All right, we'll go through the order flow today and note that for the rest of the month It's you know June 19th, but for the rest of June We will not have any book map order flow webinars In fact a structure is going to be changing a little bit and we have a real nice surprise for you guys beginning in July After the US holiday, so that will be on July 5th. Okay, so it's gonna be great. I think this will really help you guys quite a bit Understanding order flow and integrating it into the way that you trade We're real excited about this new direction. So so give us a little bit of time here and we'll be right back to to support live order flow understanding with book map In July. Okay. All right, let's start off here with the risk disclaimer trading equities in futures involves Substantial risk of loss is not suitable for all investors past performance is not indicative of future results For more information we can go to book map calm become a member there And you have access to a lot of free resources and you can reach out to us at book map or support at book map calm Okay, a lot of the free resources or a few of them are in the handouts folder and go-to webinar that I've included here There's the book map hft intro guide. Okay, that's a your introduction to high frequency trading and Understanding because we can see this in book map. All right. So in the order flow, you can you can spot The algos and how they're operating and this is going to give you an advantage So understanding this environment in the way that these markets trade today is really important Okay, we also have the user guide in that handouts folder and then I include CME rule 575 because it it talks about disruptive and prohibitive practices of HFT traders. All right and That is all well documented in book map how you can see The behavior this kind of disruptive behavior. All right, so We can we can go over that if you guys have any questions, but flip of the book is one of them spoofing is another Initial ignition algos are another. I mean, there are many phenomena and when there is a good example I'll cover that in in book map Okay So let's see if you're new to book map. Let me show you where you can find it It's under book map common or the pricing tab here and you can see all the different Versions that we have I've covered this pricing quite a bit. I think I've answered all your guys questions But for those of you who are new here Let's just make a distinction right down the middle here. There is just book map and Then there's book map with the DX feed. Okay, the DX feed is just a data feed. Okay, and the It allows you to Access us equities. Okay, and we've packaged it together. So there's just there's two versions of book map There's basic and advanced and the difference between the two Are the add-ons and the ability to trade from the chart? Okay and then The book map with the DX feed. This is for those equity guys Who are only interested in equities then you might want to consider going with the package deal here Okay, now if you have book map advanced or basic and you're looking at futures and you want to add DX feed you can It's no big deal. Just go into your book map portal here And then you can do one of the add-ons or upgrades here All right, you will need six point one So you will need to upgrade to six point one and then you'll need to add the DX feed To access book map now that that's we're not a data provider. We're just offering With partnership through DX feed that there is the capability to Connect The DX feed to book map right and and you can do that through us Okay, we're not a broker We're not a data provider, but you can get access to it. Okay. It's $59 a month So let's also make a distinction here. You get a 14-day trial period with all of these products Okay, including the DX feed you'll get a 14-day trial period if you get that as a standalone add-on However, the it will be delayed data. Okay, so if you don't want delayed data with DX feed Then I would recommend just outright purchasing it and then you'll have it. Okay There's a note on that as well. It's for the beginning of every calendar month so it's You know June 19th, so you're only going to get it until the end of June And then it will renew the DX feed will renew on July 1st All right okay right, so The all these webinars are recorded you can find them here and You click on the Under this education tab you click here. That'll take you to the YouTube page and then you can access them all here. All right Okay, and then you can follow us here on Twitter as well And you'll get the most up-to-date Information of what's going on with book map. Okay So let's take a look at the macro view. This is our process that we go through every day here And we're gonna just get a feel for what's going on in the marketplace Some of the areas of support and resistance and just get an understanding Right now then we're gonna look at the microstructure within book map and how that relates to that macro view and then we're gonna drill down and we have the process for looking at the order flow and Context is very important in order flow Understanding the areas around it etc But we're gonna be able to look very objectively at the order flow because we have all of the data that's shown in front of us and these phenomena repeat again and again, so we can really Utilize this process to help us read and in pinpoint Entries exits and trade management Okay, and I'll get into the order flow in the auction here in just a minute here All right, so let's step back and let's take a look at the ES since we're at all-time highs and Real real nice breakout very strong to the upside here as you can see and Take a look at some areas of interest Okay, so this is the half-hour chart. Actually, let me even step back and we'll look at the daily here Okay, and you can see the move here to the upside All right zoom in a little bit Okay, so now this was a previous high swing here at 2445 or 46. Okay. Now we've gone through that area. So that's important to note And that is this line here. Okay 2545 50 So are we going to accept or reject outside into this new territory? That's that's what we're trying to gauge and understand right now You can see the 930 open here and and the very aggressive bind to the upside Okay, now it is on a little bit lighter volume than than previous days. So that's another thing to note All right, so just getting a feel for You know what's going on in this macro view And let's look at a five-minute chart and maybe look at some other areas in more microstructural areas Yeah, I am interested and you can see we had a pause here and then we had to follow through to the upside So this this area here that consolidation is of interest for me and Yeah, we can outline, you know the the swings here and then also this isn't you know now as well An area of consolidation here okay, okay, so let me let's take a look at the Microstructure in book map and what does that tell us here? Okay, here's our 930 open. Hey, we see the initial drive to the upside And then we can see a very strong drive because look at the Consolidation here is up at a higher level. We did not come back to retest where we broke from here And we see continuation to the upside up into the figure here 2550 okay, that's important to note. There's going to be a lot of sellers up here just naturally just because because of the round the round numbers Okay, and our area of breakout of 2445 well, we can see that buyers are stepping in here to provide liquidity at that area Okay, they were over here as well on the on the sell side And they've now flipped to the other side here now We'll see as we get into the auction process. Do they mean business or not? Okay? That's going to be important distinction Okay Let's see here. What else do I see? Not much, you know, it's a I mean you can see all the green dots, you know So very aggressive buying and and then continuation here Let's take a look at this breakout up to the the figure here We can see that it's not as big as it was previously Okay, but it was you know, we can see this consolidation is pretty pretty strong All right, it's up at a higher high. We do not even come back to test 45 yet. Okay, but we're looking pretty poised to now All right, so yeah, we're in a range basically and the range at the moment You know, I mean you can see is down trending just right in this area here But it we're basically just going sideways here. All right Okay, so now let's go to the auction process and take a look here. Okay We're gonna answer three questions We show up to this market We show up to this auction and we want to know what's going on in that auction where the majority of the participants Okay, and that'll be understood by the current configuration of the book and And then we're gonna take a look at how are these participants behaving as price approaches them So do they still do they still have interest to buy or sell at these areas or are they are starting to? Get cold feet and pull their their liquidity at these areas that only that'll be an important distinction Now we also want to understand the context of those areas not just the the participants at one price level What about the areas around it? Are they adding? As price is coming down. Are they adding above some of those higher liquidity areas or are they adding below? That gives us a lot of context to that area Okay, and we'll we'll get into it here and then the thirdly the Large transactions where are they occurring? Okay, that's traditional tape reading and we'll look at the traded volume to see like where the participants are actually Taking a position Okay, all right. So what current configuration of the book? Well, we can see them very clearly here at 45 Okay, there's a 1650 contracts here at 24 45 Okay, so that's where they are on the bid Where are they on the offer? Well, we can see them still here for the most part up at 24 50 Okay, one thing There's a lot of traders in here today Just want to mention I'm using the rhythmic data feed and So you might not see well, you don't see Any sort of limit to the limit order book? Okay, the order book is complete. It's full depth right now. Okay. This is something that is Just coming out. So you might you might see white lines that show an extent of your limit order book And that would be the lit book and every other level beyond those areas are not lit Okay, they are not live. Okay, but now this kind of market transparency that Rhythmic is offering you can see that All of these areas are live So if someone provides jumps into the book and provides really high liquidity up here at 52 for example And offers 1,600 contracts well, we're gonna see that in real time Okay All right now Let's see. I think rhythmic and CQG as well for the comics and the NYMEX provide full book But other data providers I Do not know of any others at the moment. All right, so what anyway? I just wanted to make that note because we can see that these areas up here We know that they are live, you know, even though they're pretty far away from my current price Okay What else? We see traders are starting to show some interest here at 48 as you can see that they're starting to They were here earlier at 48 and then they pulled that liquidity as it got darker and they started to add in a little bit And then and then it started to turn, you know darker gray here. So they're pulling liquidity And now they're adding back in it turns a little bit lighter gray Okay, and you can see we're channeling between those two areas right now in the book All right, so that is the current configuration of that book Okay. Now the second question here. How are they? Participating as price approaches them. All right, and we can answer that question too okay, so Well, we can't answer at the moment because price is right in the middle However, there's some of these previous areas to take a look at that Okay, so let me click on the hand tool. I'm going to zoom in here. I will take a look Okay, so when the current configuration was a little little little different here They were up at 4550. We can start to read this auction Okay, you can see that they were adding and pulling in this area. There was some buying interest okay, but This this buying interest here Wasn't so bullish You know, we can see that they pulled here and we can zoom into this exact area and understand exactly what's going on in this auction Okay, price starts to come down. They start to pull Okay, that's showing rather bearish behavior. They don't want to be a buyer any longer Okay, in fact now they're adding here a tick lower Okay, so that's a 25 45 and a quarter All right a little bit of spoofing activity as well You know a skew in the book with higher liquidity here very short term high liquidity Okay, you combine that with some of the aggressive selling and you can see what what happens Okay, so we're reading this whole area here and putting it into context All right, so first off higher liquidity here well first off was the Liquidity here at 50 was a 45 50 was pulled They skewed the book with higher liquidity here on the offer and we see that they continue to hit the bid with the aggressive selling Okay, now a Lot of times you'll see that this can be the initial cascade for a nice move to the downside And then you might see a flip of the book here at that area. Okay. They were here on the bid They would flip to the offer looking for a pullback to that area Instead we only come down a few ticks and these guys jump back into the book All right, and you can see that same behavior here again occurs Okay, and they're showing it's high liquidity, but it is new into the auction and you can see that You know price, you know veers away from it it needs to kind of Recalculate a value and in this area here Okay, and again same same type of a cave behavior that we see here Okay, and now we're starting to as we go forward here start to read a little bit better Okay, now now they're becoming more interested a higher liquidity Okay, so you can see here was we went from 1,300 contracts here over to now 1,400 almost 1,500 Okay, and they started a pull and then right here. This is new a new skew in that auction from 1,400 contracts to 1,700 contracts Okay, very briefly and then they pull and go one tick lower So now understanding this area is like well, you know, they're not they're not really that interested in buying I mean they're more interested than they were before because they are providing higher liquidity here But reading the context of this auction Doesn't give us that insight that they really want to buy The behavior we would want to see if they really want to buy would be that not only would they Provide high liquidity at for example this 45 and a quarter area they would The areas around it and above it especially would start to get aggressive you would start to notice those areas As providing high liquidity and then that would show very bullish behavior All right instead. We don't see that Okay So let's go back and what has unfolded so far Not much not much. Okay. We're still just caught right in the middle here all right Okay, here we go. Maybe we get a this push down into into 45 right now Let's take a look And then as we're watching this here, we're gonna get to that third question All right, and that is transactions. Where are they occurring? We want to gauge the intent of the trader not the intent of the traders Actually where they're positioning themselves. We've already gauged the intent with the first two questions here. Okay Okay, so here here here's a as we zoom out we can see that behavior again Okay, providing higher liquidity, but at lower areas here All right, and this does coincide with our a level we saw in that higher time frame Right. Are we going to it gets back to that that question we originally asked About this this level here at 45 and in a half Are we going to accept or reject into this new? Breakout area of all-time highs here. Okay, if we don't well We might fall right back down into and find maybe buyers down here At at 40 around 42 or maybe down here at 40. Okay Any questions on that Understanding this process understanding what we're looking at And then how to how to integrate that within not only the Microstructure here that we see but also our higher time frame. Okay just a moment here there's something I want to Since so we've got a lot of you guys in here today. I want to run a poll And We launched this the other day this poll here if can you guys see it? We're just looking for Some of your interest here Since now we offer the equities you get get your feedback on this right the Are you interested in the? Futures or or just the Equities or or both or are you looking for other markets that you'd like to see book map cover? Okay Okay, well Yeah, it looks like futures is winning the battle so far So you equity guys if you're interested in voting that you might want to get in there and support that direction Okay, give it a few more few more seconds here. All right. Thanks guys One more. I'd like to to go over with you since that's the first question For you equity guys Like to and and futures and not just equities here This is an important one all right, so Which brokers would you like to see in book map? And we've kind of boiled it down to a few different brokers here and and all three of these as well they they they offer Futures so you futures guys this is going to be important important one as well Which direction you'd like us to to support? Yeah, I mean this would be really good because You know then you guys could either either would either one that you want there any of these brokers You're gonna be able to get your equities US equities data as well. All right a few questions here. Okay? Let's see a question about being able to connect to other exchanges Well, let me let me cover that here. I'll let you guys finish up with that poll and then I can cover this the Take a look at book map comm and under connectivity. You'll see the Data providers that we support okay, if those data providers offer access to other markets, you know in the Asian Some of the Asian markets or maybe Indian markets that you're interested in trading or maybe South American markets then you know Then if you can get that data through through them then you can access it in book map All right Axel you want me to talk about thinner markets. Sure Okay No, no not API data You know, I mean we are a platform Okay, just like any other platform, so you can connect book map directly All right, so the I mean there are a few different platforms that we use the API to connect for example Ninja so NTT right so what you can do as well as interactive brokers the trader workstation but With ninja for example, if you're accessing Those other markets through ninja will then connect book map to to to ninja And then you should be able to see those those other markets within book map John how can you just adjust the size of the of the dots? Yeah, that's that's a real easy one Click up here on the studies configuration. Click on volume dots. Okay, and the dot size is here Okay, I Just leave it on there on there on the Default setting so that most of you guys are gonna be looking at that default as well Okay. All right. Let's uh, let's oh, I'm sorry. I'm not sharing my screen. All right. Hold on just a minute here I'll close this Okay. Thank you. Thanks for participating in that And let me share my screen Okay, there you go Okay, so John here you go studies configuration volume dots and then the volume dot size is right here Okay. All right. Well, let's let's come back and take a look what unfolded as we're going through those Those poles all right, so, you know, here's the behavior. Okay, and we we witnessed it earlier, right? We started to gauge it. Okay. I mean they did come in with higher liquidity at this area at 45 All right, we also started to gauge their intent though at this area and we can we can just read it And we're putting it together Okay, and then here here here's answering that second question emphatically Okay, they're pulling Okay, price is starting to come down toward them. It goes one tick lower here That's all it took and they put they start pulling the majority of that liquidity All right, and now they're down here at 43 Okay, now we go through that process again current configuration of the book at 43 and then Yeah, it's Have to bring down the settings here a little bit to look for where they are on the offer and Yeah, I mean there's still way up here Right the majority of it and we see 48 is still in the game, I guess but that might be the next stop All right, and and then we'll go through that process again. What what about the transactions? Okay, where are they taking place and It's kind of you know, it's kind of both sides I mean we see a lot of buying here in this area There was the potential here right in this area here for the reach this test of coming up to to 48 All right, just by the transactions we can gauge it all right Reading that tape and then you can see though Well, we can we can start to read that tape a little bit better here as I zoom in Look at the transactions that took place at the little highs here. Okay, these these swings to the high here and We can see that there was there was very few Okay, there's also very few on the lows in this microstructural area here Okay, so that's why we're going sideways There's really no interest on either side here and that's where we want to gauge the the skew in this random walk of price in reading the tape Okay, we can see that Here here here the story started to change just a little bit Okay, and maybe maybe here gave us some some clues, but you know, this might be a little bit better here Now we're having there's some green dots starting to trade up here Okay, aggressive buyers are starting to get interested and they take it just to tick higher Up into 47 and then that's it, you know, they're not interested in testing or Reaching that higher liquidity here at 48 Okay, it basically the buyers exhaust out Now for exhausting we want to we want to see more areas like this like there's no trading up here Some of it some trading up here. I mean this it starts to look like maybe, you know There's a potential here to to go higher But instead we go sideways a little bit more and then the very aggressive sellers They jump in and hit the hit the bid pretty hard Okay, and we come short of making the low but then volume starts to trade down here Okay, we start to note now in this area here a Little more selling than buying Okay, and that is the shift in the order flow that we can see in this area here All right, and and especially I would say down here. Okay note the More selling down at this lower here area here. And now this is microstructural, right? and You know, we're kind of going back and forth here But it's after something like this We're looking for you know, maybe return back into where it exhausted previously That would be here Around this 46 and to see if buyers are still interested or not And let's we can read that right now Okay Right now. It's no.  Yeah, really it's Yeah, not not too not too interesting here not not too much to cover at the moment And we do see now, you know, we came up here and there was a little bit of buying now The buyers are starting to accumulate a little bit, but but so are the sellers Little bit a little bit more buying than selling. Anyway, I think that pretty much wraps it up, you know, we Keep an eye on this want to keep an eye on this 45 area due to our higher time frame also the microstructure here and and then where we broke out from That we can see here in the at the 930 open. Let's see where exactly is that? Okay. Yeah, here's the 930 open here Okay, so Now is that consolidation area that we're looking at our higher time frame here? Okay, and you can see that the buyers are lining up here at 43 All right, so they're looking to buy and support any pullback into 43 Hey, but you know, we need to wait again until price comes down into that area Okay All right guys, well, let's let's wrap it up and And note again that this will be the last webinar for the month And we'll come back with a new structure that we really think is gonna gonna enhance your Integration of order flow into your trading. All right, and that'll be first webinar will be July 5th after the Independence Day holiday here in the US All right, William. Yeah, you're welcome Let's see any last-minute questions. If not, then we'll wrap it up and then that's that Okay, Axel thinner markets. I'm sorry the Yeah, book map shows very nicely The thinner markets is the same story. It's just that You know with they're more volatile because they're thinner so you get more price action and movement But the same process we've used in gold and oil you know understanding the the auction and Understanding the the intent of those traders in that auction Okay, a lot of times what you'll get though is see here at 45 How we came down here and kind of stopped and then you know rotated back up Well, you you'll get more of a push through and then a more of a pull back To where it broke in those thinner markets okay Yeah, is it possible to reset the the? Columns absolutely. In fact, we have some new features here in in book map 6.0 where you can Just right-click in the column here. Okay, so this is the CVP. I'm looking at this chart range here of volume that has traded and I'm gonna right-click in this chart and then I'm going to go to reset here. You can reset it now You can reset it on a double-click All right, or we have other options here for Configuring the reset you can schedule a reset at a specific time like at 9 30 the US cash open or you can have it Set or reset every single, you know period You know it could be hours minutes seconds, etc Okay, there's also a new reset here conditional reset and what this allows you to do is You know, you're studying an area here like like this is a this is a great example. You're under you're studying this Really nice single distribution that you can see here as we're going sideways And you know if you see something trade outside of that area and You don't want to reset though But it trades out very quickly and then trades back in well then you know, you can have it as a you can have the conditional reset trade I'm sorry. You can have the conditional reset occur Where it you will need to have more than one trade in a matter of time Based on the inputs there, you know two and a half one second on up to five seconds If it trades and it starts to accept below an area is the idea here then reset, right? And then we're looking for a new structure here a New structure to to occur down in this area Okay All right guys. Yeah, thanks a lot and we will catch up with you in July then okay, so enjoy your Your summer here and we'll come back and I hit it hard with a real new Structure that I think you you guys are gonna really embrace. Okay. Yeah, take care. Bye. Bye


He stole my food, again.  If you like true revenge stories, you found the best place for your vengeful needs. I create them with fleaky visuals, dipped in artificial love. In this spicy episode, we'll learn that stealing food from a coworker, could land you a free ticket, to the hottest pepper known to mankind. We start with a bold lunch thief who keeps stealing from the same employee, but falls for the old switcheroo. Then we get to meet a food-stealing coworker, who stole food from the office refrigerator, resulting his booty getting turned into a Johnny Cash song. Followed by an office lunch thief, that likes to shovel someone else's Valentine sweets into his mouth, with full palm to lips intensity. But he forgets to say hi, to the hidden nanny cam.  The last story is about another food-stealing coworker, who gets tricked, into eating the hottest pepper in the world, the Reaper Pepper. Before we rejoice and delight in these stories, when you grab something from the office fridge that isn't yours, be sure to emphasize you made extra for sharing, and offer the like button the first bite. After the like button eats the shared piece, wait for one minute to be sure it's safe to eat. Let's dive in. A sincere disclaimer for this episode, these revenge stories include use of very potent chilies. Extreme scoville units can be painful to an inhumane level, or cause some long lasting adverse effects on health, or even death. Therefore, viewer discretion is advised. These revenge acts, will definitely be upsetting to snowflakes. Nobody likes a lunch thief, and I had one of the most aggressive at my office. There were rumors for a few months leading up to the inciting incident of someone going around and taking people's lunches. Just about every day someone different would complain that their lunch was missing. It even happened to me once or twice, but I've figured hey, it's a big office. A few people are probably just careless and grab the wrong lunch and are too embarrassed to bring it back, or someone else packs their lunch and they don't know what's in there so it's not obvious they have the wrong one, or whatever. Most people just brought brown bags with their names on it anyways. Or identical Rubbermaid Tupperware with a little piece of labeled tape on the side. It was easy enough to mix it up. I had accidentally grabbed a wrong lunch once or twice, but I'd noticed before I got it open. I thought I was just more careful. Or even just not as busy. As some other people in the building. However, other people weren't as forgiving. And a quorum made complaints to HR. They were blown off. Personally, at the time, I thought it was all much fuss about nothing. But then it began. My wife enrolled in a French cooking class online and just about every day I was bringing fancy Grimond leftovers in for lunch. You'd think I was picking up A to go bag from a Michelin starred bistro on the way in each morning, she really threw herself into the coursework. There were no problems for about two weeks, maybe three, until one day my lunch went missing. Considering what delicacies I had to look forward to, I was pretty bummed out, but I did it once over around the break room and didn't see anyone eating my lunch. So figured someone grabbed my bag by accident earlier, saw how good things looked and didn't bring it back to the fridge. Looking back, I realized it really was their lucky day. I wrote the mysterious stranger off as an asshole, but accepted the loss and looked forward to dinner that night instead. The next day I write my name on my lunch in extra bold lettering, jam the bag into the back of the fridge, and feel peace of mind. Now it couldn't go wrong. Break time. I walked to the fridge and I'm anticipating my delicious meal. But behold, nope, it's gone. I was pretty upset, but I figured it was a stroke of bad luck, and left it at that. What else could I do? However, third day, out of an abundance of caution, I kept my lunch at my desk. A pain, because I had to eat it fairly early in the day to avoid spoilage, but at least I'd know where it was. I got up to take care of some business down the hall and when I came back. My lunch was gone. Unfortunately, that didn't help me narrow it down much at all, because my desk is centrally located so everyone's constantly passing by. At that point there was no possibility of the theft being arbitrary, so I approached HR and filed a complaint. Their response, practically verbatim, was, employees' lunches are their personal property and the company is not responsible for lost or stolen personal items. The following day my wife packed a cream-based soup that really had to be refrigerated. I was passing by the break room to check on my lunch practically every five minutes. Somehow it still managed to disappear. I was irate at this point and returned to HR and really blew my top. The best they could do was send a memo around about remembering to check the name on your lunch when you remove it from the fridge. But they made very clear that it was a routine memo and had no way related to my complaints. Which were not their jurisdiction. So not an admission of responsibility. Because my lunch was my own personal problem. The only suitable alternative to packing a lunch available in the building are these wretched shrink-wrapped ham and cheese sandwiches from a vending machine. They've been marinating in the heat for God knows how long and the bread is as stale as cork bored. The meat is rancid and there's glue in mayo smushed into the center. It's a relic of the old office tenants I'm pretty sure. I vented daily to my wife but her only idea was to start bringing a regular sandwich and apple again to dissuade the thief and get him to move on to other lunches. So, determined prevent this low life scum from downgrading the quality of my lunch. I hatched an elaborate plan. But hold up, life happens, and the pandemic hit. During this time I forgot all about this whole saga. I worked remotely for months and months. Then we returned, and after all that had happened globally, this was the last thing on my mind. But I got to the break room the first day back, frustrated from having to wear a suit after months of working in pajamas, sore from my desk chair. And exhausted from small talk. Only to find. My lunch was gone. This was a particularly sore point because my wife and I divorced between my last lunch and work and the present one. So I did not appreciate being reminded of any past threads involving her. I pretty much flew into a blind rage at that point.  I stormed out and was determined to return the next day with a plan. Now, nothing was going to stop me. So, I came in the following day. With an empty lunch bag. And I checked closely to be sure no one was watching and I switched the contents of the HR person's lunch bag into my bag. So now their lunch appeared to be my lunch. They'd packed a regular brown bag, so I just discarded that. After this, I left and I waited. I knew this was a pretty big gamble because it was contingent on the theory that the thief was avoiding me while having lunch, but not wary of anyone else. So would he out in the open if there were no risk of bumping into me. So I made a big show of going around the office announcing that I was headed out for a meeting and I wouldn't be back until at least 3 p.m. I even went to the trouble of moving my car out of the lot to a space two streets over. Where I then sat in my car and worked remotely for several hours before sneaking into the building up the back stairway. I then sat in the stairwell just outside the break room, where you can hear chatter but can't be seen, and after about 20 to 30 minutes of waiting, I heard it. The sweetest sound I'll ever hear in the office. HR employee yelled. What the heck, Kyle, that's my lunch. Kyle responded. Nah, it's not your name on the bag. I heard the HR employee command Kyle to give up the lunch, assuming he grabbed the bag and seized my name. Kyle gets told he needs to head into the HR office for a chat. The HR rep later called me in as well and said they were aware of my break room hijinks, but it was obvious that the point still came across loud and clear. They warned me that it was a violation of policy to move another employee's lunch. It took every ounce of self-control for me to keep from retorting. I thought our lunches were our personal property and the company was not responsible for them being lost or stolen. They informed me they'd located the thief and things would be handled accordingly. But better than whatever write-up they might be able to issue Kyle, his reveal as the lunch thief occurred in front of the whole break room. So word quickly spread as to who had been stealing everyone's lunches earlier last year and he is now the office pariah. He was in line for a promotion. The promotion is indefinitely off the table. And I also earned brownie points for exposing him, though more than I'm satisfied with are being attributed to HR. At the end of the day though, I didn't do this for this credit or even the sweet revenge. I did it just to get my lunches back. This story is told from the female perspective. Before I start, I'm a longtime lurker and it's my first time sharing. This story is what happened to my darling husband and I know the people involved very well as I used to work in the same warehouse. This happened in 2018. Until April this year, my husband, let's call him Mike, worked in a warehouse for a big, international furniture company in southern Germany. He liked the work, even if it was hard labor carrying 150 kilograms, 330 pounds for the Americans, pieces of furniture around. Because of this, the staff turnover was pretty high. One of his colleagues, we will name him Steve, started at the same time as my husband. They weren't friends as Mike didn't like him, but he respected him as a hard worker. Due to customers coming at all the time. The warehouse staff didn't have required breaks, they just took their lunch break when it was possible. Some use the break room with the basic kitchen, someone out to eat, go to the supermarket on the other side of the row or did errands in the 60 minutes they had. But either way, you had to clock out and back in. This will be relevant later. Soon they realized that brought in lunches went missing from the fridge in the break room, as did sweets and drinks they had bought to share. Since it was rare that two of the workers took their break at the same time, they weren't sure who stole them. They also were not allowed to bring up a camera. So Mike and the warehouse manager decided to take matters in their own hands. Once in a while when it wasn't too busy, they decided to order food, mostly pizza, sometimes burgers. Let me add that most Germans are not accustomed to anything spicy. But my husband and I love hot, spicy food. We have a nice assortment of powders and sauces, ranging from a little tickling to, we'll turn your booty in a Johnny Cash song if you don't get that surgically removed right now. My man kept some of the sauces at work. You all know where this is heading, right? When the thefts got more and more regular, they decided to order pizza, just Mike and the manager, the others didn't want it or had something else. The pizzas got delivered and smelled delicious. Miraculously, both my husband and his manager were able to take their lunch at the same time and enjoyed their pizza, but didn't finish it. Mike had a vengeful brainwave and took out one of his sauces with a scorching 2 million Scoville. For those not familiar, regular Tabasco has about 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville. He distributed a generous amount on the leftovers, which happened to blend in perfectly with the red tomato sauce. Then they left to have a smoke and continue working. They hadn't had a chance to clock in again when Steve emerged from the break room. Running for the bathroom, had in a very nice shade of red, while gagging. When he came back out a few minutes later, he was white as a sheet, reeking of vomit and left without a word to get something to drink from the supermarket. Just then the local store's manager, boss of the warehouse manager, happened to drop by. He noticed Steve is absent and did not clock out, that's a big no-no. What nobody knew, Steve had already two write-ups for being absent without clocking out. If you get three write-ups for the very same reason, you can be terminated without notice. So when Steve returned, clutching three packs of milk closely to his chest, he achieved his third write-up and the termination was already printed and ready to be signed. Steve left immediately after this. He now works in another warehouse, where a good friend of mine is employed. Miraculously. None of their food has gone missing yet. This story is also told from the female perspective. In my position, it sucks extra hard to be confronted with a food thief, as I have food allergies, so I can't just get lunch at the cafeteria or at a nearby restaurant. On top of that, I have a new baby, who I'm breastfeeding and who I pump for when I'm at work. You know how hungry pregnant people are? Yeah, the caloric requirement for breastfeeding is 100 to 200 calories higher. I want to emphasize that I'm always hungry because I have a new baby, half the time I don't manage to show up at work with a lunch. I either run out of time to pack one. Or if I did remember, I leave it on the counter. My solution to all of this was to leave lots of non-perishable snacks in my office. Also a lot of candy, because I also have a three-year-old and therefore work is the only place I can shovel Skittles into my mouth, without a little hand extending into my field of vision and a little voice saying, Snacks that were specifically free of my allergens, some of which were specialty foods because of this. The type of specialty food that just doesn't taste as good as food that contains the allergen and also costs twice as much because I'm not getting a lot of sleep right now. I think I still deserve nice things. When I first came back from maternity leave, I assembled my snack hoard, but started having things go missing. I genuinely thought I was just losing my mind. Boxes of candy were running out faster than I thought I was eating them. I'd come in during the morning and things wouldn't be where I'd left them. At one point I brought a bag of chips to work, folded the rim of the bag down so I wasn't plunging my arm elbow deep into a grease pit and then put a bag clip on it when I went home. And when I came in the next morning, the bag was unrolled and re-clipped. I went, wow, I must be more tired than I thought, rolled the bag back down and the next morning it was unrolled again. Just little things like that. Almost every day that made me go, wow, the post baby brain is worse than I thought. And then it happened. I got the flu and I was out for a whole week. Left behind at the office was an almost full box of enjoy life cookies, which are not enjoyable but are free of all major allergens and are also $5 a box for like 12 sad little sand pies with some cinnamon on top. I ate one row of these cookies and then I was out of the office for a week, for one week. I was not eating any of my snack hoard, but someone else was because I came back to work, opened my box of cookies and found one. There was one single solitary cookie left. And on further examination, the one box of candy that had been opened was nowhere to be found. On top of that, the thief had done me the courtesy of opening a new box for me, except that they actually followed the push here to open instructions instead of just ripping one end of the box open like I do, which they should damn well know at this point because by this time, they'd been stealing from me for two goddamn months. I went to my boss and got some vague promises about checking if the security cameras in my wing of the building are functional or not. The sheer freaking audacity it takes to open a new box so you can continue stealing from someone. On top of the consumption of almost a whole box of specialty cookies that aren't even good. This enraged me enough that I went straight to Amazon and ordered myself a nanny cam, not for my baby, for my snack hoard. Conveniently, it arrived the day before Valentine's Day. I set it up on top of a file cabinet looking down at my desk. On the desk, I laid out a fantastic spread of bait snacks. I got all my thief's favorites and then I took it one step further. I bought myself a Valentine heart, broke the seal to make it more inviting and left it out on my desk. The next morning, I came into some very obvious snack carnage. My thief had slowly been getting more brazen, but this was just on another level. Individually wrapped things had been dumped out of their boxes. Bits of packaging had been thrown away. And, yep, they eaten some of the Valentine candy. For shame, office thief. Don't you know that's from someone who loves me? I really need to get this off my chest again, who opens a new box of something and also opens it differently than the person they are stealing from? What kind of person are you? So now it was my time to have a little party. And I played back the video. All was quiet throughout most of the evening. And I was just watching the shadows lengthen as the sun slowly set through the hallway window. And then, shortly before midnight, it happened. The night janitor arrived. He went right ahead and took a 12 minute break in my office, sitting in my chair, eating my food. I started taking screenshots. I got him shoveling candy into his mouth with full palm to lips intensity, pouring things out onto the desk to pick his favorite flavors. Not even bothering to put them back where he found them.  Screenshots went directly to my boss in an email. I went directly to my boss's door to hover and grin and asked if he'd read my email. And I got assurances of a strongly worded email to the cleaning company and the barring of this particular employee from our place of business. I was also tactfully asked to please take my unauthorized spy camera home, which I did. I thought this was over until the girl who works the concession stand dropped by to thank me. Apparently, the food thief would start his shift just as she was closing down for the night and would try to get free coffee in that creepy guy way. And then one of the reception staff came by with the same sentiments. I'd never met the guy face to face, but apparently as a woman, it was not a fun experience to have. I'd shown my screenshots to a few coworkers and word had spread fast. I worked an earlier shift, so I didn't recognize him, but people whose shifts overlapped with his did. I hadn't told my husband about what I'd done because when I came home raging about the blatant theft that had gone on while I'd had the flu, his only response had been, you really shouldn't be leaving food at work then. But when I came home with the nanny cam and explained where and why I'd gotten it, his reaction surprised me. He actually said, you know, I think this is the first time I've seen you stand up for yourself. I'm proud of you. You know what, dear vengeful listeners, I'm proud of me too. About three years ago, I was working in a pretty big factory. They hired through five different temp services, so the place was pretty much like a revolving door. People came and left without any warning. Sometimes it was hard just to find a familiar face. So when someone started stealing my lunches, everyone became a suspect. After falling victim to the lunchbox bandit for a week straight, I'm talking about six 12-hour days with no lunch. Needless to say, the frustration spawned several evil plans, but I felt the Carolina Reaper would give me the fastest and most effective results. All I knew was people were gonna think twice before stealing lunches. I spent all night making the best steak fajitas for lunch the next day. I finally minced the Reaper peppers into a nice pico de gallo and topped my double fajitas off. I carefully placed my fajitas into a Tupperware bowl, garnished them with cilantro and limes, then covered them with a clear lid to display their beauty. The next morning, I put the bowl in the fridge at work and joined the inviting scene I created for a moment before closing it. After, I went about my day, about an hour after I placed them in the fridge. A woman started screaming for help. I ran to the lunchroom to find the lunchbox bandit laying on the floor gasping for air. The Reaper peppers triggered an asthma attack and he had to be rushed to the hospital. He never said anything. And neither did I until now. Thank you for enjoying this episode, which was made with artificial love. Subscribe to receive future episodes and tickle the like button for good karma. Do you have any experiences surrounding this topic? Share yours below, I'll join the conversation. And I'll be seeing you in the next one.


Can I welcome everyone to the fourth meeting of the Education and Skills Committee in 2017? Can I please remind everyone present to turn on mobile phones and other devices on to silent mode? We have received apologies from Tavish Scott. The only item of business today is consideration of a letter from the Scottish Government. The committee had asked for an update from the government on all live recommendations made by a predecessor committee that are relevant to this committee's remit. That means that we have the opportunity to follow up or keep a watching brief The committee has asked for a copy of the Scottish Government's response. It is worth noting that today is the first occasions since the end of November when the response was received for the committee to give what is a substantial document space on an agenda. I suggest that we touch on each of the education and culture committee's reports that we ask for updates on, and I would particularly welcome input from those who are members of that committee. If two comments to make, firstly in relation to the National Geolic Language, Fe wnaeth i'w byd yn Gaelic Language Plan 2012-17, pwysig y teidw i 3 ystafell. Felly, oherwydd i'r report a'i gymryd ybydd gyda'r tynnu o'r fамau rhan o'r ddarparu, o'r dden nhw, y pwysig y pwysig y pwysig, oeddaf ni i ddim yn ymgyrch y fawr o 5 o'r pwysig y pwysig. Eu gynhau i'r cyfleteithio i'r Gweinifoldaeth ym gymryd yn gweithio'r llwyr, gan oes arwain ei ysgrifiadol sut yn gweithi nhw. There are some exceptions to this, which we announced recently. One of the exceptions relates to kinship care. While there are exceptions for some non-looked after children in kinship care, there is no exception for formal kinship care of looked after children. In the context of the UK Government's consultation, the Scottish Government says, quotes, it will be responding to ensure that kinship carers are not disadvantaged in any way, end quotes. I suggest that we write to the Scottish Government to ask what the effects of this change will be in kinship carers in Scotland and whether there will be a policy response from the Scottish Government. Secondly, I suggest that we add consideration of the commissioner for widening access's annual report into our future work programme. We may of course hear from him before his first report is issued, but I want to ensure continuity of scrutiny. Those were my only substantive comments, but there are a number of other important areas of the education and culture's work detailed in the response. Can I ask other members for comment, in particular if there are any areas where they would wish to seek further information, whether from the Government, its agencies or stakeholders, or any legislation or other work detailed in the response that they consider could merit further work from this committee in the future? I would like to start with the previous members, Liz. Thank you, convener. I agree with the two comments that you have just made. I begin with the Gallic Language Plan and thank you to the clerks for providing the update on teacher numbers in there. I think that this is a central issue about the effective working of the Gallic Plan to ensure that the right number of teachers are available because, as you know, there have been problems in teacher training. It would be quite helpful if we could just keep an eye on that, although I think that there is lots to commend the Gallic Language Plan, which we have been very supportive of, but central to that is ensuring that there are enough teachers, particularly in the areas that have Indigenous Gallic speakers. If we can just keep an eye on that because I think that it is very important indeed. As you know from the previous committee and indeed from the committee prior to that, most of those issues have been very much at the centre of the scrutiny of the committee. I think that it is very good to see that there is going to be on-going scrutiny of what committees in the past have decided are major issues, the conclusions that they have drawn and scrutiny of those conclusions. I also very much welcome the invitation from the Audit Committee to provide much more cross-referencing of what is going on there because I think that if this Parliament has had criticisms, it is because sometimes the scrutiny has not been adequate enough, so I think that there are some good things happening there. I agree with what you were saying at the beginning there. There is one or two areas here having been through it with the last committee that I think we should really look at again. One is decisions on taking children into care because I do not think that we have really got a grip of that yet. I think that we have seen various projects that the committee went to Glasgow and looked at various systems and so on, but I do not think that we have really got our hands around it yet. I do not think that there is a lot more work to be done there and also attainment for looked after children. Again, we had people in about that. We spent quite a bit of time on it, but I think that there is a lot more work to be done there. I think that there is a lot of priorities in there that we have not yet dug into. I also think that we should be focusing on college regionalisation because some aspects of that I have not really got my head around yet as to how it is working. We have focused on the individual colleges, but the regional structure, I think that we need to have a wee look at just to see how it is operating. Do any other members have any comments to make on this? To follow up on the point about the colleges, I was struck, as I mentioned, somewhere of some forum that was set up in 2012 by Mike Russell and it had its second meeting in 2014. It has been interesting to know if it has ever had a third meeting and what its purpose is. I think that the challenge is that there is a sense of which people were sceptical about why there was regionalisation in the first place, but if it is there, is it adding anything or is it actually adding an extra layer? I have been interested in that. On the question that I looked after children and the convenience mentioned to the issue of kinship care funding, one of the big issues for kinship care families is the extent to which they are unable to access the resources that a looked-after child might be able to resource. I think that there is a question in here about, I think that the Scottish Government says, in terms of social work support for young people in care, or looked after young people, they say that it is a matter for local government to manage its own budgets. I have been interested in the extent that is actually happening, but is it happening for kinship care children at all? I think that there is a thread in all the work around looked-after children that relates to kinship care, because I know that one of the arguments from campaigning groups would be, for example, it is partly about payments, but young people who may have gone through the same trauma and once they ended up being looked after in foster care, one is a kinship care child, they will not have equal access to things like educational, psychologists or the kind of extra supports that might be available. I am interested in whether the support is there at all, around care, and to the extent that is actually working its way through, but is there a particular issue around testing it for the access to those services for kinship care children? I think that the college point I would be very interested in too. It is a supplementary to the college point. As mentioned in the paper, it is an issue that has been touched upon in committees around outcome agreements and how that relationship works and how they function. I think that it is something that is certainly worth looking at. That may, of course, be overtaken by events, given what may or may not happen to the Scottish funding council, but I think that, nonetheless, it is certainly a point that is worth keeping an eye on and giving some thought to. Thank you very much. Any other comments, Ross? Just on the young people with sensory impairments, the number of qualified teachers point in the report. The Government responds to that. I think that there are some issues with that, but I am hopeful that we will be able to pick up on that when we look at additional support needs more generally, because the range of specialist staff that you need to cover additional support needs to someone with sensory impairments, and it is something that comes up quite regularly. In that case, I thank the members for their comments. The Clats and Spice will ensure that the decisions and discussions feed into the committee's work programme. The Clats will also seek updates on all live recommendations on an annual basis from the Government.


Now, as gunshots echo across the windswept snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quakerpuff wheat and Quakerpuff rice, the breakfast cereal shot from gun, present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftness and strongest lead dog of the northwest, blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the northwest mounted police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers. On King, on the Huskies. Gold, gold discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches. Back to the days of the gold rush, with Quakerpuff wheat and Quakerpuff rice bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon. On mornings when the March wind blows and your teeth start to chatter, then here's what to do.   A treat that can't be beat. That's Quakerpuff rice and Quakerpuff wheat. Bill Chester was a young miner who lived with his wife Sadie on a claim a few miles from the town of Cascade. He had confidence that his mine, if properly developed, would prove highly valuable but he lacked the funds to get the necessary equipment. One morning, soon after the bank opened, Bill Chester knocked at the office of Judd Stone, the banker. Come in. Bill Chester, sit down and be comfortable. Thanks, Mr. Stone. Now what brings you here so early in the morning? Uh, I'll get right to the point, Mr. Stone. I want to arrange a loan to get enough money to buy equipment to work our mine. I feel certain the mine will pay off within a short time if I can get the machinery to work it. It would take several thousand dollars to get the necessary equipment, Bill. In fact, you probably need almost ten thousand dollars. Yes, sir. I reckon I would. That's a lot of money, Bill. I couldn't consider lending such an amount or any amount for that matter without collateral to cover the loan. Well, we have the claim along with our cabin and our other belongings. I'm in the banking business, Bill. The money I have to lend out belongs to other people. That claim, plus the cabin and all, wouldn't bring much more than five hundred dollars. I couldn't take a chance like that. But I told you the mine's valuable. I'm sure of that. If I get the machinery to work it, I'm certain it'll pay off plenty. Bill, this bank would go broke within a week. If I made loans to every prospector who came in telling me how valuable his claim would be after it was worked. Now, Bill, we can't make a loan without a person having enough collateral at the time of the loan to cover the amount. You can take my word for it, Mr. Stone. That mine, we... Sorry, Bill. We can't speculate with our depositors' money. Any loans we make have to be on something short. Then you mean I can't get the loan, is that it? Yes, to put it bluntly, that's the answer, Bill. All right. If that's the way you feel about it, I'll get the loan someplace else.  Business is business, Bill. Sure. Since I never want to do any business with you when I do make good. Keep your money, Stone. I'll try to get it someplace else.  Then he headed for the office of Peter Hansen, a well-to-do land broker who was known to have staked many of the prospectors in the vicinity. Good morning, Bill. What's on your mind? Good morning, Mr. Hansen. Frankly, Mr. Hansen, I need cash to work my mind. I know the mine's valuable and will pay off plenty if I can get the machinery to work it. Did you try the bank? Yes, I did. As far as I'm concerned, Judd Stone doesn't know a good thing when he sees it. If I didn't have faith in that mine, I wouldn't want to put money into it. Yet when I offered to sign it over his collateral, he refused, said he won't speculate. I see. Well, Garner, if the mine was already paying off, I wouldn't need a loan. Frankly, I don't like the way Stone does business. How much do you think it would take, Bill? Well, close to 10,000, I guess. I can see why a banker would think it was risky. I might as well... Sit down. Sit down. I didn't say that exactly. Then what did you mean? I know the location of your mine, Bill. And I think you have good reason to believe it'll pay off. But it would be a speculation deal to lend money to work it. However, I might make the loan on one condition. What's that? Sign over half your rights in the mine to me. Half the rights? But that way, if it pays off, you stand to make far more than 10,000. Maybe, and if it doesn't pay off, I stand to lose the 10,000.  And if you both agree to those terms, let me know and I'll arrange to have papers drawn up and give you the cash. After hearing Peter Hansen's proposition, Bill Chester left town and went home to lay the facts before his wife and to ask her advice. He told Sadie about the bank's refusal. Then he said, There's only one other way I can get money to buy machinery, Sadie. I don't want to do it. You mean get it from Peter Hansen? Yes. He'll let me have it. He told me he would. But it won't be a loan. Not a loan? Well, I don't understand, Bill. Hansen's a speculator, honey, not a banker. He says he'll give me 10,000 in cash for a half interest. A half interest in your mine? It's his proposition. Take it or leave it. Well, Bill, if the mine turns out to be as good as you think it will, it'd be worth it. There'd be enough for both of you. Yes, I suppose so. I don't like partnership. It might work out all right, Bill. Why don't you consider it? There's no time to consider it, Sadie. I don't take up Hansen's proposition today. He won't make a deal.  But you think I should take it? Well, under the circumstances, yes. Without machinery, the mine will never pay much. All right, then. I'll go make a deal with it. I believe it's for the best, Bill. Well, at least it's the only solution. Well, I'm in cash, kid. Do you need any supplies? Oh, yes, there are several things. There are a lot of list of them for you. All right, have it ready. I'll go harness the dog. When Bill Chester reached town, he drew his dog team up in front of the office of Peter Hansen, the speculator. Oh, hey! Oh! Oh! Then Bill heard a familiar voice. Hello, Bill. Oh, Sergeant Preston and King. What brings you to Cascade? Constable Downing had to go to Dawson to testify in a trial, so I came up to take over his duties till he gets back. That's great. Then maybe you can visit Sadie and me. I'll try to. I, uh, I have a mine I want to show you. One of these days, it may make me rich. I hope it does, Bill. You've worked hard since you came to the Yukon. Oh, I sure have, Sergeant. After a few brief pleasantries, Sergeant Preston and King moved on down the street. Bill Chester entered Peter Hansen's office. Well, come in, Bill. Oh, Mr. Hansen. Have a chair. Thanks. Did you consider my proposition? Yes. I'll take it. Now you're talking sense. Draw up the contract and bring it out to my place so Sadie can look it over and we'll both sign it. That's fine. Yes, sir. Bill, you won't regret this at all. I'll transfer $10,000 to your account in a bank today. And I'll bring the papers out tonight or tomorrow for sign. Just one thing, Mr. Hansen. What's that, Bill? Don't deposit it in the bank. Bring the cash with you. Well, all right, but why? I'm sore at Judd Stone in his bank. Because he wouldn't lend you money? Yes, I don't want to do business with him. I'll handle my own money. Just as you say, Bill.  All right. Fine. Be seeing you. So long, Bill. Soon after Bill Chester left, Peter Hansen went to the bank and drew out the money. And in doing so, he aroused the curiosity of Judd Stone, the banker. Well, Peter, it's none of my business, but you better let me give you a draft instead of cash. $10,000 in cash is a lot of money. I don't want a draft, Judd. I want cash. I'm making a deal with a fellow who insists on cash. Why don't you transfer it from your account to his? It'll be safer for both of you. This fellow don't like your way of doing business, Judd. Oh. Must be Bill Chester. So it is, huh? But you can tell Bill Chester I don't want his business. I'll get the cash for you, Peter. As Judd Stone turned toward the vault to get the cash, neither he nor Peter Hansen observed a tall man slip from the group around the hot stove and leave the bank. Outside, he joined another man and the two hurried down the street. Come on, bugsy. We gotta hurry. What's the layout, bud? I'll explain as we walk. We got a chance to grab $10,000 in cash in the next few minutes. 10,000? Yeah. Wow. Let's hear about it. Peter Hansen is getting out of the bank. Why? Some kind of a deal. Hansen's office is down the street away. You get your skeleton keys ready. We'll get inside and wait for him. Yeah. Yeah, I got him ready. All right, here we are. Hurry now, mother. Just a minute. Yeah, this one should work.  A few moments later, the door of the office opened and Peter Hansen came in. Get your hands up. Hey, what are you doing here? Take his poke, bugsy. Give me that. Hit him, man. Red. I think he killed him. Oh, what of it? Grab that cash and let's get out of here. It's murder red wheel hang. You shouldn't have hit him with that gun. Hey, bugsy. Do you see that dog sled outside as we came in? Yeah, what about it? With that dog team, we can be miles away from here when Hansen's found. Then let's take it. Come on, Red. Don't let anybody see that bag of cash. Yeah, it's plenty heavy. Put it on the sled and cover it up good. I'll line up the dog. Right. Mugsy quickly hid the $10,000 under the heavy deer hide covering of the sled while Red got the dogs on their feet and in line for traveling. They were just about ready to start when... Just a moment there. Huh? Oh. Oh, good morning, Monty. What's what are you going to do? Why? What's the matter, Monty? That sledding team belonged to a friend of mine. Oh, he bought it from him less than an hour ago. Oh. Can you prove that? No, but can't you take... And you better come with me. What are you going to do? Lock you up while I find Bill and check on your story. Wait, officer, I... I said, come on, I'm in it. What about our dogs? You going to leave them here? My dog will keep them quiet. King.  Now you two, start walking. When Sergeant Preston reached the constable's office, he searched his two prisoners. He took their guns. When he found the skeleton keys, he paused to examine them. What are you doing with these? Found them a couple of days ago. Huh? I'll look into that later. Come on, I'll lock you in the cell for the time being. There we are. As Sergeant Preston reached out to open the heavy steel door, Red saw and took a slender chance for freedom. With his right foot, he kicked at the Monty's gun hand, sending the weapons spinning to the floor. Get his gun! No, you don't. Red grappled with Preston. They both rolled to the floor. Before the Monty could regain his feet, Moxie grabbed the gun and swung it. Hit him, hit him, Moxie! No! Yeah, yeah. Had put him to sleep. Hope I didn't kill him. Red killed the Monty's bad business.  Get some rope or that gear rack in the office. What are you going to do, Red? Time and gag him. And lock him in this cell. For he comes to, we'll get that dog team and clear out of town. While Red and Moxie were with Sergeant Preston, Bill Chester completed his shopping and returned to his sled, where he found King with the dog. Fire King, what are you doing here? You must like my dogs. You do, huh? Okay. Your boss says he's going to bring you out to my place. You really get to know my dog, Sam. Hey, fella, I've got to be going home to Sadie. All right, you, Husky. Soon after Bill's departure, a townsman rushed into the bank and shouted, Hey! Hey, boys! Come with me. Someone's murdered Peter Hansen. What's that? What'd you say? Peter Hansen's been murdered. I stopped in his office a second ago and filed him on the floor. Come on, let's go. When the crowd reached Hansen's office, John Stone, the banker, examined the speculator. He's not dead, but he will be if we don't get him to Doc Sanders mighty quick. Who in thunder would have done it? And why? Pete Hansen never hurt nobody. I can't say for sure, but I have an idea, poor boy. Did anyone see Bill Chester in town this morning? Sure. He just left with his dog team a few minutes ago. Going like blazes. What about him? Hansen drew $10,000 from my bank to negotiate a deal with Chester. He said Chester insisted on cash. Why, that took good. If Bill Chester has that money in his possession, I say it'll be proof that he attacked Hansen. Sure. Judged you and the rest of the boys take Pete to Doc Sanders. Well, I go and tell Amati what happened. Come on. We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. 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To get the original crisp, fresh, wheat or rice shot from guns, always look for the big red and blue Quaker package. Look for the smiling Quaker man on the front. He's your guarantee that you're getting the one and only delicious Quaker puffed rice and Quaker puffed wheat. Now to continue. The two outlaws, Red Collins and Mugsy Dunn, were about to leave the constable's office, having bound and gagged Sergeant Preston and locked him in the cell when the front door of the office opened. Hey, where's Sergeant Preston? What do you want with him? Somebody tried to murder Pete Hansen. We just found a beat to a pulp. You don't say. Well, the Mountie's not here right now. Where is he? I saw his dog down the street. Yeah, he went somewhere to serve a process, paper on a miner. Still he's been gone for quite a while. You don't know where he went? No, no. But we'll be here when he gets back. We'll tell him what happened. I'll tell him we got to get the fellow who slugged Hansen. What's that? The fellow named Bill Chester did it. We'll go get him. Yeah, well, that's a good idea. No sense in waiting for the Mountie to get back. I'll see you later, boys. I think somebody else did it, huh, Red? I guess that puts us in the clue. Not for long. We got to get that dog team in the money now. Come on, Mugsy. Right. Red and Mugsy found the sled and dog team gone. But Yukon King was still there, just where Sergeant Preston had told him to stay. Look out of there, dog. He's near. Yeah, I don't want to talk with him. This leaves us in a nice kettle of fish. The sled's gone. My cash with it. We can trail it in the snow easy. Let's go after it, Red. Hey, look at those men coming this way. There's a fillet source in the constable's office. Better not run, it gets suspicious. Let's join him. We'll go after the sled later. Red and Mugsy joined the crowd of excited men when they paused in front of the bank. Joe, you say the Mountie left town? Yeah, Judd. That's what these two fellas here said. That's right, and he won't be back for a spell. I'm for going out to Bill Chester's place and getting him. What do you fellas say? Come on, come on. We'll follow the tracks of his sled.  You can pick up the trail there. Will you go with us, Judd? When I can't, there's no one in the bank. I'll have to stay here. Then come on, man. Let's go get Bill Chester. Come on. As the crowd moved away, Judd Stone entered his bank. Mugsy turned to Red and said, Redward, look now. Sled, we hid the money and belonged to the fella thereafter. Yeah, we might as well forget that $10,000. Let's get out of town before somebody finds the money. Think a minute, will ya? Look, no one's left in town. They're all trailing that dog sled. Let's get going while we can. Hold on a minute. What for? Mugsy, we got a chance to clean up a fortune. Huh? The men of the town are gone, all except one. Banker? Yeah. You heard him say that he was alone in his bank. Now look, we'll let the crowd get well out of town. And we'll go call on the banker now. How about it? Sure. Red, it's worth the chance. With everyone gone, we won't be taking that chance. Why, it'll be like taking candy from a baby. Meanwhile, Sergeant Preston had regained consciousness, and was helpless to do anything about it. He was lying on the floor trying to figure out some way of attracting attention. When he heard the front door of the office open, and someone called his name. Hello, Sergeant Preston. Unable to shout an answer, the Mountie uttered a groan, and beat his boot heels on the floor. Sergeant Preston bound in gang. There's keys on the office desk. Maybe they'll open this cell door. I'll go get him. It was Doc Sanders. A few moments later, he had opened the cell door and removed the gag and cut the bonds from Preston's wrists. He told what had happened to Peter Hansen. There you are. What brought you here, Doc? The men all said Bill Chester tried to kill Pete Hansen. Huh? I think they've gone to get him. I saw nobody on the street. But they're wrong, Sergeant. Pete regained consciousness after they left. And I came to tell you who did it. What did Pete say? There are two fellows who called each other red and mugsy. One was tall, the other was medium height, but heavy. The other men are arrested in front of Hansen's office. Don't say. I've got to get on their trail at once. You go back and attend to Peter Hansen. My wife's looking after him. Everyone else going from town, I'm staying with you, Sergeant. All right, Doc. I'll get guns from the office, then we'll go get King. He'll trail them. Where is King? Down the street. Let's hurry. A few minutes later, King ran to meet them as they approached. Easy, boy. What are you so excited about? I'm sure he's excited. He's running toward the bank. He's trying to tell me something. We better find out what it is, Doc. Let's go see. Meanwhile, inside the bank, Red Collins and Mugsy Dunn had easily overpowered Judd Stone, the banker, and were gathering up the loot they planned to take with them. Don't bother with the heavy money, Mugsy. Let's take the gold certificates. Got to travel light from now on. That's all I'm taking. But there's plenty of them. He would wish you took the gold instead. Those certificates can be traced by their numbers. Not if no one can tell what the numbers are. I'll tell the police. Oh, no, you won't. Hey, Mugsy, you got everything? Yeah. Set the bull out, Red. What do we do with the banker? Lock him in the vault. Why not kill him? Shoot him. Look, if we lock him in the vault, folks will be a long time finding them. Well, smother to death in the vault. You can't do it. Oh, yes, we can. You see, Mugsy, when the men of town come looking for the banker, they'll search every place except the vault. Chances are no one besides this old man knows the combination. Yeah, Red, that's right. But if we shoot him and leave him here, they'll find him right off and start looking for the killers. That dog's still barking outside. I'm going to put a bullet to him when we leave. All right, Mr. Stone, inside the vault. No, no, don't put me in there, please. Get going. You can't do it. If it's murder, you'll hang it, Red. Look. Get your hands up. It's the Mowley. Get him, Mugsy. Two outlaws forgot their prisoner and wheeled a face to Mowley. As Mugsy whipped out his gun, the great dog king was upon him, causing the shot to go wild. Get away. Get him. I'll get him. No, you don't. Drop that gun. Drop it. Get the crook, Judd. Let him have it. Hang on to his gun. I'm king. Lay off money. We quit. Call off the dog. Run, king. Run, boy.  We're through. We give up. They've got the gun, sir. They're harmless now. They're murdering farmers. They were going to lock me in my own vault. It hadn't been for king. They'd have succeeded. That's true, Judd. King Lettish here. But how'd the dog know I was in trouble? He didn't. He knew I arrested these men earlier today. Must have seen them under your bank and knew something was wrong.  No, they can't be. Yes, you are. Yeah. Pete will gain consciousness after you brought him to my place. He'll identify him. Oh, my. Oh, my sakes. What's wrong, Judd? Oh, I've made a terrible mistake. I've accused an innocent man. Bill Chester? Yes. I thought he was the one who slugged Pete. I told the others that he did it. When they went after Bill, they were in a hanging mood. Well, lock these two up and start for Chester's cabinet once. Come on. Bill Chester arrived home and was about to unload his sled of the few supplies he had bought in town when his wife called from the door. I'm loaded for you. Hot tea, huh? Well, a cup of tea will be mighty refreshing after the run-in from town. Did you make the deal with Peter Hanson? Yes, almost. Almost? Oh, no. Here. Sit down. Your tea's ready. Oh, good. The young miner related his deal with Peter Hanson as he slowly drank his tea. He had just finished when there came a knock at the door. I'll answer it, honey. We came to get you, Chester. Hey, what's the occasion of this? I don't stall, Chester. You know what we want you for. Now, hold on. You notice something wrong? Yes, ma'am. Something's wrong. Your husband tried to murder Peter Hanson today. Oh, no. That's a lie. Might if we search you and your cabin. Well, of course not. Search all you please. Search for what? The $10,000 bill took from Hanson every try to kill him. What are you talking about? All right, boys. I'll search, Chester. You search the house of the sled. No, no. Wait a minute. I found nothing on Bill Chester or in his cabin. But the search of the dog sled disclosed the sack of money that had been hidden there by Red Collins and Mugsy Dunn. Here it is. It was hidden under the supplies he brought from town. Oh, there's some mistake. It can't be. All right, Chester. What have you got to say for yourself? Well, I didn't put that sack on my sled. I don't know how it got there. That's all right. It wasn't for your wife. I'd string you up right now. If Peter Hanson is dead, when we get back to town, I will string you up. Hey, look. Here comes the money. Thanks, goodness, it's Sergeant Preston. Hey, Judd Stone and Dr. Sanders are with us. Sergeant Preston knows I didn't do it. A Preston? We got your man for you.  Do we see him? He didn't commit any crime. We sure he did. Here's the gold he took from Hanson. We found it on a sled. I can explain how the gold got there. You can? Yes, sir. And the men who put it there are in jail.   Let Sergeant Preston do the talking. Yeah, let's hear what he's doing. Sergeant Preston quickly related what had happened to him and banker Judd Stone and also how he had arrested Red Collins and Muggsy Dunn when he found them preparing to steal Bill's sled and dog team. I was going to lock them up and then go find you, Bill, but they got the best of me for a while. But the gold, did they put it on the sled? Yes, lady, they've confessed. They're being held in the charge of robbery and attempted murder. Then Pete Hanson's alive? Yes, Bill. Pete's going to be all right. Well now, has everybody set his piece? Yes, Judd. Have you something to say? You bet I have. Bill, I owe you an apology. It was I who sent these men out here to get you. Oh, no hard feelings, Mr. Stone, I understand. Guess I owe you an apology myself. Nothing of the kind. Now, if you want that loan from my bank, you can have it just for the asking. No collateral needed. Thanks, Mr. Stone, but that wouldn't be right. I've given my word to Pete Hanson that I'd sell a half interest in my mind to him. And Bill always keeps his word, Mr. Stone. But there is one thing. What's that? This has taught me a lesson. The bank's the safest place in the world to keep money. I tried to tell Hanson that this morning. Will you take charge of this money? What do you want me to do with it? Well, until Pete's better, you can keep it in the bank. Then you can credit it to my account. Sure thing, Bill. Glad to have a customer as honest and upstanding as you. You know when Bill and Mr. Hanson buy new machinery and get the mind going, they'll be doing a lot of business with you, Mr. Stone. Thanks to Sergeant Preston and King. If it hadn't been for them, I wouldn't be able to do business with you or anybody else. Well, King Old Boy, this case is closed. In just a moment, Sergeant Preston will give you a preview of Wednesday's adventure. They're yours for the asking. Yes, fellas and girls, the exciting Sergeant Preston Yukon Trail cutout models are yours for the asking. Is this for Quaker Puff Tweet or Quaker Puffed Rice? There's no waiting, no box tops or coupons, no extra costs. Your grocer has them. 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Hello friends, myself Dr. Narendra Kartikar, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Valschan, the Institute of Technology, Solapur. Today we are going to see the discussion and presentation on design of Compression Mold Part 1. At the end of this session, student will be able to understand the importance feature of design concept for compression mold design, as well the student will be able to apply the design concept for mold design. The content for this presentation are Introduction Compression Molding type of compression mold advantages and disadvantages of compression molds. Let us in brief about the introduction regarding the plastic material need for the particularly plastic material product and various type part manufacturing methods. As we know, the plastic is advanced material being used nowadays not only to build the particularly new product but considering as a replacement for the existing material itself. Considering various type of particularly geometries considering the quantity, quality and so many features, the varieties of part manufacturing methods are developed out of that compression molding is there. This is the general setup for compression mold. With the compression force, the particularly material is going to be flow out into the mold cavity and after the end it is going to get the particularly exactly the replica of mold cavity and thus produce the part geometry itself. In a three stage wise, you can see over here, charge is loaded, force is applied, after the ejection the part can be unloaded. This is the one of the type of compression molding machine. At this stage of this session, are you able to recall, share some of the application products that can be manufactured with the compression molding process. Might be seen or known earlier anywhere in real time, just enlist the varieties of product. I hope that you had enlisted the same. This is the compression mold how it look like. You can see the produced part placed on the same. Compression molds, type of compression molds, hand compression mold and semi compression molds. Semi automatic varieties of types are there, open flash, vertical, fully positive, landed positive and semi positive. These are the three varieties, flash type, semi positive type and positive type. We are going to see in detail one by one. You can see the four different varieties are shown over here in the figure. Hand compression mold, top force, red plate, bottom force plate, bottom force, top force, guide pillar, guide bush and varieties of parts are shown over here. Hand compression mold particularly being used with the manual effort. Hand compression mold are used for smaller production runs or prototype experimental job that require lower mold cost and parts having open tolerance and less intricacy. Many advantages are there, like the materials are used for processing large deep drawn parts of maximum density. The hand molds are less costly. The hand molds with less than 15 kg for easy manual handling and the operations are fully manual. Some of the disadvantages are, the molds are more easily damaged by misalignment, mishandling etc which may result from improper mold operation and closing of the mold. The flash type of compression mold is used to produce a shallow shaped component. Flash formation, in this mold a slight excess of molding powder is loaded into the mold cavity. Unclosing the top and bottom platter, the exceed material is forced out and the flash is formed. Some of the advantages, gas or air can be trapped by closing the mold too quickly and finally powder material can be splashed out of the mold. Some of the disadvantages, moreover because of the excess material loading needed the process is somewhat wasteful as far as raw materials are concerned. Advantage of open flash mold, resins having high melt viscosities can be molded by this process. This is the semi-automatic open flash mold. This is another diagram which shows the semi-automatic open flash mold. Semi-automatic vertical flash mold. These type of molds are suitable for molding the component high density and critical dimensions as related to the cavity and top force. There is a very little clearance between the plunger and the cavity wall. The flash is formed vertically on the type of mold. The flash is removed by filing, sanding and tumbling. Disadvantage of positive type is that after frequent operation the cavity walls become scored and ejection of part is difficult. Advantage it must be measured accurately as there is a very limited means for the excess material escape. This is a semi-automatic vertical flash mold. This is another diagram which shows the semi-automatic vertical flash mold. The flash is flown in a vertical form. Semi-automatic semi-positive mold is a combination of features of the open flash and fully positive mold and allows for excess powder and flash. Flash it is also possible to get both horizontal and vertical flash. A clearance of 0.025 mm per side for the diameter of 25 mm between the plunger that is top force and the cavity is maintained for satisfactory operation of the mold. Disadvantage are more expensive to manufacture and maintain than the other type of compression mold. Advantages semi-positive molds are suitable for producing the component to close tolerance and for better surface finish. Semi-positive horizontal flash type semi-automatic semi-positive flash mold is shown over here. It flows in a horizontal as well as in vertical manner regarding the flash. This is another diagram showing the semi-automatic semi-positive flash mold. Let us see some of the advantages and disadvantages of compression mold from the perspective of technical terminologies. Advantages from tolerance point of view best method for holding the close tolerance over the projected area of flash line regarding the shrinkage. Lower mold shrinkage as compared to the transfer or injection 0.0015 to 0.002 inch per inch less on general purpose phenolic materials. Uniform mold shrinkage due to uniform flow pattern of material. Density More uniform density of molded part. Weld lines Depending on the geometry of the part, no weld lines and fewer mold in strain and stresses because of more uniform fill of the cavity. Venting of the mold may not be needed but not to extend required in transfer or injection molding. Flash Generally flash scrap lower than transfer of injection unless runner less injection considered. Runner system on the shallow draw part maximum number of cavities per bed area due to the less molding pressure and without necessary of link runner system and sprue or plunger location. Suitable products recommended for shallow draw parts. Product Strength Improved impact strength since no degradation of fiber during flow. Cost Generally compression molds are less costly to construct than transfer or injection molds. Landed directly positive may be an exception. Disadvantage Cure time Rate of cure of heavy section or wall thickness may be longer than those for transfer or injection molding. On sections of 0.400 inch that is about 10 mm thickness special compression equipment may be able to equal cure. Mold maintenance part design incorporated undercuts or sidewall are troublesome because high mold maintenance is required. Molded in holes are limited to depth of 2.5 times diameter small diameter holes not recommended. Flash dimensions over flash line limited to plus 0.008 to 0.000 inch that is 0.200 mm. Process Difficult Difficult to mold high bulk materials Some of the references for these presentations are Modern Plastic Handbook, Modern Plastic and Charlize, a Harper editor in chief technology seminars incorporation, McIngrow Hill publication, Fundamentals of Plastic mold design by Prof. Dr. Sanjay Nayak, few of the web references CIPET government website NPTEL study material. Thank you.