Hello everybody, thank you for joining our talk today about harbour, so if you're not interested in harbour, you're in the wrong session All right, my name is Vadim Bauer. I'm one of the co-maintenance of harbour together with Yangmang and today we're gonna talk about harbour and specifically we're gonna talk about some harbour superpowers that you may be already know of, maybe not and then Yangmang is gonna talk about some of the features that we developed in the last half year that are already available and that you can use and he's gonna dive a bit into details of those features and we're gonna give an outlook about what to expect in from harbour in the next release and then we'll close with ways how you can collaborate with us and also pick up some t-shirts here and Okay, so if you don't know it harbour is a container registry, right? so it's just existing since 2016 and it's graduated from Graduate project in the CNCF It is a registry to you know store images on OCI artifacts But more importantly it is a container image management solution So you really can manage the life cycle of your container images, which makes your harbour somewhat special compared to simple Storage solution to where you just storage images, right? so it has the policies role-based access control vulnerability analytics and Signing possibilities like notary and cosine Over the years harbour has gained quite popularity and I'm Confident to say that harbour is probably today one of the most Popular and widely used container registry Specifically on prem environments in the cloud. It's a bit different, of course But on the on prem on self-hosted harbour is the defect of standard and I mean don't take my words for that because I'm Obviously biased, but this is for example what the Victor says about harbour This is what he says about harbour in one of his YouTube episodes, so he knows what it what he talked about and As I said like harbour has a ton of features, right? So it has like access control artifact distribution security compliance But you know, there's like all features a bit difficult to to understand what it actually does so I'm gonna focus a bit on the superpowers of harbour and I picked up three of those today for you and one of the superpowers of harbour is That it's remarkably well working for small teams like you know, if you have a team of five five people three four people Who needs who you know want to have a registry it works equally well for small teams as well as for large enterprises It's for enterprises, of course the feature like robust access controls IDP and SSO are defective standard in the industry and they're Available with harbour and you can use not only for authentication, but also for authorization so you can do authorization and bring the authorization from your identity provider into harbour and use this for Authenticate and authorize users on different projects, and I'm gonna show this Quickly then second superpower of harbour is that harbour makes seizes happy. You know, how does it make seizes happy because? typically people use harbour as a central registry like they Aggregate all the images in one registry and this is of course very good for Makes seizes happy because everything is one place. It is transparent if you know which images are used in your organization You have like like replications proxying that you can you know ingest other registries And they have a overview about vulnerabilities and you can also hook in other scanning tools and security Tools into harbour so that you can you know do other things with the harbour Which are not you know, which we don't provide out of the box You can hook it quite easily and then the third superpower is the It's it's ups people darling right because it's and why is it ups people darling because it has Automation you can use rest API to automate harbour can automate workflows with harbour so you can Collaborate in teams you can use terraform you can use plume it to automate not deployment itself, of course You know, this is obvious, but you can also use terraform plume it to Modify the configuration of harbour right so you can use it for you know get ops workflows for your teams And this is really powerful functionality that you you get out of the box And this is why ups people of harbour and then there's operational controls right you have an advanced garbage collection Which is differs a bit from docker distribution that we are using I mean harbour is based on toco distribution and we use toco distribution underneath But we have our own garbage collection, which has the power that is runs In and can you know run while your registries operating So you don't have to switch register in read only mode like you do with toco distribution You have like the quotas and policies so you can control your register quite powerful And I'm just quickly showing what you can do with with harbour So I have here a demo instance of harbour. Let me check if this is working exactly So this is a demo instance I can recommend you just go to demon dot go harbour.io and you can log in there is admin and harbour 1345 is the password. It's really for demo purposes. That's why I can hand out the password here And it's gets a lot of things gets needed after a while. So When we talk about the first superpower the you know, this works for small teams and enterprises You can select a project here. It's a project. There's a kind of a namespace and then you can add members You can use users groups and you can add those users and groups into Into harbour and you know assign them permissions. This is quite straightforward. This is you know works for small and larger teams and then the The other functionality is the IDP. So the IDP is the way how you cannot select it now because we have database enabled Just delete all the users. That's why it's a demo instance, right? And we can switch like the OIDC provider for example, and then we of course set all the OIDC settings And here we can import our Our groups right admin group or user group so that people Users that you import from the IDP automatically mapped to groups in harbour and so you can assign groups to projects and that you know automatically People when they look in automatically in the right group with the right permissions in the right project Which is quite powerful feature for the for ops people to use then The season part and young one is gonna talk about this more in detail But I'm just quickly showing that you have the possibility to have this Vulnerability overviews right so you have the possibility to view the vulnerabilities on a on the project basis Let's take a look this one. For example, it's not scanned. Let's take this one Yeah, this is a good project. Yeah, for example, you can see the vulnerabilities based on an image And then you have also the other option to view vulnerabilities Images that contains vulnerabilities or other ways around and Yeah, the third option is a bit difficult to tell or to show because it's a mostly rest API based and but you have the possibility to use the garbage collection because so that your image is not getting out of control and The the quota and policies is something that you can of course as an ops person You can respect who gets how much data on your registry so that It's not you're not ending up in in terabytes of data and you can run lean and efficiently and These are basically the superpowers of of harbor. They're of course much more features But I just wanted to focus on what I think are the unique functionalities of harbor and what makes it stand out to other registries and Then in the next one, I'm handing over to young one and he will Tell you more about the features of harbor Thank you, I need hi This is the end from From our team currently I'm working at my mayor and I'm the maintainer of Project harbor and the project distribution. I'm currently leading up this project So I'm gonna show you about the what we Have done it in 2009 and what I'm doing for the 2010 and what we'll do in the future. So The latest anchor features in the 2009 is regarding to the OCI so some of you may already know not harbor is a OCI compatible registry So I feel like to adopt the latest change of the upstream OCI It's a top priority of us so I can give you a little background regarding the OCI spike so already harbor was designed to Manage the dog image With the introduction of OCI since got changed. So you can package any files like Into artifacts like doc image. I'm char As bomb tax and even videos. So harbor is capable of managing those individual artifacts and One step further the OCI 101 allows you to establish the Relationship between those individual artifacts So that means You can associate any artifact to a subject manifest Without alerting the subject manifest itself like the figure shows You can approve your artifact security by adding elements like signature as well so In addition to that you can replicate those artifacts as a whole That means that the policy settings you date in the highway The those settings still work in the harbor B because that nothing was lost during replication. So and What's more we we had some cooperation with the OCI client team like Nutation namely the notary version 2 so to define some security features Which I will show on the demo So I will show you the the demo or regarding the OCI so I Will try to firstly to Push demo artifact So you will after refresh the harbor you can see the the Time artifact so then I will try to Enable the no such a policy and That means that when you try to pull the image if you do not have the signature of mutation you can pull La you cannot pull that image. So here is the error message the image is now signed by mutation. So So next let's try to use a mutation to sign this demo image so after the the after you use the mutation to sign this you will see a new Signature be attached to the demo artifact so after refresh you can see the the Signature is attached to the demo subject. So then let's try to pull the demo artifact again So you can see now it exceeds So that means we have a signature For this artifact. So the last I will try to use ours Ours is a OCI client to push a S-bomb of the demo artifact to Here I add some annotations for my S-bomb artifact and We should know that we are using the OCI 101 mode to push the S-bomb So after we push To the the JSO file you will see there are two attachments of Demo artifact so you can see After we go into the details We can see the annotations that we start at our sale app so So next let's try to use Nutation to sign this S-bomb artifact so I will copy the digest of the S-bomb and then I will try to use Nutation to sign this artifact so after light you will see there are third level of The whole bunch of artifacts So that the last level of is the signature of the S-bomb so Because that you can Attach any kind of artifact to your subject manifest. So here I will try to upload a CVE as port of this artifact to attach To the demo. So the similar command I define some annotations and use the OCI 101 mode and Specified the subject manifest and the local file. So after light You will see there are another one more accessory attached to the Subject demo demo subject. So you can see the Annotation that I define in the gamma line. So next is the last step as you can use Notation to sign this CVE report To guarantee the security of my subject so after Pushing the after signing the last subject. I will expand the whole structure of This subject you will see we have three levels and Two signatures and one S-bomb and one CVE as port. So last I will use the Our discoverer command to view the whole structure of demo artifact So the output is tree mode So we can see the result here The same graphic as the Harbor UI shows So it's worth noting that the harbor and auras do not Cosmet anything for each other We are simply coding based on the same specification That is the OCS bike So The next is the security harp. So we have already recognized that Security remains a big concern within the community community, especially when it comes to the safety of artifacts So we want to do some enhancement from a perspective of the artifact registry Harbor allows you to scan the CVE scan your artifact and Establish the poor policies around this, but it makes a comprehensive centralized view of your For monitoring the overall status of your harbor instance and and associate artifacts This is where the security harp comes in With the security harp you can achieve a more powerful approach to security the security harp provides a overview dashboard making it easier for you to define and conduct CVE search You can quickly identify how many artifacts are Imparted by a specific CVE And who the owners are so you can quickly notify the owner to fix and Adjust the CVE as soon as possible so why we name list as harp is because that we would like to Continue adding more security functionality to this central platform So the CVE search is just the initial step in this jewelry So beside the anchor features We did a lot of enhancements in the tonight one such improvement is in the area of garbage collection So you may know that harbor supports the single thread to remove the garbage from the back end story and But we have received feedback from some of our users from community Who report that the performance was not up to their aspect texture? with Some taking days or even weeks to finish their garbage collection process. So now harbor introduced Multiple deletion this allows you to specify the number of workers to handle the file deletion in parallel and Another key point we have been focusing on is performance and stability Many of our users rely on harbor for their commercial needs and serve the contents for their customer So in the last several releases we continue to improve on the performance especially on the multiple Concurrency pooling and pushing so I can show you some data one of user report that their harbor instance can serve six millions pools per hour and Another user I made on the last time Europe copy-con They told me that in their harbor instance their harbor instant has been running without Without any downtime for an entire year so If you find yourself in a similar situation, we highly recommend you to upgrade to the latest patch Here is the the demo regarding to the Security harp I Adjust a push a radius and then try to use harbor to scan the radius So after scanning you will see the the CVE will be list into the details page of Artifact So now let's try jump to the security harp page So here you can see the overall status of CVE and then you can see the most dangerous artifacts and the most dangerous CVE that you should care about and So in the following a degree is the One amenity search So here you can customize several categories like CVE ID Survivority and in a degree we list all the required information of a severity of a vulnerability So on like you can slide the radius The CVE will be listed belongs to the CVE. You can also select with CVE ID you can specify any ID you want you will see the which artifact will be packed and Also, you can search with severity means higher than the minimum and last You can search With score the here adjust the specified a range from 8 to 10 So then you can see all the results Belongs to this range So here is the overview of a security harp page. So You can drop to the artifact by the link here also so Next let's try to remove the radius Artifact and then art after remove it. I will try to execute a garbage collection So Like I mentioned earlier, we enable the multiple deletion. So here you can specify the worker count to do the Multiple deletion in parallel. So after you specify the worker to that means you there are two Workers are running in the back end to remove files So There's another small enhancement that means you can get the summary in the GC history degrade to a point how many artifacts and blobs were removed and how many space were freed up and by clicking the log You could see There are two workers are running in parallel and each worker has a unique identity So you can see this from the log here So The multiple deletion will accelerate the GC execution so you can try that and so the last one is the Binder message so a lot of users from community ask us to that we want to customize Message to my user when I Maintain my harbor instance. So here you can try to customize message on the the rival on the expiration time so like I just said hello to become and the manner is Clickable and you can also update the the To an info level and disable the clickable So now you can just reveal the Information, but you cannot delete remove it So this is quite useful for for you to maintain your harbor instance okay, so What are we are doing right now? Robert full exercise so It was one of the hardest topic in a community the rubber con was originally designed to access our Harbor APIs, but currently we only exposed the more part of them 16 and below so given you still can leverage API to create a robot with customized scope site It can quiet challenge Especially for those who are not familiar with the harbor API ecosystem Because we have hundreds of Endpoints so to simplify this process We have unified we find the harbor UI to add a friend user friendly tutorial That gets you through Creating a new robot. You can just specify the permission site at your like by single screen So I just have a quick demo here When I try to create a project level robot you you should firstly to specify some basic information and Sorry, so after that you can select the required permission in this stop so you can Select or or you can customize any you want so after that you will finish the creation and you can see the scope in the degree So the last I will try to create a system level robot. So the difference here is that you have to Select the scope for system and you can also select the scope for project to after specify the basic information you can specify the scope for system level We have a lot of actions. We have a lot of resources and you can customize any use anything you want to So after you select the system level you will jump to the project level So for this specific Robot if you want to cover all projects just click like checkbox but if you wanted to specify any specific project just select that project and select the Permission so This is the robot full access So this is the feature will be released in the coming release. That is 2.10 So Plug both scanners back so You may already know that Harbor currently support TV as a building scanner to detect CVEs In theory Harbor can actually have the capability to support any kind of third-party scanners How to do this and the scanner a Developer all you need to do is to implement as adapter based on the block both scanners back the block both block of both scanners back is is the standardized the behavior definition of a Scanner it defines how a scanner should interact with the Harbor to finish the artifact scanning So in our most recent release one or two our goal is to it has this aspect making it more flexible to Enable more capability of the scanners So currently we support one ability scan so next is a bomb the future should be the CIS and mis-configuration so what about date so The metadata the metadata is the description of scanner include capabilities so But the previous version was rather general so in two dot one or two we it has the response to give more specific information like The scanner will tell Harbor that I can scan one ability and I can scan as bomb So with the enhanced response When Harbor issue a scanning request It can specify the exact capability required for the scanner to execute. So and let's example Harbor issued a scanning request not included the both scanner both CVE and Both vulnerability and I spawn scanning. Let me talk about the future. So this is a future fly So everything regarding safety of your artifact is our top priority. I believe so As bomb support is a key area That we want to focus on But please keep in mind that everything is still in the design phase and nothing is not finalized But however, I still wanted to share some basic idea with you Firstly, we we would like to leverage the proper scanner's back to work with the trivia team to and all to generate the S bomb and attach the S bomb to the Subject manifest as a cannot accessory Not I showed in the OSI 101 Support so next we plan to integrate security harp with S bomb to provide more insights For example, a user can will be able to conduct a Package or library search based on the S bomb content and then As and now we are working closely with the travel team to enhance the image scanning performance a list of collaboration will eliminate the need for a scanner to fetch the entire Artifact, but just the S bomb you're not you you may know that the S bomb the size of S bomb is KB, but the the size of Artifact should could be a gigabyte. Yeah So it can save the time and save IO traffic And last we wanted to define some policy around the content of S bomb like Someone cannot pull any specific image with The open SSR SSR version equals 100 for example but Again, everything is in the draft phase so I'm happy to listen your requirement your niece and How would you like to see the integration? and so We are seeking a collaboration contribution from community And so if you love harbor if you have interest in the development of harbor So feel free to join my line through this my sir you can ask question in the stock channel or You can join us the community meaning Thank you That's all As a closing remark, we have a few of the swag here some t-shirts and harbor t-shirts I think as well a few cups if you have questions I mean we are running out of time now if you have questions you can ask your questions and come to a booth We have a booth at the project section of the in the in the conference hall there and you can come after Now to the to the booth and we can you can place your questions there We are there today afternoon and tomorrow in the morning, right? Afternoon as well. Okay. Yeah, so we are in that afternoon. We are there you can come there and We can chat with you and discuss your questions that you have regarding harbor Thank you very much


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And what do we observe? Everything. People, their activities and interactions with each other. The physical environment and the objects in it. And the way in which people interact with them. But everything is a difficult brief to follow and can be quite overwhelming. There are some frameworks that help us. Let us look at one of these. Space. Actors. Activities. What is the physical space like? Who all are involved? What are they doing? Objects. Acts. Events. What objects are present? What are individuals doing? What kind of event is it? Time. Goals. Feelings. What is the sequence of events? What do they accomplish? What is the mood of the group and of individuals? A framework such as this guides our attention towards the many different entities and elements that make up a phenomenon. Using one of these, we can construct a fairly comprehensive and detailed description. Material objects in any physical environment form an important part of our observation. We can learn the many stories and meanings that participants associate with these objects. In learning these stories, we can learn about our participants' experiences. One such work is that of artist and oral historian Archal Malhotra. Archal tells us the story of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan through objects. These are objects that people on both sides of the border carried with them as they fled their homes. She starts from her own home. She learns about the kitchen utensils her grandparents brought with them from across the border. Exploring the stories behind these objects, she learns of their experiences. Through these, she constructs a deeply personal narrative of the partition. You can read more about Archal's project here. Archal's work shows us the importance of being alert to the smallest details present in the immediate environments. But as we know, it isn't only the immediate time and space that makes up the context in ethnography. It is just as important to learn about the social, cultural context in which a phenomena occurs and much of this lies beneath the surface. It isn't quite visible or observable. How do we learn about this? Let us pause and reflect on this question. We can observe some social and cultural aspects of the context. But there is a lot of fit that we might not know of, especially when we are new to our participants' culture. How do we learn about the many invisible or unobservable aspects of the context? Take a minute and note down your response. Some of you may have said we should pay attention to whatever happens while we are present in the context. The rest we cannot observe and so it cannot be a part of our study. This is not entirely correct. While we can only observe that which happens in front of us, we also learn by speaking to our participants and from existing literature. Some of you may have responded that we can learn about the invisible aspects of the context by spending more time there. This is true to a great degree. Often we spend time during fieldwork observing phenomena that are not directly connected to the focus of our study. These observations contribute to our understanding of our participants' culture. For example, I spent time with the coward storytellers even on the days when they were not performing or reciting the coward. Doing this, I learned about the social structure in which their role as non-cowardias was situated. Strangely enough, they were not very keen for me to spend too much time in their village and I learned why. I noticed that when they were not performing, they would hide the coward shrine in their homes. None of their neighbours could know that they were storytellers. Else they would be excommunicated.  To ward off the prying eyes of their neighbours, they even changed my identity to that of a tourist. However, in the presence of their patrons in another village, they would speak of their role as cowardia-bhards with great pride. They would claim to be the progeny of Shravan Kumar, the coward-bearer and the Bhart genealogist. And here, they would introduce me as a researcher. In his own village, the cowardia storyteller hides his identity. In contrast in the village of the patron, he claims recognition, status and identity from his patrons. I gained this insight about the cowardias by spending time with them in different villages and at different times. During the times when they were performing and the times when they were not. This is an important aspect of fieldwork, observing the different aspects of our participants' lives. We observe the many phenomena, people, activities and locations that their context is composed of. We draw connections between different instances of observation. As we do so, we start to see the underlying web of meanings that define our participants' lives. This helps us contextualize the phenomena we are focused on and understand what it means to them. Let us pause for a moment here and think. If we are to try and observe everything about the immediate and non-immediate context, how do we know where to focus our attention? This is an important and rather practical question for ethnographers in the field. Some of you may have said that we need to keep observing. As we analyze our observations, we will know what to focus on. This is an acceptable answer. However, this approach may lead us into many different directions. Everything seems interesting and everything seems important. Observing as much as we can, we may find ourselves buried under our own material. So what may be an alternative approach? As important as it is to learn from everything in the context, it is just as important to set some boundaries for our fieldwork. What to observe is guided and determined by our research question. While preparing for fieldwork, we had learned to break down our research question. In fieldwork, these various dimensions of the research question must guide our focus. We can also use some simple parameters to determine what to observe. We must try to observe phenomena which constitute the everyday lives of our participants, events and rituals we are interested in learning about. The events and activities we observe should help us understand our participants' perspectives of their world and reveal meanings that people attach to a phenomena. If a phenomena adds to our understanding of any of these, we should observe it. In the early stages of our fieldwork, we learn about various phenomena in our participants' lives. As we proceed with fieldwork, the focus of our study gradually narrows down. We start to focus on aspects which are more closely related to our research question. In looking closely at a narrow set of phenomena, we see that there is so much more to them. It is like looking through a microscope. Often at this stage, new questions may emerge. These may force us to rethink the research question we had started out with. We should be open to this possibility. I had started out wanting to learn about the coward as a form of storytelling. But as I got closer to the phenomena, my understanding of it evolved. I realized that it isn't simply about reciting and listening to stories. It is a way of performing a virtual pilgrimage. Perhaps this, more than anything else, keeps the phenomena alive. So as my focus narrowed, I recognized new dimensions to the phenomena, which took my research towards new and interesting directions. I guess you could say that the structure of fieldwork is something like an hourglass. It starts out broad, then narrows, then the narrow bit expands into unexpected directions or dimensions. Sometimes it is not enough to observe our participants from a distance. Sometimes we need to place ourselves in their positions to actually understand their perspectives and the meanings that they assign to the phenomena. This is when we carry out participant observation, which will be the subject of our next session.


Hello my Nakamitachi, this is Joygirl and I want to say from the get-go that no, I don't actually think that Doflamingo is necessarily a better character than Katakuri. Apologies for that clickbait thumbnail but now that I have you here, I do want to discuss my thoughts on how Doflamingo changed One Piece and for that reason alone will always remain the best villain in terms of how he boosted the series. And if you'd like to hear more discussions on One Piece then make sure to like, share and subscribe and click that notification bell for future videos. As the best manga in existence, One Piece has had no shortage in good, nay, great villains. There are fan favourites like Crocodile and Rob Luchi who are as cool as their blood is cold, those we love to hate like Akainu for his crime in killing Ace. Villains turned temporary allies like Buggy or even villains turned heroes like Bond Clay. Misunderstood villains like Big Mom and villains who weren't really villains, terrorizing other people and rather simply protecting what's important to them like Katakuri. And whilst all of these antagonists and the very many that I didn't mention are all deeply unique and fantastically written characters, I think that Don Quixote Doflamingo is the villain who changed One Piece forever. And Doflamingo is indeed a very popular antagonist. When we think of the best villains in One Piece, I'm sure Doflamingo comes up in every fans list as at least one of, if not their favourite villain in the series. Now this could be for various reasons. We could cite his intriguingly exciting introduction, his impeccably flamboyant character design, or his extremely impressive use of powers and abilities. But most of all, it really comes down to his incredibly complex backstory. And without delving too deep into his backstory itself, because I'm sure most of you are already very familiar with his backstory, and I've even perhaps already watched other analysis videos on his complex characterization already. But Doflamingo's past as a former Celestial Dragon, who was shunned from both ordinary citizens and the other world nobles, is a really tragic tale which shaped a young boy into the megalomaniac that we met in the series. Due to the naive decision of his father to leave Marijua in an attempt to live a normal life, which instead condemned the Don Quixote family to persecution, before he was even 10 years old, Doflamingo had to confront complicated notions of his own self-worth, and had to resolve confusing feelings of resentment towards his father, whom he held responsible for his suffering, causing Doflamingo to kill his own father after being misled by the likes of Treble, who only stoked the young boy's misguided feelings of entitlement and hatred. And with the polarization of the Don Quixote brothers, Rossinante and Doflamingo are often pointed out to showcase the age-old question of nature versus nurture. And though that is certainly true, even Doflamingo alone embodies this dynamic brilliantly. On one hand, the contrast between the values and personality of the two brothers suggests of Doflamingo's inherently wicked nature, and yet the question of what would have happened if Doflamingo had a Rossinante for himself like Trafalgar Lord did complicates the equation by presenting the villain as no more than the outcome of a flawed and twisted system. Through this flashback, fans were forced to view Doflamingo completely differently. It added a new layer to each of his actions and dialogue, so that instead of seeing him as simply egotistical and evil, we recognized him for the unfortunate man-child that he was, having never been able to move on from his past experiences. And here's the thing, this was novel in one piece. Doflamingo is the first villain that we were made to truly empathize with in the series. And okay, some of you will argue that that's not entirely true, because we did have the reveal of Arlong's backstory, where the complexity of racial prejudice and persecution shined a new light on the atrocities that he committed against Nami and the Kokoyashi Village. And of course the Fishman Island arc came before Dressrosa. But it was in Dressrosa and with Doflamingo that we were made to feel such a complex emotional connection with a villain, while simultaneously witnessing their terrorization of others and our protagonists. With Arlong, we were made to pity him retrospectively, which added a further beautiful layer of depth to a villain and an arc which were already so well executed, but with Doflamingo, this was undoubtedly the first time that we saw a villain get this sort of characterization, which would cause us to sympathize with Doflamingo and yet still view him for the absolute evil that he represented. Even with Hordy Jones, who was the main antagonist of the Fishman Island arc, and a character whom we did admittedly receive a backstory for to better flesh out his character in the same arc where he was the main villain, but in saying that, the dynamics still felt new with Doflamingo because Hordy Jones' backstory wasn't quite the tragic tale that caused us to feel very emotionally attached to the character. If anything, it cemented his role as the villain even more, which in itself is a tragedy because he too was unfortunately, inevitably a product of the perverse system of racial discrimination and the discord that he creates between people. But nevertheless, if we were made to feel sympathy for Arlong having known of his connection to Fisher Tiger and their shared backstory, Hordy Jones was presented to us as the character foiled to the likes of Fisher Tiger, Otto Hime and Jinbei, and as a warning against senseless prejudice and hate. Not necessarily the character we were to feel sympathetic towards, so even with the backstories given to us in Fishman Island, up until Doflamingo, the antagonists of an arc, in the arc that they were being portrayed, remained relatively one-dimensional. And in no way is this a critique of any of the earlier villains, in fact, Otto crafted this masterfully so that a villain's cruelty through and through made them an even more enticing creature. Such as Rob Lucci, who's passed as a stone-called ruthless assassin, only added to his chilling demeanour. But it's just also true that as characters, they weren't quite as deep and complex as Doflamingo. Even villains who later turn into allies and receive great focus and characterisation is still an overwhelmingly different treatment than what we have with the former warlord. Because at the end of the day, Doflamingo still isn't completely redeemed. This isn't your typical situation where the reveal of an antagonist's past absolves them from their actions, somewhat even excusing their crimes. Doflamingo is created to be a horrifyingly evil character while simultaneously understandable. That is the tragedy, and simultaneously, the beauty of his character. And what's even more, is that this has set a new standard for one-piece villains. Since Doflamingo, we have not returned to purely evil villains who are cruel simply in pursuit of their own goals. Accompanying these are always deep and complex backstories that flesh out the antagonist so that we can't help but understand the character, even if they haven't fully gained self-perception. The next main antagonist we saw in the next major arc after Doflamingo in Dressrosa was Big Mum in Hulkec Island. A great big ball of complexity, intricately woven together to create a simultaneously ruthlessly cruel and yet extremely tragic villain. Big Mum is actually another perfect example of the nature versus nurture debate with the combination of her inherent strength and tendencies as well as her socialization and interaction with others being what resulted in her greatly ironic and contradictory present self. And it is indeed this incredibly messy dynamic that makes her such a terrifying and interesting character. Moving on to the next example, Katakuri is difficult to brand as a villain per se, but in saying that he was definitely an antagonist. And another fantastically written character who albeit wasn't cruel or evil in the same way that Doflamingo and Big Mum were, but no less fearsome as an opponent. And most importantly, it was his rich backstory which added so much depth to his character that made his battle with Luffy one of the best ideological fights that we've witnessed in the series. And then here in Wano, our major antagonist has included Orochi, whom despite remaining one of the most detested characters by fans or the one they feel most indifferent about given the trajectory of the Wano arc, it is inarguable that he too has had a tragic backstory that forces readers to at least accept the monstrosity that he has become. And whilst we've yet to find out the deeper backstory of Wano's main antagonist in Kaido, there is an almost universal expectation in the fan base that we will be getting such a flashback. One that will even perhaps almost redeem Kaido or make us question the idea of what is evil and who is a villain. And it's interesting that we as a fan base have such a staunch and almost unquestioned belief and expectation in such a backstory, given that for majority of the series, this wasn't afforded to for most of our antagonists. For majority of One Piece, villains were villains. Think of Kuro, Don Craig, Wapol or Moria, and even in the post timeskip era, Caesar Clown was a villain who lacked humanity through and through. So then why do we anticipate Kaido's backstory almost as if it's a given? Because of Doflamingo. And this is what I mean when I say that Doflamingo was the villain who impacted the series the most. Because of what we got from Doflamingo in Dressrosa, there is an expectation that our villains will be always as rich and complex. So then now going back to the thumbnail, does this mean that he's better than Katakuri as an antagonist? For some of you, maybe he is. For others, I'm sure he's not. For some, Crocodile will always remain the greatest antagonist. But one thing's for certain, Doflamingo really changed the game of what we can expect of our antagonists in One Piece. And now that you've heard my thoughts, let me know yours by leaving a comment below, don't forget to like and share the video, and please do subscribe for more One Piece discussions. You can also join our joy flick discord server if you'd like more One Piece fun and even become a patron member if you'd like special roles and powers within that server. Thank you to our patrons who help support the channel. This is Joygirl, and I'll see you again soon.


Again, shooters. You're going to vote three magazines, one magazine of ten rounds. Catom is combat arm training and maintenance. So essentially the career field for us is a shred out of security forces. Our main focus is to instruct war-fighting capable shooters for the Air Force. The main benefit for them is going to be the hands-on training of the weapons. I'm going to visually inspect to make sure my weapons aren't taken. And there's different types of learners. There's hands-on, there's visual. We hope to instill muscle memory. The end goal is for them to be able to grab it and be familiar with the weapon that they're being fought at. To be proficient in any weapon system, I'd say it would depend on the shooter and the practice they have because someone could walk in and just be naturally good at it or someone could have practice and practice and still, you know, not get it that first, second, even third try. But the practice does definitely help. So coming out and shooting definitely does help. And then hopefully they'll remember those fundamentals for next time so that way they can just stay proficient with it. I would say it varies between shooters, really. It's satisfying when you see that light bulb click and then you can see their holes on paper get a lot better. And then it's satisfying to know that you did that. You taught that person to tighten up that bullet grouping to make them a more lethal, capable airman.


Okay, so now we just do the next level of the drill I'm just gonna close my eyes and then not ready natural stance, and then when I open my eyes, you can attack with me And it slows down the stop I can stop on the knee Same thing I'm a closer and that's less time to react. Eat the rashes! That's okay, I just went straight in. All right, so friend and let's try a couple of these. Practice a lot practice safe, and then see you in the next lesson


good morning by the way 5 30 in the morning yeah what's crazy I looked up KGF tickets they have them but the Tolugu versions and I max what yeah what idiot did that Joe Biden Joe freaking Joe Joe welcome back to our stupid direction get some Corbin I'm pissed yeah hold on it's still early it's like we got like 13 days so hopefully either seriously we should mistake we should call the theater I will you need to know something yeah I don't know if it's a theater or for the distributor I don't know that decided to do that because it's not uncommon for them and it very well could just it could be that it is kind of and they mistakenly put that there's only one I'm actually well that doesn't surprise me and it's the Tolugu that surprises me that's weird yeah anyways anyway we're here yeah we are here for the new beast trailer I'll never be you be with the mega superstar Santa Pati VJ never be or I want to be I want to be your beast of burden Mick if you're watching let us know he's he's stayed up just to watch for this trailer he loves us but I I kind of started this before it dropped but it just dropped and it does have subs hallelujah always scared yeah always but obviously he's gonna be highly just drop the same day as KGF what both dropping on the 13th and then the next day joysy who's getting a cup of coffee anybody want a cup of coffee anyways let's just get right into this beast with Sonapathy Vijay the massive massive film that no one is excited to see yeah I tweeted that I was over the buck crack of dawn headed over here and somebody commented in all caps let's go multiple here we go America no I said it was tonight Walter white she knows you're a terrorist who government took you know I'm the punjai to come up with a political a building could I get your mother I didn't do more than one time I'm not a bad time There is a good news in my mind. When I tried to hijack, my son was in the accident. Yeah, the wrong guy in the mall. I don't think my son is a normal guy. One of the best. And the most notorious spicy of your life. Peter Rockovan. When he comes in like this, What will happen if I hijack him? So, what will happen to the terrorists inside? Are you scared? Hey! We'll be even more scared after this. Should I tell the minister that we shouldn't do this? Sir, if I tell the minister that we shouldn't do this, Then your wife and daughter will set him up like a terrorist. Even if you were there, you wouldn't be able to do this. That's fast and furious. I'm right there. Because I'm not a politician. I'm a soldier. Oh, nice! There's no way to stop terrorists in a mall. I'm assuming that's when he was a soldier in the military. No, no, no. That's him saying, you gonna mess with my mall? Oh man, great trailer! Trailer is fun! That looks like a lot of fun.  Like some action hero film. That's actually more like, I don't know, maybe it's just because it's a mall and there's a shooting that I think is like an American concept. We have those all the time here. That's not even an action-adventure film. That's just a regular Wednesday here. That's your standard everyday Wednesdays. But that looked fun. That looks like it's a lot of fun. It almost looked like, I haven't seen it, but I know of the reputation of it. You see the fast and furious, like the car coming up in the elevator, you're probably gonna drive it off and slam into a terrace, onto the ground. Also, well cut trailer. The music was great. If that's a released song, I think I may put that in my workout playlist. That was nice. In fact, I'm gonna check if that song is, the Beast song is actually a thing. That was really cool. And it's always, we saw it in KGF trailer and we saw it in this, how massive these films are getting now for Indian cinema in terms of the VFX and how it looks so good. KGF also had literally planes, upon planes that were, there might have been one or two, but there weren't a hundred like there were in the KGF one, in this one. It just looks really, really good and massive for the kind of film it is.  So that's one of my favorite moments is when Rambo finally comes back and he goes into the room and he's, I'm not gonna, you need to see first, you need to see Rambo first blood part two to know what I'm talking about. I don't want to give any spoilers, but you know what I'm talking about. He don't mess with John Rambo because you don't understand who this is. He'll kill your wife and children to make it sound like someone else did it. That's one of the films I've never seen. I've never seen any Rambo's. You know I'm not as professional. I know of Rambo and I've seen, like obviously there's some pop culture moments in Rambo that I've obviously seen. But yeah, I've never seen Rambo. Any of them. Okay, so you've seen Rocky. Yeah, I've seen all the Rockies. I grew up with Rockies. The great thing about first blood is, I've never seen Terminator until like a year ago. Yeah, I remember that. But the first blood, the very first one, is it's actually, it's a pretty grounded, serious drama about a Vietnam vet who's just wanting to be left alone and has PTSD and this cop just won't let him go and keeps scrolling with him because he doesn't like him as a long-haired hippie freak in his little town. And it's really this one-on-one between him and Brian Dennehy who plays the cop. And he has one of Stallone's best acting moments is a monologue he has in that film.  It's so much fun. But you didn't like the most recent Rambo? No, it went off the rails. But this looks like a lot, a lot of fun. A lot of fun. And I know nobody's anticipating this film because it's been out for eight minutes now because at least this is showing 1,200,000 Yeah, I figured there wouldn't be much attention to this. Yeah, probably not a lot of attention. I was actually wondering when we got up, I'm like, don't really know why we're getting up for this one. Yeah, not a lot of people are excited about this one.  This one would, and I do believe it's a Tamil film but this would probably be one that would be a lot of fun to see in theaters. Because he kind of want to see this in a theater. He has massive fan base. I want to see this in any big action film you want to see it if you can in a theater. You want the sound and you want the visuals. And you want the fans. And you want the fans. That makes these style of films even better because of how the audience reacts. As long as you go like, for those of you who don't know my experience with RR, we went on the very first showing in IMAX and we had a beautiful experience with the fans that were there. Had a great time. Two days later, I took Alexis Micah and Johnny and my cousin Mel and there were 40 people in the theater but it felt like there were two. They were just dead. So if you're going to the theater in America please bring that energy. Yeah, come on. Anyways, that was great. Please let us know what you thought about the trailer. We've seen a thought about the VJ film so we need to get to some and also should this be one of our first? Our first definitely in theaters. Please let us know down below.


It's the night before the big race as one of America's premier cross country skiing events gets ready to hit the trails of northern Minnesota. The 36th annual Minnesota Finlandia kicks off Saturday morning at 8 a.m., followed by many other ski events. Skiers from all over the region will take part in the annual cross country ski race. The snow and cold temperatures this winter has made ideal conditions for this year's big event. Conditions this year are fantastic. This is the first year in four years that we've been able to ski the full course. The past three years ago we were canceled and the past two years we've been half course so we're really excited to have full course finally up here in northern Minnesota. Now throughout race day anyone interested in doing some downhill skiing or tubing, Univista will be open for regular business as well. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Baw, what's up everybody, once again it's brand man Sean and we got to talk about something that's extremely important if you really want to differentiate yourself with value as opposed to relying on some gimmicky attention grabbing things with little substance like red hair for instance. We're talking about positioning. Now what exactly is positioning? Well, one of those super basic Google searches where I don't even have to click a website tells me market positioning refers to the process of establishing the image or identity of a brand or product so that consumers perceive it in a certain way. Positioning is a major key when it comes to your brand in the long term. So first I'm going to give you a few examples of positioning to really deepen the understanding but then I'm going to show a video that I think touches on what's really most important so you don't go about positioning and branding in a way that it boxes you in and it will help you from overthinking things. So first in that example we talked about establishing your identity in relation to competition well that's because the biggest thing with positioning is differentiation and if you're an artist in the pool of a lot of artists you're always looking to stand out in some form of fashion.  Having that in people's minds help them go to you for certain things that's that brand expectation. If I want to search for pretty much anything random Google if I want to look for a video that I want to watch YouTube. A second thing that positioning is really valuable for is communicating value. There's so many different ways to do this with positioning. One thing that you see commonly is for example you have regular clothes and then you have high-end clothes Gucci is a well-known brand when it comes to high-end luxury clothing. So if you see somebody walking around in some basic sneakers or basic T's versus somebody who's wearing Gucci you're going to assume more value in the outfit even if you wouldn't wear it yourself. But here's the beauty about positioning. As expensive as Gucci is someone could have some Gucci basketball sneakers but they would not put more value on Gucci basketball sneakers than they would Nike basketball sneakers. Nike has positioned itself as an athletic brand and communicated all the values that are necessary to make you feel good for performance. You want people to think you're better but better at what? My Rapidy Rapper and my artsy person do I sing or my visuals off the chain that's something that you decide. Someone who's done this well in hip hop is Lil Yachty. Now I mentioned the gimmick of red hair at the beginning but that's just attention grabbing that's different from actual positioning. He's done great at positioning himself as for the youth. He has one of the most powerful brands in hip hop today as much as it's slept on. He shows he understands this with his projects like teenage emotions and just a lot of the decisions that he makes. Another big time positioning was what T.I. did when he came up. He didn't really have a chance to be considered the best rapper alive. There were already so many goats in the conversation and people that they were paying attention to but he crowned himself King of the South. That best rapper alive conversation then became irrelevant for him as far as his branding goes because whoever was number one over here didn't change the fact that he was number one over here. Have you ever heard the saying that there's two ways to have the tallest building in the city? One, you can knock taller buildings down or two, you can just build the tallest building in the city which gets received as the more positive route. When it comes to positioning, you don't knock other buildings down. You don't build the tallest building in the city. You just create an entirely new city. It's really what people mean when they say they're going to stay in their own lane. You don't have to be everything to everybody on this channel. I talk about marketing and branding a lot because I mean that's just what I like to talk about. I can't tell you how many times people have asked me to do content on the channel that's not in the lane I want to be in and I say, hey, yo, that's a super specific producer question. Go ask Curtis King, Busy Works Beats, Henny the Business. When people ask me about super deep new watches of the X's and the O's of the business and all that kind of stuff. I always say, hit up, sir, love it. Phase six, this dude breathes that type of information. The most important thing that you have to do when it comes to positioning is you have to make something called a decision. You know what decision means? It means to cut things off. So even greater than I'm going to do this, you're saying, I'm not going to do all this other stuff, which is why a lot of people who try to do everything at once, especially artists, fail to ever get a position and have a hard time finding traction in their brand. And once again, positioning is extremely important because it allows you to differentiate yourself from everyone else, but it also allows you to connect by communicating your values. As always, I would love to know you guys thoughts other than that. If you liked this video, go ahead, hit that like button. If you like it, you might as well share it. And if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button.


The great search brought you by Digikey and Ada Fruit every single week. And Lady Ada's a proud engineer and they'll be as you find everything you need to find on digikey.com. Lady Ada, what is the great search that's awake? Okay, so this is a, let me find one second. Terry. Watching. Okay. So we had a question, okay, this is a great example. We had an example. Sorry, let's go to the computer. Sorry. We had someone write in on, I think the comments to this video and they said, hey, I want to get a panel mount button that's like lit up that has latching action where you push it wants to turn it on and push it wants to turn it off. And you can see here, like the button gets indented, it latches in and we call this like a latching button. As compared to a momentary button, which is like a tactile switch where you press it. And then when you release it, it opens up and they were like, it's really tough for me to figure out how to find. I just want to find a panel mount on off switch like this with a, with a press button and maybe, you know, some sort of light in the background to let me know when it's on or off. Can you help me learn how to search it and I was like, that's a great idea. So we do take user requests. So let's show how to go to digikey and find a panel mount switch and one that has latching on off control. All right. So we're at digikey. So let's look for, let's just start with panel mount switch. So we don't have to search panel mount first, but I figure it's a good, it's always give me a good start to what I'm looking for. So there's key lock switches.  Locker switches are also always going to latch, right? Because you have to mechanically move them up or down, but this person particularly wanted a push button switch. So push button switches are going to include both momentary and latching. And those are the two kinds. Okay. So first up, let's, of course, only look at active. I mean, there's a lot of products and let's, just because there's so many, let's also only look at in stock and non-marketplace just to, because there's 176,000. So let's pare it down to some reasonable number. Okay. So these are some push buttons.  So for sure, there's going to be something here. So the first thing that they wanted was, again, that switch function, they don't want it to be like press and then release, which is called momentary, like it's only on when you press it. They want it to hold whatever they press it. And so that's under switch function. And there's, this is very confusing because there's a lot.  And when you press it momentarily, it turns on. So let's just show you that even though it's not what this person wanted, this is kind of what most people think of when they think of a switch. So these are push buttons and they don't latch. When you press them, the two contacts connect. And when you release, they disconnect again. So off momentary. And sometimes it's also called SPST NL, normally open. So single pull, single throw. So there's only two contacts, they either touch or they don't. And normally open and when you press, they connect. Okay. So let's turn off that switch function and go back. So what we want is non momentary. We want it to be when you press, it changes. And so we want it to go from off to on. Now you might want to know what's off, on, on. That means that there might be multiple modes or might be like multiple switch connects.  So also there's like, why is there off, on, on, off?  But let's assume that either one of them is okay. So these are the two options. On, on would mean that there's two switch contacts, so SPDT. So go between two different throws, which is also maybe what they want. But again, we're going to go with the simplistic, just on, off, off, on. Okay. So this is rid of the, the momentary contact stuff. Some of these look familiar, like Adafruit stocks, you know, stuff similar to this.  It's got an LED illumination ring. That's very nice. This one doesn't. This is a latching push switch from JEDCO. I love JEDCO switches, those are really great. Square ones as well. We wanted one that had an illumination, it had LED. So incandescent is used often, like it's like neon for high voltages, like 120 volts You'll see it often like power distribution strips, you know, you'll have the switch has like a flickering red-orange light that's like an incandescent or neon 120 volt. We want something that's LED. So we're just going to select LED, not incandescent, but let's say any color is fine. Can always be picky later if you want red, green, or blue. Actuator marking. I don't really care about this, but, you know, if you want a power switch labeling on it, that can be, you know, that's a common request. Let's say we want rounded and let's see a couple options. And there's the voltage rating. This person didn't write up and say what voltage rating they want, but of course, if you wanted to run 120 volt or 220 volt power switch, you would select it. But let's look here. Okay. Some nice options. Let's look by pricing. Just let's see.  Oh, so a couple of nice options here. Just a little switch. And then yeah, these are all going to be a couple of amperes. Let's see, LED red. Looks good. This one is kind of nice. This one is your kind of cute looking. This one looks good, too. Fairly inexpensive. These switches, this one has, you know, the illumination within.  But to be fair, all these are very good, like this one might be a really good option if they want a metal button. But I did kind of like the look of these e-switch buttons. They can do three amps at 125 volts.  And then you have a lot of space here to drill a hole for them on the bottom. You can barely see it, but there's a plus or minus for the LEDs. And then, you know, the power switch itself available in red, yellow and green. This is the diagram, and then this is the data sheet.  These are going to last many, many, many cycles and be able to handle very high current and have good documentation for all them. And then, of course, if you need slightly different specifications, you can check those out. But this was my pick for the great search. I think this is a good option. So there you go, dear fellow email writer. Lots of switches available. Pick this one, but there's also many more available for under ten bucks. That's a great search.


Well, we all know that we have set some very ambitious targets back in 2015 when it comes to climate and sustainable development back in Paris and in New York. And we know that the financial sector needs to play an extremely important role in this transition. At the same time, we observe that the current pace of change, the current investment flows are nowhere near what they ought to be. Therefore, here in Sweden and in Stockholm, we have decided to set up the Sustainable Finance Centre, which is exactly intending to facilitate, promote the mainstreaming of sustainable finance. Now, we have designed the centre around two core pillars. The first one is around research, applied research, trying to close the gap between the knowledge that we might have and the practices that we observe in the market in order to mainstream sustainable finance. And the second pillar will be around education and training, basically building the human capital in the financial sector that is required for the transition. What we really would like to see and do is train the current and the next generation of financial professionals so that they know and can embed sustainability in their actions.


I'll always remember folks whatever you think about you bring about whatever you focus on grows Hope everyone's having a great day safety. Make a great night folks Don't make assumptions ask for what you want Find the courage to ask for what you want others have the right to tell you yes And no, but you always have the right to ask likewise Everyone has the right to ask you for what they want and you have the right to say yes or no No, let's take a look at it out here We have that our industrials down 94 Nasdaq is off for eight S&P's down 50 gold contract up 35 dollars trading at 17 99 10 An ounce we get silver up 89 cents $22 40 cents an ounce light sweet crude up a buck $71 92 cents a barrel notes and bonds the 10 year up 26 trading 13104 the 30 Up 13 ticks trading at one is 6205 and and check this out man This is pretty wild you get the 10 year yield folks at 1.41 pretty well King dollar King dollars down 451 ticks trading at 96 oh six euros at 113 The yen is out here at 113 point six zero and the British pound is trading at 133 to one US dollar iPhone numbers 877 nine two seven six six four eight Give us a call folks want to know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&P's Let's take a look at them. What do you have? Well, you made a new all-time high Failed on price. It's not gonna feel on volume because it looks to me like we're gonna have volume up here Last time it's 72 million, but it being only three o'clock they can bang out like 95 million in there and You know, we'll see where this baby shakes out There's no doubt that as soon as they've hit that as soon as I got over the highs today They sold it big time but that being said this is still right next to the highs That's how this thing shakes out and the x100 we go take a look at the three cues little different ball game That's three cues we'd have with the three cues is that you go over the highs of yesterday and then gave it up in spades And then you are going to have let me look at this for a second because it looks to me You gotta be pushing Yeah, we'll see them when it shakes out tomorrow, but what this is really doing One more deal one more day you're gonna actually put be pushing that swing point with volume and that means higher price also pretty wild The gold contract what do we have with the gold contract gold contract out here trading up 34 dollars 30 cents We hit the 1800 mark not that does that mean anything? No, it doesn't what means something is that we have the wide price spread going with us You get the volume going in this year 158,000 contracts You took out the consolidation next step up here is somewhere about 1825 1925 is game. That's the way I'm looking at this market. We go take a look at the silver contract What do we have at silver silver is always hiding more highly volatile and gold Bottom line finally caught a bid it's up 90 cents. You're trading 53,000 Contracts it already had rejected the lower price from the last time we were down there on September 29 That's saying that so was back on the track to get up to the 25 28 and I suspect silver actually wants to go to the 28 dollar mark right now You're 2245 Let's go and take a look at note note and bond market because this is a there is no doubt You know you get the Fed coming out saying okay, we're gonna taper We're gonna bring that down quicker. We're gonna go up our rates and guess what market is buying The bonds that's and we very well might have a small ABC structure on the way up The ten years down 1.2 million out here today Most times when you have this type of price spread you should be banging about 1.7 so it can still use more volume We are going against. Let's see. We're going against here The high is yeah, the highs to 200 million contracts to 2 million is the normal deal When you get a big day like this and good old King dollar So for us metal bulls King dollars helping tremendously out here any type of commodity bulls. That's that's the real bottom line You know, we'll see what shakes out. I mean the lowest swing here is a 95 517 you know my take is that we're coming back to the breakout area and this is where we've been building cars But there's no doubt it's been frustrating yesterday was a big day because yesterday you've got over the swing high It failed to hold price pulls all the way back. That's telling me that you know We have the breakout area that is game Some of the higher volume equities. Let's go take a look at that out here today. So you have apple down seven I must say eight bucks right now My bell finally caught a bid that's up a buck forty eight you get in video at down twenty two dollars That's having a problem out here. Fies is up two dollars. You get Look at that. That's getting smoke black at Holdings that's not 460 you get Verizon up two bucks. So this is really strange man.  Rejected lower price now you get a monster move and I suspect with this this whole move into the the telecoms as well as The commodities folks. This is the inflation move That's where this to me is just shaking up because you can see you know my bell at this price pays an eight point eight percent Dividend okay, so you could get two different things out of this. You could get the aspect of the principle going higher meaning the equity itself going higher plus you get the kicker of nice Dividend so pretty big number inside the nvx 100. Let's go say take a look at the strength versus the weakness out here Strength wise what you have you had Peloton is up by 2.7 percent You got Kraft Heinz up 2.1 charter communications up 2.5 taken away from it Adobe's down 10 and a half percent you get sky works down 9 and a half percent Xilinx is down 8 and Nvidia is down 7 You can you can see it's always so intriguing watching how the Nasdaq likes the trade Let's go to adobe first because this is you talk about taking it on the chin quick Holy cow and four days the stock has gone from 675 to 556 and we have volume and it doesn't know let's see let's put this on a weekly and see what we got up here Yeah, see that on a weekly. This is this is set up for a Come back to the breakout area at least that's 502 you can see this There's no volume in highs I mean none and then you have volume off the high What everyone should be doing right now is this over the weekend folks bottom line You want to look at equities and if you're if any of your equities in the portfolio have volume off the high I Would put a stop right underneath it. Okay, give it nothing volume off the high Most times sets up a very large correction So as we come back what I'll be talking about Newmont and you talk about Newmont finally catching a bid This is these institutions buying this new months up four and a half percent has volume behind the move We have the gold going higher as well as the gold and silver equity stay right there folks come right back


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community Matters here. I'm Marcia Joyner and this is Community Matters. Think Tech Hawaii has started a series of meeting candidates from all over the island or all over the state, from South Point, on the Big Island, all the way up to Nihihau and everything in between. And so today we are going to visit with Ikaika Hase. And he represents district, or he's going to, he's running as a candidate, from district six in Honolulu City Council. District six is the most dynamic district in the entire state of Hawaii. Oh, thanks. Well, it is. It goes from Aya, down to Ala Moana. That includes Chinatown, the palace, the capital, Honolulu Hali, and Ala Moana Shopping Center and everything in between. So actually it actually goes all the way to Makiki? Yes. All the way to Makiki. And it doesn't actually include Ala Moana, but it doesn't include Kaka Ako and Chinatown. Yes. So it's the most diverse, most dynamic in the state. Yeah. It's a great district. It is a great district. So welcome Ikaika. Thank you, Mike. Thank you for coming. Thank you. This is a real pleasure to meet you and talk to you, even though I've known him forever. But at all of my audience notes, at least all of my audience knows that I only talk to dear friends. So tell us all about Ikaika. Okay. Well, I live in Kalihi Valley, and I've been, as you know, I've been very active in sort of in the background and sometimes in the foreground in local politics and community issues for about 20, 25 years. Most of my time has been spent trying to work on the question of how do we make our community better? How do we take care of deep problems in our society and our politics? And I've been trying to figure that out as a college student, as an activist, as a business owner, as a teacher, and as a dad. And running for City Council is just an extension of that. It's about how do we improve our community because every person matters. Well, now tell me about your business. Okay. So I publish, I run a small publishing company. We publish a magazine called Summit. The name Summit comes from the motto of Queen Kapiolani, the spouse of David Klokow, the king. And her motto was Strive for the Summit, Kulia Ikanu. And it was from a particular time in Hawaii's history where we had a sense of being very modern, cosmopolitan, and global, and it was just part of the themes here at Think Tech, which I really appreciate. And for a while I've been thinking how do we get back to this idea that Hawaii can really be at the cutting edge, how we can lead on, you know, in terms of how we see ourselves in the global community. So I created a magazine to encapsulate that idea, and it includes coverage on local fashion designers, artists, musicians, thinkers, business people, people who are really kind of pushing the envelope in terms of what Hawaii can achieve and do in this, you know, wonderful interconnected global community. And now you had a newspaper also, right? Yeah, that's right. We also published The Hawaii Independent, which is more of a progressive and does a lot more politics in terms of, you know, looking at social issues and political issues. Are both of those online, or do you have hard copy? Sure. The Summit magazine is both online and in print, and The Independent is online. So those are your, are there any other business, any other parts of your business other than those two? I used to own an ATM company. That was exciting. My friend and I, we had, I think, two ATM machines, and we had one at a pool hall in Kaka, which no longer exists, and the other one was, it moved around to a few different places, including my uncle's store in Liliha, and it was, it's the kind of business that only a young guy would do, because it was really dumb, like we would show up with bags of money, no, no, no, not bags, but, you know, $20, $20, you know, $20 bills in my jeans to fill up the machine at 11 p.m. at night, at a pool hall. Somebody's going to get you, yeah. Not very swift. Definitely something for a young man. Okay. So you learned that lesson. Yeah. You knew something safe. I like entrepreneurship. I actually think that there's a lot that we can, that we can learn. Thinking about things entrepreneurially, you know, trying to solve problems. It's all about problem-solving, yeah. So then, after that, you, well, tell us about your family. So my wife and I have three children. They are young, and thus, they keep us up at night, of course. Of course. How young? 11, 9, and 3. Oh, my. My theory is that the ages of the children accrued to me, so I feel like I've actually earned their ages on top of my own 40. So I'm tired. Having children, you know. Having children, yeah. Yes. It is. It's a job. But it's a wonderful thing. And the thing that I learned most from being a dad is that it's not about me. It's about other people. Having a child is a whole process of essentially de-centering. I'm no longer the most important person in my life. There are three people, plus my wife, so four people who are more important than me. And I think that's a really important lesson, actually, for a public servant. Because the whole job of being a public servant is really to put the public before the private. And if you look at our politics right now, so much of our problems originate from the prioritization of the private over the public. You know, if you want to have a talk about politics, you can get something that you can just as a president who is putting his own financial interests above the interests of the 400 million American citizens. But even more on a very basic level. We need to look at how do we create housing that serves the general public's benefit. We need to look at how do we improve our public parks and our roads such that they provide a basic foundational benefit for the entire community. So let's talk about your community. You were running for Honolulu City Council. And the seat is held by someone that has been in politics forever. No. Oh, I met her, Carol Fuginaga, when she was running for the ConCon in 1978. Which I am a major beneficiary of. It's because of the ConCon in 1978 that made it possible for me to study the Hawaiian language, for instance, at the university. Oh, it did. Because when I was there, Hawaiian was taught in the foreign language department. Right. And, you know, the ConCon didn't create the Hawaiian language program, but it gave it a sort of sense of being okay. Well, that was before you were born. And in the 70s, when that was on the ballot, shall we have a constitutional convention, it was the renaissance of the Hawaiians, the music, the language, the culture, and all of the 70s was alive and there was such energy. And a lot of those, a lot of that advancement was codified in the 78 constitutional documents. And people like myself, you know, I was born in 78, we've, I've been, I've benefited tremendously from all the work of the grassroots folks like, you know, Uncle Walter and I campaigned for, I call him King John, John Wahe'e as a delegate to the convention. And at the time I was working in the Satellite City Hall and he was at Model Cities, which eventually morphed into Satellite City Hall. So we were out there just enjoying every minute of what could be. So let me give you a tangible example of how I've benefited from 78. Just this morning I was door knocking up in Liliha and I met an older gentleman, a Japanese, a local Japanese man, and he was not familiar with my first name. He had never, he had never met anyone with the first name Ikaika. By contrast, I'm 40 years old. In my high school class there were two other guys named Ikaika, I think it was two other guys. One of them is a very famous last name, Kahawano. Right. Kahawano. I think there's one more. And then, same age as me is, is Council Member Anderson on the City Council. Last evening I was reading about you and it said, Michael. And Ikaika's name is Michael. Is it really? Anderson. No, is it really? Yes. I thought- No, no, no, no, he's- One of his, one of his American names is Michael. Well, we're gonna have to talk with Council Member Anderson. Why- What, what, Michael, what Ikaika, because I thought Ikaika was a warrior. It means strong. Strong. It means in Ilocano, not Pigsaw, that's what I like to tell my constituents. Okay. So, you have Ilocano, Lardizabal- Yeah, I'm half Filipino, quarter Hawaiian, quarter Caucasian. Okay. But I love Lardizabal. Now, if you don't know, when you look at Lardizabal, it makes no sense. If you don't know that that's what the word is, when you see it in print, it's like, what? Yeah. Don't we have a picture of his family, I hope? Uh-oh. I hope we have a picture of Lardizabal. This is from our security cameras, right, Marsha? Geez. Anyway, so, here you are, Ikaika, running for office in this dynamic district. That of it is Chinatown. The oldest Chinatown in the United States. I love it, incidentally. So, but there are some issues.  We want to make it exciting and interesting.  When you come to Chinatown, there's no place to sit. And all of those restaurants, if you buy something on Fort Street Mall, there's no place to sit. And there are no public restrooms. How do you deal with that? How do you? What is your thought on that? So you know, the public restrooms is probably the easiest thing to do. There's, and I've actually had several of the business owners in Chinatown suggest specifically that we create public restrooms to service locals and tourists alike. And I think that's a great idea. What's the hold up? You know, a lot of things really are just political will. It's about us deciding that we're going to do something. And I think we need to make a decision at the council that we're going to make Chinatown more hospitable to our both folks who live here and also people who are visiting. Because I had, when I worked in Chinatown, one Asian man told me, oh, this is wonderful. This is more Asia than Asia. Because now they have shopping centers that are eight stories high and all this very modern and we still look like with the markets and the mamasans. I would go at six o'clock in the morning and I'm the only one speaking English. All the mamasans are out buying vegetables. I love it. So what we need to do is to create an environment where the tourists are welcome. They are welcome now, but again there's no place to sit. No place to, especially older people, to go to the restrooms.  Because that's all it takes is if the community says we do. Everything starts with the community, I believe. And within Chinatown there's several different constituencies that we need to work with in a collaborative fashion. There's landowners that we need to work with. There's the business owners, the young entrepreneurs and the more established older businesses as well. And there's also the residents. And so it's a matter of balancing all these different interests. I think public restrooms make a lot of sense. I think also restoring funding to our state mental health services, which were defunded 10, 20 years ago, restoring funding to those will help alleviate a lot of the problems that we're experiencing with babies. We need to take a break and when we come back, let's talk some more about the other issues like homelessness and what have you. We'll be back in a minute. This is Think Tech Hawaii, Raising Public Awareness. You can be the greatest, you can be the best, you can be the king conveying all your chess. I'm Yukari Kunisue. I'm your host of New Japanese Language Show on Think Tech Hawaii, called Konnichiwa Hawaii, broadcasting live every other Monday at 2 p.m. Please join us where we discuss important and useful information for the Japanese language community in Hawaii. The show will be all in Japanese. Hope you can join us every other Monday at 2 p.m. Aloha. Aloha. I'm Marcia Joyner. We are visiting with Ikai Ka Hase, who is a candidate for Honolulu City Council District 6. That's right. Which is the most dynamic district in all of Hawaii, you know, from Chinatown, residential, business, commercial, and the palace. I think our friends in Kaua are going to be upset when you say that we're better than them. I didn't say that. That's the most dynamic. I didn't say better. It just encapsulates all of the various— Right, it's incredibly diverse. It is. Wonderful. Yeah. However, one of the biggest problems—well, it's not just your problem, but it's all over the state. And that's homeless. It's our problem. It's homelessness. Sure. How do you deal with homelessness? So I just want to say I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't this big a problem. Yes. You know, it is very much a recent phenomenon. And for me, when I rewind, it seems to me that it got really bad under the administration of Mayor Hanuman. And I think it might have just been that the symptoms were more visible because he began the process of expelling homeless people from the public parks. And at the time, myself and a good friend, Andre Perez, we did some community organizing around supporting the homeless folks who were being kicked out of the parks. And you know, I think if we were to look at why things are as bad as they are, there's a few kind of antecedents, a few root problems. One is the defunding of many of our state's mental health services. Another is our drug problem. And for that, we need to invest in enforcement and support the work that HPD is already doing in that regard. But the third one is also, for me, it's actually number three, number four. It's affordable housing because the fourth group that I think a lot about when I think about the homeless or the houseless is that is all of the people, local people, who are one paycheck away from being homeless themselves, you know, within the Hawaiian community, for instance, there are many people that I know personally who they don't really have an address. Mm-hmm. They move between families, between family members' houses. And it's because of the... The cost. If you're making $10 an hour, you can't pay $1,800 a month for rent. It's cost, but it's also the fact that we have, thankfully, still some strong extended families, such that it's possible for people to stay with the families who still own property or have, you know, stable rentals. What about these monster houses? You have them in your district? Sure. Sure. Yeah. What about them? I mean, they serve a purpose, but it seems to me that it has just grown without any thought to it. I know they serve a purpose. Right. Because they're filling some market requests for housing. However. However, you know, if they're breaking our laws, then we need to have the mechanism and the city needs to have the tools to adequately enforce our laws. They also create real obstacles for their neighbors in terms of depleting sewer capacity and depleting parking. Oh, nice. Yes. So, my campaign is developing or we've published a proposal for better parking management on our on-street parking. And a corollary to that is a plan that would allow for existing parking inventory that is unused. So, for instance, our shopping centers at night are empty. Most of our churches are empty six days a week. Our parks are empty. Schools are empty in terms of their parking lots. If we have a system in a very kind of systematic way through permits or leases to enforce on-street parking, but make it easy for people to lease on-street parking, I think we could make our communities, especially our older communities in places like Luleha or Nualuanua or Pahua or Fort Manageable. Yeah, where I live, we have three and a half monster houses and the streets are that narrow. And I don't know where they're going to park because there's nothing close, like you said, a church or park or anything. Nothing close to them. So I love your idea. Thanks. I don't represent Hawaii, though, unfortunately. But listen, there's a long-term trend, though, that we need to do with our island, which is finding ways to densify urban Honolulu and allow for our older neighborhoods to be less dense and for our ag lands to stay in ag. We really need to do a better job of balancing the city and the country. And I think the best way to protect our country is to make sure that the city is a really good, dense, walkable, pedestrian-first car, third or fourth city. And to me, that's the real trick, is how do we build more affordable housing in our urban core? What about Kakaako? Because that was supposed to be affordable and now it's out of sight. What about Kakaako? Yeah, what about Kakaako? So, you know, there's good things that are happening in terms of the urban design in Kakaako. You know, the new Whole Foods, for instance, is one of my favorite places to sign with because there's just lots of people. It feels very vibrant. Yes. The problem, though, is that a lot of the condos that are being constructed aren't for us. No, they're not. They're not. That is exactly why I said, what about Kakaako? Where do our people go? And so I think we need to do a better job at the council of really holding the line. And this is, again, where it becomes a political decision. It is. We need to make the political decision that when a permit comes across our desk and it's not building truly affordable housing that we're going to use as a home. We're going to call names, but when you look at our council people person that gets so much money from the developers and then approves these things, that just seems so wrong. Yeah. You know, and recently I've been thinking a lot about this problem of how do we build a lot of housing and also how do we balance the interests of, like, the development community, our labor unions, and our general public interest of the general public need for affordable housing. And I think we need to reconsider the decision that the city and the state made a few years ago to not build, you know, city and state-controlled public housing. Because we've gotten to a particular model, you know, where we have to work with developers and sort of control the developers to do the housing that we want for the public, I don't think there's a reason why we can't have the public just do the housing that we need for the public. And I would like to at least, you know, have a serious public conversation about that. I think you're right. I would hope you're right in any way on that. So what I've been thinking about a lot, Marcia, is public housing in some cities is really awesome. Yes. Like in Vienna, for instance, I've been reading online that the social housing, they call it social housing in Vienna, is really, it's the favored housing for all social classes, both the rich and middle class and the working class. And that's really interesting because here in Honolulu, that's not the case. I would love for us to invest in our public assets, like housing or transportation, such that those become the default. They become the desired solution for people thinking about housing or transportation. You know, if you look at a really vibrant city like New York or London, everyone rides the tube, everyone rides the train. And that to me is a sign of a really good city that invests in its public. Because I live exactly 17 miles from this building. And in order to get here early in the morning, I have to leave before 619 because the window closes at 619. Wow, it's very specific. It is. It is when your life is controlled by the, and then it takes, then I can get here in 20 minutes. Okay, after that, it's a half hour to 40 minutes because of sheer volume. And from Y and I, two hours to town. So the idea under Fawcett, when they said the second city, was for people to work out there as well as live, that hasn't happened. The working out there, and when I moved to where we are, everybody says, why do you want to go out there?  And now it has grown up so that here's this traffic is issued. So we have a great transit system, we could make it better. So the more people would ride, put more people on there. We have what, I just learned this term a few days ago from someone. Apologize, I can't remember who it was. I'll talk to a lot of people. Yeah, of course you do. The term was dense sprawl. And I hadn't heard this before and said, yeah, that we have density, you know, like I live in Kaliki Valley, it's incredibly dense, but it's still sprawling, you know, it's, you still have to get into a car to get milk. Yes. And to me, that's, there's planning, there's zoning, transportation design that we need to rethink in order to make our city more habitable, more livable. One last thing, you live and work in a neighborhood, well, several neighborhoods in that area that were the original neighborhoods of Honolulu. And when you have people that have grown generations and generations in those houses, that they've owned that land forever, people now are aging and living alone.  How do you protect those people? How do you, what is your vision of protecting those people? Because there's lots and lots of them.  There's a very specific thing that I think we need to do regarding property taxes, which is to limit, cap the increase that the city can, you know, the increase in the assessments. Cap it at a number that is comfortable and commensurate with things like social security, you know, which, so my understanding is that Congress can increase social security by 1.5 or 2% per year. I think that that should be the natural cap for increases in our property taxes. There's a gentleman in Honolulu, Mr. Sarikaku, who, his idea is you have a cap, but then you also allow for the city to maintain on its books the higher market-based assessment, assessed value. And you keep that value only in the books. And if the property is sold, you treat it as a lien. And at the time of sale, the city collects that higher value. Great idea. It's an interesting idea, Mr. There's a few people. So I feel like I'm having like this really slow, well, conversation in the community, because people who don't like that idea, but... But what I need you to do, this is just for you. I need you to look into the camera and tell us why we should vote for you. This is your ad now. Okay. So my name is Ikaika Hussie, and I think you should vote for me because I've dedicated my entire life to our community and there's a lot of work that needs to be done to make the lives of our local families better. The people of our community matter to me, and that's why I'm running for city council. Well, thank you. And I approve this ad. And just to remind everybody, in Hawaii, the primary election is the most important. I know the rest of the country seems like what? The primary is August 11th. Early voting has already started. So remember Ikaika Hussie, Honolulu City Council District 6. Aloha. Thank you, Marsha. Thank you. And we'll see you next time.


Welcome to the anxious morning where each weekday morning we take a look at ideas concepts and lessons designed to help you understand and Overcome your anxiety for more information visit us at the anxious morning.com. I have a confession to make I'm growing tired of the word reassurance. I hear it probably 100 times every day in our community You're seeking reassurance. This is just your need for reassurance Reassurance seeking will keep you stuck Now these are not inherently bad or wrong statements But I think we're collectively suffering from that disease where we use a word without necessarily always understanding what it means So let's clear this up Assurance is not a bad thing It can be productive especially for someone new to the recovery process and new to disordered anxiety Access to accurate information and clarity about what's going on is critical Knowing that anxiety can feel like a heart attack or that fearing a psychotic break doesn't make one possible is a needed step early on Getting assurance is learning Providing assurance is educating Technically in our community, we'd probably call it psychoeducation and it's usually a major part of therapy at the start of the process Things start to veer into the wrong lane when assurance seeking becomes repetitive and automatic There's a reason why we call it reassurance When you've been told 50 times that your anxiety symptoms are not dangerous and you want to be told 50 more That falls into the realm of non productive reassurance seeking When you've learned that anxiety symptoms are normal and varied But you want to continually talk about one symptom that you find most frightening That can become unproductive reassurance seeking This does not help us and can actually impede our progress and even feed the disorder So when people are calling each other out for seeking reassurance, sometimes it's not wrong However context matters We have to be mindful of the bad habit of immediately yelling reassurance in every situation and in response to every question Not every question or comment is reassurance seeking Who is asking the question? What stage of recovery are they at? How much exposure have they had to the concepts and principles of recovery? Has anyone tried to teach them yet? What is their particular situation? You see how many questions there are here? This is the one reason that social media is not therapy and can never be We don't know context. We don't actually know each other We can become familiar with each other through repeated interaction, but that still isn't enough Sometimes we are seeking excessive reassurance and having that pointed out is helpful But not always this can be a tricky balance to strike at times Let's at least start with keeping an eye on the difference between assurance and reassurance If we can stay grounded in these concepts We minimize the risk of misappropriating and misapplying a key idea in recovery when talking to ourselves and to others If you're enjoying the anxious morning and you'd like to get a copy of the podcast delivered into your email inbox every morning Visit the anxious morning dot email and subscribe to the newsletter If you're listening on apple or itunes take a second and leave a five star rating Maybe write a small review. It really helps me out And finally if you find my work useful and you'd like to help keep it free of advertising and sponsorships You can see all the ways to support the work at the anxious truth dot com slash support. Thanks so much