The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the September 16th, the terrific Thursday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one and the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. We need to make that one little two-by-four shift. Well, it means we can find a gift in every set of circumstance. That life is going to toss at us. Now, today, you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just past one o'clock in the afternoon. I do want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but even more important than that. And that's this. During this next 60 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial in<PHONE_NUMBER>. And if you can't dial in, hey, we've got you covered there, too. Go ahead, send me an email. Send it off quickly, not quickly, but soon. And send it to Steve at TFNN.com and inside that subject. And if you'd be kind enough like Michael does, he wrote in a radio show question. Of course, in our Tigers Den, any ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Thursday. Of course, this is Tiger. Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to LUS Show right now. All the indices trading downward with the exception of the trainees are up 26 points. The Dow is off 156. The S&P 20. NASDAQ 73. Russell 6. Semi is 13. New York Stock Exchange is off 72. Gold is down 3950. Silver is off $1.05. Lightspeed crude is down 35 cents. Natural gas back 16 pennies. Lead the charge dollar-wise. The upside, it is chipotle up 23 bucks. A little over 1%. Hub spot up $20. 3%. Lithium motors 5%. Or 15 bucks. Rooney's upstart holdings 15 bucks. Or 5%. Aligned technology is about 15 as well. That is 2%.  Google is off 25. Blackrock down 24. Intuitive surgical is off 15. And pool corporation is down 12. That's about 2 and 3 quarters percent. Let's just begin by taking a look at the equity future contracts out here. So one of the things that we know is that the ESMini in fact did form a new daily profile. This profile here on the daily basis wraps around the prior profile. That generates a signal of a market that is going to consolidate in between those levels. 4436. 75 at the bottom and 4528. 75 at the top. Now there is a new profile that's attempting to form here in the Dow. So I'm just going to switch over to that. That's panel number two from the right and three from the left. This panel here shows support at 34477 and resistance at 35065. So the profile we looked at yesterday inside the Dow that did not take hold last night. I do not know whether this one will take hold or not. Back to the NQ. What's the NQ doing? We know that the NQ has support and its key level to watch is 1530195. That is the top of the weekly profile. Price gets down inside that are closed below that I should say. Then we're looking at a move to about the 15102 area. And if the ESMini were to close below 4436, that would signal move back to 4410. That's the center of its weekly profile. The Russell 2000. It's just hanging out at the center of its weekly profile. So nothing really more for me to report there. The Dow has tested and rejected the bottom of that new daily profile out there. So that's the daily timeframe. Why don't we go look at some short-term timeframes. Excellent idea. Let's go do it. Here's the 30-minute chart. So what do we know about the 30-minute charts for the equity futures contracts? Well, we know a couple of things. Number one, for example, in the ESMini, this is a little piercing candle right here at 11 o'clock. And that confirms an A to B equal CD down pattern out here. And price, I'm going to go ahead and remove that now just so we get rid of some clutter. And now price is consolidating with inside its daily bullish structured profile. But what is it that stop price where it did kind of dead in its tracks? Excellent question. The answer is DB's red and green line, the oscillator and change line. So what we can see here is if there's just a countertrend move and that's what the signal is at this moment, then the oscillator and change line will hold. If price closes above that, $44.52, you'd expect an anticipated run to $44.58. It's really the $44.58 number to the upside that you would be paying attention to. If price closed over that, the signal is higher price, higher to where? Could get up to $44.83. But right now that is not the signal. But watch that level, $44.52. Again, it's a bullish structured profile. You'd expect or anticipate that on a move lower, $44.37.50 would hold. So that's on the ES mini. You can see on the NQ out here, you also see an A to B equal CD down pattern, like a 1 to 2.618. This generated a bullish engulfing candle. So whereas we had a little piercing candle back here on the ES mini, let's go ahead and get rid of that A to B equal CD down pattern inside the NQ, this was a bullish engulfing. Now price was able to close above the top of its profile. So the NQ, now if we get two consecutive closes, so this candle does not close for another 18 minutes. But if you write down this on your sheet of paper, $15.427.15, if price closed above $15.427.15, come $2.30, you'll have two consecutive closes above the profile. Now what price is also doing as we take a look at the NQ, it is trading above its oscillator and change line. So the NQ is a bit more, I say just a bit more bullish than the 30-minute ES mini, because at least price has overcome that area. In fact, this is saying, hey, maybe more than a countertrend rally. We can't say that, I know I just did. We can't say that until price closes above $15.477.25. So here's what we would expect and anticipate. If price closes above the top of its profile, that's the NQ, we would expect price to make its way up to the TD9 breakdown level of $15.477. So slightly different message than the ES out there, but it is what it is. Let's go take a look at the Dow equity future contract. Now here we have no A to B equal CD down pattern. Why? Because we had that spike higher just as the market was opening during that 9.30 to 10 o'clock session out here. And so price and spike higher, there's no way for me to put it into A to B equal CD pattern. Price is trading with inside a bullish structured profile. You'd be watching for any closes below $34.455 says it's curtains. Curtains say price would head lower. If we take a look at what has stopped the advance in the Dow, it is its oscillator and change line. And that's printing right now at about $34.573 as price moves up or down. That would be the level to watch. If price closes above that area, you'd expect to run to $34.601 or maybe even $34.740. That is the Dow equity future contract. Now what the Dow was not able to do today was take out its prior lows. And so there's that Roadsman Dominicator signal from yesterday that we were talking about. Okay, let's finish this off by taking a look at the Russell 2000. What has the Russell 2000 done? Well, just like the Dow, I don't have the ability, I have the ability, but there's no A to B equal CD down pattern out here. So we've got two that did, two that don't. Here's what we know about the Russell 2000. She too closed above the top of its profile at 1 o'clock. That number is 2223, trading back below it now. But in 16 minutes, as this bar closes, if you, and I'm talking about happy hour, you know, when I say this bar closes, if price closes above 2223, that'll be happy hour for the bulls. And that'll then suggest to run to the 2229 level. I know you're wondering what's at 2229, Stevo. Excellent question. That's the TD9 breakdown level for the Russell 2000. We get back to this break. We're going to go take a look at December cotton. No, not December cotton. December wheat for Michael W. Steve Rhodes with TFNN. We'll be right back. Steve Rhodes started his trading career as a student almost 20 years ago and the student has now become the master. Steve won the prestigious Timer of the Year award in 2018 and barely missed that mark again in 2019, finishing at number two for the year, an amazing accomplishment. 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It was basically a perfect one to one A to B equals C D pattern, Now, from a Fibonacci standpoint, if we do that, all by the d-points have five different, in this case here, this is a Gartley bi-pattern, Gartley patterns require, oh, I got to grab the wrong tool, sorry, Gartley patterns require, I think default will do this, have five different potential outcomes. The first outcome, just simply from a retracement standpoint, I know I don't do this too often. Let's get rid of the A to B equal CD pattern out here for the moment, I'll just turn that off. And so you can see that the first bounce is, it would be the first price objective is the .382 level, that's at 718.60. It basically got there, the actual high so far of the day is 716.60, so you're really right around that range, this would be an area where you would anticipate that some people might get off the elevator, that would just be normal. If we look at the TAS market profiles out here, we're going to see that price is trading above, so price is trading into a resistance area. That resistance area is its bullish structured profile, if I turn price off, you'll see that the center of this box, which is at 710.60, is closer in proximity to the top, which is 727.50 versus the bottom at A at 682.50. So this becomes your resistance zone, and again that zone is between, which it's in right now, 710 and 727.50, if price can close above 727.50, that price should make it to its next level, that next level being the .618 retracement area of 744.50 and above that 786 and so on and so forth. If we take a look at trend lines out here, and I turn off the TAS market profiles, you'll see that right now price is really trading in between trend line support and trend line resistance, those diagonal lines that are up on the screen. So this in essence is the full December contract with all of Stevie's tools out there. The only other thing that we can do, which we will by the way, is go take a look at the white background charts. So on the white background charts, we're just trying to see if there's anything else that we can see. So did I mention this? I probably did. If I didn't, I probably didn't. Which is price right now, Michael's also targeting the resistance of that oscillator and change line. It is slightly above it as we speak right now. So close above that would be bullish and suggest to move up to the 727.63 level. I don't know. I don't really have a ton of information on the weekly since we're using that December contract. Short-term why? If I look at a 30-minute timeframe chart, this did form a rogement and indicator top out here. This was at about three o'clock in the morning and went on to make an A to B equal CD to the downside. But right now on a 30-minute basis, price is above the top of its profile. So that is bullish and suggest that price tries to make a run for the highs, I guess not the high of the day. The highs of, not the high of yesterday, must have been a, well, that's interesting. What is this? It'll at least make a run for this 765 level. So Michael, I hope that helps you out. Thanks much for writing in. Next question from the Tiger's Den is from Mr. Bill. Mr. Bill wanted to take a look at support or resistance, really resistance levels I believe, or TAS market profile levels for Chipotle. I haven't looked at Chipotle for quite a while out here, Mr. Bill. Quite frankly, was surprised to see that it's trading up at 1,900. Man, what a rocket ship for just a fast food restaurant. Okay, so with regard to profiles, the only profiles for you to be concerned with at this stage here, with regard to CMG is going to be the daily, which is support or the bottom, which price is up above right now is $18.90, $49, and this is a bare structured profile. So a close above $19.30, $89 would be a very bullish message. So let's take a look at the daily timeframe chart out here, using the white background charts. We can't see arrangement of indicator signal. I don't have any real bottoming pattern or anything out here, but price is back above the bottom of that profile, Mr. Bill. Very likely targeting that resistance zone, 1920 to 1930. On the weekly timeframe, what do we have? No confirmed topping signal or anything on the weekly basis, on a monthly timeframe. No confirmed topping signal. The 30 minute timeframe formed a nice road, a indicator bottom at about 10 o'clock. This was on the 14th out here and it's had a nice run. Where price is headed to is the 1920, 41 level. That's the TD9 breakdown area. So that is Chipotle, Mr. Bill. I hope that helps you out with regard to that instrument and best of luck to you. Next question coming in by email. This one is coming in from David H. David says, hey, Steve, do you see from the charts whether or not a firm, that's not the horse out there, wasn't one of the Kentucky Derby winners a firm? Was a firm a triple crown winner? Not much of a horse race guy out there, only because of the first, my very first horse race that I went to, AFRM, so that you understand my dyslexia out here. We were given a, we were given a, anyway it was just a kid. When I say a kid, I was 16, 17, but I was a big kid. So nobody carded me, even if he had to be 18 at that stage or 21 even to, to bed. It was probably 18, I'm sure. But a buddy, a friend of a friend of mine knew some guys that worked, 1978 triple crown. Okay. Thanks, top dog. I thought it was. That's a firm. Let me get the affirm charts out here while I'm babbling. So any, in any event, the short story is we got the perfecta, that's a, that's what two horses, right? A perfecta. Yeah. A trifecta would be three out there. So we got the perfecta. And let's just say it was five and three. And so I went up to the, I took all, I took the money that we assembled together, you know, as poor kids. And so we took our lawn cutting money, our newspaper money, and we put it down on the, on the perfecta for that race, five, three. And in fact, that's how the race came in. Now to remember it was five and three, okay, out there. But what we were told actually came in. You can imagine my friends were pretty happy campers until they looked at the ticket that I purchased, which was three, five. So Stevie is not much of a gambler out there and not big on the horses after that first win. But in any event, with regard to a firm, the question is from David in Panama City, David, I hope that you guys weathered okay through those, through that nasty hurricane that came through there. Panama City has been hit by a few over the years. But the specific question is, will, the chart suggests that a firm will be able to take out the recent swing point at 126.46. Boy, that, that one's tough to call. Yeah, I know I should have boxed it, but Dan, I was literally 15, 16 years old. I know I wasn't 17 at that stage. And what did I know about horse racing? Zip, you know, I just wanted to make sure that I didn't stumble at the window looking like I knew nothing.  And you know, didn't want to, didn't want to blow it that way. You know, that's like, in any event. It's a family show that we have here. So I won't tell you the next story. But any event with regard to whether is a firm going to be able to get up to test the top of that profile, that or the top of that day, that day has volume up there of about 54 million. You only got 12 million right now, but I've not seen any signs yet in a firm to suggest that it won't be able to do that. But we'll actually look at the charts. I won't tell any stories when we come back from this break. We'll finish out, take a look at a firm in just a few. 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This segment is brought to you by Think or Swim. For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of tfnn.com. Welcome back, folks. So David's question was actually, can't affirm, we get to that, to get to 126.46 by tomorrow. So this must be an options trade out there. And I guess that possibility, you'd have a better outcome if we see on the 30-minute time frame. I close above 1,840. So as we take a look at this 30-minute time frame, it's got a TD-9 count top. Prices above the profiles, prices above the oscillator and change line, price should be able to take this out. You can see it's inside this gap out here. The bottom of that gap at 124.60, that could be a real resistance level as well. So by tomorrow, it's just impossible for me to say. But here is a pattern to be looking at that could say, hey, that's not likely to happen if you see price turned down. But a close above 1,840 on a 30-minute time frame looks good. Otherwise, the daily and weekly charts do suggest that price is going to get back up there. It just doesn't tell me that that's going to happen by a certain time tomorrow. David, I wish I was that good. I really do, because if I was, I would give you that answer. I just can't. Dan writes in. Dan F, and this is Dan from New York City. Hey, Dan, thanks so much for listening and writing in. You'd like to start a position in AGFY. So let's go take a look at AGFY, see what it is, and get some type of feel for what it's doing and where it's trading into. So it's trading inside a bullish structure daily profile. And this is AgriFi Corporation. I'm going to go with a guess here, wild guess. You are going to fill in the blank between wild and guess. And I'm going to take a wild guess that this is an agriculture company, but probably not even close. In any event, price is, your question is you'd like to start a position. And yesterday you asked about POWW. OK, so we're going to take a look at this. So with regard to AGFY, let's just see if there's some kind of bottom pattern, as price was approaching the bottom of that daily profile. And voila, the answer is yes. You have a TD9 count bottom. You've got an A to B equals CD to the downside that was confirmed as well. So you've got two bottoming signals.  All price really needs to do here is close above the center of that profile, $22.87. And that'll suggest to move up to $24.99, then $26.34, and then $28.95. Those last three numbers are your battles that price should take on. So you do have a valid bottom. You're looking to begin a position. I don't have a reason to tell you not to do that. Short term wise, they don't have any signals really up atop to say, hey, wait for some type of retracement. But if you're asking is AGFY a buy, the answer is yes. And the weekly chart out here, I don't have anything to assist us there. Let's go take a look at POWW as well. I'm going to do POWW on a different set of charts that won't take as long to populate. And this way, we're just looking Dan at the daily and the 30 minute timeframe. So what we'd like to look at here, the reason that Dan wrote back about it is because we had a TD9 count and that formed yesterday and we know that a lower low can take place today and still maintain that pattern out here. If we look at, so if today we're the bottom and it's not going to give us that signal, I can already tell you that because on the 30 minute timeframe, we don't have a bottom pattern out here. So I'm still going to suggest that you wait on this. I'm still going to suggest that you wait on this one here. And I guess what I really should have done is done it on the other time frames. I'm going to do that for you anyways and I'll just tell you a story in between. I'm just kidding.  Okay, I think that it did. So that's good. So with regard to POWW, just want to look at the shorter term, 15 minute chart out here. Yeah, nothing that floats my skirt. Certainly not on the 30, 65 minute, nope. So this is what I would say, Dan, from New York City. I'd say we liked AGFY because that's got a confirmed bottom. And let's just take a look back at this. Now, tomorrow I'm going to redo the show from eight to nine. So we're not going to have any information there on that one to help you with. But you're looking for some type of pattern on a short term timeframe, like a 30 minute timeframe to form a bottom and then be able to take out resistance. So I hope that that helps you out. Dan and I would like you to listen in tomorrow at eight o'clock if you can. Hector and the fuel injectors is happy, thirsty, throttle Thursday. Oh, okay. That's because we were doing tequila Tuesday. We can't have tequila two days in a row, not two days in a row, but two days during the week, can we? Yeah, we could if we wanted to. But the question here from Hector is GDX. You've been a bear on GDX, however, today's washout has you wanting to load up the wagon for a great pop-up here. So let's take a look at GDX. Let me get that going on my white background charts out here and see if that makes sense for Hector to do. So let's pull over the GDX. They're just gonna go right to the white background charts out here. The GDX right now is printing out at about 3080 down to buck 46. And what this is doing, Hector, it's retesting the prior swing point. So I'm gonna go back, I'm assuming this testing it on higher volume out there. So we'll come back and take a look at this. You've got still rogment and indicator signal trigger. That's the only pattern that's out here, but that needs a bullish reversal candle. And even though I go to like a 15 minute timeframe chart, I don't have a signal for a bottom 30 minute timeframe chart. I do have wave number seven, but no levels of resistance being taken out here. So just somewhat questionable, nothing on 65, nothing on 35, nothing on a 195 minute chart out here. So let's look at the volume makeup here. For that, we're gonna go over to the black background charts. You just get a feel for is a GDX testing that prior swing point with volume. And if it is Hector and price closes inside it, then that suggests that that swing point would be tested again tomorrow. So the swing point is from August 20th, 18 million shares. You're already at 32 million shares. I kind of suspected that there was volume there. So the weekly chart had volume of 152 million and you're coming in really light. So I'm looking at panel number two, I'm just gonna expand it out so nobody gets confused. So here's the swing point that it's dealing with. And it's testing the bottom of that swing point weekly basis. And if it closes above 30, 64, that's a test rejection of a key swing point on lighter volume. Now you don't get out of dodge until price closes above 32, 21. But with regard to price moving down in that swing point, the daily swing point with volume, I'd say wait till tomorrow, unless you just wanna take an aggressive trade, what you can, most certainly doing, knowing that on this weekly basis, we're not seeing the volume to break out that swing point. And just you know that your average true range over the last 10 trading sessions is 81 pennies. So your stop needs to be 81 cents. And I would multiply that times 1.618. I don't know what that is, a buck 20, somewhere around that area, buck 20, buck 30. And so you'd use that as your stop if you wanna take an aggressive trade. So Hector, I hope that that helps you out. Generally the only other thing that I can share with you or show to you would be, if I take a look at this market update, US dollar index is right now tinkering with the top of its daily profile. I've got a 10 minute delay here. 92.90 is the top and I've got 92.91 as to where price is trading at. 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I'm not really sure what direction we should take this in. So we're just gonna kind of scan around through the charts out here, see if there's anything interesting that pops up for us to take a look at. So nothing new, we've already covered everything with regard to market profiles. If we're looking at signals, here you can see that you've got the ES, the Dow and the Russell 2000 just consolidating with inside their weekly profiles. Closing below the bottom of weekly profile is really the indicator of a change in trend. Here, if we go back to the Dow Equity Future Contract, you can see once back in February of 2020, once price closed below the bottom of its weekly profile, that was the week of 224-2020 out there, that led to much lower prices. So the real key level here is not the bottom of the daily profile, it's gonna be the bottom of the weekly profile for the Dow Equity Future Contract, that is at 34276. As we take a look at our four quads out here, this is the ES mini. Let me take a look at the ES mini. Really nothing bearish here because price hasn't broken through the bottom of the daily profile. So the uptrend still is in place out here. It has resistance, that is the ES mini at 4507. 4507 is the top of the weekly profile and then at 452875, that is the top of the daily profile. Again, that daily profile is suggesting to you and I that we should prepare for a consolidation. What does that mean to Stevie? That means we don't get to see the highs get taken out or the lows get taken out likely this week or next week out here. And so mentally, you should prepare for that with regard to your intraday type trading out there, market going in both directions. With regard to the NQ, the NQ, the read here is a little interesting. Again, you've got daily, then you go weekly and we just expand this weekly one up a bit and then you've got monthly and the lower left and quarterly on the lower right. So on the daily timeframe, absolutely price is below the bottom of that daily profile. And any counter trend rally should find resistance at about the 15568 level. But even though price is below the bottom of the daily profile, it is above the top of the weekly profile. So it becomes very difficult to call this much of a signal to really look out below. We would change that approach or we would change that view if in fact the NQ on a weekly basis could close below 1530195. That is the top of the profile. So its signal quite frankly is more neutral. We take a look at just simply profiles out here. We know there's an existing TD9 count top on the daily but really the signal here is more neutral than it is anything else. We take a look at the Dow equity future contract. The Dow is trying to form a new profile, the bottom of which is so far has held. But because we don't know if this profile is gonna take a place or not, we don't know, we won't know that till this evening. If we take a look at the weekly timeframe chart, on the weekly we can see that consolidation between 34276 and 35238 out there. It's also a new profile that is formed on the monthly timeframe. So it's got some real resistance. Resistance levels are not necessarily in this order. 35065 potentially that will be confirmed or maybe confirmed tonight. 35238 and 35431. Those are the resistance levels for the Dow. Let's finish this off by taking a look at the Russell 2000. Russell 2000, down below the bottom of its daily profile, consolidating with inside the weekly profile. And you can see just a long-term consolidation. This is a weekly chart that we're looking at can easily take us back into the early 2021 timeframe out here. Resistance is at 2317, 2296 and 235750. Now look at the New York Stock Exchange. What do we see out here? Hasn't taken out on a closing basis yesterday's low. There's no real signal here. The advanced client oscillator still below zero. So this tells the sellers are the ones that are in control if it's closed above zero to consecutive days in a row that would change that message. That's not the message that we have at the moment. The VIX, what we're watching for is the 50-day experience moving average. So long as the VIX remains above that level, that level is 1789, that can always create downside action inside the ES mini. Well, if you look to the chart to the right of that, the downside action right now is at 443675. That's the bottom of this new profile. So you need to close below that. And if we do that, get that, along with the spot bottlenecks being above the 50-day experience moving average, well, then that could easily signal move down to the center of its weekly profile. That's at 4312. Global flow of capital. What do these charts tell us? Well, these charts take a look at the last 37 trading weeks. And it lets us know how each of these instruments are performing in terms of US dollars, euros, yen and pounds. As we take a look at what the winner out here, well, so far the winner is Lightspeed Crude. Since the beginning of the year, it's up 51% out there. It's rate of change. 51%. In commodities, they're second. They're up 33%. So we already see the inflation. That's just simply right here. But as we look at equity instruments out here, you've got the ESMini, which is up about 20% in terms of US dollars, 24% in terms of euros, 27% in terms of yen, and about 90% in terms of Great British Pounds. The NQ is up 19%, so it's in line with the ESMini, the Russell 13, and the Dow is up 14. Is there a global flow of capital in the US? Can't say that it's just concentrated in the US. Why can't we say that? Well, because if you look at the DAX, it's also up 14%. If we take a look at the Australian 200 market out there, that's up 14% as well. But as we look at other markets out there, not so much. So their capital certainly is flowing into the US. We see that in the US dollar. We see that in the US treasuries. We see that in the US stock markets out here. And when the should things get crazy overseas, they're a little bit crazy in China at this stage here. And I'd venture to say they're a little bit crazy over in Europe. But if the blank begins to hit the fan, we will see the dollar rise, probably US treasuries rise, gold rise, and the US market. And then we'll know the global flow of capital has really hit the shores of the US. If we take a look at anything unusual in the currency marketplace, because this is someplace we always want to take a look at, why do we want to do that? Well, if there's going to be a war, before the war actually begins, somebody knows. And what we'll see is we will see capital flows move. So here we're just taking a look at the one-day rate of change, the 37-week period, a rate of change out there. Biggest winner, percentage-wise, biggest rate of change out here so far is coming from the Argentine peso out here. It's had about a 17% move. Right behind that is the Turkish lira. What other large moves do we have out here? Not much. Well, I guess it would be helpful for me to put up the actual US dollar contract out there. It is the December contract. And it's up 3.5% since the beginning of the year. So what else do we want to take a look at? Well, we've got about seven seconds as we go into this break here. So here's just simply again, here's the chart of the US dollar gold, US dollar in the right-hand side, right up at the top of its daily profile. But if it closes above $92.90, price could run up to $93.18. That could put pressure on silver, which has held the bottom of its weekly profile. That's at $22.77. And gold, just making the A to B equal CD down pattern. 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We're gonna close out this show with Jerry in Beantown that Jerry wants to take a look at the daily and weekly TAS market profile levels. Ticker symbol here is NGVC. That is Natural Grocers by Vita Cottage out here.  A price to trade below all profile levels. Well below the daily, that was at 11.22. Now below the weekly at 10.53. And now below the monthly at 11.59. So, Jerry, I think since we have given you that information, and you can see it on the screen, that's not enough. We can't just end it there. I can't do that. We've gotta go take a look at the actual charts. So here, as we take a look at the daily timeframe, and you've got your eight panel charts out here, the daily is going to form bar number eight of a TD9 count. And tomorrow should be bar number nine as long as price closes below 10.63. And that seems like likely outcome. So bar number eight, nine, or the bar following nine, can be those candles or those bars that identify the bottom. So which one is it? Well, we look to the short-term time frame charts. I've got a 15, a 30, a 65, a 130, and a 195. The 15 minute shows a rose mint indicator bottom. The price closed over 10.17. That suggests that this could be a bottom worth buying. The 30 minute says the same thing. A confirmed rose mint indicator bottom, at top of its profile is 10.17. You've got a rose mint indicator bottom on a 65 chart. There you need to close above 10.41. And nothing on the 130 or the 195 minute chart. So you've got three intraday charts that tell you that it's trying to attempt to form that bottom. You'd like to see at least one level of resistance fail, even though that means buying at a higher price out there, because if price just gets up to the 10.17, that's where a countertrend rally would stall. So you'd want to see closes above resistance levels. So Jerry and Beantown, thanks so much for writing in and helping me close out this show out here. I hope that helps y'all, best of luck to you in that trade. 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We are checking out this super clean 2015 Jeep Wrangler unlimited Sahara edition From this HD video you will be able to tell that this Jeep is extremely clean inside and out all the way around and And I'll be able to tell you a lot about it because this is actually my old Wrangler I bought it brand new leased it brand new and just Just sold it back to the store here, so Sunset orange pearl coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like You're right here looking at the vehicle with me comes with the 18 inch painted and polished aluminum rims Bridgestone dual or tires on here 255 70 r 18s And they have probably about 70% of the tread left on them good amount of tread I rotated the tires at 10,000 miles and I put the mud flaps on when I bought the vehicle brand new which really helps keep your Lower rockers nice and clean and rocks out of the step bars No scuffs or scrapes on the front fender there I did switch out the headlamps with some LED Headlamps, so they're a little bit brighter at night Which is what I wanted has also swapped out for some LED fog lights, too No dense or dings on the hood Passenger side rim is an excellent condition This vehicle has never been in an accident It was always garaged And down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is Passenger side rear rim is an excellent condition. I never curved any of the wheels back tires have just as much tread as the front tires Actually, this might have been the original spare on here Which might have a little bit more tread than the rest, but see the frame and underbody is really clean Step bars nice condition, and I put those Mud flaps on the back as well Topper is in really nice condition The hard top I never dropped it Did have it off a couple times. 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I did have some car seats back here a couple times So it does have a couple little indentations from that Factory floor mats back here as well And we'll take a quick look under the hood really sad to see it go but I got a bigger camper and This thing just could not pull it so I got to move up to a truck Under the hood. We had the 3.6 liter pentastar v6 motor engine bays very clean runs very smooth This vehicle has been fully safe to and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change All the fluids have been checked and topped off And my old wrangler is 100 Ready to go I would highly recommend it since I owned it from new and always took good care of it Always serviced here at the dealership And to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars and trucks SUVs minivans wranglers. 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What I think really makes JFK unique is we live in an intersection of being an academic tertiary medical center that provides the highest standard and the access to the highest quality of care, and yet it is truly a deeply rooted community medical center. We have a wide range of residencies available through family practice, internal medicine, emergency department, and various surgical specialties and medical specialties. The Family Medicine Program for JFK really is a full scope family medicine practice. Residents get experience from prenatal care through deliveries all the way to the elderly. Focuses both on the hospital and the nursing home and in our office. One of the unique things about our program here is we see patients right from birth all the way to geriatrics and we see everybody, we are an unopposed program which really gives us a diverse experience and we become very well rounded. In the hospital the residents work closely with attendings and upper-year residents in our family medicine service. They are involved in codes and deliveries all with supervision with faculty or intensivists. And in the office there is progressive responsibility as the years progress from first year, second year, and third year where they're given increasing autonomy. The way the program is designed is at any given time we are always doing everything. And that I think is very advantageous as a physician and being well rounded. So by the time I graduate I will be versatile right from day one and I think that is an excellent draw towards the program as well. The faculty and residents work closely together and it's one I think of a tremendous amount of support on both sides and a lot of respect for working with their residents. So it's a lot of one-on-one teaching and a lot of close collaboration between the faculty and the residents. Because Edison is in such a populated area there's so many things to do here and that was one of the main draws that drew me to the program. It's very close to New York City. I have a lot of family and friends in New York City and it's very easy to get to New York City from here. It's nice there's enough residents that they can cooperate together and get to know each other. There's a lot of camaraderie amongst the residents and a lot of support amongst the residents. One of the main reasons what drew me to this program is the sense of autonomy. From past alumni I've learned that this program is very good at developing your own sense of autonomy which I really appreciate and I think that is crucial to being a well rounded physician.


Bemidji's railroad corridor project was nearly derailed Monday night during the City Council meeting when the conversation turned to funding. Our Josh Peterson explains the possible options. For years Bemidji's railroad corridor has been a topic of conversation and now the project has come to a point where time is running out if they wish to meet an upcoming deadline. We're at a stage right now where we need to make some decisions on how we want to proceed ahead with this project. While the City has contracted with the St. Paul Port Authority to help redevelop the land, time is of the essence as there is a looming deadline for necessary grants. This seems to be an opportunity for us with some state assistance to actually get this location cleaned up and you know do some redevelopment down there with some state assistance. The phases would include a needed review of the land which would cost over $320,000. The conversation turned to funding and how to pay for the next steps when there's a citywide infrastructure need on the horizon. I don't support this because if the 320,000 were the end of it and it gave us an answer and there were no more dollars going to be committed but that's we're just opening the door. We're looking at numbers here that I can't support for the purpose of all the mayor Albright said there is a lot of support for the project and that there's interest in a partnership with Greater Bemidji to make it happen. Meanwhile other council members wish to wait. Maybe we need to think about what number out there would be easier for some of us to swallow. So right now I have absolutely pulled my horns in a hundred percent on this. It's not going to go away and fade but it certainly should be on a delay. In Bemidji, Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. The topic was tabled to provide further review of the project and to allow council members Roger Helquist and Ron Johnson who were not in attendance to be a part of the conversation. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


I'm Jim Nicole Bynum, the director at Woodland Dunes. We do a lot of habitat work. We've worked with Tom back there on some interesting projects. That's cool that Friends of North Point, I remember coming to North Point a few years ago to see a purple sandpiper. We were all excited about that, so that's a special place. I'm going to talk about just wildlife in your backyard. This is just some general ecology about backyards, but all places, including our yards, are components of the ecosystem. People don't think of that. People, wow, what an echo. I don't know, it's just kind of. Nice. People overlook their backyards as ecosystems, but actually, and we think of these big places like national parks and things like that, but there's a lot of land that is privately owned that's just in our backyard, just small parcels, and they can all be improved for wildlife, and it's amazing what can show up there. And ecosystems that have more components are generally more stable. They're generally less disrupted by some of the other things that people do, invasive species and things like that. And I have to throw in a quote from Aldo Leopold. You always have to do that if you're giving a talk about this kind of thing. So this is the backyard where I work. Woodland Dunes is right next to Lake Michigan, just up the coast, a little ways. About 1,500 acres altogether. A lot of it's wetland, a lot of it is old ridges and swales that were formed when Lake Michigan was higher and slowly dropped, but we have some meadows, some native grassland restorations that we've done and some wetland improvements. People have changed the landscape quite a bit over time, and at this point about 85% of the land in the world has been touched in one way or another by people, influenced by people. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's not so good. About 40% is now in agriculture and about 3% is urban. We think of urban areas as being like big problems, but there isn't nearly as high a percentage of land and urban landscape. Some species of wildlife can adapt to live with us and others have a much harder time doing that. Wildlife species, some of them are highly adapted to specific habitats. These are what we call the conservative species, and I have an example as a Kirtland's warbler, which is an extremely rare bird, although they found, it used to be that it only nested one place in Michigan, now they found it in Wisconsin in half a dozen different places, where there are jack pine forests. Unfortunately the poor birds, they overwinter in the Bahamas and they just had a hurricane down there in the fall, so I'm not sure how their winter habitat is doing, but they're a very conservative species. They really just need jack pine forest. Kind of hard to reproduce that in your backyard. There are generalists, and those are the ones that we're really familiar with. The ones that have adaptations that allow them to use a lot of different habitats. So our backyard wildlife are often the generalists. A lot of times they benefit from the kind of disturbance that we do to the landscape. I love the commercial, what is it? The raccoons for progressive, and it's Shea dumpster. That's a good example of that. They can use various forms of food and shelter, and they're always looking at what we do to the land. A simple kind of habitat would be lawn. It's a little more complicated than this, but the basic components, you know, you've got your turf grass, which is often not native. Earthworms, which are not native. Then the moth there is the sod webworm.  So do those canned geese. If you mow grass short and you mow it down to the edge of the water, you've created just a wonderful situation for them. The spider is a grass funnel web, another native spider.  They do just fine there. Flickers can find ants in the lawn. And of course, robins, you know, they're short grass and we introduced earthworms for them. So they tend to do pretty well. Soil is extremely important, and most of the living things that are in your yard are in the soil, just literally hundreds of thousands of species of bacteria and insects and everything else that goes along with that. Insects in themselves are really important. If you read Doug Ptolemae's books, he's an entomologist, and he really focuses on the importance of insects. And they are the main way that energy gets transferred from the plants which harvest it from the sun and distribute it all throughout the ecosystems. So insects are very important. They're finding that in a lot of cases nowadays insect populations are crashing. They don't always know why, but they're very important. And they depend on native plants. A lot of times they don't know what to do with non-native plants. They haven't evolved with them. So planting native plants, even for the things that you don't see is important.  We're kind of a bird focused sanctuary, so we do bird banding and things like that. And a lot of bird surveys. So house finches are one that we introduced. They were originally from the West Coast and then they were brought over into the East Coast and then they're working their way back. And I remember when there weren't any house finches until about 1980, I saw the first one around here. Gold finches, robins, all those good backyard birds that come to our feeders and make winter worthwhile. To me, the clinging or, cavity nesting woodpeckers and nut hatches, things like that. Some of the others that aren't always so obvious, they do have, okay, there we go. Chipping sparrow, tree sparrow, we have tree sparrows. Does anyone have tree sparrows coming in their yard now? Good, that's a good sign. They like brushy areas in the winter time. And I'm always happy to see them. And the chipping sparrows, they're close cousin. And if you notice in spring, around the first of April, the tree sparrows leave and chipping sparrows come in almost the same day. Kind of amazing. Good old junkos. Exciting birds, I guess we call them excited. I call them exciting because they're colorful. But we're always really happy when these visit our yard in to go bunting. And red-headed woodpecker, did anyone have red-headed woodpeckers down here? But you're doing really well. It seemed like more of them showed up this past year. And that used to be a real common bird around here. Birdhouse birds, the ones that will be attracted to the birdhouses if you put them up. Birds that some people don't like, the blackbirds. We're kind of prejudiced against them. But in some cases, like the crows, they're really super intelligent birds. And very interesting to watch. That's the only birds that come in in pairs to our yard at the Nature Center. And one will look up at the windows to see if anyone is looking out and the other one will feed.  So they really are aware of what's going on around them. Flyovers, these are insect-eating birds. Chimney swifts have really declined. A lot of these, they call them aerial insectivores in their populations have kind of gone down with the insects lately. Some more that we don't always like to see in our yards. Great horned owls are nesting right about now. Probably are nesting now on a mild winter like this. And Cooper's Hawk, they visit our yard pretty regularly. One took a swipe at my little dog the other day. It was a little more than he could handle though. Non-native birds, we've just had a pair of pigeons take up residence at the Nature Center. Not sure what to do about them. Starlings are, nobody really likes starlings, but they're another one that's intelligent and are able to mimic songs in an amazing way. Mozart had a pet starling and he would play his songs and the starling would sing back to him. So interesting birds. But maybe what's most important about Wisconsin is the migrating birds, the ones that aren't here all the time, but that come through here. And if you look at this, you can see there's kind of some points where there are funnels. Around the Great Lakes, these little songbirds don't like to fly over big bodies of water. So Duluth is a really good place to see birds. A lot of them get funneled right through here. Wow, right by Sheboygan. A lot of them come through here. There are certain points that are extremely good. And this is the Mississippi Flyway and these are the principal routes. And you can see this one actually, a lot of them are coming right down the coast of Lake Michigan. They use that as a sight line to guide them north and south. So we see more birds along the Lakeshore here than a lot of places. Mississippi River is another really good place to see songbirds migrating. But it's important to protect habitat along these flyway routes. A lot of these little songbirds will migrate at night mostly because there's less turbulence in the air at night and it's much more efficient for them to fly. They also are less susceptible to predators like hawks at night. So they'll be up there and they will get up three to 5,000 feet. And they will be moving along the shore of Lake Michigan. And then when morning comes, they're pretty well exhausted. They will fly 150 miles in a night.  So wherever you can protect habitat along these flyways is doubly important. And here are some of the migrants. Canada Warblers, one that we have at the Nature Center in our preserve, Blackburnian Warbler, White Threads Sparrows also in our preserve, Scarlet Tanager. These two are, they nest farther north, but they're beautiful birds, so I had to throw them in. We also see a lot about these. It's not just about birds, but I don't know if you're like me, this is what my yard looks like.  I think they'll basically try anything. Rodents and legomorphs, there are a lot of different species. Also a little white-footed mice, which I think there's more inside the Nature Center than there are outside right now. We're catching a lot of them. Metal voles, there can be 100 metal voles or more in an acre of land of metal. They're an extremely important prey species for other animals. The tree squirrels, we know all about those. Moles and shrews, there are more around than you realize. Let's see. This is the short-tailed shrew. This may be a masked shrew. Eastern mole, star-nosed mole, which doesn't hardly look like a mammal. But we see these little mole hills a lot in our preserve. The soil is kind of wet, and especially the last couple years they're up close to the surface and they're tunneling right along and you see little bumps all over the place. And then the things that eat them, the weasels, we have a lot of mink, we have marsh around our headquarters, and we have four species of weasels out there. Really interesting little animals once in a while, they find their way in the Nature Center. I should say, okay, the original Nature Center is a farmhouse that's like 150 years old and it's got a stone foundation and there are places for critters to get in, unfortunately. Other animals, if you've ever been lucky, one of our staff and I were out doing a bird survey this last year and we ran across a skunk, female skunk, I'm sorry, possum, all full of young on her back carrying them around. It was really cute. And of course skunks and raccoons, skunks are, they used to be considered a weasel, now they're kind of in their own family. Canines, we have both red and gray fox. If you've ever seen a gray fox, I don't know if any animal is more graceful than they are. They just kind of glide through the forest. They have retractable claws to some extent like a cat. They're good climbers, they'll climb up trees and things like that. Coyotes we have and they increasingly come close to where people are and people don't always like that. We think they're fine in our preserve. We like these top predators to be there, but they're not everyone's preference, that's for sure. Cats, that's always, they're an interesting subject because they've done some really interesting work at University of Wisconsin. If you extrapolate what cats eat, it's like a billion birds a year in the United States. It's better for the cats to be indoors, not only for smaller animals, but for the cats themselves. They live a lot longer and end up with far fewer diseases and things like that. And we also have some native cats. This was taken on a trail cam not very far from our headquarters last winter. So there are a few bobcats around to pollinators, Rusty patch bumblebee found one in our preserve. Actually, each of the last two years we found them and they're an endangered bumblebee. Bumblebees in general are having a hard time as are a lot of the native species of pollinators. Good old monarchs seem to have a good year. I don't know if you saw them down here, but they really produced and they really migrated this past fall. And there are other species of bees as well. This is a leaf cutter bee, a halycted bee. They dig nests into the soil.  Usually it's early in the year, fortunately, and they aren't that aggressive. Some of the butterflies, a good old monarch that's a female. Let's see. A question mark, eastern tiger swallowtail. There's also a Canadian tiger swallowtail that's a little bit smaller and a little more streaky and a red admiral, which you can see really early in the year. And some pollinators that you don't typically think of, solitary wasps, soldier beetles, this carpenter bee, and hoverflies. If you look at asters in the fall, a lot of times they'll be covered with hoverflies. And they're certainly transferring pollen back and forth as well. So bees are important, but there are a lot of other flies and other insects that do pollination as well. So let's look at our backyards. Usually it's a mix of lawn trees and shrubs, resembles the edge of the forest. And it's often a mix of native and non-native plants. A lot of the non-native plants have been promoted. It's good to bring in some native ones once in a while and some of them are really good for landscaping. And you can see how much more diverse this landscape is compared to typical lawn. And of course, first you have to deal with invasive species often. And I hear you had just had someone talk about that. We do a lot of that at Dunes. Our preserve, we're 46 years old, about the first 30 years nobody really thought about invasive species or managed them. So they got a really good hold and we have many hundreds of acres of things like honeysuckle and buckthorn and autumn olive that we are working on constantly and then replacing those with native plants. This time of year is a great time to work on that. You can cut them. We do treat the stumps with a little bit of herbicide compared to spraying herbicide all over the place to get at the foliage. We feel that treating the stumps is a much better alternative to that. So we cut them six inches or less off the ground and then just treat that. You can also put a black plastic bag over them if it's really thick and they sell special bags for that and that will smother the stumps. So if you don't have too many and you don't wanna use herbicide, you can do that and that will also kill the invasives. We just have a much bigger scale that we work with. So native plants provide the greatest benefit to wildlife. They often require less care. They're not as fussy once you get them going. And then some non-natives provide some benefit to wildlife but you have to be careful that they're not something that's gonna end up being invasive if you're bringing in a non-native. And they're really not as beneficial as a native plant. Many of them provide food for birds and other wildlife. That's including the nectar plants for pollinators and then you can go on and on if you look at particular host plants for specific say insects, monarchs, like milkweeds of some sort. You can go on and on. One of the big advantages to native plants is not only the fruit say that they produce but also the insects that live on them for say birds that eat insects. They know what species to go to to find insects. We'll talk about that a little bit more in a minute. But non-natives or cultivars don't have as many insects on them. There's a really interesting book that's available online. It's like how to landscape your property to help migratory birds by Vicki Piuskowski. She worked at the zoo in Milwaukee. And she had these poor grad students that were taking clips of branches and they would look at them and they would have to find every caterpillar. And often caterpillars, we think of colorful ones but most of them are gray or brown and they're hugging the stem and they had to collect all these caterpillars and then they compared what species of shrubber tree had how many caterpillars on it. The natives were far greater in their number and diversity of caterpillars. And that's what warblers look for in the springtime. Having water around is also really beneficial in the springtime. I refer to these warblers that come through. In the springtime, most of them eat insects. In the fall, it's much more a mix of fruit and insects. But in spring, there are a lot of insects hatching out of water bodies and things like that. Another reason to follow the shore of Lake Michigan if you're gonna migrate because you got your food source right there. But in fall, the warblers and verios will eat fruit. We've got some really interesting photographs of them doing that in our butterfly garden, which is not what we expected. Water, it's good to have some water just for the sake of allowing the birds to drink. The sound of flowing water attracts them and you wanna do it in a way that they don't drown. So not too steep or put some stones in it or something like that. Cover, it's good to have some plants just for cover, but there are some that provide both cover and food. These are three that are good. Red cedar is one that deer don't like. It's an evergreen. You've heard of cedar wax wings. They eat the berries off of these junipers, not only the upright red cedar, but some of the lower growing junipers as well. Red Osier dogwood, you probably have a lot of that around here that's a very good wildlife food. It produces flowers in the springtime that pollinators like. Just after that, a few weeks, produces these horrible tasting white berries that wildlife just love. They obviously have a different sense of taste than I do. And in the wintertime, deer will browse on that and it grows pretty aggressively so it doesn't really hurt the Red Osier dogwood, but deer will consume about eight pounds of dogwood twigs in a day. So not that we have a shortage of deer, but this dogwood a lot of times because it's aggressive, people don't want it around, but it actually is good winter habitat for those kind of animals and nesting habitat for birds in the spring.  This is a white cedar. We used to have a lot more of those around, but the deer like them so much that we don't bother to plant them anymore as they just get eaten off. And we see under the mature white cedars, there's very little reproduction anymore. Folks are probably the number one wildlife species of tree, not only for the nuts that they produce that feed all kinds of other things, but also those caterpillars, oaks are susceptible to a lot of insects. They don't kill the trees, but they host them. The oaks host these caterpillars, and warblers especially like to go to oak trees in the springtime. So, and there are a number of species that grow. If you have a dry site, red oaks, bur oak is a kind of a classic prairie oak. And we've got some really wet situations. We're planting a lot of swamp white oak. Mulberry, if you've got neighbors that you don't like, plant a mulberry right close to your property line. We have a giant mulberry in the yard. Like I said, it's our nature centers in an old farmhouse and they had an orchard. So there are a couple of apple trees and a couple cherry trees and this giant mulberry tree. And it bears every year and it's full of fruit and it's like a living bird feeder. We have a deck below it, it's all purple. It's a mess, but when you see like indigo buntings come and eat the fruit and then come down and take a drink of water and cedar wax wings all the time and to us it's worth it. So, there are some non-native and invasive mulberries though and you have to watch out for red mulberry rubrum is the one that's native to this area. There's a white mulberry and there's another one that's from Europe that you have to watch out for. Red cedar that we talked about, those little cedar cones or berries that cedar wax wings really like those. But these are also really good cover and if you want something that deer won't like, they sure don't. This is a lower growing one that my grandfather planted just off the edge of our yard. That's what it looks like this morning, full of snow, but you can see how the birds can get under that and where the boughs of evergreens are thick like that and then there's some snow on it can be 20 degrees warmer in there. So nights like tonight and tomorrow are gonna be important to have some of those kind of shrubs around. White spruce is a good one. It's a native spruce. Again, deer don't like spruces that much. And it bears cones and does all the other good things that spruces do. But unlike something like a white cedar, the deer don't prefer it. This is one and there's this whole evolving train of thought now anticipating climate change because some of these and white spruce is one of them that like it kind of cold and they may not do as well as something like a red cedar which likes it warm in the years to come. So they're just starting to really parse all of that out. The landscape as far as the composition of trees is probably gonna change quite a bit. Fibernums are good. These are in our butterfly garden. This is the nannyberry. This is the southern arrowwood or they sell it as blue muffin a lot of times. That's a pretty popular one that you can get pretty easily. At least a close cultivar to the native. And then the American Highbush Cranberry. There's American and European Highbush Cranberries. European can be invasive. American is not so much. They leave the red fruits often really late in the year and then they'll eat them in the spring. They're kind of, I don't know. Of course they eat the dogwood berries. So I was gonna say they're really sour but I don't know if that makes that much difference to birds. These though, that's one that we've seen the warblers in the very old eating and they don't last very long in the fall. Ninebark is one that gets tiny little seeds. You really don't notice them so much but they're good cover. We have those planted next to our bird feeders at the Nature Center and birds are in there all the time. And Chokeberry is one also that is pretty easy to grow and those berries don't last very long into the fall. Something eats them. And Serviceberry is, those berries go even faster. I've heard they make good jam and everything but I never get any. The birds are way ahead of me. Hawthorns, there are a lot of Hawthorns planted now that's probably a good thing. Not only the cover but also the fruits that hang on there in the fall. Thorn apples we always called them when I was a kid. Same for the crab apples. They aren't strictly native but there are some varieties of that species that are native and again the pollinators like them when they bloom and birds eventually eat the fruit in the fall if you have a lot of crab apples around. Often that's where robins hang out in the winter time. Some robins stay all winter and that's usually what they're around. And then the things for pollinators. This is the Canada Goldenrod. It's a common aggressive Goldenrod like a weed. They are a native plant. Pollinators do benefit from them. People ask me because they don't like their whole flower garden to be Goldenrod. You can pull them out. You can transplant them or you can just pull them out. Just leave a few for the insects. Leatrous you're probably familiar with. A lot of things, butterflies, boy monarchs in the late summer love leatrous. Doesn't seem to matter that much what species it is. And there are several. Milkweeds, there are more than a dozen different species of milkweeds in Wisconsin. We're used to seeing the common milkweed. Or the butterfly weed, they sell a lot of that. These little, this is a world milkweed that grows in places, kind of like gravel pits. It likes poor soil, sandy or gravelly soil. Only gets about that tall. You wouldn't even think it's a milkweed. But it's very beneficial. Yeah, and then common milkweed and the swamp milkweed looks a lot like that with darker flowers. Some of the purples, the bergamot is really easy to grow. I have spread that all over my property around my house just by collecting seed heads and just throwing them out there. Tiny little seeds, it's a mint. Deer don't like it that much. Deer don't like things that smell strong, it seems. And that's why the mints have such a strong smell to deter animals that might graze on them. And then Joe Pieweed grows in wet areas. We have just native patches around the nature center. That's really popular with monarchs as well. They really like that. Primrose is one that's easy to grow. Ironweed is an interesting plant. We found, okay, naturally ironweed is like that tall. But if you put it in a garden and take care of it, all of a sudden it's eight feet tall. So, but you can look at the butterflies up there and they're pretty. It's a really dark purple compared to like Joe Pieweed or something like that. Choreopsis is one, I don't know that it's as beneficial to pollinators, but it certainly looks nice early in the summer, like June, before other things get going. Mountain mint and penstemon. Penstemon is really popular with insects and really easy to grow. Once you establish a clump of it, it spreads on its own. And these mints all seem to be very prolific. Having some willows, some of the smaller willow trees, they bloom so early. A lot of times they're blooming when the first bumblebees emerge from their burrows. Bumblebees have interesting life cycles in that the queens are the only ones that find a burrow, survive the winter underground and then come out really early in the spring and try to get a colony established. And you'll see them on these willows because there's really just a few things blooming dandelions and things like that. So, good to have a couple of those. We have lots of them just growing wild at the Nature Center. More mints, this is Culver's root. That's another one that doesn't bloom a long time, but the pollinators really seem to like it. And when I talk about pollinators, it's not necessarily big showy butterflies, but it's all kinds of other insects. It's interesting just to see all the little things, little flies and things that are in there. In the fall, then we've got asters, and one of my favorite times of year. There are a number of species of asters and some of them are pretty hard to tell apart from each other, the white ones, calico-aster and heath-aster and things like that, panacled-aster, but they're all popular with pollinators. New England-aster is one of my favorites, just because they look so nice on the landscape. Sunflowers, there are a lot of different kinds. Black-eyed Susans, brown-eyed Susans, the Downey Sunflower, this is cup plant. And that's a really interesting species that can be another one that you plant some and then you go, oh, no, in about five years, you've got this forest of cup plants out there, but they provide forage for animals like deer. They produce these little sunflowers. They call them cup plants because the leaves come together and they hold water and you'll see the gold finches come and drink out of there. You'll see pollinators all over the flowers and then later on they produce like little sunflower seeds and then the gold finches are back at them again and the gold finches just seem to watch for that right moment and then they're, they just pounce on these plants. Cone flowers, there are quite a few. The purple cone flower is actually native to the south of Wisconsin, but they do well in a lot of situations here and I think that may be another species that if it's warmer, they're probably gonna do just fine up here. The leatris is a couple different species. This is meadow blazing star and this is a rough blazing star. It's got these little knobs on it. This is one that monarchs really like. So in general, for trees and shrubs, pay close attention to the soil, what the soil is telling you, how wet the soil is or dry or if it's silty or if it's sandy or gravelly. Make your hole wide enough. Native plants, there's little need to fertilize. They just don't need a lot. In fact, too much fertilizer for native plants sometimes will be to their detriment. But the first year, you've gotta keep them reasonably moist. Please pay attention to power lines. There are a lot of trees that are planted too close to power lines and then they end up getting pruned in really interesting ways. For the native grasses and wildflowers, it's good to prepare the soil bed to limit competition. There are so many non-native grasses and things like that. And there's a lot of different ways. You can cultivate it, your plot, you can spread black plastic over it, let it for a year to bake the soil, to bake the seeds that are in the soil. Because oftentimes, after generations, there's a bed of seeds that's built up in the soil and some of those aren't going to germinate right away. They can wait for years and years and then germinate. So you wanna make sure that you get rid of them. Some people use herbicides to do that, but you still have to do that multiple times as each of these generations of seeds grow. Sowing in early spring or late fall is good, even winter is good. A few weeks ago, when we lost our snow cover, that was a great time to just broadcast native prairie seed. It gets down, if it snows on top of it, as the snow melts, it incorporates it into that upper layer of soil. It's very natural. If you think about native plants, a lot of them shed their seeds in the fall. That's when they're meant to be out there and go through cold and then germinate in the spring. So we do a lot of that. You have to be patient with native plants, especially these native flowers, because they'll take years to establish. They grow enormous root systems in some cases, and it takes three or four years for all those roots to grow, but then when that's set, the plant has a really good foundation and then the plants really take off and then they bloom. And if you're trying to encourage bees, the ground-nesting bees, like those little green guys, they like some bare soil. They don't like everything thickly vegetated.  So having some patches of gray soil, it's mostly a matter of not planting the seed too densely together to allow for those bare spots. There's a lot of places that you can get seedling trees, native trees now, fortunately. And even garden centers, sometimes you have to look for a while, but you can occasionally find larger specimens that are native species. And for the native wildflowers, there are a ton of places now. You probably know much more about what's in this area, but there are a lot of places you can get seed online. What you don't necessarily want to get are the hummingbird mix or the wildflower mix that's really cheap, that's sometimes in like a department store. A lot of times those will have non-native plants. They're wildflowers somewhere, but not in Wisconsin. And they don't do nearly as much good as just buying a really good quality native plant mix for this region. You don't want to take wildflowers from public lands. And do you have a Wild Ones chapter down here? They have several chapters. We don't in Manitowoc, two rivers either, but they will rescue, they'll get permission and rescue plants, and the members can take them and plant them. So wildlife, you want to think about food, water and shelter, native plants, did I say that like 100 times? A varied structure, some tall, some short, variety, and then flowers for the pollinators. And when you put it all together, hopefully, you have something like this to enjoy in your yard. This one, I'm not sure that the neighbors appreciate this one. It's certainly interesting habitat. There's a lot of zinnias in there too and stuff, but yeah, I'm not sure how that would go over. But some people, and you get, you know, on the internet, you can find so many examples of wonderful creative things that people have done, much more creative than I am. These are a couple of the references that I look at, Birdscaping by Mariette Nolwak, and I didn't even put Doug Dhalamy's book on here. That's an omission on my part, but Bringing Nature Home, a really good book. He really breaks down what insects use, what native plants, and things like that. And I'm not sure if you've heard of it, but native plants and things like that. So, and that's what I have. So, if you have any questions, please feel free. Thank you.