Okay, now the fun begins. By the way, I told you we were going to have some individuals who are both articulate and actually have some opinions and you can start to get that sense. They're certainly not shy, but I thought they were both terrific presentations to set the stage. We are going to just, I'm going to throw a couple things out for a little bit of discussion, but then we're going to take a break probably within about five or 10 minutes because we want to hear from you. And in addition, I would also say that during the break, one thing I recognized is there was some science that got covered along the way, some terms that maybe didn't get to find. If anybody in the audience has a question, especially a fundamental question, what does this mean or what do they mean by that? Feel free to come up and find us at the break and we'll happily answer that question, especially around some fundamental concepts. So I want to just, actually there were lots of things I could ask to get this going, but it was interesting sitting next to each of them during the other presentation, and they're feverishly taken down. I mean, they're borrowing paper from me, a lot of ink goes back. So I guess I want to start, and I'm going to ask Robert to start since Susan's talk went first. Name the one thing at just sort of a core that you disagreed with most in what she had to say. And some of it you covered, but if you were going to crystallize it in sort of one sentence, what was the thing you have the greatest disagreement in what Susan had to say? I think the greatest disagreement is somehow tying the abuses in history to the medical use of genomics. I mean, yes, that's true, but I just feel like those were selective examples, and we could dig around for examples in a lot of other domains that represent pure evil in the world that have nothing to do with genetics and genomics. And reciprocally, what fundamentally you disagree with the most in what he had to say? That we're dealing with frightened patients and lazy doctors, and we gotta shape these doctors up, get them in there hunting these incidental findings, performing all these analyses, and somehow doctor knows best when I think, boy, I may trust patients and doctors more than you do Robert, which is astonishing to me, because I do trust them to make good decisions with patients thinking not in a fog of fear, but really thinking about what results they are prepared to deal with. Okay, so I wanna start on pacisimus, because I like both of those things that I heard and it was some of the things I was thinking as well. So let's actually start with the latter one.  Because I'm not sure, maybe part of it I will say, as a physician, my disclosure would be, I didn't hear him saying that, so I'm just curious how you would respond. Well, I agree, I don't think I said that. I think, so, I think. Play the tape. And there is a tape, there is a tape, and you could all watch it afterwards on the Genome TV channel at YouTube, and I will get there later, go ahead. The framework here, I think, is that professional societies have for decades made professional guidelines or recommendations to try to improve the practice of medicine. So this is one of 10,000 such guidelines that gradually try to nudge doctors. They're not lazy or stupid, but they need to be guided by the professional societies, that's the fiduciary duty of the societies, to improve their practice parameters. So really, it's rather ordinary what we did. We created a practice parameter and made a set of recommendations that laboratories search for this information and deliver them to the physician. Then the physician can contextualize them, and I'll say more about that in further exchanges, I'm sure. Susan, I'm curious to hear from you how you would respond to this issue of that some of your arguments were in the past, you're digging up sort of historical legacy issues, and the world has changed a bit, and yet you wanna go back to sort of this historical figure. I would. I wanna. So I hereby summon the spirit of George Santayana, that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. That's my first response. My second is a lot of what I said isn't at all in the past. The fact that NIH was really stepped up to the plate just last year and convened a special panel to control the lax genome is enormously important and a recognition that there is something special about genetics and whole genomes, and they do need to be protected. They do need to be handled sensitively, and that's really dealing with the legacy of the past. That's just one of many examples. It's not all in the past. We still have issues going on in Native American populations, including the Navajo, I could give you a long list, the Havasapai, as you know. There is ongoing concern, difficulty even conducting genetic and genomic research, because there still is a problem in getting that true partnership and respectful collaboration to happen. You buy that? Oh yeah, I agree with her completely, but I don't think that there's more discrimination or insensitivity in genetics than there is in, let's say, mental health world, where there's tremendous insensitivity, there's tremendous discrimination. There's historical mini and maxi atrocities based on people with mental health problems. The difference is that there isn't millions of dollars for ethicists to write about and study the historical or current abuses of mental health ethics. And there is in genetics. It's an incentive. So is it wrong? Absolutely. Is it spectacularly different? No, not so much. I need to intervene that you noticed, Robert, I did something different. I did not say that genetics and genomics was the only sensitive type of medical information and I was the one who said mental health, substance abuse, there are even laws that give that extra protection. So I didn't exceptionalize genetics all alone on Mount Olympus. It's one of a category of things though it has a special history. So genetics is different but not so different, something like that. And I think actually that's one of the themes and it's almost what you just said because that's what I sort of got to say. I think it's hard to argue that genetics is different. I mean everything's different from something else. The question is whether it's spectacularly different from other medical information. One of the things I want to get clarity on is picking up on something that Robert also took exception with where you were talking about the air rate or the air is associated with it. And I'm particularly curious to unpack this a little because I'm trained as a laboratory medicine doctor, clinical pathologist, where clearly we're getting it right when you do a blood test, you do a chemistry test is critically important. But I also know that better and better technologies get you better and better and more accurate information. So is it your contention Susan that we will never get it right in terms of genomic information or are you simply saying that in here circa 2014 it's not quite accurate enough to totally rely on? And I think that's an important point because I would agree with you that today, everything's not perfect yet, but I don't think we should paint a brush of negativity across genomic information because it'll never be accurate enough because I think if you follow any medical technology it evolves with time it gets better and better. So I just want to get clarity on that. Yes, and I was doing two things. Number one, I was virtually quoting you from the 2011 nature piece where you said before genomics really moves full scale into the clinic, we've really got to get it more accurate. We do have an error transition to get through so that's agreeing with your second statement. But the other thing I'm pointing out is in the world of incidental findings, you know, and they're not just genetic and genomic. If you look for example at studies imaging the brain or imaging other parts of the body, they too encounter incidental findings. So we were looking for this, but oh my gosh, this looks like potential pathology. What should we do? And what we have found in that domain too is sometimes it's a false positive. And we have to be very cautious about inflicting that on people. You know, when Robert's committee, the ACMG came out with the incidental findings guidelines, there was I think a very important paper. I mean I was on it, but I wasn't the lead author. Wiley Burke was the lead author. Basically saying, you know, one thing that the committee did right was they were upfront. They said we really don't quite have an adequate evidence base to recommend all these 56 genes for what is in effect opportunistic screening, which is a fancy way of saying, well while we're sequencing your genome for one thing, your cancer, we're gonna just take that opportunity to look at some other stuff. That there were some difficulties in doing that. Because a lot of what we know about the penetrance of certain genes, for example, we've discovered by looking at symptomatic populations or populations where we knew it was a problem in the family, not just the general public. So we do have some evidence gaps and we need to pay attention to that. Be cautious. Yeah, so this is setting the stage. Let me make one point, especially since you quoted me. I feel I have to at least make the point. I completely agree that there's evidence gaps. I completely agree that we have to worry about accuracy. And I think it's interesting because some of the studies that Robert showed that Seek and I forgot the other name off the top of my head, these are exactly studies that are trying to examine this and to close that evidence gap and to improve those errors and to figure out what we're doing. So I don't think certainly any of us, and I'll let Robert speak for himself, but I don't think the field of genomics believes that everything is here and now for full-scale clinical deployment. But what we're trying to do is develop a set of studies that will refine this so that down the road to be defined how many years it will be in a position to be deployed. So I think we should also separate on this discussion the here and now versus where we're gonna be five, 10, 20 years from now. Okay, so we've set the stage. You can see lots of issues we can unpack further and we're gonna want you guys to get involved. So we're gonna take a break now. There's refreshments outside. I think there's index cards outside or something to write on. And please write down your questions and then I'm gonna pick some of them and we're gonna come back in how long? About 20 minutes? 15 minutes. We're gonna come back and we're gonna start to ask some of your questions of these two speakers.


Stevenson falls to Immaculata 66-64 Glen Clark with head coach Gary Stewart coach when you when you have a game like that Where you you don't make a three? Do you chalk it up the bad luck and say, you know, that's probably never gonna happen again or Were there mistakes made and shot selection to how do you go about looking at that? No, I thought I thought we were Playing last night's game for a second. So it was going well for us from three and so we took some shots that Were ill advised, but then we had some opportunities where we were open and they just didn't go down and that's basketball The way that this team fought back when you mentioned last night It looked at times like maybe their legs weren't there But the way that they fought back in the second half closed in that gap got into it How proud are you of the fight that they show? well, I think that our kids are resilient and You know, you go back to last week at Elizabeth town. We're down with 13 Now the key to it is not to get downed and then that deficit, but I thought we we fought and fought and fought and finally got even And then came up empty on some offensive opportunities a couple of them We had just wide open looks and didn't go down and and again, that's basketball and then conversely they came down and Scored right at the rim on three different possessions and we had played really good defense in the second half up to that point And then all of a sudden we get beat knowing that he's gonna go left He goes left and scores comes down again knowing he's gonna go left goes left and scores again And and then after at the time out we talked about it's going into tellery it goes into teller So when when those things happen, you know, you got to give credit immaculata and and we got to get better Speaking of your defense in the second half I thought Cooley really on both ends of the floor obviously turning defense in the offense and his sort of attack mode Jumped off the page at me today. Yeah, he's really really explosive and really good Competitor And I just best basketball is ahead of him So as he gets more and more acclimated to this level and and how it's officiated and how we want to play He's gonna get better and better and better I heard just your thoughts on hosting this event the Mustang classic and what your team got out of it What it did for everybody. Yeah, I think at the time will tell in relationship to what we got out of it But there's certainly some lessons for us in the two games and We knew it was going to be a challenge that their system is is difficult and they really Are good because they can get into where they need to get into off the bounce and you can't foul You're 80% free throw shooter and every all five guys are excellent free throw shooter So so that was good for us and hopefully sooner than later we can heat some of the lessons in this game and Move forward accordingly. I appreciate it. We'll see you back here on Tuesday night. Thank you Glenn. He's Gary Stewart I'm Glenn Clark. Go Mustang sports TV


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Dear President Macron, let's not use public funds to promote a new climate bomb. In November, 450 public development banks are going to discuss how to spend trillions in public money on economic recovery. At the same time, French MPs could decide environment to continue subsidizing fossil fuels abroad until at least 2035. We need friends to be a climate leader. You can't fund a new project in the melting Arctic. You can't fund climate criminals as total... Dear Emmanuel Macron, we have a future in common. Don't let the financing of fossil fuels dictate our lives. We need public development banks to stop funding fossil fuel projects. Mr. Emmanuel Macron, I am proud of all public investment in mega-projects, gas or oil, whether in Arctic or Africa. Dear Mr. Emmanuel Macron, Mr. President, let's turn promises into action. Stop talking, start acting.


My name is Allison and I'm chair of the Dalhousie Feminist Legal Association, otherwise known as DIPLA. I joined DIPLA because I wanted to make sure that my legal education had room for feminist activism and allowed me to make really good friends in a place that we all had like-minded views. This year, DIPLA has organized a variety of different initiatives. We've done educational workshops for our peers with DOMA, SOCO, and PartySafe. We've organized panels about women identifying students and training big firm recruitment and we've honored the trans day of our members on campus. You should join the Dalhousie Feminist Legal Association if you're interested in advancing gender equity in the legal profession and meeting a lot of other people who are also interested in doing so. You can get involved with DIPLA by messaging us on Instagram or Twitter at dallawfeminist or emailing us at dalfeministlegalassociation at gmail.com


Hi, Cube Nation. Welcome to Cube Conversations. My name is Sam Cahane and I'm coming to you from the Wikibon offices here in Marlboro, Massachusetts. I'm excited to be here as Wikibon senior analyst. Stu Minyan. Stu, thank you for joining us today. Thanks, Sam. Good to chat with you today. Great, great. So today we're going to focus on infrastructure and discuss flash storage and how the market has been evolving. So to start, Stu, what is flash storage? And why is it important? All right. Well, Sam, flash has really been the drumbeat in the storage world for the last few years, really revolutionizing the way we build our infrastructure, as well as even impacting how we're going to build our applications. I love, if you see the little cartoon over my shoulder here, we talked about how really the consumer devices, the smartphones you carry, the tablets, even the laptops that you carry, started using flash storage which is unlike disk, it's non-spinning, it's high performance, it uses low power, had a lot of real advantages when you think about things like battery life and performance that has now come back into the enterprise because flash was actually a technology we used a bunch of years back, 15 years ago when I started working for a big storage company, I saw this big array and it was like, what's that? Oh, that's solid state disk, it's flash. And then really disk was the predominant technology that was used, but flash has really come through and really revolutionized the way we think of storage, think about infrastructure, architecture, and it's been just having a booming effect for the last six years, and we think over the next five to ten years, there will be even more changes going on. So it seems like, and you've seen a lot of changes with flash storage, how has the industry conversation been changing over time? Yeah, great question, Sam. So if we look at flash, when we first started writing about it, people said there's this great little technology, but really where do I use it and how does it fit into what I'm doing? And we said flash, while it is a component, the solutions that we build out of it are many and there's lots of different uses out there. So I think back, when we first did our kind of forecast and definition on flash in 2011, it was you had some flash that was going in the server for specific applications. You had traditional storage arrays that were adding flash, very small percent, 2% flash to really give them greater performance, a little bit more flexibility, and there were these new things called hybrid storage arrays, which mix disk and flash. Fast forward to today, and flash is really pervasive. We have all flash arrays, there's still, of course, hybrid arrays, there's blurring between those. Traditional storage arrays are adding more and more flash, and on the server side, closer to the compute, we're building many more new solutions. So not just a card, but really looking at building out larger solutions closer to the compute. An area that I cover greatly is called hyperconverged, or what we call server-sand at Wikibon allows us to build whole new architectures that take that sole technology of flash, which is increasing in capacity, growing in the utilization and coming down in price, so that it's really changing the way we think about infrastructure, and there's really a solution that we look at today that isn't either leveraging flash, or at least had flashes, some sort of consideration as to how they build things. Great, and I want to focus for a second on the users in this space. So what is the mindset of the user? What are they thinking? Yeah, great point. So we spent the first couple of years really educating users as to what is flash? Do I use it? How do I use it? Oh, it's really expensive. How can I justify it? What does it make sense for? And it's a different conversation today. Today it is an if, it is where, and how much. And we're talking to a lot of users actually, what David Floyer, our co-founder and CTO at Wikibon says is, can you build an all flash data center? And actually, the economics are coming into play that now you can build solutions really built around flash and change that whole environment. So customers are adopting the solutions are growing very fast, both through the startup companies that have filled all of those different segments that I talked about, as well as, you know, the big players in the market, all the traditional storage companies, even the compute vendors are all leveraging flash into what they're doing. So flash is pervasive customers are aware of it. And you know, boy, they're taking advantage of it in a lot of different ways. Great. So, Stu, I want to talk to you a little bit and give you a chance to disclaim any misperceptions in this space. Are there any misperceptions that you see? Yeah. So there's a lot of challenges out there, right? First of all, people think they think flash and they're like, okay, it was kind of high cost. And it kind of was for certain environments. And of course, in the early parts of the technology, the amount of functionality and performance that's growing and the price is going down as we get larger capacities out there in the industry and just more of it out there. So the price economics are changing greatly. One thing David Floyer once again is focused on is the storage efficiencies that I can get with flash, make it so that you can't say, oh, how much do I pay for a gig of disc versus a gig of flash? Because if I can use things like compression and deduplication and other storage efficiency metrics, I can often get, you know, five times more capacity on flash than I could on disc. And we used to have to do things with with disc, things like short stroking and other kind of contortions to try to get performance out of disc that I don't need to flash in many ways can just pull performance out of the equation as a bottleneck and just give you all the performance you want. So I've talked to a number of service providers and large enterprises that said, you know, I used to have to figure out the math as to whether or not I should use flash. But if I just go with mostly flash, I'm deploying all flash arrays or things like that, I actually saves me a lot on my soft costs, my management, my decision points, because I know I've got a baseline in an infrastructure that I can just use. So that's a real thing. What the flash you were looking at two years ago is very different from the flash we were looking at today. And boy, what's exciting from our standpoint is there's a continuation of new technologies and new companies that are coming to bear to bring together new solutions. And the last thing, maybe I don't know if we've got time to talk about it, but it's really helping to drive this next generation of applications. Great, great. And you know, you talk about how two years ago flashes evolved so much. And you know, there's a new world of applications moving forward. How do you see the space changing as time goes on? Yeah, so really, we think this is where we've got the greatest opportunity over the next few years. So of course, when a technology first comes out, it's how do I apply it to what I have.  I'm really starting to deploy it much. I'm virtualizing my applications. I can help get greater performance and take care of what was known as the IO Blender problem, which was, you know, lots of VMs using lots of VMs. You know, go forward today. We're thinking about modern applications. And how do they handle distributed architectures and even more performance? Things like containers and Docker are going to take that IO Blender problem and push it even further. So the architectures will change and the applications are changing to take advantage of these environments. When, you know, 10 years ago, if I built a database, I knew that I had a disk infrastructure and therefore, the way I do my calls and the way I set up my buffers, I know that there's a bottleneck in the system today. If I'm building no SQL databases, if I'm doing analytics and Hadoop, I know I can have much greater performance, whether I'm doing something on-prem or leveraging cloud solutions that are now doing Flash. So we really think that Flash is one of these underlying pieces that's going to help increase what I can do with my infrastructure. And then that is going to drive the next generation of applications which are going to use this new infrastructure. So what we always say, if we spent, you know, five years, we had tremendous growth, the next five years are going to be even more because those fundamental pieces, those applications which we live with for a long time, are going to go through huge changes as Flash just becomes a way of building my infrastructure using that stuff. Great, great. So we only have time for one more question here.  All right. So, yeah, I mean, Wikibon, we're really trying to help tease apart. We always want to help the user community understand how to make their choices based on this because, first of all, in IT, unfortunately, everything tends to be additive. So how do I add this into my existing environment? Things like migrations and conversion costs are very hard to go through and usually don't want to do this. So, you know, what we try to tell users is, first of all, try not to get locked into anything. Don't build that next data center because somebody else can actually help you build that better. Don't, you know, try to just hold on to your legacy applications. Let's find ways to modernize what you're doing and leverage these new technologies. We're going out to tons of shows where we're talking to, you know, none of the big players out there, but the smaller startups out there. From a use case standpoint, of course, you know, big data is a big focus area of ours. So the Hadoop marketplace, the NoSQL marketplace, are helping to drive a lot of these conversations and even I've got a strong networking background and Flash is really helping to drive even greater performance. So it puts a strain on the backbone and the connectivity between all my components. So it's always an IT. The bottleneck never goes away. It just gets moved to another part of the infrastructure and I constantly need to just look at holistically what we're doing. And that's what we always advise, is you want to take Flash not as a component or a point solution, but look overall as to how it fits into your business needs, your application requirements and how does it drive value back to what you're doing as a business overall. So it's exciting stuff. Stu Miniman, Wikibon Senior Analyst. Thank you for joining us. Cube Nation, we'll see you next time. Thank you.


Soldiers of the Russian Volunteer Corps planned to free Navalny by force and bring him to Ukraine. The Russian Volunteer Corps, fighting on the side of Ukraine, planned to forcefully liberate political prisoner Alexei Navalny in Russia. The Corps shared that they had been planning Operation December since the beginning of October 2023. For this purpose, loyal employees of Russian law enforcement agencies were involved. The intention was to transport Navalny to the border with Ukraine and hand him over to the Russian Volunteer Corps reconnaissance group to evacuate him to the territory of Ukraine. The group's commander stated that they were supposed to take Navalny away from the convoy on the way from Penal Colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region to Penal Colony No. 3 in the Yamalo-Nenets district. Unfortunately, the security measures that the Russians undertook to prevent such scenarios proved to be quite effective. The date of Alexei's transfer was fluctuating and, therefore, the fact itself was concealed from the public, the Russian Volunteer Corps noted. The date and time of the transfer were postponed several times and in the end, it started all of a sudden by the direct oral order of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. Our group did not have time to move to the area of the planned start of the operation, the Corps says. As previously reported, Russian politician Alexei Navalny died in a Russian Penal Colony on February the 16th. The Russian Federation claimed that the prisoner allegedly fell sick after a walk, fainted and died.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Shashi. Let us do one question. Question is state whether the following statements are true or false. Justify, first part is for an arbitrary binary operation star on a set n where n is the set of all natural numbers a star a is equal to a for every a belonging to n. Let us start with the solution now. The binary operation star on n that is the set of natural numbers is defined as a star a is equal to a for every a belonging to set of natural numbers. Clearly we can see this binary operation is not defined. This statement is false. So our required answer is false. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Have a nice day.


Welcome to Relationships Among Firewall Perimeters. When we use the term firewall, we refer to a device or application used to isolate our network from other networks. Just as a physical firewall in a multifamily dwelling prevents a fire from moving from one home to another, a network firewall prevents unauthorized users or messages from moving from one network or operating system to another. The firewall blocks the intrusion of software that has been specifically designed to damage or disrupt an operating system or network. This type of software is called malware, which is short for malicious software. Some examples of malware include viruses and trojans. It's important to understand that firewalls can be implemented as hardware, software, or as a combination of the two. Applications can run on dedicated firewall devices, servers, or clients. A strong network defense strategy would include all of these options. Network classifications. Trusted networks are inside the network security perimeter and the networks you're trying to protect. Semi-trusted networks may allow access to some database materials in email, not be used for confidential or proprietary information, and include DNS proxy and modem servers. Untrusted networks are referred to as the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, yet are often anything but outside of your security perimeter and outside of your control. You have completed this learning activity, relationships among firewall perimeters.


Good evening and welcome to it. This is the private property podcast and I'm your brand new host, Sibs Matiella, here to talk about all things property. Today on the show we're gonna be talking about how to secure your rent through vetting procedures. We're speaking to a lovely man by the name of Waldo Marcus, who's the head of marketing and sales at TNP Credit Bureau. But before we get into that, let me tell you something, all roads lead to the property show. This year, we're back. In real life and virtual, with content generated in our Metaverse Studio. We've designed the exhibition space to replicate the world's most popular property game and added in activities for the whole family, including an indoor park and play area. The game board is divided into four journeys, namely first time home buyers Boulevard, Investment Avenue, Sellers Street and Renters Road. Visit thepropertyshow.co.za for more information and to get your tickets today. The property show 2022, 27th to the 28th of August at the Santon Convention Center. No matter where you are on your property journey, we've gathered the experts. You heard it here first, all roads lead to the property show. It is happening at the Santon Convention Center on the 27th and the 28th of August, proudly brought to you by privateproperty.co.za. You can join us digitally from anywhere in the world. Right now, in life, we are securing the bag and if we can't secure that bond, we are going to secure the rent, Annie. So we're going to talk to Waldo Marcus, who's the head of marketing and sales at TNP Credit Bureau about how to secure your rent through vetting procedures. Waldo, thank you so much for joining us. How are you? Sir, thank you very much for having me and welcome to the show. Looking forward to seeing you on air more often. Thank you so much. I'm looking forward to seeing you on air. Listen, Waldo, tell me, can you give me a brief overview of what you do over there at TNP and just your journey at the company? So TNP Credit Bureau has been going for 22 years. I joined the organization about 18 months ago, where I specifically focused on commercial property as we service both the commercial and the residential rental market. And thereafter, I joined as head of marketing and sales of this brilliant organization to continue its growth. What role do you guys play in the property market? I am a layman when it comes to property rights. So you're like, yeah, we do this stuff and this department and that one. And I'm like, what is it that you guys do? What do you mean? So TNP's key focus as a credit bureau is to collect data on how you pay your rental every month. And that is for both commercial and residential property. But specifically around residential property is about like you pay your credit cards and how you pay your insurance and your bond that is usually collected by credit bureaus. And should you then be interested in placing a tenant, you then will come to us. And we provide you with insights on how the tenant performed historically. We do more than that. We also create an ecosystem for residential property owners, whereby they can promote their property, ensure that they have all the necessary documentation like leases and application and inspection forms. We provide those as well as a series of other compliance tools to ensure that you as a property owner engages with your tenants with all the necessary legislative, regulated documentation to ensure a great relationship. Waldo, when it comes to vetting in the property market and rentals specifically, I mean, we've run into a number of problems and issues as the years have gone by. I'm not looking at you Cape Town, but I am. What I do want to ask you is that obviously there is a vetting procedure, right? What are the different steps in which one can follow when it comes to vetting tenants? And what would it take to pass that vetting procedure? So we take various, we pull from eight different databases and those databases ensure that, A, the person that has applied to move into a property is the person that they say they are. We have seen in the past and people have actually signed lease agreements and the person that's moved in is not the one that signed the agreement. So identity fraud is quite big. So we traditionally encourage people to start vetting by making sure that the individual that they're signing the lease with is a true person has not stolen the identity. Then of course you want to look at the affordability and can this person afford to move into a property? Yes, they provide you with potentially bank statements, but it's not coming from a third party. So we provide various tools that allows you to then say, all right, this tenant can afford moving into my property? Yes, in the past, they've paid their rent a long time. They've paid their cell phone account on time. Should they have car repayments? They've paid these. So it gives you a holistic view of what this individual can afford and should they move into your property? What is the probability of them paying their rent to ensure that you as a landlord or a property investor can then of course also make sure that you can make your payments towards banks, bonds, levies, et cetera. So it's quite a holistic view that we take on an individual. We've seen that during COVID a lot of people have fallen behind on some of their payments and therefore we provide you with a five year view on this individual. So it's not just a snapshot of where they are currently. You then can understand this and for four, five years, for four years they've paid their rental and other accounts very well and then during COVID they struggled, means that their intentions are good, they wanna pay. I'm so glad you mentioned that actually this sort of five year snapshot because I was gonna ask you sometimes you have a checking account and you have a savings account and then sometimes you've got a 32 day you need to take the money from the one to the other to pay the thing. So sometimes you might not pass the vetting procedure but perhaps you do still qualify. Are there any opportunities for tenants to resubmit their applications and supporting documents if they don't pass the first time round? So that sits within the hands of the landlord at the end. So when a tenant applies that the landlord or the property owner or managing agent will perform the vetting process. They will then decide if the tenant has been successful or not. What we do encourage is that when you do apply for rentals and you are aware that there has been some impact on your credit score informed the landlord about it. So when they do do the credit score that's not a massive surprise. And then of course, encourage people to pay their rental on time. It does improve your credit score. So when you do decide to move or apply for a bigger apartment or bigger home that you do have a positive credit score and then therefore you won't need to go around applying for various properties. I hear you. In terms of vetting Waldo, do you only offer this for residential properties? Because we're talking a lot about individuals paying their rent at their apartments and their flats and there. But is this only regarding residential property owners and tenants? So we service both the residential and commercial property market. Commercial in most cases is credit checks or what we refer to as a rain check on businesses as well as individuals. And these vary from a person that's renting a warehouse all the way to the listed property REITs and funds in South Africa where we collect data on for instance, how we can pay would pay all the way down to a small moment pop store. And once again, that helps them build a positive credit score within the property sector. What we started about five years ago was also to collect how people are paying their school fees, both public and private schools to improve the credit scores. And also when people are there for applying for rentals, it also then looks back and say, have, do they have kids? And if they had kids, have they paid the school fees? We know in South Africa it's a massive struggle to collect school fees. So that was one of the markets that we felt that we can make a big difference and help schools to ensure that they collect the school fees that's due to them. Wow, I had never considered that. And I'm really glad you said it because now parents will know that they're being vetted to see if their kids can go to that school or not. Okay, let's say my wildest dreams come true. I win the lottery and I'm now a prospective or a new landlord. I've just entered the property market. What is the best advice you can give me? Do your research, understand exactly where you wanna buy, try and look at some trends. We provide property reports and there's a few other companies as well. Understand what the market has done within that area. Go to resources like private property, the private property show and get as much information as possible before you're making a decision. At the end of the day is that you purchase a property, you are in for it for the long run. And then secondly, make sure that you understand what is the maintenance and repair costs potentially as well as rates and taxes and levies when you calculate your bond. Understand those costs are also increasing at a much higher rate than CPI. So when you plan, you budget for moving into New Haas. Please consider that before you make a purchase decision. I love that word budget because I think a lot of people did a lot of budgeting pre COVID and started seeing their plans regarding property and property ownership come into fruition. And then we hit this massive sort of roadblock in a lot of ways. So I'm curious as to how the current economy has affected the rental market. So we've seen during COVID that the rental market was negatively impacted. We've seen rentals de-escalate in some provinces. Some rental brackets were really badly impacted, especially the below 3,000 rent rental bracket per month. But we started seeing a recovery. And then of course the start of this year with the high inflation, fuel prices continuing to increase and expectation and the slowdown of GDP. But I think a key factor here is what we expect the rental market to do is to see an increase in demand as people are holding back on purchasing decisions and saying, all right, while there's such uncertainty within the economy, but also within the interest rates, we would rather hold back and continue renting or move into the rental markets until we feel comfortable, we find the right space. So in the medium term, we're expecting the increase in demand, escalations in the rental market will also be going up as to try and keep up with the inflation and repair and maintenance cost. So overall, we're expecting the rental markets to continue improving. What we should be cautious about is when you place tenants, make sure that they can afford the rental. And we put that as an exclamation mark because you do not want people moving into your property, sign a lease agreement and they're not able to afford the rental. And it can take a long time to evict those individuals should they refuse to leave under cancellation letter. So would you say that you foresee some positive changes in the future for the rental market, Waldo? Yes, we do see in the medium term, we definitely see the rental markets improving, but will not come with its own challenges, but it will improve, we expect. All right, tell me what's in store for TPN Credit Bureau for the next five years. Well, that's a very interesting question. So as I mentioned, we've been in the commercial property and residential property market and then expanding into education and education is both private and public, but also tertiary education, where we see that there's so many schools in South Africa that it is really struggling to make ends meet. And we definitely are going to grow that database. We also have a employment verification database, the only one in South Africa, where we can say, yes, the person is employed and it's not by submission, it is based on data that we collect directly from UIF. So that would be an interesting one for us to continue building out. And then we've got a few surprising projects that's in the pipeline that we're going to go live towards the second half of this year, most probably in quarter four, that is definitely going to change the way people view affordability. So when you get a tenant to determine if they can afford your rental, it's going to be a seamless automated process for you. So there's some exciting stuff to come up, but I can't give away everything just yet. I totally get that. Waldo, this is now a personal question that I'm going to ask you. It's not on my list of the questions that I need to ask you, but I'm really interested to find out if your personal opinion is that the market is geared to favor tenants or to favor landlords. And I'm speaking now particularly to affordability, right? We've seen a lot of things happen with the economy. We've seen a lot of people not be able to afford their rent or the school fees or very many things. We've seen salaries not rising at the same rate as CPI and inflation. And a majority of people are in a position where they're between a rock and a hard place. So I understand needing to protect landlords and their investments and their properties. But I also feel as though maybe there should be some room allocated and just some grace towards what we've actually experienced financially as a society over the past two years in a bit. I think the markets and the free market system has factored in the stress on the consumer. And as I said, we've seen rentals in some property and some provinces actually de-escalate. So they've lost brand values and that is why it's because there is a lack of demand. And in some areas where there's a huge amount of supply that comes through and there's additional building construction taking place, we've also seen rentals coming down. So if you, for instance, look at what you paid for a two bedroom apartment in this instance in CBG, now what you paid for it pre-COVID, it's a lot more affordable moving closer to your office, your work, et cetera, considering the high fuel prices. So in a way, the free market system has definitely done it. From a legislative and a regulation perspective, there is various acts in place to protect the tenant. And once again, there's procedures and processes in place to ensure that both the consumer and the landlord is looked after. So I believe in South Africa from a governance perspective, we have done very well to ensure we protect the rights of the tenant. And then as well as the landlord. And that is why it's so critically important that we do vet the tenants before moving in and we do ensure that they sign the right lease agreement and that's completed. So you don't have procedural problems down the road. Thank you. I needed that answer. And I think a lot of people needed to hear that as well. That was Waldo Marcus, head of marketing and sales at TPN Credit Bureau telling us about how to secure your rent through vetting procedures. It is competition time. One of our lucky viewers is going to walk away with a 500 rand cold hot cash and a ticket to the property show happening on the 27th and the 28th of August, 2022 at the Stanton Convention Center proudly brought to you by privateproperty.co.za. I need a drum roll please, somebody, anybody. Okay, let's do it at home. Today's winner is Ponzo Ontatile. 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Hi everybody, Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com with a brand new release here on this Wednesday and the first of the month. Big thanks to everybody for getting into this random team break.  Thanks everybody here. So let's double up, double up your spots. All 30 basketball teams are in. Let's roll it, let's randomize names and teams one and a six, seven times. Lucky seven, one, two, three, four, five. Three, four, five, six. And once more, right? Seventh and final time. Brian down to Travis after seven, one and a six, seven times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. Got the pistons down to the spurs.  John with the clip show, Brian C with the maves, Brian with the raptors and pelicans, Brian W with the T-wolves, Brian with the rockets. John with the bulls, Jeff with the heat, Brian C with the Golden State Warriors, Travis with the Sixers, Jesse with the nicks, Brian J with the nets, and Travis with the San Antonio Spurs, Brian's and Ryan's all over the place. Thanks everybody. Let's advertise by team and we're gonna pause the video when we come back. We're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break stick around BRB. All right, welcome back everybody. No deals were done in Random Team Break number one. First of the month, thanks everyone for joining and getting into the action, appreciate it. Here's the final printout, hot off the presses and here is the inner case that was given to me for Random Team Breaks. Right here, let's see which five boxes we're gonna do. All right, so I'm gonna select one of these, one of these dyes here, I like that one. So we'll go one, two, three for the left side and four, five, six for the right side. And it's two, left side. This side we will save for next time. Little X's there so we know they're from the same inner case, I think there's case hits or anything like that so I may not make a huge difference, but either way, okay. One autograph per box on average, six cards per box, good luck, two cards on the bottom then the auto. All right, really love the design of Contender's Octic Basketball, there's Jason Tatum playing the numbers game, 60 points, that's a lot and we've got James Hardy, sweet shots right there. I think these are, that red ice was not numbered. All right, here's the Darius Basely Refractor and the Hachimura Red, not numbered. And the autograph behind Derrick Rose is Theo Maladon, rookie autograph for the O.K.C. Thunder. And that's Jesse for the Thunder. I saw an card autograph, next one. We got Team Tandems, that's James Hardy and Kevin Durant and then we got Cole Anthony, Uniformity for Orlando. We got Kyle Kuzma Lakers edition and we got Gary Trent Jr. for the Raptors and behind Colin Sexton is a Tyrese Maxi autograph, 52 out of 99, nice. And that's Travis with the Philadelphia 76ers. Nice, he's been playing pretty well. Next box. All right, Team Tandems, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, Blue Ice. Pascal Siakham, Uniformity for the Raptors. We got Nikola Jokic and Jason Tatum, both red. And the autograph is, is Zeek Najee for the Denver Nuggets. It's Igor with the Nuggets. 121 out of 149, next box. Playing the numbers, 50 points for Joel and B. And we got a Sweet Shots. Yeah, Sweet Shots, Zion Williamson for the Pelican, second year Zion, going to Ryan. And we've got Zach Levine and Donovan Mitchell, Refractors. Your autograph behind Rudy Gaubert is, is Scroob. Rookie ticket autograph for the Clippers. That's John with the Clippers. Jay Scroob, nine out of 49. And the last box, good luck. Got Blue Ice, Paul Pierce All-Star. Got a second year John Morant right here for the Grizz, Sweet Shots, Blue Ice. And we got a Deandre Aten and a Draymond Green. They played each other last night. And Nikola Vustovic reveals a Desmond Bain, a rookie ticket autograph for Memphis. Brian Jay with the Memphis Grizzlies. There you go, Brian, there you go, everybody. That's a nice break of Contender's Optic Basketball. We got some Pick Your Teams in the store as well, so check that out. I'm Joe for JasperJasperHakes.com. We'll see you next time for the next Hoops break. Bye-bye.


OK, let's get started. Before we start, I have some questions. How many people here are running on OpenStack Cloud right now? OK, how many of you have the plan to upgrade your OpenStack Cloud in the next one or two years? OK, great. And how many of you are the contributors to the community, either the cloud projects or the developers, the drivers for Newton, Cinder, or NOAA? OK, great. I think we got a lot of people in this room. Thank you. So let's get started. For this session, we will introduce OpenStack upgrade without downtime. That's how to rolling upgrade your OpenStack environment. See it work. OK, here we go. So for today's agenda, we will have a general introduction about the left upgrade. And then I will turn over to Takashi. And he will introduce how NTT designed the testing of the left upgrade. And how to do that was the upgrade procedures. And also he will share the test results in the two rounds of testing. And in the last, we will have a summary about the issues we have during the testing. And also we want to call for help from the committee to do some improvements. So first of all, we want to introduce who we are. Takashi, you want to have a self-introduction? Hello, everyone. My name is Takashi Natsume. I work for NTT Corporation. Thank you for coming today. OK, for myself, I'm Yan Kaili. I'm from Canonical. And I worked with the Takashi team to provide the consulting service for this project. So for the OpenStack upgrade, why do you want to upgrade without downtime? I think this is some reasons coming from, especially when you deploy the OpenStack in a production environment, all your deployments to provide the public cloud service. The first of all is OpenStack has released every half a year. How do you catch up? How do you to make sure you can get the latest features from the OpenStack unit to upgrade? And also, for example, if you have an environment which is deployed on the fair zone or grizzly, I think now the code is already out of maintenance. You have to maintain it by yourself. There's a lot of maintenance calls you need to consider. And in addition, there are a couple ways you can do the upgrade. You can upgrade using an offline upgrade, build another environment, and migrate all your resources eventually. But you need to invest the new hardware, so this introduced additional cost. So in this session, we will introduce how we upgrade the OpenStack environment from Havana to Asahaw's in the same testing environment. So before the project started, I think entity team, they set up their goals for the left upgrade. The first goal is there is no impact on the existing results. The existing results, including the instances the customers already deployed and they are using, or even now they have some connections to their instance right now. And also the results is including the volume storages. And also, we don't want to introduce any performance problem during the upgrading process. So the second goal of the entity called left upgrade is there's no impact for the new requests. For example, if I want to request a new instance, I want to create a new volume. But right now, the upgrade is in progress. We don't want that to impact the end users. So but how we do that, that's why entity team started a test project. They deployed the test environment followed exactly the same architecture in their production environment. And they conducted maybe two to three months testing in this environment. And they defined what component we need to consider for the upgrade, including the open-stack core components, Noah, Cinder, Glance, Newton, Kiston, and Height. But what I want to highlight here for the other open-stack components are the meteors underlying, for example, the Massicule, our directories, their load balance service. And also the operation system itself is not considered in this project. So the test is connected from Havana stable to IZHouse One. That's because at that time, IZHouse One is the only released version when the testing was started. And later on, we found some bugs during the upgrade, which was fixed in IZHouse Three. So for Noah, rolling upgrade, we upgraded to the IZHouse Three in the second round testing. So a bit of background information about the system architecture. If you take a look under this system architecture, we separate the services, which can support active high-ability. And the services can support active passive high-ability. Also, the services have no HA solution right now. So this separation, the reason is we need to take the different strategy for the upgrade for these components. So another thing I want to mention here is for network solution, NTT takes the VMware and NSX in this testing. It's not the standard normal neutron something. It's a neutron-plus NSX. And for the storage, block storage, in this architecture, we take the EMC storage driver during the testing. So now I would like to hand over to Takash to introduce some details. From now, I will explain our live-up-grade testing. We, NTT, performed a physical study for live-up-grade in our test environment. Step-by-step upgrade, rolling upgrade, was needed in order to satisfy our goals that Yankei mentioned. Because the way to upgrade the entire system at one time affects user's resource utilization and user's API calls. On the premise of it, I will explain our trial for the viewpoint of these five items. At first, I would like to talk about things to be investigated before creating upgrade procedure. We investigated these three items, batch-checking OpenStack source cores. As you know, there is a possibility that database schema is changed in new version. And the consistency of APIs between components is also important. Components means Nova, Schindler, and so on. For example, check API version's consistency in calling from Nova to Schindler. And the consistency of RPC APIs and REST APIs in each component should be checked. For example, RPC API's version's consistency in calling from Schindler API to Schindler volume. When it comes to RPC API, major version is very important. About this matter, I will explain the details later. Then I will explain considerations in creating upgrade procedures. User resources must be transferred from upgrade target host to other host. In our case, user resources were VM instances, block storages, virtual routers, and virtual networks. These resource migration steps must be added into the procedure. For example, VM instances have to be transferred by live migration, and so on. But Schindler's volume migration was not utilized in our trial. As a factor that determines the order to upgrade in each component, there is RPC API versions. Errors occur in case that the major version, callee supports, and RPC messages' major version are different. When major versions are same, it is no problem in case of the minor version callee supports equals or greater than RPC messages' minor version. But if the former is less than the latter, errors occur. In this figure, if RPC major versions are same, a callee has to be upgraded after a callee is upgraded. In this case, upgrade is performed in the order of process A, process B, process C. In other words, the order of upgrade must be decided so that there is no contradiction among RPC API versions. And we also have to decide the upgrade order of OpenStack components on the basis of consistency of APIs between components. And you should consider the way to block requests to check processes in progress and utilizing graceful shutdown function. About changing database schema in NOVA upgrade procedure designed in the community, database schema is upgraded at once, and NOVA conductor processes also upgraded at once. This procedure didn't meet our requirements. So in our procedure, in order to avoid API call interruption, controllers are rolling upgraded. Therefore, OpenStack processes coexist on different versions. In order to enable it, at the beginning, add new version tables, add new version columns, and add new version indexes. Then upgrade OpenStack processes. In the end, delete old version tables, delete old version columns, and delete old version indexes. In our trial, it was not needed to convert data format, but it must be considered in some cases. And database lock time will be a long time if large number of records exist in database tables. But we did not write our procedure with large number of records. In that case, these tools will be able to solve the issue. About high availability configuration, from the perspective of live upgrade, active-active configuration is design-level. But there are some cases that active-active can not be configured, so active standby is forced. For example, the case that's in the back end or a neutron plug-in does not support active-active configuration. In our test environment, Nova, ConsoleOS, and HeatEngine were also configured active standby. Neutron L3 agent and Neutron DHCP agent were configured active-active in our test environment. It means that those hosts were configured active-active. But essentially, these processes should have been configured active standby because they have their own state. In the latest version, Heat has multiple engine functions. So HeatEngine processes would be configured active-active. Now, and Neutron has L3 agent HA, BRRP function now. In active-active configuration case, requests to the target host are blocked as the load balancer while the target host is upgraded. When switching active standby, there is a service downtime of the component as expected. By the HA configuration, the live upgrade is performed in these procedures. We had three patterns. In active-active configuration, steps block requests connections to upgrade target host, migrate user resources, upgrade host, and unblock. These series of steps are repeated on each host. In active standby configuration, steps are upgrade standby host, block request to active host if possible, switch active standby, and unblock. These series of steps are also repeated on each host. In no HA configuration, Nova compute hosts steps are block request to target host, migrate user resources, upgrade host, and unblock. These are also repeated on each host. This figure is one shown earlier. This was our test environment. Based on that, we explained, especially by considering upgrade steps of each HA configuration and RPC API versions, we created the overall upgrade procedure. This is the overall upgrade procedure. At first, backup database and change database schema. Then, rolling upgrade is performed on each host in order by considering RPC API versions. For example, Cinder volume is upgraded before Cinder API, Cinder scheduler, controllers are upgraded. And heat engine is upgraded before heat API is upgraded. About Nova, controllers, Nova API, Nova scheduler, Nova conductor are upgraded before Nova compute. As you know, compute API measure version was up in I-Sahara's release. But stable Havana Nova compute can understand I-Sahara's level 3.0 messages. So it can be upgraded in that order. When live migration is performed from Havana node to I-Sahara's node, I-Sahara's Nova compute cannot understand Havana level messages because of the measure version difference. So Havana Nova compute has to be set I-Sahara's compact upgrade levels section in Nova Conv. It enables Havana Nova compute to send I-Sahara's level messages. And there are active, active configuration hosts, active standby hosts, and single no-HA hosts. They are upgraded by following the steps explained in the previous slide. At last, database is back up, and the data schema is changed. About test tools, we placed a load on our test environment during live upgrade procedure test. The rows were API requests covered patterns of calls between components and between processes in each component in our use case. North, south, and east-west network communication and VNC console connection. About test environment, it was mandatory that the environment has the same configuration, especially high availability configuration as same as the production environment to be applied upgrade procedure. And we tested our procedure in the environment that was gotten back easily by using Chef. We tested our procedure and identified issues by these criteria. Criteria were whether our procedure satisfy our goal or not, and whether inconsistency between database records and substances occurred or not. And we checked the steps. The steps, that takes a long time. As a result, that we tried our procedure, we found these issues. The bug about heat-grace shutdown function has been fixed by NTT team. And about remaining issues, these items were issues we cannot solve. The first one is errors due to active standby failover. They were resource creation failures. The second one is errors due to mismatch of RPC API measure versions. The error was unsupported RPC version. In latest course, it would be unsupported RPC envelope version. This error occurred from Nova compute to Nova console OAuth and from Nova Nova ENSC proxy to Nova console OAuth. It was unavoidable because RPC API measure versions could not be changed. The third one is communication interruption on Neutron L3 agent. About communication interruption on Neutron L3 agent, at first, we had an issue that user requests to create a new router were assigned to the upgrade target host. In order to solve the issue, we set admin state up of Neutron L3 agent to false. It solved the scheduler issue. But as the issue occurred, it was communication interruption. But this issue would be solved in general release by using L3 agent or HA function. But we have not tried it yet. And when VM live migration or Nova Nova ENSC proxy upgrade was performed, interruption of the console connection also occurred. About fallback, it was impossible to fallback after changing DB schema at the beginning. About the resulting knowledge, a clean installation was needed in OpenStack components installation because there is a possibility to cause errors if overly to install was performed. Then, Yan Kai will wrap up our presentation. Thank you, Tekesh. So I will do a quick summary. So I think for the live upgrade, our goal is to achieve the one percentage live upgrade without service downtime. But it's still difficult to achieve that when you do the upgrading from Havana to Icehouse. I think the issues we found is about network downtime. Because there is no active-active high-ability provided for Newton L3 agent. You have to have a trade-off. Either you stop the new request to create new networks, then migrate to the router from one network node to another network node one by one. Oh, you need to block one network node. And then to make sure the schedule works well, but there will be interruption for the VMs with the router on that network node. So another issue we found, a general issue is that some API requests will be failed if there is a failover between the active understand by components. And another one is about the VMC console. During the upgrade, if there is a VMC console, it will be disconnected. I know there are discussions about how to keep the seamless console by spies, but I don't think it's already implemented right now. So basically, here is our suggestions for the community. So if you think about the whole upgrade procedures or the strategy, I think there are two key things. You need to consider. The first one is the active active HA for all the components. This is very important. You can do the left upgrade. The other one is how you make sure the two versions components can coexist and provide service when you're doing the upgrade. So in this case, the RPC version will be very important to support the rolling upgrade. So also, I know there are some plugins or drivers provided by the Wander companies, either for Neutron or Cinder. But for example, if you provide SDN controller, for the Neutron server API itself is provide active HA, but maybe because I need to use this SDN controller, it breaks the active active HA. So there's another issue we found during this testing. So basically, in this testing, we didn't cover the centimeter. And also, I know there are some design sessions for the Cinder rolling upgrade, heat rolling upgrade, no-one rolling upgrade, something like that from today to tomorrow. So I expect there will be more improvements to benefit all the users. Also, in this topic, we didn't cover if you have the no-one network, how you migrate to the Neutron. Or if you have the Icehouse Neutron, the legacy router, how you migrate to the DVR-distributed water routers. So I think that there are a lot of future works to do. For the entity public cloud, we expect to deploy the production environment in Juneau. And we plan to have another round of testing from Juneau to Kilo. In that case, we want to achieve much better result than this round of testing. Thank you. So any questions? No, no. One more page. One more page? This is reference documents. Oh, OK. Sorry. Yeah. So we will have ceremonies for the questions. OK. Good. No questions. It's lunchtime. OK, thank you all. Oh, sorry. So right now, you're running on Icehouse. Have you guys already started looking at moving to Juneau? And what things do you see right now that you're going to be looking at issues? Or have you thought about that yet? The issue? Yeah, of trying to go for it. A general issue will be the RPC API consistency. You need to double check. Another one is the Neutron. If you want to take advantage of the L3 agent HA or the DVR, that's a different design, a different implementation. How you migrate from the legacy router Neutron to a new Neutron design, that's another big problem you need to consider. Yeah, thank you. Thank you.


Alright guys this is an emergency situation. The absurd fiend known as Blackbeard is holding my YouTube subscribe button hostage and the only way that we can defeat him is by clicking that button, subscribing to the channel and thus overwhelming Blackbeard with regular one-piece content uploaded straight into his YouTube feed. I'm counting on all of you in this fight.  Thank you. Using the tremendous power that he stole from Whitebeard's body, the pirate Blackbeard, supported by his 10 titanic captains, is now considered in the same league as that of Redhead Shanks, Big Mom, and Kaider. And so, the rest of the world now labels him as one of the four emperors.  And today we're going to be casting out gays on an increasingly alarming end-game group of villains known as the Blackbeard Pirates. The Blackbeard Pirates are a group of profoundly sinister individuals who command an immense control of the New World. A lot of this can be attributed to their Captain, Marshall D. Teach, also known as Blackbeard himself, who is currently recognised as one of the four emperors of the sea, thus granting him a rather weighty level of infamy and influence. However, just as with most crews, the Blackbeard Pirates did come from very humble beginnings, and at one stage this group was a mere dream of its Captain Teach, whose first foray into the world of piracy would be to join the Whitebeard Pirates as a young boy. Here, Teach would be considered a son of Whitebeard, as well as brother of his crewmates, and was even eventually in line to become the commander of Whitebeard's second division, although Teach turned down the role and instead encouraged Paul Castillais to take it on. And part of the reasoning for this would become apparent imminently, as it turns out that Teach had been using the Whitebeard Pirates in the hopes of encountering a certain devil fruit known as the Yami Yami No Mi, a logia-type fruit that allows its user to conjure, manipulate, and become darkness. And as was fate, this fruit was found by Thatch, the commander of the Fourth Division, and at this point, after more than two decades of service, Teach betrayed the Whitebeard Pirates by murdering Thatch and consuming the Yami Yami No Mi. He then fled the crew in favour of now forming his own and adopted the name of Blackbeard. And as of right now, it's unknown as to how he recruited his initial six members, but the first incarnation of the Blackbeard Pirates consisted of the following. Jesus Burgess, a very tall and broad man who adopted the role of helmsman aboard the ship. Burgess is well known for his raw power, being capable of feats such as picking up entire buildings and throwing them at his enemies. In addition to this, he has also been shown capable of phenomenal endurance, having tanked shockwaves produced by both Whitebeard through the Gourgour enemy, and Sengoku through the Hito Hito no Mi Monote Butsu. Also aboard this initial voyage was the feat, who is also known as the Demon Sheriff due to his excessively cruel actions as a sheriff in West Blue. And at face value, he would appear to be one of the more cheerful and easygoing members of the crew, although his clockwork orange-like design also implies that he is an ultra-violent being lying under this exterior. The feat also appears to have the ability to produce wings and fly, although whether or not this is due to him being a Devil Fruit user is still yet to be confirmed at the time of this recording, although it more than likely is. And finally, the feat served as the navigator of the crew.  Unfortunately, little is known about his history though, except that at some stage, he adopted the epithet of the supersonic. Also notably in the Viz and Funimation translations, he is referred to as Van Ogre rather than Van Alga. And last up for now, we have Doc Q and his horse Stronger, with Doc Q being rather predictably the crew's doctor. Now, both of these characters are depicted as being consistently sick and in chronic pain, to the point where they will both cough up blood, which is, you know, pretty ironic for a doctor, but this does not mean that Doc Q is physically weak by any means, as he has still shown superhuman capacities, particularly that of speed, and he even chooses to fight with a scythe. And there we have the initial makeup of the Blackbeard Pirates. And they may look like a rag tag bunch, but they were an incredibly formidable force even at this stage in the game. In fact, the very first mention we have of the Blackbeard Pirates in the series is when they were said to have raided Drum Island, which was what initially caused Warphold Flea prior to the Straw Hats arrival. However, their first official appearance would be on Jaya Island, where they and the Straw Hats crossed paths for the first time. And here after meeting Luffy, Blackbeard decided to incorporate him into his plan, and the crew attempted to capture him. However, they were foiled by fate, as the Straw Hats managed to escape on the knockup stream and sailed upwards to Skypea. But I mentioned the word fate there because this concept is very important to all of the Blackbeard Pirates who believe strongly in a greater force. If something is meant to be, then it will be. And if it isn't, then there is no use in lamenting it. This is the philosophy of the entire crew. And rather notably, this belief can often make especially Blackbeard himself act in a very reckless manner. And he has on occasion knowingly put his own crew in danger, basically allowing fate to take the wheel. So in many ways Blackbeard is kind of like an alternate Luffy, as our protagonist is also highly subject to fate, even if he doesn't know it or believe in it. Blackbeard on the other hand seems well aware that he has a purpose in this world, and as such, is patiently striving towards it. But speaking of Luffy, the reason why Blackbeard wanted to capture him was to claim his 100 million berry bounty and submit himself as a candidate to become a warlord of the sea, a position that opened up after the defeat of Sir Crocodile. But as it turns out, Luffy was not the destined target, but fate would provide the Blackbeard Pirates with another opportunity to progress in the world. And it would do this by delivering podcasty ace to them on Benaro Island, following the events of any slobby. And Ace was here to pursue and take revenge on Blackbeard for killing Thatch, leading the two to engage in combat, with Blackbeard proudly displaying the abilities of the army-army-no-me for the first time, and managing to completely overwhelm Ace. Blackbeard then turned Ace over to the wild government, and secured a spot as one of the seven warlords of the sea, for a very, very short time that is, because the Blackbeard Pirates almost immediately used his influence to stage an invasion of the underwater prison in Peltdown, making their way to the secret level six, which held the most notorious and dangerous of prisoners. And these prisoners were then made to fight to the death, with the survivors being offered a place on the Blackbeard Pirates, who would go on to reveal their new form at the tail end of the Paramount War. And from level six of Impeltdown, the Blackbeard Pirates recruited Katarina Devon, known as the Crescent Moon Hunter, and the most dangerous female pirate to have ever been incarcerated in the prison. Devon is also a highly sadistic individual, as can be seen with her proficiency wielding a whip, although she has also been seen as highly competent with a spear. Another infamous criminal recruited was that of heavy drinker Vasco Shot, a particularly vicious individual who seems to care for nothing, except for drinking and killing. Then there's Valopizarro, whose epithet is the Corrupt King, a notion that is distinguished in his clothing, because unlike all of the other inmates, Pizarro was dressed not in prison garb, but instead maintaining his regal robes. However, he was so awful to the people of his kingdom, that a rebellion was instigated and Pizarro was overthrown. And the final recruit from level six would be the colossal battleship San Juan Wolf, who possesses a devil fruit that allows him to grow and become the largest humanoid being in the entire world. Now that takes care of the other level six death match, but the Blackbeard Pirates would also be joined by Shiryu, a former warden of Vimpelled Down, who was imprisoned for his own brutality towards both prisoners and subordinates, and who was foolishly released by Magellan in order to assist him with the invasion of the Blackbeard Pirates, as well as the mass breakout being conducted concurrently by Strawhat Luffy. And in fact, it would be Shiryu who we have to thank for the entirety of the Blackbeard Pirates being alive today, as he provided them with an antidote to Magellan's poison after the warden completely wrecked them and left them to die. In any case, the full force of the new Blackbeard Pirates would now assemble at Marineford with the goal of killing Whitebeard, who had invaded the Marine headquarters in an attempt to save Ace, who once again we have Blackbeard thankful for being there in the first place. And by this stage, Whitebeard had suffered grievous wounds, and so the combined might of the Blackbeard Pirates were able to finish him off and end the era of the strongest man in the world. The madness did not stop there though, because Blackbeard had yet another cunning plan, one that to this day we are still not entirely sure how he pulled off, but under the cover of a dark sheet, Blackbeard was able to extract the power of Whitebeard's gore gore enemy and incorporate it into his own body, thus becoming the first person in known history to wield two devil-through-powers at once. Shortly after this, those shanks and the red-haired pirates arrived to put a stop to the war, prompting the Blackbeard Pirates to retreat into the new world. At some stage, encountering and easily defeating Jewel Rebonnie, although they were forced to abandon her when Marine Admiral Arcano was spotted travelling their way. But from here, the Blackbeard Pirates would rapidly expand over the next two years, going from a mere handful of members to developing their own fleet. With each of the aforementioned members bar stronger, becoming known as one of the ten titanic captains under the command of Admiral Blackbeard. And during the time skip, the Blackbeard Pirates were also involved in an event known as the Payback War, whereby the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates launched an attack on Teich and his crew, which resulted in the overwhelming defeat and eventual dissolution of the Whitebeard Pirates, which went on to solidify Blackbeard's power in the new world, and led him to achieving recognition as one of the four emperors of the sea. Although it isn't simply Marines and Pirates that the crew would go into target, as after the events of the Dressroserock, Jesus Burgess was able to stow away and discover the location of the Revolutionary Army's headquarters on the island of Baltigo, which prompted Blackbeard to order an immediate attack, and while we don't know much about the details of said attack or why it was conducted, the Blackbeard Pirates did successfully destroy the base, although they retreated after the arrival of Cypherpole. And more recently, the Revolutionary Army were able to take a bit of revenge for this action, as its commanders prevented an attack by the Peachbeard Pirates, who were incorporated into and allowed to sail under the flag of the Blackbeard Pirates. With the commanders very easily dispatching Captain Peachbeard. And now I'm going to throw up a bit of a good old spoiler warning for fans, who were not yet caught up to modern events, because the Wanoak has given us some great scattered information regarding the Blackbeard Pirates in the intermission portions between Act 1 and 2, as well as Acts 2 and 3. So if you don't want spoilers, then please do skip to this time in the video. However, for everyone else, here we go. Following Act 1 of Wano, we learnt that the home base of the Blackbeard Pirates was an island known as Hachinosu, which is often translated as Beehive Island in scans, or fuller-led island in the official English version. The idea with both being that it's supposed to represent a cloak wheel term for riddling someone with bullets. In any case, this island was very important because it just so happens to be where the Rocks Pirates were formed, who were led by a man named Rock Stezebek, a rather curious discovery, as the flagship of the Blackbeard Pirates is known as the Saber of Zebek. In any case, this island was invaded by one Gekko Moria, searching for his subordinate Absalom, although he had long since been killed by Moria's arrival, and his Devil Fruit, the Tsukisuke Nome, was now possessed by Shiryu. In addition to this, it was revealed that Katarina Devon was the wielder of a mythical Zoën-type fruit that allows her to transform into a nine-tailed fox, which amongst other things, allows her to mimic the appearance of others in a similar manner to that of the Mani Mani Nome. Blackbeard then invited Moria to join his crew, and later the group set sail to swiftly acquire a certain something before the marines could get their hands on it, although what that something is has yet to be revealed. Some more fun facts about the Blackbeard Pirates. In one piece green secret pieces, it was revealed that the Blackbeard Pirates originally had radically different names and appearances to their eventual incarnations, with Marshal Deteach originally being named Everything Deteach to point out just one. Rather interestingly, the ten titanic captains I mentioned earlier only consist of nine official members that we are aware of, and for that one unaccounted for captain, it has been widely speculated that it is Kuzon, who was confirmed to have affiliated himself with the Blackbeard Pirates following the events of the Dress Rosarok, meaning that the Blackbeard Pirates have at least temporarily incorporated a former marine admiral to their side, which is pretty terrifying stuff right there. And finally, a truly useless fact, not including the captain himself, of the original batch of Blackbeard Pirates, the award for lowest bounty goes to Jesus Burgess, who commanded a mere 20 million berries. And that pretty much does it for the Blackbeard Pirates. 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