So let's put all of this together. So use the graph to analyze the intervals, the domain. These are arrows on here. So it goes on forever. So to the left it's going to go forever. And to the right it's going to go up, but it's also going to go out to the right forever. So we would say that that is going to be negative infinity to infinity. And we would say x is an element of that. For the range, y is an element of the interval. It goes, the lowest point that it hits is this negative 2, but then it goes to infinity here. So we would say it's from an including negative 2 and up to infinity. Alright, so let's talk about where it's increasing. At the very first part of the graph it's decreasing. But then when we get from here, from this point to this point it's increasing. And from this point on it's going to be increasing. So remember we want to know the x values here. x is an element of, in between these two, would be negative 2. And remember we use parentheses here to 0. And then union, and that's going to be a positive 2 on over to infinity. So 2 infinity. And decreasing would be the first part of my graph. So it's infinity up to this point. So let's go ahead and write that. x is an element of negative infinity to negative 2. And then union, and then it also decreases right here. And that goes from 0 over to 2. So 0, 2. Okay, so now let's talk about the zeros. And we didn't talk about zeros before, but now's a good time to talk about them. Z-Rows are where they cross the x-value where the graph crosses the x-axis. So we have three of those. We have one right here, one right here, and one right here. So we would say that x is equal to those three different values. It's equal to negative 3 it looks like, and negative 1 and positive 2. Talk about what the end behavior. On the left-hand side it's up, and on the right-hand side it's also up. So it's an up-up end behavior. One last bit that we're going to do here. Where is the function greater than 0? Now it's greater than 0 right here. And write all of this. Okay, and remember that these are arrows on these graphs. Where does it start? It's an x-value. x is an element of, it starts at negative infinity and goes to negative 3 where it hits the x-axis. Then it also is above the x-axis. Yes it is increasing and decreasing all over the place. But we just want to know what values of x make it greater. So it goes from negative 1 all the way to infinity. Now they want to know where it is less than 0. So that would be all of this here. And that's the only part that's less than 0. So we would say x is an element of the interval from negative 3 to negative 1. And then we have to talk about maximums and minimums. Local max, there is 1 right here. Let's make that red. There's my local max and I only have 1. So it would be that y equal and that looks like it's about 1.5. And then we have local mince and that would be this one here. And this one here. There's 2 valleys. So y would be equal to, it looks like it's down at negative 2. Down here at negative 2. And then up here it's at 0. Remember these are y values. And then finally, doesn't say it in there, but the absolute max doesn't exist. Because it goes to infinity on either end. But there is an absolute min. And the absolute min would be y equal this one right here. That's the lowest point that graph gets to. So y equal negative 2.


Hello, and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad. In this session, we would look at forward contracts that are used as a fair value hedge. This topic is covered in advanced accounting, covered in international accounting, and covered on the CPA exam, the FAR section. If you need additional lectures, please visit my website. But I would always like to connect with my subscribers and viewers. So please connect with me on LinkedIn. I'm very active on LinkedIn. I'd like to know my followers. If you are a Facebook user, I have a Facebook page for my accounting lectures. Please like this page. Obviously, all my lectures on YouTube, please subscribe to my YouTube. So this way you can, you'll always have updates. And my Twitter account is Farhad Lectures. So in this session, we'd look at the fair value, a hedge, which is hedging an unrecognized foreign currency commitment. So the first thing is what is that? How do we use a forward contract as a hedge that's considered fair value hedge? Here's what happens sometime. A company, and specifically since we are US centric, a US firm at a date earlier than the transaction. And what's the transaction date? The transaction date is the date that we do the exchange. But sometime what we do is we make a commitment before the exchange, before the exchange transaction takes place, before the transaction takes place to a foreign company to buy or sell goods or services at an established price and a foreign currency. Simply put, today, today is November the 18th. Today, we might make a commitment to buy goods and services. So this is November the 18th. And we might make a commitment to buy goods and services May 1st. And this transaction will be denominated in euros. So we made the, we made the commitment today and we assume this is a firm commitment means we cannot change it, but the transaction will take place earlier. So this is what we mean by unrecognized foreign currency commitment. So the transaction did not take place, but we have a commitment and that commitment is firm changes in the exchange rate between the commitment date, today's date and the transaction date will be reflected in the cost or the sale price of the asset. So between now and the transaction date, any changes will need to be recorded. Okay, the US firm may enter a contract, which is a forward contract to hedge its commitment. So to protect ourselves from the fluctuation, we enter into a contract. Now with the fair value hedge, all the adjustments goes to the income statement. And we assume it's a fair value hedge. It's considered effective. Effective means overall, it's going to give you no gain and no loss. So overall, it's going to be neutral. And you're going to see what I mean by this once we do the transaction. But no, if the, if the hedge is effective, it means in a sense, we are eliminating the fluctuation, the fluctuation changes in terms of gains and losses. And we will see how this work in a transaction. So the best way to illustrate this is to always work an example. Because I just told you, but you don't see it until we work an example. Consider the following information on December 1st, the US firm contract to sell equipment with an asking price of 10,000 pesos in Mexico, the firm will take delivery and will pay for the equipment in March. So today we're making the equipment, I'm sorry, today we are making the commitment to sell the equipment for 10,000 pesos. And the transaction doesn't take, actually takes place until March 1st. So this is what this is an unhedging for an unrecognized, this is unrecognized foreign currency commitment. And we're going to hedge against it. Okay, on December 1st, 2008, the company entered into a forward contract to sell 10,000 pesos for 948 on March 1st. So the US company said, you know what, we don't know what's going to happen March 1st. And we're not interested in taking our chances. Therefore, we want to find someone that's willing to buy from us the pesos at 948. And we would receive 94,800. We are happy to receive this. Now on March 1st, we might be able to sell the pesos for $10 and get 100,000 or the pesos could be for $8 and we may only get 80,000. We're not interested. We're just, if we can get 94,800, we're happy with this. What happened to the pesos on March 1st, we don't care because this is when we get the money. Okay, so the spot rate and the forward rate for March 1st are as follows. So December 1st, the spot rate is 948. The forward rate is 9, sorry, the spot rate is 954. The spot rate is 948. And this is what we bought. We bought the forward contract for March 1st. On December 31st, we really don't care about the spot rate. I'll tell you why. And the forward rate is 944. On March 1st, the spot rate is 947. Now remember, the spot rate has to do with the transaction. And the transaction doesn't take place until March 1st. That's why I ignored the 954 and the 949. On March 1st, the equipment was sold for 10,000 pesos. As expected, the cost of the equipment is $40,000 to us. First thing we do, since we enter into the contract to sell the 10,000 pesos, we'll need to record that transaction. So we're going to debit a receivable from exchange dealer, 94,800. Remember, this is what we're going to be receiving. This is a receivable. This is a receivable. Okay. And we credit forward contract payable to exchange dealer, 94,800. And what I suggest we do is to go ahead and just like what we did in the prior session, create a T account, one for the receivable, 94,800 and one for the payable, 94,800. Now here's what I want you to know. The receivable is the fixed amount in this example versus the prior example. And the prior example, the payable because we had to pay, remember the 27,594, this was the fixed amount. In this example, since we are receiving, the receivable is the fixed amount. We're only interested in receiving that much and we bought the contract to sell the 10,000 pesos to receive the 94,800. Now this is the contract. Now the foreign currency payable to exchange dealer is basically the forward contract. And this is what we need to keep track of if any changes up or down. So the foreign currency payable is what we need to keep track of. Just like in the prior example, we kept track of the foreign currency receivable changes. In this situation, we keep track of the foreign currency payable example. All right, let's go back. So December 1st, we only have one transaction. Basically, we bought the contract. Now we don't have the underlying hedged. We don't have the item that's being hedged on the books yet. So we don't have any currency yet. Okay? So on December 31st, what's going to happen? We have to look at the forward rate and see what happened. On December 31st, the forward rate was 944, but it was 948 when we bought the contract. Is this good for us or bad for us? Actually, since we have a, since we have a receivable, it's good for us. So guess what's going to happen? On December 31st, we are going to have a foreign currency exchange gain. You might be saying, why do we have a foreign currency exchange gain? Once again, because we bought the contract at 948 and now the contract is 944. So if we waited until December 31st, if we waited until December 31st, we would have received only 94,400. Luckily, we did not. We entered into the contract earlier. Therefore, from a hedging perspective, we, because we have to mark our hedging position, we have to mark this account for incurring, foreign, forward contract payable to exchange dealer to market. We have to increase it by 400. I'm sorry, we have to reduce our liability, not increase it, which yeah, increase its value, reduce it by 400 and record again a 400. So let's do, let's update this. Let's stop right here and update our T account. So what's going to happen is we're going to have to debit foreign currency payable, which is basically we did good and credit again. Now remember what I told you earlier? I told you a fair value hedge is considered to be an effective hedge. And what does it mean an effective hedge? Effective hedge means you eliminated the gains and the losses. Hold on a second. I just recorded a gain on my, on my hedge. What do I need to do? Well, remember, when you are using hedges, when you are hedging, when one of your position goes up, when the hedge goes up, the item then being hedged goes down, or when the item being hedged goes up, the hedge goes down. So they work in the opposite direction. But hold on a second. I don't have the item on December 1st. I did not record the item that's being hedged, although I am not recording the item that's being hedged, because this is a fair value hedge. So listen to me carefully. This is a fair value hedge. I told you this from the beginning. We have to eliminate the gain. This gain has to be gone. Why? Because we have to offset it. The hedging, the concept of hedging, when the item being hedged goes up, the hedge goes down. When the hedge goes down, the item being hedge goes up. So now the hedge went up. We had a gain. Well, we have to offset it with a loss. And what we do, the loss is going to be our firm commitment, because we don't have a commitment yet on the books. So we have to do, we have to create a liability called firm commitment. And this is a liability. What we do is we credit this liability $400 and we debit the loss $400. So let's go ahead and update our record on the Excel sheet. We are going to record the loss of $400. And why are we doing so? Because it's an effective hedge. This is, this will not exist when we do the cash flow hedge. Okay. And we create a firm commitment, which is this is a, this account is a liability. And why did we do so? To reflect, we have an effective hedge. To reflect, we have an effective hedge. All right. Now what's going to happen next, we adjusted our December 31st. Let's move to March 1st. On March 1st, this is when we're going to settle the transaction. Again, we have to do two things. We have on March 1st, we have to adjust our position, adjust our foreign contract payable exchange, which is our hedge. We have to market to market. Okay. And what's the rate on March 1st? Well, the rate, as I told you earlier, on the settlement date, the forward rate is the same as the spot rate. So I don't want to put it here. It's misleading. But the forward rate is the same as the spot rate, which is 947. Okay. So by March 1st, the hedge, remember, we had the hedge was, we started at 948. We started at 948 went down to 944, which was again on December 31st, that it went up to 947. So from December till March, the hedge position worked against us. In other words, we have $300 and losses. Why? Because it was 944. Now it's 947. So we lost 0.03 times 10,000 pesos. That's equal to $300. Therefore, we have to debit a loss, debit a loss, we have a loss of 300, and increase our payable, increase our payable by 300. So let's do so. Let's do so immediately before we proceed. This way, I want you to keep track of this. So basically, what's going to happen, the gain that we had earlier on December 31st, we lost some of it, we lost 300 of it. Why? Because the foreign currency was 947. The pesos was 947. Okay. And 300 here. Okay. Now, remember, this is an effective hedge. What does that mean? It means when we have a loss, the item that's being hedge, which we don't have on the books yet, we'll have to take a gain. But since we don't have it on the books, what we do is we give a gain to the firm commitment. We reduce our firm commitment by 300. Therefore, we credit foreign currency exchange 300 and debit firm commitment 300. Because we don't have the item on the books yet. That's why we do so. So now, firm commitment is 300. The balance is 100. So this is the balance. Let me compute the balances. And the balance for the payable is I started with 94,800. I reduced it by 400. I reduced it by 400 December 31st, and I increased it by 300 March 1st. So my balance right now is 94,700. And this is my balance here, 94,800. Now, remember on March 1st. This is when I deliver my product. And when I deliver my product, I record my sale. And how much is my sale? My sale is 94,800. How so? Well, remember, I'm receiving 10,000 pesos, and I'm going to receive for them 948. How did I know I'm going to receive 948? I entered into a contract. Somebody guaranteed that price to me. Therefore, I'm going to credit my sales 94,800. Now, what am I going to receive in return to that sale? I'm going to receive an investment in foreign contract. Now, I can also debit my foreign currency payable now. But first, we're going to debit an investment in foreign contract, 94,700. And I need to eliminate because now I have the commitment on the books. I have the sale on the books. I need to eliminate my firm commitment. I had a $100 in firm commitment. I eliminate my firm commitment. So this transaction, this transaction to record the sale and remove the commitment. And this is what I just did. Now, remember, I put the investment on foreign currency on the books because I don't want to debit my foreign currency payable from exchange yet. I will do it on the next slide. So the next slide, what I would do is the cash I would receive is 94,800. This is the cash that I would receive. Now, remember, I put investment in foreign contract and foreign and forward contract on the books. I'm going to credit this account and debit forward contract payable to exchange dealer. I could have did this in the prior session. Then once I debit the cash, I credit this. So here's what I did. Let me go back and show you what I did at the end. So on March 1st, here's what happened. March 1st, I let me just create a sales account here because I don't have a sales account. Okay. On March 1st, I credit my sales. I credit my sales 94,800. I remove my commitment 100. So this is, I remove this account. Okay. Then what I do is I debit my investment in forward contract because this is what I really am going to receive. I'm going to receive my contract. Now it mature 94,700. Okay. That's that. Then the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to receive the cash. How much cash am I going to receive? 94,800. I debit my cash and I credit this account here 94,800. Okay. And this is what I always was looking for. We're looking for this. So now this is zero. This is gone. So I debited my cash. I credited my sales. And this is basically what I did. This is basically what it boils down to. Debit cash credit sales. We'll do all of this to end up with debit cash credit sales. Then I'm going to remove my investment. So I'm going to credit my investment 94,700. This is gone. And I'm going to offset it against the payable 94,700 94,000 94,700. And this is gone. So this is gone. This is gone. This is gone. This will be this was close at the end of the year. This was close end of the year. This will be close at the end of the year. And basically what I end up with is what I thought I will end up with is debit cash to 94,800 from my sale and credit my sale 94,800. And I knew this was going to happen from the get go because I entered into that forward contract. I entered into that forward contract. I also I debit my cost of goods sold credit inventory 440,440,000. Now if you're asked what is the total gain on the gross profit on the sale, whether it's the cash minus cost of goods sold, it's my what's my which is my gross profit on this transaction, my gross profit on this transaction. So this is a fair value hedge. What's what's interesting about the fair value hedge and what's like what student kind of they get stuck on is the firm commitment. Remember, you have to have a firm commitment because this is a fair value hedge. A fair value hedge means it's an effective hedge. Effective means gains and losses goes to the income statement that they kind of cancel each other. If you have a gain on the hedge, you have a loss on the item being hedged. If you have a loss on the item being hedged, you have a gain on the hedge. But here we don't have the item being hedged as of December 1st. Therefore, we create this firm commitment to keep track of this. If you have any questions, any comments by all means email me. Study hard for the CPA exam. If you have any questions, email me and if you happen to visit my website for additional lecture, please consider donating. Good luck. As always, study hard for your CPA exam. It's worth it.


A few weeks ago on Twitter I made a dumb joke about a potential spinoff of awesome games done quick, referring to it as mediocre at best games done excruciatingly long, citing an example of playing a game like Bulls vs. Blazers a really early EA NBA title and trying to score 50 points with Lakers center Vladi Divak, who might be the slowest player in any game ever. Well, Travis Holman responded saying he was up for that challenge, and yeah, he pulled it off, he scored 50 points. And the first half! For some reason this got me thinking about overpowered athletes in video games, like damn, if you can score 50 with Vladi Frickin' Divak in one half, you could probably score something like 200 points with Michael Jordan. So just for fun, I set out to find out who the most overpowered video game athletes were back in the 16-bit era. Of course, the most famous example of all time in any video game ever is Bo Jackson, in both the original Tecmo Bowl and its follow-up Tecmo Super Bowl, both on NES. Bo is completely unstoppable. He was faster than anyone else in the game. He broke every tackle. It was so ridiculous that you could seriously just take the ball with Bo and run around the entire field until time ran out in that quarter before you could waltz into the endzone. It's absurd. I don't think anyone's gonna beat that, but I did manage to find plenty in the Super Nintendo catalog and Sega Genesis catalogs alone that are worth pointing out. Now, I know sports games aren't everyone's cup of tea, but they're really not all that much different from any other game in that it's just fun to be overpowered as hell, regardless of what kind of game you're playing, whether it's as a fully powered X in Mega Man X or Chrono-crushing goblins with Luminaire when you start a new game with New Game Plus, or one of my favorite examples, playing as Hakim Elijuan on the Houston Rockets in NBA Live 96. No power-ups needed here.  He makes between 85% and 90% of his shots, as long as you're shooting inside the three-point line. And even better, if you're running toward the basket holding the R button, just press A anytime you're anywhere inside the free-throw line, and you will dunk over anybody that's in your way. It's fantastic. Way back in 2009, I was playing an NBA Finals game with Houston, and I said, screw it, let's see how many points I can score with Elijuan in 5-minute quarters, and I managed 118 points. In fact, I think it's possible to average over 100 points per game with this dude. I wanted to see how many points I could score with Elijuan in 12-minute quarters, and it ended up being 237 points on 117 of 131 shooting. Just ridiculous. Eat some of that, Wilt Chamberlain. And yeah, I know Michael Jordan is technically in the NBA Live games, usually as like roster 82 or something like that, but you know what, Elijuan is just as good as he is in the NBA Live series, if not better. Of course, since this is a sports game video that gives me an excuse to once again talk about Ken Griffey Jr. presents Major League Baseball. Now, I've managed to get a few people interested in this game over the years, and some people come back to me and say, hey, I keep losing. Any time I make contact, it's an out. What am I doing wrong? Well, for starters, you should probably pick the best possible team to play as, like the defending world champions at the time, the Toronto Blue Jays. Their leadoff guy is only the best leadoff guy in baseball history, Ricky Henderson, and not only is he a great hitter, he is so much faster than anyone else in the game that he can practically steal any base at any time. I mean, that should have been a single right there, but he easily stretched it to a double no problem. Plus, they've got guys like Hall of Famers, Roberto Alomar and Paul Molliter, that year's batting champion, John Olerud, World Series hero, Joe Carter, on and on. In this case, it's not a player that's overpowered. It's an entire lineup. All of these guys can hit the cover off the ball. I mean, look at this, it's the bottom of the third, and I'm already up 14-nothing with 17 hits. So if you're struggling with hitting in Griffey baseball, try hitting with the Blue Jays. Or, you know, you could just play as the Mariners, play as Griffey and smash the Bejesus out of the ball every time he's up. That works too. One of my personal favorite overpowered players in sports games is Barry Sanders, mostly because this dude basically played football like it actually was a video game. How can you possibly encapsulate what this dude was capable of on the football field in a game? Well, by making him way faster than everyone else, of course. No, he can't break tackles like Bo Jackson can in Tecmo Bowl, but it's still fun to run a simple toss play in any Madden, SNES, or Genesis game, and watch the dude take off. They're my favorite, a swing pass to the open field and let them run past the defense like they're standing still. I also want to give a special shout out to an underappreciated video game football player and kick returner, Mel Gray, also for the Detroit Lions. This is another guy that's ridiculously fast to the point that he can practically run circles around defenders, particularly in Madden 93. So yeah, this sentence sounds strange on the surface, but you can't go wrong picking the Detroit Lions when it comes to retro football games. Sticking with football, I have to mention Mutant League football for Sega Genesis and Bones Jackson, an obvious play on Bo Jackson, and he plays for the Midway Monsters and just like his namesake, this dude is just not even fair. He's faster than everyone. It takes like three defenders to bring him down. When I did a video on the Mutant League games, I got a few comments saying that the Midway Monsters were off limits when playing two player versus. Bones Jackson was just that overpowered. In fact, he was so strong, Sega even carried him over to Mutant League Hockey and yep, he's impossible to take down in that game too. If there's ever a sports video game athlete Hall of Fame, Bones Jackson is a no doubt first ballot Hall of Famer. Sticking with hockey, I also have to pay my respects to NHL 94, in particular on Sega Genesis, and for me, one player stands out above the rest and that's Jeremy Ronek, number 27 for the Chicago Blackhawks. Yeah, I hate the Blackhawks, but Ronek is the perfect combination of strength and speed. He's just about impossible for just one guy to bring down and when he has the puck, he's got enough quickness to get past any goaltender in the game. In fact, Chicago is arguably the most overpowered team in the game, since they have goaltender Eddie Belfort who's rated at 98 and he's got some high-quality complementary players like Chris Chelyos and Steve Larmer. If you're looking for speed and finesse in NHL 94, pick the Winnipeg Jets and number 13, Timo Salane. His teammates aren't as strong, but damn, if Salane isn't just unstoppable, you can easily get like 10 or 12 shots per period with this dude. If you want more info on player ratings, check out NHL94.com, it's the perfect resource for anything related to this game. There's one player in the Super Nintendo game, NCAA basketball. I discovered almost by accident when I was a kid and yeah, I know this game isn't that great, but I just love this Davison dude on North Carolina.  Once he gets going, he can hit a shot from anywhere on the court.  I once managed to score 100 points with this guy, which is really hard to do in this game since fatigue becomes a factor. So anytime UNC was on defense, I take him out of the game and put him back in once the possession was over just to try and keep him fresh. I swear he must have hit like 33 pointers. And yeah, I know there's a couple guys in this game that are like this, like Bright on Duke for instance, but for me, nobody touches Davison. Last but not least, I have to mention NBA Jam Tournament Edition and maybe the most overpowered video game athlete ever, Crunch the Timberwolves mascot. Okay, maybe not, but still, any of the secret characters in this game are practically maxed out with their stats, and that includes everyone from DJ Jazzy Jeff to the Fresh Prince to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Prince Charles, Frank Thomas, Heavy D, Benny the Bull. There's over 30 hidden characters here, and they're all super fun to play as because their stats are insane. So they can dunk from anywhere inside the three point line and they can hit threes and they can steal with ease. Plus the codes are super easy to implement.  All right, that's all for now. I wanna thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Well, Beavers also open up tonight. Tough test on the road at Winona State. And the, Winona State is going to get off to a great start. Darren Beacon to eight or flood from 10 yards out. Touchdown Winona up 23 in the second. But BSU's defense did its best to keep them in it. John Vogler picks off Deacon and returns it to the house for 24 yards. Beavers cut it to seven. The offense though just couldn't get things going tonight on fourth down in the fourth. Jordan Hyde needs to convert but the pass is broken up. Warriors would win this one home but Midget State would fall 30 to 20 in their season opener. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hello and welcome to this edition of quality of life Today we're going to be looking at the aspects of heroin addiction and the consequences that can have on one's quality of life Joining us today to cover this subject is dr. Howard Croft from st. Nicholas Hospital emergency department Welcome to the show Howard. Good morning. Thank you. You're currently the medical director of st. Nicholas Hospital emergency, correct? I am and how long have you been doing that for about the last three years? Okay Okay, it's good to have you there Okay, the subject of heroin heroin addiction How long have you been dealing with this and making the presentations that you've been doing and making the awareness? Well, we put together This is a program that's been in place now for a little over I'd say a little over a year this started but but we put together a series of presentations one of the things we wanted to do is was obviously to educate the public and So one of the first things we did was to put together a presentation and we've then been taking this presentation around to the community to various school groups and Church groups clubs and the like. Okay With the problem of heroin, I know you are here. They should weigh in police department and their battles with trying to you know Reduce the amount of heroin being used in trafficking. How large is this scope or how large is this issue? Well, I think you know probably one of the first things to do is to kind of step back and eat the scope is Right now the fortunate thing is the scope is really large and to kind of put it in perspective You know when we start talking about heroin addiction we also kind of tie in prescription drug abuse as well and To give to give you kind of a little idea of where we sit The United States has about five percent of the world's population And we know that presently we consume somewhere in the range of 85 to 90 percent of the world's narcotics. Oh my goodness so So we have you know, I mean so we are so narcotics are very prevalent in our population in general And then the other thing is yes, we're starting to see there's there's just a rampant increase lately in heroin and And then we can we can get into why that is because there's several issues as to as to what has kind of caused the resurgence of heroin Okay, what about on a local level like here in Sheboygan Sheboygan colony or even Wisconsin is the problem Follow you know mirror what it is in the nation or are we above or below average? Well Again, I think that that's kind of hard to measure what I can tell you is that the problem is it's very prevalent It is all across the nation and there's certainly some pockets that are there are more prevalent than others but I think the important thing to note is that it is here it absolutely is in our community and I know one of the other things that we did over the last year was we sent out a community-wide survey and We got an actually we got a pretty tremendous response considering the population For Sheboygan County. We had over 1,300 people respond to the survey and the results of the survey were actually pretty stunning We noticed that you know over over a quarter of the respondents either knew somebody that was affected by heroin addiction whether it was through theft and crime in their area whether they knew somebody that had sought treatment and Almost 10% of the people that responded Basically said that they knew somebody that had used heroin within the last month So again, we're we're faced with a problem that is you know, we can't deny it It is it is absolutely within our community I will definitely agree because I have friends that I know who have the experimented with drugs I didn't even know over would even think so Definitely and it can be hidden pretty well too at first Well, and it the other thing is it cuts across all the different patient popular it cuts across all the different populations It's not isolated, you know when we used to think of heroin we used to think of people in the back alleys We used to think of people that you know the poorer populations and the like and the reality is Today's heroin addiction is it cuts all across the board. It's it's wealthy. It's poor It's rural it's suburban We're seeing it pretty much everywhere and so Sheboygan County is clearly one of the targeted areas, okay? With your presentation and your experience and background with the project that you are working on Is there a case study or an example you'd like to share or bring into the mix? well a lot of times when I give the presentation we we do give I do like to give a Kind of a case study if you will something that kind of some people kind of kind of relate a little bit to what it looks like And the case that I typically have used is a 17 year old who we found Basically unresponsive who was found unresponsive in a bathtub and had track marks and track marks are little scars They're scars that are along the sites of veins For people that have injected IV drugs this 17 year old was not able to be Was not able to be resuscitated And ultimately died To two things that are kind of interesting one is that it's not unusual for us to find these victims in bathtubs heroin typically kills because it it basically stops the person from breathing it basically suppresses your respirations and And it's kind of it's kind of a little bit of a myth that if you Put somebody in an ice bath that they're going to gasp or somehow start breathing again We know that that's actually not true in this case obviously it wasn't true But the reason the main reason that I bring up this case is because this happened. This was my home This happened. I was 15 years old and This was a friend of my brothers and I came home and and again it it What it showed me was that it can be anywhere And and you know we I grew up in a in a middle-class suburb and so It's not again. It's not a problem of You know it cuts across all populations. It's not necessarily a problem of rich or poor and It has the it has the unfortunate ability to affect any of us well, well With with the problem at hand why heroin why has it returned? Why has it become so popular over the other types of drugs? Well, and I think that that's a good question There's a I think that there's a bunch of things that have gone on Over the past several years that kind of have led to where we are with heroin One of the first things that happened was in the in the late 90s there was a big push by the federal government and a by a lot of our regulating agencies for for Physicians to aggressively treat pain. In fact what we did was we There was a campaign put on by our by our accrediting organization And they listed pain is what they called the fifth vital sign So they really pushed it on physicians that we were supposed to really aggressively treat pain and so the With that big push one of so what happened was You saw a big flourishing You know prescription drug You saw prescription drug use actually skyrocket The other thing that's gone on is is over the last several years We've become obviously we've become Significantly aware of the problems of prescription drug abuse and so we started to clamp down on that And that's happened a couple a couple different ways in 2000 in the beginning of 2013 Wisconsin put together a website. It's a prescription drug monitoring program and That website allows us to take a look for each individual patient that we're treating We can look on that website and we can see all the prescriptions for controlled substances that that person has failed so that gives us a real good idea of Whose potentially misusing prescription drugs That's one aspect and then the other thing is we start to see the federal government has started to change certain things like formulations In two thought for example in 2010 They changed the formulation of Oxycontin So that it could no longer be put into a liquid form because what we had was so there were a lot of people that were taking Oxycontin they were they were Getting it you know dissolving it in water and injecting it The federal government recognized all the abuse of Oxycontin and basically started to take steps to curb that So really what you started to have is you started to have the pendulum swinging back We had all these people that were using prescription drugs and now we started to restrict find ways to to restrict their use and restrict the potential for abuse and So what we did was we started to create a situation where actually Heroin has now moved in and the reason that heroin has moved in is because it now is cheaper unfortunately to get heroin and Then it is to to maintain a habit for of prescription drugs Really? Yeah, and that's that's a shocker. That's why and that's a lot of why we are where we are right now And then the other thing we note is that And again prescription drugs are they're everywhere a Lot of young people get into it whether it's with their mothers or fathers drugs that you know are in the cabinet around the house or grandma's drugs or whatever it is, but But it's not difficult to find the first few pills or so And we also know that it's a gateway drug the prescription drugs are how that's how heroin addiction typically starts that Most people that get addicted to heroin start off with pills.  You know the one to ten scale enough? I'd say that's a two or three well, then I would get a prescription You know whether it's oxycodone or whatever or like in the hospital Well, they hung a bag of you know a little bit of demoral and I'm going that stuff to me Just kind of wipes me out you get kind of all dizzy and kind of tingly and such and you know It may think it makes me more try to forget about the pain and when it really solves the pain You know I can still tell the pain is there But it just numbs you up so much that you really don't pay attention to it at least that's how it affects me Well, and and again, I think what you're describing and that's really true It kind of numbs you up There's a little euphoria Associated with it and we know that that's what so and particularly with heroin if you inject heroin the unfortunate thing is you get a very rapid intense euphoric feeling and And that's what makes it so that's what makes it so terribly addicting and we know that 75% of people That try heroin We'll do it again So so we've got to stop it before it even starts that's going to be the key So we've identified heroin as obviously went to the major issue I know you talked about a little bit already, but if we could go more into What is it really and how is it used? I know injection is one method What are other methods that you can use with heroin? Well, that's so there's kind of two parts to that The first part is what is it? Well heroin is heroin is It's a drug that is made from the resin of the poppy plant And so there's and you know if you go in like Afghanistan, that's I think that there's that's like their number one cash crop And what they do is they they harvest this resin They get it into a nice powder form and then they end up Shipping it across the country and it or out of the country and and it finds its way to us in the United States The other issue with heroin is it doesn't just come to us in its pure form So not only not only do you see heroin that's coming across, you know Again, it may be it's a lot. It's a lot stronger or more pure when it comes into the country What ends up happening is It gets cut if you will that's what they call it. So what you do is so they add other Compounds to it to basically increase the amount And one of the other problems that we have is depending on what they cut it with Some of the some of the things that they cut it with Can be dangerous in and of themselves? So we're seeing Things like you know that you can see things like There's Dorman, which is a which is Benadryl. You can see some benign things like that But I know in the area. I know the police have actually found heroin that was cut with Ajax So there's some terrible stuff that's out there There have been a rash of deaths in the east coast from heroin that was actually cut with a more potent narcotic called fentanyl so Again, one of the problems you run into is It's this is not a pharmaceutical. It's not a it's not a you know, this is not a drug that's made in a lab There's no pharmaceutical regulation You really don't know what you're getting the percentage of of the heroin that you're getting can vary all across the board I know that most of the heroin most of what I seen quoted is that there's that the purity of heroin that we see here in Wisconsin is in the 15 to 20 percent range But I know that we've seen according to state lab. We've seen heroin. That's up to 70 percent pure well and so the point is that you really When when people are injecting this stuff They they may not necessarily know what they're getting and so they may end up getting into significant trouble Because there's variation in the purity and It's it's adulterated with all sorts of different types of compounds. Wow Wow What are a lot of the effects of the drug? Well take it and and we should go back Initially, I would say initially most people start off with smoking heroin so heroin can be smoked It can be it can be ingested or it can be injected The unfortunate thing is most people choose, you know initially they start off. They may start off with smoking But eventually they move to the injection and the reason is because of the intense euphoric rush that people get from it As far as the effects of heroin Again, we said there's this intense initial euphoria and then afterwards you start to see people they start to go They start to kind of like go In and out of kind of like a sleepy face. They call that being on the nod So there's periods where they're more wakeful and there's periods when they're more sleepy If you actually go on the internet you can look up You can look this stuff up if you put it on the nod you actually there's all sorts of videotapes of of people Falling over and falling into objects that are on the nod And as you you know might realize I mean, I you know to have somebody potentially driving a car You know after having used heroin You know the potential for danger for the rest of the community is just huge absolutely As far as the medical effects a good way to think of it You know we always think of narcotics a good way to think of it is it is that it slows down everything so Narcotics and heroin what they do is they'll slow that they they lower your blood pressure They slow your pulse and they depress your respirations And they also actually depress your temperature too And the way people get into trouble as we said before the way people get into trouble is that they end up unfortunately They they we suppress the respirations to the point that they basically stop breathing And there's no way to really resuscitate them because it's that far past well, and again, it depends on when you get to them There yeah, there is you know, and we are we are starting to work on Legislation actually on statewide and actually national to get there. There is a there's an narcotic antagonist called Narcan Okay, and we're starting to get that out into out into the community in the hands of In the hands of our ambulance personnel so that if they find somebody and they think it's a I think it's a heroin overdose They'll be able to admit the administer that Because that actually that pretty rapidly will turn around the effects of the heroin. Okay So in your case study or someone who starts down the heroin path and you keep on going What are the consequences eventually they're gonna face? Well, no net path again There's there's kind of there's the short-term consequences that we kind of talked about the whole you know decrease in respiratory rate and stopping breathing and Then there's the long-term consequences because again, you're injecting something into your vein that That is uncontrolled. There's no Regulatory industry or anything like there's nothing to controlling that and so you end up you can end up with Effects locally so you can do damage to the vein and the local tissue. You can end up with skin abscesses And the other thing is what you inject into your veins goes directly to your lungs and heart And so we see people that end up with heart valve infections and Significant lung infections from it from injecting, but you know for materials and infected materials into their veins And then the other thing we see is you know people I mean this so far. It's not the cleanest You know, unfortunately, this is you know, people may share needles and it's not the cleanest You know, they don't always use the cleanest injecting techniques and so they can end up with you know HIV and Hepatitis also is spread by IV drug abuse. So both hepatitis B and hepatitis C So there's all sorts of there's all sorts of systemic and long-term effects And then obviously the thing that unfortunately the thing that we're you know seeing the most now is we're seeing You know deaths in the community from the short-term effects. Well Well, how can I how can I tell if somebody's actually using or abusing heroin? Well, and I think again that this is a great question this is when when we're giving these talks to the community what we want to do is we want people to be able to Look at their family or their friends or acquaintances we want to kind of educate them on what are the signs that they need to look for what things and Again, I think that they're pretty common things, you know, we see people who start to withdraw socially We see changes in you know for kids we can see changes in school work We can see people who are you know Starting to be secretively that kind of stuff. We also see people that again, you know They talk about wearing long-sleeve shirts and hot weather Not unusual, but I would say One of the biggest things that we see is we see we see theft We start to see, you know, I mean if you have a family member and all of a sudden stuff is disappearing around the house Whether whatever kind of valuables money jewelry, whatever it is TVs That's a big red flag and you see that kind of stuff you see change again the changes in behavior those are things to really tune into and and really for you know For most people I think that I can tell you that when I talk to families who are loved ones where someone has died from From heroin we see that in the emergency department To a tee every single one of them Every single one of them will say, you know, I I I saw things and there were things I knew something was wrong and I and I just didn't say anything about it. I just didn't do anything Okay So the other side of it is is we've been through the scope of how it can affect people how they take it, you know, the Consequences, what can we do to really turn us around? Well, and I think that the first thing that we can do is what we're doing today We can talk about it, you know, we can take it to our schools. We can take it to our church groups We can we need to let people know that number one. It's out there. It's in our community We can't you know, you know hiding our head in the sand is is absolutely the wrong thing to do We need to be willing to talk about this stuff. We need to be open and honest about it and Once we identify it We need to be able to give people we need to empower people. We need to give them resources, you know, you know, where do I go? Who do I call? You know We need to we need to not be looking the other way if we're going to make a dent in this and We're going to prevent our our children from being affected and our neighbors and friends from being affected We got to be upfront with this and we got to be willing to talk with people and confront when we when we see the signs and symptoms With what you just described, I think it's a great great approach Taken into effect, you know if we had this type of a program back when your brother's friend had his mishap Do you think there could have been any chance that would have been noticed or education and would have been a chance to save them? Oh, I think that I think that there's no question. I think that that's that's absolutely the case again, you know Now you this was a long time ago, obviously But we have we have you know We do have a fair number of community resources that are available and we do have the ability to intervene And I'm not going to tell you that there's not that there's not a high, you know rate of recidivism There's not I mean, it's it's not an easy thing to treat correct But we absolutely know that if we do nothing there is clearly a downward spiral and there's a and and there are people that are affected and And there are people that you know that people we've had we have several We've had several deaths last year in our emergency department and that doesn't even speak of The the people that were found dead in the community that didn't even make it to the emergency department So so yeah, this is I mean this is a big deal and and we have to you know That's one of the things that we're trying to do is We need to be able to have available to people the resources to treat this We can identify it and and we do you know We have we do have some community resources, and I think one of one of the things that we're trying to do with this program Is to increase the number of resources that we have available for treatment? I Don't want another Statistic or issue that I've noticed you know just mine and here at the TV station as well as a Lot of people fail their drug tests when applying for work and I mean that's another consequence I think which then can contribute to the downward spire as well when they want to try and get a job and they fail I mean that's a huge issue too going on Yeah, no, absolutely now I and again You know I think I think the key with this thing is again. We need information. We need information to be out there There's no question. It has yes It has long-term effects on people that can certainly affect their ability to be employed in our community But but again, I mean a lot of these things these are a lot of these are life and death You know particularly with heroin You know This is this is a hold to me. This is like a whole it's a whole different animal I mean this is something that we can't you know, we can't ignore this We've we've got to address this We've got to educate people and then we talk about you know, so Where can people go and what can they do? And I'll tell you that the what we've done is through this program. We put together There's there's really kind of three resources that people can go to one is It's called the SAMHSA website and the SAMHSA website. It's S.A.M. S.A.M. HSA the SAMHSA website basically it's it's more of an informational website It's a national website that gives people information on Addiction and what treatment and what treatment and like might look like Locally, there's two really good resources one the one that I recommend the most is mental health America And there's a there's a there's a phone number for mental health America that we should definitely put up and The key with mental health America that I the thing that I really like it's kind of a one-stop shop So basically they have the they have They can talk to you about what kind of you know insurance or what whatever kind of whatever your situation is And they can guide you to the resources that are available in our community The thing with mental health America is they're not they're not 20. They're not available 24 7 and so on the off hours We also have a Sheboygan County mental health crisis line and that is man 24 7 and and that crisis line can also steer you to the right resource And I would again I would encourage people when you find out about this stuff The the most important thing is not to look the other way And then the other thing is and we've been you know, we've been trying to promote You know, we want the community to understand That this stuff is out there and this stuff affects people and and so there are billboards We put up a couple billboards the state of Wisconsin has Has put in a website called the fly effect calm and if you go to the fly effect calm the neat thing about that is You'll actually see a bunch of case studies People have been generous enough to spend time basically talking about the stories of their loved ones and how it's affected their Family and what's happened to them? And I again I think you know, it's a it's a wake-up call for all of us It's time for us to wrap so dr. Croft and love loved to have you on the show and talking about heroin I think this is a great episode Just to add on to what you know community awareness I know the shibuya police department has a program too that they're working with you So they're here that they're they're there to help as well So great resources to you know contact if you know anybody with issues or Have issues yourself and need to get help the other thing is our TV show We can broadcast this out and get the message out there, you know really more widespread so again I thank you for being on the show. Well, you know and again, thank thank you for having me I mean this again, this is this is a great issue that that we really need to educate our Community on so I appreciate the opportunity to do so. Thank you This concludes our episode for quality of life the heroin abuse on behalf of dr. Croft WSCS. I'm Dave Augustine. Thank you for watching


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Right, Mr. Beam? That's right, Mr. Fitch. We held it in trust because the self of Harris is irresponsible and might misuse the staff. Well, according to this... According to this True Story article, we've misjudged Mr. Harris. The article says Phil Harris is a fine, upstanding citizen who never stays out late, gambles or drinks. Which Phil Harris are they talking about? By a quiet, quiet J.R., it also says that he's very devoted to his lovely wife, Alice Fay. Alice Fay. Alice Fay. Well, gentlemen, let's get back to work. The article goes on to say that Mr. Harris is a homebody and a gentleman with fine, cultured friends. But F.W., how do we know Harris is everything this article says he is? That's why I'm sending you to Hollywood, Beam. I want you to spend the day with the Harris's and check on him. Very well, sir. If I leave today, I can arrive there on Sunday. Good. And if you find Mr. Harris a trustworthy individual, we'll forward him his stop. Good luck, Beam, when you arrive in Hollywood. Give Mr. Harris my regards.  Yes, sir? When you, uh, get there, uh... It'll be a little chit while they will you? And now we take you to the Harris home. It's Sunday morning and Alice is reading the New True Story magazine article to Phil. She had to swell article about it, honey. Hey, what else does it say about me? It says, Phil is a very charming, soft-spoken man. His only weakness is his passion for loud clothes. He is not a conservative dresser. How do you like that? A guy has one lousy red suede suit and he ain't conservative.  Look at what you're wearing now. Well, what's wrong with what I'm wearing? It's a very simple sports outfit. Green and orange plaid jacket, purple polka dot shirt, baby blue slacks and yellow shoes. That ain't so loud. In fact, I feel there's something missing. What do you think it needs to set it off? Leave it alone. It'll explode by itself. Well, here's the part of the article I like, Phil. They point out what a wonderful family we are and how happily married we've been.   Ah, get along with your blondy hair so you'll be able to smile in the likes of me. Thank you, Barry Fitzgerald. But seriously, you want to know something, honey? Hey, I come in. Oh, it's my brother. Come on in, William. Hello, Alice. Good morning, Philip. I thought I'd never get here. The traffic was simply awful. Things like that just upset me terribly. Thank you, Billy Burke. You see that wonderful article about us in the true story magazine? Yes, I read it, and I like the way they handled it. They mentioned all your good qualities at it, and they skipped over all of Philip's bad ones. What do you mean? What bad qualities have I got? Well, for one thing, you're the most irresponsible man I've ever met. You don't take anything seriously. Well, that's only because I'm young and carefree. After all, I'm only 22, and I don't know my own mind. You don't know your own age either. Philip, you're so irresponsible. I don't know why Alice ever married you. Now, just a minute, William. You may have a few faults, but I think he's a wonderful guy. I like what the article said about him. Oh, Alice, the only thing I found true about Philip in the whole story was the fact that he's very unhandy around the house. He's incapable of fixing the slightest little thing. Who's not handy? I'm always fixing things like lamps, leaky faucets, and tell him what I did last week out. No, maybe you better not tell him that. What did he do last week at it? Well, he installed an electric guy in the driveway that was supposed to close the garage door. Well, does it work? Not exactly. He got the wires crossed, and instead of closing the garage door, it keeps opening the bathroom window. Right, so I made one little mistake on that, but I can fix anything else around the house. Oh, I wish that were true so you could fix that closet door in the entrance hall. The children are always getting stuck in there. They can't open it from the inside. Okay, I'll show you. I can fix it, and I'll do it right now. All I need is a screwdriver, a pair of pliers, a hammer... And a carpenter. And a carpenter. Look, Roll Top, will you get out of here for a minute? I'll feed it. Will you get lost? All right, all right. Go figure up something, will you? I'm going. See you later, Alice. Good-bye, Phillip. Good-bye, Phillip. One of these days I'm going to friccy that little bandy rooster. Look, I'm going to get the tools out and fix that closet door. Oh, please don't, Phil. You know you won't be able to do it. I'll show you I can do it. Gee whiz, Alice just don't appreciate me. Nobody does. Now, let me see.  I'll show them I can fix it. Then maybe they'll stop picking on me. Why does everybody always find and fall with me? Why do people have to pick on other people? What is this curse that makes the universe so all be willed to run? What is the hope that just provokes the folks they call God's children to run? What is the jinx that gives the body and his brother and every one around the run around? Every one to run around. Every one to run around. Necessity. Necessity. Necessity. Necessity. That most unnecessary thing. Necessity. How unnecessary. What grows the monkey-wrenching of fellas' good inventions? That nasty old invention. Necessity. Brother, you so right. I see. What a rest in the shade. The Lord said, go out and have fun, boys, to land towards that land. Necessity. Necessity. It's plain to see. It's plain to see. What a lovely old world this silly old world could be. World could be. But. Necessity. If nothing knocks you out of them. Necessity. You mean. Necessity. Necessity. How can you guess? Now, there, that ought to do it. Well, I wouldn't forget that, though. You'll only make it worse. Yeah, well, if you want to know something, it's all fixed. Oh, now, who's that at the front door? Yeah? What do you want? My name is Albert Beam. I represent the... All one of them door-to-door salesmen. How we don't want none, Bob. Get out. You don't seem to understand. I was sent here by Mr. F. W. Fitch, your sponsor. I don't care. My sponsor? Oh, well, that's different. I didn't realize. Come in, Mr. Beam. Come in. Please, come in. Put me down, Harris. I'm capable of walking in by myself. Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Beam. I'm so flustered. You know, I didn't expect you. You took me by surprise and... You know, I... Oh, look, I want you to meet my wife, Alice. How do you do, Mr. Beam? Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Harris? I hope I'm not intruding on your Sunday at home, but I was sent by the Fitch Company. Yes, sir.  What a wonderful product. Yes, we're proud of all our products.  It's great for the hair. Yes, it really gives it a nice lust of sheen. Oh, it's positively sensational. Let's not just stand here. Let's all go upstairs and sample each other's hair. Yeah, I didn't come here to discuss the product, really. I'm here about the article in the two-story magazine. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was a nice article, wasn't it? Of course, I sent the picture they ran with. The article wasn't very flattering of me. You see, I forgot to put my rag curlers in on the night before, and my hair was just a mess. I understand. My wife has the same trouble. Well, as I started to say, Mr. Fitch sent me to verify that article, and if you're all that it says you are, I'm to recommend if you receive a Fitch Company stock immediate. Hey, did you hear that, Alice? They're going to give me my stock. Oh, look, I assure you, Mr. Beam, that you'll find everything in that article is true. Except, well, one thing. They said I wasn't handy around the house, but that's not so because I just fixed the lock on the closet door here just now. Really? Well, how'd you do it? I have a lock at home that needs fixing. Oh, simple. I just fixed the swing on the inside by, uh, by... I'll tell you, get in the closet and I'll show you what I mean.  It'll only take a minute. I want to show you how it works.  I'll get in. All right, now good. Now, look, you...  Now, now you see, Mr. Beam, before I fix it, you couldn't open it from the inside, but now all you have to do is just turn the knob. Go ahead, turn it. Harris, I hate to tell you this, but it still doesn't open from the inside. Open it from your side. Oh, all right. Mr. Beam. What? I hate to tell you this, but now I can't open it from the outside. Let me out of here. Let me out of here. Oh, Harris, does it again. Phil, for goodness' sake, see something.  Hey, okay, Mr. Beam. Take it easy. I'm trying to get it open. Now, don't get angry. I'm doing everything I can. Oh, Harris, you clumsy old... Oh, the lock must be sprung, Phil. You'll never get in that. I'll go and call the lock. Well, all right. Tell him to hurry over. Hey, you have nothing to worry about, Mr. Beam. We're getting the lock Smith. Well, hurry up. I'm getting a 68 in here. You are? He doesn't look like the kind of a guy who'd ever touch this stuff. Hey, Mr. Beam, don't worry. We'll have you out of there and know if to... Uh-oh. Excuse me. It's the doorbell. Never mind the door. Get me out of here. Well, in a minute. First, I got to see who's at the door. Hiya, Curly. Oh, hello, Frankie. Look, I'd ask you in, Frank, but I can't right now. Why not? I've got a sponsor in my closet. You got it fine? Oh, brother, this guy's been riding with the top down again. What's the matter with you? You sound like you've got bats in your belfry.  Frankie, I'm serious. I'm on the level about the sponsor. Yeah, yeah. I wish your sponsor was in that closet. I'd tell him off. Those guys have been promising you socks for a long time, but they never sent it. I don't think they're going to.  Chisellers? Let's get out of the hole, Curly. Isn't that going to join us? Quiet. Will you, Frankie? I won't keep quiet. I got an idea.  They're not a cheap company. They're wonderful. Wonderful.  So what? I can't think of a better place to respond to it. Listen, will you stop the clown, and he's in that little small closet with nowhere, and... I don't even hear him anymore. Frankie, do you think he's unconscious? I don't know what a sponsor is trying to tell. Nice, upright, honest, closest friends you have, Mr. Harris. Hey, Curly, there's somebody in that closet. I can't get a lock with any place. Oh, hello, Frankie. Yeah. It's Gandhi and all the locks must be closed. Oh, closed. Now, how are we going to get this lock open? Oh, I can get you somebody to open that lock. I'll go get Pete and Owen be right back. Is he a locksmith? The best in the business. Go on, Curly. I'll be right back. Hey, Beam, yes? I'm going away. Will, you get yourself in the darnedest mood. I know I do, honey.  Your brother was right. I don't know why you ever married me.  Now, wait a minute. Don't take it so much to heart. People are always ready to laugh at somebody else. Just remember. They all laughed at you with the lumber when he said the world was wrong. They all laughed when they had us in recorded style. They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said the men to cry. They came back on me while I thought it's only if the same old cry. They laughed at me. Warning you. Warning you. That I was reached for the moon. Reach for that moon. But ooh, you came through. You came through. Now they'll have to change their tune. They'll change their tune. They all said we never could be happy. They laughed at us in high. And how about home? With me and his father too.  That's how it was. Said it would be a little more fun. They all said we'd never get together. Darling, let's take a bow. We'll try to pacify him until Frankie gets back with the locksmith. Okay, I'll try to calm him down by being nice to him. Mr. Beam. What do you want?  He ain't cooperate. Look, Beamzy, is there anything I can get you? Would you like some lunch? How can I get not for me when I'm locked in this closet? Oh, it's easy. Alice will make some soup and I'll pour it under the door. Quiet. The suggestions will only make things worse. Harold, where do I tell FW what kind of people you are? Oh, but Mr. Beam, we're really nice people. We have a wonderful home life and we're very happily married. Oh, excuse me while I answer the door. Oh, it's you two of us. Yes, it is I, Fair One. I have come to worship at the shrine of my loved one. Oh, dear, please go away. We're in enough trouble now. Trouble? What kind of trouble, Fair One? Well, if you must know, I have a man locked up in my closet. Mesh! It's not what you think, Julius.  I don't care and that's a smart one. Wouldn't you talk to Mr. Harris that way? I don't wish to talk to Mr. Harris at all. I have come just to be more serious. Julius, see this! Now get out of here. Now why don't you get out of here? Because I could get out of here. Hi, Mr. Beam, who are you? I'm Julius Abrucio, the light of my...  You are happily married yet another man comes around and makes love to Mrs. Harris. Oh, but Julius isn't a man. He's just a little boy who has a crush on you. Well, I click story. I am surprised at you, Mrs. Harris. I think you let another man come into your life and use another of two lovely children. It's positively disgraceful and I...  Honey, that's no way to talk to the sponsor. We got a... Oh, I hope that's Frankie with a locksmith. Hiya, Curly.  I got him. Oh, thank goodness. Bring him in. Come on in, Pete. Alice, Phil, I want you to meet the greatest little lock opener in the country. Light Fingers Nolan. I got it before the covers get here. Frankie, where's that lock they want, Pete? It's right there on that door, Light Fingers. Okay, tell you what. Frankie, you pull the shades down. Curly, you cut the telephone wires. And, Blondie, you wait outside as a lookout. You got it? You got it. You want us to keep the motor running? Alice. What do I have to do here? Now, cut it out, Alice. Frankie, wait a minute. What's the idea of bringing a guy like this around? Yeah, that's why I get to wait. Wait, I pour a little soup on that lock like this. Then I pour a little more. And then I put on a short fuse. Hey, Curly, you got a match? What's going on out there? Hey, somebody's in there already. Someone's feeding to this job. Hey, you in there. Who sent you on this job? The pit company. Never heard of them. What's being a Chicago mob? Is this another of your calming plans, Mr. Harris? No, he isn't. Frankie, get this guy out of here. You're going to ruin everything. Get him out. All right, all right. Come on, light fingers here. Curly is an ungrateful wretch. I think I had you break a date with your parole officer to come here. All good. Frankie finds fellas like that. I don't know. I don't care about it. How are we going to get beam out of there? I'd break the door down, but it's too thick for that. There must be some way. What's going on, Mommy? We were trying to take our map, but somebody keeps banging on the wall down here. Oh, your daddy locked somebody in the closet and can't get the door open. Maybe I can do it for you, Daddy. Don't be silly, Phyllis. You're only a child. Now, let me see now. What can I do? You can take the hinges off.  I'm trying to open the door from the left side where the lock is. If I take the hinges off, it'll only open it from the right side. Hey! Yeah, that'll do it. Give me that hammer quick. Hey, it's working, Alice. I'm getting it open. Be patient, Mr. Beam. We'll have you out in a second. Yes, sir. Now there. Now you put your shoulder to it and give it a push, Mr. Beam. There you are. You're out. And so are you, Harris. Not only will I recommend that you don't get that stuck, but I'll see to it that you're fired from our program. Fired? Oh, but, Mr. Beam, it was all an accident. And you have a right to be mad. Well, but surely an intelligent, handsome man like yourself must have a forgiving nature. Huh? You won't fire, Phil. Will you? Who was a sucker for a good-looking blonde? Thank you, Tommy Manville.  Hmm. I guess he's not a sucker for a good-looking brunette, huh? Oh, Mr. Beam, I know after what's happened, Phil doesn't deserve the stock, but for my sake, won't you reconsider? Well... All right, all right, I'll reconsider. Well, gee, that's wonderful of you, Mr. Beam. I certainly appreciate it. Won't you stay for dinner? No, thanks.  Goodbye. Goodbye, and ah! Not that door. Oh, that's the closet. Let's not go through that again. Hey, here's the door. I'll open it for you. Goodbye, Mr. Beam. Goodbye. The wrong door, and he fell down the cellar's stairs. Folks, this is Phil Harris.  Yes, sir, and the lucky lady is from Long Beach, California. In fact, she wins the Frazier Manhattan sedan, and her name is Mrs. F. E. Holland of Long Beach, California. The Kaiser sedan was won by Mrs. Renee L. Fornay of Milltown, New Jersey. Mrs. Renee L. Forte, it is, of Milltown, New Jersey. Winners of other prizes being notified by mail. Now, look, this week's contest is our last, so hurry, everyone, and in 25 additional words or less, complete one of these statements. I like pitches Xandruff Remover Shampoo because... or I like pitches Cream Shampoo because... send any number of entries, each on a plain sheet of paper, to each attach the round paper dip from top of pitches Cream Shampoo jar, or carton top from pitches Xandruff Remover Shampoo or facsimile. Mail entry with your name and address to pitch shampoo box 1723 Chicago. That's pitch shampoo box 1723 Chicago, Illinois. The winners get... One Fraser Manhattan sedan, one Kaiser sedan, five universal electric rangers, three a manor home freezers, two boss electric washing machines, 30 universal electric blankets. Entries judged on originality, sincerity, and aptness of thought. Duplicate prizes for ties, judges decision final. Any person in United States or Canada may enter, except employees of Fitch, their advertising agency, and their family. Entries must be postmarked by midnight, Saturday, November 1st, and received by November 8th. Third week car winners announced on the bandwagon next Sunday.


Hey guys, this is Rich from RichTVLive, and we've got some big breaking news. POTS stocks surged as midterm show growing optimism to legalize in the United States. Shares of cannabis stocks surged in early trading Wednesday after three US states voted to loosen the use of recreational and medical marijuana. Amid growing optimism, the country will soon pass measures to federally legalize POTS. This is huge news. With most polls reporting following Tuesday's US midterm elections, Michigan residents voted in favor of legalizing recreational cannabis for anyone 21 years old or older in the state. While voters in Missouri and Utah both approved ballot measures to allow the sale of medical marijuana, a ballot measure to legalize recreational use of cannabis in North Dakota failed. So unfortunately, North Dakota did fail. Michigan would be the first US midwestern state and the second largest behind California. Wow! The second largest in America to allow its residents to purchase and consume recreational cannabis legally. The state's cannabis market is estimated to be, this is an enormous number, 1.3 billion by 2022 according to ArcView market research. The election results boosted US and Canadian POTS stocks with TILRAE TLRY jumping 6.3 percent in early Wednesday trading while Aurora Cannabis Inc. ACB.TO was up 2.47 percent and Canobie growth 0.66 percent, advanced by 2.1 percent, US POT producers, MedMan Enterprises, CureLeaf and IANTHIS Capital Holdings, IAN, all rose 5.3 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.6 percent respectively. With the Democrats winning a majority in the House of Representatives as well as several key governor races in some US states, Connecticut, Illinois, New York and Rhode Island are all on track to legalize cannabis in the future as well as efforts to move federally on the issue according to Vivian Ezher, cannabis analyst at Cowan & Company. While we do not see a path forward in the Senate, the House is a different story. The GOP roadblocks to legislation are gone, as are wrote in a report published on Wednesday. The House Democratic leader understands that these bills are dead on arrival in the Senate, yet they will pass them to send a message to cannabis advocates. The Democrat win in the House also increased the likelihood of the Farm Bill or the State's Act passing which would permit Canadian POT producers to enter the US market. According to BMO Capital Markets, that is huge. Reaction from US POT company executives was mostly positive for a market that could be worth as much as 75 billion with a B by 2030 according to an estimate from Cowan & Company. Utah is one of the reddest states in the country and Senator Orrin Hatch is one of the most conservative guys out there. To pass this initiative and create a legal medical marijuana program in Utah, it's as jarring as seeing Mother Teresa show up at a casino. Wow, this is huge news, said Haidley Ford, Chief Executive Officer at IANFIS Capital in an email to B&M Bloomberg. It's clear an overwhelming majority of Americans across both parties accept cannabis as a medical product. And we should expect to see some sort of program in every state now that Utah has come online. Karam Malik, Chief Executive Officer of Biome Grow Inc., a Canadian cannabis producer, said that the US midterm results could see President Donald Trump pivot to pro cannabis agenda to win support from younger voting blocks that would typically only cast their ballots in presidential elections. This is something that your boy predicted a long time ago, using the cannabis as a form to win the vote. The president doesn't have an ideology beyond self-preservation and getting reelected. And if the math makes sense, he may drop some strong hints on the campaign trail that the legalization of recreational cannabis at the federal level will happen if he wins in 2020, Malik said in an email to B&M Bloomberg. It will be based on the economic stimulus platform, particularly in the most economic depressed regions where he is the strongest. What do you think about this news? Please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere. This news is trending. This news is being circulated. Remember Rich TV Live is strictly for education and entertainment purposes. Do your due diligence. Do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about here on Rich TV Live. Now what is happening in the cannabis stocks right now, you can see we are having a lot of green, and a lot of it is due to the fact that they are legalizing in these new states in America, specifically Michigan, and you can see, look at all the green. Green across the board. If you're not winning, you're not watching. It's true. This is your boy Rich, and I'm out.


Did you think I'd never get here? Well, Prime Minister and Mrs. Mulroney, Brian and Mila, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to welcome you to the White House. A year ago, almost to the day, I celebrated one of the most enjoyable St. Patrick's days in my memory. And I can assure you that my memory goes back a long way. And the recollection of that beautiful day at Quebec City is not the only thing that Brian Mulroney and I have to commemorate in connection with his visit to Washington this time. In just two days, if my calculations are correct, Brian will be 47 years old. And kid, I wish you the very best. You know, Mr. Prime Minister, I'm beginning to notice that every time they bring out my birthday cake, the top of it is beginning to look more and more like a torchlight parade. And I have a feeling that I'll be signing a disaster proclamation the next day. But seriously, though, Mr. Prime Minister, we wish you a very happy birthday. And we're so pleased to have you and Mila with us this evening. I enjoyed our discussions today. I worked with Canadians long before I ran for public office. The contributions Canadians have been making on our way of life and every profession is incalculable. The bond of affection between us is truly a treasure. We drew upon those historic bonds, Mr. Prime Minister, when last year at Quebec, we laid the foundation for what I call a new partnership. We've continued today, fully recognizing that the long-term stakes are high. We can work together to resolve the issue of acid rain as we've worked together to resolve so many environmental issues before. We can ensure that our joint defense remains so strong that no aggressor will ever attack us. And we can reach a new agreement on trade that would help us achieve unparalleled prosperity for our citizens. I strongly endorse a prompt start to formal negotiations and the fullest possible scope to those talks. Before I leave the White House, Mr. Prime Minister, I hope that we can bring these negotiations to a successful conclusion. We can lead our people into the light of prosperity, freedom, and goodwill. Nothing less, of course, should be expected of two free peoples who live so close. Freedom is the fountainhead from which mutual respect and amicability flow. And freedom is what America, Canada, and the United States is all about. A story that reflects this love of freedom concerns a young man, John McGee, whose father was rector of St. John's Church, which is right across Lafayette Square from the White House here. In 1940, in the dark days of the Second World War, the United States was still not in the fight. Canada, responding to the pull of ancient loyalties that joined the struggle the year before, so like thousands of others, John McGee crossed the border to join up. He became pilot officer McGee of the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1941, his squadron was sent to fight in the Battle of Britain. A few days after his arrival in England, he sent a letter back home. I am in closing, he said, a verse I wrote the other day. It started at 30,000 feet and was finished soon after I landed. But on December 11, 1941, pilot officer McGee was killed at age 19. He had lived just long enough to see his own country join the struggle at the side of his foster land. Well, that verse he sent back is called, High Flight. And the day we lost the valiant seven of the Space Shuttle Challenger, it came instantly to my mind. Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, put out my hand, and touched the face of God. High Flight was a beloved favorite of the Royal Canadian Air Force, whose motto was, through perseverance, we reach the stars. As a matter of fact, it was adopted by our own Air Force. And it was, I don't believe, an Air Force installation in this country that did not have someplace displayed his poem. It resonates in the hearts of all who cherish the twin values of faith and freedom. And it resonates in the hearts of North Americans. And so we remember pilot officer John McGee, American poet, Canadian pilot, North American hero. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a threefold toast to Her Majesty the Queen of Canada, to my good friend Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, to his lovely wife, and to the enduring bond between our two North American peoples. Mr. President, Nancy, Cher-Zamy-Américain, et Cher-Con, citoyen-Canadien. I learned that from President Reagan last year. Make a fine candidate, candidate. It is with a particular mix of pleasure and pride that Meal and I have come to this great capital and to this celebrated house. Pleasure at being among such friends again, particularly Ron and Nancy Reagan. To find you're looking, as is said Mr. President in French, dangereusement bien, so dangerously well. I'll mention that to tip tomorrow. And pride in the occasion to renew and toast the friendship between our two countries, our two peoples, and if I may say so, ourselves as good friends. I hope that my brief reference in French will not lead to the suspicion that I'm attempting to capitalize on the well-known regard which Americans have had for the French since Lafayette took his position besides George Washington and the Revolution. I suppose, Mr. President, that Canadians most admire all things your uncanny ability to forecast the future. When you became aware what television was going to do to the movies, you decided to try something easy. You chose politics. And we're glad that you did. Nearly two centuries ago when John Adams took up residence in what was then known as the President's House, he composed a prayer that is today carved in the mantle of this residence. May none but honest and wise men, he concluded, ever rule under this roof. We feel not only among friends, but in a very real sense among family. In 1939, Winston Churchill said of our two countries, that long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. For just as we share a continent, just as we have jointly inherited our precious environment, we are bound up inevitably in one another's economic interests. I speak, of course, Mr. President, in response to your observation of the trading relationship between our two countries, a relationship already uniquely important in the affairs of the world. I speak also of a new challenge, further trade liberalization between us. On October 1, last, I advised the President of the Canadian Desire to pursue a new trade agreement with the United States. On the following day, Mr. President, you welcomed the Canadian Initiative. In these first days of October, I think that we issued to our respective countries an historic challenge, one of historic proportions. By expressing the wish to enter into negotiations, I, for my part, was responding to some questions that are asked at home. Before we, in Canada, had enough confidence in our capacity to maintain our political sovereignty in a processor that would lead to more direct relations, we replied, yes, are we in Canada confident enough in our ability to maintain our political sovereignty in a process that will lead to closer relations? And the answer is yes. Have we in Canada a cultural identity strong enough to live and grow in this process? And the answer is yes. And have we in Canada developed the economic and commercial enterprises necessary to prosper under greater competition? And the answer, again, is emphatically yes. I think, Mr. President, the challenge for your country may well be to show understanding of our concerns as we shall for yours. With you as our only immediate neighbor, we have developed as a distinct nation. Let's continue to grow stronger, each in our own ways. Let's continue to reinforce one another by exchanging what we produce that is best. This was the key to our success in the past, and this, I think, is the promise of our future. Because if we have the wisdom and forbearance to succeed, then the whole world will be the beneficiary, just as Churchill foresaw. A half century ago, Canada and the United States blazed a new trail towards lower tariffs and quotas. The world was very different then. But the imperatives of liberalization are more compelling than ever in our increasingly interdependent economies. Neither of our countries was built by the faint hearted. We have already achieved much together, from commerce to communications, from sea to space, in joint ventures based on mutual interest and mutual respect. Earlier today, I had the pleasure of informing the president that Canada has accepted his invitation to join in the Manned Space Station Project. This venture symbolizes our joint confidence in the future, our commitment to share technology, and Canada's pride in joining you in the exploration of space. The Canadian-American relations are inspired not by laws, but by people, by trust and friendship. I know Ronald Reagan to be a man of warmth and wisdom, of grace and goodwill. We in Canada know we have a true and valued friend in President Reagan. Friends may sometimes disagree. Friends may diverge in opinions. Friends speak frankly, but they give each other the benefit of the doubt. There can be no doubt, however, about our common commitment to freedom, Mr. President, and our common commitment to peace. We concur wholeheartedly with your view that not only is nuclear war unwinnable, it must never be fought. Canadians know less than Americans were deeply relieved when the President of the United States met last fall with the leader of the Soviet Union. In honest dialogue, there is a beginning of understanding. You, Mr. President, have broken new ground in your offer to the Soviet Union last week to exchange information and technologies with the Soviets for verifying limits on nuclear testing. We remain confident that the spirit of Geneva will carry over into your next meeting with Mr. Gorbachev and your visit to the Soviet Union. The hopes of the world ride on the outcome of your discussions with Secretary Gorbachev. Our prayers and our support go with you. Mr. President, your entire career has been a testament to courage and conviction, to your desire to do the right thing for America and for the world. That determination will prevail in your pursuit of world peace. At this time, colleagues and friends, I am privileged and honored to propose a toast to a friend and a very distinguished friend of Canada. Ladies and gentlemen, for Nancy and for the President of the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Roslyn Turek. Before I speak for all of you and I, thank Roslyn Turek for the magic she's brought to this evening. She's more than a performer. She's a scholar. She's an author. Last year marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. And now over the centuries comes that music, and as I say, magically brought to us by you. And thank you very much.