Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Welcome Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode of Weird Darkness. On Easter Sunday, 1475, in the city of Trent, a two-year-old boy named Simon was found dead. This one act triggered a wave of anti-Semitism that wiped out a community of Jewish males and threatened the power of a pope, all from the death of one child. I am innocent, that mark of mine will never be wiped out. It will remain forever to shame the county for hanging an innocent man. Alexander Campbell said these words on June 21st, 1877, shortly before his hanging. And true to his word, the handprint he left behind refuses to fade away, no matter how hard people try to remove it. A century ago, in July 1920, the illustrated police news ran a single story on its front page, complete with a drawing of a man lying on top of a woman, both surrounded in blood. But even more disturbing, a young boy, very much alive and apparently watching the whole thing. It took a while before the first woman to be hanged would take place in the USA. But in 1778, it finally happened. And her name was Bathsheba Spooner. But first, the scientist Isaac Newton is best known for his being the first to create the theory of gravity. But now we've learned it's very possible that would never have happened had this scientist not had a bit of sorcerer in him as well. We begin there. While you're listening, you might want to check out the Weird Darkness website. At WeirdDarkness.com you can find paranormal and horror audiobooks I've narrated, 24-7 streaming video of horror hosts and classic horror movies. You can find my other podcast, Church of the Undead. Plus, you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression, anxiety or thoughts of suicide. And you can also shop the Weird Darkness store where all profits go to support depression, awareness and relief. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history's most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of the most precise and logical thought it is possible for a human to achieve. His three years of obsessive work that gave birth to the Principia, containing his theory of gravity, stands as the greatest achievement in science. Just as certainly though, he was also consumed with what we would now view as completely unscientific pursuits, alchemy and biblical prophecy. Alchemy was a major passion of Newton's. In a footnote on page 21 of Richard Westfall's meticulous biography, Never at Rest, which I've linked to in the show notes, the author states, my modes of thought are so far removed from those of alchemy that I am constantly uneasy in writing on the subject. Nevertheless, my personal preferences cannot make more than a million words he wrote in the study of alchemy disappear. Historian and novelist Rebecca Stott wrote in her novel Ghost Walk, which I've also included in the show notes, that with those words, Westfall admitted to wishing that he could make those million words disappear. That may be stretching it somewhat, but clearly Newton's alchemy is a bit of an embarrassment to modern scholars. Then there was Newton's biblical prophecy. In almost the same years that he was working on the Principia, he also wrote a treatise on Revelation in which he talked about souls burning in lakes of fire. With talk like that, he could have been the lyricist for Iron Maiden. He had the hair too. Tempting as it is to dismiss all of this as somehow removed from Newton's science, his belief in spirits and what the alchemists called active principles almost certainly allowed him to conceive gravity in the mathematical form that we still use today. In Newton's time, the natural philosophers had turned their backs on astrology and with it the idea that influences could simply leap across empty space. Instead, impulses had to be transmitted through things touching one another. So if there was a force coming from the sun that moved the planets, then it had to do so through a medium. Perhaps it was a fluid driven to circulate the rotation of the sun which carried the planets around. This was the thinking of French philosopher René Descartes. Yet Newton could not make the mechanical solution of Descartes work. The vortices simply could not reproduce the changes in speed of the planets as they approached the sun. Alchemy offered a way out by having a philosophical underpinning that non-material influences, spirits, existed. These needed no physical contact and could induce transformations or movement through the triggering of active principles within an object. Primed to believe in these ideas, Newton discovered a simple, elegant mathematical equation that described the behavior of gravity without the need for an intervening fluid. Gravity apparently worked across empty space. He called this principle action at a distance and instead of spirit began using the word force to better reflect its mathematical character. His equation also reveals the active principle that governs an object's response to gravity, its mass. With such direct analogies to spirits and active principles, Newton must surely have felt some sort of indication for his alchemical beliefs. The theory of gravity was so successful that it became one of the triggers for the age of enlightenment. Although hardly anyone now believes in the concept of alchemy, we do still believe that gravity can exert an influence across empty space. Engineers still use Newton's maths to launch satellites and send spacecraft to distant planets. So was Sir Isaac a scientist or a sorcerer? In truth, he was a bit of both. And that was why he could succeed where others had to. On Easter Sunday, 1475, in the city of Trent, a two-year-old boy named Simon was found dead. This one act triggered a wave of anti-Semitism that wiped out a community of Jewish males and threatened the power of a pope, all from the death of one child. Plus, Alexander Campbell said, I am innocent, that Mark of Vine will never be wiped out. That was in 1877, and the handprint he left behind refuses to fade away, and no one knows why it keeps reappearing. These stories and more when Weird Darkness returns. My doc agrees that I need to lose a few pounds. 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A 2-year-old boy named Simon was found dead. His death, a devastating blow to his family, would set in motion a chain of events that would leave almost all of the male members of the Jewish community in Trent dead. Create an almost heretical flock of devoted followers who saw him as the new baby Jesus, and perpetuate and foster widespread anti-Semitism in the region for hundreds of years. According to historian Pochia Xia in his book Trent 1475 Stories of a Ritual Murder Drial, which I have leaked to in the show notes, Simon went missing in the early evening of Thursday, the 23rd of March, and the following day, Good Friday, the boy's father had asked the prince-bishop of the city, Johannes Hinderbach, for help in locating his missing son. Searches ensued and by Easter Saturday, Simon had lightened on the small Jewish community in the city. The chief magistrate, Giovanni De Salis, had the households of the three main Jewish families searched, but Simon was not to be found. Then on Easter Sunday, Seligman, a cook in the household of Samuel, a money lender, discovered Simon's body in a water cellar on Samuel's extensive property. As all historians agree, the body had clearly been planted there. Samuel could have fled, had up until this point enjoyed an amical relationship with the city's authorities, so instead he trusted the system and reported the discovery. He also insisted that all members of the community stay put, including visitors who just happened to be in town for the Jewish Passover. That Samuel came forward and complied with the authorities was never mentioned in the ensuing trials. In the aftermath of the discovery, things escalated quickly. Anti-Jewish feeling in the city had recently been inflamed by the arrival of an itinerant Franciscan preacher, Bernardino de Feltre, who had spent the Lenten season railing against Jewish usury and amplifying local hostilities. There were others in the local community, Shah writes, who had exploited the vulnerability of this small religious minority in order to blackmail members of the Jewish community. All of these elements coupled with centuries-old rumors of blood libel, the dangerous myth that Jews used the blood of Christian children in their religious rituals, combined to create a kind of tinderbox of hatred that was sparked by Simon's death. Over the course of several months, the entire Jewish community were arrested and tortured and were forced to confess to having murdered Simon in order to use his blood in their Passover rituals. At first, Samuel was stood several bouts of torture and protested that Jews simply did not use human blood in their rituals. When he reached the limits of his endurance and in an effort to spare others, he confessed that only he and one other had suffocated Simon with a handkerchief. Other members of the community were forced both to confess and to invent fictitious religious motivations for exaggonating the child. By the time the torture was over, 15 male members of the Jewish community were sentenced to death. They were subsequently burned to death. Interestingly, female members of the community escaped on the grounds that, as women, they were unable to participate in these rituals. They were eventually freed in 1478 after the Pope intervened. The news of the trials spread throughout Northern Italy to Veneto, Lombardi and Tyrol. By 1479, Jewish moneylending had been banned and by 1486, Jews were expelled from the region. While Hinderbach supported the trials and even forged documents to promote the idea that Jews in Trent were responsible for Simon's death, the Pope was not so sure. In early August 1475, Pope Sixtus IV commanded Hinderbach to suspend the trials until his representative, Battista De Giudisi, arrived in Trent. At every turn, Hinderbach thwarted De Giudisi's attempts to investigate. De Giudisi was not granted access to those accused and was denied proper access to the original trial documents. When De Giudisi voiced concerns about the process at Rome, he was accused of being paid off by Jews. He eventually wrote several treatises, including an apology for the Jews, defending himself and the Jewish community of any wrongdoing. In 1478, Sixtus IV issued a papal bull on the matter that was something of a political compromise. He accepted that the trials in Trent had been legal but did not acknowledge either the conclusions of the trial or the supposed cause of death of the child. He also reasserted papal protections for Jews and reiterated the ban on blood libel trials. While his power struggle played out in the halls of ecclesial power, a different, more popular movement was gaining support in northern Italy. There were many who wanted to canonize the murdered toddler. Within three weeks of Simon's death, a Paseo, an account of his martyrdom, was circulating throughout the region. Hinderbach gathered together documentation that included over a hundred miracles supposedly performed by the boy martyr and support for his canonization as a saint gathered steam in Austria, Italy, and Germany. Sixtus IV, however, was having none of it. The Simon of Trent cult was dangerous and a threat to his authority. He forbade the production of images of Simon, although many grisly, violence-induced woodcuts of his murder have survived. He was also understandably alarmed by the ferocity of devotion Simon inspired. De Judici reported in his Apology for the Jews that the people in Trent adored their blessed one as a second Christ and as a second Messiah. Statements like this, which border on heresy, were troubling to the Franciscan pope who correctly noted that toddlers are incapable of choosing to die as martyrs. As Christopher McKevitt, a professor at Dartmouth, told the Daily Beast, Sixtus IV did not canonize Simon of Trent, not because he was particularly sympathetic to the plight of Jewish communities, but because he was determined to uphold papal authority. The popes had made clear that accusations of blood libel and putting Jews on trial for such claims was unacceptable. Part of Sixtus IV's refusal to canonize the child as a martyr was motivated by what was in his mind a far more pressing problem involving non-Christian murderers and persecutors. In 1480, the Ottomans invaded southern Italy and drew steadily closer to Rome, the pope, and the heart of Christianity. It was a political and military threat as much as a religious one. Sixtus IV wanted martyrs to rally Christians to the anti-Ottoman cause. He turned to five Franciscans who had died attempting to evangelize in Muslim countries roughly a century earlier. There was very little popular interest or support for these martyrs. They had been demonstrably unsuccessful and had failed to convert any Muslims whatsoever. On the contrary, as Macavit tells it, when Franciscans engaged in efforts to evangelize in Muslim countries, they tended to focus on fellow Christians living in Muslim lands, merchants, mercenaries, and captives. But these martyrs, who, like Sixtus IV, were Franciscans, were politically and religiously useful. In his exquisitely written and recently published The Martyrdom of the Franciscans, Islam, the Papacy, and an Order of Conflict, link in the show notes, Macavit shows that Sixtus IV found that martyrdom was useful for Christians as a way to depict the Ottomans not as a rival for political and economic power in the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe, but as a primordial threat to Christians and Christendom. Stories of martyrdom assimilated the Ottomans with demonic forces that were the enemy of goodness, virtue, and salvation. Over time, Macavit shows, death by Saracen came to rival other definitions of what made someone a martyr. All of Sixtus IV's power, however, could not crush the cult of Simon the Child martyr. Stories, poems, and images of his supposed martyrdom continued to circulate. In 1588, Pope Sixtus V beatified him, he was never made a saint, and approved his veneration and Trent. It was only in 1965, in the wake of the Holocaust and Vatican II that Pope Paul VI removed Simon of Trent from the Roman Martyrology and formally tried to suppress his cult. Yet most of the statues and images of Simon in the city of Trent are, as Sarah Lipton has noted, unaccompanied by placards explaining the anti-Semitic history of his veneration. A few years ago, a Reddit thread for traditional Catholics discussed the feast day of Simon of Trent, and there is even a wildly anti-Semitic webpage bearing his name. Five hundred years after his death, slanderous propaganda about the tragic death of this abducted child continues to languish online and among conservative groups. As children, we are taught that justice will always prevail, but when we grow up, we notice far too often this is not the case. There is injustice everywhere, and it should be our responsibility to fight for those who have suffered without being guilty of doing anything wrong. Sometimes we notice injustice, but it is much too late to change the course of events. People often say one should never judge another person without knowing the whole truth, but sometimes judgment is inevitable, and in worse cases, the results of our interactions can have fatal consequences. This story is about a mysterious handprint that has remained an unexplained mystery up to today. Experts have analyzed the handprint using sophisticated technology, but no one can answer why this handprint keeps reappearing. We discuss a man whose frightening cry for justice can still be heard, and we can only wonder if a horrible mistake took place many years ago. I am innocent and let this be my testimony. I was nowhere near the scene of the crime. That mark of mine will never be wiped out. It will remain forever to shame the county for hanging an innocent man. These ominous words were the last words of Alexander Campbell, a man who was hanged on the prison's gallows on Black Thursday, June 21, 1877. This remarkable and tragic incident happened more than 140 years ago, but every day since then Alexander Campbell is still trying to tell us that he is innocent. Campbell was a tavern owner who, with three other convicted Molly McGuire's, was hanged for the murders of two mine operatives, but was he really guilty? Moments before his death, as he was led out of his jail cell, Alexander Campbell slammed his open hand against the wall of his cell and left his handprint on it. It was his only way to say that he was innocent. Campbell also said the handprint would remain forever on the wall to prove his innocence, and it remained just as he said it would. Along with him, three other very brave Irish coal miners were hanged that day in the athrocyte coal region of Pennsylvania. John Donahue, Michael Doyle, and Edward Kelly all convicted of conspiracy to murder two of their foremen. The investigation, prosecution, and arrests were carried out by representatives of the mine owners who had money, power, and of course the law on their side. No one of the convicted expected mercy from them, and so they were executed. The men were also associated with the Molly McGuire's pro-union organization and anyone who was pro-union was a Molly. Those so-called Molly's were the immigrants who fought for better conditions in the mines. Today it's hard to say whether the four men were guilty of the murders or not. However, one can guess that their trial was certainly unfair. The nineteen men who were convicted of Molly Crimes and executed during 1877 were James Boyle, Alexander Campbell, James Carroll, John Donahue, Michael J. Doyle, Thomas Duffy, Thomas P. Fisher, Patrick Hester, John Kehoe, Edward J. Kelly, Andrew Lanahan, Q. McGeehan, Peter McHugh, Peter McManus, Thomas Mundley, James Rourdie, and Patrick Tully. All of these men had been practicing Catholics and were excommunicated from the church before the trials and denied a Christian burial. On Black Thursday, June 21, 1877, the day of execution, Donahue, Doyle, and Kelly were calm and ready to face the death penalty with dignity. They expected nothing from their prosecutors. Alexander Campbell's behavior was different. Already earlier during the trial he declared his innocence but was sentenced to death anyway. No one listened to him though. Just minutes before his death he declared once again his innocence, but this time not only in words. He picked up some dirt from his cell's floor and slammed his open hand against the wall of his cell. His handprint would remain there forever as a reminder of the injustice that took his life. His handprint still remains on the wall of cell 17 in the Carbon County Jail House. It has baffled and fascinated both sheriffs and prisoners over the years. The authorities have tried to wipe it out. The handprint was scrubbed off, cleaned, painted over, later concreted over. All efforts have proved to be impossible to get rid of the print. In fact, in 1930 the original wall was taken off and changed to a new one, but the print still reappeared. The strange mark made all those years ago was thoroughly analyzed by experts using infrared photography and other high-tech equipment. Exactly nothing was found that would explain the handprint's very existence. It still persists until today. As David Pietras writes in his book Most Haunted Crime Scenes in the World, which I will place a link to in the show notes, according to the legend, as recounted in Weird Pennsylvania after over a century and several coats of paint on that wall, the handprint is still visible to this day. For some, it is the sight of death and carnage that draws a person to crime scenes, and others prefer to visit famous crime scenes from the past. The morbid curiosity of the human race is a force that is so strong that even scientists cannot explain it. But what causes the dead to return to the scene of their demise? Some believe that they are searching for something, while others claim that these spirits do not know that they are dead. No matter what causes the dead to return to their crime scenes, it is a known fact that most crime scenes today have some kind of residual hauntings. Supposedly, each time there is an attempt to cover it up, within a few days it mysteriously reappears to remind people of the tragedy of executing an innocent man, especially in the name of greed. It can be seen on tours of the old jail museum, housed in the former Carbon County Jail. Reportedly, some high-tech equipment occasionally fails when trying to capture the image. Feuds and violence appear to breed ghosts, or at least ghost stories, and sometimes indirect victims are the ones who suffer. Is the handprint a miracle? One could say it is a true phenomenon. That mark of mind will never be wiped out. It will remain forever to shame the county for hanging an innocent man. When Weird Darkness returns, a century ago, in July 1920, the illustrated police news ran a single story on its front page, complete with the drawing of a man lying on top of a woman, both covered in blood, but even more disturbing. A young boy, very much alive and apparently watching the whole thing. And it took a while before the first woman to be hanged would take place in the USA, but in 1778 it finally happened, and her name was Bathsheba Spooner. These stories are up next. Here it comes, my favorite part. Have you ever noticed that when George Bailey is on the bridge, it doesn't start snowing again until after he says, aww man, the power's out. No problem, because you're prepared with the Patriot Power Generator from Four Patriots. While the rest of the city's dealing with the weather outside is frightful, you can have the power that's so delightful inside your home. Flip the switch and suddenly you're back to the TV and radio for weather updates, your space heaters are keeping you toasty warm, your phones and laptops are charged, your fridge is still running, and you're back to watching It's a Wonderful Life in time to hear out of Boy Clarence. 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As usual with the illustrated police news, the crime was illustrated with a dramatic picture of a man lying over the body of a woman, blood pooling around both bodies, and a small razor visible on the floor in front of the male. The domestic nature of the deaths is highlighted by the surroundings themselves, a room with clothing hung up on the door, a jug or ure on the table, and a dresser full of crockery. There's also a sobbing little boy on his own on one side of the door, and a rather worn looking woman in her outdoor clothes pushing that door open, an older boy by her side in his hat and cap. Even without looking any further, we can hazard a guess at what has happened, for the drawing is explicit. A couple dying, the wife presumably murdered by her husband who then kills himself, while their little son looks on. Their deaths are then discovered by a relative or neighbor and her child. On page two, the story emerged. The domestic scene was a depiction of the kitchen at 8 Gooseley Lane, East Ham, home to the Engel family. This was a solid working class family. Father Frederick Engel, 35, worked as a purifier at the Bekdon Gas Works. He lived with his wife Daisy and their four sons, aged between three and thirteen. They were happy. The neighbors had never heard Frederick and Daisy quarrel, and they were seen to be a contented couple. Things were not going well for the family in 1920, however. Frederick had been ill and off work for some time, receiving medical care. It is not clear how the family were maintaining themselves while he was unable to work or earn. One morning Frederick acted oddly. He sent the eldest son out of the house, telling him to go and fetch a relative. Other family members lived locally.  The son and aunt were faced not only with the vision of this couple lying in the kitchen doorway surrounded by blood, but also with the fact that the youngest son, aged three, had witnessed the events.  This was all the detail the IPN gave a hundred years ago. However, a check of the archival records shows that Frederick Engle had married Daisy Rosalyn Harriet-Merican at St. Bartholomew's Church in East Ham on 10 February 1906. Frederick was the son of Matthew and Rosetta Engle, Daisy the daughter of James Merican, a blacksmith, and his wife Eliza. Daisy was just 21 at the time of her marriage. Frederick's age at marriage was given as 24, which would actually make him 38 when he died rather than the 35 published by IPN. Although both Daisy and Frederick were born in the local area, Daisy in East Ham, Frederick slightly further out in barking, their parents were not. Daisy's father had come to the area from Norfolk, while her mother was from Westminster. Frederick's father was from Lincolnshire, but they had made East Ham their home, with siblings and aunts and uncles populating the area and making it feel as though they had always been there. They therefore stayed in the area after their marriage and the 1911 census shows them living at 72 Eastbourne Road, with Frederick working at that time as a general labourer, as his father was also doing. It already had two sons at this point, Frederick James born in 1907 and Alfred Matthew two years later, and Daisy's older brother Alfred was also living with them. They would go on to have Ernest William in early 1914 and then finally Albert Edward in the autumn of 1916. It was little Albert who was splashed with his parents blood when he was just three months short of his fourth birthday. Albert would grow up to become a brickmaker and moved to Buckinghamshire, but never married. One wonders how the events he witnessed as a little boy affected him in adulthood. A century ago, his parents died. His father may have been more deeply affected by his poor health and job loss than friends and neighbors realized, suddenly finding that he could no longer cope. For his wife Daisy, his sudden loss of control may have been just as much a shock for her as for her children and the aunt who was called by Frederick to take care of his children. He planning in some strange way to ensure that they were looked after from the moment he died. Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman executed in the Post Declaration of Independence, that is post-July 4th 1776 United States. The daughter of one of Massachusetts most prominent Tory loyalists. The latter fled to Nova Scotia during the events comprising this story, owing to the ongoing American Revolution. Spooner was married to a wealthy Brookfield gentleman whom she utterly despised. From late 1777 into 1778, Bathsheba beguiled three young would-be Davids, Ezra Ross, a wounded former Continental Army soldier whom she nursed back to health, and James Buchanan and William Brooks, two red-coat deserters, into getting rid of Mr. Joshua Spooner. Ross, she sent on a February 1778 business trip with her hubby and instructions to dose him with nitric acid. The youth chickened out and didn't do it, but neither did he warn his proposed victim what was afoot. Couple of weeks later, the Brits achieved by main force what their American opposite dared not attempt by stealth, and on the evening of the 1st of March, about nine o'clock, being returning home from his neighbors nearby his own door, was feloniously assaulted by one or more Ruffians, knocked down by a club, beat and bruised and thrown into his well with water in it. Ross, importantly, had been invited by his lover slash sponsor to return and he helped to dispose of the body. They had not a day's liberty after this shocking crime, evidently having thought little beyond the deed, the very young Ross especially stands out for his naivete, certainly mingled with lust and cupidity as he contemplated the prospect of attaining a frolicsome wealthy widow when the wife went to work on him. As she was going to Hardwick, she asked me the reason of my being so low-spirited. I made answer it was my long absence from home. She replied that her opinion was I wanted someone to lodge with. I told her it would be agreeable. She asked me if such a one as herself would do. I made answer if she was agreeable I was. Marginal notation, the dialect was so. Upon which she said, after she came off her journey, she would see. And B, after her return, she gave me an invitation to defile her marriage bed, which I expected, accepted. And after that she proposed constantly every scheme, scheme for her husband's death. Marginal notation, the spelling is so. Ezra Ross. That quoted section is a written account given in jail to the preacher Ebenezer Parkman, who preached a thundering sermon three days after the executions titled, The adulterous shall hunt for the precious life. Here's a section of that sermon, as quoted in Deborah Navasse's book about the affair, Murdered by His Wife, which I'll link to in the show notes. A woman who allows her loose imagination to range and wander after others, nay, not a few, enrove from her husband to pollute and defile the marriage bed, indulging her own wanton salacious desires. How loathsome are all such, and how directly opposite the pure and holy nature, law and will of God. So keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. There are a thousand dangers that poor young wretches are in by reason of the snares and traps which are everywhere laid, particularly the poor, beardless youth not quite eighteen. Side note, Deborah Navasse also wrote a full-length novel about Bathsheba, called simply Bathsheba Spooner, a novel which I've also included a link to in the show notes. Mrs. Spooner, whose loyalist family ties did her no favors in this moment, sought a reprieve on grounds of pregnancy. Many condemned women in those days made such requests. More often than not, they were temporizing devices that brought no more than the time needed for a panel of matrons to examine them and dismiss the claim. In her case, four examiners submitted a dissenting opinion to the effect that we have reason to think that she is now quick with child. Although overruled, they were correct. After the dramatic quadruple execution under a thunderstorm at Worcester's Washington Square, an autopsy found that Spooner was about five months along with what would have been her fifth child. According to an early 20th century Chicago Chronicle retrospective, her grave can be located on a manor at Worcester that formerly belonged to the great New York City planner Andrew Haswell Green. Bathsheba Spooner's sister was Green's grandmother. A full original record of the proceedings does not survive for us, but this public domain volume has a lengthy chapter about events with an appendix preserving some of the original documents. We're at the mercy of uncertain documentation in this context, of course, but there are at least none whose executions can be established that predate Spooners within the infant republic. Per the SB file, a woman named Anne Wiley was hanged in Detroit in 1777, but at the time that city was under British administration as part of the province of Quebec. For its part, Massachusetts hanged several more women in the 1780s, but has not executed any other women since the George Washington Presidential Administration. It's presently a death penalty abolitionist jurisdiction. Thanks for listening! If you liked the podcast, please share a link to this episode and recommend Weird Darkness to your friends, family and co-workers who love the paranormal, horror stories or a true crime like you do. Every time you share a link to the podcast, it helps spread the word about it, growing our weirdo family, and also helps get the word out about resources available for those who suffer from depression. So please, share the podcast with others. Do you have a dark tale to tell of your own? Fact or fiction, click on Tell Your Story at WeirdDarkness.com and I might use it in a future episode. All stories in Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find source links or links to the authors in the show notes. Ghosts, Gravity and Isaac Newton was written by Stuart Clark for The Guardian. History's most dangerous toddler was written by Candida Moss for The Daily Beast. The reappearing handprint is by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages. The little boy who watched his parents die is by Dr. Nell Darby for Criminal Historian, and the hanging of Bathsheba Spooner was posted at Executed Today. Weird Darkness Theme by Alibi Music Weird Darkness is a registered trademark, and now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Proverbs 11 verse 18, The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.  I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness. Newton must surely have felt some sort of indication for his alchemical beliefs. Here's a word you don't say often. Alchemical. Alchemicle. Alchemy. Alchemical. Alchemical. It's alchemy, so it'd be alchemeal. Alchemical. I'm going to change that to say it is alchemy beliefs. Why must people use 20-dollar words? We're going to go with alchemical. Newton must surely have felt some sort of indication for his alchemical beliefs. According to historian Pochia Hesia. Pochia Hesia. Here is a name for you. Pochia Hesia. Pochia Hesia. How do you pronounce H-S-I-A? Pochia. Pochia Hesia. Pochia Hesia. Pochia Hesia. From what I could find, half of the people say Hesah, half of the people say Shah. I'm going to go with Shah, because it sounds better. Okay, I only have to say it once anyway, so what does it matter? According to historian Pochia. According to historian Pochia Hesia in his book, were forced both to confess and to invent fictitious religious motivations for exangu... exanguinating. Exanguinating means bleeding to death, but we're not going to say that because that's not what the author says. He says exanguinating. Why, I can't say it when he writes it. I don't know. I can say it now. Exanguinating. Forced both to confess and to invent fictitious religious motivations for exanguinating the child. Sixtus IV commanded Hinderbach to suspend the trials until his representative, Batista de... Giyadushi. Udisi. Until his representative, Batista de... de Udisi. De Udisi. Until his representative, Batista de... Hate foreign pronunciations. Representative Batista de... De Udisi. Representative Batista de Udisi. Batista de... Batista de Udisi. To suspend the trials until his representative, Batista de Udisi arrived in Trent. At every turn, Hinderbach thwarted de Jaduci... At every turn, Hinderbach thwarted de Judisi... At every turn, Hinderbach thwarted de Judisi's... De Judisi's... At every turn, Hinderbach thwarted de Judisi's attempts to investigate.


of a weird display that somebody gave us at one point trying to relate where it came from over time. I read a little bit about it in the packet that you all gave me. Like 50 degrees, but now it's... If not, I'm sure there are plenty of, you know, rep and love there. To get down to Fort Hood early in my tenure as the entire Army so that we can, you know, make sure that our soldiers are safe. Chief and I in Washington can do to be helpful. But yet they replaced free time. 77% of high school seniors a decade ago had a job in order for them to get out of the same room. And so it's a lot of good. And really build trust with our soldiers. And I told them, I challenged them and I said, I don't want incremental change that's really going to get at the cultural issues that might have been manifested to Fort Hood.  I'm really interested in hearing the sort of... But I want this to be completely off the record. You know, I can't know what's really going on if I don't hear what's really going on. So first duty station or if you've been somewhere else. And then if you don't mind, I'll ask you all some questions and maybe we can just have a conversation. We start with you. My name is specialist, Tambry Davis. I'm from Palestine, Texas. And this is my first duty station. My name is David. Specialist, David Womills. I'm specialist, Mondragon. This is my second duty station. I was prior service in the car. And I'm from California.  It's great to be here. You're feeling about the progress you all are making here at Fort Hood. And then what do you need? The nose of the vehicle there. I would put our mechanics and our team of soldiers up there. Do you do manage to work for us like this? Something like that.


Good morning, I am Khadija Tzbalugun and this is the News Brief. President Mohammad Bahari will present the 2023 budget to the joint session of the National Assembly in October. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femig Bajabia-Mila, disclosed this to journalists shortly after inspecting hearing rooms 028 and 234 in the House. The Speaker said that the configuration of the temporary chamber would be done ahead of the House resumption of plan every on September 28.


And to other parts of Africa, you and Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Africa is a home for hope, citing the continent's growing and vibrant youth population. And as a message to mark African Day, Guterres said the world celebrated the diverse and dynamic continent and their most promising and potential African Day is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the organization of African Unity, marked on May the 25th. According to him, with initiative with such as the African Continental Free Trade Era, the decade of women's financial and economic inclusion and African Union's AU bold agenda 2063 set of game changing proposal, the prospect on the horizon are bright.


Time now to go behind enemy lines taking a look at the Pittsburgh Steelers. We're joined by Will Graves of the Associated Press. He covers the Steelers. And of course, Bind Enemy Lines is presented by Microsoft Team. Well, the Steelers are 5-0 and they're playing well on both sides of the ball. Their run defense has been giving up just 66 yards per game. Why has Pittsburgh been so good against the run? I think part of that is the fact that they've played with a lead a lot. So teams have maybe been forced to throw more than they wanted to.  Everyone is aware that Derek Henry is a different beast than sort of they faced this season. I was talking to Ken Hayward this morning and he basically said they need to put some linebackers and movement to running back this week to mimic what they're going to expect from Derek. So I think this is going to be a very different challenge than they faced this year. Will, the Pittsburgh Steelers lead the National Football League with 24 quarterback sacks. What jumps out to me looking at the stats is it's not just one guy. They have a bunch of guys that can get after the passer. Talk about the group of Steelers who have recorded sacks this year and played well. That's sort of been their MO for the last several years. I mean, they're on their way to leading the league in sacks. I believe for the third straight year, their streak of 62 straight games with the sack is the longest active streak in the league in the fourth and longest in NFL history. And it's not just the outside linebackers. And they have two great ones in Bud Dupre and TJ Watt. But you've got Stefan Tewitt, who missed most of last season with an injury. He's back on the defensive line playing very well. Ken Hayward may be playing the best football of his career. And the one thing they're really doing is keeping quarterbacks in the pocket. And I think when that happens, that just sort of opens up opportunities for whoever gets free first to get there. On offense, the Steelers have their run game going again. And James Connor really seems to have taken over as that lead back. What does he do so well? The way that he's running is not a way that I imagined him being successful running in the NFL. That's a tribute both to his commitment to his body and also to the fact that the Steelers, particularly this year, I think they're not trying to overuse him. I think they're limiting his touches to 17 to 20, and that has made him effective and fresh. Chase Claypool is one of the surprise rookies of the 2020 season. Even the Pittsburgh staff a little surprised at how quickly Claypool has been able to make an impact, Will. A little bit, because there was no pre-season games, he did not have to be bothered learning what a very vanilla game plan was for a given week. He could sort of dive right into it. And I think that's allowed him to really grasp things much more quickly. I think he's proved to be faster than a lot of people thought he would be.  He's six foot four and 235 pounds, and he can run away from you. Will Graves taking us behind enemy lines presented by Microsoft Teams. Thanks very much, Will. Absolutely.


Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of AZ Update. I'm Anthony Bartolo, and we are joined today by Sonya Cuff. Sonya, thank you very much for being on the show. I know it's midnight your time, and so we're so grateful to be able to join us today. How's it going?  So this is global news coverage for you. That's awesome. We actually have items specifically targeted to our Australia in terms of news and events. So can't wait to jump into that really quickly. We have a couple of things to talk about prior to the news. First one being how is your screen set up at your home for your windows, your windows devices? Look, it's complicated. I have a surface book running through the surface hub and two external external monitors, one's portrait and one's landscape. And then another external monitor, sometimes for my teleprompter set up. So I have screens everywhere. One of my biggest challenges, because I do have the three screens myself, is usually when I open up Word, and that's the one that's been the trickiest for me thus far. I have two screens in front of me and then I have the camera. And then behind the camera, I have my screen that I do. It uses a teleprompter or when we're doing live streams like this so that I can look at people when I'm talking to people. And what happens is when I open up Word, it usually shows up on the screen behind the camera for some reason. First time it happens to me, I was in a complete panic. I was like, why is it not showing up on my screen? And I look up and it's like it's there hanging up on the rafters there.  If you have a messy desktop like myself, where is your app running? In the latest Windows Insider build, there are there is new functionality now that you can actually target which screen the app will load into.  You can actually go and say, OK, you know, when this one word opens up, it's going to open up on screen number one or screen number two, as opposed to it, you know, using by default, what was the last screen it was on? And usually what I do with Word is I do use it frequently for teleprompting on the back screen. And that's why it keeps on opening up back there. Now, it does require for people to go out and say, hey, do you like this feature and provide feedback for it to actually come into production version of Windows is only in the Insider builds right now. So you're able to go out and test the functionality. But you have to make sure that you have, you know, make your voice heard if this is something that's important to you. Let the Windows team know so they can bake it into the next offering. Oh, my gosh, I need that feedback link. I've had a really annoying bug that is one of those intermittent things. And you know how hard it is to troubleshoot something when you can't consistently reproduce it. But I've seen some strange behavior with some earlier Windows 10 Insider builds where if I go and launch an application on an external monitor and then I close it down, if I take my laptop away, sometimes when I go and open up that app, it tries to open up on the external monitor that's not plugged in anymore. And so I have this kind of phantom monitor where my app is going and I've got no way of getting it back. And it's the most frustrating thing because it only happens sometimes. So I'm really hoping that this update is going to fix this weird phantom external monitor, not a touch bug that I've been saying to. And it's only going to happen if, you know, based on feedback. So make sure if you're testing on the Insider builds, it's important to you. Make it known that it's important to you and they will add it to production. I just they want to make sure that before they're adding it, that this is actually needed, right? And I put in my feedback. Yes, I definitely want this to be made available. You bring a bit of news as well with us. Yeah, well, this means some interesting tweets going around lately because our official Microsoft account has hinted that good old Calibri might not be our default font and word anymore.  It's still going to be available. But they're looking at other options for what their new favorite child might be in terms of default font. So we've got a choice that they kind of tweeted out. We've got BearStat, GrainView, Seaford, Skeena or Tenorite. Don't ask me if I pronounced any of those correctly. But yeah, they've sort of put out this teaser of this is what these these fonts look like and the different styles of bold and italic and and spacing and getting some feedback on your favorite. When I kind of looked at it originally, I was trying to place what the difference between these different font styles. But Donna Saka brought up this really interesting point about what it looks like for her and people that might have literacy or language issues, reading character sets on on screen will find some difficulty with the spacing of characters and sort of the kerning of the font. So it's really important to them as well. But just a bold move that gone other days of Calibri being the favorite child. And, you know, I'm still hucking back to Times New Roman, to be honest. Paul Jensen jumps in the chat says, what, no Klingon? And I think pretty superior actually mentioned the same thing for the Klingon font. I being an old time Windows Mobile, Windows Phone individual, I'm still using, I don't know if I say pronounce it properly. Segu or Segoi. So back in the day, you know, the whole aspect of modern apps and the clarity of reading signs. And I went through the whole study of, you know, why they use the font that they did for Windows Phone and its clarity of what have you. I still use that font today in a lot of my presentations and in Word as well. I understand Donna's aspect of it in terms of reading the characters and some of them looking flipped. I don't suffer from that, but for me, using Segoi or Segu, whatever, how you pronounce it, I got to find the proper pronunciation. I find that the letters are a lot clearer. When I do my teleprompter, I use Segoi or Segu for teleprompter reading as well. It's easier for me to read the letters on the screen. So for me, I'm actually shocked that it's not there as part of the listing, you know, as a callback to what it was on Windows Phone. That would have been an interesting choice. But, you know, all these ones are great. Again, to Donna's point, it's hard sometimes to read characters. And so it's great that Microsoft is thinking what character is, you know, a lot more legible. Timesy Roman, I've not used that in a long time. I know Pierre, for some reason, uses Comic Sans a lot. It's good to say you could pronounce it as in any way you like as long as you're not using Comic Sans, right? What's wrong with Comic Sans? I use it all the time. We know, we know the show notes are all in Comic Sans. We can't keep a straight face reading the notes. So thank you, producer Pierre, for that. All right, on with the news and you are up first. I am. So let's talk about Azure Monitor. There was a little update that's come out recently that is very exciting in terms of being able to support both stateful and one-minute frequency log alerts. So this is in public preview, stateful alerts basically means that if an alert has fired, it will auto resolve once that condition is no longer met. So that really helps us sort of clean up the noise of the things we have to go and tidy up afterwards. If it's just one of those little transient issues and being able to query every minute. I know that this is a big feature that was a road blocker for a lot of people when they were looking at using Azure Monitor's capability. There was a time delay between data being ingested into log analytics and therefore available to Azure Monitor to query. And now that we can actually run those queries on a per minute frequency will certainly help people that have those use cases where they're monitoring that really high availability and they can't handle much of a delay or a lag on that data. And that's big, right? Like log analytics, especially the data being adjusted into tools like Azure Sentinel, the more data that you can provide, the better the response or better the reaction that you can have or even the report out in terms of what's going on. I also love the stateful solution now that if it's resolved, it removes it. I'm curious, do we have any depth in regards to or further understanding if the log entry is removed because it's been resolved? Does that remove it also from past reports so that it's removed from Sentinel for analytics, do we know? So it's not actually removing the log entry itself. It is just setting the Azure Monitor condition for that alert to now not being fired anymore. So it is just that alerting part of that state. Oh, great. So then the information is still captured for analysis after the fact, right? So that it can know, hey, what's going on? Why did this occur and provide the resolution down the road, which is cool. Yeah, and the interesting thing about that too is I think that sometimes we can get hung up on wanting that in terms of how fast we're responding to things. I don't know many IT pros that are sitting watching dashboards or watching whatever system it is that they're getting their alerts in that closely than a minute or two would make much difference. When you think about it, let's talk about automation. So if you've got some automation that says if you detect that on the server, a service has stopped, for example, and that's a critical service, I want an automation to kick in and try and restart it before the human eyeballs might have even noticed that that alert has been fired. So now we can get that automation working a lot quicker as well. So that's a great bonus. And I know there was talk about in terms of charges, right? Because if you're doing a per minute long charge, it could get costly, but you would want to specify to a specific instance to catch a specific scenario. Is there like something going on right now in terms of the test or the enablement of this functionality that it hears to that? Yeah, that's a really good point. So at the moment, while it's in public preview, that one minute frequency log alerts will have no additional charge while they're in public preview, but there may be a charge on them when this becomes generally available. However, the stateful alerts that we talked about, there's no plans to make that at any extra cost when that feature goes GA. Excellent, so definitely check that out. And we have the notes in terms of how to get started on ITOPS Talk under the latest AZ update post. Let's continue on with the news. Next up, Microsoft has just announced new VM sizes made available to the general public for general accessibility. The DV5 series, I have all the show notes here, so I make sure I get this right, the DV5 series and the EV5 series. Now the DV5 series is a new general purpose virtual machine offering that's made available. What's great about this is that it has the ability to not require storage up in the cloud. So if you wanna attach on separate storage, whether it's in cloud or on-premises, you have the availability to do so. If you do require in cloud storage, it is recommended to use the DV5 series of virtual machines that you can deploy and it's your organization. And again, this is for general purpose only. Now for memory intensive workloads, if you're doing machine learning, if you're doing high-scale analytics, if you're doing database rationalization, all that type of functionality, you're gonna look at the EV5 series. And the EV5 series provides the same functionality. So the EV5 series allows for the requirement, sorry, the non-requirement of storage up in the cloud. You can have on-premises or in cloud and separate storage if required, but it too, if you require in cloud storage, there is the EDV5 series VMs that are made available. Again, these are high-intensive memory-capable virtual machines up to 672 gigs. Wow, that's a lot. A lot of my games would be running really quickly. But if you're, you know, and again, if you're doing data-like analytics, if you're doing machine learning, cognitive services, if you're doing functionality that is very memory intensive and requires in-memory computations, this is the series that you're gonna look at. And these are, both series are made available and generally available now for use in production. So any thoughts? E-Series is my favorite one to use as an example when I'm talking about cost management and Azure policy, because I love demonstrating how you can prevent anybody in your organization from spinning up E-Series VMs because the fact that they cost a fair bit of money. But you can see why, right? They are designed to be these heavy-hitter workloads. And the interesting thing about that is that the kind of use cases that we need those really strong, intensive workloads for is normally to analyze big intensive data sets. And so in the past, we've needed to get those data sets from wherever they are into the cloud to then be processed. So it's really cool to see a sort of detaching that and being able to run these compute workloads back against these local storages and the data sets that we may still keep on-prem. So speaking of cost management, you're up next actually with a new cost management story. Yeah, so it's been a little bit of update in the cost management world. And Azure Cost Management and Billing released their monthly updates and little bits and pieces here and there throughout the month. So the latest news this week has finally been the ability to query the retail prices and currencies other than US dollars. So you've been able to display them in different currencies, but if you wanted to query them like through an API, if you have built your own cost estimation tool, for example, or you've got some other solutions sort of analyzing things, those retail prices have all been by default in US dollars. So now you can change the currency of that, which is really helpful to anybody outside of the USA. We've also got a new date picker. And so the way that you go and you analyze your costs and cost management had some restraints on how you could select date periods to analyze your cost tree. Now we've got a new custom date range picker that's in preview that gives you a lot more granularity on being able to choose your start date and your end date through for a number of days to a number of months to try and analyze those queries in a way that suits your business. So that's been quite exciting. In addition to that, we've got cost management labs and cost management labs is the place to go for all of the early access to the features that are going into the public portal. So go and check out the blog post for this episode. It will tell you how to access cost management labs to get access to those preview features and also give you the opportunity to interact with the product group about those particular features. Tell them what's working, tell them what's not, tell them what's missing. Producer Pierre is wondering if you could do the currency in Gold Press, Latin upon the chat room, which is funny. I want to see how much my VMs cost in Dodgecoin. Dodgecoin, right?  This is big, right?  You don't know if it's gonna be the proper currency or the proper conversion for your analysis. So doing this directly in the tool is big. I've always said, you know, from the business decision maker perspective in the assignment of costs to cost centers inside of an organization, having this type of tool, now with the specific in terms of the currency that's being utilized as well, that's huge. The other piece too is the cost management labs, right? The ability to go through and test out if we have this type of functionality enabled, what's it gonna cost us on the road so you can do better at forecasting, right? In terms of what your resource consumption is gonna look like at the end of the month so that there's no surprise bills, which is really awesome. Yeah, that's good. Let's continue on. What's up with that next? Next up, how is your container utilization knowledge? Is it, you know, we're, I know I hear you. Listen, I'm not proficient in containers as well. Containers, I've got a cupboard full of them. Yeah. We come from the Hyper-V world, right? The whole virtual machine piece was a big revelation and now we've gone into the container world, right? And for the aspect of time, containers are an instance you have a header that's your, you know, your compute and then you have all your data resulting in the container and the header can be transferred from different containers to be more efficient in terms of compute cycles and consumption of data and manipulation of data. Microsoft has recently acquired, it was announced yesterday, KinVolk. KinVolk is a open source community initiative for container utilization. The premise behind the acquisition is now Microsoft gains further expertise in container utilization. The team that said KinVolk, sorry, will automatically be brought in to help out with the Azure Kubernetes service solution as well as Azure Arc for management. So this is big news, right? And so there's the whole aspect of the expertise that KinVolk brings to the table in terms of container utilization to better fit or better make available the Azure Kubernetes service. To add to this, Microsoft understands the impact and the influence in the, what KinVolk has done to help the community in terms of their locomotive program and services that are available specifically for container utilization as open source. Microsoft has promised this is not going to change. This is gonna continue on. KinVolk is still gonna be able to act and participate in the community and provide the open source solutions made available through locomotive and other services that KinVolk had come to the table with. That is not gonna stop. That's gonna continue on. And that's big news, right? And it's something where Microsoft is doing its best and it's putting its best foot forward to ensure our organic interactions inside of the open source community. And so I'm very happy to see that KinVolk will continue on doing the great work that they do in open source and inside of community using their existing services as well as now bringing their expertise to Azure Kubernetes service to make the solution that much better. It's a really interesting one because I've come from such an infrastructure and server world that open source has not really been one of the things that has crossed my career path at all. I've had some great conversations with technologists about what open source actually means and where it fits in terms of customer size. When we get smaller customers who may be looking at it because it's cheaper but may or may not have the technical capability to be able to help improve it and feed back into that open source community to make it better. So they're more users than they are contributors. And yet you have some really big companies, Microsoft included, that have gone and done efforts internally that they've then released as open source so that the community can use it and contribute to it. It's a great story about Netflix and their Atlas monitoring and how they then went out in an open source to do that to make people being able to use it. But it is an interesting one. I do wonder whether or not we'll see more tendrils of it in the IT Pro operation space. And I think containers really is sort of the most obvious and the first and foremost use case. We're sort of seeing that it's crossing to our infrastructure world. I think we'll see more of it. I think the whole aspect of what happens in the open source community is the ingenuity and creativity that people bring to the table when not hindered by licenses and what not hindered by restraints on legalities of using specific of the mouse trap project as an example has evolved into an ice cream truck project into a newspaper sales project. It's interesting to see what people bring to the table and then they bring along their ideas and they share their ideas. And it's the whole benefit of the open source community is it's not just people are using the code that's out there, actually providing evolution to what you put out as a solution. So I'm excited to see how this evolves in terms of the relationship with the open source community around containers. And it's gonna be interesting to see the journey of what the whole play of containers does come down the road as it becomes even quicker in terms of its adoption which is really awesome to see. Let's do a quick shout out to the chat room. We have Paul Jensen in there. We have Andrew McCullen. Robert Jr. is joining us all the way from South Africa. Hello, Robert Jr. They're speaking Klingon in the chat room with producer Pierre, which is funny. Audio Steve is also in the chat room today. Jerry Chocolate, Jared, how's it going? I know there's Patch and Switch coming up in terms of events and we'll jump through the events really quickly. Patch and Switch is on today. It's been a fortnight. So they've been alternating which is really cool. Testing and production is last Friday and then we have Patch and Switch this Friday and then back to testing and production. Let us know in the chat rooms, what do you guys think about the whole testing and production? There's been a lot of comments in terms of producer Pierre set up and the appreciation for them sharing the setup and the strategies and the tips and tricks that they've learned along the way in terms of producing a show. I've definitely been taking notes just because doing shows like Acer Update and editing down the road for other things, it's really interesting just to see what technologies are being used. There's also Hello World and Hello World is that daily news program that you have also on Learn TV and it's a great show that showcases the humans behind the services at Microsoft. It showcases what people have learned and sharing of tips and tricks in terms of what they've accomplished down the road. And then as we mentioned earlier in the show, Sonia, you bring forth an event that's happening in Australia. Yeah, absolutely. So Microsoft Australia are running a security skills bootcamp. It is free, it is online and it's running from the 17th to the 21st of May. So there may be a little bit of overlap between our Australian morning and to the North American afternoon as far as time zones go. But the cool thing about this particular week apart from it being free and online is the variety of sessions. There's sessions on zero trust. There's a whiteboard session on zero trust. There's ask the experts and then there's security from the perspective of end points, identity, network, infrastructure, data, information protection and some really cool information on the latest sort of cyber threats that we're seeing and attacks as well. So really just a great portfolio throughout that whole week of free security sessions that you can register for and view online. And that's the thing, right? In this whole pandemic world there's the availability to attend these sessions because everything is online. The question that's come up in the chat is this going to be recorded? That's a good question. I don't have a solid answer on that but I will find out and I'll pop a comment on the blog post for this session when I've got an answer for you. Perfect. I love attending these global sessions because I learned so much from other parts of the world in terms of adoption, in terms of the way that technology is seen in different views from around the world. I miss that from the tour. That's one of the things I miss is sitting in the open area that they have on tour and just learning from everybody that's willing to share how they perceive the adoption of technology. And so being able to attend these events in other parts of the world so this one coming up May 17th is an awesome one because it allows me to see in terms of Australia, what is the perception of cloud computing and cloud technology utilization? How are they securing it? How are they enabling identity management? It's awesome to see that from other places, perspectives in terms of the way they put their best foot forward for security optimization as an example. Yeah. And that's one of the cool parts about Microsoft being a global organization, right? Is that it's not necessarily having to sit around and wait for a head office for a readment to go and put on one of our massive first party events like Ignite or Build. But we've got local offices all around the globe that are running skilling initiatives at the moment. And when you find one that's in the same language that you speak and in the case of Australia and Canada, it's even the Queen's English and we spell things correctly. So if you can get past the strange accents, it is just really interesting to see what those other subsidiaries are coming up with in terms of technical enablement training. And I just thought that this was such a comprehensive week of training and it really does, like the COVID pandemic has forced it to some extent of making these events go online first as their primary source. But we were having this conversation about how back in the day, the only way to get Microsoft training like this, Microsoft technical training was to go and sit in a classroom for three days or five days and pay for that sort of certification training content. And then we sort of saw a bit more of an evolution of that where they started doing more sort of technical workshop days that included your hands on lab, but it still very much was the go into the classroom bit. So let's see, I think that when everything else sort of comes out in the Washington's of how this pandemic rolls on for however long it does with countries rolling out vaccination programs, et cetera, the sort of online stuff is something that I hope we don't lose. And I do want to see in-person events back again. I absolutely miss those hallway conversations, the chat to the person next to you about what you've been listening to in the session because they're from a different organization. Like we desperately miss all of that, hopefully one day when it's safe again, but the opportunity to get into some online technical stuff from other countries around the world at the moment is just, it's mind blowing. Like just take advantage of it. It's all there. Agreed. Let's jump on to last segment, the Microsoft Learn module of the week. And Sanya, you bring this to our attention today which is an awesome one. Yeah, so Microsoft Learn module of the week is using Azure Lighthouse with your managed service business. Now, I don't want you to zone out if you don't work for a managed service business. Azure Lighthouse is our way of delegating access for your credentials into Azure tendencies that are not where your credentials primarily live. So you don't need to go and create accounts in those different tendencies to be able to log in and perform admin functions or monitor those environments or whatever. But when I talk about that, we have this thing about, yes, I can understand the relationship between a managed service provider doing that for multiple different customers and not wanting to have to switch credentials all the time. But it's also really great for our big multinational customers. And there's a number of reasons why a customer might have more than one tendency in their enterprise. We've got franchisors and franchises. We've got people that have just gone a little bit rogue with their tenants. And I've seen that. We've got now multiple different sort of directories inside our environment for whatever reason. And so to be able to use Azure Lighthouse to have this one place to log into with my set of credentials that now gives me access to see all of the resources and the tendencies I've got access to and manage them at scale. So decide that you want to roll out something using Azure policy and use PowerShell to send it out to the resources and all those different tendencies at the same time. Like that is pretty cool. The interesting thing about the learn module itself is I bring it up because I've just recently updated it. So I helped co-author an update to this one where we've now introduced hands-on labs inside this module. So normally in our Microsoft Learn environment we've got the sandbox stuff and the sandbox does let you stand up and do some of the exercises. Multitenancy is really hard to sandbox because obviously you need more than one Azure tenancy. And that's a little bit more complicated for us. So sorry, sorry, sorry. Producer Pierre is chiming in because we have one minute left. So awesome that you were able to share this. If people want to get a hold of you on social media what's the best way to get a hold of you? Find me on Twitter at Sonya Cuff. And if you want to get a hold of Producer Pierre you can do so at Wire Canuck. And if you want to get a hold of me for some reason at Wireless Life on Twitter. Sonya is so awesome to see you on the show. Hopefully we'll get you back again next week. Everybody have a great weekend.