This is my first presentation, giving a state of the feather as president. I was recently elected to name that. I have a tendency to start fast and accelerate, so feel free to interject or ask questions. I'm currently ASF president. I'm also assistant secretary as Rich stated, VP of whimsy, which is actually a real title. There's a project by the name of whimsy that I helped create. I've studied a lot of these. I've attended and I've studied a lot of these state of the feathers. They typically start out with some statistics talking about committees, members, PMCs, potlings and groups. I'll come back to that later and they also start with a pretty graph. Okay. Genders tend to start with things like how we got here, what we believe in, and how we are different. I'm going to do it slightly different. This presentation is not just, Apache is great. I will talk about how many good things we do, but I'll also identify what works and what I think, where there's some more work that needs to be done. In fact, in essence, it's going to give the scene or talks I've seen sort of backwards. Apache, as Rich said, has been around for 18-plus years. We're continuing to grow by every measure. No matter how you look at it, we are growing. More importantly, we expect to continue to be around and we expect to continue to grow. So this foundation is thriving, perhaps even a bit too fast. If there's anything we worry about, we worry about the fact that we're growing too fast. Can we keep up? Can we continue to grow? Our secret, diversity, independence and openness. I've distilled this from a number of places on our website and the like. These are the things that make us what we are. Excerpts from the incubation exit criteria. Demonstrate an active and diverse development community. There's at least three legally independent computers. No single company or entity has successfully project and developed and execute in public. These are sort of core to what we are. And more importantly, we mean it. No one committer has more say than any other committer as to what code is accepted. No one PMC member has any more say than any other PMC member. All ASF members have equal votes. No director has any more ability to set the policy than any other director. Everyone is equal. Concrete example, Tomcat. A bunch of people here probably know what that project is and have been involved with it in one way or another. I was the first non-sun release manager for Tomcat. I've been here for 17 years, directed for 13 years. I'm an ASF member since 2000 apparently. And I currently hold the title of ASF president. While I'm no longer active on that particular project, there's lots of projects I'm active on. Tomcat's not one of them at the moment. I'm fully confident that I'd be welcomed back promptly and enthusiastically if I chose to participate again. That's just how we tend to operate. But more importantly, but only as an equal. I've seen examples over time when individuals have come back to individual projects and expect to have a special status based on their prior history. That's not how we work. Not saying it's easy.  We do have people who... There are projects outside the ASF who operate quite successfully that way. Just not inside the ASF. We do not allow such things. Everyone being equal is an important tenant to us. We have PMCs wanting to release without votes. Everyone has a reason why they want to release faster. They want to do all sorts of things. But unless it's got the backing of the PMC demonstrably, that's important to us that it... That's how we do releases. We have over-exupant companies wanting to create press releases talking about employees' leadership when they become PMC chairs. And immediately we have Sally on the far left who might help correct them in their perceptions. We do not have leaders here. We have a bunch of equals. And we have gray beards. Sorting back in the day, things were done differently and alike. They also are equals. We also are equals. I'm not saying it's equal. I'm not saying it's easy. Contributors are important. No contributors are replaceable. These two statements are both true even though they are slightly in conflict. Everyone is important. Everyone is replaceable. It's important to us that a project continues to thrive if any one person or one company or one anything chooses to leave. We have people over time who do leave. We talk about that in terms of community over code. The community to us is more important than the fact that we've got to coddle one individual contributor who feels that they are more special than others. I'm not saying it's easy. Another place where it's not easy. We have a business-friendly license. We welcome and appreciate donates from generous sponsors. We have a strict vendor neutral policy. We want the contributions of our sponsors. We want the people who are employed by companies to participate. We want the companies to go take their stuff back, but we do not give companies any special treatment based on that. That's a difficult balance to constantly strive for, particularly when we are looking for revenue. I'm not saying it's easy. 100 people planning 100 small conferences may work, but having 20 people planning one big conference doesn't work. So trying to find out where the balances are because we have a couple of individual cases, mostly in operations where we end up saying we need a more strict hierarchy versus equality. Letting a PMC have their own brand policy may affect other PMCs ability to force their mark. That's something that we had a lengthy discussion on the board with for the last several months. I'm pleased with how that turned out. Having committers work on what they want to work on may work, but having sysadmins choosing on their fund tickets doesn't. To run the business, you actually need to actually have things done in order, in priority, and the like. Our way to address that last point is sometimes the solution is to turn non-fund or time-critical tasks into paid positions. While we have substantial reserves, we're currently running an unsustainable deficit. I won't show the numbers here. They are available to all, but we actually are running a deficit, a significant deficit for the first time. We do have substantial reserves, more than a year's reserves, but we do need to figure out how to fund ourselves better. Expanding the pool of sponsors may run up the questions as to ROI, return on investment. We talk to sponsors every day, and it's very... I mean, you can get sponsors for things like Apache Con because you get boost base and all sorts of things, but what do you get for sponsoring Apache? Well, you get a mention in our thanks page. It's looking rather hard to figure out how we can improve that without compromising who we are. Not saying it's easy, but things that are worth doing aren't always easy, and supporting communities that have made the ASF a home for these 18-plus years is definitely worth doing. We're capping our core values, diversity, independence, and openness. Hopefully, what I just said is more of an appreciation as to what we mean by those and where we actually struggle on trying to find the balances and why they're important to our longevity. Any one of us could disappear, and hopefully the whole foundation will continue. Even when we have rare exceptions, there are places where we don't have a strict equality. We do have hierarchies, and I hope that doesn't minimize the message I'm trying to send. We struggle over each of those times. Returning to the statistics, we've got 58-22 committers by my last count. That doesn't distinguish between people who are committers only on a podling, in other words, they haven't been successfully through incubation and the number of committers who've been around for a lot longer. But even so, we have thousands of people who have been, in essence, taught the Apache way and participate as equals on one of our many projects. 684 people have been recognized for their sustained contributions as members. 181 PMCs, depending on how you count, we've got different numbers for that, but it's all in this ballpark. These are active PMCs that are producing the code bases that many of us use. 59 podlings, these are the wannabe projects. These are the ones that will end up, many of them will end up graduating and become full-fledged projects once they end up graduating. So we have a large queue of projects that are want to join us, and that's part of our growth. That number being that big means we're going to continue to grow. And 96 other various assorted other groups, but hopefully now you see more context for these numbers. It's reason why I did my presentation backwards, and I'm giving you some more... The pretty graph I went by quickly. The most important thing is the orange-ish line that is showing growth of the number of projects. I'm pleased to say that's sort of linear. It's not really exponential. So in other words, we actually are growing. We're actually maintaining a growth pattern. The slight downturn you see here is we're actually more active recently retiring projects that have gotten to the point where there aren't people pertaining on them. But the fact it's linear means it's probably manageable. If it were exponential, I'd be more scared. But we do have issues that we need to deal with, in managing growth. And finally, an appreciation with the following enables sponsors and donors, platinum sponsors. I'm not going to read all their names, but basically we've got a large number of platinum sponsors and we've got substantial commitment to the ASF, gold sponsors, silver sponsors, bronze. Infrastructure sponsors, people that sponsor individual things in infrastructure. A special thanks to Apache Con and Apache Big Data Sponsors. These rich show the slide for it. It's a little more of an eye chart than my case, but I tried to get all of them on there. And you too can support Apache if you choose to do so. There is this icon on... We're trying to get it on all of our pages. We're not quite there yet. But we'll see it at least on our main pages, on many of our project pages. You click on that and you'll go to another place that will end up giving you all sorts of different options to contribute. And I said I start fast and accelerate. Thank you.


I'm in the Leci booth with Gaspard Plantro and I think we're going to be talking about Thunderbolt 3 and we're going to have some fun here. What do you got going for us today? So today we're presenting the latest product we just announced last week. So this is the two big dock. It's our new Thunderbolt 3 product to complete the whole range. This drive is up to 20 terabytes to connect to your new MacBook Pro and we've added all the new, the dock functionalities inside. So you can connect USB, contract flash, SD card directly on the product and it will show up on your MacBook Pro. It comes with five years warranty. The best in class drive you can find in Seagate and it's, we think, the perfect companion for the new MacBook Pro. So this is audio and video. So what he's pointing to is a sort of a small unit actually. It doesn't look like a giant unit compared to the one next to us here but it's called two big Thunderbolt 3. So Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C, is that correct? Exactly. So we have Thunderbolt 3 and USB so that you can connect to a MacBook Pro or to any Windows machine on the market. It brings speeds up to nearly 500 megabytes per second. So you can transfer a lot of picture in a fairly small amount of time. So on the front of it we've got, let's zoom in here Steve. So we've got an SD card slot, is that compact flash and a regular USB. Yes. All right, right on the front of it. It's very long for a drive. Not that much. If you check with the, we've got a bear drive here so you can see that we only have a little space on the bottom for a fan and the interfaces so. So these are 10 terabyte drives in here? Yeah, Ironwolves. The Seagate Ironwolves. Okay. Best in class. Those are the drives that are built to work in a multi-drive environment. So they come with Fiverr's warranty. They have a lot of sensors to synchronize, mechanically speaking, the drive between the two of them so that data is not corrupted. Okay, so it's mirroring between the two? Or you say 20 terabytes but you've got a 10 terabyte drive there. Yeah, you've got two drives inside. So you can choose either to be mirroring the two of them or to configure them in RedZero for optimal speeds. Okay, okay. So if you're mirroring you will go up to 10 terabytes which is definitely a lot still a lot.  Wow, okay. So who's this, who's this for? Who needs this? This is for video professionals and professional photographers. The one that have acquired this brand new MacBook Pro that need capacity and speed and that are starting, that are not in the need for 60 terabyte drive but rather small HD productions. Okay. So he just pointed at another drive set here that's 60 terabytes. What about this, he's got one here that's the size of a small filing cabinet. What is that one? So this one we announced at NAB last year we started shipping back in December. This is the 6B, sorry the 12 big Turnable 3. So it has, such as this one, Turnable 3 and USB-C. So you can connect to any Turnable 3 machine such as this one or any machine in the market thanks to USB. It comes in up to 120 terabytes. You can transfer one hour of raw 4K shootage in less than five minutes. Holy cow. So that's around 2600 megabytes per second capable. Wow, okay so I don't probably need that one yet but we'll work our way up to it. So 4K and up, this is for 4K and down. So 4K and down, the two big Turnable 3 and that's the one you're just announcing right now, right? Exactly. That's kind of a nice compact unit. I heard somebody ask you about pricing. You don't have pricing yet? No, we don't have pricing yet. Okay, when is that going to be available? Early summer. Yeah, I forgot to say that this is a four in one dock so on top of all the extensions we have here the dock actually provides power directly to the MacBook Pro. So how many milliamp hours is that? So we're talking about watts so up to 27 watts. Okay, great.  Problem. It's a, basically you could give this to a small child right and it's not going to break. Of course, of course. This is child safe. So we, at the beginning of the year we've updated the interfaces on the product. So this is a Tonovolt interface legacy Tonovolt I would say and we've updated with USB-C so that it can connect to basically any MacBook either if it has Tonovolt 3 only such as this one or the previous generation. Of course it's also compatible with Windows so it's shock resistant. This is great for throwing in your bag when you're going on a shoot or something. You don't have to care about the cable. It's integrated. It's great for your bag. It's widely used as a shuttle drive on the market and goes up to five terabytes. Oh wow. So this is the rugged USB-C Thunderbolt, a rugged USB-C Thunderbolt drive. Exactly. And is this already on the market? Yes. And how much does this one cost? Depending on size. It's depending on size definitely. And where would people find out more about these drives? Oh you can, to get more information just visit Lassie.com. Lassie.com that's L-A-C-I-E dot com. Yes. I'm asking you a spell in English. There you go. You're very welcome.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Upgrade SBCs came out today. The market is crashing. There is lots to talk about after the Monday content and everything that we got on Monday in FIFA Ultimate Team with the new subset to lower leagues of Team of the Seasons with MLS and Latin America Team of the Seasons coming out in the game, as well as the upgrade SBCs, again, as I did mention, which is causing a lot of the market to drop. The first thing I have to talk about today is the league on rares. And a lot of people were coming at me saying, yo, man, you told me to sell when this guy was 19 her coins because you thought it was over invested, which I did. But EA went out and dropped a madness today and required 11 league one rares for a player pick SBC, a player pick SBC, but you do get five choices. So that is a bit OP. I just don't understand why they released this. We want packs EA, all right? Why didn't we get a like 81 plus, even if you just made it one player like or 82 plus one player? I don't know. I'm just kind of bummed with these packs. Although I've seen people get a lot of good stuff from them. I have seen multiple Mbappes, bannetters and Neymars on Twitter. People are sending me these. So give a couple of a try if you want to, they cost 30,000 coins per SBC. So there's a lot of coins being drained off the market, which is why you're seeing so many cards drop in price. A lot of out of pack specials have just dumped today in price. And I'm going to talk about that a little bit later and when you can start maybe buying some of those for Thursday flips for sure. But that's why the market's losing a lot of coins. There are some people making tons of coins today that held their league on rares and maybe they're selling them and doing half, selling half of them and then some putting in them into packs. So if you held your league on rares, GG. Again, this is why I don't like relying on EA for SBCs and relying on EA to drop something, right? This could have very easily been a league one upgrade pick with only three options and then they only required six league on rares. In that case, I feel like the half cut off of demand for the league on rare cards could have made their prices drop and or stay the same. So yeah, that was crazy today from EA. I was not expecting this. Honestly, I'm still a bit bummed because it's a player pick, all right? We want the packs EA sports, the packs, all right? We did get an 81 plus double, which these cost 8,000 coins to make instead of 30K. If you want to try your luck with a few of these, definitely a lot cheaper and you have the availability and the possibility to pack an MLS or a Latin America Tots card, a lot of juiced cards that EA put in here today. Ridiculously juiced cards for the MLS and for Latin America Tots plus Waila looks like a beast. Of course, Vela Martinez, Josef Martinez and Oparo were all extinct today for a period of time. Vela, which these cards look saucy, man. I know it's got a three star week foot, but that's a really saucy looking card. That's a beast. Josef Martinez is going to play like a monster in game. I mean, he was really good last year at the end of the year with a few of his Player of the Months, even as a Player of the Month this year, but this card's going to be really, really good. Four star, four star, 99 finishing, 99 agility, 99 balance. It's going to be a really good card. And then this Oparo center back, dare I say, could be one of the best, if not the best statistical center back in FIFA Ultimate Team. 96 pace with 99 agility, 94 balance, 99 reactions. It's actually, his defending stats need a bit of a boost. So I think I might throw like a, what does Swippin say? They throw a guardian or a shadow? I think I would throw a guardian on him for sure, man. That's not a guardian. Yeah, a guardian makes him a 98 rated center back.  That's the most important part. You go max out those defending stats with a guardian chem style. I guess you could rock a shadow too if you want to get that acceleration all the way to 99. But this is a stupidly good looking card, which is why it's got a lot of hype. And that's why he was extinct today for a long time. Of course, it is hard to link. Just like these Latin America Tots are, they're hard to link because they're nations and they're league. But if you've got some icons, maybe some specific icons that link to these cards could be very, very good in their team. Tevez with the common bowl card earlier this year, that's a beast looking team or beast looking card. This Fernandez is actually drawing a lot of hype. Club 90, except for defense and physical, four star, four star, really, really good stats. What are his work rates? High, medium, work rates. Yeah, this looks like a really fun card to use too. So this guy's drawing some hype, only 100,000 coins for a card like this in FIFA.  Seriously, across the board, it is honestly wild how low some of these prices are. I've got the SBC squad ready, set to go, a full squad of French players, right? I'm trying to tell EA that I want French players in my team. There's a lot of league one guys in there. And I even named it, I love EA, right? I love EA. All right, give me, give me an imbappe, a beignette, or we're trying to do all the little pack superstitions for the upgrade packs that are coming out this week. And again, I'm really thinking I'm going to hit the upgrade packs on Thursday really, really hard.  And there's just not a lot of rares in, there's not a lot of rares in league one. So you have a really high opportunity to pack some of those cards this week through the 25 K pack upgrades that will be coming out on, on Thursday. So that's where I think I'm going to grind. I'm going to buy a lot of rares this week, probably start going unassigned on maybe Tuesday night or Wednesday after I'm done opening some packs, we will see what happens with that. But you can tell I've started to buy some of my week in league flips already. One common theme here, all French nationalities, right? All French nationalities. Like I said, I pointed that guy out to you guys yesterday in my video. I did not expect his price to drop this far. The dude is 300 K. And if you look at some of these graphs, it is honestly ridiculous how much some of these cards have dropped. And you can tell that it is just people trying to get quick coins because they want to do SBCs on this game. Look at this, bro. Look at all the open bids. Open bid lock is at 150,000 coins start price, right? There was another open bid just before this. I saw one else going through. Boom, right there. I've already got it watched. There's just so many open bids and so many undercutting, so much undercutting on these cards that just to me screams that people are selling cards to go and to do upgrades. Take a look at the drop on full birthday Lacazette today on both consoles. PS4 316 Xbox 285, right? 367,000 coins right before the content drop today for Lacazette dropped all the way down to 315,000 coins, where he is still chilling. And if you look at his daily graph, he was 466,000 coins just three days ago. Three days ago, this card was 466K on the PlayStation. Now he's 316, right? He was 366 on the Xbox. Now he's 285. These cards, I don't think are going to drop too much lower because, yes, some people are going to continue to do some upgrade SBCs, you know, for the next two days. But most people, I think go out and hit the upgrades Monday and maybe a little bit on Tuesday. And after that, it's all about the guaranteed SBC and getting ready for weekend league with people's clubs and with people's coins and what they're doing in the game. So I would really start to look at, since this is probably going to be some of the peak of the panic selling on a lot of these cards, I would really start to look at buying cards that if you want to buy weekend league flips, right? And again, I'm really liking the French links. League on and French links are good for me. You know what? I saw an interesting price tonight. I'm surprised this card hasn't really risen up that much yet. Moses Simon is 124K. This is kind of the lowest he's ever been, 125 a couple of weeks ago, but he was 150, 160 on Friday before the drop, even on Sunday. What was he? He was 140, you know, 130 to 140. And then today, with everything that went on, he dropped down to 119 in the panic. I love this guy, 120,000 coins-ish on the PlayStation and probably like 90K flat on the Xbox. I'm a big fan of this guy because this guy's going to make it into a lot of people's teams and people will buy him for the weekend league, depending on who they pack. If they pack some league gun cards, I'm kind of a fan of that card right there. But most other team this season, I would not recommend buying. I would just kind of look around the market, right? And do some searches. Basically, just search all cards in FIFA by the French nationality right here. Go to FIFA 20 players, drop it down, nations, popular, France, boom. You can scroll down to this list and look at some of these cards and say, okay, if I look at the Tots squad, right? Where do I see holds? Where are their positions and price ranges that are not covered in this squad? Well, uh, strikers, right? First thing I notice is strikers. We have Ben Yetter, we have Mbappe, we have Oseman. So Oseman is pretty cheap, 180,000 coins, but he doesn't link well, right? He's in league gun, but he's from Nigeria and Slamani, right? I don't think many people are going to want to use that card. Are there any French strikers that are usable that people like to use in this game that are, you know, in the 100K to 500K category? Because if you can't afford Mbappe or Yetter, it's going to be tough to find some cards. So I just go in here, positions, uh, striker. Let's see what French strikers we have. We've got Thierry Henry, multiple versions of Mbappe, Bronco Ribéry, Benzema team of the season, uh, Alexander Lacazette. I like this one because he's the best French prem striker and, uh, it's a really good card. Foot birthdays are decently rare on the market. I'm also kind of a fan of Griezmann this week. Even like Griezmann's Moussa watch is informed. Ben Yetter's other versions probably will do well. This Anthony Marchial card, I think will do well. I mean, I remember flipping him last year, right? If people need links, right? People have a lot of French cards already in their teams. That's why I like a lot of these French out-of-packs specials and even icons as well. Uh, there's no French centerbacks in, uh, Ligantats. There are zero, zero French centerbacks, right? So there's new, no new French centerbacks that have come out in the game this week. That makes me think about other cards, um, that came out that maybe have some hype. Mookie LA, right? This guy's 190K, I think. That about right. Maybe 200K. This guy like the 190s, low 190s, if you can get him there, I think it's fantastic. Just kind of look at their graphs. This is how you can realize and think, Hey, is this guy going to be a good investment for this weekend league? Take a look at their graph on footbin and see if they've been fluctuating the past few weeks. So Mookie LA has been trending down our price, but you can see, look, Saturday, Sunday, 267. Actually, he went up in the midweek there. That was for Bundesliga team this season. That his graph is backwards that, that week. Well, look what happens after Bundesliga, right? He drops all week last week during Serie A. People still wanted for the weekend league. 227 on Thursday. He bumps up to 240 on the weekend. Not a huge rise, but you're seeing that he is constantly going up on the weekends. 272, up to 290, right? What about this one? 330, up to 340. So not some, not huge rises, but with this week needing a lot of French links, if somebody packs Alwar, if somebody packs Lala and Savaneer, and they want to kind of bring those two together and just get an extra French link or two in their squads, you might see a guy like this do pretty well. And I like his price because he's already dropped off a lot. I'm a little bit scared with this guy. I'm a little bit scared with Oopa Makano, because yes, he is very, very good in this game, but he hasn't dropped off that much, right? He's only down 40,000 coins since Bundesliga team this season. I would like to see this drop another chunk. And I think it will during Ultimate Tots, but this could be a guy who maybe rises after a week in League of Roars this week as well. So that's just something to think about. When you're looking through special cards this week, maybe left wings as well, position left wing. That's why I'm really focusing on French cards and icons, because I feel like people need the French links. There's a lot of hype around the squad and icons obviously linked to anybody. So that's why there's more, there's hype for icons. And we've been seeing icons rising basically every single week, especially guys like this, right? This is a very, very popular icon that gets slipped on Thursdays. Last week, I bought this guy at three, wow, dude, are you kidding me? He's down 100K. I bought this guy last week at 390, and I sold him for 477. He's now 300K, dude. I know that guys have come out like Ronaldo Sanchez, like Awar, that maybe have some decreased the value for this guy, but dropping down 319. Look at this drop from today. I got to show you this graph. This graph is crazy, man. Started this morning, 369, all the way down to 297 at one point. 297 at one point for Prime Maca Lele. 600K for this card. No way. It was 800K this weekend. What? This is wild, man.   This guy was 540K after being 740K on Sunday. That is crazy. So there was definitely a lot of panic today, and you're just seeing it on the market still, like that Kante center-back card that I was looking at, right? Very rare, very usable. A lot of people like to run this card in a 5-back formation. He was over 400,000 coins earlier this weekend during the Weekend League, and now he's 300K flat. This is a very, very rare card. That's why I'm a fan of him. That's why I picked a couple up on open bids under 300,000 coins. Veran honestly isn't a bad shot either. Just a very linkable. Some people need a lot of league of links for other cards they have in their squad. I like staying in for Thursday flips this week. I like staying in the like 50-60K all the way up to 500K range. I don't think I'm going to go with too many cards over 500K, just because of the fact that I think a lot of people are wasting, wasting coins on these SBCs, the upgrade SBCs in here. Also today we got this Nani card. I don't know if I talked about him. I don't think I did. 5-star, 5-star. This guy looks pretty awesome. Very, very craftable. 99 aggression, right? Is that 99 aggression? 97 acceleration. So this guy could add some sticky. Looks like a really good wing player. 5-star, 5-star. So that's pretty cool. GGCEA on that one. And I think that was about all the content today. Upgrades, that SBC and then maybe one more like League of Challenge. I don't know if this was today or not. But yeah, that was kind of our content for today. And again, the market is really, really falling off. Do I expect it to rise a little bit in the next couple of days? Yes. Is this going to be the lowest? I honestly think tonight into Tuesday might be some of the lowest prices that you see on the market for the out-of-pack special cards that are getting sold off because people are going to start to realize stuff is getting too low and they're going to go out and start to buy. So that's something that if you want to make coins this week, you can look at right there. Last thing I want to talk about, high-rated golds and middle-rated golds, right? 83s, 82s. I still am kind of a fan on these. Some of these 82-rated cards, I still think are overlooked. You guys always talk about Oyarzabal, right? What about Suso, man? This guy went to 3k during La Liga Tots. He went to 2k last week. He's 1,000 coins right now. Even though we don't have as hype, we don't have the Air Division CSL, which are the more hype lower-level leagues. The way they used MLS and the Latin America Tots, I'm kind of a fan again. If they make that MLS or Latin America Tots guaranteed SBC, whether they do 1 and combine them again or do 2, it's probably going to be 83, 84 rated, possibly 85, probably just 83 or 84. And I think you would see a lot of these 82s rise again. So if this is something you're interested in, 82s and some of the good-linking 83s are a fan. I'm a fan of. 84s look solid to me still. 85s have risen up a little bit. 86s are still a GG buy from me as well, because I think these guys are going to go up a decent amount this week with the League on Tots SBC probably being 87 rated. I think they're going to make it 87 rated just because you have the possibility of packing Ben Yetter, you have the possibility of packing Neymar and Mbappe. Since all those guys are included, I do think you're going to see this SBC for the guaranteed League on probably be an 87 rated squad with a Tots. So with that being said, I like the 86s for filling out the rest of the squad. I think those will go up a decent amount on Wednesday when the SBC should be coming out. It's finally good to see some of these cards getting supply as well. Ben Yetter's 5.4 million. If you paid 7 mil for this card on the weekend, who are you? Come on, man. You know how it's going to go with these Tots cards. They're not done dropping either. These guys are going to drop a little bit more. If you have to have one of these for your team this weekend, your buy time is probably going to be in the next 24 to 36 hours before Wednesday's guaranteed SBC would come out. So that's something to remember and something to think about with these League on Tots cards and just something to be mindful of. If you really, really, really want to buy one, let's say you want to buy La La. This is a guy that's going to do very, very well. He's going to bounce around a lot. He doesn't really drop as much in price as a lot of these other ones do. He fluctuates around a lot. I've seen this guy at 340,000 coins and I've seen him on foot bin at like 320. So he gets undercut. I don't see this guy getting packed from upgrades a lot. So we'll see how this happens in the next two days or so. But if you see this card at like 300K, that's a buy from me. Even like 310, I think I would get interested in this card unless EA drop some massive content or drop some big time information in the next two days that would make things not rise on the market. I'm a big fan of this card because everybody's going to need a writeback to link some of their new League on cards together from the cards they pack from rewards, SBCs and stuff like that. But we are in a full on market crash at the moment because people are selling everything because A, Ultimate Tots is coming and because B, the upgrade SBCs, people want to hit them. People want to hit these upgrade SBCs and they want to try their luck and try to pack an Mbappe and Neymar. All those guys you know. So they're going out and they're dropping all of their coins on these SBCs, which is crazy. But if you do want to make some deals, if you do want to make some coins, head into Ultimate Tots. I know a lot of you guys are not done trading. Definitely take a look at some of these out of packs French and icons cards for this week for flipping. And I think right now it's not a bad time to start nibbling at those and maybe starting to buy a few kind of like I did today. One way I like to do things as well is I had 6 million coins today. I've spent almost half of that. I did probably maybe like 250,000 coins worth of upgrade packs just a little bit ago just to try it out. And then I bought like almost 2.75 million worth of these cards, right? I just put 2.75 million of specials. And honestly, I would like to keep myself kind of grounded and have some cards on the transfer list. So I don't spend all those coins doing upgrades later on this week. But if you are looking to start to stack just regular rare golds for the Thursday upgrade packs, I would highly recommend starting to get on some of those soon. Like this is a guy that a lot of people buy because he's cheap. This stock, a lot of these cards are like 750 to 800 coins. So you can start mass buying these if you want to. What is really going to help is if we get a tradable pack supply SBC at some point during the week this week, that will help out if you're trying to stack rare golds for the Thursday upgrade SBC, which should be pretty good, should be pretty OP, I would say. I think it'd be a pretty good SBC. So watch out for that. And of course, be careful with the market. I do think we'll get some sort of content today. Tuesdays have been kind of like a mix. They've dropped some good SBCs before. Other times Tuesdays are just kind of eh. So we will see what they dropped today on FIFA Ultimate Team. If you have any crazy pack pulls from doing these SBCs, let me know. Send it to me on Twitter or put something down in the comments down below. If you have any crazy pack pulls from doing either of these SBCs, please let me know. And hopefully I can get this Tots counter to like at least in the 80s, man, at least in the 80s on Thursday and maybe with a couple Tots pulls later earlier on this week before we hit the Thursday upgrades. But Thursday is going to be a big time grind day for me. I think hopefully with these cards should be a fun one. Should be a good one. If you guys enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.


W. H. Auden, Winston-Hugh Auden. There really is no more dramatic contrast in this course, I think, than to go from late Stevens to early Auden. Stevens was born 20 years before Auden. Auden goes on writing to his death in 1973, so his career is somewhat later than Stevens. Again, we're doing something a little complicated. We're moving from Stevens' poems of the late 1940s, early 1950s, now to Auden and his early career, including poems written in the very late 1920s and the 1930s, and we'll get up to the start of World War II by the end of class. So, in one sense, we're going back in time, back in literary history, back in cultural history, moving from the 1950s from this first war moment, in which Stevens is writing his late poems, to an earlier phase. At the same time, we are also, however, moving forward, in a sense, in literary history, moving forward to a poetry that is distinctly and variously a poetry that comes after modernism, and to that extent that we could think of as postmodernist. It is, well, what do we mean by that? What do I mean? With Stevens in mind, there are no giants in Auden. Everything is life-size. Poems don't take the place of mountains, rather they, you could say, take place among them, and in mountains figure, interestingly, in Auden's poetry in a number of places. In Auden there is no new knowledge of reality to be had. In fact, there's only old wisdom that nobody wants to face. Modernism turns on a kind of axis, you could say, modernism as wasteland or as bridge, a state of cultural decay and crisis or of promise and celebration. Pound, Eliot on one side, Crane, Stevens on the other. Well, Auden is beyond these debates. They don't matter much to him. He is, in a sense, beyond the nostalgia of the one side, and he's also quite self-consciously beyond the romantic exaltation of the other. Auden is a British poet. He writes out of a distinctly British tradition, a tradition in which, well, tradition itself isn't a sense taken for granted. It's something that's there accessible, part of the poet's repertoire that needn't be either struggled for or against. Industrial capitalism. Hart Crane is all excited about this stuff. It's an old thing in the north of England. Auden's early poems take place in a landscape of now fading and century-old industry. Early Auden, later Auden. These are characters as well that are important to the history of Auden's reception. There's been a tendency to see his career as coming into halves, divided by his immigration to the United States in the end of 1938. A British Auden and then an American Auden. Both Audens, you could say, have distinct characters. Early Auden. Early Auden, a poet born in the city of York, the son of a doctor, interested in natural science and in scientific ways of knowing. A poet for whom science was not an enemy, but rather a kind of tool, a point of view or perspective, expressed importantly for Early Auden in the work of Freud. The work of Freud, but also the work of Marx. The early Auden is not an orthodox Marxist and certainly not a Communist Party member, but Marxism is important to him. It's a world view. It's worked into his sense of the world as a scene where social classes compete and struggle with each other. Where the important choices to be made are moral ones, moral ones that enter into our political choices. It's also the case in Auden's early poetry that he tends to conceive of the world in a kind of us and them construction. There's a sense in the early poems of extreme privacy and the privacy of a dress, the way in which the poet speaks to us, the way in which he conceives his point of view. These early poems conceive a kind of, you could say, couterie audience who are Auden's intellectual leftist, largely gay friends at Oxford, where he's writing his earliest poems. Homosexuality is an important context for this early Auden and his ways of imagining himself and talking to us. Auden comes with a kind of embattled, necessarily secretive and self-protective investment in intimate relationships. There's something that has to be fought for, they are prized and they are something that must be protected from the intrusions of other hostile or disapproving eyes. Let's look at an early poem here. This is in your RAS packet. From the very first coming down it's called – I'll show you some photos first before getting into the poem. This is one I like of the Oxford Auden, a sensitive boy, with the interesting legend that he has applied to himself here probably in retrospect, the cerebral life would pay, he said. He was going to make it work to be an intellectual. This is another one. Auden, the rakish young Auden. This one also with a kind of legend on top in Auden's hand where he calls himself utopian youth, grown old Italian, as in fact this was a certain kind of trajectory he would live starting as a kind of utopian youth and then later learning how to relax and have a good time in Italy. Let's see. I'm afraid I've got my slides somewhat backwards. This is Auden's poems, his first book. I believe it's 1930. They're written while he's a student at Oxford and it includes poems that are this one that I'll discuss in a moment, but it's worth seeing them on the page. They're laid out without titles again, somewhat as Williams's early poems are presented. They are set here almost sort of secretively, I'd like to say, without that public introduction of a title. Well, as I'm suggesting, some degree of self-protection and reticence are important qualities and in fact themes of this early poetry. Let's take a look at this poem that I've got up on the screen right now which is called From the Very First Coming Down. That's the first line of the poem and it's generally known that way. From the very first coming down into a new valley with a frown, already we're listening to the rhymes. Because of the sun and a lost way, you certainly remain. There's a you here, there's an I. The poem is a kind of letter and in fact a kind of love letter. Today, I crouching behind a sheet pen, and this is that northern landscape that Auden comes from, I crouching behind a sheet pen heard, travel across a sudden bird, cry out against the storm, and found the year's arc a completed round, in love's worn circuit, rebegun, endless with no dissenting turn. Shall see, shall pass, as we have seen, the swallow on the tile, spring's green, past a solitary truck, the last shunting in the autumn, and so on. Your letter comes, speaking as you, speaking of much, but not to come. The letter comes, in a sense, from an intimate friend, perhaps a lover, saying much and yet we're giving no content to it. It's veiled in that sense. It's speaking of much, but much that is not to come, it seems. It's very content and promises, it seems, withheld. Then there's this further stanza. Nor speech is close, nor fingers numb. If love not seldom has an unjust answer was deceived. This early oddness has this highly compressed syntax that requires you to kind of put the sentences together and fill in parts that seem to have been occluded in the poet's compressing of language. Again, an almost veiled form of speech. Auden says, I, decent with the seasons, move different or with a different love. There's a sense that the love that animates him is a different love. It sets him apart. Nor he doesn't question over much the nod, the stone smile of this free God that never was more reticent, always afraid to say more than it meant. There's an intimacy that the poem establishes here with the you and with us as readers that suggests a kind of implied, shared knowledge that the poem nonetheless does not openly declare and doesn't specify, but rather remains reticent about. And we're invited into that reticence as well as the poet's scruple, expressed here as the wisdom of that country god, which is hard to know exactly how we're supposed to interpret that, whether that's an actual figure or a kind of stone in the landscape that the poet is animating in this way, but in any case seeing that figure, that country god, as emblematic of a reticence, that scruples not to say more than it meant. In other words, there's, well, you could compare this to his investment in restraint, very closely related in its moral valences. The idea here is one that's crucial in Auden throughout his career. That is, the poet wishes to master his intentions as a speaker. He does not wish to say more than he means, and he means to say what he means and to insist on meaning what he says. This is a long way from, it's very different from Wallace Stevens' lavish forms of play, his interest in exactness or poems that might resist the intelligence almost successfully. Auden wants very much to say what he means, and he wants us to be able to grasp that. Well, Auden conceives of poetry and of language generally as a sphere of moral action in which truth is always at stake, where the poet's specific office is to control and use language in a kind of responsible and honest way. This is a poet who wants to be honest. Poets have not always wished this. You can think about Hart Crane saying sleep, death, desire, hasten while they are true. In other words, Crane's willing investment in what he recognizes as illusion or a kind of temporary truth. Auden is rather morally bound to, responsible for what he says. He's concerned in this sense with the limits of poetry, with saying only what's meant. Again, a connection should be drawn to Mary and Moore, who share something with Auden in this way. You remember her long poem poetry, I too dislike it. There must be something important beyond all this fiddle, and yet, after reading it with perfect contempt for it, one discovers nonetheless a place for the genuine, she says, or something very close to that. Well, that's the beginning in Moore's case of a very long and extravagant poem, which over the course of her career, as she returned to it and sought to tell the truth in her poem and to insist on what was genuine, she eventually cut to only those lines. Moore was, as a poet, a rigorous self-reviser who cuts out pieces of her poems, who cuts out individual poems from her body of work. So was Auden. Auden, importantly, revised his own poems, sometimes on multiple occasions, always as he collected them and returned to them in later volumes. There are a couple important examples of this, including the poem Spain on page 791, a poem that Auden wrote in response to the anti-fascist struggle in the Spanish Civil War, which he participated in, and it is a poem that complexly and yet nonetheless strongly comes to affirm the priority of making political commitments over and above it appears individual moral discriminations and other forms of individual commitment, and there are ideas expressed in this poem that became an anthem in one of Auden's most famous poems of the thirties. Well, let me give you just a few lines from page 793, stirring us to march. Auden says, tomorrow perhaps the future, tomorrow the rediscovery of romantic love, and so on. But today, on line 93, the deliberate increase in the chances of death, even the conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder, today the expending of powers on the flat ephemeral pamphlet and the boring rest of the poem, he's calling us to do the work of revolution and postpone as a goal the rediscovery of romantic love and other utopian projects. Auden would come to find the morality of this poem objectionable and to repudiate the notion that we should have guilt in the necessary murder, that rather any murder would be necessary in order to advance a cause. Expressing his own self-censure, cut the poem out of his work, and if you buy Auden's collected poems edited by his executor, Edward Mendelssohn, you will find that this poem is not in there. There are other examples. Of dramatic self-revision, let me just point to one more that is famous in the poem September 1, 1939. Again, one of Auden's most celebrated and circulated poems he has in the next to last stanza. These assertions on page 803, all I have, this is a poem occasioned by the beginning of the Second World War. It positions the poet in a dive in Manhattan drinking with others. He's reflecting on the European catastrophe now underway.  There is no such thing as the state and no one exists alone. Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police. We must love one another or die. As your note below registers, Auden later attempted to revise this line which struck him as, in fact he called it, incurably dishonest. He revised it first with what seemed to him a more truthful claim, we must love one another and die because we're going to die in any case, and that eventually he gave up on altogether and cut the entire stanza. These are examples of Auden applying a kind of stringent moral self-examination to the language that he uses. It's a crucial part, not only of the history of his work, in other words what he did with it, but what, of course, he was doing in it, which was attempting to speak in a truthful way that he could take responsibility for and yet which led him repeatedly to forms of rhetoric that he would mistrust and later abandoned. All of this is consistent with the ways in which Auden reconceived the modern poet's role. Auden writes against vatic, romantic inspiration. He sees the modern poet as a kind of rationalist, a rationalist especially skilled in the techniques of poetry, of language use, as expressed specifically in technical mastery of verse form and genre. Auden reclaims, following Pound, Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter. He writes in popular ballad forms all kinds of song forms, many kinds of rhyme and meter. He takes over, you could say, song forms from the British Music Hall, which is something like Vaudeville. He produces intricate stanzaic patterns that we might find in metaphysical poetry. He produces ornate, syllabic poems, not unlike Marion Morris sometimes. He influencially revives the Provençal forms of the Sestina and the Quenzone and other Troubadour forms. If your poetry writing teachers have made you write Sestinas, you have Auden to thank for this as well as much else. There is, in these various acts of appropriation and reclaiming of verse forms, a kind of no nostalgia. Rather, there's a sense that all these forms are simply available. They should be part of a poet's toolkit. And this is also part of what is, well, Auden's presentation of himself as a kind of expert, as a poet with expertise, with expertise in the language. And all of this is part of, in his early poetry, what you would have to call his precocious adultness, which is, again, connected to his will to tell the truth, to tell the truth unclouded by sentiment. The early Auden, the Auden that we see in those photographs, he's remarkably cool in all senses. This is a cool poet. James Merrill, a poet who was a friend of Auden's and influenced by him in many ways, once remarked that all of Auden's poems were written on paper on which the tears had dried. And that's an evocative idea. It's important, first of all, that yes, those tears have dried, but it's also important that there were tears. And both of these are properties of the poems, and they make Auden a special kind of love poet. Let's look at the early poem, This Lunar Beauty, which is on 787, Yes, this lunar beauty has no history, is complete and early, if beauty later bear any feature it had a lover and is another. This, like a dream, this love that I experience and write of and out of, keeps other time. It's lunar. And daytime is the loss of this. For time is inches and the heart's changes where ghost has haunted, lost, and wanted. But this was never a ghost endeavor, nor finished this, was ghosted ease. Until it pass, love shall not near the sweetness here, nor sorrow take his endless look. Contrast this poem to a closely related poem, Hart Crane's Voyages, a poem of extravagant rhetoric. Here Auden is not writing Iambic pentameter. He's writing, what is the meter here? Dimeter. There are two beats per line. You can't have a line that's much shorter and have it be a line or a meter. It's really, in a sense, the smallest measure a meter can sustain. There is in the poem a kind of formal reticence, and what is proclaimed as endless here is not love, but sorrow, sorrow's look. And sorrow is personified there in the position of the poet looking at the beloved, already, in a sense, looking back at him, a lunar beauty. Let's turn a few pages forward to 790 and read another of Auden's love poems, closely related.  But in my arms till break of day, let the living creature lie, mortal, guilty, but to me the entirely beautiful, certainty, fidelity on the stroke of midnight pass. They always do. They're bound to, like vibrations of a bell, and fashionable madmen raise their pedantic, boring cry. Every farthing of the cost, all the dreaded cards for tell shall be paid, this night, not a whisper, not a thought, not a kiss, nor look, be lost. You're going to have to pay for it, but here it is, and it is now, and to be celebrated. Beauty, midnight, vision, dies. Let the winds of dawn that blow softly round your dreaming such a day of sweetness show I, and knocking heart, may bless, find the mortal world enough. Noons of dryness see you fed by the involuntary powers, nights of insult let you pass, watched by every human love. Here, again, love is seen in the secularizing light of living, future, betrayal, and loss. To be living here is to be mortal and guilty. To love is to be sure that you will be faithless. That is to love fully, and so to know love and beauty entirely, and in their entirety, is to know them in the knowledge of time, to know precisely that love's passing. Time here is not so much a kind of emblem of human inconstancy, but rather of something like natural law to which everyone can live. This is the theme of the very great poem written in the popular ballad form with this title in Auden's collected poems as I walked out one evening on 793. As I walked out one evening, walking down Bristol Street, the crowds upon the pavement harvest wheat, and down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing under an arch of the railway. And here is his song. Love has no ending. I'll love you, dear. I'll love you till China and Africa meet, and the river jumps over the mountain and salmon sing in the street. I'll love you till the ocean is folded and hung up to dry, and the seven stars go squawking like geese about the sky. The years shall run like rabbits. For in my arms I hold the flower of the ages and the first love of the world. Have you ever said that? Has someone said that to you? But all the clocks in the city began to whir and chime, and they say, Oh, let not time deceive you. You cannot conquer time. In the burrows of the nightmare where justice naked is, time watches from the window and coughs when you would kiss, in headaches and in worry vaguely life leaks away, and time will have his fancy tomorrow or today. Into many a green valley drifts the appalling snow. Time breaks the threaded dances and the diver's brilliant bow. Oh, plunge your hands in water, plunge them in up to the wrist, stare in the basin and wonder what you've missed. The glacier knocks in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, the crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead.  Oh, look in the mirror. Oh, look in your distress. Life remains a blessing, although you cannot bless. Oh, stand, stand at the window as the tears scald and start. You shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart. It was late, late in the evening. The lovers, they were gone. The clocks had ceased their chiming and the deep river ran on. This is a ballad. Auden's choice of it suggests that the song form is conveying popular common wisdom, something we all know. It's expressing truth as a kind of commonplace that is shared like the tune itself. Truth is not an elite knowledge. It's something that's out there in the street, and it touches all of us in common. There are here in the poem two distinct voices in quotation marks, first the lovers and then the voice of time of the clocks. The lover, when he speaks, the poem seems to say, seems to acknowledge he's lying, even if he doesn't know it or mean it, and yet the poem still allows him his truth, his say. What it does really is it frames his truth with this other larger truth, which is Time's Truth, referred by the clocks. And the clocks speak from the point of view of disenchantment. The lover cannot wash his hands. The poem gives us a kind of image of primary sinfulness. Again, how different from Stevens. Ordinary life here is haunted by, disrupted by, by elemental forces, the glacier knocks in the cupboard. The domestic includes tragic and uncanny dimensions. They return like repressed parts of the psyche in the poem. And still there is a kind of consolation and view in that continuous promise or command that you and I will love each other. Our crooked hearts will meet. There's a sense in which people are bound to each other precisely by the circumstances that the poem describes and by their hearts. At the end then the lovers and the clocks are all gone, both, and the river runs on. There's that last stanza. Poetry in Auden speaks on behalf of necessity. Necessity that frames what we do and think. Necessity that determines the circumstances within which we make our moral choices. In this way, Auden, like Bishop, who we'll read next week, is a poet constantly drawing our attention to matters of perspective, how things are seen, how things are framed, what the context of any given point of view or utterance or action is. What is true and what is right from one point of view may not be from another. And this is part of the principle by which Auden comes to, in fact, revise and make decisions about his own work that involves his own language. The great poem about this theme, that is the way in which our knowledge and action is determined and bounded by the perspectives in which it is viewed, in which it takes place. The great poem on this theme is Muse de Beaux-Arts, which is also a poem that we'll have to wait to talk about until Monday when we will talk about it in connection with the almost contemporaneous poem in memory of W.B. Yates.


Hey, it's Missy. Thank you for watching. Today's tutorial is a spin on an old tutorial, the triple French braid double waterfall. So make sure to subscribe it down below and let's get started. With my hair brushed straight back, I'm going to pick up a section of hair at my hairline above my forehead and divide this into three sections for my braid. I'm going to cross the right strand over the middle and then cross the left strand over the middle to begin a French braid. Then I'm going to cross the right strand over the middle, pick up a new section and bring it into the braid. Then I'm going to cross the left strand over the middle, pick up a new section and cross it over the middle strand, bringing it into the braid. And now I'm going to begin water falling this top braid. So I'm going to drop down the right strand, pick up a new section from right behind it and cross it over the middle strand in its place. Then I'm going to drop down the left strand, pick up a new piece from behind it and cross it over the middle strand in its place. So once more, I'm dropping down the right strand picking up a new piece and crossing it over the middle strand. Then I'm dropping down the left strand picking up a new section and crossing it over the middle strand in its place. And I'm just going to repeat those steps continuing this double waterfall braid down the center of my head and then continue it down the center of the back of my head. It might feel a little confusing at first but once you get the hang of dropping the strands and picking up a new one you'll be surprised at how easy this braid is to do. The bigger the sections that you bring into the braid the larger your individual waterfall strands will be so you can tailor the braid to your own preference either bringing in smaller pieces or larger pieces. I actually did it both ways and prefer larger or medium sized waterfall sections but try it out and see what works best for you. Then once the braid reaches the nape of my neck I'm going to split the braid so one piece is on the left side and two pieces are on the right just so at least flat against my head and then I'm going to slide a bobby pin over the hair on the left side since I'm going to work with the hair on the right side next. So now I'm going to braid the hair on the right side into a french braid bringing in the waterfall strands so I'm just picking up a piece near the hairline and dividing it into three smaller sections. Again I'm crossing the side strands over the middle strand for the first stitch and then I'm going to start incorporating hair into the braid so on the top side of the braid I'm bringing in each waterfall piece one at a time and then on the bottom side of the braid I'm just bringing in sections from along the hairline. Then once the braid reaches the nape of my neck and I've brought in all of the hair on this side I'm going to tie a clear elastic band over the end of the braid creating a little loop just so it's easy to remove once I'm ready to do the bun. So now I'm just going to repeat the same steps with the hair on the left side braiding it into another french braid bringing each waterfall strand into the braid one at a time to the top side of the braid and incorporating hair from along the hairline on the bottom side of the braid and then once the braid reaches the nape of my neck and I've brought in all of the hair on this side I'm going to grab a clear elastic band and wrap it around the base of the braid but on the last wrap of the elastic I'm only going to pull the hair part way through to create a little loop and then I'm just going to take the rest of the hair and create another little loop tucking it around the elastic and then looping it a third time and tucking it back into the elastic band to form the bun and then I'm just going to do the same thing with the hair on the right side creating a little loop with the hair and then doing two more loops with the ends until all of the hair is wrapped into a bun and you can make your buns as big or as little as you prefer but I just love how intricate this hairstyle looks let me know in the comments where you would wear this hairstyle whether it be to school the gym or just for fun that wraps up today's tutorial be sure to let me know what you think of this hairstyle down below in the comment section make sure to like and subscribe as well and be sure to click the notification bell so you never miss a video thank you so very much for watching and I will see you next time


this is ThinkTek or specifically this is the military in Hawaii and the title of our show today is Recognizing Hawaii's Military Children and it's a two o'clock block so we're really interested in doing this on a given Thursday and we have with us Wendy Nakasone-Kolani, we have Hilary Epileloha and we have Angela Leonardo. I get that right you guys. All right now we're gonna place you guys in the spotlight so to speak on how we are taking care of military children dependents in the military bases and specifically at Mokapu which is on the Marine base. I get that right? Yeah okay. It's not easy and the fact is that A, we want to be sure that the families support are men and women in uniform are doing okay and the children of course are part of the families so we want we want everything to be copacetic in the families with the children and so we you know we like to support them so it's you know avoid problems what have you and keep everything together. The other part of that is that Hawaii is not the easiest place to transition to it's different than the continuous 48 or Alaska it's it's different from every other state in fact it's different from every place in the world let me volunteer that statement and so as everybody who wasn't born here you know finds out that when you come here you you have to adjust and everybody who was born here finds out that the people who came here have to adjust so we have to give everybody a reasonable period of and a transitional process so when they come and they go it's not traumatic we want to avoid trauma so let me identify you guys you're all associated with the Mokapu school uh on on a Kanioi base am I right about that everybody here is working in or with the Mokapu school right yes okay and Wendy what do you do in connection with the school? Thank you Jay um so I am an army school lead and officer um my office is located on school field barracks so not the Kanioi Marine Corps base Hawaii schools however um I do have counterpart within um the Department of Defense that is on the Marine Corps base and our duties are the same um we help our families as they transition to and from military installations in Hawaii okay okay and uh you know uh Hillary you you are in the Mokapu school um you're in charge of of transition there in that school right yes um I have the registration here and I run our transition center that we started about four years ago here at Mokapu okay and okay and uh yeah Angela you're you're a military wife and you have children and you benefit by these transitional programs do you also participate in the operation of the of the school any of the schools involved? Yes so I'm both a military spouse I have two children um and I work here at Mokapu Elementary as a grant committee networking coordinator um what we do here is uh we foster a connection between our schools our families and our communities through family engagement activities for white events and we also are in charge of our selling our spirit here so why why do you do that? um we do this to uh bring in more families into our school and to um just have like that connection with the community and our parents and get more parent involvement which we all know is the is the you know great positive connection between the success of our children if their parents are involved obviously it's been a little bit more difficult in recently with COVID but we've been trying our best to have our parents um stay connected with our school why do you do it? I'm sorry? Why do you do it? Why do I do it because um I have seen uh firsthand uh the improvement my children have had um both uh in school educational wise and just socially being involved at school uh my children have improved dramatically I I used to be I used to be work a full-time um employee not at a school obviously my my career was in a different field and I was never around to just be part of my kids school and and anything and so I had the opportunity here to both be part of the school the academics and be closer to my kids and that has um 100 shown improvement with my children oh I interview a lot of parents must envy you they must all be lining up to do what you do so they can be closer to the kids all day am I right? Yes yes and on top of that you know being a parent community networking coordinator or what we call PCNC um it's a pay position here in Hawaii uh you don't find this in um other parts of mainland you know mainland you have PTAs or PTOs here we have the um what's the difference having those uh PTAs or PTOs are the parent um teacher organizations or parent teacher associations they are voluntary parents um volunteer parents who put together fundraisers uh a PCNC like myself we provide all of the activities that we provide or craft anything family engagement wise it's all free of charge we don't have families for that okay so do you actually teach? Myself no I don't I would actually I do teach we are actually in charge of all the volunteers here so all of our parent volunteers or what we call classroom parents every classroom gets to select a classroom parent to come and help the teachers and we train them so when I say we I actually have a partner her name's Tabitha Gray unfortunately she's not in today but we are both in charge of training our volunteer so in that aspect I do teach okay well you're but you're in the classroom and I I guess I'll ask you this too I mean what what sort of things do you need to do uh being in the classroom as a you know as a member of the the school staff that way what do you have to do what things come up that you have to attend to and what do you do to attend to them? Myself yeah since I get to work here I actually get to help out I get to know all of the teachers and faculty and staff here and so in in time they need help I can come by we actually have limited the amount of volunteers that we have on campus it's not the same as it was last year this year the only volunteers that are allowed and approved to come to our campus are the parent volunteers that I train and some of those parents are unable to come in because they have smaller children so anytime that a teacher or anyone here it needs assistance I can run over and help them out okay it's sure you're doing what you're training others to do so what is the training like what is the training like what are you training them in? Well we train a lot of different aspects but this year has been different obviously we've been doing it all virtually uh usually years prior we did this in person so we would have them come to our campus and train now it's been done virtually and myself it was the first time I used a Zoom meeting so it was great so we teach school safety so you know um compliance and the use of electronics um just how to conduct yourself in class correct and not only how to dress how to you know how to properly dress at a school camp and also provide them a badge that shows that they're a visitor that way we can see them from far that they are a visitor and they're just not a stranger in our campus they are physically in the school building this is not a virtual this is in the school building correct so when they so you teach them about COVID and masks and distancing too correct so we do that's the new that's a new subject we have to add in our training of course of course well Hilary I mean you know you are very interesting to me because you see it happening you see it coming and going and let me start with the flip side okay that is you're trying to make a soft landing for people you're trying to prepare them for you know a new school life so to speak um and I guess my question is ready for a hard question uh my question is what happens if you weren't there what happens to a transition that is not handled oh that's a tough one um I don't know what would happen um I would hope that my students that I prepare or that other people that they can see the aloha through me and if I weren't on campus that they could continue sharing that aloha that I tried to share with our family so what okay you you are you one on one or one on the class you're in the class trying to teach instruct familiarize these kids uh so our transition center here at mocapu I have aloha ambassadors so I have 24 aloha ambassadors that I work with um it's more of an after school club but the students I see them in the morning we do tours to welcome students to our school and then we do uh could we distribute goodbye kits to the students that are leaving we I try to train or instill the aloha spirit in my students so that way as they're labeled or their names are aloha ambassadors I want to make sure that they are able to live live aloha and to share it so we like to make it fun and inviting and I always try to explain to my students how the importance of making friends and making people feel welcome because at some point they were that new student when they came to our school uh our students are here for anywhere between two to three years and so at some point I've met every student that have come that come through or their families and so I want them to be able to to be able to share that so I just had a conversation with my student yesterday and he's like oh I remember when I got my tour so I want them to be able to share what they learn um from that tour and then so we meet weekly I meet with my students and it's a good connection it's all about connection it's all about relationships so I believe once I get that good connection with my students I want them to be able to foster that same connection with other students here at our school how many are we talking about how many students at our school how many so this week we had about this week alone we had about 15 kids that started at our school okay in total 15 yes so on tap so that's um rather for this part into our school year uh we've had uh at least in the last three weeks about 30 kids that started at our school that just moved here from um we've had North Carolina from Florida from California so it's good to hear um to meet these students and hear their experiences and kind of make them feel welcomed and make them know that we are here for them so I think that for me is the best the the biggest thing and so that's why I love my job I can see that it's all three of you I can see that so um yeah I think what I hear you saying is that there's a certain Hawaiian culture environment that you want to create for these kids you want to teach them how life here in these islands you know is different and better so do they come with a need for that and what I mean is you know I mean we've been talking about race issues on the mainland at all and and I always come away with the feeling that Hawaii is way better in dealing with the with race and then you know diversity than anywhere in the country um do they come with with rough edges that you have to smooth out and that's so much so um the great thing is once these students start hearing about our culture um I want to highlight our third grade in particular this year we actually had a couple weeks ago uh our one of our community partners came to our campus to Pongkalo for our students and for them to be able to see things like this happening they want to learn more um right before this I was actually teaching about Kukulu o Kalani which is a Hawaiian star compass for our third grade class um this week we talked about the moon phases so Kalana Mahina so Hawaiian culture is alive and well on our campus and it's nice to see our students wanting to learn more it's nice to hear them the conversation happening that they can make that connection when we when I taught them the word in Lima for number five she was like oh Lima that's also hand you know they can make those connections for our culture and so my goal and my the number one thing I want to do is as we share this with our students I want them to take it home and share it with their families and they continue as they continue to share it with their families once they leave Hawaii they can share it all around the world and they can take that spirit with them everywhere so you know hearing that hearing those um a student like I had a student move to Okinawa and so to know that she's still dancing hula in Okinawa that's that one is my heart because she's still taking Hawaii everywhere she goes I'm very touched by that you know we did a show in uh in Kona Kona Maoka at Kalei Hei White Kei Hei High School and if you know that high school and you know it's a very diverse high school and there are Pacific Islanders there um and um your point about the teaching the kids so they can teach their parents is so important and the principle there I think his name is Murakami a wonderful man um that's exactly what he does he teaches the kids so they can teach their parents and everybody benefits it's a very a lot I think to do yeah well let's talk to you Wendy um you know what is there are other places other than Mokapu I guess you said that was on Schofield and you're there um how are they different are they all the same and how do you coordinate them great question so yes we have many military impacted schools in our state um primarily of course throughout our island of Oahu but every school that has a military connected student in them we consider military impacted and so when you look at all the public schools across our island we probably have more than 150 military impacted public schools here and um you know Hilary and Angela they're at Mokapu elementary school but we also have other schools that are on other installations um that of course are highly military impacted but we also have schools outside the gates that are also military impacted because we have many many military families not living on the installation right and so it's important for these schools to provide services and programs like Angela and Hilary both provide at Mokapu and do you go outside do you go to these other schools and talk to the faculty and the students there absolutely absolutely and you know I'm we where I'm a part of a scheme at um Schofield and I have counterparts so we also have schoolies and officers for the Marine Corps base and Joint Base for Harbor Hickam so there's a team of us and um which makes it a little easier and enjoyable right so we do go out to the schools we talk to staff just like Hilary and Angela um we kind of give kind of like a sense of professional development um military cultural awareness um and really we're we're great partners yeah oh that sounds wonderful now compare for me the way this is done in Hawaii and the way it's done on the mainland is it done on the mainland I mean if I'm going from Ohio to Minnesota uh do I need a transitional assist over there so we had there are schoolies question no that's a great question and a great point so that a lot of even military families are not aware of schoolies and officers and the reality is is that there's a schoolies and officer and our academic flow so we're often referred to as flows but we're super slow um but we do there's flows across the world and so the purpose of that is very intentional of course to assist all of these families as they transition into and out of many installations worldwide that they have that support in definitely indeed oh of course if I go to say Europe or Asia with my family I do need transition over there because otherwise it could be traumatic for me not to understand what's happening around me so are you a social worker Wendy are you a teacher what brought you into this field so my background is in education and so I was with the Hawaii Department of Education and then um and then I this job this position kind of just happened and I looked into it and um really you know I'm born and raised here and I always knew that of course the military installations in our state right I knew of them I knew of school field my dad worked at Pearl Harbor so I had a really just general basic knowledge but when I looked more into it and what kind of impact the military has on our state and in our community and in our local community too I wanted to be a part of it and so um then that's exactly what I did and with my background in education I this this position is ideal for me I can see that we can all see that all our viewers all at the same time can see that Angela you know one thing about kids is you gotta love them and um these are these are uh what what grade kids are in the school I just want to get a handle on that this this not doesn't include a high school does it include a junior high school elementary where are we um here on our military base and we have a elementary school which runs for pre-kindergarten all the way to sixth grade they're very impressionable these kids and what happens you know what they learn about for the whole other example um you know that sticks with them the rest of their lives they will never forget their experience here in Hawaii um but I guess my question is uh what is the difference if you can answer me it between a military kid who's been around the world because you know as Hillary said he's on two or three years and that's it and you're moving on that's the way it goes and people who move on in their lives and have different experiences different places travel broadens and travel broadens kids do so what kinds of things do you see what kind of how kind how impressionable are they and how different are they from a kid who has only grown up in one place well um I can definitely say I my kids have actually been on both ends even though we were a military impacted family my husband's in the Navy he's been in the Navy for almost 23 years um we about it wasn't up to about four years ago that we actually had our first move so we were lucky enough to stay in California for a long period of time and we did not live on base we lived off base so my children went to a non-military impacted school and so my children really never were exposed to having to move until four years ago when we had to up and move to Japan uh very different different you know culture different surroundings different just the language itself was there a slow there I'm sorry was there a slow there this hello there was a slow yeah there was a slow in Japan and she helped us tremendously because we had never moved you know we we go to Japan our kids had to leave their friends behind we had to leave our family it was all new to them so having a team like the slow the school liaison officers or trans coordinators like Hilary has helped my children tremendously because and myself as well because not not not only are we you know moving across the world we're also having to move to a new new place new people we don't know anyone and just having that support has helped my children they probably come home and teach you things that they learned right they did in Japan my children learn how to um how to play the taiko drums okay they also were involved in learning some Japanese words and so they would teach all invaluable for their whole lives to have that so Hilary you know one of the thing I was though with an organization with a former coast guard officer um organization with the coast guard you know which was very concerned about military spouses who stayed at home um while their uh spouses were at sea and uh that was the stress on the family of course you know you know it's not rocket science to know that um and the question I I put to you is uh do you see the fallout of that in in the course of organizing these transitional programs because a kid whose uh whose dad has been away um on a submarine or a ship what have you such as maybe Angela's husband um you know that's it's a different experience for that kid and he may need to you know to be grounded somehow um because his family is incomplete while one of his parents is traveling on you know far away places do you see that and how do you deal with it um here at our school we want our students to have that safe person a safe adult um we want to be there for them knowing that if you need us you know even if mom if it's best mom at home that you have a safe adult here in our campus so that's one thing that's super important to our principal that each of our students have that safe person that they could identify on our campus um we also have deployment kits that we might think about to our students if we know that they are having um that issue or that separation from deployment so we want to have that support we do have support on our campus uh we have a wonderful counseling team we also have our mflap team which is a military family life counselors and they are here and they're able to to connect with our students and they're able to share resources we also have what is called focus um focus is families overcoming under stress it's a it's a focus project and military bases have this this group and they provide resilience training to teach these these families well not only the kids but the families on how to be resilient people uh offer practical skills so they can identify those feelings and they have someone to talk to so we have great partners in our military community here that we can share these resources with our family um like our mflap and focus project that I've worked with specifically at our campus yeah I see this as a great what do you want to call it a benefit of being in the service uh there are a lot of perks to being in the service it's a great career great life and this is not only a safety net for trouble that your family might have and transitioning to a different location and base but it's also you know it's a good experience and it protects the family what you're doing and I think people should appreciate that Wendy I want to talk to you about the you know the resilience of the program if you've been with it for a while then you must ask yourself uh how how how firmly embedded is it in you know the Department of Defense um and is it is it funded uh to the point where you know it doesn't call for more funding I don't know the answer to that um and it's future uh it's obviously a tremendous benefit um to the families involved um to to the community of Hawaii we want these kids to have good transition we want them to understand we want them to love our state and our culture um so it's it's got tremendous benefit all around the question is uh how how sustainable is it within DoD how well funded is it what is its future you have any idea about that you ever think about that can you talk about that with me absolutely and you know that's a great point because when you talk about support programs and services and resources available you always if it's a good thing you always want it to for it to be sustainable and I can tell you that the transition program the support that we have here in Hawaii and across the world is so important I mean you know Angela as a as a spouse mentioned it and how helpful it was and so I've been doing this for more than 10 years as a school liaison officer and so you know in the past decade or so um these programs um and these support systems have been in place and they have grown um so not only have they been sustained but I I I think they've grown they've gathered traction a lot of traction across the world and um you know I think yes funding you know is always part of the the puzzle but I think most importantly is to have the right people in the room um you know when you when you talk about these programs and services people like Angela and Hilary there's there's many of them across the world Jay and they are there the far majority it's not all of them are there because they want to be there they're dedicating their time their experiences you know their effort everything because they want to be there um and I think that's the most invaluable thing yeah now you asked about funding yes absolutely there is a financial piece to it and I can tell you for a lot of the schools here they're applying for grants you know I mean just just really that's what it comes on outside of DOD yes yes and I can't I do want to say that the Department of Defense does offer grants as well and the Department of Education here in Hawaii and across the mainland have applied and received funding from the Department of Defense great yeah okay well it sounds robust and it should be robust you know I mean you can tell President Biden is you know he's pulling out of Afghanistan but there are issues on the Russian border you know that are threatening and and who knows where our troops will be going who knows where uh you know our what our bases will be doing and thus our families you know so we've got to we've got to stay nimble about that and you guys have got to stay nimble about it who knows but let me ask you about purple day and the reason I'm asking you about this Hillary is that you you're wearing purple so April is month of the military child um month of the military child was started in 1986 by the then Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger um it is to celebrate the children who didn't choose this lifestyle but they were born into it and they have to stay strong so having support systems like us then we have to celebrate our students and we have to celebrate our children um our military impacted are tricky because they play such an important role in their family um so just to kind of talk about the month of uh Angela will tell you why it's purple but I will tell you the dandelion um is actually the official flower for our military children um it is a dandelion because military children are like the dandelion they can put down roots almost anywhere they are impossible to destroy and they adapt easily and can survive. You better all worked out. I do military children bloom everywhere the wind carries them and they stand ready to fly into freezes to take them into new adventures like coming to Hawaii so um dandelion is the official flower for month of the military child that's wonderful okay we're about out of time Angela you get to close I want to know what you've been doing with purple day I also want to know what message you want to leave with our viewers oh perfect yes so like Hillary had mentioned we were purple on the month of April to celebrate the month of the military child um it's the common it's common known that for month of the military military child the color purple is supposed to it symbolizes uh all the military branches combine so when you take the navy blue army green air force blue marine red and course postcard blue it all combines stir it up into purple purple so we we uh you know so we were purple here every Wednesday um wait a minute you're also wearing purple wait a minute Wendy's also wearing purple yes we're all wearing purple um and next week we will be celebrating our purple update which will be here we'll celebrate both Wednesday and Thursday April 21st and 22nd one of the activities we have scheduled for our school at mocapul elementary is we have invited a couple of special guests we have our the base commanding officer Colonel Cumparacas will be joining us and a couple of other active duty members from the area and they will be welcoming our keiki or our children at morning drop-off and we'll be holding signs and cheering them and just making them feel special um because we are a hybrid program we have that your children coming part time we will be hosting it both Wednesday and Thursday so all children get to get celebrated on drop-off oh that's great and they will remember all their lives don't they it is and we've also had a spirit week last week where you know every day was a different thing for our children uh for them to celebrate so we have millet we had military monday so had to wear anything military related uh then we had home of the brave Tuesday which was where a t-shirt or something from a place that you've lived in before uh we wore t-shirts from japan my my daughter and I and then we had purple up Wednesday so anything purple went was fair and then pcs thing is crazy thursday so it's just the crazy hair day crazy socks crazy anything you know just to celebrate the house what fun it's crazy and then on our friday was patriots and pajama day so that's what you guys you guys must love what you're doing you must love being around them and making their lives better not only here now and in their duty you know the tourism duty in Hawaii but but for the rest of them on uh we're out of time angela i want to thank you very much for coming around illy i want to thank you very much really enjoyed your contribution to this public conversation and wendy thank you so much for your service and for your your help in helping us to understand these things hello hot to all of you guys thank you so much thanks day