Okay, welcome everyone to our second lecture on BC310 church and ministry administration. We've been discussing a little bit on handling difficult situations and disclosed off the last lecture by saying that it's important to address difficult situations, address the matter, but especially for those of us in leadership, we should not ignore the situation, we should address it as early as possible. Abraham, you have a question please? Sir, in line with what we are discussing right now, one of our students had opportunity to go to the US, but to go to the US due to financial situations and financial problem, she happens to stay with her boyfriend now as we are speaking. So it has become an issue that we are trying to deal with, but we don't have that financial strength to support her back there and now it's like the only option she has got is to stay with her boyfriend. So I think this was also a problem where she was looking for solutions. So she joined the church over there and went to the pastor to find out what she could do. But advice from the pastor's wife was, in America, this is how we lead. If you leave the guy's house, you might lose the guy and all the stuff. So she also contacted me letting me know the situation on ground. But here is the case that she is still part of us because she's been joining our meetings and she's still a leader. We still consider her as a leader, knowing in her heart that she wants to do the right thing. And if she has the money or there's an opportunity for her to move, she will move. But there is no financial resistance. So in our case, what do we do? Do we allow her to maybe give her some time to leave the guy's house or we should just terminate her temporarily to say that she's not going to minister or she's not going to take part in the activities until she leaves the guy's house. So please, I really want to know what to do from here. Thank you so much. Yeah, I understand. It's a difficult situation. Now, so the two things here, one is obviously she is living in the house of her boyfriend or she's living in the same house. And and to us, that's a no, no, you know, it should not be that should not be happening. But what really is wrong is if they were in, you know, intimate or in some physical relationship, that's the wrong thing. Like if, example, example, if, you know, they were if they were doing example, if they were there was a man and a woman, they are just renting two rooms in this house, living separately. Okay, you know, we won't say anything about it because one is renting one part, the other one is renting the other part of staying the other part. And we are not assuming any physical relationship between them. That's, I'm just speaking in general terms. So I think the most important thing is that there should be no physical relationship. Now that's very difficult. Obviously, if you're living in the same place, and you know, we don't know what's happening. So there's a big question mark there. But I'm just pointing out what is the real what would be the real problem? The problem is not necessarily that they are renting two rooms or staying in two separate rooms. The problem is they should not be the physical relationship. And then obviously, the second important thing is a testimony, you know, what kind of a testimony does this bear to everybody who would know her, especially if she has been in a place of leadership, so on. So best thing, I know the big problem here is finances. So the best, so one is to check, you know, to make sure that morally, they are right in the right place. So it's not just about, okay, are you under the same roof? Are you living more? Are you living right before God morally? Right? We understand, okay, temporarily, you may need to live in this awkward situation of being under the same roof. But morally, are you right spiritually right before God? So that needs to be, you need to have an open conversation with her and say, Hey, we understand the situation. Temporally, you're there. But most important is, are you right before God? So you need to check that out and just have an open conversation. Second thing is, as early as possible, move to another place, right? Now, I would not agree with the advice given by the pastor, whoever, or whoever she spoke to the pastor, the pastor's right, I do not agree with that. No, we need to maintain a good testimony. So as early as possible, God can provide, right? We need to ask God, we need to look, you know, maybe she can find a home, even a temporary place where there would be somebody willing to accommodate. So it is doable. You need to look for it, pray, and then as soon as possible step out into a more honorable place, honorable position. So I think before you make a decision on whether to keep her as a leader or not, you know, the important thing is to have an open and honest conversation saying, Hey, you've been a leader, you know, what the Word of God teaches, you know, what is the right thing to do? Where are you morally before God? If there is compromise, then yes, you will have to relieve her of her position of leadership and also counselor or a warner that, you know, that whatever is going on is not right. It's not acceptable before God. And definitely it's not a good testimony. If things are morally right, there, you know, in any case, the important thing is for her to move to a different place and believe God for that. Even though financially it's difficult, God can still provide it. Yes, we got it. Okay. Yes, but that's another thing I wanted to add is, I wanted to ask is, is it possible that you observe somebody's spiritual life? Because of course, we knew, we know her very well, and we knew how she started. And we know how things are going. So is it possible that you could observe her spiritual life and know whether she's living in sin or she's not living in sin, or maybe she can be pretending and all those things? Is it possible to look from that angle? Or I have to probably go into asking questions and finding out? I mean, definitely you can observe, but I think it's better to have an honest conversation. You know, because this is not something we need to, we shouldn't be making assumptions. So it's always good to just, you know, two or three, whoever the leaders are said, you know, say, hey, we just want to make sure morally things are right. You know, otherwise, it's not acceptable. So it's good to have an open and honest conversation. Occupus that. Thank you so much. Yeah. Roshan. Pastor, I mean, what if they are not honest when you have a discussion with them in regards to personal matters and regards to sin? So how do you tackle that? How do you know? So let's, you know, in the same scenario, and I'm not presupposing anything about this person. We don't know. I'm just using it as an example. So let's say, you know, the leaders here have a conversation with her and say, you know, hey, you know, it's a very awkward situation, but we understand that temporarily because of financial needs are under the same roof, but it's not right. Now, most importantly, are you living morally right before God? There's no physical thing going on. And, you know, you're living in separate rooms and so on. And you're looking for a place to move out to, you know, so you're having an open honest conversation. If example, there's only an example, I'm not insinuating anything. But if she is not true, and she says, nothing is happening. And so on. At the same time, you need to look, you know, as leaders, you know, the Holy Spirit is speaking to us, right? So you get a sense. And then it's okay. This is what you have told us, but we are very concerned. Now, the reason I would use language like that is because of what I'm feeling in my spirit. Now, I don't want to immediately accuse, but I'm just saying, look, I'm very concerned. We don't feel right about this. We need you to move as soon as possible. And if you're not right before God, you need to get right. That means you're saying that, look, you've told us something, but it's still, you know, you're not feeling comfortable about it. Of course, everything goes back to the individual, right? And we can't force anything on a person. They need to be honest before God. That's most important. So we put it back on them and then say, look, but this is what we need to see happen. We need to see it to move out as soon as possible. And until that time, is it okay that we don't have you in a place of leadership because it's affecting the testimonies affecting, you know, a lot of things. So I think, even if they deny, or if they dishonest, they are listening to the Holy Spirit in a loving way, we are presenting to them, what is the right thing to do? And we want to see that happen urgently. And, and we leave it there. And, you know, the thing is, God will work, you know, depending on where that person is before God, God will work things out. Thank you, Pastor. All right, lots of questions. Elisha's question is, should church employees have their social media accounts monitored by the employer? So, I mean, this is just my opinion is, you know, everybody's free to do whatever they want with their social media accounts. So we don't monitor, we don't, we don't do it. I feel that if, you know, we cannot monitor everything people do in their lives, that's not what we are called to do. And we should not be doing that. We're not, you know, we're not policing, policing people. We are pastoring people. To pastor means we are, of course, we're overseeing them, but we're really imparting into their lives, teaching them how to live right, which will definitely show up in their own social media accounts. And so we don't, you know, we don't monitor their social media accounts. They're free to do whatever they want. But if something comes to our notice that's wrong, we will definitely alert them to it and, you know, handle it. But that, at least in our experience here at ABC, that has not happened. But definitely if there's something wrong, it should be addressed. Yeah. All right. Let's move forward into the next few topics here on church staff management. Last few things, usually we conduct an exit interview. So when somebody's leaving the organization, the HR person will talk to them, just ask them some basic questions about their experience. And if they have any feedback, they can. But we have to keep in mind that some of the things they say may be tainted by their, you know, by whatever they're going through. So we do ask them questions to ask them for the feedback about their experience. But then we actually invite them to give it in writing. So we have a simple document, right? And they give it to us on the last day at the time they're leaving. So that means they are completely free to say what they want. And nothing is going to be held against them. They have, you know, free. But that's a way to get feedback, which can be sometimes helpful to make changes and so on. Another point is, you know, there are labor laws, of course, in different parts of the world. So whatever the labor laws are, make sure that your Christian organization is following those laws, right? So you need to be aware of it and you need to be following those laws by the given by the local government. Few questions that have come up in the past. What can we do to help people grow within the organization? So, you know, provide training, provide opportunities, provide mentoring, and basically help fulfill their vision. So even though people are working in the organization, they have a personal vision. They would like to grow, you know, in their calling and the ministry in their profession in a certain way. So if you can help them fulfill their vision while they're also serving the vision of the organization, that would be great. Provide resources, give them assignments, you know, opportunities, things to do, also provide feedback. And the question, how do we separate the personal life of the church staff and their work at church? So this is a big, big, let's say a big question, especially when it comes to church or Christian ministry. You know, just separating personal life and church work, because all of this actually, especially in the context of church and Christian ministry, everything is just, you know, merged because who you are is where ministry is flowing from. And yet you need, you know, you need this personal space. You need time with your family. You need time for yourself where you're not doing church and ministry. So how do you keep that distinction? You know, so it's because what you, what we observe in many churches, many Christian organizations, there's all of this is a big jumble, you know, everything is all together and there is no separation. And then what happens is the whole personal life gets swallowed up in church and ministry. There's not, there's, they no more have anything called personal life. Everything is absorbed into church and ministry. And then at some point, when they wake up, they realize they've never lived a personal life or for a long time. They've never had anything personal. And sometimes the pain, the regret can be very, very painful. And you know, and people, you know, so it's a very dangerous situation to come into that place. So it's important that we encourage other people to know that they should have their own personal life, time for themselves, time for their family. And then, yeah, you are doing ministry, you're doing church work, but keep these things separate. Now, so how do we do that? One is we, we try as a church, the way we work, we try not to disturb people outside of work hours. That means I try, for example, I myself, I will not call people after six o'clock in the evening for church related things, for work related, I will not call them, or I will not call them before nine o'clock in the morning. So that means I'm respecting like, okay, this is the work time between nine and six, that's when I should call, unless it's an emergency. You know, for example, if somebody has passed away, somebody's in the hospital, then of course I need to call some of my, you know, somebody and say, hey, we need to go, so on, so forth. But otherwise, I don't, right, I'm trying to be respectful of their time, and so what happens, everybody starts doing that. So we don't disturb people outside of the work hours, unless it's an emergency. Then, for staff who are working Monday to Friday, we will not disturb them on Saturday and Sunday. There are some staff who will work Saturday and Sunday, you know, especially the pastors and others, yeah. So then their work happens on Saturday, Sunday. So we are respectful of that as well. When people are on, are taking the day off, when they are on leave, when they are sick, when away from office, when we will not call them, we will not disturb them. So these are things we practice as part of our culture. Basically, we are saying, we respect your personal life, we respect your time with your family, time away from church, away from ministry, we will not disturb. So then, everybody understands that, you know, so that when somebody is on, away from the office, don't call them, try not to disturb them. So then, it becomes part of our culture that we are respecting their personal life and we see it different from their time of work for church. So we don't disturb them in those matters. Now, there are, so that's, that's, you know, how we try to balance this, how do we separate personal life and church life and it's very important when it comes to church and Christian ministry because like I was saying earlier, if we are not careful, everything just gets absorbed in ministry and that's, that can be very painful, very harmful for somebody's life and personal life and family life and so on. So we have to be very careful and I think if you build it part of the culture, we talk about culture in another lesson, but if you make it part of the culture of your organization to respect people's personal time, then everybody follows that, everybody understands it. Now, some scenarios, you know, where it can work on the other way, that means where personal life begins to impact church. So I was talking about making sure church doesn't impact personal life, so that's one side of it, but there is a flip side to it where personal life begins to impact life on church because, again, like I said, this can be very closely connected. So what are some of the scenarios, you know, suppose somebody's working for the church, but they have ministry outside, that means they may have their own administrative ministry, they may have sometimes business things happening outside, you know, they're part of the church, they're doing their own thing outside. Now, one of the things is we don't interfere in their personal time, so what you do in your personal time is yours and you can do what you want, but if that begins to affect what's happening in church, then we raise a flag. So, example, in, you know, if they start using their role as a pastor or as a leader to talk about their business, talk about whatever they're doing outside, or they use it to raise funds or to do promotions, or, you know, if they're having a certain kind of ministry or work and there are other people in the church who are also having that similar type of ministry work and then they're using the role in the church to compete with them, that's not good, you know, and these are all real scenarios, I'm not making it up, these are things that have happened, so then we have to be very careful. So, we, I usually talk to these people, you know, especially if they're working in church or holding some position in church and say, hey, you've got to be very careful, don't let what you are doing, you know, in business or whatever you're doing affect your role in the church. Sometimes they have a poor testimony outside and then it affects what they're doing in church, you know, so if the testimony outside, outside of the work is not good, you know, and people observing them, sometimes I've got calls and messages and, hey, we saw so and so doing this and he's a church staff, then, you know, hey, so their testimony outside is affecting their role in the church and so I'll have to have conversation with them, address that. Sometimes family members start interfering with what they're doing in church, you know, so people don't regard the church as an organization, they think it's like, hey, you know, it's just some casual thing, you know, so example, the wife will call the husband to come home anytime of the day, you know, hey, no, this working for a church is like working for an organization, they're not just free to go, they have to work eight hours and so, you know, that kind of thing is happening and it's disrupting the work of the person in the church office, then that matters also, that's something that needs to be addressed or, you know, if their wife is expecting the husband to be home or not allowing them to be travel, to travel or to do, you know, whatever the work needs to do, then that's a family constraint, we have to address it and very important, no personal business dealings with church people. So sometimes, you know, I've had to address scenarios like this where somebody is, has been given a role in the church, you know, sometimes even a pastoral role, they are doing their own business outside, we don't interfere with that, but then what has happened is, they begin to engage with people in the congregate, so we tell them very clearly, you know, see, if you have a pastoral role, no business dealings with people in the church, no, but then they've violated that and then I've had to ask them to, you know, step down and of course there's this, you know, there's been situations that I've tried to resolve and so on, but it becomes very messy because somebody's in a pastoral role, they're having their own business and they get into business dealings with people in the church, it affects their role as a pastor and so, you know, it just becomes a very, very messy thing and these are things that have happened and so we always tell them ahead of time, no doing that, you know, that's not acceptable, but then if they still go out and, you know, do those kinds of things, then that's where we have to address matters and take action. Last question is, you know, how do you pastor church stuff? So again, here's another big challenge where people are working for the church, we are doing ministry but, you know, it's work, it's professional work and also maybe ministering to people, you know, you're ministering to people, you're doing professional work, it's work, you're giving your time, energy, your skills, so on and so forth and we also need to pastor them, that means take care of them spiritually because ultimately church is a spiritual ministry. Yes, it's a, we are organized in order to perform better, in order to serve people better, it's an organization from that perspective but it is really a spiritual ministry and so, while these are staff, they are working, they're doing what they are assigned to do, they also need to be cared for spiritually and so this and you know, the challenge is, when do you speak to somebody as a staff and when do you speak to them as a pastor? It's a challenge because work matters, you have to talk to them as a staff, you know, you got to do this but then there is a, there are also people who are part of the church or part of the, you know, the ministry and you need to deal with them as sheep, as a shepherd would deal with the sheep rather than as a, as an employer would deal with the staff, so when you do this, how do you balance the two and for in the mind of the staff, they also need to distinguish the two. Okay, now this person is talking to me as a pastor, now he's talking to me as an employer, right, or as a, what a manager, a team leader, whatever, in their minds also they need to distinguish, they can't say everything as purely staff or everything as purely pastor, they can't mix the two and yet as a leader you got to also take care of them as a shepherd, not only as a employer but as a shepherd and both there as a response, so it makes this whole thing more challenging, more difficult but how do you do it and here are some things, you know, you make personal time to talk to them as a pastor, right, so I'm not talking to you about your performance, I'm not talking to you about your work, I'm not talking to you about your minister, I'm talking to you about you, how are you doing, how is your family doing, how better you spiritually, you know, so you have those casual conversations and you know that they know that and you know that, that you're just speaking to them as a pastor rather than as an employer and you make opportunities for them to do ministry that will enhance them spiritually, you know, so this is not quote unquote work, this is not something where your performance is going to be watched, this is more of you growing as a believer, right, so you're creating those opportunities, giving them those opportunities, you know, one of the things we encourage people to do is go on mission trips, so we've just started our mission trips that is going to different parts of our country ministering, you know, just last weekend, yeah, I think Pratik was on that trip, people, one of our staff was also on the trip and then this week Nancy and Deepika are traveling, they're ministering at one of our outreach churches and yeah, so you know, we encourage all our staff, they get one paid mission trip a year, that means the church will pay for them and they can go and do that, you know, minister and come back, so it's an investment into their spiritual life, their development, so on and then of course whenever they need there is counseling available, they can either meet any of our pastors or counselors and so on, so this is another area of challenge, but I think if we are consciously, actively doing both, that is being an employer and a shepherd in doing both, then we can balance the two, that is there is performance but there is pastoral care as well, right, so let me stop here, pause for a moment, okay let's take up some questions before we go to the next chapter, Elisha, must all church staff be believers, Christ believers, the answer is yes, all our church staff are believers, so that we can all flow together, you know, with the same vision, understanding, mission, now we have vendors who are of course not believers, I mean vendors mentioned, these are people who will provide certain service or things, for example, you know, we rent out certain things every Sunday, like our LED panels that are put up in the chart, in the auditorium, a couple of things that you know, things that happen in the Sunday service for those who, those are vendors, they just come and provide that service, so of course they are not, they don't have to be believers and in most cases they are not believers, they come and just do their part and go, but church staff, yes, all are believers, in fact we make sure they're aligned to who we are as a church, our statement of faith, they're aligned to, you know, where we're going that they're really, you know, committed to Jesus Christ before we engage them, Abraham, how about those who are volunteering to serve, how do we deal with them, yeah, so that's our next lesson, Abraham, we have a complete lesson on working with volunteers, and that's a big area, so we're going to spend a few lectures on that and volunteers and then how do church staff relate to volunteers, that's also a big thing, a big dynamic balance because, you know, we, you need to take care of both, you need to take care of your staff, but you also need to take care of the volunteers, volunteers are very valuable and sometimes difficulties happen between staff and volunteers, you know, and so you have to manage that, so that's a very big area and we will talk about that in the next lesson. Shri Kamaria, question please. Yes sir, thank you. Sir, I want to know that, as you said, that how the pastor who is involved in the business should not engage the church, you know, into his business, so I just want to know in in in this scenario where the member of the church is a partner of pastor's business, so in that case how we will able to handle the thing, thank you. Yeah, so this is only a guideline, so you know, like what I said when I said, you know, somebody who's in a pastor or leadership role shouldn't get into any business dealings with people in the church that meant, I don't mean that, you know, they shouldn't be employed, especially there are different scenarios, for example, when I was running my software business, quite a few people who were working in the business, working for me, were also part of the church, yeah, so they were employees of the company, the software company, and they were members of the church and serving the church, so, but then everything was clear, they're not treated preferentially in the church just because they are part of the business, they're not everything's clear, so that is okay, you know, but what I meant is, no getting into any financial arrangement with people or engaging in financial dealings, so I never, for example, you know, one lady came from the church and said, I want to invest money in your company, I said, no thank you, no, well, you know, because that's a very dangerous situation, so no, you're not going to do any of that, business is separate, church is separate, so in a situation where a pastor has somebody from the congregation as a business, is running a business, somebody in pastoral person, running a business, and he's got somebody in the congregation as a member or a partner in the business, it's so important to manage that properly, that means the pastor should not give any preferential treatment to that person in the church, in the church, everybody's equal, everybody's same, now for whatever reason, you know, the pastor may have that person as a partner in his business, as long as it's managed properly, it's okay, otherwise what will happen is, if something goes wrong in the business, and this has happened so many times, that person is going to badmouth the pastor, he's going to speak to so many people, oh pastor did like this, did like that, and you know, if something goes wrong in the business, I'm saying, he's a partner with the business, something goes wrong, that person is going to create problems in the church, he's going to badmouth the pastor, he's going to, you know, just ruin a lot of things, so that's, you know, it has to be managed very carefully, so that's why I say it's better not to get into such kind of an arrangement, and I stayed completely out of it, there were a lot of people who would want to do that kind of thing with the pastor, but I said no, the only thing we did was when I was running the business was okay, if somebody needs a job, and they will come and work, you know, if they're qualified, they can, okay, yeah, some were working like that, and they're very good people, but they were not treated preferentially in any way in the church, you know, they're nothing, yeah, so examples would be, you know, when there's money transactions happening, money, which was that things happened, you know, then things go south, it was, you know, a very messy situation, very messy, because one family was affected, because they had given money to the pastor to make certain, I mean, I'm talking about the person who was in a pastoral position, they'd given money to that person to do certain investments, and that messed it up, and so now it is affecting the entire dynamic from that family with the pastoral team, you know, they were dealing with one person, but then that person was part of the pastoral team, so I had to address it and say, no, these kind of things are not allowed, you know, another situation was when there was conflict between people running similar businesses, you know, just because out of a sense of competition, you know, and it's so messy because one of them is part of the pastoral team and other person is a member of the congregation, they are running similar businesses, now they're in competition, and it's become a kind of a verbal conflict, it's very messy, said no, cannot handle these, we will not tolerate these things, you know, so that's why I always say, you know, no business dealings with people in the congregation at all, yeah. Thank you sir, thanks a lot. All right, let me just, Christopher, go ahead. Sir, thank you, Pastor, I just wanted to find out from an interview of how the church would deal with people in the congregation who may be, who may form into sin, and in one case it is confidential, and in the other case it is, you know, it is well known among the congregation that they are living in sin, so it would be different types of sin, so will churches, will church, will a church need to be able to, you know, go through the process of counseling and, you know, I'm trying to, you know, have that, you know, those people work through that and, you know, overcome that sin, or could there be situations where it could be more drastic and, you know, they may need to ask those people to actually need the church, just wanted to find out if there are any sort of scenarios that would require that action. Yeah, so the first part, definitely, you know, if they are part of the church and, you know, this thing surfaces with, you know, there's the living in sin, definitely that we get involved, or the pastor of that location will get involved to talk to people, and then it might, you know, I might also get involved, and we have, we have, and we would try to address the matter, you know, counsel the people, and, and so there have been, you know, I would say a handful of situations the last 20 years or so where we've had to deal with those kinds of matters, and we've got involved, we've tried to address it, and in some cases, especially when talking about husband and wife situations, things have been resolved and the marriages are strong today, everything is fine. In some cases, especially if people are not willing to receive counsel, they're not willing to make change, the problem just continues, you know, and sometimes we see, we have seen repeated occurrences, especially like, you know, of unfaithfulness. Sir, you're muted. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Yes. Okay, thank you, thanks. Yeah, so we do get involved, and we do address the matter, and, you know, like I said, in some situations, things have worked out fine, problems solved, marriages are safe today, and people are fine. In some cases, it's still ongoing, you know, and because one of them is not willing to change. Now, I was telling people to leave the church, that's something we would do. The Bible teaches us concerning that, and I'm just thinking of 1 Corinthians chapter 5, 2 Thessalonians chapter 3, 1 Timothy chapter 5, as references where such kind of a disciplinary action in the local church context is instructed. In these, at least here, while pastoring an APC, I can think of right now, at the think of right now, one situation where I've had to personally tell somebody not to come to church.  This is the correct action to take, and instead of repenting and taking that action, they would just leave the church, you know, so that's happened a few times, that means they're not willing to take the corrective action, they want to choose their own way, whatever, so on, and I can remember only once when I've had to tell somebody to not come to church, and this was more of, I would say like, yeah, once, and one, in one case, they just left the church, and this was more of a kind of a, I don't know what to say, maybe like a theological disagreement, so it was kind of funny, because many years ago I was doing a series, I was doing a sermon, here's a question answers, and you know, we were taking questions from the congregation, I was providing answers, and this particular person, you know, he disagreed with an answer that I gave, now of course I'm not expecting everybody to agree with me on everything, but this person disagreed and then he called on the phone and he was very, very, you know, very heated on the phone, then I just said, hey, if you're not happy, please leave the church, you know, nobody's forcing anyone to stay in the church, if you know, if my response, a biblical response to a particular question, you didn't agree with it, I mean we can disagree and still be friends, but if this disagreement is so grievous, you're free to leave the church, you know, please leave the church, don't have to come back, and so he left the church, and very interestingly his wife and children came back to the church, some, I mean some, I would say sometime recently, and they they came back, they were attending APC, so I would say his wife and one of his children, the other person I think is overseas, I'm not sure what happened, but they came back, they were attending APC and we welcomed them, I love them, welcome them, hey, you're welcome back, but I can remember that situation, other situations when people don't agree theologically, they just, again, just like how when we correct somebody, they also just leave, they may not, you know, agree with something, they don't believe in speaking in tongues or if they don't believe in them, if you don't force people, they just, you know, leave, and that's fine, they made their choice decision, yeah, I hope I answered your question, okay, all right, so we've kind of, we're going to close up this lesson on church staff management, it's a it's a big area, that's a very important area, our next lesson is on volunteer management, which also is a very important area, managing volunteers, right, so we're going to spend some time on that, now next week, Thursday, I'm actually traveling, we're doing a past conference, somewhere near Mumbai, so I'm traveling, so most likely I may have to, and I'm going to see if I can do my 9 to 10 class before I go to the conference, I'm just going to see if it's possible, just depends on the situation, otherwise I may miss both my classes next Thursday, I'll try to see if I can do my 9 to 10 class, but then, yeah, so we're going to be near Kalyan, so I think, yeah, so we're going to be near Kalyan, so it's about, I don't know, half, two hours from Mumbai, I think, some of them are there, so they're having that, so I will probably miss both my classes, but I'll try to see if I can do my 9 to 10 before I go into the conference, but then the rest of the classes we will take the week after, all right, we've got a lot of important ground to cover and we will do that, okay, could somebody close in prayer and we will dismiss, please, anyone? Sir, can I?  Thank you, sir. Precious Father, we thank you and praise you for this wonderful day which are given to us by God. Father, we surrendered everything before you and we pray that Father God, every word what we received today, Lord Master, we pray that Father, give us grace, Lord Master, let it all deeply rooted in us, let it let be able to preserve in our heart with Father God, let it increase our wisdom and knowledge of Father God so that we can able to move ahead of Father God with this understanding, with this knowledge, with this revelation, Lord Master, thank you for removing our ignorance, Father God, through your word of God, thank you once again for strengthening your servant of God and also not as he's traveling for the ministry, Lord Master, bless him and use him mightily, Lord Master, and to him, Lord Master, many lives be touched and blessed, Father. Thank you, Father God, for all the glory, honor and praises belongs to you in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you, Master. Amen. Thank you, everyone. Enjoy the rest of your day. I'll see you soon again. Thank you. Bye now.


But now it's the final and what a race we've got in prospect Lee Richardson up on the outside there And can we have a British winner here tonight while the crowd are right behind him? But he's got to be Jason Crump. He's got to beat Lee Adams And he's also got to beat the gate one man Greg Hancock. What a top-class feel this is as ever in SGP What do you reckon? Can he do it? Well, he's certainly ridden brilliantly tonight and the crowd have been right behind him If you can just go on the waiver support, who knows what can happen But certainly it's been brilliantly and it's terrific to see a Brit in the final Well Lee Adams and Jason Grump both Hoping to become two times winners of SGP this year or nearly a break from Grubber where they go It's a great start from Greg Hancock in red and from Lee Richardson in yellow Trying to go around the outside of it the top two get away immediately But it's Hancock the American fending off Lee Richardson, but Lee Richardson will not give up He's got the support of the fans. Can he come through and beat the American? He's giving it his all to a terrific first lap from Lee Richardson a greater from the outside But here comes Adams. Oh just caught in the wrong position there Richardson Meanwhile, Crump is at the back. He blew it at the start try to anticipate, but it's Hancock looks good out front Yeah, Lee Adams has moved up to second place and now he's putting the pressure on Greg Hancock who clashes over his shoulder As Lee Richardson is pushed back down to third as we say Crump he's struggling a little bit No Adams, no Adams has got so much speed. He's come from nowhere. Looks like he might be hitting the front Oh, what a race this prospect here Coming up to the last corner. Who's gonna win the British Grand Prix? Hancock goes very wide, Adams on the inside On the line Side by side across the line, and I think Hancock got it Hancock went so wide in that last corner I thought he'd throw it away, but then he was like a drag racer out of the last corner And I think he just got ahead of him Yeah, by half a bike then. That was incredible stuff. He made a mistake round the last turn and he can't believe I'm sure that's relief as well as Achievement in that. Can't believe it


We are alive What's up everyone in YouTube land All of y'all hope you're having an awesome today What's today Wednesday is say Wednesday. Oh all day. It's Wednesday. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool and And what all day Though your dad's on your chair. You can't come up right now. I know you're beautiful But you're okay So I am going to do a Marble that's a little bit unique in that I'm using colors that aren't really associated with marble when you do a Countertop tabletop charcuterie board side table or even The background to a piece I'm going to use purple and neutrals So the first color mixed up is a berry by color passion is a flat warm purple color You guys want me to do a video on like color theory and what's a warm or cool Color palette. Let me know Hey, hey everyone I'll definitely Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'll do I'll do color theory video. I cannot promise it won't be boring to those that Don't care about color theory, but I think it's important to know some color theory in order to Kind of pick out your palettes and what colors do and don't work together When you do a piece no matter if it's with resin all the way to like body paint and ceramics or murals acrylic paintings oils, etc Okay, so anyways, so this is my opaque white. This is titanium. I use a lot of pigment by a lot I mean like Essentially what I have on this stick right now It's by just resin. That's my opaque white. This is a berry by color passion. I Also, I'm using the liquid gold. I Went ahead and mixed it into just a little bit of resin. I did two of This amount in my pipette, which is so there's like Three and a half mils of gold in this 15 mil medicine cup So it's I Don't know maybe I don't even know if it would be 50 50 anyway It's so much more liquidy than the other resin because there's so much of that liquid paint in there We're gonna see what happens with that. It'll either be amazing or not so much amazing I'm also going to be using a beach sand by color passion if you watched Rhonda's live last night She used a beach sand and I thought it was beautiful. It's kind of a creamy Hurly shimmery Off-white also in the warm Family It's very creamy Okay, I have not yet mixed the next two colors, which will be My Lactoscent tolerant milk, which will have this much white in it to start maybe just a little bit more These pastes are so pigmented that it doesn't take much Hey, everybody. Thank you for coming in if you haven't subscribed yet Please do so if you have been a subscriber. Thank you so much We're trying to grow our company and our YouTube if you could share or Visit our shop it would be amazing So you can see that I can see the color of the star stick through The resin and that's kind of what I'm looking for is something that I can see colors through because that's going to give Us a lot of the depth that we're going to have in the piece and Last color I'm going to mix up because we're different and glitters always an option is just some of this Very blingy bling it Violet Sparkle I'm going to try to do just a little bit at a time because I Don't want this to be opaque. Okay. That was too much of a little bit I don't want to create anything cloudy and if I put too much of that mica in here It'll read as cloudy So We're just going to add a little bit at a time till we get it To what we want it to look like this is kind of an interference But has more of a sparkle to it than an interference so it has an Interference like sparkle. I think I need just like double of what's in there right now This is supposed to be a was that a purple sparkle instead of oh, there's purple sparkle You get it Yes, Ronda does call it skim milk If I'm out of this in the bling it then I do also have it in Color passions starter kit that has all the interferences. There's also a sparkle version in there Of all the colors So you can just barely get some of that color and sparkle in there But you can still very much see all the way through it. So that's what we are looking for If I can get it out of focus, which I can always count on my camera to go out of focus see there That amazing sparkle. That's what it looks like in real life But it's still subtle. So it's good. It's okay. I prefer all of an amazing after five I know I am tink if I have enough resin left over. I'm going to add a layer to this cured Carnation peony hibiscus rose hybrid So there. All right, I am going to do the underpainting like I've done recently in my marble pieces And the cool thing about putting a unique color in is that's an even more of an upsell to people because this The argument always is well, why should I do this instead of getting actual marble and The answer is because you can't really find a Marble that is the colors that we offer. Anyways, that's true for us because We only do unique things people don't come to us for like just a hammered metal Resin countertop unless it's very unique color like a chameleon. Let's say Okay, and now I'm going to put some of this very liquidy liquid gold I sell it in 10 mil vials On the website, it's essentially spray paint but without having to spray it. That's super thin But that's okay. Oh, I forgot to show you what beach sand looks like out of resin Someone asked me about it the other day. So there you go All right, so let's patch in some of our skin milk as Rhonda calls it what she was having a great old time last night on her live and some of the Sparkle, oh Yeah, yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. I'm gonna need a little bit more skin milk So I'm just gonna take some of my leftover resin Add some more whites What's the most unique color you've seen in a marble finish y'all That's a little bit more white than the first one, but that's perfectly fine because we want it to be a variation in depth Anytime you can have like a translucent color You can vary the amount of depth that you have Cuz it creates the illusion of layers So now I'm just going to skim across everything Not really do much blending Just Kind of moving things around this is actually way more purple than I envisioned having on this, but I'm okay with it this may sound Like something that not everyone will agree with but I would Consider this a finish all on its own just because I like loud colors Anything that's not Normal like drab and boring Okay, so I just heated it up because I want to make sure that I Get some of the bubbles. I don't have any little floaters and I want this portion You guys can see it's already very Marbly just on its own with the different tone ranges of all of the colors I Want this portion of the resin To be it's a berry by color passion Who I love silvers as well. Okay, so I heated it up because I want this portion to be a Thinner than the whites that I'm going to put on because I want it to sink and the white is still cool So it's going to be heavier so I'm going to Put in some patches of the beach sand And meld this out as well Man, there's a dog. That's not having it outside right now. I Don't know if y'all can hear him And then I'm going to blend this out Just by using my hand you can use a Bondo spreader if you wish Whatever floats your boat Unicorn granite It probably was Claire's pieces always end up looking like a dragon head. That's just part of Clara okay now I Guess I'm going to do sort of An exotic poor dirty poor Because I love that addition It I don't know why it just makes me feel like It's like actually marbled instead of like my hand marbling. I'm just making a little bit more translucent white Okay So where are you guys where am I okay? so I'm going to Start with translucent white And that's going to be kind of the base the majority Excuse me and my color is going to be the translucent white because the more color color you put in the kind of The more it will be opaque and the translucency is what kind of lends itself to Sorry, I was reading Claire's comment. Thank you Jen sent this to me So the translucency is kind of what lends itself to looking actual marbled like this base piece that we have Let's put some of the bling it in there some more white some of the purple Not a lot as you can see I'm just kind of Mish mosh hodge podging it I'm keeping it very light on everything. That's not Translucent, what do I still need still need some of the gold? Well, I love how it went in there and just droplets droplets are very on brand for me So now I'm thinking I want to Add just some dots to this because I like what that looked like That may be crazy But I'll figure it out Later on in the process so Have an awesome time in Florida tg I'm just gonna give it a quick little stir so that everything kind of Isn't in the layers that I put them in so when I start to pour it out it'll start with this look instead of just What I had a second ago you can even just swirl it around I wouldn't do too much because you don't want to actually mix it Oh, yes Very much. Yes That gold just popped right back up to the top all the stuff I did. I really like this area the most You know, I don't know maybe even this area. I think I really like what that looks like with the gold That's just got just a little bit of resin in it. I don't have to worry about it sinking or floating And it just is so subtle all the way through I'm gonna have to do that more often. What do you guys think? You want some marble that looks like that to the same if only the spot that we live in would let me Do our countertops They don't know what they're missing in They did it with resin. Oh, well, this just in maybe I can do it Okay, now I'm gonna add some hard white lines because I Love how they look totally up to you if you want to actually do thicker lines Kind of trying to just go along with the pattern that I've already established mixed with some Slashes, I love it Now I'm gonna heat it all may give it a second for the white to sink and then we're gonna tilt it and Create a whole bunch of magic Because this could be a finish all on its own We're gonna take it beyond the next step also that Love the dots that popped up same same Z's Okay, I think we've let it set long enough Let's see what we got which way are we gonna tilt it? I don't know usually I'd pick which way to tilt from What area I don't like so much But I like them all so I'm just gonna do an all-way tilt Now I'm gonna stop right here just to show you See how you can see all these colors that kind of shift over that canyon of white that smear of white That's the translucent running over the white But some of it already sank so now there's like that trail and that's what gives you some great Fault lines and depth. I wish you guys could see this in person because If I ever was like I want an amethyst countertop, it'd be all of this I bet I could do a Bad but geode With this now I'm just tilting it back down in another direction and Yes, I'm kind of rolling over the movement that I already had But that is okay because we're getting everything to flow in the same Direction, it's just it's gonna make everything much more I don't know. I guess the continuity. I love this corner right here. All that swirly twirly gumdrop looking Everything now the question is add Some more gold lines Or let it live You decide. Oh, yeah, geode for sure So there's never any competition between Rhonda and I with countertops Because that lady is a beast but I feel like ATD fam has this Like if we went toe-to-toe on a purple marble If I just called her right now and said do purple marble and then send me a picture. I feel like I would win I Feel like I can be wrong Rhonda is super talented, but that's how much I love this piece. Okay so more You guys thrive on competition That is very true How fun this gold is I just I've been just stirring it Because I can like stir in that look Okay, okay, okay Now Let's see really want these to be on the thinner side so I'm letting anything drip off that Looks like it's going before I even start to pull The stick across the surface Yep, it's gonna look awesome. You guys are right You can't really see what the difference is probably from where you guys are But I'm gonna show you in a minute. You're gonna be like, yep, we were right You need way too much gold for this, but that's good. I think it's good wait Just one more. Okay. It's good and take you guys down and show you the magic that we created together as a family unit Okay, I'll probably even let this cure on a slight tilt So that it'll give me even more That look Okay, let me show you what the gold looks like Floating on top and then this one is the gold that we mixed in just right next to each other Love it. Love it. Okay, so let's check it out all over. I think under painting with resin is really where it's at Translucence and under painting. I Super love it. Especially this little corner. I don't know why but I do No shame The gold does kind of look like lightning for sure Lure of it Just working on cutting something so I'll just show him in a minute, but anyways tell your friends you saw it here and Colors are beach sand luster by color passion Just resin titanium bling it Violet sparkle berry by color passion Liquid gold that looks like purple marble doesn't it Like it looks heavy Doesn't it like I can't wait till it cures and then we're gonna put the matte UTC over it And then it's gonna look like it weighs nine hundred pounds Like I put lines of purple down under the translucent resin like on the dry board Because resin is not gonna go where it hasn't been so I have leftover resin but not enough to do Not enough to do the flowers, so I'll have to do just a quick video of the flower Anyways, if you guys liked it, please subscribe and leave me your thumbs And if you didn't then I don't know what to tell you because it's awesome and Hope you guys have an amazing today. Well, I guess you already had an amazing today. Hope you have an awesome evening And don't forget that we have class kits for the pour with us that we do every month It could be a real Geo to if I put fire glass on I am running low on fire glass right now So yeah, be kind to one another you never know what someone's going through And always remember that we do the test so you don't have to and Billy was in a commercial today for Cadillac Weren't you be the best one?  You did You're the bestest boy okay, you guys, we'll see you tomorrow and I have classes coming up in Dallas in May and March But yeah, subscribe and we'll see you guys later.


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You're welcome back. It's time now to go and see what we can lift off the press by looking at what made it to the front pages of some of our national dailies this morning. And to do that with us, we have standing by Mr. Tunde Kolaoli, a legal practitioner, who will be talking with us from Lagos State here. Good morning and welcome to the program, Mr. Kolaoli. Good morning, Mr. Tunde Kolaoli. Okay, it's a wonderful day. On one hand, the transportation of Lagosians will be caught in half by the pronouncement of the governor. And on the other hand, labor is insisting they are going on strike. Let's begin with that, which is not even on the press. So, now let's go to Pointe newspaper. Since it's the first newspaper before us this morning, Pointe newspaper has that story that I just alluded to now. Subsidy talks, labor shows federal government begins protests as oil workers downstool. They protest will happen. I hear that the federal government had a meeting with labor leaders and all that. I expected that there would be a pronouncement this morning that, okay, the strike has been called off because we have reached an agreement and XYZ is going to be done. But the strike is going on. Let me have your comments on what you feel about this. You know, the riders are half federal government, NLC meeting, ended in debt log, labor, PDP, the rates, TINUBU's proposal of proposed pay rise. That's one of the things. And IG, others, AIGC, peace to maintain order, prevent violence, federal NLC's protest is lawful. Remember that the inspector general said no violent protest is allowed in Nigeria. But the NLC is not talking about a violent protest. They are talking about a peaceful protest and all that. So let me just have your comments on that headline. Let me quickly say that all over the world, protest has become an animal rights. It is the right of a citizen. When you also go into the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, you and I will see the protest is allowed. Furthermore, it is also the right of workers to withdraw their services. When the trees are split, with either the working conditions or the policies of government and the working institutions in which they work. The other alternative is to go to courts and civilize people to vet your anger and seek a redress. Of course, people can also write about the petition and let us, so people are in charge of their care to seek a redress. So in the Nigerian Labour Congress, having had a series of meetings with the federal government, with Labour at the state level, have had meetings with the state government, but has not yielded any productive results. I should think the not-ledicast steps to take is to embark on a strike to vent their anger. So what the Labour is doing today is supported by law, is supported by International Convention and it is unable to write. And you see why this strike is very, very important. You will see that even though the president said that since they removed the express subsidy, they needed to save about 1 trillion Naira, which is good for the president and good for the country. But on the other hand, we also find that the National Assembly, in the middle of the region, the first thing they did was to allocate 70 billion to them. So the indication of this is this. This car is not taking. Whatever monies are safe from this petroleum subsidy, we still go, like it happens, running a passenger's era, in which money we are safe, and then the politicians have preferred it. Furthermore, it would have been better for the new government to put the palliative in place before embarking on the removal of express subsidy. The removal of subsidy without the palliative in place is by putting the car before the house, which doesn't go away for anybody. We have also seen the implication. Prices are skyrocketed. Inflation is way, way up here. Cost of transportation is very high now. In fact, the economy could be set to have been shut down with the removal of this express subsidy. So if I were the president, I would begin to work hard on the redeem of palliatives that they said they want to put in place in the area of agriculture, in the area of transportation, in the area of increases in wages, remuneration, and allowances, and also look at ways are made to ensure that the Naira gets stronger. This is the Naira remains at the human level in which it is today. It is difficult to bring down inflation. It is also difficult to cut down on prices of goods and services. Because we don't put this anything here. 90% of what we consume is imported from abroad. Even including agricultural products, rice, beans, palm oil, vegetable oil and whatever they do make in Syria, they are all imported from abroad. What if the Naira is not performing well against other foreign currency? It will be difficult to cut down the prices of goods and services in the sector. Then the number of vehicles that the government that they will put on the road to alleviate the transportation problem of sick use is neither Naira or Naira. I think they are talking about maybe 30,000 vehicles or Naira about. In the country of 200 million people, with these very large spans of land, that is like a drop in the ocean. It will not meet the requirements of alleviating the suffering of our people in the country. Okay. My worry, two things that are giving me some worry is that we still have the no work, no pay thing that I don't see really as a good thing. But there's the no work, no pay even though in the constitution it is a right for people to protest. And if you're protesting, you can't be in the office and protest. You'll be on the streets. There is that. And the second thing worrying me is the fact that in Nigeria, when you have a protest, the correct thing to do is meet the police and say, okay, we want to protest, give us protection. But the first thing that comes out of the police is a warning.  We do not tolerate protest. We are against it and all that. And so the people who are going to protest already know that they are on their own. So even if you finally give them one or two police officers that will go and be with them while they're protesting, everybody knows that your heart is not in it. So there may not be no pay on the one hand, the fact that you may not even be protected as a protestor is on the other hand. And I'm sure that some people that will go for the protest may even carry some things to protect themselves should any problem break out during this protest. So how do we have a constitution granting protest to people and then still have a no work, no pay? And then how do we also have the right of the people which should be protected by the police and having the police always warn us against protest? I don't understand. Let me quickly say that I have participated in so many protests and rallies in my life right from Secondary School to University and to when I became a worker in Nigeria. In my experience, most of the time when we go for example, I meet with the students who are protesting, they don't engage in any violence, they only do that. What usually happens is that the Nigerian state, the government, most times will send the hoodlums to attack the workers who are protesting, they will send the hoodlums to attack the students who are protesting, they will send the regime provocateur including security men to attack those who are protesting so as to be able to break the posters and give it a bad name. Simply because most governments all over the world are never compatible with the posters. Cast your mind back to what happens during the uprising against the Nigerian police which has been done as a kind of empath. The children, our children were very peaceful. The context of it is a very civilized manner in all the places that is protesting. They wake up in the morning, clean up the protest ground, organize food, bring in the decisions they have to play and then bring in the people to come and talk to them when they are dead. They even wake up, government officials who are eager to talk to them. I remember the government went to the Lucky Toe Gate to address the protesters and whatever. It was the Nigerian state that introduced violence or who run into this violence into some of these things. And what is coming from the matter of the IG is very unfortunate, totally unfortunate. The police are supposed to provide protection for whoever is protesting in Nigeria and to make sure that the protest is never attacked by either hoodlums or whoever they want to take advantage. And why do people want to take advantage? A lot of people are jobless, a lot of people are hungry, a lot of people are very angry with the Nigerian state. So when there is any disturbance, when there is an opportunity of protest, they want to use to fence their anger on the state, on the Nigerian government, on the politicians, on the people in the city that they think are responsible for the applied. To avoid this kind of visitation, the police, the DSR, the civil defense, they go out in the neighborhood to carry things, last night, migrations are not a civil defense call. They provide adequate protection to whoever they want to protest and even guide them. Follow them to whatever challenges they want to pass through and make sure that the protest is never attacked. Nigeria should behave like a whole civilized society. We have protested in France recently, just a few weeks ago. Nobody was killed, nobody was attacked, even those charges were used. But not a single person lost their life and not the protestors that have taken place in France in the last six months. And there were many, many protests. That is the direction in which we should go. And now for the idea of the police to start threatening protestors that people will be dealt with, even if they have to protest. Okay, we may need to come back to the point because there are some headlines there that we might need to treat as well. But let's go to the Guardian right now, the Guardian newspaper. There are some headlines there that we would want to just look at. From the southeast, sit at home and force has killed 250 people in two years. That is what the Ohanezen Dibo is saying. This sit as home thing. The other time, just a few days ago, the leader of the prescribed Indigenous people of Biafra, Namdi Kanu, wrote a letter to the supposed disciple, his supposed disciple staying elsewhere, not in Africa even. Simon Ekpa said that the sit at home should stop because it is rather killing the people of the southeast. It is killing their businesses and it is not doing any good to that section of our country. And Simon Ekpa said he doesn't believe that letter comes from Namdi Kanu and he will continue. In fact, he was talking about declaring one month sit at home for the southeast. Let me have your comments on what is really happening in the southeast. Some people are sympathizing with him as it is or empathizing. I don't know the word to use, but they are in support. There may be few, but others are calling Simon Ekpa, for instance, who is now saying that he is stepping into the shoes of Namdi Kanu, a terrorist. What do you think about the actions of someone who is a Nigerian staying somewhere and inciting the people to fight and kill? By law, how should he be treated and what should happen in the southeast? What is happening in the southeast is a very, very unfortunate and so many aspects. And I have always said that too long don't make it right. The way of manner, I thought is going about his campaign is not the right way to go. The way of manner, the federal government and the state government in the southeast are handling this matter is also not the right way to go. And what Ekpa, if it is your neighbor or do they call his name? Who is Ekpa? And what do you think? To stay at home and probably or allegedly get the people to afford the seat at home or at home, is only unfortunate and totally uncomfortable. I have said it. It is only in Nigeria that I have seen the so-called freedom fighters like Simon Ekpa, like the one who is in detention now who is in DSSA, and another who stay abroad and start to throw stones to their fatherland. Go and read the history of the racial struggles around the world. Whether it be that of Mandela, whether it be that of Ithikastu, whether it be that of Nigeria and what have you. They stay within their communities to meet their agitation for independence, for freedom, for good governance. So to say they put the boot on the ground but for us here Simon Ekpa and his brother in detention will still have brothers that all dream people to stay at home to go and kill them all where as in the comfort because their homes are brought it is unfortunate and it's totally uncalled for. What do you think of America? I'm trying to understand. I showed us a pathway to go to collective freedom to achieve independence. You could get good governance through protest without embarking on a struggle. Let me just... I'm worried about, I want to know what law calls what Simon Ekpa or Simon Ekpa is doing. If he's staying there he's inciting people to kill as it is now we know people are being killed whether he sent them directly or not but it's because of what he's doing that these people have the opportunity to do this. Is that strong enough to call it terrorism by law or any other name that can be called by law? I think that is the case. Why is it difficult for Nigeria to have him brought back to the country? Is it that Finland can do what they like? Well, if you... I will take you back to history of the racial struggles around the world and order. Most times when people are dictating for freedom they fight it for independence. It's never when they are bad and the political and criticism because they are those who are dictating for the effort they have had. For any countries or the western world I don't want to release them to their own countries because they fear that they might be persecuted because they fear that they might not get their share doesn't mean fair trial and so they want to shield them from persecution. When Iran was agitated for change of government in Iran it lived in France. It stayed in France all the way through. If the custom went for one Latin America to its country to begin to wage the war of independence in Cuba you also remember that most of the southern African the British fighters who were not in prison with Nelson Mandela were scattered all over the world and the western world and African countries didn't want to release them to their party regime in South Africa. The reason why this is the case like I said is that they fear that they might not get their fair trial if they get back to their country that they might be persecuted and that they may even be executed and in some of these countries that penalty has to be a form of punishment administered by the state. For the Nigerian government in my humble opinion we owe some responsibility for what is happening in the southeast. The problem in the southeast can be easily resolved by organizing a referendum as regards the direction in which the people of the southeast want to go if the problem has persisted for more than 40, 50 years and an hour and it has refused to go the ethical thing for us to do as the people is to organize a referendum in the southeast and then those who want the southeast to receive a campaign for the decision the federal government will also campaign for the southeast to remain in Nigeria and whether wins at the referendum that will settle the issue in the southeast but the problem that we see in the southeast the blockchains that we are seeing from both sides either initiated by HIPOP or being treated by the federal government will also have this problem the fire of freedom has been created just a moment just a moment and the best way to resolve it is through dialogue and referendum let me just ask your opinion reached a point of referendum because there are things on the table that have been listed the same marginalization that is one of them and they are giving reasons why they are saying they want to leave I'm not seeing it as they just want to leave whatever it is but I think they want to leave if these things cannot be addressed do you think we have reached that point where we cannot still go to the round table and say okay what are these things that you have tabled before us how can we address it are we not at that point are we at the point of referendum already there is two ways dialogue cannot be ruled out but it doesn't appear that the Nigeria state will want to do dialogue on this matter if they were supposed to dialogue they would probably have released Namekano since different courts have given another for its release in fact the bill that has given it to Namekano and the other for its release by the different courts is a window of opportunity to begin to negotiate with AIPO and negotiate with the IBO people as you got the direction to go but we are not accessing that corridor of dialogue furthermore with regards to referendum like I said earlier on the agitation for civilian the southeast in fact the southeast went to war with Nigeria between 1967 and 1970 a very bloody civil war where there was no victory but ever since that time that's why there was no victory the agitation, the replacement the desire to pull the southeast out of Nigeria and make it an independent state has never died down it may sometimes be low in tempo but other times again it broke hard but what do you talk about it's not a new problem the other is my thing it's not a new problem this problem has lasted this long I should thank just a moment the thing is how do you assess the efforts by the Nigerian state to even address the problems no victory, no vanquish like you have said but as Nigeria deliberately brought out a policy or made the move to address these issues because the healing has not been done and it's this healing that we need so describe for me what you think about the effort of the Nigerian state to bring about this healing to the southeast you saw what happened in the last election how the way branded you saw what happens everywhere some people feel that they are not people to be trusted and we just need orientation but has Nigeria really done something deliberate enough to address this issue has Nigeria how do you assess the effort of Nigeria as a country to address the problems that have lingered like you said for over 40 years for an independent country out of the southeast do you rate it high or low the Nigerian state is not addressing that problem the thing that they can use force to stamp out the effort to stop the agitation in the southeast so if you stop the civil war and the upper the civil war the agitation refuse to die down and there is no a proliferation of organizations and military groups mass of high power and movement for some state of the Afro the Afro Zionist movement and what have you that should tell us that the use of violence is never likely to address that problem but like most states like most governments all over the world they hardly want to hear a situation they hardly want to see a situation in which any part of the country will want to secede or break away look at what has happened in Ethiopia Ethiopia went to war because the Tigray region or whatever were clamoring and agitating for independence they want to secede remember when Eritrea also wanted to secede from Ethiopia the people went to war at the end of the day they ended up on the dialogue table and Eritrea good care and independence it is in the nature of most governments most states around the world not want to concede independence to any units of this territory wanted to be independent but the reality is that when people are determined when people have results when people want to get their independence there is hardly any way you can stop them sooner than later they will get their independence it may be costly it may be bloody it may be very expensive but the reality is that you cannot suffocate a people to be independent you can stop them from nothing to an independent state so Nigeria should learn from history and then they do the right thing for let me say this when you look at the body language of most people from the southeast it is not impossible that if Nigeria goes into a referendum the majority of people in the southeast might want to remain in Nigeria because Nigeria is a bigger state in which their talents will be better displayed in which the people of the southeast can easily realize their ambition either in the area of business in the area of commerce either in the area of writing check around the world most of the tiny states most of the small states around the world they are not making impact globally it is the big country around the world like China like USA like Russia and what have you that can go to the moon that can explore the depth of the ocean that can come back on gigantic scientific research and get good results from it so if the southeast take cognizance of that I am sure most of the people among them from the southeast would like to remain in Nigeria so let the Nigerians come and do the right thing organize a referendum in the southeast and wherever we should get whatever it is but if the referendum is done and Nigeria wins and the problems continue that will just be another extension of the problems of Biafra coming to play but let's move to another thing before time finally finishes on this segment what is happening in the national assembly especially as regards the screening of ministerial screening of the nominees that is the word we have seen what has been happening we hear today on the point there is a story that today there is going to be another list to the national assembly remember that the president sent a list to beat the deadline and because he beat the deadline any other list that comes behind he is still safe so he is going to send another list but what is happening in the national assembly is what beats a lot of Nigerians although we don't understand what is happening the Senate has shielded aerofi from partition over insecurity in Kaduna so to speak are being shielded some of them are just taking a bow even though we know that in their states they have done very very badly but that would be my own measuring rod my own ruler my own yardstick to measure their performance or the Nigerian yardstick to measure their performance I don't know if the performance is measured differently by those in political power but now there is the thing the list is coming we've seen what is happening somebody went to the Senate with some papers and he didn't even qualify to be there but before he got nominated to be a minister he must have served in so many capacities in Nigeria doing one thing or the other and nobody ever ever thought about it now it is coming out people who are not qualified are being nominated from ministers to superintend over activities that will impact on our lives and then people who have maybe questionable characters are being shielded by the same Senate that is supposed to screen them so let me hear your thoughts of what is happening in the National Assembly or what has just happened in the screening of the ministerial nominees what is happening in the National Assembly is very very unfortunate let me begin first and foremost to say that with the two lists and all that but with all the people that might be getting appointed as ministers we might still be having a very very big government the Dumbura Namada of ministers and if you have been talking about the cost of governance and the need to reduce the cost of government one of the things we should do is to reduce the number of ministers that are most of the ministries that we presently have but that cannot be done because of the contents of the provisions of the constitution which prescribes that at least ministers must come from each of the states of the federation that we have certain number of ministries that must be manned by ministers so without that it's me the second area I want to address is that the way a man at the senate is conducting the screening is very very unfortunate it is not determined from what we used to have or what we had in the past and we people just wanted the senate to take a bow and then they get appointed I mean they get confirmed as a minister if you have worked screening in the US senate you will agree with me that what is that name in the senate is a caricature a kind of charade a charade of the screening process in a place like the US the legislator would have done his own work getting your data, your biography your history right from the day you were born the places you have lived the schools you have attended the work that you have done the number of girlfriends you have the number of male friends indictments if they are well triumph and successes and they will put this on the tables they will agree with you when they are conducting the screening nobody does ask you to take a bow and go away they will also agree with you as regards what improvement you might want to bring into governance we haven't seen all these things happening in the senate which regards to the present screening that is going on over there when you have somebody to take a bow you are assuming that it is perfect but it is not acceptable that it could do the job where are the minorities in case none of the people who are doing the screening today have had one political office of their own either as governors, either as ministers either as German ambassadors and corporations and norah if they have been running successes even all these people have been running successes Nigeria will not be in the final stage and we wish it is today the country is virtually bankrupt the economy is down agriculture is down security is nothing to write home about transportation is com at us and these are people who have been sharing their responsibility of ensuring that the Nigerians the Nigerians are coming the Nigerians people have good residents of democracy so once the people come to the national assembly or to the senate and you don't greet them as you get their performances in the other sectors in which they have been in which they have been heads in which they have been responsible as governors, ministers and what have been then you are not helping Nigeria as its fighter for them they are not assigning portfolios to people when they are planning before the senate is also not the best at all because the senate would have been able to ask these people questions based on the portfolio they are fine if a man is going to head the health ministry he might be able to ask him how is he going to improve improvement into the comatose sector in Nigeria how many number of hospitals he want to build how is he going to stop the brain drain of the medical staff inside him how is he going to bring an improvement to all the medical schools and what have you that drugs are put into Nigeria instead of being imported from China instead of being imported from Malaysia instead of being imported from Pakistan and India but because portfolios are not assigned because the people are telling before the senate you have to ask them very sensible questions as regards the value they will be bringing to the ministry which they will be heading eventually when the president assigns them their portfolios so the senate as it is today is not the entire national assembly might just be another of a staff like we have heard since the return to democracy in 1999 and that is going to be a tragedy if you think the business as you know with the problem that we have in our hands they walk out a president on the street and want to continue to conduct government business they will have been doing it in 1999 when they walk out on the street when the economy is short-term when schools are being increased from one university to the second school as well for God's sake this is not the direction in which to go it's not the direction we want to go at all but we do hope that something good will come up in the following days because let me leave it at that before I let you go in nature news we have this I'm not asking you to respond anyway but let me just let the people know research says heat waves pose threat to women globally in nature news that's what we have so you might want to read up on that if you're watching us right now how does it pose a threat to women globally federal government has launched a bull initiative to support 60,000 farmers to boost agricultural productivity and then electricity commission shares energy tips to help consumers reduce bills there are so many other headlines also on nature news that you might want to read them up because they are very important to you energy you want to reduce it how are you going to be part of this 60,000 farmers that will be given some support and then how does the heat wave pose a threat to women globally we've been talking about farmers and bandits allow farmers to operate that's another thing anyway we've been talking with Tunde Kolaulay thank you so much for being a part of this show thanks for having me my brother have a lovely day you too as we wrapped up with Tunde he asked a question will the bandits and kidnappers allow the farmers to even go to the farms while the federal government is thinking about giving money to farmers to go to the farms even if it is in billions if there is no security it will only mean that this money will go back to the kidnappers and bandits who will now capture them, get this money and then will still be in the kind of crisis that we are right now we'll take a short break and when we return we'll be talking with another guest


Makka is a very interesting little root. This Peruvian plant only grows in the most inhospitable parts of Andes, yet it has exploded in popularity in recent years as an aphrodisiac and fertility booster. But does it work? Let's find out. Here's what's up Greg here from your inception. If you want to learn top secrets about nitropics, subscribe below to start your journey. Oh, and don't forget to press the bell icon as well. What exactly is Makka? Makka plant, also called Peruvian ginseng, mainly grows in the Andes at very high altitudes, about 4,000 meters. It had to adapt to large temperature differences, high UV factor, lack of oxygen and even strong wind. Now in this cruel environment, it managed to win the battle for survival. Now no wonder then that Inca warriors believed that they would be invincible in battle thanks to eating Makka. And the main part of this plant is its root, which ranges from white-white color to black, and it is available in powder forms or in pills. But the main question is, does Makka really work? And should you supplement it? Let's find out. Now, why is Makka so highly nutritious? Makka contains some important minerals and vitamins. It is a good source of carbs and fiber, and it is also low in fat. Makka contains minerals such as copper, iron, zinc, calcium and potassium, and you can also find in it vitamin B2, B6 and C vitamin. So as you can see, it has a lot of ingredients and nutrients that have prune benefits. But what does it mean when all are combined? Well Makka offers a whole range of different benefits. It can potentially boost your energy, it works as a mutant enhancer, it helps with endurance, it can release stress, it can speed up wound healing, it works as a memory booster, and most importantly, why it is known for, is higher fertility, libido and sexual power. Now when it comes to sexual power, we have found many studies confirming the benefits on libido and fertility improvement for men and women. Now in a double-blind study that was made in 2002, researchers gave men 1.5 grams of Makka, 3 grams or a placebo daily for 12 weeks, and after 2 months, men in the Makka groups confirmed higher sexual desire. Now a few more studies confirmed the effects of Makka on depressed men and women, and in both studies increased libido was reported. While these studies can be very subjective, there are quite a few coming to the same conclusion. Some more studies confirmed higher sperm count, and one proved that it can improve erectile dysfunction. So what the Inca warriors believe that it can improve your sexual power may actually be true. The mystery here is that scientists do not know what exactly causes a greater sexual desire, because sex hormones, testosterone and extra can all stay the same during the studies. Now what about the side effects, are there any? Now Makka is considered a very safe supplement. It was included in many studies for up to 3 months with no adverse side effects. On top of that, locals eat it almost every day without any problems. Of course the main issue remains is the way you get Makka and the quality of it. There are brands that get very low quality Makka which can even contain mold or other toxins so you have to be aware of that. We suggest buying it from quality brands where you can be 100% sure of its origin and quality. Most noticeable side effects if it comes to them are jittery, brain fog, thyroid problems and even insomnia. If you experienced any, do see your doctor to be on the safe side.  And the standard dosage of Makka extract is somewhere around 2-5 grams per day.  So the final question is does Makka work? Well according to our research it seems it does, so do try it out and then let your partner comment below so we can all see if it really works or not. Thank you for watching this video guys, don't forget to subscribe to this channel, follow your inception on Facebook and Instagram, please press the like button and we hope to see you soon again, take care.


This paper examines the early development of four academic health services centers, AHSCs, in Australia. These centers were created with the goal of accelerating the translation of research into practice and improving the commercialization of scientific inventions. The authors found that these centers have been successful in achieving this goal, as evidenced by increased collaboration between academia and industry, improved patient outcomes, and greater investment in innovation. However, further research is needed to determine how these centers can best be used to maximize their potential impact on healthcare delivery. This article was authored by Ewan Furley.


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Hello men, welcome to the session. It says integrate the following function 25 is x plus 2 upon root over 4x minus x square. So let's start with the solution and we have to integrate this function. So we have integral x plus 2 upon root over 4x minus x square into dx. Now its numerator x plus 2 can be written as a into derivative of the function 4x minus x square with respect to x plus b. This implies that x plus 2 is equal to a into 4 minus 2x plus b or we have minus 2a is equal to 1 and 4a plus b is equal to 2. So this implies a is equal to minus half and from here b is equal to 2 plus 4 upon 2 which is equal to 4 plus the integral x plus 2 upon root over 4x minus x square can be written as integral minus half into 4 minus 2x plus 4 upon root over 4x minus x square since x plus 2 is equal to a into 4 minus 2x plus b and a is minus half and b is 4 into dx. So it can further be written as minus half integral 4 minus 2x upon root over 4x minus x square into dx plus integral dx upon root over 4x minus x square. Now let us solve both of these integrals one by one. First we are starting with integral 4 minus 2x upon root over 4x minus x square into dx. Now we are left t is equal to 4x minus x square. So this implies dt is equal to 4 minus 2x into dx. So this integral is further written as dt upon root over t and this is further equal to 2 root over t plus c1 where c1 is a constant so this is equal to 2 root over 4x minus x square plus c1. So this can further be written as minus half into 2 into root over 4x minus x square plus c1. Now we have to integrate this second integral that is dx upon root over 4x minus x square. Now 4x minus x square can be written as 2 square minus x minus 2 whole square. Now using the formula if we have a polynomial of the type ax square plus bx plus c then it can be written as a into x plus b upon 2 a whole square plus c upon a minus b square upon 4a square. Now this integral can further be written as dx upon root over 2 square minus x minus 2 whole square. And this is further equal to sin inverse x minus 2 upon 2 plus c2. Thus this integral can be written as 4 into sin inverse x minus 2 upon 2 plus c2. So this is further equal to minus root over 4x minus x square plus 4 times of sin inverse x minus 2 upon 2 plus c1 plus c2 and this is equal to let c. So we have minus root over 4x minus x square plus 4 sin inverse x minus 2 upon 2 plus c. Thus on integrating the given function we get minus root over 4x minus x square plus 4 sin inverse x minus 2 upon 2 plus c. So this completes this equation by integral.