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The devil delights, the gym jams, the banana flips. Treat yourself to some fresh memories. Treat yourself to a Mickey snack cake. Have a smile on us. With his faithful Indian companion title, the daring and resourceful mask writer of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The lone ranger rides again. Come on Silver, let's go people. I am Silver. Jake Carson was tough and bitter. After the massacre of his wife and child by Indians, Jake had given up trying to make a living in the west and had turned out law. Three years in prison had increased his bitterness and he left there determined to take all he could from those who had been more fortunate than he. One day Jake and the companion rode the trail from San Antonio, Texas toward the Gulf Coast town of Corpus Christi. You ought to reach Corpus Christi by sundown, Sam. Listen Jake, I agreed to come along with you when you said you had something worthwhile lined up. You haven't said what it is. I met a Mexican bandit after I went to prison. A week ago he sent word for me to meet him at the Siemens Cafe in Corpus Christi and bring a friend I could trust. That's all I know, Sam. Except that Pedro's message did say that he was planning something that would put a fortune in our laps. You haven't any idea what he has in mind? No, but I can tell you this much. Pedro isn't the type of hombre who gives out with a lot of big talk he can't back up. I took his side when some of them ganged up on him in the prison yard once and Pedro said he'd pay me back someday in a big way. I figure this is it. I hope we get a lot of cash out of it. We sure can use it. If I can believe Pedro, Sam, we'll wind up a plenty of cash. By tonight we'll know just what Pedro has lined up for us. Get up there.   That night Jake and Sam sat at a table in the Siemens Cafe in Corpus Christi waiting expectantly for Pedro to arrive. Finally. Say, look, Sam, the hombre who just came in is Pedro. He's heading this way. Buenos noches, amigo. Ah, it's good to see you again, Senor Jake. Hello, Pedro. Meet my friend, Sam Potter. Howdy, Pedro. Sit down, Pedro. We got a lot to talk about. Say, Senor, gracias. I got the letter you mailed from the Wavewood Laredo, Mexico. What you doing down here in Corpus Christi? Oh, we must keep our voices down, Senor. We must not be overheard. Ah, yes, sure. After I left prison I learned that General Juarez was recruiting forces to drive out Maximilian. I went to Monterey hoping to gain by the trouble. While there I learned Maximilian had arranged for a shipment of gold to be sent from Corpus Christi. Enough gold to buy the loyalty of the Mexican troops and to stabilize his government. The sailing ship Montemoro sails regularly between Corpus Christi and Veracruz carrying bales of cutter. On its next trip, the gold will be taken aboard at night and hidden in the hold. How did you find out about it? In Monterey I joined Juarez's forces. I was in charge of a scouting party that ambushed the Emperor's courier who was riding toward the border. The message he carried verified the plans. I took it telling the man it was of little importance. Then I deserted and came here. I resealed the message and delivered it to the bank career who was to carry through the plans. That shipment will be well guarded. How do you figure the three of us can get it? How about that, Pedro? Armed guards will put it aboard at night while the entire crew is on shore leave. And guards will take it from the ship at Veracruz. But there will be no guards aboard during the run to make. Even men with only three of us. Wait a minute. I have planned well. Are you listening? A friend of mine owns a fast boat. He uses it to bring in contraband. He will be in this port tonight. We will go aboard his boat and sail before the Matamoros leaves. Then we intercept it out on the gulf and take the gulf. When does the Matamoros leave with the shipment? It arrives tomorrow and leaves the following morning. How are we going to get that ship to Stur? My friend's boat carries concealed cannon for and after. A few well-placed shots will be enough to bring the Matamoros to a stop. My friend's crew is composed of expert gunmen that will do as they are told. Pedro, that looks like you have a good proposition. Carversion. Why not? Now we shall have drinks to our success. The following morning, the lone ranger and his Indian companion, Toto, rode toward Corpus Christi. Himasavi, you not say why Governor asks you go to Corpus Christi. The government of Texas has arranged to send a large gold shipment to Maximilian by boat, Toto. I assured the governor we'll do all we can to see that it gets through to Mexico safely. How will we do that? I'll wear a disguise. Then we'll ship as passengers. The boat is the Matamoros. And what we do with silver? Scouts? We take them aboard to those cargo boats have facilities for carrying livestock. The governor gave me a letter of identification to present to the ship's captain. Well, we'll soon reach Corpus Christi. We'll stop in a grove near town when I change my appearance. And I'll go see the captain. And then we'll... Toto waited at the cafe while the lone ranger went to see the ship's captain. Later he met the masked man in a grove at the edge of town. Oh, fella. Easy, fella. Well, Toto, everything's arraigned. Yes? While me at cafe, we see outlaw fella named Carson who... who got out of prison a few weeks ago. He'll sit at table with other fella. I wonder what Carson is doing down here. Of course he's a free man now. Ah, but while me there, Mexican fella come into cafe and him go to table where Carson sit. Here, fella, with Carson say something. Ah, Pedro, we saw that ship you spoke about that a lot of Morris docked this morning. Peter Boyce doubts that, man. Sit down, Pedro. We've got plenty to talk about. Met all me here, Kimus hubby. After that, them talk in low voice. Hmm. Strange, you should mention the lot of Morris. Met right. Toto, those men will bear watching. They're right in the town and we'll see if they're still at the cafe. Let's go. Easy fella, easy fella. Let's go! The lone ranger still in disguise returned to town with Toto. Jake, Pedro and Sam were still in the cafe and the mask man and Indian managed to watch them without attracting notice. When the three men left the cafe, the lone ranger and Toto followed them outside. In toward the dock, Toto. Ah, wait here with the horses. I'll see where they go, then meet you later. You wait. Toto waited patiently until the lone ranger returned. Then as the two men rode from town, the mask man told what he had found out. Jake Carson and his two pals went aboard a strange boat docked a short distance from the Motta Moros, Toto. I recognize the Mexican as a bandit who was sent to prison about the same time as Carson. You think they planned something? Well, the fact that you heard them mention the Motta Moros causes me to suspect them of knowing about the gold shipment. And what do you plan to do? I plan to learn more about that boat and the men aboard it. How do you do that? After dark, I'll try to get aboard without being seen. But that's plenty risky. You'll wait in the shadows on the dock until I join you. But I'm not back within an hour. Go to the sheriff and ask him to bring his men aboard. I'll give you the governor's letter to show him. Those men are plotting to get that gold. It's up to us to stop them. Come on, Toto.  That night, the lone ranger and Toto stopped their horses in the shadows near the wharf where the strange vessel was docked. Lights shining from cabin on ship, show man standing near gang plain. How would you get aboard? The moon hasn't come up yet. In the darkness, I'll go hand over hand up all the mooring lines. If all goes well, I'll see you within an hour. Adios. Adios. The lone ranger walked quietly under the dock in the darkness, locating a heavy rope running from the dock to the vessel. He started upward hand over hand. I'll soon reach the gate. Finally, he reached the ship and pulled himself over the rail. The lone ranger stood a few moments to get his bearings. Then cautiously went toward the open portholes of the captain's cabin through which light were shining. Hearing the sound of voices within, he crouched beneath one of the portholes listening. The Monomoros sails in the morning with a gold shipment captain. My plan is for us to sail at midnight tonight and wait for it far out in the Gulf. Well, that suits me. Most of the crew are ashore, but they have orders to be aboard by 11. It's 10.30 now, Captain Lee. What have you told your crew? I promised them a bonus to help us take part of the cargo from the Monomoros. They don't know about the gold. Good. Jake and Sam are expert gunmen. They will come in handy when we board the Monomoros. Are the cannon board and aft ready for firing, Captain? Yes, I inspected them a while ago. As he listened, the lone ranger failed to hear a thought step behind him. Suddenly... Meet you, Mac! They ever gun at your back. You make a move out of pluggy. We'll continue our lone ranger adventure in just a moment. Times sure have changed. Time was when people saved cookouts and picnics for summer. And lazy Sundays spent under a big oak tree in the town park. Well, today's family eating habits are much more flexible. Mom might have forgotten how easy it is to fix a cook-in for lunch. Maybe with hot dogs and baked beans. Or a casual dinner with cheeseburgers, soup and salad. And as you're planning your easygoing meals, don't forget to invite Merida. As in Merida hot dog and hamburger buns. Remember Merida? We're the people who bake while you sleep. That's the only way Merida can promise you'll find the freshest rolls and bread and cakes the very next day on your grocery shelf. But remember, we bake our famous hot dog and hamburger rolls all year long. So relax a little, plan quick and easy meals your family will love. And don't forget Merida. Merida enriched hot dog and hamburger rolls. We're not just a summertime thing. Now to continue. Taken by surprise as he listened to the conversation inside the captain's cabin, the lone ranger quickly raised his hands. Well, what now? Just stand where you are. Captain! Captain, come quick! What's the matter here? I caught this ombre snooping under the open porthole. We cover him. Take his gun, Sam. Right. I have him. Bring him into my cabin. We'll see. Get going, senor. He was listening to you talking into your cabin. So? That is not good, captain. I know. Go back to your post, young'uns. You did well to capture this snooper. Aye, aye, sir. Pedro, we better find out how much his ombre knows. He listened even for a short time. He must know of our plans. I heard enough. He's something familiar about him. I remember seeing him in the cafe today. Who are you, senor? What does it matter? Why were you here snooping? I found out what I came to learn. We can't let him go, Pedro. We don't intend to. Let's drill him to his body. No, senor, Sam. We wait until we are out in the Gulf. Then we dispose of him. By the time being, we tie him and lock him in the cabin. Yeah, that's a good idea, Pedro. I'll send Jenkins to round up the crew right now. Then we'll sail before anyone comes looking for him. All right, tie him up. Sam placed the Lone Ranger's guns on a table. Then he helped tie the masked man to a chair. After he was securely tied, the captain and the other three men left the cabin. The Lone Ranger, still in disguise, realized he had to free himself before the ship sailed, with him aboard as prisoner. For a short time, he struggled to loosen his bonds, but without success. Must get loose somehow. Used to thinking clearly in emergencies, the Lone Ranger carefully observed his surroundings. He saw a small side table on which there were several glasses and a decanter of wine. He stood his chair across the cabin until he was beside the small table. Then he knocked the table over. The decanter broke into several pieces. Then Lone Ranger rocked the chair to which he was tied until it too overturned.  He scraped the edge of the glass against the rope until it finally parted. That did it. I can free my head. A short time later, he had loosened his bonds and was free once more. Now for some action. He quickly picked up his guns, then climbed through a window onto the deck. The Lone Ranger realized the crew had come aboard and were getting ready to cast off. He'll have to act fast. Running swiftly along the deck in the shadows, the Lone Ranger fired several shots into the air. Then took cover between several barrels placed on deck near the gang plank.  As the Lone Ranger hoped, the commotion on shipboard warned Kato of trouble. The Indian immediately mounted and headed for the sheriff's office. Easy scouts, easy scouts.  For a short time, the unexpected gunshots puzzled the gunman and the captain until the crewman who had surprised the Lone Ranger came to the pilot house. The man you left tied up in your cabin has escaped. He must be the one who's covering the gang plank to keep us from sailing. One arm break can't hold out against all of us. Let us take the crew, captain. We formed two groups and attack him from both sides. We have to work fast. The shooting will attract attention. Come on, we'll gun him down and leave the darkest, quickest possible way. Bouched behind the barrels, the Lone Ranger waited for the attack he knew would soon take place. So far he had prevented anyone from pulling in the gang plank, but he realized he couldn't hold out long. Attacking from both sides. Some of the mask man's bullets found their marks, wounding a few of the crew. The others pushed closer until it seemed that he'd be overpowered by force of numbers. Then bullets began to fly from another direction. Hey, men coming up the gang plank! Cattle with the sheriff and his men ran up the gang plank firing as they came. The sheriff's order had a strange effect on the ship's captain. Hold your fire, men! Hey, what's the idea, Kevin? Come on, but why do we not fight them?  I'll tell the sheriff he found a stowaway abort who was trying to wreck the ship. My men have you all covered. Drop your gun. Who is the sheriff, says, men? Sheriff, I suppose the commotion abort my ship brought you here. There's a stowaway abort. When he was found, he started firing at my men. You can take him ashore with you. Sheriff, these men planned to way-lay the Matamoros out on the gulf to steal a certain valuable cargo. He's lying. Of course he is. Oh, wait. Sheriff, there are cannons concealed for an aft on the ship. I'll check on that. It's against maritime law for a cargo ship to carry guns. Some of you men investigate. Search the entire ship while you're about. Sure thing, men. Meanwhile, the rest of us will keep these men covered. Within a short time, the searching party returned, and the deputy made a report. Sheriff, we found the cannon. What's more, we found some contraband in the hold. That settles it. We're arresting the whole lot of you. Hey, Drew, you got us into this with your Turkish steel and their gold ship. Why, if they're not taking me to jail. Hey, stop him. Jump overboard. I'll get him. Get away from me. You're not getting away. Now, come here, you. For a few moments, the two men fought in the water, then gasping for breath.  I can't keep up with this. I can't keep up with this. Throw down our roof ladder. Our roof ladder was lowered, and a short time later, Jake and the Lone Ranger were again on board the ship. The crux and the crew were tied. Then the sheriff spoke. Mister, we'll charge these men with running contraband and carrying concealed cannons aboard ship. Contrary to maritime law. I reckon we can't prove they intended to wailay the Matamoros, but I reckon that valuable shipment will get through without trouble. I hope so, Sheriff. I'm sure you and your men can handle these crux and get them to jail. See, Todd and I sail in the Matamoros in the morning, so we leave now and go aboard. Adios. How long, mister? And thanks to you, their plan was nipped in the bud. Let's go, Todd. Oh, that home-brain is clever and tough. Never have I met one like him before. He's clever, all right, and he can be plenty tough with crux like you. I will remember his face in case we meet again. Won't do you any good. His real features are disguised. He usually wears a mask, but figure to disguise was better this time. Wait a minute. I thought his voice was familiar. Now that you say he usually wears a mask, I know he's the hombre who sent me to jail three years ago. He's the lone ranger. I'd like to just take a minute to talk to you about marita brown and serve rolls. As you know, marita means all that's fresh and good that goes into and comes out of your oven. And marita brown and serve rolls are the ones that bake to a flaky golden brown in just six minutes. There are 12 delicious marita brown and serve rolls in every package, and if you don't use them all right away, that's all right, too. Marita guarantees freshness for several days after you buy them. Of course, in your freezer, they'll last indefinitely. 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From the CUBE studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is a CUBE Conversation. Welcome to this CUBE Conversation. I'm Lisa Martin and today I'm talking to Ivante again and Intel some breaking news. So please welcome two guests, the EVP and Chief Product Officer of Ivante, Nayaki Nayar. She's back and we've also got the VP and GM of Business Client Salute Platforms for Intel, Stephanie Hallford. Nayaki and Stephanie, it's great to have you on the program. It's great to be back here with you, Lisa. And Stephanie, glad to have you here with us. Thank you. Thank you. You guys are going to break some news for us. So let's go ahead and start. Nayaki, hot off the presses is Ivante's announcement of its new hyper automation platform, Ivante Neurons, helping organizations now in this new next normal of so much remote work. Now, just on the heels of that, you're announcing a new strategic partnership with Intel. Tell me about that. So Lisa, like we announced our Ivante Neurons platform that is helping our customers and all the IT organizations around the world to deal with this explosive growth of remote workers, the devices that remote workers use, the data that is getting from those devices and also the security challenges. And Neurons really help address what we call discover all the devices, manage those devices, self-heal those devices, self-secure the devices. And with this partnership with Intel, we are extremely excited about the potential our customers and the benefits our customers can get. Intel is offering what they call device as a service, which includes both the hardware and software. And with this partnership, we are announcing the integration between Intel's V Pro platform and Ivante's Neurons platform. So which is what we are so excited about. Our joint customers, joint enterprises that are using both the products can now benefit from this other box integration to take advantage of this device as a service combined offer. So Stephanie, talk to us from Intel's perspective. This is an integration of Intel's Endpoint Management Assistant with Ivante Neurons. How does this drive up the value for the EMA solution for your customers who are already using it? Right, well, so V Pro is just to step everyone back. V Pro is the number one enterprise platform trusted now for over 14 years. We are in a vast majority of enterprises around the world. And that's because V Pro is essentially our best performing CPUs, our highest level of security, our highest level manageability, which is our EMA or EMA manageability solution, which Ivante is integrating, and also stability. So that is the promise to IT managers for a stable, the Intel stable image platform. And what that allows is IT managers to know that we will keep as much stability and fast forward and push through any fixes as quickly as possible on those V Pro devices because we understand that IT networks usually qual in not all at one time, but it's sequential. So V Pro is our number one enterprise built for business, validated, enabled. And we're super excited today because we're taking that remote manageability solution that comes with V Pro. And we are marrying it with Ivante's top class in point management solution. And Ivante is a world leader in managing and protecting in points. And today more than ever, because IT's remote and Intel, for instance, our IT over one weekend had to figure out how to support 100,000 remote workers. So the ability for Ivante to now have our remote manageability in band, out of band, on-prem, in the cloud, it really rounds out Ivante's already fantastic world class solution. So it's a fantastic start to what I perceive is going to be a great partnership. And probably a big target installed by Snaggy. Talk to me a little bit about COVID as a catalyst for this partnership. So many companies, Stephanie talked about a great example of Intel pivoting over a weekend for 100,000 people. We're hearing so many different numbers of explosion of devices, but also experts and even C-suite from tech companies projecting maybe 30 to 40% of the workforce only will go back. So talk to me about COVID as really driving the necessity for organizations to benefit from this type of technology. Yeah. So Lisa, like Stephanie said, right? As Intel had to take 100,000 employees remote over a weekend, that is true for pretty much every company, every organization, every enterprise independent of industry, vertical that they had to take all their workforce and move them to be primarily remote workers. And the stats that we have seen is what used to be, I would say three to 4% before COVID of remote working close COVID or during COVID, as we say, it's going to be around 30, 40, 50%. And this is a conversation and a challenge every IT organization, every C level exact. And in most cases, I'm also seeing this become a bold conversation where they're trying to figure out not just how to support remote workers for the short time, but for a longer time as this becomes the new normal or the next normal, whatever you call that, Lisa, and really helping employees through this transition and providing what we call a seamless experience as we employees are working from home or on the move or location-agnostic, being able to provide experience, a service experience that understands what employees' preferences are, what their needs are, and providing that consumer-grade experiences, what this joint offering between Intel and Ivanti really brings together for our joint customers. So you talked about this being elevated to the board-level conversation. This is something that we're hearing a lot of that suddenly there's so much more visibility and focus on certain parts of businesses. And survival is, so many businesses are at risk. Stephanie, I'd like to get your perspective on how this joint solution with Intel and Ivanti, do you see this as an opportunity to give your customers not just a competitive advantage, but for maybe some of those businesses who might be in jeopardy like a survival strategy? Absolutely. I mean, while we, both Ivanti and Intel, have our own IT challenges and we support our workers directly, we are broadly experienced in supporting many, many companies that frankly perhaps weren't planning for these types of instances, remote manageability overnight, security and cyber threats getting more and more sophisticated. But tech companies like Ivanti, like Intel, we have been thinking about this and experiencing and planning for these things and bringing them out in our products for some time. And so I think it is a great opportunity when we come together and we bring that IP expertise and IT expertise, both IP technical and that IT insight, and we bring it to customers who are of all industries, whether it be healthcare or financial or medium businesses who are increasingly being managed by service providers who can utilize this type of device as a service and endpoint manageability. Most companies and certainly all IT managers will tell you they're overwhelmed. They are traditionally squeezed on budget and they have the massive requirement to take their companies entirely cloud and cloud oriented or maybe a hybrid of cloud and on-prem. And they really would prefer to leave network security and network management to experts. And that's where we can come in with our platform, with our intelligence, we work hard to continue to build that product roadmap to stay ahead of cyber threats. Our VPRO platform for instance has what we call Intel hardware shield, it's a set of technologies that actually protects against cyber attack even under the OS. So if the OS is down or there's a cyber attack around the OS, we actually can lock down the BIOS and the firmware and alert the OS and have that communication which allows the system to protect those areas that need to be protected or locked down or encrypt those areas. So this is the type of thing we bring to the party and then Evanti has that absolute endpoint management credibility that there's just I think ease. So if IT managers are worried about moving to the cloud and getting workers remote and managing cyber threats, they really would prefer to leave this management and security of their network to experts like Evanti. And so we're thrilled to kind of combine that expertise and give IT managers a little bit of peace of mind. I think it's even more than giving IT managers a piece of mind. So talk to me, Naoki, about how these technologies work together. So for example, when we talked about the neurons and the hyper automation platform that you just announced, you were talking about the discovery, the self-healing, self-securing of all these devices within an organization that they may not even know they have edge devices on-prem cloud. Talk to me about how these two technologies work together. Is it discovering all these devices first, self-securing, self-healing? How does then EMA come into play? So let me give an analogy in our consumer world, Lisa. We all are used to or getting used to cars where they automatically heal themselves. I have a car sitting in my garage that I haven't taken to a workshop for the last four years since I've bought it. So it's almost a similar experience that combine offering things to our customers where all these endpoints, like Stephanie said, we are, I would say, one of the leading providers in endpoint management where we support today. Evanti supports over 40 million endpoints for our customers. And combining that with a strong VPRO platform from Intel, that combined offering, which is what we call device as a service, so that the IT departments or the enterprises don't have to really worry about how we are discovering all of those devices, managing those devices, self-healing. Like if there's any performance issues, configuration drift issues, if there are any security vulnerabilities, anomalies on those devices, it automatically heals them. I mean, that is the beauty of it where IT doesn't have to worry about trying to do it reactively. These neurons detect and self-heal those devices, automatically in the background. And almost a augmenting IT with what I call these automation bots that are constantly running in the background on these devices and self-healing and self-securing those devices. So that's a benefit every organization, every company, every enterprise, every IT department gets from this joint offering. And if I were on their side, on the other side, I can really sleep at night knowing those devices are now not just being managed but are secure because now we are able to auto heal or auto secure those devices in the background continuously. Let's talk about speed because that's one of the things speed and scale we talk about with every different technology. But right now there's so much uncertainty across the globe. So for joint customers, Stephanie talked about the large install base of customers on the Bepro platform. How quickly would they be able to leverage this joint solution to really get those endpoints under management and start dialing down some of the risks like device sprawl and security threats? So the joint offering is available today. I mean, we released the integration between both the platforms with this announcement. So companies that have both of our platforms and solutions can start implementing it and really getting the benefit out of it. We don't have to wait another three months or six months right after this release, they should be able to integrate the two platforms, discover everything that they have across the entire network, manage those, secure those devices and use these new rounds to automatically heal and service those endpoints. So this is something they could get up and running pretty quickly. It's an auto box connection and integration that we worked very closely. Stephanie's team and my team had been working for months now. And yeah, this is an exciting announcement not just from the product perspective but also the benefit it gives our customers, the speed, the accuracy and the service experience that they can provide to their end user, employees, customers and consumers. I think that's super beneficial for everyone. Absolutely, and then that 360 degree view. Stephanie, we'll wrap it up with you. Talk to us about how this new strategic partnership is a facilitator or an accelerant of Intel's device as a service vision. Well, first off, I wanted to come in Niyaki's team because our engineers were so impressed. They felt like they were working with the PhD advanced version of so many other engineering partners they'd ever come across. So I think we have a very strong engineering culture between our two companies and the speed at which we were able to integrate our solutions. And at the same time, start thinking about what we may be able to do in the future should we put our heads together and start doing a joint product roadmap on opportunities in the future, network connectivity, Wi-Fi connectivity, all sorts of ideas. So huge congratulations to the engineering teams because the speed at which we were able to integrate and get a product offering out was impressive. But secondarily on to your question on devices as a service, this is going to be by far where the future moves. We know that companies will tend to continue to look for ways to have sustainability in their environments. And so when you have devices as a service you're able to do things like in supporting that device from its start into a network to when you end of life a device and how you end of life that device has severe sustainability and cost complexities. And if we're able to manage that device from end to end and provide servicing to alert IT managers and self-heal before problems happen, that helps obviously not only with business models and protecting data, but it also helps in keeping systems running and being alert to when systems begin to degrade or if there are issues or if it's time to refresh because the hardware is not new enough to take advantage of the new software capabilities, then you're able to end of life that device in a sustainable way, in a safe way, and even to some degree provide some opportunity for remediation of data and remote erase and continue to provide that security all the way to the end. So when we look at devices as a service it's more than just one aspect. It's really taking a device and being responsible for the security, the manageability, the self-healing from beginning to end. And I know that that all IT managers need that, appreciate that and frankly don't have the time or skill sets to be able to provide that in their own house. So I think there's the beginnings today and I think we have a huge upside to what we can do in the future. I look at Intel strengths and in enterprise and how long we have been operating in enterprises around the world. Evantes in the vast majority of Fortune 100s and when you've got engineering powerhouses that are coming together and brainstorming it's I think it's a great partnership for relief for customer pain points in the future which unfortunately there's going to be more probably. Andisa, this is just the beginning. Yeah, and this is just the beginning. This partnership is just the beginning. You will see a lot more happening between both the companies as we define the roadmap into the future. So we are super excited about all the work, the joint teams and Stephanie I want to take this opportunity to thank you, your leadership and your entire organization for helping us with this partnership, absolutely. We're excited by it. We are, we know it's just the beginning of great things to come. Absolutely. Well, just the beginning means we have to have more conversations. The cultural fit really sounds like it's really there and there's tight alignment with Ivante and Intel. Ladies, thank you so much for joining me. Now, it's great to have you back on the program. Thank you. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you for hosting us. And Stephanie, it's always a pleasure talking to you. Thank you. Likewise. Looking forward to the launch and all the customer reactions. Absolutely. Yes. All right, thanks, ladies. Thanks, Stephanie. For my guests, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching this CUBE conversation.


Hello, this is Professor Steven Nesheba, and I want to tell you a little bit about this molecule ethene. You can see it's carbon-carbon with a double bond, and the first thing I just want to show you is that it's configured this way when it has hydrogens on it, but when we add a couple of methyl groups, this carbon and this carbon sp3s, onto the ends, then it can be configured in this, what we call the trans configuration, and it can also be configured in this cis configuration. So we have trans and cis, which are just sort of the orientation of these extra groups off the carbons that are involved in the double bond. Second thing to mention to you is is the fact that it's a planar molecule, which you can see this way, and the reason is planar, is that the we have a pair of electrons here in this pi subsystem molecular orbital, and it's oriented in a way that it enforces that that planarity. And that's also true in the other these trans, as you can see here, it's a kind of a similar story, as with just the ethene, and it's the same story if we go to the cis molecule, which I'm just going to pull up like this. So in all three cases, it's the molecular orbital, the pi-cis subsystem molecular orbital, a pair of electrons in this orbital that enforce the planarity of the molecule, and it's really in the end it's that planarity that causes there to be a stiffness that causes there to be a in this case a cis, or a trans, or or in this case just the just the ethene itself.


We've all heard of files and links, and if you've ever used Github, then you might have also heard of Forks as well. So what does it mean? Forking a project creates a copy of that project in your dashboard. You can then change that copy for your own purposes without changing the original project. When you create a fork, it's like creating a project, you'll be the only contributor until you add more. Forking automatically creates a reference to the original project as a functional citation. Over time, the network of Forks can trace the evolution of project's materials. To fork a project, visit the project in question and click the duplicate button at the top right of the page. This will give you several options on how you can duplicate a project. Click fork and a fork will be created. You can also easily turn a project that you've linked into a fork so that you can make edits to that project. Just find the linked projects in your component section and click on the fork icon.


This is stock number 70403A 2016 Toyota Tundra, double cab, six and a half foot box. This truck has the 5.7 liter V8 motor from this HD video. You'll be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around. No dents, dings or scuffs in the front bumper, factory fog lights, super white is the color. Michelin LTX tires, these are 275-65R18s and they are on the painted and polished aluminum rims. All the rims are in excellent shape and the tires have right around half the tread left. This is a one owner local trade, traded in on a brand new rim. Passenger rim, excellent condition as well and as you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective the paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can still see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. I didn't see one single dent or ding down this side of the vehicle, very well maintained, has the painted step bars, back rims are in excellent shape as well and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody on this truck is in really good shape, all little rockers look really nice, very nice clean truck. Rear bumper, no dents or dings on that, it has a 4-pin and 7-pin wiring, full towing package, the tailgate is in excellent shape, no dents or dings on that, has a nice cap on it, dropping bed liner and this one does have the backup camera and on this side of the vehicle is just as clean as a passenger side and lastly this back rim, no scuffs or scrapes on that, we just want to give the most accurate representation possible so when you get here there's no surprises, you'll be ready to take the truck right home, has the telescopic tow mirrors so they do pull out like that, they also do fold in and they have built-in directional signals and they're heated. Inside the SR5 package gives you the gray cloth interior, there are no rips or tears in these seats, power driver seat and see the carpeting is very clean, this truck has 26,679 miles, has an outside temperature display, multi-function steering wheel with Bluetooth audio controls, has the touchscreen radio and this is also where your backup camera shows up and I believe it's got serious XM radio capabilities, so it does have that, has the factory brake controller, stability control, turned out four-wheel drive, passenger seat is very clean as well, no rips or tears on that and it does have home link for your garage doors and then a compass display up in the mirror, very clean inside, take a quick look at the back seats then we'll check out under the hood, my bad, got a floor mat thing back here, so we got storage underneath these seats right here, nice little extra storage area that you can close, these back seats are in really nice condition, it does have latch child safety system, a manual sliding rear window and you can see that the passenger seat is very clean as well, back here we have factory floor mats throughout and we will take a quick look under the hood, the hood is very clean, I didn't see any dents or dings on that, hood releases right there, 5.7 liter V8 motor, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, truck has been gone through mechanically, has a clean bill of health and is 100% ready to go and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 400 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it, we got it, go to our website www.summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot, videos of every single used vehicle that we have, all at www.summitauto.com, thank you so much for checking out my video, if you like the truck, want to make it yours, give us a call right now<PHONE_NUMBER>, ask for one of our sales associates to make this truck yours today, once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER>, thanks again if you like the video, want to check out more, go to our YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash summit auto, like, subscribe and share and in fact in a second you'll see a button to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left, a link to more half-ton HD videos of trucks on your right and on the bottom a link to this truck on our website if you're not already on our website so check those out click them up and we look forward to up here with the super clean 2016 Toyota Tundra double cab, thanks again


Our global terrorism index 2022 ranks Nigeria third in the list of countries most impacted by terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa and sixth most important world in the country, the most important country in the world. We shall be taking a look at the cost of insurgency and banditry in Nigeria. Also, as the nation grapples with the epileptic educational system and the need to improve on this fresh structure to accommodate the teeming population, can homeschooling serve as a supplement to the Nigerian education system? That's the question we'll be seeking answers to on the show as well. We'll also take a look at the headlines on major newspapers in the country and off the press with an analyst will join us to dissect some of these headlines on the breakfast this morning. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast. My name is Nyam Gul. And I am Maureen. Morning to you. Today we're going to be looking at a major theme and that will be can parents do more to encourage their children's appetite for learning because nowadays a lot of people complain about the educational system and how the standards have dropped but where do we start from? How do we begin to encourage our people to cultivate that attitude of learning and having that precious appetite for learning all the time? Do we start from the home or do we start from the external body we call a school? Indeed, we should start from the home, Nyam Gul. It's been said that the best way to teach children to read is by reading yourself. Children learn most from examples. For instance, you want your children to cultivate the habit of reading novels. You must be seen to be reading novels yourself. You want them to read newspapers. Matter of fact, because these days we online newspapers have become the thing, almost replacing, you know, they had coffee newspapers which we grew up learning, reading and that was how some of us got to know some of the things happening on the national scene. Today our children do not have that advantage. So, let's go back to it. Yeah, I really call it an advantage because in those days if you're reading a newspaper the distractions are not there. Today, if you're reading online, there's so many distractions, so many things popping up, some things coming that you didn't even anticipate and you get distracted and when we're talking about homeschooling, my concern also is what do the parents as individuals even want their children to learn nowadays? Can we have a standard that we say that if everybody is taught at home this is how the child is likely to turn out to be. What will the parents be teaching these children and well, I'm not the expert but there are some concerns that arise whenever an idea comes into your head. Yeah, but I think the first place to even start is, is it even legal in Nigeria to homeschool? That's another thing. Is it even legal in Nigeria to homeschool? And even if it is, what curriculum should be adopted? Is it harmonized with the ones in the formal education sector or is it not? So yeah, these are some of the questions we should be asking. And are the parents comfortable enough for maybe one of them to stay home and homeschool the children or will be doing like in Lagos, you have a nine to five job, but you wake up at 4.30 to get to work and get back home at 12 p.m. sometimes. Well, you know that is just not possible, how is it possible to do that? But at least for the people who can, there should be legal backing for them to be able to do that for their children and we've seen people who are homeschooled even in the days of your that turned out to be very, very good and we're hoping that in Nigeria with all the complaints we've been giving, we should have alternatives that will work for us as well. Can I just shock you? I know a family who do homeschool in Nigeria. I said, I don't know if it's legal, but I know a family of seven kids, they have seven children, their mother does the homeschooling. Now, I do not know if they employed other hands to join, but those children are sharp, intelligent, right? There should be and well behaved. And then you don't, you don't have that feeling that it is a formal setting. You're taking things easy and sometimes learning is faster when you just take it easy. That's why sometimes when within the class, students organize lessons for themselves and they teach themselves, they tend to understand even more because it's coming from a place of relaxation. Relaxation. Ease. Yes, it is. Okay, but on the, on the, on the national scene as it were, we're looking at some trending topics. One of them is federal government bans in partition of used vehicles manufactured above 12 years. The directive issued along with a revised list of prohibited imports. And then those prohibited imports include some medication like chloroquine tablets and syrups, paracetamol tablets and syrups, cotrimazole tablets and syrups, folic acid tablets, metronidazole tablets and syrups among other items. I didn't know that folic acid tablets are contraband. Well, even some of the ones that have been mentioned here may be now they're contraband because they were, they were not. For instance, at some point they banned Kunin, which was legal at some other point and was saving lives. But I don't know whether they discovered something else that made them to ban it. Just like they're investigating one noodle, noodle company. Endome. They say it has some substance inside. So maybe at some point it will work and at others something will be introduced that will make it toxic or something. So let's just take the advice of the people. Yes. They're no better. Well, the federal government has also introduced a new set of taxes on imported vehicles. Well, the new tax system goes into effect on June 1st of this year. As it is. Well, those who are importing vehicles will not like to hear this. As it is now, it's difficult to even get a car nowadays because of the taxes involved. You could buy a car for, let's say, up to 300,000 Naira and it gets to Nigeria before you clay it at the wharf and all that. You're spending like 2 million Naira and now the tax is coming. So if you have not bought a car, no need to try again. Try. Your family should donate money for tricycle and then you just buy it and you're doing it again. Well, this new tax is known as import adjustment tax and levied at a rate of 2% of the vehicles value. 2% of the vehicles value. The new charge is in addition to the 35% import duty and 35% levy that car importers already pay. Such a huge burden. Okay. That means it is 72% of this car that you're paying because if it is 35% for one tax and another 35% for another one and now 2% so that's 72% which means you're buying a car. If it's 100,000 you're paying a 72,000 for tax alone. So how many people will drive cars? And I wonder why it tastes like this. If it were a situation where the government is providing transportation, you know, people wouldn't even need cars. I was on Thetmenland Bridge today and I was looking at the cars. Most of them had just one person inside the car and imagine 50 people being single person inside the car that could have been on one BRT. On one BRT. If it was possible. On one train. Yeah, on one train. There wouldn't be anything like a traffic jam and all that but they don't seem to be looking at that. Well, we have electric cars nowadays. We have electric cars which we looked at briefly yesterday to find out can it be charged in the rain and driven in the rain so that it is electric? And some of the things, the mileage of it, everything, we will need to take a deeper look at this electric vehicles that are coming of course. One of the advantages is that it will reduce emissions into the air but we'll take a deeper look and find out if it would also be cheaper for commuters. So this tax is also high on imported alcoholic beverages with 75% litre for imported wine, stout and beer in 2023 and 100% naira per litre in 2024. So we're looking at more taxes on alcoholic beverages and beer, beer, alcohol and wine I beg your pardon. So in 2024 things are really going to be more expensive with regards to wine and beer and alcohol. What's even the intent? Is it to stop people from drinking alcohol or to just make more money? I think the target is luxury goods. Some goods that are regarded as luxury goods and I think they're targeting those who are supposedly, you know, up there as against those who are down there. But then when you're targeting wine, when you're targeting stout for instance and it's not only the elite of the rich that drink that. I mean the Nigerian man is already under a lot of pressure as it is. So you have to ease down. What I'm not saying that alcohol is not exclusive of the rich. So when you're taxing alcohol, I mean you're taxing, I beg your pardon, wine, stout and beer, it's every sector, every part of Nigeria and South Africa, but the rich and the poor. So we end up being the ones to pay for it because people are still buying. And then these imported vehicles. I'm more concerned about the vehicles, you know, because, well, I don't know. This just makes me remember one time where the Lagos State government said that we're burning alcohol from parks, especially, and they said. Yeah, they said the ones in Sasha will never be sold in parks anymore. And I didn't see a single day where that law was enforced. And I don't know, maybe they will succeed in this one because it rakes in the money and they will be comfortable about it. But when they see something and they need to do it, they should just go ahead and do it. Incremented. Yes. Okada is no longer here, but policemen drive it. They are not dispatch riders that were allowed to do that. But the policemen use it, and they even use it for commercial purposes. I've seen a lot of them carry people and get money. And then the ordinary man is banned because he should have. He is an ordinary man. He is Frank Olysees' ordinary man on the street. So let's go to the second top trending, which is BRT driver who crashed into train, a rain for manslaughter. You do remember that train, that horrible incident that happened? These people died and so many others were wounded. And it's because of, from the stories, like we say, strong head. Don't do this. And he's going ahead to do it.  To the other person. Yeah, way to the other person. That's why they drive in zigzags and all that. And that's why before now we were talking about mental health and the need for evaluation of these people, especially the people who are faring people for the government because it gives a bad name to the government that their own people are misbehaving. So how do you advise the other people if your own people cannot be evaluated? Yeah, there you have the picture there. Very horrible bus and train colliding. It's very rare, very, very, very rare occurrence. The state, Lagos state bus rapid transit driver, Oshiba and Joe Oluwashion, who collided with a moving train at Ikeja and allegedly killed six people. He was on Tuesday rain before Ikeja High Court. The defendant is facing 16 counts bothering on involuntary manslaughter and grievous harm. Well, the director of public persecutions, Babaji de Martins, told the court that the BRT driver negligently killed the victims by ignoring warning signals and run into an oncoming train. Just as you have said, that impatience. Yeah, a train that is coming, the noise alone, even if you don't hear the horn, will alert you to the fact that it is coming. And if you're crossing an intersection, the total is to look right, look left and all that. You wouldn't have been that close to a train and not notice it coming. It wasn't in a bend or something, but he felt he was smart enough, he could just pass and got some people killed. But also, some questions were raised when that happened. What about the warning signals? Were there enough warning signals? I remember a few months back I was driving from that Ikeja GRI going to, you know, the other side and I had to go through past that rail track and I didn't know that a train was coming. I didn't hear anything. Thank God there was the official there standing there who just said, run, run, run, run, run. It was just like that. Run quickly. Yeah, just quickly. No, I wasn't, because there was no signal. The buses were driving past, I was coming, there was no horn from the train, there were no barricades, so to speak. It was just as if nothing was going to happen, we had no idea that a train was coming. So from nowhere I just saw him saying, quickly, quickly, drive past, quickly, move, move, move. And that was how I had trauma for a while. Uh-oh. Yes. So the warning signals, are they there? The barricades are they there? Yeah. These are some of the questions that were raised when this happened. It's a pertinent question, or they are very pertinent questions. In Lagos we find out that even some roads that are one-way, they don't tell you, give you the sign.  Sometimes I've seen a case where someone was asked to, there was a diversion and people were supposed to pass that one way legally as it were. And the guy passed, and they arrested him, said it's one way. First of all, somebody on the other end asked him to pass, and then... Somebody in front of him, like some sort of collaboration. And it's not like 80 or 85,000 for that, you know, because they were being threatened, you will impound your car, we'll do this and do that. But anyway, back to the BRT driver, the fact that people warned him shows that there was a sign, even though not official sign, but it shows that he could have seen this train coming, he still wanted to be smart enough. But all the facts are not with us, we don't know what he's taking us. Well, the director of public prosecutions is accusing him of ignoring the warning signals and... What's the warning signals from? Yeah, exactly, that's the question. Warning signals from home and how strategic were those warning signals. And I'm sure he must have passed that road a lot of times. So he might have felt that the situation was the same as every other day that he has passed. And so people might be telling him, stop, don't go, and he could think, I've been doing this thing. I'm smart. Yeah, I'm smart. I'm fast. I'm fast. I can do this. Yeah. And then he was the one who survived. Others died. Well, I wouldn't wish that he died. But I'm very sure he didn't just want to kill these people, but he made a very bad judgment. Yeah. It led to a death. It's a very bad judgment. And other bus drivers need to be careful. Don't drink in the morning. I was about to leave the park. The bus parks don't shine your eyes. You know how it is. And I can't swear for him. That he didn't do something. Okay, so we're moving to the weather report now. We'll take a break from these hot topics, from these and then we'll go to the weather report. I'll be right back. Stay with us.


We are here to tell you about a little bit of an adventure that we went on. So about four or five months ago now, I guess, from March to June, we had the pleasure of going on a giant road trip to visit as many float tank centers as we possibly could. And we headed south from Portland down through California. After we hit the border from there, we actually headed all the way east to the east coast. And then from there, up the east coast into Canada. Yeah, up to Portland, Maine, which felt pretty appropriate. From there, kind of went up into Canada, crossed back down to around Chicago. And then from there, back into the center of the United States, down towards Salt Lake City in Colorado. And then just when we thought we were done, instead, we went all the way back up into Canada, up into Alberta. And then from there, finishing up, going over towards Vancouver, British Columbia, and then down towards Portland again, finishing up our full Portland to Portland to Portland round trip. It took us three months of being on the road. And in total, over the course of this trip, we ended up driving 16,000 miles. And when we started out, we really, we kind of had this number in mind that it would be amazing if we actually made it up to, during our three months, hitting 100 float tank centers. And in fact, we hit that number right around there on the trip, up there by Toronto. So we kept on going, and by the time we actually got back, we ended up hitting 172 float tank centers along our trip, which was very exciting. You know, as we went along this journey, we would be telling this story to people outside of the float industry. And it was very common when we would explain what we're doing that we would start getting questioned on why we were doing it. And people would ask us, are we touring around so we can get ideas for our own construction at our center? Are we opening up new shops, and we just want to scout and see what people are up to? Which was not the case at all. They asked us if we were going around to do market research on the industry, which was not what we were doing. People asked us, yeah, just if we had any kind of real business motivation at all. And we said, we absolutely do. We want to grab beers with everyone. And that was pretty much the goal. Yeah, we just wanted to go grab a beer. And we figured along the way we'd take some silly arms-in-the-airs photos with everyone that we went to visit. So this all started one fateful morning as we were on top of a mountain with our business partner, Jake, and we were sitting up there having a really good conversation and talking about how much fun it seemed like bands have when they go on tour. And how we should totally, definitely do that, except that we run a really demanding brick-and-mortar business. And that we don't have a band. So we decided that the only reasonable thing that we could possibly do was to go on a float tour. So we had some bitchin' t-shirts drawn up, which we might have seen around the conference a little bit. Because you can't really go on a tour without a tour t-shirt. And a proper list of stops on the back as well. We got an RV.  We brought a cameraman along with us. And we basically hit the road with very, very little planning. We just started driving. And pretty much did an awful job warning anybody that we were coming. We would often call people on the phone to let them know what we were doing and that we wanted to stop by and they would be like, oh yeah, what day are you gonna be here? You know, some time next month? We're like outside, we're outside right now. Yeah, I think the most warning we gave anyone was a couple days. And the average was something like two hours ahead of time. Despite that, people were still pretty excited to see us, which was very nice. Almost everybody embraced us with warm welcomes, except for four places. Four places, actually, one we called. Just asked us not to come by. Which was kind of strange. That's a really funny conversation when you're calling. At first they're kind of skeptical, which I understand. They're like, we're running RV and we're in this float tour and they're like, that's all, that's okay, you guys can pass by, and we're like, we just want to say hi. Can we come by and say hi to you and they're like, no, no, don't come say hi. That's all right. We're fine. Aren't you a public place of business? We can't stop us from coming by. Most everybody was very happy to see us as we went around. We heard some amazing things, too. One of the crazy things was that of everywhere that we visited, about half of them had opened within the last year. So of those 172, if we had gone on the float tour just over a year ago, we only would have been able to visit about half the stops that we actually made. Yeah, and it was incredible. We were seeing this everywhere. We were visiting places that had just been open for three weeks. We were visiting places that had had their grand opening a few days before we got there. We were visiting places that were about to have their grand opening a week after we were there. About halfway through our trip, I started looking back on cities that we had already passed through and there were new float centers there. I was like, why did we miss that place? And I looked into it and I'm like, they opened after we were there. And by the end of our trip, we were hitting places that if we had just looped the other way around North America, they wouldn't have existed at the times that we had gone back. So we were doing this very live, up-to-the-minute trip around visiting places and a huge variety of places too, as you can kind of see from the arms in the air photos going on behind us. Everything from just float, the biggest float center in the world, with 11 tanks, to single tanks in people's houses that were still running floats commercially. We visited places that hadn't even been opened yet. We went to one place out near Joshua Tree that was just a desert, like a plot of desert. And they were showing us where their float center was going to go and they like brought out this huge map and it was just all desert. And then they had a square around one chunk of that desert and they're like, that's going to be the desert that this thing's going in. There it is. And the most incredible thing is that we were actually visiting on that. We went to see the desert because, you know, we had to go check it out. And this guy came up on a moped trying to see if we were, you know, what we were doing there. And they started talking about the fact that they were going to open up this float center. And out literally in the middle of nowhere, this guy was like, oh yeah, float tanks. I know about those. He sounds awesome. So the word is getting out. I think we're doing a good job. And the variety continues everywhere to, you know, some people ask us what our favorite stop was on Float Tour and it's really hard to say, but definitely I guess I'm really drawn towards the places that are the most unique and individual. And so here's an example of one of my personal favorite stops. This is down in New Orleans. It's a place called Space Sanctuary, which we only found as a reference from another float tank center. They're not listed on floatation locations or anything. And they said, yeah, you can try to reach out. He's usually not there, you know. And we did. And this is a little pre-float shrine that he has going into the float tank here. It's actually a float and float business. So you can see some Mardi Gras floats out there. And a float tank going in here. And we thought someone was just confused. We're like, no, it's the wrong type of floats. Like we're... And we caught him just before he was going out to Bali to do a float tank installation there. So this is his custom float tank that he built in here, which you can kind of take a look at. No diving signs. Of course. This is actually also hosted... He had a group that he was called the Church of Chewbacca, which is a combination of Chewbacca and Bacchus, and they throw, like, Star Wars-themed black and aliens. Yeah. His nice float tank room was totally decked out with insane LEDs.  Truly amazing. And he used this one largely for personal use and kind of keeping himself sane in there. But yeah, that was one of our favorite stops, to just show you a little of the crazy variety that we encountered. And honestly, one of the most amazing parts of going on this trip was just getting to talk to everyone. People who had been running their centers and getting to hear their stories and their experiences and what their life has been like.  Any advice now that you've actually gone through the process from conception through opening that you'd like to give to people who are just starting to get their toes into the salty water of floatation? The biggest thing is just stick with it. It's going to be hard. Do you have any advice for people who are thinking about opening a float center or just kind of looking at this whole industry and having quite dip their toes into it yet? Don't do it. What's your negative wisdom that you would pass on? Don't do it. No. Do it. Do it. Absolutely do it. I mean, there was a lot of emotional people. It was so much more work than we anticipated. We got knocked down so many times, first of all, to start out.  We anticipated a lot of work. Because a float center is challenging on the mind. Kind of just from conception to getting our doors open was a lot of hair pulling. Yeah, we were thinking, it's going to be a lot of one, two a.m. nights and no, it's almost constant four and five a.m. night. Yeah, and a couple zero sleep. That was without a doubt the most stressful thing I've ever been through. But it's done. You know, I mean, it was just everything that could go wrong went wrong. If anything can go wrong, it will. It's definitely a lot more work than you think it is. Don't worry, it'll take longer than you expect. It's hard. One of my friends refers to it as a petty tyrant. And then we quickly realized that saltwater and dried salt gets everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. No matter what you do, shit's going to hit the fan.  Higher professionals. A budget, budget more. Take your worst case scenario and add 50%. It's going to be, you know, longer and more expensive than you think it's going to be. I kind of idealized that it was going to be a lot easier. And it's going to cost more than you had anticipated. I remember there was a day when we went before the health board and we thought it was just us and the gentleman and it turned out it was not only the entire Davidson County health board, but the state health board was there. Yeah, we decided we need to do it and got a float tank in our basement and destroyed my basement. It was in the pages of all our notebooks, you know. And they grilled us. I felt like I was, like, had killed somebody here and they were, you know, taking me down. I don't know. So, yeah, our pods had to come through those windows right there, which was not the plan at all. Single light hanging in the room should have been a clue, I suppose. It was on all of the electrode wires. Just going to try and steal a plate in front of our shop as the cars go over and we will be giving a lot of refunds and free floats. Just let us know you have your lifeguards lined up. We all need these signs that say, like, no diving.  But it was hard and I know we left there and I felt so broken and, like, this is never going to happen. We've spent so much money. I guess it's ironic that a business that one of its features is helping people to avoid stress at times was extremely stressful. We have failed. We have changed our floors at least once a year. We have spent more money than we ever thought we would. We have worked harder than we ever thought we would. If I'm making one for myself, a little more effort I can make them for other people. I had no idea it was a totally different ballgame. I was so naive. So it's hard. Yeah, it's very difficult to run a float tank center. It's very difficult to start up a float tank center. Basically anything that salt can destroy, it will destroy. Even for us on this tour, we had to go into construction while Ashkahn and I were gone and almost destroyed another of our business partners, Jake, who a lot of you know probably. It was actually a result of the city doing this insane project. They had started planning the project before we even opened our center of redoing 100-year-old sewer pipeline, literally a once-in-a-century project, was going right down in front of our shop, taking one month per block to tear out old rails and sewer systems. This is what our shop looked like when we were out on tour. Yeah, that was fun. And so we decided to take the opportunity as long as we couldn't run floats anyway to do a little bit of renovations ourselves, which of course wasn't easy either. We started taking apart one of our rooms that we needed to update, only to find that one of the walls that we had never touched when we moved into the building, when we finally got back there, was actually just cardboard that some contractor had mudded over back in the day. Had old Asian Times newspapers shoved in there as insulation as well. And some small burn marks from a fire that had happened at some point in the past. So a good lesson too if you take over a space that we totally recommend gutting it down to the core before you build back up, because who knows what people did beforehand. We actually went to take apart one of our rooms, do some fixes on it and put a new float tank in there, and in that process, by trying to get our permits, we found out that we actually needed to take the wall between our rooms, completely destroy it, and rebuild it five eighths of an inch over to meet ADA requirement. So yeah, that's what our float center looked like while we were out galvanting around the country. So even we who consult with people and try to help them avoid these problems cannot even help but stumble into them ourselves. You know, it almost doesn't matter how much experience you have. Those float tank centers really are kind of petty tyrants like David Knieley said. So why the heck would anyone even open one of these things? A guy was chain sawing a tree and dropped the chain saw onto his arm. And before the chain stopped, it went through his ulnar nerve. I actually lived with chronic pain for about 24 years and I thought, oh my gosh, I'm not going to make it through this day. Maybe if I get a massage, I can function. I had a really, really interesting physical journey. So I was like bodybuilder, giant muscular guy who worked out six hours a day. I was in a bad motorcycle class. It's 70 miles an hour now. I was just telling you earlier, both my knees were operated on. I went up on my back and my neck. I did that, tried a lot of things. So he had a significant nerve injury on his other arm, for which he had 30 surgeries and four pain management. And then one day my body just stopped working. I ended up having a back injury and I was kind of struggling with trying to work on figuring out my back and getting it pain-free or not or fixing or whatever.  I was bedridden for roughly two years where I could not get out of bed. I couldn't stand. I couldn't do anything. A woman that came in with her husband holding her from behind because she couldn't stand. Just a, you know, tortured series of years of pain and awfulness. Went to this lovely lady's home and I walked down and told her what was going on and she said, you know, massage might help you a little bit, but I have this tank in my basement. I spent everything that I had on different modalities to get back to functioning as a human again. Sure, a tank in your basement, why not? Take me down. A friend of mine brought it up. Like, you should try floating. Oh, yeah. It looked like a coffin and I got it anyway. And he led her into the tank, got her in the tank, and she had described to us that she had ligaments that had pulled away from her spine. So he comes to us and he's healed enough, you know, that he can get into the tank. The first float was pretty amazing, but she floated for the next two weeks or so. It was just sort of like, we have no idea what this is going to do for you, really. It may help, it may not. She woke me up an hour later by knocking on the tank and I felt pretty good. The way I felt after the float. I had a hard time believing that that came from something that was as deceptively simple as laying in a dark box full of salt water. Like, how did that make me feel this way? I went and floated, and I noticed immediately the tingling in my hands, my feet started, you know, getting better. And just from the series of three floats, it was amazing what had happened. And floating was one of the things that really helped my progression all leap forward. She wrote us an email and said, well, I'm not having surgery. Basically, the pain is going away and I can live with this. And she walks in now, her husband's not tailing her. My husband hang out with my godchildren and my nieces and go out with my friends and go out to eat and do normal things that I never thought I could do again. And I'm thinking, wow, this is life changing. When you live with pain and suddenly you can live a normal life. She keeps coming in, she's like, my doctor is still very impressed. So we floated and then we came back the very next morning and floated again. And I didn't have pain for three days. It was the first time since I was hurt. And he came out also in tears because he had no pain. His severe, burning, tingling, awful pain was gone. And that's how this place happened. That's how I found floating. That's where we are today. I knew right then that I would float for the rest of my life. So of course, that is of course the reason we're all doing this. It makes all of those late nights that we're there fixing pumps dealing with salty disasters and moving walls 5 eighths of an inch. All that is worth it when you get to see people coming out of their floats and having these incredible experiences. So this is a demonstration of someone having incredible experience. But this is from a PTSD program that we were running at our shop. And one of the things that we did was had people do drawings before and after they got in the float. So we gave them a sheet of paper and some crayons. And this is one of the post-flow drawings from one of our PTSD participants down at float on. And we actually asked them to draw a picture before and after their floats. And this is what the picture they drew before their float was. So that's the transformation from before or after that single float.  There's some people who come in and float and have a good experience. There's other people who maybe it's just okay. But there's some people who come in where it feels like this is giving them their lives back. You know, that things were going in a totally different direction. That they weren't able to really function in their day to day anymore. And then they find this and it's a complete game changer for them. And to me it's such an incredible experience. And I think all of us who have float centers here have experienced that. And it's such an intuitive reason for why we wake up every morning and go in there and deal with whatever catastrophe is happening to our float center. Yeah, it is difficult to open a float tank center. But it legitimately just changes people's lives. And as a result of that, I think is why we have this kind of magical community that you can all feel even here at the conference. I think it's almost palpable. And we get compliments every year from the hosts of our different events and parties saying that despite the size of our group, that we're just the easiest to deal with people that they've ever had and that their entire staff just loved us. And I think it is. I think it's a result of that kind of going through that trial by water is what I like to call it. And then also coming out the other side and actually being able to impact people so much. Yeah, and we get to have this experience where we run our centers where we see the impact of giving back to people. And I think that translates directly into what we do with each other. We're a group of people who get to see how good it feels to help other people. And then when another float center opens up and you think back on your experience of all those crazy late nights and you know what they're going to go through, it just becomes supernatural for you to help them as well. And you can see it around here. I think everybody in this room has come up to me at some point just in this conference and told me this exact same thing about how everyone here is so open and sharing and kind and willing to help each other out. And yeah, it's an incredible thing that we have going on. And it's not just us that are up here saying this, you know, this is I think a persistent message that we've actually been hearing from everybody in the industry. I just want to say I love this industry. I love the people in the industry. We're just, we're like this family. It's like float family that exists. There's a bunch of weirdos, man. And I like that, right? There's a bunch of fun, weird people out there. If you have that type of personality, then I encourage people to open up those centers because everybody needs a float. People care and they know how to treat others and they know how to support each other and this kind of thing. Because anybody that's opening a float center, in my opinion, is coming from the heart. We're in such a unique industry to not be able to share that with other people. It would be a shame, yeah. And it just bonds everybody. It kind of takes the whole competition thing away a little bit and just you get to share. It feels good. Float centers are going in now all over the U.S. And no longer are we this lone float center in the southeast. We're starting to see a lot more pop in. And that has made our life so much easier. We experienced going from the only game in town to this just flowing up. And I'm going to say there's nine of us here between Marietta and Brown San Diego County. And it's done nothing but grow our business. I think community is one of our biggest assets, I guess you can call it. I feel really lucky to have such a wonderful life. You know, you guys fell into an industry who would want to be in somewhere else. The more people float, the better the world is. That's the truth. That's the truth. Well, you know, to me the part that is exciting is being able to come to the float conference and actually talk about it and reveal it to people who care. We discovered that there was a whole community. I met you all for the first time. Discovered this whole community that people were very encouraging. I had been concerned that as the industry grew that we might be in danger of the only money humbliness coming in or of having a change in a way that you couldn't keep the goodness of it all. But I don't see that that's happening. We've built a very unique, wonderful thing. I'd like to see it sort of maintained like that as we grow and the bigger companies or the corporate world starts to get involved in the float industry. I don't want to see that fade from the community or the family, I guess, that we have built. Just spread floating, man. Spread love, spread floating. That's it. If you do that, you lived a good life.  I'll talk you off the roof. You can call any float center and ask for advice. Reach out to some of the people in the community that are running float centers, ask them how they're doing it. This is Mike Jones. He wants to start Insight Floatation Center in San Jose. Tap other people in the industry for information. Just learn as much as you can and float a lot before you open your center.  If you can help people, you should help people. That's a reality. Today we are giving Mike and donating to Mike $500 to open up Insight Float Center. Awesome. We all are lucky to operate in an industry that's so open and so friendly. Everybody loves to share help and, you know, build this community, you know, rise up. So that's probably the best thing you can do. And so people like us talk to each other. That helps and do that. We all get what you're going through. We are all going to be like, oh yeah, we have so been there. I'm so sorry. You're going to make it. It is the best therapy I've ever had in my entire life. That ability to give back makes it worth it to turn the key and open every day. Even having to step up and take that role in the community where other people are reaching out to me trying to, you know, ask for help or suggestions, it's really honorable, honestly. And so, you know, there is a ripple effect and I don't know where this ripple is going to go. But it's moving. I mean, it's clear that there's ripples occurring all over the freaking country now. So at this point, it might feel a little bit like we're preaching to the choir here. You know, I think everybody in this room kind of understands this, but I actually think it's really important to take a moment and appreciate what's going on here. I think there's something very special about what's happening in this industry and the fact that even as this is growing and we're all running our businesses and places are opening up closer and closer to each other, this kind of culture in this community that's being grown is, in my opinion, becoming stronger. I mean, that's the only thing that we saw on our trip. We were everywhere we were going. Everybody who was opening their centers seemed just right on the same page as the people in this room and the people you're familiar with. And it really seemed like people were coming from the heart when they were opening this place.  You know, we're not competing over a limited asset of people who can benefit from floating from people who are interested in floating. Our real competitor is just lack of awareness. Getting it out there, helping the industry rise up together. You know, a rising tide raises all ships and that was, again, the story that we heard time and time again as we're traveling around.  And we heard that many, many times when we'd go to different stops. We heard even more incredible things than that. We were down in San Diego and we're talking to Mark, one of the guys you saw in the video there. And he was talking about a float tank center opening up and he called them on the day that they were first getting ready and filling their tanks and they were just having a lot of trouble and kind of nervous about filling their tanks for the first time. And he was like, hold on a second, I'll be there in an hour. And hopped in his car and went down to what other people would regard as a competitor and help them fill their float tanks for the first time. Yeah. And then we stopped by Floating Earth County to visit Glenn. And he had just been there as well helping Glenn cock the bottom of his tanks with the new cocking that he'd found that held up really well against salt water. So he was just out doing good deeds for float centers around him on a regular basis. And we heard, again, even more extreme stories than that. Like Floating Asheville when Mark over there had a heart attack suddenly and left Amy alone to tend the center. She posted up on Facebook that she was having all of these troubles and was really stressed out and she hadn't been the one taking care of the tank. Mark was the one who was doing the more technical stuff with the tanks. But Brooke Brinson offered to come down from Ohm Floats and go tend the center for them and help out. And he did tank repairs. He worked there for several days with no fee. Amy gave him some money for gas and really filled in, visited Mark in the hospital. And that's the kind of community that we have. Jeremy Warner also reached out to Amy and offered the exact same thing.  And we can sit here and talk about this in all these different complex ways. But honestly, the message is pretty simple and I think everyone in the industry kind of gets it at this point. So how do we do this? How do we support this as we get bigger and as more people start entering and opening float centers and as potentially this idea of competition and actually having more floaters in the same area develops. And I think it just really starts with the simple things. We here in Portland get together with the other float centers in town once every handful of months and we just all go grab beers with each other. And that's kind of it. There's no, like, ulterior motivation for it. There's no other agenda. We're not trying to form some sort of business alliance. Although Jeremy DeLong here does call it the float mafia every time we get together. But we just get together and have beers and swap salty stories and just remind ourselves that we're all humans and we're all just trying to get people into float tanks and we all actually have the same goal. Yep. And Trika Drake as well organizes the same kind of thing up there in Calgary for all the float centers around. They go out on regular float dinners up there too. And all of them were really bonded and really close to each other and that was so great to see as we were passing through. And I guess we really just wanted with our talk to find some way to encourage you to do that, to just reach out to the centers around you.   And it would be our pleasure to do so. Definitely, definitely actually take use of this forum. Go contact the people around you and make those connections. We've talked about some lofty things, things like just destroying your floors, destroying your sanity by opening up a float tank center. The meaningful stories of changing people's lives of trying to change this world for the better. And I guess the point we really want to get across is that that doesn't start by trying to launch into these many months or year-long projects. Changing the world starts with the simple things. It just starts with being human and hanging out with each other. Thank you. There we go. Excellent. Thank you guys so much.