Hi, I'm Miranda Meehan, the NDSU Extension Livestock Environmental Stewardship Specialist. And today I'm going to be visiting with you about the 2020 drought and the impacts of that drought to range and pasture land. As you know, the entire state has been impacted by some level of drought throughout this growing season as well as in 2020. So I'm going to recap what's happened with this drought so far. So the current drought really started in fall of 2020. We came to the end of the 2020. Many areas of state were deficient in rainfall compared to normal and as much as 10 inches below normal in the central part of the state. Moving forward, 2021 growing season as we moved into that is that fall deficiency in rain actually reduced potential for forage production because our cool season grasses that we have here in North Dakota start to develop their tiller in the fall before the next growing season. Many of our grasses aborted that tiller last fall and so they had to start growth over the spring and that really resulted in a reduction in our forage production potential. And on top of that, the deficiency in rain continued through the critical time for forage growth in North Dakota, which is April one through June 30th. By the end of July, much of the state was reporting a 50 to 75% reduction in range and pasture production with areas in that D4 are exceptional drought in the central part of the state experiencing up to 75 to 100% reduction in range and pasture production. When we're fast forwarding and we're starting to get those questions of what's going to happen? What's the 2022 grazing season going to look like? What's this drought? What are the impacts of this drought to that? And so the really big concern we have right now is we're still deficient in rain. We're up to around six to eight inches is the average across the state for the last 12 month period. So that's still going to impact our forage growth. We have gotten some recent rains. As you see in this pasture that I'm in that we've had a fall green up because of the recent range. These are benefiting, fitting introduced grasses. So this pasture is primarily smooth brome grass and Kentucky bluegrass. So those introduced species are benefiting. This should also benefit that tiller development I discussed with our fall or native cool seasons. However, be cautious of grazing this fall unless it is an introduced species because we don't want to have a native negative impact on our cool season native grasses and push them back so that they're delayed further in 2022. So what happens in 2022 is really going to be a function of what we get for winter and spring precipitation. And unfortunately there is really not a good prediction right now. Right now there's no strength in the models that we're seeing. Hopefully as we move forward we'll have a wetter winter and enough runoff to help replenish things. When we talk about the potential impacts for 2022, the one we know that we're going to see is we're going to have these overgrazed pastures that need time to recover. If we don't give them time to recover, we're going to see a decrease in forage production and these pastures just weren't just overgrazed in 2021. A lot of them are also overgrazed last fall in 2020. And so that's an additional stress around those plants and they need to be able to recover their root structure, their root growth, their carbohydrates within those roots so they can grow next spring and have enough leaf area and forage. What we've seen in past droughts is we will see a delay in grazing readiness next spring and so be prepared for a delaying turnout, especially on our native pastures. We're also, there's going to be a potential for that decrease in productivity as those plants recover from the past two years of overgrazing. We may see an increase in bare ground and with that, there's an increased potential for weed infestation. So we want to be on top of those and controlling those invasive and noxious weeds that are coming into those pastures so we don't see further impacts from those as these pastures recover. The other thing that we've seen is this year, we've seen issues with water quality across many of our unmanaged range of pasture lands, which has prevented full utilization of some pastures. So what we want to think about is we want to continue monitoring that. If we don't have enough runoff, we're going to continue to see issues with water quality, high total dissolved solids, high sulfates and so we want to continue screening in those pastures before we turn livestock out on them for grazing to make sure that the water sources, especially surface water, are safe for consumption. How can we build resilience into these systems? That's really the key is we know this isn't the only drought we're going to have in North Dakota droughts happen periodically. How can we increase our resilience to future droughts in our grazing systems? One of the keys is we want to make sure that our stocking rate is set right and we're not exceeding the carrying capacity of that pasture. So just monitoring and reevaluating that on a regular basis and when we are in a drought situation, making early adjustments to that stocking rate so that we can make sure that we're not overgrazing and putting additional stress on those grazing resources. Also, if we can build resilience into our grazing system by implementing a rotational grazing system of some sort so that that builds recovery into that system because we have multiple pastures so we're not grazing one pasture for a whole season and that allows pastures to rest. If you had a rotational grazing or have a rotational grazing system as you prepare for 2022, don't start in the pastures that got overgrazed the heaviest this year. Give those a chance to recover. So having a system like that helps us build recovery, especially if you have a rest rotation system where one pasture isn't grazed every year, then that gives you a stockpile of forage that you can utilize. Another really good option that's becoming more popular in North Dakota is the utilization of annual forages into our system. So behind us we have some cows that are grazing a full season cover crop. That's one option. A lot of people don't want to go that option, but there's a lot of shorter season options. So planning a winter cereal such as a rye or triticale or a winter wheat that can be grazed in the spring and delay pasture turnout and give you a little more flexibility in your grazing system or we can do a fall cover crop that goes in after one of our earlier harvested crops. And that gives us just a little flexibility, some supplemental feed forage, whether you graze it or hay it. That gives us a little extra wiggle room within our system as we're managing that. And any way we can increase that flexibility, it helps increase that resilience of that system. Other thing is take advantage of some of our water development programs and making sure you have good water in all of your pastures and maybe even adding it to some of your cropland situations so that you can better utilize those for grazing annual forages. Right now, because of the drought, there have been several programs triggered that can help with cost share assistance. The State Department of Water Resources has assistance program as well as some counties have assistance through their FSA through the Emergency Conservation Program. So contact your local FSA office and see what's available. Other options are just those more normal traditional ones that are always around such as the NRCS Equip Program are some programs through some of our state agencies or non-government organizations such as Ducks Unlimited. So be aware of those different options that you can utilize to increase your resilience within your system and enhance your ability to get through droughts in the future.


Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome you to our industry innovation days, which are part of the cost action to on four or two on quantifying the value of structure health monitoring. I'm extremely happy that we have been organizing this event. And I'm extremely happy about the support by a head of SOSA, and I would also like to especially welcome Antonio SOSA as an executive of the BWISAP. So we are most, most of us are physically here, but there's also one guest to be introduced also later, Jorgen Kühler, who you may have just heard, saying hello. This is Jorgen Kühler joining via Skype. But later something more. We will be working through today the case studies, but after the welcome, after the introduction of the cost action, after some words, all the case studies, which role they are playing, then we have the individual case study presentations. We will have a panel discussion afterwards, and they once then concluded with a networking dinner for which you are all welcome, and we can continue our discussions then more informally. Later, we will have a standardization perspective where we are introducing our activities, and maybe they should be complemented with something more. We will try to explore it on day two, and the last part of day two relates only to our cost action, two, one, four, or two, where we are working on integrating the input, which we have collected from these two days directly to our activities. So this was a short overview. Again, welcome. And I would like now to give the words to Antonio Souza, executive board member of Prisa, and we are extremely happy that you joined. Thank you. This was created in 1972. It's one of the oldest concessionaries in Europe, in line with other concessionaries in Italy, France, and Spain. And in fact, we have a very good footprint. We managed six concessions, spread by 19 motorways, about 1,600 kilometers. And it means more or less 40% of the network in Portugal. But in terms of toll revenues, we have a market share of 15%. Our network is, as we said, the backbone of the system in Portugal. We are from the north to the south. And we run this concession, the main concession for 45 years. So the shareholders are a very old Portuguese group, family group with roots in industry and with business in health care and chemicals. And the second partner is a fund that you may know, ARCS. Our figures are very good. We are, in fact, the bigger operator in Portugal, slightly above Anna. Anna is the airport's operator. We grew 6% this year. So we are in a good way. It's like this. We run everything in this concession, except in auto straddles of the Atlantic that we only do road assistance and maintenance of the equipments. For the other five, we do a complete operation. These secondary companies provide services to the concessionaires. And I will talk briefly about bridge operation and bridge infrastructure on the infrastructure. In fact, they are responsible for operation and maintenance. We have this separate in two companies. The operations company is centralized at the operational coordination center. It's a big structure that we developed by our own technology. And we centralized everything about operations in this building. It's very, very impressive. The other company that matters for today is bridge management of infrastructure. It's a BGI. So this is the figure that the company runs. And we have, as you can see, more than 2,500 structures, 1,300 entrances, and every other equipments. We have a complete program of monitoring for everything that matters in the highways. And I don't borrow this. And our ambition today is to create a real asset management system where we are now concluding the design phases. And by the end of the year, we start with implementation of this system with a complete catalog of the assets. With an integrated vision, we have some management systems for structures, for bridges, for pavements, but they are independent. They don't talk with each other. It's not good for a very healthy management. So we need an integrated vision for the assets. We need to implement an effective risk management. And we have now defined the risk metrics. And we have digitized everything. So we have to have digital monitoring for this process for achieve the goal. The idea is reinforce a culture of maintenance. It's very important. Until 2012, our company invested 300 million euros per year. New projects, new designs, new bridges, new motorways. It's a I used to joke with my engineers saying that it was a time of open bar. For the engineers, it's really a good thing to build new bridges and new motorways. But after that, we spend about 50, 60 million euros per year in maintenance, in repairs, in windings, in maintenance. And it's very important to change the culture for this. So for the digital monitoring, we are now with the big project with Dr. Alder Sosa. It's a case study of this cost action. For the Razia Bridge, the Razia Bridge is one of our longest bridge. And what we pretend is to change the vision of the maintenance of the bridge until the end of the concession. How this social health monitoring of this bridge can help us to define a new maintenance policy. Thank you. And I hope you enjoyed the conference and the city. Thank you very much. So thank you very much for being here. I know these people from the sector born in their full agenda. So it's a pleasure to have you here. And I think it was very valuable to see, which I think is the scope of this small workshop, mainly bringing these decision making people with their concerns, their priorities to share with this community, so our researchers. So we can bring some bridges in terms of that. So in this context, as Sebastian said in the beginning, under the scope of this cost action, what if I had to manage me, we came up with a concept, we call it industry innovation base, which is being organized and lead by myself, Jochen Kahnler, that is online, I think. Maria Pina, which is here. Sebastian Thons, which is the share of the action, and Wim Gauage is also here. So we are trying to figure out a little bit how we could have a small strategy here to better communicate with these decision makers. So what I will present briefly is the concept to this project. And I hope that this might be something that triggers you from the industry side to better engage with us, because I also believe that today and tomorrow, the teachers, the lecturers for this workshop are not we, it's you, these decision makers that should share with us what you want from this cost action, or how this cost action could help you, as Antonia Sosa said. For example, to have a better maintenance, better strategies to get higher efficiency levels in terms of better, I would say. So basically, very briefly, I will outline the objective, the concept, and then what it contains in terms of these industry-vision days. So the bottom line, okay, this is a nice bridge, which in fact is the Zerib bridge, in the Christianity from Rizzo, just to illustrate that this is a big structure, so there are issues about maintenance, about repairs, or whatever. So, and then we have a lot of information, I will show you also for this bridge about, we have a finite element model, for example, for this bridge, very fine, a lot of information, either from the medical analysis side, as also from the monitoring side. All this structure for this specific case, it's, I would say, a very comprehensive case study, perhaps not yet in this issue of the value information level, but in terms of available information, there is a lot of information available about the structure, about monitoring system, materials, loading, whatever. So, at the end, while I'm just showing this small video, there is a lot of work done in this structure. This is a finite element model that was developed in the software, so a very fine model, everything was included to a point that even we simulate the construction sequence since the first pile until the end of the operational lifetime, and so the question now is here about, well, we have all of this, all this information, so comprehensive database, the issue is, how we get some benefit, not for the researchers, because for researchers, I can say that I have already published eight and papers just due to this bridge, which I'm very happy from the Academy point of view, but from the industry point of view, we, I think, we not yet get this benefit to save some costs, yes? So, the idea is that perhaps we have all this information that we have, and we can see very briefly here in terms of monitoring, show the three main phases, as I said, is a very comprehensive case where we have data since the early stage of the construction, we can see results from the finite element model, results from the monitoring side, things gets quite well in terms of the accordance between both, and so the issue is, how can I now transfer all this knowledge to the owner? How I can use this in terms, what do we use? What, at the end of the day, I think, is to have a decision at the end of the year, the amount of the budget that these people sign in the checks on the next zero, the next five years, so I think we need to go in that direction, and in that context, these industry innovation days, and in the construction, we've been working with the experts on the value of information setting up a framework that is able, in certain way, to answer these questions, mainly in the perspective of what is the benefit in terms of costs? So, a lot of information is included in this framework, I will not take too much in details, not to propose this presentation, but you can see that we have information about the knowledge, about the decision context, information about the assets, so in this case, as an example, I used a two-zero bridge, what are the objectives, in this case, minimize costs, or maximizing capitalized tools? We have some inputs in the monitoring, we may have some indicators that we need to select properly to optimize this value of information, and of course, from a decision point of view, also, what are the remedial actions if something is needed to do, in terms of maintenance repair? So, this is a framework that aims, at the end of the day, give to the owners a plan that tells you, based on all this information, how to do a better approach for that asset management structure. So, in this context, we know all of these, but mainly, the objective of industry innovation days is to improve the decision basis, okay? And mainly pushing all these discussion about the value of information for the more, as I say, more cost-efficient and reliable and safe strategies from decision-maker point of view, okay? So, all of this work, we are trying to show this in these industry innovation days, is not from the research point of view, but mainly from the decision point of view, okay? So, the audience that we are aiming to attend is the industry. So, and the idea is that, in fact, we need to jump, yeah? So, it's a very brief craft. So, there is a lot of work in academia, and we know that there are some spin-off startups that do a lot of monitoring, new sensors, new systems, but in fact, we need to push this value to the society now, when in fact, we can, let's say, give a payback to these decision-makers that they want or they wish to invest better, and so we, as experts, should at least try to help them to do better decisions by improving mainly the level of technology that is being applied in this framework. So, we are aiming that with these case studies that we have in this construction, of course, each one has their own specificities, the degree of maturity, but the objective is that we reach to this level that we may have some system prototypes effectively demonstrated in the field, like a product in terms of, okay, we are giving evidence that these case studies that we are discussing here that were selected based on the good knowledge that they can offer, that in fact, we have a level that a maturity level that gives confidence to the decision-makers to use them, to invest. So, when they decide the budget, perhaps we can have a small budget to invest. This is the main concept. So, and all this should be done. So, basically, we decided last year on the meeting so that we should have a dedicated workshop for decision-makers, which is taking place today and tomorrow. This was the first step, which I hope, honestly, that you take the most benefit of it by presenting these case studies and we are looking forward for questions and ideas, and also some special sessions in suitable conference, not so in the part of very specific research with more generic conference, where we, these decision-makers, normally you like to go to see what is the latest cutting-edge technologies in this field of management. So, in this, we are hanging at the end of these industrial days, composed by these two events, that we may be able to, to a step forward and translate these, of other, they say, gem, terminology, which is quite sometimes complex and dense in terms of the technique itself to something more practical decision-making for your side in the industry. So, in the workshop, which we are taking place now, our objective is that, mainly, getting your feedback, what is your expectations, your experience, even your frustrations in user monitoring products, it's good to know what is something that went bad, good, whatever. And this also would be served as a step forward to reach to the end of this construction, saying that, okay, we have these, what these case studies that we are trying to explore the volume of information on sort of monitoring, but with these workshop and these sessions, we can also say that this was also discussed with the real world in terms, we approached the decision-makers, we present these, and we got them impression, their feedback that they feel, and we, as far as it's possible, take this feedback into the case study analysis, okay? I think we bring more credibility, a robust solution, and all of us in a win-win partnership wins, I think. So, we will have also, as I said, this workshop, and just to get you in advance, there is two special sessions in two conference, this year and the next year, which is the apps conference. We selected this conference because it's quite generic. It's very towards practitioners, engineers, decision-makers, which I think is a, we catch a good audience here, and we also are aiming to get some marginal benefits for other two conference, more specific, the first one in social monitoring, and the second one, Yagmat, more also very interesting decision-making, but because it's also focused on maintenance, next, this year in Austria. So, we are having these special sessions here, and we are going to take a little bit on this context of industry innovation days, as well in these special sessions. So, frankly, I will say, why invest in NACG, JNB, and civil engineering engineering structures? So, we need to show evidence to you, decision-makers, that is worthwhile, and there is a benefit on applying these systems. We really want, at least as the leader of this event, and trying to push forward this, I'll be very happy that this target audience, owners, authorities, concessionaries, that you also are happy with this discussion, and it takes some notes for you for the future, and mainly because we are working on this construction at the moment in real case studies, or real structures, as far as I know there is 16 case studies? 19. 19, yeah? Okay. I'm not saying, of course, depends on the level of maturity, knowledge on each one, but there is a new European World War movement with a lot of studies from different countries that compose this portfolio for you to help you in terms of getting a better knowledge on these real applications fields, not only to your own structures, as in the Zero Bridge case, but worthwhile what is happening. And, okay, as I said, it will be very nice as well, that for example in this special session that will be in France, that we could have a formal joint collaboration between academia and industry, maybe for example as a joint paper, where you, as a decision maker, could go to conference, perhaps present the problem, and then that is your colleague that tries to solve and present a solution for your problem, okay? So this has been already closed, the submission of the abstracts. We succeeded in 12 abstracts, and we are looking forward in November, not September this year, but hopefully if you are there, and also see a little bit more of what we are working on. Finally, I'm too close, I need to also move forward. In terms of deliverables, we have some deliverables already specified for industry innovation phase, but so we have some dissemination deliverables because it's important that this level of the constant action concept. But one that I will highlight in this workshop when we want to discuss with you as well as an output is what I call here the technical recommendation to support owners in a potential renegotiation of the contractions with the local authorities. So for example, I think as Thomas also said, we want to change a little bit the paradigm of asset management to something more proactive rather than reactive, but perhaps this ACGM issue might help you also as a contribution for this objective. So what we are trying to work, and this is also something that we will discuss during these two days, is that we are working in a technical recommendation that is a draft, an idea, so basically something that could be a very short document mainly towards decision makers. We would like to have your help in the writing side of this document because it's a top-level document that will take extract, let's say the most significant outputs from this constant action from the guidelines that are being prepared, summarize this in something very short of the four pages, I would say like this, no more than this, and then a second part like a request form that for example, a bridge owner that has a structure that he wants perhaps renegotiate how they do maintenance on that structure, they could with this document which has some let's say credibility because it's signed from a very big community at European level even worldwide that we show evidence that if your structure that is being monitored and it's giving evidence according to the guidelines that we are producing this construction, you can perhaps attach this very short document to your report that you need to deliver to the authorities and then a request perhaps to try to civilize the authorities that we would like to talk with you case by case at this stage perhaps, how we could do a little bit better the maintenance of this bridge? Could we try to renegotiate the next inspection perhaps not in the next year, the following year? If not possible, could we try to optimize the extension of inspection in terms of the time that we invest? I believe that at least my experience, this is in fact what decision makers wants to see there is a cycle here, but it closed, there is a lot of work and evidence, okay, monitoring the development information tells you that if the structure is safe might tell you some indications in a more proactive approach when something goes down, but also it's also a thing that we need to move forward, is to change the quality in terms of asset management. So what you are trying here also to produce, this is under discussion and open to the audience, is trying to produce a very short document as something that if the owner wishes to ask for renegotiation, you can download this from the cost website and according to the guidelines, if there is evidence, they can attach this to a technical report, submit to the authorities and try to speak with the authorities maybe to see if we can change this. I know that it's not, you don't do this in one single step, it takes sometimes, it's a culture, but I think we need to start from some point, so and to conclude, I won't just try that, this document, it's as I said the top level document, so it is written in a way for decision makers, it's non-technical, okay, there is basic on cost, basic evidence that there is benefit and I hope that we can at least try to produce this to help you and if this is for fun. And thank you very much and I hope that you enjoy these two days as much as possible and please ask to these, our colleagues that we present today, these case studies, everything that you want to ask, there are no silly questions, if it's something that I want to ask, ask it, because today, in my opinion, you are the lecturers, you are the teachers to this research community that will highly appreciate your feedback in what we are doing to get at the end a better product for you, many of our decision makers. Thank you very much.


This talk will be about p-addict numbers. So it was a talk given to the Berkeley Mathematics Circle, which runs lectures and summer camps for high school students interested in mathematics. If you want to know more about the Berkeley Mathematics Circle, there should be a link in the description below the video. So I've broken this talk into several smaller videos, each of which should have a link to the next video in the talk. And there should also be a link to a handout for this talk in the description of the video if I set things up correctly. So let me start motivating p-addict numbers by talking about the following problem. Let's find an integer n so that the last 10 digits of n squared are the last 10 digits of n. Okay, at first sight, this looks like a kind of stupid problem because it depends on the fact that you're writing n in base 10, and pretty much any mathematics problem that depends on the base you're working is probably somewhat silly. But actually this particular problem turns out to have more to it than most such problems. So let's have a look. So first of all, we've got six squared equals 36. So that ends in the, there's one digit that's the same. Then if we go further, we find 76 squared ends in 5776. And now we notice that last two digits are the same. And you can carry on like this and you get numbers that look like<PHONE_NUMBER> or squared is some rubbish followed by<PHONE_NUMBER>. There's a systematic way of producing numbers like this where you just start with the number five. So five squared is equal to 25 and that ends in a five and you just keep squaring it. So 25 squared is 625 and 625 squared is 390625 and so on. So you go from five to 25 to 625 to 390625. And you notice that the digits are gradually becoming the same. So all these are the same, all these are the same, all these are the same and so on. And if you carry on like this, then you eventually get to a number ending in something like<PHONE_NUMBER>. And you sort of ask what happens if you continue forever? So we just keep squaring five indefinitely and what it does is it sort of converges to an infinitely long string of numbers, whatever you mean by convergence. So in other words, if we take this number here and call it N, whatever we mean by number, then N squared is equal to N. Got a couple of question marks there because it doesn't seem to make much sense.  It's something called a 10-addict integer. So what is a 10-addict integer? Well, it's just given by an infinitely long integer. In other words, you have a decimal point here and you have an infinitely long string of numbers that goes on forever. And this isn't really quite as strange as you might think because if you look at a real number, so let's take a random real number such as pi. This is 3.1415926535 and so on. And this goes infinitely long string of digits going off to the right but only a finite number to the left. So here we're doing something different. We're allowing an infinitely long string of numbers going off to the left instead of the right. And we can ask, do these make sense? And I want to show you this talk and in fact they do make sense. And the first question is what can you do with them? Well, there's a general theme about 10-addict and P-addict numbers that anything you can do with the real numbers probably has some sort of analog for P-addict and 10-addict numbers. So let's start with something easy. What about addition? So suppose we take two 10-addict numbers. So I'm going to have a long string of digits and then I take four, one, two, eight, seven, six. And let's take another one, eight, nine, five, three, four, seven and let's try and add them up. Well, that's quite easy because we can have six and seven is 13. So we carry one, then we get seven, four is 11 which is 12 because you've got to carry, we carry one again, eight plus three is 11. So we get 12, carry one, two and five is eight and then we get one, nine is zero, carry one, three. So you see it actually works. We can just use the usual rules of addition and it just works, we get the sum of them. And the reason why it works is the last three digits say of a sum of two numbers only depends on the last three digits of the two numbers we're adding. You know, we can figure out what the last three digits are by ignoring everything to the left of these three digits and the same for the next four digits and so on. So addition is well-defined. So we can do addition. So tick there. What about multiplication? Well, let's do an example and see what happens. So let's take a number four, three, two, one point something and let's suppose there are lots of digits to the left that we don't know about and multiply by eight, seven, six, five. And again, there are going to be lots of digits to the left of that that we don't really care about. And let's try and work out what their product is. Well, I don't know if long division is still taught the sort of long multiplication is still taught these days but one way of doing it is you take eight, seven, six, five and multiply it by one. So it goes down here and we have a long string going there. Then you have to multiply it by 20. So we get two times five is zero, carry one. Two times six is 12, which is 13. We carry one, two times seven is 14, 15. And so we get that. And then you take three times this number here and again, it gets shifted. So we get three times five is 15, carry one, three times six is 18, carry one. And so then we get four times this number which gives us a zero here. So we get something like this. Now you can see that this makes perfectly good sense because we can now add these up and we get five here and the six there and we get seven plus three which is 10, we get 15 there and then we carry one and we get three there. So if I've made no mistakes, the last four digits of the product of these is three, five, six, five. And you can obviously continue that for as long as your patient's holds out. So multiplication also makes sense. So the next operation to think about is subtraction. And here we've seen who have a problem. So for ordinary integers, if we just use positive integers like seven and 15 and three and so on, then we run into a bit of a problem with subtraction because if we take three minus 15, then we get a negative number. And notice that to write down this negative number, we need to put a minus sign in front of it. And we haven't said anything about minus signs for 10 added numbers. So suppose you've got a 10 addict number, something eight, seven, two, one or whatever. Does that mean we should put a sign in front of a 10 addict number? And it turns out you don't need to, so let's cross it out. And let's see why. Well, what we can do is consult a 10 addict pocket calculator and I have one here. So this is a very primitive 10 addict calculator. You should really imagine it going off the left and infinite number of places. Let me just magnify it a bit so you can see it a bit better. So I'm going to cover up this bit and you pretend that the noughts go off all the way to the left. And this 10 addict calculation only do one operation. It can add one to a number. So here we've got zero. We press that and we get one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Then we get nine, we carry one and get 10. So let's see what happens if we say stop with 9, 9, 8, 0 and keep on adding one to it. So when we get to 9, 9, 8, 9, we add one, we get 9, 9, 0. Now let's keep on adding one and we get to 9, 9, 9, 9. And what happens when we add one to this 10 addict number? We get zero. So old cars from several decades ago used to have these mechanical odometers which would behave like this.  So this suggests that we actually have minus one already. So suppose we take the 10 addict number with an enormous sequence of nines and we add one to it. So what's gonna happen when we add one? Well, you saw what happens. Nine and one is zero, carry one, nine and one is zero, carry one, nine and one is zero, carry one, nine and one is zero, carry one and so on. So we get naught. So if you add one to this number, we get zero. So this number is actually equal to minus one. So we don't need a negative sign in front of 10 addict numbers because we can just put, we can get negative numbers by being a little bit clever. So the question is, how do you find the negative of an arbitrary 10 addict number? So suppose I've got a 10 addict number, say<PHONE_NUMBER>1. So call this n, what is minus n? Well, what you do, you can get minus n in two steps. First of all, we take the nines complement. This means you take every digit and you replace it by nine minus the digits. So this becomes 87654321 zero. And then I'm going to add one to it and I get<PHONE_NUMBER>8. And this is going to be minus n. And let's see why this is true. Well, taking the nines complement is just subtracting n from this ridiculously long way of writing out the number minus one. We're just taking 9999 and subtracting n from it and you get this. So this is equal to this funny 9999 minus n which is equal to minus one minus n. Now I've added one to it. So if you add one to minus one minus n, this gives us minus one minus n plus one, which is minus n. So we can take the negative of any 10 addict number without having to put the sign in front of it. So in this way, 10 addict numbers are actually better than real numbers. They're a bit simpler because we don't need the sign. This is actually used in computer arithmetic. So how do computers store numbers? Well, they've actually got two different ways of storing numbers depending on whether numbers are real numbers or integers. And I'm just going to talk about how they store integers. So they store integers in binary. So I'm going to pretend that a word on this computer just does three bits to save time. So the first few numbers are nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, so one, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought. And you might think these correspond to the number zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven on a computer. But in fact, they don't, at least, well, they sometimes do, but usually they don't. The reason is that computers do not really work quite work in binary. What computers work in is they think of these things as being two addict integers, which are like 10 addict integers, only you work in base two. And what the computer does is it thinks this digit on the left continues infinitely often to the right. So when you show these numbers to the computer, it really thinks they look like this. Okay, well, that's not very exciting so far. We've just added a bunch of noughts, but then it thinks that the one continues there and so on. So it thinks these numbers are really given by these pediatric integers. And if you work out what these pediatric integers are, well, this is nought one, two, three, but this, as we saw, is minus one, and that's minus two, and that's minus three, and that's minus four. So that's how computers generally represent signed integers. And they work out the negative of an integer in much the same way that we found the negative of a 10 addict number.  So what we do is we write three in binary, which looks like that. And then we take the ones complement. So we change every nought to a one and every one to a nought. So we've got a long sequence of ones, and then we get two zeros there. And then we add one to it. So we get one, zero, one, one, one, one. And this is the integer minus three in... You see, it's not quite in binary. It's really in the two addict notation rather than binary notation. And by the way, you may have noticed there's a slight problem with this number four. So let's calculate what happens if you take minus, minus four. Well, you take the number one, one, one, one, one, zero, zero. You take the ones complement, which is zero, zero, zero, zero, one, one, and then you add one to it and we get zero, zero, one, one, one, one, one, which is minus four. So if you ask a computer what minus, minus four is and it's got three bits in its word, it will tell you the answer is minus four, which is actually wrong, sort of. So usually computers don't have three words, three bits in a word. They usually have something like 64 bits in a word. So for 64 bits, what would go wrong is if you take minus two to the 63 and take minus that it will tell you that that's minus two to the 63. So computer arithmetic has this rather curious, I'm not sure if it's exactly a bug. I think it's really a feature, but whatever. Now, the next thing we want to ask is we've got these operations plus, minus, and times. Do these obey the usual rules of arithmetic? Well, what are the usual rules of arithmetic?  So the question is, do these hold for 10 addict integers? So we've defined addition and multiplication and subtraction. We want to know if these behave in the way we expect and the answer is yes, mostly. There are one or two minor exceptions as we'll see a little bit later. And to see this, we recall what the integers mod 10 are. So you remember modular tenor arithmetic just means you throw out powers of 10. So you say five plus six equals one because this is equal to 11 and you can throw out the factor of 10 and you can say seven times eight equals six because 56 is equal to six if you throw out multiples of 10. So this just means ignore multiples of 10 and you know, if you've been to a number theory lecture that the integers modulo 10 also satisfy the usual rules of arithmetic. And now let's take a random 10 addict number like eight, three, two, nine, one or something like that. And you notice this gives us an integer mod 10. So we can take this number mod 10 and it's just one mod 10. We can also take it modulo 100. And it's obvious what it is modulo 100. It's just 91 modulo 100. And we can take it modulo 1000 and we get 291. And I think you're getting the idea we can just sort of continue taking it modulo any power of 10. So we've got a number mod 10 and a number modulo 100 and a number modulo 1000. And you notice these numbers are compatible because we can go from 91 to one just by taking the last digits and we can go from 291 to 91 because there's the 91 going to there and so on. And similarly, here we would get a three, two, nine, one and so on. So a 10-addict integer can be thought of as a collection of compatible integers. So a 10-addict integer is given by an integer mod 10, an integer modulo 100, an integer modulo 1000 and so on that are compatible. So by that I mean your integer modulo 10 and your integer modulo 100 and your integer modulo 1000 after the same ones as the integer modulo one and the same 10s as the integer modulo 100 and so on. And you can multiply 10-addict integers. So all these operations plus minus times can be carried out mod 10, modulo 100 and so on. So to multiply two 10-addict integers, for example, we multiply them mod 10 to get the mod 10 part of it then we multiply the modulo 100 to get the modulo 100 part of it and so on. And since arithmetic modulo 10 or 100 and so on obey the usual rules of arithmetic, this means that the 10-addict numbers also obey the usual rules of arithmetic. What we say is the 10-addict numbers, 10-addict integers form a ring. So a ring is just a mathematical term for something that has addition and subtraction and multiplication, I guess it also has zero and one and obeys the usual rules, where I'm being a little bit vague about what the usual rules are because I'm feeling too lazy to write them out. So we've done addition, subtraction and multiplication. What about division? Can we divide 10-addict integers? Well, not always. So let's try dividing seven, eight, three, some 10-addict integer like that. Let's try dividing it by two. Well, this fails because if we've got any 10-addict integer, it ends in some digit N. And if we multiply it by two, this is going to end in the digit two N, which is even. And you see this is an odd digit here. So it can't be two times a 10-digit number. So we cannot always divide by two. But you see, you can divide by two if the last digit happens to be even, but not in general. Similarly, we cannot always divide by five because five times anything will have a last digit divisible by five. What about three? Well, this isn't so clear because if we multiply the last digit by three, it can be anything modulo 10. Well, let's take a look at this number minus one, which was something, something, something, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine. Can we divide this by three? Well, it's pretty obvious how to divide it by three. So if we divide it by three, we get a whole string of threes because we can just divide each digit nine by three. So this is equal to minus one, which is this number divided by three. So can we find one over three? Well, all we have to do is to take minus this. So you remember how we took minus a periodic number. First, we take nine's complement, which is a lot of sixes. And then we add one and we get seven, six, six, six, six, and so on. So this number here is the 10-addict number one-third. We've managed to divide by three. And if you don't believe me, let's try multiplying it by three. So let's take three times this. Well, three times seven is 21. Gives us a one, carry two. Three times six is 18, plus two is 20. Carry two, three times six is 18, plus two is 20, carry two, and so on. So we do indeed get the 10-addict integer one if we multiply this by three. So, well, we've done. What about, let's try doing seven and see what happens. Well, let's try it first for real numbers. What happens if we take one over seven for a real number? Well, this gives us 0.142857142857142857 and it just keeps on repeating forever. If you notice it's got this sequence, 1-4-2-8-5-7 and the same thing occurs there and the same thing occurs there. What happens if you get two over seven? Well, this is 2-8-5-7-1-4, 2-8-5-7-1-4 and what you notice is this is a sort of cyclic permutation of this number in some sense. Here we've got 1-4-2-8-5-7, 1-4-2-8-5-7 and so on. And the same thing happens if you try three over seven. Here we get 0.4-2-8-5-7, 1-4-2-8-5-7, and so on. And again, we've got this number 1-4-2-8-5-7 repeating endlessly and you can do the same for four sevenths, five sevenths and six sevenths, which you can do as an exercise. I'm feeling too lazy to. So now let's try this for the 10 addicts. So let's try and guess what is one over seven for the 10 addicts. Well, if we've got a 1-4-2-8-5-7 repeated for the reals, how about we try it for the 10 addicts? So let's try this number 1-4-2-8-5-7, 1-4-2-8-5-7 and so on. So I want to repeat an infinite number of these. And let's multiply it by seven and see what we get. Well, seven sevens is 49, carry four seven threes is 35, yep it's 39 and we carry on like this and we find we get a whole lot of nines. Which is not one, this is minus one. So this number here is minus one over seven. By the way, the reason you're getting a lot of nines here is it depends on the fact that 1-4-2-8-5-7 times seven is 999999. And this fact underlies the real decimal expansion and also underlies the 10 addict expansion for one over seven. Well, all we have to do to get one over seventh is to take minus this number here. So let's take minus this number first. We take nine's complement which gives 8-5-7-1-4-2-8-5-7-1-4-2. And then we have to add one to it. So if we add one, we get 8-5-7-1-4-2-8-5-7-1-4-3. So the last digit is a little bit funny because it's not quite periodic. You see, this number here is sort of periodic except for the last digit. So this is one over seven as a 10 addict integer. And if you want, you can try and figure out what two over seven and three over seven are and see what patterns you get. Now it turns out you can do the same thing for any integer, not divisible by two or five, and you find it's got a 10 addict expansion that's almost periodic except for the few digits at one end. You remember the same thing is true for inverses of reals, modulo 10. For example, one over six is 0.166666. It's almost periodic except for this one at the beginning. And one seventh is periodic except for this three at the end. So we can divide by any integer. In fact, we can divide by any P addict integer whose units digit is one, three, seven, or nine. Well, why these ones? Well, these have inverses, modulo 10. So the inverse is one, seven, three, nine. So you notice that three times seven is one modulo 10. And to do that, we can find the inverse. So we can divide using long division. I guess long division probably isn't taught anymore because it's useless and tedious and calculators can do it much better. But there is a method for doing long division of real numbers and pretty much the same algorithm works for doing long division of 10 addict numbers. Sorry, that should be a 10 addict. I'm not quite doing P addict yet. We can do long division of 10 addict numbers provided we can divide the units digit. I'm not going to give examples of this because it's really tedious to do and really tedious to watch. But anyway, we do have a perfectly good notion of division of 10 addict numbers provided the last digits one, three, seven, or nine. Now let's move on to square roots. Well, at this point, we run into a bit of a problem because you know that any number has at most two square roots and it's quite easy to prove this. Well, the problem is a 10 addict number can have four square roots. So there seems to be something funny going on because numbers are only supposed to have at most two square roots. Well, there's a bit of a problem which is due to the fact that we can have A, B equals zero, but A is not zero and B is not zero. So when I said it satisfied all the usual rules of arithmetic, that wasn't quite true because it doesn't quite satisfy this rule. And we've seen some examples of this. You remember, we found an example of a 10 addict number such that n squared equals n, but n is not equal to zero or one. And now if we take two n minus one squared, this is equal to four n squared minus four n plus one which is equal to one because n squared is equal to n. So there are numbers not equal to nought or one whose square is one and we can, in fact, you can write them down quite easily by calculating two n minus one and one of them turns out to be three, five, seven, four, one, eight, seven, five, one. So if you take this number and square it, you discover it's zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, one. And you can also take minus this number 10 addictly. So one has at least four square roots. In fact, it's got exactly four square roots. It's got one squared is one minus one squared is one and we've got this funny number squared is also one. And the reason for this problem can be traced back to the fact that if you look mod 10, we have two times five is equal to zero mod 10, but two is not equal to zero and five is not equal to zero. So instead of doing square roots for the 10 addicts, which has a lot of rather tiresome complications, I first want to get rid of this problem. Now you notice the problem here is that 10 is not prime. Now, instead of working to base 10, we can work with base P for P prime and these give things called the P addict numbers where P is prime. Okay, and this will be the topic of the next part of this lecture. So I'm going to stop this lecture because I've come to the end of my attention span and there should be a link to the next part of the lecture.


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Hey, this is Brett, and this 2013 Chevy Corvette 427 is stock number 12860Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and you're new and use sports car headquarters. This 2013 Chevy Corvette 427 has the 7-liter V8 LS7 engine. It puts out 505 horsepower. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around inside, start it up, take a look under the hood, and we're going to put that soft top down as well in this video. Night Race Blue Metallic is the color that we shoot all of our videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button to our YouTube channel in the lower right hand part of the screen. You'll get notifications, you'll get updates every time we do videos of all our new news inventory here at Summit Automotive. This is a pretty rare car, so they only made 2,552 of these 427 convertibles in 2013, and of those 2,552, only about 1,000 of them had the 60th anniversary package, which gives you those carbon fiber lower skirts there and the front lower valance as well. So this is a 60th anniversary, so it's one of only about 1,000 made in 2013. This one comes with the 19-inch chrome alloy rims, and it has Michelin Pilot Sport 28530 ZR19 tires, and these tires I would say it's kind of hard to see right here, but it's about half the tread left on those tires there. You can see it does have the drilled rotors, and that front rim is in excellent condition. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on there. Front fender is in excellent condition, and adding to the rarity of this car, this is one of only 208 427s that were made in Night Race Blue. So only 208 of these 427s had this color on them, so it's a pretty unique color. It's a really good looking color, and this car is in really nice shape. You can see the front bumper and lower valance are in really nice condition. Get that 60th anniversary logo right there, HID headlamps, lenses are nice and clear. Front fender is in excellent condition. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on there, and you gotta check this Night Race Blue color out. It's got a lot of metal flake to it, a lot of blues, purples, and even a little bit of greens in that metal flake. Really a good looking color. Now the passenger side rim, I will say does have a couple little scuffs on it, but that's why we do the videos. So it's just got a couple, one little one there, and little one there. That's really the major imperfection on this car, but they are used cars, so that's why we do the videos, because we sell a lot of these cars out of state, so we want to make sure that our customers know exactly what they're getting. And as you go down this side of this 2013 Chevy Corvette 427 convertible, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. Like I said, we take these videos so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the car, you can see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. Before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, or if you get the car sent to you, you'll know exactly what you're getting. Very clean now on that side. The back rim, this is a 20-inch rim in the back, and that rim is in excellent shape. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on there. This is a 335-25 ZR20 tire in the back, and you can see the tread on the back tires. So pretty good amount of tread left on those tires in the back. And once again, that rim is in really nice shape. Turn around to the back of the vehicle. Rear bumper is in excellent condition. I didn't see any cracks or major scuffs on there. You get a 60th anniversary logo there. This one has the quad-tipped dual rear exhaust. It does have the dual-mode exhaust. Those valves right there, they open up for a little bit different sound. And that's how you know it has the dual-mode exhaust. The trunk lid is in excellent shape as well. Take a look inside the trunk. Very clean back here.  Carpeting is in very nice condition. Coming around to the driver's side, just as clean as I passed under side. No major scuffs or scrapes on this side. For full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Very, very nice. And as you go down the rest of this side of the car, the doors look really good. And you do get power mirrors. So I want to show the rest of this soft top because we're going to put this soft top down in just a second. But it's in really nice shape. No rips or tears on that. And I like that it's the blue as well. Inside, the 427 package gives you the tan leather interior. There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats. You get the Corvette logo stitched into the headrest. Side curtain airbags and very little wear on that seat. Power driver's seat has some nice Lloyd mats, carpet floor mats. You get the 60th anniversary, it's kind of like a, it's almost like a sticker, but like a plaque on there. Memory driver's seat, power windows, power locks and power mirrors, and Bose sound system. Get your power soft top button right there. That's for your heads up display. And we'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this car has to offer on the interior. So this car, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Notice you get the 60th anniversary logo there. And it's telling me the headlights there. It's because it thinks it's dark out so it wants me to turn the headlights on. 16,987 miles and it does come with the leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth controls on the left. Audio controls on the right, no scuffs or scrapes on that steering wheel. You can see up there you get your heads up display with the digital speedometer. This one does have the factory navigation system. You get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities here as well. There is a CD player in there too. Dual climate controls, heated seat buttons, your six speed manual transmission. Has the selective ride with tour and sport mode. Keyless entry is in nice shape and the passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears. The inside of the soft top is in very nice condition as well and it smells very clean inside this car. I don't think it's been smoked in. You have your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems. Compass display, on-star and SOS buttons in that rear view mirror. So we'll put this soft top up. So what you have to do is you have to pull this down, turn it clockwise and then you push it up so that it stays up like so and then the windows will go down. And then you have to press this button down and it will do its thing. So once it goes down I always like putting this handle down like that to ensure that it closes nicely and then you can continue it and once it clicks into place you're all set to go. We'll start it up and listen to the exhaust, check out under the hood and then we'll do a final walk around. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. We'll also turn those headlights on as it suggests. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to get a really good idea of the overall looks, styling, options and condition of this car. Sounds really good. I would personally like to thank you. Once again it's kind of an honor to do a rare car like this, one of 208 made in this color. There are those HID headlamps. They are very bright and under the hood we have the 7 liter LS7 engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. You can see the shocks are doing a nice job holding that hood up, I'm not holding it. And that hood by the way is carbon fiber so that's interesting to know. There's your emissions sticker right there. And once again this car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this car is 100% ready to go. And as promised I'm going to do one more final walk around. We'll start from the back here of this car with the top down. I think this thing is in really nice condition. This is just beautiful on it. Love the rims, interior is really clean. And I would highly recommend this 2013 Chevy Corvette 427 convertible in night race blue metallic. And to see more pictures of this car or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, Corvettes, Camaros, Challengers, Chargers, Mustangs, GT500s. You name it we got it go to the website right there summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notification so you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here of our here at Summit Auto. 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Tens of thousands of Minnesotans will come together tomorrow to raise money for area organizations and causes during Give to the Max Day. The annual event is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year after being founded in 2009 in order to offer an easy and fun way for people to donate to the causes they care about. People are able to search for and donate to organizations and causes of their choosing by visiting the website GiveMN.org. Our funding comes from the local community and so people that come to our events or support our organization help us to be able to recruit mentors to screen them to match the kids to provide activities and all the other things in our program and so it's community support and support that comes on on like Give to the Max Day help us do our job. Give to the Max Day has raised over $150 million in its first nine years. It has a huge impact on organizations and causes and allows them to reach people who are interested in giving but do not know where to start. Give to the Max Day begins tonight at midnight and goes until 11 59 p.m. on Thursday November 15th. It's kind of the time of the year that maybe people who don't normally give or don't aren't aware of who we are they reach out they seek out and they look at different areas that they can give or different causes and it gives us an opportunity to speak to others inform them about habitat and they find out more and they realize that that's something they want to be a part of and they want to be be somebody that can help change lives. To find out how to donate and to see a full list of causes and organizations involved with Give to the Max Day you can visit this story on our website at lptv.org.


How are we supposed to do this ma- are we sp- like which way do you go? Up and down girl. But I've seen people do it left to right. That's not the right way. Who said? Jesus. You know the crux of the issue here is what we mean by accept. Is accepting redefining sin in order to make people feel better about themselves? Is accepting compromising what the bible says in order to make people feel good? You see I believe the bible has called us to love everyone but that doesn't mean that god approves of every behavior. He's made that clear. Regardless of your temptation you are welcome at the table. We shouldn't be casting anyone out just because they have a different struggle than us. The problem is is that people are trying to twist what the bible says in order to affirm of certain behaviors that god strictly condemns. Now this isn't a case of me saying oh you're so bad.  I'm such a good guy. No of course not. We've all sinned. We've all fallen short. I can see my sin. It is evident to me and I need to repent of that. But to approach god and say I'm perfect just as I am would be a lie. God loves and accepts but he also doesn't affirm every kind of behavior. Some people may see that as hate but without truth there is no love. Follow for more Christ centered content.


What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video today I'm gonna be sharing with you an easy fix for your Gameboy advanced SP and that is if you are having a problem with it charging and it won't charge properly This is an easy fix and it honestly should not take too much time now I am going to be showing you guys in this video how to replace the battery But before you go and replace the battery, I recommend replacing your charging cable I've received a bunch of these from clients claiming that there is a problem with their Gameboy advanced SP and it's not charging properly Turns out to not be a problem with the actual console or the battery a lot of the time It has been a problem with the charging cable So I've just went ahead and replaced that for them and they never had any other issues If you have an original one the wire inside and sometimes other components of the charger can become frayed and damaged Without visibly noticing that so I do recommend it the first thing you're doing If you're having a problem with your Gameboy advanced SP charging is to simply replace the charger That is the least expensive you can get it off of Amazon and eBay for almost next to nothing I think under $10 now if you're still experiencing the problem and you've already tried a new cable That's when you're gonna go and gets a new replacement battery again You can get this off of Amazon or eBay and I believe it is under $10 and And to do that all you're gonna need is a Phillips head screwdriver Now the smallest bit you can find for this here because it is just going into the battery components You only need to get a Phillips head You don't need to get the Nintendo tri-wing because you're only accessing this screw here that covers the battery and It is the Phillips head so you're gonna go and remove that so now the screw itself isn't gonna come all the way Out you just loosening it so you can take the whole panel off Just like that and here's the battery here So with the game ports facing the top the battery here You're gonna push it this way and then you're gonna pry it out with your nail. So you're gonna push and pry it right out Push it off to the side and then you're gonna take the new replacement battery with the ends You're gonna put it in the same way you're gonna push down and then you're gonna push it Back in the opposite direction to be able to put it in place And now it's just a matter of putting the cover back on and putting the screw back in to hold it in place Now a lot of time before testing to make sure that this did work and turning it on I do recommend charging the Game board advanced SP for a while because a lot of the time the batteries that you receive are gonna have No to little charge in them So you do want to charge it up first before testing to make sure that it did work Now I will show you what I mean here if I open this up here chances are when I turned it on This light here is going to go red, which means it's not fully charged those turn on and At least this one here it is staying red So this is what battery here. I did receive does have somewhat of a little charge in its however Yours might not it might either a not even turn up at all after you replace the battery or B It might come up red here meaning it does need to be charged now if you were experiencing a problem with yours Whereas you weren't able to turn it on at all and you replace the battery And you are able to get to the screen or at least after you charge it get it to the screen Then you know that it was an issue with the old battery that you did have and it was a good thing that you Did replace it because now you can play your gameboy advanced sp and not have a problem with it But I hope you guys have enjoyed this video of an easy fix how to fix your gameboy advanced sp If it is not charging properly most of the time it is the charging cable But sometimes it is the battery itself that does need to be replaced So hope you guys enjoyed the video. I'll see you guys in the next one. Please take care. Peace


All right, everyone, Wednesday, September the 22nd, Tiger Financial News Network, 10 a.m. update, $304.3424. You can see on this chart here, we're looking at some kind of an H pattern, a good rally for a couple of days and one of the reasons is, if you look at the volatility index, look at this, the VIX index, it hit $28.79. Leg D, now a peak D in the Chathamway methodology, yes, we can expect some kind of a pullback and certainly coming down six points to 22. I suspect that that's going to allow for some kind of a rally. There should be some pullback a little later on as the market waits for the Fed speak. What's the Fed going to do? The Fed might hint at something, but I don't think they're going to make any big announcement. They're a little nervous about this market pulling back some. So the S&P is up $30 at $43.84. Nice balance. It needs to get into the $45.10, $40.10 to $44.15 area by Thursday or Friday. It's closed to say, hey, there could be more of a balance than just a whipsaw to the upside. This is really interesting. QQ is up only 0.44%. The others are up a bigger percentage. QQ is straddling the index 100. It's got Adobe, a fantastic company. And yet, look at this pullback. Can I get that in? Yep, there it comes. Adobe should be pulling back ADBE. Yep, there it is. It's down sharp. It's down 22, just like FedEx is down very sharp. FedEx is impacting the transportation index, whatever. Look at that. When I get back for the Tiger technicians hour, look at that sharp pullback. 21 points down 8%. Makes a high of 319 just a couple of months ago, May, and now it's trading at 231. Let's go to the IWM, the Russell 2000. A little catch-up playing there. This is up nicely. It's trying to fill the gap, and the SMB and the Dow have not done that. It's up 272.220. This is very important. We want to see that kind of rotation. You look at gold, gold goes down. If you look at the TLT, the TLT, which is bonds, basically, we're looking at stuck in a range. But it's crucial that's really important, because gold is running quite sharp. I'll be back in a moment for the Tiger technicians hour, and check out both the cool dating news channel for the nice photos we have there. I'll be back in a moment for the Tiger technicians hour. I'd like to see you there, otherwise see you tomorrow soon.


Good morning, Mr. President. Welcome back. Good morning, Mr. President. Good morning, Mr. President. Secretary of Commerce. I was wondering if that was... Yeah, and so it is. Pretty good.  That's the way he is in the big one, and he did that. And Matt thought maybe that the ratio that we have here that I appreciate having got along. So he's loaned it to me. Two ways of photography. Mr. President, don't get away with these secrets. You guys will back up today then so they can get out. Mr. President, thank you. Did you like your profile at the House? I loved it. I'm sure you'd have a word about it. I mean, temper is not so... Is it all the truth? Oh, but damn, yeah. Mr. President, are you sorry that you sent up the Maryland sat-down to the Congress? I'm not going to take any questions here. I'll be talking enough. I think it's 8 o'clock tonight. Are you going to send the person's offer for Congress today? I've got to be fair. I'm not going to take any questions. I can't even tease you into answering. Last days... I got scolded and they all let the life-or-interest chamber answer your questions. This way, please. Very nice. Thank you. I can't say a few words first about this and about the summit that I'll be reporting on tonight. You know, there's a... I will be saying tonight that...  Well, thank you. Well, that's very nice. Turn around and face up to the photographer. We hope that you're going to come to Moscow soon. Well, if you'll come here, I'd agree to go there. Looking right here, that's good. Thank you. But you think that we agreed that the next summit would be here and then finally we'd go there for one? Well, we have a better family. I'm going to get to come back first because I get to come back at the summit. And it's going to be very jealous. And there's going to be a very sad lady in Moscow. I told him he's going to have to bring us some nice presents. What's your betting? You're thinking that maybe we'll... I had a chance to be someone, right? I can't believe that not after all it's taken place. You've got a time and a place worth that? You've got a time and a place? No, it wouldn't be here at the time. It's up to him. The invitation is like, what if he give a date? He'll come. I have kind of thought I'd like to... Maybe think of California, let him see a little of America. If I could convince him that it wasn't over staged. That was a cruise house thing, wasn't it? When you came here, I thought everybody would arrange it and see the good things. The traffic jam's set up well. If I were to fly across the country, I just wouldn't believe it. Then I've also thought that I had in California knowing about those marbled houses that they had in his position along calling beach houses and so on, taking them to the ranch and showing them where he will live. There will be 1,500 square foot in the house. He might have a different idea about capitalism. That's right. Wait one minute here. You can't even get it. Oh my goodness. Thank you. That's very, very good. We just thought that you might have to carry books around going to school and so forth the two of you and that maybe book bags, they might as well know where you are. You've got something for the president too. Yeah, well, that's going to go to me and a few of my classmates for their letter for the Army Express and you asked us for a copy of the military program. Well, thank you very much. Here's an article right here. Here's an article about a letter to the president. Well, thank you very much. I'm very pleased to have you. It's funny, there's an article written by kids on what to do if your parents get divorced. There's another article on how to make money walking your dog. It's a real comment on kids right now. Hey. I should look forward to reading it. Mr. President, thank you very much. We are looking forward to our opportunity as you can imagine. It's a great challenge for us and it's been a tremendous experience covering you for six years. It's been a lot of excitement. We've got another challenge ahead but it's been an honor and a privilege. Mike was assigned to the White House when Christophe was three months old and so they sort of we used to drive past showing friends Washington and Christophe looked at them and said, there's Daddy's office. Well, I wish you thank you very much. Thanks very much. We hope to see you there. Thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. It's been too long. Thank you very much. We hope to see you. Take care. Take care of your friends. Thank you. Take care of me. Thank you, sir. It's good to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Most of these. Thank you. Thank you. We haven't met with you. We have. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. See you right here. Well, I'm pleased to see you again, and I very seriously want to talk about the plan. First of all, we welcome the plan, the whole idea of being a democracy there, but I must be honest and say that I have some reservations and some concerns that are similar to those of fellow presidents down there and some of the other re-neighboring states that I feel that there is a possibility that is left open and maybe it's because I've had too much exposure to the communists over the years that they could find loopholes in which the aim and the very admirable goal of your plan would not get realized. Many years ago I appeared in the one-act play contest there at the school of speech representing Eureka College and we did well in the competition, and then also I returned to sports in the center, broadcast a few games from the Dyke Stadium. One of the toughest games in Minnesota, and by the end of the game tied 34-34, and by the end of the game there was not a single man in the field that started the game, and they started to send in a substitute for a tackle, injure tackle on Minnesota, and he was already a substitute that was in there, so in comes the third straight man, Bronco Nagerski, sending back to the sideline. He was the only man, I should have said that, Bronco was the only man who had started the game and was still in it, and he sent the man back and said tell him to send out my substitute for fullback, and he moved up into the line of play. Mr. Rooter, don't you want to come up here and... We'll get Mr. Rooter together now, would you? All right. Thank you. Now one more with you and Mr. Rooter together. Oh, all right. All right. Let me... Thank you. Well, I'm going to get what we're doing in person. We'll know him with an ambassador again. Well, and I'll tell you, they've been... They've stood by us in a great many things. I appreciate it. Great job. John has done a tremendous job at the SEC, Mr. Preston. He really is. I've been here longer than any other chairman, so I feel I better get out of the play and drive it. Well, I'm glad you're going to do this. I appreciate it very much. It's the most important country to us. Thank you very much. All right. And we don't want you to forget it, so there's just something to take away. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Okay. Good job. And hey there. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Mr. My wife, sir, let me see you. Thank you. And my daughter is Catherine. And Paige. And Elizabeth. Well, maybe you want to come over on this side. All right. Lead them things up. Yeah. Do it like that. Fight. And better than this, maybe even Burkivis has come to an end. Please give him my regard. I certainly will. And thank you very much for this opportunity. Thank you for doing it. You won't forget this. Thank you. Thank you very much. Wonderful. Good job. Good. Thank you very much.


There's five things that you have to be doing right now.  There's five things you absolutely have to do right now. I'm going to go over all five of them. From least important to most important as well as I'm going to throw in a special bonus and I'll explain the web addresses at the bottom in just a second. So stay with me. I'm going to start with number one. Number one is you have to have some type of weekly system to get in front of people. Okay. When I was a brand new agent, made 117 grand, eight months. Okay, great. But it's because I got in front of and asked 10 people to buy every single week.  Like, I don't want you to fail.  If you sit and ask three people to buy every week. Okay.  You say, well, Cody, I'm not running face-to-face appointments. Okay. If you're not, that's fine. Okay. You need 10 phone presentations and we're actually spending time delivering 10 pitches, getting to know 10 people, right? Warm up, fact fine, present, close, cool down, all that. Okay. Now, how do you make sure that you always sit with 10? If you're not sitting with 10, you absolutely will fail. Okay. The best way, the best way is to use secure agent marketing. All right. We've got a new program. We've got a new program where you can spend $1,500 per month. Okay. And a thousand of that will go straight to ad spend. And you'll probably get about 80 to 120 leads. Okay. Which makes your lead cost way less. And if you go buy them from a vendor, if you're doing that, stop doing that. Go to secureagentmarketing.com. Check it out. You can talk to me or somebody on our team will hook you up. Okay. Because what really matters is having a weekly system, right? And that's one of the best ways to do it. Okay. The second piece, second piece, five things you have to be doing. Okay. You have to be getting in front of people, right? But you also, I believe you have to be listening to audio books. Okay. I'd love for you to share in comments below what some of your favorite audio books are right now. I always listened to the art of closing the cell. The art of closing the cell by Brian Tracy. Again, the art of closing the cell by Mr. BT. Okay. Brian Tracy, unbelievable audio book, right? Yeah. His energy is maybe not as good as mine.  But the content is amazing. You got to be great at closing deals. That audio book helped me a lot as a new agent. Everybody always say, Cody, what did you do when you were a new agent? Do I sat with 10 people and listen to this book every single day? Okay. Now, that's two things, right? There's other things that I did as a new agent that I'm going to talk about right now as well. Okay. Now, other thing is I attended events. Okay. I attended events, which means you have to attend, attend events. You have to be going to events. And what do I mean by that? Because when you go to events, I'm putting on a big power player networking retreat right now. Okay. There's going to be 20 people from around the country that are making six, seven, eight figures are going to come together. They're going to spend a weekend together. And we're going to share ideas. Okay. What this does is it increases, it increases a few things. It increases, personally, increases my focus. It increases my motivation. And it increases my knowledge where I actually start to know stuff, right? So, so I love the power of going to events. That's a whole reason why we created what's called 8% nation for those don't know what that is. That's an annual event for the insurance space. You have to be attending events. What that tells me if someone does not go to events, they're not as serious as someone that does. Okay. You're just not. I went to a sales event up in St. Louis as a brand new agent. I paid like $199, I believe, to drive up to St. Louis and to sit through a two day event to get better at sales. What does that tell you? If you're not doing it, then maybe you don't care as much as those that do. And I think you do. Okay. I really believe you do. The fourth thing you actually have to do. Okay.   If you don't have a goal, okay.  That's the first problem. Okay. You need it. You got to write it down before you can actually go and start achieving it. Okay. That's one of the things I did really well as a new agent. I had a goal, right? I was like, bam, 100k, boom, 2k a week, right? Sit with 10 people every week, right? All of that. And I wrote that stuff down every single day. What does that do for you? If you're wondering that right now, it keeps you focused on the task at hand. Stop doing stuff throughout your day that doesn't help you get to your goal. Okay. Only do those things. You have to be writing down those goals every single day. Okay. I've got several goals, five of them now. I write down every single morning. If you get real serious, you'll start writing about it every morning and every night. That's when you know someone is serious. Someone that has goals, right? It's not cheesy. It just keeps you focused on the mission on the task at hand, right? These are all things that I did. I had a system. Man, I had a system for getting in front of people every single week, right? If you don't, as you're taking notes right now, think about yourself. Are you missing out on a system? Okay. I listened to audio books every single day because I freaking cared about winning. I wanted to do better. I was in a competition against all these other agents in my office and I wanted to win. I didn't want to just win.  I wanted to be the leader on the little whiteboard that tracks sales every single week. I wanted to win. I know there's 20 people in the office. Nobody likes finishing second, right? So I wanted to show that I was more serious than those that aren't, when they saw my name at the top of the board every single week, right? They knew Cody was there. Cody would mess around. He was there to play, right? He's there to win. I also attend events. I attend events back then. I attend events now and I go to a lot of events. I also, right? I've probably invested. I've probably invested. For those that don't know, like, dude, how much money have you actually invested in events? You want to know? Here's what it is. I bet I've invested north of 100K over the last two to three years just in events. I've actually, I bet it's probably closer to 150, okay? But I'm going to say 100K just to be super concerned over the last two to three years, okay? That's an investment in my future, right? That's when you believe in events and the power of events and what they can do when you start throwing down some freaking cold hard cash and going to them, okay? Also, writing down my goals every single day makes me more serious, right? Now, the fifth one, I say the best for last, okay?  What do you think it is? I want you to think about it for a second. Think about yourself. Five things you have to do, okay? We've talked about four. I'm leaving the last one. What I did as a brand new agent, what I do with my sales team now, what I personally do every single day, you have to, you have to daily, what's next? Sales training. Absolutely have to be putting in daily sales training. I'm talking, I'm talking all of it, right? I'm talking, I'm talking actually making the call, following up, warming up, overcoming objections, fact-finding, asking questions, presenting, building value, closing, pre-closing, trial closing, asking for the business, oh wait, I got asked for referrals now, oh wait, I need to cool down, right? I need to retain the client, I need to call them on their birthday, I need to mail them this, right? There's a lot of pieces to this whole gigantic freaking sales process in the insurance industry, okay? What are you doing to get better every single day, right? This afternoon, I put my sales reps through a live role-play session, okay? I believe you should be not only doing daily sales training, but I believe you should also be role-playing. And I believe these are things that you should be doing every single day. And most people, miss out on this by the way, most people do not do this if you're not moving forward, moving backwards. Here's a real story, okay? When I was a brand new agent, I made $117,000 in eight months. What I don't tell people, and maybe the only people who watch this video will get to see is I left the office for four months, okay? September, October, November, December. And I went back to school and basketball. When I went back in January to kick off a new year, I drove down to Arkansas an hour and a half away, I got down there, I sat with a couple, okay? I did some fact-finding, I pitched them, presented them, I'm like, okay, this is easy. I thought it was a lay down because it was a warm market lead. I left without a deal. Cody did not make the sale. I drove all the way back saying, you know why you miss out on the sale? Because you were rusty. And I never wanted to be rusty ever again. So now I plug into daily sales training every single day. Because I was, it literally, it takes a day or two to get rusty.   Role-playing.  If you go to kodiaskins.com forward slash sales system, okay? S-A-L-E-S system. Cells system. We've got a brand new C-A-Cell system. It's got over 400 modules. Here's the bonus, okay? If you fill that out, I'm going to set up a free strategy call, a free strategy call, where we can actually talk to you, talk through and diagnose some of the problems you're having, and actually give you the freaking medication to go make more money, okay? The actual prescription, okay? So go to kodiaskins.com forward slash sales system. This is the one thing that most people are missing that they never get, they never solve, and they never take seriously. You've got to be doing this every single day. Make sure you go to the page. I'll grab, I'll make sure I throw in a free strategy call for you, and if you want me to jump on and do a free team training session for you and your team, I'm happy to do so. I love working with teams, jumping on, motivating, educating, and jacking up your whole sales force. I want to do that, okay? These are five things you have to do, right? System, audiobooks, events, goals, man, and you've got to be training every single day. If not moving forward, you're moving backwards. Make sure you go to kodiaskins.com forward slash sales system. All right, let's play a little game. Prospect says, hey, I want to think about it, and you say, ah, can you choke? Not anymore. The video is right there. I'm going to show you what to say and how to say it. Click on it. I'll see you there. Who loves when people say I want to think about it?  I'm not ready to make a decision.