She's back Remember Elliot Angle the person who we've been talking about quite a bit lately He's the politician from New York's 16th Congressional district who recently equated AOC endorsing his opponent to Dictatorship he literally said this and on top of that showing up to his district for the first time in months He was caught on hot Mike saying he wouldn't care if he didn't have a primary So this is an individual who has been exposed so much lately that even the mainstream media might not miss a Huge political upset because back in 2018 Nobody in mainstream media was paying attention to AOC and her primary challenge against Joe Crowley They thought that he was untouchable But now they're starting to realize that not all incumbents are safe and even CBS news Realizes that this could be an upset so as a result because Elliot Angle is in danger here Well, the establishment is bringing out the big guns to try to stop Jamal Bowman from beating him So first of all house majority whip Jim Clyburn along with Adam Schiff have come out to endorse him And also Hillary Clinton has decided to throw her weight behind Elliot Angle now This comes after he was already endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Black Caucus Yes, you heard that right Congressional Black Caucus endorsing a white conservative Over a black primary challenger who was progressive who actually cares deeply about issues related to racial justice and social justice and economic justice I mean you can't make this up So I need you to understand This represents everything wrong with the Democratic Party because they're coming out to endorse him After he put his foot in his mouth multiple times This is an individual who is not a serious person. He literally said that AOC endorsing Jamal Bowman is like dictatorship. He says this isn't a dictatorship. This is a democracy So or all of these endorsements that you're receiving from Establishment politicians is that tantamount to dictatorship as well or is it only a dictatorship when your opponent gets endorsed? Katie Porter and Bernie Sanders also endorsed Jamal Bowman because he's a good candidate, right? He's bringing together people from the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party Whatever they represent and Bernie Sanders Democrats who actually want people in Congress who are going to represent working-class Americans and Hillary Clinton, I mean, it's especially egregious right because she's not really in politics anymore She doesn't necessarily have a role. She has no power All she has is influence and she's using it selectively at times to basically Keep us from making any progress. You're endorsing Elliot Engel over Jamal Bowman Like what are you doing? Are you proud of this Hillary? I mean, she really has no shame So I shouldn't be asking that question But this individual if you weren't already discussed it with Elliot Engel I think this article from the intercept really explains everything wrong with him And it speaks to how horrible Democrats are who choose to endorse this person quote GOP money flowing to Super PAC backing Representative Elliot Engel document show and Ryan Grimm and Akila Lacey explain a Republican super PAC is funding an outside effort to help reelect Democratic representative Elliot Engel locked in a tight primary against insurgent Jamal Bowman The super PAC is called Americans for tomorrow's future following in the proud tradition of Nonsensically named political action committees The connections to the GOP are apparent enough that the Center for Responsive Politics lists it as Republican conservative the PAC's Treasurer David Satterfield is a former aide to one-time Republican Senate leader Bill Frist Satterfield works now at Huckabee Davis Lisker a prominent firm that does election compliance and accounting work for Republican campaigns This cycle the firm is handling the accounts for the National Republican Senatorial Committee National Republican Congressional Committee and the campaign of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell among dozens of other GOP operations The PAC presumably due to its visible Republican ties is not spending directly in Engel's New York primary instead It funneled one hundred thousand dollars to another super PAC called Democratic Majority for Israel on May 27 Dmfi a controversial operation inside the Democratic Coalition Spent heavily against Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary with help from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Or IPAC the intercept reported in February since cashing the Americans for tomorrow's future check Dmfi has spent more than six hundred thousand dollars boosting Engel and hitting Bowman on TV and with digital ads Mailers and paid phone banking Dmfi has not spent money on any other race since taking money from the GOP operation The congressman who's been in office for over three decades is the chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee where he has served since 1994 from that perch he has been particularly Conservative on policy toward Israel even as the base of the Democratic Party moves leftward on the US-Israel alliance Pro-Israel groups have contributed more than 1.3 million to Engel over the course of his career Nor PAC another pro-Israel PAC is Engel's second largest contributor this cycle after the pro-Israel America PAC And it's given his campaigns 132,509 dollars throughout his career while Bowman's campaign is focused on issues like health care housing education and justice reform More than foreign policy. He would certainly be more progressive than Engel whose loss would be a major blow to leading pro-Israel political groups So long story short, you know, this GOP PAC is trying to you know A covertly give this money to Elliot Engel and they're giving this money to him Through these pro-Israel groups now it's funny because Hillary Clinton came out to endorse Elliot Engel and she has spent years Screaming about foreign interference in our elections Donald's a varied praise praise worthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough long game here So wouldn't these pro-Israel super PACs pro-Israel lobbyists Be tantamount to foreign interference Isn't that an issue? Isn't she as equally outraged as Russia interfering in our elections? Because you know Russia can do a lot of things to try to undermine our elections posting memes online Whatever you want to you know say about it, but you literally have Organizations lobbying on behalf of foreign governments Israel Saudi Arabia and the people who scream the loudest About Russia like Hillary Clinton are a okay with that So I don't want to make this about a Russia gate But just note the hypocrisy there note that people in the Democratic Party are coming out to endorse the individual who's being bankrolled by a Conservative organization who has spent his career being a conservative in Congress Serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee not actually representing its constituents You know, I think we have to really emphasize and we talked about this last time This man did not enter his district a single time throughout the course of the pandemic And it's not even over yet But the first time he shows up in his district shows his disgusting weasley face He's caught on the hot mic saying I need to speak because I wouldn't care if I didn't have a primary So let me talk now. I'm paraphrasing he didn't say explicitly let me talk But he was trying to make his case as to why he should be able to speak at that event Which was the Black Lives Matter event, which is because you know He wants to show his community that he's there, but he's not there This is the absence of leadership the 16th Congressional District of New York has not had a leader, right? And now I think that members of the Democratic Party establishment They see which way the winds are blowing and they realize they could be looking at another AOC type upset But you know, it's not a foregone conclusion We all thought that Jessica Cisneros had a great chance against Henry Cullar in Texas But in this instance Jamal Bowman could actually beat Elliot Angle and they know that and they're scared Which is why they're bringing out people like Jim Clyburn, Adam Schiff, and Hillary Clinton to try to stop Jamal Bowman's momentum But what we have to do in response is have Jamal Bowman's back Go to BowmanForCongress.com donate to him. If you live in that district, please sign up to canvas for him a phone bank for him There are things you can do to help make his victory a reality We can't let people like this continue to win We can't allow the Democratic Party establishment try to tip the scales in favor of their preferred candidate who's a corporate is Who doesn't even care about these issues? He admitted he doesn't care about these issues So the fact that Hillary Clinton and Jim Clyburn and Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Black Caucus are Supporting someone like this and not unequivocally denouncing him because he claimed he didn't care or wouldn't care about black lives matter If he didn't have a primary, I mean this speaks volumes to the types of people that they are They're opportunists and they don't care about issues. They just want to maintain the status quo and prop up the establishment He's got to go


Joining us to talk about your health and to answer your sleep related questions is Dr. Emerson Wickwire, a sleep specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and professor of psychiatry and medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Doctor, thank you so much for joining us again. It's a pleasure to be back. Let's reintroduce you to the audience. Tell us about what you focus on. What are the chief complaints of the people you see? At the University of Maryland Medical Center, Midtown Campus and at the School of Medicine, we have a large and comprehensive sleep medicine program. We do all the sorts of things that one would expect in an academic medical center. We have a busy outpatient clinical practice. We feature an accredited sleep medicine fellowship and we do a great deal of extramirally funded sleep research. So next weekend we're going to spring forward and I don't think I'm bothered by that. Maybe I'm forgetting something but it definitely bothers some people. It does bother some people. There are a few different ways to think about the issue. From a health perspective, even though it's only an hour, quote-unquote only an hour, when we consider that subtle change and the very precise fine tuning of what's called our circadian clock, multiply that by 330 million individuals in the United States and there are actually significant health risks associated with that one-hour time change. I mean it's shocking. I mean people have heart attacks. They have car crashes, strokes, things that I wouldn't have thought could be related to what I feel like is a little shift. It's not flying to Australia, put it that way. It's not but also when you fly to Australia you are one individual who can employ a number of mitigation strategies from getting extra sleep before you go to sleeping on the plane and avoiding alcohol and all those other things that were advised to do with international travel. From a public health perspective, a third of Americans are sleep deprived to begin with and so when we take away that extra hour of sleep, it increases risk significantly. 6% increased risk for motor vehicle crash, for example, in the several days following the time change and of course currently we change times twice per year. It's really the springing forward that is associated with the increased risks because in the fall, by contrast, we gain an additional hour of sleep. What's your perspective on the idea of just doing away with this? There are two ways to proceed. The first would be to adopt a permanent daylight savings time approach that was proposed in Congress even within the past several years or to adopt a permanent standard time approach. The coalition for standard time advocates adopting a permanent standard approach and there are a number of reasons. Let me remind our viewers if you have a question, you talk about daylight savings time, but if you have a question about sleep insomnia related problems, give us a call at the number on the screen or send us an email to livequestionsatmpt.org. You said a third of people are sleep deprived. The average U.S. adult is significantly at risk for insufficient sleep or what we call chronic sleep disorders. You asked earlier about the University of Maryland. The two most common sleep disorders that we see in our outpatient clinical practice as well as throughout the entire UMMS system are what's called obstructive sleep apnea, which is a disorder of breathing during sleep. One way to think about that is that it's severe snoring or chronic insomnia, which by contrast is difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. And both of these sleep disorders are of course associated with a number of daytime symptoms as well as long-term health risks. We'll come back to that. Let's go to the phones to Calvert County. This is Sue. Thank you for calling. Go ahead. Oh, hi. This is Sue from Calvert County. Yes. I'm calling because I'm 70 years old and sort of starting to have geriatric type sleep problems. It sounded like something Biden discussed recently, the sleep apnea and waking at different times. And I know they can be associated with aging and various sleep problems. So I'm curious about the insomnia type problems that geriatric patients might have. Thanks for the call. Good luck with that. And is that a thing as you get older? There are changes in sleep as we age. The caller and our other audience members will be interested to know that insufficient and disturbed sleep increase risk for a number of age-related consequences, not only better known consequences like diabetes and cardiovascular risk, but also present an increased risk for dementia and cognitive decline. There are a number of studies that very strongly suggest that clinical sleep disorders as well as sleep duration increase risk for Alzheimer's disease. Some people because of work or shift workers, they're going to have problems. It's tough. I've been there to adjust to a different shift and then adjust back. But if you're not in that boat, give us some good advice. Well, I'd be happy to, but I want to build on something, Jeff, that you just mentioned. Because for one week, everyone in the United States is a shift worker or for at least a few days. By having this very subtle one hour shift, again, at a population level, this is how we end up sleep deprived and where those risks really come from. Deep inside our brain, equidistant between our third eye and our temple, there's a very specific and well known bundle of cells that regulates in part what's called our circadian rhythm. We've all heard of the Latin Carpe DMC is the day, circadium about a day. Our internal body clocks function on about a 24.2 hour cycle. And this is very precisely and finely tuned. We have evolved to be diurnal creatures. In other words, we're awake during the day and we are asleep at night. You'll notice things like learning ability, sex drive, when we even feel the need to go to the bathroom or when we feel hungry, these all follow a specific biological rhythm. And a one hour shift at a population level leads to a significant increased risk. Now, earlier, you asked about what do we do in terms of getting rid of the back and forth. And I was thinking, of course, about our conversation on the drive over this evening. There are three options. One is stay where we are with a daylight saving shift twice a year. Two would be to adopt a permanent daylight approach. And three would be to adopt a permanent standard approach. And by far from a scientific and health perspective, adopting a permanent daylight approach is the worst of those options. Again, from a scientific and health perspective. The reason is that although many of us enjoy the extra hour outdoors on the back porch in the summertime, in the wintertime, that comes at a one hour cost. And history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. And we've been down this road before. In fact, in 1973, Congress enacted a two year trial period of permanent daylight savings time. And it only lasted eight months. It was such a such a failure. For people who know they're going to have a problem with with the shift, what are some strategies to to make it make it go more smoothly? I read one idea is you start adjusting your meal time by like 10 or 15 minutes in the prior week. Would that make a difference? Absolutely. The exact same kinds of strategies that we would use in flying to Australia, as you mentioned earlier. So really three things. First, get more sleep. We know that sleep banking or oversleeping in the several days before the transition can help mitigate the effects of sleep loss. So number one, make sure that you're well slept. Number two, begin to focus on those circadian factors over the three nights prior to Sunday.  And the third thing is be very careful on Monday. We tell all our patients at the University of Maryland, I'm sure that physicians do this everywhere and health providers do this everywhere, alive, safe, healthy, happy. And there is an increased risk for motor vehicle crash. There will be drowsy drivers on the road. Be very, very safe on Monday. And that's a great way to tell the work if you have the option. Let's go back to the phones. Baltimore County, this is Tony. Tony, thank you for calling. Go ahead. Yeah, most of the data you're talking about regards people in the temperate zone, the certain latitude where we are, but as you go further and further north, you know, the days get longer in the summer and much, much shorter in the winter. So has there been any data on circadian rhythms, you know, way, way north and way, way south? Great question. Thank you. It is. It's a very astute question. Tony in Baltimore County, thanks so much. I appreciate that. As we move farther north, the effects are worse. So for example, in New York City, if we were to adopt permanent daylight savings time, which was recently proposed at the congressional level and has been combated or is actively being combated by over 20 professional societies and health associations, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and others. In Montana, for example, sunrise would happen at 9.30 in the morning. So for all you parents and grandparents, do you want your children waiting at the bus stop in the pitch dark until it's 9.30 in the morning? Many of us, so I understand, have been a few minutes behind on the way to work in the morning, and maybe you are driving trying to make up that time. And we really, from a public health perspective, probably don't want tens of thousands of children standing outside at the bus stop in the pitch dark. Yeah, I'd be interested to know if people, natives of Alaska, say, you know, Fairbanks, where you're going to have, what, three or four hours of daylight in the winter? Are their sleep habits different? Have they evolved differently? And in the summer, conversely, you're going to have 20-some hours of daylight. Do they stay awake? Do they sleep very little? That's a great question. And I would love to look up. In fact, I'll look up tonight if there are data on Alaska-specific sleep habits, having been to Alaska once and gone for a run at 2 o'clock in the morning, because it was still perfectly sort of dusk-like outside. It's a fascinating question. You were telling me there are no creatures that don't sleep. And you would think it would be an evolutionary advantage if you're the creature, the predator that's working 24-7. So sleep is critical. It's hardwired for all of us. That's right. Well, we still don't know definitively the answer to that question. But within the past 10 years, scientific data has emerged, first in animals and more recently in humans, that slow wave sleep, the earliest, most restorative stages of sleep in particular, are when the cells in our brain cleanse themselves. And this is very important from a cognitive decline perspective. So you mentioned connection to dementia before? Absolutely. So the hypothesis that's being examined in multiple studies in many populations currently is that what we call glimphatic clearance or the ability of cells to release their toxins, the same way that the plaque accumulates and increases cardiovascular risk, there are toxins that accumulate in the brain and increase dementia risk. And those toxins are actually cleared during slow wave sleep. All right, another reason to help everybody watching get a good night's sleep. That's right. So how do we do that?  Do you need a new mattress? Not necessarily, but it can't hurt. So you want to be comfortable, certainly. Embedding is an easy place to start. The four take-home messages, Jeff, that I'd offer to our readers is that your bedroom environment should be cool. It should be dark. It should be quiet. And it should be uncluttered, almost a sacred space for sleep. And just the same way that regardless of your faith background, everyone knows that when you enter a sacred space, there's a ritual, whether that's a mosque or a synagogue or a church for that matter. We want to create a ritual through which we enter our sleep environment. And if you wouldn't be glued to your iPad or cell phone when you are at mass or synagogue and so forth, you shouldn't be glued to your electronic device when you're in your own bed. Viewer wants to know, are naps good or bad? It depends why we nap. There is some evidence that in older adults, increased napping increases risk for dementia, for example. However, in healthy sleepers, naps are wonderful, plus they're enjoyable. They improve cognitive performance. All of us who are working would have a more productive afternoon if we took a brief siesta. Viewer question, I'm not sure I get it, but you may. What impact will AI, artificial intelligence have on sleep scoring? Will it broaden the availability of sleep medicine screening, specialist treatments, impact on inequity and so forth? Is your profession looking at artificial intelligence? We are, as are other health professions of course, and that's a, we could have a chat only about artificial intelligence in sleep medicine. One of the promises of AI in sleep is that we can make evidence-based treatments available to all. What about medications? Either taking a sleep aid that you get at the drug store, I'm sure there's prescription stuff that we could talk about. Taking a pill that might have a little drowsiness as a side effect or other things people do, like having a glass of wine or now that cannabis is pretty legal, doing that. Good or bad? Let's talk about the alcohol example first. It's bad. And the reason is alcohol decreases sleep latency. It helps you fall asleep faster. There's no question. But after you fall asleep, everything else that alcohol does is very bad. For example, alcohol increases the relaxation or decreases the patency of the muscles in the upper airway. Earlier we were talking about snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. Alcohol alone will cause obstructive sleep apnea even in patients that don't have it. Now, the other thing that alcohol does, and this is partially why we might feel hung over or tired the next day, is it changes our sleep architecture. We were talking earlier about climatic clearance during slow wave sleep. And alcohol changes the way our brain oscillates in and out of different stages of sleep. You talked before about having a mental or having a ritual, as if you were going into a church when you go into the bedroom to sleep. How about a mental ritual? When you actually you put your head on the pillow, what should be going through your mind? Probably not whatever annoyances happen during the day, right? Jeff, what you've described is so common in all the patients that we see. The idea is I'm going to get in bed and then get ready to go to sleep. And this is very important. I'm going to get in bed and then I'm going to get ready to go to sleep. What I want to encourage our viewers to do is to swap that order. First, I'm going to get ready to sleep and then only when I'm highly confident that I'm ready to sleep do I actually get in bed. What should be going through your mind when your head is on the pillow is absolutely zero. Our brains aren't wired that way. I only have a couple of seconds, but you need you need to relax, right? Before you get in bed, the idea is I want to gain repetitions. Practice makes permanent. I want to practice getting in bed, falling asleep quickly, getting in bed, falling asleep quickly. So step number one, get ready for sleep. Step number two, only get in bed when you're highly confident that you're ready to sleep. Very good. Dr. Emerson, Wickwire Sleep Specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. We appreciate your time. Thank you. A pleasure to be with you. Your health segments are a co-production of Maryland Public Television and the University of Maryland Medical System.


Hello friends welcome to another problem-solving session in this Session we are going to prove another trigonometric identity So if you can see that identity given is cost to the power 4 theta minus sign to the power 4 theta plus 1 is equal to 2 cos square theta Now after looking at such problems, what should come to your mind first? So if you can see there is a power 4 over there and there's a minus sign between the two ratios Right cost to the power 4 theta minus sign to the power 4 theta Now many times many students find this to be intimidating this power to be intimidating and they you know skip the question But actually it is very straightforward the moment you see such powers You know that it is a case of algebraic identities. You have to use algebraic identities and using them in Association with let us say the trigonometric ratios and trigonometric identities. You can solve this problem So the moment I see a power 4. I know power 4 is nothing but square of square So if you see LHS can be written as cos of Squared cos square theta square. This is cost to the power 4, right? And why am I reducing it to square because I know some relationships Which involves cos square and sine square theta now the second term also is now the second term also is sine square theta So sine square theta whole square, isn't it? Right, and then there's a plus one which is there in the problem now If you see the first two terms here are of the form of a square minus b square, isn't it? And this is algebraic identity. I was talking about so this is nothing but a minus b times a plus b So we are going to use this identity here.  Because there's a square on cos square as well and b is what? Sine square theta. So using this I I can write like this, isn't it? Now again, we know one of the identities basic identities trigonometric identities We learned is cos square theta plus sine square theta is 1 so our job here if you notice This particular factor will be reduced to 1 so hence what do I get? I get cos square theta minus sine square theta multiplied by 1 will give you this only and then plus 1 Now again using the same identity you can so always keep a track of what is to be you know To be proven that is where do you want to go? That means what is RHS? So this is my RHS. I want to achieve 2 cos square theta So if you can see one cos square theta is already there So you want one more and if you notice carefully This is the another cos square theta from This identity why because cos square theta can be represented as 1 minus sine square Theta, so hence using that identity. I Can write don't put this This sign this is equal to so this is equal to equal to and hence equal to cos square theta cos square theta Plus another cos square theta, isn't it? Which is equal to 2 cos square theta, which is equal to RHS This is what the problem was demanding So what is the learning? Learning is do not get panicked by seeing higher powers whenever there is a higher power. It is exact It is actually very easy problem because You know that there is an algebraic identity, which is going to be used They can also give you identities or you know problems where there is something like cos to the power 6 theta Minus sine to the power 6 theta So again, you know if there is a there is a problem involving this kind of a term Then you know what to do.


All right Tony has you know, this is one of those quick tips I think we have talked about this on the show in the past, but it's been a long time. He says He says because we shop at multiple physical stores. Oh, oh, this was the sorry last week We were talking about how he was scanning all of his receipts a follow-up to that as he says I've made another folder where I've scanned important pages from appliance and gadget manuals and I've scanned those into a note Because scanning into notes is now so easy. I can't agree more this I've been saving PDFs of user manuals on my well, I mean at first it was like in my dropbox now It's on my Synology in my cloud station drive, but user manuals for products are generally Super easy to find as PDFs when the products are new But when you need them is usually about eight years later when the products been, you know Revved three times and you cannot find them other than those shady user manual PDF sites They're a super pain to navigate through so anytime we get something new I try to remember to go in and find the user manual and just save it and name it The what I would call the appliance so, you know like LG washing machine or something so that I know Yeah, that's my LG washing machine and I can go in and great I've got the user manual as a PDF and it's always there. We used to save them in this We had this wicker basket that we like, you know, we had overstuffed I think it actually came from the previous owners of this house With the user manuals, you know for the things that that they sold to us as part of the house Super valuable to have I mean it was valuable to have that but then we started moving it to electronic But the idea of scanning it if you can't find the PDF if you can find the PDF Don't bother scanning it. Just grab the PDF. You're good to go It's always gonna be better quality, but but if you have to scan it notes makes it easy. It's good It's good. Thank you, Tony. Thank you. Thank you. Good stuff


Realistic Gaming here. Today we are back in Granny 2 because I am trying to do this boat escape, which I haven't done yet. So today we're gonna be doing that and hopefully, oh my god, where's Granny? Okay, god, I don't know where Granny's at. So hopefully we get to escape through the boat this time because I beat the game through the main entrance. Huh? But I have not done the boat escape yet. Ooh, nice, a spark leg. Okay, so we're gonna be needing this for sure for the boat. Oh my god, okay, so let's try to go through this vent. Oh my god, I was getting stuck. Okay, so let's go put this spark leg on the boat. Hopefully Granny's not camping down here. Okay, nice. And I believe we also find the gas canteen on the staircase right here. Okay, so that belongs there. Hopefully the gas canteen is here. Oh great, it's not. Okay, so now what are we gonna do? We have to look for this. Okay, so we gotta be very cautious out here. Oh my god, Granny's right there. Oh my god. Okay, does she see me? Oh no, she saw me. She's definitely saw me. Granny, she can't go through there, right? Okay, now she can't. We're safe on this side. Okay, let's go back this way. Oh no, we just came from, oh no. We can go up this way. I totally forgot. We added a back entrance. Okay, so there's nothing over here. Anything in the restroom? Nope. Okay, working this gas canteen B. And I believe guys, the hardest part to this is trying to get the boat wheel actually out. Thank you for smacking me, Dore. Okay, security key. We're definitely gonna need this to try to secure the boat wheel. And let's go open up that room. And we're gonna need a stun gun to shoot the button on the wall so we can get inside of there. Okay, so let's go up this way. Hopefully the boat key is right here. Oh, there it is. Nice. Okay, let's go over here. Let's drop down. Dude, I just saw somebody drop down there. There's a floating trap here. Okay, this granny is definitely up to some magic spells or something.  Wait, is she behind us? Oh my god, I thought it was granny, but it's a picture of granny. Okay, so let's go up here. We got this room open. How do you drop stuff? I forgot. How do you drop stuff? My god, I can't get rid of it. Oh yeah, there you go. Oh yeah, we also need the cutting pliers. Okay, great. Oh, what is that? What is that right here? Door handle? And we won't be needing that for now. Okay, let's go this way. Dude, I hear granny laughing. Stop laughing, granny.   Okay, we're gonna need a stun gun for sure. Dude, I hear a lot of footsteps. Oh my god, be careful with the traps. Oh, there's a save key? Are we gonna be needing the save key? Just have it on your hands. Okay, let's go over here. Dude, where's granny at? I haven't seen her in a cool minute. I mean, it's best for us, right? Oh my god, I hear her. Oh, we needed the padlock key to open up the gate, too. Oh god, come on, where are all the parts at? I think somebody actually has the padlock key. Which can't be bad, because we're never gonna find it. Okay, let's get this. Oh, we needed the cutting pliers. Where in the world am I gonna find the cutting pliers? I have no clue, but let's go try to open that door over here real quick. Okay, wait, what key is this? The bokeh? Ooh, let's go do this. Okay, let's go down here. Try to get this door open. Oh, here, I forgot there was a room. Oh, nice, the gas canteen right there. So it seems like we have most of the things. We just need to find the cutting pliers so we can fulfill our plan. Okay, there is the security key. Okay, I better not miss this shot. Ah, nice, we got a spot on. Okay, pretty sweet. We're doing pretty good so far, guys. I feel like we might escape this through the boat. Okay, so we needed the gas canteen. Let's go grab this and head on over to the boat and place it on the boat. We might need that crowbar to open up those crates because there might be something in those crates that we need like the cutting pliers, for example. Oh, there they are, the cutting pliers are right here. Dude, okay, we're good to go. All we need to worry about is the time depleting and Granny not getting us. Hello, Granny, speaking of Granny, there she is. Please go away, please go away, please turn the other way, Granny. Oh, my God, please turn the other way, please, don't get me. Oh, my God, she's just standing there. Oh, no, she saw me. No, Granny, please. Oh, my God, come on, come on. Oh, no, she put a trap there. Oh, no, you guys, we have been bamboozled. Go get that guy over there. Oh, my God, she is right on us. Okay, we have to go the other way, but she blocked it off. Okay, we can go through the other side. She's slick, but I don't know what I'm capable of. We can go through this side. She has not cornered us yet. Ha-ha, Granny, I out-subarted you, old lady. Okay, so we can go this way. Good thing they added this pathway. If not, we had like, I mean, I could have dropped the thing on the trap. Oh, well, but she was right on us. It would have been risky. Okay, let's go in here. I think she knows I'm trying to escape through the bow guy because she saw me with the gas canteen and everything. Oh, yeah, where's the padlock key? Dude, we really need that padlock key. Okay, we got the gas. We even need the bow thingy over there. Okay, so if we really want to get out of here, we have to open up that metal box right there so we can get the gate to rise up so we can leave on the boat. Okay, come on, come on. Granny better not be here. There she is. My God, I feel like this granny is all over the place. Oh, dude, she tried to be sneaky and put a trap there, huh? Okay, we need these cutting pliers. Why can't I grab it? I think she's right here. Oh, God. No, now we have to go all the way around so we can go cut that box open over there so we can get the... What is it? The boat wheel. Okay, so please don't lead her this way, bro. Take her away. Lead her somewhere else. Dude, look at that floating trap. Okay, let's go over here.  Oh, my God. Okay, hopefully she doesn't trap us here because she was right on our tail. Okay, nice. We got the boat steering wheel. Okay, we need this. We are so close to victory, fellas. I can taste it. Okay, that's the door handle. We don't need that. I'm scared to drop in Granny. It's going to be here in case she's not. Come on, let's go this way, boys. We have to get the... Wait, what am I missing? Okay, so I got this steering wheel right here. Oh, my God. Granny's right there. We got the steering wheel. We got the gas canteen. We got the spark plug. And we need the padlock key. There you go. No, help out. Okay, I'm going to help you out. He's on the trap. You got to help yourself out, buddy. I'm sorry. I would help you if I could. But let's go in here and go put the steering wheel down on the boat. Oh, my God. Oh, no. I think he's going to get him. I think he got captured. That's why he said, oof. Dude, where is the padlock key, guys? I really needed this padlock key so I can get out of here. Where is padlock... padlock... key? I don't believe anybody knows where it's at because I have not seen it yet. I have no clue where it's at. Maybe, like I said, it might be in the crates, but I don't think it spawns in the crates. That would be like a weird spot for the key to spawn in. Okay, where's Granny? She went totally silent. Maybe she's plotting an attack against us. Okay, I had seen the crowbar. Where did I see that crowbar? I know I seen the crowbar somewhere. She's camping downstairs in the little room. She's camping downstairs in the little room. Who was camping downstairs, Granny? Oh, nice crowbar. That's exactly what I was looking for. Where are you, Granny? Look at her baby spider. That baby spider is so hideous in the actual game. Oh, God, go, go, go! Well, no, she's down to us, guys. Come on, I'm out. Nope, I'm out, yo. I'm going this way. Okay, hopefully she's not chasing me. I don't think she is. Good. Oh, my God, we only got four minutes to get out of here. Come on, come on.  We really needed this.  You are very valuable to me. Okay, where's this padlock key? I really needed the padlock key. I have not seen that thing anywhere. Dude, I believe those crates never have anything in them. They're just there just to be there. Oh, is this the padlock? Dude, okay. Exactly what we were looking for, guys. Oh, my God, okay. So we're really about to escape through the boat if Granny doesn't capture us. Which hopefully she doesn't. Come on, come on. Can I run faster than this? Because they run pretty slow, even though I think we have a little sprint. Okay, where's Granny? She's not here. Actually, let's go this way. Nobody wants to play hide and seek with you, Granny. Stop asking. Jeez. Okay, so let's go down here. Oh, my God. Come on, four minutes. Hopefully we can make it back all the way to the top and come back with the key. So we can get out of this place. We'll link these dudes right here. Okay, open this. Yes, okay. Let's go get the key. Oh, no, guys. Time is against us right now. We really need to race back over there and grab that bokeh so we can get out of here. Come on, three minutes. Oh, my God. I need to take all the shortcuts. Okay, now... Oh, my God. I don't know if we're going to make it, guys. Because we have to go all the way this way. Oh, no, it's over here. We got this. Oh, no, I don't know where Granny at. They said she was camping somewhere. I have no clue where, though. She better not be up here. Oh, my God. That was so scary. I just scared myself. Okay, she's not here. Oh, my God. Come on, we have two minutes while three minutes to get back down there to the boat and get out of here.  Where's Granny at? She's hiding somewhere. She's camping. I know she's camping. But she will never catch me alive. Oh, my God. Two minutes. Come on. We have two minutes and 30 seconds. We're going to make this definitely. We definitely have to escape. Okay, let's go, let's go, let's go. Oh, my God, yes. We're almost there. Dude, we almost used up all the time to find all the things. Aha, here we are. This should be the last item if I'm not wrong. And we pressed this and there we go. We made it. Look at the little boat driving away. We escaped through the boat escape. Which is my first time doing the boat escape because last time I only escaped through the main door. Let's go. That's what I was talking about, man. All right, GGs, everybody. Let's say GGs. Escape by boat. That's what I was talking about, yes? All right, you guys. Well, this was granny too. It was pretty intense. I'm not going to lie. I feel like the boat escape, trying to get the boat escape takes way much more longer than trying to escape through the main door. Because you have to do so much back and forth like running to the third floor and then running back down to the bottom to where the boat is. There's just so many in trying to dodge granny in her traps. Just a lot of progress. All right, you guys. Well, if you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to slap the like button. If you're new to the channel, make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on. And remember, guys, on Monday, it is going to be comment of the week. So make sure to tune in on Monday. And I will see you guys in the next one. Bye.


Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is pop a balloon inside a balloon. What you need for this experiment is a clear balloon, not white, a black balloon, a pencil, a magnifying glass, and plenty of sunshine. So you take two balloons here. You got a black, nine inch latex balloon and a clear, not a white, 12 inch balloon. Look in the description for the sizes.  And now you're going to blow up just the black balloon about three quarters of the way full. So you can blow that up. Once you get that filled, then you're going to tie the black balloon into a knot. And then once you have that into the knot, you're going to repeat the same process with the clear balloon. Now just blowing up, tuck that black in all the way.   So now you see I'm tying the clear balloon and then you got the black balloon inside. That's the setup. And now we're going to do the experiment. So now to do the experiment, you take a magnifying glass, it could be any kind. And then you're going to, I hold the clear balloon by the end so it won't pop away. And then you're going to make that little white dot from the magnifying glass zero in so it's the hottest it could be. And it's going to focus in right there for your experiment to work. You got to make sure your hand is still both on the magnifying glass and the balloon and boom, there it goes. No matter how many times I do this, it always scares me because the black balloon will pop and the clear balloon does not. So the science behind us is the power of the sun. Don't blink because you're going to miss this one. Why does the inside black balloon pop before the clear outside balloon with the magnifying glass? Well, the clear balloon has most of the light pass right through it like a window, but the black balloon surface does not reflect any light and absorbs most of it. And the surface absorbing all that light, it absorbs the energy. In this case, the energy is the heat and there's a lot of it. So the heat absorbs into the black balloon and from that focus light sunlight quickly causes the bonds of that balloon to weaken until it no longer can contain the air inside and the pressure from the air just too much and it explodes releasing that air into the clear balloon, as you can see. Look at that. I love how the the reaction that was in slow motion how the white balloon is getting all the the shakes of the top of the inside. So anyway, no matter how many times I did it, I still jump every time that black balloon pops. I hope you enjoyed this experiment. If you did, please click thumbs up and tag me and remember to subscribe. Thanks for watching.


Hey, what's up guys today? We are talking about shooting one of my favorite topics Hopefully one of your favorite topics as well if currently you're the type of player who is afraid to take shots Because you don't want to miss the net you do not want your Coaches or teammates to yell at you or even worse laugh at you make fun of you You need to get over that right away I would rather you take all the opportunities you have to shoot take those shots and miss the net It's much better for your development than being too afraid to take a shot and passing that opportunity by by Hesitating or passing the ball to a teammate when you should take that shot So please be brave enough to miss missing is a good thing if you analyze your misses and you learn from your missed Opportunities now saying that I want to help you hit the net more often I want to help you have harder shots more accurate shots and more consistent shots so you can score more Fools so in this video. I just put the tripod up we did about 10 15 minutes of shooting at the end of our session with my friend Luke and Recently I released a video the other day and it was about free kicks and I talked about the importance of free kicks I want you to practice free kicks. However, it's not the most match realistic Just think about your last game. How many free kicks did you take in that game? Maybe one maybe two maybe zero? But how many shooting opportunities did you have how many shooting different shooting opportunities you have some on your left Some on your right some close to the net some further away from the net You're always going to get different shooting opportunities and this style of practicing playing little combinations with the teammate is a great way To replicate those match situations So I would much rather you spend more time doing things like this playing little combinations and shooting the ball in different ways Left and right foot some close to the net some far if you don't have a teammate You can always just practice shooting off the dribble shooting off a turn shooting off controlling the ball out of the air So just think about switching up the variety of the shots that you're taking because realistically in the game You're never gonna have the same shot twice So saying that today I want to talk about technique and I've outlined a few Shots that I want to talk about this the first one here And what I wanted to highlight or illustrate here is I'm a little off balance whenever you are off balance as you can See my body go away there when you are off balance It's so important that you take your power off the shots and just rely on good technique making good contact Here I knew the ball was getting away from me a bit and I wasn't able to get my body able to get my body fully over it so instead of striking that ball as hard as I could I just focus on making good contact a nice Smooth shot you will find that your best shots are usually your smoothest just focus on good technique Not so much power the next thing I want to talk about is little finishes like this Okay, it's not the most glamorous. I'm not blasting the ball into the top corner However, this goal is just as valuable as one that I smashed as hard as I can into the top corner So it's very important that you are practicing Your finesse finishes your composed finishes Here is just a shot on my left foot and I just want to show you guys I wasn't swinging very hard, but it was just good technique same thing here I didn't power it, but just great technique Okay, your best shots are not gonna be the ones that you smack the hardest and kill They're the ones you're gonna focus on your technique really make good contact and do all the things that you need to do Body over the ball flexed foot nice flowing backswing nice follow through towards your target keeping your body Nice and still just like that. Look at that shot. Boom. I really like that shot today And again, that wasn't my hardest shot, but it was one of my best shots. I just focus on good technique Here's another hit with my right foot Those ones are always nice curling away from your body or curling away from goal And the reason this happens because I hit more on the inside of the ball the near side of the ball rather than the far side Of the ball and that's something I try to do personally Because I hate when I hit it with my right foot and it peels to the left Or I hit it with my left foot and it peels to the right across your body It's something that I hate to do So I always hit a little bit more on the near side of the ball rather than the far side of the ball furthest away from me and what that does is allows the ball to go straight just because of the natural tendency of my shot or Curl off to the side just like you saw there and this is the purest shot I hit of the day and I just want to highlight that again again I hit a bit on the near side of the ball, but really flex foot landing on that shooting foot first It's a great way to get some more power Most importantly if you're gonna try to hit it hard get your body over the ball head down body over the ball going towards the net Fall through towards the net Landing on that shooting foot. So if you guys found this video helpful, please like please comment Please share please subscribe and come back tomorrow for a new training video


Hello, my name is Ryan Price. I am originally from Mechanicsville, Virginia. I went to James Madison University for my undergrad and Goucher College for graduate school. And for this year in VAIL, I'm most excited for all of the different labs, the research cadaver labs, and then the surgical opportunities with the semiconductor physicians.


We designed an inexpensive, easy-to-use QA device that fits snugly on the mask frame and can be used to perform quick daily checks of the camera. The device consists of a stage, a raised corner, and a post with a reflective marker. Gate blocks are used to set a standard distance and have accuracies of less than 0.4 micrometers. A gate block is inserted in any of the X, Y, or Z directions, and the HDMM system's measured shift is compared against the block thickness. In practice, the procedure takes less than a minute to set up and confirm 1 millimeter shifts for the X, Y, and Z directions.


One of the biggest ways to actually bring inner peace in is to love and accept yourself as is right now. You can do both at the same time and in my experience doing that is really the fast track of improving your life and building your dream life. It's giving yourself grace and compassion for yourself right now and knowing that you deserve the best in your life and that working towards those dreams and those goals and yourself is the way to do that.  You've been through a lot, we all have. So allow your compassion and your desire for a better future and a better life to outweigh the comfortability of playing victim in your current circumstance.


It's Blade vs. Hellboy vs. Sin City vs. The Crow on Movie Feuds. Speaking of prison, Wesley Snipes is awesome as a vampire killing Katana, wielding Daywalker.  He works with a foul-mouthed country bumpkin named Whistler, played by Chris Christofferson. They have great chemistry with Chris doing his best to keep Blade in check. He's a mentor, a father figure, and he's 100% dedicated to the cause of wasting The guy's rough and tumble. He's got mileage on him, which is the perfect transition to the gentleman of Sin City. These guys are weathered, to say the least. Bruce Willis' heart again has a bum ticker and very little patience for assholes.  He can take a hit, and has no problems dolling out the punishment. Clive Owen is the cleanest of the bunch, which says very little when you live in Sin City.  The ladies of Sin City are just as tough if the men, if not tougher, they manage to keep their looks in better graces, though. Jessica Alba really steps out of her comfort level here, playing a stripper named Nancy Callahan. Typically, when you hear Jessica Alba, you think more acting heavy roles, like Into the Blue, Honey, or Fantastic Four. So doing something so sexualized really must have been a struggle for her. I'm a sarcastic person. Rosario Dawson, Carla Gugino, and even Rory Gilmore herself, Alexis Bledel, can be seen walking the mean streets.  Jamie King, Michael Madsen, Benice Del Toro, the late Michael Clark Duncan, the late Brittany Murphy, the late Josh Hartnett. He's still alive. Okay. On the flip side of that is the crow with really two recognizable names. Ernie Hudson and the man of the hour, Brandon Lee, who unfortunately wouldn't live to see the final product as he was killed on set by a prop gun at the tender age of 28. So the final cut of the film featured multiple versions of the crow, some played by Lee himself, some by stand ins, stunt doubles, and good old fashioned CGI.  The first two flicks are really good. Ron Perlman knows he's not the easiest on the eyes. He played the beast in the live action TV show in the 90s, a gruff motorcycle gang leader in Sons of Anarchy, and our main hero, Hellboy, a red demon from hell. And no, not all demons come from below, some come from above. My boy Lex Luthor Jr. taught me that in BVS. These movies are all much better films than that. Even with his looks that could kill and not in the flattering sense, Hellboy still manages to get himself a love interest. A smoking young gal named Liz Sherman, represented by Selma Blair. Abe Sapien, voiced by Doug Jones, is my favorite of this ragtag group. An extremely intelligent fish man, which I'm sure is the technical term and exactly what they use in the comics. The bad guys are all pretty unremarkable, outside of a cool assassin who has a wind up clock for a heart. Crow's villains have some of the greatest names ever. T-Bird, Skank, Tin Tin, and the world class crime lord himself, Top Dollar. These also sound like stripper names. I enjoy the villain of Blade, a spoiled shithead with one of the coolest names around, Deacon Frost. Pun is always intended there. Since City wins for its villains, let's move on. Blade and Crow are similar in the fact that they're both revenge films. Blade's mother was taken from him as a child by Deacon Frost. As our day walker hunts down his mother's murder, it's revealed the vampires are also searching for him. His rare blood will bring forth a new and more powerful vampire strain. Eric Draven, a.k.a. the Crow and his soon-to-be bride were violently murdered on the eve of their wedding day. Eric is resurrected on the anniversary of his death and vows to seek justice for his wife by killing everyone responsible for her terrible fate. I've slowly been doing the same thing to the staff responsible for Battlefield Earth. Since City falls multiple story threads that eventually interweave, it's like Seinfeld if the show featured multiple decapitations, vulgar dialogue, over-the-top action, and gratuitous nudity. Essentially the same otherwise. Baby Hellboy is discovered by the military and raised in confinement at a top secret facility. He struggles internally with his place on Earth amongst the humans. He even goes as far as to file down his horns to look more normal. Much like Blade, Red is the key to the magical Nazis' plans to rule the world. This sends how most comic book movies do with our hero fighting a giant CG creature. Not bad, but a bit generic. As much as I enjoyed the fragmented storylines of Sin City, I think Blade really sunk its teeth into me the most. We're having fun doing these. The concept of a half-man, half-vampire laying waste to an entire species purely out of spite is pretty amazing. He thinks they have no value, that they're the cancer of this planet. They are essentially the Kardashians. Much like my masturbation schedule, a bulk of the action takes place in seedy back alleys, nightclubs, subway stations, dilapidated buildings, and there's probably a Walmart in there somewhere too. The crow has certainly aged the worst, but it's also the oldest, so that makes sense. Granted, the first Jurassic Park still looks better than the sequels, so maybe my excuse is for the birds. And it doesn't fly. Like a crow. Why aren't we doing a pun counter? I will say the action looks pretty realistic, especially in the shootout scenes. Like when the crow himself got shot. Is that too soon?  The vampires burst into skeleton fragments after being shot, burned, stabbed, etc. It's stylish and cool, much like my uncle's tear drop tattoos. Hellboy mixes between computer-generated battles and live action, sometimes jumping back and forth multiple times in a minute. Like a joke on Family Guys, Sin City is very hit and miss. Fortunately, there's so much going on that there's something new right around the corner. The film is lifted sometimes frame-for-frame from the graphic novel. The weather effects like rain and snow are downright beautiful. The black and white treatment really sets this film apart from the others, and the occasional use of color helps to tell the story even further. Sin City has terrific music too, but I think the trailer for this film really hurt. It's possibly one of the best movie trailers I've ever seen, and it's mainly due to the awesome song Sells by artist The Servant. I enjoyed Sin City quite a bit, but it never reached the level the trailer wanted it to. The crow soundtrack is an ode to an era of grunge rock music. Nine-inch nails, rage, violent fems, Pantera, and many other bands are featured. Blade shares a lot of similarities to The Matrix in terms of style. They all have leather jackets, they rock the shades, the music's kind of that upbeat techno. The film opening is still one of the best intros to a character ever produced.  All while a techno track is blaring, composer Marco Beltrami sets the stage in Hellboy with very nice orchestral pieces. For me, it's the least memorable in terms of standout musical cues, but that's because the others are just so damn good. I think all these movies are pretty special, and choosing a winner is no easy task. Hellboy is incredibly underrated. Blade is criminally underappreciated. The crow will probably be rebooted, and Sin City was given a pathetic sequel. For me, the winner is Blade, and for many reasons, but just a couple right out of the gates, it's a hard-art film, which is refreshing, you don't see a lot of them in the comic book world. It's also one of the first comic book movies to come out in like a decade. There was a long lull of nothing, so it restarted that resurgence of comic book films, which will never die now. It has scares, it has emotional moments, terrific action, and built a unique universe. I want to hear from you now.  And remember, this is more than just reviews, this is movie feuds. How sad is it that we are going to have five Transformers movies and only two Hellboys?  The ladies of this world are tough, if not tougher.


Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you. My name is Adam Payne, co-host of this program with chairman Bill Gehring and today we're very pleased that our guest is Mike Helpeke, the sheriff in Sheboygan County. Mike's been tremendously busy of late and he's going to share with you some of the roles and responsibilities of the sheriff's department as well as talk a little bit about the PGA and what was a highly successful week in great part because of Sheriff Helpeke and the work that he did, his staff and obviously the state and other levels of government. So Mike, welcome and it's good to have you with us today. I know you've been very busy. Thank you. Why don't you start by sharing with our viewers a little bit about yourself and your law enforcement career? I know you've been with Sheboygan County for some time. Yes, I am a lifelong resident of Sheboygan County, born and raised in the county. I'm 48 years old. I am married and have two adult children. Professionally, I have been with the department just about 27 years. I started my career as a deputy working in corrections where I worked in the jail for about three years then I transferred to the road. After that I was promoted to sergeant, eventually to lieutenant and then I took shift commander's responsibilities over in the mid-1990s, ran for sheriff, was elected sheriff in November of 2002 and took office January of 2003. During the course of my career I was involved in many different units and special teams in the department including the SWAT team, our tactical team. I was a field training officer, an officer in charge of high-risk incidences and an internal affairs investigator. So it's going to be two years as sheriff this January and as you just shared you bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the position. In these two years, which I imagine have flown by pretty quickly, what have been some of the key challenges that you've had? Yes, they have flown by quickly. I can't believe that I'm almost midterm already and that running for sheriff maybe right around a corner again. Obviously challenges for not only our department but all government departments is with shrinking and tight budgets being able to provide the same level of services that we currently provide. Many of our programs are funded through state and federal funds and there's talk that if those are reduced any further that could have an impact on our ability to provide those programs as well. So the budget coupled with the increasing cost of doing business in terms of health insurance and employee benefits and just cost of doing business, gasoline, price of equipment, automobiles, radios and all of those things that we need to do our job continues to increase at the same time budgets become tighter. So that I see as a huge challenge. So being able to become more effective and efficient. I'm continually tapping my staff for recommendations and suggestions and how we can do that. And so far you've certainly done an admirable job. I'm glad you raised this because our next month our guest is going to be Tim Finch the finance director and certainly as you and Chairman Gehring know we're in the midst of our budget process and not only for the sheriff's department but all 23 departments. It's a real challenge to continue to provide the same level of service or improve with finite resources. So certainly that's been a challenge for you. You've also made some changes while you've been here the last couple of years. Some reorganization, what have you? You want to talk briefly about some of the accomplishments? Sure. Last year we cut about a half a million dollars from our budget. The year before that, the year that I took office, the reductions that I inherited from the previous administration was about $420,000. So we're looking at about a million dollars since I've been sitting in the sheriff's seat that we've reduced from our budget. And I'm happy to say we were able to do that without reducing services, without laying off employees. And some of the ways that we've been able to accomplish that is by doing some reorganization of our staff within the department. I campaigned on looking at reorganizing the department from the top all the way down and put those resources where they were most needed. And I'm happy to say that we've done some of that. We've cut three corporals positions and added a couple of deputies positions. I'm currently working on a reorganization proposal. It'll come before the county board tonight, as a matter of fact, to eliminate one of the director's positions and spread some of that out in other areas where we as an administrative staff saw a need. Clearly some difficult decisions to make, but as you said with a reduction of almost a million dollars in financing, you've been able to meet the challenge of hitting those targets and help Chairman Gehring and the rest of the county board keep tax rate increases at a minimum. Why don't we step back just for a second? Because we probably assume most people, when they hear sheriff's department, they know what that readily means, but you have a number of areas of responsibility within the department. What's the primary roles and responsibilities of the sheriff's department? Well, the sheriffs in the state of Wisconsin and probably like many other states have constitutional responsibilities that are basically defined in constitution going way back to early times of when our state was formed. And some of those constitutional responsibilities of a sheriff and a sheriff's department that differ from municipal police departments are that the sheriff has to provide for inmates and people that are incarcerated from every agency within the county. So therefore we are the keeper of the county jail. A huge part of our responsibility, a huge part of our operations and a huge part of our budget is devoted to corrections. Another area is that constitutionally we are required to provide a civil process division. Now these are deputies that go out and serve all types of civil process papers from evictions to divorce decrees to any type of court summons. We have four deputies that work full time in serving civil process. Another constitutional responsibility of the sheriff is to provide for courtroom and courthouse security. We do that in the form of the bailoffs that we have assigned to one of each to one of the five circuit courts that we have in Sheboygan County. The sheriff is also required to regulate the storage and transportation of explosives within their jurisdiction to provide water recovery and rescue team and obviously to provide law enforcement services to the other areas of the county that may not have their own municipal police department. And I know you just scratched the surface so again those divisions, corrections, civil process, criminal investigations, patrol, a little later we're going to talk about your emergency management responsibilities in that position. How many employees does the department have and what's your what's your budget? We have approximately 180 employees at any given time, take or plus or minus a few. We have just under a 12 million dollar budget and we we accomplish as you said through different divisions and different work units within the department. So a tremendous amount of responsibility, a lot of areas that many of our viewers may have not heard of before and some people may even forget we have responsibilities with corrections and the jail and the detention center and then the PGA hits the town and with that I'll turn it over to Bill Gehring. Okay we have just come off of the PGA week and I'm sure that your department contributed to it really being a success but I'm sure it also put a burden on your department. Can you talk sheriff about when you started planning and what the planning entailed for this event? Yes we actually started planning for this over two years ago. The PGA brought a tournament director into the community about two years ago and his responsibility was basically hurting together all of these resources that would be needed in the various areas to pull off a tournament like that. Everything from the areas that my department was involved in traffic security, emergency management and things like that all the way to parking, transportation, security, hospitality, food stands and everything like that so that individual coming in with that knowledge basically split all of these jobs up into different working committees and we fell into that committee that dealt with traffic, security and emergency medical services and those types of things so it was called the spec committee that's an acronym and I don't remember exactly what it all stands for so we provided people that were involved in that committee to implement the plans that we ultimately developed and put into place for the tournament. How was the planning different than the planning you would do for road america or the shabuigan county fair obviously much smaller activities but still activities within the county? Yeah the road america and shabuigan county fair were basically there was not this cooperative effort of all of these different agencies we kind of just planned it within our own department to deal with the traffic and security at these events and you know went with our plan plans that we've been you know utilizing for many many years as long as I've been on the department we've been doing road america and road america I think is just celebrated its 50th anniversary recently so it's been around a long time. Shabuigan county fair is another huge spectator event that shabuigan county hosts one of the largest state one of the largest county fairs in the state in terms of attendance and we've we work closely with the plumber's police department in providing for security traffic measures for that but this this really differed in the way that I think this was very unique in that there was this relationship between the cooler company who brought their resources into the equation the the county the pga the federal government all working together to basically accomplish a common goal and in in terms of coordinating and having resources available to me or to my department this was clearly different than road america and the county fair. Okay I was out there for a media event on thursday and it really seemed to be a nicely behaved crowd I understand that there were no arrests is that true and also what was your major challenge? There there were no arrests um our our responsibility um for the conduct of people at the tournament itself was to basically supplement the security company that the pga had hired unless of course our officers witnessed a crime being committed in their presence so there were no arrests made there were a couple of people that were ejected during the course of the week but very few that I'd heard about very few issues as far as rowdy behavior or disorderly conduct in fact I hadn't heard of any real significant issues so it was a was a very well-behaved crowd. Okay earlier this year your department hired a new emergency management coordinator did that person have a role in planning for the pga and if so what might have been? Yes he did his his name is Steve Steinert um his uh his roles his role in the pga was significant um he was there to um plan for plan and be part of our um disaster planning um say if there were a need to evacuate the people from the grounds for whatever reason it could be because of weather or um of uh uh something that had occurred on the course that would require evacuation he was there for that planning he worked closely with the federal and state agencies the FBI ATF and the Coast Guard as well as the medical staff that was contracted by the pga to provide medical services at the tournament so he was kind of our coordinator or our liaison to all of those different entities. Okay also well after I saw a fair amount of state patrol cars I know that the state did help pay for overtime incurred by county officers can you talk about how the state and county work together and was this really a good working relationship and maybe we can say to the viewers that yes the county and state can work together um I I can definitely say that we work very well together uh you know up until really uh probably about eight months ago we as a department didn't um anticipate the um the buy-in that the state provided to us for our responsibilities or towards our responsibilities so it was we were very happy to find out that the state was going to provide all of these resources um additional troopers um the uh the the the money to pay for our overtime expenses and things like that were totally unanticipated at at the beginning of this planning so in terms of of them bringing those resources and as far as our officers working together to get the job done that relationship went very very well okay while I was out there also I didn't happen to talk with the governor twice and he was very complimentary about Sheboygan county and how they handled the PGA so I'm sure that your department greatly contributed to this so I thank you Adam I thank you Sheriff I thank you too um I I also talked to the governor a couple of times out there and um he was very pleased as well as a secretary of the department of transportation um had been out there and I heard nothing but good things um not only you know from the job that we did but really the overall effort by by everybody to just make the experience um a phenomenal experience for the spectators that were in attendance great many people I'm sure aren't aware of this certainly our viewers but just to let you know Sheriff Helmke when this was all being planned obviously he mentioned earlier the challenges with budget and we were looking at close to a hundred thousand dollars of overtime for this event and Sheriff Helmke to his credit said all right state of Wisconsin we need you to step up and be part of this and to work with us and I can't credit you enough and credit your department enough for just a tremendous job not only was he successful in garnering the dollars from the state to cover all of our overtime at least that's my understanding um the traffic flow was just excellent I don't care what time of the day it was Mike and his staff did just a tremendous job moving traffic along the only constructive criticism or or negative feedback that I've heard is that some of our local merchants would have liked to see more of those people come into Sheboygan to to shop at their stores would have you but other than that from top to bottom it's been nothing but positive and you certainly deliver it on your part and it's good to hear that the state and the county work so well together on this it it's just all of us went into it with expectations and I think they were exceeded in most areas so well done thank you so moving on from the PGA and you probably haven't had a lot of sleep the last week and I know many of your officers were working overtime 30 40 plus hours a week it's back to the budget it's back to more of the roles and responsibilities that you generally deal with there's been a lot of discussion of late with the city and the the building of a new police department and as I'm sure many of our viewers are aware there were negotiations between the city and the county and and we're not going to get into that today but one of the key things that's been discussed is how much is the city and county really working together there are always opportunities for improvement but sometimes I think people don't appreciate just how much is currently going on could you give our viewers an example of some of the areas where the city police department and the sheriff's department is working together yeah probably very little credit to me but we've had a great working relationship with the Sheboygan police department as well as all of the other municipal law enforcement agencies in in Sheboygan county for years I just I see my role as to facilitate and to enhance that cooperative relationship that we've really had with these agencies for a long time we share communications I know since we've built the 800 megahertz radio system a number of years ago we have commonality there and in frequencies and repair technicians and in resources to draw into our communications we share records records management system with the Sheboygan police department as well as the village of Kohler the city of falls Sheboygan falls in the city of Plumeth we we have a combined dive team with the city police department we have our MEG unit or our drug unit that is a cooperative effort of as well actually staffed by both city police officers and and sheriff's deputies but with support from the other law enforcement agencies in the county we we share our range at at at our facility with all of the law enforcement agencies in the county we do training in our interdepartmental training with each other we have access to the the city of Sheboygan's canine unit if we're in need of canine services we share our accident reconstructionist team with the city if they would need our services and equipment we share back and forth a good example was just last week with the PGA we needed more radios and shoulder mics and things like that the city had that equipment available and we were able to borrow it from from them for a week so there are a lot of things that are that that have been going on for a long time I see one of my major responsibilities is to continue to look at other ways we can share and other things that we can do together to ultimately reduce that duplication of services and and to be able to provide the the equipment and the items that we need for the community well you hit on earlier that with budget constraints at all levels of government and certainly with the sheriff's department and the other com departments in the county any opportunities we have to work together or share resources obviously is in the taxpayers best interest as you touched on there's a number of areas that resources are being shared to the benefit of the community but as you look forward what do you see us perhaps some opportunities whether it's the city of Sheboygan or any of the other police departments in the county well training is is always an area because of mandates that are placed on on law enforcement officers to maintain certification our areas where I think we could do and continue to do more training together training space is is always an issue an updated training facilities such as a range and an area where we can do technical training physical training and things like that is is always an area that's you either don't have it or in in our case our facility is 25 years old and it's now time to update some of these things so with the city looking at building a new police department I'm hoping that we can build the infrastructure that will accommodate those those needs in the future because our stuff is getting a little worn and outdated and and tattered and and here's an opportunity now they're going to build that we could we could certainly share an ad area and there's just a whole host of different things that could be done we've talked about possibly a joint communication system of of some sort you know eventually pie in the sky we could maybe combine our mechanical area our maintenance people our clerical people but physically when you have separation it makes it difficult to do those types of things so we're always open to that and we have a real great relationship we're talking you know obviously we had this unfortunate situation with one of our officers we have a funeral coming up on Friday and the the police department as well as the other agencies in the county says hey Mike anything you need from us when this is going on let us know so you know we may be in need of some you know employees to cover for our employees when the funeral goes on so those are the types of things that that are you know that you have just based on the relationship that you have with these people and we continue to do those things sometimes very behind the scenes but we're all in here to do one thing and one thing only and that is perfect to provide a service to the community you mentioned the firing range that we've been sharing with all the other municipalities for some time we know that that's starting to get older and that's an opportunity for the future evidence storage is always a pressing need and it's just good and refreshing to hear you say that you're focusing on seeking additional opportunities because as you said from budget standpoint we've got to be doing that and I wanted to take a moment at the end but you just touched on it as well as the PGA went and all the effort that made it successful on the last evening you lost an officer to honor him why don't you talk a little bit about the lieutenant that passed away yeah lieutenantly right now just a class guy a 29 year veteran of the sheriff's department looking to retire at the end of the year just an unfortunate situation had worked all week out at the PGA as our officer in charge of our security on the grounds had just finished his shift out there had gone back to the department to change and was on his way home from work to plumbeth when he was struck from behind on his motorcycle and tragically killed just an unfortunate set of circumstances my heart goes out to his family and his relatives and his friends and we as a department have lost a family member as well and we're we're doing everything we can to cope with that Lee Roy was a was a lieutenant in charge of our criminal investigations division an outstanding guy very involved in the department and over the course of his career and he'll be sorely missed yeah yeah well kind words nice of you to share with the viewers I know so many of our viewers may not see this this tape until after the funeral which is going to be this week but certainly our heart goes out to their their friends and family members involved with this sheriff the last couple of minutes that we have remaining mentioned some of the key challenges that you have what have you but what about key challenges in regards to law enforcement what do you see happening in this community that concerns you and you feel are going to be challenges in the years ahead well you know we we need to stay proactive and we need to stay on top of crime trends and to try to offer and be proactive in offering maybe services that will reduce those types of crimes drugs gangs drive-by shootings all of these things that we hadn't heard about maybe five or ten years ago are now happening in our community on disturbingly so a more regular basis I think as as as law enforcement professionals we need to stay attuned to what what is going on what can we do to possibly intervene and reduce or eliminate some of these things and that that's another aspect of I guess of strategic planning long range planning that we keep on top of those things so I really press my staff to to be you know to stay stay up on what the trends are what we can expect and and some of the things that maybe we can do to to eliminate or reduce that type of crime coming into our community technology computer internet crimes fraud sexual things that are going on via the internet are is another just you know kind of new venture to criminal investigations and law enforcement and that actually we have an officer a detective that has been trained in computer and internet crimes so we're looking into that in fact we have a couple investigations going on as we speak so you know things like that technology from a more from a delivery of services aspect we're looking at wireless 911 so that needs to be that needs to be addressed so those are some of the things that are happening some of the things we're being confronted with and some of the things I look forward to working with well thank you so much sheriff help you for joining us today we really appreciate the time you've taken I know it's been a challenging time and certainly thank you for all your hard work and especially your staff and everyone else who have been involved with making good things happen in the community on behalf of chairman bill gearing and myself adam pain thank you for joining us today and until next month we wish you well and if you have any suggestions for future programs give us a call next month tim finch our finance director we'll be here to talk about the challenges of the budget process so until then thank you