Welcome to Love Where You Live, showcasing the best of Sheboygan County from the Sheboygan County Chamber. I'm Deidre Martinez, Executive Director of the Sheboygan County Chamber, and Tis the season of giving. As we are preparing for the holidays, I want to introduce you to a couple of places in the county to find that perfect gift. So our first guests are Tammy and Kendra Conard from TLC Casuals, which is right on the river front in the city of Sheboygan. So welcome to you guys. Thank you. Thanks for having us. We are so excited to have you, and you've got lots of goodies to share with our audience today as well. So that's a lot of fun. But we'd love to learn just more about TLC Casuals and what we can expect to find in your store. So I know you guys have recently celebrated an anniversary, am I correct? Yes. All right, wonderful. So how long have you been down on the river front then? Over 22 years. 22 years, okay. And now before the show, you were kind of sharing what your view out your store windows used to look like compared to what it is now. So tell us more about that. I mean, you've lived through that transition. Yes. Well, I was in retail locally for about 13 years, and then I decided to go out on my own and went driving around Sheboygan, and they were just building the shanties that I was in. And the minute I saw it, I knew that was where I wanted to be. And it was interesting because the location was so new that we were looking across where Blue Harbor is now at just piles of coal. Wow. And they talked about the future and what would be coming. And I knew I wanted a destination place and something unique that would bring people to the river front to stop. Absolutely. And it worked. When we started out, we were just in the front of the building. Okay. I think there was like a craft store in the back. Okay. And then years later, we took over that side and then tried that for a couple of years and had two entrances, two different stores. And then talked to the landlord into letting us open up the walls and just make it one big store. Very nice. Okay. And so you had mentioned that now you guys are at about 2,000 square feet of store space. Right. So that's a lot of room to find lots of fun things. It is. We fill it with lots of goodies. It's a lot of seating. Very good. And so Kendra, when did you become, were you a part of the business from the jump with it being a family business or when did you get more involved? Pretty much my entire life. I lived at the store, but once I was out of high school, I started doing a little bit more and just in the last five years really, I spent a lot of time there. Okay. Very good. I needed help with a point of sale system, all the social media. Okay. So that's where she became the big help. And I think in right around probably over, gosh, 10 years ago, I started their website. So then even through college, I do stuff and meet my mom on buying trips and everything. I have three daughters. So I would take them with me whenever I could. Okay. My mom would come along. It used to set up, reps would set up in like Green Bay and hotels. My mom would take them swimming and they'd check in with me as I'm buying. No, my favorite memory is when I was probably, I don't know, 13, 14 years old, she would drag us to Chicago for her buying trip.  It was. It was a long day for a guy who lived for nine hours looking at thousands of watches and thousands of, it's a lot of work and whatever. So she would drag us all there. And I remember crawling on the ground at the end of the day being like, mom, I can't look at anything else. She's like, I just have to buy watches. She would be filling up these tubs full of like hundreds, thousands probably of watches. And I'm like, I cannot look at anything else. But now we do it and everyone thinks we go and have fun. It's a lot of fun, but it's a lot of work. It gets tiresome to one of our Vegas trips when we, and we buy eight in the morning, so eight at night. And it was like 24,000 steps that day. Wow, yeah. So well, it's good. It keeps you in good shape, very good. So 22 years, you mentioned you knew you wanted to have a destination, but what was the inspiration for TLC Casuals? It's a bit different than some of the other things you would find in Sheboygan County, truly. We wanted a one-stop shop where you could come and buy something for yourself, but find a gift for someone. And we wanted, there really wasn't a lot of Sheboygan apparel. We just find that the more unique things we can come up with makes us stand out because it's not something you're gonna find somewhere else. We design a lot of the shirts ourselves. So you won't see them anywhere else. Really nice. Are constantly coming up with new designs each season. I also have a store in Cedarburg in the winery. So because of that, we do a lot of wine things. I think it's popular for stores. There are some viewers that are possibly wine fans, so that's positive. And being on the lake, we have lots of lake stuff. And we always are looking for new, unique lines. And we always kind of go for, I think a lot of people love us too because of the quality of the clothing that you get is it lasts forever and the price point is really good. So many people that come up and stay on South Pier from Chicago just love the prices. They comment that, I mean, we're not bare bones pricing, but we're very reasonable and we give good quality. And I'm sure, I know moving from Illinois a year ago, I was like, I had sticker shock in the opposite direction. When we would go places, I'd go, what? Do they, like, is this on clearance? Because yes, in Illinois, there's just this expectation and things, in a lot of cases, are significantly more expensive, so. Yeah, and being there all this time, we have so many women that make us their destination on their way to Darkoni or on their way, this is one of their stops. And so we get to know all these people and for years. And some people will go from Cedarburg store in the same day to our Sheboygan store and that's always really fun and cool because there's different things at both stores, some of it's similar, but there's a lot different. Okay, so tell us a little bit, I know you talked a little bit about the design and how you guys kind of designed some of your own products, but tell us a little bit more about what treasures we could expect to find if we were to come visit the store. Unique jewelry, tons of scarves, shoes. We have the new bags that are made out of army tents. We're always looking for that special item that you can talk about and is durable and different. We have something no one has, it's a very sturdy, beautiful brooch that is so strong it will even hold blanket scarf in place. The magnetic, it's a magnetic pin. Oh, so it's not putting holes in your clothes and because that's always kind of a pain, right? Yeah, we have a really cool jewelry line that's made out of a tree nut and it's how the women of this area in Ecuador make a living and it's just really beautiful, unique pieces. Lightweight, so if people are allergic to jewelry. With no metal, they can wear it. We have a line called Good Works that's all positive scenes, Bible scenes, all uplifting. They give percentages back to good causes. Okay, so it sounds like you guys have some different types of partnerships which I was not aware of. Tell me a little bit more about some of these partnerships and it sounds like this is a way that you guys kind of give back and help out. We do food drives and give donations to the food pantry, Kendra's in the middle of a gift drive for children placed in out-of-home care here in Sheboygan County. Okay. We have some shirts that we do, that we custom make and then all the proceeds go to different charities and our recent one was to help with the Child Abuse and Neglect Fund here in Sheboygan County. Okay. We do probably 12 fashion shows a year all over Milwaukee. We also set up booths all over to bring the clothing to the public so they can see us and remember us. That's always our big thing. We can't advertise like the big box stores so we try to get the merchandise out there just to remind people that we're there. Very good. So, and I wanted to ask about, I know I haven't had a chance to come to one of your fashion shows but I know this is something you said 12 times a year and I know you do quite a few throughout Sheboygan County as well. We do. So, tell us a little bit more about what does that look like and if I or the viewers are wanting to come and check something like that out where are we getting that information and how can we get invited to the show? A lot of it is right on Facebook. If you follow our TLC Casuals Boutique Facebook page and then we also have a VIP group called Style Is Forever. You can just search that on Facebook. It says TLC VIP Group, you join the group. That's where all the fun happens. We do discounted pricing just for being in the group. We do tons of giveaways and then we do live sales every other Wednesday. So, for people that are out of town or like a lot of our customers go out of state in the winter but they still want to shop with us. Busy moms, you name it, they can watch the live sale and we show about 50 items in the live sale and it's all at a discount and then people can come in and pick it up at that discounted price or we can ship it right to them. But with our fashion shows, we share a lot of when they are in those groups and stuff. We do do email blasts for people that aren't on. So we could go and register somewhere to be in the email list and get that information that way. We also, any women's groups come to us and ask us to do shows. So we do shows for a lot of the local women's groups and I mean, throughout Elkhart, Sheboygan, wherever we can bring it to you and then we usually set up a little booth area and sell right after the shows too. Wow, okay. And I know that when this show airs, I'm not, I don't know the exact date yet but it may or may not be before the market is closed out at Elkhart and you guys are gonna be participating in that as well. 10 days. Yeah, starting November 30th. It starts for 10 days from 10 to five. Okay, very good. So they could find you that way as well. Absolutely. Wonderful. So I know we're running short on time but is there anything else you'd like us to know about TLC casuals before? We carry sizes small through pretty much two X. We do have some petites. We have some things that are more in junior sizing and missy sizes. So we try to carry a wide variety. I mean, we have everything from the funky new patterned jeans to something dressy for a special occasion. Okay, so it's not limited. It's very diverse. And you guys had mentioned before the show that Kendra kind of almost does some personal shopping. So if you're like me and you have no idea what the heck you're doing or what to buy for yourself, then I can reach out to you and you can make sure that I'm dressed to impress and matching and not looking at the clown. We have a great sales staff. We have so many people that will come in and just say, dress me. And they literally go to the dressing room and just say, I don't want to do this. Let's get this done. I can appreciate that. I am not, you know, I know it might sound strange but I am not a fan of shopping. They love that. And they love if you bring in something you're wearing and say, okay, what can I do with this? Scarves, jewelry, and we'll help you. Yeah, all the employees are so good at styling. So anyone is, you can stop in anytime and they'll help you. Very good. Now, how many employees do you guys have at the Shabuagan store? Nine. Nine, okay. Very nice. But we're open year-round seven days a week, so. Yes, and which is very, it is uncommon for that area, especially to be open seven days a week. Right.  We just find we have so many people from out of town and if they drive all that way, we don't want to not be there. Absolutely, which is truly an asset for folks who, you know, like myself, if I want to go shopping on a Sunday, you know, there's not a, yes, so it's good to know that that's available. So again, tell us, what is the Facebook page that we should be following? Follow the VIP group is where the fun happens. It's style is forever, TLC VIP group. Okay, very good. And you do have a website as well, so we could get more information. And what is the web address? Onlineapparelshop.com. So very good. Thank you so much, Kendra. Thank you, Tami, for coming and just, you know, sharing your message and your store and the history of it. And I'm certainly encourage everyone as they're shopping this holiday season to keep our dollars local. Shop small, come in and let one of either Tami or Kendra or one of the staff dress you so that you are ready for your holiday parties. And I look forward to coming in and visiting myself. So thanks again. Thank you. Stay with us after the break and we will be talking shoes and you won't want to miss it. This time of year, what do you give? When it's your extra concert, gain or special event tickets to VetTix. You're giving our nation's service members and veterans an amazing experience they'll cherish forever. This holiday season, don't just give. VetTix. Give something to those who gave. For more information on how you can make a difference right now, go to VetTix.org. Welcome back to Love Where You Live. Our next guest is John Church, owner of Red Wing Shoes in Sheboygan. So you and your wife, Kelly, who was not able to join us today, but we're so glad we could pull you out of the store to... Thank you. ...share with us a little bit about your business and what we can expect to find. So welcome, John. Thank you very much. And thank you for having me here. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me here. I appreciate it. Absolutely. We're excited about it. So we spent the first half of the show talking about some clothing and boutique shops that can be found throughout Sheboygan. And so we figured what a great follow-up to then talk a little bit about shoes. So tell me more about Red Wing. I know that you're not originally from here. So this was kind of a different endeavor for you. Share with us more about that. So we actually came out to Sheboygan to visit, to have fun. Sheboygan's a beautiful place. I came out here, the lake is always a draw for me. I love Lake Michigan. My daughter moved out here. She started working at Johnsonville Sausage. And so we were visiting and we were coming out to have fun, not to... I had a great job at Red Wing Shoes and my wife had a great job and we were very satisfied where we were. At that point, we had no intention of opening a shoe store, although we talked about it for about the last 25 years because we have a history with Red Wing Shoes. Okay. Anyway, bottom line was we looked around one day and said, this is a different kind of a city and county and it's not your typical city in Wisconsin or in the Midwest. It's very prosperous and efficient and everybody's working and the homes are kept up and the cars aren't broken down and the street bottom line is it's above par in every aspect and that's when we started asking the question of where did they get their shoes from? And that's a question we always ask in every town that we would go to is because we're shoe people. Right. So coming from Red Wing, we went back to Red Wing and said, you know, Sheboygan's unique and you guys should take a look at it. And they said to my wife and I, if you don't open a shoe store up there, we will somehow we overlooked it. Wow.  And you worked for Red Wing but you were not a business owner at the time. Is that correct? That's correct, yeah. So I worked in the tannery. So Red Wing Shoes owns SB Foot Tannin. It's one of the most efficient and best tanning operations in America. And we produce leather for many, many customers besides Red Wing Shoes. I think the last I checked, we're nearly a hundred steady customers buying leather from us. Wow. Big, big, large customers. And Red Wing Shoes is our primary customer. And so we produce millions of square feet for combat boots, to fashion shoes, to many other companies that manufacture leather products. Wow, so I had no idea. So you guys opened your doors two years ago. Is that correct? Okay.  Tell us a little bit about that journey. So we decided that Sheboygan, the opportunity here for work boots for because of the industrial base in Sheboygan County.  Wages are good. The unemployment is low. It's a nearly a recession-proof economy around here. And everything about it said this is a perfect fit for Red Wing Shoes. So we provide a product that's a purpose-built work boot as our primary product. We sell probably 75% of our product is safety toe. And then we have hunt boots and hike boots and fashion shoes. So our fashion is more is what we call the heritage line. So that's the product that is the takeoffs from the old shoes we used to make. Dress shoes, dress casual, they shine up nice if you want them to look. So an example would be a boot like this. This is an Ironman shoe. Okay, so this is a woman shoe. It's a U.S. made, 100% made in America, like much of our product. This is a 24-06. This is a safety toe. So that shoe has a safety toe in it. And this is one of our best sellers in our store, which is a Red Wing U.S. made shoe. Both of these have U.S. leather in them and are built in Red Wing, Minnesota. We have two manufacturing plants. One is in Potosi, Missouri. And of course, as I said, Red Wing, Minnesota. In our tannery operations, we have around 200 people in our shoe plants. We probably run in the neighborhood of 800 to, in Red Wing and 400 in Potosi, there are boats. And our headquarters are there as well, and that's not included in those numbers. So we manufacture a lot of product in America, millions of pairs. And that is our main core of what we sell is U.S. made products. That brought us to Sheboygan because we know and love our product. We have friends that make these shoes. Literally, we have family, personal family at Red Wing Shoes. And so we know the product so well that we love the company. And I know that sounds funny, but we really do love Red Wing Shoes. Well, that's good, it's good to be passionate. I mean, it makes it easier to, you know, sell to a community if it's something that you are really strong and passionate about. It is, and it's, we couldn't sell something that we didn't believe in. And that makes it easy for us to have made this wild move. Most people don't quit their good jobs and start over again, especially when you're at, you know, 53 years old. So, bottom line, we found Sheboygan. Red Wing said we'll do it if you don't. And we made the decision to come out here because Sheboygan is a gem and Sheboygan County is a gem. It has so much opportunity and potential here that anyone that's looking for business should consider Sheboygan County. Very cool. So we were talking a little bit about, now certainly there is a connection to Red Wing corporate headquarters and all of that, but the individual stores are in fact small businesses and they are not owned by this large corporate entity. And I think that that is probably a misconception that a lot of people are under the impression of. So, as we're talking about keeping our dollars local and shopping small, you are a member of the community. Your family is a member of the community and you are a small business owner in the community. So, kind of talk to us a little bit about that small business aspect. Right, so my wife and I live in Sheboygan proper and we own this store. So a lot of impressions are that Red Wing shoes, because it's a global company, that the shoe stores are owned by the corporation. There are some corporate stores, but a very small percentage of the stores are that. The majority are owned by people like me. We invest our money into the store, we live in Sheboygan, we buy our groceries, our gas, or we go out for dinner, we buy our clothes here. Everything I buy basically comes from Sheboygan County. And so those dollars that we bring into our store, once they're here, they're going back into Sheboygan County. So when you buy a pair of shoes from me, you're contributing to the potholes and the street lights and the schools. We will talk about potholes in Sheboygan. Yeah, well, but they're getting better, right? Yes, that's a sore subject. But they're getting better thanks to people like us small businesses, right? Absolutely.  Once it leaves Sheboygan County, it's gone forever. And we really do encourage people to consider that when they're doing their shopping. Absolutely. And especially with the holiday season upon us. And yes, you do a lot of work boots, which I would say that anybody would be thrilled to get a new pair of boots for Christmas, whether work or unwork related. But you do have the fashion line as well. And I think even for myself, before we had some conversations over the past year, I was under even the impression that it was more just work boot related and it didn't apply to me. But even looking at the women's boots that you've brought here, that is a very popular style right now. And you see a lot of folks around town that are kind of, they want that look and it's practical, especially as the cold weather rolls in and snow and sleet and all of that ugliness that we get to encounter for the next few months. But you offer some other unique things as well. And I know we've had conversations about why your work boots are superior to possibly some of the others that are out there. Tell me a little bit about that. So, well, I'll do a two part answer here. So first of all, when we're different in our store than other shoe stores that sell product like ours, there are very few shoe stores left that actually measure feet, that actually sit down and talk to you about what you do. What kind of work do you do? Are you in a wet environment? Are you cold environment? Do you have a work on ladders? We're gonna find out exactly what you do so that we can direct you to a proper shoe. That's why we sell what we call purpose built footwear. So the boots that we manufacture in our shoe plants have an intent. And so we have everything from lineman boots to factory boots to a boot that's gonna be soft on concrete and waterproof shoes. Bottom line, we're gonna find out and what we can call it is we call it counseling. We counsel every customer to guide them to the right product. And once we've identified their job that they're in the realm of the work that they do, then we're going to measure their feet. And we have a lot of boots on our shelves and it's not because we wanna have a lot of fashionable options in the safety footwear world. We have a lot of boots because they have different purposes and they have different configurations and shapes and they're built on different lasts. The last is the mold that the shoe is built over. And everybody's foot is different. Mine are different than yours, different than everyone else's. And so then we identify the profile and fit you into an appropriate footwear. Okay, very cool. And you have some, and I know we're nearing the end, but before we do, you obviously have some socks.  So I brought along some orthotics. So that's a big part of the fitting process is once we've identified your foot profile and a shoe that'll work in your environment, then we customize that fit. There's no one out there that can build a shoe that's gonna match everyone's foot. So when then we scan, would we do a computer scan and we'll identify how your arches are, whether they're high or low or whether you stand at one foot. It's funny or whatever. And we can make recommendations for an orthotic that will match the profile of your foot, okay? And we have many, many different styles there. And they're affordable and they're very, very effective in accomplishing the goal, which is to relieve foot pain and pressure. Absolutely, especially for someone on the floor. Exactly, yes. And depending on what their role is and their organization, but absolutely. And I think we've probably all experienced foot pain at some point, but it goes beyond that. It goes up to the knees, to the hips, to the back, et cetera. So it's not just a foot problem, it comes a whole body problem. It's a foundation, right? Absolutely. And you know, a lot of people also are, they're shorting the most important job thing that they do, which is earn a living. And so if you're not in comfortable footwear, if you're not making an attempt at accomplishing the best fit and comfort for your feet, your work is harder. It's already hard. That's why they pay us to do it. Right, right? Nope, I absolutely agree. So before we end, tell us, where can we find you in Sheboygan? So my address is 2936 South Business Drive.  We're right in between those areas, right on the road and we're there. Very good. Well, thank you so much, John. It was such a pleasure to have you and sorry, Kelly couldn't join us. I'm assuming she's kind of mailing the fort at store. Kelly was running the store. All right, very good. So she wants you to get back there quickly, I'm sure. But no, thank you so much. And certainly, again, I will just encourage our viewers to shop local this holiday season and make sure that you're getting out and you're visiting some of these small, locally owned businesses because these are our neighbors and it's important that we support them as they continue to support our local economy and doing the things and bringing the goodness and keeping it in our community. So, thanks again, we're so grateful you were able to join us and- It's my pleasure, thank you. We look forward to seeing you guys all again for the next show in January, on behalf of everyone at the Chamber and the crew of Love Where You Live. We wish you a very happy and healthy holiday season. We'll see you all next year.


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How important is open source for you folks? It is a core part of our ethos. We are deeply rooted in the open source philosophy and movement, it's deep in our hearts. And we will continue to serve that community by providing support to foster growth and adoption, enable it and innovation, especially by promoting portable, battle tested open source solutions that power today's industry, as well as support for those that are still developing, incubating, and emerging. And we will continue to heavily influence the use of these open source solutions as means to avoid cloud vendor lock-in, which is really important for that innovation. And I'll touch on that a little bit deeper. By design, getting locked into a particular environment and only having access to the services provided within, by design that is more limiting than something that can use those resources, as well as everything else that's out there. So these open source solutions that, as we talked about, are under the hood, which is powering even a lot of the proprietary services, but then promoting that in a way that it can run across different providers so that you can be more modular and be more adaptive to the emerging trends. And that all comes down to why it's important open source and portability.


with the speed of light, the cloud of dust, and a hearty hyose silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the mask rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations, and nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The lone ranger rides again.  There were several covered wagons in the line that headed west with food for the construction camp in Spring Valley. Keep a sharp watch now, guard. This is where we're told to watch for Redskins. I know. But how can a man keep a sharp watch with trees brushing both sides of the trail? Get on there! As far as I'm concerned, I'd sooner let the Redskins have the grub we're toting them, and they'll get captured or killed by them. Guard, this load of grub is powerful and important to the boys of Spring Valley. The last two roads were lost. Redskins? Right. I've heard that the boys are like the starves of the grub being delivered inside with duck. Pull out of there! This is it! Art riding men with painted faces leap from both sides of the trail, leap to the wagons with clubs and knives. They slugged the drivers, beat the guards, and quickly overcame the men on the wagons with the speed and intensity of the attack. The sound of gunplay rang across the plains, the three riders on powerful stables. That means trouble. Uh-huh. Get that way. Sounds like an alien attack. Follow me! Come on, Silver! Come on, Silver! Come on, Silver! Come on, Silver! When the lone ranger reached the scene of disaster, a dozen men surrounded a campfire. Some were badly injured, others badly bruised.  We ain't in the mood to beat no more outlaws. Oh, Silver, oh boy, who? Hey, you heard me.  Put on your gun. I came when I heard the shooting. What happened to your wagons and horses? So you know all about us. I saw the wagon track. Yeah, hold on. Maybe we can get some information from this outlaw. Maybe it's... I'm not an outlaw. Did Indians do this? Engines, that's right. Who are those two riding in here? Hey, another rich kid. That man's a friend of mine. A friend of all Settlers. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on.  This is the third wagon train the critics have stolen. What did you carry? Food. Any of your men need help? We'd rest the wounds best we could. Uh-huh. Look at wounds. You come down. Come, Tonto. Yeah, but I will. I'll bring a saddle bag with the bandages and things. Keep that red skin away from our men.  Tonto can help them a lot. Oh, where was the food going? Oh, see here. I don't know why we should answer your question. Now, wait a minute, guard. I like the way these three came in to offer help. I don't know who you are, stranger, but I don't see no harm in telling them what you want to know. Thanks. The guppas on the way to the boys that are building the new dam in Spring Valley. That's where the government has a crew at work. Yeah, that's right. I don't know much about it. The river has been dammed. There'll be water for farming the whole valley. Yeah, if the boys in the job don't starve, there ain't no food available there. Did you say Indians attack your train? Yeah. Dirty cutthroats. There are no pat Indians around here. What's that? Indian live in village to north. Indian in storm clouds, tribe all, good Indians. Plenty friendly Indians. Tonto gnome. Then something has happened to change them. If we could only trail those wagons. There's a town ahead. I think you can reach it by foot. Ah, I ain't walked a mile in the last five years. You've walked now several miles. Me? Follow a wagon trail? Ask him, Osabi. Don't do any more than locate the wagon. Ah, not fighting. No, take Dan with you. Teach him more about the way you trail. Golly, I should do my best to help. We meet you by and by? Yes, learn what you can, then head for town. I'll meet you there. Where'll you go? I want to talk to the United States Marshal. I'll go ahead of you. Well, then listen. Tell him there's another train of wagons some hours in back of us. If the Redskins get that grub, too, Sam Caldwell and the men working on the dam will be faced with starvation. I'll tell him, meanwhile, don't take pot shots at any Indians you see. Come on, silver. At first, the trail of the stolen wagons was easy to follow. The marks of horses hooves and wagon wheels were not only sunk into the soft ground, but were so clear that Tonto made an observation that perplexed him. Sam, you take look at footprint here. Yeah, half been. But what's so strange about it? Well, you study it, then tell Tonto. Well, let's see. Well, maybe you're wondering why some of these men travel on foot from time to time. No, not that. Fellows stop here to water horses. Well, then I don't see anything unusual about the marks. Well, if the Indians make a tag... The driver told us that. Look, me make footprint here. Right alongside other footprint. Yeah. Then me take long-step, regular stride. Make other footprint. Now, you study them. Hey, you're wearing moccasins. Ah, like all Indian. These men were wearing boots with heels. That's right. Yeah, but Indians don't wear boots. No. Great day. You mean those weren't redskins at all? Not right. Holy smoke, that's important. Those guards and drivers thought the men were redskins and they're not at all. The length of stride, fellow make. Yeah. Hey, he's got to be a big man. A mighty big man. But boot print, not wide. Boot print, narrow. Yeah, then he's tall and skinny, is that right? That's right. No. Now we follow trail some more.   Shortly after Tonto and Dan were underway again, the wagons moved to the dry bed of an old creek where stones retained no tracks. The trailing became a slow process, but much of the time spent on hands and knees, looking for a misplaced stone and constantly studying the banks on both sides of the stream, where some sign at the wagons had changed their course. Night came on. With the progress halted, the two took to the saddle and headed for the nearest town. In the meantime... Where did it all day for you to get back to your office, Sheriff? The marshal sent me to see you. Very scary. What's the idea? This note from the marshal explains. Oh, great scott. The lone ranger, eh? You've heard about the food robberies. The situation at Spring Valley is critical. The men there must have food. There's no one here in town that can be spared. I know it. All the food there is in town would last but a short time. There's a lot of men in the construction camp. Hey, those ordinary redskins. I'd like to take a posse up to Storm Cloud's village and search the place. But you can't. I know Doug Gown will, I can't. Wouldn't take much to start Storm Cloud making war. He's peaceful now, but he's got to be kept that way. There's another wagon train on the way. Yeah? Yes. I want a posse to go with us to ride with the wagons. Maybe so. The capturing of the thieves is less important than getting food to the camp. The next food train must be brought through. I'll see what can be done. Why in Sam Hill is there so much interest in stealing food? What have the redskins got against the boys in the camp? I don't know, Sheriff. What's come over Storm Cloud of a sudden make his tribe start raiding and robbing? Let's get the food through. Then deal with Storm Cloud. In the rear room of the cafe, the proprietor, Lank Morgan, was in the conference with a well-dressed man called Driscoll. You've done a fine job so far, Lank. Thanks, boss. There's just one more wagon train on the way to that construction camp. If your gang can keep that from reaching the village of the dam, they'll have to leave the job or starve. They tell it stains. And the cattleman I represent will still have a spring valley for their cattle. You can depend on it, boss.  Splendid. Well? I'll be going along. Yeah, better go out this rear door, Driscoll. Yeah. The cafe's pretty full. So long, Lank. So long, boss. I'll let you know what happens. Good business tonight, eh, Barkeep? Yeah. Pretty well filled up. Barkeep. What, Lank? There's that engine over there eating supper with a kid. Hmm. I've never seen him before. Must be a stranger in town. Don't look like any of the stone clouds out there. No, he don't. I've never seen him before. I don't know who he is. Golly, I'm hungry after that long ride, Tuttle. Hey, this food's good, isn't it? Oh. Hey, Tuttle, what are you watching that tall man for, huh? Him plenty tall, man. That long stride might match steps on wagon trail. Hey, Golly, I never thought of that.  Then wait outside to Lone Ranger come. What are you going to do, Tuttle? Let me talk to tall man in back room. Maybe him want to hire Tutto. Work with other Indian. Hey, you mean you... Tutto maybe find out things that way. I'll be outside with Victor when you want me, Tuttle. Dan waited outside the cafe with his horse Victor for over half an hour. When finally the Lone Ranger joined him, the boy had much to tell. Golly, I thought you'd never get here. I have so much to tell you. Where's Tutto, Dan? In the back room of the cafe with Lang Morgan. What's he doing there? When we followed the wagons, we found out the Indians were white men disguised because they wore boots with heels. Good work. One set of footprints showed a very long stride made by a tall man. A narrow footprint? Yeah. Maybe Lang. I hope Tutto hasn't gone too far on his own. The sheriff's recruiting a posse to ride out to meet the next wagon train. But why not just capture the crooks while they're waiting in ambush instead of going up to meet the wagon trains? There'd be no evidence against them that way, Dan. They must be caught in the act of robbery. Oh, I see. But as the sheriff now, keep quiet, Dan. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hi there. I'm going inside the cafe to line up more volunteers for the posse. We'll be ready to ride in a few minutes. While the sheriff's sworn members of his posse, the lone ranger and Dan moved along the side of the cafe to the rear door opening into Lang's office. No one here. Oh, Tutto and that tall man have gone. But they were here. Wait, something on the floor. Looks like one of the messages Tutto leaves. Is it? Yes, Dan. Tutto has tucked himself into a job with Lang. He hopes to locate the stolen wagons. Man, if they attack, if they attack the next train. The governor will meet the fire of the sheriff's posse. While Tutto moved into ambush with Lang and his outlaws, Chief Storm Cloud came from his teepee at the sound of approaching hollers. By the light of the village fires, he saw one of his scouts who brought startling news. You send scout, keep watch. You'll come to report. Outlaws, go to ambush. Outlaws, dress like Indians. You know where ambush is. I know. I see. Outlaws wait there. I'm coming. Once more, our people be blamed for crime of others. This chance to show our innocence. Yeah! Rouse all who sleep. Bring out horses. Two horses. Bring guns. We go make prisoners of ones who bring dishonor on us. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. Chief Storm Cloud let his tribe to an attack against outlaws who dressed as Indians to whelay wagons loaded with food. Tonto, hoping to get evidence against the outlaws, had joined the gang. Lank Morgan with his men waited to attack. As near as I can figure, the wagons will stop for the night at that waterhole beyond it. We wait here till they stopped and then raid him. Smitty, you take charge driving off the wagons. Whatever you say, Lank. You're the boss. How about you, Turner? Well, me, New Pellerin gang. Me not safe. You might have an idea, though. Have you? No. Lank, I don't know why you took the redskin in with us. We need men. But you don't know nothing about him. How do you know he ain't here to spy on us and find out where we take the wagons? That's why he's here. I'll know it when I make sure. You stand by ready to shoot. Closing in from all sides. You're the one who told him? No, me not tell him.  You boys fight him while we try to get him from the rear. Lank's men, now without a leader, were surrounded and forced to surrender. Lank and his comrade Smitty drew to one side and concealed themselves beneath dense foliage. They remained quiet until the Indians rode away with many prisoners. They made it, Smitty. They didn't get it. Hard, they were all taken. Even the red-skinned tanto, they got him too. You know what they'll do with those men, don't you? They'll torture him to death. All the better for us. Two of us can split the cage. But if that next wagon train gets through, there won't be no cash. The two of us can't capture all them wagons. If you leave it to me, we'll stop the wagons. They won't get through. We can't move them to where the others are head. We won't need to. Come on. The wagon train had been brought into a circle as the drivers reinforced with the sheriff's posse and the Lone Ranger prepared to make their night's camp. The Lone Ranger drew Dan to one side. Dan, I brought you with me because I didn't know where tanto was. Yes, sir, I know. We didn't have time to hunt for him. The fact that you're here is no reason for you to take a hand at fighting starts. Yeah, but you've taught me how to use a gun. You're not to use it tonight. All right then. They were attacked the sheriff and you'll keep out of sight and out of the way of bullets. The vector will carry you out of danger. Yes, sir. If we get separated, we gotta go back to town and wait there. Is that clear? Yes, sir, it's clear. I understand. They sure hope those critters make a play for these wagons. They'll get the surprise of their lives when they find there's a sight more men may expect. Yes. The sheriff, I want as little gunplay as possible. That's heavy. I already told the board. Great train, one of the wagons in the fire. And there's another. There comes the fire arrow. It's hit another wagon. There she goes. A dry chop cover goes like tinder. Indian arrows. I saw that arrow start. I know where it came from. Dan, stick close to the sheriff. Wait, we'll go with you. I care of Dan Reed. Come on, silver. No, you don't. Though the Lone Ranger quickly captured Lankinsmitty, the wagons were beyond salvation and the precious food was soon consumed The campfires of Chief Storm Cloud's village made the night as bright as day. There are many Indians watching as guards over the score of outlaws in their Indian clothes. Among these outlaws, Tonto remained quiet while Chief Storm Cloud spoke. For many years, we live in peace. For a plenty long time, white settler make no complaint. Indian make no complaint of war from settler. As those rats can say, you say for their language. Then tell Chief we pay for crime. But how? You see, plenty soon. It is rule of tribe that will of majority win. Are they to vote about us? Hang it all, I wish Lankin come and get us out of this. Is it will of people? These men die. What did the Indians say? I don't want to die. Stand. All you stand. I don't want to die. Let me help you get the critters that planned the whole thing.  We look prisoner in face. Ring torch. He's going to set fire to us. Him only take a look at us. They'll torture us to death, that's what they'll do. We see if any face known to Storm Cloud. Tonto know Storm Cloud? Tonto, you here? Ah, me here, Storm Cloud. But you, you always good friend. You friend Lord Ranger. Not right. What's that? You a friend of the Lone Ranger? Friend of the Lone Ranger? Why are you here with us? Me, me join band. Why? Where Lord Ranger? Me join band to learn where all stolen food go. Speak for the rest of us, Tonto. In the name of mercy, don't let these redskins torture us.  Storm Cloud, if you kill Outlaw, it not help other people. Outlaw makes sin. Outlaw dies. They're better way. Me know where food and wagons go. Maybe you make Outlaw take Indian there. Take all food. Take Outlaw into town. That save life of men who need food. We speak to... What is fault? Shall Outlaw die? We'll show him the cave. We'll show him where the wagons and the food were taken.  You, you talk to him. Tonto, you hear voice of people. Ah, me hear them. Me speak. Kimosabi, T.J. Tuka, Lame, Mimo, Wagons. Later the same night, the lone Ranger and Dan were in the Sheriff's office. Blank and Smitty were locked in jail at the rear. Blank, where in Tarnation don't you confess and have it done with? Do what you'll mind, the Sheriff. I won't be in here long. Who do you think will get you out? I ain't saying. I said I didn't intend to talk and it still goes. What about Driscoe? I don't know who you speak of.  Didn't he agree to pay you and your man if those wagons failed to reach the construction gang? Mister, I don't know nothing, see. Where are the rest of your men? That makes you think I got any more. Dead, blessed and all, Lank, why in Tarnation have you got to be so cussed? Now listen, Sheriff, I told you that me and Smitty was riding out to meet the wagons in their train. I told you we seen a couple of redskins riding arrows with flaming tips at the wagons. We jumped them. They knocked us down and got away. That's a pack out and not lies. Well, that's my story. They knocked us down and got away and left their bows and arrows. Then this mayor's down to break them right and down and capture this. Ain't that the story, Smitty? That's the story. Now you got to leave us out of this jail, Sheriff. You ain't a shred of proof that we ain't telling the truth. Sheriff, come over to your desk. How can I shake that story? I'm afraid you can't.  He knows it.  He knows you'll hang if he confesses. His only chance to get out of this is to stick to his lies. Hey, he's lictus. Lictus at every turn. I'd let you know what happened to the rest of his gang. He must've had more than this. Well, I'm going to find Tutto. Oh, that's right. You've been staying here trying to help me while your best friend might be in all kinds of danger. Lank won't even admit that he hired Tutto. Yes, I know it, Dan. I heard you were looking for me, Sheriff. Crisco. What do you want? Maybe you heard the news. What news? Another wagon train was stopped. This time it was burned. The food was lost. That's too bad. What do you expect me to do about it? We have a couple of your men behind bars. Take a look at them. My men? They're expecting you to try to post their bail for them. That ain't so. You seem to have made a mistake. Sheriff, I don't know these men. Oh, yes. One of them owns the cafe, doesn't he? I've seen him there. That's your story, Lictus. You act as if you didn't believe me. I don't. Then, my dear sir, suppose you try to prove otherwise. Good. Bust it all out. What? Hold it up. Right in the town. This is your work, Lictus.  Get away from that door, Dan. Let me go out. It's just fighting for life now. Wait. That wasn't a lead. That was running besides storm cloud. Don't open fire. Look, there's wagons, too. Lots of wagons. Wagons. The food wagons. A score or more of them. Like a stampede, the Indian ponies dashed to the sheriff's office, outside of which Silver and Dan's horse Victor were hitched. Then the wagons, and each wagon was the outlaws, flanked by armed redskins. It took no more than a glance to show that the food was safe. The wagons were still fully loaded. The loot from all but the last attack was there before the lawman's office. Then men poured into the small office. Indians with guns and outlaws disarmed and disconciled. Here, all outlaw, storm cloud make outlaw lead way to cave. Make them bring all food here. So these are the mainly hired? Yeah. The honorary double-crossing coyote. He hired us and then left us to die. It was that their engine that saved our lives by persuading storm clouds men to give us a chance. Cut-o. You've done a great job. Now there's plenty food for men and campers. Yes. If we'll confession, condo gets sired by bad men. Confessions? Great day. This is perfect. Confessions all named Lank Morgan. Diskun, you've got to do something about this. Rascal, help us out. I don't know a thing about this. Oh, you don't, eh? Well, you're in it now, Driscoll. When crooks get to trying to save their necks by naming their helpers, the whole truth comes out.  Sheriff, the storm cloud will take over now. Line them up. Pack them in the jail. Driscoll, along with them. Then storm cloud, I... I hope you'll do us the honor of taking them wagons of food to the boys that are waiting for them. I'll sue them! As a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


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Hello, in this video we are going to calculate the percentage of land cover per subcatchment. Let's open the attribute table and see what we have until now. We have a field with the catchment area that we have calculated before. Let's open the field calculator to calculate now the surface area of each feature that we have in the subcatchments. And these are the class area. So we call it class area, it's a decimal number. And we simply use dollar area again that we used before. Click OK and now we have the surface area of each feature. Now we can calculate the percentage. In the field calculator create a new field, call it percentage, it's also a decimal number. Open a bracket, go to fields and values, double click on the class area and divide it by the catchment area, close to brackets and times 100. In the preview we can see already the percentage. Click OK and the new field with percentage is added reflecting the surface area of each land cover class per subcatchment area. Now we can also add the class names to complete this. Call the field land cover and change it to text string and we use the case when function. When level 1 equals 1 then give as a string the class name artificial surfaces. So remember we use single quotes for strings and we do the same for the other classes. Case when function ends with the end statement. Don't forget to increase the output field length, we use 40 here to have enough space for the class names and click OK. And here we see the class names now added in the land cover field. Toggle off the editing and save the changes. So in this video you've learned to calculate the percentage of land cover per subcatchment area and to add the land cover names to the attribute table.


Because, because when you look at inflation, when we look at where we are economically and we are in a strong, we are stronger economically than we have been in history. When you look at the unemployment numbers at 3.6%, when you look at the jobs numbers, more than 8.7 million of new jobs created, that is important. Yeah, there you just saw White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tell reporters that America is stronger economically than we have been in history. Yeah, let that sink in for just a sec. She makes a statement like that, but isn't apparently aware that millions of barrels of oil we released from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve have now been sent to foreign countries? And then there's a Reuters report out this morning that says that more than 5 million barrels of oil that were released from the emergency oil reserves were exported to Europe and Asia last month. And some of it, reportedly, was actually heading to China. Is the administration aware of those reports? And does the president mind that some of this oil that was meant to ease paying for consumers is headed overseas? I have not seen that report, so I would honestly have to go look into it and see what the truth is in that statement that you just laid out and see exactly what's happening. I just have not seen that report. All right, joining us live now to discuss your money, CEO and founder of Stock Swoosh, Melissa Armo and CEO of Saatchak Wealth at Terry Saatchak. Good to see both of you. Hello, Mariana. Good to see you. So the Biden administration sold roughly a million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-controlled gas giant that continues to purchase Russian oil. Just stick with me. A move the Energy Department said would support American consumers and combat Putin's price hike. The Biden administration claimed the move would address the pain Americans are feeling at the pump and help lower energy costs. More than five million barrels of oil released from the U.S. emergency reserves, however, were sent overseas last month. Again, according to a Wednesday Reuters report, at least one shipment of American crude went to China, this according to the report. They also claimed that the Unipack sale would support American consumers in the global economy in response to Vladimir Putin's war of choice against Ukraine and combat Putin's, again, price hike. But as the war rages on, Unipack has continued to purchase Russian oil. In May, for example, the company significantly increased the number of hired tankers to ship a key crude from eastern Russia, this according to Bloomberg. Melissa, gas prices have soared to record highs mid June. The national average for a gallon of gas well surpassed $5 for the first time ever. Still, the White House assured Americans that they need to pay high gas prices to support, this is a new term, the liberal world order. Just want to start with you, Melissa. Does this make any sense to you? Well, I think it makes a lot of sense to the administration. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to the American consumer because this isn't exactly what people bargain for. And I don't even think that people that voted for Biden thought that this is what would happen. So, of course, again, if you listen to really what Biden was saying and what the left part of the Democratic Party was saying, they really want to move away from fossil fuels. And maybe someday we can, but we're a long way from that right now. The fact is that gas prices could be up over $6 by the end of the year. I mean, at this point now, there's no stopping it. And the problem is that is what is causing the high gas prices, the high diesel fuel prices. That's what's causing the high inflation we have for food and literally everything else that we buy. Because every single thing that we buy gets to the stores or gets to your house and a truck. And therefore, the well has to go in the truck. It's really diesel fuel that costs have gone up so much. So I think that this is a problem. Going into the end of the year, the Fed thinks they're going to curb a recession or inflation by raising interest rates. But that's not going to bring down the cost of oil. And if we continue to do things like this, it's going to make the problem worse going into 2023. That's a problem for the Democrats in the midterms. But really long term, the next two years, it's a problem for the Democrats going into the next presidential election if they can't bring gas prices down for the American consumer. Well, speaking of getting worse, it just so happens. Hunter Biden, again, that's Joe Biden's son, has a stake in the company that the U.S. sold the oil to. So according to reports in 2015, a private equity firm that Hunter Biden co-founded bought a $1.7 billion stake in CinePAC marketing, the company wholly owned by the Chinese government that we just, again, sent our oil to. CinePAC went on to enter negotiations again to purchase Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, and in March one month after the Biden administration sanctioned the Russian gas giant. Very little has been mentioned about this at all, Terry, and I'm not sure why. What is your reaction that it's just being kind of, again, you just heard the White House press secretary, she wasn't even aware of these reports, and it wasn't just the Associated Press, but Reuters, Bloomberg reporting about this oil going overseas to China, let alone they haven't mentioned any connection that it may have to the president's son. Why aren't some of the mainstream media outlets reporting this? Because they're in the tank for Biden. I mean, they're all left-leaning organizations. I mean, just look at what happened during the election. I mean, they suppressed the laptop story. One thing after another, they killed Trump for four years. The pharmaceutical companies came out two days after the election and announced they had vaccines. This is all just one big effort to protect the elite regime, and so they're not going to do anything until they're forced into it. What I was hoping for, and even right now I'm not sure it's looking as promising as it was maybe a couple of months ago, but man, if Elon Musk had gotten a hold of Twitter, if he can get that deal across the finish line, I think that's going to be a huge shake-up, but I can tell you that the entire machine is doing everything they can to make sure that doesn't happen. Well, right now it looks like that may be in jeopardy reports of layoffs going on at Twitter right now. We'll continue to monitor that, but the jobs report also came out today that's making headlines, and it actually seems like it's a bit of good news for the Biden administration. So unemployment, again, according to this report, remains steady at 3.6 percent, and the economy added reportedly, again, 372,000 jobs, which is above, well above, the 270,000 that was actually forecasted for June. But there are 10 states that have lost the most jobs since the pandemic began. A preliminary analysis from the Brookings Institution shows that New York, your state, Melissa, has lost almost 300,000 non-farm jobs since March of 2020, but in states like Florida, where I live, we're seeing a record high surplus of, I don't know, $21.8 billion for the fiscal year. Just to put that in perspective, that's the highest in the state history. So, Melissa, your reaction to that jobs report, does it really paint the whole picture?  What are your thoughts on this report? Well, as you know, a lot of people left New York, and specifically Manhattan, where I live, and money can talk and walk, and it traveled and went to Florida, but I didn't leave New York. I don't think it was anything like New York, and there's no place like New York, and so I tried to stick with it. I think people that left to Florida probably will regret it at some point when New York City actually finally comes back, but that being said, the state and New York City lost a huge, huge revenue base because obviously they lost a lot of that tax money. And one of the nice things about Florida is I will say they have no state income tax, and New York City has a separate income tax on top of the state income tax, and then you have to pay federal. So if you live in New York City, you actually be free taxes. So people left, and with the people working from home, there were many people that still have companies in New York, and they're allowed to live in Florida and work from home or really anywhere in the country. So it's a problem if you don't have people to where they have to be in the office, and that's heard. Urban cities, other cities besides New York, and cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco as well. But as far as today's job report, going back to what you're saying, we can actually be at almost full employment. I mean, we can be closer to 3% than 4% at some point in the next 12 months, and we could still be in these high levels of inflation. And again, even though raises have gone up, they're not going up as much as inflation. So raises have risen about 5%, but inflation is like 8.6%, but for some goods, it's over 20%. So people are getting back to work because they have to work to pay for things. But you can't discount the fact that still a lot of people left the work for since COVID, and they have not come back. That's not accounted for in the numbers. And they want to tell the fact that this unemployment number is great and they've added more jobs. The fact is that these are just jobs being added back when Trump was president anyways to begin with before COVID. That's an interesting point that you make. Terry, do you agree with what Melissa said in regards to this jobs report that it's just basically people going back to work after the pandemic, that it's nothing necessarily to be celebratory about, especially when you consider high inflation, which you mentioned 8.5%. And a lot of places, a lot of goods way higher than that. Yeah, they're taking a victory lap. But what they didn't tell you is that they revised the two previous months downward by 75,000 jobs. So it was really only a net increase of about 30,000 jobs. And if you look at the number of people that are of job age and then you subtract the 750,000 fewer that are in the labor participation rate, we're actually like four to five million jobs or four to five million people that are just not in the labor force that aren't getting counted. So if you really look at the unemployment rate, theoretically, it would be much higher than that. And some of this is down graphics. The baby rumors are getting older, so they're not going to be in it. But there's a whole bunch of young kids that just don't want jobs. And if you go back to the New York and the San Francisco and the California, the biggest part of that is people left those states, not necessarily just because of taxes, but because of the draconian lockdowns and the terrible policies. And they went to free states like Florida where they could live their life without the government running roughshod over them. So this unemployment number is not good. And it's a lagging indicator anyway. So I think what you're going to see, and by the way, because that number, they're taking a victory lap on it, all that does is give the Fed even more fuel to continue to take this monetary tightening. And it's not about interest rates. It's about liquidity. They are sucking liquidity out of the system. And that will manifest in the second half of this year, I think is going to be very ugly. The market hasn't bottomed. The economy is not anywhere near bottomed. We've got a slog ahead of us and it's not going to be pretty. Yeah, I've heard reports of that. And I know it sounds like a broken record. So I'm going to ask each of you this question. Melissa, we keep hearing people go back and forth. We're in a recession. We're not in a recession. Even reports saying that this is going to be worse than the depression, that we're going to see more interest rate hikes, signs that the housing market has cooled down. What is your prediction for the next year? I think it's going to be a rough year. I agree with Terry on that. Between now and the end of the year, I don't think the market makes a brand new autumn high. We're too far off the highs from now to make it in the next six months. We're starting earnings season next week. And what does that mean? It means companies report their earnings. And I think that their outlooks for the next quarter is going to not be so good for many of these companies. Because, again, people are spending less money. What is a recession? What happens in a recession is that people don't spend as much money. The economy slows down. And that's really not good. I mean, the whole reason that Trump did so well in his presidency before COVID was that we had a booming economy. People were working and they were spending. You can't have people hoarding money and never spending it. Then how are businesses going to make money if people don't want to go out and buy wash machines and furniture and everything? Then all these things are going to slow down and you're going to see that in the housing industry. First of all, I think the housing prices went skyrocketed pretty much all across the country that could not sustain itself. But with interest rates going up now, people are changing their mind. They're backing out of contracts or backing out of deals. They can't afford to buy as much. That's a slowdown for the banks. Banks are falling, bank earnings start next week, JPM, Wells Fargo, all of these banks report next week. And I can tell you right now, it's not looking good for them because they make money lending. That's how they make money, lending and fees. And people are going to borrow less because they're not going to be able to afford as much. Number one, people are also scared. When people are scared, they don't spend money. That's not good for the economy. Terry. Yeah, I tend to agree. I think the one thing that keeps getting missed is that as a result of COVID, we pumped $6, $7 trillion into the economy through both fiscal and monetary means. And that money's gone now, right? And so to Melissa's point, it's not just that consumers aren't going to be willing to spend. It's that in the credit tightening process, liquidity drives up and there just isn't as much money to lend period. So if you take that, coupled with consumer spending habits that are changing and getting more conservative, we've got a recipe for disaster. In my opinion, we have not seen the bottom of the stock market yet. Typically, the market kind of bottoms 112 days before the economy bottoms in a recession. And so we haven't seen a market bottom. We haven't even really begun to see the teeth of the recession yet. We're by technical definition in a recession, but the earnings recession hasn't even started. And that's probably going to come in the second half of this year. So if I were the Biden administration, I would not be taking victory laps right now. I can tell you that. Well, it's the greatest in history. I joke. But speaking of COVID and spending, taxpayers paid $4 for every dollar in wages and benefits received by workers and jobs saved by the federal government's pandemic paycheck protection program, PPP. So according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, they found that the PPP didn't support jobs at risk of disappearing and money flowed disproportionately into wealthier households. The people who conducted the study wrote that the PPP was a very large and very timely fiscal policy intervention saving about 3 million jobs at its peak in the second quarter of 2020 and distributing 800 billion well within two years of the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and added, but it was poorly targeted as almost three quarters of its benefits went to unintended recipients. We hear about this time and time again. Even when the money was going out, Melissa Terry, I've talked to both of you about this. If you weren't working for six months, $1,500, $3,000 wasn't going to save you from anything. And then to find out that some of this money didn't even go where it was intended to go to the people was intended to go to.  Well, first of all, the government, I don't think investigated or had that had even the wherewithal to investigate where all the monies came from. So that's problematic. If you remember back when they did the first round of the PPP, many, many large corporations got the biggest chunks of the money, which didn't even need it. It was supposed to be originally for small businesses or medium to small businesses. Then they had to do a second round of PPP. So who's to say where all the money came from? You heard some of the horror stories and some of the companies that were even supposed to give money back. Did they give money back? Did the money go to the employees? Who knows? But the fact is here we are two and a half years later. And at the end of the day, you know, I don't think it's ever going to come to pass that it really is investigated where the money really was supposed to be spent and who was supposed to be given to him. All of that money pumped into the system was supposed to be to support people that were out of work. But I think one of the things that I disagree with President Trump with was shutting down the economy. He took the advice of people that he thought was giving him good advice. Fauci was one of them. And, you know, looking back now, hindsight's 2020, would President Trump make the same decisions or a different decision? I don't know. But I think we should never have shut down the economy. Still, a lot of people died from COVID. And I think people not going to work and people losing their jobs affected people, more people than the amount of people that died, in my opinion. Terry, I'm going to have you react real quickly to that, but also in the short time that we have remaining. And again, any advice real quickly that you could give our viewers who are concerned, right? I mean, they're seeing these jobs reports, but they know they're paying X amount of dollars. It's triple what they were paying a year ago for gas or whatever it may be. Any advice that you have real quickly on that? Yeah, I think cash is king right now, right? It's build up your emergency savings. One thing I would do, and this is, I don't mean to scare people, but I still think it's not a bad idea to stock up on some food. Even if we don't have any food shortages, the reality is you're going to pay less for it today than you will three to six months from now. And inflation will eventually roll over, but it's going to take a little while. And in the meantime, I think we're going to see a number of job losses and other things. So I would build up a cash reserve and be conservative. And that's not going to help the economy necessarily, but I think it's good. Just individual, you know, individual advice at this point. Last 20 seconds to you, Melissa on that. Do you agree with that cash is king? Cash is always king, but the fact is you can't stop spending.  I'm going to continue to spend money and I'm a single person, only in one refrigerator. I can only buy so much if I buy too many things and hoard them, they're going to go bad.  We have to liberalize every day. We can't liberalize over here. Can goods and ready made meals just sorted out their protein shakes. Those are good. They do last quite a long time. All right. And all seriousness, thank you both for your time. Greatly appreciate it. It's great to see you. We'll be right back when we share your voice next.


Clear learners, let us now come to again one of the important apparatus used in electronics that is called a multimeter. Now, multimeter means what? Multi means many. So, in this multimeter you can measure various characteristics like current voltage, AC voltage, DC voltage or the gain of the transistor or what is the type of the transistor, what are the different terminals of a transistor, these are the various things that you can measure. Let us deal with section deals with what part. You can see right now it is in the off mode. In my right there are various called V with a single sinusoidal wave. So, it shows that it is voltage, but AC. Next you can see this is ampere, means A, A gives ampere, so you can measure current. Here you can see this V with a straight line, straight lines means a DC, so you can measure here DC voltage, ohm, ohm denotes resistance, all we know that the unit of resistance is ohm. So, when it is ohm means in this range you can measure resistance. Here there is HFE, you all know what is HFE, it is the current amplification factor of a transistor. So, we can put this knob over here and you can measure the amplification factor of a transistor. Here there is a V, this V is called the continuity tester, means if I have this two problem and if I place this knob in the V position, now it is in the V position, when I touch this you can see here there is a sound of V. This gives a continuity test. If I take this wire suppose I have a wire and I want to check whether this wire, because it is insulated from outside, it may be open from inside, so I am not able to see from my eyes. So, if I connect this one in one part and the other of this multimeter with this other, so if this wire is continued there should be a sound. So, this says that this wire is ok, if there is something opening between the wire this sound will not be there. And if I move this suppose in this range you can see here the various ranges of volt DC from here this white line to here, when it is in 200 that means you can measure a maximum of 200 volts. If your input is more than 200 volts then this will not be displaying 200 volts. Now, these are various ranges, let us move into then this range, this green part this gives a measurement for ohm. If I put here it is saying 20 k, 20 k means you can maximum measure a resistance of 20 kilo ohm. If you put a resistance across these two terminals and if you are this if the value of the register is more than 20 k and you are putting at 20 k that it will not be viewed. Then you have to place it in the range of 200 k, it may be more than 20 k. This is how you measure the values of your resistance.  These are difference range in milli amperes or micro amperes. So, whenever you are measuring a current in the range of micro or milli ampere you have to put this red wire in this and you have to black wire over here. If I see make you proper you see it is written voltage ohm and milli ampere. That means that when this red wire is here it can measure voltage, resistance and a current of in the range of milli ampere. And here it is saying that tan ADC means tan ampere. So, when you are measuring a current of range of more than tan ampere then you have to put this wire from here and in the range of tan ampere here. But this black wire will be common for both, where you are measuring a current of milli or micro or you are measuring a current of ampere. This black will be at the same point difference will be at just this red wire. That will be for tan ampere range here for milli ampere range. This is how a multimeter works. We will actually see the working of this multimeter in the experiment, but I am just giving you a demonstration right now. So, that you will be familiar with various readings of this multimeter. Thank you.


Well this is a very big day for the Surrey School District. This is the fastest growing school district in the province growing about a thousand students a year. Quite phenomenal the growth. So today we signed four project agreements, a total of $44 million. Big investment in the educational future of students in Surrey School District and certainly the biggest investment around the province and the biggest investment for some time. We're looking forward to major additions to Surrey High School where we're speaking today. Also the Ecole Panorama School going to be also growing number spaces as well and then two new elementary schools additionally. So all of these important steps towards meeting the the growth requirements for Surrey likely not to be the last capital investments to be made here. If this city keeps growing the way it's been growing and of course we'll be looking at investments into the future. Oh everybody's over the moon that this project is finally going to get going. We've been asking for it for a number of years so it's a good news story. It's huge for our school district because we've been desperately trying to get the additions to this high school and a second secondary school in Surrey for some time. So this addition will relieve a lot of the portables that are on site here. Now that the minister has put a signature to it we can actually go to Tender and get a whole dug and that's what we've all been waiting for. The students would say that they're looking forward to less crowded hallways, to more lockers and to going outside to get to their classrooms in bad weather. But the parents and the staff at this school know that it means a lot more. Our school has always been a great place for our kids to learn and this addition will enhance their learning opportunities and open doors for more diverse educational opportunities.


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