We'll now resume the special meeting of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Budget hearings. It is 1.46 p.m. on June 28, 2022, and we are going to take it from the top here, so we'll begin with a roll call. Supervisor Friend. Here. Coonerty. Here. Hapit. Here. McPherson. Here. And Koenig. Here. Thank you, Chair. You have a quorum. Consent irregular agendas. Thank you. We'll proceed with item 55, action on the consent agenda, and pursuant to government code section 54953. I'm announcing that the consent agenda includes item number 62, which is an amendment to resolution number 279-75 to increase the salary and amend the salary schedule for the County Administrative Officer job classification by 5% as recommended by the Personnel Director. Are there any comments or questions by board members on the consent agenda? Seeing none, I'll open it for public comment on the consent agenda. Good afternoon. Nicholas Whitehead. I've lived in the Santa Cruz County for 55 years, an immigrant from England. Item 65, evidence-based core investments, but there's no criteria. I would have appreciated if somewhere the criteria were available and the reference budget documents. Which if the public could see those in a convenient form prior to those decisions. Okay, that's that one. Number 62, I can remember when Susan Mariello was the County Administrative Officer and she was the most highly-paid CAO in the whole state of California. I found that very surprising for a little county like ours, we're not even as well fears Monterey County, so at the time, I wondered about that. I couldn't help wondering about that. But I do know that the current CAO has an excellent reputation and I feel he did a good job in Watsonville. I've told him that several times. I guess that's all I needed, just a little bit of history there. Maybe Mr. Balasioz is just going to do a fantastic job and be worth it, repenting. I hope so. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Whitehead. If you do have a public comment on our consent agenda, please line up so we can make your comments. Thank you.  Good afternoon, members of the Board of Supervisors and Chair Koenig. My name is Reverend Beth Love. I'm the Executive Director of Eat for the Earth. And I want to say, I want to speak to item number 65 on the consent agenda. I want to just say that I appreciate that the staff of the county and the city came together to try to resolve a fairly irresolvable situation in which a fair process resulted in one outcome, but also resulted in some unintended consequences of programs that are serving our community, receiving not being recommended for funding, and critical services and also the loss of matching funds from the state and federal government. So I just want to say, as one of the agencies that was initially recommended for funding and we are now losing an additional 7% from our request, so approximately $7,000 dollars for us and this small agency, that makes a difference. So we'll have to look at how do we adjust our budget to account for that. I just want to say that I appreciate that the process was in integrity and that there wasn't a recommendation to kind of rescramble the whole thing and go back to square one. And I also have many colleagues in the field that have agencies that are heads of agencies that are now going to get at least three months of transitional funding. And I haven't had a chance to check in with them to see how they feel about that, but that must feel a little better than the alternative. And so I just want to appreciate the staff, thank the Board of Supervisors for your vote and say for the earth hesitantly approves the recommendation. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Reverend Love. Anyone else here in chambers, there's still justice on the consent agenda. Seeing none, is there anyone on Zoom? We do have a speaker on Zoom. We have one more speaker here in chambers. Good afternoon. My name is Claudia Crenata and I'm here to ask that you continue to fund if MHCAN, our mental health facility, it's a really good asset to the community. And I myself volunteer there twice a week and it's really needed in our county. Thank you. Thank you, Claudia. My name is Ken Mangan. Can you just get a little closer to the mic, sir, so we can all hear you. My name is Ken Mangan. Born in Watsonville, I'm 69 years old. I still live upon MHCAN and I spend with my week there from nine o'clock till two o'clock. And it's open every weekday except Wednesday. And there's so many activities to do, so many volunteers, I'm a volunteer. There's so many things to do, keeps me active, you know, I'm doing things during the week, during the day, and I go home and I'm tired. And but I just hope you can continue to fund us because we need a place to go. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Magnum. Hello, I'm Drew Ferris and I'd like to ask you to help fund MHCAN. A lot of the people in the town that are mentally ill are also homeless. And it's one of the places where we can get a lot of the things, food, counseling, connection, drives, food, services, showers and stuff all at one area. And I don't think there are any places that have all the services that are there. And it's a form of community, gives people a little more hope. So I hope you keep that in mind. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ferris. Hello, I'm my name is Michael Helm. I was at Page Smith and I started going to MHCAN and I'm a custodian there. And later on, I thank you for supporting us. And I all the way through, I have an apartment now. I was the money I get at the work. I pay my part with the housing. So I do appreciate to all of at least supporting when I first got there, got laid off from the budgeting. And I just hope it keeps up, you know, and and and thank you all too. Thank you for supporting Mr. Helm. I'm also here to speak on behalf of MHCAN. There are only three places in this town I enter. There's a grocery store, thrift store and MHCAN. It's the only kitchen we got. They provide us with food. It's a place where we can charge our phones and everything. Keeps a lot of people from causing you problems. They cause me problems too.  That's what you need to think about is your county programs supplying them with cases of needles to throw all over the street. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Good afternoon. My name is Michael Hawken. I also came down to ask for your help with MHCAN. We go on there for years. It's a great, great place for mental wellness. And I'm really appreciated by me and lots of others in the community. Your support would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hawken. I see no one else here in chambers. Is there anyone on Zoom? Yes, chair, we do have a speaker on Zoom. Nora, that your microphone is now available. Hi, Derek, can you hear me? Yes. My name is Nora Caruso. I am the program director at the Santa Cruz Toddler Care Center. We have been recommended for a cut of our $75,000 per year funding for a three year funding cycle. And a friend of mine was asking me, you know, how I'm doing with all of this. And I told her I was really sad that a decades long partnership with the county and the city is ending. And I'm sad that the realization during the pandemic of the deep importance of childcare for functioning communities and economies has already been forgotten. And I'm sad that our low income families will no longer have access to our high quality childcare program. And I'm sad that my highly qualified teachers will not be eligible for wage increases despite the high cost of inflation that we're all facing. The irony wasn't lost on me regarding that consent item 62 the agenda to increase salaries for county administrators and analysts. And I'm grateful for the potential of three months more funding but I'm dreading having to tell our currently enrolled families that are receiving subsidies that will no longer be able to serve them in three months time. I guess they won't be able to continue working. And incidentally, one last thing on that three months funding equates to eight percent of our grant previously consisting of 36 months of funding with a three year funding cycle. So three months of funding is actually a 92 cut or a loss of 33 months of our funding. And we're not the only childcare center that's been overlooked. In fact, 90 percent of childcare in general is being cut. This is a really big mistake. Please reconsider. Thanks so much. Thank you, Miss Caruso. Sandy, your microphone is now available. You know, I've spoken to you so many times about childcare. There's so much unbelievable amount of data from every perspective, scientific studies, sociological studies, economic studies of the level of return you get when you invest in childcare, you know, raises run ranges from like invest a dollar and you get seven dollars of benefit to the society or 13 dollars benefit. There's no ambiguity about it in terms of all the different forces that childcare is a part of.  It's what we saw with COVID, the impacts of not having childcare on an economic level. And there's such a huge impact that even beyond that, in terms of what happens to children who get the kind of emotional and social training that make them into good people. When you look around you and you see people in the streets yelling or shooting each other or misbehaving, you're seeing people or essentially toddlers who never learned how to be a person that can be part of a community. And that's what happens at the toddler center.  Their world was chaos and the child manifested chaos in our realm that we see in the adult version everywhere around us. Six months after being at the toddler center, he's sitting at a table next to other toddlers next to him. He's sitting down. He reaches out his right hand and holds the toddler's hand. His left hand holds that toddler's hand. Each of those other toddlers reach out and hold the hands next to them. And there's such a sense of calm and connection and community. That's what happens when you do good childcare and don't we all need this and doesn't the world need this? You need to think about this. It's a huge impact by the decision you're making to defund childcare. Thank you, Sandy. We have no additional speakers for this item, chair. All right, then I will return to the to the board for action. Supervisor McPherson. Motion by Supervisor McPherson. Second, second by Supervisor Friend. Any further discussion? Just to clarify for members who are still left in the audience, we did finalize the list of awards for CORE this morning, which is why we're not discussing it more extensively now. This is largely just approving its incorporation into this year's budget. So we have again, motion by Supervisor McPherson, second by Supervisor Friend, signal for the discussion. Clerk roll call vote, please. Supervisor Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. And Koenig. Aye. Sign passes unanimously. Thank you. The consent agenda being approved will proceed with item 56 on the regular agenda the public hearing to consider resolution approving amendments to the unified fee schedule for fiscal year 22-23, including the addendum as provided in the reference budget documents and as recommended by the County Administrative Officer. Presentation on this item. We have our County Budget Manager, Marcus Pimentel. Thank you, Chair Koenig. Members of the board, I'm your County Budget Manager and I'm joined today by our CAO analyst, Rita Sanchez, who will be leading the next public hearing. Welcome to day four. This is the last day of our proposed 22-23 budget hearings. Today's regular agenda items will include the last day budget amendments that were just approved on consent and the concluding actions to the proposed 22-23 budget. Following this next unified fee schedule hearing, we will continue with the final two budget hearings, one to approve our redevelopment agency, successor agency budget, and to consider approval of the county's budget and then we'll conclude with closing remarks. But moving into the public hearing on the unified fee schedule, today's hearing is for you to consider adopting the resolution to amend the 22-23 unified fee schedule, as included in the supplemental recommendations to the proposed 22-23 budget. Those were on pages 115 to 184 in the supplemental budget document that is linked to within our county budget. Following this brief presentation, we will then ask the board to open the public hearing, take testimony and public comments, close the public hearing and adopt the resolution to amend the unified fee schedule. I'll now pass this presentation along to our CAO senior and administrative analyst, Rita Sanchez. Good afternoon, board. Today's UFS amendments include revisions from the Agricultural Commission's Office, Animal Services, Clerk of the Board, Health Services, Human Services, Community Development and Infrastructure, Parks and the Sheriff's Office, which I will speak to briefly in the next slides. The Agricultural Commissioners Office is recommending adjustments to fees related to various inspection services and registration of weights and measuring devices to recover costs of providing these services. Animal Services is recommending a new animal facility license fee for male game birds. The Clerk of the Board is recommending new fees for notary services for county business and a new hearing jurisdictional filing fee. They are also recommending updates to certification of documents and assessment appeals processing fees. The Health Services Agency is recommending updates to community mental health fees to recover increases in administrative and clinical costs necessary to support the programs. Vital statistics fees are also being updated to align with California Department of Public Health mandated fee increases. Public Guardian Services are moving to the Human Services Department and related fees to that program are being removed from the Health Services Departmental Fees Listing. And finally, the Environmental Health Division conducted a time study of their fees and are recommending updates to their consumer protection, food program, hazardous materials program, environmental cleanup program, and water resource program fees to align to the results of that study. The Human Services Department is recommending updates to the Child Care Developer fee schedule and adding the Public Guardian Services Fees to their departmental schedule since that program is transferring them from the Health Services Agency. The Parks Department is adding a smart television rental fee in order to add that as an equipment rental option. The Department is also recommending updates to pool rental fees and updates to coastal employment permit fees. The Community Development Infrastructure Department recommends updating language to the fee titles for significant tree removal permits and deletion of one fee category to reflect current practices more accurately, though there is no change to the fees for these permits. CDI also recommends an adjustment to the evaluation, building valuation data square foot construction cost table. That table is used to calculate building plan check, inspection, and processing fees associated with building permit applications. The fee increase applies only to projects that add or modify the square footage of a building. Fees for over-the-counter permits are not based on square footage and will remain the same. The Sheriff's Office is recommending updates to overnight parking, a mobile and recreational vehicle fee to recover the current cost of issuing and processing the citation. And finally, the Public Works Division of the Community Development and Infrastructure Department recommends updates to CSA 9C recycling and solid waste disposal facilities fees collected at the Buena Vista landfill and then Lowman Transportation Station to recover costs for processing and diverting materials at these sites, along with updates to encroachment permit fees to recoup the increase in construction and labor costs. Public Works also recommends updates to storm drainage improvement and flood control fees to recoup the increase in construction and labor costs of drainage improvements, along with updates to the construction inspection minimum deposit charge that would not increase the net cost of the inspection but only reduce the frequency of invoicing. Fees listed under Exhibit B are development-related fees and have a 60-day waiting period required by state law and will become effective 60 days following board approval. All other fees for other departments and those under Exhibit A for Public Works are general fees and shall become effective July 1st. That concludes my presentation. Representatives from the departments are available to answer any questions from the board. After any questions, it is recommended that the board open the public hearing for comment, close the public hearing and then adopt the resolution amending the unified fee schedule. Thank you, Annalisa Sanchez. Are there questions from members of the board? None. I'll open the public hearing. Does any member of the public wish to address this on this item? Seeing none here in chambers, is there anyone on Zoom? We have no speakers on Zoom, Chair. All right, then I'll close the public hearing and return to the board for action. Move the recommended action. Motion by Supervisor Coonerty. We did have a second by Supervisor McPherson. Supervisor McPherson, you might want to check your mic. I think maybe that's why... Yeah, second. All right, great, thanks. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk roll call vote please. Supervisor Friend. Coonerty. Caput. McPherson. Aye. And Koenig. Aye. This item passes unanimously. Thank you. The unified fee schedule being adopted will proceed with item 57, which says... Yes, as the Board of Supervisors of the Santa Cruz County Redevelopment Successor Agency to authorize the Auditor-Controller with the concurrence of the County Administrative Officer to make necessary year and adjustments and adjustments for 22-23 due to increases and decreases in available financing and to approve the proposed 22-23 Redevelopment Successor Agency budget as recommended by the County Administrative Officer. Budget Manager Pimentel. Chair Koenig, you almost did my entire job for me. Fortunately, in this case, the Redevelopment Successor Agency, there are no changes to this budget. The administrative budget and the recognized obligation payment schedule referred to as ROPs were approved in January, early this year in January. The entire budget was included in the proposed budget released on April 29th and there's been no changes to it. The funding and the financing is restricted and related to available resources. So we present this to you here today with no changes and ask for your board's consideration of approval. All right, thank you. Are there any questions from members of the board? Seeing none, we'll open for public comment. Is any member of the public wish to address this on this item? Seeing none in the chambers. Is there anyone on Zoom? We have no speakers for this item on Zoom, Chair. All right, I'll return it to the board for action. I'll move for approval. Second. Motion by Supervisor Caput. Second by Supervisor McPherson. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk roll call vote, please. Supervisor Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. And Koenig. Aye. The item passes unanimously. Thank you. Then we'll consider or continue to item 58, which is to consider approval of the 2223 County of Santa Cruz proposed budget concluding actions, authorize the auditor, controller, treasurer, tax collector with the concurrence of the County Administrative Officer to make necessary year-end adjustments and adjustments for 2122 due to increases and decreases in available financing and approve the 2223 County of Santa Cruz proposed budget, including concluding remarks or including concluding report items and take related actions as recommended by the County Administrative Officer. Budget Manager Primital. Yes, thank you. Once again, you've done a wonderful job with that. This is the final concluding actions to approve the 2223 budget and send it into its process to bring it back to you to the sports September 20th for final adoption annually. This particular item includes a summary of all the changes from the release of the proposed budget on April 29th includes the supplemental changes, last-day changes, and any concluding actions that we've identified today. Also included in this report are cosmetic changes. We've had some cosmetic, two cosmetic changes to the documents that were produced and a realignment request based on year-end trends for Human Services Department. This is a reallocation of resources of their budget within the Department of Human Resources. It does not impact the human resources nor the general fund, it's just a realignment of appropriations. In summary, the last day and concluding changes impact on the general fund is a reduction of the general fund contingency by 913,160. This does not increase the budget, it just moves money from contingency to appropriate funding for core investments, Animal Control Services, Willowbrook, and several other projects, including the $50,000 towards acquisition of South County Park, $32,500 for the downtown streets, $30,000 for Fire Safety Council, $25,000 to match a existing $25,000 commitment to the Resource Conservation District, and several other last-day items. The concluding corrective measures, different from last-day budget items, are more house cleaning cleanup items that are required per state federal regulations to convert into an adopted budget. Big examples of that include the realignment of salary within today's agenda item 62, whereas we're referenced to concluding negotiation with some of our units. With that conclusion of our units, we realigned planned salary from contingencies into the appropriate line items, and some other realignment of resources from overhead charges for county overhead and fleet to meet federal and state overhead claiming processes. We had to do a true up towards the end of the year, and so we have some concluding actions to reflect those true up charges. The concluding actions are just really administrative in nature, and will bring us towards the adopted budget. There will be some continued concluding actions as the Archer Controller closes out the 21-22 fiscal year over these coming months that will trigger some additional concluding action to amend the 22-23 budget, and we'll bring that back to the board on September 20th for both the report on the last, on the end of the year report on 21-22, and the adopted 22-23 budget. So any changes that we haven't told you about or haven't identified yet that the Auditor-Controller will identify, will be brought to you back in September. They're all cosmetic administrative and routine in nature. They're not funding changes. So with that, before I, in my remarks, I do want to acknowledge that this was my first run in the county in this process, and I was deeply impressed with the organization and the quality of this entire county organization. I want to extend my thanks to our county departments and all their staff who put in a lot of extra hours to meet some additional requirements we asked them to do this year. We wanted to produce the budget a little bit earlier than before, and of course, we produced a new way of presenting the budget with an online interactive budget that all created some additional work for all the departments and their team, and I appreciate all their work. I do want to also acknowledge the continued legacy of excellence that your former county budget manager, Christina Mallory, has provided to you. She created a fantastic foundation for us to build off of, and she's still been around, helping guide us through various things from FEMA, ARPA, as well as some guidance within the budget process. I need to also thank our talented team in the CEO's office, and of course, the team that created an online budget that I've been able to monitor changes online on my phone without having big binders and resources everywhere. That begins with our entire office, the county office, the crook of the board, and in particular, some of the staff we've already mentioned before, Sven Stafford, our principal administrative analyst who led the development of our online budget. Eric Friedrich, who led the Kappa Project System, Lana Martinez-Davis, Rita Sanchez, who you met here today, who led various components of that online budget process, and concluding with, thanks to all of you, thanks to CAO Palacios for his vision and to our county leadership team, including Lisa Benson, Nicole Coburn, and Melody Serino. So with that, I conclude my comments, my presentation, the recommended actions to conclude the county budgets process are in front of you, and I'm happy to have any questions or conclude this process and end it with the CAO's remarks. Thank you, Budget Manager Pimentel. Mr. Chair, I just want to thank Mr. Pimentel for the most transparent, understandable budget that I think I've ever seen in my 10 years on the County Board of Supervisors. I think we just, with those changes you mentioned, I still think this is the first time we get over the billion dollar threshold for the total budget probably, or it's surely in that range. And with what we've had to deal with this last year with COVID in particular and the response to the fires, I hope we never have to deal with it to that degree or if at all. And also the homeless issue really continues to plague us and every other community in California. I also want to just, there's been a warning about if a recession hits, it could really result in a an adjustment to our budget that we have just passed. But I just want to thank, again, Mr. Pimentel, Carlos Palacios, the whole administrative team who put this budget together. It has been, as I said, the most understandable and transparent budget that I've ever experienced. So thank you for all of that. And I think the County is on a good plane and we just hope that no emergencies come up in 2022-23. Thank you, Supervisor McPherson. Any other comments or questions? Sure. Supervisor Kennedy. Yeah, I just want to say, this is my 16th budget between the city and the county, my last budget. And I got to tell you how proud I am to be part of an organization that put together a budget that as Supervisor McPherson said, is transparent and accessible. It's also making real significant generational investments in different parts of our county that will serve underserved communities, help reduce economic shockwaves, make us more resilient, and just generally make Santa Cruz a better place to live for everybody who's here. And we should all be very proud of the staff, very proud of my colleagues, because we're also investing in our reserves so that our successors have a cushion when those inevitable bad times hit in all the different ways that we've seen in the last couple of years. But this is an amazing budget and everyone should be very proud of the, not just the document, not just the allocations, but the real impact this is going to have not only for years, but decades to come. Thank you, Supervisor Coonerty. Supervisor Friend, did you want to make some comments? I'll just add that the new online budget, seeing it used, took some getting used to, but really, as you said, being able to go to it quickly and easily throughout these budget hearings, seeing all the folks in the CAO analysts walking through it really gave me a deeper understanding of it and just what a powerful tool it is. So it's really has proven to be a pleasure to use and I do, as you said, makes our budget a lot more transparent, easy to see the trends, easy to understand exactly where the money's going and of course, also tie those back to the operational plan as well. So really want to commend everyone in the CAO's office for making that transition for us this year. I think we've saved a stack of paper that could get someone to the moon. There's better uses for that, better to keep it in the trees or keep that carbon in the ground. So thank you very much and to all the county departments who have put forward really, I'd say, consciously optimistic budgets. I'm excited to see where we go this year. Thank you. CAO Palacios, did you want to make some? I wanted to thank Budget Manager Pimentel for his incredible work and his staff, as well as our staff in the CAO's office, Auditor Controller's Office, Treasure Tax Collector. All the departments, this county team really does view itself as a team. People are very reasonable in their budget requests. They work with us. I'm just very impressed with the sense of family in our department heads. They really do work with us and believe in our vision. And I want to especially thank the board for your support. You set the tone in your civility and your professionalism and in your generosity to the community. And I really do appreciate your willingness to go with us when we take risks like this budget document. Believe me, it was a risk to do an online budget this quickly. And we were worried whether it was going to work and to do this radical change in such a short time was risky. But we did that because we knew that we had your support and you've always supported us to reach for the stars and to really try and take this organization to the next level. And we did. That budget document is an amazing piece of work. We're going to continue to improve it. But already we're leading the way with other local governments in terms of a completely online document. So I appreciate the board and your support for staff and for this community. Thank you very much. Thank you, CAO Palacio. So I think that's well said that the entire county team has operated like family and it's pretty remarkable that this budget has actually I feel brought us closer together rather than driven us apart which says a lot when it comes to money. Seeing no other comments from board members. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address us on this item? Seeing no one here in chambers. Is there anyone on Zoom? We have no speakers on Zoom for this item, Chair. All right. Thank you. Then I will return to the board for action. Move for approval. Second. Motion by Supervisor Caput. Second by Supervisor McPherson. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk roll call vote please. Supervisor Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. And Koenig. Aye. Item passes unanimously. Thank you. And the budget for 22-23 being passed. Thank you, Budget Manager Pimentel. And that brings us to the end of our special hearing. Meeting adjourned. Thank you.


Well, hello there. It's Sunday. Usually I do Sunday morning coffee. It's later in the day. I know. I know. And I was actually going to try to do a live stream, which I don't know if it's going to happen. But in case it doesn't, I am going to record this message. Tis nearing the middle of August. And that means a lot of things. The ending of the summer, if you're in a climate like mine in the Midwest, you really start to cherish those last summer days, even if they're dog days and sweaty, hot, unpredictable in the weather area. But also it's back to school. My youngest will be going into high school this year and then my college kid is heading back. In fact, tonight we're going out to dinner at the Chinese place, our little favorite hole in the wall, local place, and having some time. So I might not be able to do live stream. So if this is an audio that I post, now you understand why, right? It's all about balance and priorities. Today I'm going to talk about Sweet Turned Savage. There is a song by Caitlin. Look it up, okay? Sweet Turned Savage. So I was thinking, I love the song. I love it. I like a lot of her songs. They're now on my playlist for working out. And you'll see why if you listen.  And many times we are asked to compost over and over and over again these life experiences that are quite frankly extraordinarily difficult. Like we keep getting our asses handed to us at times, right? And it's like, what's the purpose? What's the point? What's the point? And then listening to some spiritual gurus or self-proclaimed teachers on TikTok or YouTube or Facebook, reading some cards and telling you, well, this is what you should do. This is what your life is about. That is just another exercise in giving over your power to somebody else, which results in what? Blame and shame and guilt and more. What? What? Trauma. Trauma and drama. Combined. Nobody wants that cocktail, right? We want sobriety from that. We want release and relief. So today's sweet turned savage. I'm going to ask you to deepen into your compassion for yourself. That's a big ask.  It is just the trigger point. It's the, it's just the match that lit the kindling. Baby, you're the kindling. Do you hear me? I said it. Baby, you're the kindling. Let's deal with the kindling, the sweetness underneath all that kindling, the mass that created the kindling in the first place. That, that stuff, that is the sweetness. That is the nectar of life. That's when you cut the mango open. You got to wait. You got to wait for it to get ripe and you don't always know if it's ripe. When you're in a situation, you might think it's great first and then it changes. You know, that new job is great for what? Two weeks? Two months maybe? Two months, three months. There's like a sweet spot, right? Where it's good, where they don't expect too much of you. But you're getting to know people and they're kind of on their best companies over behavior and then pretty soon they start filling in on all the dirt. Then you know way too much about everybody else's business. And you're like, ooh, how much did I actually share of my own stuff? Because you know they're talking about all that now. So this is coming from a person who's recently entered in a new job actually. It's been like three months, but I like my job. My job is really good. It's very, very part time. Hey, for those of you who don't know, yeah, I have a part time gig because I need something to kind of supplement my income to help kind of give me a stable income. Because my psychic work, my coaching work has a lot of ebbs and flows up and down.  So I need to kind of have something fill in the gaps. And so I got a job as a facility supervisor at a community center. So I put up volleyball nets, take down volleyball nets. I deal with the women's volleyball leagues, which is fun. Let me tell you. And badminton and open gym for the kids, the youth open gym and then family open gyms and all that kind of stuff. And then I guess pickleball too is going to be a thing, but we don't do that yet because it's not in the winter. They come inside. They're outside right now. So yeah, so that's what I do. And I really enjoy, I really enjoy the environment. And the other people I work with are pretty, pretty dang cool. And we do room setups too because we rent rooms and stuff out. So you know, for the Boy Scouts and for the hockey association and all that kind of stuff, because we're right across from the hockey arena. And so this was probably way too much more than you wanted to know about my job. But I like it.  And when something's broken, I fix it. And yeah, I fix it. Yes, I do. I am like badass now. So my point is, when you start something new, there's kind of this trial period, right? And everybody is trying to put their present their best foot, right? And everything seems kind of sweet. Like you're like, Hey, I'm kind of excited. I'm kind of nervous about this, but you're getting to know things. And just like in a relationship to is the same kind of thing. And then eventually, you know, you start to really get to know people, you know what I'm saying?  You still want they still want you to think the company's great. We're so great. You know, while everybody's talking behind each other's backs and all that. And so you know exactly what I mean, right? It's that sweet turn savage. So no wonder why it's hard to trust. No wonder why it's difficult for us to understand what structures we feel we can feel safe in that are here to really support us. And what's not? Well, well, the answer to this that you're looking for what you're seeking is this truth that you are safe for you. And if you are not safe for you, that's the problem, my friend. That's the issue. Sweet turn savage. All the aspects of who you are must be loved and held into a core of alignment. That's the code. That's what you're trying to crack.  And that happens when you are connected to yourself, to your core and you trust yourself. That's the most important thing. And the truth is most of us don't. And I'm telling you, I don't. I certainly don't, especially my brain.    Who's that? That's my savage. That's not my sweet. That was my savage. Or that was my sweet coming out to manipulate a situation. Do you know what I'm saying? Like we all have this ability to try to cover up for our downside, try to cover up for our negative traits, try to cover up for where we're not happy and pretend like we're so happy because who wants to be with somebody who's not happy and made lots of mistakes in their past to get to try to hide that, right? Or you can be like others and just share all that, you know, put it all out there. And if somebody doesn't accept or understand or can't be compassionate then they're not for you, including a job, you know? It's definitely a delicate balance but what you're seeking is alignment between the sweet and the savage. And I love them both. I gotta be honest, I love my sassy, passionate, feisty savage. But I don't like when I turn into that because I trusted and loved and held with honor someone or a situation or a circumstance and then it burned me. Then I become savage out of the pain. And that's where a lot of us are right now. It's like we're trying to, we have misplaced pain. We've been suffering for so long and holding old wounds and we harming ourselves, cutting ourselves open over and over again and we're blaming other people or we're blaming our past. And the truth is you can't heal in the past. You can only heal in the now, the now moment, the present. Here.  You do that in alignment with compassionate and trust for you. You are the one you can trust. I'm not saying you can't trust anyone else. I'm saying, yeah, you can't trust anyone else or any circumstance situation or structure or organization. If you can't trust yourself, you have to trust you first. You're going to be skeptical, cynical, watching your back. You are going to be nervous, anxious and untrustworthy within yourself because you're going to do things to protect yourself that are going to be like overacting, over, over responding to something based upon a fear that you're anticipating not being able to trust a circumstance, a situation or a person because why? Because you don't know what trust is because you don't have it inside yourself. The trust comes from you. You share it with other people. You don't give it away. You'd never lose it. If you lose it fully, you've never had it in the first place. And for me, I struggle with that. I do. I struggle with trust. It's a place I don't know very well. I have in my life fiercely been on my own side up until a couple of years ago and my life was turned upside down and my whole world, all my values and belief systems, everything I thought I knew about myself totally completely changed. And in that process, I've had to rebuild my connections one by one with myself. And that means trust and trust is built over time, including trust within yourself. I see a ton of yellow energy. As you know, yellow is solar plexus. It's spirit. It's connected to your intuition. It's honoring the purpose of our lives. It's connecting to that sacred bond of trust. And for me, when I see yellow, I see trust. I also see the honor oil. If you're familiar with oils, the emeraldtempleoils.com, I'm talking about the honor oil there and it's yellow. The label is yellow and it smells so magnificent. It really brings my mask and my feminine together. And then I instantly see St. Joan of Arc and the sword. So alignment is that sword of truth. The alignment is your stability. That is the structure you're looking for. That is it. And that is in you. That is your, your pranic tube of your spine. That is your staff. That is you. That is you. It's you.  Honey, all of it is beautiful. You are perfectly imperfect. You are a manifestation of the divine, of the light, of all things, of all wisdom and knowing. Accept this as your reality. It's true. Find your center. Find your alignment. That's the point. That's how you build, rebuild, reconnect the trust within yourself. Thank you so much for listening to this Sunday morning, afternoon, evening podcast. I appreciate you so much. You're on Above Life channel on YouTube. I will chat with you tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be on time in the morning. We'll see. To do a channeling video, if not, don't worry. There are plenty of playlists on Above Life channel that keep you entertained and inspire your spirit and fill you with hope because that's the purpose.  Stop trying to live through other people or have them fill your voids. It doesn't work. It does not work. You don't have any voids anyway, so that's why it doesn't work to fill them, my dear one. It doesn't work to fill them. You are whole and complete.   So, so beautiful. This is your life now. This is your life. And you get to live it. So just live it. Thanks for listening.


Hey, you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on TJB. Enjoy the show and subscribe and like the video. Don't open them yet. Don't open them yet. Chevy, Santa came. Santa came. What do you think he brought you, Diesel? Probably a shoe? Probably a sock. Yes! Rick, Santa came for you too. He knew where you were. There's four stockings here. And there's four printings. Oh my gosh, they really fastened these on. Yeah. You should go down this way, bud. Go down this way. Go on. Go down that way. Don't jump. Okay, come down another one. Come here. Go see what Santa got you. Maybe a little bit of plaster. A serious vacuuming before we leave for Dad's today. Christmas stuff. Don't worry about that. Christmas. Oh my goodness. Who's this for? Who's that for? Yes, it's for Diesel. Oh, oh, oh. Frankie makes this for him. Go Diesel, go. My reindeer. Santa brought you a reindeer. Chevy, come here. Chevy, come see what he brought you. Look at everything that came overnight, Diesel. Santa came. Did you hear him? You didn't even bark. He's so sneaky. Chevy. Chevy, this one. Chevy, this one's for you. He didn't forget you. No, no. Weiner. Weiner. This one's for you. Let me give that one to Weiner. He wants that one. Okay, okay. Santa came for everybody. Calm down. Come on. Chevy. Chevy, what do you want? You don't destroy him. Don't destroy him. He'll play with him. He'll play with him. He'll play with him. Come on, Chevy. Jesus. He's got some paper sticking out of it. Don't wreck it. Don't wreck it. Nice, Chevy. Chevy doesn't want to be here. There's something inside. I must find out what it is and tear it out. Someone's very excited. Show me when. Get him. Get him. Show me how you get him. Get him. Get him. Such an improvement from last year. A brand new neck. Last year, he was in so much pain. He couldn't play with his toys. We got you all fixed up. We were just very thin. We were in such a bad place last year. This year has been good to us though. We're in a much better place. And all the dogs are healthy. Get him, Frank. Get him. Get him. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's got diesels. I bet you diesels in the bedroom. Right here. Guarding the elf. This one's injured. He's already got a hole in him. He's a quipo. You're such a gentle soul. They switch toys. He's trying to get it through the bars. Oh. What you got, Weiner? Chevy, look. It's in there. It's in there. Go in your house. Go in your house. Go in the house. Go in the house. Go in the house.  There he is. Oh. Merry Christmas everybody. It's Christmas morning. So this is our Christmas just for us. Later on today, we go to her dad's house. And yesterday, we were at my parent's house. We get boxing day together though. Mm-hmm. I'm going to go pull the cinnamon buns out of the oven. Cinnamon buns. I already got to open a gift. Look. See, Brett got it. It's real gold. I shouldn't tell you that.  No, it's mine. It's real. She didn't even give me the fake stuff. She gave me the real stuff. Can you see it? My Christmas pajamas right now. What's going on over here? What's going on over here? I made you cinnamon buns for Christmas morning. Oh. What happened here? Those were the testers. Me, Rick, and Sabrina all had a tester. Throw it all out. Got a heat up to cream cheese icing. Stole my cinnamon buns. I'm mad now. Rocked Christmas. Where's your Christmas present? Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Did you drop it? Where'd it go, Frankie? Did you put it? What's that? What is this? What is this? What is this? Well, I think it was a success. Everybody's happy. Yeah. And I smell magnificent. Britt in spirit and season of giving has given me new cologne. And I love it. It's not Dracar Noir. He's out of the 90s, folks. This stuff is amazing. I just spritzed myself just a little bit. And I'm walking around. I'm in heaven. And Britt says that we should have our first child in no time. So good. Let's see what else she got here. So I know the Christmas is about giving and not getting. So this is what Britt gave to me. I got a new belt. I haven't taken it out of the plastic yet. I should. You guys want to help me? Got a new belt. And somebody got one hoop. Good. Or one thing. My old belt had two. And it was always hard to get them in. Right? Oh, it's got a belt popper? Oh, no. That's just a tag, dear. I don't know. This is going to be pretty... I can't get too much fatter. It'll hold it up good. Good. Good. So if this belt becomes too small, I've become too big. I'll use the second hole. And I should be getting down to like the third or fourth. You've already lost quite a bit of weight. Yep. But all diets are off. It's Christmas. So there's the belt. It's a brick, give me. I'll show them this. I got dude wipes for dudes. Made in the USA. Marca. These come in very handy for truckers. Especially in Canada. You don't always have a shower every day available to you. Dude wipes. I got a whole bunch of fancy underwear. Sacks. I'll show you guys. I'll show you guys. I'm not ashamed. Why would I be ashamed of this? What's the word I'm looking for? I'm not embarrassed to show you my underwear. I'll just show them one of the very nice looking ones. One of the reviews I read said it was like an Angel's Cutting Your Balls 24-7. Okay. Here's a fancy one. I'll show them this one. The Christmas ones? Oh no. These ones. But they could be. They're so soft. You can now rest assured that I'm riding around in pure comfort. He's not even going to wear pants anymore. Just sacks. Don't even wear pants. Don't need just this. These are like, what would you call them? A luxury? Luxury boxers. I'm so excited to try them out. I got a shower first though. Shabby. Shabby. I'm trying to show off my gitch. Showing off my gitch over here, man. Quiet down. You're doing what, Dad? They don't want to see that. They want to see this. Look at my Santa gingerbread guy. Who's this? Who's this? What is this guy? What is he? He's my friend. Terrible throw. Poor Shabby.  It's really warm when you're working outside. Apparently they're very big in the States right now. That SA official company. Very warm and very lightweight. Easy to carry around with you. Yep. And not as dangerous as having the ends of a scarf hanging down when you're working. Thank you. There's chocolates and a magnet wrist wristband. Renovations. Back over there. All the nails and stuff. I can just throw onto my wrist and it just sticks to my wrist. No way he's not dropping them, stepping on them, having them in his pocket and stabbing his hips. Exactly. And then my favorite soaps. Dr. Squatch. I got one from my mom yesterday, too. I bought one that you haven't tried before. It's a scrub. It smells so good in here between this and my cologne. I also have a fancy candle lit. Oh wow. And I just baked cinnamon buns. It smells super good in here. It smells like Christmas. And a massive shoe horn. He broke his last one, so I got him a bigger one. I needed that, thank you. Want to see what I got? Sure, you want to show them? Here, I will hand the camera to you. You can just film. Okay. It's right beside the bag. I showed them it already when I was wrapping it. Oh, did you? Did you show them the fancy gift over there? I guess not. It was in another box. It's even the color that I wanted. Me. Between this and the new Instant Pot, there's gonna be no room left for you in the bag because I'm snuggling with you tonight. You're gonna have to sleep on the couch, buddy. Head tilt design lifts for easy access. And there's over 10 attachments available. Available. You gotta order those. But they're available. They're expensive, but they're good. Number one mixer brand in the world. Oh, yeah. The whole world and the universe. Some of my besties have these. One of my besties got this last year from her husband. She got the red one. And I believe Ashley bought herself one on sale on Black Friday. Maybe it was Boxing Day two years ago. She got the red one as well. I got the turquoise one. Dare to be unique. And that was it. I showed you guys the rest when I was wrapping it, right? So it turned out really well. I hope you guys had a great Christmas as well. She heavy. It's all about the kids though. So some of the candles I got her. Was this one of the ones I got you here? Yeah. Their bathroom body works candles. Her mom got her one as well. So we have... So we got a few. And we have one more gathering tonight yet. So magical. Magical Christmas. Always is. What you got here, Diesel? What you got here? You guarding this one? Are you guarding? I'll help you. I'll help you. No. No, Chevy, you can't destroy this one. I'm going to pull this guy's guts out. He's going to be fine. Watch. What do you want to see? I want to see he's got fluff inside. Diesel, wait. Wait, are you going to help me guard this one? Oh, I got it. This one's not wrecked yet. I just told Wiener to stop destroying the toys. He's all sad now. But that's a fun part. One of those inners out.  Since you put on that cologne? Yeah, since I put the cologne on. Wiener's been very sexy. He sits right by me. You smell great. Wow, my little sniffle is just in pure ecstasy. Wow. I'm just going to sit here.  Want a toy? Oh, man. He'll enjoy your scent and play with his toys. He usually doesn't do this. He likes the cologne I'm wearing. I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins. Cotton-headed ninny muggins. Cotton-headed ninny muggins. Say that 10 times fast. Cotton-headed ninny muggins. Cotton-headed ninny muggins. Faster. Faster. My mother-in-law got me these cups. There's two of them. Another one somewhere. From the movie Elf. Oh, it's drying in the rack. I used it the other day. This is... OMG. Santa! Santa's coming! Even this is all excited. Calm down, guys. He's already gone. I know him. I know him. He's got welfare all over the elf. There's water spots all over it. Sorry about that. And then there's these ice forms that came with the cups. And there's elf. And there's ice. And then there is... We can't really see it, but there's an elf on there. I missed! Let me grab another one. There's a little elf on there. There we go. See? It's a little form. I got Brit something like this for interstocking except it's little wiener dogs. This is hashtag not an ad. But on Christmas you drink a Christmas beverage. Santa on it. That's good. A Christmas beverage or a Santa drink in a Christmas cup with Christmas ice. There you go. You can add anything you like if you're choosing. I'm just going to drink it straight with just the Christmas beverage. You can add any other Christmas beverage you want in there. But for today this will be good. That's high quality Christmas. And for Brit this is what I call her. Thanks Colleen for the idea. Thanks Colleen. Little wiener dog ice cubes. Where's Frank? Wiener! Wiener are you having a nap? All that present opening really exhausted me. I'm getting an orb. I need a break. I need a little power nap. I need a little nap. Look! Wiener ice cubes. That's for you. Sort of. I bet you he would eat them. I mean Chevy loves ice cubes. She was just saying he's got bad teeth so he can't chew on them. But... This is in your honor. Oh thank you. So special. I'm going back to bed now okay?  So you know. I might actually follow you.  I'll come with you big guy. Let's go make some ice cubes. Alright Frank. Wiener. You gonna help? He pulls me now. He likes my scent. You just like that? Oh boy. They're all coming. They'll kind of froze together. Little frozen wiener dogs. Little wiener dog ice cubes. I want to get out of there. Get out of there. Let's show them. Hey Chevy. Come here. Chevy. Chevy. Come here. Look. This is a wiener dog. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.  Little wiener dog. Another one Chevy. Yeah. Frankie. Can he have ice cubes? Frankie. Wiener. Wiener. Wiener. Where'd you go? Wiener. Look. It's you. It's you. No you don't want it. You don't want it. Chevy go get it. So we're just wrapping up our Christmas. It's actually boxing day today when we're filming this last clip. Brits loving her. Mrs. Brown's boys Christmas. I sure am. I love it. It's so funny. My mom loves it too. Let's just see if I read right. How long to cook that pot roast in the instant pot. We're using it for the first time today. I'm really excited. I feel like such a grown up. She's under stating that. She's more than a little excited. That's amazing. She's been bouncing all day. I'm so excited to try new things and like it's gonna make my life as a mom in the future so much easier. So anyways, hope you enjoyed the little updates we've released to you in the last couple of days of our Christmas holidays. I hope you guys all had a very good Christmas and I hope you guys have a great and happy prosperous new year. Happy new year everybody. Hope you had an awesome Christmas. We know we did.


Hey, just a couple of verses. We'll read from the problems 22. Problems 22 and works 1. So there's a good name. It's to be chosen rather than great riches. Loving favor than silver and gold. A good name is to be chosen meaning your testimony, our reputation. That is to be chosen. Even more than silver or gold, more than material possessions and treasures and riches and so on. So that is what we see here. And then it will be done to Revelation chapter 3. Revelation 3 and this is the Lord's message to the church in Sardis. Revelation 3 and verse 1, these things says he who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, all works that you have a name that you are alive but you are dead. A name referring to reputation or testimony or what is the impression that people have about us on the outside. So it says that problem 22 says a good name is to be chosen more than gold or silver and treasures. Here it's talking about the church, a group of people, followers of the Lord who have a name, who have a reputation. This is what the general impression of people is about them. The impression is that you are, that you have a name that you are alive but you are dead. So one is of course the importance of testimony, the importance of our reputation or reputation, testimony in front of people but more important than that is God's assessment of us, His assessment of us, His evaluation of us and our reputation in front of Him that actually goes beyond because that's the beyond people's assessment and evaluation because that is a true evaluation, that is a true picture. So this morning we just pray and say, okay God, I just want your true assessment, true evaluation. Yes, more than what people can say, more than my reputation with people or friends, family, whatever, more than that Lord, I want your assessment of me. Yeah, let's just pray on those lines. Father we thank you, thank you Lord that a good name is to be chosen than treasures of gold and silver but Lord, you see in Revelation 3 that your true assessment, Father God, that goes beyond what people can see on the outside and Lord even Lord our evaluation that people might have, the reputation that we might have in front of people, Father God. And Lord we ask, Father God, that you will pronounce your assessment Lord, your evaluation of us over our life so on and we know that grace and truth come together, Father God, that it is always with grace and truth and so God we receive them today your assessment of ourselves, your evaluation which comes with grace and truth. We receive that Father God, we thank you that there is grace, this empowerment to make changes and at the same time Lord it comes as a true evaluation that clear assessment of who we are. Father we thank you that that you are with us to do this Lord and I just pray that may our lives be in alignment Lord, alignment with Lord, alignment with the truth alignment with who we have called us to be Lord, may our lives be in alignment to your word we just want to thank you, we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus' master's name okay IRP in that place again so yeah let's take this time to probably address any doubts, questions, any clarifications that you might have and also if you've started the work you know about according to the timeline you know some more time a week to submit the status, status of whatever work is done on the 29th, same time next week but before that if there is anything that you want to share about your status of any place that you are getting stuck or anything about the progress that you are making please go ahead, any questions that you might have ask that also yeah so over to you so in line with your topic yeah yes Lubeika please go ahead still my question, good morning pastor and my colleagues good morning my question is am I good to go or I still need to wait from you sir so you're good to go I think we spoke about this yesterday, I mean last week you asked biblical view on sexual immorality and its implications to your local church so please go ahead and yeah so just a couple of questions so how do you plan to go ahead with this research on the way here, so it's a sensitive topic right, sexual immorality and its consequences your local church, your local church so the scope of research everything is good but how do you plan to go ahead and do this research are you still there Lubeika, yeah I can see I have just come back pastor I'm sorry come again, I have lost the internet okay yeah so you want me to repeat so the topic is good, the scope of your research is good, you've restricted it to the local church that's fine but can you hear me, you pastor I'm here yeah yeah so my question is how do you plan to do this research, how do you plan to carry out this research, collect information and so on, so how do you plan to do that yeah I think pastor you also know how sexual immorality is a real challenge in this generation not in my church only, but it has always been in human history, it has always been but now there is a we are like going into the Sodoma Gomorrah scenario where the traditional churches are now authorizing homosexuality where I'm just giving on that side where people give bt, lesbianism and others but leaving that aside, even in the straight media where people are behaving man on woman there is also so many challenges locally in my African context, let's express my church, where you find so many people having extra marine affairs, people are having kids outside the wedlock young kids are going into sexual debit before marriage, fornication, incest and others so it becomes a burden to me even before I started this college degree it has always been a burden because I know so many people you will find that in my location maybe most of the African countries 80% of the people are born outside the wedlock very few people are in the wedlock, now my concern is should we let this one go like that or should we pronounce ourselves at what should be done so that's why I think if I'm given that permission I can do some little research I know people personally who are passing through that that's why when I sent you part of my my table of content it shows that I'm going to march as I will pass through just as I showed you I will look at what happened before mountain Sinai and give an example of Tama and Judah and then I'll talk about after mountain Sinai I'll give an example of a study of the David and Bathsheba sorry to interrupt but that's the little perspective foundation but how are you going to do the research because your topic is the implications in your local church so you said you knew of people who are going through this but then to find out the extent of what they are, how they are living and the kind of damage that is there how are you going to find that out because it's I'm going to use some research tools like questionnaires so do you think people will be ok to open up and talk to you about this basing my position and my talking to my pastor here they are always open because my background is also school principal so you should get to know those people because they end up wanting some assistance I see ok so let your sample size be sufficient enough, sample size in the sense the number of questionnaires, the number of responses that you get it should be something from which you can form a conclusion so at least 50 I think would be a sizable number like how big is the church how many people attend the church the church is between 450 to 500 the challenge will not be the question I mean the challenge will not be the number of people who can give me that information the challenge is the time flame I have a week but you have time to lay it to finish let me just share that timeline and show so that we are clear just one second please check the resources, whatever uploaded in the classroom section you can be clear about this so as you can see 20 point number 3 submitted draft before 9am India time that is on by next Thursday with the current status of work so whatever is the status of work which means that if you have contacted 4 people, 5 people whatever is the status you mention it these are the discussions I had with my pastor these are the people I have met so the most important thing would be to form the questionnaire whether by way of interview or by way of actually people filling in the questionnaire you get this information so 29th is to give a status of the work so all of us are aware this is where we stand and what is the amount of work quantum of work that needs to be done before the final suppression so the report will be submitted this is for online students by the 4th of April online and in person also 4th of April India time 9am 4th of April and the presentation of it happens on the 4th, 11th and 18th of April that is for in person and online students so I just wanted to remind us about that so that we don't lose track of the timeline we can plan out and pace our work according right okay okay any other questions anyone else? Good morning pastor good morning I have prepared 25 questions to ask for these families and I have just managed to get 15 to 17 parents in my local church so can I just extend my research to other churches? Sure you can and also pastor when I will ask them the questions which I will be doing from today onwards I will be visiting their house and I will be asking them whatever response I will get from them individually under that parent I have to write mention those responses so like end of my interview then how will I wind up like okay I have the questions I will be having the responses and then based on this research based on the word of God I will like how will I wind everything together and so that's the thing now first of all to tabulate your findings maybe 50 responses you put that together so each question has to be tabulated so that's how you put it together so each question let's say question number one was on profession both the parents working that's one of the things you will consider the pleasure of raising children so are both the parents working? some people have answered yes some people have answered only one so you put that together so out of 50 responses how many are saying yes both are working how many are saying one of one of us is working how many of the fathers are working how many of the fathers are working so for each of these questions you have to tabulate it so you put it together and based on that you will arrive at some of these percentages you can say ok 80% of the parents said this so based on that you form your conclusions so for every question so for every question I have to yeah you have to tabulate it every question so in an excel sheet if you have 25-30 questions you put it in a column and then you have all the responses for this question yes or no for the other question maybe it has some other response so you have to tabulate it in that way so only then you will you will be able to form some conclusion so that's how you do it and then just go through that were you able to go through that pdf on basic research how to go about doing the research I want to be able to do that so you can also check online if you want a simpler manner so how to tabulate how to tabulate the results of a questman just do a maybe on youtube there are some videos I am sure there will be enough and more resources so you can they can help you step by step so you put that together of course what is the solution go back to the world give a public perspective for each of these problems and challenges that they are facing and that's it so about the number of questions I know this particular book suggested you should have 25 or 30 questions or something like that but you can have more it's fine how many ever questions that you feel is important is necessary for your finding to have solid reason so when I say majority of the people so what is that is majority 60% majority 99% so you will give a number avoiding terms like majority you will say 80% of the people feel this way 80% of yours are missionaries in Cambodia 80% of the missionaries went to Cambodia so you you are giving question to 5 missionaries 5 missionaries only are there more? because I contacted them but most of them are quite caught up with the machine work so that's the challenge you can't base your research on just 5 it's too small so find out how many missionaries are there totally from Nagaland in Cambodia and we will have to get more get their permission say this is for because you can't base it on 5 you are saying ok 5 cannot be representative of all so you have to find out how many missionaries are there totally in Cambodia 10 plus 10 plus would you have a firm number so this 10 plus are from one particular church or denomination from different churches so these 5 probably can help you have access to the other 5 or other 7 because I feel this 5 is very less to base of inclusion but of course the total number of missionaries from Nagaland if it's going to be only 10 it's like 50% then it works ok but it will be great if you can contact all it's just 10 minutes 15 minutes thing for them to sit down finish the question or you can say I'll write it down just maybe you can come on a whatsapp call maybe a 10 minute whatsapp call go through the questions you can actually write it down because I notice that all your questions are open and very descriptive so it's not a yes or no so it's going to take time for people to fill in probably that's why but you chose to have it as open but these are the challenges so you have to address those challenges so please try again don't stop with just 5 please try again any other doubts so ok so let me use you change it from spiritual test to study on the rise of depression among young adults in India so your scope is India which means you are collecting information from every state every union territory sorry yes that's right ok so let it be representative of north, south, east, west, everywhere, central India young adults, urban, rural so it's a lot of work so I hope you can cover everything people in village, people in city etc and young adults, when you say young adults what is the age group so you define that as well so you go ahead I'm just wondering how you will get this information yes statistics will be available online but they are limited so it could be limited to urban India may not cover the entire length and breadth of the nation so you will have to make sure it covers everything otherwise it won't be just India it will be just a few states or one city so you will have to, if you want to change the scope of your research the title, maybe one state maybe one city that's also fine, but do it when you say India, it means India there's no going back you think about it in the title if you are saying young adults in the city where you are from, that is also fine but you need to decide and mention it yes sir, thank you okay so Vishesh, I see that compassion to the poor and destitute aspect of ministry so that also you might have to reword it, re-title it poor and destitute in ministry, so in terms of research you are finding out what is the need of these people and who are the people who are actually helping them so it helps to put a geographical location to it, poor and destitute where in your city, in your town, in your state or in India, so I think you need to ask yourself the question where it's good, poor and destitute ministry to the poor and destitute where and who is having impact what is the work earlier done, what is being currently done how else, what is the gap all these things are there, what is the gap in the sense this is the work but this is the need so when you put a place you will get this information this is the population of the city of this town and these are the people who are living below the poverty line this is the thing these are the kind of ministries which are being done so the importance of that so you are looking at researching believers and thinking maybe from a Christian perspective, the church is a contribution to widow's office for the destitute so it needs to be where you ask yourself the question, where do I want to do this from where do I want to get this information so that will give you focus and that will also give you clarity and accuracy in the research so please change it it's been there like that for a long time the title anyone else has anything to share anything to report how are things going Pasad is it okay to extend the research to our bible college students who are minister children so your title is minister's kids right so whatever they are doing that's fine navigating minister's kids identity so they could be working, they could be studying in bible college sometimes they are I was thinking like even in our bible college is it a conflict of interest no, not really, that's fine no problem, as long as they are okay with it you can select it yeah I think that would be interesting because some children are dedicated into ministry by their parents so the kids didn't have any say they were not even at a speaking stage in life so they were dedicated into ministry and so on so it's good to get that perspective nice Pasad in that case can I know any of our classmates are minister's kids yeah you can just ask them okay yeah you can I mean if you are on a group you can ask or you can just put it on the screen and ask are there any yeah so no problem thank you okay so yeah sure sure so Abu Ghra has a question are you going to submit our research work chapter by chapter or everything at once so it's everything at once on the 4th of April Abu Ghra so the report research work will be submitted the report will be submitted together complete on a before 9am 4th of April so before that we are just discussing the status and so on so so the thing is next Thursday before 9am India time you submit the status meaning an update this is the work that I've done so far so that's the only thing so otherwise everything is together it's not in stages it's together the report that you sent okay anyway so to help John out how many in class are fastest children or one of your parents faster both are in the ministry you know you could maybe put your hand up or put it on the chat so you can contact you okay so Rosalind how do we submit the status it's it's just a word doc but yeah maybe I'll put it up I'll put it I'll create an assignment and you can upload the word document or pdf whatever right so so you can do that okay so yeah sure okay so what you can do is during the week as in when you're preparing as in when you're doing the thing if you have any questions you know just jot it down okay so you can ask in class and if those questions get answered during the week maybe you know during a research you found the answers and that's fine I'm going to strike it up but then if you have those questions maybe just put it so you can ask it in the class right e-learning students as and when you have the questions I know you're putting it on the discussion page and I will answer e-learning students so and also your submission of your status report you can put it on the discussion page but actually you're you can just carry on with your report any questions at any point you can put it on the discussions page this is for the e-learning students discussion section okay I think yeah that's it from my side unless you have any more questions we can we can actually wind up yeah okay shall we wind up then yeah thank you first I just wanted to ask regarding the status so instead I was just checking like I can just put the word document out or is it something that you would provide us with a google doc or some just a word doc or pdf whatever you want to that's right thank you sure now I was just thinking the other day that actually when you go through the word you see that a lot of people have actually put together information right so actually put it together and sit down and it's a painstaking work like I was thinking of Dr. Luke Luke chapter 1 this is how he says in as much as many have taken in hand in order to set the narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us just as those from the beginning where eye witnesses and ministers of the world they were going to ask it seemed good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write to you and orderly you know so he's just putting all these things together and praise god he was able to you know each one of them actually they thought okay it's important for me to capture this write it down put it there so that others can read and obviously in the canon of scripture we see the hand of the Holy Spirit God breathed God inspired so they wrote as the inspiration of Holy Spirit but the fact is that the human effort of sitting and sweating it out so yeah in a way I guess please like that so please encourage yourself in this to look chapter one and say I'm one of those you know yeah it's not canon of scripture anything but you know it's going to be an eye opener for me an eye opener for anyone who's reading it's going to be a blessing okay okay with these words I shall bring these things to a close okay so have a good day we'll catch up next week alright God bless you guys bye bye


Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. Here comes our star-studded Joe Tray. The Association of American Railroads brings you the premiere of a new operetta, the Schumann Story, created especially for the Railroad Hour and starring Gordon MacRay and his charming guest, Dorothy Warren Shoes. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is presented by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another delightful musical play is brought to you by the American Railroad.  And now here is our star, Gordon MacRay. And good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, Dorothy Warren Shoes and I will tell you one of the enduring love stories in the world of music. The romance of Clara and Robert Schumann. Sometimes it's been a single note bringing in my head. But most often it was music that an angel might sing. How did our romance begin? When I was still a youth. It was the day I arrived in Leipzig. I rushed to the house of Meister V, even before I unpacked my traveling case. He was acclaimed the best piano teacher in all of Germany. I was determined to study with him. But I found her weak, a gaunt man with eyes like a hawk. Your name? Robert Schumann. You understand my young hair, Schumann. If you study with me, you will study. Music will be your whole life. Oh, it is already here, Professor. I... Who is that? My most celebrated future. How old are you? 18. She is nine. Brilliant, eh? And why shouldn't she be? She is my daughter. Yes, Clara. I have heard of the young priority, not prodigy. Genius. Pure genius. She is I who did it. I alone. She does play brilliantly here, Professor. You shall meet her. Come with me. Not an artist. And hardly the size of a piano stool. Glad you're here. Yes, Father. I would like to present Herr Schumann. Good afternoon, Freiland V. Hello, Herr Schumann. Hello. I became the pupil of Maestro V. And a boarder in the V. Household. The little girl on the piano stool played like an angel.  Hello, Herr Schumann. Hello. A song for you, Cashion. And though Heinrich Heinrich wrote the words, the music is for you. And I was a... both just children. I studied, but my family felt I needed a more proper calling than music. And so I was whisked off to Heidelberg to study law. But there was a little girl on the piano stool I could not get out of my mind. It was some years before I not began in that forbidding door marked Herr Frederick V. I waited, holding my breath, waited for a little girl with large eyes to rush to the door and say... Hello, Herr Schumann. Hello. But when the door opened, I heard... Hello, Herr Schumann. Hello. It couldn't be. It couldn't be. Clara, how have you grown up? Bigger than the piano stool. Oh, Herr Schumann, happy to see you. Herr Schumann, I think you're also big enough to call me Robert. Robert? And do you know what I've been playing over and over? What? One of the songs you wrote for me when I was still a little girl. Come, I'll play it for you. A day in the little beach I wear and some all-lying feet I hurried downward to the street. The fondliness of a memory, dear Clara. I wish to kiss you. We do not play children's games in this household. Oh, Father. Herr Wieck. It is the lawyer from Heidelberg. I'm happy to see you, Herr Professor. I cannot return the compliment, Herr Schumann. Oh, Father. I always understood. I was welcome in the Wieck household, sir. When I was a professor and you were the student, yes.  I kissed him too, Father. And I wished to kiss him. And when I did, I felt safe. He had a life as if it were something I'd been waiting for all my life. You're not in love with it. Nobody. In love with Robert? Oh, Father. I have been always. I forbid it. Clara could have any Duke or Prince in Germany if I choose that she should, but a half musician? It is laughable. This house is forbidden to you, Herr Schumann. Six years, Clara and I saw each other only for a moment. Across the concert hall, bowed to each other on the streets of Leipzig. Finally, I went off Vienna to work and to forget. To work and remember. Her fame was everywhere. Clara Wieck, the great concert artist. We began to correspond secretly. My Clara. I send you a song, picturing that you will touch the notes with your beautiful fingers just at evening time. And that you will listen with your heart to the words I sing to you. And if this is true, I'll not compare. Forever. Have you ever visited a railroad freight yard? It's a fascinating sight. And in a very real sense, the focal point of a stronger America. So, join me if you will, and let's take a look at one of the essential ingredients of a strong and prosperous nation. A busy railroad freight yard. Well, here we are. Big business. It sure is. I've never seen so many freight cars with so much track in my life. It is impressive. But remember, this is only one of many busy railroad terminals that linked America from coast to coast. And those freight cars are only a handful of the two millions that helped keep America on the go. What's that big tower over there? Well, that's what you might call the electronic brains of the operation. From there, almost all the activity you see is directed and controlled, and much of it is actually carried out. You mean all this switching and classifying of cars is almost entirely a push button affair? Amazing. Railroading certainly has progressed a long way since I was a boy. But the familiar old names are still there. Look at that group of cars rolling over the hump. There's one from Maine, Florida, Texas, California. Yes, I daresay you'll find not only every state represented down there, but just about every thing America produces, too. And you know, I think that site demonstrates as clearly as anything I know the essential part of the railroad's play in our standard of living. Thanks to the railroad, anything grown or produced anywhere in the country can be used and enjoyed everywhere in the country. In fact, without the railroads which haul more tons of freight more miles than all other forms of transportation combined, America could never have grown into the great and powerful nation it is. And here's another thing you can be sure of. The railroads will continue to improve their plant equipment and services using their own money, initiative and ingenuity to help build a stronger America for all of us. Now here is act two of the Lawrence and Lee dramatization of the Schumann story starring Gordon MacRae as Robert and Dorothy Warren-Schold as Clara. My Lord, I for you am waiting for the moment to leave. Dear Clara, I am close to you, for I am sending music across the miles. Every day I write, at my piano and at my writing table, songs to sing, words to live by. I have taken a pen name for my literary endeavors, Rauro, R-A-R-O. The last two letters of Clara, the first two letters of Robert. Listen to some of the words Rauro has written on. Always plays if a master were listening. An artist's vocation is to send light into the depths of the human heart. Respect the old highly, but bring a warm heart to the new. Yet nothing worthwhile is brought to pass. Remember above all there is no end to learning. I have written a new song. It is a fighting song, dear Clara, for I feel like a fighter, like a grenadier. Men came by marching to grenadiers, to re-clash through their homeland. The crans had been crushed by the forces of war, and the emperor, the emperor, was set to work, ready to gather the grenadiers back to the country telling men. And then once the moon dispersed.  How can I carry beside me there? I've learned over the brave strong words you write. I feel in your heart, in my fingers as I play your music, put it a battle cry to me also my love. And tonight at my concert I flung out to the audience a cry of liberation. Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to play now a new composition by the brilliant young composer, Robert Schumann. Robert, my father was aghast. And later when I was alone, in the silence of the moonlight I spoke to you across the miles, saying the words of your song. My Clara, she promised to marry me, but since she could not defy her father we took matters into our own hands. There is an old Saxon custom, a betrothed couple can rise above parental objections by appealing to a court of law. We stare at each other across the musty courtroom. Her father looked at me to the list. Evie, tell the court your objection to the marriage disease too. I have spent my life making her what she is. The greatest talent of our time. Would you turn her into a house flower? I should like to hear what the young lady says. Well, indeed. Thank you, Your Honor. My father is right. Clara. In saying that I am a talent, false modesty is not good. It is true, I have a talent for playing the piano, but it is Robert who is the genius. And those of us who are merely performers know that those who create are perhaps closest to God.  That will be all. Now, head human, do you wish to proceed with plans for your marriage to Clara? Your Honor, my songs sing of her. The harmonies echo her name. We have already performed a marriage in music. Yes, human. Run and meet. You have the permission and the blessing of the study. May of September in the year of our Lord, 1840, Clara and I were married in the village of Schoenfeld. Schoenfeld. A field of loveliness. Oh, my beloved. The dream of my youth has come true. The little girl on the piano stool had the same dream, Robert. Look. A letter was just to write to my friend Liske. A lovely letter. Oh, what is he writing? Listen, Clara and Robert Schumann, we shall never utter their names apart. And the future will weave a golden shimmer about their heads and allow to shine over both brows, but one single star. We'll be back just a moment. And meanwhile, thanks to Jay Novello, to Polly Bear, Sharon Bell and our company. The Schumann story was written especially for the railroad hour by Lawrence and Lee. The railroad hour is brought to you each week at this same time by the American Railroads. Marvin, since 1950, one of America's major weapons in the Cold War of truth versus communist propaganda has been Radio Free Europe. Operating 21 powerful radio transmitters on the edge of the iron curtain, Radio Free Europe can do much to help prevent another world war by bolstering the urge for freedom and the determined spirit of resistance among the six captive countries that separate Russia from Europe. Your assistance is needed if Radio Free Europe is to continue to operate and grow. President Eisenhower has urged every American to support this independent, privately operated enterprise in order to further the cause of peace throughout the world and to help arm the spirit of captive people with hope and courage.  Thank you, Marvin. Now folks, here again is the incomparable Dorothy Warnschold. It was like old times, falling in love and marrying you all in one half hour. Well, Hildegard, you come do that any Monday night, you're free. We'll be back on the show today next week, Gordon.  Oh, I love that. Vincent Newman. Yes, Dorothy. The famous through the years for the very first time on the railroad hour. And Nadine Connell will be here to sing that wonderful music with us. And we'll all be listening. Good night, Gordon. Good night, Dorothy, and please come back real soon. All aboard. Well, dear friends, it looks as though we're ready to pull out. And so until next Monday night, and through the years, on behalf of the other members of the cast and of the American Railroads, this is your friend Gordon McRae saying, good night. Gordon McRae can be seen starring in three sailors and a girl in Technicolor. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Muboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Good night for the American Railroads. Now, stay tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC. Tonight, the voice of Firestone features the Christmas bell on the NBC radio network.