Good morning everybody or in other parts of the world. Good evening. Good afternoon. I know where Shanti is. It's the evening, right? Yeah, it's 6 p.m. It is 11 a.m. Here in Atlanta, Georgia on the east coast of the United States So and I'm so excited to have you back Shanti because we're gonna talk today about something that a lot of you guys asked us to to elaborate on and I'm so excited you did ask us to elaborate on this because this is Fascinating and that is spider Medicine or spider magic, whichever one you want to you want to call it and the reason why this is the first time you're tuning in to This channel first of all welcome second of all if you're like why are they talking about spider medicine in our last episode That Shanti and I filmed together we she talked about being bitten by a black widow And I said I had been bitten by a brown recluse and these are two very poisonous spiders But they they kind of give you what what you said transform or die They're kind of the animal that's gonna kind of bring your feet to the fire Spiritually and I think I know as well as you Shanti studying in India and studying in these older cultures of healing and Transformation a lot of times sicknesses injuries all that kind of stuff are not what we perceive them to be in the west They're actually a welcome thing because they force you to change and so That's what we're gonna start with today, and how are you Shanti's like how's everything going with you in South Africa? I'm wonderful. Thank you. It's warm. The weather is still warm. We had a very late summer So very happy things are still Cool. We haven't had any major crises in terms of anything except What we're hearing about in the Suddenly South Africa It's like no guys trust me. You do not want to get involved Very funny Did you see that I might have to believe some of these works out guys, but I'm just gonna say it anyway Shanti, did you see clips from the state of? last night Where he know I didn't he talked about the you but he called them the Iranian people What is going on, I mean are we talking an old clip here or we're talking Night so he I think it was last night someone can correct me down the comment section if I'm not correct on that That he gives to the nation and he was talking about the you the situation and instead of calling them You call them the Iran Wow, that's what you get when you order and a president That's basically what happened it was like a mail-order bride. I was mail-order president, so Yeah, so it's really a joke. I mean come on. That's a joke. I mean, no, I mean it was he was the state of the I mean I I'm under the oppression that James Woods or somebody else because I look anything like the and we know for a fact that the Tyler Perry studio down here in Atlanta is being utilized because they have a On there.  We see all that stuff going on It's trying to wake people up about you got to be careful about who you vote for but anyway, so basically our president Here in the United States So apologies to both countries. Most Americans do know the difference between you Apologies to the people of these two countries. I promise you again. Most Americans do know the difference between the two Funny that is funny. That is funny. It really is funny when we get off.  It's time. It's time that the pertinent finale needs to happen So but anyway, um as I've been talking about we've been talking about this lot Shanti and our friend Kevin Edwards Have spoken about this like you know We are going into this new timeline and so for all of us It is literally about taking accountability of your own life your own vibration and if we all did that collectively I think we would move move faster into this new timeline and that kind of brings us back to the spider medicine or spider magic Because again guys when you hear someone gets bitten by a brown recluse or black widow Those are serious spider bites. Those are not just spider bites that you can ignore like they have to be treated They have to be it's literally like You know the big big girl spider bite when it comes to to those kind of bite So so once again tell people a little bit about if they weren't here for the last episode Which guys I will place a link to the last episode down in the description box below if you missed it But what happened again? You were bitten by a black widow, right? Correct? Yeah, I was bitten by black and it's on my left hip actually and and again I always talk about Each part of the body really means something you know and when we get I mean I that's also one of the courses that teach as well It's like understanding How the different chakras relate to different body parts and again we understand each of the body parts mean something So at the time I had breast cancer in my right breast And I was bitten by a black widow spider on my left hip and I've still got a scar Maybe two inches long on my left hip there, which is one of my badges of honor I don't want to ever lose that one because it's a constant reminder of Instant change that I had to go through and literally How I knew because I felt this thing I was lying in bed with my partner and I was like what the hell I felt I was half asleep jumped up Headed and there it was and I knew it was that spider because it I got it and it was dying And I said what the hell kind of spider is this and he said to me oh my gosh That looks like a black widow and South Africa black widows are not very common at all so I was like no come on and then I Turned out that it was but before that and and I said to this and I just I held it and I knew I was like do or die right now, and I just took my one hand and I just Literally pummeled energy into my hip and I stopped the spread of whatever it needed to to be spread It was like something I did automatically. It wasn't even a thought process. It was just something. I knew how to do and Then as I held it there. I said what is the lesson you're trying to teach me and It was a female and she said to me transform or die and It was just in that moment and of course I'm an animal whisperer including an insect whisperer and every whisperer and I knew at the time that I just had discovered the Lamp in my right breast, which I refuse to have treated As well through medical traditional medicine and stuff like that. I just knew I could fix it myself and I Understood that I was very angry. I understood that my My issues with a male my own male energy, which was obviously very imbalanced Was creating issues with my male partners and other males in my war partner one partner in my life But previous partners as well that I've had and male energy in general I did not like them very much at the time in my opinion They were all idiots who were here to hurt women and to destroy the planet and that was my perception Although I had a very loving father very, you know As I've said before my father was known as the gentle giant, but obviously as a husband to my mom They had their issues which I don't want to go into but you know That's that's my mother's story to tell if she ever wants to tell it But for me as a father, he was amazing and to all my other siblings as well I know he was an amazing father, but as my mom's partner. He certainly had his shortcomings, you know, so of course I would then Perceive men because I always say, you know when when a child is born the two people that you look up to is your mother and your father So your mom represents the feminine and your father represents the masculine So one would kind of mold your ideas and opinions on men and women based on your parental unit so for me obviously observing that Gave me that idea as well about what men were like So there was always a great contrast for me in the in the partners our church, you know, and they were either there Spiritually and emotionally but physically they were in a very far way away They were working away always away from home or had jobs or whatever and if I was close to them Physically then emotionally or spiritually they were miles away So I could never find that balance for me, you know And I was not quite at the stage then that I that I am now in understanding how my own attraction around that Created that So this gave me the understanding of what that was about So through this spider medicine, but also I want to just say When Hannes my partner was killed and that was at the end of 96 I got another spider bite and I must I don't know what spider that was on my right Like on the sort of it was more like on the side not but but more like on the side of my leg sort of touching my butt type of thing and I remember I was driving from Johannesburg to Cape Town with my parents at the time was over Easter April March April and It was this worst drive and it's a very long drive. It's like 1800 or 2000 kilometers So I had to sleep over to friend on the way there and then it was just like so so so And I remember going and having to go to the doctor as well and literally have them Slice it open and do whatever it was I was in tears I was crying crying crying. It was so so painful So at that time was the first major spider bite I got as well spiders often tend to give me a little nip here and there Well, not anymore actually not since the the black water, but that was also a massive Transformational time for me was when I got that one and it couldn't have been very poisonous I don't think although any spider bite is not nice, you know, but The very poisonous one was the black widow for sure. Yeah, but yeah We have a lot of down here in Georgia Like people are very familiar with black widows and then I know like in South Africa you guys have obviously have a lot I've been to Africa twice been to South Africans and Bob way and all the times we'd have to sleep under like the the nets and stuff But there are similarities because down here in Georgia We do have a lot of spiders a lot of snakes that as a kid We had to learn rhymes about poisonous snakes So we would be able to spot the poisonous ones, but but black widows those are like no joke Like those are serious spider bites if you get bitten by it, but it's almost like, you know, you know You're saying like oh, you know, it's not it's not it's not normal down here But it's almost like when you are that person that it's almost kind of like an anointing Nature's annoying. Yeah, even though we see it as something.      It's poison. It's venom, but it's almost like no you've been given almost an elixir from spirit in that sense That's truly what I felt, you know, I must say the the first the first bite I got I wasn't as familiar with that energy as I am now because it was literally Hannes's death that catapulted me Into doing the work that I do today So when I look back I can completely understand what that medicine was as well You know, the right side is really the masculine side of the body.  I mean to me that the spider's web is it's like the web of light It connects everything and everyone. Okay, you know, when you look at it Now it's gonna catch the its prey as well. I look at it in a in a different way as well I see this connecting us all this we are connected Through this thread this this web of love and this web of light So yes, we all connect through that web and it's how we connect with each other So for me that that's a that's a big big symbolism of it So to really take action Move in the direction that you needed to move in and you are Part of the divine web. So there's nothing to fear. You've got everything you need It's all within you Yeah, so for me that was the initial the initial Anointing of the spider medicine. I didn't I wasn't like spider because you look at the movie spider-man, right? Was the spider-man also bitten by a spider or something? Yeah, and he like and then he was able to use like he could throw the Things out like yeah, then he I was thinking you're not climbing up walls and stuff. So don't worry about that I was not I was not doing that thing. Uh, wouldn't that be cool? Yeah, so that was the initial anointing as you say of the spider It's so funny because I told you in the last episode that when I had I didn't even realize I think I might have told you this off air when we were filming on Monday or something that The brown recluse spider bite I got was literally right at my Saturn return And I had to go back and think about that because at that point I was not familiar with all of this Under a deeper understanding of sicknesses injuries all that kind of stuff And I was like holy crap that happened right around the time that everything shifted in my life And so it was kind of like an anointing And I actually because if you guys I saw the last episode I got bitten on my left butt cheek The spider had gotten into my jeans and I like literally Yeah, it got into my jeans. I had a wealth of my boy. I know it probably was a boy spider. Yeah He should have just taken me out to dinner Very very naughty boy.  I started hallucinating. That's when I was brought to the doctor and that's when they They saw that wealth I don't know how it came up But in any way and they it was it was a spider bite They had to lance it as well and cut out the part and I and it was so painful Even though they put the lidocaine in or the or whatever it's called the numbing stuff. I think lidocaine's for the mouth It didn't it didn't do anything.  You know, I was like, oh my god.   I had to go stay at their house for a while but um I still have that scar there and and this morning this was what I'm that was 12 years ago So this morning before we were filming I like actually I have a long mirror I actually like dropped my pants and like examine that scar again just to be like, hello, buddy There you are because yes, it was it was a badge of honor and it totally that area that time totally transformed And really brought me into deep deep place of self self healing I'd already been practicing yoga and all that kind of stuff, but once you go through that side and return and shit gets real Um, that's when I started to go through my real dark night of the soul and really trying to pull off all that darkness And so I understand what that brown recluse was doing It was it was transitioning me into a path that I needed to go on and so it is an anointing in a sense It is something that shouldn't be looked at as bad or scary, but an opportunity Um, because I love that transform or die like you're gonna have to transform or die Take your pick the choices, you know Well, uh, that's part about the first one. I got as well after harness was killed Absolutely that was my satin return too. I was 29 years old So harness got killed at my satin return So that was my satin return and also that that transformed that moment of transformation because spiders are all about transformation You know when you look at they've got eight legs eight is the number of transformation So it really is transforming into a greater place And I know there are so many people that are terrified of spiders and they will kill them at the first opportunity I want to tell you everyone who comes into my house Knows with my gardener comes in works in the garden the first thing he gets told if he was a new guy You do never kill a spider in this in this place.  Absolutely But we do not kill anything So it's a great rule in my house that no spider gets killed. No, nothing gets killed. I don't even kill ants, you know I'll just sweep them up and throw them outside and yell at them because they're irritating me because they're always in my cat's bowls So so, you know, that's that but that's about the extent of it. So Definitely, you know, that satan that that moment of transformation and I and if ever anything Was it was a catalyst for my transformation? It was harnesses death for sure That was absolutely the path the the path I took at the time that that I could be a victim and be another another statistic in this country of someone who suffered crime and Be angry about it for the rest of my life or I could Choose to use that as beautiful medicine for myself and then Take those steps and move forward and and go with the healing rather, you know Because that's what it is.   Okay You're welcome to stay out of the wall, but you do not run everywhere when i'm sleeping. Do we have a deal? And i'm not a I I don't kill any spiders either. I we I know this is gross But here in Atlanta, we have a problem with roaches like especially if you live in the city You have you have I put I take them outside like I put them on a little paper and take them outside Like I don't I don't kill bugs ever.  It's not my place to take that life Um, but yeah, and even after being bit by that spider. It's it's so but I love that I was speaking about this yesterday It's kind of like we go through this debate between dharma and free will dharma and free will and I actually believe in both Because what dharma is giving you are these obstacles are these obstacles these events that happen in your life That then give you the choice Like this is going to happen to you. How are you going to respond to it? If you don't mind explain to the viewers what dharma is because it's more like your fate, right? Yeah, it's like your life path. Yeah. So um, so yeah, you see you hear the term dharma spoken about in the bug of agita Really and that's kind of where we first hear this the idea of yoga too is the bug of agita And and if for those who are not familiar with the bug of agita It's basically arjuna this warrior is standing on the front line of battle and he's having like a meltdown Like a come to jesus moment temper tantrum because all of a sudden he's looking across and how apropos is that for what? We're living through right now in our timeline. He's standing He's looking across the battlefield and he sees his teachers his friends his family People that he has loved in his life that now he has to go to war against and so he has this like Mental breakdown and the avatar of god that appears to arjuna is krishna Who was govinda as a child the one that had the universe mother saw the universe inside of them And krishna is basically the whole bug of agita is krishna having this conversation with arjuna Basically telling him to toughen up buttercup. Like this is you're a warrior. This is your dharma.  He's agreeing. Um, and so I can get it. That's so cool He's kind of giving you and you know when people often think of like yoga is just being all light and love You have to then go back and look at the bug of agita because no Part of finding that light finding that unconditional love is going through that dark night of the soul and so obstacles come And so it's so amazing. So your dharma is your life path Your dharma is basically the courses that you you sat down before you took this life and sat with god and your Your spirit guides and you created a course list of things you were going to experience as a human And then when these experience when these opportunities happen your free will comes on how you react to that And so um, so it's like like I always say like I had the habit of dating really awful men Throughout my 20s and I ended up getting myself into a very abusive relationship with a narcissist. I almost lost my life one night I got one night and that situation could have Sent me on a tailspin of again hating men You know really having some issues and yes, I do have some anxiety from that obviously, but instead I Took myself through major trauma therapy I realized at that moment that the reason why I kept going getting into these bad relationships Was because something wasn't healed in me And I knew that that that issue started in childhood. I knew where it started And so I it took me a while. I found a great trauma therapist. I know people are funny about therapy Some therapists are really really good. This trauma therapist was very Very educated in yoga and the eastern philosophies and did talks to me about past lives And we did emdr therapy rapid eye movement and through that trauma therapy through my own practice of yoga and really facing that Really sitting there and saying Why did I get myself in this situation? What needs to be instead of saying it's his fault. It's his fault It's his fault men are awful. What am as shanti says, what am I doing to bring this into my life? What is not healed in me? What is what am I what am I need to learn from this? And I tell people all the time that situation that I was in with this man that Literally almost lost my life one night first time I had ever really called 911 was this situation Was one of the you could see it as bad But for me in my perspective now was one of the most amazing things that happened to me because it sent me Down a path of healing of real healing. Yeah And being having that courage to actually go through that So that's where the free will lies.  Because if you again look at the eight legs, okay Um, which is and if you look at the number eight Turn it on its side. It's the symbol of infinity So it brings in that balance Where you now get to balance and understand that true creation Is embracing the shadow aspect of who you are as well Understanding that you are drawing that shadowy aspect of in our particular instance the masculine energy Which we ourselves had not healed. So we therefore then Would draw the aspect of unhealed men or partners And always our perception remember It's always our perception of that into our lives. And what are we going to do with that? Are we just going to then get the imbalance where we see everything as bad as negative and become these vigilante woman that go out and you know Whatever or do we understand that that is part of us because when we embrace that part of creativity As I said in one of our previous talks as well We come here to understand what we are not Okay, we through consciousness when we out there in with god and In the heavenlies or whatever you want to call it in the in the in the great consciousness We understand that we just love We come here to experience And I don't believe there's an opposite of love, but for layman's terms, let's call it fear Okay, fear being false evidence appearing real Isn't things like Spiders and snakes of our greatest fears snakes represent. I mean snake is the kundalini snake, right? Yep Coils up the spine when you are ready for transformation when when when your body fires the codes and kundalini says, okay We're ready for this and then she then coils up the spine Reigniting all our nerve endings and our neurons in the brain and reigniting the kundalini within the cells of our body that Therefore gets us ready for expansion and therefore transformation so snakes and spiders actually have a very similar energy within The human consciousness if we choose to see it that way they can also be our death They are both very poisonous as well and both very transformative At the same time so it's really about If we look at the leg it's about weaving Our own reality We have the opportunity of weaving our own reality Into that beautiful web of light where we connect through telepathic beautiful Consciousness to all our beautiful family and tribes and friends like for example. We have I mean yeah We are here in georgia. I would like to I'm him Too complicated different terms, but here we are we are able to connect and we have Weaven our beautiful web of light so that we can meet and talk and have beautiful conversations Or we can catch everything in the web and just kill it because we just want to eat it and consume it and And and I mean if you look at the Harry Potter movies look at that big spider Wasn't that the creepiest body ever saw that huge thing? That just you know spins everyone up in a cocoon and Paralyzes them and you know eats them at their own will that you can do as well You know if you've got spider medicine, but I choose not to do that So we can have it's it's about finding the opposing forces of that eight first the eight eight legs Okay, when it's on its side, it's the infinity sun and the human energy system looks like that Okay, which moves through the chakras in that way. So you are either going to then Balance yourself embrace creativity weave weave yourself another reality and understand that The dark is as important the dark is as important as what the light is because without the dark You do not know your light. You do not understand that contrast between having the choice To live or die I had the choice to live or die in that moment and I've had not just that I mean I get very close calls with car accidents for example racing down the highway You know and not looking where I'm going at certain times and God only knows how I am still here and science accident. I've never had an accident Yeah, so, you know in that way so we choose all the time, you know, we choose all the time And I think that's so important It's so interesting. I you know, we've been reading this Magdalene book and in this book Megan waterson the author talks about the darkness and the light and she talks about the Unconditional love that is pure source, but she talks about the womb and how our being is created in the dark You know, we think about going back to the womb where it all begins. It's in darkness It's in darkness. Wow all of a sudden the light never thought of that Wow, that is a beautiful beautiful concept because it it's true And it really is about integrating the darkness Of who we are into the light, right because the darkness is simply the absence of light That's all darkness is it's the absence of light Yeah, she also in one of the sections that I recorded yesterday for next week.  I mean I was saying yesterday We've talked about it. My the former yoga that I practice is a very Intense form of yoga. It looks like Cirque du Soleil sometimes It's it's demanding a lot of the body And so um, but one of my original teachers david gree He taught me such a valuable lesson And I don't even know if I've ever told him that like he changed my perception Because he would get so excited So in the micellar room you would have these like 22 year old girls who are athletic fit They could do handstands easily put their leg behind their head easily and that didn't seem to really interest him that much Okay, next posture, but when an elderly man would come in who was overweight and couldn't touch his toes David would get so excited. He'd be like, okay Now we have something to work with now. This is where the juice is this resistance this friction these opposing forces This is where it gets interesting And so I have taken that I would watch him and I'd be like that's such a Interesting perspective and so it taught me as a teacher and as a student myself when this resistance comes Whether it's in my practice Or what the practice is for to help you for life That's where the juice is That's where there's something interesting the gold is there not the easy stuff the easy stuff is boring That's boring But the it with the obstacles the hard stuff That's interesting. That's where things happen. That's where magic happens And I am so we have a student um at Oshawa Atlanta Who has several palsy and this student will never probably never finish primary series And we have students in the shala that are practicing third series super advanced series But I will I always tell the new students the beginner students the most advanced student at our shala is the student That has several palsy because he already has all these obstacles He's coming in with in the practice and he's got a great attitude. He works hard And that's what's interesting and that's what's beautiful is to To watch him practice Is because well, yeah, it's gorgeous It's he's taken that what we would perceive as something bad or or annoying and he's used it as a tool as that magic To find himself and he is literally one of The most in that mice or room. He is like the hardest working student in there. He never complains He he always has a smile on his face And and I yeah, it's it's if we could change our perspective of things like this and see them as opportunities Instead of something that's you know bad luck or or just awful Then how much better and how much cooler would humanity be? Exactly Everything is an opportunity everything, you know And again, I was just uh, you know as you were talking just reminded of another thing with the spider magic It's all about interconnectedness, which is about the web again, you know That that connects us all as I say the web of lights lights So it connects us or we are so interconnected. We are so intrinsically interconnected There's nothing that can stop us From connecting with each other if we choose to all we have to do is open up our heart And we really have to make it. So maybe what we should do is a is a whole series on manifestation as well Yeah, that's really Yeah, let's do that. Yeah, I can't be thinking on that too. We could bring her on as well because yeah Yeah, is she doing something on manifestation? Yeah, she's reading a manifestation book on our channel We could bring her into it too and talk more. Yeah That would be cool Carry on No, that's what I say because I think this is where we need to be looking now as humanity is not just that Oh, let's look at all the bad stuff that's happened in the world and boo-hoo and the matrix now. Let's take our power back Well, you know what we don't realize is we are manifesting all the time anywhere Yeah, you know, you get up in the morning you go to the kitchen you manifest in a cup of coffee But it's something that's it's become so like a ritual for us that we don't realize we're doing it, you know Um, and we don't realize that we're manifesting all the nonsense that comes along as well So as we open up our hearts to a different reality and a different consciousness So we train ourselves and teach ourselves how to manifest differently as well I've got one of my one of my programs is on conscious creation, which is the manifestation So it's really teaching people how to Tread out a different pathway in your brain how to perceive things differently. So it's really it's the it's the energy first Action second not action first and then it'll be all right. No, I've got to feel so all right within me and Man and I've got to like be so excited about the fact that even though it's not there yet It's there. It's there. It's there And that feeling, you know, and it's like I knew when when we began Aquarius Rising Africa Oh boy, there was not a cell in my body that doubted What we were doing was the right thing.  I woke up saying this isn't the youtube channel I've been wanting to start a youtube channel for a while, but hadn't quite known which direction and I was like This is it called up morning. I said we're doing this. He went absolutely so, you know Without knowing where it was going to head and what direction it was going to take I knew what I wanted to expose initially and I also knew from past experience how When you start something and your heart's in the right place It's Source just opens up every door that needs to be opened up. Yeah, and I mean look at this year and a half later Yeah, we are having the most incredible.  Yeah Oh, wow. Wow. I mean that lady is The exposure she is bringing and I want to tell you it's like literally She's only just scratching the surface. Yeah, and we thought we heard all the horror of horrors. I think She said to me shantel. She called me shantel She says you're gonna see we're going down some very deep holes now and I went okay We're right there with you And just go to see what this is all about for us and for our viewers and what have you But I know that this is what I'm born for Yeah, oh for me and meeting you And meeting you, you know people like yourself and having these amazing discussions that we can have through this beautiful interconnectedness this beautiful web of light that we are that we Spun for ourselves so to speak not to catch people and eat them but to maneuver along and Use it as a as this beautiful grid that we navigate our way That we all understand that we are part of this one beautiful huge collective consciousness And that we are all created in the image of god and that for me It's a very beautiful thing to understand and to get to know so it really is about having When your heart is in the right place when your intention is in the right place god Or source whatever you choose to call it has your back in the most beautiful ways So that for me It's super amazing when we when we are able to do that. Yeah, do you know when I started my channel? I thought for sure This was like two years ago. I can't believe it's been two years I thought for sure for the rest of my life. I was going to be a mysore teacher and I had just Um started my own program Where I was the the main director of the program and I I it was in the suburb So I would drive every morning to the suburbs. I would teach mysore drive back That was my life ashtanga yoga was my actual life and I thought for the rest of my life This is what i'm going to do. I'm a great philosophy teacher I'm a good mysore teacher like this is my career and then when we were forced to lock down to shut down The studio where I had my program was a new studio and so they that studio could not survive the lockdown So that meant my program was done and it wasn't my choice And so again that you talk about the youtube channel when that happened it was like, okay What am I going to do now and I started my channel and I'd been thinking about doing a channel as well But I was just going to be more of a storytelling channel For this just for fun just from stories from the south and then eventually I got to the point Where it was like I need to use my research to expose the truth because part of the yoga too is seeing the truth of the illusion And if I but it's amazing you're right It's like if you follow your intention if you follow your gut and what you think you should do instead of just wallowing and despair The universe is all god is always going to guide you and be with you and I am so grateful right now Like I'm so freaking grateful to have this platform Because of people like you and because of people that I've met on this journey that I feel like I've known for life I mean, I know we've lived lives together before shanti, but like, you know, it's that reconnected You know, it's magic. It's the fact that we can We know these these these applications these platforms were probably created for more nefarious purposes But we are using them for good purposes We're using the tool of the internet to reconnect everyone and and to and it's even the people watching right now that I even my mother said to me the other day She was like, I just can't get over how kind all the people are in your comment section And I was like, I know mom it's like all the they're so kind and like They're part of this too and that's that web of connection not just for those that have that our faces are out there But for every person who leaves those comments too, it's all a part of that Soul connectiveness that in that um, yeah, it's beautiful It's beautiful and you you know and and it's it's true what your mom says, you know There are just so many there, you know for every night again, you're going to get your little trolls and You know who are in a bad mood and just feel like taking it out on someone But the majority of people Are beautiful the comments and you know, it's such a beautiful little tribe that we formed, you know Over the over the past 18 months or so that we've been going and you you get to you get to see them You get to recognize them you get to know them, you know, they become regulars Then we become friends on facebook and then on twitter and you know stuff like that So it is absolutely amazing To see how many beautiful people are in this world from so far from japan I mean there's people from japan on our channel, you know, are lots of americans Australians new zealanders, of course south africans and stuff, but all across the globe It's just beautiful to meet through this beautiful Web of light this interconnectedness This understanding that we all have we want we want the truth We want healing we want our world to be a better place the support we receive, you know, and you know when we expose such dark nasties that that happen, you know, um, especially with the overcomers People that have been literally to hell Literally to hell And love it's not even a place that your soul fries in eternally. They've lived On a physical level the worst possible abuse the worst possible experiences um The craziness that they must have in their mind because for me i'm an empath for sure And and i literally feel i mean i i often say i don't need to have experience what you've experienced But i totally feel your emotion. That's what makes me a good healer because i feel it But the gift i have is i don't take it on But i've got to say with a lot of this stuff. It's hard not to take it on I've got to go and have a lovely dip in the ocean i get on my wheel and i was around I've got music i take an epsom salt bath Sometimes i just weep and weep and weep Just at just the the the pain and the sadness of what people have been through But at the end of the day, it's so beautiful to wake up and i'll go and check the comments in the channel and What have you and the encouragement we receive and the gratitude that people have for the work we do It's just amazing and i want to just say thank you to everyone who's there because I don't think our viewers realize how important that is that we have them as important So thank you guys every one of you For sure all the all the great comments that i read on my channel And i'm sure we all have same the same viewers I think we all share of the same the same viewers are for our community. You know it's all this We're all doing the same thing But um when i see the comments you guys yeah You have no because we do get those trolls and sometimes it does get daunting when your face is out there I'm shanti and i both have experienced some real scary stuff Just because our face is out there where it's become a little too personal um With uh, yeah, so so we are taking a risk and so when you guys who leave these beautiful comments It it makes it worth it because that's why that's why we're doing this We're not doing this because you know, we want to we want to roll around the darkness We're doing this because we know humans are the light too And you guys are part of that and and part of making this world the world And you know it's interesting you talk about feeling emotions because i know in the law one it talks about when we Go in from third density to fourth density what happens in fourth density Is that they have what they call like a collective memory bank? So when once we're in fourth density, it's not going to be necessary for every human being to experience every Situation because we will have a collective memory bank where we will be able to tap into somebody else's experiences To experience that lesson for ourselves as well And i think that's what we're starting to do with the the empath and the telepathy and actually Feeling um when you see somebody in pain or you hear their story actually being able to bring yourself So it's usually you don't even really do it on purpose. It just kind of happens where you bring yourself to that place We're Experiencing that emotion with them and and and that that's beautiful You said that shanti because I think we are going because we are we all are connected We all are from the same light. We all are so so why not be it, you know, that's we're not separate We're not alone We're not You know and and that's a beautiful thing that we're able to share those experience share joy too You know being able to share in somebody else's joy to hear your friends You know got a good job or got proposed to or something and actually feel that happiness Pure happiness for them, you know, like how beautiful is that how amazing is that and I will say too on my channel I notice my the viewers Being kind to each other Like talking with each other and like how beautiful is that like that you guys are amazing everybody watching right now You you all are rock stars and you're just a much part of our platforms as we are, you know, so so yes It's beautiful. It's beautiful and I actually want to know I'm going to ask this of my channel if anybody watching if you've ever gotten um bitten by a pretty Rockin spider that that sent you into kind of a tailspin as far as like transform or die And and I'm not asking you to show pictures of your scars if they're in inappropriate areas You can use your imagination Maybe team I but every time a new person has had to see me naked. I have to explain what that is on my ass So I would love to know the same actually I was actually going to ask the question early on I'm glad you asked it. So has anyone out there experienced one of these Doesn't necessarily have to be a spider. Maybe even a snake bite that you know anything that has taken you close to Leaving the earth plane where you've decided to stay and use the medicine You know, I think a lot of us don't realize what the medicine is But maybe now that we've had this conversation Um, it'll awaken that in other people as well as to what medicine They were given or they've been using with my without maybe even realizing that they've been using it So that'll be an interesting an interesting converse You were anointed by if you're anointed by spider or snake.  So we had to learn these rhymes as kids So no snakes poison a snakes and we have the copperheads here the rattlesnakes So yeah, it's it's so even if it's a snake bite if you were anointed by a snake Let us know because how cool is that like it's it's cool like oh cool Like I actually got anointed by this This this in sector or reptile or whatever it is that you know, it was it came at the right moment to give me what I needed That's a full of sugar makes the medicine go down. It was medicine It's um, you know, it's it's and I know in the ashtanga practice We call our practice our prescription that it's your prescription And so sometimes these things that are interesting there They're just your prescription to get you to the next stage. So Well, shanti, this was so fun. And let's let's do this. Let's do the series. Let's let's get I know on your channel We're going to be doing at the rock of the catacomb series. So let's do Yes And you're doing well on this wednesday every second a week with us anywhere There's a whole yoga and that that as well, but I would love to do this. So yeah, absolutely Let's get offline and let some you guys let us know too down below if that's you know We'll get Catherine involved as well. You know, let us know because this is the the whole new world We're we're we're moving into and these these secrets these that's not really secrets But these practices have been around for a long time. And so now where we're finally embracing them Um, humanity is finally finally takes humanities. We're a little slow sometimes, but we're finally like Starting to figure it out We we're out here on the on the leading edge and the cutting edge of this kind of stuff So whoever's uh joining us Standing side by side with us Please, you know, let us know and whatever ideas you guys have for us to do Shows on and stuff like that love to hear about it. And let's do it Or or you guys go and subscribe to i'm gonna obviously put all of shanti's links down in the down in the description box below Of course, you guys know her for query from aquarius rising africa But they have a new channel called solutions by aquarius rising africa Where it's going to be taking a bit of a different approach to Solutions versus what you mainly see on aquarius rising africa where it's like a lot of exposure Right. Um, and then i'm also going to put your links to your courses below as well because If you guys are looking for an incredible healer to help you again The healer is the conduit for you to start to so if you need someone personally just offline without anybody around One on one shanti's your girl. So I will put her links down in the description box below for that as Well, and I feel like I need to give a special shout out to morne because morne is literally one of the most beautiful human beings out there You and morne are like Like just so powerful together. And so What an incredible opportunity to have the two of you in our lives. So I thank you for that Thank you so much bros and yeah, absolutely huge shout out to morne Um, you know, he's he's been on my journey part of my journey for 12 years now In this life anyway Many lives before No doubt about that, but he really is one very special human and does a lot for humanity He's fantastic with especially kids and animals. I mean just such a very special. So So, yeah, very blessed to have him and he'll definitely be joining us more and more on these, um, I mean Discussions channels, I don't know what we even call it. But um, yeah, oh sure Yeah All right guys Well, I hope you guys are having an awesome wednesday and just keep your head up guys because literally the best is yet to come One of my favorite quotes ever is and probably i'm gonna paraphrase it is How cool is it knowing that some of your best days haven't even happened yet? I love it. I love it. That is cool Yeah, your best days haven't even happened yet. The best is truly yet to come today be that day for all of you All right, love you guys Bye


Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another mid-journey tutorial, and this one I want to show you a mid-journey prompt tool. I believe this is one of the best prompt helpers or prompt tools. It's called Doonshot, and if you want, you can go to the website. I'll put a link in the description below. It's prompt.noonshot.com, and here's what it is. It's a free prompt helper. So basically, if you're thinking about you want to create something, but you don't want to go through like a reference list like this, I'll link this as well. This is a reference list, and it's all these different artists, all these different styles, and it's great, but it's kind of, you know, it loads slowly, and it's kind of hard to see it all at once. Well, look at this.  You can just copy the prompt, and we can go right into Discord, and right into the bot, and Command V, and drop that in there, and I'll run it. But here's the thing. Here's where this tool gets really, really good. You can now go ahead and look at all the different things that you can do to it. So if I want to change the style, right now we're using the default style, but if I want it to be, you know, an 8-bit, like as an old school Nintendo game, or if I want it to be blocky and chunky, or, I mean, there's all of these different styles here, and the reason why this is great is because it gives you a visual cue as to what it could look like, or what it's kind of drawing from. So you don't have to flip through that reference list. You can go through it here. So let's say I want to go with something like, I don't know, what would be a cool, what's a cool looking style that's a little out of the way? Let's go with hell, okay?  Also, it's got text weights or prompt weights, so you can go ahead and add the weighting to this.  You can decrease it. I'm just going to go with that for the heck of it. You can go and click, and you can just work your way through it. Lighting right now, it's got standard lighting, but if I wanted it to have, let's say, I don't know, something like an electric arc. I mean, electric arcs. No, let's go with something like dusk. It's dark and it's kind of, yeah, and it's hot down where we're going. Okay, so we've got, all right, so we've got dog reading a book with different lighting. You can change the camera angles. So if you wanted to go with like a panorama versus a DSLR versus, you know, pinhole camera, creepy, creepy, creepy, et cetera, et cetera, wide angle lens. All of these are visual cues here that you can just go ahead and click on. And if you decide that you like it, like, let's say I want this to be, you know, what are we doing? Some sort of reddish color. So let's go. I want neon red color. I just click on it. It adds it automatically and it just adds it to the prompt. This is why it's so fantastic. A couple other things here. It's got artists. So if you have a particular artist in mind, instead of having to type out forward slash in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, you can just click this button. It will add it to the prompt. So I don't know. Let's see. I don't know. Maybe we want to run it with, you know, which one of these would be really cool. Let's go with Dolly. Sure, we'll put Dolly in here. So we're just making this crazy long prompt here, but we're just customizing it as we go across. If you wanted to be made out of different types of materials, like let's say you wanted to be fabric or carbon fiber, you can just keep adding it a couple other things as you can adjust the quality. So if you wanted to be super detailed, it does use a little bit more resources, takes a little longer, but you can click on that and you can also click on stylize. So you can have, like, you know, really stylized with giving the program lots of latitude versus non and also size. So there is an aspect ratio option here. So if you want to go square vertical or standard TV film, do note that it does not appear to have 16.9 or 9.16 for vertical. So it's not quite perfect, but it's still pretty good. And what you do here is once you've got something like this, you take the prompt and then you just go over to Discord. You copy the prompt in, you hit enter and you see what you get. Here's the one I ran earlier with just standard dog reading a book. And this is actually really good, if I'm being honest. Like, this is great. Mid Journey does a great job without any adjustments, just putting in a prompt. But here, let's see what we get here when we added in all of this stuff. So what do we got? We've got dog reading a book, inhale with electric arc lighting. It's dark, it's dusk, it's Salvador Dali style. We've got a neon red color palette. I mean, yeah, we went over the top a little bit with this, but let's see what we get, right? We're going to probably get some pretty interesting results. So here we are at 93%. Yep. Okay, good. Let's just click on it. It's done. Presto. I mean, look at this. We got this neon arc red dog Dali. Like, these are really cool pieces of art. They may not be exactly what you're looking for, but you can of course run variations on them, iterations on them, and you guys can dial in the prompts that you want in Mid Journey. I hope this tool helps you guys out. I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


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Item number SCP-439 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures Specimens will be kept at Armed Research Site 45, Hazardous Lifeforms Wing, in a sealed, locked, 38-liter, or 10-gallon Type-G containment unit with connected oxygen supply. Specimens will be fed through Feeding Tube 16A with approved nutrient substance X-F. Handling is available to level 2 personnel and higher. In description, SCP-439 is an insect of unknown origin, somewhat resembling a grayish, semi-translucent forbicula herbicularia, common airwig, approximately 2.5 cm in length, originally located and obtained in mainland China and the ██████ province. No other specimen has been found as of yet. SCP-439 is relatively harmless when encountered on safe terms, aside from the ability to deliver a firm, painful pinch with its abdominal forceps. The true hazard of this creature poses lies in its habitat construction and reproduction, which is initiated when the specimen enters the mouth of a sleeping human. This will only occur with humans. Other lifeforms have been presented to SCP-439 and have been uniformly rejected. Upon location of a suitable host, the specimen will hide itself in the immediate vicinity and wait until the victim has fallen asleep. While it is able to determine the state of sleep is unknown, but it has shown to be accurate in ██████ times out of ██████. Upon entering the mouth of the new host, SCP-439 will travel down the trachea and take up residence in one of the victim's lungs. In approximately 48 hours after awakening, the host will complain of chest pains and shortness of breath, followed shortly by abdominal cramping. The tightness in the chest will increase as well as a favor until the host is incapacitated. It is around this time that the onset of fibro-displasia of Cifikin's Progressiva occurs, or FOP, a disorder that is normally genetic in nature that promotes growth of bone and to muscle tissue. Since the production of new bone growth is so rapid, the procedure is also quite painful for the subject, with new bone spurs occasionally protruding through the flesh. While this is happening, the host will become compelled to seek shelter in a darkened and closed space, such as inside household cabinetry, closets, or heating ductwork. Within the first three days without treatment, the host will become completely withdrawn in a mobile due to extreme pain and new bone growth coupled with difficulty breathing. At this point, the subject's body will begin the final stage of transformation into a bone hive. Having concealed itself in its new home, the body of the host will huddle in a fetal position. Entire portions of the skeletal structure will shift along ██████ until the host's body is roughly spherical in nature and reduced to ████ its original size. New bone protrusions will continue to grow, and if possible, anchored the body permanently to its new location. The skeletal structure is almost completely unrecognizable, having been converted to a round CAGE to protect the internal organs and colony. At this point, transformation is complete. The original queen that entered the host will have produced twenty to thirty thousand offspring that function as workers, drones, and warriors in a typical insect hive hierarchy. Since only the queen is capable of reproduction, the rest of the hive's inhabitants are fortunately harmless, safe for large, strong, abdominal forces of the warriors. The interior of the original host is nearly unrecognizable as a human body. Certain organs are removed and used as food, while others are modified by the worker insects to serve as egg incubation chambers. An ingenious method exists of using the host's own digestive system to process pieces of organic materials collected by the warriors into a nutritive slurry that feeds both the colony and sustains the host-hive structure. After four to six months, a new queen will emerge from within the ranks and choose a drone to mate with.  Warriors and drones are unfit to survive outside the host-hive, and warriors will abandon the site, wandering away. Their task is complete. No food will be consumed by warriors that isn't nutritive slurry produced by the hive of origin. The new queen will venture out, fertilize, to search for her own new hive. Incredibly, the trauma of evacuation is not what finally causes biological activity to cease within the hive, but starvation. Addendum ████ in a particularly disturbing development, Dr. ████ performed a range of experiments to determine the extent of damage to the host's body after it has finished the transformation into a hive. While it had been previously discovered in autopsy that portions of the brain are hollowed out to serve as food, others are left intact, presumably to regulate what bodily functions continue. During the last round of experimentation ████ took the opportunity to examine a hive at close range shortly after transformation. While the eyes are eventually reached and used as a food source, at the point ████ performed her examination, they were still intact, opening the eyelids and examining them in the flashlight ████ discovered that the host's eyes followed the beam. Experimentation was terminated and no further testing is scheduled.


Your Excellency thank you for your time. Yes sir. What is your message? What would your message be to to the country? On the life of President Rupea Buzanibanda All the statements have been made Obviously, he was not an angel. He had his own feelings. Just like all of us But if we learn to dialogue honestly with one another as we have experienced during the days of mourning Probably you can get somewhere as a country Dialogue, genuine dialogue between all of us. Those who were in government before and those who are In now, but what we are seeing is hypocrisy Where people say good thing and they do bad things And if we can expand the hypocrisy from our lives And just say it as it is between now and going into the future. So that's what we are learning from the Abana's legacy People have said good things may those good things become part of us. Thank you so much


Like many of these inventories, it begins with the wearing apparel of the deceased. The basic thing is coats, jackets, shirts, trousers, hats, boots, drawers. Those are valuable items. You can see that clothing are valuable. They're valued here in 1804 at $30. You can look at the list of how things are valued and get a sense of what were expensive things and what were cheap things. Many inventories are like this. They're simply a straight list. If you go room by room, they list different rooms. They say in the parlor, there was this. Those are usually the inventories of the most well-to-do people because they have a lot of rooms. This man lives in a one-room house, perhaps with a loft upstairs. So you have to picture the inventory men coming through. And as you read their list, you can get a sense, to some degree, not just of what Thomas Springer may have owned, but of how it may have been arranged or organized. As you go through, you begin to see a place where they tell us certain things about particular belongings. I'd ask the question, what's really surprising? Well, one thing is this man owned one thing worth $40. It is a piece of furniture, which is a really expensive item, and that's an eight-day clock. One looking glass worth $1 and an eight-day clock, $40. So that's kind of interesting. That's a luxury item. And it's certainly a luxury for a farmer to own a clock. You don't need the clock to know when to melt your cast. And that's a sign that this man doesn't live too far from Wilmington, where he's very likely to purchase this clock. And he's interested in what is a scientific piece of equipment and an expensive one. There's a point, as you go down through the list, you can learn about... Unfortunately, you get to read something like this in many inventories. A lot of books, 50 cents. And I'd love to know what the books were. My guess is the Bible. What else? I'd love to know what he was reading. But it does suggest people in this household were literate. It doesn't simply say a family Bible, which might be there whether people read or not. This suggests some people are reading. You certainly get a picture of a few of their behaviors. They have tea cups and a tea table. So they're probably partakers in the afternoon or evening ceremony of tea. There's a point where it seems they've gone from the house outside. After a lot of queen's wear, which is ceramic wear, you start finding saddles, saddlebag, blanket and bridle, axes, mall and wedges, sledges and a crowbar. Here maybe we've moved to the barn. Maybe we've moved to an outside building of some sort. Two spinning wheels. There we're getting a sense, possibly, of what women in the Springer household may have done. Maybe that tells us a little something about Elizabeth. The most shocking thing in the list that takes you up short is, we find listed right among the artifacts people. One Negro man named a something-something ace. Nine years to serve, valued at $180. Below that, one old Negro man, a slave 66 years old, named Will, valued at zero. One's first response, I think, is, as I say, just a shock. We've been listing horses and bridles and now we've got people. And it reminds us about this time period that that's a routine. This is a possession. But there's also something else in this list that's interesting. One of these people is a slave. This is in Delaware in 1804, where slavery is really dying out. It's not as profitable as it is to the south. But here's the Negro man named Ace, nine years to serve. And that suggests to us that what Ace did was what a lot of African-Americans did, which was that they negotiated for their freedom in the years after the American Revolution, and that he had some form of agreement with the springers, that he would work for a certain amount of time for his freedom, or he would work for a certain amount of time for a set amount of money at the end of it.


So, I was talking to this girl, and she said to me, you don't know how to talk to girls. And I was like, what? Well, let me think about that for a second. How does it usually go? Jamie, could you maybe do them now? Oh, I'm sorry, what was that? Well, because me and my sister, we were talking like three weeks ago about it, and she agrees that... And she thinks it's a really good idea, and I agree, and I think we should really... I don't know what we're talking about. What we're talking about, my sister thinks it's a good idea. I mean, I don't understand what the problem is. I don't understand what the subject here is. Oh, I know what the problem is. When I said what, I didn't mean I require further explanation. I meant I just literally didn't hear the sentence you said at the beginning. So could you repeat that? The first sentence from the conversation? Why don't remember everything? You think I just go around holding quotes in my head all the time? I don't remember everything I've ever said. Wait a minute, wait a minute. So you can quote back to me everything I've said in the last ten years, but you don't remember what you said two minutes ago. Well, of course I remember. Oh, yeah, that thing you remember. Can you just say it now?  Why are you making such a big deal about this? No, no, no, no, no, not a big deal. I just want to know what the sentence was that I didn't hear. Right before I said, I'm sorry, what? I just want to know what you said right before the beginning of the conversation. Just that part. I don't understand why you're making such a big deal. Why are you making such a big deal about this? Okay, forget it. You never listen to me. You never listen. Yeah, I guess I don't. I really don't know how to talk to girls. What's wrong with me?


I feel Pacific Island nations can lead the fight for climate action by declaring this climate emergency. It is an emergency. At the moment I believe we still have not acknowledged the level of seriousness and how it impacts our lives. If we do not declare it as an emergency then we are not going to act as if though it is an emergency. My name is Gladys Habu. I am a very passionate climate advocate here in the Solomon Islands. One of our favourite things to do when we go back into the villages to visit this island called Kale. It was home to my grandparents decades ago and it was so beautiful. White sandy beaches, lots of trees and wildlife. Kale has been one of the really important islands that we have been tracking. The island was 50,000 square metres in size. It decreased in size significantly to the point that was completely wiped off the map unfortunately. These aren't little sand caves with a few shrubs on them. These are large islands with dense rainforest vegetation that people would live and camp on. It was unbelievable that a whole island could disappear in less than a decade. The loss of Kale is a major push behind all the climate advocacy that I do today. Communities have been lost. People have been displaced. Our islands are sinking and with it not just a loss of biodiversity but our identity and you know I would say our people are fighters because despite all this loss we are still out here and waking up every day facing the consequences. They're building things like stone walls along the coast to protect the land from further erosion. They are also building their homes on higher stilts. We are doing what we can. Globally sea level rise is really being driven by human induced climate change. These extreme rates that we've seen in the Solomons over the last couple of decades are exactly the sort of rates that we're predicting the entire earth will experience as an average in the latter half of this century. So these people in the Solomons haven't caused this problem. Their footprint on the planet is tiny. Their per capita emissions are minuscule. And that is what hurts me the most because we're not the ones who are entirely responsible for what is happening to us today. If we are to solve this crisis then we need to actually go back to what's causing it and reverse that to help our planet. In terms of what can be done it's really simple. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and that will in turn reduce our committed sea level rise. Gladys and I have worked together for sort of eight years now. Oh man, honestly I acknowledge Dr Simon Albert for helping to really amplify my individual voice but also that of my community and my country. We've been able to do that through large media organisations in BBC and CNN. We did a documentary. I am so humbled to say that this documentary was then used by BBC as a teaching material for secondary schools in the UK. There's an increasing level of skepticism questioning the science. I believe these human stories explaining the real life impacts. This is not some projection of what may or may not happen in the future. This is now. Sometimes it's just horrifying just to see how things are changing. On our doorstep in the Solomon Islands fellow human beings suffering as a direct result of our high per capita greenhouse gas emissions. So hopefully those sorts of stories will try and cut through some of this politics and divisiveness and really start to convince the broader public that this is an issue that we need to take some powerful steps on. Even in the climate spaces, COVID has distracted a lot of climate action activities around the world but making the most of the virtual world during this pandemic has helped us to engage with more young people I would say. I've met a lot more young activists in this journey than I would have ever imagined without this pandemic so it has worked in our favour in that sense and it has also taught us an important lesson in that even with such a pandemic in place we could still come together and discuss on actions that we can all take together as a community. As part of my climate advocacy I will be participating in the upcoming high level environmental ministers meeting and we are having environmental ministers come around the Pacific to participate in this virtual conference to discuss climate action in the lead up to COP26. Part of what I'll be doing is to really emphasise my call to Pacific Island governments to declare a climate emergency. My good ministers, act now. Declare a climate emergency in your respective countries before entering COP26. Let us genuinely express to the world that this crisis is indeed a matter of life or no life for our Pacific people. Thank you very much. So we've got the ability to turn this ship around but we need to make some powerful decisions now. There's no other roadway to minimising these impacts on people like Gladys' family but also ultimately on my family and your family. There's still a lot of people in rural areas that don't quite understand why these things are happening to us and so in a way I'm also helping to educate my people about what is happening and what our rights are in this space and what we should all be fighting for together as a community.


Hello everyone, welcome to our talk on building and managing a centralized machine learning platform with CoupeFlow at CERN. We'll be talking about some work we've been doing in the last few months and a service that we open to our users. Hello, my name is Dan Gulubovic, I am a Computing Engineer in CERN Cloud team. My focus is on machine learning infrastructure services with Kubernetes and I will present this talk with my colleague Ricardo. My name is Ricardo. I'm a Computing Engineer also in the CERN Cloud team. I focus mostly on containers, networking and more recently GPUs, accelerators and also machine learning and I'm also a member of the Technical Oversight Committee of the CNCF as an end user representative. So today we'll give a talk about service at CERN but just a very quick overview of what CERN is about. So CERN is the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and we build like large scientific machines that allow us to do fundamental research. The largest we have is the Large Hadron Collider, you've probably heard of it. It's a 27 kilometer per meter particle accelerator that is 100 meters in the ground and where we accelerate two beams of protons to very close to the speed of light and we make them collide at very specific points where we build large experiments and you see here CMS, LHCV, ATLAS and ALIS. So I have an idea of the size. You can see the genie airport here on the picture. This is an image of the accelerator itself in the tunnel and you can see all the magnets that help us bend the beam so that it circulates in the accelerator and this is a picture of one of the detectors, the CMS detector compact molten solenoid. It's in a cavern 40 meters by 40 meters, also 100 meters in the ground and this is where we make the proton beams collide. This detector and the others as well act like gigantic cameras where we take something like 40 million pictures a second and the result of this is a large amount of data that we need to store and analyze. We collect and store more than 70 petabytes of data every year and this is after a lot of filtering. One detector like this can generate something like one petabyte of data per second. So that's why we are constantly looking to new technologies that can help us handle this amount of data. So the main motivation for our service is the expanded usage of machine learning in high energy physics. Different groups at CERN work on various machine learning projects in order to achieve scientific goals of the Large Hadron Collider and we know that setting up and managing machine learning infrastructure is not an easy task and currently most groups at CERN manage their own machine learning infrastructure. So we have four main experiments which all branch to different groups and that means that a lot of people use their own machine learning infrastructure. We want to offer a centralized place, a centralized service in order to reduce physicists' efforts in infrastructure and to allow more time for scientific research. One of the main applications of machine learning at CERN is in particular reconstruction. So during proton-proton collisions, short-lived particles are created in the detectors. For example, Higgs boson which leaves 10 to the minus 22 seconds and to capture the events of the short-lived particles. We measure energy depositions in the detectors. Detectors can be considered as 3D cameras which leaves the opportunity to use convolutional neural networks. Besides convolutional neural networks, we can use graph neural networks which are also very good at spatial representation. So the example would be to take the output of the detector and let that be an input to a network and the output of the network would be the ID of the particle, whether it's a Higgs boson or a muon or a pion, for example. And now lots of research is going towards graph neural networks. Another application is in detector simulations. So a large-hedron collider is getting upgraded. There will be even more data in the future and more sophisticated and faster solutions are needed to support the upgrade from various perspectives, one of them being simulations. So simulations are performed so that we can accurately estimate what is going to happen during the runs. And the traditional methods are Monte Carlo simulations. But recently 3D guns have started to be more commonly used. And they have proved to have a similar performance to state-of-the-art Monte Carlo and they offer 20,000 times faster simulation. And also with 3D gun, data can be simulated on the fly, which may reduce the need for storing the data. So our goal is to set up a platform to support the end-to-end machine learning life cycles. We want to be able to extract data from the detectors to spark or HDFS and operate on that data. Then we want fast iteration services, such as notebooks, because many users use notebooks daily, at least the notebooks are a good starting point for every machine learning user. Then for more computationally extensive jobs, we want to be able to perform distributed training with TensorFlow or PyTorch. And even we want to branch out to public cloud when resources are needed. So then after the training, we want to store models and to be able to perform scalable serving for for the trained models. So the platform that supports all of our goals is Kubeflow. Basically, with Kubeflow, we are utilizing power of Kubernetes to efficiently manage resources. And we also offer users all the desired features. The infrastructure part of Kubeflow is managed by our cloud team.  With Kubeflow, we can offer notebooks, pipelines, distributed training, model serving. And we can also offer bursting to public cloud when necessary. And that means that basically all of our use cases are covered by Kubeflow. And Ricardo will now discuss our setup and challenges in terms of setting up our Kubeflow instance. Yes, I'll pick up on the nice description from Dejan, before he does a cool demo, I'll just talk about the layout of the infrastructure we are using. So this is a very simplified overview of the clusters, the layout of our clusters. So we rely on us an entry point load balancer. And this allows us to to simplify the deployment and for example, to do upgrades by just adding entry points to the load balancer, new clusters on the back end. And then there's a gateway that is our ingress gateway to the services. The main important bit here is that we have three types of nodes. The first type is virtual GPUs. This is something that allows us to have a large amount of GPU resources, although they are not as performance as having a full GPU. But it allows us to have a much larger amount of resources for things like notebooks, for example, and we rely on T4s with time sharing in this case. And then we have the PCI path through node group type. And here it's mostly used for things like pipelines or distributed training, hyperparameter optimization, and also model serving where you want to guarantee a certain latency for the model serving. We do not do today any kind of faster interconnector and building anything like this. And the last bit we have here is CPU. And in this case, we have a much larger amount of resources. It's not as interesting if you're doing deep learning, but actually this platform ended up being used for other purposes as well, where workflows and pipelines can be useful. So you can see that we have something on the order of hundreds of virtual GPUs or the tens of full GPUs for the users and are of thousands of CPUs. Just very quickly, our deployment is based on a Kubernetes 118 clusters today. We use Koflo 11 still, and one difference from the standard 11 deployment is that we upgraded this TO215 and K-Native to 015. All the clusters and the deployments are managed using GitOps, and we have one repository where we define all the services and all the environments we support, and it's all managed by Argo CD. There is one very good feature here, which is Argo CD allows us to use customized just for the Koflo deployment. And then for the other components, we rely on the operators for both these TO and NVIDIA GPU operator deployments. And then for Prometheus K-Native cert manager, we are relying on Helm charts, upstream Helm charts. One of the key aspects is the integrations we do with the internal CERN services. So the first one is identity authorization and authentication. And we link this to the CERN SSO, which is based on Keycloak. So this allows us to have not only the tokens that identify the user, but also the mapping of the users to the roles and the groups they belong to. And what we do in our clusters is we have dedicated namespaces per user where people have a default quota that is fixed and cannot be changed. But also we have additional groups where people can belong to, and this is defined in the CERN identity if they belong to these groups. And in those groups, they can request additional quota like more GPUs, for example. And then the other very important part is the integration with our storage systems. As we mentioned, data is a key aspect of everything we do. So we integrate with the three main storage systems that are interesting in this case. The first one is we call CVMFS, CERN VMFS, which is a read-only distributed theoretical caching system that is mostly used for software distribution. The second one is an internal in-house developed system called EOS that is holding all the physics data. In this case, the important part is that we need to, we offer both Kerberos and OOS2-based access. OOS2 is very important for things like notebooks and anything that is, like, browser-oriented. And then the last one is HDFS. Dejan mentioned that in some cases people want to do the data preparation using Spark, and in this case we are accessing HDFS using Kerberos credentials. I will just summarize a couple of issues that we run into while doing this. The first one is that the Kupfl releases were not always very consistent in terms of what's supporting what. So 1.0 had, for example, multi-user support for notebooks but not pipelines. And 1.1 brought multi-user pipelines, but actually some of the components were not talking to this new API properly like Kail from notebooks. This meant that we spent quite a bit of time downstream fixing these bits when we did the upgrade. And this is one of the reasons why we are still in 1.1 and we are slowly updating to newer versions as well. The second one is actually customized in the way Kupfl is using customized. It's quite complex.  And in the end we deploy them in another way and we only deploy the Kupfl applications using customized. And then the last one, which is still an ongoing issue, is how to manage additional packages that people might require for both the notebooks and then for their pipelines as well. And how can they install and add these packages easily to their containers? So this is something we'll mention more later. The last bit I will mention before we jump to the demo is how we are doing bursting to the public clouds. This is very important for us because we cannot get access to a much larger amount of GPUs and especially other types of accelerators like TPUs or IPUs. TPUs are very interesting for our use cases also because they're very cost effective. We tried this using different technologies over the last few years on the lower level. We tried Federation V1 and V2. We also have diplomats using the Virtual Kupflets. We are not still very experts in Istio but we are experimenting with it. But actually for Kupfl, the most promising results and the way we are offering this is actually to directly expose the other clusters to the users via their Jupyter environment. So when you get your Jupyter environment, your notebook environment, you actually get the additional clusters configured and these clusters are configured with the same CERN SSO so we can do something like using the Open Policy Agent to validate who is able to access which clusters, which groups can actually access each cluster. And then we do the quota management the same way in those clusters as well. This is working quite well. This is a simple, not so simple picture, but it's kind of simple given what is behind. But the key aspect is that this Jupyter environment, we have the cluster configuration and we are able to reuse the OOS token that the user already has by logging into the system at CERN. And then, but normally they would just submit to the same cluster where Kupfl is running the Jupyter environment and they would submit a TF job that would use GPUs on premises. And then once this training is done, we write the output artifacts to S3 where it can be served from the S3 to CERN. By exposing additional clusters in the environment, people can just source those clusters and then submit the TF jobs to external clusters. And in this case it would be the Google Cloud where we would have potentially thousands of GPUs available or GPUs. In the end, again, the output artifacts are written to S3 and served in the same way as if they would have been trained internally. So this is quite promising and this is what we are offering today. Okay, now we'll go back to our demo example. So we remember 3D guns. Basically, the main issue with 3D guns is extensive training time. So for our model, it would take 2.5 days to properly train. And for example, if we want to search hyperparameters or change the model, that iteration could last for weeks or even months. So this is with one GPU. So to create a more scalable solution, a distributed model is created. Basically, the model is trained using TensorFlow strategies. So for example, we are using, in our example, a multi-worker mirror strategy which uses different nodes with multiple GPUs. And also we have a script with accessing TPUs for the distributed training. So TF job and Kubeflow help us automate this distributed training process. We are able to quickly iterate over different training configurations. So basically, we are encapsulating TensorFlow distribution and it's managing it across Kubernetes spots. So we are able with TF job to run distributed training both locally and on a public cloud as Ricardo was describing. And yeah, at GCP we are using 128 preemptible machines for the distributed training. And now we can move to the demo. So let me share the screen. So now we are going to show our demo. Here we can see at ml.serend.ch our service dashboard. Basically, this is the Kubeflow dashboard and we can check all the Kubeflow features. So now we're going to show our demo. We can see our dashboard here and we can see Kubeflow features on the left. We have pipelines, notebook servers, cut-tip and the other features. So we'll go to our notebook which is basically where we have our demo prepared. So here we have a couple of demos we are going to show. The first one is one from our examples repo. Basically we created a repository for onboarding our users for various Kubeflow features. We are going to show KL. This example shows us how to convert a notebook to a pipeline without writing any additional Python code. So for that we're using KL deployment panel and basically the only thing we need to do is to annotate every every cell so that it converts properly to a pipeline component. In addition to annotating we are creating connections between pipeline components and we can also add the GPU to any specific pipeline component. So here we can in order to run we only need to click this button compile and run and we can see our pipeline running. So while our pipeline is running we can check other features which we have in our service. One of them is EOS. So EOS is where most users where all users at CERN have their personal directories and mounting EOS really allows us to be able to access broad data from multiple users. Basically every user can access their own personal folder here. And also we can show the usage of a GPU with NVIDIA SMI. So yeah we are starting with that. The main example which we have is 3DGUN. So here we have our 3DGUN training. So we have different scripts here. One of them is training 3DGUN with the CPU and then we train 3DGUN with the GPU here. And it's all distributed training when it comes to GPUs. So basically here what we want to check is a strategy. So we see that we are using multi-worker mirrored strategy for GPU training. And also as Ardo was mentioning we are also uploading the trained model to a bucket and we see that code here that after the model is trained we are uploading it to our CERN bucket. Similarly for TPUs only here we have a TPU strategy for distributed training. We also in this repository have a Docker file to build our image to run distributed training but we are not building it here. We won't do that but we'll show our TFJob YAML file. So to submit a TFJob basically we can define our number of replicas here, number of GPUs we are using here and then we also select the image and we also can select if we want full training and the number of epochs and other customizable arguments. So now we are going to submit our 3DGUN TFJob on our local cluster. All we have to do is to do cube CTL by 3DGPU. So yeah this one we are submitting to our local cluster and we can check our TFJob and we see our TFJob running. So now may be a good time to check if our pipeline has completed it has. So we can see our logs and we can see that our pipeline has completed training two models and we see which model was better and now we're running the distributed training of a 3DGUN on a local cluster. Additionally we want to run a 3DGUN training on a Google cluster. So basically inside the cluster folder users would get information about all available clusters in our service. So here we only have a CERN and GCP cluster and all the users have to do to access the additional clusters is to source these files. So GCP setup, setup.sh and now they should be able to, they are in the Google cloud cluster. So as we can see in the Google cloud cluster there are no pods in my personal namespace but in this local cluster we have our, I have a couple of pods here running and some of them completed. So what we are going to submit here are a 3DGUN example. So we can go to to our GCP, our GCP YAML file and we are going to submit that. So now we're submitting this TFJob to our Google cluster. Meanwhile we can check if our training on our local cluster has completed and yes we can see that it has completed and to check the Google cluster basically we want to have a watch and yes we can see here that our workers are deployed at nodes which have a V100. So in total we have 128 nodes running and we have 16 workers where each worker has eight nodes. So now our training job is running actually on a Google cluster and this is what we see here. So we can close this now and here we see that our local job has completed and now as Ricardo was saying after the training we submit our model to a bucket. So here we can see the trained model stored on our buckets. So we have a couple of files for each model and then this is all for one model and for one epoch. So we have our discriminator and generator for 3D guns stored in the bucket and we also have saved the model in the format so that it can be used for inference for serving. And also we want to maybe want to check this these metrics. Basically this is how we can store metrics, how we store metrics about our model after each epoch. So okay now we have covered the 3D gun. The last thing I'd like to cover is the inference services. What we want to do here is to submit an inference service and to basically serve a model by only specifying where the model is located. So we can secure CTL, apply and now we have created our inference service actually. It was already there but this is how we can we create it when we want. And then to test our inference we can test it from here and we see that we are getting results and basically as we were discussing we're getting a 3D output for that represents the output of the detector. So this is what happens when we do one inference but we want to do 10 curler requests at the same time so that we can see what happens to the number of predictor pods as we can see they are the number of pods it is increasing it's auto scaling so that it can support client requests. And basically yeah with this we have covered our demo. So basically during this training we were able to reduce the execution time from one hour to 30 seconds for one epoch and for the full training we managed to get from 60 hours to around 30 minutes. So TFJop really helped us speed up the development process and we see that we get almost linear improvement in our performance for our 3D gun model. And now Ricardo will offer the closing remarks. Yeah so basically I hope this was a nice overview of the service we are offering and the potential that it has by offering like a consistent environment where people can do their development but also interact with the services. We handle all the machine learning life cycle steps from preparation all the way to serving. We managed to centralize the resources that are pre scarce such as accelerators in this case GPUs and also we showed how we are doing currently the integration with external resources for GPUs, GPUs using public clouds. There are steps we are still working on so one of the main ones is to onboard new use cases and from those there's a very interesting one for reinforcement learning from the people doing the beam calibration where they want to keep the model live and updated live while the beam is running. The second thing I would like to mention is this needs for users to be able to curate their own environments and to add packages to their own environments easily. Right now the only option is to install the packages on the notebook but that doesn't work well when you're doing transition to pipelines for example or to distribute training. So we have some experience using a tool called binder for Jupyter notebooks and we are looking at integrating this with the Kubeflow Jupyter web app as well. And the last one is we are quite involved in the work ongoing work for Kubeflow improvements in metadata and artifact management so it's something that we'll also keep pushing for in the community. So we would like to thank everyone in the Kubeflow community for the great tooling and of course all the Kubernetes and cloud native tools that we rely on as well. And we are happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much.


Hello everyone, I am Sira Satish Kumar, Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry in Manipal Hospital, Spangler. Well, there are a lot of research that shows momentary stress, which simply means momentary thoughts which are in the form of insecurities, brings physiological arousal in the person. Physiological arousal simply means increase skin conductance, increase heart rate variability, respiratory sinus arrhythmia. So, these are the signs that could be seen in the initial ways that leads to terminal illnesses. And when stress is prolonged for a longer time, and it becomes chronic in nature, it is seen that it has a huge manifestation in coronary diseases. And there are researchers that shows the mechanism behind stress and the coronary diseases. And the main mechanism involves the cortisol, how when cortisol is being produced in a persistent way, it leads to coronary heart diseases. And the autonomic hyperarousal also plays another primary mechanism in the coronary heart disease.