Roma wines present suspense. Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. Salute. Your health, senor. Roma wines toast the world. The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California to introduce this weekly half hour of suspense. Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you the Paramount Star currently being seen in Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Mr. Eddie Bracken. Mr. Bracken appears tonight not as the exponent of comedy as which he is so deservedly noted, but as a boy over whose head hung dark clouds of suspicion and was involved in a particularly heartless crime. And so with the visitor and with the performance of Eddie Bracken as a young man who called himself Bud Owen, we again hope to keep you in suspense. Well done. Bring the cattle a crisp. It was around two o'clock on a Thursday afternoon. I was right in my usual groove. Count them in the Dallas coffee pot for our 22-hour Baltimore. Not a bad job for a green guy, 18 bucks a week in my meals. I was aiming to be a short-order cook when I really got the hang of things. Of course, I'd only been in the diner a couple of months. Well, as I say, it was the usual afternoon, not especially busy, but busy enough. No kidding, Mike. Where's that west of it? Here you are. What do you have, mister? Ham on Ryan a cup of coffee. Coming right up. Ham on Ryan, draw one. Look, girl, kid, I'd like to talk to you. Yeah, what about? Will you get a minute? I guess so. Hey, yeah, I'll take the counter, will you? I'm gonna have some coffee. Okay. So what's on your mind, mister? I'm looking for someone. Yeah? Your name wouldn't be Bud Owen, would it? They call me Bill Darkin around here. That's not what I asked. So? I'm looking for a boy named Bud Owen. Well, what about him? He disappeared from his home about three years ago. A boy from my town. He'd be about your age now, about 18? 17. That's it. Well, his folks have been worried sick about him. Everyone else gave him up for debt. Then I heard you were working here. Bud. Yeah? Who told you? No one told me. I gotta know the anonymous. You didn't write it, did you? No, I didn't write it. You know, I think I'd have recognized you anyway.  Well, anyone would, wouldn't I? Same here, so. I call them wings. That's a good one. You know who I am, of course? Mac Burrow. Used to be chief of police. Oh, pleased to meet you again, Mr. Burrow. Well, well, Bud Owen. A lot of know-it-alls are sure going to be surprised. Surprised? At what? Why to see you. Edgerton is certain to a man that you're feeding fishes off white spear. And when they see you, boy, I can't wait. Look, Mr. Burrow, just what is your proposition? Why, Bud? I want you to come home again with me. Oh? Of course, things have changed some in three years, not too much, if you take it easy. If you have a friend to help you over the rough spots, you'll feel right back at home in no time. I see. This way you're depriving yourself of everything a boy could want. Good home, lovely parents. Yeah, wealthy parents. You make it sound kind of nice at that, Mr. Burrow. And Bud, did you know that your father has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who finds you? No, no, I didn't know that.  Maybe I should. And thinking of folks.  Think how happy it would make them. Well, Mr. Burlap, if you really think it'll be all right. Why, sure, Ed, well, it may be a little tough at first, all the excitement people staring at you, but that won't last long. You gotta expect some excitement. Oh, I suppose it was an event having a hometown boy drowned. Drowned boy? They thought you were murdered. And so began the series of events which were to bring a boy called Bud Owen back to Edgerton to take up a new life with the family which had believed him dead for three years. Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines present Eddie Bracken, whom you have heard in the prologue to The Visitor by Carl Randall and Leigh-Anne Zucksmith. Tonight's tale of suspense. In this brief intermission in the play, let's imagine ourselves for a moment in a flower garlanded Bermuda, seated on the terrace of the exclusive Coral Beach and Tennis Club. At the next table, a party of Bermudians and Americans are taking turns, each paying compliments to the delights of the other's native land. An American has just praised the famed flowers of Bermuda. Then a Bermudian tops him with this. Among great American delights, he says, one of my favorites is right here on our table. It is this splendid wine we are all enjoying. Bermuda imports it from the justly renowned wine districts of California. It is your internationally esteemed Roma wine. Yes, and Americans themselves have certainly not overlooked the great and enjoyable qualities of these fine Roma wines. Proof is, Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. Such outstanding popularity must mean here are wines that are more taste-delighting, more satisfying in their richness and fine wine quality. Yet with all that as your reward for specifying Roma wines, you'll be amazed and delighted to hear your dealer say, Roma wines cost only pennies a glass. That's because here in America you pay no high import duty or long void shipping charges for these fine Roma California wines.  R-O-M-A, Roma, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage our star, Eddie Bracken, as Bud Owen, in The Visitor, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. After I talked to Mr. Burrell for an hour or so, the whole thing sounded pretty darn good. I quit my job at Al's Coffee Pot the next afternoon and met Mr. Burrell at the station. We took the five o'clock train for Edgerton. On the way, Mr. Burrell gave me the load down and what had been going on in the town for three years. How the town thought I was murdered and how my mother and David Cunningham, my stepfather, just wouldn't give up hope that I was still alive. And he told me how my mother hadn't changed anything in my room, she was so sure I'd come back. Although she bought new stuff for the rest of the house, new rugs and a couch, things like that, Mr. Burrell described it so plain, I could almost see it. Well, by the time we got to Edgerton, I was feeling pretty sad for my mother. When I stood on the dark front porch with Mr. Burrell, it was a peach of a warm summer night. I thought if I could make her happy, even if it was tough on me, it was worth, well, it was worth a try. Right yourself, youngster? That's a Z. Yeah, sure, I'm okay, Mr. Burrell. Did you, Burrell? Yeah. And here's Bud. Bud. Hello, Father. Come in, come in, Bud. Here, let me have a seat, please. He's your mother, Bud. Bud. Hello, Mother. Oh, Bud. Well, this time it's really Bud, Judith. He's come back to us. Oh, Bud. Bud. It's all right, Judith. Oh, my baby.  Well, now come, Judith. Let's go into the living room. Come along, Burrell. Oh, I always knew I'd be silly when you came back. Here, let me push your hair down. All right. Now you look more like my Bud. Gosh, I wouldn't have recognized this room. Isn't that couch new? Mm-hmm, and the rugs and drapes. Oh, I don't know how we'll ever be able to thank you, Burrell. Well, I see, and Judith's so happy as a reward, isn't it? Oh, yes, that reminds me. Drop into my office tomorrow, Burrell. Now, take care of that other more tangible reward. Uh, Mother, I, uh... I don't know how to begin. I mean... I mean to tell you how sorry... Oh, don't tell me anything, darling. Nothing matters except that you're back. That's the spirit, Judith. Oh, you're right here, Bud. It's all bandaged. Oh, that's nothing. I burned it while working in the diner. It's nothing, Mother. Well, folks, it's been a long day for an old man. I guess I'll run along. Right away, Mr. Burrell, where you just got here. You'll be seeing plenty of me, Bud. Right now, though, you should want to be getting acquainted with your folks again. Now, see you tomorrow, Dave. Good night. Good night. Well, have you noticed, Judith, how deep Bud's voice is now? Yes, it was just a little pipe when he left. But it was beginning to break, wasn't it, Bud? Gosh, I guess so. It must have sounded pretty awful. And he shaves, David. You? Every day snooker. Well, gosh, not quite. Really, David, I don't think that's so funny. What? Oh, that sounds like Ellen. Isn't that nice letter in, David? Ellen Woods. Why, who else, Bud? Does she, uh, live next door? Why, of course, Bud. The woods have always lived there. Hello, Ellen. Ellen, here we have such a surprise. I heard Angel, it's simply fabulous.  You're taking easy. Well, Bud, your gigantic, irregular beanpole. Oh, but I can't wait for Joe to see you. Joe? I called him as soon as I heard he's coming over here. It's all right, Mrs. Greenham. Oh, of course, Ellen. I've forgotten. It'll mean so much to Joe. You know about Joe, but... Oh, yes, Mr. Burrell told me. I didn't know before. Mrs. Towne's going to have a lot to make up to that young man. My folks wouldn't let me see Joe, Bud. Yeah? Well, naturally, they thought after all, Joe was the last person who saw you, and then he, well, he admitted you'd quarreled. But your mother and I never had a moment of doubt, Bud. I'm thankful for that. Oh, that's Joe now. From the hour phone I ran all the way, she said... Here. Yeah, Joe. It's me. Yeah. Guess it is. Well, pal, I hear I owe you an apology or something. Skip it, pal. Joe, we know how hard it's been for you. Only now it's over. Well, it didn't matter, Mrs. Conningham. I learned to put up with a lot. Well, Judith here, let's go upstairs. Let's give the young folks a chance to be by themselves. Well, all right, David. But don't stay up too long, Bud. You still need lots of sleep. Yeah, I won't, Mother. And don't forget to turn off the light. Good night, children. Good night, Mrs. Conningham. Well, what'll we do? Cut a rag at you the fat. Suit yourself. Joe, don't talk that way to Bud. You might remember he's my friend. He certainly was yours. Yeah? Yeah, I guess he was. Look, Joe, I can see how you saw it in me, but don't take it out on Ellen. Kindly don't stop messing between Ellen and me. Joe, please. OK. Do I have to make a speech? So you're home now, Bud. I'm the last one to kick, but when you toss it all off by saying you owe me an apology or something, maybe it's not easy to remember we were friends. I didn't know what to say. I know I tried to remember we were friends, and the whole town was sure I'd killed you. I tried to remember it when the draft board listed me as undesirable because they thought I was guilty. I even tried to remember we were friends when, for three years, people crossed the street so they wouldn't have to speak to me. People got up and walked out of the room when I came in, and they... Gosh, Joe, I... I didn't realize that. I am sorry, Joe, honest. Um, now listen, Joe, you should be the first one to walk around the town with Bud. Right tomorrow morning. And if you both like it, I'll go with you. Well, it's all right with Bud. Why is it? Boy, I'm gonna need company. Then it's a date. OK, I... No kidding, but I'm glad you're home, fella. No hot feelings. Oh, gosh, no, Joe. So long, Bud. Bye, Bud. So long. Bud! Yes, um, uh, Mother? Are you coming up to bed now, dear? Uh, why, yeah, I might just as well. You know, Bud, I've been thinking. The funniest things... What? What's that, Mother? Do you realize you've never even asked about Trixie? Trixie? Uh, that's right. I didn't. After all, she was your dog. You know what they say about a boy and his dog? Poor thing. When you didn't come back, she just wandered off. Gee, that's tough, all right. And you didn't even ask about her. But I guess you can't be expected to remember everything. No, I... I guess I can't... remember everything. My mother kissed me good night. I went upstairs to my room and it was just like Mr. Burrow told me it would be. Everything seemed to have gone all right so far. I undressed and turned out the lights. But before I got into bed, I... I locked the door just in case. Gosh, I guess I'm late for breakfast. That's all right, darling. We know you needed to sleep. Sit right in your old place, Bud. Yeah, sure.  But except for the ears and something around the eyes, you've changed so that I can hardly recognize you. Look, here's the last picture before you went away. Why, it's almost frightening, the way you've grown. If you was there, you wouldn't want the boy to be a midget, would you? Sure he's taller, but look at the hair there and the way he stands. I sure was a goon, boy. You should have been glad to get rid of me. And look, Bud, what else I found. All your school compositions from the first grade on. Here's one you wrote on Alexander the Great. Ouch, brother, don't be careless with those things.  Why, Bud, I think this was very good for you. You were barely 14 when you wrote it. See, it's marked B, so it can't be so terrible.  Well, I'd better get off the office. Drop in to see me if you have time, Bud. Why, sure. Father, I'll do that. Bye, Judith, honey. I'll be home for dinner. Goodbye, David. Now, how about some hot coffee, Bud? Yes, thanks. There, Snoopy. Bud, there's something important I want to discuss with you. It's about my will. Your will? Well, you know how your father, well, David, was about my money, Bud. He never wanted to touch it or even to have me put him in my will. He's so proud about things like that, and I do have so much more than he ever will. Sure, I remember. How much money is it anyway? Well, you know, Bud, there's about $150,000 a grandfather left. Then there are those four houses on Elm Street that Aunt Carolyn left and the income from them. I haven't used any of it, but so it amounts to quite a lot by now. Gosh, yes, it must at that. Well, after you left, even though David didn't want me to, I changed the will, leaving everything to him. Well, sure, that sounds fine to me. But now that you're back, I think the best thing would be to just turn it all over to you now. Set up a trust fund. You could use the income when you start to college and later maybe you'll want to set yourself up in some kind of business. And I know it will please David. But, Mother, gee whiz, it's swell of you, Bud. Don't you think you should wait? Wait for what, darling? Well, until you know me better.  Silly, the bank takes care of everything. It always has for me. Now, all you have to do is sign these papers here. Sign them? But I can't, Mother. You see my hand, the bandage. Oh, isn't that a shame? Yes, I forgot that you couldn't write. Well... It'll be all right in a couple of days so I can take the bandage off then. Oh, somebody's whistling for you, Bud. My, that sounds like old time. It's Ellen and Joe. They're going to take me around and show me the town. Well, I guess I have to face the music. Oh, you know you love it.  Yeah, but I don't feel much like a hero now. We're in for it, Bud. Oh, Bud, you're really real and you've grown but divine. Hey, hey, you're choking me. I've just been telling everybody you're back. It's too sensational. It's like having a new boy in town and do we need some? Gosh, I shouldn't think you'd have any trouble. You're cuter than ever. Oh, listen to him. He's got a line. Gee, he sends me. Is that something? The best thing you ever called her before was buzzard egg. Well, gosh, I called her something outside that once in a while. Well, it did call her Mary Louise. Well, of course I called her that. Gee, it's, uh, it's well to see you, Mary Louise.  Sure, gee, it's good to see you. How are I anyway? Now, you're not too grown up to kiss old Mrs. Callahan the way you always did. Oh, I'll say I'm not Mrs. Callahan here. Why?  No, ma'am, I won't. Goodbye. Goodbye. What's the matter? Didn't you recognize her? Mrs. Callahan? Oh, of course I did. Why didn't you call her what you always used to? Couldn't you see she was sore? Well, I, uh, I did. Bud, you used to call her Aunt Seeley. Believe it, but I dare not refute the evidence of my senses. It's the Owen boy, but Owen. Well, I'm glad to see you, sir. I just saw your mother. I heard you were back. She told me she was bringing you down to my office Ah, yeah, she told me. Ah, your mother's one in a million, young man. She thinks only of your welfare. I hope you've learned to appreciate her. Yes, sir, I have. Well, I just want to check on the news. And no nonsense, my boy.  What did he mean? No nonsense. Don't you know? Well, I guess so. My mother told me she, uh, she was going to take me down to the lawyer's office this morning. Oh, you're Bud. I've been waiting for you to outsmart yourself, and this is it. I, uh, I don't get it. You sure don't, Bud. Give him a chance, Joe. Because it so happens that's not Mr. Reedy the lawyer, but Dr. Sterling the dentist. I talked fast, and Ellen took my side. And when we got Joe calmed down, I knew he was going to watch me like a hawk from then on. That afternoon, Ellen got the real snazzy idea of going to the beach. My father knocked off work and drove us down sort of to celebrate my homecoming. It was really a hot day, so when we got there, the others made a beeline for the water, but I didn't because of my bandage tanned. I stayed around the beach club near the pool. When it began to get dark, we all dressed and went down a white restaurant for seafood dinner. Then we walked out on the pier. The same pier where I was supposed to have been murdered. I remember I said something about taking the body back to where X marks the spot, and everybody laughed. Isn't it heavenly out here? Ah, gee, this breeze is swell. Well, bud, it looks like you and Joe were right back where you were three years ago. Yeah, I guess so, father. Yeah, this railing is just where we stood, isn't it? When you and I had our fight? Yeah, about. What's that phobia people have looking down from tall buildings? I get it looking down at the water from up here. Oh, you shouldn't worry, Ellen.  Now, me, I should really feel funny. Well, ready to go home, children? I don't want you. Just to worry you. All right, Mr. Cunningham. It's been such a heavenly day. Bud, wait a minute. Come on, Joe. Wait, there are a couple of things I want to talk to you about. Wait it, Joe. Ellen and Father... I'll only take a minute. First, about you not being able to swim. But, Joe, you knew about that. I never learned. That was why... Sure, everybody knew Bud Owen couldn't swim. That was why when you disappeared, they thought I'd pushed you off the pier and you drowned. Joe, I don't get it. Can't you let bygones be bygones? Bud Owen couldn't swim. But this afternoon, when you thought we were all at a good, safe distance, I walked up the beach club looking for you, and I saw you swimming in the pool. But... But I learned...  We'll start talking. What do I have to do with the talking to the cops? Listen, Joe, you've got to wait. You've got to give me time. Now, don't get me wrong. No one in this town would be glad if they had Bud Owen come back than me. After all, I've taken plenty because he disappeared. But rather than let Mrs. Cunningham be fooled... That's what I mean, Joe. You've got to give me time to square things. Just a little time. You better move fast, brother. Joe, no matter what you think, you know I... I haven't heard anybody. No, not yet. And if you give me time, nobody will be heard. I went to Mr. Burrell the next morning and talked about everything. How? People were beginning to make cracks about him and the $10,000 reward and the whole mess. I knew things were moving awfully fast, and I told Mr. Burrell he had to help me. That night, when she'd finished her coffee, my mother said she was awfully tired. And my father, David, saw upstairs to bed. I looked out the window, and I saw Mr. Burrell's car pull up to the curb in front of Ellen's house. I looked out the window and I saw Mr. Burrell's car pull up to the curb in front of Ellen's house. I knew he was going to do everything he could, but by this time, I... I was scared. Well, at bedtime, my stepfather fixed some sandwiches and we drank some milk. Then he came up to my room with me and we sat down to talk. Well, I see your mother's been changing your room around. It's not bad. I guess women like to fuss around and so forth. That's a fact. And there's no use of posing them. I guess that's right. By the way, what's your real name? Bud Owen. You don't need to be afraid of me. I've protected you so far. Why have you? I asked you first. What's your real name? Bud Owen.  You know, at first, I thought you'd work this little scheme out all by yourself or with Burrell, but there's someone else involved, isn't there? Who do you think? What about that bandage? Well, take it off. Well, well, well. Not even a scar. I don't suppose you'd mind writing with it now that it's healed. No, I don't mind. What shall I write? Well, I suppose we take this little composition of yours on Alexander the Great. Would you copy this sentence, say, on the top of page three? Sure. Why not? And to make it a fair comparison, write your name, Bud Owen. Bud Owen. Here you are. So she taught you Bud's handwriting, too. Who did? My wife. Do you think I didn't know what was going on every move she made gave her away? Why is she in such a rush to change your will? I don't know. Why? She thought she was being so smart trying to pass you off, trying to trap me. I was one person who knew you weren't Bud. Yeah, but what makes you so sure I'm not Bud? I know. Isn't that enough? I know. I see. Well, don't you think we'd better get my mother in on this? Yes. Yes, I think perhaps we'd better. She's asleep. We'll have to wake her. Mother. Mother. Hey, she's... she's mother! Mother! When I came to her, I had an awful pain in the head. I was in my room in bed, and Ellen and Joe and Mr. Burl were there for a minute. I didn't know what had happened, and then I remembered. Mother. Where's my mother? She's all right, Bud. She's in the hospital.  How do you feel, Bud? Oh, all right, I guess. Oh, it's a good thing you had us standing by tonight, son. Why, he had you trust up like a turkey. He was going to hang you. Gee, Mr. Burl, he must have been crazy. I guess he wanted to get us both out of the way before mother could change that will. For crying out loud, Bud, why don't you let me in on this? Gee, I hated to do it, Joe, honest. But I had to. Someone had to be the guinea pig. It was my idea, Joe. I sent the note to Mr. Burl. I really found Bud in that hash house. What if you let me in on it? We knew if Bud could fool you. If you thought he was a phony, he could fool everybody, even David Cunningham. You see, Joe, for three years, I suspected that guy. He pushed me off the pier that night, but I was only a kid. I knew it'd be just his word against mine, so I ran away. I kept putting off coming home, but I swore that someday I'd trap him and tonight I did.  You took one whale of a chance tonight, Bud. He'd framed you pretty. Another half hour and we'd have found your mother dead. You strung up in that suicide note you wrote propped up on the desert. Suicide note? Well, I'd just copied a sentence out of an old composition, something about Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great? Listen to this. It is a terrible... it is terrible what awful crimes are done for greed and ambition. Signed Bud Owen. Sure, you see, I was just writing... What? And I signed that? Holy... Well, that's about all. I didn't know how my mother would take it, having my stepfather turn out to be such a heel, but once she got over the dope he'd slept as she was fine, as happy as a lock over me. Joe and Ellen, they got married but quick, and now Joe's in the Marines. And me, I'm just passing the time here in Edgerton till I'm 18 and my number comes up and then maybe I'll see a little excitement. And so closes the visitor, starring Eddie Bracken tonight's tale of... Suspense. Suspense is produced by William Spear. Before Mr. Bracken returns to the microphone, here's a definition of yourself. Connoisseur, one competent to act is a critical judge of an art or in a matter of taste. That's what Webster says, so that makes you a wine connoisseur because certainly you are competent to act is a critical judge of a wine's taste. Matter of fact, all you have to know to be a true wine connoisseur and the opinion of your friends and guests is a single word, Roma, R-O-M-A. To get the proof, make your own taste test of the tangy, appetizing Roma sherry, the hearty, satisfying Roma burgundy, the heavier, sweeter Roma port, or any of the many different delicious Roma California wines. If your favorite dealer is temporarily out of the kind of Roma wine you prefer, ask for it again, please. Just be sure to say R-O-M-A. Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is Eddie Bracken, and this is one of those nights I'll certainly remember for a long time. I've always hoped A, to be allowed to play a real genuine dramatic role, and B, it's been an ambition of mine to get a crack at this show's suspense because I think it's tops. The next two broadcasts in this series should be particularly interesting. I know I won't miss either of them because Austin Wells is going to star in that very thrilling story, Donovan's Brain, which will be done in two parts, one part next Thursday and part two the following week. And one more word, don't forget to buy some warbines. Eddie Bracken will soon be seen in Paramount's Hail the Conquering Hero. Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Austin Wells in Suspense. Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hello, everyone. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, good middle of the night, no matter where you might be. Welcome back to day three of Hyperledger Global Forum 2021. Really glad to have you here. I hope all of you have been able to enjoy some really great activities. I hope you've been to any of the sessions and caught some of the really interesting conversations there. Lots of stuff that will really form, I think, the seed for a lot of great conversations and interesting projects coming out of these three days. I just couldn't be happier with the way things have gone. Before we begin, I want to start by thanking our sponsors. Thank you so much again to Accenture and IBM for your sponsorship of the event. It helps make it possible. Thank you as well to the Filecoin Foundation, to Hitachi, to Siemens, and to Zulek Pharmaceutical for the help that you've provided. Likewise, just to reiterate, we are governed here by the Hyperledger Code of Conduct. As all Hyperledger events are, we really strive to build an inclusive community where all feel welcome. So please, if you haven't yet, take a chance to look at that Code of Conduct and familiarize yourself with it and let us know if there's anything we should know. Before we dive into today's keynote panels, I just wanted to reiterate, hopefully, some of you have had a chance to visit Gather Town. Gather Town is our virtual hallway track. And yesterday got particularly fun. We had a nice little crowd going, including a few of us who decided to start getting competitive with a little game of Tetris. It's kind of silly, but as an attempt to try to emulate the kind of fun that we would have face to face, it almost got there. So the other thing that we really have to credit for the great sessions that were here was the program committee that we put together to go through the different submissions. We had over 200 different submissions for talks and panels and the like. They crawled through it. They engaged. They talked about it. They scored them. And based on those, we put the agenda together. So far too many to name, but such a diverse crowd. And it was really great to see all the different projects represented and angles on the hyperledger community represented because the program committee did a fantastic job. Also, we want to thank a couple of specific individuals. And this is us as hyperledger staff recognizing a couple of individuals in the community that we felt really went above and beyond this past year to help bring the community together to help do things such as volunteer on the DCI working group. I implement the inclusive naming initiative. That was something Peter Samigari really helped with. And this is for guidelines in Bezu and other projects to implement across other projects. Other efforts to help with translations and learning materials development. These are five individuals, Anina and Alexander, Grace Hartley, Bobby Muscara, Peter as I mentioned, and Renato Texietta, who really helped pull the community together. So thank you to the five of those in particular. Thank you as well to everyone who helped make the community happen this year. Sorry, stepping in the wrong direction. There we go. The other thing that I wanted to just tee up for us. So one of the things that we've really invested in this year is getting to use the analytics tools that the Linux Foundation has made available to all of its projects to better understand the pace and the velocity of development in our community.  Sometimes they measure things that aren't quite metrics of value being created, but sometimes they tell you stories that you really want to pay attention to. And not every open source project is always a hockey stick. Just like not every startup is always a hockey stick. Not every up into the right as the story goes. And as Hyperledger, we're a family of different projects. And so by and large, we get activity bursts in one place or another. But the trend lines are not trend lines that we think are amazing out of this world, kind of good news. We do struggle, as many open source communities do, to grow beyond the initial contributors to a project. And just to put it out there, just to be blunt, I add so much value being created and so much dynamicism in the community. But there's things that we really should be paying attention to. And one of those as we meet here at Hyperledger Global Forum as we talk with each other, how might we as a community work better together with each other? How might we build upon each other's work? How might we make room for the kinds of contributions to really make for healthy open source projects and work laterally? I mean, we are perhaps unusual in the blockchain world in that as the Hyperledger family, we have so many different technologies that sometimes appear to overlap with each other, that sometimes appear to compete with each other even. That's actually not unusual in things like the Cloud Native Compute Foundation or the Apache Software Foundation or others. But it might seem odd that we foster this kind of internal almost Darwinian competition. And so as I was thinking about this and how to talk about this, there's a passage that I wanted to relay to you that struck me because as I mentioned in one during one of the talks earlier this week, we raised chickens at home. This is my daughter holding a couple of week old chick that it was on her way to becoming a mama that now generates two or three eggs a day for us. And so we have a little chicken coop and that and the like. And so last week I read in a newsletter that put out by the O'Reilly Associates, Tim O'Reilly, it's a newsletter called the Next Economy Newsletter. He wrote asking this question, is there such a thing as too much competition? And to answer that, he referenced this essay that had been written about William Muir's famous chicken breeding experiment, go with me here, which he says gives a definitive answer to the question, is there such a thing as too much competition? Muir was doing research on how to breed more productive egg layers, more productive chickens. And he said the hens that were individually, that individually produced the most eggs were placed in the same group and observed through multiple generations for changes in productivity. What came out of this top hen house was an increase in aggression, lower egg production and fewer chickens overall due to hyper aggressive hens, plucking the others to death. By contrast, breeding the most productive groups of chickens, recognizing that they form colonies, they form tribes, they form groups, and breeding the ones that as a group succeeded best led instead to a 160% increase in egg productivity. And so by focusing only on the increased egg production, other tasks essential to the maintenance of the environment, often performed by weaker members were ignored and the environment was damaged. The inclusion of individuals who contribute or promote cooperation and consensus building proved to be far more beneficial. Now I mean no disrespect to our developers by comparing them to hens and chickens. But I think it's, I think the final conclusion that evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson arrived at when looking at this study actually applies to open source communities just like ours. He said selfish individuals outcompete altruistic individuals, right? But altruistic groups outcompete selfish groups. So think about that, like the groups that are altruistic towards each other that recognize that by usual metrics like how many eggs you lay, perhaps to paraphrase, it takes a village, right? And so thinking about how do we create communities around each of our code bases that don't just recognize the one or two people who produce the most lines of code, but actually are people who help with other things that are part of putting a product together, whether that's documentation, whether that's answering first time user questions, whether that's helping mentor a developer coming up the learning curve or participating in our mentorship programs. Those are the kinds of healthy communities that if we focus on building those and getting them to talk to each other, let me add that as an extra riff, we might produce more eggs, more quality software than we would if we were just trying to pin ourselves against each other kind of selfish hen versus selfish hen. And so to illustrate this, I just want to highlight something cool going on in our community right now. If you went to the cactus maintainer session yesterday, you heard a little bit of this, but we have a project called Cactus very much focused on interoperability and exchange between different blockchain networks, right? How do you conduct transactions across these networks? Shortly after it was adopted as a project, we saw a submission into Hyperledger Labs from IBM of a project called Weaver. The product of a couple of years of research inside of IBM on how to do the same thing. Now, Cactus has been used in production by a couple of different companies, both Accenture and Fujitsu have played a role in bringing that to Hyperledger. Weaver has been in use and then a few weeks ago, we were contacted by a Japanese company called Data Chain about bringing a platform into, again, Hyperledger Labs focused on interoperability called Yui, which is Japanese for not, like a KNOT knot. And Yui's interesting kind of angle on this is that they base this on the inter-blockchain communication standard, the IBC standard used by the Cosmos Network and others. Well, seeing all these come in and seeing how many similarities there are between them, we said, why don't we see if, you know, we could certainly have three projects that went off in their own directions that had overlapping functionality, but had slightly different opinions about the right way to build things. But instead, why don't we get the people behind these projects talking to each other and thinking about what is the greatest common denominator across all their work? What are the things that they could collaborate on? What are the things that they could be altruistic on towards each other that might move us further and faster towards the goal of building an interoperability package that would just blow the doors off of what otherwise we'd be able to build independently? There is no guarantee or requirement or even expectation that these three just become one project under whichever brand. They might still very well for architectural reasons need to be different projects. But the most important thing is getting the community participants to think altruistically, to think about sharing, to think about what extra step might I take to meet one of the other projects halfway and look for those opportunities to collaborate. That takes investment and it takes a willingness to take risk to actually have that payoff. So I'm incredibly happy to see these projects working together across every time zone on the planet it seems. There's somebody involved in one of these three projects and I'm excited to see what comes out of it. So just wanted to give that as a highlight. I'm really eager to move on to the two panels in this segment because they are both going to, I think, really impress you with the depth of where blockchain technology is being used today. But the highlight from that conversation from all of this is don't take open source community for granted. Collaboration is really hard to get right and really let's figure out opportunities to be altruistic both within our groups but also in thinking about the whole of the community we want to build at Hyperledger. So with that let me run very quickly through the panels both in this segment and the next one. Today we're going to hear next from a very distinguished panel on fighting fraud and error in the vaccine supply chain. I will introduce them individually soon. After them we will hear another keynote panel. This time on the global reach of the Forbes blockchain 50, moderated by Michael Del Castillo and he'll introduce the panelists there. We also then in segment two have a presentation from Jonathan Doton who is a fellow at Stanford in the U.S.C. Shoah Foundation but he's also a writer and producer on HBO's Silicon Valley about trustless truth, how private and public ledgers can take on misinformation and win. And he's using Hyperledger fabric as a part of that. It's going to be fun to hear. Also coming up next segment on the U.S. time zone is a fireside chat between Marta Belcher who's the board chair of the Filecoin Foundation and Mike Dolan who's VP of strategic programs for the Linux Foundation talking about distributed storage and about again this kind of hybridization of public and private ledger. And then finally we have an amazing NFT panel. I think it's day rigor now if you have a blockchain conference you need to have an NFT panel no matter what kind of blockchain conference you are. But the good news is there's a lot going on with NFTs in the Hyperledger community. And so I asked three people who are very close to this if they would come and tell us more about what they're doing. And that is Imogen Heap who maybe you know as the musician and the founder of the creative passport. Brandon Cooper of Panini America and Daniel Heyman from Palm NFT Studio all building upon Hyperledger technologies in one way or another. So really excited to put all this together. Some final thoughts again. Check out the hallway track. Check out the networking functions during the break. Don't forget to claim your $25 Kiva credit. And if you haven't gotten enough, join us tomorrow at Firefly at Hyperledger Day. Register for that. It's included in the system. Just click on the link and you'll see more info about that and links to everything are in Hopin. So thank you for the whirlwind on that. At this point I would like to transition to our first panel.


Hey, y'all welcome to what Chelsea eats and here is another grocery haul that I'm gonna talk to you about You guys seem to like these grocery haul so that you can figure out what it is that you want to buy from the grocery store To help you on your healing journey So this is about a week's worth of groceries for me and my husband I may have to go out and get like an odd or an in Maybe towards the end of the week, but this is basically what's gonna feed us both So the first thing I have is three heads of organic celery And I'm gonna use these for juicing Next I have some organic basil, which I'm gonna use that in salads some turmeric for my turmeric milk a Container of blueberries, which they'll just be part of my meals I've got a box of spring mix I've got a call ahead of cauliflower, which I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with that yet But I'll find something creative for it. And then I am going to juice Grapefruits this week this should make two liters of grape juice for me And then I'm trying a Santa Claus melon. Have you guys tried Santa Claus melon? I saw it in the store It was like 98 cents a pound and this one is about three pounds. It was about three dollars. So I'm excited about trying it I've got four limes here. I got two orange peppers bell peppers. I've got about nine lemons I've got a red onion I've got some parsley I love parsley. I love putting it in my juice and I also love cutting it up and putting it in salads as well I've got some broccoli here. My husband asked for I've got some shredded carrots Carrots and some shredded red cabbage. I've got two heads of Red leaf lettuce. I love red leaf lettuce because it's a tender lettuce. I love it Then I've got some green onions here and I've got some heirloom tomatoes I got a yellow one and an orange. I mean a red one. I've got two peaches two bunches of bananas Which are still getting ripe. We've got two avocados I've got Some mushrooms and some more tomatoes. I guess we're gonna have a lot of tomatoes this week And I've got some Sun Warrior protein powder now This is for my husband. I do not use protein powder I don't think that it's good for people who have fibrids. I mean if you want to if you want to use it Go ahead and use it. But like having to put that in your juices and smoothies is not necessary But my husband likes this Sun Warrior protein powder. It's very clean. So if you do want to use it It's a healthy one, but I think that's about it. I think I talked to you guys about everything that I have here today I still have some things in my refrigerator that I can use for the week. I've got frozen fruit in my freezer I've got a pantry full of you know canned goods and nuts and seeds and all those things so I'm taking all these fresh fruits and vegetables and I'm gonna add them to what I already have and that's what we're gonna have for the week and Let's see. How much did I spend? I also bought my husband one package of organic chicken, which is already in the refrigerator And that's part of this grocery haul. Let me see What did I pay? So I spent a hundred and thirteen dollars for The protein powder So if you see right here my big ticket items were it was twenty three dollars and ninety nine cents for the protein powder and The organic chicken tenders was six dollars and seventy cents, which wasn't too bad. And also those catamata olives I forgot to share that with you. I do Love this brand. It's a very clean brand of olives. So that will be for my salads as well So that's what I spent a hundred and thirteen dollars I could have done this cheaper. I could have chosen some different vegetables I'm not vegetables, but different fruits. That's probably One of the things that was more expensive like these grapefruits were a dollar each and I bought nine of them So but anyway, this is what I bought Hopefully this gives you some ideas as to what you can buy and add to your healthy regimen Thanks so much for watching. I'll talk to you all soon much love


Hey, Tom, congratulations on making a really fun film. I just want to ask you, having a cast like this, a really fun cast, those are great people on it. What was one of the most memorable moments from being on set with people like Simon and so on?  You all have met them. And I'm telling you, they're just warm, great people. So every day I look forward to going to set to work with them. You know, they're so talented, so you just know something's going to happen. We're going to get some great stuff every single day. Did you pull any pranks on Simon again? No, I didn't have any good pranks on Simon this time. Not like Rogue Nation. Running with a big film like this, there's been so many scenes that you shoot that don't make the final cut. I was wondering, what could we expect to get excited about to see on the DVD? Well, there's one particular piece which I'm excited to see on the DVD because I've never actually seen it finished and cut together. And that's a little sequence in the Grand Palais shortly after we land on the roof. So, yeah, check that out. What happens in that? I don't want to talk about it just yet. I don't want to spoil anything. So I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it. My director's right there, so best I don't. We'll give you a slap on the wrist. Yes, yeah. It's a very smack round the back of the head. There might be an entire fight sequence. Maybe, who knows? Is that between you and who is that work between? I can't tell you. I know there was a fight with Ilsa. There was a scene in the car with Tom and I on the way into the thing where things got a bit fruity. What actually happened in that scene with Tom?  So, yeah. We did shot a lot of footage. There were a couple of things that, you know, on the day, thought, oh, this is going to be in the movie. Some big action moments, actually, that in the end didn't really suit the narrative or didn't sort of serve the story. Chris McQuarrie is really good at structuring a story and he knows what is wheat and what is chaff. And so, yeah, some amazing sequences ended up being chaff. We never, you know, you don't know that on the day, but maybe you'll see them on the DVD. There was a scene where me and Tom had the fisty cuffs and he bounces my head off of BMW and I came out with a black eye from that, actually. But it's not in the movie, so I'm quite, you know... It was a good way to meet Tom, put it that way. Good bonding experience. There are some shots in the movie that were really so breathtaking and so much work went into them. And we put together a little reel of those shots and you'll see it on the DVD. That'd be great, because I think in the China, there's like a helicopter going into like a truck, something like that. Yeah, well, that's not in the scenes because we're going to put the trailer on there as well. So you'll see that shot in the trailer. That'll always be on the DVD, but that was one of the things that we had to take out because there was simply too much action in the movie. How is that possible? And also, one last thing, it's like... I didn't think it was possible. This is like working with so many great actors and so many funny people as well. Are there any really great memorable moments that are taken from like this film? You know, I would say my favorite days are the days when the whole team is together, when you're bringing, you know... And it's very rare because the movie is all over the place and you're always chasing Ethan. And showing up at work on a day when you have five or six actors and they're all playing together are some of my favorite days of the movie. But Rebecca Ferguson was saying earlier that when you were doing stunt training, you know, the ping pong tournament, she's saying that Shaun House was the best and maybe worse, is there something that you like to... What was it like being backstage on those, playing ping pong and like hanging out those like downtime moments? Yeah, it was great. Ping pong is one of my passions and it was really great to sort of take Shaun on. He thought he was the best, but he didn't have a good backhand and that's where you had to put the ball always. It smashed a forehand straight over to you, you take it hard on the right, knock it back over the net with skimmer off the side so then he'd end up sort of trying to go with a weak backhand and he'd get the point. Then any good bloopers or did you find that, like Simon would crack you up on set or anything like that? Oh, it was good. Simon particularly, also Shaun Harris, he was one moment actually where we were... It's the last scene in the film, we bundle him into a car and every time we reset the thing, reset the car, he would sing random songs, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, whatever popped into his head and just from the boot of a car, random. So yeah, figure that out.


Today we conclude our discussion of many electron atoms and this is really a storytelling session because we are not really going to work out much and just tell you how things are done and we will let it be at that. I have actually been contemplating whether we should be next not in the next semester but maybe in the semester after that have another course on advanced topics in quantum chemistry. If we float that then maybe we are going to talk a little more about Hartree-Fock calculations but today let us just finish up our discussion by showing you something and just by stating how the calculations are eventually done. You might remember that we have constructed the Hartree-Fock equations for helium atom using orbital approximation to start with. We have worked out we have said that this probability distribution of electron denotes the charge distribution and so from there we calculated or we worked out the expression for effective potential energy of electron 1 due to electron number 2 and hence we wrote the Schrodinger equation which is called Hartree-Fock equation and it is epsilon that we get later on we learn from Koopman's theorem that this is not really energy but it is ionization energy. So then we learnt how to do variational treatment of Hartree-Fock equation and while doing that we arrived at this very important integral called Coulomb integral that we are going to use extensively when we discuss chemical bonding. So Coulomb integral actually comes from many electron atoms itself. So the idea is that if we minimize this expression for energy with respect to phi then we get Hartree-Fock equation and from there we are going to get the upper bound on the energy of the system. And how to go about doing this? The problem is that it is not just any ordinary differential equation is a differential equation in which the operator consists of some term which contains the solution. So unless you know the solution you cannot set up the equation unless you set up the equation you cannot know the solutions it is a catchphrase into situation. So the self consistent field method helps us out of this strange problem what we do there is that we guess the wave function and today what we will do the only new thing that we will do is we will show you like one kind of wave function that we actually can use. So using this wave function we evaluate the effective potential solve the equation and then we solve the equation we do not get back the same wave function we get new set of wave functions which is slightly different from the initial guess value. So we keep on repeating until we get 2 successive calculations in which the values are close these are called self consistent results and the orbitals we get at that time the self consistent orbitals they are called Hartree-Fock orbitals and generally what we do is we take linear combinations of state orbitals and we vary the parameters of each orbital and we also vary the number of terms to get what is to use what is called the Hartree-Fock-Ruthan method. And today we will give you a very very sketchy glimpse using helium for example or we will also write it in terms of N electron atom how this is actually done. Next we talked about Cookman's theorem which essentially tells us that this epsilon that we had got gives us an estimate of ionization energy and ionization energy calculated using Cookman's theorem is usually in good agreement with the experimental values. And finally we had discussed this very interesting concept of correlation energy where we said that see we start with orbital approximation. So we essentially behave as if the electrons move irrespective of each other when you come close together they repel the repel what we learned is that it is not like that movement of electrons is actually correlated and they move in some devious way in which they can avoid each other to some extent and that is manifested in the correlation energy. Correlation energy is a difference in energy is calculated by the SCF method Hartree-Fock method and some exact method that we had discussed earlier the difference in energy there is equal to the amount of energy that can be attributed to correlation electron correlation that is a very very important concept that has led to many important avenues later on. Now one thing in all this discussion that we did not consider but we have talked about it earlier is spin. Remember electrons are associated with this strange quantity called spin and spin is associated with an angular momentum. The spin angular momentum is given by h cross multiplied by root over s into s plus 1 where s is a spin quantum number which is characteristic of the particle. So for electron spin quantum number is half I have said this earlier but since this misconception is ubiquitous I will say it again please remember spin quantum number for electron is not plus half and minus half spin quantum number of electron is half and of course using atomic units you do not even have to write h cross we can just write spin angular momentum is square root of s into s plus 1 in terms of h cross setting h cross to be 1. So what is that plus half and minus half that we always talk about that is m s analogous to the magnetic quantum number that we got for electrons in hydrogen atom. This m s tells you what is the z component of the angular momentum and as we have discussed I think earlier for m and m l and l knowing the value of m s you know this length this is basically h cross by 2 and what is the length of the arrow root over half into half plus 1 so that is root 3 by 2. So if this is root 3 by 2 and this is half what is this angle root 3 by 2 divided by half. So sorry what am I saying it is half divided by root 3 by 2 that is 1 by root 3 I believe we have encountered this angle already so please refresh your memories and tell me well how will you tell me tell yourself that what the value of this angle is so this theta is actually defined for the particle. So m s can take up 2 s plus 1 values for electrons it can be only 2 values plus half and minus half and then if you remember once again couple of weeks ago we talked about spin orbitals where spin orbitals are one electron wave function containing spatial as well as spin part. So today the only new thing that we are going to learn is when we write this spin orbital how during energy calculation we separate out the contribution of spin and we will restrict our discussion to ground state. I will give you a pointer for excited state and this is something that we have learned also that since the wave functions have to be asymmetric by Pauli principle remember if you do not remember please go back and see that lecture for fermions the wave function has to be asymmetric. So a good way of writing the wave functions is later determinant is later determinant when you go from left to right the electron index remains the same the spin orbital changes when you go from top to bottom the spin orbital remains the same electron index changes. So here I have written this later determinant in a slightly different way compared to what we had written earlier. I have written it exactly in the way in which it is written in Macquarie's quantum chemistry book and just to differentiate between this one and that one I have written the electron indices by bold letters bold numerals. So what I mean by phi 1 alpha and one bold one inside bracket is that well in the earlier notation that we use I essentially mean electron number 1 is in phi 1 orbital and it has alpha spin. So this is what I mean when I write phi 1 alpha 1 I have forgotten to write this one there it is phi 1 alpha 1. So I hope you understand what we are talking about this here is your spin orbital phi 1 is a special part alpha is the spin part and this one is the electron number roll number of electron. Now so this expression that I have written is strictly valid for closed shell systems closed shell systems would always have even number of electrons and also all the orbiters that are there would be fully occupied. If you open shell systems then you can have unpaired electrons as well. In that case how do you handle the situation? We had left this question open as well when we discuss it last now I am telling you you have to take linear combinations of stator determinants to define the wave function there. So you can use stator determinants to write wave functions for closed as well as open systems. Now what we do is we can use the stator determinants as the initial trial functions in our SCF method for Hartree-Forke calculations. So when we do that of course we need to know what the Hamiltonian is this is the Hamiltonian for a 2n electron system. I am writing 2n because it is convenient otherwise I have to write n by 2 somewhere. See if I use 2n number of electrons I will need half the number of orbitals is not it? I am talking about spatial orbitals not spin orbitals because each spatial orbital is associated gives rise to each spatial orbital gives rise to 2 spin orbitals because say phi 1 can be associated with alpha or beta. So if I take n number of spatial orbitals I will end up getting 2n number of spin orbitals and since I am talking about closed shell systems we will have 2n number of electrons. So we just assign 1 electron to each spin orbital remember poly principle essentially means that an electron that spin orbital can only contain 1 electron that is why an orbital can contain at most 2 electrons because an orbital is associated with 2 spin orbitals. So this Hamiltonian then is given by minus half del j square summed over j equal to 2n for 2n number of electrons. Second term is minus z by rj summed over j equal to 1 by 2n. I have written the third term in a little different manner compared to McQuarrie's book they have written 2 summations I have written 1 I hope it is not a problem it is basically 1 by rj so it is electron-electron repulsion term and i and j well j has to be greater than i something like that. So this is our Hamiltonian using the Hamiltonian if you start if you try to work out the expectation value of energy what will I get? So I will get something like integral psi star h psi over all space right. So when we do that and when we simplify so this is why I was saying it is a storytelling session I am not working out anything today you do not need to work out either but just understand the flow of logic. So e turns out to be integral j equal to 1 to capital N ij and what is ij this is ij ij is this integral. So you can see what we have done we have defined 3 integrals and we have defined it that way because they arise automatically when you write Schrodinger equation then left multiply by an orbital integrate over all space you will end up getting these integrals. So the first integral contains the operator in kinetic energy and potential energy for a single electron right. So phi a of rj phi j of rj left multiplying essentially it is the kinetic energy term you can say Tn operator remember Tj operator. So I can call this essentially the Tj operator I miss that half half should also actually go in this is Tj operator and this is basically Vj operator kinetic energy and potential energy. So the whole thing I can perhaps write as now I will use the convention of your pillars book they have written it very bad handwriting they have written it as small hj h for Hamiltonian one electron Hamiltonian right just that they have written a small hj you can read pillars book as well for this part because they have been able to simplify the notation a little bit and they have written it very nicely okay. So you can write it like that the second integral what is it it is called j ij we have encountered it already Coulomb integral remember phi i of r i phi j of r r 2 r 1 phi j of r 2 of course these two are complex conjugates of this orbitals 1 by r 1 to the electron electron separation and that operates on phi i r 1 dot phi j r 2 right they have encountered this this is called the Coulomb integral and it talks about the basically effect of one electron cloud on the other. Last we get another integral that we have encountered for the first time it is phi i of r 1 multiplied by phi j of r 2 so far so good 1 by r 1 2 then we get phi i of r 2 phi j of r 1 the labels have been interchanged right there has been exchange so this is called an exchange integral I think I mentioned it briefly earlier now for Coulomb integral you know that you can actually make physical sense out of it I just did that this is called exchange integral and this is a purely quantum mechanical quantity we will encounter it again when we talk about chemical bonding there is no classical analog there is no classical sense that we can make out of the exchange integral there are many textbooks in which they try to make sense by saying that the electron can does not have to be confined in its own orbital it can go there so it has more space I do not like doing that because the honest truth is that there is no classical analog so why should I unnecessarily make up a story right I will not do that let us recognize that even though we have started from classical mechanics we have started from a classical mechanical equation that is Schrodinger equation for these de Broglie waves we have arrived at quantum mechanics whose scope is different right we need quantum mechanics because in the quantum world behaviors are all different so why should we be a daunted or surprised if we get quantities that have no classical analog okay so let us not give any hand waving argument let us be upfront in saying that this exchange integral the purely quantum mechanical phenomenon no classical analog at all so I am not working this out because you understand there is going to be quite tedious in fact it is not worked out in these two textbooks that we are discussing either I think it is there in Zabo's book but let us not go there this is a long course we have learnt a lot of things let us not unnecessarily burden us with detail I will just give you the final result the result is when you work this out you get an expression for energy in terms of these integrals equal to 2 sum over j equal to 1 to n i of j plus sum over i j equal to 1 to n 2 j i j minus k i j now we have something interesting what do we have here we have spin orbitals what do we have here in these integrals we have special orbitals only no mention of spin so where did the spin part go yeah so what we will do is that is one question we will answer at least we will demonstrate using helium we are going to come back to this slide right we are going to come back to this expression we are not done telling you what we actually do with this expression and again that is going to be only storytelling in this course but before that let me at least try to convince you that what I am saying is not all story right it is reality if you are patient enough you will be able to work this out it just that we do not have time and we will not do it here okay so let us go back to helium and write the expression for this helium wave function helium wave function is this set a determinant phi 1 alpha of 1 phi 1 beta 1 phi 1 alpha containing 2 phi 1 beta containing 2 now this is a special case what is the special case what is i here for helium i is equal to 1 j also equal to 1 because in the ground state the only orbital that is involved is 1s so see I am not writing 1s because now by now we know that 1s is not going to remain 1s when we do a safe calculations we are going to get something that we arrive at starting from 1s perhaps it will have similar features like 1s but it is not going to be exactly 1s there will be some strange big expression for the orbital so what we do is to keep things general and to remember that these are actually Hartree-Fog orbitals not the orbitals that we got from hydrogen we will just write phi 1 phi 2 so on and so forth. So here the only special orbital involved is phi i phi 1 so i equal to 1 j is also equal to 1 i equal to j now this was written in the earlier slide but I will just show you here think of what happens to j i j and k i j if i is equal to j so all I have to do here is that instead of this j I will write i instead of this I will write i actually this is not r i j this is r 1 1 2 sorry sorry for the mistake here this is r 1 2 if you write r i j then you got a problem that is why we write r 1 2 here so that we are no doubt that this is the separation between 2 electrons so here this 1 and 2 denote electrons i and j they denote the orbital numbers so phi i of r 1 phi i of r 2 phi i of r 1 r 1 sorry sorry and this j becomes i once again what about here i this becomes i this is fine phi i lots of mistakes here this is r 1 this is phi i sorry I forgot to make corrections there but now I have done it so now do you see that when i is equal to j your j i i is going to be k i i because there is no question of exchange now you are using only one orbital so exchange essentially means that or electron of this orbital is there and electron of that orbital is here that is the basis of that hand waving argument that we talked about a little while ago but now we cannot do that yeah so there is no question of exchange because there is only one orbital so what will happen is that this k will not even feature we will get whatever expression we get in terms of j i i itself j 1 1 in this case okay so let us just try and expand this wave function the psi h e will be equal to I will not even write this half for now let me just write phi 1 alpha 1 phi 1 beta 2 minus phi 1 alpha 2 phi 1 beta 1 I am not about to do this calculation all the way I will just show you a little bit okay so now see if you want to know what the value of say i j is we will get everything in terms of these anyway right you just believe me on that but let us say I want to work out this i 1 in this case right so i 1 will be integral phi 1 alpha 2 phi 1 beta right sorry sorry I made a mistake no phi 1 phi 1 alpha 1 phi 1 beta 2 it is okay phi 1 alpha 1 let me just start instead of this phi I am going to write this expression or rather let me try to work with this I am I think I am confusing you by saying this let us not write that let us do this okay so I will just write the whole thing now phi 1 alpha 1 phi 1 beta 2 minus phi 1 alpha 2 phi 1 beta 1 this and in Hamiltonian what I can do is I can just write this as say h 1 plus h 2 this here is h 1 for electron number one one electron Hamiltonian this is h 2 one electron Hamiltonian for electron number 2 so I can write h 1 plus h 2 plus 1 by r 1 2 and now this is not i 1 sorry so I am writing an expression for wave function phi 1 alpha 1 phi 1 beta 2 minus phi 1 alpha 2 phi 1 beta 1 okay remember subscript 1 and then bracket 1 they are different subscript 1 means orbital 1 in bracket means electron number so the energy is given by okay we also said that this is h 1 this is h 2 the 2 1 electron Hamiltonians 1 in terms of 1 electron 1 1 in terms of electron 2 this gives us phi 1 alpha 1 phi 1 beta 2 minus phi 1 alpha 2 phi 1 beta 1 next I will write h 1 plus h 2 plus 1 by r 2 and then I will write the expression for the wave function once again phi 1 alpha 1 phi 1 beta 2 minus I hope the space phi 1 alpha 2 phi 1 beta 1 okay so this is our integral okay so I may not have time to complete this in this module so let me take a break now we will come back and in a short module we will complete this discussion


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Could you tell us a little bit about the sort of the core compounds present in cannabis and what kind of effects they have, et cetera? We don't know the answer to it for all of them either, and then also it will vary from person to person, which is another reason why I think education is so important. In a nutshell, I'm going to break cannabis up into two different types. There is the traditional type of cannabis, like medical cannabis that people think of, which would be high THC. THC is tetrahydrocanabinol, and it is a molecule that's in the cannabis flower. So the flower is actually the part of the plant that contains the most of the active molecules. That's not to say that the other parts of the plant don't have value. Like traditional Ayurvedic medicine uses the leaves. To make bong. And there's plenty of other uses for the different parts of the plants. But the flower has the highest percentage of cannabinoids. The cannabinoids are viewed as the active molecules that interact with the brain and body that create the effects. THC, CBD. Yes, exactly. And all the little letters that come after it. CBG, CBNs, CBT, CBE, CBL.  And they're all very, very similar to one another. They actually come from the same starting material. And we don't actually know a lot about those rare, the rare cannabinoids. So I'll rewind them and go back to THC. That's the main active one. This is the primary cannabinoid that people are thinking of when they're thinking of cannabis, when they're thinking of someone getting high. You know, it's associated with euphoria. It's associated with, you know, the mental and physical effects. Like, an interesting physical effect is that it'll make you cold, drops your body temperature a little bit. I don't know that one. Yep. It's one of the reasons why, like, there's a theory out there that's like one of the reasons why also in like desert regions and stuff, like that hash is very, very prevalent in some of those cultures. So THC binds to a receptor in the brain called the CB1 receptor and turns it on. And it's that action that starts like a very complex domino effect that can lead to some of the effects. Now, if we're talking about therapeutic benefits of THC, probably the most powerful therapeutic benefit of THC is that it can increase your appetite. And that's not always a good thing. Some people are like, oh, I don't want the munchies. And it doesn't always happen. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't happen to everyone. I actually haven't gotten them. I already got it in my tablets. I haven't gotten the munchies in years, you know, but I mean, if you're lifting, you're probably going to be hungry, but like, the therapeutic benefit there has to do with people who are struggling to keep weight on while they're trying to battle something like cancer, chemotherapy or HIV. And it's a powerful therapeutic effect. Now, the other therapeutic effects that come with it are like vast and huge. Like there's general mental health therapeutic effects. Like it's an anti-anxiety. There's been some research on it being an antidepressant. And this is where there becomes a lot of gray area. When we talk about it, I'll list the positives and then we'll go into the negatives later. But it's an anti-inflammatory. It's an anti-inflammatory, so it reduces inflammation and that has all sorts of effects on chronic pain and skin stuff. And then it also reduces blood pressure. And that's really useful specifically for like things like glaucoma, but also just like in general, blood pressure. And I ran a survey earlier this year. And to my knowledge, it's the only study that's looked specifically at neurodivergent people who use cannabis and why, right? Like what are the therapeutic benefits? Now, the top three are the top three that are the same for everyone. Like for the neuro-typical, the general population, which includes all of us, which is pain, sleep and anxiety. Those are the three top uses for cannabis. It's the main and most. I mean, they're also the top uses for pharmaceuticals as well. So they're like the three most commonly used. Well, pain, pain, pain medications can be like. I mean, it's it's I'm hard pressed to think of a pain medication that's like really effective, that doesn't cause significant dependency or addiction in the long term. Yeah, it's difficult because pain is a powerful is a powerful stimuli. And cannabis is I don't I think it's very different in the way that it modulates pain. I mean, it acts upon a totally different system. It's not as powerful. I will say that. Like, I don't know almost anyone who would make the claim that it's just as powerful as an opioid, but it's powerful enough that if someone wants to reduce their opioid use or get off opioid use, cannabis is very powerful in helping them to do that. Like chronic pain aspects of it. Like pre-arthritic stuff. I have chronic joint pain. I'm hypermobile and it helps me with that. Very, very common for autistic people, I'd say. Yes. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, with all the overlaps of like the weird body, weird brain kind of kind of synergy there. And I actually think that's one of the reasons why cannabis is such a powerful tool for neurodivergent people is that there is this overlap between chronic pain, mental health and GI issues. And those are three kind of really big, broad. I call, I've been calling them the triad of suffering because that's how I have felt about them from my life. Like a flare in one will cause a flare in the other. And then almost always that third one is going to act up because you're not taking care of yourself. You know what I mean? Like it's it can be a really fast downward spiral into that triad of suffering and actually cannabis helps with all three of those things. And a lot of the therapeutic potential does have to do with THC.


Ladies and gentlemen, Salomaiq here at Untamed Strength with Dr. J. Ciropractor? Yes. I guess you're in the powerlifting world, cool, trained with the one and only. Dan Green? Yes. I don't, because he's not going to listen to this, so it's okay, but if he does it'll go straight to his hair. You're in that area. You're in the bossa barbell world. Yes. You were recently up in Canada, although you're from there, with Mr. Omar Isoff. Sadly. Yeah. I apologize. I guess basics. What's a chiropractor do and maybe believe, and then what's a physical therapist do and believe? Because I feel like a lot of times, and even myself, people come to me with injury issues and I'm like, my, this hurts. I said, well, you should probably just go to a doctor and I say a chirophysical, and I just kind of throw that out there because they're somewhere in the region. Maybe just generally state what they believe and then maybe what you believe. Okay. I mean, it's like I think this is good and bad. I think on the spectrum for athletics, honestly, I think, you know, it's not maybe blend more the physical therapy side. And that's kind of how I practice. Overlapped. It's like a Venn diagram. There's overlapping scopes of practice. So by and large, a chiropractor and a physical therapist are legally allowed to do the same thing. Okay. Know what they choose to do, depending on their influence or their motivation, whether it's money, whether it's their philosophy, what actual philosophy is going to be, it's going to dictate kind of how they operate on a day to day, right? Like spending the time going through like physical therapy exercises takes that just time. Time is money and you want to make more of it than you're going to have to see a lot more people. So like the average chiropractor by and large is more like, rack, crack, how are the kids as a wife? Yeah. Send you on your way. But that being said, there are a lot of chiropractors that work in the athletics spectrum realm. Yeah.  And just the same thing on the other side of that, it's like physical therapists maybe lend themselves further right of the spectrum towards like conventional medicine. Like your MDs will work one on one with the physical therapist, but they get dogmatic in how they kind of implement their stimulus, right? So in the powerlifting world, it's really kind of, it's hard because either end of either, either end of either spectrum is going to be ineffective, right?  Crack, crack, crack. See you later. Yeah. Not going to do anything. Oh, my back hurts. Well, here we're going to do these geriatric banded exercise. Yeah. Probably not going to work either. So, um, yeah, physical therapy more like usually rehabilitation movement based chiropractic, I guess active or passive might be the easiest way to like differentiate. Even just go like stereotypical, if you want, not, you know, because we don't want to group everybody, but chiropros often deal with spine and they think everything roots back to the spine, which obviously physically it does. But when we're talking movement, tissue, whatever, they think, they think bone spine structure, physical therapist thinks soft tissue movement. Sure. Kind of. And then like you said, the good ones are down the middle. And yeah, you're seeing an overlap where physical therapists will adjust and chiropractors will do soft tissue and then there's a happy medium. But I think at either end of the spectrum, there's a population that will benefit from pollers. But I think in this, in the power of the world, the lifting world, finding someone that that can assess what you need and then kind of implement accordingly is probably the way to go. Yeah. And that's why, you know, I've had a lot of people reach out do videos or lend me advice on backs and things like that.  I've talked a lot. Also, we can go in a rant later about being injured and being hurt. Yeah. My back hurts. I'm not injured. I don't need surgery. I don't need an MRI. But I decided to work hang out with you today. One, because my buddy Omar, who I trust, put good words in. Sterling recommendation. Two, you do what I do. You work with people of my nature.   The other thing too is I think from talking to you a little bit in text and hearing from Omar, you like to stay up to date on things. Yeah, I like to people.  That you do read the research, but you practice, you know, talk the talk, walk the walk, kind of read the reeds. So you kind of see all scopes and then make your own judgment like that. Read the reeds. So we're going to play recovery mythbusters. Oh, goodness.  So I have things that are like recovery or like popular. Shout out to somebody totally left field. This guy, Jason Phillips, a nutritionist that I recently watched a video and he kind of like did this with nutrition.  And I like that. So I thought we'd do that here.  Or you could go into it. Yeah, you know, like the my tag line is long answers to short questions. So then this might be a series. If you guys dig it, thumbs up, subscribe. His info is in the description. Let's go first. We'll just start out foam rolling. Yeah, maybe maybe foam rollers, myofascial release thoughts. Yes. No, it works.  I feel like a lot of my answers are going to be that depends. I think that depends. I think the biggest thing it depends on is the mechanism of correction. Okay. If you think you're breaking up tissue, that has gone the way of the Dodo bird, like that's antiquated. Why is that? So, no, I 100% agree and know that's true. But why is it that people won't accept that? Like, no, no, no, no, you got to rub out the fascia.  Or if you put a bar on your back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have an indent. And like, yeah, you get a callus, but it's not like an indent. No, I think so. There's like a really good quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson about the universe. It's like the universe is of no obligation to make sense to you. True. So, and I think your human body is the exact same way. It doesn't have to make sense to you. And I think that's kind of where the misnomer came from is that physical therapists, whether they believe it or not, or kind of practice, whatever, they just needed a way to get buy-in. And the best way to get buy-in, I'm sure, is, you know, with clients. They just get them more of a cue, you think, get them to understand it or believe in it, so that they'll do it. So, I mean, I think there is maybe more of a neurological and I don't think myofascial is a good word, even though myo has is more muscle fascia. So it's like, it's a little more structure based in the way it's worded. I like maybe like neuromuscular or something like that. I like that. Applying more of like correction to the nervous system. But again, it's like, you don't pay a plumber to bang on the pipes. You pay him to know which pipes to bang on. So it's like how you use the phone. These are Canadian terms. I could tell that no one in California. Yeah, it's big. It's because our pipes freeze.  But yeah, so for me, it's like phone wall or it's, it's, I mean, it's, it's how you apply it. Yeah. And again, that comes down to frequency, intensity, duration, location. So it's, it is useful. Is it as useful as the bash and mash type will make you think? No. It's a misinterpreted misinterpreted. Yeah, I think something to go along with that is you're right. Like maybe physical therapists are the edumacated. Yes. Just use it. Yeah, the reader, the translator or use it as a cue to get people to do it. Sure. But then personal trainers take it like, oh, yeah. No, no, no. I've, I've read this one physical therapist forever. He said we're rubbing out some fashion. Yeah. Come here little Timmy. We've got to rub out fashion.  Run Timmy's 18, Timmy's 18, side this waiver, will you? Yeah.  It's the few that make the most noise. There's always the case. Bastards.  I have a knot. Yes. And so instead of rubbing a foam roller on it and kneading it like dough, yes, what I'm doing is putting pressure on it and letting my brain know like, hey, this is an exploding chill out, maybe. Yeah. I mean, muscle relaxation kind of works like a lock with a lot of different keys. Like you get, you could do like biochemical.  Hey, you are not one of those.  Dude, do you think we'd be standing right now? No, but we just a child party. So I mean, biochemical heat, heat to do it, right?  Acupuncture is shown.  Yeah, exactly. So I think there's understanding what key that you're going to use to turn the lock. So there's different and there's different just within the realm of of like stretch reflexes, right? Like deep pressure stimulus will elicit a response, heatolose response, but, you know, and range of motion. Like that's what static stretching is, right? Like Golgi tendon organs, muscle spindles, things like that.  More application issues than. Yeah, then the user error. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another one, which you sent me a picture of saying kind of that you didn't like it, that I randomly put on Instagram just messing around. I saw it. Yeah, inversion tables or or distraction. Yeah, I guess technically you're trying to distract the spine or decompress the spine by hanging upside hanging upside down.  Yeah, there's the boots over there. Actually, we're going to shoot an intro. Should we shoot the intro? We'll shoot. We're going to shoot the intro of me. I'm going to be hanging upside down or something. I'm going to look at something. I'm going to look disappointed. Yeah, yeah, that could be a good. Lumbar distraction. Yeah. OK. So hanging upside down because of gravity, my spine is crushed itself. So I'm going to hang upside down so my spine doesn't crush itself anymore. Again, the body is of no obligation to make sense to you.  The way we compress our spine with weight on our back when we squat will decompress and then things will be good. Right? Yeah, it's I mean, people like dualistic and kind of live in a dualistic universe, right? Up has down left, right, black as white as cold. But with the compression of the lower back is not meant to move, right? It's built in a way where hips are mobile, low back stays stable, right? Core stabilization. So of that stability of the lower back, of the lumbar spine, we need to look at structure and function, right? Where muscles play a role in the functional stability of the lower back.  Incredible if you could do that. But so muscles play a role in function and then you have annulus fibrosis. So your your lumbar discs basically break up into two subsections of your annulus fibrosis and your nucleus propulsus. That's like the fluidity stuff that ends up our cushions cushions. Yeah. Then you have ligaments. There's massive network of ligaments between the bones that connect like the pelvis into the into the lower back joint capsules, like little facet joints that keep vertebra aligned with adjacent vertebra in the lower back. Now, there is going to be that stretch reflex on the muscles that feel tight. That's what you're feeling. These muscles are of an interesting nature because they're not neurologically wired like the rest of our muscles are. They're reactive to their position, but we can't contract. Like when guys get low back pumps, yeah, they couldn't really do an exercise. You can't flex like your bike. Exactly. It's not under conscious control. It's all relative position, kind of an internal safety mechanism. So one bone doesn't move too far to the other in the midst of these bones is a spinal cord that's kind of important. Is this so as and QL and all weird things like that? What these muscles? You're talking. No, these are like transversal spinals. Multifidus is the common one. You'll hear rotatories, inner transversal. Throw more of these out because in three months, I'm going to get more messages that they're munteller or serri eyes. Yeah, no. So they're just like their muscles that basically control relative position of the vertebra and all three planes of movement. OK, OK. So if they're tight, they're tight because some they're reacting and having to move or resist movement in an eccentric load. So, yeah, the people are right if it feels and that's kind of the hard wire thought process, something feels tight. I'm going to stretch it, right? So if you're a pound on it or a pound on it, right? So the band of distraction, what it does is, yeah, in the shortest term, it'll have an effect on the neurological perception of that muscle of feeling tight. But when you're hanging from the squat rack for 20 minutes, after that initial transient release of the muscle, now we're getting into actual plastic deformity, which is like your muscle has an elastic property to it.  But the discs and the joint capsules and the ligaments, these are things that we can't regain their elasticity, regain the tension. So you end up kind of in this vicious cycle where your low back is tight for any number of reasons. You have poor hip mobility. You have anti-public tilt. Ship posture, your fat, your fat. And that's the ones I see.  So instead of fix all of them. I hung upside down last weekend. So what happens is they release the muscle, but in doing so they actually, they degrade some of that structural stability that's also a contributing factor. Now we've got to think stability is a value of 100%. In regardless, shoulder, hip, knee, whatever. And it's at what position we're getting contributions from function and what positions we're getting contributions from structure, right? Between those two, they need to equal 100%.  So if we're diminishing the function's ability to contribute to that stability, sorry, the structure stability, or structure's ability to contribute to that stability, then the muscles need to work that much harder. So if we're adding length over time to these ligaments and tendons and discs and joint capsules, then the muscle's going to reflexively have to take on more of the load over time. So it's kind of weird imbalances and not. Weird imbalances or just you have to feel like, just be normal. You have to hang yourself upside down every day. Yeah. That's what I feel like with general foam roll and going back to foam roll.  Your body's used to that stimulus and so you don't feel normal without it. But if you just do it when you need it, maybe you don't fucking. I think just in conjunction, the idea is to always scale stimulus from external to internal. If we can move our, change the perception using external stimulus so we can use our body's own internal stimulus to create that motion, create that motion, create that stability, create that mobility within ourselves. We're talking cues, motor pattern, moving correctly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, moving into more unstable positions. So by and large, the people that use the inversion tables and low back and lumbar distraction stuff, your time better spent I think elsewhere. Yeah. So long answer to a short question. No, I liked it. We'll just go still a little general here. I guess along the lines, a little bit of those two, like body tempering, it's become popular to lay really heavy things on you. Kind of like just a weighted foam roller. I liked the idea of it because I think I've thrown it on my quad. And I'm like, Oh, that feels good. Like massage. Sure. What do I know?  Yeah. So how do you, when, why, how, and are they going for the same mechanism kind of as the foam roller you're talking about? Yeah. I mean, to me, it doesn't make sense because again, it's a larger population. Like you've been in power lifting warmup rooms before. Yeah. But without fail, the super heavies get off the squat and they have their super heavier friend put one of these large tempering devices on their lower back. So your lower back is an extended curve. The lordosis, right? Lumbar lordosis. So it's basically an extended curve. Thoracic spine is a kyphosis. S-type shape going. Exactly. So when you're face down and you're applying that pressure load, you're actually increasing the extension of the curve. So thinking of why those muscles are getting tight in the first place. They're usually drawn into too much lordosis, tight hips, again, like we mentioned before, have, play a big role. The show has attaches in to the anterior body. You're tugging on it. Exactly, pulling that forward. So why would I want to put something on my lower back that's increasing that extension moment of the lumbar spine? Yeah, yeah. Right? Maybe better allocated to the front of the hip, stretching out of the hip flexors. But I mean, there is benefit to that deep pressure stimulus. That's why massage therapists and carburetors and active release stuff all exist. But again, it's, you know, you can have the tool, but if you're not applying it on the right place. So I just think the idea of, oh, if it hurts here, put it there. It's like, there's a difference between a symptom and a cause. It's a different tool. You can't put a wrench on a screw. Exactly. So maybe put that thing on your quad. Yeah. Maybe put it on a hip flexor. Maybe, maybe just put it on the shelf. Yeah, yeah. For me, that's a tough one, just because with a foam roller, we can actually create motion on it. Like we can do dynamic foam rolling where under that point pressure of the roller, we can flex and extend the quad, create that internal stimulus that we're trying to scale to, right? That's gonna be what makes a lasting change over time to the function and the structure of the muscle. So not a big fan, and again, a lot of times I see it, it's the heavy weight lifters. And it's like, if you put your own body weight on a PVC pipe that didn't have any resistance and you're not gonna taco like your mom's foam roller or whatever, I think they would have just the same, if not more of an actual deep pressure stimulus and give you the ability to start moving around on a create that internal stimulus that's actually gonna make a correction.  But you start to think like, all right, well like that guy squats six, seven, eight, nine, a thousand pounds and that stimulus is going on as a rector's or whatever's tight anyway. Why would less weight than that fix that? Sure, right? I mean, that's just logic, right? Like if I don't have a metaphor in my head, but just doesn't make sense if you're, if it's getting tight, like you said it, and then you're getting it tighter in the wrong position, overextending. And it's less stimulus than you put on your back two or three times a week where we hit it. Exactly. Where can people find you? Website, Instagram? Yeah, best place to find me nowadays, www.pre-script.com, P-R-E dash, S-C-R-I-P-T. Instagram, the underscore muscle underscore doc. In person, not really. In person, Boss Barbell Club of practice in Mountain View, California. There you go, near San Jose, near San Francisco if you guys ever visiting, check it out. Drop it. And he's gonna go work on me and then we're gonna eat food and then we're gonna podcast. Where can they find the podcast?  I'm too many places. iTunes. iTunes, RxRadio. RxApocVD Radio. Yeah, I think that's it. Oh, and YouTube. And the YouTube. And the YouTube. Muscle doc? Yeah, that's it. Muscle doc. Yeah, I'm just shy of giving out my home address. Yes, it might as well. 11 hours, my wife killed it. Yeah, that's it. All right, cool. Here we go.


Recorded books presents The Two Late Trail, a Ralph Compton westerned by Matthew P. Mayo, narrated by me, George Goudel, from Ralph Compton. The Immortal Cowboy This is respectfully dedicated to the American cowboy. His was the saga sparked by the turmoil that followed the Civil War and the passing of more than a century as by no means diminished the flame. True, the old days and the old ways are but treasured memories, and the old trails have grown dim with the ravages of time. But the spirit of the cowboy lives on. In my travels to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona, I always find something that reminds me of the old west. While I am walking these plains and mountains for the first time, there is this feeling that a part of me is eternal that I have known these old trails before. I believe it is the undying spirit of the frontier calling me, through the mind's eye to step back into time. What is the appeal of the old west of the American frontier?  Its heroes, Crockett, Bowie, Hickock, Earp, have been reviled and criticized. Yet the old west lives on larger than life. It has become a symbol of freedom when there is always another mountain to climb and another river to cross, when a dispute between two men was settled not with expensive lawyers but with fists, knives, or guns. Barbaric? Maybe. But some things never change. When the cowboy rode into the pages of American history, he left behind a legacy that lives within the hearts of us all. CHAPTER ONE The bull-eyed Texas longhorn snorted. Her muscled red shoulders, bunching and quivering, in counterpoint to his skittering eyes and heaving, lavoured ribcage. Flex of white foam dripped from her trembling mouth. But it was the beast's foot and a half-long mismatched horns that Mitchell Newland kept an eye on.  If I wanted to cause you grief, I'd have dosed you with a lead pill long ago. Maybe I should have it that, but your mama was all broody ethyl, and Pa would never have forgiven me if I laid low one of her bloodline. Somehow that got through to her, and the belligerent beast eased her post-legged stance and swung her head back toward the cloud of scrub brush behind her. Past her shoulder, Mitch caught a glimpse of what he had expected to see.  Good mama! The young rancher eased his black-guilding champ, three then four cautious steps backward, but then the horse balked. Let's give her space. She's doing what we want her to, after all, with a coyote to come along and ten times lessing her calf. If champ understood or cared about what Mitch was saying, he didn't let on, and he didn't budge another step. Mitch dug harder with his heels. The horse offered a low snort, then gave in, and they eased back, side-stepping until they were at a distance safe enough should the ordinary young mother change her mind. "'My word,' said Mitch, rubbing his sweat-stained fawn hat back and forth on his head. "'It was a few minutes there. I thought maybe we were going to have to duke it out. And you,' he patted the horse's neck, "'you big lummox, all but let me down back there. What's gotten into the critters on the twin ends spread this morning.'" Mitch half-smiled and gave a look around, as if someone on the scrub and sand plain might catch him nattering away. Conversing with himself was a habit he'd had most of his twenty-three years, and one his pop, taking Newland, had encouraged. "'You go right ahead, talkin' to you and yours. You meet better people that way, son,' he'd say with a wink. "'Don't know about that, pop,' said Mitch, resuming his one-sided conversation. "'But I can tell ya, the only other person who doesn't think it's odd is Evie. She is, as you said long ago, a keeper. And I'm pretty certain she feels that way about me, too. Only trouble is, I can't in good conscience ask her to marry up with me if this ranch limps along. We need rain, money, and more of both in that order. But on the saddle for two out of three, Mitch looked up at the morning's wide blue sky and side, his gaze fixed on the worn, flat trail before him, dust kicked up by a gust, carrying off whatever useful dirt the twin end had left. Nope, pop hadn't left much. Despite that, Mitch felt something deep inside for the play." Sample complete. Ready to continue?