Two of them, having no immediate assignment, have decided to spend a week or two in the quiet little town of Pecos, basking in the Arizona sunshine. They've registered at Mar Weatherford's hotel, and are just coming out on the veranda after the evening meal. You know, buddy, I'd plum-forgotten how good fried chicken could taste. Hey, you and Gravia and homemade biscuits and strawberry jam and coconut chicken. She'll lighten in her entire meal like that for you. You know what I'm going to do now? No, eh, what you going to do like that? This. I'm going to sit down here like this, put my feet up on the railing, like this, and yes. Oh, well. You know what I'm going to do? Oh, why do what? I'm going to take this rock and share, and like this. Yeah. And sit down like this. Yeah. And yes, rock. Oh, oh. Here's the boys could only see why they lost them now. The terrible sweet pull of fried chicken just walked them back and forth. Oh, by garlic, I guess I lose my reputation. Sure would, Whitey. See, lighten it. Yeah. Don't get that little bend. He likes to have them on. See? It's certainly actually important. Sure does. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Which one of you umbriers is United States Marshal Lighting, Jim Whippa? I am, partner. This here's my deputy, Whitey Lawson. What might your name be, Sheriff? Yeah. How'd you know I was a sheriff? You heard telling me around the country? Well, can't say I have exactly, but saw your bad play enough on your business. Oh. Oh, sure. You can tell from there. Yeah. Well, I might have glad to meet you, too. My name's Bunny. Septimus Bunny. Well, we might have glad to meet you, too, Sheriff Bunny. Oh, how did you, Mr. Bunny? Sit down. Sit down. I'll pull up a chair and join you for a spell. There. Yeah. I was wondering.  Not hunting nobody? Ha-ha. Nobody at all, Sheriff. I did just take in the cell's little rest. Between hunts, though, please. Yeah, I thought so. News gets around fast in this community. Does. And when I heard tell you to stand here at my weather first, I says, well, I bet they ain't hunting nobody. That's why? Of course, why, Sheriff? Because they ain't nobody to hunt. That's why. Nobody's going to try no dirty work around here, long time, Sheriff. You can bet your bottom dollar. Ain't no better. Why? I've been a sheriff here for six years now. And you know what? Know what, Sheriff? Ain't been no trouble at all. Made a few arrests for being drunk and deserving of peace. And once Miss Booker had all her chickens stole right out from her chicken house. Leave this. Why, did you catch the dirty sheriff? Well, I can't say that I did. But I found the feathers all right. They'd been etched. Yes, sir. Took right out of town and cooked in etch. The signs were just plain as the nose on your face. Well, that was pretty bad. That was bad. That's certainly much off. Oh, here comes John Marvin, our new freight agent. Come on up and meet our distinguished visitors, John. Well, that's what I'm aiming to do. So is the hurt lightin' and Jim and Whitey lost and was in town and hurried right over. Well, there wasn't no need to hurt him, Miss Marvin. The invite is planin' on stayin' awhile. Yes, sir. It'll take a couple of mules to get me out of this rock, Sheriff. Sit down, John. Sit down. I was just telling the men here that nobody would start no trouble around here, long as I was, Sheriff. They wouldn't take the chance. No, sir. Well, not unless it might be Wade Emerson. I wouldn't trust that breed at all. Well, I got my eyes on him all right. He won't start nothin'.  One of these days, I'll catch him doin' somethin', and then I'll... Who is this Wade Emerson? What kind of a vomit is he, anyhow? Well, I'm Arshall. Haven't you heard about Blaze Emerson? He used to ride with the Black Gulch gang. Got sent to prison by there a few years back. Oh, sure. We heard Teller Blaze, all right? See, he was a fast-shooting old-timer, all right. Well, this Wade we're talkin' about is his son. About 20-year-old, I reckon. Come here a few years back, bought up a little piece of land not to make it in a cow pasture, and he was tryin' to make a livin' out there. What's he done that's wrong? Didn't he come, Jeremy? Well, he ain't done nothin' yet. But, like father, like son, I always say, his father's a badin'. Stands the reason that the kid ain't no good either. Well, it's so long as I'm sheriff, he ain't gonna do nothin' neither. Well, I can't figure him out. Got a couple of cows, few chickens, sells milk and eggs, Gamar weather for it here. Aside from that, he don't make enough to live on. Well, I reckon he's doin' the best he can. Maybe tryin' to go straight, you know. Kid like that deserves a helpin' hand. Helpin' hand? Yeah. He deserves a good lesson.  Well, I reckon the marshals here find it tired. Maybe we should mosey long and let them hit the hay. Ah, sure, it's a good idea. Plenty of time for chin and lighter. The following day, Jim and Whitey spent ambling around the town, eating more of ma weather for good cooking and taking life easy in general. And then just before supper, they entered the hotel to hear sounds of a rather heated conversation between ma and a rather imposing-looking stranger. I told you once more, tell ya again, there's no charity institution here. No money, no food. But, my dear lady, you don't understand I'm the great Albert Rockmorton, the greatest Shakespearean actor in all the United States. No in all the world. Ah, my hamlet is unquestionably... Well, your hamlet don't get to know ham and eggs around here. Now you'll be on your way. What's trouble here, ma? No trouble at all. Just another mooch at tryin' to bum a meal. Gentlemen, gentlemen, I appeal to you. Surely you've heard of Albert Rockmorton, who played before the King of England at a command performance. Mind you, a command performance. Is that so? I did bits of hamlet. King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth. Ah, but my hamlet is my masterpiece. I'll give you a few lines. Oh, not me, you won't. I'm going back to see to my supper. Now you go. Yeah, I'd sort to like to hear some of that Shakespeare stuff. How'd you happen to be here in town, Mr. Rockmorton? Well, uh, well, it's just a little strange. I got in a poker game on my way out here, and my losses were heavy. The stage driver wouldn't accept my word that I could repay him as soon as I reached friend, so he put me off the coach. Yeah, pretty story. You wouldn't catch a fly if you used honey on it. Now you get out of here. Now, now, more. I reckon you wouldn't care none if I were to pay for the gentlemen's supper. Now, would ya? We could recite some of that Shakespeare to Whitey here. You'd learn some. Oh, sure. Yeah, I'd like that. Maybe you could even teach me some of that Shakespeare stuff, Mr. Scott Gordon. Oh, Rockmorton, my boy. Rockmorton. I'd be glad to. Glad to. Of course. The interpretation takes years and years of practice. The interpretation, you know, well, I wouldn't have to learn that. It could kind of learn me something easier at first. If you want to throw your money away, Marshal, now that's your business. I assure you that I shall repay your courtesy, gentlemen. I will wait for you over here. It is indeed a pleasure to meet you such connoisseurs, Mr. Mattingham. He risks like me. What did he say? I ain't sure no myself. He's done it. He's done it. The son of a thief. He can't flaunt the law and my patient gets away with it. I assure him. What's happening, Sheriff? What's happening? What are you yelling about? Yeah, printing. That's what. Nothing Wade Emerson used to always sticking up for. He's gone and robbed Joe Silver of the payroll for the bridge gang. Oh, he ain't neither. Don't believe one word of him. Well, there. Was it seen, Sheriff? Tell us what happened. He ever gets an excitement after all. As the bard once said, to vouch, this is no proof. Without law, why you're in law?  Captain, what happened? No, nobody knew what happened. But Joe got hit on the head tonight just about an hour ago. He didn't see who hit him. But when he come to a lion back in the alley there, the money for the payroll was gone. And just how does this Wade come into this? Well, because he's the only crook around here. I know him all. And he's the only one. His father died in the pen. And I reckon that's where Wade will wind up. Oh, I don't think that's always true, Sheriff. Well, anyhow, I'm going to round up the posse right now and arrest him. And you can bet your bottom dollar here. Now, Marshal, now you just got to stop this. If there ain't a finer boy living in this Wade Emerson, he can't help what his old man's done. He's trying to live on. Listen, these vultures won't let him.  Well, I reckon I can't, ma'am. The sheriff's in charge here. I don't have nothing to say about it. But lightning. Come along, Whitey. We'd better get cleaned up the supper. But lightning, he's got to. You better come to, Mrs. Rasmussen. We'll all go up to the room until supper time. Gladly, sir. Gladly. Well, what are we riding on this before, Lightning? Oh, nothing in particular, Whitey. Just all little fresh hair next size do it good. Besides, Thunder here, he used to take in a vacation. He might take it into his head to join the wild horses. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Well, I can share if Bunny can handle his own party. Ha, ha, ha. Say, Whitey, didn't it do your heart good to see that actor fellow eat tonight? Oh, yeah. I tell you, he sure can recite first the poetry. He sure can. But, Lightning, you ain't going to let them send this kid to Lille for you. Isn't that all right? Can't see that we can do nothing about it, Whitey. Lightning, I can't understand the way you're acting. Whitey, you know everybody. She's taking it for granted that we are this guilty. Whitey, they ain't even trying to find out if somebody else could done the wrong thing. Well, maybe we can catch them, boy. Hey, somebody's shooting. Yeah, come on, Thunder.  Come on, Whitey. Come over here. Yo, look, Stevi. Get it? Sounded like the sheriff. Yeah, Bunny. That you? Did you catch me, then? Oh, Thunder, who, boy? I had him right in my hand, and he tricked me. Tricked Septimus Bunny. But he won't get away with it. Marked my word. I'll get him. What happened? Where is he? We went up to his house. He wasn't home. We figured he'd be moved. Yeah? The party decided to separate. Better chance to find him. Well, I came this way, and all of a sudden, there he was, right in front of me, with his milk cans, bold as brass. The milk cans? What milk cans? He said he was going to deliver his evening milk tomorrow with a bird. Claimed he didn't know nothing about no robbery. Well, I put him under arrest. And I got him up here in the saddle in front of me. What saddle? And, uh, where's your horse? Well, you let me tell this my way. Born. I pulled him up here, not thinking that he was up to no tricks. Uh, not with me having tight hold on him. Oh, and then what happened?  Hold on now.  Not out. Just off. I'm all covered with milk, too. Dang, the lift came off the can. Oh! We heard the chokes. Yeah, yeah. And the prisoner got away. He tricked me vicious like, nearly killed me, too, and got plummeted away on my horse. I reckon that makes a horse steeper, too. And he's guilty of restlessness and arrest. Yeah, and assault an officer in a discharge of his silly. I'll reckon this proves it, man. Wade must be guilty of wouldn't have run away. Make that right, sir? Sure is. Yeah, he's guilty of his old get-out. That's what he is. Yeah, and when we find him, I reckon we'll know how to take care of him. Well, we'll start hunting again tomorrow. I've got to get home now and get some dry clothes. But we'll get him. And when we do, well, here's find out what it means to attack the sheriff. Is Wade Emerson's son of a thief turned thief himself? Will the sheriff catch him? What part is Jim going to play in the capture? And just how does the old Shakespearean actor fit into the picture? All these questions will be answered in part two, which follows immediately. And now for part two of the Adventures of Lightning Jim. The next morning, Sheriff Bunny and several of the citizens are talking over the robbery in the local Dine and Dance Palace. Well, he's guilty, and he ought to be hanged before he goes away of his old man. That's what I said. Ain't no use treating his kind with gloves. There ropes what they need. I knew it all the time. I said to myself, I said, that Wade Emerson ain't up to no good. He'll bear watching. Sure. Pretending to be gone straight. Trying to pedal his three, four quarts of milk and a few chickens. I wasn't talking on either. Apologize, sir, but I'm looking for some information. Well, you came to the right person for information. All right. I am the sheriff here. What do you want to know? I'm desirous of buying some land around here. I've heard quite a bit about your fair community. Best county in the state. And I am the sheriff who's going to keep it that way. I'm pleased to know that the citizens have such able protection, sir. Allow me to introduce myself. Hey, boys. Hey, boys. Here's a newcomer. Figuring on settling in our midst. What'd you say your name was, stranger? I was just about to tell you. My name is Augusta Shaw. I'm from New York state.  We're here. We're here. Heard about Peacow's all right? Yeah. Glad to have you join us, Mr. Shaw. Decided on where you're going to live yet, Mr. Shaw. No, no. I've just arrived in town today. I was figuring on renting a horse someplace and riding out to look over the country. Well, I can fix you up with a horse all right. Mine came home this morning. But, well, after the accident ahead last night, I don't think I'll be riding for a couple of days. I don't think you'll be either. Now you jaspers needn't laugh. I reckon you'd be sore, too, if you got flung off a horse when you wasn't looking and landed, well, landed. You landed all right. Very good. But I'll get that even buzzard or my name's not Steptimus Bunny. Yeah, me. This is alarming. You mean there's a thief loose in the community? Well, he won't be loose long. I got my posse out looking for him right now. And when may I find him? I trust that'll be soon because I have quite a sizable roll of bills on me for the purchase price, you know. You mean you're carrying enough cash on you to buy a ranch around here? My custom always to pay cash for everything. I have about $10,000 on me, which should be sufficient as a deposit, don't you think? $10,000? You ain't serious. You shouldn't be carrying such an amount around. At least not until we touch this weight, Emerson. Well, if he'd find out about that, he'd slit your throat for you. I'm not easily intimidated. I assure you, Teddy. I came here to look around for a ranch, and I do not intend to lose any time. Teddy, will you kindly accommodate me with that horse you were talking about? Sure. Certainly, Mr. Shaw. You come along with me. But if you'll take my advice, you let me lock that money up in my desk at the jail. I'm quite capable of taking care of it myself. I don't think your bandit is likely to hold me up. Besides, your posse is out after this highwayman, isn't it? My posse? Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course. I'm sure to get him any minute now. Any minute. Slow down there, Thunder. Take it easy, boy. We ain't going for a camp this morning. This is business. No, there may be business to you, Lightning, but there is sure a tick fog to me. What are we doing out there anyway? What are you looking for? What are you up to? Well, what he didn't want to tell you before, because he didn't want you to go thinking I was crazy. Lightning, you know I think anything you do is all right. Come now, if that's part of it. Well, I didn't feel right about this way, boy, somehow. More weather, but so sure he's a good, decent boy. Trying to go straight. And that sheriff isn't even trying to find nobody else to fit the crime. No, Rick, and he makes a practice looking right under his nose and no place else. Well, are we looking for weed now? Is that why we are here, Lightning? No, at least for more weather, for a sake of hope it ain't. You see, Whitey, I got Crockmorton to help me try a little experiment. Oh, you mean the Shakespeare feller? Yeah. Well, what's he going to do? Well, I gave him some money. Enough to be convincing at first glance, and we filled it out with some stage money. Oh, he reckoned he used the stage money when he played poker. I ain't inviting none into that way. And maybe I won't see my money again, neither. But I have to take a chance. You see, I fixed it with Crockmorton, so it was to make out like it was just a simple jasper, carrying a lot of money and riding around the country looking for a likely ranch to buy. Oh, you think that they're real. He would try to get the money Crockmorton is getting. Yeah, that's it. I told Crockmorton to do a lot of talking. You know, all around town. So, does everybody be sure to know about him? Yeah, but is that then? You're asked for Crockmorton. No, I don't think this thinks a killer. Didn't hit Joe Silver's last night any harder than he had to. And that's why you and me are here, Whitey. Crockmorton's supposed to be riding out this trail just about now. Oh, you get it. All fixed up with time sketches and everything. All the way to do it, Whitey. Up until now, he's supposed to be riding around town close enough that nobody would take a chance on hurting him. Then he's supposed to start out this way. And when he goes by... I'll let you go over there. Yeah, well, we trail him. Keep him to the side, of course. And if the thief takes the bait, we get it. See, Lightning, watch that in the road. Out the head. Looks like a man lying in the road, Whitey. Up thunder. Boy, cool thunder. Good boy. Whitey, it's Crockmorton. He's stuck on the head. Lightning, is he dead? Oh, he's still breathing. Can you talk, Crockmorton? Come on, tell us. Who did it? Oh, my head. Nice deal, old man. We'll have you back in town in a few minutes to a doctor. Did you see who did it? I couldn't see anything. I was coming along just as you'd arranged, looking very carefully to the right, to the left, and then... Hey, what happened? Did he shoot you? No, no. He tossed one of those crew-jumping ropes. Oh, what do you call them? It's a hilarious plato. The one if you want to call them. You got roped like a spear. Oh, it was the most humiliating experience I ever had. I remember once in Boston, when I was playing... Yes, King Lear. They threw it that fast. Oh, but this was much worse. Much worse. Oh, my God. All over. All over. Yeah, but couldn't you see the... the svelter at all? No, it all happened to us suddenly. And then, then I caught a glimpse of a shape here. Just a shape, bending over me, and the dastardly villain must have struck me when I was down. Because that's all I remember. Several hours later, we find the three men sitting disconsolately in Jim's bedroom. I can't tell you how sorry I am that I got you into this, sir. I thought we might be able to find a realty, but, well, guess I was too slow. Well, I reckon the critter was so bold, he just grabbed the first chance he got to find Mr. Troughmorton alone. Think nothing of it, my dear sir. Nothing of it. Albert Troughmorton is always willing to be of service to his country and his fellow men. Although having to use a pillow has its inconvenience. Yes, something must have happened. Marshal, I just got to do something now. The sheriff sent me. He's scared. What's the matter, Ma? Say, you're shaking all over. You got to sit down.  They just found that poor boy Wade. And the whole town's worked up to the point of hanging. Hanging him? Where's Bunny? Oh, Septimus Bunny's got Wade in jail right now, and he aims to keep him there. Septimus ain't a mean man, Marshal. He just dumb, that's all. Now that the mob is forming, he sent me here to get you. Now you just got to help. Sure. Tell me, are all the townspeople down there, Ma? Yep, every last soul in town. They ain't started nothing yet, but they're likely to at any time. Wendy, that's our chance. You take care of that little thing we were talking about and do it quick. Lightning, I might be right. No. Come on, Frank Morton. Here's another chance for you to give some service. I'm following you, my dear sir. But I hope none of those good people throw Wade, is that man? Hey, Marshal, you got here. Oh, I never was so glad to see anybody. Well, we had some trouble getting to that crowd. Oh, they're much worse than the people I met in Boston. Much worse. Listen to me, Marshal. I arrested Wade in there, because I think he's the thief. But I don't hold with no lynching, and there ain't no mob are going to take my prisoner away from me. Nothing unless they do it over my dead body. Good for you, Sheriff. I'm right with you on that. We'll hold him off somehow. Where is the young cop? Has he confessed? Given up his ill-gotten gain? I've got him there in the back, far away from the crowd as I could get him. He ain't said nothing except that he didn't do it. And he keeps on saying he didn't do it. I can't get nothing else out of him.  Sheriff, will I come in and ask for him? Open that door, Sheriff. What are you talking about?  I'm not opening that door until that mob goes away. No, that will work. Listen, open that door. I'll stand there in the entrance, and... Well, I don't reckon nobody'll get in, unless they get me first.  We're giving you just 10 seconds. Just how did you get in this game, Marshal? Did the sheriff get capable of taking care of his prisoner? You keep your trap shut, John Marvin. You're getting much too uppity lately. I liked it. Who liked it? You must like it. You found it quite easy. Every bit of it liked him. It was hid right there in the frittiest desk. Except for about $15. Reach for the sky, John Marvin. My God! You're crazy. Go on, men. Hold on. Just how do you explain the fact that all the money taken from Joe Silver's, and from my friend Throt Morton here, was found in your desk at the freight office? What?  Quiet! Search him, where do you go? Keep your hands up, Marvin. I'll make you pray for this. You've got no right searching me. Sheriff, do your dirty. I don't know what this is all about, but nobody better start nothing. That's all I got to say. Your heritage lightning. $15 in bills.  Throt Morton, look them bills over. Gladly, sir. Gladly. Yes, yes. Here are the markings. Clearly. Good. In the first place, Marvin, it ain't altogether common for people out here to be carrying bills. We run more to hard money. But more important, Throt Morton here, who played the part of shore today, master bills he took with him.  Right, and I suggest that you lock him up, Sheriff, now. Listen, Sheriff, now that you've got the rail bandits, there's a boy back there in jail. Never did nothing, except to be unfortunate enough to have a thief for a father. He tried to live decent here with you and none of you ever give him a break. Well, I want you to know I'm sure sorry for what we've done, Marshal. I reckon we can make it up to the boys some way. Well, I hope so, Sheriff. You see, I never would have gotten into this thing except that it was all too cut and dried. Why, an hour after I got in town, I hear how the folks around here are just waiting for Wade Emerson to do something wrong. Oh, and if Marvin was the first one to tell us about Vidd, and horse-paw had been a thief and all that. Yeah. The setup was made to order. Marvin could commit a crime and pronto everybody would suspect Wade. The boy didn't know who wouldn't stand a chance. Well, how come you suspected Marvin?  It was the Mark Bills that did the trick. They are in the splendid act of the Throckmorton, you hear? Thank you, my kind. Now listen, Sheriff, in the future, you better not be so quick to judge a man by the name that's given. Yes, Marshal. The quality of mercy is not strained. See, I remember that thought that you thought that to me last night. The quality of mercy is not strained. It dropeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the plate feeding. It is tried, blessed. And so ends another dramatic episode in the lives of those two famous marshals of the Old West, Lightning Jim Whipple and his deputy, Whitey Larson.


Welcome to First Unitarian Society. My name is Kelly Aspruth Jackson, and I am one of the ministers here. Today I am joined by my colleague, the Reverend Kelly Crocker, and the worship team of Heather Thorpe, Linda Warren, Stephen Gregorius, Daniel Carnes, and our cherub, choir, and choristers, the real stars of the show this morning. Absolutely. Our flowers today are in memory of Karen Jaeger, whose memorial service was held here yesterday. The vision of FUS is growing souls, connecting with one another, and embodying our UU values in our lives, our community, and our world. If you are visiting us today, welcome. We are so glad that you are with us. If you would like more information about First Unitarian Society, please stop by the welcome table, which is located in the commons, just through those doors. We hope you'll be able to stay and join us for coffee hour, immediately following the service also in the commons. For those connecting with us virtually today, we are glad that you are with us as well, and we encourage you to watch the announcement slides that will be seen again after the postlude to learn more about our upcoming programs and activities. And now I invite you to join me in a moment of silence to center ourselves and bring ourselves fully into this time. As we join together once again in community. Come in, all who long to know how to love this world, how to keep eyes open, hands unclenched, arms wide. Breathing deeply, in and out. This is a time to practice because there is still so much good and beauty and joy. But it can be hard to keep telling this tale with all the news and the wind and the rain and the trembling earth, who wants to love this life anyway? Come in, all who teeter on the edge of cynicism, broken hearted and trying still to remember laughter and kindness and the chance to be alive in these days. When so much is at stake, in this place, we remind each other why we persist, giving each other courage to take this path that is not always easy. To keep practicing this love that cannot, will not let us go and still calls us on. Come, let us worship together. And I invite you to rise in all the ways we do for our words of affirmation as we light our chalice. We light this chalice in memory of the courage of those who have struggled for freedom, the persistence of those who've struggled for justice and the love of those who've built beloved communities to carry on the light of hope. Please be seated. And I invite anyone who would like to come on up to the carpet to get closer for our story to come on up. Good morning. Our story today is about a wire walker a long, long time ago.  What do you think? You're right, you're right. Have you ever seen this in a circus? What is it also called? Tightrope walker, right? Where they're go, oh, anybody, would anybody like to actually try that someday? No, that was quick. Lucy was like, no, no, I'm good, I'm good. Would you wanna try it? Well, this was a long time ago, 100 years ago in Paris when the theater halls drew traveling players from all over the world. Now, back then the best place to stay if you were a traveling performer was the Widow Gatoes boarding house on English Street. Acrobats, jugglers, actors, mimes from as far away as Moscow and New York would recline on the Widow's feather mattresses and they devoured her kidney stews. What do you think? I might wanna walk on a high wire before I ate a kidney stew. Kidney stew, what do you think? Anybody wanna eat that? No. Oh, I want toast. I'll just have toast, thanks. Madam Gatoe worked hard to make her guests comfortable and so did her daughter, Morett. The girl was an expert at washing linens, chopping leeks, paring potatoes and mopping floors. She was a good listener too. Nothing pleased her more than to overhear all the players tell of their adventures in town after town along the road. Now, one evening a tall sad face stranger arrived. He told Madam Gatoe he was Bellini, a retired high wire walker. I'm here for a rest, he said. I have just the room for you. It is in the back, it is quiet, but it's on the ground floor and it has no view. Perfect, he said, I will take my meals alone. So how do you think he's feeling? If he wants to take his meals alone, he's good with the room at the back that has no view. He just wants to be all by himself. How do you think he's feeling? He's kinda sad. All right, we'll see if we can find out why. The next afternoon when Morett came for the sheets, there was the stranger crossing the courtyard on air. Can you see it? Well, you can barely kinda sorta see it. Can somebody turn down the sun? Anybody? Okay, trust me, I know you can't really see it, but Bellini is going across the courtyard on the air. Morett was enchanted. Of all the things a person could do, this had to be the most magical. Her feet tingled as if they wanted to jump on the wire with Bellini. Morett worked up the courage to speak. Excuse me, Mr. Bellini, I want to learn how to do that. Bellini sighed, that would not be a good idea. Once you start, your feet are never happy again on the ground. Oh, please, teach me, she begged. My feet are already unhappy on the ground. He just shook his head. Morett would watch him every day. He would slide his feet onto the wire, cast his eyes straight ahead, and cross without ever looking down as if in a trance. And finally, she couldn't resist it any longer. When he was gone, she jumped on the wire to try it herself. What do you think happened? Yep, her arms flailed like windmills. In a moment, she was back on the ground. Bellini made it look so easy. Surely she could do it if she kept trying. In 10 tries, she balanced on one foot for a few seconds. In a day, she managed three steps without wavering. And after a week of many, many falls, she walked the length of the wire. She couldn't wait to show Bellini. When she showed him he was silent for a long time, then he said, in the beginning, everyone falls. Right, I mean, gravity works, right, we know this. Everybody's gonna fall. Most of them give up, but you kept trying. Perhaps you have some talent. Thank you, said Morett. She got up two hours earlier every day to finish her chores before the sun shone in the courtyard. The rest of the day was for lessons and practice. Bellini was a strict master. Never let your eyes stray. He told her day after day after day, think only of the wire and crossing to the end. Now, when she could cross dozens of times without falling, he taught her the wire walker salute. I have no idea what that is. What do you think that could be? A wire walker salute. It's like that, that's a good salute. Then she learned how to run, how to lie down, how to do a somersault on the wire. I will never fall again, she shouted. Do not boast, Bellini said sharply, and she lost her balance and had to jump down. Now, one night, an agent from Astley's hippodrome in London rented a room. He noticed Bellini on his way to dinner. What a shock to see him here, he said. See who? asked a mime. Don't you know? That is the great Bellini. Didn't you know he was in the room at the back? Bellini said the mime. He's the one who crossed Niagara Falls on a thousand foot wire in 10 minutes. And on the way back, he stopped in the middle to cook an omelet on a stove full of live cold. Then he opened a bottle of champagne and toasted the crowd. My uncle used to talk about that one all the time, said a juggler. Bellini crossed the Alps with baskets tied to his feet. Then he fired a cannon over the bull ring in Barcelona. He walked a flaming wire wearing a blindfold in Naples. The man had the nerves of an iceberg. What do you think that means if you have the nerves of an iceberg? Yeah, his nerves worked really well, right? What do you think? Nerves of an iceberg, you're not afraid of anything. What do you think about walking a wire that's on fire while wearing a blindfold? I think that's a hard no. Would you want to try that? Oh, no, you guys over there, do you want to try that one? No, there were some yeses over there, did you hear that?  Well, Meret heard all of this and she raced to Bellini's room. Is it true? Did you do all those things? Why didn't you tell me I want to do all those things too? I want to go with you. I can't take you, Bellini said. Why not? Asked Meret. Bellini hesitated a long time because I am afraid, he said. Meret was astonished. You? Afraid? Why? Once you have fear on the wire, it never leaves, he said. But you have to make it leave, Meret insisted. I can't, said Bellini. Meret turned and ran to the kitchen as tears sprang to her eyes. She had felt such joy on the wire. Now Bellini's fear was like a cloud casting its black shadow on all she had learned from him. Now Bellini was back in his room and he was pacing for hours and hours. He didn't want to disappoint Meret. By dawn, he knew that he had to face his fear. If he didn't face his fear, he couldn't face Meret. He knew what he had to do. The question was, could he do it? That night when the agent returned, Bellini was waiting for him. The agent listened to Bellini's plan and he was so excited. I'll take care of everything he promised. Now the next evening, Meret heard a commotion out in the street. Go and see what it is, her mother said. Maybe it will cheer you up. Now in the square was a hubbub. The crowd was so thick that she couldn't see it first until a spotlight shone in the sky. Return of the great Bellini, the agent yelled. Could it be? Bellini stepped out onto the wire and he saluted the crowd. He took one step and then he froze. The crowd was cheering wildly, but something was wrong. Bellini couldn't move. Meret knew at once what it was and she was as frozen as Bellini. Then she threw herself at the door behind her, ran inside, up flight after flight of stairs and crawled out a skylight onto the roof. She stretched out her hands to Bellini. He smiled and began to walk toward her. She stepped onto the wire and with the most intense pleasure as she had always imagined it might be, she started to cross the sky. Bravo roared the crowd. It's the protege of the great Bellini. The agent was so happy. He was already planning the world tour of Bellini and Meret. As for the master and his pupil, they were thinking only of the wire and crossing to the end. So what happened when Bellini stepped out on the wire? What happened? What happened? He got frozen. Why did he get frozen? Yeah. He was scared, right? And what helped him overcome his fear? Meret, you're exactly right. So here's what I want you to take from this big long story about a high wire walker. Sometimes we all get scared. It happens to all of us. And a lot of time you know what we need? Somebody on the other end of the wire. So next time you're scared, reach out to someone near you and ask for help, okay? We're gonna stay right here together and we're gonna listen to the kids' choir. Go into this time of giving and receiving where we give freely and generously to this offering which sustains and strengthens our community here and also our outreach offering recipient, who this week is the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. WNPJ was founded in 1991 as a coalition of activist groups and citizens of conscience within Wisconsin. It works to advance a sustainable world free from violence and injustice by connecting, engaging, and strengthening member groups and serving as a catalyst for community organizing and education. There are multiple ways to share your gifts this morning. There are baskets at the exits to this room in which you can place cash or checks now or on your way out. Or you can also see on the screen that you can donate directly from our website, fussmedicine.org and see the text to give information there as well. We thank you for your generosity and your faith in this life we create together. That's right. The thing is, the thing is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, it's tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs. When grief waits you like your own flesh, only more of it and obesity of grief, you think how can a body withstand this?  I will love you again. Every time I read this poem, I want to find a way to contact Ellen Bass. I would like to invite her over. I'd like to offer her some coffee or some tea and simply say to her, how? I suppose my longer question is, how do you do this? How do you take life? On days when grief weighs you down, when everything is crumbled, how do you say yes, I will take you, I will love you again? Because friends, I will admit, these have been some hard weeks. There's the relentless political advertising everywhere you look. The new cycle of continued violence here and around the globe and here in our congregation in a very short period of time. We have lost beloveds that some of you have known for 40 years or more. Eva Wright, Karen Jager, Al Sentie, and now Michael May. These have been days filled with memory and gratitude and also deep and abiding loss. I don't know about you, but my heart is mighty tired. I would love to ask Ellen, when the grief is too much to bear, when you feel like you can't hold the loss of one more that you love, how do you love this life again? Now, since I wasn't able to figure out how to do that this week, to sit down with Ellen Bass and have a coffee, I did the next best thing. I turned to the Googles. I found an interview Ellen did where she was asked a somewhat similar question. In a world where everything seems to be going wrong, how do you hold on to the hope that something could actually go right? Her answer was to quote the Buddhist teacher, Shogram Trimpe Rinpoche, who said, if you can learn how to hold the sadness and the pain of the world in your heart and at the same time, still see the power and the beauty of the great eastern sun, then only then are you ready to make a proper cup of tea. This she said is the work of a lifetime, learning to hold the balance, hold the tension between all that is painful, the destruction, and yet still see all that is beautiful, all that is possible, all that could be. This, this holding between the two, she says, this is where hope lives. It's this in-between space and being able to remain there for any amount of time is a revolutionary act of courage. Choosing hope is an act of courage. The spiritual teacher Sri Chimnoi held a somewhat similar sentiment. He said to speak ill of the world needs courage, but fortunately or unfortunately, everybody has that courage. To love the world as one's own, one's very own needs courage. Unfortunately, most of us are wanting in that courage. To love the world again and again requires courage and on the hardest of days, on days when we are weary of the news or grief or the pain of it all, many of us find that courage is in short supply. What do we find instead? We quite often find a corrosive cynicism, that habit of mind and orientation of spirit in which out of a feeling of hopelessness for our own situation or hopelessness over the state of the world, we grow embittered about how things are and we can no longer see what's possible. In a commencement address to the Annenberg School of Communication, the author and essayist, Maria Popova said it this way. Today, the soul is in dire need of stewardship and protection from cynicism. The best defense against it is a vigorous, intelligent, sincere hope. Not a blind optimism because that's a form of resignation to believe that everything's gonna work out just fine and we don't need to apply ourselves. I mean a hope that's bolstered by critical thinking that is clear headed, identifies what is lacking in ourselves or in the world and then envisions ways to create it and endeavors to do just that. In its passivity and its resignation, cynicism is a hardening, a calcification of the soul. Hope is a stretching of its ligaments, a limber reaching for something greater. Our culture has created a reward system in which you get points for tearing down rather than building up. For besieging with criticism and derision, those who dare to live and work from a place of hope. Popova ended her talk by saying, do not just resist cynicism. We need you to fight it actively in yourself and in those you love and in the communication with which you shape culture. Cynicism, like all destruction, is easy. There's nothing more difficult yet more gratifying in our society than learning how to live with a sincere, active hope for the human spirit. This is the most potent antidote to cynicism. It is an act of courage and resistance. It is also the most vitalizing sustenance for your soul. Hope as the vitalizing sustenance for your soul. How many times have we done what Popova said and conflated hope with optimism, believing that if we just turn away, if we don't take in the pain, if we don't engage with the loss, everything's gonna be okay. We will be okay. Somehow it's all gonna work out. But that isn't a courageous hope. Courageous hope requires something else, a movement and engagement and action, perhaps a facing of fear, a leap of faith and a great deal of trust. The poet and the author David White said this about courage. Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another person, with a community, with a work. To be courageous is to seat ourselves deeply in the feelings of the body and the world, to live up to and into the necessities of relationships that often already exist, with those things we care deeply about, a person, a future, a possibility. The French philosopher Camus used to tell himself quietly, live to the point of tears. Not as a call for model and sentimentality, but as an invitation to the deep privilege of belonging and the way that belonging affects us, shapes us and breaks our heart at a fundamental level. It is being moved by what we feel as if being surprised that love is actually there and the privilege of love and affection and knowing its possible loss. Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive. Now, October is LGBTQIA plus history month. And every year, on October 11th, we are invited to celebrate National Coming Out Day. It's this coming Tuesday. National Coming Out Day was officially established in 1988 by the activists Robert Eichberg and Gino Leary. They felt that increased visibility was vital for the queer community to survive and ultimately thrive. A viewpoint upheld by many of their predecessors and ancestors within the movement for LGBTQIA rights. They chose the 11th of October to honor the date of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Robert Eichberg, speaking in 1993, said it is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and disabuse them of their fears and stereotypes. We continue to celebrate this day each year because we know that homophobia thrives in silence. Violence counts on silence and shame and fear. Coming Out Day recognizes every person who has taken the step of coming out as well as all those who may be wondering how they will find the courage to do such a thing someday, who are digging deep to find the hope that their life can change when they decide how they will do this hard thing. Coming Out Day reminds us that courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive. In a world where our LGBTQIA folks still live in fear of where it is safe for them to go or not go, where it is safe for them to simply be alive. When 40% of LGBTQ youth consider ending their own lives, we take a moment to celebrate who they are, to acknowledge the gift and the blessing they are to this world, to lift up their courage, to help them hold on to the hope of change. The UCC minister, Heather McDuffie, wrote this story of her coming out. I don't quite understand why queer folks have to come out. Straight people just bring a person home and introduce them to their parents. What I want people to know about coming out is that it is deeply spiritual. Hetero people should try it. It is vulnerable, intimate, and holy. There were a few moments when I felt the holy safety of coming out to trusted friends. God makes holy what humans have distorted. Like when I told my pastoral relations committee and a gay man told me, I know that it doesn't feel like it yet, but I'm so happy for you. Your life is about to be amazing. In coming out, I lost a lot. My husband, my job, my sense of self, but thank God I also gained a lot and thank you, John, from the Pastoral Relations Committee. I have an amazing life. A new girlfriend, a new definition of family, a new definition of ministry. Coming out has been a long process, but it's mine. I think of it as my be coming out and it taught me about being human and about being spiritual. Becoming out shows all people that we can adapt, grow, and emerge victorious. Courageous hope requires something else. A movement, an action, perhaps a facing of fear or a leap of faith or a great deal of trust. Within Heather's story, I find another piece of what is often required, someone else on the other end of the wire. Hope showed up for Heather through the words, the eyes, the love and support of trusted friends and of John on that Pastoral Relations Committee, the one who gave her the hope that her life, the one that was crumbling like burnt paper in her hands, could be amazing. So if I were to meet Ellen Bath today after service for brunch and somehow the tables turned and she asked me after all of what I just said to you, what I knew now about holding on to hope and loving life again and again. I think I would have to tell her that for me, it comes down to the space between us, to this tiny space where one of us ends and the other begins. That's where hope lives. I have found it in the grief we carry over the ones who have died, the connection, love and memories that remain. I find it in the daily moments with one another, the privilege of love and affection and the knowing of its painful loss. I find it in the stories of those who have found the courage to live their truth, break their silence, be who they are in their wholeness and their beauty. I would tell her that I believe we need someone else on the end of the wire to remind us where hope lives and to help each other hold it all in balance. And then after all that, if we still had a minute, I would tell her this story from the UU theologian, Rebecca Parker. Now, years and years ago, Rebecca was noting to herself how people struggle with disappointment and they lose their source of hope. And then she told the story of this terrible moment when she herself had come to that place. Now much in Rebecca's life had gone wrong. So in despair, she decided that it was time to be done.  Entering the park, she was surprised to see all of these dark objects blocking her way. She didn't remember them being there before. And as she got closer, she noticed something else. There were people moving among the dark objects. And suddenly she realized what she was seeing. Telescopes. It was a meeting of the Seattle Astronomy Club. Its members just happened to have set up their equipment that night because those unpredictable Seattle skies were actually clear. So a little disoriented but still determined, Parker made her way through the group until one enthusiast who assumed that of course she had come out with them to see the stars said here, let me show you. And began explaining what he had focused his telescope on. Brushing her tears away, she peered in. And there it was, she said, I could see it. A red, orange spiral galaxy. And that was it. I could not bring myself to continue my journey, she said. I couldn't leave a world where people get up in the middle of the night to look at the stars. Life is in here. Between you and me in this tiny space where I end and you begin, that's where hope lives. The truth of courageous hope is that it is inside each of us and we can be each other's agents of awakening. Hope is the lifeline we carry. The possibility that we see in ourselves and each other, the grace that we extend and receive. We can learn to take life in our hands, holding it all in the tension between what is and what can be and we can learn to breathe in that space. We can live to the point of tears when tested by the simple necessity of being alive. Then living into that hope inside of us, we can find the courage to be the ones who sit with those whose grief is so strong it thickens the air, heavy as water, more fit for gills than lungs and say, hold on, it can still be amazing. Or here, let me show you and a whole new galaxy can open before our eyes. The world needs this hope. Our marginalized folks need people willing to be brave enough to say, we are here. No more silence. We are here to listen, we see you. And we say, yes, I will take you. I will love you again. May we have the courage to be those people. Come together each week here in this place made holy. We bring with us the cares of recent days, the celebrations and the losses. We share these knowing that we are held in love. We light a candle of deep sorrow and grief for Michael May who passed away on Monday. Michael has been a foundational part of this community. It is hard to imagine FUS without him. Having served as president of the congregation, serving on many committees, including the facilities committee that built this building, the preservation committee for the meeting house and also serving on the board and as president of the friends of the meeting house. A memorial service is being planned. Details will follow. We send our love to his wife, Brian E. Foy. His children and grandchildren and the many who love him all throughout this city that held his heart. There will be a visitation on Friday, October 14th from 3 to 7 p.m. at Crest Funeral Home on Speedway Road. We light a candle in solidarity with the people of Ukraine both in their suffering and in their struggle. Together we yearn for peace, for them and for all people and for an end to all wars of conquest, anywhere and everywhere on earth. I invite you now to turn with me both inward and outward as we join together in an attitude of meditation and of prayer. What a week it has been. Looking backwards upon the seven days now past, we might rightly ask if they were an instant or an aeon. Seven days which held the stirrings of hope and hard, hard loss. Catastrophe for some, the new birth of possibility for others, the plotting rhythm of the everyday for most of us and behind it all, the clanging machine work of history grinding away. It has been a mundane and a majestic one. Just another week and yet seven days, the likes of which will never, can never be seen again. So let us give thanks for the gifts that the ever-flowing river of time has graced us and our world with this week. The flavor of food shared with the people we love, fresh dew on a chill October morning, life-saving medicines and warm socks, stories that inspire or at least entertain us and examples that stir in us the courage for what must be done. Let us lament too all that has been lost and cannot be regained. Everything that is broken beyond our ability to repair. Bonds of friendship severed, homes which are homes no longer, beloved socks that will never be found again. And death, too much of it, too fast and too soon. Finally, balancing on the meeting point between our gratitude and our grieving, let us look to these next seven days, time enough to transform the world and to wash the dishes, time in which to become who our hearts demand we become or at least to make the first small move in the direction of that blessed possibility. A time for sharing joy, offering solace, making amends, finding peace within ourselves. The next seven days are no more and no less precious than the last seven were, but they are different in this respect. They lie before us rather than behind. Let us take them up in the same way we might reach out to a beloved friend with openness and a gentle determination. Amen. For the courage to be humble in the face of inequity and pain, to know that the power has been given us to make a difference. Although not to end all suffering or finally end all the ills of our days, we pray for the courage to hope, to keep acting in the midst of despair, to keep trying in the aftermath of failure, to keep hoping in the emptiness that follows loss or change. May courage give us patience and may we ever know love's healing presence at the heart and center of our days. Blessed be, go in peace and please be seated for the postlude.


Welcome back to SuperCloud 2. You know, this event and the SuperCloud initiative in general, it's an open industry wide collaboration. Last August at SuperCloud 22, we really honed in on the definition, which of course we've published. And there's this shared doc, which folks are still adding to and refining effect just recently, Dr. Nehlu Mihai added some critical points that really advance some of the community's initial principles. And today at SuperCloud 2, we're digging further into the topic with input from real world practitioners. And we're exploring that intersection of data, data mesh and cloud and importantly, the realities and challenges of deploying technology to drive new business capability. And I'm pleased to welcome Ash Naseer to the program. He's a senior director of data engineering at Warner Brothers. Discovery, Ash, great to see you again. Thanks so much for taking time with us. It's great to be back. These conversations are always very fun. I was so excited when we met last spring, I guess.  It was June, it was at the Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas. And it's a comment that you made about your company, but also data mesh, data mesh. Guys, roll the clip. Yeah, so when people think of Warner Brothers, you always think of like the movie studio, but we're more than that, right? I mean, you think of HBO, you think of TNT, you think of CNN. We have 30 plus brands in our portfolio and each have their own needs. So the idea of a data mesh really helps us because what we can do is we can federate access across the company so that CNN can work at their own pace. When there's election season, they can ingest their own data and they don't have to bump up against, as an example, HBO, if Game of Thrones is going on. So, okay, so that's pretty interesting. So you've got these sort of different groups that have different data requirements inside of your organization. The data mesh, it's a relatively new concept. So you're kind of ahead of the curve. So Ash, my question is, when you think about getting value from data and how that's changed over the past decade, you had pre-Hadoop, Hadoop, what do you see that's changed? Now you've got the cloud coming in. What's changed, what's had to be sort of fixed? What's working now and where do you see it going? Yeah, so I feel like in the last decade, we've come through quite a maturity curve. I actually like to say that we're in the golden age of data because the tools and technology in the data space, particularly and then broadly in the cloud, they allow us to do things that we couldn't do way back when like you suggested back in the Hadoop era or even before that. So there's certainly a lot of maturity and a lot of technology that has come about. So in terms of the good, bad and ugly, so let me kind of start with the good, right? In terms of bringing value from the data, I really feel like we're in this place where the folks that are charged with unlocking that value from the data, they're actually spending the majority of their time actually doing that. And what do I mean by that? If you think about it 10 years ago, the data scientist was the person that was gonna sort of solve all of the data problems in a company, but what happened was companies asked these data scientists to come in and do a multitude of things. And what these data scientists found out was they were spending most of their time on really data wrangling and less on actually getting the value out of the data. And in the last decade or so, I feel like we've made the shift and we realized that data engineering, data management, data governance, those are as important practices as data science which is sort of getting the value out of the data. And so what that has done is it has freed up the data scientist and the business analyst and the data analyst and the BI expert. So to really focus on how to get value out of the data and spend less time wrangling data. So I really think that that's the good. In terms of the bad, I feel like there's a lot of legacy data platforms out there. And I feel like there's gonna be a time where we'll be in that hybrid mode. And then the ugly, I feel like with all the data and all the technology creates another problem of itself because most companies don't have arms around their data and making sure that they know who's using the data, what they're using for and how can sort of the company leverage the collective intelligence. That is a bigger problem to solve today than 10 years ago. And that's where technologies like the data mesh come in. Yeah, so when I think of data mesh and I say you're an early practitioner of data mesh, you mentioned legacy technologies. The concept of data mesh is inclusive. You know, in theory anyway, you're supposed to be including the legacy technologies, whether it's a data lake or data warehouse or Oracle or Snowflake or whatever it is. And when you think about Jamak Degani's principles, domain-centric ownership, data as product, and that creates challenges around self-serve infrastructure and automated governance. And then when you start to combine these different technologies, you got legacy, you got cloud, everything's different. And so you have to figure out how to deal with that. So my question is, how have you dealt with that and what role has the cloud played in solving those problems, in particular that self-serve infrastructure and that automated governance? Where are we in terms of solving that problem from a practitioner standpoint? Yeah, I always like to say that data is a team sport and we should sort of think of it as such. And that's, I feel like the key of the data mesh concept is treating it as a team sport. A lot of people ask me, they're like, oh, hey, Ash, I've heard about this thing called data mesh. Where can I buy one? Or what's the technology that I use to get a data mesh? And the reality is that there isn't one technology, you can't really buy a data mesh. It's really a way of life. It's how organizations decide to approach data. Like I said, back to the team sport analogy, making sure that everyone has the seat on the table, making sure that we embrace the fact that we have a lot of data, we have a lot of data problems to solve. And the way we'll be successful is to make everyone inclusive. You think about the old days, I mean, data silos or shadow IT, some might call it. That's been around for decades. And what hasn't changed was this notion that, hey, everything needs to be sort of managed centrally. But with the cloud and with the technologies that we have today, we have the right technology and the tooling to democratize that data and democratize not only just the access, but also sort of building blocks and sort of taking building blocks which are relevant to your product or your business and adding to the overall data mesh. We've got all that technology. The challenge is for us to really embrace it and make sure that we implement it from an organizational standpoint. So thinking about super cloud, there's a layer that lives above the clouds and adds value. And you think about your brands, you got 30 brands, you mentioned shadow IT. If, let's say one of those brands, HBO or TNT, whatever, they want to go, they, hey, we really like Google's analytics tools and they maybe go off and build something. I don't know if that's even allowed. Maybe it's not. But then you build this data mesh. My question is around multi-cloud, cross-cloud, super cloud, if you will. Is that an advantage for you as a practitioner or is that just make things more complicated? I really love the idea of multi-cloud. I think it's great. I think that it should have been the norm, not the exception. I feel like, you know, people talk about it as if it's the exception. That should have been the case. I will say though, I feel like multi-cloud should evolve organically. So back to your point about some of these different brands and different brands or different business units or even in a merger and acquisition situation where two different companies or multiple different companies come together with different technology stacks. I feel like that's an organic evolution and making sure that we use the concepts and the technologies around the multi-cloud to bring everyone together. That's where we need to be. And again, it talks to the fact that each of those business units and each of those groups have their own unique needs. And we need to make sure that we embrace that and we enable that rather than stifling everything. Now where I have a little bit of a challenge with the multi-cloud is when technology leaders try to build it by design. So there's a notion there that, hey, you need to sort of diversify and don't put all your eggs in one basket. And so we need to have this multi-cloud thing. I feel like that is just sort of creating more complexity where it doesn't need to be. We can also simplify our lives but where it evolves organically, absolutely. I think that's the right way to go. So Ash, if it involves organically, don't you need some kind of cloud interpreter to create a common experience across clouds? Does that exist today? What are your thoughts on that? There is a lot of technology that exists today and that helps go between these different clouds. A lot of these sort of cloud agnostic technologies that you talked about, the snowflakes and the day breaks and so forth of the world, they operate in multiple clouds. They operate in multiple regions within a given cloud and multiple clouds. So they span all of that and they have the tools and technology. So I feel like the tooling is there. There does need to be more of an evolution around the tooling and I think the market's need are going to dictate that. I feel like the market is there, they're asking for it. So there's definitely going to be that evolution but the technology is there. I think just making sure that we embrace that and we sort of embrace that as a challenge and not try to sort of shut all of that down and box everything into one. What's the biggest challenge? Is it governance or security or is it more, like you're saying, adoption, cultural? I think it's a combination of cultural as well as governance. And so the cultural side I talked about, right? Just making sure that we give these different teams a seat at the table and they actually bring that technology into the mix and we use the modern tools and technologies to make sure that everybody sort of plays nice together. That is definitely, we have ways to go there. But then in terms of governance, that is another big problem that most companies are just starting to wrestle with because like I said, I mean, the data silos and shadow IT that's been around there, right? The only difference is we're now sort of bringing everything together in a cloud environment. The collective organization has access to that and now we just realized, oh, we have quite a data problem at our hands. So how do we sort of organize this data? Make sure that the quality is there, the trust is there. When people look at that data, a lot of those questions are now coming to the forefront because everything is sort of so transparent with the cloud, right? And so I feel like, again, putting in the right processes and the right tooling to address that is gonna be critical in the next years to come. Is sharing data across clouds something that adds, is valuable to you or even within a single cloud, being able to share data? And my question is not just within your organization, but even outside your organization. Is that something that has sort of hit your radar? Is it mature or is that something that really would add value to your business? Data sharing is huge and again, this is another one of those things which isn't new. I remember back in the 90s when we had to share data externally with our partners or vendors, they used to physically send us stacks of these tapes or sort of physical media on some truck. And we've evolved since then, right? I mean, it went from that to sharing files online and so forth, but data sharing as a concept and as a concept which is now very frictionless through these different technologies that we have today, that is very new. And that is something, like I said, it's always been going on, but that needs to be really embraced more as well. We as a company heavily leverage data sharing between our own different brands and business units, that helps us make that data mesh so that, when a CNN as an example builds their own data model based on election data and the kinds of data that they need, compare that with other data in the rest of the company, sports, entertainment and so forth and so on. Everyone has their unique data, but that data sharing capability brings it together wherever there is a need. So you think about having a Tiger Woods documentary as an example on HBO Max and making sure that you reach the audiences that are interested in golf and interested in sports and so forth, right? That all comes through the magic of data sharing. So it's really critical internally for us and then externally as well, because just understanding how our products are doing on our partner's networks and different distribution channels, that's important. And then just understanding how our consumers are consuming it off properties, right? I mean, we have brands that transcend just the screen, right? We have a lot of physical merchandise that you can buy in the store. So again, understanding who's buying the Batman action figures after the Batman movie was released, that's another critical insight. So it all gets enabled through data sharing and something we rely heavily on. So I wonder if I get your perspective on this. So I feel like the nirvana of data mesh is if I want to use Google BigQuery, Oracle Database, or Microsoft Database, or Snowflake Databricks, Amazon, whatever, that that's a node on the mesh. And the perfect world, you can share that data can be governed and I don't think we're quite there today. So, but within a platform, maybe it's within Google or within Amazon or within Snowflake or Databricks, if you're in that world, maybe even Oracle, you actually can do some levels of data sharing, maybe greater with some than others. Do you mandate as an organization that you have to use this particular data platform or are you saying, hey, we are architecting a data mesh for the future where we believe the technology will support that or maybe you've invented some technology that supports that today. Can you help us understand that? Yeah, I always feel like mandate is a strong area and that breeds the shadow IT and the data silos. So we don't mandate, we do make sure that there's a consistent set of governance rules, policies and tooling that's there so that everyone is on the same page. However, at the same time, our focus is really operating in a federated way. That's been our solution, right? Is to make sure that we work within a common set of tooling, which may be different technologies, which in some cases may be different clouds, although we're not that multi-cloud. So what we're trying to do is making sure that everyone who has that technology already built as long as it sort of follows certain standards, it's modern, it has the capabilities that will eventually allow us to be successful and eventually allow for that data sharing amongst those different nodes as you put it, as long as that's the case and as long as there's a master governance layer where we know where all that data is and who has access to what and we can sort of be really confident about the quality of the data as long as that case, our approach to that is really that federated approach. So did I hear you correctly? You're not multi-cloud today? Yeah, that's correct. There are certain spots where we use that but by and large, we rely on a particular cloud and that's just been, like I said, it's been the evolution, it was our evolution. We decided early on to focus on a single cloud and that's the direction we've been going in. So do you want to go to a multi-cloud or do you feel like you mentioned organic before? If a business unit wants to go there, as long as they're adhering to those standards that you put out, maybe recommendations, that that's okay, I guess my question is, does that bring benefit to your business that you'd like to tap or do you feel like it's not necessary? I'll go back to the point of, if it happens organically, we're going to be open about it. Obviously we'll have to look at every situations, not all clouds are created equal as well. So there's a number of different considerations but by and large, when it happens organically, the key is time to value, right? How do you quickly bring those technologies in as long as you could share the data, they're interconnected, they're secured, they're governed, we are confident on the quality, as long as those principles are met, we could definitely go in that direction but by and large, I mean, we're sort of evolving in a singular direction, but even within a singular cloud, we're a global company and we have audiences around the world, so making sure that even within a single cloud, those different regions interoperate as one, that's a bigger challenge that we're having to solve as well. Last question, kind of to the future of data and cloud, how it's going to evolve, do you see a day when companies like yours are increasingly going to be offering your data, their software services and becoming more of a technology company, sort of pointing your tooling and your proprietary knowledge at the external world, as an opportunity, as a business opportunity? That's a very interesting concept and I know companies have done that and some of them have been extremely successful, I mean, Amazon is the biggest example that comes to mind, right? When they launched AWS, something that they had that expertise they had internally and they offered it to the world as a product, but by and large, I think it's gonna be far and few between, especially it's gonna be focused on companies that have technology as their DNA or almost like in the technology sector, building technology, most other companies have different markets that they are addressing and in my opinion, a lot of these companies, what they're trying to do is really focus on the problems that we can solve for ourselves. I think there's enough, there are more problems than we have people and expertise. So my guess is that most large companies, they're gonna focus on solving their own problems. A few, like I said, more tech-focused companies that would want to be in that business would probably branch out, but by and large, I think companies will continue to focus on serving their customers and serving their own business. All right, Ash, we're gonna leave it there. Ash, nice to see you here. Thank you so much for your perspectives. It's great to see you. I'm sure we'll see you face-to-face later on this year. This is great. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. All right, keep it right there for more great content from SuperCloud 2. We'll be right back.


Hi, my name is Obed Koringo from Care International and I'm one of the colleagues in the CBF 15 Responsive Policy Team together with Tapas Ranjan from BRAC. This team will focus on discussing how policy processes can be transformed to prioritize local knowledge, lived experiences, and locally led action. As you all know, integrating lived experiences and learning from local knowledge is a crucial element in the formulation and implementation of inclusive policies that promote the resilience of the most vulnerable groups. This team therefore will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss and share experiences, best practices, challenges, and practical methods and mechanisms for transforming policy to recognize and prioritize local knowledge, lived experience, and local local led action. We have therefore organized three main interactive sessions under this team and the first session will bring together community voices to discuss local responses to COVID-19 and how local action can be supported. Under this session, we will also identify what steps local and national governments can take to partner with local communities and strengthen their support towards local bodies bringing changes. The second session will focus on discussing how grassroots and urban poor women are impacting change in climate adaptation policy and practice. How grassroots and urban poor women are effectively innovating, engaging, and advocating for changes in policy and practice that speak to their priorities and needs. The third session will focus on discussing how we can bridge the gap between indigenous knowledge and devolved local government decision making. We will have panelists sharing experiences and lessons learned from indigenous communities that have integrated innovations and traditional knowledge to enhance community climate resilience. At the end of these three sessions, we hope to come with ideas and messages on how policies from local to the global level can be focused so as to prioritize local led action and local knowledge and contribute to increasing the adaptive capacity and resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change impacts. We hope you will be able to join us and contribute to experiences and lessons learned on these topics. Thank you so much and we look forward to interacting with you.


Hello friends, I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to explain you how to write an algorithm so that we can start a singular equation. So before starting the algorithm, let me explain this diagram so that you can see we have three nodes and each node is having two pipe one is in two and the other one is next to the other. That will be holding the address of next node and initially we have start that is having address of first node. So I already explained this diagram in detail in my previous video. So if you want to watch that video, you can go to description of this video and you will find link of a playlist. So in that playlist, I have some of all the videos related to our data structure. So you can find that video here and you can watch that. Now I'm going to write an algorithm so that we can start a list. So I'm going to use this diagram for reference purpose. So name of algorithm will be solved. It will be having three parameters as start, second will be info and then link. So start is having address of first node, info is the value part of each node and link is holding address of next node always. So we are going to use three links in the algorithm. So step number one will be set P1 equals to start. So start is basically having initial address of node one so that is stored in P1. So this is step number one and step number two will be repeat. So I'm going to start a loop. So repeat steps. So we are going to start repeat certain steps. So that will be P2 pipe while P1 node equals to null. So if P1 is not equals to null, then this loop will be iterated and it will be repeated. Now step number three will be set. So here we need to set one more pointer that is P2. So here P1 is pointing to start and P2 will be pointing to link of P1. So starting from this point, so P1 is pointing to one terminal to one and P1 is not equals to null then link of P1. So P1's link is 2001 that will be stored into P2. So P2 will be pointing to second node. Now step number four. So at step number four again, I need to implement a loop. So repeat step. So here we need to repeat some steps. So instead of step I am writing set because I am going to write some steps like P2 here along the F condition. So those we are going to repeat. So repeat step while P2 not equals to null. And what set of statement will be repeated I am writing that. So now we need to implement if addition. So if info of P1 is greater than info of P2. So P1 is pointing to personal P2 is pointing to second node. If information part that is 10 is greater than info of P2 that is 20 so this condition will be true. So when this condition will be true then we need to implement these three operations A, B, C and these three operations will be swapping of these two values. So let's say this is having 40. So 40 is greater than 20. So in that case we need to swap these two values for the 20 and come here 40 and go here. So right now I am writing set P equals 2. So P is a technically variable that says 4 values info of P1. So info of P1 will be stored into P2. So P2 info will be stored into P1 and that is set info of P2 equals to P. So these are simple swapping statements. We are basically swapping values of no one will go through. So 20 will be come here and 40 will go through. Then end of it. So this will be stored here. Then we need to complete this loop. So after completion of this if I am writing set P2 equals to length of P2. So this statement will also repeat with this loop. And after this I can write end of set for you. So this set number for you will end here. So why I mention this because P2 is right now pointing to this position. So first we have to complete this node with this and then this also. So for that node I mentioned this. So it will be pointing to P2 and P2 which is complete with the value of P1. So basically what we are doing we are comparing first node value with all other nodes and we are trying to take out the smallest number that can be stored here. And we will pick second node and the second node value will be complete with other remaining nodes and the next smallest element will be stored here. So this will be stored here. Now after this end of set number for you. I need to write next set. So that is set number 5 set P1 equals to length of P1. So P1 will be moved to next location and after this I can write end of set for you. So this loop will be terminated and then set 6 will be end. So now I am going to execute the statements which are mentioned here so that you can see how this length list will be sorted. So let's say 14, 20 and 30 are the values. So P1 is pointing to 1001 due to this. Then this condition is 2. P2 is 7, 2001 due to this. When P2 is not equal to 0, then compare this. In form P1 is greater than H4 P2. So 40 is greater than 20. Then we need to swap the values. So here 20 and here 40 will be stored. Then only P2 will be moved. So P2 is right now pointing to this location and it's latest 3001. So new value of P2 will be 3001. Because this is in a loop. This is in a loop which is repeated. So P2 is not equal to 0. So this value will be compared to this. So 20 is less than 30. So this value will not perform. Then P2 will again include link of P2. So that is not. So this time P2 is not. So this loop will be translated. Now we need to move P1. So P1 will be pointing to link of P1. So P1 is this. It's latest 2001. So this time P1 will be pointing to this location. Now check this. It is true P1 is not equal. Now P2 will be related from link of P1. So P1 is 2001. That is second loop. It's latest 2001. That will be P2. So P2 will be related from here. Now P2 is not personal. Now check this. Inform P1 is 14. Inform P2 is 13. So it is true. Again swapping will be performed. So 13 will come here and 14 will come here. So this way you can see changes happened. That P2 will move to link of P1. So P2 is pointing to 2001 and it's latest month. So again this is pointing to null condition. So this condition is false. Now P1 will move to link of P1. So P1 is pointing to 2001. It's latest 2001. Then this condition is true. P2 will be pointing to link of P1. So link of P1 is null. So P2 is null. It means this loop will not repeat. It will be terminated again P1 will move to link of P1. So link of P1 is null. So it will also not repeat. So this way all the steps are formed and you can see link list is sorted and ascending. And if you want to perform sorting and ascending model, you can just change this data size. So all the values will be arranged. So this way I hope you understood how we can hide and use them to sort our link list. And if you want to watch more algorithms related videos, so you can go to description of this video. You will find links of playlist related to data structures and I will come and implementation of DSA to this language. So more source playlist, they contain several videos related to data structure so that you can learn DSA well. Thank you for watching this.


midges are out and oh welcome to another video it is late can you see the light is I'm losing this light big time mate it's cracking on a little bit it was an impromptu one I'd had a bit of a tough day working and stuff and then I just thought it got to about seven and I thought you know what sack it chuck a bag together I fancy a dangling amok so that's what I'm doing because of the nature of it and I cuz I was rushing I can guarantee you it's just a matter of what I forgot not if I forgot something it's just what I've forgotten there's quite a lot of bugs and keeping it relatively stealth I don't want a big fire I've brought the bushbox so ideally I'll keep it that's what I forgot pan and a grill to cook my burgers in we'll figure some out I'm gonna quickly I've seen these two trees there's nothing there's no sort of widowmaker's kicking about so we'll string the hammock up here a little bit smidge smidge smidge Buchanan just a little bit goes along with it's not like it's not like it's them military grade Scottish midges it's just your bog standard middle at road Yorkshire Midge and hopefully that'll just keep them at bay until until it gets dark it's too late on to be faffing look it's getting dark mate right I'm gonna go to a different spot one that I've been to before because I know that the trees work there so let's go right it looks looks similar this is a lot easier for me a real basic hat one that was a trauma mate getting absolutely traumatized by midges losing light as well sorry for being erratic but my god this is as bad as I've ever had them they're absolutely everywhere and they're crawling in my loggals they've got no respect for smidge so layer up princess later up just like a really shit game show where you've got to set up a hammock whilst getting peppered by midges didn't even have time to put me synergy blouse on it you know it's serious when you can't when you're done you don't put the synergy blouse on you're choking on them man I might have to get inside hammock and hide there's me hammock I've got me over like air bed in there with me neutrino 600 sleeping bag Rob same pillow Trekology Milan and in there it's the DD super light 3x3 tarp and the DD frontline hammock and I've got I've swapped out the suspension system and I've got whoopie slings and carabiners yeah come here carabiner these am steel whoopie slings that's it I think I've done I put a ridgeline in there which is a different which is a mod but who doesn't do that I don't normally put me quickly these toggles in everything but I was losing it because it midges losing my mind this one I've just put into this stake which goes into ground and then there's this log here that stops it from going back that's it the dangler Bonnie Bonnie or lass and for it look I won't stand for it right I have to get fire going because these midges are un I can't get over it man they're absolutely savage let's do this quick okay look just listen I need to level with you I'm gonna cheat and it isn't even cheating it's just one of these from home it's just wood twisted shavings of wood in wax it's what I use for me fire at home good quality real quick look at that you know normally I would be a bit more bushcrafted about it but these midges need to be taught a lesson and that lesson is smoke hopefully there you go look the duck like it opened are there shitting it out of here man let's be having you let's be having you dealier because I can't dealier with this torturous mate you imagine if you couldn't imagine just if you couldn't deal with it like if you couldn't like a fire or you know because I'm sure a little that smidge is doing a little something well it wouldn't seem like it but if you just outright I reckon it could drive you to his like hysteria like madness imagine being out in Scottish Highlands right it's in peak midge season with nothing to protect you oh my god it don't bear thinking about does it it don't bear thinking about I mean I've been caught in a like caught by him like this but although it is infuriating it's not you know I can imagine getting caught in one of them slight so when we went to climb Ben Nevis to brew another munk beer the midges were really bad at the halfway point but we all had headnets and stuff but imagine I imagine if we didn't have headnets you'd sort of want to just top yourself because it'd be too much this is a cherry this is actually a bird cherry gonna show you but don't matter that's actually a cherry tree but this isn't this is died many moons ago deadfall some other than this pine because it just burns off a quick very labor-intensive if you just chill him get some of this clobber on it's getting on a little bit I don't really want a big fire no point no point this will sustain me I'll be buzzing buzzing when these midges do there you go keep me going for a little bit yeah that's smoke on me yeah they don't like the fire that's they've really gone the beast up massively that's a real joy you know what like in life how thorns come here like how good I feel now after because I don't have midges on me it after just having like an hour of them all in my lugs my face all up all at me all on me to then not have them is an absolute joy but I wouldn't know this joy unless I'd had the midges on me and it's difficult at times to go through your life always acting like you don't have midges on you if you know what I mean but sometimes maybe it'd be nice when things are going a little bit maybe a bit shit at work or you've had an argument with your partner or whatever kids are doing you nothing just sit there and be like at least I'm not trying to put a hammock up with a cloud of midges eating me that's my top tip for today that that's top tip for this one that's all I've got it's all I've got three styled it for you that's all I've got I'm afraid always be grateful you're not getting midged thanks for coming to my TED talk you've been wonderful I don't have any booze about again I'm been feeling it at moment it's not been just been enjoying not having any booze for all you moon fans it's a new moon today which means it's the darkest that the moon will be and usually means that the stars what it does mean that the stars are a lot more visible so I'm hoping fingers crossed it's not forecast it's forecast cloudy all night but they get these things wrong and so I'm hoping that the stars reveal themselves up in this canopy and we can get some good night shots maybe some good time lapses of them twinkly bitches and you shouldn't really call them that but I have too late but I respect all this is the life in it this is this tucked in because I know there are I've had ticks around it before quite a few times actually so I don't fancy it and looking forward to a night in dangler it's been a minute it's been a minute some happened recently where I've did me lower back in sir I think a night in dangler might be good for it be fair I could just go to sleep here mate and just let the ticks feast on my face there yeah right can you see me chew on in it at night it's a chew at night to be fair rocking the McCallum blades I've got a bit of common common hazel that I'm gonna fashion into a skewer for my burger some it like something like that oh bark off that's where it that's what cackle be just leave there you go it's that bushcraft bushcraft guys venison burgers from the dorset meat company shout out dorset meat company I've told you the story but if you don't know I'd reached out to the dorset meat company because I was looking for some grass-fed beef good quality clobber I didn't want to I can't handle cool quality meat so just they kindly give me a little discount code for your first order I'll it's there and I'll leave that I'll leave all the links down below so go check out the dorset meat company for you if you fancy up in your meat game and having some more a little bit better than what the supermarket spit out look at that man la venison smells good la venison burger erm how am I gonna do this do you think going like that we'll just thread her on look that's what I'm dealing with here hopefully work crumble and having it just like that look hands-free burger hands-free burger cooking you to the system I've got and if you are interested I'll leave a link below to these burger cooking utensils remember Amazon shop check them out a trio of tomatoes look at them look at that they look bonny look you know she's got some show-off tomatoes there's not much point in you just blinding me is there for a sake of just watching it watching a burger cook hey guys put in the comments below what you call this what would you call that would you call it Tony or right said bread now because for me it's always been a bread bun can you even see me what I'm really all this going on for me it's a bread bun some people call them bread cakes cobs if you're calling it a cob get out if you're calling it a cake if you call it a bread cake as well I'm afraid get out because it's a bun bread bun burger bun it's not a burger cake is it hey guys put down below in the comments what you call it let's get a little dialogue going on let's argue about whether it's called a bread bun or not it's a bit flat like a bit of a witch's teat but that's that's life that's bag life fire I tossed it a little bit I put it down here next to what I know on top of all this ash and bits of hiring so it can get a little bit of nature's seasoning out burger looking what is that she's looking good ish cheese yeah proper dad barbecue in that in it get on that's about that's about that to keep it warm can't be too pretty when you're out in woods can you bit of fancy tomato some green stuff and picked up some wild garlic I'm away in sprigs of that around there just for seasoning pretty as a picture the cheese look absolutely why not just soften that cheese up a little bit wild venison burger wild venison cheese burger with wild garlic tomatoes onions cheese and all that gear mouth leaking absent friends can't see really good but from my word that's good that's a good burger and little flowers of wild garlic a pungent welcome little flavor bombs certainly beats a freeze-dried meal you haven't it actually got under the bread buns so I might reload have another one as you should do it any good but this is my barbecue anyway and any good barbecue you need to be reloading at least once welcome to reload once but that's what I'm gonna do and I'm just gonna be repeating repeat a dockety what I've just done so you don't need to see that it's this time of year the stars don't come out till quite late on so I'll chill around bushbox it's quite labor-intensive the old bushbox so I'll chill for a little bit around it and then I'm gonna get in dangler totally clouded over so there it is I suspect it is much but you have to you have to try it out yeah just in case you only get so many new moons in your life anyway that's fine what I can do if you don't mind I shall interject with some previous night time shots that I've taken we'll roll them and see you on the morrow good morning slept well nice and warm the uber light isn't as warm as the X-therm which is to be expected it wasn't super cold but I had to pull my sleep bag underneath myself just to take the edge off I could happily just dangling here in fact you know I'm gonna not go back to sleep but it's just nice mate and I have just been lying here for a while there was a cuckoo of a yonder doing it's doing what cuckoos do at midges are out again yeah I'm gonna find some water to dunk dunk it oh man they're getting me get out of here hide I'll tell you what I've said it before I've said it before and I'll say it again the best thing about sleeping in the woods is waking up in the woods waking up in a hammock especially is delightful and it rained last night I had to put a part of rain on the tarp nothing too heavy just the perfect amount wonderful what do midges actually bring to the table really though are they good for the ecosystem what eats them because all I can see is like it's like they're broken it's like they're like there's something wrong with them they should just be like living on dead fruit or whatever but they've just lost it and they're like all right we just live off blood now like you're zombies out there get zombies right let's get this put away let's give them a little bit more flesh to feast on before I go because you know midges apart they're part of it out there as well look at them all come on fill your boots have a nice snack because how I'm gonna get going it's just like going to like a petting zoo where you feed that sheep and that look at them get tucked in get tucked in good gear as well that'd be good gear because I've been looking after me so recently maybe that's why they're getting me so much I've got decent blood it's not just full of Northern Monk and bad decisions and stuff like that that's what I that's what I had my fire on so done absolutely zero pretty we're getting there look still got it still got it mate still got it fest it's in ears as well in it they're relentless they're just animals doing their thing a midge will midge I'm just gonna go find somewhere to have a swim just to go wet me set up a little bit yeah go check out the dorset meat company below that's where I've been getting all my gear from my grass-fed gear so yeah go check them out I think there's a code put a little bit of a discount from your first order that's it man I've just I can't normally I just try I like to give you a little bit of love and some you know leave on a positive note but I can't focus properly because midges are all in lug oils so I'll just say now but loves here so I had with this camera mate just to do stuff like this yeah the new growth on these pines are very nutritious a great wild edible very tasty as well top tip I just fell over mate I wish you got it on camera well slippy I don't know what's going on here right I'm off in seeing a bit brand new we'll leave this one here because it's quite a trek out and I'll be gassed out by time I get up there thanks as always for watching if you still are I've enjoyed this one it's been there just a simple easy lovely little hammock cam destroyed by the midges but for every second of today that I'm not getting eaten by midges I'll be grateful that's the lesson just be grateful because it could always be a lot worse mate it always be a lot worse I've got some landscaping work coming up so I don't know when I'm next gonna see you I might be having a little break for a bit but you lot play safe look after you you lot play safe look after yourselves and each other and I shall see you soon don't stay out of trouble au revoir