Welcome to Digital Asset News, Ticket Top Stories, and Cryptocurrency Digital Assets, and a big amount of Bite-sized pieces. Today, I want to do a follow-up to a video that we did about three or four days ago, and all it has to do with the micro-strategy information that they gave out at their recent seminar to all the different corporations that were actually in attendance, which was 8,000 plus of them. And the wording we need to take a look at is indefinite, lived, intangible asset, and what that could mean for the plethora of corporations and entities that are going to be signing up to buy Bitcoin, and what that will do to the market. So we'll go into that a little bit deeper, and we've actually got Shihan Shander Sakara, who is a registered CPA, going to come in and explain to us why this could be a big deal, but probably not so much. And in actuality, just to clear up some misinformation that has been put out. So we'll go over all that, but first take a look at what's going on the market. So today, it is Valentine's Day, February 14th. Congratulations, we made it! And it is high noon, and this is the prices that we got. And it looks like Bitcoin's doing good, 905? No, excuse me, 905. 48,000. Everybody thought it was going to break 50,000 a day. I just don't think that's actually going to happen. Ethereum is supposed to break 2000, still didn't do that. Tether's tethered, nobody cares. XRP! XRP is up, and I've heard rumblings and rumors that there is a settlement right around the corner with the SEC, or at least going through mediation. So we'll see what happens there. Cardinals are making huge strides. They signed up contracts for Sub-Saharan African countries. They're doing a lot of things with the ERC-20 converter. They're going to the Gogan era with their smart contracts. So they're looking pretty good. Polkadot, making a massive run by its own. All these things are great. And let me just take a look at the sentiment range real quick. Evencoin. I don't know what this, what that is, but apparently it could go up 25% in an hour. What the heck? If anybody has an idea about that one, that's why I use trade of chains. I don't know any of these things. That's why I click on this every so often to see what's going on. Tomo Chain, sounds like Tomato Coin. Up maybe 9% in the next hour. 6% for Quark. I've heard of Quark Chain. I don't really know what's going on. Theta Fuel, which makes sense because Theta is going up. Holo Chain. Band protocol. Band. Also another one of the oracles on top of what Chainlink has done. So that's all, hey, look at this. Theta Token could go up 5% in the next hour. I like to see that. Anyhow, that's real cool stuff. But before we get into this whole thing with She-Han and the indefinite and tangible asset, I want to take a look at my predictions that I had, which was on January 7th. I did that video, gosh, it's been now, wow, it's been over a month now, a month and a week. And these are the predictions that I had. And I just want to go over this real quick to see where we are actually at, because it's kind of interesting to see, you know, just how how wrong and how right I was. I mean, I like to be right, but in these predictions, I was hoping I was going to be wrong as far as like on the conservative side. And I was, which is good. So Bitcoin, I said, this is on January 7th. Bitcoin is at 38k. I thought I was going to go at 150k. And now today we're at around 486. Is that right? 486? Yeah, 486. So yeah, we're making progress. Hopefully it'll happen. Actually, CJ over at Marker Rebellion, he said, if we close it at 45, above 45k for this month, he says 62, we'll see in March. So I hope so. Anyhow, Chainlink, I had to predict it was at $17 on January 7th. I thought it would go to 35 bucks. I'm like, eh, you know, I never know. And I was pretty sure as far as the probability. And actually it's 3350, but I think we actually hit 35 already. So who knows what's going to happen with Chainlink? And again, these were very conservative numbers. So I'm happy to report that I think I'm wrong on Chainlink. If I could take a look at again, maybe 50, maybe 60, who knows, sky's the limit. Theta, I said I was going to go to 10, and today's at 329. So yeah, sure. Celsius. This was kind of underperformer. On January 7th, it was six bucks. Today it's 586. So I think it's going to go to 20, but who knows. Stellar, 33 cents to 51 cents. Okay. Polkadot, far and away has been exceeding. So it was $10 on January 7th. And it's 27 bucks right now. I thought it was going to go to 50, so we're halfway there. I mean, Polkadot could be $100, $150 type of token. Who knows. Tezos, 265, I thought it would go to 20 for whatever reason. And I put it, now it's at 493, so not too bad. VeChain, not too bad. Eos somehow has actually increased. I have no idea because I don't make anybody's doing anything on that. So whatever. But here's the one that I was totally wrong on. And it's Uniswap. And I just love what they were doing.  So it was $6 and 60 cents on January 7th. Today it is $21. I had the prediction of 20 bucks. And I thought, I was like, I was like, halfway there. So we hit the prediction. The probability was a little bit low and I was totally wrong. So I'm glad to say I'm wrong on this one. Uniswap could be fantastic, could be huge. If you are one of those people who are like looking to like make the big play, the gamble, the long shot, I think defies your avenue. And if you just take a look at Uniswap, Synthetix, Ave, maybe even even a compound. I mean, those are some pretty good plays and they could pay off massively. I own Ave and I think it was going to do well. And it did. It was 122 on January 7th. And now it was, I think it touched 500 at one point. So sky's the limit for that one. But I can't even tell you how far it could go because it could be exponential. Voyager was 29 cents on January 7th. Now it's $3.68. So I think it's going to 30. But after we did that interview with Steve Erlich, the CEO, with the loyalty program, I'm going to, I'm going to make another estimation and it's not 30 bucks. It's much, much higher. Bitcoin Cash, 41. Now it's 686. Okay. And XRP congratulations XRP holders. Can't take it away from you guys. It's diamond hands. So good job for there. Anyhow, this is going to be a fantastic year. And if you think because you watch these videos every day or every other day or however long you watch these, and you probably think that everybody's like you, but you're not. You're not right. Everybody's different. And a lot of people, you were super early this, this place.  Everybody knows everything. No one has any idea. They know about Bitcoin and maybe Ethereum and that's it. So maybe around May, June, July, you're going to see some heavy, heavy FOMO going into November, December. It's going to be, it's just going to be massive. So really, you can do no wrong in the situation. All right. So let's take a look at what I was talking about as far as that in tangible assets. Okay. So this is what I want to talk about. This was the Bitcoin accounting treatment and tax considerations for MicroStrategy. And they had actually given this as a handout to everybody who attended the seminar, which was February 3rd, February 3rd and 4th, February 2nd, 3rd, one of those two. And I was in attendance and it was great. A lot of great information was put out. And even Michael Saylor was blown away by the people who were in attendance. He said they were expecting about 1,000 corporations, but 8,000 had actually attended. And it was all about just strategies of how to incorporate Bitcoin onto your balance sheets. And this is just one of the many handouts that they gave out.  It was called indefinite lived intangible assets.  Well, the AAC Master Glossary defines intangible assets as assets not including financial assets that lack physical substance. Sounds like Bitcoin. The term intangible assets is used to refer to intangible assets other than goodwill. Cryptos are not financial assets because they are not cash. An ownership interest in an entity or a contract establishing a right or obligation to deliver or receive cash are another financial instrument. Since they lack physical substance, they are generally considered intangible assets. Other things that they talk about as far as intangible assets would be like a trademark or a logo or a franchise. Something that really doesn't have a substance, but you can somewhat put a monetary unit on it and say it's worth X amount. So Bitcoin would be a pretty good indication of that. And they talk about this again and again. I was like, I don't understand why it's so important to talk about intangible assets. And there was a video that I watched from me, Kevin, he talked about how with intangible assets, you have some different positives. One of those is that you could put this on the balance sheet as far as Bitcoin. And if the price of Bitcoin goes down for whatever they bought it at and it goes down and they have a loss, then they can claim these losses on the books without actually having to sell it because they are a corporation. And everybody was like, wow, that's pretty awesome. And I'm like, yeah, that's pretty great because if you could imagine this, imagine if you could buy an asset and it doesn't matter if it really goes up or down, you could just say, well, we're just going to claim a loss, even though there's not really a loss, we just claim a loss on the books. And then later on, when it goes up, then you can claim it as a profit, but you could either way you do things, it wouldn't really matter. So when I was thinking about this, when I heard this, I'm like, wow, if I'm a corporation, I would have to buy Bitcoin because that is the ultimate hedge, right? Because you want to minimize your risk. So if you can buy something that if it goes down, you say, I have a loss, but you don't even sell it, you claim a loss in your taxes, and then you don't have to pay so much. But then when it goes up, you're like, well, you know, those losses don't really count because we never really sold. And then later on, if you wanted to sell at a massive $100 trillion of whatever else it is that are a couple billion as a profit, you could do that if you're in trouble because they were just on the books. So when I heard about this, I'm like, this is a win-win for everybody. However, it didn't make much sense to me. And that is why I like to bring in people much smarter and have more of the know-how. And that's why I'm going to talk to Sheehan right now. So Sheehan, I'm interested right now, he's a certified CPA, and he specializes in crypto. So let's jump in the office real quick and listen to what he has to say as to what this all entails. Okay, so those are my thoughts as far as what's going to happen with these intangible assets. So I brought on Sheehan Chandrasekara. He is a registered CPA and he also specializes in crypto. So as the data approaches of April 15th, if you need help, definitely reach out to Sheehan. I will link his information in the description below. So Sheehan, what we were talking about before off-camera, tell us why this could be a good thing for Tesla or it could just be just not really that big of a deal. So let us take it away. Yeah, thanks for having me, Dan. I see a lot of incorrect takes on this going on on the social media. So it's better that we talk about this right now. I think before we talk about this specific, I want you guys to understand that if you're a big corporation, you have to maintain your financial statements under GAP, meaning generally accepted accounting principles. Your tax return and the amount of tax that you pay is not based on that accounting method. For tax return, it's prepared based on tax accounting method. So that's something to note. There's two ways to keep books. And again, this is how things have been done for decades. So in the case of Tesla, they bought cryptocurrency in $1.5 billion in Bitcoin. The way that they're being treated under GAP is that every financial quarter or every reporting period, their internal team would evaluate for impairment. In simple terms, what that means is they would check if the cost basis of the coin has exceeded the market value at the time of that reporting date. If that's the case, they would recognize that loss for book purposes, not for tax purposes, because these are a lot of people get wrong. They're like, okay, Tesla gets it right off this loss, but we don't get to do it. That's so unfair. They're like, corporate America, Elon Musk is evil. That's not the case. You get to write it off for book purposes because they want to maintain the financial statements in a very, very conservative way. Meaning, they don't want to inflate the numbers on the financials because being conservative is one of the fundamental principles when preparing your financial statements. Now, say that Tesla wrote off, let's say, for example, million bucks, let's say billion bucks in your books. It does not mean that for tax purposes, they get to write that off. For tax purposes, impairment losses that you recognize for book purposes are not deductible. For tax purposes, they only see a taxable event, only when they sell or trade that cryptocurrency, just like individuals. Gotcha. When we're talking about the quarterly earnings reports, and we could see, let's say that the cost of Bitcoin goes down, and then Tesla says, okay, well, the cost has gone down. So we're going to show this on the books. Is that what they're talking about as far as what people look at the quarterly earnings reports and go, oh, well, they lost X amount, one billion, because Bitcoin went down. But in reality, and like you said, in reality, there is the book counterpart, and then there's the actual taxes with the IRS revenue. So they could show it over here, but in reality, what they're actually showing to the government is this. Is that correct or am I not right? I mean, so both of those accounting methods do get reported to the government, right? Because SEC is a government app. Yeah, you're right. So I mean, again, I don't know how often they do the impairment. It should be in that detail. So it could be usually every six months or every year. So yeah, if the market value has gone down, compared to how much they paid for the Bitcoin on the financial statement that's getting reported to the SEC, that's going to have impairment loss on the income statement. Again, it doesn't give you, give them any benefit.  And then technically that should affect their evaluation. But you guys know about test evaluation, it has nothing to do with the fundamentals about the future and then the narrative that Elon Musk is bringing. So, but again, just to clarify, that loss is not deductible on the tax returns. Tax returns are based on a difference that are accounting rules. Yeah, because one of the things that people were talking about was, well, if this actually happens, and they say, okay, well, there is this loss on the books that it would maybe show in this earnings revenue report. And then people could say, oh, well, the example was they made $369 million last quarter. And then if their cost of Bitcoin goes down 300 million, then 300 million minus 369, it will only look like they made 69 million. And then the investors would freak out and drop the stock, it would go down, even though that's not the case. That was, I think the big issue, because people were saying, just if that happens, be aware that Tesla is still a strong company, but this actually happened, but it didn't happen. But what you're saying is, would that happen? I mean, it could have some type of impact on the price of stocks, because if Tesla technically reports like a net loss, like every quarter, because say that we are getting into a bear market, then yeah, sure, I mean, that would have an impact on the stocks. But that only if you look at the stocks on the surface, without getting into the details, because we shouldn't discount Tesla for Bitcoin going down in price, because Tesla is not in the business of running an investment fund and Tesla, they just have it on the balance sheet as a hedge. And in the next 10, 20 years, that 1.5 billion dollars worth of Bitcoin could bring in so much revenue, maybe even more than Tesla itself selling the car. So I think what I would encourage you guys to do is having that Bitcoin and the balance sheet is good, but there are so much complicated accounting treatments that they need to follow because they're SEC, the public credit company. So what you see on the net income is not necessarily what you think it is. Right. Yeah, and that makes total sense. So hopefully as time goes on, I don't think because the average buying price that they got it at was a whopping 16,000. So if it goes a little 16,000, then we could see something. But I don't think that's happening. I think in my personal predictions, it's going to peak at 150K. That's my conservative view, and then it might drop back down to 30K. So I don't think we're going to see that anytime soon. All right. She-Han, where can we find you at? I think Twitter at the CryptoCPM, pretty active there. So yeah, if you have any questions, happy to answer it. All right. Appreciate it, man. Thanks. Okay. So that's it.  I really appreciate it. He's got a very simple designed site, and I'm going to link that in the description below. It's going to talk about all about what he does. CryptoTax preparation, consultation, the whole she-bang, and you can reach out to him. We've had a number of people on the channel reach out to him. They love him. They think he's great and the service that he provides. So definitely take a look out for that.  There's also what I use, CryptoTrader.Tax. And right now, I will link this in the description also. If you're putting your first name on email, they do a weekly drawing where they give an unlimited tax report, $300 value, pretty good. I'm actually, I used them last year, and they were fantastic. From the time that I signed up, got everything done, took me 30 minutes. They said me $16,000. So if you want to equate time to money, these guys saved me a massive amount. And I'm using them again. I'm actually doing this weekend to get everything together and ship on over to my accountant. The only problem I'm having is access to Coinbase. So that's what's derailing me. Other than that, it's super simple. It's got an API integration, super simple. There's a link below. I actually show you how to use CryptoTrader.Tax. And there's a small little video, so check that out. Anyhow, so that is it for today. So if you watch the weekend, first of all, thanks. I appreciate it. 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Teacher Self-Analysis Why is it important? To be a good teacher, you need to love what you teach. Teachers are given the word not to put their thoughts to sleep, but to wake someone else's. V. Klyushevsky, Russian Historian. Teacher Self-Development A teacher who is able to learn will also be able to grow as a specialist, improve in his, her pedagogical activity and perfect his, her professional skills. The first and constant helper in this process is a teacher himself, herself. I believe that along with many well-known forms of improving the qualifications of teachers, self-analysis is one of the most effective ways of self-improvement. A good teacher is interested in achieving the desired result of his, her teaching, which, first of all, should be aimed at the effective learning of the lesson by the students. Having chosen this profession, teachers devote themselves to the important mission of conveying the knowledge, the language, in relation to EFL teaching, and continually strive to improve their skills and make their classes as enjoyable as possible. Teachers' Attitude Some teachers might be pleased with their outcome and have the attitude that they do not need to change any of their teaching practices. However, for those teachers that are overachievers or who simply wish to achieve their best level, it is imperative that they reflect on what they taught, how they taught certain concepts, and how effective their teaching, instructional strategies were. No tool will be a better motivation for teachers than self-evaluation, which would help to maintain a thorough and honest assessment of the efforts made for each lesson. Teachers' Professional Development Self-analysis is closely related to teachers' self-education issues. There may well be times when teachers might face difficulties with the subject they teach. We never climb on top of the mountain in one jump, we all keep learning. Such moments should not be neglected, but rather should be given time in necessary study since many students are usually sensitive to situations where teachers do not have sufficient knowledge of a particular subject. A deeper study of the subject and careful preparation always bear fruit, as well as instill greater confidence in teachers and allow them to perform the task with a productive result. Knowledge is Power. The main indicator of a teacher's performance is, above all, a quality lesson. This is precisely what influences such criteria as students' progress, their knowledge of the subject, their motivation. After the lesson, the teacher needs to carry out a self-analysis, determine what was successful and what was not. Having identified the most problematic issues, the teacher can eliminate the gaps that have arisen, outline measures to address the shortcomings, both in his, her own activities and in organizing the activities of the students in the classroom, and thus influence the quality of the students' knowledge. Teachers' Self-Evaluation Through self-evaluation, teachers get the opportunity to look at their lesson as if from an outsider's position to purposefully evaluate their own theoretical knowledge, methods of work and their practical interaction with the class and specific students. This is a kind of reflection, allowing teachers to assess their strengths and weaknesses, define what improvements can be made and try to give their lessons a more effective style. Such kind of self-analysis, I strongly believe, is necessary for both novice teachers and experienced ones. To analyze self-performance in professional activities, teachers may use various self-evaluation forms available for their assistance or create one on their own, including whatever areas they feel require monitoring, modification, and improvement. One way or another, any evaluative approach adds a pedagogical component to the activity of a teacher, since it is the main method of knowledge. The teacher, analyzing his lessons, indicates an interest in high-quality teaching and a desire to improve his professionalism because self-evaluation is indeed a tool for improving quality in any field. How Self-Analysis Influences Teaching In conclusion, I would say that self-analysis with the purpose of making better teaching is an integral part of the hard work of each teacher. I agree with Marshall-Brain's ideas that creation of a good class requires an immense amount of work and fair commitment including regular self-evaluation and appropriate actions of improvement. You do not simply come up with clear explanations and examples and experiments for class off the top of your head. You work at this sort of quality all the time. You spend time with your students so you can learn about holes in their understanding. You read and write and create to build an exciting and interesting class every day. The only thing that would drive you to do that is a concern and respect for the students in your classroom, emphasis on teaching and respect and care in turn lead to a more thoughtful and conscientious approach to teaching and conducting effective lessons. Do you want to be a TEFL teacher? Having passed the path of self-analysis and self-improvement, the teacher will be amazed at the changes and growth that has been achieved. Such achievements are only the impetus and incentive to maintain this assessment process for each lesson, as far as possible, in order to maintain constant excellence and a high level of teaching. 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Good evening 40 here. Have you seen this amazing article in the New York Times? Who is the bad art friend? And of course, I'm gonna use myself as a prism through wish to discuss this article art draws inspiration from life But what happens when it's your life? So this is the curious case of dawn, Dorland versus Sonja Larsen. So dawn, Dorland Decided to anonymously donate a kidney which is a wonderful beautiful thing to do and She ended up her Anonymously donated kidney ended up going to an Orthodox Jew and saving a life so She did this in June of 2015 a year after completing her MFA in creative writing and She'd been waiting to do it for years As soon as I learned I could Essentially it's kind of like not overthinking love and she started a private face Facebook group including family and friends and After her surgery where she donated the kidney she posted to a group this heartfelt letter She'd written to the final recipient of the surgical chain for her donated kidney said my childhood was marked by trauma and abuse I didn't have the opportunity to form secure attachments with my family of origin Positive outcome of my early life. It's empathy To me that the suffering she rises offering of strangers is just as real as the suffering of a family or friend now That's that's weird through my preparation for becoming a donor I'm I focus the majority of my mental energy on imagining and celebrating you So that sounds wonderful. It also sounds kind of inhuman So she got to meet their recipient of her kidney an Orthodox Jewish man and took photos with him and his family and Then she started posting outside of her private Facebook group to all of Facebook celebrating her one-year kidney anniversary, right? She's celebrating her own anonymous donation of a kidney That eventually becomes not so anonymous and so she's she's posting and posting on social media about how she anonymously donated a kidney And then when she checked Facebook, she noticed that some people she'd invited into her little Facebook group hadn't reacted to any of her posts And so she ends up writing an email to this one woman Sunya Larson Who hadn't reacted to any of her posts? So these two women had met eight years earlier and Sunya Larson was the most successful. She was half Chinese half Caucasian and Darlan sends her an email. Hey, why haven't you responded to any of my Facebook case? So please never Never ask people why they haven't responded to your Facebook posts It's like way too needy. So this is another theme that I talk about a lot about on this on this channel That I've been trying to implement. I have an inexhaustible Desire for attention and admiration. All right, so I've got very strong tendencies towards narcissism and grandiosity And so what I've learned over the years is that one thing I can do is give myself attention and love and applause and admiration When I earn it instead of needing it from other people. So ideally you want to be able to stand on your own two feet and La Pony is bro. Yeah, I mean I love to give myself admiration and love but getting it from you It's twice as good, bro twice as good. That is like love love squared So So if you if you can give yourself the applause and the admiration that you said desperately want from others Then I think you're much less likely to email someone like why haven't you been applauding my live streams? Well, the ponies is here to give me the attention that I said desperately see so When you're desperate for attention and admiration as I have been through much of my life That makes you very easy to manipulate So that's another another reason for why You want to get a handle on these things now? Lot of people then go to the other extremes like oh, I should never seek attention. I should deny this This tender needy side of myself.  You know, I'm not making pornography here. I'm doing high-level intellectual discourse All right, we're having high-level intellectual intercourse right now But if I did want admiration and attention, I wouldn't be making any of these streams, right? I just perhaps write anonymously on a blog so if you if you are particularly thirsty for attention and And admiration as I still sometimes am It's good to know that there are places in your life where that's appropriate and that way you'll be less exhausting I think to people in the rest of your life So if I'm needy for attention and admiration I can go on YouTube and I can seek out your attention and admiration and that way I don't have to bother my neighbors and I don't have to bother with acquaintances and friends and I Can get just get on with my life of my my few minutes of a dopamine hit and then move on with my life But obviously as best if you can stand on your own two feet so Usually is emailing or Facebook messaging in a Quenton say, you know How haven't you responded to any of my posts about my anonymous kidney donation? so So it ends up the Sun Sunya Larsen writes a short story about an entitled white woman who uses her anonymous kidney donation to emotionally blackmail people and demand from them love and admiration which which is It seems painfully prescient here so You don't want to be Manipulating people to give you love and attention because they're gonna resent you you should never ask more from a friendship than I then I can give Because that just causes people to want to put more distance between you. I've done that I've asked more from a from an acquaintanceship or you know light friendship than I could give and just like created distance between me and and There's other people so now Sunya Larsen writes a short story about a woman who donates a kidney and She includes in it a note from from Dawland and almost word-for-word and So now we've got now we've got a copyright violation. So Dawland eventually reads the story and She's really hurt. I discovered that a writer friend. Okay, so often people think that someone who's just an acquaintance as a friend Has based a short story on something momentous. I did in my own life without telling me or ever intending to tell me All right, so you can so this this Dawland Lady is obviously looking to feel hurt. Have you met people like that? I met a lot of people like that dawn Dawland She's obviously Looking to feel hurt. So I encounter a lot of people. They're just like more applying Reasons to feel hurt and damaged and victimized So I think we have certain intense experiences in childhood that we then Easily become feel compelled to to repeat over and over and over again So I remember from childhood perhaps the dominant emotional experience of childhood was the feeling of rejection And so I then found myself creating an adult life where I would recreate being rejected over and over again So I was creating the rejection, but then being absolutely traumatized and blindsided and Destroyed when the rejection occurred and then I would recreate the rejection all over again So dawn Dawland is very much this this type of person It's just kind of going through life looking for her feelings to get hurt Like people go through life like looking for reasons to feel like a victim. Ah, here we go again I'm just gonna get screwed over again and I love the title of this bad art friend. So I have friends who I've I've never written about and I have Interactions that I would never write about but I also have friends that I have written about some interactions and any writer is Constantly, you know looking for materials. So if you're if you're interacting with Philip Roth and it was Useful to him, of course, he was going to use it. I remember the woman that I lost my My virginity too she had a friend and A friend told her I shouldn't you shouldn't get into a relationship with a writer because he's gonna write about you one day so Writers can be dangerous. There's a saying that once a family has a writer in it. The family is finished so Sonja Larsen says I've seen references to my own life and other people's fiction and certainly felt weird But I maintain that they have a right to write about whatever they want as do I and as do you So this is a principle of artistic freedom. All right, so honoring another person's artistic freedom is a gesture of friendship and of trust so That's a thoughtful perspective here Sonja Larsen half half Chinese half Caucasian So daughter of a Chinese American mother and a white father and being mixed race sometimes confused her So she's the more accomplished writer when compared to dawn Dawson So eventually dawn Dawn starts calling places where Sonja Larsen is employed Christie Kenyon's family has a writer in it. Does it not? Yeah. Well, I think Chris wasn't Christie Kenyon adopted and She married my friend Rob Spillone who is not embarrassed to be written about so the the short story that Sonja Larsen wrote about the kidney donation is called the the kindest and Dawn Dawson started like phoning everyone connected to Sonja Larsen So dawn Dawson has done such a magnificent moral deed in anonymously giving or not so anonymously giving a kidney All right, this is a moral deed But she comes across as quite unsympathetic in this article So that probably the more moral person comes across as less empathetic now I had a friend who had some severe health problems and I volunteered to give a piece of my lung so that this kid could could live and The reaction to that in my religious community is that Luke is just looking for redemption Which is which is true like Luke was looking for redemption I wanted to be Embraced again by a synagogue that had kicked me out So I was volunteering to give up a piece of my lung so that I could return to this synagogue that had kicked me out So I was coming from a place of great emotional neediness. So throughout my life I've had this hope that some one grand moral gesture on my part could outweigh and Cover up all the crappy things that I've done And people could just see right through it and nobody was fooled But this was not just a you know a reflection of what a wonderful person I am. This is another needy bid for love by Luke and people don't like being around emotionally needy people It's exhausting and people don't like being emotionally blackmailed and people don't like Being asked why haven't you commented or liked my my Facebook posts? so dawned all on Threatens to sue anyone who Who publishes the kindest she she tries to destroy Sonia Larson's life like she she caused her employer She caused anyone connected to Sonia Larson. She does all the damage she can It ends up in a lawsuit. So dawned all on initially files a lawsuit for copyright infringement Sonia Larson files back a lawsuit for libel and then dawned all and does it counter Complaint which gives her access To this this All these interchanges that Sonia Larson had which which Which were quite contemptuous of Dawn Dolan and her needy Emotional manipulation so dawn Dolan wrote this letter to her anonymous donor of her kidney my childhood was marked by trauma and abuse I didn't have the opportunity to form secure attachments with my family of origin a positive outcome My early life is empathy that had opened a well a possibility between me and strangers Well, perhaps many more people would be motivated To donate an organ to a friend or a family member in need to me the suffering of strangers is just as real so One I'd hope that's not true to its emotional and moral showing off and Then Sonia Larson uses very similar version of this note in her story My own childhood was marked by trauma and abuse. I wasn't given an opportunity for secure attachments with my family of origin Etc. Etc. It's just like dawn Dolan's notes. So here we've got What seems like a pretty clear copyright violation and I can see why Sonia Larson used it because it was just so needy but and Dawn Dolan came came to Sonia Larson with objections in 2016 And then Sonia Larson starts rewriting the letter to make it less less liable for copyright prosecution Dawn Dolan's attorney keeps increasing in demand initially 5,000 their 15,000 10,000 their 15,000 just to cover legal expenses that dawn Dolan initiated Dawn Dolan like contacts all of Sonia Larson's friends from various writer groups And say why didn't you check in with me when you knew that Sonia's kidney story was related to my life? 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to Sheboygan County government. Working for you, my name's Adam Paine, Sheboygan County Administrator and co-host of this program with Chairman Mike Van der Steen. And today we're very pleased to have one of our 22 department heads with us, Mr. Jim Riesenberg, who is the veteran service officer. Welcome, Jim. Glad to be here. Jim was just sharing before the program today that Sheboygan County has about 115,000 people in total. And if you just take the adult population, 14% of all the adults in Sheboygan County are veterans. And I found that rather remarkable. That's a significant percentage of the population here. It is, and that's a, according to the latest demographics, a fairly reasonable figure for just about every county in the state. It ranges anywhere from 13 to 15%. So from that standpoint, I guess we're an average county. Today, Jim's gonna talk a little bit about his roles and responsibilities as veteran service officer, the very important services that his office provides, and give us a flavor for his perspective on how the county, the state, and the U.S. as a whole is doing and serving veterans. Jim, please begin by telling our viewers a little bit about yourself, and when you start, when you start as veteran service officer. Well, I'm a 1960 graduate of St. James, Minnesota high school after the work ran out in the spring of 1961. I knew in September in my birthday the draft board would come after me, so I wanted to fly. So I killed two birds with one stone, I dodged the draft by joining the Navy because they told me if I passed my test and got a good score, I could have my choice of career field and aviation. And it worked, except that by the time it came for me to take my actual involvement in flying, they told me my hearing wasn't good enough to qualify me for either an air crewman or a pilot, so I said, well, that's fine, then I'll just finish my four years and we'll see you later. I spent about 20 years combined between television and radio. Moved here to Wisconsin in 1967. Some time in radio and for a while at the Gilson Brothers plant in Plymouth. And when my predecessor, Katie Holtz, who announced her retirement in December of 1986, some friends of mine who were with the American Legion, namely late, Norb Cooney, and Harry Chaplin said, why don't you get your butt in there and apply for the job? I think you'll have a chance to get it. So on January 21st, 1987, the county board elected me as their fifth county veteran service officer and that's where we're at today. Very good. So when you say elected, appointed, you're not an elected official. It was an election. It was just an election until one person got the majority vote. I think there were seven or eight ballots cast. Amongst the county board. Amongst the county board super-voters. Very good. What is the mission and primary responsibilities of the veteran service office? Our mission statement is relatively simple. We serve those who serve and we have several things that we've tried to do. We try to advocate for veterans as much as we can on the political scene. And basically I think to put it in as few words as possible, connect the veteran and the available benefits, the outreach and the public awareness to let the veterans know that there are programs out there for them and you don't need a Philadelphia lawyer to read your way through these programs. You just need to talk to the experts and here in Wisconsin the experts are supposed to be your county veteran service officer. So what we try to do through a myriad of different plans and plots and forms of attack, get to the veterans, get to the qualifying dependents, let them know there are programs there and in spite of what somebody may tell you, it's not tough to get into these programs. You just need to find somebody to help you do it. And you've obviously got tremendous experience in that regard and you have an assistant in your office. One of the smallest, if not the smallest department of the county, yet as we mentioned earlier, serving a pretty significant percentage of the population. It's overwhelming at times. I do feel fortunate that I've had a good staff, I've had dependable staff. Since I've been there, the fourth reception has started there. So I've been rather fortunate that way and I don't know whose takes credit for that but it certainly is appreciated but not only myself but our clients as well. The current global war on terrorism, seven years in Afghanistan, five years in Iraq. It's creating a generation of new veterans, more people frankly for you and your assistant to serve. What's been the effect on your workload? How have you managed this? Well, to step back and look a little bit, we're not, veterans aren't coming home in the millions like they did after World War II or the thousands like they did after Korea and after Vietnam. So they are coming in here and there one by one. I have been to two demobilization briefings that the Department of Defense in the state of Wisconsin has put on for these men and women. And they're doing a tremendous job. These men and women, they all assemble and they have like, I think 25 or 30 different stations that they have a car, the checklist that they have to go through and they're not permitted out of the building until they've gone through all of these checkpoints. And one of the checkpoints and the two that I have been at are County Veterans Service Officers. There's medical people there, there's education people there, there's state people there, there's county people there, there's retention people there, everything you can think of. They get a pretty good going over while they're still basically in uniform. So that makes our work a whole lot easier. We sit with them as veteran service officers and basically encourage them to go back, talk to their county veteran service officer if they have not already done so. When they come to our office, it pretty much we find out first of all what their basic needs are if everything is okay. And it's always nice if there's a significant other person in their life if they bring that person along because we talk about and we give them the spiel about the state benefits that are available, the federal benefits are available, any traumatic injuries or anything that may cause problems or hurt when you get to be this age and things like that. No, not really. And look at the separation document and it shows your combat infantryman. How's your hearing? It's okay. Turn to the other person. How's his hearing? It ain't worth a dang. Okay. Do we wanna file a claim for hearing loss for the federal government? Well, so those are the types of things. We talk about education using Montgomery GI Bill, using Wisconsin GI Bill and all the other programs that are available and what it takes to qualify for them. So as far as actual increase in the workload, the numbers haven't been significant. This war obviously has its signature injury which is the traumatic brain injury. So we do try to be extra careful to make sure that if we may have missed that, that we do make them aware that if there are problems down the road, come back and see us because there's help for it. So if there's a veteran who is watching this program and has never contacted your office or hasn't pursued any type of benefit one way or the other, what you mentioned education, you mentioned that if there's an injury, I don't expect you to remember them all but what are some of the types of benefits that they might wanna come in and talk to you about? Well, we generally find out if we need to make sure there were no physical or mental illnesses or I usually say any broken bones or strains or sprains or anything like that because if you had a sprained ankle the day before yesterday, when you get to be this age, it's gonna hurt. So we need to find out for sure, we ask them twice. And as far as the, that's the physical part of it, if there are any problems, let's address them now. You have one year from your last day of active duty to do that and have to pay retroactive to your last day of active duty. As far as the other benefits, education, a lot of them, if they're a regular army or a regular military, the Montgomery GI Bill funding, the Wisconsin GI Bill now which offers a tuition waiver. So we talk to them about those are the basics. If home buying is in their future, maybe the loan guarantees certificate, things like that. So we try to find out and then ask them if there's anything that they wanna know about it, if there's anything that we didn't cover. We can spend anywhere from an hour and a half to two or three hours depending on the particular situation. And what's the best way for a veteran to follow up and get more information? Well, there's a lot of ways. It's a dot com and a WW world that we live in, that's for sure, we all know that. So you can call the<PHONE_NUMBER> which is the toll free number down at the regional office in Milwaukee. And that's the number answers anywhere in the world. And I don't have the state number memorized so I'm gonna cheat a little bit here. 1-800-947-8387 is the number there. And there's also va.gov which is the federal website and dva.state.wi.us which is the state website. And if you can't get the information, most of those places will direct you to either the state office or a county office in whichever seems to be the most appropriate. The regional office setup is changing from what it used to be. All our telephone calls to the 800 number not in Milwaukee anymore. They're all answered in St. Louis. So if you tell them you're from Cheboyga, they might ask you, what's that? You won't get the response you were hoping for that came out of Milwaukee. I've often thought you have perhaps the most succinct but one of the best mission statements of any county department to serve those who served. What's the challenge of that? Or what are some of the challenges of working with your clientele? Well, there really, I would say we could put our basic challenges probably to the ones we can do something about once we can't. The ones we can't do something about basically are Washington says the most we're gonna pay you for this is $27. That's it, doesn't make any difference. So it's the law, right?  And the biggest challenge, and I was talking to somebody about that earlier today, right now we have three families who cannot get a casket flag for the deceased veteran. They could not have military graveside rights. They're not gonna get a flag and a flag holder at the cemetery because there's no proof of military service. We have three, four others that are waiting for various types of benefits. And we can't do anything for them because we don't have proof of military service. If you got out after January 1st, 1950, it's a DD 214. It's your record of service. It says on top of it, it's this important document safeguarded. Well, guess what, a lot of you. That's been a challenge in the 20 years that I've been in this job. It's one of the first things I started harping on in 87, and that's one of the things I continue to harp on simply because, and it's not only these people, someone comes in and wants to apply for pension, the older veterans of World War II veterans and the Korean War veterans. Where's your proof of service? I don't know. Where are we living when you went in? Right here in Sheboygan. Never filed a claim for benefits. Never took the time to have it record at any place. So here we sit, and if we have to go to the big file center in St. Louis, that generally, if it's available, that's gonna take three weeks at a minimum to get that document. So for heaven's sakes, if you have one, and I try to tell these people and talk to the funeral directors, they're very responsive, we don't need one. If you're planning a funeral and you're gonna give one to the funeral director, that's fine. They're gonna call us for a casket flag when you pass away, so we'll have one. But if nobody has one, I don't care how many medals you have in your chest or how many pictures you have of you in the war zone without that document, we can't do anything. And that, to me, that is the biggest challenge, and it still isn't, probably always will be. Interesting, thank you, Jim. Jim, I know Memorial Day turned out to be a huge success here in Sheboygan. Number of different events, the parade happened in Sheboygan and was revitalized. I know you've had a part in many of these celebrations services in the past. Why is it important for these public events to recognize Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, and Pearl Harbor Day? Well, Bill, there's several reasons for that. Veterans organizations, we have 26 here in the county, and part of their responsibility or their commitment to the community, as I like to refer to it, is to remember the service and sacrifice of men and women in uniform. But it also, you need to know and remind the public of a couple of things. Freedom isn't free. If you remember the video that we saw just before Memorial Day, you have the right to worship in the house of your choice.  And the comparison I always like to use is that your money isn't measured in yen or marks or pranks. It's measured in American dollars. And that right or that privilege didn't just drift out of the sky like a bunch of snowflakes or raindrops. Freedom isn't free. Someone has to pay the price. Someone always does. And that's usually the men and women in uniform. So we need to remember their sacrifice, but we also need to be reminded that, excuse me, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, that these honored dead shall not have died in vain. It's a reminder of our responsibility to maintain the freedom that these men and women serviced and sacrificed for in years past. I agree. You indicated that there's like 26 veteran service organizations in Sheboygan County. What are some of the projects that these different groups are involved in? Well, aside from the patriotic observances, I think right here in the city of Sheboygan, I think American Legion Baseball is a very big project here in the city, has been for quite a few years. Many of the organizations provide scholarships in spring at awards day at the schools. You'll see a lot of the organizations up, presenting scholarships to students. There are other events, Veterans Day and Flag Day at the nursing homes and other institutions around the county, and things like that. There are Flag Day presentations, Flag etiquette presentations in the school, Veterans Day programs at school, in the schools. I think the Plymouth Legion's now starting a shooter, a air rifle shooting course. So they do a lot of things and a lot of things that probably the general public never sees or hears about. They go to the Veterans Homes at King and Union Grove. They go to the VA hospitals at different times of the year to cheer veterans, make a visit. Just veterans, you'd be surprised if you go, and I'm sure it's a similar situation in a non-veteran nursing facility, where there are men and women there with no close kin, no family members. Nobody comes to see them. They're only in contact with the outside world probably be the Legionnaires and the BFW guys that come in a couple of times a year to say hi to them and remember them for their service. That's great. Are there different membership requirements for a veteran to join these organizations? And if so, what are they? Yes, there are. Veterans organizations are blessed with a special tax exempt status by the Department of Revenue. But in order to maintain this, they need to ensure that if their charter says, you need to have this or you need to have this, that's what their membership needs to meet. For example, the Military Order of the Purple Heart.  Veterans of foreign wars, your membership is limited to those who have a campaign medal that indicates that they served on a foreign soil during a designated conflict. Vietnam Veterans of America. You need to have honorable active military service during a specified time period that covered the war in Vietnam. They all do in exchange for the tax exempt status. They have the special membership requirement. I stress that, and I also stress the fact that you also need to ensure or at least guarantee to that host organization that you do indeed meet the qualifications of membership because failure is allying to the government and that's not a good thing. That's true. Jim, on occasion we hear about the draft being reinstated. You know, this was ended in the early 70s during the Vietnam era and I remember my draft number was 205 and I never got to that point for me to be called up. But from your point of view, do you think this was a good decision or do you think we should reinstate the draft? Well, this is interesting because I just, one of the new services that I subscribed to, it's been 35 years since the draft ended. So we've had an all volunteers force for 35 years and I think if you look at the reenlistment and the retention rate of our military service today, in spite of what's going on seven years in Afghanistan, five years in Iraq and the heads of the top brass and all of the veterans, the service organizations Army, Navy, Air Force, all say they have a excellent and outstanding staff in the survey of the men and women in uniform patriotism. It certainly wasn't meals ready to eat or sleeping in the sand was something you've never seen before calling all over you. So good and bad, I don't think it was a bad move but if I say it was a good move, I don't want to take anything away from us who were members of the draft segment of our military force either. So good from the standpoint that yes, it's doing, it's a credit to the men and women in uniform. Thanks for your thoughts on that, Adam. Freedom isn't free and you just also mentioned seven years in Afghanistan, five years in Iraq. In your experience, 20 years now as a veteran service officer, but just your experience in this area, what's your sense of the media attention and the public awareness? It seems to me that of course just like anything when it's new, of course there's all sorts of media attention, but I wonder how many of our viewers may have been just a little bit surprised to hear you say, my goodness, have we been in Afghanistan seven years already and have we really hit five years in Iraq? Well, it's, I'm not really sure. Every time you turn around a different media organization puts a different spin on it, but then when you talk, when you sit down and talk to the men and women who are coming back from there, the men and, once in a while it depends, some people will talk about it, some people won't. And it's kind of like talking to somebody who was at Pearl Harbor, who saw the movie Pearl Harbor or who saw Saving Private Ryan, who was at Normandy. If they saw Private Ryan, they'll say it's fairly realistic. If you talk about Pearl Harbor, they'll probably laugh at you because it's not even close, most of it. I really have mixed feelings about that. I don't want to say anything good or bad, but you do hear different stories. And we're talking to the men and women who come back if you kind of try and meld the two together a little bit, you do get kind of an idea. And there are some sources that do provide a more realistic picture than what our media provides for us. Do you think as a whole it was very encouraging? It was heartwarming this year to see Memorial Day get renewed, as Mike mentioned earlier in the participation we saw. And there was just kind of a call to arms almost with it this year. And I'm wondering in the public as a whole, do you think we need more of that attention and awareness to the fact that we do have men and women serving and fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq? Or do you think generally speaking that the way the public views it now and how people go along with their lives and perhaps don't think about it daily or even weekly is that no different than the Vietnam era or World War II? Well, I really don't know if the magnitude of the observance is really as important as the fact that you are remembering. You know, even if you have something, nothing more than a silent march, you're taking the time to recognize, you're taking the time to remember and you're taking the time to say thank you. It really, it doesn't have to be as they do in Washington and all day from dusk to dawn type celebration. But I think the thought and the heart behind it I think is more important than anything. If you don't mean it, it doesn't mean anything. It needs to be something sincere. Looking back at your now 21 years as veteran service officer and the hundreds and hundreds of people that you have served and families that you've touched, what do you envision as being key challenges ahead? Well, it kind of, as I indicated before, I think the greatest challenge that I think that our programs face and you know as well, both of you know as well as I do, that the dollar gets a little smaller every day and it just seems like there's another hand reaching for it every day and both on the state and the federal level. I don't like to think of us as pawns but we are at the mercy of Washington and Madison to fund our programs. Unfortunate sometimes I think that we have to have a war before veterans benefits get hauled out and cleaned and polished and to see what do we need. We've been very fortunate, at least here in Wisconsin, our elected officials, the ones who represent our area from the time I've been in office have all been very supportive as our good friend, Cal Potter said one time, meaningful veterans legislation. There seems to be a united front on all sides when it comes to supporting veterans programs and I think that is still going to be a challenge and at the federal level, it's, I don't know how to describe it. If you're going to go to war, you're going to create veterans, you're going to have to expect, you're going to have to take care of the warrior sooner or later and you can't take from the World War II guys to help the GWO global war on terrorism guys and gals. You need to have it equal all the way across the board. The biggie of course and one that's probably the most visible is the Veterans Health Administration, the VA medical centers. We work very closely with the social workers at the Cleveland facility and at the Appleton facility to make sure that nobody gets missed. If we need to make house calls, if we need to send letters, if we need to make telephone calls, if whatever we need to do, we do because we know that somewhere along the line they'll fall through, they fell through from World War I, they fall through from the cracks from Korea and Vietnam all over. And when we find them again, it's not impossible to help them, but the farther away you get, the tougher it gets to address what needs to be addressed. So the big challenge is funding for these programs. There should be a better mechanism in place. There are probably some individuals in certain positions of power that do have an eye on the purse strings who probably shouldn't be there. Again, it depends on your point of view and how they react to the request that someone is making. They increase, I always get a kick out of they say, well, we increased the budget 27% over the last two years. Well, it was 57% behind when you started this, so you really haven't done a whole lot. We've only got about 30 seconds, Jim. And I did wanna ask you one more question. That is, what's been most rewarding for you working as veteran service officer? Serving those who serve. You can't believe it, unbelievable. Thank you, Jim. You're welcome. And thank you for joining us. As you just heard a lot going on in our veteran service office, providing very important information to a lot of people in Sheboygan County and done by Mr. Jim Riesenberg and one staff person, I can tell you in my 10 years working for Sheboygan County, I think I could count on one hand how many times I've heard anyone ever say anything of any concern about that office. And I can count on all 10 toes and 10 fingers and Chairman Van der Steen's as well, all the good things I've heard about Jim Riesenberg and their office and the people they serve. So Jim, thank you. You're welcome. On behalf of Mike Van der Steen, the Sheboygan County Board and myself, thank you for joining us. Next month, Tim Finch, our finance director, will be here to talk about our budget process. Thank you for joining us.


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