How can global collaboration help fight disease and illness? And what are the limitations of global projects? Those are kind of core questions you might want to be thinking about as we talk today about the Millennium Development Goals and global health. So in doing this, I think maybe I should first explain kind of what the history behind all of this is. First of all, we'll talk about the time before the Millennium Development Goals. Before these kind of came out, they came out in around the year 2000 although they kind of been in the works before that. Before that, organizations all sort of had their own goals and their own ideas. So you had small organizations and big organizations and tiny organizations and they were all sort of going off in one direction or another. So these guys were working in this direction, these were going this way, often they weren't very well connected and were often sort of chasing lots of different types of goals. And what the Millennium Development Goals tried to accomplish were to sort of bind these people together. So say these organizations can work together and build these guys together. We also want to get them all thinking about moving their goals all sort of in a common direction. Get everybody sort of on the same page so we're all going this way. And we'll do this by establishing goals. So this was done at a conference in 2000 and it was a big global conference called the Millennium Summit. And at that time, the world was really looking to establish a better pattern for development. And the Millennium Development Goals were eight things that sort of came out of the UN project that had kind of been bumping around for a while. And these eight goals became the core of the Millennium Project. Now these goals are also sort of divided up into targets and all sorts of other things with a lot more sort of complicated machinery inside of these goals. But the idea behind them was to create something that was sort of a kind of like a campaign statement towards certain goals. So instead of saying this is how we're going to do it specifically, they just established these sort of eight non-binding sort of ideas that they wanted to do. So non-binding is kind of important here. That means that by agreeing to work on these goals, nobody was sort of legally entering themselves or no country was legally entering themselves into some sort of obligation that they had to do it. It was basically an ethical approach to the whole thing. So it was an ethical call to say we have a problem, folks. There's a lot of poverty in the world and there are a lot of problems with development and we need to think about these things and we need to kind of put ourselves, put our heads together and think about what we can do about this. The big thing that are sort of like looking back on it now that is really different about these goals than things before it is that they really kind of emphasize capacity building and on the human level. So we're thinking now about health, for example. Health is a really important one and we're thinking too about education and we're also thinking about incomes. So they kind of wanted to find ways to create sort of an environment in which people in the developing world can build their own future and build their own sort of luck in a way and make a better go at it in a world that at the time and still is changing every day. What were these goals? Well, there were set eight of them and three of them directly had to do with healthcare and one of them sort of indirectly has to do with it or actually all of them really have to do with it indirectly. So those three that are sort of directly related start with number four which is about childhood mortality. Let's see here, child mortality. You also had maternal health, so here we'll put maternal health and you had diseases, so HIV, AIDS, malaria, and other. And so these are the three goals that are directly related up with them sort of with this pink line here. They're directly related to health. Child mortality was goal number four. The maternal health was goal number five and HIV and AIDS, malaria, all these sort of things were goal number six. Goal number one was about hunger and income. So I'm going to put that actually as one of our sort of health sort of related ones because hunger is a very major issue in the developing world. So these eight goals, between one and four there was also universal education and gender equality between seven and going on from six there was seven was about sustainable environment which obviously relates back to health and then global partnerships which also relate back to health because a lot of the global partnerships that have arisen in that time since then have been around healthcare. So that's a pretty good development in a way. Now these three sort of health related goals though were chosen for a good reason and why they would have done this is if you take a look for example let's start with child mortality. So every year about 7.6 million children per year are dying under the age of five. So I'm going to put U5 for under five. And that is a very high number especially because two-thirds are preventable and preventable for with very little money and resources. It's pretty staggering if you think about it. And if you go back to the mid-90s or early 90s the number was around 10 or 12 million which there has been a reduction. So if you take a look at what's happened over time with this number you kind of got your graph and over time that number is sort of falling and maybe someday we want to be down around here. So we've still got quite a ways to go but this movement down towards lower numbers has been in big part because of the global partnerships that have happened or so global we'll call it the global effort. It's been a very big part in dropping this number. Maternal health is also a really big one. If you are a woman in a country that has a developed health care system or has a well-developed health care system your chance of dying in childbirth is somewhere around 20 in 10,000. If you live in a country with an undeveloped health care system or a poor health care system your chances of dying are 830 in 10,000. Take a look at that and just imagine how many more letters of magnitude that is. That's a lot. The goal with the specific goal, one of the targets of this was to cut mortality by 3 fourths from the number in 1990 and to provide some sort of universal reproductive health care which doesn't look like that's going to happen in a lot of places but there has been great steps towards this sort of goal. Actually, thinking about this number down here with the death rate if you take a look at the death rate for child mortality over here you're actually 70 times more likely to die as under the age of 5 in a country like Chad than you are in, for example, Sweden. So these numbers here, this number of sort of this rate that you're seeing of death compared to the developed world is not just for mothers, it's also for children and it's also for people over here in number 6 although these diseases haven't hit developed countries in the way that they've hit undeveloped countries or underdeveloped countries in the same way. Alright, so let's go take a look then at HIV AIDS and malaria. Well, these right here, especially at that time, were climbing out of control. HIV AIDS was really at that time growing and growing.  Malaria, however, is still remaining pretty consistent although it has taken a little bit of a hit because of efforts from the outside. But all of these sort of indicators, so hunger, child mortality, maternal health and HIV AIDS and malaria were all chosen because they in part are really holding back in their own way, holding back the economies and the development possibilities of all of these countries. So if you take a look at the numbers, if you kind of look at these things as a group they're responsible for a large, large, large part of why countries are having such a hard time moving forward and becoming sort of economically independent and more viable. And that obviously trickles down into the lives of the individual people in those societies. So by getting rid of these sort of barriers and sort of the things that are holding people back from really succeeding in life well then maybe development is more possible. So these goals are very important to the overall idea of development around the world. So now the question is, have the Millennium Development Goals really accomplished what they had tried to achieve? Let's just take, for example, we've got three big countries here, sort of contributors. Let me go out all these small countries. One of the main critiques about the Millennium Development Goals is that they've sort of propagated or sort of put forward something that was already happening already before they were established which is that many countries had sort of pet projects. They had one or two countries that they were sort of feeding already. The Millennium Development Goals has just sort of made these countries stronger so they've all kind of had some sort of benefit from them. The whole set of countries that really have remained outside of the development project or the sort of development sort of scheme and so these countries, these ones that I've marked and read here haven't really received as much aid as their neighbors in some cases or as the non-allies of these countries they haven't been as sort of favored in the whole process and they have therefore not developed as quickly as the others. There's a whole class of countries that have really seen huge growth. You've seen many countries that have just kind of had like just flat economic growth and there are even some countries that are still sort of on their way down and if you look in a deeper sense, the deeper movements in the economy, many countries are actually a part of that sort of downward movement. But that's one sort of aspect. One of the maybe the more positive ones is that the Millennium Development Goals did a great job of sort of grouping organizations that were already interested in development and sort of putting them off in one direction or another. The great thing about having eight very flexible goals is that you can have organizations like for example the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation with lots of international money and they say, okay, these are the things that we're funding and sort of by subject has gone through and funded projects that have sort of been grouped by these foundations and organizations and sort of sent them all off in the direction of the Millennium Development Goals and that's been really great for development as sort of as a whole. They've seen things like, especially with let's say for example, malaria has gotten a lot, a big boost in sort of its visibility around the world and it's gotten a lot more money than it would have without them. You also had HIV and also initiatives like education have all been sort of profited from the Millennium Development Goals in a pretty big way. Now the question is what's the future look like and the future of the Millennium Development Goals it ends in 2015. So if you're watching this after 2015 then you already know what's happened to the Millennium Development Goals. I sitting here in 2012 don't know what's going to happen to them. There is talk at this moment about there being some sort of sustainable development goals being established and so they would basically take the Millennium Development Goals fold them into the first sort of perspective and then add a few more. So similar to these eight goals you'd have another new set of goals and goal number one might be to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals finally. So we'll see if that happens. At this moment the Millennium Development Goals from my seat here in 2012 are not going to be accomplished in many countries by 2015 but a lot of progress has been made and so the question is has this been good? Well it's been good and bad. It's accomplished a lot of great things and there have also been a lot of disappointments. So global collaboration, well I guess that is sort of a matter of viewpoint whether you think it's been good or bad but in general I would say that it's definitely brought more attention to these issues. It's definitely also established a set of goals that are common around the world that everyone understands as being important and that is definitely important to something like development that really is a global project. Alright so that was our lesson about the Millennium Development Goals and health. You can check out more lessons about development and health and lots of other things at alversity.org.


Good day fellow investors. Buffett always says that we have to invest in great businesses. So an emerging market, tall road, I think is a great business. It has a moat, nobody's going to build another road next to you because that's crazy. Then it charges all the people that go around and there is more and more cars being bought in emerging markets, more people, so the growth is there. So is it a great business? Well that's what we discuss in this video. In addition to that it might also be cheap to find such a business. Look at this. So this is Jiangsu Expressway. It's a company that currently really dropped in its price and it's back to 2015 August levels, 2016 January levels when everybody was so scared about China recession slowing down etc etc. So this might be and again a buying opportunity like it was back then. This is what we'll focus. We'll analyze this stock really in detail to give you an overview of what can be found in emerging markets, perhaps great businesses at a great price. Now I have a friend of mine who has his own hedge fund. He started it to manage his own money because he hates banks. When you have dozens of millions those fee that investment banks charge really are big and he hates that so he started his own hedge fund and he's looking for these smaller niche companies that have a big mode, growth, long-term mode, good dividends that really are gems in your portfolio. And a few of them every year I think he has 20 his portfolio really create long-term sustaining wealth and growth. And he told me Sven look at Chinese toll roads there might be something interesting for your YouTube videos. And then I said okay I'll look into it. He has sent me a lot of data so it's a big process that I have to do but this is something that I want to discuss and you will get this in this video. So today the topics covered will be the analysis of a sector short one Chinese toll roads that I will give you a list of all Chinese toll road investment opportunities. We will analyze Jiangsu Expressway, complete analysis, present value of earnings deep dive into the company, the risks of investing through and analyzing the company of course, present value comparing to the stock price, total deep analysis and then we'll give just a quick conclusion on investing in toll roads in China. So let's start with toll roads in China, the environment. China has more than 70% of the world's toll roads. They really invested a lot in infrastructure of course for a growing country. On a macro level things are really simple. The number of cars has been increasing in China will continue to increase because more economic growth means more cars, more people will grow and this is where China is. It is around $15,000 per capita household price parity consumption and the number of cars per thousand motor vehicles per thousand people is at around 154. So look at how much still China has to grow to reach developed countries. When that happens there will be more cars on roads, thus more toll collecting fees. So plenty of room to grow, emerging market, what do we want more? These are the Chinese toll road stocks, Jiangsu, Zeyang, Sichuan, Angyu, Shenzhen, Huayu, China Communications, Arcai, Guangdong Expressway, Qixiu, Transport etc. Completely pronounced those wrongly but here is the list. You can also read this on my stock market research platform, download the report if you prefer reading. The links is in the description below. Just a note here on the three companies with low ad-air prices, stock prices in Asia are usually lower so don't think these are penny stocks, these are just normal Asian priced stocks. Let's dig it into Jiangsu Expressway traded over the counter as an ad-air in the United States, Hong Kong and I think on a stock exchange in China. So you can buy it wherever you prefer. As said the stock price is recently subdued perhaps to what's going on with the trade war, everybody is expecting less economic activity and selling the stock. There is another reason for that, we'll see that later. A look at their numbers will give us a fair indication of what kind of business we are talking about. Revenues doubled in the last 10 years, row one, the red number, that's great business. Gross margins are 50% row two, which leads to high operating income, row three, 50% that's huge. The duct of the interest cost depreciation taxes and you get to net profit margin, row four of 36%, extremely high, talking about a good business. This leads turning per share of 14.79, remain in this case, 56% of that is currently paid out as dividends and the book value has been constantly rising in this case, row eight and the dividend ratio has declined a little bit, which means it can go higher because they are really investing in growth and new opportunities at the moment. The free cash flow is now negative but usually is around what three, five billion renminbi which is higher than the net income because here you have to account for depreciation or better to say amortization in this case because those are concessions. So that is not a cash expense but lowers net income but gives more cash available for the company. So higher cash flows than earnings. Don't focus on earnings, focus on cash flows, lines nine and ten in this case. Just look at the numbers. Price earnings is low 11, 11.45, the dividend is 5.55% but as I said focus on the cash flows which are even higher. What we are somewhere at around seven, price two cash flow. The value of the company lies in its toll rows and there are many, some are around 100%, some are just equity stakes. Then there are also growing, they are investing in the Wu-Feng Shan toll bridge, then the North-South approach, Expressway, Zhendan Expressway, Changi, I don't know, so a lot of investments which will include in the business model and earnings model later. Therefore capital expenditures are high. In 2017 we were at 7.8 billion renminbi, we are expecting something similar for 2018. However the growth also comes from a higher number of cars. In the Jiangsu province there have been 16 million cars in 2017 representing an increase of 1.8 million vehicles over the year. That's 12.99% in the growth of vehicles. So imagine when more economics, more traveling, more people does a lot more money for the toll road. Great business, no? The revenue contributors are clearly explained. Biggest revenue contributor is Shanghai Nanjing Expressway that contributes 51% of the revenue. However there are also risks. There are something that they are doing with their state-owned company, so there might not be always economical logic behind what they do. They invest in ancillary businesses to develop and they want to develop them more. Ningu Investment, they invested 900 million. They tentatively set footprints in areas such as finance, quasi-finance and emerging industries. That's something for example that I don't really like. Further they have about 2.2 billion in inventory on the balance sheet which comes from real estate investments. Also they are mixing their oranges and apples, not really convinced. Further they invest 2.2 billion in wealth management products with an interest rate of around 3% while their short-term loans have an interest of around 4%. This is such a great intelligent thing to do. Then something very important, BlackRock, JP Morgan are also invested and they own 4% of the company. This for me represents a huge risk but also an opportunity because when people are scared about China emerging markets they start dumping those ETFs and those index funds are forced to dump the stock. On a shallow market on an emerging market there is nobody to buy and then the stock drops like you have seen it drop in the chart that I show have shown you before. This is a risk or better to say an opportunity. And now let's go to the main concern that I prefer it would be different but as it is I have to calculate what is there. The main concern is that the concessions on tall roads eventually expire so that those are limited assets and not unlimited growth assets unfortunately. So you can build a road and then charge tall on it for a set amount of years between 25 and 35 in China. They don't disclose what is the concession per road in the annual report so I have calculated their concession balance is around 30 billion their amortization is around 1.12 billion for all the roads which means that as the opening book value in 2017 was 20.6 billion it gives me that at the current amortization rate they still have 16 years on average to use the tolls to the concessions on the tall roads they have built. So cash flow analysis has to include 16 years of future cash flows unfortunately not more than that. I have also checked big deeper just the biggest revenue contributor the shanghai naijing expressway has seen amortization of 600 million and minbi on prior year assets of 12 billion that's 19 years for the major con 19 years for the major contributor which is good. Then there are growth project estimations bufengshan toll bridge that we already mentioned they own 64 percent of it zhen dan expressway 70 percent etc etc I see there an investment of the company of about 10 billion they leverage it 60 percent which means the equity investment will be let's say 5 billion they have a return on equity of 16 percent so if I if kept that return should lead to 800 million in additional net profit for the long term this is what I will put in my model so let's look at stock valuation I always use a 15% discount rate that's my required rate of return I assume 5% growth from the traffic growth inflation etc 16% return on equity on the investment and a 16 year average concession on the current operating assets 25 on the new coming assets put it in all the model you can also download it it on my research platform I get to a some present value of 7.6 remain before the operating assets and a present value of 6.25 for the growth assets total present value 14.6 stock price is 8.67 does the reason this count of 36% however let's look at the risk currency devaluation risk it's present there is a 50% chance for a 30% devaluation according to kyle bass so that's a 15% drop slow down slow down in china 10% drop competition from trains air 5% drop let's say slower future growth I have calculated not 5 by 2% from 2022 onwards that's 4% drop in the stock price black rock or jp morgan selling 20% potential drop in the stock price so that's a 54% cumulative risk which lowers my present value to a buy range of 7.34 which means that for me the stock is now overvalued by 15% if it drops there then it might be a buy and this is exactly the methodology I will use to analyze all the others toll roads in China to perhaps find some real undervalued gem that is not owned by black rock or jp morgan so if you like this analysis check my stock market research platform there will plenty more as for investing this one I will analyze lots of Chinese stocks and then we'll put it all in a risk reward model and see whether it is best for now it looks like a great investment you will get around 10 13% definitely relatively surely over the long term within accounting for the risks thank you for watching looking forward to your comments


Do you let? How are you doing, man? I'm good. Pub's in London? Yeah. When are you heading over? Tomorrow. Tomorrow? Okay. Let me know how it is. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you a floored book. I have a floored book for you.  Yeah, I think it's been good. You know, I thought the start to this morning was good. We just finished up walkthrough. You know, I thought the energy and the attention to detail was good. We need to keep that up the remainder of the week and, you know, get ourselves ready to go play a complete game this coming Sunday. And, you know, I think we're off to a good start. You have three, seven, four yards, four touchdowns. Coach said you all are making progress week to week. Are you feeling that progress? And then what can y'all do to continue that progress in this game? Yeah, I do think we've made strides. I think we still have a long way to go and can be a lot better than we've been up until this point. And I think what we have to continue to do is, you know, continue to become more detailed, more consistent for four quarters, and continue to play with really good energy. I think the effort and the energy has been good. I think, you know, if we can improve our detail and, you know, make sure we're on top of our assignments, I think we can continue to get better. What do you say to Jeff's defense? I think they're playing hard. You know, you look at what they're doing. I think on the defensive side of the ball, they've played pretty well. And, you know, it's a front four and a linebacker crew that, you know, does a great job both versus the run in the past. I think they've done really well on third downs. They've been, you know, effective in terms of pressure and playing tight man coverage and, you know, just being really good in third down situations. So I've been impressed, you know, watching them the first couple of days. And with Jeff O'Brien and Mark von Manuel over there on that staff, the two defense coordinators from here, what do they know about you from practice that they're going to try to kill their players? I don't know. I mean, they know me well for sure. I know both those guys really well and have, you know, a ton of respect for both of them. I really, you know, enjoyed being around both of them while they were here. You know, Brick was obviously here longer. And, you know, I feel like I had a great relationship with him. So I think I don't know what they're telling their guys about me, but I know I'm telling, you know, our guys that they'll have their guys ready to play and play hard and play with great effort. And that's shown up, you know, on the tape. I was fortunate. I played on a team that ran the football really well. And, you know, that helps quite a bit. You know, when you're coming into the league, you can turn around and hand the ball off to Mike Turner. And he was as effective as he was that year. So there were ups and downs for sure in my rookie year. But I think having that running in, you know, certainly helped me out. What advice do you give to them?  I think that, you know, I was very lucky and fortunate to have Mike Smith as a head coach who did a great job of kind of keeping it insular for me. Mike Malarkey and Bill Musgrave, you know, two coaches as an offensive coordinator and quarterback coach who did a, you know, great job of taking a lot of things off my plate. And so I do think, you know, as much as you can, keeping it pretty simple and keeping it basic. You know, it was good advice not only for a rookie, but, you know, for guys in their 12th, 13th, 14th year too. I think, you know, you go back to the basics over and over and over and try and do those things really well. I think, you know, in the running game, we've got to do a good job of getting our backs into the second level.  And then all of a sudden, if you continue to get to that second level, you know, the big ones hit. And so all 11 of us have to do our part. You know, we've got to do a great job on the backside of runs, on the outside blocking DBs and making sure we're getting hats on hats just given the back one or two guys to run off of. And, you know, there's opportunities for it. I think we can really do it. And we're going to continue to work towards it. But if we can continue to get our backs to the second level and finish on the outsides and on the backsides of plays, I think that's going to help us out. Yeah. I do, you know, I think at times early in the season, we've won the ball, you know, very effectively. I think it's, you know, it's similar to our offense in general. We just have to, you know, be more consistent for four quarters.  I think that's probably the biggest challenge.  You know, it's, it's, it's unique week. It's fun. It kind of changes up the, you know, routine for us and kind of gives you a little bit of energy that way. But you can't let it distract you from, you know, getting locked in and making sure that you're ready to go. Yeah, I can sleep. I got, you know, I can sleep pretty much anywhere. So that's a good, that's a good quality that I do have. So yeah, I'll get some rest on that flight over and get moving on Friday. The situation that compared to years past, but is there any part of the London part of this that you look forward to taking part of? We're there such a short time. You know, I think it's, and we're staying, you know, pretty far outside the city. So for me, it'll be about getting locked in, you know, for our plan and getting my body right.  No one's really been able to travel for the last, you know, two years. So it's a good, you know, chance for some people to kind of recharge their batteries and see some things. So if guys choose to do that and that fuels their fire, I think that's good. Have you heard of any groups? I haven't heard any of that yet. I was just curious kind of what you see in that part of them. Yeah, I think, you know, whether they're running games, you know, which is, you know, guys lining up in certain spots and crossing and then kind of wrapping around and trying to pick you or do different things that way. I think they do a nice job with that. They match that up with then just penetrating and pinning their ears back in Russian. So I think it's a good mix of the two. The thing to me is I think they play with great effort. And it continues to show up on third down. They do a really good job of staying on the same page. If it's a penetrating call, they all penetrate. If it's a game call, they all kind of play in sync and they're well coached that way. Yeah, I think we need to do a great job, you know, up front of making sure that, you know, when we're in our slide protections and we got, you know, certain things going that, you know, when you feel guys go away, have the expectation that somebody is going to be coming back to you and make sure that we're really good in our sets. And that's certainly something we stress every week. But when you're going against a team that does it really well, you have to be on point. And how has the process changed from you, like early on, to your career to now? I think early on you wing it.  I think now I think it's, you know, making a point of emphasis earlier in the week to go to bed earlier, make sure you're getting up much earlier, trying to, you know, slowly get your body clock acclimated.  And then, you know, having gone overseas a couple of times personally, I think, you know, kind of having a feel for what works for me when I get there, staying up, moving around and kind of pushing myself through that first day. You usually feel pretty good after that. And that's, you know, the space I'll stay in, which I just didn't know that at 22, 23. I'm just going to say, as far as like, how are you going to be able to, how do you feel you're going to be able to help the younger guys who've never been older before?  So let's learn from others' mistakes and, you know, trust the program and the process that they've set up for us. I think our support staff has done a really good job of educating us on what we need to do to be at our best for this trip. Yeah, of course. You know, we're trying. Is there a place that you would either want to go play in the world or, you know, ever thought about it? Matt, it would be really cool to play a game there. I mean, there's a lot of cool places that would be interesting to go play.  I've been to, you know, a bunch of different places in Europe, which are really cool. I've never been to Ireland and it's crazy, you know, my entire lineage is basically all Irish. So it's the one place I have not been. So that would be pretty cool to go there. But, you know, there are a lot of cool places to go visit.  There you go. Yeah, Dublin. There we go. B.C. played over there a number of years ago. I think it was against Tech. And it was pretty cool to watch out. One, what do you remember about the trip? I played at Wembley Stadium in the top hand. Secondly, we spoke to Darren Heels earlier. And obviously the Atlanta United Amps, people do know the Falcons over there. It's kind of neat to have to go over there and kind of already be exposed to kind of the people that people may know who the Falcons are. Yeah, it is. It is a cool connection and, you know, something that it's a unique experience. It really is. I think playing at Wembley, you know, 2014 and, you know, just seeing the game day vibe, it's very different than it is over here. And so it's a unique experience and fun as a player.    And then when we get our chances, you know, just go make them and let it rip. And we've done, you know, a nice job at times. I think we can just do a better job of doing it a little bit more consistently. You know, but I'm a big, I'm a big believer in process. You know, I'm a big believer in process. You know, I'm a big believer in process and practicing and working towards it. And, you know, drawing your confidence from that. And I think our guys also have that mindset.  And eventually, you know, it's going to, it's going to click and we're going to start making those plays. And we just got to continue to work at it. And I think that's the right place outside of the United States. That some has a quarter that, of course, some fans, even some media just may not be there. What is the, what would you say is the difference between playing there and playing there? Um, it's just the atmosphere feels different, you know, and it's kind of a constant buzz, you know, of noise, which is a little more like their football over there, where it's just a little more consistent. Whereas, you know, when you're here, you're up and down and up and down. And so, that part was different, at least for me in, in 2014. Um, and that's, I've only done it once. So that would be, that would be the biggest difference, I would say. Well, Prince has been a guy that has been able to just, you know, be versatile, office-of-hand. What does this say about Prince and how does that relationship be in the quarterback room? Yeah, I think Felipe's done a great job for us. Um, he's, he's got a lot of talent. Uh, and, you know, he's big and physical and can help our football team in a lot of ways. And, you know, I respect his willingness and, and effort to go do some things he might not have done in the past. And, and, you know, I think that's going to pay dividends for us. His versatility is going to pay dividends for us. But he's been great. I mean, he's worked, he's worked extremely hard from the moment he's been here. And, I've been impressed with that. Hey, Matt, this is a bi-week next week. How important is it because in Atlanta, it's supposed to be great to see some new stuff, but you're there to try to get away the mindset of getting away before or by and coming back first, you know, about that. It beats the alternative. You know, it, it definitely beats the alternative. So, I mean, I really think, you know, I've always tried to have that same mindset every week. That it's, you have to get the job done this week. And, and you've got to yourself in that same level of preparation you know every week and I do think though there's there's momentum that you can build into certain weeks you know with a win and and that's certainly the case with the bye week is you know you can build some momentum get some rest and try and carry that momentum when you come back fresh you know afterwards so like every week it's it's really important and we need to you know do what we can to get the job done so the the the idea with the tide campaign is to switch to cold water washing which is good you know number one for the environment it reduces emissions but also number two it saves you money which is great but the idea was to get a group of cold collars and so I got the nickname Maddie ice from when I was 14 and the nickname finally paid off you know I've had it for you know 20 plus years and I finally got in on it right and so it was it was pretty cool this summer I got to shoot a commercial with Stone Cold Steve Austin and iced tea and it was one of the highlights of my summer it was really cool day getting to know those guys I never thought though that that that would be a part of what I was doing but it was it was really cool to partner up with them I appreciate it I appreciate it thank you I thought he did some nice things he had a few nice runs for us I think there's a lot of room for him to improve and to build on but he's got some explosiveness a good feel for hitting the hole and getting vertical so I've been impressed with him I really have and you know we'll see you know what his role is for us moving forward but I thought he did a pretty nice job you know in his first opportunity for us I think we're you know I think we're still coming together you know as a group and you know we're getting to that point at different points in my career it's been one guy at some points it's been two you mentioned Devonte he did some great things for us but we had a nice punch one to punch with Tevin as well during that time both those guys provide it you know different styles to a certain extent but both provided energy for our football team and I really think that's kind of the group that we have right now guys that when their numbers call they can go in and provide energy for a team whether it be CP Mike or Wayne I think all those guys can do a nice job for us thank you guys appreciate it


Hello everyone, this is Alice Gao. In this video, I will discuss some properties of the Q learning algorithm Thinking about Q learning, the first thing that comes to your mind. Maybe our version of Q learning learns Q of SA instead of V of S This distinction is not important It's straightforward to write an equivalent Q learning algorithm for learning the V values instead Q learning is a model-free algorithm since it does not require us to learn the transition probabilities. In contrast ADP is a model-based algorithm Because of this, Q learning requires much simpler computation than ADP Q learning is not guaranteed to converge to the optimum Q values However, if the agent explores enough then Q learning learns an approximation of the optimum Q values How good is this approximation? Can we improve it? We can improve the convergence by adjusting the learning rate alpha The smaller alpha is, the closer it will converge to the optimum Q values, but the slower it will converge This makes intuitive sense. If alpha is small, the magnitude of each update is small We would be adjusting the Q values very slowly and very cautiously until they converge Let's compare ADP and Q learning. They're both reinforcement learning algorithms, but they're different in some significant ways Number one, does the algorithm require the agent to learn the transition probabilities? ADP is model-based and requires the agent to learn the transition probabilities Q learning is model-free and does not need to learn the transition probabilities Number two, how much computation is performed per experience? Comparing the two, ADP requires more computation per experience After receiving every experience, ADP tries to maintain the consistency in the utility values by adjusting them using the Bellman equations On the other hand, Q learning performs a simple update based on the observed transition only It does not try to keep the Q values consistent between neighboring states. As a result, Q learning requires less memory and computation time Number three, how fast does the algorithm learn? ADP typically converges faster than Q learning Q learning learns slower and shows much higher variability In general, a model-based algorithm like ADP is more efficient in terms of experience They require fewer experiences to learn well That's everything on the properties of the Q learning algorithm. Let me summarize After watching this video, you should be able to do the following Describe some properties of Q learning Explain some differences between ADP and Q learning Thank you very much for watching. I will see you in the next video. Bye for now


Hey everyone, it's Gabrielle with Oxmer Audit Group. I'm here today at Oxmer Toyota. I have Chuck here with me. Hey guys.  This is a Toyota Highlander. It's limited, but this is the hybrid. The hybrid limited, yes. So Toyota, the pioneer of the hybrid vehicle, and this thing's no exception. Not only getting a three-row SUV that's a hybrid vehicle, but this one comes with safety standards. So you have Toyota Safety Sense P, so this is a multi-millimeter wave radar. You've got a camera up here in the dash. It's gonna give you pre-collision, pedestrian detection, dynamic radar cruise control, lane departure alert, automatic high beams. All those cool safety features are standard on this.  Again, that kind of mileage. These are usually closer to 20. Yeah. So it's a big improvement. And then not just the gas mileage, the performance, the reliability that you come to expect from a Toyota, but the luxury, too, because this is limited, as you said. So it's heated and ventilated seats. So it can blow cold air or warm air, you know where. And you also have the power adjustable seat. You have navigation, XM radio. You have all the cool features in there like that. You have the automatic dimming rear view mirror. Yeah. That's nice. It's just, and this is that saddle color leather. You got the captain's shares in the back, the third row. I mean, you're riding in style, a lot of luxury, a lot of cool, cool features on this car. But yeah, people, when they think big SUV, three rows, all of that, they don't think hybrid. They don't think fuel efficiency. And this car does this. It's the biggest in its class, highest in its class. All-wheel drive. You get powered all four tires. You can drive it any season and save. Right. Yeah. On the gas mileage. It's fantastic. You can't go wrong with that. No. All right. Well, thank you, Chuck. Yeah. All right, guys. If you have any questions, if you'd like to stop in, take this vehicle or any others for a test drive. Let us know. Best phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Also, check out our new Express Store on the website at oxmertwayota.com. Thanks, guys. We'll see you all soon. Bye, guys. Bye.


Cyanide for dinner. How are you doing? By the way, have we talked about the rich African who tried to buy the bird? I don't consider, for some reason I don't consider must to be an African, but he is South Africa, right? Yeah, we did a little bit. I personally think, look gang, I put out some videos on Alan Musk, right? Buying Twitter and stuff like this, controlled opposition. Is he serious about that? Personally for me Alan Musk is offering, what is it now? 41 billion, 51 billion for, I think 51 will be the price of Twitter stock if it's 41 billion he's offering. Now he's trying to bring a coalition of people to buy Twitter, right? If Alan Musk was serious about, right? More serious than he is now, if he's serious, right? Maybe, you know, people are saying he wants to bring back free speech on Twitter and stuff like this. I don't buy too much into that, right? But, if he really wanted to, just annihilate the sensors. Just annihilate the sensors, right? He would go to some of the new tech companies, right? And take some of those billions of dollars, wasted money. Just imagine paying 40 billion dollars for Twitter. You gotta, you gotta be, man, I got some cashews to sell you. This is my snack, what are the cashews to sell you? These are special Chichu cashews that are the most delicious cashews in the world, and they're 100 million dollars just for you, Alan. Just for you. Or you can go to the art art tech stores where I bought these things, they're better, right? You can pay five dollars for this, right? That's the price discrepancy here, right? He wants to, he wants to invest like 40 billion plus dollars, buy out of Twitter for 40 billion plus dollars, where if he took, let's say, 10% of that money, not even, but let's say 10%, 4 billion of that money and bought into some of the new tech platforms out there, from Rumble to get it, if that new tech will actually allow him to buy into them, right? Rumble, getter, mines, Gap, Bitchu, take four billion dollars, distributed along those platforms, new tech platforms, right? Twitter stock will go from right now sitting at 46 dollars at the one Musk stated that he was going to buy into it. There's already rumors coming up because it went from 33 to 41. It was a 41 and it popped up to like 52, peaked at 54, right? Family is going to buy puts for it then. 54, right? Peaked at 54, right? Now it's at 46, right? If Alan Musk takes four billion dollars and distributes it to the new tech platforms that are all, their foundation is free speech and there's a lot of them out there and they're amazing. Look at the growth, disclaimer, family has stocks in CFVI, that's a parent company of Twitter, of Rumble, right? If you look at how they're growing in terms of viewership, Rumble right now has went from nothing, right? In the last two years, right? One of the least visited websites or very few people visited two years ago, three years ago, to its number 600 website in the world being visited right now, right? Take four billion of that, distribute it along these free speech platforms. You would see their viewership, their readership go through the roof. If they're on the markets, their stocks would go up 10 fold and then you would see Twitter stock go from right now $46 down to $4.60. It would crumble 90 percent, maybe not 90, it would drop 50 percent within two days, three days, right? Because it would be the final nail in Twitter's coffin, done, right? At the same time Musk says, I'm off Twitter, I'm going to these platforms, that's where I'm going to be talking. I'm going to start making videos, I'm going to release an Rumble, but you don't notice it. Let's see what happens. If I was Elon Musk, I would do that.  And you would make that $4 billion 100 times over, especially if you buy puts for it.


Welcome to Sheboygan County Government, working for you. My name is Adam Payne, Sheboygan County Administrator and co-host of this program with Chairman Bill Gehring. And today we're pleased to highlight one of our departments that frankly is the largest department in Sheboygan County. With us today is Anne Wundergem, Director of the Health and Human Services Department. And she has a special guest with her, Milda Zingler. Milda is the new supervisor of the Aging and... Aging? Say it for me, Milda. Aging and Disability Resource Center. Thank you, Milda. That's why she's the supervisor. Anne's going to talk a little bit about the roles and responsibilities of the Health and Human Services Department. And then Milda's going to talk about this new area that is there to serve both aging individuals and folks with disabilities throughout Sheboygan County that really is a new initiative, an exciting initiative for Sheboygan County. Anne, why don't we start with you? Please tell us a little bit about some of the core services that the Health and Human Services Department provides. Well, I often say kind of in jest, we do it womb to tomb. In other words, we serve individuals while they're pregnant. And for people who financially need assistance, we assist with their burial and everything else in between. And that shows kind of the broad scope of what we do. But I think when I think about our primary areas, I look at public health where we provide vital services to the community and benefit everyone from hotel restaurant inspection to communicable disease control to nutrition programs. We also administer financial assistance programs for county residents so that we determine eligibility for medical assistance for food share. And we also operate the Wisconsin Works Program. And then of course, as you know, we provide services to children and families through protective services and juvenile justice. So we really look at that personal and public safety issue in terms of providing services. And we talked a little bit with the Aging and Disability Resource Center, our back end of that system, our long-term care system for our elders and people with disabilities who need services in their home to support them. And then last but not least, our behavioral health for individuals who are dealing with issues with mental health or substance abuse. So that kind of gives you a general overview of the breadth and scope of what we provide. And our services are many times based on eligibility and in other areas open to the general public, the residents of Sheboygan County. We could literally have you on probably every month of the year when I mentioned earlier that this is the largest department in Sheboygan County of our 23 departments. The Health and Human Services Department is the largest with over a $46 million budget. So a tremendous breadth and scope of program and services doing a lot of very important work in the community. And most recently, a new initiative came our way. And Milden now is the supervisor of the Aging and Disability Resource Center. You just had an open house. Yes, we did on Monday. And how'd that go? It went very well. We had approximately 80 people come through our doors and there was a nice variety of people. There was a nice representation by the boards, by board members. And we had providers from the community, people from different agencies that represent services to people. And then we had consumers, people who would be potential consumers also came through. And many county employees that know about us but hadn't been there to see the place. So they came through also. Now Milden, you've worked with the Health and Human Services Department for what, a little over eight years? Yes, eight years ago. And what's been your area of focus? I was an adult protective services specialist for eight years. And what I did is guardianship's protective placements, that court-related work. And then I also did abuse and neglect investigations. So during that time, I was able to interact with a lot of different populations of people, the elderly, developmentally disabled individuals, all adults. And also worked with lots of different consumers, service providers, and all the different units at Shboyton County Health and Human Services. So some good background to be the supervisor of the... What Milden did here, is that she also certified adult family homes. Very good. Well, now that you're a supervisor of the Aging and Disability Resource Center, I'm gonna try to say that 15 times during this program. And I know that this didn't just suddenly happen, that there's been a lot of discussion and planning that went into this. Please set the stage. How is it that this new approach came about, this little flavor for the planning? On a statewide basis, when there were pilot counties for family care, part of the family care process is an aging and disability resource center. So there were five pilot aging and disability resource centers located throughout the state. The state and federal government both agree that this is a good approach to delivering services. And Milden will talk a little bit more about how that delivery approach works. But the key point was, is the state wanted to expand this. And they looked at doing an additional nine to 10 pilots throughout the state. So we went through a competitive grant application process and applied for planning money about two years ago. And then we spent 12 months basically looking at our current system and how we could build on that and improve it to better integrate services to form the Aging and Disability Resource Center. Sheboyton County had a step up because we already were a Health and Human Services Department. So we could bring public health into the mix, which is a real key component. We already had aging as part of our department. So we had some of the necessary ingredients to really make this form and work. So then we were successful in writing the actual plan and submitted that to the state and got full funding for the new components in the system because there were three new components that we needed to bring in and then bring in our existing resources through our long-term care system, our aging unit and public health. So it's been a process that probably in Sheboyton County we were a few steps ahead and could build on the pluses that we had in our existing system. So folks have just joined us and now they've gotten a flavor for who you both are and the importance of the Health and Human Services Department. But they're hearing about this aging and disability resource center for the first time. Milda, what is it? What is it? We like to say it's a one-stop shopping. I mean, that's a little cliche that we use, but it's a central access point that people can come and obtain information about community resources, both public and private. It's for anyone, there's no eligibility requirement other than it's meant to be for people who are seniors and for adults with disabilities, particularly physical disabilities, developmental disabilities, mental health issues or substance abuse are the four that we address.  Our emphasis is really on having it be a welcoming environment and I'm hoping that when people came to our open house they found that environment welcoming when you got off the elevator it was pleasant and the idea that you go in and you're going to speak with someone when you come or if you call us you're always going to speak with a person, you're not going to be given an answering machine unless you specifically ask for someone that has their machine on at that time. But besides giving out information, we also attempt to assist people to get hooked up with the resources. Many times when people, you can give them the information say you need to call here and here but they really don't know how to make that connection and how to call and that's part of our job is that if that's what they need at that point we will assist them with that. Obviously we can't have all the information at our little fingertips so another part of it is that we will always tell people that we will research it a little further and get back to them with some more information if that's what they need. And a big part of what we hope to be doing down the road is more preventative. We would like people to think about what their long-term care needs might be like or what are their options for that in the future so that they'll come to us and get the information and start planning for those long-term care needs. Because as we all know, everyone usually wants to stay in their own home as long as possible and if we can give them that upfront information on how they can possibly do that a little longer, use their resources a little more wisely, let them be the one making those decisions I think the county will be better off for it and the individuals will be too. Excellent, excellent. Now when Chairman Gehring and I attended the open house the other day, the elevator doors opened up and we stepped out and there were people that greeted us and handed us chocolate and there were cookies available. Is that going to continue? Well, the one thing that we will have is our little magnets that have our name and our phone number on. We have those at the front desk now so anyone who does come in can get those and unfortunately we've always got a basket of candy there so you're always welcome to get one. Well it certainly is a nice environment and you've been open actually since July. July 1st we opened our doors. Now since July, anytime you start something new generally you see opportunities for improvement or things you want to do a little differently. Since you've opened your doors what are some of the changes that you've made? I'm hoping that one of the biggest changes initially is that we will improve communication between the departments that we work with and that we emphasize the importance of sharing information, working together as a team so that one person isn't feeling like I have to answer all these questions for this person or try to help them with their issues that we understand that we don't have all the answers and that we have coworkers and resources in the community to approach and get that information. And so little by little I feel that that is a change that has taken place that people are understanding that we're going to call and we're going to ask for information, we're going to talk to them, we're going to share resources and put our heads together. I do believe that we have been well received by the community of the providers that I'm used to working with, the nursing homes, the home healthcare agencies, service organizations. When they hear about what our goal is, what our purpose is, they've been very excited and very willing to cooperate with us. And you mentioned you had the open house and I know there's been some really nice articles in the Sheboygan Press and editorial the other day. If a viewer is watching this and wants to learn more about this or has a family member that they think would benefit from phoning the office or going to the office, how did they access this information? Okay, obviously a person can stop in any time they'd like between eight and five o'clock on the workdays, Monday through Friday and there will be someone there to talk to them. I guess I would recommend that someone call our office though instead to start with because number one, most of our interactions do take place over the phone. We can access the information and get it to them, we can send it to them, we can email people. So a lot of it gets taken care of over the phone. Also, if they call them, they have a specific issue and they need to talk to a particular staff, we would like them to call so we can set up an appointment and they're not wasting their time coming in. The other nice thing about the Aging and Disability Resource Center is that we are free and expecting to go out to people's homes. So if there's an individual especially with serving the whole county that is not physically able to get into our center or it's not convenient for them, they do not have transportation, our staff will go out to see them and share those resources with them in their home. Very good, and finally before turning it over to Bill, I have two grandmothers that live in Sheboygan County, both very strong-willed, independent ladies, one over 91 in her late 80s and living at home, again trying to be as independent as possible but getting at a point where they're needing some assistance. And as I think about the one-stop-shop that you've just discussed and the opportunity to share more readily information and help them make decisions, help them make choices, in the short period that we've had this open since July, without breaching any confidentialities, is there any example or analogy you could provide that would give folks a better flavor for just how this can really help people? I did think of that in preparation and there are a lot of little things that we have done for people that I think have made a big difference to them, but they seem small. But I did want to highlight one person in particular, a gentleman that was in the hospital, was coming out of the hospital and as you know, many times they need extended, some nursing care yet. And so one of the nursing organizations was going to be coming in a couple of times a week. And when they did, they were very concerned about this person's living conditions. He was living, he's on a fixed income, has little family, little or no family. His home is in disarray and very poor furniture, those kinds of things. Plus, he was having difficulty getting around in his apartment because he needed to use a walker or wheelchair and it wasn't happening. So they called us to get involved and we do the assessment on someone and found out that he would be potentially someone that we could serve, but at the present time are not able to do that, as you know. So our worker or the social worker was able to do a variety of things that helped him even though we didn't have, couldn't put him on the program. They assisted with getting him into low income housing so that meant working with the housing authority. Getting him into a place then that was more wheelchair accessible. We worked with places like St. Vincent de Paul, Salvation Army, to get him some different furniture that would be better for him and by moving him was able to keep the place clean and less cluttered. We were able to assist him with getting what's called medical assistance personal cares. In other words, he needed help with showering and things like that and we were able to hook him up with that program so that his medical assistance would pay for that. And then we were able to find some emergency money to help him move. So that's kind of in a nutshell the kind of thing we like to do is when someone calls us, try to coordinate those things for them and find out what's out there for them that we can get that need met at that time. Very good. Thank you. And I think the EDRC is a very great initiative and I think it will really help the residents of Sheboygan County. Having been on the Human Services Board for a number of years, I know that the Human Services Department has many, many programs that they do administer. The state continually changes things. Can you talk just a little bit about some of the changes that your department has gone through because of state mandates in the last couple of years? Absolutely. As a former board member, you know that what I talk about today could also change tomorrow. So you always have to put it in that context. As Milda is well aware, one of the big initiatives that we had this past year was working with Rocky Knoll in specifically Woodland Village in terms of the relocation of the residents from what was called the ICFMR, the Intermediate Care Facility for people with mental retardation. And I can say as of today other than two residents, everybody has been relocated into a community-based setting. And everyone is doing well. We've had some feedback both from the vendors and from the family members. And I think as you and Adam are both aware, some of the family members were very concerned. They were happy with the living situation at Rocky Knoll and really didn't want to see that relocation occur. And it's proved to actually be a better move for some individuals. Instead of living in a larger facility, living in smaller homes with three or four other people has really been beneficial to them. So that was an excellent example of a state initiative that caused some concern for people but in the long run has worked off very well both for the county and for the individuals. And I can't say enough about the staff both in the healthcare centers and our department that worked on that particular initiative. I think one of the things when Milda just talked about assisting someone because we have weightless for our long-term care, our back end of our system after the Agent and Disability Resource Center, the state has instituted what's called a community relocation initiative. And that particular program allows someone who has gone into the nursing home and has medical assistance funding to move back into the community. And the money that's funding them in the nursing home follows them back into the community and has proved an excellent resource for individuals who had no other choice but to move into the nursing home because they're entitled to that Medicaid reimbursement now can move back into the community. And we've relocated 21 individuals since the start of that program. Some of them back into their own apartments and some of them into assisted living facilities. So that's been an excellent resource especially for our elderly population. And the kind of the last thing we're working on and I know it's on the long-term care area but that's where right now a lot of the state initiatives are is the expansion of family care statewide. As both you and Adam know and Milda is aware from her job we have well over 100 people waiting for long-term care services in the community unlike nursing home services which are an entitlement if you're functionally eligible health-wise and eligible financially. You can be eligible functionally and financially for our long-term care services but we don't have any money neither at the state level or the local level. So we have a wait list for those services under family care which we're now planning for it eliminates wait lists. It makes community-based care and entitlement just like nursing home care for someone who is financially and functionally eligible. So we're part of a 12-county consortium working with three private partnership not-for-profit entities and one other not-for-profit organization beginning to plan for how we can expand family care to the 12 counties in our region. So it's taking a lot of time but it's definitely going to be worth the effort in the long run as we can work much like our neighboring county to the West Vondelac which is a family care pilot county and has no wait lists for individuals wanting community-based services. So it's an exciting time. All of these initiatives basically come down both from the federal and state government. They will be impacting our nursing homes. Is that correct? Well when you think about it right now you can go into a nursing home and get funding. If you now have the choice to stay in the community more people will opt for that. I mean if you ask a room full of people do you plan on going to a nursing home? Most will say no I want to stay in my own home. So as these programs grow the need for nursing homes will change. It'll be rehabilitative short term or definitely end of life and I think you'll see less utilization of nursing home beds in the future. Okay we've talked quite a bit today about services for the elderly and disabled. What about children and families? What is your agency doing with children and families? Unfortunately we are seeing an increase in our child abuse and neglect referrals and we do investigate those and just one day last week we had 17 referrals in one day which is more than a number of staff we have available to do those investigations. So we're seeing an increase in that but on kind of the exciting front we were a recipient of a state grant that we applied for to begin to develop coordinated services teams. So we're really working with the community to begin a process where we can hopefully prevent and intervene earlier with families when they're identified outside of our system and work with them so that we can help strengthen families and make them more self-sufficient and in the future prevent abuse neglect. So that's kind of the exciting thing on that front along with the state is looking at reforming long-term care for children with disabilities. So we're in the process of working with the state on implementing what are called children's waivers and working on that long-term care reform effort for children also. Your department also has a responsibility for public health. The flu season is coming. Every flu season we hear about there might be a flu pandemic. Are we ready for that? As ready as we can be. I sat in on a tabletop a couple months ago in terms of really planning for a pandemic and what would that mean? And then also our healthy 2010 luncheon where we had a university professor talk about the previous flu pandemic and it's fascinating we could spend more than a half hour talking about it. But we have public health staff that have gone through the process of signage locating facilities how we would basically provide the vaccine to over 113 county residents including special needs populations. And I brought something along for you and Adam as part of our overall process. This is not only to help if we have a flu pandemic but we can use many of the same principles when we have a natural disaster and these are called survival kits and they're a nice little water bottle that you can fill and in that water bottle is a flashlight. It's got a little container that's waterproof that you can put around your neck. It's got a poncho some batteries. So I have one of these for each of you from public health. Thank you. So that's your gift this year from us. But it shows the need and I also brought some brochures along that I'll leave here at TV 8 that you can pick up in public health but we have two different brochures. One is preparing for actual disaster which would be more like Hurricane Katrina in our case it would be a tornado ice storm. And the other one is dealing with the flu and that's what we basically talked about the pandemic. Pandemic planning is very very different in some ways than natural disasters because when the flu hits out of the four of us sitting here three won't be here and one will be so be a pretty interesting interview back and forth. So you really have to think about your workforce from a business perspective. How are you going to provide vital services? Your special needs population that needs to be addressed. So public health has just done a tremendous job and I see the minutes from all their planning meetings. So I think we're better prepared or as prepared as we can be and it's not if it hits it's when it hits and to what degree it hits. So the last thing I have to say on the flu is wash your hands, wash your hands and it's the time of year you don't want to shake someone's hand. It's much better to do a little wave as a greeting. Certainly while you have a fairly large budget with the broad variety of programs you have we can understand why you have a large budget. So thank you. Thank you. So what's the story on this again? Those we received free and they are actual survival kits. It's some of the basic things that you need to think about keeping around your house and working with public health I should be more prepared because I have all the items in my house but I don't have them in one kit in terms of being able to easily access things you would need if all of a sudden your house is flooded out or you're going to the basement for a tornado things that you want to have with you and take with you so our brochures kind of outline that. You go to the website for Sheboygan County you'll find information on preparedness. And the department has these available for people who contact you? At this point, no. We just have those for you. We have a supply and they're working on the distribution mechanism. I just want to make sure that we don't have hundreds of stocking stuffers calling in the next couple of weeks thinking wow that's nice. This will come in handy deer hunting this weekend. So no, we don't have those available to the general public at this point in time but they're a sample of what we can take out to show people kind of ideas for how you want to think about preparing for an emergency. Parts of being prepared. Well speaking of preparations and we don't have a lot of time left here but the fat season will soon be here Thanksgiving's around the corner Christmas around the corner and I know it's every year where I put on two to three pounds looking forward to the holiday festivities and this time of year there are some folks who aren't as readily able to get some of the festivities and food that goes with this time with the holiday season and I know you have some important programs that the Health and Human Services Department provides for. Could you touch on some of those? We are really fortunate that community agencies are very supportive of our department. We participate in the Festival of Trees which is coming up December 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the Sheboygan Armory. We're a recipient of part of those funds so I'll be down there on Friday, December 1st in the evening at the bake shop just where I need to be around the holiday season is around those baked goods. So we really are supportive of that. The Sheboygan Press is working with us and share the spirit will again start where the press will feature a story about typically a person whose elderlier has a disability who would maybe like to have their hair permed and would like a certificate for that. In some cases, they want to go out for lunch at McDonald's. So we ask people to think about responding to that either in terms of actually providing what someone is requesting or making a monetary donation to allow us to provide for that. We work closely with our community groups and support the Salvation Army but we also have groups of individuals that provide toys and clothing articles to our department that then our staff can work with the families they're working with to help supplement the families to have a very nice Christmas. So those are some of the key things that are coming up at this time of the year that we can help support parents with their children or homebound elderly or people with disabilities. A lot of needs out there. Every time I talk to you about the number of people you're serving and the need out there just even being closer to it then generally most people in the community it always amazes me the need out there. And if folks want to get involved whether it's to donate food or gifts for the holiday season or just how they can help how do they contact you? How do they get more information? What they want to do is call our main number which is 459-6400-459-6400. That's our main receptionist and they can listen to the prompts or they can ask to speak to our volunteer coordinator in particular about the gifts in the Festival of Trees. In terms of Share the Spirit we're going to have them call the Aging and Disability Resource Center and I'm going to have Mil to give the number because it's been printed in a couple of places incorrectly. It's 459-3095. 459-3095. And it is the number that people have been calling for a long time so that's the nice part. It is the same number. So and that will access Share the Spirit and that particular program. It's just that time of year where people want to give and we want to make sure that we provide them the opportunity to do that and we support them in that. Well thank you both so much. The time just flew. Milda Zingler, Aging and Disability Resource Center Supervisor, we're so pleased that you were with us today and shared some very important information. Thank you. Thank you for the work that you're doing and Anne Wundergem of course our Director of Health and Human Services. Keep up the good work and we really appreciate what you and your staff do. Thank you. And thank you for joining us. Next month we're going to have a new face here. It's going to be Ellen Schleicher, our Register of Deeds who was just elected to the position so we'll look forward to learning more about the Register of Deeds roles and responsibilities and until next month have a safe and prosperous Thanksgiving and on behalf of Chairman Bill Gehring and myself Adam Payne. Thank you for joining us.