One of the things that we're really pleased about about the book is the title Eating Tomorrow and the double meaning captures the real essence of what I was trying to communicate Which is that humanity does indeed face Continuing challenge to ensure that everyone can eat today and climate change poses makes that challenge all the more daunting About making sure everyone can eat tomorrow But the way we're producing our food is Unchemical intensive industrial scale farms is quite literally Devouring the natural resources the seeds the land the soil the climate The water on which future food production depends By continuing and now even expanding such unsustainable production methods. We are eating our collective tomorrows And the powers that be far from shifting away from that kind of a damaging farming model are instead promoting ever more industrial scale agriculture I wrote this book because with 30 years in this field I wanted to understand why policy makers were ignoring all the low-cost solutions all around them Offered by small their own small-scale farmers and instead they're pushing expensive policies that not only fail to help the hungry eat today They are undermining the capacity of all of us to eat tomorrow Hello and welcome. I'm Lynn freeze producer of global political economy or Gbe news docs today's guest is Tim wise in That opening clip Tim was speaking at the 2019 launch of his book eating tomorrow a book about Agribusiness family farmers and the battle for the future of food today We'll be looking into the battle for the future of food in Africa We'll do this through the lens of two very different alliances One the alliance for food sovereignty in Africa and the other the alliance for a green revolution in Africa Their respective acronyms being Afsa and Agra Tim wise is senior research fellow at Tufts universities global development and environment Institute and senior advisor on the future of food from the US to India and Mexico to Mozambique at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Welcome Tim Thanks so much, Lynn in early September the Alliance for Food sovereignty in Africa released an open letter stating the green revolution had failed Africa and In the statement Afsa demanded that donors of the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa stop funding the Agra Initiative there was a press briefing held at the time So Tim start by giving us some background on all that and who the Alliance for food sovereignty in Africa represent and Something about the discovery process of your own research findings on the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa When I was researching my book a lot of the work I did was in southern Africa and I heard a lot about the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa and its program to promote the use of chemical fertilizers and commercial seeds to replace seeds and practices that farmers typically use in those regions and But you never came across the actual organization Agra what you saw was Lots of promotional activity and direct subsidies by African governments to sell those Those inputs And you heard a lot about how it wasn't working after I'd heard about that really for the three four years I was doing the research for the book I finally got the occasion to do a deeper study on whether the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa was having the kind of impact that it Claimed it was going to have really Promising a productivity revolution for Africa small-scale farmers. They promised in their original goals to double Productivity and yields and incomes for 30 million small-scale farmers. That's a lot of farmers While cutting food insecurity in half And so I just looked at the 13 countries that Agra focuses on or has focused on for most of its 15-year history and Looked at whether there was any sign of a productivity revolution income improvements or food security Improving and there really isn't so it's striking that What I had observed more anecdotally out in the field doing my research for the book Was so dramatically confirmed in this Research on what wears the green revolution and the farmers I talked to in southern Africa weren't wrong when they said it's not working It's not working so the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa is The largest civil society organization in Africa those farmers I was talking to in southern Africa are members of organizations peasant unions networks that are often members of The Alliance they claim among their members an affiliate over 200 million members across the continent in 50 countries, so this is a Large powerful grassroots organization representing food producers largely Not just farmers, but fisher folk pastoralists and others and So when they take a stand and say directly challenge The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa and donors to it to stop funding it It's it's a big deal And it really deserves attention because it's a bold step for an organization to come out that publicly and say to aid organizations. Hey, your aid is Not what we want or need we want something else and the something else they want is support for agroecology and other low-input smallholder friendly climate resilient Programs that actually support small holders doing what they do, but doing it better In the words of of asset that press briefing they said after nearly 15 years spending more than one billion dollars to promote the use of commercial seeds chemical fertilizers and pesticides in 13 African countries and an additional one billion dollars per year of African government subsidies for seeds and fertilizers Agra has failed to provide evidence that yields incomes or food security Increased significantly and sustainably for smallholder households across its target countries So the message from Asa to Agra's donors is stop funding the green revolution technology and shift your support To agroecology and approach that Africa's small-hold food producers say works and they want so in short What's meant by agroecology? Agroecology is defined in in many different ways, but I think the simplest Way to understand it is as an approach to growing food That tries to work in harmony with natural systems rather than trying to overcome them By using say pesticides to control pests fertilizer to to create soil fertility for the crops Etc, but it's also a social movement at this point And I think a lot of people like those at at the Alliance for Food sovereignty in Africa Really connected to food sovereignty in the sense that it's really about empowering local food producers to To take the lead in and determining how agriculture and food moves forward The general coordinator of the Alliance for Food sovereignty in Africa put it this way He wrote we welcome investment in agriculture in our continent But we seek it in a form that's democratic and responsive to the people at the heart of agriculture Not as a top-down force that ends up concentrating power and profit into the hands of a small number of multinational Corporations the AFSA press briefing at the time of the open letter made it clear that well before Releasing that open letter in September AFSA had sent letters to major agra donors asking them to provide some evidence that the agra initiative Was living up to its promises in other words meeting its goals But ASSA reported they received few and no credible responses despite the fact that The ASSA network represents more than as you say 200 million food producers across Africa These leaders are deeply insulted and they should be I mean it's not just the Alliance for Food sovereignty in Africa One of its member organizations the Southern Africa faith communities environment Institute an organization started by faith leaders in Southern Africa They wrote an open letter to the Gates Foundation Gates Foundation is far and away the largest donor to agra I mean really it is the Gates Foundation's organization They've contributed two-thirds of a billion dollars over 15 years of agra's billion dollar budget so far so it's really their organization and they Never even responded to this letter sent sent by faith communities a letter signed by 500 faith leaders across the region I mean it I don't know the lack of accountability is really astonishing from these organizations AFSA the Alliance for Food sovereignty in Africa wrote its letter in June sent it to all of the major donors to to agra and Got very few replies absolutely no evidence and no response at all from the Gates Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation from USAID Our major sponsor UK aid They got the they got very little and nothing in terms of evidence. It's a little bit surprising to me that Having published my research now more than a year ago that None of the donors and and agra itself have to come up with anything Credible that refutes or challenges our findings that it's not working. I mean we found Such failure we found that Yields have barely have increased hardly faster than they had before agra and the green revolution push came along And at very low rates. We found the poverty was still endemic particularly in rural areas and the the most remarkable And to me surprising finding honestly was that the number of undernourished people the UN's measure of severe hunger had gone up 30% rather than being cut in half in agra's 13 countries So the published research that you cited is the 2020 Tufts University Paper titled Failing Africa's Farmers and impact assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and for this impact assessment We should note you used National-level data to assess progress and productivity poverty reduction and food security and agra's 13 Target countries because despite spending billions there was little publicly available Data documenting the impact of the agra initiative was having either from agra the Gates Foundation or donor governments and agra itself declined to provide data from its own Internal monitoring and evaluation However in 2020 as agra reached its own self-imposed deadline and meeting its own stated goals Your study revealed that agra had failed on its own terms and you've confirmed those findings in subsequent updates So fast forward to October 2021 You find it surprising that agra and agra donors have failed to provide credible evidence to refute the findings of your research Publications and a related report false promises So as an alarming example of all this you were saying that far from meeting Its own goal to cut hunger in half by 2020 Undernourished people in Africa, which is the UN measure of extreme hunger has gone up in agra's 13 countries and the most recent UN report is even more alarming about this being just the wrong the wrong path for Africa to follow because it showed that The number of undernourished people in sub-saharan Africa as a whole since 2006 when agra was founded has increased by 50% Not decreased by 50% so taking Africa in the absolute wrong direction and No answer on providing any evidence that they're doing that anything they're doing is really working and and then like you said no accountability No interest in engaging and Responding to these major community organizations and networks in Africa the real The stakeholders that matter if you're talking about increase in smallholder productivity and incomes and food security No no response to them Among other things the report a sting in the agra tale Makes the connection between africas being taken in the wrong direction and agra's influence on laws in favor of agra business in africa And that report details how agra promotes and creates through financial and other Contributions and institutional framework in many of its focused countries that makes its own green revolution approach Binding through laws and framework conditions. In other words agra's role in the corporate capture of governance of food and agriculture in africa The upshot being the exclusion of voices of as you say the real stakeholders at the heart of Agriculture in africa, which is what afsa obviously argues And what the uan food system summit has shed light on is agra's influence and As it's put in the title of a report on this topic cementing corporate capture of food governance Through decision-making in the world international public institutions and the corporate capture of the uan food system summit Being a case in point and a recent report titled exposing corporate capture of the uan food system summit through multi-stakeholderism Gets into details and among other things the report shows how agra Fits into the interconnections between multi-stakeholder institutions and corporate actors and corporate influence in the leadership of the uan food system summit So given all that comment more broadly on the battle for the future food in africa and specifically Give us more context on the statement by the alliance for food sovereignty in africa That they quote wanted to state clearly and categorically that the alliance for a green revolution in africa Does not speak for africans The alliance for a green revolution in africa is based in nerobi every year. They hold an annual green revolution forum it's called it's really a place where agribusiness and governments and foundations come together and Um, kind of rally the troops and make deals for investment and and the rest This year they they um were I thought pretty brazen and insensitive in announcing that their green revolution forum would offer a what they called a singular african coordinated african voice Going into the food system summit as if they spoke for africa and african food producers and Um, that just incensed the leaders of the alliance for food sovereignty in africa. It was like you do not speak for africans We speak for african food producers and you won't even answer our letters The battle for the future of food is is exactly a battle between Um, I call it agribusiness and family farmers, but it's much broader than that, right? It's the It's the battle between Those who are advocating a Unequitable just and Climate resilient and sustainable food system that produces healthy food and those who are advocating really business as usual in spite of their claims that Business as usual is no longer an option. That's exactly what they're offering At this un food system summit for example The un special repertoire and the rate to food michael foch fochry has participated in that process With a very critical eye and came out with a report as the un special repertoire saying this The problem with the way this has been conducted and the way it's being carried out and with the conclusions that it's Coming to with these a bunch of so-called game-changing solutions to our food system problems Is that corporate interests have dominated the agenda? it's marginalized the actual food producers from those discussions and The outcome is More strategies that are threatening to have us eating our collective tomorrows by undermining the resource space We need to grow food in the future. Not just Not just in africa in the u.s Not just in the u.s in in india and and the The food system summit was convened on the premise And the recognition that we were not on track to meet the goal by 2030 of eliminating extreme hunger We absolutely are not in fact removing in the opposite direction and unfortunately the food system summit has jettisoned all of the the most promising approaches that could actually And business as usual and give us food systems that begin to restore the earth provide healthy and nutritious food to everyone on the planet and to Achieve the the promise of the right to food That is enshrined and endorsed by so many countries around the world Let's talk now about another common denominator in what's happening with food systems, whether How the agri-initiative is taking african the wrong direction or the UN food system summit is taking the world in the opposite direction of what you say could actually begin to restore the earth And provide healthy and nutritious food for everyone on the planet I'm thinking here about disinformation campaigns that demonize Approaches like those jettisoned from the the UN food system summit that you're talking about for instance an op-ed by renowned economist yomo ks titled beware uan food systems summit trojan horse Draws attention to what he calls deliberate deceptions to undermine support for agro ecology And the gates funded cornell alliance for science for instance has been widely criticized for disseminating this kind of Disinformation in a scientific american op-ed titled bill gate should stop telling africans What kind of agriculture africans need afsa gives details how this applies to africa Where support for the agro ecology paradigm? They support is being undermined among africa's scientists and political leaders by this kind of disinformation campaign So comment on the demonization of agro ecology It's a it's a concerted campaign And in part that's the result of the movement for agro ecology gaining traction in international institutions like the UN's food and agriculture organization They adopted a scaling up agro ecology program to Support governments that want to expand ecological agriculture the UN's high level panel of experts it's called on food systems is a Very well respected group that does these in-depth studies They just recently did one that resulted in a resolution by the committee on world food security to To promote agro ecology is one of the important solutions to the climate crisis and to hunger So it's gaining traction and The powers that be are alarmed And they've fought back with Just crazy disinformation campaigns Demonizing and portraying african farmers as as backwards for saving their seeds and being wedded to these I mean what they call traditional technologies that the What what most offended me as a researcher who's worked with a lot of a lot of different organizations that promote agro ecology is that They are wildly innovative. I mean this is the the idea that this is somehow backward is just It's just ludicrous they I mean, they're basically taking Scientists out into the field and saying How talking to farmers and saying what do you need? How can you? Improve your soil fertility so you get higher yields. Um, and how can we help you? The innovations are not minor in that process and in fact farmers themselves are some of the most innovative Because they are the ones on the front lines of climate change. They see what seeds Perform well under drought conditions. They see how Growing a multiplicity of crops in the same fields Improves soil fertility and reduces their climate risk because If a drought comes through and wipes out the corn crop They have other crops that they can rely on for food and That's where this the green revolution model is so is so limited And but but to have these proponents of what I argue is actually really old technology seeds and fertilizers That strategy comes from the green revolution of the 60s and 70s in the last middle of the last century We are 50 years on from that And they're still selling the same old technologies How can you demonize people who are truly innovating with ecological agriculture? With this old technology claiming that it's an innovation that is somehow fresh new and and going to solve today's problems It just it's just not So then the way you see it is that these disinformation campaigns partly reflect agribusiness alarm A situation where governments instead of depending on corporate solutions to combat hunger and climate change Are increasingly seeking solutions in other approaches and in the case of scaling up agroecology Doing so with the support of programs at the world's public Institutions of food governance in this case the un roam based agency the food and agriculture organization or FAO So it's not so hard to understand how an agenda and narrative coming out of the un That agroecology is a win win win for people planet and livelihoods What alarm agribusiness and its allied interests and how as you say Corporate interests are fighting back This then serves to protect markets for corporate innovation from old technology like the green revolution technology We've been talking about in the context of africa to new technology like the kind championed as techno fixes at the un food system summit Talk more about africa as a market for corporate innovation Most of us think of green revolution technology as genetically modified crops So tell us more about the kind of green revolution technology that's being advocated by agra in africa Agra itself is very careful not to Publicly state that it is advocating for Genetically modified crops because they are just so widely rejected on the continent of africa What it's doing though and what the gates foundation is doing and others USAID Are are advocating for changes in in seed laws and intellectual property laws that Would open the door for genetically modified crops to start to be used in africa They That involves they've made some incursions in that regard in nigeria and in gana Overwhelmingly the Countries do not allow Genetically modified crops particularly food crops to be grown cotton is often a an exception to that Because it's not directly consumed But but it's important to recognize that the the road to genetically modified crops is Has a has a number of steps along the way Um First What you do if you're trying to open that door is you get farmers to stop using the seeds that they save year to year And you don't need gmo's to do that What what the green revolution? Cells is what are called hybrid seeds? Seeds that have been bred and they're bred in such a way That they supposedly will give you high yields Usually only if you have all of these inputs that mostly farmers can't afford Irrigation fertilizer pesticides And the like Hybrid seeds can't be saved from year to year because they don't hold their what it's called Vigor their productivity It will degenerate if they're saved from year to year So the first step you do when I saw this in Malawi is you try and get farmers To give up their local seeds you tell them they're unproductive. Some of them are not very productive That they've been overused but they're tired as people would say And you should start using our commercial seeds and once you're using them You can't save them and so you need to buy them every year and you've opened up a market for seed suppliers Monsanto in in now Bayer in Malawi Sells 50 of the hybrid maize seeds In that market and so that those are big markets for these seed companies They don't need to be selling GMOs to make money and that path of getting farmers dependent on Commercial seeds that are these hybrids you can't save year to year so they have to buy them every year And the fertilizers to make them grow Creates a dependency that very much serves the interests of these agribusiness corporations So the experience we've seen in green revolution from the 60s and 70s over the decades and in other parts of the world is that As farmers get put on the path of dependency of these corporate inputs. They can run into Serious debt problems comment on that risk Sure. That's a that's a huge risk it's the probably the headline risk that people have heard about from india because of the high levels of farmers suicides farmers suicides because Crops fail and Farmers have gone into debt to buy the seeds and fertilizers and Rather either out of the humiliation of being in debt or the The desire to free their families from the debt that the farmer himself has incurred they take their own lives That's We're not at that level in in africa. I mean the levels of dependency are not as high on these on these inputs like I said, this has been a this is a relatively early stage in In the attempt to bring african agriculture under agribusinesses control um, the vast majority Of african food is still produced by africans using seeds. They've saved from year to year from their crops So that's the market that that bear monsanto and others want to get In wrapping up talk now about Agroecology is the kind of approach members of the alliance for food sovereignty in africa Want agro donors to switch funding to there's plenty of compelling and inspiring stories in support of that on afsa's website, which has a whole section of agroecology case studies So your work takes you all over the world, but staying with today's focus on africa. Tell us something about what you are seeing there Oh, sure. I mean, it's very inspiring stuff. That's what keeps me in this work is getting to be I mean, it's been it's been Awful and under coven not to really be able to travel and do that kind of international research and reporting that I that I that I was able to do for the book And in my career generally To be out in the field and see what's going on that I mean, it really is a growing movement You have literally millions of acres in west africa in a program of Restoration of degraded dry lands through the regeneration of tree farming Very simple, but labor intensive process of Of getting trees that have that have been cut down To grow again They provide shade they change literally change the climate in that region and allow Food to once again be grown on those lands wildly successful And literally on millions of of acres of land you have others where Again, I again, I think it's millions of acres of farmers doing what's called either intercropping or Or cover cropping. It's basically farmers who've grown dependent on monocultures of maize of corn, which is what's generally promoted being Coached into Choosing good good leguminous crops like beans to intercrop in the in in the rows of of corn very much taking from What we know in the united states as the old three sisters model of The ancient maya right you grow Beans squash and corn in the same fields and you're both producing a nutritious diet in combination and a way to sustain the soil in combination That's all been destroyed by industrial agriculture. That's being broken apart Each crop on its own field and Mining the nutrients from the soil and in their own ways in africa they there are huge projects to Get To get farmers growing these leguminous crops with their maize crops and they've found these guys have more than doubled yields for for maize and other food crops in the process without resorting to dependence on on chemical inputs It's really not hard to find success stories out there but If you have your blinders on like the gates foundation does and others and you are Wetted to the Dogmatic notion that the only way you can get progress and solve problems is with technologies Then you're going to miss the you're missing that train Tim wise. Thank you. Thank you so much, Lynn And from Geneva, Switzerland. Thank you for joining us for this segment of gpe news docs for related stories I'll put links in the transcript to conversations with guest harris glackman nick buxton and pat mooney respectively the conversation with global governance expert harris glackman Unpacks the multi stakeholder model championed by Multistakeholder institutions like the world economic forum as the mechanism and pathway for the corporate takeover of global governance A process that's being normalized at the united nations under a strategic partnership agreement Signed by the un secretary general with the world economic forum The conversation with transnational institutes nick buxton Was on how people's movements all over the world are mapping the corporate takeover of global governance in sector after sector From agriculture to technology what buxton calls a silent global coup d'etat The conversation with etc group and ipass foods pat mooney Goes into the corporate takeover of global governance of food and agriculture And reaches into the corporate capture of the un food system summit that was part of today's conversation with tim wise


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Live from San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, covering Hadoop Summit 2016. Brought to you by Hortonworks. Here's your host, George Gilbert. Good afternoon, this is George Gilbert. I'm your host right now at Hadoop Summit, San Jose. This is our premier Hadoop conference for Hadoop Summit in the middle of the summer. So I'm scoping it down a little bit. And my guests for this segment are Tendu Yogotsu. Hi, George. Of SyncSort, and Scott now of Hortonworks. And they've announced something a couple of months ago at Hadoop Summit in Europe, and they're going to give us an update on the partnership between the two companies. Tendu, why don't you start? Sure, we are very excited that we are actually having a new agreement with Hortonworks tightening our partnership. Hortonworks will be reselling SyncSort, DMXH for ETL onboarding on Hortonworks data platform, basically bringing all data from enterprise data sources from legacy mainframe to relational data stores so emerging data repositories like Hadoop as well as streaming and integrating and onboarding users easily on Hadoop. Scott, so obviously if you're the champion on the Hortonworks side, what did you look at in the field of competitors which seems fairly large, what jumped out at you? Sure, well there are a couple of things, George. One, and we're highlighting the messaging here at Hadoop Summit about this notion of connected data platforms and the fact that businesses really require access to all of the data all of the time, and that means certainly all of the data whether it be data that's created in legacy mainframe systems, if it's data that's created at the edge and new devices and anywhere in between, all of the data and all of the time at the right time so that they can make meaningful decisions at the right time in the customer interaction experience. So as part of that, it's obviously really important to us to figure out ways to make it easier for our customers to get access to all of their data and their data legs and their implementations of the larger Hadoop ecosystem. And so we looked around, we came upon the product from Syncsport DMXH. We really like what it enables. It's kind of an easy button for onboarding, especially for legacy data where a lot of the work on doing provenance and building structure and building metadata has already been done. Being able to pick that up seamlessly and get it into the data legs so that it can be accessed and integrated into other kinds of analytics, that easy button is really what it creates. Runs natively on the cluster, certified to work with Hortonworks, and our customers have been asking us for these kinds of solutions to make their journey a little bit easier. So it was kind of a win-win. So a couple of things to unpack in there. One thing that sounded important was in the source, in the data source repositories or strings, there was metadata that was important for governance and provenance. How is that brought forward in a way that it fits in with whatever tools are going to be, the customers going to use in Hadoop? One of the value propositions that Syncsort brings is really making that metadata mapping simple. So if organizations are accessing, let's say, VSAM data or DB2 on the mainframe and Oracle tables, we do the mapping of schemas from these data sources automatically to the schemas on Hive or any other data target that's on the Hadoop side. So we simplify that. The user basically has to just point to a data source and regardless of that data source being Kafka, Q versus mainframe, we are really operating on a single data pipeline and making that all access to all data a single step. But it would be another step beyond that to include data about who touched what and how things were transformed? Yes, because we have the knowledge where that data is originating from, cross-platform knowledge, whether it's from mainframes, whether it's open systems, we can basically expose that metadata to the Hadoop-based repositories and like Atlas, for example, and make it available for our joint customers. Okay, so those tags can be passed along and they can be integrated through any tool. Certainly, since we've announced our partnership, we've also made some really big enhancements to Apache Atlas from a governance perspective. And so all these pieces start to fit together nicely in a seamless end-to-end kind of process flow. And I think it's also really important to keep in mind kind of the product advantage that the SyncSorto brings in being able to speak natively to those legacy systems. That's a very complicated problem to go solve for and creating optimizations around pipelining that data very efficiently is something that kind of comes in the box with the product. So our customers don't have to think about that thing with the appropriate credentials, the appropriate IP addresses they can connect up and just start moving stuff around. So we're hearing so much noise in what was the ETL space as we move. Well, let me ask you, tell me the design patterns we were moving from with the operational databases, data warehouses and what the design pattern looks like. And if the design pattern is the wrong word, you know, put the right one in. I certainly, Scott will be the expert here coming from TerraData speaking on that. What we are seeing is that at some point, really how the data warehouse architecture evolved. ETL data integration products just became very expensive schedulers. That was really one of the business cases that Hadoop became so attractive to these large enterprises trying to leverage their data assets and trying to take advantage of data and make it really available for advanced analytics. ETL, ELT workloads became like 40, 60, 80% of the data warehouse architecture which became not scalable and very costly. So we started seeing that data integration vendors were really expensive schedulers just pushing everything to the data warehouse and doing ELT. Now, Singsort has been always in the ETL place because we transformed the data in our engine. We thought that Hadoop was very complimentary for that orchestration because we didn't have a business to cannibalize actually, to kill in that very large data integration space. We just took that lightweight dynamic optimization and integrated the engine through our open source contributions as well to the Hadoop ecosystem. And that has several advantages. One, ETL is really running in Hadoop in our engine. So everything around the technology stack and interoperability comes organically. So when we have range of security, certification is out of the box. When it is on parry, deployment with on parry is out of the box. So ELT, our ETL engine is really now ETL onboarding on Hadoop for us. But I will let Scott speak to that. Let me ask you to step beyond that and tell us about how people manage this process from OLTP databases to data warehouses and what that pattern is looking like now. Well, I think there actually are multiple patterns and the problem has grown kind of beyond beyond just traditional ETL, which is one piece of what's required to do data movement inside of an enterprise. So, but it's an important piece, right? It's important piece because if you think about transaction-based databases, ERP systems, other things that are running the business operationally, can't go down. A lot of work went into standardization of the process, understanding the schema, understanding the metadata and the business rules around the data. So there's no reason to regress from that. You want to maintain and capture that and pull it forward into any other architecture that you're moving the data. And that's certainly where this tool fits very nicely is we talked about kind of the product feature and the capabilities of doing that. But I think overall, ETL is a very small portion of the larger problem that's hitting all of us now in all the data all the time, where we've got streaming data, devices, IoT data, web-related data. Some of that data is not ever going to go through an ETL process, right? Because an ETL process also defines, generally speaking, the data are structured, the data are known, the data are owned by a company they're going to be used for something managing a system, right? Device data isn't happening inside the firewall and it's not necessarily owned by a company, but it's important to capture that data and take advantage of the analytic content. So that's a completely different process than ETL, but it's data movement. So being able to put together, just like we talk about the Hadoop ecosystem, the community and the ecosystem of partners, I think in this space partnerships and an ecosystem of technologies to go address that problem is what you'll see, this partnership represents a really important and critical part of that operational aspect of what's going to happen in data movement. So let me ask you to put in NIFI or Onyara, and I'm not sure the naming the... Hortonworks data flow. Yeah, Hortonworks data flow, that was it. Rolls off the tongue. How much does that, how many of the other pieces of the puzzle does that provide? That covers a really big piece of the puzzle where you can think of Hortonworks data flow and Apache based on Apache NIFI as kind of the traffic cop, managing all of the different data flows into which you might plug some Kafka, into which you might plug some ETL tools and understanding at a macro level how data are flowing inside of an enterprise in addition to kind of being the traffic cop and managing and helping understand all of those mega flows and how they're going. It can also be used to push processing to the edge for simple event processing. It can be used for prioritization of messages over a fixed bandwidth. So there are a lot of other things at NIFI addresses, but again, it's part of an ecosystem of solutions where the appropriate technologies need to fit together in a robust ecosystem. So it sounds like, maybe I'm borrowing too liberally, but it sounds like the orchestrator and then there are going to be several execution engines. You know, maybe Kafka is one. I'm having early onset Alzheimer's. Think so, DMX. Yes, think so. Which is running in actually leveraging the compute frameworks in the ecosystem. But then would it be fair to say that Hortonworks data flow is the sort of traffic cop above all these? And there are orchestration points that you can pick and choose based on the requirement, yes. And in addition, obviously as part of, we announced our partnership in April in Dublin. We've hit the ground running. We've got a lot of interest from our joint customers. We have a lot of customers together already. I think who are really happy to hear about the relationship, but we now have the opportunity to work even more closely together doing integration for data governance, integration for security, integration of the orchestration layer and some of those other key pieces of technology that will fit together in that data fabric. So even managing the governance across these. Yeah, governance, provenance, some of the big issues that are out there for us as a community to go solve, we can start working on these things together. Does that would explain why at the Teradata Influencer summit a couple of weeks ago, they kept saying Hardenworks data flow is to, I won't say any vendor names of the previous generation. It's like the new, sort of the new way of doing things. And it is a new way of doing things in that it was built specifically for the use case that we're describing where we're going to have data streaming bi-directionally, point-to-point peer-to-peer in an IoT environment and managing that problem into which you can plug a lot of other data movement problems as well. Okay, with that, Tendu and Scott, we will be back, this is George Gilbert where at Hardenworks Hadoop Summit in San Jose we'll be right back in a few minutes. Thanks.


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So a lot of times what usually happens, you get a move on the indexes, right? You get a move on the indexes first. And even if you have a quieter day tomorrow on the indexes on the scoreboard, you could still start to see stocks one by one start crawling up out of supply. So for example, welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process and own your future. Hey guys, good evening, everybody. Welcome to another edition of theAxisATrader.com Nightly Wrap-Up Show. Hope everybody is doing well. I apologize. There was no video yesterday. Usually what I do is I take Thursdays off to kind of just clear the head. So there's usually no videos on Thursdays. My daughter had a softball game in a different town. So I had a driver there come back. There was literally no time. So I apologize for that. So let's talk about the market. The last video that I recorded was Tuesday night. If you guys remember going into Wednesday's session, I was very, very sell-wise. Okay. There was absolutely no reason that there was no reason at all, literally to buy stocks. So there was huge reversals, upgrades got sold, earnings got sold, everything got sold. And we've been pretty much sell-bias for the last several weeks. And we were up to yesterday's session eight days, right? Eight days below the 50-day moving average. And Tuesday came in a really big aggressive pull in technology names, pre-market. Tesla got destroyed. Amazon got destroyed. Everything absolutely got destroyed. But to the bull's credit, right, they did manage to buy that dip. Now, when people talk about buy the dip, it's usually a bull market scenario. Nobody really buys dips when there is blood in the streets. And yesterday it gave you a level that you turn around and say, well, look, the last low was the May 12th low of 316. The low here yesterday was 316. So to give the bulls some really big kudos, they held the 316 level. And then they started rallying into the close, which was very, very good. And based on small technical analysis or just basic technical analysis, you know there's a double bottom, usually a double bottom on a macro level, there's a higher probability we can get some sort of bounce. Nobody ever goes to the next day, which was today's session, and turns around and says, well, not only are we going to bounce, not only are we going to bounce to today's session, but we're going to take down eight days worth of selling and reclaim some really, really big levels. And we'll talk about the pivots in a second. If you notice on the Twitter feed today, there were no shorts. There was absolutely no shorts today on the Twitter feed, but there weren't a lot of beta longs for the exception of Facebook, for the exception of Roku towards the end already, Peloton and a couple of other names. But everything else were like weird stocks, because we weren't expecting this monster rally today in technology just because we had eight days worth of selling. So what do the bulls do in true random stock market order? They held the 16 yesterday, which was bullish. We talked about a potential dead cat bounce today that was bullish, but nobody, and I think I can speak for a lot of people, nobody really thought today's dead cat bounce was going to turn into a macro reclaim of the 50 day moving average on the Qs. The first time we're above the 50 day moving average in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine sessions. And the way we closed was super duper bullish. Now somebody's going to turn around to me, actually quite a few people turn around and say, well, Dan, what do you think about tomorrow, right? We had a $12 move from the lows yesterday into today's basis, even though we did reclaim at least for one day, we did reclaim the 50 day moving average. What do you think is going to happen tomorrow, right? Do you think we're going to have a follow through date that we're going to have a choppy session? Was this really just a dead cat bounce back into supply that was very, very unnecessary from the bear's point of view? What do you think is going to happen next? Now here, here's the defense, right? We did double bottom yesterday. Is that bullish? Of course that's bullish. It's not a bearish thing. We did dead cat bounce today. That's bullish as well. We did reclaim the 50 day moving average. That's bullish as well. Is a $12 move in 12 hours the greatest thing in the world for a rabid push back to the highs? No, it's not. Because there's always the fear of too much, too fast, right? That's credible. I definitely give you that. So the idea that is it possible we rest tomorrow? Absolutely. Of course it's possible. We did have a $12 move from yesterday's low into today's highs. But just keep this in mind. This is exactly the same thing happened the last time we reclaimed. If you guys remember all the way back here that started this really, really big run for about a month and a half, when the cues reclaimed the 50 day moving average, and this is the highest close in the whole formation, if you guys remember, not everything reclaimed at the same time. Amazon was two days later. The video was later after that. Tesla was a week after that. So just because the cues are above supply and just reclaimed supply, it doesn't mean that every single stock is going to wake up tomorrow and just go gangbusters with it. If you look at names, and if you go through a lot of technology names, there's some names on a very, very clear channel. You turn around, you go, wow, Facebook, very, very clean. And it's true. Very, very clean channel. We saw a bunch of 320 weeklies come attended today. This is clean. NVIDIA, for example, is very clean. First close, oversupply. If it confirms tomorrow, if it confirms tomorrow, you can see how much room there is in the channel. If you look at Google, for example, you can see we're one day away from clearing out this channel. That's clean. So you have your names that are mirroring what's going on the QQQs, but then there's a lot of names that are still underneath supply. So even though, for example, the fact that we're oversupply on the indexes, it doesn't mean that you can literally buy everything right now and have it work out exactly the same way. So a lot of times what usually happens, you get a move on the indexes, right? You get a move on the indexes first. And even if you have a quieter day tomorrow on the indexes on the scoreboard, you could still start to see stocks one by one start crawling up out of supply. So for example, if you look at Amazon, right? It's not out of supply. It's no way near out of supply. It has to still take out this whole channel, right? It's not like you're saying to yourself, Amazon's on my top watch tomorrow. Of course, can Amazon go higher tomorrow? Of course, especially with the QQs reclaiming numbers, but nobody's going to turn around from tomorrow's session considering Amazon is still, what, 60 points away from supply? Nobody's going to turn around and say, Amazon's on my top watch tomorrow. Yes, can it go higher? Of course it can go higher, but it's not going to be your top watch tomorrow, right? Tesla, for example, had a really strong day today. But look at the chart. It's nowhere close to reclaiming supply. It's barely hanging onto the 200-day moving average. It's nobody's, quote, unquote, top watch tomorrow. Of course, can it wake up? Absolutely. Can it get pulled up with everything else? 100%. But it still needs to clear out the whole 10-day moving average just for this thing to get above water. When you look at Apple, right, had a strong day, but look how much supply you have still ahead. You're not going to turn around and say, unless Apple gaps, unless we have a big gap on everything, you're not going to turn around and say, I'm watching Apple. That's my top watch tomorrow. I'm watching Amazon. That's my top watch tomorrow. No, you're going to watch stocks that clear out supply, the Facebooks of the world, right? The LRCXs of the world, right? Clearing out supply, the NVIDIAs of the world, right? Clearing out supply, and everything else has to catch up. So when you're doing your chart work today, right, you'll see a lot of stocks that had a really good move, like really, really good move off the bottom. But again, are they tradable for tomorrow? Is tomorrow their sweet spot? Probably not. So when you look, for example, like a TULO, right, that had a really, really big move, again, you're not dying to buy it for tomorrow. Because again, you have supply right in front of you, for TULO to be really good, right? For it to have the same effect as an NVIDIA or a Facebook, right, or one of these names that are clearly busting out. For this thing to be good, TULO needs to reclaim the 50-day moving average as well. So that's my point. So even though we possibly could have a res date tomorrow, just because the Qs rally at $12, I still believe that slowly, but surely, maybe TULO doesn't get to the 50-day moving average, but if it starts reclaiming today's levels, maybe it goes into the 320s. Maybe Amazon, excuse me, maybe Apple doesn't reclaim the top of supply here at $129.130, but maybe it starts reclaiming some levels and starts getting back into the 128s. Again, these are baby steps. A lot of these names were sold for, guys, remember, a lot of these names were sold for three weeks. We were sell buys for two, three weeks. You're not going to go from breakdown to breakout in one day, right? You need work. You need to cut down the trees. You need to literally put in a lot of sessions. You need to develop a personality right now. So if there is a week open tomorrow, can these stocks reclaim the levels they put in today? And these are all questions, obviously, we don't know, because if we knew 100% and I was 1,000% sell of buy-bys for tomorrow, hell, just going all in. You know what's going to happen, but we don't. That's the whole point. We don't. We're trying to take calculated pieces of data and applying it for tomorrow's session. So are there names that look really, really good for tomorrow? Absolutely. But I still believe most of the names still need to put in some work. They still need to reclaim some levels. And more important, maybe they won't have their big day tomorrow. But maybe if the market continues to build over the 50-day moving average tomorrow and into Monday and into Tuesday, a name like Apple, maybe next week, it completely takes out this whole supply and wakes up. Maybe Amazon, maybe two, three days away from taking out the supplies and then having a $300 channel for measured potential. But these are baby steps. You cannot go from breakdown to, oh my god, I'm coming out of the range, buy everything. It just doesn't work like that. You still have to put in a lot of work. You still have to find these charts. You still have to find the sectors that are strong, that have been strong, that never really sold off with this whole tech backtesting over the last several weeks. And now we have to find them to make sure those levels really confirm for those actions. And now we say all the time, now that the cues, now that the bulls found love, remember the heavy D song, now that they found love, what are you going to do with it?  Prove tomorrow that any type of sell off or any type of pullback or any type of adversity, prove to us that you can live with prosperity. And if tomorrow the bulls hold the line and they necessarily do not need to take out today's highs to continue to build, right? If they could just maintain and hold serve, everything slowly will start to get pulled up. To get pulled up. And maybe next week we go on a macro baby bull rut. We'll see. But that's the name of the game. Take it day by day. Take a chart by chart. Let's get more evidence that the bulls can live with prosperity. And the most important part is we're watching the names that are already oversupplied that if they do confirm, they can mirror the cues with the next leg up. So let's talk about today's session. Again, was this filled with 100 beta names? Of course not, right? That's the same reason we just talked about a few minutes ago. How can you have all beta on your watch list if everything sold off for three weeks? But the names that did confirm the channels that were already on the upside then never sold off. Those are the names that made pretty good moves. And now it's setting up for the next stage tomorrow for their peers to start getting pulled up with it. So let's talk about today's session. Again, here is my morning notes. I go, look, remember, remember, we are still underneath supply. All the long trades, of course, use second entry. And if again, if all you guys who don't know what that is, it's specifically for the PS60 theory, use second entries, take along the way, use break even stop and all runners. And again, that's the way you want to attack it because there's no guarantee that we were going to reclaim the 50-day move. Again, raise your hand at home if you thought we were going to reclaim the 50-day moving average based on last night's close, right? Debt cap balance, absolutely. But reclaim, kudos to the bulls. They did a great job. So let's talk about today's session. Peloton, 98 needs to build. Here was Peloton. Again, you'll notice the stocks that had runs today, right, that had decent runs today, they were above supply. They had, again, from here to here, there's $5 worth of move, right? So it took out the $98 close pretty much at the high that they roughly around the 101 level. Peloton looks good. We talked about Peloton a couple of days ago.  And that was the whole point.  Again, is it clear blue skies? Absolutely not. For Peloton to really be good, it needs to reclaim this 105-106 level. But for now, again, channels are trading for channels, right? Stocks go from supply to supply to supply. So is there a shot if the market continues into next week and get the 104-105? Sure. Again, it looks pretty damn good. Facebook, again, one of the beta names that did not sell off. 317 needs to build. There was actually a sneaky pivot. We'll get to that in a second. But 317 macro needs to build. Here was Facebook. I still like it higher for tomorrow. So it took out this 317 channel. Went to like 319 in the quarter. Look, if this thing can start building at 320, again, look how much room you have up. You have room all the way to the earnings high. So Facebook definitely named. You should pay attention to for tomorrow. UPST, 137 needs to build. It had a big run yesterday. Really stood out, right? Really, really stood out. It took out the 137 when traded right into the next supply zone, which was 145. Good move there. FSR never went to 1310 opening range, never confirmed the second entry. Snow, not a big move. Snow, 230, 231 needs to build. Here was Snow, right? So it took out the 230, 231. Went right to the next supply zone at 236. Not a huge move, right? A little bit of a choppy trader. But again, stocks don't need to put linear moves. That's the whole point, especially coming off bottom channels. You have to try to identify bottom channels within macro ranges to try to take advantage. So not a bad move on Snow. Sava, really, really big move there. 49 needs to build on Sava, S-A-V-A, right? So it took out this whole 49 area and went to 5166. Really, really big move on Sava. There was a Tesla pivot that I apologize for all you guys on the Twitter feed. I forgot to put, it was a really good pivot. Where the hell did we buy in this thing? We were buying it at 5... Where the hell did we buy it? It was a good move. It went up like 4 or 5 points. So I apologize, my system is off right now. I apologize for you guys on the Twitter feed. And I kept on saying here, yeah, we'll put more long pivots as the day progresses. On this supply, they can pull the plug at any time. We want to make sure there's a clean path to the goal line. And everything really lit up, like really lit up like a Christmas tree towards the day. Again, here was the sneaky pivot. I was talking about 1530 needs to build. So it took out 1530, took out 17. And went to 19 and change. Peloton, take on the way, right? Take on the way, take on the way. UPST, again, take on the way. Sava, again, take on the way. RBLX, I still like this RBLX. And this is when you knew, you know, this is when you knew the market was going to rally. I put this on for experienced traders. I said, look, experienced traders, 327.80s of macro supply could be rejected there initially. Now it's the whole point, initially. So it traded to the 327.80s. It got rejected pretty much right away. It went down to like the 327.40s. But for the bulls, they did a phenomenal job. As soon as they got down there, it wasn't a big sell-off. It wasn't an angry pull. They reclaimed 328 and just absolutely exploded. So again, that's the whole point of knowing levels. And this is kind of exactly where I put it. Now that it's moving down, use breakeven as your stop. It's a free trade.  So that's that there as well. So again, going into tomorrow. Again, long buys, yeah. I mean, you have to give the bulls the benefit of the doubt. Can we have a resday? Sure, why not? But again, based on what we've seen in previous days, that channels got confirmed, right? Especially via the ETF side. Even if we don't have an up-buy-as-day, quote-unquote, on the scoreboard, you're probably going to have a lot of names start slowly, but surely reclaiming stock is in. So guys, have a great day tomorrow for all you guys. I'll see you all on the weekend update. And God bless. I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


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Yes, exactly. Okay, cheers to that. You know, these two teams are facing each other in the Super Bowl again. Super Bowl 54 rematch here in Vegas for Super Bowl 58. And they're going through the same motions. I bet there's a lot going through their heads, like I've been here before. It's the same feelings I had back in Miami. You're reliving that same thing with the kick of destiny. You lost the game last year, Gronk. How you feeling? Yes, I'm feeling pretty good. My confidence, it was down this year. And then when I heard I'm gonna have a redemption kick, I wasn't really up for it because I was kind of heartbroken on missing last year and letting down America. But I'm back now. I've been practicing. My leg is super strong. I've actually been hitting some 40 yarders in the last couple of weeks as well. Even though the kick is only 25 yards, I just wanna show my ability that can hit a 40 yarder as well. But I'm feeling pretty good right now. While I'm practicing, I'm hitting about 85% of my kicks. You seem very confident, only 25 yards. And there was the whole Mother Nature thing we're gonna talk about. Yeah, it's the same kick from last year. Different location and something very cool that's interactive for customers. It's the make or miss.  Yeah, John Cena, he's really going against me. He wanted to do the kick. The executive though, a fan duo said, no, you're not doing the kick. I busted through the door. Actually, I busted through the wall. I told John Cena, this is my kick. This is my kick of destiny. And he got all mad at me. So he's my kryptonite. I told John Cena that it's my kick again and that he's going against me. He keeps picking that I'm gonna miss it, but I'm gonna make it. Okay, so team make, team miss. You guys can make your pick with a $10 million in bonus bet live. This is live during the Super Bowl. Sort of the kick before the kick because it's happening right before kickoff. Yes it is. It's a couple of moments right before. It's a live commercial. Last year was live as well.  It was totally live. It was totally right on the spot. It will be again this year. And any, you know, miss cues that happen. If I slip, it's going to be on TV. So we got to be professional. We got to get it down. And that's why I got to practice because practice makes everything go smooth. I saw your hit on Jimmy Fallon and the whole crowd, you said, you were being very earnest and saying mother nature came in and everybody's like, but truly that is what happened last year. It is truly what happened. I mean, I'm not a guy for excuses. I mean, I did miss the kick, but it really did, you know, miss because of the win. I mean, it was one of the best kicks I've ever had.   And it looked like a professional kick too with the angle that it was going up at. And I was like, oh yeah, that's going in. Like that felt so good. And then all of a sudden it just hooked all the way to the left. And I never had a kick hooked to the left throughout my whole time I was practicing. So that was a little weird to see. And then it was kind of a controversy a little bit because on the TV angle, it looked like it went in. We were all in the suite going, woo, I think half of the world was and then it didn't end up happening. No, and then everyone was kind of on Twitter saying like they made them miss on purpose. They didn't want to pay out, but I did not miss on purpose. I wanted to make it.  Cause I love doing things like this. I love to stay busy with activities. I love to play cornhole, volleyball, mini sticks in the basement with my nephews. And when I had the opportunity to be like, oh, hey Rob, you want to kick a football? Like I love learning new skills. And growing up, I did pump, pass and kick as well. But doing that as a kid, I was a guy that kicked with my toe.  So that was a whole new, you know, lesson I had to learn, which I'm always up for that. I'm always up for activities that help me, you know, do things that where I got to use my skillset and improve it every single day and practice makes me better as well. So it's just so much fun doing. You're for the people. You want the $10 million cut to get out there. Last year you learned a lot of lessons. You got set, you practiced a lot with Adam Vinateri. He was sort of in your year and he approached this year and we have to get to this. We are so excited about Sunday, but we all have heavy hearts as well because the person who was in your corner, in your ear that you worked with on this marketing campaign, for this second kick, Carl Weathers passed away suddenly and heartbreakingly. And I know somebody that you really looked up to. Yes, I was very saddened about the news of Carl Weathers when I heard that he passed away very recently. He was one of the greatest to do it. He played in the NFL as well and then he took his talents into the acting world. He paved the way for players like myself and other players as well to have a second career after football. And my condolences are sent out to his family, to his close friends and to everyone that has worked with him as well and got to know him as a person. And it was a short time I got to know him and he loved to talk football, man. And I just love sitting there, just being able to be in awe of one of my legends. I mean, he was in my favorite movie of all time, Happy Gilmore.  So I'll always remember that for life. You literally bring him up every week on my show. Every do, so every time. So just sending prayers to his family and love and he's gonna be missed. The entire Fandola family, of course, deeply saddened by this reaching out to his family. And I feel like you've got a little extra something to kick for on Sunday. Yes, I do actually. That's a good point. I'm going to make this kick for America, but also I'm gonna make this kick for Carl Weathers as well. I mean, it was just so great to have a scene that we were shooting a couple months ago when we were doing the commercials and he's just, my favorite scene in Happy Gilmore, just tap it in, just tap it in. And then we were doing a little scene, he's like, Rob, just kick it in, just kick it in. And it was just such a surreal moment. So I'm gonna make this kick for you, Carl. Beautifully said, we're gonna take questions from the media, of course, for Gronk. So we have a microphone going around. Any other changes in the regimen for this year? You know, I just had to get my confidence back. So a lot of practice, I had people around me too, when I was gonna go practice yelling at me while I was kicking just to throw some distractions out there. You know, every time I kicked as well, there was never any win, so I didn't really have the win factors to be able to go against that. But just a lot of repetition. Repetition is what makes you better as a player and kicker. I forget if it was Deshaun, I forget who told me that you, when you were on the Bucks, and you guys were on the practice field, you would make kicks, you'd go over there and try kicking field goals. Do you remember that? Not really, I mean, if I was doing that, I was definitely kicking a toe style. But I don't really remember kicking any field goals in practice. I'm not sure who told you that. They must've got me confused with someone else. Maybe. John Cena, what was he like to work with? Oh, John Cena, he's such a professional.  And then John Cena, I get there, and he was such a professional, and he was so good at his craft of acting. And then it's my first scene.  It's about to be a royal rumble.  So I just zooped right up, and he put me in the character. So you work with legends like that that are at that high of a level, it kind of makes you work better as well. And that's what he did. He brought me to a level of where the commercials, I would say are better because of him. Have you heard from Tom Brady about the kick? I have not, he's a little jealous that I'm still playing the game of football and he's not, he loves the game of football. This is his first year off, so he doesn't wanna talk about it because I'm still being able to touch the football and he's not, even though I'm touching it with my leg, he usually touches it with its hand, but he's a little jealous of me because of that. I'm sure he is. If we have any questions, I think we have the microphone. Thank you so much. All right, we're gonna start. Yeah, so I love questions. We're gonna start it off with NBC Sports Boston. Hey, Gronk, your former team, the Patriots, much like you with this kick, they can't afford to miss with the third overall pick. What do you wanna see them do coming back? Whoa, I like the perspective to put it. I think third is crazy for the Patriots. Wow, they can't out kick their coverage on this pick.  I think since Drew Bletso, right, when they picked them number one overall in the 1998 draft. Gronk, why are you in encyclopedia? Yes, I just got knowledge like that, Kay, you know? I'm an analyst, all right? And I'm on your show, so I gotta know. I gotta know my facts, but I think if they don't go with a quarterback, Drake May or Cal Williams has already taken off the board. I think a for sure pick, a for sure lock that won't be a bust that's gonna do big things right from the beginning is Marvin Harrison Jr. At the wide receiver position.  I saw one of the guys, I think it was Mark Grow or something. I know him, he's in the Patriots organization. He says he wants explosive players and explosive players make the big plays. So if you want those players, take Marvin Harrison Jr. He's an explosive player and his dad went to Syracuse as well and I was a Syracuse fan growing up. So that's a connection right there. Great, and our next question is from Sports Handle. Hey Rob, thanks for doing this. How much empathy do you have for guys like Scott Norwood and Tyler Bass after last year just dealing with the pressure of ticking before 200 million people like that? I do have a lot of empathy for them. I mean, I understand what it's like to be able to kick a football now. I'm not even close to their level, but I just gained so much respect after last year of what these kickers do. It's a full-time job. You gotta be able to kick day in and day out. You gotta be able to do the repetitions every single day in order to stay at that high of a level. Yes, you're just going in for one play at a time, maybe once a game, twice a game, maybe just for a PAT, but let me tell you, I have so much respect for these guys, and it's a craft. It's an art to be able to kick. So I feel for them. I mean, it's a tough job, and on top of it, they're doing it with the game on the line, with the organization on the line. So I wanna kicker, misses like that. I'm still on their side to support them and to keep their heads up. Thank you, and now we have the New York Times. Hey, Gronk, with so many people wagering on your kick, do you feel any additional pressure? You know, there's definitely some pressure. I mean, last year, I feel like the pressure was definitely a lot more than this year because I already missed, you know? So what would we do if I missed again? But I'm not gonna miss again, and I feel more confident as well because where I started last year kicking, it was embarrassing. I was kicking the ball five yards that way, five yards that way. And then when I started kicking again to practice for the kick of Destiny number two, I was already way ahead of the game. I was already making field goals right from the beginning. So I feel confident, I feel ready to go, and it's gonna be really cool, you know, the situation that we're doing as well because there's really no losers in this situation because you either pick if I make it or you pick if I miss it.  But if I miss it, all those people are winners. So it's kind of a hand-in-hand winning situation, but I just wanna make it, you know, just for my sake as well. Have you asked Bandual to let you know how many people are picking you versus not? I wonder what those numbers are. I think the numbers, I don't know how many people have voted so far or made the pick, but I think it was around like 75%. This was like a week ago, like, or a week to 10 days ago. 75% have picked that I'm gonna make it and only like 25% have picked that I'm gonna miss. Are you watching the weather? The weather, it's supposed to be breezy on Saturday, but that's Saturday. There's supposed to be no wind on Sunday, so I'll be good in that factor. All right, KNBC, Kansas City.  In Kansas City, we're starting to see that a little bit. Did you embrace that, that hatred, and what's your advice for the Chiefs?  Everyone else wants to win and there's just one team that keeps winning on a second of basis. I mean, they're gonna start hating a little bit. It's understandable, it happened with the Patriots and now it's happening with Kansas City. So I'm in awe of it, I'm impressed with it. It's unbelievable, the job that they're doing. They got a core group of players that are leading them every single year and especially with a stable head coach as well and stable quarterback, which is huge to keep the consecutive winning seasons going. But I'm in awe of it and I would just say just to black out all the noise if I was the Kansas City Chiefs. That's what you gotta do. You can't really listen to what's going on. You can only control what you can control. Florida National News. Hey, Grant, can you talk about the resurgence of the tight end position, being a focal point of the offense is you got the two pro bowlers in the Super Bowl here and many others that are really the focus of the offense and also bear down. Yes, bear down, baby, 100%. But the surgeons of the tight end position is spectacular. I mean, you're talking 20 years ago, people, teams would be winning in the Super Bowls and you don't even have a tight end on the field or you have a guy that doesn't even play that much or it's just a blocking tight end. Just the way that the position has trended to is just unbelievable. I think it's one of the most important positions on the field now to this day. If you look in the past like 10 Super Bowls or at least the championship teams, there has been a top tier tight end on all those teams. And look at Travis Kelsey been to the Super Bowl the last years, myself over the last decade as well. Look at San Francisco 49ers. They weren't a good team until George Kittle got on the team. Vernon Davis as well with the 49ers when they went to the championship, when they had those championships around a couple decades, a decade ago. But just overall, you gotta have a solid tight end on your roster if you want a complete offense. I truly believe in that. I truly believe that's the direction of where these offenses are going. And these tight ends this day and era is just unbelievable. We just keep amping it up. We have a good group, a good handful of a group that is stepping up week in and week out and the position's getting so much recognition, which it should. It's one of the hardest positions on the field as well. You gotta be able to know the whole blocking scheme and you gotta be able to know the whole pass game as well. And now we have a question from women of fantasy football. Hey, Gronk, thank you so much for the time. I wanted to ask you again about the tight end position. Travis Kelsey has performed amazing this playoff season. He's drawn a lot of comparisons to yourself. How do you feel about those comparisons and what does Travis have to do this weekend in order to get the win? He's just gotta do what he's been doing like the last two weeks.  He's showing why he's the best tight end in the game the last two weeks in the playoffs, versus the Buffalo Bills and then versus the Baltimore Ravens stepping up, making touchdowns, making huge catches when they really count. And he's gonna do that again. I mean, this is a stage that he was set for. This is a stage that he can handle at all times. So he's gonna be ready to go for sure. Pro football network?  Is there some things you're gonna have to settle? Maybe Russell Mania here? Yeah, you're right. If I accidentally miss this kick, because he's my kryptonite, he wants me to miss. He's been going at me. He's disappointed that he's not the guy kicking the ball. He wanted to be the one that was gonna kick it this year, but I came through and I'm going for my redemption kick, but you're right. If I miss, I'm gonna have to take it out on him. I'm gonna have to probably see him face to face in the ring at Russell Mania, Royal Rumble, whatever it is, he can call the shot. He can call the shot one on one versus him. I mean, that would be a battle, man. That would be fun as well. I would take it out. Wait, now I'm team miss. Yeah, I'm team miss now, too. I'm gonna miss on purpose now. Okay, Gronk just said he's team miss. I don't know, nobody's missing on purpose. I know, I'm not. Are you doing the single bar again? Yes, I got the single bar. This is my helmet right here. I'm just inspired by all the kickers in the movies. Like, wait, what's that movie where the guy smoking the cigarette right before he kicks the ball on the sideline? Yeah, the replacements, yeah. I just love his style. I just love the movies that are just silly like that. He's a single bar, smoking the cigarette. So that's how I pictured myself doing the kick of destiny. Okay, so Fanduil, we need a cigarette in his mouth for this time. Maybe a candy cigarette. Just so you know those candy cigarettes. I'll take one of those. That'd be pretty cool. All right, another question from Faultlines. Hey, thanks, Hey, Rob. Why was it important for you to endorse Fanduil? Particularly at a time where there's a lot of concern about the growing epidemic of problem gambling with young men, the kind of young men who look up to you? Yes, well, Fanduil is the number one leading sports book in America. And I'm a championship guy. I love winning championships. So I love being with the number one team outside off the field as well. And on top of it, Fanduil does a great job with responsible gambling.   And that's what Fanduil's all about. That's what I'm all about. I love the gamble, but I don't love the gamble out of control-y. So I thought Fanduil was just a perfect fit, you know, by betting responsibly, but also being the number one sports book. So we're on the same page. And it's a great reminder to bet responsibly. You and I, even before the season, we were calling customers talking about what are the tools that you're using. Fanduil has some of the best innovation in that area and we're huge proponents of that. So thanks for the question. Yes. How you doing? I'm Clay with 100.1 WBRS Boston. Sup, Gronk, thank you so much. Take us through the kick day fit. Yes, the kick day fit. I think it's going to be very similar to last year, like I said, I'm going to have this helmet, the one bar piece helmet right here. I'm going to have the pants on with the pads as well. So I look like a professional kicker. And then it's my first time, usually I wear the cleats that protect my ankles that they're in between like liming cleats that are big blocks and like the wide receiver cleats that are very thin so the wide receivers can run fast. So I've always worn them in between. So now I get to wear the cleats that are kind of like soccer cleats. So they're going to be really light. So those are going to be the cleats that I have on my foot so I can kick the ball to the best of my ability with those type of cleats. And then the fan duel jersey, I'll be wearing a number 87 fan duel jersey as well. So I'll be looking fire. Great, and we have time for one more question here. Hello, Alex from Mexico. What will be the key for the game for the Super Bowl and your favorite team for the win? What's the first question? What will be the key for the game to Sunday? Yes. And your favorite team for our winner. All right, well, it's kind of go hand in hand because I'm going to pick the San Francisco 49ers but the key for the San Francisco 49ers is that they got to play a complete game. I feel like they got to the Super Bowl and they haven't even played well yet in the playoffs and that just shows what type of team that they have and how talented they are is that they got into the Super Bowl and they played awful football in the playoffs. Yes, they showed time, you know, spurts that they can play very well but they haven't played a complete game yet and they're sitting here in the biggest game. So the key is for the San Francisco 49ers to fire on all cylinders if they want to be able to beat the Kansas City Chiefs. Thanks everybody for coming. Please go download the app, Team Make, Team Miss. And remember, Gronk Beach is going on the day before 12 to 6 at Encore Beach Club. I don't know if that's going to factor in to whether you make or miss it, Gronk. It's going to factor in because my leg may be sore because I'm going to be dancing the whole time so hopefully that lactic acid will wait another extra couple of hours before it comes in so my foot is feeling nice and loose. Never thought we'd talk lactic acid here at the press conference for Kick of Destiny to you guys, $10 million in bonus bets available. We appreciate you guys for stopping by. Thank you. Thanks, Gronk. Yes, thank you guys. We'll see you guys Sunday. Yes, Kick of Destiny 2, Redemption Kick. Here we come. And by the way, and I think everybody knows this, it's the kick before the kick. The kick will be, Tucker, let me make sure I get this right. And thank you, Tucker Hart, for putting this together. Between the national anthem, Reba and the coin toss. So it'll be in that commercial break. So keep your eyes peeled. Thanks everybody. So it'll be about like two minutes before actual kickoff right about there. Yes, and then I'm going to latch myself onto Gronk and get into the game somehow because I know they'll be sure to get you in to see the Super Bowl. Yes, we're going to do it. Actually, we're going to do it no matter what if I make it too.


Hello, I am Martha Gasquit here with Peter DeLeo. Today we will be exploring BandLab, which is a web app that students can use to create music they can add to projects in your classroom. From music videos and podcasts to movie, video, or audio presentations, creating music has never been easier and anyone can do it. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking our logo during the video. Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up cards in the upper right corner. Here's how to get started with using BandLab to develop creativity in your classroom. We will spend most of our time diving into the mixing editor, but first we are going to do a quick overview of creating an account, setting up your school and classes, and adding assignments. To begin, go to edu.bandlab.com and click start as a teacher. Follow the instructions to create an account. Click create school and fill out the form. Click create class and name your first class. Now we can add students. You have three options for adding students. One is to give students this join link. One is to have students create their own accounts at edu.bandlab.com and then give them this code to join your class, or you can manually enter email addresses. Unfortunately at this time, you cannot directly import from Google Classroom. Once you have your class and your students, then you can create an assignment. Click on new assignment and fill out the information that you would like. Publish the assignment. At that time, if you would like to share to Google Classroom, you will have the option of doing that. Once you've created an assignment for your students, it's going to show up in your class screen and they're going to be able to click on and begin that working on that project. BandLab is a digital audio workstation or DAW. Most music nowadays is created in DAWs. More advanced versions than the one that we're going to be looking at. But this is how music is created now. This is a way that your students can access that musical world that they may be interested in. They listen to music. So this is a really cool and simple way for you to introduce that and get them created and connected in a different way. This is the teacher side of the classroom. And today I'm just going to show you a little bit about how you can utilize BandLab in your classroom and a few of the tools and techniques that you can use. We're going to go up and create a new project today. And we're going to do that by clicking on our mix editor. When you first start a new project, it's going to come up and give you a few options for creating new tracks. First one on your left here is our instruments. Our instruments can be any variety of things, basically any instrument that you can think about, we can create something for it. Next option is your drum machine. A lot of students want to create beats. They can rap over and create things that they know and hear every day. So that's an option for them as well. Then you have your voice mic and your guitar and bass. If you have students that play instruments, they can hook up to their computer. They can actually play directly into BandLab and record their music. So even if they're outside of the classroom, that's something, a new tool they can introduce to them. The voice mic tool is really cool as well and it gives you a lot of options for creating projects. The first tool I want to talk today about is our voice mic tool. I think this is going to be one of the biggest tools that you can use in your classroom to allow students to do things like create podcasts or do interviews. You can add music to that once it's recorded. It's a really, really simple process. Basically all they have to do is come up to the top of the screen, hit the record button and they can start talking. Here I am talking about a really new cool tool for your classroom called BandLab. Basically allowing your students to access the world of digital music technology in a way that they may have not done before. The options are endless here. Once they've created their podcast or they've done their interview, they can add music and sounds to it, do it in a variety of different ways. One of the easiest ways for your students to add music to their projects is by using the built-in loop library. BandLab comes preloaded with thousands of intros, music tracks, sounds, drum kits, you name it, they've got it. Your students can explore through this library and come up with anything that they want. Basically I'm just going to take a quick loop theory. I'm going to create a track. I'm going to go browse through my loops. I've actually already picked out something that I think is going to sound pretty cool and all you have to do is drag and drop it into your project. It's going to create a new track for me and then I'm going to slide this over here just a little bit, give it a little bit of an intro and we're going to see what happens. Here I am talking about a really new cool tool for your classroom called BandLab. Basically allowing your students to access the world of digital music technology in a way that they may have not done before. Creating music in BandLab is so simple for your students. It's as easy as drag and drop. They have the option of creating their own tracks as well using either the instrument or the drum machine, but at the end of the day using the loop library they can take all of these things that are already created and make something brand new for them to use as a project. We hope that you can use BandLab to foster creativity with your students. Make a new twist on a project that you already do. Allow them to add music to something that they might not normally add music to. There's so many options available to you and we really hope that you can use this tool and use this product in a fun and interesting way to foster creativity in your classroom and make a new experience for your students. Hope you have a great day and hope you enjoy learning a little bit about BandLab.


What makes people happy? And how do we measure happiness? A global group of leading researchers have been working on ways to measure and explain happiness, as well as looking at why some countries are happier than others. They look at data from the Gallup World poll. Included in the survey is the country ladder question. It asks people to imagine a ladder. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you, and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time? More than 100,000 people each year respond from all around the world, giving us a picture of a country's overall happiness. Countries such as Finland, Denmark and Switzerland have consistently ranked at the top of the list. Why is that? There are six explanatory factors that help explain the different levels of happiness between countries. First up is social support. In order to feel secure, people need to feel that at least one person would care for them when in need. This is the number one predictor of happiness and well-being. Next up is GDP per capita, or how much each country produces divided by the number of people in the country. Healthy life expectancy is next on the list. We look at physical and mental health. Freedom to make life choices plays a key role in people's happiness. Generosity is measured by looking at how charitable people are. The final variable is an absence of corruption. This looks at both governments and businesses. Policymakers, communities, families, businesses and individuals now have better guideposts to creating happiness. Each year, the World Happiness Report shares the newest insights in well-being science. We believe the best measure of progress is the happiness of people around the world. To find out more, check out worldhappiness.report.