Welcome back to the breakfast and plus severe Africa time for of the press We have G.D. Johnson joining the conversation this morning, and he will be Analyzing some of the top stories. Good morning G.D. Johnson Good morning messes in Mexico season Welcome back to the Friday beat. Thank you All over the world Merry Christmas Same thing we are in advance Thank you All right, so let's take a look at the daily independent newspaper this morning We're starting off with the bold caption We are in final phase of battle against terrorists Buhari is quoted Might just really explain why that attack happened yesterday, you know very close to the airport and the air force base He swept insurgents bomb my degree as president visits burnu Underneath the board caption away from that federal executive council Okay, 16 power projects at 31.36 billion era 65.61 million dollars 15.15 million pounds Away from that omicron federal federal governments may issue restrictions on gatherings Imposed cough use It's also another caption you find underneath below the paper 2022 polls You will find a bami deli declares for a kitty guba race And UAE suspends entry to arrivals from migrae, kenya to others Panicking the buja And environs as terrorists plan attack Gunmen abduct four worshipers inside taraba mox Commissioner dumps matawales cabinet and join hope uzo de mass government And song olu empowers 1786 farmers with 3.6 billion era now. This is some of the headlines on the daily independent newspaper Now to the punch newspapers Big one there says nis ones of foreign terror attacks as federal government heightens security Nigerian and Algerian terrorists on the way from mali to invader buja Planned can never work fct security network intact says god brigade Strategies in place to avert attacks no cause for alarm says immigration Also divorce we are probing possible hacking of olori Naomi's instagram page says the army's palace Okay, legos declares magudo invasion unwarranted vows to prosecute corporates And also on the punch x ns cdc commandant forfeits 60 buildings and land to federal government over corruption Reps deliberate on nyc fund firms may donate 1 profit And five killed as terrorists bomb medugary airport areas Airport area rather ahead of bohari's visit We can also find on the punch a can kicks as federal government limits religious gatherings to 50 percent And darkness looms as six power plants halt operations over gas shortage That's all on the punch this morning. All right. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper president mohammed bohari promises to end insecurity as Explosion rocks medugary That's a bold caption for the leadership this morning says nigeria in final phase of war against terrorists 501 terrorist and police rescue 48 kidnap victims in kaduna now and ahead of the 2023 polls iBB endorses or seabed draw for president That's also another caption Christmas despite cash squeeze Nigerians flood markets and parks That's what you also find here an x ns cdc deputy commandant forfeits 60 houses to federal government And the palace falls rumors separation of oni and wife governor boni signs 163.9 billion a year 2022 budget into law now This is the headlines on the leadership newspaper this morning quickly on the guardian this morning oil spills hits 14 million liters as shells 800 billion hour judgment upsets industry darkness looms as gas shortage hits Jankos also Broadcast stations get february 17 deadline to renew licenses Covid 19 federal government's restricts religious gatherings to 50 capacity And also an ns cdc commandant forfeits 60 buildings and land to federal government A day to christmas food and transport hike dampened celebrations And police foil kidnap attempt of 48 people in kaduna Julia johnson. Good morning. And once again, thanks for joining us. Um, I guess we should kick off with the story from the federal capital territory with the nine joint immigration service warning of a possible attack On the fct by terrorists from mali. Um, and then the jerry public Let's start with that What was the best you to start except for us to start with the media issue That has always characterized the front pages of over the last 10 years of terror part is the issue security and insecurity Now the president on one hand Is saying that we are in the final phase Against terrorist yet the president visited my google corner state and they are bombast in resolution rather rocks my google situate that with another headline In the newspaper across the newspaper nis ones of foreign attacks And then situate that with what the abuja security network said that they are fully prepared to undo any security challenges that may rare of his head during this yellow tide period We don't need the sushi to tell us that at this particular point in time of the year when people know when non-state actors terrorist groups And all other People that want to ferment violence that will pursue their leaders or political ideology And this is the period they exploit to gain maximum attention and maximum impact In essence it calls for both security agencies and government to put their house in order in order to deal with the security threats to live and properties of people if we check Other climbs all we did do at this season it will raise The security art either to level one level two level three level four level five But we don't have any level in Nigeria They don't even tell us but i'm sure we are level five which is a critical critical state because Even the president cannot travel to any part of Nigeria without an advanced party and advanced security agencies not being mobilized to go and ensure that whichever species is going to use during his visit as secured so The the issue of security was one of the Particle factors that brought his government into power in 20 in 2015 Are we being able to address it? Are we playing politics with the life of the people are we We hear funds being i'm sure at the end of this administration A lot of this we come to light with respect to the resources that we have expended Providing security and in actresses whether we actually provided no security because on one hand for political point of view The president we see we are winning the war on the other hand We will see signals and evidences. I was watching the news yesterday where The emir of wassey said 50 percent of their of their of their land Has been taken over by terrorists 50 percent and I saw a lot of farmland destroyed now Um, whether they'll be foreign attacks or no foreign attacks When is war when um ices was decimated when they were decimated from Syria Iraq and iraq iraq in syria Um in toky and then in iraq they moved over To west africa now when they move over to west africa A lot of Analyst security analyst who raised issue concerning iswap gaining ground ahead of book warram What did we do we level it banditry we build on manners of the government did not come out to level them Terrorists and we have seen that in zamfara state in cardinal state Just two days ago all the islamic scholars in in animans in cardinal state Beckon on the president to declare a state of emergency in the north west and in the north east and particularly in Niger So the issue of insecurity It's a major problem facing us We have we are not in the final phase in actual says we we I don't think that we have a template of dealing with this particular This particular issue if after six years Of of these six years plus of this administration We are still talking about final phase. Tell me what's the template. Tell me. We have changed security. We have changed service teams We have changed service teams every now and then they are one form of attack or the other the president will command Does he because the Command or the directing of the president for the chief of army staff to do his job for the chief of defense staff to do His job No no eddies really look about two or three fridays ago. We spoke about the cardinal Cardinal Ads is where people are kidnapped one has been done concerning that effect Nothing. We just hear the story Business as usual. Nobody was held accountable. No Osiris Security security All right, let's move away from that now for the want of time omicron federal government may issue restrictions on gatherings And impose coffee. You also have the fact that the UAE has or suspense entry To arrivals from Nigeria and Kenyan to others. I'd like to share your thoughts on that. I mean, this is uh The festive period where we're in and of quarter beyond imposing restriction It is important for government to educate people through Assumption mobilization and awareness There's what we call in development communication ICM Campaign ICM is an accurate information information for eye education communication And mobilization When it comes to development communication those four prong approach enables you to achieve your goal when it comes to development Communication and health communication public health is under work In in communication stories not that development I have taken the vaccine I went out of my way this week to take the booster vaccine. I've taken the booster. I've taken three shots That's my social responsibility as One in israel two as a public commentator I can't come on screen and be talking about kovid without me showing a degree of responsibility What form of responsibility are public officials demonstrated across board what form of responsibility I've seen we serve and demonstrated across board What level of campaign is government doing to educate people on the basis of taking the kovid now? There's a misconception and there's a connect Respect to kovid. It's a global problem. It's a perceptual problem. And what's the perceptual problem is that Every team the public health officials have said They said something contrary. There's a free flock when it comes to you. Okay Stay shelter and don't have public entry. Okay. Let's have the lockdown to slow the spread seven days 15 days 15 days to six months use face masks if we do this if we do that take the vaccine You can't catch it. Yeah, people get people that have taken the vaccine At having kovid so government and public health officials Need to come straight and communicate with people because a lot of people have a lot of misconceptions with respect to it And I asked this question Does kovid respect time? I'm asking this question. Does he say that? Okay. You know what? I only come out in the morning. I'll not come out in the evening I'm asking Absolutely does he tell you that I'll come out in the morning. I'll not come out in the evening What what road or stuff you play? In mitigating against the spread Of kovid I'm asking this question. And one moment says, okay. We are going to place restrictions restrictions on people's gathering What measures are we placed to encourage people to take vaccine? What public health? Okay, if you take that restriction in people coming in buses in going to the market places And that's why you see time has kicked against government talking about Limiting gardens to 50% I said it's on tape. It's on record even in the age of kovid I've said from my own study as a researcher As a public commentator and as a journalist The way I have never seen where they've used lockdown to treat the pandemic is you isolate the city To keep them in the hospital you treat them and you allow Others to continue with their life. It is herd immunity That is used to deal with with them. There's no measure that has not been tried To deal with this particular issue with a benefit of insight Everyone will agree that what we are facing in terms of economic challenges globally in terms of inflation In terms of unemployment in terms of dislocation in terms of mental health Is as a result of the lockdown we went into last year and what role did lockdown Do in mitigating against the spread of kovid-19? Now we have a mikron There was an I think About two or three or four months ago. We had delta variant. I think there was the eastern city We had delta variant now we have which variant are we going to have next year and then Are we going to remain in a perpetual state of lockdown or a perpetual state of fear? And I've said it for me growing up I'm even mad at you Medical science does not pity does not take a position of fear Medical science always give up But for the very first time in my lifetime I have seen a situation whereby government officials and public health officials are promoting fears Science does not promote fear science give up everything about kovid-19 is about control fear And that's not medical science and has time to be challenged or collected on this There's no particular issue or challenges that you take to science that science does not give you But you know the size of kovid the size of kovid is fear All right jidya johnson lockdown and control Yeah, all right Let's go to politics. Yeah, now let's let's go to point. Let's go to another story on the punch is one. I found pretty interesting It says there got x nscdc commandant four feet 60 buildings And land to federal government over corruption Nothing we have nothing we happen. We just hear it on the bridge of newspaper This if one person will have 60 building one just one Who is the accountant? Who is the auditor? Who is the director of finance in the in in in that organization? Where that man Stole The amount of money is told to assist the building minus the one he wasted Minus the one he gave out as gifts He could not have stolen the money alone. Who are orders that join him? It's not possible for you to spend money on the public service Who are orders? Why isolate him? Who are other companies? So they would not say it on the page of newspaper people feature alone He should be brought the good answer to jail Just one agency And probably one office yet We are it's on record. It's on youtube What is it from day one? I have I have said it when people used to say this administration is fighting at deceiving yourself Really for we are fighting corruption on the pages of newspaper They will just feed us with stories and what have you this is the first time you see beauty from someone The first time has already You have not seen any civil servant being prosecuted in this particular case You investigate it or only who are those there's an auditor There is the due process act That talks about how you can release phone and how Contracts and public funds For the auditor the accountant The director of finance all those that get approving Osirugi Okay, the only fighting corruption on the pages of newspaper Let's go to politics. Osirugi, uh because he's getting interesting. There's a particular story That says ibp endorses um Osirugi for 2023. It's on the leadership That you cause with full effect In my stage, you know from Lincoln State and it recalls the full effect In in southwest part of Nigeria I've been endorsing Osirugi And then some people have gathered themselves together To say they will go to court to ensure that as well you contest the president's Using youth endlessly Which you have used endlessly acts for as you are just like well youth endlessly acts for abacha Use it your but just that sometimes you will think that we are fools in this country They don't they think that we don't have a sense of history. That's why they say this you don't teach history History in schools in schools in games so that they can fool they can they can fool us Well, it's not it's not left for those calling for Um As you are due to contest and now that he said he has accepted the responsibility of ibp to endorse To endorse um Osirugi It is left for us Nigerians to determine who should be who should be our president and come 2023 people should not wait for We should we are not looking for the lockdown president. Let people declare Let them declare their interests, but I'm told those are kept to listen. There's nobody in the history of Nigeria Nobody has ever become the president. I've been an aspiration to become the president. No, not even shagari Not even the ceremonial president in 1960 in 1963 Which is um namdi as equal he wanted to become a prime minister Not even shagari that wanted to become a senator not even of us or just that was that that went to the prison for them to To release him to come and contest the presidency Not even Jonathan not even Not even worry worry in twenty level worked or fully as that is not going to contest the presidency Until they form a pc and they went to bring it So we have always had the lockdown president the lockdown president president that are not history I've shown that those that are desperate for that position. They never get that position And they never get that position Let people declare their interests that they have interests or not not saying that oh, you know what Nigerians are asking for me using the bachastan or asking ibb Is ibb the best them Character to someone that truncated june 12 that recruited them to be the one that were endorsed So they know what they are doing the actors and players are the same and that's what I've told All Nigerians for them to understand this Don't kill yourself because apc or pdp It is the same set of power class that as we really know since independence that are still there. They are just changing their color over time Let's move to ikiti. You know in ikiti Reba medelio has declared his intention to run for the governor to run for the governor of um I watched it on tv and I saw 21 senators Following him to go and collect the form those 21 senators. I hope they can visit their respective states I hope those 21 senators will have taken And you'll have gone to meet the chief of army staff the chief of different staffs and talk about security challenges facing Nigeria What was the care about this political power and someone someone someone has asked me would there be a election in 2020? At 20 present there will be election in 2023. There will be peace. There will be crisis the political class the actors The non-state actors and the political class they work in tandem They will speak to one another there will be relative peace just like people said that there won't be election in anambra state We saw the election came and it was peaceful now in in in few months time Who have a transition to a new government by january in anambra state? That was the thing that that that that will Pave its the atmosphere in in 2023 in nigeria. Let me quickly end with this Is unfortunate that journalists are perpetuating illiteracy in this country Journalists and that's why there's a particular strand of study in media and communication study Which is comedial literacy now look at the way this newspaper both the editors and The editors and the journalists in this particular list I will mention in this one see the way they crafted this story It's not a new story. This is pure stunt Is that someone will lose? Empowers So lu empowers one thousand I'm coming one thousand seven hundred and eighty six farmers with three point six billionaire A big project is an appeals project a big project is a one bank federal government assisted and Participated state project. So it is not even legal state one A loom. It's a one-pound project under the hospice of the federal government And which is a program designed for women and youth and look at how this newspaper Crafted You don't say legal state government legal state government Empowers it is not it is not someone that's what they have that mdc chairman The right to steal public fund because the way we the narrative we give to issue is that anyone occupying public office Whatever it does Is doing it with its personal capacity What is Does this is not what is federal government of nigeria? Have you ever seen Federal government of nigeria if you want to say obama's administration There are trouble with how is administration someone lose administration Not someone lose This is the height of the literacy perpetuity And it's unfortunate And we are the one That build People in public office to become authoritarian to become despotic for them to have a first sense of image And they don't have and that's why we have seen people when they leave public service. They become irrelevant Because they are given a first sense of identity which they don't have They become irrelevant. We are the governors. We are the class of 1999 governors. We are the class of 2007 The moment they leave office they become irrelevant And I don't know those that care to listen and all their managers and people managing them Why do you bother yourself in post putting your images of public of public of public information material? Is this state government this state has a local task You don't need to put your images because just a matter of time whether it's four or eight years your images will be irrelevant I keep asking you this. Where is the image of embody? Where is the image of Tinungu? Where is the image of Fashola? Where is that of Jonathan? Where is that of a person job? And we must as journalists as the watchdog. There is a consumer responsibility placed on us one He said section 22 of 1999 consumer as amended said the media shall be the watchdog of the society And shall all government accountable At all times is this accountability? This is irresponsibility It's not something we do It is legal state government And that's the way the story should be written. Yeah, june johnson quickly. Let's let's get you to also share Something from the guardian this morning is at the bottom of the guardian. It says a day to christmas Food and transport hike dampened celebration. So just you know, you can wrap up. We're talking about 2021's christmas celebrations Across nigeria. It doesn't seem like it's you know, the best one And just to add, you know, because there's another narrative on you know, the leadership that says that Despite cash quiz nigerians flawed markets and parks. So I mean whose report do we believe? Well, you know, whichever way People will always make time to celebrate the the season they will go out of their way. Some will get loans Some will get Largies from family and friends. I'm sure you have received a lot of text messages Because they see you on the screen and they think you have all the money in the world Um on family and friends for you to ask me smiling So and so basically people will still try to to make their children and their family happy They will go out of out of their way for this particular for this particular season Well, we knew quite all right that one The lockdown created a dislocation and a disruption of society Disrupted the economy. We knew this 2021. We are going to face inflation to In nigeria to domesticate it apart from facing the disruption of cobit 19 We are the disruptions of farmers edas clash and the growth of banditry but which I call terrorism in nigeria and Which would ultimately affect production of foods and any nation that can offer it itself Is is facing the major security talent in fact food is seen as a security as a security as a security So challenges are facing now. We've been more in 2022 All the factors are there There's a principle that got established. I'm a Christian by faith. There's a principle God established he said as long as the earth remains see time And I best time Shall not see at least to to call that law law of course and effect He called it law of course and effect see time and I best time Whatever you do you want to have an effect. You must be committed to a cause What causes are we taking to address the issue of destruction of farmlands to address the issue of disruption of Of of of the society as a result of the lockdown with people not going to work What effect what cause are we taking to when government was popping too much money through traders money through parity through without Engaging in giving people for productive issues and they said they are going to remove them Oil subsidy in 2023 and they are going to give 5,000 naira To 40 million poor nitiners where they got that figure from only god So when you don't have a constructive policy to deal with the issue caused by the destruction of the coveted 19 pandemic and your internal problem of farmers eddard's clash insecurity Banditry and the rest of it then you have the challenges that we are facing we are facing And I have not seen any step that government are sticking to address this. I'm not a prophet of doom Um Something that happened in the day of Elijah might happen in Nigeria But if you look good by natural cause the effect in 2023 will be food will become more expensive The inflation will be on the increase Because the inflation will be on the increase because government is making periods attempt to inject more money Into the economy giving money to the people and when you have too much money pursuing few goods prices We we we we rise and government is also imposing we impose taxation taxation different form of taxation and labors on the people in 2023 and that's What hopefully Joy comes with the christmas season. We hope the joy of the christmas season We come on all our public officials and they will do the writing at the right time. You guys are looking beautiful Thank you Guys are looking. I wish you merry christmas same day johnson happy happy see you on the 30 on the 31st As we wrap up the year in view. Absolutely. Thank you very much for your time. Enjoy all of this. Enjoy all of this Thank you gd johnson. We're appreciate Uh, thanks, uh, of course for staying with us so far. Uh, that was of course off the press We'll take a short break. We'll move to of course sharing with you what happened on this day the 24th of december many many years ago Today's history will be back


All right another story that is developing and this is kicked off a bit of a hornet's nest with on Sean Plunkett show this morning when Michelle Bogue Took a swipe at Whale oil blogger Cameron Slater ever listen to this some particular bloggers I know who charge people not to mention them Tell us more Michelle. No because he'll just have another go at me Cameron Slater not making any comment. Oh, well Do you pay Cameron Slater not to say nasty things about you Michelle? I don't offer that. I don't in fact even if I did pay him He wouldn't stop saying nasty things about me. Okay.  I know people who pay money to Thru an intermediary through an intermediary to a particular blogger so that he won't mention their name Well pretty strong claims there because effectively what Michelle Bogue is saying or inferring is that Cameron Slater Can be bought that you can pay him not to say nasty things about you And if you want something nice said you pay 300 bucks to an intermediary So what does Cameron Slater make of it all he's on the line now good afternoon cam Hey, so has she got you dead to rights? No, she's making shit up as usual So what you're saying what she's lying Yeah, she's lying But there's not a single person who has ever paid me not to write anything about them And if she knows of somebody like that, then I want their name so I can invoice them Because she appears to be saying that this is done through an intermediary So that supposedly supposed to be meaning Cameron that you could then stand back and say I've never done this No, well, that's not true You know, I don't I don't take money to not talk about people. I mean for goodness sake I used to get calls from the ninth floor In the beehive where they'd say please cam. Don't say that about that cabinet minister Please cam. Don't say they're not just say to them. You know gf y basically Your listeners can work that out. I'm not going to say those words on radio Do you or have you ever offered good coverage to anyone in return for money? No, I write what I want to write about a Anything that takes my fancy and if something's poos then I'll say it's poos you can't pay me to say something's nice if it's not and You know, I'll never certainly never gonna say anything nice about Michelle Bogue Well, I mean certainly not now, but okay, but you're saying because she was pretty Clear what she was saying this morning and and and Sean gave her the chance Yeah, we went but you know got it to be very clear about it So what is it and you're saying that she is lying? Yes, and what motivated by what? That's not news from Michelle Bogue What you're saying she's a serial liar Well, I've said that on radio live before she had him a complete meltdown once and streamed down the the airways While Mike Williams sat there chuckling because she was upset because I called her a poisonous lying scumbag I didn't disagree with it People listening I mean to be honest and people listening to this Cameron probably think this doesn't reflect well probably on either of you Oh, I don't really care But Michelle has got Delusions of grandeur.  Oh I think that I can understand people having a crack at people who are their Political enemies if you like but what it sounds like there that sounds deeply personal and offensive, doesn't it?  Why don't you sewer? Well, look, you know, that's for cowards running off to court. It's for gutless wonders Who want to make attention for themselves? I've got big broad shoulders. She can say whatever she likes it It doesn't it doesn't matter to me What it does matter to me is that she spends every waking moment thinking about Cameron Slater I don't spend any moments thinking about Michelle Bogue She has been a past president of the National Party. She has been involved with major core record Major major corporations in in this country. She's been involved in all sorts of stuff It is you can't just write her off as a nobody surely Well, I can I can write her off on the basis of what I know about her past You know, she was the first visitor when my father became the National Party president She was his first visitor on the first day. He was the president She rocked up with three full-scap pages of names of people that she demanded board positions for You know, this is these are facts. They're indisputable She the cheek of the woman to actually do that when she'd been running the campaign of the of the person standing against my father Just shows the utter Capacity of duplicity for her and then, you know, there's just been a long-standing campaign She doesn't matter very much. She might have been the past president of the of the National Party But here in Bill English have got the have got the record for the lowest ever polling of the National Party So, you know, I'm happy to stand on my record. She can stand on hers, but she won't be very tall All right So what you're saying is that we know lawsuit from you you're saying she's wrong But obviously what we do take out of this there is there is a lot of bad between Cameron Slater and Michelle Bogue will be right back


G'day all. I just wanted to let you know a bit more about the Australian seasonal bushfire outlook that was released in Melbourne yesterday. The outlook is developed by the Bushfire Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre with the Bureau of Meteorology and relevant state fire and land managers including us here at CFA. It gives us an early indication of what Victoria could expect this bushfire season. Like last year, the outlook indicates that much of Victoria will have a normal fire season but as you know, even a normal season means we will have significant fires. In East Gippsland, conditions could make for an above-average fire season and there's also a growing risk north of the divide extending into southeast and New South Wales. It's now the third year in a row that these areas have experienced less than average rainfall which means the soil and the heavy forest fuels are very very dry. There is also a lot of dead fuel around and more flammable live vegetation. Recent winter rainfall means we'll have greater growth in parches and croplands in the west. So we know a lot of our people will be busy harvesting those crops and working with their communities to avoid fires caused by machinery and self-combusting haystacks. The Bureau of Meteorology predicts a warm and dry outlook which brings some risks that ash forests in the central highlands and the outways may dry out at a faster rate and become more flammable than normal during the summer. To manage the fire risk in Gippsland, while we have demands on our people in the west and the northwest during the half-sitting season, we're looking to draw on our valuable volunteer members on the metropolitan fringe and other areas for any strike teams that we may need.


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क्रु स्प्रत्पक्त्रि स्फ़िक्ता reunion क्रु स्प्रत् पाश्वाआ, सम्किन्शों से,lift स्प्रत्पूतपVEL, स्च्सप्रत्पूतप्मुआ hai The victim, he or she, sometimes, he or she is unable to concentrate on the academic side of his or her life. This means that when the victim is sitting in the classroom and she is being bullied, then she cannot concentrate on her classroom work or can do it. And in that, her academic performance is getting worse and worse. When this is happening, the teachers should take special care of it. And they should reach the conclusion that why is this happening? That is why we say that monitoring is very important from the teacher. Only those who should not concentrate on the lesson plan, should not only concentrate on the academic side, but should also see how the students behave. And when you are seeing a change in the attitude of a student, and you are seeing that her classroom performance is getting worse and worse, then there can be some attitude behind it. It is possible that the student is being bullied. Keep in mind that you should immediately control the bullying. Because such students are not able to concentrate on their education. So, if you are alert in the classroom, and use strategies like with-it-ness and overlapping, then such students are able to identify quickly. So, these students who are the victim of bullying, are able to see that their academic performance is getting worse. Apart from this, they are emotionally anxious and disturbed. And you can also see this visibly. That the students are sitting in the classroom, but they are worried. And they are disturbed, depressed and frustrated. But they are not expressing that why they are doing this. Because usually they are being bullied by themselves, that they are becoming victimized. And they are not expressing themselves. Their self-efficacy and self-esteem goes on a lower step. And they are not able to get up, they are not emotionally strong, that they are expressing what is happening to them. Such students should be especially careful, and they should be properly monitored. Because either they go down academically, or emotionally, they go down from down to down. These students should be especially careful, and they should be able to see what kind of children they are. Usually, children who are very shy, who are not confident, they easily become victimized. They are fit cases to be bullied. So, efforts should be made to pull out these students from their shyness. This is a great work of the teacher. That they should first identify, what are the shy students, and work on them. Through interpersonal skills, students should make him or her come out of shyness. Because what they are looking for, becomes very easily bullied. Apart from this, the bullying, a result of that is that students do not come to school. They become absent from school. Because school, sometimes it becomes a horrifying experience for them. They don't want to go to school. And sometimes they don't even tell their parents why they don't want to go to school. Because they are ashamed to tell them that they are getting abused, either physically or verbally. So, parents should also keep a close check, on day-to-day affairs of school, and teachers should also see what is happening in the classroom, what is happening in the school. So, when there is an absenteeism, when a student is getting a lot of leave from school, the reason for that is very important. Because it is possible that the reason for that is bullying. That particular student is getting bullied and because of that, he doesn't want to go to school. Because the school is not giving that environment which he should give. So, these things must be checked that bullying incidents do not take place in school.


by the clergy from this well all over the area of Sheboygan and They would like us to put it up here in the council chambers or somewhere in City Hall So what I will do is I will have it put up in a council chambers here somewhere where everyone could see it when they come In a door and I thanked them for it and Alderman Manny would you like to say a few words you were there last night excellent job your name is on there and thank you very much Okay with that we'll call a special Common Council the order Debbie would you call the roll please Corms present Alderman grow up By the city clerk submitting the communication from LTC and closing their 2003 tax levy report and at 1631 Which is a RO by the city clerk submitting the tax levy certification for the 2003 2004 school year from the village of Kohler and 1632 Which is an arrow by the city clerk submitting the communication from the SASD along with the 2003 school and recreation? Tax levy to be used in 2004 that all three of those RO's will be accepted It moved in second to file all 16 30 31 32 of the RO's under discussion Hearing none, would you call the roll please I Motion carries all McGraw Thank You your honor This time I would move that 1646 which is an RC by strategic fiscal plan Recommending additions of 227,354 to the proposed general fund balance Proposed general fund budget for capital outlay approach Appropriations that are that are that RC be accepted and adopted It's moved in second at 1646 and 7 you said just 46 46 who seconded Alderman Warner Be accepted to placed on file under discussion Adopted excuse me adopted not filed rate. It's been accepted and adopted All in favor opposed Motion carried 1647 You know I'll move that that RC by strategic fiscal plan Where it's recommending reinstatement of appropriations to the budget of 26,286 for the city assessor and 20,000 for police communications that that RC be accepted Let's move to second that RC be accepted and adopted on 1647. Is there any discussion? Hearing none on that all in favor opposed motion carried Alderman got Thank You your honor 1544 resolution 17704 by Ordering the 2004 budget appropriations for the city of Sheboygan funds. I would move that that resolution you put upon its passage Moved in second a resolution 1544 be put upon its passage under discussion Alderman rain flesh Thank You your honor I moved to restore the $19,000 in funding for the boys and girls club Second it's been moved in second to restore $19,000 for the boys and girls Under discussion first, I'd like to address the issue of cost regarding the boys and girls club It would cost us $19,000 to keep a program running that gives hundreds if not thousands of children a place for amusement entertainment Education and most importantly a place where they all of them right before you go too far. Yeah, hang on a minute Sure, we need this for the next document 1545 so can you hang on it? I will want one more just hang on a minute. Okay? Thank you Okay, if there's another discussion at 1544 I need a roll vote roll call Would you call the roll, please? Motion carried all of them grab thank you your honor under 1545 resolution number 1780304 by the finance committee Part of the 2004 budget appropriations and the 2003 tax levy for use during calendar year 2004 I would move that that resolution be put upon its passage Move the second resolution be put upon its passage under discussion your honor if I may I'd like to amend the appropriations to include a revenue adjustment of special assessments fund assessment sidewalk $80,000 be taken from there and move to special assessments be moved to assessment sidewalks $80,000 I believe which has that and that included in that adjustment There is 56,935 of that amount Moved into fire department revenue state municipal services pain It's on page four There was a More stated by $57,000 so our proposal here is to move the sidewalk assessments all the assessments except for gaming are in the 2003 budget We're proposing to lead the sidewalk assessment in 2004 in the general fund and move all the other ones for this year So the $8,000 would be retained in the general fund And that would act as an offset for that adjustment We have to make a $57,000 in quite a revenue. Okay Do I have a second? Okay, we have a motion before us under discussion all the way Stefan are you speaking on them? Okay, obviously we've got a $57,000 adjustment. We need to make Wouldn't it make more sense to just move $57,000 of it and leave the other remainder in there? And you couldn't just put the first $57,000 there the next 23 Okay, if there's no other discussion on amendment, would you call the old place? I Motion carry all the one right flesh now The budget to restore the $19,000 in funding for the boys and girls club Thank you the second to restore the $19,000 for the boys and girls proceed. Does anybody mind if I start over again? Okay, I Like to address the issue of costs regarding the boys and girls club It would cost us $19,000 to keep a program running that gives hundreds if not thousands of children a place for amusement entertainment education and most importantly a place where they gain a sense of belonging The club is a place where they learn how to be members of our community. It is a place where they develop their constructive skills What are the costs if the boys and girls club no longer existed? We could expect an additional 180 new gang members in Sheboygan for kids join the club in order to get a sense of belonging that a gang may otherwise provide Taxpayers cost increase with the need to deal with the gang members destructive behavior with additional policing costs with graffiti cleanup costs And vandalism repair costs and in the other costs of crime Thursday at the budget hearing we heard a quote from retired general Colin Powell Which I too would like to recite from the choice is very simple. We either build our children or build more jails It's time to stop building jails and get back to what we know how to do as Americans and that is build our children Next I'd like to talk about funding. I did have a recommendation that We could fund this without having to raise taxes, but I understand that through some other appropriations that those funds are no longer there I still like to make this recommendation because I do think it's important I do want to stress that hopefully we can find a way of doing this with your help your honor without raising any the tax level your tax rate We have already dedicated ourselves to beginning working to begin working on next year's budget right away The budget for 2005 may be even more of a challenge than this one has been more cuts may need to be made But it's important to keep the boys and girls club operating again for another year If we cannot support the club next year to the same degree We currently do now the club will then have a full year to try to replace these dollars by additional fundraising if need be However, until then I hope you all will support me in keeping such an important asset to our community open in 2004. Thank you Yes, I'd like to address this issue. I Apologize to all the right place. She wasn't here last year. He couldn't know that the finance committee pretty much told him that last year I think Paul that's got a document that points out that we give the boys and girls club Last year we gave them $10,000 in community block grant money when they came in this year They asked for 17 specifically because they knew they had been told the general fund money might not be there and probably would not be there So we've done that and that's one clarification. I want everybody to understand They knew it wasn't like we dropped it on them now and they didn't know for you know Their whole budget process starts in January or something They knew that you know and obviously just I think any department had knew all years They were doing their budget that anything they had wasn't guaranteed with the current fiscal prices were in I want to be clear I'm a huge fan of the boys and girls club But you know, I served on the United Way Executive Board. I served on the finance committee for the exit night away We looked at every agency Wonderful agency, but who's to say that they're any better than the Red Cross the Salvation Army Children's Service Society Reach hotline the mental health association the big brothers and big sisters safe harbor for abused women the literacy council We've got the senior center. We've got the library. I agree. You know, absolutely. They perform a wonderful wonderful service But we're talking about eliminating our own dare program. We're talking about eliminating our own police liaison officers Every other nonprofit group has been told We have the money. We have the allocations from the federal government go to the community block grant and Paul Ed has told them She's told the other old men that have taken the time to ask we think it's a pretty good organization We would recommend them getting this additional money above what they're getting now They can't guarantee it because nothing's guaranteed until the committee meets that we have, you know, the mayor's appointments And it's a different Budget cycle it goes from I think April to April or something like that. So you can't guarantee it But staff is certainly supportive of them If we approve this tonight and they get approved for what they've already got They've got 19,000 and they've got 17,000. That's 36,000. That's a hundred fifty percent of what they've ever gotten from us So I you know, I love the organization, but I just can't support giving them this kind of money I think if we're going to start being fiscally responsible, we've got to say, okay We've got an avenue for you and it's a community black man. And that's that's where we should send them And I you know, like I said, it's nothing personal. It's not that they're a wonderful organization But we've made you know Decisions that we can't fund this out of the general fund anymore And I understand that you know with the movement tonight it would come out of the assessments for the sidewalks But it's the same thing, you know, who's to say we couldn't find that 20,000 and give it for sets sets So excuse me Sunday bus service, you know or give it back to the library and let them stay open that data to close You know, these are decisions that we get paid to make and I just I thought we made this one a month and a half ago When I you know, I'm a little upset that now we're coming back and everybody's like oh, yeah, they're wonderful agency And they are wonderful agency, but we've made cuts. We've made hard cuts. We've been cuts that frankly, I didn't want to make But we've done it. I don't think we should be backtracking now and I'm certainly not going to support this Thank you all of them and Stefan all the way down. Yeah, I sort of wish to reinforce what Bill said I have six reasons for voting against it First the budget planning has been going on for more than a year and heroic last-minute efforts to spend more money should be denied Number two our budget figures for next year are set if the council funds this request either the tax levy has to be increased Some request has to be cut from the budget or this money has to be taken from some contingency fund All of these options are bad and will hurt some deserving program like the police or the fire or other department third The Boys and Girls Club is a worthwhile charity, but we need to control our spending not increase it There are at least a hundred charities in this community that could come here and give you a wonderful reason why life would be Infinitely better in Sheboygan if they just had more money, but we are not the United Way We're the common council. We are not funding nonprofit organizations. That's up to the United Way churches and other groups Fourth the taxpayers expect their taxes to be used for city infrastructure They do not want us to play generous with their tax money If you Alderman wish to support Non-profit groups outside of that use of your own money write out a personal check. Don't be so generous with other people's money number five Last year's finance committee agreed to provide the Boys and Girls Club with general fund money for one more year 2003 they were told that 2003 was the last year of support from the general fund And if they wanted further city funding they would have to get it from block grants at that time We also discontinued the graduation money and related charitable organizations So if you want to the city to support the block grant the I'm sorry the Boys and Girls Fund I encourage them to do it through the block grants Finally the mayor has said that there's going to be no increase in funding this year We have an opportunity as a council to actually live up to that and stop spending one way We can do it is just to say no the budget set. Let's move on. Thank you Thank you Alderman Longman Just to reinforce again what the I can't possibly support, you know increasing the funding to them The taxpayers have made it loud and clear that they want us to hold a line on the budget And we can't do that by increasing spending for any reason We've been called on to make a lot of difficult decisions and of Unfortunately the Boys and Girls Club is on that list No one doubts their Usefulness or their validity that's not in question at all But again, it's just another one of the tough decisions. We're going to have to make This has been a very difficult year, but the years coming up are going to make this year look like a Sunday school picnic compared to What's ahead of us? So things are going to get tougher and tougher Thank you. Thank you Back to Alderman growth Thank you your honor. I Will support this this motion. That's why I seconded it but There are some things that need to be cleared up. I was not on the council last year So I was unaware of what finance committee did then and I don't know if if everybody on the council last year knew That happened or not because I don't know if there was a note made of that or not, but Right now on this floor we can say, okay, this is the last year. You're gonna have to go back to redevelopment or Development community development block grant funds and get any additional funds that you want We did make some tough decisions next year and Alderman Wegman was right The next couple years is going to be even worse This funding without raising taxes Could be taken from the assessment Sidewalks that we just moved into the general fund. It could take 19,000 dollars out of there leaving approximately $10,000 left in that fund for any other Items that may be necessary true the this is a contribution to a Group, but what do they do they serve our? Our young people in this community oftentimes you hear how there isn't anything that the city is doing right now friend of the young people and This is a program that helps them keeps them off the street as Alderman Ryan Flesch had said on keeps them from becoming gang members gives them a place to go and a purpose to go to So I will be supporting this and I I hope the majority of the council will support putting this back again It will not increase the taxes Thank you because you're using it from an assessment for correct All of us Okay, Alderman Warner The thank-you honor as someone who grew up in Sheboygan in the 60s I remember quite well what it was like to live in a city that had no place for for the kids to go when they were Teenagers and there was no place At all in the city Sheboygan for kids to go other than to school and home and Downtown and walk the streets basically of course the world's changed a lot And I think it's even more important that we have a place for kids to go in the city Sheboygan and I think the Boys and Girls Club meets that need I guess Think that we need to find a way to come up with these funds. I would have supported that if we could have figured out Anyway, I think that if we take it out of the the money that's already in the budget Through a transfer such as this I Will support that completely and some of the reasons I truly believe that the Boys and Girls Club It is an essential part of our community The part that provides positive results that are difficult to measure today, but results that become apparent in the future This is truly an investment in the future of Sheboygan You see Alderman Ryan pleasure smiling because I agree with him today. That's a good thing But I think that the club teaches our youth that there is a difference between right and wrong The club teaches our youth that it's cool to be responsible Respectful and honest The Boys and Girls Club provides opportunities for youth to learn leadership skills That will help them for the rest of their lives in their education employment and future as responsible adults in our community The skills and knowledge they gain at the Boys and Girls Club will benefit them and our city for many years to come and Yes, the participation and involvement of our young people at the Boys and Girls Club does save taxpayers a lot of money It does this by lowering the cost to deal with gangs property crimes violence and of course drugs The kids at the Boys and Girls Club are not going to become future criminals and drug users They will become responsible tax paying citizens of our community and that is the goal and the vision We should see as we unanimously support the Boys and Girls Club and its contribution to Sheboygan's future These kids and and a place for them to go is very important And yes, it's a difficult budget year and we've caught and slashed everywhere we can We've squeezed pencils or departments are probably gonna have to bring paper from home for Pete sakes But when it starts at the bottom with our kids and giving them a place to go I think this is something we have to think about a little differently. It's not just dollars. And yes, Alderman Groff is right CDBG funds next year come back for that full amount from community development block grant That's what I would tell the Boys and Girls Club for 2005 come back to CDBG funds community development block grant funds that come from the federal government, which is our money anyway and Ask for more money from them for that program. But for this year, let's get them through this We've had presentations by the police department the drug unit We know what the problems are in the city if we can help some of these kids and give them a place to go I think we should do it and I think we should support this It's not increasing taxes. It's money.  That's right, but I will support this program too because if these Boys and girls clubs can prevent any juvenile from being shipped out of this county to Lincoln Hills Because right now it costs between 45 and $50,000 a year that costs a taxpayer To ship these kids to Lincoln Hills. So for this $19,000, I think we're pretty well off Thank you Alderman Gough or Alderman Ryan flesh, whichever would you please add to your motion and amendment to this that you're taking the money out of the Dead fund because tomorrow I'm not going to be Looking for the money. Okay All right Rich so we know that's where it's coming from Increase in general fund appropriations, okay Does everyone understand that but then in turn the revenue that we put in will offset that that $80,000 It Well, it It basically balances out if we take it out of that sidewalk assessment that we just moved into revenue It should have no effect on on it except raising the Expenditures Right. Okay. Thank you Okay Thank you All of it's definite So I want to be clear. I mean what we've done we've done But if we do this we are increasing taxes, but not as much as I mean if we wouldn't do anything with it It would date taxes would go down, correct? If we would make the other changes, but not this one taxes would go down So we really are increasing taxes by doing this so it's not fool people I just want to say I agree with all three of the statements made by the gentleman But nobody's answered the two core questions and that is why not funded from community block grant I want to be clear because Alderman Werner made a statement. Now Paulette. It's my understanding. We haven't allocated the 2004 Block grant program, right? So by telling them to go to community block and we're not saying go in 2005 We're saying you can get in 2004 if you're approved What happens is the applications went out in the mail and we'll be reviewing applications in January, February and then that goes before a Citizen committee and staff makes recommendations to that committee and then they vote on those Appropriations and then that actually they actually get funded. It's usually late summer early fall, right? But I mean it would get that money this year it would be under you know Like I said, it's a goofy system because it's not January to December like us. It's You know July to July or made a receive 2003 funds in October of this year, right? I mean so they would get it for their 2004 budget year, so I guess that's what I'm trying to say I'm not saying they don't deserve it. I'm not saying all the kids at Lincoln Hills We're not saving money. We are but the fact is we can do it through the community block grant And I think we also have to remember what was the total they got last year was that 22,000 12,000 In community block grant. I believe in 10,000 in the general fund. That's 22,000 dollars now They're getting 17,000 dollars this year in a community block grant fund odds are they would get that next year You're throwing another 19. You're gonna get in 36,000 If you if you give it to them this way and that way they're getting 36,000 I don't think that any any citizen is thinking We're cutting every other department of our own departments and we're gonna be given 150% raise to this group I mean like I said, they're a wonderful group. Don't get me wrong And if you want to give them 150% in community block grants Because some other agency isn't performing. That's fine because you're still spending the same amount of money in community block Grants you've got that much money to allocate Allocated as you will it but that's a fairer way because they're they're up against all the other agencies that do wonderful things So I want to be clear that, you know, they still have an opportunity to get this money this year in their budget for this year So it's not like they'd lose it If they're worthy, I'm sure they'll get it and like poet has said two or three times Her staff is gonna recommend it because they do feel they do a wonderful job All the press did you want? Oh, I thought you motioned before to speak I Guess what I was saying is I Were supposed to rise we speak. Yes, I was just gonna say that I was just gonna tell them that next Alderman right flesh Thank you, your honor just a point of clarification Paulette then what did they receive from the general operating funds last year And what did they receive from the community block grant last year? I think in 2000 from CDBG in 2002 they received 10 to 2003 it was 17 Okay And respond to Jerry Doyle they received 17,000 from block grants. We heard and 19,000 from From general so we're actually not giving them any more than they already got last year though. Is that correct? $7,000 The total loss of general funds is what the anticipation was Okay, I Guess I Would like to discuss then the opportunity with rich that what do we give them that keeps the levy at? zero cents per thousand and still gives them approximately what they got last year Combined between the community block grants and general operating funds I mean, I'm not looking to raise the amount of money giving them to the total and make sure that they stay operating it for this point in time What dollar amount with these totals that we're looking at Do we give them that one gives them the same combined total that they got last year from community block grants Which is only a recommendation. We don't know if we're gonna get that 17,000 or not Let's assume a 17,000 Plus what they got from general operating last year What do we need to take out of this transfer to equal that dollar amount without raising? The levy by that one cent per thousand No Since they started receiving the block grants that increased their appropriations in total From the 20,000 up to the 36,000 this year But I do agree with what was stated before by Alderman, Stefan, and Alderman Doyle, the finance committee, I think the Chair, Terry Van Ackerman, stated that it was to be given with a very Definite statement that this would be the last year that general fund would fund that appropriation Alderman Van Ackerman How much did they ask for in this year's block grant for They didn't come in yet for 2004 that'll happen in January or February Okay, we have a motion before us an amendment for the money For the Boys and Girls Club. Would you call the roll please? I vote would be for the amendment No vote obviously is against amendment Winninger Motion carried Alderman Graf the honor as amended I would move that the resolution be put upon its passage Move this second a resolution be put upon its passage. Is there any discussion? Alderman Stefan You know I would as an amendment to this could we send a letter and tell them that we're not gonna do it again I would make some move just so it's clear and everybody knows they're not getting the money out of general fund anymore Apparently that was someone you know some of the alderman felt that it was not fair So I guess if that's appropriate I'd make that motion at this time that we send a letter to them saying this it's our understanding This will be the last year you get it obviously the next council could change your mind But clearly they'd be notified and we wouldn't have to worry about any misunderstandings. Who's a The boys and girls club. No, no, who do you want to send the letter? I Don't really care if it's a council or the finance committee or you or whatever Yep It it could come a letter could come from counsel saying I'm excuse me from from finance committee saying Your appropriation that you received for 2004 will be the last appropriation that you get from the general fund And we can send it out of finance if that would be acceptable All right, is there any discussion on that all in favor of finance sending a letter Hi post motion carried Okay now Motion is there you call the role, please The motion to to accept the budget the way it is has amended as amended. Could you call the role, please? Winning Motion carried moved a second adjourned under discussion hearing not all in favor


It's a debatable topic. So I said, I must come well-prepared. Since this is an arena of war, and I had promised my daughter that, you know what, for the next talk I give, I'm definitely going to use one of your toys. Luckily, that came in hand with a light. So contrary to popular belief, and it makes noise. So contrary to popular belief, testing is extremely important, and testing is overrated. Now, my talk is essentially not about going in the wild and trying to be a Rambo, or a Gijo, or a Commando, deploying code on production, logging into a production server, and changing it. You know what, that's going to get you killed. So don't deploy without testing. Fair enough. Perfect. The point is, ensure that you do not get yourself killed, or blowing your head apart by trying to do any manual QA. Now, this is a story that I'm talking about. It's an experience report. So it makes sense that I share my experience. And if you don't like that experience, you're welcome to come and talk to me later on. So this is a story about an outlook. An outlook towards writing cleaner code where it's not easy. An outlook towards ensuring that we have code quality. I'm sorry, Microsoft. That's an awesome picture I found. I just couldn't avoid that one. And an outlook towards customers. How often do we find customers? Do we have happy customers? Do we like them? Do we like to work with them? The morning sessions talks were very interesting. They always spoke about how do we judge a cost for a project? How do we not estimate? The bottom line was always there was a customer involved. There was a vendor or a developer involved. But nobody ever spoke about the relationship between them. Should it be good, bad, or ugly? That's a kind of experience report that we're actually going through. So way back in 2007, I co-founded Josh. 2007, I was working for about eight years. I thought, you know what? I think I can do something on my own. Wanted to do something different. Wanted to, I want to do something different. Wanted to see if I could start a company or a very niche company. So we started working in Ruby on Rails. Now this is very interesting because in 2007.


We're here at Wicked 2012 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and I'm very pleased to be joined by Mr. Andres Piazza, who is Public Affairs Officer for LACNIC, the Internet Advisory Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean region. Mr. Piazza, thank you very much, indeed, for being with us today. Thank you very much. It's my pleasure. I wanted to start off by asking you about your impressions of Wicked 12 so far. Okay. The conference has been really great. We have been participating in the preparatory processes as well, so we have been looking forward for this to happen since a long time and the conference is really, really intense but a great experience, a great exchange of information and engagement with the government officers. So I'm very glad to be here. And what are going to be the most pertinent points of Wicked for you? Well, first of all, coming with LACNIC, it's the Internet Addresses Registry. We assign the number resources for our region and we are a membership organization with almost 3,000 members from the big operators to the public operators and cooperatives, universities in the region. So we come with a perspective from our membership coming here and addressing issues, mostly related to the Internet, but also our region is part of the CETEL and the countries from CETEL. We came with an interesting leadership in many matters. They had a good understanding about the Internet environment and how it should be and the scope of the Wicked and also they addressed it and other issues regarding telecommunications and the concerns of the region. So it was very interesting also. Wicked 12 has been attracting a lot of attention. What for you are going to be the most positive aspects coming out from this conference? Well actually, as you mentioned, there has been a lot of concern in the Internet community regarding the openness of the process. From the perspective of the Internet organization that has put on up consensus and the multi-stakeholder model, everyone can participate just in their interest and in full time with access to all the information. The bar for us is set very high, but I'm very glad to see that a multilateral global treaty conference has this level of transparency with live webcast, with captioning, with documents available. So it's a very positive aspect and I hope the ITU keeps this way in the future. And what's your vision for the future telecommunications in the Latin America and Caribbean region? Well the perspective for the future is also very, it's really well for us. We have a good Internet penetration, the telecommunications services are growing. This will keep in the same way in the future, not only because the users are growing, which will be, but also the network will grow a lot because of the dispositives that will be connected and the traffic and the new type of interactions that would be combined with all these factors. So there will be a lot of growing for the network in the future and we hope to be there to help this process to achieve. And finally, what are the outcomes you hope to see come from Wicked 12? Okay, well, we are expecting to see whatever outcome comes from Wicked. We hope that it has a base of consensus because there's nothing more global than telecommunications worldwide. So I hope this has some global consensus in the outcome and of course, from the side of the Internet, I hope this consensus understands the Internet environment and the way it has been developed during these whole years. Mr. Andres Piazza, thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you very much.


We continue today with chapter 25, the special function. The grace of God rests gently on forgiving eyes and everything they look on speaks of Him to the beholder. He can see no evil, nothing in the world to fear and no one who is different from Himself. And as He loves them, so He looks upon Himself with love and gentleness. He would no more condemn Himself for His mistakes than damn another. He is not an arbiter of vengeance, nor a punisher of sin. The kindness of His sight rests on Himself with all the tenderness it offers others, for He would only heal and only bless. And being in accord with what God wills, He has the power to heal and bless all those He looks on with the grace of God upon His sight. Eyes become used to darkness and the light of brilliant day seems painful to the eyes grown long accustomed to the dim effects perceived at twilight. And they turn away from sunlight and the clarity it brings to what they look upon. Dimness seems better, easier to see and better recognized. Somehow the vague and more obscure seems easier to look upon, less painful to the eyes in what is wholly clear and unambiguous. Yet this is not what eyes are for and who can say that he prefers the darkness and maintain he wants to see. The wish to see calls down the grace of God upon your eyes and brings the gift of light that makes sight possible. Would you behold your brother? God is glad to have you look on him. He does not will your Savior be unrecognized by you, nor does he will that he remain without the function that he gave to him. Let him no more be lonely, for the lonely ones are those who see no function in the world for them to fill, no place where they are needed, and no aim which only they can perfectly fulfill. Such is the Holy Spirit's kind perception of specialness, his use of what you made to heal instead of harm. To each he gives a special function and salvation he alone can fill, apart for only him, nor is the plan complete until he finds his special function and fulfills the part assigned to him to make himself complete within a world where incompletion rules. Here where the laws of God do not prevail in perfect form can he yet do one perfect thing and make one perfect choice and by this act of special faithfulness to one perceived as other than himself he learns the gift was given to himself and so they must be one. Forgiveness is the only function meaningful in time. It is the means the Holy Spirit uses to translate specialness from sin into salvation. Forgiveness is for all, but when it rest on all it is complete and every function of this world completed with it. Then is time no more, yet while in time there is still much to do and each must do what is allotted him, for on his part does all the plan depend. He has a special part in time for so he chose and choosing it he made it for himself. His wish was not denied but changed in form to let it serve his brother and himself and thus become a means to save instead of lose. Salvation is no more than a reminder this world is not your home its laws are not imposed on you its values are not yours and nothing that you think you see in it is really there at all. This is seen and understood as each one takes his part in its undoing as he did in making it. He has the means for either as he always did. The specialness he chose to hurt himself did God appoint to be the means for his salvation from the very instant that the choice was made his special sin was made his special grace his special hate became his special love. The Holy Spirit needs your special function that his may be fulfilled. Think not you lack a special value here you wanted it and it has given you all that you made can serve salvation easily and well. The Son of God can make no choice the Holy Spirit cannot employ on his behalf and not against himself. Only in darkness does your specialness appear to be attack. In light you see it as your special function in the plan to save the Son of God from all attack and let him understand that he is safe as he has always been and will remain in time and in eternity alike. This is the function given you for your brother. Take it gently then from your brother's hand and let salvation be perfectly fulfilled in you. Do this one thing that everything be given you and from the workbook lesson 196. It can be but myself I crucify. When this is firmly understood and kept in full awareness you will not attempt to harm yourself nor make your body slave to vengeance.   Perhaps at first you will not understand how mercy limitless and with all things held in its sure protection can be found in the idea we practice for today. It may in fact appear to be a sign that punishment can never be escaped because the ego under what it sees as threat is quick to cite the truth to save its lies. Yet must it fail to understand the truth it uses thus that you can learn to see these foolish applications and deny the meaning they appear to have.  You will not believe you are a body to be crucified and you will see within today's idea the light of resurrection looking past all thoughts of crucifixion and of death to thoughts of liberation and of life. Today's idea is one step we take in leading us from bondage to the state of perfect freedom. Let us take this step today that we may quickly go the way salvation shows us taking every step in this appointed sequence as the mind relinquishes its burdens one by one. It is not time we need for this it is but willingness for what would seem to need a thousand years can easily be done in just one instant by the grace of God. The dreary hopeless thought that you can make attacks on others and escape yourself has nailed you to the cross. Perhaps it seemed to be salvation yet it merely stood for the belief the fear of God is real and what is that but hell who could believe his father is his deadly enemy separate from him and waiting to destroy his life and blot him from the universe without the fear of hell upon his heart such is the form of madness you believe if you accept the fearful thought you can attack another and be free yourself until this form is changed there is no hope until you see that this at least must be entirely impossible how could there be escape the fear of God is real to anyone who thinks this thought is true and he will not perceive its foolishness or even see that it is there so that it would be possible to question it to question it at all its form must be first be changed at least as much as will permit fear of retaliation to abate and the responsibility return to some extent to you from there you can at least consider if you want to go along this painful path until the shift has been accomplished you cannot perceive that it is but your thoughts that bring you fear and your deliverance depends on you our next steps will be easy if you take this one today from there we go ahead quite rapidly for once you understand it is impossible that you be hurt except by your own thoughts the fear of God must disappear you cannot then believe that fear is caused without and God whom you had sought to banish can be welcomed back within the holy mind he never left salvation song can certainly be heard in the idea we practice for today if it can be but yourself you crucify you did not hurt the world and need not fear its vengeance and pursuit nor need you hide in terror from the deadly fear of God projection hides behind the thing you dread the most is your salvation you are strong and it is strength you want and you are free and glad of freedom you have sought to be both weak and bound because you feared your strength and freedom yet salvation lies in them there is an instant in which terror seems to grip your mind so holy that escape appears quite hopeless when you realize once and for all that it is you you fear the mind perceives itself as split and thus this had been concealed while you believed attack could be directed outward and returned from outside to within it seemed to be an enemy outside you had to fear and thus a god outside yourself became your mortal enemy the source of fear now for an instant is a murderer perceived within you eager for your death intent on plotting punishment for you until the time when it can kill at last yet in this instant is the time as well in which salvation comes for fear of God has disappeared and you can call on him to save you from illusions by his love calling him father and yourself his son pray that the instant may be soon today step back from fear and make advance to love there is no thought of God that does not go with you to help you reach that instant and to go beyond it quickly surely and forever when the fear of God is gone there is no obstacles that still remain between you and the holy piece of God how kind and merciful is the idea we practice give it welcome as you should for it is your release it is indeed but your mind can cry to crucify yet your redemption too will come from you amen


heard about this airplane before today, already. It's about half, a little bit more than half. So RIMPLZ, that's a project we dreamt about 15 years ago. And the idea was to develop an airplane which can fly forever, at least theoretically, but unlimited endurance, a new paradigm. And to be able to do this, and you will see in fact why afterwards, it was clear that we needed to get the energy on the airplane when we were flying. And barking energy from the ground was impossible because energy is weight. You need energy to carry energy. You have a limit. We know current airplanes fly 12, 15, 18 hours, maybe maximum. And the only energy that we had available is the sun. So that's what we used. But you certainly know that solar energy in some ways is limited. If you take one square meter at noon at the best moment, it gives you something like 1,000 watts. 1,000 watts, it's the power of a hair dryer. And the sun is not what you get as electricity. So it's limited. So the only way to fly day and night, which means through the night using the energy we get through the day, was to build a very efficient airplane. So it's a demonstration of energy efficiency. I explained why, in fact, it's so big. That's the size of 747, or even bigger. Explains why it was so light, the weight of a car, about two tons. And of course, explain why we have chosen electric propulsion. Because on one side, it's an airplane which is solar. On the other side, it's an airplane which is electric. Electric propulsion gives us the efficiency we need it. Just to give you an idea, the efficiency of the water we had is 1970%. The efficiency of a combustion engine, if you still have a combustion engine, it's about 30%, which means two liters out of three that you put in the tank is lost. It doesn't provide anything for propulsion. So why did we do this? We did this to show, in fact, what we should do on Earth. If we can make our world efficient in the same way as we did this airplane efficient, renewable energies are sufficient afterwards to provide the power we need for our daily activities. If we use this technology, we can reduce energy consumption by 50%. So that's was the goal of this project, to build a symbol, to build an ambassador of what we can do with these technologies. And so 15 years ago, we had no ambition to revolutionize aviation. We didn't want people to expect flying solar to go on vacation. But as we started to discover what we can do with these technologies, I mean, I can say that I started to fall in love with electric propulsion. You will certainly not fly solar. As you understood, one square meter, one hair dryer, if you take an Airbus 380, maybe you can provide energy for the video system. But you will certainly not provide with the technology and the knowledge we have today the energy to propel the airplane. But airplanes today can be electric. And that's what is extremely interesting and exciting. On one side, I'm sure you know that the limits is the battery. That's what we heard on cars. And that's the problem we had with cars, because people were trying to replace combustion engine with electric motors. And they were disappointed to discover that they can drive only 50 kilometers. So the negative part of it is that we have, of course, difficulty to store energy. But the fantastic opportunity is that we can change the design of the airplane. And we can build airplanes in a different way so that we can have so much benefits that the hurdle of the low energy density of batteries is not an issue. I think in the cars Elon Musk demonstrated this a little bit, but in airplane we have the third dimension that we can use. And this is what I would like to explore together with Garret this morning. I'm trying to provide you a vision of what we can do with the technology which exists today. It's not a question of inventing new technologies. It's a question of finding the right mindset. When we started Solar Impulse, we went to the aviation industry and said, that's what we need to have as an airplane. And immediately they told us that they believe it was impossible. And so we had to develop our own solution. It was clear that the aviation industry did not have the technology to be able to build it. And we had to find the solution somewhere else. And it's exactly the same with electric propulsion today. It's not the big corporation who will invent this new solution. It will come from innovators, pioneers, maybe the Silicon Valley. They are working on it. But let's see what we can do. So Garret, if you want to join me, I think we still have a question. That's fascinating to see, Andre. So I wonder if we can take the story right back. We're going to hear obviously a lot more about Solar Impulse and a lot more about your thoughts about the technologies of the future and so on. But maybe right back to the beginning when you're a boy and you're fascinated by flight. You take some flying lessons. And I should say, by the way, that this session is being recorded. It's being streamed live as well. And the Q&A is recorded as well. So where did your interest in flying come from in the first place, Andre? I think all these starts with passion. You're absolutely right to say it. And when I was a kid, I was reading a lot of books about the people who made the aviation we know today. And this gave me, in fact, the will to become a pilot and had the chance to do my first solo flight when I was 15, got my license when I was 17. But flying was not the only thing. I mean, I became an Air Force pilot thereafter. I could fly in Switzerland as a pilot, but being an entrepreneur as a profession. So it was almost like a hobby. But I was impressed by the life of these people who invented aviation. I mean, imagine that on one side, you had people who were trying to demonstrate that flying was impossible at the time of the White Brothers. On the other time, the other people was trying to imagine how it could work. And when they had built something, they had to try it. There was no flight instructor. So getting into the machine and getting into the air without knowing how it will happen for me was fascinating.  So I had to wait the age of 50 to meet my partner, Bertrand Picard, who had this idea of flying without the dependence on fossil energy. I think when I met him, I had the impression that the door was opening to this world of pioneers that I had been dreaming when I was a little kid. And I think passion in this type of project is extremely, but that's the driving force. Yeah. And that must have been really exciting, the idea that there was still some space to be a pioneer. That in a way, we thought we knew aviation. We thought we understood propulsion. And this was just an incremental journey of marginal improvements to airframes and propulsion techniques, actually throwing that whole playbook away and really starting from scratch with a new aviation paradigm. That must have been intoxicatingly exciting, I guess. Well, that's the same. That was the same here. In fact, you need to believe in it. You need to believe it's possible. And then you need to have the perseverance to go through the process of making it happening. And from outside, you have the impression, you go from one success to the next, building a first airplane, second airplane, first flight. But basically, in fact, you go from one challenge, from one obstacle, from one difficulty to the next one. So where did the idea initially come from, to even consider electric propulsion and renewable electric propulsion in flying? So where did that idea came from, that first insight that maybe we could use electric propulsion, and not just electricity, but renewable electricity? Because to me, it seems so counterintuitive. So where did that idea come from? You remember my partner Bertrand flying around the world with the balloon? Yes. It was 1999. They used photons of propane. And when he got to the coast of Africa, they had 40 kilograms left in the bottle. Barely made it across the ocean with a lot of tension and suspense as you can imagine. And he asked himself at this moment if he could not get rid of the dependence on the energy you take on board, and use the energy which is available around renewable energy. So that's how the idea started. But we didn't know if an airship would make sense. An airplane would be possible. So we had to dig in, in fact, to get the feeling of what was feasible. So that was the starting point 15 years ago. And of course, you studied engineering. You became an entrepreneur. You've run companies and so on. But wearing your engineering hat wasn't there part of you that you know the laws of motion. You know what it takes to get a heavy an air machine into the air as an aircraft, not like a balloon or something like that. The amount of force that it needs to get the aircraft off the ground, did you for one minute doubt that electric propulsion could actually allow you to take off in an aircraft with fixed wings? What was critical was to understand the balance between day and night. And that's a little bit what we are facing in our civilization in some ways. Are we consuming everything during the day and there's nothing for the night in our aircraft? Are we consuming everything during our generation and there is nothing for next generation? So to find this balance between day and night was the critical issue. Can we collect enough and can we save enough so that's at the end of the night we are still in the air? But think about it, when we are at the sunrise, the level of batteries we have is about 10%. So it's the same if you have your portable phone, you know when it's getting red and you know you can do one phone call and that's over. But we are at this moment over the ocean and there is no plug underneath. So the understanding of how close we were to the limits was extremely important and of course it led to an airplane which is extremely light, something that the aviation industry was unable to build, didn't have the technologies. And I remember in fact I was looking for a company who could manufacture this airplane and you have to imagine that this is a skeleton made of carbon fibers, something which is extremely light and very stiff and the company I found was a company specialized in boat building. Yes. Innovative, knowing the materials but no clue about aviation. And when I presented my engineers, structure engineers from the erotical world to this company, my team said Andrea you're completely crazy. These guys have no understanding about what we are doing, it will never work. And this company, their technicians told me your engineers are not too bad but they have no idea about how to use our materials. You'll never be able to make a design which is good enough to get the benefits of what we can do. So it was not a question of technology, it was a question of trying to develop the right mindset between these team to make them work together. It took two years. You know when you bring different people in the same room, everyone wants to demonstrate that his vision of the world is the right one. And you have to make sure that they start in fact to understand what the other person is doing to see how the idea of the other person can improve my solution. And that's what took time to develop. Yeah, so I mean this is a huge research effort and it was pioneering in every way, nobody had done this. So just tell us a little bit about the, there were two solar impulse aircrafts, so obviously the world record breaking one was solar impulse two. So if we just could have hop forward to that one, just tell us a bit about the construction of the aircraft, obviously it has the electric motors, just tell us a little bit about it. So it's a skeleton build of carbon fibers. So the weight is essential. The solar cells provides the electricity, the energy to the batteries and to the motors. So it's, I would say, a very simple functioning. What has to be optimized in the entire system? It's not thinking about how to make the best motor is to think how can I make this working within my weight budget. So this was the, this was the chance, this was the critical question. But when we fly this, what we realize is that these technologies are extremely reliable in what they provide in the way they function. And this is a great advantage of electric propulsion. Electric propulsion has different features, I think, which will help us to change the world of aviation. It's very easy to command. It's using electric boards. It reacts instantaneously. As soon as you apply electricity, you get the torque. It's very simply manufactured, therefore very reliable. It's quiet, it's clean. So basically it addresses all the questions and maybe the criticism we make in the world of aviation. Noise, pollution, cost, maintenance, something you can resolve with electric propulsion. That's the reasons why it's so attractive. Yeah, so a bit like going from diesel locomotives on the railways to electric, kind of high torque, more reliable, easier to maintain trains. This is obviously taking it into the skies. But it does seem, Andreas, if your big engineering challenge was the batteries and there were problems you had that record-breaking flight as part of the round-the-world journey, there was that record-breaking leg from Japan to Hawaii, five days and five nights. Everything worked well, but it took a heavy toll on the batteries, didn't it, that flight? So tell me why the batteries were the big challenge here. It's the limiting factor for cars. It's the limiting factor for airplanes. It was the limiting factor for us as well. So the only way was to make something light. And the only way, in fact, if you look at what we can do with aviation is to make it different. So think about the drones that we see. The drones have four motors. These drones are more stable in winds and in turbulence than a helicopter which costs 10 million. Why? Because you have simple electronics which control it. And why? Because electric motors reactively and can balance the drone. So you can start thinking about building an airplane taking vertically like a helicopter, but in a much more simple way. Actually, you don't need these big rotors which is extremely difficult to manufacture, difficult to maintain, noisy, inefficient. You can start thinking about something like we have downstairs taking vertically, but then flying like an airplane. If you fly like a drone, like we see on the model downstairs, it's inefficient. Getting your lift and sustaining the flight with propellers uses a lot of energy. So we need something which has the same principle to move up, but then flies like an airplane. That's what we call flying cars. And that's where we see the huge potential today.