Come to sister powers part two, your vibe attracts your tribe. The commonly understood meaning of our tribe is those people who are like us think like us enjoy the things we do work in similar roles. In similar circumstances, our tribe would cheer us on celebrate when we succeed and commiserate when we don't get there helps us feel confident. It sounds quite comforting doesn't it. Welcome back our special guests. Thank you for having us. Yes, I'm honored to be back. Yes. Yeah, we did we did receive a lot of buzz about your vibe attracts your tribe. I just want to hear starting with you, Gail, and then you, Ella, tell us sister viewers being with your tribe since our last episode. My tribe never leaves me my tribe. They're always with me. I can always count on those women to support me, even when I'm going through like the worst time or even to share things that are very embarrassing. I'm ashamed to share this but girl I've got to let you know what's going on with me because I need prayer I need your support. They are always there. Everybody needs that that support, you know, someone there and I have several of them. And that's a blessing to even be able to say, but they definitely hold me up I hold them up. And what we don't do is we don't bash each other. You know, you know, no bashing know we don't talk about and we don't they if they say, if I say listen don't share this the these are my tribe they won't share it they will just stay with it and stay with me they won't go back and blab about it. So those are my girls that's my they know my vibe is love to always care to inspire and encourage. And that's what they do for me. That's my tribe. I love my strong. I love it. Yeah, you know, it's not about women today we can't be we can't be we don't need to beat each other up. We have so much in common. It's just just like I mean I love everybody thinks Ella is my sister. I am. And it really is a sister thing. Yes, you know when I first heard when I first did this show on Sharon show. It was the first thing I heard her say was that you got to come back and do sister power. And I was like, Oh, I like that name. You know, because it's, it's a girl's world. To me, it's a girl's world and we have to hang together. Absolutely. We're strong. We're strong like that. Yeah. Well my vibe tracks my tribe and I first of all I want to just say I love that title. Like that is so good. I it's just it's refreshing. My tribe is is all over the place I have people in Africa, people in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, everybody that that surrounds me, I love those people that keep me grounded. I love those people that remind me of my story, because it helps me stay ground because honestly, that is the vibe that attracted them, the realness, the real Ella, the person that loves to help the person that loves to love the person that loves before she leads the vibe is all about the vibe. Yes, that's how you attract those people that was powerful to because you know what you end up doing is you you collect people from all over the world because like Ella I travel the country. So I've got women in Brazil and in Cuba. I've been everywhere and you attract those people and I collect them. I don't some people just meet you for right now but I keep I collect friends that's why I friends from all over the world and they're they are my vibe attracts my my tribe. They really are that so that is an awesome awesome title that you came up with Sharon I love it. There she is there you go. Oh no it's just my internet is unstable. But yes, um, you know I I just believe in collaborating to with people, because I just believe that we all have something to offer. And so with my tribe. I love getting their ideas I love getting their stories that's why I love doing my show as well, because I like to hear true stories because you never know who's listening you never know who you're going to attract even more. Sometimes people are attracted to me that are nothing like me, and I like that assignment to because you know sometimes God puts us on assignments. So I love the vibe attract your tribe I love it and that's what we've been doing since the show is we've been vibing even more. And I like what you said about some because sometimes people are very different from you. Yeah, I still am attracted to those people because I'm a true people were all three of us are we're people. You know, and that's a genuine thing like we were talking about on the last show, you know you really have to be you are genuine when you genuinely love somebody and they're there for them and you want to support them. I'm totally in a place to attract people. Yeah, I go I'm going, you know, sometimes you've met a person and they're just not friendly. They don't really want to be friendly. It is a reason.  You know, oh yeah, because I think sometimes we're led into that, you know, because we're we're we're led to be unloved and to be unlovely sometimes. Yes. You said something interesting about that you know your tribe and my tribe is the same way we don't blab we don't tell secrets. Yeah, my mother administers wife in later on she was a principal, and she sit us down at the dinner table and say you know whenever someone tells you a secret, forget it. So this is how I live my life and I said, I should have told you that. Well, you did. So, you know, that's having the best your sisterhood that you trust. Yes. How are you nurturing and building your tribe Ella and building my tribe by constantly reminding them of who they are. Because what happens is that in life, life will cause you to doubt yourself cause you to doubt God, and I'm constantly reminding people, because I have conversations with people and I'll remind them of something they said to me on a good day. And I'll say God hasn't changed. You have to realize that you got to be able to trust God, even when you can't trace him. So don't think he has left you just because it feels that way. Don't go left just because things don't seem to go right.  That's holding them responsible. Right. Yeah, accountability. Yeah, accountability. Exactly. Yes. And they do it to me too. They do it to me too. I'm having a rough day. They like Ella, didn't you just say on your show. I'm like just say no more. Say no more. I got you. You know, so yeah. And that's what comes from any of those people. Yeah, that is what he does. Yeah, that's right. They all have that likeness together.  It's amazing, but they stick together where there's Indians or Cubans, it doesn't matter they stick together. They sure do. They have that calm that thing that's in common. And that's their, their vibe. Yeah, they're vibing the same way that you buy. And you have to think about the body to the body needs every single thing for it to work. You know, I mean what good is the head if you don't have the arms what are good of the arms if you don't have the fingers. You know, you have to learn that you have to depend on each other. And let me tell you something one thing I've learned with people from being manager and anything I've ever done in life. People want to feel needed. They want to feel that they have something to contribute. And when you allow them to do that. They feel like okay this is great. I we've established the problem and now you've allowed me to be part of the solution, and it makes everybody feel good. You know, I love that. I think that's this.   This is one of these things where you want to continue to do it, because the more you do it, everybody's going to have a moment that you know I think I'm tuning on that today, because we all have those times where we're in the valley. And this is everywhere. Like Ella said, you don't feel nothing. You don't see nothing.  I mean it's all along. But when you got your tribe, they're never going to let you forget who you are your purpose for being here, and that we got your back. Amen. Amen. That's why you have to be real. That's why we have to be real. Now about attitudes. So let's talk about that, you know, how does an attitude affect your tribe, because we all have different stress levels. So let's just chat about that.  You're not going to go anywhere until you change it. Yeah. Oh, think about that. Yes. That's so true. That shows up in a room before you ever open your mouth. And that can change a person's life, or it can tear them down. Yeah, you have to always check that. That's why you have to stay. You got to always stay prayed up. Yeah, you really do. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you just will do better because attitude is, it's, it's powerful. And they can change a whole atmosphere very quickly. So, so when you have an attitude, even if you're a great, great musicians that I work with, but if they have an attitude, I refuse to really work with them because you, I can't have a bad attitude in the studio is to is to delicate in you know, but people with a bad attitude, nobody wants to be around a person with bad. Right. And you can be smart is all our doors, but no one will listen to you. Yeah. Not if your attitude is bad. That's right. Check your attitude. Check it like a flat tire. That's right. You're not going anywhere. This is why we have such wonderful people around us. Because if I feel good, you feel good. And you want me to feel good, even when we're having a bad day, there is something to be grateful for always something to be grateful for. Well, let's talk about friends versus acquaintances because we I have this conversation when they said oh my, my best friend ghosted me and I have no, that's not your best friend. She's not going to just ghost you and be done. So let's talk about friends versus acquaintances, Ella. Well, I think that what happens is that we pray to God sometimes and then when he starts answering those prayers, we think that he's forgotten. Sometimes God's answer to your prayers you may be saying God in large my territory bless me and God may be thinking yeah but I got to move some people out of your life first. And just because some people are going by the wayside, you think the guys forgot you know he's actually looking out for you.  Okay, there are some people that just don't like you and they're just around you, just because you know they can. But when you have acquaintances, those are the people that are there. You know, to see if they can get someone's like a hitchhiker. Okay, I love comparing things. You think about a hitchhiker hitchhiker gets in your car. They know that you're going in their direction they just want to know if you're going in the direction. They don't care if you get to your destination destination they're using you to get to theirs. So some of y'all have hitchhikers in your life. Get them out of there. Yeah, get them out of there. That's right. And I'm not talking literal hitchhikers. I'm talking about the sense of the word hitchhiker. Yeah. Yeah, they're just hanging around.  That's right. Because they're bringing they're really bringing nothing to the table. Right. They're just coming to take from you. Friends don't do that. Friends do not do that. Even when you're low, low, low, and you might come in the room or come to work that day with an attitude, your friend is going to help. They're going to be going to help you get they're going to make you feel better. That's right. Because like my son's always telling me, Mom, just look around you. Just look around you. There's always something grateful about. There's always something thankful about a friend will tell you that kind of stuff. Ditch the hitchhikers, because some people in your life for a reason, some people in your life for a season, it's our job to make sure to determine which ones are our friends. That's right. Because friends are going to be there with you at all costs. They're going to be there. No matter what, no matter what, no matter what, no matter what, I'm still gonna be your friend. We spoke about the table and I love this quote from Shirley Chisholm that we've heard so much, you know, the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. I love that. Sometimes that, you know, some people just have that when they enter a room. They just have it. It's there. People are intimidated by this. They don't want to give you that seat at the table. It's okay. Bring your folding chair. What's your take on that, Ellen and Gail. I love it. First of all, I've never heard that. What that sounds like to me is if you're there at the table, you don't have to eat what's given to you. Get up and move. Build your own table, even if it's a folding chair at the time. Get up, be ready to move. And sometimes we just want to eat something even in the natural.  If I don't want it, I'm not going to get there. I don't answer if it's not me. Like for example, if someone called you right now on the phone and they say, hello, may I speak to Natalie? If your name is Susan, you don't answer to that because that's not who you are.  And you don't have to respond. Same thing if I'm sitting at a table and I know they're not feeding me what I need. I'm getting up. I'm taking my folding chair. We're out. That's confidence too.  They're just jealous of you or whatever the case may be.  You know, your gifts always makes room for you at the table. And if people don't like you, that's on them. Yeah, that's their loss. That's their loss. You just, but you still have a space and you still have room at that table because God has, God has purpose you to be there. Amen. And that's why it's so important to know who God is because he's the one that leads you and opens the doors that nobody can shut. Amen.  Yes. This is the future that God has already prepared for us. Ella, Sharon and Gail. This was already planned. We didn't know it three months ago. Right. We didn't even know each other. We didn't even know each other. And it's like we're family now. I know, right? It's a beautiful thing. So he always makes a place for us, a seat for us at the table. But he also said, be aware when you're at the table that you are around wolves in chief's clothing.   Listen, you know, one thing I learned to, and this is something someone told me a long time ago when I first started leading and getting involved, they said, you know, Ella, God will call you to go into the room to change the room. But now when you get in the room, don't let the room change you. Thank you. Yes. Remember that. That's it. So you always know your place. That's right. You know who you are, even when you get in that bad. That's right.  So that makes all the difference in the world. You know, you're like, yeah, that's why God opened the door and allowed you in the room because he knew he sent you in there to change it.  You're going to stand, you were going to be the one to stand up and that's right. Yes. But we get in there and look at those dollar signs. So we're like, look at him get distracted. Yeah. Did you hear that guy? You know, next month, from this conversation, sisters and partner by E, we're having your vibe attracts your tribe power luncheon for women. It is just blowing up and it's a small group. It's like 60 handpicked women and we're going to sit at the table what we're doing and we're celebrating women of character. Commitment and courage and if I had a private jet I would fly you Queens out here for because it is on and popping. Saturday, September the 10th. Saturday, September the 10th, it would be right and ocean view is going to be at the club is going to be one. We need to be at that. You want to sneak on a plane or something. But the reason why did bring that up. Start your power luncheon for women there. It's just with the tea parties. And because this is something that we need now and moving forward. I wanted to ask you ladies, you know, your tribe sees the best in you and keeps you humble. They see the worst in you and still love you. Give your viewers your thoughts on this.  They understand you first of all, but they also see your bad side. They know you out. They still love you and still that they're still they are so many and a lot of some of them are men friend. Yeah, you know they just still because they know who you are. You know, but and so when you do something crazy, or you make this horrible mistake, you share it with them. There's there's no that's the most comforting thing a person can do when you are filled at your lowest moment, that person sees your horrible attitude, and they still love you. They still love you.  I believe that, you know, good in gives good out and whenever you empower people, they will be the same ones that will have to turn around and empower you. And I think that's good. I like people to see the flaws I like people to see that I cry I like people to see that I have those moments, but I also have to remember that they also need to see the other side of it also. Okay, I'm not different than you. I still doubt guys sometimes to I love him. I'm not going to stop, but I have my moment so I'm just like you. You know, we're going to help each other with this thing. So I think it's, it's powerful for people to see. I do. It is, it is, it's so powerful, because that's real. I think as soon as people see that, that you have your flaws, they like you more because that because then they can relate. Yes, that's a very good.  Then you are seem approachable and you seem like me. So when you like me, that's a likeness that's sameness. People like that. I do that in my just girls, you know, show them sameness, as opposed to them being at each other's throat and fighting and all that violence and all that. We have so much in common as women. And I think that's so powerful. I love being a woman. Oh, I tell you, we got power. I know, right? More than we know. More than we know. That being a woman, we can change our mind whenever we want to. And do. You know, that's what you know, she changed your mind. Now she wants it. It's wisdom though. It's wisdom. And that's what we pray for. We ask for discernment. We ask for wisdom. Yeah. And we have to be able to recognize what God is saying to us. No. And then we have to in turn turn around and say, no, that's a woman of wisdom. That's the kind of woman I like to be around. If she changes her mind and she says God told her to listen, I wish I could have done that more in my past, but now I got it. Now I understand. But that is true. My father always told me, say, when somebody asks you to do something, say, no first, because you can always change your mind and say yes. But if you say yes and commit yourself, then you kind of making yourself like that. So, so we have to learn how to say to accept the fact that it's okay. It's okay to change your mind. That's right. It's good too, because you find out where they're coming from. Because people show you they're behind after you say no to like, oh, okay. It was like that.  So it's, it's not a bad thing. I think that we, our steps are ordered. And we just got to truly understand and believe that God orders our steps. You know, even when we don't understand sometimes, he's always in it. Yeah, most of the time it looks real bleak and we don't understand, you know, that's how we, that's what this whole, this is a faith walk. It's all about walking in faith. You know, and trusting if you see, God shows us everything. We would be crazy. We would run. That's right. That's right. So he wants us to learn to trust him that way. And I honestly, it's a really exciting. There's never a dull moment. There's always a moment though. There's always something going on. But you know what, Gail, there are a lot of people, Gail and Sharon, there are a lot of people that think, well, Ellie, you know, it's hard to trust God. I just can't trust him sometimes. Okay, well, let me show you that you do have faith and you do have a trust. A lot of us that work for companies still. Uh, guess what? You have to trust them because you're going to work those two weeks before you get that check. Right? Hello, somebody. You are going to work those two weeks before you get that check and we trust them. And we don't question them. We don't say, you sure you're going to give me this check? Are you sure I'm going to get this? We trust them going in and we have to do the same thing for God. You know, Queens and closing. We need a part three, I'm sure. Historically, black women have taken the lead towards truth and justice. What future outcomes do you see for our community and I want to start with you, Gail and then Ella. Now, pose that question again. Historically, black women have taken the lead towards truth and justice. What future outcomes do you see for our community? I see a bright future. Sometimes it looks a little bleak. At times I wonder where we are going when I look at our young people, our young women, which is why I try so hard with yes I can with my organization to encourage them and inspire them to keep them on the right path. But it's hopeful because there are so there are many, there are many women out there who really are trying to do a good thing. They just need to be, they need to understand the sister power and your tribe and your vibe. That's why I like that there's because there's so many out there who are really trying there in the political arena, they're in their in colleges, there's their teachers and lawyers and counselors and everything and they're really trying to do a good thing. I see our future as black women as some of the most powerful one of the most powerful women on this earth. That's the way I view.  We're just a strong people. We're just a strong race of people. Whatever we do, we do it so well. It doesn't matter what it is. We do it well. So the future looks bright for me. It looks bright for my the way I view it. And I think that as women, we have to find out and make sure that we're picking and making sure that we're building up the right leaders. Because some of us look at women on Real Housewives of Atlanta, not to knock the show, but we try to use that and build upon that as our future as our leaders. We have to make sure that we're championing the right people with the right motives, the right agenda. And when we do that, I believe that as women, we will be good. We just got to learn how to support each other and stuff all the blabbering and nitpicking and name shaming and body shaming and all these kinds of things. We got to get back to the things that God put in us when we were young girls growing up. Yes. We're all learning how to work together. If we can get back to that, we'll be more powerful than we've ever been. More, more powerful. I love that. Gail Moore, Ella Johnson. Thank you so much for your wisdom and your expertise, your beauty, your love. I'm just thrilled my heart is overjoyed and in closing, there is a saying that like attracts like, which means that the same energies will always be drawn towards each other. That's why your vibe attracts your tribe. You will always make friendships with those who resonate in a similar vibrational frequency as yourself. I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. Thank you for spending your time with us. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Now we have the mass deployment buff with Thomas Langer of University of Cologne. Yeah, hello everybody. Hello at the TVs and on IRC. So what I like to do is talk or discuss about mass deployment. There was a talk before which was a special case about deployment of embedded devices. And some things about me, I'm a developer since over 10 years. I also doing the fully automatic installation tool since more than 11 years. But that's not the main topic today. The topic is what are the general problems during mass installation and maybe not now especially for the embedded devices but for deploying servers or laptops or mainly desktops. So what are the problems there? Are there still or which tools are available there? Which tools are you using and do you have any experiences with those tools? Do we have Debian packages for those tools? Or which problems arise when you scale to a very large number of machines? So this is what I like to discuss with you. There are some keywords that are often used when doing mass installation. It's sometimes called provisioning or Linux rollout software deployment. So if you look for some tools that are doing installation or deployment. There's also the software deployment topic. We had also hardware inventory that is often part of the installation. What we will not cover here is the monitoring. So there are some products or some tools which can install your machine, update your machine and also monitor your machine which can also have the user database within a certain database. Also the life cycle management of your hardware started from buying a machine, getting all the serial numbers and whatever things like asset management. I think I will not cover this topics. I'm mainly interested in the topics, the initial installation, the update of the systems. What about different boot media with mass installation? You normally do network installation but is it also possible or how easy is it possible to turn this network installation into a bootable media so you can install sites that are not online at a certain moment with CD, DVD or USB stick? Can you use the same installation method or deployment thing also for creating change routes or for setting up your virtual machines or building a live image or a bootable ISO image? Then configuration management. This is a special part of the installation and sometimes people mix those topics installation and configuration management together. We can also have a little discussion about is it the same or which are the difference between those disaster recovery like something crashed, just reinstall the machine. I'm very interested or what I'm using in Fi is also that I have sort of automatic documentation so if I done a roll out I can have also the documentation which machine were installed in which way. What about supporting different Linux distributions or even this different OSS? Is this important for you or can you say I only like to deploy Debian machines? And sometimes people say yeah, I have a tool which I can use for deploying desktops but I do not deploy servers or I cannot deploy notebooks with it. So these are some topics that I like to discuss. So any questions or any comments? Who is maybe the first question? Who ever did an sort of automatic installation of one or 10 or 100 machines? So I would say yeah more than half of the thing. So did you had any problems or what tools were you using? So maybe someone can just tell us what he's using now, what is he missing? So two people are using Fi. So for our 300 server setup we had like a customized promo network boot and the bootstrap from there and then using Huppet. So everyone could hear it? Network installation with the bootstrap and then customized some wrapper scripts around it I guess. That's what a lot of people are doing. Yeah, just starting from scratch with Pixi network boot, doing the bootstrap and that's it. Question for me, how do you do the partitioning of the hard disk? Yeah SF disk. We actually deployed just a single partitioning, standard size on all machines and everything beyond, so we installed Routofs there. Everything beyond that was managed from Huppet with various commands. Yeah, Huppet is a good keyword. Huppet is the configuration management part. So for me that's a different part. That's a customization of the tools. So who else did some installation and wants to tell us which tools all, which kind of scripts did you wrote? We used to have Red Hat, right now it's CentOS. It is kind of two-step installation, like there is an installation CD ROM. The first install is like doing partitions and installing Windows for Toolboot. And then in the second step you choose the Linux installation setup and it basically gets IP address via DHCP and then it does an R sync. Yeah, that's basically it. So yeah. So you are not using the kickstart method from Red Hat and CentOS? No, no. But this setup is going to die anywhere and that's why I'm here. Okay. I work for university and at the start of every semester we roll out a new image to every PC. That means the desktop machine is in the labs. It's about 150 machines. And we just set up a network bootable, pre-executable system with network booting, which boots very basic Debootstrap system for an installation. And we do the tweaking of one machine because these are uniform machines, more or less. Well, in Linux it's a bit easier because X can auto-configure itself for the hardware and we make some tweaking on top of that. But mostly it's just Netcat and TAR for making the partitions and populating the files and the end setting up the bootloader. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well, for Windows we use the NTFS clone package in a similar way. We set up, we make the three things on one machine and populate these to the others. And then we join the domain and that's all. So for Linux you're also using kind of image that you put on the... Yeah. The init script is the one which does the installation and the init script is a special script which fetches these images and formats the hard disk and partitions the hard disk with SF disk. So one question for me, how do you create this image manually or do you have some scripts that automatically creates your image that you then deploy to your desktops? I boot Greml CD on one of these machines or this kind of environment with the network boot and there is a special mode which interrupts the automatic installation mode and this way I can upload the image. I just open a netcat on one of the ports and do it manually or one command. Okay. So but preparing the images is mostly automatic and or is there much manual work you have to do before you can create the image? Mostly I just do an update and this upgrade on the machine. Okay. Yeah. So one important point for me that I think that doing deployment with this images, sometimes it called you have a master or a golden image. This does not scale in my opinion because often this or mostly every time people are creating this images manually. So even if you think, oh, I have all my 100 computers are the same and need the same software, you create, you do a manual installation of one machine and doing some customization on it, then creating a table or some other image. But this does not scale because there will be times where say, oh, we have different hardware or another department needs some other software and then you will create the second, the third and so on. You have a lot of images that you always create manually. So I would suppose try to, if you're really need images that you want to deploy, I think it's a very bad thing. But then try to optimize this part that your images are created automatically. That's very important. There are three or four flavors of these things. But this mostly means if in one lab there is a special NVIDIA card in the machine, the installation process knows that this is the special lab and installs one depth package and copies over one or two configuration files. But yeah, it's not that easy, but... Yeah. Philipp Hahn for Univention. We have a Debian-based distribution, our own distribution. And basically we are doing profiles. We have our own install program, which gets a profile with information about partitioning. Then installs a base system and later on we have a LDAP-based management system where you can configure on which computer you want, which software installed and it regularly pulls from the LDAP or software to install and which software to purge and to update. So this is that you have your configuration management database in LDAP and get all the information from LDAP and then have some script that customizes your machines. And you can also hook in custom shell scripts if you need real special things. And you can also prepare in CD or DVD with a profile included so you can do installations via DVD or also via PXE. So for customization you only need shell scripts or do you use something like CF Engine Puppet or...? Mostly shell scripts and we have an extension which is called something like registry system where you can set kind of variables which will trigger an update process which will modify the configuration files on the system. Yeah. Here's a list of some tools and the third line, the CF Engine Puppet Chef BCF G2 these are more tools that are only for the configuration management and you really have to distinguish between deployment or installation and configuration management. You cannot use Puppet or CF Engine for installing a machine. You can only run CF Engine Puppet and the other tools if you have a running Linux system on this. So what's FI doing and some other tools, you can take a computer with only zeros on its hard disk and then do the network boot, partition the disk and install the system. Often people are using then something like CF Engine Puppet for the customization part but CF Engine Puppet and the other tools are no installation tools. These are only for configuration management. Can you put the mic a little bit more? You have two kind of things where I work. We have desktop for the university, about 100 desktops and they are installed with an image because they have two windows and Linux. The image are made manually and in the end it's created on the reference machine and the image is propagated for all the labs using a proprietary software that can replicate windows and Linux. In case of Linux, there are configurations. I do the best to fetch all the configurations in some different package personally so what in the end just need to edit some, configure some files and my package try to read the personality of the computer, try to configure everything. The hardware is similar but not equal. So if X can detect all the hardware, sometimes there are some bugs. You are there so when machine boots, I try to detect model of the computer by the graphic cards and have a program switch conf that change the X files configuration whatever it needs about the hardware for the best thing. This is done on the boot so the image can be the same for all the computers what is different inside there and inside on the boots. This idea take to the servers. Servers have a script, a manual script to follow so where it says how much partition I have in the machine, size of it and I use meta package for the role so this is a server. I have a group of software to install. This is a firewall. I sell more software and I use the same kind of in the end I just edit some source refiles, configure something manually and in the end I have a machine installed and pre-configured what is the base for all the servers that I have to manage. So you have a lot of configuration information inside Debian packages and if you make changes to your configuration information you need to create a new Debian package, deploy it and update it. I know a lot of people doing this kind of thing. I would not like to do this because there is an additional step. You cannot just change the configuration files and deploy them but you have to create the Debian package which contains the new versions of the configuration files and I think it's one step less if you do not put them all in a package but distribute them in another way. That's also possible and that's what we are doing in Fi. Problem I see is if I distribute another way I will have to have a server for distributing that files and my way, the only thing that is central is the local repository so everyone that wants to manage server just have to fetch what software needs. But also if you add some packages you also need a server where you fetch them from so I think that's no difference. Yeah but I think once you have those things figured out once you have centralized your infrastructure to actually provide central updates and installations then putting configurations into a package becomes natural and that's the easiest thing you can do in your info you just roll out a package everywhere. So some more opinions about putting configuration data into packages? Okay. I think yeah, I would not do it. Here's a short list of image-based tools. I already said I'm really not a friend of those things. One other problem I see if you just write a simple shell script and do some SFDisk things that you will have problems in the future because SFDisk only supports MS-DOS disk labels so if you have really huge disks this will not work. The other part is if you like to have software rate or LVM configuration does anyone does this with some sort of automation or scripts or is then the normal installation or I'm booting an installation system and then I have a shell where I do then CFDisk and my normal commands and then maybe some automatic part runs afterwards? Yeah so certainly at work they use it to manage their desktops for all the developers and essentially they use as of kindly some work that Phil Hans did the auto installer magic combined with some preceding and the automatic mode and that really does so essentially the IT department when I first got there were entirely Windows users so we basically gave them a Debian CD told them to go to automatic mode, hit enter on a network and it just installs a system to them and it puts all the developers tools and the tool chains they need and puts everything under LVM and the rest of it so that does work quite well for them but we do put all the configuration still in one package itself as well. Okay so does anybody think that the network may be bottlenecked during deployment of desktops? Do we need multicast deployments or? I thought Clown Zillern uses multicast to speed up installation. Yeah maybe it uses this but yeah image based distribution is I think it's not good even if you use multicast and I think people have to pay attention that multicast is not that easy as using just the normal network for example I heard people were using multicast a multicast protocol but they had really dumb network switches that yeah could not really do multicast but sent the packages one after another to every port so I always say keep it stupid and simple and I know a lot of really big or huge installations which has a good network and they never accounted network problems it's always the question for examples in Fi we're using NFS during the installation and people always say oh you will have network problems because NFS does not scale but we will never have problems we only use it read only without Fi locking and so on and it always shows us that yeah it's working so don't be afraid that you will have network problems So if you're going to redeploy and enter a classroom in a school environment you usually do not have expensive network hardware or expensive servers and there you really need to use multicast or broadcast some legacy software support set you know to not saturate the server uplink basically I yeah if you saturate the network uplink this is in my opinion maybe perfect because then the server will use all its bandwidth to give the packages to the clients so in my opinion this is no problem and if you do for example if you have computer classes and needs to reinstall after each class 20 or 50 machines I would say just by a 10 euro network card that is only used for this one and during the installation this network card of the server can be saturated why not? Yeah but it's still a time problem then you know when I was doing this it was common to have 100 megabit switches and then you only have so much bandwidth and so much time so it was a requirement basically this probably has changed but not so other questions what could be a problem or what do you wish from a perfect installation deployment tool? I suppose just going back to the multicast question the other thing we what we actually produced we produced IPTV set top boxes and so when we're deploying say a million of these Linux based boxes then you need to use multicast but one of the things I would say unless you're dealing with something on that scale and even when you are in fact then unicast scales a lot better than multicast unless you really really know what you're doing you end up with all sorts of interesting bugs to do with and if you don't know what an IGMP query or election is then you really don't want to go anywhere near multicast because it will create all sorts of problems even in some of our other products so for the large more traditional distribution based ones we're still just using HTTP and that does work really quite well multicast will cause a lot of pain unless it's a very specific instance that you're after and I also think if you're doing the deployment the huge amount of data that is transferred via the network are the packages everything else it's just peanuts so it's very easy to set up a second or maybe ten of HTTP demons on different machines which just provides the packages and that scales very well so if you're doing a larger installation just try it oh if one server is not enough maybe I just use three or four servers for the packages yeah comment on this proxy caching proxies I would just go with maybe an other mirror of the packages that's maybe easier than that apt cache and app proxy for example I know people that are using caching like this have sometimes problems but yeah if you say a simple HTTP proxy and you know how to configure it and it works yeah fine just do this before starting unicast anycast or some very complicated but cool network protocols torrent or maybe if we have apt torrent working just out of the box yeah I will also give it a try we use multicast for distributing the image for the desktops and the bottleneck is the quality of the switch when there are new switch the server are dedicated their fast gigabit for the VLAN where are the clients and you can distribute the image of 80 gigabytes to 3 hours if you go to place of the building with low switch and the time goes to 10 hours or worse than that or even instead of using multicast you may need to switch to unicast so our problem is not software software is good enough the multicast team on Debian for the routers is good enough problem is the switch switch needs to understand multicast protocols yeah okay I think the network topic is we know how to solve this once so are there other things I like to switch back to my foils and what about creating virtual machines change route environments are there people that also have some sort of scripts or automatic building things or do you use the same tool for installing your desktops and your virtual machines and creating your change routes or do you say oh building a change route is just calling the bootstrap and then jump into the change route and yeah call my lovely editor what about this one tool for all of them change route virtual machines for development we have created virtual machines using our regular installer but we save these regular installations and clone images from that because it's just fire and forgot clone a new image started it's running in a couple of seconds you do your work and if you have done you're just deleted so for software development using disk based images is really nice but only if you create your disk based image we are an automatic installation tool not if you do this manually yeah so all other people are just doing manual installation of their virtual machines and then copying the disk images does anybody has some sort of partly automation it's a slightly different emphasis because we're actually doing embedded devices but we're still doing a mass deployment with an automated installation mechanism but it's actually a little bit louder we're actually doing it on an embedded basis so we're actually doing it as a binary flow into the land so we're trying to prepare the image and sending the image directly onto the flash so it's a different kind of mechanism but it's still a mass deployment on that basis but on the server side we generally do it by hand for the actual two routes and things that we've just set up well one question I have is when doing an installation with embedded devices I think it took a long time if you just would do the normal installation and not an image based thing yeah so we do the majority of the actual preparation of it on an AMD64 or something with a big fast hard drive and then there is a slow stage where you've actually got a configure on device but then you do that once you put the image on the server and then as you go through production it's just a lump of binary and you just flow it straight onto the device so the bandwidth of the local drive is not that bad but if you would do the normal installation the slow CPU would be a problem if you just would call dd package or apt-get for every package it's not just the actual CPU the CPU isn't that bad it's right into the to the nan storage that's what takes the time reading from the storage is fast right into the storage takes a long time if you've got several hundred megabytes to actually write individually in the way the d-package does it which is to unpack it, check it, move it around, delete it then it's just going to take forever what we are doing in FIS when we call the d-bootstrap part we also need this and before installing additional package we put a RAM disk onto a wildlife d-package and this speeds up the installation a lot because during the installation a lot of temporary files are created there and if you just put everything it's for a desktop machine we need about 90 megabytes of RAM disk if you put everything into a RAM disk then install additional packages and in the end put the content of the RAM disk back to disk this speeds up a lot we haven't got that much RAM it's an immediate device but maybe you could swap the other thing is that you don't necessarily need there is no swap so you don't need to use something like d-bootstrap which is focused on preparing at your root on a system other than Debian and making sure it's only really the pure base system if you use other tools to create your root FS then you can actually put all the packages you need for your base platform onto the first run of the root on the fast hard drive and then bring that out and you've only got a handful of packages to install on top so we use that with mDebian and with multistrap and we do the whole thing in one operation it creates the device nodes as well if you need them to I think embedded devices are really a special case where you cannot use the normal deployment tools except for I create an image and I try to put the image onto the local disk so other questions what I like to show you is a list of users that have been using Fi as I already said we are doing this since more than 10 years and what's very nice is that we have a lot of experiences with very different hardware architectures there were even some installations with Itanium PowerPC in the past maybe it's a little bit too small we also have people that are using Fi for installing Debian machines on IBM mainframes so I'm a little bit proud that during this time we have proved that Fi is very flexible even on very different or complicated hardware architectures and that it could also be used in very different environments like just a lab that I want to install or for example in the second line the L for M insurance it's a German insurance they deploy it I think it's not 10 maybe 12,000 machines spread all over Germany and they have very low bandwidth so they would like to have something like apt delta or d-package delta that they only could transfer very limited packages to their mostly notebooks I think during some time and if they have all packages on their local machine then doing the reboot A question from IRC is is it possible to automatically handle LVM partitioning when doing deployments like this can it be preceded or handled through another mechanism for example a given logical volume takes 50% of the disk space Yeah I'm not sure if DI can do this what I only can say that doing the partitioning with DI preceding is in my opinion horrible because it's not that readable it's very hard to partitioning the things and if you have very complicated partitioning setups I think this will also not work what I can show you is what we are using in Fi it's like an extended FS tab so I'm pretty sure everyone that takes a look at it then can just write down such a configuration and we've written a tool in Perl which parses this input and then creates part at commands which then creates the partitioning file systems LVM software rate and so on so this tool is also available as a Debian package and you do not need to use the whole Fi environment so if you like to just use this tool for partitioning that's available and very nice to use there's a question from Peter if it is available and very nice why don't you make a UDEP for it if it is available and very nice why don't you make a UDEP so it can be used from Debian installer so the question was if this tool is available why do not we have a UDEP what's this right so I'm I'm not sure is Perl available during DI installations okay we need Perl and part it so but there was this question if it's possible also to say try to get 50% of the whole disk for partitioning this is what we can do with our tool you can have a minimum and maximum size and sure it's also possible to define a percentage of the whole disk there five minutes left so other commands what do we need or do we have all the perfect installation tools that solves all our problems I was everyone happy with DI with the new installations so if there are no more questions then thank you very much for the discussion and if anybody likes to have more information about PHY I have also some flyers here or you can just ask me later thank you


with each level of production, but we might have some people that are salary too and their wages aren't gonna do anything if we go up in terms of the amount that we produce. And therefore, if we were to increase production and think about, well, what would happen if we sold this many units next year or this many units and we had a set of increasing number of units that we could possibly sell and we wanna just run a bunch of projections on that, it would be difficult for us to do that if we group costs this way by what they're for rather than the behavior of how they act because then we're gonna have to go into these and say, okay, well, how is that gonna increase or decrease wages? And it's difficult to know that because of the structure. So that's gonna be leading us to the idea of grouping costs by behavior. What we want to know is that if we sell, for example, coffee cups, if there's an increase in the number of coffee cups, what's gonna be the increase in net income? To do that, we need to structure our income statement differently or at least to do that a lot more easily. We could structure our income statement differently. Another common question for managerial accounting is if we're thinking about the rent or the fixed cost, let's say the rent, if we wanna know how many units we have to sell in order to pay the rent, words, how many number of units must we sell in order to cover the fixed cost of the rent? These are types of questions we consider in a CVP type of analysis. How does it work? What's the major process that we're gonna use in a CVP type of analysis? We're gonna take the expenses and we're gonna break them up not by what they do. We're not gonna group them by selling an admin or a cost of goods sold, but by how they act. So we're gonna break up the expenses by how they act. We want to break up all the expenses into two categories, fixed costs and variable costs. So we want to see all the expenses and break them up into fixed type costs and variable type costs. Now a lot of costs, this will be easy for us to do. If we think about a salaried employee, they typically are gonna have a fixed type of cost. And we're thinking about the rent. The rent is what it is. It's gonna be fixed no matter how many units that we sell. And there's gonna be some things that are variable. If we're talking about direct materials into our inventory, typically as we produce more, then it will go up at our standard rate as we increase the level of production. Note however that the CVP analysis does make us or force us to take those types of costs that don't line up specifically into fixed or variable and break them up in some way. So that's gonna be one of the problems that we have with a CVP type of analysis. We wanna break everything up as if they by their nature behave as fixed or variable type costs. Not all costs do. Many do not, which means that we're gonna have to make some type of estimates in order to do so. And what's gonna be the payoff of doing that? And once we do that, then we can make these projections much easier. In essence then, we wanna break our normal type of income statement into a contribution margin type of income statement. So we're gonna have the same bottom line, the same net income, but we're gonna get there a little bit differently. We're gonna group things a little bit differently or a lot differently. We're not grouping by what these expenses do for us, we're grouping by how they behave. So in the variable costs, for example, we have the direct materials, we've got the direct wages and the sales commission. Notice that sales commission is totally different than say cost of goods sold, which is what the other two items are in. In a normal income statement, we wouldn't group this way because they are serving different purposes. Although it's for revenue generation, they serve different purposes, different categories within that goal. But in a contribution margin, we group them in this format because they behave similar, and that will help us with projections as we'll see. That'll give us the total variable costs. Then we'll click the revenue minus the total variable costs. We call that the contribution margin. Again, you'll never see a contribution margin in generally accepted accounting principles. It's not in a normal income statement. You're probably considering about this stage in the income statement is something called gross profit on a normal income statement, revenue minus cost of goods sold, sales minus cost of goods sold. That is not this number. They're not the same at all here because remember variable costs, they're not by what the costs is for, they are by the behavior. And then we have the fixed costs. These are the costs that don't change with the level of production. In our case, we got the taxes, we got the maintenance on the factory depreciation, lease, administrative salaries, rent, and then the rent on the office as well as the rent on the administrative office. Those giving us the fixed costs. If we subtract out, then the contribution margin minus the fixed costs, we get the income before taxes, then the tax calculation, then the net income. So again, bottom line, the same as a standard income statement, the approach different. As you can see here, it doesn't really show you exactly why we would do this yet, but when we consider how to think about projections in the future, we'll see that this format will be much more useful and easy for us to work with.


very much, and now I understand why we're in here and not in my office, in my office. Well, I know we have a little signing to do here and then a photo, but I also know that you have survived serious accidents and you know the benefits of safety and belt use. I'm sure as law enforcement officers that you're doubly aware of the benefits and the blessings. The accident told on our highways is so great. I think maybe I'd better sign this paper right away. This helps encourage safety belt use, why reduce of the fatalities and serious injuries while I'm on for it. Now, Jim, I hear all these fine men and women have survived auto accidents because of safety belts and so you're all living testimony to the value of buckling up. You can get your message out to every American, most especially people who drive with children in the car. Our time will be well spent. I know you're doing everything you can and so am I. Last year we issued executive order concerning self-debate safety belt use for all our federal employees and now that's I think that I better get to work and write, confirmation is signed, and the entire caption will start reading. On behalf of the American Coalition for Traffic Safety which sponsored this group here today, I want to present you with a watch and this is a watch that has a very special meaning and if you can see right there it says same for the belt and it's got a safety belt right across the face of it so that anytime you look at the time you'll know it's time to buckle up. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm not sure when I'm ever going to get out of the back seat. When we left the governor's office and went back to Los Angeles, got invited out to dinner one night, a few days after we'd gotten back, we both got in the back seat and waited for somebody. Be appropriate. Stay next to California. Is everybody there clear? You can see him. You can see you, we're all set. Steve? Okay, everyone's right here. Don't be afraid to smile. One more here. Everybody's looking up here. Great. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. I suggest this opportunity, sir. I've got a new lobby. I'm collecting actually stories that I can actually prove are told by the citizens of the Soviet Union to each other about their sisters. And you know they got a great sense of humor. They're all so grand as cynical, too. One of the last stories, this is exactly the place to tell it. One of the latest that I've found is a story where they issued an order in the Soviet Union that no matter who they were or how important, the motorcycle police were to give them a ticket if they were speeding. They were going to do something about speeding. So Gorbachev woke up one morning shortly after the order was issued. He was out at that country place of his, late for getting to the Kremlin, told his chauffeur to get in the back seat and he'd drive. And he got in the front seat and down the road he went past two motorcycle policemen and one of them took out after him. In a few minutes he came back to his partner. His partner said, well, he'd give them a ticket and he said, no. Well, he said, you've got our orders. We're supposed to give them a ticket no matter what he said, no, this is too important. Well, he said, who was it? He said, I don't know. I couldn't recognize him there in the back seat, but his driver is Gorbachev. Thank you all for what you've done. Thank you, sir. I have the privilege of introducing Commander Stock of the VFW. President, it's my pleasure to meet you sir. We're sort of as much a Cooper whole. Thank you again, Mr. President. It's good to see you again. This is our program for this year for America to have what it takes. Well. And many of the resolutions that was passed by the Veterans of Foreign War for the resolutions that I think you can appreciate, the Persian Gulf and the Central America. I'm planning a trip to Central America in September with a couple of my people.  Well, thank you very much. And this, Mr. President, is an invitation to be my keynote speaker to Washington Conference in March. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that the schedule is such that I can accept. We certainly wish you well. Congratulations, sir. Being where you are, and I must say that I am always deeply grateful because your organization has supported us so much. Well, 2.2 million veterans that have been in conflict with this have seen a lot of action. We're very concerned with our country and the welfare of our country and certainly we're looking to some of the programs, our entitlements that kind of been part of the base contract. I like to call it that we feel they've earned. Yes. So we do have some concerns from time to time, but we do respect the position you're in trying to balance the budget. Well, thank you very much. You keep up your pattern when we let you. Mr. President, may I point out please that the commander's stock was at 11, therefore, and they had five campaign teams in the Pacific. And the Cooper Holt was also in infantry and he had been fighting in the Solomon Islands. And both of them have been long-term DFW leaders. And it's great to work with them. Well, I'm grateful for all they do for us. Let me just do the souvenirs of the office. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I still want to get one last question, Mr. President. They just want to do one of those shots. Look in here, sir. That's good. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Good health. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good luck. Thank you very much. Mr. President, should I read back? Well, hello there. Nice to see you. Yes, hello there. Paul, read back. Nice to see you. Hello. Hello. Maybe have a family picture. That's great. Everybody's looking right here. Make a smile. One more. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Well, this visit read back a lot. I should say it does. It's quite an honor getting to come back. It's quite an honor getting to come back. It's quite an honor getting to come back. We appreciate your letting us come. My husband would have been so proud of you. My husband would have been so proud of you. He always was before. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We all had a fraternal bond also. I know you did. That's right. We always came back every time you came back to Eureka. See ya. Yes, and when I think back in those days if I had been to over again I'd follow the same path and go to the same school. I did. That's quite an honor. It's a bond that seems to... I have a few souvenirs here. Oops. Ladies and Pins. The seal on it. For three young ladies. Charmed. Which is the seal. Presidential seal. Two young men. Oh, thank you. He's gonna put your picture in Eureka. He's a senior in high school. In high school? He's gonna put his picture with you in Eureka. Well, and when we were in high school there was one way to go to school. I couldn't take the cold weather anymore. I talked Sherry into moving to Florida. I got to get them some history since they're here. Since all those things are the seal and there's the seal up there and you can see that the eagle its head is turned to the claw of the olive branch for peace. The other claw, he has the arrows has the Arabs for war, but there's little history with this. On that old debts, which goes way back to the days of Queen Victoria in England, is the seal, as it was then, and the eagle's head was turned toward the Arabs. And after World War II, President Truman decided to change the seal and hadn't looked toward peace on the other branch. That desk was once a sailor ship in the British Navy. And it got caught in the ice on a rescue mission toward the North Pole. Had to be abandoned some years later. An American whaling captain came upon it and brought it out in our country, refurbished it, and sent it back to England. And then a few years later, evidently, they decommissioned. 1,300-pound package arrived at the White House between Victoria. And this desk was covered out of the planks of that ship in the decommission. And so she sent it back here as a gift of appreciation. That's beautiful. They haul it off, but since we're really... The people weren't as tall in those days as we are.  Has Elmer Fisher been here to see? Was that Elmer Fisher? You remember him? Oh, I remember him very well. I wondered if he'd been here because the gentleman said you'd have to have some room to come. Oh, yes, but in fact, we had a fundraiser back here. But that was mainly the current studios, and not too many of my era. Well, you look really good. You look really good. I should say that came right in. My colleagues days were very happy. I had to work my way through school. So did my husband. And I had one of the better jobs in my life. I washed dishes. I was doing the dishes. I know.  Yes. Well, that's a good man out of it. I'm going to see you. David's in college. He's a sophomore. Oh, my goodness. Thanks. University of Florida? Oh. University of Florida? Oh. That was nice. So nice to see you. I do. Doing a great job too, obviously. Oh, thank you. Great. Eight years. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.


Many times, even though we're surrounded by people, we may feel alone. A friend may have forgotten to respond to our text messages or a loved one may have forgotten to check in on us even though they knew we were sick or have heard that someone in our extended family had passed away. And in this fast-paced life that we all live in, I've been guilty of this too. We may experience a trial in our lives and seem so no one is there to support us. It always comforts me to realize that the Prophet Muhammad SAW also felt like this in his lifetime too. In his early prophethood, the Prophet Muhammad SAW was under a ton of stress and anxiety and experienced mockery and ridicule from those he thought were his closest friends, his tribe and his neighbors. And during this time, he thought that Allah had abandoned him. Now Allah SAW sent down Surat al-Duha to comfort him and let him know that he had not forgotten him and that he was never alone. Your Lord has not abandoned you nor has he forgotten. And Allah SAW continues to remind the Prophet, Did he not find you an orphan and give you refuge? And he found you lost and guided you? And he found you poor and made you self-sufficient? And just as it was a beautiful reminder for the Prophet Muhammad SAW, Surat al-Duha is actually a reminder for us too. Allah was always there for us, even in our toughest times and even if we didn't realize it. He was there for us when our Iman was at its weakest levels and when our worship was barely existent and when days would go by and we wouldn't even think about him. Yet he guided us and here you are now listening to this and he'll continue to be here for us always. We need to remember that people will test us. They'll forget us. They'll possibly even hurt us. But Allah SAW never will. And we'll always have our back even when we have forgotten him. I wonder if you can share in the comments a time when you felt that Allah SAW had forgotten about you but then realized that he didn't.


Hey everyone, welcome to this week's video update today's Friday, August 18th Hope everybody had a good week of trading. Let's take a quick look at the markets And then we will jump into all of our trades for the week So starting with VIX Volatility peaked its head back up above 18 before retracing today So pumping a little bit of juice back in the options, which is always welcome for us premium sellers As far as the S&P goes obviously down week for the second week in a row same with the Nasdaq Russell was a little bit stronger today kind of a little bit of a bounce but still on a slide downwards and the Dow Down as well Gold continued lower silver continued lower. Although it did have a bounce Thursday and Friday Bonds continue to push lower, which is pushing the 10-year yield up to 4.255 to end the week Oil a couple little bounces Thursday and Friday, but lower for the week as well and natty gas pulling back As far as the grains go soybeans up Wheat was up today, but down overall for the week corn Pretty close to where it started the week The Euro down for the week the pound up for the week and Bitcoin big drop down to back down to 26,000 so that's the market. Let's take a look at our trades from the week start with zero DTE So a little bit of a red week for zero DTE down 7,000 total on all the zero DTE strategies if we break this down by the different ones 925 condor 1025 depending on where you live A couple good trades the dick case special plus 700 on one plus fourteen hundred dollars on the one today So a couple thousand dollars there Am ratios, I'm just gonna put all these together as far as am ratios go three winners one loser Pretty much a scratch week for am ratios. I had one on the 14th for plus seventeen hundred on the 15th minus 38 16th plus a thousand and today plus 1200 zero DTE iron ducks Two trades one was a big loser minus 5200 one was a winner for about a thousand Started doing just selling puts on specific criteria Just did one of those was just kind of testing it out actually did it in SPY plus 530 on that one No ratios power hour So how did we do in power hour this week?  So Power hour struggled a little bit this week just a 50% win rate between all of those trades The quiet lunch trades continue to do really well Three winners on those one for thirty eight hundred one for nine fifty one for twenty one hundred and then I don't think I had any Wednesday PMs. Oh, I did. Yeah, I did one for minus forty three hundred and then reverse iron condors Continue to do really well two winners one for eighteen hundred one for thirty seven hundred So down week overall for zero DTE, but the good news is that was the only thing that was down for the week On our dynamic butterflies refresh that so we had a Bunch of time flies this one was actually put on before the class that I did last week So but booked fifteen hundred on that and then we booked four other winners seven hundred six oh five nine hundred six thirty five And we've got one of those on So let me show you our current flies first one is a Longer duration flathead woodpecker and I'm not sure what's going on with toss But we actually we put this on for a credit for some reason it's showing as if we put it on for debit And it's showing we're down a thousand, but we're really up a little bit of money on that So I've got a I got to figure out what's going on on that As far as our time fly goes we've got one of those on and it's currently up about four percent So we should be able to take that out on Monday barring a massive move over the weekend Next set up our dynamic calendars, which did very well Click on these all make sure we don't miss any Yeah, so six seven books seven fifty three five books four sixty five Tgif booked almost two thousand and then some b&b's for three hundred three seventy five six hundred four hundred So b&b's have been performing really well plus forty eight hundred on our calendar positions this week Iron ducks got smoked out on a couple ducks one in rut for six oh seven one in spx for seven thirty no NTT Option selling some really good profits in our option selling oops So let's see this 60. Those are just the book credits. We're actually down on that one overall, but it's still open MES that's a that's a roll so that was still open booked over twenty two hundred dollars on a hedgehog in ES books 480 on a hedgehog in IWM book 217 on a strangle in MES book 360 on a volatility contraction trade in VXX and then the rest of these are open So let's take a look at our open positions So here's the here's the short strangle in 60 We've rolled down our calls three times on this one prices hanging out right here So need a little bit of a bounce in the euro to help that one out in Oil we just put on a New hedgehog in oil prices hanging out right there not much to do on that one and then we also put on a short strangle in oil and We just put this on so we're up Just a little bit of money 50 bucks on that one Yes, we took off a big hedgehog on that as I showed you and then we have another one on That's doing really well As price pushes down kind of pushes us down into that sweet spot in Gold we've got a reverse hedgehog and Price is way down here. So most likely that one's going to be we'll take that one off here in the next week or so and Probably scratch maybe a small loss maybe a small win on that one MES We've got two short strangles That one's pretty well centered. We've adjusted that a couple times not quite to our profit target And then this one we've adjusted once and so we're down just slightly on that one NQ got another hedgehog in NQ that's doing really well Actually, we've got two of them. So we've got this one here This one here There we go No, that's not right either. It's this one here No Which strike am I on there we go? So that one's that one's coming in nicely up a couple thousand on that one and then the other one we just put on That's this one here So we're up just a little bit Zs we've got a short strangle on in soybeans that one's pretty well centered with this nice bounce we got back We're almost at profit target after adjustments But not quite there QQQ we've got an iron duck on pretty well centered Rut we just put this iron duck on prices still way up in the beak area SPX we've got another duck on and it's pretty much in the middle and Then VXX we've got one Vertical on that is slightly down. We put on another one today Pretty much at the top of volatility and it's contracted down so we're up about 250 bucks on that So those are the those are all those trades. I uh, I usually am sharing we also have a group for Just portfolio margin traders for those who have portfolio margin with their with their brokers And we just do trades specific to portfolio margin these are usually Only trades I share with those folks, but I'll show you we had a we had a big week for portfolio margin position So if there's anyone listening who has portfolio margin and is interested in the portfolio margin group Just check out the portfolio margin channel in discord. It's by application only But here is our PM trades for the week All of which were winners booked over 14,000 520 and in fact this this superfly that's still open that show in minus 2900 The other piece of it that we haven't closed is up about four thousand So that net net bat actually about a positive thousand on that one So I had a PM condor that we booked 1700 on a time fly that we booked over 1100 on Hedgehog we scratched plus 35 golden shark booked 3300 another golden shark booked over 2000 a Call swoosh we booked 1600 another time fly book 2400 a reverse calendar book 2800 Another golden shark booked 1100 and another time fly booked 1200 so those Came to life a lot with the with the volatility that we've we've seen this week So overall zero DTE down, but a lot of good things happen this week as well So that's the beauty of having all different positions. So hopefully that was helpful as far as Livestreaming Monday, I'll be streaming at the open for zero DTE on Monday morning and then also for power hour So look forward to seeing you then talk to you soon


Mama, which is better, Los Angeles or Esfie? We are going to check out this new cafe, it's called Beauregard, the beautiful view. It's new here, I don't remember it being here. So hopefully that's going to offer us some beautiful views of the ocean. So that's the coffee shop, there are a lot of ceasings right by the ocean front over there, really beautiful view and honestly I was just kind of scouting and trying to find a better spot, but it seems like every single one of them is just perfect and if it's a little bit too cold and windy in here, you can go inside and just be a little bit more comfortable and cozy. So that's the menu, they've got a lot of cool options and since it's me and my mom this morning, we're going to go with Beauregard pour deux personnes, this is a meal for two people. Otherwise I would have gone with the Moroccan. So this one is 35 dirhams, that's about $4 and then this one's 78 dirhams, I would say about $8. We've got a feast, quite literally, let me show you. So I've got tea for one person and then we've got a lot of croissant, some cinnamon and then hasha and then we've got bread, water for two, eggs and then we've got soup also for two and then we've got orange juice for two, we've got dates, olives, cream cheese, olive oil, honey, butter and I think this is jam. And then I've got my tea and then we've got a very very neat view, all for $8. This spot right here is one of my favorite views in the city and it's the most outstanding one and I'm going to try probably in the next few days to get all the way down there. I'm going to give you a close look, it's really gorgeous in the weather. So beautiful today, it's been really cold the past few days but today is just perfect to be out. But for right now I am done here, we had a very tasty breakfast so that's going to keep us full for the next few hours but we're going to go and explore a little bit more. We're going to check a water source here called Lella Mira, it's a water source in this area, this area of the city is called Sidi Bouzid and we're going to go out there. We just checked with some locals that we happened to know if it's safe to go and explore because it's just me and my mom and I've got a camera, I've got my phone and my GoPro here I just wanted to make sure that it's safe and yeah, I don't think I've been there before so I'm really excited to go then check it out. My mom said that when she was a kid she would come here often just to swim so I don't really know what to expect. The view is gorgeous though from here. The water source is right here, I was expecting more water flow but it seems like it's not as abundant as I was expecting but if you follow a little short trail in here it's going to take you to a beautiful view of the ocean. It's really gorgeous, you can just stay in there and you can kind of watch both just going by and take some beautiful pictures, it's really pretty. It's very common for people to come down here to clean, to even do laundry sometimes and we just met this guy who was giving his dog a shower, her name is Blanca she was giving him a hard time but yeah, it's not a crazy water source but it is a water source and I would say the beautiful thing about coming down here is the view of the ocean it's very spectacular and unique and it's definitely a nice hidden spot to take some beautiful photos if you are interested in photography with that, that is Lella Meera water source the area right here is called the Sidi Bouzid Sidi Bouzid translates to Saint Bouzid so that's a saint who was buried right here and you can even go if the mausoleum is open you can go inside and check it out this is what we're going to try to do if they're not open I'm just going to show you what it looks like from outside but that's the person that the area was named after it's closed for right now we happen to know the person who is taking care of the place probably we'll check and see if they're going to be open today but that's the mausoleum for you if you happen to come here there is a gorgeous viewpoint from right here you can see a good chunk of the seaport and this is a beautiful spot to either catch the sunrise, the sunset and you can even see the sun it's midday and it's still so pretty what does it say? which translates to you are in Los Angeles Mama, which is better? Los Angeles or Esfie? Los Angeles of course this is a new road that they are constructing I remember coming to this coffee shop it also has a beautiful view but obviously they built so many other coffee shops up there like the one we had breakfast in but there are a lot of people working here just getting the road squared away I'm not sure how long it would take for this project to be complete but it seems like they are way far down the road I'm going to show you a couple of things going on in here construction going on usually we would take some very steep stairs to get to the top right there but it seems like they are also under construction they used to be really deep and very steep so they are fixing them right now so instead we will go back the same way we came in and then get up there but you can see the stairs behind they are still under construction they get all the way up there right now we are going to go the same way we came in and just see what we can enjoy on the road and we will show you some more neat places around here we just made a quick stop here so that we can buy some spices my mom is doing her negotiation skills here to get a couple of things purchased that's cumin lavender lentils rice ful tuna garlic looks really really fresh look so red and then shreyha I don't know what it is this is hummus this is the raw hummus before you process it and you make your own hummus so that's the one he's not based right here he would just go around the area and sell the spices here but they really smell so good that's where we were earlier the view is kind of nicer from here I'm going to walk a little bit further and I'm going to show you guys the college I went to when I was here school that's the college I spent five years of my life in some memories were so beautiful some of them were not so beautiful but I'm really thankful for being able to come back here and see it the doors are actually closed if it was still open I could go inside and probably give you a sneak peek but they are closed and then just from the last time I saw it which was three years ago they have added some paintings colors blue and white but it's really beautiful and then there is the name of the college there with the name of the university as well University of Qadi Ayad so many memories come into mind right now so we would go to class in here and then during recess all we have to do is cross the street here and then we would enjoy all of that beautiful view of the ocean which at the time I did not really appreciate but coming back right now I was like wow we were we had some luxurious viewpoint that we didn't even appreciate Sidi Bouzid is the one area where I personally feel very safe I can even use my camera gear with no issues, my phone and the reason is near where the school is and there is another university up there there is actually a police station so they do a bit of patrolling around the area and you always feel safe right here it's very peaceful up here by the university and especially right now because people are not getting off school and usually it's bustling with students trying to catch transportation so it's really quiet in here and there are so many beautiful flowers there are some stray dogs disturbing the peace but other than that it's really pretty this is the end of the video the story behind it is all about Abrahmad and the people of Abdi the Sultanate of Alawiy was the Sultan the Sultanate of the Alawiy Sidi Muhammad Illa the Sultanate of Alawiy was founded in 1762 but it was still the Sultanate but it's still the Sultanate but it's still the Sultanate after the French occupation in 1912 they opened the door in 1911 they were able to open the door but the old trees I see it's called Vioka it's from Brazil it's 5 years old and you can't reach it it was built in 1588 and it was built in 1516 we are checking the city of arts here in Safi it's also called Medina El Funon it's a very beautiful place where there is a big hall or town hall type of place where people would come in for events and so on but it seems like they also have a museum a pottery museum so the plan initially was to go to Dar Sultan and the museum used to be there but for some reason they moved it to the city of arts here it's independent and they have some beautiful pottery so we went in we got our tickets we checked in unfortunately you won't be able to take photos it's banned but there was a lot of history and a lot of new things that we learned but for right now we're just checking the area there's a beautiful view you can see the water all the way from here and then we're gonna take some photos and just enjoy the beautiful weather today so tag along as we show you new places around hometown right now we are checking out this area of the old town the majority of ceramics and pottery and some other beautiful pieces of arts are being sold this is definitely a place that you want to check out we really love coming here whenever we have anyone who's visiting from out of town we would bring them here and they really enjoy it so the very cool thing about this place is that on the top there is all of the we call them atelier where pottery is being made and then right here in the bottom the pottery is being sold so it's really neat just to see that you can see the whole operation right here how they make all of the pottery pieces from scratch and then you just take a few steps down and you will see some beautiful pieces of art I'll show you a little bit around here we were just invited in so that we can see how pottery is made this is exactly what I wanted but I was a little bit shy to ask so there we go peace we are going to show you how the pottery is made this is the process this is the process we bring the clay we bring it from the outside and we then pour it this is the process we put it in the pot we put the clay and we add what we need the clay and water we put the clay in the pot I bought a shirt and it's a little bit short. It's a little bit tight. It's a little bit tight so it's not too tight. This is the cover. I don't know what to say. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I enjoyed today's vlog. This is how I choose to spend my day in Safi Morocco. Obviously I grew up there so I pretty much have seen every single place there is to see and I've done every single thing there is to do in the city.  Obviously if you are visiting for the first time, there are so many other places to go to. The Portuguese Cathedral, the biggest Tajini in the world, the castle, the beach, Wellidia Beach and so many other places. I will have a detailed guide over on my website trekkingpals.com. Top 20 attractions, places to go, things to do, where to eat when you are visiting Safi for the first time. Until then, I hope that you guys are having a wonderful time. Keep on exploring and I will talk to you very soon.


Everybody for us here ripping 22 23 select hobby and 23 24 prism draft choice six box make sure number two random teams will randomize right now And then we'll get started. Good luck everybody Five and one six times six times names here first one Two three four five and six.   You're just on the trash list because you didn't spell my name right Ken W down to Rory C and then six times on the teams one two three four five and six Utah down to New Orleans All right Ken W. Jazz Jonathan W. Kings Ken W. Raptors Gregory M. Lakers Chang S. Sixers Jeff S. Celtics Rob H. Magic Gregory M. Pistons Branson K. Blazers Joseph D. Bucks Gregory M. Nets Joseph or Jose V with the Hawks Eric S. Cavs Paul H. Rockets Andy F. Sons Tyler M. Nix Andy F. Mavs Michael S. Nuggs John H. Spurs Gavin K. Warriors Jabari L. Heat Gregory M. Clippers H. Lynn Grizzly Jonathan S. Hornets Cody W. Pacers Scott F. With the Wolves Sheldon J. Thunder Lynn M. Wizards Sheldon J. Bulls Rory C. Pelicans. All right results are posted here comes the link. Yeah Patriots thing I'm trying to think I'm thinking like should they draft a quarterback and ruin a quarterback or should they take a like the best O lineman they can find on the draft at the top? Who's who's a big draft quarterback in 2025? Maybe they take a shot like a mid-round pick or something. All right here we go for draft choice John did you get the spurs? Pretty good. Drew how we doing? Silvers of Shaquille O'Neal. Nix with a junior. Chris Murray to 40 Rookie Otto. What kind of name is Chris? You go Portland on the Chris Murray to 40 on the Rookie Otto. How about a tri-color scoot? Scoot. Go Blazers again. Jerry West, Tristan Vukovic, Red, Jalen Brown number to 88 for the Celtics, and a Mojave King on the Orange Zebra. Orange Zebra Mojave King. Weird, I'm just kidding guys. Tiger Mojave King. Will he cunning him any good? I would probably think not if they're not even gonna give him a chance. Make no mistake. Mack is the best quarterback the Patriots have and it's I don't think it's close. I wouldn't mind giving cunning him a shot. Maybe I'm wrong and at worst case you just lose another game, you know. You just keep the tank going. Silver Matherin and Silver Mojave King. How about Green Choice Otto? Legacy signatures, Ayodo Sunmu. That goes to Chicago. Chicago to eight, Ayodo Sunmu Otto. Who's a beast in college? He's pretty good in the NBA too. Good guard. Blue, Yellow, Green of Nick Smith, Jr. Adama Sanogo. Donovan Mitchell. Red number to 88, Jamaran. There you go, Grizz. Draft bonus. I wouldn't be opposed to taking like an elite tackle or defensive lineman or something in the top five and then just kind of taking a QB later on or punting to 20-25. You need a lot more on offense than just a quarterback. And Green, nice. Chris Paul for the Warriors. Seven of eight dubs. It's really weird to say Chris Paul Warriors. Very nice card though for you. Golden State. Yeah, cunning him will literally just be there to throw like 10 passes game and run the entire time. There you go, Karnig. Late in packages, late in mail day. Oh, let's go. It's Christmas. Late in mail day. You got Silver, Steph Curry for the dubs, Silver, F. Bowman. November. Yeah, what month is it? I don't even know, dude. I was thinking about that one for a minute. Green Rookie Otto, Julian Phillips. There we go. Julian Phillips. For Chicago. There you go, Chicago. Two Green Autos now. Well, they physically can. Oh, it's like, can we pass the first down the entire round of catch? No, they can't. Blue, Yellow, Green. Desmond Bain. Donovan Klingen. Jalen Clark. Number to 88. Red, Kevin Durant for the Suns. And Kyrie for the Mavericks to 88. That's what I kind of lean towards, Drew. Cause like Mack, I think is okay. Like he makes some math rows here and there, but I think the team around him is so bad that like I don't even like get mad that I like his bad throws. Like what else is he gonna do? You know what I mean? Silver Tatum Celtics. Colby Jones. Rookie Silver. But yeah, I think an alt for Shaanu. That'd be a good idea. Red Choice Rookie Otto. Leonard Miller. Leonard Miller. It's Miller time. There you go, T-Wolves. Although Miller, Miller is just not good. Not good beer. It was Blue, Yellow, Green of Mojave King. Pat Ewing. Shrey Young. Ben Shepard Rookie Red of 88. Shepard is Pacers. And number to 88 Rookie Seth Lundy for the Hawks. All right, nothing too crazy in drafts. Two select hobbies now. Three cashiers for ARs. I got it first down. I literally forgot they had Dalvin Cook. Baji. That is a light blue concourse. Kauai Leonard. Leonard number to 299. Four Eclipse. Shabaric Smith. Future. Silver concourse. Kate Cunningham. Pistons. The only downside of taking a quarterback in the second round, Drew, is that I don't want them to get tricked into thinking that this guy that's okay can be like the answer. I don't want that. If the guy is okay, have him be okay. Just get an elite QB. Do it. Christian Coloco. Rookie Auto Raptors out of 249. Silver Scotty Barnes Raptors. Concourse Red. Andrew Wiggins, Warriors. Number 299. Sorry to 199 of the Warriors. Shade on Sharp. Concourse. Cavs. Jersey. Carl LeBron. James. Game worn. LeBron. Jersey for Cleveland. Premier level. Scope is Suggs for the Magic. Chet Rookie Premier level. Zach Levine. Blue Premier level. Going to the Bulls. Bulls 249? You had a 249? Yeah, I don't think there's one position the Patriots are good at. I guess tight end, they're okay. Hunter Henry is solid, and I think they have some other decent tight ends that are, you know, they're okay there. Silver is Chris Paul for the Suns. Jalen Duren, Premier level. Stevenson is solid, but I wouldn't call their running backs overall good. Palo Bencaro. Jaden Ivey 1099. A rookie Jersey. Pistons. Silver is Christian Wood for the Mavericks. Is a Dunes A supposed to be a high pick, Chris? The only receivers I know, obviously, outside of Harrison, I would, I think of like Keon Coleman and I think of like, maybe a Bucca or maybe Worthy from Texas. I don't know. I don't know. Snapshots. Iverson. There's a white concourse. I ought to assume it's 149 bulls. Really, top 15. Okay, I'm down. I'm down with the pass to get a receiver as well. I mean, I just felt that offense, man. Scope concourse.  Magic. You're gonna have to, you're gonna have to either draft a receiver sign and some O'Lineman or vice versa. You know what I mean? You're gonna have to do one or the other. Yep, neighbors. Yep, neighbors. That's one of the guys I wasn't thinking of, but yeah. It's unstoppable. Palo. Concourse. Tri-color. Ricky Chet Holmgren for OKC. So that's a good receiver draft then. Panic's gone in the first round. I could see that. I could see that. Jalen Williams. Concourse. Tri-color. De'Aaron Fox for the Kings. And David Roddy. I need to watch that Beckham documentary on Netflix. I started to watch it. I gotta check it out. The episodes are long though. They're like an hour and 15 plus every episode. Anybody seen the Beckham documentary on Netflix? A Dock Who series, I guess you would call it. I have to give that a watch. Okay, Goldstainer and I, Mack Mosaic is at three to go. Immaculate Mosaic, Choice Plates down to 18 to go. Flawless still at 28. And then the Flux in Prism Draft is at six. Nice. Let's keep it rolling. Silver Concourse, SGA for OKC. Nice one. Thunder to 49. Rookie Auto Jalen Williams. Great J-Dub here. Sheldon with OKC. Sheldon. Here you go. OKC, Silver Porzingis for the Wizards. Let's get there, Brandon. Let's get in there. We've still got plenty of time. We've got a lot of other breaks ahead of it. Sheldon Sharp, got a Light Blue Concourse, Damien Lillard for the Blazers. Added 299. It's a 99. Sonsie Aldema, Jersey Auto for the Grizzlies. Concourse Tri-Color, Anthony Edwards Wolves. Are there Scope Concourse, Louis Randall-Nicks? Nothing wrong with wanting to get a breakful. Dalen Terry. Premier level rookie Maroon is Christian Brown. Denver, 275. Part of this card, it looks like it's missing though, so you might want to send that in. I don't know where the rest of that went. Sheldon Sharp. Never won a Lillis you do that all the time. Freaking guy. All right, that defense is good. That's for sure. Alamello on the Copper. What is this called? Copper to 49. Copper Checker? No. Not Copper Power. I don't know. It's Copper to 49. Lamello for the Hornets. He's been doing pretty good this year. They need to get him off the Hornets and probably on the Magic. His shot is so weird, but he's a very good shooter. Got Palo, Silver Concourse, Halliburton Pacers. That daylight savings is his whack, dude. I woke up at like 730 today and I thought it was like nine dirt.  They're brewing me yesterday. It's so much worse when you stay up late. Jersey card drew holiday bucks. I've been on both sides of it where I've had an early job.  Everything feels like it's so much longer. Silver rookies. Sheldon Sharp for the Blazers. Coles is all we need. Sheldon Sharp there. Nice. A Chet Holmgren, Rookie Concourse Blue to 249. Thunder killed it here. Sheldon, congrats again. Chet looking good too. Let's go grab lunch. It was 10 a.m. Yeah, Nick. That thing was sick, man. There were two one-of-one patch-outters in Hockey tonight. Unreal. Rookie Concourse Tri-Color Mather and Pacers. Yeah, did I woke up at 7.30? I'm like, yo, what? 7.30 last week? It was almost coming up. J. Dubb in a Premier-level Tri-Color of Mobley for the Cavs. Mark it in there. Give me one sec. We'll recap everybody. I'll do a random real quick for any non-NBA cards. There were no non-NBA autos, but there were some like silvers and I think some other stuff. I think there was at least one silver. So here we go. Non-NBA cards of the break random to everybody. Five times. All going to go to one spot though after five herbs up top. One, two, three, four, and five. Cleveland Cavaliers are getting non-NBA cards. Yeah, so that's why I ended up sleeping four hours last night. My eye has been burning all day and I'm like physically exhausted. All right, we got that awesome Chet. He had Drew Holiday, Jersey, Lamello Ballcopper, Christian Brown, Damian Lillard, a Jayden Ivies, Levine, LeBron Cavs, Jersey card. Got Andrew Wiggins, Kawhi Leonard, Ben Shepard, Seth Lundey, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, John Morant, Jalen Brown, Chris Paul to eight, Tiger of Mojave King, Autos of Santi Aldema, J. Dubb. Congrats to the Thunder, by the way. Blue Rookie Auto, J. Dubb and a blue Chet Holmgren. Got Caloco, Leonard Miller, Chris Murray, Desumu to eight on the green, and Julian Phillips to eight on the green. That'll do it. Thank you very much everybody. Moving on now to I think that Bowman Chrome U.