Today we are opening the most epic special edition ever made. What's up guys, we're back with another epic opening. Today we're opening the Samurai's Assault, as you guys saw in the intro. This is one of my favorite special editions of all time and it has some absolutely amazing packs in it, but first, we have a giveaway. I will be giving away these two cards. We have a Blue Eyes White Dragon and a Polymerization from Bula's Pack Kaiba and Yu-Gi. All you guys have to do is like this video, be subscribed, let me know what you think about the Samurai Assault special edition, what's your favorite pack, your favorite cards, et cetera. And if you disagree and think it's not the best special edition of all time, let me know in the comments what you think is. I'm gonna open up the special edition and get all the packs out because it takes forever to open these and then we'll get into it. All right, I've gotten everything open and we have 10 Elder of the Six Samurai. Here is our promo for each special edition. Then we get 10 Crimson Crisis packs. That's gonna be fun. 10 Storm of Ragnarok, Odin. And finally, 10 Strike of Nios. These are what you get really excited for a lot of potential in these. And finally, I got this from TCGtrustedCards and he sent me a small gift. So let's see what is inside. It has Mickey Mouse wrapping, that's pretty cool. What the gift is. I'm pretty excited. What could the gift be? Uh-oh, uh-oh, I see Blue Eyes White Dragon. I don't know what you guys are struggling now. Struggle, struggle, struggle. Limited to 9.995 worldwide individually numbered embossed metal display stand. Oh, the Blue Eyes White Dragon Limited Edition. This is extremely cool. I kind of want to just keep this like and just display it like this. I think that looks really cool. That's extremely cool. Thank you TCGtrustedCards for sending that. Now let's get into the opening. Let's start off with a Crimson Crisis. We have 30 packs to open here. So there's a lot of potential to pull some good stuff. We pulled a Ghostraer recently out of a special edition. Let's see if we can do it here because I don't think I've pulled any of these Ghostraers. I've never pulled the Red Dragon Archfiend Assault mode. I've never pulled the Odin. And then, of course, Dragon Nios doesn't have a Ghostraer but we would take the Air Nios Ultra Rare over any Ghostraer, probably, Assault Slash, Summon Reactor SK, Verdant Sanctuary, Synchro Change, I don't think there is another. Oh! Nevermind, there is! That's a Synchro Rare! Right off the bat, a Tethys Goddess of Light. That's a good start to a special edition opening because, as you guys know, there's no ratios in special editions. We could get 10 secret rares for all we know, which would be pretty cool. So we've got ourselves a Tethys Goddess of Light. The focusing is being weird so hopefully that does not come up later as an issue. Okay, it's time for Storm of Ragnarok. Let's see what we can pull. We've got a Watt Key. Let me hear. Nordic Relic. Solemn Authority, and Nordic Relic, and... Oh, an Ultimate Rare! Odin, Father of the Acer! Talk about a Hot Start, a Secret Rare, and an Ultimate Rare. I think this is the first time we've actually pulled the Olden Ulti. We've never pulled them Ghosts. Obviously, we've said that a million times but we will take that Ulti right off the bat. A Secret and an Ulti. Talk about a good start. All right, this is pretty amazing. At this rate, this might've should've been in the top 25 polls. If you guys have not seen the top 25 polls, go check that video out. Yeah, at this rate, it might be there. Let's see if we can pull something crazy out of Strike of Neos. DD Crow Ultimate Rare, let's do it. All right, Change of Hero, Destruction Cyclone. The Cocky Gorilla of Dark World. He's cocky. Flashbang. And pulling the rug. This one definitely does not have a... Gene Warped Warm Wolf Ultimate Rare. It's always this card. I'm pretty sure we pulled this one last time we opened this. We always pull this guy. Oh my goodness. Okay, I guess because this was printed later, the original Strike of Neos didn't have a rare and a foil, but I guess because it was printed later, it was like a reprint a couple years later, they had it. So I was not expecting that. So we have started off with a Secret Rare and two Ultimate Rares in three packs. Oh my goodness. Wow, this is crazy. This is absolutely insane. So right now we have officially not pulled or opened a pack that has not had a foil in it. Every single one has had a foil. So let's see if we can keep that streak up. It's gonna be tough. Well, let's do it. Flip-flop Frog, it's a pretty good card. Ivy Shackles Morph Tronic Map. Assault Armor here is after this one is where we have to look for. Trap Reactor Wi-Fi. So we got some Wi-Fi, but we didn't get any pulls. We finally did not get something. Onto Storm of Ragnarok. Our first time pulling the Ultimate Rare Odin. Can it be our first time pulling the Ghost Rare Odin? I am okay with having both. Terminal World, She-N Scheme, Blackwing, Bristow the Tailwind, Gamer of the Notic Beast, the Gold Fox, and the Machio Shalion. I don't know how to say that. That is an absolute nightmare to try and pronounce. Let's go on to The Strike of Neos. We already got the Ultimate Rare Gene Morphed Warwolf, which we will get every single time we open the set. It seems like electric virus. We've got the Umbral Soul. Change of Hero, Reflector Ray, Marionette Might, the Transmigration Prophecy, and Anti-Fusion Device. So we started off super hot. Now we are on a cold streak that's three in a row. Let's see if we can get back on track with Crimson Crisis. Here we go. Don't open a lot of Crimson Crisis and don't open a lot of Strike of Neos. So really fun to open this special edition. Strike of Neos is just especially hard to find. So that's what really makes these fun. We've got Spell Reactor Rhee, Hypersyncron, and Armeroid. We got a Super Rare. Okay, so we've got ourselves a Super Rare Armeroid. We are back on track. It is a foil. We will take it. It looks pretty cool, too.  If you're a Royed fan, sound off in the comments because I need to hear it because I don't know if a lot of people are like, man, I really love the Royed. Cyrus was like my favorite character ever. Not a lot of people say that, I feel like. We got a Mimir. We got an Hourglass of Courage. We got a Carcury Ninja, a token Sunday. Oh, Eruxins specialed right into the Worm King, another guy that we get every single time. We open up Storm of Ragnarok. We've got the Worm King himself. Very, very nice. I guess it's very nice. I don't know. Worm King, doesn't seem that exciting, but it's worms. It's something very, very resonator. Back to the Strike of the Neos. We want to strike the Air Neos in this pack. Let's do this. Yaichi, one day we're gonna hit. I'm just saying one day, Destruction Cyclone, Flashbang, Firestorm Prominence, Fusion Devourer, that's just rare, and Raging Earth. Yeah, I say one day because we've recently conquered the BLS, Cronk and Buster Blader, all these cards that we could not pull. The Air Neos is still one. That's still one we haven't pulled. So we're looking for that at some point. It's very hard to find those packs though. Undercrims and Crisis, Blackwing, Bore the Spear, Flip Flop Frog, Ivy Shackles, Salt Revival, Gladiator Beast, Sam Knight, and the Life Force Harmonizer. That is an ultra rare. Just looks like a massive blob. It looks like something that would be in your science class talking about the human body or something. It's like some sort of cell or something. The Life Force Harmonizer. All right, the Assault Counter, Trapeator and Morphotronic mix up. Storm of Ragnarok time. Ragnarok, please bless us. We've got the Tiki Soul. Okay, classic. Got a Demaro, Terminal World. Sheehan's Scheme and Symphonic Warrior Piano. What's the next one? Odin's Eye, Nordic Relic, Zingsenhu replica, and the Barrier Resonator. All right, so it has slowed down certainly since the beginning. It's hard to keep up that sort of pace, but we have got an Ultra and a SuperSense. Let's see if we can get something big. We've got a Zangie. Very cool to see the sixth samurai. Yoriza, Umbral Soul. Advanced Ritual Art. Neospatian Grand Mole. That's a cool card. That would be a nice ulti. And the Radiant Spirit. Very cool. Return to the sixth samurai, Puppet Plant, and Juchilane the Wakin'. Next up, Crimson Crisis. Here we go. We've got Blackwing Bora the Spear. Flip-flop Furok. Ivy Shackles. Salt Revival. Psychic Tuning. And Six Scroll of the Samurai. That's a little bit crazy because you're thinking of Six Samurai and it's actually Six Scroll instead of Six Samurai. I see. You're not fooling me. All right. We're fraying the rock. Here we go. Let's see. We've got ourselves the top runner. Very cool. Looks like the Super Battle droid. Watke, Worm, Jet Eclipse. Hourglass of Courage. Sheehan's Daredevil. Very, very cool. And the Nordic Relic. Bresingamon. Resonator Engine and Divine Wind. Strike of Nios. DD Crow Ulti. Come on. Come on, baby. Give it to us. One day we'll get a good ulti out of here. We always get the bad ones. We got a like and throw. We got a Sheehan's Foot Soldier. Flash, bang. Umbral Soul. Why does that look like a super for some reason? I don't know why. There's the DD Crow. So could you get DD Crow Rare and then DD Crow Ultimate right after it? That would be kind of weird. Skyscraper 2 Hero City. Okay, that's cool. A Scal... A Cell Scattered Burst. And then Boom of the Awakened. So we got a Super Rare Skyscraper 2. Pretty cool. Still a lot of packs to go. We've had some pretty good pulls so far, man. It started off so high. We've definitely calmed down for sure, but let's see if we can get something big. Blackwing Bora. Telekinetic. We got a Force Field. Cross Sword Beetle. Mycube the Magical Mist. And Seed Cannon Desert Protector and Trap Reactor Wi-Fi. Storm of Aragna Rock. Bless us with something epic. Ragnarok. Blackwing Bristow the Tailwind. Tyrant's Tyrate. Sheehan's Squire. Got a Demarone. Sheehan's Smoke Signal. And the Tangrisnir of the Nordic Beast, AKA the Sheep. He is here. Sheep Man. Okay, he's not a man, but he is a sheep. Come on, Strike. Come on, Strike. Please bless us with something amazing. Come on. We've got ourselves an Advanced Ritual Art. That's very cool. Six Samurai Yaichi. Destruction Cyclone. Flash Bang. Diddy Crow again. I mean, it's a nice rare. We'll take it. And Chuchilane the Awakened. Stages still in this Anti-Fusion and a Cell Scatter Burst. Back to the Crimson of the Crisis. The Crisis that is red. Let's go. Summon Reactor SK. Summer, Super Solar Nuget. We've got the Slingin. The Metaphysical Regeneration. Planet Pollutant Virus. And Trojan, Gladiatorbeast, Hydraviper, and Trapeater. Trapeater is a weird looking dude. Storm of Aragna Rock. Come on, baby. Bless us with something epic. Odin Ghost Rarity. So we already got the Ulti, so it's time. Bloodsucker. Oh my goodness. Creepy. Stardust Phantom. And Barrier Resonator. Blackwing Clean of the Haze. Alrighty. It's been interesting. We're on back to back Diddy Crows. Is it time for him to evolve? To level up to become the ultimate rare. Diddy Crow. We have Cocky, Gorill of Darkworld. Advanced Virtual Art. Sixth Samurai Aichi. Destruction Cyclone. These comments definitely go in the same order. And Twister. Okay. Regular Rare. Return of the Sixth Samurai Raging Earth and Sage of Silas. Still hoping for something insane. We started off so good, and now we're kind of just limping our way to the finish. Can we redeem ourselves with the Crossword Beetle? Maybe not that one. Raptor Wind Strike. I almost said Raid Raptor. Footplot Frog. Ivy Shackles. Psychic Tuning. And Vengeful Servant. Trapper after Wi-Fi and Ebon Arrow. We've opened so many of these packs. One day we will be blessed with the Ghost Rare. It will happen, I believe.  Is now the time. Is it this pack? Terminal World. She and the scheme. Here we go. Brist of the Tailwind. Aestheticism of the Sixth Samurai. And the Secret Rare. Okay. It's not the Ghost, but it's a card that is pretty good. This card is still banned, but yet very expensive, because one day it's gonna get unbanned. Everyone thinks so, at least. And then it's gonna be really expensive. So we have a Secret Rare, Maxi. What a big pull out of only 10 packs of Storm of Ragnarok. That's like the best card. Dragon Nios? It's your time. It's your time. We just pulled Maxi. They're just telling you what you're gonna do about it.  And it looks like right now they're gonna say no, but let's see if we can get that Air Nios, that DD Crow Ultimate Rare, Marynette Might, Yoriza, Legendary Ebon Steed, Frostosaurus, and Alien Psychic, Anti-Fusion Device, and Grand Tactition of Dark World. Last six packs of the opening. Here we go. We have the Raptor Wing Strike, Flip Flop Rock, Super Solar Nutrient, Spell Reactor, Whee! Debris Dragon, and Royal Swamp Eel Trap Reactor Wifi and Ebon Arrow. That is a super rare. It's a foil. We will take it. It is a foil. All right, Storm. Second to last Storm of Ragnarok pack. We pulled Maxi. We pulled Ultimate Road, and I mean, we can't really ask for much more out of this. It's been pretty good. Bristo, Tyrant's Tyrate, Sheen Squire, Got it Emmerung, Doppel Warrior, and Valkyrie of the Nordic Descendant Man. We've had a really good ratio for foils out of Storm of Ragnarok. Very good. We probably pulled at least five out of there, and that's, we opened nine packs. Striking Nios. Two more chances. Can we pull? Air Nios. Can we pull? DD Crow Ultimate Rare. Anything. Something awesome. Isn't there another elemental hero in here? I think it's like Glownios or something. We got a Ritual Art. Cool. The Grilla Dark Road. Ritual Sealing. Six Samurai Aichi, and Laminating the Leak, and the Six Samurai Iru. Have we seen that one yet? The Storm and Sage of Steelness. Final three packs of the opening. Crimson Crisis. Come on, Crimson Crisis. I feel like they have not done much. We had a secret rare right off the bat, but then after that, it's been kind of chilling. Metaphysical Regeneration, Prevention Star, Salt Slash, Salt Teleport, Wall of Thorns, and Oh! Arcanite Magician Assault Mode. It heard me.  Here's an Ultimate Rare. This is a really cool one too. One of my favorite cards from that set. Just look at it. It looks beautiful. Especially Ultimate Rare. Wow. The colors on it are really nice. I like the green, the orange, purple. It looks really, really cool. Then we have our Duke Frog. Wow, that was a really good pack. Two more packs. This has been a crazy special edition. We've had some good luck, actually. Like, this has been nice. I mean, usually you don't get this many good pulls, but that's the nice thing about special editions. There's no ratios. One of my favorite things. Yakasha, Carcury, Vylon Matter, T-Soul, the sheep, the black sheep, and the divine wind. Okay. And the final pack of the opening. Strike of Nios. Here we go.  Fire Storm, Prominence, or Grandmaster of the Six Samurai Secret would be cool. Ritual Ceiling. You gotta believe. We got a Yaichi. Yoriza. Spiral Serpent. And here's our final chance at the video. Make sure you guys hit the like button for luck. Here we go. Oh, a great Shogun Sheen. That is a cool card. So we got a lot of Six Samurai cards. I've been considering putting together Six Samurai Dactyls for the heck of it. So there's a lot of cards that I can play here. So I will take that. Anti-Fusion Device and Grin Tactician of Dark World to finish it off. Hope you guys enjoyed the best special edition opening ever. If you guys enjoyed that, make sure to subscribe for more epic content coming up. Shout out to TCG Trusted Guards, Tomato Juice, Noa J, Stanley, Mike Nantz, Mimic Gecko, Duelist Kingdom Cards, and Spanky with Father. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. And I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


65... So do more guns. The Jack Benny program, presented by Lucky Strike.  Now Venus is a gorgeous girl but life for her is rough. A statue simply cannot smoke a lucky puff by puff. If you're unhappy with your smoke, you'd better switch your brand to my rich tasting lucky strike, the smoothest in the land.  Brands enjoy your cigarette. If you're not happy with your present brand and a 38 city survey shows that millions of smokers are not, switch to Lucky Strike. With every lucky you like, you always get complete smoking enjoyment, that happy blending of perfect mildness and rich true taste, that fine tobacco and only fine tobacco can give you. And remember, L-S-M-F-T, Lucky Strike means fine tobacco.   Saturday after the Benny rehearsal, the cast drops into the corner drugstore for a bite to eat. At the moment, Phil Harris is sitting there all alone, waiting for the other members of the cast. Would you like to order now, Mr. Harris? No, not yet, Shirley. I'm waiting for the rest of the gang. Oh, will Mr. Benny be with them? Oh, yeah. Why? I want to get his autograph for my little nephew. Do you think he'll give it to me? Well, I certainly, honey, just have your pen, paper and quarter ready. Joking. Joking, huh? You'll be lucky if you get your pen back. By the way, Mr. Harris, I'd like your autograph for my nephew too. Would you mind? Oh, not at all, Shirley. Just give me a pencil and paper. I brought it with me. Here. And would you mind signing it to Bertram? Sure. I spell that. Wait till we come to that. How do you spell too? Mr. Harris, your friends are coming. Good. Thanks so much. He's helping Mr. Benny cross the street. January is Dennis' month. Dennis, we're in. You can turn me loose already.  Hey, what delayed you, Jackson? Oh, just as I was leaving, there was a long distant call from Mr. Paley. Everything is all set. I'm going to do my second television show next Sunday. Oh, so you won the case, huh? Being so smart, we have trouble getting the time. Yeah, I know, I know. Well, anyway, Alice and the kids are going to watch it on our new set. A new television set? What kind do you got, Phil? A Lieutenant J.G.? That's nice. Now, kid. Hey, wait a minute. Aren't you going to ask me what kind of set that is? Not me. I'll ask you, Phil. What kind of a set is a Lieutenant J.G.? A small admiral. A sharple and an empty stomach, you dog. An empty stomach? Nothing today but food. Pass me a menu. I think I can eat after that. Hey, ain't we going to wait for Livy before we order? Oh, Mary won't be here for a while. She's calling the doctor to make an appointment for me. Well, what's the matter, Jack? Oh, nothing, nothing. I'm just going for my annual check-up. Uh, are you gentlemen ready to order? I guess so. Let's see. Hey, I know what I want. A bowl of soups, spaghetti and meatballs, a cup of coffee, and, uh, some apple pie all in all. I'll have a fruit cup, green salad, the lamb chops and mashed potatoes, a glass of milk, and some seven-layer cake. Hey, that sounds good. I'll have the same. The same as which? The same as both.  How can you possibly eat so much? It is rather crazy, Jack, especially when you consider the fact that till I was six years old, I was fed through a cube. Yes, yes, I know, Don. That's the same tube they're now using for the second street tunnel. I've been through it many times. There's still a little pablum stuck to the ceiling. Uh, what will you have, Mr. Day? Well, I think I'll have... Hold it, Dennis. Hold it. Huh?  What?   Sick? Yes. Like the last time we were in here. They have 69 different items on the menu, but did you ask for any of them? No. You had to order a cucumber split. Imagine. Say, I think I'll have a... No, you won't. I'm going to order that other favor to yours, either. Oysters with chocolate syrup. I mean, how can you do that? Well, I'm not there in season. I don't care about that. Starting right now, you're going to order sensibly, or you're not coming in with us anymore.  Yes, sir. Now, give the girl your order. Well, I'll have a chocolate-morted milk with an egg in it. That's better. One chocolate-morted milk with an egg in it. I'd like the egg fried. I'm going to the doctor anyway. Yes, sir. Hey, Jackson, look who just came in. Huh? How about sitting down, having a sandwich or something? No, no, thank you. I just came in to do a little shopping. Only I forgot one important thing my wife asked me to give. You forgot? Yes. She wanted me to get some toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoo. And one thing I forgot, all I can remember is it began with a bee. With a bee? Uh-huh. By carbonate? No. Bath salts? No. Bed's a dream? No. Begins with a bee, huh? With a bee, yes. Clinex? Yes, don't be silly. Wait a minute, just a second. That's what I was... But Mr. Kitzel, you said it started with a bee. That's it. A box Clinex. All right, forget it, kid. Say, Mr. Kitzel. Yes. I haven't seen you quite some time now. Where have you been? I was up at Big Bear Lake for a vacation. Big Bear Lake, eh? For the winter sports? All the way down here, six feet deep. And from the trees are hanging long icicles like crystal chandeliers. You've never seen anything so beautiful. Well, I can imagine. You know, I got a cabin up there and I went... Well, that's wonderful. Did you do any skiing? No. Ice skating? No. Toboggany? No. Why not? That lousy weather, who goes out? Benny, I've got to shop along now. Oh, so long, Mr. Kitzel. Goodbye. Having a cabin at Big Bear doesn't go in for winter sports.  You and Remly, eh? What's your favorite winter sport? We put on snow shoes and go looking for them St. Bernard's. Looking for St. Bernard's? They don't always find you, you know. We've drained too many St. Bernard's tonight because we're having another rehearsal at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Don't worry, Jackson, I'll be there. And Dennis, you'll be there at 9.30 so I can hear you do your song. Oh, I've rehearsed it three times already. Do you want to hear it? In the drugstore? Well, there's a record in the jukebox. I'll play it for you. Okay, go ahead. Don't you think it would have been even better if you'd sung the second chorus just a little bit faster? No. It was just an idea, that's all. I thought that... Oh my goodness, look what time it is. I told Mary I'd meet her by my car. I gotta go. Dennis, pay the check, will ya? Pay the check, pay the check. Let me talk about the luck of the Irish. I'll leave. I think I'll get a package of lifesavers. Oh, Clark. Yes, sir? Give me a package of lifesavers. What flavor? I don't care. The one's with the smallest holes. All the same size. Oh, well, give me peppermint. Just a second. Or maybe I'll take some... Hey, Clark. Clark. Yes, sir? Hey, I put some money in that cigarette machine. I didn't get my lucky strikes. Oh, I'm awfully sorry, sir. They sell so fast, the machine's probably out of them. Here, I'll give you your money back. Oh, I don't want my money back. I want lucky strikes. I'm sorry. All I can do is give you your money. If I wanted my money, I wouldn't have put it in the machine in a twice place. I want lucky strikes. But, sir, all I can do is give you back your 20 cents. I don't want my 20 cents. Can I get that deep-down smoking satisfaction out of two dimes? Say, mister... You keep out of it. I'm sorry. Now, look, Clay, what are you going to throw about my lucky strikes? I don't know. Would you like any other cigarette?  Forget the lifesavers. I'm leaving. Hey, now, look, I want lucky strikes and I don't want any more argument out of you. If I haven't kept Mary waiting too long, you ought to be by the car there. Go to Leapoo-Poo-Poo-Poo-Poo. Next Sunday, I'll be on TV and if I'm good, I'll gloat. But if I'm not so wide, I can always cut my throat. Be happy. Go lucky. Be happy. Go lucky. Go lucky strike me. Oh, hello, Mary. Well, Jack, it's about time. I'm sorry, Mary, but I stopped to get some lifesavers and some guy started an argument with the clerk, so I finally went away without him. Well, Jack, I have a package of lifesavers with me. You have? Yeah. There's somewhere here in my purse. I know they're in here. He's dark in there. I haven't cleaned out this person's. I came back from Palm Springs. There's my sunglasses, my lipstick, my compact, my bathing suit. Your bathing suit and your bag? In my coin purse yet.  Never mind the lifesavers, Mary. Oh, here they are. Good, good. Here, I'll open them for you. Oh, Jack, look at this. Your Christmas card is still in them. Remember, I wrote something cute out of it. Yes, Jack, you did. Very cute. Listen to this. It's not the price of the gift that counts, be it a fortune or a penny. These are the words that famous bard, Omar Kiam Benny. Isn't that sweet? You know, Mary, without the poem, it's nothing. I've got news for you, Omar. I know, I know. Come on, there's the car. I want to get to the doctor's office. Oh, hello, Rochester. Oh, boss, are you ready to go? Yeah, come on, Mary. I'll help you in the car. Go ahead, Rochester, start it. Yes, sir. The motor must be a little cold. Try it again, Rochester. Yes, sir. The motor sounds better, doesn't it? Yeah, I'll try something new in the ga... Drive down Sunset Boulevard. It's less than a mile. Yes, sir. Jack, I hate to keep bringing this up all the time, but last week when Rochester drove me to the studio, I was so embarrassed. Why don't you get a new car? Mary, I don't need a new one. Miss Livingston's right, boss. This car is too old-fashioned. It is not. I'm sitting up so high, I feel like a lifeguard. Sir, oh, drive carefully, will ya? Look, they're digging up the streets with those air hammers. Be careful. Think that that thing would shaker the pieces. It's the doctor's office. It's the building on the next corner. You better stop the car, Rochester. Okay. Or just stop the car. Yes, sir. See how nice it stops since we have the brake fixed? Rochester, you wait here for us. It shouldn't take long. Come on, Jack. The office is on the fifth floor. Now, where's the doctor's office? Must be right down the hall. Let's see. 502, 503. Oh, here it is. We're still a few minutes early. Well, go over and tell that nurse you're here. Okay. Oh, nurse. Yes, sir. Nurse, I have an appointment for a check-up at 1.30. Yes, sir. I'll just fill out this form. Your name? Jack Benny. Your address? 360 North Camden Drive. Your age? 39. Your height? 5 foot 10 and a half. Weight? 155. Your age? 39. Color of hair? Brown. They're blue, aren't they? Bluer than the feet of a Sicilian wine presser. Complexion? Fair. Your age? 39. Your occupation? Comedian. I thought so. Is there anything else you want to know, nurse? No. All right, Mr. Benny, you may go into the doctor's office, right through that door. Thank you. Mary, I won't be long. Okay, Jack. I'll wait here. Oh, one more question, Mr. Benny. Have you had any recent operations or accidents? No, no, I don't... Hey, wait a minute. Ask me that again. Have you had any recent accidents? Yes. Yes, about two years ago. I swallowed a penny. Swallowed a penny? What did you do for it? I took penny-sillin'. Do you hear that, Mary? I said... Mary, and I waited six months to pull that one up. Oh, well, I might as well go in for the examination. Oh, doctor, I came here for... What? I thought we'd married you yesterday. No, no, that must have been someone else. I don't think so. Fold your arm. Now cut that arm! I'm here for my examination. I had disappointments. Oh, yes, yes.  There. Now you're sure? There.  So that's where it was. I've been looking for it for two weeks. Now let's get on with your examination, shall we? First, I want you to step over here behind this fluoroscope. Over there? That's it. Now wait till I adjust it. That's better. Now I put out the lights. Now I turn on the fluoroscope machine. That's funny. Doctor, what do you see? That's better. There, that's better. It's clear now. Here, drink this glass of barium. Barium? What's that for? Well, it's thick and white, and as you drink it, I can watch through the fluoroscope and trace it as it goes through your digestive tract. Oh. All right. I'll drink it. It's awful. There. Now it's going down past your trachea through your esophagus. Now come out here while I listen to your chairs. Right here. Now take a deep breath and listen to your heart. Oh, your stethoscope is cold. Yeah, hold still. I'm listening. I gotta listen to that again. Oh, for two weeks I did King Solomon's Mines and the Heath got me. Oh. Well, I'm certainly glad to see you, doctor. And make you welcome with a m- Here's why I ask. A recent 38-City survey shows that millions of smokers are not happy with a brand they're smoking. Now if this is true of you, and you want complete smoking enjoyment, switch to Lucky Strike. 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Family is more of a generalist degree, so we see patients of all ages, from newborn to older, but we are a generalist. FNPs have more openings in places like urgent cares, walking clinics, rural clinics where they just want one person that can see all ages. So for the hybrid program, a lot of our classes are actually online. We have a lot of the PowerPoints and we are able to listen to a lot of the stuff at home, which allows me the opportunity to be at home with my kiddos and with my husband and be able to spend a little bit more family time. It also allows me a little bit more opportunity to be flexible with my clinical schedule. I like the hybrid program because it allows a lot of flexibility with my busy lifestyle. I'm a mother and I also work, so having the classes online is extremely flexible for that, as well as I do come to campus sometimes for some hands-on skills that I'm definitely going to need to increase my responsibilities as a nurse practitioner, which I believe is very valuable. The clinical experience and the education that I learn in the hybrid program work hand-in-hand. They are integrated, so I take from what I learn in my lectures and the textbooks to a clinical site to get the experience and hands-on skills with clients and patients. Definitely do it. I mean, don't think about it. I have never been challenged so much in my life, but I am challenged in a way that is absolutely caring and supportive. At no point do I ever feel dumb asking a question. They are definitely there for us and it's absolutely amazing. I wouldn't change it anyway. I mean, our faculty has been so amazing that it's to the point that I'm even considering going back into teaching sometime.


I'm saying a lovely fluke. Welcome back to a new vlog with me, Cepi, Saina and my naked mom. Tonight we're going shopping. It's 6.30pm. So we're going to go to Selfridges. Selfridges shuts at 9. Saina wants some new trainers. I don't really want anything in particular but we'll show you guys what we're wearing when we're in the shops. Let me get in the car. Good morning. Good morning. Let me take one of my shoes.  Oh sorry, sorry, sorry.  Do you not like it? It's alright. It tastes like, it literally tastes like crushed dates. Yeah, it is meant to be like date flavour. Is it? Mm-hmm. Who just beeped for us? I don't know, but we knew you keep getting beeps constantly. We don't know if they're purple. Yeah, yesterday we went to Tesco late at night because I really wanted halo top ice cream. And she was in her PJs. I was literally in pyjama shorts.   And so I was like, no, you have to get out the car. I don't want to go in by myself. So I didn't want to, she didn't know what I wanted as well. I didn't know what flavour I wanted either. So I went with her and then when we were getting back in the car, some Range Rover beeps. No offense, yeah. To all my friends out there who drive Range Rovers, I don't know which one of you guys it was or if it was a random pup. So yeah, we were confused. Who is that? I feel like he's waiting as well. So he's following us. Do you think these lights are Christmas lights or Diwali lights? Or are we Diwali? Happy Diwali to our celebrated friends. Yeah, it's not just Indians. We celebrated Diwali. We had curry last night. Not curry, Briyani. Signed a chicken briyani. I made it just for Diwali. You know that sign is a domestic goddess. Lol, joke. She only knows how to make one dish, which is chicken briyani. That's not true. I don't see Seppi there playing any music. Or she ever does. Sorry, I'm just on her phone. I'm trying to message. For me to be able to talk to her, I have to message her. Seppi, I'm messaging you right now. Can you please put some music on? Wait, I have to reply to this message. I swear the Mercedes turned. No. It's following us. Who is it? I don't know. Guys, throw back from the task. Sign is trying to pick out a scarf. Sign is reading comments. Sign is reading comments on today's vlog. Side eye. Thanks for all the love, everyone. I'm really happy. I'm so happy. I'm going to carry on short. What do you get now? I got the scarf from New York. I'm just waiting for them to give it. But it's basically... The lake is going to break it now. But it's basically... It's one of those. They don't know what color you went for though. Yeah, the wind is nasty. Seppi, I thought you were helping me buy shoes. I'm getting these. And signer convinced me that I should get them.  Basically, I wanted to buy trainers. That's so true. I wanted to buy trainers. And then Seppi was like, I want to help you. So I ended up buying us a scarf. I'm still trading a look. And I'm getting these triple S. Magically, all of a sudden, here's that this is the last pair. The last... But I tried to find a blind. And then there might be someone waiting just behind us to purchase these. If Seppi takes them off. So I decided she wanted to buy them. So now we're trying to decide what to eat. I'm pretending I'm looking at my phone. It's not my phone. It's Seppi's. And I'm sending pics of them. Will the shoe fits in Dorella? This is size 13. What is that? I'm going to catch it that size but actually it fits in there. Oh my god. Let me see. Look at how good the front of these shoes are. Look at that. Now I get up. Let me see. Let me wear the other one. They're so maloose. You know what's good about these is they're not only hand-bought but they're fluffy. And you can wear them with jeans. Yeah, these don't sit you at all. No, you're not meant to tie it behind it. That's even worse. Tie it at the front. You actually do not suit these at all. I'm wearing a skirt but still, I was wearing nothing and those trainers look cute on me. It's because you wear trainers with like no ties. But these are what I have. They're too big. No, just the style. You look so silly. The sideways especially. You look like an alien. Nothing else. Take me. Damage is done. They didn't have the boots that we liked for her. They didn't have the boots that I love for her in her size. So we have to come back and get them. Let us know if you think they're cute in the comments. I think they're very beautiful and classic. Yeah, now we want to eat something and now, yeah, we're going to go eat something. I don't know what we're going to eat. But someone just said Basically, what's up guys? Basically, since so much has been going through it and I don't feel touched at all. She's like, what have you done? I got a moment from that I don't know why we zoomed in when I said that. But I literally bought it today from Zara. I didn't even make it. I woke up at 8 o'clock to let the house at 8 o'clock. I just bought my gym jam to work and then changed it to my scrubs. Yeah, I thought about it. When I finished the day I wanted to change back into my clothes. Normal clothes. I was going to go out and then I really like go out shopping to buy some clothes and then I realised that I'm wearing my pajamas I couldn't believe. It's quite cool that you can go wearing like pajamas because you get to change the scrubs. So, sorry for the lighting. It's bad because it's night time. But Saina's gone back to Latvia and I thought I'd show you guys what we got because we were going to film it that evening but we ended up going to dinner and getting distracted. So, obviously we want to show you guys what we got properly because you probably didn't see it whilst we were out. So, I'll start off with what I got first. Saina left her shopping here because she didn't need it in Latvia. So, I'll show you what she got as well after. Starting with what I got from Balenciaga. I think you guys saw when I was in the store but I picked out the last pair of triple S sneakers. This is the colour combination that I really wanted and everywhere I searched online they didn't have and I read online that you meant to size down. So, I'm usually a size three and a half four in designer trainers. So, I was definitely going to need a three. So, 36. Everywhere I searched my Teresa, like Selfridges, Harrods, the actual Balenciaga website. Everywhere I was checking didn't have size three and especially in this colour combination. And then when I went into the store they had one pair on display of this colour combination and it was literally in my size so I had to grab it. So, these are the Balenciaga's the triple S in black, white and pink. And once I took these they literally had no other pairs to put out on display in this colour combination because it's so highly requested and sold out. So, on the front it says triple S and 36 which is the size and then I was kind of like a worn look kind of thing. I don't know what my parents will think of this. I'll like try and film their reaction to these sneakers. But yeah, my parents love Christian Le Bruton's. They think that they're very beautiful and like so pretty. My mum likes my designer trainers but I don't think my dad loves them. My dad loves me in heels. He thinks I look best when I'm in heels. So, I'll film his reaction to this. But, yeah, I love these and I think that they're so pretty and I've already styled them. So, check out my Instagram Persian Bunny and you'll see how I've styled them or how I'm going to style them in the future. But, I absolutely love them. I think they're so pretty. Also, they're quite comfortable but they're quite heavy. So, I'm just going to put it out there. If it's your first pair, I don't recommend getting the triple S sneakers as your first pair of designer trainers just because I do feel like they're pricey. They're £650 I think. And, I do feel like they're it's like a trend, basically. So, it's probably in a year and a half, two years time you're not going to want to wear these anymore because there's going to be a new trendy sneaker. So, I don't really recommend getting these if it's your first pair. But, all my other pairs I have four other pairs of designer trainers and they're all classics. I really wanted another white pair. So, I feel like these were just the perfect new chunky sneaker-style shoe. And, in a couple years time they'll probably be dirty and can't use them anyway. So, I'm going to make the most of them in the next couple years. But, yeah, I've had my Valentino trainers this Christmas is going to be two years and they are classic. Like, they still sell them in store. They're still so beautiful. I love them. I really recommend them. The Chanel ones are so beautiful. They're another classic. So, yeah, don't start with these if you're looking for a pair unless you really love them obviously. Next, I'm going to show you what the designer got from Louis Vuitton. So, she got this winter scarf. So pretty. I'll show you what it looks like around my neck. It's so pretty and it's got, it's black and then it's got like a glittery LV print design on it. And, this looks so nice with all of our like coats and stuff. So, she could just literally throw it on any coat that she wants. And, this colour goes with a lot more clothes and other colour options they had available. So, they have it in like grey, white, etc. But, I feel like this colour matches a lot more things. And, it matches a pair of boots that she got. I'm going to show you guys now. So, you guys saw that she wanted the Louis Vuitton trainers or boots and they didn't have the boots in her size and the trainers looked gross on her. So, we ended up going to Stuart Weitzman after. She wants some nice wintery classic boots. So, I'll show you what's in the first one. She got the classic Highland boots. So, this one is like a really light grey and it's really high like above the knee with a tie at the top. And, I think that they are so beautiful. She's going to be able to style these with dresses and with jeans and just with anything really. And, it looks like it's going to be really comfortable to walk in. She has loads of Stuart Weitzman boots and she says they're the most comfortable and she doesn't have any of this colour. So, I feel like it's very beautiful. Another pair of Highland boots. But, this one is in like a teal it's like a blueish grey like in this like it looks it looks grey but like I feel like it's also like a blue. I don't know. Let me know what you guys think. But, yeah, so it's literally the same thing over the knee but in a different colour and I'm literally making such a mess of this. Yeah, so, I feel like it's really pretty. Again, same thing. She can wear with dresses or with jeans. I feel like this one's probably better to wear with jeans. But, she's going to need some really good sprays to spray on top of these. So, if you guys know any good suede protectants let us know in the comments because we don't want them to get ruined. So, that is the end of the haul and everything that we got. It's funny because we set out saying I don't want to really want anything. Siner wanted designer trainers. I ended up with the designer trainers and Siner didn't get any trainers and ended up with a whole bunch of other things. But that's always the case, right? It's always what happens. Especially with us. I don't mind. I don't know about the rest of you but that's always the case with me. That is the end of this haul. I hope that you guys enjoyed this mini vlog haul thing where we not only show you like what we got but also the fun shopping process of it and just us mucking around. Make sure that you leave us a comment. I love really comments. I'm trying my best to reply to all of them and I think I've replied to all of you guys. I definitely spend about 45 minutes a day replying to comments. So, that should get to most of you and when you guys send me messages like I've even got Instagram DMs and stuff you make my day. I love you guys so, so much and yeah! Don't forget to subscribe and give this video a thumbs up if you want to see more hauls. I'm planning to film a Zara haul probably in a couple of days time so it should be up later this week for you guys of winter pieces so it might include some H&M stuff as well but basically everything's going to be under 30 pounds because I want it to be more of an affordable haul. I know this one's more of a luxury haul but yeah I wanted to film an affordable one so make sure you subscribe for that. If you want to check out my socials I'll have them linked down below as per usual but I'll write them across the screen too. My Instagram is my twitter is my snapchat is I love you guys so, so, so, so, so, so, so much and thank you guys for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye!


You know, I've been coming to this event for the last six years and I think it feels great every year Not just because we're on some list of influential women But because it's a great place to celebrate women in the business world in the marketing world and to meet so many Good friends and to see so many people new faces Women who are making it into the marketing world into the media world beating the odds and you know and getting there I think it's fantastic to be here. I think the industry must be doing something right to have so many of us here today But it definitely needs to encourage more women both at recruitment levels through life stages as well as when it's Making decisions for leadership. I think decisions have to be merit-based But sometimes some people who have who have great competence need a little bit of a nudge


Maen nhw'n ymwneud yn cael ei wneud. Daeth ddiog λeithas ymwyng yng Nghymru yn gynhyrch, ac mae'r gynhyrch gyrraedd Oedden son, yn ystafod honno ein neal, Monica Michelin Salomon, mynd mewn dim ymwythbeth yn Côrscwrthi Chircau Sgolfau. Thank you. twenties Presiding Officer, members of Parliament, everyone here. I would like to address my sincere appreciation for the opportunity to address to you this afternoon. I am Italian by birth, Scottish by adoption, ordained in the Walthensian Church and currently serving in the East End of Glasgow.  To me it applies well with a distinct preference for wild and untamed places. Tolcross, Shethyswn Parish is one of them. Challenging and demanding has many that inhabit the place. It is known has a multiple deprivation location, often prejudices, are the only available narrative about the place. Often partial, often unkind, categorising. I have one example to the country. The church became involved in hospitality towards another Christian denomination almost by accident. A group of Eritrean asked permission to worship in the sanctuary. Their congregation is almost entirely formed by young refugees. Predominantly males, 70 members and growing. Most of them had a treacher's journey across land, desert and sea to get here. And despite it all, they have an unwavering faith and an hopeful look on the future and on humanity itself. So worship now on a Sunday is in Italians cocked in the morning, Presbyterian, and Tigrinia, Coptic Orthodox in the afternoon. Learning to share the same place and to accept each other has not always been easy. For some was an innate instinct for others a learning curve still. For all involved it has been a profound experience of growth and acknowledgement of interconnectedness. We knew it, we knew it intellectually, we knew it here. But to know it wholeheartedly is a completely different matter. It is a change of perception that will never be forgotten. So once on one of the guys' backpack, a sticker was noticed that read Mediterranean Hope, and I knew of that project. As a project based in Lampedusa, an island outside Sicily, and funded by the eight per thousand of the Woldensian church. In that one life saved, we found a deep connection between countries, traditions and customs, raising above all distinctions humanity at its very best. This is the East End too. People battling to survive through many adversities, addictions, mountain debts, but still open and willing to learn and to change and generous, generous to a fault. And in the midst of it all there is the church that may be small in numbers but not in efforts, tirelessly working in hospitality with community-based groups, food banks and charities in and outside Scotland, making God's love felt one life at a time.


Russia's ambassador to the United States recalled nuclear Armageddon. The US administration's policy to ensure that the strategic defeat of Russia is leading the world to a catastrophe, Russian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said. When asked to comment on media reports that Russia was using dangerous and reckless rhetoric in the nuclear sphere, the diplomat said no one in the country's political or military leadership has ever spoken in such a way. The only thing we do is to constantly warn Washington that its policy of ensuring strategic defeat for our country on the battlefield is rapidly leading the world to a catastrophic scenario, the embassy's press service quoted Antonov as saying. The United States and its allies have unleashed an all-out hybrid warfare against Russia on the Russian territory, Antonov said. When asked to comment on media reports that Russia was using dangerous and reckless rhetoric in the nuclear sphere, the diplomat denied those claims and said. The Americans and their allies have unleashed an all-out hybrid war against Russia on our own territory. At the same time, they are profiting from their NATO partners by forcing them to finance the renaissance of the United States military-industrial complex. The US defense industry did not see this kind of money even during the Cold War. The Russian embassy's press service quoted Antonov as saying. In his opinion, Washington remains completely deaf to Moscow's signals. I would like to ask the American public a long overdue question. What else should Russia say or do to make the hotheads in the administration come to their senses and divert the nuclear Armageddon that the White House publicly is so keen to prevent, he said.


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That's some technical glitches. My name is Rupa. I work for IBM, the Rational Division. And I'm going to talk about our experiences. We started as an agile team with annual releases. And we are trying to move more and more into a continuous delivery mindset. And I'm going to talk about our experiences. We are still not continuous as Facebook says, Continuous says, or Twitter says, but we have our own version of this whole journey. And that's what I'm going to talk about. So who we are, what we do, we have a big team. It's distributed across the world.  So we practice distributed agile. And that's what we started as a team, right? So it's from Portland to Tokyo, like with a gamut of time zones thrown in between. The product we work on is like a team collaboration tool. It's called Rational Team Concert. So it's interesting. I'm not going to be talking about the product here, but it's interesting because our learnings from this experience is helping us develop a better product, right? Because the product is also all about agile delivery, DevOps and the ALM life cycle. So this is how we started. We started with disciplined agile. The focus is, you know, it's come from the manifesto. So we wanted to produce software that worked, is delivered on time and responds to changes. But so I guess we started on this about six years ago. And six years ago, agile was still fairly new in market. And there was a, there were a lot of misconceptions and myths floating around agile, right? That agile requires no design, no documentation, no process. Basically the idea was that you sit in court and you automatically produce brilliant software. So there was this, there was this kind of, I guess myth again, that somehow some order would emerge out of the madness of agile. And that's not really true, right? So what we discovered in our journey in agile is that agile just does require design, but it requires just enough design. It doesn't require you to produce humongous design document that nobody is going to read. It doesn't require you to produce humongous help documents that your customer is never going to open, right? So it's kind of a balanced thing. Everything in moderation, right? As your doctor tells you, right? It needs everything in moderation. It does need a process, but the best thing would be if you were not aware of the process. If the tools and technologies that you're using takes care of the process of, you kind of design a process and you tell your agile tool that here is what I want to do. Like when I'm in sprint one, I want my developers to behave in a certain way, check in court in a certain way, go through a certain number of reviews. When I'm in the final sprint, I want those rules to change. And your tool actually takes care of implementing that process. That's what agile should be all about. And then the rest of the things you all know, test-driven development. I don't know how many people actually practice TDD? Okay. I'm embarrassed to say that we really don't. I mean, we try, but it doesn't always work. Then stakeholder collaboration throughout the life cycle. That's interesting. We always keep in touch with our customers. We actually have lots of design partner and customer calls, even when the product is kind of ongoing, even during the release. And we take their feedback and we try to incorporate that into the product. And then end of iteration demos, again, a very, very common agile practice. And one we found to be especially useful when it's an internal demo before demoing to the customer. Your team is, as developers, I found most developers to be very blunt and honest. So they'll be very openly critical about your product. And that I've seen, earlier on I used to get, you get emotionally attached to your product and you kind of feel bad about it. But later on you realize that that's probably the best feedback anybody is going to give you ever. And then retrospective, right? You improve as you go along. And how do you improve? You improve by having a bunch of people at the end of every sprint, come together in a room and just, I guess, rant it out to you, right? And that, it's really helped us. People really get angry and they kind of, not shout obscenities exactly, but they get close. But in the end, they kind of vent. Because, you know, I don't know if people agree to this. I used to do Waterfall before and agile is very stressful. At least I find it stressful, right? It's like your productivity improves but you're always out to prove something that, oh, I have to develop this software and deliver it in like three weeks.  So, you know, the stress of agile, I think, is really important, especially because they help you improve the next iteration, right? So this was how we started. And then we started moving towards continuous delivery. This was because our customers told us that annual releases were not working for them. They would want a feature in our product and we would tell them, you know what? You just missed the delivery board this year. So you can have it maybe June of next year.  So they wanted something that was more continuously coming. Like they basically wanted product to be like a set of pipeline of features that would come to them maybe, you know, first every three months and every month, every day, every week.  So what is continuous delivery? I got it from the net. You repeatedly push out bug fixes and new features to customers. You code, build, test, and deliver continuously. And right now with all this emphasis in various companies around DevOps, I think continuous delivery is actually becoming a reality in a lot of companies. Goal is low overheads, high quality. I mean, that's a general goal of software programming. I don't think it's a CD goal, but you know, apparently CD can help you get there, right? So the chart here is kind of what we started with, code, build, test, deliver. And then we realized that, and I'm going to be going through that in the other slides, then we realized that doesn't quite cut it, right? Because as I think Naresh was mentioning, you can't really do everything without any design. No, not Naresh, somebody else was mentioning today that you cannot have anything that has completely no design, right? Completely no prototyping. So we realized that code, build, test, deliver was good if you were just implementing a product, but you would need to invest some off-cycle time to investigate on features, especially the large ones, right? And to maybe design and prototype, right? So that is kind of our continuous delivery cycle, I would say, code, build, test, deliver. And in parallel, you have teams investigating and designing for the next cycle. And we found it to be working better than just code, build, test, deliver. And how frequent makes it continuous? I remember that when I first submitted my experience report to the Agile, you know, to this conference, people actually almost laughed politely at me. They said it's like, you know, you have a quarterly release that's hardly continuous. And that's true, right? I mean, with all these Facebook posts of how they deliver fixes several times a day so that his mom is happy, I read some posts like that, right? But really continuous can be, it depends on the kind of product that you're delivering, right? If you have a web-based tool and everybody uses web-based software, then maybe you can't deliver multiple times a week. But the tool that I developed, it has desktop avatar as well as web-based avatar. And for that to deliver, I mean, nobody's gonna change their desktop tools. You're not gonna be continuously reinstalling an uninstalling software, right? So for that, probably we will be at most, in the best case, maybe going to once a week or once in a couple of weeks, right? We haven't reached there yet, but that's the goal. So how did we change your rhythm? So when we started with our annual release, we had this, I guess, we had several backlogs, right? We had, we have, in my tool, right? We have like a source control planning system and we have a change management system. We have a tracking and planning kind of a system. And each one of those capabilities, as we call it, had their own backlogs. They had their own priorities from customers and they were all working on those, right? So a release that was, it was kind of, it was almost like there were several features which were going to come together at the end of a year and that would make it to the, make you the final product, right? We realized that if we had to move to like quarterly releases or like, you know, fortnightly releases or whatever, we couldn't go that way. Everybody had to have a common plan, a common goal. So that was the first thing we started with, a common backlog for our product and, you know, right-sizing the features. It's not, you know, you cannot say that, here's a feature, I normally deliver, team of five can deliver it in a year. So I'll give you a team of 50, can you deliver it in a month? It doesn't, software doesn't work like that, right? It's not really multiplicative. So how do you organize a team to deliver these features? How do you right-size these features? These were things that we kinda, I guess we had our own experiences around those. Then how do you flow these features, right? When you have again, when you have like a year to develop, flowing features is fairly easy because nobody is really using your product in the middle of the year. You deliver and once you're sure that your unit tests have gone through, you can, you keep on delivering to the mainstream, but that doesn't work quite as well when you're having for like a monthly release, right? You have to make sure that nothing breaks your feature, nothing breaks your product because if it's broken, it's harder to kind of get back to normalcy. Then deployment pipeline. How do you actually deploy your product and make sure that it's like runs across various platforms? Like it might be support a whole bunch of operating systems or a whole bunch of hardware. So how do you make sure that it actually gets deployed to all those products and it gets tested and it reaches your customers on time? Continuous testing, automation and quality. So these were some of our focus points as we changed our rhythm. So the first one was planning a release. So what we did was we took a look at our existing backlog. This we started about a year and a half ago at our existing backlog and we took each feature or planning from the backlog and we kind of broke it up into some things that we could release in eight weeks. We call it eight week chunks, right? And those eight week chunks actually created our new backlog. So that's like right sizing a release, right? So you're kind of, we didn't go with the story point approach because we'd already found the story points don't work for us. So we kind of went with a, kind of a, we call them like monster features. It's kind of, so when you think about it to yourself as a developer, you say, oh this feature is small, this feature is medium, this feature is monster. I know that it's really big, but it's actually worked for us, right? We've seen that when we have classified features in terms of their size like that and not in terms of story points, people probably feel less stressed, like you know that the estimates are not being questioned and they kind of tend to do it right, right? So we kind of know that these features will fit in an eight week cycle and we found that initially it was really hard, right? Because we never kind of planned to fit anything into eight weeks, right? You have a feature and it takes, like you're going to finish it in a year. So initially it was a hard thing to kind of, we had to kind of, I guess it was a paradigm shift for us, but later we found that if you have smaller features, they're actually better scoped. It's easier for you to scope those features, right? Because they're small enough that you can figure out whether it's going to actually be deliverable in an eight week cycle or not. That's what we found from experience. So this is how we kind of designed our backlog. So at the bottom of the backlog, we have, so this backlog obviously comes from customers, right, stakeholder collaboration. So at the bottom of the backlog are features that we don't really understand that well, right? That we'll need some kind of investigation or the prototypes that I talk about. The top of the backlog are features that are well understood, that we've already investigated, that we've already maybe had some kind of prototype or design we've talked to customers and in the next release, right? So right now we are in some release and in the next release, the features are planned items from the top of the backlog are going to flow into the release plan because then they are ready for that code build deliver kind of cycle, right? Because their initial design and kind of investigation is already done. So that's planning a release. The next thing I think we had an interesting lightning talk in the morning when somebody talked about how context switching is difficult and we found that too. We found that context switching was really difficult and it was actually killing our productivity especially short releases, right? When you're kind of working, you know that you have a year to work on your product.  Because you have this sense of security. Sometimes it's false, but you do have the sense of security. But we found that in a small, in a shorter span, it is absolutely impossible for people to context switch continuously and still deliver a quality product. So what we did was we came up with this, I don't know if it's a new thing, maybe probably people use it already. We came up with this thing of concept of, I guess, feature teams and run teams, right? So what are feature teams? Feature teams are actually cross-functional teams. They contain your normal developers. They contain testers, translators, and then your documentation person and all that. And one feature team once it's built, it focuses on a feature, right? That feature can come from any domain. That sits on your backlog. And because they're focusing on that feature and they're not focusing on anything else, we have seen that they actually do a better job with quality. They actually do a better job of scoping the feature. And we found that it has actually improved the productivity of the team. So obviously, if everybody focused on features, nobody would look at a defect backlog. There would be nobody left to work with customers, you know, and do the build and so on. There's a lot of so-called grant work in the team that has to be done. So then we came up with this thing called run teams. So the run teams are the folks that are actually responsible for, how can I put this? For making sure that your team stays sane and your product runs. Like you actually kinda work on some of your defect backlog and you keep your customers happy and you talk to them and so on, right? So in our product run teams are, you know, somebody talked about Scrum Master. So Run Team has its own Scrum Master and he's a developer as well. And they do the builds and they fix the APRs and they talk to customers, right? So the way we do this feature and Run Team is that at the beginning of every release, we look at our defect backlog and we say that to say, we have a quality goal of say, maybe 70% of normal defects and 100% of CBIT1 defects. And we say that for that, we need these many people to be in the Run Team. And once we have the Run Team in place, we say, okay, now we have 10 developers left. So now we'll be able to do maybe three features of eight week cycles, right? It's the reverse. First, you make sure that your product is high quality and then you see what you can do, how many features you can do, right? And we've seen that because of this, it's kind of easy when you have these numbers, it's kind of easy to explain to execs why you cannot take on the zillionth feature of like an important customer. Because you have the data that tells them that we absolutely need this minimum number of people in the Run Team and we have only five people to spare. So we can only do two features. And if you want us to do more, then we have to trade off quality and nobody likes trading off quality. Then the next thing we did was getting a feature to done, done, right? So we know that typically as a developer, right? I feel that once I've completed coding and run my unit test, my feature is done. But it is not so. For it to actually make it to a product, it has to go through a whole bunch of things, right? It has to go through like, you have to make sure that it's secured. It goes to a security review. It has to go to translations.  So what we designed this, and I'm sure probably people all over the world follow this kind of a pattern, we said that for our feature to get done, done, these are the kind of things you have to make sure. And each feature team has a feature team lead who's also the Scrum Master. And for that particular feature, he or she is responsible for making sure that whatever is kind of listed out in this checklist gets to done, done. And then we have kind of, weekly we take kind of stock up our execution. And we figure out if we are on track or not, right? So this is like a sample of the execution notes of an integration that we are doing right now. Feature delivery. Again, like it, but it's a little bit already, that when you're delivering multiple features at the same time, there are chances that they'll break each other. So you actually, what we do is we go off into different streams. Are you allowed to deliver your feature to your integration stream? Till then, you have to develop in your own feature stream. So that's kind of the rule that, and we find that this is quite successful, right? You get to done that, you're allowed to deliver, right? So our hope is like right now you see that there are like several windows in which you can actually deliver features. Right now these windows are fixed. You know, we have three monthly iterations, three monthly releases, and every three months you have a feature delivery window. But our hope is that we're going to continuous delivery. These windows will become flexible. Feature teams will actually take off features from the backlog, work on them, and deliver them. And we'll have a deliver and release vehicle that will kind of come into action anytime that you're ready with a feature, right? So my team can deliver a feature like today. And then maybe two days later, some other team delivers another feature. And that goes into the software as well. So this kind of a kind of a, this kind of a development scenario in which you're kind of, you're kind of in a silo of your own until you're ready to deliver, helps to do this because you don't really impact other people. Build, deployment, testing is probably the most important thing in continuous delivery. You have to have, like we had obviously everybody has test automation these days, but the more important thing is what kind of environments do you test in? Like I said, ours is a desktop product. So it has to be really tested across several operating systems. You know, we run on Z and Linux and Windows and whatnot. It has to be tested across several browsers. It has to be tested across different kinds of hardware, different kinds of databases, right? You name it. And it is not going to be possible for a testing team or for your development team to test your product on all these different types of combinations of hardware and software unless you had automatic deployment, right? So that's really important for us. We have virtualized deployment. So we have a thing called a deployment pipeline. So what happens is as a part of your build, your tests are run. And before your tests are run, you have this, we have this some, you know, Obscode Chef recipes written in Python, written in Ruby, and those kind of take your finished software. It deploys it on virtualized environments of your pick, runs the test and then gives you a report. And we found it to be extremely helpful, especially going forward with, you know, continuous delivery. So we have tests and deployment pairs. Each test set can actually be deployed to various software and hardware configurations. We get them provisioned on the cloud and we have a continuously running deployment pipeline. So all kinds of tests run here, right? Personal tests, smoke tests, performance tests, weekly tests, right? There's sometimes they're like one hour, sometimes it takes six hours, but all of those get deployment deployed on various virtualized environments on the cloud and tested. I think I'm almost done here. So this is just a snapshot of our deployment pipeline, right? These are the kinds of builds that we run on our deployment pipeline. And then going forward, these are some of the things that we want to do. We want, we have lots of unit and functional tests which are automated. We don't really have UI driven automated tests. We want to get there because we know that it's going to be important for CD. We want to have parallel test execution in builds. Like, you know, you can design your test cases so that a lot of test cases can run in parallel so that speeds up your builds. We are actually, we have already, I think, as we speak this week probably, we've released our hosted version of our software. So for the hosted version, obviously, it'll be a completely different delivery cycle and delivery release patterns all together. So we have to take care of that. So these are the goals, our goals going forward. So you know, I'm done, this is my last slide, but I wanted to bring this to your attention and maybe as a topic of discussion. So we've seen that with continuous delivery and with agile, we've actually attained higher quality. That's the numbers, our defect backlogs are slimmer now and those are actual numbers for my product. We do have better predictability to our commitment and the customers, they're happier than they were before. We have this done, done concept so we know that we are more predictable and we actually aren't done when we say we are done. So all those things are good things, but what we've also found is that people have become more selfish. That's because you're completely focused on your own feature and if you're in a feature team, you kind of lose the product focus, right? That's what my personal experience, I don't know if you have had different experience. So to counter this, counter some of this, we actually have now a pre-floating population of senior people who are involved in features as well as in the run team, they're kind of in a mentoring role. So you know, we are trying to counter this. I don't know if anybody else has the same experience that if you're agile, you become probably too concerned about what you are doing and not enough concerned about what the other person is doing. Another topic in a slowdown of innovation. Do you feel that agile slows down innovation because you don't design enough? You're always rushing, rushing, rushing for the next product, right? I mean, whenever I was doing waterfall, I actually had time to read books that I like to read, books on design, books on stuff, technical stuff. So I have no time at all. It's come to that. I don't know if people agree to this. I don't know how to counter this. That's why we have those off-cycle, you know, kind of design and prototyping cycles, but you know, they may not be enough. I don't know. And then no room to be. That's how I feel sometimes. I don't know if other people feel the same way when they do agile. Like, you know, you just don't have any breathing space left because you're always running. Yeah. And they're always running. Yeah, it's like always. Can you go through here? Yeah. Yeah, I can see anybody here. Okay, good. Good to know, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, future teams come together, but cross-feature teams. Yeah, I'm all right. Yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, sure. Absolutely. So thank you all.


General Defense Francis O'Mondi Ogola from a fighter pilot to chief of the Defense Forces. General Francis Ogola journey to the ranks of the Kenya Defense Forces is a testament to his dedication, expertise, and leadership. He was born on April 24, 1984, and General Ogola embarked on his military career by joining the Kenya Air Force, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on May 6, 1985. Now in his early years, he excelled as a fighter pilot, receiving training both domestically and internationally, including with the United States Air Force. And over time, General Ogola diversified his skillset, undergoing this training in various fields such as imaginary intelligence, counterterrorism, and accident investigation. When it comes to his academic achievements, he is equally landed and equally impressive with a diploma in international studies in military science from Egerton University, a bachala of arts in political science, armed conflict and peace studies, and to note that was first class honors and also a master's of art degree in international studies from the University of Nairobi. He also further honed his expertise at prestigious institutions such as Ecore Military Deparee and the National Defense College of Kenya. Throughout his career, General Ogola held a multitude of key positions, including the current deputy commander of Kenya Air Force, base commander of Laikipia Air Base, commanding officer of tactical fighter wing and chief of flying instructor of the Kenya Air Force of flying training school, among others. His leadership and strategic acumen is instrumental in enhancing the operational effectiveness of the Kenya Air Force and the Kenya Defense Forces as a whole. General Ogola's commitment to service extends beyond battlefield, as evidenced by his involvement in various capacities, such as serving as an observer in military of information officer in the former Yugoslavia, chairing the Military Christian Fellowship and co-chairing the Association of African Air Chiefs. April 28, 2023, General Ogola reached the pinako of his military career when he was promoted to the rank of general and appointed chief of the Defense Forces by his excellency Dr. William Ruto, president of the Republic of Kenya and commander in chief of the Defense Forces. And this ceremony of his investiture was held in April 29, 2023, at a statehouse Nairobi and it marked a historical moment in the Kenya's military history. Chief of the Defense Forces General Ogola assumes the role of principal military advisor to the president and cabinet tasked with guiding national defense strategies and ensuring the security and sovereignty of the nation. His appointment also underscores the implementation of the Tongi rules, which promotes fairness and balance in military leadership by rotating leadership positions among the army, navy and air force. Beyond his professional achievements, General Ogola is a devoted family man married to Aileen and blessed with two children and a grandson. In his leisure time, he enjoys indulging in his hobbies of reading and playing golf. General Francis Omondu Ogola's distinguished career has spawned almost four decades serving as an inspiration to inspiring military personnel and a testament to the values of duty, professionalism and personal development upheld by the Kenya Defense Forces.


What you're about to see are some typical police situations. We'll leave the endings up to you. Situations like these come up every day in a law enforcement officer's career. You will be called upon to use your judgment time and time again, and almost no two situations will be alike. You will have to decide what is right based on the code of ethics you have sworn to as a law enforcement officer, as well as your own personal codes of moral and ethical conduct. Personal value judgments come into play in these situations more than we realize, and we must learn to recognize these. These are complex times we live in, and decisions are getting harder rather than easier to make. But remember, as a law enforcement officer on and off duty, your conduct does not just represent you, but your government and agency as well. The objective of your watching these different situations is to discuss alternatives and decide what will be the most appropriate and ethical course of action. Now make your personal decisions and be prepared to discuss them. That's pretty good lunch we had today. Sure was. Listen, this store's got a sale on compact disc players, and I've been interested in getting one. Do you mind if we stop in here? We still got a little time left on lunch hour. Yeah, we've got about 20 minutes to spare. Let's go in and take a look. Well, good morning if it's not the park police this morning. How are you? It's good to see you. Good to see you too. Listen, what can we do for you this morning? I'm interested in a disc player, compact disc player. I understand you have some. Oh, yes, we've got some. Sure. Come on. Let me show you what we've got. We've got this little unit right here on sale, $495, the best price you'll find any place in town. But listen, let's don't worry about that $495 for one of the government's finest, $395. Wrap it up. You can take it home today. What do you say? $395. Yes, sir. Special price. You take credit cards. We'll take anything you've got. Wrap it up. Come on. Let's write it up. I am so sorry. Please don't blame yourself, Pat. Don't cry, sweetheart. Please. We will. I promise. We will, honey. Okay, just try not to think about it. I'll be home real soon and we'll go to a movie or something. Okay, sweetie? Okay. I love you too. Okay. Bye-bye. It didn't take, huh, George? No.  Jesus. Tom, this is the fourth time. Maybe it just wasn't even meant to be. Are you going to try to adopt? I'd like to, but you have to be married three years just to apply and then it takes at least five years. We are not so young anymore.  That's a shame, George. I'm real sorry. I just cannot stand this anymore. I didn't want to undo. I'm going to find me one of those attorneys that let you adopt babies of unwed mothers. Well, George, those guys have waiting lists just as long as the adoption agencies. Not all of them. Wait a minute, George, you don't mean you're going to one of those crooked attorneys? I don't know.  George, you can't pick the race, the religion, the nationality of the child. So I don't care. That's not the worst of it, George. We don't provide medical records.  I just can't stand this anymore.  I'll say, those foreign tourists make me nervous. So what are you going to be doing this weekend, Steve? Well, I got a party to go to tonight. A couple of friends of mine from high school just got married, bought a house out in Chevy Chase. A few of us got a house woman party together for them. Yeah? Maybe you'll get lucky. I hope so. It's supposed to be a lot of women I never met out there. Good luck. Thanks. I need it. Hey, Steve, good to see you. You doing? You off duty? Oh, yeah. All right. Let's check. Let me get you a beer since you're off duty. Want to get a tour? Oh, sure. Step over here. I'll show you something. You got a beer. Make yourself at home. Look around. I'm sorry. Come on in, man. Want to do a line? Yeah, thanks. Hey, Joe. Yeah. Do you know what's going on in the back room? Well, that's the big deal, guy. We're all adults. We're living in the 80s, man. Everybody does it. Listen up a little bit.  Steve, from you? I found him fresh killed, still warm. Now, Otis, we know you haven't been able to find work in a while. I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong, fellas. I did not shoot that deer.  I found him. I found him dead. Otis, it doesn't make any difference whether you shot this deer or not. You know, if we find it on park property, we've got to take it with us. For what? So you can take it over there and throw it in that ravine? That don't make sense. I could use that deer meat. Oh, come on, Otis. You know we have to. We don't have any choice. Look, if y'all had driven by five minutes before or five minutes after I came by, you'd never know the difference. So what's it to you? Let me ask you a question. What's wrong with letting me have this deer this one time to feed my kids? They're hungry, man. We could use the meat. Otis, don't make us feel bad about this. Come on, fellas, have a heart. A good start and more. Oh, no, look, I'm not bringing this here. This is the best party I've ever had. I'm sure we're getting awful friendly with the hostess. Look, friendship's the last thing on her mind. Have you seen the way she looks at me? She likes me. Look, Dan, you're crazy, messing with the chief's wife. Can I help it that she's the division chief's wife? I mean, she's being more than polite. And when she gets back with our drinks, we're going to go for a little walk out on the dock. Man, you're nuts. Look. We're going to go get her. Man, you're nuts. Look, I can take care of myself. Okay? I mean, she is the chief's wife. I don't want to make her mad, right? And besides, she's pretty good looking. Shh. Here she comes. Be cool. You be cool. Hi. Where do you go? Yeah. I'm just a little bit nervous about being out here alone with you.  Why don't you let me worry about my husband and you can worry about where we're going to meet this week. You know, I was going to talk to you about that, too. You know, time-wise, that's going to be very difficult. Come on, Dan. You have a whole hour for lunch. That'll give us plenty of time to get to know each other. You can come here. We'll be all alone. Aren't you rushing things just a little bit? And aren't you talking too much? Dan, I can be very influential through my husband and he can shape your whole career. Why don't you let me help you?  Well, I don't know about that. Honey, I'd like to take you to dinner, but we're a little broke this month. We're broke every month. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be complaining. But everybody gets to go out for dinner to a movie, something once in a while. You know what I mean? I know, but I don't know what to do except get another job. No, that's not the answer. I'm going to be late. Love you. We'll talk about this tonight, okay? Okay, honey. See you later. Bye. Honestly, we've had a lot of IRS audits through the years and we never had one go as smoothly as this one. You've really worked hard, Fred, and instead of a headache, we've had a very pleasant experience, thanks to your efforts. Well, thank you, Harry. You've been very cooperative. You know, a lot of CPAs really give me a hard time. Not this one. And not this firm. We're all grateful to you and we thought we'd like to express our appreciation to you in a special way. Wow. Redskins Cowboys. I don't know what to say.