When she's not writing about science and space, you might find her riding in a horse race. This astronomical doctor, it seems, spends her time jumping or bushes and streams on her horse. Named Ben, she's got a horse. And for some reason, his name is Ben. I'm going to bring her on out. Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Pamela Gay. I'm speaking at a TAM. And every year I've worked to try and write a new talk that is relevant to what is going on in the moment that we're all gathered here talking and figuring out how to change the world that we live in. And I have to admit, I've really struggled to write the talk this year because we live in a time where it seems that everywhere we look, there are incredible positives and incredible negatives. And sometimes it seems that there's nothing but extremes. We saw a school bus driver bullied by out-of-control teens. But then the internet saw this and became enraged and worked to get this woman a vacation. But they instead completely changed her life. And this was awesome. We saw a New York fifth grader forbidden from giving his award-winning essay on same-sex marriage, an essay that said, who are we to judge? We must learn to accept all differences. Well, he was judged by a closed-minded principle. But then, in response to massive internet outcry at this act of censorship, that principle felt his hand was forced.  The child went on to say, if we judge people like this, this is a form of prejudice. We must learn to accept all differences. In conclusion, I hope that everyone understands how important it is to respect everyone for who they are. Those are words a school principal tried to censor. What kind of world do we live in? We live in a society that in many ways is broken, but sometimes remarkable humans decide to make the world better. And they do this because they can. And they just do it and look to see who mind it only later. I'm lucky to get to work with many people who follow this attitude of just get out and make the change happen. Two weeks ago, Google highlighted a virtual star parties that my dear friend Fraser, Kane, and I, and many others participate in. And I'd like to share with you the video that Google created. OK. Fraser loves a rosette. So we always go to that when it's in view. I love science. I love communicating and exploring about space and astronomy. I want other people to enjoy this stuff as much as I do. My first instinct is always to set up the telescope and go, you look first. So when Google Plus came out, I thought, wouldn't it be cool if we could get a telescope streaming an image right into the hangout? And Mike's got just this monstrous telescope that he's built himself. I hadn't even done a hangout yet. I'm like, this actually sounds really intriguing, right? Telescopes, computers, let's figure this out. Let's try it. He emailed me and he said, I think I've got it working. And he invited me into a hangout. And there it was. You know, there was the moon. I was hanging out with the moon. That was when I knew we could do anything. You know, let's get more telescopes. Let's get different points of view. Everyone, this is Umair. Hi, Umair. He's based in Pakistan. And then we've got Peter, who is in Australia. We're getting people from Mexico and South America and South Africa and Malaysia. Hey, nice Pamela. Hey, friends. And now suddenly, there is a way with almost no effort. We're able to bring all these people together and put on a show. Too close. Everyone good to go? Good to go. I'm going to click on Start Broadcast. We're public in three, two, one. Hi, everybody. Once again, we're going to have our virtual star party working the telescopes tonight. We've got Stuart Forman. He's the one showing us the moon right now. We've got Gary Ginella. What's your view, Gary? The monkey head. It's in the upper part of Orion. That's really cool. If we were looking at this image in color, what we'd see is this is a beautiful light. Yeah, it's a beautiful light. Well, I think everyone's ready, but Mike. And no pressure, Mike. Oh, I think I see something. Can you move it a little down, Mike? There it is. Oh, man. Look at that. Don't ever change cameras, please. Just in being in contact with these people and just talking to people. Some that you don't know that you're getting to know, and even though they're three time zones and thousands of miles away. Somebody to share with. It's nice when I look at my pictures and know I did it. It's wonderful. But to share it with somebody. Being able to look out into space gives us context for how we live in our day-to-day experience. It shows us that we're part of this bigger universe. All right, so, Gary, you've got the reset for me. I do. I mean, for us. I mean, for us, for everyone to see, not just me. Don't hit us. It's for you first. It's for me, yeah. I work with some of the best people a person could ever work with. Every Sunday night, every Sunday night, I invite you to join us, as we share with you, the moon, the stars. Anything that's up and clear for the telescopes we bring you from all around the world. Now, when this video came out, Tim Farley wrote something that brought amazing clarity to my way of looking at what we were doing. He wrote, Fraser didn't ask permission from anyone to do this. He didn't conduct any focus group or conduct a study. He just saw an opportunity, and he took it. And that is powerful. Fraser is one of those remarkable individuals who just decided that he was going to do what he thought he could do to make the world better. And he was going to see if it could work. And it did work. And he looked to see who cared and who minded later. Well, it turned out Google cared, and they cared enough to help us promote what we're doing to the world. Now, doing what he does isn't easy. It's a lot easier to do nothing. It's easier to lose hope that anything can be done.   It wasn't a great movie. But it was a movie of my childhood. And when I was a dorky little kid, I kind of obsessed because it had the same kid that was in Battlestar Galactica, therefore it was required to love it.  And this troll, this wolf, when asked why he supports the great nothing, he says, it's like a despair destroying the world. People who have no hopes are easy to control. Think about that for a minute. When you take someone's hope away, you can control me. Looking around the internet, I see a lot of people sitting around trolling and a lot of people experiencing despair. There are YouTube videos of people complaining and blog posts of people expressing hurt. And in many cases, there are legitimate reasons for people to be upset. There are people dying because they've lost hurt immunity, something that we as a community fight against. There are lesbian teens in Texas being killed for falling in love, which isn't in our magistrate, but it's something that I at least find despairing. There are so many cases of abuse and hurt that it hurts to read the news. And there are lots of real reasons to be frustrated about the world that we live in. And it is easy to complain and it is easy to lose hope. It's dreaming that is hard. That same never ending story and it's childhood tale of morality addresses this.  But Bastion replies with something that I think is far too honest and far too relevant even in our adult world. When he says, but I can't, I have to keep my feet on the ground. Dreaming is hard. It requires risks. It requires you to own the fact that you are capable of something great. A few years ago, I came across a powerful quote that was attributed to anonymous. The quote reads, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?   Now, I recognize that's a pretty big challenge and how many inspirational posters have you seen encouraging you to be the change you want to see in the world. It all gets rather demotivating and let's face it, in reality it often seems that, so let's face it, in reality it often seems that no good deed goes unpunished. That's reality, but we can do great things and we'll get punished. But that's okay if we make the world better in the end. I'm an astronomer.  Tied in with these complaints is a blame game of the public saying, well, NASA's boring. And NASA's saying, we're not boring, we're just underfunded. Congress needs to give us more money. Well, and then Congress says a lot of things. You can look around the internet and heck, you can look at videos from past years of this conference and you can see the people complaining. But complaining doesn't build our jet plane future, we build our jet plane future. Last winter, I had the opportunity to attend the Next Generational Suborbital Research Conference, which is perhaps the hardest-to-pronounce conference I've ever attended. In attendance were NASA superstars and heroes of the past. Neil Armstrong, that Neil Armstrong, who was the first man into space, he was the keynote speaker. In attendance were the leaders and entrepreneurs behind Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, X-Corps and a myriad of other space exploration corporations. These are men and women who dreamed of rocket planes and they made their money on the internet and now they're investing in hiring the engineers that are capable of building and designing the rocket planes, building and designing the space suits and building and designing the rocket plane future. While not at that suborbital research conference, the greatest role model of our future, this future building ideal is Elon Musk. This South African-born engineer made his start with PayPal. Energy and aerospace are two of his passions and today he leads SpaceX and Tesla Motors. When I stood on this stage last year, I talked about how we were one week past seeing the last flight of the space shuttle. Well, today, as I stand before you again, I can tell you that we are well on our way to regaining US manned space exploration and with tomorrow's rockets, we will go farther than we have ever gone before. SpaceX is a truly awesome thing. Commercial space flight is opening a new barnstorming era of space exploration and this time the barnstorming isn't going to be grannies flying over cornfields. It's going to be grannies and grandpas flying over the Earth's atmosphere and that is awesome. Society is in the process of radical changes we in many ways return to a less centralized way of doing things as individuals take the initiative instead of waiting for the government to do something. Great minds of all ages are innovating a new reality. Nicholas Negroponte saw a digital divide, a problem with the world where we were creating an intellectual divide of have and have not simply because of access to the internet. He never got the systems he dreamed of with the one laptop per child completely where he wanted to go but his ideas led to today's low cost netbooks and to low cost computers that are starting to reduce the chasm between the connected and the offline. Muhammad Jonas recognized the ability of micro financing to change the world and work to define micro lending systems that make very small loans to individuals often women to start new businesses. Today these same ideas are behind Kickstarter and Indiegogo and many other websites where individuals present programs and projects and turn to the community to seek funding. Through these projects people are building their dreams and the community is funding that construction. Through social media this is becoming a shared experience as we virally reshape tomorrow and make our world better, one idea and one donation at a time. I am one of those people who just wants to do something and I like working with other people who just want to do something. Through this community I've gotten to know and respect and often befriend other doers. The JREF is named after a man who fought to debunk charlatans and fakers. I don't need to tell you Randy's story, you can go watch it in red lights that comes out this weekend. Following his footsteps have been successive generations of magicians. Fighting new fights are people like Eugenie Scott who is fighting to keep real evolution science in the classroom while fighting to keep the creationism out. Faced with a vaccination crisis we've seen Elise Anders and others start raising money and bring us the hug me I'm vaccinated campaign. These are doers and in astronomy all through history, everyday people have risen to the challenge and become doers that innovate how we understand our universe. In 1781 composer and concert director, concert director William Herschel discovered Uranus. Through the 1870s sanitation worker, Andrew Ansel commons pioneered the field of astrophotography in a spare time. In the early 20th century we saw the engineer, the radio engineer Grotto Rieber take his commercial radio skills and build a nine meter radio dish in his backyard. A dish that he used to map the radio sky creating the first scientific catalog in this new wavelength. Over the past century advances in optics and technology have allowed amateur astronomers to build larger telescopes and connect more effectively to international databases that are stored online. This has allowed amateur astronomers to see more and do more and has led to a flourishing of research opportunities both for amateur observers and people working to help astronomers understand our universe by plugging in online. For a while several of us, myself, Fraser Kane, Phil Plate we've been working to try and figure out how to more effectively engage you in not just doing astronomy through click worker tasks but becoming our peers and our collaborators. Several years of conversation led to a new project called CosmoQuest that we launched in January. CosmoQuest seeks to build an online research center for the public that provides for people interested in astronomy all the opportunities that I as a researcher find in a research center. I'd like to introduce you to a project that we're demoing at our booth out in the lab. This project is called Moon Members. For all of human history our sky has been punctuated by the change in light of the moon. In 1609 Galileo's Telescope revealed the lunar surface is a curious mix of mountains and cracks, craters and black lava seas. For 400 years scientists have worked to understand this, our nearest neighbor. Using images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter you can become part of this journey of scientific exploration. Moon Mappers, a new citizen science project from CosmoQuest asks you to help scientists explore the lunar surface from tracing craters to identifying scientifically interesting features. We are modern photographers looking for hazards and looking for the safe havens for a ship to land and a scientist to explore. We invite you to become part of a global community as we together trace out the lunar features. Work alone using simply craters or pit your crater finding skills against those of the software in man versus machine. In each of these interfaces you'll be exploring images with never before realized levels of detail. You may witness the foot paths of the astronauts trailing darkly through your display or see craters scattered over strangely textured terrain. Over time your efforts will lead to a new understanding of Earth's nearest neighbor. Along your path to discovery, we invite you to attend virtual star parties to listen to lectures and round tables by leading scientists and to keep up to date with all that is new in astronomy and space science. Become part of a vibrant community of people striving to learn and do science. Join moon mappers on CosmoQuest. Be a part of exploring our universe. Together we are CosmoQuest. Our goal is to create a community of people bent on together, helping scientists do science. A community of people who can explain why what they do matters and what questions it is that they are helping to answer. We want to create a community and here is where I invite all of you to be part of what we're doing. The universe truly is yours to discover. Now don't get me wrong, as much as I try and be a doer, I've had plenty of my own rants on the internet experiences. But at the end of the day, I try really hard to remind myself not to feed the trolls.  But sometimes you can't avoid the trolls and they seem to be demanding food. When I started this talk, I highlighted some instances of places where something had gone wrong in the world. And people on the internet responded to this wrongness with an outcry to make it right. And they made the world better. And in my perfect world, that's how things work. Things generally go well and when they don't, people demand change and they make things go right. But unfortunately, the internet is filled with trolls who sometimes instead work to make the world go wrong. Back in June, Anita Sarkeesian tried to raise just $6,000 to do a web series, a video series on women portrayed in video games to talk about things like the fact that there's always some knight rescuing the princess instead of some warrior woman rescuing the captured king. The internet responded in an amazing way. They helped her raise more than 26 times the amount of money that she was looking for to help her talk about women in video games. But then the trolls responded. And here I'm going to read an excerpt from the news statesman, which in turn quotes Anita. Even if you don't like the idea or don't believe that women are poorly represented in games, then isn't it fine for other people to give money to something they believe in?  An angry massage is bat signal, if you will. In Sarkeesian's own words, the intimidation and harassment effort has included a torrent of misogyny and hate speech on my YouTube video, repeated vandalizing of the Wikipedia page about me, organized efforts to flag my YouTube videos as terrorism, as well as many threatening messages sent through Twitter, Facebook, Kickstarter, email, and my own website. These messages and comments have included everything from the typical sandwich and kitchen jokes to threats of violence, death, sexual assault, and rape. Anita tried to do good, but because of this, folks labeled her a terrorist. This is not okay, but you can make a difference. You can be the one to not feed the trolls by arguing with them, but to instead simply hit the report button, the spam button, the block button, work to get them off the internet by banning them and send them the message that what they're doing is wrong and will not be tolerated. Imagine a world in which all the time, all the energy, and all the bandwidth that currently goes into cyberbullying and trolling, instead goes into building good things, goes into doing science, goes into education. I have built a place to do astronomy. Others have built places to do art, to participate in wildlife studies, to work on storytelling, to evaluate consumer goods, to debunk false medical claims, find what you are passionate about, and build that thing. This talk is one that I've struggled to write. To finish this talk, I have to step out of my comfort zone and give an honest acknowledgement that trolling isn't just something that happens in nebulous, random places on the internet, and it isn't just people being verbal in their closed-mindedness. Sometimes things are more physical and more scary.  This is part of being a woman in science. Often it's just been drunk creeps in the bar afterwards, but occasionally it's been men in power.  But with men in power, I find myself later sitting around commiserating with the other women as we compare what has been touched and grabbed by whom. And as I say this, I know it is unbelievable. And how can we report the unbelievable and expect to be believed? This isn't to say that women shouldn't go into astronomy. It is to say that at the afters hours event, sometimes you have to stand with your butt to the wall and your arms crossed across your chest. You have the power to stop discrimination, most of the time, but not always. It pisses me off to know that as strong as I am, I know that I can't necessarily name names and expect to have a career tomorrow.  It is often hard for women and minorities to rise to positions of power to break through that glass ceiling. And in some ways, it is a self-efficacy issue. We're the constant downpouring of belittling comments like comments we've seen too much in the recent weeks in our community. The belittling comments and the jokes, they play a destructive role in self-confidence. At my university, I've heard faculty joke that there's a policy not to hire women into tenure-track positions.  And I've heard people joke that the reason I'm in a research science or research center and not on the physics faculty is because I have boobs. All jokes, no harm, just people laughing among friends. Nothing actionable, nothing illegal. So far, it's been the type of thing that I laugh. But the thing is, it hurts because I know the women who work with me, strong, confident women like Noisy Astronomer Nicole Gallucci and Georgia Bracey, they're going to be hearing this and it's going to affect their self-esteem as they look to build their own careers. I know it hurts my self-esteem. And I know that there's nothing I can do to change the reality I am in. I could move to another university, I could change which reality I am in. But I can't change the reality I'm in except to wait it out and wait for these people to retire, to leave. And I stay because I choose to be a female role model of what a woman in science looks like, what a woman who can do computer science looks like at a university that has no women in physics and no women in computer science on the faculty. You have no idea how much that means to me, I've really struggled with this talk. I try to say, brains, body, both. It is possible even in computational astrophysics. Here in the skeptics community, like every segment of society, we have our share of individuals who when they have the right combination of alcohol and proximity will grab tits and asks. I've had both body parts, randomly and unexpectedly grabbed by members of this community but not at this conference. I wanna make that clear, not at this conference. It's just like astronomy. It's a combination of inebriated guys going too far, guys that I can handle and men in power being asses. And I know that there's been a lot of internet buzz over the last two years about these issues. This is a community filled with strong, powerful women. I personally draw a lot of inspiration from ACOVACs and misinformation. These are just two of the many skeptics and many of the skeptical and scientific podcasts have female hosts. When these people see something go wrong, they ask for ways to protect the people being hurt, the vaccine clinics that we see. And they do things like what Shirley Amy did to raise money to bring women here. Women who together can support one another and who can get to know each other so that when we return home, we have a network of women to just turn to, to support us even from a distance. It's powerful to get these women here because these are women who will learn to react to problems with a sharp and needed call to action that is designed to fix the problems. I know this is an uncomfortable topic and I know that this talk is going to provoke some of you who don't like airing of dirty laundry. And I expect my inbox will hate me later. But I see a problem and I can't change it alone.  All of this harassment, all of this trolling, it requires you to do something.  And you can be that person who physically intervenes and you can be that person who maybe you aren't the person to start the organization. But when you see something that pisses you off, doing something, well, doing something can be donating to get more women here to help with what Surly's building, a network of women, to get more minorities here and making a point to admit we've got problems, we're humans and saying stopping harassment starts with me.  We want to make this place a place that is focused on seeing how we can make this world better. We can try and rise above these problems that plague so many conferences in every field. We can be the better example. The skeptics community is filled with strong people who are advocates of education, of building a more equitable society and of protecting the uneducated from the charlatans and the quacks. There are times and places to fight. James Randy's work has often exemplified the best ways to use evidence to fight the leaders of Wu. The Dover case was an example of the right place to fight, taking on the leaders of the intelligent design movement in the courts. We do need to fight to build a better world. Say that creating a more educated future is something you'll fight for and find something to do to help educate the people around you. Use social media to advocate for those who are doing good. When you see a problem that pisses you off, find out who is already fighting to fix that problem and support them. Highlight the issues and then support the solution. And when something pisses you off and you don't see someone already fighting to make the solution real, do like Elise Anders did and start your own grassroots movement to fix the problem. That exhaustingly used statement, be the change you want to see in the world.  And if you don't know what else to do, support science. I have a booth out there where you can get involved. Closing, I just want to remind you. We can understand our universe with science.


My name is Ismael Ahmed. I'm the National Youth Leader in the Caretaker Committee of the EPC. It's a national lobby group that was approved by the party for young people to move around, especially that the Congresses have started, to move around and talk to stakeholders in the party about inclusion of young people from the barest level. That is from the world level of local government and state level. We have a president, a vice president and leaders of the party who are very open to this idea of getting the future of the party being part of the present as well, so that we secure the future. If you can't decide the future without those who are going to live in it. So young people are most likely going to be the ones who are going to live in the future no matter what be part of the process, the decisions that will shape that future.


Hi friends, Frederick Chen, your professional gamer here. I've never really talked about how much I game, but I do it a lot. And I haven't really like shown it on YouTube. Only a smaller percentage of you guys know I have a Twitch, which is right here by the way. Link in the description. This video is sponsored by my channel. I'm trying to be a gamer for the gays in the verse. Anyways, I have a second channel that I'm going to start uploading some vods. So like my Twitch clips, I'll just make a compilation on them in case you don't have time to go on Twitch. So go follow it. It's right here. I'll link that too. But we're going to play some Among Us. So don't mind me. I'll love you like to make fun of my poof. It's not funny. It helps. It's a dead cat. If not, all you hear is, and she won't play with you guys. So let's get started. All right, here we go. I don't know why I just did that. What was I going to bet on? Oh, no. It's Frederick. It's Frederick. You just can't. Sure, you just said my name wrong. You said Frederick. Where was the body? Literally, as he walked away, the body tumbled onto its side. I don't think it was. I don't think that was fresh. Top oxygen? Yeah, it was top oxygen. But I'm telling you, this is self-report. No, literally Pink walks in and kills someone. And as I walk in, he reports. Like fell like he just killed it and then he was trying to leave. But I came around and I reported it. I was coming to do O2 and you were already there. And then when Hannah was trying to do the freaking code, you just killed her right there. That's not true. I was going to do the oxygen. Because I was coming from navigation. Well, yours is just not true, either. I say skip, but keep your suss up. Yeah, keep your susses. OK, I'm OK with that. You guys better watch Pink. How did I get away with that?  OK, you again. It was an electrical. And it died there. I was like, who fixed lights? Because that was really fast. I wasn't there yet. Frederick, where'd you come from? Because I know you walked up to camp. I was. Fresh before the body. Yeah, I was just an admin. I think someone saw me in there with them. Did anyone see me walk in? It was one of the greens, I feel like. Wait, this body was an electrical. If Blue Fix lights and lights turned on right when the body was reported, then you could. You should have seen who did it because lights were on and it was right after it turned on. So you should have seen who killed. So why don't you know? I think it's another self report. I don't vote on seven. I'm skipping. I'm skipping. I don't vote on seven. Don't vote on seven. But like, I'm really suss of Pink. Y'all, I feel so bad, but it's fun to like do that to people. Wait, I don't want to go about myself. Friends, friends, friends.  Eight, nine, zero, one, zero. We have time to not kill. I don't need to rush it. What were stories? And I walked in on the body with someone else. I forget. Ashlyn, you were with me the whole time. I know Pink and White were in like admin. I do want to know that White did walk up to oxygen after I had already finished it and then they were there a little bit as if they didn't notice that. Because he was over. I hate to say this, but so did Frederick. Well, I was with you the whole time, Ashlyn. Like no one else is with us. We have to vote. There's six people. Pink has been suspiciously near bodies multiple times this round. Twice. And he didn't. He couldn't blame who did electrical. OK, well, we have to vote. Just vote with with what do you think?  You guys are going to regret this. These bitches are watching the stream and I know it. They're watching the stream. Why didn't I kill Pink? Because I want him to stay suspicious, you know? Oh, it's by the entrance of navigation. He's reported three times. Y'all, Pink has reported three times. They have to think whoever Gussie is, you're doing amazing. You're so good at killing. I don't know how you haven't been caught. Congratulations to you. You're doing the most. Wait, but what about pink? But what about pink? I voted red. I don't know what y'all voted for, but I voted red. No, no, no. I'm voting pink. Oh, that's good. That's good. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. No, you're supposed to go to this one. Wait, no one's going to this one. Wait, 14, 13, 12. Where is Pink?  He can't stop him or can he? Does he have time? Two, one. You could have killed. Oh, what?  How did you do that? But don't you think I was a good imposter? Like, you know I'm not good at imposter.  And I still got away with it, and I'll do it again. All right, this test should take a little bit longer. Oh. Where was it? Electrical. Wait, are you just like, what? Ashlyn, I just came out of the back. Yeah. Sort of rattle. Yeah. I was an upper engine. Well, I know Delphox. I know Delphox passed us on the way in. Yeah. Yeah, I saw you guys. Was anyone else like passing? Because I went to the left side, and was it Frederick and Ashlyn went towards the right? Yeah, we went right. Yeah. I didn't see anyone else come in. I only saw Delphox go in there, and then I guess Bean came by too. Where was it in electrical? It's in the back. Frederick, did he not see Red in there? No, I think I saw Red pass at some point, but like, he wasn't, they weren't in there with us. Like, it was only Rattle, Ashlyn, and I in electrical at that point, and then we all left. And then Delphox came by after. It must have been a really recent kill. Do you think it's self-reported? Yeah, I think it just happened. Like, what task did you do at the beginning of the game? I did the card swipe, and I went to weapons, and I did asteroids. That checks out. Fen was with me pretty much the whole time. Bean and I both did trash. I'm assuming he went to electrical after trash, because we were doing, we first did the one at the top of cafeteria, and then like, later I met up with them as well. OK, because I didn't see you around the trash. At the bottom of storage. It was at storage, it would have been a few minutes. It would have been afterwards. I went to admin on afterwards, and Fen was in there with me doing card swipe, so. OK. Skip over now, but. I would skip over, I'd be like, can someone please vote, so I don't vote myself off. I don't know, we don't know, or Inc., where they were, or like, do they check out? So, I was like, yeah, I didn't see, it's in, oh, what, admin? It's an admin. And I saw the vent animation, but since lights were off, I didn't see who it was. How does this keep happening? I don't know if it's the same, it's Fredrick. Hello. I can clear white for this round, because they're on cams. Yeah, other things, cams, look green. OK, so it can't be them. I actually tried to keep a list of people who like, did card swipe, Fredrick, G, Rato, Fen, and Rat, and I don't remember. I was doing it at the same time Fen was in there, whatever. I was in electrical, I had two tasks in electrical just then, and I was walking to the lights when the body got caught. Honestly, I think we could win by tasks. OK, OK. I just saw white, Fen. OK, I can't, I can't test for that, because I left white with orange and admin. Yeah. You're not even fighting it, you're just like, yeah. Is this white? Yeah, it's white. OK. I just saw them in the end, and I was like... Hey, like, four of y'all saw me doing download and comps. Yes, anybody said it was me, I was going to be kind of mad.   That was actually funny. Come on, white. I was rooting for you. OK, there's still time to do tasks. And again. Because it wasn't a key role. Fred only leaps me. It was an admin, again. It only leaps me with an oak. Was it admin last time? Yeah. It only leaps me with an oak, and they'll fix. OK, can I go through my entire route this entire game? Sure. Because I haven't said anything really. OK, so I go back up. We have 15 seconds. OK, either way, it's not me. Delphox, what do you think? I don't know. Do we have, should we vote or should we just? I think I put skip. I skipped. I'm not sure, man. Well, you think it's black now. Sus, because we haven't even sussed you yet. OK, body in admin. They just left two seconds ago. There was no way they could have been admin. I was on my way into the bottom O2, which is where you said you called this body, right? That's where it was, yeah. So I'm thinking that you saw me coming and then had to report because you didn't have time to vent. Wait, what I want to hear is glitch. We're going to vote for on you. We're going to win for sure. I felt good about that. I said to myself, oh, watch this project.  I know. I said that you snatched my neck. I'm like, oh, OK, I just want to be with people so I don't die. Oh, OK, so here's here it is. OK, you fake task. You know what you mean? You fake task. You was on weapon. I don't see weapon moving because I don't see weapon moving.  Really? Yes. Wait, who said that?  They've been off this whole game. I did not see actually. OK, that never mind. OK, I reported the body. So this was in storage. There were a lot of people on their way to electrical. I don't think she is the killer because they were they were an admin when I went down. But someone walked by this body. OK, so me and you are cleared then. Me and you. What do you mean? It could both be you. It could both be you, too. Me and you were in weapons. Can anyone else vouch? Oh, yeah. Me and you were in weapons. Can anyone else vouch? So it can't be me and you. You was in weapons. By the way, we have to we have to refer to by their name. So this is going to be even harder. Was anyone else an electrical? I was hiding. Where were you in a cafeteria? They was in cafeteria. They was in cafeteria. OK, they was in cafeteria. We also have to be. I feel like we have to be grammatically correct. They were in cafeteria. They does not care for your puny English. I speak how I want. No, they speak how I want. Yes. So me, you, they are cleared. Where was someone? Where was someone? Me, you, they, she, her. Oh, you, they, she, her. OK. So what's he like? Yeah, I see. He's reported. Wait, what? Wait. I report. No, we've reported. We've reported. Frederick is like, hello? Frederick is we. Oh, OK. Just skip. Just skip. Just skip vote. I have to get this through me off. I think it's someone. I'm suspicious of someone. Because they were. I think it's me. I'm suspicious of someone's size? I think someone's size. Oh my god, he said that. All right, all right, all right. I is quiet. I'm so bad. Orange and yellow are in electrical with me. So I don't think it's, they're still there. Eye is right there. You have to see a green. Where did green just come from?  OK. Uh-oh. OK. It was not I. Lower reactor. And I don't know if it was them by Dead Sea. Me. Not me, but me and in the same room. I was with I. I was in with. I was I. I was with I in admin. We was on cams. Were you? We, we was on cams for all the time. So I was with I. Yes. Who was with I? I was with I. Me with this. How can how can I be with I? OK. Me was with I. Yes. OK. I was with me. Me was. We. It, it. You trust me with I. So where was it? It was all me and I in admin. But I was in. Yeah. I was with she in navigations a little earlier. And then I came down to storage. Yeah, it was. I can confirm. Yeah. So someone's self report. That, that, that's, that's what it sounds like. We were the ones. Wait, where was the body? It was in the lower reactor. And me was in the same room. What? I was definitely not. I just passed me in admin. We just passed me in admin. Yeah. I was with me with the I. And yes. Yeah. So do we think it's someone? I think it's someone. We do think it's me. You think it's someone. I think it's face to shoe on A. You voted. Yeah, it's not me. Exactly. I think someone is us. OK. Someone is. I am so suss to someone too. Someone is tough. I'm voting for someone. Someone is definitely tough. She and I skipped. So be mindful of it. I hope you keep looking for it. She and I skipped. I don't know why they skipped, but they skipped. I think I can trust I. Green's there. Oh, I knew it. I knew it was them. It was I. It was I. She killed me. One of me. It was I. It was I. It was I. It was I. It was I. It was I. I did not kill it. I saw I. Literally, I saw I. There's two imposters left. Yes. I saw I. Last round, there's only one kill. But now there's two kills. There's a double kill. I did not see anybody. I didn't either. It was it was you think it's I. You think it's also I. I don't think it's I. You voting I. Because you saw I. Oh, OK. Wait, who? Who says they don't? It was in Cafeteria towards Med Bay. Oh, I know. He reported body. Her, what do you think? Her thinks that I vote I, too. I did not think it's I. Next one, I think it's it. Probably, I don't know. It's not me. I mean, it's not it. I mean, it's not me either, I don't think. You're right, it's not me. OK, I'll trust me. I knew it was you chicken. We voting it, yeah, we vote it. Wait, why? Because I know it's definitely not you. I know it's not me. Her, I actually don't. I didn't see her, but I think it's it. Because, well, I didn't see anything. I think it's it. I personally think it's it, but I'm not sure. You know, to my defense, to my defense, I didn't see anything last round. And I was just running around trying to find dead bodies. No, you were on cameras. Yeah, for last round, you saw it. Yeah, you saw it on cameras. Yeah, but I didn't see anyone die. What do you think you because I came off of cam? OK, so for me, no, but I could hard vouch for you. Me could hard vouch for you. OK, but I don't know if it's her or it does someone else have a big scan. I have one more. Visual test is not a big scan. Yeah, it doesn't matter because visual tests are all. Yeah, but Med Bay, you there's like this trick where if two people have it, one, oh, yeah, you it. Yeah, so I don't have a big scan. I have a sample. I had to collect some. I don't know if I have it or not. Oh, my gosh. OK, so risk it or could risk it risk it or skip it? Skip with risk, I say.  OK, they killed good idea. No one's going to fix lines. Where are they?  Oh, my God. They're inching away. Wait, wait, I can finish my task while they're doing that. Are they going to kill? They're good. They should kill right now. They should have killed. What is this? Yeah, it was it. It was it. It was it. It was it. I couldn't. You have to like make a new code. I thought someone said that. Can you change it right there? I'm just going to do this. I'm going to try to be passive for once. Well, there are a lot of people just in reactor or just came in. It was in storage and oh, wait, sorry. I didn't report, but I did see it. It wasn't storage like the entrance from like the sideways towards communications. And two people passed by me before that. And I think it was Ella and the guy that was killed. So I think it might be Ella. We did also see it. Purple and cyan in electrical. Like before I ran down to go do the reactor. So they were together. Yeah, who was who just came into the reactor with me? I know Orca, you and I did. The reactor. Yeah, did watermelon come in the same? I feel like I saw two of those gas masks or the bird hats. Yeah, it was watermelon. Me just walking to reactor together. Yeah, OK. I just walked into the reactor. Cherry, where were you? In the cafe. In the cafe. OK, so we vote for Ella or do you think too early? Pink, were you accusing Ella because you said they were together and then they weren't? I think it's too early. OK, so I have some people to vouch for me because I've been very passive so far. It's right outside navigation. Yeah, that was right outside, like in the corridor to navigation. You went in and I was just checking. Yeah, I was checking if anyone was in there.  Yeah, I saw a couple of people like going down the. Oh, God, the I think it was the like admin corridor. Yeah, I went down and then I saw yellow I went into electrical with Brown and someone else. Ella, where were you? I was in well as a reactor. Does anyone can anyone vouch for you? I was no one near reactor. Pink still believes it's Ella, he says. Should we just vote for Ella? Pink, because on the ballot pass, they took longer than me and mine finished first. And they were still there, but they were there when I walked up. So I don't know if they pressed it at a different time or something.  A hundred percent it's Ella. I was coming there and she went out. I went in and she was like trying to. I saw the body to I was going to electrical and I saw the poor bun and I saw pink. But I don't know if I think they were fixing the lights or maybe they didn't see the body, but they were standing like right there. So now this is Pink or Sian, which was who were suss last round, too. So we have to decide on someone because this is. Y'all always kill me. OK, I will admit I did see the report button and the body, but I didn't do it. I didn't report it. Why?  Why didn't you report the body, Ella? I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? OK, no, no, no, no.  Are you proud of me? I'm doing better now. You guys know I'm not good an impostor. So like I'm getting better. This is really good. I feel good. Oh, I feel. I knew it. I knew it.


Sabotage in Mariinka. 80% of the Russian army are ready to surrender the city. A new betrayal is accelerating in Russia due to the heavy losses of the invaders near Mariinka. 80% of the personnel of the Russian army are ready to surrender the city to the Ukrainian army. According to one of the Moscow military correspondents by the name of Misha in Donbas, units of defensive midfielder express a desire to defend. 80% of those who want defeat make every effort to surrender it to Ukrainians. There are a few defenders left in the city, he pointed out. The Russian military correspondent clarified that in the coming week, Russian troops could significantly move away from Mariinka. His announcement, betrayal is actively reposted by others from Russia. The publication in his social network has already been supported by Igor Gyrkin Strelkov. Recall that fierce battles for Mariinka of Donetsk region have been going on since the first days of a full-scale war. The lines of defence are constantly shifting. The armed forces of Ukraine do not allow the Russians to gain an advantage.


the blue the green or the green the blue and the yellow um well but they'd have to meet the green and the blue without local preference correct and then with local preference they'd have to meet for 70 green and blue and then for the remaining 30 they'd have to meet green and blue and not yellow and so they could be they wouldn't be they wouldn't be put at a disadvantage by being an Amherst resident in the second pool they just be right they just be competing like everybody else they be competing like everybody else is if you had no local preference and they're competing and they're still and the Amherst residents still has a shot of it even in that case I think Amherst residents have a bigger shot anyway because they live in a qualified census track or those that do live I do yeah I do want to just comment I went back in my email and I did ask the question to mass housing um and said there was a comment at the last public hearing that the local preference would only be applicable to 80 a my homes given all the homes would be counted on the subsidized housing inventory is the statement true please clarify and I just want to read her response um I'm not sure what comment you're referring to or who made it whether or not and at what level to apply local preference is not our hunt so it's not the commonwealth builders program it's really going to be a decision under the 40 b program and I'm going to have to look to the 40 b folks to get clarification but in terms of the commonwealth builders it's pretty clear that that is not local preference is not really how they look to have the program designed so I just wanted to put that for you to think about that's all but that just means that somebody else makes that decision and we just have to figure out who makes a decision as to whether or applies to 7 or 21 right yes but I would it's not the commonwealth builders program it could be the state it could be the state it's the 40 b program right which is the state program correct okay all right so what I'd like I think we've had a really good discussion about this we still have some information we have to get um and I'd like to move on to the rest of the conditions if you possibly can and just go through them as quickly as we can it's about it's only got 10 minutes left so number eight is exactly what we were talking about miss allen um we might think about coming up with some language that provides more of an affirmative um just declaration of things to do for outreach as well as support number nine I don't think there's any you got to provide the subsidizing agency pursuant to the the regs number 10 that this the board acknowledges the restrictions and obligations imposed and shall expire in accordance with their terms set forth in each this one is highlighted for some reason why is that can either rob or christine can you tell me why that is what's controversial about this or is or in question I might be able to answer that mr chair I don't think it is necessarily controversial um it's just when we were going through various drafts with the applicants and the applicants attorney we had asked them particularly let's make sure we get the description of the program the 80 percent 100 percent AMI and and the the restrictions that apply let's make sure we get that clear uh so I think it was just highlighted because uh it is just another one of the paragraphs that relates to how the program works all right it doesn't seem controversial to me so I just wonder why was highlighted okay number 11 um so I don't require modification and number 12 deals the applicant shall create a homeowners association address maintenance of common areas and common facilities infrastructure trash recycling collection snow removal and other responsibilities shared by all homeowners the master deed of the homeowners association and individual units the shall clearly state that the individuals units all right I guess the only question there is does is this broad enough for what the homeowners association is supposed to govern and it looks to me like it does the common areas common facilities structure trash recycling collection snow removal and similar responsibilities shared by old homeowners I don't think we need anything more any changes that that seems to be pretty broad look guys we're coming up on eight minutes to go eight minutes to nine we've only gotten through the first set of our conditions and I think that we're not going to be able to get very much farther and number and be if we start with only seven minutes left to go so what I'd like to do is in this case is look towards tentatively approving number one number two as amended but we yeah number two because that's going to just that's just the description of the program tentatively approve number four number five and number six leaving number three the regulatory agreement oh no I'd like to approve number number three because we have that we have to come back with more language on that so we don't approve number three number six we approve seven we don't eight we don't that the time current time 10 11 and 12 we do so we leave out we tentatively approve everything but three seven and eight is there any disagreement with that we this is not a I'd like to know if there's any opposition to that and if there is um so stated if not then we'll come back and fill in the blanks for three seven and eight at the next meeting what's AHR eight is a description of the outreach program no no no the word so it's AHR documents I I would like that spelled out because I don't know what it is affordable housing affordable housing program yeah spelled out yep okay um and with that I would like to um move to um continue this meeting this subject to a date certain Rob what's the date we have for that I think it was the 14th of March but you're never was it sure aren't you doing public comments no no we did public comments already we're in we're in the public meeting we did do public comments prior earlier in the public hearing I don't think there's anybody in the attendees that wish to raise their hand but we we already had public comments so the dates that I suggested were sent an email um sorry those for a different project but the dates that we do have coming up Mr. Chair are um March 14th which to my knowledge as of right now it does have two other potential public hearing scheduled as well we have March 28th which I believe Mr. Meadows won't be available for that one if I'm not mistaken on that um we also have April 11th and then April 25th and those are all the normally scheduled meeting dates but if the board doesn't want to lay it out by that far we could do an off meeting date again like we've been doing normally um the date of either March 7th or March 21st um any of those times would work but um the 14th would probably be advised against because we have two other public hearing scheduled before the zoning board and this discussion seemed like it's going to warrant a full meeting so I would recommend I know we've been doing a lot of these off-week meetings doing either March 7th or March 21st as a when's the 6 months off I well first off but first off we're looking at having to get some information can we get it done in two weeks and can you get it done in two weeks and have time to given given it to the board so March 7th maybe quicker than we can get everything done is that right that's the only way so Jessica could you remind us again when your continued hearing is for the concom uh we'll continue to march um right now we're just to the 28th it depends on whether the concom will render a decision on the 28th or whether they'll opt to continue and I don't know the answer to that yet so if we continued this to March 7th um do you feel there'll be ample enough time for us as staff to do research and I guess for you to update us on the process of concom and then I guess to address all the other concerns the board might have in terms of having information available for the next meeting so the list that I have the working list was to update the waiver list and send that to the town which will be really easy that's pretty simple um we have to figure out the eb spaces so that's coordinating a meeting um the number of units that the local preference applies I could probably get an answer by tomorrow so that's not something I'm concerned about um and the income eligibility how the eligibility is determined for not related households um that's the other question and I feel like I can get that answer from the 40 b folks as well pretty quickly so I think March 7th is fine I just want to get clarification on whether your public hearing is still open or closed because there is deadlines under the 40 b law to close public hearing is not closed we okay so we moved into a public meeting while keeping the public hearing open okay so just as a reminder to the board I have flagged that April 16th is the board's deadline for closing the public hearing thank you but is it true that that could be extended if there's a written agreement between both the applicant and the board okay yes but there has to be a written agreement so I you know I we're hoping Jessica the hope is to finish before April 16th um that's why that's my hope I mean that's why specifically um I picked out March 7th because I know that'll be the week after your concom meeting and that'll still be quick enough to where it won't seem like it's going to be too far out sure one question the 20 the 14th is you already have we already have two things on the agenda for that have we noticed those already yeah we have we um or we haven't yet but we're close to and we're getting a lot of special permit applications in Mr. Chair it's just saying the minute this one is going to take priority so I was wondering if because Jessica you said you might have to have two concom meetings that's what concerns me yeah we'll see what happens on the 28th I I can I don't know um yeah all right well um I guess we should do it take this take a shot at doing it on the 7th if people can attend on that day Miss Greenbaum can you yes I can Mr. Meadows is that going to work for you yes it will 7th and Mr. Henry will that work for you yes it will okay so let's shoot for the 7th and we can get this the other thing that's on your list is we've got to try to come up with some language regarding um condition eight just some more affirmative description of what the regulatory agreement the kinds of actions you would take in the pursuant to the regulatory agreement for outreach and counseling and uh assistance okay all right Mr. Chair if I may yes I'm not available on March 7th but that being said I you know I I know we're kind of at a critical point um I don't have any problem getting a revised draft to you I could certainly ask one of my colleagues to pinch it for me that night but it is a little tough to come in at the very end of a project like this and um not be up to speed so I apologize for that I can't get out of this and I apologize for not asking you an requirement so that's was my fault I should have done that Rob is there any way that we could put the other two things on the set the two applications on the 7th and move this to the 14th what are the what's the availability of everybody on the 14th I can not go anywhere I can also do the 14th Mr. Meadows do you think you can do the 14th I can Mr. White can you do the 14th all right and Rob could we move the two things that are now tentatively you're thinking about the 14th we have time to notice them for the 7th oh you're muted Rob I keep forgetting to unmute myself um it's tricky because I would have to do the advertisement on Tuesday by noon and it might be thrown off because of the holiday on Monday worst-case scenario we could just ask them if they're willing to do it on the 21st of March um and this is yeah this and we can always put a panel together people who are available I know some people may not be available for that date um they're both special permit hearings so it wouldn't be totally burdensome but yeah I I think for right now it'll be wise so if we scale this this for the 14th we can push those two hearings back to the 21st and still have ample time to notice so let's we this deserves a full meeting and I would I want to get this done and over with and I would like to have me hurry there because um all of her colleagues are very expert and I think it is important to have the continuity and it also gives Ms. Allen and the concom little bit of time in case they go longer so let's do the 14th let's reschedule the other two things let's go forward with that okay we'll deal all right um and hopefully we'll be done by the um we'll show progress and get agreement on this before the deadline runs out so you need a vote to continue to the 14th yep so are you suggesting the 7th and the 14th no I'm just just the 14th just the 14th all right do I have a motion to continue the hearing the public hearing and the public meeting on this matter until March 14th so moved I got a lot of I got and I think it's a second there as well all right we gotta move in second I don't think there's any discussion the vote occurs chair votes aye Mr. White aye tomatoes aye the screen bomb aye Mr. Henry aye vote is five to nothing the motion passes all right the next order of business tonight is we move that just to make clear we move that to the 14th starting at six o'clock which I did not state but I need to state it now um the next order of business is public comment on any matter not before the board tonight so any matter other than this we don't have any to be robbed no hands up no hands up all right the last question the last thing is new business we normally talk about schedules but I also want to um I'm trying to reduce the zoom on my screen I want to talk to you about something a letter I had which I intend to respond positively to unless I have any exit full screen here we go unless there's some objection I got a letter from the council president uh asking if we wanted to have a council liaison to the ZVA my first inclination is you know we council members routinely listen to the ZVA we have really good attendance by council members we don't need it um but at the same time I think it's also helpful to have somebody who on a regular basis may be reporting to the town council the workload of the ZVA the kind of work we do I'm pretty proud of what we do and I think there's no reason to be to hide our our light under a bushel basket um the public the role of the liaison is they're not voting bodies not voting members of the body they they can speak uh during public during the discussion they don't speak during public comments they do not express the personal opinions these are the rules that are laid out in the town council rules they do not commit the town council to a course of action the liaisons when it's an in-person meeting they sit where the public is seated when it's a zoom meeting they sit in the attendee section and are not in the not on the participants the panel sections they receive the moat the postings agendas reports from our body they're not required to attend all the meetings they're they and they show report our information or budget recommendations the full council we don't tend to have that unless we want to give all of our staff a good raise which might need a thing that we should we should support and should propose and lastly um they they they will choose who that liaison is it's not our choice i'm inclined to respond um positively to the president of the of the council that it's not a bad thing to have a a council liaison to the zba i think the more they know the work we do and the more they understand the workload and the issues we deal with i think the better off we are but i'd like just to get people's opinion i have board members on that is anybody is anybody concerned about having a council liaison and would oppose such a thing great okay i'll inform council president tomorrow that we'd be we'd be happy having a council liaison is there any other old business or new business excuse me any other new business if not um i would entertain a motion to adjourn don't move is there is and i mr white it looks like you're seconding it yes it's only two o'clock in another yeah it's only two oh eight a.m and i'm making legal decisions yeah yeah and the bars are closed and well i don't drink so oh then well that's okay even better so the the motion is not debatable and the vote occurs on the motion the chair votes aye mr meadows hi mr henry hi mr white hi miss green ball hi all right the motion carries five to nothing we are adjourned thank you


A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high-o silver, the Lone Ranger. In the early days of the Western United States, the government found it hard to enforce its laws in the vast new territory. The local sheriffs gave the marshals their cooperation, but the man who did most to bring law and order to the frontier was the masked rider of the plains. Astride his great horse, Silver, he led the fight for justice and the stories of his daring and his courage have come down to us through the generations. And our return with us to those thrilling days when the West was young and adventurably at the end of every trail, the Lone Ranger rides again. The Lone Ranger and Tonto learned that some smugglers were active near the Mexican town of San Sebastian and rode toward the border. Night fell before they reached the Rio Grande, however, and the Ranger called a halt at the first ranch house they came to. I can find out from whoever lives here who the sheriff is. That's right. You can wait here in the saddle, Tonto. I'll go to the door. Dean, right where you are until you owe a beat your hands, Mr. What's the matter? Robert, I saw you coming. Just push the door open and walk in slow with your hands raised. Oh, you're at the window there. And tighten this rifle on you. Come on now, I've been watching. That's it. Now, keep the door shut with your heel and see to it that you keep your hands above your shoulders. I reckon Paul will be right, please, when he gets back. Just who is your father? As if you didn't know. I guess you've crossed trails with him many a time, Mr. Now, take that mask off and we'll see at least one member of the dope smugglers. Dope smugglers? That's right.  But you'll make me... Come on, quick. You put rifle down. What's this? Me take them. Let go. Let me go. Take them. Oh, I shouldn't have known you wouldn't take a chance. I shouldn't have come in here alone. Now, take it easy. I came here to find out who's sheriff of this county. You know, Blame, well, it's my pa. Your father? Yes, Pig Leg Sanders. I didn't know. Hmm. You can just say you aren't one of the smugglers that's driven Paul most crazy these past weeks. I am not. And you, Max? I'm not even an outlaw, Miss Sanders. I have my own reasons for being masked. Now, what's this about smugglers? If you don't know, you just ask anyone in town. For six weeks, some crooks have been bringing dope over the border.  They have? Keeps him busy 24 hours a day, doing nothing but following folks that he has reasons to suspect the smugglers. You want one of the gang? What are you doing here? You say there's dope being smuggled, and the smugglers keep the sheriff following false clues? Yes, they do. Then, Miss Sanders, to answer your question, I think I'm here to help your father. That paint horse. Come on, tunnel.  Him hit paint horse. Get him back here. Me pick some paint. What about that? Tunnel. There. Steady, tunnel. You hit that man pretty hard. Him hit paint horse. No, no, tunnel. Don't take the last one. He've already knocked him out. You look. His gun was drawn. He was going to either shoot your horse for letting us know he was here and come into the house and cover us. Perhaps it's a good thing you acted as you did. I've got you covered again. I'll raise your head. To the saddle, tunnel. The girl won't shoot. Help me do that. I'll lift him. I'm not fooling things. Ready, tunnel? Head south. Learn more about the smuggling. Did you hear what I said? You'll not shoot. Come on, get him a paint horse. Come on there, tunnel. Her, not shoot. Tunnel, when we get near town, we split. Learn all you can about the smuggling. Feed in our last camp. Not good. Hadn't you better be getting back home, peg leg. Maybe there'll be another clue there. All right, barkeep. Never mind. Climb to be funny. The only way to run down these pole cats that are bringing in the dope is to follow every lead to get. First, you follow a medicine man. Make him unload all his stuff in the wagon. Then you tailor a sky pilot over the border. Next, you suspicion a couple of old half-breed women of peeing men in disguise. I reckon they be the U.S. marshals right after all. I'm a daughter and old fool that ought to resign from office. Oh, shucks now, peg leg. I didn't mean to rankle you that much. By land's sakes, you was never want to take a thing to heart. Barkeep, I've had a good record for the 12 years I've been in office. One of the best, peg leg. And the man that says different has me to fight. Now along comes these smugglers and along comes a new U.S. marshall and along comes government orders to get them smugglers or get out in office. No, is that what you was told? Same as. Stratit, I'm willing to resign, Barkeep. But I'd like to step out in the office with a record clean. As it is now, these coyotes are making a monkey out in me. What happened tonight? Same as before. I got what I thought was a good lead. Left yesterday afternoon and followed a couple of men south. Here? Spent last night across the border. Then picked up them two men and followed them back again. Got them on this side of the border and searched them and got them mad enough to foam with the mouth at me. There wasn't a smuggler, any? No, not only that. There was government men working against the smugglers same as I was doing. Seems they got the same sort of false lead I did.  Oh, what'll it be, Indian? New picks from food. Me take out. Want a supply of vitals, eh? Here, miss. I'll send it back to the kitchen. Matt, good. Well, I reckon I better be getting back to home. I'll have Betty there. You got good hands there, Peg Leg. They'll take care of the place. Yeah, but I better get back anyhow. I'm tired. Evening to your bar, King. Evening, Sheriff. When the sheriff reached home, his daughter told him the story of the masked man and the Indian. And you don't have no idea who these two are? No, I don't, Pa. I almost got to see the masked man's face, but that Rentskin took the rifle away from me before he took his mask off. I see. Even then, I might have seen it. Buck Rookson was sneaking to the house to cover those two, but the Indians' horse gave him away. Then what happened, Betty? They left after knocking Buck down. Wonder if they might be connected with this smuggler. I thought at first they might be, but if they were, they'd have known your name. Seems the only reason they came here was to find out who the sheriff was. Looks to me, honey, like these smugglers was two dog-gone slick funny. Oh, you can't give up. I guess not. I'll have to if the smuggler ain't put to a stop soon. I don't know. Who's that? It's me, Buck Rookson. Come on in, Buck. See, you got big. What's been happening on the ranch, Wilson? I ain't give much time to it since this smuggling business started. Oh, the ranch is going all right, boss. Heard you got knocked out. Yep. And maybe that was the luckiest thing it ever happened to you. Well, how's that? What do you mean, Buck? I think maybe I got a clue to this smuggling business. Yeah? When that engine knocked me down, I was sort of stunned for a time. It was that cold, and it took you most 10 minutes to come to. That's where you're mistaken, Miss Betty. I was on the ground, but I wasn't knocked out. I seen something fall from that mask man's pocket as he hit the saddle. You mean to say you was conscious and never lifted a hand to stop those two men? That's right. Oh, why did you let them get away? Boss, I figured them for crooks and figured that the paper they dropped might be important. I wanted to get it without them knowing that I had it, Savvy.  I done so. Why? That paper has some plans written on it. Plans? What sort of plans? Smuggling. Let me see it. You sure about that, Buck? Sure as I'm sitting here, Miss Betty. Now, if only the gang goes through with the plans without changing them, there'll be a darn good chance to corral the gang. Where's the paper? Here. What's it say, Pa? Biggest load yet. Fetch enough over the border so as we can drop operations for a few weeks and let things cool off. Is that what it says? Yeah. It can't refer to anything else, but the dope, can it, boss? No, sorry. Says they'll, they figure unloading up below the border tomorrow night. Yeah. And cross the next day. Boss, I know you had a lot of false clues, but I'll bet you this one is straight. It's the first one that ain't give me someone that I was supposed to fall on search. Yep. The biggest load yet. And the last load for a time. If I don't get them crooks this time, it's likely my last chance to get them will be gone. That's what I figured. Now look, boss, other times you either worked alone or took a deputy with you. Yeah. Now you can't even trust a deputy. Taint for me to try and tell you how to run your business, but... Go on, Buck. Well, I... Well, that is if you wanted me and some of the boys here to go along with you. Well, you thunder, that's what I'll do. The work I'm a ranch can wait. We're right handy with six girls. I know you are, Buck. I wouldn't have asked you to go, but I'm doggone glad to have you now that you've offered.  Thanks, Buck. If we get these crooks, I'll see that you boys share in the reward. Oh, that's all right, boss. See you in the morning. Right. Now, by ginger, I'll bet we get somewhere. You wouldn't be too sure of it, Pa.  Pa, every time you get a new lead, your hopes rise up like smoke from a wood fire. The higher you get to hoping, the more of a letdown you have when you come back empty handed. I got a feeling, Betty. We won't come back empty handed this time. Call it a hunch if you want. But there's something tells me that this time we'll corral them smuggling pole cats for good and all. Well, look at this letter. The biggest load all. The last trip for some time. I know. I read it. Only thing that'll make us fair will be if that crook that come here changes the plans after finding he's lost the letter. But... Well, what's the matter, girl? You have a hunch that you're going to get the crooks. Just so. Well, I got a hunch too, Pa. What's that? I can't somehow feel that the man who would come here was a crook. Well, sure he was. This letter proves it. Have it your way, then. But I still can't think of that masked man as a smuggler of dope. Hey, what are you doing there? Well, that's Buck Wilson. Hey, hello. Someone's out. Well, let me get out. Oh, there we are all clear. Drop him, Buck. Who is that? Hey! Where's the man? Oh, you missed him. Who do you think you're talking to? Get out of here, boy! You don't think I'm talking to them? You learn, Tondo, the different people have been giving the Cheryl Falls clues. Not right. I see. What you hear? I found what Sheriff Sanders when I saw him heading for his home. Huh? Took some time to sneak up close to the house. Uh, you hear him talk? Buck Wilson was in the house by the time I got there. Oh. Him form it? Yes, the man you knocked down. Huh? Buck found some sort of letter. I don't know where he got it, but he was offering to go along with the sheriff tomorrow. Another lead? Yes, Tondo. And from what I heard, it's to be the last trip of the smugglers. Huh? Furthermore, the sheriff is not going to take his deputies with him this trip. He's going to take his own ranch hands and leave the deputies here. What we do? We're going to take those deputies. You got the master on it. They'll follow me, Tondo, as they think that there's a chance that I might be the smuggler. Oh. If they do follow me, they'll be on hand when they're wanted. Not right.  We're going to start right now. Me do that. I'll go on ahead and locate the deputies. When they're aroused to the point of chasing me, I'll head south. Here, paint horse. Yep. And I'll meet you, Tondo. South of the town. Come on, Silver. Hey, Sam. Sam, come fast. Watch out. Come on, we got a lead on the smuggler. Where's he at? Jake Barton's house. Jake's trying to keep him there until we come. Jake sent his brother to zip me off. I'm with you. Let's get going. He will sound the Jake out, seeing if Jake wanted to buy some dope. He's masked. Lead me to him. Do we walk? Fetch your horse. You may need it. I ain't got a step down on the road. Come on, there. Hey, there's someone running out of Jake's place. That's him. He's on the way after him. Get it, get it. There he goes. Get going, horse. Get after him. Come on, Silver. Come on. With the Lone Ranger racing for the border, Sheriff's men pursuing him, the curtain falls on the first act of tonight's Lone Ranger drama. We will continue in just a moment. Now to continue our story. On the same day that the Ranger led the deputies from town, the Sheriff and his ranch hands arrived in the Mexican town of San Sebastian. We may as well stop the cafe there, Sheriff. Someone there will know about all there is that's going on in town. Yeah, I reckon so. This is where you generally spend the night when you're here, ain't it, Sheriff? Yep. The town seems quiet enough. It always is. And yet it's a dead sure bet that this is where them smugglin' rats work from. Ah, Senor.  Hold up, Pedro. Any strangers around the town? Ah, Senor, only some of your friend. My friend? What does he mean? See, amigo, at the table? My deputies. Well, I'll be doggone. What are they doing here? I'll learn soon, find out. Senor, you spend the night here. Yeah, I'll be here for the night. So these arm braids. See, Senor, I gave you the same room as you before, eh? Yeah, that back room on the first floor. Well... Tainees of me travel up downstairs. Come on, Buck. You'll see what Sam and Leigh are doing here. Sheriff Sanders? Yeah, if it's me. Good luck. How'd you find out the masked man was around here? Have you seen him? We seen him all right. We trailed him here. The masked man? Riding the white horse? The same. Who told you two to come down here? We didn't need tellin'. We're after the reward money that's up for the smugglers. And that masked man is the critter we want. Where's he at now? We lost him. He started last night in town. He was sounding Jake Barton out, seeing if Jake wanted to handle dope. He was? Yeah. And before we could get him, he learned we was after him a high tail down here. He's still in town somewhere. You sure of that? Yeah, sure. We got a couple of gents we know watching the trail north. Good. I'm glad you're here. We'll team up. But what brought you here? Buck Wilson found a letter this masked man dropped.  Of course. I'd like to speak to you alone. What's the matter, Buck? Let me speak private. Just step over here, won't you? Be right back, boys. Well? Don't team up with them. Oh, why not? Don't you savvy? Maybe they're the ones that are carrying the dope. My deputies? Why couldn't it be? Ain't they given you some false leads? Something to think about there. Sure there is. And it'll be best if we work separate. Me and the boys will keep an eye on them too. Good idea, Buck. Good idea. Sam, I'd assume we didn't team up with the sheriff. How's that? I got my own ideas.  Yeah. Well, put two and two together. What do you get? Meaning to say that you spin? Everyone but you and me. Maybe I ain't even sure about you. Here comes Pegleg back again. Boys, being as you come here by your own selves, maybe it'd be better if you worked that way. Eh? You do what you can to catch this masked man and we'll do the same. That's a prime idea, sir. First rate notion. Yes, sir. It suits you all right, does it? It sure does. Maybe we can do better working alone. I got to blame good ideas to who a couple of the smugglers are already. Maybe I have too. I'll see you by then. What did I tell you? Sam, that was a dead giveaway. It's easy to see why he don't want us around. We can't be styled considerable. Yes, sir. By thunder now I know who to watch when he starts back to the States in the morning. Hey, what the? Who tossed that bullet through the window? What sort of warning is that? Look, there's that masked man outside. Great Scott. He throw that cartridge in here. Maybe he wants to be chased. Well, he sure blazed to be accommodated. Let's go. I never did see such a roundabout trail. When, Tuckety, you think that masked man is heading? Heading for Woodenland, that's sure. Can't be much further, will he? How's that? The grass still springing up where he rode. See? Yes, you must be close on to him, then. You reckon this might be some sort of a trap? There he is. Place your hands, mister. We got you covered. What's that? I thought I'd been waiting for you. Oh, there. Oh, there. We can parse, huh? Well, just keep them hands high and take that mask off. One minute.  I'll let you here because I wanted to talk to you. Yeah? Well, we want some words with you, too. Did you examine that cartridge closely? For what? If you did, you'll have a fair idea who you're talking to. Let me see. Hey, this is a silver bullet. Yes. Didn't you know me? Now will you talk without demanding that I keep my hands up and unmask? I don't know. This is a swell chance to have a look at your face. No, it isn't. Because you're being covered. Covered? Me, what you? What the? The red skin. That's the one we heard about. All right, Sam. You win, stranger. What's the play? What do you want us here for? In the first place, I wanted to make sure you weren't the smugglers. Wait. What? I wanted several people to think I was a smuggler. You wanted them to think you weren't? Yes. The real smugglers, but no, I was not. And wouldn't waste their time in trailing me. And we trailing you convinced you we wasn't in the gang, is that it? You had been in the gang. You'd have been so busy getting ready to take that load of dope across the border in the morning that you wouldn't have wasted time trailing me. Well, now that you're convinced, the poacher sure was that you ain't a smuggler.  I don't need to convince you. We're deputies. Not in this country. You can't make an arrest here. By thunder, that's right. You'll have to wait until you've crossed the border into Texas. Well, when we cross the border, they'll have to... And the best way to be sure, I'll be at hand to search, will be for you to travel with me. With that engine holding the gun on us? No. Come on out, Otto. They'll not use their guns. Um, let me watch them all same. You seem blame-sure we won't use guns, mister. I'm sure because neither of you men are foolish. You arrest or capture me now, I wouldn't be able to do a thing. You let me go where I please and go with me. You'll be free to act as you please when we reach Texas tomorrow. That's a deal, then. Good. It's a truce until tomorrow. But mark my words, mister. No matter what you do tonight, as soon as the Rio Grand is behind us tomorrow, we're searching you and that red skin with a fine tooth comb. Mister, I'm most sorry we're reaching the Texas side of the Rio. Why? This last evening, when we met up, I'm sure Gro to like your style. Me too. They'd hate like sin to find your saddlebags loaded down with drugs. I mean, just so. Remind you if they are, stranger, you're slated to hang. Very well. Here's the shoreline. Come on, Silver. That's a powerful-looking paint horse the engine rides. Him. Him, plenty good horse. What do you call the horse? Him, not God's name. No name? It's alive. Seems to me that horse should have won his spurs before now. I wonder if it's likely to rain before night. I don't know. And clouds off to the west look heavy. Yeah, sure do. Sam, study that formation of clouds east of here. Yeah, the sky is sort of gray-looking. Deb, rather than taking the chance to break loose. Why didn't you hide, boy? While we were just studying the paint horse in the sky and not looking at you. Why should I?  I know that you was in the smuggling gang. Someone else thinks I'm in the gang, too. Yeah? Look south. There comes the sheriff. Sure enough. But Wilson, a couple other men with him. Now you can wait until they close in, and you will have help in searching for the dope. Help in splitting the reward if we find the dope. I don't think you'll have to split any rewards. Why not? Let's wait for the others. Oh, silver. Oh, oh, oh. Why would we have to split no reward? You've got anything first to find? Well, the reward, I'm sure, will be paid. But wait just a minute. Other colors close now. Yeah. Uh, there are devotees. Over them, we're coming. We're waiting for you, sheriff. Well, mister, do we meet again, eh? Yes, buck, we do. Ah! Steady, paint horse. What's the matter with that horse? Down, paint horse. Hold your horses in, Tutto. What are you doing? Take it around. Down there, paint the horse. Get it, boy. Buck, that horse doesn't like you. You have any idea of why? Ah, now, hold on. Never mind that horse. We're here for a showdown.  You needn't search me, sheriff. Search yourself. What? I have to, sheriff.  That's a downright lie. Wait. You brought dope over the border every time you crossed. That's why you were giving all those false leads. Bless you for that, I never did. Wait. The sheriff didn't know he brought the dope over. He always used a room on the first floor of that hotel in San Sebastian.  It was replaced by one, which was filled with the dope. My leg? Yes, that's the truth, sir. Let me see you. Let me see you. You'll find that the bottom unscrewed. Here, here. Here, give me a hand. Sam, you take a look at the peg. I sure will. And when you got back to your home, the leg was taken and replaced by another hollow one. You were given another false lead to follow. Look. Here's the stuff. Well, sheriff, I turned to think that my own boss... How did know nothing about it? Now look here. Wait till I finish, sheriff. There's the dope all right now. This trip was to end the smuggling for a while. It will end it for all time.  Wanted to pack their saddlebags with it. Who? That's why they wanted to travel in your protection. No one would search the men who were with you. Sheriff, we can back what he says. We were with him all night. We figured you'd just pull it wool over our eyes when he let us travel with him to stand watch over your room.  No more am I. Maybe he's trying to frame me. To frame you? To clear yourself. Just what we hankered to find out, sheriff. He maybe let us see part of the smuggling game to throw us off the suspected him. You men were with me when that hat reached which peg legs. Yeah, but I... You know that I had no chance to touch the saddlebags of Buck Wilson and Skog Granger. Oh, it's Skog. He's wise to go. Yeah, cover it. So you're the crook.  Pain horse! That horse! That's what it means to be a tough enough. Cover the bag up. Hands up. Down, pain horse. Down! Down, pain horse. He's tore the saddlebag loose. Look, he's stopping at that saddlebag. He's split it over. Get your horse away. He's found that saddlebag to dust.  Down, pain horse. Down! Hey, sheriff. That saddlebag is evidence against Buck Wilson. So it was him that arranged them false leads. And we vouch for the masked man, sheriff. Wilson's the smuggler. Yeah. What about it, Wilson? Don't... Don't let that devil horse hurt me. I am a boy, sir. A half-breed is already in custody in Mexico. Gosh, I wonder what made that horse act local. He probably centered the drug when Buck Wilson lashed him. And he associated the scent with something he learned to hate. Horse is more sense than some people. But how'd you know about Wilson? Wilson didn't bother to trail the man who tossed a silver bullet. Your deputies did. Stranger, that engine's horse is sure saved us. If it hadn't been for him, we'd have... Ain't horse plenty good. Engine? He's sure enough won his place by his thunder. That horse is a sure enough good scout. Good scout? That good Tonto Lake scout? The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporate.


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Well, good morning everybody. Thanks to these good guys here who came to clear the yard here early in the morning Because of that we're not snowed in So the weather outside isn't the greatest yet, but it's a lot better than it was last night You guys watch yesterday's video. Oh, buddy, buddy, slow down What's the point of going so fast?  I Was about to get going When we're gonna be one of those days the good thing is we're not snowed in the weather has improved and I've talked to Britt back at home. The weather is clear back at home, which is an hour and a half north So we're gonna get moving. I want to go home I've got my tail lights cleared off went around make sure all my tail lights are clear Almost every single one of these trucks I've seen pull in here Their tail lights are completely covered with snow and you can't see them. That's very dangerous on the road Especially in a snowstorm What if you come up to some stop traffic because someone had an accident or something? There's no way to let drivers behind you know that you're stopping because tail lights are covered with snow That is just asking for accidents and deaths to happen. So I know they always get covered up with snow Mine do too. I just remember when you do pull over just a friendly reminder Just go back there and clear them off take a glove or a rag or something. I'll just clear the snow off and Make sure you don't get rear-ended Alrighty everybody let's pull ourselves out there nice and slow This trucker wants to go home and be able to see those trees up in front of me there It was so bad. I could barely see this road to get on here The thing is yesterday I checked the weather forecast the weather said it was clear that it got better as we went north They lied it got worse But my wife is up north right now and she says it's clear there. I trust her I don't trust the weather man Take the entrance to the left on I put in I'm north Leaders take the entrance to the left on I put in I'm north. Oh, yeah, the roads are not bad at all Okay, good. You'll see once we get out here. I was worried. I would have to sit here all day waiting out the storm And then I wouldn't get to go home at all. Tomorrow. I've got to get to work again. It's a bit worse there Karen I'm trying to tell the story here quiet for Christmas go home for Christmas and then just stay home Until the end of March that would be great. Maybe one day when I'm like semi-retired Blow in the shop and I was detailed last time I was at home That's something to look forward to to go home to nice clean guys with guns coming 42 into the town of St. Pierre St. Pierre jolly. I just call it St. Pierre What I did was I got off the open highway of Highway 75. I think a snowmobile is coming right down the road Cold day to be out there It's actually pretty warm riding those things those things got heated everything anyway I came over to the east to Highway 59 that runs parallel to the 75 on the east side of the Red River. I Did that because it's more sheltered here. So the wind isn't getting here as you can see it's perfectly clear This is the road I take one is really windy out on Highway 75 on the west side of the Red River there It's all wide open farmland. So the wind really picks up You can do the same thing in North Dakota Depending on where you're going. I mean if you're going to worse Minneapolis If you hop over the river on a US 59 It goes through the bush Which shelters you from all the wind? I'm sure you can find routes like that in all different regions Well, it's wherever there's more trees. You're gonna get less wind obviously driving across the open prairies and plains is Gonna be pretty brutal the wind there's nothing to stop the wind I'm in the yard, and I'm watching these van drivers that came in The same time as me. They're already leaving going home Must be nice.  I like flatbeds, right? Not everybody can be a flatbed driver. It takes only the best or the craziest, you know, we could just be crazy Here goes this guy Heading off home Okay, don't wave. That's okay. That's okay. Yeah, you rub it in rub it in Just to go home park the trailer and go I do love my job though I do even on the cold days. This is what we do. This is who we are. This is our identity It doesn't mean we have to like it, but this is what we do Winter will be over eventually. It just started Shouldn't have said that But it'll be over eventually, right? I mean soon summer will be here beaches, yeah Warm water swimming Swimming pools slides All I can see is snow in front of me, so this isn't working at all Thanks for watching today everybody. I'm gonna run home and stay warm. It's supposed to get down to minus 27 minus 30. What did I say before?  I was supposed to be home yesterday, but That's snowed in It's the way it is this way it goes. It's winter time We've got to head out tomorrow again. So join me tomorrow I'm gonna come hook on to a trailer here and hopefully the brakes won't be frozen on us So we can get going go do another loop and get another week done Gotta keep working just because a little cold doesn't mean the bills stop wouldn't that be nice Wouldn't that be nice? Oh, it's minus 27. Oh, don't worry about your bills Don't worry. No, you don't have to pay them later. We'll pay them for you Who's we I don't know? Anybody you want to pay our bills? So I don't have to work in but it's not gonna happen. So we still have to pay our bills Still have to go to work It is what it is No use complaining about it though. We're gonna do it a little bit. Anyway, we're gonna complain about something, right? Otherwise the people in my comments don't have anything to complain about if I'm not complaining because then they complain about me Complaining you see it's a little circle circle of life there. That's how it works. So that way we all have something to complain about Don't forget to hit that like button on your way out and catch me back here tomorrow. It's gonna be cold. I Need your warmth come keep me warm, please


Let's hit the courts, Jax hosted a quadrangular this afternoon, let's start at one singles. You've seen this guy play many of times, Spencer Canince, nice little backhand drop shot there, he would win the match 6-2, 6-1, let's go to two singles, Andrew Hockinson, he also had the backhand work, nicely done there, he would fall though in that set. The doubles play, the Jax top pair Cody Hendricks and Nick Palmer, they put that way with Thor, they go on 1-2 today and finally number two doubles, Ben Hess and Colton Michalichek uses it a length wisely, get out of the way, the final and that one Thief River Falls would win the quad with 17 points, but maybe it would be seconds with 12 crooks and 30 east grand forks and fourth. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


But lately, you know, they've excavated some that were destroyed by earthquakes and it turns out almost all the rooms were used to store the pottery used to serve feasts. Wow. And really what these things were, were places where large groups of people came together and ate together. Yep. And... Socialized. Exactly. That's the huge thing. When you want to punctuate time, when you want to create a sense of growth in the life. Yes.  Kids. Kids. These things are all marked by foods that we eat and the same thing like on the rhythm of the year. Yeah. We have Valentine's Day and we have Halloween and we have Thanksgiving coming up. Thanksgiving. And all of these events are, you know, on some level, yeah, they're marketing to us and they're selling us all kinds of often hideously unhealthy foods. Yeah. But what we're doing with it is building community. Yeah. And building social ties. And it's a very human thing to do and really important.  Well, the snails went to one person to be analyzed and the pot went to the ceramics person and they're interested in, you know, how the pottery was traded and only in the last 20 years have they been interested in what it was used for. Yeah. And as always, the focus was on the pot. It's like, you know, understanding American culture by looking at containers without ever paying attention to the stuff that's in the container. Soup, you know, tamales, tortillas. So many different variations. And we're like seeing this absolute revolution in archaeology as people start to recognize that it's important, you know, the way that people use the food. So, you know, we can tell what people ate. We can tell how much seafood they were getting in their diet from looking at different isotope signatures in the bone. Wow. We can now get residue from the edges of stone tools so we can tell what they were cutting with it. Yeah, that's crazy. Right?  And we now can get residue out of pots and we can say, oh, they were drinking cacao out of these pots. So now when we see a particular shape of pot, we can say, yeah, that's a cacao drinking vessel. Yeah. And they're that shape because it was foamy and they didn't want it to overflow. Like the foam on top. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, suddenly they're turning the tools around and using these incredible new techniques to get so much more information than we ever had before and to think about how people created social life. Yes. And I think as archaeology progresses, we're going to find out that there's a close relationship between politics and hunger. Yeah. I think what archaeology is going to be able to show us is what kinds of things produce such a radical kind of inequality that some people are willing to stand around eating while other people in front of them are dying of starvation. Yeah.