeah, it looks like the sixes. Yep got the transits out so all the different stuff But they made it a Jordan seven instead. Yeah, so You think that's a cop I would say yeah with the gun bottom Yeah, for me. I say it's a pass cuz it ain't a six It's a Oh And if you want them you shouldn't have a problem getting the shoe and it is what I get these this summer I'll tell you So yeah retail on these is a hundred or 200 bucks whoo What you think but I still say it's worth it you got the Cardinal sevens. I think I Yeah Yeah, you can bust those out with a nice fit real clean somewhere Yeah, and then everybody like okay, but I wouldn't you know me I will wait I will get him and then I wear him like next year. Yeah, I'll be the same way Right certain ones that I'm like all right. I didn't double it up on it So I'm gonna wear one now, but I like to bust them out when everybody else don't have them no more Yeah, and then you bust them out all fresh and clean II wear those I'm already know like those low tops I wore to the game those all whites and work to the With the pan leather front The the white all-white pan leather front and I wore them to the basketball game to the Les Schwab thing What game the Les Schwab you warm? Yeah, let's work The less why I was watching brownie and all them.  Oh, you're talking about the low top ones No, no All right, so the camera died but All right, so this is the last one Okay, you think this is the best one. I don't know which one No, it's all it's all it's all it but it's just it's cool. It's good Jordan three sets of twos coming out It's so many twos. It's like a what was that three or four different little top two. They're on the two agenda They were on the agenda. So this is the cherry wood. All right, so first off first off The cherry wood colorway, right? We need that to come back on the Jordan 16s ASAP because that colorway is one of the greatest in the ginger on this one That's these colors these colors, but I'm saying we need that on the cherry We need the cherry wood 16s to come back. We need the ginger 16s to come back. What ginger? Yes. Oh gender ginger Ginger they're so dope. They're so dope watch when I show you like these are fire. Okay, so Jordan too low Cherry wood retails 150 bucks. I'm not too fond of the color though I think it's a cool again all these twos all these twos are just like they're cool They're solid like the ones that like blue ones is those are better. Those are better. Those is crazy I like that. I think this is another cool shoe like you could pull a little fit with this. You know I'm saying it was black Oh my gosh, I think this is all the shoe. I think material is clean It's clean. I think it'll be all right But I don't think nobody can rush out to see when you have a simple color black and pattern like this It's kind of hard to fill you can literally take any color throw it on there And it's like it's solid you can't go wrong And that allows you to sell to the broad audience and get a lot of people to buy the product because on shoes like this This isn't the hype be sneaker No, this is the one where it's like we're going to make crazy units of this shoe We're going to sell a bunch of these even though we're selling it for cheaper than the other ones We're also going to sell two to three times more than the other ones And then we're going to get our brand on the back end and then we're going to run it up So this is kind of that strategy of that too and make it broad and make it easy for a lot of people to cop It's available all they walk in the store. They can buy jordan's instead of getting a different pair of nikes or whatever the competitor is I don't know. I don't get excited. I don't get excited. I know from the sneaker head standpoint. I get that But I think from from I think I think though if you just wearing them like you like I'm gonna just throw these on And you're just gonna go somewhere. Like, no, you'd be straight You know, like I'm just going it ain't like oh my god. I'm pulling up to dinner in though somewhere for sure I'm pulling up and it'd be cool. I'm solid. Yeah. I'm solid steakhouse People say they look like bowling shoes We we mess with bowling shoes But no, it's a it's a clean shoe. Um, I think it's a always say was it coming out with price It's 150 bucks. They come on. That's cool. Like the end of the month. Um, that's definitely cool Some rockers, you know, I would say it's a cop. I think I think When you think of all these shoes for the month Yeah, I like three pair on there. You can say maybe that you might have to rush out and get but I don't think you got to rush out to get any of these Realistically, I think it's a really easy really easy month. Like I said at the beginning of video Save you some money money. Save some money. Um, and if if you There's two things you can do You cannot get the money you could you could not get to the back You could save money or you could just make more money And I prefer to make more money That's me go make more money. Did you get what you want?   Come on Get up Get to work.  You know me. I'm worked smart. Not hard Find a balance between the two. That's all I'm saying But but think about it Here's the balance. This is the balance. You work smart. He worked hard. I work hard And we balance it but check this out if you work this many hours I do and put in the same amount imagine with what you do. What would you be having? I still gotta play my video game I need to have my relax time you can make you can I ain't gonna put a number on what he makes But I'm gonna say you can make x amount of dollars in 30 minutes. I know So if you went hard like that for eight hours Because he he only worked like I ain't gonna tell you how many hours a day where But but no, I'm saying if you can tell if you went if you went hard like that for the eight at least for eight hours Yeah Like oh my god. Now see I like to I got my balance Hard efficient 11 He get about 11 No, no, you don't get he get up at seven o'clock because of the shoe release and then I go back to man Then I get up at 11 Oh, man. Anyway, no, you got a good life, man. You keep doing what you're doing. You work hard for it This didn't show it by accident y'all out there same thing.  Don't let nobody get in your way. Yeah Don't nobody tell you can't do none. Just keep doing it the proof of being a put You only got to prove to yourself Don't prove to nobody else and you'll be all right And I got to help people before when they want to get in the community Not only do they have access to me everybody in the community my dad being alive streams too I'll jump in there be in there to help my mom Everybody my mom's helped people set up their businesses so many different things on the back end that people do not realize That not only me my family my friends my homies people are in the community helping out However, we can that's our goal is to help everybody. So it's I don't know It's funny because people watch the videos and they're like, bro, I think I should join I'm like, bro Do what you want to do at the end of the day But people people we've met in the community be traveling with us going out to eat with us and kicking out Like learning more inside stuff Everything like there's so many different things to this like we come to your town like know you there Like oh was dropped through whatever else case There's a lot of things that has happened So i'm just saying y'all get in there and really like be a part of it And you'll get something out of it, but you can't just go oh they ain't doing nothing over there You gotta participate. You gotta engage. You gotta have a good time And then you know, we'll we'll definitely help whenever we see somebody working hard for something. So yeah, but yeah We gotta go we're talking a lot. Anyway, uh Tell them to subscribe to your channel. Hey subscribe to his channel. It's getting bigger y'all see that yours He's My channel you've been doing that this man. I'm so excited for you man.  It's all right. It's all right. It's booming. All right.  I was made for it It's in the


Pride means living your truth and being your authentic self. I met my wife, Jamie, in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Got engaged and married in Asbury Park a few years later, and now we live in Fairhaven. I think the main challenges that LGBTQIA plus people face in the workplace are a result of assumptions. Whether it's filling out benefit forms with the words husband and wife, or when meeting a new co-worker, or even a patient in their family. The assumptions that are made do not include LGBTQIA plus experience. I'd like to think that my being my authentic self gives others the permission to do the same. I feel so appreciative to work for an organization that celebrates and embraces diversity. This year we had over 300 team members participate in an event to tie-dye shirts that can be worn throughout the month of June at various Pride events, both at Bayshore and beyond, including New Jersey Pride Parade and Festival held in Asbury Park. We had more than 40 Bayshore team members and their families in attendance to march in the parade and volunteer at the festival. When the Bayshore and Hackensack Meridian Health community shows up for these events, it feels like a warm embrace to me. These outward signs of acceptance send such an incredibly strong message that you are safe here, you're welcome here, you're seen and valued for exactly who you are. When people show up as their authentic selves, they can provide better patient care, which is the end game.


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Welcome back here to the channel. I'm evil rabbit and a big welcome to garden and road coming in as the first official members of the street team Definitely super excited to add them to the ranks of the evil rabbit drift team on the main street team, so Garden definitely a very solid lead driver and a very fun driver to chase Definitely impressed all of us off the rip when from server Initiation until now definitely a very solid and fun driver to chase down and I'm super glad to have garden on the team He definitely impressed and his skill level definitely increased Since a day one when the server first opened until now So definitely excited to get him on the official street team and continue to grow his skill and get him into a High-caliber lead and chase driver because that's what this is all about it's about making everybody get better and increasing everybody's skills and Having a good amount of time so his attitude has always been great on the discord and in the server He's always willing to help people out and throw down a solid lead for new people and veterans as myself and a few other big names that are in the server So a big welcome and congratulations to garden for joining the ranks of the official street team Now road as well is joining the ranks as a member of the official street team But he's also going to be the official team evil rabbit media personnel You guys have seen in the discord if you know the work He does with his HD wallpapers and the photos and everything that he comes and brings out and you know The knowledge he has with post-processing filters and lights and shading and things of that nature to make Amazing and beautiful pictures and quality work So, you know, I'm definitely super excited to have him on board as the team Not only is he a solid driver when it comes to leading and chasing. This is a very esy course I don't think I've ever driven this course He's a very solid driver lead and chase, but he's also very phenomenal when it comes to media Okay, but how we survived that so that's why I'm super excited to bring him in to the team So big congratulations and welcome to road as well So both these drivers have impressed myself drift snacks and Christmas in the time that service been opened So they are the first official announcements into the official street team Where we will continue to work with them Increase their skills and get them higher in their driving caliber and boost them up even higher to give them a chance at some point To try and get into the main official tandem competition team Which you guys know right now is myself drift snacks Christmas in Bama. So always low God Don't do that always looking for Quality people not only in driving skill because that's not all we are looking for we're looking for skill and driving fluidity Consistency, but also attitude if you're very nice and you're you know willing to help and you just have a positive attitude And positive vibes in the discord and you know on the server that that's what we're looking for in teammates because It's not only can you shred? But can you be nice when you do it if you you could be the best drifter in the world? But if you have a poor attitude or you you know talking down to people that may be newer or less skilled than you are then that's not the type of person we're looking for to be basically an ambassador of the street team and You know throw down with new people and teach people from the ground up so Those are the first official members of the street team. We have a couple more prospects that we are looking on and we just at the end of a course We have a bunch more prospects that we're looking into and things of that nature We're gonna be announcing probably one maybe two Every week or every other week as we feel fit because we're not just gonna shock on members into the team We want to make sure we get quality people on the team people that want to be on the team Not just somebody that's just gonna be on the team for you know short short amount of time and be like up Well, I'm going to this team. So we're looking for very positive people Part should be in second very positive people to bring on to the team and garden and road Definitely check all the boxes one of what we were looking for for, you know official street team members So once again a big congratulations and a welcome to them So if you guys get a chance to drive with those guys on the server definitely some solid drivers You'll have a lot of fun. So with that being said You guys know this car from the first early version of this car Oh When it came out in the missile car pack. Well, this car has been switched up to V2 physics Powers have been changed a little bit down into street tunes powers And this car is being tweaked and worked on to bring into my server and everything like that Definitely a fun car one of the you know the basis of my competition Z and everything at that And now it's got new physics new grip loads new power band Still, you know flashy under bodied, you know missile front-end car that you guys have driven before but just a Bit better tuned So I hope you guys enjoyed this video a little bit of drifting and a little bit talking more information about street team and once again a big welcome to road and garden definitely looking forward to working with these guys and increasing their skills as well as You know increasing this size of the team to make sure you guys follow me on all social media All which found in the description box below and as always I thank you guys for coming back and watching I'm people rabbit. I'll see you guys on the track


They move like the wind, I can't tell where I begin, I can't tell what I begin between, you can find me in the seams. Hello and welcome everyone to Downtown Variety X. So LaMama and Culture Hub decided to pass the mic this week, cancelling their usually scheduled programming and read out basically offering this platform and asking if it would be useful for where I am in my process right now and if so I would like to use this space to speak to or connect to what's happening at the moment right now. So I want to say thank you to them for having a way, having an approach, having a response that felt truly loving from an organizational standpoint and based in action and not just kind words. So this has been a difficult period for a lot of people, a difficult week especially for me as a black man, as a black queer man, as a black queer person and thinking about what would make sense to bring to space today. I thought about gay and black queer men in my life that I've collaborated with and the love that is in those collaborations and those connections and I thought it would be a great opportunity to platform that, those conversations. And so I would like to welcome author, facilitator, destination experience designer, I'm sure so many other things into the conversation but who today is Sean Brown. Hey Ebex, how are you doing? Hey I'm good, I'm sweating, it's warm in here but I'm very happy to be here, to be here in conversation with you. How are you? I'm wonderful, you know, I'm wonderful. Of course it's a roller coaster ride that we're all on and it's quite thrilling but you know I'm here and I'm just here and it's just so I just want to say thank you very much for providing this platform and for your generosity in opening it up to to to us to show the work that we've collaborated with you in doing and focusing a little bit on what we're doing along our healing journey here. So I just want to acknowledge you and say thank you so much for continuing the practice of your art and being visible in the world as a practitioner of your own healing art and making a way for all of us. So I want to thank you very much for doing that, yeah. Thank you and so I thought it'd be lovely to have you here in this space because of all the work you do with Bloom and you know it's you have organized trips for people to feel safe from any countries or spaces that sometimes we don't care about that in the news and more recently I've been participating in your training and I guess I just wanted to invite you here to to acknowledge work that's already happening already collective action and the uplifting of African diaspora communities um and wanted to hear share a little bit about that. Could you tell us how Bloom started? What's the emphasis for that and and what you're doing with that work? Wow so thank you for that question. I'm going to engage in a bit of storytelling because it's easy to focus on what the work is now but it is a part of my own personal journey. I came here at 24 years old to New York City 34 you know 36 years ago and I came as a black man Christian the Christian upbringing I was a lawyer at the time and I walked smack dab into the middle of the AIDS epidemic of the of the early 80s and so you know can you imagine bringing everything you know to New York City leaving everything behind because a lot of my relationships in Jamaica at the time were shot and so I was searching out from scratch as many do in this city being young in their 20s coming from Mississippi and Trinidad and Haiti and all over the world we brought our youth here and we ran right into that epidemic and so for me Bloom has been the pathway to finding my own family and community. I remember one day after the West Indian day parade just kind of walking through Eastern Parkway just completely lost emigues you know not having family you know friends passing away and it pretty much mirrors the time that we're in now so it's been a journey to create community and to make a home for myself to find a space for myself to be and in so doing put together a group of people that can make that happen so Bloom really unfolded from that journey and that's essentially what it is and you've been there you know you danced at our first party Bloom took when it initially came out in about 10 years ago when Barack was inaugurated the first party was a collaboration it was a party and it was between art and music and photography and all that kind of great stuff and it was brought together by a collective so we have continued in that vein and over the years we have been a community a philosophy you know a space a party again now a movie that we're going to see later that amplifies the creative and visionary voices of the people of the African Daspora so it's been an unfolding journey and again the through line is what can we do together to work together to create collectively that which we must for our own economic viability to create spaces where we can be safe and all that kind of great stuff so that's the process of the journey and I think it mirrors much of what's needed now amazing and you know I see woven throughout the different aspects of the work in your own producing and the way that you produce and in the way that you coach others fully embody their own truths that there is this elemental framework and I'm curious could just us a little bit of background about that elemental framework and how that shows up in your practice well I'm a curator of information and I've done several personal development courses you know all over the place I've studied with Malodomus Omea as well as on transformational courses being involved with metaphysics and all that kind of stuff but I took an interest in five element theory and it's the whole idea that five elements provide a framework for us for anything to be in balance and those are the elements of mineral some people call it ether nature that's the element of air fire water and earth and so it's looking through those lens as a metaphor of course as a legal the legal mind you know you talk about precedence it's almost like you can look through those elements and find a framework it's easy to find a framework and it's easy to curate people's work and see the framework in everything that we're doing whether it is in our projects and the way we have conversations and the way we come together as a community you know when they're there consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spend so if those elements are in place anything will grow except I want to give this caution there are there's knowledge you know which can easily be gained and everything is spouting knowledge and you can see the frameworks all around us you know but there's another thing called experience and so sometimes the knowledge and the frameworks get out get beyond the experience so life has really been about making sure the knowledge the framework for growth it's clearly there syncs up with the knowledge and the personal experience and I'm no you know I'm not someone who would say that I'm a perfect exemplar of that work but it's something that I'm always aware of that there's knowledge on the one hand and there's experience and I'm continually learning and growing so the piece we're going to see for example is an elemental hero's journey and I think second you would have a conversation about that so it's taking Joseph Campbell let's say the hero's journey for example and really putting it on the body of a black queer man and in this instance and watching the elemental journey through all the five elements of as he changes so that's one way of using the elements and we'll see that in the piece that's going to be shown beautiful thank you and it was that transformative work that I thought would be an appropriate thing to to show to meditate on to me with this particular week and in this particular call and especially also that it was made out of a group collective effort oh yes I'll chat with Seiku after we watch it but I just want to say thank you so much for joining us and where can people find you in your work thank you so much MX for again providing the space and yeah more to come more to come peace and blessings thank you blessing but now we're going to watch bloom the return and it is about 20 minutes and then I will speak with the director right after excited to be joined now by Seiku Luke the Seiku good to be here absolutely um let's get right into it I just wanted to uh a say was an amazing experience to be involved with that film it was such a lush production experience um even though we shot that in a very short amount of time um I guess I'm curious about um how that film came together and and I guess what it was like for you to be operating inside of that collective dynamic all right cool awesome first I just want to say thank you for um for allowing us to show the film and for for reaching out to us to to experiences um I know I'm here interviewing me but I really know I'm representing a larger family a larger collective it was so amazing seeing everyone's faces that that that's seeing the homecoming scene with the tableau the family coming together and just looking at the faces and the eyes of of like my brothers and sisters and remembering the experience of putting that together and that project really was was set in a game it was a a little approaching inside of like to create something for world pride and but we said we imagined and tripped it up we had only three months to to put it together but we decided we wanted to do it differently and work in a collective and collaborative way where we set a frequency and and setting out a call and drawing the artists that vibrate in that space and really it was about telling the bloom story and telling um the story of the mantra that the bloom has I can where the mantra in bloom it says I can hear myself I can feel myself changing I can see myself I am connected to all life I am home and that's the journey and so we wanted to tell that journey and give that journey out as a love letter to the world and it came about where we said that frequency and creatives came together we elaborated we worked differently we worked without the us the same hierarchy they usually get on set we worked in a space that people could come in and share your gifts and stretch and learn and grow and we wanted to tell our own story and fund it so we only spent $2,000 as a budget to make it because what made up for that was the gifts and talents and energy and love that was porting together in the community coming together to create art amazing and I'm you know I'm touched to to hear to to have been in the process and see how it sounded like it was really also affecting your own sense of possibility in in what you can create and what we can create together um and I think I said this in the first part but again I just wanted I thought that film was just such a nice thing to watch in a moment like this because we're seeing so many traumatic images of things being done to black bodies and I was like well what are some images that can give us something else to connect to you know um and that film is kind of the first thing that came to mind um but I know you know you also are involved in other activism things I see you showing up to document actions and this kind of thing and then also that you use your work to uplift other people's voices um so um I think uh Maddie's in the chat putting links in the chat but uh could you tell us a little bit about the work you're doing now and the creative genius report cool yeah and let me jump in I want to talk about that but I want to touch on something that you just mentioned about um this moment because I think I really want to speak to how we see this film especially from the collective from the I've been speaking to some of the different members and and how we see this film in context of what's happened today and definitely as as as being able to see different ways we see black bodies I'm seeing it seeing them powerful seeing them love each other seeing them celebrate seeing them joyful and that is so vitally important another the the piece that was so exciting especially about putting this project together as well it was a sense of us saying we're gonna create for ourselves we are gonna build with what we have we're not going to wait for somebody to give us a permission to sign off but we're going to be our fully sufficient in creating and telling our stories and creating and telling the narratives and that's especially what we think about this time what are we creating in this space and that as we answer those questions what are we creating and come and coming up with that and we start answering there are ways that we want to create there are ways we want to to tell stories about ourselves and make us and show um our our history you know in that sense so it's it's been that and and so with me it's been collaborating also with other other groups I have to creative genius report that's another platform that's operating very communally as well as CJ south who heads up so that's his big platform as well that he had set up um he works in the collect collective collaborative way so i'm working with that project as well and telling stories that that usually don't get told and get seen so with creative genius we're highlighting the creatives behind the major moments you'll see in pop culture and fashion and music but we're we're telling about the the creative who's at work the creative geniuses at work behind the scenes who are putting that together and sharing their stories so we have a piece right now um my drawer we just released it was a Jamaican born um hairstylist who was a key here for Paris fashion week and we followed him and shared his narrative so yeah that's what that's what really um I I really recognize I want to be creating in this space our stories that that change how we see ourselves and change how the world experiences us amen to that shea amen to that amen to that yes brilliant well thank you so much for joining us thank you for letting us screen the film um awesome thank you always a pleasure every interaction um so until the next time more soon thank you thank you so much mx all right wonderful thank you so next up is a brand new piece um I've been collaborating with uh Xavier Ryan who has a project called triggered music uh for a few years now and uh about a week ago he reminded me that we made a song called burn it down and was like can we release that because and I said okay great let's figure out what that is and what that means so we um he reworked some of the audio and then just in the last two days I put together the video that we're about to watch um and I think um you know again a part of the the kind of impulse behind this conversation and this event tonight is about how we can use the creative arts to transform trauma to reframe our trauma and make it something that can be usable energy um and it also I think is a way to document affect and to create opportunities for that transformed trauma to to be palatable and communicable uh through the medium so this is a brand new hot out the presses and we'll speak to Xavier right after that this is the way that I talk the way that I walk the way that I talk the way that I walk the way that I move between wet and drenched with void welcome back everyone and we're joined by Xavier Ryan hello Xavier and welcome how's it going good good um so this was a fun challenge and journey to to try to whip this song and video and to shape this week um but uh I'm curious um I guess I'm curious about what was your first impulse to to revisit that I mean there's some obvious reasons but um we haven't actually really talked about it we just kind of like did the work um you know because yeah you're giving like Gemini twin energy and I feel like you present in one way but then as people get to know you they they realize their sides that are less obvious that don't meet the eyes so I'm just curious about your response to this moment and and that track and you know anything that came up for you around uh getting it together yeah so the track I think we we were in the studio one day we just we were messing around and you came up with these lyrics burn it down was completely I was dope because during that time especially I was exploring this um more into politics and uh analyzing like leftist theory and political activism and what violence is and now this is happening and we're experiencing like this burning and people are are uh finally um I would say acting on so much oppression and it's building up and it's what's happening and I think uh those lyrics deeply reflect the actions of what's going on something I haven't mentioned on the call is that viewers may have noticed this is an intergenerational conversation and I see that with all the respect in the world um and and we're getting younger as as guests go along and so I've always found it really um interesting and inspiring to have conversations with you around these kinds of things because you're younger uh Dave you're just at a 25 uh birthday right so um and and I'm 36 so there's you know just some difference in perspective there um and that's always useful for me but um I've always uh surprised by the things that you talk about when we start talking about triggered music and where that idea came from and the the party that's related to that um so I'm curious if you could just uh speak to us a little bit about what was the inspiration for triggered music the name and what you're trying to do with that party so trigger came about with the kind of discourse in media where people use that meme uh triggered to describe people who get easily offended by situations and act out of anger and I kind of wanted to use that mimetic language to kind of reclaim it in a way where like I'm triggered I'm trying to yes uh be okay with that um feeling or anger or happiness or sadness every feeling and being okay with that and addressing it so not just you know covering it up or suppressing those feelings being able to address whether it's trauma whether it's happiness whether it's sadness whether it's like all those all the spectrum of emotion yeah just being able to be there yeah to be present and I found it interesting because you know you talked about having parties with a theme of violence for example which is not something we usually think of when we're thinking about a theme for a party right um but but there is um yeah just an urgency to be present with what's actually going on right now that I find in your work yeah it's kind of like uh especially that that could be kind of uh off-putting violence but um it's not necessarily what people should think about when they think of violence because they're it's a very simple thing like you experience violence when uh you have to walk across the street to make somebody else feel comfortable simply because of your race that's like violence or when you I don't know when you just any any type of oppression that you feel during the during the day based off of often uh a phenotypical information like gender sex uh race you know so that's pretty much what I want want people to focus on with uh addressing what violence is and how we could address and and feel and be present with that concept amazing well you know I do I do feel that in in the work that you make is always very kind of complex and somehow dimensional in the in the sonic landscapes that you're that you're kind of identifying and building um and so thank you for helping us find ways to be more present with these uh very difficult difficult things to sit with um so um I'm going to move to the next section so I just want to say thank you for your heroic remixing of that track this week um for encouraging us to put it out into the world uh and for joining us tonight and sharing your thoughts as always thank you thank you so much take care you too okay so um next um the our kind of final section of the evening tonight um I'm going to play some quartz crystal singing bowls and also metal bowls and um in thinking about what to share tonight the first thing that came to mind was some relief because uh it's almost yeah just being bombarded with so much content right now that's uh deeply troubling um and necessary to see in some way uh it's also important to take moments to refill and refuel so um I thought I would play the bowls for everyone who's out there doing the the good work fighting the good fight this week and needs to receive some energy um I'll also mention um that I recently released a series of guided meditation albums called crystal consciousness theory and practice and that evolved out of a series of live workshops that I did um and you can go to healing sound meditation and download the first one for free um and uh that one is just about how to energetically connect with a crystal and then the the last track on there is just a sound bath so you can go to healingsoundmeditation.com and when you click on the first album when you add it to cart it's just uh free or zero or you can put some money in there if you so desire um but that is there for you and as we go into this next section I'm going to play for about 20 minutes uh you may want to plug in your good speakers or put on headphones so you can get the best possible sound we're doing our best here with microphones and and things but if you can get good output on your end that'll help um and yeah just make sure you're in a really comfortable position you can have your eyes open or closed there will be visuals um but that choice is obviously up to you so I'm just going to take one moment and get myself sorted out here and get this get this going okay well thank you for joining us tonight I hope that was useful for your practice today and that you can download that sound bath at healing sound meditation and maybe help you go to sleep at night and I just want to say thank you again to Lulama and Culture Hub for extending this platform for this conversation for making this space it really felt like loving uh and generous and welcome organizational response that really comes from a human response so I'm grateful for that I'm grateful for uh Luba Day, Sekou and Xavier for joining us and sharing their work with us and if you're still in the chat I believe Maddie's going to put some links for uh places that you can donate to support um and you can also find places um more resources on lulamama.org so with that I will say thank you and good night


Hey everyone, welcome to theCUBE's live coverage of the Women in Data Science Worldwide Conference 2022. I'm your host, Lisa Martin, coming to you live from Stanford University. I'm pleased to welcome, fresh from the main stage, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, the associate professor of medicine here at Stanford. Tina, it's great to have you on the program. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I love being here, and I've been coming to WIDS for many years. So it's exciting to be part of this and participate. It is exciting. It's one of my favorite events since I was telling you before we went live, and if you think about it, they only started back in 2015, and how it's now, it was a one-day technical conference, and now it's this worldwide phenomenon in 60 countries, and just 200 different local events. Talk to me about, I caught part of the panel that you were on this morning, and one of the things that I loved that you were talking about was mentors and sponsors. Talk to me about what you guys were talking about on the panel overall, and some of your mentors were, as you came up in your career. Yeah, so mentorship is so important, and really it makes a difference in people's careers. So I come from first-generation family. No one in my family has had any higher education. So having a mentor, an academic mentor, was just made all the difference in the world for me. So I started undergraduate, and I was immediately paired with somebody, a mentor because I was first-generation. And this person, he's no longer with us today, but he believed in me, and he opened doors for me, and he opened my eyes to all of these different opportunities. And having somebody who believes in you and really can help you pursue these other ideas is just means, it's so important. And so we talked about, in the panel, we talked about the importance of having a mentor, but we also talked about the importance of being a mentor, and helping people and students coming into the field find their place and develop the confidence that this is for everybody. There's something for everybody here, and you've got to try, you've got to put your name out there, and having support is really important. Oh, it's critical. Even some interviews I was doing last week for an International Women's Day, which is tomorrow, I was surprised at the number of women that I talked to who said, well, I was told no. No, you can't study computer science. No, you can't study physics. And talking to- This is a really difficult field. Are you sure you want to pursue this? Well, yeah, I, you know. Yeah, instead of so having those mentors and that encouragement to help build that confidence from within is a game changer. Absolutely, absolutely. Tell me a little bit about your research. Yeah, so we do, we use electronic health data, all types of different health data to really define and predict, prognose healthcare outcomes. We develop AI algorithms, tools to analyze the data, and we really try, and one, incorporate the patient's voice in the tools we develop, and two, we try and get those back to point of care. So I think a lot of emphasis has been about model development and model performance, and we really focus on, okay, that's great, but it's only useful if we can get it back to the hands of the clinician, back to the patients to really improve health outcomes. And so that's a big piece of what we do, and as part of that, understanding patient values and patient preferences is really a big important aspect of developing optimal treatment and optimal models. That's good, involving them in the process. How can data science promote health equity? First of all, what is health equity, and how can data science help drive it? So health equity is really an important topic, and there's a lot of different definitions about what is health equity. Health equity, what we want is we want equal outcomes, and that's not equal resources. And so a lot of times, there's this contingency behind, are we trying to have equal resources for every patient, or is it equal outcomes? And so we really focus on equal outcomes. We want everyone to have the opportunity to have the same outcomes. So health equity requires that we really think about different populations and their different needs, different preferences, et cetera. So that's what we focus on. And so to your question about how data science can promote health equity, one of the things we've been working on is really thinking about the gold standard of clinical care, which is the clinical trial. So a clinical trial is our gold standard for what treatments work, in what situations, and for what populations. However, a lot of the clinical trials are developed in a non-representative population. So we have to have patients who can come into the care setting at multiple times during a period. They can't have particular diseases. They can't, for example, in one particular trial, we were looking at how they had to have a specific BMI. They couldn't have diabetes. They couldn't have all of these other healthcare conditions, which at the end of the day, it doesn't really represent the community at risk, right? And so when we develop these models using clinical trial data, a lot of times it's not generalizable to routine care. And so AI can really help that. AI can help us understand how we can better identify patients to include in trials, what patients are going to be more likely to complete the trials. And so there's a lot of opportunity there to think about how we diversify clinical trials and also how we can start thinking about stimulating and doing pragmatic clinical trials if we don't have enough data to represent certain populations. Right, one of the exciting things about data science is all of the things that it's informing. It's also, it can be, there's pros and cons, right? But when we talk about AI, we always talk about ethics. How is it being used in healthcare? How are you seeing it being used ethically and effectively in healthcare to really turn the table on some of those biases that to your point weren't representing some of the most vulnerable parts of the community? Right, and I think we've been taking this holistic approach of the AI life cycle. So not just focusing on the data we capture, but the whole life cycle. So what does that mean? That means where's the data coming from? Who's capturing it and in what setting, right? If we're only looking at the healthcare setting, well, we're missing another large population. If it's only collected via a mobile device, there's another big population we're missing. So thinking about where the data is coming from and then thinking about who it represents and who's missing from that. The next step is really thinking about the questions we're asking. I'll give you a good example. We can ask, can I use AI to predict a no-show appointment? Or can I use AI to identify barriers for this patient to access care? So really even thinking about how we can flip that question to make it more equitable, make it more diverse is really important. And then there's been a lot of work in model development and algorithmic fairness and so there's a lot of research on that. But then there's another piece that we don't really see a lot on and that's model deployment. What are the biases when you introduce this into the healthcare system? The clinicians, how do they understand the data we're giving them, the tools? How do they use that to make clinical decisions? And then also what systems can actually deploy these AI algorithms because they're very resource intensive. So we think about the AI and equity along all of those aspects of the AI lifecycle and it really helps us get a more holistic view because each of these components intersects. They do, you're right. Tell me, I'm curious a little bit about your background. You are associate professor of medicine here at Stanford but give the audience an overview of the path that you took to get where you are. Yeah, and so not a straight path which is often typical that we're hearing today. So I started getting a master's in epidemiology and public health. And from there I was like, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do. I applied to medical school. But I'm like, I'm not sure that's what I want to do. So I went and got a PhD in computational biology. I'm very, I'm only data savvy. And so thinking about how I could use data and then I was interested in healthcare. And so I got my PhD in computational biology. And from there I was thinking about, well I was really interested in the application of data science to the healthcare field. So then I got a master's in health services research. So it's the combination of all these different degrees that make me really have, I think a diverse view. I really understand the need for multidisciplinary teams and how we need opinions and viewpoints from so many different disciplines to really create something that's equitable and fair and something that is feasible and usable. Thought diversity is so important in every aspect of life, whether we're talking about business life, personal life and without it, there's bias. Absolutely, absolutely. And so we see this, we'll have a clinician maybe come to us with a question and then we'll have the health economist think about it. We'll have the other people think about it. And we kind of work it and we massage it to get to something that's meaningful and something we can really use that's gonna change care for patients or particular patients. And so it's really important to have that diversity. Absolutely, talk to me about your team. Yeah, so my team is very diverse. And I'm very proud of that. We have diversity across every aspect. So we have racial ethnic diversity. We're probably about 80% female on my team. And so interestingly, one of my members was like, wow, I didn't realize I'm like such a minority on your team, it was a male. And so I'm like, and I'm very proud of that. But we also have very diverse disciplines. So we have a lot of medical students, medical faculty. We have computer scientists, engineers, epidemiologists, health policy experts. And so it's very, very diverse. And what I like to do is I like to pair people up in teams. So I might put a health economist with a computer scientist and watch them go. And it's just amazing how they can learn from each other and the directions they go in. It's just, it's really incredible. Well, the opportunities that that interdisciplinary relationship builds, I mean, opportunities and possibilities must be endless. Yeah, and it also allows students to understand how to speak to different groups because we don't speak the same language. We really don't. And equity is a good example. So equity to me might have a certain meaning, but equity to the health policy expert might have a different meaning. And so even understanding how we speak to other groups is so important. And being able to translate something in a simple language that other people get is really key. Absolutely, here we are. Tomorrow is International Women's Day. Exciting. And it is exciting in Women's History Month. We get a whole month to ourselves, which is fantastic. But one of the things, you know, when we look at the, at the data, 50, you know, the workforce, 50, 50, males and females, but the STEM positions are still so low. Right, right. Below 25%, are you seeing, obviously WIDS is a positive step in that direction to start shifting that. But what do you tell the younger set in terms of, yeah, it is a challenge. Yeah, it is a challenge to really, and this is the example I always give, as a woman, we've all walked into these rooms that are all male. Oh, yes. We've all walked into these rooms where you're sitting at the table. Oh, can you take notes? And it's hard. It's really hard, but you know what? It takes courage. So again, that mentorship, being able to speak up, being able to set your place at that table, I think is really important. And we're doing better. We're doing better, but it really is through consistent mentorship, consistent confidence building, et cetera. It is. Yeah. And this event is fantastic for that. It's going to reach about 100,000 people annually. Amazing. Men and women of all ages, of all different career backgrounds, which is fantastic. But the International Women's Day theme tomorrow is breaking the bias, hashtag breaking the bias. Yes. What do you think we are on that? I think we have a lot of ways to go. Yeah. And so there's bias in our teams. There's bias in the way we think. There's bias in our data. And there's been a lot of publicity and hype about the bias in the data. And it is so true. And certainly in healthcare systems. And it's important to understand that when we're developing AI and all these machine learning or data-driven models, they learn from the data we give it. So if we're giving it a biased data sample or an unrepresented data sample, it's going to learn those characteristics. And so I think it's important that we think about, how do we do a better job at capturing data, diversity, voices from different populations? And it's not just using the same tools and technology we have today and going to another community and saying, okay, here's what I have. It's not working that way. So I think we need to think outside of the box to think how do these people want to communicate with us? How do they want to share our data? It's about trust too, because there is trust is a big issue with that. So I think there's a lot of opportunities there to just further develop that. Do you think there really is going to be such a thing one of these days of a non-biased, unbiased set of data? I don't think so. I don't think so because the more we dig, the more biases we find. And so while we're making great strides in race and ethnicity, diversity in our data sets, there's other biases, male, female, age biases, disease biases, et cetera. So just the more we dig into this, the more we identify, but it's great because when we find these gaps in our data or gaps, we take steps to address that and to mitigate those biases. So we're moving in the right direction for sure and putting a spotlight on it and being transparent about it I think is key to move forward. I agree, that transparency is critical. Yes, absolutely. And we often say she can't be what she can't see. Right. And so from a transparency perspective in the data and also in the visibility of the leaders and the mentors and the sponsors, that transparency is table stakes. Absolutely, absolutely. What are some of the things that you're looking forward to as we hopefully move out of the pandemic into the end of it? I can imagine with the masters in public health you have an MPH. Yes. Your perspective must be so interesting on living through a global pandemic. Right, it is. And it's interesting because we've gone through the pandemic and now it's turning into this endemic, right? And so how do we deal with that? And one of the things I think that is really important is we find a way to still meet and collaborate face to face, share ideas. This conference is amazing where we can share ideas, we can meet new people, we can learn new perspectives and being able to continue to do that is so important. I think that during the pandemic we really took a big hit in the transfer of learning in our labs and in our teams. And now it's funny because my team, they're like, let's go to lunch, let's do a happy hour. Let's, you know, they just want that social interaction. And it's more to better understand the perspectives of where they're coming from with their questions, better understanding the skills they bring to the table. But it's just this wonderful opportunity to think about how we move forward now in our new world, right? Yes, we're getting there slowly but surely. Well Tina, thank you for joining me, talking about your role, what you're doing, the importance of mentors and sponsors and the opportunity for data science and healthcare. We appreciate your insights. Absolutely, thank you for having me. It's been a wonderful, wonderful thing. My pleasure, excellent. Thank you. For Tina Hernandez-Boussard, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's live coverage of Women in Data Science Worldwide Conference 2022. Stick around, my next guest will join me shortly.