Welcome back after break. Just before we went for a break with chapter where we're looking at chapter two and talking about family. An important thing we need to remember as ministers of God is don't think that your family members are to be preached at all times. We're so used to preaching sermons that we can start preaching sermons to our wife, to our children. Anytime they do anything wrong and we give them scripture and code scripture and Bible verse and chapter and verse. We shouldn't be doing that. So when you have issues at home, problems at home, you're discussing some things, you need to listen to them, you need to reason, share, discuss, talk things more practically. Also when you come home from ministry, what happens? We're constantly talking about who did what, who came and met you, what problem they're going through. What happened, so sad, this person is hospital, that person happened like this, this person is going to go to a divorce, this child ran away, all of those issues you're talking at home. And so the spouse and the children get upset because when you come back home, you're not willing to listen to their problems, their issues. So important to leave aside ministry where it is. When you come back home, you're a father, you're a husband, talk things related to your spouse and to their children, your children, what happened during their day, what is their problems, what are the issues they're facing, how you can help them out. Also talk personal and family issues before ministry, same thing, taking back all of your who you met, what happened, who did what, who said what and all of those things, leave it behind at church, at your church office, when you go back home, you know, spend time, talk with what concerns your spouse and your children, what is their interest, what did they go through and realize that when you go back home, you are not a pastor to them.  So don't talk about ministry. Okay, and it's good not to discuss about other people's life at home. Just concentrate on what is happening at home and how you can best relate and help them at home. Okay, spend time with your children. We've already spoken about this, you know, as ministry goes sometimes, you know, we kind of compromise on spending time with our children, but it's important that we spend time with them. Do what they like to do, you know, and also important to do what is important for them. Don't say, okay, let's go out here. They might not be interested.  They wanted to play with them. You know, I know my uncle was a pastor, but he was, you know, when he was with his children, he would just be with them. You know, he would play hide and seek with them, running and catching. He would, you know, discuss things with them, have quiz from the newspaper, tell them to read the newspaper, have quiz and do various fun activities with them.  You know, he would not bring his pastor's response with his home and son, he would be a different person at home and he would not even look at him as a pastor, he would just joke and, you know, do funny things. We just had such a good time with him and his children really enjoyed their father, even though he was a pastor. Okay, so important to do what they like, what is important to them. And when we do that, basically, you know, you are, you're showing that you're interested in what interests them. And then you gain the right to speak into their lives and write upon their hearts. So when you speak to them, you know, about their behavioral issues or things that they're going wrong, things they're doing wrong, they will listen to you. They will talk back to you because they will talk back in the sense they will tell you what they are thinking, what they're feeling because they know that you are genuinely interested in that. You know, something to keep in mind is when you go through life, when you look at things, whether it's news on the TV or you read something, the newspaper or your children come back home and tell you this is what happened in school. This is what they heard, this is what is happening around the world. Is it true? It's good at those times to, you know, kind of slowly teach them from God's word. Rather than saying, don't do that, because God's word says that it will just totally, you know, irritate them, but it's good to use situations in life. So if your child comes back home and says, you know, the teacher was very angry and she punished the whole class, but it was not my mistake. It was just one girl's mistake in the class and all of us got punished. So you can say that's sad to hear, but as a parent, you can also talk about something from God's word. So the same way, you know, Adam and Eve sin, but all of us are facing the consequences of that sin. So you see, you know, with just a small note that we're bringing in and trying to teach children from God's word and they relate better. You know, when I go to school and teach children, they say that they learn better, not through the concepts that you teach them. But when I give them real life examples or I give them examples from my own life, they say that is what registers in their mind. That is what they learn more from. So even situation things that happens in people's life are good times to teach Godly values, inculcate Godly values in the lives of our children. Look at what Deuteronomy chapter 6 verses 6 and 7 says. Can somebody read that please? Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 6 and 7 verse 6. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. And verse 7, you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them.  So your God is saying, teach children what, when should you teach children? Every time, at all moments, at all situations and all times. Just use situations to teach them, you know, truths from God's word. There are also times when we can just speak prophetically over your children's life. You know, God is leading you sometimes to speak prophetically into their lives to make declarations, decrees to speak that over their lives.  The pastor has also mentioned that he loves to put these two children to bed, you know, just pray for them when they are just before they go to bed. Give them a hug and a kiss and say good night to them. Also those times he says those are real good times when he can connect heart to heart with them.  He can help them even as they just go or fall off to sleep. Okay. Another important thing as ministers of God is not, it's not a sin. It's important that we schedule family vacations, have family time with your family, take them out for an outing.  Children will remember it for the rest of their lives to be lasting memories. Okay. So it's good to take time off, even from your ministry, just spend time with your family. And just like Jesus did, you know, we read in Mark chapter six was 30 and 32.  Because many were coming and going and they did not even have time to eat. So they took the boat and they went off to a very quiet place to spend time. So even Jesus needed that quiet time. So it's good to take quiet time. Okay. Maintain your family altar. What is family altar? Family prayer time, basically. Okay. So it's good to come together as a family to don't do it as a routine for the sake of doing it. But, you know, let it be more exciting, creative. Sometimes, you know, just worship God as a family. Sometimes just pray, sometimes pray in tongues. You know, Pastor also says that during his family time with prayer time with his children, he has taken them through the book Fulfilling God's Purpose for Your Life and also who we are in Christ, just talking about who their identity is. So it's not like giving them a lecture and teaching them, but actually discussing with them. And it's a good time to teach and inculcate these godly values. Okay. The next one is put family time before ministry time. We've already spoken about it. Guard your family while ministering to people. Now, sometimes when we are ministers of God and we are ministering, you know, people expect that, you know, we as ministers should be superly anointed people, holier than our attitude. And also our spouse and our children should be the same.  They have to come into a mold or wear a mask just because people want them to be a certain type. And that really frustrates them. And they come to a place where they get very frustrated and rebellious and they can rebel.  That does not mean that they should be wild and just do what they want to do. But they live according to Godly standards.   You should not be doing this. You should not be going there. You should not be playing. You should not be saying this. Okay. So don't get them to conform to a certain pattern and a mold. Okay. Also, it's important that, you know, we don't open up our homes to people to come, you know, like an ministry office. And I've seen that in many ministers of God who have opened their homes up to, you know, people that they're ministering to. You know, whether they're ministering to youth or drug addicts, alcoholics. They've opened up their homes to people to come in and out and be there. And the children are led astray and it's very sad. I've seen two families do this. So it's important that keep church separate and home separate. Okay.   It does not become your church office. It becomes does not become a home where, you know, it's like not an office where people are open to come 24 seven and just be there and live there and do things. That is going to cause a lot of chaos. So you need to protect your home and your family. Okay. The next thing we need to remember is don't step out and don't step in. Okay. Don't step out means marriage is between the covenant between God and husband and wife. Okay. Don't let any other person enter your marriage. Okay. So don't allow any other man or woman enter into your marriage is saying that, Hey, they're my good friend. I'm just counseling them. I'm helping them. You know, sometimes it happens like that. You know, a man of God is counseling a young woman and she keeps coming home.  Okay. So don't allow anyone to step in. It's best that as men we counsel you counsel men as women we counsel women. We don't step out of our boundaries there as well. Just one initial meeting is okay, but if they need other follow up meetings, always put them over to somebody else. Okay. Very important to do that. Also don't step into somebody else's marriage.  You are trying to help them find me what happens when you are counseling as a man you fall in love with the woman who's already married who comes to the marital problem.  You know, you tend to have a relationship with them. So very dangerous.  Don't step in and don't step out. Don't step out of your own marriage. Don't step into somebody else's marriage. Okay. And if you need help, you need to get help soon. Sometimes we think that we are in ministry, you know, it does not mean that we don't need help. We need help because we're human beings. We are frail. We are weak. We go through challenges. We go through problems and difficulties. So it's important for us to get help. And also it's important for us to know that as ministers of God, we are not anointed and gifted in all areas. So we need people with different anointings to help us, whether it's people who strengthen marriages, people who are gifted and anointed in marriages, homes, families, handling finances, administration, organization, you know, or addictive behaviors. We need their help and support. So it's good to, you know, learn to receive from other people. And also when you go through problems and difficulties, don't say, you know, don't put the blame on Satan. Don't say that devil is doing it. Devil is trying to destroy my home. I'm under spiritual attack. No, we know from the word of God. When are we led away into temptation? How are we tempted away? When are we tempted by our own evil desires? It's our own desires that lead us away. It's not just Satan. It's our own desires that lead us away. And when we are led away, you know, and given to our own sinful or carnal desires, it leads into sin and to temptation. Okay, so it's important that, you know, even though we are called and anointed by God, we have our own weaknesses, limitations, problems that we go to. So it's important that we take help.  You know, don't let pride stop you as a minister of God. How can I take help? Don't let fear stop you. But if you are stopped by a pride and your fear, then the problem is going to escalate. It's going to become bigger and bigger and it's going to blow out. And you know what happens when there's a bomb explosion, right? You know what happens when there's a volcano, volcano. It's slowly, you know, burning on the inside and one day when the pressure is so high, intense, it bursts open and it caused such a lot of devastation and such a lot of problems.   The sooner you will get help, the better, okay? And the last thing is your ministry is not a family business, okay? Now, it's God's plan and purpose that, you know, his faith and revelation move on from one generation to another generation. For God, it's important that one generation passes on their faith and revelation to the next generation and the next generation builds on that as the foundation, okay? If it's not passed on, then they will go back to many generations past. So you keep passing it on, they build on the, you know, where you have built on and they continue building on from there. So it's always wonderful to see, you know, entire families and generations of people in a specific family just doing the work of God over many generations. So some of you say, you know, my father is a pastor, my grandfather was a pastor, my great-grandfather was a pastor. And I'm also calling the Pashtun ministry. That's a great thing because God has called you, okay? So, you know, and many of you in your families are gifted and anointed in various ways. You're looking and you're using your gifting and anointing to build up the body of Christ. However, there can be a wrong side to this, you know? Now, suppose your father is the pastor of a church and he started the son, all your mother, your siblings, your father's brothers, your cousins, everyone are part of the church and all of them are handling different church aspects of the church or areas of the church, even though they are not gifted in that specific area. So it becomes like a family business. The church becomes like a family business where everybody is running it and they're not gifted in that specific area and that is not a right thing to do. It can also be disastrous. And we see this in the life of the Old Testament. Whose lives do we see?  And also the sons of Samuel, right? They were not called to priesthood, but they had made such a mess of the priestly duties, the sacrifices they were making. Everything was so detestable and unholy in God's sight. So it's important that if people have a gifting and calling in that specific area, it's good to use them. It does not mean that your ministry becomes a family business. So these are some things that we can keep in mind even as ministers of God, as people who are in ministry, how we can conduct our family life or how we can engage in our family lives to honour God. Any questions? Ma'am, should we always use Bible verse to our family member when they do mistakes? Okay, should we always use Bible references to our family members when they make mistakes? What do the others think?  It's a simple practical thing.  How would you feel? Take the mic and speak please. If I am doing a mistake on something, the situation is something else. And on that time, if somebody is counselling me and is putting Bible verses again and again, I got irritated, I don't want it. I need a solution of my problem. You are putting Bible references again and again. What is that? Like this situation will come. So it is like according to situation, we have to do things. Yes, according to situation, you need to discern and tell them. Maybe sometimes people mostly look for practical things. If you give them chapter and verse, they get irritated and sometimes they won't even want to do anything with the Bible. So, good to be practical. But maybe they know that you are getting irritated with them giving Bible verses. When they come back and tell you, hey, it worked. You can tell them, you know where I got the solution from? They say, where did you get the solution from? Then you can say, you know, you can give them chapter and verse. And then you can tell them, hey, you know something, any and every problem, the solution is in the Bible. You're just telling them that. So next time they go looking for solutions in the Bible. So you need to do it in a very creative way. Yes. Yeah. Anyone else? Any questions? Online students, any questions? Very quiet, all of you are? I'm supposed a pastor is going for his preaching. He has called for preaching in some meeting and during the meeting, he's preaching. He got a news that his son is serious. So at that time, what will be his response? Okay. A man of God is preaching. Son is very serious. What would you do, Nelson? Son is very serious. What would you do? Come on, what would you do? Continue the preaching. Can you please take the mic? I heard one time with the testimony that there was one pastor in the morning, he got hurt. His son was died and that day was Sunday and he has to go that taking care of church and he has to go preach, preach them people. Then after this, he said to her wife, because naturally they were sad, but he said to her wife, we will go for preaching. And after this, after ending of church, he said to all people's church, then my son is died. And after they prayed and after then he came back home and their son was alive. Oh, the son became alive. Okay, that's a wonderful testimony. What would you all do? You preach. What is the priority? God first, family second, ministry, right? So in your context, Nelson, I would, what would the online students do? Online students, you're preaching somewhere, your son is very, very serious. What would you do? You continue preaching? I think I would just ask somebody else to share whatever or just, you know, one sermon is not going to do anything. Yeah, one sermon is not going to do anything, but me being with my son or my daughter is important for the family. Otherwise they are going to think, you know, it's not there when my son was, wife will get upset. It's something that they carry lifelong. You know, the children will carry it lifelong. So I think it's important to be there with your family. One sermon is not going to change the entire world and it's not going to bring salvation to the entire world. God can even work. You can ask somebody to preach and help and minister, attend the family responsibility. Yes. Daniel says, Lucy says attend family. I will reduce the sermon and complete it as soon as possible to be with my son. I think I will just leave immediately. But in your context, I had a issue like this one Sunday. I was supposed to go and preach at APC South. And early in the morning, I did around four or five. My father and my sister were to catch the shatabdi to Chennai. They had an accident. Then I got a call and they were badly hurt. So, you know, I had to rush. I went there in the hospital. So I went and then I had to take care of my dad. He had some stitches and all of that. My sister had to catch the train. So I had to go to the station. I had to drop her. I had to come back and bring dad home. And I immediately messaged faster and, you know, some elders at APC South.  I said, I'll try coming because the service starts at eight o'clock. And it was, so I just, you know, I could do everything. I dropped my father home. He had the stitches. My sister was off to Chennai. Even though she had the bruises, she had gone. I put on the train. I sent her and I came, I brought dad home and he was fine. So all his, everything was normal. Everything was normal. So then I just left and I went and I preached and came back. So that is okay. But then if you're preaching, you have to preach. And then as an Emma, you get a call and as an emergency in the family, I would just rush. His family is more important than there will be somebody who can always fill in for you. Sanjay says only a surgeon, soldiers required to complete his or task before taking on another task. Priority is important. Okay. Only surgeon and soldier, not a minister of God. Okay. Any other questions? Good question. Life and death situation. Okay. Yeah, this was a life and death situation. Nelson was saying, your son is very serious. So would you preach or you would go to take care of your son to do what it requires? See, it's a life and death situation. You said is very serious, right? Okay. Any questions? No online students, you have any questions? Yeah, I think in situations, it varies, right? It's situations you need to discern and see and what God is leading you and take. God has given us a mind to think and to guide us and lead us. Okay. We'll move on to the third chapter, people. Okay. Now Christian ministry is all about ministering to people touching lives. Okay. Touching lives with God's power, his love. Okay. Rescuing them from Satan, bringing them out of darkness into his marvelous light, training them up in righteousness, holiness in Christ likeness and helping them to identify, know what is they're calling their plan and their purpose and to fulfill their God given destiny that God has for them. It's also ministering to people so that they encounter Jesus Christ and they are transformed into his image. But the biggest challenge in Christian ministry is who or what is the biggest challenge in Christian ministry? Who or what is the biggest challenge in Christian ministry? Yes, it's being with people and working with people. And that's why Paul rightly says, our fight is not against flesh and blood. It's against principalities and powers, you know, forces in the heaven. We need them. So it is actually Satan working through people, but sometimes or most of the time we are fighting people. Okay. So biggest challenge in Christian ministry is dealing and working with people, understanding people, how to treat them well, how to lead them, manage them, guide them, correct them, equip them, empower them and release them to their destiny or their calling that God has for them. Okay.  But we need to learn that ministry is all about building people. Look at what Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 9 and 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 2 and 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verses 19 and 20. So can somebody read those three scripture passages, please? 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 9, you are God's building. 2 Corinthians 3, you are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by old men, 1 Thessalonians 2, 19 and 20. For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? For you are our glory and joy. Amen. So here, what is Paul saying? He's saying that people are God's field and God's building. And so he's saying, he's telling the church at Corinth that, you know, both Apollos and Paul, even as they're ministering, they're basically building God's building, which is people, and they're ministering in God's field, which is also people. So Christian ministry is basically serving and building people. It's Christian ministry is not about building our own empires, our name, our fame, you know, building a huge church, but it's basically building people. So we are here to serve people, we are here to help people, and we're here to help them, you know, lift them up, help them to grow into more Christ likeness and Christian maturity. And Paul says in second Corinthians chapter three was two, that people must be written on our hearts. That means what? What does he mean by saying that people should be written on our hearts? Who do you have in your heart? God, who do you have in your heart? People you love very much, right? People are very close to you, are very close to your heart. You hold them dear to your heart. So when you write people on your hearts, you know, it means that you are there to serve them and not use them. Okay? It's there to build them up, mold them up in the ways of the Lord. They're there to lift them up. And then he says in 1 Thessalonians chapter two, verses 19 and 20, that you know, what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? So he says that when we meet God, it will not be how much messages we've preached, how many churches we built, how many places we've gone and preached, how many sermons we preach, how many books we've written. No, it is what is our joy and rejoicing? It is how many people we have served and we have led and brought them into the saving image and the glory of God. How many people we have led to the Lord? That is what is going to give us our joy and our rejoicing and our crown when we stand before God. Okay? John Blessing has a question. According to Luke 14, 26, why did Jesus say that he was a great father and mother and children? And he says that those who do not hate, he cannot be my disciple. What does it mean? It basically means that when our love for God or our calling for God or what God has called us and purposed us to do, if our family supersedes that, our love for our family supersedes that, and we're not fulfilling our call and purpose for our life, it means that. So that means it says when God calls us, when he calls us to do a specific assignment, fulfill a specific call in our life, even our family should not kind of stop us from fulfilling that call and that purpose. And it does not mean that when we are fulfilling God's call and purpose, we neglect that family. So that is not the posture. We made in all three postures, right? Our calling supersedes our love for our family, but at the same time, we need to take care and love our family and we need to nurture them and provide for them. Okay, does that help John Blessing? Okay, so when we're ministering to people, we need to understand that growth happens in different stages and we need to be very, very patient. Okay, so when we're ministering to people, we need to realize that the level of maturity they are in.  You teach them about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Now, they're not in a mental state to come or maturity to come to the level where they can receive it. So what do you do? You start off from the basics. Maybe you can start off with the foundations or you can start off with fulfilling God's life or you can start off with who they are in Christ. So build them up knowing where they are. So all of our sermons that we preach, even as we are ministering, this is in the context of a pastoral context, we don't just preach sermons just to fill up the time, but rather we preach and also we don't preach sermons what people like. Some people say, pastor, please preach about prosperity, preach how we can be blessed, preach how we can handle our family, children. Now, all year we can't keep preaching the same sermons. So if you look at APC, throughout the year pastor has different sermon topics, missions, evangelism, family, marriage, who we are in Christ, books from the Bible that we study. So it's different in different areas of our spiritual growth, different topics that are taken and he chose this according to where we are as a church. So sermons that we preach should not be just to fill up time. Each sermon that we preach should be moving, helping people move towards spiritual maturity, towards higher level, and to move them towards a destiny towards God. And also we need to be clear where our congregation is spiritually and what God wants us to preach and teach them. So even if you're called somewhere to preach and teach, don't say, okay, I'm going to preach this because I think this is a good sermon, but you need to ask God, God, where is this people I'm going, this youth or this children or this people I'm going to preach? Where are they spiritually? What do you want me to preach or share with them?  The next one with regard to people is that we need to honour everyone. Okay, look at what Romans chapter 12 verse 10 says. Can somebody read that please? Romans 12, okay. We kindly affectionate to honour another with broadly love in honour. Give preference to another, honour another. Yes, so it says, you know, be kind, affectionate, honour, giving preference to one another. Okay, so we need to honour people and not discriminate based on social status, economic status, you know, the different denominations that they come from. We need to treat people, everyone, whether they are rich or poor, everyone, we treat them the same and we serve them the same because each one of them are precious in God's sight and each one of them are purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ. That's what we read in the beginning, right? We are purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ, so we need to honour each one and we need to treat them everyone same because all of us are part of the family of God. Okay, does God show partiality? Does God show partiality? No? Are you sure? Some of you are doubting? Okay, God is not partial. I think it's Romans chapter one verse 16 that says or I think it's Romans chapter one verse 11 or says in Romans, sorry, Romans chapter two verse 11 says for there is no partiality with God. Okay, Romans two, 11. God is not partial. Okay, so we shouldn't also show partiality but we need to honour everyone and genuinely care for people. Not just show people that we care for them so that they will come to our church and they will give us some good gifts and bless us with some good things but genuinely care for people. Okay, how do we honour elders, leaders and fathers? Look at what 1 Timothy chapter five verse seven says. Can somebody read that please? 1 Timothy chapter five verse seven. Let the elders who rule will be counted with the of doubt, honour, especially those who labor in the vault on me. And doctors. So those who are elders or leaders or fathers in the house, we need to give them what? Just honour, double honour, especially those who are teaching the word and doctor. Okay, so we need to give them double honour. Okay, that means we need to give them great respect. Sometimes as younger people, you know, we have more tech savvy, we know a lot about technology and we can look down and we're more quick and efficient and we can look down on older ministers because they don't know many other things that we know. Okay, but it says here we need to irrespective of whether they know or not, we need to respect them and give them honour. Respect and honour, why? Because for the things that they have already accomplished in the kingdom of God. Okay, they have built on something, we are building on that. Okay, the next generation comes, have to show you greater honour and respect because they you have built and they are going to continue from there. Okay, also we read, we shouldn't show partiality, we've already talked about it. Okay, Paul is writing to young Timothy, in 1st Timothy chapter 5 verse 21, very important, let's read that. Can somebody read it please, 1st Timothy 5, 21. 1st Timothy chapter 5 verse 21. They charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice. Prejudice, without prejudice. Without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality. Yes, so here is Paul is telling Timothy how to lead and serve God's people. Okay, and it's very interesting when he's telling Timothy, he's giving him this charge, he's telling him that, you know, the Lord Jesus Christ himself and the elect angels are witnesses to how we relate to people.  Okay, so this is an important instruction which we must not avoid and we cannot violate how we relate to people. Sometimes how we talk to people, you know, whether it's people working under us or the maids who come to our house, you know, or the person over the counter in the shop or the salesman, the saleswoman or the orthodox person, the cab driver, how we talk to them. Sometimes in a very demeaning way, but when we do that or how we speak to our spouse or how we speak to our family people, you know, our children sometimes, you know, is saying that God is actually watching over us. He's listening to Jesus Christ and the elect angels are actually our witnesses for how we treat people. Okay, so also when we are, you know, treating people, we need to be mindful that we don't treat, you know, based on their social and economic status. Also when we correct and discipline people, we also do the same thing, whether they are very influential, whether they're very rich, you know, we don't treat them or discipline them in a nice way and those who are poor, they're rude and in a harsh way. But even when we're disciplining people, we discipline everyone the same way.  So we are no one to, you know, differentiate with people. Last thing we will look at before we close today is say thank you, which is very difficult for many of us. You know, we need to be people who are thankful, thank God himself, thank God for the people that he's placed in our lives. When we thank people who God has sent in our lives, we're actually realizing who we are and what we are. We're trying to say, hey, we cannot do everything on our own, with our own strength. It's because of God's grace and your assistance and those working alongside us that we can do what we are able to do as ministers of God. Sometimes as ministers of God, we take people for granted, right? We say, hey, they're coming to our church. I'm feeding them spiritual food and it's their right to do this for me or do that for me or help in there in the church. So we feel almost as if it's a right for people to help support and encourage us, but it's not our right. It's God who sent them for us to build them up, to be shepherds over the sheep and not lord over them and not exercise our right. It's not their right that they have to treat us well and support and help us, but we need to care for them. And when they do something, it's okay as ministers of God, as people in higher levels of position to say, thank you. I always learned this from my mother. When the maid, when she does the housework and she leaves, my mother will always tell her thank you. My mother is much older to her. My mother's paying her, she doesn't have to say thank you, but she always tells every day, says thank you. See, and I just learned it from her. So even when the maid, when my mom's not there, the maid tells me, I'm going, I say thank you. So we learn, you know, and it's important to thank them. It's important to thank people who bring your food or the auto driver who brings you in the auto-diction of the cab or the driver, you have a driver at home or the gatekeeper who opens the gate for you. Now that's small things. The shopkeeper who gives you something when you ask, say thank you. The waiter who takes your plates, you know, after you eat, say thank you. Okay. It just shows how grateful you are to God for little things that God has blessed you with. Okay. We'll stop here. Any questions anyone else, anyone has? Any questions? We'll continue this in the next class. When will we have the discussion about the assignment? Two, please. What discussion do you want, Nisha? The discussion is, the questions are going to be the same way like we've had for the first assessment, but it's based on the book, Receiving God's Guidance. Yeah. I'm going to release the assessment today, say around by 6.30 or 7. And you can submit it on Sunday by, you know, just before midnight. You can submit it by 11.59. Okay. If you have any emergencies, anything you can let me know. But just remember, check box questions are all more than one answers and multiple choice is just one answer. And there can be some true and false, but everything is from the book, Receiving God's Guidance for Your Life. Yeah. You can read that and you can just, yes. You have a question? Okay. We'll end class here. Thank you all for joining class. Have a blessed weekend and I'll see you next Friday. Thank you, everyone.


Hello and welcome to this session in which we will discuss data stewardship and the RACI model. Data stewardship is a sub-topic of a larger topic that's called data governance. Now what is data governance? Data governance refer to the overall framework, policies and processes that are used by a company to ensure that the data that we have, the data that we have, is managed, protected effectively across an organization. Well this would include defining roles and responsibilities, setting data quality standards and ensuring that data security and privacy. Now data stewardship specifically is responsible management of data asset to ensure that they're available, that it is available, it has integrity, it's secure, private and in compliance with various regulatory bodies. Now this involves processes and policies and best practices and how we collect the data, store the data, use the data, share the data and archive the data with the goal of maximizing its value because someone is responsible for the data. We need to have a stewardship. What's a stewardship? Basically you are assigning a group of people, one person to teams, various teams to be in charge of this data and we're going to have three roles for the data stewardship. We're going to have what's called the data owner, a data steward and a data custodian and our job is to discuss the role of each one of these stewardship role and connect this to the RAC model. Starting with the role of each group which is starting with data owner. The data owner is a high level position that has strategic oversight over data decisions. So think about here senior managers, they are responsible for the overall value, risk, quality and utility of the data. So this is basically think of the people at the top, for example senior executives who's responsible for the overall value, risk and quality of the data and how it should be used to support business decision. The second role is data steward. Data steward is basically a mid-level management position in terms of data stewardship. It's a tactical role that makes sure that the data assets are used and comply with various regulation. What regulation are we looking at here? For example, we are in compliance with the GDPR which is the General Data Protection Regulation or HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. They facilitate agreement about the data definitions. For example, each piece of the data has to have a definition. Well, they're going to create those definitions, the quality of the data, make sure it's quality and it's used and this role can be performed by individual or a team. So a team of experts who work closely with data owners because remember the owners are on the top, they work with the data owners and business unit to ensure that the data is used properly and in compliance with various regulation such as the GDPR and HIPAA. Now you need to know a little bit more about the GDPR and HIPAA if you are studying for the CPA exam. They also help to establish data definition. As we said, they establish, they facilitate the agreement about the data definition. What does this data means? Because we're going to talk about data definitions later on, the quality standard and data governance policies within the data stewardship. Now we have the data custodian. Think of the data custodian or on the bottom. Here's we have an IT operational role that guarantee data related control are in place and working properly. The implement data capabilities and manage the IT architecture. Now if you don't know what the IT architecture is, we're going to look at that later and can be performed by individual or a group. Those are the data custodian. So the data custodian is the IT department that's responsible that the data is stored securely and that appropriate technical controls are in place to protect the data from unauthorized access or tampering. They also manage the technical infrastructure systems for storing, processing, and analyzing the data. Now those are the three roles of data stewardship. Now we need to look at something else called the RACI model. Now we're going to take the RACI model and illustrate it in terms of data stewardship. What is the RACI model? It's basically a matrix that's used to define roles and responsibilities in a project or a process. And why is it called the RACI model? Well, R, it's an acronym responsible. So R responsible basically the R, the responsible is who does the work? Who's doing the actual work on the ground? A, R, A, A is accountable. Who's ultimately accountable for the work? This is where the box stops. Usually it's the owner or the manager, the people on the top. C is consulted. Who's consulted before the work is done? You might have a team of consultant or one person that you're going to consult about. And I, who's informed? Who's informed after the work is done? So we need to know who's who? Who's responsible? Who's doing the work? Who's accountable for the work? Because the person that's doing the work is not accountable for it. You have someone else accountable for it. Who's consulted and who's informed? So the RACI matrix provides a clear and concise way to map out tasks and responsibilities within a project or a process. So just who's doing what? Ensuring that everyone involved knows the role and what's expected of them. Think about if you work for a company, you kind of basically you're either at, in any particular task or project, you could be the R, the person that's doing the work. You could be the A, the person that's going to be held accountable for that work. Or you could be the C. C, it's mean you are being consulted before the work is done to get your opinion. Or you could be the I, you are being informed about the results by using this model organization can ensure clear lines of communication and accountability and reducing the risk of misunderstanding and improving the overall efficiency and effective of the process. We just basically organize the roles in a way that everyone knows what the responsibility and the context of data stewardship. The RACI matrix helps to ensure clear roles and responsibilities. Now the best way is to look at an actual example. For example, if we are implementing data security controls, we could have a RACI model that looks like this. The data custodians are responsible or for implementing the controls. The data owners, the people on the top are accountable, right? Usually those are the people who are accountable for ensuring the security of the data. The data steward are the one consulted to ensure that the controls align with the data governance and policies. And we're going to add one more group here, the information security team. This is basically for the overall company as a group informed of the implementation of the control because they are responsible for the overall security of the system. By using the RACI model, we ensure that the right people are involved in each task. And we're going to show you on the next slide basically a matrix. And there's a clear accountability for the results. First is to take a look at a matrix itself. So here let's talk about the data custodian. We said the data custodians are responsible for implementing controls. So on the top we have the roles and on the sides we have the tasks. So what we said is the data custodian, which is this group here, is the responsible. Responsible means the group that's doing the work. We said the data owners are accountable for the party, accountable party for ensuring the security of the data. Well, we have here the data owners that's the role and they are the party accountable, means they have the greatest responsibility. You have to have an A for every project or a process. You have to have a person that's accountable for that, for that process or that project. The data steward, we said here, the data steward are the one consulted. So we are going to talk to them, just ask them their opinion. And the information system team, which is this part here, is a group is informed, we informed them about the possibilities. Now, as I said, you should always have an A, you should always have someone responsible, and I'm sorry, someone accountable, and you should have at least one group is responsible doing the work. Now, you don't want to have too many C's, so you don't want to have C's everywhere. Why not? If everybody is a C, then you're just going to go back and forth and have so many discussion back and forth. Informed, there should be a group. There's always a group that you're going to inform. Now, let's take a look at a multiple choice questions to see if we understand the difference between data stewardship and data governance. And this is basically farhatlectures.com, provide MCQs to help you understand the concepts better. So let's take a look at the first example. Data stewardship is a day-to-day management of data asset, while data governance provide the overall framework for data management. Well, that looks like a good answer. Data stewardship are responsible for data day operation, and the data governance is for the overall framework. This is a good answer. But let's see, let's look at B. Data stewardship focuses on the security and privacy of data. Yes, they do, while data governance focuses on the quality of the data. I mean, they both do that, but that's not the overall definition. I would say A is better than B. I mean, nothing wrong would be data steward, they're responsible for security and privacy. But in overall definitions, they're responsible for the day-to-day management of the asset. And data governance doesn't focus only on data quality. It focuses on other things other than data quality. Data stewardship is the same as data governance. Now we know that they are distinct. Data stewardship is the responsibility of the data custodian, while data governance is the responsibility of the data owners. Now the data governance is the overall, that's a big responsibility. The data owners are responsible for the data. They have the responsibility, they have accountability because they're senior executives, but data governance is not the responsibility of data owners. Data governance is the umbrella, and within the data governance, so data governance is a great umbrella. And we talked about the data governance, and within that data governance, we have an area called data stewardship. Okay, so we need to understand the big picture. So the answer is A.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with our last pack to fill that NT football Thanks everybody for getting into break number 70 Thanks to these folks here specifically. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you All teams are in and let's roll it. Let's randomize names and teams Nine times and the giveaway as always will be a different dice roll five and a four nine times names and teams one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time and ninth and final time and let's do this pack break really quick Obviously no no trade windows in these filler breaks. Here's the first half right there Here's the second half right here Let's print this out See what's inside that pack. I marked that random team 70 and this is going to be in a separate video That's the NT break that Derek Brown Rookie mosaic Eli Manning red AJ Dylan cousins acres and we got an NFL debut Jalen Hertz and that's gonna go to It's gonna go to Daniel Lyman With the fly Eagles fly and the Derek Brown will of course go to Jose and the Titans All right, there you go now. Let's see who's gonna win at those spots So let's get everyone's names from Daniel down to Michael There's some new dice. There's the new list and we're gonna and it's gonna be the top eight Top eight after five. We'll get into that NT break one two three four and five after five times After five times it's gonna be the top eight so from nine on down Thanks for giving this a shot appreciate it But sad times ultimately I appreciate trying them happy times For the top eight Michael Josh Josh Matthew Daniel Michael Josh and Josh Congrats. We'll see you for that NT break coming up in a separate video. Jasper's case breaks calm


Trump's advisors discuss possibility of bringing Zelensky and Putin to negotiation table. Advisors to former U.S. President Donald Trump have discussed the possibility of bringing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian president Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table at the beginning of Trump's possible second term. Bloomberg reported this citing sources. One of Trump's advisors said that a promise to end U.S. military aid could help Ukraine come to the negotiating table, while the threat of more U.S. aid could encourage Russia to do so. Trump's advisors including Larry Kudlow and Robert O'Brien have also publicly pushed for tougher sanctions against Russia's central bank to influence Putin. No one is currently negotiating with Russian or Ukrainian representatives, in part because it would likely violate the Logan Act, a U.S. law that prohibits private individuals from negotiating on behalf of the government. But Vladimir Putin has said that Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, is the best choice for the U.S. presidency for Moscow. Putin was asked, who is better for Russians, Biden or Trump? Biden, he is a more experienced person. He is predictable and he is a politician of the old formation. But we will work with any U.S. leader who is trusted by the American people, Putin said. Putin added that, in his opinion, the current position of the U.S. administration is extremely harmful and wrong. And I told President Biden about this at the time. Putin concluded.


What's up guys? Let's talk about it. Are you looking for angels or angles? All right, the difference between looking for angles and angels is basically people that look for Angels are people that are looking for miracles. They're looking for a lucky break They're looking for something to miraculously happen that's gonna change their lives People that look for angles look for different ways to attack their problems in life They look for ways to Change their situation They're looking and thinking ahead of time That's looking at the angles now People that look for angels of the walking dead every day they go to work and they might hate their job and What do they do instead of looking for how they can change that situation instead of looking for how perhaps they might need to Get more educated to change their career Perhaps they need to confront the decayed boss and explain the situation to him in an adult manner Or perhaps they knew quit the job altogether and get a different job people don't do that they Pull up with it. They take a passive role. They go to the workplace every day and play lotto They hope to win the big jackpot. They hope for the angel to come and save their day Even though the numbers are against them even though we know that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again Expecting a different result. These people do the same thing.  That's the right man or the right woman they are always hoping that It's by chance that they meet this person and where do they meet their Spouses they meet them at the bar or in the wrong place. They will meet them where they Would expect to get high quality spouses if you are someone who doesn't want someone that cheats around on you Is it wise to really be looking for your wife at the nightclub or Las Vegas in the casino area? I don't think so perhaps you need to Look at better social circles. You need to find better places to meet women instead of just Degenerate areas you see us as people as a race as a species We always go for the path of least resistance It's just the nature of the universe. Everything goes for the path of least resistance water flows downstream Balls fall down and not up Etc. We always go for the easy way out That's why a lot of us get fooled into this trap we get fooled by our biology into thinking that things will change without us exerting a send amount of effort However, this is not the case. You always need to be evolving you always need to be Pushing yourself if you really want to get to the places that you need to be The path of least resistance will help you your biology doesn't want you to be successful It just wants you to survive what you're doing right now is working Whatever you're doing right now is working your body doesn't give a shit about your goals as long as you're not dead It's all right. So that's why you need to go against grain go against the grain and Look for those angles. So how can you find these angles? Well, there's different ways. It could be perhaps that in order to Tackle your adversities, you need more education Maybe there's something you don't know about there's some Aspect of the problem that you need to get more educated Or perhaps you need to meet up with someone who's already done it Perhaps you need to meet up with a mentor or a certain mastermind group of people that are Like-minded and have some of the answers that you might need Perhaps you might actually need to break some of the rules Perhaps you need to ask for forgiveness and not for permission Sometimes in life. That's what happens. We need to go from the passive role to the aggressive role We need to break someone's rules take some of those risks. That's what happens You have to be willing to push the envelope if you want to get what you want so the Good thing about being someone who looks for angles is you start to get a certain amount of control in your life And there's nothing that's more gratifying than knowing that knowing that you are in control Knowing that you shape your own destiny and that it is not the hands of other people That you are not waiting for some miraculous thing to happen You're going to make the miraculous thing through your actions every day. I personally plan my day Generally plan my week the night before so I'll be planning the things and I'll go through the actions the Small seemingly meaningless tasks that I do every day But over time you start seeing the trend you start seeing the upward trends You start seeing the results of your labor you start seeing that all these small things add up and that You are no longer looking for those angels You look for angles and you're working on those angles and you're gonna get the results that you want in the long term You just need to put in the extra effort at the beginning at the beginning The most people in the willing to do and that way you can ensure that those miraculous things do happen in the long run eventually So that's the video for today. I invite you guys to consider that look for angles look for ways that you can Approach your tasks. Don't look for angels. Don't look for the easy way out Gain the control and you'll be much happier. Anyway, that's the video.


Hey survivors and frivers, in this video I am going to be discussing why Narciss is putting so much time and effort to secure you as a source of supply, just to sabotage it in the end. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate, my paypal link is in the video description. If you are interested in one-on-one coaching, you can email me at narcisfivercoaching.com. Why do Narciss try so hard and then sabotage?  But naturally, time will reveal a fault or mistake, a flaw or imperfection. No one is perfect. This causes the Narciss to devalue you. You suddenly go from being all good to all bad, due to their black-white thinking, good or bad mentality. They have to think this way to function. How they see you reflects on how they see themselves. They cannot appreciate you. The root of Narcissism is their pathological envy and jealousy. Your talents, qualities and traits trigger them to reflect on their weaknesses or insecurities. This triggers them to devalue you, as how they see you reflects on how they see themselves. At some point they have to see you as all bad, to see themselves as all good. If they don't, they will be forced to accept their own weaknesses or insecurities. And this is something a Narciss is not going to do. You are seen as this perfect, amazing person when they first meet you. But no one can sustain perfection over a long period of time. Which means that no one can satisfy or fulfil the Narciss. They are like a bucket with a leak. No matter how much you put into them, they will always leak out. You can keep filling them up with attention, validation, approval and admiration but it will never sustain them. The Narciss doesn't self reflect or look within themselves. They project their shoes onto you. In their minds, it's not that they cannot be satisfied or fulfilled. You cannot do enough for them. The problem is, nothing is enough for them. Which is why they can never sustain a relationship. As soon as it gets tough, when it's time to put in the work to sustain the relationship, they are out of there because they were never in it to make it work. They were never in it to give anything to you. They are self absorbed and lack empathy. They only care about their own needs. They see you as an object or as an extension of them. In their minds you exist to serve them. But no amount of serving them will ever satisfy or fulfill them because they have a void which cannot be filled. But because the Narciss doesn't self reflect, they can only project onto you anything to avoid facing the truth, that they are not perfect, they make mistakes, they have weaknesses or insecurities and that is what they are running from. The truth that maybe they are not as great as they think they might be. On the surface they act arrogant and entitled as though you are not good enough for them. But this is actually a front. Deep down they believe that they are not worthy or deserving of you. The game is to make you believe that you are not good enough for them. If they can get you to believe it, it makes it more believable for them. This is why they target your self worth and self esteem. They use manipulation tactics to confuse you and make you doubt your reality. It helps to maintain their false image of superiority from the beginning of the relationship. They always felt as though they were not worthy or deserving of you. They knew from the beginning that the relationship was going to end. They believed that at some point you were going to start noticing all their faults, mistakes, flaws and imperfections and you were no longer going to find them attractive, you were no longer going to be interested in them. The narcissist was once a victim who was abused and devalued religiously. Every fault or mistake that they made was met with rage, most likely by their narcissistic parent. Every flaw or imperfection was exaggerated until they felt that they were the most undesirable people in the world. Over time it became ingrained into their heads that unless you are perfect or completely flawless you will never be loved, you will never be appreciated, you will never be good enough. This was taught to them from a young age. The narcissistic parent's voice became the inner critic or inner dialogue in their minds. It took over their thought process and then became a part of their core belief system. This is all they really know. In their minds everything has to be perfect, which leads to their mentality of nothing ever being good enough, because they could never be good enough. So now that's how they see you. It was taught to them as children. Now they are trying to project this inner critic or inner dialogue onto other people, especially those who trigger them into reflecting on that voice in their heads. Because of this they never felt worthy or deserving of you. They never felt as though they were good enough for you. They believed that at some point you were going to discover a fault, mistake, flaw or imperfection and no longer be attracted to them, as they became more aware of everything you had to offer, your qualities, talents and traits, everything good that was going on in your life. It triggered them to reflect on the lack of their own qualities, talents and traits and how they didn't have much going on in their lives. This is where it became a competition and then they were constantly trying to devalue you and everything that you were doing. They wanted to project their feelings of worthlessness and insignificance onto you, they were constantly trying to compete with you, trying to prove themselves to you, but really it's all about them and how they feel. They are trying to regulate their emotions, trying to project their self-hatred onto you and this results in themselves arbitraging and destroying the relationship, the relationship which they never felt worthy or deserving of. In the end it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, because of their thoughts, feelings and beliefs, the belief that they are not worthy or deserving of you. This is where their out of control, attention and secret behaviour comes from, it's an attempt to prove to you and to themselves that they are worthy or deserving of you, when secretly they believe the opposite to be true.  There is a constant fight between the real part of them who is worthless and insignificant and the false self who is too good for anyone, and this is what separates them from the rest of us, who are still grounded in reality. This is what compels them to constantly compete with you and prove themselves to you. This is why it can seem so contradictory when they act like they love themselves and you're not good enough for them, yet they're the ones who are constantly showcasing their qualities, talents or traits. They have to showcase and exaggerate everything that they are doing and inflate the importance or significance of it, while devaluing or minimising everything that you are doing. That's the only way that they can compete, and it's this obsessive need to fight the inner critic or inner dialogue in their minds, which compels them into engaging in these types of behaviours, it all starts with their thoughts, which leads to their feelings of hatred, anger, envy, jealousy, fear, guilt or shame. These emotions then lead to their actions or behaviours, they are acting on their weak uncontrollable emotions rather than logical reasoning. A relationship without logical reasoning could end at any moment, especially when it is based on out of control emotions. It's very unpredictable. This is what creates the illusion of excitement, it's like an emotional roller coaster with ups and downs and you never know what's around the corner, it creates an addiction and if you are far made dysfunctional family, you will be naturally attracted to these types of people. It isn't until you take some time to reflect, heal your childhood traumas and practice self-love that you really start to understand what you were dealing with. It isn't until you get off the ride that you realise just how crazy the narcissist was, you have to leave the environment and observe it from an outsider's point of view, then it makes a lot more sense, detach your emotions and see it from a logical perspective. You will start to see that they are like children, constantly trying to get your attention, trying to get you to validate them, trying to be the best in a world where there is always someone better and this all comes from childhood neglect, not being validated when they were children, not feeling as though they were good enough, constantly competing for their parents attention, if you take a step back and really look at them, look at their behaviours, look at what they are trying to achieve, you will see that they really haven't changed since then, they never got the attention or validation when they were children, this has led them to an endless road where they are now constantly chasing this attention or validation from other people, they are self absorbed and lack empathy, unable to consider anyone else, unable to attend to or validate another person, they may have had relationships in the past, but those relationships revolved around serving them, it was all about what the other person could do for them or give to them, so they never learnt how to attend to another person's needs or how to validate them, when you first meet them, it's all about impressing you, but once they've got your attention or validation, all they care about is what you can do for them, narcissists do not self reflect for long periods of time, so that attention or validation never heals their inner child, instead it goes to the narcissist's false self, the part of them that can never get enough, can never be satisfied or fulfilled, so they remain in a state of being self absorbed and lacking empathy, and it's all because somewhere in there is a child who just wants to be appreciated, just wants to be loved, and you may be thinking wow that's great, I want to be appreciated of them, I want to love them, but it isn't that simple, the appreciation or love which they so desperately crave or desire from you, is also the very thing that the inner critic or inner dialogue has been programmed to block or deny, this goes back to what I said about their narcissist parent and how they were constantly told as children that they are not good enough or they are not meant to be loved, this was really ingrained into their minds, so now they cannot efficiently perceive any acts of love or kindness once you have got to know them, once you know what they are about, narcissists are not interested in people who are interested in them, they only want people to validate their false selves and their illusions, if you are around them enough, it is only a matter of time until you get to know them and that is when they begin to lose interest, because they were always told that the real them is not good enough, that part of them is not worthy or deserving of love or appreciation, so as you get close to them, as you get to know them, they will appear to act out for no reason, like they want to make you hate them, just to validate the narcissistic parent's programming in their minds that they are not meant to be loved, they will even look for evidence of this in your words, actions and behaviours, anything to support the narrative that you are against them, or you don't really love or care about them, then they will focus on that day after day, the same argument or disagreement about something you have said or done, which may never have been intended to hurt them, but they have to see it that way to support the narcissistic parents programming, if they cannot find any evidence to support this, they will push and provoke you until they do, until whatever narrative or belief they have in their minds becomes a reality, it has to be in sync for them to feel comfortable, I could go deeper into this, but I think this is enough, I hope this video has helped you to understand why narcissists try so hard and then sabotage the relationship, thank you for watching, please like, comment, share and subscribe and I will talk to you soon.


While talking about challenges and issues related to informed consent, I have talked about some of the problems which are very much the parcel of the layout of the informed consent. But there could be some which are related to the participants as well. So participants' perception is an important challenge for the researcher to be looked at when informed consent is being dealt. Most participants perceive that study trials will put extra burden on them. So receiving an informed consent from them is difficult. For example, in some clinical trials, disclosing too much information of the potential side effects may unnecessarily scare the patients and they may take them away from the study. For instance, I would like to give you an example. For example, if we read any medicine's side effects, they are very serious to the minimum. Let's say we talk about the simple side effects of pannadol extra. So they can be reported live threatening for vomiting and excessive use of it. So you will get multiple side effects of it. Similarly, if we explicitly document the informed consent to participate in that research, the perception of the participant is that it is a very harmful study and I can have a lot of potential threats by participating in it. So they may just simply refuse to be the part of that. Whereas in fact, it is not a dreadful study that is going to produce so much harm. But because explicitly everything has been provided under the clauses and under the elements of informed consent, it is a very heavy study that is being done to see if the participants start avoiding participating in it. Then talking about children, where research involves children which are particularly under age of 18, consent has to be obtained from parents as we earlier mentioned. If child is above 7 years of age, then child's ascent is also mandatory. That is to say, even a child should be asked if they want to participate in this research is important and this is known as child's ascent. Because in some situations, parents give their consent while child refuses to ascent. Such situations can happen where parents consider that this is a good opportunity for a child to learn and allow it, but the child is uncomfortable and says that he does not want to participate in this research study. Maybe it is a simple study of running that if students run, then how much thrill and excitement they feel after that. Parents allow it, but the child says that he does not want to participate in this running study because after that his heartbeat becomes very fast and discomforts him. The child's ascent is also important if the child is above the age of 7. Then vulnerable people and groups, it includes people who are absolutely or relatively incapable of protecting their interest. So vulnerable populations who cannot protect their interest themselves, we also have to look at the clauses of informed consent for them. For example, working with people with some learning or other disabilities, special care need to be taken while taking consent from them. Because if their understanding is not so much that they can fully understand informed consent, then we have to tell them in easy words or in some special circumstances, that they can waive some of their informed consent. Then another important thing which is very, very challenging is the format. If the material is complex and participants may have difficulty understanding the material, the IRP may suggest that researchers format their consent forms so that they could easily be readable and to be understand. If it is written in a very complex way, in such a format, in such a font size, in such a spacing that it is not easily read and understood, then it is very important that it is described in an easy way so that all participants can easily be a part of it. Techniques such as the following can help to achieve that goal. These are some universal techniques that everyone should use according to the APA standards following the ethical guidelines, wall face title within the document, headings that describe the basic structure of the study, then liberal use of white space, then readable font size and bullet list. So, a document in which you have given proper headings, bullets, you have given white space in between one paragraph and the other paragraph, and the font size of it, you have given Times New Roman or any general font size which is very easily readable. Because there is a very fancy font size in which it is not easy to read. So, conventional font size, their reading is easy for every participant. Similarly, if it is typed in Urdu exclusively, then Urdu also has some typical writings that are easy to read. It should be done in that font size, such as Nestleek or Times New Roman or 12 font size, then it will be easily readable. So, if we overcome these challenges, then the document of informed consent becomes a very easy and comprehensive document. And with that, it becomes very easy in our research. And easily, we fill our informed consent with our participants and formally start our research. And a major milestone, which is a very ethical milestone, to sign informed consent, we can fulfill that process in a very good way.


Hey guys. My name is Samuel Sutton. I'm from Marion County and I'm one of this year's 4-H 2020-2021 State Ambassadors and today I have with us my uncle Jeffrey Fikes. He works at Fox Chevrolet in Hamilton, Alabama in Marion County. Jeffrey, today I have a few questions for you. So, what was your major in college? My major in college was electrical engineering. Okay, what drove you to pursue this career? Family. My father had been in the car business since the mid-60s, starting out as a salesperson and then later on ended up half owner in the local Ford dealership for a couple of years. And then when I was in 11th grade, I think it's when it was, we switched over and ended up in the Chevrolet business, so I had to eat a lot of crow there for a while. And so, of course, I was the first in our family to go to college and so I went off to school and he had asked me when I got out, you know, if I would come back and help and I said yes. And so, the folks that I went to work with had paid for a moving van and paid all my expenses and I've worked in Huntsville for three months and then when I moved back, I came back in a pickup. And so anyway, I came back and I've been, that was in January of 1981 and I've been here ever since. So it was really just a family deal. What's a typical day like on your job? Apparently fairly haphazard based on the myth this morning, but you know, generally speaking, I get there, I'm an early guy. I like to get up early and I like to be at work early and so I go over and actually some of the other managers, in particular the service manager, will open up the place and but I come in and finish opening it up and then we, you know, everybody comes into work, we get cranked up about 7.30 and it's just mostly, you know, got a check emails and just going around to make sure that everybody's, you know, got the tools they need to do their job and to, you know, check on the progress of the sales department and check on the progress of the service department and if we've got problems or issues, we talk about that kind of stuff and it's, you know, I do a lot of what they call, I guess, management by walking around where you just go around from department, department, look at things, you know, they say you can't expect what you don't inspect. So it's just, you know, you take it as you go and we've got, we're blessed with some good managers that take pretty good care of their departments. And so, and of course I work, you know, that my brother works there, John Fax and then Jay Fax works there, also my son. So it's a sort of a family deal. So what would you say the best thing about your job is? The best thing about my job? Well, at this stage, you know, I'm coming up on 40 years being there and I do have the flexibility. I don't have to stay put. So I would say if I have the, you know, if I can arrange it where I don't think anything's going to go sideways or something, I can not have to be at the dealership the whole day. So if I need to go take care of something or food, a hobby item or something like that, then I have the flexibility to go do that type thing. So I guess that's the best thing. And as far as just, you know, at this stage, I'm going to say that's not always been the case. What skills do you think are most important for someone in your kind of job work?  You know, if you're managing folks and everybody's trying to work together, you know, the definition of management, the company results through the efforts of others, then, you know, then you've got to be able to talk to people and, and, you know, we got, you know, we're not a huge operation, but, you know, everybody has issues and problems. And sometimes they're work related.  We're not just, you know, we're not, we're results driven, I guess, where that's how we survive, I guess that you could say. But the other side of that is we do, you know, try to look at the big picture when folks are having troubles or family issues or, you know, we cry as long as they're crying and celebrate with those that celebrate. And, but I would say people skills and a lot of that, you know, comes with time, you know, I can, I can think of things, I can probably count on my fingers some things I have said to people in the past that came out wrong or was not appropriate or whatever, and you replay that junk over and over in your head. And over time, I think you do gain a better ability to deal with people and have a positive outcome rather than, you know, making a bad situation worse sometimes. So I'd say people skills was the number one thing. What impact has this job had on you? What effect has it had on me? It's made me an old person. It's been, you know, the car business is, it's not what it used to be. I'll put it like that. You know, when I came back in 1980, the level of automation, how many things that you did that were on a computer were far less. I mean, I started out, you know, our communication back at that time was based on cassette tapes. Nobody can hardly sold enough to remember any of that kind of stuff. The PC did not exist. And so all that has changed. Now, the question was how did it affect me? Was this how it affected me? Yes. The question. OK. So you've had to, you know, I was sort of a good, you know, with my background and electronics and that type thing, I really embraced the electrical side and the communications and all that. So we tried to advance through that through those things as fast as we could. But, you know, I guess, you know, who I am today, I guess, as a sum result of 40 years of working there, whatever, and hopefully I've got some more years to go. It's been a growing experience the whole time. I've played a lot of different roles during my, you know, in my teenage years, I worked in the parts department. I worked in the body shop. I worked in cleanup, you know, and then later on, I was sort of like, I guess, a sales manager and still sort of that role to some extent. But but more than that. And so, you know, I've had to do hiring and I've had to do firing.  You know, it's OJT on the job training and you just have to. Sometimes the stuff's a lot of fun. Sometimes the stuff is pretty painful, but it's just part of the job. So, I mean, I, you know, I don't know wherever I am today, I guess I'm the sum result of everything I've been through in the last 40 years. I don't know if that answered the question or not, but I'll try. Is there anything you had wish you had known when you had started your career? Well, you know, hindsight's always 2020.  I do think that the college, the college was worth a lot as far as working toward a goal, you know, being willing to work hard to make good grades, all that kind of stuff. I really didn't get to apply much of that. I'm talking about the overall part of it, I guess, it's sort of like going to kindergarten, learning to line up and be quiet and do certain things at certain times. I guess all that was part of it. But, you know, I'm saying it's looking back, you know, sometimes I say, well, what would have happened if I had a state of engineering, you know, versus being in the car business? And I, you know, who knows what would have happened? But I really don't. I don't know if there's anything I wish I had known. A lot of the stuff has just evolved over time and the world has changed and the corporations have changed. They're not what they used to be. You know, it was a lot more globalization and it's just a different deal. They've built all of the automation and the computerization of so much data has enabled large corporations to have a lot more control down to the minutiae level of what goes on. So it's not as much fun as I said earlier, but it's been a good ride. And, you know, we've made a good living and we've, you know, we've had some fun along the way. So I don't guess there's anything that I'd look back and say I probably wish I had known. I love it. Only thing is you can only second guess yourself sometimes later in life as to what you did or didn't do. We're on our last question. So is there any advice you would give a youth that would be interested in your kind of job work? You need to be a paper person. As far as life skills, you got to be able to be willing to work hard. You got to be willing to get up. You know, you got to get up, dress up and show up.  Unfortunately, we see folks I hate to say this, but you do say some younger folks today that have a little difficulty with that. So I mean, being on being at work and with, you know, of course, attitude can't be quantified. But having a work ethic that you want to come in. And I do believe that we still live in a country that if you work hard, you can be rewarded for that. And the car business is not going away. It is changing. There's a lot of opportunities. A lot of times, the one thing that's good about the car business is it does not require a college degree in most instances. A person that's willing to work and try hard can get an entry level job and a leadership and move up. And I've seen that time and time again at our place. And I've seen it at other dealerships. Another thing that is in tremendous demand are highly skilled automotive technicians. If a guy or a gal is willing to take some basic technical training and it's out there, different manufacturers offer this training. I think that they are in high demand. You cannot hardly find technicians. It's a struggle. They work five days a week in the daytime. It's not shift work generally. So you can be off on the weekends and at night, be home to your family and make really good money and good benefits. So that's one thing that I really feel like that technical training could really lead to some good careers in this country. Don't have to be a rocket scientist or a doctor or lawyer to make a good living. There's lots of technical skills that are needed desperately in this country. So that's my suggestion, is try to get some type of technical education or get your foot in the door. If you get your foot in the door and you do a good job, you'll be okay. That concludes our interview today. Thank you, Uncle Jeffrey, for allowing us to interview you and taking time to be interviewed. You're certainly welcome and I hope I wish you good luck in the future in this endeavor and in 4-H. I've enjoyed being interviewed and if you ever need me again, give me a heart.


Well Dennis and I are being astonished all the time with how much is alive underneath the soil and so to be good stewards of that you've got to care for it. It needs to be fed and not destroyed. Someday the next generation will be farming the crop acres and running the cows and the pastures and it would be very satisfying to hear them say that this is really productive land. It's never too late to start and you're never too old to learn.


So let's answer this question about minimum wage because it's a really, really important question. You see a lot of people talking about it today and it's nothing new. Minimum wage has been in the political spectrum for a very long time and I want to divide this video into two parts. I want to talk about why people advocate minimum wage. Then I'm going to be getting into my rebuttals of why minimum wage is actually detrimental towards the economy and detrimental for people getting business. Now the reason is why they advocate and what I mean but there's two groups of people for advocation. Let's break that apart. There's regular people who advocate it because they want people to have a good standard of living. Now nothing wrong with that. I know many people advocate minimum wage and not politicians. They have no skin in the game. They have no agenda. They just feel that it's the right thing to do, feeling over data. Okay, but I get it. I understand why they want people to have minimum wage. Then you have politicians, lobbyists who do have skin in the game and they have something to gain. It's called votes and so they use minimum wage or any other let's say narrative to gain votes. Okay, so minimum wage proponent state because of high cost of living we need to increase the minimum wage that businesses pay their employees so they can have a standard of living.  Okay, I'm now going to rebuttal this in a couple of points. No particular order by the way. Number one, when they talk about minimum wage and a standard of living, that's a big red flag for me. Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs, primarily for two demographics of people. Number one, demographics of people are young and up and coming individuals who want a foot in the door, who want experience to get access towards that type of industry. And so employers will pay them the market rate for their no experience, no knowledge, no anything to start. The second demographics is retirees. They're retired and they want to work part time because they don't want to be bored, they want some extra income on the side. So those are two groups of people who are within minimum wage and I don't know about you but I don't think so. Anybody in their right mind wants to stay in a minimum wage job to think that this is going to be their quality of living. Like I mentioned before, minimum wage is an entry job. People go to McDonald's as an entry job, people go as a cashier as an entry job. It's not like they're saying, no sane person is thinking that wait a second. Me servicing at McDonald's is going to give me a standard of living that you get paid in C level. No, it's an entry job so you can get experience within that industry. Okay, I just want to get that first out of the way. Minimum wage jobs aren't for the standard of living that they're proposing. It's not at all, period. They're entry level jobs for people who want to get an industry or retirees and it hurts them both extremely, extremely a lot. So let's go into a couple of things. In a nutshell, first major point is minimum wage actually reduces employment, reduces, not increases employment and there's studies on this. So let's break down some simple things. Number one, let's say, so I'm just going to rounding numbers. Let's say minimum wage is $15. So in Ontario it's close enough, but let's say it's $15. And going back to my example of low level experience jobs.  So keep this in mind. What are minimum wage jobs? Entry level jobs, Walmart jobs, service jobs, low data jobs, just data crunching, you know, some kind of internship, stuff that you have zero experience, zero knowledge, zero skills.  It's very robotic type of work. Okay. And so once you increase the minimum wage, once again, you're that centralized type of socialistic type of planning. What happens to the business? Well, it cuts into their revenue, their overhead increases and what happens? Well, the business has to function in a profitable manner. The business, and there's data on this, they reduce your hours. Why would a business than pay you $15 an hour for something that they can automate a lot of that and be just reduce your hours. And so we've been noticing that a lot within the data and within the statistics that employers are cutting back your rate. Yes, you're making more, but instead of you working 40 hours a week, you're now working 30 hours a week, not good. And so this applies to all spectrums of minimum wage jobs. I'll give you a classical example within the tech space. You can hire interns here for $15 an hour to do random mumbo jumbo, which is a really expensive, or I can outsource everything to India or anywhere else in Eastern Europe and pay them $7 to $8 an hour. They work better. They're much smarter and they they're just better, just economically, it's better for the business. And so you are actually disabling people from entering the workforce. Businesses will not hire you because of the cost. It's just free market dynamics. Why should a business hire you a minimum wage when they can get cheaper labor and better labor overseas? That's for like, let's say, remote work. Or in this case, if it's if it's physical work like service work, they're going to automate it. You see in a McDonald's touch screens, self automated drive-thrus, cashless cashiers, they'll put up the upfront capital costs first, but they're going to recoup that within the backend. So they automate everything. So that's the first thing. It's such a negative consequence for minimum wage. It really screws up people trying to enter the workforce and be the people who are retired who want the ex-employment. The employer can't afford the minimum wage. So these two types of demographics are getting fucked. Next, what happens with minimum wage is it makes young workers less skilled lowering their future earnings. So there's strong evidence what most of the research in the United States pointing to the negative effects. Recent research that studies the question more indirectly finds that teens and youths exposed to higher minimum wages have lower wages and earnings when they're in the late 20s consistent with reduced skill acquisition. This goes back to my point one. If it's too expensive for your employer to hire you, you do not have your foot in the door. They're not going to hire you. And if they do hire you, you're part-time. They're not going to invest money in you because it's just basic mathematics. That's the thing a lot of these politicians and policymakers don't understand. It's mathematics, supply and demand mathematics. And most small businesses are running on very low margins. And the majority of businesses in North America, if you look at the bell curve, are small and medium businesses. They're not the Facebooks or the Googles.  What do you think is going to happen to the small? Why?  And that's where it's actually going to head. You see a lot of these states and provinces and central planners come around and state 20 dollars. I'll tell you what, if they start telling me 20 dollars, 100% of my workforce, I'm lucky enough to be in the tech industry, it's overseas. Because a return on investment, you don't get it at all. No scale, no labor.  It reduces their earning potential because the company gets to figure out the ROI now.  Politicians and policymakers don't think in second order thinking. They only think in votes. They think, oh, we're going to just because I'm going to raise the price is going to fix everything. No. Now there's another thing to keep in mind. This applies to specifically service work and local businesses when it comes to minimum wage. If the business has to take on more capital cost, where do you think that cost goes towards? That cost will be dumped on the, guess it, customer, right? So you have inflation every year. So the dollar is decreasing in value. You have inflation, you have quantitative easing. Now you have the government coming around and telling you, well, our smart central planning minds, our Keynesian superpower states that we know how the economy is the best, free markets aren't the best. And we state it's going to be 15 dollars an hour today and 20 dollars an hour in five years. Let's couple that against the inflation and everything else and quantitative easing. The employer, the business is like, okay, your regular purchase within the store, let's say 20 bucks or something is now $30. You, as a consumer and buyer, you're the one that's going to pay the inflationary rate for everything. And what happens to you?    Idiotic idea. I didn't want to dive in really too deep on this because I can go in a whole tangent talking about minimum wage or centralized economic planning by the government. But anytime that you have people that have zero skin in the game within your enterprise, politicians don't have skin in the game within your enterprise, they just want more taxes from you. They have nothing to lose and nothing to risk. You as a small business or medium business, you incur all the risk, everything. And so when you have these individuals coming towards you stating you must pay people, if the margins aren't there, you're not going to hire people literally. And it's not a shocker. We see the early data coming in from the States are implying these minimum wages. And this is just the beginning $15 today, $20 tomorrow. And we call this capital flight. Smart businesses will leave, simple ones through osmosis and businesses that are paying you right now will cut your hours down.  So there you go. Minimum wage is an utter scam. It does not serve any benefit to anybody. And it debilitates every aspect of the free market. And I'll leave it at that. If you have any questions to me about this, leave a comment below this video. Don't forget to subscribe and like always hit the big like button and I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace out.