So Lori Boyer has worked as a land use lawyer and a real estate investor. You served two terms in city council, including as council president and now you are the chief executive officer of DIA. So this report is published by Downtown Vision. Can you explain the relationship between your agency, DIA, Downtown Vision, the city and private developers? So let's start with Downtown Vision, who publishes the report. They are a business improvement district, so they are also created by the city government. They were established by that, but they really report to and were voted on into being by the business owners and property owners within their district. Their boundaries are smaller than ours. DIA, Downtown Investment Authority, also created by city council. We are a community redevelopment agency. Fancy term, it is a state statute created entity that receives a tax increment. From the growth we see within Downtown, that tax increment can then be reinvested with incentives, with capital projects, things like that for those. In terms of we are a hybrid agency in that we are semi-autonomous. We have a board of directors. The board of directors hires me or hires the CEO. So we have some continuity beyond changes in mayoral administrations. That was part of the impetus for the creation of DIA, but we are housed in City Hall. We function as a city department, and so we're closely affiliated with city government in the implementation of everything we do. So having seen this report, can you just give us an overall state of Downtown according to its findings? Okay. High level. We are seeing substantial momentum in growth in tax values Downtown. So last year, the hour boundaries, which are 3.9 square miles of Downtown. We saw about a $260 million growth in taxable value and about a $200 million growth a year before. That's about a 16% overall growth rate, which we're seeing growth all over the county, but this certainly exceeds that rate, which is a big positive thing for Downtown. Growth in residential development, number of units being delivered and also retaining a high occupancy rate in Downtown. So we're growing that residential population. We're seeing a growth in retail establishments and reoccupancy of vacant storefronts. So that's great. We've seen a decline in office occupancy, as would be expected that we're seeing nationwide. Pretty much recovered on our hotel and visitors, still a little below pre-COVID levels, but significant uptick over the last couple of years. Okay. That's a great summary. So how is the data compiled for this report or how are the data? Is it purely empirical? Who's surveyed? So Downtown Vision does the research effort to collect the data. We are one of the stakeholders that they seek information from. Most of the data is purely empirical and the sources are identified in the state of Downtown report. There are a few things that are hand count that Downtown Vision actually handles either by survey. So some of its survey data, where the satisfaction numbers that you see in the report are surveys that they send out. They also hand count number of residents. And by hand count, I mean they reach out to the actual apartment complex and ask how many residents there are and do it that way because what we find is the census tract data and other more generalized data sources that you can get for Downtown are highly inaccurate. Interesting. At that level of specificity. Correct. Interesting. Okay. The Downtown Vision report, it's designed to track indicators of urban vitality. It uses things like residential demand, like you said, office, market and employment base, tourism health. What are the bright spots overall in that report? So I would say for us, for DIA, we have been focused very much on building a residential population downtown. Let's go back five years, eight years. When you're looking at Downtown, we had then 56,000 people who work Downtown and very few residences or residents who live Downtown. So we had big commute going into and out of Downtown and we also didn't take advantage of that day and night and weekend opportunity if you have residents downtown. So we were focused on that. We've been incentivizing that. We've now seen it grow to 4,600 units, 7,600 residents. And State of Downtown says there are 1,500 units under construction in Downtown. Our number is 1,200. Nevertheless, that number of units that are currently under construction, those are not speculative, will bring us over that 10,000 resident number, which was always kind of the initial benchmark to start to become sustainable for retail establishments to return. We've kind of moved the benchmark now. Now we're looking at 15. Yeah. I was looking back at some of the earlier reports that were compiled. And that 10,000 resident goal, I mean, it really has been a goal for so long, at least two decades. And so the growth has been incremental. You know, in 2009, there were under 3,000 residents Downtown, which is kind of remarkable. And so now it's up to almost 8,000. 7,600, 7,700, depending on which schedule you're looking at. So initially, for our purposes, if we could get 300 units a year, that was really good. We are now to the point with over 1,000 units under construction, we're going to be delivering somewhere between 500 or 600 units a year at the current rate, which is significantly more. And as I said, we're within probably 18 months of all of those units that are under construction being in the market. The other good news for Downtown is we've retained a 97% plus occupancy rate. So everything that we can deliver, people move into. It's not like once you have more units than the occupancy falls off. And I think it's interesting that you say 18 months that those will sort of be delivered those properties. Because I know, I mean, some of them are certainly under development. Some I haven't seen quite shovel ready in terms of the ones that are listed. So all of them are actually under construction. So if you looked at, so for example, Doro is one of those that's in that list. And Doro's almost finished. I see that one, yeah. Doro will be finished. And I mean, actually they're pre-leasing right now. They have the pool and some rooftop things to do, but they'll be finished by March. But something like the Union Terminal Warehouse that will be ready, you think? Well, so Union Terminal is not in my number, in part, because... It's in the report. Right. So I used 1200. I got you. I got you. And that's because really it's outside of our boundary. There's a corner of the building that's within the downtown boundary. We treated it that way for historic purposes. But when I'm looking at my 3.9 square miles that I deal with, the residences are really not within the boundary. I want to ask, tell me about the boundary because I know after this report came out, there was a little pushback from the TU columnist, Nate Monroe, about what constitutes downtown.  And he was saying, you know, it's the whole foods that they're talking about under construction at the site of the Old Times Union Building. Is that really downtown? It's Brooklyn. What is the boundary there? So downtown for our purposes, and it's been that way since the 1980s. This is not a new creation. The boundary basically a state and union street on the north. I-95 on the west goes all the way over to Matthews Bridge. And on the south bank, it is I-95 as it curves across the south bank. So it includes Brooklyn as in terms of neighborhoods, as we call them, Brooklyn, LaVilla, City Center, North Core, Cathedral, Sports and Entertainment, Working Waterfront and South Bank. Right. I saw those marked off. Okay. So in the view of that definition, which is the standard definition, that does include that area. It does. And as I said, it hasn't changed since the 80s. The downtown zoning overlay has been that entire area, and the tax increment districts have been that entire area. Now, clearly in the public view, the City Center, where we're talking about City Hall down to the former landing site, have been the core and the center of downtown. So I want to pick up a call here. We have got Shamari on line one. Wanted to talk about residents downtown and the goal that you were talking about. Good morning. Shamari, go ahead. Good morning. Good morning. Hey, so in the past mayoral campaign, we heard a lot about 10,000 residents downtown to spur development. And at the age of 42 and having grown up in Jacksonville and having lived in other cities around the nation and with extensive travel and working and I've worked in zoning and land use in Atlanta. And so my question is about the residents like, you know, you see in Jacksonville, it seems like we we we plan and we do things, but it's mostly short term fixes like when we expand the lanes of traffic, we don't we're not actually it doesn't appear to me that we're planning for 15, 10, 15, 25, 30 years ahead. So in the big picture, when you have ShadCon and other developers, you know, with these massive ideas, 10,000 residents downtown just doesn't seem to be commiserate with the goals. So my question is with down because I remember when downtown vision came online years ago, I believe it was Mayor Delaney and and I remember they had a master plan. It seemed like, you know, things were moving in the right direction for planning, but when I hear of the projection of 10,000 residents downtown, it just seems like we're selling ourselves short. Well, what about that? Yeah, thank you. What about that, Laurie? I totally agree. 10,000 was a benchmark set many years ago. And the idea of that benchmark is when you get to 10,000, retail will follow because there's enough concentration of residents that you can support a neighborhood pharmacy, a grocer and other retail establishments. Little changed with COVID and the changes in the retail industry, which is why we're saying it's more like 15,000 now. But nevertheless, that is not if you looked at the downtown master plan and the ultimate goal for residents in downtown and we do have a 30 year lens on in our document. That's not the ultimate goal. That's not where we ultimately hope to get. But I will say we will not have the density in downtown Jacksonville that you see in some metropolitan urban areas where all of that is in high rises because the cost to build high rises is much higher than our rents will bear. And so what you're seeing here is seven story, nine story, something like Vista Brooklyn, things that are proposed in Gateway, those types of developments just don't yield as many residents on a block. Interesting. And so what is the ultimate goal if you had to put a number on it at this point if it's not 10,000? Oh, I think we can easily serve 30,000 residents downtown and accommodate them on the various parcels that we're looking at. But that number could even be higher depending on where the economics trend in the next 10 years. So we've got a question on X. Duke wants to know, does the recent class action lawsuit against JWB affect the grant process for the downtown investment authority? Are we granting money to companies that have unfair practices? So I would say the first answer is no. It doesn't affect the grant process for an incentive because our incentives are based strictly on the particular development project and the cost of construction of that project. It has nothing to do with the actual renting policies or things like that. So if you're referring to the class action, I presume it was the issue regarding the rental screening application and the use of the algorithm by the rental screening company, which I believe is not just used by JWB, but used nationwide. So those types of after-development, because they could sell the property to someone else at that point, it's not about who the particular developer is. In terms of delivering product, they're delivering the product. So it's not about who their tenants are necessarily or who they're renting to. It's about the broken orders. Or even who the landlord is. Right. Interesting. Okay. So I wanted to ask you about a couple of things that have been getting buzz about downtown. One is drinking on the riverwalk. Talk about that. Is that way into your calculus of the stage that downtown is at? So yes, the answer is yes. It does way into the calculus. It's all about that vibrancy and vitality that you mentioned at the beginning. And this is something that the state legislature authorized perhaps a decade ago. Tampa has it on their riverwalk. A number of folks from here were there a few years ago, and we're suggesting that we do it. What it allows is establishments that are located directly adjacent to the riverwalk to sell alcohol in designated cups that then the patrons can walk on the riverwalk with those cups. So why that's important is one of the big complaints we hear all the time is there are no food and beverage establishments on the riverwalk. There are no places to go. We want places to go. So this is one more thing that encourages those establishments to locate on the riverwalk because it's a benefit they have that elsewhere may not be. We made a change a year ago to allow with the help of the state legislature to allow food and beverage establishments in downtown with only 50 seats to get a liquor license. That's lower than the standard elsewhere, but those are types of things that we support to encourage the establishment of those facilities. What's the significance of the special cups? Just so that they only are from the designated vendor. So actually you can't go across the street, a public street with them. So they're only properties that are immediately contiguous to the riverwalk that have a liquor license that can then have the cup and use the cup to dispense the beverage that and then that beverages that cup is recognizable on the riverwalk is permissible. Gotcha.  Correct. Are there going to be bathrooms provided? Well, as part of all of these parks that are being constructed on the riverwalk, yes. Each one of them has bathrooms. Right now I will tell you on the South Bank, the one bathroom is closed and so at Sip & Stroll the double tree opens their bathroom. And they would be one of the vendors that could sell beverages, alcoholic beverages. So I think that there'll be interim solutions and then the permanent solutions would be there will be bathrooms at the Friendship Fountain Park when it is newly completed and reopened. There's also another bathroom on the South Bank and we can go up and down the North Bank. Talk about where there will be. I want to come back to Friendship Fountain in just a second, but we'd like to invite you to join our conversation. We're here with Laurie Boyer of the Downtown Investment Authority. You can call us at 549-2937. You can tag us on X at FCC on Air or send an email to First Coast Connect at wjct.org. You can also reach us through the First Coast Connect Facebook and Instagram pages. Friendship Fountain, it seems like it's been under construction forever. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong. So first, thanks for asking that question because it's important that I distinguish DIA's role and how we work on these projects. So construction of all of the city road projects and the park projects are the responsibility of public works and the parks department. And while we advocate for those, we help fund some of those projects, we aren't the person that enters into the contract with the contractor and can control the timing of all of that. Not your fault. Well, I hesitate to say it that way, but I don't have real dates. So that's the real question here is I can't promise a date because I can't deliver that date. But what I will say is the Mayor Deakins administration is very focused on how we accelerate those. We have a working group with Parks and Public Works and Procurement and General Council's office to kind of dissect a series of projects that have taken a very long time and understand what the bottlenecks were and how we correct those. And then we've got a series of a couple new projects that we are very focused on accelerating and making sure that they deliver more timely. So I think that if there was ever an opportunity to change the timelines, we're going to see it. Yeah, maybe a reset on some of that. Right. But I do think that that project is nearing completion. And again, with that caveat, I will say that I'm hearing that the fountain itself, I know it was running for Florida, Georgia weekend and will be opening in early 24th the fountain. The surrounding park will probably take a year to complete. So just in terms of the appearance of downtown, I know that there's a lot of discussion about, you know, there's a lot of vacant space downtown. There's a lot of open space downtown.  In some ways, there was a lot of vacancies anyway, but to have all these large patches of just straight up vacant lots. How does that affect the perception of downtown as like a, you know, growing, booming, bustling area versus a place that is maybe seeing reversals in growth? I do think it affects it. There is a perception that there is a lot more public property available for redevelopment than there is. Most of the public property downtown is being used for municipal purposes. So City Hall or the courthouse or the stadium or the parking lots surrounding the stadium. So those are not really available for sale or redevelopment. And then what did happen is when in response to public demand for more public access and recreational opportunities on the riverfront, we took parcels out of redevelopment inventory and committed them to parks and did the design competition for riverfront plaza and have now are working on the design of shipyards west. Those look like vacant lots or the courthouse property looks like a vacant lot. But in that case, there's actually a redevelopment proposal on the other two. There are parks that are in design, riverfront plaza is under construction. They start with infrastructure. So they've started with the road, the bulkhead will be the next part you'll see cranes out there working on. And that happens all you can't build the playground and you can't build the amenities so you get the infrastructure in. And when do you feel like some of that vibe is going to really start to be manifest? I mean, you know, I would guess some people look at the Four Seasons Project as something that will really be a game changer, at least in the perception and the appearance of downtown Jacksonville. But what are the projects that you look for as true signals of downtown vitality? Well I think delivery of those, I think delivery of riverfront plaza as a park and delivery of shipyards west as a park, which should coincide with the timing of the Four Seasons development and hopefully be close in timing to the delivery of the new Mosh project would be a major impact on the North Bank waterfront. If you're looking, I know Nate doesn't like to include Brooklyn, but if you're looking at Brooklyn, right now you see the construction well underway on the Whole Foods and the new residential there and that's really building out the riverfront in Brooklyn. So I do think that there are projects that are being delivered that will add to vibrancy. That project I mentioned in Brooklyn has a waterfront restaurant. There's also another waterfront restaurant coming in Brooklyn. Who's will add to that vitality, but so will these park spaces? I just want to push back on that a little bit because I've been here long enough to know when Metro Park and kids campus and the shell that was used for concerts and events, that was sort of what we're looking to do again in the shipyards west area is kind of create this point of access where people will be able to go and enjoy the river and have a playground and why would why is this different? Why did that fail? So I would say that that was a pretty vibrant place once upon a time there were a minute. Yeah, it was. There were a lot of activities and one of the things that I think we have to do differently is we have to program and maintain those spaces. And one of the things that we have failed to do is to adequately fund that programming maintenance and instead we do a great job of building the capital project and then we turn our back on it. Friendship is an example of that where we have renovated it but not then maintained it or fully renovated it just kind of did the cosmetics. So I think this the difference here is we now have a conservancy which I'm very supportive of having that organization, you know, fully stood up as an entity that can help run the programming and maintenance. DIA through the Downtown Economic Development Fund is helping to fund annual maintenance contributions from that tax increment. So we recognize the importance of that. We're also asking developers and in the case of the four seasons, ShotCon volunteered $200,000 a year to go toward the maintenance of Metropolitan Park. So we are looking at that kind of ongoing capacity to really make a difference in those facilities once they are completed. I want to talk to you about business vacancies because that is one area of the report that reported a significant decline. So I think that overall downtown business infrastructure there has a vacancy rate of 25%. So I'm going to caution the use of the word business vacancy because that would be inclusive of the retail and we're seeing the retail go up whereas what you're seeing is commercial office go down. So it's the commercial office vacancy that is up now to 26. That is rather expected, but definitely concerning. And we knew that was coming as a result of what happened with COVID and hybrid work and people consolidating space, reducing the amount of office space they're using, very focused on the backfill of those as opposed to building new office space. But we also held a symposium a week ago on conversion of office buildings to residential and brought in some architects from LA and DC and engineers and others who were looking at the building stock we had and what the opportunities for those conversions are. Because again, if we can take some of that vacant inventory out of the market, that will help support the buildings that are more leasable, more viable in the market. I mean, I've heard mixed reviews on that. It sounds like it's a very costly process to transform something that's designed as an office into livable spaces. It is costly, but there are cost savings as well. So takeaways from our seminar or two, I would say, one is that you can deliver a conversion about a year faster than you can deliver ground up construction. So when you think about where we are in the market right now, where there aren't a lot of construction loans being made. And I told you, we had those 1200 units under construction. They'll come online in the next over the next, you know, five to 18 months. And then we're going to have a gap because there aren't new projects that started a month ago or six months ago where we're in this hiatus where there aren't new ground up projects starting. So I think that's an opportunity in the market that we don't we won't have otherwise capture. The other thing is that the concrete and steel costs have gone up so much that if you can save the shell of that building, even if you're gutting the interior, putting in all new mechanical systems, everything else in the interior, and if the building is designed with the right depth so that it works for residential, there's a real opportunity there to recognize some cost savings that offset the retrofit costs. And it appears that it may be net neutral and cost. One of the buildings we were looking at is the J.E.A. Tower, the old Universal Marion building. And those individuals in town thought that that had some real possibility for conversion. Interesting. I don't want this to be an afterthought, but just in the time we have remaining homelessness, I feel like there's a perception among people who work downtown that the problem is getting worse, if you will, that there's more people visibly home, unsheltered, living on the street, you know, tents. And what is your sense of is it is it becoming a greater problem for downtown Jacksonville? And are you hearing that same thing? I would say anecdotally, I'm hearing it. I don't know that I am seeing it. Or if I look back a few years ago when we had a kind of major group of folks living in tents along either state or Union Street, we don't have that now. So I'm not sure if it is. And if you look at the statistics, they're not saying that it's greater, but it certainly has heightened visibility. And there have been some encounters that made people feel unsafe where normally it has been just a perception issue. Now there's actually been some circumstances in which people feel unsafe. So I do think it's a problem we need to deal with. I think City Council and the mayor are very much focused on that. And it's very important to downtown that we do focus on that. But kind of going back to the philosophy of relocating people out of downtown is not the answer. That's not the only answer, right? I mean, there may be a problem with the concentration of service providers in downtown, but shifting that to some other neighborhood is not the solution. It really is, how do we provide supportive housing? How do we provide supportive services? How do how do we address the larger issues that are the source of the homelessness? Well, you can find a link to the downtown vision report on the state of downtown on the First Coast Connect website. Thank you so much to Laurie Boyer, CEO of Downtown Investment Authority. Appreciate you being here. Thank you for having me.


Here we are in our QuickBooks Online test company file using the accountant view as opposed to the business view. You can toggle between the two views by going to the cog up top and switching the view down below. We're going to duplicate some tabs to put reports in like we do every time. We're going to right click on the tab to duplicate it and yes we're going to right click on the tab to duplicate it and then back to the tab to the middle as the one to the right is thinking and reports on the left. We're going to open up the balance sheet as always tap into the right as it's thinking even though it's done thinking and reports on the left this time the profit and the loss. Closing the hamburger I'm going to change the range this time for the frame of let's go from 040125 to 053125 that's where the work's going to fall here. Going to hit the drop down and see this in a month by month side by side run it nothing's in it yet that's good. Tab to the left close the hamburger scrolling up same range that we're going to change here 0104, 0125, 053125 we could also see this on the side by side in the month by month. Run it and there we have it tabbing to the left we've been looking at e-commerce situations selling inventory but not on ground in a store but rather online in the cloud with the help and use of third-party software such as like an Amazon or Shopify amongst others. So in prior presentations we talked about how we can pull in the sales side of the transactions because generally most of the time we're going to be separating the sales side from the inventory and cost of good soul tracking which means we're going to be using in essence a periodic inventory system for the most part and now we want to think about a system on the inventory side where we're doing the easiest thing possible just expensing the inventory and then possibly making a year-end adjustment to comply with our tax compliance so that we can get a cost of good sold and ending inventory calculation. So what might that look like well if we had my Shopify store over here we've got our Shopify store and it gives us some inventory tracking so you're going to have some logistical information to track the units of inventory so that you can make sure that you have your stock in place to cover the sales that are happening in the future. What most people aren't doing or what takes a little bit more is to track the inventory not just on a unit by unit basis to cover what you think the potential needs might be in the future for sales but also to convert that to a dollar amount which usually requires like a flow assumption as well like a first in first out or a weighted average type of flow assumption but we're just going to expense it when we buy it and this results usually in some kind of timing issues and so that's what we want to kind of focus in on. So let's imagine we first just buy our inventory so we're going to buy inventory when we buy the inventory we might see it eventually whatever our purchase structure that we're using to purchase the inventory is would eventually go through the bank feeds because we're going to be purchasing it with cash so let's imagine we're going to have a cash transaction goes to the bank feeds for the purchase of inventory so we'll start off with like two units of of our product number one so most likely we've been saying hey we need to we need more units of product number one so because we're getting low so then we go through our purchasing process and eventually cash is going to go out of our checking account so I'm just going to enter that instead of with the bank feeds the expense form which is a decrease to the checking account so decrease to the checking account because we're going to be paying for this I'm just going to call it vendor number one generic vendor and the account is going to be the checking account it's going to be coming out of the checking account let's say this happens on 040125 and we're purchasing notice I'm not going to use items down here because I'm not tracking inventory within the system but rather I'm just going to use an account and record it not to inventory but rather just to the cost of goods sold so I'm just going to dump it into cost of goods sold boom and that's it so I'll dump it right there and the amount let's say that the amount is going to be for forty dollars and so we purchased two units we're going to imagine at the forty dollars total so there are twenty dollars each but obviously when we pay for it it's just going to be a lump sum you know that we're purchasing for the multiple units so let's save it and close it and if I go to my reports here we're going to say all right what did that do on the balance sheet side of things we should of course have cash that is going out of the checking account cash is going out of the checking account right there forty dollars the other side simply going to the cost of the goods that are sold now they haven't been sold that's the problem because normally we would put them on the books as an asset and then expense them in cost of goods sold when we actually sell them so that's why we end up with this timing difference but of course that accrual component of putting it on the asset of inventory and then expensing when we sell it means that we can't just rely on the bank feeds which was the easiest thing to do to just expense things when they leave the bank account all right so that's going to be the issue but that allows us then to go over here and say okay now I've got enough products and I can adjust my products in my Shopify store to line up to meet the current needs let's also track this in excel noting that we are imagining a scenario where you are not tracking this information in excel but for the practice problem we want to put it in excel so we can see what is actually happening over time so I'm going to zoom in a bit by holding control and zooming in you can see you can also zoom in over here I'm going to select the triangle right click on it and format the sales I'm going to choose currency bracketed numbers no dollar sign and no decimals I'm going to put my headers over here which are going to be product one we'll just put keep it at that and then units and then unit cost and then the total cost so let's make these are headers home tab font group and black and white and then I can center them let's say and then these ones are going to make them a little bit skinnier like that and then I'm going to select these as well and wrap them home tab alignment and wrap them so we can fit it there I'm going to make this a date column you can do that by going to the numbers and then use the short date but I'm I'm going to get a little bit more fancy right clicking on this and format and I want to go to the the date format that has no year in it so I'm just going to pick this one that has no year and there we have it so it's going to be on four one we purchase two units at twenty dollars multiplying that out that comes out to the forty dollars so what we're tracking in our excel system is just the the forty dollars again I'm imagining we're not doing this excel sheet in our if we were doing this in practice we're imagining a scenario where we're not tracking it in excel but for the practice problem we'll actually track it in excel so we can see what's happening okay so if we go back on over notice that we have no other schedule within quickbooks that's tracking the the units of inventory on hand because we just expense them at the point in time that we purchased them now let's imagine sales happened and whatnot and the sales are coming through and being recorded into quickbooks in one of the ways that we looked at in prior presentations but as those sales are happening we're not recording anything related to inventory because we've decoupled them we're not recording the decrease to inventory as the sales happens but rather we're just expensing the inventory as we purchase it so then let's imagine sales are happening and we decide that we need and the in our in our Shopify store the inventory is going down and whatnot and units and we decide we need to purchase more inventory so let's do this again and let's first put it into excel and imagine what we're gonna do we're gonna say this time I'm gonna say on four fifteen we're imagining we need more inventory and we're gonna say just one more unit of this one let's say at twenty two dollars the point I want to point out is that the cost of this


Hi, this is Ella here with Cal TV Entertainment, and today we're taking a look at one of the many activities Berkeley students love to do in their free time, and now I'm not talking about protesting. Actually, Berkeley students are involved in a wide range of extracurriculars, including singing, songwriting, and performing music. Today we're at an open mic event hosted by the Berkeley Songwriting Club, and I feel like I'm so excited to see what these students have in store for us. Let's take a look. What's your favorite part of listening to music? It makes me happy, and I think it makes a lot of people happy. What's the best reaction you've got?  Oh my gosh, what if I have to run off stage crying? Hope. Hope. I don't understand.


wanna come. It's been a sure joy to be here. Thank you very much for this opportunity. Let me start by congratulating Shree Sadguruji and Isha Foundation for doing such a fantastic job. And you all by being here it has made even special. I noticed couple of matches here and what I appreciated the most was in the spirit that both the matches were played. They were competitive but played in the right spirit. If the referee gave a decision they accepted so which was very very good to see. More than 7000 participants make this event a special one and you can see the response. It's been simply incredible. I've heard so much about this but to be actually present here and to witness is even better. Being a sportsman sports mean everything to me. Sports for all is something that I encourage. Encourage everyone in India because sport taught me lot of things in life. To be disciplined, to be focused, to have your routine organized. Not always I went out and I succeeded. There were number of occasions when I could not do well but sport taught me to get up on my feet again and to compete in the right spirit. I really like this idea and that's why when I landed here and saw video again on this I suggested to Sadguru Ji why don't we start something like this in the village that I've adopted near Nellore, Puttam Raju Kandriga because it is helping the community to come closer, stay tighter in difficult times and that is what sport teaches you. Sport teaches you teamwork and teamwork can never fail. It teaches you to take care of one another, to sacrifice for your colleague, to back him up when he's not doing well and I saw that here as well. I mean you played in partnerships there was a lot of understanding when you played volleyball and handball and that if you apply it to your day-to-day life most of the problems are taken care of. Sports for all is important to me because it is about changing our lifestyle. I find something that I'm not really proud of is we are the diabetic capital of the world and that is all due to our lifestyle, our habits. We have to change those habits, we have to learn to lead a healthy lifestyle and healthy lifestyle means going out and engaging yourselves in some or the other outdoor activity, some sporting activity which takes care of your health. I still remember as a youngster my grandmother always told me take care of your health because health is your true wealth. So in all what I'm trying to tell you is if you all look after our health and respect what we've been blessed by the Almighty, our nation will get healthier and the healthier you are better results you are going to expect and consistent performance in whatever you choose to be in life be it a lawyer doctor or sportsman engineer whatever it is. Fitter you are more consistent results. So all I want is fitter and healthier India. In return you know we'll all be smiling for times to come. I just want to share one more thing which possibly most of you wouldn't know. As a child in my building I did play volleyball and I had a lot of fun and that continued all the way even in Indian cricket team before the game started we played volleyball. So it's all about playing sport and sport is something which will give you a reason to smile and I'm smiling today because I've been able to spend time with you. Once again thank you very much for inviting me here and to all the to all the champions you've really done well and to the guys who have participated in this tournament you're all winners because you've won my heart by participating and being here playing sport in the right spirit continue to do so and give us all a reason to smile. Namaskar. I know this is an unpopular thing to do trying to speak after Sachin. So as all of you know Sachin has become the jewel of India is our Bharat Ratna and a cricketer without compare the only cricketer who has overshadowed who has overshadowed Don Bradman and above all more than just being a cricketer he is a sporting phenomena who has inspired a whole generation both in this country and everywhere in the world to what extent is quite immeasurable.  There are many many things you can go on saying about him because I think nearly two generations of people have had the joy of watching him play. There are many ways to describe him but I think it was very amusing for me to see that the president of United States Barack Obama said I know nothing about cricket but when Sachin plays I watch and let me finish. When Sachin plays I watch but I still don't understand anything about cricket but I watch because whenever he plays my country's productivity goes down by five percent. It's a it's a great privilege it's a great privilege that he has come to inspire and to endorse the spirit of rural Tamil Nadu to inspire sport in rural India. A ball can change the world and this change is slowly happening last fifteen or sixteen years the Grammotsavam events have been happening building from strength to strength but we really want to take this to the very roots of every village. Seventy percent of Indian population being in rural India if they if they do not play or if they cannot play we have a nation which will become stagnant and sick over a period of time. So this Grammotsavam and Sachin being here today recognizing the spirit of rural India revitalizing our villages through sporting action. We have seen where I could say dozens of incredible stories of youth transforming themselves simply because of the simple games how many youth have transformed themselves. Situations and villages have transformed themselves many conflicts in the villages have been overcome many people have come overcome their addictions to alcohol and other substances. There are any number of stories that I could say but the most important thing today is the very jewel of India is endorsing the spirit of rural Tamil Nadu and from here on there should be no looking back for Grammotsavam. We don't want to limit it to Tamil Nadu we want to take this across as Sachin requested in he has only one village I would like to see that he has at least a hundred villages and we will make sure sport will be the fundamental of these villages in the next coming years in the next few years. This village in Andhra Pradesh what? Puttam Raju Khandrika that's a village he's he's managed to learn the name and we will make sure this village and the surrounding areas there will become basis of sport and Andhra Pradesh government is already invited us to do this in that region and definitely we will start in this village.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another ToyHacks.com video. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now, on to the decals. And the set we're looking at in this video is Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom Mainframe. Now Mainframe here of course comes with the Ark, but he has his own separate decal set. And this set includes three decal sheets. One, this real large one on foil backing, and two smaller ones on vinyl. So now, without further ado, let's take a look at Mainframe both before and after ToyHacks decals. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In bridge mode, straight out of the packaging, Mainframe really isn't much. Now this is the mode that Mainframe comes in when you take him out of the Ark. Now right there, there is the bridge, the Autobot Command Center. You got little molded in details right there. That's where these little tiny figures are supposed to go. And I know it comes with one tiny Optimus, but man, you've got spaces for one, two, three, four, five more. So maybe we'll see those in some future packs. Lots of great molded details all over, but really no color other than right here, which are details for Teletran 1 mode. Now he does come with this translucent ball that plugs in right there that I can only assume is like a holographic display of whatever planet the Ark is orbiting. So yeah, not much to look out there. So there you go guys, Mainframe in bridge mode before and after. Mainframe's bridge mode gets a few new decals thanks to toy hacks. The first one you're probably noticing is this gold decal right here with the red Autobot insignia, along with new decals here and here and decals there along the bottom underneath the bridge. That actually is more for Teletran 1. He gets new chrome decals right there on the front and new blue decals that mimic computer screens there on the two side computers and the one right there. Now you do want to pay attention to the size of these blue decals because the ones on the side are a lot thicker than the center console. There's also a new decal right there. It's kind of a chrome grid and turning the bridge around. There's some new decals right there that also carry over from Teletran 1. So there you go guys, bridge mode after. In robot mode straight out of the packaging, Mainframe looks okay. He's mainly a yellow and gray bot. There's not a lot of details with the guy. Take a closer look at the figure. He's got gray there for the middle of the forehead and mouthplate. A translucent orange visor down here on the chest.  Down here on the abs, more silver, lots of gray there. Down on the legs, he does have some computer detailing as well as here on the forearms and some gray for the shins. And that's pretty much it. I really can't wait to see what Toyhacks can do for Mainframe in his robot mode. So there you go guys, Mainframe in robot mode before and after. Mainframe's robot mode looks so much better now thanks to Toyhacks. Taking a closer look at the figure, we'll start here with the head. He gets a new blue decal right there for the forehead and a new gold visor decal that covers up all that translucent plastic but I think that looks so much better. He also gets a new blue mouthplate. Here on the shoulders, you get some red decals there. On the chest, he gets a new gold decal with a red Autobot logo to replace the white one he had earlier and a little red dot decal that goes right there in the center of that yellow circle which really breaks that up. On the stomach area, he gets three yellow decals there. On the forearms, you get yellow decals here and here and on the side of the shoulders, silver decals. Moving on down to the waist area, you got new blue decals here and here. A yellow decal for the crotch. On the thighs, I really like these. You get these decals that wrap all the way around that really break up all of that yellow. Now moving on down to the legs, a lot of these decals do carry over for Teletran One Mode. You got gold decals here on the side, new blue decals for the knees and the shins. And here on the side of the legs, you got a little decal here and there. So there you go guys, there is mainframe in Robot Mode after. In Teletran One Mode, straight out of the packaging, is where mainframe really shines and where most of his details are. Taking a closer look at the computer here. I love the screens. You've got light blue on top of a navy. You've got a map of the earth here, the matrix, some readouts. There's the arc, vector sigma. More readouts there, more readouts up top. Great molded details throughout. I mean this thing looks really good and very faithful to, well, Teletran One, which is my background. There's also some details down here. You got more details there and some gray on the bottom that you did see in Robot Mode with the legs. Also included with mainframe, you do get two golden discs. So you've got right here on the back, you got hieroglyphics that look really good and very faithful to the Beast Wars television show. And then here on the other side, you've got, it looks like records and you have the sounds of earth, I guess volume one and two. So those are pretty cool. And you also get the sky spy from the very first episode from the Generation 1 cartoon. Lots of nice details, very nice silver right there. And I love how it's catching my ring light. Let's see, no real paint applications whatsoever. But still it's a nice addition. So there you go guys, mainframe as Teletran One before and after. Now this right here, this is the mode where the Toy Hacks decal set really shines. I mean, look at what they've done to Teletran One. Now the first decals you're probably noticing are the new screens. And what I like is you have different options. I chose the one that showed earth there in the middle. You also have the arc or Optimus Prime. There's also screens up here. This one shows a vortex. This one shows Cybertron. You have the option of a broken screen, just like the G1 cartoon. And you've got options down here as well. Like I've got a readout. It looks like Daniel's Exosuit and a little readout there that looks like the old 80s style spools. You have another option where you can add Kremziek. So that's pretty much all the screen options you have. Now let's get into everything else. And man, there is a lot. Starting here at the top, you see the gold decal once again with the red Autobot logo. There's some decals there on top. All of these decals are replaced and they look so good. You've got technical readouts. All these little skittle decals. I don't know what else to call those. Just very 80s colorful looking decals right there. It looks like old 80s computers. Moving on down the side of the computer. You've got more readout screens, technical readouts. Silver decal right there. Kind of a sensor or monitor there. A keyboard, which is really cool. More readouts here. And this is one of my favorites for some reason. A real small decal that has a temperature reading. So I do like that. You've got the gold decals here along the sides. More decals here on both sides there. On the base of the computer screen or the base of Teletran 1, you've got gold decals right along there and there. The screen decals that I showed earlier along with some technical readouts. And right here, that is spark plugs wrench. Laying there on Teletran 1. So man, I love what they've done for that. Now taking a look at the other accessories. The golden discs that we had earlier that I mentioned the back of look like records. Toy hacks made them look like records. So we have Dare to be Stupid by Weird Owl and The Touch by Stan Bush. Nice 80s throwback right there. And Sky Spy here gets brand new decals for the panels. Now these panels do come with extra decals that go on underneath because there is some indentations in the mold. So you want to take those decals to fill out the indentations and then put these panel decals over top so they look nice and smooth. And he also gets a decal right there on the bottom. Nice yellow thruster. So there you go guys. Teletran 1 after. Toy hacks once again really adds some life to a Titan class figures secondary bot. I love what they've done for mainframe here. They've really added some more personality to this character with the robot mode with all the extra details. But where this set really shines is in mainframe's Teletran 1 mode. They went above and beyond for that mode and I absolutely love it. Now as much as I love the way mainframe looks in robot mode now, Teletran 1 mode is probably the mode he's going to stay in on my shelf. I also love the little added Easter eggs they add with this figure as far as spark plugs wrench and turning the golden discs into 80s records. That is so cool. Plus they also gave a little life to Sky Spy. Now if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Also want to give a huge shout out to all my current channel members. It's your continued support that helps this channel grow. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime signing out. See ya.


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