Hey guys, so we are having another pantry meal today and actually freezer meal, so we are trying out this Zatarans black-eyed peas and rice rice dinner mix. I had it in the pantry and we needed to use it and so It gives you the option of adding protein if you want and so we did decide to add some Smoked sausage how it actually made dinner tonight. We had this smoked sausage in our freezer So this is what he used first. He pan fried the sausage and he set it aside And then he made the rice mix as directed and then fold it in the pan Fried sausage, so this is what we're having for dinner tonight. It has a pretty good flavor So I'm excited about this meal. So this is what's for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so let me show you what Howard is going to have for dinner. I I Do not feel like eating at all. I have the worst Indigestion Never experienced before never experienced this before this third trimester, but I just literally Can't eat anything, but He is having these chili cheese bites. I guess he's not that hungry We actually tasted these on another video. I bought a bunch of frozen Snacks from Walmart. We did a taste test. So I'll try to remember to link that video below So you can see what we thought of all the different Walmart snacks But this is what he is having for dinner tonight Like I said, I'm not gonna eat because I just do not physically feel up to eating right now So this is what's for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so we are having another freezer meal tonight. We are having Dijono supreme pizza. I got these pizzas on sale at Kroger a few weeks ago I think they were like $2.99 each So I bought several of them and this is the hand-tossed pizzeria style supreme There you go. And so here it is cooked up and they recommend that you cook it on the oven rack Which is what we did so I've cooked it on the oven rack And then we just put it on this pan so that we could cut it up But this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so tonight for dinner. We are having another meal from our freezer and pantry We are having crispy chicken and garlic green beans We have had this before and I've showed this on other what's for dinner videos. We really like this a taste Restaurant quality believe it or not and I have only found this at Walmart and here is what the bag looks like And it's a quick skillet stir-fry meal. It only takes about 10 minutes to cook and then we also had some jasmine rice In our pantry that we needed to use up. Normally I make my own rice, but in a pinch I do like this rice. It's 90 seconds in the microwave Jasmine rice. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so we are at Saltgrass State House and this is our appetizer We got brisket queso so it has brisket cilantro pico Of course queso and there's a mound of chips with a roasted jalapeno And then we also have some airbreads with like I think it's a like a honey butter So these are the appetizers and then I will show you our entrees as soon as they come out Okay, so we just got our entrees Howard got a bone-in ribeye. That's the melted butter on top with some garlic mashed potatoes and I got the shrimp duo with fried shrimp and grilled shrimp and Macaroni and cheese So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time


Good afternoon, everyone. This is Melissa with thestockswish.com and welcome. Welcome to Microsoft Play of the Day in the Stockswish Show Trading Room. Boy, September is off to a nice good start and I really had a feeling it was just going to be a good month about a week and a half ago, yeah, like two weeks ago. It was the third week in August was just really good and the things were going to bigger targets and I said that it was like a sign. It was like a sign that the month of September things were going to work out really well. And I really had no expectations today, day after holiday, mark it was closed yesterday, had a long weekend of getting anything of any significance today. And yet I woke up this morning and saw this and liked it immediately. So let's just look at this chart. Here we have the Microsoft and did this back in July. Okay, this was the day of the earnings of the gap down that happened here July 19. And it ended up working out really, really well but didn't follow through down to the bigger target on the day or even as a swing trade into this position here, which the target really was here. It was like 30, 30, 30, 25. It never really got down there and it was unusual because it barely hung on here three days afterwards, couldn't get a rally at all, gap down then on the 25th but then never even got to the low of the day here, didn't get to the low, didn't break 31, couldn't get anywhere with itself and rested, rested, rested and then this I watched and saw and said, wait a minute, and this actually is a crappy daily buy set up. There's no way in the world you can do something like this and it really doesn't make any sense and then this far happened here and I don't remember what happened this day but it was weird. So then you just kind of wait and see what this is going to do and it's trying to figure itself out and then all of a sudden this gaped up here, this was last, no this was two weeks ago, no yeah it was the 23rd. And this was on some news thing here. So now what do you do? Well, you don't do anything. This thing then has gapped up and for all intents and purposes it was going to hold. It tried to hold, it tried to hold, it tried to hold here and then it didn't hold and then you got to just stay away from this thing. There was no read on this then for like about a week. And then when I saw this gap down today was all over it, okay, it was all over this thing and actually it's retraced up back in itself here in neutral now for the day. It did not go and break 31, 25 was actually it almost got to the, to the dream target here, 31, 25, got within four cents. I thought it might go to 31 today but I really thought 31, 3150, 3125, those were the areas and then 31 but this is a beautiful move. Beautiful move with so patient and had a nice, nice, just a terrific entry in this today, terrific entry in this today. I actually really got to handle myself for being so patient. The funny thing is, you know, it is hard to be patient on a Monday slash Tuesday, really the first day of the week because I like to get aggressive and stuff. However, I was willing to be a little bit patient with this, okay, because I saw the market this morning which rallied hard up into the open and wanted to make sure this really, really held the area and it did actually. I was going to give this way higher as far as resistance. I had a lot of numbers written down for this but it did hold the real, real one I wanted it to hold which was 3210, okay, it held 3210 and it did hold it early. In fact, what time? I forget. Let's see. I knew it wasn't going to hold 32 and I didn't expect it to. It had the high of the day, made the high of the day in plenty of time. Yeah, did it before 945. In fact, what do I have in the sheet? Here's exactly what I wrote down. Wait for it to pop a rally first, I did, and set up by 935-940, set up by 945. However, if it sets up ASAP, then I'm not going to do it. I did say that this morning. Why? There was over 8 million people in here pre-market and I expected some people to push out up against it. So I said I was going to wait. Wait for retest or second set up or wait for the confirmation and we got it. So it was a beautiful play. And if you don't know what to do with this, then you're not sure what to do with this. If you thought this was a buy today, you got hurt in it and you got hurt in it under 80 because I could see that people were trying to buy this here and then it just went crash through that number and I was already in it short. So this had a wonderful, wonderful risk to reward in it today. And I didn't even get this whole thing down to the whole tippy tippy tippy to the bottom, but it doesn't matter. I had a beautiful entry and did have a good risk to reward and was out. I think, what time was I out of this, about 10 30 ish or something like that. It was, it was a nice trade. It was a really, really nice trade and really exceeding my expectations for basically a Monday, Tuesday morning. The fact that this is closing like this, like a doji doesn't really have mean anything here. This is still lower and now it looks like it's going to get to the target, the target that it should have gotten to the day here that got. So this is one of these ones where if you don't know how to read what's going on here, it has been messy and sloppy. And after this gap up happened here, you just stay away from it. But today was all over it, was all over this thing. And when these things do these things like this, after it does something like this, it is going to do something in between itself. And then there was a rest period here. Here was a rest period. It didn't last long. Those rest periods usually don't last long where they're in a neutral position, but you can tell that people bought in here. It's obvious. It's a crappy buy set up to buying here, but you can tell people bought in here and they bought in here on the 50 on the eight. It's a crappy one though, because this chart's a mess. Okay. And it's lower now. I mean, it looks a lot better today. Had a nice short in it today, rally back up here in the afternoon, but it's really of no consequence. And this is definitely lower. And this is one of these ones where you, you know, you could take this as an overnight here. I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow this followed through. In fact, I'll watch this as a continuation gap this week. You know, here is the target. The only way it gets here though is once it breaks 31 and has to break 31 convincingly. And it could just do it on the day or gap, but I think it's just going to do it on the day. And you really had to be patient today. You know, I like to get in stuff right away and like it to go immediately. And I had to be patient and patient and patient and patient and patient till it broke and really had a nice risk to reward in this trade. It was really a good morning for the beginning of the week. Beautiful start to September sign of things to come. You know, fall is a great time to trade. It's a busy season in the market. There's lots of people that participate and want to be in the market during the fall season. I don't know why I want to be in the market every time there's a good gap, but you know, in this fall, people love to train in September. Love to trade in October. Love to trade in November and Microsoft had a wonderful move this morning and a great risk to reward. If you were patient knew the numbers and knew what to look for and had it in the right direction. This was a short today. There's no question about it, but it was obvious to me that some people were trying to bribe in there early in the day. And if they were, they were flipped around. This was not a buy in support. This was a short. This was a bearish gap. It actually rated 21 points was a nice gap in here. This is a stock swush. And if anyone's interested in the upcoming gap class for September, it is September 14th and 15th. Email me at Melissa at the stockswush.com. This is Microsoft. Another beautiful gap in Microsoft here. Great start to the week. Great start to the month. Great start to September in the fall season. Sign of things to come. If you're interested in more information, email me at Melissa at the stockswush.com. Have a great week, everybody.


Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you. I'm Dan Lemieux, County Board Chairman, and I'm co-host of this program along with Adam Payne, our administrative coordinator. And this month, we're bringing you a program concerning our healthcare facilities in Sheboygan County. This is an issue that has been in front of the County Board for many years. I've been on the County Board for 12 years and all those years we've been discussing our healthcare facilities and what size they should be and everything pertaining to these healthcare facilities. Recently, we have voted a resolution to downsize our healthcare facilities and it was unanimous vote. All 34 members of the County Board supported this. And in our program today, we have with us Gene Larabee, our director of healthcare facilities. And he is going to discuss with us some of the aspects of this downsizing program and the future of our healthcare facilities in Sheboygan County. Gene, maybe as we start this program, you could just tell us a little bit about your background and what you were doing before you came to Sheboygan County. Well, first of all, Chairman Lemieux, I'd like to thank you very much for the opportunity to be with you today. Prior to my coming to Sheboygan County, immediately prior to that, I had my own private consulting business for five and a half years. I served as a consultant to the long-term care industry and I specialized in assisting facilities that were having problems with regulatory compliance. And then prior to that, I served as a facility administrator and CEO in different settings including both the for-profit and non-profit sector of the long-term care industry. And with that background, what gave you an interest to come to Sheboygan County? When I was afforded the opportunity to meet with representatives from Sheboygan County and learn about this position, one of the things that excited me more than anything was the fact that the dedication was truly here to build a system of healthcare facilities that were truly geared toward providing the best quality care to the people we serve. And done so in an atmosphere where as many disagreements as there might be about other issues, it seems that there's a unanimity of agreement on that particular issue. We want to do the best we possibly can for those of who we serve. And that is probably what attracted me here more than anything. Good. Gene, as you know, during my first year as administrative coordinator, the healthcare center's consolidation was the primary issue in the community and for county government and is with great pride that we were able to pull together a consensus and get the unanimous vote in April and also with great pride that you were the first director that I had the opportunity to hire and certainly we're pleased to have someone with your credentials here in Sheboygan County. Could you touch on the present location and use of the healthcare centers today? Sure. We have three facilities currently at them. The largest of our three facilities is Sunny Ridge, which is located, of course, in the city limits of Sheboygan. It's a 341-bed facility, a skilled nursing facility for primarily the geriatric elderly population. Our other skilled nursing facility is Rocky Knoll, which is located in the Plymouth area in the northwestern part of the county on a really lovely campus in that part of the county, currently licensed for 208 beds and also servicing the geriatric elderly population.  The primary intent today is to discuss the consolidation plan. Our viewers clearly would like to get an overview of what the consolidation plan entails. Would you please touch on that? Sure. One of the things that we were faced with as far as a challenge is what to do and still best meet the needs of the residents of Sheboygan County. Not only meet the needs, but also try to meet as many concerns as the citizenry had regarding this extremely significant project that has a substantial impact, not only now, but in the future for the care of our citizens. The final plan that we arrived at was one which will actually close the Comprehensive Center and create a second facility on the Rocky Knoll campus, which will result in two separate operating entities at Rocky Knoll. And I think perhaps the best way to show that is to go to the architect rendering that I brought with us today, and so people can get an idea of just what currently exists at Rocky Knoll and what will exist there. The part of the drawing, which is here in the two different tones of red, indicates that part of the building, which will in essence remain Rocky Knoll. It will be a downsized facility for skilled nursing, for the geriatric and elderly population. The lighter red right here is that part of the building which was constructed in 1992, and that will remain as the part of the building which will render services for the elderly. The darker red is a new addition to that part of the building being built in order to provide adequate activity space and office area for that particular entity which will become the Rocky Knoll facility. In this part of the drawing, this dark beige color indicates the part of Rocky Knoll which currently exists, which was constructed in 1972. That will become a 59-bed facility which will be dedicated to the care of those with mental diseases currently served at the COMP Center. And then this cream color addition here is a brand new 37-bed addition which is going to be constructed for the care of our intermediate care facility residents who fall into the categories of care and developmentally disabled. This will be a totally new complex really built in a state-of-the-art way. And then if you look right over here, once again, another light cream color area indicates a new dining area that will be built to service the population of what will be the Replacement Comprehensive Center so that when we are completed, we will have one facility indicated here as I move the laser light in this area which will be a total capacity of 96 beds and will replace, essentially, the current Comprehensive Center. And then we will have a second facility which will be in this area which will have a total capacity of 99 beds that will take the place of the current Rocky Knoll operation. And we're very excited about this consolidation plan and also as part of the consolidation plan not only our Rocky Knoll and COMP Center but we're also putting substantial renovation dollars into the Sunny Ridge location to ensure that there are a lot of cosmetic changes to bring that facility up-to-date, modernize it and provide a nicer atmosphere and environment for the residents we serve. Now you started your position in February? February 28th. And when you started, it was really a hotbed in terms of the issue of the consolidation project and the plan to date. And supervisors, the health care centers clearly were working very hard to develop a consensus and listening to the public. And again, I think everyone, including the chairman Lehmann-U, is very pleased that we were able to give you unanimous support and develop this consolidation plan. What do you see as the primary benefits to the consolidation project? Well, I think Adam, there are a lot of benefits to this particular project. First and foremost, the care that we are able to render our residents is going to be able to be delivered at a higher quality, if for no other reason than the people we serve are going to be living in a better environment. Some of the things, for example, that our current population at Comp Center does not have. We don't have adequate space in our resident rooms. They're too small. They don't really provide the square footage area that they should. Our residents in the Comp Center now because of the fact that the building is old, it was built before current codes, has community bathrooms, for example, which is certainly a significant impairment to resident privacy. In the new replacement facility, all rooms will be private for that particular population. A significant number of rooms will also be private in the Rocky Knoll part of the building. So we're increasing our number of private rooms. All the residents will have, for example, access to their own bathroom. We will have new modernized activity space. We're going to have a dedicated workshop in our ICFMR, a new addition that can be exclusively used for resident programming for our population. We'll be building new activity space in Rocky Knoll. So all in all, I think that the biggest advantage that we're going to accrue from the consolidation plan is that we're going to be able to really, truly improve the quality of life for the people we serve. Another issue that's been very important is the bargaining units that we work with and the number of employees that work at the healthcare centers. One of the questions that continues to come up is, is there a possibility we may lose positions as a result of the consolidation plan? I don't anticipate at this juncture that any one of our current employees would be faced with losing a job as a result of the consolidation plan. How much is this project going to cost the taxpayers of Sheboyton County? Well, right now the approximate budget for the construction project, including the Sunny Ridge renovations, is just a little over $8.9 million. And the people in the county finance department tell me what that translates to is about $200 for the person who owns an average $100,000 home, that $200 being over a 10-year period. So the taxpayer who lives and owns in a $100,000 home in Sheboyton County will be paying about $20 a year to subsidize this project. And my understanding is the $8.9 million, does that... I don't believe that includes furniture, furnishings. That's just the construction cost at this point, yes. We anticipate additional costs to the project for furniture and equipment and so on to ensure that the buildings are furnished as they should be. And all probability that that number will come in somewhere between $300,000 and $400,000. And what's the status of the consolidation plan to date in terms of working with the architect? Right now, as far as the public is concerned, it may appear that we're dormant and we're not doing much because, obviously, the visual eye is much more receptive to activity and there are no steam rollers and cranes and shovels that the Rocky Hill Camp is doing anything. And the reason for that is because right now what truly is in the hands of the architects. They have begun the design phase of the architectural drawings, which means that they begin to draw the building in accordance with what we are going to need, what it needs to be included in the building for our own requirements, as far as patient programming is concerned. They then have to run these drawings past the state officials in Madison who license and certify long-term care facilities. Once those kinds of approvals are met, then they go to work on actually putting the construction drawings in place. So, for the next three to four months, from the public perspective, it's going to be a pretty quiet time as the architects finish their work. So, when is Chairman Lemming you going to be able to put his hard hat on and grab a shovel and get out there and break ground for the first time? Well, we hope to provide the chairman with a gold shovel sometime around the 1st of December. Sometime before the frost gets in the ground? Yes, so you can... And I don't have to jam it in. What I thought about before Jean was the impact on the employees if there would be employees laid off because of the downsizing. What about the residents? I think one of the concerns in the community is because we're downsizing into two facilities from three, are we going to be sending a lot of residents to either nursing homes or what is going to happen to our residents that we have in our facilities right now? Well, one thing I want to clarify is that we are downsizing actually and I think possibly that's a misconception in the public generally that they see that we are eliminating the facility and going to two locations and therefore we will only have two facilities but in essence we will have three facilities in two locations, two being on the rocking old campus. So, the downsizing does not really occur in the number of facilities we intend to operate but in the number of beds we intend to operate. And right now if we do an overview of the health care center system we would find that we have a significant number of empty beds currently. The state of Wisconsin generally speaking is an over bedded state in this industry and Treboygan County is no exception to the rule in the state of Wisconsin. And one of the things that we tried to do when putting together the consolidation plan was to anticipate the future needs of the county. Right now if we took the whole resident population that are in our three facilities and we subtracted from that number those people who were ready for community placement the net total would actually be less than the total number of beds we're going to have in the consolidation project. So we certainly anticipate that we will be able to meet the needs. As far as residents being displaced are concerned we don't anticipate that there will be any movement from building to building but while some of the renovation projects occur within a particular building chances are people might have to move a room for a few days while their room is painted or retiled or that kind of thing. Okay. You touched on the over bedding that we have in Treboygan County certainly the cost of running three facilities at three different locations has been an issue another has just been the physical plant at comprehensive health care. Would you touch on or provide an overview of some of the concerns about the comprehensive health care center physical plant? Well I brought along some photographs today Adam that kind of depict and show comprehensive care center and there's no question that when comprehensive care center was built back around 1940 it was a state of the art facility and if people drive by the building it's a very impressive structure it sits out in the country it's beautifully landscaped it's built like a fortress as a matter of fact you might expect the king to come out of his throne while you're out there visiting because that's kind of what the place looks like. It's like a castle. But it's an old building and although it looks good from the outside when you begin to take into consideration some of the things that are on the interior of the building you can see that to renovate that building or to replace that building would be a cost that would be extremely prohibited certainly not in the best interest of the Sheboygan County taxpayer. Some of the examples the building does not have central air conditioning the building has the old fashioned radiator steam heat kind of systems that need replacement and for the past few years we've been keeping them together with patch work and that kind of thing and I want to assure people that we've certainly not created an environment where resident safety or employee safety is ever a question of the best the expenditure that would go into that kind of thing normally has not been made to anticipate the future as what would happen. You can look at some of the plumbing problems in the building for example. Here's a photograph that shows on the right side you can see new replacement piping that has been installed in some of the plumbing areas and on the left side you can see how the pipes are deteriorating over time. This kind of expense comes into the thousands of dollars every year to replace those kinds of systems because of the kind of construction the comprehensive center is in that it's a masonry building, it's built with plaster walls just to get to some of those areas to replace them and work on them is an extremely expensive process because there's no easy access to things like the plumbing and electrical fixtures in the building. I understand as well that there's some concerns with just mobility of the residents in the facilities such as the elevator access as well as some of the problems associated with the sewer system. The building is there's no question the building is old for example windows need to be replaced and those kinds of things we have elevators in our building that are truly interesting but they're relics. We have elevators that I can remember as before your times I can remember the child going to the department store and the elevator operator would open the gate and tell you it was third floor laundry and the bell would go off but unfortunately those aren't very practical in a facility like ours however we still have elevators like that in our building. So I think people can begin to readily see that to renovate Comp Center in its current location is very practical because it would be so extremely cost prohibitive. You also mentioned our sewage plant that's probably perhaps the easiest identifiable single expense that we would be facing if we stayed there just to replace that bring it up to current code would cost over a million dollars. I know in some of the studies that I reviewed prior to the consolidation plan being endorsed they were looking at anywhere from 11 to 12 million dollars completely address all of the issues some of which you've touched on. The final question I have for you Gene before I turn it back over to Chairman Lemming you would be the issue of moving residents to Rocky Knoll and having two different types of populations at one location. What are your concerns or views on that? I think actually it's going to work out in a quite positive way. If I can refer us back one more time to the architectural rendering that we have although there will be two populations at the building. Right here where the colors are different there will be a physical division between the buildings in order to keep the population segregated. We are also going to provide for the residents outdoor courtyards which will be separate and distinct for each population. As you can see up here there's a courtyard designated for the SNF population with a walk path for Alzheimer's residents. There's another courtyard here adjacent to the skilled nursing facility that will be designated for the skilled nursing facility residents and then we're planning two courtyards which will be specifically for the COMP population here for the IMD population and then another over here for the ICFMR population. I think that it's going to provide us the ability in addition to that to have some shared services in which the residents will really benefit. We can begin to look at more sophisticated programings shared between our populations with things like therapy and activities and pastoral care. Those kinds of things by putting them in one location will allow us to better utilize our staff and eventually be able to provide more sophisticated programming to our resident population. Gene this is the consolidation program is a two-year project or better with most of the two years in front of us yet. Correct. So during the rest of the year 2000 and 2001 as we go through this project how will you as a healthcare facility and as the director get the community informed as to the progress of the project and what's going on? Well you're absolutely right Chairman Lemme who that this is at least a two-year project and more probably a two-and-a-half year project from where we sit today. One of the concerns that we have within the healthcare centers is that we want to make absolutely sure whatever information is conveyed to the public is accurate information. This is a critically important project it's a project that a lot of people are going to be monitoring in the community and they should they should do that because it's a significant expense to the taxpayer and so we've got an obligation I feel to ensure that we do as much as we can to get the information into the public's hands so that they can understand and comprehend just what we are doing. We've got different mechanisms by which we do that just prior to my arrival a newsletter was started which we mail out to a number of different people in the community and by the way if anybody wants one of those newsletters I just need to call my office and I'll put them on the mailing list it comes out every other month and it's a report of our progress. I have made the statement in several different venues and I'm certainly willing to go meet with any group that would like to have me present or address any group about the consolidation plan. One of the mandates of Resolution 38 when the county board unanimously passed the consolidation project was to ensure that we consider including a public relations and marketing component of the plan that would include people from the public and we have begun to put out some guidelines and looking for people will be looking for people this fall to join with us in helping a public relations and marketing campaign to ensure that the accurate information gets into the public. We'll also then do discussions such as press releases meeting with people on a one-to-one basis and finally we're very lucky to have the good auspices of television 8 that we can perhaps occasionally have these kinds of broadcasts to get the word out. I think we will probably schedule you again more than once during the course of this project. Just because you're so busy with this project you're busy with the architects and the building committee the field of health care is in standing still. That's correct. And we can't ignore everything else we're doing at the health care facilities while we're doing this project. What do you see Jean as the future of our health care facilities in Cheboygan County? Both with this project and beyond. Well I see a lot of exciting potential that's the first thing I see. I think that we are in a position I hate to sound grandiose but occasionally you're in the right exactly the right place and exactly the right time in history to do some real neat stuff and I think we happen to be in that place right now. We've got potential to really create something special in our health care facility system but at the same time we also have to face reality that the dynamics of the health care industry are now the kind of dynamic where change is the status quo and the status quo no longer exists. We're one of the most regulated industries in the country. The regulatory requirements under which we operate are constantly changing and if they don't change the interpretations of the regulations certainly are constantly changing and one of the biggest challenges that we're going to meet in the future is in the area of our ability to get good qualified staff. The fact of the matter is on a national basis there is a crisis in health care staffing especially in the area of nursing people in the nursing profession just don't exist one of the primary reasons is a practical one 30 years ago when a girl graduated high school she could be a teacher and nurse a secretary or a wife needless to say today the choices are a bit higher for the people graduating school and I don't mean to convey that nursing is a female dominated profession but nevertheless traditionally it has been and as a consequence nursing schools across the country are closing the number of people in those professions is getting smaller and our real need our real ability to meet the needs of our residents in the future I think is going to be more dependent upon our ability to recruit qualified staff than it is on the number of beds we have in our buildings. We have just a few minutes left yet you maybe if we could look at that at that architects drawing one more time true just so that it's clear to the viewers how much of this facility is already there and how much is going to be new construction we talk about the two areas that are going to in the future house the residents from the comprehensive health center but how much of that is already there and how much of that is going to be new construction currently at the Rocky Mill campus the kind of cocoa colored here part of the building in this lighter red part of the building those two parts of the building exist as well as this annex building which is shown north of the main complex the annex building primarily now is used for storage delivery maintenance repair and those kinds of things and that building will stay the cocoa colored part of the building right here is that part of the Rocky Mill structure which is currently which was built in 1972 this part of the building the lighter red part of the building is that part of the building which also was currently there which was constructed in 1992 so if we just kind of run a straight line with laser light here from that building through and over to this building it's this part of Rocky Mill that currently exists the cream color addition over here is the 37-bed ICFMR addition that will be new this cream color portion right here indicates a new dining area for the comp center population that will be new and this dark red area here indicates new activity and office office and therapy space for what will be the Rocky Mill population and that will be new very good we actually did it we got through this program we got all this information in if any of the viewers would like to ask any questions in the future his office is in the conference of health center and Gene I'm sure you'd be happy to answer any calls and talk to people as the questions come in over the next couple of years and beyond next month on Sheboygan County government working for you we would like to talk about our budget process with Sheboygan County as many of you have probably heard and read we are looking at a tough budget year this year we're looking at asking department for some decreases in their budgets and we'd just like to talk to you the viewers about a little bit about the budget process our goals and how that process is working we'd like to have with us that Tim Finch our finance director and Connie Ziegelbauer the chairman of the finance committee and discuss those issues at that time as a last thought we asked last month if anybody had a better name for our program Sheboygan County government working for you it's a long name but if you have any suggestions we have not heard from anybody with suggestions we're still waiting for those if another month or two goes by we'll have to just make our sign with that name on so if you do have any suggestions for a new name either call myself or Adam Payne at the administrative coordinator's office and we'll be happy to take your suggestions for a name thank you


It's DD Kato, back to that with another video. Choose how to ever tune in if you want to subscribe and subscribe and give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. And it's August 30th. And it's time for us to get to this bag. In this video, that's what happened, baby. We have now added our first Amazon Flex, Flex, Flex warehouse on the Black Lens, baby. So you guys wanna make sure you say those through the full video. Again, if you want to subscribe and subscribe, give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. We about to go over here and get to this bag. Let's go. For 11.29, we're stopping until we shine. Let's go. We are here to pick up this order from IHOP. We've been picking up the order from my guy, Scott. At Ryman, Ryman, IHOP and Scott. IHOP's flooded in rocks. Morning, William. How you doing, sir? I have an order to pick up for Scott. Please come in, okay? Yes, sir, thank you. Take care. I'll get this, Scott, okay? Okay, thank you very much. You guys have a good one. Let's go. We are here to draw this order to get an order, baby. I remember this house, guess what? This is the dude that got the color in it. I remember. I remember his name. I remember the house. He got that color in it. He balled it. And with the photo, it's Matt, the draw bell. Let's go. Order, yes, one order, three items. 1.3 miles for my game from a scholar. Here to draw up this order from CVS, baby. Put the haters to rest. We playing, hey, we ain't playing chess. We playing chess. Step back to the photo. It's Matt.  Let's go. You already see what I got on, baby. Y'all know what time it is. Bro, what are you talking about, man? Hold on, hold on, hold on. This block is from 10.30 early today, baby. Ain't about to play no games. We're about to do our thing. The payout is from $42,050 to skiing. Smash that subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up. And do not, we're about to get to this bag. Let's go. We are here, baby. Look, last time they took us up top. I ain't going no more. Y'all know we're about to go. Going here and hitting with the Skansky so we can get these bands. Gee, hopefully we got our joint together because we are 14 minutes early. And then with the Skansky, right here. Damn, it's like that joint. Man, he game, coach. So, guys, guess what? So we came here. We got here at like 10, 12-ish. I clocked in at 10, 16 to get that green. Look at the time. It is 11,03. We've been still sitting out here. And we have not got a batch yet. We haven't got an order yet, baby. So I don't know what's going on. Comment below. I don't even know what you're doing in this situation. I don't know if we're still going to get paid. If we're not going to still get paid. And look, if y'all ain't got no orders, just go ahead and let me go home right now, baby. I ain't got time to be sitting around here till one o'clock, baby. I don't know. Comment below and let me know what you're doing in this situation. But I don't know what we're going to do, baby. I have no clue what's going on. But hopefully they give us some fast so we can get it on. Let's go. Back in the zone to see if we can find out some information. They ain't even got nobody at the front desk. They used to, like, before when I came here, they had nobody at the front desk. I want to ask them some questions to see if we can get right, man. Because if we can go home, let me go. Let me get about to get out the jam. You know what I'm talking about? There's plenty of people in this joint, too. Whoo! I'm over here to bother you whenever you have a chance. I know you're super busy. It may be helpful. So I had a batch. My batch was, uh, started at 10.30. I got here at 10.16. And I still haven't got one yet. What do you recommend I do? I just got to hang out. Your block is 10.30 till... Till one. You got to hang out at least until noon. At least until noon. Yeah, just in case there's, like, a little order that they can assign to you. Okay. Once that happens, just leave your app. Open it, Dr. Moore. Okay, thank you very much. So, guys, you heard what she said, baby. She said we have to wait until at least noon and then we can leave, baby. And we can get that cheese, that free cheese, baby. She said something about a layover or some... Maybe it's some order that wouldn't deliver or something. Maybe they give you a few doughs or something. But either way, go.  But honestly, I do want to give you guys the content. I do not like wasting time. I be trying to get on the grass at the end of the time so y'all can see us shine, baby. But we're going to sit here, we're going to chill, we're going to wait, and hopefully we can go out there and get some cake. Let's go. Well, guys, look at the time. 1201, and we didn't get none. And we didn't know. We ain't going to have no fun, baby. So I don't know what we going to do, baby. We're going to start driving towards home and hopefully we can get in DoorDash. But honestly, guys, it's been very, very, very slow in our area for DoorDash. For the most part, they only let us in, but they let us in yesterday, but we been trying to schedule a week ahead, but we ain't been able to get in, baby. Only time they have us being able to get in is at night time on the evening shift, baby. And guess what? I don't be like it, driving on the evening shift because it's too much traffic, too much going on. People driving slow. The rest of my sometimes are slower, but either way, go. Y'all know we go slow. If we don't keep on going, let's go. So, guys, it is official. We don't know where they're coming right now, but let me tell you guys this, that Amazon flex, flex, flex warehouse is now on the block list. Let me break it down to you guys. The first time we went, everything was cool, baby. We went in there and we got that free money. We got that free money, baby. So that happened, boom. The second time I was late to my buck, it was my fault, it was my fault. I was late to the buck. I went in there, so I talked to the lady, she had an attitude. So I'm thinking like, I don't really know. This is the last time, eight to ten, third time to try, right? We had to wait all the way until 12 o'clock from 10, well, we was there until 10, 15. From 10, 15 to 12 o'clock, and we did not get an order. So that's the hour and 45 minutes, right? Guess what else?  Again, as I told you guys in the other video, it takes us 53 minutes to get out here, right? So I'm gonna go pee, right? I go in the building, I ask the lady, I'm like, can you tell me where the bathroom is? It was another lady, she's just in there. Can you tell me where the bathroom is?  So before I'm going out, a dude who worked there actually, that's not all right. See, y'all already know, I already know what's gonna happen now. Let me just not come here no more because I already know it's gonna be some problems. Now you had an attitude, you worried about my camera and all that stuff.  Mind your business, mind your business. So it is official. What is that, Wooddale? Wooddale, Illinois, Amazon, flex, flex, flex. You are now on the blacklist, baby. It's over, baby. We don't got time to meet y'all around here in 53 minutes for y'all to be playing games, having the attitudes, not having stuff ready and all that stuff, so it is what it is, baby. We gonna keep on getting this money and I hope you guys are enjoying this video so far. Again, we do not know what's gonna happen with DoorDash, Uber Eats, all that stuff. We may try some Uber Eats, but we don't know, baby. But I hope, I'm glad you guys are tuning into this video and I'm glad you're watching. I hope you guys are all thinking to that money or about to go out there and get to that money, but we're gonna drive back and I may be taking y'all a little shopping with me, baby. We might go out a little shopping. I do have to get some stuff because we will be leaving. Well, by the time I get this video, we're already gonna be out there. We'll probably be out there. Will we be back here? No, we'll probably just be out there. We already gonna be out there, baby. So, I might take you shopping. I gotta go get me some more socks and all that stuff to switch it up a little bit, baby, but I hope you guys enjoyed the video again. Subscribe and give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. Hopefully we get to a bag. Let's go. Guess what, baby? Let us in. It's time for us to get it in. We got order number three. We about to get busy. Chick-fil-A, baby. Three hours, 1.2 miles for 525. We here right now. I'm about to go right here and get busy. Let's go. Flage, I'm gonna get busy. Let's see if they got us together. This stuff's right here, baby. Yeah. Let's see. I heard you jumped this order to get an order, you know what I'm talking about? We come to this job all the time.  Hello. Delivery last name, Oda Alize. I think I'm pronouncing it right. I could be wrong. Yeah. It's a B, Oda Alize. Yeah. You're welcome. You guys have a good one. Order number four. The times you gotta do what you gotta do so you can go. Do us go. We can count on people who care. Instacart, one order, 14 items. One mile for 20, 96. We about to go and get in the mix. Let's go. Order number five. A lot of times you can see it. Hey, Delin, they on. Chick-fil-A, baby. Five hours, 2.7 miles for 625. We about to pull out right now. Pick up the prize. Let's go. Back again, clap again at Chick-fil-A, baby. Let's get this together. Excuse me. This stuff's right here, baby. Let's go. We here, I gotta get to the elevator. I don't know where that elevator at. I only been in this zone like one or two times while we was on the ground today in the time. Did this joint even got an elevator? Sheesh. Okay. Elevator is this way. Elevator right here. We had to go to room 317. I mean 317, so we can get this green, you understand? I kind of got lost a little bit because it's like multiple hotels back here, so I ain't know which one it was, but we found it, baby. I'm about to go in here and get busy. Come on with me, baby. Why are you playing these games? I'm trying to do our thing. Get this change. We're on a third flow, so we can scow. We gotta go this way. Hopefully we don't gotta go that far down. It seemed like we pretty close, 14, 15, 16, 17. 17 right here, baby. Jump like it's hot. Jump like it's hot. Step back, I don't know what to do for us. Not gonna do it all. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Let's go. Busy right quick, man. I'm talking about, this is decent amount of stuff today.   Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do so you can get this money. We're trying to hit the goal and get our pockets on the floor. You know what I'm talking about? That's what we're trying to do, baby. So sometimes you're gonna take some good orders. Sometimes you're gonna get some bad. Either way, I think we need, I don't know how many more orders we're gonna need to get that 100 and 100. You know what I'm talking about? Get some eggs in here, so I'm leading to the side. Close that joint. Let's go. Here's the job of this. Joyous girl, we can count on people. Yeah, I was gonna show you guys this. Look at this house across the street. I don't know if I can see it all the way. I'm talking about this joint, it's cool. How are you doing, sir? I'm living a dream, I can't complain. This is a beautiful house. That is very true. I should be so lucky. Oh, yeah? All right, thank you. You're welcome. They've owned this for a long time, and look newer. Oh, that's crazy, that's the way they keep it. And hey, you have to be. Especially if you spend all the money for it. Yeah, it's gonna be on in months. Well, that's so you don't get to, you know. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, you gotta watch everything. And then sometimes some customers say you didn't deliver stuff, but I actually got it on camera, so you can't really lie. You have to protect yourself at all times. You have a great day, sir. Let's go. This one, we just pulled off to get it done. Popeyes 4 out of 3.8 miles, we're kind of swiftly, I'm gonna be next, let's go. Baby, this is actually the first time I've ever even been in this Popeyes. This one is good, y'all. You know, I have a pickup, a door that's pickup for La Jordan, C. Okay, you're the third person right now. I hope you don't leave, but you have to let us know. We don't have no cream cheese pies anymore. No cream cheese pies? No cream cheese pies. Okay, I'll call them. All right, I'll let him know. This is always gotta be some, it's the last order, it's the last order, they gotta be some all the time, baby. How you doing? What kind do you guys have? Apple pies, we have a Benets. What is it called? Benets, the chocolate Benets. Benets, oh, right. So they have apple pies and Benets, the chocolate ones. But Benets, put that in there. All right. Okay, thank you very much. You're welcome. We back again, clap again, baby. I ain't gonna lie, they didn't answer the first time we called, it went straight to voicemail, the second time the phone was tweaking, the third time they asked, the third time we charmed, baby. If they didn't answer, guess what, they was gonna give what they was gonna get. I'm gonna drop it right off, baby, so we can be done and get on the run and get these fun. That's everything? That's everything, boss. Thank you very much, you have a great day. You too. We're out here to drop this order. They get an order 3,000 years later. Popeyes was taking so long, baby. They need to get it together. We're trying to get this cheddar. You know what I'm talking about? They need to do better. We had to call them all type of stuff went on, baby. Hello. Hi. There you go. Thank you. You have a great day. Oh, and it fell out on me. Thank you. There you go. You have a good one. And just like that, at the end of the video, I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Today we made one or not, we do, baby. Hey, man, I ain't no lie. We got another thing on the blacklist, baby. But guess what? In life, you gotta make adjustments and keep on moving and grooving and keep on getting this money. And I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Again, if you want to subscribe to my channel, give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. And I'll catch you tomorrow because we'll get back to this bag. Why we get back to this bag? Because 2022 is still bad season. We're gonna keep on giving them a reason. I'll see you guys on the next one. Be going, be going, be flowing. You already know the DDK and I'm on my way.


Walter Slotham is Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and since 1993 has been an ex-official member of the U.S. Institute of Peace Board of Directors. For over seven years, Walt has been in a key position nonstop at the Defense Department and a pivotal actor in the shaping of U.S. policy in the Balkans. He's going to look at the lessons learned from the security engagement in the Balkans during the past eight years and consider what remains to be done to bring about a durable peace. Welcome, Walt. Thanks. For three more days, I still have to say that what I have to say, it does not necessarily reflect the views of the administration. After that, there will be no question. First of all, I think the points that Mordor Brahmowitz have made about the extraordinary improvements in the situation compared to eight years ago are true in each of the areas in Bosnia, in Kosovo, and of course most fundamentally the changes in Serbia which have opened the prospect for a solution reached by political means and by some kind of accommodation and patience as opposed to violence. There's certainly still areas of potential trouble in the most immediate sense, probably in the press of a valley, but more broadly there's lots of unfinished business and as Mordor says, the most fundamental issue is defining the relationship between Serbia and Kosovo. If I understood correctly, having established the dichotomy of two basic approaches, one broadly autonomy and the other broadly, independently wisely counsels that there are sufficient disadvantages to each that insofar as the stark choice, and it is I think fundamentally a stark choice, but can be deferred while Serbia consolidates its democracy and Kosovo establishes institutions which is a process which may in some ways make both results less, may make the choice less stark is certainly important. It's worth making the point that one important piece of unfinished business which, more referred to at least indirectly, is that of which in Pentagon jargon is called PIFWICS. The Pentagon doesn't deal with war criminals, we deal with persons indicted for war crimes. PIFWICS. It is important to bear in mind that of all of the unsealed indictments, and there are presumably still some sealed ones, of all the people who have been indicted, more than two-thirds of cases have been disposed of one way or another, in some case by the departure of these people from this life, but in most cases by either their voluntary surrender and in addition to Madame Plotsich, there have been a significant number of voluntary surrenders, or by their capture, there have been now something like 20 PIFWICS detained in Bosnia or in Croatia and rendered to the Hague. The big fish, at least the very biggest fish, remain at large, and ending that situation will continue to be an issue. There are lots of reasons for the favorable developments, some are largely indigenous. My personal belief has always been that one of the things which made the biggest contribution to the end of the fighting in Bosnia was the success of the Croatians in first, whether brutally, expelling Serbs who had lived for hundreds of years in the Krajina and then sweeping into Bosnia in effect, which both obviously weakened the Serb resistance, demoralized the Bosnian Serbs because it became clear that Milosevic was not going to save them, but perhaps equally important, raised in the minds of the Bosnian government in Sarajevo some serious questions about whether they really wanted to be liberated by the Croatians and thereby created a context on all sides for a more compromised approach. Some are clearly the result of U.S. efforts, in particular in the case of Bosnia, the pressure in 1994 and 1995 for a gradually stiffening NATO stance. There are a lot of interesting what-ifs. What-ifs at the very beginning, the United States had joined unperfor or otherwise had been more involved. What-ifs at the beginning of this administration, the United States had been able to agree on a course of action with its allies earlier. What-if the United Nations had taken a different and more robust stand in Bosnia, not so much in not being neutralized between the parties, but in not being neutralized between people who were shooting at unperformed people who weren't. What-if the United States and NATO had been clearer, or at least more convincing, about what they would do if a Milosevic, in fact, resumed ethnic cleansing in Kosovo? What-if the Congress had imposed fewer de facto, if not de jure limits and given more support and been less inclined either on the one hand to dismiss the whole problem or on the other to espouse attractive but unrealistic solutions? And in this context, I think it's important, particularly given the particular place in the political calendar, we find ourselves to pay tribute to Republicans like Senator Warner, Senator McCain, Senator Dole and presidential candidate and former presidential candidate Dole and Governor Bush, who supported President Clinton at key points on key decisions much as they may have disagreed and obviously disagreed with his general policies, but also disagreed with some details, some important details of his Balkan policies, but were prepared, I think, to accept that the United States had a vital interest in success and provided important support. But I am much happier dealing with or contemplating these what-ifs and the continuing problems, which were outlined and which are very real, compared with a symposium on the situation in the Balkans if the United States had not, in fact, been as active and engaged as it was both in Bosnia and Kosovo. There are some lessons. I think the most important lesson is that it is still true today that security in remote places with less than angelic players can affect a very vital, very important United States interest. The situation in the Balkans in both Bosnia and Kosovo had important humanitarian elements and undoubtedly the humanitarian elements were very important in the public perception, but fundamentally the issue was not simply humanitarian. It was security and stability in Europe, which is an important American interest as well as a European interest. The second is the obvious platitude that the United States, at least in an area like this, the United States has to expect that if its interests are to be defended and vindicated, we are going to have to lead, and that requires clarity and a certain degree of unity. But it is equally true, and what makes in some sense doing that more complicated, in the European region as elsewhere, that the United States cannot realistically act alone, which means not only kind of skillful spin control and diplomacy, but in extremists actually taking account of other people's opinions and interests, even if we don't entirely share them. And in this context, I think in particular, the role of Russia is in the future of the Balkans is important. I would certainly know the experience shows that difficult as it can be. It is not in our interest to try to exclude Russia from the Balkan problem, unless of course they were to adopt policies which are self-excluding or so contrary to the promotion of a solution that they've excluded themselves. But I think the point about taking account of others' interests applies to Russia. Just as much, obviously, to different degrees as it applies to allies. It's also clear the military cannot act alone. The biggest problems after eight years of experience of this are about mobilizing other instruments of national and international policy. Diplomacy, political pressures, intelligence assets and instruments, economic measures, coordinating the work of NGOs and international organizations. The special and immensely frustrating problem of international support for police, whether it's training local police, creating decent local police forces, or sending in international police forces. And as a matter of national policy, we have regrettably and foolishly starved these non-military instruments of policy relative even to the problems we have in maintaining a military capacity. And indeed it is often the case that the use of force will depend on showing that other instruments have been tried and have not been successful. And that obviously focuses on the need to use these instruments. And also another lesson is that you cannot divorce these regional problems, although they have brought international implications from their cultural and historical roots. That is not to say the conflict is inevitable, any more inevitable in the Balkans than it is anywhere else in the world, but that there are real tensions and real problems and that resolution takes understanding and also living with the fact that there are no angels in this play, although there are a few devils. There's a lot of discussion about reduction of the U.S. commitment. I mean, there's no question that over time those reductions are appropriate and should take place. There had been substantial reductions already. But I, and this I guess is one where I should emphasize I speak for myself. I don't think the United States should shrink from the proposition that for a long time into the future, not necessarily forever, but for a long time into the future, U.S. security interests in Europe will require the presence of some NATO military capability in the Balkans. And I think for a variety of reasons, good, bad, and indifferent, that implies the presence of some American military presence in the Balkans. A lot can be shifted, their total level can continue to be reduced as it has been. A lot can be shifted, a lot of the burden can be shifted to non-military instruments. But I think it would be a mistake to set up as an objective that the United States, as opposed, should get out militarily altogether, as opposed to looking to the day when there won't need to be any or at least any significant NATO military presence. And finally, and coming particularly from the perspective of the Department of Defense, the Bosnia-Cossova-Balkan experience underscores that military force is essential as a potential instrument in dealing with truly intractable, brutal, and deep-seated conflicts like these, both as a threat and as an ultimate instrument of policy. Just a few observations about some of the lessons about the use of military force in conflicts like this. The first, and I think the most important, and a lesson which is easier to state than to apply in practice is that there are no magic bullets, there are no particular sets of buttons which if appropriately bombed over the course of the day or so will produce instant dramatic results. Sometimes, they may, but you can't count on it and you should not start on a military use of force in this or any other regional context unless you are prepared to say the course. In connection with that, it is clearly disadvantageous from a lot of perspectives to rule out options, and therefore I think the lesson is don't rule out options, but you have to face the problem that if you announce that all options are open, you may at the outset and mean it in any serious sense, you may create problems domestically and with allies which are intractable and prevent you from dealing with the problem at all. And in the military, as much as with the political, you have to recognize that a coalition campaign is going to involve allies. That has implications about capabilities in which the allies need to improve theirs relative to ours, but it also has implication for decision making and that to some degree, shared burdens imply shared decision making. In this kind of intervention, although I believe they have at stake important national interests do not have national survival at stake, at least in the short term, and therefore they have complex political, diplomatic, and public relations aspects which cannot simply be ignored by announcing that all that the war has started and we'll tell you or the military commanders will tell you when it's over and how it came out and what the bill is. And finally, and I think this is a difficult lesson, again, easy to stay difficult to cope with in practice. War is a, and the use of military force is ultimately war, large or small. War is a brutal, nasty business. It not only kills people, it means to kill people. And it involves risks to our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. And we cannot expect, and as a matter of historical record, the United States did not expect in the Balkan context to have a risk-free war. It is a blessing that there were no direct combat casualties among the American or NATO forces in the coast of a war. That is not what we expected. Almost all of our allies who participated in unprofor had people killed in the course of that conflict. I lost three very good friends. Civilians won an Air Force officer role in a civilian military capacity. This was not an example of America expecting a cost-free war, and we cannot expect those in the future. I think we have left, and this is, frankly, in a number of other areas, we have left a good legacy on which the new administration can build, although I certainly agree the challenges are formidable. Thanks. Thank you, Walter. Last official act as a member of the Board of Trustees. Richard Perl is a resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, where he has directed its commission on future defenses. He is a member of the Defense Policy Board and a consultant to the Secretary of Defense. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy in both the Reagan and Bush administrations and advisor to members of Congress and a frequent commentator in both print and broadcast. Richard is going to reflect on the costs and benefits of US involvement in Balkans security, consider perhaps a recalibration of US interests and what the implications are or are not for a brief definition of the military role in the Balkans. Richard, thank you. Well, thank you very much. Like Walter, I can't speak for the administration. Yet, nor for the next administration. In fact, the next administration can't yet speak for the next administration, so we are much clearer than almost anyone else. I was struck by Walt's summary description of the progress that has been made in bringing war criminals to justice, the big fish or some of the big fish, but really the big fish are still at large. And they are indeed. By the way, I hope that the incoming administration will summarily abandon all acronyms, but especially an acronym that makes it more difficult to say the word war criminal, and I should say the word war criminal. The big fish are indeed still at large. The biggest of those fish is Milosevic himself. And I can't think of a more salutary development than the apprehension and trial of Milosevic. The apprehension and trial of Karatec would do a lot as well. And I hope we don't slip into the view that because he left office the way he did that he should somehow be let off the hook. He's a continuing bad influence, and he's preventing a political catharsis of great importance, as is the failure to apprehend some other war criminals. So I hope that we will redouble our efforts and not consider that diplomacy somehow dictates a different course. One of the vaccine problems of dealing with the Balkans has been the inadequacy of traditional diplomacy. Diplomacy is at best a limited instrument. When dealing with thugs, it is sometimes close to irrelevant. And the essential fact about the Balkans has been the management of a violent process by thugs. I make the point because when we attempt to deal with thugs as though they were diplomats, or when we play such a high regard on the positions of power they occupy as heads of state, we sometimes forget that essential fact. And because traditional diplomacy has limited effects, I believe we need to think about more effective ways of applying force. When force provides an opportunity for a solution, we have fallen into a pattern of regarding force as a last resort. And what that inevitably means is that we go through a series of endeavors prior to the use of force, because we are very often in the end left with no alternative. And that process, which often includes sanctions, has included sanctions with respect to Yugoslavia, almost from the beginning. It includes sanctions 10 years after the end of the Gulf War against Saddam. The process of sanctions is very often ineffective, delays the recognition that something more significant needs to be done, and it can actually produce a situation in which force, when ultimately used, is used at a much greater cost and with necessarily inflated loss of life. And of all the measures that we need seriously to rethink as we look at the Balkans in the future, is the very limited role for such traditional approaches as agreements limiting arms. One of the great tragedies of this century, I think, will be eventually understood as, should be understood even now, as the embargo that prevented Bosnia from defending itself. Without precedent, the United Nations denying a country under attack the means of its own defense, while failing to provide that defense itself. I hope that never happens again, and I hope reflection on it causes us to reconsider the notion that's become popular, that restraint in the provision of arms is always better than the alternative. The alternative might well have been a defense of a kind that proved effective very early in the conflict, where arms were available to the other side, but where they're as in Slovenia. But where there were no arms available, we saw the tragic consequences. So we should be very careful about embargoes and very careful about a failure to permit beleaguered countries, particularly France, from finding the means to defend themselves. This has important implications for the role of the United States because while we all agree that it's best to operate with allies, I would hope that we could agree that it is best to assist those who need our help in helping themselves, and that in turn can limit the involvement of the United States while intentionally advancing the purpose. I want to talk about U.S. military forces in the region, partly because so much attention has been placed on what I think has been misunderstood as an inclination by the incoming administration to withdraw. I think that's a wrong reading of what has been said. The conflict in the Balkans has gone through phases. In Bosnia, clearly there was a moment when military forces of the kind that were dispatched to Bosnia were what we needed, or more or less what we needed. They were what we had. More agile forces might have been better, but we used what we had and we clearly needed military forces. But that conflict has gone through phases, and if I take just Bosnia for the moment, it is now clear that the military force that was needed at the outset is not what is needed today. We need something rather different The issues now are rather more akin to administrative issues and the police functions that have been referred to. And no one should mistake a decision by the United States to revise its presence to reflect the way in which the conflict has changed as a fundamental reorientation of the United States in its role and responsibilities with respect to the rest of the world. It would be a great mistake to regard a rational substitution of the role we've been playing in the past to the role now required in this period of relative calm. As far as I know, there's been very little violence in Bosnia, and it's not at all clear that the United States Army is the most effective instrument for the continuing role of the United States in Bosnia. And we shouldn't be prevented from a rational assumption of responsibility by a fear that we will be misunderstood as abandoning the world. There is a great danger in accepting the view that we will need to be there for a very long time. And the danger is that it becomes self-fulfilling that we do not take, and others do not take those steps that will in time permit the region to handle its own affairs. I suppose the clearest example of this may be the extent to which the parties are able to defend themselves and protect their own interests going forward. We have had a program far too small in my view of equipping and training the Bosnians, for example, so they can defend themselves. We need to think more seriously about how we can assist friends in the region in providing for their own defense because we will never extricate ourselves as long as extrication will produce a catastrophic change in the situation. So if we become the source of stability and others become dependent on us as a source of stability, it's like welfare dependence. It never ends. And so one needs transitional plans. And the point is not that you leave after a certain period of time or you promise to leave after a certain period of time. You can leave when the job is done. And the job is done in part when you can leave safely because you have left behind communities that are capable of doing for themselves what we would otherwise be doing for them. And if we don't take that prospect seriously, we won't put those programs in place. We need to ask ourselves what we can do uniquely. What is it the United States can do that the Germans can't do or the British or the French? When we send an American to the Balkans, it won't correct me if this is wrong. It's at least a year-long engagement, separation of the young soldier from his or her family, and it's quite costly. A German can go home for the weekend. It probably hits a ride going home for the weekend, but you're 45 minutes away by air. It makes sense in a rational division of responsibility for the German who can go home for the weekend to assume some of the responsibilities that might otherwise be assumed by American soldiers, where soldiers are necessary. And for the United States to do those things that the Germans can't do or the British or the French can't do. And we are uniquely equipped, unfortunately, in many ways, to provide logistics, communications, intelligence, and other capital-intensive capabilities. And as we sit down with our European allies to discuss the way forward, it's not a matter of America shirking its responsibility, it's a matter of a more rational division of responsibility in which we do those things that we can do best and we call upon friends and allies to do the things that they can do best. And so in recalibrating, we should be thinking along those lines, not to facilitate a withdrawal from the world, but to make more rational the way in which we relate to our friends and allies in the troubled part of the world, where I believe we will remain deeply involved. Anyone who expects the incoming administration to abandon the Balkans has not paid attention to the people who were putting that administration together, including the President-elect himself. Finally, let me throw out a suggestion. It's not unique, but I think the time has come to face it seriously. Much of the objection to the American military presence, not only in the Balkans but elsewhere, has had to do with the role that we expect military forces to play in peacekeeping operations. And very frequently, the activities associated with those peacekeeping operations are not the things for which our soldiers, sailors and airmen have been trained. They don't reflect the missions that cause them to sign up for a career as professional military people. It is a source of frustration for them and even demoralization. If we are going to be in the peacekeeping business, and I think inevitably we will, then it's time to consider establishing a peacekeeping institution that is not the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, that has some of the capabilities of fairly protecting itself and even protecting others, but that is organized, equipped, and trained and optimized for peacekeeping operations that are different from the combat operations for which we train and equip our troops at great expense. The new institution would be a good deal more contempt in its labor. The Department of Defense would be happily freed of a burden that it has taken on by default because it's been the only capability at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief, and I hope the new Commander-in-Chief will consider that perhaps we need a new capability that is not part of the Department of Defense, but that can play, continue to play an important peacekeeping role. Thank you, Richard. We're going to try to stay on schedule, but I would like to allow an opportunity for a few questions, so if you have one, if you would step up to the microphones, identify yourself, and please be brief. Do you want to say anything for the question? Mark would like to add something before the question. I want to go to this question of the overall U.S. role, which has been raised by Richard, and particularly the military role in the Balkans. It seems to me the question here is that there remains, for an unforeseen time, a number of very neurologic problems. The situation is better, but it is not complete, and we have to face those neurologic problems, and those neurologic problems may be the source of violence. Now, no one is holding to any particular level of U.S. forces. They're way down already. We provide roughly 15% of the forces. What I was trying to convey was that it is the overall American weight in determining what should be done that is most important, and that these things, with all due respect to my European colleagues, simply should not be left for Europeans alone to resolve. And one of my deep concerns is that, and I hope it does not happen, that the new incoming administration will serve to organize itself so as to diminish its involvement in the decision-making of the Balkans. And I think that the American military presence and its, or some American military presence and its, is important in negotiating with our allies what needs to be done to resolve some of these or to how to handle some of these neurologic problems. I don't think we simply can make that a burden-sharing exercise as to what U.S. forces does do. All right. We'll start with Landon in that question, and that will be all we have time for. This question comes out of the kind of worms I view grassroots experience in the Balkans over the last five years. The question is, how can we arouse sufficient public interest and support and congressional support for staying the course and doing the job that has to be done? Just a month ago, I was in Bosnia and visited some of the villages that I've been acquainted with over the last several years to see what had happened about the return of refugees. There was a time in which many of the experts said these people will never come home. They are coming home, but they are still very, very in a very precarious situation. They need more financial support if they're going to be expected to really establish a new life there. It seems to me here is the key question that we have to address. The new administration has to address. How do we build up support for providing the funds that need to be made available to carry through the economic development programs that we've talked about, partially undertaken, but still have a long way to go in carrying out? Thank you. Who would like to answer that? Waltz, you look ready? One of the most hopeful things that's been said by the Spokesman for the New Incoming Administration is what Colin Powell said when he was nominated, which is that he accepts that we need to make sure that the non-military instruments of national influence are properly funded, properly resourced. He's talked specifically about the Department of State that it's a general proposition. Hopefully the new administration, which could not have a worse relationship with the Republican-controlled Congress than ours, will be more influential. But I think you hit on a key point. The other thing is this is a place where I'm enthusiastic agreement with Richard on the point about getting the Europeans to do what the Europeans can do better than we can. The Europeans are embarked on a mad plan to pay European taxpayers money, and riddively raised by voluntary contributions to raise the Corsque. I would think that until every Bosnian has an adequate and every Kosovar, for that matter, every Serb and all the other refugees have an adequate meal a day, the Russians might be allowed to pay the cost of their own folly on the Corsque. Could I simply correct one? It was originally the case that we had one-year rotations. Now it's basically a six-month rotation. As far as I know, German soldiers do not go home for the weekend. That's both, I think, probably many of the militaries there have various kinds of leave programs, but I don't think the Germans go home. I know they do not routine they go home for the weekend. German soldiers cannot in general casually walk down to the airport and buy a ticket home. All right, we have time for one more question. I'm sorry. Trudy Rubin from the Philadelphia Inquart. I'd like to ask Mr. Abramowitz and Mr. Slocum whether you think that a new kind of peacekeepers, U.S. peacekeepers light who were not military would have the kind of heft and reflect the kind of U.S. stature that would enable them to play the kind of stabilizing role that they do now. And to Mr. Pearl, you said you thought that U.S. would be involved in peacekeeping under the new administration. Does that mean we can interpret the famous we're not going to be 9-1-1 remark to mean sometimes but not all the time? I think in this I agree. I wouldn't call it a peacekeeping core. I think one of the real and most serious lacks on the international security armamenture, so to speak is the lack of essentially kind of gendarme capability which in some sense I think is what Richard is talking about. People who are trained in some sense both as policemen and as light infantry and have some of that equipment. I'm not sure that's the place where the United States comparative advantage lies highest but I think it's a basically good idea. However, as those of you who have been there know, the United States made a deliberate and I think very wise decision that we are to quote Secretary Perry, at the beginning we are going to be the meanest dog on the block. The reason the M1A1 tanks are there is not because we fear a heavy armored assault from the remnants of the Serbska Army but because they are in fact a very good deterrent, a very good intimidating factor. They may not be necessary in the future but there was a good reason to go in very heavy at the beginning which I think Richard can see. Just on 9-1-1. The trouble with 9-1-1 is it's intended to deal oh, I'm sorry. It's intended to deal with real emergencies but the number of frivolous calls that go to 9-1-1 greatly outweighs the number of real emergencies so we need to be discriminating about where there's an emergency that requires the United States and where it's unnecessary and I think what you've seen in some of the reflections is a sense that we have been indiscriminate in the alacrity with which we've responded and we've sometimes responded if it wasn't necessary and we were not the responder of choice. Mark, you're going to have the last word. In regard to Judy's question I think one of the biggest lacuna has been shown to be the absence of instrumentalities of justice, of people, police force, protection of judiciary all those forces that are necessary once you've established some sense of peace to keep the entity developing but in many cases I don't think they can substitute for force, for real forces. A lot depends on the situation and as long as the cost of issue is unresolved I don't believe there's any possibility of building up costable forces that could take care of any resurgence which I don't expect for real forces. So the maintenance of real forces remains very important cannot be substituted by police or John Johnnery in a number of situations. In many situations they can certainly take over some responsibility. Join me in thanking my colleagues for stimulating