So we are recording officially now you can go to the next slide Charlie. Yeah, our next call is scheduled for July 6 that's right after the July 4 holiday here in the US. So looking forward to chatting with all of you there and go ahead and go to the next slide Charlie. And just a reminder of the antitrust policy notice here if you're not familiar with it. As Bill used to say we like to keep lawyers out of this meeting so don't do anything illegal. You know the next slide Charlie. All right so we've got a pretty full agenda here, we will have some time to do a QCON EU debrief in the events section so if you have any comments feedback about that we will get to that at the end so don't worry. We'll try to get through all of our announcements before then because we didn't have the main meeting we do have a lot of announcements and updates that you might have missed with all the craziness of QCON so we'll jump straight into it with the announcements. Awesome, and I'm actually going to pass it to you Charlie to talk about our fun hippie updates. Oh Charlie you're on mute. I can't hear you. Oh thank you. It was me just like talking away to my ebbs do flat. So yeah sorry for anyone who was at KubeCon North America, and didn't get to meet Alina because of some technical difficulties it turns out that owls are not particularly good at doing anything, but she is the newest addition to the hippie and friends family of friends policy agent or open project donated her, and we're going to have some swag and some fun adventures featuring Alina soon. And just a reminder as well if you are a project maintainer, or you work for a company that maintains a project and it's graduated you can also donate a character to the hippie and friends family it is a fantastic way to sort of get a bit more exposure and actually do some really really fun creative campaigns with us. And just a reminder as well that even if you don't have a character to donate you can still use 50 and all of her friends for your campaigns these are all licensed under the creative Commons. So anything you need to do is, please just run to attribute the character to 50.io, when you use it you can find all of the lovely characters in our GitHub repo. I realize I haven't put the link here but it is on the 50.io page for you all. So everybody got to take the which fit be character quiz that you are very in cube con were actually that was really successful and looking to bring that back and have some other fun to be things for Detroit so if you have any ideas for free to put them in the chat you can also reach out to Charlie or I just love seeing that program grow and all the fun things that we get to do so back to you Charlie. We have another new program. Some of you might remember the spotlights that we used to do. We decided to spin this up again and rebrand as the humans of cloud native focusing purely on people not on projects or technology, just people. And what we want to do is just tell the stories of the really amazing individuals who make up team cloud native and make this such a wonderful community and such a great place to work. Looking for nominations of individuals and also interested if folks would like to work with us on this project perhaps of bringing more of these stories to life we've got a dedicated email address set up it's humans at cncf.io. At the moment it's just me on the project so I would absolutely love to hear from any of you who might be interested in getting involved a little bit more. And I don't know if you want me to do this one as well Christy or you. Yeah, you want to start it and we can tag team here. Yeah. So for anyone who hasn't been on the cncf.io website recently you may not have noticed that we have a brand new look which we are so excited about this was a lot of work went into it in the background to to really bring the cncf branding and the website experience. So we're going to start to speed with the foundation that's grown as quickly and as large as ours has. So you're going to start seeing changes over various sub sites as well we've already updated the cncf jobs board. We're going to be working with maintainers to get a new contributor sites went up soon. So you'll start to see more of a consistent branding experience, as we kind of traverse through this. Christy because I know we've got a couple of things that we've been doing very specifically on the website accessibility to to really make this website, she much more easy to navigate for absolutely everybody. Yeah, definitely shout out to our web team for really making accessibility a priority for this website. And it is, we are striving for the web content accessibility guidelines, and there's some information here on how that went into the process we also have a blog on this as well but it's just really great to have that as a forefront focus for, you know, making things more accessible especially when it comes to the website. Next slide. Perfect.  But, you know, she does host these once a month if you have questions about different online programs or how to get involved more, or maybe you want more of a member perspective of how to take advantage of some of these marketing programs she's a great resource. Our teams here to help as well but before we move into the next section just wanted to see if anybody has any question, comments I know we threw a lot of announcements there at you in the beginning so any announcements or any questions about anything before we move on. So I think we can move on to the next section. Great. All right. So we're super excited. Again, for those of you who attended cube con grab you are already familiar with this we welcome to Boeing as a platinum members is super exciting. We're really excited to have them on board on board, and it is a pun Taylor you're wearing off on me already. We also want to give a shout out to our new CNCF members we have some gold members, silver end users and user supporters. Welcome if you're new here we're so excited to have you for free to say hi in the chat and our fun tracking We have member acquisitions. There, we have missed anything in here. We like to keep track of momentum in the cloud native space, you know when there's acquisitions if we've missed anything feel free to let us know. And we try to keep this as updated as possible so there's a lot in here I feel like we might need to kind of update this slide to include maybe the last two years instead of the last four or five. Awesome. And I'm going to pass it over to Jesse from the PR team to talk about some of our lovely media coverage from coupon. Hey, Jesse. Hi. Yeah, just a super success to still cube cotton from a media and analyst perspective. I just included a couple of the just feature articles we had Frederick lard nois from tech crunch she was on site, and did a number of articles from member announcements and then also this great article. I just found the new national program. So, worth a read and actually you can go directly on his, on his page and see some of the great coverage that he did from the event. And then slide. Yeah, and then this was just another another another great article. We got a ton I actually included on the another slide. But this was a really good one to just with our slash data research and overview of some of the top of some of the different topics from that. And then this is just a quick overview of our attendance the events that we did so we had 159 press analysts from all over the world who attended in person virtually which is just great. It was a really big it was a really big showing so we were really pleased. And we did a couple. Three really great roundtables which actually ended up resulting in some really good articles, which I also included in here as well. Over 60 contributed content placements and 64 member announcements were made at the at the event so it was a super successful tons of coverage came out of the show. And then here's just a quick overview for you guys to have a look at I also sent if everybody's on the marketing alias, I sent a day three recap which has more coverage. There's actually just a global overview so if you didn't get that feel free to message me and I'll send you the overview. And then here's all the announcements we made we made a huge number of announcements. So, yeah. This is an overview if you want to check it out if you didn't see it. And then we'll just pass it over to Carl for updates on analysts. Hello everyone. I'm Carl. I'm with the CNCF analyst relations team if we haven't met. Yeah, so at the cube con we're bringing together a community of industry analysts, both in person and virtually. And so I'm just going to highlight a few articles can't be that came out of that one of them being Paul Nash Wadi he wrote this blog on his perspective as an in person attendee. And he was sharing his experiences meeting with practitioners vendors and CNCF leadership. And he also has some cool statistics coming out at ESG. And there as well that you might want to check out. Cool. And then Kate Holterhoff. She was she was wrote this article on her impressions as a virtual attendee. We did have quite a few virtual attendees this year. And she's in this article she's continuing to highlight the importance of trainings and certifications I don't know if you guys have been keeping track of it, but she's got a fantastic. Three or four articles on industry certification that she's been working on and working with the CNCF leadership on. Cool. And then Michael as off the chief analyst at Omnia. In this article he's sharing his perspective as being an in person attendee and highlights from attending the analyst only sessions. I mean with practitioners and users and vendors and what's cool about this is it's actually a full report that he was able to ungain for the community. As all of you guys, I'm sure know getting getting access to these reports can be pretty hard if you're behind gated communities and he was able to get this ungated for us, which is great. Cool. Here, here's some immediate analysts highlights just a few more. I wanted to pull out just because of the way analysts. Analysts editorial calendars work there. They take way longer than journalists. So we'll continue to continue to see their articles coming out and being influenced by cube con in the months to come all the way up to the next cube con, which is pretty fantastic. So it's it's a bit of a running game with analysts constantly influencing them and hearing back from the community and so on and so forth. That's a cool thing coming out of this. There's one Japanese article in there that Tricia, the analyst relations lead was able to translate for us and in that article they're actually telling readers to go check out the replays on YouTube which is pretty cool. So even in even in Japan, we're getting getting some positive feedback from from the community. Cool. Before we go on, I just wanted to highlight a quick request. Brent Ellis analyst at Forrester. He's requesting to connect with end users and communities and companies that provide SRE as a service. And he wants to talk about what they're bringing to the market. Why clients would choose to outsource SRE and how SRE contributors are. And how SRE contributes to overall enterprise resilience strategies. So if you're interested in getting being a part of that research if you're interested in getting an influencing and being a thought leader on that research. Go ahead and send me a slack. Just Carl right on the CNCS slack and I'll shoot over an email and we can get we can get you guys connected. That's a great way to get in on that research. And then at the bottom we've got this blog from Redmonk. This is the last piece from Kate Holterhoff on her three three or four piece session on on industry certifications is a great quote in there. This is by Clyde Sepperson and just various CNCF leadership she she talked to pretty much everyone and quoted a whole bunch of great people in there so wanted to highlight that. It's just fantastic article. Cool. And then last little bit, just coming down to Gartner the big G. Super active recently on reporting cloud native technologies, and we anticipate to see more and more as the Gartner symposium gets closer and as it comes up and passes. So, and we're hoping to see a broader trend, the broader trend of cloud native getting emphasized for this community as the symposium is closer so we can look forward to more and more as that's getting closer. But that's about it for the analyst community right now. I'll talk to you guys next month. So as we do every month. These are just an overview of the key messages that are pulled through with CNC coverage. Obviously, the con was at the top multi cloud actually made it up there. It's always been a little mid high but that's actually a new ones that really that came through a lot and keep on which is interesting. So that's for your being pleasure and then we have the graduated projects which is pretty on par with every month. These ones on boy obviously for the gateway proxy gateway gateway announcement that you can come. And then and we have two different slides for the incubating projects, which just keeps growing. We just keep adding to these so they're here let's split up over to based on when they entered. Awesome. Thank you so much Jesse and Carl that was a super full update I know you all did a lot of work for keep kind of we were so appreciative of it and Carl really appreciate all the analyst updates to before we move into the content and marketing piece does anybody have any questions for Carl or for Jesse before we move on. If you are interested in the analyst opportunity Tricia, thank you for putting all the information in the chat. I've hopefully reached out to that team and they'll be happy to connect you. All right, well we'll move on. I will go ahead and pass it to Libby to talk about online programs. Hey Libby. Hey y'all, how's it going. I'm missing you all in person. I will get straight to it in May, obviously we had a whole week off of online programs for coupon so we had a total of three live streams you can check out our average viewers and watch minutes. These are still proving to be our most popular program in the online programs and they, as you all know, look up quickest so we are still working on potentially growing that that particular piece of the project for the next Q. And so stay tuned for that and that will be an email that comes out at the beginning of June. I'm sorry. Yeah, next month. We'll be opening the calendar. Thank you. Oh my gosh, more coffee. So heaven on demand webinars. Those views are getting great views in YouTube post event and for live webinars so also driving a lot of registrations a lot of attendees live and still seeing tons of views on YouTube so book those up, reach out to me if you have any questions I'm always happy to chat through any, any questions you have or what might be a best fit for you and not listed here but always a great suggestion or YouTube submissions. And as I tell everyone the thing those are always great to have when you're coming to the end of the quarter I need to use some of your benefits, because you can just link straight from your YouTube existing YouTube videos. It's an easy one you don't have to coordinate as much. All right. Next slide. Sorry, I was just going to, if you are new I know we have a lot of new folks on this call and that are members welcome. If you are new to this program and want to learn more about online programs this is our webinar program that we refreshed last year so you'll notice it includes live stream now on demand opportunities as well as we still offer live webinars for our platinum So Libby is an amazing resource she runs this program if you have any questions or if you just want like a quick tutorial of how this works there's also a lot of members on this call who have participated in this program. A great just lots of great resources we're happy to help and there are some slides in the appendix that provide a little bit more information but feel free to reach out if you have any questions like I said Libby is an amazing resource and we're here to help you so don't be shy. Absolutely. This is our weekly and I'll do it Christina since we have new members on the call we this is our weekly newsletter goes out every Friday, you're welcome to contribute and send any proposed content to the Cube weekly at cncf.io email alias, and we have a group of editors who review every week and publish on Fridays so feel free to send any content over. Again, kind of keeping with the same guidelines, not to sales pitchy but anything interesting that either comes from your companies or things that you found online that you just think would be beneficial and you know relatable for the newsletter so here's just some stats from last month. We're continuing to get a lot of great views. And again, we also took a week off for cube weekly so not for cube con see coffee. Thanks so much Libby and this is doesn't just have to be Kubernetes content either it can be anything related to cloud native. Thanks to the guidelines in here, but as Libby said it is subject to editor approval. So we have a group of editors from the community that help us put this together every week. But maybe also runs this so if you have any questions around cube weekly she's a great resource to you can also reach out to the alias but try to keep that content fresh to so when you're submitting something try to submit something that's published within the last two weeks just on the weekly newsletter we try to keep it as fresh as possible. And if you are curious about, you know, what the, what is in the issues there is a link in here to where you can see all of the issues on our website. So, all right. And Charlie will pass it back to you to talk about and user case studies. So yeah, with the new lovely members on the call just a quick explainer so we run a self service. Basically submission system for our case studies so our case studies, just a couple of rules around them. They do need to be about end users. So if you're a member company so you're building and selling cloud native technology to other tech companies for example you might be AWS. You can write a case study about one of your end users and well of course you know mention you you'll get sort of full props in there. But we do want to keep this to end users. And there's a very, very easy submission process. It's all on our GitHub repo. So have a read through that. And if you have any questions at all, you can reach out to me and Charlie on Slack I will have the picture of the horse. So, this month we had a really great case study featuring Philip connect. And this was super fascinating and it was actually written by our friends at point, who basically built and maintained linked D. So again if you're a member company you can still write these really fantastic end user case studies. And just a quick overview on the blogs what sort of readership we had last month. We had over 52,000 unique views, a little higher than normal. I think we had some big, big announcements like the introducing on void gateway, obviously so we've got more more views than absolutely anything else on the blog last month. We have CNCF metrics available so you don't just have to wait until this meeting to see what's going on on the blog, and also what's going on with our case studies in terms of analytics. You can click on this lovely link here, and you can't. There we go that's better. You can click on that and it will take you straight to basically a really fantastic view, you can change the views, you can change your search terms and actually have a look how your blogs and your case studies are performing at any time. So a quick note on this because we did a bit of work on the website a year or two ago, things over 18 months old you may have trouble finding so if you need super old analytics for any reason just please reach out to me and I can give you a hand with that. And I think I will pass it back over to Christie. Thank you so much Libby and Charlie for that update. Before we move on any last minute questions for Charlie or Libby. Before we move on to events. Awesome and just a reminder I saw this come up a couple times in the chat we're going to open the Q, sorry Q3 Q4 calendar for online programs in early July so beyond the lookout for that. We will send an email and then we'll also let folks know in Slack when things are open. Yes Q3 Libby. I'm clearly need more coffee to just tag. Awesome. All right, I'm going to go ahead and pass it over to Vanessa. Vanessa, are you there. Thanks Christie good morning good afternoon everyone apologies and not coming on camera I've got a little bit of a summer cold. I have a voice here as well. Here's an outline of our upcoming case, Kubernetes community days. If you're interested in participating in any of these. Excuse me I apologize. Please click, you know, check out the list here. We also have a series of events that CNCF is participating in. We're at RSA conference and CD con, and you can see the rest of the events we have planned, we have confirmed at this point through the rest of the year. Next slide please. The next two sides we've shared our initial demographic data from cube con Europe. Hopefully all of you have received this. We will be sharing our full post event transparency report by June 24. So keep your eyes out for more information coming on on the event. You can skip one more side there. And Christie we're going to hold this slide right until the end we'll get through everything and then chat about. Sorry, I think I moved you up too soon sorry. Okay. And then just, again, a huge shout out to all of our sponsors for supporting cube con Europe we certainly could not have had the event without all of you so thank you again. This is open to hotel community day coming up on June 20 in Austin, Texas. This is a hybrid event, taking place in person and online can check out the schedule and if you're interested in attending please go ahead and register now. This is our go con coming up in September on the schedule will be coming out later this month. If you're interesting interested in sponsoring sponsorships are still available through July 18 and registration is open. So the cube con North America is going to be here before we know it. registration is open and the last day for early bird registration is today June 8. So if you know you're going, I recommend taking advantage of that early bird rate. The schedule announcement will come Wednesday, August 3. And just a reminder to everyone the sponsorship deadline is July 22. So if you are not confirmed as a sponsor, you have a few weeks still left to do that. We're also excited to announce that we have our initial lineup of CNC up hosted co located events. It's going to be in place either October 24 or 25 in Detroit. The prospectus is live for backstage con cloud native security con cloud native wasm, K native con Kubernetes AI Kubernetes edge day and we have some additional co look CNC up hosted co located events. We'll be launching soon so keep your eyes out for some communications on all of those events coming next week, but the prospectus is live so if you're interested in sponsoring please connect with our sales team. And again, huge shout out to those that have that are sponsoring Detroit at this point. We're super excited to have you back and are looking forward to Detroit so thank you for your continued support. And reminder if you're interested in the diamond sponsorship, the lottery is taking place this Friday, June 10. So all signed diamond sponsorship contracts must be submitted on Thursday, June 9 by 1159 Pacific time to be eligible for that drawing. Any questions. The chat Vanessa I'll read it for you. It says from Connie can we get sponsored discount codes for cube con and a our customers always miss the early bird deadline since we don't get the code until later on. I don't leave Tina's on the call at the moment so let me check the status of where we are in sharing sponsor codes. And I'll get back to you Connie back to everyone. If you want to go back to the slide right after the initial demographic right there. So yeah, now I think we're ready to talk a little bit about cube con Europe. Let's start off, you know just having an open discussion about what if people love about the conference and we'll talk about suggestions but this is really more just want to hear how things went. Unfortunately I wasn't able to be there but glad you all got to be together I was attending virtually. And again thank you to everyone who participated in the welcome video as well as was able to make it to the marketing committee coffee before the keynotes as well so yeah open for for comments now. Hey Renee here from Germany. It was really nice and I guess I'm all right on this picture you're showing so it was an idea of our company I guess where we had a small drone flying through it and staying there together in front of this nice logo for the hugon. That's great yeah I was looking through there were so many great pictures but this one I thought was nice because you've got the outdoor space but that's awesome. So I can send you the video from it afterwards. Yeah, that would be great we also have a really awesome highlight video coming from aren't you that I just got a preview of and I was had even more follow than I thought I could have so that's going to be coming out soon too but thanks. No one else say something so I will continue. We have a lot of partners on the con and some of them asked me. Because of the fact that we have the sponsor on the shirts for the coupon. So there are people from that app and other storage vendors, which are not allowed to wear this T shirt because of the other company as sponsorship on the right or left arm with Fort works. So it's an option to avoid placing sponsor logos on the cube concert in future. I'm the sponsorship of T shirts is a has been a prime MPO sponsorship option. And I, I'm, I'm sorry I don't. Can you tell me exactly what the situation was you wanted to have, you wanted to hand out T shirts with. So it's about the original official T shirts of the coupon. The coupon logo for Valencia and people from that app spot I owe and others told me that they are not allowed from the company to wear them because of the competitor called port works on the arm of so their attendees of the con. And they cannot wear it. And that's makes me a bit sad to be honest. So that's the reason why I want to ask you. Okay, I understand now apologies I misunderstood before. Yeah, again, it's been a really popular MPO sponsorship but we can discuss internally and get back to you. Great. Thank you. Hi, this is Connie from the rancher Susan team. I just wanted to say overall, we had a really great experience with the conference. Valencia was super cool place. And everything. But one of the headaches that we had was with the transportation going like getting to and from the venue. The hotels in general were a little bit far away and would have been helpful if there was some kind of shuttle provided to certain areas and I'm sure that you know has to do with budget as well whatever you know the city and budget can support but anyway, in Detroit, if there's going to be, you know, long distances between the convention center and the hotel areas, it would be helpful to have some kind of shuttle or, you know, more communication with the right share, just so people aren't waiting hours at a time to get somewhere. Yeah, thank you Connie. The good news is in Detroit, it's a very walkable city. The vast majority of the hotels are within walking distance. They also have the people mover, which is an above, above ground tram, I guess, if you will, that goes stops at most of the hotels as well so I don't think we will that issue in Detroit. I think it would be good. If you looked at having if there were going to be another all attendee party, not to have it directly after the day at the show ends because everybody ended up going with their backpacks their laptops, it would be much better if we have time to go back to our hotels and then catch a shuttle at a central location. So you don't have everybody, you know, basically schlepping all that stuff with them to the party and then having to keep an eye on it I just think that would improve maybe some logistics. Okay, thank you. Sure. There's a comment in the chat from Catherine. Hey Catherine. How about virtual booths and discovering those. She says don't really have any great ideas on how to do that but something to think about. Yeah, that's really good feedback Catherine something definitely for us to think about. Christine here from Kubo Matic. So overall we also had a good experience at the conference, but something that I is a detail but what I found very annoying was the catering situation and in particular like the missing water because if you're running boost shifts, and then you need to go away of the booth in order to find water in all of the like refill stations are empty. Then, yeah, it can be very annoying and I would really want to have a better water supply at Kubecon US. Yeah, I totally agree with Chrissy, searching for a piece of water was like an adventure game, to be honest. And another thing we experienced was the bad Wi-Fi situation. And sometimes even the vendors had problems scanning the batches, the QR codes on the batch due to the bad internet connection. And sometimes that I had to was for virtual conference pieces so virtual talks, we were not able to join due to the bad Wi-Fi. Thank you for sharing that feedback. But overall it was really great so. Does anybody else have any comments. Otherwise, happy to give folks some time back and go through the last couple of appendix slides. Okay. Oh, Charlie, can you go back to the appendix. Thanks. Great. Well, thank you all for sharing your feedback. Of course, you know, we're always here if you have more things you want to chat about. And that's great. Feel free to reach out. And again, thank you so much to our friends team for coordinating the event I know that is not an easy task and we are so appreciative of everything and so appreciative of all of you sponsoring attending the event as well and providing your feedback we really do value that. So I'll just go quickly through the appendix site and then we'll give folks some time back in the day to get more coffee or maybe go to sleep or whatever is next on your agenda. I go ahead and go to the next slide Charlie. So if you are new. This is our appendix section of the deck. We have our meeting slides here you can also find the recordings. We just ask that you keep the slides and the recordings to members only so keep that private. We like being able to provide the recordings for you but just don't want them to get super out there. And also we have a cloud native events and CFP calendar that was started by our awesome co-chairs from last year if you were interested in adding your info there. And we have a opt-in member email list that you're also welcome to join as well. And then go to the next slide Charlie. There's also a list of member resources so again because we have a lot of new folks on the call and if you haven't had your member welcome call already. This has the deck for that, as well as information on the TOC different technical groups that you can join. Just as well as the job board link as well that we have. And then also if you are new and you haven't scheduled your new member welcome call feel free to reach out to me or Libby on my team you can find us on Slack too and we're happy to help you get scheduled on that. And then there is a session that Bill and Charlie did last year about building your brand with CNCF this kind of walks you through all the different marketing benefits that you get as a CNCF member, and how to kind of put those to practical use it's a great resource especially if you're new and you just kind of want to hear a little bit more about all the programs that we offer here. And then there are some training sites if you're curious about different certifications how trainings going are awesome training team upstate updates these for us every month so a lot of growth here if you're curious. You just go through them real quick Charlie, I go ahead. And that takes us to the end of the call. Thank you again everyone for joining us today really great to see all of you. Thanks again for your feedback, and we will see you all in July. Bye everybody.


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Here's the letter. Read it. Oh, thank you, sir. Sergeant read the letter carefully and then. But these men aren't the leaders of the gang. Evidently not. If they only left San Francisco a month ago, they're probably still in Skagway waiting for the breakup. I agree, Sergeant. We can stop them at the border. What about the men or men that they take orders from? We don't know when they left the States. They might be in Dawson right now. Our job is to find out who they are. The only way it can be done is through the men the Chief describes. Any suggestions, sir? Yes. First, go to White Pass and check these descriptions at the Customs Post. And if they haven't come through the pass? Well, Sergeant, you might try American territory. You might try Skagway. In uniform? No. It's an ordinary dog puncher. You might be able to make friends with one of the men described in this letter. It's possible, sir. It's dangerous. It's dangerous to drive from here to White Pass. I'm suggesting that you try to become a member of the gang. I should be able to use a good guide. You're out of uniform and American territory strictly on your own. These men are ruthless. Have you ever found out your real identity? I understand the risk, but it sounds like a good idea to me, sir. I'd like to try it. I'll start for White Pass tonight. Good. Best of luck, Sergeant. Thank you, sir. A month later, the Sergeant walked into the 303 Sophie Smith Notorious Café in Skagway. His appearance was completely changed. He was as rough a-looking specimen as there was to be found in the place. King, who stood beside him as he watched a pharaoh game, whimpered every now and then. I don't like the place either, King, but this is business boy. The man sitting in the back room is a member of the library gang, one they call Speck's Colmar. Colmar was sitting at a table with a girl who wore a seal-skin parka.  As the Sergeant watched, she rose from the table and started toward the front of the café. At the edge of the dance floor, a man grabbed hold of her arm. Well, you're going, Annie. Come on, King. Let go of me, Mike. Oh, why should I? You and me are going to have the next dance. I told you to let go of me. You heard the lady, Mr. What's that? Let go of her arm. Well, now, look who's given orders to Mike Carey. The same Mike Carey who stayed two rounds with a great John L. Sullivan. You're drunk. You couldn't stay two rounds with a rabbit. A rabbit, you're calling me. I'm asking everybody to witness that insult. It's only his life can answer for it. The big man lunged at the Sergeant. The Sergeant easily evaded the blow and landed a jolting upper cup on Mike's chin. Mike staggered back a few steps, shook his head, and then quietly dropped to the floor. Did you see that? Knocked him out. He's much more than sick, didn't he? He's got dynamite. You'd better take him outside. He can use some fresh air. What's your name, stranger? Bill enough. It's enough for me. I'm Ann Gordon. I'm glad to meet you. You say that as if you mean it. Well, who wouldn't? Well, I'm glad to meet you. You know, Mike was telling the truth. He is a prize fighter, and he has fought with Sullivan. Oh, he's had too much to drink. Anybody could have done what I did. Don't kid yourself. Are you a prospector? No, just a dog bunter. What does that mean?  This is my lead dog, King. Does he bite? Not unless I tell him to. Say hello to the Lady King. Why, he's nodding his head at me. He's just as polite as his master. I hope you weren't hurt. Mike wouldn't dare hurt me. You interest me, Bill. I suppose you know that you've come pretty well. A little too well, maybe. What does that mean? Oh, just that I like Skagway better. Why? Well, you're here. The Northwest Mounted, isn't it? I'll be seeing you, Miss Gordon. No, wait. Is there any reason why you shouldn't cross the border? Do the Northwest Mounted have anything on you? I didn't say that. Could you carry passengers instead of freight? I could carry one passenger. Are you interested in a job as a guide? A small party, three of us. Where do you want to go? Selkirk. We want to get there before the breakup. I just won't be going out for another two weeks. There's plenty of time. But you haven't answered my question. Are you interested? How much? $500. It's a deal. Good. Come on back here. I want you to meet Spex. Sure. Spex and Mike will be traveling with me. Mike? The same Mike who was twisting around? Yes, but you won't have any more trouble with him. He's not going to thank me for what I did to him. Don't forget it. Spex. Yes? I want you to meet Bill. Oh. Hello. Hi. Bill's going to be our guide as far as Selkirk. Oh, that's so. You've got a dog team, Bill? One. I'll need another. There are three of you. We have one. I can drive, but I don't know anything about the trail. Just, uh, what have you told Bill, Annie? That we want to get to Selkirk before the breakup. That's all. I see. But Bill's all right. I'll talk to you later. Okay. When can we start, Bill? Tomorrow morning. That's fine. Want to take over our supplies and see if we've got everything we need? Might as well. Let's go then. All right. It was late the following afternoon when the sergeant, Ann Gordon, Spex and Mike reached the customs house at the top of White Pass. The constable on duty gave no indication of his surprise at seeing the sergeant returning so soon from Skagway. When he addressed him, he used the name they had agreed on. Forty mile, Bill, huh? That's right. I'm the guide for this party. Your papers seem to be in order. And I have a few questions to ask you. Step into the office. Questions about what? Do you want me to ask them here? No. All right. The office. I'll be with you folks in just a minute. All right, Bill. I recognize one of them, Sergeant. Spex called me, isn't it? Yes, the big one's Mike Carey. The girl's name's Ann Gordon. We have no description of them. Still, they're members of the gang. Where are you heading? A mile upstream from Selkirk. They want to get there before the ice breaks up in the Yukon. Why, I don't know. Who they're going to meet, I don't know. Could be the head man. And it could be another subordinate. I believe they intend to go on to Dawson by the bolt. You'll be leaving them when you get to Selkirk? I don't want to unless I have to. Spex has been sounding me out without saying too much. I've been trying to convince him that I'm the type the gang can use. You may be able to work it for me. How? Say that I've been mixed up in a number of robberies. That's true enough. But that the Northwest Mounted Police has never been able to convict me of anything. That's true too. If it works, if I'm accepted by them, I won't be able to contact the force directly until I find out what they're up to. Perhaps not even then. However, if there's anything you should know, I'll try to get word to Metcord Joe in Selkirk. At the trading post. That's right. I'll see that he's notified. Wait here while I warn your party against you. The sergeant waited in the office while the constable talked with the girl and the two men. Then the party was allowed to continue through the pass. They made camp that night on the shores of Lake Bennett. As the sergeant fed the dogs, he could hear the other three arguing around the campfire. Then Spex rose and walked toward the sergeant. Oh, Bill. I'd like a word with you. You going to fire me? Why should I do that? The constable told you I was a suspicious character, didn't he? Yes, he did. But he also had to admit the law had nothing on you. That proves you're smart. Smart enough, I guess. How would you like to keep on working for me after we get to Selkirk? You won't need a guide from there on. If you've got a boat, you can float down the river to Dawson. This is another job I have in mind. Could pay maybe ten thousand dollars and a chance to get out of the Yukon. I can get out of the Yukon whenever I want to. With ten thousand dollars? That sounds interesting. What do I have to do? Just follow orders. That all? That's all I can tell you. I'm not the one who'll give the orders. And if I don't like them? You're in or you're out right now. Ten thousand, Bill. I'm in. Fine. I'll tell the others. Yes, King, we're in. I wonder how easy it will be to get out. We'll continue our story in just a moment. Hey, what's up? Who's on the warpath? No. What goes on? Me now, big chief. Make celebration. Oh, I see. Congratulations are in order. And say I have something I'd like to give you because it's just what a big chief ought to have for breakfast every morning. Must be special big for big chief. Oh, it is. Everything about Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice is big. Take a look at the big red and blue packages. Me like colors red and blue. 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The trip to Selkirk was made in less than two weeks, although during the last few days the ice on the Lewis River was soft and mushy. Specs ordered the sergeant to drive on past the little settlement around the trading post and they finally stopped at a cabin on the banks of the Yukon itself. There, they waited for the ice to break. Hear that rumbling, Specs? Yes. The ice will be breaking up tomorrow. Are you going to do something about a boat? We'll have our boat as soon as the ice is out of the McMillan. That should be tomorrow too. Then we'll leave tomorrow night. What about my dogs? We'll have to leave them here. Can I take King with me? Nope. There's Louie who's bringing the boat and the four of us. No room. Besides, you won't be needing dogs anymore. I'd like to take King with me. He stays here. That's your first order, Bill. Whatever you say. But Sergeant Preston had no intention of leaving his team to run wild in the forest. The break-up came early the following morning. That afternoon, Louie, a swarthy French Canadian, arrived with a large skiff. And as the boat was being loaded with supplies, the sergeant wrote a note and stuck it in King's collar. Then he led him away from the cabin along the trail to Selkirk. I'm going to have to say goodbye for a while, King. I want you to go that way. Find Metka Joe. Metka Joe, King. Metka Joe. Understand? That's right. Metka Joe, your old friend. He'll keep you at the trading post overnight and you'll leave him back here tomorrow. He'll take care of you and the team till I can come back for you.  Metka Joe. King found Metka Joe and the trader found the note attached to his collar. King, Joe does not like this. There's a big chance the sergeant takes. But if he goes to Dawson, he'll be close to headquarters. That is something. Come, King, we go to my cabin. You stay the night with me. King would have liked to return to the sergeant and he scratched the door of Joe's cabin when the trader bolded it. I am sorry, King. It is what the sergeants say. You take me to the cabin. We find the team tomorrow, not tonight. The great dog settled down close to the door. But his sleep was troubled that night. And the next morning he could hardly control his eagerness when he and Joe set out from Selkirk. As they neared the cabin where the sergeant stayed, he raced ahead. Only the huskies basking in the spring sunshine greeted him. King ran down to the water's edge. Hey, King. Hey, sergeant. He's gone. We must take the dogs back to Selkirk now. This was something King couldn't understand. He knew the sergeant was gone, but why? Why had his master left him behind? He will come back and get you as soon as he can. The words were kind, but there was no reassurance for King. The sergeant hadn't ordered him to stay behind. He must find him wherever he had gone. There was no scent to follow. Instinct took its place. King looked up into Joe's face, parked, and then started to run along the bank of the river toward the north, toward Dawson, nearly 200 miles away. King. King. Thank you. It was two days later that the skiff nosed into the bank about two miles south of Dawson. The supplies were unloaded, and Louis led the way through the woods to a large clearing. Twenty men were camped there. Specks introduced the sergeant to a few of them, and then he and Anne started out for town. After they had gone, the sergeant tried to get some information from Mike. Any idea what the job is going to be, Mike? No. And if I did, I wouldn't tell you. Why not? We're all in this together. I don't like you. That's why not. I've been told to leave you alone, and that I'll do till we've finished with this business. But I haven't forgotten what you did to me down in Skagway, and I won't. We have a score to settle you and I. If that's the way you want it. What's more, I don't trust you. Just because I'm new? There are others here who are not new recruits. No, it's more than that. You're one of those all-fired, self-important, know-it-alls. I don't trust you, and I'll be keeping an eye on you every minute. Try to pull anything smart, and it'll give me great pleasure to break you in two. I wasn't hired to be smart. That's the boss's job. See that you remembered it. Spex Colmar returned to the clearing shortly after dawn. He called the men together around the campfire. Quiet down now and listen. The northern stars leaving Dawson for St. Michael at midnight tonight. I have tickets for all of you. We'll leave here at 11 o'clock, and we'll get on board just before sailing time. Wait a minute, Spex. What's the matter? You told me I'd leave the Yukon with $10,000 in my pocket. The northern star will be carrying over a quarter of a million dollars in gold. Does that answer your question? How do we get it? By shutting up and following instructions. As soon as you get on board, go straight to your staterooms, and you stay there until we're underway. I'll pass the word along when we go into action. Then, Mike, you and Bill head for the bridge and take care of the watch on duty. Right. Louie, you go with them. Yeah. You will stay at the helm until you're relieved. Now, Mike, your crew takes over the... Spex continued with his instructions, and the men listened intently. The sergeant took advantage of their concentration to slip a pencil and paper from his pocket and write a brief note. He saw that Mike was watching him, and he slipped the note into his pocket. How could he manage to warn headquarters? There seemed to be no answer. At last, Spex finished, and the sergeant walked over to his blanket roll near the edge of the circle of light cast by the campfire. Mike was still watching him. The sergeant stretched out on the ground. He's back to the fire. What to do? If we stop them before they get on board, they won't have a thing on them. Captain and the crew must be warned, and we should have at least a half dozen members before they're on board. I'll have to turn and slip away. If I do, Mike will probably put a bullet in my back. Still, there's nothing else for... What's that? The sergeant heard a faint sound at the edge of the clearing. Then, he saw two shining eyes, an animal of some sort. It started toward him. King, keep down, boy. Down. Obediently, King crouched low and crawled up to his master. The sergeant's body shielded him from the other men. Quiet, boy. How you got here, how you were found, they all never know.  Now, see, boy, passing a note to your collar. The inspector came. Headquarters, quiet, King. Headquarters, go on, boy. The sergeant watched King slip into the forest. Then, he looked at his watch, eight o'clock. If King delivered his message, there was plenty of time for the inspector to make his preparations. The sergeant turned and saw Speck's talking with Mike. The big man was smiling. He nodded to Speck's and started toward the sergeant. When he reached his side, he looked down at him. The evil smile twisting his lips. Well, got any questions about tonight? You know what you're supposed to do? I guess so. You and me are going to share the state room. That's all. Here's your ticket. What's so funny? You and me are going to stick close together from now on. Speck said so. And that makes you happy. Yeah. Now, what do you think of that? There was a crowd at the waterfront in Dawson that night. The Northern Star was the first steamer to leave for the outside after the break-up. The passengers streamed up the gang plank, and among them were Speck's men. The sergeant and Mike went directly to their cabin. Twelve o'clock came. The captain gave the order to cast off, and the Northern Star steamed out into the Yukon. The sergeant and Mike waited in that cabin. That could be Speck's. You stay where you are. I'll open it. Yes, Speck. You and Bill, the boss wants to see you. Come on, Bill, follow me. All right. This way. The cabin's up toward the bell. The deck was deserted. Speck's led the way forward to a cabin directly below the bridge. You first, Bill. Walk right in. The sergeant opened the door and stopped short. The man facing him was a man with a gun in his hand, a man he recognized, a man he had seen many times in Dawson, a man he had known as Rex Penfield, professional gambler. Come in, Speck's. Right. Come in, Mike. You heard what the boss said. Get moving. I've got it. And Gordon rose from a chair in the far corner of the cabin. Are you sure, Rex? Absolutely. I suspected as soon as you described him this afternoon. There was no mistaking him when he came aboard in spite of those clothes in that beard. Is it true, Bill? Are you a policeman? No answer. Are you satisfied, Annie? Dirty double-crossing cop. Sure, I suspected from the first he was no good boss.  You're sure he had no chance to communicate with anyone? I'll swear to him. Sit down, sergeant. Relax. Sit down. That's better. We won't have long to wait now. You know, sergeant, you bodies have an exaggerated opinion of your own efficiency. Did you expect to stop us all by yourself? Listen. Boys have got to work, boss. Before we put the bullet through the spellpin and dump him overboard, could I take just one crack at him? Is it even a score for him? Stick to bullets, Mike. You haven't got a chance when it comes to fists. No chance. I'll show you. Mike, step forward between the sergeant and Rex Penfield. Get out of the way. The sergeant dove from Mike's legs, and the force of his tackle drove the huge hulk of a man back against Penfield. In the next instant, the sergeant was on his feet, was twisting the gun from Penfield's grasp. He had the gun and started toward the door, but Anne Gordon had picked up a chair and brought it crashing down on his head. The sergeant dropped to the floor. The spellpin! Deliberately, Mike Kerry kicked the fallen sergeant. You don't have to waste a bullet on a Mike. Just throw him over the side. Sure it'll be a pleasure, boss! But it's like Ben over to pick up the sergeant. The door of the cabin burst open, and King leaped at Mike. Inspector Conrad and two constables entered the cabin directly behind him. What about your hands, Penfield? That's enough, King. You seem to have got here just in time, Inspector. Get some handcuffs on them. All right, what's the meaning of this? I haven't done anything. You're under arrest, Penfield. The charge was attempted robbery. Now it's attempted murder. Robbery? Murder. And anything you say will be used against you. Here, one of your men has been captured. The steam was turning around and heading back for Dawson. You're all going to jail. How did you find it? How did we find out what you were up to? Well, this dog brought us a message from the sergeant. My men were down in the engine room and up in the captain's cabin. When you made your move, we were ready for you. Sergeant, it's coming to you, Inspector. Good. Oh, King. How are you, Sergeant? Oh, I'm very happy to see you, Inspector. Have they all been taken? There's nothing to worry about now, Sergeant. They're all under arrest. Stop it, King.  You heard what the inspector said. There's nothing to worry about now. The case is closed. In just a moment, Sergeant Preston will give you a preview of Monday's adventure. Listen, fellas and girls. Tie a little string around Mother's finger tomorrow before she goes shopping. Tell her it's just a reminder to get Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice. Because these king-size, ready-to-eat premium grains of rice or wheat are so swell-tasting. 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The natural sciences are ultimately based on facts, as established by laboratory experiment. Physical and biological theories are confronted with these facts, and are rejected when in conflict with them. The perfection of these theories no less than the improvement of technological and therapeutical procedures requires more and better laboratory research. These experimental ventures absorb time, painstaking effort of specialists, and costly expenditure of material. Research can no longer be conducted by isolated and penniless scientists, however ingenious. The seat of experimentation today is in the huge laboratories supported by governments, universities, endowments and big business. Work in these institutions has developed into professional routine. The majority of those employed in it are technicians recording those facts, which the pioneers, of whom some are themselves experimenters, will one day use as building stones for their theories. As far as the progress of scientific theories is concerned, the achievement of the rank and file researcher are only ancillary, but very often his discoveries have immediate practical results in improving the methods of therapeutics and of business. Ignoring the radical epistemological difference between the natural sciences and the sciences of human action, people believe that what is needed to further economic knowledge is to organise economic research according to the well-tried methods of the Institutes for Medical, Physical and Chemical Research. Considerable sums of money have been spent for what is labelled economic research. In fact, the subject matter of the work of all these institutes is recent economic history. It is certainly a laudable thing to encourage the study of economic history. However instructive the result of such studies may be, one must not confuse them with the study of economics. They do not produce facts in the sense in which this term is applied with regard to the events tested in laboratory experiments. They do not deliver bricks for the construction of aposteriori hypotheses and theorems. On the contrary, they are without meaning if not interpreted in the light of theories developed without reference to them. There is no need to add anything to what has been said in this respect in the preceding chapters. No controversy concerning the causes of a historical event can be solved on the ground of an examination of the facts, which is not guided by definite praxeological theories. The foundation of Institutes for Cancer Research can possibly contribute to the discovery of methods for fighting and preventing this pernicious disease. But a business cycle research institute is of no help in endeavours to avoid the recurrence of depressions. The most exact and reliable assemblage of all the data concerning economic depressions of the past is of little use for our knowledge in this field. Scholars do not disagree with regard to these data. They disagree with regard to the theorems to be resorted to in their interpretation. Still more important is the fact that this is impossible to collect the data concerning a concrete event without reference to the theories held by the historian at the very outset of his work. The historian does not report all facts, but only those which he considers as relevant on the ground of his theories. He omits data considered irrelevant for the interpretation of the events. If he is misled by faulty theories, his report becomes clumsy and maybe almost worthless. Even the most faithful examination of a chapter of economic history, though it be the history of the most recent period of the past, is no substitute for economic thinking. Economics, like logic and mathematics, is a display of abstract reasoning. Economics can never be experimental and empirical. The economist does not need an expensive apparatus for the conduct of his studies. What he needs is the power to think clearly and to discern in the wilderness of events what is essential from what is merely accidental. There is no conflict between economic history and economics. Every branch of knowledge has its own merits and its own rights. Economists have never tried to belittle or deny the significance of economic history. Neither do real historians object to the study of economics. The antagonism was intentionally called into being by the socialists and interventionists who could not refute the objections raised against their doctrines by the economists. The historical school and the institutionalists tried to displace economics and to substitute empirical studies for it precisely because they wanted to silence the economists. Economic history, as they planned it, was a means of destroying the prestige of economics and of propagandising for interventionism.