तो आए जो रही आपश्चें आप प्षों. वआपने कुछटिदथ क्या हो आत्यट्टा? टिन्बार्ट थोस कोछोगे वगट्टिदअ आपटया कि तो कुछिन रहा होंगा टिन्बार्ट क्या होंगा? या एक लगट्टिदउड्टिदउड्टूओगा? आक कह चिधिब वह रहा होगा्या तिस्ुजा होँ उस्छी तूओवोंगिजा है यह लाज कलेक्resses आंफाल यह टेटा भेस तूब तो ती टेटाभेस देटा. ती के लाज कलेक्चन यह तेष्त कर देटा भेस. ती के तो बी यस्चा सही आं सो है. ती चीर्ज ण आप ज़ेनाद कौस्ने है. A teacher collects the errors of learners of her class and discusses them with her learners once in two weeks. What is this known as? So simple to say that a teacher sees the errors of her students. And after seeing the errors, what she does is she discusses them with the students of her class once in two weeks. So the teacher sees what are the weaknesses and what are the mistakes and after that she discusses them. So what is this process called? Error correction or be feedback or grammar teaching or D remedial teaching. What is this called? Tell me quickly. It seems very difficult. Why don't you understand that you are not giving an exam here? You are preparing for an exam here. You are practicing. You don't find it difficult in the exam. That is why you are being brought here. Keep all the questions in your mind here. You are not repeating the question here. You are taking the question of every kind and teaching it to you. So that what seems difficult will be found here. You are preparing for the future. Don't do it wrong in the exam. That is why you are being brought here. Do what you have to do and learn from it. Okay? So if you say that it seems difficult, that means your preparation is lacking. And do that preparation here. Okay? Because the exam will not be according to you. The questions will not be according to you. They will be like that. Okay? Okay. So what is here? We call this process as feedback. Okay? So what is the feedback? That you are making a mistake or mistake. Mainly. Or else you can write whatever you want. You can write whatever you want. Okay? So what is the feedback process? Question number 5. Language acquisition is... Language acquisition what happens? Option A. Conscious and deliberate. This is a little bit here. Conscious and deliberate. B. Natural and deliberate. C. Natural and subconscious. D. Language procession. Language acquisition what happens? That means the language you are acquiring, learning in some environment, how does it come? A child is born in India, in a place where he speaks Hindi. He will learn to speak Hindi. The one who is born in England, he will learn to speak English himself. So language acquisition is natural and subconscious. Because you are not paying attention to it. You are not consciously doing it. He comes in his own ears and you want to learn. Absolutely Om Narayan. Continue and do it carefully. It is very important. Okay? So this is done. Move ahead. Question number 6. Which of the following is true of English language in India? In India the English language is related to it. What is true? Option A. It is one of the languages of Schedule of Indian Constitution. Okay? So Indian Constitution's schedule is one of the languages. Okay? Option B. It is the associate official language of the Indian Union. Indian Union's associate official language is C. It is the official language of the Indian Union. Is it twice? It is the... Okay. Is it the associate official language of the Indian Union? Or it is the official language of the Indian Union? And option D. It is one of the languages of the recognized languages by the Constitution. Tell me. What is true about it? What is English in India? Option B. It is absolutely true that English is an associate official language of the Indian Union. Okay? Okay. Let's move on to question number 7. The first question is about money. Okay? So let's look at the money. It is about money. Read the passage given below and answer the question. Complete the statement. Either you have to answer the question or complete the statement. That is followed by choosing the options out of the given ones. You have to select the options. The next question is about money. Lying in bed, Swami realized with a shutter that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it had been the last period on Friday. Already Monday was here. He hoped that an earthquake would reduce the building to dust. But that school building has withstood similar prayers for over a hundred years now. At 9 o'clock, Swami Nathana wailed. I have a headache. Have you any important lessons today? His mother asked. Important that geography teacher has been teaching the same lesson for over a year now. And we have arithmetic which means for a whole period we are going to be beaten by the teacher. And mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home. Half an hour later father asked him have you no school today? Headache. Swami replied. Swami replied. Dress up and go. His father said Swami knew how stubborn his father was. So he changed his tactics. I can't go so late to the class. It is your own fault. You should have asked me before deciding to stay away. Father said. By the time he was ready father had compelled me to go to school. He said. I can't go so late to the class. I can't go so late to the class. I can't go so late to the class. My father had composed a long letter to the headmaster. Put it in an envelope and sealed it. What have you written father? Swami Nathan asked apprehensively. Nothing for you. Give it to your headmaster and go to your class. You must bring acknowledgement from him in the evening. As he approached the yellow building of the letter in his pocket he felt it like an executioner. For a moment he was angry with his father and wondered why he should not fling into the gutter the letter of a man so unreasonable and stubborn. Okay. So this is the message. Now we will see the related questions. Swami didn't want to go to school because he had a headache option B. He had not done his mass work C. He didn't like going to school or D. He was afraid of his school principal. Tell me, what do you think? Tell me quickly, what do you think? He was making excuses for headache and he didn't do the mass work. There is no such data anywhere. Why did he make excuses? Because he didn't like going to school. So C is the right answer. He didn't like going to school. Question number 8 The school had been in existence for a decade, a century, half a century more than a century. Since when was the school in existence? Tell me quickly. What will be the answer? Do mention the question number. Absolutely correct. Those who have told the correct answer because in the passage it was there for over a hundred years. So more than a century is the right answer. Question number 9 Read the following statements. Read the statements. One is way to his school's red building Swami was very angry with his father. Second, he wanted the school building to be absolutely destroyed. Third, he was sure that his prayers would be answered. What are these three? Option is 1st & 3rd are false but 2nd is true. B is 1st & 2nd are false but 3rd is true. C is 2nd & 3rd are false but 1st is true. D is 1st & 2nd are true but 3rd is false. What do you think? Consider the statement and answer it. What do you think? What do you think? Okay. So, C is 9th & D is C Look here, the word has been played with you. Because in the passage Swami was very angry but the school building was not red, it was yellow. Okay. So, this statement was wrong with this word. He wanted the school building to be absolutely destroyed. Because in the beginning he wanted the earthquake to be completely destroyed. He was sure that his prayers would be answered as if no data has been given. Okay. So, only 2nd is correct and let's see where it has been given. Option A is 1st & 3rd are false but 2nd is true. A is the right answer. Okay. So, this word play happens in the passage. Okay. The whole statement is correct because of which the statement has been wrong. Question number 10 Swami's relations with his father was Option A Cordial Option B Fearful Option C Respectful Option D Affection A How is it with your father? Easy. He will have to re-check. Every time you give the answer you should re-check from the passage for assurance. In the passage he knew that his father is stubborn so he changed the excuse and when he got the letter he was also scared. His relation with his father was of a very fearful type so 10th is your right answer. Question number 11 Read the following statements. Read the statements. Swami was anxious to know what his father had written in the letter. Second He thought about destroying the letter. So, there are two options. Option A is 1st is false but 2nd is true. B is both. 1st & 2nd are false. Option B is 1st is true but 2nd is false and D is both 1st & 2nd are true. What should be the answer? Simple answer Question number 11 The answer is very simple and easy. Swami did not know what is written in the letter so he was anxious to know what is written in the letter.  Both are correct so option D is your right answer. Both 1st & 2nd are true. Move to question number 12 He felt it lie and executioner The underlined word is a or an. Executioner, tell me what is it? Is it verb, noun, adverb or adjective? If you have not read your passage you can also tell what is the meaning of executioner which part of speech is it? Executioner means the executioner who executes someone's punishment so executioner is a kind of noun because it is a name so it is a noun so option D is your right answer. Move to question number 13 Swaminathan veiled in paragraph 1 Swaminathan veiled so the underlined word means underlined word may be you do not know the meaning of veil so once you go to the passage and see what the veil is what can happen guess it it is written here at 9 o'clock Swaminathan veiled I have a headache so what is the meaning of veil let's see okay so the meaning of veil is option A is right option B is approved approved approved or shouted or gloated simple is here so what is the meaning of veil alright so the age of 13 who has also told is absolutely right the meaning of veil is to cry loudly and cry in the same sense but you know when you want to say when the veil is a little bigger when you want to say okay when you cry it is right question number 14 how stubborn his father was the word stubborn here is used as stubborn word option A verb option B verb option C noun option D adjective how stubborn his father was how stubborn his father was the stubborn word option B is used which part of speech is stubborn it is very simple you can understand what stubborn is doing telling someone's quality telling something about a person okay so simple is the answer adjective right understand one more thing grammatical structure is how we use adjective it becomes adverb okay adverb how stubborn how bad you are how bad you are how bad you are right so question number 15 a learner centered class option A helps teachers make decisions in class and makes them self reliant B considers learning to be a responsibility of the teacher C supports a small number of students ignoring the majority in the class or D takes into consideration prior knowledge and experiences of the learner so learner centered class what is the right answer okay let me tell you learner centered class it focuses on practice like we have discussed group discussion debate give them topics so their prior knowledge to execute the learning this becomes learner centered class according to which the answer should be D takes into consideration prior knowledge and experiences of the learner okay question number 16 what is inclusion in language education in language education what is inclusion option A it includes practical strategies adapted by teacher to suit learner need learners need it includes all aspects of schooling for instance financial resources constructing school communities C it refers to incorporating new technology oriented methods in traditional classrooms or D it involves a transformed view of language teaching incorporating a social or interactive perspective tell me what should be the answer what is the right answer to question number 16 okay so its answer will be D what we do in inclusion that we involve transformed view of language okay teaching incorporating a social interactive perspective move ahead question number 17 reflection in language teaching education option A means conscious, experientially informed thought B includes aspects of evaluation and problem solving leading to new insights and understanding C includes aspects of general cognitive abilities road learning and repetition based practice or D is understanding how routine decision making informed practice tell me what is it you must be aware of reflection word reflection is 17th B I will explain it first understand it okay so what you are saying in reflection you evaluate problem okay and after that with a new insight understand it reflection many times question is given to you and you are not understanding it is understood in a different way with a different sense with a different method reflection okay explain it in 16th there is nothing special inclusion sense is understood what is in inclusion in inclusion transformed view of language teaching incorporating a social or interactive perspective social or interactive perspective teaching language transformed view changed view inclusion okay simple term you have to see to study it in detail your classes are going on if you are studying you will see in practice you cannot study in detail because classes are different to study option 18 prakash used a reading passage to teach past perfect tense he gave examples explained the rules to the students and practiced the structures students are still not doing well on practice activities suggestions for prakash are provided below choose the one that does not fit okay so question is understood that prakash read the passage to teach past perfect tense after that he gave examples along with example he explained to the students practiced the structures after that the students are not performing well on practice activities so what are the suggestions for prakash and among these suggestions there is one that does not fit you have to tell so suggestion is communicate better with students and help them practice often or B motivate students and provide short explanations addressing learners level of knowledge or C bring audio recordings to class and ask them to listen to it repeatedly or D employ a choral drills to teach grammar tell me what will happen this is confusing there will be a lot in some questions I have already said that in pedagogy you cannot do all questions because it is somewhere it is tough so what will be the answer among these there is no answer obviously those who have said C there is no C is not a suggestion because they bring recording and they teach it so it is quite difficult to improve your listening ability yes you can say that it will work but it will not come in suggestion and drills become important everywhere in teaching grammar because you have to know what they have learnt and if you connect with them then it becomes easy for students question number 19 which of the following statements regarding text based grammar lessons is incorrect which of the following statements regarding text based grammar lessons is incorrect which is incorrect option A text based grammar lessons help you focus on all uses of a grammar point all uses of a grammar point B. text based grammar lessons follow a guided discovery approach where students find out about the language themselves yes see while planning text based grammar lessons teachers should create text of their own to yadi these lessons involve explicit grammar teaching and explicit grammar teaching and describe the rules of learners what will be what do you think question number 19 what do you think see the text based grammar lessons are wrong text is also involved grammar lessons grammar rules are also involved so the answer should be explicit grammar teaching and describe the rules of learners wait a minute first I have more questions text based grammar lessons follow a guided discovery okay okay D is correct these lessons are mainly the rules of grammar for learners are involved okay D is the right answer question number 20 which of the following is not a concept from language education concept taken from language education is not one of these last question today's practice is yours today's practice is a little early because there was only one passage okay tell me which of the following is not a concept from language education critical period hypothesis or B comprehensible input or C brain lesson and control or D positive reinforcement which of the following is not the concept of language education look brain lesson and control these are the types of damage in the brain so these are not the concept of language education right critical period hypothesis this is the concept of language education comprehensible input positive reinforcement but only C is your brain lesson and control this is not a concept of language education so these are the 20 questions I have brought to you today and you have given most of the answers which is wrong then set it in your mind that this practice is done because you learn from these questions and save them in your memory so that in the next exam if the same question comes then you can answer it okay so do not think that you will do 100% only if someone is coming who you are taking 100% then the benefit of your practice is that you are not learning anything means you are showing the same which comes to you you are doing 100% and what is the benefit of repeating it the benefit is when you learn something new and now is the time when we can learn so the students who are taking classes they are studying and will study and the who are taking classes this practice is very beneficial because they are getting new questions and they can remember okay so you can get those related questions in the exam so try to learn new and grab whatever you get write it somewhere and note it and understand one more thing if it is so easy then every person can qualify why so few people qualify it is tough it is difficult yes but it is tough it is not impossible it is difficult but it is not impossible so practice makes a man perfect and I say this again and again that no one does all the questions so try to do more questions okay so today's session is over we will meet in next session again with new questions practice set till then bye Jai Hind


So at what point is saying I'm sorry past being polite I've noticed that women are apologizing for everything. Is it too much Amber? I think it's too much I had a friend that apologized every second of the day. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm sorry, and I just got tired of it and I told her one time I said stop saying sorry and she was like You know applaud by the fact that I told her to stop saying sorry Well, I think even apologies. The I'm sorry has lost the actual meaning of right I'm sure and being sorry because we hear it so many times. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I think it's okay. I have to say I'm sorry because of my clients when I do hair make-up I do something they don't like it. I'm sorry. Let me change it In a relationship Know it look good. Are you gonna say like I'm sorry? I wouldn't what is that cut off that limit part? I'm an instructor and I did have a student approach me and say you know for someone who teaches us to be confident And to believe in ourselves and put ourselves out there. I noticed that you say you're sorry a lot and That called you out. Yeah, and it took me back and I had to think about it like Whoa, and then when I was hearing myself and then I was so self-conscious about it every time I said it And so I think yeah, definitely. I was saying it too much without really being conscious Cheryl see I don't actually volunteer that many of them unless it's something that is truly sincere, right? I have no problem admitting when I've done something wrong, and I will definitely apologize for that But in terms of just peppering speech with them. Absolutely, that comes from your expertise as a human relations Professional, you know what? Maybe maybe it does. I mean I can think of a perfect example There was a person at my church who asked me if I would be willing to volunteer to sit on a particular committee I told her I would get back to her because I wasn't gonna just you know commit to it right away And ultimately she came back to me and for that I did apologize because the answer was no, so that's No, and I'm sorry And I had left because it was for kids and when I came back one of the teachers came up to me and said Your daughter my niece but she was so your daughter won't apologize to this child and you're and she has to leave And I said okay. Well, let me tell her that she needs to apologize You need to say you're sorry and she said no I said why not you have to say you're sorry and she said why I'm not sorry. Why should I have to say I'm sorry and I didn't really fully get the full story of what happened But I noticed years later. I ran in the same situation with my daughter And I thought maybe it was just that child, but he was also my own child No, I don't want to say I'm sorry and I said honey, you have to say you're sorry And I was teaching her that she needed to say she was sorry even though she was not sincere about it Well, right So should we do that to children even as ourselves to force somebody to say sorry to us if they don't necessarily mean it I would do that to get out of situations. I mean, I'll admit it I will give an apology even if I'm not really sincere about it in a way. I know I'm just servicing myself Absolutely No, I'm good actor I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. All my sorrows have been sincere to you But you know what that actually brings up a good question because how do you because obviously we need to teach You know our kids our daughters, you know our little girl, you know But our kids in general we need to teach them, you know, how to how to give us a seropology But then is it is it, you know youthful stubbornness or is it a custom that we're teaching them It's customary to say I'm sorry I'm gonna make them long and try to abuse them Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry You know, and it does sometimes that the more women apologize the more vulnerable or weak Sometimes will appear and a wise man once told me you said a woman shouldn't apologize for nothing Who wise men is that? But listen to the point in that is you shouldn't apologize for who you are No, and I think I think so many people do that. They'll apologize for being successful They'll just apologize for their situation and like as a way of sympathizing with somebody But that's something we should be, you know ashamed of Anna. What do you think? I think like I said in relationships I'm sorry because it is why I mean if you can't accept me for who I am, but Why do you deserve a check with me? You're so strong enough.  I mean what in you?  Like they have to play dumb or something to get a good guy like you know, so it brings out almost like an insecurity in me It does it does but then I stop for a minute there. I'm like I'm not sorry I mean, okay, but on their subject of apologies Is it appropriate to ask or demand an apology from somebody? Yes, you know, absolutely. If someone has treated you in a manner that you know is unacceptable for you Then you need to let them know about it and you need to let them know It's like hey, we need to start fixing this and here is how I expect you to fix it Yeah, you know, I obviously own whatever part of it you need to but Well, then if you know, it's okay, it's okay not to have friends all the time not everybody has to be your friend Right, and I'm on the same page with you because at some point if you tell if you don't tell somebody Hey, you need to apologize to me because you hurt my feelings You may not know why but it happens and but let me explain to you Absolutely, so it's got to be followed up with an explanation No, there's a lot of wisdom in that because I'm you know, I'm in a situation now where I'm I have a friend He's a young man and I'm I'm somewhat displeased with his behavior And at one point I almost just threw in the talent said, you know what screw it. I'm out And then I said, you know what I haven't given him I haven't informed him of what the actual problem is So I need to give him the opportunity to make it right before I just check in the tower Or have you ever done the classic apology where you don't know what you've done wrong, but it must have been something I am so sorry for whatever I did But I'm sorry that you're upset by it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You don't do that, Amber. No, I don't You're not wrong. I'm sorry when I'm needed Okay, well lesson learned. Apologize when you need it. Stay tuned for more everyway woman when we come back from this break Thanks for watching Coming up next more everyway woman You and every woman As women we take care of everyone else Well, we often choose to forget to take about our take care of ourselves Dr. Sherry Thomas is here to talk to us about the importance of checkups and taking care of ourselves Thank you. Dr. Thomas for joining us I'm gonna be the first to say I don't take care of myself. Why should women go to the doctor? Well, if you don't take care of yourself, you can't take care of everybody else That is true. That is true But again, so when I decide to go to the doctor, what should I be asking my doctor since I've taken so long to get there Well, if you haven't been in over a year, you need to think about just a yearly exam a yearly checkup So women over 21 need to check their blood pressure They're cholesterol have a pap smear and a pelvic exam And then the doctor should go over different screening risk for you your family history Do you have a family history of high blood pressure diabetes? Are you up to date on your immunizations? And then Uh ask you about other things such as do you exercise? Do you eat well? And do you smoke now when you ask all those questions? That would mean that a woman would need to know her body What how can we educate our women on knowing their bodies? Well, think about your body in terms of anything else you maintain Think about what you've heard And what your other girlfriends say and also online you can look online in terms of recommendations based on your age Of what you should have checked We all know once we hit 20 we should start doing breast exams We all know once we become sexually active. We should start having pelvic exams and being screened for sexually transmitted diseases We all know once we hit 50 or we should know we need screening for colon cancer Right a very common cause of death in women So In in knowing your body and I'll use myself like the other day I did an exam for myself and I felt the lump and I still haven't gone to the doctor Because I'm making those excuses of you know not going too busy, etc When I get to the doctor Usually they have me come in and out What are some of the questions that I can ask the doctor to let them know I need your time I need you to spend some quality time with me Right, so you want to be specific you're making an appointment just for This lump right okay and not for your yearly exam Okay, so focus on your breast and not oh, I also have a here earache and I might have a cold today Can you look at that focus on your lump in your breast? Tell him or her how long it's been there You have a family history of breast cancer. When was your last mammogram and that I do breast exams every month and this is new or you know I just saw a show and I saw on this breast exam and this has been there maybe just a week or two But you know dr. Thomas and again, I have to use myself sometimes it's so Difficult going to the doctor because you don't feel like your physician is an advocate and you feel like they just throw you in there They feel on you and they send you out How will I know if I'm with the right doctor or how do I find a doctor that will be an advocate for me Oh, that's an even better question Then what to focus on for that little appointment find a primary care provider It may not be a doctor. It may be a nurse practitioner a physician assistant But find a primary care provider Who you feel comfortable talking to that you can tell this person everything You can tell them all these intimate details that you're going to need to tell them Things that you might not tell your mother or your sister or your best friend Because they need to know that and they need to listen so that they can help you Get through whatever it is you're going through So my daughter's going to go away in college and we're starting to have this conversation about you know when you're away Mommy's not there anymore What do I tell her when she's in another state about looking for a doctor? Should I be involved in the process or should I just let her handle it? Well, one of the things she'll ask is her friends, which is what we do Yes, you have a doctor you like and so they've been screened. There's also ways online We can look at credentials of the doctor and then meet the doctor and see if you like the doctor or the Nurse practitioner or whomever you've chosen with your daughter going to school a lot of times They will have a clinic and the clinic has several different health care providers Oh, but that's so impersonal, but you know actually you get some great Doctor I've I've had some friends that have Worked at different university programs and you get some great doctors too, but they have a lot of the nurses and The the their friends will say oh go see this person They'll go get this taken care of and it's actually geared more towards students and not somebody My but I think the message is the most important thing is that she needs to go to the doctor And not be like her mother and wait to the last minute, right? She needs to take care of herself There you go. Know where it is know what their hours are right when if they're not there you need to go to the emergency room Know where the local emergency room is or or find a doctor in town that everybody else calls when they're closed on Saturday or Sunday Okay, well, I have to tell you you've inspired me. I am going to go to I'm going to go to the doctor I'm going to make an appointment We take care of everyone before you can take care of others. You have to take care of yourself women Go to the doctor. Don't be like me. Go to the doctor Stay tuned for more Everyway woman. We will be right back We'll be back with everyday fitness All right, so clear some space in your living room because lisa is going to show us how we can do circuit training in your very own home This is every way woman Some of you don't think you can get a good workout at home But it's easier than you think and there are a lot of benefits. So lisa snow is here to tell us all about them Lisa, so what do we need to get a good workout at home? Well really at home? You already have your equipment. Okay, and so I don't have this thing. Well, you can go out and buy one This is a bozu And the great thing about working out at home is you can buy your equipment if you really want it And then you can make a one-time payment and then you can do anything you want with it Is this something like this expensive or no, it's not compared to a gym membership or there you go Yeah, you it's a one-time payment and you can use it however you want. Okay. So what do I do with it? So this is a bozu and you can use it Standing this way you can flip it over you can do it ever but right now we're going to work on our abs with it okay, so A good exercise for the bozu is you can have see it's a little wobbly So it makes you use your core and stabilize you put your hands on the floor and you just extend your feet out And bring them in tighten your core as you do it And you can do So many reps you can do until you have a burnout or you can do three sets of 10 You might be a little less reps than you think I mean how advanced do I have to be let me figure this thing out You don't you it's all to your level so if you need to put your hands down flat on the floor You can do that just until yep. Yeah, cool. It's definitely wobbly. Yeah, so Okay, do you want to put my hands down?  I usually lounge in them, but I could try something else. Why not? So it's basically the same kind of thing as you did with the bozu because it's raising you off the ground And you can still do this and when your feet go out They're not on the ground like they would be if you're flat And you do the same thing contract your core And since you have two pillows on each top of each other, it makes you have the same resistance Now is this an alternative to this or do I need both things? It's an alternative Okay, yes, if you don't feel like buying bozu right away you and you want to work up to the bozu Start on the pillows. This is pretty hard too. Exactly That's the whole point But look at me go. I know you're doing great. That's awesome So just as long as you keep contracting the core and you have your stabilization you're also you're all set Okay, what do I do with the weight dumbbells? I love dumbbells because you can work out any part of your body. You can do the normal curls talking to me You could do the normal curls. You could do the shoulders You can even do the legs. You can lift anything you want Cool thing with dumbbells is If you don't have them You can actually use kanda soup. You can use water bottles And even if they're light the more repetitions you have the harder the workout Okay, so you're gonna grab the dumbbells. What's a good like standard weight for people to have? Should I do starting off? You can yep buys up curls Soften your knees a little bit make sure you're not hyper extending and there you go Okay, you already got it. You can you already use pickle jars I'm already advanced. You're already advanced once you hit the pickle jars. You're good. You're you're big time at pickle jars Okay, good time So and if it's light and you say you ask what kind of weight that you start with you can start with five pounds You can start a little heavier if you want But the lighter it is you have to up the reps. Well, that's what I'm thinking I mean you say soup cans. I mean how many reps do I have to do like I would be doing it for like 100 200 reps Just you're at home. So turn on some soaps or turn on a good tv show and just keep curling And once you start to feel it Just keep working at it and also you can take a break.  Keep going. So you never sit still That's that's how you get that right up. Yep. Keep the heart right up and you're all good Okay, what else should I do with these dumbbells? So what else you can do is you can probably not bounce them together Well, if you're feeling musical go for it.  How far down I mean do I have to go all the way down? Yeah, I mean ideally you can get a 90 degree angle with your knees But um if you're just starting out again until you feel the pressure and just push right back Okay, well, these are some great tips and you know if you can't make it out to the gym You have no excuses to pull out the soup cans. We'll be back with more every way woman. Thanks so much Every day kitchen is next with every way woman She is a young professional and a woman in a man's world. So today we're interviewing manji Urias Welcome to the show. You're running your family's business. Yes gas. It's it's a lot. That's a lot of pressures So how old were you when you you know started working with your family? I was probably around 17 or 18 years old right out of high school Was it always expected that you would step into this role? I think so I think my dad's always kind of had that feeling in the back of his mind That he's always wanted me to take over for him one day when whenever he decides to retire Which is probably gonna be never but what about your mom? My mom um, she helps out with the businesses But she's more of like the homemaker and stuff But she definitely is there to help out whenever we need it I can only imagine they'd be very hands-on. Does the business ever turn off? Is it just family ever at the dinner table or a holiday? I think there's there's spurts and moments when it happens, but not all the time I mean business is always on our mind branding is always on our mind So everywhere we go everything we do the brand is the first thing that just pops to mind And it's always the first conversation starter But was it always what you wanted for yourself? Um, not in the beginning at first I was like I want to be a lawyer then I went to school got into the whole justice system And then I was like I really want to get into probation and parole I interned at the probation department and everything Yeah, I was I was so into it. I love the justice system. It's always been a passion But you also love tequila. Yes Exactly you chose to become the marketing director of you know your family's business instead And it's a man's world the spirit industry. It is it is it's it's it's very different You get you get a lot of those stairs and you know little snark remarks here and there But I I mean I've never really had anybody say anything directly to me, but you just know they're saying something Yeah, you know because I mean it is such a male dominated category and I I haven't been down personally to Mexico To put the recipes and stuff together my dad did all that himself But from what I understand even that process was so hard Especially considering the fact that we aren't mexican and we're not any type of latinos and let's talk about that for a minute So I love us that community embrace You know a non mexican tequila. I think it comes from Mexico Yeah, it comes from Mexico. So it is made in Mexico But I think initially from when my dad tells the stories you hear all the different hardships he went through And it was hard because people people laughed at them They're like an indian in mexico trying to make tequila to sell in america. Like what what is going on? Nothing My head is spinning just trying to put those pieces together And I can only imagine then how you must feel as a woman walking in who's you know a woman indian you're young You have all this responsibility How do you navigate that? Um, I I'm a very I guess you could say I'm a little ocd when it comes to things sometimes and so most of us are Yeah, I'm very organized I always like to be in control and stuff and so I like to have my stuff planned out And I I like to see it all scheduled and and I'm sure you approached it that way But there must have been you know your first mistake that you made when you stepped into the role And it's your family's business. I mean the pressure's on right. I think I think one of the probably the biggest Things that I did in the beginning was maybe I walked into it and I was like tequila. Yes. All right We're gonna drink and have fun You know Especially being younger we started this business four years ago. So I was in my almost late 20s So I was I was more in like a party mode and I was ready to just go out and celebrate sell tequila Get everybody to drink and get the party started and I think that's where I needed to kind of step back a little bit And be like, okay, this is business. I need to be a little more professional At what point did you learn that lesson? Um, I think just kind of starting right into it because like you said being a female in the industry being a young female And not a latina. It's it's difficult because was there ever the point you partied a little too hard Not not and work events. No. No, I have not so anything we've done with tequila has always tempted me and The next stage shows I don't know how I could you know step into work without it showing on my face Yeah, I I'm I'm sure I've done it plenty of times when I was younger But what would you advise for you know a woman stepping into a man's world like this? um, I would say stay strong just stay focused and remember that There's there's a lot on your plate and you want to show the boys that you're better, you know, so Absolutely. So what's next for you? Well, um recently I started a nonprofit So I'm getting into that full time as well on top of everything I do with the tequila company So I have I have a lot of different goals and ambitions and things I want to do and I'm getting started Okay, so you're going to take your next steps and in this nonprofit. What about, you know, family business Family family. I love my family. We are all very very close. So you're going to keep it going Yes All right Well, I want you to come back to the show and we're going to include you in a few more segments because I cannot just talk about tequila without tasting Definitely, you have to try some all through a premium sophisticated and always a good time Yes, always Stay tuned for some really great segments with manji. Thank you so much for being here We'll catch you next time for more information. Go to everywaywoman.com. That was great. I mean and how cute I'm an everyday woman and never we wear


What is a reprobate? Well, most of us, even if we don't know what the actual definition of it is, most of us, if not all of us, as a matter of fact, all of us, we can point to an example. We've seen a reprobate person. We've seen the person whose mind is so depraved, and that's really what the word means, who they just exhibit. We don't have to know the exact definition without, before we see it, we just know it and then, oh, that's what that person is. And so let's go to where we find this word and where it's spoken of in Romans chapter 1, let's go to verse 28, he says, and even as they did not like to retain the God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Now, this word typically shows up, or really only shows up, in the King James Version, if I'm correct. But what does the word mean? It comes from the Greek word adachimus, which is to be unqualified, to be depraved, to be worthless, to be rejected. And so in this case, God has basically passed over them. They are so depraved. They are so really unworthy. And truth be told, all of us are unworthy. There's no one who is necessarily worthy of themselves. However, it is God who calls us to be worthy, who makes us so. It's him who first does so. But these are people, now, getting into the nuance of it as to why would he leave someone? Because could God change a person's mind? Could God take someone who seems to be so unworthy, who seems to be so depraved? Could he change them? Well, sure. As a matter of fact, he's done that a lot. As a matter of fact, he's always done that. So what's the difference between the people who he leaves in that state and those whom he doesn't? Well, we don't know. We can't get into God's mind and figure out why are these people left as reprobate, whereas others are not. There are some people who were worse off or just as bad as some of the people, the most outlandish examples that we've seen. And then now they are serving the Lord. How could that be? Well, that's a God thing, but just dealing with the Word in and of itself. The Word just seems to, the Word just means someone who was unapproved, who's worthless, who was just left in their depraved state. Oftentimes, when you see these people, they will tell you, they can even tell you what the Bible says. They can, they are educated. In some cases, they have all these different philosophies, whether they are studied philosophies or their own little, maybe their own street philosophical views. Paul says in Titus 1, 16 says, they profess to know God, but by their deeds, they deny him being detestable and disobedient. Here's this word, and worthless for any good deed. That word right there is a document, in this case, a document. This is the same word that's used in Romans 1. They know, as a matter of fact, Paul brings it out in Romans 1, they know the things of God. They may even know the ordinance of God, but they deny him. These are people who just intentionally reject God. That's the main point. They intentionally reject God. They know the truth. I don't care. Matter of fact, you might see them curse God. They may shake their fist at God. They have an internal, intentional disdain for God. The question is, could a Christian ever be reprobate? Could he become depraved like that? No, because the Bible is clear about us that he says to us. Paul says this in Second Timothy, Second Corinthians, I'm sorry, chapter 5 verse 17 says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new. And so for us, we cannot have a depraved or reprobate mind. We don't, Christians aren't those that shake their fist at God. And if you find someone that does so, then that person clearly was never Christian again. There are a lot of reprobates who will say that, yeah, I used to be a Christian. Well, no, you weren't. Because this is an intentional depravity. This is you having nothing to do, having a hatred really for God. Why didn't God change them? Don't know. That is a question for God. It's up to him, not to us. But as long as we identify that, we're fine. And here's the thing. We can't change them. If a person is truly depraved, if a person is truly reprobate, there's nothing that we can really do about that. We can do our best to give the gospel. Another problem is we don't always know who is someone that might look depraved, someone that might look like they're a reprobate. What should we do? We should still give them gospel because we don't know if that person ultimately is that person might do what we did come to Christ because many of us look just like many of them. But thanks be to God for his goodness, for his grace, for his sovereignty, and giving us to his Son, and then giving us an inheritance in him. Amen.


Perhaps the most common way of showing hierarchies even more than tree maps or circle packing is what's something called a dendrogram where dendro means branch. And so it's a picture or gram of the branches. Right here, we have a cluster dendrogram. I'm going to click on that. And then I'm going to come down to where I can choose my data. Now I'm going to use the cocktails again. But now this one's really easy. I just have one box to put things into. I'm going to put cocktail right there. And now you can see we begin with one group right here. And we have all our different cocktails listed over here on the side. I'm going to put ingredient in there as well. Now this gets a little complicated, but you can tell for us is that Long Island IST has a lot of different ingredients. And you can tell that a caribou lou is made of pineapple juice and rum. And so you can see how we start with this one route, it branches out to each of these things. And then they have subsequent branches to include each of the ingredients. Now dendrograms can become much more complicated than this, they can include many different levels, more levels for some items than others. And it's a nice way of looking at the connections. I like to think it was a little bit like a genealogical chart. But this is probably the single most common way of depicting a hierarchical relationship between items in your data set.


Alright, it is Thursday and that means acting analysis and today we're gonna talk about ER because it's been a month and it's time for more John Carter and ER goodness. I'm still covering season one and it's going to be episode 16 and 20 and for some strange reason they are kind of covering the same topic as in you have an acting piece and pretending this is your animation, you have an audio piece, you do lip sync, you do all that good stuff and then the scene ends and technically you would stop animating and the shot would be done but with those two examples and kind of an added example later, it kind of shows that once the audio is done you can still continue with something with your character to kind of add one extra joke or a specific character trait or something quirky or serious, whatever it is, in this case it's more on the funny side and as always if you wanna watch the whole thing there is a link in the description for the whole sequence so I'm gonna scrub through this here but just quickly she is a fortune teller, he is somewhat intrusive but really that is John Carter for those that don't know and the thing that I like, the couple things here so Ashley tells him well there's something that I need to tell you, I think our destiny together is not over yet he goes okay and this is important how, I love his little head shake there, like okay and why? just a little shoulder shrug there, so good and then Ashley tells him a bit more, he gets a bit more interested you can see there's a bit more of a tilt, kind of a puppy tilt of being interested so he has that here and then Ashley tells him well come closer which I think is kind of a cute thing how she gets lower with her head and come on, come on, I love this here, I love how he comes closer so basically he is sitting on something like this this is a horrible drawing but one of those rolling chairs, he sits on this with the rolling thingies and I like that usage of that prop because it's not on screen and of course if you watch a sequence you understand what he sits on and it's not something random, it just makes sense as you watch it but as you animate this could be something that your character sits on, it doesn't have to be even shown I guess if you have maybe sound effects but it could be something like this here, I'm sitting on here and I'm turning, I think if someone is doing something like this smoothly I think it's pretty clear that it's a chair that swivels so it's not far-fetched to understand you know like this is a chair with wheels, anyway it's a little prop thing that I like but anyway what I really like here is that so as he continues and she tells him well there's something that continues and she says something about his friends and they're going to destroy you, that's what weirds him out so as she says that like something is about to destroy you you realize okay and I love this look here he just realizes yep that it's not really for me I love that little weird, he has that little, okay okay it's like his mouth thing something like he's going through his mind, okay this is not good but what I love is how he gets away from her say okay I'm gonna get your charts, then he gets up and I love those little head darts just quick looks and then if you get something comes back and I love this exit here, he wants to get out, stops and goes away that's kind of weird, okay I should kind of go what I love about this is that the scene is done and technically you can just end your shot, if you do lip sync usually that's where you would end but why not, I would like you to think about this if my shot is done technically because the audio is done maybe you can add some ambient sound, something that doesn't sound like there's a hard cut in the audio and it makes it kind of weird so maybe you can continue with some ambient sound or whatever your scene is but it is a chance for you to take ownership of your character and I always like this where you're not so bound to the audio you're not bound to the rhythm and the lip sync and just the content now that the scene is technically done you can do whatever you want with it you can add something to the character that kind of changes the whole scene or just adds to it, in his case just kind of that pantomime, comedic acting I think that's kind of neat and funny enough it's kind of the same thing in this sequence he is an older doctor, he had a heart attack and he realized that well now that his life was almost over he kind of rediscovered the joy of living and he wants to change his life because he was kind of a jerk so he's trying to be better but at the same time he's not really because at this point he's trying to invite her and she keeps saying no and he doesn't take no for an answer but the thing I want to point out is this so as he says well maybe we should just talk about this later she's finally happy like yes you finally get it but he does and goes alright well maybe about dinner at 8 o'clock and does this gets faster, faster, faster, that little smile there she goes ah crap and then so on now the scene is technically done so as he's done talking it's basically around here so as he finishes this line now you could technically cut and the scene would be over but what he does he does that extra thing of well I'm done now I'm done talking and I think I made my point and we're going to go out together and I'm happy to kind of illustrate that I'm going to put up the intensity and run faster I think visually it's a fun gag again content went ah but as you look at this he does that little so if you ignore the content just take that idea again where you can do something where technically the scene is done but then you can add something you can in this case emphasize that he's a jerk so you can just dial that up or like in this older commercial but it's the same thing where instead of just cutting out after he said what he said he does that thing with the toothbrush and it's just kind of a accent on that exit kind of a funny acting choice and just a way to end the scene so if you have something like this examine your character who is the character the usual like what happened before what's going to happen next but what is the state of mind of the character is it a funny person is it kind of a coward is it kind of a whatever character you want to put in and we're going to talk about character actually in tomorrow's FNA so just examine what that character is what you created and then you can go against character you can go further with the character so all those things that you could do that in your case again could showcase your acting choices your sense of humor your sense of timing so that you're not bound to the audio anymore so if you do animals that just do something with a human dialogue so just you anthropomorphize that scene you can just add something where it's a creature behavior maybe the lip sync is done and the creature that has done the kind of human acting goes back into something more creature-y could be a snake could be a cat licking could be whatever it is where it just you showed your lip sync you showed your acting and now you can show well I know creatures I can show something that's kind of cute and funny that fits, that's in character but it's kind of one more thing my little stamp on the whole scene to show what this is my type of humor my type of entertainment that I like and so on and so on so that's it for ER I will bring another example next month to this screen that's a weird thing I got a ton of ER examples so this is going to continue for quite some time I am on season 5 I think still so lots of examples great stuff, more dramatic more pantomime more lip sync if this was helpful as always like this and if you have any comments questions, concerns leave me a comment I would love to know your thoughts about maybe you've seen this and you got other things in this episode that you like if you want to see more as always of course subscribe so you get all the notifications for all my uploads and if you watched the whole thing till the very end I appreciate your time and I will see you tomorrow for Tomorrow's FNA and that will be all about character so I will say see you tomorrow and again, thank you for watching


erations so we have revenue collections billing and financial controls needs that were we've been relying heavily on support from the finance department over the last year to address those needs as we stand up we stood up the operational aspects of our parking last year when we transitioned from contract operation to the city administered operation but much of the financial management work that comes along with that that needs to be sustained is more than we're in a position to do right now with our current staffing levels and then as i talked about the growth that we're seeing in funding for services as well as infrastructure for transit drives a need for us to increase our financial management capacity we have significant reporting work that we need to do and significant compliance work that we need to do we have more procurements more contracts to manage as a result of these additional resources so the business services manager in this structure puts us in a position to support these additional financial procurement and other administrative work that is needed to advance these services john is there any possibility that cares funding can support that position because of the additional requirements so i think we can definitely look at that right now it's split a third a third and a third between general parking and transit but if because we have these additional transit needs over the next year we could replace the the general fund contribution with a transit fund contribution in the budget i think we could support that thank you thanks john that's that's an extremely helpful explanation and let's definitely kind of talk about the source of funding for that position i want to open it up to my colleagues if anybody has questions if you'll just raise your hand then see anybody jump it into the chat so i'm mr america right ahead thank you very much councilmember and thank you sean we've seemed like we got all the new directors up today figure we torture them early i guess tom right um we really appreciate you um and you've also just really done a great job taking hold of all the various it's such a the department has so much variety i don't know if we have any other department maybe a couple but that have the variety that you do um i i want to thank you for the support for the outdoor dining uh downtown i've heard a lot of great compliments from the folks from downtown Durham Incorporated and others about uh thomas leathers and other people in your department have been working with them to try to make the downtown outdoor dining work and i'm excited about that i think that's great i know there are a lot of issues to be worked through but want to appreciate that we we really need to make that happen if we can and so thank you so much um the a couple of questions the oh yeah one other one other thing before my questions and i want to applaud your leadership on the the way the transit plan has turned out the county transit plan i know you really did a great job advocating for the the transit emphasis corridors and our capital needs and it's really great to see and i want to thank our county commission colleagues and the go triangle staff and board and and and for for supporting that but especially to you sean for having a great plan in place it's getting funded it's a big advance to especially for our transit riders it's huge um so you've we've received a lot of comment and um about the idea at this time of trying to create what our bicycle and pedestrian advocates are causing calling calling slow streets uh that's one of my questions i wanted to know if you could comment on that um well why don't you start with that i have just a couple others that our guests are kind of unrelated to that sure so i've had some good discussions with advocates at bike Durham for example and i've read a lot of the requests that we've gotten from citizens and we're really interested in advancing a slow streets program here but we really want it to be done in a way that engages the communities where this would be implemented so right now we're working at developing information that we can use for outreach to the communities and neighbors who would be directly impacted by this and try to build understanding and build support for the slow streets concept so that when it's implemented it can be sustained and there's an understanding of what why it's important how it improves safety um and that it's going to it's going to change neighborhoods and we want to make sure that people are prepared for that and that if they have concerns that we've addressed those so we're working on that outreach piece right now and once we've identified and we also think there's a role for neighborhoods to help us with some of the quality control issues to be our eyes and ears in many respects and that's one of the comments that we've gotten from the advocacy community is that the neighbors are ready to play that role and so we want to enlist people to help us if there's a sign that's twisted or something that's fallen down that they'll let us know and we can deploy resources to take care of that whereas if we had to do all of the monitoring and quality control with our resources we wouldn't be able to sustain that so that's part of what we're trying to do is make sure that this is something that's a community-led initiative and it's that has strong support in the community and that it's deployed in those places where we have good community support but we think there's a lot of value in taking streets that were identified in our Durham walks plan as well as our bike and walk plan and using those where we've already gotten public input that those are good places for walking and bicycling that we build upon that framework and implement some measures that can help us slow streets and improve safety in those areas but we really do want it to be a community-led initiative. I think that's a fantastic approach I really appreciate that and I also think that will help us with the equity as our as our program goes forward so thank you. I've heard I had a Zoom discussion with a paratransit employee who was concerned about the safety of their PPE and can you talk about that or how do we feel about the quality of the PPE that we have for our transit employees? So we've been working through the PPE availability issues for the last two months during this event and I think we're now at a point where we feel like we have adequate PPE for our paratransit staff. The nature of the paratransit service is that there's closer interaction between our riders and our staff and so we really want to make sure that we're doing everything that we can to make PPE available not only to our operators but also to the extent that it's medically feasible to our riders so that they can you know protect each other through this. So that's one of the things that we're working through right now is is the availability of masks and face coverings where we can make them available to paratransit riders so that provides an additional layer of protection for our operation staff but I'd be happy to look into any specific questions or concerns. Thank you very much and then the my last question is do you know what is your sense of the percentage you know a range or a good estimate or a guess would be fine here Sean. In terms of our people riding our transit system the fixed routes what would you say that the percentage of people who are who are who are wearing a face covering is and what do you how would you go about quantifying the need of for face coverings for our transit riders that are not covering just thinking about you know one of the things we're trying to think about is what is our total kind of community need going forward for face coverings and what are you know real vulnerable populations of course is our transit riders so you have any thoughts to offer on that so I can say that we've had regular discussions with some of the non-profit groups that have been making masks and other face coverings available to our riders ecoderm station and that's something that we're really we're pleased that the community is stepping forward I was also really glad to see at the work session last week the discussion of the county led effort to make additional face coverings available and and your advocacy mr. mayor for making sure that those become available to our transit riders right now we're seeing relatively low adoption of masks and face coverings so I've heard in some cases less than half in other cases maybe 10 percent of our riders are are using masks or other face coverings so I think the availability of the face coverings is really important but then also supporting that with the right information for our customers so we've been doing on board announcements for example letting people know how important it is to wear face coverings we've also done some videos with our operations staff talking about how important it is that we use masks and face coverings to protect each other but we're very aware that we're not having as strong of adoption of that as we would like to see and I think availability is one piece of it but also that educational piece is going to be really important making sure people understand that you know this is the service that we share together and that our continued ability to share relies on us looking out for each other and wearing masks to protect each other so that's part of the effort that we're still trying to work through from the communications front we have a new communication staff person that go Durham who just started last week so that's been kind of top of the order for for that work is is trying to increase that that education to go along with the availability of equipment thank you thank you council member Reese and thank you Sean who else council member Middleton go right ahead thank you chairman Reese and thank you Sean I appreciate you being here I want to say that I really I'm not only impressed with the credible amount of experience and skill sets you brought to your job but your temperament as well and we've been becoming quite good friends as you've been helping me address a number of constituent concerns around the city so I want to thank you for your your patience with me and your partnership with me and those matters the mayor already asked one of my two questions so this will be really short and I want to thank the mayor for bringing up the face mask issue and how good our penetration was in terms of riders riding them I didn't want to ask also about any sanitation protocols that we're employing when our buses are offline if any at all if you had any insight into that sure so we've increased our sanitation protocols one of the biggest steps that we've taken is the deployment of a disinfecting fogger so at the end of the day when the bus returns to the depot it has a disinfecting fogger that that coats every surface on the vehicle and that's been a new step that we've implemented this year or this since covid since march in order to try to reach some surfaces that wouldn't be reached with a typical cleaning but we've also increased our cleaning frequency and then also stepped up so at Durham station for example we have now hourly cleanings of our our most frequently touched surfaces like door knobs and elevators and such so we're working and there's more information about that available at Go Durham transit so we're working to address needs in our fleet as well as in our facilities to try to protect our our riders and our staff do you know if that applies also to our paratransit vehicles or any supplemental vehicles we're employing yeah my understanding is that we're using the foggers for the paratransit vehicles as well thank you that's all my questions thank you chair thank you cats River Middleton councilmember freeman i believe you're next in line thank you i uh grateful that us the mayor actually asked a couple of my questions as well and i just wanted to share the comment that i really appreciate your community focus and doing some of the outreach i know we had this conversation at one of the council presentation and it looks like you've you've taken the bull by the horns and you're definitely digging in on making sure you're engaging the community rooted partners and there was one other thing i noted and just just a a question of regarding the insourcing on the parking i just want to make sure that we're so there were a number there were like a very small number of of staff that came in from the parking insourcing and i just want to make sure that i note that staff is very valuable and i appreciate you making sure that they return as soon as as quickly as possible yeah we're very focused on finding the right ways to bring people back who have provided really strong customer service and service to the city and and so what steps we can take to bring those those team members back in their original capacity or in some other capacity but make sure that we take advantage of their availability and their their knowledge and skills going forward um any other members have any questions for shon before i start to dig in awesome hi shon hi how are you i was really excited when i saw that um you were going to be chairing this um session shon i thought i might get off easy but doesn't look like it shon i think one of the things that that is the responsibility of the chairs to make sure other folks are heard before i then step up and suck the rest of the oxygen out of the room um so uh shon i think it's fair to say that i've probably spent more time talking and working with you since you started as department head than any other department head in the city and i say that to make sure folks know that that i have really come to respect and appreciate your incredibly straightforward brand of leadership um there's i've never been in a meeting with you where i didn't know exactly what you thought about a particular thing and didn't know how you thought we ought to move forward with it and that is that is amazing and the kind of leadership that i think we need more of um everywhere in our country um i think one of the i've got a couple of sets of questions but maybe my biggest question is about the parking fund um as you pointed out um over the next over this year and the upcoming fiscal year we're looking to use something in the neighborhood of 7.2 million dollars out of fund balance to keep the parking fund solvent um you addressed in your presentation the need to really bear down on uh parking operations as we move through this fiscal year and planning for the next fiscal year but i wonder if you could give me just a little bit more color about what that might look like you know the the the market for parking downtown has gone really whipsawed over the last three years really two years um at the same time we brought our new parking deck online a number of other facilities came online and we're undercutting us on price now there's no demand um no telling when demand is going to come back it's of all the departments in the city this one seems one of the most um i guess up in the air in terms of how how we're going to get back to some something approaching normal so what if you could just spend a couple minutes talking about kind of over the next 12 to 18 months what what can be done um about parking operations sure so you know we talked a little bit about this in february um that uh we're very focused on making the parking fund um self-sustaining and there are steps that we can take to do that um but we're going to have to take steps on the expenditure side um on the revenue side um and then also uh with our capital improvements so um on the expenditure side uh i talked a little bit about how we've been right sizing our security staffing so we have contracted security for our facilities uh right now for our five major facilities it's um it's um 24 hour service uh and what we've identified is that because of the proximity of many of our facilities uh and we've um and the levels of activity that we're seeing that we can uh reduce that contracted staffing um and provide a zone coverage uh that reduces our our security costs there there continue to be concerns from some of the downtown businesses about um security but we think that um by having more of a zone coverage model we can maintain uh security uh and uh also right size our expenses on the revenue side we've also got uh proposed changes where we'd be increasing our hourly uh parking fees by 25 cents in fiscal year 21 and then we'd be coming to increase our monthly parking fees in fiscal year 22 so and that's part of a regular schedule where each year we uh we increase either the hourly or the monthly but as you said the the market has changed pretty dramatically for us so we'll have to see um what impact that has but we think that setting the price of parking is very important and it helps us to recover our costs and it also helps us to encourage other forms of transportation like our bus system so and then the other piece that we're looking at is the timing of major capital improvements to our facilities and what's sustainable for us for major projects like wayfinding that has been postponed from our work plan for this fiscal year and and what are some of these major initiatives that we would like to do we think there's value in doing but we have to make sure that we have the resources to be able to do that project and and also keep our facilities in a state of good repair and address safety and customer service needs so I I think we need to focus if we just focus on expenses or revenues or capital no one of those is going to solve this problem for us but I think looking across the board at all three of those and and understanding the market forces at work here that we can we can work through and develop some scenarios and solutions to carry us forward I appreciate that as I've said before on the revenue side I think it's it's a frustrating challenge because you've got major commercial competitors who were undercutting us on price so you know strategies to increase parking charges might not necessarily have the revenue impact we're looking for but that's why they pay you the big bucks is to to to come up with solution to all the annoying problems that I that I come up with the with respect to outdoor dining I think one of the things that I've been really interested in is looking at Charlotte's temporary outdoor dining program and the allocation of a certain percentage of restaurants dedicated parking spaces I think downtown that's not really a model that works given kind of what we what the setup downtown and I really appreciate you working with downtown businesses and restaurants who many of the restaurants are kind of surviving to the extent they are on the drive-up takeout service and the city's quick response at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis to open up our on-street parking program to that kind of drive-up a pickup has been was really fantastic and I've shared that with folks actually around the country as kind of a model for what might happen so I appreciate that appreciate your work with them but I think in terms of outside the downtown core I think we might think about looking at Charlotte's program I'm not sure that's necessarily a transportation issue so maybe this is more directed to the city manager to have folks take a look at at what Charlotte has done and kind of the the little the program that they've developed and see if something like that might work for us outside of the downtown core the only other question I had was oh to appreciate your conversations with cycling and pedestrian advocates around slow streets you know we've the city and our community has done a lot of work around identifying streets in Durham that are good candidates for whatever we wanted to call them at one point they were like boulevards and there's lots of other incarnations of that but I think those are great candidates to move forward with with the participation of our community partners and I appreciate your growing partnership with them as that as we try to make that work I think as the mayor said when we're in the in the dpr conversation I haven't seen a huge I haven't seen huge crowds on on sidewalks and streets and whatnot but I know that there are places where that is happening and I think whatever we can do to create new spaces for folks you know one of the things that I've been floored by is that when the governor opened up our state parks I want to say a week and a half ago maybe they are still I mean they're just jam packed and I get these notifications periodically from the state parks department that tells me when the parking lots at various state parks get to capacity and they're often at like 9 a.m. 9 30 a.m. just I think that just points to the desire that folks have to be out and about and I think we all know that that transmission risks are much lower for the coronavirus in outdoor settings although not completely eliminated so all that is is by way of saying thank you for keeping those for having those conversations and would love to hear more about what happens with that as we move forward and again those don't have to be big permanent installations we've even seen a community do a kind of a renegade a rogue street slowdown that I went and walked through took pictures of a couple three weeks ago I'm not necessarily recommending that as something that more neighborhoods ought to do but more pointing out that these don't have to be be expensive permanent installations that we can do some things pretty cheaply and quickly that really increase folks quality of life in some of our neighborhoods I just wanted to keep your make a plug for that as well and just I just want to echo what the mayor said about your success in advocating for new funding through the Durham County Transit Fund you know that's been something that you and I've been working on for a while really happy to see that get through the MPO vote I guess was last week and looking forward to seeing those projects move forward I really appreciate your vision especially on the corridor improvements to making sure that transit can move more smoothly more on-time service that's really important oh and also thanks for ratcheting up service levels whenever we can we have the staffing for it because obviously as you said we have our ridership has gone down much less than really any other jurisdiction that I've heard about and keeping that service up and running is really important okay that's did so thanks did did my rambling trigger any more questions with my colleagues I know they've triggered some boredom but but maybe maybe questions ah councilmember for even go right thank you I would say that I'm in the same boat usually with the rambling sometimes so I just wanted to note that I'm excited I know that the fines and fees work will touch on some of that parking I hope and I'm looking forward to having some conversations about what it looks like to really bring into the full you know fines and fees actual justice around it so that the disparities that always show up don't aren't as uh as large I'm sorry and um just along that along those lines I just wanted to make sure that I did restate or clarify I know I was rambling with parks and rec around the issue I just want to note that I as a value centered leader it's hard for me to to express those values and words sometimes and I'm just trying to make sure that I that I impose the the kind of support that encourages all of our staff to be very creative and imagine imaginative around how to address race equity because as a person of color over the last couple of weeks it's been really hard just leaving it at that to even understand how we don't see a problem with the way that things work and so I just encourage you to please continue to surprise me please continue to push and make those um just I mean I've seen staff staff has presented some of the most phenomenal ideas around you know being more equitable over the last three years that I've been on council and I can imagine longer but I really just need more out of this this process because I can't do a Katrina outcome and I know what it looks like when we when we look at what's easy and we look at and we rush to to to make decisions around cost cutting and I don't want to see that out of Durham that's all thank you yeah I would just say you know the biggest increase in our budget is in investments in our go Durham transit service and infrastructure and we know that in terms of equitable investment of resources that we have you know approximately 90 percent of our riders are people of color and so when we talk about racial equity and how we can direct resources and make investments that disproportionately benefit communities of color that the types of investments that we're able to make and the big increases that you're seeing in investments in transit service and infrastructure are disproportionately benefiting communities of color and we're going to continue to advocate for even more and greater resources for our local transit service and infrastructure along those lines and as as the really a really focused way to address the equity needs and to share the economic prosperity of our community. Sean is that one of your staff people in the background upset with some of your leadership skills I can't what that noise is when you're co-workers yeah I think it's Korra my daughter she's a little out of sorts right now I don't think she wants to go down for her now yeah I know the feeling um so if does anybody else have any questions or comments for Sean on transportation speak now or forever hold your peas okay Sean Sean again just thank you so much for everything that you've done in your short time with us especially as it surrounds go Durham and making sure our transit service is up and running to the maximum extent possible right now it's so important and just appreciate your leadership on that and everything else and I just want to just take a moment to thank the team we talked about the great work that Thomas Leathers has been doing Bill Judge my assistant director has been doing outstanding work and has really been a critical part of of the work to prepare this presentation for today to help me get up to speed and address the many complex issues that we have here so we have an incredibly strong team and really strong partners at the MPO echo triangle with the county and we're working together but I certainly couldn't do it without the strong support of the team and the partners so I just wanted to say a word of thanks great thank you Sean again is that the end of our presentations right now mr manager oh sorry Bertha that's correct so can you kind of set the table about what's next for us Tom I'll try and certainly want to take this opportunity to thank you all for great questions and interjecting some ideas to us also I thought the staff presentations today from top to bottom were terrific for a format that was new to us all but I hope you can get a sense of just how engaged all of our staff is and so many of these challenging issues in terms of COVID response and and recovery so I just want to congratulate and thank you thank the staff one thing that we traditionally do with these sessions that we didn't really focus on this morning but want to come back to certainly give the mayor a chance to talk but any make sure that we know what are the flagged items that you feel for what you heard today need additional follow-up and conversation in the past we have held time on the work session after the public hearing or prior to the work session after the public hearing for kind of final budget check-in and reviewing flagged items so I think it would be helpful mr mayor if any council members have particular items that they heard today that either are unsettled or or need more information if we could take just a few minutes and get any recap from council members about those we'd be sure and capture those all righty thank you and I want to thank council member Reese and mayor pro tem for presiding so well I appreciate it you know it's interesting I I find presiding over these zoom meetings more taxing than presiding over regular meetings maybe because I'm always having to constantly arrange my face because I feel like they're people watching me from not sure exactly but anyway so it's going to have to be a group effort you guys and I appreciate everybody pitching in and all the call all my colleagues for great questions especially want to thank council member Freeman for her you know putting forward these important equity issues today they're important all the time and they're important to all of us but we really you know I think the it's just so important to be having these constant challenges and reminders so council member Freeman thank you for that it's much appreciated um and mr. mayor Buck had mentioned just real quick I apologize to interrupt but I mean yeah no we haven't spent a lot of time with the council talking through the work that we are doing with the you know kind of reestablishing city services and the service level adjustments you heard some of that today but we have integrated in every aspect of that a the folks from our equity inclusion department helping us and be sure that we are thinking about those equity issues as well sometimes they don't always come across as maybe as clear and articulate as as we know we're working on them but rest assured every aspect of us thinking about COVID response and in particular service restoration doesn't happen without some equity lens approach as well thank you very much mr. manager colleagues the manager has asked us to think about any items that we have flagged for further consideration on the budget front and I'll just open the floor is there and mr. manager do you have anything that you heard that you think is I'll start with you anything that you heard that you feel like we need to take up well I think there were some some questions in in parks and recreation potentially that uh uh counselors had questions about staffing uh hopefully we've clarified those uh also I think uh there was a question about additional staffing and around the uh the transportation uh financial manager picture I I think those were answered but if they if they weren't or they need more more more discussion I think we'd like to know that those were two that jumped out at me Bertha do you have any other notes of things in particular that you flagged I do not that we're not that I don't feel that we're answered going to discussions no thank you mayor pro tem thank you mr. mayor um I'd like to continue to talk about the additional position and transportation I think that um Sean made a strong case for why that position is important but I'd like the opportunity to weigh that against all the other potential needs in the city as that's a new position and we um um have talked about other possibilities for spending that money so I'd like to put that on the on the list for follow-up thank you thanks thank you uh council member Reese mr. mayor I just want to follow up and um second what what the mayor pro tem said but also point out that Sean um I think proposed to shift the funding source of that from the general fund uh do I think it was transit and that would certainly help me um when it comes to that particular position so I just want to put that out there as well thank you council member caballero some of that could come potentially from cares the carers money correct not just general fund that that distribution because it was a third a third and a third and that distribution could be reevaluated moving forward correct thank you I have um the transportation my transportation questions were answered I do want to know a little bit more around the um with parks and rec just kind of the breakdown because it was really helpful to hear the explanation of the part-time workers being from anywhere to from five to 25 hours and just to understand more I guess percentages of of how many folks were at 25 hours versus five hours um so and that can be provided in an email but just more of those work workforce statistics would be super helpful thank you thank you colleagues others council member middleton thank you mr mayor and uh let me add my thanks to charlie julian for a great job I'm presiding today with a respectful part of the agenda strong team strong team we got um I did want to just um get remind uh staff I think we said we would get a specific written listing of the specific job uh titles that were furloughed Regina did give us a great verbal rundown but I think we said we would be getting a a written copy of that the specific job titles uh that were furloughed so I look forward to that thank you thank you thank you anything else anybody wants to flag all right um thank you uh mr manager miss johnson I believe we're at the end of our agenda is there any either either of you all have any comments to add on I'll then ask it if my colleagues have anything to add as well mr manager do you all have anything uh no other than to say that we'll be back at it tomorrow morning at at 10 o'clock uh we had a very productive day I think and we've got a lot of uh other departments that have important issues to present and discuss tomorrow so we will you know block the time up till two o'clock but hopefully as we've been efficient today move through the process and and be you know be able to conclude in a reasonable time but that's all I have right now thank you very much miss johnson just a reminder that the presentations and other budget documents on our website and that you will receive a separate and different link for tomorrow's meeting tomorrow morning and then also some additional information I think is still forthcoming from a couple departments right bertha there's one presentation to still come the engagement presentation which we will get we will send out today thank you very much and just any final comments just one additional um I'd ask the way that the transportation department had their breakdown of staff that would be actually helpful to see for parks and rec because it's not just who was furlough there's actually who was who was kept so who actually continued on working like what that looked like that would be helpful I think you mean I think you mean the uh chart the uh staff chart yes the staff the org chart yeah the org chart it's a little a little more complex and parks recreation just because the number of positions but we'll try to think of a way to describe that even if it's just paired with the one we had last year with like three separate documents of what we had last year what we have this year and then just those numbers that middleton councilmember middleton mentioned yeah it would be the part-time piece would be hard because the part-time positions wouldn't show up on the org chart but we can figure out a way to get that information to you in a different all right yes thank you anyone else final comments councilmember caviato yeah I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of our staff there's been a couple of times everybody's presentations were excellent you know just reflecting on that we had three people today who are either interim or new higher directors and the challenges that they faced these last few months and just how much appreciation I have for them and then just two times while I was listening to presentation first was during the general services presentation thinking through all of our custodial services and how over the year so many organizations have contracted out that labor so those folks aren't making living wages and we know that many of the folks who provide those services are black and brown and so these are folks who have living wages are continuing to be employed and just that the appreciation of having that value and not having done that and then additionally knowing that so many of our staff and it was actually Sean's kids screaming in the background the reminder that so many of us have a lot of stuff going on in the background and so again so much appreciation for our staff knowing that the last several months many of you have been home with kids with potential elderly parents that you're having to worry about and so we have several hard months ahead of us and I am constantly reminded about the the stress that all of us are dealing with right now thank you so much councilmember Reese um mr mayor I just wanted to thank everybody for participating and all the good questions and thanks staff um from the city manager uh to bertha on down for making today really productive I look forward to another productive day tomorrow did want to note before we got off the phone about three weeks ago the james beard foundation announced nominations for their various awards having to do with uh food and um and the culinary arts one of those categories is the james beard award in journalism and one of the nominees was uh local uh historian and writer dr synthia greenlee and this morning while we were on our uh zoom call she won the james beard award for journalism in her area I just wanted to congratulate her and just another feather in Durham's cap she is uh the thought some of you might be interested in the piece that she wrote that garnered her this james beard award is in vice.com published uh in February of 2019 the title is a real hot mess how grits got weaponized against cheating men so as soon as we get off the phone here I'll definitely be uh talking into that particular article maybe enjoying some tasty grits along with it so anyway dr greenlee congratulations well-deserved award thank you mr mayor thank you and and I will say she's an alumna of the independent so we're proud uh any other comments any final comments council member middleton thank you sir uh charlie I recommend you listen to al green while you're reading that uh article uh mr mayor I just wanted to say um just the overwhelming sense of gratitude I have uh for the staff but also to be in the position uh that I am uh personally I um and I say that because I recognize that as I sit here uh with this distinguished distinguished group making decisions um at the highest level leadership in our city um that there are still uh some things that that I'm not insulated from notwithstanding my position or station today I want to send out um solidarity and condolences to the family of george floy um today who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police department I also want to send um good regards out to mayor fray and Minneapolis and to our colleagues on the Minneapolis city council many of whom had the opportunity of meeting through my work with the national league of cities um I think that's all I want to say I just wanted to call his name in this context and on record uh and signal that we understand uh that here in Durham how blessed we are I want to uh express gratitude for the type of leadership we have here in Durham particularly I want to shout out chief sarah and davis and her command staff our fire first responders all across the board and for the hard work they do uh to to properly convey what we will have and what we will not have in Durham and the standards that are important to us I do not know what the future holds if one day we'll wake up in Durham and we'll be facing um challenges that some other cities face but I would not want to face those challenges with any different type of leadership than we have um at our department head and I would add that to this council as well so I just want to say to the floyd family our prayers are with them for all of the countless victims who did not have the benefit of cameras present we're with them as well and we continue to do the hard work of making this a more perfect union at least that's what's in the pamphlet um so god bless uh the people of minneapolis god bless the floyd family god bless our city black lives matter thank you mr mayor thank you for those important words council member and I think the words I can't breathe are going to continue to resonate through generations any final comments anyone else council member freeman thank you I wanted to echo uh council member Middleton's comments around uh just acknowledging just how hard times are right now and council member Caballeros as well and noting that I want I want to make sure that I say it out loud that it's important to breathe it's important to actually take stock of where you are and how things are going um I realize that a lot of people have also um lost loved ones in this time and we've really been hit hard here in Durham I know with the loss of you know Andrea Harris Marianne Black brother Ray and how that shake-up has created uh gaps in our community um that will need to be filled is important and even with with staff just noting you know being at home and dealing with the challenges it's it's it's important to make sure that you're aware and present where you are and how you are and and who you are because I mean there's no we're all human beings in this and I think um I often feel like I need to say that because I've spent so much time addressing the race equity aspect of these conversations because it's often the underserved the marginalized the voices that are unheard and it it it tends to make me feel like I'm overcompensating and so I just want to make sure that I note that it's not just that it's that we are human beings we're all in this together and we're going to get through it but it's not going to be doing things the way things were done before so when people say the new normal it needs to be something new and better and I'm looking forward to that so on that note I'll leave that with you thank you thank you Mayor Pro Tem thank you Mr Mayor um I just wanted to take another moment moment to thank our staff for all their work on the budget and through this difficult moment I noted as council member Cabero did that all three directors are new to their positions only one new to the city but have stepped into additional leadership roles very either during or really shortly before very shortly before the pandemic and so I just wanted to appreciate them for the work that they're doing in this difficult time for the city a lot of institutions are really struggling right now and I continue to be impressed by the leadership that we have here in Durham and the way that our staff um are navigating this crisis uh we're you know it's it's a difficult moment but I feel like we're in very good hands here in Durham and so I just wanted to express that and thank you all again for your for your leadership in your work thank you thank you everyone I think we have wrapped it up Mr manager uh uh uh we will see everyone tomorrow at 10 o'clock uh we have I guess the one more presentation coming tonight that we haven't gotten yet the engagement one um and uh we're we're all looking forward to being together again tomorrow I want to thank staff we miss your smiling faces we we we always enjoy these times we have our our budget staff around us and we get to see you all in person and the good work that you do and I'm sorry we can't do that this year but I feel assured that next year we will be back together together in person uh and uh we just want to appreciate you so thank you and I'm going to declare this meeting adjourned at 1 27 p.m hi everybody thank you have a good day everybody great thank you thanks bye