Good morning. Welcome to CMC markets on Friday the 31st of March and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 3rd of April with me, Michael Houston. Obviously we're coming to the end of the month, the end of the week, the end of the month. More importantly, the end of the first quarter of 2023. The last two weeks, we've taken some of the gloss of the performance of the FTSE 100 after a relatively strong performance in January and February. But I think what has been rather surprising is despite the volatility that we saw in post 8th of March 9th of March, the German DAX has managed to reverse most of the losses in the aftermath of the collapse of the credit of Credit and looks to finish the quarter over 10% higher. FTSE 100 has also managed to recover some of the losses of the last couple of weeks, but it still remains well below the levels that it started at the beginning of the month. I think the larger part of the reason for that is obviously that the banking sector is still yet to recover the losses that it's seen. This month, if you look at the best performers over the course of the past four weeks, hasn't been the banks. I've been the worst performers, obviously. The FTSE 100 has got a heavy weighting for banks, unlike the DAX, which is on course to finish the month or actually finish the quarter over 10% higher than when it started it. FTSE 100 is still expected to finish this quarter higher, but it looks like the gains could well be around about in excess of 2% as I record this video. Lower energy prices, I think, have also weighed on the FTSE 100 as well. Obviously, oil and gas prices are lower now than they were at the beginning of the quarter. So that's acted as a little bit of a headwind for the FTSE 100, but I think when you consider where we were on the 9th of March or in the week after the 9th of March, the fact that we've seen a decent recovery at all, I think it's encouraging. Looking at the FTSE 100, it's interesting to see that we actually held broadly above this area of support in and around these lows here in November 2022 and December 2022. Yeah, we did have a brief spike down, or we actually closed. Well above this particular support levels in and around the 70s and 50s area. So that remains a key level for me on the FTSE. Similarly, despite the set-off that we saw in March and we can see that here, pretty much back to where we were 2-3 weeks ago, obviously that's really encouraging. And I think one of the reasons for that has been the decline in headline inflation that we're seeing pretty much across the entire Eurozone. German inflation fell back in the recent March flash CPI numbers, not as much as perhaps people would have liked or expected, but it did fall back fairly sharply. It fell back even more sharpish in Spain, where it almost halved, and it's almost halved in the Netherlands as well. But unfortunately, that presents the ECB with a new problem because ultimately while headline inflation is halving, in some cases, before inflation is doing no such thing. And that, I think, presents a problem for the Euro area. And more importantly, I think the European Central Bank, because I think one thing that I think the events of the last 2-3 weeks have shown us is that the more aggressively you raise interest rates, the more chance you have of introducing significant stresses in the financial system. And we've seen that play out in recent weeks in the way that bond yields have been behaving. Now, last week I showed you a chart of US 2-year yields. Now, if we just basically display that to show year to date, we can see that we've seen quite a big range just in the past month. We were around about 5% at the beginning of the month. We fell as low as close to 3.5%, and we're now back at 4.1%. The consequence of that has been for the NASDAQ to have a really, really strong quarter. And an awful lot of people have said, oh, well, you know, this means that essentially markets are looking to price in rate cuts. And there certainly is, I think, there has been a sharp fall in central bank's terminal rate expectations when it comes to how many more rate hikes are likely in this particular cycle, and then how soon rates are likely to get reduced over the course of the rest of the year. But here's where I struggle. I struggle with the idea that central banks are somehow going to start cutting rates as soon as this summer. So as some people are projecting, I just think that's wishful thinking on so many levels. We can certainly see the way that the NASDAQ has performed and people are talking about, you know, the NASDAQ is up over 17% on the quarter. And certainly if we look at the way that the NASDAQ has performed, it's been a fairly decent quarter. But let's not get carried away here. The NASDAQ was trading quite close to its October lows at the end of last year. So it's been playing a bit of catch up. If we drill all the way out and go back to the highs of 2021 or even the highs of last year, it's only merely retraced 38.2% of that entire down move. So the rebound that we've seen in NASDAQ has been fairly modest. And at the end of last year, it really did struggle to rally. So if we then compare that to this 38.2% level, it's around about 13,000 give or take, which is currently where we are at the moment. If we compare that to the S&P 500 and we do something similar here, again, similar record highs there. October lows there. We've retraced 50% in February. We then drifted back down. So by the end of last year, the S&P 500 had rallied an awful lot more from its October lows than the NASDAQ. When the S&P was up here, the NASDAQ was down here. So what has happened this quarter is the NASDAQ has played catch up with the S&P. And we're seeing a fairly equal rebound off the October lows. It's just that people are taking the starting point as the end of last year beginning of this year. And say, oh God, look how wonderful the NASDAQ is doing.  You're not comparing like with like because you're taking completely different starting points. So in terms of the rally off the October lows, the S&P 500 is around about 12% higher. The NASDAQ is around about 15 or 16% higher. Does that mean that suddenly we're on the cusp of a new bull market? No, it doesn't. It just means that we've rebounded quite nicely from the October lows. But we are still well below the 50% retracement level. And we haven't got anywhere close to reversing the downtrend that we've been in over the course of the past 12 to 18 months. So sometimes a little bit of perspective is required when looking at related markets. If we look at the Dow, the Dow is flat on the quarter compared to the NASDAQ. So sometimes it pays to look at markets on a broader level rather than looking at markets in isolation. Ultimately, if interest rates don't get cut over the course of the next two to three months or two to three weeks or whatever, or interest rate expectations don't adjust in the context of current market pricing, then NASDAQ could find it very, very difficult continued to move higher. And I struggle with the idea that with inflation, and we've got core PCE, US core PCE later today, we've got EU core CPI and flash CPI, headline CPI later today. I struggled with the idea that somehow central banks are going to start cutting rates at a time when headline inflation for all of them is nearly three times their target rate. I mean, the only scenario I can see the central banks would start to reduce their headline rate is if we see significant financial instability, and I certainly wouldn't rule that out, but also evidence of a sharp economic slowdown, which by itself will obviously act as a drag on not only headline inflation, but core inflation. But I can't see that happening, and I certainly can't see it happening by the summer. So I think there's an element of wishful thinking going on by some people in the market who seem to think that rate cuts are coming as soon as the summer. I really don't see it unless something breaks. And we have seen, when I say something breaks, I mean something significant. I don't mean another localized blow up in the banking sector or concerns about commercial real estate. Tensions of ease as we've come to the end of the quarter. The big test now, I think will be payrolls next week, this coming week, US non-farm payrolls. There's no evidence currently that the US labor market is getting or showing any evidence that unemployment is set to move higher. Certainly in the payrolls number for March next Friday, we're still expecting to see a number in the region of around about 220,000. We've also got ADP payrolls report next week as well. And again, they were fairly solid in February. They rose to 242,000 in February, likely to see another 200,000 plus number in March. Wage growth, again, fairly steady, trending at around about four and a half percent or average hourly earnings. But again, they're not particularly accurate reflection of what actual wages are doing. What we're also seeing in the US is an increase in the participation rate, which suggests that people are now returning to the workforce. Now that could by itself push the unemployment rate up, but it doesn't mean that the US labor market is deteriorating. There are still around about 10 million vacancies, even accounting for the fact that a number of companies are now starting to announce widespread job losses. And I think the big concern I have is an awful lot of these companies that are announcing job losses, they tend to be in tech, which overhired during the pandemic. And some of those jobs are likely to be higher salary jobs and they're not being replaced by similarly higher salary jobs. So essentially the 10 million vacancies at the lower, they're at the lower end of the salary scale. So you could have a mismatch there in terms of the jobs that are being lost and obviously the vacancies that are still available. We've also got services PMI's next week on the 5th of April. So we've got non farm payrolls on the 7th, we've got services PMI's and ADP on the 5th and obviously weekly jobless claims. They are still on a weekly basis below 200,000. So they're still very low, which again doesn't to me to me to show that the US economy is suffering at the moment from a significant slowdown. Yes, there are pockets of weakness, but certainly I don't think there's anything at the moment to rule out the Federal Reserve hiking rates by another 25 basis points in May. If you'd asked me that question two weeks ago, I might have been less certain of that. And if you ask me again in two weeks time, I again might be less certain of that. But given where we are now, and there is a risk that we could be in the eye of the storm. When it comes to recent events and essentially what's happened this week has been a bit of end of month end of quarter portfolio readjustment as we head into Q2. But as we look ahead to Q2 things have settled down and assuming that we don't see any other unpleasant surprises. I don't think this is this is no way a repeat of 2008. That's not to say that we're not going to get any further blow ups, given the fact that rates are now much higher now than they were 12 months ago and that will cause stresses and strains. That is going to be the challenge. The central banks going forward. So certainly looking at core inflation is going to be key. Looking at the labour market is going to be key. But at the moment, I don't see any evidence at the moment that central banks are persuaded that they need to stop hiking. Now they could temper their language. I don't think that we're going to get much more than say one or two more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, maybe one of the most. But then we could get a long pause. And I think that's where the pricing mismatch is. Even if the Fed has stopped hiking rates and the rate hike that we saw a couple of weeks ago is the last one, rates could stay right where they are now for the rest of this year. And markets aren't pricing that at the moment. They're pricing a pause. And then two or three months later, central banks will start cutting rates. As I say, I mean, unless core prices come down quite significantly over the course of the summer, I can't see that happening this year. But, you know, I always reserve the right to change my mind. You know, once the evidence supports me doing that for the here and now we've seen a fairly decent recovery in European markets in the first quarter. The bigger challenge now as we look ahead to Q2 is whether or not we can sustain that. And really, I think looking at all the major indices that we've seen thus far, we are still very much in the uptrend that we've been in since those October loads for the DAX. The next key level is obviously the highs of earlier this month. Can we overcome them in Q2 and revisit the highs that we saw back in 2022. So a bit of a harder road back for the FTSE 100. But again, I think the losses in the banks are overdone. UK banks are much better capitalised now. The biggest concern I have about UK banks more broadly is obviously the fall in house prices that we are now starting to see, as well as the fact that an awful lot of people may well be coming off their fixed rate mortgages over the course of the next three to six months. And that could act as a little bit of a break on demand going forward. And obviously, April, we also see the new tax rises kick in as we start a new tax year. Now that the government has decided to press ahead with its ill advised, I think is probably the best way I can frame it hike incorporation tax rates from 19% to 25%. I think that's a massive own goal. It's going to really it's going to really impact on businesses.  I really don't I don't really don't see how that is going to help the UK economy at all. I think if they left corporation tax where it was at 19%, I would argue that 19% and something is better than 25% and nothing. But hey, what do I know. Also looking ahead to next week, we've got a couple of central bank rate meetings. The RBA Reserve Bank of Australia and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Not so much, not particularly concerned about the RBNZ. It's been one of the more aggressive central banks over the course of the past 12 to 18 months at its last meeting in February. The RBNZ hikes rates by 50 basis points, pushing their headline rate to 4.755%. Now at the time, the head of the RBNZ did suggest that more rate hikes were coming. The big question I think now is whether or not recent events have caused a reassessment of that. If we look at the Kiwi, we can see that on this particular chart, we're finding a little bit of a top in and around these sorts of highs around about 6290. But the highs, the lows are getting higher. So we could start to edge higher, not because the Kiwi is particularly strong, but probably because we're starting to see a significant improvement in the Chinese economy. And also US rate hike expectations are likely to start to get tempered back and the dollar is starting to fall. The dollar is starting to weaken somewhat. So I would be very surprised if the RBNZ moves again next week. Similarly with the RBA, whose headline rate is 3.6%. And as I say, it raised rates in March by 25 basis points. But what's interesting about the RBA was the fact that the tone was markedly different to the tone in February when the central bank that said further increases in interest rates will be needed over the months ahead. This tone changed. This tone changed in March, which came just days before the sharp declines as a result concerns about the banking sector. The March rate rise was accompanied by a change in the language to a more data dependent approach. So that opens up the potential for a pause when the central bank meets next week. We've also seen a fall in headline inflation back to 6.8% in February, which suggests that the spike up to 8.4% that we saw in the end of last year was very much a one off. And it may give policymakers some confidence that a pause may be appropriate and let's not forget the Australian economy is also heavily reliant on its own housing market. So I think in terms of the Aussie dollar, we may see a pause at 3.6%, a reiteration of the data dependent nature of further rate hikes going forward. Certainly the 200 day moving average is I think is a fairly decent resistance level around about 6760 6780. But again, I think the improvement that we're seeing in Chinese economic data and the rebound in services and what have you, as well as the prospects of a week of dollar could act as a as a as a fairly nice tailwind for the Australian dollar. But obviously we have the offset that we've got the ADP Rated Payrolls report next week we've got services ISM as well and obviously we've got non farm payrolls on Friday. So all of those factors are key things to bear in mind when we look ahead to what's coming up next week, which is a quiet week. In terms of company earnings there's not really that much to really get your teeth into. April earning season starts in earnest around about the 13th of April. That's when US banks start to report. And those will be particularly interesting given the recent volatility Silicon Valley Bank signature bank. First Republic Bank, the big US banks looking to bail out an awful lot of these smaller regional banks. I think it'll be an interesting conversation to have how the big US banks see the outlook for the US economy as we look ahead to Q2 and their latest earnings season numbers. If we look at the currencies euro dollar now does appear to be looking to push higher through 10950 towards 110. Certainly again we're seeing fairly decent rebound off the October lows. It's interesting to see the way your dollar has behaved and the DAX has behaved. And I think if you think your dollar if you think the DAX has potential to go higher than the likelihood is that your dollar will probably do the same there. It does appear to be a nice correlation between the two. And it'll be interesting to see whether or not ECB officials continue to be as hawkish as perhaps they once were given the concerns about the European banking system cable again. Pretty much a range trade this quarter. I think if you're looking at the prospect of a weaker dollar. Then the pound should benefit from that at the moment is pushing up against the upper boundaries of the recent ranges 124 and a half. That's a big level. And I'm well below that. I think you've got to be a little bit worried. I think you've got to be a little bit cautious about being overly long a cable at these sorts of levels until such times as we break inclusively above 124 and a half. But overall, I don't think I would be I would be surprised if the pound drops significantly back to the levels that we saw at the beginning of this month, around about 118. I still think this is a fairly decent range trade on the basis of the fact that it has been for the last three months or so. Again, that could be upended if the risk, if the outlook for risk deteriorates markedly. Euro sterling. Well, there you have it. I mean, basically, just look between the blue lines. This is really the extent of it for Euro sterling. Again, nice little uptrend line all the way through these loads here. We've got the 200 day moving average down there. We've got the 50 day there. The price is compressing and it's very much a range trade. I think the trade for Q2 is going to be Dolly N. That's going to be worth keeping an eye out for because now we've got a new governor, the Bank of Japan. There has been some talk that the Bank of Japan might look to try and exit your curve control. If it does do that, then the potential for further Dolly N losses towards the lows that we saw earlier this quarter remains quite high. At the moment, we're starting to move a little bit higher. We could move all the way back to the 200 day moving average without really undermining the bearish narrative for Dolly N. We still remain very much in the downtrend from those peaks back in October. I still have an end of year target of around about $120, $125 for Dolly N. I haven't changed my mind on that while we're below the 200 day moving average, weaker dollar, stronger yen on the back of a slight policy tweak or a slight policy shift on the part of the Bank of Japan. So, I think pretty much that's it for this week and this quarter. As I say, it's been a positive quarter for stock markets. It's certainly looking a much better picture now than it was around about two or three weeks ago in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank sell-off that we saw on the 9th of March. And then obviously the events in Switzerland surrounding Credit Suisse. So, as we look ahead towards the next few days, the main focus over the course of the next week will be on US non-farm payrolls. And I will be hosting a webinar live covering the numbers on the day in question. US ADP payrolls report, as well as the latest ISM services report from the US economy. And particularly the employment components as well as the prices paid components for any further evidence, the inflationary pressures are continuing to abate, particularly in the services sector of the US economy. Until then, thanks very much for listening. This is Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets. Thank you.


Welcome to the ITU studio, the World Radio Communication Conference 2023, WRC-23 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio by Fodjou Perez, who is an academic observer with the Cameroon delegation. Fodjou, welcome to the studio. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.  You're one of the youngest members here of all the delegations, I believe. Tell us a little bit about your experiences here and why you've come. I am an academic observer for the delegation of Cameroon and the experience generally has been very good because it's my very first time in Dubai and not just the buildings but the people, the Emirates and their hospitality. No, I most appreciate it. It's top notch. Now, you trained as an engineer, is that right? Yeah, a radio communication engineer. Okay, and what made you decide to go into that field? Just the passion and when I look around ITs and everything about communication, I just saw that with my research at the long run, the base of communication is radio. So that just pushed me to go because if we don't start with radio, the other parts wouldn't breathe. So I just had to start there. And it gets to parts that other communications necessarily can't reach. In principle, I wanted to ask you about the conference itself. This is the World Radio Communication Conference. It's a very important conference in the ITU calendar. But why is it important for Cameroon, do you think? For Cameroon personally, I think a lot will deal more on spectrum management because this is not just an ordinary ITU World Radio Communication Conference but one of the most important because most bands in Cameroon, especially for mobile, now satellite communication is coming also into play for us and to see how to manage all that spectrum is a problem we have with pollution between Cameroon and its neighbors. So I think spectrum management is one of the vital things which Cameroon is focused at looking at this conference. And how did you get to be a part of the Cameroon delegation? Did you have to go through a selection process? Was it difficult to get to here to get to Dubai? Yeah, I would say it's really challenging because you don't just get up one day and you decide to start following the activities of the conference. I have been following the activities of ITU for like three years now. Been going through attending meetings online before and even before my focal point validated my travel, I was called for an interview at seven days in the morning, just on phone. Which was quite surprising because I wasn't expecting it. Exactly. It's an early time for a young person anyway, I think, at 7.30am. So I think it's very competitive. I wanted to ask you, you're here as an academic observer, what do you think you will be taking back with you to Cameroon at the end of this? Not just the experience but also getting to meet experts. Like the day this hall was mounted before the radio communication assembly started. I was here and I learned a few things from the experts who were installing everything here. Already that's a plus for me. Also creating networks with people who are senior to me in the field, it's already another good plus. And just the interactions, the whole general experience and the feeling is just good and for me in my radio communication career I think it sets a very good base. Well, I'm sure it will and thank you very much for joining us in the studio and I'm sure we'll get to catch up with you at some stage in the not too distant future. It's my pleasure. Thanks very much indeed. Thank you. Thank you. And if you've enjoyed this interview then do check out our other interviews on the IT YouTube channel as well as our podcast on SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcast from. And for further information why don't you visit our website at www.itu.int. Thanks for tuning in.


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They're cutting edge, they got a ton of data, they got a ton of process, they need to automate. These, you can make up to $500,000 a year, depending on how you position yourself, which markets, Silicon Valley, Facebook, I know some of their high-end developers make at least $400, $500,000 a year. For average company, you're looking at maybe $150 or so, $160, depending on the size, you can definitely get over six figures. If you're not making six figures as a back-end developer, you are getting ripped off. So you definitely need to be in that position to make money as a back-end developer. Algorithm developer, guys. This is one that, if you're looking at the volume of jobs, it's not out there as exclusive as your title, but you're gonna be doing a lot of this in other areas of development. But a lot of these gonna be data science companies, consulting firms, working with bigger organizations with a ton of data, they're trying to monetize that data some kind of way. This is where you're gonna come in, guys. Algorithms, AI, machine learning, all that stuff coming to play when it comes to creating algorithms. Every one of these developers, every one of these developers create algorithms at some point. It just is not advanced enough to really like the YouTube algorithm or Google search algorithm, like these big, well-known algorithm. You're not working with that massive scale of data that many people use in your algorithm, but you can do something on the smaller scales, just say for a transportation company to be able to provide which drivers the best option for a particular load. Yeah, yeah, that's a huge, that's a huge problem for a driving company. If you can provide that, that's money in the bank. But again, it's not gonna be a lot of jobs out there that has the title of algorithm developer, but they're out there in demand as AI increase, you're gonna see a lot of those guys. Game developer, I put this towards the end because a lot of you guys want to be game developers. This is probably out of all of them, the hardest one to get into because everybody's tried to be a game developer because they figured, I play video games, I might as well as a developer.  Just like any other developers, guys, the top 20% is gonna make bank, they're gonna do good, six figures easy, they go mid $300,000, $400,000, no problem whatsoever.  That's why I tell you guys, you probably wanna do this as a beginner unless you just really good at it. I would start with one other and then work my way into this.    So be aware of that. RPA, Robotic Process Automation, guys. RPA, huge niche, huge, huge, huge. You need to jump on that, guys. A lot of business processes need to be automated. This is the way to go. And number 10, full stack develop, guys. This is another big one.  Full stack developer is the way to go. Guys, these are all the developments options you have. 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Thank you. Good afternoon all. Thanks for the opportunity to talk to everyone here. I'm sure most of us here one way or other understand the impact of non-performing building materials and systems. I'm talking today from the weatherproofing point of view. Just to give you an idea how important the weather proofing issue is recently one of the Australian buildings less than 10 years old had a weather impacted issues and the cost of the litigation is of $15 million. In the US in the early 70s about 15 to 20 percent of the litigation against the building personnel, architects, certifiers, builders, product manufacturers and so on was about 20 percent and it's been gradually increasing and in the early 2000 the number has hit every one in two people. The litigation, sorry, every one in two litigation is related to the weatherproofing. So it is an important aspect. I'm talking today about the weatherproofing through roofing and cladding. So the requirement is basically the buildings to resist the moisture penetration. So one in a 20-year storm, any water that comes in has to be disposed and managed. So it shouldn't affect the building and any surrounding buildings as well. So the water shouldn't come through openings such as the roof, the walls, cladding systems and anything else in the building. So the requirements are, sorry, before that I might just show you that there is a leaflet in your seat and this tells you the procedure, what needs to be done and what sequence that needs to be followed. So basically I'll be describing what we have got to go through those processes So essentially FE1 is the weatherproofing cloth and that directly looks at our addresses FE1.4. It's not mandatory, but it's one of the alternative solutions. You go through the list in the NCC, you look at what is the limitations and what is the score, risks factor and then you choose the test specimen which will comply and it'll have all the details. For example, the parapet walls, the electrical junctions, the corners, the terminating vertical as well as horizontal details and other details. So complete the details of what the realistic system is and then choose that as a test specimen and then evaluate whether the system is a direct fixed wall or cavity wall or a unique wall and then go into testing. So an example of the test specimen is just shown here. So that kind of gives you an idea of what I just described. So at the CYRO we have got a facility. So you can see that there is a double story height chamber in which you can set up the test specimen representing all the details and so this particular slide shows you a cavity wall system. So also the internal view and the external view of a direct fixed wall cladding system are shown in this slide. So we've got pressure equipment to apply the building wind pressures and we've got various data takers and the instrumentation to take the required readings. So essentially for a cavity wall, you set the cavity wall up and drill a 15-millimeter hole in the wall lining to take into account of the air penetration through, air infiltration through and then you can apply, you must apply the 100% of the serviceability design loads, both positive and negative, for a minute each and find out what the reading and what the effect of the wind pressures on to the building specimen. Following that you apply a static pressure water penetration. It is specified at 300 Pascal if the weather pressure is 100, sorry, 1000 Pascal or less and if it is more than 1000 Pascal it is 30% of the design load. Following that you take, subject the wall specimen into the third stage of the water penetration specified in 4284, building code 4284, which is 30 to 60% of the pressure with 3 liters per minute per square meter area of the test specimen. So after these two tests are over then you allow the building specimen, subject the building specimen for six millimeters of a hole at several areas and then you repeat the static and the cyclic water penetration test, check if any of the water has reached the interior portion, particularly the studs and then the lining of the wall and if not then remove the internal lining and then subject the test specimen for 50 Pascal static water penetration. So this particular sequence applies for the cavity wall and for the direct fixed wall or unique wall the first two steps are essentially the same but then the static pressure and then the full sequence of the three cycles of the cyclic water penetration, 15 to 30%, 20 to 40% and 30 to 50% of the design load and check through whether there's any particular water penetration. So that kind of sequence we are not authorized to do these tests at our lab in Syro. So that once the building specimen is subjected to through this sequence it will prove that you are complying to the NCC requirements. Thank you.


Hi, everybody. Welcome back. I'm Lisa Larson, Animal Communicator, and I'm here with Alicia Alatrice Day. How are you doing, Alicia? Hi, Lisa. How are you? Good. I want to apologize to you guys because I know we've been doing this series on euthanasia, and we should have posted something a couple of weeks ago, but we had some technical difficulties and some personal difficulties, so we just didn't get around to it. But we will persevere. The last episode, we tried to prepare you for the process of helping lift your animal up and know what the process of having the vet come over is like and what it's like to lift them up to the spirit world. Today, what we want to talk about is those initial days, like once the vet leaves, that day, the vet leaves, and those initial days, what you're going to be doing, what you're going to be feeling, things to help, how to deal with those things, and that's what we're focused on today. Okay, that sounds great. Yeah, before we get to that, I was thinking, if you can share when you talk to the doctor a bit about the, you know, the shots. Yeah, I talked to a vet, and she does nothing but home euthanasia, and she was great. And she explained to me that the first shot, when I told you that there's two shots, well, in fact, there are three ingredients in that first shot. One is an anti-anxiety medication, one is a pain medication, and one is a sleeping medication. And I believe she said it was the sleeping medication. If you remember, when I talked about sometimes animals might get a little anxious from the first shot or look like they're frightened or something, she says, mostly that happens with cats who are pretty alert and maybe smaller dogs like chihuahuas. It doesn't happen with everybody, but she's aware that she thinks that it's the sleeping medication that the animals react to. So there are some options. For instance, you can ask to have just the anti-anxiety and the pain medication given first. Now, that means there will be another needle stick, but, you know, you're kind of making those decisions. Personally, I think I would do that because they're already getting pain medications. So the second needle stick shouldn't be as much. But the second needle stick would be the sleeping medication that puts them to sleep before they give them the shot that stops their heart. So I think in the last episode, I even said, you know, I think I even put in the bottom, in the lower third, that you can ask for, you know, an anti-anxiety medication first. And there's problems with asking for it before that comes over. But you can ask them to separate those medications out if you feel that your cat or dog would, you know, might react to that. So I did want to address that. And I thank you for talking. And there's a couple of other things, Alicia, that you and I had spoken about that I wanted to mention is making sure we kind of looked at the heels of it instead have somebody there with you. But I don't think I pressed it hard enough that it's really important to have someone close to you to help you through the process. If you live alone, maybe have somebody that's really close to you, stay the night with you.  Those type of people. And, you know, because it's going to be, as we're going to talk about today, it's going to be hard once that leaves. So you want somebody there to help you through that process, but also who will stay with you. And the other thing is, I don't think we mentioned, is making sure that if you have other animals in the house, make sure to let them see the body of the animal who is transitioning, because it helps them deal with it. And you can prepare them for it by telling them in your own words or having a communicator tell them, you know, either before or after, you know, but always remember that those animals who are remaining, they've got a bit of confusion, they're going through their grief. And, you know, I'm sure that we will end up talking about that as well. In this episode, which I'm calling dealing with the aftermath, and that initial aftermath, because you know, Alicia, how hard that is, it's hard on everybody, whether we've been through it a million times, or whether we've only been through it, you know, whether it's our first time. I have, when Chiqui passed, I had my best friend as a support, so that she took off everything, and I didn't have to think about anything. Yeah, can you give us some tips when what to do when the vet leaves with the body, and you are all alone, and you don't know what to do because we get confused and we are lost, you know? Yeah, we are, we're completely lost.  I mean, I will, I'll write them an email, and I'll say, when you're ready, you can call me.  And I think that's really important, too.   And if you don't have any of that stuff, or you don't, you don't, you do have a substance abuse problem, there are other things like tryptophan is a naturally occurring amino acid in the body and coms, you down valerian root is something that's kind of a natural anti-anxiety and knowing that your animal is there and knowing that your animal is out of pain and not suffering. Yeah, definitely. And what else do you suggest to go through the following days when, you know, when you don't have your pet already with you anymore? Yeah, and I think that's where I say, like, you know, first of all, if you work, there's nothing wrong with, if you can do it, take some time off from work.  Now, other people might look at that and say, oh, it's not the same thing.   And, you know, I mean, of course, if you have animals left in the house, you need to, you know, split your time and make sure that they're not feeling left alone, but so you have to take care of yourself and do the things that you need to do, but you also need to be there for them as well, and honoring their grief. But I think, you know, just taking care of yourself and taking some time for yourself, don't just sit and wallow, you know, I mean, that's the easiest thing to do is to just sit and wallow.  But, you know, if you can have, you know, some, a few close friends or one close friend be with you, you know, to just those first few days, you just have to keep, you're never going to keep your mind off of things, but sometimes you need that distraction by going out and being in nature. And I don't even want to call it a distraction, because you're not going to be not thinking of them.  Yes, it's okay to feel pain. It's okay to accept it.  It's just a cat. No, it's not just a cat. In fact, I was filling out something today with the vet, we have a home vet and she's going to be coming over.   So just because somebody else doesn't understand it, just ignore it, you know, you understand that if for nothing else, if for nothing else, you know that you have two people who understand you and that's me and Alicia. Hey, I'm talking to you right here, right now, you who are feeling like you have nobody that understands how you are feeling about the loss of your animal, and you have at least two people right here, me and Alicia.  Yes, and also, there's a point that we will receive the ashes, so can you explain a little bit what to expect when they when we receive the ashes?   But those two weeks in between, it's very odd, you know, I mean, there's there, it's it's you're kind of off center.   No, you would not.  And you know, that's the one thing that's that's different with with human beings. I think if I remember correctly, we like when my dad died, I thought we got his ashes back pretty quickly. I mean, when a human being dies, you kind of go through that process, the memorial process, and all of those things pretty quickly. And you have a lot of people around and all of this stuff. But with an animal, you've got it's, you know, you maybe got somebody to help you the first day. And then you've got these like two weeks before you get the ashes back. And you're just like, you don't really know, you know, what to do. So, you know, don't just know that you don't have to rush into anything. And when that time does come to pick up their ashes, I you maybe you can have if you can't do it, maybe you can find somebody to go pick them up for you. Now, Alicia, I know you said that that in your case, the vet brought them to your home. Yeah, so I've never had that experience. And I think the only time I ever remember picking up ashes was when I did it for my mom. Every time that I've had to do it, it's somebody's done it for me. My husband has done it or my mom's done it for me. It's a it's a it's a very difficult thing to do. But like I say, you know, I remember when Cuba came home, I remember waiting for Michael to get home because I just I got that little box and it's it's so traumatic. But I just felt like he was home.  And, and you know, it's important to that. I suppose we talked about some of this the last time that did we talk the last time about the boxes and the different types of boxes? I think that we will come to talk in this podcast.  And I'm sorry that some of this stuff got pushed over to this one, but we do want to cover it.  And I mean, it was actually the same my dad, it was it was actually the same type of boxes I got my dad ashes back. But now more often, they'll come in this like wooden box and they'll ask you before you tell them yes, I want them cremated or whatever. Some of them will engrave their names on it. So they're really nice. So it's one of those things. Well, you know, I used to go and bury the ashes or scatter the ashes and then not know what to do with the box. Well, now the box is so nice. You can make an altar with it.  But even more new is if it's something that you would want to do something with berry or spread their ashes, there are biodegradable boxes as well.  I don't think they're they're standard at any place, but you can ask for them. But I know that, for instance, I have my two cats, Cuban, Makana, we have an altar for them. And we actually have it in our wills that when I die, that I'm going to be buried well cremated and buried. All of our ashes are going to be scattered together. Yeah, when I received cheeky sashes, I made an altar. I like the candle to her. Oh, that's nice. So, you know, and but yes, I think that the grieving part is very difficult for most of us. And having a podcast like this. And podcasts and, you know, and people like that that educated like you telling us what to expect that help us a lot. And I really appreciate it. Oh, that's good. That's good. Yeah. And so you have an altar. Do you have any plans for what? I mean, do you have a will? Do you have anything that what happens to cheeky when something happens to you? No, but I told everybody that when I die, I want carashes with me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, and there are other things too. You know, like I say, I used to go and bury my ashes, my cat's ashes, and then I would plant a tree over them so that I always there was something always growing. But there are some people like there are places now that, you know, you can get you can get jewelry or gems made out of the ashes. Now, this isn't my thing, really. But some people, yeah, I mean, it's just a personal thing. But they make really beautiful things. They make blown glass things. They make little jewelry. Some things they can be just like a little piece of jewelry where there's some of the ashes are in it. Some things that the jewelry is actually made out of the ashes.  But know that there are all of these options around, you know, I mean, there's just a lot of different options for what you can do. Also, in my case, I have a cheeky skirt in one of the Yeah, fur. I got some fur, Makana as well. Yeah, in the little thing. And yeah, you can get it made into like little I forget what it's called. It's not plastic. It's resin. Yeah, they put like in a resin, they make a resin jewelry out of it or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. It's important.   And for example, I had the hair next to me, plus the box and all these masters like Buddha and Jesus and everybody's there. Yeah, it's going to be personal for everybody. Yes. So I know that we have you had a lot of videos about grieving. Where can we go and find your videos of grieving? Yeah. So yeah, I've done a lot of grieving videos where we're talking about grieving as a whole, as opposed to what we're talking about here, which is just, you know, the immediate aftermath. And I will link those in the description below. There's also I also have a blog post. I think it's called 12, 12 things that you can do to get over the loss of a pet or something like that. And I really need to change pet to animal, but you know, that was a long time ago.  I mean, we've I've done a lot of those. I'm sure we'll do a lot more on on grieving. But yeah, I will, I will post those in the district description and you can and you can look through my videos as well. You know, you could go to the videos tab on my YouTube. Okay. I'm working with find your book. Yeah, my book is called pause talking, a course in communicating with animals. And yes, we can you can find that that on Amazon and Apple books. And as far as contacting me personally, you can find me at pause talk.net. Thank you, Lisa. That's amazing. Thank you. Okay, sweetie. Well, you guys, thank you so much. I hope this has given you some of the information that you need. And looking forward to our next podcast and our next video cast, we're going to talk about once your animal is on the other side, how do you know that they're around and all of that type of stuff. So look forward to that. I look forward to seeing you again. If you are enjoying these video casts, please hit that like button and the subscribe. And if you want to be notified of other videos in the future, hit the bell. And and we appreciate you being here. And we look forward to seeing you again. So thank you, Alicia. And thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's casewrakes.com coming at you with a pack of 2019 Panini Donner's Optic Football Hobby pack number 17 or a random team break at the end. We're going to give away four of those Panini one Random number of lock spots top two will get to the slightly pricier one the New England Jacksonville one the next two on the randomizer We'll get San Francisco Chicago, etc. But first the break so we're going to randomize names and teams first And then we'll do a different dice roll for the giveaway part at the end. Let's roll it randomized names and teams five into six eleven times Good luck one two three and eleven then final time eleven times for the teams two And eleven then final time. All right, here's the first half of the list right here And then the second half of the list right over here Let's just let's just get into it Print and rip and as soon as it's only a four card break. So as soon as I finish that we're gonna see who's gonna Get those number of lock spots. All right, here's the final print out hot off the presses. Thanks everyone for For making this happen, I appreciate it Kenny G OJ Howard Vaughn Miller and Josh Jacobs for rated rookie card Raiders not picking up his fifth year option Jason with my Raiders, but We'll see might might be might be an audition for him this year All right now let's flip back over here pretty quick break Let's gather everybody's names again one through thirty two and it's gonna be the top four We'll be getting into the the number block randomizer All right one out of three four times for the top four. Good luck one two three and fingers crossed fourth and final time So from five on down it's going to be sad times Jeff very close, but not quite I appreciate you giving it a shot. I Appreciate everybody giving a shot five through thirty two happy times though only the top four can be happy Allen Murdock is happy Canard is happy Allen is happy again and Steve Birch So congrats to the happy Allen with two of the four nice All right, so we'll put a we'll put opt Optics 17 next year named so you know one those spots so Steve and Allen You'll get into the New England number block for Panini one football canard and Allen again We'll get into the San Francisco number block There you go gang. I'm Joe for jasky's case race calm. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


much like the subject today, the trading. That's literally a much lighter one because you can talk about micro piping. Anyone know about it? One, two, three. I assume that every one here is a mid-winter so here you are. A mid-winter you should be learning about it. Most of you probably use piping for trading. Most of those trades are probably not dragging the real world using piping and this is what micro piping is all about. There are other boards that run from argument nodes. Those are for ranking C. C is not that much fun in piping so in the year 2013 a very smart guy put up a Kickstarter campaign. He was asking for 15,000 pounds to develop a version of piping that runs on a micro chip. He was proposing a version based on 5.3.3 the same grammar and the same syntax. There was his first term so the implementation of a micro plus support that implementation that he could be an arm processor for development. The micro piping is running on the processor itself so there's no operating system. It's what they call a bare metal piping. In a way, they say that the piping is the operating system. It has a micro piping support almost everything that is built in 5.3. With some differences in my knowledge that some of the packages are all like UOS, UJS and URE. Those are optimized ADIs for the micro processor. They don't support every single ADI that micro support is selected and it's optimized. The micro piping board is one of the technical specs. It's 5.6 megahertz, some randomness. What's interesting about it is that it has an accelerometer so it knows its position in space. The reason why there was some implementation of 5.3.3 programming in mind is that that's one thing that they're using now. Something like that.  When you plug it in into a UG, it presents itself as a drive as well as a serial port. We have a file system which basically has two main components. The first one is a file called poops.py which is run at the boot and a main.py which is run just after that. That main.py can be changed to run in a boot. You can specify other files to run at the beginning. I should run some examples. Hopefully it will run. This is how it looks like. It's a bit small. It runs marginally. It's a drive. It has two buttons for flashing it or one programming button. You can use a SD card to extend the flash drive. Once you plug it in, you pray and then you have a... So this is the port. So it has a pie, a main. This is for windows. And it's body type. It also presents itself as a... So you get a prompt. You can type any... Is it big enough? Can everybody see? So it's basically sort of the bottom prompt. It does everything you try to do. One plus one, no this and two. It does basically everything. It's like if there's no operating systems of itself, it's a OS, it's a complain. Files are on the board. Everything that runs here, it actually runs in here, not on the main, on the main. I have some demos, but we're a bit short on time. So that's a little bit short. As I said, you will execute whatever you put in there at the run time. More than it's in there, it runs. It goes into the execution of that file. Whatever is in there, it will read sensors. It will... If you put a motor, it will turn it, it will do whatever you ask it to do. There's a little bit of help that shows you roughly what it can do.  Let's say it turns it on. Say it's off, turns it off correctly. There you go. It has four LED lights. By default, there are four colors that you can do as an indicator of certain function that you're using. You can see that you're connected to the internet. Turn on blue, but go to the blue. It's on so hot. Other things that you can do. It has timers, which basically all the physicality is on the board. So basically, if you didn't see the code, it has two modes. So it has callbacks function, with timers, set to turn it on and off. So it runs on the background. It has timers called finals that you can program for different functions that will just add different frequencies and work for the functions. You can see this one. Currently it supports Bluetooth. You can plug in a Bluetooth headphone here. A Bluetooth module. So you can do a connection with your desktop or with your smartphone or... Unfortunately, not with iPhones. This module supports iPhones. So Android only. But because it doesn't support Wi-Fi for all these internet updates, most of the people will require Wi-Fi. So as part of a second campaign, the developers started supporting ESP866 boards which are... So they are of this size. You can see it. Tiny. So basically, this little thing runs Python and has Wi-Fi. So... it can act as a hotspot or it can connect to a network. It's a one antenna. It has the processor and some other tiny chips in there. That's the Singapore dollar. That's one dollar. And that's the... It's not the price. It's not the price. It's not two dollars. It's not one dollar. That's the size. But in order to order it to run it, you actually need a little bit more. You can put it in a USB, an optional space for USB port on this one. So it's put on a slightly bigger board. Slightly bigger board. About this size. You can actually see it. Which is good. And one more example. I unplugged the old one. It's one of the hotspots here. It's connecting and it gets an IP address and you can access it over the network. You can run a small... Basically you can build a small web survey site. You're not going to build anything of the size of an Archie or serve complicated JavaScript pages and loads and loads of data. But you can serve an API. So basically you can turn on an IP. You can turn on water remotely by accessing a website. As I call it, it's very simple. It's just reading the very best. From an API, I plug in something that looks like this. Anyone want to put it here? Anyone want to meet up with Jake Berry? Yes. But you've seen this lovely slider. This will be a bit different. This is running the web server locally on this machine. But it calls the API on this little board. So it just says... Set the color based on the JavaScript. That's right. So instead of just... So the server on the little board answers the little command. So obviously you can do a lot more with just a quick demo. There's currently quite a lot of companies developing boards that support Python. And they're getting more and more context. What I showed you here is the simplest one. There are some that are quite specific for different purposes. There are some that are generic. So microbit, if anyone's familiar with it, probably we see it for educational purposes. Anyway, all these boards currently are more used for education now. They're very easy to program for the kids. They get more interested in coding when they see a light turning on or a bit coming out of a device instead of just looking at the screen and seeing lines and lines and lines of code. So a blinking light just gets them attention or a motor turning. They can cut paper and put it on the motor. They do a lot of crazy things. They code in Python. And the price is really quite acceptable. $13.00 they give for education purposes. Then there are some more, much more complex. They connect to the 4G network but to the LTE M, which I don't think the Singapore is holding yet. I don't know if they are available or not. There are several boards and they have adapters like the 5 cents. This one is basically a weather station. It has all the temperature humidity, all the sensors on that board to plug in one of those. I think they're all compatible and you have a portable weather station. So this is, for example, very good for big farms which have a large area and they just place everywhere and then they get real data. The other one is a GPS tracker. Same thing. And the price again is very acceptable. What about the power when you're using these kinds of things? I guess solar power will do. 5 volts. 5 volts? Yes. CUSB? Yes. And that's why you need to use the LTE M because I really don't power the network. So if you can't use the normal 4G, it's still everything. So to be honest, that's about it. Much much like the public. Much much like the public. That's about it. There's some references. It's all on www.microplot.org. I am not affiliated with them. I don't sell them. I just use them and I thought it was interesting and I decided nobody I could talk about it and I ended up talking about it. That's all I have. If anyone has any questions, I'll do my best to answer them. Let me ask you one question. They have given me a big web socket support. For my team. My team support it. I'm talking to some kids. And I'm saying that they have a micro web socket support. So I think micro web has a big micro... I think they have the support sockets. I believe this is my pocketbook. The web sockets. The web sockets. The web sockets. The web sockets. The web sockets. The web sockets. It's not using that. It's really old. That's it for... Did you always have the information of an A to work with her or...? That's completely... It's from her. They don't use BrainTales though? No. They... It's not the first time for them so they wanted to optimize as much as possible. They imagined this. It's like those $1.34 boards. $1.34 that you have. I think there are more or less, you know, the processor I think it's, it's quite, quite, if you look at the, the stats, there's probably more power for the, than the processor I used when I started programming. Sorry? Yes, it is. I don't have internet here but I suggest if you're really interested in learning more, you need to read the documentation because there are a few implementation of it, specific to different boards, because different boards support different things. There's a generic implementation and there's, there's specific to a board. And the documentation is a very nice split in individual boards.  But this one, because it's the bottom, so. All the functions in microfiber, they are, so what? See exactly, see, in fact, a little bit. So you have to, if you want to build libraries, for example, you have to try an error, because, or you read the documentation, because they say there's specific documentation, what's supported and what's not. And it's all open source. So you can go and dig as deep as you want. And, there's one with screen, there's one with the screen. They support all sorts of protocols for communication. So maybe one that has, I do see any space here. I don't think you have an image processor, it's something that. I mean, you can, for security, you take an image, I mean. I stole something from the app world. And I see one experiment in which he was reading the Raspberry Pi, and doing a facial recognition, and identifying objects. Because it gives you a video. You just, you put it in the model and then just bring on the. And then working on that.


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This coming Monday, the 12th marks the four-year anniversary since marriages started in Connecticut. So let's take a look back at how Connecticut won the freedom to marry, and what's happened since. At the American Foundation for Equal Rights, I'm Matt Baume, and welcome to a special episode of Marriage News Watch. Just as in other states, the campaign to win marriage equality in Connecticut was a combination of sound legal strategy and a lot of patience. It started in 2004 when gay and lesbian advocates and defenders filed a lawsuit challenging the state's anti-gay laws. It took nearly two years for the case to reach its first judgment, and initially, our side lost. The Superior Court ruled in 2006 that the only difference between marriage and civil unions is the name. And because Connecticut had civil unions since 2005, the judge reasoned, that was close enough to marriage. In essence, the judge ruled that civil unions are equal enough. But we know that's not true. When you look at the facts, it's clear that relegating gay and lesbian couples to second-class status is far from equal. There are real legal consequences, as well as emotional harm. That's a finding that multiple state commissions would find over the next few years, as well as the District Court in California in the Prop 8 case. Knowing they were right, GLAAD appealed the ruling, they presented arguments before the Connecticut Supreme Court, and after another year and a half, they won.  The guarantee of equal protection under the law forbids us from doing so. And that was that. The ruling came down on October 10th, less than a month before Prop 8 would be voted into law, and the state issued its first marriage licenses to LGBT couples on November 12, 2008. Mount surprisingly, public support for the freedom to marry has increased over the last decade. Nine years ago, 44% of Connecticut residents supported marriage with 50% opposed. By 2008, when the Supreme Court legalized marriage, those numbers effectively flipped. And today, we have 55% support to just 33% opposed. And a 2005 report from the Williams Institute estimated that the first three years of marriage in Connecticut would result in a net gain of $3.1 million in taxes. That report was authored, in part, by Professor Lee Badgett, whom several years later would serve as a witness in AVER's case to overturn Prop 8. Of course, our work still isn't over. The federal government still doesn't recognize the marriages of thousands of gay and lesbian couples who have gotten married in Connecticut. That's why AVER remains committed to bringing about full federal marriage equality for all Americans. Visit us over at AFER.org to learn more about our case and to help us expand the freedom to marry from coast to coast. At the American Foundation for Equal Rights, I'm Matt Baume. Thanks for watching.


The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI This is your FBI the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society is representative in your community Would you know what to say if your telephone should ring like this? Yes This is the radio checking Bureau. If you radio turned on why yes, it is what program are you listening to please? This is your FBI just starting. Do you know who sponsors that program? Yeah, I do the Equitable Life Assurance Society. I Listened to this equitable program last week heard about the equitable society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers My equitable society representative bought me a copy. Oh naturally I know that this is your FBI is sponsored by the Equitable Society in about 15 minutes I'll be back with full information about the Equitable Society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Tonight's FBI file the sorrowful safecrackers in crime just as there are in any other field and While there are some who go against the trend most criminals like most legitimate citizens follow the current fashion religiously Some years ago for instance If a criminal wanted a quick reputation among his fellows or if he wanted the biggest possible loot He planned to rob a bank In those days bank robbery was almost a common crime For banks were poorly protected but today all that has changed Few criminals will undertake the tremendous risk involved in robbing a bank In one six-month period last year for instance, there were only 21 bank robberies attempted thieves have turned to attacking easier targets that is most of them have Despite the overwhelming odds against them There are still some criminals who believe that they can succeed where so many others have failed Who believe that they are smarter than the law? The night file open to the small furnished room located in the downtown district of a large western city Harry Wheeler a lean hungry looking young man is reading a book when there is a knock at the door What are you doing reading? Yeah I ain't wasting my time. This is very special reading Well, I don't know quite now how to tell you this cranky, but For the last couple of months. I ain't been getting no fun out of my job Sure, but in the beginning every time I cracked the safe I got a big job now It's not maybe a don't to you Frankie, but it does to me That's what made me go to a psychiatrist What You mean like that guy in a picture with England boatman. Yeah, that's right What do you need with with one of those guys? You go crazy. Oh, of course not. I went home because I needed to get straightened out. I did What about tomorrow No, look Harry we got my mind's made up, but what about tomorrow doc says I should never been a thief in the first What if he wants you to do get a job in a grocery store? Oh, he thinks I ought to get away from the city I'm gonna you're gonna what?  Oh look Harry the job is all set for tomorrow Where is rip gonna get another guy that quick the job is gotta be done on a holiday when the bank is closed You know that Frankie I made up my mind no more job Another drink with you What is it? The most beautiful gathering suit with a long skirt and those narrow shoulders. You'd love it on me All right, you just got a new dress and to know How much wait a lap to the job tomorrow, then will you get it for me? I don't know yet Answer that will you What kind of trouble Harry is pulling out of the job one What did that happen just now? The matter with him a want a bigger cut He went to some doctor and a guy told me shouldn't do no more jobs. What kind of a doctor is that I don't know He told me but I don't remember I better go talk to him talking do no good if he says he's finished. All right Don't get excited. Don't we have to do the job tomorrow. We'll do it tomorrow And we'll do it with Harry And I'm telling you if you're talking or do no good with him. It's mine. Wait a minute Nora You want to get that jab at me? Oh, honey First you got a job Harry wheel has always been a little strong for you. Don't con me honey. This is important. So he has a yen for me It's not my fault. I'm not blaming you I just want you to throw some charm Nora Harry wants to pull out of the job tomorrow You get him to go along with us And you got your soup Honey, you just made a deal Later in the local FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is seated at his desk when agent Don Brooks approaches When did you come back to work I checked in this morning. How do you feel? Well, I'll be all right. It was three weeks in the hospital straight me out fine. You look great What are you working on it? The boss asked me to work with you on that bank job that was pulled yesterday Glad he did it tough one. What's the story? Well, the robbers whoever they were rented the store next to bank months ago I mean like a tunnel from the store on to the bank and into the bank's basement How come they didn't set off the alarm the trap wires don't run underneath the vaults and I guess they knew it You think they might have had some inside help That's all if they'd had inside help. They probably wouldn't have had to rent the store and dig the tunnel How much they get about $55,000 orbit and care. Yes, they didn't touch any of the barns of in the ball Once they got inside, of course, they turned off the alarm. That's right Then they had an expert who blew that safe. I was down there this morning and whoever did that job really know what he was doing Now what time was the job during the day according to the clock on the fault blown at 1114 How come there wasn't anybody in the bank at that time in the morning clothes remember the mayor declared a holiday yesterday because of the city's 100th birthday Whoever planned this job planned it to happen just as the parade was passing a bank I spoke to some people we're standing in front of bank. They didn't hear a thing. Well, how do they get away? Imagine they came back through the tunnel and out of the store after that they could melt into the crowd Any fingerprints on the ball not only no fingerprints, not a single clue Who rented the store man who gave his name as William Adams paid cash for first two months, right? I guess William Adams is not available. Correct. He gave the landlord a fake address So it probably isn't his right name either any description on it. No, the running agent couldn't remember much about him You were right when you said this was a tough one Jim What do you think we ought to do for a start well down? I think the best thing to do is get out the file of known bank robbers and take their pictures out of that running agent If he recognizes any of them as Adams we start to look for it And if he doesn't he doesn't we'll try somewhere else. But for now, let's get those pictures and go to work Okay, okay, hold it a minute.  I rented the safe deposit, but what it led this morning at the bank yard Well, we get ready to blow we take it out. Mm-hmm When do you think you want to be moving? Oh, I don't know a week ten days, then we go back east to another job It's okay stuff. Yeah What kind of a job same thing a job? Hey, who do we get to fill in for Harry? We don't need anybody Every day, but he told me he was going to take the move from this job and pay for that chicken How can he pay for the farm if he ain't got the dough? Well, his hand will be more than the farm court I'm not giving him a dime. Oh What'll that prove didn't he'll only get so I never do another job. Yes, he will he'll be back Norah, oh After we went to the bank this morning, I sent her down to see Harry.  That's the idea Then with Harry all we got to do is four or five more jobs like this. We can all quit with plenty of money in the bank Yes, Jim we got a break. Yeah, take a look at this picture Well the blow up of a section of yesterday's parade the newspaper photographer who took it just brought it in Take a look at that background see the bank. Mm-hmm and the store next to the bank. Hey There are three men coming out of that store. That's right. Yeah, take a look at this through this class It was fun. We'll be caring. I must be the money Unfortunately only one place shows up in that picture. He's been identified though as a thief named Joe Stewart What are these other pictures? Oh, those are a gallery of everyone who has ever arrested this story You know to come in handy say you notice the suit on the one who's holding the door open for the other two Well, the one who's back is turned to the camera Pretty loud striped to show up so clearly in a picture taken at that distance Who took the picture to one of the regular photographers in the morning dispatch He just went up to the second floor of a building to get a better angle on the parade has it appeared in the paper. Mm-hmm I Mean because it'll warn the bannets that we know who they are. Mm-hmm. They'll really go under By the same token, we also have a whole city full of helpers now if anybody sees this man any place they'll call the police And if they stayed in town thinking they had been a perfect job They'll have a tough time getting transportation out every bus line railroad station and airline ticket counter has been alerted Good. What do you think we ought to do now, Jim? First thing to do is find Joe Stewart Let's take another look for his record and see if we can get a lead Oh Rip what's the matter with you? I'm glad you're still here. Why don't you know what happened? What are you talking about? You ain't seen the paper yet. No, they got a story about the job a story nothing They got your picture what yeah, let me see that paper. Yeah That's the trim. Yeah, but your face is the only one that shows you're the one who takes the wrap How do you like that? What do we do now? We can't blow town if you're looking for me on the rocks, but we can't stay here rip One of these bell boys is somebody turning in for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Hello It's Nora Joe let me tell you All right. Yeah, just do it Harry. Uh-huh. You better get back here right away. Can't show why not That's all off now I know I didn't I don't care about the farm now get up here as fast as you can.   That stupid game happens to have the other key to my safe deposit box and all our dough is in that box We will return in just a moment to tonight's file which shows how your FBI promotes security for the nation Now let's bring this question of security closer to home a year ago on this program the equitable life assurance Society offered a special fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers The response was overwhelming Thousands of charts were distributed by equitable representatives and the supply was quickly exhausted So this year the equitable society has prepared a new and enlarged edition of the fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers It's ready now. That's what does this chart do that makes it so popular mr. Heating but Tom it was designed to open your eyes to what your family's financial needs would be if you should die Fill in this fact-finding chart and you'll know within a dollar or two How much money would be required to keep your wife and children well fed well housed and well-closed? That is something I ought to know Tom with this equitable society chart You'll have the answer in five minutes flat look you're guided every step of the way by easy to understand pictures Which illustrate the rock-bottom expenses your family will have to meet and when you finish you'll have a clear Actual and complete picture of just what income your family would need during the critical years hold on a bit mr. Heating just what are these critical years the years before your youngest child finishes high school Years during which the home must have a minimum income to keep it together. You saw me mr. Heating where do I buy one of these fact-finding charts? You can't buy them Tom They're free the equitable society representative in your community will be glad to bring you a copy Sit down with you and your wife together There's no obligation and get a true picture of where you stand Phone him tomorrow to bring you an equitable fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Or send a postcard care of this ABC station to the equitable society that's EQ you I TA BLE the equitable life Assurance Society of the United States And now back to the FBI file the sorrowful safe tracker Okay from the files of your FBI Graphically proves one important points about the alleged loyalties of one criminal for another It proves that these loyalties are entirely legendary The criminal who pursues his livelihood outside the common decency does not have any loyalty nor anything else That is not for sale You may hire his talent his mind or his muscles But only for the money never for anything else By the very nature of his chosen career Sentimentality to the point of loyalty would be a liability Because while it is true that a criminal may plan his every action There is no way of his foretelling one important thing And that is Who is going to double-cross him next? The only more important element in his plans is Who can I double-cross next myself? Mike's file continues in the hotel apartment of Joe Stewart He's seated in an upholstered easy chair running his fingers nervously through his hair How could she do this? It's been every time I had on it Why would you want to leave a guy like me for a moax like Harry? Well, even if they have they're not gonna swing with my dough In case I get into a jam and I couldn't go get the dough myself And if I figure she double-cross me How can we move without dough you carry? Yeah, buddy yard. I got 200 Hey rip, I know where we can go where out to Harry's chicken farm. You know where it is. Yeah, okay?  He was but by the time the clerk called Stewart had already sneaked out of his room We didn't miss him by much though. I found a cigar button one of the ashtrays It was still warm and he leaves it all on where he might have gone I'm glad you gave me this list Oh, what is it the list of the phone calls Stewart made for the past two weeks? That might give us a lead. I was there anything at all left in Stewart's apartment No, I cleaned it out pretty well the only thing in the place for Library books. What are they? How to raise chickens and this other one is those golden eggs. What was Stewart doing with books like that?  Yeah You know maybe Stewart is using that farm as a hideout could be with a library books taken out in his name I don't know. There's no card neither one of them. I don't suppose we can check with anyone from the library This oh no, I tried from the phone up in Stewart's room There won't be anyone there until night in the morning remember that time Stewart can be wherever he's headed for Well, the only thing we can do now is go back to the office and start checking these phone numbers They don't give us anything we'll check with the library the first thing in the morning I can get up Come on get up I haven't been to bed yet. Why not Those chickens they drive you dancing. I kind of like it. Are you kidding? Look, I've been thinking how we can get our dough Yeah, I remember the whenora called me yesterday afternoon I looked at my watches it was exactly four fifteen well Bank close at three o'clock. That means they couldn't have gotten a dough yesterday. Hey, that's right Noro go to the bank as soon as it opens this morning. What did you say? I said noro will go to the bank as soon as it opens this morning I want you to get dressed for me, huh? Will you get dressed and get out of here? Oh, it won't take us a little 10 minutes to get the money once we get to the bank We'll have this cab wait for it Happy gosh, yes Will you you miss that doctor? I should say not You're just what the doctor ordered. Oh Harry that's Do we go much farther? No the bank's right ahead. That ought to be open by this time. Sure. That's the building driver on the right hand side Come on Let me help you out Franky, what are you doing here? Joe sent me away for you. Where is Joe? You'll find out Let's go in and get that dough first Don't rumble this gun in my pocket might go off Here Jim, I don't know but he's the one who took those books out of the library I came over here right from the library, but we were gone landlady said you didn't know when he was coming back Oh, that's why you wanted this search warrant. That's right.  The wheeler's room is on the ground floor. It's first door down there on your right This one Jim? Yeah, yeah, that's it number three. Have you got the key? Yeah right here I don't know how much to search in here. It doesn't look that way Jim, how does this harry wheeler fit in anyway? I don't know Don This is the only lead we've got right now. I see Hey Jim, I think I found something. What is it? Uh, it's a lease and a poultry farm Looks like we're getting to the right place. Well, it still doesn't hook wheeler into the bank job though The only proof is that there's some connection between wheeler and steward on command. Huh? What is it Jim? Look in this closet. I think this is all the proof we need How's that did you nail them?  What else could I do knock him off in the bank? He brought us here against our will Lord me wanted to go away. That's not so I didn't want to go away with you at all You got me into this Joe. You made me force my attentions on him.   Let's get out of here. Joe. Come on Frankie, right? Don see if any of them are loaded right? Cops, huh? Special agents of the FBI Frankie. You let him tell you here. We didn't have to We found the lease to this place in wheeler's room. We also found the suit that he wore when you three did the bank job That suit with a loud stripe? That's right The next suit for all of you will have stripes too. And now come on. Let's get back to town Patience to 25 years his confederate Frankie 20 years harry and the girl 15 years each on charges of bank robbery And thus because of careful investigation and the determination to follow every clue to its logical conclusion Your FBI was able to check the careers of four criminals And also was able to return the stolen money Stolen money that formed part of an aggregate total of more than 36 million dollars, which was returned to you The citizens of america After it had been stolen That too is part of the protection which you receive from your local law enforcement agencies And from your FBI We will tell you about next week's exciting case from the official files of your FBI Now for a moment. Let's get back to the equitable societies fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers I've been looking over that chart mr. Keating the way I figure it. It's going to take a load off my mind From now on I'm going to stop taking chances with my family's future And as a first step I'm going to get one of these charts for myself Well, Tom the man who'll see that you get one of these fact-finding charts is your equitable society representative No charge or obligation, of course Make a note to phone your equitable society representative soon Or send a postcard care of this abc station to the equitable life insurance society of the united state Next week we will dramatize another story from the files of the federal bureau of investigation The dramatic story of a cunning killer's attempt to outwit the law its subject extortion its title The unwilling hostess the incidents used in tonight's equitable life insurance societies broadcasts are adapted from the files of the federal bureau of investigation However, all names used are fictitious And any similarity thereof to the names of persons living or dead is accidental Tonight the music was composed and conducted by frederick steiner the author was jerry lures Your narrator was william woodson and special agent taylor was played by stacey harris This is your fbi is a jerry divine production This is larry keating speaking for the equitable life assurance society of the united states and the equitable society's representative in your community And inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time When the equitable life assurance society will bring you another thrilling story From the files of the federal bureau of investigation The unwilling hostess on this is your fbi This is abc the american broadcasting company