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Tak. Ah, OK. OK. Now I see that it's working. So, thank you very much to the organizers. So, today I'm going to speak about no local telemojitricity in a system which is based on a Joyce injunction in which the weak link is a two-dimensional topological insulator. So, first I would like to acknowledge the people involved. Sorry, I have to get rid of this message here. OK. No, it doesn't matter. The people involved. Yes. OK. So, the main actor in this work is John Michele Blasi, who was a PhD student in our group and then moved to as a postdoc in Geneva. Then Alessandro Braggio in PISA. Then Liliana Rachea was here from Buenos Aires in Matteo Carrega, who is now in Geneva. So, the outline of the talk is this. I will first give a very quick introduction to telemojitricity nanoscale just to set the basic notions. Then I will say a few words about topological insulators and then I will move to the main topic, which is non-local topological Joyce injunction, showing how one can get linear telemojitricity through a magnetic flux applied to the system or by applying a phase difference. And then if I have time, I will speak about non-linear effect as well. So, let me first set a few, I just need a few things just to be sure that we are on the same page. So, I'm thinking about telemojitricity in a nanoscale system. So, I'm thinking about a conductor attached to two leads where I can apply both voltage and temperature bias. I'm interested in the charge current and in the heat current flowing through here. And I want to consider the phonons. So, I'm considering very small temperature, phonons are out of a basically neglected. So, the quantity I'm looking at is thermo-power, so, which is the voltage, which appears across the conductor when a temperature difference is applied at open circuit. So, I just make here, I just put here the definition to be sure what I'm speaking about later. Also, I'm also considering thermo-conductor, just the heat flow, the heat current produced by a temperature difference. So, thermo-tricity is important, not by itself only, but also because one can use thermo-tricity effect to implement a steady-state heat engine. So, a system which uses some heat coming from outside, in this case we have a hot terminal here, a cold terminal here. Some heat is entering our system and some power is coming out. So, I'm interested in heat work conversion. So, we know for example that the maximum, the optimal performance is quantified by the Carnot efficiency, also in these steady-state engines, which just depends on the ratio between the two temperatures. So, now let me be a bit more precise on this. So, I'm considering a conductor, as I said, so the simple instance is just a two-term conductor. So, the efficiency of a heat engine is this ratio between the power produced and the input heat current. In linear response, so the point is that one can define a figure of merit, ZT, which is expressed in terms of this transport coefficient and that's why it's important to determine this coefficient because just knowing them, you will get this figure of merit. So, if you may just equal to the electric conductivity, term of power to the second and divided by the thermal conductance times temperature. So, this figure of merit is important because just knowing it, you will know, for example, the maximum efficiency of your system, which is expressed through this equation here. So, what you want is you want a large ZT. When ZT is very small, the maximum efficiency is zero. When ZT is very large, the maximum efficiency reaches the Carnot efficiency. Also, you can express the efficiency at the maximum power of the same ZT. So, now, when dealing with nanoscopic systems, one can ask some questions to ask how quantum effects affect the performance of a heat engine. So, for example, what is the role of confinement or quantization or what is the role of quantum interference. This is what you can ask when dealing with the nanoscopic system where quantum effects can be important. So, actually, in the 90s it was first realized that in order to enhance the heat work conversion, so in order to enhance the ZT figure of merit, what is important is somehow to get, to reach some energy filtering, so to have some transport coefficients, which has sharp features in the energy. So, for example, the generalize conductivity. And here, for example, in the first paper, in this paper here, they studied quantum wells or superlattices, realizing that if you decrease the spacing between the layers, you can increase ZT. In this other paper here, they realized that the optimal performance is reached when this kernel here is a delta function. So, a quantum dot, in principle, can give you the optimal, it's an optimal heat engine. So, nowadays, there's a vast literature about all this here. I just mentioned a few review papers on that. Now, what I'm going to, in this talk, to focus on, is topology and superconductivity. Topology, actually, in what we consider, is two-dimensional topological insulators and how we can use to look at thermal electricity. So, let me first, I've got one slide just explaining what a two-dimensional topological insulator is. So, basically, it's a two-dimensional electronic system, which has a gap in the density of states, so it's insulating in the gap, but presents pairs of conducting edge states. So, for example, here, you have an insulator in contact with this two-dimensional topology insulator. The system is insulating in the gap, but you have these two channels, edge states. This edge state has got a helicality, so they are helical, in the sense that they spin up, for example, in this case, propagate to the right, or spin down, propagate to the left. So, the special relation looks like this. We have a conduction band and valence band, and then we have these two lines here, which represents the left-going propagating spin-up modes, sorry, right-going propagating spin-up modes, and left-going propagating spin-down modes. So, this effect was predictive for graphene with spin-up interaction, or make-and-tell-your-ride, but nowadays there are many different system, which displays this property. So, the helical edge states can be explained, can be described by a low-energy effective Hamiltonian of this kind, where we have the Fermi velocity and the Z-pauli matrix. Just to say that there are, as I said, many different material systems. We have also indium arsenide, gallium antimonide, quantum wells, and also atomically thin crystal of tungsten-telluride more recently. Now, people, as already studied JSON junction with this two-dimensional topology insulator inside, it is interesting because it gives rise to a strange current phase relation, so, which is 4 pi periodic. So, here I just mentioned it, the first few papers now, in the first years, now there are, of course, much more, and these, at least, I don't think is complete of experiments on this system here. So, it's something which people are looking at nowadays. So, now let me come to the actual system we are looking at. So, we are considering two-dimensional topological insulator, for example, here spin-up going, propagating right, spin-up down, propagating left. We are, we have two supergranate electrodes on the left and on the right, which are proximizing the two-dimensional topological insulator, so, we have a phase, phi left, phi right, on the left and the right, subgundating phase. In addition, so, this is a non-local setup in the sense that we are putting a normal probe somewhere along the edge, which is coupled to the two edge states, something like a CM tip. So, this probe is connected, this probe, we can have a bias voltage, vn, applied to it. The superconductors are grounded, the position is X0 between 0 and L. And what we are interested in is in the charge current flowing through the probe and the heat current flowing in, for example, the left superconductor. We are looking at the effect of a magnetic flux threading the junction and also of a pure phase, phase difference. But I will spend more time on the effect of a magnetic flux. The temperature of, so, T plus delta T half is the temperature of the left reservoir, of the left superconductor, T minus delta T half of the ratchets, and the normal probe is a temperature T in the middle. But we see that it is not very important in this temperature here. So, I'm considering just half of the two-dimensional, of the two-dimensional Ti. So, I'm assuming that the width of the Ti is very large, so the edge state on the upper side and the lower side are at the top. And the lower side are decoupled. I'm assuming that the probe can be coupled to the edges with an arbitrary transmission, T squared, which is pin-independent and energy-independent. With T squared, we can go from zero to one. So, we can range, we can go from the tundering regime to the very clean regime. Very clean contact. So, the system can be modeled through a budo di gen hamiltonian, where we have the particle-like excitations up here, the whole-like excitations down here. And they are coupled through the order parameter delta. So, I'm assuming an S-wave superconductor. So, I'm coupling spin-up and spin-down electrons. Delta X is the gap in the system, which is actually approximating induced gap. It's the gap which is induced by the superconducting electrodes put on top of the... to the Ti. So, the emiltonian H is described by the lu energy effectively emiltonian, the one I showed before, plus in case we are applying a magnetic flux, plus a Doppler shift energy, which is due to this magnetic flux, which takes this form here, which is basically a shift in the momentum of the condensate. So, now... So, we are going to see first is how this presence of this Doppler shift energy will impact the... the transport. So, this is the dispersion curve, where for in the in the proximized region, so delta is finite, with zero Doppler shift, so in the absence of a... of a magnetic flux. So, what we see is that there's a gap, delta opening between spin down particle and spin down holes. So, these are spin down particle, spin up particles. So, a gap opens here, as it should do. Then, what's the effect of the Doppler shift? So, shift vertically, in two branches in opposite directions. In such a way that on the left branch we have a gap, which is reduced by the amount epsilon delta s. So, this gap is delta minus epsilon delta s. On the right branch the gap is increased by the same amount epsilon delta s. Ds, sorry. And this comes in the fact that when you just look at the special curve in the superconductivity, the two branches are shifted down and up branches are shifted down and up. And so, this makes this movement, this makes this shift of the branches. So, now let's look at what do we expect in telemetricity in this system. So, here we are applying a positive Doppler shift and energy. And the branch on the left is going down, on the right is going up. This is the distance between zero and so, this is the gap for the left branch. And what we see is that we can have a thermoelectric effect so, just applying a temperature difference so, with Vn equal to zero applying a temperature difference we can have a thermoelectric effect coming from the fact that we have holes, so this is the hole branch we have holes hot holes coming from from the left and the cold particles coming from the right described by this particle dispersion. This can happen when the temperature is of the order of this gap, of course. So, when the temperature is of the order this branch starts to be active in telemetricity in some current, we expect some current flowing through the normal through the normal probe. So, we described this using the scattering approach so, the system is actually three terminals, so contains three terminals, but we have just two relevant affinities, so biases which is first, first is Vn the bias here the voltage bias, the probe and the second is the temperature difference between the two superconductors delta T. So, what we are going to use is a partial let's say on sagam matrix, it's a non-local sagam matrix 2 by 2 which connects the two which relates the two the two relevant currents so the charge current in the probe and the heat current in the superconductor to the two affinities Vn and delta T. So, we are getting rid of some of some question, but these are the important one the one we are interested in. So, here I'm assuming that we are in the linear regime delta T small delta T is much smaller than T. So, in this way we can define this non-local on sagam matrix which is a bit weird because for example what we find is that L21 is equal to minus L12 which is the usual symmetry one expects but this comes from the fact that this is incomplete. The whole on sagam matrix will have the proper the proper symmetries. Ok, now we can we can see the first the effect one calculates for example L12 L12 is this terms which gives the the magnetic effect so charge current due to a temperature difference no, temperature difference between the two superconductors what you find is that this is the plot of L12 normalized in some way as a function of the Doppler shift energy normalized with delta and as a function here of the transmission in the coupling with the probe so what one sees is that one has an effect when epsilon ds divided by delta is over the one Ok, and this makes sense because it's when the first branch the branch on the left or on the right goes down and close to the origin for example in this case so this was positive delta s and one get a positive a positive signal here and for negative delta s the branches move in an opposite way and one gets these value and negative and one sees that the effect increases by increases increasing the coupling so the tunneling there is a little effect so in this case I took a length which is of the order of the coherence length so one just to understand a bit more one can see what happens to L11 so for example on the electrical conductance electrical conductance looks like this again as a function of the energy of the Doppler shift and one sees that there are two peaks here two peaks which basically reflects the presence of under the bound states within the the rejoice the weak link so we have two bound states which then of course goes with open up when increasing the the coupling with probe so basically the coupling is giving width to these bound states up to here where everything is open for example when you increase the length what you will find is a figure like that so there are going to be many under bound states so these actually under bound states I am saying this because there are the effects on the on the thermoelectricity so the conductance is less interesting maybe because there is nothing between up to energy or epsilon ds of course because in order to have a heat current in superconductor all the heat current simply due to excitation so you have to have energies above above delta so there are no features coming from under bound states because under bound states don't play any role here in the in thermal conductivity ok so here there is one can switch on some phase difference and this is the effect we see that there is more effect when also a magnetic flux plus a pure phase difference is switched on but we will see later the effect of a phase difference so now we calculate something which is usually measured which is the thermo power the cyber coefficient defined as defined a few slides ago which is simply given by this ratio here of matrix of on saga coefficients and we will find that so this is thermo power for different temperatures we will find that this thermo power is larger for smaller temperature reaching quite high values so in this case is something like 50 micro volt per Kelvin and has got this kind of dependence with respect to eds so there is a peak which is less broader for small temperature here is the same plot but again is also some presence of some phase phase difference ok so maybe I've got till 5 minutes so what we saw is that the helical nature which gives rise to this thermo this is basically this fact here the fact that you can have holes hot holes in this case so the helical nature is crucial for this effect to occur there is no dependence in the linear response there is no dependence on this Tm also beyond the response there is no dependence on the temperature of the number of probes and the difference in temperature of the two superconductors delta T also there is no dependence on the position of the probe so this is true in an ideal system so I probably won't have time but when I introduce some asymmetries between left and right this is not true anymore so one can ask just switch off completely the double shift effect but one somehow imposes a phase difference between the two superconductors and in this case also one finds thermoelectric effect but in this case due to under the interference so to resonant processes occurring and so the interesting thing is that one can find a very easy it's very simple to write the current in the probe because it's simply given by a contribution which is given by which is controlled by the distribution function in the lead so this is relative to particles this is relative to holes and another contribution controlled by the distribution superconductors and when so when there is no voltage applied to the probe this term here goes away and one remains with this term here only which is given by which is controlled by the different temperature difference between the superconductor which is basically controlled by this quantity Q which gives this is the probability for a particle to go from the left superconductor to the normal probe and a particle to go from the superconductor so actually a Andrijev process for a particle to go into a hole in any case they are describing basically resonant processes occurring within the weak link and also this Q is very simple form which is the length of the weak link enters through this cosine function as well as of course of course phi everything is controlled also by the transmission of the so the coupling of the probe and for example when phi in this generalized this Onsager symmetry relation so this is not important now ok so if one plots L12 so determinatrik coefficient so this L12 against the length and against the phase difference one find of course some periodic dependence just given by the formula I just showed you so maybe what is interesting here is the fact that still L12 so the determinatrik response is maximized for transmission so for coupling which are in the middle of the range so not for small so they should be somehow in the middle of the middle of the range so the response is very much characterized by this oscillation in phi but also in length ok so here just plotting again the c-back coefficient so s the measurable thermal power against transmission here phase difference and also temperature so temperature between around half of the of critical temperature are the optimal one to see large value of this c-back coefficient now I'm just comparing the two effects where we have pure double shift or pure under the interferometric effect and with double shift the effect is much much much much larger with respect to with respect to the interferometry so I still have a few minutes or ok so no so just what was the effect of more realistic effect and some estimates about the some estimates about the heat generation and efficiency of any tangents of this kind so the main message I want to convey is a critical effect induced by eminiti flux which is very much dependent on the helical nature of these states so all what I told you is basically containing this paper here so thank you very much thank you I already see a raised hand thank you very much for the very city talk I was wondering if phase slips would look different in such a system because the phase slip would correspond to voltage and they also correspond to heat so if the helical nature of the insulator would correspond to somehow make the phase slip different any effect I think so yes we never looked at it but it is definitely interesting to look at I have no idea what thank you I had a question because you were only looking at kinetic energy of the charge careers regarding the heat transport I am considering the heat current as you the complete heat current just to particles but it is just kinetic you neglect any plasmonic effect in the edge channel it is only kinetic do you have an idea of the edge reconstruction of topological edge states I am not familiar with them in quantum hole effect it can dominate in several regions so you have a lot of electrostatic content in the energy of the 1D wave propagating in the edges here it is only the kinetical part so if the two channels are overlapping on the same position they will be very strongly coulomb interacting so I guess it will change the chirality I mean we change many things but I don't think people have studied this it is even a mess in the quantum hole because no this thank you are there any other questions we still have time for one quick question in the room or in the chat it is always good to wait a moment until people in the chat figure out what to click on they are old if not let's thank the speaker again thank you


Maybe you fantasize about quitting your job But of course, there's this kind of fear that's in place around this. I would say this is one of the questions I get asked Well, it comes up Incredibly frequently in therapy So let's dive into this and see well what would it be like to quit my job and Is there a good way to do it? Is there a safe way to do it? Is there a way to do it that's not going to make me feel terrified and It's a very interesting topic. So stay with me as we do a bit of a deep dive into this So anyone that's going through this dilemma about look, this is not working for me. I really want to quit my job I want to do something else with my life We have to realize first of all that You're conflicted there is a conflict and We have to know first of all, well, what is this conflict between? One part probably once it could be emotional health. It wants a sense of freedom. It wants to go and have Maybe be around more supportive people could be anything Go and pursue a passion in life But this other part is saying well, you know what typically the other part is going to be saying something about security needs about safety It's like that's not safe. You're not ready to do that and we tend to look at this conflict within ourselves and Our problem with it isn't that there's a conflict. It's that we pick sides in that conflict So a person who really desperately wants to quit their job Will really dislike this part of them that is reminding them constantly about the need for security So typically we see this as the the unhelpful one or that we resent this one Now if we're going to do this what we're trying to do is Navigate this whatever's going to happen for you personally stay leave whatever it is We're going to try and navigate this with as little conflict and as little fear as we possibly can That's our goal here from the outset a goal isn't necessarily to quit your job or to stay in your job We're not going to pick sides in that we're just going to validate both of those sides Because that's a way that we're going to minimize conflict in this So what we this is really going to involve listening to both sides of the argument without picking sides without saying this one's right This one's right. This one is wrong. This need for security is wrong This is that this is the way we bulldoze our emotions. You see they're both very valid this need for security or need for maybe more more passion or purpose or More support or it could be this this need for security. They're both completely valid There's not a problem with either side So no emotional bulldozing Validating both sides both sides of that conflict. That's how we really withdraw any favoritism or stop picking sides in this thing That's creating all this conflict. We validate both sides at the same time see them both is completely okay So one question we can ask ourselves is Okay We're going to play it out. We're going to listen to both sides here Okay, this is not going to be me picking this idea a lot of a lot of things I've seen online of people saying follow your passion follow your passion follow your passion follow your passion follow your passion Bulldozing away this need for security Okay, and a lot of people, you know, maybe it's a little bit more more old-school But people say stay in your job stay in your job stay in your job stay in your job pick inside That's not doing anything for this conflict that you're experiencing So let's first of all Take the perspective here of this security need and really maybe there's some validity to it so First thing I would say is well, do you really need to quit your job? now What I'm saying around that is We tend to have this let's say it's a more passionate life that you want Does it have to necessarily be true that if you stay in your job that you can't find a sense of passion or purpose outside of it We we tend to think that my job Should be the thing that gives me all my sense of purpose and passion in life And quite often that's not true, and it doesn't need to be true Quite often it's okay to have a job where there's no real sense of meaning or purpose or creativity or a passion You know the job is providing security now if that's if that means I can't It's imposing itself in my life to degree that I can't follow any kind of passion outside of my work life There could be issues around boundaries with work that we could look at but if you're Did the idea that your job is the only way that you can find purpose meaning or creativity in life is Not very helpful because sometimes the job is just okay for security reasons. There's nothing wrong with that and we can find the meaning purpose and creativity elsewhere and That need can be fully met elsewhere If we take that kind of dual approach it, it's okay that I have this job that doesn't give me that much meaning and purpose I'm finding it outside of this if we're having that kind of dual approach This thing can often take over eventually and become the thing that we wanted to that that is We want to give more time to So the first question is do you really need to quit your job? And we can ask ourselves that question and you may come to the point where you realize well you know, maybe I can work on my boundaries with work a little bit more and Find meaning and purpose creativity outside of my job. And that's a way to resolve that issue now You may come to the realization that Actually My job is so overbearing in my life and it's taken my life over to such a degree Or you may even say it's incredibly incredibly toxic for me And I can't even disengage from it psychologically at all You may say to yourself. I actually do think I need to quit my job If you really really do come to terms with the fact that you need to quit your job We we come to acceptance of this is unsustainable for me This is having such a negative impact in my life this job. I mean that Okay, it's not working and it's never gonna work. So something has to change So before you even think about quitting your job, there's going to be a stage you get to where you say This isn't working for me. This is unsustainable now I don't know when exactly but I know something has to change That's a very big step and an important step if you're in that situation. It's like, okay Let me just stop trying to bulldoze through this and stop trying to be resilient all the time. It isn't working I've tried for a long time. A lot of people will say, you know, they're so responsible That they will try to stay in a situation that is unsustainable for too long so Finding out, okay, is the is the job taken away too much of your time? Is it too toxic that environment? Is it making me do things that that lead to me not liking myself? Maybe this is unsustainable for me. So an acceptance. Okay. This is unsustainable So if you're at that position, this is the the approach I get people to do There's still going to be that voice that's saying security security you need to stay here You need to stay here. There's financial problems Again, we listen to both of them. But because you've accepted it's unsustainable and something has to change What I want you to do is listen to both of those sides and Get them to come to terms or get them to agree on Okay, it's unsustainable. How long am I going to stay in this unsustainable situation and Get them to pick a date that they can both agree on now the part of you that feels like it's unsupportive very feel it feels It's meaningless or it's it's toxic in your life. That's going to want to say I want to leave tomorrow I don't want to even go into work tomorrow. Maybe But this is going to say the security need is going to say hold your horses there a second That's not going to happen. Who's right and who's wrong? They're both right Okay, there is no good. Do you have to validate both of those? But when they come together They may be able to say well look is Three months, okay, and the security need might say no, that's not enough is Ten years, okay security need can't justify ten years in a job So you may come to terms with I'm going to give myself 18 months in this job I may give myself six months whatever the figure is that they can both say fair enough. It is unsustainable Let's have that as the date now that date you said you have to Commit to it now. It's not a quick date necessarily It's a date when you can say okay if by this date on the calendar that I'm going to commit to now Nothing has changed and I still feel that this job is completely unsustainable and it is not doing me good emotionally At that point you will leave the job, okay now The joy of having that date out there somewhere in the future, maybe six months could be even a year away whenever it is It'll give you eat that that part of you that needs a security It doesn't feel like it's been bulldozed away. It feels like okay now I can do something to prepare for that outcome Should it happen and what you start to do is you start to you start to look for alternatives you start to Feel more justified in having much more healthy boundaries and saying no to a few things at work Because you have this sense that well look I am probably going to leave anyway unless something changes you start to become a little bit bolder in your job You start to do things like you speak more authentically now not negatively or Aggressively, but you start to stand up and assert yourself a little bit more you stop saying yes to everything impulsively You stop being that person who at 5 p.m. Is looking around to see if other people are leaving Before you can give yourself permission to leave the date that your job You do it because you want to do it because now you feel more open to taking risks because I'm I'm Assessed that something has to change here and I feel I'm probably gonna leave anyway So now I'm gonna start acting more authentically You act more authentically you start to take a few more healthy Calculated risks in your job because you realize okay. I'm leaving anyway I may as well just try a few things differently around here myself and Through this period of time you're looking for alternative work. You're looking for Ways to be more authentic in your job you may find that Your experience of the job changes anyway You start to feel less attached to it psychologically and come that day which you had committed to you realize things have changed here and This isn't as bad as I thought it was and maybe I'm feeling more authentic in myself Maybe everything's okay. I can stay but that has to be a genuine Assessment of yes things are very different now to when I said this time for myself initially But if they're not different and you still feel exactly the same way as you did back when you said that date for yourself really You've probably been looking for alternatives. Maybe you've got some jobs lined up or Interviews lined up or you're feeling optimistic about it because you've been doing that work in preparation for this inevitability They feel yes, the time is gone. I promise myself nothing changed And it wasn't an impulsive choice that I would leave my job, right? It was a job that really took into calculation the need for security in my life and to take responsibility Now I feel at the time has come. There's no point in me push pushing through this Especially if it's kind of a toxic environment that you're in there's no point in me staying here any longer now at this point It's time for me to move forward and move on from this and just move on to the next thing and So those will be ways that I would say you could approach this whole idea of quitting your job It's not going to be this reckless impulsive. That's it. I'm gone. I'm finished I'm out of here nor is it going to be this idea that I need no matter what to stay in this position Even though it's completely meaningless to me and it's not making me feel good And I I think it's a toxic environment and I feel anxiety all the time That is not an option either. It shouldn't be an option for us. The answer is very unique to every individual and But it is possible as the moment you really accept the situation is Unsustainable for me something has to change That's when you start to put into place these steps to Transition away from that if nothing changes and if nothing does change then we move on so guys I hope that's useful information and I hope that if you're in that position, which many of us are, you know We're we're thinking about making a change that that will be some food for thought and will maybe give you a little bit of hope and Guidance in it that you know the way you feel is completely completely completely normal and so many of us go through So thanks for joining me and I'll see you again in the next video Bye for now


United States. I'd like to give special thanks to Richard Lawson, Berm, who did such a terrific job and arranged this wonderful event here today. It's great to see so many friends and familiar faces and also so many new faces, CLCS, so many new members. There wasn't room in the White House big enough to fit us all in. I had two reactions. First, I was proud to know that there are so many dedicated and active Republicans. Second, I wanted to apologize and let you know that Nancy and I just sort of rent the place. But this year, I'm especially happy to see you all. You see, since the postal rates went up, people have been writing me. That happened since I first spoke to you in 1981. We rebuilt our armed forces. We liberated Grenada from the communists and helped return the island to democracy. And I don't know whether any of you had a chance to know this or not, but I was very thrilled recently to find out that the tourists that are visiting down that lovely little island of Grenada now, they buy postcards and they bring them back because the postcards, the pictures on the postcards are of the graffiti that is still painted on the walls there.  Well, the graffiti on the walls of Grenada is, God bless the USA and come time anytime to Ganistan. The INF Treaty has been signed and we're working on the Strategic Defense Initiative to defend ourselves and our allies against nuclear terror. We've filled nearly half the federal judiciary with judges committed to the law and the Constitution. The United States has had 66 consecutive months of economic growth. It is the longest peacetime expansion on record in our country. 17 million new jobs. That's more than all of the countries of Europe put together have created in a longer time than this. The top personal tax rate has been cut in half and we brought inflation, non-employment and interest rates down to their lowest level in the years. And it seems to me that all in all, it's not a bad record. You only work a few hours a day. Candidates for Congress, you've been a part of everything that Vice President Bush and I have accomplished in office. It's no exaggeration when I tell you that every single House seat has made a difference. There have been some breathtakingly close votes, some that we've won just by a couple of votes and others like aid to the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, which just barely went the other way, and which we're determined with your help to turn around. When a liberal Democratic member of Congress has to cast a tough vote, it can really make a difference if that person knows that there's a well-funded Republican challenger ready in his district to put the issue before the voters. So by helping our candidates to wage strong campaigns and get elected to Congress, you're helping to move the whole country forward. I don't have to tell you that the House of Representatives has been the key Democratic stronghold that has tried to block us on issue after issue. As a matter of fact, the House of Representatives for 56 straight years now has only seen a majority of Republicans for four years out of those 56 years. And that means that every 10 years they've been in charge when we re-apportioned. So what we are is the victims of a half a century of gerrymandering by the opposite party. And I have said when we get in and be an awful temptation, if we can get a majority for us to turn around in gerrymandering, but you know something, I don't think it would be in keeping with us. I would like to see us once we had the chance say no, let's have a bipartisan Blue Ribbon Citizens Committee be the ones that reapportion the congressional districts in the United States. George Bush is tremendous record. He has been a part of everything we've accomplished. At the top of our ticket and with a Massachusetts liberal at the top of theirs, I think we can make big gains in 1988 with something about his financial habits as a governor. I see it made all the press this morning. But I did that, I did that because he made a remark about me and the remark was that I have been in charge of the biggest deficit in this country from Jordan, from George Washington through Jimmy Carter, that this is bigger than that. He's asking for the job and doesn't know that the president can't spend a dime. Hungers that's been doing this for a half a year. A few things about that and about the deficits. My first budget was the 1982 budget. The budget since I've been here. The law says I have to submit one every year, but every year they thrown it away. If they had given us the 1982 budget that I asked for, the cumulative deficits through 1986 would have gone down 207 billion dollars. So who's blaming who for the continued deficits? Well, I've been in enough campaigns myself to know how important it is to have the resources to win. I don't know of a single new house seat that we've picked up where your generosity didn't help provide the margin of victory. And you can be sure that I'll be out there campaigning for Republicans, and I'll probably see most of you out there along the way. I just want to thank each of you for all that you've done over the years and continue to do and let you know how very much I appreciate it. Now, I know I've come to the end of my remarks and so forth, but would you forgive me if I told you that I've developed a very bad habit? I have begun collecting stories that I can tell are told by the Russian people among themselves that show they've got a great sense of humor and also they're a little cynical about their system. And I've collected a number of those and I just delight in telling a few of them if you wouldn't mind. Soviet government had issued an order that anyone caught speeding, anyone gets a ticket. But you know, most of the automobiles there are driven by members of the bureaucracy, what they call renown plature. So Gorbachev came out of his dacha, his country home one day, and he knew he was late getting to the Kremlin. He told his driver to get in the back seat and he tried. And he got in the front seat and down the road. Well, why not? We were told no matter who it was to give him a ticket. Well, he says this one was too important. Well, he said who was it? He said I couldn't recognize him, but his driver was Gorbachev. About the two countries and the Americans said, look, in my country, I can go into the Oval Office, pound the president's desk and say, Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country. And the Russians said I can do that. America said you can. He says yes, sir, I can go into the Kremlin, into the general secretary's office, pound the desk and say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country. This one is about the man walking down the street in Moscow and a soldier yells halt and he starts to run and the soldier shoots him. And another Russian said to the soldier, why did you do that? Well, he said curfew. But he said it isn't curfew yet. He said, I know he's a friend of mine. I know where he lives. He couldn't have made it. One of my Secret Service agents told me one that I'd missed had me in it. Gorbachev, he said the Secret Service, he said that their story now is that Gorbachev and I are in his limousine and my Secret Service man is with me and his top security man with him and we're sightseeing and he takes us out to the scene of a waterfall and we all get out of the car and we're standing looking at this great waterfall and Gorbachev says to my man, go ahead, jump, go over the fall. My man said I've got a wife and three kids. So he turned to his own man. He said, you jump, go over the fall and he did. Well, my man went down on the rocks around the fall to see what had happened down there at the other end and down there. Well, the guy was all right, but he was wringing out his clothes. My man said, why, why did you, when he said jump, why did you do that? He says, I got a wife and three kids and St. Peter said, well, of course, being an atheist, you can't come in here. He said, you would have to go down to Hades down there and he said, but you've got a choice. There are two.  Well, he said, I think I better tell you the capitalist hell is a little more comfortable. He says, yes, but the communist hell is the only one where I can be sure that the heating system will fail.


Inner Sanctum Mysteries Friends of the creaking door, this is your host to welcome you again into the Inner Sanctum. Come in, come on in. No, no, please don't stand on ceremony, we're all informal here, no ties, no collars, in some cases no hands. That doesn't mean we're complete boors though, we study our Emily ghost faithfully. You wouldn't catch one of us eating his peas with a knife. Oh no, we've been caught with knives before. Sewing you might say, our wild throats. If preliminaries are over beginning right now, things are going to happen. They'll sit up to our deep breath and lend us an ear. We've got to get our teeth into something. Listen now to the voice of Donald Buker as Danny Williams, as he tells the weird story of the dead walk at night. There it is again. Danny. My uncle calling to me, just as he used to when I was a boy. My blind uncle tapping his cane and calling. It's dead. I wish I could join him. I've tried to a thousand times, but they've always prevented me. It goes on incessantly. It never stops even when I sleep. I hear it every minute, every second. Sometimes soft. Ashing thunder. Can't you stop it? Can't you give me one minute's peace? Why don't you stop it, you blind old fool?  Haven't you got it? He tapped that way with his cane. On the night I decided to kill him. We were in his room in the big house where we lived together. I'd been living with him since I was 14 years old. For 10 years I'd been his companion. His nurse, his servant, his slave. On the night I was going to kill him, I slipped a length of strong cord into my dinner jacket. He was totally blind. Had been for 30 years. Yet strangely enough, he could see. He could see with his uncanny, highly developed sense of hearing. And with that cane of his, that cane it was everlastingly tapping. The wind blowing up tonight. It'll be getting cold soon. Yes. Dan, old servant's guard. This is the night off. You going out again tonight? Yes. With Martha? Yes, with Martha. Can you pour me some brandy? Yes, Morgan. I poured out the drink. In my pocket I felt the cord and as I handed the drink to him, I took it out and walked behind him. Now, this was the time. Slipped the cord around his neck, pushed it. It would be over soon. He sat there holding a glass in one hand. Very good brandy, this. I raised the cord over his head. All I had to do was prop it over his neck. Why are you standing behind me? Well, how did you know? I heard you walk there. Why, Danny? I just wanted to look out of the window. One quick move would be over, but I didn't want to kill him, so I, by suddenly, I'd make a clean breast of it and give him a chance. Well, Dan, how long are you going to stand there? Morgan, there's something I want to speak to you about. Well, what is it, my boy? I want to marry Martha. I, uh... I thought that was on your mind. But I need $10,000, Morgan. Will you give it to me? What are you laughing at? You. I was just waiting to see how much you'd asked for. You lied your way in pretty deeply this time, didn't you, Danny? What are you talking about? I saw what was coming while you were in town. We had a very interesting little talk. Did you? Mm-hmm. She told me that her father's worried about her marrying a fortune at her. Seems he's a very wealthy man. Yes, that's right. And it seems that he won't give Martha any money when she marries unless her husband is a man of some means himself. It also seems that you lied to her.  Why? Did you tell her the truth? No.  Morgan, she got the impression that I had some money because I lived in this house. And now you have to live up to that impression so you can marry her. But you'll give me the money, won't you? Why'd you lie to her? I did it without thinking. I wanted to tell her the truth, but I couldn't. I was afraid that if she found out that I'd lied, she'd hate me. Morgan, are you going to give me the money? Danny, I'm very fond of you.   I even named you sole beneficiary of my estate. But that's why I'm asking you for the money now. If you're going to leave me all of it, why don't you give me a little of it now? Because I don't want you to marry Martha. Why not? I don't think she's the girl for you.  Oh, man! Martha's the finest girl I ever met. You don't know anything about her like this. You won't have a penny of my money to marry her. You're doing this because you want me to stay with you. Now, what are you talking about? From the very first day I came here, it's been Danny do this, Danny do that, Danny read to me, Danny pour me some brandy. You've made me a servant of the slave. How can you talk this way after all I've done for you? Done for me? Did you ever teach me to work? Did you ever teach me to do anything except live in luxury when I didn't have a penny to my name? You made me someone who's of no earthly good to anything but you. What are you going to do about it? Leave? No. I'm not going to leave Morgan. You are. What do you mean?   You'd probably make a bungling mess of me. I don't think so. You see, I planned it very carefully. Danny, if you think you can frighten me into giving you that money, you're quite mistaken. I don't intend to frighten you. I intend to murder you. You? You're not serious. Yes, I am, Morgan. Danny, you got up, I heard you. Yes.  Perhaps we can come to some agreement. It's too late for that. Don't think you can stall me and then turn me over to the police. Danny, where are you? Morgan, when you feel something on your neck... Oh! Let go of me. It'll be over in a minute.  Let go. Not now, Morgan. All right, Danny. I'll admit it. I wanted you to stay with me. I'm blind, old, alone, but I'll let you go. I'll give you the money you want on me.  It's too late now. I know you and I don't trust your promises. I'll give you anything you want. You hear anything? No, please, Danny. No, Morgan. Tell him I could only see if I could only... I'm going to be merciful, Morgan. It'll only take a few seconds, and this chord will crush the life out of you. Morgan, I heard the front door open and close. I had told Martha to come at nine o'clock. I ran out of the room and looked down the long stairway. Hello, darling. Martha! Shall I come up? No, no. Wait there. I'll come right down. All right. I rushed back into the room. My uncle was lying on the floor. The rope twisted about his neck. His face streaked with purple. I picked up the cane and began tapping on the floor. Then I placed the cane near to him. I went back to the door again and called. Good night, Morgan. Oh, he's fine. I heard him tapping around up there. Yeah, see? He likes to make a lot of noise with that cane of his. I think he gets a kick out of it. Do you think it's safe to leave him alone here? Safe? Well, of course. Look, shall we go dancing somewhere? That's a swell idea. Do you think Uncle Morgan will stay dead? Oh, you do. Well, that shows how much you know. On this program, the dead never stay that way. So get ready for the worst because in the next few minutes, you're going to find corpses that walk in the dead of the night. Oh, yes. They do, all right. They do. Don't you worry. Let's listen now to Donald Buker's Danny as he finishes his story. It was easy to lie to the police. When Martha told them that she heard my uncle tapping in his room, I was cleared of all suspicion. I suggested that the murder was committed by some thief who broke into the house to rob it after we had left. The police agreed. I received the inheritance. And Martha and I planned to go to California to be married. I had lied my way out and fooled everyone. Everyone? Except myself. I knew what I had done. I couldn't forget it. I became nervous and morose. And then came that last night before Martha and I were to go away. I was alone in the house, preparing to close it. Hello, Dan. Martha. It's so late. I didn't expect you. I know, darling, but I was afraid to leave you alone in this huge old house. I decided to come over. That's very sweet of you, darling, but there's nothing to worry about. You can't fool me. I've noticed how you were behaving these last few days. Have you?  Well, I suppose I have been a little upset. I'm glad you came, darling. Look, I can put you in the guest room next to my uncle's old room. That's the only one beside my own that hasn't been dismantled yet. Come on. I'll show you the way. All right. When we get to California and we're married, you'll forget all this. I hope so. What was that? I didn't hear anything. I thought I heard a noise. I was right. This old house is affecting you. Maybe. Maybe.  Did you? Well, it was just my imagination, I guess. I wonder. You know, darling, I had a rather strange dream about him. You did? I dreamt he came to me and told me he wasn't dead. That's a crazy idea. Isn't it? I just suppose he wasn't dead. That's impossible. I saw him dead with a rope around his neck. Did you? That's funny. I went with you to the morgue and I didn't see the rope. The police had removed it. Oh, yes. Yes, of course they had. But I... Well, I saw those welts. It didn't take much imagination to see the rope. My poor Danny. I'm afraid this has affected you more than you realize. Here's your room, Martha. Danny, you've been kind of cold and distant lately. You do love me, don't you, darling? Of course, Martha. Good night, Dan. Good night. I was awakened that night from a tortured sleep by a familiar sound. The sound of my uncle's cane. Tapping on the floor above me. At first I thought I was dreaming. But then I heard it again. It seemed to be coming closer. To be taking a familiar cause. I had heard it a thousand times when he was alive. That same nervous rhythmic tapping. It was coming down the stairs. Tap. Tap. Tap. Down the stairs. Cautiously. Carefully. It was on a landing now. Would it go down further or would it turn as it had done so often? To my room. Closer. It was coming to my room. There could be no doubt about that. It couldn't be alive and yet. It was knocking at the door. It took every bit of courage I had. But I went to the door and opened it. There on the floor outside my door was my uncle's cane. A throb of cold icy terror shook me. I ran back into the room and hathens sang with panic. I shouted, Martha! Martha! Martha! Danny, what's the message? Mother, mother, darling. I must be going out of my mind. I saw it. What did you see? That cane. That cane that you have in your hand. Put it down. I found it outside your door. I thought you'd misplaced it. No. No, that's my uncle's cane. That's the one he always used. But Danny, there's no need to be so frightened of it. Why, you think it was going to hurt you the way you act? Martha! Here, you hold it. No. Danny, you're terrified. What's wrong? What's happening? Martha, Martha, don't make me tell you don't. But what are you afraid of? That cane! Put it down! Throw it away! Throw it away! You don't know what you're saying. Martha, why do you keep pointing it at me? Why? Danny, you've got to tell me what's troubling you. Don't put it down until you tell me why you're afraid. Martha, for heaven's sake! You can trust me, Danny. I love you. Tell me what it is. Martha! What is it? No matter what it is, I'll always love you. Don't be afraid to tell me. I killed him. Your uncle? Yes. Why? For the inheritance. I didn't want you to know that I didn't have a cent. I asked him for the money. He begged him for it. He sat there in his chair telling me I couldn't have a cent. He wanted to keep me here with him. I wanted to marry you. I am murdered at Martha because I love you.  Yes. Oh, Martha. Martha, I knew you would. You'll stand by me, won't you? Why are you smiling that way? How much money did you inherit? Two hundred thousand dollars in this house. You'll transfer that money to me in the morning. When the house is sold, you'll turn over that money to me too. If you don't, I'll tell the police what you just told me. Martha, I don't understand. I thought I was pretty clear. Oh, I see now. You think I'm too upset to manage the estate and you want to take care of it for me until we're married? There isn't going to be any marriage. No marriage? No. Now that I can get the money without marrying you, there's no reason for me to tie myself down. Why should you want the money?  He's been dead for 17 years. Martha, you two... You were lying to me. Yes, I did. But you were lying to me so it comes out even better. Stop cowering at this cane. There's nothing clear about it. I made that tapping noise tonight. I thought it would make you confess and it did. Oh, this is a joke. It's a monstrous joke. I wouldn't think it was so funny if I were in your position. You know, the money isn't quite all. I can use you, Danny. I might need certain things done sometime. And if you'll remember that I can send you to the electric chair whenever I choose to, you'll do them. I see. The slave merely changes masters. Where are you going? Back to my room. Oh, no, you're not. Dan, let's go over there. I want to show you something, Martha. Something about this cane. You said there was nothing clear about it. Well, there is. Let me show you.  A sword? Yes. Look. Oh. See, it's a sharp sword forged in Italy during the Renaissance to be used by men with less conscience than I about murder. Dan, what are you going to do? I think you'll know. No, Dan. You can't. Did you think I would give you that money after I murdered a man to get it? I'll let you keep some money. Do you think I believe you? I know, Liar. I won't tell the police. I swear I won't. I'll do anything you say. I'll marry you.  Do you think I'd let you live when I know you have a secret that can enslave me? No, Dan. Take that sword away. Don't do it. I love you. Liar. Dan, don't. Please. I beg you. I'll do anything you say. Don't. Mother. Mother. Mother. It was then that I first began hearing with my mind that tapping, tapping, tapping, that incessant tapping of the cane. When the police came, I told them everything. They asked only one question. When did you hear this tapping in your mind? After I killed him. Well, you'll be all right after a good doctor treats you. Perhaps. Meanwhile, we'll do everything we can to find the person who killed your uncle and your sweetheart. I think it's the same man. He's probably some thief who thought he'd try a second time. But I just told you I'm the person you want. Now, Danny, you don't think I believe that story for a minute, do you? You don't believe it? After the way I saw you cry when your uncle died, and you can't make me believe that sweet girl did the things you said. I know something about human nature, my boy. No, Danny, the shock of finding your sweetheart murdered so soon after your uncle's murder was too much for you. This whole confession was a lie. For twenty years now, I've been in this cell at the state asylum waiting to die. I, who told the truth, because I wanted to die. For twenty years, I've been hearing that tapping day and night every second. But twenty years, I've been hearing my blind uncle call me his name. My blind uncle call me as he used to when I was a boy. All right, friends, you can relax now. No. No, this isn't Danny. This is your home. Our stories over in the port are now mopping up. Well, I guess tonight's little story should teach you never to tell a lie. Lying leads to cheating, and cheating leads to murder. And murder leads to insanity, all of which are very bad habits to get into indeed. Well, friends, it's time once again to close that creaking door. Until next week at the same time, when we'll be back with a little hunk of horror. You'll be sure to listen, won't you? Until next week then. Good night. Pleasant. Green. Inner Sanctum has come to you with the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.