Well, I actually thought it was a rehearsal, but I see it's a rehearsal with a live audience, okay? So I'm not quite ready, but let's let's let's just do this But what can you do better on a you know lovely Friday afternoon other than talk about packaging, right? So what was I thinking about back in February? And hi, my name is Tiago I come from the whereabouts of Lisbon and beautiful and sunny Portugal which you should visit it's an amazing place and by the way We're having our first PyCon. I learned that yesterday And in the end of September or August check it out. Go visit beautiful weather cheap beer a beautiful place friendly folks other than me, so come visit now Back in 2015 and Bilbao to your Python. I met this gentleman Nicholas and Nicholas is not an orangutan Nicholas. Are you there? You're there, okay? So that's But after having checked with him. He liked this image It's the picture he uses for his get-up avatar and back then Nicholas was talking about the BBC micro bit and the new editor if you don't know about the new editor it's a very Beginner friendly Python editor and it's much more than that Actually editor to code runs you code debug to code works with all sorts of tiny and fun micro controllers like the micro bit back then And of course it's written in Python and it bundles Python now being beginner friendly Means it meant back then and it still means today. That is a it is a single file download So beginners don't need to go which Python version do I download? What about an editor? How do I make them go together? It's a mess and we all know about that So it's a single file download you install you go At least on Windows and Mac which is which are obviously the most common platforms that beginners and most people use around the world And if you don't know it, you should use it. It's it's very fun It looks like this you type your code you hit the play button. It just goes. Okay. It's amazing. So back then The new editor and Nicholas made beginners all over the world like this They were happy because it was easy to learn about Python and how computers work great But time passes and time plus is more and more and more and at some point users want more of course, and that's perfectly natural and They wanted to be able to use third-party power packages from pipeline with me Okay, which is perfectly reasonable and leveraging the huge ecosystem of things It's is one of the amazing things that draw people to Python now The development team gave it a few shots. So how do we go about this? And after a few attempts, we came up to the conclusion that well you should actually create a virtual environment Well behind the scenes beginners don't care about virtual environments and then grab packages from pipeline and install them there Okay, this is the technically correct solution It's actually working a few years later But that made us kind of okay stop What are we doing here? We we want to do this but packaging wise this is not going to be easy And now if our previous talk was about Packaging within the Python ecosystem. So you package something that you will later They've installed so we are within the Python ecosystem now shipping me you or a generic Graphical user interface application goes out of the Python ecosystem and out into the world to users that don't know We don't care about Python so Common thoughts and questions. Do we have the VM module on the Python we bundled so that we can create the virtual environment? more importantly Not as trivial Does the Python we bundle on Windows or Mac support TLS because we need TLS or aka SSL To speak to by PI. Otherwise, we can't really reliably download packages and the clicker clicks And we were back then already using some customized Python run times to ship with me In particular for memory. We had to add or hack or bake in tk So as to support the turtle module. That's beginner friendly So there was this thing of a consistent Python run time that we are as developers We were using building me and that we were shipping to users Beginners don't really care which version of Python. They're running as long as it's kind of three ish Okay, but the consistency of behaviors across platforms of these hidden behaviors is important so this kind of what was development focus how do we do these things and It's time progressed not only users and developers had these thoughts but platforms evolves and new Python releases came out And they're coming as out every year now. So it's crazy fast and on Mac in particular Apple required kind of a secondary additional stamp for software to run say natively and without kind of frightening warnings on users platforms So there's this notarization process that was new for us and the tools that we were using back then Didn't know how to do it and we didn't to know what how do we go about this? So move forward to 2019 at Euro Python again in basil and there's Nicholas And there's the new editor development team and there's beginners all over the world and it was girls What are we going to do about this and the development team goes? This is not going to be easy. What do we do? We don't want beginners all over the world to look like this Okay, we want to give them the new they want and the tools they can use to explore and learn Okay, and one of the culprits here was packaging me and particular on Windows and Mac OS These are the topics I mean Different tools per platform with different capabilities with different Python version support and everything does a mess, okay? It worked but it felt like daunting Move forward one other year and that's Tiago back home. Okay in a sunny Portuguese beaches amazing and I dare say the Famous first words of many many many open source and volunteer projects and that's a heart in this be Okay, who hasn't said it before this this get me done and so this August something at once something in the morning. What was I thinking? I said let there be pop, okay? So I created pop And pop is about native packaging But I I I rather prefer the word native feeling okay, and what do I mean about native feeling now? I want to bridge the world between developers and common and users, okay? So for a developer what's native is I can use any Python version any GUI toolkit any dependencies Okay, and I want to leverage them the knowledge I have on Within Python ecosystem packaging. Okay. I don't want to learn new things Now for end users Okay, they're not Pythonistas. They don't care. They just want to use an application They want a single file download or an app store download we'll get to that. That's the easy part They want the native Installation feeling on Windows it's like at the next next next and you never read the things you just go next on Mac you drag things on Linux. There's no native, but we'll talk about Linux And you want the native feeling for launching you want the start menu and with a funny icon or the Mac launch thingy And blah blah blah you want it to be just another application and This you want a lot you don't want to distribute Applications out to the world with a huge guide saying well if you right-click and open the CLI Type this funky commands. Hi there And type this funky command and then you can run the application. That's not gonna work Okay, users need to click a thing and there you go. There's your application So signing a notary notarization and everything that's very important and boring and hard So that's what pop Wants to do and it's it's been doing that at two points because we've been distributing you But package and they don't have lots and lots and lots of complaints. It seems to work So how's it go? You set up your project and make it pip installable Your project your gooey application should be launchable with python-m blah your project This these are the requirements nothing else Now optionally you give it an icon and the text license and the signing certificate for the full-blown experience, of course and Pop gives you a ready to use MSI file that it can install either as a user or as a system level So it can be available to all users. It gives you a nice user interface in the start menu thingy On that it gives you a disk image file That's native that may require agreeing to a license if you want and it's a native app bundle what? Users common use CS an icon and you can have it anywhere and just double-click it and it goes and Even though all of this is still very young and very exploratory even more young even more brittle and even more exploratory I've been exploring the app image thingy on Linux Well, and which is very very very very very very rough and it seems to work So this is essentially pop and you go from one to the other with a command a single command So let me give you a demo on the first act. Okay, and the first act of the demo is this This is macOS This is my project. I won't bore you with the code, but you see there's a setup p y Nearly empty in the setup CFG. It's mostly declarative. Okay, and I could pip install this thing locally But I instead I will pop package This okay Go let it do its thing and for fun. Okay. Let's do the same one windows. It's the same project There you go. Same project now all the time pop package Dot bam go do your thing and for additional fun. Let's make it well package Dot it's the same project go and we'll leave it at that now Now on on the Mac platform pop who'll talk to Apple servers and Tim Cook is there waiting for the request or it might fail We don't know so what is what is pop doing now? Click go what is how does it actually work? Well, it starts by laying out a full Python installation in your builds directory and By full I mean it includes everything like you need in the vm vm module. It's there. You need tk and turtle It's there.  It's there. Okay. It's the full standard library So it's native for the developer. Okay, it's cool and then it uses that Python installations pip To pip install your project into that Python installation Along the way it collects metadata and blah blah blah, of course And then it goes crazy and shuffles files around in a way that makes sense in The target operating system so in windows it needs to be laid out like this on Mac It will be in the application bumble which is actually a directory that has some metadata and files go like that and on Linux app image It goes a different way so it kind of shuffles files around and cleans up a few things along the way and lastly It uses native tools to produce a native package Be it an MSI on windows or just came in John Mac or at the images blah blah blah and Optionally throughout this process. It will sign and notarize the artifact So the final artifact will always be that single file that we want to say to distribute to our end users It's a simple well it is okay. Is there any magic is magic pink is magic blue? Well, I think magic is blue, but there's no magic here There's essentially this full Python installation that I can't escape. It's a full Python installation You don't worry about that. We all know that right But this one is reluctable and it does have minimal system dependencies and this is the magic It's not my work. Okay. I just I'm just putting pieces together This is the amazing work of Gregory sork and this project. That's Python standalone builds. I can only say good things about Gregory from both Technically and in terms of response time while exploring this I had to ask Gregory for help in a few on a few occasions and His feedback in terms of speed like two days later He's based in San Francisco and the accuracy of technical detail and analysis is just amazing. So Gregory you're the savior. Okay, so let's get back to our demo and see how it goes. Okay act to let's see if The team at Apple has done their work. Okay. The team at Apple has done. Okay. There's this process here Denotarizing apparently it has been completed. Yeah, it was really fast. Okay, so you see at some point it requested and waited for a minute So there's a distribution directory here, which I will explore Go and there's the disk image for puppy. That's a project. Okay, and I'll open the disk image And there's the license. I'll have to agree. Okay, this is my two license I agree and For those of you that are somehow familiar with the Mac This is a pretty pretty much native experience and there's your icon. Yes, it's mu inspires But it's kind of in a box because that's puppy And I'm dragging it not to the applications folder, but I'm dragging it anywhere. I don't care Things just work here or so Mr. Tim Cook says I'll double-click it. There's puppy. Okay, puppy is a GUI app it's actually an app that I created to Kind of explore pop and it shows me internals of the Python runtime So I see okay. How's the working directory? What's the Syspath and things like that. This is puppy on Mac. It runs It's apparently it's been packaged with Python 3 9 13 blah blah blah. It's okay. I'm not too much concerned with that I'll quit it. Let's go and see how Our other builds are going so this is Linux. Okay, lots of errors. Okay, don't don't don't read that the snids improvement, but I'll go to the test folder again And if I look at this, there's the puppy app image Okay, and I can run it and I can ship it to any haha Often any Linux system in the world might work. It won't but it there are the odds that it runs are Reasonable and this one is Python 3 8 the same puppy. Okay, it's an icon same application And I'll quit it. How do you do this on Linux? So you go there, and then there's Windows, which should be right about here. It's also packaged. It did sign the binaries and things, with a fake code-signing certificate. So this certificate I'm using on the Mac is good, but on Windows it isn't. But for the purposes of this, it's I'm running on my own system. Again, I'll explore this directory, go. And this puppy, it's an MS-Hack while I open it.  But we have time, we have time. So let it do its thing. And I have ideas about making this process even faster, because I think this is slow. A puppy is a very tiny application. The Mew editor is bigger, and this process is kind of slow. And we want beginners to experience things immediately. But that's a different thing. So let it copy its things. Today it's done, and offers you to launch Puppy. I won't launch it here to show you that. We have a nice start menu with the same icon, blah, blah, blah, and I click it. And this is the native experience for Windows users. And there's Puppy, and in this case, it's running with Python 3.10. We can ask Puppy to use different Python versions. By default it uses the current whichever it grabs, okay? So it's running, it's okay. It's like a mini demo for you to see, I typed one command, and I get three artifacts for the three platforms. And that's nice. I like that idea, okay? So what's the status? It's dangerous, okay? So pup has no test at all. Testing this is very difficult, okay? Really testing that. Your software is picking up some other software and packaging as it should, and installs as it should, and it runs as it should. How do you go about that? I know that Russell Keith McGee of Beware is putting some effort and some thoughts into the equivalent and a great inspiration that's Briefcase, a project that we used before to package me, and it's putting some thoughts into how to test all of this in the next month. So I'll certainly keep an eye on that and have discussions with him. So there are no tests. And pup stands for Plugable Micro-Packager. While it's currently technically pluggable, the architecture API is kind of over-engineered there, completely badly designed here, so it's very exploratory. It will be pluggable in a useful sense so that anyone can kind of customize the build process or the packaging process is different, kind of different artifact or whatever. The docs exist and they need some love. There's need for platform polish, okay? I don't like the font that's used on the Windows installer. Maybe that's just me. We'll be sprinting, I'll be sprinting on Saturday along with the amazing Mew Development team. We're kind of one and we're focusing on that. So join us. We will certainly have an amazing time. So I would say the status is exploratory, but not YOLO, okay? Maybe in the future it will be, the lessons from pup will be integrated into other tools or maybe just thrown away, I don't know, okay? There's some commitment but it's clearly exploratory. Maybe some day, maybe Saturday, I don't know, tomorrow, pup can package single file scripts, fun for beginners. Maybe we can package Linux flat pack once you go, do a Linux app image, you got half the world of Linux. Oh, that's the worst thing in the world. You come to that because things in Linux and people just kind of like to fight, right? So I think I'm going to focus on Linux flat pack just to bring out the anger in the defenders of Linux snapd's or something. Yeah, let's wake up everybody. I don't know. The publish to stores is an important and easy step now, okay? Pushing these artifacts to the Apple thingy store or to the Windows blah, blah, blah store is easy now. Whether we want it to do, to do it like automated or not, I'm not sure, but that step is easy. Supporting other Python runtimes is a thing that deserves thought, okay? And I'll get to that. So this is the status, maybe the vision for pup. Let's get back to our demo in the third act because we clean up after ourselves. I don't want to step back yet. We'll step back in a minute. But here, I ran and installed, on Windows I actually installed pup. So I will uninstall it because I mean, I clean up after myself. So I run the app with thingy. And there's pup, you see it's installed natively. So we're here, where's that? Let me refresh it with this puppy, okay? Installed natively pretty much alongside every other thing that's installed here with metadata, okay? Diversion, blah, blah, blah, uninstall it. Anyway, it goes. So this is perfectly native for Windows users on the old school you download the file and you install it. On Mac, you just delete it, it's simple. And an app image on Linux, again, you just delete it and you're set. I'll leave it at that, I don't care. It's just kind of showing you the native process of it. It's very native, it is. It's simple, but that's it, that's what it is. Now, I have three minutes plus five, because I timed it into 35 minutes, to step back for a minute and think a bit what kinds of thoughts and questions does this bring? The first is, well, for beginners or let's say for volunteers. I mean, most of us do lots of things as volunteers. So I'm not going to be a professional in a given domain. Sharing applications is something important that we all like to do and that beginners certainly like to do. And okay, if you're working on the web, you just share a URL, let's say. If you're working server side, you don't care because you don't do that for beginners or for fun, but for desktop applications are important in many aspects, but they need to be signed. They need to be stamped. And getting one such certificate is not only expensive, but it's difficult, okay? I had lots of trouble with Apple, supposedly, you just pay and you go next, next, next and you go, right? But if you, my certificate for the Apple thingy, yeah, it cost me a hundred thingies, dollars, euro, I don't know, but there's like 38 different options. Which certificate do I want to create this? It's difficult. And for Windows, it's an even bigger mess. Who do I buy it from? Who do I trust? Will it work? Do you need even more seals and stamps to do that? So I wonder, and I have no solution, but where's Let's Encrypt for code? How could it ever work? Is it email-based? Because Let's Encrypt for, let's say, service certificates works based on domain name validation. How could it work for people? Based on an email? Based on something? I think this is important. It would allow us on Mew to have a button to say, package this and ship it to the world so that beginners and learners and people doing things could easily share their desktop applications. How do we do this? This is not a Python problem. This is kind of an industry-wide problem. I think it's important. And now, about Python. And see Python in particular. Now, we have been in the success of Python throughout the past 30 years or so as the, it's because it's very easy to integrate with other libraries, mostly see-written. So you can easily bring in other libraries or embed Python into other code. But that's, you need some level of skill that most people don't have, OK? The way POP works is much simpler. It's very dumb, OK? Grasp Python, it goes from there and shuffles files, and there you go. And it works. And POP works the way it works, because someone like Gregory did the work in building Python standalone, which is pretty much self-contained. Well, this distribution includes metadata that tools like POP can use to figure out what's where, what can I count on, what can I use? And maybe the Python we get from the PSF, Python.org, could include some metadata. We don't have an embeddable distribution other than a Windows only that does not include the central library, and that does not include this and does not include that.  And Linux is complicated because there's not the single Linux platform there. There are bazillions of different Linux platforms and dependencies and libraries. So I think this deserves thought, because this is the path that Russell Keith McGee three years ago identified as one of the potential black swans in the Python ecosystem. And that's the ability of building and shipping applications that run on your desktop, and of course, ultimately, on mobile platforms, because there are bazillions of mobile users and bazillions of mobile platforms. So people consume software through mobile phones, and you either work server-side and you're on the web, or if you want to use a local native application, whatever that means, you're not going to do it with Python easily. So I'll wrap it up. Thank you very much. I want to thank, first, the Euro-Python organizers and volunteers. Thank you very much. Thank you, Nicholas, for the inspiration. Thank you to the Mew Development team. Tim is there. Vasco is there. Carlos is down there doing amazing things with MicroBits. Thanks to Gregory for his Python Build standalone project. It's amazing. Thanks to Russell for his inspiration and beware and lots of things. Thanks to Donald Stuth. He works for the Python Packaging Authority, and he conceded the POP name for us because it was his. Thank you, Donald. Thanks to Glyph. Great words on how to sign and notarize on macOS. Great blog posts. And he is actually the first person in the world that ran a POP package, macOS, properly signed and notarized. Thanks, Glyph. And thanks to Alastair, who was up until recently the maintainer of DMG Build, an amazing tool to build disk images on the Mac. So thank you all very much. Bye-bye. We have actually only one or two minutes. But if there is a question, and we have a break now, so yeah. Come here. So thank you for the talk. Very interesting. It brought up a lot of bad memories. I packaged PyGTK for using Py2XE for a long time. So one of the things I used to struggle with when packaging PyGTK apps was all the various Windows dependencies, I had to download separately, put it in all the appropriate places. So it would be relocatable when Py2XE would find it, bundle it up, and it could go. Does POP have to deal with similar issues or you don't have them? OK.  And it's the work of lots of people. I just put the things together.  It lays out a good reliable Python distribution and it pip installs. So if in development mode, your thing works when you pip install into a local Python, if it works, the libraries will work. On Linux, it's a bit harder because dependencies don't come along. But you say you pip install something that brings a wheel that has DLLs on Windows for QT or for GTK or whatever. They should work. They should be properly. They will be placed in the Python library, dynamic library, loading path. So it should work. It will capture everything from the VAMV. Yeah. OK. It should. But let's try. And does POP strip out extra things that are not required by the pocket to do? Not now. Not now. It's an optimization that can be done. Now you get everything. You can get everything. The only optimization that POP does is it's stripped away static libraries because the Python standalone project ships static and dynamic libraries and all sorts of things. It strips away those. And it pre-compiles the whole standard library and pre-compiles the whole project. That's the only optimization it does now. But it could be clever. Like, Py2xE does that. PyInstaller does that. It's clever enough. And Foss the Graph that Depends throws away things and make it kind of tinier and faster. It doesn't always work. There are many times I would have to explicitly add. Yeah. So POP goes the other way right now. OK. Take everything. It's just an extra megabyte. For now, it works, OK? But it's very exploratory. Well, cool. Thank you. Cool. You're welcome. So first of all, thank you for the talk. It was really awesome.  So simplicity is a super power as well. This isn't a question. This is just me sort of spouting, really. I know we're over time and things. And the last thing is you said that POP had no tests. Well, music has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times since we started using POP. And given that number of downloads and the fact that we don't get that many bug reports about installers, I think POP is comprehensively tested by beginners coders, but by definition that means they probably don't know what they're doing as well, because this is their first attempt at installing kind of an IDE or something like that. So applause. I mean, the purpose, I mean, if there's a purpose and objective is making your life easier. That's the initial motivation that they are. Oh, it's a mess. What are we going to do? Well, it should be easy, right? It's not, but it seems to work, OK? So let's try it out. If you want, join me on Saturday and try and package something else. It will probably fail, and we will fix it. Or not. Or we'll go grab a beer. It's OK. So again, thank you very much. Thank you.


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Last week, they only put Fed interest rate decision at 2pm on Wednesday and I totally missed it and I just brushed right by it so I had no idea the FOMC was going on until Monday or Tuesday.  But usually market watch, they put FOMC 2pm and then also put press conference 230 right after that. They actually didn't have that so I just totally missed it. And now to mention the fact, we already had so much data stacked this week. We had non-farm payrolls, we had a bunch of earnings, so the data was just stacked this week and I just brushed right by it so I didn't even see the FOMC in the economic calendar last week when we went over the video last time. But last week, we had a pretty good list. I mean, SQ and coin did really good on Monday and I signaled a good take profit area on Monday. And the watchlist channels, make sure you tune in to that channel for updates on these setups and all that good stuff throughout the week. Even if I don't like them anymore, I'll also comment on them saying that I don't like it anymore. So I tried to put an unbiased opinion into it, whether it works out or not. So make sure to check out the updates and stuff like that if you tune in and you are in the Discord. You can see them all updates and good profit taking areas and all that good stuff in real time. But before we get into our individual setups, we're going to go over the economic calendar real quick. So Monday, we do have S&P Final US Services PMIs. So PMIs always have the potential to move the market. Pay attention to that at 9.45. And it looks like we have a Fed Speaker at 10 a.m. It's going to be Ghoulsby. He's coming on TV. We also have ISM Services. This can definitely move the market. And as well, another Fed Speaker at 2 p.m. It's going to be Fed Bostic, giving welcoming remarks. Not sure to what event really any Fed Speakers right now. I feel like, you know, the market's going to be listening. So maybe pay attention to that at 2 p.m.  Looks like we have Loretta Mester. We have Kashkari, Collins and Harker all speaking at different times. So that'll be interesting. Wednesday is just going to be more Fed Speakers looks like. And then we also have consumer credit at three. This is a hit or miss if it moves the market. It usually doesn't from what I've seen, but still pretty good to pay attention to. And then Thursday, just our usual initial job was claims wholesale inventories. I don't think this is going to move the market much. And then another Fed Speaker and another Fed Speaker on Friday. So really, there's not really any big data sets this week at all. Other than the PMIs and the ISM Services on Monday, I would say these are going to be probably the biggest data sets. But we do have a lot of Fed Speakers and that could come out with a lot of contradicting information on if we're going to get rate cuts. If we're not going to get rate cuts, everybody's got a different opinion when it comes to economics and the market.  And that kind of brings volatility sometime in the market, especially for algorithms and stuff that they hear something that they don't like. They automatically start selling or they automatically start buying, depending on how hawkish or dovish it sounds coming from a Fed Speaker. So pay attention to that all week. That's about it. Really just PMIs and ISM Services this week. That's going to be the big ones. And on to the seasonality this week, it's just going to be February 5th to the 9th. You can see we actually kind of averaged some chop here. There's really nothing in the last 20 years, kind of giving a crazy setup here. Summarized profit at 4%, with winning trades only at 50%. So nothing crazy here. Average yearly profit only about a quarter of a percent less than that. So this little five day period really don't have anything significant, which wouldn't surprise me because the markets already ran so much. We just had a big impulse move recently and I might need to consolidate and that kind of aligns with what we see historically here. If we do go into that consolidation phase, that would make total sense. Given how big the move was recently. And then next week, you can see that's when we start a really big upthrust going up into the 16th, which is also the monthly options expiration. So this is the 20 year data set. We could change it down to 15. And you can see it's a little bit different. The upthrust is a little bit better. Winning trades actually goes up. Average yearly profit goes up just a little bit. Summarized profit, not so much. And if we go to 10 years, it's probably going to be somewhat similar. It looks like 60% winning trades for shorts. So it looks like this is actually averaging some downside for the last 10 years. But keep in mind, this is less time. So I feel like the 20 year is always a pretty good one for seasonality. But if you want to focus on more recent trends, obviously, you know, the 10 years pretty good as well. But, you know, 20 year does have more data and I feel like it holds a little bit more true in terms of seasonality. You can see average yearly profit for 10 years is actually negative. Summarized profit at 0%. Nothing too special here for seasonality. A little pullback at worst, chop at best. Obviously the market can defy those odds, but that's just what we're seeing for seasonality. Nothing crazy for the trend. And on to the individual tickers. We only have three this week is very hard to find setups again. Last week, we only had three. We had SQ coin and Neo, only two of them actually played out pretty well. Neo really didn't have that good of a run or anything. It's actually still kind of going down a little bit, but it really didn't go too far down at all. It's kind of just staying in the same spot. Ended up buying the dip on Friday. I got some calls for March because it seems like a pretty good discount. They're still bringing in pretty big amount of revenue. And I wouldn't say they're as shitty as other EV companies. I would say, you know, Tesla, Neo and X-Ping are kind of the top dogs in terms of EV right now, but obviously Tesla is always the best buy because they are kind of dominating the market share. But anyways, on to FCX. You can see it's actually breaking out of this downtrend. We got a test one, a test two, three, four, tried to reject that five here just a little bit and now trying to break out finally after kind of stalling out here at this line. If we add the moving averages into the mix, we do have the nine and 21 combo here, the nine and 21 EMA holding well. Price is closing over both of those. We have a good reaction off the 50 here and we still have price closing over the 200. So we are over all the moving averages on FCX, which is good. That means the trend is still somewhat in order. Obviously, it starts falling back under all of these. That's when it gets weak. As you can see here, this is when it got really weak. We had a couple of days of attempt of weakness under here when it got under the 200. But once it reclaimed, really strong upside. So these moving averages are respected pretty well. You have support here, support here. So the 200 is a good longer term trend gauge.  Nine and 21 is going to be your short terms. But this is pretty straightforward. It's just a breakout trade. Obviously, you have the KDGA going positive too. So that's a good sign short term price targets. You're probably just going to have to go off recent resistance. It's going to be at 41 right at this level. So you got to watch that price will need to clear that in order to start getting up to 41 85 and so on so forth. And there's also a big supply here. Big supply zone from a rejected prior. We'll need to get over that eventually as well. But I would say that overall, this would probably be a good price target if it can get back up there. But it will need to clear the short term levels that 41, 41 85 and then it can get up into supply right there. So FCX, I'm looking at calls. This one is basically just follows the copper market. So if you want to look at copper futures, you could go to ticker symbol HG and you will find the copper futures and as well as they have a small bit of their business in gold as well. So you probably want to see the US dollar come back down a little bit and gold rally, but it's mostly copper. So it's going to follow the copper futures a lot. So that's for SCX looking at calls needs to break over 41 needs to break over 41 85 in order to get to supply. All right, not to Intel. So they actually kind of bomb their earnings and it's been trading for about one, two, three, four, five, about six days since earnings. So now that it's kind of traded around for over a week since earnings, I feel like you can probably start looking at some trades on this because lots of times after earnings, markets will kind of go into consolidation. Sometimes if they do good enough or bad enough, they'll just keep tanking or keep running. But lots of times you will see earnings kind of consolidate the day after and really the week after Netflix is going through it right now. They had a good report. They've been consolidating for like a week straight Intel. You can see not any crazy moves or anything really since earnings. It's kind of stayed in the somewhat general area of where it closed day after earnings. So now that it's kind of settled, we can start looking for a trade. Maybe this 41 17 looks pretty good as support. You can see the general area tried to hold pretty good. We have a pretty nice buyer's wake here. You have a nice lower shadow wake trying to push up. That shows a little bit of by pressure. And another thing we have is a fresh gap. I feel like eventually people are going to try to, you know, trade it back up to the gap. Lots of times it's smarter to wait for it to get inside the gap. Once it starts closing inside the gap, you could trade to the upside. That's another way to go about it. But I really like to find dip buys and discounts in the market. It brings less drawdown risk. You can find really nice cost premium and as well, I'm just more comfortable with it than, you know, trading breakouts like this or anything like that. I like buying the dips, buying at the movie averages, buying at support, something like that. And Intel here, we do have that pretty good support at the 41s. Ideally, just looking for a move back up to gap resistance. It's going to be at 45 20s, maybe 45 30s. And that's about it. And then maybe you could look for another trade as well. Once it starts closing inside the gap, you could do that as well. But for now, use the gap resistance as a price target. You can probably even use the nine and 21 EMA for price targets as well. It probably will need to get back over this 50 right here. It'll probably need to start closing back over that. If it closes back over that, the show strength and it'll probably try to push higher, but it will need to start closing over that, I think, to show strength because right now people are running with the other semis like AMD and video, SMCI, TSM, those are all doing pretty good. Intel is kind of having in mind of its own. It did have a really nice run and now kind of getting that initial pullback, but I wouldn't say this has sold off enough to be a dead cat bounce or anything. But this 41 looks pretty good to hold. So that's why I want to see it bounce and have back up to gap resistance. So that's for Intel looking at calls. Looks like a pretty nice did buy. We'll need to start closing back over that 50 EMA first and we could see some upside and for our last individual ticker looking at UNG here. So I actually got this idea because I was looking at the spot natural gas price. So this is the spot natural gas price. It's a little bit different from the UNG, a little bit different from the futures. This is what you pay if you want it delivered right now at this very second. That's what spot price is. So you can see the spot price is actually at 206 area, which is really big support. Honestly, it bounced pretty hard from right here. Had a nice little run up into the 350s and now I'm still trying to hold. We haven't really seen a break under, you know, with force or really with any conviction yet. So obviously buyers keep showing up at this general area and it looks like a pretty good did buy. The only problem is it's very warm where I'm staying right now. I'm in the south and we've had pretty much weather in the 60s and 70s lately, despite it being January and winter. That's a pretty warm weather. We did have one really big cold spell and I think the whole world basically did and lots of the US because that's when we kind of got this little push up a couple of weeks ago. So that's the only downside with natural gas. You're hoping for cold weather. You're hoping for demand for natural gas and you can't really get that when it's really warm outside. And sometimes the weather man can't even get the weather right. So you are kind of trading volatility when it comes to natural gas. It's very volatile. It's very uncertain and it moves with the weather. But as you can see, it's pretty discounted. I mean, it's calm all the way back down to its December low is basically after just having a huge run. And I really wanted to trade it again because we did have a trade on this. I had shares and also options. I ended up closing for profit. I had one trade that ended up losing and I was actually looking at this spot to buy and I was like, nah, I'm going to wait. It's a little bit warm out and we're not really seeing any crazy forecast for any coldness. And I'm glad I waited because now we're all the way back down to December lows. And I'm just looking at this as it did buy. And obviously, if it starts breaking under 18 or you see spot natural gas starting to break and close under 206, you could change your mind, wait for it to get back over and then get back in. That's one way you can use risk management for this. Use the spot natural gas price. It starts breaking under 206. Wait for it to close a couple times. If it does that, you could look at something else. But otherwise, this is pretty straightforward. Just a dip by looking pretty discounted. A little bit oversold. Actually, a little bit is an understatement because if we zoomed out, you can see this thing has just gotten slammed. So definitely a contrarian play and not for the week. Definitely going to want to have some balls for this and be prepared to deal with drawdown. There's natural gas is just crazy. So that's for UNG. I'm looking at calls, probably March expiration minimum. Probably even go with April to deal with drawdown risk. Maybe even buy shares if you don't want to deal with the options, theta or anything like that. Otherwise, I would go at the money a couple months out. They'll give it time to fart around at lows, deal with any drawdown risk, et cetera. And on to the indexes, we're going to go over spy first. So last week, we did get a pullback, pretty big one on FOMC day, but it got bought back up instantly, arguably because it pulled into the nine and 21 combo. We never started closing under the nine and 21 combo. I've been mentioning for the past couple of weeks, you just want to keep using this nine and 21 combo as a trend gauge. And there's also a pretty recent trend line here. You got to test one, test two, basically pulled in for test three, and that held up. So the trend is clear. It's still holding nine and 21 combo is fine. The only thing you have going against you here, if you're bullish, you have the K2J going negative, probably from Wednesday here, this big red bar. Otherwise, it was able to break and close a new 52 week high and a new all time high as well. So like I said, last week, there's really no setup here or anything that's special, unless it pulls into the one day nine and 21 EMA combo like I did last week. That gives you a chance to buy the dip. Otherwise, not a great spot to enter. And I'll basically keep standing by that, you know, buying at the movie gaverages instead of buying breakouts like this. You just get better price action and lots of times you get more meat on the bone.  And honestly, I'm willing to miss out the opportunity cost, any of that willing to risk that by not buying up here, I'd rather buy, you know, discounted on a dip. It could be an intradip for a day trade. As long as it's a dip, I'd feel a lot better about that than buying, you know, at all time highs or 52 week high breakout. And literally every time it's pulled into the MAs, it just proves why you get more meat on the bone, you get a better move and you get cheaper premium.  I mean, there's no denying that if you want it to be bearish, you're definitely going to wait for it to get back under 491.62, which is the short term peak. If they can start breaking down that and closing under that does a short term move back down to the trend line at least probably about 485. Obviously, it gets higher as the trend line goes, but overall, if you really want to be safe and be patient, wait for the trend line break, just keep it simple. If the trend line breaks and starts closing under, it'll probably bounce back to have a short term, have a back test, and then maybe go lower. And that's probably when we'll see that February pullback the 16th and so on. So forth down into March, this little pullback right here, it's pretty big and we average that pullback on the 10 year on the 15 year and the 20 year data set. It all looks the same. So February to March is usually a pretty weak month for the stock market.  Eventually people want to take profit and as well, if you want to buy the dips, eventually they want a discount. That's what makes the weakness good in March, because eventually, you know, it does have a pretty good seasonality run, March and so on. So forth. So definitely don't short up here until, you know, it breaks the trend line. Obviously, you could try to call the top if you wanted to comes with more risk, obviously, because you're just shorting into a high. You have no pattern. You're just kind of guessing that it could reject here rather than waiting for it to close back under 491. Waiting for it to break the trend line, waiting for it to break the 9 and 21 EMA, you know, wait for one of those three, either a close under resistance, a close under the moving averages or a close under the trend line. Just keep it simple and don't get bearish until it does that. That's just one way to keep it simple, but otherwise there's really no setups here for the week. Right now, as we speak, at least. I mean, obviously if it pulls into the moving averages, that's always a pretty good area to try to buy the dip. I did it last week. So did it a couple of weeks ago here as well. Here as well. So that's always your best spot to get cheap premium and as well get a lot of meat on the bone. So with a breakout like this, it's likely we could see some consolidation. It wouldn't surprise me. And according to the seasonality, like I said, we just average a little bit of consolidation, nothing crazy. So I don't expect a big pullback either or anything. Definitely just going to keep the melting pattern going, but just be careful up here, guys. I mean, there's really no point of chasing all the way up here. Wait for it to dip and then you can get a better entry. And usually if you're asking if it's too late, it's usually already too late. So just be careful, guys. As for spy, wait for it to let it consolidate. Let it do its thing up here or, you know, wait for it to close under resistance. The movie averages or trend line and on to the breadth indicator. This is S&P stocks above their 50 day moving average. And we're actually going to look at it in a different way today to what we'll do. We'll go back to spy. We'll get rid of the drawings. We're going to add this indicator to the same chart. So we got S5FI here. It's the same indicator. S&P stocks above their 50 day moving average. We're going to hit new price scale and compare. So as you can see, there's a general trend where it follows each other pretty well. There's a good correlation. See if the orange line, this is S&P stocks above their 50 day and you have spy with the regular candles. As you can see, when breadth is doing good and with stocks above their 50 day moving average is going up, the S&P is also going up. When it goes down, it usually follows as well. The short term bounce and breadth also had a short term bounce in the market. So on and so forth. But one thing we have going different right now, we have a divergence. So we have breadth going down all the way from this point in January, while the market has been going up. So we've noticed this divergence the past couple of weeks, but there hasn't really been a big collapse in breadth or anything. I mean, this is not a big pullback in breadth. I don't think if you look at this, it's still holding up relatively good, especially all the way from the lows. But now we're starting to get that more obvious divergence here. And we have a couple of weeks of data to prove it all the way from Jan 5th all the way until now. It's almost a month. That is a month, actually. So we got a month long divergence. We got breadth going lower. So stocks above their 50 day movie average going lower, which means less stocks above their 50 day movie average while the spike goes higher, which means it's probably large caps, mega caps carrying the market, the big techs, you know, Apple, Amazon meta just had a 21% day on Friday. That's arguably why we went up despite the DXY being up almost 1% yields being up 4%. We had a lot of bearish indicators on Friday, but we kept going up and that's likely because of those big tech earnings. So we got seven to 10 stocks carrying the whole trend right now. What we have a majority of the market trending back under their 50 day movie average, that's signaling weakness. The only downside with using indicators like this is you don't really know if it's a lager or a leader. So we don't know if this breadth indicator is giving us an early warning sign, but it's worth paying attention to, in my opinion, I would argue that they're both strong indicators, right? You got the top 10 stocks doing really good and that's carried the market for a long time now. But as well, we have most of the market as a whole trending lower as well, which is also a good indicator of how the market really is and how the trend really is. So in my opinion, this is just another reason to be careful, but you usually want to see breadth moving up with the market at the same time. I feel like the market is strongest when you have stocks above their 50 day going higher also with the market at the same pace. And likewise, when it moves down as well, we want to see stocks above their 50 day going lower to see the market go lower, as you can see in this trend right here. It's basically moving the same. You have to bounce here, move lower, short term bounce here, move lower. You had a pretty good run up here, moves lower. As you can see, it follows it pretty good, except for this last month. So that's worth paying attention to in my opinion. That could be a warning signal. So just be careful guys. I mean, the proof is in the pudding, right? You got breadth kind of collapsing here. I wouldn't say aggressively or anything like that, but it's moving lower compared to actual S&P, which is going higher. So we will find out if this was a leading indicator, you know, for a pullback. And in my opinion, just off the past data here, looking at it, usually breadth is going to follow the market just as good as it follows it up. So pay attention to it, keep it in mind and be really careful with the spy up here, especially for calls. And on to the QQQ. It's actually kind of got a similar pattern, but QQQ did not break a new 52 week high. It didn't close a new one at least. And it didn't close a new all time high on Friday compared to spy, which did close at a new all time high and also close at a new 52 week high. So tech just lagged just a little bit. But overall, I mean, the pattern is similar, right? You got this big uptrend line, you got a test one, a test two, a test three pulled in here almost for test for it and touch it directly. But, you know, the trend is still in order. Another thing, it pulled into the 9 and 21 EMA the same way the spy did and it bounced off that as well. So the levels are pretty straightforward this week. Just this 429.85 you could probably round that up to 430. If it rejects 430, you could see a short term pullback or consolidation, you know, before it tries to break out. But overall, the uptrend is still holding. You just want to watch this 429.85. Obviously, if it can break over that, that will give a good, you know, short term day trade to the upside. As you can see with spy here, once it broke over this, was that 491, had a pretty good push up and you could get a similar breakout trade or day trade similar to spy did on Friday. And that's one way to still be able to buy high up here is if you're trading the 52 week high breakouts or just scalping them. As long as you're not, you know, going long, you know, 30, 40 days out all the way up here, I feel like you're not going to get screwed too bad. Just make sure you're managing and, you know, getting out by the end of the day. If you want to be bullish and still trade calls up here, just be flat by the end of the day to deal with any, you know, draw down risk or overnight risk. Because eventually people are going to want to take profit and you will see it come lower. I'm definitely going to be watching scalps off this 430 looking for puts something short term, you know, just day trade, nothing crazy.  And for swing trade as well, I'd probably want to see it breaking under, you know, the trend line to keep it simple. Once it starts breaking under the trend, that gives me a shot to go, you know, 30, 40 days out on some puts and hold it overnight. And I would sleep better knowing that it's, you know, broken the trend. Obviously, it can reclaim, you know, it can break under reclaim lots of times. Once it breaks, you get a nice flush, head back to the next structure and you can pretty much just figure out what to do next from there. But that's really it for QQQ this week. It's still bullish, but we did not close over that 430 or 429, 85, which kind of tells me this could still act as a short term resistance level. As you can see, there's just a small reaction channel to it towards the end of the close. So just watch this level, mark it on your chart. Obviously, if the futures gap up overnight and it gaps over this, just be careful. Wait for it to fall back on there before trying a short or anything like that. Just definitely mark this 430 in case it turns into a big resistance point. So that's the video guys. Hope you guys enjoy it. Make sure you like, comment and subscribe to our XJ YouTube channel. I feel like the setups are a little bit more boring this week because we really don't have any like good big text in there like last week. We had like SQ and coin that did pretty good on Monday. We don't really have any of those exciting high growth names in there this week. Lots of them are already moved a lot and it was pretty hard to find discounts this week or really find anything that didn't already run too much. But hopefully these three will do okay. Obviously with UNG, just be a little bit more careful. Natural gas is very volatile by time on it to deal with drawdown risk. I would say SCX is probably my favorite looking one. It's confirmed that downtrend breakout, but we will need to see the market and copper kind of go higher as well. So pay attention to the copper futures. But that's all I got for you guys. I'm going to get this chopped up sent out all that good stuff. So I love you and I'm out.


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for spiritual life, whether one has to search for a Sadguru or it happens. Where will you search? And how will you know who is Sadguru and who is not Sadguru? You have no way to judge, isn't it? So how do I seek something? You just seek. You simply seek, I want to know. The more you become, I do not know. The deeper your seeking is, isn't it? Seeking does not mean seeking something. Seeking means seeking that which you do not know. If you have to seek, you should not make any assumptions, isn't it so? You already made an assumption, God is sitting up in the heaven, I am seeking Him. This is not seeking, this is just hallucination. Seeking means simply seeking. Seeking is possible only when a deep I do not know has happened within you. If a vacuum of I do not know happens within you, Sadguru will happen to you. You don't have to search because you don't know how to search.  See, if you seek a friend, what kind of friend do you seek? Do you seek a friend who punctures your ego every day?  Yes or no? If somebody punctures your ego, he becomes your enemy, isn't it? So even if you seek a Guru, you will only seek with this context and that kind of Guru who comforts you is no good to you. There's nothing spiritual about giving solace to people. It is just a psychological comfort which your family can offer, which your dog can offer. Dog is good solace for you, isn't it? Yes or no? You have pets at home? They can be a great source of solace for you, isn't it so? You don't need a God for solace. You seek the beyond, not for solace, but for liberation to become free from everything that you are right now. So if you are seeking a Guru for solace, there are many. If you are seeking a Guru for liberation, then if you sit with him, you feel threatened. You want to run away from him. But at the same time, you don't want to leave him for a moment. If you constantly feel threatened by him, at the same time you want to be with him, that means he is a good Guru for you. If you are very comfortable with him, he is a no-good Guru for you. You must be constantly uncomfortable with him. At the same time you long to be with him, that is a good prescription for you.


So I've been asked to make this video a bit longer than the first one I sent in just trying to get my head around it or really it's all new to me just being ghosted out of the blue to me totally out of the blue after some beautiful time with someone that I thought was a beautiful woman because that's what she masqueraded as a woman who loved me that fed my own narcissistic traits for adoration and things that I'm missing from my childhood she met everything ticked all the boxes ticked all the boxes she was a dream come true and I thought we had a great relationship everything in common a few blips along the way about me getting angry and she convinced me to take a test for ADHD which I did and she basically said if you don't do something about it we're over so I was I'd do it I would have done anything to carry on being with her and I did I had the test went through private psychiatry UK did all kinds of assessments when you know a triation period of drugs which I'm on medication now for my ADHD that was all because she convinced me that that was wrong and then there was RSD that she said she was convinced I had that so all these things that she knows I really don't handle rejection very well she knows I've got problems anger issues from childhood trauma she knows about the fact that I was adopted found out I was adopted when I was 36 years old you know nothing about my real father and he knows nothing about me she knows all these things and then just totally ghosted me and like it all been set up she made arrangements and you know didn't say a word to me and I found out through someone who was still in contact with her because she's unblocked on everything that she left me because I was a narcissist I thought that I know what that was just someone who's vain yeah I'm vain I'm self-absorbed I suppose I've had my head filled with the idea that I was gonna be famous from as early as I can remember in my artwork so yeah slightly inflated sense of self-worth and importance probably brought on by an alcoholic mother and a overcompensation of love the wrong kind of love drunk love not the kind of love a kid needs so yeah I'm not saying bro is me that's just my life yeah so and I look into what narcissism actually meant and what narcissistic abuse constituted and I saw a lot of myself in that and it horrified me horrified me seeing myself I didn't deny it I totally admitted full responsibility for his actions and it terrified me thinking that I treated the woman I love like that without knowing at all I knew I seemed to push girls away after a certain time but I didn't know why I didn't have a clue why so I spent you know I was plunged into hell didn't know where I was I was never gonna paint again I looked at everything in my life and everything was stripped of its meaning to me I literally did not know I was my personality just crumbled my ego was blown to pieces I just couldn't understand it I could not understand it reading about these monsters and thinking that's me because I recognize some of the traits and as I'm reading or watching your videos not survivor God bless you for your videos I might but I have empathy unbelievable empathy everything I do is for the people and out it's altruistic it's not for my own validation I you know maybe I have got I'm very confident about my work I'm not full of insecurity I have the normal healthy amount of insecurity about my work but that just makes me want to get better and so many of these things just weren't making sense so I'm like okay I've got narcissistic traits I'm hoping for counseling I'm gonna sort them out and now I saw my ex-girlfriend on the street and she just looked through me like I didn't exist and I mean total cold totally cold from love from well from a pretty good approximation of human love showing someone human love she fooled me and I just couldn't get my head around how she could just switch it off like that how can you just stop caring for someone not only that how can you willfully be torturing someone no explanation no answers nothing nothing nothing but that's what you do to a narcissist that's what you have to do but I'm not a narcissist remember and then I see it then I see this video about narcissistic ghosting and then narcissistic eyebrows how to tell an arse to mark and then the mirroring and the love bombing everything that she did to me in the early stages looking back I'm going back and retrofitting my memories it's all fake you know I mean I think we might very well be living in a simulation of some kind but my whole relationship with can't really call her a woman and I'm not being you know that would be bad to women it scared me it's the scariest thing I've ever encountered the cruelest thing I've ever encountered the most duplicitous just calculating cold totally devoid of empathy compassion and everything was a lie it's like watching a movie the sweetest love movie love story ever and it's from the guy's perspective and then you see the same film from the girls perspective and it's a horror film because she she's making you out to be this narcissist and then the twist the Twilight Zone twist in the end is that all along she was a narcissist and she's just projecting all onto me I saw its true face once when I criticized when I dared to criticize something some a bit of music we'd been working on together I dared to give my opinion and if looks could kill I've never been looked at like that before I've never seen a shark up close but she imagine that's what sharks eyes would look like cold dead dolls eyes not human I did not recognize this woman in that instance so it's true face oh it's it itself it was running after me apologizing left left and right knew I'd seen it's true face they're not like being having their masks taken off do they gotta keep hidden they walk they walk amongst us these monsters they're not just at the movies and horror comics they're real be careful people


Coming up in the Buckeye Guard, scramble the jets, see what it takes for the 180th Fighter Wing to prepare for deployments. And family and friends say goodbye to their soldiers as the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deploys overseas. Over the course of the last week, the 180th Fighter Wing has been conducted a large-scale readiness exercise, which we're practicing, mobilizing and deploying our F-16s for major combat operations overseas. What that consisted of was launching 12 to 14 F-16 aircraft, as well as building up and moving 260 tons of cargo, as well as 330 personnel to support simulated combat operations overseas. In this exercise, we conducted in a very short, no-notice timeframe, which was a challenge for the team to make all that possible, generate the aircraft, pack up, move the cargo, as well as process our personnel to make that happen. The personnel deployment function is to ensure eligibility and to receive briefings that deployers need. When a member is deployed, we do have to make sure that their medical records are up-to-date. They have an accurate dog tag, a cat card. They just have everything that they need to be successful as they enter into the deployed location. I would say the most difficult thing about this process is just timing. It's constantly changing. You never know when that aircraft is coming and going, so adapting to that has been the hardest part, let alone shift changes, turn over in there. You throw in some anti-terrorism and you throw in some active shooter. That gets pretty challenging as you have 30, 50 airmen in here trying to process through and making sure their eligibility is correct on top of that. The one thing that is so important is how rapid we are able to get deployers out the door. Check their eligibility, get them the briefings that are needed. It is a very quick-paced procedure and I think that the PDF does very good at it. In a large-scale exercise like this, we're going to make it as hard as possible. The challenge of this exercise was it was very short notice. You can imagine making this whole operation happen in a two- to four-day window with a lot of moving parts. I can't be prouder of the innovation, the work ethic and the efficiency of our operations to make it happen. Watch out, watch out. The Ohio Army National Guard participated this year in Operation Northern Strike. The country's largest National Guard bureau sponsored military exercise in Camp Grayling, Michigan. At Northern Strike, combat medics assigned to the 237th Support Battalion, along with their special guests, conducted a mass casualty training exercise as part of their annual training. There was a lot of preparation that went into it. We attended several Northern Strike planning conferences. The commander and I, Major Dorian Marsh. We did a brigade support area operation up here at Camp Grayling in this location. And we ran through mass cow rehearsals as a company. Our cluster that is down the road from us received contact. When that contact happens, we had casualties. Those casualties that were not treated that were at that cluster were brought here to us because we have a little bit more capabilities here. We have providers that are able to take care of the patients a little bit more effectively, as well as our Latvian assets that also are accompanying us here on this training. And they integrated into our treatment platoon. They had five personnel with them. They basically all that we determined were like doctor level. So they're trying to learn from us like what equipment we're using, how we're documenting, how we're treating as well and take that back to their country to develop SOPs themselves. We have a pretty incredible crew, morale is high, everything we've thrown at them. We were the first unit in the field. So we've been out here for a minute training, balancing training, taking rest, giving them classes. I have full confidence that they can do their job. Train to fight, fight to win. That's the motto of the 554SFAB. And that training took place at Camp Atterbury, Indiana this summer as engineer company advising team 6510 completes their premobilization training before their overseas mission in the Indo-Pacific region. SOFAB stands for Security Forces Assistance Brigade, their specialized U.S. Army units which are designed to train, advise, assist partner in ally nations. So I'm very excited. This is a great opportunity. It's not one that you can just get any other day. It's a four-man team. It's very small, it's very personal and it allows us to get really hands-on and in-depth with another nation's military and their culture all together. Our four-man team, we have three engineer advisors in one medic so basically whatever they ask us for will come up with some sort of engineering plan and help them along. It could be anything from vertical engineering to horizontal engineering. My role on the team as a medical advisor is kind of multifaceted. I, you know, obviously provide medical support to the guys on the team so I would be advising our partner forces in ally nations on, you know, triage responses, first aid response, fourth health protection, field sanitation. The advisors went through various trainings in Indiana including live fire exercises, casualty and medical training and more. As an engineer company advising team, this SFAB team focuses primarily on engineering but for this mission they'll have to work with the embassy of their partner nation and other key leaders. There will be days when they have to put down the camouflage and heart hat and put on their dress shirt and slacks. The polo shirt is pretty much a standard thing for us and then yesterday's training we were simulating meeting embassy personnel so we showed up in what are called slicks and that's a suit and tie. Definitely not what you would normally pack for a deployment. So when I first heard that and I was like kind of excited to be honest with you. Last deployment we had three duffel bags and a rug, right? Just army gear. For this one we have three duffel bags and a rug. I now have a bag with suits and button ups. The team's official name on paper is Engineer Company Advising Team 6510 Alpha Company, Fifth Battalion, 54th Security Forces Assistance Regiment, 54th Security Forces Assistance Brigade. But after living together and training together this four person team calls themselves a family. I think what's really unique about the SFAB is the small team aspect. It really allows you to get to know each other. It allows you to identify each other's strengths and weaknesses and really just build off of that and how you can function to the best of your ability together.  For more information on SFAB visit nationalguard.com slash SFAB. So one of the first matches we've shot this year as part of the tag matches first time we've done it. It's called the CNGB or Chief National Guard Bureau matches. The way it runs is it's prone, kneeling, standing position at 25 yards on a zero range. You know what was special about the range is it is named after Cleto Rodriguez. It was on Rodriguez range that we conducted the CNGB. You know, he's a medal of honor winner. The range is named after him. I was proud to be there running that range and watching soldiers improve their skills on a range named after Cleto. Military intelligence for three years. Organically I'm an 88 Mike which is military transportation and I switched to 35 box role because my undergraduate degree is intelligence. Aspect outside of the National Guard. I refused my promotion to stay with this team because we're a family where we are. We all work really well together. I feel really comfortable with everybody there. We're all really close and by me going to an E5 slot in another unit especially outside of where everybody else is I would feel kind of lost and I don't want that feeling. What drives me to put on the uniform every day is waking up and getting to spend more time with the guys that I work with and being in that fun environment. It can be really stressful at times but it can also be a lot of fun and I remember more fun times and I do the stressful times and those are what I look forward to when I wake up every day going. I mean it means everything to me. I'll hit 10 years in so it means quite a lot. I put a lot of time, effort away from family but it's something I love to do. I would love to stay in as long as possible at this point but it means a lot because it's giving me the opportunities that if I never joined the Guard I would never be able to do what I did to go inside. This was the missing key in peace for my civilian life. It fully paid for my undergraduate degree which I was beyond thrilled with. I used the Ohio National Guard Scholarship which paid for that and that was probably one of the biggest grateful feelings I had was not having to worry about school or having to pay for any of that. I also have friends everywhere now. I met a lot of great people in the Guard. I still keep in contact with people from my old unit people I met in basic training, AIT, everything. So my friendship definitely grew. The Guard kind of pushed me in the direction that I needed to now do and be the person that I am. The 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team hosted a series of call to duty ceremonies throughout Ohio as their soldiers prepared to deploy overseas. Family, friends and special guests said their goodbyes as Ohio Army National Guard soldiers get ready for their mission in support of combined Joint Task Force, Operation Inherit Resolve. Everything we advance in the cause of freedom must be protected by those who are willing to do so and that is you. Thank you for agreeing to serve and to protect and advance the cause of freedom here in America and around the world. The units deploying include the 1st Battalion 148 Infantry Regiment, the 1st Battalion 134th Field Artillery Regiment, the 237th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Squadron, 107th Cavalry Regiment, the 837th Engineer Battalion and the headquarters headquarters company from the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. With over 1,000 soldiers deploying, guest speakers thanked the families and employers for their support as their soldiers prepared ahead overseas. Thank you so much for your tolerance and the grace that you provide by many of us for the flexibility that you have with your hiring and promotion practices. I know for a fact that when it comes from a day-to-day operational perspective, having a soldier choose between the Army, their family and their employer, that which puts food on the table. If it's not a mission critical you're going to deploy type of scenario, your family comes first and that which puts food on your table is always going to be down the Army. So employers, thank you so much and a round of applause for that.


I found this device here lying on the street as you can see the name says RAPU I assume that's how you pronounce the name now if you look here you will see an FCC number and a model number so looking this up on the internet I found that it is a wireless transmitter it's part of a headset wireless headset here an audio plug and it operates in the 2.4 gigahertz range so that's why I have my spectrum analyzer here so that I can check this so let's reset and switch it on like this okay and we can see some signals appearing so there's one signal at 2437 megahertz that's the right peak and the left peak is at 2427 megahertz


Aeronautics, space exploration, research. A look back at this year in aeronautics and space and a preview of things to come. These are the highlights. Three Mariner spacecraft have flown by Mars in recent years. They were fleeting glimpses and the craft did not fly close to the mysterious red planet. 2,000 miles was the closest. On November 13th, Mariner 9 changed all that. As its breaking rocket fired, the picture taking Mariner swung into orbit around Mars, an orbit allowing the spacecraft to come within 850 miles of the surface. As it circles the planet twice a day, it will photograph and gather data for at least three months, mapping 70% of the planet's surface. The two small moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, will also be closely scrutinized. Mars appears to have gone or is going through some type of planetary evolution. The main question is whether it is an evolving planet or a decaying one. Mars is more Earth-like than any other planet. Its clouds, seasonal changes and polar ice caps are intriguing. As the Mariner 9 returns its vast accumulation of data and pictures, scientists will have their first close-up view and hopefully clues to the history and evolution of Mars, the Earth and the solar system. The Sun is roughly 10,000 times larger than Earth. Its very presence affects our daily lives. To learn more about this and about how it affects our environment, NASA orbited three unmanned scientific explorers. IMP, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, was the first. The versatile IMP, 8th in a series, is exploring interplanetary space and the outer fringes of the Earth's magnetosphere. It also provides warnings of possible solar flare radiation hazards to moonbound astronauts. With the Naval Research Laboratory, NASA launched the Solrad satellite. It too studies the Sun's radiation and records the disturbances which can disrupt long-range communications and navigation systems. This computer-type picture shows the Sun's disk and inner corona. It was returned by OSO-7, the latest in the Orbiting Solar Observatory series. OSO is trying to determine the direct effects solar flares have on the environment, weather and communications. Earth is surrounded by the magnetosphere, an enormous teardrop-shaped region formed by the solar wind, a supersonic stream of particles blowing on the Earth's magnetic field. It is in this region that a craft like the small scientific satellite does its job. Its mission is to investigate the causes of worldwide magnetic disturbances and map in detail the ways in which the motion of these particles changes with time. Nearly 300 sounding rockets were launched from Wallops Island, Virginia in 1971. Their payloads are used to explore the region through and just above the Earth's atmosphere, but below the area where satellites orbit. Sounding rocket probes return an enormous amount of information about Earth and the atmosphere surrounding it. Interested scientists from all over the world bring their experiments to Wallops Island for launching. Stratoscope II, a large astronomical telescope, was hoisted into the sky by a giant balloon from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This was the eighth Stratoscope flight. Its goal obtained sharper pictures of certain galaxies, nebulae, and the planet Saturn above the distortion of the Earth's atmosphere. The four-ton telescope is so accurate it can distinguish two objects 30 miles apart from 1,000 miles away. Scientists will be working on the data returned by Stratoscope II for the next several months. NASA used planes like this in checking out cameras and sensing equipment to be carried on future Earth resources satellites and the manned orbiting Skylab Space Station. An interesting side benefit took place this summer as the specially equipped planes were used to detect southern corn blight during the 1971 growing season. High altitude infrared photos were taken and then analyzed by Purdue University and the Department of Agriculture. These photographs were used to determine the extent and degree of corn blight. At the request of the local government, survey missions were flown over the island of Jamaica. Much of the water from Jamaica's 200 inches of rainfall never reaches its cities. It is believed that submarine springs carry a portion of the water offshore into the ocean. This was indicated by the preliminary analysis. Here is one of a pair of high altitude aircraft converted for use in Earth resource surveys. They are operating from NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco. The data collected by these flights is being used to simulate future remote sensing Earth resources satellites, satellites that will be used to study agriculture, forestry, geology, oceanography and urban development. Test pilots at NASA's Flight Research Center in California flew a plane with a new type wing this year. Called the supercritical wing, it is shaped quite differently from conventional wings. The new design alters the flow of air over the top of the wing, allowing an aircraft to fly faster, farther and at a lower operating cost. This sleek black plane, the YF-12, capable of flying 2,000 miles per hour, made 25 test flights. The joint NASA Air Force program is studying problems associated with propulsion, in-flight stopping and restarting of engines, heating and structural dynamics. The research is aimed at furthering the development and operations of future civil and military aircraft. Eight times the M2 lifting body was carried aloft and dropped over the dry lake desert in central California. The wingless M2 and other lifting body types are the research forerunners of craft like the proposed shuttle that could fly a space mission and then return through the Earth's atmosphere and land like an airplane. A new flight program began at NASA's Ames Research Center with the X-14B vertical takeoff and landing plane. Equipped with an onboard digital computer, the X-14 serves as a flying flight simulator by duplicating in advance the piloting qualities of proposed new planes. The Ames Center is also responsible for doing research on short takeoff and landing aircraft. This is one of the planes used to test new concepts, the OV-10A Bronco. The United States is very interested in developing a short takeoff and landing plane for use as an intercity transport in the nation's busy metropolitan air corridors. In effort to reduce the noise of jet aircraft as they land, NASA with American Airlines spent 50 hours investigating the problems connected with steeper landing approaches. It appears that by keeping aircraft higher above the ground and reducing engine power during the landing approach, noise near airports can be lessened. Operational procedures for this type of noise abatement are being analyzed. Attacking the jet noise problem at its source, engineers at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland are supervising tests of a quieter jet engine. The goal is to develop an engine that will be 15 to 20 decibels quieter than present aircraft engines. How long does it take jet aircraft to come to a stop on a wet runway? To find out, aeronautics experts from NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, cooperating with Air Force and FAA officials, conducted a series of landing studies at several airports around the country. Time after time, runways were flooded with water. Then, ground vehicles and the test aircraft tried stopping on the wet pavements. The increased knowledge of runway friction gained from these tests should result in improved safety for both aircraft and airport ground operations in adverse weather conditions. The scene is Cape Canaveral, Friday, May 5, 1961. It was on this date that astronaut Alan B. Shepard became the first American to be rocketed into space. Later, January 31, 1971, Alan B. Shepard made his second space flight, this time as commander of Apollo 14, the country's third moon landing. With astronauts Mitchell and Rusa accompanying Shepard, Apollo 14 marked the beginning of large-scale use of the moon for science. These are some of the 94 pounds of lunar rocks returned from the moon's ancient hills of Framaro by Apollo 14. They are beginning to tell scientists a story, a story three and one-half billion years old. From them, we are learning about the early history of not only the moon, but other planets as well. The Earth, Mars, even Venus and Mercury. This is the view seen by Apollo 15 astronauts Scott and Irwin as their spacecraft Falcon arched over the Hadley Real, located in the foothills of the moon's Apennine Mountains. 8 feet minus one. Contact. The Falcon is on the plane at Hadley. This was to be the most extensive exploration of the moon ever made. To prepare for the July mission, Scott and Irwin practiced on similar Earth terrain at the Rio Grande Gorge in New Mexico. They also spent many hours getting used to the lunar rover. Here's what it actually looked like to the moonriders as they drove their four-wheel car over 16 miles of lunar surface. As a result of their increased mobility, the pair returned 180 pounds of lunar rocks and deep core samples. After liftoff and while in lunar orbit, the trio launched a small scientific satellite called the sub-satellite to study the area around the moon. As they headed Earthward, astronaut Al Worden climbed outside the spacecraft and retrieved film from a pair of mapping cameras. The scientific instruments left by Apollo 15 and the photographs and samples they returned are giving us a real understanding of the moon in relationship to the Earth and the Sun. They asked Mr. Dale Myers, NASA's director of manned spaceflight to give us a status report on Skylab, the United States first space station. This year has been a big year for Skylab. All of the hardware for the program is coming into focus. Our qualification programs are underway. The major elements of the Skylab system are in the final positions of manufacturing and checkout. Now, one of the more important things to me about Skylab is it gives us an opportunity to learn more about man's capability to work and live in space. 1971, a year of significant achievement in aeronautics and space. These have been the highlights. This special report brought to you by NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.