One of the most important things to cultivating a good life is to cultivating a positive attitude towards failure. Failure is going to happen. And then the question is what do you do when you fail? Do you use it as an opportunity to learn, to grow, to figure out what didn't work, what can work, what should work, how to make it work next time, to figure out what you're good at, what you're not good at, to introspect, and therefore next time to do it better or to decide on a different path because the particular path you are on is not a good path. You failed at it. And you failed at it maybe not because you're on fault, maybe because it's not achievable. Who knows? There are lots of reasons for failure. We can do another show on failure sometime.  And in that sense, optimism is important. Having a positive perspective on life, having a benevolent view of the universe, having a view that values are achievable, that you, the things that are in your control, you can achieve, you can succeed, you can attain your values. Well, one way to attain this kind of positive view, this optimism is to seek out great experiences, to seek out exaltation, to seek out success models, role models, heroes, to see and to focus on and to celebrate success and achievement and greatness when you see it around you. There are a variety of different ways in which you can do this. And this is what I mean, pursue the exalted, pursue greatness, pursue the heroic. Now, exaltation in and of itself is, let me see, I've got some dictionary definitions. The state of being exalted, well, that doesn't help. An excessively intensified sense of what being, power or importance. This is Miriam Webster. An increase in a degree of intensity, feeling of joy and exaltation. So seek opportunities to feel great joy, great pleasure, great satisfaction in your life. But one of the ways to do that is to see it elsewhere, to see greatness outside of you, to experience greatness, to experience greatness. And again, there are a number of avenues in life where you can find this. Let's go through a few of them. For example, art. Art is a place where you can experience that exaltation, that achievement is possible, that success is possible, the joy and the pleasure of seeing something magnificent. The feeling that some of us have when we first, maybe even the 300th time, we see Michelangelo's David in the academia in Florence. Or when you hear an immerse yourself in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or I just came from a concert actually, just came from a concert of Brahms Violin Concerto. It's so beautiful. And particularly in the third movement, it is so joyous. It is such an expression of exaltation, a pure joy of enjoyment of life, of the potential of life. Just immersing yourself in that beautiful flow of music, of energy, of positive positivism, of a positive view of the world. So one of the reasons to surround yourself with art, one of the reasons to go out of your way to find art that gives you that feeling is to reinforce this idea that joy and happiness and success are possible.  They achieved it. You're experiencing it. Art is the fuel of life. Too many people in our culture, I'd say, overwhelming majority of the people in our culture, 90 plus percent of the people in our culture have no appreciation for the power that art can have on their lives. Do not internalize it. Do not open themselves up to the experience. Do not embrace it. Do not even try. Most of them are cynical towards art or ignorant about art. And they have no, they just have no conception. They have no clue. They have no idea of how to relate to it. And I think this is true as to objectivist as of the world around us, as of the culture around us. We are poor. We are poor. We're rich materially. We're rich philosophically. But we generally are poor when it comes to our experiences of aesthetics. So one way in which you can raise the level of positivism in your life of this benevolence and this optimism is by letting yourself, immersing yourself, letting yourself experience greatness in art, allowing you yourself to respond, to respond fully, emotionally to great art. And really, those of you who don't do this yet are missing out. You're missing out on an important part of life. You're missing out on a tool, an important tool to achieving happiness, to improving your own life, to fueling and providing yourself with energy, to increasing your optimism, optimism in the sense that we talked about in the previous rules for life. Art is one way in which this, you know, experiencing exaltation and starting to convince yourself in some way implicitly, convince yourself, gaining the confidence in the ability to be successful in the world. Another is finding heroes. Of course, art is one way in which you do that. I mean, how many of us often use Reardon, Roark, or these are characters from Iron Man's books, Iron Man's novels, or Dagny as models, as inspiration in our own lives. We've got models of what is possible for human beings, what life can be like, and that fuels us, it inspires us, but it also creates certain mental models for what is possible. It encourages us to be more ambitious about our own life, about our own careers, about our own success, about our romantic relationships. So finding heroes in art, and we'll talk about real life in a minute, is crucial. Again, if we go back to Michelangelo's David, what is part of the experience you get when seeing it? It's this confidence, I mean, he has a young kid standing up to Goliath, and you can see in the way he stands, in the way he looks, in the way he holds his hands, in the way he holds his body, the certainty, the confidence, the heroism involved. It's not limited to David, it's what is possible to man, is what is possible to man, what is possible to you.  They can be historical figures that you admire and respect. They can be current figures that do amazing things that you admire and respect. And here I think it's important to learn how to worship, hero worship, how to admire the heroic in somebody. While recognizing that many people are also flawed, that many people are mixed, that a few people are 100% heroic, particularly in the world in which we live.  And you can abstract away from all that, abstract away from all the silliness and the stupidity and the unheroic stuff. And focus on the achievement, focus on what is worthy of your admiration, focus on what is worthy of emulation, focus on the achievement. And again, the achievement should give you that sense again of what is possible, of the fact that achievement is possible. And here's a living example of it. And at whatever scale these people achieve, at whatever scale you can achieve, you can emulate them. Maybe not by changing the world as Steve Jobs did, but by changing whatever piece of the world you have the capacity to change. So it doesn't mean you have to be a productive genius like they do. But by seeing somebody exhibit the ability to be as productive, as focused, as creative, a single-minded, again focused, as somebody like Steve Jobs was, should inspire you to be able to apply that to your life to whatever it is you're doing. So look for people who really, really, really good at what they do. You don't have to admire every aspect of their life and you don't have to make them into John Galt. Admire the things about them that are worth admiring. And embrace that, celebrate that. Internalize that. Use that to fuel you. Use that to inspire yourself. Use that to make you a better person. Nicolas, thank you. I appreciate the support. Ryan, thank you. Appreciate it. So at every opportunity, seek out the achievers. Seek out successful people. Try to figure out what makes it possible for them to achieve. Try to figure out their secrets of success. Read biographies of great people. And again, ignore, for the purposes of this exercise, ignore the imperfections. Ignore, you know, particularly in the culture today where people relish in the weaknesses, they relish in the flaws, they love to bring those out. We should not. We should relish the success, relish the achievement, relish the things that they do that's good. We should be the opposite of the cynical culture. And say, yeah, okay, so he did this other stuff. For me, that's insignificant because what I'm focused on, and it's not like I'm giving him some kind of award or something. It's just in your mind. What I'm focused on is on the greatness because that's how I generate fuel. That's how I help focus my life. That's how I can inspire myself. So look for great art that inspires. There's great art that doesn't inspire. Dostoevsky doesn't inspire. But look for great art that inspires for this purpose. Look for heroes in art that inspires. Then look for heroes in real life that can inspire you and focus in on the good in them. Focus in on the heroic in them. Focus in on what you can use to inspire yourself. And again, none of this is something that anybody's going to teach you in the culture out there. None of this is something that the culture embraces. None of this is something that the culture cares about. The culture cares about ripping people down. The culture cares about bad news. The culture cares about failure. The culture cares about ugliness. The culture cares about doesn't care about art at all. Look at the movies. Look at much of the art to the extent that we can call it art. The TV shows. They're about negativity. They're about man's flaws. The best TV shows are the ones about the horrors of the world. Not about the heroes. Not about inspiration. About shredding, tearing stuff down. And, you know, the third thing I would say is look for the good inside of you. Celebrate the good in you. Celebrate the successful in you. Appreciate that. When you do something well, when you achieve something, pat yourself on the back. When you achieve something, recognize it and celebrate it. Don't just go on to the next thing. Take a moment. Absorb what you've done. Pat yourself on the back. Think about the work, the effort, the focus, the energy. Sometimes the pain that went into the achievement. Internalize that. And say to yourself, good job. Well done. It's so crucial. Because otherwise that's how you integrate achievement. And that's how you ultimately integrate the self-esteem. I am worthy. I can achieve. I can be successful because, look, I just did. I just succeeded. And you make that a mental habit of constantly reflecting on the good in you. Now, you know, you need to focus and reflect on your weaknesses and to improve them and to make them better and so on. But, you know, there's tons of people who talk about that and recommend that. But this idea, in a sense of pride, of being proud of yourself, of thinking and integrating what's good about you. Nobody talks about that. That's pride, that selfishness, that's no good. But to do that, I'll go to a theme that kind of is covered through all the rules of life. You've got to take risks. You've got to push the envelope. You've got to achieve. You've got to do things. Things won't just happen to you. And if you're just, you know, achieving within a very narrow scope or you're never really trying or you're never really pushing yourself or you're never going outside of your narrow band, then the celebration, the achievement, the integration is never going to be complete. Because you're always going to know, yeah, but I didn't really try that hard. Yeah, I didn't really push myself. Yeah, ultimately that was easy. Do hard stuff. Try hard stuff. And you'll fail. Again, failure is a major part of life. You'll fail.  You'll fall flat on your face. I mean, one of the reasons Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley. One of the reasons for the success of Silicon Valley in Israel has a very similar attitude is that they don't mind failing. They don't penalize failure. They don't, you know, in Europe when you fail in a business, you're done. You're never going to raise money again.  That's it. You failed in the U.S. So you failed, right? But you tried. The important thing is you tried and hey, you try again. Let us know. We might find you again. Come back with a better idea. Tell us what you learned from the past failure. Is it applicable to anything in the future? It's you've got to take risks in life. You've got to push the envelope in life. You've got to put yourself out there in life in order to be able to gain that self-esteem, that self-confidence and that exaltation, that true satisfaction. I've really achieved something. If it's easy, then how big of an achievement is it? So find hard stuff to do. Don't settle. So many people settle.  But you want to really feel. You want to really push. So art, heroes, and you. Find the heroic. Find achievement in all those realms. Celebrate the heroic. Celebrate achievement in all those realms. Thank you.


President of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please. I could have been introduced as the late President of the United States.  I was in a meeting with some members of the Congress. And somehow the schedule always breaks down after I have met with some members of the Congress. But it's an honor to meet again. And with the National Commission members and guests, when Secretary Bell and I first discussed a plan of action to deal with the declining quality of education in America, we agreed that it was imperative to assemble a panel of America's leading educators and assembly of such eminence that the nation would listen to its findings. Well, today you've issued your report. And I'm confident that America's students, parents, teachers, and government officials will join me in listening closely to your findings and recommendations. Your commission was asked to assess the quality of teaching and learning in America compared with our own educational tradition and the rising competition from other industrial nations. You've taken a long, hard look at America's educational system and found that quality is lacking, but not because today's students are any less capable than their predecessors. You found that our educational system is in the grip of a crisis caused by low standards, lack of purpose, ineffective use of resources, and a failure to challenge students to push performance to the boundaries of individual ability and that is to strive for excellence. When I first addressed this commission at its inaugural meeting in October of 1981, I pointed out that there are few areas of American life as important to our society, to our people and our people and our parents and families as our schools and colleges. And I also noted a parallel between a decline in our education and a decline or our economy, I should say, and a decline in education. In both cases, serious problems have grown worse because of neglect and because too many people viewed the world the way they wanted it to be rather than the way it really is. What we described are economic or economy in realistic terms. We passed long-do or overdue reforms and now the economy is growing again, but without double-digit inflation and record interest rates like before. Today we're calling attention to the way things really are in education. This year our country will spend $215 billion for education. We spent more on education at all levels than any other country in the world. But what have we bought with all that spending? I was interested to see that you noted the almost uninterrupted decline in student achievement and the scores during the past two decades, decades in which the federal presence in education grew and grew. Today's high school graduates score almost 40 points below their 1963 counterparts on standard mathematic tests and 50 points lower on verbal tests. Last year's gain on SAT scores will have to be repeated for more than a decade before we achieve the levels of the mid-60s again. Your commission notes that our education policies have squandered the gains of the Sputnik area. The statistics I just cited underscore the decline in student achievement. Other indicators are moral-arming. About 13 percent of our 17-year-olds are considered functionally illiterate. And for minority youth, the figure may be as high as 40 percent. In our public four-year colleges, remedial math courses now compromise or comprise, I should say, compromises on my mind that was a Freudian slip. They now comprise one-fourth of all the math courses that are taught in our colleges. We can no longer afford to pass students who fail to learn from one grade to the next simply because they've come to the end of the year. We can't afford to waste the valuable resources of higher education to remedy problems that were ignored in our elementary and high schools. Four-fifths of our 17-year-olds can't write a persuasive essay. Two-thirds can't solve mathematical problems involving more than one step. And nearly 40 percent can't draw inferences from reading. Despite record levels of educational spending, America's students came at last in seven of 19 academic tests compared to students of other industrialized nations. We never placed first or second. More than half of our country's gifted intelligence students failed to match performance with their tested ability. You know, for eight years as governor, every year I used to meet with the exchange students in California from other countries and some of their American counterparts. And every year, for eight years, I asked the same question and got the same answer. After meeting all of them and talking a little bit, welcoming them to the United States, I would then say, tell me, how do our high schools compare with your own schools in your own countries? And the answer would always be they would look at each other and then they would start to giggle and then they would break into laughter and then I would find out they were really having a vacation in our schools compared to what they were going through in their own schools. And it was that way for all the eight years that I asked the question. Thomas Jefferson warned us if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. It's not too much to say that what began as our unique vision, human progress through individual opportunity, will grind to a halt in America if we fail to meet our educational challenges in the 80s. I welcome your challenge to the parents of America to hold elected officials responsible for carrying out those reforms. Your report emphasizes that the federal role in education should be limited to specific areas and any assistance should be provided with a minimum of administrative burdens on our schools, colleges, and teachers. Your call for an end to federal intrusion is consistent with our task of redefining the federal role in education. I believe that parents, not government, have the primary responsibility for the education of their children. Parental authority is not a right conveyed by the state. Rather, parents delegate to their elected school board representatives and state legislators the responsibility for their children's schooling. In a 1982 Gallup poll, the majority of those surveyed thought Washington should exert less influence in determining the educational program of the public schools. So we'll continue to work in the months ahead for passage of tuition tax credits, vouchers, educational savings accounts, voluntary school prayer, and abolishing the Department of Education. Our agenda is to restore quality to education by increasing competition and by strengthening parental choice and local control. I'd like to ask all of you, as well as every citizen who considers this report's recommendations to work together to restore excellence in America's schools. We're entering a new era and education holds the key. As sunrise industries grow, they bring us technological advances, offering opportunities and challenges. Rather than fear our future, let us embrace it and make it work for us by improving instruction in science and math, retraining our workers, encouraging their continued education, retooling our factories, and stimulating investment in new areas of growth. We can do that. We can compete and meet the challenges of the marketplace. We're still the world's technological leader. But to be stronger, we have to get smarter. America needs more education power. I would like to close today by commending Ted Bell for his leadership in creating the Commission and by thanking each of the members, especially Dr. David Gardner, the able chairman and vice chairman, Yvonne Larson, for their dedicated effort. You've rendered the nation a valuable service and on behalf of all concerned with excellence in education, I want to thank you for your work, your courage, and your vision. And you know, for me to be standing here saying this, the situation must be desperate. Because some years after I graduated from Eureka College, I returned to that school and they gave me an honorary degree, which only compounded a sense of guilt I'd nursed for 25 years because I thought the first one they gave me was honorary. Thank you all very much.


Roma wines present suspense, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. Salud. Your health, senor. Roma wines toast the world. The wine for your table is Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is the man in black, here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California, to introduce this weekly half hour of suspense. Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you as stars Dame May Whitty and Miss Maureen O'Sullivan. And so with the performances of these two distinguished leading ladies in the play called The Black Shore, we again hope to keep you in suspense. Listen to me, please. Listen carefully and tell me if I'm right. I say I'm about to be murdered. I'm not certain. No one's even threatened me. But I say I am going to be murdered. This is just a plain, ordinary-looking kitchen that I'm sitting in. But for me, I know it is a death house. If it were only three days ago and I could live them all over again. Or if it only were.  And Robert was late as usual, but I didn't care. Not waiting for Rob again, are you? Have you ever seen me when I have been? And you're the lawyer for the watch factory. Somebody ought to teach him how to sell time. One short film before that boy friend of yours comes round to steal your way. Oh, thanks George, but I'd rather wait. If he's not quick about it, he'll find nothing left to steal except the bench. All right. But let me know if you're interested in a change of heart. I've been watching you sitting there, and I wondered whom you were waiting for. Oh, just a friend. I see. I don't wish to seem inquisitive. Please don't misunderstand. It's only that your face struck me as being unusually bright and alive. As well as being uncommonly pretty. Thank you. Now you see, I have an eye for faces. My son was a sculptor. He worked almost entirely with heads. And my job was choosing them. It's all very foolish. I'll admit. More so since he departed some time ago. Oh, I am sorry. Thank you. That's precisely why I was watching you. Of course, I know nothing about you any more than you do of me. But, by the way, what's your name? Susan Applebee. Mine is Elizabeth Masters. How do you do? I live just the other side of town. Oh. Let me come to the point, Susan.  I'm not a young woman, and I'm lonely. I have been ever since I lost my son. I need a companion, someone who can stay with me and help me do. And you resemble closely my very first companion. My best remembered one. Oh, but I... I'll pay you well. 30 pounds a month. Your chief occupation will be to brew me some tea and talk to me. Are you interested? Well, I have been seeking that sort of a position, but I... Splendid. You need look no longer. But you know nothing about me.  I'll return here at the same time tomorrow evening. If you do want the position, please be here. And believe me, I hope you are here. Good night, Susan. Good night. See you tomorrow at eight. All right. I'll be here. What do you mean you'll be here? Oh, Rob, you frightened me. Well, you were whistling our tunes, sir. I thought you were expecting me. What do you think you're doing making death for strange women? Believe me, she is a strange woman. Mrs. Masters? Oh, no. She's nice. And Rob, she offered me a position. I'm doing what? Just what I wanted and a 30 pounds a month, darling. No small sum, that. Too bad you can't manage it. But I'm thinking seriously of it, Bob. Well, stop that. I don't want you ever to have one serious thought about anything. Now, Rob, I'm going to take it. What do you know about the old hen? Nothing yet. Sue, did you look at the way she dressed? Black from shoes to shawl. Why, the shawl's so large and black, you hardly know she had a face. She seemed charming. She might well be, but... I'm not so bad myself. And I want you for a companion too. Let's push the wedding date ahead, darling. Make it any time you will. Oh, now, we've gone through this so many times, you know it can't be done. But with the way you're coming along and with 30 pounds a month additional, why, Rob, in no time at all, we'll have all we need.  Oh, you know I'm right. How many evenings off will she allow you? We didn't get that far. Well, where's the place at then? Well, that's strange. She left so quickly I never had a chance to ask. Call it off, Sue. I... Well, why, Rob? Well, I don't like it. You know nothing about her, not even what she lives. Well, I told her I hardly spoke to her. Tomorrow I'll know everything. All right, my darling, you win. Oh. But let me hear from you as soon as you set me up. Well, of course I will. Everything's going to be fine. I'm silly, sure it will. Hello, darling. Hello, Rob. Everything will be fine. Well, that's... Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star's day-may-whitty and Maureen O'Sullivan, whom you've heard in the prologue to the black shawl by R.R. Lewis. Tonight's study in Suspense. Far from the scene we have just left, far to the south across the equator, is another scene I ask you to visit with me. It is just before the dinner hour on the beautiful Roof Terrace Cafe in the Patano of Gaiacil, Ecuador. We are finishing our appetizers, an excellent sherry, and lifting your glass, you remark to our host that you envy him such wine. He laughs. You are very kind, he says, but it is your own California you must praise for this splendid wine. For you see, it is Roma California sherry. Yes, in many far countries where discerning tastes have found Roma wines, it is a luxury imported and treasured. For Roma wines are in every sense fine wines from the rich vineyard country of California, products of age-old winemaking skill aided by modern quality controls and tests. And here in the United States, Roma wines cost mere pennies a glassful because here there is no import duty, no overseas shipping cost. Such enjoyable flavor and constant quality, such low cost, such high wine values have made Roma by far America's largest selling wines, enjoyed by millions with meals when entertaining anytime. To enjoy these delights yourself, ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Moreno Sullivan as Susan and Aimee Whitty as Mrs. Masters in The Black Shawl. A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. I was there waiting as Mrs. Masters had instructed me the following night. We got into her car and she drove us off. It only seemed a mile or two from town but we twisted and turned so many times that in the dark I became completely confused as to my whereabouts. And finally, we stopped. There it is, straight ahead down the path. Mrs. Appleby, welcome to Masters Hall. Hi, Mrs. Appleby. Won't you join me in a cup of tea? Oh, thank you, Mrs. Masters. I'd be very grateful if I might. I love my room. Good. Sit down over there opposite me, won't you? I certainly will. The fires as inviting as the tea. I've always had one burning whenever I'm home. I get cold so easily. That's why I always wear this shawl around me. Sugar? Thank you. No lemon or milk, thank you. Now, Susan, tell me about yourself. Everything. All you've done. All you see in the future for you. Oh, there's very little to tell. I've always lived here in town. I expect I always shall remain here. After your marriage, you mean? I presume you have such intentions. I expect so. It is the only thing that matters, isn't it? Having someone to care for? Yes. I know. Before my son left me, I desired nothing. The scope of his talent was the world we lived in, and beautiful it was. I suppose love is like talent in that respect. It, too, creates a smaller world within the large one we inhabit, and makes you want it never to disappear. Did his talents receive recognition? To a limited degree. Everyone's horn is worth the promise of a truly great sculptor. The promise never bore fruit, because he hadn't enough time. Winter came far too early in his life. How old was he? I lost him before he was 21. Oh, Mrs. Masters, that's terrible. It's a greater waste. That's it. You realize it, too, the waste. To lose a useless thing, that can be forgiven. Or if the lost can't be held, there's nothing we can say, but cast away genius. To kill it before it's reached its full expression, that no one can forgive. No one can forget. Oh, no, no, please, Mrs. Masters. We have no control over such matters. Their gods will. Of course. Thank you, dear. You're very sweet. I wish you more success in the world of your love. I'm sure you'll have more. That's kind of you. Another good man ruined. I should be insulted. Ruined by a woman. That's it. Smile. Laugh. Life can be so short.  Select well that first night and did not awaken until almost nine. When I realized how late it was, I dressed quickly and ran downstairs. Mrs. Masters had left a note on the kitchen table, telling me she'd gone shopping. But I was to take my breakfast and then wait for her. I looked around to see if I might do something, but everything was in perfect order. I looked for a phone, thinking I'd call Rob. But I could find none in the kitchen or the center hall. Finally, I thought I'd take a look at the outside and get a bit of fresh air. I went to the front door and tried it. It was locked. I turned the boat and pulled. The door was still locked. I couldn't understand. Then suddenly I realized the door was locked from the outside. I ran to the kitchen, not afraid, but surprised. Then something struck me that I hadn't noticed before. All the kitchen windows were barred. I made a quick dash for the kitchen door. Did you have a good night's rest? Yes, I did, thank you. Fine. But you're trembling. Is there a chill in the house? You really should stay away from the doors. I know, but I wanted a breather there. And the front door was locked. Was it? Oh, I must have done it automatically. You see, I've lived alone for so long and it's natural for a person who lives alone to lock all doors behind them when they go out. Why, the window's barred. That goes back to the time my son did his work here. We had so much of it lying carelessly about all over the house. So much of value. Anyone might easily have climbed all the windows. Of course. Not silly of me. For a moment though, I felt so much like a... like a prisoner behind those bars. An unusual experience for you, I take it. A very unusual one. Now you're smiling again. That's fine. My boy always liked to see a smile on a woman's face. Without when he always said they reminded him of death. Kiss. Death. I wrote to Rob. Please come to see me now, Rob, if you can. Everything's all right. Don't worry about me, but come to me. It's unbelievable, but I must tell you that I still don't know the address here. I cannot tell you how to find it. But someone must know Mrs. Masters and can tell you where she lives. I want to send this off to you now, so I'll close. I can't tell you, darling, how great is my need to see you and my love for you, Sue. Mrs. Masters. Well, yes, Susan. What is it? Where can I post a letter? Let me have whatever you want sent, and I'll drop it in the box when I go shopping tomorrow. Oh, I don't want to bother you. I'll take it down myself. No bother at all. There's no where else to post a letter. And I pass the box every day. Oh, but I'd much rather... You've settled. Let me have it. It'll be sent early tomorrow. Of course. Here you are. Thank you. And Susan, I dropped my shawl. Would you mind? Oh, not at all. Exquisite, isn't it? Will you join me in a cup of tea? No, thank you. Mrs. Masters, this morning I said I was silly for feeling like a prisoner in your home, but the feeling is still there. What have I done or said that might create any such impression? That's not the question I'm trying to answer. I just feel it. The answer I don't know is what you want with me. What was that? Wait right here. I'll be down shortly. Where are you going? Upstairs. Would you wait down here?  No. No, I won't stay down here. I'm frightened. I'm coming up too. Don't worry about the bus. It hasn't broken at all. No, there's not a scratch on it. Dear, dear, please don't cry. Shoesie, I told you to stay downstairs. Why don't you come up? All right, you know now. Mrs. Appleby, this is John Masters, my son. That night at dinner, there were three of us. I couldn't bear to look at him. The twisted face, the dull, glazed eyes, whimpering, grunting, unable even to speak a single intelligible word. And when I saw the two together, she, with the horrible black shawl draped around her, I knew for certain that in her own way she was as mad as her son. And I knew more surely than ever how great was my own danger. Late that night, I packed my bag silently and swiftly, and I waited. It was well past midnight before I dared open my door and look out. The house was completely dark, upstairs and down. I felt my way along and started down the stairs. I reached the bottom and went right to the front door first. Where were you going? You couldn't possibly know your way about what's outside the house. You'd surely have lost your way. Wouldn't she, John? Stop it! Stop it! All right. John, leave us now. John, dear, did you hear me? Miss Masters, you have no right to keep me here if I don't wish to stay. Well, when I accepted this position, I was of the opinion that you lived alone. Conditions have changed and now I wish to leave. Please, Susan, believe me. I don't blame you a bit, but think of me. Just for a single moment. Why do you think I asked you here? Do you believe it's so easy for me, chained to this lost thing, that no one to talk to day or night. I needed someone. I need you now. You told me he was dead. I never told you that. Only that he'd left me. And so he had. No. No, I won't stay. I'd go mad if I do. Very well, dear. It's no use trying to argue with you. But stay at least until tomorrow. You could never find your way tonight and if you stay over, it'll give me a chance to find someone in town. I'd rather go now if you don't mind. Tomorrow night. Just until then. Even if I've no one, well, you can leave after dinner tomorrow. I'll pay you two weeks' wages if you do. Please, you... you can't refuse me that. Well, I... Thank you. Thank you, dear Susan. I shouldn't have stayed. I knew that from the moment I agreed. I slept badly, waking from time to time, certain that I heard odd noises from the next room. Shackles, whispered, voiceless mutterings. But the night passed finally and today was uneventful. When Mrs. Masters returned from shopping in the village, she informed me that my successor would arrive tomorrow morning. And I was there for free to meet, leave immediately after dinner. She spent the rest of the day preparing the evening meal. It was as though it were a special holiday so great for the pain she took. The dinner turned out to be wonderful when Mrs. Masters was extremely gracious. Yes, Susan. We drink to you, my dear, dear Susan, to your future, to your man, to your future with your man. Oh, thank you. And may you remember this evening all the rest of your days. You're very kind. All the rest of your days. Thank you.  I'm really sorry that I must hurt you by leaving you this way. You hurt me? My dear, if anyone has been hurt, surely it's you. We frightened you so. Made you so miserable. You're the hurt one, Susan, dear. Not I. Anything I've felt or said is forgotten now. Always when I think of you, I shall remember this evening. I'm certain of it. And so you may remember better, my dear. Let me imprint the occasion still more clearly upon your mind. Do you know what happening it is we celebrate? I expected it was my leaving. So it is. But did it seem likely that you alone would cause so much excitement in our home? Well, I... Miss Appleby, this is the third anniversary of the most important event in the history of Masters Hall. We honor you by asking you to partake of our joy. And I thank you for it. No need of that. You need only listen and be silent. Three years ago, my son was a genius. Today... he is my son. Three years ago, the world's door stood wide before us. Today all the shoulders on earth couldn't break it down.  She slammed it as she left. My son loved her dearly. My first sweet companion. I warned him. I told him that no woman would put up with his temperament. He wouldn't listen. He loved her madly. Madly. The perfect word for it. And for that, she slammed the door on him. Slammed it in his face, his heart, his head. That night he lost the power of his mind, ever since we waited in vain for its return. But we've honored the occasion. Don't think we've forgotten. Age of... Two years ago this evening, on the first anniversary, Sally Thwaite left us. We told her the story. She was overwhelmed. She couldn't bear to stay and left. Quite suddenly. Last year, after it was kitty, can't recall her last name at the moment, she wanted to leave us too. How could we refuse? And now, tonight, Susan Appleby. Tonight, Susan, you are leaving us. Where are you going, Susan? Have a kitchen. Excuse me, please. That is why I say I'm going to be murdered. I can't know for sure. But the way they laugh. The way they look.  The shawl that looks like death. What can I think? What can I do? Susan, there's one thing more. This shawl. So beautiful. So exquisitely wrought. You must surely have noticed that I wear it all the time. It belonged to her. A gift from my son. In her haste it slipped from her shoulders as she left. So this is all that remains of that lovely, wonderful creature. I should like you to wear it if only for a moment. You're so much like her. And her memory is John's greatest comfort. Oh, no. No, don't come here, me. Don't touch me. Please, just around your shoulder. Please, stay away from me. Ah, don't. Who would be coming here now? John, watch her closely. I look through the window. Ah, ah, ah. I don't know who he is. But surely you've seen the light in the kitchen. I'll just send him away. I'll only be a moment. Watch her, John. If she shouts for him. Well, you mustn't allow that. Must you, John? Ah, ah, ah. So you'd better be still, Susan. Yes?  Well, I beg your pardon. I'm looking for a Miss Susan Appleby. You won't find her here. I'm sorry. Well, are you certain of that? It seems to me I recognize that shawl. It was worn by the woman Miss Appleby went to work for a night before last. Surely this is not the only black shawl in the world. Nor am I the only woman who wears one. And I've been inquiring in the village, and all the shopkeepers remembered you as the woman who always does. Is that right? I followed you here this morning. Then I returned to the village, and now I'm back again. Well, you can return right to the village. If you must know, Miss Susan Appleby was here. But she was entirely upset because I couldn't find her here. It's probably find her at home now. Well, all right. If she's gone home, I'll see her there. And so sorry for your trouble. Not at all. Thank you. Good day. Good day. Susan. Susan, was that you whistling a moment ago? I thought I told you to be still. I was nervous. It's a habit of mine. A very bad one. Of which you've many. Among them, no doubt, is that of driving men mad. That one just now. The love in his eyes for you. I've seen that before. In other eyes. I'm so terribly sorry he's gone away. Perhaps you'll return another time. Stay away from me. Here now. The shawl's around. Tighter. Tighter. Don't leave. Don't leave. You heard her. Let her go. Adams, get him. Yes, sir. Drive quickly, John. Quickly. Quickly. You killed him. Of course. This morning I went down to the local constabulary and persuaded Adams here to join me. I was interested, ma'am, because there'd been two disappearances in as many years. And just about this time, this sounded like a third. It almost ended like the other two. Almost. Absolutely. He's locked the door. Let's have a hand here. We'll break it down. All right, Joe. Watch out. Once we're in, she's mad and may try anything. Let's go now. One. Two. Three. Let's cut her down quickly. Too late. Her neck's gone. Rob. Rob. The shawl. The black shawl. So closes the black shawl, starring Dame May Whitty and Moreno Sullivan. Tonight's tale of suspense produced and directed by William Spear. 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This is the DEF CON 30 Hardware Hacking Village where you can come to solder all these different badges that you get around CON. What? What? This is the Hardware Hacking Village. That's the soldering skills village. So what do you do in the Hardware Hacking Village then? All sorts of things. Not soldering. I mean we do soldering, that's an important skill to have, but we do a lot of other things too in terms of taking things apart, making things new. We have a couple of competitions going on this year. Make your own use, literally you take a thing and make it do something it was never intended to do. Which is one of the definitions we've said is a definition of a hacker finding something using the way it was intended. Absolutely. We also have a make, bring the other half and that's, we provide a software blog, we give you a firmware blog and you build the hardware around it and make it do something with that software. See what's amazing to me, hold on, in my defense by the way about the soldering comment, Hardware Hacking started as Hardware Hacking. Yes. And then it expanded and badge life sort of came out and then everyone was assembling those and as that grew it started feeling like it overtook it. But then all of a sudden this happened.  We still have that. It's, it lives on the soldering side now because a lot of that you've got to pull apart but we still have a pile, we call it the source pile, it's kind of give and take, I donated a bunch of, not junk but it's junk and so it's got a lot of useful stuff in there still but it's not useful as it is. So yeah you can grab a part, pull stuff off, you need a USB connector, oh that one's got a USB connector, desolder it, now it's yours. And then you start building stuff over here, if you think about it like one of the things that you told me about was when you're reverse engineering a piece of hardware it starts with discovery, first take a look at what it is and then you start building on those concepts. I remember doing your hardware hacking challenge where I'm like following traces and things like that. You started jumping down the challenges, what other challenges are there? Behind me, one of our other volunteers, Rare, he's putting together a CTF and the way this one kind of works is we pretend that the HHV became an evil corporation and we're making badges for badge life. Makes perfect sense. Yes, so we've made a chip, we've got a data sheet for it, you start by looking at the data sheet figuring out what it does and oh hey there's a flag there for the CTF hint and from there that's where we add the SAO badges, so you get one and we actually added DRM to our SAO badges this year, so the contest is breaking that DRM. It's a little contrived but it works, it demonstrates what you're supposed to do and how that works and find things out. So what's crazy to me about the hardware hacking village is I have not gone that deep in hardware hacking is you have all the tools here and all the knowledge to do it but then you can advance up where you have a digital logic analyzer, you're doing what is acid washing on a chip to then attach the context inside the chip to see what's happening. I have acid here, never happened, continue. But when you're talking about those different types of challenges here, you have digital logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, all of these different tools, what are some of the cool projects that you've seen people working on using some of these things? Oh boy. And as one I remember like Joe Gran did a cool video on grabbing like a crypto wallet, ripping that apart and talking about the process of here's how you dump private keys. Is that the type of stuff that happens in this village? It can. I've seen it happen before. Actually one of my favorite memories from long ago in the HHV was someone built a large coil specifically to blow up RFID cards.  That's actually pretty incredible. It made a loud pop. You knew what was going on. It's okay though, that happened at the RIV. It happened at the RIV. Yeah. Never, never in Caesar's form. Never. So with some of the other aspects, what else, if I was a noob coming into this area, where would you tell me to start? Honestly, the front table over there, we've got a couple of simple displays and demos. I actually put together a set of plates that are delaminated PCBs. So if you ever wondered what different layers of a PCB look like and how they're stacked together, that fully pulls them apart and cases them in resin so you can get a close-up look and see how it all works. You can actually see a manufacturing defect on one of the boards. Really? So it could be useful for inspection as well. Next to that, there is a demo on a side channel timing attack. Also very contrived, but it's still the general concept. So you're inputting a pin and it's slowly leaking data out from LEDs. So how long it takes between you entering the last digit and it telling you that the pin was incorrect varies based on how many correct digits you have. That's fascinating in the sense of like, I remember, so we drew the NSEC CTF recently and that had one of those timing attacks where you'd send commands. There was sort of a specialty way of doing it where you like to like hit packets. I didn't even know those things existed within a hardware. And I will also say there's a fantastic tool that exists called the chip whisperer. It can do all sorts of things related to that including scripting. So you can plug all sorts of these wires into a single device and you can script the commands or actions it gives to the device and what it reads back. And you can have it do different things. You can scale the power, the voltage, you can glitch the voltage. So all these little things that cause hardware to give up its secrets and put it in mode that it was never supposed to be in. I think also it's fascinating with hardware hacking village is what starts here, ends up like morphing and sometimes turns into its own village. Like things like, again, the soldering skills village. You have like the RFID, the radio frequency village started here and then branched out into the con and now have grown and sprouted wings. If you were predicting, what do you think is the next thing that might sprout wings and start going? Boy, that's a good one. I'm stalling for time. No, if I had to predict what would come next from the HHV, it would probably be maybe more of the very nuanced timing attacks. You mentioned the cryptocurrency wallet that Joe Grand did. That was very much a very intricate attack. I can see that being more and more mainstream as more tools are available and cost effective for people to use. You've told me before there's this pendulum swing that happens where new technology comes out and it's too expensive for a hobbyist and then as that becomes the last of a cost, there's more innovation that happens which leads to new technology which has this similar problem. That's one of the things I've always loved about the hardware hacking village is there's just so much. For me who's in software and web, I know how deep that field is and hardware is usually kind of like, eh, it's hardware. But as we become friends over the years realizing like, oh my gosh, there really is crazy attacks here and even more so where in source code, I can obscure code, I can put cryptography on it. At a certain point, there's a trace there that I can read directly from. And what do you think is running your code? It's the hardware. That's a good point. Your code is actually being run by sand that we heated up and forced to think. It's cruel to make sand think, but we did. With that, I mean, there's so much more we can talk about the hardware hacking village, but I know like this place is crazy and you need to get back to helping people. I appreciate that. Thanks for, thank you so much for sharing. Thank you for watching and as always, hack on.


We're still working on getting this up and running like we want it to, but we're going to celebrate all sports here in eastern Kentucky. And as you can see here just around us, we have uniforms from Cordia, band uniforms, baseball trophies, basketball trophies, football even. We're really just here to celebrate sports in the mountains. Talk a little bit about what people can see if they come here in all the different rooms and not only just sports, but a little bit of everything, history. You can see a lot here. We here in Wayland, this is also the home of the Wayland Historical Society. So there are a lot of historical pieces from Wayland, from Floyd County. And there's a cold room here as well that celebrates coal mining history, different types of equipment, uniform pieces, and even some different things that they used in the mounds are here to celebrate mining history, which eastern Kentucky has a long tradition of as well as the sports. And so we're trying to attract a lot of different visitors here. We're setting in the corner of the JR Vanhoose corner this and maybe just go back for a moment JR and talk about the experience of being in the Sweet 16 and to actually help a small community like Paints will bring a state title. Fortunately for the group that I came through with, our high school coach had already been pretty successful with the earlier group of players, John Pelfrey, Joey Couch, Keith Atkins, Mike Minnick. They had gone to the state tournament three times in a row with semifinals one year where they were beat by Allen Houston, Louisville Ballard. So our head coach had previous experience and knew what it took to get there. And so that helped mold us and encourage us to work harder to do the things that those guys had done. And to bring home a state championship, especially small school in East Kentucky, that's definitely the pinnacle of sports here in the mountains. Ball is everything and when you compete for one state championship and you can get that as a small school, that's definitely something special. Talk a little bit about your relationship with King Kelly Colby.  If you look through any record books for high school sports, you know, his name is throughout those pages. And over the years, the relationship with Kelly just grew.  We're that close. You know, and it's great. You know, we can actually just sit down and not even really have to talk about basketball. You know, we talk about other things. He was an avid golfer. So we talk about golf. We'll talk about just anything. Really, you just sit and talk and visit and just have a good relationship. And never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that I would have a relationship with him like that.