The solar car is a all-encompassing, all-consuming pursuit. Everything else goes out the window. Girlfriend, parents, friends. Eating, sleeping, certainly. It was worth it because it changed my life completely. When you make something, and you can see it working, it's just amazing.  Most of the students in our team find it really easy to find really great jobs when they graduate from Stanford. So we have folks that go in a company like Boeing or SpaceX, Tesla. The solar car experience was the most important thing I did at Stanford. There will be classes that you took that you don't remember at all. But going to Australia and driving your car across a continent under the power of the sun and only under the power of the sun together with your friends is a defining experience that you will remember until the day you die. So I'm really excited to be here today. We're here to celebrate our 25-year history at the Stanford Solar Car Project. The Stanford Solar Car Project was founded in 1989 here at Stanford by some really driven engineering students. It's an entirely student-run group. What we do is we design, build, test, and then finally race solar-powered vehicles. So we compete every two years in something known as the World Solar Challenge. It's a really large event held in Australia. We are required to drive 2,000 miles across the entire Australian outback just using solar power alone. It's a really competitive event. It's really difficult. This past race was one of the most exciting in our recent history. Our latest car, Luminos, which raced in the 2013 World Solar Challenge, this very grueling race. It did very well. We're here at the start of the 2013 World Solar Challenge. Over the next couple of days, our team will be driving around 2,000 miles across the Australian outback. We think we have a very robust vehicle that's also efficient. So we're looking for a top five finish, hopefully, in this year's race. The race itself has teams from about over 20 other countries. It allows you to see that there are really good engineers and meet really good engineers from every country and every continent in the world. I really think that's a really cool part of the experience. This year we had 15 or 16 team members from Stanford. They're participating in the race. I do love World Solar Challenge. It's so pure as a race. Just point A to point B, first one there wins. Point A to point B happened to be 2,000 miles apart across some of this inhospitable land on the planet. I love that. I found that I really like collaborative engineering. I have a lot of fun because I get to work with a lot of really smart people at Stanford. I'm a rising sophomore at Stanford. I'm majoring in mechanical engineering. Try going a little, like, a few degrees more vertical. Okay, stop. I've actually taken three quarters off for solar car. I will finish in five years, which will be 12 quarters of school. And my major is computer science. I'll be a fifth year senior when I get back from this race in computer science. I'm an economics major at Stanford and I've been spending the last two years working on this vehicle Luminos and I also raced with the team in 2011. There are three classes that compete in the World Solar Challenge. The class that we competed in is the Challenger class and that is straightforward racing. You have one person in the car. You're trying to go as fast as you can. All the teams begin in Darwin, which is on the northern coast of Australia. And from there on, the teams are racing head to head to Adelaide, which is the finish line of the race. Darwin in Australia is a very special place and the lines of a lot of people on our team. It's in the subtropics, so it's hot, it's humid. There's a lot of mosquitoes and other bugs and on top of that there's crocodiles, plenty of dangerous poisonous things. We usually set up ourselves in a hostel. The majority of our time in Darwin is spent at a race track called Hidden Valley, focused on doing last minute preparations for the race itself. I'm Max Prazlin from the Stanford Solar Car Project. I'm an electrical engineer on the project and I've been working with the team for about two and a half years. I joined actually about exactly a year ago and just the fact that I'm here in Australia now is pretty crazy. In the World Solar Challenge, the teams that place in the top three will actually receive recognition and a big medal. So basically, the Gold, Silver and Bronze teams are kind of the top teams the next two years throughout the globe. For the last six or so races, there's been two teams that have traded back and forth winning the World Solar Challenge. The Dutch team, Nuon, and also the Japanese team Tokai. And then the University of Michigan is also another top team. They've consistently been in the top three. There's always naturally a little bit of a competition between Michigan and Stanford. We were focused on them. We wanted to beat them. They wanted to beat us. That's a good rivalry. Michigan is a fantastic team and Michigan provided all the incentive we needed to sort of pull those extra late nights. We were kind of in the dark with respect to Twente. We had gotten to know these guys and they're really funny people. Yeah, definitely one of the fastest teams in the whole race. Very good team master students. In the Netherlands, they take a year and a half off to do it. They build a beautiful car, race very fast. One of the cool things about our team is that we're completely student run and our university involvement is really there to support us, not to direct us. A lot of these other teams are run by professors. They're either completely or mostly grad student composed. And it was really cool for us to see how these other teams are run that were really a lot older than us, a lot more experienced. Right now we're at Darwin Showgrounds where they're staging the event scrutineering where all the teams that are competing in the race this year go through about four hours of regulation checks with the officials for the race. One of the first stations that our team goes through is a battery check station. At high noon when the sun is high above the sky our team will use a solar ray to charge those batteries at the end of the day and in the early morning when the sun is low in the sky we can still cruise the same speed using the extra energy stored in our battery pack. I'm curious to see what other teams have for their battery packs. Most teams keep them pretty under wraps. This was just a station to go through and put an orange string across the pack so that if we were to tamper with any cells it would be obvious that something had happened. It's just sort of a safety check that they have that teams are following the rules. Hopefully in the course of the race we'll never open the battery pack again and it will be on no problems. One of my main projects was building the battery pack mechanically. Max Praglund did the electronics and Rachel Fenichel did the code. You start the race with a full pack. You're fully charged in Darwin and you end the race with an empty pack. Some days later, so you don't discharge to zero every day and you don't recharge to full every day. My other role on the team as of recently has been working on our race strategy and part of that is having good models of the car so I've worked very carefully to identify how the car performs in different conditions and then use that information to decide how fast we drive the car. If you go faster you're actually burning quite a bit more. Sometimes it'll be better to go faster by one kilometer an hour over a long period of time rather than faster by 5 or 10 over a short period. It depends on what your strategy guys are saying you should do it depends on what you think the weather will be ahead and whether you have to outrun clouds, stuff like that. One of the more fun parts of scrutineering is the driver egress test where upon the driver must be seated inside the car with their seatbelt on and get out of the car and I believe it's 12 seconds. But the way it works is you get locked in the car and you have your harness on and your helmet on and the radio and they give you a countdown. Time starts and you have to get out all by yourself. A lot of things could go wrong it would require a driver to get out of the car immediately. Most obvious being some sort of a fire and either electronics or the battery systems which do happen. With Luminos it was pretty easy to get in and out of. Some folks actually have to transform from designers to race car drivers like Anna Olson. One of the roles that you played in Australia was that of driver and can you explain to everybody what is the experience like of driving Luminos? One of the most challenging parts about driving the solar car is that it's extremely boring. Your only job is to sit there and keep the car between two straight lines on the road. There's basically no air movement inside the car.  It's definitely unpleasant objectively speaking but at the same time you're driving a solar car across Australia. That part never gets old for me. Our organization has kind of a dual purpose between providing educational experience for the students on the project and making a really high performance vehicle. Should I redesign this? Should I do something new? It would be a little more educational for my members so really navigating the tradeoff between good race performance and doing things that are new is probably the toughest challenge. My name is Alex Tilson I'm a 1992 graduate of Stanford so I was at the very first meeting that the Stanford solar car project has ever had. It was freshman year. In 1989, no one had built a solar car before. It was the first drive we were doing in Australia. I was the first to take the car to Australia and the World Solar Challenge in November of 1993 where we were 13th I believe out of 40 that started roughly for speed record across Australia for 20 years much to our surprise. The teams that went subsequently didn't finish. I know at our company our entrepreneurial success I partially relate back to the solar car experiences. It taught me a lot as a leader taught me a lot as a manager taught me a lot as an entrepreneur taught me a lot as an engineer. The solar car team and technologies are usually ahead of their time in terms of looking at the next best generation of batteries, the best solar panels best motors and efficient converters, things like that. Most of my involvement with the solar car team was toward the end of when I was at Stanford. I had many friends that were part of that team throughout my time there and I recruited most of the people from the team when we started Tesla. It was a key thing in the beginning of Tesla. I think it matters more than most classes you can take. It's one of the things that even today at Tesla we look at on resumes in place at higher than perhaps higher than what classes they decided here and there. So the process of getting our solar car from basically a blank sheet of paper with no ideas yet to having a vehicle that can be ready to race across this drone outback takes our team about 18 months. It's a very quick cycle. We'll spend about three months doing preliminary design work. Once we get to the mid-fall we'll start doing some of the manufacturing work. The vast majority of the components of the vehicle we actually manufacture here on the Stanford campus for example the carbon fiber composites we ramp that up in the late fall going into the winter. Basically the entire vehicle's composite monocoque chassis and exterior shell is made out of carbon fiber. We have a lot of titanium components in the vehicle. We have very high efficiency solar cells on the top of our vehicle in the solar array. And our team usually spends about two or three months doing testing here in California for the most part. For example we'll spend a lot of time in the valley where there's a lot of open farmland where a team can do testing that's a lot more similar to the Australian outback. We've also done some wind tunnel testing in the past even not in North Carolina. Key word for that cycle is testing, testing, testing. We actually put the full length of the race on the car in test miles in the United States which is a challenge most teams haven't been able to accomplish. This year our team was very fortunate in that we had a couple hundred great sponsors that supported our team and all together the program this cycle had about $1.6 million worth of parts and cash that were donated to our program. Of that maybe $400,000 was cash and the rest were parts that were donated to our team. For example Panasonic was one of our big sponsors this year that provided battery cells for our vehicle. So the Stanford team assembled hundreds of our cells into various blocks. Those blocks were assembled into a battery pack and they did all of the integration of the cells complete with the battery management system. And this is an amazing effort considering these are young adults many of them not even officially graduated yet and being able to pull this off was really I think quite magical. One of the big sponsors was ST Microelectronics that provided a lot of the integrated circuits for our vehicle this cycle. These microprocessors are kind of the center of what our software team works on and this is a little circuit that we use on pretty much every circuit board on the car. The invisible software that just makes everything on the car work and have all the different elements on the car talk to each other. We've been sponsoring it for over six years now and we'll continue to support it because now we're very involved. It actually goes quite fast I accelerated I thought I scared the crowd by driving at them and they got the message get out of the way. It was great, no it was good fun but what I was fascinated by was how they do everything on this car from scratch it's an amazing achievement for undergraduates they have to still study and get their homework in as we all know on time and get their projects done at the end of the day it's also a lot of fun and I think that's what comes across they really enjoy it and very enthusiastic and that's it and like all semiconductor companies there's a method in our madness you know we're a European company we're in the middle of California and we've become famous with the next generation of engineers right you know catch them early as they say it's a fantastic project it's better than I expected I mean people have been telling me about it for years but now I've been up close and personal it's impressive for the summer our big deadline in the sand was to get the car in a boat seven weeks before we needed it in Australia usually our team will ocean ship our car because that's the most cost effective way this last year I tried to make a big effort to try to find a corporate sponsor that could support our team with air shipping but I had very little success for months on end until I got some inroads with Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic air shipping is something we always talked about doing but it's hard and Wesley manages all in the background to get this sponsorship it reinforces the opinion that he's magical Wesley was amazing at logistics how was the year? beautiful Greg was great for technical advice knowledge and they were just both fun people to be around they did a fantastic job so with our team we definitely have a lot of passion and strong personalities every time water drips out fortunately this year we had a very strongly knit group of students that were out in Australia by the time we got to the race we were really functioning as a well-oiled machine that on the car is still on? fortunately for us Stanford University provides cash support but we still operate on a pretty tight budget when we're in Australia we weren't dining out every night but no we're not starving and also this is partly because the team tries to put most of our money into racing you can live on P&J for a while the one large expense that our team members have to personally cover is a flight ticket to Australia and for many members of the team that's a barrier that prevents folks from being able to go to Australia to experience racing in the outback in addition to the solar car itself our team has a convoy vehicles that we use to support the race car so this year Volkswagen provided us with four vehicles to use and our team picked up those vehicles in Melbourne, Australia the first vehicle that we have in our convoy we call the Scout Car we provide weather data just ahead of our team and reporting it back to the rest of the convoy they'll also report if there's any kind of new road hazards we wouldn't expect Australia does have a lot of kangaroos and they're actually primarily nocturnal creatures so they'll kind of get attracted to this road surface at night when the road is warm and the weather is cooled down a bit the problem with this is that there's road trains these three or four trailer long semi-truck configurations what they have adopted is they'll call them rougards where it's just a steel grate in front of the truck they won't stop because they can't stop and they'll just run these kangaroos down it and it happens there's roadkill on the road and we have to navigate that the next day the next vehicle in the convoy is called the lead vehicle and this vehicle will run maybe 500 yards in front of the solar car itself and then just behind the solar car is the chase vehicle and the chase vehicle is usually kind of the headquarters of our race convoy the final vehicle that we have in our convoy is our trailer vehicle which we use to carry all of our tents all of our camping gear and also some of our race equipment as well all the teams today got a chance to race their cars around the Hidden Valley race track and the team's racing time on the race track is what the officials use to determine the grid order for this year's race well it's a little bit nerve-wracking to be the one doing the hot lap just because the whole team's kind of counting on you everyone's worked really hard to get us here the Sampertine did very well we came in with a 2 minute 7 second race time that was the third fastest in the challenge class so that means that we'll be placed third car at the start of the grid for this upcoming race the day before the race I felt ready and I know a number of other people on the team have also felt ready I've been doing solar car for four years and this is probably my last shot at it so today is race day it's a little surreal to be here we're all obviously very pumped up a lot of adrenaline flowing none of us have slept all night waking every hour in anticipation of the day we're just really excited it's going to be a great race and a wonderful way to see Australia we... hope to win I'm excited, our team's excited feeling good got a good night of sleep and we're ready for a long race you kind of start to reflect a little bit on 18 months of everything the sleepless nights the joy of something working bickering about what's the best design what's not the best design the agony and the ecstasy of it all so my parents have decided to come to be the, as they call it drive the chuck wagon for the team like my wife says we're chief cooks and bottle washers we're making sure that the team stays full we're the cookies they'll be making our food and just handling the food logistics for the whole trip the nice thing about that is it means the team doesn't have to worry about food they can take a big chunk of work off of the team and leave us to sleep and make sure the car goes really fast really excited it's been a long process and here we are the door was Thanksgiving two years ago was a piece of cardboard and he was designing it fun to see it go from the idea to this the other guy that came was named David Olson he was a fantastic asset to have because he knew Outback Weather really well I believe that at the present time we're looking at some bad weather towards the last day what we hope to be the last day of the race if we can get there and fast enough we should be able to avoid the worst of it and then if we don't go fast enough we could run into some bad weather near Adelaide so you can see your power drop to near zero with the cloud in front of the sun and we think that if there's enough sun that we should be able to have enough energy in our batteries to make it down to Adelaide but it's really a scary game to play when you don't know if you're going to make it to the very end I'll be driving the first shift which is exciting but it's probably one of the more complicated shifts just because you're in real city traffic the nice thing is the convoy knows what to do we're rehearsed at this, we've done this on the first day of the race the teams are released off the starting line every 30 seconds or every minute or so getting out of Darwin was quite an adventure and there were a lot of teams it was just very dense traffic a lot of passing, very chaotic over the course of the race there's 9 or 10 control points that teams hit the biggest cities on the Stewart Highway every few hundred miles there might be a city with a population of 30 as the teams come in their racing clock will stop for a period of 30 minutes so teams can buy food and water for the next day of racing refuel their escort vehicle this control point will do a little bit of work on the car that's a little bit superficial so things like checking for bugs on the array makes the tire pressure okay basically the thing is that you want to evaporatively cool the array and as they heat up then we start straining we use deionized water or de-mineralized water for things that we're not leaving residue on the array getting a little more power than expected Nuon which is a team from the Netherlands their car Nuna 7 has concentrators in it so these are magnifying devices and that gets them a lot of extra power it's legal you do get a lot more sunlight onto every cell Nuna and Twente are in front of us we passed Michigan a short while ago for Michigan so we have pretty good sun coverage right now there's a bit of clouds but based on our weather data the clouds should clear up pretty soon and hopefully we'll have clear skies between here and the next control point as the teams continue for the rest of the day of racing before they get to the end of the race day at 5pm each day they'll have to try to scout out a place to spend the night so what the team will do is quickly pull the vehicle to the side of the road and then often times what they'll do is they'll take their array of the solar panel set them up so they can point to the solar panel directly at the sun for the last final hour of the day finally being in the race was definitely exciting although that sort of wore off after the first hour and then it was just a struggle to keep wiping the sweat off your face but it was a good time we're fourth now currently and ahead of Michigan I got to pass Michigan I looked over in green at their car and as long as we're standing in front of Michigan we'll be happy for now is Michigan back behind? yes, Michigan is just down the road a little ways behind us we didn't say that, we missed it we set up the array stand picking a position where we're going to get the most sun that we can we need to rotate the back of the car closer to me what they can say is okay, I think that you should go up by this amount and that's kind of eyeballing it based on angles that we can see alright, that's pretty good but then after they say I think we should do this, they can actually check we have a telemetry system and so we're getting data from the car directly to a laptop I can see the numbers they can say, okay, we're getting five more watts than we had last time, so this is a good angle ready for food and then looking forward to the stars out in the outback that's one of the coolest parts about camping out here we wake up before the sunrise, we get the array stand out we push it upright and we point directly at the sun and then what people do is we adjust the angle of it back as the sun goes up still keeping it pointed directly at the sun it was nice to camp in front of Michigan for the night, I'll see how long that trend can hold but overall things aren't really going yesterday despite it being a very stressful and hot day we were happy how things turned out the car is doing really well so far are we getting the rear fairings guys? fairings are the way we make the car aerodynamic around the wheels so the fairings come down off of sort of the main body of the car and shroud the suspension the brakes and the wheel and the motor and so the fairings are something you need to be able to get on and off to change tires we took the fairings on and off a lot of time on it cut it our team makes a a large investment in ensuring that the people that go to Australia understand their roles and have a good sense of unity with their team members there's definitely other teams that may have a lot more drama so as much as we can we try to avoid any kind of conflicts we would have at the last minute when it comes down to actually racing across the outback it wasn't really until all the cars were out we really knew how our team would stack up against Michigan and the Dutch teams and the Japanese teams that often beaten us in years past this year the Stanford team had a couple of alumni from our project that were tagging along with our team most of which were from Google actually they were rooting our team along they were also doing some recruiting at the same time what SolarCar does do that's really good is it's just the absolute best training ground for new engineers to really get some experience under their belts before going off into the world the last few people who have joined the Google X well, self-driving teams mostly have been from the Michigan SolarCar team the Minnesota SolarCar team and the Stanford SolarCar team I guess I should say that SolarCar is about 95% of the reason why I got my job it's pretty hot, the car is feeling pretty good though it's pretty stable it feels good about how long were you driving and about how many? about 5 hours we're pretty happy with where we are right now if you'd said 2 years ago that we'd be here we probably would not have believed you yeah, we're excited to be top 5 so far, really happy with how the car is doing no major problems now not yet, you never know today I'll be the driver in the afternoon from Tannin Creek where we currently are down to just a little shy of T-Tree it looks like, I haven't seen the latest models but last I've heard we'd be pretty close to there tonight we're in the outback now and you can kind of tell so it's a little more sane driving you can run your own race now as opposed to having to jockey with other teams a whole bunch so it's a little more relaxed in that sense Jamie, did you have a hammer? yep so we're camping up for the night and getting ready to eat some steak how's this? Michigan's still in undetermined but few kilometers behind us so that's kind of fun to still be this close at that point and Twente we think is about 20 to 25 minutes ahead of us it's nice to be within 30 minutes of a podium at the moment we're going to have to have a lot of people out to make sure it doesn't it's going to want to tilt like this and hit the tail there you go famous outback recipe ready for flipping it's containing kangaroos I got the baby wallaby batch baby wallaby batch they're good they're mad tasty the food has been very good I definitely can't say I was expecting to eat this well in the middle of nowhere on this laptop I have a set of graphs and numbers that are reading live data off the car and the idea is that by looking at the live data off the car I can match that up to our predictions that we've made so within a few minutes of noticing that we have more power in our battery than we had originally planned I can look at our numbers see what speed we should go to kind of match our predictions the biggest city that our team hits over the course of the race is Alice Springs which is right in the center of Australia the Stanford team is well over halfway through the race now we've been cruising anywhere between 85, just over 85 kilometers an hour on a daily basis right now which is fast for our car, fast for a lot of teams my name is Peter Collins my duties as an observer is to observe the activities of the team and record anything that might be a little bit out of the abnormal and pass it on to the officials so since leaving Darwin I've been with three different teams it's good fun of course coming home with all the teams is a wonderful experience because you do meet some young people who are our future and I think it's rather exciting to see them at work oh you found some wood! got the Barbie going they're little you don't we're just trying to get them more like half size I cut the carrots and I got somebody to cut the broccoli we're having curry tonight I'm done our team is aware of some that have probably dropped out at this point in the race there's two Dutch teams then one Japanese team that are still ahead of our vehicle but in terms of the competition behind us we're pretty far ahead this one's got a few cuts but nothing troubling can I uncheck? everything has been going very well so far the car has not broken down we've been sticking within a few KPH we've directed speed from the first day we have plenty of battery pack there's a lot of good sun right now it looks like we're going to keep up a tailwind until we get towards the coast from there it's kind of questionable what will happen we're looking at a storm system kind of rolling in from the ocean when we arrive in Adelaide so looking forward to another day of driving really fast music we had really strong tailwinds going into Cuperpete so not all cars are built to handle these kind of a winds unfortunately one of the cars at University of Michigan crashed today going into a control stop unfortunately they're okay but it's unclear what their status is in terms of racing but that would be a pretty big upset they've been the fastest American team for about two decades we started the day 45 minutes behind 28 men are now 5 or 6 minutes behind them it's cool to be right up there neck and neck with another team it's pretty weird after 2600 kilometers to be right on someone's tail I think everyone is starting to get a bit tired of camping in the Outback I haven't taken a shower since the morning of the race which would be four mornings ago and we're soon coming up on some very fly heavy areas I'm not a fan of the flies tomorrow's going to hopefully be our last day of racing the next day we knew it was going to be cloudy but it was a question of how much cloudy we would have to deal with and when and where the rain might hit us this was a photo of us huddled around our laptops trying to decide what we were going to do on the last day of the race so our decision that night was that if we got any bit of sun in the morning we would try to catch Twente and that meant that we were going to throw all of our best practices for race strategy out the window and this was kind of a calculated gamble we knew that if we caught them it would be worth it and if we didn't catch them and ran out of energy we might be stuck on the side of the road good gamble makes it fun, makes it exciting makes it really freaking stressful on the last day so that last day waking up it was definitely exhilarating we figured they probably had more on the battery pack than we did but we wanted to keep pressure on them hoping they would make a mistake we know they were worried about us it was really fun to be in an active race that late in the game against the team we all respect so much we had a short drive from the place that we had camped the night before to Port Augusta we're at the last control stop right now the Solar Team Twente is in third place we're going to have to brave this terrible weather but our team was trying to get the last potential wattage out of our solar ray so we had our team propping our vehicle up to get a bit more sunlight to improve the power output of the solar panels hey Wesley what time do we leave again just so we know it's really going to be a race to Adelaide don't know if we have enough sun to get there don't know if they do if we got zero sun we surely won't make it to Adelaide it's about 200, 300 kilometers from here to save some energy it's a high stress time right now after 30 minutes we had to jump in our convoy vehicles and try to chase down the Dutch team just ahead of us so the rules of the race dictate that we must always be traveling at least about 35 miles an hour when we're on the road and for the last day we went about 35 the entire way the most stressful point in that drive from Port Augusta to Adelaide is when motorists started to cut out already meaning that it was very low in battery pack and we're coming up to the largest grade on that section of the track or the race course and we were at the bottom of it and it was raining very hard my vision was highly obscured by fog so I couldn't see very well but halfway up they realized uh oh we're not really going to make it pull out of the top of the hill I personally needed to use the facilities as well as wipe out the condend compensation inside the cockpit but once we got to the top it was literally downhill from there fortunately we only had to stop twice briefly unfortunately the Dutch team 20 ahead of us had a bit more energy and they were able to pull away from us on the final day of racing I feel really great we just finished with the car we became third we were pretty close with Stanford and they were constantly like 15 minutes behind us it was such a pleasure to race with them so I was really happy that we got a little bit of sun in those last 30 minutes or so they were able to drive us through the finish line so my first error was stopping apparently about 6 inches short of the line it was a really nice culminating experience getting fourth place last drive I was having a solar car to America's number one solar car team made it yeah got a little shaky at the end but trucked on through awesome like we're the first team to finish from Stanford and forever and we did it properly we didn't break down I'm going to take a nice long shower and get rid of this red honed back dust all on me and then I'm going to take it long now yeah so excited so so happy I was so nervous nail biter it was a nail biter feeling relieved fourth place best finish ever I think for Stanford so couldn't be much happier great great we're all at the finish line and a timing and we're very very happy the next car we expect to have here on the finish line will be the Stanford solar car project from the United States from here is the truth energy sciences tricks on the battery seals thank you very much I like this this pack it's nice not a speck of dust or anything on it congratulations it's a very nice pack thank you it's very good the team this year did very well we're very happy with the results and having the best finish in Stanford's history I was fabulous what they did the team had been in a 20 year Australia rut and we're thrilled that the team went and obliterated the 93 Stanford performance and beat Michigan really was the top all students team in the world had software to Wesley for heading it up and for everyone else for being a pivotal part of it as well there's also using an award that goes to teams that are recognized for their I guess spirit in the event itself the 2013 Bridgestone wealth center challenge the David Puchak spirit of the event award is presented to Snotfart sorry Stanford that's just an effort to recognize teams that doing something special to make the World Solar Challenge really an exciting and fun event for everyone involved and this award is yours as much as it is ours thank you I would easily rank the Stanford Solar Card Experience is my top experience I've had here at Stanford but there's still some lingering stress I can say from the last year and a half and I'm sure I've taken months if not years off my lifetime by the amount of stress that I've gone through one of the reasons that you can kind of justify to yourself putting so much time in it is because it's kind of something that society needs a little bit so beyond just the educational thing there's also a cool kind of pushing showing society what's possible you know maybe this much in energy to get from Darwin to Adelaide to start out almost 2,000 miles on a few bucks of energy if you were charging it off the grid so it's not a bad deal yeah it's not a bad deal after I got back from being in Australia I began my job search to find a full-time career and I just recently joined Google working on their self-driving car project what do you need? right so I'm graduating in June going up to Yosemite for a week to relax vacation go hiking and then I'm going to start working at Google X writing code as a full-time job this just isn't flat yeah I was working at Tesla the spring and summer leading up to the race so now I'm full-time at Tesla in the battery design engineering group there's no question that I would not have gotten my very first internship at Tesla without what I learned at solar car I certainly hope that the university continues to put resources behind this and also stay out of the way enough to provide a place that students can really have that freedom so they can push the boundaries, fail occasionally learn from the failures, make mistakes that was one of the instrumental parts of solar cars there was never a safety net to prevent you from making really bad mistakes and you learn amazingly quickly in an environment like that it's a little bittersweet to see it finally end but I'm glad I got to go out on a very high note like this and I have so much confidence in the people that are coming up we just had such a great group of young people join this year the team's in great hands can't wait to see what comes next that's what's really incredible about this experience to me is that you join as a you know wide-eyed undergrad with no concept of anything that you think would be useful to the car at all and then you know eventually you realize that at some point between Australia and where we are now the wand has been passed down and it's it's our turn to build a solar car


What's going on guys got Kyle here relating sports cars, and we are ripping one box for Tony e it is gonna be a 2022 Panini's on a Panini honors first off the line Good luck Tony. Let's see what we got a sticker right there first off the line, right? We'll start with the base pack Good luck first up. We have a rookie. That's gonna be George Pickens That is number to 75 on the 2003 throwback And we've got Dak Prescott purple that should be number to 12 For the Dak first in case auto is gonna be sauce Gardner Nice one there number 12 of 15 on the rookie sauce nice hit there for the Jets a DV And your in case card is gonna be one of one flawless John Lynch Nice one there on the beautiful flawless card got him a GM John got him on the Broncos and the box Nice hit there for the John Lynch That is a beautiful card One of one on the recollection collection Alright Tony and that will do it for your one box of honors. Thank you so much. We'll get it right out to you


P.O.S.T. P.O.S.T. Post. The serials you like the most brings you the Roy Rogers show, starring the king of the cowboys himself, Roy Rogers. It's round the time on the double-R bar, settle your hall. The double-R bar ranch transcribes stories and songs of the real west with the whipper-wills. The wisest trail scout of the mall, Jonah Wilde, played by Boris Lewis. The queen of the west, Dayelevens. And in person, the king of the cowboys, Roy Rogers. Howdy folks, this is Roy Rogers. Say, is the post-serial shelf pretty well filled at your house? If not, you'd better tell your mom so she can do something about it, buckaroos. Post-serials are good. You can count on anything bearing the brand-name P.O.S.T. and a fella should have them handy all the time. Well, sir, I hear another young couple who bought that little ranch from Artie Kerner's having trouble. Seems like nobody can make a go of that place. You can't buy back this place, Mr. Kerner. Not now or ever. Well, now, John, I know you're having trouble. I thought I might help you out if I... I don't care what you thought. This ranch isn't for sale, especially at half the price I paid you for it. Well, now, let's be calm. The only reason I came here was to do you a kindness where you stand to lose everything in this house. I don't want your kindness. Now, get out. John. Now, what? May I say something? Sure, go ahead. Well, maybe Mr. Kerner's right. Hey, see? Keep out of this. My wife is talking to me. We are at the end of our row. We can't go on. Wouldn't it be better to save half our investment than to lose everything? We worked hard for our money and to lose it all now. Your wife is right, John. I'm just being neighborly that's all. You take what you can. You take yourself out of here. No, no, no, no, don't be hasty. Right now. John. Do you hear me? Well, that's the way you feel. That's the way I feel. John, you're wrong. It's a month or two months from now. You'll be coming to me on your knees. I doubt that. I won't be of a mind to give you anywhere near as much then. I may not even want your ranch. It's Mrs. Kennedy, I feel sorry for her. Her future isn't very bright. That sniveling cheat. He knows we're in a spot. Things that can take advantage of us because... Irma, where are you going? I don't know exactly, John. Oh, no. Now wait a minute. You can't leave me. It isn't because of the bad luck we've had, John. I'd stick with you if all our cattle had died. If we'd lost everything. But when your stubbornness keeps you from doing what you know is best... You're leaving here. Is that it? All right. Maybe I am stubborn, Irma. But if I am, it's because I won't let a man beat me when I'm down. I just won't. John Kennedy surveys the little ranch that was to mean so much to himself and his wife. The cattle have died one after another of some mysterious ailment. Their hard-earned money has gone. And now John is alone without his wife. He corrals the few cattle that are left, deciding he'll save what little he has. He feeds them the best of food by hand. Next morning he goes outside. Five more are dying. John mounts his horse and races toward town for the veterinarian. An hour later, Roy and Jonah are in the Eureka Cafe having dinner and talking with Dale. A shot is heard outside in the street. What's all that? What was that? Why, it sounds like Custer's last stand in a small way. Hey, Roy, somebody's after Arthur Kearney. Open the door, Jonah. Quick, let him in. We're convolutions. Is that the gunman there riding away? It could be. Let me in, let me in. I was almost killed. Somebody missed you, eh? Yeah, the fella must have been an awful bad shot.  Oh, Roy, Jonah, stop kidding him. This is serious. Who did it, Kearney? Oh, I'm glad you folks saw what happened. If I decide to take John Kennedy to court, you can testify on my behalf. We didn't say the shooting. Is John Kennedy the man who shot at you? I was just trying to be kind. I knew he'd had bad luck with the little ranch I sold him, so I went out the other night, and I offered to buy it back. And he refused, and I approached him again just now, thinking he might have changed his mind. You've bought and sold that little ranch a half a dozen times in the last six years. It prospers as long as it's in your hands. But the minute a new owner gets it, his cattle start dying. Now, Roger... Then you buy the ranch back for half the price you sold it for, and the whole thing starts over again. Now, you're insinuating things you can't prove. John's cattle have been dying, too, since he bought the place. Haven't they? Oh, yes, yes, they have, but it's no fault of mine. Kearney, what would you say if I told you I took over that ranch a couple of days ago? You...  Am I? Well, what do you want with it? I'll check with the county land office and see if your deed has been recorded. Oh, yes, I'll go right now. Well, right on here. I certainly will. I don't believe a word of it. That fellow's a mess, Roy. How pure unadulterated mess. Yeah, yeah, oh, now, wait a minute, Dale. That's the insult to the army to call him a mesh. When'd you make a deal with John Kennedy, Roy? I didn't say I had. I just asked Colonel, what do you do if I had? Oh, that's it. Uh, maybe I will, though.  John ought to be home by the time we arrive. I'll not sell my ranch to anybody. I'll still hang on if every animal I got dies. You're new to this territory, John. You just couldn't have known the history of this place. And nobody thought to tell me. You didn't give them a chance. Well, maybe. I guess I thought I was getting a bargain. John, there's something mighty odd about the mysterious ailment cattle get on this ranch and nowhere else. It's not mysterious anymore. You're wasting my time. I found out what's killing them. Local weed. What? Well, I haven't seen any local weed around here for several years. I can take you out of the feed pans and show you some.  John, how did your cattle act before they died? Well, they were skittery. They'd scare if a leaf blowed across the ground. They'd lift their legs knee-high to step over a twig. Sometimes when they put their heads down to drink, they'd miss the tank entirely. Well, that sounds like it. Oh, where do you get your feed? Oh, tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck. Raise my own feed. But there wasn't any local weed in what I put in the pens. Roy, could the real trouble be already, Colonel? John, if anybody asks you, I want you to tell them that, well, you've turned your ranch over to me. I ain't selling. You don't have to sell. Just let on that I've taken over and you're working for me. What's the sense of that? Well, it'll give me a chance to pull up a little stunt. A stunt that'll help us find out the truth. Bill returns to her cafe in Mineral City and for the next 24 hours helps sped word that Roy has taken over the little ranch run by John Kennedy. And these 24 hours are busy ones for Roy and Jonah. They transferred John's ailing cattle to the double R bar where there is no local weed and drive a few of Roy's own cattle to John's ranch where John carefully watches the feed pens. At the end of the 24 hours, Roy and Jonah appear in town for the first time. If I figured right, we should have some action, Jonah, real soon. My bet is that it'll come from Artie Kerner. Mm-hmm. What's the matter? Don't you feel good? Oh, Roy, by doggies, I'm getting disgusted. Now, I spent three or four hours yesterday deciding to wear my orange necktie instead of the yellow one and another three or four hours practicing what I'm going to say when she opens the door. She? Whoa, here. Maybe you'd better start at the beginning. Well, now, Roy, you know that I couldn't keep my appointment last night because we had so much work to do. I didn't even know you had an appointment. Well, sure. You know very well, I mean... Oh, say, maybe I forgot to tell you. It, uh... It was with the school mom. The... Well, what do you know? Well, pure business, of course, Roy. She's got the only typewriter in town, so yesterday morning, early, I went over to the boarding house. Oh, let's tie up here. Yeah. Well, sir, she'd come to the door and she's got this. You know, Roy, that school mom's a real pretty woman. So, I've heard of it. Yeah, well, pure business, of course, and I asked her, would she be willing to type this book of mine when I get it read? Yeah. One about people I've met and the experiences I've had with them. Walk on up the Dale's Cafe. Well, sir, Roy, she looked out at me from under them long glasses of hers and she says... She says, why, I'd be happy too, Mr. Wilde. Mr. Wilde? Yeah, says, I didn't know we had literary man in our midst. And then, sir, Roy, she looked out at me from under them long glasses again and she said... Well, Roy, she says, come over any evening at all. So, I thought I'd go last night, you see. Hey, wait a minute. Ain't that Artie Kernan coming out of the Eureka Cafe now? Yeah. Let's see what he has to say. Yeah, Dad read that pool cat if I ever seen one. And I have seen one. Well, well, I was just about to write out to you, please, Roy. Is that so? Yes, it's a little matter of business we ought to talk over. I couldn't find any record at the land office if you're taking over Kennedy's ranch. Now, legally, I'm... Put your conscience at ease, Karner. We know what has been causing the bad luck out there. And from now on... Yeah, what caused it? You may see an announcement about it in the Mineral City Gazette tomorrow. Yeah, you wouldn't make a thing like that public. Why not? Eh, eh, eh, it's all right. Well, I've got to run along. Hey, best of luck to you. Yes, very best.  Yeah, a full-fledged pool cat. A three-striper at least. Let's go on into the cafe, Jonah. I will give Karner a chance to slip out of town. You gonna let him get away, Roy? We'll let him start, then trail him. He'll probably head out to where the local weed's growing and try to destroy it. Say, it's easy to blaze the trail to a better day. Just start off with a ripped snorting breakfast built around new, improved post-toasties. Fresh, crisp flakes of corn, rich with sweet kernel flavor. Yippee, what a feast. Post-toasties, heap good corn flakes. The best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. Heap good corn flakes. Post-toasties, heap good corn flakes.  Remember, post-toasties with sugar and cream are heat good and heat good nourishment, too, for rock and horse cowboys or big braves. So be a good scout, Mom. Dish of post-toasties. The best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. Post-toasties, heap good corn flakes. The best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. Heap good corn flakes. Post-toasties, heap good corn flakes. Believing R.D. Kerner is guilty of killing John Kennedy's cattle and will fall into the trap that they've set. Roy and Jonah pretend to ignore him. They go into the cafe. Seemingly carefree, yet they're watching every move he makes. Howdy, Roy. Jonah. Hi, Dale. Hey. Looks like we're going to get us a mousse. Yeah? How's that? Kerner, he's about to lead us to where the local weed's grown. Good. If he's at fault, he'll have to pay for the cattle he's destroyed, won't he? Oh, say, Roy, I found this a little while ago. It's for you. A sealed envelope? Yeah, it was lying near the cash register. I have no idea how it got there. Oh, my gracious. You had me scared for a minute. Thought maybe it was mine. A ballin' out from missing my appointment last night. Now, Jonah, a lady who looks out at you from under those long lashes wouldn't ball you out, would she? This is a note from John Kennedy's wife. Yeah. I have something important to tell you and I need help. I'm staying at Gary Buell's house and you come there at two o'clock today. It's important. Why would Irma Kennedy call for help, Roy? Well, let me finish. Please don't bring anyone with you and don't ride Trigger. He would be recognized. She certainly makes it sound mysterious. Well, if you want my opinion, somebody's trying to trick us. What if they're not, though? Jonah, you take Bullitt and Trail Kerner. I'll go with him, Roy. All right. But just follow him. See what he does and don't tangle with him. I'll get a horse from the leverage table and check on this note. Roy rides to the Gary Buell home a few miles from town, timing himself to arrive at exactly two o'clock. He dismounts, looks about. The house seems deserted, foreboding. Roy goes to the front door warily and knocks. He waits. Turn around, Roy. Well, howdy, John. I reckon you're kind of surprised to see me here, aren't you? Yes, I am, to tell you the truth. I got a note from... From my wife? Yeah, that's right. She said she needed help. Nothing's greedier than a greedy woman, is there? And nothing's lower than a cheat who pretends friendship. What does that mean? You, Rogers. Maybe you'd better explain yourself. Sure. That wife of mine wanted to ranch for herself. She worked it pretty. Then she got you to thimble-rig me into giving you the deed and you're to turn it over to her for a couple of hundred dollars. That way I'll be out in the cold and you'll... I've heard enough of that foolishness, John. I knew you wouldn't need to have much explaining, Don Rogers. Looks as though somebody wanted to cause trouble between you and me, doesn't it? It sure does. Because I got a note saying you were to meet her here and turn over the deed. This is more of Artie Kerner's work. You got an awful glib tongue and some winning ways.  Got it out, John. This is what Kerner wants. Kerner got us to meet out here for some reason... Fight, why don't you?  A man can take just so much, John. I didn't want to do this to you. I'm sorry, John, but maybe if you stay here for a while and see that Irma doesn't come to meet me, you'll cool off a little. Roy turns, walks over to his hired horse and mounts. He wheels about and rides across country toward the John Kennedy ranch, thinking Artie Kerner may have gone there and that Dale and Jonah will be on his trail. But the ranch is deserted. There is no sign of Kerner or of Dale and Jonah. Roy rides back to Mineral City again. Took you an awful long time, Roy. I was looking for you and Dale. We've been here all the time. Kerner didn't leave? No, guess not. He walked down to Liberty Stable, I followed him that far and he sat down like he's going to stay all afternoon. What'd you do then? Come back here? Well, yes, sir. Figured it wouldn't do to let Kerner know he's watching him. Any luck, Roy? Yeah, and all of it bad. What happened? Somebody's trying to turn me and John Kennedy against each other. I've been trying to figure out why ever since. Yeah, there he is, Sheriff. I knew we'd find him here. It's Artie Kerner. Howdy, Sheriff. Hi, Kinstar. Howdy, folks. I hope you won't let your personal feelings stand in the way of your... I'll handle things, Kerner. You keep quiet. Yeah, keep quiet. What's all this about? I happen to be writing by... I said I'd handle things. Yeah, it's, man. Sounded like a steamboat whistle, the voice like that. Kerner says he was riding a trail over by Gary Buell's old place. He heard a shot and saw you riding away, Roy. He heard a shot. The two shots, in fact, and I was quite some distance away. When I got there, I found John Kennedy's body. Just outside the house. His body? Somebody killed John? If you saw me shoot another man, you should have interfered, Kerner. You were too far away. You were out of range. But you recognized me. It wasn't too far for that, was it? I recognized your horses. You were leaving. It's a pretty well-known fact that nobody rides Trigger except you. Roy didn't ride Trigger this afternoon.  Easy, Dale and Jonah. Sheriff, Trigger's been in the livery stable since about one o'clock, and he's still there. Sorry, Roy. He's not. What? He is. I was just there to get my own horse. Now then, there's just one more piece of evidence. It's this, Roy. Recognize it? Yeah. It's one of the conchos off my saddle. It was found a few feet from where John was lying. Tinch, sir. I don't care if there is a law officer present. I'm going to take it. Put that gun back, Jonah. Put it back. No, sir. I'm taking, Kerner. Put it down. There. Convolution. Didn't confound you. I don't blame you, Jonah. Kerner, for the sake of your own security, I think you'd better get out of here. Sure, sir. This occurs. If I can be of any more help, you just let me know. You ain't going to live that long. Jonah. Looks like he's fixed things good. John isn't dead, Roy, even though Kerner believes he is. I had to dark go out and get him. He's taken two bullets out of John. Sheriff, I admit being out to Gary's place and meeting John, I had a fight with him, but there was no shooting. Roy, all I can do is... I'm going to ask you for just one hour of freedom before you lock me up, Sheriff. One hour to prove I didn't shoot John. I'll give him my word, I'll be back. John and I will stand, Roy's place, Sheriff. What are you talking about? When have I ever doubted Roy? His word is always good with me. Thanks, Sheriff. Well, maybe you ain't so bad at that, Tin Star. Come on, we'll get bullet. He's got to do some trailing for us. Getting for his own ranch, Roy. He sure ain't according to bullet.  That poor cat's heading straight for John Kennedy's ranch. He certainly is. He's going to give himself away, Dale, John. Roy, Dale and Jonah come with insight of the corrals as John Kennedy's ranch and pull up their horses. Woo-hoo. Easy, buttermilk. Inside the corrals is Hardy Kerner, beating the cattle, driving them out toward the range. His activity is furious, like that of a demented man seeking revenge. He gets on his horse, wheels at him out and rides toward the little ranch house. What's he going to do now? Watch for a minute. We'll have to take him. Kerner seems literally to have lost his mind. He leaves from his horse, runs to the house, goes inside. Roy, Dale and Jonah follow, bullet at their heels. They hear the sound of chopping, smashing, something breaking, coming from the house. They go through the door and stop. Kerner is there. He's back toward them. Broken furniture, household equipment. He has a can of kerosene in his hand. He's pouring it over the debris. He takes a match from his pocket. Kerner reaches for his gun. Roy draws. I'll pick up his gun. I have another gun, Rogers! I have another! Stay back! Stay back where you are! You're not taking me in! He's as bomby as a bullbat. Don't move, Kerner. Stand quiet. You know, the way folks all over the country are going for post-sugar crisp, it's got to be good. You bet. Post-wonderful new cereal treat has caused a sensation everywhere. And if you've tried it at your house, you know why. As a cereal, it's dandy for snacks it's so handy or eat it like candy. Post-sugar crisp really perks up a breakfast menu. It's so delicious. Just add milk or cream and it's ready to serve. No sugar needed. It's already sweet. It makes a perfect snack between meals too whenever you crave a special treat. And folks love to carry post-sugar crisp right along with them wherever they go and eat it like candy right out of the package. It's wholesome wheat for nourishment and that sugar and honey coating for flavor and quick energy make it a wonderful pickup anytime. Don't just take my word for it. You try it.  Well, it crouches at Roy's feet. Kerner stands some 10 steps from Roy. His eyes glazed. His cheeks flushed. Dale and Jo no wait. Ready. Roy takes a step toward Kerner. Stay away from me, Roger. Roy walks slowly, carefully toward the distraught man coming nearer, nearer. Kerner backs away into a wall. Roy continues. Kerner's face is a light with fire. Suddenly panic strikes. He glances about wildly and Roy springs. I got you. Good work, Roy. The time goes. Stand around here. Let me load. Let me load. That's it. That's better.  I'll get away and I'll destroy your place. Get a rope, Jonah. We'll need it. I've had a good thing here buying and selling this ranch. And you're taking it from me, but I'll get even. I'll get even with you. He's hysterical, Roy. He'll cool off when we get him to town. And that won't be long. All right now, Roy, Dale. But he won't quite believe he admitted everything. I guess the pressure was a little too much for him, Sheriff, when he knew he was gonna be caught. Well, we'd better ride out and see if Trigger's at the ranch. He'll be there. He always goes home when he gets loose. Hi, Irma. Oh, I've just been over with John. He's feeling a lot better. Everything's gonna be all right between you two again, huh? Oh, yes, Roy. Yeah, I'm glad. Well, I was wrong to leave him. And he was wrong to think I wanted to take the ranch away from him. So both of us have something to live down. Well, here comes the author of Paradise Valley. All right, all right. Make your sneering remarks. But you just wait till you see a great big thick book come out with my name on it. Thick will probably be a good description of any book you'll write. Did you see the school teacher, Jonah? Um, yes. I read the first chapter to her, and, Roy, I'll tell you, she was a laughin' one minute and a cryin' the next. Don't doubt it a bit. Is she going to type it for you? Oh, yes, Dale said she'd be glad to.  Dorothy May. Where's your hair like gold brown with wave after wave? And when she smiles at you... Well, never mind that. Did you offer to pay her for typing your book? Yes, sir. Yes, I did. And she said she'd do it just for the pleasure of being associated with a literary man. Oh, go ahead.  But there is a darn fine woman. I say, there is a darn fine woman. Wouldn't take a cent. Said if I didn't feel right about it, and, Roy, how much does a console radio cost? Or a moving picture camera? Or a bone china dinner set?  She's got him good. Double convolution. Yes, sir, she sure has. Jonah, either you'd better take up typing yourself or let somebody hold your savings account in trust. It isn't going to last long if you don't. MUSIC Look out, folks. Here comes a good old-time square dance. You know, back home, we used to get together every Saturday night, calling all the neighbors, move all the furniture out in the backyard, sort out our best gals, and really tear the splinters out of the floor. So here we go on Ragnian.  Here we go.  There's your holes in the ground, but be slow and sit your knee. Let me get your dough and say, and here let Patrick throw and meet your barber wall store. Meet your honey in your powder on the head so you don't like this computer corn bread. Hit me low, but if I burst up, the hole will blow and everybody jump.   You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. I don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. You don't go around the world. friends you'll be glad to know that Roy Rogers and Dale Evans have been accorded a very important national honor and here is Mr. Paul Manning Hollywood editor of Exhibitor Magazine to tell you about it as representative of Exhibitor Magazine it is a privilege to present to you Roy and Dale the Laurel Award in recognition of your selection as Hollywood's outstanding husband and wife ambassadors of the year this award the first of its kind in motion picture and radio history comes to you from thousands of film exhibitors who believe that your way of life your interest in youth and your faith in the future exemplify the highest type of Americanism with it go Exhibitor's best wishes for continued health happiness and success as they say in your golden west happy trails it makes me very happy to accept this award this is Roy Rogers saying to all of you from all of us goodbye good luck and may the good lord take a liking to you see you next week happy trails to you until we meet again happy trails Roy Rogers show is brought to you by Post Serials each week at this same time with the Whipper Wills, Forrest Lewis, Dale Evans and the king of the Cowboys himself Roy Rogers an art brush production transcribed directed by Tom Hargis, scripted by Ray Wilson, music by Milton Charles featured in today's cast were Frank Hemingway, Herb Butterfield, Howard McNeer, Charlie Smith and Martha Shaw this is Art Ballinger speaking for P.O.S.T. Post Serials happy trails to you until we meet again happy trails keep smile who cares about the clouds if we're together happy trails


Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talked a lot about beloved community. In her excellent column in this month's FUS newsletter, our communications director Brittany Crawford cited a definition of beloved community that I really like. Beloved community happens when people of diverse racial, ethnic, educational, class, gender and sexual orientation backgrounds and identities enter into an interdependent relationship of love, mutual respect, and care. Love, mutual respect, and care. Importantly, Brittany also quoted Bell Hooks who says that the beloved community does not remove differences, rather it removes privilege. Beloved community does not happen when the differences between individuals and groups of people are erased and replaced by a monochromatic unity. Well, Dr. King was an idealist and he was a realist. He understood that all people, himself included, make mistakes. In the language of his Christian faith, he recognized that all of us are capable and at times exhibit sin. Communities are made up of people. Therefore, no community completely and perfectly embodies the ideal of beloved community. What we can do in actual community is try to embody the principles of beloved community as often and as consistently as we possibly can. To the extent we do so, beloved community comes to be in the here and now of this world. So, there are not specific beloved communities that, like LEED certified buildings, have the stamp of approval on them, but there are communities that figure out how to embody beloved community true mutual love at least some of the time. This understanding of beloved community thinks about my own way of seeing paradise. I don't think a paradise is some state of being we might find after we die, if we've been good people. Paradise, rather, is something that can be embodied here on earth. I actually believe the same thing about hell. That's not somewhere else after life. It is embodied here on earth, unfortunately. So, we don't achieve paradise and get this is paradise, stamp of approval. We can approximate paradise at times. Paradise on earth is always fragile and it is always impermanent. For me, paradise on earth includes those qualities that we talk about in beloved community that Brittany highlighted in her article, love, mutual respect, care for one another. I would expand it to also include relationships, not just with people, but with that wider interdependent web of existence. As Unitarian Universalists in the United States, we've begun to have a reckoning these past four years with the legacy of white supremacy culture that is part of our UU heritage in this country. It's occurred to me that the environmental ethic comes more easily to most of us in our mostly white denomination than the anti-racism ethic. I've come to the conclusion that therefore we need to prioritize the work of racial justice and that this is actually key to making more progress in our environmental justice work. They are inextricably linked. No racial justice, no environmental justice. I think this realization is part of why First Unitarian's Board of Trustees has included anti-racism, anti-opression work in this year's strategic priorities, one of three strategic priorities, and I applaud that decision. Now, it can be tempting to look at these different types of justice as either or propositions as part of a zero-sum game, and this is not the case. Putting a primacy on racial justice for a period of time does not mean that we quit doing environmental work or that we don't believe that this environmental work is urgent and important. Rather, it is saying that as a predominantly white congregation in a predominantly white denomination, we have some long overdue work to do on racial justice. And doing this work will help us do everything better, including environmental justice. So we're putting a primacy on racial justice work this year into next year. I hope we keep it front and center longer than that because it's going to take a while. All of this makes me think of one of my kids. One of my kids responded to being challenged to do something better with, you know, I just stink at that. As in, I'm really bad at that and it's hopeless, so forget about it and leave me alone. Well, none of us are good at everything. There are some things we really struggle with. Sometimes it's okay to let those things go. But sometimes we need to keep on working on them. So to be blunt, in many ways, our American Unitarian Universalist faith has stunk at anti-racism work. We've missed opportunities. We've made wrong decisions. Not always, not all of us, but enough of us, me included. Often enough, me included, that it's been a problem. But anti-racism work simply can't be something that we shrug off with. Well, we stink at that. We have to try. We have to work at it. No doubt, we will keep making mistakes, but I believe in my heart that we can do better. And by we, I mean me, and you, in First Unitarian Society, and our UU Association in the United States. Friends, the world needs us to do better. Our UU kinfolk overseas need us to do better so we can build truly mutual partnerships together. First Unitarian Society and our UU faith in the United States need us to do this work so that our congregation and our faith can survive and thrive as the United States becomes more thoroughly multicultural. Our neighbors of color need us to do better. They need us to be in the trenches working with them, supporting them in many ways following them to make Madison a more just place. We need to do this work so that our beloved congregation can more consistently embody beloved community. And we need to do this work for our own souls, not for some heavenly reward, but so that we're better people and that we leave a better imprint from the way we live our lives. So there's a movement to highlight this anti-racism, anti-oppression work within the Unitarian Universalist Association by adding an eighth principle. The proposed eighth principle reads, we the members of the Unitarian Universalist Association covenant to affirm and promote journey toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse, multicultural, beloved community by our actions that accountability, dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions. It's kind of a lot to say, so I'm going to say it again. We covenant to affirm and promote journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse, multicultural, beloved community by our actions that accountability, dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions. Well, I support this eighth principle adding this to our seven principles, just as I supported adding an additional source of our Unitarian Universalist faith several years ago, namely that spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature. I supported that that needed to be part of what we cite as our sources of our faith. Well, it's important to understand that the seven principles and the now five or six rather sources are not some sort of creed all statement. They weren't imprinted on stone like the Ten Commandments. They are a snapshot summary of what most Unitarian Universalists believed in the 1980s. And just as our faith is a living entity, so must our understanding of what's most important among us be alive and growing and changing. So the eighth principle recognizes that this anti-racism, anti-oppression work, needs to be front and center for us for a while. Since I first encountered Dr. King's book, where do we go from here? Chaos or community maybe 30 years ago. I keep coming back to it. He wrote that book in 1967. It's my favorite book of his. And every time I read it every few years, I think, wow, it's as if he wrote that book for this precise moment. Listen, for example, to this quote from the book. At the other end of the poll are unregenerate segregationists who have declared that democracy is not worth having if it involves equality. The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms with reestablishment of naked oppression and if need be a native form of fascism. Wow. Could that not have been written on January 6th, when an overwhelmingly white mob attacked the United States Capitol, some waving Confederate flags? Now there were lots of motivations for those attackers besides indiscriminate devotion to an authoritarian leader. Certainly some, including the insider in chief, were on regenerate segregationists out to cancel beloved community wherever it has happened and come to be in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words in 1967 are spot on for 2021. In that question that Dr. King posed in the title of his book, where do we go from here? Chaos or community remains such a potent question. Certainly it's an apt question in the wake of the January 6th insurrection when we had a picture yet again of what chaos looks like. Now we don't know for sure how things will unfold in these coming years, but it's clear to me that there are two sets of paths that we could take. And one leads toward chaos and one leads toward community. Which path will our nation choose? The only way forward in my view is toward community. That was true in 1967 and 77 and 87 and 97 and 2007 and 2017 and 2021. I think Dr. King would have understood this even though he really wasn't sure in 1967 that there'd be a 1977 for us, let alone a 2021. Hear these words from his book. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leads us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on.  There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. The moving finger rights and having writ moves on. We still have a choice today nonviolent coexistence or violent co annihilation. This may well be met human kinds last chance to choose between chaos or community. Wow, those are powerful words. I think that we need to take a leap of faith every day. Every day when we are encountered with the fierce urgency of now. And that leap of faith is that maybe it's not too late that at least it's not too late to try. The video sharing this morning by tequila beton underscores the fierce urgency of now. The fierce urgency of this work. Her son's well being and maybe even survival depend on our city and our nation finally choosing the path toward beloved community. We are part of a society that funnels to Kayla son toward prison or even an early grave. We can work with tequila. We can support tequila and others to help transform our society to one that funnels her son and all children toward beloved community. We have to feel to Kayla's and her son's story as she asks us to do. We have to love them as if they are our own because they are and we are their own confronted with the fierce urgency of now. Let us choose community and love.


If we rewind 70 years to 1949, the atrocities of war loom large in recent memory. More than 50 million were dead in the wake of World War II. Everyday people, like you and me, found themselves without adequate legal protections. And so we, as a world, vowed we must do better. A diplomatic conference again brings together in Geneva practically all the states of the world. Its effect will be to alleviate human suffering, to bring aid to all military and civilian persons incapacitated by wounds, sickness, captivity or loss of their freedom. Strong limits were set on the brutalities of war through the Geneva Conventions to protect persons who aren't in combat. In the years that followed, this system of protective yet realistic rules enabled the Geneva Conventions to make their way from the halls of lawmakers to the battlefield, where they mattered most. A powerful message rang in the air. People, no matter where they stand or what they support, must be treated with humanity. And states now had the responsibility to make sure grave breaches committed during armed conflict will not go unpunished, regardless of where they take place. Today we see the profound impact the Geneva Conventions continue to have around the globe.   Because it leads to many women's lives. I'm telling you, it's not just about many women's lives, but many families' lives. The stigma and destruction of dignity caused by sexual violence can upend the dynamics of communities. In Syria last year, more than two million people were in need of access to essentials like food and medicine. And yet despite the clear need for rapid and unimpeded access, only a handful of convoys were able to provide assistance. I've been in touch with you for a long time. I've been in touch with you for a long time. At the beginning of the meeting, it was very difficult. Without humanitarian assistance provided for in the conventions, the losses and trauma could have been even more catastrophic. The Geneva Conventions created a system of prevented measures to ensure that breaches of conduct would not occur, with an obligation for states to train their armed forces on the laws applicable during warfare. Today, violations of the laws of war continue to be of concern to the ICRC. Well, states have asked the International Committee of the Red Cross to be the guardians of the laws of war, so we don't own the law. But it's our job to make sure that it's applied, that it's understood, as much as possible it's respected, and we're necessary that it's updated. Every time a healthcare worker crosses a checkpoint or essentials like food and water are provided to families in besieged cities, it's made possible by the Geneva Conventions, because even wars have limits.


So for my project, the one that I managed to finish or almost finish was the minor lookup. So this is chart data. This is chart using data from panel locations and Lily, for those who don't know, Lily is a tool that follows the PowerPoint train and extracts like useful data such as minor info, messages, actors, states, and so on. And basically puts it in, not, sorry, not basically, but it puts it into a focused database without timescale DB extension or you can think of it as a timescale DB. And so this was a chart that I put there for somebody in PL a few months ago. And if you can see the geographic distribution of miners across the world. And yeah, surprisingly, a lot of them are, storage providers are from China, mostly. However, we only had geolocation of miners who thought supported their IP using data script from Lily. So in other words, we depended on the goodwill of miners to tell them like, to tell us what their IP addresses are and using those IP addresses, we would then use geoIP-IPFS to figure out like where in the world they are located. So there's a work in progress available in the link. You can clone the repo and check out the branch, create a post-care database with timescale extensions and insert some data from the mainnet using Sentinel archiver into the miner info table. And then you can run Sentinel locations and try it out. So what it does is that that adds geolocation of miners to the Sentinel database using only their PRID. So this is accomplished using the CAD DHT and the basic DHT crawler. So actually, usually you also need the state tree plus with the PRID to figure out which miner it is that this PRID belongs to. But because Lily already has this data script, I just use SQL to fetch this data from the miner info table. Because I didn't want to pull in state tree data just for this one little constraint or one check. Yeah, and in the process of doing this, I also implemented rating process of a node through a bootstrap here list, very similar to JS and PTP bootstrap, which is here in bootstrap.go. You can check it out, most of the work is there, like parts of it or a small part of it is in main.go of the same repository. So I'm thinking of actually maybe like pulling it out and putting it into its own repository because I noticed that this is like a process that a lot of people do to, or not to rail a node using bootstrap list. Just a before and after. So here it was the SQL query to get minus the self-supported IP address on the left. It's really straightforward and actually works super well, it's very fast. And on the right, we have the crawl happening using the DHT. Basically what happens is that the crawler uses the DHT routing table to figure out what peers we have found. And then I add the list of peers found to, I add the peers found to a list of known peers and basically process it with demarcation. So yeah, this is a really bad gift of peer IDs to their multi addresses and using crawl. It happens super fast though. I had to like slow it down. That's why like the quality is really bad. But yeah, if you clone the repo and run certain locations, it will look like this. So what's happening here is that peers are being discovered and it's being added to like the list of peers that we know that we don't have to process them again to look up their location again. Because we are doing this for a lot of peers and it can get really slow really quickly. Yeah, I think segmentation error due to a new pointer dereference. It's really deep in the stack trace. And it actually like, so I discovered that well, in the lesson learned, I looked at the library is large. I spent a lot of time writing my own color actually in the beginning. And so I didn't have this like a segmentation error. And then I discovered like two days ago that this crawler package was already existing and much better than like how I wrote it because I also learned to go during the lunch pad. And so yeah, but then after processing like it would hit the segmentation error. So it would not like commit the changes in database even though the lookups were happening. So yeah, and then add to the crawler. Yeah, a lot of the issues that I also had was actually like having the wrong protocol prefix for five coin mainnet turns out it's testnetnet. And I really had to go deep into like a Lotus code base to figure out what the correct protocol idea is for five coin mainnet. So that basically like the peer ideas could be verified and validated correctly in the DHT. Yeah, I'm keeping track of go routines. It's really hard. I think that's probably why I'm having the segmentation error. And so I'm gonna try and fix it today or tomorrow. Let's see how it goes. Yeah, that's pretty much it from my side. Thank you.


While more reactions have continued to trail the state of the nation's economy, following the current hardship being faced as a result of the fuel price hike, as well as the rush to swap the ordinary note for new ones. A human rights activist, Patrick Ehollow, who spoke with a correspondent in Edo State believes that the citizens are being taken for granted by the present administration. Well, you know, these governments, whether it be past or present, they're in certain intelligence. They're being also granted.  We're playing the blame game. And we have a government. Yeah, it can't be so. It is a revolution. And the government said, price a fist. We should sell the four, for example, for 190. It should be 190. And maybe the body violates it. The person has to be prosecuted. And if it's the marketer, the marketer has to be sanctioned. But the issue is that the government has no, like any other country, they have policy like any other country. Our problem is that we don't have implementation because of nepotism, favoritism, and correction. Because we are afraid to sanction certain people. We know the root of our problem. But we have the gods to tackle. Despite the announcement of a postponement by the CVN, it says the citizenry is not without blame. We are passing the chunk of the blame to a mefale. We are passing it to President Bahare. We as citizens too also have our own blame. It wasn't announced today, it was given time to ensure you take your own note to deputy because we are trying to believe that it's policy again of cashless society. Right? But the issue is that many Nigerians are thinking that when they take 10 million to the bank, they will have an extent of 10 million in cash. My observation is that they have to explain it to the general public by the central bank which is their responsibility, and they did bankers that I tag the corporate criminals. Everything to a mefale and they are going to the floor of the city to explain to us why we have 200 million, 500 million new notes, there are at least 1,000 in obituaries and marriages. And when we go to the bank, we don't have access to the new note.


Steve Irwin Day, which honours the late Australian conservationist and TV star every year on November 15, took on a special flavour in 2009 as Terry Irwin became an Australian citizen. Terry choosing to become an Australian as a special way to honour the memory of her husband. We all know that Terry Irwin is a true blue Aussie, but today it's going to be official. She's going to be officially made an Australian citizen. In front of friends, family and well wishes, American born Terry made her pledge of commitment to Australia in a special ceremony in Australia Zoo's Crocosium, her children Bindi and Robert by her side. Senator for Queensland Mark Ferner presided over the ceremony. I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people. I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people. Whose democratic beliefs I share. Whose democratic beliefs I share. 2009 is the 60th anniversary of Australian citizenship. In honour of the occasion, Terry was presented with a specially minted commemorative $1 coin. On behalf of the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, I have great pleasure in presenting you this specially minted $1 coin. So congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you, this is a great honour. Bindi and Robert leading the Crocosium in a loud and proud rendition of the national anthem. Terry, who scored 100% in her citizenship test, says that she's proud to have taken the final step to become an Australian citizen. I feel like I just got married.