Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to reading set number 4. And what we're going to do in this video, we're going to read Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger number 1. And this book came out in 2015 and it was a one-shot that was sort of associated with a story or a crossover, well not a crossover, but sort of a story that Valiant Comics put together their event for 2015 and the main event was called Book of Death and they released, well eight sort of, but four one-shots that were related to the fall of, to the Book of Death event that they were doing, okay? And Fall of Harbinger is one of those books and we're going to have a read through this and I'm not going to give, try not to give too many spoilers on this because we are going to read this. I'm just going to let you know that this is sort of a, all four Fall of books that Valiant put out, they're sort of focused on a certain type of certain character and they look at that character throughout the timeline of the Valiant universe doing some flashbacks and looking into the future and that's what this story is about, the Fall of Harbinger, right? So the four books were Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger and this was written by Joshua Dysart and the art was by Cano and Cano is a Spanish artist, his name is Jose Angel Cano Lopez but he signs his name, he goes by Cano when he's doing the artwork and he's done work with DC and Marvel and some work with Valiant Comics and Joshua Dysart is one of the best storytellers around, right? He's done work for a lot of different publishers from DC to Dark Horse to Image to IDW and he's done some independent stuff and he's done a ton of work for Valiant Comics. He's actually the writer for the first Harbinger series for the Valiant relaunch that came out in 2012 and I highly recommend that series. It ran for 25 issues and it had issue number zero with the Bleeding Monk, I believe and that series was absolutely fantastic and it crosses over with the Harbinger Wars and into bloodshot for about four or five issues, right? So Joshua Dysart wrote this and Cano did the artwork, okay? And the Fall of Harbinger is one of the books, one of four that was related to a book of Death mini series. There was Fall of Harbinger, okay? And this is another cover, it's Fall of Harbinger number one again, okay? And they release multiple covers Valiant for this story especially but in general they release a few different covers, okay? And then there was Fall of Bloodshot and Fall of Bloodshot is absolutely magnificent as well. That's one cover and that's another cover for Fall of Bloodshot and Fall of Bloodshot, it was a tear-jerker, really it brought tears to my eyes. If you're familiar with the character and you've read this story, you'll know why and it's absolutely magnificent. While Fall of Harbinger was more on the epic level, it was very personal as well, it was very epic. Fall of Bloodshot was just extremely personal, very, very emotional, Fall of Bloodshot. And then there's Fall of Ninjak which is again a fantastic read, very good read, okay? And the artwork for this was absolutely brilliant. The story for this is Jeff Lemire and the story for Fall of Ninjak is Met Kindit, okay? And the artwork for this was beautiful as was the artwork for the other two as well. And then the fourth Fall of book that Valiant released was Fall of Exo-Man of War or yeah, Fall of Exo-Man of War for the book of Death story art, right? And Exo-Man of War was very good as well. It was a heartfelt story, okay? As far as how I would rate these comics goes, I liked all four of them. Fall of Exo-Man of War was, it was a good read. It was an epic like the other ones. Fall of Ninjak was absolutely magnificent. It was epic as well, very epic as well. Fall of Bloodshot was magnificent. And Fall of Harbinger was absolutely brilliant. For me, I would rate Fall of Harbinger, Fall of Bloodshot as my favorite out of the four. Fall of Ninjak, close second, Fall of Exo being, I don't want to say my least favorite, it was fantastic read, but it wasn't, it didn't have as great an impact on me. And what I want to do is sort of, instead of giving you any spoilers for this, I want to put this into context, into context. So you know how this is related to the rest of the event that Valiant did. So these are the Fall of, you know, the character for the Book of Death one shot, okay? Now, the crossover that Valiant did was, put this here, the crossover that Valiant did was the Book of Death. That was the main story arc. Apologies about the glare right now. Hopefully we'll get rid of most of it when we do the reading, when we get it out of the bag. But with new comics, because they're glossy, they still have a certain amount of great glare to them as well, okay? But this is the main story arc that Valiant did, the main event that Valiant did, which was the Book of Death, all right? And this is Book of Death, number one. Here's number two. Here's number three. Just one of the covers for number three. They released multiple covers for this. We'll take a look at a couple of them. And the story for Book of Death is told by Robert, Robert Vendetti, and the artwork was done by Robert Gill, Doug Brathworth, David Barron, and Brian Reber. Okay. And this is Book of Death, number four. And this was really, this was fantastic. I love, I love a lot of the crossovers, a lot of the events that Valiant is doing. All in all, they've all been fantastic. Harbinger Wars, which was amazing. Valiant was amazing. Or The Valiant was amazing. 4001 was amazing. But for me, Book of Death is my favorite right now, because it tied into a lot of things and it was very epic. It covered a lot of characters and it did a lot of flashbacks as well as looking to the future, right? So these were four of the covers for the Book of Death event that they did, the four issues. And this is Book of Death, number four as well, right? And I highly recommend this read because it focuses on Eternal Warrior and the Geomancer. And it gives us a lot of history and looks into the interaction, the relationship between the different characters, right? And this is another cover of this Book of Death, number four. And on this one, they have a little, you know, advertisement, I guess. And it says, flip this book for Wrath of the Eternal Warrior preview. Because what happens is, the Book of Death miniseries, the four issues directly kick into Wrath of the Eternal Warrior. Okay. And this is Wrath of the Eternal Warrior issue number one. And I got, like, on multiple covers. This is three of the covers. Okay. And it ran for, the series ran for, I think, 12 or 13 issues. I should have looked this up. But it's an amazing series. If you like the Eternal Warrior, this is sort of the quintessential, the defining series for the Eternal Warrior. And the Book of Death, the four issues, are the prelude to this. They're really the same, you know, they should be considered to be part of Wrath of the Eternal Warrior series. So Wrath of the Eternal Warrior didn't just run for 12 issues or 13 issues. It ran for 16 issues. You got to add these four to it. Because this directly kicks into Wrath of the Eternal Warrior. And it's a fantastic read. And it sort of looks into, you know, what happens with the Eternal Warrior after he dies, right? And, you know, the struggle that he goes through and what he has to, what he has to do before his rebirth, right? So we have Fall of, Book of Death, Fall of series. There were four issues. There were one-shots. We have the Book of Death, the event, the four issues that they're doing that kicks off into the Wrath of the Eternal Warrior. Okay. And all of these are standalone. These four here, you can read by themselves. You don't have to read this to be able to read this. You don't have to read Wrath of the Eternal Warrior to be able to understand these. And you don't have to read this to be able to understand Book of Death. The only thing I would say that you should do in a specific order is read the Book of Death, four issue miniseries, and then kick into Wrath of the Eternal Warrior. And anytime you want, you can read a one shot of these guys because they're not really connected. They just put these events out at the same time. And there's four other books that Valiant put out that are related to this as well. And those four books we've already done a reading for. And they're basically the story arc of Legends of the Geomancer. And these were sort of incentive story that Valiant put out to retailers. They basically, if they ordered 25 issues of Book of Death, number one, they got Legends of the Geomancer, number one. If they ordered 15, I believe, Book of Death, number two, three and four, they got Legends of the Geomancer, two, three and four. Okay. And what Valiant stated when they did this, they said that they would not reprint the story of the Legends of the Geomancer ever again. And this series is a must read. Okay. And that's the, once Valiant said that they weren't going to release this in reprints at all, I ended up getting my hands on them. And we did the reading for all four of these books. Now I've buried number two, number three, and number four. I couldn't find them in my books, but I did end up getting, I ended up buying a lot of Legends of the Geomancer, number one. It was a pretty good deal when Brexite happened, when the UK pound dropped a little bit, it was a seller that was selling five of these things from the UK. So I ended up getting my hands on them. So this is Legends of the Geomancer, number one. I don't have the covers for Legends of the Geomancer, two, three and four to show you guys right now. But if you want to have a read through this, you can read it through the videos or take a look at the videos. And the stuff is available online as well. People have uploaded it. And the CEO of Valiant sort of stated that he really didn't have to spend the extra money to get these incentives. If you're low on funds, people would be sharing this information. So it was very happy to have this information shared, the story arc shared. And this is absolutely fantastic. I won't give too many spoilers if you plan on watching those videos, but basically it gives you the origin of the Anipata brothers, basically the Eternal Warrior, Armstrong and Ivar. And it gives us the origin of the Geomancer. And this as far as I'm concerned is a must read for the entire Valiant universe. Okay, so we ended up having the main event, which was the Book of Death, right, which was four issues that kicked into wrath of the Eternal Warrior. We had the once shots associated with the Book of Death, which told the story of four of their main characters doing some recaps and looking through the future to see, you know, what's going to transpire into the future. We had the Legends of the Geomancer, right, Book of Death, Legends of the Geomancer, which was sort of the origin of the Anipata brothers and the origin of the Geomancer. And really, Eternal Warrior had a huge part to play in the Book of Death, which kicks into the wrath of the Eternal Warrior. And there's a background story to Legends of the Geomancer that is a must read if you really want to appreciate what's going on with the Geomancer and the Eternal Warrior. Okay, and just to show how epic this story arc was for the Valiant universe, I think as a tribute, what Valiant ended up doing was printing variant covers for the Book of Death, for the four issue mini-arc that were a tribute for Rye number zero that came out in the early 2000s. And Rye number zero is probably the most epic standalone comic that Valiant put out in the 1990s, the first Valiant launch, I guess, right? Because basically what this dead was, take the character Rye and Bloodshot, right? And look at their origin and span all the way into the future and show us how Bloodshot and Rye were connected, right? And talked about all the characters, main characters in the Valiant universe, which is sort of the same way that the fall of these four issues sort of handle their stories, right? They're sort of told in the same way as Rye number zero. And we did a reading for this book as well for Rye number zero because it was a pretty important book. It's first full appearance of Bloodshot and it shows us, you know, the origin of Rye and the death of a lot of different characters. It's epic. Like for the 1990s Valiant, it is the most epic book they put out. And these are just two of the variant covers that Valiant put out. And there's two more. This is for the Book of Death, the variant for Book of Death number two. And this is the variant for Book of Death number four. And unfortunately, I don't have the the variants of these for Book of Death number one and number three, but I will be grabbing them at some point in the future, because I love, I would love to frame these all in a row, right? As I mentioned before, I think when we did, when we looked at some of the stuff previously, as you know, if you're watching my videos, I do love Valiant reads. I do love Valiant reads. Okay, so what we're going to do is, you know, we've read some Valiant so far, we've read Magnus number five as well, which was a first appearance of Rye, right? And that was a, as far as I'm concerned, that's one of the most important books Valiant has put out. Magnus number five and the flip book was the first appearance of Rye, right? We've done the reading for Rye number zero, which is the 1990s epic standalone. We've done the reading for Legends of the Geomancer, all four issues, because it's extremely important. It gives the origin of the Geomancer and the Anipata brothers, okay, how they came to be. And what we're going to do right now is have a read through Fall of Harbinger, okay, Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger, the standalone that came out in 2015. And to me, this was magnificent as sort of same opinion that a lot of other people that have talked to online, the one person that I've talked to in person, the comic book owner, consider this to be one of the best reads, you know, he's ever had and one of the best reads I've ever had as well. Okay, hopefully I'm not building it up too much. It may have a greater impact, Fall of Harbinger may have a greater impact for those who know the Harbinger series, who are familiar with some of the characters, but it should be a good read no matter what. If you're new to this story, I think it should be a good read as well for you. Okay, I hope so anyway. So I'm gonna put on my glasses and we're gonna crack this open and that was sort of the intro to this read, sort of pretty epic, but Book of Death was a pretty epic event that Valiant did. So again, the grade on this is near meant, right? I don't know if this was my previous reading copy, but I do take care reading my books as well. And again, the story for this is by Joshua Dysart and the artwork is by Kato, Fall of Harbinger and I might give you a little bit of background on some of the stuff that may be happening here and apologies about the glare, reading older books, one good thing with them is they weren't glossy so we're not getting any glare with the new books. And we haven't done too many new books. I think there's, you know, we've done five readings for books from the 2000s. Four of them were Book of Death, the Legends of the Geo Master. One of them was Josako's The Fixer and I think this is going to be the fifth reading that we're going to do for 2000 series, right? A comic book from the 2000s. And one thing that Valiant does, which is really good, is they usually give us a summary of what has transpired so far before the story begins so everyone sort of gets a nice little recap if you read those stories or has a nice intro to some of the characters, some of the background that you need to know for the stories, okay? So let's read the fine, fine print here as well and I'm going to try to tilt the pages so we get as little glare as possible. So the fine print for this Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger number one, September 2015, Valiant Entertainment, LLC, Office of Publication 424, West 30, 33rd Street, New York, New York, Copyright 2015, Entertainment, Valiant Entertainment, All Words Reserved, All Characters, The Distinctive, Likeliness, and Related Indicia featured this publication or trademark of Valiant Entertainment. The stories, characters, and incidents featured in this publication are entirely fictional, printed in the US. For more information, please visit valiantuniverse.com and that's the first printing of this, okay? And let's take a look at this. Let's read the backup. It was transpired so far. And this story takes place after the first Harbinger series, the 25 issues, right? And the number zero with the bleeding monk.  Until Peter emerged to oppose him, the world's most powerful sciat was Toyoharada. A billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, and mentor to generations of gifted individuals, seeking out promising young sciats through his secret harbinger foundation. Peter and Harada are the planet's only two omegas, the most powerful sciats of all. Harada believes in imposing world peace at the end of a sword. Peter believes humanity should be free to pursue its own destiny. The world's oldest known sciat is a powerful precog called the Bleeding Monk. The monk led Harada to find and train Peter, but he warned Harada that Peter was doomed to be the great destroyer, liable to wreak untold devastation. Peter formed a team of renegades to fight Harada, faith who has the power of flight and a sunny disposition. Charlene, a firebrand with pyrokinetic abilities. Tork, a disabled young man whose mind makes him an unstoppable powerhouse. And Chris, an ordinary human who grew up with Peter and became the team's strategist. These renegades exposed Toyoharada and brought down his corporate empire. At a price, Charlene was killed in the battle and Peter went into hiding. Against a Bleeding Monk's council and with Peter nowhere to stop him, Harada waged war to realize his vision. This is the story of the fall of Peter Stanchek, his friends and his enemies. This is the story of the fall of Harbinger. The two main characters from here that the story focuses on, or the main character the story focuses on is Peter Stanchek and his nemesis, Archenemies Toyoharada, the person that's in the background here and we'll see him in the story and we're going to see all these characters mentioned. So let's begin this read. Brilliant color, nice artwork. 14 months earlier, Keeper Base Earth's Moon, Year 2183 CE. Curtis, it looks like the pressure is bottoming out on the catcher of that. Could it be empty? No report from the nan of swimmers, Anna. Maybe it's clogged. Curtis Manfield, come quick. Something's wrong. Let us through, please. What's happened to him? The Bleeding Monk has bled to death on a Bleeding Monk. The Bleeding Monk is a person that was mentioned here and he was the original Syod and he was a pre-cock. He could see into the future and look at all possibilities. And one thing that would happen to him is he was constantly bleeding. And if you want to read more about the Bleeding Monk, I believe it's harbinger number zero and it's the Bleeding Monk story arc. And this is the blood that, so the Bleeding Monk is dead. That has been around for thousands of years, right? I'm racing away from earth, trying to get as much distance as I can. Currently about 600,000 miles from Petersburg, Pennsylvania, where I was born. My name is Peter Stanczak. I am the Omega and I'm flying to my death. There are people I will miss, but I'm not sad. It's past my time, has been for a while now. I never expected to live so long. I never expected to be so happy in the end. Or to have my first friends by my side. Let's do this. It's Chris and that's Faith. The three of the people that we mentioned in the back. writer Joshua Dysart, artist Kano, letterer David Lamphere, cover artist Raul Allen. Raul was not a lot of work. So we have Peter Stanczak flying through space. Bleeding Monk is dead and Peter's in space. Foundation Zone. Somal Coast Global Administration Hub. Empires. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Toyo Arrata. Hello Monkeeper Curtis Manfield. Mayfield. Omega Peter Stanczak, president of the Harbinger Foundation. We'll see you now. Curtis, always good to see someone from the sunlight of snow perception node. Mr. President. So this is Peter, right? We've troubling news.   Well, I guess that's why you're the president. He came to me last night in a vision. He told me it's over, Peter. It's the end of everything. He said that Arrata has finally returning to earth. That he's more powerful, more blind and more destructive than he has ever been. Nothing will survive his arrival. This is the outcome of struggle to counter since the moment I was given sight. But all my manipulations have been in vain. Never once was our course in doubt. My failure is a testament to Arrata as well, I imagine. I should have killed him when he was a boy. I won't survive this psychic impact that's about to hit this planet. So I have ended. Goodbye, Peter. Wait, there's nothing we can do that can't be right. I cannot see beyond the arrival of the unrestrained Arrata mind. That means only one thing to me, finality. I see the sunlight and snow perception node has just convened a series of debates with itself and passed a vote. Very hard for us to inform you that we don't have the resources to evacuate all sapient life from earth. We'll stay planted side as long as we can. Assist in a in any way possible, but I'm afraid that when the time comes, we're out. We wish all organic matter across this planet the best. We are so very fond of you. 12 years before, I had been the last human being to ever see Toyo Arrata. At my school for dissident scyots, what is it? I better get master stenchak. Arasama. Your presence here violates all opposition party treaties. We're well within our rights to defend themselves. That's Peter talking. I've only come to talk. Dad, something's wrong. Look at him. It's okay, Faith. Yesh. If I'm not back in an hour, contact the opposition council. Be careful, darling. That's Peter's wife and Peter's dog. What is this? Some kind of ship? A resignation chamber with self-triggering scyot inhibitors similar to my sleep bolts.  What does that mean? Are you dying? I don't know. Maybe. It's becoming harder and harder to contain my mind and my physical form. I'm worried of what'll happen around me when I fully lose control. If I undo everything I've fought for because of one last disastrous mind squall, well, I simply can't allow it. I refuse to be an extension of the bomb that created me. I'm leaving Earth, Peter.  What is referring to there?  So Toyo Harada is worried that he's going to lose control and he's going to cause an event that's going to destroy everything, even planet Earth, right? So let's read this again. I'm leaving Earth, Peter.  But the world I've built, it will not stand without leadership. You must take over the Harbinger Foundation. No one else can. If you leave me in charge, the first thing I'll do is hold planet-wide elections. You must know that, Peter says. Fine, Peter. Just make sure you're powerful enough to win them all. Goodbye, Harada. Harada crossed the Nimbus Ring that he himself had built and that was it. That was it until now. Ten months ago, the Psyche scionically activated minds of Earth began to hear an incessant buzzing. As the source of the psychic signal grew closer, the buzzing became louder. There could be no doubt. Harada was coming home. Seven months ago, a powerful, modicron-level Psyot in unified Korea, Mind Squall, killing thousands. So this is what a Mind Squall looks like. Psyot lose control. Six months ago, the inactivated began to hear the approaching signal. They were even less able to deal with it. Mental illness, virtually extinct, began to spike species-wide. Five months ago, infant mortality rates started to climb as newborns went insane in their cribs. The signal grew. Political harmony became fragile. Chamber of Global Congress, established by President Stanczek, so he held elections as a congress. We call to the representatives from the divinity ultimatum. Only your divinity can stop Harada. And divinity is a god-level being in the valiant universe. And I guess this is his council. So where is the savior now? We must assume that divinity lacks interest in such material matters. The divinity council says. Material matters? This is all human life we're talking about. You psycho-fant sort of psyots are going at it. Four months ago, a disagreement between two reps in our highest democratic body devolved into full psionic conflict. Enough, Peter steps in. I had officially lost control of the perfection Harada had forced upon us. Enters their minds like this, stops them right off. I'm taking the floor. Harbor Foundation is actively researching for the physical location of the approaching Harada mind. The closer the signal gets, the easier it is for our hyper-psychics to pinpoint. Though at great risk to themselves, he says. As soon as we have a location, I will go out and confront Harada personally. Ambassador Aretha Franklin of the sunlight of Snow Perception node. The Harbor Foundation humbly petitions you, lift your ban on tech trade to provide us with a faster ship than any we currently have. The Sunlight on Snow Perception node. The SOS Perception node has just conveyed. Debate and vote it. We will provide a starship at our highest non-sentient tech level. It would, of course, be unethical to send a thinking machine to a gunfight. Particularly one according to our projections is a suicide run. They are going to send just tech. Once a long time ago, I was a boy. Always in over my head. Then I became a man, a leader. I'm scared, Peter. It's also incomprehensible.  For what? A husband, a father. Maybe at last a hero. Peter. Enough with the brooding man. It's the end of the world. That's one of Peter's friends from, uh, we meet him in the first Harbinger series from 2012. All of these characters get introduced there again. Renegades. Together we help bring about what faith called the superhero singularity. Of course, they're just... Of course, they're just projections from my mind constructed from memory and imagination and set free to act and be on their own. But they feel real and it's the best I can do now. This is what you think we'd be like if we were old and beautiful and fulfilled, huh? You all deserve it, Harleen. The kind of happiness of faith. After all these years, after everything we went through together, I'm curious to hear what you would say to us now, Peter.  Yes, I love that, Chris. Let's do that. Faith says. Chris, how are you still so boring? Can we just party like we used to? Who knows how much longer we've got? Tork's right. Let's blow this mother out. Peter agrees. Peter, of all this, going off to fight Harada is just the same as it ever was over and over again. You never really got off that particular wheel, did you? Harada's what? 60 years older than you? Who's to say that even if you do survive, his fate won't be yours in six decades? The thought has crossed my mind, Peter says. Screw this. Nobody wants to see their heroes grow old. Let's be young again. What would my last words to each of them be if they were really, if we were all truly here together at the end of history? To Chris, I'd say that I finally know what love is and that of all my mistakes and I've made a few, I regret what I did to her the most. To Charlene, I would say that a great sadness of my life is never having been able to see see her achieve all of her potential. To Tork, I'd apologize for always thinking I was better in him when really we were the same, scared, hungry for love and respect than friendship. And to Faith, after she convinced me to go into rehab, we spoke at least once a week until the day she, well, until the end. I would tell her she was the one person who always believed in me. Everything I am now, it's all an effort to deserve her admiration. This is nice man. This is what I always wanted for us, you know, to be ballers. Wish I could have been part of this crew. I failed you, Joe. You saved me when I was nothing. Then the first time I saw a chance to be something I abandoned you. I'm sorry. Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? It was like 200 years ago, you know. This is Peter. Here's what I have learned. No matter how long you live, no matter who you become or what you've done to change, it's who you were in the beginning, where you came from. You'll always carry that with you.  Some of that past is good, strong, level, rock. As I get closer to the approaching unrestrained, her out of mind, the wave of psychic static becomes everything. This was the price, Chris. We all knew we'd eventually have to pay for the deal we made with Herata to build us a better world. Peter, we never made that deal. He forced it on us. The psychic heat of the Herata mind presses it on me. I can no longer maintain their projections, and suddenly I experience every inch of emotion I felt when they each first died. Joseph Irons, age 18, an escaped mental patient and narcotics addict, murdered by order of Toyo Herata. His killing kicks off a renegade, sigh-out insurgency against Herata global conglomerates, when the largest corporation in the world, then the largest corporation in the world. Charlene Dupre, Flamingo, age 19, died saving faith during the battle to expose Toyo Herata as the greatest Robert Barron in human history. Over here, man. Hey, can you no longer project your alter ego shell? Get back. Clear this hallway, or we'll have to taze all of you. John Tokelson, age 34, first sigh-out reality TV star, dies of complications from spinal Bephida. Don't let TMZ seem semi-crying to our excess. Those people are monsters. Faith Herbert, Zypher. Age 97, dies peacefully of heart failure while sleeping next to her loving husband, Obadiah Archer, after a long, success-successful career as the world's most popular superhero. Her free-nurse is the most attended and recorded history. Christine Hathaway, age 64, ex-political prisoner, founder of the Herata opposition party, assassinated on the eve of her re-election to the United States Senate. The sessions of Herata protect the future. Herata denies all association with the sessions, having declared them a terrorist organization. He is doing this to me. Toyo, all the sadness compressed into a single moment, I feel like I'm going to vomit. The ship disintegrates as it hits the event horizon of the unrestrained Herata mind. I fall towards a source of the destructive psychic wave. There's a creature surrounding him. I see him at the center of a rolling plasma wave. My teacher, my mentor, my oldest and last surviving enemy. Toyo, Herata. The only other omega level scythe known to man. And he's not alone. I've been waiting a decade for you to save me. I'm so sorry for what's about to happen. And then his broken body and dumps into mine. Everything he has ever thought, felt, and done pours into me. I am a thimble. He is an ocean. Herata proof up, Peter proof. I relive his fate. I spend months alone in the void, crossing the great nothing of space towards our sun. I land on the North Pole of Mercury, where the temperature is stable at negative 136 degrees. I can feel myself starting to break out of the cocoon of my own matter. Something beautiful is about to happen to me. I start vibrating at a strange frequency, rattling free from my physical cage. And that's when I'm ambushed. I'm so high on the ecstasy of transformation that I'm unaware of the danger until it's too late. My transcendence isn't interrupted. There's some kind of trans-dimensional psychic eaters. They have no culture, no sentience, just hunger incarnate. Unlike moss to a flame, by the enormous amount of energy I'm kicking off. I'm enslaved. They feed on me constantly. How many have they leapt on at the moment of enlightenment? Was this Buddha's fate, Jesus' countless transcending aliens? It's impossible to know how long I want Mercury. Inside the constant psychic feeding, there is no sense of time. Almost succumbed and nonexistent, they use the last of my life force to ride me to Earth. By gifting the human race with psionic powers, I have only prepared a feast for monsters. It never lost control at all. It was his suffering we felt approaching us all the time. His horror, his struggle. And now, only we, the unified Stanczek, her out of mind, the singular Omega, can hope to stop these creatures. We are one. We know what has to be done. Refrain from using psionics if possible. It only feeds them, but keep our shield up. We won't hold them off forever, but it's a start and we need the oxygen strapped inside. Then cut off their food supply, destroy what's left of the her out of body, and therefore the her out of brain.  This massive plasma wave is a product of her out as runaway kinesis on the material make up of space. We don't even realize we're still caught in this momentum falling backwards until we search past the moon. It took Peter days to reach her out in the depths of space. It takes us a matter of hours to return to earth. If we can keep the eaters off our off Peter's body out of our unified mind, if they have no psionic control or protection to save them, if they are weakened enough by the lack of food source, they won't survive the 40,000 mile per hour impact with the earth's surface. But the plasma wave cannot be stopped. Millions die as it washes past the earth to continue on in its way through space. When it's done, there are no more eaters left to enslave whoever has survived. There's the impact crater with Peter. Peter and Herata. Humanely we'll live on, did my children, my wife, but I Peter will not. The body's taken too much damage. The brain was boiled trying to keep my shield intact during impact. I'm slipping away. Peter, I'm sorry master. I can't keep us alive. We're going to die now.  The transcendence I began on Mercury. I can finish it now. There's no physicality where I'm going. Where we're going. Come with me as one. I'm grasping, trying to hold on to the Herata mind, trying to ascend. Come with me Peter, let go of form. I struggle with everything I have left in me. As the Herata mind becomes pure, conscious light, we are wretched apart. I am left behind. Forgive me Peter, forgive me. Only a single element of humanity gets to move on. The rest of us are simply shaft. At the moment of my death, I am stroked by his heat, and in his light I glimpse vast universal truths. This is an ending, yes, but with great clarity. It is revealed to me that no ending is true. As long as time and space layer and fold and cross back again, what is experienced now is only real now. Somewhere else, another version of myself transcends the material playing together with Toyo. Dies earlier, or fails harder, or does better. This is an ending. This is true. No ending is true. Ten years later, Greece. My name is Yesh, as Peter's wife. My late husband, Peter Stanich, was the last of only two Harbinger Foundation presidents. Together, he and Toyo Herata are known as the great destroyers after the confrontation left humanity and our world utterly devastated. We will never know the truth of that conflict. All we know for certain is that Herata went mad and lost control. That he was coming for Earth, that Peter went out to stop him, that Peter failed. Welcome, Representative Yesh. It's an honor. Thank you for coming on such short notice. We're very anxious to see the newborn, SOS node, Isaac Hayes. As we rebuild, we often remember the time when the gods battled across the vast expanse of space. But that's all in the past. The child is kept in a protective environment, but all of her vital vitals are perfectly fine. The only difference is the most obvious one, of course. The constant, unending flow of blood. We live in the future now. Welcome back, Monk. Here's Fall of Exo-Mano War. Here's the Book of Death event checklist, right? It was Book of Death number one, and the Fall of Bloodshot was released with that in the same month, July. Book of Death number two, Fall of Ninjak. Book of Death number three, Fall of Harbinger, and it was Book of Death number four, Fall of Exo-Mano. Nice story, fantastic events, fantastic reads. And here's the Eternal Warrior number, Rath of the Eternal Warrior number one, that kicked off right after Book of Death, the four issue that was done. That was sort of a prequel to the Rath of the Eternal Warrior. Fantastic series, fantastic series. Rowell Lal and Robert Venditti. Fantastic. I hope you enjoy it. It's an epic piece, that's for sure. That's for sure. And that's Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger number one, released in 2015. That's it for now. I'll see you guys in the next reading.


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We're starting a monthly series here called TFR Topic of the Month or T3M. The idea of the series is to take a pulse of the ecosystem of the industry and then bring together experts to deep dive into these topics. I sit down with C-level executives, analysts, engineers and experts to explore these topics and then bring these discussions to you. Today we have with us Joseph George, Vice President of Product Management of Digital Services and Operations Management at BMC Software. Joseph, it's good to have you on the show. Thank you, pleasure to be with you here today. What are some of the broader trends you are seeing in the market when it comes to cost cutting or as we look at it, companies are trying to become more cost efficient. Yeah, so now a really good question, right? So especially I think none of us can deny that there are recessionary pressures on the economy. Clearly, I can't predict where the market is going, if I would I'd probably be sitting in a different seat, but I think it's fair to say most organizations are scrutinizing their investments, right? They're looking very hard at how they're spending, especially from an IT perspective, where they're spending their money. And I think a couple of things are important to highlight that the first is it's not just about savings, it's really about optimizing those investments, right? Where are you spending those dollars? What are you getting in return? And how do you ensure that whatever you're spending is effective, right? And effective, both shorter term outcomes, so you can't just rely on an investment you make and you wait for the return investment to be over a longer period. But how do you get quick returns on that investment and you're able to solve larger problems that way? What are you seeing in the market as organizations are trying to maintain a balance between cost optimization without compromising on innovation and staying ahead of competition? When you look at cost, what's interesting to understand, especially from an IT perspective, a big component of that cost is people, right? It's people that are expensive and people are valuable to the organization. So how do you make sure, number one, you're optimizing your people, they're your very valuable resource? How do you ensure that your employees are engaged and productive? That is one of the most important areas and also recognizing the reality of where we live, right? As generations change, we've got more millennials in the workforce. I was reading the other day there was a survey from Career Builder and essentially they were saying that millennials stay in a job an average of two years and nine months. And if you compare that to their grandparents, the grandparents would stay eight years and three months. So you look at the difference there, right? Over an average lifespan, a millennial is going to change their job 12 to 15 times whereas two or three generations ago, people would have maybe three, four or five jobs in a whole career. So what that means is, it just means that the dynamics changes, right? We're in a world where people are going to stay shorter periods of jobs, right? So how do you make sure you're onboarding, offboarding efficiently? When your employees are there, how do you make sure they're engaged and as productive as possible? And also recognizing that every time an employee leaves, that knowledge is walking out the door. So how do you manage your knowledge effectively as well? So all those areas are important and where you spend your investments, how do you make sure you're delivering services to those employees? Talking about millennials again, I think it applies to all of us, right? So we'd rather go Google for a response, right? Or look it up rather than have to call somebody and wait for a response, right? So it's all about self-service. It's about being efficient. And that's where we see a lot of focuses. Just how do you make your employees more effective and productive? That's one area. How does that affect the internal culture of companies? Exactly, right? I mean, to the point that we just made earlier, if someone's going to stay in a role for a shorter period of time, you've got to make sure they're efficient and effective, but you also have to make sure they're productive, right? So if they find that, you know, from an IT perspective, again, a lot of my focus is selling to our IT buyers. From an IT perspective, if those users view IT as basically a challenge to get to what they want to achieve their objectives, then IT is not serving its goals, right? IT has to make it easier for them to do things. So in terms of accessing knowledge, learning, trying to do service, self-service, being able to get to services, being able to solve problems themselves. And also, ultimately, they don't want to do manual repetitive tasks, right? If we have somebody do the same task over and over again, it becomes mundane. It becomes boring. That's when they choose to leave as well. So part of it is how do you also apply automation in the right areas? How do you make sure you're automating those areas that are repetitive, that can be easily done by technology? And you're really focusing your employees on where they can be more productive, where they can be more empowered, and they can be engaged because these are more challenging problems. They're seeing the skills being used. And you look at that, it's the best of both worlds, right? From an organization standpoint, you're actually taking out a lot of your costs because you're automating things that are repetitive. And you're making sure that your expensive employees are being focused on where they can add most value to the organization. Now, we're all talking about Jet, GPT these days. What role do you think EIML and things like Jet, GPT are going to play in helping companies become more cost effective? I've been in the IT operations management space for many years, right, spent many years in the monitoring systems management space. I went off into disaster recovery for a little while, and I realized it's a lot better to try and prevent problems before they happen, right? It's better to be in that space than trying to recover from a disaster. And ultimately, what's been interesting to me is over that period, the problems we're trying to solve are still the same, right? We're still trying to make sure your applications, your IT systems, they're up and running, right?  And determining if there's a problem, how do you make sure you find the root cause as quickly as possible? So from an IT operations standpoint, if you've got an environment where you've got an outage, right, typically what happens is you have a bridge, right, you have an outage bridge, and you've got multiple people in there, again, back to the point, expensive people taking time out, even worse, sometimes maybe on a weekend, right? So how do you first of all prevent those problems from happening? And number two, how do you make them more efficient, right? How do you make sure that they can get to the root cause very quickly? We use terms like mean time to identification, MTTI, mean time to repair. These have been in the industry for a long time. In fact, it was interesting, Swapnil the other day, I was in a call with a customer, and they talked about in those calls where they're trying to, you know, they're trying to figure out how to solve a problem, they're all pointing fingers at each other, right? And he called it MTTI is actually mean time to innocence. You have to sort of prove it's not me, it's somewhere else, right? And in the past, the technology was all about bringing data, trying to look at things, look at patterns, right, rules. You know, where AI is helping is that a lot of that can now be automated, right? We've got technology that can go look at a bunch of incidents that are coming into a service desk and identify, here's the patterns, right? Here's the patterns. This may be a major incident that's happening on a Monday morning. And now you don't need people trying to look at that. Similarly, from an AI ops standpoint, that's a lot of where our focus is. We're taking data from multiple tools. We're bringing that together. We're applying intelligent algorithms and AI ML technologies as well. We've got a knowledge graph based approach that's actually starting to do this more efficiently than human beings as well. And part of it is if you think about the cause, whatever you get from tools are very cryptic, right? If you look at log files and all the details, that data is pretty cryptic. Maybe an IT person understands it. For almost a year now, we've been using essentially the precursor to GPT-3, which is basically the platform that's being used by chat GPT. And now we're using an enterprise-scaled version of that internally. And we've been using the technology for about a year, right? And essentially to be able to automate the creation of those messages, the customer see to understand what's happening and generating in the human readable format, right? So you look at the application of AI ML. It's all across the spectrum from reducing noise, finding root cause, and basically generating messages that are human readable. It's just amazing the world that we live in. Can you talk about the areas where companies should look at when it comes to custom optimization? I know we talked a lot about people, how to make them efficient. We talked about the role of AI and AI ops. But ultimately also about resources as you point out. It's interesting, every customer I talk to is on a journey to public cloud. Some at a much more further stage, advanced stage of adopting cloud. But the reality is almost every one of them is hybrid, right? They've got assets in the data center, they've got assets in cloud. And as they move to cloud, what we see is especially in terms of the cost of operating in cloud, the dynamics changes, right? Because up to now it was all about how do I make sure I plan ahead of my budgeting cycle and make sure that I'm planning for my CAPEX expenditure. Because I've got to go justify to my CFO that I need to go by purchase a whole bunch of hardware, set it up in my data center, and then make sure I've got enough capacity, right? So you had dedicated capacity planning personnel that would be responsible for that and determining how to optimize CAPEX. Well, today the world has changed, right? You put it in cloud, guess what? You've got enough resources there, right? So the whole optimization of resources becomes less important. You still have to make sure you've got the right resources and the right place to meet your SLAs. But the problem is how do you make sure you're optimizing the use of those resources, right? Because any cloud provider will give you all the assets you need. The problem is that bill you get at the end of the month, right? You don't want to be shocked. You want to make sure you've budgeted for that OPEX. And most importantly, that you don't have assets that are idle, that you're not using, that you don't need. So technology that helps you look at that, look at your patterns of usage, understand where there's opportunities for optimization, right? Where you've got idle resources, especially in modern Kubernetes environments. We've embraced Kubernetes in a big way, right? With our own Helix SaaS platform. Because ultimately Kubernetes is basically a very scalable architecture. Really helps us deal with large volumes of data, right? Managing at scale, but it's also important to make sure you've got the right resources, right? If you don't have the right resources, you've got overallocated resources. Especially if you leave it to application owners, they're going to ask for all the resources they want. So understanding trends, understanding where you might have optimization opportunities, both in a Kubernetes environment, both at a cluster, as well as a container level. And also looking ahead, doing what if analysis, right? Looking ahead and determining if my business metrics vary, right? If I'm a retailer and Black Friday is coming in over the next couple of weeks, I know I do a lot of my business in those months in November. So how do I plan for that? I can model a different scenarios and figure out what resources I need and scale up as needed, right? So that's really important, really understanding. How do you optimize your resources? Shifting the mindset from a capacity optimization, capacity planning sort of approach to more of a continuous optimization, continuous cost and budget optimization sort of motion. Joseph, thank you so much for taking time out today and talk about this topic. And I would love to have you back on the show. But before we leave, do you have any closing thoughts and any advice for folks out there? Thank you. It's been a pleasure, Supnil. Enjoy the conversation. The one thought I want to leave you with is when you look at cost optimization, cost efficiency, it's always important to understand that in a business context, right? A lot of what we talked about were IT problems. How can IT solve problems, optimize how investments are being spent? But it needs to be related to the business. So as an example, I was talking to a UK hospital system and the gentleman's been managing IT environments for years. And he said he used to talk about servers and devices and different types of IT technology. But as soon as he was able to translate that to the business terms, right? As soon as he was able to talk about, here's the impact on clinical applications or an outage can impact surgery operations, right? Or this is where the pharmacy business is impacted. That's when he started to become much more relevant, much more powerful in the organization as well. And so I think that's important ultimately is making sure we understand from an IT perspective, what are the dependencies? How are systems related to each other? How does it impact the business? Because that's what helps us prioritize, right? We've got very critical businesses. How do we make sure that we understand the impact of those businesses? Do we have the right monitoring in place, the right SLAs, the right level of resources? Can we recover very quickly if there's an outage? And also make sure we understand the cost of downtime as well, right? So that way you're able to prioritize. Now I've been a product manager for most of my career and product management comes down to prioritizing, right? When you look at investments or costs, we could always do with more, right? But as you look at where you spend your resources, you've got to prioritize. And that's why understanding business impact, criticality, dependencies become really important as well. Trying to do that manually, especially in a very complex changing world that we live in today is impossible. So that's where technology tools, right? Tools that can go and automate that, discover that, make it simpler. A, makes it much more efficient. B, that's the only way you can keep up. And C, guess what? We started talking about people. It makes your people much more effective and efficient as well.


show for people who care about their health at Live Dreaming Network series. I'm your host Dr. Grace O'Neill. Joining me today is Corey Nago from the project Genki Alawai. Welcome Corey. Thank you Dr. Grace. Appreciate you having me. Thank you for being on the show. So we want to learn about project Genki Alawai. Tell us about how you got involved and a little bit about the project. Okay, for sure. So the Genki Alawai project started in 2019 with the mission to use bioremediation, which is using good microorganisms to restore the environment. And the vision was to make the Alawai fishable and still mobile by seven years. So this started in 2019. We are under the Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation, which is the nonprofit organization that we're underneath then. Unfortunately, due to COVID, the plan didn't everything didn't go according to plan. You know, the project didn't get funded and whatnot, but despite that, you know, the project members at the time decided to continue to move forward anyway, right? Because we got the permitting to use the effective microorganisms for the Alawai. So we've been moving ever since on a volunteer and donation basis. You know, this is a community effort. The only reason why we needed this far was because of the support from the community. So it's been a blessing. So with the Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation, what does that mean? So the Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation was supposed to be a systems approach to addressing the flooding and the remediation of the entire Alawai watershed. So starting with the invasive Albezia trees in the mountains to removing the armoured catfish, the invasive armoured catfish from the streams. Our section was the Alawai canal and there was another group that was supposed to be monitoring the coral reef out there from the ocean. So systems approach, you know, something that's never been done before and we were also supposed to be part of the STEM education program from the schools.  And as they grow up, you know, continue to take care of it themselves. So with the catfish, how are those introduced if they are not native species? That's a good question. I didn't really look into that, so I really don't know the history behind that, but that's something that I'll look into. Yeah, so, but with the Hawai'i Assembly State Foundation, so you were supposed to receive a large federal grant? Yes, I believe so. Dr. Ken Kanashiro is in charge of that and, you know, he's still going after that grant and, you know, we have faith in him.  And again, the community, the Genkiowloi Project is a community project. You know, it really is a community endeavor.    So it's a bit, again, we're just so thankful for the community. So let's have some pictures of the little Genki balls. Can you show us, Michael, what they look like? Yeah, so the balls made out of. Yes. The idea originate, where did it originate from? Great, great question. Yeah.  It's called EM. Effective microorganism is the main ingredient for these balls. And they were, EM was actually developed in Okinawa, Japan by Dr. Teru Higa, and, you know, it's been used all around the world, you know, from a little island to the whole world. So it's very, it was mostly known for agriculture, but, you know, you can use it really for anything. It's really holistic, but it's usually in a liquid form. But in this case, we make it into a ball form so that it can actually sink to the bottom of the canal where all the sludges, that's the main pollutant we're trying to address. So to get back to your question about the ingredients, you know, it has soil rice bran, which is basically the skin of brown rice, you know, the byproduct to make it into white rice. And EM, the effective microorganisms, and we have some molasses in there as well, you know, that acts as the food for the microorganisms. So really simple, just those ingredients, soil rice bran and some EM. Nice. So tell us about how you guys came up with the idea to do this. Who was the person who started all this? Yes. So we were actually inspired by the Osaka Fisherman's Cooperation. They used EM technology and these Genki balls. We actually got the name from them as well to clean up Dotonbori River in Osaka and to clean up Osaka Bay.  So that's kind of the reputation that that river had. And because the fishermen, their livelihood depended on, you know, healthy, healthy water so that they can get the fish and their clams, they decided to do something about it. You know, they found out about Dr. Higa's EM and, you know, they took it upon themselves as a grassroots movement to really, you know, take care of not only the river but the entire Osaka Bay and they were able to do that. I believe it was like three to four years. All the sludge levels went down, odors went away, and they were able to, you know, see their clams come back like five fold. So it was a great result and that's what really, you know, inspired us. And that was back in 2003, I believe. They finished in like 2005 2006 and that was about the same time where the Alawai, you know, had that sewage dumped into the canal, right, 48 million gallons of raw sewage dumped into the Alawai and, you know, fortunately a man passed away from that infection.  So it was around that same time that all of that went down. So they really inspired us to, you know, make it happen over here because in Japan, there's lots of cases, you know, where they use this technology to clean up the river and ecosystems, you know, even around the world. This is a proven thing, you know, this is not just a pie in the sky, you know, just trying, trying it out kind of thing, like there's proven cases and it's not a matter of, you know, if you ever work, it's a matter of will we make it work, right? So I believe that we can, we can do that, you know, Hawaii can just be another example, not only for, it won't be just a win just for us, but, you know, we can be an example for another example for the world. So show us some pictures, Michael, of the students that are involved, the students and teachers that are involved in the project. Yes. Also, this is a picture, we initially started with Alawai Elementary School and Jefferson Elementary School, you know, the Alawai, that's their backyard pretty much, you know, they're right along that canal and, you know, it started with them, you know, the teachers there, you know, they embrace the project. It's thanks to them that, you know, we're able to get things going from the jump.  And we started here strategically because that end is the most stagnant polluted portion of the Alawai. And for those who don't know, the Alawai canal, when it was built in the 20s, it was actually originally planned to connect to the ocean. So both ends were supposed to be open, but they realized that, you know, if the Alawai connected to the ocean through Waikiki, you know, all the beaches will be polluted.  So that's why it stops right there by the Kapahulu library. So we started there again because that was the, you know, the most polluted part, the most stink part.  But, you know, if you go by there now, there's almost no snow at all, you know, so that's where we started. So can you show us the pictures of the different schools on the website, Michael? Yeah, this is great. There's so many people involved. Yes, yes. Again, this is, this is really a community effort, you know, starting with all these schools, you know, educating the kids, you know, while they're young because our mission is to, you know, just really empower the people of the community and to work together to restore the Alawai watershed, right? And this project is really just the catalyst to open up the potential to clean up more waterways. And, you know, that's actually happening today. There's a collaboration between Kamehameha Schools and HCC, you know, they're calling it the Genki Kapalama Project. So the Kapalama Canal, you know, that's coming soon. So I'm looking forward to that as well. Yeah, so why don't you show us the picture of the life, the new life that is swimming in the Alawai. We have some pictures of that. Yes, unfortunately the left side was supposed to be a video. I'm sorry I didn't submit a picture. That's my fault. But, you know, we've been seeing a lot of biological indicators anywhere from stingrays. You know, last year we had the monk seal come through to the convention center side of the Alawai which was, you know, unheard of, right?  So the timing of that was with Unreal, right? And, you know, people are sending us pictures of turtles, sharks, you know, just going there almost every weekend, you know, we see a lot of native fish coming back as well, not just tilapia, right? We're seeing ama ama, you know, we're starting to see mullets and like other small ahole-hole. It's a sight to see. That's amazing. So let's go to the collection sites. Can you show us the pictures of the different collection sites? Yes, yes, the test sites. Yes. So because, you know, we can't just throw it anywhere, you know, as much as we would love to, you know, we are data-driven so we do take before and after water quality samples, you know, just to measure the effectiveness of the project, right? We have four test sites right now, you know, behind the think-tank logo. That's where we started on the Kapa Hulu end of the canal. That's where we do most of our tosses. Number two is right behind Alawai Elementary School by the community gardens out there and right across the street by La Nui Kalimoku Street. And that area was sponsored by the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach, you know, they were able to sponsor the water quality testing there. So, you know, shout out to Ritz-Carlton. And number four by the convention center that was sponsored by the Honolulu Festival Foundation. So thanks to them, you know, we're able to open up so we kind of have two ends of the Alawai and the middle as well.  The sludge levels, you know, elsewhere on the canal and, you know, take measurements there as well. But that's where we're at right now. So who's taking the data? Is it the volunteers that's taking the data and who's developing the data? That's a good question. So we do need, it has to be official. So in the beginning, the city and county was helping us out with the data collection. You know, we had a support from the governor. Unfortunately, you know, the Red Hill crisis happened.  But luckily, we were able to partner with Equal Slabs, which is a third party, another third party lab that has been able to assist us with obtaining that water quality data. But the sludge levels though, that's just on our own. We have our measuring meter sticks and we just stick it in the sludge and, you know, it's been fun seeing the sludge levels go down, you know, being able to see that for yourself and actually see sand on the bottom of the all away. You know, I wouldn't have believed it until I seen it myself. So. So usually sludge just covers the whole bottom. Exactly. Yeah, it covers the bottom.  And, you know, that's, that's under all that sludge. So that's why we're making into the bop form to remove, you know, the sludge layer by layer. So can you explain to us how the sewage gets in the alloy? How does that happen? I'm not too sure exactly how all of that sewage got it. And that's something I have to look into. But a lot of story dreams, you know, lead up to lead up to the alloy. So, you know, that that plays a huge role. And, you know, of course, we have Polo Stream, Manoa Stream, and Matiki Stream that feeds the alloy as well. So, you know, a lot of the pollution from upstream, you know, that that's that's the main cause of.  Definitely. Definitely. You know, and this is a reactive solution for sure. You know, for some people that might be thinking, well, you know, if you don't address the issues upstream, the alloy will never get clean. I mean, that's that's valid. But, you know, we'll we'll get there. Right. This is a, this is a systems approach.  Right. So once we start with with the alloy, you know, we want to work upstream or using EM for the upstream, you know, into from the mountains so that, you know, we'll get that whole effect cleaning the whole watershed, not just the canal. So let's go to the current results slide if you can, Michael. Yeah, so show us what this is. What is this? Also, this is just a chart of the sludge levels where we first started, you know, from 2021. This shows where we first took the measurements of sludge. And this was actually a story that I wasn't there. But my father was telling me, you know, how the city and county people were trying to take the water test and they stepped into the sludge like knee deep, and they lost the slipper.  So that was, you know, the point where we started measuring that that sinkhole where, you know, he went knee deep. And, you know, since then it's been over 20 inches to less than five, you know, that's, that's a huge difference. So, you know, seeing that in just the two testing spots, you know, we want to have more, you know, elsewhere on the canal where we can, you know, take these measurements. And then show us the other slide with the Enterococcus. I think there's a slide with Enterococcus. Yes, yes. So that is the fecal bacteria, you know, the main bacteria that people are concerned about, you know, it was this fluctuating according to rainfall whatnot but as you can see, you know, from 690 to 46 right the acceptable levels are 130 so anything below 130 is is good news. So, you know, being able to see that go down as well is awesome. So I also see down here on the third line of that chart, like the alloy it looks like it started off like less. Yes. How is that even possible. Again, it just, it depends on the, the, the rainfall and the different conditions and whatnot you know there's a lot that goes into it but yeah the timing of the test as well. So, it does fluctuate. Yes. Can you go to the current results section in the website. So basically what we're doing with the microorganisms is just restoring that balance right in, in any environment in any ecosystem, you know, there's microbes, they're everywhere, you know, bacteria is everywhere, you know, in our bodies and the air and the water. So, with EM what we're basically doing is putting more good bacteria in there and, you know, just making that shift so that there are a lot of neutral or opportunistic bacteria who follow the leader right they're influenced by you know what there's more of so if you have a good bacteria in the water and ecosystem, you know all those neutral middle bacterias will follow suit so we're we're just rebuilding the ecosystem from the bottom up right the the food chain microorganisms. They're the bottom, but they're the foundation as well you know that's the most important part once you get that good then you know everything else will flow nicely so that's that's the simple idea. Mediation. I mean I see this to you have oxygen saturation test and yes, like it's greatly improved. Yes. Here's even 135% house. Yes. Yes, so the microorganisms you know they oxygenate the water so it is possible to go over those levels. Yes. 100 was the highest and then there's a turbidity to that's gone down a lot. Also, this thing salinity I was a little bit confused how that helps you because isn't that dependent on the water. Yes, so that that is dependent on.  Tests that that's what they include as well so we just included everything that the state or not state the will the state test for the Department of Health and you know the the labs, the data that they give us we just try to present everything as much as possible. How about temperature is a lower temperature better or a higher temperature. That's a good question on higher temperatures, you know, are usually breeding grounds for you know like the Vibrio like the flesh and disease that's naturally in there so I mean it does vary in terms of that but with with when you have in there even if the temperatures do rise, you know, it keeps in check those other microorganisms those other bacteria viruses that you know may thrive it keeps their levels in check so. And this pH is it better for should the pH be around 7.4 more alkaline I'm assuming and that acidic I. Yes, yes, yes, more neutral cage would be good. Yes, for sure. There's so many things here it's amazing and I even have an ammonia test and nitrite test can you explain that.  I think, you know just we've been getting a lot of testimonials from you know regulars people that paddle there that wow like, you know it really doesn't smell anymore. Although those numbers may show otherwise, I mean just being their first hand you know, experiencing it for yourself I think is the the great the biggest indicator for that. Now that's great. So, was there a reason that you and your father specifically got involved in the alloy do you play golf near there do you paddle. Um, so actually, my father was again inspired by the Osaka fishermen you know around that time where they finished not finished on what where they really started seeing great results of you know bringing back their waterways. We had, you know, that that spill of sewage into our waterway right so he actually raised his hand at that time saying like you know we can use him to you know bring this back but unfortunately how the laws written you know you can't just pour anything into open waterways so unfortunately at that time. You know we weren't able to get the permitting the whatnot you know I'm not too sure the full details of that but you know it's timing right you know there's a time for everything and you know in 2019 we're able to get that so yeah here we are now. Making it happen. Do you, when you want to have a community event where you have the balls. Yes, you have to apply for a permit for that or just on. Yes, so it depends on the location. Um, you know, we do need, if it's on the promenade by the convention center side and whatnot or elementary school. We need a permit from the state knows part of the parks and wrecks, but luckily for us, you know, the couple who the library has been a great partner, you know, since the beginning of the project and our community projects are usually done there on their lawn. So, you know, we don't really need a permit there you know they've allowed us to you know use their lawn. And, you know, make the Genki balls and you know to work from that end as well so you know shout out to couple who library, all the staff there. Yeah, so I'm wondering to like if an independent group say wanted to make their own Genki balls. Would they, how would they go about doing this? So we do work with, you know, corporations companies that do want to just make it on their own. A lot of the major hotel groups in Waikiki, you know, you know who you are, you know, thank you so much for for all your support. We've been working with them. We'll just, you know, they can make it anywhere but when it comes to throwing just a project member would have to be there. According to the permit, you know, just so that we can observe, you know, anything. If anything unusual happens or whatnot. We'd be there to report it. So that's pretty much the main protocol so we do not, you know, really recommend people just going out there and throwing it anywhere. There are rules and regulations that we want to abide by, you know, just be respectful of so.  So, yeah, I'm is quite expensive. I buy that online for my garden. Oh, right on. Yes. So to make it cost, I don't know the exact percentage of, you know, in terms of racial to solids to liquid or whatnot, but we do make something called activated. So, like you said, it may seem expensive. And that's because it's a concentrate. So, regular EM can be extended 20 times we make something called activated. So out of that EM concentrate will extend it with the molasses and water. So that that's able to, you know, make a lot more economical for everyone. And I know you said that corporations have been providing some of the. Yes, yes, we've been getting a lot of donations. Yeah, you know, like that is that all funded by sponsors. Yes. Yes. All the donation that we receive, you know, go towards mostly towards materials, you know, for, you know, being able to put on community events or, you know, just to support on the schools as well.   Yeah, that's great. Do you guys have any, I know I saw an email that you guys have also run a community event every month or something. Yes. Yes. And you know, we would love to put on a lot more but you know, with our limited numbers and we're at one one a month for now but we will, we're looking to scale it you know in advance for sure. We try to release the date at the beginning of the month but usually it's on the second to second to the last weekend or last weekend so usually on a Saturday, and it will be at the couple who library and you know we try to release information about that. If you're on our email link list or on our social media as much as much as possible. So it's a few hours that you're dedicated. It's actually really quick on making drinking balls.  So, so we've been doing two sessions because of the, we've been getting a lot of inquiries so we do about, we do two sessions so about 2000. So, you know, we also give them the opportunity to throw as well so it's not just making the balls. Yes. Yeah, no that's amazing. So, I think, you know, I definitely want to participate in one of those sessions. Yes, we'd love to have you we'll be honored to have you out. So, how many people you do you have in a core group of volunteers that, you know, leads the session usually. Yes, so our main, or I guess the main members of the group official there's about five of us right now, six, including Dr can so we do have a good, you know, regular volunteer people that come out often, you know, shout out to them. It's been a huge help. So, we just want to be able to organize that better on our end so that, you know, we can help scale this project out, you know, so we can make that bigger impact that we need to make. Yeah, I mean, what if somebody wanted to volunteer. How would they get in touch with you want to show that page. Yes, yes, if you can, um, you know, go on our website there's our email there Genki alawai at gmail.com is our email but you can find that contact information on our website, or on through social media you know we usually post on Instagram but you know, it goes on Facebook as well so someone, you know, if anybody wants to get involved or help out, you can contact us through there. And are the, the sessions you have to ask you ahead of time is yes, yes, if you could just be if you'd be so kind of send us an email you know we'll send you all the information that you need for the events. And how many people are usually there at the event. There's about, wow, I mean, about 60, 50 to 60 people per session so a lot of people have been coming up. It's a blessing. I know that's awesome. Well, thank you so much. I mean this has been very informative I learned a lot about these ganky balls and I think it's great you're doing this project to clean up the alawai. We're out of time so we have to wrap it up. I'm Dr. Grace O'Neill this is healthy planet on the think tech live streaming network series we were talking with Corey Nago of the project ganky alawai. And thanks to your listeners for listening. I'll see you in two weeks for more of healthy planet on think tech, the shows of people who care about their health and the health of our planet. My guest will be Kavika Carlson, founder of the Hawaii running project. If you have ideas for the show and questions from my future show guest, please contact me at healthy planet think tech at gmail.com. Check out my website at greaseandhawai.com or Instagram at Grace for Living 365 for more information on my projects, including future show guests. I'm Dr. Grace O'Neill. Aloha everyone.


Welcome back to the web browser tutorials and first I want to reply to some of the comments you guys left in the previous video and gonna be quick but if you want to skip it I will leave the timecode in the description so you can skip this part. Ok first of all a lot of people were confused on why would you want to get a web browser inside Godot and an excellent way of thinking about this is that you can host your website with news for instance let's say you have a program with some updates and you want to display those updates inside the game itself or the program that you are making so you can keep a website in a server and just keep pushing your updates there as HTML and then use that HTML inside your game. Another use for this could be you know maybe making players able to create some levels and reading those levels from a website you know I created a game which basically reads the folders of your computer and generates a level kind of like a castlevania you could potentially create a game like this but just surfing the web you know each website could be like a different level depending on the elements that you have so every time you have a technology like this the limit is basically your imagination so why am I making this just because we can right like that's why we make all this. I also wanted to make a shout out to Andrew he built a program which is very similar to this one he's also a patreon so I'm really thankful I will leave a link to the tutorial on how to make an RSS feed reader which is really really cool and I really recommend it and yeah some other users here on Reddit commented which is something really cool that there is an SQL plugin for get out so if you are looking to get into more like database stuff with your programs you can do that using this plugin and now let's just jump the video okay so we have our program here like we had it in the last time and now we want to start taking the information outside of their request into data that we can manipulate in HTML we have things which are called tags and I'm not going to do like an HTML tutorial but there look something like this so body and everything inside this content is the body so you have just the opening part of it and the closing part of it and inside those is where you get all the information you need to render your website so for making it easier to read those kind of values I'm going to create a function which is going to specifically read the content of a tag that way I can start navigating every element and getting the content I want if you see here on the website like when it loads like the title of the window is still a web browser but on the page itself there is a title tag which has got an engine free open source to the 3d game engine this is a very long title by the way but yeah so what I'm going to do now is get the information from inside this tag the title tag and get it into the web browser title so let's create this function get tag or for the JavaScript guys over there just inner HTML which is more similar to what you get in just plain JavaScript so first I want to know which tag I'm going to be parsing so what is the name of that tag and the other thing I will need is the HTML like the entire document okay the entire document that we have so this is like just a string with the content okay I'm gonna write pass now so we don't get the error okay this is not the best way of doing it but I think it's the easiest one even if it's confusing I'm going to use rex rex is a way of finding text and getting results from a long string so for instance if you want to find each word like we're doing right now of a tag inside of a longer string you would use it to match so with rex you create a very complex and very weird string that will magically search your tech the text for you if you want to understand a little bit better how rex work I recommend you this talk which is great for understanding it and it covers all the basics unit for now I'm just gonna go with something that I prepared before for myself in other program that I'm working and yeah I'm gonna go with it and before you want to ruin us all the fun yes I am aware rex is not the best way to parse HTML there's a very funny answer in Instagram workflow just talking about some of the cases and some of the problem you might have so I will encourage you to read it as with all the things I'm recommending in this video you have the links in the description so yeah let's continue let's just ignore that we just want to have fun with this program okay don't be so serious okay bar let's see we're gonna get now the restricts rex yeah this is how we start our instance as of course as with everything you can control click it and you have every like you have the description here of how it works and I haven't read this one actually but I invite you to do it and if you find any problem you can always submit some changes to the cutout documentation okay and now I'm gonna use the compile method and it's going to be the start the tag that we want to search and now all these nonsense and again it's a lot to cover for a tutorial so I won't keep you with it but if you're interested be welcome to check it out and by the way this might be super wrong okay if you have a better version just leave a comment and I'm really interested to know a better way to do this even though I know this is not the optimal way I want to get your opinion well I cannot talk and type at the same time okay so here's what we have and now that we compile it I want to get the result which is now that we have like what are the things that we are looking for which basically is something like the beginning of the time the end of the time and I want to get everything inside of it so now I search in the HTML that was sent to this function and if we get a result because sometimes you might not get anything we're gonna return result get string and I'm gonna replace now the tar because the results that we will get from this will also include the tar and I want to replace it just with an empty space and I'm gonna do the same my god this is begging for so many comments but hey it works I hope so I always forget okay so now we should get the result and what happens if we don't get anything like it will like the problem will get an error and I don't like to have many errors like closing my program so I will add just a default value which you can call you know like every time you look at this function since I'm already adding a value here is optional so if you don't provide it it will be just nothing by default so if there is no result I'm just going to return the default default value that we set it's right out when we do the request completed we get all the text which is this so let's save it as the HTML so that way we can use it several times we're going to set our view with the HTML and now I want to let's see let's print and now inner HTML and the tag that I want to get is the title remember it has to be a string the HTML is the same variable and the default I don't want it just just give me anything you get okay let's try it out and let's see if I get the print here like the title okay never set this I'm gonna set it to the main okay get the website and yes the content of the title tag which is there I have it here seems like I failed on replacing the end of the time because I did it like in the opposite way so that should do it let's try it out again and we get the title so I want to change now the title of our window with the title of the website let's do it here remember we can use OS set window title and now we can use this part here so we are setting the title to whatever the website is let's try it out and it works let's try to I don't know let's see if Wikipedia works yeah let's go and we get the title here Wikipedia whenever we have all this ready you can also like set like you don't know you don't have to set the title of the window right if you have an updater and you want to have several tabs with different websites you can do that with a tab view but for now I think you get the idea of how you can get some websites content there's a bunch of things here that you really have to see everything which is contained inside the head tag that should be hidden from the user so another thing that I'm going to do right now is remove the the head part of the document well instead of removing the head I'm just gonna get the body okay of the website about a website is composed by an HTML tag inside there's a head tag and a body tag the body tag is the things that the user sees so here instead of making the rich text label showing all the HTML I'm going to get only the content of the body tag let's see how it looks now we get the code engine website and it failed why let's see okay so I'm opening the website from Firefox and you can click here on be paid view page source and we get the source here and as you can see here they did it they don't have a body tag for this website so we run into our first problem many websites have different syntaxes okay we know we are dealing with HTML 5 because of the dog type here but you know you can write these kind of documents in very different ways and it doesn't have to be perfect the web browsers that we have already they are equipped to deal with all these kind of cases and even if you don't have that tag over there it will know that this is the head and the rest should be the body so moving forward since this website what wait what there is a body there where is the start oh no well maybe they forgot but yeah since this website doesn't have like the proper structure I'm gonna search for one that it does to keep doing that let's search for another website a fun website that many of you may know and this website does have like just a plain and simple body tag so I'm gonna use this as an example okay it's news.ycombinator.com okay so I'm gonna replace the default website with this one and let's see if now our inner HTML thing works and we can see the content of the okay yeah it works yeah I'm only getting the body of the website which is great as you can see the input the line edit is not updating to the value that we have here on the ready so I'm gonna go ahead and add the default URL value which is going to be this one and I'm gonna get the container line edit and the text is going to be the default URL that way whenever I modify this one I know that our element will be updated as well let's try it out to see if it works yes it works okay we have here hacker news which is the name of the website and we have this information here okay that's it for today I'm gonna try to make them a little bit shorter but more regular sorry for the upload schedule it's being crazy but I really want to thank all my patrons for your help I've been having issues with my microphone so I'm trying to sort that out I hope that this recording is working properly if not if you heard some noises in between that's why but yeah thank you very much everyone for all your comments it's been great yeah I really want to thank again my patrons and if you want to contribute there's a link in the description and yeah see you next time bye


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