So, good morning. We are excited to share a new program we began at Columbia University this summer to support foundational research computing skills. This program was a true collaboration with campus partners and it is my pleasure to introduce some of those partners who made it possible. Mark Newton is the Director of Digital Scholarship in the Libraries in the Research and Learning Division. Helene Hescock is the Senior Director of Research Services in Columbia University IT. I am Barbara Rachenbach, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning. Together we will describe this new cross-campus service program to train graduate students in the foundational skills necessary for research computing. We hope to speak briefly today as I mentioned so we have time for questions. I will walk through how we arrived at this multi-stakeholder program. Mark will describe the program and how we've operationalized it and Helene will talk about past and present collaborations between the libraries and IT that made it possible for the work we're doing together today. So for at least four years, the library has been in conversation with campus partners about the need for computational literacy. My guess is on your campuses you're having similar conversations. Too often, we've heard that domain experts, our faculty and the disciplines, were spending valuable course time on teaching research computing skills like R and Python rather than teaching their own disciplinary expertise. To address this issue, the libraries have hired dedicated staff in digital research methods grounded in disciplinary expertise. We've also dedicated spaces, our digital centers for humanities, social science and the sciences where we have hardware and software to support research computing. We've also in collaboration with our partners hosted a number of workshops on our Python onboarding for high performance computing and more intermediate based disciplinary workshops to help in this area. Our campus partners in the Office of Research, the Data Science Institute, Columbia IT have done many of the same activities in parallel. Given these redundancies across campus units, we have long known we needed to partner on a centralized program to address these needs. And we needed to think about how to resource such a program. In 2016, the university ran a boot camp for graduate students working with software carpentry. All told, the boot camp cost the university about $22,000 and we only were able to train about 132 students with a wait list of 78 and no plan to address that wait list. So we knew we needed a scalable solution. This is a question that the research computing executive committee grappled with in their 2017 meeting. To address this question, the research computing executive committee formed a subcommittee on education and training to scope out their actual resource needs for a campus wide program. This is a slide just to give you a sense of the governance that made this program possible. So at the top I've mentioned the research computing executive committee. These are the heads of the major stakeholders on campus, the head of the library, the head of campus IT of the Data Science Institute, the office of research, the engineering school and arts and sciences sit on this executive computing committee. And reporting into that group is what we call the shared research computing policy advisory committee or source pack. We utilize this existing structure to work on a program plan for what we call foundations for research computing. Beneath that you see our two operational committees for our high performance computing clusters and on the right the subcommittees of these entities including the education subcommittee. We also identified faculty who would be key champions for the work in this planning process. So we identified Mark Spiegelman from the earth and environmental sciences to chair this education and training subcommittee. And Chris Marionetti who is in applied math and physics who is the source pack chair. Together they led the effort to create a program plan for foundations for research computing. They themselves have struggled with training their own graduate students on these foundational skills. Additionally, I have to mention our strong administrative partners across campus from the campus IT and from the office of research. So I will quickly illustrate the needs on campus to begin to program plan. We needed to do a gap analysis. So the research, the subcommittee on education and training ran two surveys over the course of last spring. And one was for faculty and one was for graduate students. We have a lot of information about this survey I'm happy to share. But for now, I'm just gonna show you a few key things. We asked the students and the faculty about computational science skills, data science skills, and software development skills. And there was an obvious disconnect between what faculty wanted their students to be proficient in and what students felt proficient in. So in this instance, when we asked about problem solving technologies, you will see the gap that is obvious. The yellow indicates where there is a strong response. So you can see on the left, the faculty felt that the most important problem solving technology from the faculty side was Python. And the students on the right show that they feel that their novices and are proficient in Excel. And then there's a kind of dark murky color around Python, meaning the students just aren't comfortable with that area. So again, illustrating that gap. You'll also see that we asked the students what training formats they thought would be best for them. And it was very clear when you see that bright yellow, it's the pre-semester boot camp. So the kind of concentrated boot camp approach. So therefore, aimed with data from the surveys, a program planned in a budget. The Education Subcommittee made the case for Foundations for Research Computing at this last spring's Research Executive Computing meeting. And it was approved and funded for a year at that time. You'll see our funders listed on the slide. We have a budget of about $200,000, half of which comes from a dedicated resource that the library has put forward as their contribution. And I am happy to say we just hired a coordinator who will be starting in early January. And this is something the libraries felt strongly that we wanted to have a coordinator in the libraries to acknowledge that this is a new form of literacy, computational literacy. And we felt we were the appropriate place on campus to coordinate. The other 100,000 is to enable us to be members of software carpentry. So we have an institutional membership. And we are also running a number of other programs associated with the carpentries that Mark Newton will tell us about in a moment. Thank you, Barbara. And so now I'd like to tell you a little bit about the next chapter of this work, how the program, Foundations for Research Computing, this collaboration, this pilot that we funded as an experiment for one year has preceded. And where it appears to be headed now that we're about halfway through our planned activities for this year. Foundation seeks to cohere, brand and elevate new informal instruction that fills those gaps that were identified in some of those earlier surveys. Filling the niche in between the do-it-yourself opportunities that's offered to students through the licensing of the library's electronic resources. And then on the other side, the formalized for credit courses that are extended through the schools. The foundations program also presents us with the perfect opportunity to embrace the significant alignment with our faculty and with our campus administration who've come together to identify this instructional need and we have some pretty clearly defined supports to help get us there. First, by identifying the high level aspirational targets that have served as our touchstones, that we want to enhance the instructional supports available to step students through instruction and get them up and running with the basic skills of data science. Everything from working confidently with their personal computers at the command line to getting up and running with the plotting and programming and statistical libraries that they can take into the classroom, into the lab, into their own research. And that we can focus on the alignment question through this system of light governance for the foundations program itself. Our key faculty champions and senior level administrative stakeholders occupy, they comprise an advisory committee that monitors the progress of our initiatives, helps us to identify opportunities for expansion, and define program requirements that then get executed by members of a coordinating committee that's charged with the oversight of the operational and the logistical details of the program. In some respects, I think this model of oversight is a version of the very robust picture of oversight that we saw in place during yesterday's collaboration presentation, quite impressive from our colleagues at Yale. And at the end of the academic year then, it's that the chair of the advisory committee will report on the program outcomes to the research computing executive committee that charged it, and to which we hope will be successful in securing funding for subsequent cycles of this program. The plan that came out of the RCEC had already established and specified specific elements of the program framework, its essential components. The centerpiece, of course, is these pre-semester two day boot camps that are built on the established and trusted pedagogy of the carbon trees. I think many in here are likely to be familiar with these open source curricula that are published, maintained, and expanded by that membership organization. The carbon trees provide a means of guiding novice users through a tested approach to the introduction of the key topics, and then perhaps even more importantly, of helping our novice instructors get comfortable and familiar with effective ways of delivering materials in the classroom. Beyond these instructional courses or boot camps, there's the workshops, there's peer consultation, we have distinguished lectures from visiting speakers, and we're planning for a research symposium. Doing everything but stopping well short of what you see in that advanced category, there would be overlap with courses that show up in the schools themselves. So for the libraries, which as Barbara mentioned, were ecstatic to offer an institutional home and a staff line to help coordinate this program, there's still the question of where within the libraries to situate those efforts. The emergence of foundations came about at just the one year mark after charging a new unit focused on the extension of digital scholarship activities supporting research and learning across campus. Among our digital scholarship or DS team, I think you'll find a number of pretty recognizable activities, open access repository support, scholarly communication outreach, scholarly publishing services, digital humanities community building, digital project development. Even we have a technology lending program, 3D printing services. And to this, we now add the coordination of the foundation's program, which helps us to further fulfill our mission in both research and learning through direct support for the development of course, skills that catalyze discovery and inspire inquiry. This is language borrowed from our libraries on strategic directions. And we knew we wanted to bring the coordinator into the libraries, ASAP, but the program schedule itself lit a fire that had our multi office project team working just right from the get-go. As Barbara mentioned, the foundation's program was green lit this past summer for rollout in the fall. Nobody panicked, but we did some pretty what I'm calling orderly scrambling, facilitated by the collaboration aspect and the essential but distributed business knowledge that's held in personnel across the libraries and research initiatives and IT. That way we could brainstorm logistics, clear some administrative hurdles and extend the boundaries of the trust that we have with our faculty. And it's hard to see how this could have happened otherwise. We were charged, resourced in June. By July, we had moved allocations into a working budget. We'd begun processing the carpentries membership through our campus IT. We'd identified six brave volunteers among the full-time staff members of the libraries and IT full-time staff to become certified carpentries instructors. We'd launched a descriptive website. We'd issued email to 20,000 graduate students among the among the disciplines and the professional schools across multiple campuses to participate in these two consecutive full-day bootcamps. And it turns out they were really, really popular. Within literally four minutes of the registration period opening, we had filled all 90 of our initial seats for these foundations for research computing bootcamps. The wait lists grew to several hundred long immediately thereafter, which I think told us two very important things. One, clearly that we had tapped a nerve, that there was immense appetite for this kind of instruction. Yes, the program is free to participants. And yes, we fed them, but the enrollment served as a real commitment. Not only were participants, not only were our classes filled, but the students stayed overwhelmingly engaged through dense material, most of which was entirely new to them over the course of two full nine to five days. Our pre and post surveys gave us feedback about the knowledge of our instructors and on the utility of the programming. Two, it told us that the demand was much more widespread than we had originally envisioned. Foundations for research computing is targeted toward graduate students in research programs who we imagine have immediate or near term opportunities to apply what they've learned. But in the demographics of our attendees and our wait lists, we found widespread demand expressed in the professional schools and continuing education and beyond. Our programs email alias received numerous inquiries, requesting expansion of the program for postdocs, for research support staff and other members of our campus. Enterprising students even waited outside our welcome tables on the day of the boot camps, hoping to fill a seat from a late dropped student, and I have to say at least one or two of them was successful. Across all the other program components thus far, it's been a little bit more of a mixed bag. The distinguished lectures bring influencers and thought leaders to campus to engage students, but they also have the knock on effect of providing these periodic regular promotional promotional boosts to the program itself and all of its related activities. And I think they've been pretty well received. They're also a very visible product of the collaboration of the partners as IT library and research office staff, some of whom you see on this very stage are the ones who are staffing and vigorously promoting these events. I think the workshops too are highly emblematic of our collaborative efforts and they now benefit from a unified marketing and communication strategies supporting the workshop series and other classes. For example, on HPC out of my colleague Helene Hescock's groups on statistical analysis and research data services and more that are offered by the different library divisions. Hopefully all of this to greater effect. The office hours concept in which students with extensive subject knowledge in data science, programming and other related topics staff a drop in hours for peer consultation at distributed locations in the library system each week has been somewhat less impactful so far. We've conducted marketing and awareness campaigns for these services but the uptake has still been comparatively slow to catch on. And this is one of those areas where having governance structures in place for foundations is proving especially useful as we're as we're working with them to help us think about evaluating and adjusting our efforts midstream. We have just enough experience under our belts at this point to begin to to piece together the elements of on program effectiveness that we're hoping to report back to the research computing executive committee at the end of the academic year. We are extremely fortunate to have available to us access to the library's in-house assessment team who are helping us with surveying and data collection that will feed into such reporting at many points along the way and everything that we're doing at this point is being done with a view to helping to build that narrative back to the committee to help with the sustainability of the program. The excellent news as Barbara mentioned is that we have just hired our full time program coordinator who will be helping us and be a very welcome set of helping hands going forward. I think we can all say from direct experience how ecstatic we are to have this person aboard and how essential this role is going to be in supporting the program that is clearly has such growth potential. With respect to activities post the August boot camps we've trained and certified another six instructors. We did this in August. We're planning to host another 120 students in boot camp sessions this coming January. We're expanding the roster of distinguished lectures from three to four for the spring and we're going to open a regular sequence of much smaller workshops through the spring to augment the boot camps and to help keep students engaged and their skills refreshed along the way. We're also beginning to reckon with some of the emergent questions that have surfaced as we've dived headlong into this project. Both our medical campus and the school for professional studies present as particular opportunities for us for expansion as that demonstrated as demonstrated by the interest in the enrollments that we saw this past August. And this has opened doors to discussions with administrative leadership in these schools around the potential for growing the body of stakeholders in subsequent years for the program itself and for foundations to support the training of additional instructors in that would then deliver school and discipline specific instruction back to their home programs thereby scaling foundations in a way that would be difficult or impossible beyond the bandwidth of our initial instructor cohort. As I mentioned, we're taking a hard look at the usefulness of the drop in office hours sessions led by the peer consultants were likely to pivot again to these more active workshops that focus on discrete topics that can be promoted individually across the campus events calendar and social media, etc. And finally, like I say, we're thinking about how best to direct and interpret the data that our assessment team is helping us to collect. It's important to the vitality of our program to have data that help us help our faculty tell the story quantitatively that I think all of us are feeling anecdotally as we build out the field of participants and grow the community of student learners, faculty proponents, staff instructors and peer consultants that embody the foundations for research computing community. But it's even more important to know for ourselves that this work is having the intended impact that that establishing the through lines that show that participation in our program is a net positive for Columbia graduate students still remains a fairly tricky proposition but one that we know is absolutely essential going forward. So some questions here that don't have absolutely clear answers, but that's what makes the wealth of experience that's available to us through this collaboration, the library's IT Office of Research invaluable. And so with that, I will pass now to my colleague, Haleen Hescock, the senior director for research services at CUIT to talk more about the development of these kinds of collaborations from her perspective. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Okay, so I'm going to just take a little bit of a turn here. While this is focused on the foundations program, what I'm going to be talking about is really the collaboration between the libraries and IT. I'm setting this on top of the computer here. So the sorry. Yeah, you can take this. Okay, so that's that's good. Thanks. So we're going to talk about the collaboration between us and it's not just the foundations. The foundation is the most visible and most, you know, the biggest collaboration that we have right now. And but it's not the first one between the libraries and IT. And not all Barbara talked about the governance structure of the research computing policy advisory committee and not all of these programs that we've collaborated on fall under that, but we do leverage the existence of this committee for feedback. We go back to faculty. What do you want? What do you need? How can we serve you? So as they said, my department is research services and I'm in central IT. I'm not in libraries IT. And I support research computing services and you can go to the next one. We support research computing services and research administration research compliance applications as well as research computing. So everything that my group does is is to serve research, not the libraries. But this is where our worlds collide or intersect. So this is how we how we get together. One of the services that I provide is a shared HPC service. We build the clusters. We provide technical support, system administration, as well as providing some HPC training each semester. So it was natural for some of my staff to become trained in the carpentries and become part of the foundations. It was also natural to roll our HPC training into the foundation. So this all becomes cohesive. In particular, the carpentries we ask for volunteers in central IT to be trained as trainers. So it's not just my staff, but we have we have buy in from our CIO. They realize what an important program this is and they support anybody becoming part of this program. They need managers approval and because it's a big time commitment to be a trainer in the carpentries. And we do ask that anybody we train and get certified commit to at least two boot camps a year. So these are some of the first slide was just some of my services, but these are the collaborations we've been doing with the libraries. And these have gone over the past few years. So we we get together. What are what? How do we complement each other? What are the synergies? What can we provide? What services can we provide that the researchers need? The libraries can help guide the students to the services. And I would say we do the tech and they do the they do the talk. Our first collaboration was the implementation of electronic lab notebooks. And that was started in 2016. And to date, we have over 2,600 people using this platform. And we we split the cost of the licensing libraries and I.T. and we split the administrative support. We work on strategizing and marketing and communications and direction. And we all meet regularly and work together on that. And we also involve the Office of Research and we meet with them. They're also part of it, even though we're paying for all this. We list our shared resources on our respective websites. We do we have our own mailing lists and our own target audiences. So this helps to broaden the reach as we all work together. We're also working on a pilot right now for a computational reproducibility platform for researchers to share, publish, collaborate code. This is a service by Code Ocean and it was brought to us by the Office of Research as a platform that they thought there was a real strong need for. So we took that on. Again, we're splitting the licensing cost. And you notice how often I use the word we. Because we are doing this all together. I just wish they were closer than 15 blocks away because I'm running over their offices all the time. And I think one of the reasons we have the successful partnership is that we all feel like we have a stake. So these these shared these shared services are not listed as a library service or an IT service, as I think this was mentioned in the keynote as well. But they're listed as research services and role working together on that success. And then that's about it as a side note as Barbara and Mark invited me to come here. This is I didn't even know what CNI was. And this is a really great group and I probably will be coming back. Thank you, Barbara.


Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Today's video is my week 57 updates of my fitness journey So like normal, I'm just gonna go through what I did this week and then give you some updates Which we have some exciting updates and then I will move on to the progress photos. So starting off on Sunday I was finishing up the Chloe Ting challenge the 2021 shred I did the last day and that included the full body burn the two week abs and The lower abs, but I did not do the lower abs workout because I just didn't really want to it was Valentine's Day So I did the Pamela reef 10 minute love workout dance and I honestly had a really fun time with that one I think I'm gonna do that one again today because I am transitioning back to Pamela's workouts The full body burn was so good. I highly recommend this one. It really is fun. It's really challenging It makes you sweat a lot really enjoy that workout and then the get flat abs stomach workout was alright It's like a normal ab workout. So that is what I did on Sunday Monday I started back on Pamela reef's workouts. So Monday. I kind of chose to do upper body So if you are looking for workouts, you can check out her Instagram She has these little workout plans and this is week 7 of 2021 So on Monday, I did the day 3 of the week 7 plan So on Sunday, I did the 10 minute boob lift and then I did the 10 minute upper body and abs for arms chest and core With I think his name is Corey and then I did the 15 minute upper body it with weights And then I did the 10 minute ab workout and then I did the 5 minute stretch But I don't think I film the 5 minute stretch because it's literally only 5 minutes Love the 10 minute ab workout. That's one of my favorites And then I really loved the boob lift the boob lift actually made like right here So sore like I did not realize like I don't have any muscle really there like in the armpits And I'm really trying to work on that because I feel like I have extra like fat there I don't know why and then Tuesday I do not work out because it's just my day off and then moving on to Wednesday Wednesday is my booty day I love Wednesdays So I did the 20 minute booty and thigh workout the 10 minute booty pump And then we're supposed to do another booty workout But I'm really trying to focus on my abs this year So I did the 10 minute ab workout instead and then I did the 5 minute daily stretch and Today I am going to be doing the day 6 which is sweaty Saturday only today's Friday. It includes the 10 minute hip workout. I love that one. It's so hard for me And then the 8 minute Jason Darulo love dance, which that one's super fun and then the abs and yoga So I'm excited for today's workout. It's gonna be really fun sweaty Moving on to the updates. I am kind of getting into today was my first day doing it but Stomach vacuum exercise, which I know that sounds crazy But if you think about it, it's really training your stomach to Engage the core muscles to suck in so I guess I'll just show you guys It's kind of weird, but like all you do is like sucking your stomach as far back as possible And you hold your breath for like 20 seconds and apparently it's supposed to help like your waist and just Actually, like I kind of sweat while I do it. I mean I sweat with everything I really want to try this and see how it works out I guess I'll keep you guys up to date You just do it every morning when you get up and it's only like five minutes I will post the thumbnail of the workout that I did this morning It's literally like a breathing exercise, but you're just like sucking in your stomach and holding your breath Another little thing that I want to test is hula hooping because I don't know It's just a fun exercise, but it also helps around like your waist I don't know if it'll actually like shrink in my waist, but I really want to try it So right here, I bought myself a hula hoop. This is from Amazon. If you guys want to check it out I'll have the link down below But this is just one I found that was like 30 bucks I think and you just put it together. Well, I thought it was gonna be heavier Okay, so this is what it looks like they're like foam so hopefully it doesn't like hurt your waist or whatever But yeah, this is what it looks like. Well, I'm gonna try to set this up. Wow. Well, that's easy to do I thought it was gonna be like heavy. Well, I kind of do feel it being becoming heavier now So here's the hula hoop and I don't know like how long I'm gonna do this for maybe like three minutes Beginning but I don't know people just say that they've had like good Experiences with hula hooping.  That's pretty much it for the updates I have an exciting video. It's going to be my next video out and it's related to fitness and health So I really hope you guys Subscribe and have your little post notifications on so be notified when that video goes live I really worked hard on that video and I'm excited for you guys to see it I think with that being said I'm going to move on to the photos What I think I'm going to do is I'm gonna stop doing the last week versus this week because there's just not a lot of Difference, obviously, so we're just gonna show the pre-workout Alex starting year two versus now So on the left you're seeing at the beginning of year two of my fitness journey compared to now which is on the right and then here is the side view of that and Soon we're gonna have some comparisons on like my stomach and everything just because I want to kind of track that with the new Exercises and stuff. I'm incorporating just to have fun and try stuff out change it up a bit Also, I'm really noticing. I am starting to see definition, which is amazing and I'm really happy about that So I don't know. I'm just gonna keep trying new things and having fun So I guess that is going to be it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed it Make sure to give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys in my next video Bye


Hello everyone. Thank you for attending our session virtually today. We are going to talk about how to multiply the power of our go projects by using them together. It's a really exciting topic for us since we have done a lot for the past year. My name is Hong-Wan. My co-speaker is Alexander Mutu-Chentsov. We are both principal engineers from Intuit. Here is the overview. We will talk about who we are, then move to the project update, and last but not the least, the most exciting demo. We are from Intuit. We have 9,000 employees in 20 countries, serving 16 million customers all over the world. We create financial products for our customers, and we are the creator of TurboTag, QuickBooks, and Meet. The ARBO project is a set of Kubernetes native tools for deploying, running jobs, and applications. It uses GitOps paradigms, such as continuous delivery and progressive delivery, and enables ML ops on Kubernetes. It is made of four independent projects. I will go into individual one soon. We got a very strong community. The product has been recognized and used by a lot of companies. We got accepted as a CNCF incubator project and have 10,000 stars, 500 contributors, and 170 end-user companies. Recently, we created the Bootstrap committee with members from Intuit, BlackRock, Red Hat, and Alibaba to help with the governance. The idea is to keep the project stable and provide the direction for each product. We are very proud of the current progress and enjoy being part of the open source community. Then let's jump into the individual projects we have. Alright, let's start with workflow and events. ARGO workflows is a container native workflow engine. ARGO events is event-based dependency manager. We recently released the ARGO events 1.0, which was a huge milestone for us. Please check it out. It is more flexible, stable, and scalable. Regarding ARGO workflows, the core features are relatively stable, so we went deeper to help with more special use cases. For example, memorization, which helps reuse the remembered output when rerun to speed up the progress and reduce cost. And Mutex is help guard the non-shareable resources like database. The Chrome workflow is another handy enhancement to replace Chrome job, which allows you run more than just a single part in a Chrome manner. And also a lot of the user experience enhancement. For the future, we will address more scaling, reliability, and performance issues, and plan to add the user interface for ARGO events. ARGO CD is a very popular project, and a lot of companies have used it as the backbone deployment solution to Kubernetes clusters. So we have worked very hard on the performance and the scalability related issues. Currently, it can support 2,000 applications, 100 clusters, and also monolith repositories. With the ARGO ecosystem, several sub-projects have been reached to a good level of maturity. And the strengths and the ARGO CD story here. Applications set to support the application of applications pattern. GitOps engine as a reusable library that implements core GitOps feature. Image updater, which monitor Docker registry and automatically update image. Notifications helps notify users about the important state changes. For the future, we plan to do the GitOps agent, which will be a lightweighted ARGO CD based on the GitOps engine. And also the serviceability is another area we would like to put more effort as more and more companies are running ARGO CD in a large scale. We would like to provide more tools to get inside around the system. ARGO routes is the youngest ARGO project as a declarative progressive delivery and experimentation tool. However, it's got a good momentum. More and more companies see our gap, which to find a solution in this area. ADP, Spotify, Intune, and many other companies have adopted ARGO routes. From the basic standpoint, ARGO routes supports two update strategies, blue grain and canary. However, it shines in the detail. It supports the fine grain weighted traffic shifting with the integration of ingress controller and the service mesh. The rich metric provider integrations also give the possibility to do a more sophisticated experimentation to find control the route progress. Okay. Let me hand over to Alexander. We can check out his amazing demo together. Thank you. Thank you for interaction Hong and thank you for great update about every ARGO project. And I'm going to talk about how you can get the maximum out of ARGO by using the projects together. So ARGO projects are not really tightly coupled with each other. They are focused on just one use case and trying to do it as best as possible. But still you can use them all together and really complement nicely each other and together all four projects combine a very powerful application delivery platform. And we can talk a lot about why it is true. So we're going to build a scalable and resilient system, which implements a real use case. And we're not going to code instead we're going to use existing open source projects and each project again don't know much about each other and just do its work. And we're going to use ARGO to go everything together and make them work together. And as I mentioned, we're not going to write a single line of code. Except we will have to write some YAML. And thank you for laughing on talk about YAML. If you are. But to be serious, I'm doing the demo I'm going to talk about. So I'm going to write some YAML and thank you for laughing on talk about YAML if you are. But to be serious, I'm doing the demo I'm going to prove you that that YAML provide us so much benefit. So it's totally worth to spend time writing it. Okay, let's move on. So a little bit more details about what exactly we are going to build. We're going to create a web service. So, and web service is going to have a user interface, which is here on the graph. So files dash is going to be our web user interface files, files dash is an open source project that implements a user interface to different storages, including S3. Next component is our S3 storage, which is Minio. And I'm sure a lot of you've heard about Minio. So it's a great S3 compatible storage which you can run inside of Kubernetes. And that's going to be our infrastructure layer component. So Argo events is another infrastructure layer component that is going to listen to every event in Minio. And every time a new file is uploaded, Argo events will trigger Argo workflow in background. So an Argo workflow is going to download the file from the Minio. It will use face detect, which is an open open source project that implements all the machine learning magic. So and face detect will get access to that image and it will detect faces on that image, and it will produce a new image which has all the faces highlighted and uploaded back to S3. And then finally, files dash will show us, you know, the uploaded image with the faces. Plus, we are going to have kind of two control plane components. One is Argo CD and rollouts. So rollouts is going to manage files dash and CD manages kind of the whole thing. Okay, seems like I think we're ready to go. So, and by the way, you can do the same demo by yourself. So if you open that URL right here, let me open it. And so you will be redirected to the readme page of the Git repository. And the readme file pretty much have introduction to this presentation. It explains, you know, what we're going to build, what functionality we're going to get. And you really, you can start from let's do it part. And it's time to do it ourselves during the demo. So, so far we kind of talked about that system from user perspective, you know, top to bottom. So we talked about application, the user interface, and then infrastructure and then control plane to execute the demo we have to kind of do it in reverse order. So first of all, we need to create the control plane. And before we create a control plane, we need the cluster. So it takes some time to create a cluster. So I did it ahead of time. And I already have Minicube running. And you're free to use whatever cluster you want to use. So let me go ahead and create Argos CD first. So before I create anything, I just want to show you that I have brand new Minicube cluster it was created 26 minutes ago. And what I need to do, I need to execute two QPCTL commands to create Argos CD. One is just create Argos CD namespace. Let me make it a little bigger. And second, I need to execute QPCTL apply. And all the QPCTL apply just push the typical Argos CD installation into my Minicube cluster. So let's go ahead and do it. And this is Argos CD is created in the background Minicube download images that containers. So, and the next thing we should do is we need to configure our control plane to deploy the rest of the infrastructure. So, and as you might know, Argos CD provides user interface and the CLI. So you can use CLI or UI to configure Argos CD imperatively, or you can use a declarative configuration, which is really nice for the demo. And to apply the declarative configuration, I just need to execute one more QPCTL apply command, which is very handy. And I just want to go ahead and do it right away. And next, I want to jump back to the repository and show you what we just did. So, first of all, let's take a look at the file which we just sent to the our Minicube cluster. So, here is that file. And it's just a YAML file which has several objects. And let's talk about those objects. First of all, we are seeing here an instance of customer resource definition called application. And let's spend a couple minutes just to talk about what application is. So, application is an abstraction which Argos CD introduces. And it's pretty much Argos CD configuration. To better understand what it is, we should just take a look at applications back. And we really just need to focus on these two fields. So, first of all, we are seeing there is a source and destination. Let's talk about source. So, source explained Argos CD, where is your desired cluster state located? So, we just point to a directory in a Git repository. And in this case, it's the same Git repository. And that is destination. And destination explains to Argos CD where manifest supposed to be installed. And in this case, we are going to install into the same cluster where Argos CD is running. And we are going to use KubeCon demo namespace. So, once everything is created, we should get KubeCon demo namespace. And that's pretty much it. We have several applications here. Instead of, you know, looking at these applications in this YAML file, we can move back to the repository and take a look at the files in that repository. So, we have infrastructure components here and our web application that leverages infrastructure. Let's take a look at infrastructure first. And there is nothing, this is the least interesting part, I guess. So, here you could just see, you know, some minor tweaks which are related to install Argo events, like rollouts, workflows, and Minio, such as pre-configured bucket and some RBAC rules. And next, more interesting part, the web application which actually leverages that infrastructure. So, first of all, here we have a rollout object. Let me find it. Here it is. So, a rollout, as you might know, is like a big brother of native Kubernetes as deployment. And it does the same job as deployment. It creates replicas, which creates ports and eventually run some containers. Plus, it supports advanced deployment strategies. And in this case, I'm using blue-green. So, and as you can see, this particular rollout eventually creates files-container. That's it. And in addition to rollout, we have two interesting objects. One is event source. Event source is configured, is configured Argo events to watch for events in industry bucket. And then sensor is the most interesting one. It eventually produces the workflow. And this workflow literally consists of two steps. So, first step, find faces. And it's based on this image which I created for the demo, basically just triggers face-detect and, you know, couple of parameters. And finally, the second step, upload result back to S3. Yeah, I think this is it. We covered everything in that repository and we're ready to go check what Argo CD did for us in the background. So, I need to, first of all, start a mini-cube, also a start tunnel. So, we can access all the services. Okay, while it's working. Let me just talk a little bit about how we can do that. So, we can use Qubectl to inspect our cluster, but that is kind of, it's boring and not easy, especially given that we have Argo UI. And Argo UI provides us a lot of information about our cluster. It seems like Tunnel has started. Oh, I know why. So, next, we need to actually patch Argo CD service and change it to load balancer type so it will be available outside of a cluster. Next, Tunnel wants me to ask to give it a password so it can open access to port 18. And finally, Argo CD should be available just on local port 18. It seems like it's up. This is great. Next, we need to log in. And built-in user is admin and password is a host name, is a pod name. So, let me go ahead and use it. And, great. So, as you can see that, okay, by the way, this is Argo CD user interface and what it does, it shows us all the applications in, you know, configured in Argo CD. And as expected, we have five applications here for infrastructure components such as Argo events, rollouts, workflows and so on. And there is a web service. And as you can see, all the icons are green. And this is great because it showed to us that all the components are up and running. And running means not just created deployment, but also all the ports started readiness probes are not failing. They're successful. All the services goes with IP addresses and pretty much everything is ready to use. This is kind of demonstrate that Argo CD is not just the GitOps operator. This is also a very powerful Kubernetes dashboard. And you can use it to learn a lot about your Kubernetes cluster. So, if you want to learn about more details about your application, you can locate required application on the screen, click on the element and let's use Argo workflows as example. So I just clicked on that element and I wasn't directed to workflow details page and it actually has a lot of details here. And I guess the most interesting one is that three of you, which show us all the resources, which are part of Argo workflows application. But in this demo, I'm really interested in just in the service. So let me see the filter service here. And Argo workflows has couple of services. And I'm interested in Argo server service. So it's available on port on local host because I use mini cube. And I really need a port from here. And let's go ahead and try to open the URL. Yeah, so here we go. We have Argo workflows user interface. And we, I opened it on purpose because we are going to need it for the demo. And Argo workflow user interface is pretty much it's an operator console that operator can use to see background which jobs, you know, how they progressing in real time. And then finally, we need one more URL. So we basically, we want to access our application, which is file stage. And I also just need a port. So port is that zero nine zero zero one. Okay. Here's file stage user interface. And as expected, it has no images here because we have not uploaded anything here to me. So we're just showing to us that nothing is created. And this is it. So I think I just want to kind of take a quick pause and recap what we've done. So we've started from an empty mini cube cluster. And we literally run just three commands one to create namespace and then to keep CTL apply commands. And we've got the whole system up and running. And let's go ahead and prove it actually working and upload an image. Here's the upload button. Of course, I have image prepared ahead of time. I'm going to use that friends poster. Sorry, stranger things. I like friends more. So what should happen now is that we uploaded an image and our go work, our go events should detect it, and it should trigger a workflow. So if we move to our go workflows use interface, we can see that one workflow is running right now. Let's click on it. Click on it and see the details. So basically, this UI is going to visualize steps as the steps, you know, execute. And you can use it that you are to even get more information. For example, you can click on the step. And you can go to events and see what exactly is happening. So it was downloading image. Then it started the container. Now it waits for container. And let's give it a couple more seconds to complete. Please. Come on. Yeah, still enjoying. Oh, finally, it's running. Awesome. And immediately succeeded. So basically that was fine phases. It hopefully found the phases and then eventually pass it back. Pass it next to upload result step. It's doing the same. Okay. So it's putting the image created the container started the container. And I suspect my mean cook is quite busy. But let's give it a couple more seconds to complete. So it's running. Hopefully uploading data to S3. And it's done. Awesome. So if everything worked fine, we should go back to a false dash and refresh the page. And we've got a second image which has phases on it. So awesome. And I feel like it's really excited. And I did promise to talk about YAML a little bit. And so. YAML didn't just give us a fully working system. And we would start it in one command. In addition to that, that YAML actually encapsulated the whole application. Life cycle. And we don't have to reinvent it again. And I'm referring to Argo rollouts object in this case. So Argo rollouts object actually supports blue green strategy. And the way blue green is supposed to be done is actually encapsulated in this like four lines of YAML. So I think it's really excited. And. Yeah, that's ends my demo. Thank you. And please go ahead and try to do it yourself. And try to upgrade a file stash using constructions in me. And see blue green. Upgraded strategy life. And. This is not the end. I did want to mention one more component. Which is kind of hidden, but it's also a very important. And that component is GitOps engine. So what is GitOps engine? It's a library that was kind of created out of Argo CD. So what we did, we took out of Argo CD. The implementation of core GitOps features. And put it into a library, a reusable goal and library. And that library includes not just a basic. It also has advanced GitOps features such as sync hooks, sync waves. And many, many much more. And that library powers Argo CD for quite a while already. And what happened is that library is getting mature more and more. And we are really happy to welcome a new consumer. That is GitLab. So, and I'm super excited to tell you that. So, and I'm super excited to tell you that GitLab actually recently released an alpha version of GitLab agent, which is active in cluster component that pretty much integrates GitLab and Kubernetes. And it is powered by GitOps engine. And why it is so exciting is that because now we actually share the same code. So both GitLab and Argo CD does GitOps in pretty much the same way. And GitOps are actively carbonyl calibrating and working on new features and bug fixes. So you will see a lot of great stuff soon. And this is it. Thanks a lot for listening to our demo and update about the project. And please go ahead, ask your questions if you have any.


The inside leg is to bend the horse and sometimes go forward. But oftentimes, when I want to make a turn, what I'll do is I'll wiggle my left leg and then once he looks, I ride the outside of my body around the turn. So now my right thigh comes in, my headlight comes in. So if I go to the right, what I might do is wiggle my right leg, get his right ear to come back and then we round off the turn. And now I start to apply my outside aids.


Hairstrands or earlobes a character already known to be on Onigashima or one We didn't even know was connected to Wano who is the mystery figure teased at the end of chapter 1004. Hello, my Nakamitachi, this is Joygirl and today we're going to discuss the mystery of the last panel in the last chapter Yes I know this is something that we've discussed in the last chapter review But because I'm always quite wary of the length of the reviews and there was already a lot which happened in the last Chapter, I don't always get to voice all of my speculations in full detail and considering the amount of varying candidates We have I think it's worth a closer look So I asked you all who you thought was this mystery character and some of your answers alongside other popular candidates I've come across in the wider one-piece community is Well, I gotta say some sound quite mind-boggling and some I myself would never have thought of Mainly because in my opinion, they just wouldn't make sense story wise Which is why we're here today to examine such candidates and perhaps discuss and provide Reasoning as to how even the most unlikely of candidates could make sense being this mystery figure or at least attempt to So some of this may sound ridiculous and wild, but hey, that's always fun But before we begin I do want to celebrate the fact that we have now reached the magic number After very recently matching the number of Luffy's Grandfleet We have now arrived at his special number Gomu Gomu and now past that too So welcome to all of you who are new here and thank you to everyone in helping our channel reach this milestone There is a particular video I wanted to release when we reached this occasion and so now that we have you will all see Said video soon and so for all of you who are still not yet subscribed to this channel Make sure you do so now and click that notification bell so that you will be notified when this video is out And whilst all one-piece fans can watch that special video today's video is only for manga fans as it concerns chapter 1004 specifically so for anime only fans not wishing to be spoiled Please watch some of my other videos and come back to this one at a later date now that that's been said Let's get on to discussing the various candidates for the hooded figure who has come to assist the scabbards starting off with Gin just kidding get out of here the first real candidate to me seems like an equally joke Candidate, but I've seen his name pop up multiple times and so here we are Anel some people claiming the mystery figure is an L seem to be obviously joking at least That's what I initially thought but this may not apply to everyone So if you were to take this seriously Then we'd have to say that the greatest factor in his favor would be the part of the silhouette Which I immediately considered to be strands of hair But if looked at differently could be considered to be part of in L's elongated elobes And maybe it's more a credit to the talented artists in the one-piece community who have produced these drawings of an L Matching the silhouette, but when you look at drawings like this well It's hard to dispute that an L's elobes certainly does fit this panel And if we were to further consider the likelihood of an L showing up Another piece of potential evidence could be Nami's comments in the same chapter Nami's words that she needs stronger lightning could be foreshadowing that an L a character who was heavily influenced by Raijin who in Japanese mythology is known as literally the god of lightning may be showing up Though there is one major issue to this series, which is why would an L be here at Wano? He has no relevant connection that we know of and in fact the last time we saw him It was in the cover story where he has settled and established a new empire on the moon But when put that way, maybe there is a connection after all Time to put on our tinfoil hat guys because we're gonna stretch further than an L's elobes There is a heavy moon motif present in Wano Such as the mark of the crescent moon which was used as a symbol of the resistance against the Rochi and Kaido The word Zuki which means moon in Japanese and is in the names of all the major great families of Wano country Or the fact that it is currently a full moon on Onigashima Allowing the minks to transform into their so long forms Considering this theme of the moon perhaps Oda had been hinting at an L's arrival all along And if we want to stretch his elope, sorry this theory even further We should also consider the Mitsudomoe symbol that is drawn on his drums This symbol in Japanese culture has been associated with the God of War and Samurai's War and Samurai which aptly connects with the current situation at Wano But there is even a further connection This Mitsudomoe symbol has actually been seen in the Wano arc such as on the kimono worn by Cho The Yakuza boss of Ringo So there does seem to be a lot to connect Anel to Wano But as to why he would show up as we know Anel learned something about the history of how some races Originated from the moon, maybe this is linked to the secrets contained at Wano about the void century He could be a figure who not only assists the scabbards But also sheds light on some of the remaining mysteries left in this arc But like I said, this is a bit of a stretch and moving on from one stretchy elope to another We have Fukuro Kujou. The reason for the captain of the former Orochi Oniobanchu being listed as a possible candidate It's likely based on the same reason as Anel. His long elopes Though Fukuro Kujou's elopes are shorter than Anel's and I would argue also thicker Thereby making it even less likely that these strands shown in the last panel are Fukuro Kujou's ears On the other hand if we were to stick with this candidate for a little longer We could mention the fact that the last time we saw the ninja captain He was acting very shady and mysteriously slipped off thus leaving his current locations unknown and therefore Making it possible that it is Fukuro Kujou who is there in the treasure repository along with the scabbards Considering his abilities as a ninja It's not implausible that even though he wasn't with the scabbards the last time we saw him that he has since been able To attain their whereabouts, but this does leave the question of what is he doing there? Has he decided to switch sides and help the scabbards?  Or is he even a more despicable man than we realized and Plans to take out the scabbards whilst they're down whilst I'm on board with Fukuro Kujou turning against Kaito I don't see him being the candidate in this scenario Especially because whilst his elopes may fit the panel we haven't seen a long protruding head Which I imagine would be hard to conceal in this scene which brings us to another possible foe rather than an ally Kanjiro so the biggest argument against Kanjiro being the candidate is the fact that Bao Huang said that the person is Attempting to save the samurai and not a fellow enemy as well as the fact that Kanjiro is dead or as we know so far But I don't think that this necessarily rules him out as a candidate as we have now become accustomed to by this point We can't always be so sure of a character's death and if Kanjiro is revealed to be alive It would hardly be the most shocking twist in fact I made a video discussing the concept of death in one piece including Oda's use of the fakeouts Which you may also like to watch following our current discussion But going back to our current topic Especially if we consider Kanjiro's devil fruit ability We could suppose that the Kanjiro whom Kiku killed was actually a super realistic drawing of Kanjiro's Now whilst I suspect Kanjiro being alive would spur quite a bit of discontent amongst the community If Oda was to use this plot device again, I wouldn't be completely against it I was actually hoping to see Kanjiro's redemption in this arc And so if he was alive rather than him being an enemy or even if he first plans on killing the scabbards I would like to see him being converted into an ally I can just imagine a scene where one of the scabbards would say something like Master Odin would still accept you as one of his own even knowing what you did And Kanjiro having never felt like he really belonged or had his own identity Would realize that Odin had always accepted him And that he belonged to Odin and the group of Samurais Resulting in him joining their cause for real But enough of my headcanon because whilst I still would like to see that scene play out I do have my doubts about Kanjiro resurfacing at this moment His designs just don't match the panel Apart from his long hair which maybe could fit the strands shown in the last chapter The rest of what we have been shown and admittedly it isn't much But I just can't see how Kanjiro would fit So let's discuss another scabbard, Iso This one confuses me a lot Because Iso was shown to be with the rest of the scabbards When they were on the rooftop facing off Kaido In fact as recent as chapter 1000 We literally saw him injured along with the rest of his fellow scabbards And although it is true that we can't actually see Iso as one of the wounded scabbards in chapter 1004 Bao Hong does mention that she sees 10 figures So if Iso is the mystery figure This leaves us with yet another mystery figure to make up the 10 people So if you have a way to resolve this web of complications Please do let us know in a comment below on how Iso being the mystery figure would make sense But in the meantime Moving on to another candidate whom I think based on the recent chapters Doesn't make him a likely candidate But considering the name did pop up Let's discuss Yamato Considering my initial thoughts that these strands in the silhouette were strands of hair I can't see how Yamato with his design could fit this description But personally I never considered him a viable candidate Because we did see him in chapter 1003 Where he was still with Momonosuke and Shinobu Whilst the last time we saw this group before chapter 1003 They were in relative safety In chapter 1003 It seemed like Yamato had his hands full potentially fending off some enemies So unless this was a very deliberate misdirect by Oda I don't think it's very likely that the cloaked figure is Yamato And another character with luscious hair Thus making him a possible candidate Basil Hawkins It's true Hawkins long hair does make it plausible that it is his hair strands shown in the last panel We haven't seen him since the interrogation of DS Drake back in chapter 990 And although he was still acting on the Kaito's beast pirates the last time we saw him I have mentioned before Such as in the part 2 of my Wano series video Of the possibility of Hawkins switching sides However, this doesn't explain how he knew where the scabbards were And why he has decided to switch sides at this moment Unless he's still acting as a beast pirate In which case we would have to ask why he has found it necessary to cloak himself so mysteriously And there is also another reason why I don't think it is likely that Hawkins is the mystery figure In fact This reason actually rules out all of the aforementioned characters Size In the panel The mystery figure is tiny compared to Kinamon Considering that Kinamon is 298 centimeters tall or 9 foot 8 in US metrics I would place the figure to be no taller than 2 meters or 6 foot 5 And that's being generous But all the candidates that we have discussed so far are taller than 2 meters And I don't think any of them would look so comparatively small When standing next to a sitting Kinamon Which leads us to the discussion of far more regular sized humans But before that, here are some other names mentioned And although I'm sure most of these aren't serious Some are And even if they're not I appreciated all of your responses all the same Starting with the Gorose Too tall Clone Barry 002 Canon figures only please Ivankov Dadan Ogaban Intriguing But I understand why even you have little faith in this possibility Giving them only a 1% chance Kawina This would be the most mind boggling reveal And I'm not sure how I feel about it Kokoro Obviously Crocodile Outrageous Buggy Okay Katakuri Also too tall Vivi Well, I sure would resolve two mysteries at once But I'm not sure I see the connection Bonnie Again, I don't see her relevance to Wano Or how she escaped Akainu Yamato's mother Momato Again, this would solve two mysteries we currently have at Wano And this would certainly be a big twist But I just don't know if we have much to support this case And now, for my personal favorite Joy Girl Yup, you got me It's been me all along I have actually created this entire video as a red herring So that my reveal in the manga will be all the more surprising Okay, let's get serious Back to our real discussion Now onto the regular human sized candidates Starting with Tenguyama Tenguyama's height is currently unknown But without his stilts He does seem to be of average human height Also, he has stated before that he is waiting for someone So perhaps he has come to meet this person at Onigashima And it is somehow connected to the scabbards Another intriguing detail is that it was recently revealed That the voice actor for Tenguyama is the same actor for Kazuki Tsukiyaki So is it possible that Tenguyama is the former Wano Shogun in disguise Who didn't die at all? It would explain the mystery of the Tengu mask And would be one of the biggest plot twists in the Wano arc But as wild and fun this theory may be I am almost certain that this figure is not Tenguyama Aside from the mystery figure's seeming female There is also the fact that though Tenguyama may fit the height component of the figure's size He doesn't fit the width component This figure seems to be on the leaner and slimmer side Which aren't quite the words that come to mind when I think of Tenguyama So moving onto a slim average height human, Suru Suru showing up at Onigashima could be plausible Whilst her exact height is unknown In her depictions she seemed to be close in height to Zoro Who is less than two meters tall Also Suru being revealed here Could serve the purpose in revealing the fate of the inhabitants of the Okuboro town And would fit with what seems to be tears Shown in that last panel when we remember that Suru is Kinemon's wife However, I do think that this would be a rather anticlimactic reveal Though her bravery in misleading Holden was impressive and heartfelt I don't think Suru being the mystery figure carries enough impact To have warranted the suspense created in the last chapter Also whilst it is very possible that in the ordeal of having to escape her burning town That Suru's hair has come loose As we know her currently Suru doesn't have loose strands of hair And being the respectable lady that she is Always has her hair nicely tied up in a traditional Shimada hairstyle There would also be the question of how she arrived at Onigashima And how she found the scabbards in that vast castle Although perhaps one could peg it down to lovers instinct Anyways, moving on to the next candidate, Robin So this is an intriguing character who didn't even pop into my mind Because as you will know from my chapter review I was too busy thinking that Robin was a different mystery character But Robin being the cloaked mystery figure Could make sense when we factor in her hair Which also has two strands out on either side of her face The fact that she was last seen running into the castle And is also one of the only very few straw hats We haven't received an update on recently Also the fact that Black Maria was seeking Robin in the last chapter Could be foreshadowing that when Black Maria arrives at the treasure repository She will come face to face with Robin herself And look, if I get to see a Robin versus Black Maria fight One way or another, I am more than satisfied But if it was Robin, I would have to ask Why all the big secrecy and suspense of the cloak and the silhouette Though the Robin versus Black Maria face-off would be epic The dramatic intensity in which Oda designed this cliffhanger Would feel a little odd Not to mention the fact that I also don't see That Robin would be crying in response to seeing the scabbards that way Although I suppose that there's no confirmation That those droplets were actually tears But let's move on to the next candidate, Hiyori Hiyori seems to be the most sensible answer To this question of the mystery figure Her design fits that of the panel when it comes to the strands It would make sense that she is crying at seeing the scabbards Considering her relationship with them Particularly Denjiro and Kawamatsu Furthermore, the fact that she was pretending to be Komarasaki Who is now known to be dead The need for such secrecy and her cloak makes sense Whilst on one hand, an argument could be made against Hiyori Due to the fact that she herself Said that she would refrain from seeing the scabbards And her brother before the war But technically, the war has already begun And considering the current state of the scabbards She could hardly be a distraction In fact, she may actually be the driving force needed For the scabbards to remaster their strength To protect her and Wano Furthermore, another comment that Hiyori has made in the past Is that she expressed her desire to kill Orochi herself And if we take her word seriously Then it's possible that she sneaked her way onto Onigashima To perform this act Having Hiyori present at Onigashima Would bring all the main characters involved in the story together Her re-entry into the storyline By bringing her back here would be the best place to do it Unless of course the raid at Onigashima fails And the war moves onto Wano where she will be relevant there But if the raid doesn't fail As Hiyori was introduced to us as a major player early in the Wano arc To have her sideline for the entirety of the battle Does raise some questions And considering the likeness between her design and that of the mystery figure She does seem like a very likely candidate But this does still beg the questions of how she made her way onto Onigashima And how she even found the scabbards I wouldn't be surprised if the mystery figure is indeed Hiyori Like I said, she seems to be the most logical candidate But in saying that There is still another character who I am leaning towards most And one who may provide answers to questions Of how this mystery figure arrived at Onigashima And found the room that the scabbards are in TOKI Most of you will know that I strongly believe that TOKI is still alive And hopefully by now you have all watched my video Detailing why and how she may have survived And what TOKI's role will be in the future of Wano This video goes through potential hints such as the mystery figure who was tailing Jinbe and Robin As well as the figure who was seen speaking to Marco on the ship Before they arrived at Onigashima So, Eldomonio 009 actually used this figure on the ship as a case to support Hiyori That in a similar way as Iso being shown on the ship prior to his reveal at Wano Hiyori is being hinted in this chapter But in a way to mislead us and create suspense But as per my TOKI theory video The figure shown on the ship has a different kimono design Than the one worn by Iso whom we have seen since Which makes me think that this person on the ship was definitely not Iso And may have actually been TOKI The striped design is one we have actually seen TOKI where before And the fact that TOKI may have been present on the ship Is of even greater significance Because if this was TOKI on board Then it would actually answer the questions we have had for all of our other candidates How did this mystery figure know where to find the scabbards? If we quickly recap some of the events at Onigashima Marco, Neko, and Iso arrived at Onigashima And joined with the rest of the scabbards at the entrance to the castle If it was indeed TOKI on board the ship with this group Then she would have also joined up with the rest of the scabbards And do you remember who was also there along with the scabbards back then? Trafalgar D. Water Law Law was the one who transported the scabbards away from the rooftop Why did he move them to the treasure repository? And how did he know to move them there? What if it's because Law knew TOKI would be there If TOKI and Law met previously before they all entered the castle They could have devised a plan together It seems way too coincidental that this mystery figure If they were anyone other than TOKI Would have simply been able to find the scabbards in this particular room And also with the suspense that Oda has created through this cliffhanger TOKI's reveal would be the most fitting in terms of payoff It would also make a lot of sense story-wise I mentioned in my TOKI theory video about all of the unresolved plotlines Such as the contents of Oda's letter or the scar on her leg Which I still think are going to become relevant somewhere in this arc Maybe the scar itself will become relevant here to help identify this figure Or maybe this is just me trying to manifest my dreams But until I'm proved otherwise, I gotta say, I am convinced Which brings us to the end of today's video Please leave a comment below with your thoughts on the mystery figure And whether this video changed your mind at all Don't forget to like and share the video if you enjoyed today's discussion And please also subscribe because we have plenty of more one-piece discussions heading your way This is Joygirl and I'll see you again soon


It's DDK, and I'm back today with another video. Huge thanks to you for tuning in, and if you're not subscribed, go on with it, subscribe and give me a thumbs up, and do not skip those ads. You see the title, you see the thumbnail. Today, we are going to be doing our first order on Vee-ho! This block is four and a half hours, and we will receive a payment of $90.50 on our PNMC. Look, we are going to learn, and we are going to earn, and if you didn't, it ain't your concern. Let's go! We are here to draw out the first package. All you got to do is hit it with the scan ski, so you can get these bins. She hit them with the scan ski. The terrible thing about this one is, guess what, guys? We're going into an apartment building. The things that I hate to do. Let's go on this jump, baby. Hey, Joggy, it's okay. Hi, what floor are you in? Uh, not there. Hey! It's okay, doggy. You don't have to bark. It's okay. Sorry, is it okay that she's- No, it's okay. Here, baby, to drop this joint off, you on the floor, we need to be on. So, we got to go here. Now, if you notice on the pictures, you have to take two pictures. You have to take- Oh, here, go right here. You have to take a picture of the package. Bam! Number one. And then, number two, you have to actually take a picture of the address, like the suite. Hit them with the photo. So, mwah! Now, who don't know? Let's go. So, I was wrong, guys. Guess what? You actually have to take a picture of the address number two. So, I have to take a picture of the package, the apartment number. And now, when I get outside, I have to take a picture of the address number two, baby.  We about to do our thing. Let's go. We are back outside now. So, I have to take a picture of that. I know, I know, I know. I stopped the video. I stopped the video because I know you have a question right now. Your question is, how do I sign up for V-HO? So, I can get this though. All you have to do is go to Google, type in V-HO. Once you type in V-HO, right under that is going to say, drive with us. You're going to click that. Then, you are going to put your full name. My name, Jerome Adams. Then, after that, you're going to put your email address, roamshousereviews at gmail.com. After you do that, you're going to ask for your phone number. My phone number is 123456789. And then, last but not least, they are going to ask you for your zip card. You're going to put that in, then you're going to hit submit. They're going to ask you some personal information, your social security number, your address and all that stuff. You're going to fill that out and then you're going to sign up. Now, we just got approved. After you get approved, you're going to be wondering, how do I get a route? This is what's going to happen. At 6 p.m. the day before, this is going to happen right here. As you guys can see, they have all the routes right there. What you're going to do is you're going to look for the route that's closest to your house. You're going to click it and then you're going to hit request route. Now, just so you guys know, you don't have time ready to be thinking about and contemplating because within 20 to 30 seconds, all of them are going to be gone. So you have to move fast if you want to get that card. I know you're wondering the next question. The next question is, how many packages are you going to have? On Veeho, they do not tell you how many packages are you going to have, but they do tell you how many cubic feet is going to be. Y'all see the picture, baby? As you guys see, we have a list of all the deliveries in our area and ours is highlighted in red. And if you look on the left of it where it says delivery, right after that, it says 18 to 24 cubic feet. So what that means is how much space is it going to take up in your vehicle? This is what ours look like. Now that you have your route and you know how many cubic feet it is, I'm going to give you guys a tip. Just because you pick that city does not mean all of your deliveries is going to be in that area. We literally only had our last delivery in that location. All of the rest of them lay it up to there and that is the reason why I told you guys pick one close to your home. It is now the next day and it is time for us to go on our route. Look, our route starts at 820 but we can arrive 15 minutes early. So we can arrive at 805. We're going to get there around 755 because guess why? Why? Why we going to get to 755? Because there's going to be a line for sure waiting outside. Now it's time to go inside the warehouse. We cool and we get up to the warehouse. There's going to be a person standing there and they're going to ask you what is your route number? As you guys can see circling red our route number is 109. You're going to tell them our route number and then they're going to tell you exactly where to park. We parked at number 15. Now we put up to the parking spot. Guess what? They are going to bring the packages out to you. If they are taking too long you might want to ask somebody for some help. After we get the packages we are then going to hit them with the scan ski so we can get these bands G. Now we are going to hit them with the scan ski. This is number 6. We are going to hit all of the packages with the scan ski but I'm going to tell you guys this. As you are scanning you are going to write the number of packages it is. So every scan and it say number 10 you are going to write 10 on there. Then what you are going to do is you are going to put 10 over here and you are going to separate the packages in groups of 10. So we are going to put 1 through 10 right here. We are going to put 11 through 20 right here. Then we are going to put 20 through 29 over here in different areas.  And make it real easy so you can go out here and get the T's G.  Just like that. Finally I'm going to fly away somewhere someday. Which I know about that. Come on below and let me know. This is our last stop. Hit them with the photos. Smack! Let's go. Yeah baby. We finally done. This route was 4 hours and 30 minutes. It took us 4 hours. Do I believe we could have done it faster? Absolutely. Why didn't we get it done faster? We didn't get it done faster because we had multiple hiccups and every single one was at a apartment building. Guys we may have an issue because it told us to go to the back door and that door was locked baby.  You can't get in either door protecting the customer right now. There's no possible way to get in this joint. I don't know what to do. Well we made an executive decision and we're going to leave it out here because guess what? Where do you think that UPS and everybody leaving? They have to leave it right here. That's the only thing that makes sense. You want that photo? And then here with the photo again. Smack! Let's go. And this is the issue that I do have with the VHO app. Do I think it's a great app? Absolutely.  Absolutely.  Let me tell you the reason why you're going to have some problems because when you get to the apartment building you have to first get in as you can get in. I got lucky if you tell me but sometimes I didn't get lucky. Once you get in you actually have to go to the door knock on the door take a picture of the box take a picture of the apartment number then you have to go outside when you leave it and take a picture of the apartment building number. That is what?  It's way too many pictures and it takes way longer baby. If I just hit it with the phone smack and then leave sometimes I had to go to a house take a picture of the box by the door then walk all the way until I get to a mailbox and take a picture again. That's out of control. We are here to drop on order number six hit it with the scan ski so we can get these bands G. Guess what? The thing about this one is bad is that we actually have to take a picture of the mailbox because that's what the numbers are baby. So that's out of, they out of control. We about to get our pockets on the floor that's what we about to do. It's actually a pretty nice day out here today. I had to put it on the edge because I don't want to hit it with the door. Step back, photo, photo, photo time smack. Now we have to go over here by the mailbox and take a picture of the number right here. Bingo! Let's go. Y'all need to fix that because that's way too much stuff. But let me say this on the other hand on their end I do think that they are doing this to protect themselves to make sure that the customer got their items and the customer can't lie and say they didn't get their stuff. So that's what I think about that and another thing. Guess what? When you get to the house you got to hit them with all them 35,000 photos. If you take a photo and the phone does not recognize the address number you literally have to type it in. So if you had one, two, three fake street you hit them with the photo you take the picture of the one, two, three you still have to type in one, two, three confirm. You got to confirm it. Speaking of address I got this here for you guys. Y'all see that? That's the map baby.  This is the reason why you are going to put all of the addresses in your own map and map it out yourself.  Now we're going to get into something that I love about. Behold. Behold. I love this. I love that you actually get to pull inside of a building. You do not have to worry about it snowing, raining, scorching hot. You get to go in there hit them with the scan ski and put your packages in order so you can get in order. Another thing that I love about it is you can actually take more than one route at a time so you can get two routes but I'm going to say but but they cannot overlap each other. I'm going to give you guys an example. If you have a route from 8 to 10 you can now take another route from 9 to 11. You can't do that because they overlap each other. You have to take one from 8 to 10 and then take the next one from 10 to 12. That's how you can prevail. Also another thing that I love about Behold is you actually get to pick what city you are going to, baby. You might not do that the whole route but you're going to end up in that city and we're going to be dancing in the video like we did it. And that's just it, baby. My honest review on Behold. Do I think y'all should go out there and get that dough? Absolutely.  After you go get busy, come up alone and let me know how you're first or whatever order you want. How it went for you, baby. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you are not subscribed go on with this my subscriber. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads and I'll see you tomorrow because we can back to the bag while we can back to the bag because 2023 is a big bag season. We don't keep on giving a reason. I'll see you guys on the next one. We going, we going, we flowing. You already know in the DDK and I'm on my way.


The October PPI, or Producer Price Index, numbers were posted this morning at 8.30 EST. The month-over-month core PPI is 0%. The month-over-month PPI is negative 0.5%. As negative 0.5%, that means we have de-inflation happening already. The Fed or Federal Reserve Banks have been fighting inflation by raising the Fed funds rate in the last 18 months. If this deflationary trend continues, the Fed will have to cut the Fed funds rate pretty soon in order to prevent the economy from going into a recession. Any rate pause or rate reduction from the Fed is great bullish news for the stock market. Cheers!


This is stock number 90128A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used light-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2014 Chevy Silverado 1500 crew cab short box. This truck has the 5.3 liter V8 motor. It has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Silver Ice Metallic is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the truck with me. And definitely your best way to ensure the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you would like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link right to our website. Click that and check us out there. Comes with the factory 18 inch alloy rims. Cooper Discover AT26565 R18 tires with right around half the tread left on them. Front fender is in nice shape. Didn't see any major dents or dings on that. Front bumper is in really nice shape as well. I didn't see any dents on that. And the lower valance is in nice shape too. Factory fog lights, blacked out headlight bezels. Grille is in really nice condition. Didn't see any dents or dings on the hood. And the passenger side front fender is in nice shape too. Passengers side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on that. And as you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. Like I said we take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. That's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen a link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home. Lower rockers all look really good. Framing underbody, got a little bit of service rust but nothing too bad. The most part looks really good and the has all the remaining factory exhaust. Some chrome step bars on there, four-wheel disc brakes. I believe they started that in 14 and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Wheel wells and box look great. Didn't see any bubbling or anything like that on there. Rear bumper is in excellent shape it does have the rear bumper steps. Full towing package which includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is nice and clean it does have a trucks port soft tonneau cover. Has the shock down assist.  A little bit of light-duty usage but nothing too bad. Looks pretty good. That tailgate lifts up easily and it does have a locking tailgate. You notice there is a backup camera on there as well and as you go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side. Didn't see any dents or dings in the box and for full disclosure this back rim is in really nice condition too. Down the rest is side of the truck. Very very nice. Does have power mirrors with driver's side blind spot mirror.  There are no rips there are no tears on the seats. Pretty nice condition. Factory all-weather floor mats throughout. Has auto headlamps, turned-out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, tilt and telescopic steering wheel. And as we hop inside the vehicle here you can see that this one has 83,127 miles. You get the digital speedometer, compass display, has a temperature display on the radio, leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls on the left and this one's going to come with the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. This one comes with the AM-FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. So you can see you got XM there. This is also where your backup camera shows up. And then you got all your apps here as well. This one does not have nav, but it just has a compass there. CD player, dual climate control, stability control, that's for your cargo lamps. And you do get a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in underneath there and a power point. Carpeting is very clean. All weather floor mat on the passenger side is in nice shape. Passenger side seat is in nice shape. And the headliner is in nice shape as well. You do get map lights up here and on-star capabilities in the mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood 40-20-40 split bench seating in the front. So it is a six passenger. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system. Fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats do fold up and you got a pretty flat floor back here. All weather floor mats back here as well. And the carpeting is in excellent shape. Bottoms of the doors all look really good. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video. You'll be able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside out. Under the hood we have the 5.3 liter V8 motor. Engine bay is very clean. Runs very smooth. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three cotertones, one tons. You name it we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video. And all the videos that you see there in fact any second you will see links to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more Chevy halftone truck videos like this one on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out. And we really look forward to helping you with this super clean 2014 Chevy Silverado 1500 Crew Cab Short Box LT1. Thanks again.


Everybody can relate to those days. You come home with a million and one things to do and a million and one things in your hand and nothing seems to be going right. Your place is a chidi-ass mess. You go into the kitchen to get a cup of tea to relax and unwind and the kitchen is another chidi-ass mess you gotta deal with.   My suggestion, do the work that has to be done and then put that work back on yourself. So how do you feel like a sexy woman in a very chaotic, stressful, constant on the go unsexy-ass world?    I prefer the saying, sell your strengths and buy your weaknesses. If you know you're deficient in an area, don't just disillusion yourself or delusion yourself. Disillusionment, delusion. Address what you feel negative about and make the changes in that. Invest in feeling better and then be better. And what this channel has been is you guys watching me authentically learn how to own the term sexy woman. I definitely did not start this journey feeling like I was on top of my A game if anything it was the exact opposite. I used to be like super uncomfortable with the term sexy. I hated when people called me that. I didn't think of myself as that. But honestly today's a celebration because about two weeks ago I realized like no, no, I'm sexy as hell. And that was a journey to get to that place. And so this is an adage about me gloating about how sexy I am and stuff in my cable knit sweater. It's also about me sharing some of the things that helped me to get there. And so this is a sexy you starter kit. In partnership with Adam and Eve, I chose five products that I love that really helped me on my way to owning, defining and being sexy ass booting. Number one, when I think of my sexy self, I kind of look at it like a superhero. And I use the term before sexual superhero because that's when I really just own my femininity, my sensual space. And so every superhero needs a costume and this just happens to be the one that I chose.  But this is how it looks outside. It's really great because it's made of yarn I think. Why didn't I read this? I don't know. It's made of nylon. So even though I've been wearing it a lot, there haven't been any holes in it so it's been lasting pretty long and it was super cheap. But what I love about this is I just chose something that really fit my body type. I don't have a butt. We've talked about this before. I have a teardrop booty there like at the base. That's where the stuff is.  You can't really tell if there's not a lot going on. So choosing lingerie that really celebrates your shape and when you put it on, you just automatically are in a different headspace and then now you can start doing the next steps to really get to that true sexy you. Number two, when I say buy your weaknesses, I don't just mean in a physical product. Sometimes it is in mental wealth as well too. Now, listen, I have lent this book out so many times and the last person I lent it to, because I have to have a piece of paper copy now because it's never in my place. I lent it to Rome from Dorm Tainment and it's been about a good six months. Everybody else has read it and returned it, but for some reason he's always working on it. I think every woman should have this book in her arsenal. It talks about the clitoris having 18 different parts. Number two, invest in the mental wealth. Number three is a personal lubricant. Now this one is called Pure Woman Nude. It is odorless. It is water-based. We slow that down. It's really greasy and it's slippery. It's paraben-free. It's sulfate-free. It's good for massaging as well too. Now what do you use a personal lubricant for? You use it to personally massage yourself. I am a great advocate for self-pleasure as you guys know. I talked about the benefits of orgasm, knowing how to bring yourself to pleasure, but then also making pleasure a part of your everyday life. So having a lubricant that you can put on every single day without worry is so clutch. I've been blessed with a dope stomach. I can eat anything. I'm not lactose-free. I can have peanuts. I can bathe and meet if I wanted to.  So I have to find products that are neutral, like nude.  They're going to enhance and improve it and make it a lot more fun. Okay, so are you guys still with me? Did I lose you yet? Because we're about to get a little bit more extreme, not a lot, just a little bit. Number four is Benoit balls. You may have heard of these before. You put these in your vaginal canal. Let me tell your future. These essentially are personal trainers for your pussy. Like there's just no better way of putting it. I can't really sugarcoat it. Some of them come with strings, but the problem with the strings are sometimes they can have bacteria attached to them if you don't wash them properly. It can cause issues.  Like you put them inside. The best time that I actually use them is when I go to work out.  What goes up must come down. You shouldn't really worry a lot about them getting lost in there. Like your cervical opening is not a vacuum. What is amazing about them? If you haven't heard of Kegel exercises or the benefits of Benoit balls is that it strengthens the PC muscles, which is your pelvic floor muscles. Now that controls everything in the abdominal cavity. So it helps people hold their bladder for longer so you don't have incontinence as you get older. It keeps the vaginal walls of course very strong. And then if you just pulse right now, like, you know, if we're all pulsing together. So when you're able to control the PC muscle, you have stronger orgasms. Like that's just a known fact. If you sat at just pulse, you may even start to, there we go. And now for me personally, as much as I like put emphasis on doing PC exercises, I just stay forgetting. So this is just a very deliberate way of making sure that you're getting your 10 minutes a day in or whatever that you require. I love these because they're pretty. And I'll talk about this later on. But it's important for me, for my sexual apparatuses to make me feel sophisticated and sexy.  But these, they have little hearts on the inside. They're made of glass, which I think is cleaner. And I really like them. So, all right, are we ready for our number five, ladies and gentlemen? It's this. This is a wedge pillow. It's exactly what you think it is. It's a pillow that you use for sex, either with a partner or with yourself. We've talked about this before. The G-spot is actually at the anterior part of the vaginal wall because it is an extension of the clitoris that it actually is more so in the bladder area. But if you press forward, that's when you get access to that. And so, when you're on a wedge and you push all the pressure to the top, you could end up getting a better chance of getting the G-spot stimulation, as well to like it draws the clitoris forward and draws the hood out when you're on that incline. So, wedge is a really great for women. It's just good for spicing things up.  You put a pillowcase on this, none the wiser. Nobody knows what this is for. This one in particular is inflatable and somebody very special to me blew this up himself. And that's why I picked him. He has spectacular lung span. I gave it a try and I couldn't, but then I don't do some of the things that he does. What I don't like about this product, and I wanna say this as I close out this video on how to be a sexy woman, I hate the cover.  I think that a lot of companies, and you'll see with all the choices that I made, I make choices that reflect how I feel about myself as a woman. And I am sensual, I am chic, and I'm a freak, but that doesn't mean that I want ghoulish or cartoonish or porn-like boxing or packaging. Love, love, love the actual product. It's black, it's sleek, it's cool, it's velvet. So that I do like, but I just think we should do a better job of packaging things to make women feel celebrated and not embarrassed.  When you do go visit adamany.com, you guys can get 50% off any one product that you buy. Now you can get the whole entire kit and just get one thing, you get half off that one thing and it's free shipping on your entire order. So it's a dope way to play and trust me, the prices on these items are half what you thought they were in your brain. Like they're really, really reasonable. And I love that site and thank you guys so much for choosing me to partner up with this on. I wanna know what your top five are. When you are getting into your sexy place or when you were on your sensual journey, what are five weaknesses that you invested in, five things that you bought or classes that you did that really helped you connect. Let's make this a series, maybe. We'll have a part two, a 101, a 103, a 104, 105.  All right, that's enough from me.  See y'all. There's a saying where we come from. Cousins make what? Dozens just leave the nuts hanging out.  I don't know if this interview is serious.