Welcome, everybody. Thanks for coming to this talk on scaling software delivery framework for developer enablement. I think that this is a really good talk because not a lot of conferences talk about developer enablement. And so from the standpoint of this being one of the first talks about this, I really did want to lay a foundation for it. I think it's always really cool to talk about things that you do at work. And I actually do this at work. I am leading a global engineering team at Autodesk. And we are in charge of global developer enablement and support. I will say I started at Autodesk earlier this year. So a lot of the examples that you'll find and results they've come from earlier this year. And it's just, like I said, laying a groundwork for future iterations of this and conversations around this. So happy to answer any questions that come up afterwards and just continue to have spaces like this where we're talking about developer enablement. I also do a bunch of other talks and things in the community. So if you want to follow me, I am there. But the agenda is pretty straightforward. And we're going to be talking about where this lives in the context of continuous delivery in the ecosystem. And then I'll share the framework and we'll have time for Q&A. Cool. OK, so I know that a lot of us here have seen developer reports, measures of what could happen if you have continuous delivery. I think it continuously shows that we're able, if we were able to implement continuous delivery, DevOps practices, that we're able to reduce product defects, increase time to market, and also reduce development time in general. And the studies continue to show that year over year. The state of DevOps reports by Puppet, Dora also has them, Atlassian, Forrester Research, and even communities where they focus in specifically around product or agile development. They've also found similar processes. I think we also generally know what we want to target in terms of practices and things that work in the community. And so you can insert any buzzword, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, chaos engineering, SREs. We have all these practices and ways of implementing the results that we want to have. And if you were to boil it down, you would basically have three categories. We generally know what kind of people or roles we need, the processes, and then the technology. Even though there may be differences in the end technology or tool that we use, we generally know these are the principles that are going to follow along. And that's what we're going to focus in on. So this talk is specifically about how do we scale this? This is the how of it all. We know the what. We know generally what we're targeting. We know the outcomes. This is how we scale it. So hopefully this talk can be really helpful for anyone in the room who may be looking for opportunities to scale this externally as a developer advocate, but also internally for your internal platform engineering teams and new processes that you're introducing into your organization. So why are we looking at this in the context of DevRel and Outreach in the first place? Like why is the talk talking about DevRel and Outreach? I think this conference is a good example of why. We get to interact with each other and then attend these sessions, learn a lot of things, go back into our companies, and implement a lot of our learnings. And the nice thing about that is we get to build relationships, provide support, and then interact with the developer community. And it helps not only our internal companies that we work for, but also the developers that are interacting with our services and that work with us. And so the idea of this talk is to really inject a lot of DevRel and Outreach type activities so that it can help companies, both your company and then also the developers that you interact with. So that's a little bit of a hint for anyone who is not maybe familiar with DevRel. So here's the framework. The idea here is there's three areas that you want to focus in on when it comes to developer enablement, specifically related to DevRel and Outreach. And I'm sharing it here. And we'll talk more about how it'll drive success, minimize impact, or maximize impact and then minimize interruptions. So the first part of this frame, well, this is the framework, the three things that you want to be doing is targeting developer activities that will sustain software delivery, fixing incidents on the spot to empower developers and facilitating platform trainings and services to stop developers from introducing vulnerabilities. So we'll talk about each of these things in more detail in this talk. I would not be an engineering manager or an engineers manager without trying to tell you all how you may want to manage or organize these activities. So I have a little framework for this and this is how we're going to talk about each of the three areas or pillars of this. The first step is to identify what is the problem? What is the feedback? What are you hearing in developer communities? Second is to activate. So actually engaging with the right stakeholders, the right communities, the right environment. And then third is to action on that, right? Now that you've identified and activated, time to take action. That's how we will scale and transform the software delivery and how we sustain it, right? Okay, so let's talk about that. Let's apply it to all these things, right? When it comes to targeting and developer activities, in order to identify that, the biggest thing that you want to look at here is the entire software development lifecycle. And beyond just looking at what projects are working really well and what teams are working well, really being able to understand what are the developers saying. And the way that you do that is actually looking at things like bug reports, survey results, feature requests, and even suggestions for improvement. I think the pitfall here that happens often is we conflate getting feedback from developers as a measure of productivity. And productivity is actually very different. We all know about the Dora metrics. We time to deploy, right? Meantime, the recovery, all that stuff. But what you want to be measuring here is actually developer feedback. And this is not a measure of productivity. So I just want to send this caveat here that oftentimes developer enablement or even platform teams will fall into the pitfall of saying like, okay, let's just measure like what teams are doing really well, like how fast are you delivering? Even counting like what does your architecture look like? Is it monoliths, microservices? What is it? And we count these things. But it's not necessarily feeding the impact for how we can identify dev rel activities that would be helpful. So that's what I want to say here about identifying. Like I said, you want to be looking at bug reports, things that are actually coming up in developer surveys or conversations. And you can often find those things in Slack or even in sidebar conversations. It's almost like water cooler conversations amongst developers, right? And once you've identified what's being said, it's now time to activate, right? Activate the right communities to be able to engage with people. And the way that you want to do that, there's a variety of different ways that you can do that, but some ideas and some things that have been working well at my company at Autodesk is we've been organizing events, meetups, conferences, and even online forums so that developers can connect, share knowledge, and collaborate. One thing that's been really interesting is also hosting AMAs on Slack, which is pretty cool because you just set a time where you're like, okay, you can ask the core team and even HR recruiters to answer any kinds of questions that you may have and people just drop in the questions in Slack and they get the answers. And if they miss the session, they can read the log, right? It's all there. So that's a really great way to help a crowd source and find solutions to common challenges, common questions about what you do, about what are some of the best practices and things like that. So it's actually been really helpful within the AI practice at Autodesk. But the caveat here is you just want to make sure that you're creating environments where there may not be any at the moment because oftentimes we build so fast in our environments. We create new teams, we create new projects, we throw in new people, processes, technologies, but how do you integrate that without harming your productivity? This is what this is about, right? So that's a little hint there. The other thing about activating communities and people is you want to constantly give yourself momentum when you go and do this because as much as you give, you want to receive back. So when I talk about performance, when I measure what's going on or when I talk to business leaders about what exactly we're doing, I look at three things. And this is how I also manage engineers. I look at the business impact, the team impact, and the technical impact. So you want to look at those three things to really just align it together so that it feels like a cohesive experience. And it's not just this thing that leadership will look at and be like, oh, what is this team doing in these alien practices that you're now throwing in, right? So you want to constantly feed that as a feedback that you action on. So a lot of the action steps here are really about closing the loop and you'll continue to see different ways of doing this. But one thing that we decided to do is create a space for where developers can quickly access our events, resources, and other enablement activities. And it spotlights things like our solutions, any updates, we have a blog space, any events that we're hosting, partners, our customers, and then our actual team. So it's actually really helpful because now you can quickly get those things. But building a site also gives you the opportunity to now make this a push model for developers where you're like, okay, we have this event coming up, we can automatically trigger a newsletter to come out or some announcements to come out and so you're able to sustain yourself when you're sustaining software delivery. And it's really important to kind of think about that. Like in this room, we've probably heard some of the technical talks that are like, oh yeah, we want the push model instead of the pull, right? And it's the same way here. So that was a little bit more about targeting DevRel activities. I'm gonna hop to fixing incidents on the spot so that you can empower developers. This is an important one. I think a lot of people forget this one because we're building new technologies, we're letting it be accessible to other developers. But we forget sometimes that even getting access to things or even getting started is a hurdle oftentimes. And that's something that developer enablement can really help bridge. So this activity about fixing on the spot is about improving productivity and lowering idle costs or just idle time for developers where they're just sitting and they're like, well, I can't get access to this thing so I don't have my dashboard. And now I'm not delivering any code because we're just waiting on the infrastructure team and the operations team to do XYZ. So we made this process open and easier for developers by introducing and creating a Slack to Jira integration. And basically the nice thing is that in Slack, customers or developers can issue a ticket that they need if they need access to something and it syncs up with Jira. So it automatically assigns this to a support team member who can then resolve the issue and then they can follow up and it's all synced together. And that's really cool because now we're able to understand the issues, resolve them and then we have a record of everything. It's not just like, oh, this was a one-off, one-message thing, right? That someone needed to get access to a system and boom, now it's gone or someone spent a lot of time doing something but we can't quite measure it. So yeah, the Jira part helps because, and also the solution helps other team members as well because now you can share it with other teams, maybe product management teams and stuff like that. And this just gives you a language, a common language for you to be able to now follow up with internal product or platform teams to be able to enhance the developer experience. Like if you see an uptick of tickets where they're like, oh, I can't get my dashboards running. We had to run a Jenkins pipeline to get everything set up. For some reason, we get a lot of questions about that, that can hint towards an improvement for the developer experience and that's the kind of stuff that you would want. That's the developer feedback loop. One thing to know about fixing incidents and gearing yourself up to be able to fix things on the spot as a team is you have to know who and what you want early on. And it's a simple exercise and you all can even take a screenshot of this, I don't mind. But this is an example of a write-up that I did explaining what skill sets would be needed in order to support this type of work and then also what their main responsibilities are. And we'll talk more about this because it's strategic more than anything else to make sure that you're getting the right people in the right room who are able to grow and help scale this out as you begin to really hunker down and scale the software delivery. So we'll talk more about this in the facilitate aspect. All right, this is the last bit. Yay. Facilitate this activity is all about creating and providing platform trainings and services that help developers learn the practices and tools that align most with your organization. So this is the idea that repeated exposure in practical settings to the right processes will help you essentially commit less errors that may introduce vulnerabilities or failures in your code in the first place. So it's really important when you're identifying what you want to facilitate to really think about who you have as resources and who's available to be able to help with what. Learning takes time and learning takes place in real time and in practical settings. And so there are different ways to facilitate this whether it's like a sandbox environment or a training platform. And so you really want to spend your time thinking about what is going to be the highest impact, what's gonna get the most buy-in as well when you're doing this because you can only stretch yourself so thin when it comes to this kind of stuff. And I have some tips around how you may want to activate your staff members or your teams about this work specifically. And I think the biggest thing is getting that leadership alignment and investment early on because you have to know that when it comes to software delivery, if you were to look at this from a very traditional engineering standpoint, what typically happens is you have your engineering leadership set principles, like guiding principles about how you want to do things at the org. And then your teams will decide the practices and the tooling, right? We're not trying to set new principles. We're not trying to set new practices. We're just exposing developers to what it may look like. And that can be a hard concept to understand, especially when there's already so many things going on in an organization. I think it's also really important that when it comes to like, that that's the managing up piece, right? When you're managing your actual teams to really train your personnel to be able to scale this out in the future as well. And so I have a little sample career ladder, but it's also helpful to align this in like engineer's growth path because supporting a platform and a platform service within a company, it has very different focuses and sets of skills than a traditional software engineering team has. And so even just having something like this can be really helpful for everybody involved in the process where they realize like, okay, these are the main kinds of activities that will be done. And this is like the level of expertise required for each kind of step. So you have to pave the way a little bit when it comes to this, just because it can't, like I said, it's different. And there are differences, right? In focus, like we're mostly focused on building relationships, right? Where a traditional software engineer is gonna be more focused on developing software applications and features, right? Same thing with the communication. We're mostly, we're focused on creating and building relationships with other engineers where a software engineer may be solely focused on gathering feedback and requirements from their product management or their team leads, right? So there's a variety of differences here and I wrote this up and it's a great shot. But fundamentally, like there are differences and you wanna be able to navigate those as well, especially for folks that like maybe you'll hear, like you'll sign a title, right, to this kind of team. And everything means everything until you start to talk to people and then they learn more about the role and you don't want to undersell or oversell what this actually is. You wanna be very intentional about what this role is about, what it's growth paths are and then go from there. So one thing that we did, that was interesting, was build a knowledge portal and that knowledge portal consisted of troubleshooting guides, quick starts and then exposure to best practices and additional training material for the platform services that we provide within Autodesk. And it's been really helpful to build this out. Actually, this is in Confluence, but you know, there's also a parallel universe where you have a public version of this, right? There's also another parallel universe where depending on your system or your product or technology, right, you may be building like an API first type of system or a public documentation space, right? And all this stuff then becomes public and external facing versus internal facing. I think the nice thing about internal facing specifically is you're able to quickly get people the guides and resources that already somewhat exist as tribal knowledge within the company already and so you can almost kill two birds with one stone by talking to the right people and even getting like that by and early on. Doesn't always happen, but in the best of best worlds, this can be something that you leverage from other knowledge bases like in Confluence or Slack or wherever you all store company knowledge, engineering knowledge. So I went over the different pillars of the framework, right? We were talking about targeting, fixing and facilitating and then I walked through like the different ways that you wanna manage each of those activities within your teams, within developer enablement organizations or functions. It may not be an organization. The idea of this talk was to be seen in the community, to create a community and to nurture and get as much as you give to the space and I encourage you all to be seen in what you do, experiment, encourage your developers to do the same thing as well. I know a lot of companies that build like internal championships and even programs where they make it really fun and like being the driver of that gets to be really fun especially once you host the AMAs and the workshops and you get to see how people react to that. So that's my talk. Thank you for attending and we can take some questions if there are any. Yeah, so this slide deck will be public. I tweet about it so I'll have a link to this slide deck specifically and it'll be like a PDF that you all can share. I made this slide so that it would be consumable. Like, you know, all the points are nicely written up and everything so yeah, it'll be available, thanks. We don't at Autodesk but I've been at companies where we do have communities of practice. I think the biggest thing around building communities of practice and really getting them off the ground is having people that you trust in those to start them up and typically like what you wanna be looking at from that standpoint is technical guidance, right? Because from the standpoint of like how is this gonna be structured? What are our cadences? What is actually needed? That takes a lot of driving but yeah, communities of practice are really great ways of, they're also called COPs. They're great ways of driving initiatives in terms of building like cohorts almost of activities and that's how you can scale it in the future as well, yeah. Great question. Did anyone else have any other question? Yeah, I think it's gonna be really important for you to focus on the targeting and the facilitating. You know, the targeting is really important. Like you said, the last thing that you wanna really do is set up like a cadence or set up some type of event where it kind of missed the mark and you didn't get the turnout that you wanted to. I think that can be demoralizing in the beginning because essentially you've killed your momentum, right? You're like, oh, I put this effort in here and now I got nothing out of it. I think there's different ways to go about it. I think opening up that space is really important first because once you get more questions and you can say, oh, well actually we'll host a session all about this or I'll host only in office hours, right? And that can be something that can be helpful because once people have those individual conversations, you can then see like, okay, what's the back and forth and will there be a back and forth in this forum that I create? So that's another thing. And then secondly with facilitating, if you're getting a product off the ground, you'll have initiatives already mostly centered around product enablement itself right off of that because if there's already momentum there, docs look great, product site looks great, everything else looks great, then it's a matter of evangelizing that almost where you're saying like, okay, here, check this out. Like here's a demo and building that out versus trying to like fix too many problems early on or get too much feedback at the start where you're like, oh no, there's now so many activities that we have to do and we don't actually know what we're gonna get the most impact off of. So that's my recommendation there. Yeah, cool, well, I'll be around after my talk so if you are shy or want to just say hi, happy to talk after this, but thank you everyone.


For the CircuitPython Parsec today, I want to talk about playing a wave file, an audio wave file inside of CircuitPython on a microcontroller. The key here is that we have this library called AudioCore, and from there we can import the wave file. And once we have that, we can go ahead and open up a wave file that's on disk. So you can see here I've got four wave files loaded onto my little cutie pie sitting right there. And then I have a little macro keyboard, actually that's that one by four plugged in there, so I can pick some different samples. So I open those wave files, I assign them to the wave file object, and then I am actually going to do something fun here. I'm going to play them back at different sample rates, which will speed up and slow down the samples. So next thing I'm doing is setting up I squared C so that I can use my little one by four Neo key here. And then playing back wave files once you have them opened is as easy as audio.play and then the name of the wave object that you created. So in this case I have audio.play, wave zero, wave one, wave two, and wave three. Now when I click on these keys, you're going to hear. That is how easy it is to play back a wave file inside of CircuitPython, and that is your CircuitPython parsec.


under the harbor of St. Peter's Port on Guernsey in the Channel Islands steams a British warship with the white and signed flying. A tumultuous welcome awaits the liberators of the islands. Incidentally the oldest British possession and the only British territory to be occupied by the Germans during the war. The German guard marches out from the ancient castle. The German commander is marched away and all equipment is handed in. The proclamation of liberty is read and the Union Jack hoisted. With their rightful flag flying once again above them the islanders give themselves over to victory day celebrations. And then a few weeks later their majesties the king and queen came to visit their dear islands landing on Jersey. As their majesties came ashore from the six inch gun cruiser Jamaica the terrific enthusiasm of the islanders was a fitting response to the royal affection and feeling which prompted the visit. The visit to Guernsey which was made by our was the Queen's first official flight. Below could be seen first the island and then the acres of glass houses for fruit and vegetable forcing. Presented burkes, tributes from the islands of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. The simple ceremony linking more closely the bond already strengthened by their majesties gracious visit. Carries its own bridge for crossing streams and canals is being assembled here. This Churchill trundles out to collect the bridge picking it up with its own hydraulic crane. Locking pins move up and engage into position in a matter of minutes and though surprisingly light can carry the heaviest tanks. Later the bridge can be picked up and taken on to the next obstacle. This is another sort of tank-borne bridge called these scissors which is mounted on a valentine or covenant a chassis and again this British invention works swiftly and easily. Wood base in the Pacific, Australian troops and their equipment embark in transports for the attack on Terracan Island off the east coast of Borneo. Commander-in-Chief General Blamey is there to see them off and the air forces are seeing off the Japanese. Liberators maintained a 12-day service with bombs and leaflets before the seaparty arrived with contour maps and the battle is on. Another Pacific island was cleared by the untowering and gallant efforts of Australia's fighting men. London gives General Dwight Eisenhower a tremendous welcome as he drives with that Chief Marshal Tedder to the Guildhall to receive the citizenship of the city. Londoners gave the leader of the victorious British and American forces a warm place in their hearts as he gave them Mr. Churchill's v-sign. The official tribute was a sort of honour and the freedom of the city of London. The chairing crowds of cockniz where the unofficial tribute is newfound fellow citizens. Londoner myself just as much right to be down in that crowd yelling as you have. We can now have crowds. There can be happy gatherings. You don't have to listen for a motor in the sky and wonder whether there's a pilot in the blankety blank thing or not. The job that has been done you people have done.  The word of thanks for your hospitality to my soldiers that came into your country in great numbers often to your very great inconvenience if not irritation. To every Londoner that has ever taken one of my soldiers into his home. I say you'll always have my profound gratitude. You have done something in cementing bonds that must always remain between your country and mine and into which scope must be brought in Russia France China all the other great countries that have helped to whip this Nazi and we hope will quickly whip Japan.


17 The glorious conquest. Truth can only be apprehended by the conquest of self. Blessedness can only be arrived at by overcoming the lower nature. The way of truth is barred by a man's self. The only enemies that can actually hinder him are his own passions and delusions. Until a man realizes this, and commences to cleanse his heart, he has not found the path which leads to knowledge and peace. Until passion is transcended, truth remains unknown. This is the Divine Law. A man cannot keep his passions and have truth as well. Error is not slain until selfishness is dead. The overcoming of self is no mystical theory, but a very real and practical thing. It is a process which must be pursued daily and hourly, with unswerving faith and undaunted resolution if any measure of success is to be achieved. The process is one of orderly growth, having its sequential stages like the growth of a tree, and as fruit can only be produced by carefully and patiently training the tree, even so the pure and satisfying fruits of holiness can only be obtained by faithfully and patiently training the mind in the growth of right thought and conduct. There are five steps in the overcoming of passion, which includes all bad habits and particular forms of wrongdoing, which I will call one, repression, two, endurance, three, elimination, four, understanding, five, victory. When men fail to overcome their sins, it is because they begin to try at the wrong end. They want to have the stage of victory without passing through the previous four stages. They are in the position of a gardener who wants to produce good fruit without training and attending to his trees. Repression consists in checking and controlling the wrong act, such as an outburst of temper, a hasty or unkind word, a selfish indulgence, etc., and not allowing it to take actual form. This is equivalent to the gardener nipping off the useless buds and branches from his tree. It is a necessary process, but a painful one. The tree bleeds while undergoing the process, and the gardener knows that it must not be taxed too severely. The heart also bleeds when it refuses to return passion for passion, when it ceases to defend and justify itself. It is the process of mortifying the members of which St. Paul speaks. But this repression is only the beginning of self-conquest. When it is made an end in itself, and there is no object of finally purifying the heart, that is a stage of hypocrisy, a hiding of one's true nature, and striving to appear better in the eyes of others than one really is. In that case it is an evil, but when adopted as the first stage toward complete purification, it is good. Its practice leads to the second stage of endurance, or forbearance, in which one silently endures the pain which arises in the mind when it is brought in contact with certain actions and attitudes of other minds toward one. As success is attained in this stage, the striver comes to see that all his pain actually arises in his own weaknesses, and not in the wrong attitudes of others toward him, these latter being merely the means by which his sins are brought to the surface, and revealed to him. He thus gradually exonerates all others from blame in his falls and lapses of conduct, and accuses only himself, and so learns to love those who thus unconsciously reveal to him his sins and shortcomings. Having passed through these two stages of self-crucifixion, the disciple enters the third, that of elimination, in which the wrong thought which lay behind the wrong act is cast from the mind immediately it appears. At this stage conscious strength and holy joy begin to take the place of pain, and the mind having become more comparatively calm, the striver is enabled to gain a deeper insight into the complexities of his mind, and thus to understand the inception, growth, and outworking of sin. This is the stage of understanding. Perfection and understanding leads to the final conquest of self, a conquest so complete that sin can no more rise in the mind even as a thought or impression, for when the knowledge of sin is complete, when it is known in its totality, from its inception as a seed in the mind to its ripened outgrowth as act and consequence, then it can no more be allowed a place in life, but it is abandoned forever. Then the mind is at peace. The wrong acts of others no longer arouse wrong and pain in the mind of the disciple. He is glad and calm and wise. He is filled with love and blessedness abides with him. And this is victory. CHAPTER XVIII CONTENTMENT IN ACTIVITY The confounding of a positive spiritual virtue or principle with a negative animal vice is common amongst writers, even of what is called the advanced thought school, and much valuable energy is frequently expended in criticizing and condemning, where a little calm and reasoning would have revealed a greater light, and led to the exercise of a broader charity. The other day I came across a vicious attack upon the teaching of love, wherein the writer condemns such teaching as weakly, foolish, and hypocritical, needless to say that which he was condemning as love, was merely weak sentimentality and hypocrisy. Another writer in condemning meekness does not know that what he calls meekness is only cowardice, while another who attacks chastity as a snare is really confusing, painful, and hypocritical restraint with the virtue of chastity. And just lately I received a long letter from a correspondent who took great pains to show me that contentment is a vice, and is the source of innumerable evils. That which my correspondent called contentment is, of course, animal indifference. The spirit of indifference is incompatible with progress, whereas the spirit of contentment may and does attend the highest form of activity, the truest advancement and development. Indolence is the twin sister of indifference, but cheerful and ready action is the friend of contentment. Contentment is a virtue which becomes lofty and spiritual in its later developments, as the mind is trained to perceive and the heart to receive the guidance in all things of a merciful law. To be contented does not mean to forgo effort. It means to free effort from anxiety. It does not mean to be satisfied with sin and ignorance and folly, but to rest happily in duty done, work accomplished. A man may be said to be content to lead a groveling life, to remain in sin and in death, but such a man's true state is one of indifference to his duty, his obligations, and the just claims of his fellow men. He cannot truly be said to possess the virtue of contentment. He does not experience the pure and abiding joy, which is the accompaniment of active contentment. So far as his true nature is concerned, he is a sleeping soul, and sooner or later will be awakened by intense suffering, having passed through which he will find that true contentment is the outcome of honest effort and true living. There are three things with which a man should be content. One, with whatever happens. Two, with his friendships and possessions. Three, with his pure thoughts. With whatever happens, he will escape grief. With his friends and possessions. He will avoid anxiety and wretchedness. And with his pure thoughts, he will never go back to suffer and grovel in impurities. There are three things with which a man should not be content. One, with his opinions. Two, with his character. Three, with his spiritual condition. Not content with his opinions, he will continually increase in intelligence. Not content with his character, he will ceaselessly grow in strength and virtue. And not content with his spiritual condition, he will, every day, enter into a larger wisdom and fuller blessedness. In a word, a man should be contented, but not indifferent to his development as a responsible and spiritual being. The truly contented man works energetically and faithfully, and accepts all results with an untroubled spirit, trusting at first that all is well, but afterwards, with the growth of enlightenment, knowing that results exactly correspond with efforts. Not so ever material possessions come to him, come not by greed and anxiety and strife, but by right thought, wise action, and pure exertion. CHAPTER 19 THE TEMPLE OF BROTHERHOOD Universal Brotherhood is the supreme ideal of humanity, and towards that ideal the world is slowly but surely moving. Today, as never before, numbers of earnest men and women are striving to make this ideal tangible and real, fraternities are springing up on every hand, and press and pulp it, the world over, are preaching the brotherhood of man. The unselfish elements in all such efforts cannot fail to have their effect upon the race, and are with certainty urging it towards the goal of its noblest aspirations. But the ideal state has not yet manifested through any outward organization, and societies formed for the purpose of propagating brotherhood are continually being shattered to pieces by internal dissension. The brotherhood for which humanity's size is withheld from actuality by humanity itself. Nay more it is frustrated even by men who work zealously, for it is a desirable possibility, and this because the purely spiritual nature of brotherhood is not perceived, and the principles involved as well as the individual course of conduct necessary to perfect unity are not comprehended. Brotherhood as a human organization cannot exist so long as any degree of self-seeking reigns in the hearts of men and women who band themselves together for any purpose, as such self-seeking must eventually rend the seamless coat of loving unity. But although organized brotherhood has so far largely failed, any man may realize brotherhood in its perfection, and know it in all its beauty and completion, if he will make himself of a wise, pure, and loving spirit, removing from his mind every element of strife, and learning to practice those divine qualities without which brotherhood is but a mere theory, opinion, or elusive dream. For brotherhood is at first spiritual, and its outer manifestation in the world must follow as a natural sequence. As a spiritual reality it must be discovered by each man for himself, and in the only place where spiritual realities can be found, within himself, and it rests with each whether he shall choose or refuse it. There are four chief tendencies in the human mind which are destructive of brotherhood and which bar the way to its comprehension, namely pride, self-love, hatred, condemnation. Where these are there can be no brotherhood, and whatsoever heart these holds sway, discord rules, and brotherhood is not realized, for these tendencies are, in their very nature, dark and selfish, and always make for disruption and destruction. And these four things precedes that serpent brood of false actions and conditions which poison the heart of man, and fill the world with suffering and sorrow. Out of the spirit of pride precede envy, resentment, and opinionativeness. Pride envies the position, influence, or goodness of others. It thinks, I am more deserving than this man, or this woman. It also continually finds occasion for resenting the actions of others, and says, I have been snubbed, I have been insulted, and thinking altogether of his own excellence, it sees no excellence in others. From the spirit of self-love precede egotism, lust for power, and disparagement and contempt. Self-love worships the personality in which it moves. It is lost in the adoration and glorification of that I, that self, which has no real existence, but is a dark dream and a delusion. It desires preeminence over others, and thinks, I am great, I am more important than others. It also disparages others, and bestows upon them contempt, seeing no beauty in them, being lost in the contemplation of its own beauty. From the spirit of hatred precedes lander, cruelty, reveling, and anger. It strives to overcome evil by adding evil to it. It says, this man has spoken of me ill. I will speak still more ill of him, and thus teach him a lesson. It mistakes cruelty for kindness, and causes its possessor to revile a reproving friend. It feeds the flame of anger with bitter and rebellious thoughts. From the spirit of condemnation precede accusation, false pity, and false judgment. It feeds itself on the contemplation of evil, and cannot see the good. It has eyes for evil only, and finds it in almost every thing and every person. It sets up an arbitrary standard of right and wrong by which to judge others, and it thinks, this man does not do as I would have him do. He is therefore evil, and I will denounce him. So blind is the spirit of condemnation, that whilst rendering its possessor incapable of judging himself, it causes him to set up as the judge of all the earth. From the four tendencies enumerated no element of brotherliness can proceed. They are deadly mental poisons, and he who allows them to wrinkle in his mind cannot apprehend the peaceful principles on which brotherhood rests. Then there are chiefly four divine qualities, which are productive of brotherhood, which are, as it were, the foundation stones on which it rests, namely humility, self-surrender, love, compassion. Wheresoever these are, their brotherhood is active. In whatsoever heart these qualities are dominant, their brotherhood is an established reality, where they are in their very nature unselfish and are filled with the revealing light of truth. There is no darkness in them, and where they are so powerful as their light, that the dark tendencies cannot remain, but are dissolved and dissipated. Out of these four qualities proceed all those angelic actions and conditions which make for unity and bring gladness to the heart of man and to the world. From the spirit of humility proceed meekness and peacefulness. From self-surrender, compassion, wisdom, and true judgment. From love spring kindness, joy, and harmony. And from compassion proceed gentleness and forgiveness. He who has brought himself into harmony with these four qualities is divinely enlightened. He sees once the actions of men proceed and wither they tend, and therefore can no longer live in the exercise of the dark tendencies. He has realized brotherhood in its completion as freedom from malice, from envy, from bitterness, from contention, from condemnation. All men are his brothers, those who live in the dark tendencies, as well as those who live in the enlightened qualities, for he knows that when they have perceived the glory and beauty of the light of truth, the dark tendencies will be dispelled from their minds. He has but one attitude of mind towards all, that of good will. Of the four dark tendencies are born ill will and strife. Of the four divine qualities are born good will and peace. Living in the four tendencies a man is a strife producer. Living in the four qualities a man is a peacemaker. Involved in the darkness of the selfish tendencies, men believe that they can fight for peace, kill to make alive, slay injury by injuring, restore love by hatred, unity by contention, kindness by cruelty, and establish brotherhood by erecting their own opinions, which they themselves will, in the course of time, abandon as worthless, as objects of universal adoration. The wished four temple of brotherhood will be erected in the world when its four foundation stones of humility, self-surrender, love, and compassion are firmly laid in the hearts of men. For brotherhood consists, first of all, in the abandonment of self by the individual, and its after effects is unity between man and man. Theories and schemes for propagating brotherhood are many, but brotherhood itself is one and unchangeable, and consists in the complete cessation from ego and strife, and in practicing goodwill and peace, for brotherhood is a practice and not a theory. Self-surrender and goodwill are its guardian angels, and peace is its habitation. Where two are determined to maintain an opposing opinion, the clinging to self and ill-will are there, and brotherhood is absent. Where two are prepared to sympathize with each other, to see no evil in each other, to serve and not to attack each other, the love of truth and goodwill are there, and brotherhood is present. All strife divisions and wars, in here in the proud unyielding self, all peace, unity and concord, in here in the principles, which the yielding up of self reveals. It is only practiced and known, by him whose heart is at peace, with all the world. CHAPTER XX. Pleasant Pastures of Peace. He who aspires to the bettering of himself and humanity, should ceaselessly strive to arrive at the exercise of that blessed attitude of mind, by which he is enabled to put himself mentally and sympathetically in the place of others, and so, instead of harshly and falsely judging them, and thereby making himself unhappy, without adding to the happiness of those others, he will enter into their experience, will understand their particular frame of mind, and will feel for them and sympathize with them. One of the great obstacles to the attainment of such an attitude of mind is prejudice, and until this is removed, it is impossible to act toward others as we would wish others to act toward us. Prejudice is destructive of kindness, sympathy, love, and true judgment, and the strength of a man's prejudice will be the measure of his harshness and unkindness toward others, for prejudice and cruelty are inseparable. There is no rationality in prejudice, and immediately it is aroused in a man he ceases to act as a reasonable being, and gives way to rashness, anger, and injurious excitement. He does not consider his words, nor regard the feelings and liberties of those against whom his prejudices are directed. He has, for the time being, forfeited his manhood, and has descended to the level of an irrational creature. While a man is determined to cling to his preconceived opinions, mistaking them for truth, and refuses to consider dispassionately the position of others, he cannot escape hatred, nor arrive at blessedness. The man who strives after gentleness, who aspires to act unselfishly toward others, will put away all his passionate prejudice and petty opinions, and will gradually acquire the power of thinking and feeling for others, of understanding their particular state of ignorance or knowledge, and thereby entering fully into their hearts and lives, sympathizing with them, and seeing them as they really are. Such a man will not oppose himself to the prejudices of others by introducing his own, but will seek to allay prejudice by introducing sympathy and love, striving to bring out all that is good in men, encouraging the good by appealing to it, and discouraging the evil by ignoring it. He will realize the good in the unselfish efforts of others, though their outward methods may be very different from his own, and will so rid his heart of hatred, and will fit it with love and blessedness. When a man is prone to harshly judge and condemn others, he should inquire how far he fails short himself. He should also reconsider those periods of suffering, when he himself was misjudged and misunderstood, and gathering wisdom and love from his own bitter experience, should studiously and self-sacrificingly refrain from piercing with anguish hearts that are as yet too weak to ignore, too immature and uninstructed to understand. Sympathy is not required towards those who are purer and more enlightened than oneself, as the purer one lives above the necessity for it. In such a case reverence should be exercised, with a striving to lift oneself up to the purer level, and so enter into possession of the larger life. Nor can a man fully understand one who is wiser than himself, and before condemning he should earnestly ask himself whether he is, after all, better than the man whom he has singled out as the object of his bitterness. If he is, let him bestow sympathy. If he is not, let him exercise reverence. For thousands of years the sages have taught, both by precept and example, that evil is only overcome by good, yet still that lesson, for the majority, remains unlearned. It is a lesson profound in its simplicity, and difficult to learn, because men are blinded by the illusions of self. Men are still engaged in resenting, condemning, and fighting the evil in their own fellow men, thereby increasing the delusion in their own hearts, and adding to the world some of misery and suffering. When they find out that their own resentment must be eradicated, and put love in its place, evil will perish for lack of sustenance. With burning brain and heart of hate I sought my wronger early late, and all the wretched night and day my dream and thought was slay and slay. My better self rose uppermost, the beast within my bosom lost, itself in love, peace from afar, shone o'er me radiant like a star. I slew my wronger with a deed, a deed of love I made him bleed, with kindness and I filled for years his soul with tenderness and tears. Dislike resentment and condemnation are all forms of hatred, and evil cannot cease until these are taken out of the heart. But the obliterating of injuries from the mind is merely one of the beginnings in wisdom. There is a still higher and better way, and that way is so to purify the heart and enlighten the mind, that far from having to forget injuries there will be none to remember, for it is only pride and self that can be injured and wounded by the actions and attitudes of others. And he who takes pride and self out of his heart can never think the thought I had been injured by another, or I had been wronged by another. From a purified heart precedes the right comprehension of things, and from the right comprehension of things precedes the life that is peaceful, freed from bitterness and suffering, calm and wise. He who thinks this man has injured me, has not perceived the truth in life, fall short of that enlightenment which disperses the erroneous idea of evil as a thing to be hatefully resented. He who is troubled and disturbed about the sins of others is far from truth. He who is troubled and disturbed about his own sins is very near to the gate of wisdom. He in whose heart the flames of resentment burn cannot know peace nor understand truth. He who will banish resentment from his heart will know and understand. He who has taken evil out of his heart cannot resent or resist it in others, for he is enlightened as to its origin and nature, and knows it as a manifestation of the mistakes of ignorance. With the increase of enlightenment sin becomes impossible. He who sins does not understand. He who understands does not sin. The pure man maintains his tenderness of his heart toward those who ignorantly imagine they can do him harm. The wrong attitude of others toward him does not trouble him. His heart is at rest in compassion and love. Blessed is he who has no wrongs to remember, no injuries to forget, in whose pure heart no hateful thought about another can take root and flourish. Let those who aim at the right life, who believe that they love truth, cease to passionately oppose themselves to others, and let them strive to calmly and wisely understand them, and in thus acting toward others they will be conquering themselves, and while sympathizing with others their own souls will be fed with the harmony dues of kindness, and their hearts will be strengthened and refreshed in the pleasant pastures of peace.


Now you're probably asking yourself, Jack, why did you just skip four episodes? And the answer is, I didn't. I did something that I have never done in the history of my entire reaction channel. I accidentally just deleted the footage, actually. I was cleaning out my folders, and for some reason just swiped those along with it.  So my reaction to the last four are just lost in time forever. But I will recap everything that happened in the last four. Luckily it wasn't anything absolutely enormous. But first off, welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster. I shoot Nobby. I have episodes 162 and 163 of our One Piece. Watch through the day. Now I have a little notepad. In the last four, Hon is admitted to basically sending the crew off to do their doom to this sacrifice. At the point in time where we're at, Robin, Nami, and Zora are kind of exploring the jungle in the upper yard. There's this random, like, little boy or girl wandering around, like, was kind of messing with dirt that's kind of expiring on them now. Gunfall was revealed to possibly be, like, the old god of Skypia, possibly. Chopper is currently at the ship alone trying to defend it. He actually ended up trying, like, having to blow the whistle that Gunfall left them. So that's kind of where he's left off, poor little guy. And then Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp are currently locked in the battle with Round Man. AKA Sautary, and they're kind of getting clapped. That's about the gist of it. Again, I apologize for deleting those episodes. I have never in the history, I think, over three years of me were doing recordings. Have I just straight up deleted episodes on accident? So let's just hope it doesn't happen again for another three or so. That being said, if you need to channel Chopper's up and hit that big blue bell, let's hop right into the episodes. Whoa. Chopper's in the title! Oh, shoot. It's Kones' dad. Oh, is this Gunfall's place? Oh, they would have come for him, yeah. Oh, dude, he's gonna hear the whistle from here? His mantra. Like, his team, his, like, oversight, I guess? I like how he just has a personal, like, harpist player. Was it a harpist? Oh, was it Kones playing? Oh, she was playing whenever they first got there. Dude, Gunfall kind of looked like a gigachat. I'm gonna be honest. I guess I have to remember they only know what's up here. They don't really know the culture down in the blue sea. Pirate culture. I'm gonna be honest, I think he kind of sees past that. Exactly. Criminals is only a word. That's not, okay, Gunfall! Base Gunfall! Damn. He has a pirate friend. Still got over 20 years ago. Okay, so yeah, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's definitely used to be. What's his name, Ginthru? Took over? I wonder who his friend was then. Shandians or the Rillas. Okay. Not in Ginthru, in a room. Who's Ginthru? Am I trolling? Oh, okay, so in a room, took it. Damn, how did the Inner Route take over them? Island singing voice. Oh, he has high hopes. I can kind of picture Gunfall being in the, the whistle. Oh, it's like slowly taking Chopper to him. It's showtime. Oh, so it's not for Gunfall to hear, it's for his, his pony to hear. He's got places to be, people to see. Go, Pierre, go! And he is just off. Dude, I love Gunfall. He's got a nice place too. Nice crib. Dude, Ginthru is the bomber from Hunter, Hunter. How did I do that? I was driving me crazy. The whistle, he's still blowing it. So, this is one of the priests, I believe. Good dodge, Chopper. Oh, he's lighting it on fire. Oh, he's lighting the, oh, I thought he was lighting the sacrificial thing on fire. I think that's just like how his, like his pole works, his lance works. Oh, and his bird breeze fire. Okay. No! Mary, save the ship, Chopper, save it! He's gonna get big. He knows. Wait, he has the same power than a Satsurita. I kind of see the future. Interesting. The Satsurita was able to tell what was about to happen. Oh my God. Chopper, you don't, oh my God! He's smacking him around! No! Chopper, you don't have to sacrifice yourself. Don't take these hits. No, Mary! Chopper's freaking out. What are you gonna do with your bare hands, Chopper? Oh, he sees his responsibility. Oh my God. He's cutting it off at the root! What a beast. My goodness gracious. That's my medic. Nobody does it better. He's just standing there, menacingly. His voice kind of sounds familiar. What are we to do? Are you skyrider? Sure. Okay, he has a pretty good figure. Oh, this is a little kid. Knows Gaunfall's coming. I don't, I wonder if it's because of the whistle. I wanna know more about how Gaunfall was taken over by Enoru. Like kind of a, how do you get shoved out of just being God, bro? Unless he didn't want the position anymore, maybe like saw it as corrupt or something. Or like there shouldn't be one above the sky people. I don't know. He seems like a very noble type. Or are they all around each other? She's just walking slow. She said, what will you do if I fall? Proceeds to fall. Time to find out. Oh, what about Nami? Oh, wait, Robin probably has her. Yep, there it is. You can't keep relying on them. I guess she's not as powerful or not as strong, but still it's kind of sad. I feel like it's exaggerating how Nami and Chopper and kind of Usob aren't on the same level as everyone else. It's supposed to be with Nami right now, being with Robin and Zoro. It's exaggerating it. Did you see God? Interesting. I'm glad she has her hat back. Is that Shuru talking to Chopper? Damn. There's a cool spear. Oh no, now the base of the ship is on fire. The main ship. He's just observing. Figuring out the way this guy like, proceeds life. He can! I don't know how. I guess all the priests have that power. Equivalent exchange. I heard something like that. Seems like they can only see very shortly into the future though. Oh yeah, a swamp iron string ball, yeah. Ah, okay. So they all maintain their separate districts. A free area. No man's land. Thanks. So they're all the way on the other side. So there's a bunch of groups in between them and the sacrificial altar. Yeah, isn't it just a sacrifice chopper? This free area. What, fight him for your freedom? I came here for other reasons. This is the rule of the sabaki. I'll change the shape of it. Exceptional situation. There are three of them. I'll use the sword to the other side. Without permission. Yeah dude, when are we going to meet this god? The vine. Wait, like he's saying it's all Zoro's fault that he's there? Or are they going to get sacrificed anyways?  Like what? He's saying chopper dies because Zoro lived his dream of being Tarzan. Dude, Mary is in rough shape, bro. No mass anymore, too. I like this guy's design a lot, though. He's cool. Oh my god! My boy, he's going to be a fire! You let him go! Go Gunbo, go! He's here! Let's go! Daddy's home! This guy knows who Gunfall is. Yeah, so he doesn't seem scared of him or anything right away. I like how they both have a jousts, but... I said it earlier. That's spear. Oh, I guess kind of a spear. You can see little chopper jumping up and down. Oh, what's that old previous god doing here? They're both talking to their respective birds. Damn.  Chopper's a little out of his element. He's shearing him alive! Composers sort of standing on Pierre. Wait, where is he? Bro, he's right behind me, isn't he? That make-yo bird catch you, trash! What a beast! He's retreating. His bird's like taking him away. Oh, no! Going back in! Oh, he's still conscious. I thought he got knocked out. Then he hunts them. I figured he's a criminal. I figured this other guy in a room would want to hold his power. Again, I don't know how it went down, but still. Sanji? Oh, yep. They're all still knocked out. You guys are kind of getting rolled by Satori. Ah!  Please! Candy cane staff. Ball dragon. What was that? What if I do that?  I love God! I'm a gun ball stan! God damn, Luffy. Got that cake! So what? Are they just all forming into one dragon? Oh, wait. That's actually sick, though. He's like, oh, that's not that big of a deal. Oh, they all have a different surprise in them. Very cool. Luffy's solution. Yeah, I'm just going to punch it. He can just blow up this entire forest if he just hits it all really nilly. What else are you supposed to do? Okay, but where is Sanji right now? Is he still knocked out? Well, I showed him kind of looking up. Oh, my God. Wait, what's this one?  Ball dragon? I think it's dragon ball. Why is it even a dragon? Does the face even matter? Does it breathe fire? Or is it just a bunch put together and that's it? Oh, this kid wandered all the way out here. Oh. Oh, what is this? Oh, oh, wait. Is this where the, uh, like the gorillas? Oh, ver. The kid was collecting, like, the dirt. Dang, where are they? They just tucked in between clouds? Oh. Okay, so they're against in a route, too. We have a common interest here, my friend. Okay, so we kind of know their, like, goal here, then. Oh. Godfall wants everything to be okay. They don't have to fight. We've seen this guy with the cannon before. Unless they all use cannons. No peace. Wiper? Former God gun for ya, or in a room. We learn more and more. But kind of everything's set in stone. Oh, that guy's here! Oh, never mind. He's against everyone. Is it Viper? So it's a big deal that Konus went against them. Yeah, why are you against him? I'm sorry, is God, like, elected or something? Yeah, because he wants peace. I didn't know this was what she was getting at, like... Obviously, Viper's been through stuff where he can't even trust. I understand why.  Oh, so he's important. Oh, Viper is, or that guy, that he descended from. I think how Konus and her dad are just witness protection now. Like, they're just vibing out here at Old God's house. Oh, goat. The goat. Oh, goat. The goat. Meanwhile...  How fast they're fighting! They're glitching out! Suge! Negotiate? He's like, yeah, I can't figure things out. Peacefully, you need more. This is so sick. Chopper's just at the forefront. Oh, my. Is this where Inaru's shot down at Konus? All those people are so scared of Inaru. God, the rule's out of fear. Godfall doesn't lose these. I know him. Kinda. Oh, kind of. Why'd you retire, Godfall? Why? Oh, he did say strings. He's like, the strings are just sitting in the air? Like a web? Oh, no. Fly backwards! Cut the strings! Chopper! No! Help, Chopper, help! There's only two of them. And they can both see into the future. Come on, Konfall. He said it will. It has to. Bows this down for the count? These god-dang intercut cards! Do something, Chopper. You're so brave, I promise. Inaru kind of a big baby for not even fighting. Sending his lackeys instead. Those words actually cut these to chopper. I didn't realize he called them an animal. He's kind of got a point. You gotta fight for what you want. Bro, Pierre's still stuck in the air, too. Force out from your position. Ah. So he did not retire. So I'm guessing Inaru went, Oh, he's diving in! Let's go, Chopper! Zone is like, people that can turn into animals, right? Like that shape shift and stuff. Yeah. He's got a devil fruit. What is he doing? So I'm guessing the four priests in Inaru went to Gonfall and just pretty much shoved him out. No, Pierre! Bro, his bird is so cursed looking. That's the bottom where you just fall. And Chopper cannot swim. But he's brave enough to dive in. I like how she used her hands to drag a bottle all the way to the bottom, get a sample and drag it all the way back up. It said you can be so creative with Robin's power. I was waiting for one of them to climb to the very top. Oh, my God! How did she get so high up? One of the bad feeling that Inaru is like enormous. That's why all these trees are so large. Come on, man! The dragon is to sit. Oh, my God. Sanji is down so bad. It's almost Chopper. Oh, the boat is so far gone. There is no way to get back to it in time. No shot. They have been laying down for the past 20 minutes. Boy, you're just going to snipe him this time? This is not working, Luffy. You've known up until this point that he's just going to dodge. I appreciate him from trying, but still you have to get more creative. Oh, wait. What if he tries to lead the dragon back into Satori? Right, it was up! At least he's using Luffy as a distraction to try to find the boat. Man, he just knows. Oh, there's a string. Oh! Oh, shoot. Just snap it. Wait, that's such a big weakness. Wait, is Ball Dragon just going to like go sicko mode? Just throw the dragon into him, Luffy! Come on! Oh, my God. There's no way Satori is this dumb. No way! You couldn't have seen this one coming. If Luffy doesn't know what he's doing, how can Satori? You know what I mean? Was that the exit? Think of what? Climbing up a big tree? What was he going to do? Just jump onto the boat? That's smart, though. Go to the exit and just meet it there. Well, the dragon blew up. Oh, shoot. Okay, he's bruised up, but he's not down.  Bro, this has to be like top 10 bag fumbles of all time. There is no way Satori threw this hard. Don't ever let go of that. Don't, boy! Why is Sanji just chilling on a bubble? They're just frozen. Helpless? Oh, my God. Yes, he is. You guys play dirty? Bro, they wandered into the lion's den and you were talking trash. Big facts, yeah, big facts. Yeah, how do you do that? First degree crime, bro. We got like 20 million crimes stacked on already. It's too late for you. Is it in a room already declaring war on us? Is he going to cook Satori? Oh, shoot. Give it to him, Sanji. Roll his booties. He's going to bring a leg down to him. He's just smiling. Let's go, baby. The feathers are like falling off the wings. How? Damn, get smacked. Get absolutely rolled and smoked, Satori. Although it does feel a bit odd how it just like, it took like one thing which was Luffy pulling on the dragon and throwing the dragon into him to just like turn the entire fight. This fight that they've been struggling on for episodes. And of course, you guys didn't see my entire reaction to it because I lost the last four. But still, it's funny how just, it's just the one thing. Although Satori was getting a little bit ego and it was just like kind of messing around there at the end. Like, he's going to put them down a lot sooner if he wanted to. But things are looking good. I mean, I guess on this side of the things, Gunfall, I'm shocked, took a very bad hit from, I think his name was Shuru. I don't know, it's hard trying to remember all of these names. But I like Chopper's newfound bravery. Should we have diving into the like water cloud? Even though he knows he can't swim, he knows he can't come back up alone.  Because then inherently he's making himself need to be saved. But still, he's trying, dude. And another loose end is Nami seeing something that is apparently shocking. I feel like we're getting closer and closer and closer to finally seeing Inoru, if at all. Again, I'm kind of worried that he's just going to be gigantic and that's why these trees in this entire place is so huge. And maybe that's actually what Nami saw. But at this point, who knows. Guys, that's been it for episodes 162, 163 of our One Piece Watch. Do drop us up on the channel if you are new. And with that being said, I'll catch you guys in the next one. Base, base.


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Seabees deployed to Naval Station Rota are buzzing to complete a new electronic test facility. Lance Corporal Annika Moody was there to cover the construction. Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 are hard at work constructing a new electronic test facility at Naval Station Rota. The new shipboard electronic systems evaluation facility, or CSEF, will directly support U.S. 6 fleet's operations. This complex is going to be used for the ships going out to the ocean. They're going to basically calibrate their equipment to the radar and the tower to make sure they're good to go before they set out to sea. No Mayer also said the work is not only progressing ahead of schedule, it's providing new experiences all around. The facility is slated to be completed July 29th. Lance Corporal Annika Moody, Naval Station Rota.