This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Welcome to Think Tech, here on a given Tuesday afternoon for the 2 o'clock block, a show that I've been meaning to do for a long time, and so has Vernon been meaning to do it. So this is Life in the Law, I'm Jay Fiedel. Our show today is called Fifty Years Before the Bar, we're going to talk about, well it's a triple entendre somehow, we're going to examine all the various entendres there in Fifty Years Before the Bar. The practice of law can be a lifelong experience, as you will find. And if you want to ask a question, make a comment during the show, you can tweet us at Think Tech H.I. or call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. So Vernon Char, welcome to the show, it's so nice to have you here. Thank you. You've been practicing more than 50 years, it's euphemistic to say 50 years. And in comment to that, I think it's, practice of law has been an evolution too. Over time. Indeed. Well, I recall that we had a show, I wasn't the host, somebody else was on Bar Association, and you and John Jubinski came down, I think that was the two of you, this is two, three years ago in the three digit program, the Living Legend Lawyers program we did for the Bar Association. That was a remarkable show, I remember some of the comments you made, I remember some of the comments he made even now. Yeah, it was, I'm really pleased that we did it, John passed away this year, and it was very meaningful in reviewing it with his son and daughter as we were preparing the funeral services for him. And so I'm glad that we did that, but it just shows time passes very quickly and on an impulse, people aren't there anymore. Yeah, isn't that true, time passes so quickly. Well, I want to review some of the things that you've done, and I became aware, for example, well, you're famous, first of all, you were known to me before I ever met you for antitrust, you somehow got involved in antitrust, it's just a very specific expertise here in Hawaii, it's not that much antitrust going on, but here's a lawyer who does antitrust in Hawaii, that is something. And you were representing Aloha Airlines, and that was a family business, I suppose. Right. And you were with Damon, the Damon firm for a while, and then you came over to your own firm, Shara Sakamoto, which still exists today. So you've been around the block for a minute. Thank you. Thank you. And it's just totally fortuitous, I mean, antitrust I think was interesting, I got into being asked to head up the antitrust section for the state, when we, with the state for the first time, had an antitrust application, and it was great, because I didn't take that subject at law school, but it's something that I trained into, and it was quite fortuitous. And then going out in private practice, of course, with the Aloha Airlines suit against Hawaiian Airlines, that was great. Oh, that must have been something that was front page news. Yeah. Yeah. Well, then I became aware of the luncheon group, because you invited me down, you and Ed Chun, and Phil Cheng, and Jeff Grad, and John Jubinski, and maybe there's somebody else there too. You guys met, still meet, I guess, for decades and decades and decades. Right. We calculated that we've had lunch every Wednesday for the last 2,000 weeks. I thought you were going to say 2,000 years. And a new restaurant each time, and, you know, it's unfortunate that John and some of the other founders like Charlie Key and Dwight Rush, Haud Greeley, are not there. But we all started out, again, fortuitously through the Bar Association, and that's how it was founded back in 1963. But you were special friends. You guys shared things that you would not necessarily share outside that group. And you became partners somehow in the practice, in life in the law, you know. Yes. Initially it started, we were all members of the bar. We were doing bar activities. But we contained it to eight people at the outset, all from different firms. And that was so that we could cover what was going on in the law. And besides the collegiality, learned from each other on the various specialties that we had. I remember how spirited the discussion was when I was there. But you invited people to come down. People who were not really part of the essential group come down and you shared with them.  That's right. We would have guests, people that we thought could tolerate the aid of us that we strided out with. A real phenomenon. And I was going to say it should be written down, but you did write it down. We're going to cover that. Okay. The next thing I want to talk about is Minoa Forum. Minoa Forum is not really all that well known, but you created Minoa Forum back, it must be 20 years ago, 25 years ago. Right. And that again, it's just fortunate. I'd gone to a bar association, function Aspen Institute when I was in board of governors. And that was held with Supreme Court justices and the board of governors. But I love that concept of having a free exchange and dialogue based on cases or law. And I was able to bring that back to the university. I remember talking to Al Simone, the president, saying, you know, there's something wrong with the university because we don't have this exchange much like you have your think tank today. And so he encouraged me and then he left and then Mortimer came and Ken Mortimer endorsed the idea and we then had Minoa Forum, 10 community, 10 people from the university. Some of the ingredients were that it had to be anonymous. Everybody was a first name, could not discuss what it is that they did, what their roles were. And we would then concentrate and discuss topics like leadership, truth, change. I think the year you and I'm not sure what it was, I know it was identity. We've had a number of subjects. There were great topics and great discussions and it was interesting because everybody was kind of there without portfolio. Yes. You came without wearing your judicial robes or anything and all walks of life, not only from the university but from every part of the community and it was a very unfettered kind of discussion that way. It still goes on. I'm happy to say I think the success of Minoa Forum is a fact that I've resigned from the leadership of that. I do get invited back every year and I think now when it's 23rd or 24th year, run by others in the community and the university, but the concept is still there, taking topics of great human interest and then discussions among anonymous leaders in our community. It's very interesting that there's a program now being organized for December 1st. This is a public program rather than the kind of private program that the Pacific Forum is, Minoa Forum, but this is about the disparity in thinking about people who don't talk to each other, who live in bubbles. Peter Adler, I don't know if you know him, is setting it up with Kim Lourie. Kim Lourie? Yeah, setting it up. They both attended the forum. One thing we found, for instance, I can remember discussing the topic change and we had John Lerner, a physicist. We had someone that I've forgotten who she was, but in the Zen context on teapouring and larynging and things of that nature. We had somebody I think a general in the military, we had a president of a bank and then a disparate of other groups of people and it was amazing that just one single topic change we could get synergies of people thinking without their robes and it was just phenomenal. I think the same was true when we had the topic power. It was just interesting to get a general and a president and a theologian discussing power or an artist and I think to make the general think about what an artist thinks about his power and vice versa, I think it was a real catharsis. I remember great discussions. Great discussions. Yeah. I had a wonderful time and it was two days, it was over a weekend in a hotel, my kiki and food was good and everybody became very familiar with the essence of the discussion, the essence of the people around them. Leaving their titles behind. Leaving the titles behind. I think that was the important thing. But you initiated this idea from afar.  That's right, but I was president of the Alumni Association. I was one of the founding members when they reinstituted the Alumni Association and it was through that experience about three or four years later, I still had an acquaintance with the president and the deans and so forth, but I felt something was missing at that point. I mean, we had football games and we had tailgate parties, wine tasting, but it lacked the intellectual quality and the university professor kept on saying, we have world class leaders and I said, that may be the case. But we in the community, we don't know them. I may know the law school faculty, but I don't really know, you know, Agihara, the guy that had the cloning or a theologian or a Hawaiian studies person. So that's how it developed. It sounds like it just goes to the whole notion of leadership, community leaders getting together to sort of refine their skills, compare their thinking, come in from the cold, so to speak, and bundle up in a close discussion of issues that affect leaders, that leaders should know about, that leaders should be thinking about, and trying to find out what the other guy had to say. Right. I think that's the important thing is to put themselves into the other person's, well, listening of the person's shoes and getting benefit from that. I think too often leaders, when I was a leader, would talk a point or they would ask a question with already thinking what the response is going to be without listening. And so it was a valuable tool for listening, which I think is important. And the other thing, I think, is because you had this polyglot group, you had people from the community, so effectively you were connecting the university and the community, which is always so important everywhere, but especially here. I think. Yeah. So it's really had a profound effect on those people over the years. I hope so. We've had 400 people plus attending, so that's good, including yourself as a graduate. I thought it was wonderful and nutritious. So the December 1st program about the polarization of the community and all that, it's the same idea. It carries forward or at least runs parallel to what you're doing at Manoa Forum. I mean, it's an outreach. It's trying to get thought leaders together and it's trying to figure out why we are so polarized that we can't make decisions and actually make some of these philosophical decisions out of common ground. I think it's particularly appropriate at this time with our political world situation. So you were ahead of your time in a way by setting this up for an opening. Well, let's talk about your book because I think your book is probably the centerpiece of so much that we could talk about it. You decided at some point to write a book about yourself, about your life, about your family, your studies, your community activities, your practice of law, all of this rolled into the book and you were nice enough to give me a copy and I looked at it and you brought a copy with you now. It's not bound in a standard bound book form, but it is a beautiful book. Can you talk about why you wrote this book about your life? Well, thank you for reading it. It really strutted out from a family situation. And the Chars would have Memorial Day practices like honoring my grandparents, going up to the cemetery and having sacrificial food and so forth. And from that it evolved to getting together with my siblings because I'm one of six, two living away and then all of the nieces and nephews, many of whom are in the mainland, getting together once a year and then talking about my parents. So from that, what evolved was that we would have each of the siblings be this speaker for that one, that annual gathering. It sounds a lot like the Noah forum, doesn't it? But I think I've got some of the ideas from that. So that's what we did. And so finally after six annual sessions, this year was my turn to do the presentation for the siblings, nieces and nephews. And so in preparation of that, I began jotting notes and then that became longer and longer. You wanted to make comments at the meeting of the family and you got started already on the book. Right, right. So the book was really generated for my presentation to the family gathering, which we had in August. Well, I got to say that the book is readable. The book is written in such fine language, really, Vernon. I mean, your training and your experience as a lawyer, I mean, it came to me early in my life that if you could write well, you could do well. Writing, speaking, it's all part of the human experience and it elevates you to do that. And it advances you to do that. And this book is so well written. It's poetry. That's what it is. Thank you. I thank you for that comment. I'm not sure how good the prose is. But I think unlike most of the other autobiographies I've seen, what I wanted to put in here, because this is basically written for my family and my children, is what motivated me, what caused me to do these things. It's not just name rank and serial number or achieve this or acquire that. But how did I build into that? And that was important to me. For instance, as a child, reading my third grade report card where I was viewed as being very catapulted and immature and lack skills. And how that kind of was a spur to do better academically, for instance, over the years. Well, I agree. And we get to meet Vernon at a very early age. The other thing about this book is that it's really quite modest. There's never anything but full modesty in this book. And I really appreciated that. And it's you. Sorry, it's you. You shouldn't be modest, but you are modest. The book didn't have to be modest, but it is modest. It's a statement of modesty from stem to stern. Oh, well, thank you. Thank you. That's all I can say. I mean, I feel very humble by having the opportunity to have all these experiences in writing them. But in doing that, I wanted to show that everybody, I remember reading a book from Charlie Kwok. And he said that he was a person of average intelligence and mediocre skills. And I thought, that really fits me because I am there. And even with that being average, I can achieve. And so it's a lesson, I think, for everybody, especially my children, to be able to do the same. You're giving them lessons. This is the book that gives them lessons. Well, I want to talk about some of those lessons when we come back from this break. This is Vernon Sharpe, a lawyer 50 years before the bar, triple entendre. We'll be right back and we'll discuss what's in the book. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Aloha. I'm Vic Kraft, the volunteer host of It Never Got Quiet. Think Tech is important to me because we can bring the issue of Hawaiian veterans of the Vietnam War to the community and tell their story. For the first time, Think Tech Hawaii is participating in an online web-based fundraising campaign to raise $40,000. Give thanks to Think Tech will run only during the month of November, and you can help. Please donate what you can so that Think Tech Hawaii continue to raise public awareness and promote civic engagement through free programming like mine. I've already made my donation and look forward to yours. Please send in your tax-deductible contribution by going to this website, www.thanksforthingtech.causebox.com. On behalf of the community enriched by Think Tech Hawaii's 30-plus weekly shows, Mahalo. Okay, we're back. We're live at Vernon Sharpe. He's the senior partner of Shar Sakamoto, and he's our guest today on Life in the Law, which is a study of lawyers in their careers and the Bar Association in general. So we're honored to have him here with us. And so we're talking about the book. Is there a title on the book Vernon? You know, my son had written down Vernon Char's Reflections at the Char Family Reunion 2017. I think of it more as introspection though, and I look at it also as an ability for passage of time stages, you know, sort of my version of Gail Sheehy's book, Passages. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we spoke before, you talked about how it was a tonic experience to write the book. And as it would be for really anybody who wanted to put the time in to do this, if you write about yourself, you make an autobiographical statement, you think about yourself, and it gives you a new view, an introspective view of your own life. Well, it also gives you an opportunity to brag a little bit too, but try to do it in as modest a way as possible. Yes, it was modest. So all of that. One important factor that, you know, it all began with, because it was a family gathering, was the family history. And, you know, what is amazing to me is that here I live now, 82. But even after visiting the family village, which was very modest, thinking that my father came over in 1898, he was born in 1893, the same year as Mao Zedong. And he almost didn't make it because, as I recall, his ship landed just before annexation. So through that whole period of overthrow of the monarchy, the fictional government, and then the annexation, if he didn't come when he did, they might well have been problems because the exclusion act of 1882 would have come into effect. And who knows whether I wouldn't have been on the Long March in China or my father, or here having the luxury of whey. Well, but through him and through your family, big family, you have been part of and studied the whole Chinese experience in Hawaii, including some really remarkable things that happened with respect to the relationship of the Chinese community here and the Chinese community in China. Right, right. That's been fun to do to examine some of my father's writing, you know, starting out at a law firm as a law clerk, or messenger really for $75 an hour back in the early 1900s. Not an hour. An hour would be good today. Right, a month. A month, yes. Okay, it was straight now. Right. And then, you know, just working very hard to support his eight brothers and sisters to the point where he was able, with his parents, to afford them an opportunity to go back to China to study or the mainland, you know, my uncle was, I think, the first CPA here of Chinese ancestry. But, you know, it was that strive, much as I think you see in many of the immigrant groups here, that has been a spur. Yeah.  And that's the subject of a whole other show, I think. But it's certainly a different Chinese community now. It's obviously one of the most important communities in the state. It has done well. What are the Chinese characteristics that have made this possible for your family, for the Chinese community? I think probably at the time that they came over, the fact that they had nothing and they had to strive to survive. So it was humility, hard work, perseverance, even with a lack of assets or education. They were hard worker. And that, I think, was a legacy that my father passed on to me and my brothers and sisters. Hopefully, we've passed it on to our kids, unlikely that we've passed it on to our grandchildren, because it's just so different now. It's a fragmented, yeah. Yeah. But I think we had the adversity, which was a real advantage. Adversity is an advantage. Yeah. Much as you have in other cultures, the Japanese after the war, the Jewish community, I think are good examples of that hard work, that hunger factor, that humility that's remained in the culture that many other cultures haven't had that advantage or haven't dwelt on it. Yeah. We have to appreciate it. It'd be nice to hold on to it, but at least we have to appreciate it. Be grateful for it. Be grateful for it. Yeah. So through this, you managed to complete UH and then to go to Harvard Law School. Right. How important was Harvard Law School in your professional career? It would be important in most people. I'm looking back at it, and I'm chagrin to say, when I looked at my report cards, because I found them, I've done very well at the University of Hawaii. I was big man on campus, senior activity award and president fraternity interclub console and so forth. Went to Harvard and it was a total shock. That was the first time I'd left the islands at age 22. For one thing, I remember being there, not having the proper attire, and then finding a friend who was also from Hawaii, taking me shopping.  I had one suit that my sister bought me for graduation, but you had to have buttoned on Oxford wreath shirts, fuller ties. Going to law school, you had a coat and tie to wear every day, but that was a shock. The other cultural things is that everybody was holy. I didn't know a Mexican from an Irish, from a Jewish person. You were either black or Asian, and all of that in our class of about 525. We had five Asians, four of whom came from Hawaii, one black, 12 women, one of whom is Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You were a pioneer. There are no other Asians today. But the other 500 were holy guys, and it wasn't until I was through law school that I could learn the difference between the Jews from New York or the California guy or the Ivy League prep schoolers from New York or so forth. That was, I think, an important education for me, which I think some of the kids that go to law school and never leave town do not have the advantage of. It makes you worldly. Yeah. Well, so you came back and you got involved. We were running a little out of time here. Came back and got involved in the practice, in government, and in community, and in intellectual pursuits as well.  And I just wanted to ask you, it's really important to know the lesson about what a successful lawyer should be focusing on in order to achieve that kind of rounded community involvement. How important is that for a practicing lawyer? Somebody who enters, for example, the bar today, what should he be focusing on in terms of helping himself financially, helping the community and helping sort of the larger fabric of the state and the country? You know, looking at it, and I have three kids that went to law school, none of them practicing here, but my advice to them is they, they shouldn't only be, they need to work hard. They need to have a hunger factor. They need to do the best that they can for the client. But that's only part of it. I think other responsibilities they have is they've got to work in the profession. They've got to get involved in bar association matters. And then they need to get involved with the public because they need to service the public. I've had the advantages of that, but I would suggest to any of the new lawyers that they need to get a well roundedness in order to be a good lawyer. Yeah. What did Jim Duffy called it one time? He called it something about you have the ministers and they heal the soul. You have the doctors and they heal the body and you have the lawyers and they, they heal the disputes and the controversies, I suppose. Hopefully. But it's, you know, clearly from your career, it's more than just putting your nose on the practice and grinding the practice and doing the cases. It's a matter of getting out and being part of a whole backbone of stability of an organization, which is the center of the stability of the community. And that's, that's really important. Thank you. I think you take the attributes of hard work, the hunger factor, you know, honesty and, and so forth.  And I think you're, or eating the profession, you need to do all that. The other half of it is really important in looking back now is having fun, which I began doing when I ran my first marathon at age 50, 48. Oh, I remember you were running all the time. Yeah. But learning that. And then the spiritual aspects of it. That and then family is very important. I have a great wife who has supported me all the way through this and a great family who, you know, support me now. It's sort of real reversal. When I go traveling, what's, and they, they look out after their old man. Yeah, it's well in the book, I tell you. But let me ask you one final question, Bergen. All of that considered all of the really interesting and constructive and, you know, contributory things you've done through your professional life. And in family, in the community, in the practice, and in government, if you could change something, what would you change? I would like to see people talking and listening to each other and trying to get other points of view rather than in our current bipolar situation, both in the practice of law and in the community. If people would just listen to each other, step in the other person's shoes, I think that would go a long way. How about you? What would you change in your own life? Probably, I'm very satisfied. Right now, what I'm learning to do is to back off. I'm enjoying being a follower rather than a leader. It's time to sort of let go. And, you know, I've had my time. I've had my turn. And, you know, my objective now is just to enjoy, sit back and do other pursuits, things that I, be a good student. You know, there's a lot of things I want to learn yet. You know, it's kindness what you're talking about. And I suggest you've been kind all the way through. Well, thank you, Vernon. Thank you. So nice to know you. Aloha. Thank you.


Next question is from Zach Toos. What program would you recommend for someone who wants to maximize benefits while losing weight? I don't want to lift just to maintain muscle. I want to improve other things at the same time. I'd imagine something like map performance would be good because it would help maintain muscle while also improving other athletic factors that won't be minimized during weight loss. Yeah, if I had to recommend one program for someone to do forever, that will give them the best of all worlds, right? You're going to get muscle strength. You're going to get some stamina, some endurance. You're going to get mobility. You're going to reduce your risk of injury. You're going to feel really good and only could do one of our programs. It would be mass performance. It really would because it takes all those things into account. Now, here's the wonderful thing about taking all those things into account. Long term, the side effect of that is you look the best. It might not be a bodybuilding program like maps aesthetic, but in the long term, because of the improvements in mobility, fitness, and functional strength and movement, you're going to just look better long term. You're just going to overall be much healthier. This is something that I think is important that people consider, especially aesthetically driven people. If your goal is just to look good, and that's one of your favorite aspects of fitness, and you plan on working out forever like you should, then you need to consider your mobility and your functional movement. You need to consider those things because if you start to lose mobility, if your functional movement starts to decline, which it will, if you don't consider them in your training, those will start to decline. You'll start to lose the benefits of your favorite exercises. You'll start to lose the benefits of a squat. You'll start to lose the benefits of a deadlift. And what will end up happening, which I've seen many, many times in people who've been lifting for 10 plus years, is that they end up removing exercises from their repertoire. I used to be able to front squat. Now I don't anymore because it hurts this. Oh yeah, I used to bench press. Now I can't anymore. And you start taking away some of the best exercises all because you never considered mobility. It's like that repetitive stress. At a certain point, you keep doing the same thing over and over again in the same plane. Your body is going to start to respond to that negatively. And I do agree with this program being one of those that addresses all the abilities of the human body and really takes into account joint function, joint health, movement in general. And so all those things, if you're just focusing on that, your musculature will benefit as a result of that. And again, your physique will be desirable, but also it's more long term. So it's more about quality. Quality of how I feel and how I can do things and still have abilities versus just, I can be really strong or I can be really buff, which are very important things as well. But this is not one of those, it's very direct in terms of those attributes. We're all going to say the same thing. I mean, Mav's performance is the program that I find myself going back to as far as the elements in it. So unilateral training in there, anti-rotational stuff in there, mobility work. When I think of how I lift today, where it's just more focused on general health, strength, good mobility, these are the things that I want long term. Yeah, this is the single program that I think that somebody could probably run the rest of their life and be completely fine. You're going to build a great physique from it.  It's even got an endurance component in there. So you got some cardiovascular like out of it. So this program for sure is that program, although I think all of them are written in a way that you could follow them for long term and be totally fine because we cycle and phase everything. This one I think addresses a lot of stuff that I remember having to address with all my clients.


we go into austere locations, whether that's in a combat zone or even in a humanitarian think hurricane relief and earthquake and stuff like that. And so we will go in, whether that's jump in or drive in or fast rope from a helicopter or anything like that, set up airfields or set up drop zones so that resupplies can get in or so that we can land planes, get people out, like we can do rearming and refueling of the aircraft by landing them certain places using other aircraft to fuel those planes and rearm those planes and then get them where they need to go. So that's one aspect of it.


Hello, everyone. My name is Geddes, and it's both an honor and a pleasure to be here today. Thank you very much for having me. And so today I want to talk about open sourcing mentorship. And as a heads up, there will be a time for Q&A at the end of the session, and otherwise after that too, there's also some time in Slack as well. So once again, thank you all for having me. So let's talk about what if. What if there was a resource, a resource for mentors, mentees, and those looking to get started? A resource that provided strategies, advice, content, community support for all things related to mentorship. So this is the resource that I wish existed back in the day. Back when I was just starting my coding journey and I was asking myself, where do I find a mentor? What do we talk about? How do I approach one? And now fast forward to many years later, and now that I'm a quote unquote mentor, there were these new questions like, how do I effectively help, share, and pay it forward? So this is a story of why mentorship is important, the obstacles associated with it, and how my experience has led to this idea of open sourcing mentorship so that we all together can grow it as a community and make mentorship accessible to all. And so as a disclaimer, I am by no means an expert in mentorship. I'm just someone who frankly is thankful for it and believes in the power of it. And I think that's what's great because in order to open source mentorship, we don't need to be experts. We can just contribute our ideas, our thoughts, our questions, feedback, and more. So let's start off by thinking about what is mentorship? And you see, this is such a tricky question because mentorship means different things to people. To some, it's a formal endeavor, to others, it's informal. It can happen in a workplace or it can happen anywhere. Some prefer an agenda, others prefer this more spur-the-moment activity. For some folks, mentorship is this ongoing weekly conversation, while others view it as just like a one-time, 10-minute conversation. Some make the distinction between sponsorship while others view it as one and the same. So in summary, mentorship means different things to people. While this obstacle is that there's no universal one-size-fits-all approach, it also means that there's an opportunity so that we all collectively can contribute, again, our ideas, experiences, thoughts, and more. So when we talk about open source, what do we mean by that? And so by open source, you really mean to be guided by these principles. And the following principles are accredited and found on opensource.com, the open source way. And so thank you to the folks who are out there. And so it's these principles that guide this creation and the connection of the things of mentorship. So for example, transparency, collaboration, to release early and often, this inclusive meritocracy is that mentorship, it's fascinating because it's both universal but also personal. And so universal meaning it's something that we can all experience, positively experience. But it's also personal because how we experience it can depend based on our cultural country, where we find ourselves based on the context, mood, situation, and more. But despite that open-sourcing mentorship is how do we make it so that it's global, it's inclusive, it represents all the different things that we are different, but yet unites us on how we are the same, again guided by these open source principles and technologies. And lo and behold here is that mentorship has this ripple effect. When you help others, it helps you, it helps the community at large. And it's definitely great when we can see these positive ripple effects immediately. But sometimes it can take days, weeks, months, maybe even years before we see the positive change that we had. But we just have to trust that we can make this lasting change. And again, it's a resounding message that when you help others, you help yourself. So let's move on to something else. And it's an important thing, meaning mentorship is still not accessible to all. Despite the benefits, despite the progress made, mentorship is still not accessible to all. So looking at this doodle here that I drew, we have a group of folks, they're surrounded by this yellow-orange vibrancy, they're helping each other, they're guiding each other, they're going onward and upward together. But then there's an individual here and they're a little clouded with uncertainty and confusion. They know of mentorship and they believe in the power of it, but they don't know how to tap into it or access it. And at the same time, the folks in the yellow-orange vibrancy here, they may actually want to help, but they don't know how. So I myself have been in both these situations where I'm outside looking in and where I'm inside thinking, how can I get more people inside this mentoring community? And I want to repeat that one more time is that mentorship is still not accessible to all or it's not just one individual, but there's a plethora of individuals who are wondering like, how do we access that, how can I find a mentor, how do I mentee someone? So how do we bridge these two worlds? We can think about it as, if there were one phrase to unite, it's just about just sharing what you can, when you can, and how you can. Share whatever knowledge you have, experiences you have, whenever you can. Sometimes you may be busy, sometimes you may have more time, sometimes it's minutes, sometimes it's hours, whenever you can. And how you can. Some prefer one-on-one conversations, others prefer writing a blog post, making a video, however you can. And the idea is that you may actually be mentoring already without knowing it because it means different things to people and that's powerful.  It's too late to mentor. But there may be folks who are not mentoring already and you may, and they can in fact are good mentors or there may be folks who think they wouldn't be good mentors when you can. So open sourcing mentorship is about first connecting ideas, connecting these resources and building a community. There's a lot of good existing work out there, but they're spread out or isolated or they're difficult to find. They may be constantly changing and or they may just be in certain pockets of the community that people are not aware about. So first, it's not about reinventing the wheel, it's about connecting what's out there and unifying them. And now that they're connected is how do we grow this diverse, inclusive and welcoming community behind it so that there is a community, a supportive community for both mentors and mentees and those looking to get started. And now that we have, we've connected what's, what exists, now we get insight on what is missing, meaning we may reveal that there's these gaps that technology open source in particular can help fill. And by being guided by these open source principles, we may find that we need to create certain tooling or services, APIs or other kinds of programs and more. But the fun is that we do it together by the community for the community to benefit everyone and to make mentorship more accessible to all. So now that I've kind of like laid the stage and talked about just the different obstacles of mentorship and just the essence of it, now I want to share really what brought me to this idea of it. Why have I become so involved and so passionate about this idea? And frankly is rewind a few years and at the start of my coding journey, I had these high hopes. You know, there was a bright blue sky with the sunshine shining on me and like, oh, this is going to be great. I'm going to learning. I'm going to do good with the world and create and build magnificent things. But as I started going through this journey, I started questioning myself, like, am I good enough? And you know, I saw myself compared to peers, to colleagues, to, and more of that they just seem so much more knowledgeable and insightful. And yet here I was being separated by this, this, this crevice, this chasm of, of questions like how do I get from where I am to there? And then I started thinking, am I passionate enough? Meaning I was, I really admired and respected individuals, friends who could just, just seem so involved in something grossed with their, with their computer and their terminal and they were just like coding away.  What do we create? What kind of world could we help build together? But I thought like, but aren't technologies only supposed to be creating like gadgets and that kind of thing? So I had a misconception there, but I was questioning like, am I passionate enough? And then I thought, well, okay, maybe I'm sort of getting good enough. I sort of like it. I sort of like technology, but do I even belong here? And here I am as this like purple square thinking, I don't feel like I belong. I feel like I'm out of shape because of based on what I was feeling, what I was thinking. Not to say the community seemed very welcoming, but I just didn't know or think like, how am I going to fit in? And so this, these bright blue skies started, it got a little cloudy, not to say there's anything wrong with cloudy. Cloudy is great. But I started thinking, I dropped my backpack of knowledge and I said, you know what? I'm actually just going to stop all together. I don't think I really should be an engineer. I shouldn't be a technologist. But yet I'm here and I'm here thanks to community. I'm here thanks to different people at different stages in my life who helped provide a little bit of guidance or a lot of guidance or helped provide a question that helped create a new insight for information. I'm here thanks to community in so many different ways. And that's why I'm here today. And so in my day to day, I'm both a mentor and a mentee. It's like a flip flop. One day I'm here, one day the next, one hour switches and the other week it's not. And so it's this constant ability of learning and growing and more.  At first I thought to myself, I don't have the time. I'm not part of a formal program. I'm not an expert. Those are big shoes to fill. What if I give the wrong advice? What if I give too much advice? In fact, I'm good. Why do I why do I even need to pay it forward? Why can I just not focus on myself? So at first I really didn't want to be a mentor thought I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm good. But I realized I'm here thanks to community. It's the least I could do to keep paying it forward so that the community abroad and at large just could be more, more colorful and just more innovative and inclusive and welcoming. And do these conversations realize that there were these frequently asked questions for mentors. So for example, like, why should I mentor? Why do others mentor, you know, everyone's busy and they have things to do. Why do people keep mentoring? Or maybe there was this question, like, am I mentoring already? Or if I'm not, how do I become one? Then it was like, well, I think I want to mentor, but how do I do it? So what's my mentorship style? And or it could just be, where do I even and when do I even mentor? Then it's like, how do I grow as a mentor? And there was a bunch more questions. And so now there were also these frequently asked questions for mentees, meaning where do I find mentors? What do I ask? What do we talk about? How do I grow as a mentee? And more and more questions. And so that brings us to this open source project called mentorship.guide. So that's the link. That's the URL, mentorship.guide. It's right now, it's a seed with a much potential of different ideas that folks have been starting to build, but it definitely needs more water and more encouraging, more ideas from the community so that we can all grow it together. And so now I want to give a glimpse of both mentorship.guide, the open source project, and also how the ideas of it retroactively helped me when I was during the stage of like, do I belong? Am I good enough? Am I passionate enough? So when you come across the site, you will find essentially like three paths. And there's these three paths where like, I'm a mentor, I'm a mentee, or I want to contribute. And each page has a section at the bottom where you can contribute questions, ideas, content, in fact, frequently asked questions and more. And when you, for example, so here we have I'm a mentor, and now we move to, here's a glimpse of the section meaning like, what's my mentorship style, meaning there's different ways that mentorship manifests itself. Because usually, despite it being very unique and personal, there's still these like certain themes and patterns that we can find across different mentoring experiences. And now here's a subset of them, and there's definitely more.  Therefore, contribute that and see like, oh wow, we didn't even think about this mentorship style. So here we have an educator. And an educator is really someone who likes to teach and inform and share concepts to help explain and clarify material. And when we think about it, when I was thinking like, oh man, am I good enough? The same people I was comparing myself with and didn't know I could reach were the same people who were actually helping me and teach, and they were educating and helping like build these concepts. So they helped bridge this, these questions and chasm. So I'm like, oh wait, I can, I am good enough, and I can keep learning and I can keep growing. So that was an educator type of mentoring that was for my peers. And now we have maybe some, maybe more like an encourager listener. And here instead of teaching, what one is doing is really just providing encouragement, reminding folks of like, you can do this, you got this.  And going back to this idea when I thought like, am I passionate enough? I had certain folks who made me realize like, hey, Gettys, yes, you may not be the one that creates the next iPhone 1000 or a new kind of Wi-Fi standard, but you may be one of the ones who combines technology with community and other areas. And before I knew it, I realized there were other folks and individuals who had the same aspiration like someone to take technology and combine it with music, with the arts, with the sciences, with humanities and more. And so I realized we all enjoy technology and believe in the power of it and we can make it personal based on all our other interests and passions and more. So I realized actually, I am passionate enough. And I was thanks to these like mentors who were encouraging and listening. And now we have other mentorship style defined as more of a finder or a connector. Here again, you're not necessarily educating or not necessarily encouraging, which is great too. You're more like, I don't have the answer myself, but let's find it together. Let's try to solve this together. Let me search around and you search around and let's compare and contrast. Or it's more of a connector, meaning I know what you're looking for. Let me connect it with someone else. Or here's a resource or here's a book or here's a video and so you can be a finder or connector. And so going back to do I belong and am I out of shape? Or individuals who said, get this, bring yourself to this community and make that much more eclectic.  And that was cool. Like I was realizing, wow, this community is so, so, so colorful. And I wanted to be a part of it and I realized actually I do belong here. And again, so there's different mentorship styles. You can learn more at mentorship.guide. But just to give you another snippet on the site itself, you're finding different forms of mentorship, meaning it's so funny how you can decompose and remix and view mentorship from different perspectives because there's like different, there's different structures. Some prefer informal, some prefer more formal. What types of questions do you like? Do you like broad questions? Do you like specific questions? What type of responses do you like to give? Do you like to give more targeted pointing questions or do you like to give a question in return? It depends on how often you like to have it, how engaged you want to be. Who wants to take the lead? Is it you or is it going to be the mentee? Overall, what's great is there's different mentorship styles, there's different forms of mentorship for you. And if there isn't, share that because other people may also find that, may connect with that. And at the same time, we'll find more of this larger all table of contents where people share, why am I mentoring? Or kind of by mentoring programs like connect bridge, all these different things. And so please keep contributing more content just so we can make it all accessible to people. So if we were to really think about mentorship, it's just share what you can, when you can and how you can. It has this profound ripple effect that affects people in so many different ways. I definitely wouldn't be here without community and I spoke into others who feel the same way. Sometimes it's a small ripple, sometimes it's a large ripple, but it has this lasting change because now you've impacted the generation and sometimes it may be a 10 minute conversation and you may never hear from them again. But trust me, that could have had a lot of big impact or you may have this like ongoing, ongoing conversations and you constantly hear from them. So mentorship has this big ripple effect. And the call to action here is really contribute questions, ideas, feedback, what can be improved, what should be reinforced on the site, you'll find again the code of conduct, the contributing guide, existing content, each page has a page where you can contribute more content and questions. But really, so one, yes, contribute at the mentorship guide, reach out to me. But really, if there's another one thing you can really do is just take the time to think of someone who helped you in some way. And send them a message, give them a call, a text, like email, anything, doesn't have to be long, just something that says, hey, you know, thank you for that one time dot, dot, dot. I really appreciated that and it really helped me in some way. And one, because of gratitude, but also to just reinforce the idea that we're all rippling with each other and we can have this positive, beneficial effect that just extends for years to come. So once again, thank you very much. It's both a pleasure and it was an honor to reach out. This is just the starting of a conversation. Definitely hope to continue. Have more conversations. We'll meet online and talk online and continue this more. So I'm not going to open up to Q&A, which we're going to do through the chat window. And at the same time, we'll overflow it to Slack if there's more questions there. So thank you all very much. And again, share what you can, when you can, how you can. Thank you. Hello there again. So I'm starting to type into this chat window that happens in technical difficulties there. So instead, I'm going to verbally answer some of these and then encourage everyone to check out the guide and also connect with me so we can continue this conversation both on Slack and et cetera. So one question was, where are good places to advertise for either mentors or mentees and various topics? That's a great question.  There's one called codingcoach.io. There's definitely with Linux Foundation's community bridge program, but really this actually hits the heart of it. There isn't a centralized place, at least that I know of yet, and perhaps we can make mentorship.guide become that place. So but definitely please, let's continue that because I think it's such a fascinating question because even I myself, I'm struggling like where do we go? And so that means like there's a gap there that we can help solve. So good question. Similarly, do we have a directory of mentors and subjects? There is a for mentors, the ones that again, I know of codingcoach.io, the Linux Foundation community bridge. And then there's a whole bunch of different sites throughout, like depending on what you're interested in, like Node, for example, there's a community mentorship community behind that and more. But again, I think this is a great area where we can start collating and collecting these together. Let's see, what's another one here? The overall, I think I have about one more minute. Maybe not. Yes, I do. Maybe one more minute. Yes. So we're almost done. Thank you all, everyone for these great questions. There's definitely some I missed right now, but we're going to continue them in Slack channel and please reach out just so we can continue this. It's great to be to talk about these things, to talk about how can we do it? How can we, how can we just make the world a better place through mentorship? Once again, thank you very much. So it's so endeared to be speaking here today. Catch you in a bit.


Hey everyone and welcome back to the Broogly Channel. I'm your host as always, Broogly, and in this video I'm going to be talking about Backroom's level 44, aka the Coroding Retail Outlet. Now this level is connected to reality in some very strange ways, so if you want to figure out how, well I'm about to talk about it. Thanks for watching and let's hop right into the video. Also, a huge announcement. I am starting a third channel called Spoogely where I'm going to be doing SCP readings, cryptid encounters, and disappearances from national parks. Those videos will be long-formatted, they'll be chill and laid back. The link will be down below. I'm uploading the first SCP reading at 1,000 subscribers, so I'm super excited for the content that's going to be going up or there. It's going to be awesome. Hope you're hype, hope you're ready, and let's get into this video. Backroom's level 44 is classified as a class 3 difficulty and is unsafe with a pretty low entity count, and the entities are not the dangerous part of the level. The level is thought to quote, be intrinsically connected with the front rooms, or with real life. It looks like a completely bare and empty mall outlet that's kind of run down, but it also kind of looks like a big office space. Only half the lights work, but the half that does work doesn't make that loud buzzing that most of the backroom's levels make, especially level 0. Now the lights do buzz a little bit, but not nearly as loud as the other lights, which is important because that buzz is a huge part of the backrooms, and for this level not to have it, it's worth documenting. There are window entities in the darker sections of the levels, but so far nothing bad has happened near them, nothing too bad at least, so they're considered pretty safe. Now all of the active window entities here show moving pictures of real life behind them, so if you look out of them, you'll see kind of like a slideshow of real life, and that's why this level is connected to reality. There's actually a theory that the windows themselves are some kind of gateway back to the world, but no tests have been done to show it, and I'm not trying to jump through a window just because I see the real world. If I've learned one thing, it's to not trust the backrooms. This entire level has been classified as non-Euclidean, meaning that traveling and mapping out and just looking at the level is pretty much impossible, since the layouts are always changing, and if you walk in one direction, you'll end up in a completely different direction than the way you walked. And on this level specifically, the glitchy non-Euclidean effects get worse the further you get from the level entrance, so where you spawn in on the level won't be too bad, but the further you wander out, the worse this effect will get, so you might not be able to find your way back, just watch out. Like I said earlier, this level is completely empty and barren, there's literally nothing here, and that's still true, except there is a weird fluid that's made up of unknown atomic compounds.  It's a thick black liquid, it's very viscous and acidic, and it has the ability to corrode cardboard and wood quickly. And in some cases, it's actually been seen dissolving the walls and ceilings of this level. Yeah, that's pretty weird, I gotta be honest. So it goes without saying that you should avoid it at all costs. Now as far as creatures go on the level, it's actually pretty decently rare to see a creature, but when there is one, it's most likely gonna be a Wrangler. Now Wranglers are these huge things with a bunch of arms that burrow down into the ground and stalk their prey. I've done a full short on them, so I'll link that below. But in the darker parts of the hallways or rooms, there can actually be any entity from the back rooms, it's just that the Wrangler is the most common. Now those window entities that I talked about earlier also have a really, really strange effect, because recently there's been multiple witnesses saying that they saw a silhouette figure behind the window pane. It's only showed up when the situation that the wanderer was in was really anxious or tense, and when you look at it, you get really weird feelings of liminality and anxiety. Nobody really knows what this silhouette is or why it's here, but it's thought that it could represent a person's fear about not being in reality. Either way, it's really creepy to just have a random shadow behind a window in the back rooms. I mean, that's creepy. And the entity has sometimes shown that it can talk with a wanderer through short, repeated phrases like, he is destroying my home, he is going to bring doom to us all, only when you escape can you find him, reality will shatter along with my home, this place has lost its safety, you must stop him before he takes over. So I mean, that's pretty terrifying to listen to. It's also really vague and no one really knows what it means. And also, the context of those phrases doesn't make any sense, because there's nothing actually too dangerous about this current level that we can see. I don't know, maybe the shadow can see something we can't, maybe it's trying to warn you of something. Not sure, man. There's only one outpost here from Meg and they try to study that thick corrosive liquid from earlier and around 20 people live in this outpost. And to enter the level, you can walk through a randomly appearing metal door on level zero and to exit, you can go back through a similar metal door, which will lead you this time to level nine or 11. Good stuff. So yeah, that was back from level 44. Only six more to go to round out the Brugley summer spectacular, where I went over levels 13 through 50. It's really been a blast so far and I'm so, so appreciative of you all supporting it and joining it, leaving likes and comments and just thank you for everything. The channel is literally just booming and I'm so thankful for you all. Thank you so much for listening to watching. You guys are the best fans and I just really appreciate you. Make sure to check the links below for Tugli and the new channel Spugli, which like I said earlier at the top of the video, I'm going to be dropping the first video over there at 1k subs. It's going to be SCP readings, cryptid encounter readings and just strange national park disappearances. It won't be true crime or anything like that because that's not my cup of tea, but it will be just weird disappearances that involve cryptids or aliens and that kind of stuff. I love that stuff and it's just going to blend together perfectly with the SCP stuff. So the video type is going to be really chill. It'll be my face mainly with just slight editing. So if you want to just kick on a video in the background, those kind of videos will be the perfect thing for you. I think you're going to love it. Anyways, thank you all so much. Like I said, stay tuned for more. I have so much planned for this channel, all my channels. I hope you're hype and I will see you later. Peace.


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Today's a quarterly load competition where all the AMUs select their top load crews to compete against each other. The competition is important to allow us to all come together, compete against one another and just show who's the best of the best. Throughout the beginning of the quarter you have to go to load barn and get expected each month. And for us we've won hotspot of the month two out of the three times we've loaded. So the AMU selected us to compete for the quarter. Preparation is they're studying for the test, we do a written test. Getting our toolbox squared away, inspecting it, making sure there's no write ups. And then me and my crew we practiced going through the load in our head, making sure we had our routine and rhythm down. We've got all different weapons platforms out here from the 810s to the 16s, 15s and then all the 5th gen stuff. Total force, we've also got active duty out here, active reserve technicians for my two guys. And I think probably the first time ever an Air Force civilian. The part is just the load, being able to show off my skills. I love competing and I hope for the win.


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Good afternoon everyone. So I'm giving another talk for the benefit of the hackathon and again for something that we can maybe point to in the future if required. This particular talk is going to be about the DSL to pipeline structure so this has come up quite a bit on slack and I assume it will probably come up during the hackathon for people that want to convert their own pipelines and and also you know others that may not know exactly why we have certain files in in them in the latest DSL to pipeline template. So, no the pipeline template essentially all it is. It's on hosted enough for tools, and we have a pipeline template directory and in that we have all the boilerplate files that are created when you run NF core. Create you create a vanilla version of a pipeline where all the pipeline names and other information like authors and other stuff gets put in exactly the right places it needs to be to create a pipeline for you so as you can see there's this sort of ginger variables here that that need to be replaced once you run NF core create so this is what the structure of the pipeline looks like and this is what we continually update. In order to evolve the way that we're dealing with DSL to fixing bugs in documentation adding documentation, changing the way generically that we're doing stuff. And so this this template is always involving. And when we do a release of NF core tools, every pipeline the great thing about this every pipeline will get a sync PR, asking to update to the latest template and so that's the way that the pipelines keep up to date. And so the latest iteration of our DSL to implementation would be would have been basically created using a very very similar template and is most likely to be found in the RNA seek pipeline. So this has now turned out into probably the most up to date DSL to implementation that we've got in terms of real pipelines. And so, if I quickly take you through what all of these files are hopefully it makes sense so worth noting is that a lot of these files are actually the same as with the DSL to version of the pipeline template. But there's there's a little bit of restructuring that we've put in and also siloing some some some of the boilerplate code into this live directory, which is automatically imported by an extra runtime so these functions are found by next run time and they're written in groovy, which is obviously what makes those built on top of so if we look at this in VS code so if we just go to seek an open code up there. I want to see my explorer, and so that will give us the same view that we've got on GitHub essentially because it's the local clone of the repository. Just remove all of the additional files are used for testing. And so what we have here are your standard files so you've got the read me file which is just bog standard read me stuff. Again, this a lot of this is great on the template with logo and badges and stuff. You've got an extra config so this params and test actually are something that I've added here so ignore those for now. And the custom config one. So that you've got your next low config which is a standard next low config file where you initialize all the parameters and so on. So you include any other config so this base config for example contains default resource requirements that is in this conf folder here. And so we're just including that in an extra config as well as this modules config, which has become quite an important configuration file for anything DSL to. And so at the moment it just contains a bunch of options that you would use for each process for, say, changing arguments for a particular tool or changing the publishing option. And so on. And so this allows you to customize the way that you run these modules and this has been around for about a year now. And it's tended to work quite well but there are some downsides with it. So at the moment it's quite simple implementation in that this modules is just an instance of a params and so it's just a map that you can then use to have these options and pass them around from your main workflow to your sub workflow to your modules in order to change these options. So we will be implementing a new DSL to native next flow syntax soon, which will hopefully simplify a lot of these things around and so for the most part you may need to add options here to change the behavior of the way a module is run because the default modules will be quite vanilla in terms of options in order to make them as flexible as possible and so you may need to change certain combined line arguments for your particular use case like star align adding all these options for example or or just publishing these particular files this is completely developer orientated so you can customize this as much as possible. So that's quite a key file for DSL to which wasn't there for DSL to. We also have an extra schema which a lot of you know which again isn't specifically DSL to related it's just a way of having computer readable parameters specified within the pipeline so you only have to specify them once in one place. So this can be rendered in numerous places like usage documentation on the website for launching pipelines to use in on next five tower for launching pipelines. It can be used in a multitude of places which makes it very useful. If you have any parameters you want to add you can use the NFCore schema build command with that will essentially just edit this file and allow you to change fonts and sorry not fonts icons and and descriptions and all sorts of other stuff. We have this modules Jason, which is essentially the way that we essentially we eventually decided to do version control with modules. And this is done by the get SHA so NFCore, the NFCore module suite that we've got built in the NFCore tools package has a bunch of commands that allow you to install remove update modules and we use this modules Jason file as a standard way of of tracking information so for example if you if a new version of BB map BB split has been added to NFCore modules and you want to update and you run NFCore modules update it will change this get hash and then that's the way that we're we're version controlling these module files. Similarly, you can also there are options for you to stick to a particular commit of a module so say for example, the modules been updated NFCore modules but you want to use the older version of that modules because it's using an older version of a tool for example that is compatible with your pipeline. Then you can have options in this NFCore.yaml file that basically mean that you won't be able to update this module beyond this particular commit hash and so you can only have this particular commit hash and of this tool installed in the pipeline. And this is exactly why I actually added it for these RCC tools is because the latest version of RCC is broken for some of these tools and so I don't want to update it and I only want to use this particular so someone goes on NFCore modules and updates it. I want to use the older version so you can restrict that and the NFCore modules commands will find this first see that it can't be updated and it won't update it. So that's this modules Jason it's got a get hash of all of the modules you've installed with NFCore modules. The main script in DSL2 is ridiculously tiny now. It was massive with DSL1. Everything was lumped into here because it was monolithic everything was done in one script. You had all your processes and boilerplate and everything in one in the initial template. But now it's with DSL2 and the fact that we're using this lib approach. Over here we can split out all of that into separate files and so I've got this workflow main file that you'll see here. And so this essentially is for the main workflow which is quite workflow main and so it allows you to silo away code specific to particular workflows as well. Just to organize things a little bit better so anything workflow main related called from this workflow I put in that file for example. And then all you're doing is is calling the individual workflows that you have so this you can have more than one workflow so for example the viral recon pipeline has a workflow for Lumina and Nanopore. And in that case you would have some logic here that that basically just calls either of those based on some sort of user specified parameters so for example, the main script there. You're saying if you've said by a param that you want to use Illumina then you execute the Illumina platform and Illumina workflow, otherwise use the Nanopore and so on. So that's the main script is it's much simpler now. A lot of the boilerplate code is in these lib directories we've got a license which is MIT very permissive do as you like pretty much, which is awesome. I kind of expect that for most of the stuff that we do a code of conduct citations which isn't automated be nice to hopefully automate something in the future so you have to manually update this and add the citations as you go along but it's always nice to to site people for their work so I'm great to keep on top of that. A change log again standard standard stuff that Yamlfire just showed you and this allows you to bypass some of the linting errors for example. With the RNA seek pipeline, because it's quite cutting edge we push a lot of changes into that pipeline that aren't necessarily in a stable release of NFC tools yet and as a result of that, we need to put exclusions in here so they don't they don't fail the linting when NFC tools eventually will be released and those those new updates are pushed to the new release of NFC tools then we can remove these, for example, these lines from here and it'll be fine but this just allows you to bypass the linting failures and by specifying which files you'd like to ignore or particular lint tests you'd like to ignore. A standard markdown lint yaml file for markdown linting with some configuration options get ignore files attributes files again quite standard editor configs a lot of these dot files are just config files for the way that we want to to to lint and have particular stylistic, I guess, code within this repository. And then you have these modules sub workflows workflows directly the workflows like I said it's just your main info RNA seek we just have one. So this contains the main implementation of the pipeline. You include modules from from the NF core from this modules directory. And then you can also include things like sub workflows as well, which are a chain of modules, but not quite a workflow so they're just a chain of modules that offers some sort of functionality. So again this is the main implementation of the pipeline. And like I said you've got sub workflows local this is quite commonly asked question why we have local and NF core. So I just went with this convention, because I wanted to separate out any sub workflows that are built entirely from NF core modules, or sub workflows built from NF core modules so you can you can have both and and an example of that would be. Here so so when you, it's a standard sub workflow that just takes a bam as input and then sorts it index it and sorts it. Sorry, sorts it index it and run some basic stats on it and so what I've done is I've I've got NF core modules that I'm using to do this for sample sort an index standard modules, but I'm also using a separate smaller workflow to do that just generate the, this is also an NF core sub workflow, and hence, everything can then be put in this NF core folder. Hopefully in the near future we will be pushing these all directly to NF core modules or maybe a separate NF core sub workflows repository. But for now that they you have to manually copy them and move them across and install the relevant modules in order to use them so it's a bit painful at the moment. So we're having discussions at the hackathon as to how to how to tackle this and now that we the modules functionality is relatively stable. And so any sub workflows where you know you're using custom modules or local modules, you would put in this local folder because they're quite specific to the pipeline. An example of that would be. Yep, so here I'm using a local version of star align so we can't really push that module for example and so I've moved it to the local folder. Similarly you've got local and NF core modules and of course modules are modules you install directly using the NF core modules install command from NF core tools and it's just ridiculously easy you install it provide a name for module and it will install it in this directly for you. You're using other than that local modules are those which are again specific to the pipeline, or you can't push to NF core modules because they're not generic enough for, or there's another customization that you need to use them. And then we have these lib files so you generally have one per workflow so we've got one for the main, we've got one for the RNA seek for the viral recon we've got separate ones for example for the Illumina and Nanopore. So it's just again modular modularizes things a little bit so again you can see Illumina and Nanopore. This allows you to then if you want to strip out a workflow or rename it or do whatever you want with it. It just allows you to have things a bit more modularized so you can do that and update a workflow or remove it and do what you want. And so that's what these lib files are some of these are standard this is to do with parsing the parameter schema and other schema related stuff. There's a NF core template so it just contains the logo and a bunch of other color codes and stuff like that are utils which is generic utilities for checking condo type stuff and joining module arguments. And then you have, you know, you can customize this however you want for this so this is used for the log information the citation, the help generation by the schema, and so on so this is all fairly standard stuff. You can start adding in your own processes and your own validation in this initialized function if you like for checking, depending on how you're running the pipeline and what the context is whether you have a faster as input when you want to check it exists and so on. You can then have other custom functions in there that you'd like to call in the main script to docs standard documentation, a bunch of config like I said the only different one really is this modules config where you have module specific parameters. And there are ways that you would then do this as some documentation at the top. This will be changing quite a lot. Hopefully in the near future, where we'll be using the with name directive to to specify all of these options rather than having a custom solution, which will be very nice. And then, which contains executable files for our Python or whatever you want. An assets directory that contains standard assets that you know that you would require for the pipeline so logo, multi qt configs, the schema for your input file so in this case this just defines what your input sample sheet should look like so it provides some sort of validation on top of the parameter validation where you're now validating the schema of the input file itself to see where it's got certain columns, and whether they match a particular pattern for example. And your GitHub files finally, where you have a bunch of workflows for running GitHub actions, some some templates that you would use for with that GitHub would use for rendering pull request templates and so on. I guess the most important one is this CI one, which is no different from the DSL one version. It's just you specifying which tests you'd write to run, and with which parameters for example. And similarly you've got ones in order to be able to run the pipeline on on AWS and so on as well. I think that covers most of it so overall most things are the same. These three directories are the biggest difference that the module sub workflows and the workflows, where you are now sort of separating out components of your pipeline into module sub workflows and workflows. And then you have this local NF core depending on how customized and I guess local that these modules and sub workflows are to a pipeline but other than that. I think it's fairly standard. Maxime Rique, anything I've forgotten that I should mention. No, I think you're good with everything. Cool. Okay, great. So I think that's it. Hopefully that helps and clears up a few of the common misconceptions and confusions with with the new DSL to pipeline template. Hopefully it will change but hopefully we've got a relatively rigid ish structure for the way that we'll be organizing things in the future. The content and the way we go about things will definitely change but hopefully we'll be able to keep you up to date with that in the future so Thanks for tuning in.


Hello and welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, but before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we're drinking Slaundered Lamb English Bitter. Today we're going to bring to you The Exorcism of Emily Rose. And this is our first Trash or Treasure segment of 2024. That's right. The Exorcism of Emily Rose is directed by Scott Derrickson, and he did Hellraiser Inferno, which we covered. Yep. He also did another horror movie called Sinister. Might make a good Trash or Treasure in the future for us. I think it would.  And he slated to direct Labyrinth 2. Just leave it alone for fuck's sakes. Jennifer Carpenter is in this, and she was in the very notable show Dexter. Laura Linney is in this.  And Mothman Prophecies, which was also pretty good. That one we got to cover at some point. Yeah, I kind of dug that movie. Yeah. The late Tom Wilkinson is in this. He's been in tons of things. Run out of space on our SD card. The exorcism of Emily Rose starts off like in this kind of really drab, somber farmhouse. And it's dreary and looks cold out in the rain. A medical examiner shows up at this house and sees his family. Something dramatic has happened. Comes back down and there's a priest there as well. And he's like, I'm sorry, she's dead. So the priest that's at this farmhouse, Father Richard Moore, gets arrested.  He gets put in jail, man. He's in his orange jumpsuit and everything. He's in the clinker.  Blamed for the death of Emily Rose, who was in his care. He was supposed to do a exorcism on her. And she died basically from malnutrition while being under his watch. The church, of course, is involved in all this. And they want to avoid a scandal. They don't want their name dragged through the media and dragged through the mud. So they're kind of telling them, you better plead guilty, leave us out of this. All right.   And he needs a lawyer. So the church appoints him, Erin Bruner. And she visits him and they have a very profound discussion, right? And he's telling her like, I'm not going to back down. I'm not going to plead guilty because I want to get Emily's story out. It's not about me. It's not even about the church. It's about her. Warns her to be aware because there's sinister forces. So Erin Bruner travels to Emily Rose's farmhouse. She goes to meet the family to get a backstory. She was very innocent before she left the farm to go to university. The family kind of protested her leaving. The trial ends up becoming a battleground between science and faith. The church does not want Father Moore to testify. During this trial, while all the proceedings are going on, they get attacked spiritually by something. And it's exactly what Father Moore had warned, right? There's evil forces lurking about that are trying to manipulate this trial in some way. If you want to see what happens with this trial, see who comes out on top. If it's the state or the church, then keep watching 2008's Exorcism of Emily Rose. That'll bring us to the treasure of the Exorcism of Emily Rose. And the first thing is while it's based on a true story. So there's legitimacy there.  Yeah. This trial happened in real life in Germany in the 70s. And it wasn't Emily Rose, it's Annalisa Michelle. For the most part, I'm surprised. Yeah. It's pretty well the same.  And apparently there was like 67 exorcisms they tried doing on her. All were failures. She refused to eat and she did dive malnutrition and dehydration like in the movie. They also charged the parents rather than just the priest. Another treasure about this movie is the way it's set up where it actually takes place after the exorcism. The first scene, everything's done. You don't know what happened. It's just this guy showing up.  And it's all done. And you're like, what happened? So you're instantly put into the situation that you need to know more about. Which leads to the structure of the movie, right? Because obviously this movie isn't structured like a usual movie. It's not beginning, middle, end. It's all over the place. They use the courtroom setting and the trial as a way to kind of take you back in time and witness what happened to Emily. And that's a real kind of original thing I think for an exorcism movie for sure. I don't think it was ever done before this. Yeah, I like how they use the real life aspect of a courtroom drama to drive the supernatural end of things in this movie. The way the courtroom makes you part of the jury. As a viewer, you're put in that position. You listen to the defense and the prosecution just like the jury does. You're sitting in the jury box! Yeah. You're put in a position to kind of decide that she suffers from seizures, was she multiple personality, whatever, or was she possessed. The way that the trial takes place, you're presented with evidence on both sides and they're both convincing, torn the same way a jury member would be torn. She doesn't have to prove that Emily was possessed. No. She just has to prove that Father Richard Moore wasn't responsible for her death. She just has to sew a little bit of doubt. Right. And I like that where it's, no, she doesn't have to prove that demons exist. The atmosphere for this movie is fantastic. It's dark and dreary, snowy. Right from the get-go, right from the opening scene. You almost feel it. You almost get the chills yourself, right? They keep that tone in this movie pretty steady. They're at the whole movie. The whole thing. All the courtroom stuff is really realistic looking. It's kind of like dull. It's all dull. Like the courtroom is dull.  When they take you back to the possession scenes, it's like, it's shot in a completely different way. Like it's more vivid. The camera's a little shaky. Also what helps with the atmosphere of this movie is sort of the scant music in this movie. There's not much, which is actually good. It works in this movie's favor.  They have little somber piano notes, keys playing throughout. It doesn't overwhelm you, right? Yeah.  And a big piece of treasure for this movie really is the fact that this movie does not take all those exorcism tropes that we saw in the biggest exorcism movie ever, the exorcists, and rehash them. It does its own thing. Well, just the structure of the movie alone is its own thing. The fact it takes place after the exorcism is unique. But even like the possession scenes are more grounded in reality, I find. You're not seeing people's heads being spun around backwards. There's no pea soup vomit. It's basically whatever the actor, Jennifer Carpenter, could do with her own body. Yeah, and her own voice. And her own voice. Because it's what she's physically doing on camera with no real effects. As the jury member, as the viewer, you're like, ah, is it possession or is it somebody who's afflicted by all these mental issues and epilepsy and stuff like that? Because she's doing all this herself. It could go either way, right? It could go either way, and I love that aspect of it. It's like that time that walked in on you. Hey, Adam, you want to do that?   I need to call a priest! An exorcism! Or is that a cognac?   You deserve it! I like how everybody is alone in this movie. Everybody's isolated, right? Father Moore goes back to his cell. He's in prison, man. Yeah. Erin is by herself. She doesn't have a partner at home. She goes home to an empty apartment and then... With all this burden on her shoulder. Yeah, yeah. Emily Rose is alone fighting the demons inside herself. And it allows for these sinister forces to try and chip away at them, right? The characters in this movie are very strong.  The church is a powerful entity. One of the most powerful on earth.   Stuck in the middle between the state and the church. She's like torn. You also have Emily Rose too, right? Who starts off young and innocent and she slowly gets corrupted. Something happens to her and you're not quite sure what it could be, right? You see how the events change each character as the movie progresses, right? Which is really cool. That'll bring us to the trash for the exorcism of Emily Rose.  I'm really am torn on it because for me it does a lot of great things, which we just talked about.  I have no clue. Right. This movie does not do a good enough job making you identify or feel sad or sorry for Emily Rose. Like, you don't know her.  And I think that hurts the movie because then you don't feel for her. The movie's named after her. We should feel something more for her. I don't feel like she's the victim in this, you know? I feel like everyone else is the victim except for Emily Rose. And her family, too. I thought that Emily Rose's family should have been incorporated a lot more in this movie. And you don't really feel what happened to them. You get a hint of it. Imagine living with that. Living with a possessed person up in the top room of your farmhouse. It would be terrifying.  Like, they should have went a bit more into that so you can really feel what the family felt going through this. It's all about Aaron. It's all about Father Moore. But what about the people who really suffered from this? Exactly, yeah. And that's the family in Emily Rose. Yeah, the family unit. Another trash aspect of this, which is the sort of the possession side that Emily Rose takes, or the possession sort of tropes, right?  Bro! It's like, you didn't need that. You had a smart movie going.  Then there's that whole scene in the farmhouse where she jumps out of her bedroom window where she's in the barn. And there's all this madness happening. It's like, no, that's taking it too far because now as the jury member, as the viewer you're supposed to be, you're being swayed too much in the other direction. Exactly, yeah. And it's too unbelievable, right? It's got to be steeped in reality for this movie for it to really work. Another piece of trash I had about this movie was, and Justin kind of disagrees with me a bit, is for me it was too much of a courtroom drama.   Yeah, it kind of, it affects the pacing. Yeah, it hurts the pacing. Yeah, it hurts the pacing quite a bit. I like the fact is the courtroom drama because it's neat, but it's almost, it's too much. Like, it just tipped the scales a little bit too much as opposed, if they would have introduced some of those aspects we mentioned, like, a bit more of the family, a bit more of Emily Rose past before she was possessed, but offset that a little bit, right? I see all that. I agree with it, too. I got the sense that they didn't quite know what to do or where to take the possession side. But they knew how to, what to do with the courtroom drama. Yeah, and so they stuck with what they knew. Yeah, and so the thing is, is that I'm kind of glad that they stuck with the more grounded aspect of the courtroom, right? And it's like, if they would have showed more Emily Rose and all that, I fear they would have just went to Hollywood and spoiled a pretty decent movie. So the Exorcism of Emily Rose, Trash or Treasure? It's Treasure. Yeah, I'm gonna say Treasure, too, and I was really kind of on the fence. It does a lot of really good things.  Let's do our own thing, and let's not hop on that bandwagon and just do it all again the same way.   Did a good job of letting people know about the real story, too, which is important. For Father Moore wanting to tell the real story in the movie, it makes people want to know about the real story in real life, which is kind of neat. Which is, you know, the whole purpose of Father Moore's testimony in the movie. So, and then it brings it to real life as well, right? So, it does tell her story. So, if you want a possession movie that's completely different than the Exorcist, and you want something that you can still think about, because it still makes you think, right? So, check out 2008's The Exorcism of Emily Rose. And until next time, keep drinking. Looking forward editing this episode.


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