Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you. My name is Adam Payne County Administrator and co-host of this program with Chairman Roger Distruty and as you know every month we strive to focus on a different department and often have a different department head here and today we have Mr. Tom Eggebrecht with us the Director of the Health and Human Services Department. Welcome Tom. Thanks Adam. Let's set the stage by just sharing a little bit about yourself. When were you hired as our director? Just tell us a little bit about yourself. Sure. Well I've been here for not quite five years hired in August of 2009. Worked for Brown County 11 years prior to that and Manitowoc County for 10 years prior to that and worked down in the Milwaukee area for a number of years too. But by far this is the best place to be and I'm so glad to be here. Well we're glad to have you here. I can't believe how the time has flown. I know. 2009. Interesting. Tom is one of 19 department heads that I have the pleasure of working with but works with the largest department budget of a little over 31 million dollars a lot going on in that department and a lot of activity outside the front door right now was from remodeling but before we get into that share a little bit about the different roles and responsibilities of the Health and Human Services Department and the divisions that you will see. Yeah we our work is authorized required under chapter 46 of the state statutes all counties across the state have to provide what I describe is as health and well-being services for county residents and we do that with about a hundred and 78 employees. We have four operating divisions and that includes our public health division our social services division community programs which includes elder services and we offer economic support assistance as well and we do that in actually four separate locations. We have our main offices on a street across from Fountain Park. We have our economic support operation located at the job center which is on Wilgus Road near Taylor Drive. We have an aging and disability resource center which is in Sheboygan Falls on Forest Avenue. We actually have three staff assigned to the Sheboygan area school district. They work out of a school called Tower Academy and they work in the interest of kids that are served in that setting. So while it's not an official work location for us we do have staff assigned there. So all of those locations all of those staff to provide safety net services for the county. When you say safety net services please give our viewers a little bit of a flavor for that. What type of services are provided? Well again at times as persons who are vulnerable subject to neglect or abuse that includes children. We've got elder abuse that occurs as well. It's not uncommon for older persons to be taken advantage of by acquaintances even family members and there's times that we have to go and investigate that. Our juvenile justice services respond to a variety of community needs and typically that's providing community protection as much as it is trying to help kids get on a better path. So when kids get involved in juvenile crime and end up in bad spots we step in and try to correct that path a little bit and then through behavioral health as a lot of folks who are experiencing a lot of difficulties have limited means limited payment resources available to them. So we assess those needs and step in and help when and where we can. Nice nice overview. A lot of people receiving service throughout Sheboygan County and from all walks of life. Correct. Well back to the front door if someone has driven by your main headquarters by across from Fountain Park there in Sheboygan. Certainly they've seen that there's some major construction in play what's happening. Yeah it's kind of interesting I've had some curious questions in recent weeks you know I've had people asking me so is your building being torn down? The answer is no. I say is your building closed? I say answers no. The most interesting one was someone said wow your building really looks better and I'm thinking where did that come from? Because if you drive by it's really in a state of disarray and I'm not sure what they're looking at. I think what they're referring to is that the exterior tiling on the north end of our building has been removed in order to approach this construction project that we're involved in. The south end of the building still has the tile intact so I think they're concluding that the tile on the south end is new and that the north end is going to look like that but in reality we are going through a major construction project we're going to be adding a two-story addition on that building which will improve our lobby improve our entryway and also add some room space inside so if you come to the department right now you can expect to see fencing around the construction zone you can expect to walk through a wooden tunnel that is there to protect visitors from construction debris but with that I'm happy to say that we are open for business. 2.2 million dollar addition, two-story and what were the driving factors for the county board ultimately to authorize that? Well that building that we're in Adam was constructed I think it was in 1921 and it was constructed for application as a medical clinic and I think it served its purpose very well for many many years in a medical clinic you've got different areas of specialty it's not essential that each of those areas works together as one department per se and the county acquired that property I believe in the late 80s in preparation for the creation of our health and human services department. Prior to that time there was a separate department of social services, separate department of community programs and I believe there were two separate public health departments one operated by the county one operated by the city so in 1989 all those departments came together in the form of our comprehensive health and human services department building was acquired for that application it probably could have been maybe should have been modified at that point but it wasn't so today we've got 250 visitors per day that come through those doors we have a lobby area in the main entrance that's able to accommodate six persons at a time which means that all those visitors are cleared to interior spaces in the department where we have four additional reception stations in play so when that happens information and property security is compromised people get cleared into the interior of the building and you don't really have close you know tabs on where they may be at point in time it's not efficient to have five separate receptionists operating in the interest of one department and also consumer privacy is really compromised because when those visitors are cleared to the interior spaces they're typically waiting in what I would describe as hallways or common areas so it's just not a comfortable spot for consumers to be we had a operational study done by virtual crows back in 2006 that recognized all of that virtual crows came in and looked at what we might do to improve efficiencies within our department and one of the recommendations they made was that if ever we could find the means of creating this new addition that we're talking about today we would satisfy all of those concerns we would improve efficiency we would maximize consumer privacy we would eliminate some of those security breaches so it's not a matter of growth that's driving this change it's more about workflow improvement and efficiency improvement as well as just the consumer experience coming into our department it's important to me that when people come to us for assistance and service that they feel comfortable and welcomed when they arrive so we'll be accomplishing all of those things with this project it's time it's a tired building it's served its purpose for a long time and it's going to in the future but it was time for some additional work I know personally coming over to the building from time to time whether it's to see you or for a health and human services committee meeting as you said you walk through that lobby and there are times when people are almost tripping one another because that lobby is so small and then the other more personal experience for those of us who have been in that facility whether it's customers or staff alike some of the bathrooms in that facility are smaller than I think in average person's closet or literally it's difficult to move and being a larger guy it makes me think of the Chris Farley movies where he had some challenges with some small bathrooms but that was clear up clearly an area that we had to improve because you pointed out on a number of occasions that if you have clients there with young children I mean frankly it was difficult for some a mother or father to take their child in a restroom and change a diaper or whatever needs to be done so really nice to see that improvement and then of course the other one I know you're very excited about is you'll finally have a chance to meet with all your staff at the same time yep yeah so as a byproduct where we end up through this project and I appreciate you mentioning the restroom issue we have one accessible restroom in our entire building so we've got you know 178 employees and 250 visitors per day one accessible restroom tucked away in a corner of the third floor so that's been one handicapped accessible one handicapped accessible thank you yeah that's what I mean by there are other ones there's other ones with two foot doors on them right interesting back in the day how two foot door met code and you'd never get away with that now so you'd never get a wheelchair through those doors let alone be able to turn once you're inside so as a byproduct of all these changes we're going through our lobby is going to not accommodate six people it will accommodate 30 we'll have a meeting room on second floor our largest meeting room right now accommodates 40 will accommodate 128 with this new addition we're going to have three accessible restrooms added we'll have centralized reception so we'll go from five reception staff down to three and we can use those employees for other purposes we're going to have some new exam rooms as part of that addition so when we had our TB outbreak last year we had folks with TB walking through the department so they could be seen by public health staff so that's not a great situation for anyone involved visitors staff or others so we'll have two rooms in that new addition for for public health examinations as well as immunizations so when people come in for shots people come in for exams they can do that right off the lobby one of those rooms will have negative pressure handling attached to it so that we don't have you know air exchange through through other than that room and that'll better protect visitors and staff as well and so by and large that's that's what's going to happen in that addition we're also going to be moving our business office from a corner of the second floor down to just off that lobby area there's a lot of folks as they come in to receive services from us that have to check in with our business office and they contribute toward the cost of their care when they can they make payments toward that when they can having that office and a more consumer friendly location is going to be an improvement and then once we get that established those spaces that are being vacated by our business office are going to be rededicated for administrative office purposes mine included right now I'm on the third floor as well back in a corner of third floor it's a great place to be but it's not all that accessible and I think when people call upon me or want to see me I'm kind of hidden away a little bit also our business manager isn't is an opposite corner of the building on second floor and our administrative services supervisor is in the middle of the second floor and quite honestly I do a lot of activity with those individuals and being in three different spots within that building isn't maximum so we're going to repurpose that current business office for administrative office purposes it'll help our workflow but it'll also make the director more accessible to anyone who wants to have contact with them so a lot a lot of activity going on excellent excellent overview a lot going on as you said and final question before I turn it over to Roger when do you anticipate then the construction is going to be complete let's it's going to be a three phase project so so phase number one is is building that new addition that new two-story addition that will include our reception area those exam rooms that I talked about I neglected to mention we also want to create a central intake office when within that new addition and what I mean by that is we've got folks that have difficulty navigating our many many different service areas knowing who to connect with and I think just from a customer service perspective if we could offer assistance there to to visitors right off the lobby that would be value-added so that addition is scheduled for completion in October as things currently stand once our staff move into that new addition and vacate the current lobby that second phase will be reconstruction to create that new billing office that business office that I described and once that's done probably around year-end we can then start considering the repurposing of the business office to remodel for administrative purposes that piece that phase three will be handled by our county staff our building services staff we don't have a schedule developed for that yet but the main renovation should be completed about your end your end yeah time for the new year and maybe a house warming around Christmas hopefully yeah very good thank you Tom mm-hmm Roger Tom good to have you here and great work that your people do and I know many people visitors as well as your staff will appreciate the changes in the health and human services but I also understand the aging and disability Resource Center in Sheboygan Falls will be seeing some improvements as well mm-hmm what is the planning and why why and where that yeah so yeah we have a lot going on and you're right ADRC is going to see some changes as well so much like our main building that current location for the aging and disability Resource Center wasn't designed for that purpose we moved into that building in 2010 I believe it was we had previously been leasing space downtown in what was called the Baxter building which wasn't the most consumer friendly wasn't the best environment and there was a cost the lease cost connected with it so our UW extension offices and vacating the current location in Sheboygan Falls I think they moved out to the UW Sheboygan grounds that created opportunity for us to move our ADRC staff and operations into that building so it's it's much improved office space it's more centrally located so perhaps better for for many residents of the county but it's not optimal in terms of entrance so the main entrance on that building if I'm recalling correctly faces south the parking lot is on the north so when you park to gain access to that building there is no canopy that protects visitors from the elements there is no vestibule once you get inside that protects visitors or staff from the north wind when that door is constantly opening and the reception area there is tucked away into a side room right now you can get there but it's not readily visible when you enter that building so rather than entering through a service door that is not all that welcoming and what had been a back door for that facility we're going to give that a facelift as well so there'll be a new canopy added again to protect people from from the elements as I described there'll be a vestibule added to protect from that north wind and our reception area is going to be moved from the current side office location to close proximity to that entrance so we expect all of that to be an improved consumer experience as well that sounds great and when do you expect that to be completed the timeline on that we expect that will happen this year as well Roger not quite as tight a timeline I can't give you specifics on that Jim to beast of our building services department has been working with the architect and getting final design plans drawn up for that we just got those done we have preliminary estimates on cost but we don't have formal bids yet so once those are received I think that project can get started I would anticipate that might be about year-end as well as long as Jim can handle all of those projects at the same time and some wonderful projects going on but where is the money coming from to pay for that yeah we we have been blessed we have been fortunate through the efforts of our staff and I guess just good fortune in general we've had a number of years in a row of positive budget performance we've outperformed our budget we've hit the end of the year with with fund balance if you will so in both applications with our main building that's about a 2.2 million dollar cost as Adam described we've we've had significant savings in recent years some of which have gone to the county's general fund some of which have been held in fund balance for our department we're able to draw upon those dollars now in lieu of bonding for this project so there's no new costs being added and same thing with the ADRC that's funded through state and federal funds last year we outperformed our budget by about $135,000 and the state has given us permission to carry those funds forward in the interest of this project as well as some furnace replacement at the ADRC so again no new money is going to be involved instead we'll use budget allocations from prior years to get both of these projects done and as anyone knows if they've ever done a remodeling work on their own home or anything there's always some surprises electrical or plumbing behind the the walls have you hit any major problems at all or no um there hadn't been anything you know that has has created big challenges I think our early estimates of cost for the main building project weren't quite where they needed to be and I think once the final study got done and sewer laterals needed to be run out to the street and there was an underground fuel storage tank that needed to be removed and that and that was a bit of a surprise that that wasn't surprise I don't think they were anticipating that and so that that had to be dug out before construction could even be started but with with those things in mind it's been going pretty smoothly and I would say pretty rapidly so I'm pretty pleased with that progress and you mentioned some of the things that building services have done in jim to beast is there any ongoing things that they have to do in the meantime to keep things open for you or is that pretty well handled by the gym I can't say enough about jim to beast the gym has just been so tremendous to work with through this this process and it's not like this is just the last few weeks it was back in 2012 that the east facade of our building needed to be replaced we had a stucco exterior that was kind of deteriorating and so jim planned for that replacement with an eye toward this future addition so basically since 2012 we've been looking at this project he meets with the contractor on a bi-weekly basis he's in contact with us he's been tremendous to work with and again big shout out goes to jim well thank you very much for the work you do John thanks Roger jim to beast if you're not sure well who's jim to beast he's our building services director so he oversees not only this building project but all building projects throughout the county and there's a lot going on this year so he's got his hands full and as you said is doing a great job switching gears back to the services back to where we started a little bit in the very important role and responsibilities of health and human services Tom you and I had the opportunity to attend a meeting at blue harbour I think it's been a couple few months now community conversation about mental health and there's been a lot more discussion and focus on mental health challenges and needs safety net of late not only in this community but nationally please give our viewers a little flavor for well what was that meeting at blue harbour all about who was there and why did it happen yeah estimates Adam suggest we have as many as 23,000 county residents any point in time that would have diagnosable mental health concerns about 5,000 of those individuals would fall in a category of having a serious mental illness we as a county and I'm I'm not happy about this I'm not proud and you know we like to focus on the things that are going well but we outpace state and national averages for suicide we outpace state and national averages for lost productivity due to poor mental health days and we outpace state and national averages for binge drinking so when you put all that together you've got tremendous impact on a community from a cost as well as a social perspective as a department we spend between one and two million dollars annually on emergency mental health care that's hospitalization related to mental health care and that's on behalf of individuals who don't have private insurance don't have medicaid when you start adding those costs into the mix you can understand how significant that is just from a health care perspective but then also when it's not treated when we fail to treat that we end up with very very poor outcomes including suicide we end up with higher levels of incarceration and there's costs connected with all of that so the community came together at that event that you're describing that was organized largely by united way our department mental health america and other agencies to pull together stakeholders in the interest of identifying what we might do to improve upon our health outcomes so the target was 300 attendees i think we ended up with 326 attendees if i'm not mistaken and it was from all walks of of life and and community involvement so we had legislators there we had county board members there we had law enforcement there we had providers there families consumers you name it so it's really quite gratifying in the interest of trying to come up with better recommendations for how we as a community it's not just health and human services it's not just subordinate county it is all players all stakeholders across the community that have a role to play in making improvements and the the day was dedicated to try to come up with those answers and in my tenure and my experience as a county administrator i can't recall experiencing were people from all walks of life and all sorts of different positions roles and responsibilities in this community all came together for a full day to seriously consider the challenges we have here and then start brainstorming a little bit well what can we do better and what are some of the emerging themes that came out of that conference one thing that i think struck me and you and i had a chance to talk about this as well it was pretty amazing when you get 300-plus people in a room all organized around a central theme you would expect that there might be some commonality of knowledge and experience that those people would bring but we found quite the opposite and there were folks sharing tables who are in the service delivery system who had no knowledge of what their counterparts were doing or what the access points were for gaining that that type of care so two main themes for me were a lot of committed people interested in solving this problem but a whole lot of work to be done in terms of how how we can bring that common knowledge up so i think the central themes of that day were we have to improve education we have to improve access and we have to improve service coordination if we're going to make a difference and we we only have a couple of minutes remaining so i know that very shortly you're going to be developing a proposed 2015 budget for the health and human services department any new initiatives that you know were supported by that discussion that you're looking at proposing to the full county board well i think first of all we want to be a good partner i think we want to do this in in collaboration with other community players but with that said we're actively pursuing a concept of helpline and what that means is a a resource that consumers can call we have a crisis line right now we'd like people to have a place they can call before they get to crisis we're working on that we're going to see if we can't establish a central intake position within our department we're also partnering with washington osaki and dodge counties to access some new state mental health funds that the governor approved only available on a regional basis and we're working with those counties in the interest of expanding those services well we talked about a lot in a very little amount of time but wonderful overview tremendous improvements being made to the health and human services department and other buildings but more importantly just a lot of good work being done by tom and his staff to deliver critical programs and services to people in need in this community and as rager said earlier tom i want to thank you for your leadership and the good work that you and your staff do i want to thank you guys for the opportunity it's been great it's always good to have you here and it's always good to have you here on next month we're going to be focusing on another important area in shabuagan county and that's our human resources department gene gallimore hr director will be here and she's going to talk about some new initiatives in hr there's been quite a few changes since act 10 at the state level and on roles and responsibilities policies and procedures focus more on professional development training in the county and just a lot going on so i'm looking forward to gene talking about some of the new initiatives and if you have any suggestions for improvement or if there was something in this program today you heard or you'd like to learn more about don't hesitate to contact your county board supervisor myself or tom agarbrecht and certainly pass on those ideas or where we can provide more information so on behalf of roger distruity and thanks again tom agarbrecht for joining us and myself adam pain thank you for joining us and we'll see you next month


or at least it feels like that. So every about three months or maybe even six months, I can't remember the last time I filmed a video like this, but I go through my whole house and I declutter and just kind of reorganize, just refresh, kind of get everything straightened up. And it's all the places that like nobody ever sees. So the closets, the cabinets, all of that stuff. And sometimes I'm excited to do it and sometimes I feel like it's just gonna be such a huge task. And today I feel a little bit like that because the toy situation in our house has gotten really out of hand. I've normally been a very like minimalistic toy person or just the things, you know, having a certain space for them and not allowing it to get bigger than that. But we have gotten to the point where things are just everywhere and I did not clean up anything to film this video. So right now we are like in the phase of maybe like day four or so that I haven't cleaned up toys.  And so, and they clean up too as well. The girls are really good about doing that, but today it's crazy. The whole entire room that we have the toys in is like covered in toys all over the floors and it's just time, it's time, it's time. So I'm gonna start back there and then work my way through the house. So what I did is I sat down with a pen and paper and I made a list of like each closet. So like the girls' clothing closet, the toy closet, the linen closet under the bathroom sink and like have the list with little boxes to check off. I feel like having a list like that really keeps me on track and then I can just continually go back to that and then where's the next area I have planned and then just kind of go through it. Otherwise I get distracted and I start into like some other stuff that I should not be digging into and then it just all goes out the door and I don't end up finishing. I want you guys to keep in mind I always say this as a little disclaimer at the beginning of my entire house or whole house declutters is that I've been doing this a long time. When I started doing it, I had trash bags and boxes. I mean the first few times I did it I had so much stuff I either took to Goodwill or simply threw away. So I have a sat out in the backyard this morning just kind of had some chill time. I feel like that's so important rate before you're about to tackle a really big day and I was drinking some of my cold brew and I don't know what it was about the cold brew this morning, but it just so hit the spot. And now I feel totally ready to get started. So let's jump in. One of the big reasons I really wanted to get this done right now is all of my girls are about a year apart each and all three of their birthdays are gonna be happening in the next little while. So of course with birthdays comes new toys and lots of fun things, but it's definitely a time to get rid of old stuff, broken stuff, stuff that is out of their age range, things they don't play with, that sort of thing. And since my girls are so close in age it really helps because a lot of times as they grow too old for certain toys or just uninterested in those things they all three don't really want those things. So I can kind of get rid of stuff. As I go, there isn't a huge age gap so it makes things a lot easier. That I did and have done for a long time is they have them help me out with this.  They're just easy for her to sew. She can just throw elastic in them and the girls think it's fun that Grammy makes them skirts. But we had so, so many of them, like way too many. And then we also had some that were torn and that kind of thing. So I had them come in and tell me which ones they liked the best and they're very aware that I'm getting rid of stuff and they don't mind. Since I've done it since they were little they're kind of in the mindset that we do get rid of things and things break and then we get new things. And so since I feel like I've done it for so long they are really compliant and easy to work with with it. If you guys remember a little while ago I changed these rooms around and I actually had this closet as the clothing closet and then the toy closet in the other room. Since the girls are so close in age they share a lot of clothing. And so I just have them have all of their clothes in one closet makes it so much easier it makes laundry easier and everything.  I think I might just need different shelving in there, something like that. So I'm probably going to be on the lookout for that. But definitely downsizing the amount of toys we had helped a lot. If I get new bins and things and storage and whatever however I would redo this I definitely would go with the clear style bins like you see there on the top shelf because you can see what's in them. I'm kind of over the label thing when it comes to the toys in particular I would rather just be able to see what's in the box. And it also makes it a little bit easier for the girls cause they can see what's in the box and easily tell me what they want to get out. And another thing I have on this closet is I do have slider locks that are like child locks that go across the top of them. I'll leave them linked below because I get questions about them a lot and people want to use them on their closets as well. So we have a system where they generally don't get everything out at once and they just pick out what they want, a few things, a few boxes. And then we clean up those things when they're done and then they can exchange those in. Next I jumped into their clothing closet and I'm also very minimalistic when it comes to their clothes. I don't like excess clothes. So everything you see in this closet is what I have for all three girls. And generally the way that my system kind of works is instead of doing a lot of hand-me-downs because they don't have a huge variety or huge wardrobe, a lot of times till they're done with their clothing they're really worn out and we're ready to just purchase new. So they do get a lot of new clothes and I am one that would rather have something new and wear it out than have a bunch of like secondhand stuff and I do thrift here and there but I would say a majority of their stuff I just get it new and then they wear it out and they also really like to match right now so you're gonna see towards the right side of the closet there's a lot of matching outfits and I know they're gonna hit an age where they don't like it but right now they almost like ask for it. You know, like where's mine? I want mine to match hers. So for now I'm riding the wave on the matching outfit thing and I know it's gonna come all too soon where they want to just have their own individual style. So this is the bathroom that the girls share although they do take baths in our bathroom because we have a large tub in there. This is kind of the one that's right next to their bedrooms and it's one that like when people come visit they use this bathroom as well and so I actually moved that hair stuff that was in there into their closet because I had space for it in there and just went ahead and put towels in here for guests. Then this is my linen closet or my medicine cabinet. A lot of people ask me about that where my medicine cabinet is and this closet is right in the hallway and it's super handy for just kind of a catch-all. So I decided to put my beach towels in here now that it's summertime the girls are constantly getting wet and I wanted it to be at a height they can reach so I just rolled them up and stuck them in here and then I kind of expanded my area for medicine and supplements and stuff like that just in overflow. Okay up here I just kept the sheets and like extra bedding stuff that we have around and then in here I did extra supplements here I have some more probably coming that I'll put in here and down here I have got our beach towels this is where our hamper is at and then up in here I kind of divided this up so this is like stuff for colds and coughs that kind of thing. This basket is all about tummy stuff and the flu that kind of thing and then this one here I've got like Tylenol and then topical stuff like Band-Aids and then I also have a few of these in here just kind of getting it into categories. Things I see. Before we get into our closet and tackling that I wanted to share with you guys this bag also this portion of the video is sponsored by Teddy Blake. So they sent me this Ava bag. It is either a small tote or a cross body style bag. You guys know I'm normally a very budget person but this is a designer bag and this is one area in life that I've enjoyed slurging a little bit and that is on my bags or my diaper bags, my totes whatever I'm using to go out and about in town I just feel like it's such a statement piece in your wardrobe and it's kind of a fun way to splurge. So this bag is really cute. I absolutely love the color. I decided to go with blue something that's a little bit different than my norm and it's absolutely great quality. I know it's a piece that I will use for a super long time. So go ahead and check out the description box and you guys can check out Teddy Blake as well. So I haven't went through our closet since the seasons really changed so I did a light declutter. I think, oh, I don't know how long ago it was but I did get rid of some of my winter stuff although this day I did have more of it to get rid of so I went ahead and got rid of like some of the long sleeved stuff that was worn out or stained or just I didn't like how it fit and I really do need to go and go shopping for some more summer clothes. Again, I'm not super crazy about having a massive wardrobe. I like to keep my things decluttered and just the things that I really enjoy. So I am pretty purposeful whenever I buy my clothes. I like to buy things that I know I'll use through that whole season and then generally I purchase another couple things in the next season. So I don't keep a lot of the same things from season to season just because I do exactly like I do with my girls and I tend to wear out the few items that I really enjoy. Monkey emoji in the comments. If you are one of those people that has a mess like this, cords, oh cords, they are like my arch enemy.  So I was like, okay, I gotta sit down for this. I gotta get in to pull up my sleeves, untangle all of this mess. And to be honest, I think probably 75% of it I threw away because we either had duplicates of the same cord that were literally just for one thing that we have or they were just cords that I really didn't know what they were for. And my mindset when it comes to the cord thing is if we find something and we accidentally threw away a cord for it, we can always repurchase it. And I feel like that's why these big cord messes happen is because we don't know what it's for. And so we just save it and save it and save it forever. When in reality, I would say a majority of things you can repurchase cords for things and not have to have such a mess like this. I better be fit when I shake. Watch me rocking if I can't stuff. I should fall, just go ahead, don't care. So for any of you that might be wondering that is my wedding bouquet up there. This August, we will be married seven years. Seven years, isn't that crazy? But that bouquet, my mom made it and it is the one that I walked down the aisle with but it's made out of silk flowers. My mom used to do silk flowers for weddings a lot whenever I was a little girl. They were a really big deal back then and she was able to make this gorgeous bouquet that in photos, people don't really believe me that it's not real but it looks amazing and it still looks really great. I dust it off and try to keep up with it in hopes that one day my daughters will each one a part of it or one of them will just take the whole thing. Okay, I got rolling in the kitchen and obviously you can see that all of this was done over a couple days with my outfit changes and in the kitchen I didn't have a whole lot to do. I just had a few cabinets that were trouble spots for me that I needed to straighten up. One of them being here in my oil cabinet and I do get questions about this stuff so I'm gonna quickly let you guys know that this stuff is linked in my Amazon shop. I will also try to give you direct links below to the light that's above this little stand and then the acrylic stand. It's actually for nail polish but it works out perfectly for my oils and if you can't find it below you can definitely find it in my Amazon shop under oil favorites. I went through a few of my drawers just taking out a couple things that I don't really need and I know this might seem kind of crazy to go to all the bother for like one or two things to go through the drawers but to be honest those one or two things might be something that you move every single time you're looking for what you actually need and when you think of it that way it definitely is a really big pain to have things that you don't ever use and there was a few things here and there plus it's nice to have everything straightened up and orderly and I think if you do this every once in a while it tends to stay that way and just be purposeful about making sure that everything's kind of where it should be. A couple cabinets that are perfectly fine the way they are just like this one. I just decided I would go ahead and show you in case you just wanted a little inspiration on how I organize these things in my kitchen. Leave your picture on my window sill to make myself feel all right. Number one trouble spot in my kitchen for sure and that is all the containers and the lids. I think we all know the story with this stuff and I don't know that there's any solution to it other than maybe at some point I should just purchase like a large set of something that can be stacked together correctly. I don't know. If you've found any major solution to doing this I feel like I just have to stick with it and just organize it every once in a while so that it doesn't get super dumped up and also just get rid of containers as they lose lids or vice versa and just keep it as minimal as possible. This is underneath of my sink. I think that the system is working out well. I keep my dish towels and things like that in here. I just don't really wanna waste a drawer space with those things whenever I can throw them in a bin under the sink. It is junk drawer time. We all have to have them, you guys. I have tried to go without them but a junk drawer is one thing that I think is essential in a home and when I say junk drawer it's kind of just a catch-all that tries to stay as organized as possible so I keep batteries, staples, like my little command strips that I use for everything, pens, pencil sharpeners, change, lighters, just those kinds of things that don't really have one exact home and I also tried having a smaller drawer than this one when we moved into this house. This drawer we used to have inside the door at our old house and it was for the same exact purpose but when we moved here I tried to use one of the drawers in the kitchen and it was just too small. Like you really have to have as much space as possible for something like this. Also the drawer organizers are from Target. I think you could find something pretty similar at probably the Dollar Tree, Dollar General, something like that but one reason I really like this style container and you probably can still find them at Target. I didn't get them that long ago is they are flexible and bendy so they tightly fit into the drawer and they don't slide around very easily since they're in so snug. This is my laundry room and I recently did go through these bins in a video and so I didn't really feel the need to go through them. I just thought I would go ahead and show you how I have things organized right now but I am planning out a makeover on my laundry room and so there's actually going to be two shelves put in here and I'm also going to get different bins I think anyways and just things would be organized a lot differently so definitely be on the lookout for that video. This is our master bathroom sink area and this side didn't need any attention. I put some towels in there sometimes in that empty spot but the other side has definitely been a problem spot for me. I tried organizing it and I just feel like it's not working so I got another item that I'm going to put in here but for a moment I had to put on a woodsy outfit. As you can see, someone needed some help so I did that before I got into doing the sink. So I pulled everything out so I pulled everything out and just kind of got rid of stuff that I didn't need. I love this little turntable thing. It's actually from the container store but I think they may have them on Amazon. If I can find the same one on Amazon I'll definitely link it below and then I decided to try a little drawer system underneath of here and just see if that works out better just to do kind of a catch off for my hair stuff and just things that don't really have another place. I hope this video motivated you guys, inspired you. Definitely leave me a comment below. I love hearing from you guys. 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Journalists identify at least 46,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. More than 46,000 Russian military servicemen have been identified as victims killed in the war against Ukraine since February 2022. BBC Russian Service reported on March 8, referencing a joint investigation with independent Russian outlet MediaZona. According to the report, 5,565 of the dead were mobilized troops and 8,599 were convicts who were recruited into the Russian military. In the investigation, which collects data from open sources, journalists note that the largest number of losses in the Russian army are among volunteer fighters, mobilized personnel and recruited prisoners. On January 12, they wrote about more than 42,000 Russian military personnel killed in the war against Ukraine. The journalists write that many reports of the losses were registered during the battle for Abdiyivka-Denetsk Oblast. They have also found out that since February 2022, 12 female Russian soldiers have been killed in the war, most of them serving as combat medics. As of March 7, the journalists confirmed the deaths of 3,227 Russian officers, 992 of whom were specialists of the command level of airborne troops, marines, special forces, special forces of the National Guard and military pilots. Among the regions of Russia, the highest casualty figures were recorded in Krasnodar Krai, 1,799 killed, Svedlovsk Oblast, 1,575 killed and Bashkortostan, 1,509 killed. Finally, the investigation found that up to 23,500 fighters from Russian proxies LPR and DPR were killed in the war by mid-January 2024, along with 520 dead from Moscow and 523 from St. Petersburg. A senior US defense official revealed staggering Russian losses from Moscow's brutal war in Ukraine, citing 315,000 Russians killed or wounded, at least 20 Russian Navy vessels sunk, and up to $215 billion in direct financial costs to supply and sustain its military operations. Russia has also lost an estimated $10 billion in postponed or canceled arms sales, along with another $1.3 trillion in previously anticipated economic growth through 2026, according to the US official. On the night of March 9, a drone attack took place in the city of Taganrak, Rostov region of Russia. The Russian press reported on this. As a result of the attack of the drones, which are said to belong to Ukraine, the aircraft plant named after Bereev was damaged and a fire broke out. One person is said to have been injured. IT should be noted that the plant repairs various types of aircraft, including IL-76, 50 and IL-78. Previously, 295 and 2142 bombers were produced at the plant. Adam, take it. Adam, come here. Adam, Adam. They are flying without a drone. Come here. Come on, let's go. Let's go, let's go. What is it?


It needs leadership to step up because we're talking about 55% of the ASEAN population are living in the rural areas. And that's the majority of the ASEAN people. They're not traveling. They're not crossing countries to work in another country. They're trying to survive, get their life life higher. They're trying to find ways to go into an urban area so that their income can improve. How do we deal with this group of people, you know, as the ASEAN economic community, so that we can live their standards in the rural areas?


Ac while we're waiting for that I would just like to say hello and welcome to those participants who are joining us online and hope they can take part in the AGM Everybody should have signed in before you came in also It's going round. Sorry, it will be going round in the AGM So if people are still coming in if you haven't got any of the papers that you need please can you put your hand up and we'll bring them round to you Mae'n fawr i'w ddechrau. Mae'n dweud. Felly, mae'n ddodd Clare Donlan, ac rai gydag i gydag 21 yma, yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma eich cyfnod. Rwy'n ddodd i'r ffordd i'w ddiddordeb yn y ffwrdd o'r ffordd o'r onlau ac i'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Felly, mae'n gweithio'r peipers ac mae'n ddodd i'w ddiddordeb ffordd o ffordd o'r ffordd. Mae'n ddiddordeb o ffordd ran y ffordd o'r ffordd o'i ffordd, ac fe fyddw i'w ddiddordeb o'r ffordd o'r peipers. Rwy'n ddiddordeb yn gyflwyno i-llyw'r gweithre Dreams. Felly, fel yw hwnno? Felly, gennym ni cynnwys ll yn ffordd? Yn pwyllgor. Yn pwyllgor. Felly, dros gyda chi, Sfod arferwad dymol sleiddoch yn benigol. Mae wedi bod wedi bod nhw'n hawdd ar hyn o g собi. Tom, ddigon nhw i'n ddigon nhw. Yn ni'n ddigon nhw i'w ddigon nhw? A'r ddigon nhw? Ddigon nhw? A chi'n ddigon nhw ffrifio ymydd o'r orders? scoldus gwelog? Mae'i gylwfio'n gwybwy, Felly mae'n rwy'n ddiddordeb yn ddod yn ddiddordeb yn gyfer eu cyfrifio'r ysgolwyddiad. Felly mae'n gweld gennym yn gweld o'ch ddiddordeb a'i fod yn ddiddordeb yn ddiddordeb. Yr hyn o gyfnodd. Yn ymdweithio'r mirfodol o'r sydd gyda Lais dros AGM, gan ymweld i'r awdurdod mewn o'r 11 o'r SMAE 2013. Felly gallwn ni wedi bod ymdweithio'r lluniau sy'n fydda'r mirfodol ar gweithio. Mae'n ymdweithio'r mirfodol yw'r lluniau. Dyna hwn yn oed gyda'r ysgrifennu hynny i fyny ar y cyfieimlu. Felly, yn ffrwng, yn iddyn nhw'n ysgrifennu ac mae'n ymlaen i'r ymgyrch yn y piwn fynd yw'r proser a'r twfyn am ddeligau'n y blyny, yn oed yn cyfieimlu'r record. Yn gyfieimlu, mae'n gweld yn ysgrifennu. I unrhyw o'ch wneud ymgyrch yn y pwyliad, yn y pwyliad yn cyfieimlu. Felly mae'n cael o'n cyfieimlu i'w ce�di ar y Dfodol Ong, Ac rwy'n arfer y prosie, Nigel ac yw Llynda. Rwy'n ddiddordeb i mi, i mi. Rwy'n ddiddordeb i mi. Rydyn ni'n troo i'r methu? Rydyn ni'n troo i'r methu o'r cyfrif Weiniddo? Nghymru. Rydyn ni'n troo i mi. Rydyn ni'n troo i'r es i gyrbandsgwyr nad ywír gyrannol? Rydyn ni'n trool i mi. A'r ystafell yma, yma yma, yma yma yma i'r cwm avenolol ac yn ysgolwch i'r 2013, 2014, sy'n credu tynnu cyfnod. Yn gweithio, Nygil a Llyndyr. Yn gweithio. Right. What we're doing is, okay, we're voting that the meeting agrees that the minutes are accurate. Yes. Thank you. Any against? No, thank you. Keep everybody right. So the minutes have been approved as accurate. Okay. No matters arising. Next item, annual report and accounts. I'd just like to say a couple of very brief things highlighted in the report about the activities and developments that are mentioned. Obviously these include the conference, a variety of other events such as workshops, webinars and the successful OCTEL online course. The organization of awards such as the old learning technologist of the year award. Publications and communication forums for members to share and collaborate. The new old strategy for 2014-2017, which is being created following consultation with the members. The active engagement by all members, staff and trustees in a range of policy developments across the sectors. And the hard work of all the people involved, including members and the staff and trustees. I'm now going to hand over to Hayden to speak about the details of the accounts and take any questions. So if you'd like to turn to page 13 of the statement of financial activities for a charity, the statement of financial activities act as a balance sheet effectively and looks at both income expenditure and our long standing provision. And in this case it depends whether you have a glass half full or a glass half empty measure in your mind. Because you see that the net resources for the year, where the number 10 for the notice beside it is a negative balance of 9773. So those who do work in the depressed world might go, oh no, negative balance. The reality is that the trustees received a bequest from a charity that was winding itself up. And we were responsible for looking at how we use those resources. And I decided that of the 100,000 plus that OLP bequested to us, we would use it over three years for specific objectives of the charity. But of course the way accounting works means that the year you spend it is the year you report it's outgoing, even though the year that the income arrives is in the past. So the reality is that that 9773 needs to be taken into account with the 33,000 that we committed to spend this year. And for those of you who can't take 10,000 away from 30,000, that shows that in fact for the association this was a year when we made a surplus of 20,000 above our budgeted expectations from this time last year. So that's the glass half full side of the story. But it is important to recognise for people who aren't necessarily familiar with charitable accounts that this will occur for the next two years too while we use for investment in the future of the association the resources for the, that we received from that bequest. And resources have been used as you will see in the report to develop our international partnerships both in America, Europe and in Australasia to increase the amount of promotional material we had at last year's conference. We saw that displayed at the gala evening where the work had gone on just before the conference which we paid for this year and a range of other activities which has allowed the association to be on much firmer footing in taking its way forward. I would like to note this year that it hasn't been the easiest year financially. The association has a tiny staff base. We as members are often what drives the energy but the staff base is tiny and there was one staff member responsible for finance under the leadership and guidance of course of our chief executive. That staff member was taken ill quite early in the year. It became evident after she was unwell that some of the work that she had been due to be doing had not been completed. And so our chief executive had to step in and take a real hold on this agenda. The outcome is so positive because that was done and we now have a new staff member who was a specialist in this area working with the chief executive so that our finances are robust. But the fact that we had that moment of personal crisis for an individual which could have had really disastrous effect for us and we've been in a position where while we might have had some organisational receipts that we never told people they needed to pay us and therefore we never got back we actually managed to recover from opposition incredibly effectively achieving that 22k operational surplus that we're reporting today. So I do want to re-echo our thanks tomorrow and that work could not. I mean my fellow trustees know how much additional work that meant for Marlin during the year and the outcome that we've achieved. So that's my overview of the year. Are there any questions in particular anybody would like to ask about the statement of financial affairs or detailed accounts that backs that up. Thank you very much indeed. Have we got a microphone because we've got some people watching the AGM from outside the hall. So if we could get your microphone please. Thank you Justin Steel Davies University's Al Hampton. Have you changed anything with the staffing because the increase in salaries has gone up 20% in one year? OK. What happens is that an income base is our core budget plus a number of projects. To deliver the projects we have to have increasing staff resource to do that. The fact that we made the 22k surplus is indication that we haven't increased the staff resource to the proportion of the income but some of that significant work has been picked up by the existing staff base and all of the staff not just Marlin have played a key part to that. So yes the staff base has gone up, the income has gone up exponentially in relationship to that. Thank you. Really helpful question. Anything else? OK. As treasurer of the association I would like to propose that we accept the report and accounts. I do need a second term and we do need a tally vote. Alistair has agreed to be the seconder for that purpose. And if we can ask the tellers to come forward and for you to, if you are happy to accept the accounts please hold your voting slips up. If you both come to it and then check on number three, fifty-three, four, any against? I think I can. As treasurer I have to understand that. OK. Thank you Claire. OK. The next item is to the appointment of an auditor. So I propose as chair that Shaw gives accountants of Oxford be reappointed as auditors. I need a seconder for that, James. And we need to vote. Do we need to count them? No. We don't need to count them for this. So we just need to. Is there anybody against the appointment of the auditor? No. Great. Thank you. That resolution is passed. OK. The next item is regarding the changes to the legal structure of old with the proposed move to charitable incorporated organisation status. And I'm going to hand over to Doug for an overview of the proposal and to take any questions. OK. Thanks Claire. My name is Doug Gowan. This is the exciting bit. OK. I'm not going to bore you with a long exposition of the new legal structure of old as I'm quite capable of doing that in a short exposition. Beside, as you've all read these documents that you've been sent, the new constitution, letter, et cetera. We've done a number of things to help clarify any points we've had on webinar. The stuff has been on the website. It's in the conference programme. So we're trying to bathe you to death with these proposals. In brief, what we're sitting out is a new constitution for old. In fact, it looks quite a lot like the old constitution with some bits in. That's because it is the old constitution with some bits in. The bits are from the charity commission. And what they are, in fact, they embody the bits that set out a new type of charity organisation. It's called a charitable incorporated organisation. And that's what we're proposing alt becomes. It gives alt a new legal status. It becomes incorporated like a company whilst remaining a charity and a membership democracy. So, essentially, what would happen if you come back to this agent in a two-year's time, you'll see the same format of meeting, you'll see a president, you'll see a chair, you'll see a chief executive, you'll see members of the association. All that will be the same. You'll vote on things if an art of you vote. It's your association, you control it, you make the decisions. But alt would be an incorporated body who would be able to enter into contracts in its own right. It would have a limited liability like Tesco's or BP. And that has got quite a number of significant advantages for where we operate. So, we are a democracy. You've just voted to approve the annual report on accounts. So, what I'm asking you to do in a couple of minutes is to vote on the green paper proposal. And I'll be moving that after there's the opportunity to take any questions about what this all means and what's going to happen. So, let me just throw that open. Right, if there aren't any questions, I'm going to move the proposition shown on the green paper. I require a seconder for that and we do need to count the votes because a change to the constitution. We are proposing a change to the constitution to allow us to take this step. And we do need 75% of the members here to adopt this resolution. Do I have a seconder? Oh, many a seconder. Right, Alistair was the first up there. So, seconded by Alistair Clarke. Can you now vote please on... Can you tell us again? Sorry, tell us again. And we do need to take any no votes because it has to be 75% of those print. Are there any votes against zero and any abstentions? Zero, thank you. The resolution is carried. Okay, I'm now going to hand over to Marum, who's going to give a brief report. Give a brief report. Unfortunately, I don't need last year's minutes for my report. So, I would like to report very briefly on a few of the things that, together with the staff team, all of whom are here, we've been working on. And as I was writing the report, I thought that the things we really need to celebrate most and recognise at our AGM, which is all about our members and our community, is really some individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to our community over the past year. And the first person I would like to thank and recognise is Leslie Gawley, who is not here today, but Leslie has been working as an editor of research and learning technology, our journal. And unfortunately, Leslie has to step down for personal reasons a little earlier than her term was planned for. But she's done a fantastic and outstanding job together with where Stephen Barry-Jones and also Michael Riley, our other two editors, who continue to take the journal from strength to strength. So, as a community and as a community of members here at the AGM, I'd like to formally record our things to Leslie Gawley, and of course we'll thank her in person after the AGM. Two more individuals, sorry, we'll clap, we'll have clapping, absolutely. Leslie, if you're watching, we're clapping you here. There will be lots of clapping in the next bit. The next two individuals who've done a similarly wonderful job for our online newsletter, whom many of you read, are Frank Steiner and Liz Bannett, two of the co-editors or deputy editors who've worked on the newsletter for the past year as well. And they've really helped us transition it from a very much addition-based publication to one that's publishing nearly every day at the moment, and who's really helped us increase our readership and also our contributors. They're working together with the Communications and Publications Committee under the chairmanship of Matt Lingard, and we'd like to thank them today. And I believe, is Liz Bannett actually in the room? Liz, are you in the room? No, she's here. No, she's escaped actually being mentioned in person. So, if we give them a big round of applause to thank them as well. Given that Frank and Liz are stepping down, they are vacancies. So, if you're interested, I think Matt and I have had many expressions of interest. Please let Matt and us know. Matt, do you want to wave and tell them who you are? Excellent. So, this is Matt. So, if you're interested in getting involved in our publications, please speak to Matt. My second announcement that I would like to make is that ALT has decided to invite two individuals to become new ambassadors of ALT. As you may know, our current ambassadors are Wendy Hall and Terry Maze and Bob Harrison. And as ambassadors, they really help us reach in all the different constituencies. So, we're appointing two new ambassadors this year to ALT, who are becoming ambassadors today. And I'm very delighted to announce that Dick Moore, who is a former trustee of ALT and former chair of the Publications Committee, and Joe Wilson, one of our co-chairs for the conference this year, will be new ambassadors. Joe, if you're here, do get up. Otherwise, we'll give you a big round of applause and say welcome to becoming ambassadors. Before I give general thanks and acknowledgement to my team, I do want to acknowledge the work of a member which today, yesterday and tomorrow is making the biggest difference, particularly to our online participants. Because as you know, we try and make the conference very much accessible and available to everybody freely on the internet. And this year we had a member volunteer to lead that effort and he has done so brilliantly. I think as a community, we, and these three days make that very clear, we have members left, right and centre doing wonderful and brilliant things. But I think sometimes it is worth celebrating an individual. So, I would like to ask Darren Moon to come down to receive a special accommodation and award for his services to our online community delivery. Darren, if you'd make your way down here, please. So, I'm nearly finished. I'll hand back to Claire in a moment to deal with elections. But before I do that, I just wanted to say thank you. I've been the chief executive of ALT now for two years or just over two years since May 2012. And together with my staff team, all of whom are here and who may wave. We've done so much together as a community with you as members with the trustees. I've been particularly blessed in having every support, every type of useful input from really fantastic individuals who have made this a very busy but very, very, very rewarding role for me to have. And I'm really looking forward to the things we'll be doing over the next 12 months, everybody who's getting involved. Our conference this year has a third new delegates and we have had many new members joined particularly for the conference. So, I can't wait to meet all of our new members and see what we can achieve together in the next 12 months. But on a personal note, I would like to thank you for your continued support and involvement in ALT. I think we would just like to say thank you again to Maron and to the staff for all of the hard work. We all appreciate it a lot. Okay, next item, another exciting one, is the elections to the trustee vacancies. So, I'd like to announce the results of the elections. So, the first one is to the vice chair of the association and Fiona Harvey has been elected unopposed and will become vice chair now and chair in 2015. So, Fiona, if you want to stand up and wave and then we can all. Thank you. And also, we have two other individuals who are going to serve for three years as trustees. Firstly, Sheila McNeill, who was last year's Learning Technologist of the Year winner, if you'd like to stand up Sheila so we can. And the other one is Malcolm Ryan. I don't think he's here today, but in case he's watching online, we'll round of applause for him as well. I'd also like to thank the trustees who are retiring, coming to the end of their terms. First, Norbert Pakler, who was chair of the research committee, who stepped down in February. And Vanessa Pithard, who steps down today at the end of this year's term, having served four years. Could we give a round of applause for them? And my final thing to do is to hand over to Diana as president for the next year. So, Diana if you want to come up. Just to make it formal then and what I'd really like to do is to thank Claire for her extraordinary enthusiasm and commitment over the last three years to the extent that we were very anxious to make sure she remained as a trustee so we'll be continuing to work together. I just want to thank Claire very much for her service. Do we formally close now? Is that me to close or you to close? It's just up to me now. Is it power? So I just want to say thank you very much indeed for attending and for supporting this intriguing process that we have now of a new constitution and to welcome all the new elected members as well. So thank you very much everybody. If you are a trustee of alt or you have just become a trustee or vice chair of alt, we'd like to ask you to make your way to the front of the stage where we will have some more trustee business to take care of. Thank you. For all the others, thank you very much for attending and please go to the exhibition area where there's refreshments and the exhibition.


Hello friends so In this video, we are going to discuss the law of science Most of you know that in a given triangle a by sine a equals b by sine b equals c by sine c and It is equal to twice the circum radius. So you Understand what circum radius means so if triangle ABC is inscribed in a circle Then r is the radius of that circle. Okay, so here we have taken two cases Where in the first case ABC is an acute angled triangle and in the second case ABC is a obtuse Angled triangle so in both the cases, let's see if you can prove it Through this method or through this method of geometry in your trigonometric classes. You would have proved it Using plain, you know application of trigonometric ratios and all so here. We'll try to use geometry as well To prove this so how to go about it. So if you take let's let's see Let's say this is case one or this is a figure one and this is figure two. Okay, so Let's understand how we go about it. So if you see in In Triangle ABC, right? I have denoted the sides as a b and c small a b and c you can see in the figure Now I have joined CD now CD happens to be a CD is the dia is the diameter in both the cases Diameter in both the cases and this is equal to to our is it twice the radius, right now clearly angle C B D CBB in both the cases is equal to 90 degree right angles Why because angle subtended by a diameter on any part of the circumference is 90 degree So CBD in both the cases is a 90 degree now in Triangle CBD CBD I can say Sign of B or other sign of Yeah, sign of B is Equal to sign of B or sorry not sign of B. So in triangle ABD, we can say sign of D rather So sign of angle D sign D will be how much you can see opposite by her partner. So a upon to our Okay, and clearly Clearly angle D is equal to angle a Is it angle D is equal to angle a why because In and this is in case one angle D is equal to angle a in case one why because angle subtended Angle subtended angle subtended by a chord Accord on the same segment on the same segment or Same segment are equal We know that right on the same, you know, same part circumference of the same segment now If you see clearly angle D is equal to angle a and and and hence hence in this case sign D It will be equal to sign a right and in case two if you see In case to ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral is a cyclic Cyclic quadrilateral quadrilateral that means in cyclic quadrilateral We know that opposite angles are supplementary. So hence angle a plus angle D is 180 degrees All right, so hence Angle a or rather angle D is equal to 180 degrees minus angle a therefore sign D Will be equal to sign of 180 degrees minus angle a Correct, that means sign 180 minus theta is sin theta. So hence it is sine a so in both the cases I'm D is equal to sine a right and what was sine D basically a by 2 are you can see from here So hence in both the cases Sine a will be equal to a by 2r right this implies a upon sine a Is equal to 2r? Correct similarly, you can say similarly the other three ratio other two ratios rather similarly You can also say a by sine B. You will you can do the same exercise. You'll get a by 2b is 2r and Sorry, not a by 2b my bad not a by sine b. It's B by sine B B by sine B is 2r and similarly you will get C by sine C is Also equal to 2r Correct, so hence in a nutshell I can say in any given triangle a upon sine a will be equal to B upon sine B and This will be equal to C upon Sine C and all of them are equal to twice the Circum radius. So this is what the result is Okay, so you learned this, you know This proof using geometry properties of circle as well as the basic trigonometry right now there will be few questions which will be attached to The application of sign rule you can find them in the description and Try to solve them using the sign rule


Looking at the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, not a very complex part of the tax return, but it's typically a question if you're doing tax preparation that you would have to ask any new client, do you wanna check this box off or not? And you're gonna have to answer some questions in terms of what it means to check the box off or not. So this fund helps pay for presidential election campaigns. The fund reduces candidates' dependence on large contributions from individuals and groups and places candidates on an equal financial footing in the general election. That's the general idea at least. The fund also helps pay for pediatric medical research. So if you want $3 to go to this fund, check the box. If you're filing a joint return, your spouse can also have $3 go to the fund. If you check a box, your tax or refund won't change. So then we're gonna look at the digital assets. So the IRS has been more and more concerned with the digital assets. If we think about the basic structure of the income tax, it's an income tax. That means that income is basically bad from a taxpayer perspective if you have to report it because you're likely to pay taxes on it. Expenses are generally good. The IRS's aim is to try to kind of double check and look over everyone's shoulder to see if they're reporting the income. When you're looking at business transactions, you usually have a payer side of things and someone who's doing the goods and services and receiving a payment. That means that the IRS has the leverage on the payer of the transaction because they're getting the good thing from a tax standpoint, a deduction, if they're able to deduct it. So they're gonna go to the payers, like the employers or the people that are hiring contractors, force them to issue W-2s, 1099s, giving the IRS the information about the revenue that's going to the other side of the transaction so that they can double check that the income's being reported. Now, certain areas make it a little bit more difficult. So historically, cash type businesses that deal with an end user, like restaurants, hair salons, massage parlors, have been a problem for the IRS with them trying to double check the income with like 1099s and W-2 forms because someone that gets their hair cut can't really be forced to issue a 1099 to the person that cut their hair because they're not getting a deduction for the haircut. And then other businesses have been springing up with these new platforms that have been put in place that are kind of like a new silk road in a way connecting people that have services to people that want the services in such a way that you don't really have an employee, employer situation, and some of the digital asset resources, forms of payments are also becoming kind of issues with the IRS in terms of payments happening that they cannot track as easily and possibly having gains and losses with the trading of these digital assets. Therefore, you have them questioning, the digital asset space in general. At least that's my overall interpretation. Okay, so digital assets are any digital representation of value that are recorded on a cryptographically, I get that messed up, but let me say that again, recorded on a cryptographically secured distribution ledger or any similar technologies. Technology. So for example, digital assets include non-fungible tokens, those are the NFTs and virtual currencies such as cryptocurrencies and stable coins. So these are those, these kinds of assets that are a little bit more exotic still these days that are becoming more and more in use. We wanna be careful when dealing in that space because of the newness of them, but hopefully as time passes, they'll sort out where these kind of new tools, new technologies can fit well. So if a particular asset has the characteristics of a digital asset, it will be treated as a digital asset for federal income tax purposes. So obviously when you're making transactions or trades for goods and services, usually the unit of trade is the US dollar. So if it's the US dollar, then that's basically the measuring tool of the trade. If you're making trades for things other than a US dollar, even if it was like a bartering type of situation, then like if you traded goods and services for someone else's goods and services from an income tax perspective, you would still have income and you would have to still measure that income somehow in US dollars because that's the measuring tool to pay income taxes. Similar kind of thing is happening here, but instead of facilitating the transaction, even making a transaction. With dollars, you're using something else which might be like another kind of currency, like a virtual currency or something like that, or you're buying something that has digital value, which would be similar to buying any other kind of asset where you'd have to basically value the transaction that took place, see if there's any gains or loss, see if there's any income that needs to be recorded, value that income, not in units of the digital assets, virtual currencies, Bitcoin or something like that, but value it in dollars because we're trying to record taxes in the units of dollars. So it's not some of the transactions aren't really unlike other transactions when you buy and sell like stocks and bonds. Of course, you have to then value the stocks and bonds in terms of dollars. There's dollars like money. So you can record gains and losses in the sale of the stocks and the bonds. Okay, so check the yes box next to the question on digital assets on page one of Form 1040 or 1040SR, if any time during 2022, UA received as a reward or payment for property or services or B, sold, exchanged, gifted or otherwise disposed of a digital asset or any financial interest in any digital asset. So the IRS actually wants a little checkbox to basically say, did you have any of these types of transactions happening at this point in time? As in a couple of rational, why would they do that? You might have, well, why would they need to know that added information? Because if I had income, then I would report it as income in the required area possibly as a capital gain on a schedule D or something like that or whatever the transaction was that took place. But I would suspect that the rationale here would be that people could claim that they didn't know because it was a digital asset that they had to record it as income. And so the government wants this checkbox here basically saying yes or no, I had these types of transactions so that in the event of the audit, it's gonna be less likely that someone can basically claim that they didn't know that that kind of transaction might be subject to income taxes because you checked this box off. I think that's the rationale.