I would like to now introduce Chad Palaszczuk. He's the director of planning and development of the city of Shebawegan. And Chad, I apologize, because I'm going to stop myself for just a second. I forgot something. I actually would like to introduce that we have our congressman, Glenn Rothman, here today. So, Glenn, come here. Thank you. And we also have our representative, Terry Cotsman, who is here. Thank you both for coming. And we also have near-vanderskin in their house. I'm missing, I apologize. And Adam Payne, thank you, Adam. I'm not missing anyone. Adam, I don't mean to miss you. So what will let you all give me a round of applause for Chad Palaszczuk. He is our city planning and development director. And thank you, Chad, for coming. I'm sure to be here and talk about the National Marine Sanctuary process that's been going on in the Shebawegan area for probably the last, hmm, this is part of my introduction for Ellen. I've known her since she first came to Shebawegan, I think, in maybe 2007, 2008. And we were going to start this national marine process. And it was only going to take five years. And we were going to be up and running. So here we are in 2015. Sorry. 2014 was a successful year for the sanctuary program. National Marine Sanctuaries, there's 13 of them, I believe, in the world. And before I begin, how many of you have heard about the National Marine Sanctuary, just so I know of the other? OK, so most of you are on board with it. For those of you that aren't, we fly for a nomination. The NOAA opened up National Oceanic. OK, that's her presentation. So let me just talk about, so is your presentation going to talk about the nomination in our package? OK, so let's skip all that. We'll move ahead to something else. So we're looking at how to brand ourselves. I know she won't be talking about this because she hasn't seen this. We're looking at how to brand ourselves here locally for the National Marine Sanctuary. And there's been a group out of the Waterfront Discussion group that meets once a month. And it's chaired by Mike Fro. And we have talked about how to look at moving forward and seeing what each of the communities, their strengths and weaknesses are. So we know that our good friends, we've got some representatives from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum out of Manitowoc. They're a partner in this. Two Rivers is a partner in this. Port Washington is a partner in this. And the Three Counties are a partner in this. And they have a historical component in Manitowoc. Port Washington has a historical component just actually opening this weekend. The Port Explorium, if anybody is interested. It's supposed to be excellent. I haven't seen it yet. But it's worth a trip to Manitowoc that's kind of preserving the heritage of the Great Lakes. And then we have Sheboygan. And where is Sheboygan going to line ourselves up? And we're looking at science and technology. The reason we're doing that is because Spaceport, Sheboygan, as we know, has moved into a new building in Salt Pier. It has set up some exhibits and is doing well. We would like to see how to bring that to the next step. So without further ado, as before we start, we just finished a film that's about three minutes that will lay out kind of the vision for Sheboygan science and technology. And then after the film is done, we'll follow up with a few things related to that. So direct your attention to the screen. Known as the spirit on the lake, Sheboygan, Wisconsin graces the coastline of the planet's largest surface freshwater system. The community's coastal lifestyle embraces waterfront exploration and adventure, making Sheboygan a much desired balanced life destination to live, work, learn, and play. Presently, there are 14 national marine sanctuaries dating from 1975. Located in the center of a proposed freshwater national marine sanctuary, Sheboygan's freshwater coast is positioned to become an epicenter of discovery and innovation. Our community has always been bonded with the Great Lakes with the rich heritage of maritime activity and natural resource recreation. We are poised to move forward in response to the increasing global concern with freshwater resource management and conservation. Sheboygan's South Pier has become a premier Midwest destination for innovative startups. The future science and technology exploratorium will feature interactive exhibits demonstrating what is and what could be. Our multinational companies have made notable advances in robotics, production, and research and development. Immersed in this culture of science, technology, and creation, next generation inventors can thrive. Space travel evolved from nautical science. Space Port Sheboygan, with the embedded NASA Space Lab, affords travelers a space-inspired journey. A new science-on-the-sphere exhibit promotes consciousness of nature's systems, while the annual Rockets for Schools is the largest rocket launching program for students in the Midwest. We are a community where children can have the ultimate freshwater sailing experience. The Sailing Education Association of Sheboygan exists to make this experience possible for present and future generations. Our thriving Scuba community probes the depths for numerous shipwrecks suspended in clear fresh water, bringing the past alive through journeys of exploration. Our community offers truly endless possibilities for residents and visitors to engage in freshwater experiences from science and technology to education, recreation, and exploration. The Sheboygan Fresh Coast is our community and now is the time to establish its direction for future generations. So that's kind of the direction. So with that, I would like to, and Arbor, that we've been working with for a number of years. She's gonna be talking about the whole Marine Sanctuary, the proposal and everything, and then there'll be, like Lynn said, questions and answers after that. So without, as soon as she gets her PowerPoint up, hopefully. Introduction. So my name is Ellen Brody. My just, in terms of a little background, I've worked for an hour for quite some time. I've been in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for almost 20 years in my NOAA career, and I based at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab. So thank you very much for inviting me. I'm not sure that the second Friday forum has the same ring as the first Friday forum, but I do appreciate you being flexible in accommodating my schedule. So I have spent my career with NOAA and I've worked with amazing people. Just very energized by the people I work with, the programs I've had the opportunity to work on, but with this new opportunity for new sanctuaries, I am incredibly energized by this. I'm inspired by your passion in the Great Lakes and your passion for a potential national marine sanctuary. Bottom line is that we all care deeply about places, and it's been a privilege for me to learn about your place here. So with that said, let's step into some history to start off with. Chad can be able to advance the slide. So the senator was built in 1896 in my home state of Michigan in Wyandotte, Michigan, 400 foot steel steamer, that actually had a fairly long career in terms of how long ships last. Next slide. But on Halloween night of 1929, she collided on southeast of Sheboygan. It was a foggy night and she collided with the steamer Marquette, went down quickly, and unfortunately there was a loss of life between seven or 10 crew members out of the 30 did perish that night. So I'm here because we care about shipwrecks. And why do we care? What do we learn about shipwrecks? So, you know, he starts asking questions about the senator. What was she carrying? Where was she going?  Well as it turns out, the week that she sank was a very bad week because two days prior to that was the stock market crash of 1929. Okay, so the senator was carrying 241 Nash automobiles. So, where were the Nash automobiles, where were the Nash automobiles built? Kenosha. Kenosha. So, you know, obviously a great with constant connection. So, you know, imagine that. What would those automobiles look like now on the bottom of Lake Michigan? So, the senator was found in 2005 by a couple divers. She is very, very deep, probably about 450 feet deep somewhere between Chicago and Guetta and poor Washington. The divers know where she rests, but it's not a known, the location's not known to really anybody else. It's very deep, it's hard to get to. But, I don't know, you just start thinking about it. What are those cars look like? What does that ship look like? And one thing, most of my colleagues are managed sanctuaries in the oceans. But here in the Great Lakes we have the privilege of working with these shipwrecks and resources that are protected by the freshwater of the Great Lakes. So, if this shipwreck was in the ocean, it would look very different. But my guess is that it's an incredible state of preservation. Okay, so what I'd like to do today is give you a sense of NOAA, because when you get the national made sanctuary program, you also get NOAA. And I really rely on other parts of the agency in what we do. And interesting to see the space component. Well, NOAA does space, we do from the surface of the sun to the depths of the oceans. I'll talk about our system. I will talk about the Thunder Bay Sanctuary as an example of, let's say, a great success example in our program. And then talk about the Wisconsin nomination, just to spare a chat from having to talk about that. Okay, so NOAA is, it's a very, very diverse agency. We have five line offices. The National Weather Service is the most well-known line office. I'm in the National Ocean Service and we're more on the kind of the stewardship side of things, protecting areas. We also have a number of products that I'll talk about in the next slide. So I'm just gonna go through about five or six slides that give you a sense of what NOAA does. We do your nautical charts. So I know that many of you are using our nautical charts. We do bathometry. I think this is one of the best, if you're a visual person, to look at the bathometry and see how the lakes differ. See what's there in Southern Lake Michigan. Next slide. We have boats. We have buoys. That map on the right is a system of our med station or a meteorological station that gives real-time data. We have one in Milwaukee. We have remotely operated vehicles. We have equipment that takes multi-bean images or sonar images so we can see what the shipwrecks look like in another way. As I mentioned, I'm housed at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab. We do research on ice. Next slide. Water levels and the public interest in ice and water levels is very high. We've got probably the most public requests and media requests on those two issues. Also harmful algal blooms, which are not as much of an issue on Lake Michigan, but certainly, as noted in that slide of Lake Erie, a huge public health concern and Great Lakes ecosystem concern. Habitat restoration and Shibuagan has been a recipient of federal dollars, including some NOAA dollars to clean up your river and get your area of concern off the list now. Okay, hopefully soon to be off the list. Also in the NOAA family, NOAA funds the state coastal management programs. I am sure you're familiar with some of the products and public access projects from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, Wisconsin Sea Grant. There's a relatively new national estuarine research reserve in Lake Superior, Wisconsin. And I just mentioned the habitat restoration. Okay, so on to national marine sanctuaries. So this is the definition. I don't want you to get alarmed by the term marine, which most often means saltwater. But our definition in the Sanctuaries Act is that marine means the Great Lakes and they're connecting waters. But I point out this definition to show the range of resources that we care about. So it's aesthetic, it's natural resource ecology, it's historic, it's cultural. It really runs the gamut of resources that can be national marine sanctuaries. Our system, which is mostly on that slide, is comprised of 14 sites. They are very diverse. And that's a message that I want you to take away from this is that there's no single approach to a sanctuary. We have sanctuaries that protect, we have two sanctuaries that protect only cultural resources, Fogger Bay in Lake Huron and the Monitor Sanctuary off the coast of North Carolina. We have sanctuaries that protect natural and cultural. We have big, we have small, we have continuous, we have ones that are more, have kind of pods. So we work with the resource we're protecting, we work with the communities that are part of sanctuaries. The smallest sanctuary used to be a quarter of a square mile in American Samoa, which is why we have to make the scale of this so large. That was recently expanded to 13,000 miles to include significantly more waters in American Samoa. Next slide.  So we have this relatively new social media campaign called Earth is Blue and it's based on what the astronauts saw when they went up, first went up into space and, you know, recognized that so much of our planet is covered with water. So I just wanted to, I'm very, I don't know, I was skeptical about this campaign. Like, yeah, you're gonna do a photo a day and a video a week, but I'm actually very, very impressed with what. So I'm just gonna go through some, chance going to go through some slides here to show you images of our system. And when you're watching this, you can think about what, you know, Wisconsin images could be portrayed in this collection because that's really what it's all about. I'm starting in the far Pacific, in this new American Samoa Sanctuary. So I will say that there are a lot of colors in the ocean, we don't have as many beautiful underwater colors. The Monterey Bay, Hawaiian Island, Humbag Whale National Sanctuary. Recently, Wonderland, a large expansion of the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Feralon Sanctuary off the coast of San Francisco. Up to Olympic Coast, here are our local sanctuary in the Great Lakes. Whale watching activities in the Stellwagon Bank off the coast of Massachusetts, the USS Monitor. And if you could hold here for a sec because this is a very meaningful shipwreck in our nation's history. And when we were, we actually brought up significant portions of the monitor because it was degrading and it would have been gone. So in the turret, we did locate some human remains. We were unable, it was sent to the Naval Research Lab in Hawaii, we were unable to identify those remains but we did have a burial ceremony at Arlington Seminary, Arlington Cemetery, very, very poignant, very, very moving ceremony. I don't know how this happened, I don't know if it was. But Grace, we're off the coast of Georgia and then Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys. Okay, so what is a sanctuary? In many ways, I would say we are like the National Park Service or like National Parks. This is kind of our model of what we do. We protect resources. We have education and outreach programs. We have research and monitoring programs so we can understand the resource that we're protecting. And we have, we've worked with communities. And this is all geared toward protecting a resource whatever that resource is in that particular sanctuary. So what I'm going to do is to talk about Thunder Bay as it applies to those different goals. So designated in the year 2000, it was recently expanded from sizable expansion from 448 square miles to 4300 square miles. I wanna note that this was a community-based effort to interest in expanding the sanctuary. So this was not Noah coming in and saying we think it should be bigger. Communities that were not part of the sanctuary said we want this to be bigger. Protect shipwrecks, we don't know of 200 but we believe they're based on historical records. There could be up to 200. Okay, so what does it mean? When we hear the term sanctuary, many of us think that means you can't do anything in an area that is preserved. So in some ways I think that term is unfortunate because of where it leads people to think about what it means but really there is multiple use in sanctuaries. So I often get the question, can we use it? Can I fish in a sanctuary? Can I dive? If it becomes a sanctuary, will I be able to do what I can do now? And it depends on the sanctuary but I'll talk about Thunder Bay and Thunder Bay is focused on shipwrecks. So we're looking at activities that affect shipwrecks. So there's no impact on fishing activities because fishing isn't impacting the shipwrecks. Next slide. So we do promote access to the Great Lakes. There's no user fee, we want people to use these areas. So we encourage responsible diving. We don't want people to damage the wrecks. We want people to get out there. So this is one of our brochures that says, here's some ways you can get out there to dive, to kayak, fish, glass bottom boat. We try to do as much as we can for the divers to make it accessible in terms of having different site plans so they know what they're looking at. Okay, so one bubble was the education in outreach. We do, it's a huge part of what we do because we need, frankly, there aren't that many divers. There aren't that many people who are going to experience this resource firsthand. So we need to get that experience to other people and it's youth, it's lifelong learners, it's really everyone that we try to reach in different ways. And we do more than just shipwrecks because I mentioned early on about the passion for the Great Lakes. Well, you don't talk about shipwrecks without talking about the Great Lakes. So we really do that as one and we get kids out. Maybe we start off with a shipwreck story but then talk about, hey, what's happening with those? Why is the water so clear? Well, it's because of the zebra and quagga mussels. Well, what does that mean for the ecosystem? It's fantastic for tourism. It's fantastic for taking great pictures of shipwrecks but what does it mean for the Great Lakes ecosystem? We don't really know but it's a conversation that we have in our education programs. So one program that we started was really one of our first programs was having a regional competition for underwater robotics. And this has turned into a huge program in Alpina run by the Sanctuary and last summer we were very fortunate to host an international underwater robotics competition. I don't know how many countries were represented but to have kids from Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Japan in this community of 10,000 people in northeastern Michigan that's 100 miles away from the interstate, it was phenomenal. So bringing not only national attention but international attention to this area. We have a program with the Alpina Community College where we work with them on a marine technology program. So training people to use the ROVs and other instrumentation. And the first graduating class was last year. It was a small class, I think five or six of them but they all got jobs working for ocean technology companies, so a real success. This is our building, there was really nothing in Alpina that existed, so this is our kind of destination that houses both our education programs. We have a conservation lab, we have our offices in this building that are just no logo in the world, I believe, inside our building. We also do documentation, and we do this for our education programs, again, to show people what these shipwrecks look like. We do it so we can get baseline data to see if there are, what changes are occurring, whether it's artifacts that have gone missing or impact from the quagga mussels if there's any sort of degradation. And we have a lot of different tools that we use for our documentation, next slide. So this is multi-beat images. And I just, you know, if you take a set of our different ways of documenting shipwrecks, it just speaks, you know, people see these in different ways. I mean, some people look at a photo and they're blown away by that.  And then you can see, in some cases, you know, the standing mass. We work with different companies. They seem to have an interest in coming to the National Marine Sanctuary because it is a sanctuary. This is a firm that has this new technology for laser scanning. So underwater laser scanning, so you can take measurements of boats. This is the Monahansa, then the upper photo there is the product from that. Resource protection. So we do have, so sanctuaries do come with federal regulations. That's part of our resource protection program. In Thunder Bay, our regulations prohibit the taking of artifacts off a wreck or any damage to a wreck. They also, we have a provision that if there is a mooring buoy, NOAA mooring buoy at a site, a shipwreck site, then you can't use your anchor to drag it on the bottom and, you know, where it hooks onto a shipwreck and that's how you're anchoring. Because we know what sort of damage that can cause to shipwrecks, especially wooden shipwrecks. So those are the regulations for Thunder Bay. As a result of this mooring buoy regulation, we have a robust mooring buoy system. We're up to about 35 buoys that are put out in the spring by NOAA staff and they're taken out in the fall. And then this really is a win-win because it's safer for the divers and it's safer for the shipwrecks. Duty engagement. Deeply held value, a core value of our program. And I know, I mean all government agencies are required to consult with the public and consider public input. I really believe that we go way beyond quote unquote requirements and we work with communities. We do it through various ways, through our volunteer programs, our advisory councils, bringing people to visitor centers and other kinds of engagement. One of our mechanisms is our sanctuary advisory councils. We have an advisory council at every one of our sanctuaries comprised of 15 numbers and 15 alternates. The representation varies depending on the sanctuary. We have divers and fishermen and if we need to have commercial fishermen and recreational, it really depends on what the uses are in that sanctuary. So yes, they are advisory to us but we don't do our jobs without our advisory councils. Like I said, it's just, it's a core value of our program. I think if you talk to other communities and members on these councils, you would find that to be the case. You know, we need from them to bring issues to us. There are connections to the communities. Okay, so I wanted to go through this than just I was thinking last night. So what does the sanctuary mean to Alpina, Michigan? Town of 10,000 people, 100 miles from the interstate. So national recognition. I hope you've gotten a sense of what it means to be on the part of a national system. It is definitely an attraction. People do like to go to nationally recognized places. I didn't add national and international but I do believe that it does go beyond the region. It has resulted in investment in the Alpina community. Just a couple examples. The ability to get grants to support a Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Trail. So Wisconsin has the Maritime Trails with signs and this is somewhat similar to that but with a lot more signs. We were lucky enough to get the bestowed a collection of archival materials. So we have a really excellent collection of historical materials on shipwrecks. Hyperbaric chamber. We were able to get a chamber that's used for diver or decompression. We hope to not use that very often but what is meant is that the hospital uses it and it's an incredible asset for treating wounds and diabetes. So again, talk about win-win. It's there for diver safety and it's there for the use by the hospital. I mentioned the other water robotics. So the students in Alpina, they just consider themselves, the culture is that they are experts in building ROVs. That's just the way it is. So the kids in the second grade are doing it and they work up. So that's really been a change in how they think about themselves. It's still a passion for the Great Lakes and it's rich history. You have the Great Lakes off your shore here. I know that many of you appreciate that but there are greater connections that can be made and people don't really know the shipwrecks and the stories. I'm sure that some of you have your relatives that were on the ships in some capacity but it's really a strong connection that's been made in Alpina. The personal connections. So I really have to talk about pride and hope. In 2000, when the sanctuary was designated, the paper mill that had been there for a hundred years closed down. Really devastating for a community. The loss of jobs, really the loss of their industry has always been represented by Alpina. So I would say it's fair to say that there wasn't a lot of hope about what Alpina could do. And this sanctuary for a variety of factors. I mean, because it's a sanctuary, it doesn't mean there's going to be all the success but the people bought into it, they took advantage of opportunities and it's just incredible for me who worked on the designation process to see this change in attitude about how they think of themselves and really believe now that things can get done rather than believing that nobody would ever want to come to Alpina because why would they? Branding. Alpina has undergone a branding program and this used to be their motto, their logo, a warm and friendly port. And this is what it is now. And I said, well, you can't be the only sanctuary in the Great Lakes because I'm working with other communities on sanctuaries. But sanctuary in a broader sense, kind of that place to come, that peaceful place. They've worked a lot with this and I think they're very pleased with how this is working as they're messaging for their community. So what does it mean for Alpina? A lot of partnerships with businesses. We got a glass bottom boat from Picture Rocks National Lakeshore. The same company came into Alpina and started the glass bottom boat tour. We sell tickets out of our visitor center and we're able to get a small cut of that of the ticket price and we also send our staff out on all of the glass bottom boat tours to talk about the ethics, to talk about the Great Lakes and to tell the stories. So we have sanctuary advisory councils. We also have a fairly new business advisory councils, just recognizing that we need to make connections. So I listed who's on that council right now. That's okay. It's fairly new but I don't have a lot of, I don't know that we have successes yet but we really are trying to engage these national groups, yeah. So the through process. The old way that we designated sanctuaries was selecting areas off of a list that was generated by experts. But in the mid 1990s, we had just designated a group of sanctuaries and we said, we really have to focus on managing those sanctuaries. And on the new sanctuaries, we can't look at potential for new ones. So we deactivated that list which resulted in a 19 year period where we were unable to even consider new sanctuaries. So as we're talking about it, we wanted to have a different approach. Let's leave the scientists out of this one. They're experts. Let's have this be community driven. Because we understand that communities, we are successful because of communities. So this is a community driven process now where they submit nominations. In the nominations, I mean there are actually 11 criteria but to summarize, have to demonstrate that the resources are of national significance because it is a national or a sanctuary. And we're also looking at things like community based, broad based community support. We're looking at opportunities for partnerships and education and research. The things are gone where no one just comes in and we promise to do everything. That's not the way. No, but partnerships are, getting people engaged in partnerships really makes everything, the end product is more successful. So this is the roadmap and we'll be glad to know that this area has reached the end of this road in terms of submitting the nomination and having it accepted to our inventory of places that we will consider as national or a sanctuary. Now it's really an outstanding nomination. You should all take pride in what the state was able to put together. Chad and Amy were on this community working group that contributed content. It was, the lead was the Wisconsin Historical Society and the nomination was submitted by Governor Walker. We had both, you had both US senators, right letters of support. So it certainly met the threshold for broad based support. I mean we have been, as Chad mentioned my first came here in 2007. So I've been working with communities here. I've been working with the state. The state had done a report analyzing the shipwrecks. So there was a fair amount that was already done but I just want you to know that it's recognized by NOAA as just an outstanding nomination package from, you know, from the shipwrecks describing the significance of the shipwrecks to really build in the case for why your communities should be part of this. Okay, so the nomination, yes, submitted in December. We accepted it in January. Just, you know, some numbers here, 875 square mile area. This was an area that the Wisconsin Historical Society recommended in their report. It's kind of cool, you know, the two oldest shipwrecks, you know, the number of wrecks with standing mass, which is not, you know, sort of rare in the Great Lakes. The Historical Society is very active in putting the shipwrecks on the national register of a store in places. And that is clearly an easy way to measure national significance. And I understand that they're submitting three more shipwrecks for the national register and one of those is in the proposed sanctuary, the Pathfinder. So, you know, I keep having to up this number, but hopefully it'll be 16 pretty soon. I'm gonna skip my lab, because I'm not online. So just a couple images of shipwrecks. This is the Northern Earth. I was just down in Fort Washington this morning taking a ride on the old coal dock in Coal Dot Park. And an Eagle Scout project was construction of an interpretive sign at Coal Dot Park for the Northern Earth. Home, built in 1845, thought to be the oldest shipwreck until the Galliper was discovered and this was built in 1833. So really an unbelievable collection of shipwrecks that you have here. So I just wanted to go through the goals of the nomination package, because it's sort of instructive about, it sets forth a vision for Wisconsin. So expanding on the state's commitment, you have an amazing underwater archeology program in Wisconsin, it's one of the best in the country. So we're excited to partner with the state of Wisconsin and build on that 60 year investment. A regional approach. I am so pleased to see the cooperation between the four communities that are in this proposed sanctuary. I don't know if it's unprecedented, but I think it is, it's very special on how these communities are viewing this as a region and it's not a competition. So I think there are some huge benefits from that. Each community has something different to offer, but it's a very powerful package, a set of communities. I've talked about installing the passion and appreciation of the Great Lakes because it's a very special resource. Building on existing state and local tourism initiatives. Building on Noah's presence and I talked about what we are in the region. And then, you know, some amazing opportunities for educating the public on shipwrecks and the Great Lakes and the oceans.  And, you know, not only in this area, but the Milwaukee, you know, the UW Milwaukee School of Fresh Water Sciences. Very excited about the opportunity here. So it does, you know, the benefits and the involvement by organizations beyond this area are significant. Okay, so what's next? So this area is, you know, this nomination is now on our inventory. So these are my talking points. It sounds very bureaucratic. But just because you're on the inventory does not mean that we automatically start a sanctuary designation. It can remain on the inventory for five years and I guess, you know, reapply, but at some point, in that point to be determined, no one decides, you know, how to move forward with the areas on our inventory. And just for a status, there are two sites on our inventory, Wisconsin and a site in Chesapeake Bay called Mallows Bay. We have received three nominations that we declined for various reasons, not enough information or not, you know, demonstrating enough support. We have a very transparent process on all of our, the nominations and our letters, our feedback letters are posted on the website, nominate.noa.gov, so people can see, you know, what's good and, you know, what's lacking. So I can give you an answer. The people who know me in this room know that I will never make a promise that I can't keep and I won't tell you something that I don't know, but what I have said pretty consistently is that I'm very optimistic about Wisconsin moving forward. I don't know when, I mean, this is a new process for us. So, you know, stay tuned. I am your advocate and you are also great advocates and I do hope we are able to move forward. So moving forward, just very briefly to close this up, it's a, you know, nothing, everything takes a long time. Okay, so that's kind of the reality. We have to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, which means we go through the environmental impact statement process. The first step of that is holding public scoping meetings, where we just, we lay out some issues and we get, we hear from the people who would be affected by this and we use this feedback to draft our first document, which is the draft environmental impact statement. Next slide. So this, what we call a DEIS, contains a lot of information, you know, looking at the impact of the environment. It also has our management plans, kind of a combined document, where we lay out what our resource protection programs or education, our research programs are. We also have our draft regulations in this document. In the Thunder Bay Sanctuary, DEIS, we had a draft with a memorandum of understanding between NOAA and the state, just so people could see, you know, how we were working with the state. When these are state waters, the state is our partner in this. Then we hold public hearings and then we eventually publish the final environmental impact statement. So it's a two to three year process, you know. I just, it takes time. I mean, my personal philosophy is that some things take time because it's the right thing to do to involve people in a meaningful way and I think our process does that. So that's my contact information. I want to invite you to like our new Facebook page, Mid-Lake Michigan Proposed National Men's Sanctuary and there are some relevant websites there. But I really wanna thank you for, you know, being part of this journey and, you know, the journey in some ways is just beginning and asking hard questions, asking easy questions. People do have questions about what this means and I really, I invite all of those questions because we all learn from when we have that dialogue. Oh, good question. So sanctuaries are funded by NOAA. There is no match requirement, which is something, you know, people do ask. Our program system-wide is $45 to $15 million a year that supports our 14 sites, our headquarters office and four regional offices. And depending on the complexity of the sanctuary, there's a great variability in how much each sanctuary gets funded. I think our lowest, I think our $1 million for the one we get the least amount of money and maybe up to $8 million for the highest funded. Will our sanctuary, the multi-focused history, conservation, et cetera, you mentioned that Under Bay was a historic preservation. Oh, yes. I really did not mention that the Wisconsin nomination is also focused on shipwrecks, which is why I was using Under Bay as an example. So, yeah, I mean, not that, you know, if there was an interest in going beyond shipwrecks, that's something that we could consider in our process. But right now the nomination is focused on shipwrecks. Are there any other great link sanctuaries being considered and are there any other nominees for brain sanctuaries? If so, we're a long process. Okay, yes, I, so my area is the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes are feeling very large to me at the moment because I feel like I've been drawn in very many different directions. So yes, there are other communities that are interested. They're working with Erie, Pennsylvania. They're looking at their, all of their Pennsylvania state waters, which isn't that much. They're 60 miles of shoreline. We're working with Oswego, New York, and also Buffalo. And Buffalo has an interesting thought that they would include both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and the Niagara River. And actually I was just up in Ashland Bayfield earlier this week and there's some very, you know, considering what would this look like? So a first meeting. So yes, there is interest. Wisconsin with this area was in a very good position in terms of thinking about it and putting together the package because they're coming here for years. So I'm not expecting anything, nothing is imminent from these other communities. It really does take time to build a support and answer the questions and put together the package. So that's kind of the landscape, Great Lakes wide. I mentioned there were a couple around the country. We don't really know, we don't always know when one's coming in. Well, let's see, some people would perceive that they don't want the federal government in their backyard. So, you know, I, that's fine. That was certainly a concern during the Thunder Bay designation. And I will, you know, I will confess that that designation was very controversial. The state was concerned about NOAA coming in and the locals were concerned about NOAA coming in. Now that, I mean, it's been just a miraculous turnaround and it could not be more beloved in that community now. But yeah, I would say that, you know, that's one thing that I've heard. You know, some people would question, you know, again, it's more online lines of, why do we need this? You know, should we be spending federal money on this? Cars be rusty, what can you learn and why are you interested in the HTO of 2.0 level? Would the cars be rusty? I don't know, what do you think? Do we have any chemists in the room? I mean, I would have to think that they are rusty. No, they'll only be rusty if they're exposed to the air. To, okay, to air. Well, they would sort of be rusted because there's oxygen in the floor. Yeah, but it's minimal until it comes out of the water. Okay, excellent. So that is the thing about things that are underwater. When you, which is why we like to keep them underwater because when you bring them out, they need, with the conservation that we had to do for the monitor, it's really expensive and very long. I can learn some chemistry. Yeah. Great. Why are we interested in water levels? Wow, well, how are you, they're expecting that, I think the Lake Michigan water levels this year are going to go up a foot. I mean, it has tremendous implications for the economy from the amount of cargo that a ship can carry to whether boats can get out, whether the ramps are long enough with low light levels. At the other extreme, with high light levels, you have severe erosion that causes houses to fall into the lake. I mean, there is a natural cycle of lake levels. It's really fun to work with these scientists who try to predict based on the forecasting and a lot of it relates to the ice cover and how much evaporation. Can you speak to the economic impact of the nomination package? And I'm not saying that because I was involved in it. I'm saying that because in the back of it, you'll see that there's 110 support letters from this region, from Manitowoc to reverse Sheboygan and Port Washington. And I think that's a real testament to the fact that there's support for this from everybody from commercial fishermen to sea dye clubs, to everybody that would be related to it, Conservancy Group, Sierra Club, all of those groups. So that, in my mind, is a true testament to the application, the nomination, and the support for it. And I would encourage you to just take a look at it and learn more about it as you're moving forward. Thanks. I'll stick around afterwards if anybody wants to. Ellen, thank you again. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. I hope everybody got a wonderful bit of information coming back to the communities. We thank you for being here today. Just a reminder that we will be doing on May 20th, there's a focal point with Pat Dolan coaching for accountability. And on June 5th, we'll be back here for, we'll be hosting our state legislators. So we'll be seeing Mr. Patsma and Mr. Grossman back here at that time. If anybody has any time and would like to ask some more questions of Ellen, she's sticking around for a little bit. And once again, we thank you all for coming. Have a lovely afternoon. I see you again. You look good.


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Unang-unang pinadalan di Deepcool sa amin tong item na to for review, but they had no say in what we had to say about it. Usually, I look for three things when it comes to a PSU. 80 plus rating, reliability, and manufacturers warranty. Yung una, 80 plus rating, 80 plus is a third party accreditation as to how efficient a PSU is. So actually, hindi talaga ninya sinusukat yung quality or reliability nung isang PSU. The higher the color on the 80 plus scale, the more efficient it is. Mas maliit yung wastage nung koreyente na nakawahan niya dun sa outlet at yung napapadalan niya directly to the computer. The higher it's 80 plus color, the more efficient it is. So for example, mas efficiency 80 plus titanium kaysa sa 80 plus bronze. Hindi nga siya rating of quality, but because you need better parts para maabot mo yung efficiency rating na yun. Naging stand in na rin siya for quality. Generally, pag mas matas yung 80 plus color mas reliable din yung PSU. Itong Deepcool PQ1000M is rated 80 plus gold and this is the sweet spot for me. Usually for enthusiasts as well. Lahat nang mga personal PSU ko, at least 80 plus gold. Usually reliable yung gold. Number two, reputation. It's true may mga masikkat na PSU manufacturers, but we've reviewed Deepcool PSUs before and we liked them so much that we actually started stocking them in the shop kung baga way put our money where our mouth is. Sinasabi namin na maganda. Kita naman namin na maganda. In particular, the Deepcool 750W model we always usually have on stock. And alam naman yung hardware sugar, no BS, if a product sucks, will really tell you. Since we do regularly stock Deepcool PSUs, maramin na rin kami na benta and so far, walang nakaproblema in any of the units. Reputation wise, they have a really good track record with us. Number three, warranty. Kahit anong brand, kahit anong part, walang 100%, inevitably, something will fail. Kaya mahalaga na pinangkakatiwalaan mo yung computer store mo. May no BS warranty ba sila? The PQ1000M has a 10-year warranty and that's quite good. Nasubukan ko na rin mag-claim sa PSU warranty from a different manufacturer. You can see my experience in the video above. A 10-year warranty is quite good. This might even outlive your current rig. Lipat mo lang siya to the next rig. And that's really what you want in a PSU na it should usually outlive the current parts of your computer magagamit mo pa sa next build mo. So for all of the three basic things I looked for na PSU, pasado si PQ1000M. Isa pang hinahanap na mga enthusiasts sa sign of quality is all Japanese capacitors and all Japanese caps nga si PQ1000M, another sign na quality reliable siya. It also has all of the usual protections, UPP, OVP, SCP, OTP, and OCP. Specs aside, how does it perform? We've had it in the shop for roughly around 2 months and it has handled everything we've thrown at it. So lahat na mga configurations na naisip namin, sinubukan namin, dinamit namin na sa test bench, iba-ibang hardware configurations, no problem, it passed everything with flying colors. 1000W is really a lot of power. So realistically for a proper stress test, we would need a mining rig or something with an R9-5950X or an I9-12900K. We don't have that for our test bench but we were able to try it with a fairly high-end setup, an R7-3700X or the 2080 Super, and it passed no problem. It handled all of the stress tests no problem, all of the parts of the PC, we're getting all of the power that they needed. As with most high-end cards, this is a fully modular PSU so it's easier to do cable management and everything is just much neater dinamit mo lang yung keilangan mo. There are no extraneous or unnecessary power connectors littering the setup. If you're rocking one of the higher-end RTX cards you'll probably need at least three 8-pin power connectors. The PQ1000M does have that as well. At the end of the day, I give the PQ1000M 4 out of 5 stars. A good solid PSU from Deep Cool at a good price. Just last note, you'll notice gano siya kali-8 compared to well ito 1200W ito 1000W pero ang liit pa rin niya compared to some other PSUs a bit tiny actually which is a good thing for a 1000W PSU. The cables are just the flat plastic not the braided type of some other premium PSUs. So there are little things but at the end of the day, reliable siya 1000W, 80 plus gold good price, solid offering from Deep Cool. Ultimately for a PSU what you want to know is whether it has the performance it claims at kung tatagal siya. Dun sa performance, the PQ1000M wala kong duda-duda it will give you the power that you need. Yung longevity, hindi ko talaga masabi yun but all signs so far are looking pretty good. Kung nakatulong tong video na ito we do have other videos explaining yung 80 plus rating, other review videos on PSUs that we've tried lahat yun na sa text description below. 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Now we're in business. So like it may sound surprising, but I'm actually a senior in high school Hi, my name is Frederick looks like a fifth grader Chen welcome to my channel Hope you all have her having a great day this week I want to see if I can get my whole college Application done because I procrastinated enough throughout the years and I'm almost there. It's just like So I just want to over before December starts so I can actually you know Enjoy my senior year and like have a merry Christmas. Also. Thank you Santa Claus for this early Christmas gift called sleep deprivation I have my coffee and I have my trusty lemon water You all know my addiction with that drink and tonight I just want to get down the rest of my Supplementals for my common app now. What is the common app you ask basically?  Hello boys from high school But yeah, that's basically what it is. So what we're gonna do is login. I'm a student This is private hold on. Hmm. Let's look at all of these so far Don't you love all my options it goes like private private private safety my sister This was a real funny one and like yeah, I'm a youtuber So well, I can't really list all this stuff because like most of this is private. Oh, I prefer nickname You know, let me change that to that vegetation real quick now what everyone mainly stresses about is this thing called an essay So like I want to talk about this you can pause and read it for a second if you want and uh Yeah, I want you to know if they really worked on my common app essay for a Whole summer and two months. I'm almost done like I am about to give up on it because I'm done Caring about it. So like I have all of it. I just Yep, there we go But see here even if you do get all these check marks you have different supplemental essays for every single College like here are some examples was the few words or phrases that describe your ideal college community Calm not too crowded fast-paced accepting open-minded acted when it comes to hobbies passionate students Do you know how long it took me to write that two minutes? I have no idea what to put in a hundred fifty words. It says a few. Why is it 150 question mark? This one's a joke and this is the extent of books. I read on my free time Why do you want to know what I watch on a daily basis? Please tell us what you value most about Columbia and why 300 words or less. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm Like just give me give me five minutes only quick Why is it tripping on me?  Yeah, that's it my answer. So like let me see how many essays I can bust out of my house right now I have completed all my supplements for one college so far. It's been 30 minutes moving on This is an optional essay that I can share related to a community you belong to or your family or cultural background Hmm. I mean someone once asked me if my name was Asian. So like that's a part of my background You know it's optional. Let's skip it one down Six more to go. Okay, so it's been an hour now and like I just want you to know not only is there one additional essay prompt But there's two Why do you want me to die? What hope will change about the place we live? I hope that it's not near fake people. What is one thing that we don't know about you that you want us to know? There's no Um, I don't think I would want you to know any of that what about your background or what perspective belief or experience Will help you contribute to nothing Yep, just drink your feelings. I prefer to drink them away Whoa, I'm so confused as to why this isn't check mark. I have everything filled out. We're whoa I have everything filled out. What whoa? Why isn't it checking? Do I have any criminal charges pending as you? I hope not like every single thing is answered. I don't I don't know. I should never mind I know now the minimum is 200 words. Are you kidding me? I can't think of what else to say.   Oh, please just finish this year already got my check mark you pan What do you want? What do you want from me? minimum 400 I've done 177.  So thank you for that. Hmm. I Wonder how Google can help as you can see I've already gone through one whole cup your next BB 100 more words to go. Oh my gosh, okay You know what I deserve a break now because I just started getting a nosebleed probably from stress So this is my break two hours later Can anyone explain how I fell asleep?  It's a lot more work than you think first of all You have to make your common application and that involves like all your extracurriculars You have to put in all your grades your family like how much they make you have to fill out a tax form That's another story and it's just Way more than you think it is like I've already done my SAT I've already studied for eight years in my life. Why don't I just keep? And I hope colleges don't see this and be like, oh, he's whiny. Yeah, no, this is just me being angsty You're typical Gen Z year, but good news. I only have two more essays to do. I'm still working on you pens We've gotten nowhere with this Okay, that was the hardest essay to do because all the other ones were 250 Also, I haven't been able to copy any of my essays so far. That's really nice. I just diarrhea vomited like Six different essays in a span of three hours. Okay, Southern, California. Let's see what you got for me. Please be easy, baby Hmm. Oh limit. Oh Oh, oh, that's a blessing. I'm gonna write two words honestly I am the Homosexual Fine. Oh apparently I filled all these out. Let's read these. Let's carve myself in three words kind dedicated intuitive What if I just change this to judge me, please? Okay? I was definitely feeling something at the time. That's not right though it's salt and Vinegar Chips also typing one-handed is not easy at all. That's a I too.  It's YouTube your life's on YouTube That's all I too well Wears Prada Yeah, these are pretty accurate. Just proof reading again, and then I'm looking at this at a student at university Good job. Good job. Real. Good job, Frederick one Utility later. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm done. I've done with all the essays But because I want to go in for digital media for almost every college Kill myself. Okay one by one. Let's do this private information. Oh What an art essay Okay, I have a prompt the job of the artist is to always deepen the mystery Francis Bacon. Hmm I Want you to know that this literally took five minutes. I'm so proud of that next all applicants must submit 10 to 15 images of Recent artwork. Hmm. All right time to get my best of the best. There ain't a lot of good options, but let's just Do what I can do. I'm also gonna upload my coming out story because that is I think the only video where I've never cursed I don't know what photos are my best flower photo another flower photo. I have to name all of them I have to say the year I wrote them in the Okay, so I changed up some of the pictures, but these are the final ones Um, I guess you guys are curious on the stuff I've worked on in the past So these four photos I made up small project for myself I said it do portrait photography use one different model for each photo yellow red blue purple couldn't get green or orange or any of those because I'm a procrastinator. The next four photos are expressive elements. So it's like Tell a story with them. So it goes daydreaming. That's academic depression. Oh, you can barely see on the screen That's walking depression and loneliness and you have to name them. I'm like, uh The cherry blossom. Oh, look at it though. And yeah, that is my portfolio. So next step Okay, it looks like I'm not complete yet. Yeah, so we got one done so far Oh, it's like forever. This is the next college. Oh, so since all that was confident I couldn't film it But final review of all my common app stuff has been done. So continue eighty five dollars at the bang Oh, oh, that's only for Southern California. Okay, we're about to spend a lot more money. So after like 30 minutes of just Physically typing in my card Finally paid for everything. I took Duke off because there's I don't want to go to Duke and let me look at my grand total and 20 25 10 18 23 31 33 4 yep, I just spent four hundred fifteen dollars right there.   How is it like in the UK? Switzerland? Isn't it better? Oh, yeah So for every college it also requires you to pay at least ten dollars for your portfolio So let me just add like sixty dollars basically. So yep almost five hundred You pen you're really testing me. Why do you have to do it through your website? That just makes it so much harder. Um, it also says that I have to submit at least one drawing or painting. I Do I do I do it do I Do I really do it? You know what? I'm gonna do it. I don't even care. This is the best pinning. I'm proud of yeah Yeah, I don't care. I'm doing it. I'm yeah Yeah, two hours later. Okay, I have officially Finished applying for all the colleges except for you pen now I like to do is do a financial aid form with my parents called the FAFSA basically government will help pay us for College because not everyone can afford it or actually Barely anyone can afford it. Let me remind you that this is the checklist I have to fill out. So Subima application. Yes, I haven't even done that yet. So we're gonna do that now. All right, good old college boy Let's let's do this. I loved you so much for helping me get through these SAT scores that I did two different times Send these two colleges. All right, let's not think about this one. Let's just look at this one guys Send, uh-huh. Oh god. I forgot all the colleges already. I looked up University of Pennsylvania. Tell me why there are so many Which one's the real one? I'm confusion. You know will cool me down some lemon water. Mmm So 12 times 6 72 you can do the math of how much this freaking is Okay, you know, I just hope this can all be under one big bill because I've literally memorized my card at this point A few minutes later. Yay. I'm broke now. I'm now one step closer to getting my depression back. Oh Never mind or two steps closer because you just see what happened. Did I provide the teachers with the? Writing record of a stamped business. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope gonna figure that out So basically the teacher has to write out all this stuff that I can't read because it's confidential And I have to give them a list of all the colleges I'm playing to but this was this was the initial list By the way, you have to put on an envelope a stamp a college admission address. Oh My god, my hands already cramped from writing this three different times All right, now I gotta see if I have any stamps So for those of you who don't understand what I'm doing You can have up to three teachers Recommend you for a college and you give them a form and they fill it out and they'll send it to the college saying like I think you should accept retribution because blanket Lincoln and they can't tell you what they wrote unless they choose to You're not a lot of read it because they mailed themselves But you supply and with stamps and you supply and with envelopes So here's a matter of the problem for you guys out there If you need three teachers and you're playing at six colleges, how many stamps and envelopes do they need? Well six envelopes because one for every college six times three is 18 envelopes 18 stamps I want to die, you know, I'm still stressed for now, but I do have to say like I'm impressed that I got So much done in one night. Don't procrastinate like Do little by little it does help just think about what I've done so far like here's a checklist So my dad told me he had exactly 18 envelopes, which is a godsend, but we have a little bit of a problem I have not one but two stamps one is a Harry Potter one and uh So what I'm gonna do is just write all different addresses on these envelopes and stamp two of them My hand literally needs a rest because I've ridden like I've ridden a good amount so far Oh my god, this is just so tiring. Oh my god. I'm done. That's the thumb there right there probably me dying I might take a break for tonight Don't know yet. My camera is about to die. I've been doing this for six hours now Keep in mind that this all started since summer like I didn't just start my abs today. It's just me Finishing the rest of it after this is just get stamps and I think I'm almost done I just have to write a thank-you note to everyone and after my letters is just fill out my tax form and then I Should be done. So let me just get carpal tunnel right now and finish up The rest of these because I'm halfway done. Also writing takes so long and my handwriting has gotten progressively worse Throughout each letter. It's currently 12 16 But I have finished all of my recommendation letters just have to get stamps for each of them I guess this is gonna end a one Finishing college apps see you tomorrow when it gets to us No, I thought that'd be more dramatic, but never mind 20 stamps for ten dollars Why are stamps so expensive and it's 2018? Why are we still mailing the recommendation letters like Navian's? Hello, you made me make it back in third grade like I didn't use it for no reason I'm literally so tired of filming college apps like I'm done I can't even film the fast attacks one because it's 100% confidential and I 100% know I'm going to release like My address or something. So I think this is the end of college apps If you enjoyed give us your like leave a comment down below subscribe because I am one desperate motherfucker I fogged that up. Oh my god I love you guys and everything is less than three and I wouldn't make the sign right now But I'm holding my camera. Goodbye


There's one more important derivative result that we need to investigate, which is the derivative of a transcendental function. So transcendental functions have nothing to do with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Instead, this refers to an important classification. Functions fall into two broad categories. First, they're algebraic functions, which can be written using powers and roots of a variable. For example, this rather modest looking thing is an algebraic function, because the only thing we have here are powers and roots of a variable. On the other hand, transcendental functions are much more terrifying because they cannot be written using powers and roots. So one of the terrifying transcendental functions is this one, y equals sine of x. And it might not be quite so obvious why this is such a frightening function, but here's one reason why you can't evaluate this function exactly. In particular, if you use the arithmetic functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, you can evaluate any algebraic function as accurately as you want to. On the other hand, a transcendental function can't be evaluated as precisely as you want to without invoking some calculus. Fortunately, you're learning calculus. Now with a little bit of work, it's possible to prove that the derivative of sine is cosine and the derivative of cosine is minus sine. And once we have these two derivatives, then we have the derivatives of all of the trigonometric functions because all of the trigonometric functions can be defined in terms of sine and cosine. Well actually, that's not quite true. We don't need both of these derivatives. We actually only need this one because even cosine can be defined in terms of sine. And it's important if you want to work with trigonometric functions that you have a thorough understanding of the relationships between the primary trigonometric functions. So now is a good time to brush up on your trigonometry. But we won't do that here because this is a calculus course. So let's see if we can find the derivative of some simple function like sine of x squared. So we'll apply the chain rule. The last thing that we do is to take the sine of something. So we're finding the derivative of sine something. And the chain rule tells us the derivative of sine something is cosine something times the derivative of our something. Putting things back where we found them. We have an unresolved derivative. And we have our derivative of sine of x squared. As with the derivative of sine or cosine, we can with some effort find the derivative of log from first principles. But the proof is rather involved. And so we'll simply claim without proof that the derivative of log of x is 1 over x. And for example, say we want to find the derivative of log of x squared plus 1. So for variety's sake, we'll use our prime notation, the derivative of log of x squared plus 1. Well, the function is log something. And so our derivative of log something is 1 over something times the derivative of something. Putting things back where we found them. And finding our unresolved derivative gives us our derivative of log of x squared plus 1. Now we come to the world's easiest derivative. Suppose y is e to the x. So in case it's been a while since you've seen this, the log function has a base, which is e. And so if I hit both sides with a log, I get log y equals x. We can then differentiate using implicit differentiation. Over on the left hand side, I have the derivative of log y. And over on the right hand side, I have the derivative of x, which is just 1. So now I want to find the derivative of log. And my derivative of log is 1 over times the derivative of whatever. And so I get 1 over y dy dx equals 1. And I can rearrange this to find dy dx is equal to y. But now I'll put everything back where I found it. y is e to the x, and so dy dx is equal to e to the x. And this gives us a useful theorem about derivatives. The derivative of e to the x is e to the x. So let's find the derivative of y equals e to the power cosine x. So starting off with the chain rule, we want to find the derivative of e to the something, which will be e to the something times derivative something. We'll put things back where we found them and evaluate our unresolved derivative.


In 1976, Carlo Cipolla, a professor of economic history, derived a social law by which we can group people into four categories.   To arrive at this conclusion, we need to understand his five basic laws of human stupidity. 1.  2.  Education, wealth, or status have nothing to do with it. 3.  4.  5.  Cipolla then considers four factors of human behavior. A person can cause benefits to others, benefits to themselves, losses to others, and losses to themselves. If Tom takes an action and suffers a loss, he's helpless. If Tom benefits himself while also benefiting Jerry, he's intelligent. If Tom helps himself but causes Jerry a loss, he's a bandit.  Inefectual people are in the center. Let's now look at the effects of these groups on society. Helpless people contribute to society but are taken advantage of by others, especially bandits, and so their contribution is limited. Note that extreme altruists or pacifists may willingly accept a place in this category for moral reasons. Intelligent people contribute to society and leverage their contributions into reciprocal benefits. Their actions lead to a net gain to society, which is why helpless people should always support intelligent ones. Bandits pursue their own self-interest and enrich themselves, even when doing so poses a harm to society. Helpless and intelligent people should try to stop them. Stupid people always contribute to a net loss to society, but not only that, as they do so for no obvious reason. Their actions also frustrate, anger, and confuse everyone else. Against major cultural trends among his fellow intellectuals, Chipola was convinced that men are not equal, that some are stupid, and others are not, and that the difference is determined by nature and nothing else.    What are your thoughts on stupidity? Are people born or made stupid? Or is it, as usual, more complex, and is there an interrelationship between the two? Share your thoughts and read more about Chipola's work and amusing essay, which originally was only intended for friends, in the descriptions below. If you found this helpful, check out our other videos and subscribe. If you want to support our work, join us on Patreon.com. For more information and additional content, visit SproutSchools.com.


So me and Blake are headed to a closing right now. Um, I just got through doing live cold calls for a lot of the agents at Remax of Orange Beach. So that was really, really cool. My broker was there and we did like a class on cold calls. It was, it was really, really good, man.  What's up guys? You know, had some really good results and just talk to, talk to the company, Remax of Orange Beach. I told them exactly how I find phone numbers, what I say, how I do it, how I call them, the whole nine yards. And I told them, look guys, like there's an unlimited amount of people in your market who will only do business with you once you actually find them. So there's no excuses. Like it's right there. You click two buttons and boom, you get it. Hey, Karoo, Remax of Orange Beach. Give me a ring back when you get a chance about Pelican Point. You were reaching me here at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Talk to you soon. Real simple. All right, let me try to get one more. Do you have any better results calling from your cell phone or your office? Doesn't matter. As far as... Doesn't matter. As long as you can move, in my opinion. Handing up is important. Yeah. The energy, voice is different when your hands and arms and legs are moving. Hey Ms. Waller. Yes. This Ricky Karoo is down at Remax of Orange Beach. How are you doing? I'll go ahead. Oh yeah, me too, man. It's a gorgeous day down here. Hey, I don't want to take up too much of your time today, but Pelican Point, there's only one listing there, 1403. I always just call the C for anything I could do for you guys. Place, there was a corner unit that actually broke 500. There was, you know, 420, 415, you know, love 4. The 1403 is listed for 460. So, ah, you know, in the mid-force, let's see, you are second or third? Yeah, so your mid-force, depending on what the condition is, you're probably on the higher end. Hey, do you guys have an agent down here that you work with? Well, I'm sure at some point, I don't know, if I were 10 years down the road, you might do something. And what if you aren't going to stay in touch with you? Sure. What is your email? Cool. All right. Hey, when are you guys going to be down in the area next? All right, well, look, I'm going to put you down. I might give you a shout, and maybe we can do some launch or something and put a face with the name and all that good stuff and hang out for a bit. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll send you some emails and stay in touch. And if you guys need something, let me know. All right. Yes, ma'am. Bye-bye. I've got a role, I've got a closing, but like, I would have went further with that conversation. I would have, like, I kind of ended it kind of quick. I would have kept going, you know, and kept getting talking and getting to know her a little bit. And just so you guys know, I just kind of cut it kind of short. But you see what happened there. I got the email address. And I didn't ask them if they wanted to buy or sell, right? It's different, right? I'm approaching them differently. That's going to stand out to them. And then if I were to want to still have Scott's client, I could call them. I'm going to send a weekly email every week on the same day forever, like I have since 07, and develop a relationship. So that's it. I need to thank you the most. I've got you two leads coming in. My wife is having her first closing as a real estate agent. We got closings on the same day at the same time. She just pulled up to the top of company. Check this out. You excited? Yes. The closing is going on right now, and I'm not in there. This is how I like to roll. All right, I got to get, I got to get back. Interview. A lot of people are on their way. I got to go. Oh, okay. Bye. How's it going? Going well. Yeah. Are you excited? No. No. Yes. Yeah. You're nervous, excited. I'll have time for this. Look, guys, here's the thing. Closings are happening every single day.  So there's no excuse for why you can't do business. Like the business is there. The problem is you're not making phone calls. You're not calling people. You're not talking to people. You're not having conversations. And if you are having conversations, you're not having enough conversations. If you're not having the amount of closings you want to have. But yeah, incredible phone session. We've got it all on tape. I'll put it on YouTube next week or sometime. And you guys reach out with questions. Much love to you guys. I'm going to finish the week strong. I hope you guys do the same. We'll talk to you soon. Yeah, 669. I'd have to call the owner. You know, you can't rent in there. So it's just a second home. Are your people looking, are your people looking to rent? Okay. Okay. Cool. I just have to call the owner.  Homeowners insurance, you know, the way they have it, they're going to keep that active until they move out, which they said that they actually should be out maybe that next day, you know, because we'll have the clear, we'll have the clear to close and we'll know for sure that we're closing ahead of time, what day and stuff. And they're already going to have boxes packed up and stuff. So I don't see them being in there more than maybe 24 to 48 hours. But yeah, we're good on all that. They're going to keep all that active and they're going to pay that $50 deal. We can just leave that other addendum as part of the deal. If you want to do, if that makes you guys feel better. A lot of cold calls with all the agents of remix of Orange Beach are a lot of the agents that come to the training sessions that my broker does. So that's going to be fun. I'm going to do a couple live cold calls. I'm just going to ask for a phone number from anybody like give me a phone number.  Going to go show some stuff. Then I got the zero diamond podcast today. I got a chase mayor on the show. He's, uh, he's kind of like, uh, maybe a four year agent out of California and doing really super well. So that's going to be good. Bill is not there. Portside's vacant. Like, and a partridge in a pear tree, like tons of stuff. Okay. What is up guys? So here's the deal. My guest this week, chase mayor, he didn't have a good internet connection. So he, he couldn't join us. We tried a couple times and it just didn't work out. So um, I'm just going to do a live Q and a coaching session right here and now, uh, on the fly for everybody. Um, I just went, you know, switched to free for all my coaching. So that was about a week or so ago. And so I'm sure there's a lot of new people in the program. So I don't mind going live a little more frequently, just to answer everybody's questions and stuff. Cause I do get a lot of emails and a lot of messages and it's really hard to get to every single last one of them. So I feel like this is a good way for me to, uh, you know, to just reach back out to you guys and answer questions and what's up guys on Instagram and just make sure you guys are getting taken care of and have all your questions answered. Uh, let's see, you got a question on Instagram. I noticed you do a lot of showings. Do you prefer those over open houses? Don't do a lot of open houses. And here's the reason why open houses just aren't like a big thing in my market. If I was in a market where open houses was like a must and everybody, you know, all the, and I started losing listings because I'm not doing open houses, then I would absolutely start doing open. I would be the open house king. Jimmy Kim, is there a way to do one on one with you? Uh, yeah. I mean, I'm not, I'm not like, I'm open to it. I'm not like offering it publicly at all.  This is my way. This is my system to do it this way, do it for free, give you guys everything I got for nothing and, you know, teach you guys everything I know. And that way, if I'm, if I'm doing it for free, there's not a lot of expectations on each side. I can give you everything I got. And if you don't like it, then it's like, okay, it's free, right? So you can take a lot of what I do, mix it up with what you do and go crush it. You can take everything I do and do it to a T and go crush it. You know, you can learn everything that I got and say, I don't like any of it and go away. But here's the difference. Zero diamond is, is a mindset, right? It's a mindset that everything in real estate is a win-win. You have dual purpose, have more than one purpose for everything you do. Um, value, uh, relationships over transactions every single time you want long-term relationships, whatever agent has the most relationships with property owners owns all the market share in that, in that market, period. All of your goals should be action-oriented. I'm going to make this many calls. I'm going to send this many letters. I'm going to do this much Facebook stuff. I'm going to do this many postcards. I'm going to do this many emails. I'm going to do email every week. I'm going to do phone calls three times a week, whatever it is. Your goal should be focused around actions, not results, because you can't control the results.


This study examined the quality of reporting on spending related to external consultants and contractors in New Zealand's 20 District Health Boards, DHBs. The study found that spending had increased over time but the quality of reporting had decreased. The study identified several key areas where improvements could be made, including inconsistencies in reporting requirements from the Health Select Committee and discrepancies between reported figures and those obtained through official information requests. These findings suggest that there is room for improvement in the quality of reporting on external consultant and contractor expenditure in New Zealand's DHBs. This article was authored by Adeel Akmal, Robin Gowld, and Aaron Peno.