This is Jonathan Yildon with the University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab, and in this video I'll be covering some basics of high resolution feature extraction using imagery in LiDAR. I'll make use of a few software packages in this video tutorial, including eCognition, QuickTrainModeler, and ArcGIS. There are two datasets we'll be using in this tutorial, an ortho-photo in imagined format, and a LiDAR point cloud dataset in LAS format. Let's look at the image dataset within ArcGIS. If we go into the properties you'll notice that this is a digital ortho-photo that has four bands associated with it. We're symbolizing it in ArcGIS as a 412 RGB composite, or a color infrared composite. In QuickTrainModeler, we're going to open up that LAS LiDAR point cloud dataset. This particular LiDAR dataset also has intensity data so we can toggle on and off the vertex colors. In addition, this LAS file has been classified by the contractor. Of greatest interest to us for feature extraction is the fact that ground points, shown here in green, have been separated from non-ground points. If we go into the properties of the LiDAR dataset, two key factors of our keen interest to us. One, the scale, which is approximately spacing between points, and density, which is a number of points per square unit, in this case square meters. Now we're going to remove the LiDAR point cloud file, and we're going to reload the data as a gridded surface model. We're going to set the grid sampling to a value of one for one meter, and we're going to the gridding options. Here we're going to click on a help. First, we're going to set our gridding options to create a DEM or digital elevation model. In order to do this, we'll want to ensure that we're only importing the ground points. By clicking on the class.


I started with nothing. Absolutely nothing. In fact, I started below nothing. And I started growing this little plumbing company with six employees to now we have over 300 employees. And back in 2009, you guys tried to unionize me. My guys were making money. They were being paid more than the union halls were paying their plumbers. Our benefits were better. But because we started bidding jobs at reunion jobs and winning those union pipe fitters decided they were going to come after us, they would show up at my house. They'd be leaning up against my trucks. I'm not afraid of a physical confrontation. In fact, sometimes I look forward to it. That's not my problem. But when you're doing that to my employees and then when they when that didn't work, they started picketing our job site saying shame on mulling, shame on mulling for what? For what? Because we were paying higher wages because we had better benefits and we wasn't requiring them to pay your guys as absorbent salaries. You talk about CEOs that are making all this money. And what do you make, Mr. O'Brien? Well, I'm glad you asked that question. Yeah, I know what you make because in 2019, your salary was, what is this, $193,000? I'm sure you've got some pay raises since then. Yeah, when I was an average UPS driver, the feeder driver makes $35,000 a year. That's what you bring. That's inaccurate. Hold on a second. That's inaccurate. Stay fax right here. Stay fax. That's inaccurate. The average UPS feeder driver makes $35,000. If you don't know your fax, then maybe you should be in position. I know him because I negotiate the contract.  What do you bring for that salary? What do I bring? What job have you committed or have you started? What job have you created?  No, we don't force them to pay dues. Senator, you've asked the question. You're out of line. That's not happening. Don't tell me I'm out of line. You are in line. Don't tell me I'm out of line. Don't tell me I'm out of line. You frame the stable or off guy. Because you don't know what you're talking about.  Yes, I did. Hold it. It's off guy. I'm not afraid of physical things. Senator, I don't have to be, but don't sit there and tell me I'm out of line. Senator, you made a statement. You asked the question. I didn't ask the question. You did. I answered the question. You asked the question. What was the report? It was a rhetorical question. Well, you may think it's rhetorical. It was rhetorical. It sounded to me like a question. Let him answer the question. I'm not yielding my time to him. So if you're going to let me keep my time, that's fine. You'll have your time. Let him. You ask a question. He has a right to answer that. You just watched the first half of a very heated exchange that took place during a hearing convened by Senator Bernie Sanders for the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The title of that hearing was Defending the Right of Workers to Organize Unions Free from Illegal Corporate Union Busting, which is hilarious because I'm sure that the Republicans in attendance felt very uncomfortable by that, which I love. But as you saw, Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who claims he's not anti-union, which is hilarious, attacked Teamsters Union leader Sean O'Brien as some sort of a leech, because it's the union leaders who are the leeches and not the greedy corporate CEOs.  And in the second half, which we're about to watch, well, let's just say that Mark Wayne Mullen's cheeks got clapped by the Teamsters leader when he was confronted about him being a greedy union-busting CEO himself. Let's watch. You can quote Carol Tomei, who quoted this. They make $93,000 on the lower end. Some of them make $150,000. I said feeder drivers. Feeder drivers, truck-to-trail drivers. Some of them making $150,000 per year. Some of them, dude. I don't disagree with that. Most of them have actually been there for years. Most of them make over $100,000. So reclaiming my time, I go back to the whole fact that, sir, you haven't created a job. We haven't? You haven't been there. You haven't. Sure we have. You haven't. Sure we have. Tell me one job that you created. What are you talking about? Be specific.  No, I'm not an employer. No, but you know, it's funny, we create opportunity. We create opportunity. We create opportunity because we hold greedy CEOs like yourself accountable. You call me a greedy CEO? Oh yeah, you are.  What did you make when you owned your company? I made my company. I kept my salary down at about $50,000 a year because I invested every penny into it. Okay, all right. You mean you hid money? No, I didn't hide it. Oh, hold on a second. Okay, he said that's out of line. You said I was out of line. We're even, we're even. We're not even. We're not even close to being even. You think it's smart? You think you're funny? No, you're not. You think you're funny. No, I never said, did I smile? You frame your opening statement.  Send it up, continue, send it up. Please continue your statements. But sir, this is, I think, I think it's great that you're doing this because this shows their behavior on how they try to come in and recognize a shot. And they say about intimidation, and it's not about intimidation. They show your behavior. Stay on the issue, please. The issue is, if you're really for the employee, then why are you against right to work? Why are you against private ballots? If you're really about the employee, let the employee make the choice. I'm not anti-union, but when you don't want to have a private ballot, that's not intimidating. That's not intimidating. Why wouldn't you want a private ballot? If that is intimidating the employee, if you don't want to write to work state, don't force somebody to make, to pay dues to an organization they may not agree with.  If union members don't pay their dues, then unions can't exist. But that's what these union-busting Republicans want. They want to defang unions so their corporate donors can continue to exploit employees. It's not right to work. It's right to work for less under shittier conditions. But my favorite part of that, of course, was when Sean O'Brien called him out for being a greedy CEO because that is absolutely factual. As The Washington Post reported back in 2014, Mark Wayne Mullen violated House ethics rules by raking in more than $600,000 from his plumbing company, which for exceeds permissible levels of outside income from members of Congress. And for additional context, Kenny Stancil of Common Dreams explains, asked by O'Brien how much he made from his plumbing business, Mullen claimed, quote, I kept my salary down at about $50,000 a year because I invested every penny into it, which is bullshit. But in 2013, then-representative Mullen reportedly pocketed more than $600,000 from the company's in violation of House ethics rules and federal laws limiting how much outside income members of Congress are allowed to receive. Although Mullen transferred ownership of the companies to his family, he continued to serve as a board member and chief advertiser while raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah. So do you understand now how slimy and weasley Mark Wayne Mullen is? Oh, I only made $50,000 a year. That was my official salary. Yeah, but yet you pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars by transferring ownership to your family.  And Sean O'Brien saw right through you. Now, not to mention that, Sean O'Brien later tweeted out, for the record, Senator Mullen saw his reported assets balloon from a range of $7.3 million to $29.9 million at the end of 2020 to a range of $31.6 million to $75.6 million. But he's just a small business owner, folks, who doesn't want to see unions intimidate his workers or his small business. He cares about the working class, right? Yeah, not buying it. And in response to this video going viral, people on Twitter quickly pointed out what his response was to Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. He tweeted out, we do not need farmers and ranchers, small business owners and teachers in Oklahoma paying the debts of Ivy League lawyers and doctors across the U.S. So small business owners shouldn't bear the cost of these elite college graduates, who, by the way, make less than $75,000 per year. That's completely unacceptable. They shouldn't be forced to bear that cost. But it's perfectly reasonable that multi-millionaires like him get his PPP loan forgiven entirely. Because as you recall, the Biden administration responded to that tweet pointing out Congressman Mark Wayne Mullen had over $1.4 million in PPP loans forgiven. Because it's fine if farmers and ranchers and small business owners and teachers in Oklahoma pay the debt of a powerful U.S. Senator worth millions upon millions of dollars, but it's completely unacceptable to cancel a portion of debt for Americans making less than $75,000 per year. They're so disingenuous, but I want to leave you with some lasting words from Sean O'Brien who responded on Twitter after this exchange went viral saying, don't let them distract you. Unions create jobs, make work safer, and put more money in workers' pockets. Most importantly, everything we do is to improve the lives of our members. I wonder if some others can say the same about their constituents. Exactly. So, yeah, there's nothing else to say about this. We'll leave that there. Mark Wayne Mullen learned the hard way that if you're going to take a shot at unions, you better not miss.


Part 3 CHAPTERS 9, 10, and 11 of Perkins the Faker Atravisty on Reincarnation by Edward S. Vanzile. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Clarissa's Troublesome Baby CHAPTER 9 A Boston Girl It would be curious if we should find science and philosophy taking up again the old theory of metempsychosis. But stranger things have happened in the history of human opinion. James Freeman Clark It was only through the exercise of the nicest care that I escaped a complete nervous collapse during the weeks immediately following our now famous dinner-to-hair platner. I was tempted at times to run off to Europe and leave my favorite household to fend for itself. I seemed to spend the larger part of my time in keeping Jack quiet and Tom cool. Which was the more difficult task I'm unable to say. Jack remained stubbornly unreasonable regarding the kind of nurse he was willing to submit to while Tom grumbled continually because I spent so much time with the baby. What is the trouble in the nursery, Clarissa? The latter asked me one morning at breakfast.  We pay the highest wages. Her ratio is not a sickly fretful child, but still these alleged nurses come and go, offering so far as I can learn, only the flimsiest excuses for throwing up a seemingly desirable situation. There must be something radically wrong up there. Have you any idea, my dear, what it is? How could I tell Tom the truth about the matter? Had I informed him that the baby still insisted upon my engaging and elderly woman deaf and dumb from birth, and refused to adapt himself to any one of the many compromises that I had offered to him, Tom would have been justified in suspecting the existence of insanity germs in our nursery. He had seen one woman issue therefrom in an apparently crazy condition, and he had noted the eccentric fickleness of her successors. If I should now lay the actual facts before him, he would have good reason to believe that I also had lost my mental balance. At that moment there came to me a vague dread of my second husband's scientific habit of mind. It was evident that he was bent upon collecting data about the baby and his nurses in order that he might reach some reasonable conclusion in explanation of the existing disturbed conditions in our formerly unruffled household. And the unfortunate part of it was that Tom had the leisure, and I feared, the inclination to wrestle with this problem until he had solved it in some way satisfactory to his exacting mind. The root of the trouble, Tom, I answered presently, after carefully weighing my words before uttering them, the root of the trouble is not in the baby or the nursery or the wages or in me. It is to be found in the great change that is going on in the conditions of domestic service. A child's nurse today, I mean one of the kind that we should be willing to employ, is a highly trained specialist who has grown haughty and despotic in the mere exercise of her profession. She realizes that the demand for experts in her line is greater than the supply and... I see. Interrupted Tom, rather rudely, I thought. But it does seem to me that if other people in our position, Claire, can find satisfactory nurses, we should not be the one family in the city that is forced to take care of its own baby. I am willing to pay any amount of money to ensure her ratio's comfort. I'll admit that he is difficult at times. He seems to be a very sensitive, highly strong child, but there's nothing abnormal about him. He's pugnacious and haught tempered, but most healthy boy babies are inclined to be spunky, aren't they? What I object to is that he is gradually absorbing all your time, day and night, Claire. I'm not jealous of her ratio, my dear, but I don't believe in the old-fashioned idea that parents should sacrifice their comfort upon the altar of the nursery. You understand my position, do you not? Gwendolyn will be here to-day, Tom. I said smiling at his disturbed face from across the table. I hope that she'll take a fancy to the baby. At all events, she'll relieve the situation. When your wife's in the nursery, Tom, you'll have your cousin to talk to. Bah! Grumbled Tom, rising and placing a hand on the back of his chair. Gwendolyn's pretty and chic and up-to-date, but she's not in your class intellectually, my dear. I smiled gratefully at Tom's compliment, but my mind was not at ease. Wasn't the presence of Gwendolyn Van Voorhees in the house more likely to prove disastrous than satisfactory? When, however, Tom had insisted that his cousin's long-deferred visit to us be made at once, I could find no reasonable argument to oppose to his wishes. From various points of view, Gwendolyn's advent to the household appeared to be desirable. She was a charming girl, well-read, widely-traveled, and a thoroughbred little Maudaine. But I dreaded her arrival, despite the fact that I could not have put the vague fears that haunted me into specific words. I was beginning to realize what it means in this prosaic, unimaginative world to hide in one's bosom an uncanny secret. There had come to me of late moments when the inclination to tell Tom the whole truth about her ratio, or rather Jack, was almost irresistible. Perhaps my real reason for objecting to Gwendolyn's presence was my fear, unacknowledged to myself, that I should be tempted eventually to tell her the amazing tale of Jack's ridiculous reincarnation. There were times, and they had constantly become more frequent when the burden of my secret seemed greater than I could bear. When the longing to confess to somebody that the baby was a psychical freak of the most astounding kind burned hot within me. As I lingered over my coffee in the breakfast-room that morning after Tom's departure, the immediate future looked black enough, and I could not see that the coming of Gwendolyn gave it a lighter shade. Nevertheless, I was really glad to welcome her later in the morning as I met her at the door of the drying-room and kissed her pretty, pecanth mouth affectionately. I was awfully glad to come to you, Claire. She cried vivaciously as we mounted the stairs that I might show her to her rooms. You know the song with the chorus. There's one New York, only one New York. It's been running through my mind for two days. But I thought you were wedded to Boston, Gwen. I remarked, my mind wandering for a moment as we passed the closed door of the nursery. Presently we were seated cosily before an open fire in the guest chamber, while Gwendolyn, dark, petite, smiling, appeared to me to be a most ornamental and fascinating addition to our little circle. Boston is amusing, she was saying in her pleasantly emphatic way. But it's so erratic, don't you know? My nerves always begin to ache after I've been there a few weeks. They are so fond of fads, Claire, those clever Bostonians. They take up everything you know and always go to extremes. It's American history now, is it not? I asked. Yes, answered Gwen gazing at the fire amusingly. That's coming in again. But they're perfectly crazy about theosophy just at present. You'd be amazed, Claire, to discover how much I know about nirvana and adepts and mantempsychosis and all that kind of thing. Several of my most intimate friends have become vegetarians and live mostly on baked beans. It's awfully funny. They take it all so seriously. And what do you really think of it, Gwen? I asked nervously. Think of what? Of which, my dear? Of living on beans, do you mean? No. Beans are only a side issue or to speak with Tom's scientific accuracy a side dish. What do you think, for instance, of reincarnation?  Do you know there are times when I really imagine that there's something in it? Of course, it's absurd in a way, but it does solve a great many problems, does it not? It conforms beautifully to the laws of evolution and the conservation of energy, and there are so many things that can't be explained by any other theory. But it always makes me shudder to think of it. Imagine, Claire, being born again in Turkey, for example. Wouldn't it be shocking? I laughed rather hysterically. The whole subject is too silly for any use, I managed to say in a superior kind of way. It does very well for Boston, of course, but it will never have much of a run here in New York. What a narrow way of looking at it, Claire, exclaimed Gwendolyn protestingly. Of course, I'm not a theosophist, but I'm broad-minded enough to realize that what's true in Bernadette's or Boston must be true in New York. If reincarnation is really going on in this world, I can't believe that any exception is made in favor of our Knickerbocker families. Again, I laughed aloud, nervously. It was pleasing to me to discover that Gwendolyn had a mind open to startling truths, but I regretted the fact that I must henceforth constantly fight against the temptation to tell her my great secret. The immanence of my peril in this regard was illustrated at once, for she turned to me suddenly and asked, with great vivacity of manner, Where is the baby, Claire? Won't you let me see him at once? I came to visit him, you know, not you or Tom. He's got such a lovely name. Her ratio is so fine and dignified. Would you call him for short, my dear? I have not given him a nickname, Gwendolyn. I answered coldly. If you wish, we'll go to the nursery at once. As I told you in my letter, we've had difficulty in getting the baby a nurse. Just at present I'm obliged to spend most of my time with him. But I give you fair warning, you know.  I do so love really nice children, Claire. Is he a jolly baby? Will he take to me, do you think? I answered her question as we reached the door of the nursery. I am sure I can't say when. Her ratio is very eccentric and pronounced in his likes and dislikes. But if he goes to you at once, follow my advice and don't toss him up and down violently. He says, that is, he doesn't like to be shaken after taken. CHAPTER X An Uncanny Flirtation And thou too, when on me fell thine eye, would disclose thy cheeks deep purple dye. Toward each other like relations, dear, as an exile to his home draws near, were we not then flying? SHILLER I must acknowledge that the enthusiasm displayed by the baby when he caught sight of Gwendolyn filled me with mingled astonishment and annoyance. He sat bolt upright in his crib, waved his hands joyously in the air and crowed lustily. I realized that the poor little chap was laboring under a delusion that he had mistaken Tom's fascinating cousin for a new nurse. But even so, why should he act as if he were intoxicated with happiness? I could not check the conviction that Jack was making an exhibition of very bad taste by his warm reception of Gwendolyn. That I was jealous of her was not true. That would have been absurd. But it was not pleasant to realize that the baby could rejoice openly in the advent of one who, as he believed at the moment, was to take my place in the nursery. Jack's horrible, psychical disaster had greatly endeared him to me and I could not help feeling hurt at his eagerness to go to a perfect stranger. There was something not altogether infantile in the way in which he threw his chubby little arms around Gwendolyn's neck and tucked his smiling little face into her cheek, chuckling contentedly while the girl laughed aloud. Isn't he just the sweetest little thing that ever lived? cried Gwendolyn with spontaneous enthusiasm. Did you see him jump right into my arms, Claire? Such a thing never happened to me before. Is he always so cordial to strangers? As I told you, Gwendolyn, her ratio goes to extremes in his likes and dislikes. He evidently approves of you. For the life of me I could not prevent my voice from sounding cold and harsh. But the girl was too thoroughly interested in the baby to note the lack of cordiality in my tones. Oh, clear little angelic creature! She was murmuring to him as she seated herself in the rocking chair with Jack cuddled in her arms. Will you always love your cousin, Gwen? Here was a kind of baby talk that Jack seemed to like for his every sound and movement expressed approval of Gwendolyn's nonsensical endearments. But I must admit it annoyed me. Logically I could not blame Gwendolyn for displaying a sudden fondness for the baby. She had no way of knowing that she was holding my first husband on her lap.  Jack as a baby had never appeared to such advantage. He smiled and laughed, winked his eyes, made funny little holes with his mouth, and waved his tiny fist in the air in a kind of oratorical way that was irresistibly amusing.  I don't think that I ever cared much for a baby before, Claire, but her ratio has cleared the first bunker beautifully. Is he always like this? I laughed aloud nervously. I hadn't the courage to say anything uncomplimentary of the baby at that moment, not knowing how far I could trust Jack's self-control, and so I remarked in a non-committal way. He's a very good baby on the whole, my dear. Of course, he isn't to be blamed for protesting if things don't go just right with him.  I've always been so sorry for baby's Claire because they couldn't talk. It must be trying when a pin is sticking into you somewhere to have your gums rubbed by a misguided nurse or to be robbed violently when the heat of the room has made your headache. The baby gave vent to a most astounding yell of delight, a very precocious exhibition of emotion that made Gwendolyn laugh merrily. But his vivacity quite upset me. I feared momentarily that his enthusiasm would find speech an imperative necessity and that Gwendolyn would discover to her consternation that what was theory in Boston had become practice in New York. Thereupon I acted in a most tactless way. I bent down and removed Jack from Gwendolyn's arms to mine. Put me back or I'll denounce you, whispered the baby in my ear. Then he began to howl in the most exaggerated infantile manner. I was annoyed to realize that my cheeks had flushed with anger and that a feeling of hot jealousy had swept over me. Gwendolyn, sympathetic and impressionable, had noticed the outward manifestations of my inner turmoil and had hurried toward the door. I'll go back to my room, Claire. She said as she passed me. When you've put him to sleep, come to me. I want to tell you what I think of him. Au revoir. Oh, dear, sweet, ill marshmallow. Jack and I were alone in the nursery and I seated myself wearily in the rocking chair, holding the uneasy baby on my lap. What did you do that for, Clarissa? He growled, kicking violently with his expressive legs.  Do you not realize that you have been very cruel, my dear?  Suddenly the tiresome hundrum of my existence is broken by a chance for a perfectly harmless flirtation. Do you rejoice at your little baby's momentary relief from ennui? Not at all.  What's that girl's name? Gwendolyn Van Vores. I murmured. She's Tom's cousin. She called herself Cousin Gwen and expressed the hope that I might always love her, mused Jack, gazing with eyes too old for his face at his dimpled, restless fists. I don't like Tom, Clarissa, but his cousin does him credit. I shall always love her. No, don't rock, my dear. I don't want to go to sleep. If you don't mind, Clarissa, I should like to lie very quiet and think about Gwendolyn. Isn't it a beautiful name? I'm sorry, my name's Horatio. Don't rock, not even a little bit. I'm very nervous, am I not? I'd give half a dozen slips and my silver rattle box for a smoke, Clarissa. Do you think that a cigarette would hurt me? You remember, Jack, that cocktails didn't agree with you, I argued soothingly. I'm sure that tobacco would be very bad for you. Of course you are. Grumbled the baby, resuming his impatient gestures with his legs. You think that everything worth having is bad for me, Clarissa? I suppose that you intend to cut me off entirely from cousin Gwen. Don't be unreasonable, Jack. I implored him. Gwen can come here just as often as she cares to. But you must realize, Jack, that I have no confidence left in your veracity or discretion. You don't keep your promises to me, and you seem to have no realization of the terrible results that might come from a discovery of your identity. Is this a curtain lecture, Clarissa? Growled, Jack. I tell you flatly, my dear, that I can't stand much more. I've about reached the limit of my self-control. There's a deadly dullness to this kind of a life that is slowly driving your sweet, little baby boy, cousin Gwen's caramel and marshmallow to desperation. But what can you do, Jack? I asked, frightened by the peculiar tones in his voice. My role is as hard to play as yours, is it not? We must both be brave and circumspect, my dear.  You may rock a little now, Clarissa, very gently. Perhaps I could get a nap if you'd stop scolding me for a few moments. CHAPTER XI A mysterious elopement. Empty is the cradle, baby's gone. OLD SONG From one standpoint I have come close to the end of my narrative. From another I am still at its beginning. But, with Tom's permission, I have placed the foregoing facts before the public in the hope that the statement may be read by somebody in Europe, Asia, Africa or America who is able to assist us in solving a hard problem. The New York newspapers have mingled fact and fiction, realism and romance in the articles bearing upon what they call The Great Mintern Mystery, in a manner most annoying to my husband and myself. The only really sympathetic and enlightening account of the awful affliction that has fallen on our Earth's while-happy home was printed by a Boston journal whose editor is a Buddhist. But I'm getting too far ahead of my story. Yet, I have nothing to relate that you who keep abreast of the times do not already know. You remember reading in your morning newspaper a few months ago of the strange disappearance from Mr. Thomas Mintern's townhouse of his baby Horatio Mintern and, I guess, the well-known society-favorite Miss Gwendolyn Van Vores. You have perused, I suppose, subsequent journalistic presentments of the case telling how futile had been the search for our lost ones. Tom, as the public knows, has offered enormous rewards for the slightest clue that should serve to throw even a glimmer of light upon the most astounding disappearance of modern times. We have employed the most famous detectives in all parts of the world in our vain efforts to find some trace of the fugitives, if such Jack and Gwendolyn may be called. But up to the present moment we have learned nothing that can help us in any way in our weary quest. In desperation and as a last resort I have written and published this account of the events that led up to our great loss. When the editor of the magazine insisted I should choose a title for my amazing presentment of our weird experience, a lump came into my throat and tears be dimmed my eyes. Had not Jack himself with the most uncanny foresight chosen the title of my unwilling deposition, Clarissa's troublesome baby. Alas! How little did I realize at the time of his suggestion how appropriate would be this caption to my melancholy tale. Where's Gwendolyn? Tom had asked of me at breakfast upon the morning of the fateful day that was to shatter for all time my second husband's materialistic tendency of thought. In the nursery as usual, I presume, she'd rather play with the baby than eat or sleep, Tom, I answered laughingly. In the present dearth of nurse-mates, Gwendolyn's enthusiasm for Horatio is most opportune. Tom laughed as he lighted his after-breakfast cigar. Let's go to the nursery, Clarissa, and bid them good morning. I haven't seen Horatio for forty-eight hours. I'm glad that Gwen likes him so well, but I really feel that I am entitled to a glimpse of the youngster now and again. Thus did Tom and I gaily mount the stairway to our doom. We rushed, so to speak, with laughing faces to the very edge of a precipice, and toppled over with a quip half-spoken upon our white lips. As we entered the nursery, crying playfully to Gwendolyn to abdicate the throne she had usurped, we were struck silent and motionless by the sudden discovery that the room was empty. Tom was, of course, less shocked than I by Jack's deserted nest. There came to me as I stood there, cold and trembling on the threshold of the nursery, the conviction that I was confronting the scene of another miracle, an environment within which I should never again be annoyed by psychical mysteries. I was recalled to myself by Tom's voice saying, What do you suppose has become of them, my dear? Gwendolyn, Horatio, where are you? Ah, but the pathos of it all. Gwendolyn, Horatio, where are you? Were you willfully, heartlessly selfish, indifferent in your strange ecstasy to the sorrow that you brought to others? Or were you powerless in the grasp of fate, forced through psychical affinity to disappear thus weirdly from the sight of men? You must see, dear reader, that what I have written cannot come to an end that will satisfy either your mind or your heart. I began with an exclamation point. I must conclude with an interrogation mark. And in that obligation I find that my tale resembles every human life. We come to earth with a cry, and we leave it with a question. So far as man is concerned, evolution has been merely a zigzag progress up from protoplasm to a problem. And how has Tom withstood the unmaterialistic revelation that I have been forced to make to him and to the public? Has he been shaken in his faith in the teachings of Buckner, Heckel, and Herr Platner? Of course, being a man, he is slow to admit that his nursery is out-safe to him more enlightenment than his library, but he has grown very gentle and sympathetic when I talk to him about the possibility that the dreams of the brooding east may be nearer the ultimate truth than these syllogisms of the practical west. You see, it was a condition, not a theory which confronted Tom that morning in our empty nursery. Nevertheless, he tells me that he has just hired a young detective who is said to have a genius for solving mysteries and seeks have abandoned us beyond their skill. Let me assure you, dear reader, that if Tom's latest employee gets on the track of Gwendolyn Van Vorre's and little Horatio Mintern, I shall see to it that the public be instantly informed of the fact. End of chapters 9, 10, and 11. End of Perkins the Faker, a travesty on reincarnation by Edward S. Van Zyl. Recorded by Céline Major.


Wu Jianmin, many thanks for coming to WPC TV. You are an advisor to the Foreign Ministry in China and also former ambassador, I think, to France. If you could look at the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, how does China regard the so-called pivot to Asia by the United States? Is it somehow threatening rather than accommodating? You know when we look at the pivot strategy to Asia, we are puzzled because on one side, China-U.S. relationship is growing rapidly. Myself, I went to the U.S. for the first time in 1971. In 1971, the trade volume between China and the U.S. amounted to 5 million U.S. dollars. Last year, 520 billion U.S. dollars means what? Means there is increasing economic interdependence between China and the U.S. I think it's good. On the other side, we are disturbed by the repeated statement from U.S. administration about the military alliance. President Obama said the U.S.-Japan military alliance is a cornerstone of Asia-Pacific security. If that is true, where is the place of other countries, China, ASEAN, etc. People to Asia, to some extent, I understand, because U.S. as only superpower has to follow the center of gravity of international relations. This center of gravity of international relations is moving, it's shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific, U.S. has to follow this move. Follow this move, what does it mean? To strengthen military alliance? This is cold war thinking. I take your point, but I mean, presumably the Americans would argue that it's actually the Japanese who feel somewhat threatened or uneasy at the rise of China's power, and therefore it's Japan, among other Asian countries, that feels the need for this American pivot. You know, there are different logics. Military alliance, people, different countries become allies, allies, what for? You are aiming at some people, some countries. Military alliance is calling for counter-military alliance. China is refraining from doing so, because to my understanding, military alliance is something of the past. What we have to do, I think, is to develop mutually beneficial cooperation so that the foundation of the relationship between my country and the rest of the world will grow stronger and stronger. Then one foundation is growing stronger and stronger. When we look at our differences, we will be in a better position to deal with our differences. So this is a way. So military alliance, this kind of logic is coming from Cold War. The Cold War is over. So I think we have to adapt to new reality of the world today. Wu Jianmin, thank you very much indeed. Thank you.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of VMworld 2020, brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back to the VMworld 2020 virtual coverage with theCUBE virtual. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante, your hosts, our 11th year covering VMworld. Got a great guest, Greg Lavender, SBP and the CTO of VMware. Welcome to theCUBE virtual for VMworld 2020 virtual. Greg, thanks for coming on. You have a pleasure to be here, thank you. Really, one of the things Dave and I were commenting with Pat and just in general, it's our 11th year covering VMworld. Absolutely different, it's not face to face. But there's always been a technical conference, always a lot of technical innovation. Project Monterey's out there, it's pretty nerdy, but it's, I call it the catnip of the future, right? People getting excited by it, right? So there's really a lot of awareness to it because it kind of, it smells like a systems overhaul, it smells like an operating system, feels like a lot of moving parts that are quite frankly what distributed computing, geeks and software geeks love to hear about. And to end, distributed software intelligence with new kinds of hardware innovations from NVIDIA and whatnot. Where's that innovation coming from? Can you share your thoughts on this direction? Yeah, I think first I should say, this isn't like something that just, we decided to do six months ago, actually in the office of the CTO four years ago, we actually had a project, future looking project to get our core hypervisor technology running on ARM processors. And that incubated in the office of the CTO for three years, and then last December, I moved the engineering team that had done that research and advanced development work in the office of the CTO over to our cloud platforms business unit, and smart NICs kind of could converge with that. And so we were already well along the innovation path there and it's really now about, building the partnerships we have with the smart NIC vendors and driving this technology out to the benefit of our customers who want to leverage it. You're giving- Greg, I wonder if you could clarify something for me on that. So Pat talked about Monterey and a complete re-architecting of the IO stack. And he talked about effecting NVIDIA and Intel, Melanox, and Sandos part of that. When he talks about the IO stack, specifically, what are we talking about there?  And so there's an overhead that gets consumed in the core server, CPU, even if it's multi-core, multi-socket. And so by offloading a lot of that IO work onto the ARM core and taking advantage of the hardware offloads that are in those smartNICs, you can offload that processing and free up even as much as 30% of the CPU of a server, multi-socket, multi-core server and give that back to the application so that the application gets the benefit of that extra compute and memory resources. So what about a single sort of low cost flash tier to avoid the complexities of tiering? Is that part of the equation?  And so you could, if it's all flash storage, you know, using something like NVMe fabric over ethernet, you can essentially, you know, build large-scale storage networks more efficiently, you know, more cheaply and take advantage of that offload processing to begin to reduce the IO latency that's required to access that network attached storage. And not just storage, but, you know, other devices that you can use that are network attached. So disaggregated architectures is firm. Is that a yes or is that a stay tuned? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. I mean, the storage, you know, more efficient use of different classes of storage and storage tiering is definitely a prime use case there. Yeah, great, thank you. Thanks for that, John. How could people think about the Edge now? Because one of the things that's in this end-to-end is the Edge, Pat brought it up. Multi-cloud and Edge are two areas that are extending off cloud and hybrid. What should people think about the innovation equation around those things? Is it these offload techniques? What specifically in the systems architecture do you guys see as the key keys there? So, you know, Edge is a very diversified heterogeneous place in the architectures of a multi-cloud services.  And a lot of the data will be analyzed and processed at the Edge. So the more that you can accelerate that data processing at the Edge and apply some machine learning inferencing at the Edge, we're almost certainly gonna have Kubernetes everywhere, including the Edge. So I think you're seeing a convergence of the hardware architecture, the Kubernetes control plane and services and machine learning workloads, you know, traveling to the Edge where the date is going to be processed and actions can be taken autonomously at the Edge. So I think we're at this convergence point in the industry where all that comes together. How important is the... Do you see that? Oh, God, John. How important is the intelligence piece? Because, again, the data's at the Edge, how do you guys see the data architecture being built out there? Well, again, it's depending on, you know, the thick Edge or the thin Edge, you know, it's going to have different types of data. And again, a lot of the inferencing that could happen at the Edge is going to, I think, more, you know, again, to take action at the Edge as opposed to calling home to a cloud, you know, to decide what to do. So depending on, you know, the computational power and the problem with its video processing or monitoring, you know, sensors or an oil well, the kind of inferencing that will happen at the Edge will be dependent on that data type and what kind of decisions you want to make. So I think data will be moving, you know, from the Edge to the cloud for historical analytics and maybe, you know, additional training mechanisms. But, you know, the 5G is going to play heavily into this as well, right, for the network connectivity. So we're at this unique point as often occurs in the industry every few years. Of all these technology innovations converging to open up an entirely new platform in a new way of computing that happens at the Edge, not just in your data center or at the cloud. So Greg, you did a fairly major stint at a large bank. What would something you mentioned, you know, like an oil rig, but what would something like these changes mean for an industry like banking or financial, will it have an impact there? Put on your customer hat for a minute and take us through that.  Right. And so, you know, people want to deliver more user experience services, more video services, you know, all these things at the Edge to interact positively with the customer without using people in the loop. And so the banking industry has already gone through the SD-WAN and I-WAN transformation to deliver the bandwidth more capably to the Edge. And I just think that they'll just now be able to deliver more Edge services that happen, can happen more autonomously at the Edge, as opposed to having the hairpin, the home run, everything back to the data center. Awesome. We have Pat talks about the modern platform, the modern companies. Greg, I want to ask you, because we're seeing with COVID, there's two use cases, you know, the people who don't have a tailwind, companies that are, you know, not doing well because there's no business that we have, they're re-modernizing their business while they have some downtime. Other ones have a tailwind. They have a modern app that, that takes advantage of this COVID situation. So that brings up this idea of, what does a modern app look like? Because now if you're talking about a distributed architecture, some of the things you're mentioning around, inference, data, Edge, people are starting to think about these modern apps and they are changing the game for the business. Now you have vertical industries, you mentioned oil and gas, you've got financial services. It used to be, you had an industry solution, it worked like that and was siloed. Now you have a little bit of a different architecture. If we believe that we're looking up, not down, does it matter by industry? How should people think about a modern application? How do they move faster? Can you share your insights into, into some of this conceptual, what is a modern approach? And does it, does it matter by vertical or industry? Yes, I mean, certainly over the course of my career, I mean, there's just a massive diversity of applications and of course, you know, the explosion of mobile and Edge computing is, you know, just another sort of set of use cases that will put demands on the infrastructure and the architecture and the networking. So a modern app, I mean, we historically built sort of these monolithic apps where we sort of built these sort of three tier apps with, you know, sort of the client side, the middleware side, the database, the backend as the system of record. I mean, this is even being more disaggregated in terms of, you know, the consumer edge is both not just web tier, but mobile tier and, you know, we'll see what emerges out of that. The one thing for sure that is that they're becoming less monolithic and more a conglomeration of SaaS and other services that are being brought together, whether it's from the cloud services or whether it's ISVs delivering, you know, bring your own software and they're becoming more distributed because people need operated higher degrees of scale. There's a limit to vertical scaling. So you have to go to horizontal scaling, which is what the cloud is really good at. So I think all of these things are driving a whole new set of technologies like next generation API gateways, message buses, service mesh, we're announcing Tansu service mesh at VMworld, you know, it's just allowing it's allowing that application to be disaggregated and then integrated with other apps or SaaS services that allow you to get faster time to market. So speed of delivery is everything. So modern CI CD, modern software technology and the ability to deploy and run that workload anywhere at the edge of the core in the data center in the cloud. So when you do your rearchitecture like this, Greg, I mean, you've seen over the course of history in our industry, you've seen so many companies have hit a wall and in VMware as it's just amazing engineering culture, how are you able to, you know, change the engine mid-flight here and avoid like serious technical debt. And I mean, it took, you said, it started four years ago, but can you give us a peek inside, you know, that sort of transformation and how you're pulling that off? Well, I mean, we're delivering the platform and you know, Spring Boot is a key, you know, technology that's used widely across the industry already, which is what we've got as part of our pivotal acquisition. And so what we're just trying to do is just keep delivering the technology and the platform that allows people to go faster with quality, security and safety and resiliency. That's what we do really well at VMware. And so I think you're seeing more people building these apps cloud native as opposed to, you know, taking an existing legacy app and trying to refactor it. They might do what I call, I think somebody's called two-speed architectures, take the user front end, the consumer front end and put that cloud native in the cloud, but the backend system of record still runs in the private cloud in a highly resilient, you know, backed up disaster-recovered way. So you're having, I think, brand new cloud native apps we're seeing and then you're seeing people very carefully because there's a cost to it of looking at how do I basically modernize the front end, but maintain the reliability, the scalability, the security and the reliability of that sort of system of record back end. And so either way, it's winning for the companies because they can do faster delivery to their businesses and their clients and their partners, but you have to have resiliency and reliability that we're known for, running those mission-critical workloads. Right, and so the scenario is that backend stays on-prem and on the last earnings call, I think Pat said or somebody said that I think, as they said, on-prem or maybe they meant hybrid, 30 to 40% cheaper than doing it in the cloud. I presume they were talking about those kind of backend systems that you don't want to migrate. Can you add some color to that again from your customer perspective, the economics? Yeah, you know, somebody asked me one time, what's really a cloud Greg? And I said, it's automation, automation, automation. You can take your current environments and highly automate the release, lifecycle management, develop more agile software delivery methods. And so therefore you can get sort of cloud benefits from your existing applications by just highly optimizing them and on the cost of goods and services. And then again, the hybrid cloud model just gives customers more choice, which is, okay, I want to reduce the number of data centers I have, but I need to maintain reliability, scalability, et cetera, take advantage of the hybrid cloud that we offer, but still run things cloud-native. So I think you're seeing this true multi-cloud technology and paradigm grow out as people have these choices. And then the question is, okay, if you have those choices, how do you maintain security? How do you maintain reliability? How do you maintain uptime? Yet be able to move quickly. And so I think there's different speeds at which those platforms will evolve. And our goal is to give you the ability to basically make those choices and optimize for economics as well as technical capability. Great, I want to ask you a question with COVID. We're seeing, and we've been reporting, the CUBE virtual evolved because we used to be at events, but we're not there anymore. But as everyone has realized with COVID, it's exposed some projects that you might not want to double down on or highlighted some gaps in architecture. I mean, certainly who would have forecast the disruption of 100% work from home, VPN provisioning to access and access management, security. And it really has exposed what kind of who's where in the journey, and digital transformation. So I got to ask you, what's the most important story or thing to pay attention to as the smart money and smart customers go, hey, you know what? I'm going to double down on that. I'm going to kill that project or sunset that or I'm not going to refactor that. I'm going to containerize it. And there's probably, there's a lot of that going on in our conversations with customers. They're like, it's pretty obvious. It's critical path. It's like, we stay in business, we build a modern app, but I'm doubling down. I'm transitioning. It's a whole nother ball game. What is the most important thing that you see that people should pay attention to around maintaining an innovation and coming out on the other side? Yeah, well, I think, I think it just generally goes to the whole thesis of software defined.  So I think, what's really helped in the COVID era is the maturity of software defined, everything, compute storage, networking, WAN really allowed customers and many of our customers to rapidly make that pivot. And so, what is the workspace, the remote workspace you got to secure it, that's a key part of it. And you've got to give it, you got to have the scalability back in your data centers, or if you don't have it be able to run those virtual desktops in the cloud. And I think, so this ability again to take your current environment and more importantly, your operating model, which the technology could be agile and fast, but if your operating model is not agile, you can't execute it well. One of the best comments I heard from a customer's CIO was, for six months we debated the virtual networking architecture and how to deploy the virtual network. And when COVID hit, we made the decision and did it all in one week. So the question the CIO asked now is like, well, why do we have to operate in that six month model going forward? Let's operate in the one week model going forward. Why did we do that before? I think that's the big inflection point is the operating model has to be agile. We got all kinds of agile technology and choices I mentioned. It's like, how do you make your organization agile to take advantage of those technological offerings? And that's really what I've enjoyed the last six months helping our customers achieve. I think that's a key point worth calling out and doubling down on Dave, because whether you talk about our cube, cube virtual, our operating model has changed and we're doing new things, but it's not bad, it's actually beneficial. We can talk to more people. This idea of virtualization, I mean pun intended, virtualizing workforces face to face interactions are now remote. This is a software defined operating business. This is the real innovation. I think this is the exposure. As companies wake up and go, why didn't we do that before? Reminds me of the old mainframe days, Dave. Why don't we have that mainframe? Because they're still clutching and grabbing onto it. They got a transition. So this is the new reality. We were joking earlier that if they ain't broke, don't fix it. And all of a sudden COVID broke everything.  And I wonder if Greg, you could talk about the security piece, how that fits in. Everybody, the bromide of course is, security can't be a bolt on. It's got to be designed in from the start. Pat Gelsinger said years ago in the cube, security is a do-over. You guys have purchased many different security components. You've built in security. So how should we think about, and how are you thinking about designing in security across that entire stack without really bolting in pieces, whether it's carbon black or other acquisitions that you've made? Yeah, I mean, I think that's the key inflection point we're in as an industry. I mean, getting back to my part of banking experience, I was responsible for cybersecurity engineering, the platforms that we engineered and deployed across the bank globally. And the challenge, let's say I had 150 plus security products and you go to bed at night wondering, which one did I forget to deploy or what did I get? But it's for gaps.  And so really our philosophy at VMware is, okay, well, let's kind of break that model. Let's, we call it intrinsic security, which is just, you know, we have the hypervisor. If you're running the hypervisor, it's running on most of the servers in your data center. If you have our network virtualization, we see all the traffic going between all those hypervisors and out to the cloud as well, and then we have the hyper cloud or public cloud with our NSX technology.  Because our whole model now is we have this technology and some alert pops and we get reactive about proactively telling me that something nasty is going on. I need to ask you a question. And maybe remediate it, sorry, John, and maybe remediate it, you know, at some point anyway, bring in some machine intelligence to instead of, like you said, get an alert, actually tells me what happened and how it was fixed, you know, or at least recommending what I should do. Right? Yeah, part of the problem in the historic architectures is it was all these whole silos, you know, every business unit had its own sort of technology and as you make things virtualized, you sort of do the virtual networking, the virtual storage, the virtual compute, all the software, you know, all of a sudden you have a different platform, you have lots of standardization, therefore you're operating model simplifies, right? And then it's about just collecting all the data and then making sense of the data so that you're not overwhelming the human's capacity to respond to it. And so I think that's really the fundamental thing we're all trying to get to, but the surface area is enlarged outside the data centers. We've discussed out to the edge, whatever the edge is, you know, into the cloud, hybrid or public. So now you've got this big surface area where you've got to have all that telemetry and all that visibility. Again, back to getting proactive, so you got to do it in-band as opposed to out-of-band. Great, I want to ask you a question on cybersecurity. We have an event on October 4th, a virtual event. The Cube is hosting with Cal Poly around the space and cybersecurity symposium as intersection of space and cyber. I noticed VMware recently announced last month that the United States Space Force has committed to the Tanzu platform for continuous DevOps operation for agility. I interviewed Lieutenant General John Thompson, Space Force, and we talked about that. He said, quote, it's hard to do break-fix in space. Illustrating really, you just can't send someone to swap out something in space, not yet, at least. So they're looking at software defined as a key operating reality. Okay, so again, talk about the edge, the space is as edge as you're going to get. It needs to be completely managed. Talk about payloads and data. This is kind of an interesting data point because you have security issues because space is going to be contested and congested as an edge device. So it's obviously the government's interested in that. But fundamentally, it's a DevOps problem that you guys are involved in. This is the reality. This kind of connects this reality idea of operating models based in reality have to be software. What's your take on it? Yeah, I mean, I think the term we use now is DevSecOps because you can't just do DevOps. You have to have the security component in there. So yeah, the interesting, there's a lot of interesting things happening just in fundamental networking, right? I mean, the Starlink satellites that Tesla has launched or Elon Musk has launched and bringing sort of higher bandwidth, lower latency to those, we'll call it near space. And then again, it just opens up all new opportunities for what we can do. And so yeah, I think the whole software development ecosystem, again, back to this idea, I think of three things. You gotta have speed, you gotta have scale, and you gotta have security. And so that's really the merging platform, whether it's terrestrial or in near space, that's giving us the opportunity to do new architectures, create service meshes of services, some terrestrial, some far remote. And as you bring these new application architectures and system platform architectures together with all the underlying hardware and networking innovations that are occurring, you mentioned flash, but even we're getting into P and M persistent memory, right? So this is so much happening that is converging. And what's exciting to me about being at VMware as the CTO, we partner with all the hardware vendors, we partner with all the system providers like NVIDIA and others, the smart NIC vendors. And then we get to come up with the software architectures that sort of bring that together holistically and give people a platform where you can run your workloads to get work done wherever you need to land those workloads. And that's really the excitement about the software. You're a kid in the candy store and yet you got hard problems to work on to solve. I mean, this really brings the whole project monorateful circle. Because we think about space and networks and all these things you're talking about, you need to have smart everything. I mean, isn't that software, it's a complete tie-in to the monorail. Yeah, exactly, you're right. It's not just connecting everything and pushing data around. It's then having the intelligence to do it efficiently, economically and securely. And that's, so I see the, I don't want to over hype machine learning. I tend not to use the term AI, but use the machine learning technologies, properly trained with the proper data sets, and then the proper algorithms, that you can then deploy at the edge, the small edge, thick edge, in the data center, at the cloud. It's really then you give the visibility so that we get to that proactive world I was talking about. Yeah, great stuff. Greg, great insight and great conversation. Looking forward to talking more tech with you. Obviously you are in the right spot of VMworld in the center of all the action across the board. Final point, if you can just close it out for us, what is the most important story at VMworld 2020 this year? Well, I think, I like to say that I have the best job, I think that I've had in my career, and I've had some great ones, is we get to be disruptive innovators, and we have a culture of perpetual innovation. And really VMworld for us, all the employees and all the people that work together to put it together, is we get to showcase some of that. Obviously I have more up our sleeves for the future, but VMworld is our coming out show of the latest set of innovations and technology. So there's going to be so much. I have a vision and innovation keynote kickoff where I do some lightning demos, and actually I talk about work we're doing in sustainability, and we're putting a microgrid on our campus in Palo Alto in partnership with the city of Palo Alto, so that when the wildfires come through or there's power outages, we're an oasis of power generating capacity with our solar and our batteries. And so the city of Palo Alto could take their emergency command vehicles and plug into our batteries when the power is out in Palo Alto and operate city services and city emergency services. So we're not just innovating in core tech, we're innovating to become a more sustainable company and provide sustainable carbon neutral technology for our customers to adopt. And I think that's an area we want to talk about, maybe we can talk about it next time, but I think our innovations are going to basically help change the world with regard to climate as well. Let's definitely do that. Let's follow up for another in-depth conversation on the societal impact. Of course, VMware is VMworlds 2020. It's virtual, there's a ton of sessions. There's a cloud city portion, check out the 60 solution demos. Of course, they asked the expert, Greg, you're in there with Joe Beda, Raghu, all the experts, engage and check it out. Thank you so much for the insight here on theCUBE, virtual. Thanks for coming on. Appreciate the opportunity, great conversation and good questions. Great stuff, thank you very much. Thanks for it. Innovation at VMware, it's the heart of their missions always has been, but they're doing well on the business side, Dave. Okay, theCUBE coverage there, not there in person, virtual. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. Thanks for watching.


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Oh, I saw Dizzy Dean. Have you been reading this, lady? I saw Dizzy Dean out there. He saw this Indian faker laying on one of those beds of mail and he says, now there's been a perfect excuse. Well, that's enough clowning around, so Jeanette at this time was saying, my heart has wings. Sing it, pretty girl, but with... What'd you do about your summer hotel in the mountains? You know, a chalet to pay on the bald eagle knob? I let my uncle take it back, but he gave me a job as a social director. He did? Yeah, and would you believe it? Since I took the job over as social director... The guests aren't speaking to each other. Oh, they are. They are so. See, I'm having a lot of fun up there. I got them playing all kinds of games. The only game they don't seem to get is Bingo, and they're too old to learn it. I can't see that age has anything to do with it. Well, it has. Every time I yell out the number 65, they all yell Social Security. Oh, but I got a real treat for them tonight. I've got to get back up there. We're going to put on a play for them in the barn. Boy, is that going to be a turkey in the straw? Ah, it's Roger, the fiddle player again. Don't kid yourself. It's going to be terrific. We're going to put on Dangerous Dan McGrew. I played a part of Dan McGrew. A part was made famous by my uncle when he was with a road company. You know, he broke records for attendance. You mean he broke rocks at Alcatraz? Yes. Ah, quiet, Roger. I'm playing the part because I'm a pretty dangerous guy. Yeah, you and Casper Milktoast. Listen, I'm plenty dangerous, brother, and don't kid yourself that I'm not. Well, I only yesterday morning I went up in the mountains to hunt bears. With only a revolver in my hand. I wheeled around, I fired a shot, and there lay a dead bear. How long do you figure he'd been dead? About two weeks. Ah, watch the ears. Come on, let's get up in the mountains so we can put on the play. Say, Red, maybe I'll spend the week up there. I suppose you feature an excellent cuisine. No, but the food's good. And does that air up there make you hungry?  I know you've tasted the food you wish you had. Well, how's your appetite, Red? Oh, I do all right. He does all right. Why, every time he sits down in the dining room, the waitresses have a game they play called Glutton Glutton. Who's got the Glutton? Yeah, go on, Bob Strong. Let's have the South American wave while we start north. Great man now. Greetings, everybody. I'm glad to see so many of you gathered here in the screwball room. Now for our play, the shooting of Dan McGrew. I'm going to play the part of Dan McGrew and, of course, I get shot in the end. Okay, Del, you lay the scene, I'll lay the egg. With a low bow to Robert W. Service, we present the shooting of Dan McGrew or Yukon take it with you. Curtain.  Tell me how music inspires me to do things. By the roulette wheel stood that Yukon heel, the dangerous Dan McGrew. And just behind him were watching his luck was a lady that's known as Lou. Say, McGrew, ain't it against the law to run game the camp? Certainly is, my little trillion. But the players don't have a chance around here. The ball stopped on a winner. What a coincidence did the same thing last year, too. Looks like you win, partner. Come on, the drinks are on the house. Say, Lou, sell the bartender to get out that recipe for that double-rich Mickey Finn. Nothing doing. That minor may not be a sour dough to you, but he's my sweet cookie. Oh, sweet cookie, eh? Well, don't not forget. Don't not forget that around these parts I'm known as the best shot. In fact, I'm the best when half shot. How about you and me having a dance? Scram, you're not the guy I want. You couldn't have any gold with a pan like yours.  It's turning me down. What is this, the spurn of the nards?  Let me slide, my little wood sparrow. Looks like you're going to have to elf. Listen, you're getting us quite all cluttered up with victims. That's two of them. I can't do a thing about it, though. I'll have to wait till the spring thaw to do my planting. Who's that over there? Looks like a mountain he just came in. It's too late to move the evidence. Say, my scarlet-coated friend, are you a mounted policeman? Well, I ain't a motorized sickle cop. Go to the mountains. You look like a good egg, him through. That button has something on the house. Careful, you don't strip over those corpus delectar. Oh, good heavens. Say, Mr. McGrew, you'll just have to subdue your urge to purge. Nothing of it, my red-coated friend. That's nothing but the face on the bottom floor. But there's two of them.  Mr. McGrew, you'll just have to rub them out. That's a little matter I've already taken care of. Well, I really ought to ask you a lot of questions, but I just pay surprise to other people, sis. Oh, yes. A lesson well learned, my friend. Step up and have a double brandy, will you? Oh, no, thanks. I never drink anything stronger than a double chin. Double chin? Double chin. Don't believe I've ever heard of a drink called double chin. Well, it's the fat horse's neck. I won't take anything. You see, I'm in the dog team division of the mountain, and I'm working night shift. And by the time I go off duty at half past April or a quarter to May, I just know I'm going to have arctic circles under my eyes. Well, what's that? Oh, good heavens, that's my dog team. Well, I've got to go now. I've got to feed my huskies some weedies and mush. Tony, he'd look good in my trophy room. I've always wanted a mounted policeman. Better take that, Lou. Good evening. This is McGrew's booze. What can I do for you? What? You want to buy a big gold claim? Well, we have none for sale right now. But I tell you, we don't have any gold mines for sale. Yes. Yes. Yes, we have no bonanzas.  Bright flashes? They're not for your liver. No, I think it's my northern lights. Hey, partner, I ain't getting any gold dust and you can't pay for my drinks. Is anybody strong with poker dust? Well, anybody's got a poke of dust bites it. I messed that up a little there, stranger. I'll find a can. Well, anybody's ain't got a... Let it go. I messed the can. Anybody ain't got the dust around here, that's the right that I got it. Here it comes. Well, an empty chamber. Death takes a haul of time. Hey, McGrew, I'm bringing in another poke of dust the next time I come in. There's no credit here, my friend. I'm gonna maul you with both my bare hands. Oh, I guess I better not, either. I'll let you bring in the gold dust. A poke of the tils better than two in the pus. You hear that, Lou? A poke of the tils with two in the pus. It ain't funny, McGrew. Then out of the night there was fifty below and into the tin and the glare there stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks dog dirty and loaded for bear. Call me 40 if it ain't dangerous, Sam McGrewsum. Well, Professor McGraw, you look like the sixth spell of the Yukon. Poo-poo, McGrew. The ragtime kid had cached in his chips.   How else could I do it? In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt, he sat and I saw him sway and he clutched the keys with his talon hands. My gosh, but that man could play. Well, my chattering comrade, you sure do finger that piano. Maybe I'd like to hear me sing something. Huh? We'll, Sam, we'll make it snow. Sir, would you care to tee off little African golf, would you? No, but I might play a game of poker if you let me deal so I won't get lost in the shuffle. I always play a street game, partner. I even mark my own cards. Here's a fresh take. I just got out of the icebox. Don't touch them. I'll deal them myself. There you are. It's there. Five cards for you and five for me. Pretty little things, aren't there? Only five cards? Sorry, I thought I would deal them. Look at these cards. I bet a hundred. I'll raise you a hundred. I bet a thousand. I'll raise you a thousand. I bet a million. I'll raise you a million.  I doubt for you. That's fine. I win. Just a minute, just a minute. I've got a world front. What have you got? Two pairs, jacks and six shooters. You sure are lucky, but now it's my turn to deal. Shuffle them thick, shuffle them thin, deal them careful, then I'll win. There, bet a million. I call. I got a king high straight. What do you got? Oh, let's see. I got king, queen, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, two, two, one. You mean you got 13 cards? Certainly. What's the matter? You're superstitious or something? How long are taking apart? You wouldn't dare. I would be dishonest, my little chum. Are you accusing me of cheating, sir? Are you trying to say that I'm a cook? No. Why this whole thing is unconstitutional? Now take it yourself. Why, by two prints, I think it's going to knock you apart. Now don't get excited. I'm excited. Who's excited? Now put that gun down. Put it down right away, sir. I ducked my head and the lights went out. Two guns blazed in the dark. You've done me in, partner. Well, maybe that'll teach you a lesson. That's more than a lesson, chum. It's the whole course. Dan. Now, I'm not as wise as these lawyer guys, but strictly between us few, the woman that kissed him and pinched his poke was a lady that's known as Lou. There's a right pretty song that came out lately, friends. It's called My Last Goodbye. Bob Trennder put it into a very nice arrangement for Kurt Massey and the Alphalon chorus. Here it is, My Last Goodbye. Sing it, Kurt. Smile, so did you. But somehow we knew it was mine. And by way of interpretation, friends, he means Alphalons have everything. And believe me, they have. They give you both outstanding quality and real money-saving economy. Alphalons are union made from the choices Turkish and domestic tobaccos that grow blended to perfection to give you the very finest in real smoking pleasure. That's why you'd never guess they cost you less. Three to five cents less per pack than other popular price brands. Three to five cents less for cigarettes that are unsurpassed in quality. With all the definite advantages Alphalons offer, they're certainly worth a trial. So, ladies and gentlemen, in the language of the Jeterbug, modulate to Alphalons, which means switch to Alphalons. Try a pack tonight. And if you lie under anything, what's the difference as long as you bury it? Yeah. I suppose you're referring to my play, eh, Rogers? Well, I understand that the critics are waiting out in the hall, and they're not going to give me four belts. Now, you'll probably wind up with about three scars. Yeah. Oh, what's the use? Good night, folks. I'll see you next week. Don't forget your change. Yes, you'd never guess, but Alphalons cost only ten cents, plus city or state tax. Next Saturday evening, at the same time, when the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation will again present Avalon Time.


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So you don't understand flat polyloops, not a problem. This is the exact same thing as normal polyloops, but instead of going all the way around, your actions only get applied on the flat side that you start with. So here's normal polyloop, and here is flat polyloop. I hope that helps. And as always, hope you have a fantastic day, and I'll see you around.