Eternity, Time Theory, Variance, Cosmic Dance, Colbert Raport, Wormhole with Morgue, and Freeman's Show, Sean Carragault talking about physics and the meaning of life. I will bring him to the stage with this rhyme, a doctor whose book is all about time. Wait until you hear what he has to say. S-C-A-N-C-A-R-R-O-L-L, Eternity, Time Theory, Variance, Cosmic Dance. Ladies and gentlemen, Sean from the ridiculous to the sublime. Last week I was fortunate enough to find myself in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, watching the experimental physicist there announce the discovery of the Higgs boson. Or at least something very, very much like it. We think it is the Higgs boson. We need more work to tell if it's exactly that. It's certainly very Higgs boson like. It was an absolute pleasure to be at a place where you knew that history was being made. And one way of saying exactly the level of historic import at that moment is to say that in our thousands of years long quest to understand the universe and how it works, the easy part is now over. It's as if we've been sitting watching people play chess or some complicated game like Australian Rules Football, and we finally figured out what the rules of the game are. Now the next step is to become good at playing chess. So my talk is going to be not about particle physics per se, but the hard part of how we understand the universe, the human part. What it means to be a human being in a world that is fundamentally can be thought of as a world governed by the laws of physics. So let's start with epistemology. I know that we always like philosophy lectures at our TAM meetings. How do we know what we think we know about how the world works? So you're outside on a beautiful night. You're admiring the moon with a perspective, romantic entanglement, and you say, isn't that wonderful that we have this satellite that orbits us that has the metallic core and a rocky mantle and crust? And your friend says, well, you know, I've always been partial to the green cheese hypothesis. I think that the moon is made of green cheese. And you say, well, we've been to the moon. We've brought pieces of it back. We can see the moon. We can take spectra of its composition. It looks like it's rock. It does not look like it's cheese. And they say, well, that would be the naive green cheese theory. But the sophisticated green cheese theory says that there are about 10 meters of moon dust on the surface on top of the main body of the moon, which is all green cheese. And you say, well, I'm pretty sure that we've studied enough about the moon to know its density and its rotation and so forth. And it really matches what you would expect from metal and rock and things like that, not from what you would expect from cheese. And your friend says, well, you shouldn't expect that lunar green cheese is just like regular green cheese. This green cheese does exactly that. So what can you do in this case where your friend is being a little bit overly skeptical? How do you escape the threat of just a nihilism that arose any possibility of knowing things? The answer is that you're allowed to say, but you're crazy. What you're saying is absurd. The only thing is that you need to be able to back that up. Why is it crazy to say that the moon is made of green cheese? It's not because we visited there. It's not because we have analyzed it spectroscopically. It's because it's embedded in a larger context. We know something about the solar system and how it was formed. We know what moons and planets basically are. We know what cheese is. It's a dairy product. It comes from cows and sheep and goats and so forth that does not give rise to things like the moon. The point is that when you analyze the truth or falsity of some fact that you would like to understand about the world you do that within the context of a bigger picture. And the biggest picture we have is the fundamental laws of physics, the way that the universe works. And we know how the universe works. This is going to be one of the major lessons that I have here. It's quantum field theory. And what I'm really concerned with here is the everyday universe, the universe in this room right now. I'm not talking about the big bang or dark matter or anything like that. But quantum field theory is the right theory of the world that we immediately perceive. We don't talk about quantum field theory in popularizations of physics that much. We talk about quantum mechanics, particle physics, relativity. But really quantum field theory is the most successful theory we have in all of science. It has been the most precisely tested. It's a very simple idea. Everything is fields. There is no such thing as particles. Particles as XKCD is telling you here are what you see when you look at fields very, very closely. Particles are the particles of matter come from what we call fermion fields. That would be electrons, quarks, neutrinos, and so forth. And there's another kind of field which gives rise to the forces of nature. The graviton comes from the gravitational field, the photon comes from the electromagnetic field, and so forth. So this idea that the world is basically made of fields and the quantum says that when you look at the fields you see particles has been like I said tested to extraordinary accuracy. There's absolutely no evidence that it is in any way incorrect. And it has incredible implications for how we think about the world. One implication is that there are no unknown unknowns in quantum field theory. This is Ken Wilson, another under appreciated figure in physics. He won the Nobel Prize and if you look up the citation it's for a better understanding of phase transitions. But really what Wilson gave us was what quantum field theory really says. How to think about quantum field theory. And Wilson's answer is you think about quantum field theory by looking at length scales separately from each other. If you want to understand things that are happening on one centimeter length scales and above Wilson teaches us that you don't need to know what's happening at length scales shorter than one centimeter. This is an amazingly liberating feature of the world. We don't need to know the theory of grand unification or quantum gravity to know that we understand the everyday world in which we live. This is a simplistic little picture but it gets the idea across. Wilson says basically you have scale, you have distances and the fields have interactions with each other. And basically what we can easily observe are things that exist on large scales with strong interactions. The things that can hide from us are the things that exist on very, very small scales, very short wavelengths, or with very, very weak interactions. So what we know is that the part of the world that is in the upper right hand corner of this diagram is the part we can easily access. Anything that we're missing, it's absolutely possible we're missing all sorts of things but they are all in the bottom left. They are not relevant for what happens to us in the top right. And in particular now we have a theory of the everyday world that is completely successful. Everything in this room consists of three particles arranged in different combinations. Electrons, protons and neutrons. And those particles are interacting with three forces. The nuclear force that holds the protons and neutrons together. The electromagnetic force and the gravitational force that holds us down to the earth. When I wave my hand here or when I speak words, this is all the interaction of the atoms in my body through electromagnetism primarily according to the laws of physics. There is nothing else that we need or will ever need, even a million years from now, to understand what is going on in this room right now. That is a profound fact that does not get nearly as much publicity as it should until today. So historic event. Now you might say but I'm a skeptic, how do you know Mr. Hotshot theoretical physicist that there aren't new particles or new forces that are relevant to what happens in the world? Well, I'm glad I asked that. This is what quantum field theory lets us talk about in a controlled quantitative way. Let's say you imagine there's a new kind of particle. Richard Feynman gave us a way of thinking about how particles interact. You just draw pictures of them. This is a picture of a new kind of particle labeled X interacting with a proton labeled P by some interaction, a known interaction or an unknown interaction. It doesn't really matter. Let's imagine you would like this to be true. Now there are other particles of nature, not in a standard model. There is dark matter, for example, but dark matter doesn't interact very strongly with us. There are probably literally millions of dark matter particles passing through your body every second, but they just don't bump into you. They go right through you. You can't blame dark matter for being hungry or irritable or anything like that. The particles that we know are the ones that interact with you. If there were a new particle that interacted like this then the rules of quantum field theory say we can take this Feynman diagram and rotate it 90 degrees clockwise and get a new Feynman diagram. That would represent two protons bumping into each other like they do with the Large Hadron Collider and producing the new particle. If there were new particles that interacted in any substantial way with us, we would have produced them already and we have not. Therefore they don't exist. Could there be, you say new forces of nature that we're not yet aware of? Again quantum field theory lets you ask that question quantitatively. It says if there were new forces of nature what would they be like? They would have a certain range over which they interacted. They would have things that they coupled to and it would have a strength of the interaction. But the only things there are to couple to are electrons, protons, and neutrons. And therefore you look for new forces with that kind of range and here is an actual experimental data plot. The upper right are the new forces of nature that we know don't exist. We have ruled them out by doing experiments. If you look at the left this is the strength of the force relative to gravity. Gravity is a very, very weak force. I can overcome the force of gravity right here. Watch very carefully. There I did it. Just the electromagnetic force in my body overcame the gravitational pull of the entire earth. What this plot is saying if you can look at the numbers on the left is that on a scale of about 1 centimeter any new force of nature is less than 100,000th the strength of gravity. Completely irrelevant for everyday life. So there are no new forces. There are no new particles that are relevant to anything that happens inside this room until you build a particle accelerator inside this room. For astronomers and physicists other particles are relevant but for you, what are you made of? What do you consist of? What are you really? You are electrons, protons and neutrons interacting through gravity, the nuclear force and electromagnetism. Now we don't need, don't mean to say that physics is finished. There's a lot of work yet to be done in physics. This is what I do for a living. I would not be happy if we were all finished. It would be a little triumphant but we're not even close. We don't understand the big bang. We don't understand dark matter. We don't understand quantum gravity, grand unification, many, many things. However the knowledge we have of quantum field theory ensures that none of those things is relevant to what's going on in this room right now. We don't need to understand them to understand how human beings work as physical systems. Of course we do need to understand the complications that arise when many, many, many particles get together and we don't understand any of that. We don't understand hurricanes, we don't understand economics, we don't understand how to cure cancer, biology, etc. Just because we know the rules of chess, we know how that little horsey thing moves across the board, that does not make us a great chess player. But if we're going to come up with a strategy to become a great chess player, it better not involve the little horsey moving diagonally. We need to obey the rules of the world in which we live and in which we are going to answer all of these questions. If we're going to get sensible answers to anything from economics to biology, they would need to be compatible with what we know about fundamental physics. So our knowledge of fundamental physics has consequences. It has both simple consequences and more profound consequences and one of the litmus tests you can put yourself to is how acceptable are these consequences to you yourself. The simplest one is you cannot bend spoons with the sheer force of your mind because there are no forces of nature that would allow you to do that. The only one that is even close is electromagnetism, so if you could focus electric and magnetic fields with your mind, then you could bend spoons, but there would be much easier ways to test that, iron filings and so forth. Astrology cannot work. There is no force that can extend from those stars and planets to my natural birthplace. With all due respect to the great work done by James Randy and everyone else who debunks people who claim to have paranormal abilities, in many cases you already know ahead of time that they can't possibly be right because the claims they're making are not compatible with the fundamental laws of physics as we know them. Of course it is possible that this one person has the ability to violate the fundamental laws of physics. It is possible the moon is made of green cheese. There are many things that are possible, but if you believe the moon is not green cheese, you should also believe in the standard model of particle physics and all of its consequences. The next consequence is a little bit bigger. There is no life after death despite the photographic evidence here offered.  There is no way for that knowledge of who you are before you died to persist after the chemical reaction that defines your life comes to an end. I'm speaking really here about some sort of extra material spirit that would somehow be you even after your body ceased to exist. That is not compatible with the laws of physics as we know it. We don't need to look carefully at past life regression studies or anything like that. The claim violates the laws of physics. The next consequence is there is no ghost in the machine. What you are is a collection of atoms obeying the laws of nature.  There is no kind of extra material spirit that drives you around. There are electrons, protons and neutrons interacting through electromagnetism, the nuclear force and gravity. The laws of physics tell us what those things do. It is not necessary to bring anything else into the equation. Finally, there are no externally derived morals or purposes in the universe. It is a feature of the way the laws of physics work that if you know exactly what the universe is at any one moment in time and you had perfect computational power then you could predict what was going to happen in the future and retro-dict what had happened in the past. This is absolutely implausible as a practical matter. It will never ever happen. It's not even worth trying to think about it. But what it means is that the laws of physics are not teleological. They do not tend toward a goal. They just work from moment to moment. You tell me what the universe is now. The laws of physics tell you what the universe will be an instant later. Then they will tell you what it will be an instant after that and so forth. The laws of physics do not care what you do. They do not judge you. The laws of physics do not look upon you and frown at that thing that you did the other day. The laws of physics just happen over and over and over again. So that I think is the hard part. I said that finding the standard model of particle physics was the easy part of our quest to understand the universe. Figuring out how to act within a world that obeys the laws of physics is the hard part. And I'm not going to tell you how to do it by the way. So I hope that you're not disappointed. My goal here is not to say, oh yes, if you just understood the standard model, you would be able to live a better life. That's not going to be quite that easy. What I mean to say is that by understanding the standard model we are now enabled to embark on a quest which will undoubtedly take hundreds or thousands of years to figure out what it will mean to lead a good and fulfilling and meaningful life. But whatever the answer is, it better be compatible with how reality works at a fundamental level. And you might say, you can't imagine an answer to this question. If I can talk about the world as nothing but a collection of electrons, protons and neutrons obeying the laws of physics, if that is the whole everyday world, then how can there be anything else to say? How is it possible to talk about meaning or purpose or right and wrong? And the answer lies in how we talk about the world. The world can be described as particles obeying the laws of physics, but it is not the only way to talk about the world. When you meet someone for the first time and you go on a first date and your date says, tell me about yourself, you do not list the positions and velocities of all the electrons, protons and neutrons in your body. I'm from Caltech. At Caltech that would be considered pretty hot actually, but it's not plausible, it's not really feasible. It's not a useful way of thinking about the world. Now, so what you would do is you would describe yourself in more coarse-grained terms. You would use another kind of vocabulary. You would probably not use the word Adam at all for you non-Caltechers out there.  All of the freedom to bring meaning and purpose and right and wrong into the world inheres in that ability to tell different stories about the world. So the poet, Muriel Ruckheiser, put it succinctly as you can. The universe is made of stories not of atoms. Now you might say I just told you the world is made of atoms. This is also true. The universe is also made of atoms not of stories. It depends on how you're describing the universe. What Ruckheiser is pointing to is the fact that we bring reality to life. We give it shape by talking about it in different ways. That might sound pretty thin just talking about a universe that exists, but the freedom to do that in different ways really makes the universe what it is for us. We access and confront the world by telling stories about it. And when I say story I don't mean to say a fictional story. I'm talking about a true story. If you want to gussy it up, call it a theory or a model or an ontology or a vocabulary depending on which department you're talking in front of. But these ways of talking about the world are what we need to figure out to make meaningfulness exist in the world governed by particle physics. So let me give you the simplest possible example of multiple overlapping stories you can tell about the world. Before we talk about meaning and purpose, let's talk about fluid mechanics and thermodynamics because I know that's what you've been itching to hear about. So if you have a box of gas you are allowed to talk about it by listing the positions and the velocities of every particle of gas in that box. That's a complete description. You don't need more information to say what's going to happen. But you could also talk about it by just giving the temperature of the gas, the pressure of the gas, the velocity and so forth, the density as a function of where you are in space. That is another way to talk about it. It is not as comprehensive, its range of validity is not as broad as the language of atoms and molecules but it's much more useful if you want to know is it hot in the room or not. And these concepts we introduce like temperature and pressure are not non-existent. They are real. They are emergent at this higher level of description but the temperature in the room is just as real as the atoms that make it up. In this higher level vocabulary there can even be concepts that are crucially important and real even though they completely don't exist in the lower level vocabulary. So here's an example, irreversibility. This is my favorite feature of the macroscopic world. Certain things happen in one direction of time but never the opposite direction. Bring a hot thing and a cold thing together into contact. They will both become warmer. Bring two warm things into contact. They will never separate and become hot and cold. That is a true feature of thermodynamics known as the second law of thermodynamics. And it has absolutely no analog in the laws of molecules and atoms. The laws of atoms are completely reversible. There is no arrow of time at the level of atoms. That does not mean that the arrow of time that we observe in our world is not real. It's just part of a different way of describing the same situation. So that's the context we need to bring to mind when we start talking about values about what it means to lead a meaningful life, to have purpose in our existence. It is not given to us by the laws of nature. Quantum field theory does not tell you right from wrong.  It is your choice how to judge things as right or wrong. The story that you choose to tell. What are you going to label as right? What are you going to label as wrong? What are you going to count as having a fulfilling purposeful existence? It is not fixed by the facts of physics. It is in the story that you choose to tell about the physical world. So how do you choose one story over the other? The answer is, well again, I'm not telling you the answer. I'm not telling you how to do it. I'm telling you what we need to take into account when we talk about doing it. And that is we are not blank slates. Human beings do not just pop into existence in the world free of any judgments ourselves. We have goals. We have aspirations. We have feelings. We have desires. We have judgments. And the point is how can we tell a consistent story, a reflective equilibrium that takes our judgments into consideration with those of other people and the laws of nature of the universe in which we live. We need to tell a story that makes sense to us that fits in with the natural aspirations we have and the laws of physics that lets us go to the places we want to go. So I have time for precisely one example. And again, I'm not telling you what is right from wrong. I'm telling you how to think about right and wrong. So here would be two fundamentally different ways of thinking about the problem of should we let same-sex couples get married? A very down-to-earth, real, political question. One point of view would be to say that there is a natural way for human beings to live. There is a right and wrong arrangement of our social order. The right arrangement is to have marriage be between a man and a woman and therefore same-sex couples should not be allowed to marry. And what I would argue is that this is simply a mistake. This is simply wrong. This is based on an incorrect way of thinking about our world. Our world does not have natural ways to be. It does not have right or wrong ways to be. We invent those right or wrong ways. So the second way is that how to live, what is right and what is wrong, is a decision we human beings have to make. No configuration is naturally correct. It is something that we create inside ourselves. We decide how best to guarantee happiness and protect individual dignity. Now with that understanding, you could still argue that same-sex couples should not be allowed to marry. You could say, I think that given who we are as human beings, we should decide not to let that happen. But I would also argue that once you realize that this notion of rightness or wrongness is not given to you by either God or the universe, that it only comes from within ourselves and our attempts to make a just society that is fair to everyone, chances are that you're going to come down on the side that we should let people who are in love get married to each other. As I began with pictures of things in the sky, I have two pictures. This is us. This is a famous picture. This is the pale blue dot. This is an image taken by the Voyager satellite 1.4 billion miles away from Earth when Carl Sagan encouraged NASA to turn it around and take a last parting photograph of us here on Earth. There we are. The universe gave us a little blue circle to live inside. That was very sweet. And the thing to take home from this picture is that we are very small in the universe. We do not take up a lot of space. In just in case this is not sufficient at making you humble, here is the universe. This is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. This is what you get if you take your camera and you point it at an empty section of the sky and you leave the shutter open for a long time and your camera is attached to the Hubble Space Telescope. You will see that what you thought was an empty section of the sky is in fact alive with all of these galaxies. We live in a galaxy, the Milky Way. Roughly a order of magnitude about 100 billion stars. Every one of these other galaxies typically has about 100 billion stars in it. There are about 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. So we are very, very tiny indeed. There is probably all sorts of interesting things going on in these other galaxies. Probably there is no Las Vegas anywhere else in the observable universe. But the point is really even though we are small, that's not the point I actually want to make. My point is that despite the fact that we are small in both space and in time we've been doing science seriously for a few hundred years, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, we've figured this out. We know what is going on out there. We know why this light is shining. We know what those galaxies are. There's a lot we don't know and we're working on that full employment for people like me. But we've taken the first steps toward a true, deep, rich, fulfilling understanding of the universe which is knowing the rules of the game. It's now up to us to become good at playing the game, to be good human beings in ways that does not impose on the universe an image we would like it to have, but rather accept the universe for what it is and creates meaning within that universe. Thank you.


I'm just so happy we got a level 3, uh, oh that was, that was G, base Goku, you little cheepster dude. How's it going everybody? Dr. Doi here with another Dragon Ball Fighter's rank session video, and today we're just playing some base Goku. That's really it. I wanted to play Super Saiyan Blue Goku, maybe do a Goku team, but I don't have him on this PS4 Council Bandai. If you're trying to do a little Christmas gift, you know, maybe put a couple's any in my pocket, that'd be great.  Damn, already got the Vegeta in the corner, I'm feeling it. Let's do instant air dash. Oh, don't ever hit that button against me. Alright, you guys trying to cheese him here? Oh, he Super dashed right over the beam. You hate to see that happen. Alright, Super Saiyan Goku's going to escape, uh, free though. Other than that man, this is just a, this is a beatdown right now, Goku's just outpacing him. Overhead Yamcha? Yes, Suri! We indeed have those. Alright, now we have a couple of options here. Never mind, we just have one. We're going to Kaio-ken, hit him thrice, uh, bring him down, have Goku clean up, and then Yamcha for the finish. We missed the ball? Okay, I thought we were going to, I thought we were going to miss that on that kill because we missed. I did that in the wrong order. Usually Yamcha's the finisher. Back that, oh, look at the fist. Alright, test him, test him. Oh, he doesn't want to throw at that knee. Alright, that's the test. Alright, base Goku, back at it again. Alright, we got to get rid of this weak spear bomb. He doesn't tech! Oh, no, sir! Alright, what's the setup then? That was not a setup. I just used that word half-hazardly, but that, that looks sick. Alright, come on, we got a spear bomb the ways to here, sir. Was that a level three? That wasn't, right? Block this. Oh, he Dragon Rushed me, that is a, that's a definite kill in Sparking Blast. You will be miss, base Goku, actually, hmm, it's going to be close. Oh, it's not that close. It's close! Backs against the wall, what do we do? We got to give it our, uh, uh, uh, uh, let me know if any of you, there's so many Dragon Balls on the screen. I knew my dumbass shouldn't have made a Bakugan reference. I just, you know, I felt it in my bones that I should not have done that. And I did. I think he heard it over the mic and he was just like, what a, what a, alright, and then he quit. Alright, we're back with another cooler player, luckily I was able to find another cooler Z-Union and accept it, thought it was going to be the same guy. I won't lie to you guys, but no, it's just Ligma Boss, very unfortunate, uh, for that boss. But anyway, we're hopping right back in. We're going to let the last match deter us here. In fact, I'm just more, more committed than ever to the base Goku regime. Don't down having me, bro. Oh my God. Alright, no, we're fine. That was just a bit of lag. Oh, no. Oh, oh, oh, don't even do that. Super Dash? No Super Dash. Oh, I couldn't stick in a down medium there. That would have been sick if we got a full combo. Oh, nice side switch. Alright, he delayed the Super Dash to get that. Alright, now we're playing Kid Boo Defense. This used to be the scariest thing in the game back in the day. Now it's not too bad. But okay, I see how it is. He got the Yancha. He got it like that. So next time we leave a gap, we're just going to have to wait it a little. Level one. Level one. He can't kill us here, but it is going to do deeps. The knee still hit it. No, not enough room. Not enough room. You got to be kidding. There was enough room there. You got to be doing something fierce right now. Hey, Yancha, you want to join us out of the Red X territory, dude? Dude was like, I'm not assisting. Not for the next five seconds, bro. Sorry. Nice EX booball. Alright, we got to just step on the gas in terms of offense here. Okay, he was just throwing out buttons. I think it's all going to be about keeping as much health as possible here. So Goku, you're not that hurt, but go ahead, sit on the bench for a little while. This man is somebody of respect, so he'll respect me. I'm going to trifle that respect. Go instant into a grab. It's very, that's very bad for business in terms of future wakeups, but you know, I'll keep it. I'm going to spend that card early. There's so many dragon balls in play. Yeah, let's not say we did, huh? Oh, come on. I couldn't stick a vanishing. No DP, really. God, it's so scary blocking against Cooler. He... Backdash. Why am I backdashing against Cooler? The man's a literal beast. Oh, Yamcha, you are nice with it. Alright, we got to get, he's going to wait for the next beam and do that again. I'm surprised he didn't.  Alright, come on. As long as we land this full combo. No problem. Nice, nice, nice. Okay, all taken out, all good. All we have to deal with is Vegeta now. So now that we've been more of a presence on offense, it hasn't been overhead. No, that was not what I wanted. Oh, I jumped at the last possible second, making me a real... That's, I'm surprised he hasn't been down heavying any of these. That's something he really has to punish me on or else I just get away like scot-free. Like most of my characters would be dead right now. He's stuck in a light before I could, damn.  Yamcha would be top tier. Like not even a joke. I think he would actually be number one in the damn game. Alright, we're going to spend the sparking cart early.  We got another read with it, boys. Hey. Oh, yes, yes, yes. He's a Super Saiyan Blue, right? So that's going to be a decent chunk of points there. Base Goku didn't get to do much, but you know, that was, you know, it's a feel-out round. I didn't want to go too in. Yeah, we got a decent chunk there. Okay, so this time around we need to get that spirit bomb off if we're looking to do a good chunk of damage. Ah, yes, the pros of playing Base Goku is that he has the longest down medium of the Goku Gang. Mmm, the longest down medium of the Goku Gang. He's literally like the, uh, the long gun of the West, if you will.  Uh, let's go. I'm just so happy we got a level three, uh, oh, that was, that was cheap Base Goku.  How much you paid for that? How much would this DLC again? Cause it was worth, yeah, I felt that one coming. All right, basic combo, not too afraid of anything. He hit me with another down heavy. Okay, now I'm afraid because I want Base Goku to live. All right, we're just going to switch out here. Ain't no problem, ain't no thing, ain't no thing. I'm getting scared. Oh, we're free. We're free, but I played it poorly. Oh, come on. Blank those feet, Dato. Come on, keep those feet planted. I don't know why I'm getting so shaken up by everything these days. I'll take that. I'll take that all the way to the bank. Yeah, yeah, you know I saw that DB coming. Okay, Base Goku comes out. That was very, that was that was playing by me because now Vegeta has to be so afraid. Oh, come on. Okay, we're just going straight out into it. Big deeps, big deeps. He's going to be forced into a situation where he's going to have to make a read. All right, you know what? Just start charging up the next one. OK, but we got a basic spirit bomb. It's a level one. It's not going to do too much, but he he he's been forced to approach us now. He's got a final flash. No, he's going to continue into the sliding knockdown into the final flat. OK, I'm not a Vegeta player. So I didn't know that was a available route.   Wow, he did not auto combo. He was just backjabbing. I was hoping he would try to come forward and then I could punish him with a down medium afterward. But that's OK. He's going to Super Dash. Yup. Let's just say I've seen it all in the ancient text. All right, now very basic part of the plan. Yoncha super get his back facing us. Level three, Goku same side. Oh, we switched sides. Uh oh. Misplay, misplay. That's the misplay alert, boys. You still respect me? You don't respect me. I can't believe it. All right, time to time to cash in on our sparking V bucks, boys. Oh, no, how am I playing this poorly? How am I playing this poorly? It's just a matter of super dashing. All right, easy money, though. Easy money. Why? Get him. Get this man. Whoop. Yamachaa. They call me the Yoncha boy. He didn't. OK, no, there was no way he reacted. You if you can't react to that with a jab, you can't react to that by rage quitting. That that's like if someone rage quit that, I would just be impressed. I'd be like, that was some really good reaction time. Dude, rage quit my back step. All right, into the third game. Hopefully we can take it. We'll see what happens. I don't know what's with the end game like. Actually, this is real lag. This is real man hours lag. Oh, my goodness. Whoop. Nothing I can do there, though. What a great, great move. So sad. Oh, extra sad. Oh, no. OK, Yoncha flipped out. That's fine. Down tech. Down tech. Watch the extra sauce here. Not going for any overheads. All makes sense. All makes sense. Oh, boo-ball. Boo-ball got me feeling some type of way. Yes, bait that out. Easy switch to Goku for me. Not a lot of thinking to be done there. All right, get the sliding knockdown. How do we think he's feeling? Reflect. He's reflected in heavy this game. OK, another sliding knockdown. He's probably going to reflect again. I wouldn't be too. Oh, he jab checks me. Good stuff. Oh, it just barely confirms it. That's good stuff. No, Goku hurry. Goku, hurry. They need you. OK, just a matter of walking like it ain't no thing. Yoncha for the extension. All right, and there's no time. So we might as well just, ah, come on, bro. Let your guard down for the spirit bomb. Just let the spirit bomb find you. You will be much happier afterwards. Vegeta, how did you get over there? All right, base Goku falls to the Vegeta assist. Not the worst thing that could happen, but we are not doing too well. Oh, got some real man hours here. Oh, tripped up again by the boo. All right, if you could go ahead and drop me off here, sir, that would be much obliged. He knows I'm a down tech boy. Oh, double overhead. Never in my life would I have expected that from him. So y'all excited for this Yoncha comeback or what? I've been needing a nice Yoncha comeback in my life. All right, how about we start playing smart? Usually the reason I get Yoncha comebacks is I start playing smart. I start not relying on like cheesy assist setups. Uh-oh, oh no. By smart, I don't mean teching grabs. Level one, level one, two level ones probably, if you can get the input in. Level three.  DP through the sparking. I kind of thought he would maybe do that, but I don't know, I didn't wanna risk it. Don't do it, bro. Oh, don't read me like a book, bro. I'm on the back.  I need the game to show me. All right, it doesn't matter, because we have to spend three bars here. Okay, so we got 39, so maybe the three-star ball will pop off if we don't have that yet. Only three? Forget it, dude. That's not even worth my day in time.  Connect, Yoncha. Okay, good. All right, back in the corner. Is he a wake-up level three kind of guy? Has the respect really fallen that much? He thought I was gonna grab again. I was free to just, I was just free to hit him, dude, and I messed it up. I thought he was gonna, he does respect it. He respect, okay, so game three goes to my opponent, so it's two-one right now. The rage at the beginning was throwing me off. Not too bad, not too bad. We can get out there, maybe snag a quick win. Other than that, I don't want this to go two-two, because I don't know, bro. My mental fortitude won't allow that to happen. I won't be able to win. I guess since my opponent's taking time, quick run back of the thoughts in that match, I think I just played too slow, got caught by some bad stuff. And yeah, and it really hurt. You see, we don't want to do that anymore. Now that's the insured response. All right, down tech. I'm tired of getting caught like that. Lockdown, brutal. Okay, reflex. Oh, Goku, base Goku. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, base Goku's calm amehas pretty slow. Okay, thank God he didn't down heavy that, because that would have been brutal. Okay, bait that out, no problemo. Okay, could we be looking at the end of Boo here? I think we very much could be. Yeah, it's looking likely. Ah, break that back. Toss him on the ground. Who needs him? All right, now the question is, do we want to test our range versus cooler? The answer's no. Oh, our beam did not provide any additional blocks done there, bad times. Level one, no, that's a level one. And then level three, nice, nice, nice, nice. We won't die, but do we save base Goku? That's beautiful, that's exactly what we need. No down heavy to save the day. Okay, he can't get a switch in there. Not the worst thing, not the worst, but it definitely was hoping I would down heavy that. Oh my God, I cannot down heavy any of these to my, in this sweater weather. I'm not even that good of a player. I can't do it in normal sweater weather. Okay, let's just get Vegeta back in here. I'm not trying to deal with that. Don't it, ah, DP, I always think of it at the last second. Two DP characters left to come on. I'm not this kind of guy, bro. Oh my God, I'm panicking so hard.  Oh, that was a miss input. I just wanted to dash forward and jab. I didn't want to dash forward and Wolfgang fist. That's kill. Yup, yup, big knockout there for my opponent. But now one of our characters is gone, so we do get access to level two Sparking, which is a lot less, we'll say bad than level one Sparking. Oh, he didn't want to do the DP again. All right, all right, all right. Where is your, what are you doing down there, Base Goku? You ain't this man.   Man, tossed him to the wayside, dude. Okay, we're just, we're just playing about as bad as any one man could. Oh, the down leg. Oh, I didn't even, down leg? The 3H stomp, dude. I never even thought of that as an option. Good stuff, good stuff. All right, is he the back dash man? No, he's not the back dash man. Who is the back dash guy? Was it him? By as much time off that Sparking as possible. Oh yeah, we just cram our lights in there.  That's game to us. We're gonna go ahead and walk away 3-1 to my opponent. Great games, thank you for sticking through all of them. Sad that we got a little bit of lag in there, but overall pretty fluid experience. Gonna go ahead and hit no rematch. Thank you guys so much for watching the video. Hopefully you enjoyed it. If you have a favorite moment, let me know down in the comments below. 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OK, good afternoon. Thanks for coming. Xiaohao. My name is Eric Chen. I'm the CEO of Profit Store. They are services. And this session, we are talking about Profit Store Federator, which is a software defined storage platform for OpenStack. Exactly who is Falcon Store, we are actually a group of storage and service veterans that have been working together. The core team has been working together for more than 10 years. We have been working in mission critical storage systems. So we are very proud of that. We can bring in that type of enterprise-grade services to OpenStack. We are here to challenge the status quo of storage management in so a defined data center. And we are headquartered in Milpitas, California. And we have teams across Asia-Pacific regions. We actually emerged from a two-year stealth mode yesterday. So although we are brand new from our look, but we have been working on the product for more than two years. What is Profit Store Federator, the product that I'm going to introduce now? It is actually the first software defined storage for OpenStack. And it is a sophisticated storage management solution with a single panel gas for promoting the wider sectors of OpenStack. We understand storage is a very complicated issue in the data center, as well as in a public or private crowd. We are here to provide a simple solution for that. So before we came in, this is OpenStack, as you can see. And if you walk into a data center or into a crowd center, you can see many different kinds of storage, be it EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Dell, or many other storage systems. They are all very good. Except you have very different storage systems, very different storage management. So each and every one of the vendor, they come up with a volume driver, trying to connect into OpenStack, and that results in a tangled wire. Not just the wiring, but also the management. You manage so many different kinds of storages. And I don't believe there's enough talent or other people to really effectively manage all of them. So this is chaos situations. OK, what we are trying to do is to provide a flexible, intelligent, and standardized faderator for managing all the storage systems for OpenStack. OK, so this is after. Still down here, you can see many different kinds of storage systems. Well, just name a few up here. But with our faderator, what we are trying to do is trying to come up with a single entrance into OpenStack. And through the faderator, we will be able to embrace all the storage systems here. In addition to that, we do have a way of making commodity hardware, which is x86 based, and putting our storage server software into that commodity hardware. We can turn that into a very intelligent storage. That will work negatively with our faderator. So with this in mind, then this become a well-defined storage systems for OpenStack. OK, this is where our logo came from. And the functions that provide those characteristics to faderator would include the following. Let's discover, pour, classify, offer, and provision. We first discover all the storage connected through network. We will be able to pour all of them together and even import the pours inside each individual storage systems. Then in addition to that, we provide a classification mechanism that classify those storage systems into different classes of services. And then we offer that. We create offering that match the need from the application. So it becomes kind of application aware. And then we provision that to OpenStack. And then to a compute that requires storages. So with this in mind, all of these functions will actually enable a very easy management of the OpenStack storage issues. So we create a single pane of glass for management. All right, so with Parfait Store Faderator, we actually would like to take back the control and that you to define the storage the way you want it. Then we provide no vendor login, no functionalities locked down, no system locked out, and provide equality and freedom, meaning that we manage these storages equally. And freedom from the vendor login by providing additional storage systems based on commodity hours. So we are well connected with each and every one of the components within OpenStack. So as you can see here from this picture, the Faderator has a volume driver into center. It actually utilize keystone for the security. We even provide a way of moving the image from to volume and volume back to image. So all of these are well connected and we are designed for OpenStack. Next, I want to talk about the demo. This is a demo environment we are providing today. On the upper left-hand side, that's OpenStack. That's running on one machine. On the upper right-hand side here, that shows two screens. One is for OpenStack. The other one is the console for managing the storages. That's our Faderator. I will be switching in between OpenStack console and the Faderator console. On the lower left-hand side, you can see the Faderator itself. It's running either as a VM or it's in store and under the Apprises. Underneath here, you can see one network apprises and the other one is a profit store storage server running our own software to showcase that we actually can manage diversified storages. So in terms of steps, we would like you to see the management following these flows. We will show you the OpenStack console first and then come back to manage the storage using the Faderator. And from there, we can see all those storage services. Then, coming back to OpenStack to show you that actually we can provide the storage services using the Faderator. By the way, the Faderator is the control path. It doesn't encompass the data path. So we have a separation of that. Okay, so there's a demo and Prisha can't take us at the info at profit store. All on the sound. I need the sound. Can you, there's no sound. Okay, good. So first, we wanna do the discover. As you can see here, we are using protocols for auto discovery. And three storage are discovered. And we look into each and every one of them. Okay, and then pull them together by pulling. So if we import the pools, that's already in that storage systems. And you can tag, label the pool that you just discover, put in all kinds of information you want, okay? And then we classify that. Depending on the characteristics of the storage we discover, for example, on the first one here, we can even provide a testing to us, okay? From the test, the result will show the IO per seconds and other informations about our storages. Okay, so this is IO per second. That's all of the second ones. Then we abstract, provide the information for the, provide offerings, meaning that what type of classes of storages we have here. We define those classes of storages. We have the specification for that and specify the IO per seconds. And the offerings can be created on demand. You can have predefined offerings or on demand creation of that. Then we provide that. Coming back to OpenStack, you can see that those three storages have been discovered. And then start to provide that to VMs. You can start allocate storages, okay? For example, now we wanna create a volume. This is all on OpenStack. In here, you can see that we wanna create a volume of all the type that has IO per second or 10K. And you also could see other specification of that. And one gigabyte of that has been created. Okay, yet another one. So you have two gigabytes of that type of storage. Now, coming back to Federator, we can check to see actually those two are created. We can double check that on the Federator site. Okay, so we now have two volumes. Next, we wanna allocate those storages and attach that to an instance. And device them, we can specify the device them there. So with this, those two drives, I mean, two volumes have been attached to one instance. And we can double check that through the instance console here. And of course, we can detach that. And then after the detachment, that's according to OpenStack, we can do snapshots. Okay, here, snapshot has been created and we can create volume from that snapshot. Okay, so all these are integrated. And in addition to that, we do provide add-on functions to OpenStack. For example, on this case here, we can even roll back the volumes. This is a very critical for data protections, especially for database. Once you make some mistakes, you wanna roll back your database to the previous state and then we can do that. So overall, this is what we can provide. And hold on, not done yet. Okay, in the USB that we have distributed, we have an introduction video and we do have one click installations software. So you can try that out. So now I wanna speed up the introduction. The storage is defined by hardware, but isn't it? Data keeps growing, requirements keep changing. And traditional storage design keeps it from the performance systems. There are more data silos, not as existing storage. They span with a defined storage on demand. Today, we believe we can. The ProfitStore theory, software defined storage, defined storage, just the way in which a single solution that offers quality, talent is hot damn, no system market, ProfitStore. Okay, and that's us and we are at both C18. So you're welcome to come by to talk with us to see a live demo. And if you have any questions, we are here to answer them. Thank you very much.


When Americans want to use the negative form of the verb CAN in slow speech, they say CANNOT. Listen to Pete use CANNOT. You can be a teacher in a school. No, I cannot teach. However, in fast speech, many Americans reduce CANNOT to CAN'T. Now, listen to Pete use the short form of CANNOT, CAN'T. No, I can't code. I can't teach. I can't cook. Anna, I can't do anything. Now, you try it. Use CAN'T in a sentence. Can you cook? No, I can't cook. In slow speech, CANN sounds like CANN. In fast speech, it often sounds like CANN. Listen to Anna talking to Pete about being a teacher. Can you teach? You can be a teacher in a school. Now, you try it. Say CANN like this. CANN. Can you cook? Say CANN like this. CANN. You can be a chef in a restaurant.


The challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the Northwest, blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Armed Police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers. Gold. Gold discovered in the Yukon. A stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches. Back to the days of the Gold Rush with Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon. Ben Pickens and his young wife, Judy, stood on the deck of the riverboat as it docked at Selkirk. They had their carpet bags beside them, but waiting impatiently for the gang plank to be put in place so they might go ashore. Gosh, Judy, just think. By tomorrow we ought to be settled in Beaverton in our own place. I know, Ben. I still can't get over our good fortune. Having your grandfather, Ned Beaver, leave us everything he owned. Do you think we can take possession right away? I guess so. The letter from the lawyer said to come right to his office in Selkirk and that things would be settled promptly. Crazy. As if I don't know every word of that letter by heart. It said we're heirs to mine, a house and other buildings. I remember that part. Hey, look, the gang planks down. Let's get going, honey. Oh, boy, in a minute we'll be setting foot on the land where we'll never have to worry about money again. Come on. Come through here, please. Pardon me. Can I get through?  His greeting had been congenial enough, but now he seemed hesitant to speak once his visitors were seated. Finally, he cleared his throat and spoke. So you're Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Pickers, aren't you? I'm sure we are. We already showed you the letter you sent, but if you need more proof... No, no, not at all, Ben. I'm perfectly satisfied as to your identity. Well, Mr. Grant, what... Well, what do we do now? Yes, we're anxious to get to Beaverton as soon as possible. Yes, of course, of course. But, uh... Is there something wrong? I mean, Ben's grandfather did name us as his heir. Oh, yes, yes, he did, Mrs. Pickers. Then what's the matter? You act as if you're... Then I realize when you walked in here that you must not have received my second letter to you. What? Second letter? We only received the one Ben just showed you. That's too bad, too bad. You see, Mr. Beaver made his will a year ago and left it here with me. I went away for several months a while back, and when I returned I found out your grandfather had died.  Go on. Well, Beaverton is a small settlement named after your grandfather who found gold there and started his mining company. Is it far from here? Ten miles. Mr. Beaver built a three-room cabin for himself and built other cabins and a store. They were well to us, too? Yes, yes. But when I went up there right after I sent you a letter, I found the settlement deserted. Deserted? Yes. It seems the mine had given out. Oh. It took all the money Mr. Beaver had in the bank to pay off the min. The miners left and others who had gone up there hoping to find gold because the mine being there also pulled up stakes and went elsewhere. What you're trying to tell us is that we've inherited nothing but a deserted settlement. Is that it? That's it, Ben. I see. I told you that in my second letter, but I suppose you'd already left for the Yukon by the time it arrived in the stitch. Yes, we packed up and left right away. Yes, yes. It took almost all our money to get here. Gosh, I... I don't know what we'll do now. Are you even going up there, seems to me. Ben, we came all this way dreaming about living in Beaverton. At least if we do go there, we'll have a roof over our heads until we know what to do. I'm sorry about all this. I'll make out the necessary papers for you to sign anyway. But, though you'll practically own the whole settlement, there's no way to make a living in a deserted place like that. Golly, Judy, I... Ben, we've got to make the best of things right now. I say let's go up to Beaverton anyway. Well, Doug, Golly, Judy, we don't even have a way to get there. There were four horses left with your grandfather's property, Ben. They've been stable at the Liberty Stable here in Selkirk. Of course, there must be quite an amount due for their keep by now, but you might make a deal to take two of them and let the other two go for the bill. At least that's something, Ben. Don't be discouraged, dear. We'll make out somehow. Well, all right. We'll stay here in town overnight, and we'll ride to Beaverton in the morning. That night in the cafe in Selkirk, a rough-looking man stood just inside the door, glancing over the crowd. Then he headed for a table where a sharp-featured man sat alone. Hi, Greg. I thought I'd find you here. Well, what about it? Did you get the supplies at the trading post? I got the supplies all right. I'll pack them ready. But I heard something up the street. You ought to know, Greg. But, look, Sam, if you know something, let me hear it and stop hinting. Old man Beaver's grandson and his wife arrived in town today. What? They're going to Beaverton in the morning to stay a while. I knew Beaver made a will leaving things to a grandson in the States, but I made it a point to talk to Beaver's lawyer a month ago, and he said he'd written to them, saying the place was deserted and not to come. Maybe. But they came just the same. And if they find out...  We're leaving for Beaverton right away.  But they intend to stay. What about that? You leave that to me. Let's get out of here. Let's go. As the two men left the cafe and approached their horses at the hitch-rack, Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police, who was walking by with his dog, Yukon King, stopped and spoke. Well, Greg Fisher, I thought you went to Whitehorse after the Beaverton mine closed. Hi, Sergeant. I did go to Whitehorse, but I decided to come back. Oh, you know Sam Macon, don't you? I've seen Sam around town. Yeah, I get to town now and then. I notice you have a pack horse loaded with supplies, Greg. You've settled someplace. Yeah, Sam and I are working to claim up on Caribou Run. Well, that's off the beaten path. I don't get up that way often. And see, as I recall, there are only a couple of claims up there, aren't there? That's right. But we decided to try our luck. You know, after being foreman of the Beaverton mine, it's sort of a letdown in a way. I suppose so that you might make a strike, and it'd be better off in the long run. Yeah, that's right. Or if you ever get up that way, drop in on us, Sergeant. Thanks, I'll do that. Well, King, we'd better be getting along. Bye, goodbye. Good luck. Hey, what you want to say that for? Say what? Drop in on us if he gets up to Caribou Run.  That's the best way to make him think everything's all right. Preston never gets up that way anyhow.  Easy, sit it out. Come on, get up there. After leaving Sam and Greg, Sergeant Preston went to the constable's office. Go on in, King. Finished with your sightseeing tours? Yes, Jim. It's a nice night for walking, and I wanted to see if there were any newcomers around town. By the way, I ran into that fellow Greg Fisher. It used to be a foreman for old Ned Beaver. It was with a man named Sam Macon. I've seen both of them around town recently. I hear they've staked a claim somewhere not far from Selkirk. Fisher said it's on Caribou Run. That's about five or six miles from here. It seems strange that an old hand at the mining game like Greg Fisher would put in time on a claim up there. That's what I thought when he told me. That section was panned out long ago. Yes, I know. Frankly, I never liked either of those men, Sergeant. Either one's a type I'd trust very far, Jim. Old Ned Beaver once told me that he's the reason he kept Greg Fisher on as foreman was because Greg was an old hand at mining and knew how to handle the tough men who worked under him. He's quick-tempered and fast with a gun. I guess the men found that out. Well, he's managed to keep out of trouble so far as we know. Oh, by the way, Sergeant, Ned Beaver's grandson, a young chap named Ben Pickens, arrived today with his wife, Judy, to claim their inheritance. I thought Mr. Grant notified them there was no use coming here. The second letter telling about what to expect got there too late. Anyway, they're here, and they intend to go to Beaverton tomorrow morning. To look the place over? What Grant told me, they decided to live there for the time being. Well, since they're almost broke, I guess they don't know what else to do. I'll be headed that way they after tomorrow stop by and talk to them. It's only 10 miles. I think I'll ride as far as Beaverton with you, Sergeant. I might as well get to know them Jim. We might even cut across and take a look at that claim Fisher and his friends Sam have staked out. Good. I'd like to see it. Well, I'm going to turn in. I'll see you at the cabin, Jim. Come along, Jim. The following day, Ben and Judy Pickens arrived in Beaverton. The summer sun was warm, and as they rode along the deserted street toward the roomy log cabin they saw up ahead, they fell alone in a dead whirl. Judy was the first to laugh shakily at me speak. Well, dear, at least we can say we're masters of all we survey. Frankly, the place gives me the willies. Now, Ben, maybe we'll have fun looking over the buildings we own even if nobody will ever want to rent them from us. It doesn't take long for buildings to look beaten down, honey, in a deserted settlement. Look there, that must have been the cafe. Yes, the building we just passed must be the main building of the mine. The sign is still across the front, though it's faded out a lot. We've lived. It's the biggest one here. I hope people didn't take out all the furniture. Mr. Grant said there was enough to get along with. After we get settled there, we'll look around the mine building and the cafe. At least that'll give us something to do this afternoon. That afternoon, Ben and Judy looked over the building at the mine and even entered the dusty mine tunnels. Then they walked over to the cafe building nearby and entered. They saw a large main room where the cafe had been. There was a stairway up one wall to a narrow balcony above, off which several doors opened. Ben looked around and Ben said, Those doors up there must be the rooms that were ratted out to travelers. This was a sort of cafe and hotel combined, I guess. Yes, I guess so. My things are sure dusty. Yeah, and quiet. I bet there used to be a lot of noise in here in the past, though. I can almost hear the miners that night. Ben, what was that? A door slam shot. We left it open when we came in. Must be a draft. There's no wind stirring outside. Of course, I suppose it could have been. What's the matter? All the doors up on the balcony were closed tightly when we looked up there a moment ago. Sure, I know. But why are you... Look, the one on the end. It's wide open now. Ben, I'm frightened. It's spooky. Don't be silly, honey. When the front door closed, it caused a movement of air that made that balcony... That balcony door slam shot just now. Ben, let's get out of here quick. Hold on, honey. There's no use in getting panicky about this just because we don't understand what's going on. There must be some logical explanation. And I hate to leave without finding out what it is. But there's no one here, Ben. No one.  Do you think it's any way possible? Oh, Judy. Get control of your nerves, honey. You know, as well as I do, there aren't such things as ghosts. But the doors don't open and close by themselves. That's right. They don't. Ben, I'm frightened. I wish we hadn't come here at all. Frankly, I'd feel a lot braver myself if I knew what we were actually up against. It's a mystery of it all that bothers me. But remember, we own this town. And if spooks are living in this building, they'll have to pay us rent to do it or get out. Ben, it isn't funny. Let's get out of here and go over to the cabin we'll have to live in. In a few minutes, Judy. First, I'm going up on that balcony. And leave me down here alone? Oh, no, you aren't. If you go up there, I'm going along with you. After all, I... Ben, look. That door, the one that slammed shut, it's half open again. That settles it. I'm going up there right now. Ben, then take me out of here, please. All right, honey, we'll go to the cabin. There's something funny about all this. And I'm not giving up until I find out what it is. Let's go. Ben and Judy left the deserted cafe building and went back to the cabin in which they were to live. I sure like to know what's going on over there. Look, Judy, there's a good view of the cafe building from this side window. We look over there once in a while, we might see something. What do you expect to see? Whoever's pulling all that crazy stuff over there might show himself. Then I'll know what we have to contend with. Ben, I don't know what to think. I'm almost afraid to stay here in this cabin tonight.  We'll clean it up, then you can cook supper. After that, I'll sort of keep my eye on that cafe. If I do see anything, I'll go over. I have a gun, you know. Stop worrying and let's get to work on this cabin. At dawn of the morning following Ben and Judy's odd experience in the deserted cafe, Sergeant Preston and the constables started from Selkirk on horseback with King running alongside. Within the hour, they approached the cabin where Greg and Sam were supposed to be staying on carable runs. Do you think we'll really find them here, Sergeant? I'd make sure they might not be here. I don't know. Just a thought I had that they might have been lying. That's the same thing that's where we came this way. Now look, smoke coming from the cabin chimney. I call you right. I'll be surprised to see us. Yeah, I bet they will. Come on, King. Sergeant Preston, the constable. Is there something wrong? Not that we know of, Sam. I'm just heading north on patrol. I remembered you were out here, so we dropped by. Going to ask us then? Sure. Yeah, yeah, come on in. I was just finishing breakfast. Where's Fisher? Oh, yeah, Greg. Well, you see, he went out kind of early this morning. We didn't see him around. How far away is your claim, Sam? Oh, it's right out back. Greg went out to look around the vicinity. Think we might find a place to stake a second claim. Really? Then you must have found something to convince you there's gold up this way. I wouldn't say that. Well, we do all right. Just a little, but enough to urge a son. You want some coffee? No, thanks. We had breakfast. We'll move on now. Where are you heading for, Sergeant? Well, eventually Landon Dawson. Well, what I mean is... Well, are you going by Indian quickway? No, we're cutting across and going through Beaverton. To Beaverton? Yeah. Anything wrong in that, Sam? No, no, of course not. I was just wondering why you'd go through that deserted place. That's all I know. Well, Jim, let's get moving. Come on, King. So long, Sam. Tell Greg we're sorry we missed him. Yes, sure. I'll tell him you were here all right. So long. The two bodies rode leisurely with King trotting ahead.  Even as they stopped, the door flew open and Judy appeared and raced down the steps toward them. It'd be terrible if it happened. Calm yourself, Mrs. Pickens. This is Sergeant Preston. Now that there's trouble, I'm sure we'll... Let's go inside for a few moments where we can talk. I'm sorry, Sergeant. Do come in. Now, Mrs. Pickens, sit down and try to tell us what's happened. Yes. It's Ben. My husband. He's gone. Tell us about it. Quickly, Judy told the Mouties about their arrival in Beaverton the day before and about the strange happenings at the deserted cafe. Preston listened intently. Then he asked... After the strange happenings at the cafe, you and your husband came back here to this cabin. Yes. We watched from the window on the side. You can see the cafe over there. Oh, yes. Go on. Well, we cleaned up this place and prepared supper. We didn't see anything at all when we looked out. Just the awful empty streets. Ben wanted to go back to the cafe and look around, but I was so nervous he decided not to. I see. Well, finally we turned in for the night. Summer nights are very short, as you know. Yeah, it's just a few hours. During the darkest period, I woke up. At first I didn't realize where I was. Then I sat up and glanced toward the side window. Ben was snoring there beside me. Ben! Ben, wake up! Wake up! Oh, what's the matter? I looked through the window at the cafe. I saw a light move, like a candle or lantern being carried past the downstairs window.  I don't think... Look, there it is again. Holy smoke. I see it now. Something's going on over there. Wait, then. What are you going to do? Where are you going? I'm putting on my clothes and taking my gun. Then I'm going over there and find out about that light. Ben, it's not there now. It's gone. Oh, please, Ben. It's so ghostly. Nonsense, honey. Spooks don't need a light from all I've ever heard. There. Oh, Ben, I'm afraid. Please wait until morning. No. Now's the time to find out what's going on at that cafe. Oh, don't worry about me, honey. I have my gun and they don't know I'm coming over there, whoever that is. But, Ben, I... Don't be nervous, Judy. I won't be long. After I find out what that's all about, we'll both feel better. You better lock this door after I leave. I'll tap three times when I come back. All right. We can't stay here any longer. We just can't. I'll tell Ben as soon as he gets back. When Ben came back, what did he find out? That's just it, Sergeant. Ben didn't come back at all. Oh, I see. Or maybe he's still trying to... No, he isn't anywhere at the cafe. At dawn, I finally got nervous enough to go over there. I became so frantic I forgot my fear and ran all over the place shouting his name. I even went up and opened the doors off the balcony. But those rooms were all empty. Ben's gone. Great day. He couldn't just disappear in the thin air. That's right. He couldn't and didn't. Come on, we'll take King and go to that cafe. Oh, do you have something of Ben's, a hat or a glove? Yes, his hat. It's been on that peg, I'll get it. What do you make of it, Sergeant? I figured something out. It'll be up against two men, at least. Possibly more. But I don't see how you... Here's the hat. Oh, thanks. Wait here, Mrs. Pickens, and keep your door bolted as Ben told you to do. As soon as we learn something, we'll let you know. Oh, Sergeant, do you think... Don't worry, I'm sure Ben's all right. Come along, King. Oh! Oh! As the two Motties left the cabin and walked slowly toward the deserted cafe, the constable asked... Sergeant, can you act as if you have an idea of what's behind all this? Do you? Maybe, Jim. I'm not sure, of course. But I remember the circumstances of the Beaver and Mines closing. When the ore gave out in the main part of the mine, old Ned Beaver spent plenty in hopes of finding another vein. Yes, I remember. Greg Fisher was in charge of that. On the basis of his report that the mine was a total loss, Beaver gave up and the settlement became a ghost town. I know. Oh, here's the cafe. Have your gun ready. Slowly, the two Motties walked to the center of the main room of the cafe. Then Preston held out the hat and spoke in a low voice. Here, King. Find him, boy. He's heading to the front door. Come on, Jim. Hey, I don't get it. King picked up the St. Ben left, and he was in there yesterday with his wife. See, King started back to the cabin. Here, King. Not that way, fella. Find him. The intelligent dog sniffed the ground and then looked up at his master trying to understand. Once more he whined and sniffed. Then started away from the cafe toward the mining building. He found a new scent. Ben didn't get inside the cafe last night, I'd say. Then if we follow King...  You can see inside. Have your gun handy. All right. I'll follow King. I hope to get back soon. Great dog led his master around the building to the main tunnel behind. Preston moved cautiously as he approached the opening. Easy, King. Easy, boy. Suddenly King growled. Then with a snarl, started forward as a rough boy spoke out.  Look out, King! As the man cried out and fell, Sergeant Preston ran forward behind King. The shot had crippled the man in the leg, making him helpless. And Preston found him lying just inside the tunnel entrance. I'll take that gun. Easy, King. Don't, boy. Watch him. Sergeant Preston with ready gun moved slowly beyond the wounded man. Ben! Ben Piggins! As Preston stood listening, he heard a thudding sound a short distance from him, as if someone were pounding with his feet. As his eyes became used to the dim light inside, he saw a figure lying on the ground. Then he hurried forward. Oh, Bondon gagged. I'll soon have you free. There are the gags out. Thanks. He knocked me on the head and brought me here. Judy... She's all right. What's it all about? I don't get it. I think I do. Here, take this gun and guard that man till we come back. All right. Come on, King, we have more work to do. Sergeant Preston and King hurried back to the front of the cafe. The constable was still on guard. As Preston arrived, he asked eagerly... Did you find Ben? What were the shots? I found him safe.  I left Ben watching him. Who is the man? Never saw him before. I had the idea. You expected to find either Sam. This isn't over yet. We'll go inside and King can go to work again. Come on, let's go. Here's a glove I picked up in the cabin on Caravoo Run. Who's is it? Either Greg or Sam's. Doesn't matter. Here, King. Quiet, fella. Find him, King. He's going into the back room where the office used to be. Yes. What's going on? A trapped door in the floor. See there? Shall we take a chance and open it? As the two bodies stooped down and stared at the trapped door, a voice from the doorway behind them spoke out.  Who's that? Fisher and Sam in the doorway. I warned you. Keep that mutt back or we'll flash through him too. King, quiet boy. Well, Greg, you tricked us. You must have another entrance. Sure. We got an air shaft dug outside at the back with a wooden ladder right to one of the rooms upstairs. I got here ahead of you by a short cut and worn, Greg. Go ahead and open the trapped door.   I guessed as much. You found the vein but made a false report. Smart, don't you think? I dropped those guns and opened the trapped door.  Fast, both of you. It's Pickens. I'll get him. No, you don't. You won't get me. Look out, Sergeant. I'll stop him. Oh, my leg. You all right, Sergeant. Yes, Ben. How'd you get here? I had tried the other one just to be safe. And from over there, I saw these two climb from the air shaft and up an outside ladder. I decided I'd better run over here just in case. Oh, I sneaked in and you know the rest. Ben? Oh, Ben, I heard shooting and I couldn't stay away any longer. I'm all right, Judy. Thanks to the surgeon and his dog. You'll both be all right from now on. There's a vein of gold under this cafe and it belongs to you. Oh, Ben. Sergeant, what made you suspect Greg? There's no gold at Carable Run, Jim, I knew that. I figured that was a stall to cover something else. What's more, this morning I noticed Sam Makin was upset and nervous when I mentioned Beaverton and asked for Greg Fisher. When we came over here, Constable, I was prepared for trouble. Gosh, you sure put two and two together. He sure brought us two together anyhow. Oh, honey, I bet from now on this won't be a deserted settlement. That's right, Ben. When the news gets out, people will rush here to stake claims and rent buildings. You and Judy will have all the money you'll need from now on. Oh, it's wonderful. And I thought the place was full of spooks. Spooks created by Greg and the other two. Fisher, I arrest you and your two followers for attempted murder in the name of the Crown. Good luck to you and Judy, Ben. This case is closed. We now take you to Northwest Mounted Police Headquarters in Dawson. You want to see me, Inspector? Oh, yes, Sergeant Preston. The vicious gang is operating around Whitehorse. I read the reports that have been coming in, sir. There's a description of a Dave Fillmore who's the leader of the gang. That's right. He and his men are killers. I know it's a very dangerous assignment for you, Sergeant, but I want you to go down that way and try to bring that gang in. Very well, sir. I'll leave with King this afternoon. Come on, King. The Fillmore gang is known to stop at nothing. It may be that when Sergeant Preston and the great dog Yukon King do find the gang's trail, they'll be heading right into a death trap. Be sure to listen to this next exciting adventure, A Change of Mind. These radio dramas, a feature of the challenge of the Yukon Incorporated, are created by George W. Trendle, produced by Trendle Campbell Enterprises, directed by Fred Flower Day and supervised by Charles D. Livingston. The part of Sergeant Preston is played by Paul Sutton. They are brought to you once each week until September, when we shall resume our regular Monday, Wednesday and Friday broadcasts. This is J. Michael wishing you goodbye and good luck until our next broadcast. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.


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