Positive development. We are embracing time-tested truths. Truths like this. Nations matter. No international body can stand up for a people as well as their own leaders can. Strong borders are key to strong nations. This is how we keep our people safe and protect our sovereignty. Sturdy alliances built on key principles are key to shared security. We need all nations to contribute to security imperatives. President Trump also knows that economic security is national security. Robust defenses aren't possible without healthy economies to undergird them. I'll talk about this for a minute. It's why pro-growth policies matter so much. I'll spend a little time on this and I'm confident the Secretary of State will understand if I step on his turf just a little bit here this morning. President Trump's campaign slogan Make America Great Again was a call to return America to the principles that have made us the most prosperous nation in world history. It was a rejection of trade arrangements that discounted the interest of American workers. It was a rejection of red tape which constricted entrepreneurs here in America. This is the lifeblood of our economy. It was a rejection of all high taxes that tell American families that government knows how to spend their money better than those families do. And perhaps more than anything, President Trump's election was a rejection of low expectations. I remember the mantra I'm sure many of you do. The idea that 2% was the new normal for economic growth. Well, so much for that. Today, thanks to President Trump's pro-growth policies, our real GDP to growth here in America has exceeded 3% over each of the last four quarters. And that's not all. Wage growth is up. This matters to hardworking Americans. Job openings outnumber the number of unemployed for the first time on record. The women's unemployment rate recently reached its lowest rate in 65 years. Manufacturing, that's what I did before I entered politics, added 284,000 jobs in 2018, the most since 1997. It was said this couldn't be done. Small business optimism is at a record high. There's more to that story, but the important point is this. The unleashing of animal spirits has allowed our economy to grow even as the global slowdown looms. This economic blueprint, low taxes, streamlined regulations, and trade reform can work for you and your countries as well. The time has now to adopt these policies. I remember President Reagan's maximum piece through strength. This wasn't exclusively military strength. It was the strength created by a free and robust economy that not only creates wealth, but also freedom. As you all know, we face many new threats. Some of them not so new. They range from North Korea's nuclear program to Iran's foreign adventurism to China's state centered economic model, its belligerence toward its neighbors, and its embraces of a totalitarian state at home. Radical Islamic terrorism remains a persistent threat that we will continue to fight together. In all of these areas, we're making progress, but none of this progress could have happened without beautiful coalitions in which America has played a central role. Collectively, we've exerted maximum pressure on North Korea, and that pressure has gotten Kim to the negotiating table. The United Nations did amazing work acting as the center of gravity for sanctions that built out this global coalition. We've also assembled a global coalition of nations to confront Iran and support the aspirations of the Iranian people, and we're rebalancing the relationship with China alongside partner nations in Asia and all around the world. It should not go unnoticed that we've also defeated the ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq, alongside more than six dozen nations in the global coalition to defeat ISIS. There's a lot more work to do, and with your help I know we'll achieve it. The United States looks forward to partnering with you to take on the challenges of our time, and Borga, I'm now looking forward to our conversation today. Thank you all very much for the opportunity to make these remarks. Thank you, Secretary. We're very pleased that you have joined us, and it does look brisk there. And you also mentioned China in your short intervention, and I know from all participants here in Davos there is huge interest in the Sino-U.S. relationship. We see that the growth is slowing in China. We also know that there will be a trade delegation visiting DC later this year. So from your perspective as Secretary of State, who do you see the role of China in the world today as an emerging regional and global power, and also in relationship to the U.S.-Sino relationship? Borga, you know there are those who say that conflict, superpower conflict between our two countries is inevitable. We don't see it that way. We want to find places where we can work together. You talked about the trade delegation coming. I'm optimistic that we'll receive them well, and that we'll have a good outcome from those conversations. But remember that the course of the relationship will be determined by the principles that America stands by. Free and open seas, the capacity for nations to take their goods around the world. Fair and reciprocal trade arrangements where every country has the opportunity to compete on a fair, transparent, and open basis. These principles of democracy, these things that have created so much wealth for the whole globe will drive the relationship between the United States and China in the years ahead, and we hope that China will adopt policies that are consistent with that if they do. I'm very confident that our two nations can thrive and prosper together. Thank you, Secretary. It's interesting to hear that you are optimistic.  Last year in Davos, the big discussion was the future of NAFTA. There you found the solution. So when you're saying optimistic, you think we will see another breakthrough this year on the trade side between the US and China? I think a lot of our business CEOs are very curious about that here. You know, I don't want to get ahead of the conversations, the negotiations that are taking place. There's lots of hard work to do. There are certainly issues around trade balances. Those certainly matter. But the central premises of the trade arrangements, the structures at the WTO, the tariff levels that will be set, the capacity for American businesses to operate in China without risk that their trade secrets and their intellectual property will be stolen. The understandings that investments in our two countries will be reciprocal. A country, a Chinese company that wants to invest here in the United States, should have every opportunity to do so, so long as they're coming here to compete fairly. In the same sense, American companies should be permitted to do that as well without having to have a mechanism by which the technology that they're providing will be forced to be transferred. Those aren't fair arrangements. They're not reciprocal agreements. They're not the way free and fair trade ought to be conducted. And so I am hopeful that each of those issues can be dealt with constructively and that China is prepared to compete on those terms. And if they are, I'm very confident that there'll be a bright future, not only for the United States and its people, but for the Chinese people as well. Thank you. You just came back from a very comprehensive visit to the Middle East. I think you visited most of the countries. And you also made a very impactful speech in Cairo. But looking now at all the challenges unfolding in the Middle East being ISIS, but also being the situation between Israel, Palestine, between the GCC countries. We also have Yemen and we have the situation with Iran. Where do you see the Middle East moving? And what is really the U.S. policy moving forward? How will the U.S. be a partner securing a more peaceful Middle East moving forward? Yeah, Borgo, that's a great question. I just did get back from a trip. What I communicated every place I stopped and with each leader that I met with was that America is committed to helping the Middle East be secure and stable that, in fact, will be there and that we are a force for good in the region and we have been for an awfully long time. You just kind of canvassed the set of threats. In every one of those cases that you mentioned, there are two common themes. One is there are lots of countries that have a stake in those interests or in those challenges. We won't do this alone. We will need coalitions built out to ensure that there's Middle East stability. Our effort to develop our MESA program where we have countries in the region determined to protect themselves together with America as their partner in that fight is an important component of how America will approach the set of problems. But also with respect to many of the problems that you identified there, Borgo, the threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran is very real. You mentioned Yemen. You mentioned Syria. I think you talked about the challenges of Lebanese Hezbollah in Lebanon. It's still the case that Iran is striving to reduce Iraqi freedom, sovereignty and independence. Those are places where Iran is truly the malign actor and it's why we're so happy that the coalition that we've built out and we'll have a ministerial in Warsaw in the middle of next month to talk about this and other issues in the Middle East is so central to creating the stability that the people of the Middle East so richly deserve. There are diplomatic and political solutions to most of these problems and we need all of our diplomats from all across the region working to solve them. Do you think we will see an end of the Yemen conflict this year? I'll speak with Martin Griffiths later today. I am very hopeful that we can make progress there. We made a big step forward with the agreements surrounding the port and Hudaida. We got real commitments from all of the parties. It was most unfortunate that the Houthis made a major break on January 10th to that Seath fire by using an Iranian instrument of war to kill people after these agreements were reached back in December in Europe. I hope that we can find that path forward. I know that the Gulf states that are involved there are committed to achieving that outcome. I'm hopeful that we can find a path forward there. We are committed in the United States to working with UN envoy Griffiths to achieving that end. We also know that you secretary work very closely with special advisor of the president Jared Kushner on the peace plan for Israel and Palestine. Do you see any progress there and you're hopeful to get some momentum post-Israeli elections? Borga, I am. We've been working on this for a long time. Mr. Kushner's been in the lead along with Jason Greenblatt developing our program. We've begun to share elements of this across the region. It won't be a U.S. driven process. Ultimately the Israelis and the Palestinians will have to come to an agreement. But we think that the foundations that we have laid and the work that we'll do immediately following the Israeli elections will set conditions where we can have a constructive conversation. Borga, you know this problem has troubled the region for decades and decades now. It seems to me that we're at a point in time where there are ways that we can resolve the primary differences and encourage those two places, the Israelis and the Palestinians to come together to resolve their differences and get a solution there that has bedeviled the world for an awfully long time. Secretary, know that you personally have shown a lot of leadership when it comes to North Korea and a DPRK. History was made last June when President Trump met with Chairman Kim Jong-un, which a lot of hope for improvements of the security situation in the Korean Peninsula was established. Expectations, as I said, were high. We know that the President will meet with Chairman Kim Jong-un late in February. I think there is a lot of curiosity and maybe you can shed some light on the next steps you envisage when President Trump meets again with the Chairman. Maybe you can also let us know where it's going to happen. Borga, I don't have any news to break today on that front, but I can say this. The negotiations have been underway for some time now. There's lots of discussions that have taken place when Kim Jong-chul visited Washington last week. We made further progress not only in the discussions that he had with the President, but Special Representative Began had the opportunity to meet with his newly designated counterpart as well, where they were able to discuss some of the complicated issues towards achieving what the two leaders laid out back last June in Singapore. We have a handful of weeks before the two leaders will meet together again. A set of discussions that took place in Sweden over the weekend have now wrapped up. Again, a little bit more progress. There remains an awful lot of work to do, but good things have happened already. The North Koreans aren't conducting missile tests. The North Koreans aren't conducting nuclear tests. There are many steps yet along the way towards achieving the denuclearization that was laid out in Singapore and achieving the security and stability and peace on the peninsula that the two leaders agreed to as well. We're determined to work towards achieving that. I believe that the end of February will have another good marker along the way. Thank you. When Professor Schwab and I met with you in your office in December planning for your visit here in Davos, we also touched on the possibility for private sector to contribute if there was a breakthrough. Any further reflections on that? We did have a good conversation about that program. There's not much role for the private sector today, but if we're successful, if we can make a substantial step towards achieving the denuclearization and create the right conditions, it'll be the private sector that sits there looming in the background that I know the North Koreans understand they need, whether that's power for the people of their country, whether it's to install the infrastructure that is so desperately needed in North Korea. Those things will certainly have a government component to them, but there'll be an enormous private sector push that will be required to achieve the economic growth in North Korea that will ultimately lead to the stability that we're all looking for. And so the specter, the specter of private sector companies who are prepared to invest in North Korea and to assist North Korea if we're able to achieve that full denuclearization that I know the entire world wants, the private sector will be an important player in achieving the final elements of the agreement as well. So now I want to turn over to another easy topic, US-Russia relationship. At several junctures in the previous three decades we sensed opportunities for collaboration between Russia and the US, but it seems like that optimism be losing ground to geopolitical realities present at each of those junctures. Do you, Secretary, feel that the US and Russia are doomed to Cold War rivalry? Borgie, you haven't given him any easy ones today, but it's not the case that we are doomed to a Cold War rivalry. These two nations are the largest possessors of nuclear capability in the world. Russia is a formidable power in that respect and we understand that and so we need to ensure that there are conversations taking place so that we can prevent both proliferation and the risk that comes with the possession of those nuclear weapons. But it has, I must say, it's been a struggle. We're looking for Russia to begin to change its behavior, whether that's its behavior in Ukraine or the work that it did to influence elections here in the United States and that it's done to influence elections all across the world. These aren't the behaviors of nations that want to be part of the international community and we hope that they'll return to the right course of actions, a set of course of actions that lead them down the path of the rule of law and ordered liberty. If they do those things I'm confident that our two nations can prosper and grow alongside of each other. We are not destined to be antagonists. We can do better than that but it will take a rush and change in their outlook and behavior in the world in order to achieve that. Secretary you were recently also in Brussels and made a speech here about multi-lateralism and the necessity to reform international organizations. To be more concrete what will it take from the UN and international organizations? What kind of reforms do they have to undertake to have the full support of the administration? Borger I don't have the time today to sort of go into each of them one by one but I can certainly tell you about the central principles that underlaid the remarks that I made in Brussels that are part of President Trump's policies. What we're looking for in these institutions is to make sure that they are fit for purpose, that they are achieving ends that are good for the peoples of the countries that are part of these coalitions and that requires them going back I think to first principles. It's not a matter of taking these institutions down indeed quite the contrary. The way to preserve these institutions is to make sure that they're performing in a way that reflects well on the goals that the people of those nations want them to achieve and if you go back to the the place that these institutions were when they were originally created and then revisit them and say does that make sense whether that's 70 years on or 25 years on depending on the institution does it work? Is it achieving its end? So what the United States is simply looking for is we're going back to ask those hard questions that frankly just haven't been asked for too long. Do these institutions deliver and are they delivering in a way that is reflective of the world order as it sits today? If they're not we need to change them we need to update them we need to bring them into this century. And then the second piece in each of these it can be the case that from time to time roles get out of balance in these institutions. Countries grow. Countries move on they change their views. We need to make sure these institutions have burdens shared correctly amongst them. If you don't it's not just bad for the country that is sharing or caring too much of the burden it's also not good for those who are free writing who aren't participating in a way that's consistent with their needs from that institution. We need every bit of every one of those institutions to look at itself and say do we have our costs allocated directly are we sharing burdens appropriately are we all benefiting from this in a way that makes sense and when we do that when every country does this not just the United States of America these institutions will be updated and reformed in a way that is reflective of today and it'll be a good thing to make sure that these institutions continue to live on in the decades which follow. Thank you. Second last question. Last year when President Trump was on this stage I would boil down his message to America first does not mean America alone. Do you feel Secretary that your message this year which encourages such fundamental changes to the international system is being well received within the concert of nations or put differently is America somewhat isolated on the global stage today? Morgan I don't think we're remotely isolated. I in my remarks went through the various coalitions that we've been part of building out. There are lots of folks who continue to see American as the beacon that we hope it is. When you say isolated I think that has negative connotations it is the case that sometimes leadership and asking hard questions drives others to to be a little concerned. Perhaps they're not quite ready to stare these problems in the face but we are. President Trump is we know that these challenges must be confronted you can't continue to let these institutions not perform at a level of excellence that the people around the world demand of those institutions and so every place I've gone everywhere I've carried this message the private responses have been to me we appreciate America taking on these challenges we're glad that you're confronting these and we want to be with you in achieving the ends that you're trying to achieve. Thank you one last easy one when is the shutdown hour? We all hope that it'll end fairly quickly. Political fights in the United States are a time-honored tradition as those of you who have studied our history now. I hope that we get this this one resolved in relatively short order I'm always optimistic I'm counting on the fact that we'll get it resolved pretty quickly. Secretary again we really appreciate it you joining us here today it was well received among the participants of course if you're looking forward to welcome you in the real doubles next year we know that you had the huge agenda today really pleased to also listening to all your candidate an insightful answer so Mike thank you for your friendship and welcome back to doubles next year secretary. Thank you all and thank you Borger.


Okay, the recording started. Welcome back to the continuation of our lecture today on Christian apologetics. So, yeah, so thank you for sharing your thoughts and I'm just responding to Shri Kumar's comment. A past in that case, eunuchs are natural. I'm not sure what you were alluding to, but there are, okay, there are people who are born with physical deformities. Again, it's not God's design, but we know, as we've studied earlier, there's a deviation from God's original design. And then there's help that we, you know, medically provide or medically can provide. And then they, they, then, so I'm not sure whether you're talking about those. So Shri Kumar, what were you talking about? Like in, are you talking about the medical conditions people are born with or Shri Kumar's on the call, not on the call. Okay. All right. Shri Kumar's not on the call. So I'm not at the moment. So I don't see him yet. Okay. So I'm not exactly sure what Shri Kumar was referring to in that statement. So I'm not going to try and presume something. Let's see if he does come back, we will get an explanation. Okay. Let's move forward. Go ahead, Christopher. So we can't hear you. Yes, go ahead. No, I just wanted to understand.   Would that also apply to, you know, people who are, you know, living promiscuous, sexually promiscuous lives and the church is aware of it.   The answer would be no.  And they have to be addressed and they're equally sinful. I mean, I don't, for example, which is more sinful, murdering a person or hating a person.  What is more sinful? Committing the act of adultery or lusting after a woman in your heart. In the New Testament, Jesus put both as saying, you know, so our approach is that, look, we want the body to be whole, healthy and holy.   So to answer your question, because we shouldn't treat any of these things differently, all treated them, you know, equally minister to them. But we do understand that there are things that we don't want to pass on to other people in the sense that if a person's, you know, living a sexually moral life, whatever form of immorality that is, others shouldn't look at that and say, okay, even I can continue living that way. Right. So there's a point in time where people have to draw the line and say, look, this cannot continue in the house of God. So we have many examples. You know, first Corinthians five, Paul tells them to deal with such sin in the church, he says, you know, you got to put that out. That means this man was living in immorality and then Paul says, look, as part of the discipline, you had to put him out. But if he changes, which he did, you restore him back into fellowship. So that's because we don't want that people to think that, okay, we are condoning it therefore it's okay and others can do the same thing. Yeah, because a little leaven leavens the whole lump. That's what Paul's explanation for us and for Corinthians five is. And so we need to deal with that in that manner. Is it okay, Christopher? All right, Samuel, your question or your comment? Thank you, Pastor. I'm still trying to decide whether it's a question or a comment. But I think I'm tangled a little bit in what I'm hearing. So, especially in terms of condoning or even trying to help a person who says or who thinks he's homosexual.  But it's a self-discipline of hiding in the word of God that I will not indulge in such thing outside my marriage. And that's a choice, even though I can, but because of what I believe in, I will not. So I think, so in that context, a person who may say like, I'm attracted to another man. But so that means he is claiming or in some ways saying like my sexual preference is different. But I will not indulge in that. And I will do something like I will put myself in discipline and probably I'm not attracted to women. So I'll just be single. But I'm not given to my sexual treasures.  But then still, so he's not indulging the act in the act of homosexuality, but at the same time, he's acknowledging that he's he or she.  So I'm not, I'm not indulging the activity. So, so do we still condone him because of his declaration or because of what he has come to believe in? So that's what they say. As long as you're not committing the act of sexual, not sleeping at the same partner, but as long as you're declaring that's okay, which again doesn't feel right. So similarly, you know, in the case of transgender, a person who is not homosexual is married to opposite sex, but somehow believe he or she is trapped in a different gender body and chooses to address differently or address himself or his or her differences. Even though, you know, it's just the identity of people. I think if I feel it's getting a model, you know, if it was just, I think, confined to sexual preference, marriage, you know, it becomes simplifying decisions and it helps people. But now it seems to be getting a little complicated because of the identity as to coming in there and they may not be committing, but maybe addressing or using like a different way to address themselves. And I see a lot, you know, coming like even, even regular people these days put a he, she, him, or sorry, he, him, his obliques next to their names. So things like that where it's not the act, but it's just a message that you're sending. How do we respond to that? So our response is any deviation from God's design, whether it's thought word or deed is wrong. So the emphasis is not just on the deed. It's whether, look, I'll be deviating from God's design in thought word or deed. So we can even sit in thoughts, right? That's what the Bible tells us, you know, to think on things that appear righteous true. So even if my thought is deviated from God's original design, that's wrong, right? So any deviation from God's original design and thought word or deed is out of order. So that's the standard. So going back to the first part of what you presented, you know, it's, it's good that somebody's not actually engaging in the deed. But look, we need to align ourselves with God, even in thought and word. So I can't say, well, I've aligned my God, myself to God in my deed, but in my thought and word, I'm contrary to God. No, you know, we need to align ourselves to God, thought word indeed. So that's what we're going to work towards. That's what we should desire for, you know, and God can think about that change in the hearts and minds of people. And in the case of transgenders, you know, the, I'm not sure I have a complete answer, but we just have to say, look, this is God's design. Let's stay aligned to that, right?  It's easier said on a call like this than in practice, but then I'm sure God will give us the wisdom, the understanding on how to work that out in practice. But as a principle, our principles, you have to stay aligned to God's design and thought word indeed. And how we work towards it, God will give us the wisdom, the grace to do that is how I would respond to both these ideas. It's clear. It's clear. Thank you. All right. Thank you now. Let's move to some other difficult topics. Okay. Divorce. Divorce. We know that, you know, God is not a proof of divorce. God has made marriage for a lifetime.  There can be difficult things happen. You know, there could be failure, moral, financial, etc. And then there is the opportunity to forgive, bring healing, restoration. But then there are situations where divorce is permitted in scripture. One is in the case of unfaithfulness. Another case of willful desertion of an unbelieving spouse. And any violation of the marriage covenant, so which would include physical emotional abuse. That means two people didn't get married or enter into a covenant for so that one person could just end up abusing the other person. No, that's not the covenant, right? The covenant is that you're entering into this marriage to honor each other. So in the case of physical emotional abuse, there is a violation of the covenant in that sense.  So there is violence when there's violence involved, then usually the only option left is for them to end their marriage and divorce. So we understand divorce is not God's design. But yet in scripture, he has when there's a violation of the covenant that you've entered into. Yes, people can forgive. That's forgiveness is an option. For example, if there's unfaithfulness in the marriage, the other person has option to forgive if there is repentance and, you know, reconciliation. But if this, you know, the person's continuing to live that way, then there's nothing wrong in saying, look, the marriage covenant has been violated and God permits divorce under such situations. So you don't have to stay in that marriage. If the other person has violated the covenant, either through adultery, willful desertion, or in some form of abuse that's ongoing continuing and that's not being rectified, remedied, then, you know, we know that's not God's best, but then there's no other option but to end the marriage and divorce. And as pastors, as leaders, you know, you will face these situations. And I faced all kinds of crazy situations. You know, I think perhaps the most craziest was. I just had this one instance and we will move on and I'll keep asking if there are any questions, but perhaps the craziest was when two people, believers got married. And within the first three months, you know, the girl, now both were doctors, both were medical doctors, so qualified everything, you know, they got married. Within the first three months, the girl caught her visa and left for the US disappeared. This was a shock. This was really crazy. So just, you know, then looking back, we think that the only reason she got married was so that she could get a visa. And she could, you know, she could prove that, look, I am married, so I have to come back to India. So they gave her the visa and that's it, she left. So, you know, what do you do in a situation like that? The only option was for the man to, you know, file for a divorce, end the marriage and move on in life. But this happened within three months and I was like, whoa, you know, just really crazy. And this is like two Christians, you know, and the lady just disappeared in the US. So, you know, there are these different kinds of situations and we have to work with people. And, you know, we, we don't want to go to an extreme where divorce happens at the drop of a hat. But there are these situations where that's the only option as we see, you know, biblically, either an unfaithfulness or a willful desertion, which happened in the example I just mentioned, or there is ongoing abuse that is harmful. Right. So any questions on this subject of divorce? We know where the Bible, where we stand, we are all in agreement. Any questions on this? Okay. Yeah, I just noticed that you have, you may have addressed it, but notice that you had two question marks on the physical and emotional abuse. So, so I understand it's not actually addressed in the Bible, but it could be, you know, a reason for, for filing for divorce, right? But how would, how would one, how would one sort of the physical, physical abuse, maybe I can, you know, that could be sort of, you know, easier to understand. But how would we sort of define the emotional abuse aspect of it? Yeah, so the reason I put it in question marks is it's not that, you know, just because there's one incident of a physical abuse, things have to end in divorce. You know, right? There's always forgiveness, healing, so on. Emotional abuse can come in many ways. It could come through verbal attacks. It could come through just abusive control of the person.  So there's may not be any physical harm to the person, but it's like, hey, the person is not able to live their life, you know, and so it can be harmful. And the reason I put it in question marks is it's not, you know, a clearly defined thing, but that's when, you know, you really look into the situations and look, can this be resolved? Is it just a lack of understanding, a lack of relational skills that we need to bring in? Or is it really something bad that's really harmful for the other person that's destructive to the marriage where the person doing the harm is unwilling to change, unwilling to receive, right? So we'll have to, you know, look at the situation, see, you know, to what degree, what is happening, and then, you know, then take action. So for example, you know, if two people are living together, husband and wife are there, but let's say the husband is just totally neglected his wife, there's no care, no love and affection, and it's like just, you know, and is suppressing the wife completely, no freedom, not providing, and then, you know, in some way oppressing the wife, you know, based on extended family, you know, as in India typical situations would be blaming the wife for not bringing enough money or blaming the wife and her extended family, all that. You know, so then that's very oppressive environments. Then that's where, you know, if the husband is not willing to receive any help to change, and that man just not happening, you know, not being restored to what the, what a real, what marriage is supposed to be. That's when you have to say, look, it's very harmful for the other person living in a situation like that. Yeah. So it is subjective. I've put question marks there because it's we don't want to do it arbitrarily or randomly. But we have to look into the situation and see what's going on. Okay. Yeah, I need to, you know, yeah, I see a comment there when people are not actively involved in relationship. Yeah. So our first goal is always to see if that can be remedied, you know, and in many cases, it just developing skills or relational skills, learning how to relate. Yeah. You know, again, one one incident when two young people were married. There was no violence, but the husband was very angry.   And I think that marriage lasted six months because of maybe even less. I don't exactly know, but I don't think it lasted more than six months. And the wife was so scared because the husband, if he got angry, he would just anything can happen. Now, he had till that time, he had not really, at least as far as I remember, he had not physically abused his wife. But she was just so afraid that if he got angry, maybe her life. The next thing was her life would be at stake. But and he threatened things like, you know, they were living on a high story building. He was threatening like, you know, I will push you off the apartment, these kinds of things, you know, and this all happened within the first few months of marriage. Eventually, she was so scared. The only thing she did, only option was she left and she came back home to her parents. Because it was all because of the anger and the fear that came around with it and the trips that were made. Now, you know, at APC here in Bangalore, we require people before they get married, we require that they go through our marriage preparation course, which is about five months long. We take them through the marriage and family manual, which I think you are going through the semester or maybe next semester. And maybe I think you're going through the semester. So we tell them you have to finish this course only then we'll get you married. So we make it mandatory for them to go through this, you know, the five month course. But sometimes people don't do that. They just get married. And then problems happen and then it's like really difficult for us to try to fix it, you know, and that's what happened in this couple's case. I mean, the marriage course was available. We advised them to go through it. They didn't. And then suddenly after marriage, this whole thing happened and it ended in divorce. Because the wife couldn't stand to stay in that relationship. But it was very sad because I felt like, look, at least if they'd gone through the course, these problems would have been addressed. Or at least exposed and either the marriage would have been prevented or the problem would be addressed before marriage. But sometimes, you know, people don't make use of what's available to them. And this is what happened. So this is an example where there was no physical violence, but the emotional thing was so tormenting. The wife couldn't stay. She left. And she was afraid for her own life because of the threats. And yeah. Okay. So let's move on to the next. Let's try to move forward a little bit. Abortion. Okay. Yeah, we did divorce abortion. So abortions again, a very big issue. And we know it's wrong to take the life of an unborn child. And of course, you know, in the western world and other nations, especially in America, this is like a very divisive, very, very big issue. We know abortion is wrong. And but what about situations in the case of a young unmarried woman, in the case of, you know, if somebody gets pregnant, they didn't want to. There was or maybe somebody felt it's too early in marriage, or in the case of rape and those kinds of things. So there's a lot of other situations around it. Right. So our goal, of course, is to save the life of the unborn child. That's that's our goal. We, we want the life of the unborn child to be saved. But if the mother's life is at risk, of course, then you have to make a choice. Whom do you want the life?  Do you want the baby to be alive? And so normally in that case, which okay, yeah, you know, the mother's life is at risk. I mean, okay. So here again, you see, there's the whole issue of faith, right? Now, we can't force people to take, to choose the path of faith. And they have to make the choice.  They've been going through the regular checkups and then the doctor gives them some news.   So the doctor recommends to abort the child. That's one scenario. What would you do? Second, you know, for whatever reason, the mother's life is at risk. So what should you do? I mean, to the doctors recommending abort the child because the mother's life is at risk. The mother will not live through the pregnancy. And what would you do? Right? So these are difficult questions because no, you cannot force the couple, even if they are believers, you cannot force them to walk by faith in that situation. You can't say, well, just have faith and the baby will come out all right. Or just have faith, the mother will survive the pregnancy. Now, if they choose, they choose to walk by faith, you support them. If they choose to take the doctor's advice and abort the baby, you support them. Right? So in my experience, I've had both happen.  But the couple decided to go ahead with the pregnancy. So we stood with them, prayed with them. Right? Now, the child eventually died within a few days. Fine. But at least we didn't force them to make a choice. We just journeyed with them in faith. In other cases, couples opted to abort the baby. Fine. That's your choice. Don't feel guilty about it in this case because, you know, the doctor saw, you know, what was wrong, they advised and they went through the medical, went according to the medical advice. We just stood with them. We don't condemn them for their choice of abortion because there was a life-threatening situation or there was a medical complications involved and they chose to follow the medical advice. It's okay. We stand with them. Right? Then there are these other cases, situations where, you know, whatever woman is raped and so on. So again, we don't want to force our ideas. I mean, yes, we want to save the life of the child, but what if the woman chooses not to have the child? We don't want to force truth against their will. Like we said earlier, as part of our framework, we let them make the choice. We support them and stand with them. Right? Now, in these earlier cases that we mentioned, of course, we want to save the life of the child and, you know, we don't want people to just arbitrarily terminate pregnancies. We want to support, we want, you know, to preserve the life which I'll be so there again, we can guide them, but we have to provide options. So if we say, okay, you go ahead, have the baby, then we provide them options, we have to provide them options. And how are they going to care for the baby? What if they don't have the means to care for the baby?  So while we know abortion is wrong, we will have to think of the various scenarios. We have to don't force our faith on people, but journey with them in faith, as in these cases that we mentioned. And in other situations where we encourage people to go through, we need to have the child. We need to provide them with support and options to take care of the child post delivery. Okay, so that is very quick, you know, perspective on that. I just want to see if there are any questions, any other thoughts or any other scenarios we need to address.  And so there's the big question of can this whole thing be legislated, you know, can you dictate moral choices based on legislation? Are there all these big questions, you know? And so people have been fighting over it and so on. And, but at the end of the day, remember it's a moral choice, right? Legislation can be there, but there will always be loop holes where people find ways to work around it. But ultimately it's a choice of the heart. So we have to work towards that and helping people understand what is the right choice to make. And journey with them in faith, in love, as they make the choice. Some other issues that are becoming important are enough relevance to which the church has to respond. I think, let's look at these two. Climate change and environment and then genetics. So climate change and environment, you know, again here the Christian church is divided. One side, there are people who say, why are you even worried about this? This is a non-issue. Because anyway, there are going to be new heavens and new earths. Anyway, this planet is going to be destroyed.  So why are you worried? Why are you wasting time, money and energy on talking about climate change and environment? It's all going to end up in the fire anyway.  Don't waste time on it, don't even talk about it, etc. The environment, climate change and the environment. On the other hand, you have people, believers, who say that, look, God put us in charge of the earth. In Psalm 115 verse 16, the earth is given to the children of men. So he's made us stewards and we are stewards of everything. We are stewards of the natural resources. We are stewards of the environment. And so even though we have the understanding of eschatology, that is what is going to happen, that the earth is going to be burned with fire and there are going to be new heavens in the earth. We do believe in that. But as long as we are on the earth, we need to be responsible and good stewards of the earth. So therefore climate change, taking care of the environment, deforestation, all these kinds of things are matters of importance. We need to act, we need to take action. We need to do our part in taking care of our environment. So you have Christians who are positioned like that. So you have Christians on both sides and having both views. Now personally, and this is my personal positioning, I believe we have to be responsible. We have to be good stewards of the environment. God has put us in charge of the planet. We have to take care of the resources that God has given to us. We have to do our part. Even though we know that everything is going to be destroyed by fire, there are going to be new heavens and the new earth, God is going to do everything good. But while we are on the earth, there are my believers, we have to be good stewards. So stewardship is important. It's a biblical truth and we can extend it even to our planet and the environment we do our part. But I don't feel the church should start fighting over each other over the matter if we can agree and work meaningfully on the subject. That would be good. And we don't want the issue of climate change to overwrite the main things that the church is called to do. So if there are people who differ in their opinion on the perspective, okay, I'm not going to argue and fight over it. Because there are more important things we're supposed to call to do as a church. I understand climate change, but I'm not going to make that the big issue. The big issue is preaching the gospel and glorifying Jesus Christ. Is that okay? Any thoughts, any comments? The last issue, social challenge that we will need to talk about, is about genetics. So as science has progressed, we have developed abilities, not only to study life at the level of the genes, but we've also developed the ability and techniques to modify the genetics, the genes, work with the genetic code and so on. So we call it gene editing and so on. So you can cut parts of the DNA and then work with that and so on. Or genetic modification. Initially, this was being used in various ways, like you can use it in agriculture to genetically modify certain crops, so that crops that generally grow in this kind of a weather can be adapted to grow in this kind of a weather conditions, which then helped crop production of fruits and vegetables and so on. There could be those kinds of improvements that were made. Okay, some people were okay with it, some people were not, but they were putting it to constructive use. But then as understanding and techniques increased, we said, okay, what about using gene editing to treat and heal sicknesses? So we understood that certain parts of genes are connected, associated with certain kinds of diseases. So what if we go in there and treat this disease at the genetic level? What if we take preventive measures? We edit so that we prevent a certain disease from happening, not only from a curative point of view, but also from a preventive point of view. Then that whole idea extended to, hey, how about we can make improvements so we can create a better human being physically by modifying the gene. So it's not just treating sickness or preventing sickness, but what if we edit to improve the kind of person that's going to happen? So we're actually modifying it to create new kinds of, I wouldn't say new kinds, but people that have better qualities or better physical characteristics or things like that, that are defined or identified, influenced by those segments of the genetic code. So this has opened up a whole big area where what does the church stand on this? Does the church approve of this or is this not approved? We began with using it for general purposes, trying to improve crops and vegetation and things like that. And now we are coming into trying to heal sicknesses, prevent sicknesses, and then now we improve the quality of life. And so where else is this going to lead us to? So I know we just have six minutes on this, but I want to hear your thoughts. I think what would be the church's response to something like this? Anyone? Yes. I think there needs to be a ten dividing line between what is natural and what becomes, gets into this unnatural kind of create something, to change something that comes out of a natural process. And definitely a creation of a gene or something that will make a human being better, I think it goes beyond a natural process. To prevent something, that's where that thin dividing line gets even more thinner, I think. So just my initial thoughts. But just related to that, and probably not really related to genetics, but I just wanted to also get your view on the aspect of artificial insemination and test your babies and all that, which is again goes into this real more natural and unnatural sort of creating something that outside of a natural process, creation of a test your baby, which has been there for some years now. And what would be your view on that? Yeah. So just in a really quick way, my thoughts, and I'm not saying, you know, this is like 100% biblical or something, you know, but I feel that as long as we use science for in a way that that is positive, that is good for us. But without overriding. And again, we don't mean it's pretty hard to say where bed is this end, where does this stop. But okay, use it for good things. Right. So yeah. So whether it's, you know, organ transplant, as Beth has mentioned, whether it's genetic editing in order to prevent a disease or cure a disease or find a solution. And it is working. It is people are, you know, living better and being prevent disease are being cured through that these techniques. So my thought is, yeah, that's okay. Right. It's fine because you are helping people. You are curing a disease. You're preventing a disease. So to that extent, I personally feel comfortable using science and developing techniques and so on. But what I'm not very comfortable with and I'm just using the word comfortable because, you know, I can't prove any of these things with chapter and words. I'm just giving you my perspective. But I am not very sure about and feel you have to be very cautious about is and we are trying to generate something better. And I think that's the question why not when you're creating a better person creating, you know, example is simple things like, okay, what if you can make a person of a better height by let's say by default they're going to be born at five feet. But what if you can do something to give them, you know, five eight or six feet. If they want, you know, something or or I'm just making this up. I'm just saying, you know, something that that's they that would be better or certain other characteristics. Why not somebody last why not, you know, you're that person's going to have a better quality of life. So why can't we do it. The danger with that is we don't know where it'll all go and where do you pause. So that's why I'm a little uncomfortable with that progression. But I'm perfectly fine personally speaking at the using science to put constructive things either to make something. Yeah, cure disease address a problem. And so on. But very, you know, how far all of this course is a big, big question. And I guess that the issue like what brother Manohar has put there is we don't want to put tempo with God's design. At the same time, we want to be able to use the knowledge we have for constructive healthy purposes. So at this moment, I don't think anybody, not even the scientific community and surely not even from the church has there been a line drawn saying this is where we should stop things. It's still in the process of debate. And both the scientific community is also asking questions, you know, where should this go where should the stop. But what I would like to point out is that, you know, the article from Catholic Church, of course, is that there is a look the church must be involved and engage in this because the church, you know, does need to have a say where do we draw the line where we stop changing God's design, but using knowledge in a very positive constructive way. You know, so the church needs to engage and be able to help in determining this, you know. So this is an area of debate, but I want us to think about it and you know, we'll see where things go, but the church needs to have a voice, and it needs to be the pillar and ground of truth, even in this area of science. Okay. So Kennedy has asked the question. How do you use drugs?  I want to say I haven't really thought of that, but I would definitely leave it to the individual to decide, you know, where that would go. All right. Oh yeah, there's two babies. I thought there is, you know, if you're helping a couple have a child, I don't see anything wrong in that. I know it's outside of the normal process. Yeah. At least at this point, Christopher and I don't have a different answer but at this point personally I don't see anything wrong. And in the news we're reading about all kinds of, you know, it related to this area of babies and in vitro fertilization and so on. And we're reading a lot about it, but my thing is, okay, if a couple has helped have a baby, okay, you know, it's fine. But I haven't thought through on all the other ramifications. I'm just looking at it from the perspective of you're helping a couple have a child. Okay. I don't see anything wrong in that. But what are the other ramifications? I think we need to think about it. Okay. I know we, we've kind of gone into our break time. But let's just pray and we will dismiss. We will meet again next week, Thursday to kind of bring this course to a close. Can I just review everything and put things together. So we will be next week will be a last lecture on in Christian apologetics. Right. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like I said, I haven't, you know, thought through on this whole, full picture on this. So I wouldn't, yeah, I wouldn't know for sure. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's just close in prayer. We will bring this Christian apologetics course to close next week. Let me meet on Thursday, the 18th. Could somebody just pray with us and we will dismiss. I would like to pray. All right. Maggie to pray, please. Yes, sir. Okay. Let's pray. Holy Father, we thank you, Lord. We thank you for the wisdom and understanding, Lord, that you've given us through your Holy Spirit, Lord. As we live in the world, Father, you give us wisdom and understanding. You give us intelligence. So we can work with what you've created and what you've made both for good and for the glory of your name, Lord. Even though the world might not understand it, people might not see it in the way that you would like it to be seen. But you give us this knowledge. You give us genetics. You give us everything that you created, Lord, so that we may glorify you and you make people to use for your glory. We preach this that you prepare our heart and give us knowledge and understanding, Lord, so that whenever the time comes for us to represent you, to defend your truth, to teach people about these things, Lord, give us wisdom, give us anointing, Lord, to be able to handle this in the way that glorify you and that points everyone to you, Jesus. Until you meet again, Lord, you pray for that. You build with us, protect us until next week in your mighty name, Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. All right. So next week we will meet again for Christian apologetics and wrap things up. All right. Next week will be a last session on Christian apologetics. We'll wrap things up. Let's take a quick break and we will meet in the keys to Supernatural Ministry next class shortly. Okay. God bless. Please take a break and meet again soon. Thank you.


Let's talk. Let's talk. Hello and welcome to another edition of Let's Talk. My name is Villaleptu. In today's broadcast, we speak about the upcoming activities as it relates to school counseling week. And we first will discuss this topic is Coordinator of Guidance Counseling, Joyce Lynn Eugene, and District 5 Counselor, Mr. Gerard Colger. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Of course, school counseling is a big part of the education sector. And of course, we see that work has been done to continue growing this area. Can you tell us when is school counseling week and what is the objective or motive behind undertaking activities as it relates to school counseling week? Thank you very much. School counseling week will be observed this year for the first time from February 5th to the 9th. And it is in keeping with the International School Counselors Week. We are hoping that through this event this year that we would be able to sensitize persons to things that have been happening in terms of school counseling and the developments over the years. School counselors have been in schools for, well, we had four school counselors or guidance counselors, I would say, from 1992. They were in four schools, four districts. And since that, we had 30 counselors serving the entire island of San Oshia. Wonderful. So we can definitely say that has been growing and we have a lot of district counselors. Now, of course, we have a district counselor with us here today. Mr. Koljian, how important do you believe this initiative is? Oh, very important. I think there is a need for people to recognize how significant the counselors are in the education system. Actually, we make a tremendous difference in the lives of the children. Maybe some people don't know because, you see, the whole idea of the confidentiality of the counselor, students refer themselves, come to us with a challenge or they simply want some feedback on the behavior and maybe they have some struggles at home or in their community. And they ask us what we think and we guide them as to how they can relate to others. Sometimes they have personal issues and we help them deal with it. So we play a very important part in the life of the student. Wonderful. Before we touch on the activities that will be undertaken, can you tell us how do you think celebrating School Counseling Week will impact the students? I think celebrating School Counseling Week will give students another opportunity to come face to face with the counselor. As Mr. Koljian mentioned, you think of counseling and you think of confidentiality and you think of it as something you do not want people to know that you are accessing a service that you do not want people to really know that you are accessing. But School Counselors serve in many different roles, many different areas of development in the lives of the students. And so I think it would give them an opportunity to take stock, to reflect on how their exposure to a School Counselor, how these counselors have impacted their lives and also give them an opportunity to give back and to show appreciation for what the counselors have been doing for them over the last many years. And what are some of the activities that will be undertaken as to do this part of it? Okay, so this is the very first time that we are undertaking this. Our first main activity is an ecumenical service and branch which will be held on the 5th of February. This, of course, will see many stakeholders and persons whom we collaborate with with regard to counseling being a part of that service. During the course of the week, we have some other events. We have a counselor's conference which is specifically geared to the counselors in terms of counselor development and other areas concerning counseling. There is also an audio recording that will go out to every school, primary and secondary where I will be addressing the students about Counseling Week and giving them a little bit of information and sharing. We are hoping that that could be played at assembly so that students will hear a little bit more about what we are trying to do. Later on in the week, we have what we refer to as self-care. The counselors take care of others. We go out of our way to ensure that the mental health, physical development, social development of students and everything and sometimes we ourselves are left in the dark. We do not get the kind of care that we need and so we do want to have some self-care activities on their behalf on the Friday. There is supposed to be a dinner on the Saturday evening. Of course, this again is to give them an opportunity for us to come together in one venue and to really just have an opportunity to celebrate ourselves and the work that we have done. We have been doing. And of course we can say that although the students will benefit from the activity also getting the counselors will be benefitting as well and being appreciated for their work. Definitely. Because the counseling program really has no value if there are no students to work with. Great. And for you, Mr. Cauldron, as a district counselor, what role do you expect to play in the whole activity? Okay, definitely I would like to help students become more aware of the whole importance of counseling and how they can access it more. Because there is sometimes a fear of going to counselors because the perception is a counselor might tell people my business. That sort of thing. But one of the things we always insist on, we always let them know is the whole idea of confidentiality where as long as the child's life is not in any jeopardy, we are not allowed to reveal anything concerning that child. The only time there is a limit to it is when the child's life is in danger. Wonderful. While we are due for a break, when we return, we will continue our discussion about the activities as it relates to school counseling. We'll be back in a moment.  She's driving me crazy. I just don't know what to do. All that child needs is some good legs to wake up. Alice, ignore the counseling pants she's giving. Government employees have free access to professional counseling services under the Employee Assistance Program known as EAP. EAP? What's that? Not me that telling people my business. Listen to me, Alice. I was struggling with my child. I made an appointment to see an EAP counselor and I was very satisfied with the service that I received. And you know what? Up to a day like today, my information remains confidential. Cox, how come nobody in the office knew anything about your counseling? Ah, that's because EAP counselors, they work under strict clauses of confidentiality. I know you know what confidential means. EAP providing professional counseling services? How much is it? The counseling is free. Free for you, free for your child. And you know what? Your information remains confidential. Call the EAP unit at the Ministry of the Public Service. Telephone number 468-2269 for more information. EAP Works, let it work for you. Welcome back to Let's Talk. We will continue our discussion with Joyce Lynn Eugene and Gerard Kaldren discussing the upcoming activities as it relates to school counseling week. Of course, as these activities would be happening, we know for sure there would be a theme. What is the theme that is the activities would be guided under? And what will it highlight? Our theme this year as a start is school counselors touching lives, creating change for success. And so when we looked at this theme, we spoke about the impact that we have on others of working with others touching lives and creating change also. We are looking at change for ourselves as well because we as counselors, so counselors are supposed to develop themselves professionally as well. And of course our ultimate goal is for these students to experience success at school. It can be very difficult, very trying at various levels of your education system. As students are in school, they go through so many challenges.  You mentioned change in terms of the theme. How would you say that the present situation has to do with the counselors in terms of doing the job? Because we've changed what is the situation like now and what would you like to see happening in the future? I think one of the major changes we would say that we recognize now is that we do have one counselor in each education district. We have one counselor in each secondary school. What we would like to see is a counselor for primary school in some instances because of the number of students that are in some schools. So if you have schools where the student population is well above 300 and we're talking about the primary schools, at present the district counselor, for example, Mr. Calderon, would have a number of primary schools in his district. Ten primary schools in his district that he serves. He's the one counselor and he goes to each of those primary schools at different times during the course of the term, meeting the students, meeting the needs of the students, working and collaborating with teachers, planning and implementing programs to ensure that we contribute towards the academic professionals and social development and current needs of the students. So I'm guessing with the week of activities, it also allowed the district counselors and also the counselors, it would give them the opportunity to reflect, right? Yes, definitely. And one of the things, how would you say the plans are going so far as it relates to the activities? Well, I would say that the plans are going along steadily. We have been making arrangements and so on and you can well imagine as you start working the plans, new things seem to be surfacing and so on, but we have been able to manage, we have gotten the support of the Ministry of Education in ensuring that we have access to some of the resources that we need in order for us to be a successful event. We have also sought sponsorship because we serve the community indirectly, so we are hoping that we would receive favorable responses from our sponsors and of course the counselors themselves are very excited about this initiative. We are hoping it will be an annual celebration like Teachers Week and Teacher Appreciation Day and of course we are looking forward to building that and to doing more exciting things. Wonderful, great. And Mr. Colton, any final words you would like to give on the upcoming activities? Well, we are very looking forward to it. One of the things I am very looking forward to is like we have a conference coming on and which will have a speaker, Miss Nicole Edgecom and her theme really is building future ready students and I am looking forward to that because we will be educated as to some of the ways we can do that even more. I am looking forward to receiving that information which will help the students so I will go to my schools and really be enthused with that information so that I can be more helpful to students and so on. And I believe that as counselors another thing I am looking forward to is the self-care activities because many times we don't take care of ourselves, we give out a lot, we give to people and we don't take care of ourselves. So if we don't take care of ourselves we cannot be as effective as we want to, you know? So we need to sometimes spoil ourselves, sometimes have fun as well, you know? Yes, definitely. Well, I want to thank you so much for being part of our program, Joyce Lynn Eugene and also Jared Colgent. It was definitely a pleasure and we want to wish you all the best with all the activities for School Counseling Week. Thank you, thank you. With that we've come to the end of Let's Talk for Today on behalf of the entire production team. I am Phil Neptune. Thank you for watching. Until next time.


Hello, I'm Chris Thomas with the United States Courts. There are more than 500 million documents on file in the Federal Judiciary's electronic record system, and the number of cases is growing every day. So how can you find the case you're looking for? Searching the court's electronic database is about to get a whole lot easier. Javier Hernandez has more. The U.S. court's public access to court electronic record system, better known as PACER, provides users with virtually real-time remote access. There are currently more than one million registered PACER users, and they can access federal court records 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Individuals, litigants, attorneys, the media can view the actual genuine court record. And you can get any document filed in any federal case anywhere in the country. In early March, Judge James Haynes and Judge J. Rich Leonard were on a panel discussing several new PACER initiatives. There are new technologies, there are new efficiencies, and we want to stay ahead of the curve. With more than five million new documents added to PACER every month, the need for easier and faster access to those documents can be critical. We've got a brand new search engine that we demonstrated today that gives a much more tailored search capacity in terms of various categories of cases that you might be looking for. PACER is actually not one massive electronic filing cabinet, but it's an intricate system of more than 200 separate U.S. court databases. So implementing new search options will provide PACER users quicker and easier access to more documents. We can start making changes to PACER now. We have started already the party case index that we'll be releasing. It's a step in the right direction, but there are going to be regular updates at various intervals. Another PACER initiative is posting digital audio recordings of court proceedings. It's instant. The hearing that I do today is downloaded automatically overnight, so it's available the next morning. A stenographer transcribing could take weeks if not months. It's a usually more available way to hear what goes on in court rather than coming to court as one used to have to do to look at court records and now can do via PACER. Digital audio recordings of records in certain federal courts have been available on PACER as part of a pilot program, but the Judicial Conference of the United States recently voted to authorize the offering of such files on PACER by any court that wants to provide them. In my court, if you tried to pull it down, there'd be a mutiny. PACER users can review federal court decisions and opinions for free. The administrative office of the United States courts is evaluating a recent and extensive survey of PACER users to determine additional ways to improve remote electronic access to federal courts. For Judiciary Now, I'm Javier Hernandez. Thanks, Javier. To learn more about the PACER system, go to www.pacer.uscourts.gov. Reporting with the United States courts, I'm Chris Thomas in Washington.


Hello and welcome to another session on circles and As we have been doing so far. We are trying to validate each and every theorem what we are Proving in the second part. So here is another theorem. It says line through the centers of two intersecting circles Bisex the common chord perpendicularly. That means if you see there are two circles with center O and O dash AB is the common chord A and B are the points of intersection of the two circles AB is the common chord and O dash is the line segment joining the two circles and We have to prove that this line segment O dash by six AB perpendicularly that is OCA or OCB is 90 degrees and CA is equal to CB Okay, so before we Get in get on to the proof. Let's first see whether that is actually true. So Let's first try and measure some lengths. So if you see Measuring AC Okay, so 2.14 Okay, so let me just do a little bit of setting change if you see Um Yeah, so I'm just removing the background color. So then come easier for you to see so AC is 2.14. Let us also measure CB so or BC. So this is also 2.14, right? So same way. Let us just change the settings and color Now so This is 2.14. Okay, now we will try to see different configurations and see if it is true always So here I am going to change the circle positions C so I'm changing the circle so the two intersecting circles Now intersecting at different different points Can you see AB the location of A and B is changing and every time A and B are the positions are changing You can see AC and CB stays the same. There is no difference whatsoever. That means it's always the same. Okay So this was in one case. Let us say if we are changing the circle position itself Yeah, so now I'm changing it to that's it Like that. So here also if you see CB and AC are same Okay Right the same every time doesn't matter which Configuration is see now. I'm changing the first circle So whatever it is in every such case you will find that oh dash the line joining the two centers always divide or bisect B to bisect the common chord and not only bisect it's also Biscecting it perpendicularly, right? So this is what you wanted to demonstrate that, you know any such you know Two circles which when they intersect the common chord gets bisected by the Line joining the two centers Okay, so whether the centers are within one circle or they are outside of each other. Okay, so this is Established now what we are going to do is see even I you know when the Distance is too large. There is no common chord. So hence no point Yeah discussing that so here is the common thing and Yes, so hence we are going to prove this now friends so we just saw the Validation of this particular theorem that line through the centers of two intersecting circle Circles bisects the common chord perpendicularly. We just saw this on geojibra and we tried to Get different configurations of the two circles and every time this particular theorem was valid, right? Now we are going to prove this So we have already mentioned what's given so a and b are points of intersection of the two circles The two circles are mentioned over here. We have to prove that oh dash is perpendicular to ab and ac is equal to bc That's what we need to prove. So let's start with The proof so we are going to consider What what is the you know? The direction for this proof so We know that ac is equal to bc can be proven if Ac and bcr the corresponding parts of two congruent triangles, isn't it? So but which two triangles if you see closely Oac and obc are the two triangles if you prove somehow to be congruent then ac automatically will be equal to bc Isn't it? So let's try to prove that these two congruence these two triangle to be congruent But then for that we need few more information So given information is oa is equal to ob why because they are the radii. So this is true So oa is equal to ob this is okay oc is also a common side But then we have only these two information nothing else Correct. So if I somehow prove that this angle x is equal to this angle y Then my job is done, right? So for proving this we need to prove that x and y are to be equal or any other angle maybe this angle Yeah, so included angle only because two sides are equal So I have to somehow prove that x equals to y or somehow prove that c is 90 degree But proving x equals to y would be much easier. Why because if you consider these two triangles So which two triangles guys so triangle a o o dash and Triangle b o o dash Okay, so in these two triangles I have o a is equal to ob Right radii of same circle. They are radii of same Circle, isn't it? similarly o dash a is equal to o dash b same logic radii of radii of same circle, right and o o dash is equal to o dash o common common side, isn't it? common side therefore we can conclude that Triangle a o o dash is congruent to triangle b o o dash Is it? So if that is true guys, then can't we say that angle a o o dash is equal to angle b o o dash so we can say a o o dash is equal to b o o dash y Corresponding parts of con congruent triangles, right now. This is what we wanted to achieve, isn't it? So hence now let's consider triangle a o C and Triangle b o c so we have in this O a is equal to ob radii of the same circle radii radii of same Circle Isn't it then? angle a o c is equal to angle b o c just proved just proved here Right, though it is saying a o o dash, but a o o dash is a o c and we have also Oc is equal to o c common side Common right therefore by what law or what criteria these two triangles are congruent so by by s a s criteria By s a s criteria by the way, this was triple s criteria, right? Side side side it will be side angle side in this case triangle a o c is congruent to triangle B o c Right, so therefore we can conclude that a c is equal to bc First we prove that c is the midpoint What else also? Also angle a co is equal to angle bco Right cpct both are because of cpct but we know that angle a c o plus angle bco is equal to 180 degrees Right guys, so hence angle a co Twice angle a co will be 180 degrees why because a co is equal to bco so hence angle a co is equal to 90 degrees Right hence proved both the things are proved hence proved so o o dash Not only bisects the Card a b why do we know and how do we know that o o dash bisects because a c is equal to bc We just proved so c is the midpoint not only c is the midpoint But angle a co is 90 degree that this is a second part of the proof, right? So hence we could prove that the line joining the centers of two intersecting circles Bisects the common chord perpendicularly in the first part We evaluated through the geojibra software in the second part. We proved it


How to build a profitable brand if you want to build your own brand and not have to worry about competing with everybody else and selling the same exact products you are in this video I'm going to share with you how I already did it. Okay. I own a company called survival cave food We sold millions of dollars of products over the years. I've been doing this since 2009 and our brand is listed on thousands of websites including Walmart. So if you want to know how to build a brand, this is the video for you. I'm going to take you through each step and by the end of this video, you know exactly how to build your own brand and we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Welcome to my channel. If you haven't been here before, do me a favor and subscribe that big button below down there says subscribe. Yeah, you're supposed to hit it right next to it. Hit the bell, turn on all notifications. If you turn on all notifications when I do one of these videos, I can actually let you know you'll be part of the family, the VIP Fisher family that gets notified when I do videos. So you don't have to go searching for it. You'll know exactly. You can click the link and just go watch the video. Now this video is all about building brands and this is some pretty high level stuff. This is long term stuff. This isn't get rich quick stuff. When you build a brand, you have a brand that people will buy stuff from you just because of your brand.  One of the shark tank guys puts their name on something. People will just buy it because it's got the shark tank guy's name on it or a woman's name on it. And by doing that, they built their own personal brand. They say, you know, I'm going to rubber stamp this. That's where you see spokespeople that are celebrities all the time. Companies hire these people because they have a brand. They have their brand. I'm going to be talking about how to do that for a company, not necessarily an individual, but it can spill over into your individual to depending on if you're the spokesperson for your company.   And in doing so, you're going to get better results and you'll get them sooner. But the point is you do have to work. So if anybody's telling you that you can make tons of money online, you have to work at all, they don't know. Not true. Not true. Don't believe that stuff. But here's the cool thing. You don't have to work that much more than other people. I want you to think of this example here. An average person is working 40 hours a week and you work 50 or 60 hours a week. In two weeks time, you doubled them. You doubled them. Okay? So it's just that little extra effort that really matters. It's watching one less TV show at night. It's getting up a couple of hours earlier. It's taking a shorter lunch and putting a little bit more effort in than the average person does. And then you'll get way ahead of those people because let's face it, you can't do what everybody else is doing and get better results. It doesn't make sense. Okay? It just doesn't make sense. Number one, let's decide who you are and what your niche is. Okay? That's so, so very important. Now, our niche for my survival food company is survival K food and we sell to people who want to be prepared. So our tagline is helping families prepare. So that's all we do at survival K food. So you've got to think about that. What is your niche and what is your goal? Who are you? What are you trying to do? What are you trying to accomplish? And I know you're going to say yourself, well, I'm trying to make money. You're trying to make money, but that's not something you're going to be able to advertise. I'm trying to make money. Okay? You need to advertise like we do. We say we're helping families prepare. So you need to have that tagline. You need to have that reason that people are going to want to do business with. Then you need to think about how you're going to do it. Now, we don't scare people. We've never been into scare tactics.  We just say, Hey, you should have this stuff, you know, for hurricane comes or a storm or earthquake or coronavirus, if any of those things pop up, you know, you're going to want to be prepared because maybe you won't be able to get to the grocery store. Maybe it'll be closed. Maybe it'll be out of supplies and you want to have them around your house to keep your family prepared. And adding to that, I will tell you, do not bash your competition. Don't do that. We've had people do that to us over the years and they're no longer around in most cases, but don't bash your competition. It makes you look bad. Nobody ever says, Oh, I want to buy from you because you said the other company was really crappy.  Don't do it.  So don't do that. Okay. Don't mention your competitors. Talk about yourself. Talk about your company. Talk about what you can help that person with and what you can do for them. Two, you got to think about how are you going to sell your products? Where are you going to market your products? Are they going to be in stores? Are they going to be in shelves? Are they going to be on websites? Is it going to be Amazon? Is it going to be eBay? Are you going to have a distributor program like what we do? So when I first started Survival K Food, I thought wrong. I thought I'd put up a website and I put the products there and people would find them and just buy them. Well, number one, they didn't know to find them. I mean, how were they going to find them? They didn't know who I was. They didn't know about me. So I started doing SEO and trying to do search engine optimization and got some sales, but not near enough because I didn't have enough traffic. Okay. So I got, I was thinking one day, I thought, well, there's a lot of sites out there that get a lot of traffic. What if I could get them to sell my products on their site and I'll ship it out and make them have any investment? So that's exactly what I did. I called some and it wasn't easy. Believe me, I'm kind of sugarcoating this a little bit. I called hundreds, probably thousands of different websites and asked them to sell my stuff and send out thousands of emails. But I finally built a base of people that would sell my products. And now it's sold in a lot of places and we get majority of our sales from other websites. So I don't know what your product is or what your niche is, but that's a great business model to help you grow your company. Now, once you've got these people, make sure you take care of them.   So you really want to take care of these people. Let them know you appreciate their business and you'll do fine. Number three, always take care of your customers. Now you say, of course I'm going to take care of my customers. Well, would you? You know, if, if you had a customer that you shipped something out and I'll give an example and we've had this before where somebody would order a case of meat and, you know, we would ship it out and we would have a delivery confirmation and then they said they never got it. What do you do in a situation like that? What are you going to do? You know, we, we do several things. We asked them to check around their house, make sure it wasn't put somewhere they didn't notice and all that. But when, when push comes to shove, I'm just going to send them another case of that meat. Now you say, well, some people will rip you off.  And they're going to get free stuff from you. And that is true. That is going to happen some of the time. But the flip side is if I don't send it out to them and if I have a blanket policy where I'm never going to send out another item, if it shows shipped, well, then what about the person who it was put on the porch and somebody came up with stolen? What about those people? They weren't lying to me. They never got it. Should they bear the cost of that? I don't think so because I don't want to sell them one time. I want to sell them many times.  And that's not my goal. My goal is to have a lifetime customer that buys me for years. And we literally have people have been buying from us for over 10 years now. So, you know, don't think of it as a one-time sale. It's not a one-time sale. If that's your business model, you won't last long. You need to sell them more and more products on down the road. And the only way you're going to do that is really take care of them. Now, number four, I want to get back to this one. Support your retailers.  Really treat them right and don't compete with them. You don't want to advertise the products that they're trying to sell on your website for a lower price than what they can sell it for. I don't even put them on my website for the same price they can sell them for it. So, it's a little bit more money. And the reason I do that is because that way they can see I'm not trying to compete. If they send out an email to their list and people click one and go, survival pay, food, it looks good. I wonder if I can get it cheaper. And they come to my site and they buy it for me instead of them, then these people have no motivation to sell my product. Why would they want to? Why would they want to go through their time and effort to send out an email or to run an ad for people to buy the product when I sell it even cheaper than they do? It doesn't make sense. So, you'll lose your retailers by doing that. Number five, let your customers know about delays up front. Super important. I saw this a lot with drop shipping from Allie Express where people would say, well, you know, people get upset at two or three weeks because it takes that long to get there. Well, did you tell them up front? No, I don't want to tell them because then they wouldn't buy from me. Well, there's your problem, okay? So, you got to tell them up front. Right now, we're going through a coronavirus thing and our shipping times are three weeks. And I make sure I tell everybody, they're three weeks. It's going to take you three weeks to get it. And nobody seems upset. They're like, okay, I'm lucky to get it. I'm happy. But if you don't tell them, that's where you're going to run into the problems. That's where you're going to run into the issues. If people don't know what to expect, they get upset. You know, I went to a dentist the other day and they did a whole bunch of different procedures. And along the way, they were not telling me what they were going to do next. And I'm like, wait a second. What are you doing now? What are you doing now? I had to ask questions. It's kind of hard to do that stuff in your mouth. But the bottom line is, if you tell people what's going to happen, good or bad, at least they know it's that uncertainty that they don't like. So, make sure you tell them if you have any problems with the product. It gets delayed. You can't ship it. Something, anything that goes wrong, make sure you let them know. Number six, use consistent logos and branding. And what I mean by that is, if you're on Twitter and Facebook and you're running an ad and you get a website, your logos should look identical on all of those spots. Now, I'm going to put up on the screen what my website looked like in 2010. If you see it up there, okay, that's my website, 2010. And you can see there's the tree. It says survivalcave.com, because it was called survival cave then. That's survival cave food. At that time, if you look off to the left there, I was selling butter and MREs and sporting goods and other people's brands. And I don't sell those anymore. Now I have my own brand. It's called survival cave food. So, I had to change a little bit. Now, if you look now, this is a current view of my website now. And it looks a lot different than the other one. But now it's my products on there, whereas before, it was other people's products on there. So, that's a big difference in it too. So, over the years, that main change had to reflect who we were. So, just because you start with a particular brand doing a particular thing, does not mean that you can't change as the years go on. But what I'm saying to you is, whatever that change is, make sure it's consistent over all channels, okay? Your business card, your letterhead, which nobody has anymore. Your website, you know, any ads you run, they all look the same. They all look consistent. The more consistency you can get there, the more loyalty and trust you'll build. And when they do see your product, they're more likely to buy it. Number seven, and I have mentioned this, but get other retailers to sell your products. I think it's so very important to do that. If there's any way you can work that out, if any way you can do dropshipping, you're going to open up a whole lot more channels. That's going to build your brand faster than anything else. You know, I see ads every day for survival paid food, and they're not my ads. They're other people's ads. They're running ads for my product. I mean, that's some pretty good setup for advertising with other people running the ads for your products. So, if you can get other people out there to sell your products, the better off you're going to be. Now, how do you get them? You've got to contact them. You've got to call them. You've got to send them emails. You've got to have some social proof once you do that. And you get a few people selling your products. You can say, well, ABC site is selling my products.   Check it out. Here's my product. Once the other sites see all these other sites selling your products, they're going to go, oh, well, it must be a viable product. It must be something that sells good. Number eight is keep your expenses low. And I've made mistakes in the past doing that where I got my expenses too high and my warehouse was too expensive and too many employees and all that. So, you really want to keep those trimmed down. Even if it looks like your sales are really taken off and you're making a ton of money, keep your expenses low. I can't emphasize that enough. And constantly be looking at all your expenses and saying, do I need that software? Do I need that program? Do I need that membership? All these things will start to build up after a while and it becomes a pretty big nut to cover every single month. So, if you keep your expenses low when sales dip and they will dip, okay? When sales dip, you can cover that and you'll stay in business. I saw a lot of people go out of business in survival food because they had built up this business when sales were rocking and rolling. They had all these employees in these big buildings and then all of a sudden there were no sales whatsoever and they were hurting. Number nine, constantly come up with new products. Most products you're going to come up with will fail. They will, but a single product is not a business. If you look at Dollar Shave Club, they started with a razor, okay? And now they've got shave creams and they've got toiletries and they've got lotions and they've got all these different things they sell now on a subscription basis. So, they were smart enough to expand that product line. Another one that's like that is P90X. Now, P90X is really from a company called Beach Bodies, but they have all kinds of different courses now and now they've got continuity and they've got membership courses and they've got personal trainers that they'll sell you and all kinds of different stuff. They didn't just say, this is one course to lose some weight. And oh my goodness, walk into any Starbucks and you say, well, what does Starbucks do? And people say they sell coffee. Look in the store. Look in the store there. There's hundreds of different products in there. There's sandwiches and there's protein bars and there's juices and there's, you know, just everything you imagine of in there are croissants and, you know, it's not just coffee and they're smart to that. They know that with coffee, all these other things are related and they have those things in the store and that's what makes them profitable. If they didn't have all these other things, probably wouldn't be profitable. And number 10, super, super important, continued learning and, you know, going to meetings and checking to see what new softwares are out there. You've got to constantly do this, guys. You can't depend on what you started with. All of the softwares and processes are to say almost all of them that we did in the beginning, we do different now. Okay. Over those years, we've morphed and we've changed. We've added softwares and then got rid of softwares and added processes and got rid of processes and we grew and we changed. Our packaging is different. Everything's different now than it was in the beginning. You can't remain the same because the rest of the world is constantly trying to improve. And if you're not constantly trying to improve, then you'll get left behind. So I hope you enjoyed this video. That's how we built our brand. All these things can really help you out. I do have that $97 e-commerce course. It's below in the description. Click that link. You can watch that. You can get it for free. And what else do I got for you? Oh yeah, you got to subscribe. You got to subscribe. You got to hit that subscribe button down there. Hit the bell. Turn on all notifications. Oh my God, that's so important. You'll join the future family and you'll become a VIP. And then every time I do a video, I can notify you. I can tell you. I can say, Hey Bob, Hey Jenny, Hey Tom, I just did a new video. Go watch it. All you have to do is put this link. Now, if you've got comments on this, I want you to put them below. Have you tried to build a brand? If you had trouble with it? Do you have questions about it? Put it in the comments below. Have you found things that work? Share that with other people. Put that in the comments below. I really appreciate you watching this guys. Give me a thumbs up and I'll see you in the next video.


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