Greetings, dear aspirants. In this session, we'll be seeing some practice questions which will be helpful for your UPSC prelims examination 2020. Let us now move on to the discussion. Which one of the following is not a domain of the Niti Ayokes Health Index? And they have given four options, health outcomes, governance and information, key inputs and processes, and conservation. If you take this year's prelims question paper, you can find a question like, which one of the following is not a subindex of the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index? So such questions may come at the examination. There are only three domains with a total of 23 indicators for the health index, which has been developed by Niti Ayokes. It has been the practice of Niti Ayokes. Because in both the editions of the index, the domains were same. The domains of health index are health outcomes, governance and information, and key inputs and processes. So conservation is no way related with health. So you can easily eliminate this conservation statement as well. In prelims question this year, they gave maintenance of law and order as one of the options for the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index. And that was the correct answer for that particular question. For this question, the correct answer is option D, conservation. Moving on to the second question, consider the following statements about prison statistics and prisons act. They have given two statements and I've asked you to choose the correct answer. Here, the first statement is incorrect, the prison statistics, the crime in India statistics, and the statistics with respect to the accident and suicide deaths are released by National Crime Records Bureau. If you see this National Crime Records Bureau comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The National Institute of Social Defense is a central advisory body for the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of the Government of India. Though it develops tools, programs for correctional administration in prisons, it is not releasing the official prison statistics of the country. If you see this Institute also involves in training the authorities in prison and correctional administration. Now, the second statement, it is correct as the section 59, subsection 25 of the prisons act of 1894 makes way for the state government to provide rules for the appointment and guidance of visitors of prisons. These visitors are not the visitors of prisoners, they are a board of official and non-official visitors who make observations about the living conditions and care and welfare of prisoners by having frequent visits. So for this question, one of the statement two is correct. The correct answer is option B. Moving on to the third question, which of the following refers to children under the age of five having low weight to their height and four options are child stunting, chronic under nutrition, child wasting and under nourishment. If you see this given statement is the definition of child wasting. When we say child stunting, it means children having low height to their corresponding age. It reflects chronic malnutrition or chronic under nutrition and acute malnutrition is reflected by child wasting and under nourishment refers to having less calorie intake. The average per capita consumption of poorest 30 percentage population of India is much lower than the required number of calories. So here, the correct answer is option C. Child wasting, which means the children under the age of five having low weight to their height. The question is, a regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement has been proposed between a set of countries and an organization. In the Asia Pacific region in 2012, the agreement is proposed between. Now, whenever you are knowing or studying about regional comprehensive economic partnership or RCEP, remember ASEAN. If you see this RCEP has been proposed among 10 ASEAN members and six free trade partners of ASEAN, which also includes the countries of India, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand. So here, the correct answer is option C. ASEAN and India, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand. Consider the following statements with respect to United Nations Security Council. The first statement is it consists of five permanent members and 10 non-permanent members. And the second statement is that the non-permanent members are elected for the period of two years on the recommendations of one of the permanent members of the council. And statement three is historically India's neither permanent nor a non-permanent member of the council. They have asked you to choose the correct statement. Now, read the statements once again. We saw that United Nations Security Council consists of five permanent members and 10 non-permanent members. And these 10 non-permanent members are elected by the United Nations General Assembly based on the respective regions. So there were five different regions which we saw, but not on the recommendations of permanent member. So here, the statement one is correct and the second statement is not correct. Then moving on to the third statement, though India is not a permanent member, it has served as a non-permanent member in the past. So the third statement is also incorrect here because it is given that it was neither a permanent nor a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Their question is asked for the correct statements. The correct statement is only the first statement. So the answer is option A, one, only. Question is, which of the following is part of the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity from India that is maintained by UNESCO. And they have given four items. First one is the Kalbelia, second one, Draman, third, Yoga and four, Vashi. And they've asked to choose the correct answer from the options. Here, the question is asked, which of the following is part of this representative list and especially from India. Kalbelia, Draman and Yoga are a part of this list that is corresponding or belonging to India. Vashi is also on this list, but it corresponds to Japan. The question is asked to choose the correct items. The correct answer is option B, one, two and three only since Vashi will not come under this list. Moving on to the next question, consider the following statements with reference to National Human Rights Commission and the question has given some three statements and that has asked to choose the correct statements. Now, if you look at the first statement, it states that NHRC is a constitutional body, but if you look at statement three, it states that it was established by the Protection of Human Rights Act of 1993. If it was established by an act, then it becomes a statutory body because an act is a statute. This means if statement one is correct, statement three is wrong or vice versa. So they both cannot be correct together. This means we can eliminate options which has both one and three. The commission was established by the Protection of Human Rights Act of 1993. This makes statement three as the correct statement and statement one is incorrect, like we just discussed. So we can eliminate option A as well. Here, the second statement states that the Chief Justice of India is the chat person of the commission. Now, in this statement, you may make a mistake because the former Chief Justice of India is the chat person of the commission. Here, the statement just mentions Chief Justice of India which indicates to the present Chief Justice of India. So in a hurry just by seeing Chief Justice of India, don't mark statement two as correct. Here, statement two is incorrect. So the correct answer to this question is option C, three, one, B. Moving on to the next question. The next question is about GST. It has given two statements and has asked you to choose the correct statement. Here, the first statement may confuse you because you may know that GST was introduced by an amendment to the constitution but you may not be sure by which amendment. It is the 101st amendment to the constitution of India in the year 2016. So the statement one year is correct. The second statement is also confusing because you may think that GST is a tax which is related to the commerce of the country. You can remember this by just a small trick. Remember that GST is a tax and it is a revenue to the government which means it is a finance to the government. So the actual ministry is the ministry of finance, not the ministry of commerce and industry. So the correct answer to this question is option A, one, one, B since the question is asked to choose the correct statements. Consider the following statements about malaria and they've given two statements and have asked for the correct answer. Here the first statement is correct. Malaria is a vector bond disease caused by plasmodium parasites, especially by plasmodium vivax and plasmodium faucipera. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected female anopolis mosquitoes. Here the second statement is wrong. Sexual transmission of malaria is not possible. In rare cases malaria can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant or the shared use of needles or syringes contaminated with blood. Here the question is asked for the correct statements. The correct answer is option A, one, one, B. Next question, which among the following describes superconductivity which is often seen in the news? The question is asked for the description of superconductivity. Superconductivity has two main characteristics. First is zero resistance and then is the diamagnetism. From this we know that the answer should contain zero resistance, which is available in option C and D. So we can directly eliminate other two options. In these two options C and D, one says it conducts electricity and another says it stops the conducting of electricity. Look, it is very obvious that superconductivity should mean conducting electricity because we know conductor is a material in which electricity easily travels. So we can eliminate the option which says does not or stop the conduct of electricity. Hence a correct answer is option D. It is the ability of certain materials to conduct electric current with zero resistance. So option D is the correct answer. Lower policy report rate announcement by Reserve Bank of India denotes which of the following? When the policy report rate or the report rate is being reduced by the bank, it means that the bank rates will also become lower and why it has gone for the reduction in policy report rate is because the economy is growing at a very slower pace and also the investments and the money supply are in the lower side. So here the correct answer is option D. The money supply in the economy needs to be boosted. So when the bank reduces the bank rates, the money supply in the economy can be boosted. Next question, the National Institute of Labor Economics Research and Development is an autonomous institute under Neethi Ayuk, so the correct answer is option C, Neethi Ayuk. Agenda 2063, recently seen in the news is associated with which of the following? So they have given a European Union, African Union, International Customs Union and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The Agenda 2063 is the master plan for the transforming Africa into global powerhouse for the economy. So the Agenda 2063 is the master plan for transforming Africa into global powerhouse for the future. They are determined to achieve this in a 50 year period from the year 2013 to 2063. In this question, if you look at the statements, you can tell that the statement two is correct because it is known that Dr. Homi Jahangir Baba is known as the father of the Indian nuclear program. So this eliminates option C. Now the first statement tells that BARC comes under the Department of Atomic Energy. It is correct and please include this in your notes that BARC comes under the Department of Atomic Energy. So this makes statement one as correct. Now we have to see whether statement three is correct or not. The name is Baba Atomic Research Center. So we know that the center is involved in nuclear sciences as atomic energy is a discipline of nuclear science. But in the question, it states that BARC is involved only in the field of research in nuclear sciences. Now you may easily get carried away by this logic and may consider statement three as correct but it is actually wrong. So it is where the newspaper reading and analysis is useful. Four startups have tied up with BARC to manufacture the unique membrane based water purifiers but water is not a discipline of nuclear science. So from this we can tell that BARC is involved in multidisciplinary research as well. BARC or BARC does societal commitment domains of research and application as well. Now these points make sure that the word only should not be there in the statement. So it makes this third statement wrong. So this question is asked for the correct statements. The correct answer is option B one and two one. Next question, which among the following is are the member states of the organization of Islamic cooperation. And they have given some five nations which includes Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Here all the countries are members except India. Please keep this in mind. So the question is asked for the correct answer. So the correct answer is option D one two three and five one B because India is not a member of OIC. Next question, who among the following are the members of G20 grouping. They have given four countries, India, European Union, Japan and South Africa. The G20 summit for this year was held in Japan in the city of Osaka, India, European Union and the BRICS grouping along with the USA are part of this G20 grouping. If you see the South Africa also comes under this BRICS grouping, the other members of BRICS grouping are Brazil, Russia, India and China. So all the countries given in this question are correct. The question is asked for the correct answer. The correct answer is option D one two three and four. The next question, consider the following statements with respect to BS6 norms. Now they've given two statements and I've asked you to choose the correct answer. The first statement is BS6 norms are meant for automobiles only but not for the fuels of automobiles. These BS6 norms are not only for automobiles but also for fuel. The first statement is incorrect. Moving on to the second statement, India's targeting to implement these norms with effect from 1st of April 2020. Therefore this second statement is correct. So here the question is asked for the correct statements. The correct answer is option B two only since only the second statement is correct. The question is about the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967. They have given two statements and I've asked you to choose the correct statements. Here the first statement which has been stated or given year is correct and it is a part of statement of object and reasons of bringing this act based on the recommendations of committee of national integration and regionalism. Therefore the statement is correct. Now come to the second statement. It actually tells that the act defines unlawful activity and unlawful association but does not define terrorist act. The act also defines terrorist act in section 15 of the act. The term unlawful activity and unlawful association are explained in section two O and two P of the act. Therefore though the statement is partly correct it becomes an incorrect statement because the terrorist act is also defined under this act. So the question is asked for the correct statements. Here statement two is wrong. So the correct answer is option A one only. Consider the following statements with reference to wholesale price index. They have given four statements and I've asked you to choose the correct statements. Consider the first statement that is nothing but the definition of wholesale price index. This first statement is correct. Now the second statement it is wrong because WPI or the wholesale price index is compiled and released on monthly basis by the office of economic advisor not the central statistical office. And this office of economic advisor comes under the department of promotion of industry and internal trade under the ministry of commerce and industry. Now the statement three is correct because the base year use for calculation is 2011 12 only. And the final statement here the first part of the statement is right that is wholesale price index is calculated under three major groups namely primary articles manufactured products and fuel and power but not services because services are not included in wholesale price index. So here the question is asked for the correct statements the correct answer is option one and three only. The periodic labor force survey 2017-18 was launched by which of the following ministry and here this is a direct question. We know that it was launched by the ministry of statistics and program implementation. We discussed this during our analysis. So the correct answer here is option C. Next question which of the following nations as being part of a bilateral naval exercise with India and also part of quad dialogue but not a part of Malabar multilateral exercise and they've given four countries. Japan, United States, United Kingdom and Australia quad consists of four nations namely India, Japan, United States of America and Australia. So we can directly eliminate option C from this question which is the United Kingdom. Now know that India and USA started the Malabar exercise as a bilateral exercise in the year 1992 and Japan joined this exercise in the year 2007. So it became a multilateral exercise but know that Australia is not a joint. So Australia here is the correct answer because it is part of quad dialogue but not a part of Malabar multilateral exercise and also it has conducted some joint naval exercise with India. Moving on they have given two statements and they are asking which of the statements are correct. Here the first statement is wrong because the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act of 2002 deals with Article 21A of Indian Constitution. It is nothing but regarding a fundamental right to education. So it has no connection with the Council of Ministers. And if you see the Article 75, 1A was inserted by the 91st Constitutional Amendment Act of 2003. And here the second statement is correct as the total number of ministers including the Prime Minister in the Council of Ministers shall not exceed 15 percentage of the total number of members of the House of People that is the Lok Sabha. So here the question is asked for the correct statement. Since statement two is only correct, the correct answer is option B, two only. Consider the following statements and these statements are about e-cigarettes. The question is asked for the correct statements. So if you look at the first statement it states that e-cigarettes are battery powered devices which are used to smoke. So this is correct. But the statement further states that it does not contain nicotine. This is wrong. e-cigarettes are made up of a flavored solution which contains a varying concentration of nicotine. Since this part of statement one is wrong it makes the whole statement wrong. Here the question asked for the correct statement and if you see the options given here, two options containing statement one can easily be eliminated which are options A and B. Now the second statement is a bit confusing as you may not be sure whether e-cigarettes contain all these compounds like acetaldehyde, formaldehyde and acetone. Also whether they are carcinogens or not that is the cancer causing elements or not because we may not always remember every detail about a particular topic. But if you see the options that are given here the option C and D, statement two is mentioned and only one option contains statement three. So try to find out if the statement three is correct or not since statement two becomes automatically correct here. The use of nicotine as an ingredient in any food item is prohibited under the Food Safety and Standards Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales Regulation 2011 of the Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006. So here the third statement is correct. So finally we can arrive at the option D which is two and three only since both the statements are correct. Now also remember that it was found that e-cigarettes contain potential carcinogens like acetaldehyde, formaldehyde and acetone that is mentioned in the second statement. With reference to the generalized system of preferences program of USA considered the following statements and the question is asked for the correct statements. Here the first statement is it was first instituted in the year 1976 and is the largest and oldest US trade preference program. This GSP program actually came into force or it was first instituted in the year 1976. So this statement is correct. Here they have told in the second statement that in 2018 India was the second largest beneficiary under the program according to the Office of United States Trade Representative. Here the second statement is incorrect as India was the largest beneficiary under the program according to this Office of United States Trade Representative not the second largest beneficiary. So here the question is asked for correct statements the correct answer is option A one only. Which of the following are used to calculate the fiscal deficit? They have given tax revenues, borrowings, capital expenditure and revenue expenditure. And we have to choose the correct answer from the options given below. The fiscal deficit is the total expenditure minus the total receipts except the debt capital receipts. So here the debt capital receipts consists of borrowings and other liabilities. So these borrowings and other liabilities are not taken into account while calculating the fiscal deficit. And if you see here the total expenditure refers to both the capital and the revenue expenditure. So if you eliminate the item B which is the borrowings the correct answer is option D one three and four only. With this we come to the end of this session. Do like comment and share the video and do subscribe to Shankar IAS Academy YouTube channel for latest videos and updates. 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We know that it's hard to stay up to date on USIP's latest publications, so we've challenged our teams to summarize their latest research in less than a minute. This is briefly. Almost 20 years ago, the UN passed Security Council Resolution 1325, affirming what many of us already knew, that peace and security is more sustainable when women are equal partners. This prompted international organizations to create a host of new programs that empower women in peace building. Two decades later, USIP asked, how can we do better? Here's what we found. First, local expertise matters. Let's design programs that tap into local knowledge and understand local solutions. Second, be more holistic. We aren't just mothers or shopkeepers or politicians. We're often all of those things at once. Third, no more one year programs. Programs need to last at least five years so that they can adapt and improve over time. And fourth, make it about more than just women. If we hope to transform the systems that hold women back, programs should engage the entire community, including men and boys. To learn more about USIP's gender and peace building work, visit usip.org.


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Hi everyone, in this video we're going to talk how to iterate through string with each character in the string being processed during each iteration. Let's make a simple example in which we will loop our string character by character and in every iteration we will print that character to the screen. First let's define variable myString, for example let's say that variable is iterateMe. In this variable we will keep our string, then we will iterate that string using forLoop. We will try to iterate that string using forLoop and inOperator. Each character in every loop would be kept in, for example, myCharacter variable. So we will say for myCharacter in myString, so we will iterate variable myString and in every iteration we will keep that current character into the variable myCharacter. And for the end we will print that current character with print myCharacter. We will put myCharacter inside parent and now our string is printed character by character each character in new line. You can notice that Python is smart enough to find out when our string ends and arrange to automatically terminate the forLoop when loop has come to the end of character. That's all for this video. Thanks for watching, please like, share and subscribe. Happy coding.


Cameron may been is the newest yes network analyst and you will get to hear him and see him This weekend we have games on Sunday then Monday and Wednesday and Cameron's going to be involved in all of them And he debuts today in his first yes network appearance right here on the case show also on 98.7 ESPN Cameron is Michael Don and Peter. How you doing? How we doing has everything going now? Was that a walk-up song of yours? Yeah, he hit it on the nail that was my walk-up song.  That's you know, so you pick a walk-up song You kind of tells how you're feeling or what you're going through.  And I think I think you've seen what I put on Twitter I think you're going to be great as a broadcaster, but but why why there's probably still years left in you We spoke about it. I feel great right now to be honest I'm probably still one of the most athletic guys to not be on the field right now But we talked about a Michael at the after 2019 after having the experience the chance to play On the the biggest stage play for a team with such nostalgia You know doing what I was able to do for the Yankees feeling like I was such a contributor You know to helping the team get to the playoffs that year Provide providing a spark that you know, there's no staff for and that's what you can do in a clubhouse You know to have 22 plus minor league offers really kind of I almost broke my spirit I guess you could say you know, I'm used to playing on the highest level And playing for wins only, you know when you go to the minor leagues a lot of selfishness comes back into play It's your plan for yourself who cares if the team wins or lose and Being at the highest level plan, you know major league baseball for so long It was difficult for me to go down there and play with that mindset You know, I feel like I'm still a big wigger the game is is Definitely a business oriented a game now realize that much, you know the older I got but I just couldn't go down there And know that I could help a big league team and so I decided to you know Call you reach out that you get tips from you and let's and let's make this thing happen Let's let's try something else and Michael had mentioned on the air that you nailed the audition and you're a natural Did you know you were gonna be this good at it? I honestly didn't even think I was that good. I had a lot of nervous energy Michael was great during the audition He made a extremely easy Troy Jared that they had a great team there, you know, giving me tips and then little Little nuggets here and there.  So they have the opportunity to navigate in a different lane But still also to continue to be you know attached to the game continue to stay close to the game and continue to watch You know a team that I you know, I have a real real You know passion and love for it and and I couldn't pick a better opportunity Then you know to be with you guys man. It's a great team to be a part of Now has it ever crossed your mind Cameron that like obviously you're brand new to it You're still getting your feet wet has it crossed your mind that if you were to do a great job And really become a long-term Yankees announcer that there's a world in which one day You're more known for that than anything else you've done up to this point Absolutely, I understand that and one thing that I said when I when I went into this or when I decided to that I wanted to try my hand in this is that I just didn't want to be another guy I know I want to win awards. I want to win Emmys. I want to bring recognition to the you to the You know to the club to to the to the yes network myself, I want to you know grow my brand as well, but When it first came about, you know, it's definitely something I want to do I was I was never all-star, you know, I played for 15 years and I and I said, let me give myself a chance to be all-star something else so Not saying it's gonna happen out the gate But I know that I'm putting myself around great people that I can rely on to get advice from Bounce ideas off of and learn from so I'm a very teachable guy. I'm extremely You know Extremely okay with learning, you know criticism. It's you know, I think that's what it makes me You know built for New York is everybody can't take that type of criticism. So, you know You surround yourself around good people and I think good things will happen.  So when I get criticized just help me through it, okay? Yeah, you know what luckily? I'm so tech I'll make my tweet or I'll make a post and I don't even go back and read the comments I don't even know what I'm looking at. I just I just say how I'm feeling and then I go about my business All right, so you The those that are listening on radio Cameron is also on the TV side and you look like you're sitting in your man cave in your house And so you've got all these uniforms behind you. How how do people make the cut? Who's up there and who's not? That's a good question You know the years, you know, I didn't want all the bats and all the balls in my house So I figured if I get jerseys jerseys, I can only do so many My you know who makes the cut, you know guys who I consider great teammates, of course Guys that I consider, you know great, you know great players of course. I'm a big character guy You know how to how did our?  You know during my career what I think you're a cool guy and whatnot So how did your opportunity to rack up some cool some some cool jerseys as you can see behind me? So I don't have any more room now. I got a lot in the closet Got a lot of Yankee stuff on the wall. So I think I think I'm going more art based now You can check it out. I'm going more art based leaning towards art You see my nipsy hustle driving all my life. So you guys hit that like I said that right on the head Do you have a moment? You know Cameron that stands out to you is like your absolute best as a ball player You said you were never an all-star, but you had a great career And you know you lasted for a long time in this league and we're productive and in 2016 You battled over 300 over 94 games. What what's the what's the career highlight for you baseball wise? Honestly the career highlight and this might sound really really silly, but I think just the relationships that I was able to garner You know that I was able to cultivate and grow Into something special, you know, you know, I really take a lot of pride in the way people look at me as a person so to You know announced my retirement and I have it, you know teammates that I would never thought reached out to me that You know, let me know that I impacted their life and career You know, those are things that you know are you know, those are things that mean the most to me You know, I've had a lot of awesome moments. I didn't realize I had as many I'll tell my buddy I didn't realize I had as many walk-offs walk-off hits as I did Because I was always in there with you know, did we get the win? I grew up under Jim Leland You know, his whole thing was you know, if you win it'll take care of everything So I never really worried about the personal stuff as much But you know, of course, I had you know hitting a home run Roger Clemens and Roger Clemens in old Yankee Stadium Make them out my debut there was was extremely excited my grandmother who's older now I can't watch me play so she was able to see that she was a rocket fan So, you know have an opportunity to you know get my first hitting home run for the off the rocket was huge You know winning the world series was huge even though it had a lot of controversy around it It was it was it was you know exciting for me playing 12 years and never seen the playoffs It was exciting for me and then and then having the opportunity to play for the Yankees putting putting the pinstripes on I tell everybody and I'll continue to say that pinstripes are a little bit heavier than every other uniform Even though it's the same material So, you know playing for the Yankees, you know the dream that you have as a kid, you know You imagine this is what it's going to be like The investment the fans the the glitz the glam I honestly feel like I didn't even feel that until you know my my my year with the Yankees So, you know that really stood out to me and I think you know, I'll cherish that year that I had it was it was a fun year for me It's that's what it's supposed to be like. That's what winning is supposed to feel like at its highest Well, you play for 10 franchise in 15 years And if you look at your stats Cameron that year with the Yankees was you know It's at the top and you know, you one of the few people I mean, they're they're more as the years go by that play for the Yankees in the Mets. So what's the difference? I mean, it's the same city is there a difference between the two teams playing for the two teams There is a difference, but now that I'm on this side and say it and I don't have to you know I really really care about what anybody thinks, but there is a difference, you know, I really Really felt like the the mentality the mentality as far as You know the in the Yankees locker room, there's a business mentality There's not a lot of silly stuff going on, you know, I like to say, you know guys are having fun guys are enjoying themselves and you know having great conversations, but there's not a lot of Playtime, there's not a lot of silly stuff going on You know, guys are showing up DJ showing up and he's calling me over to his locker And he's just telling me, okay, let's go out and let's just take these guys out to the back to the shed And just beat the crap out of and that's it.  It was never I was like hey do what you need to do to help the team win That's all that matters. Um, so with that said, I think, you know, I will say adding book show show Walter to that lock Oh, I think we'll help out in a immense way I think adding of course you add max where you can do on the mound, but I think from a leadership standpoint Those things go a long way You know people always wonder why teams don't win or why they do win things like that in the club clubhouse make a huge difference You know how locked in are you on the game?  And do you care about doing what you can help the team win those things go a long way? And I think you know the the met's adding book will definitely help them You refocus, you know, their energy in the right direction And you mentioned that the pinstripes are heavier because the expectation is to go out there and win a championship So with what the Yankees did in this offseason Cameron, do you think they're better than they were last year? And do you think they've got a shot? Um, you see I scratch my head.  It doesn't matter Um, I've been on some talented teams and you know, if one guy's pulling the rope in the same direction Or if one guy's you know talking on the phone like other guys are pulling the road, you know, you're gonna get D It's not gonna happen. So For me, I still think there's some areas they need to address. I think you can never have enough pitching depth I think they've got to go out make a move, you know from pitching standpoint I think they have an issue with with having a log jam, you know on the infield. I've been watching some Been looking at a lot of mock lineups and I'm and I'm sorry it might it may be a part Unpopular opinion, but I cannot for life me Figure out why DJ.  I tell people out time to ask me I said he's one of the top five best pure hitters into the end the whole entire game, you know So, you know, see him not a lot of this is mind-blowing to me So but again now I'm on his other side and I'm just a spectator like you guys so But you're paid to give your opinion and you're doing it now before we let you go I'm gonna I'm gonna make I'm gonna do something that's gonna make you smile So you were the Yankees in 2019. I so my son Charlie is seven So the three years ago, he was four and his favorite player was Cameron may been So it was the hot sox had to be the hot sox there Well, but here but listen to this so he's he's doing this around the house And I actually I taped him without him knowing this is this is Charlie ready He's just moving his dad matter of fact Like when I call you after this put Charlie on the phone so I can get some tips because that was Listen as smooth as it gets That's why I called you again. Hey guys. Just so you know, just so you know Back to real quick. We're back to my audition when I showed up You know, my boy Michael K was extremely extremely dapper So I proceeded to give him the nickname that day. You remember Michael. I Think so refresh me Is that gonna be the nickname the rest of the year I mean if you listen if you keep showing up in the booth looking as fly as you did on my audition day Then it's gonna be choco like choco latte Blanco for the rest of the year Well, you know, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've told you off the I'll tell you on there I think I think you're gonna be outstanding. You've got a great personality. You got great opinion So I'm looking forward it starts on Sunday I'll be with David and you'll drop in the booth and then you and I are doing the game on Monday alone looking forward to it man Looking forward to learning from the best and now, you know, I appreciate you guys having me on today. Thanks. You got it Good luck


Hello, my name is Pat Lohr and I'm a member of the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium Math Team. Thanks for joining me. Today I am sharing four examples of number strings based on the ideas of Kathy Fosnoe. They're designed to give you some ideas about how you could use strings like these to encourage your students to develop some good multiplication strategies. You're watching the second of two parts and in part one I shared two sample strings that used an array model for multiplication. In part two I'm going to discuss two more strings but both use variations of an open array model which is something a little different. This professional learning opportunity is made possible by a grant from Alberta Education to support the implementation of the revised mathematics curriculum. The file has a couple of pages of teaching notes with information about the math behind the strings and suggestions for presenting the problems in the classroom. I'll be talking about these ideas during the webcast. The four sample strings are definitely meant to be a starting point for you and I encourage you to make use of the ideas to create some number strings of your own. And I want to remind you that the lessons are not meant to replace concrete experiences and contextual kinds of problems that you're already using with your students. What they're designed to do is hopefully help your students move on to more flexible and abstract ways to work with numbers. In this sample string I want students to begin to develop an understanding of open arrays and how they could be used to model multiplication, especially with larger numbers. I use strings like these as many lessons, maybe at the beginning of math class or right after lunch, whatever works for me. I like to do the writing and modeling myself in a mini lesson because it really should move along pretty quickly. I'll be using a smart board in this webcast, but you certainly don't need a smart board to use number strings with your kids. It does have some nice features that I'll be making use of, but I won't be doing anything that you couldn't do with an overhead projector or a blackboard. So let's have a look at the strings. In any string of problems I do with my students I always want to leave the previous questions and their answers displayed so my kids can use what they know to help them figure out something they don't know. But with this string, because of the amount of space taken out by the later arrays, not to mention the grid overlay, the previous questions aren't on the next slide. However, it's still really important for students to be able to see the answers to those questions as they move along the string. So I'm going to record each equation on chart paper or on an adjacent whiteboard or blackboard. You won't be able to see that, you'll just have to take my word for it. I've got the grid right here because moving to an open array is a big stretch. And I think that this might provide a nice support for that. For each question in the string you'll ask the same basic questions. What's the answer? What was your strategy? Did anyone think of it in a different way? Each array is proportional so you can drag the grid over the array during the discussion if you want. Use a pen to divide the open array into sections with dimensions labeled to model strategies that the students suggest. This one's pretty easy, but your students will still probably suggest two strategies, seeing it as two groups of four or as four groups of two. I always want to begin a number string with a problem that I think is within reach of even my weakest student. So that student can join the conversation in a meaningful way. Then I'm going to move on to more and more complex questions until I think I'm pushing my strongest student at least a bit. It isn't about having everyone reach the same place at the same time. It's about everyone being able to take one step forward from wherever they are. So here's the next question in my string, four times ten. Don't let a student get away with suggesting just add a zero to the four. I tell them in my world four plus zero is still four. It's four tens, so that would make a good strategy. Someone else might see it as four times five and another four times five. Now maybe that's not a strategy they'd actually use to find the answer to this question, but it's great for your students to realize that. And I might pull the grid over to make that clearer. Here's the next question. And again, I'll show you how I might divide the array to model my kid's strategies. For example, if a student thinks of four times twenty as four times ten and four times ten, divide the array down the middle and maybe label each as a four by ten array, equalling forty each for a total of eighty. This string moves on to eight times twenty, ten times ten, ten times twenty, and my challenge fact, twelve times twenty. Lots of multiples of ten and I'd probably have my students look over the string at the end to see if they notice anything interesting. I'm happy if they notice the connection between eight times two and eight times twenty. I just don't want to add a zero to be some mindless rule that they memorize. The second sample string uses equations only and now it's your job to sketch an open array to model the strategies as they're suggested. This takes some practice so I have included a few sample models on the last page and there they are. Open arrays are a bit like open number lines. There's no need to be particularly accurate in your proportions when you're drawing them. Just do the best you can. But before you present a string like this to students, you need to think about what strategies they might suggest and be ready to model them. I always model the equation as height first times width, like this. Remember for each problem you ask, who knows the answer to this question? What was your strategy? Did anyone think of it in a different way? The questions move from simpler to more difficult and before I made the string I had the last question already in mind. I have to think about which easier questions will support my kids as they move on to the next harder one. I know some of them are going to drop off along the way but that's okay. So for three times ten I'm expecting someone will notice that it's three groups of ten. And the answer is thirty. Let's have a look at the rest of the questions. I'm going to present them one by one and the previous questions with their answers are right there for support. When someone shares a good strategy I might ask someone else to say it again in their own words or maybe I'll ask them all to turn to a neighbor and explain the strategy to them. There's no need to leave the arrays on the boards so I'm going to erase this one to give me a little bit more room. Again I draw the array and label it but now I'm expecting that someone will give me the strategy that they knew three times ten was thirty and they know that three times two is six and they can use those two ideas to give them the answer of thirty-six. The next problem is ten times ten and ten times twelve. Remember I'm looking for more than add a zero to the twelve. So ten times twelve might look like this. A ten times ten and a ten times two for the answer a hundred and twenty. Then we have thirteen times twelve and finally twenty-three times twelve. So you can see again how those are increasing in complexity and ending up with a problem that I think is really going to push my strongest kids. Remember modeling with open arrays is probably a new idea for you and your students so you might want to practice modeling a string before you actually do it with your kids. So that's it for part two. If you missed part one be sure to check it out. And if you found any of this intriguing I highly recommend you check out Kathy Fosnoe's work. Remember to keep the mini lessons quick and don't expect everyone to master the strategies the first time you present them. We want our kids to see the big ideas behind number facts and be able to work flexibly with numbers. We definitely do not want them to believe that rote memorization is the key to math power. And thank you for spending the past few minutes with me.


Hello, in this lecture, we will define useful life. According to fundamental accounting principles, wild 22nd edition, the definition of useful life is length of time and asset will be productively used in operations of a business, also called service life or limited life. When we're thinking about useful life or typically thinking about property, plants and equipment, longer lived assets that will then be depreciated, useful life being part of that depreciation calculation. Let's take a look at an example. In this example, we have a tank which is property, plant and equipment. It's going to help us generate revenue in some way in the future. Therefore, we're going to put it on the books as an asset, a fixed asset, a depreciable asset that we will then depreciate over time. How are we going to depreciate that equipment? We're going to depreciate it according to its useful life. So in some format, at the end of the useful life, we want to bring the book value of this equipment down to what we believe the salvage value will be the amount that we can scrap the equipment for at the end of its useful life. For example, if we use a straight line method, we may do a calculation such as this, we have the cost of the equipment minus the salvage, the amount that we believe we can scrap or sell the equipment for at the end of the useful life, the life that we believe the equipment will be used to help us generate revenue, and that will give us the amount to be depreciated. Then we're going to say, well, how long are we going to have this equipment? That's the useful life. If we say we're going to have it for four years and then it'll be used up and we're going to sell it at that time at the salvage value, then a straight line method would be that we can divide by that four years and then depreciate it over that four years at an even depreciation rate of 59,375, meaning we're going to depreciate 59,375 four times over the four-year process, having total accumulated depreciation at the end of that time period of 237,500, and that means that the book value will leave us with the salvage value of 20,000 after the useful life has expired.


If you want to become a chef, you'll start learning about some very basic recipes as time grows and you become an expert, you will create your own recipes in a way that no one's ever done that before. Imagine with this Gen AI, what we can do is take every recipe that has ever been recorded in human history and then over time, it'll actually start creating its own recipes, more than any other chef in the world could ever do. The interesting thing that it will also start doing if you are not careful, is it will start even creating ingredients that don't exist. And some people call that hallucination, I just call it like interesting content creation. But it's really up to you to figure out when there's an answer that is hallucinated or incorrect to ground it and make sure that the content that it's creating is correct.


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. I would like to continue talking about trigonometric functions and primarily their values for some basic angles. The lecture which preceded this one was about sine. What's the value of sine for major or basic angles where we can easily calculate its value? Now we will talk about cosines. So what are the angles we're talking about? Well, it's zero radians, which is zero degrees. It's p over six radians, which is 30 degrees. It's p over four, which is 45 degrees. It's p over 360 degrees. And p over two. Actually, sometimes I'm saying p sometimes pi depending on which language I have in mind, Greek or Latin or English, whatever. So for any of these angles, we will calculate the value of cosine. Let's go back to the basics. This is our unit circle. These are crossing with axis. This is our point A with coordinates p, q. And this is an angle which we are talking about. Well, it's really following exactly the same pattern as the previous lecture for sine, except instead of coordinate, I have to consider axis. So this is q, this is p, this is capital P. This is capital Q. So, same drawing. And I will try to be as fast as possible because it's really easy and again, resembles the previous lecture. For angle of zero, A coincides with x, and obstesis is equal to one. So cosine of zero is equal to one. Now, if this is p over six or 30 degrees, then the opposite calculus, which is q, is equal to half of the k-paginus, which is one because it's a unit circle. So by Pythagorean theorem, p square is equal to hypotenuse square, which is one, minus this calculus square, which is one quarter, which is three quarter. So the letter p would be equal to square root of three over two. So the cosine of pi over six equals square root of three over two. Now, what if this is 45 degrees, p over four or pi over four? English p, Greek pi, whatever. Anyway, pi over four, so this angle is also pi over four, 45 degrees. So this is not only the right, but also equal at root triangle, which means that p and q are the same. And again, by the Pythagorean theorem, p square plus q square is equal to one. Now, instead of q square, we can put p square, which is the same thing as we know. So it's two p square equals to one, times two for a good square root. Now square root, principle variable, so it's two p equals to square root of two. So p is equal to square root of two over two. Cosine of p over four equals square root of two over two. Next, 60 degrees, pi over three. Well, if this is 60 degrees, this is 30 degrees, pi over four. So the opposite to 30 degrees sides of this right triangle, which is actually our ccp, is equal to capital capital x. So there is nothing to talk about here. We immediately have it one half. Finally, if it's pi over two, which is 90 degrees, a coincides with y, and it subsists as equal to zero. Now, thinking about other quadrants of the coordinate plane, again, very analogously to whatever I was doing with the sine. Cosine has properties of being an even function, which means that's an even function, which means for every angle in this particular quadrant, we can have the corresponding symmetrical angle in the positive quadrant, and it will be the cosine, which is obsessed, will be the same. Now, if we are talking about this quadrant, then we can have a centrally symmetrical point on that side. So if this is x, this is pi plus x, right? So we know how to calculate this, and to calculate cosine of pi plus x, we know this is equal to minus cosine of x. That's another property which we discussed when we were talking about cosines. And again, it's kind of obvious because since these are symmetrical, centrally symmetrical points, this obsessed is positive, and this is negative or y-scores. And finally, this is in this quadrant, we can consider a center, not centrally, but a reflection relative to the y-axis, and consider this angle instead of this angle. So we have to really, from pi, subtract this. So we need this. And the ordinate, again, would be negative in this case relative to this one. So this is an obvious equality. So these are properties which we discussed before I just briefly mentioned them, and they can help you to calculate any other value of major angle. Let's say you have an angle of 135 degrees, which is 180 minus 45. 180, which is pi minus 45. You know, it's minus cosine of 45 degrees, which is pi over 4, which is minus square root of 202, et cetera. That's it. Very basic, very short lecture. And we'll continue talking about major angles for tangent, cotangent, et cetera. Very small, very brief lectures. That's it for now. Thank you.


So let's go over to cash app So if I saw a cash app here So I'm gonna click on it to launch catch up. So here's my catch app guys, and I've talked a lot about You know the beautiful things that cash cash app has been doing Just to just iterate. I have been using cash up now to run my business For a while and I really really love the ease of use like I said earlier It's very simple, you know, you can send money you can you can you request money you can pay people which is just awesome But cash up has been adding features moving away just from your simple Sending and receiving money up to now start helping people build wealth by investing So the first thing that they did was there are the ability for people to be able to buy Beat buy and sell Bitcoin on your platform So for those of you that don't really know about it, you can buy and sell Bitcoins on and catch up. So I'm gonna go here to show you guys. So this is it So if you go to cash app, this is the current price of Bitcoin right now So or if you have that amount of money, you can buy some some bitcoins Which is awesome, but I don't know maybe in the future. They would actually add some other Coins like ethereum and just to make it even better just increase the number of people that can want to invest But right now is limited to Bitcoin So today like I told you guys I've actually gotten a message from cash app that they have Taking the thing one step further. So now if you see up here, there's a new tab called stocks So let's click in that Now you have the option to invest in stocks in what app So and in here the stocks that you can actually invest in so from Nike So basically all the stocks you can see on the stock exchange. They do have those now So or which is kind of crazy. So if you go in here, you go through if you're looking at investing In so they tell hey, you're my first stock and all these details. Hey guys, this is this is the first time I'm actually going through this arm doing is review with you guys because I just got that message today as you can see it So you go through You can select it. So let's say for instance, let's say let's click on Nike and see what they say Okay, so you click on Nike you have the option to either Unfollow the stock or you can buy the stock So which is which is awesome and they tell us a little bit about Nike and Number employees like what you normally see if you were to follow us talk on say like on Google Oh, yeah, who did you give you a little bit of information about the stock? I mean, then you can just see the graph is to how the stock is trading for the day They gave to you all about your one year and then all time, which is awesome. So this is Nike and all time So let's go back here and just kind of pick something Random again, let's see McDonald's. So if you wanted to buy McDonald's or McDonald's right now all time They are in the red, but if you take like this Today, this is what McDonald's is doing right now. So you can need to buy. So let's say if you want to buy the stock What do they say? So let's just try that again. We're doing this real-time guys. I haven't had any experience with this I just got Information today that this is stuff that you can do on what's up. So Let's click buy I did click on buy and I'm not seeing anything come up yet. So I know what's going on Let's give it a little bit of time and see what happens Okay, so or you guys can't really see it on on here because when you click buy I see pop-up on my cell phone So I'm just gonna take a screenshot and then I'll share that with you guys So you guys can see but on my cell phone when I click buy I get this pop-up And you know, it's telling me what I want to buy So if want to buy a $1 which is good because you can do for you can buy a fraction of shares Which is awesome. So For folks that don't have a ton of money sitting around you can just basically buy a fraction This is this is a game changer guys for For catch app from where they've come initially. So if I go back here my home page, they started by just doing regular You know sending money and now they've merged into Into, you know Investing company which is which is kind of crazy. It's giving people more and more opportunity. So think about it This is a home page. You can add cash Or you can catch out right now I don't have any money in my account because I just catch out most of the money They have into my bank account in but this is this is this is awesome And they have if you have money and they want to use it They have this card that you can actually get your free cash Card you can request that and you can use it outside You know if for people that don't have The ability to use cash app if you want to just go out shopping You can actually swipe the card and they'll deduct the amount from your current cash app balance And so if you guys see how they have actually grown again, like I said, they started with hey You know, you can send and receive money and now they say hey You can actually use this card to go out there and shop just like a credit card Or like a debit card that you get from any financial institution Next step is now we you can trade Bitcoin so cryptocurrency trading on our platform and then Now they are moving into trading stocks Which is which is awesome. So I mean the cash app is just they're getting bigger and bigger and bigger and Again for people that just want a one-stop shop for all those things. They've bundled it into one So if somebody sends you money, you don't need to transfer it into your bank account before transfer it to your Investment account you could do that right from within cash app. So I know I didn't do a review of cash When it first came out, but I thought this is very important I want to kind of share with you guys so again, just so I kind of recap some of the features Here you can request money or you can pay somebody money and then the next step here This is where you can actually invest or you have the option of investing in stocks Or you can invest in in you can invest in Bitcoin. So the stock option You can invest in let's say kind of like fractional shares So you can buy a fraction of whichever stock you see here. So if you scroll down, they have all these options This is stocks that you can actually invest in The one thing and then see the search this search function up here Let's see if you're looking at just buying a particular stock you can you can search for it Let me see if I'm looking for let's say Tesla See Tesla shows up and you can you can go for it Let's see if we can get another really let's see next stock. Let's say Amazon Oh, it is Amazon is right there, which is awesome I'm really liking this. So if you click in that it shows you where the Amazon has been doing today currently that's the price Amazon is trading for Wow Guys you for our cash-up users if you don't want to so here's my here's my final take If you don't want to have multiple accounts spread out across the board you can use this Yeah, the the one thing that I'm yet to really read about as far as this would be the fees And I'm assuming that trading fees would be free because that's what most of these new Nord companies are doing to come up with they're trying to kill their competitors Like M1 finance is you know commission free Robinhood is commission free and even like some of the big the big boys are starting to get in there Making a commission free. So I'm assuming that it would be commission free But I definitely gonna update you guys as soon as I'm able to go through the process and actually Buy a stack. I'll do that And then put that in a subsequent video there you go guys. This is it cash up investing review This is awesome. I think it's a game changer in my opinion I mean like you can do you can do cryptocurrency you can do stacks on the same platform You can send and receive money if somebody owes you on the same platform if you run a small business You know, if you if you're a small business owner You can request money for payments and stuff like that on the same platform In I mean if you want to go out and go shopping in you want to use, you know money in your cash app You have the cash the cash app Card that you can use so This is it It's happening So, yeah, I'm super excited to try this and then I'll keep you guys posted So if you do have any questions about, you know, what I just talked about you definitely let me know in the comment section Like share subscribe and as always Stay motivated


Hello class, welcome to the Otto Wagner photo essay assignment for grade 8 design where we will focus on the aesthetic of you can steal or ought to vote. Please go through the Otto Wagner exhibition at V Museum and take as many pictures as possible. If you wish, you can post the pictures to Instagram using the hashtag Wagner 2018. Your job is to observe carefully what style he used in creating the buildings and artworks he did. Take as many pictures as possible and you choose the best ones and create a photo essay with descriptive captions using Adobe Spark page. You should keep these questions in mind when you are creating your photo essay. This means you have to go through the expedition and find the answers to these questions. Rules and guidelines? Everybody has to submit their own photo essay so you need to work alone. You can of course also submit pictures you found on the internet provided you provide the source and the link and the license under which it is published. You should of course only use images that are under a Creative Commons license. Keep in mind the captions should be descriptive, a minimum of 50 words. Deadline is Tuesday 1st October 2018. To use Adobe Spark page you log on via your Google account, click on the plus button then choose web page. Then you can add a title, subtitle, photos and descriptions. If you wish you can choose a theme. You click on the word photo to upload your own photos or you can find things on the web. When you are finished, preview or share it and publish and print it. That's it.


and welcome to the Donahue show. We're so glad you could join us for another half hour of interesting discussion on issues that we hope you'll find interesting. Joining me today are familiar faces around the, around the, the ottoman is at work, the coffee table. Cal Potter, former state senator and assistant superintendent for libraries for the Department of Public Instruction. Professor Tom Pineski from the University of Wisconsin-Shabuigan, math teacher. Ken Risto, social studies person. Something from the Shabuigan area school district actually director of assessment and curriculum for social studies. I'm Mary Lynn Donahue. I'm a lawyer with Hop Newman Humkey and happy to be here. Before we start, I just want to note the ironic change. We have Tom Pineski representing the red states and Ken Risto representing the blue states and. It could be north, south. It could be north and south. It could, because I don't think it's blue state, red state, but. It could mean absolutely nothing. But I just thought. Interchange of award, no. We're taping in our south game is going on tomorrow. North, south basketball. Yeah, so alumni. And so when our faithful listeners are able to watch this show, it'll all be history anyway, so. Time marches on, I think there's a, some saying somewhere about that. It's been an interesting time in the city of Shabuigan. The city of Shabuigan falls. Shabuigan County as a whole, lots of things going on. Primary elections that were held on February 21st, I believe, if my memory serves me correct. And at least in the city of Shabuigan with surprising or not surprising results, I don't know how you look at it. I'm thinking particularly of a district four where Dan Berg, the incumbent older person and also a county board supervisor came in a distant, I think we could say distant second to James Boren, political newcomer. Marge Segal beat soundly as the incumbent, not even advancing into the general election. Gene Clayunas, a good old Shabuigan name and Gene having a commanding lead over the second person. James Wolfe, I believe if I'm not mistaken. So Miss Segali won't be on the city council any longer. It looks like there gonna be some new faces on the city council. I'm interested in your reactions to incumbents falling or not doing as well. Oh, let me add in district eight, Silas Vanderweeley came in a close second to challenger Dustin Havens and Jason Shane was knocked out. What do you think? Former older person, the real story. The real story and I was at the sixth district with Marge Segali, sixth was it or fifth? Fifth district. Fifth district was not that she lost, but I was wondering who won? Because, what are you saying, Clayunas? I didn't know this person. I guess it was a name associated with the Shabuigan press before and. Was that right? I didn't know that. Gene's mother used to write for the press some years ago. Okay. And I thought this young woman really campaigned and she won and there's no story about her at all. I'm feeling good because she's older than me and he's older than I am, so. I thought maybe it was a young person, but no, she's in her 40s or early 50s. I don't know how old she is, but I thought. Oh, it's such a dangerous, but actually you're erring on the good side, so. But I thought that was the story and because she must have got out and really campaigned and of course Marge didn't help herself by saying I don't need to go on these public forums to be interviewed, so that left all the two other people, two other candidates have all that free TV time. So she stepped on her own self with Marge for the fifth district. Gene spent considerable time, I guess full disclosure, I know her pretty well. She spent considerable time going door to door and talking with people and refused to get into any kind of discussion about personalities and I think that helped her. And of course, I think you're absolutely right, Tom, is I think a lot of people, even channel surfing and watching channel eight a little bit and then also reading the press and getting a sense of who's showing up for these forums, people that didn't show up for the forums were badly hurt. Berg didn't show up either, I don't believe, to the fifth one. Only two of those five gentlemen, Heidemann and Boren, showed up for that one and I know there's some folks who are really not happy about that because they wanted to have the opportunity to see what these people thought about the various issues. Yeah, and how many were in the fourth? Like five candidates? Five candidates, right. And there were a lot of, Heidemann was third with 111 and then it was fourth and fifth within the... I think Joe was the former mayor of Schmoyer Falls. Again, just a full disclosure, I know him pretty well. And Joe has just moved into Sheboygan in the last maybe six, seven, eight months. So he's a relative newcomer to Sheboygan. He really, except for, spent absolutely no money in the campaign, that happens to be my area of Sheboygan.  And showed up for the forum and got some exposure that way. Wrote a letter to the editor right about that time but really ran kind of a very low-keyed campaign and did pretty well for the first showing, really did. Well, is this part of the last year at this time the campaign slogan that I heard most often was it's time for a change. And it certainly seemed at that point that the voters were willing to bring new people in. Is this just finishing up that process, do you think? Or were there specifics attached here that would lead you to think maybe not? Well, two were open seats so you're gonna get new candidates there. And I don't know, I just think, I think the forums might, people who are gonna vote, there were a lot of people who didn't vote but people who were probably gonna vote tuned into the forums because they played regularly and I mean I tuned in just for a couple of times just to see the faces and hear what they had to say. And those are the people who probably thought okay, I'm gonna vote and I'll get a chance to look. And Berg is not there, Seagal is not there, even Bonnie Cerdo I don't think it was in one of the forums because she I think said she wasn't gonna let in. And so the, and I don't know if Silas was there or not. I didn't see the, was he at the forum? I saw his forum, yes. Okay, but the Havens who beat him, I don't know how good an alderman he might be but he really came across as genuine and really wanting to serve the, because I watched one of the forums came across as genuine and really wanting to serve the city and maybe that for those people who vote that comes across. So I don't know if it's a kick the bad guys out thing, I think maybe it could have been a positive thing, people just looking and these who they were, those people were, they were impressed with them. Yeah. Very little turnout though too, I think that can be when you have an incumbent second but very close race, I think you can't read too much in when it's nine or 10% of a vote. Right, I mean the vote spread between Dustin Havens and Silas Vander wheelie was small. I think it was fewer than 10 votes. But you look at Born and Bird, Born came in at 270 I think and Bird was at about 185. I mean that's, that's a fair amount to make up. Well Born is a known commodity. I mean he's been advertising his business for years with the picture and the whole thing. So I'm familiar with the fellow and I don't wear a hearing aid and you know, so I think a lot of people in the community do know him and he's been involved in service clubs and so on. So I think this is just sort of a name recognition that had been there for a long time. Yeah, well and I, you know, my own sense of it is that the people are, that the campaign itself, people's behavior on the council floor or whatever may be pretty strong but the campaigns themselves have been pretty low key. And really even coming out of the primary were a couple weeks past that, maybe not a couple, close to it. Couple weeks past that and you know, still not a whole lot is going on. So I think it's gonna be, I think it's gonna be interesting. I know just to change pace a little bit in, was it the only Shboygan County board primary, which was in Kohler? Pat Whedon is back on the ballot. Yeah, finished second to me. He finished second behind Ken Conger and Jeff Dickert who is the superintendent of schools in Kohler was a fairly distant third and I think Pat Whedon was somewhat behind Ken Conger if I remember correctly. But I thought that was interesting too. Pat I think now is 87 if I'm not mistaken and say what you will, he's a person of his opinions and he works hard at it and he cares a lot and so it's interesting to see. To repeat to the last election when Conger beat Whedon. Right. And the Plymouth mayor was number two also. Yes, he was. What happened there?  Well again, I think you can't read too much into it. It was a primary voter turnout, but I think the margin of victory by the challenger was somewhat surprising. But how long can a mayor stay in office without making enemies? I guess even in a place like Plymouth which tends to be a pretty even keel community with sufficient growth, not to have a lot of financial problems but I think eventually someone who's been in office for I don't know, it's probably 20s and years, that's a long time to be a mayor and I guess you get, at some time you get open to criticism and eventually it sticks. So it'll be interesting to see that final race. And then Kiley's 87, if I'm not mistaken. So and of course I'm- Younger people coming in, let's go with a new mayor. New young mayor. Well, and I was reading an article in the Journal Sentinel over the weekend about Justice Stevens who's 85 and there's this fabulous picture of Chief Justice Roberts kind of holding him by the arm as he's going down the steps but the import of the article is how both physically and mentally vibrant Stevens remains. And so for us to have really older people involved in the electoral process and not as jokes, I think is good. So there's hope for all of us as we move along. I can run again, Kyle. No thanks. I can run again? No thanks. Now you're living in the town of Sheboygan Falls. There are always lively elections in the town of Sheboygan Falls. So, you know, that would be that lively. I've never talked- Citizen Potter. I've never talked to Jim Baumgart about how much, whether he likes his county board seat and the differences between that and the state senate. Obviously there are many significant ones but that's interesting. Back to the city and interesting news in the city. Not so long ago is it'll be two years this summer that Blue Harbor was a huge political issue. Whether or not to commit substantial city funds outright and TIFT, I believe, it is a TIF, isn't it, as well? Yeah, tax incremental finance district, yeah. Which has some implications for the city. We don't get our tax money. Obviously a big hoo-ha about the attorney fee issue. You remember way back when and all the rest. It's certainly been in the news and oversight committee has been appointed by the mayor interestingly enough, which is not yet met or is just meeting as we're speaking and whose appointments expire in April, I assume they'll be reappointed. Should we be worried? What role should the oversight committee have? Is the city just purchased a huge white elephant? I'm trying to remember the amount of money that went into the conference center alone. I believe around $7 million if I'm not mistaken of city money and while somebody else talks smart, I'll find that exact figure but what are your thoughts? Do we have to worry about this? Is this going to be just an enormous stone around our necks? Well, for two years I don't get many positives. I don't hear many positives. I mean, they're just men on the street kind of comments. You know, restaurants are not doing that well or something's not going so well or construction was a little iffy here. Well, the kids enjoyed the water feature, the motel, not the motels, the condos, limited purchase. So I hear a lot of rumor but I don't hear a lot of positive stuff. Like, hey, this is a place. There was a nice convention down here. We went there, had a good time. You ought to go down, I don't hear that. It's just sort of this underneath current it's a little, it's not doing well. So I'm concerned. I think that I would be concerned. I think the business data that's coming out boss last year by the corporation, which is the sum of all their water parks and motel conference centers, I believe it's 30 more, $4 million. And occupancy average I think was like 55%. Now where does the Sheboygan facility fit in that average? Is it bringing down the average or is it holding up the average? And if this corporation is going to turn around with a new corporate head, which is another signal that somebody wanted some change, what do they sell? Do they keep Sheboygan because they have the tie to the public funds? Or do they try to say we need to divest of Sheboygan and keep the rest? Those are types of things I think this committee really has to look at to find out exactly where Sheboygan fits in the mix of making this thing profitable. You can lose just so much money so long and then pretty soon the books hit the fan and then you have to file something in order to pay the bills. And I think that's really what needs to be studied right about now is where does Sheboygan fit in the profitability? Does that appear to be on the radar screen of the advisory committee, at least again, judging only from what's in the Sheboygan press and that's always a tricky business, I understand. They're more concerned about, it sounds as if they're more concerned about whether the convention center's making the referrals to the other community housing, business, beds and breakfasts and whether we're getting referrals or not. I mean, that's where the focus of the comments were in the newspaper. And I found that kind of odd, given that we're looking at, again, I hear anecdotal things too, is that for the most part, the place is extremely busy on the weekends as you get folks up there. But in the weekdays, of course, it's really very, very quiet and can you run a business along those lines? I know some people have raved about the upscale restaurant and the facility and other people were very disappointed being there. Now that restaurant is managed differently from the restaurant that's the mainstream in the lobby type of restaurant. And I know Jason Richardson, they just put him over there and I know he'll do a good job in that restaurant. In the fancy restaurant? No, in the other one. The other one is run by a family out of Milwaukee. So it's kind of an odd arrangement that you've got two restaurants run by two separate entities in the same structure. It is interesting. The composition of the advisory committee there do not appear to be a lot of business or financial or accounting folks. There are two hotel industry folks. There are a couple of Alder people. And what would be interesting to me is a sketch of the scenarios of what would happen if the business does go south. What would be the financial implications for the city? What would we have to do in terms of finding another buyer for the property, the conference center? I've actually been... Do we own it? We own the conference center. We own the conference center, but we own all the hotel. No, thank goodness. So how can we sell? I'm sorry, and let me rephrase that. That it's not unusual for outfits like this to be sold one or two or three times. But what is the implication, I think, just for the city? Because do we sell the conference center? It doesn't seem to... We don't get large conferences here as of yet. I mean, there have been one or two. I think those conference rooms are used. Organizations that I do some work with have used rooms and so forth. And it's been very pleasant, and it's certainly a gorgeous location, but the financial implications for the city, I think, are significant. And we've struggled along. Has the marina ever been profitable? I don't think so, and we've managed to subsidize that, but it's a fairly small subsidy overall. Well, the biggest issue with the marina right now, I mean, we've limited the number of slips along the way. We didn't have storage. Storage is where marinas make their bucks over the winter, and we never had storage. It was hit or miss around the city and around the river for storage, and now they even store at the marina. If we had a big storage place, I mean, I could even see that little lot where the Blue Harbor is located, have it part of been storage for boats and another part, but that's over the dam. And now that's water over the dam, but that's where the marina makes money. I know. We turn the triple play fund center into a marina storage over the winter. That's the triple play, it's just up and going now. And when I was talking with some folks about the Blue Harbor was that the certain element of kids, say from two, three years old up to about 12 or 13, just love the water park, and it could stay there forever. But at a certain point, older adolescents, that doesn't really type, really appeal to them after a certain amount of time. And they're really hoping that the triple play will fill, the triple play facility will play into that, that people will be more likely to come to the facility because that's just across the way. So they're hoping they'll fill that in as well. There's been so much criticism of just the site and the structure, and I mean, it was a beautiful peninsula, probably when the city was first founded. Certainly the colliards diminish the aesthetic value of the peninsula, and now it's built up. And I know there are differing opinions about, is it good to have this triple play fund center, and should we be trying to just have little buildings and that sort of thing. And then you have this huge hotel. I mean, it's enormous, at least as you're looking at it, and so how that whole peninsula gets used. I thought the press article just on the history of it and such of this past weekend was interesting. Well, how is the city's PR doing to help push the Blue Harbor? And I think that's key. I think that's absolutely key. I mean, the fact that we split, I'm still disappointed with that, that we gave up our contract with the chamber, but how are they doing? I mean, that's key. That's our major event. Yeah, I think that clearly has to be a real focus for the city is to bring in conventions that fill up not only Blue Harbor, but also the bed and breakfast and other motels in the area. I do think that's key. And hopefully that will be a primary push of the new tourist person and that whole outfit. We should give them a year, don't you think, Tom, to kind of try to put something together. No, I want it now. But it also seems when you talk about the makeup of the advisory panel, it almost seems at the time there was the assumption that this thing was going to fly, was going to be great, and the place would be teeming with people, and the only issues are to make sure that we get our piece of the pie locally, that we get the referrals to the bed and breakfast and so on. Just the types of people that you see on the advisory panel, now it'd be interesting to see if you really want to make those same reappointments. I suppose I've never met and you've got to give an opportunity to meet. But I would think you have to start looking at some of the real financial issues that are going to play out if this thing doesn't play out. And what is the accountability that's built into that development agreement? As I understand, Blue Harbor's been very good at paying its room tax. Those room tax dollars go specifically to retire the debt that was extended for building the hotel and those payments are not in default, so I think that's certainly good news. But it would be interesting just for all of us to have a good sense of it. If it does go south, where will the city be? It's my understanding the condominiums have all been sold. They're all been sold. I think they're mostly quite corporations for various purposes, sundry purposes. But I do understand that those occupancy rates are not real good. So, because you buy a $300,000 or $400,000 condo that you can't live in, more than it's a pretty restricted period of time. And obviously you're hoping for rentals because that's how you make the mortgage payment. I'm not quite sure what the mortgage payment would be on $400,000, but I would expect it would be a lot. Well, it'll be interesting to see how that develops over time. I think the other thing, really, get back to the development just for one second. I know there's a lot of folks who are really unhappy with triple play coming up with this big yellow box and then your perspective from the west side of the river. But the whole plan is based on the perspective of sitting at the harbor and what it looks like looking west rather than looking east. And I know that the facade isn't finished out there yet either. It's not gonna be yellow, I'm told. No, I'm told it's gonna look really, fairly nice, but people need to understand is when they put those there, it was to make it look nice for the people who were at the resort. Not necessarily from those of us sitting over having a cup of coffee over at the weather side. I haven't been in the triple play, have you been in? I think it was just opened up this last week and I've not been there. My nephew ended up playing baseball over there. He's a freshman and he was there at all about midnight last Friday night. I'm gonna have to make one more to go to another. They had a great, great time hitting hardballs around. Well, and I'm just gonna move us along because time is running out. And although the county board certainly cannot compete with the city council in terms of headlines and degree of interest and so forth. Some interesting things are going on and one of them, one of the most interesting discussions to me is the size of the county board and trying to cut it at least down somewhat. Tom, you had some interesting information that I thought was just fascinating. Well, from the Milwaukee Sentinel, they, this was over 3,000 counties in the country. Seven counties, well, the top three counties in the country have county boards of 51, 40, and 39 members. The next seven are all from state of Wisconsin at 38, 38, 38, 37, 37, 36, 36. And of course, Sheboygan is 34. And then the state of Iowa, it says in the article, mandates that county board size be limited to no less than three and no more than five. And I was amazing. I went to the Des Moines County, Des Moines, Iowa County. I figured Des Moines, Iowa City of Des Moines, that's probably a decent size county. There were three supervisors listed. That's it. Well, I think those are the extremes. So Wisconsin is by far the biggest in the country on county board size. Including Sheboygan. Let me ask Calvis. The press article indicated that if we went from 34 to 17, the number of constituents per district would rise from 3,000 to 6,000. As a person who is campaigned in a fairly large area, is that increased just in the size of the district that you represent? I mean, it's more work, obviously. It's more people. Yeah, it does, but I don't think it's unmanageable. When you look at a county of 110,000 as we have today, that is not that unusual to have a base. I mean, if you take, I think if you look at how you would probably draw those districts, you'd take a city, Sheboygan Falls, mostly is one. That's what falls is about 6,000, Plymouth's about 7,000. You know, you could then take Sheboygan at low 50s. You know, you could have a manageable number from each community, I think, and bunch a few towns together with the villages that are in those towns and still have a manageable size. You know, one of the things with the county board is most people don't, I said to say, don't know who the county board supervisor is. I doubt very much if they get a lot of phone calls. And so I think the workload that some of those folks have, particularly many of them are retired, wouldn't be that unmanageable. I think a county board in the teens, well, it's 14 or 17 or whatever choice that we come up with, would be a manageable size. I know that had been previously, I think the last time we went through this it was a suggestion to go to 24, but at 34 is a large number. And I think anything in the 20s or in the high teens would be manageable. And Jim Bumgrens is talking about having it, to 17. To 17. And there's some discussion about between 34 and 17, but then you have some real issues about drawing lines. Well, another thing is the committee, they say, well, the committee jurisdictions will be so large, they'll be spending a lot of time. Well, that's a concern, but that's how you finesse your committees. You look at the workload, you look at the jurisdiction, you combine committees and you try to do the best you can.  The Wisconsin State Senate is about that size. And we need to wrap up. It's been a pleasure. And remember to vote for that school logo. Thanks and we'll see you again.