From around the globe, it's theCUBE with coverage of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 virtual. Brought to you by Red Hat, the CloudNative Computing Foundation and ecosystem partners. Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman and this is KubeCoverage of KubeCon, CloudNativeCon 2020 in Europe. The virtual edition, of course, one of the things we love when we come to these conferences is to get to the actual practitioners, understanding how they're using the various technologies, especially here at the CNCF show, so many projects, lots of things changing and we're really excited. We're going to talk about security in a slightly different way than we often do on theCUBE, so happy to welcome to the program. From Sarah Four, I have Jeff Plink, who's the Vice President of Engineering and Cloud. Jeff, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks Stu, thanks for having me. All right, so I teed you up there. What would give us, if you could, just a quick thumbnail on Sarah Four, what your company does and then your role there. Absolutely, so we're a physical hardware product addressing the telco markets, utility space, all of those, so we kind of differentiate ourself as a Bluetooth lock for that higher end space, the high security market where digital encryption is really an absolute must. So we have a few products, including our physical lock here, is a physical padlock as well as door locks and controllers that all operate over the Bluetooth protocol and that people can just use simply through their mobile phones and operate at the enterprise level. Yeah, I'm guessing it's a little bit more expensive than the padlock I have on my shed, which is getting a little rusty and needs a little work, but it probably, not quite what I'm looking for, but you have cloud in your title, so give us, if you could, a little bit what the underlying technology that you're responsible for and understand you've rolled out Kubernetes over the last couple of years, kind of set us up with what were the challenges you were facing before you started using that. Absolutely. So Stu, we've grown over the last five years really as a company like in leaps and bounds and part of that has been the scalability concern and where we go with that, originally starting in the virtual machine space and original, some small customers in Telco as we build up the locks and eventually we knew that scalability was really a concern for us and we needed to address that pretty quickly. So as we started to build out our data center space and in this market, it's a bit different than your shed locks. Bluetooth locks are kind of everywhere now, they're in logistics, they're on your home and you actually see a lot of compromises these days actually happening on those kind of locks, the home security locks, they're not built for rattling and banging and all that kind of pieces that you would expect in a Telco or utility market. I think the nuclear space or so, you really don't want a lock that, you know, when it's dropped or banged about, immediately begins to kind of fall apart in your hands and two, you're going to expect a different type of security, much like you'd see in your SSH certificates, you know, a digital key certificate that arrives there. So in our space, as we grew up through that piece, Kubernetes became a pretty big player for us to try to deal with some of the scale and also to try to deal with some of the sovereignty pieces you don't see in your shed locks and data sovereignty meeting in your country or as close to you as possible to try to keep that data with the Telco, with the utility and kind of in country or incontinent with you as well. That was a big challenge for us right off the bat. Yeah, no, Jeff, absolutely. I have some background in some of the Telco space. Obviously, there's very rigorous certifications. There's lots of environments that I need to fit into. I want to poke at a word that you mentioned, scale. So scale means lots of things to lots of different people. This year at the KubeCon, CloudNativeCon show, one of the scale pieces we're talking about is edge, just getting to lots of different locations as opposed to when people first thought about, you know, scale of containers and the like, it was like, oh, do I need to be like Google? Do I have to have that much scale? Of course, there is only one Google and there's only a handful of companies that need that kind of scale. What was it from your standpoint? Is it, you know, the latency of all of these devices? Is it, you know, just the pure number of devices, the number of locations? What was the scale limiting factor that you were seeing? It's a bit of both in two things. One, it was a scale as we brought new customers on. There are extra databases. There was extra identity services. You know, the more locks we sold, all of a sudden, and the more telcos we sold to, suddenly what we started finding is that we needed all these virtual machines and sources in some way to time together. And the natural piece to those is start to build shared services like SSO. And Single Sign-On was a huge driver for us of how do we unite these spaces where they may have maintenance technicians in that space that work for two different telcos? Hey, tower one is down. Could you please use this padlock on this gate and then this padlock on this cabinet in order to fix it? So that kind of scale immediately showed us. We started to see email addresses or other on two different places and say, well, it might need access into this carrier site because some other carrier has equipment on that site as well. So the scale started to pick up pretty quickly as well as this space where they started to unite together in a way that we said, well, we kind of have to scale two parts. Not only the individuals, databases and servers and identity and the storage of their web service data, but all of a sudden we had to unite them in a way that was GDPR compliant and compliant with a bunch of other regulations to say, how do we get these pieces together? So that's where we kind of started to tick the boxes to say in North America, in Latin America, South America, we need centralized services, but we need some central tieback mechanism as well to start to deal with scale. And the scale came when it went from let's sell a thousand locks to, oh, by the way, the carrier wants 8,000 locks in the next coming months. That's a real scalability concern right off the bat, especially when you start to think of all the people going along with those locks in space as well. So that's the kind of first piece we had to address. And single sign-on was the head of that for us. Excellent. Well, today, when we talk about how do I do container orchestration, Kubernetes of course is the first word that comes to mind. Can you bring us back though, how did you end up with Kubernetes? Were there other solutions you looked at when you made your decision? What were your kind of key criteria? How did you choose what partners and vendors you ended up working with? So the first piece was is that we all had a lot of VM backgrounds. We all had some good DevOps backgrounds as well, but nobody was yet into the container space heavily. And so what we looked at originally was Docker Swarm. It became our desktop, our daily, our working environment as we knew we were working towards microservices. But then immediately this problem emerged that reminded me of say 10, 15 years ago. HD, DVD versus Blu-ray. And I thought about it as simply as that. These two are fantastic technologies. They're kind of competing in this space. Docker Compose was huge. Docker Hub was growing and growing. And we kind of said, you got to kind of pick a bucket and go with it and figure out who has the best backing between them. From a security policy, from a usage and size and scalability perspective, we knew we would scale this pretty quickly. So we started to look at the DevOps and the tooling set to say, scale up by one or scale up by 10. Is it doable? Infrastructure as code as well. What could I codify against the best? And as we started looking at those, Kubernetes took a pretty quick change for us. And actually the first piece of tooling that we looked at was Rancher. I said, well, there's a lot to learn in the Kubernetes space. And the Rancher team, they were growing like crazy. And they were actually really, really good inside of some of their Slack channels and some of their groups. But they said, reach out, we'll help you. Even as a free tier and kind of grow our trust in you and vice versa and develop that relationship. And so that was our first major relationship was with Rancher. And that grew our love for Kubernetes because it took away that first edge of what am I staring at here? It looks like Docker swarm. They put a UI on it. They put some lipstick on it and really helped us get through that first hurdle a couple of years ago. Well, it's a common pattern that we see in this ecosystem that open source, you try it, you get comfortable with it, you get engaged and then when it makes sense to roll into production or really start scaling out that's when you can really formalize those relationships. Bring us through the project, if you will. How many applications were you starting with? What was the timeline? How many people were involved? Were there the training or organizational changes? Bring us through another first bits of the project. Sure, absolutely. So like anything, it was a series of VMs. We had some VMs that were load balanced for databases in the back and protected. We had some manual firewalls through our cloud provider as well. But it was really, that was kind of the edge of it. You had your web services, you had your database services and another tier segregated by firewalls, but we were operating at a single DCs. As we started to expand into Europe from the North America, Latin America base, and as well as Africa, we said this has got to kind of stop. We have a lot of VMs, a lot of machines, and so a parallel effort went under way to actually develop some of the new microservices. And that at first glance was our proxies, our ingresses, our gateways, and then our identity service. And SSO would be that unifying factor. We honestly knew that moving to Kubernetes in small steps probably wasn't going to be an easy task for us, but moving the majority of services over to Kubernetes and then leaving some legacy ones in VM was definitely the right approach for us because now we're dealing with ingressing around the world. Now we're dealing with security of the main core stacks. That was kind of our hardcore focus, is to say, secure these stacks up front, ingress from everywhere in the world through like in any cast technology, and then the gateways will handle that and proxy across the globe, and we'll build up from there exactly as we did today. So that was kind of the key for us, is that we did develop our microservices, our identity services for SSO, our gateways, and then our web services were all developed in containers to start. And then we started looking at complimentary pieces like email notification mechanisms, text notification, any of those that could be containerized later, but just dealt with a single one-off RESTful services, were removed at a later date. All right, so Jeff, yeah, absolutely. I want to understand, okay, we went through all this technology, we did all these various pieces. What does this mean to your business project?  Is that happening faster? Is it, what's the actual business impact of this technology that you've rolled out? So here's the key part, and here's the differentiator for us, is we have two major areas we differentiate in. And the first one is asymmetric cryptography. We do own the patents for that one, so we know our communication is secure, even when relying over Bluetooth. So that's kind of the biggest and foremost one, is that how do we communicate with the locks and how do we ensure we can all the time? Two is offline access. Some of the major players don't have offline access, which means you can download your keys and assign your keys, go off-site to a site, to a nuclear bunker, wherever it may be, and we communicate directly with the lock itself. Our core technology is in the embedded controllers and the lock. So that's kind of our key piece, and then the lock is a housing around it. It's the mechanical mechanism to it all. So knowing that we had offline technology really nailed down, allowed us to do what many call the blue-green approach, which is we're going down for four hours, heads up everybody globally. We really need to make this transition, but the transition was easy to make with our players. These enterprise spaces, and we say we're moving to Kubernetes, it's something where war is kind of a badge of honor to them, and they're saying to these guys, they really know what they're doing. They've got Kubernetes on the back end, some we needed to explain it to, but as soon as they started to hear the words Docker and Kubernetes, they just said, wow, these guys are serious about enterprise. They're serious about addressing it, and not only that, they're forefront of other technologies. I think that's part of our security plan. We use asymmetric encryption. We don't use the Bluetooth security protocol. So every time that's compromised, we're not compromised, and it's a badge of honor we wear much alongside the Kubernetes piece. All right, Jeff, thing that we're hearing from a lot of companies out there is that transition that you're going through from VMs to containerization. I heard you say that you've got a DevOps practice in there. There's some skillset challenges, there's some training pieces. There's often maybe a bumper two in the road. I'm sure your project went completely smoothly, but what can you share about the personnel skillsets, any lessons learned along the way that might help others? There was a ton. Rancher took that first edge off of us. Kube-Cuddle, get things up, get things going, RKE in the Rancher space or the Rancher Kubernetes engine. They were kind of that first piece to say, how do I get this engine up and going? And then I'll work back and take away some of the UI elements and do it myself. From scheduling and making sure the nodes came up to understanding a deployment versus a daemon set, that first UI as we moved from like a Docker swarm environment to the Rancher environment was really kind of key for us to say, I know what these volumes are, I know the networking, I know these pieces, but I don't know how to put core DNS in and start to get them to connect in all of those aspects. And so that's where the UI part really took over. We had guys that were good on DevOps. We had guys that were like, hey, how do I hook it up to a backend? And when you have those UI, those clicks, like your pod security policy on or off, it's incredible. You turn it on, fine. Turn on the pod security policy and then from there, we'll either use the UI or we'll go deeper as we get the skill sets to do that. So it gave us some really good assurances right off the bat. There were some technologies we really had to learn fast. We had to learn the KubeCuttle command line. We had to learn Helm, new infrastructure pieces with Terraform as well. Those are kind of like our backend now. Those are repeatability aspects that we can kind of get going with. So those are kind of our cores now. It's a Rancher every day. It's KubeCuttle from our command lines to kind of do those Terraform to make sure we're doing the same thing.  We looked at the configs that it generated and said, all right, that's actually a pretty good configure. Maybe there's a tank to tolerance or a tweak we could make there. But we kind of work backwards that way to have them give us some best practices and then verify those. So the space you're in, you have companies that rely on what you do. Security is so important. If you talk about telecommunications, many of the other environments, they have rigid requirements. I want to get to your understanding from you. You're using some open source tools. You've been working with startups. One of your suppliers Rancher was just acquired by SUSE. How's that relationship between this ecosystem? Is that something that is there any concerns from your end user clients or in what's your own comfort level with the moves and changes that are happening? Having gone through acquisitions myself and knowing the SUSE team pretty well, I'd say actually it's a great thing to know that the startups are funded in a great source. It's great to hear internally, externally, their marketing departments are growing, but you never know if a startup is growing or not. Knowing this acquisition is taking place actually gives me a lot of security. The team there was healthy, they were growing all the time, but sometimes that can just be a face on a company and just talking to the internals candidly as they've always done with us, it's been amazing. So I think that's a great part. Knowing that there's some great open source techs, Helm, Kubernetes as well, that have great backers towards them. It's nice to see part of the ecosystem getting back as well in a healthy way rather than a, you know, here's $10,000 platinum sponsorship to see them getting the backing from an open source company, I can't say enough for. All right, Jeff, how about what's going forward from you? What projects are you looking at or what additions to what you've already done? Are you looking at doing down the road? Absolutely. So the big thing for us is that we've expanded pretty dramatically across the world now. As we started to expand into South Africa, we've expanded into Asia as well. So managing these things remotely has been great, but we've also started to begin to see some latencies where we're heading back to our ETCD clusters or we're starting to see little cracks and pieces here in some of our QA environments. So part of this is actually the introduction and we started looking into the fog and the edge compute. Security is one of these games where you try to hold the security as core and as tight as you can, but trying to get them the best user experience, especially in South Africa and serving them from either Europe or Asia, we're trying to move into those data centers in region as well to provide the sovereignty, to provide the security, but it's about latency as well. When I open my phone to download my digital keys, I want that to be quick. I want the administrators to assign quickly, but also still giving them that aspect to say, I could store this in the edge, I could keep it secure and I could make sure that you still have it. That's where it's a bit different than the standard web experience to say, no problem, let's put a PNG as close as possible to you to give you that experience. We're putting digital certificates and keys as close as possible to people as well. So that's kind of our next generation of the devices as we upgrade these pieces. Yeah, there was a line that stuck with me a few years ago. If you look at edge computing, if you look at IoT, the security, just surface area is just expanding by orders of magnitude. So that just leaves big challenges that everyone needs to deal with. Exactly. Yep. All right, give us the final word if you would. Final lessons learned, you're talking to your peers here in the hallways, virtually of the show. Now that you've gone through all of this, is there anything that you say, boy, I wish I had known this had would have been this good or I might have accelerated things or which things, hey, I wish I had pulled these people or done something a little bit differently.  And one, we started with databases and containers, follow the advice of everyone out there, either do managed services or on standalone boxes themselves. That was something we cut our teeth on over a period of time and we really struggled with it. Those databases and containers, they really perform as poorly as you think they might. You can't get the constraints on those guys. That's one of them. Two, we are a global company, so we operate in a lot of major geographies now and ETC has been a big deal for us. We tried to pull our ETC clusters farther apart for better resiliency. No matter how much we tweak and play with that thing, keep those things in a region, keep them in separate, I guess the right word would be availability zones, keep them as redundant as possible and protect those at all costs. As we expanded, we thought our best strategy would do some geographical distribution. The layout that you have in your Kubernetes cluster as you go global for hub and spoke versus kind of centralized clusters and pods and pieces like that, look it over with an expert in Kubernetes, talk to them, talk about latencies and measure that stuff regularly. That is stuff that kind of tore us apart early and proof of concept and something we had to learn from very quickly. Whether we hub and spoke and centralized ETC and control planes and then workers abroad or we could spread the ETC and control planes a little more. That's a strategy that needs to be played with. If you're not just North America, North America, Europe, Asia, those are my two biggest pieces because those are our big performance killers as well as discovering PSP pod security policies early.  On the security space, those are just your basic house cleaning items to make sure that your latency is low, your performance is high and your security is as tight as you can make it. Wonderful, well, Jeff, thank you so much for sharing. Sarah Forrest story, congratulations to you and your team and wish you the best luck going forward with your initiatives. Absolutely, thanks so much, Stu. All right, thank you for watching. I'm Stu Miniman and thank you for watching theCUBE.


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So, harems. Historically speaking, those were pretty nasty.  And sometimes they were wives, sometimes they weren't. But, you know, historically speaking, it wasn't great. Harems are also a thing in fiction. They're quite a bit different than they were in the real world. But in fiction, they're still pretty unpleasant. In the land of fiction, a harem is typically where one character, usually the protagonist of the story, is surrounded by a whole bunch of people that they are interested in.  But there are also reverse harems where it's one girl and a bunch of dudes. And there's also harems of mixed sexualities. Gay harems and bisexual harems aren't all that common, but they do exist. They are out there. And seeing one person with multiple love interests, you might be thinking, oh, okay, so a harem is like a love triangle, except bigger and better. And that's actually the other way around. You see a love triangle is just a harem, but for cowards.  Like if you are or ever have been an anime fan, you know exactly what I'm talking about. They're all over. But they're becoming more and more common in crappy fantasy novels as well. Because as I've said more than once, crappy young adult fantasy novels are just the girl equivalent of crappy anime and light novels. Like they're the same thing. Just one is largely aimed at teenage boys and young men. The other one is largely aimed at teenage girls and young women. But the point is harems are all over the place.    Something can be done well or it can be done poorly. And so, yeah, let's do that. That this video is about how to do a harem well. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. So number one is to just admit that it's a harem. You know, admit it to the audience and admit it to yourself. Like if you're throwing it in there, you're not above doing it. You're not too good for a harem.   You know, if you try hiding it, then that just makes it worse. Because the people who are into that sort of thing aren't going to get anything out of it because, you know, you're you're being too, I don't think subtle is the right word, but like you're hiding it, you're almost ashamed of it.  So like just embrace it, be honest with the fact that it's a harem, you know, like have the target of the harem, which again is usually the protagonist, but not always have the target of the harem spend some time with each member of the harem, which I'll go into a little bit more later. That way it makes it clear that yes, they are interested in all these people or all these people are interested in them or some combination thereof being trash is fine as long as you acknowledge that you're trash. Okay, that like a lot of the problems that you run into in the world are people not admitting that something is what it is. Number two is to give the harem an ending, you know, and there's a lot of different endings you can do. You can have some sort of weird polyamorous thing going on, which like Riverdale ended with that a couple of months ago. That was that was a weird show and had an even weirder ending. Some nights Archie would sneak into my bedroom and Veronica would go home with Jughead. Other nights Archie would spend the night at the Pembroke and I'd go over to Jughead's and sometimes more often than you'd imagine, I would find my way to Veronica's or you could have just the target of the harem be involved with all of the members of the harem in some way like, you know, like a traditional harem or like polygamy essentially where it's just one dude with a bunch of wives or you can have it end with a one true pairing in OTP where they find one person in the harem who they are truly in love with and while they may have liked all the others they are not in love with them the way they are with this person and so the two of them end up together at the end. Like there's a lot of different ways to do this but you should never ever just have it end ambiguously. There needs to be some sort of closure otherwise the audience is going to be unsatisfied you know they're just going to imagine that yep there was an endless string of hijinks until the end of time you know like just the main character or whoever the fuck is the target of the harem is just leading all these people on and never committing to anything and never growing a pair of balls and just doing anything at all with any of this that has fallen into their laps you know like I have there is exactly one manga that I ever read that has a harem that's focused on as part of the story and it ends ambiguously and was actually good and that's Rosario Vampire which spoilers for the end if you're curious about that basically in that series you had the main character whose name is Skune and he had a harem of a bunch of different monster girls but the one he was really in love with was a vampire named Moka and Moka actually had this rosary across that she wore which suppressed her vampire powers and it was only once she took it off that she like you know entered her vampire form and could actually fight and do crazy powerful stuff however it's revealed pretty early on that Moka acts differently when her powers are released not just because like she feels different or anything but because that is actually just a straight up different personality there's an inner Moka and outer Moka and again much later on we find out that the outer Moka that personality was created when Moka's mother she died but then her personality was put into that and then her memory was also erased and then at the end of the story the outer Moka the real Moka's mother the person that Skune was in love with dies and so all the rest of the members of his harem are still vying for his attention at the end and that one again it's ambiguous but it actually works out because like the OTP was broken up number three have the target of the harem actually interact with all of the members of the harem now the exact form this will take will vary depending on you know what sort of story you're telling but like have them actually interact you know don't just have it be okay this person has a crush on them and they are in the background and the target of the harem is barely even aware of their existence because that that's not really a harem at that point that's just unrequited love from a tertiary character you know like have them actually interact with them and show that okay yeah they do have feelings for this person and there is actual chemistry there and again this can range all the way from just PG where it's hand holding and kisses and going on an occasional date or something all the way up to there really is no point in just teasing the audience again your trash embrace the fact that your trash like your wish fulfillment embrace the fact that your wish fulfillment show the character who is the target of the wish fulfillment fulfilling those wishes hi my worthless fucking piece of shit computer doesn't want to take the next clip that I already filmed for some reason for for number four I don't know why and it has done this multiple times but you know what let's still have some fun number four is have the harem members interact with each other you know like whatever their relationship before and whatever sort of relationship they might have during the harem and maybe even after depending on how far the story goes along they would have some sort of relationship with one another you know historically in harem's members did jostle for position you know like they would want to be the sultan's favorite or the king's favorite or however however you want that to go and so that would probably be a thing in a fictional harem as well at least the type we're talking about or if we're going for more of a polyamorous relationship which I mentioned earlier they would probably be into each other as well and how acceptable that is would again depend on like the story and the setting and that's type of thing uh or maybe they're just friends or maybe they just dislike each other maybe there is some sort of magical components and they are trying to be with the target of the harem because I don't know it'll make their kingdom the strongest or something I don't know I'm literally just coming up with this off the top of my head but you know if there's some sort of other components other than love then yeah that would also give them reason to jockey for position and to try and gain more power more influence okay back to the other clips which I fucking filmed a while ago goodbye the final entry here is going to be number five and that is to make the harem members distinct from one another you know and by that I I mean a couple of different ways you can do that you can do that just in terms of their physical attributes which this applies more to visual mediums like again anime rather than written stuff but that is still valid there but you know make their physical attributes different you know have some with blonde hair some with red hair some short some tall some skinny some curvier etc you can also have them be different in terms of their personality you know some of them could be nerdy some could be short tempered some could be brooding uh ideally they would represent a part of the harem targets personality when we're just talking about you know their their personality being different like for example in the Hunger Games you had Katniss who was in love with both Gail and Peta but one of them represented embracing her anger and just trying to get revenge whereas the other one represented peace and moving on from the past you can also differentiate them based on you know their lifestyle and again that ties into like who is the target of the harem again usually the protagonist and what do they want out of life so their lifestyle could be like some of them are rich some of them are poor some of them live in rural areas some are more urban some might be uh nomadic depending on again the the setting they might just not never stay in one place for long your imagination really is the limit here and the important part is just that you don't throw in random archetypes or or just random cliches you know don't just throw that those in that's the main point I'm making with this video here because the thing about tropes is that they're not bad and they've never been bad but they become tropes when people started noticing certain patterns appearing in various stories and various types of media e.g. the brooding bad boy love interest as part of a love triangle alongside a nicer boy that became a trope because people just noticed it happening a bunch of different times in various types of media a trope becomes a cliche when writers just threw them in not because they had they just happened to have an idea for a similar character or just happened to have an idea for a similar plot point or anything but they threw it in specifically because well this is a trope that exists so I want to throw it in uh for example they would again throw in brooding bad boys but they would throw in bad boys who had no real reason to be bad boys they just they just are they're they're just brooding and stuff and sometimes they would go way over the top with how bad they were but you know that's a separate discussion and they also would have nothing to them beyond being a bad boy like nothing to them beyond being this trope and they're there's just literally nothing else there like there's nothing beyond the surface there's nothing else to their personality they don't have any other aspects to their life or anything they are just a bad boy which is thrown in because that's what people want uh another good example of this is the tsundere again if you're familiar with anime at all those should be the bane of your existence and that's what this boils down to if you want to make a good harem rather than thinking of different archetypes 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What's up trade hackers welcome to today's update today is Wednesday, March 25th Starting off with the trade hacker question of the day. I have several inverted positions What is the optimal way to manage? Inverted trades. All right, so let's talk about this I'm gonna pull up the platform to kind of give an example of this and For those of you who don't know what an inverted position is Let's start with that. So I've got a chart of the S&P up here So typically when we sell premium, let's just say we sell a strangle So we're gonna sell a call above the current price So let's say we sold a call up here at about 2,800 and we sold a put down here below price Let's just call it 2,100 So we're we're strangling the current price right and our calls are higher than our puts Well, let's say the the S&P just continued to rip higher Well, one thing that we do as an adjustment technique is we roll the untested side closer to price So as price kind of goes up and starts to test our Call in this case we would roll the untested side up So we take our puts and we'd roll those closer to the current price and by doing that we're collecting a credit We're not using any more capital and we're reducing our overall Delta or directional exposure So that's that's why we do it now Let's say that we that price just continued to go up It tested our call and then we rolled our puts up and then it continued to go higher So we needed to roll our puts up again And so what we're gonna do is if we have to continue to roll up those puts if we have a very long extended move Then what happens is we become inverted so if our initial calls are right here We leave those alone, but we keep rolling up the puts rolling up the puts rolling up the puts So then let's say our puts are at 3,000 and our calls are at 2,800 So the the puts are higher than the calls or the calls are lower than the puts and that's what we call inverted So the question is what's the optimal way to manage that? Couple things what we'd like to do is as we get down to around a few weeks left to expiration Then we like to roll that entire spread out to the next cycle So let's say we are in April right now and at the end of this week. We'll be down to about 21 days to expiration So if we have an inverted position, we would roll that from April out to May and by doing that again We're collecting a credit. We're reducing our overall Delta We're reducing our gamma, which is the the P&L swings that we might see in that trade and we would do that And we would if we were inverted at that point, we would roll that trade as an inverted strangle Okay, so that's what we do and we'll continue to collect credit that way now That's how we do it and and that's our preference and based on our account size and managing the trades and we stay small Enough so that we can do that and manage through positions back to a point where we collect enough credits so that when we buy the trade back We end up booking a profit on the trade. So that's what we like to do now If you have a smaller account You may not want to go that far, you know We will roll positions for an extended period of time to get back to profitability But if you have a smaller account, you may want to exit before you have to go inverted You know, you may roll up a couple times until you get into like a straddle situation But then you might say, okay, I'm not gonna roll out to the next expiration. I'm not gonna try to keep this dream alive I'm just going to take the loss and then be able to redeploy that capital into other trades. That's fine, too but to answer the question about inversions that the optimal way to do it and what we've found over time is that Continuing to roll up or down the untested side and then even if you get inverted We can roll that inverted strangle out to the next cycle continue to collect credits Until we get to a point where you know, the market kind of stops trending in one direction and starts You know kind of going going sideways and that's when we can we can start to collect those profits back very quickly Remember, I know in a situation where a market's going in one direction for a long time I mean, it's only been a few weeks But you know, this thing seems like it's just been going down forever You can almost feel like it's going to go down forever, but that's not the case eventually things will settle down They'll start to trade sideways or reverse and that's why you're just playing the cyclicality of the market So hopefully that helps let's jump into the markets today and check out what's happening first of all Early early this morning got news that the stimulus package had been agreed upon by Congress and We'll be signed by the president today. So what does that mean? Well, they were pretty vague and I couldn't find any real details about what's actually in this stimulus bill I'm sure it'll come out after it's signed and kind of goes through but Essentially all they're saying is, you know, there's $1,200 for for individuals who make under $75,000 a year $500 per child and then there's billions and billions of dollars going to different industries One main one being the airlines another chunk of some billions of dollars being available made available to the SBA The Small Business Association for Loans and so that's the I guess the high-level overview of what that stimulus package was So yesterday the S&P was up about 11 percent. It was the largest one-day move in the Dow Anyway, it was the largest one-day move in the Dow since 1933 so had to go back a ways to find that one and that was an anticipation of them passing that stimulus package now today when it came out Overnight the futures were pretty back and forth I mean they that there definitely wasn't a decision of oh the market really loves this thing or the market hates it And they're just kind of bouncing around and then throughout the day the market has grinded higher So S&P's up four percent nasdaq up five a nasdaq kind of trailing the pack only up about a percent and a half And the Russell up two and a half percent so that would say okay, you know from that basis it would say okay Yeah, the market like this obviously a lot of money coming in a lot of help to companies a lot of help to Individuals and so the market likes that now. Do I think we are out of the woods yet? No, I do not do I think we're in the clear. No, I do not I think that we are still going to see future lows in the market And I look at this as a shorting opportunity and so, you know, we did a little bit yesterday We did not add any new short positions today However, and I hope I'm not too late here But tomorrow if we're up again, we'll definitely be adding some shorts to our portfolio After this huge down swing and we were actually pretty not pretty but we were actually had some long Delta in this area So this little bounce has really helped from that perspective Especially with energy and some of the other sectors and trades that we have on But I think we are going to roll over and see some more blood in the streets We've got jobless claims coming out tomorrow morning. That's a 7 30 a.m. Central Yeah, I think the expected jobless claims is right around a million is what I saw Now that's an interesting thing and one of the reasons we don't trade news is because you never know how the market's going to react To data points or news There's a couple ways to look at this one If it comes in with less jobless claims the market could see that as positive and go up But at the same time, I don't know that we've had time to really evaluate how many jobless claims will be coming in Right. So anyway, we'll see what happens But I think that you know We could get another little pop if jobless claims numbers come in lower than expected but I still think there's not enough time to really evaluate the amount of Layoffs and people out of jobs and you know, I've heard of a lot of situations where you know, people aren't necessarily getting laid off or fired yet But they're getting extreme salary reductions in case some cases 50% or more of salary reductions So there's that then the other thing is, you know today is March 25th The end of the quarter is coming up, right March 31st is the end of the quarter. Well, what starts after the end of each quarter That's right earnings announcements And so it'll be very interesting over these next few weeks to see these earnings announcements start to come out And so, you know, I just think there's gonna be some very serious Disappointing things that come out and maybe not serious numbers as far as actual revenues yet but if not just revenue numbers definitely Very leery projections, which is also going to affect the price of those stocks making those earnings announcement So that is my take. We will see what happens Let's see a couple of the things that are going on in the market oil up over three and a half percent Gold down about a percent Bonds down about three quarters of a percent So some interesting interesting movement, you know, we talked about the other day The S&P was up big but volatility was still up the same thing today You know, the S&P is up for almost four and a half percent, but look at Vic's futures Vic's futures are up over three percent You know, so that kind of tells me one of two things either the backwardation is starting to Go a little bit back towards the contango a typical contango situation Which is basically where the shorter term Vic's futures are priced lower than the long term Vic's futures And let me just let me go to that kind of explain It's easier when you can have a little bit of a visual but right now We are in what's called backwardation. So if you see Vic's here, and this is the active month with 21 days You can see that they are Vic's futures are trading in a path. Let's call it 49 and a half, right? And so if we go down the line what you'll see is that these further dated Vic's options are Getting lower. So they're saying okay There's less risk in the future because the Vic's futures are trading lower the further out in time you go Well in a normal quote-unquote normal market, you know Typically what you're going to see is the short term are less and the further dated options on Vic's are trading higher Okay, so that's called contango. We're in contango usually about 80% of the time but right now we're in what's called backwardation and Because there is less fear or less uncertainty out in the future because we assume We're gonna kind of get through this and things are gonna get back to normal eventually, right? So this market up and VIX up could be a situation where we are getting back to normalcy That would be the theory if you think that we're out of the woods My theory is that the VIX is higher because there's still a lot of uncertainty and the VIX the volatility The hedgers the you know the people who are hedging they are not buying this rally Okay, I'm not buying this rally. I don't I just don't I don't think it's gonna continue I think you know, we may see a little bit more of a rally then I think we are going to roll over and die All right, so that's that's that let's look at some of the other stocks Okay, so part of the part of the bailout also included airlines I've been talking about Boeing a little bit now. I booked a massive profit on Boeing today But you know, I nibbled here got out the next day booked a nice profit Got in some here got in some here and then held it for a few days And then boom yesterday big update and then boom big update today and I exited for a massive profit And I was just selling puts buying calls I was buying calls and then financing those by by selling some puts and so it's kind of on a ratio But the bottom line is you know, sometimes you get lucky So, you know, it's not like I knew anything but I did anticipate a bailout and Boeing is one of maybe one of two I don't even know Carriers who manufacture airplanes. So, you know, nobody else is going to do it So they're going to be taken care of, you know, you look at some of these other major airlines like Delta Delta's that big today almost 20% on the news of that bailout. So, you know, this was this was kind of anticipated in my mind Been talking about it for a little while So hopefully some of you all capitalized on that as well If we look at some of the other Sox, I mean a lot of green obviously on the screen with the s and p with the markets up as big as they are But just kind of going down the line But even like, you know, I mean this is one that I this is one that I want to short In fact, I shorted a little bit today and I'm gonna probably send out an alert For our alerts portfolio to shorts more and that's when casinos. I just I don't think a I just don't think I don't think it has legs I think a situation like this people are going to be pretty nervous to be gathering at places like casinos Where a you've got to spend discretionary Dollars that a lot of people aren't going to have anymore and b You know gathering of people where everybody's kind of touching chips and you know spreading viruses and things like that So when is at the top of my list to to look for a another downside? reaction to So I think that is all I got Yeah, look for the jobless claims tomorrow 7 30 a.m central And good luck everybody stay small stay mechanical and Live to trade another day everybody. Have a great evening talk to you tomorrow


So let's try to solve another equilibrium problem. This time we're going to use concentration quantity just to determine the equilibrium constant. So this problem says, according to this reaction equation, if the amounts of hydrogen gas are 1.8 moles, iodine gas is 1.80 moles, so 1.80 and 1.80 moles. And hydrogen iodide gas is 0.520 moles. And they're all contained in a 1.50 liter container. Calculate kc. So these are equilibrium concentrations, or equilibrium values. So these are amounts. We've got to turn them into concentration units. So notice this is moles, not moles per liter. Does everybody understand what I'm saying? So let's go ahead and convert these to concentration units. So instead of moles here, I'm going to put concentration or molarity. So I'm going to divide this by 1.50 liters of force, 0.20 molar and H2, 1.20 molar and I2, and 0.347 molar HI. So let's write the equation for kc for this problem. Can you guys help me do it? What would it be? Concentration HI squared over the concentration of H2 times concentration by 2. So now what do we do? Well, we just put these values in and figure out what k is. So HI, 0.347. And again, I know I've been counting you since day one to stick in your units and cancel them all out. But k's don't have units. So you don't have to worry about it. HI again, 2, 3 safe fix is 0.0835. You guys get that? OK, can I kill it? Does anybody have any questions on that? No question.


Welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the stock swashin' today. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about learning from someone like me or anyone that's an individual that is there to teach you education in reference to trading. I think one of the things that people lack when they decide that they want to trade the market is the proper education. Then they attempt to take all kinds of different classes and they really don't learn anything. I do my best to really provide one-on-one mentoring for people. What does that mean? It means I teach the class, but the class is where you're able to actually ask me questions and then I will respond to the questions live in the class. That's something that a lot of people don't do. Also, I have the live trading room where you can ask me questions every single day. Having someone that you can specifically say, Melissa, where's the support? Where's the resistance? What's the target? Why did you put the stop there? What do you think about this or whatever the case may be? Can you explain this for me, Melissa? That kind of thing. It's the support not just in the live class, but it's also after the fact because I allow people to email me questions or, again, if they're in the live room, they can ask me questions on the live day. That type of support is something that I find is very unique to what I do. Most trading educational places out there, once you pay for the class and take it, you're done. Even then, many of them do not give the type of individual service where you can point out a question and ask specifically about something or some kind of information or something that you don't understand that you want explained in more detail to you. I really try my best to explain things to people in a way that they can easily understand in the class. Definitely. Everyone comes from a different background with trading. Everyone has a different learning curve. It takes different people, depending on how well they absorb information, a different lengths of time in order to understand everything. I allow people the space and time based on their unique experiences to ask me questions. Even if someone does a class in September, if they want to email me a question in December, I will answer it for them. Again, the type of bespoke service that I offer people is so unique that really, I think it's just not out there in this industry in trading education because I think a lot of people are just once and done and I really want people to make it. I really want people to be successful. I really want people to understand the information and again, of course, I want them to trade and be active in the live room and make money. If you have questions about my class, I only have a few more classes left this year. One of them is this weekend, October 22nd and 23rd. Email me at mollisatthestalkswush.com. I do offer free trials for people for one week if you would like to come into the room. If you're thinking about doing the class this weekend, you can come into the room for a trial in the next few days. I suggest to people to wait until you're ready to take the class to do the trial or you think you would want to do the class that's particular month. Again, then I have a class, one class in November and one in December. So the year is almost over. It's really hard to believe.  Tomorrow is October 20th. So then we have 11 more days in October and two more months left in the year. It's just, this year has really flown by. But it's been a great year, two trade gaps. It's been a great year to short, which is what we mostly do in the live room. And so we'll see where we go between now and Friday and then of course into the end of October. If you have questions, email me at Melissa at thestockswush.com. And remember, you can always email me questions. I will respond to you within 24 to 48 hours. Thanks everyone. Have a great day.


A fiery horse with a speed of light, the cloud of dust, and a hearty hyo silver, the Lone Ranger. Only the brave could face the dangers of the early West in the United States. And throughout the new territory, none could match the courage of the masked rider of the planes. He led the fight for justice over overwhelming odds. He united the settlers against outlaws and hostile Indians. It was he more than any other man who brought law and order to the lawless frontier. Return with us now to those thrilling days when the West was young. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the Great Horse Silver, the Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, silver! We're heading for Wildfern! I'm all waiting for it! I'm all silver! The Lone Ranger and Tonto had rained up in a grove of cottonwoods about 20 miles from the little town of Wildfern. The masked man had lifted the saddle from Silver's back and was preparing to rub him down when the great stallion broke away. Steady there, boy. Did you see that, Tonto? Oh, him that flirty funny. He's trembling. What's the matter, Silver? Don't you want to rub down tonight? No, him stand all right. I think I'll take a look at his shoes. He may have a stone wedged in his hoof or... Easy, boy. Him not act like that of four. Steady, fellow. You're plenty funny. There's nothing wrong with his hoof or the shoe. He isn't lame. I can't understand it. Him tired, maybe. This moon and moon of four we ride many miles. That may be it. We have been covering a lot of ground and Tonto, there's one thing I've noticed. I wonder if it means anything. What's that? Whenever we ride toward the west, he seems to be ready and willing. If our trail lies to the east, it's hard to keep him headed in the right direction. Him look to west now? Yes. If it weren't for my command, I think he'd break away and race across the plain. Oh, him not leave you. You know what lies to the west. Wild fern not far. Hundreds of miles beyond Wild fern. And that where Mustang Meg have ranch. Even beyond their ranch. Oh, their valley where you find Silver. His home. The place where he was born. Could it be that he wants his freedom? You want to leave me, boy? Him muscle you. Him not want to leave you. We're partners, aren't we, fella? But still, there's something wrong. It must be that he needs a rest. We'll see that you have it, Silver. What you mean? We'll head for Meg's ranch, and when we get there, we'll turn Silver loose on the range. That's plenty good idea. You've earned the rest, old boy, and you'll... Hello, what matter? The sun went down an hour ago, and red glare in the sky. It's not from sun. It's fire. And that's just about where Wild fern is. Maybe Indian. Plenty of patchy round here. Settle up, huh? Sorry, Silver, we've got your rest. There's work to be done tonight. Might be that band we heard about at Diamond Falls, tonneau. Half-breed lead'em. They're racing to town after dark, set fire to a few places. And when the settlers run to the church at the school house, they loot their homes. Oh, half-breed smart. Are you ready? Get him up, Chicago. Come on, Silver. Here. And meanwhile, in the little town of Wild fern... Indian, savages. They're in the town. I'll get the rifles. Look, look out there.  Indians are coming! The Hanford place is done for. Mary, it's Steve and Jake. Take this out to Indus, Steve. Let him have it. Don't close the door yet. Hanford's coming right behind us. Here he comes. Hanford's place is going up in smoke, Bates. I've seen it.   We've got to keep those savages out of here. What window will I take, Bates? That one. And keep the lead fly. All right, come on. It's hard to see by the moon, but it is. Masked man and a ninja. I'll give them what, sir. Glory to the gun. Rain up, Rob. Glory into kingdom come. You don't need that. We're friends. Friends. None of the men are left around here, but I can handle skunks like you. What do you mean? None of the men are left. They're riding out to the rest of your gang. And now bring them back, too. Now get out of your saddles and reach for the sky. You'll make big mistake. This is the Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger? We want to help you. Oh, mister. Then ride after the boys and help them bring those crooks in. Which way did they go? Speed out of town to the west. Come on, Silver. Get them up, scoundrel. Paner, Kimosabi. Look at the trail. There's something strange here. Ah. Plenty horse turn off trail. Plenty more go straight on. Could it be that the Indians turned off and the posse didn't catch the sign? No. Indian pony go on. And the posse turned aside. There's only one explanation for that. Then take cover to right. They could have seen us coming from this ridge. And wait for us. Then think us out, all men. Daddy boy. Silver not want to stay. It better we ride on ahead of posse. Follow Indian ourselves, huh? Not until I've had a talk with our leader. Stay where you are. Don't make a move. Here they come. Keep guns on, boys. Keep the tour. Where's the rest of the pack? The mask man's the leader right now. There was a mob of them in town. Let's take the tour and string them up. Take it easy. Let Bates do the talking. So you're the leader of the posse Bates. Yeah. And I reckon you led the raid on Wildfern. We were 20 miles away. That's a likely story. They're the ones all right. We heard there was a white man leading the Redskins. Well, there he is. Bates, you're mistaken. We were camped 20 miles to the east of Wildfern. But we'd heard about the band of Indians with a breed for a leader. And when we saw the glare in the sky, we knew what was happening. I'll say you did. They were right there. We rode to town as fast as we could. But of course, the raid was all over when we got there. We followed your trail this far. And that's all the farther you're getting. We had nothing to do with the raid. There'll be no more wasting time with words.  We'll give you a fair trial before you're home. Bates, I'm not going to take off my mask or guns. No. And we're not going back to town with you. We're going to try and run down that pack of savages. You aren't the only ones who have suffered at their hands. There have been lots of other people. That's our trail ahead of us, and we're going to follow it. Not while I still got a gun in my hand. You must have seen us coming up the trail. We just came from town. We couldn't be part of the gang. I thought you'd bring that up sooner or later. What? Your smart tricks aren't going to do you any good. We figured it all out while we was waiting for you. Figured out what? You left town with the Indians. But you cut away from the trail after a while and waited for us to get past you. Then you were going to catch up with us and offer to help catch the gang. That's exactly what we want to do. Yeah? And if we followed your lead, we'd never catch them. We're not asking to lead you. Go ahead, follow the trail. A bird in the hands were two in the bush. By the same token, two crooks captured or a better than a dozen it ain't. Now your guns and be quick. If my guns are drawn, they'll be used to blast the weapon from any man who starts to squeeze a trigger. Big talk from a man this face and half a dozen shooting irons. Toto and I are leaving here to follow the trail. Toto knows and understands the savages. Perhaps you'll find some way to outwit their leader. Hand over your guns or we'll open fire. Sorry, Bates. Perhaps I'll need you and your men before we're finished. I don't want to be looked on as an enemy. Take his gun, Steve. Figured not to shoot. Don't come closer, Steve. I'm super nervous. Leech, for your gun, you'll take lead between the eyes. Keep the rest in covered, Handford. I am. Get back, Steve. All right, you're asking for this, Mr. I'm sorry. My gun hand, my hand is smashed. Wait, Scott, did you see that lightning draw? The rest of you keep back. Gun, Toto. Shoot and drill the critter. He smashed my hand. The bullet never touched your hand. Only your gun. Wait. See you again, Bates. Get him up, Scott. Fire, Silver! Fire! Give me a gun out, Silver. Hold it. Don't fire. He's getting away. Quiet.  Great land of Goshen. That man's the lone ranger. The lone ranger. I never saw a dry clap before. I didn't even see his gun come up at his that fast. Now what do we do, Bates? Follow the trail. That's all we can do. Follow the trail and see where it takes. Come on. An hour before dawn, the lone ranger and Toto rained up at the top of the ridge and watched the faint glow of a campfire, almost hidden by the trees below them. Is their camp all right? They're not staying there long. You'll get as close as we can. Quiet, boy. I'm with Silver acting the way he is. The horses better stay here. I think I'm going to hobble him. Not good. You tie rope to leg. Then we get close to camp and try to find out what breed and indian do now. We're on our own, Toto. The posse is all the way behind us. I'll take care of cashing the loot, Blackhawk. But not until the right time comes. We're going to keep traveling for a while. We're going to find something worth more than all the jewelry and money in that bag. What do you mean? A horse. We've got plenty of horses. Not like this one. The whole indian from the mountains told me about him. Huh? Just a colt running wild in the mountain valley.  Indians say he's faster than a lone ranger, Silver. Cold like that worth plenty of money. Ah, fortune. He's going to belong to us. We break camp now. Move plenty of fat. The faster, the better for me. There they go, Toto. Heading west. We've got to find some way to stop them until the posse can catch up. Our plan might work. We'll have to get ahead of them to try it. Not easy.  You'll have his chance.   Here are your men to keep back, keep quiet, honk. Manago. Mask man and Indians. Yeah, they're burying something, huh? Blackhawks, see. Them saddlebags. Yeah. Yeah, they're crooks. They're burying their loot just like we did back away, huh? Why, we not catch them. Get money for us. We don't have the fight for. They leave it there. Hey, hey, see. Mask man getting on his horse. Ah, beauty in it. Hmm. But if that calls anything like... There he goes. I guess the red skin's gonna stay. Not wait here long. You're right. Better close in on him. We tell men how I wait. I'll go out first acting like I'm pilgrim. Get him off guard so he can't reach for his guards.  I'll signal when you to come. He'll fetch my horse with you. We wait. I'll go out where he can see me now. Hey there. Who come? Me. Pilgrim lost my way. Eh, sure sight for sore eyes. Find anything look like human, eh? Maybe you can tell me how to get the civilization, eh? Man, you find town a long way to south. South? What town is it? It called... Mind answering. Just don't reach for guns. Come on, Hawk.  They want you to risk him. Take his guns, Hawk. Go to or take up what he's buried. We'll see what it is. What you want? Hey, you're traveling with us, Redskid. We've seen you at that mass gunplay. We ain't going to know what you two hid. You're loot. Ain't room around here for two gangs. And my outfit is a warning. It's going to stay. Here are bags. Open them up. Let's see what's in them. Are you not finding anything there? Keep close watch on the Redskid. We don't want to take no chances of letting him get away. Here are what in shadow bags. Here are papers. Eh, let me see this. Maps, drawings, eh? Well, this here calls for some talk on the Redskid spot. Take him with us. We'll listen to what he has to say. Maybe if he's willing to help us out, he'll see another sunset. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. The men from Wild Fern, following the trail of Breed Conway and his renegades, found that it led through a stretch of woods. Bates, I've noticed something about this trail I don't like. What's that, Steve? This here trail the Redskins made started out as a solid path that was easy to follow. It ain't easy now. That's just what I was getting at. You know what them foxy critters have done? What? They had one of the men drop out of the trail and sneak off into the woods. Then a little later, they had another one do the same and then another. One at a time, they left the trail and shoved off to the side. Till now, by Thunder Owl, bet we ain't following the track of more than one or two of them. So that's it. Yeah. The ordinary critters that snuck off to one side have disappeared. Likely they'll join up with each other at some secret hide-and-place. I always heard this outfit was a sly pack of wolves, the ordinary murder and pole cats. There we spent half the day for nothing. There ain't no use going on. I reckon there ain't, Steve. It may as well turn back home. The sooner we get there, the sooner we'll be able to start rebuilding the houses that was burned down. I'd sure give a lot to catch up with them coyotes. Who wouldn't? Hold on. I hear hoofs. Yeah? What direction? Where? Where I'm pointing. It's him. The mask man coming back this way. There he comes. Look at that horse travel. If we had horse flesh like that, we might have a chance of locating these killing red skins. I've got the drop on you, man. I want to talk, but I'll not be captured. It's all right, Lone Ranger. We know who you are now. Why didn't you tell us in the first place? I didn't think you would have heard about me. Not heard? That's something to laugh about, even though I don't feel like laughing. Not heard at the Lone Ranger? Man, I'm glad you know that I'm on your side.  Where? North of here, along right to the north. The red skins? If you'll come with me, I think there'll be a chance to get them. For that chance, as slim as it might be, I'd ride from here to kingdom come. Me too. Where with you? Only don't let that white stallion out to full speed. We can't keep up with you. Lead the way, Lone Ranger. Come on, Silver! Hours later, the Lone Ranger and the townsman arrived at the place where Tonto had been left. They found the saddlebags gone and no sign of human life around. Well, here we are, and where are we? They've been here. Tonto was right. They did watch us. Where's your friend now? I think Tonto has been captured. Are those killing the patches? Yes. They'll do for him. That's what I was afraid of, and I left Tonto there alone. But he seemed to think he could handle the situation. Which way'd they go? I don't know. This ground'll hold tracks at all. Too stony. Ain't Tonto left sign of any sort to give you a lead? I thought he would, but he hasn't. They didn't give him a chance. Well, now what do we do? The only thing we can do is wait and count on Tonto. Further to the north, Breed Conway and his Indians came to a halt from their camp. They cut the ropes that had lashed Tonto to the saddle. All right, Redskins. Stand down now. We'll have a duck, huh? What? What you want? This here north was in the saddle bag. Say something about a lot of easy money you can be had for the taking. What about that? I like nowhere's all that easy money to be had for the taking. I mean, not talk. Don't be too quick to say that, engine. We got plenty way loosening up stubborn tongues. I mean, not talk. Look, engine. That there Redskins named Blackhawk. Maybe you heard him, huh? He said to be about the cruelest gent they ever lived. There ain't nothin' too painful form to watch and enjoy seein'. I mean, not afraid to torture. No. Well, maybe that ain't gonna be necessary. Maybe you like throwin' with us, huh? You tell us where cash is at we'll see it you don't regret it. Then friend with mask shoot him get plenty matter, Tonto. Tonto, uh, that your name? That right. It may be friend with a mask would never get chance to get mad at ya. If we was on your side, we could get him out of the way. Hmm, maybe. What you say, Tonto? You like plenty cash now, wouldn't ya? Money, not good. Not good? Don't make sense. I don't know of anything better money. Money good only to spend. Buy thing. Tonto go spend money. Loman capture Tonto. I see. You figure that you not be able to spend cash. You had it, huh? Not right. Well, what'd you spend it for? Oh, Tonto want other thing. Not cash. What other thing? Other thing like settler got. Ring for finger, jewel for neck, good medicine, good rifle, good knife, plenty horse. Hey, savvy. You want things cash, you'll buy. When you step right over here, I'll show you what we'll give ya. Blackhawk, roll back the rock there. Take your look there. You'll get that if you tell me what I want to know. Then you can be one of my outfit. How's that sound? Tonto, think. Think it over. What's the matter with you, Blackhawk? You come, me talk. Well, what's the grumble about? You give Redskins enemy all thing we own. Take it easy. I promise him anything to get him to tell what I want. Then after I get the information, I don't have to give it to him. You let Blackhawk take care of enemy? Sure, as soon as he tells where the cash is, I don't care what you do with him. That better. Well, Tonto, what do you say? Well, that's not enough. What? You've not got enough good medicine. You mean you want more than there is in that box? Not all right. You keep it. Meaning you don't figure to tell me what I want to know. Me think. Me think it over. Well, you think it over. But don't spend too much time on it. Me think it over. Tonto postponed making any decision until the sun had set and darkness had fallen. He now knew where the gang hid the stolen goods. But that was not all he hoped to accomplish. We waited long enough, Redskins. You figured I'm joining us and telling what you know or not. Me not tell. What? Me not tell. Oh, so you got to have your tongue loosened up, eh? Well, there's ways of doing that. Blackhawk is a good pile of quick-burning wood. Maybe you'd like to find out how hot fire can be. I'm not afraid. Touch her off, Blackhawk. Not good. Monique, start fire. I'll show you that you don't get far trying to cross me, Tonto. Little fire, not her Tonto. Oh, a little fire, eh? Well, it may be big one will be better. Throw more wood on the pile. Fire, start good. Maybe you'll let Tonto think more, huh? Oh, now you'll want to think it over. You'll show good medicine again. Jewel, ring, rifle. It's too late. Now you're going to talk and get nothing for it. Nothing but a chance to escape. Don't talk and you'll eat them flames. It'll take long time, Tonto, where eating money is. Then the sooner you'll talk, the better. Tonto, tell. Tell by and by. You tell now, Blackhawk. Keep that fire going so it'll be ready in case this creeder changes its mind again. Fire! Fire! Let me tell. Long time ago, other country west, him plenty bad. Everyone's afraid of him. Tonto began a long story about the first reward that was paid for the capture of a bad man in the west. He stretched the story with many explanations. While Breed Conaway and the Indians listened impatiently to the news, he was told that he was going to die when Breed Conway and the Indians listened impatiently.  Me tell story. You listen. Tonto paused frequently and spoke slowly. When the flames of the fire died down, Blackhawk threw in fresh fuel so the threat of torture would be as great as ever. Finally, when he could stall no longer, Tonto reached the point of the story. Reward offered now for plenty bad men. Big reward for Breed Conway and big reward for Blackhawk. Other reward for other bad engine or gang. Hold on. You mean to say the easy money is made up of rewards? That's right. And it is us that you've figured a capture for the rewards. Blackhawk fixed them. More wood on fire. Build up fire, heat big. More wood. I should have known better in the waste of a lot of time listening to you. No, we got to do what we should have done in the first place. Get ropes on him. Me fix you. There's nothing more you need to say, Tonto. Read.  Me not done for. You done for. You and whole gang. Big talk. You show Tonto where stolen things hid. Now Tonto know where jeweled gun money. Everything you steal hidden. A lot of goodie will do you. Friend, come here plenty quick. You see. No one ever yet has been able to trail us down. You forget. You make big signal fire. Signal fire? That's right. Tonto's friend watched for fire. Him, come here plenty quick now. Well, fix you. Black Hawk. Never mind if I put it out. Throw dirt on it. I'll do for these crater with a shooting iron. Come on, Silver. You hear? Friend, come now. Him see fire. Him, come fast. Black Hawk, have you men spread out? Watch for anyone coming to help the prisoner. We watch them. There come Ryder. Here scouts. Look out. Get them scouts. Wild horse. Come on, Silver. I'm not big fellow. Drop them.  Not so fast. Get them, Silver. Get them scouts. Horse wild. Look out for horse.  Hurry. You too, Black Hawk. Come on, Bates. We have them. Why didn't you wait for us? He's already got them licked. Bring an army to get us. You might well have. We brought the men from Wildfern, Breed. You should have waited for us, Mr. instead of doing this alone. I wasn't alone. Tonto was here. As soon as he heard me, he shot it to his horse. Scout kept the outlaws busy so I could close in and cut Tonto's ropes. Bates, it sure as something looks like the two of them was all it took to wipe up this pack. You all right, Tonto? Me all right. Did you learn where they'd hit the stolen goods? All there in box under big stone. Well, my wrist is busted. Ain't anyone going to do something for us. It'll be bandaged, Breed. But I don't think you'll live long enough for it to heal. There's a hangman's rope waiting for you. You're in a jail. Bill can hold me. These Indians ain't all I know. I got plenty of friends. You'll be smart to let me go, Mr. Fill me and see what happens. We'll take that chance, Breed. Any friends that come to rescue you will find a hearty welcome waiting for them. Yeah, here. All stolen things. Good for you, Tonto. In June, the engine scheme sure worked out slick. But tell us, mister, what had we done if these killers hadn't built a fire so we could see it and know where they was? Come to sure, bad engine Bill Fire. Yes, and he was sure he could find some way to make them threaten him with torture. Just as we were sure the savages would watch us if we buried something in the badlands. Take over, Pates. Rope them, boys. We'll march them back to town. Come on. Tonto, to head for Mustang Megs. Silver's more than ever in need of a good rest. A good long rest. We go. Get him up, scoundrel. Go on, Silver. Him still want to go fast? Yes. You ride to west, Silver cold like wind. There's something calling to him out there, urging him on. Danger, maybe. There's something we can understand. Tonto, wonder. So do I. Come on, old boy. The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


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by mayor pro tim all those in favor All those opposed that passes unanimously with councillor hit I'll go faring absent. Thank you one more Um, we've got kind of a gamut of different topics today set a bill 22 198 concerning measures to address orphaned wells in colorado And in connection with creating orphan wells mitigation enterprise So what this would do is this would create an enterprise fund at the state that would really try to figure out what's happening with orphaned wells And either get them closed or get them monitored or whatever that looks like now in the city in the city of longmont We don't have technically any orphaned wells because they have to have been abandoned by their company But if we do in the future this kind of funding would help to make sure that those are safe So because of that And oil and gas safety is a priority to the city council staff recommends that they that you support senate bill 22 198 So, um, I'll move that one too Support 22 198 All those in favor. Oh, do I have a second? Thank you. I moved house bill 22 198 seconded by Councillor Yarbrough all those in favor raise your hand all those opposed So that passed unanimously with uh, councillor Hedograferring absent I have a question about that not a question of statement though I support that because even though we don't have any wells in longmont to close We have fracking lines and if those wells are not closed properly then those lines Could be trouble So thank you. Thank you for your support this legislative season. Um, if you have any questions as things wrap up, please let me know So we are at the end. Uh, we are final call public invited to be heard Is there anybody in the public that would like to make comments at this time on any subject? Okay, ryan johnston I just want to throw out that in terms of ways to Address fifth amendment due process. Um There's ways other than having a person Would the witness come to court? Probably the best evidence People want to call in and say hey my neighbors are setting things off Video evidence is pretty should I would think would be substantial enough evidence to at least allow for ticketing and probably stand up in court Um, I've had a similar situation happen. I one time Caught a guy crack a crack a guy over the head with a beer bottle on video And when the police showed up I showed him that video and they arrested the guy Uh, so if you want a way to provide evidence without perhaps having to force people to be dragged into court to To uh testify against your neighbor Suggest, you know, perhaps the volunteer group that was talking about saying the volunteer call in line or or have the people On the police line say get us video evidence That should be substantial enough to at least ticket them But I'll let Eugene give the final Uh on that but it's just an idea. I thought that that that might be something that might uh might help get the issue addressed Good good suggestion. Thank you. Um Britain I think has a comment Thank you, mayor council members just maybe to save everybody a little bit of time I wanted to throw out a resource The american pyrotechnics safety and education foundation does have an education program that is designed The curriculum is already done for grade school all the way through 12th grade and that curriculum is free. It's available online. It's very robust And it might interest you in the school since that was mentioned tonight. Thank you Is there anybody else that wants to uh make a comment? It looks like not so, uh, do we have any mayor and council comments? councilor yarbo Yes, I just want to say thank you mayor. I just want to say that um Um The last few few days ago. Um, I am a liaison for the housing and human Advisory board and one of our members uh, karen phillips passed away And I just want to bring that you know just Bring that to our attention because she has served a lot in this city and to As much as we have problems, you know, some challenges of people getting on good people to get on these boards um, I just wanted to bring that up to you know You know, send good thoughts to her family and her son and um You know, I think our community for those of you who are on boards and you make a difference So I just wanted to acknowledge that. Thank you mayor Thank you Any other comments? Um, no city manager comments Mayor council, I did want to provide you all with an update. Um, I know you all have had a lot of calls about loud cars, whether it's mufflers radios and things like that I know mr. Johnson's been here, uh, but we've also had it from neighborhoods um public safety chief artists and Deputy chief satyr have been working with elizabeth lorina mills on an ordinance That will as we were talking about how we can enforce That will make it easier for officers to enforce and they're going to be bringing that to you all in the near future But I just know you all have been receiving a lot of emails And I wanted to give you an update that they're they're bringing something forward that We think we can operationalize. That's good news. Thank you um City attorney Eugene No comments mayor. Thank you So seeing that all of our comments are done, uh, can I have a motion to adjourn? Thank you So that's been moved by mayor pro tem seconded by councillor yarrow all those in favor raise your hand We are adjourned. Thank you everybody