I've been getting asked a lot to do rasta colors.  Okay, then we got some green. Oh Yeah, that's good. That just lays beautifully onto the canvas. Then we got some yellow.  Oh, yeah, that's gonna look cool. All right, let's get this Yeah, buddy. It's like cool runnings. Let's go. Gotta get that little edge. Oh Where's my lucky egg? Oh that hits different. Let's get this


Hmm What's up money gaze mr. V here welcome to another video so in this one we are going to do quick trade review here Again, this is the trade that I did Just know just I want to give you guys some of the details as to why I took some of the trades and then Just gonna break down My my mindset going into a trade and why sometimes I would not even try to get into a trade So that's what I want us to Actually cover it into this video, but you can see here.  So that's something that you guys can definitely Learn from so overall Daily go of 250 a day. I think we still came out on top Maybe 200 and about 280 so which is good again, you guys know my strategy. I'm not a greedy savage So I'm not looking for Lamborghini money. I'm slowly but steadily really Building and making some profit just trying to be consistent with my profit The whole idea here is that if you are greedy and you're trying to make one two three thousand You are gonna end up losing one two three thousand in the process as well So you have to be very careful pick your battles wisely So that's something that want to make sure that you guys are really aware of Before we get said guys we're new to the channel to cover her to earn money How to save money how to invest and build wealth So that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button in any notification bell, too You don't miss out on new content. So guys again, this is what we had today total profit about two hundred eighty dollars The RV ph was one of the stocks that Gapped when the market opened we didn't have this one in our watch list because it didn't show anything Pre-market but as soon as market opened a study to show some science and my scanner picked it up and I jumped on it and Traded it for a little bit. Even though there was a lot of opportunities for I know people to get in and out of the stock I didn't I didn't trade it all the way But at least I'm still happy with the profit that I made and I'm happy that some some other people too made some profit So definitely this is one that we are going to take a deeper dive into So let's jump right in and take a look at their particular stock. So Let's go right here. So this is a stock Right here market opens if you can see here the gray area on my chart here is pre-market So pre-market look at is nothing was really happening with the stock And so that's why I didn't make my watch list and then as soon as the market opens We can see here the stock gaps all the way to about 5.5 and then got halted so right here. This was the first Halt so let me point that right here. So right here. That's where we got our first halt at about 5.5 so I sell watching this one and then it came out of the halt and squeeze all the way to Right here about six points something around six point six so coming out of the hall it got up to about six dollars and Then as you can see here, it's still about V-wap. So in most cases you think that It would probably gap up again So you can you can get in but after this the second candle here look at that big doji right there and then One important thing for you to see here is stochastic Right here was crossing. So look at K is crossing to the downside in my D is crossing to the upside. So what that tells me is again? You're looking for a pullback in this in this scenario. So I didn't take that trade So I didn't get in just because I thought it was gonna bounce up So I didn't I didn't get in a trait But then I kept thinking like maybe I missed out on this trade because this was a squeeze all the way from Right here five dollars all the way to two or six dollars and some change So I'm like, okay, if that's it. That's too bad. I missed it. So I kept watching the stock if you can see a Squeeze if finally squeeze that doji day is six point two So that was the high and then a pullback again like we saw here with stochastic saying it's gonna pull back and the pullback It happened again You can see right here when it finally crossed again when K cross to the upside and D to the downside It crosses Vwap. So we make a test of Vwap right there, but it failed So I didn't take a trade here because it didn't give me any confirmation So I kept laughing like hey, you're baiting me not gonna get me Then this is where the stock said to show me some some movement to the upside Right here getting crosses test Vwap and then I hear this second candle right here My strategy is supposed to be the one mini candle because I used the one minute Time frame So I'm looking for a new high here and it didn't give me that new high So I'm like this thing is just messing with me and then a pullback to five 5.8 So I'm thinking but stochastic still shows me that it's on the upside K is on the upside So maybe there's an opportunity there then it just popped from five point that five point eight or five point nine All the way to six point two and like I said the high here was what six point two of this initial high here Was six point two so that would be my the point that would give me some confirmation to enter the trade So Some people would have entered the trade somewhere here But for me I wouldn't make sure that matches the high of day because now I want us to set a new high so I got in at six point two and then a Tested again pulled back a little bit. It was like whoa. Whoa. Whoa. This is not right and then Kind of just shows on Consolidation around here, which I did like this but then all of a sudden it just squeeze from that six point two all the way to six point seven and then bounce back went up to six point eight Right here, and if you look at this green candle It went all the way to six point two seven and I'm thinking like holy smokes And then actually I wanted to pull back so then I look at stochastic right here And this is the things that you have to be paying attention guys So stochastic right here is crossing K is going to the downside and you can see my D is going to the upside Look at where that matches right on point if you can see that So I got already straight about six point nine or so And then I took some profit It's like I don't want to even sitting this thing and then if you can see what happened a pull back all the way to 6.2 Just right the way to like where I got into the trade But again squeeze back up So in this case this would have been another opportunity to see that kind of ride it back against because it's like a bounce off Of V-wap and then squeeze back up. So at this point, I'm feeling pretty good. I have some profit So I didn't want to take any chance. So I didn't treat this little piece right here but if you can see it just kind of Pull back again. They went underneath V-wap. You guys know me if it's not above V-wap I Sadam Lee would touch a stock below V-wap unless There is a really good catalyst that's you know pushing me to kind of trade the stock at that particular point So Now again, I'm looking for another opportunity to trade the stock Remember that we have our new high here is 7.2 So the first new high was 6.2 and that's where I use as my support To get into the trade because once you get to that point now I wanted to break and set a new high. So if we go back here now So if I'm sitting at 7.2 for for 7.2 for a high So that's what I want to use as my benchmark. So for most people right here This would have been a great point for you to enter enter the trade right here crosses V-wap Next one in the Candice sets a new high you get in and they put right this one somewhere up here But I didn't I didn't take that trade because I was sitting pretty good I felt good because I already had some profit But again, the reason I didn't want to was because I wanted it to break the new high which is 7.2 for me So where is 7.2 7.2 be right here? So for somebody that took your trade here They would have made more money compared to me that took your trade right here at 7.2 But guess what I am acting Cautiously, I didn't want to take any chance because this thing could show you right here Like it's gonna break and then flushes and I didn't want that so I wanted to show me hey 7.2 We want to break that and set some new highs So that this would have been a great spot to get back into the trade at that 7.2 So that would be the approach that I would use if I were to get back into the trade here as you can see at 7.2 They kind of squeeze up a little bit But stays above that 7.2 pull back a little bit here again stays about above 7.2 And then look at this pull back right here to 7.3 So goes all the way to 7.8 and then back to 7.3 Boy, look at that rip. It just ripped all the way Pass it like it was nothing all the way to 9.5 for a high Man, this is with like a picture perfect trade you if you got in here and held this thing All the way to 9.5. You would have been sitting pretty good With some money and then after 9.5, that's high of the day and then the pull back Came back again somewhere around here and showed some opportunities right here I'm not even looking at taking the trade anymore Here i'm just being a spectator and then I was anticipating that it was going to squeeze again towards end of day So just massive pull back here and then consolidate again and squeeze back all the way from What we have here 7.9 all the way back to about 8.9 almost nine dollars again, right there 9.1 But again, it was kind of like a choppy move and I didn't want to trade that I was hoping for it to move after hours that never happened because I think I posted in our discord group that I was looking because When stocks usually finish strong like this During regular hours do it pre um after hours that will squeeze up And you can still trade them after hours and make some profit, but it didn't pull back so Which is too bad because I actually looking to see if it made to move after hours But boy, this is this is a really great trade So if you can see if I can zoom in here or just zoom yeah zoom in here as you guys can see So overall this stock came out about four dollars and 50 cents and it went to a high of nine dollars and 50 cents So that's a spread of five dollars. This is why sometimes penny stocks are a great trade because If you had bought just a thousand shares This is easy You could have made a lot of money and that's why when people ask Or how can you make two fifty a day if you only have a thousand dollars or you have Or no two thousand dollars the idea here is that it's More so How you trade what you trade be smart about your trade if you get into good trades You can definitely make some good profit if you're getting some bad trades Cut your losses as soon as possible and get out. So these would have been a great opportunity Me personally, I don't think that I could have gotten in here and held this thing all the way to 9.5 That's that's impossible because because of the way I trade I trade momentum stocks And so if I got in here at 4.5 and it squeezed all the way to 6.2 that would be my first exit I should have taken profit here and then wait for another opportunity and then again traded somewhere here From 6.2 all the way to 7.1 that's another trade take some profit So that would have been the approach that I would use trading this I probably never would have just held this in Watch it go all the way to 9.5 reason being that this is a stock that I don't really know I don't really understand the company. I haven't done detailed fundamentals So I don't want to be caught with you stuck in my hand if it flushes And so in that in that regard I want to secure profit as soon as possible. So Those are the trades that I that's the tree that actually did and again guys if you can see here micro vision 23 dollars and My md 45 dollars. So I was a stupid trade just to show you guys again if you don't use a stochastic I use stochastic indicator a lot I combined that with my d which you don't have to see here on my chart because I Disable it because it takes up a lot of space on on my chart But I usually enable it when I'm trading so you see stochastic you see my d RSI and then volume those are the those are the ones that I have on my chart So or those are the key ones when I'm trading those have to be until again volume You can see volume on the need Right here on the chart itself Or you can enable the volume widget, which is what you see down here I like this one because it's really bright and vibrant So I can see the green and the red as the volume drops or the volume increases I can see that it shows me right here So again if you look at how the volume matches Big red that is sell off right here. Look at how that thing drops It matches that big red candle look at the sell off right here. It tells you Everything so you can see that it's really bright and very vibrant. So I like that So again, let me know in the comment section what you guys think Again for those of you that are interested in kind of joining us We have a discord group. I have the links in the description below. Definitely come out there. Check us out We're still like Struggling to build that community Really start making sure that we have Something for everybody in the community At this particular point we're just figuring out I post my watch list there every single day So that you guys can actually start trading and then you have people that are in the same position Like you're wanting to learn sharing ideas people that are day trading people that are just paper trading and Learning the skills and making sure that they understand and know their strategy before they start using real money You can talk with those people. I've seen some of them do like competition See who can make I don't know 100 bucks a day with 1000 dollars like that day trading Using the simulator. So those are opportunities that you can come hang out with us and you can ask questions Even if I'm not there to answer the questions We have a lot of people in the community that can actually help you answer some of these questions So definitely a place to come hang out So again, let me know in the comment section if you do have any questions If you're new to the channel, we talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So there's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell too You don't miss out on your content. Also, if you're looking to get started with investing guys We will have their promotion where if you sign up and deposit 100 dollars You get some free stocks links in the description below and as always Do you do diligence?


Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done.  But on the other hand, it has a very serious side to it. It's a mysterious and frustrating story involving Stumpy. We'll call it The Cat in the Wall. The big Tom catch you're hearing on the prowl is called Blackie. He's the fond pet of Mrs. Bula Lindstrom. Now, Bula and Blackie live next door to Stumpy Jenkins. Stumpy's just coming home after a hard day on the trail. Grey Wolf is with him. He lives two blocks from the old timer. You know something, young fella? Oh, what that old timer? I'm tired as an old rug. I'm plenty tired, too. We spend hard day on trail. I'm not used to riding horseback all day. Oh, then it's not your feet that tired. You can say that again. It's the back of my lap. That saddle is as hard as a board. How do you think horse feel? Every once in a while, old Matilda would look around at me and say, get off her. Well, hello, Blackie. How does the world treat you? How are you and Bula get along these days? No, so-so. She hasn't found anything to complain about lately. She had a nice cat. He friendly fell off. She ought to let some of the cats friendliness rub off on her. You're a pretty harsh about neighbor. No, I'm just running off at the mouth. She isn't such a bad sort. I could have worse neighbor. It's just that she's so persnickety. Everything got to be perfect. Now, come on in for a cup of coffee, Grey Wolf. I'll give Blackie some milk. Ah, a cup of coffee and go plenty good now. Blackie sure finished off milk like nothing. Yep. He comes over most every night and has his milk. Bula doesn't think much of it, since I'm trying to take the cat away from her. I showed some common courtesy and opened the door. Foolish questioner course he is here. Come on, Blackie, time to go. I told you a hundred times I don't. You're trying to take him away from me. Why don't you get your own cat? I don't want your old friends. He's not an old likesy you for a friend. You're trying to kidnap him. You mean don't you, Bula? I see what you mean now. Right, senses. Why should I want a stealer cat? Do you think all the ice is out of the river, Bill? Oh, sure, Henry. Lumberjacks will be starting their loggrass downstream the first of the week. You've got to get these navigation markers up, or their logs won't stay in raft for him very long. Ah, then there'll be plenty trouble. You all set to shove off? Yep. I'll cast off the lines. Is the old timer with us, or did he fall over the side? Oh, he's with us, but he's kind of glum about something. I think old timer have woman trouble. Well, as I live and breathe, I guess love can bloom at any age. You keep talking like that. You won't be right side up in this boat very much longer.  What's the matter, old friend? What's eating anyway? I was only teasing before. Oh, Chad, will my next door to me? Oh, you and Mrs. Lindstrom having a round by round again? Not exactly, but you think I'm trying to steal a cat? Well, you not let him in house, and then you not have trouble.  All the fire all shoes and foam out of him. I'm not mad at the cat, young fella. Never should have started that late snack business with him, and we'd be all right. Sometimes kindness to animal make master jealous. Yeah, that's true. Come on now, snap out of it, stuffy. Bill, they'll get over it. I hope so, because I hate to come home every night and have a fight with... That's exactly right, Mabel. If Stumpy Jenkins doesn't leave Blackie alone, I'm going to get the sheriff after him. Yes, that's right. He's getting bolder and bolder. And I know Blackie's going to disappear one of these days if I don't nip it in the bud right now. Yes, imagine the nerve of that man trying to steal my rhinos. And if he thinks he can get away with it, he's got another thing coming. Well, it's lunchtime now, so goodbye, Mabel. I'll put those in a bag for you, Mrs. Lindstrom. What do you think I should do about my cat, Mr. Barnes? Oh, keep him in the house. That's what I do. Well, now you know that'd be cruel. Cats like to have their nightly prowl. It sort of makes them feel like lions on the hunt. Yes, but you really think Stumpy's trying to steal Blackie, honestly? Hmm, I most certainly do. I don't make things up out of my imagination, Mr. Barnes. Well, I didn't say you did, but why would he want your cat? Because Blackie's a fine cat. The old man's lonesome and liked to have him for company when he comes home at night. I should think he'd buy his own cat if he once won that badly. Oh, I'd think so too, and you know, he's supposed to be such a religious man. A person that never know it by the way he takes on. Good day, Mr. Barnes. Good day. Call again. Now, your shoes are ready, Mrs. Lindstrom. Yeah, they are. Oh, thank you. You did a fine job, too. Say, what did you do if somebody was trying to steal your pet? Why, I'm punching right in the nose. Len, thanks. I can't very well do that. Besides, the man's a forest ranger and able to take care of himself, even if I could. A forest ranger's trying to steal your pet? Yes, Stumpy Jenkins. He's after my big Tomcat, Blackie. Boy, that's a new one. Well, I'm sorry I have to rush him, but a customer's calling back in 20 minutes for his shoes, and I've got to have him ready. It's too bad I'm not a man, or I would punch Stumpy Jenkins right in the nose. Good morning, Reverend Smith. Good morning, Mrs. Lindstrom. How are you? Not too well, thank you. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon. I will when Stumpy Jenkins stops trying to steal my cat. Stumpy's trying to steal your cat? Surprised, aren't you? I have to say the least. Perhaps you better keep a closer watch on your congregation. Good day. Ranger headquarters, Bill Dapperson speaking. What? Well, thank you for calling. Goodbye. Stumpy, it's about... Ranger headquarters, Bill Dapperson speaking. Yes? Yes, I've already been told. Well, thank you. Goodbye. You wanted to say something to me, sonny. Yeah, if I ever get around to it. Bill Dapperson speaking. Oh, hello, pastor. How are you? What? You too? Yes, I'll look into it. Thanks for calling. Goodbye. Hey, what's up? Something strange is going on around here. You're right there, young fella.  What wrong? I not like looking your face. Old timer, Bill Lindstrom's fixed your wagon but good. Huh? What do you mean?  To put an end to this stuff? How far has she spread the word? All over the countryside, it sounds like. We have to do something about this. Bula should not tell a wild story like this. I'll say she shouldn't, because it ain't true. Who'd steal her cat? I weren't a Christian, I'd sue her for slander, that's what. We've got to do something about this. I know what I'm going to do.  I won't go home to a fight. That'll only help prove she's right.  Grey Wolf's right. I think I'll go over now and talk with her. Huh? God bless. I don't know, but it's worth a try. She's talking to a brick wall, but it don't do any good. So the old buzzard sent you over here to talk to me, eh? Well, that's about what I expected. He can't fight his own battles. On the contrary, Mrs. Lindstrom, I came of my own free will and it was my idea. Did you know Stumpy's seriously considering moving because of the trouble you're making for him? He's making trouble only for himself, and I think he's got the right idea. He should move and then there'd be peace and quiet around here and Blackie could live without fear of being taken away.  Yes, plenty of it. Being friendly to the animal and giving him milk every night isn't proof. That's what you think. He's trying to take the animal from me by braving it. Mrs. Lindstrom, Stumpy has a warm spot in his heart for animals. He doesn't want your cat. Is that so? I've watched him and I know. You know nothing but a lot of loose talk. It's going to get you into serious trouble if you don't stop it. Well, so now you're threatening me. Well, you can't scare me. Not for one minute. I'm not trying to scare you. Just caution you. If Stumpy weren't a Christian, he'd sue you for slander right now. A fine religious man he is. Trying to steal my pet. Don't push him too far, Mrs. Lindstrom. If this continues, I'd say he'd be justified to take you to court.  They're not lies. They're facts, and I can prove it. You haven't proven it to me. And I'd be the first man to arrest him if you could prove that your lies are facts. Good day, Mrs. Lindstrom. You tell Stumpy Jenkins that he'd better not start any more trouble or I'll have him arrested. That's what I'll do. There's still a thing I should pack up and move. It'll be the easiest way out for everybody. It is just all right, Stumpy, but not best. Oh, Gray Wolf, when you get old like me, you'll be ready to accept the easy way out of a fight. It's all right for a young fellow to say, go in there, both hands flying, but when you get old, you get tired of that. I'd like to come home to peace and quiet. Ah, and they're a fellow that cause all trouble. Not him, Gray Wolf, it's mistress. Don't blame the cat. I'm not right. Blackie, you go out home now. No milk tonight. I'm sorry, pal, but I'm in the doghouse bad enough. No use pouring oil on the fire.  Poor fellow, probably things have turned against him. Good night. Don't lose sleep over this.  I'm sure cooked a real meal tonight. It's no different than any other night. You must be unusually hungry. He's right, Mom. This is really delicious. Extra plus. Thank you. I'll get it, since it's probably for me anyway. I'll be joking. Oh, no, I'll be right over. Henry, grab your hat. Let's go. And leave these tender morsels? Stumpy's been arrested. I told you, Bill Jefferson, I'd have him arrested, and I did. And if he doesn't give me my cat this instant, he's going to jail. Terrible man. He probably killed Blacky. He tortured him just to get even with me. Well, I'll show him. You can't steal it. Cal, Cal, get this woman out of here and have a doctor give her a setting. You try and throw me out of this house. This is your house? No, but my cat's here. Is that factor of fiction? Bad. Prove it. Cal, let me see your search warrant. Well, I haven't got one, Bill. Then get this lady out of here. I'll get Blacky back. Dead or alive. I haven't got your confounded cat. Stumpy, I'm going to have to take you in and come back with a search warrant. Unless you want to give Mrs. Lindstrom her cat, no. I'm telling you. Met me at the front gate, just like always does. Then I shoot him home. Trouble. That's a likely story. Sheriff, do your duty. Can you, uh, prove your story, old timer? Henry called Wave Wolf and asked him to come over your way. Cal, you're acting on circumstantial evidence. I know that, but what can I do? Bueller signed a warrant. I know what I can do. What? It wouldn't make us more involved than it is. I can't promise that, but I can sign a warrant against Bueller for a suspicion of false arrest. You wouldn't dare! I'll do it without being dared. Sometimes I'm sorry I'm the sheriff. Bill, we've been friends a long time, but... Well, it appears to me that you're trying to wiggle Stumpy out of something. Not in the least. If Stumpy's guilty of stealing Black King, then he'll answer to the law just like anyone else. But I know he's not guilty. Sheriff, if you don't do your duty and arrest this man and get my cat back, I'll call the district marshal and have him do it. No, just a minute, Mrs. Lindstrom. I've known these men for a long time. And I know they're men, not liars. If Bill says that the old timer didn't take your cat, well, that's good enough for me. And I believe the old timer, too. Here's Grey Wolf. Grey Wolf, were you with Stumpy tonight when he chased Blackie home? Ah, I was there. Stumpy sent Cat home to avoid trouble. I saw Cat walk away. Listen, fellas, instead of standing here glowering at each other, we'd better get the cat out from between the walls. Yes. I can tell by the muffled sound of his voice that he's got himself down inside the wall. Please get him out. Oh, please, he far as too late. What about the wall, Mrs. Lindstrom? Put it in your pocket for now. I want my cat out from inside that wall alive. Sure wish Stumpy would wash his attic floor once in a while. Boy, but the dust is thick up here.  Stumpy never used this skinny space. I'm only joking. A little more. We should be right over the bathroom wall. Do you see the cat? All I see are fire blocks in between the walls. A cat couldn't possibly get down inside the wall from here. No joking. How do you suppose it got there? Well, let's have a look from the basement. But isn't Blackie pretty big to climb up inside the wall? Who said it's Blackie? All right, any cat. I can see where a cat might fall down inside the wall and climb up. I don't know about that. Well, there's one way to find out. Let's look down in the basement.   Yeah, that's a good question. A very good question. This thing is going to put me in the insane asylum before it's over. Maybe there are holes behind bathtub. Oh, there's an idea. And a good possibility. Let's find out. Can you see anything, Bill? No. The wall is solid as the broader. This is getting plenty strange now. Cat in bathroom wall, sure as we stand here. But how animal get there? If you can tell me I'll be forever grateful to you, young fella. What are we going to do now? Where's Bill and the sheriff? Well, she invited him over for a cup of coffee while they're waiting for us to get that cat out. Praise the Lord for small blessings. I'd say the cat is right here in between the wall. All agreed? That sounds all right. All right, let's get some hammers and break the wall down if it's all right with you, Stumpy. See the cat? No cat. Mess we're making. I wish that cat would stay at one spot. The cat's voice may be deflected and carried from some remote part of the house by a freak acoustical setup. Then Stumpy's right. We'll have to turn around the rest of the house. Oh, not necessarily. I'm going to get Ted Thorpe out of bed and have him bring his electronic gear over here. How will that help? He can track the sound and pinpoint it right to the spot where the cat is. You think the cat's down here in the basement, Ted? Well, that's what the machine says. Please be quiet now while I track the sound a little further. Stumpy! Don in the basement, Cal. You can stop looking. Blacky just came home. What? Well, just came home. Yeah, I've got it, fellas. Where's the cat? Right here. I'm standing under it. That's your cat. The water meter's leaking and makes a meowing sound just like a cat. That's what it is, all right? I don't know what to say. Is there anything I can say to try and repair the damage I've done with my terrible mouth? I've done you a serious and a grave injustice and I'm terrified, Stumpy. You've got every right to sue me for every penny of God. I'm not going to sue you, Mrs. Lindstrom. You're not? Nope. I'm a Christian and I want you to know that the Lord's given me love in place of hate. Jesus did all that he promised to do when I accepted him as my savior. I can't hate you or be mean to you for this. I'm glad it happened this way. Maybe this will be a testimony to you that the Lord has taken away sin and made a new man out of me. I don't suppose there's any way I can repay you for the damage to your house. Nope. All I want is peace and quiet. And if I want to give Blackie some milk in an evening, not to be accused of stealing. You can give Blackie as much milk as you want any time you want, Stumpy.  I think Blackie wants some milk now. And now you and me... Well, boys and girls, it's hard to believe, but the incident around which this story is built is true. Some time ago the walls of a house were torn apart to try and find a cat believed to be trapped inside. Sound engineers were brought in and the water meter was found to be the culprit. Well, see you next week for more adventure with... Range! This is Stumpy Jenkins, speaking for Ranger Bill. And say, and don't forget to hit the trail with us every week at this time for lots of exciting adventure with all the Ranger gang. Henry Scott and Gray Wolf and Bill, of course, and me, the old timer, are all on hand from time to time to bring you the best stories we can find. So you tune in to Naughty Pine and learn the latest that's happening around the Ranger Station, or in the mountains and forests nearby, or maybe even someplace further away. Because that young fellow, Bill, gets into all kinds of situations and troubles and complications when he's trying to help somebody else. So you'll be sure to join up with us next week for this half hour of storytelling, and then you won't lose out on anything that's going on. I'll be looking for you, so don't disappoint me.


Hi, my name is Guido Mendoza.  And one of the things that we'd like to do in creative writing workshops is teach folks how to write from different perspectives and seek inspiration from many things. So one day I was actually enjoying a glorious sunset and I thought, what if this was a queer love story? So that's what this piece is about. And I think it's very fitting for our voices, as our voices need to be heard, but also our voices create stories. And as queer people, that's what our lives are. Our own lives are creating stories, breaking paradigms, you know, not fitting into binaries and just shifting the way that we show up for ourselves. So I thought about what about using our celestial beings that we get to inhabit and enjoy daily as inspiration.  Earth puts on eye shadow at dusk for her rendezvous with the moon. She adorns with stars for jewelry. The moon's smile illuminates us. She's been waiting all day for her. The earth trembles in nerves. Despite their deep love of centuries, she still blushes at dusk as she rises. Their dance floor is the expansive sky. The planets drum their favorite tunes. They both sway together in harmony, a dance that we all bear witness to. They dance cheek to cheek all night long. We sleep as the lovers swoom above us. While the sun sleeps, they love boldly. If you listen closely at the witching hour, you can hear their heartbeats in the air. As the sun rises, they each go their separate ways, aware that in a few hours they get to be free again. The greatest love story I've ever seen is hidden in plain sight from dusk till dawn. They're not hiding their proclamation. They know the patriarchy isn't ready for it. The taboo makes it much more spontaneous, like a combustion of celestial beings. That's why our sunsets are so gorgeous. It's the steering love that we are in awe of. Thank you so much. And may you find inspiration in all the things that are around us and write your own queer love stories. Write your own love stories of your souls, of your bodies, of whatever it is that inspired you. Perhaps this inspired you to write a note to whatever you see and always keep sharing your voice and always keep writing. Thank you so much. I'm Guido Mendoza and you can find me at Guidoism's on Instagram. Much love.


I'd like to introduce the crew. On my left Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Kidd Collins, United States Air Force, and she was a real pleasure to work with over the past year and a half. I hope to work with her again in the near future, and it was great flying with her. It was her expertise that enabled us to hit the timing task to the exact second. She was giving the guidance commands. She was the policewoman during the rendezvous, making sure that we were doing everything according to schedule, and she performed all of the burns on the Spartan retrieval. She went to Syracuse University in 1978, graduated with a math and economics major as a master's degree from Stanford and Webster. She flew C-141s in the Air Force and was a professor of math at the Air Force Academy. The kid was not a rookie when the SRBs ignited. She was right there with us as a veteran. She's the perfect choice for Americans' first woman pilot in space. On her left, Dr. Bernard Harris pulled together all of the science for me on this flight. He was my payload commander, and it was his expertise that enabled us to reprioritize and replan and get all the extra experiments from Spacehab 4 combined into Spacehab 3. He went to the University of Houston in 1978, graduated with a biology degree, has a doctorate in medicine from Texas Tech, did his residency work at the Mayo Clinic, worked at NASA Ames, he's on four faculty appointments, he flew an STS-55 on Columbia. He has great bedside manner, but I'm not going to let him take any more blood from me. Dr. C. Michael Foll, Esquire from Cambridge, England, before the flight I said he had the unofficial title of World Smartest Man. I saw a lot of the world, and I'd like to upgrade that to the official title. He is the World Smartest Man at least of the world that I could see. He's a computer whiz from the University of Cambridge, has a PhD in astrophysics, worked at NASA's Mission Control Center before joining the astronaut office. He flew an STS-45 and STS-56. Johann Kepler never guided 100 ton vehicles together in space, and he has. Dr. Janice Voss, MS-3 from Rockford, Illinois, did a superb job on the arm during the grapple of Spartan. She went to Purdue University, has a PhD from MIT in Astronautics, co-opped here at JSC also, and she flew an STS-57. She's a commander's dream. She just went up there and did every job that she was given, did it expertly, and was a pleasure to fly with, and I hope to fly with her again. I hope to fly with all of them again. Well, how does he do? My very good friend, Colonel Vladimir Georgievich Titov from Russia, Vladimir Krovny, he's very cool. If you've seen his second launch attempt, you'll know what I'm talking about. You should have seen him on the arm during this flight. I said pre-flight that we were going to watch him. We did, and we did learn a lot about space flight from Vladimir. He was very cool on the arm. He waved the folks around on the end of the arm and did an outstanding job. We would like to roll the movie, and after the movie, we'll show our slides. Of course, the toughest part about training is designing the patch, and once you do that, then you're ready to go flying. Here we are on suit-up morning, putting on the ACES suit. Four of us had the new suit. It's a very good design. Worked very well. If we ever need it for a depressurization system, I'm sure it's going to work very well. We also had the liquid cooling garment, which kept us very cool on ascent and during the entry. That's also a new improvement. Many people helped us over the year, getting ready to go launch into space. And it was great when we walked out to see some of the smiling faces of the folks that have helped us over the previous year and a half. And it was nice to wave at them and give them a smile as we departed for the launch pad. Of course, as you approach, it's the first time you've seen the launch pad when there aren't very many people around. This is a moment that takes me back to when I was about six years old and I first decided I wanted to be a national. This is looking up at your rocket. And this sends shivers down my spine every time I think about it. And it was a special feeling as we went up the elevator. The main engines ignite six seconds prior to liftoff, and then, of course, the SRBs ignite. When you see the launch from a distance in person or on cameras, it looks like the vehicle is climbing very slowly and stately. We are here to assure you that there's nothing slow about it. It's power and speed are the two words that come to mind. When the SRBs ignite, it's a pretty rough ride. A lot of vibration is shaking going on. Of course, 7 million pounds of thrust, and you can feel every one of those pounds. The first rendezvous maneuver is done right here on the launch pad. We wait until the launch pad is in plane with the mirror, and then we quickly launch. That occurred shortly after midnight, and so it was a night launch. Pretty exciting going uphill. I especially like the view that we see after we land. It was great seeing the view in the cockpit, but of course, we're working the systems and making sure everything is working. SRBs separate and run our way. Once we get on orbit, we have a nice, external look of the space have, which is the module has all the experiments, in fact, 23 different experiments. Here you see myself, and Beloje has a camera. As we open the hatch to space have, the investigations included a variety of things from crystal growth to plant growth. We even did the famous taste test that you heard about. The experiments on board pretty much ran the entire complement of the kinds of experiments we do in space. This is a protein crystal growth experiment that uses a vapor diffusion apparatus.   Each one has a little droplet that contains the solution and during the flight, these droplets, the half moon shapes you see evaporate, leaving the protein crystal behind and hopefully they get very large crystals from this experiment. We also had some other life sciences experiments on board, back in the module. This is Vladimir Titov working on the astro-culture experiment, growing plants in the sort of equipment that hopefully we can use on space station in the future to grow things for astronauts to eat. This is a robot we had on board called Charlotte. You can see at the bottom right corner of the screen a cable. There are eight cables like that attached to the corners of Charlotte, which allows it to fly around like Charlotte and Charlotte's web. It can turn switches as you see it doing here. It can punch buttons. It has a camera. This view is from the camera on board Charlotte so it can send pictures to the ground of how the experiments are performing in space so it can be used to work experiments when a crew member is not available. What you're about to see here is the odor acts deploy. Three spheres and three dipoles were launched. There goes one, another sphere and a dipole. The purpose of this was to calibrate the ground radar so in the future they can better track orbital debris. Y'all know about our jet problem. We worked this pretty hard the first couple of days of the flight.  Here you, okay, there's the oxidizer spewing out and you can see this very well at the terminator passes but we thought we were gonna go into 33 feet but with the leaking jet we knew that there'd be possibility we'd be limited to 400 feet or maybe even 1,000 feet. First time we saw a station approximately 50 miles from us and we received, in this time we received a message from Station Mirror about, we have a decision about 30 feet approach. This is the first time we've been able to show you how dramatic the speed looks on orbit. We're traveling in over five miles a second. It's the first time we've had other human beings in another spacecraft able to take our picture.  We fly the first third of the rendezvous from the front part of the cockpit just like they do on the Enterprise. You do all the burns with the computers, computer guided and automatically controlled and then we fly to the, or float to the back of the vehicle, turn around, look aft and fly the remaining portion of it manually. This is Valerie Polyakoff. He's the cosmonaut who's been up there over a year now and will soon set a record. This is Elena Kondakova speaking to us on the shuttle. In fact, all the astronauts got a chance to speak on our VHF radio to the cosmonauts on mirror. It was very motivating. As Jim climbed up towards the V bar, that's basically the horizontal line tangent to the earth where we're gonna meet up with Mir, I was ranging with the laser and meanwhile they were looking at us coming up and this is something we only saw when we came back and we appreciate how dramatic it is. In fact, what you're seeing here is sped up twice normal speed just so that we can show it quickly. But I think even so you can feel how dramatic that is. In the foreground there, you see the dark metal ring. That's an adapter on the mirror for scientific instruments and then at the bottom right, that's a scientific instrument. I think it's a telescope. Once we're at about 400 feet, Jim arrested the approach to the mirror and we basically station kept there for a few minutes before we started our timed approach. Once that time came up, we basically had a window to make and Eileen kept us straight. We were flying range rate commands using another laser tracking system, the trajectory control sensor in the middle of the bay ranging off the docking port here, which is the white cross and Jim will tell you what he's doing there. This is a view taken from one of the payload bay cameras and it shows how stable the orbiter is as it approaches to the target. And very few inputs were required. We saw no motion from the solar rays. You see the solar rays slewing. We were in the low Z mode, essentially not pluming the station. We of course didn't want to damage something this beautiful. And again, you can see how precise the orbiter is. We didn't do very much. It just stayed in the right place. It's a little bit easier to fly than the simulators and that's good. This is the view out of the window at about 37 feet. And you can see Vladimir and I are both crashing into each other, trying to get as good as shot as the other. This is a pan that Vladimir made. You can see the windows as Elena Kondakova with her knee. Yes, Elena Kondakova and me. We wave each other in for you, of course. I don't know who was it. There's somebody new on board station. This is Valery Polikov. And this is commander Aleksandr Viktorenko all of the time with the camera and show the movie, make movie. This is his picture from Station Mirror. Again, it shows how well the vehicle has been designed after we remained in our closest point of approach. For about 10 minutes with my crew members helping me to make sure that we didn't go one inch closer than the favorable limit of 10 meters. You can see the solar array slewing. Again, no motion at all from our jets. We saw no interaction. After 10 minutes, we backed away and proceeded out to 450 feet and initiated a fly around as a photo survey. In fact, this is one of the harder things for Jim and I to talk about in the cockpit. As we backed away, mirror maneuvered so that we no longer had a centerline towards the docking port. And at 450 feet, we started to climb up above it and behind it in our orbit plane so that we would do a full circle around it, basically trying to stay at 450 feet. During this time, however, using the laser, which was the handheld laser, which is the thing that a traffic cop would use to catch you for speeding, we basically couldn't find many reflective items on the mirror to get a range off. And so we basically had to move out a little bit further than we first planned because of that uncertainty. But it was no problem, I think, for Jim. If anyone has any doubts about what we're doing in the future, let us assure you that we were on the right track. You can't help but see a vehicle like this that's been up since 1986. It's just stunning, just breathtaking, and it really tells us that we're doing the right thing. We had met the Russian people before we launched and they're very proud of their space program. They know a lot about our space program and we, of course, are very proud of our space program. And it's time to join our forces and make both of our programs better. This is about 17,500 miles per hour, looks like, from the top. We have payload bay lights on board the shuttle that help illuminate the mirror. We could see it at 600 feet. And you'll see in the next shot if you watch the top upper right corner of the screen, you'll see the jets on the mirror firing. We can see there's all the structure and things very clearly at night without any help, look up right up in there, top right corner. What's going on there is it's de-state, it's, they have gyroscopes basically on the mirror to give it attitude control and at some point they become saturated and then they fire jets to de-saturate the gyros. This is our parting shot and it was a pretty sad moment, I think. We'd had a long day, it was busy, but one of the most exciting days of my life, I must say. The second major activity we had on this flight was the Spartan satellite. It had an ultraviolet telescope that's on the right side of the box, the gold box you saw in that picture. On flight day two, we took it out of its station, the payload bay, to look at the shuttle. It's looking at the ultraviolet glow on the surface of the tail of the shuttle. Vladimir Titov, you can see at the controls on the robot arm here, he's flying the Spartan up above the nose of the shuttle so it can look back at the tail and it jets on the tail to fire and watch their glow. On flight day five, we released Spartan so it could go look at some stellar objects. Again, Vladimir Titov is flying the arm here. We let the Spartan go and then we watch it to make sure its attitude control system is working properly. When that's all been checked out, Jim flies the shuttle away at about one foot per second which allows Spartan to drift about 40 miles in front of the shuttle where it can perform its observations undisturbed by the shuttle environment. The ultraviolet telescope will be looking at diffuse nebula and other intergalactic objects which can't be easily observed from the ground. You can see it's doing ranging marks and looking at the Spartan to make sure all the deploy is going well. You see it in the center of the screen, that little black square is Spartan on its way. This is Mike and I preparing for our big event, at least it was my favorite thing on the mission and that was the EVA. We have to pump the suits up without anybody's in it to make sure it's not leaking and then get ready for prep. Here I'm attaching electrodes to my chest. Both Bernardo and I wore these during the EVA so that our flight surgeons can monitor our heartbeats during the spacewalk. And here we are getting ready for our hang on the wall while we get to look at each other and tell each other stories. After they wave goodbye to us we had to get right back on getting Spartan retrieved. Jim was flying the rendezvous here and you can see Spartan coming up. The robot arm is in the bottom center of the screen. I'm performing the retrieve at this point. I'm using the camera on the robot arm which is the view that you see here to get a good eye on how Spartan is coming close. That's me at the robot arm, you see the trajectory at the bottom right corner of the screen there. That's the approach that we flew. The part I'm trying to grab is actually the bottom center of the screen. I'm using the target in the middle of the screen in order to aim and adjust my attitude properly so I can get a hold of Spartan. That all went very smoothly, Jim did a superb job of setting me up for this grapple. Once we got a hold of Spartan we then put it back in the payload bay.  They had changed the hardware before this flight and we were hoping it all went well and indeed it did. It went right down into the guides and latched up on the first attempt which was good news for the EVA guys chomping at the bit to get out in the payload bay. And chomping we were. Bernard and I kept on looking at each other as the RMS slowly did its thing. But here we are, we got outside, we were very happy, we waved to the camera and started our thermal evaluation. Well, I was the first guy on the arm. I got in with no problem. You see the arm is outfitted with a pad and once I got it safely in I grabbed a hold to mine. And by the way, we are tethered. Shortly after that, Beloji lifted us both up about 30 feet above the cargo bay for the coal soak. And during this time frame, actually neither Bernard nor myself felt particularly cold anywhere. It was only when we started to unbirth the Spartan and we moved into darkness at the same time. Here you see me on the end of the RMS moving it a little bit closer to Bernard so he can grab a hold of it with a small handing tool and perform his mass handing evaluation. During this time, I had full control. Once my candidate off to me, it was my job to take this almost 3,000 pound object satellite and wave it back and forth in the air. I only weigh about 250 pounds, or 205 pounds I should say. He's getting lighter all the time. Thank God I don't weigh 250 pounds. They wouldn't let me go in the shuttle. So it was not as an easy task as you may think. Even though it didn't weigh anything, it does have a lot of mass. And you can see here my initial starts and stops. I did not have the satellite very square and it was sort of a steep learning curve at the very beginning. After a while I got the hang of it and then it became pretty easy. But the only way you can move masses like this is very, very slowly. I must say Bernard did it extremely well. Initially he said he had a lot of concern about doing it even slower than we had practiced on the air bearing floor. But as far as I could tell, he moved it without cross-coupling anything towards the end of his mass handing evaluation. I was steadily getting cold while watching him and so we ended up birthing the Spartan because of specifically very cold hands on my part and I think Bernard had cold feet. After we've been told to do the birth, Bernard was able to practice his thermal mittens evaluation. After I did that, then it was Mike's turn on the RMS. He had been up there freezing his toes and hands off at this point and he actually did a close pass over IMAX camera that we had in the payload bay so you'll see some nice footage of that later. One of the things we do on every flight is look out the windows and take pictures for Earth observations folks. One of our important jobs in the space program is to monitor the Earth's environment. You can see glaciers here in the southern Andes, Patagonia area. It's an area that we don't see very often on shuttle flights because we don't go to the high inclination that we had. We were at 51.6 degrees. This kind of terrain is a very interest to the Russian co-investigators on this flight because of the glaciers and watching the water runoff. But we do eventually have to come home. Ours was an eight day flight. Morning of flight day nine, we packed up to go home. We had one last chance to say goodbye to the Mir space station. You'll see it in the center of this frame and then you'll see a meteorite go by. Shuttle has unique experience of having meteorites go below it. If you think Ascent is exciting or the Mir rendezvous is exciting, you wouldn't believe entry. The only way to take out the energy that we have put into the vehicle on liftoff is to come slamming into the atmosphere. There are not many molecules up high, but the ones that are there are screaming hot when you hit them. And you see the pink glow outside the windows. The flash is caused by the attitude control jets firing. You'll see a scene looking back aft on this 25 mile trailing plume of fire as we come flying into the atmosphere. It was pretty dramatic for us because it was a night entry. We saw the sun as we approached the hack just briefly the large turning circle. So most of the entry was at night. The sun peaked its little head above the horizon and then dipped below again as we descended in our 100 ton glider with a lift to drag ratio of worse than four to one and reverse flight path control. But the system is very, very smooth. You see the turbulence from inside the 20 million candle power xenon lamps down in the runway, illuminating the runway of course from where we were. It looked like daytime. Early morning you'll see again flying over the threshold of the runway. You see some of the turbulence, but the vehicle handles it very well. It takes out all of the gusts and turbulence. You see some of the trailing edge vortices coming off of the wingtips in the next shot as we roll down the runway. And then we'll deploy the drag chute and the disc reefs just prior to knows we'll touch down, which helps to reduce the loading on the main wheels and the nose gear. See the shuttle chase airplane flying by. Like I said, you could see some of the flash bulbs going off on the side. I wasn't looking in that direction. Jim always told us not to look out the window, but I blew it. I might add that you feel quite heavy after coming back to earth, spinning over a week in zero gravity. When I took my helmet off, it felt like it weighed almost 75 pounds. After Eileen got rid of the drag chute was the first time we had used the brakes. The system is so good. We will show our slides at this time and then we'd love to answer any questions that you may have. Again, this is a spectacular night launch with all that thrust and power underneath. The system worked very well. We had no problems until after we got on orbit and that's a testament to all the folks who worked on the systems here at JSC and around the NASA centers. Launch plane and our high inclination dictate that we had only a five minute launch window. These are the kind of things that we'll be doing every time we fly to Mir. We'll have just a five minute launch window. Again, I'd like to thank my crew for helping me in this mission. I simply did what they told me to do and the vehicle was so good that it was all pretty easy. We should have no trouble in the future on these missions. Again, setting up for the rendezvous, we do the first portion of it up in the front cockpit. This is the commander seat on the left. For the second rendezvous, we switched roles and Eileen took over the commander seat and did the... I should add that during this time we were kept on trying to make Jim feel better about the jet leak. This was a topic of conversation almost every night day transition in our orbit. We'd be looking out in the back window and say, is it still leaking? We go, yes, Jim. He tried to smile. And I guess he's trying to smile here too. Of the 44 steering jets that we have on the orbiter, we had problems with three of them. One of them had failed off and two of them were leaking. There was a forward jet that started leaking on flight day two and this is a procedure that I'm working here. That one we were able to heal, fortunately because it was a required jet to do the rendezvous inside of 1,000 feet. We cycled the manifold once and ran this procedure. We hot-fired the jet three times and we managed to heal that leak. So you probably didn't hear much about that on the ground. And also, this would be a good point for me to mention all the great support that we got from our flight controllers and our engineers here on the ground and also the managers that worked very hard and very long hours working over in Russia with our Russian colleagues. Everybody wanted this approach to happen. The Russians and the Americans alike and we did everything we could. And of course the crew worked hard but we have great thanks to pass on to the people here on the ground that allowed this mission to go all the way into 33 feet and be a complete success. First radio contact we had, the station we had on distance approximately 550,000 feet from the shuttle. The connection was stable and the first time we saw the station when it was about 50 miles from us. Before the sunset we saw a bright star in the direction of our velocity vector. And first we had a discussion on if it was the planet Jupiter or station but in that period of time we were not sure. But after the sunset the star disappeared and which mean what it was the station and we were approaching it. And I would be able to see my space home. On this picture you can see the station which is located about 400 feet from the shuttle before the sunset. And the final approach of 33 feet started during this orbital night. And when we began that approach I must say personally it was hard to realize what we were actually doing, you know, approaching the mirror. It's such a spectacular sight. And yet we had a pretty technical job to do at this time and so I would concentrate with the handheld laser at pointing straight out the docking port as you see it in the lower part of the scene there and call out ranges and range rates to Jim while he very carefully maintained a corridor and flew it in. This is the target you see the standoff cross in the center of the picture which we use for angular alignment and translational alignment. We fly the approach with the attitude control system and automatic pilot and we fly manually the translational control system. Again it was very stable and fairly easy to do even in the low Z mode which reduces the plume on mirror. This picture is made from the distance of approximately 35 feet. In the window of station you can see the face of Dr. Valery Polikov. I had some experience walking with him for months during my year of flight but now he got so brave that he even beat the record of the longer space flight that my flight engineer and I set it in 1988. It has just been a little over 13 months of him walking in space and on stop. This side of mirror represents the eyes of the station because this is a place where the main windows are located. This is the place where video equipment is located and where the crew can watch the earth. On the top of the station in the middle is this some top one moment. This one. You can see green color circle but like looks like a window but is not window with this H of the iron lock with a small iron lock which the crew used for performing experience outside the stating. It is also used for stress disposal if necessary. After we had spent some time close up to Mir and we talked a lot on the radio and had taken many pictures that we then had to start the second part which was the fly around and Jim backed away to 450 feet and then started a slow climb around the Mir up and over. During this time I think Janice was taking some IMAX film footage. That IMAX film footage that Mike mentioned will be ready in a couple of weeks and it's going to be beautiful. My job during this whole rendezvous was to be in the space have with cameras at both sides firing pictures as fast as I could. We have a lot of beautiful photos and I have to tell you that the photos don't do the beauty of this station justice at all. It really is gorgeous. This is the station as we're doing our separation burn and getting ready to leave Mir. Space have as we mentioned in the film was one of our other major activities on the flight. This is the aft port end of the space have module. You can see the general setup with the lockers that contain experiments and the wall to the right of the slide that has things like procedures in our trash areas. This is Vladimir Titov working on one of our life sciences experiments on board. There were a variety of different experiments both in the module on the mid deck. This is an example of a class of experiments that we did a radiation monitoring experiment that Jim, our chief scientist on board was operating. He loved that title. We made Jim an honorary scientist on this flight. There were also a large number of experiments on the mid deck. Even though they are space have experiments, they're stored on the mid deck so they can have easy access for change out of chemicals right before we launch. It's much easier to get in the mid deck than all the way back into the space have module. And this shows a variety of different experiments. The silver boxes are refrigerators. The top center one holds a protein crystal growth experiment. The middle right one is the vapor diffusion apparatus that we saw earlier. The gold boxes in the center of the screen are accelerometers that we use to measure the environment of the space shuttle to help people better understand what kind of experiments can best be done on board. The third major area we had on board was the Spartan satellite. This was the attached ops on flight day two where we're using the telescope that you can see on the right hand side of the box, the gold box to monitor the shuttle environment, the glow on the tail and the RCS jets firing. Then on flight day five, Vladimir Titov deployed Spartan. As you saw in the film, it drifted away for a couple of days and we went back to pick it up. This is me on the retrieved day, flight day seven at the robot arm controls as I'm getting ready to grab a hold of Spartan and put it back in the bay for our anxiously awaiting EVA guys. My knight's in white armor. I mentioned in the movie that Bernard and I tried to avoid looking at each other and telling each other stories because we'd already heard a lot of our stories before then. In fact, for four hours, we were having to do a pre-breath. The cabin was kept at 14.7 pounds per square inch atmospheric pressure, so it wouldn't disturb the experiments. And for that reason, we had to get rid of the nitrogen in our bloodstream by breathing pure O2 for four hours. It was actually not as bad as I expected. You're more comfortable in space. Speak for yourself. I did notice that Bernard tried to sleep more than I did during this period of time. On my left arm there, I'm in the lower left. On my left arm, there's a boxy looking at contraption called the electronic cuff checklist. And it's a device that basically lets us pull up with menus the activities we're gonna perform during the EVA and also some contingency procedures. And I spent my time bothering Bernard going through all of our EVA flight plan by walking with that checklist. We also monitored their conversation on one of our loops. This was during the Spartan retrieval and these guys just cracked me up. I think I talked about this on the movie. When we first came out, we had a major task and that was the outfit the RMS with this pad, what we call pad and contraption here. There's a special device which we hooked to the RMS and then we then put a portable foot restraint on.  The objective of this EVA, we had several objectives with the major objective was a thermal evaluation. And that was, we were told, go outside guys, turn your heat all the way up and stay out there until you get cold. And if you followed us, we got cold fairly quickly. And that's not hard to do when you're facing deep space and we're talking about temperatures of an excess of... 2.7 John. Mike is hollering my air 2.7 Kelvin. I have no idea what that is. It's very cold. But it's very cold. It's greater than about minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Now that I do understand. We have some preliminary temperatures from the sensors that we had in our gloves and it shows that it was lower than 20 degrees inside our gloves in the suit, so pretty cold. This is a picture I tried to take or took with the Hasselblad. While I was basically floating free, Bernard had a hold of me with one hand and it was surprisingly stable, much more stable than the water tank. I was trying to take shots one handed with the Hasselblad and unfortunately I got his feet. Those are my feet right there. And they're big too. But there was a tremendous view for me and Bernard while we were doing this, particularly with the earth behind Bernard, I will always remember this for the rest of my life, just how breathtaking that was. Because we were still in an earth light, we were not getting as cold as we had pumped ourselves up to think we would be. And in fact, I was starting to get overconfident about this, I guess. When they thought about bringing us down at the end of this 15 minute evaluation, we both gave ratings, I think, of the order of just slightly cool or normal before we were brought down to the Bay for the mass handing evaluation. It was shortly after we were brought down in the Bay, I got off the RMS and then Mike got into the RMS and then you see me here to the right side of Spartan. We had foot restraints on each side of these and those are always on the Spartan impasse, just in case people like Janice and Volodya have trouble birthing it, then we could do an EVA and actually birth it. Shortly after that, Mike was sort of hanging freely. We went into a night pass and that's when it really got cold. At that point, I was, I had the Spartan in hand and actually going through the mass handling that I described in the movie. And I guess that whole sequence was around 10 or 15 minutes into the night pass when we both started noticing that our fingers and feet were getting colder and colder. And it's about that time that we asked Eileen to move us to a colder, a warmer attitude, that is. But in space, at night, there is no warmer attitude. Here you see me basically doing one of the experiments I was working on in the mid-decks, the solid surface combustion experiment. It's basically two cinema, basically moving machines that take pictures of a flame propagating across a solid surface. And this was a very simple experiment for me to do appropriate to my capabilities. This is an experiment. I'm not gonna go into telling you exactly what it is, but look at all this contraption, look at all this. As a medical doctor, I was glad that I wasn't the subject in this. Because it had so many wires and gadgets that I had to connect to these guys. It took a while to get them out, fit it. He did it to Vladimir, too. But the good news is, well, he's working madly trying to get all those wires connected. I'm just floating there, having a great time. This device, in short, basically was an electroviogram, which actually placed electrodes over the muscles to get an idea of how they respond to microgravity. So you can actually remove your arm, you can actually look at the waveform. So it's a very sophisticated device, very portable. The thing that didn't show up on here is Janice is also wearing some nice little ski boots. At least that's what they look like. And these were to apply some pressure to the bottom of her feet to simulate standing on the earth. And we're still waiting on the day to come back on that. Even in space, you can't get away from paperwork. Actually, this system worked out pretty good. This is our fax machine, and we call it TIPS. And every morning, Mission Control would send messages up to us, mainly changes to our flight plan, updates to procedures. We got messages to cheer us up. And as one example of the other types of messages we get, the earth observation people would send us information on that day and ground scenes that we'd be passing over that they'd like to see pictures of, along with what camera and what F-stop we should use. A lot of our flight was over water, but we did get some nice shots of things over the land. This is the blue and white Niles coming together. The white Nile is the wider river to the left of the screen. And the area in the middle, all the little dark triangles that you see in the center bottom of the screen is cotton growing areas. This is the city of Cartoon, which spans the blue Nile on the right side of the screen. And this is one of the largest cotton growing areas in the world. These glaciers were so impressive to us that we decided we'd add another picture in our slideshow. You can see one right here in the middle, emptying into a lake. And also down here in the bottom, emptying into a lake. They actually start from an altitude of over 10,000 feet. Again, this is in Chile and Argentina, South America. And if you look at the history of these areas, if you go back thousands and thousands of years, the scientists tell us that these glaciers actually flowed into where the lake is and the lakes were formed by the glaciers. And flying on the shuttle and taking these pictures in both the visual and infrared range, we can really get a lot of information to the scientists and learn about the history of our earth. It's this island called Herd Island. This is approximately 51, 52 degrees south. This is maybe southern island in the Indian Ocean. All of the time, this island and the Kerguland Island under the cloudy. And this picture is interesting. You can see cloudy waves and gravity waves and the beginnings of Von Karman vortex, swirl up here in the structure cloud deck and downwind of the snow-caped island. And this is a picture of South Africa. It looks like part of the, okay, now I can see. This is actually Cape Town and this is Robin Island. And that island happens to be the island that Nassim Mandela was in prison for all those years. And it really, when I look at this, it really is a beautiful scene, but also a symbol of independence. Again, the system that we have is a very good one. You may have heard that we left the system in auto. We flew such a wide hack, a large heading alignment cone left in an auto and it went a little bit low. As expected, we all knew it was going to happen and there's, we think it's a great system. On the final approach in landing, I was happy to show Vladimir how we do it. Hopefully the landing was a little bit more smooth than his previous three landings where they dropped straight down. And that's it. Thank you.


Hey, weirdos, it's Darren, and I just realized I've got an alfalfa thing going on there That looks awful. I can't get that. It won't go down.  Anyway, I just finished up recording today's podcast for Weird Darkness and as I was finishing it up my bride came in and brought in the mail and I got a Card today and I have no idea who who said it to me. Well, I do know I'm covering it with there So so you don't see it, but I I didn't I don't recognize the name right off. So I'm gonna go ahead and open this Here while while looking at you, but this is by the way, this is a sticker This is not a drawing we first thought that was a drawing but that's a sticker, but I think it's really cool like there Okay, so anyway, I'm gonna open this up and I'm gonna see what they say, you know what this is really this is really well Well taped the only envelope in the entire world that actually the glue works like it's supposed to All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and use my butter knife letter opener and open it up here and It's an ice cream kind of day treat there it is right there treat yourself and Okay, I'll just I'll just read this out. It's a lot of it to go. Okay, I Was impressed by the welcome card and Weird Darkness Lego logo stickers I have signed up to several podcasts, but never a thank-you or hey, how are you doing before? I found your podcast darkness radio and beyond reality Was to be my Still was our word to be my go-to podcasts, but no longer I listen to I Listen to neither now I guess is what she's saying both have changed their programming to woo shows cut down to just a couple to week And are always going to conferences That they've definitely lost interest in their listeners. So you are my favorite now rock on signed Christine Christine. Thank you so much. This is really awesome. I Can't wait to share this with my bride. Thank you. Thank you very much I really appreciate that by the way, if you uh, if you want to send something to me Be at a card or maybe some artwork that you want to share with me or whatever Please make it family friendly No, just make it legal to put in the post office. That's all I'm asking. I mean don't don't send contraband You know I'm saying all right, but anyway, if you want to send something to me You can find the address to send it to on the contact page at weird darkness calm So thank you very much. That was that was really really sweet. Thank you Christine.


that person not getting out of there if she's trapped in a room yeah she's gonna she would shoot but then that would be her focus not getting out it would be killing that person who's trying to get her this whole thing makes no sense right now where we are right now makes no sense she would be thinking that at all but we're at the most crucial part of the story and it's all about the shooting so what she's focused on to say has happened is it's goofy she starts heating up you can see if she gets a little bit flush in the face her illustrators are really close to her body she's doing her leg rubbing she's clasping her hands again and she's pretending like she's shooting him where's the phone at this point she's she's on the phone with nine one one which you're gonna hear in a couple minutes uh when this is over you're gonna hear her talk she's on the phone it sounds so it's hilarious and she's shooting him and talking to the nine one operator and where's the dog the guy has to ask her about the dog the dog would be flipping out jumping all over the guy yeah the dog doesn't know that guy is no matter what the size the dog is chihuahua to a mastiff it's going to be on the guy it just makes no sense it's it's just goofy at this here at this point yeah this is you so the first time you shot him would you say you're further than this away from him mean you maybe this far so okay from here to you the door opens out it opens into the bedroom okay so yeah so if i was coming in your bedroom it opened this way or this way towards me yes so i'm standing here and i'm one of these positions here in front of the door it swings open i'm standing there i'm ready okay and it swings open and we're just eye to eye and i just start shooting i'm walking forward because my first thought was to get past this door jam okay didn't even think about i'm shooting him hitting him i wasn't thinking about that i knew i had to get around this person and get back out somehow now what points did you fall do you remember i had shot quite a few times before you fell yeah quite a few times if you had to gust them then how many shots you think you fired i don't know i did all of them that was in there you know i think it was full do you know how many do you know how many rounds go in that particular weapon six i'm guessing i unloaded all of them i think it was full but i don't know for sure but i think it was it did not same when i hear them i had that i heard six booms but so do you think you hit him all six times i do you do yeah because i i walk i walked as close to him as i could till he fell down did he say anything no when that door flew open he just looked at me and i just started shooting right away i mean he didn't even have time to respond i don't even know if he saw that i had that i don't know if he even knew what it was going to do when he did that because he was so heightened by that but when you start shooting at him but by the time you fired your you only the one you fired your first shot but until you left the residence did he say anything else do you verbalize anything else he never moved out before never moved i stepped i got my dog where was your dog at during this whole thing um running around going nuts just didn't know what was going on mark what do you think we've seen up to this point yeah well you know up until this point all i would say scott is that i am looking forward to listening to the 911 call that you have been telling me about i'm looking forward to it chase what do you got oh there's a few ways uh in in the law in the military we need three things to you know terminate another person's life and that's they have to have the capability they have to have the opportunity to kill you and they have to have the intent to kill you and i think intent even if her story is correct is missing here and she might fall into those category of people with limited training who think they're tactical who ask when can i shoot instead of when should i shoot so there's a few ways you can learn what we learn in this or use what we learn in this video here first pay attention to pronouns very carefully when you're listening to somebody second watch for discrepancies between gestures and speech and sudden changes in these movements and stuff third genuine memories are varied and rehearsed stories tend to remain pretty consistent lastly look for a motion in the body on the face and in the words and if you see it on one of those things but not on the other something's not adding up and i think this entire video is just one for the record books greg yeah i think i could use this and never crack another video to teach body language because anything we want to see is here she's used anchor and redirect which means i'm going to use a set of words so every time we come back to it i get to talk about it and you see her doing that when she's talking about the the sweeping around the corner and all of it that kind of thing then she has reduced levels of detail under scrutiny and her arms well to her side she shows real stress and clusters of behavior before we even get to the place where she does gaslighting behavior that gaslighting behavior around back peddling disclaiming no certain answer establishing plausible deniability just so later she can say i never said that i think what if we've seen one ever that you're like yeah they got this one right this is probably it i don't think any of us are thinking maybe we should look out and try to get the innocence project to help her out scott what are you guys i agree with you every now and then on these episodes one of us will say you know what i'm going to use that clip there in training because it's so good for this this and this the mark will go i'll use that one in training because it's so good for this and this is when we can use all of them we can make a course out of this one you know we got to do we got to do that you guys let's make a short course out of this because it's so good if we can do it without laughing i think that that would actually be the key here so let's listen to the 911 call and we'll come back the island this is you 911 where's your emergency hey hello there's someone breaking in my house help with the address you're at get out get out get out all right fellas think this is another good one and we'll see you next time the behavior of that the cops showing up yet no i keep thinking this is around out there i don't think it's them i hope it's let me see if it is the main day the fifth yeah oh you know what that's monday memorial day it was the cops so what do you got


In a world of conflicting values, it's going to be difficult to develop values for artificial intelligence that are not the lowest common denominator. In Asia, particularly, we have a lot of countries that believe that governments are the best way to make decisions for people and that individual human rights can be voiced only by the state. In that context, if we are trying to come up with artificial intelligence that recognizes individual human rights and that looks to empower citizens and users and to create transparency, it's going to be really challenging to come up with an international coordinated regime that does this. People have developed AI that is predictive. People are researching ways to make sure that AI is able to target advertisement at people depending on their preferences, the devices they use, the routes they take. Now that kind of predictive AI can very easily be used for surveillance. And it's a fact in Asia that the states in Asia including India are investing very heavily in mass surveillance and they're creating large centralized databases that they haven't fully worked out how to sweep as yet. In India, we've also got news of the state using drones to monitor assemblies of people in public places just to make sure that nothing goes wrong. We've got news that the government's developing social media labs that are supposed to watch the online social media to see what people are saying and what kinds of subjects are trending. And in that context, again, the question that we're asking ourselves is when the state chooses to use its resources to get AI to do these things, how far is AI going to be used to control and monitor the citizen as opposed to enabling the citizen? Because in democracies like ours, the balance of power between the citizen and the state is really delicate and there is a great potential for AI to tip that balance of power in favor of the state. While it's important to make sure that we don't chill innovation, it's also important to be cautious and to make sure that technology doesn't drag us down a dark path. We've got examples from history like the Manhattan Project, like the way in which technology was used during the Holocaust to remind us that if we're not careful about what we do with technology, it can be abused in ways that we will come to deeply regret. So it's necessary to make sure that we have human rights, political theory, but also all the other disciplines that understand what it means to be human and how to engage with humans involved in the designing of AI. If we don't work out a way in which citizens are able to ask the right questions about AI to ensure accountability every time AI is created and used, we might be heading towards the world that all well predicted and that would be really unfortunate because new technology should lead to a better world and not a more controlled world or an unequal world. As you know, technology is easily sold to people and it moves very quickly around the world and so it's really important to intervene in Asia at the stage of design. People sometimes have the best of intentions but because of the way in which they are educated or the way in which they talk to think, the way in which they design technology can end up being really damaging to the world. Conversely, it could end up being really beautiful as well and that's why it's really important that we get into AI right now and help the people that are designing it think of it in a way that imagines a better world.


I'm moving on to what the parts of Africa from a president of Algeria, Abdel Aziz, but Aflika has died after a long illness at the age of 84. And what Aflika led the country for almost two decades, stepping down in 2019 after his bid for a fifth term in office led to massive streets, protests. He played a key role in Algeria's War of Independence in the 1950s and 60s. And he had rarely been seen in public since a stroke in 2013, which affected his speech and mobility.