One strike of the gavel in honor of March and at seven o'clock, we will call the meeting to order of the common counts July 2nd 2012 console made. The clerk read the quote. Certainly cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. Clerk call the roll please. Everybody could push their number one 16 present. A quorum is present. Tonight we have troop 801 boys go troop with us and they will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Maybe see you. Thank you. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to approve the minutes of the previous council meeting. It's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of their previous council meeting. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll. Thanks. 16 present. Quorum is present. Confirmation of the mayor's appointments Alderman Hammond. Thank you. One second till we get the microphones on. Keys broke Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to appoint Mai Zhang to the mayor's international committee. Second. It's been moved and seconded to appoint Mai Zhang to the mayor's international committee. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carried. Is there anybody for the public forum this evening? No, there is not. Hearing none, mayor's announcements. I hope everybody enjoys a good 4th of July and all the activities that are going around in the city. We'll be looking forward to that. And don't forget the women's PGA is this weekend too. So with a lot of things going good in the Shibuya County. Consent agenda Alderman Hammond. Thank you again. Mr. Mayor moved that ROs be accepted and placed on file and all RCs be accepted and adopted. Second. It's been moved and seconded that all ROs be accepted and filed and all RCs be accepted. Under discussion Alderman Vercy. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to be able to pull 2-4 for a separate vote please. 2-4 did you say Alderman? Yes. We will vote on 2-4 separately then and do that first. 2-4 is an RC by law and licensing recommending granting a class B liquor license. Look for a motion to accept. Thank you. Mr. Mayor move to accept and adopt. Second. It's been moved and seconded to accept and adopt the RC. Any discussion? All those in favor. Oh, I'm sorry. Clerk will call the roll. Go ahead. 15 ayes. One abstention and one abstention. Thank you. Okay. Now we'll be back to the motion of the consent agenda. Is there any discussion on the other items? Very none. The clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. 16 ayes motion carried. Report of officers 3-1 on our roll from the chief administrator officer submitting the 2013 budget schedule. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to accept and file the report of officer. Second. It's been moved and seconded to accept and file the report of the officer. Any discussion? Hearing none, clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carried. 3-2 through 3-8 will be referred with 3-7. With 3-7 being referred to both strategic fiscal and committee of the whole. Alderman Borden. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I didn't want that referred to the committee of the whole and I just wanted to give the other person the head, all the person that heads up that I will be having a committee of the whole meeting on Tuesday, July 31st at tentatively at 6 p.m. And right now it's just going to be concerning the 2013 budget. So if the other persons would make a note of that. Thank you. Okay. Those would be referred resolutions for Alderman Billinger. Thank you, Mayor. Would that 3-3 is being referred to committee of the whole to Jim? Would that be discussed at that meeting too? Yes. Okay. Thank you. 4-1 resolutions introduced. A resolution by Alderman Borden authorizing entering into a contract for purchase of two tandem axle dump trucks. Don't read. That will be referred to public works. 5-1, an RC from law and licensing recommended denying beverage license. Alderman Borden. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move the RC be accepted and adopted. It's been moved in seconded to have the licenses, the RC be accepted and adopted. Is Robert Bachnecht here? He is not here. We invited him two times to appear before committee and he did that call or show up so we had to deny his license. Is there any other discussion on the RC? Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carried. Committed report from law and licensing recommending denying taxi driver license 9590 Alderman van de willy. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that the RC be accepted and adopted. Second. It's been moved and seconded that the RC be accepted and adopted. Alderman van de willy. Is David Dallas here this evening? He's not here. He did appear before the committee with an extensive record and the committee voted 5-0 to deny the license. Is there any discussion or questions? Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carried. 5-3 and 2-5-5 will be referred. Ordinance is introduced. 6-1. An ordinance by Alderman van Akron, Carlson, Lissar, Wongam and repealing the recreation section of 7451. Alderman van Akron. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would make a motion to suspend the rules. Second. It's been moved and seconded to suspend the rules. Is there any discussion on suspending the rules? Hearing none, we'll take a vote on just suspending the rules. 16 ayes to suspend. Alderman van Akron. Thank you. Again, Mr. Mayor, I then would move that the ordinance be put upon its passage. Second. It's been moved and seconded to the ordinance be put upon its passage. Under discussion. Alderman Borden. Thank you, Mayor van Akron. As in committee, I will not be supporting this tonight. I have concerns about the, even though we have recreational immunity, I have some concerns that if there would happen to be a tragedy down there, the city could be sued. And right now, I believe our deductible after talking to Attorney McLean is up to possibly as much as $125,000. And as usual in these cases, the attorneys sue everybody in sight. So I have a problem with the exposure, even though we have the recreational liability. Also, a couple of weeks ago at Public Works, I'd like to make a friendly motion. To this document, if it does pass, I'd like to make a motion that the city attorney draft a whole harmless agreement for people renting the quarry for different types of events. We had talked about that a couple of meetings ago at Public Works before we were talking about even opening up this, opening this up to swimming that if people were using that facility, we wanted the city attorney to draft this whole, whole harmless agreement for people that are renting. And I talked to Attorney McLean earlier today and he seemed to agree with me that for people that are going to be renting that facility, it wouldn't hurt to have that in the agreement when the people rent that at Public Works that they hold the city harmless for anything that may happen down there regarding the swimming at the quarry. So I would, I would entertain that motion a friendly or a friendly motion or amendment to the document. It's been moving seconded to amend the document to have the city attorney drop up a whole harmless agreement that would be handed out in the cases where the quarry is, has been rented out by a group. Right. It would be part of the rental agreement. Right. Is there any discussion on the, on the amendment and we'll vote first on the amendment unless you wanted to talk about the amendment or loading on the amendment. 16 eyes on the amendment. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm assuming we're talking about the document. Attorney McLean, maybe I know you drafted a document for Alderman Collison to myself explaining the risks and liabilities and that and essentially took the time to do that. Could you maybe share your findings with the group as to what the city exposures liabilities might be? And your legal opinion as to whether it's okay to do it. Attorney. Thank you. Alderman Carlson had asked whether or not the city would hold any liability if we open up the quarry with swim at your own risk signs posted. And I advised Alderman Carlson and provided a copy to Alderman Hammond at his request that the city has recreational immunity under quite broad state statute section 895.52 of the Wisconsin statutes. Recreational activity under the statute is an outdoor activity undertaken for the purpose of exercise, relaxation or pleasure. And for purposes of discussion on the quarry it covers water sports and under that law the city as owner including any officer employee your agent of the city does not owe to any person who enters the owner's property to engage in a recreational activity any duty to keep the property safe for recreational activities or any duty to inspect the property or any duty to give warning of an unsafe condition use or activity. And except the in a couple areas which I'll touch on in a second. Neither the city or nor any officer employee or agent of the city is liable for the death of injury to or any death or injury caused by a person engaged in the recreational activity on the city's property. The exceptions are a death or injury that occurs on property of which the city is the owner at an event for which the city charges an admission fee for spectators. So that would not be the case for quarry and the second is a death or injury caused by a malicious act or by a malicious failure to warn against an unsafe condition which an official employee or agent of the city knew which occurs on property designated by the city for recreational purposes. The purposes of the exception conduct is malicious when it's the result of hatred ill will or revenge or is undertaken when insult or injury is intended. So it's very broad immunity. I talked Alderman Warren this afternoon or this morning there there's been a number of cases interpreting the statute over the years because it's so broad and the courts have liberally construed it because the statute says it's to be liberally construed in favor of granting immunity to suit. And I know there was one case involving a school district school where a child was injured at recess on playground equipment and they sued the school district and the school and their immunity was not granted on the basis that it really wasn't the recreational activity because the recess was part of the regularly scheduled school day and it was basically a required activity. But other than that there's there's cases. I think it was either Kenosha or Racine where there was suit brought for against the lifeguards at the at the beach down there for negligent training negligent supervision and failure to perform their duties appropriately court said recreational immunity applies no liability. So I think recreational immunity is very broad in Wisconsin the purpose the legislature had was to give landowners property owners and governmental agencies assurance that they could open up their property to the public to use for recreational purposes without getting sued. So that's been the intent and it's it's been very broadly construed as I say not the only caveat as that I would give as Alderman born mentioned we are self-insured for liability and we've got the insurance over and above our threshold $125,000 self-insured retention. So the first hundred and $25,000 of expense whether it's defense costs or whatever in a lawsuit is out of the city's pocket. We're not insured for anything over that is covered by our insurance policy. So you know one thing that the council has to weigh and I think it's it's clearly a policy decision by the council and it's a discretionary decision on your part is whether to open up the quarry without lifeguards or to go back to what the situation was previously where you did have lifeguards obviously cost to that to provide the lifeguards and I think that's what you have to balance against the opening up at your own risk and just allowing members of the public to use it on their own. The other other comment I had made and it doesn't really address it's not so much the recreational immunity issue because I think it would probably be covered by recreational immunity as well because even man-made objects if they're recreational in nature and provide for recreational activities would be held harmless or immune but in looking at the facility there's old stairs going up to the former water slide. That's like three stories worth of wooden stairs there. I think right now there's a chain link fence locking it off but wouldn't be very difficult to climb that fence and have kids climbing up those stairs and falling off the stairs and that really isn't designed as it's not currently in use as a recreational facility certainly was when there was a water slide there but I guess my suggestion was to take that structure down and any other structures that there may have been in that area that related to the water slide and so forth. So that was that was the essence of the opinion I gave. Thank you Alderman Hammon. Thank you. Just really two quick follow-up questions. Attorney McLean if we're charging admission and this is just more so again we're going into this or with our eyes wide open if we're charging admission to use the quarry facility is that the same or charging a rental fee to use the quarries at the same as admission as a as a spectator and secondly how is what this would be doing different than what we currently do at Lake Michigan you know with with respect to swim at your own risk. As far as what we do with Lake Michigan it's basically the same. There are risks at the at the lakefront as well. We had a drowning from the whatever was Riptide or undertow or whatever so that's that can be dangerous out in the lake as well. The other aspect of your question was we rent out the quarry is that the same as charging admission. The only exception is if the city as owner at an event for which the city charges an admission fee for spectators. So this is like if you had a stadium there or okay and charge admission for the spectators. It's not for the participants under the under the law. It's just spectators. So no opening up rental on the quarry view center separate and apart from the quarry. I don't think triggers or acts an exception to the liability on them and born. All them and born. Thank you again. Mayor attorney McLean. I also in our discussion today and I think this followed up that one public works meeting you were in consultation with the city's insurance company Sivmic about the possibility of opening up the quarry without lifeguards. Could you share with the council with their position was the insurance company for the city. Steve can you speak into your mic a little bit because people are having trouble here. All right. If that's what I said all the one born as I apologize I did not speak to anybody from Sivmic. I think it was Dave Bebel or or David Cook hook had spoken to a representative at the cities and villages mutual insurance company and my recollection of what was said at the this is that came up at one of the parks and recreation and marina committee meetings was that Sivmic was not in favor of the city opening up at your own risk. Could we get a clarification from Mr. Bebel in that near director public works director David Bebel. You answered the question for us please. It's my understanding that our park superintendent Dave Cook hook had a conversation with Sivmic and being an insurance and risk industry clearly it wasn't their recommendation to open it being that they're going to be our provider of the insurance if it would be a situation. Thank you. Is that answer thank you. Okay. Thank you David Alderman Wongerman. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I appreciate Alderman born's concern but if we look at all the other parks we have we take Kiwanis Park we could rent out the shelter house there. You have the shelter down at the end of the north pier children could easily walk out there and fall off to pier. You have the south side beach where swimming is done and you have that new facility down there. So it exists in all the parks and I think it's just part of our culture that people like to be in your water when they have picnics. So I think it's to the point where parents of course have to share that obligation to look after their children wonder in these things and it seems to me to be quite clear that unless the circumstances were quite extraordinary that the city would not be how liable. So it would be my vote to go ahead with the opening of the quarry. Thank you. Thank you Alderman Wongerman Alderman Carlson. Thank you. Mayor just in an effort to clean this up and make sure we're all on the same page. I'd like to offer an amendment that DPW DPW removes all the man-made objects such as the slide tower the fence line and anything else that we may deem not necessary anymore. Second and move the second that we amend the initial ordinance to include requesting the deep Department of Public Works to remove the man-made objects like fencing and the tower to reduce our liability. I think they were intended to do that under anyway but they will clear this up this way. Alderman it was our second idea. Okay. All the men on the amendment all them in hand. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I think this is a great idea and it'll take maybe a few extra to a week to get this thing open but tell them and cleans our attorney McLean's you can always be an Alderman if you want attorney McLean's point. I mean anytime you have that kind of temptation why not just remove the temptation. So I would support the amendment. All right we're going to vote on the amendment first but you want to speak on the amendment on the amendment. Yes. Then I've got a question. On the amendment. Thank you Mayor. Last time I'm going to speak and I just want to hold you to that. We do have a group of citizens out there that have volunteered to assist DPW to take all this stuff down and since that article came out in the paper I've had three or four more people contact me via email that also want to join that group. So you'll be in contact with Dave on that. Yes. Thank you. Alderman come on the amendment. We'll vote on the amendment first. Sorry. Yeah one comment. I guess I would prefer that the ordinance be clean. I know what you're proposing to do as sort of items to go with with the change in the ordinance but I don't really think you want those sorts of things in the general ordinance book like me drafting up an ordinance that have that or hold harmless agreement. You don't actually want that in the ordinance. Those are. Sort of administrative things you want the staff to to do. Following up upon change in the ordinance that would allow. Swimming there. Alderman Hammond. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Then I would move we pass the ordinance and direct the city attorney's office draft to hold hotlermost agreement and DPW to remove all the equipment and fencing as part of the beginning of the operations of the quarry. So we're back to we'll pass the resolution as stated and we'll draft the resolution. We'll just direct the city attorney's office to direct the city attorney to hold armless and DPW to clean up the area down there. It's been moved and seconded to remove.  I mean that that's fine if you want to put it all together as long as it the whole whole motion. Well basically what I'm doing here is just to amend to include administrative documents not in the ordinance. It's like having the job description after the ordinance for a T.O. So that's what you would be voting on. If that's what you want. Back to the thank you. Alderman Billinger. Thank you Mayor. Attorney McLean recently within the last couple weeks of the Racine or Kenosha opened up their quarry without lifeguards. There was a death there. Have you been in contact with that city attorney about what's going on there? Is there any pending litigation that you're aware of regardless of their immunity? And I'm just is another follow-up. I'm just wondering what would this do? Should we go ahead and open the quarry up due to our future insurance premiums seeing as how the insurance carrier is kind of telling us they would prefer that we not do this. Do you have any ideas as far as that goes? Sure. No, I haven't had any contact with people in Racine. I believe David Bebel had received a video or has a video, some news article or something from TV or something down in Racine area. But I do understand that there was a drowning after they opened up their comparable quarry, I guess. And I'm not aware I haven't read anything as to whether there's any litigation. It's pretty soon as to typically there would not be right away. But that's a very real concern. There's no doubt about that. But I, and I don't know the facts and circumstances of that case, but I would just assume that the defense in a case like that if Racine was sued, it's going to be recreational immunity as well. And unless there was something, some malicious conduct again on the part of the municipality or its officers, agents or employees, the city would be held immune from the suit. As far as effects on insurance premiums, as we mentioned in the last council meeting, we're a member of an insurance risk pool of, I think there's now about 43 different municipalities throughout the state, some larger, some smaller. And typically any payouts from one community for one particular year are not going to impact that community's rates. That's the advantage of a risk pool is, the assumption is somebody somewhere is probably going to get hit in any particular year or any given year, but in the aggregate there's not going to be a great deal of exposure throughout the entire pool. So typically the insurance pool, which we're not just an insurance holder on that, we're actually a member of the risk pool. It's not likely that an incident like that, if there was a payout, would impact our premiums in any particular year. To answer your questions. Yes, thank you. Alderman Vanakeren. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I've been in several meetings over the last couple of weeks about this issue and it talks with Director Bebel. It is my understanding that if we do pass this ordinance change that the Department of Public Works would take about approximately a week to clean up the area, remove the fence, put in the proper signage as well as life-saving equipment similar to the north and south beaches. Obviously the only difference being that the quarry doesn't have the current problems that we do on Lake Michigan. So I honestly think it'll be a safer environment for people to go and swim recreationally. So I do support this going forward. As I said, Director Bebel indicated it would take about a week or so to accomplish once we give it our blessing if that's what we decide to do. And hopefully we can then allow for the last, you know, two months here of the summer that people are able to utilize that. Any other discussion? Hearing none, clerk will call the roll. First we have to vote on the motion to include administrative documents to amend too. Okay. So we need to do that first. And that would be 16 ayes. Now we'll need to go back. We need a motion as amended. We already have that. I will make the motion as amended. Yes, we do. Okay. Yeah, we do. And we'll vote. Hold on, let me get it. We'll vote on the ordinance as amended. Any other discussion? We'll take the vote. Yep. 14 ayes, two nos. Motion carries. Six two will lie over. Six three will be referred. Matters lied over. The resolution on RO from the purchasing agent submitting quotes for purchasing a four diesel powered vacuum when born. We factors. Thank you, mayor. If I could, I would like to take document 7172 and 73 together for the people watching at home. They're pretty similar. Seven one just says the RO by the purchasing agent submitting quotes for the purchase of four diesel powered vacuum leaf collection trailers for the motor vehicle department. The motion I would make on all three of them would be a motion to accept and file the RO past the resolution and accept and adopt the RC. Second. It's been moved and seconded to accept and file the RO and pass the resolution and accept and adopt the committee report under discussion. Under discussion, mayor, these new diesel powered vacuum leaf collection trailers are to replace the system that we've been using the last few years where allegedly the view of the driver was obscured by the vacuum cleaner being in front. These will be trailers. It'll be a two man operation. They'll be the person driving the truck with an unobstructed view and then there will be another staff member walking behind the truck and actually vacuuming up the leaves. So that should. We saw a report on this from director Bebel at one of the recent public works meetings and it looks like a very efficient system while eliminating some of the concerns of visibility while they're being collected. Thank you. Thank you. Alderman born. Is there any other discussion? We'll call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carried. 7-4 resolution by Alderman Heidemann authorizing and executing agreement for access of property and environmental remediation. Alderman Heidemann. Thank you, mayor. I move that the resolution be put upon his passage. Second. It's been moved and seconded that the resolution be put upon his passing. Under discussion, Alderman Heidemann. Okay. Under this resolution, this allows the Great Lakes Regional Program Office to use this area for parking equipment, for the dredging, dewatering and the transportation of sediments from the Shubwagon River. And that project could be completed in the Bay of 2013. Thank you. Alderman Heidemann. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carries. 8-1 and 8-2 under other matters will be referred. 8-3, an aural from the purchasing agent submitting bids for Shubwagon River area concerns for habitat restoration. Alderman Heidemann. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would request that we take 8-3, 8-4, 8-5 and 8-6 together, please. Is there all relative to each other? It's been moved and seconded. Second. To accept all the 8-3 through 8-6, the aural and the two resolutions be put upon their passage. Under discussion. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And as part of this also would ask that we suspend the rules. Second. On all those documents. So we will vote on suspending the rules first. Any discussion on suspending the rules? Otherwise, the clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Make a motion to accept and file the two ROs and pass the two resolutions. Second. It's been moved and seconded to accept and file the two ROs and pass the two resolutions. Is there any discussion? Alderman Hammond. Thank you. Just for the, as Alderman Bourne indicated for the people at home, this is for the Sheborgen River area concern of habitat restoration projects, which is restoration improvements for Islinging Park, Wildwood Island, and the Riverbank adjacent to Kiwanis at the EPA. Part of this will be getting funds or accepting funds from the EPA. Part of it is appropriating funds from the EPA to the project. And again, for the restoration of those three areas. Thank you. Under discussion, Alderman Bourne. Thank you, Mayor. Also for the benefit of the people at home during our discussions on this at Public Works, these funds also contain money to continue to monitor this restoration for a period of five years. So the city really doesn't have to do it. The funding provides for, I guess it would be the EPA, whoever is going to do it, but for five years. So for example, the enhancements that are going to be made by Kiwanis Park, for example, that will be monitored for five years to see that it's effective before we would have any responsibility as a city. Thank you, Alderman Bourne. Any other discussion or questions? Hearing none. Clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carried. Pull them in Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move motion to convene in closed session under the exemption. He's got a couple more other matters. I'm sorry. Let's do that. Take care of people. Yeah, I don't see it. City attorney. Thank you, Your Honor. 8.7 is an RO by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2013 and June 30, 2014. That will go to law and license. And 8.8 is an RO by the city clerk submitting communication from Kelly Hine, executive director of Meals on Wheels, that they have submitted an offer to purchase a piece of land behind the Taylor Drive property, formerly the Shookert parcel. That will go to the plan commission. Actually, it will go to finance. Finance. Thank you. Alderman Hammond. You ready? Yep. Motion convening closed session of the exemption contained in section 19.85, subsection 1G, Wisconsin statutes for the purpose of conferring with legal counsel for the city who is rendering oral advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the city with respect to litigation, which it is and which will be likely to become involved. I can move second to go into closed session. Any discussion? All those in favor? The clerk will call the roll. 16 ayes. Motion carried. We'll ask the convener and the crowd to and we'll convene in about five minutes.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Deepika here. Let's discuss a question. Question says, by using properties of determinants, show that determinant 1a a square, 1b b square, 1cc square is equal to a minus v into b minus c into c minus a. Let's start the solution. Solution. Let us take the left hand side. Our left hand side is equal to 1, 1, 1, a, b, c, a square, b square, c square. We will prove that our left hand side is equal to right hand side. Now, by applying r1 goes to r1 minus r2 and r2 goes to r2 minus r3, we get our left hand side is equal to r1 goes to r1 minus r2 that is 1 minus 1, 0, a minus b and a square minus b square. And r2 goes to r2 minus r3 that is 1 minus 1, 0, b minus c, b square minus c square. And r3 is same, 1cc, 1cc square. We can see that in this determinant we can take a minus b common from the r1 and b minus c from r2. So, we get this is equal to a minus b, b minus c is equal to 0, 1, a plus b, 0, 1, b plus c, 1cc square on taking a minus b and b minus c common from r1 and r2. By applying r1 goes to r1 minus r2, we get our left hand side is equal to a minus b, b minus c, 0, 0, a minus c, 0, 1, b plus c, 1cc square. Now, expanding along r1 we get our left hand side is equal to a minus b, b minus c, 0, minus 0, plus a minus c and 0, 1, 1c that is by expanding along r1. This is equal to a minus b, b minus c, a minus c into 0, minus 1 that is minus 1 which is again equal to a minus b, b minus c, c minus a which is equal to r right hand side. Hence, left hand side is equal to right hand side. I hope the question is clear to you. Bye and have a nice day.


Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Jurassic World Primalops and today we have done it I have finally done all missions on easy all missions on hard and now we are finally doing Elite and let me tell you Elite is it's pretty tricky there's a lot to do and pretty much if I didn't have stegasaur I would be done so we're gonna quickly claim one stegasaur DNA because good lord do we need it we're so close ranking up stegasaur and once we rank up like seeing the difference on the dinosaur stats an epic dinosaur at level 20 is not as good as a level rank one stegasaur so if that doesn't tell you how good freaking stegasaur really is maybe just a really good dinosaur I don't know but we are very close to getting some other ones we are only three DNA three DNA away from a sticky molok unlocking and that I mean already its power is 1684 and I'm assuming maybe that's at level one so you could rank that up even higher we are very close to an allosaurus hopefully we'll unlock one of these uh baronex is very close uh cryolophosaurus uh hyungasaur patchycephalosaurus and euposephalos are all incredibly close to being unlocked we'll have a look uh because we've got loads of stuff to open actually before we start getting into you know the craziness that is that um so this is one of these stegasaur events now every time you open one of these crates I think you're guaranteed stegasaur's DNA it could be one it could be five I'm not exactly sure how it works but there you go there's two also as well you get like a fair bit of coins now those are really hard crates to get um like the keys you need for them however there is also 325 friggin tyrannodon so I don't even know what we are close to uh getting tyrannodon level up I don't think it's that high but we're getting you know dimorphodon we're getting erotite oh god I don't even know what that one was you can probably pause the the split second that was done I accidentally clicked on that one through but really we're probably working towards an erotitan and we've only got one epic dinosaur so far and it's debatable we're very good I don't know where the raptors are if I'm going to be honest but we do have it so we're going to open all of these I think every time we open up a crate we get like a minuscule amount of xp because we are now rank 25 I think we were 23 or 24 on the last one so we just pushed up there is one tyrannodon DNA I gotta admit I did the sticky mo-lock and I got a fair few when I was opening up all these I probably had the same amount of crates as I do a tyrannodon there's another one but we do need 50 tyrannodon um if that's if I have zero and I'm pretty sure I will have had some DNA but I've gotten very lucky with the sticky mo-lock so far and I was so hoping that you know I could actually get another one or open up a few more er sticky mo-lock crates for this video but unfortunately out of all of this it was like what 10 15 maybe 16 crates we have got two tyrannodon DNA so you can buy how'd you how'd you buy I don't have enough currency for that transaction so no there's no way to get those we do also have these as well we're getting close for the rare crate we'll open up something we'll open up these because there is a chance of getting sticky mo-lock DNA in the common it's gonna be very rare we do have five crates worth please I just need three we'll do a regular one maybe we'll get epic if we play the whole animation or we could just get loads of common DNA that works too yay let's speed up oh it lets two proseratosaurus DNA and the final one you know we'll let this go all the way through we'll let this one play out let's see what we get here come on some good oh well it's a rare and it is a patchy rhinosaurus which I think we do actually have now it's not all over because in the you know the epic battles all those missions you have a good chance of getting some DNA there so we also have squads so we'll just collect some this I mean some coin I suppose quickly go in a hand list to make sure there's nothing I can upgrade because Jesus I need a lot like 693 oh soon 93 as well for that one is anything even close that one is okay the oozey's close booties are not close gun is not close yeah gun it we need 700 for that wait how much is it for this wow so I've got him actually leveled up a fair bit he's level 14 on his gun so a quite a 17% chance isn't that great is it uh so what I will do is I'll upgrade the handlers again because we are so close to unlocking the arm pad now in the previous update and previous previous update um we actually already have that unlocked so now we have it unlocked proper um and it's 27% so we get a damage bonus for stegosaur companions the lofasaur companions and tyrannodon companions so the stegosaur is going to be even better now which is a brilliant let's go into these super hard missions um so our best I know um really we would like to have a flyer but I don't know if demorphodon is really that good or if I haven't leveled up that good I can probably get it level 20 which is this it's not we can level it up iron 79 I don't know how good demorphodon really is though but you know what sod it there you go rank 5 for that 20 more of those let's get all the way to level 20 and it is nowhere near okay it's 650 in comparison to an 890 but we does have it like it's it's damage that was a little bit delayed wasn't it uh we got a quest or two dna for leveling up a dinosaur so read and so you every time so a week once a week you could probably get the stegosaur dna okay so and we are seven away seven weeks but saying that there is still a chance if we do well we can't do the prologue to get to uh we need to complete level six and level nine now I already did those in the other one but it glitched out and it wouldn't give me them so two four six so if I somehow managed to you know find the prologue and complete that um it could it maybe a week's time I could have a stegosaur rank two but that's probably not gonna happen so let's see what all the hubbub is about in these elite missions so this one isn't giving us any specific dna which is a bit sucky because they have been giving some very good dna um because I'm I'm kind of curious like I've played through this game basically twice now and I only have one freaking legendary so for me I feel like this game is being a bit stingy when it comes to its other stuff so we don't want to put him in we want to oh we could level up and talk to Capelta here because now we're doing against Kasperski we're doing against the end of Arras but we could level up you a fair bit so we could get you all the way to level 30 and now you'll not only be a lot stronger um so what's this 50% chance to apply slow 50% chance bonus against gunner enemies and 100% extra damage to Kasperski so that's way better uh so we've also got I think some more dna as well yay and then we'll be like two more dna or two more levels up and we'll get two more dna sweet so we'll switch out um those two for these two so they've got 100% extra bonus damage against Kasperski so actually the um the homalicephaly does more damage than the stegosaur does which is very interesting okay because they both got the extra damage I don't I don't know if anybody does extra damage against them no they're all even it used to be in the last update or during the first the first time the game came out that certain hunters were better against other uh like dinosaur wrangler so we should be in with a good stead we've leveled up our handler twice it's bringing homalicephaly see how good it does oh and it missed brilliant and it's already dead I think oh god oh god yeah homalicephaly is there that's great and talk to copelta be the meat shield I need go on well do something good lord do something what are you doing oh god oh god yep and talk to copelta is is doing literally nothing it is just walking around homalicephaly is doing the work here oh oh there you go you did nothing thank you and talk to copelta we'll lure him back into the stegosaur boom yes so apparently the homalicephaly does more damage than that but I really find that hard to believe I think the stegosaur hits multiple times there you go and bam yeah oh they're really good I should just save all of my stamina for those guys there he is oh no no no hide behind we've got two baton stickies bring the homalicephaly and where are you yeah there you go got him right stegosaur turned into a supply crate that's brilliant oh god oh oh jesus oh god that's a lot of hell that was unfortunate he really got me trapped between a rock and a hard place oh jesus didn't even realize he was dead it's a lot of energy to waste if I die man oh yep bringing in talk to copelta and those guys I don't even know if they're gonna do anything oh I'll take the hell yep I'll take that I have run out of stamina as well not so good oh god oh god uh stego I need you I need you baby there it is there it is okay good homalicephaly go in and break it up see I do nothing to them like literally not like look at this man nothing it's it's literally only stegosaur they can do something against them when you get up to chapter nine I can only imagine the amount of damage that stegosaur is going to do is literally nothing all this guy does is look at them like this is 100% extra damage and they barely do anything to them you need stegosaur my god okay it's not looking so bad it's not looking so bad I've already got two more bits to go that's good there's only two guys here stegosaur is doing a little bit of a moonwalk getting back here that's fine he's he's hitting the wrong way I don't know where he's facing I think you actually did get some hits in there good good yep yep a baton guy who I'm trying to target there you go get him in the crossfire crossfire oh god yep we're all this way there's two of them yeah look look I don't do anything to him man literally nothing at level 61 for god's sake I do nothing I've played this game twice through and still nothing I can't imagine what this game would have been like if I hadn't had you know stegosaur already unlocked or you know already ranked up to the rank I was because it's like I feel like this game still needs a little bit of a balance because that is too much that is too much level difference here I've been lucky enough to kind of just glide through it but in a way where it's still fun this however like now is super hard and I can only imagine that it's like this for regular players that haven't been able to uh you know play the game twice over there we go that's good that's good we've got a another sniper dude and oh oh yes I think that's it just this one dude and down it what are we even helping out here I don't even know oh it's an allosaurus brilliant mission completed lovely allosaurus now will we get decent amount of coin I don't think we're going to get any DNA I don't think it showed us getting any DNA but we're very close to allosaurus very close now normally I'd probably like watch an advert just because I realized I'm my coinage isn't doing too great and especially when you're like things get a higher level it takes even longer so it's 14 and we need a pachycephalosaurus and for it to be ranked two in order to do this mission what um excuse me you you didn't give you gave me a the pachycephalosaurus like a couple of missions ago it gave me this like well it gave me a you know 20 or 25 DNA towards it but then it just never unlocked it the same with the allosaurus like so close but not quite oh okay so I can actually do it right right right right so I haven't been grinding to get as 20 what it's okay well at least there is a way to farm it I was thinking well I'm stuck until I get some sticky molok um event and then I can just maybe open it right so that's not so bad I was like uh there's no way for me to do this thank you game so a pachycephalosaurus I better get more than one come on for 20 I don't think this is going to be too hard man if I can hit one more time I'm done I'm done no way to get away if you try and hide behind a building it goes straight away like cuts from the corner so I probably should have put the stego in first I underestimated its power this is a hard by the way man this game needs a balance yeah I thought it was I was pretty happy with the way it was but as soon as I hit epic like difficulty nah it's it's and the fact is I haven't unlocked a new dinosaur in so long and I've went through the game like twice right there we go okay okay okay yep that's good that's good yep keep hitting it keep hitting it right I'm going to try and hide behind this wall oh oh we're getting way luckier now we're getting some good stuns and it's done okay sweet I don't know why it gives me health it's like the last thing you kill anyway the thing is yes we got one DNA there and we need maybe like five so it's possible that it could do because I think you can get more than one so DFW contract what's that what did I do what I do oh okay these ones are fair enough I don't think they do anything in particular um so if we go back in the dinosaurs we look at patchy cephalosaurus it is not you you are loud though so we need six more so and we need to at least get a couple more so it's gonna cost us 20 to fill up with 30 really and then it goes up even more good god so we've got three shots here um I think we got unlucky with that one I was probably stupid I got it four times and my dinosaurs were just dancing around not really doing much and I can't do much I don't do any damage there's no way to get health good news is that at least with this mission you're straight with the boss there's no faffing around with other like kill them and then eventually hit the boss so there we go there we go and probably should have waited you see what I mean like there's no way to get away from that like what am I supposed to do here and why is it liking like oh crazy right we're gonna hide hide around this Jesus okay we are liking like crazy as well I don't even know where it is I can only take like two more hits oh I love when it glitches through the trees that's fair well then at least we did it but good god it almost cost the game it was breaking I don't know what I did there fingers crossed we got more than one DNA there how much did we get ah one DNA game being stingy as ever sweet okay we can do that a couple more times right that's the only thing to do oh I can't even dodge all the way okay we're gonna have to play bring around a rosies and hopefully yep as long as it doesn't get line of sight on you we're good yes this is how we do it yes get him yes just hide be a coward will the game be stingy and just give you one every time it can't be surely like the thing is the game hasn't even given me enough DNA playing through it twice by the way to unlock the pachycephalosaurus let alone get it to rank two in order to you know go and progress through the missions okay I think I need three if I mean so far we've done three or four battles with this and each time we've only gotten one and I need three from this one it looks like they're probably not going to give you a three DNA but you know what maybe maybe I'm maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong oh oh I didn't even say it yes and it doesn't even know where I am there's brilliant hide behind the rock yes like a true coward and you're dead thank you sweet the thing is though even like I said playing through the game twice and whatever I only have 54 max capacity for batteries and I'm ranked god knows whatever and really I could be higher if I never leveled up my dinosaurs um because I think that oh and and of course one DNA sweet so I think I'm too off and I'm not spending like how much is it to get 30 battery it'll be like 60 DNA now or something ridiculous it is 60 DNA and I can only do one more battle and I'm probably only gonna get one more DNA and I am now oh and three off never mind not to so this will probably be the last video I make on primal ops until maybe it's fully released I can't imagine really doing anymore because I can't progress the mission because it's broken well done on testing that um and it's I don't really gonna unlock anything even if I do unlock anything I can't progress so I can't do anything so it's gonna be a little bit of a shorter video today but hopefully you still enjoyed it it's funny see me get annoyed isn't it you just find you cut me a fool anyway if you enjoyed this video guys leave a like and check out all the other videos we have on the channel we have like over a thousand of them like two thousand god knows until next time I see you cutie later oh buh-bye


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I'm your host, Elliot, with a background of being at Bloomberg as the senior software engineer on the ML platform team. One of the maintainers of HERA, which I'm gonna tell you all about today. And joining me is JP. Hi everyone, I'm JP Zivillich. I'm CTO and founder of PypeKit. We are a services and software provider for the Argo workflows ecosystem. And yeah, excited to dive into HERA and orchestrating Python functions natively. Let's go. Here's the outline of the day. So going over first, why build on Argo workflows, then the Argo developer experience for some problem motivation. Then we'll introduce HERA and show off some of its features and example code for you to walk away with. And then we'll get into some case studies of how HERA actually helps in the wild. And finally, the main takeaways of today's talk for you all. So let's start with the what's and why's. Why build on Argo workflows? Spoiler alert, we are at ArgoCon. But for anyone new to Argo workflows, it's become the de facto Kubernetes workflow orchestration standard, bit of a mouthful, but it's beat out the competition because of its features and scalability robustness all built off Kubernetes. And it has benefits beyond the code, like the active and growing community that we've just heard about in the keynote. And with long-term support and being vendor neutral, we can trust it for the long term. So now actually let's look at some of the problems facing Argo workflows. Firstly, being built on Kubernetes YAML, our favorite language, is the default language to communicate with Argo, which can actually be a barrier to entry in a few ways. It's hard to test because it requires a Kubernetes cluster for Argo workflows. It needs to be installed. And then we know we can test workflow end-to-end, maybe manually, but we wanna be able to test every template. We wanna test the whole workflow and we wanna inspect it programmatically. But right now there's no easy way to programmatically do that. And it's hard to reuse code outside of these kind of heavy-weight workflow templates that have to be on your cluster already. What if we just want something lightweight, a couple of lines of glue code between our steps? And finally, it's hard to maintain long workflows simply because a single YAML file can become too hard to maintain. And if you want semantically versioned and auto-documenting workflow templates, for example, it's something you have to set up yourself. And furthermore, stats from the 2023 Argo Workflow Survey showed that only 13% of Argo workflows users were data scientists or data engineers. Maybe they prefer another language. In the 2021 Argo Workflow Survey feedback included, they need to, quote, convince folks that containers aren't scary and YAML isn't evil. And quote, honestly, something like a good Python DSL would be fantastic. So a Python DSL, why would we want that? Well, Python has a mature developer experience. Extensive libraries is the preferred scripting language for many developers. And I could go on and on about all its popular features. So how about we build on Python and leverage these existing solutions and features rather than reinventing the wheel for Argo, no pun intended? So how can we get the best of the Python developer experience while still using Argo workflows as our Kubernetes workflow orchestrator? Well, introducing Herra as the Python SDK for Argo workflows, it lets you write your workflow in Python, but it can do so much more. Every Python function can be used as a template in your workflows, which means you can test templates individually or the workflow as a whole. And Herra also provides a Python client wrapper around the workflows API, letting you interact with Argo workflows entirely through Python. So Herra's main goal is to let you focus on your business logic and make orchestration easy. So it's the all-in-one solution for you to write your business logic, orchestration logic, and submit all in Python. And the extensive documentation for Herra is something I'm proud of contributing. It offers a comprehensive introduction to Argo and Herra with a from zero walkthrough, from zero to Herra hero, and offers user guides for its more complex features. But enough talk, let's code. This isn't a demo, but... So let's take this YAML workflow to find over here. It kind of looks like this DAG diamond. It's running A, then B and C in parallel, and then D, and rewrite it with Herra. So first, we'll need Herra's custom classes to help you author your workflow with code completion. I know, right? So these classes, DAG container, parameters test, task, and workflow, these are all custom classes that Herra provides to help you write your workflow. And next, you'll see this context manager pattern. So for workflows, DAG steps and more, it mirrors the YAML syntax, so Argo experts should feel right at home. And then if you know Argo workflows, this Python version of a container template should make sense to you. It will run the echo command in the Alpine 3.7 image, taking an input parameter called message, which it will print to standard out. And objects like this container are automatically added to the workflows templates, along with the DAG. That's also a type of template. But these tasks below are running that container template we just defined, passing a message that matches the names. And these are under the DAG context, so they're added to the DAG. And we can sprinkle some syntactic sugar into this workflow to avoid some extra typing by calling the container template. Plus, we can describe task dependencies with the RShift operator. Pretty cool. But container templates, running commands. No, I want more Python. So lucky for you, in Hera, functions R templates. You just need to decorate them with this script decorator, and Hera will do the rest. Here, we're replacing the container template we just had with a function, running on the Python 3.12 image, and all it does is print message. Functionally equivalent, but now it's in Python. So everything else in the workflow is just as before. It's still a diamond. But let's say you don't want to keep flicking between your IDE and Argo CLI or the UI to keep starting your workflows. You want to just call a magic function that creates it for you. All that takes is a little setup, and then you can call create directly on your workflow. But before we get too carried away, there are still some missing pieces. Hera has to compile your Python workflow into YAML for Argo to understand it. And for script templates, that means we have to dump the function body into the source field of the script template. In Hera, we call this an inline script because the code is inline in your YAML as opposed to something coming up next. But our function is essentially typeless and practically untestable. And when Hera compiles your workflow to YAML, it helps a bit by deserializing your parameters for you, but we're still at the mercy of whatever the user gives us. So what if we could do better? So the Hera script runner is a way to run your code through an image built with your dependencies, including Hera itself, meaning your code runs exactly as written. It encourages the use of container tech because users need to build an image with their code in penises, which is pulled and run on Argo. And if you're curious about how it works, this is a quick look behind the scenes of the exported YAML. The command is still Python, but now there are Args. And the image has to be one that you built. And the source is the list of input parameters. And what this means, with the image intact, we can write type safe functions. So to use the Hera runner, we first need to specify the constructor as runner. And we need a template that we're going to build from this code later on. And same as an inline script, the function parameters are exported as input parameters to the template. But now, at runtime, Hera can deserialize and type check the inputs. And with the Hera runner, we can even return values straight from the function. Which means, drumroll please, we can actually test script template functions just like any other normal Python. But right now, you might realize we're limited to the basic types with JSON. You might be able to fit a dict or a list in there. But what about if we could do even better? Have you heard of Pydantic? It's my friend. It's a Python library predominantly used for data validation and it's able to convert between JSON strings and Python objects. So Hera actually already integrates with Pydantic. I didn't tell you that because it's how it actually validates your function and the type checking. But it also means that Pydantic classes themselves can be used in your function inputs. And what I mean by that are base models, if you know about Pydantic. So you get your rich Python type hints while you're writing your function. But it means Hera knows how to automatically deserialize your template inputs when running your workflow using the type hints of your function, ensuring type safety at runtime round of applause. So let's give it a try. First, we need a Pydantic base model class and here a very complex example of a rectangle with a length and width and a function called area that returns the area. I'm sure your business logic is much more complex. So with the Hera runner, we can now just use this as an input parameter to the function which means the underlying script template is now looking at this rectangle and we can test it just like any other function. So who else likes testing their code? Well, good news everyone. Workflows are testable. So in this example, we're going to set up a workflow and wait for it to complete. So I'm calling create just as before. I've left some of the code out. But then with the completed workflow, we can check the status and make sure the phase is succeeded and not failed. And we can even get individual nodes from the workflow and check their outputs. So that's enough of code examples. We have a few notes on the future goals of Hera to keep building on the Python developer experience. So bringing Python versioning and dependency management to Argo, things that don't really exist right now and would help teams with lots of interdependent workflow templates. But let's see how Hera is used in the wild. Beginning with Bloomberg as being a Bloomberg employee. So for some background, we're a financial news and data company. In the AI group, we have constant streams of data coming in that we want to use to retrain models and keep them as up-to-date as possible. So we call this model remediation or model drift. And even though Argo workflows looks like a strong contender to orchestrate and run pipelines for this model remediation, we saw very low adoption of Argo workflows despite even having an in-house team to support it. For teams that had adopted Argo, we saw YAML workflows with entire chunks of Python code dumped into the script templates which looked pretty untestable outside of end-to-end system tests. So how did we solve this? Being the ML platform team, we aim to provide a Python experience for our AI developers to use Argo workflows. So we worked on Herra itself for a major version 5 release which was a complete rewrite of the library. And we provide accompanying tools for Herra to help our Python AI developers get started.  So in this case, it's for a workflow template. We encourage all our developers to write workflow templates and reuse them. We also have a testing framework for them to test this workflow template that they're working on and iterating on. We also have a documentation generator for our workflow templates because as the ML platform team, we provide lots of workflow templates and we want them to have a unified reading interface. And we also ran workshops to kickstart our Herra adoption. And we have support channels where developers can reach out and talk to us. So the key takeaway for us was that Herra enabled our 40 teams in the AI group to adopt ARGA workflows and use it in production, running workflows that can look a little bit like this. And these do data collection, retraining multiple models and evaluating them at scale. So now we're here from JP. Thank you, Elliot. We got some nervous looks when you mentioned who likes testing your code. Sorry guys, your secret is safe with us. So as mentioned in the intro, my name is JP. I work at PipeKit. We are a services and software provider in the ARGA workflows ecosystem. So a problem that many companies run into is how do they manage ARGA workflows at scale? How do they build that self-service like data science or CI platform for their team? And that's what we help with. So we do a couple solutions, some of which are closed source, some of which are open source. I'll highlight one of the open source ones is that we're rolling out this PipeKit SDK within the open. And this is a tool that allows you to submit to multiple clusters from a single Jupyter notebook using Hera. And it also allows you to stream the logs back into that single notebook. And really from the vendor perspective, what we've learned serving customers is that we need to meet both the platform team and the data scientists where they're at. So platform teams, Kubernetes operators, we're very familiar with like pods, deployments, service accounts, all of the many Kubernetes primitives that we've come to know and love. But data scientists and other people who aren't yet in the Kubernetes ecosystem, they want to just interact with code, right? Like they enjoy Python. They want to stay within their ecosystem. They like Jupyter notebooks. And these are things where if you're trying to shoehorn these developers or data scientists into using YAML and the tools that you're accustomed to, it's a lot of mental overhead for them to overcome, right? Like they've already got to worry about like their models, data science and whatnot. So it's best if you can just meet both of these core groups where they're at. So we'll go over a couple of use cases that we've seen in the wild. The first one I'm going to highlight is one of our customers that we work with. This is a Curb Battery Intelligence. And what they do is detect when batteries are most likely to fail. So what they do is they analyze a bunch of battery data. We've given an ArgoCon talk with them previously where they highlighted how they're using a combination of Kubernetes and DASC deployments that are running on Kubernetes to achieve lots of parallelism. At first, they were doing this with just a native like YAML Argo workflow. And then over time, we've been helping them transition into Hera. Now, the problems that they were running into is that the data science team just didn't really like interacting with the YAML. It wasn't flexible. They would have to take their workflows YAML, hand it off to that platform team to make some sort of major modification to it. And then they'd give it back to the data scientists. That slows down operations considerably. Even things like setting resource requests and limits was just not as flexible and self-serve as it could have been. So the solution of adopting Hera has allowed for a lot greater flexibility. The data scientists are able to start using the DASC primitives that they're known to and are unit-customed with. They're able to update the workflows on the fly, set those resource requests and limits. And it's led to greater productivity broadly. Next, I'll get into an energy company that we've seen in the wild. This is a problem that we see in energy companies where they run algorithmic trading desks. So if you're an energy company, you need to normalize your energy prices. Throughout the year, energy prices are highly subject to seasonality or macroeconomic events, which is awful if you're doing business planning. You want a relatively flat price that you can plan for. So this company adopted Argo workflows because they needed to process lots and lots of historical returns. And that's a level of scale that most companies aren't able to function at without Kubernetes. So Kubernetes and Argo workflows is the obvious solution. But then since they're competing in a market against other algorithmic traders, they need to have their data scientists be able to iterate very quickly. And so they adopted Herat in order to be more self-serve, give the data scientists the flexibility they needed, and avoid handoffs between the data scientists and the platform teams. So I'll hand it back to Elliott to get into some of the key takeaways. Thank you. So for some main takeaways of today's talk, we've seen what Herat is, some of its core features, and how it makes Argo workflows easy to use for Python developers. Argo is still doing the heavy lifting of orchestrating your Python functions at runtime, so you still get everything you've come to expect from the Argo workflows project. And we've seen how across multiple companies Herat is trusted and used in production to help teams use Argo workflows and scale up. The tool on didn't read for today if you're still recovering from jet lag is Argo workflows and Herat can give you the best cloud native workflow experience. And if you want to connect with us, contribute to Herat, or just learn more, you can find us on GitHub or the CNCS Slack. So thank you all for coming. Good job. I think we have time for questions. You can take it. Cool. I think we have about five minutes for questions. Is there a common mic for people to use? I don't know if there is. If not, we can have people just raise their hands and we'll have you all ask some questions. Yes, for sure. I'm going to repeat the questions just so everyone can hear it. So the question was, why build on top of Argo workflows instead of another tool like Dagster, Airflow, et cetera? I'm happy to take this one. You want it, Elliot? Okay. So that is a good question. I think one of the core issues is the amount of scale. So Argo workflows is built on top of Kubernetes and uses all of the normal Kubernetes primitives that we're familiar with. We've seen that Argo or that Kubernetes can scale pretty well. It's not, you know, an infinite scaling solution, right? Like you can't just take a Kubernetes cluster and expect it to scale to, you know, infinity. But it does achieve a level of scale that might be a little bit tougher, especially with some legacy systems like Airflow where you're having to stand up like multiple parts, figure out some of them can run on Kubernetes. Some of them cannot. Argo workflows was built on top of Kubernetes from the ground up and is able to hit some scaling limits or scaling thresholds that some other tools cannot. Really then the question was, what is the developer experience like? And that's something that platform engineers refine with, writing YAML, right? If you're very accustomed to writing YAML, then, you know, that's great. You can still do that. But a lot of data scientists, just other engineers, weren't quite up to speed on it. So we saw a Flaview from Dyna Therapeutics start working on Hera and then Bloomberg adopted it and saw a broader community adoption improving the developer experience. Anything to add, Elliot? Cool. Did that answer your question? Thumbs up? More or less? If not, happy to talk after. Attend the next session. Yeah. Other questions? Yes. I don't think there's a table that exists currently. What's interesting is both are built on top of Argo workflows. So you're using the same runtime under the hood, but happy to dive into that a little bit more. Do you know off the top of your head? Do you mean are there like feature comparisons? So for the Argo Python SDK that's auto-generated, Hera also kind of auto-generates a lot of stuff as well. So you have a fallback mechanism in case we haven't implemented something yet. But we've been pretty up to date so far and there isn't really anything missing. All right. Other questions? Stogahats, three minutes. In that case, we are happy to wrap it up early. Thank you guys so much. Thank you very much.


This is Silicon Angle Media's theCUBE Star Flagship program, we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host this week, Stu Miniman, the three days of wall-to-wall coverage. Our next guest, Michael Dell, welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you. Super excited to be with you and obviously super excited about the formation of Dell technology. Here we are in the middle of Silicon Valley and what this part of the country has done to change the culture of the entire world. The world's economy in the last 20 years, 25 years is nothing short of incredible. What problem are we trying to solve? One of these industries work, I think you take all this great technology and actually help a non-technology industry improve and go digital. So that's that nexus of technology and business. That's where we sit. That's what we do, swing those two things together. So you've served eight presidents, six of whom had a great sense of humor. Why is it important for leaders to have a sense of humor? Well, I think a sense of humor reflects balance. It reflects a perspective on the world that is healthy. Being a leader and being right a lot means that you get to the right answer regardless of who's idea it was at the beginning and regardless of how many times you change your mind along the way. Great leaders change their minds when they get new information. We have extraordinary vision and leadership of our fields and so much of this starts at the top and he truly believes that Ford is perfectly poised right now to help people make their lives better and we think we can do that through mobility. So we are breaking out of our comfort zone. What makes kind of where we are now in technology so important? Yeah, I think one, I'm very excited about the open, right? The ability for everyone to participate has created such a, it's almost a much more rapid innovation cycle than we've ever seen before. You know, some of the brightest brains in the world are involved in the creation of new technology. I just think they need to be focusing a bit more of that intellectual rigor towards the impact they're having on society and how they could do it better because I think it's too much of a technocratic solution, right, technologists say, we can do this? The question is, should they? Back to the point about innovation in cloud is yes, it's lower cost, it's better economically, yes, it's simpler, but it also drives more innovation at the same time and it's really the combination of all these factors that do the trick. You know, we made it more inclusive than most of the companies would do because typically, IPOs are more elitist events where like a few execs show up and so on. And we worked really hard to say, look, with the more the merrier. We're going to talk about the human condition and what's happening in the world and how to affect change.  Coming out of that experience and the struggle against above-date has been foundational for me in terms of looking at how terrible our world can be and how amazing our world can be and the people who take the time and the commitment to change the terrible into good. Freedom of speech is not something theoretical. It's not something academic. It's not a great idea that the forefathers came up with. It's something that lives and breathes in my blood and in my DNA and in my dreams and in everything that makes me human.  You like to go to war. I don't like to go to war. I like to go to places where those values are being tested. Young ladies always ask me, did you have a problem being a black woman and engineering? And I always tell them that I don't have a problem with being a black woman and if other people do then that's their problem. I'm totally embraced it. Ten year anniversary from the first information on demand, the first data conference. So here we are now 10 years later this morning. I recapped a bunch of the promises that we made at the start of that and I had no idea all the progress we would make. I mean, we not only kept those promises, but along the way we introduced new capabilities like Watson, Watson analytics and reinvigorated the whole market around artificial intelligence.


Ukraine deploys significant military forces along Borda with Belarus. The Ukrainian army has deployed a significant military contingent along the Borda with Belarus and periodically tries to test the defence capability of the Union State. Head of the second department of the CIS countries at the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexei Polishuk said it in an interview with TASS. The information that we have and that has been repeatedly voiced in the statements of officials indicates that the Ukrainian army has indeed deployed significant forces along the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, periodically trying to probe the defence capability of the Union State in one way or another. Polishuk said the diplomat recalled that under these conditions, since October 2022, additional units of the joint regional group of forces have been deployed in Belarus. Their task is to serve as a deterrent from invading the territory of the Union State and to minimise the risks of infiltration by sabotage and reconnaissance groups. We proceed from the fact that the Russian and Belarusian means available in the area are sufficient to repel aggression from the territory of Ukraine or neighbouring NATO countries. Polishuk stressed, We hope that the Kiev regime and their Western curators will have the command sense not to undertake military adventures, the consequences of which for them may be very serious, he said.


The Equitable Life of Shorland Society presents This Is Your FBI This Is Your FBI The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life of Shorland Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community Five and a half years ago when This Is Your FBI made its first appearance on the air The Equitable Society established a tradition of helpful intelligently presented commercial messages Listen to the middle commercial tonight and you'll see that we're still running true to form Tonight we're going to talk briefly to fathers and mothers about establishing an equitable education fund for their children This is the painless way to pay for a college education Interested? Then don't fail to give full attention to this informing message from the Equitable Society due in about 14 minutes Tonight's FBI file the gold rush stick up As ages are measured among nations, the United States is a young country It's 170-yard years making it a figurative babe in arms However, in even that shorter period, our way of living has changed so much that the old way is almost forgotten Almost, but not entirely, especially in the western part of the nation Throughout the west there are communities that set aside days and sometimes weeks during which their former days of glory are annually recalled The highway for miles around is cluttered with signs proclaiming this to be Old Timers Week, El Dorado Week, or whatever name the townspeople have chosen for the celebration The local citizenry, most of whom dress normally during the remainder of the year get their mail-order cowboy clothes off the shelves and welcome the visitors Visitors they usually call sir or ma'am But who for this week can be addressed only as dude or partner Taken by and large, it amounts to harmless fun And if it does nothing but recall the olden days, it's well worth the trouble everyone goes to For the glories of the past are the things of which tradition is made Occasionally, though, this pleasant picture is disturbed Disturbed by the discovery that among the fun-makers There have been those interested in something more than tradition They have instead been interested only in crime Tonight's file opens in a small western town during one of those community celebrations This one is called Gold Rush Week Along the crowded main street, a middle-aged man walks toward the center of town accompanied by a friend Delightful little town, isn't it? So good to get away from them big cities with all the noise That could put me on the first screen, let's leave in town You can't blow now? Yes, I can What about the tunnel? Now we can leave it After all the time we spent digging it I'm not putting up with any more of this The Duke won't like it, George Well, the Duke hasn't had to spend three weeks in the shooting gallery He hasn't had to wear these musical comedy clothes either Look at this, full beers, leather pants I'm there, partners Get lost, you bum Now we get another parade A parade? They're just standing around up there at the theater Yeah Hey, maybe they found our tunnel You don't think they'd be celebrating with a brass band, do you?  I know What do we do? Meanwhile at an FBI field office some miles away Special Agent Jim Taylor is just signing the register when Agent Ben Cook approaches All right, distinguished signature Oh, hello, Ben Hi, Jim, you're signing in or out? Out, I'm sorry to say I haven't seen you around the office lately I've slept in more beds in the last month than George Washington ever did You know that the boss has given me a break when he took me off of everything else and told me to concentrate on finding one man Who's that? You ever hear of a safe cracker called the Duke? Not that I know of Well, I wish I hadn't either The only description we've got is from an arrest record that's 27 years old and the only picture we've taken then Where's it been since? Out of action as far as we know until two years ago Well, what do we want this man for? Bank jobs Got any leads at all to work on? Well, not good ones, Ben Without any current identity about all I've been able to do is follow his trail of robberies So far he's led me from Auburn to the Cobb and the Greensboro from there to Crawfordville to Auburn, Blackford to Mount Vernon and from Mount Vernon back here Just about a perfect circle Yeah, just about it Well, if our boy's in town, why are you leaving? Well, his job here was 10 days ago He's already struck 100 miles away at Morganton Not likely he'd still be there then, is it? No, no, his pattern has been to move after each job but maybe I can get a description or find out where he went from there Well, see you when I get back, Ben The first train I ever saw was Cobb Webbs on the locomotive Did you see Duke any place? Maybe he missed the train Nobody could miss this train Oh, there he is Hey, Duke Duke Duke, over here I'm gonna take your bag, Duke Thank you The hotel's right around the corner Good Uh, Duke We run into a little trouble On the tunnel? Yeah, on one end of it What do you mean by that? Well, we ran it from the abandoned theater into the bank, just like you laid it out Yeah So today they're reopening the theater for one performance They're carving a 75-year-old turkey Oh, fine Got any ideas, Duke? Does the bank close this afternoon? Yeah But most of the money that's been spent here this week will be moved out of their vaults by Monday I know that What do you think we should do? I've got a schedule to stick to We'll go ahead with the job With the show going on or no? Yes, you want to back out? No, no How about you, George? I'll go along with the action All right Let's get to work right now Hi, Ben Oh, a traveling man How was Morgantown? I didn't even have to unpack my bags I got there and found out that the Duke had come back here Oh, no Well, I've cut him down a little, though When I started, he was a month ahead of me Now he's only three days Got any leads up there? Just one item I learned that he carried his tools in a violin case There was a help at this end How? Well, I contacted all transportation terminals a ticket seller at the bus station remembered the violin case Was he headed out of town again? Y'all Jim, didn't you say this character has an arrest record 27 years old? Yeah, that's right Then he's no youngster Yeah, I know, but he sure gets around I checked his pattern He only works two months out of the year That's what makes him so tough to catch How long has he been going so far this year? Seven weeks It's just about ready to go under again Yeah We've wired the police in every town within a 200-mile radius and asked them to be on the lookout for a man with a violin case When did the wires go out? Two hours ago A minute anybody answers, I hit the road again Just to follow me, too The tunnel's right over here Where's Johnny?  Centerville Is your man there? No, he went to River Junction But he just left for there yesterday So we're closing in on him Oh, Ben, would you do me a favor? What's that? I've been trying to get through to the sheriff At River Junction, but his line's been busy I'll get on him Okay, now look, when you talk to him, Ben You can tell him about that violin case And one of the lead The Duke is growing a beard I'm afraid that's a dead one Oh, why? I was in River Junction a couple of days ago This is a gold rush week down there Every man in town's got a beard Oh Well, tell the sheriff to warn the people at the bank And anybody else in town who's got a safe Oh, it just seems long Having to listen to that stuff up there The acting? Yeah, the acting About a known about it Had a hit Duke for a bigger cut Is that the damn or a team of horses? Hey, I just thought of something What? We left the car in the hotel garage Well We gotta go all the way back there for the getaway Johnny Nobody even knows about this job until the bank is open Monday morning We could get out of here riding turtles I hope the show ends before Duke finishes Why? We don't know how it comes out I think I've got it Hey, that wasn't in the show I know It came from the bank Come on, let's get in there Right Somebody must have spotted Duke, huh?  We heard shots Sheriff came in Is that him on the floor? Yes What do we do? We're finishing the job It's false ready to go now You boys go back to the hotel I'll meet you there We will return in just a moment To tonight's exciting case From the official files of the FBI Now a special message From the equitable life assurance society To fathers and mothers of young children You'll find the time passes much more quickly Than you think Before you realize it 1960 or 65 will be here And the postman will bring you a letter From your youngster That reads like this Dear mom and dad This is a wonderful experience Starting here at college Believe me, I'm going to learn a lot Your boy or girl will have three good reasons For wanting to make good in college First, college men and women Earn more money Prexy Robinson made a speech To the whole freshman class yesterday He said that college men Earned $72,000 more during their working years Than the fellows who miss out on a college education Second, college men land the bigger job Then he said Out of every 16 men Earning $10,000 a year and up 15 have college educations That's 15 to one in the college man's favor Third, college men get more out of life They gain an all round culture An appreciation of the arts and literature That means even more to them Than their increased earning power Remember those three points, mother and dad And say to yourself here and now I'm not going to leave my family's education to chance I'm going to make sure With an equitable education fund An equitable education fund, what's that? It's the painless way to pay For your children's college education In this equitable society plan You start when your children are young Then each year you pay a sum of money That doesn't hurt An amount that scarcely makes a dent in your budget When your youngster's ready for college The money's all ready for him That's spreading the cost of education Over 10 or 15 years instead of taking a beating in four Right, now suppose the father dies Or becomes totally disabled Then no more payments are necessary The fund becomes fully established When the youngster is ready for college He gets the same education as if his dad had lived So don't delay a day longer Let your equitable society representative Show you how little it costs To start an equitable education fund Or write care of this station To the equitable society That's E-Q-U-I-T-A-B-L-E The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States And now back to the FBI file The gold rush stick up America is a nation difficult to describe In a few short words Certainly therefore almost impossible to picture in one However, if a person were to find himself Pin down in a situation where he had to Tell the story of this country in a single word He could do far worse than to choose the noun Progress Or here is a land and a people dedicated to advancement The field of law enforcement has been no exception With such great forward strides In scientific methods of investigation Having been made That police work is no longer a job But a profession The men who now protect you against the ravages of crime Have studied to attain their positions And through those courses of study Have come to certain inescapable conclusions One of which is pertinent to tonight's case From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation There are in those files The records of a great number of men and women Who have committed one crime Been apprehended Served a determined prison And upon release Followed a decent law abiding existence Others however Seemingly were determined to continue their criminal careers In those cases The crimes committed invariably grew more serious And life became cheap to them So long that is as the life being taken Was not their own Tonight's FBI file continues later that afternoon At the sheriff's office in River Junction Special agent Jim Taylor enters And is met by agent Ben Cook Ben, Ben, what are you doing here? I reported your story to the SAC He sent me up here to meet you I'm afraid that Duke beat us both I mean he's been in action already? He took the local bank a lot of an hour ago Didn't you ever get through to the sheriff?  He's in the hospital, shoulder wound Did you get any details on the robbery? The bank was entered through a tunnel from the next building Duke must have had some accomplices Because there were three sets of footprints around the tunnel When was the sheriff found, Ben? Only about ten minutes after he was shot He came to and called for help outside the bank What about roadblocks? They were set up immediately Good, then the chances are the Duke is still here in town We might be better off if he weren't, Jim There's thousands of visitors here all celebrating He'll be next to him possible to pick him up Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean Now, there are three hotels here in town I'm going to check all of them and see what I can learn on recent arrivals I'd like to take a look at that tunnel, Ben Why don't I go over to the bank And when you finish with the hotels, you meet me there Listen to that I almost wish I was in a nice, quiet jail Hello, boys Hi, Duke Did you get the door? Yes How much? Over 20,000 That's okay Where have you been, Duke? We got here about an hour ago Watching the cops check every car leaving town Have they got roadblocks already? Yes It ain't going to be easy getting out of here You could take a train I went by the station Going through every piece of luggage Hey, how about bearing the door here And come back for it later? That's not a bad idea The safest place to stash it around here Is right under that mattress The way they clean this room It'll be next year before they find it Boys, pack your bags We're getting out of this hotel Why? The cops will be checking the place with strangers What'll we do when we hit the street? There must be something going on that we can duck into There's a rodeo tonight Oh, now, who wants to see that? We do There's only one road through this town After the rodeo, it'll be jammed And we're going to be on it A gem? There, by the tunnel That's a real neat job they did They went through the theater wall, the bank wall The day of the job They just had to break through this flooring here Working from the abandoned theater They had all the time they needed Hey, how did you make out? Well, I went to the three hotels And? I've had so many people checking in And out the last week That their records were hopelessly jumbled If we only had a good description on the duke Or even his confederates Jim, I was thinking on the way over Someone must have seen those men Coming in and out of the theater No, I explored that before I came in here Ben, I couldn't find anyone who had Any report from the roadblocks?  Where are you? Near the stage door In this place I tried to walk through a door I wanted to go and find I was painted on some scenery No I found the dirt Good Mare, right in this dressing room Look All wrapped up in newspapers Just about fills the room That's a tidy little job Yeah, well, we've got to untidy it What do you mean? I'm afraid we're going to have to take each bundle out And examine the papers What for, Jim? Well, if we can find the oldest one It could help us solve this case Don't send me no place where I'm going to be more than 20 minutes From the nearest racing farm Look at that We almost made it These guys are pretty good Kid, you never seen our Carol on a two-year-old They let the boy have a good time, George Look at this crowd, they're still coming in Hey, have you got a piece of the gate? George, the bigger the crowd, the better it is for us I'll never be able to frisk all these people I don't know whether I'd rather get nailed Or have to sit and watch the rest of this thing That's big chance being carried out of the arena Let's give him a big hand This is pretty wild He ain't going to have nothing on me if we don't blow this crib Hey, fellas, we'd like to talk to you Well, what for? Don't rage, we've both got guns out of the programs What is this, a heist? The Special Agents, the FBI, you're all under arrest George Morgan, Johnny Stark and Claude White, alias the Duke Were tried and convicted of bank robbery Each was sentenced to serve a 20-year term in a federal penitentiary Special Agents Taylor and Cook were able to locate Claude White, alias the Duke And his accomplices because the theory about the newspapers Wrapped around the dirt proved to be correct Having gotten the date on which the tunnel was begun They checked every hotel, rooming house and motel register Searching for a party who had checked in on the 15th The date which appeared on the yellow newspaper George Morgan and Johnny Stark were the only ones Who had come to River Junction that day And remained through Gold Rush Week When Agents Taylor and Cook learned Morgan and Stark Had a visitor that afternoon They were certainly had located the right pair However, the party had checked out earlier in the evening But investigations showed they had purchased seats for the rodeo At the ticket booth in the hotel lobby The location of their seats was secured And the two Special Agents went to the ground Where the rodeo was being held They used the pretense of being program salesmen So they might approach the trio of criminals Without incurring their suspicion For had they been given the slightest hint They were about to be apprehended Any or all of them might have started shooting Might have injured or killed some of the other spectators This way was safer and even more important It got the job done The job of removing three more criminals from circulation One last word to fathers and mothers Of all the things you can do for your children There's no greater proof of your love for them Than an equitable education fund They'll be grateful for it as long as they live Your boy or girl may only say a few words like Thanks mom and thank you dad But you know from the look in his eye And the ring in his voice That he'll never forget your foresight In starting an equitable education fund Right now make that wise resolution To see your equitable representative soon Next week we will dramatize another case From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation A re-enactment of hitherto undisclosed facts On World War II espionage Its subject, attempted sabotage Its title, prisoner of war The incidents used in tonight's Equit of a Life Assurance Society's broadcast Are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation However all names used are fictitious And any similarity thereof To the names of places or persons living or dead Is accidental Tonight the music was composed And conducted by Frederick Steiner The author was Jerry D. Lewis Your narrator was William Woodson And special agent Taylor was played by Stacey Harris Others in the cast were Dan Barton Water Catlett Marlo Dwyer Ed Gargon Lamont Johnston And John McIntyre This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production This is Larry Keating speaking for The Equitable Life Assurance Society In the United States And the Equitable Society's representative In your community And inviting you to tune in again next week At this same time When the Equitable Life Assurance Society Will bring you another thrilling transcribe story From the files of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation Prisoner of war on This is your FBI Stay tuned for the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet There's fun for the whole family When Ozzie and Harriet come your way next


Steam drunk! Brothers, a tale of two sons is a pretty interesting third-person puzzle platformer. You play as both Naiee and Naya simultaneously, using a thumbstick for each.  I can't get each of these guys to go the right way at the right time. Wait, who's who again? Where am I going? But there's barely any combat, if any at all. That's a relief, I guess. It's all puzzle solving, traveling across vast landscapes and harsh terrains. The controls are tricky to get used to at first, but hey, if I can manage, you can manage. Most of the puzzles are reasonably intuitive, and do a nice job not only building in complexity as the game goes along, but slowly revealing more functions your characters are capable of performing. Everything is done organically here, not much hand-holding or exposition, and I always appreciate that. Let the gameplay itself do the talking. And really, what talking needs to be done during scenes like this?  I should point out, the game starts very simple and very basic, but don't let that deter you. It does pick up the further you play. So, since there's two characters, that means this is a two-player game, right? Uh, no. Brothers is a single-player game where you control two players. Does that sound goofy to you? I have no idea the reasoning behind that decision, but that's the way it is, sadly. Anyway, Brothers is a story-driven game first and foremost. That's all well and good, but the problem is the story really isn't all that great. Mom drowned and Dad's sick, so let's wheel Dad over to the doctor where he tells us to get some water out of the Tree of Life. Look, I like the minimalistic approach and all, but how about telling us a little bit about the relationship between the kids and the Dad, or how about trying to make the player care a little bit? I guess what I'm saying is that the game does a nice job telling its story through the gameplay, so I would have liked a little bit more of that.  But that brings about another problem. Just when you start to get used to the controls and get into the story, it's over. Brothers is only about three hours long. Again, minimalism is nice and all. I'll take that approach over bloated nonsense like, say, Skyward Sword or games like that. But I feel like Brothers was just beginning to scratch the surface of its world, so that's kind of a shame. Anyway, Brothers is available on Steam, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Network. If you liked the game Journey from back in 2012, give Brothers a shot if you haven't, but don't give up on it too quickly. There are similar games that emphasize an overall experience. The controls might feel wonky and the story might come across as bland at first, but the game's overall structure, the inventive puzzles, and the impressive scenery will be worth your time.