The case of Nicholas Cordova is an eerie one. Being a husband and father of two and all-around ordinary guy, Nick isn't the type of person that you would expect to be caught up in some kind of true crime story. But in reality, his case is one of the creepiest I've ever heard. See, Nick owned an air-conditioning business, and one night at work he was talking with his daughter over a FaceTime call when, without warning, an unidentified suspect burst into his office and ended his life. The crazy thing is, they didn't even steal anything. It was very clear that this criminal was purely after Nick's life, nothing else. The entire event was captured on CCTV, but despite capturing a fairly clear image of the perpetrator's face, no one knew who this man was. While official charges have never been filed, many people believe they know exactly who claimed Nick's life that day, and the truth behind this scary mystery may be much closer to home than Nick could have ever imagined. Nicholas Cordova was born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, back in October of 1976, making him about 40 years old at the time of the crime. Having been raised by his mother, Teresa, it doesn't seem that Nick's father was in the picture, at least not very much. Nick spent the entirety of his childhood in a single parent home, but his mother did everything she could to make the best of it, and it seems that Nick must have had a relatively decent childhood because he grew up to be an incredibly respectable man. Nick attended Chandler High School in Arizona and became deeply involved in both football and wrestling, graduating in the summer of 1998. After school, Nick decided that he wanted to continue his love for extracurricular activities and ended up becoming a personal trainer. Soon after this, Nicholas would meet the love of his life, Alicia, around 2003. The two were together for an incredibly long time before they got married, not officially tying the knot until October of 2011. After their marriage, the couple would welcome two children into the world, a boy, cruise, and a girl, Capri, with Capri being the youngest. It's obvious from the family's photos that they were about as happy as a family could be, and their happiness doesn't look like your typical Facebook and Instagram happiness either. These guys were genuinely connected at the soul, inseparable. Unfortunately, being a personal trainer didn't pan out long term for Nick. Having a family to feed now, he decided he would uproot his life and begin his own heating and air conditioning business. When he was ready to get his business up and running, he worked alongside a silent partner with the two establishing a 50-50 partnership. To clarify this silent partner situation, that essentially means that Nick partnered up with someone that had enough money to get the business started. Nick was in charge of all the daily operations of the business. This partner was purely involved because they had the necessary money to get things up and running. Past that, they didn't have any word in how the business operated, hence the silent name. All of this took place sometime around 2018 or 2019. The exact dates are a bit of a mystery. But ultimately, Nick's end goal was to grow the business for about five years, establish a solid customer base, then sell the business for a steep profit. To put this timeline into perspective, this year would have likely been the year that Nick planned on selling the business. We don't know if he planned to retire after this or simply begin working part-time, but his whole purpose of doing this was that he could spend more time with his family during his children's more formative years.  He would show up at work first thing in the morning, and there were days that he wouldn't leave until after midnight. His customers loved the work that he and his team produced, and nearly all of his customers were extremely satisfied, leaving rave reviews online and sharing the business with their friends. For Nick, this was pretty much all he could have ever asked for. When he wasn't at work, Nick loved being outdoors or out working on one of his vehicles. He'd often take his family on trips to various parks and canyons in the area with his number one goal in life simply being to spend as much time with his loved ones as he possibly could. Nick was, by all means, a family man and a genuinely decent guy. And I'm not saying the typical lit up a room kind of way, Nick was the man that every other man dreams of being. But unfortunately, no amount of goodness nor decency could save Nick from the terrible fate he was about to encounter. I don't know about you, but I often have a pretty difficult time going to sleep and an even worse time staying asleep. 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You don't want to miss this limited time offer, but thanks to Dream for sponsoring today's video. Luckily for Nick, his children were growing up in the golden age of technology. This means that when Nick had to work late at night, he could simply FaceTime with his family to have dinner with them, to chat or generally to hang out while he was at work. Now, obviously, this isn't a replacement for physically being with your family, but it was certainly a middle ground that wasn't around. And most of us were kids and something I'm sure we would have all enjoyed having access to at times. It was pretty typical for Nick and his family to FaceTime in the evenings, either when Nick hadn't made it home from work or when he knew that he'd be working through the night. So on May 27th, 2020, it was simply a day like any other. Nick was in his office at his HVAC business while video chatting with his kids. His wife was washing the dishes when his children came running up, begging for her to begin a call with their dad so that they could show him a new trick that they learned on TikTok. It had something to do with an iPhone charger, but to be honest, I have no idea what they were talking about. They could have been trying to steal a Kia for all I know. But as they were FaceTiming with one another, something terrible happened. While the kids were in the middle of their performance, Alicia, Nick's wife, heard their daughter scream, saying, something's wrong with Daddy. Alicia ran into the room and grabbed the phone from her, but she had no idea what was going on. Nick wasn't on the screen anymore and it looked as if his phone had been knocked over or something. Completely confused, she called out to her husband but got no response. Then she heard shouting in the background of the call, followed by rustling around as if someone was looking for something. This is when she knew that something had gone terribly, terribly wrong. It was at this point that Alicia began to panic, but she didn't know what to do other than call 911. She grabbed a second phone to call the police, keeping Nick's call live on FaceTime in case something else happened. She even called out to Nick's business partner, who had supposedly been at the office that day, but she got no response. What didn't make any sense was that this late at night, Nick was supposed to have been in the office alone. The only exception to this would have been if his business partner was there that night, which Alicia believed was the case on this particular day. All of the doors were allegedly locked, just like they were every other night when the store was closed. So with this in mind, who would show up at this hour and cause such trouble? While all of this was playing out, Alicia was shouting into the phone for whoever was there to leave her husband alone. She announced that she had already called the police and they were quick to respond, showing up in record time. After she hung up the phone with the police, Alicia grabbed her children, hopped in the car and gunned it straight to Nick's business. She called his mother along the way, letting her know that something had happened and she thinks Nick was attacked, asking her to get to the business as soon as she could. When Alicia finally arrived at Nick's business, she was devastated to learn that just as she had so deeply feared, her instincts were correct. Police cars had already surrounded the building and officers were in the process of unrolling crime scene tape when she pulled into the parking lot. The entire scene was painted in red and blue light. It was hard to see anything from all of the flashing lights and chaos. When Alicia put the car in park, she shouted for her kids to stay inside and wait there. She then ran full sprint towards the front of the building, completely disregarding the caution tape and running toward her husband's office. Thankfully, two officers grabbed her before she could enter the building. It was then that she noticed there was no ambulance at the scene. She asked the officers where the ambulance was and they both just stared at her for a brief moment. She asked if her husband had been injured and that's when they were forced to break the news. Just as Alicia had feared, Nick had been attacked, but unfortunately didn't survive.  All we know for sure is that, thankfully, by the sheer grace of God, Nick's children didn't witness anything, despite them being on a video call with him at the time. Alicia hit the ground. Life as she knew it was over. Police say that there were witness reports of two men fleeing the scene of the crime and one of these men was captured on CCTV at a nearby convenience store. But as we all know, CCTV footage is useless if the people who know this person are too scared to speak up. But there's two things about this crime that are just completely insane to me. First and foremost, this crime took place at five twenty eight p.m. Give or take a minute or two. The business had already closed up shop for the day quite some time ago, right around five p.m. But by all means, it was still broad daylight. The sun wouldn't set for at least another thirty minutes or so. The area surrounding Nick's business was also supremely populated by other businesses, many of which were still open at this hour. This was an incredibly public crime in regards to the sheer number of people who would have been around to witness anything strange going on. But what's also incredibly strange is that this crime seems to have been so well organized. According to both Alicia and the police, the criminals invaded Nick's business, claimed his life and were on their way down the road to a nearby convenience store in a span of just five minutes. They certainly didn't mess around and didn't linger. They had a mission, carried it out and moved on with their day. To be even more specific, Alicia says that the FaceTime call with Nick first began at five twenty five p.m. By five thirty p.m. She was on the phone with 911 operators and by five thirty three, the men were at the convenience store all the way down the road. It seems almost impossible how quickly all of this played out. Now, you may recall that just a moment ago, I mentioned that Nick was supposed to have been in his office alone. And that certainly is true. He was supposed to have been. But this had been somewhat of a strange week. See, Nick's silent partner, David Sweetman, rarely ever showed up at the office. After all, his role in the business was to be silent. David would only show up around once a month, presumably to get a progress report and likely a payment. But the week that Nick lost his life, this wasn't the case. In the week leading up to the crime, David Sweetman had spent quite a bit of time at Gilbert Air, the name of Nick's business. He'd shown up Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. And as fate would have it, he was there on the night that the attack took place. Again, quite a while after the business had already closed for the night. Now, you'd think that David would have a pretty clear idea of what took place that night. But according to him, he has no clue what happened because he was knocked out as soon as the crime started. He says he doesn't know if he was hit with something or what happened. All he knows is that he fell unconscious in the seconds before the crime unfolded. Now, it doesn't appear that any of David's statements to investigators have ever been made public. But what's even more bizarre, according to one article I found, the police never mentioned a second person being present that night. As far as the public documentation goes, Nick was the only person in the building when investigators arrived. Now, obviously, we can't say this with any certainty. After all, David claims he was there and they don't have any reason to believe that this isn't true. It could very likely be that the police never mentioned David being found at the scene, because by all means, they believe he played no role in the crime and was largely irrelevant. Why bother releasing information that bears no weight on the investigation? But this strange lack of attention to detail has certainly sparked a few theories among armchair detectives who are begging the question, was David really there at all? Or was this some kind of cover story that he made up? Now, here's the thing. To debunk some of the more outlandish theories surrounding this case, we know that Alicia knew that David was there that evening. Nick told her that he was. So if Alicia knew, then the police knew. After all, Alicia has mentioned this in several interviews and David wasn't secret of about his presence at all. So the sheer fact that this information has been spread so far to me rules out that this wasn't some sort of secret cover up. I've seen several people claiming that David may have made up the story about being in the building that night and that he may have been one of the perpetrators. But if there's anything in this case that can be confirmed, it's that David was rather obviously in that building on the night that Nick lost his life. For me, the only question is, is David telling the full truth about what happened? Now, Alicia has never been openly critical about David, at least not in any direct way, but she did seem to find it a little bit suspicious that David was in the office three times in the week leading up to Nick losing his life. Now, she never tossed around any accusations or alluded to anything, but the sheer fact that she mentioned it proves that she found this to be a bit unusual. What's also a little interesting is that in the police notes, they only mentioned one person being injured during the intrusion and that person was presumably Nick. So if David had been knocked out as he had claimed, shouldn't he have been included on that list as well? But here's where things take a bit of a downward turn. See, when Nick became co-owner of Gilbert Air around 2018, he applied for a three million dollar life insurance policy, naming Alicia his wife as the beneficiary. But without Alicia's knowledge in December of that year, the beneficiary was changed to Gilbert Air. So in the event of Nick's passing, Gilbert Air or its owners would receive the three million dollar payout, not his wife. Now, taking life insurance out on a business partner or an employee may sound ridiculous, but it isn't as uncommon as it may sound. This allows the business to keep functioning in the event that one of its leaders passes away. It basically just helps the business stay above water while remaining workers try to find a new leader. So rather obviously, once Nick passed away, David Sweetman was the sole inheritor of Gilbert Air because he would have been the only surviving person attached to the company. Best I can tell, Gilbert Air is no longer in business, meaning that David Sweetman must have shut the business down after Nick lost his life. The thing is, this isn't too suspicious because rather obviously, David didn't know anything about running an HVAC business. That's why he left it all up to Nick. But it certainly isn't a good look that as soon as his business partner passes away and his partner's wife finds out she's been left penniless. This man doesn't bother giving his grieving wife a single dime, especially when we already know the man must have had a pretty solid chunk of change in the bank because, well, five years earlier, David's wife, Laura Sweetman, mysteriously passed away after drowning in a bathtub. And mind you, this took place immediately after a rather nasty divorce between the two. After this, David received a large insurance payout immediately afterward. This would normally just be considered incredibly tragic. But when you frame it with all the mystery and suspicion surrounding the passing of Nick, well, it puts things in a different perspective. If this weren't bad enough, I managed to dig up a complaint from one of David Sweetman's other businesses that was reported back in 2014. This complaint was regarding a vehicle towing business that David was the owner of. In this complaint, customer called David Sweetman out by name and claims to have been incredibly close friends with Laura, David's former wife. The report claims that David was running a scam with a local Jack in the Box restaurant in Arizona, where he works alongside the manager of the restaurant to have cars illegally towed from the parking lot. Basically, he tows these cars away for no real reason. When customers leave the restaurant, they simply find that their cars are gone. In order to get their cars back from the tow lot, they're forced to pay a fee first, which in the state of Arizona is illegal. The money that's made from the scam is then split between the manager of the Jack in the Box restaurant, then they rinse and repeat the process. Most of the times, the victims of the scam don't have the funds to take the situation to court. So David gets away with the scam time and time again. Mind you, this is just a complaint, not a legal report of any kind. So I can't vouch for the validity of this. But the complaint ended with a very curious note. The person who wrote the complaint, as mentioned, was a close friend of Laura Sweetman. They mentioned that the police suggested that Laura's passing was due to her taking her own life, following her divorce from David. Yet this friend claims that Laura was over the moon to have divorced him, certainly not depressed. They mentioned that Laura had endured countless years of physical and mental abuse from David, and they even claimed that Laura had confided in them on multiple occasions that David had threatened to poison her. Now, I can't confirm this complaint, but it's definitely some food for thought. But when David went to cash out the life insurance claim for Nick Cordova, Alicia Cordova filed a complaint with the court claiming that the change of beneficiaries was fraudulent. This case is still pending, so we don't know what the outcome of this lawsuit may be. The last update in the lawsuit comes from October of 2022, in which the case was going to be sent before a jury. But we all know how long the United States judicial system takes to bring any case to a close. So this situation is likely years away from seeing any sort of resolution. But in the end, this is why some people are being led to believe that David may have had a hand in this case, after all. But this is purely conjecture, and we have no real evidence to believe that police suspected David Sweetman at all. They've certainly never called him out publicly anyway. But something about this guy and his story, it just doesn't sit right with me, though I have to admit, I'm a big believer in innocent until proven guilty, regardless of what the modern political environment may be these days with cancel culture and whatnot. Now, I'll never suggest that David was in any way involved without seeing some form of evidence. I mean, after all, this man may have just lost both his wife and his best friend in a period of less than five years. All I'm saying is that for David Sweetman, I just don't know about him. Something doesn't feel right in where there's smoke, there's fire. It's now been three years since the passing of Nicholas Cordova and it's unknown what progress has been made in the case since the initial investigation. The suspect in the surveillance video has never been identified and it's also unknown how deeply investigators have dug into David Sweetman since all of this unfolded. Police are keeping things very tightly under wraps and thankfully so. The last thing we need is for the wrong person to get a hold of the wrong information and completely trash this entire investigation. Alicia has described life after Nicholas as very difficult. She said that reality began to set in after about six months when she realized that Nicholas hadn't just gone on vacation, but he was gone in a more permanent way. She believes there will be justice for the passing of her husband and that police will discover who took his life and her happiness away that summer evening. So if you know anything about the case of Nicholas Cordova or recognize the man in the surveillance photo, you're strongly urged to contact the Gilbert Police Department at<PHONE_NUMBER>. No detail is too small to be helpful. Literally any information at all can send police on the right track. In the aftermath of it all, one question that many people are asking is what led police to believe the men entering the Arco gas station was a suspect in the case? They claim there are two suspects that they're actively investigating, but they've never mentioned who the second person may be. So is there a chance that it may be David Sweetman? Another thing we don't know is if David was ever checked out by medical professionals following the attack against him. If he was, then doctors should be able to verify whether or not he was truly hurt or knocked out on that evening of Nicholas passing. This case is just so hard to swallow because it seems like it should be open and shut. I mean, the suspect was captured clear as day on CCTV. But unfortunately, video footage only takes us so far. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of True Crime Stories. If you enjoyed this video, check out this other interesting case that I covered and don't forget to subscribe. It's totally free and keeps you up to date with all of my future videos. You can also click that join button below to support the channel and see new videos long before everyone else does. But my name is Ty Nott and I'll catch you guys in the next one.


Let's look at some tips and tricks for working with HTML in Visual Studio. Let's first define what I mean by HTML. So if we go into tools options under text editors, we can see that we actually have two HTML editors in Visual Studio. We have one specifically for dealing with web forms, so ASP.NET web forms, so ASPX pages, user controls, master pages. And then we have one for everything else. Razer or static HTML or any other variation of HTML goes to the other HTML editor. And this other one is the newer one and it was introduced in Visual Studio 2013. And that's the one we're going to look at today. So here I have an HTML file. I copied it from some place I found online and it's all like minified into one line. So that's kind of annoying. I would like to see it sort of nicely formatted. So I can format the document and that might get me some way there. But Visual Studio actually has a command called unminify. And clicking that gives us this nice unminified view nicely formatted so I can see what's going on. Let's drag in a picture. So from solution explorer I can drag a picture in like that. Super convenient. And let's see what we can do with this image here. So notice how a light bulb show up. And I can encode this image as base 64. That's not what I want here, but I want to get the width and the height attributes automatically inserted. So Visual Studio goes in, checks out the picture and figures out what the height and width is and inserts it for me in these attributes. This is really good for performance and also making sure that when the web page renders in the browser that the browser knows up front what the height and width of the picture is so that you don't get these loading sort of unevenly and you're reading the top and then things move around by giving the browser the information of the height and width of our elements it can much better give us a better rendering experience. So that's really convenient and I really like that feature. Another thing we can do is we can wrap any element or any text, anything that's selected with another element. So the feature is called wrap with div looks like this. It's selected so I can change it to let's say a span. Here we go. And I'm going to do a line break. So I'm going to just format the document, control KD and now that looks a little bit better. Actually I want that span here. I want that to be wrapped with a div like that let's say. So when it makes it super easy for me to add these parent child relationships. So that's all built in. Here's another nice feature. I get class name intelligence. So hero is the name of a class that I defined up here. And so that's really nice that I can get the intelligence for that right out of the box. There's a bunch more to the HTML editor that makes a really nice HTML editor app but I want to show you something that an extension that I install can do that expands on this functionality. So if I open the extension manager, you can see here I have an extension called HTML tools 2019. There's also one for 2017 and earlier if you just install web essentials. So HTML tools 2019 is included in web essentials. So if you already have web essentials you already have this extension as well. Otherwise just go out and download it and let's take a look at what that gives us on top of what I just showed. So one thing is I get image hover preview. So simply just hover over an image and see what it looks like and what we can also see at the bottom of the preview what the size of that image is. Very convenient. Here's another one. Let's go to the style sheet or the style attribute here or sorry the style element and I can now say extract to file. So I can take a style element and move it into a file. So I'm going to call it site.css and the file is created for me and inserted instead of the style element is now a link reference to that style sheet. So that's very nice. So let's do this. Then we have a very nice thing here with the class name hero. So it's fine that I get intelligence for hero but what if I want to see what is defined in that style rule? Well I can do peak definition. So peak definition or alt F12 and that will find the style definition in my style sheet and display it to me here and I can actually edit it directly. It's just the HTML editor. There we go. Double. That's not a bad idea. There we go. So I even get intelligence in this peak definition window. This, by the way, works with less files and SAS files as well, not just CSS. I now decide that I have too many parents here around my image tag. I don't want that span tag. So I'm going to remove it. So that's a little cumbersome and I have to format the document afterwards. But what if I just do the light bulb that now says remove span and keep children. That just removed the span and it formats the children inside of it to its new parent. Very convenient. Label. This has to do with intelligence. So there's a bunch of intelligence things that comes with this extension called HTML tools. And one of them is intelligence for things that are defined within the same document. So one of them is in the for attribute. In a label I need to say it's for a specific input field. And in this case, I get all the valid things that it could be a label for. In this case, it's the input field with the ID of name. And you saw how I got that intelligence. So this goes for data list as well. It goes for a lot of other things where we have dynamic intelligence based on the content of the document. And all this comes from HTML tools. So I hope this was helpful to give you a little bit of tips and tricks on what's possible in the Visual Studio HTML Editor. Thank you.


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All right, welcome back. So let's start the next session. Before that, I want to display a bit of the Blackbird. I will paste this on the attendance should be visible now. You just have to type in Blackbird B capital. All other letters are simple. Let me share my screen again. So next we are going to discuss like how the output that you get when you aggregate the tracker data and visualize them as a pivot table based on whether it has been configured as the output type enrollment or event. Let me repeat myself. So next what we are going to do is like we are going to compare the different of pivot table output. So basically pivot table output is always, is an aggregator, right? So we are going to compare the pivot table output based on the selection of output type events versus enrollment. So let me try to show this by taking two examples. I'm going to open the output work doses by six, this one. So what do we see here? So here we are seeing in this output what we are seeing is we are seeing the O units as rows and then we have male and female desegregation as columns, right? And we are seeing the total number of events and based on that desegregation as male and female, okay? So if you look at the configuration, we will see that the table style is pivot table. That is because we are seeing the aggregate outputs here and the output type is events, not enrollments, okay? And we are getting a total figure of 32,122 as a total, right? So let me contrast this, I will duplicate. Let me open the favorite item, coag registration by six. Now what do we see here? We are trying to get the similar kind of output, but here the output looks same, right? So for example, let me show the previous one. Here we have the O units as rows and the male and female desegregation as the columns, right? Even in this table, we are seeing the O units as the rows and the male and female desegregation as columns. And again, I think the periods, it's the same this year for the O unit, which is the country level, right? Whereas even here, it's the same O unit and period dimensions that have been selected. So why do we get different outputs for the same configuration? That is simply because in this, the last one I showed, which is the registrations by six, here the table style is pivot table, output type is enrolled. Whereas in the first one, it's a table style pivot table and output type events. So this is what is causing these different outputs. So let's see what happens. Let me go back to the first example. When we consider the table style as pivot table and output type as event, what actually happens is, we are counting all the events, right? So there can be duplication. So for example, if our focus is to see what actually happened with the vaccination campaign, the doses, right? If our focus is mostly about the doses that were dispensed, then this is a kind of a valid out because like we don't mind like whether same person has been, I mean like receive two doses, as in like it was like we are counting the first dose and second dose both, it's not a concern like because we are mainly focusing on the doses. But whereas here, our concern is mostly about the people, the people who have been vaccinated. So we don't want the same person to be counted twice, but we tend to get the number of people and probably what we can actually do is other than, I mean other than the factors like we can analyze the age and if we are capturing something else like economic status, we can include criteria like that also and it will be a more reflective analysis compared to the first one, right? So that's the difference between these two types of outings. Is that clear? Any questions based on the two types of pivot tables that we discussed here? Because this is something that is very important to understand the difference between using enrollments and events. Are there any questions? That's for understanding, hello. Yeah, you have a question? That's for understanding. Is it if I enroll in the program? In enrollment table, I will be shown only one and if I take in my full two banks and I will be representing two banks in an event program, is that like it? Let me, is that your question? I'm sorry, I couldn't quite get your question. It's not a question, just for my understanding. Hello? Yeah, hello, sorry. It's not a question, just for my understanding. If one person registered in the system, for example, analysis by enrollment, then person one will be displayed in the stable and if this person take full banks in, for example, he takes two vaccines, then two will be shown in the event reports. Is that like it? Just for my understanding. Okay, sure, good question. So again, Arif, one thing I must mention is like, okay. So what can actually happen is like entire thing, I mean about how the analysis is going to appear is based on your configuration. So you can configure this vaccination program in different ways. So for example, you might decide like, if this is something like COVID vaccination, if you are using the generic COAX package that we have in DHS too, there we are having a repeatable stage, right? For the vaccination, where you have to select first dose and second dose. So, but it stays within the same stage. So in that case, if you do an event type of analysis because we have a repeatable stage to capture the vaccine dose, the same person will be counted twice. But having said that, if you're asking like, is it going to be same every time? It is not really the same, because like if you configure DHS too for a different vaccination program, say like there are your program demands like and the based on the requirements, you might feel like you will be capturing the first and second doses in two different program stages. Then it is not so, right? So in that case, the person will only be counted once, even because like you have two different program stages to capture the first and second dose, okay? So that's what I want to highlight. Like it is depending on your program configuration. If you have configured the program to capture all doses irrespective of whether it's the first, second or third in the same repeatable program stage, then if you have event type visualization, person will be counted more than once. But when we are doing enrollment type of analysis, it will be counted only once. I hope I'm clear? Okay, great. Any more questions? If not, let's try to do the exercise three. I mean, it's a very simple exercise. So let's take about five minutes. And then we will move on to the last section of today's presentation, like where we'll be discussing about enrollment across different stages. So if five minutes is not sufficient, I think based on the feedback we received, like most of you still prefer the session to be over early and you can do the exercise later. So that's my understanding. But if any of you feel that you need more time to do the exercise while we are doing the live demonstration, please let us know in the chat. If not, we will take a five minutes break to do this exercise three and then we will move on to the last one.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping one box of 2022 Panini Select Baseball for Blake B. So good luck Blake. See what we got in here for you man. Hopefully something good. Let's do it. We have not pulled the color wheel at LSE yet so I'm hoping to be the first one. That would be cool. Out of a personal. That'd be so cool. All right, here we go. They've got Silver, Kyle Hendricks, the Tigers and Giants on right now. Silver's Eddie Matthews, nice silver there. Got Jared Walsh on top. Rookie Greg Dieckman, Tatis, and Kyle Hendricks on the red to $199 for the Cubs. Or no, is he? Yeah, for the Cubs. Yeah, if he was still there, he got traded or not. Now you like the Blue Jays Hat Chris. Appreciate it man, appreciate it. First hit is Jaime Berea that is 93 of 216. It's kind of a random number. That's on the patch auto and Corbin Burns numbers on the back. Grew Grew. Got Greg Dieckman on the RPA that is Silver 299, 67 of 99. Nice Cubs hit there. Sparks Tim Anderson on the back. We got Nex, got a lime green on the back. Rookie Seth Beer and we got Ryan Sandberg to 99 on the lime green for the Cubs. Nice Rhino. We got here. Got Tricolor, Frankie Montes, and Fuego is Catelle Marte. Diamond Dex. Wish he didn't re-sign there. He could be so good on a contender. Be a great Yankee. Got, is that a color wheel? One pulled in late in sports cards. Let's go baby! Heck yeah! Congrats Blake! Let's go! Going into a sleep right away. Oh my lord! Personal for Blake. We pulled a color wheel. Let's go! Heck yeah man, I was not expecting that. Oh that's so awesome. Blake, that'll go into a mag after this for sure. Wow, let's go man. That's so awesome. Mike, I will tell you right now, we have ripped probably 25 or 30 cases of this and have not pulled a color wheel yet. Oh I hope so man. Got Ian Hap Silver. Oh dude, that is so cool! That is such a cool card. Finally! Got nice hit here. Jaren Duran on the rookie Jersey materials. Jesus, you just scared me. So in select baseball there's these inserts they're called color wheels and that's what it is and this is the first one we've opened like 25 or 30 cases of this. This is the first one we've pulled with this color wheel.  I could not believe it and I said it before I'm like oh let's pull a color wheel out of one personal. Juan Soto on the moonshots. You're heading out? See you later Ruzi, have a good one. Thanks again man. They've got Tri-Color Hunter Renfrow for the brewers and Mike Trout on the phenomenon.  They've got Kevin Smith on the rookie Jersey. Not numbered. And moonshot Silver Piedalanzo. Oh I got bragging rights now everybody. Finally got some bragging rights. Jake Myers and Mike Trout on the white. What a him at the end. That's one office Jersey number, 28 of 50. Nice hit. What a box Blake. What a box. Let's go man. Congratulations. That's so awesome. That's so true Chris. What a way to open personals tonight. That's gonna do it for your box Chris. Sorry, Blake. Thank you again. Congrats on the hit. That is so sick. I'll get it in a mag right after this video is over and we'll get them right out to you. Thanks again man.


दाविन also observed की कुईसी भी पोपूलेशन में बिलोंगस to the same specie, उसके in two individuals, they can't be same. तो have similarities, but they can't be exactly like each other, because for every trait, there is a variation among the individuals of same specie. ये वोही a variation सैंजिसको असने गलाप गय स्थोर्टरिस or finches के केस में observe किया. तो 14 different species of finches, तो each of the individuals belong to a same specie, थो चव ने साईज ने तो असा वीगार जाय तो भी थे। this is due to the height and the fitting of the individual. तो वीगार दीखार ये वीगार जाय दीखार तो आपने जगे्ये सेंच्य तो आपने लै जगें to place some variations and these variations are related to the ability of the individual to survive and reproduce, which means every individual in one population of same species would be different from the other individual of same species in case of same trait or evo variation hai which these individual has acquired to survive in a better way as compared to other individuals or ye variation of traits which is appearing in the same population of the same species it is coming because of competition for same resources in that environment to be better survive kane kale hai, bethe tari kase reproduce kane kale hai, her individual bugth ka saa saat usme ye next generation tak usme ase variations aayangi jo ke usko better survive kane kale hai, ek opportunity provide karte hai and these variations not necessarily ke hameisa jo hai, productive ho ya uske li beneficial ho so these variations could be harmful as well and ye possibility hai ke they are neither helpful and they are not the harmful and these variations which are acquired through their phenotype and the genotype they are passed on to their offspring for example in case of this survival differential survival we go back again to those gallup against benches here in 1976 the population size of deafney birds is 751 so if we look at this graph we can see ke yaha par jo beak ke width hai was 6 millimetre se lekar ase be kuch individuals hai which have 14 millimetre wide beak but in 1978 iska number 751 se reduce ho kar 90 pe chala jaata hai and at same time we will see ke isme ase traits hai which are lost for example 6 millimetre beak wale birds they have disappeared they have eliminated similarly 14 millimetre ki jo beak width hi wo wala group jo hai individuals ka that population is also eliminated so there are certain which are growing very well for example 10 millimetre ki width ke jo beak ke length hai ya uske depth hai wo proportion of population is increasing in its number so there is a continuous elimination and then there is a continuous process of improvement and this improvement and elimination is because of the variation of traits in another case ke kese ye variations jo hai wo continuously aate rite hai we will study this example here is example of the beak depth in offspring's and here is the beak depth of the parents so we can see in 1976 these blue dots mostly those individuals in that population in ke beak ke depth 8 millimetre se lekar 9 millimetre ke darmyan mein but in 1978 we will see that most of individuals they have the beak depth between 9 millimetre and 10 millimetre which means ke 1976 mein jo environmental conditions us habitat mein hai they are more supportive for the beak depth of 8 se lekar 9 millimetre lakin ek saal ke arse mein jaa bhi environment change hot hai yaha pe wo individuals zada survive kare hain aur reproduce kare hain jinn ki beak depth 9 se lekar 10 millimetre ke darmyan mein so there is a continuous variation in environment environmental conditions and resultantly wo individuals wo species jo kese habitat mein survive kare hain they have to change themselves or wo individuals which have the good variations which those variations good variations ka matlab yei ke assi variations assi traits jo unko maximum potential tak reproduce karne mein help out kare aur unki survival ki jo strategies hain they are better than the others so they have these these are animals which have the good variations and these variations are coming with the passage of the time as environment is changing so the variations are also appearing wo svag when davan he proposed his theory and he proposed that concept of variations he was not familiar with the factor behind these variations so usko yei malum tha ke assi ek phenotypic variations hai for example beak depth hai for example length of neck hai so these are the phenotypic or morphological variations which he observed but later when in the modern age jab mandal ne apne genetics ke principles or theories jo ki usko proposed kya then he proposed that genes are actually responsible for these variations and then he proposed the concept of inheritance that the genes from the parents are transferred to the offspring's so the parents they are transferring their traits both phenotypically and genotypically to their offspring's and then we know that the mandal's law of independent assortment also proposed that these genes they assort from each other independently and he also proposed the concept of then later on there was a concept of crossing over and we know that these alleles can cross the dna and this exchange of dna it would bring the variations and then meosis itself is also bringing variations that's why offsprings are not exactly like their parents so they have variations in the traits and they are dissimilar in certain traits from their parents so this confirmed the second postulate of davin in the modern age as well therefore davin theory is still acceptable because it is in agreement with the modern research


Blackstone Publishing presents Where Are We Heading? The Evolution of Humans and Things by Ian Hodder. This book is read by Gildert Jackson. All charts, diagrams and photographs that appear in the print edition of this book can be found in the bonus PDF file that accompanies your audiobook CD or download. Fundamental Questions in Science At its deepest level, science becomes nearly indistinguishable from philosophy. The most fundamental scientific questions address the ultimate nature of the world. Foundational Questions in Science, jointly published by Templeton Press and Yale University Press, invites prominent scientists to ask these questions, describe our current best approaches to the answers as well as where such answers may lead. The new realities they point to and the further questions they compel us to ask. Intended for interested lay readers, students and young scientists, these short volumes show how science approaches the mysteries of the world around us and offer readers a chance to explore the implications at the profoundest and most exciting levels. For Lin, Preface If you wish to make an apple pie, truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer, 1934-1996, Cosmos This book deals with a problem that has bedeviled archaeologists, anthropologists, social theorists, philosophers, and evolutionary biologists. Does human evolution have a direction? If so, why? These questions dominated debate in the 19th century and in the mid-20th century, but consensus today is that biological evolutionary development is non-directional. The same holds for human cultural development. Humans, their cultures, and their societies change or evolve, but they are not thought to evolve in any overall direction. One reason for this view is that directional arguments lead to the notion that some societies or cultures are more advanced than others. Because such theories were found to be repellent, there were long periods in which evolution was rejected in favour of diffusion as a motor for change. But we have an urgent need to reconsider the assumption... Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Great, Sue. All right, what about you, Tony? Smokes? That's all? No pot? Where did you get, Kevin? Something a lot better than beer. That's whiskey. This is the real stuff. Awesome. Rah! Parents had a party last night. They always have leftovers. Awesome. Well, check it out, guys. Look who's here. Mr. Cool himself. Hey, guys. What's you doing, drugs? Alcohol isn't a drug. Just don't you know anything. Why are you always such a wimp? This is whiskey. No, I'm drinking that. I mean, it's bad for you. What do you know? Chicken. Well, our drug, like cocaine or heroin, you won't get hooked on pot. I heard that marijuana could lead to using harder drugs. Where do you get your information? This is too good to waste on a baby. Chicken. Take a look at this. You want to see a picture of a real nerd? It's a wall. Fate elevator. What's going on? I said, why don't you take the fate elevator? But I can't see him, though. I'm just the guy you're looking for. This place, like my name, booze is the name. Booze is alcohol, and alcohol is a drug. Who said that? Don't listen. Just step this way. There's a light where Cosmo was. Just keep going. Easy, does it? Just remember, safety first. Why do you think alcohol is a drug? A drug is any chemical substance that changes our mind or body. Does it change by mind or body? Yes, it does. It can strain your brain, your stomach. As long as it feels good. It really breaks your body. What did you just try to do to me? Your time. Your body can be damaged by marijuana. And it can become a- Hey, guys. What's you doing, drugs? Ben would like to join a group of kids. But they reject him because he won't drink alcohol or smoke marijuana. Shouldn't be drinking that. I mean, it's bad for him. What do you know? Chicken. A mysterious character named Cosmo comes to the rescue and takes Ben up in his magic fate elevator. Ben finds himself in the dungeon of ignorance, where he meets booze and pot, who try to lead a mistray with false information about drugs. Thanks to the knowledge that his magic headband gives him, Ben is able to keep out of danger. But when pot steals the headband, Ben finds himself hanging over the edge of a deadly snake pit. Got you. Thought you said you couldn't get hooked on it. Oh, care. Give me that.   Lodges itself in the fatty tissues of the brain. It's three weeks. You can shorten your life by 400 different chemicals with even more poison than tobacco. Interviews long enough ends up meaning you're even more dangerous than what we're talking about. The body's like a spaceship. And drugs, like booze, are enemy spacecraft. How to destroy it is stuffed with hundreds of dangerous chemicals, such as carbon monoxide, the guck that comes out of a car's exhaust pipe, that sticky black goo that you put all over the roads, cyanide, a deadly chemical gas, and THC, the stuff in the marijuana plant that makes you dizzy, and the main thing in booze is ethanol, a chemical that's so lethal it'll burst into flames if you put a match to it. Taking booze in part is like leaving yourself open to all these alien chemicals and letting them wreck your spaceship. The command center, that's like your nervous system, controlling all your movements. The fuel supply, that's like your digestive system.  And the air ducts, they're like your respiratory system, breathing air in and out of your body. Once you let the aliens attack, you're in trouble. A spaceship only works when it's all systems go. If the system gets screwed up... Hey, let's go! I got enough of this.


When I saw this video, I was surprised because the position of the Pope is delicate and deplorated in Christian tradition. However, with a lot of hidden things which nobody would have expected the Church of Dilling or covering up, I was not too surprised. The prophecy is one of the Western world's oldest institutions and it cannot be written off in the progression and influences of Western civilization and colonization all over the world. In fact, the colonialists were ruthless and determined in their inordinate quest to subjugate and conquer the entire world, propelled by a command issued by the Pope to Europeans, especially the Portuguese at that time, to make other tribes, Christian and subjects for all eternity. What if I told you that the Vatican helped Europe colonize the world? Recently, the Church apologized for that mistake. Have you heard something called the Doctrine of Discovery? It's Europe's version of finders, keepers. It's what European colonizers use to subjugate the world. The doctrine was cited by Europeans who discovered new lands and the doctrine traces its roots back to the Vatican and to the Catholic Church. Now the Church has apologized for helping colonizers in their conquest. On Thursday, the Vatican issued an unprecedented statement. It officially apologized for its historical role in justifying colonialism by European powers. The Vatican said, Nevertheless, I now take anything from the Vatican seriously because it might be true. The same with the claim that a Pope became a Muslim at one point. Whether or not this is true, we must understand who a Muslim is and how one can be one. A Muslim, according to standard knowledge, is a person who submits to Allah. That is God.  The question would naturally be that the Pope submits to God in that sense. What does the Pope say? Yes, he did submit to God by respecting and upholding the words in the Quran. Pictures of the Pope kissing the Quran are not hidden. His visit, apostration in a mosque are not hidden as well. This is not to talk about the fact that during his reversal of the Catholic catechism, he inserted this into the official teaching of the Church. Here is a specific quote from the Catholic catechism regarding Islam. I quote, The plan of salvation also include those who acknowledge the creator in the first place among whom are the Muslims. This professed to hold the faith of Abraham and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, Mankind judge on the last day. Catechism of the Catholic Church, page 841. With this in mind, I can cautiously aware that the Pope, their actions and commission was a Muslim under the close Assalamu alaikum brothers and sisters, welcome to another episode of the Opal Minded Thinker Shell. This video is crucial. It would please YouTube if you like and share it. This way it can absolutely get to others who might lend a lot from it. Don't forget to subscribe to help us grow better and bigger. This is the video that people used to prove that the Pope became a Muslim. Why somehow the video is far from that? It does represent the pacha from Christian tradition that the head of Christianity reached out to Muslims across the Atlantic. One notable thing I saw in the video is the fact that the Pope appeared to be posturing like a Muslim while praying with an Imam. Guys, let's analyse this.  One, you believe that the religion is true and the worship the true God. So the Pope was actually telling the world that Islam obviously has a truth. It also means that Islam is not Paganism as St John Damasus claimed during the time of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him too, by accepting and praying and kissing the Holy Quran.  So technically he became a Muslim. He was until death because he never renounced what he did or told the world or the church that he made a faith mistake by kissing the Quran and praying in the mosque. Just watch this video.  I swear to God I will tell you my words and by the will of God. So I saw him angry and he had the right to be angry. I said, yes, I am angry. When I saw him angry, I said to him, and I am a partner with you in the existence of atheism and Shia. We are men of religion. When we present religion in its form, and we turn away from the human form of the beautiful religion, the form of the beautiful religion that is full of it, and we say about the white, the black, and about the black, the white. Do you believe in our words? Impossible. The end after the end of the session. The last word was from him. And we are supporters. He said to him, I read the Quran every day. The door is now available. Let's leave it right there, ladies and gentlemen. Like, share and subscribe. Until next time, assalamu alaikum.


the damage that resistance training provides the muscles tends to be the greatest that the stretch portion of a rep. Now there's a positive that you get a lot of muscle growth from that. And so they've done studies to show that loading a stretch portion of a rep produces more muscle growth than let's say loading the top portion. But that's not the full picture. Number one, the whole thing builds muscle. So you don't want to discount the whole rep and just try and focus on the stretch. But number two, if something causes less damage, that means you could do more of it. Here's one of the interesting thing about band type workouts. You could train a lot with bands. You can add a way more with bands and you can with free weights or machines. The positive of that is you get to practice movements more often. You get to train the CNS more often. And there's value to that. Like athletes know this, Olympic lifters train a lot. They train very frequently at suboptimal intensities because they understand that this allows them to be stronger because it perfect a movement. And then for people who want to build muscle, there's a carryover. So bands just don't damage your body. Like if I use weights and add bands to it versus adding more weights, it doesn't hammer my body as much. It's just a lot easier on the body.


Putin wants the Soviet Union back, Britain issues warning to Russia amid NATO training. When Russia's war in Ukraine began over two years ago, neighbouring countries feared that they could be next. And NATO asked itself, was it prepared to defend its territory if war arrived on its doorstep? The answer was no. So its military chief decided it was time to ramp up NATO's strategy and revive its military headquarters. And for the first time this spring, NATO will exercise brand new war plans to prepare for the worst. The plan comes as Donald Trump makes another run at the White House and expresses skepticism about NATO along the way. Russia will pose a long-term threat to NATO. Therefore, the Alliance needs to adapt its collective defence, states the Minister of National Defence of Lithuania, Avidas and Ososkas. Lithuania has discussed the possibility of deploying air defence assets in the region with Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, as well as Greece, but specific agreements have not yet been reached. According to Anusoskas, Russia continues to strengthen its capabilities against the West and will pose a long-term threat to NATO. Therefore, it is extremely important for the adaption of NATO's collective defence, which is currently ongoing, to be implemented as quickly as possible, he said. The Defence Secretary of Britain is warning Russia's President not to test the patience of NATO Allies as combat-ready forces train in Eastern Europe. GB News was given access to a NATO training exercise in Poland, where British and Polish forces are working together to plan for any possible attack by the Kremlin. Speaking as troops, practised clearing enemy buildings, Grant Shaps said, we're sending a very clear signal to Putin, or any other despotic leader, that we will stand up for ourselves and don't try it on. We're living in a more dangerous world. We are simply here to defend our values of freedom, sovereignty and democracy, and that means that we do need to be prepared to stand up for it, he added. He also warned that Putin's end game is to carry on expanding Russia. He wants the Soviet Union back. He's invaded Georgia. He's invaded Chechnya. He invaded Crimea before he went into the rest of Ukraine. How much more evidence do we need? Yemen's Houthis threaten to extend ship attacks to Indian Ocean. They have hypersonic missile. Yemen's Houthi rebels claim to have a new hypersonic missile in their arsenal, potentially raising the stakes in their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways against the backdrop of Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The missile can reach speeds of up to Mach 8 or 6,200 miles per hour and is powered by solid fuel. An unnamed military source told Russia's Sputnik news agency, Houthis planned to begin manufacturing it for use in attacks in the Red Sea and Arabian seas and the Gulf of Aden as well as against targets in Israel, the source added. The source went on to say that the following months of testing, Yemeni Houthi forces have also upgraded their missiles and drones to carry warheads of twice the explosive power as what it had in its arsenal. Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, the Houthis' secretive supreme leader, said the rebels will start hitting ships heading towards the Cape of Good Hope in Africa's southern tip. Until now, the rebels have largely struck ships heading into the Red Sea toward the Suez Canal and such an escalation would target the longer alternative route used by some vessels. It remains unclear how they would carry out any possible assault. Our main battle is to prevent ships linked to the Israeli enemy from passing through not only the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden but also the Indian Ocean towards the Cape of Good Hope. Al-Houthi said, this is a major step and we have begun to implement our operations related to it, he added. Al-Houthi said, about 34 Houthi members have been killed since the group began the attacks, which have been aimed at 73 ships. Meanwhile, Iran and the US reportedly held indirect talks in Oman. The first in months amid their long simmering tensions over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program and attacks by its proxies, Iran, the Houthis' main supporter, claims to have a hypersonic missile and has reportedly armed the group with the missiles they now use.


I just wanted to start by reading from Philippians chapter 1 and this is a prayer which Paul prays to the church of Philippi, right? So Philippians chapter 1 and verse 3, so this is what we see, while praying this, I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine, making request for you all with joy for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now, being confidence of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Okay, so you know, some of us, that could be a fear. Will I really fulfill, will I really complete what God has in store for me? Will I really do all the things that God has called me to do? Will I be able to do that physically, emotionally, when we face challenges and all that? Well, this is what we see here, Paul is praying and he's saying, you know, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will bring it to completion. So from God's side, there is no hesitation, right? From the part of the Lord Himself, there is no hesitation, there is no, there's nothing that is holding Him back and we know that. And so one thing is from our side, so we can be confident, we can be full of faith saying, you know, the Lord, there's nothing holding Him back. So why should I hesitate? Why should things hold me back? Why should I withhold? Because He will bring it to completion and a lot of it is, you know, His grace, His strength and our willingness and the posture of our heart, right? So we can pray and declare the same thing. Lord, I'm confident of this thing, this very thing, that you who have begun a good work in me, you will bring it to completion, you will bring it to fulfillment in Christ Jesus, right? Until the day of Christ Jesus. So it's an ongoing thing and He is bringing things to completion, right? So let's pray. Father God, we thank You, Lord. Even as we've read Philippians 1 and 3 to 6, Lord, we, Lord, we appropriate that for ourselves, Lord. And we acknowledge, oh God, and we come to that place of confidence and faith that You who have started a good work in us, Lord, You will bring it to completion, Lord. Lord, You will not leave things hanging, Lord. You will not keep things unfinished, God. You will bring it to completion, Master, Lord. And we are mindful of that, assured of that, Lord. And so, Lord, our response to this is that, Lord, have Your way in us, Lord. Have Your way in us, God. We don't want to withhold anything, God. Lord, we don't want to stand in the way of Your work in us, Lord. So we yield, Lord, to Your work in us, Holy Spirit. We yield, we give ourselves, Lord, to Your work, oh God, that You will change rearrange Father God, strengthen and, Lord, establish things in us, Father God, and bring it to completion, Lord. We pray for every area of our lives, God, our personal lives, Father God, our personal spiritual lives and growth, God, our family, God, ministry, God, work and profession, Lord, and maybe we are students, Lord, Lord, every aspect of our lives, Father God, we commit into Your mighty hands, God, Lord, we pray that, Lord, as we journey through that You will bring all this to a beautiful completion, Lord, in You, Master. We thank You.  In Jesus' precious name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So today, we will continue. We were looking at transition, right? Leadership transition. And I mean, it's a very important topic. And I guess it can be a, you know, a topic for advanced leadership session. But we are actually looking at it initially itself. Like even before we look at teamwork and all that, because, you know, in a ministry kind of a setting, we see that in a ministry kind of a setting, especially church, you know, we see that this is a possibility, right? And in today's, like world, today's scenario, you see that this is a reality. So as leaders, it's best that it's good that we are equipped for it. And we are empowered, equipped, and we are aware of these things, so that it doesn't, you know, normally, you know, transitions are never easy. Transitions are never comfortable. But shouldn't happen, you know, we shouldn't, we should be prepared. And we should know what to do. Okay, so, and in a church kind of a scenario, or a ministry scenario, we've seen, you know, so many things happen in the world, in the, in the kingdom of God, like transitions happen all the time, transition happen in a very positive way, like, you know, maybe like Moses and Joshua, and it was prepared, and Moses actually laid hands and prayed and, you know, well ahead of time, and sometimes transitions take us by surprise, you know, maybe an untimely death of a leader, or, or maybe some kind of, you know, an unpleasant thing, like, maybe a moral failure, maybe an issue with integrity, and we see that also in the, in the church scenario, right? Maybe some moral failure, maybe something with something to do with finances and all that and it's an issue of integrity and, and the leader has, has to step down when it comes to light and step down and there is a transition and whenever there's a transition for the leader who's actually taking that place. But, you know, there is there is such a turbulence, there is such a, I mean, unpleasantness. So one has to, one can't escape it. One has to face it boldly. And, and that's why we are looking at, you know, this very practical, you know, though very important and practical thing of leadership transition, right? So we, we looked at a few things last class, we looked at how the first of all, you know, our eyes, our focus need to be on the Lord, because a lot is going on, right? Lord is going on, people are talking, people are comparing. And, and, and so even our own emotions are, you know, there's an upheaval, right? Okay, I need to do the right thing. And there could be anxiety, there could be, you know, will I measure up and all those kinds of things, questions going around. So we need to keep our eye on the Lord, we need to keep our focus on him because he's bigger than this, and he has promised that he will lead. He is the good shepherd. So the good shepherd leads us through, you know, not only the green pastures and still waters, but also through those times, right, through the storms as well. So keep our focus on and make decisions out of a pure and sincere heart. That's the second thing we saw. Like we said, that our decisions and everything need to be made out of a pure heart, out of a sincere heart. It's not be something that, you know, something that out of a biased mentality, or something to, you know, on a defensive, in a defensive way, right, it has to be out of a pure and sincere heart for the greater good, not to put others down, not to present the, you know, someone in a poor light, nothing at all. So we do it out of a purity and out of a sincere heart, right. And while talking about the heart, it's important that we guard our whole heart, right. It could be fear, it could be something, it could be bitterness, it could be offense. So excuse me. So the temptation to be judgmental, the temptation to condemn, you know, criticize all that could be there, but we need to protect our heart. As we are focusing on the Lord, and, and also when, when there's a, you know, when people are talking, and then so we don't do a, you know, we're not doing a PR exercise to protect our image and everything. But even if it means that people don't understand and, you know, people are just talking, well, up to a certain point, you know, we can present the facts, but then people, right, form their own opinions, and they have their own perception. So we just leave that aspect to God. What we've done a bit, we presented the facts, but still if people are unable to receive it, we leave that to the Lord, let him indicate. Okay. So the, the other thing that we saw was that we need to focus on the journey that's ahead. Okay, focus on the big focus on the vision. Okay, what is ahead? What is it that we need to do? What, what needs to be done? Right? So, so big thing is that, you know, if you're not careful, this transition in, in leadership, or this transition time in leadership can actually drain up energy, emotions, everything, right? Where we and our focus could shift because of that, we could get distracted because of that. So it's, it's a difficult thing while it is, you know, it is important to be done well, to be managed well. But it's also important that our focus needs to be on the vision needs to be what needs to be done. Right? And so while we, okay, this is one thing that we are doing, that we need to go through this, we need to journey through this. But bring our focus back to what is it that we are here for? You know, as a church, as a ministry, as disciples of the Lord, why are we here? And what are we doing? Right? Always, we need to come back to that main issue or main focus. And it is depends on the leader, depends on the leadership team to, to bring that focus back, right? And not be distracted. Okay, then I think this is the last thing we saw last class, that is to keep the core people together, like the core team or the leadership team. So we looked at, you know, different, you know, whenever we look at a church or ministry or gathering, we always have the crowd community core and committed crowd community committed on the core, right? So, so keep the core together, the ones who carry the weight, the ones who carry the weight of leadership, keeping the core together. So, and these are people who will help carry the weight of transition of leadership, and journey through the transition. So they need to, they need to know, they need to understand all that's happening, they might have, you know, questions, and they might have doubts and all that all that needs to be clarified. And it needs to be explained clearly, right? So, so then, the change and the reason for change, etc, can be communicated well to the community, right? Okay, and in communicating the, the, the message, or, let it be the truth. And let it be one, singular message. And only the, the leadership can actually do that. Right? So it cannot be any deviation from the truth for the sake of managing, maybe some mistakes made, right, or covering up some mistakes made. No, it cannot be, right, you know, saying something for the moment, in order to cover up the mistake of the organization, maybe of the ministry. If it is the truth, well, it has to be told, this is what happened. Or this is what is happening, right? So it cannot be like, different people in the leadership cannot be talking about 10 different things. Right? Then it's going to confuse, it's going to further create confusion, right? So the truth, the truth is singular, right? The truth is exclusive. So speak the truth, declare the truth, and have the understanding, okay, this is what needs to be told, and no compromise and no deviation from it. So that there is one single message that goes up. What would also happen during transition in leadership is also that there could be some places that are, or some functions or some responsibilities, which are, which are, which have no place of leadership, in the sense that the leader is not there. Maybe, maybe there could be three things, four things, which, you know, which are, which require leadership now. So the, the thing is to either to appoint a new person to do it or one has to step in oneself, right? And it is, yes, an increased load, but it is with the understanding that it is for a season, right? Let's say, you know, there is a, you know, particular area of ministry for which there is a transition. Okay, maybe let's say men's ministry or, or let's, for example, take a think about men's ministry and that it's a transition has happened and there's no one suitable who's there, then what would happen is the leader himself or herself has to, you know, step into that area of ministry and, and take care of it. If we're able to appoint someone to do that to take care of the responsibility, that's fine. But if not, then the leader himself has to step in and take care of that area of ministry. So obviously, if it's man, then it has to be, you know, someone of the same gender men's ministry, right? So appoint the right people. Otherwise, you need to step in and be ready for the added responsibility. Well, the other thing is there could be many questions, there could be many issues. People could be curious. No, there's two things to it. People are general, people could be, it could be just idle curiosity. You know, they're not, they're not really concerned about the issue, but they're curious anyway. And they ask questions. Well, fine. There are other people who are also sincere. And they, they want to, you know, ask, they ask the questions, because they are sincerely care and sincerely want to know. Okay. Either way, whatever be the motive of people's heart, you know, all the questions can be addressed. If people have questions, and then, you know, there could be a separate platform where we call people who have genuine questions. So the ones who are actually genuine, it will be a mix of people who are actually genuinely want to know and maybe people who are curious, maybe people who are hurt, whatever, but they, they would come forward for such a gathering in order to hear from the leadership, right? Why certain things happened, and they may have an opportunity to ask questions, so that the answers can be received. Right. So, so these can be addressed privately. And these need to be addressed privately, because it's not for the, you know, it's not for the crowd. It's, it's for the ones who actually have those questions, because not everybody has questions. They may not even be aware of certain things or not interested in these things. They just come and go. But there are things who people who really want to know these things. So these can be addressed privately. These can be addressed so there can be a, you know, a thorough proper discussion, and it can be addressed. So be prepared for that. Right. Well, the next one is, when it comes to introducing new things, now, you know, maybe, there are maybe new ministries, new initiatives. Well, this is not the right time. This is not the ideal time to introduce those. Right. If it's a new initiative, it's a new thing. Let things be for some time. Do not introduce new changes or new initiatives at this time. Because if you introduce a new change, a new initiative, you really want, right, we really want the commitment of the people in order to take it forward. As a leader, only you can do so much. It depends on everyone else to be able to receive that and to take things forward. So wait, give it some time before introducing new things. Maybe that is not the right time to, you know, if it's a church, that's not the right time to say, okay, we are starting an additional service, you know, because all that enthusiasm and everything may not be there. And the added effort that is required to, you know, have additional service will not be sufficient, right, for people. So that is not the right time to do it. Wait, and let things settle down, let emotions settle down, let people understand and be willing to journey again. And so then you can have those new things introduced, right? And lastly, commit your reputation into God's hands. And just like how we said, okay, be willing to be seen as, as a person who did wrong, be willing to see because after you presented the facts, and there's no point in just going on defending your actions or defending yourself, right? You just leave that to God.  Let him take care of that as well. And he will do a much better job than us, right? So commit that into God's hands. So now this is going to take some time, right? If it's a very serious thing, right? Let's say a serious change, a very abrupt change happened and some difficult decisions had to be made. So it's going to take some time, right? Take some time for everything. It cannot happen overnight. And all these things that we saw all these 10 things, it's going to take some time, it's going to take time for the organization, for those who are connected with the organization, you know, if it is an organization like a ministry or ministry organization, or if it's a church, it's going to take some time to journey through this. So understand that, right? And be patient as you commit everything into God's hands, right? So, well, you'll be able to journey through this. Okay, so that's about transition, leadership transition. And so any questions here, before we move into a different topic, which is about productivity and personal productivity, any questions here? Possibly want to do certain things, especially in a church setting. Do we also give time for the congregation to adjust to, let's say, starting another service? Yeah, so do we, do we keep an extra time for people to get adjusted? Or is it okay to start? Yeah, the thing is, a couple of things, one is to because if it requires a buy in from people for this particular initiative, you know, like whatever, if it's going to require a buy in, in a sense, people need to be fully on, you know, it's that kind of an initiative, let's say, maybe they can outreach, and you need people to be there, or, you know, to be completely 100%. So for it to be, you know, effective and all that. So then we need to prepare, you know, well ahead, and, and find out if people are willing and if they are, you know, so and let the whole, you know, initiative come from there right from, you know, that level, then it'll be easier to roll out, because change by itself is not as human beings, we're not comfortable with change. Like just yesterday, I was just talking to a couple of, you know, senior folks, and then they were saying that how when they go to church, they'd like to sit in the same place. Right.  Right. And for various reasons, one is, you know, it's a shorter walk from the entrance.  They're all, they have a problem mobility movement and all that. So the thing is, you know, change is difficult for people. So just we need to be aware of that. But certain things like, you know, service, additional service and all that. Well, you know, if you are convinced that there is a need, and you feel that yes, this need to be tabbed, and you know, you feel at peace, then just need to, you know, share that vision with people and saying, maybe we need to do this, because this is what it is.  They will, for this to gain momentum. But, you know, this is what we need to do.  This is what we are doing. This is, we have this opportunity. And let's let's do this. So one is the communication part of it. And the buy in from the people, and moving ahead with the change. So, yeah, so both both sides, both aspects are important. Yes. Yeah. Any other questions? Any other thoughts on this? See, I know that this maybe, like most of us, I don't know, I'm just assuming that may not have witnessed firsthand these kind of transitions or, or been part of it. So, maybe it's a lot of it is just theory, right? So, yeah, so if, if we are in, or we have experienced certain that kind of a situation, maybe we'll have more questions. But it's important for us to know these things, right? Okay. Okay.  So, this is a very, this scenario that we looked at is, I mean, a difficult transition, right? Difficult change. Because we're just assuming there's a lot of things going on. But also, a transition need not be a difficult one, right?  And, and then, you know, we lead people through that. So, to manage that change, effectively. Also, you know, it's, it's a, it can be a very pleasant. It can be a very, you know, joyful experience also is going, leading people into that transition. So, it need not be very challenging. And, you know, unpleasant one can be a very joyful transition as well.  But yeah, so it can be that, that kind of a scenario as well. But there will always be, you know, a kind of comparison from the people who are being led or certain comparisons, right? Whenever there's a change in, let's say, leadership, there's always a tendency to compare the present one, the previous one, you know, whether for, for better or for worse, right? Okay, this was the strength, this is the weakness, this is what we saw. We never, this person never used to do that. All that is part and parcel of it. And should there be feedback? About this, you know, as a leader, you get to hear about these kind of companies, which we, which we will ultimately, this was, this was, this is how we used to do it. You know, that's how it will come, right? This is how we used to do it. This is how we had so much fun doing this and so on. So don't be bothered by that, right? Don't let it put you down. There is a tendency to get discouraged and say, Oh, man, you know, will I ever measure up?  If there's anything that, sorry, any change that we can make, which will, you know, without taking the focus off the direction that we are going, right, the things that we need to achieve, if there's anything that we can, if there's anything that we can learn, if there's any change that we can make corrections, maybe, just go ahead and do it, but do it in a positive way, right? And say, Okay, maybe this change just needs to be corrected. And let's, let's do that. So, but be alive to the fact that, or, you know, be open to the fact that this there will be, it's human nature.  Okay, let's, let's look at another topic, which is productivity. Okay, personal productivity. Okay. So if you look at productivity, it is, it is being fruitful, you know, if you want to use biblical language, it's being fruitful, bearing fruit, right? So a plant will bear fruit, given the right environment, given the right, you know, the nutrition and everything, the protection, it will, it is, it is designed to bear fruit, right? So when it comes to human beings, people like you and I, then, and it's not just the right environment and the nutrition, but it's also involves the will of individuals, like what you do with that.  We have, when we are having a corporate setting, you know, let's say Pharaoh's quote, kind of, you know, that's the analogy, right? Pharaoh's driving us, Pharaoh's really walking, you know, wanting us to make bricks without straw.  So, you know, we have a picture of negative picture of productivity. You know, we are, we have targets, we have deadlines. You know, this is the worldly way of doing things. I need to do this, reach there first, be first, to get things better, and so on, day in and day out, that's, that's like a pressure. And when it comes to ministry week, we sometimes just relax the whole thing, you know, just completely let go and be passive, and say, okay, if things happen, let it happen. If not, let it not.  Right. Now, completely let go and say, okay, if it happens, or glory to God, if it does not happen, glory to God, right. So let's, let's, let's get an understanding. Okay, what is God? What does God look for?  Right. Because we need to know that when we understand who we are in Christ, what we have become in Christ, you know, the things that are deposited in our spirit, because who we are in Christ, we realize that we've been given a lot actually. Right. And there's some things that we need to do out of our will, out of our choice, right, to make things happen or journey into some of those things that God has for us. Okay, so we need to understand that. Okay, so let's look at, you know, John chapter 15, and verses one to eight. Okay, John chapter 15, where the Lord says, I am the true wine. And my father is the wine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away every branch that bears fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you, abide in me. And I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the wine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the wine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, there's much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered.  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this, my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit. Okay, that you bear much fruit. So this bearing much fruit, we see it, you know, bearing fruit, bearing much fruit. You see that the father is actually looking. If you if you if you look at the other verses, you see that versus following that John chapter 15. See the father is actually looking for fruit. Okay, looking for fruitfulness in a person's life. So that is the expectation, right? The branch cannot bear fruit of itself. But if it abides in the wine, it bears fruit, not just fruit, it bears much fruit. Okay, that is what the Lord promises. You abides in me and I in him bears much fruit. Without me, you can do nothing. It says that by this, my father is glorified by what that you stay in the wine, that we stay in the wine, that we abide in the wine, and his words abide in us, and we bear much fruit. Okay, so there is that aspect of productivity of fruitfulness, that, well, that the Lord is expecting desiring of us, not as a cruel taskmaster, but as a loving father to see that as we stay with him, as his words stay in us, that we will actually be productive, that we will be fruitful. Okay, and if you if you see that the wine dresser, you know, the father is a wine dresser, and he's actually looking examining the the tree is examining and he's saying, okay, he's making some changes to it. You know, if every branch bears fruit, then he prunes it. He takes away the things that are dead, the things that are with it. So that that's what pruning is. So that it bears even more so that the foliage is even more the fruit bearing is even more, you know, is even more than before. So the father is actually doing that.  Okay, I want you to become even more fruitful. And because you're connected to me now, right, the Zoey God kind of life is flowing through you now.  Okay. So, so when we look at, you know, the fruitless on the spiritual side, we see that yes, this whole fruitfulness is because of us abiding. You look at the natural side of things, maybe you're working in a, you know, in a place and working in something in an organization. And, well, even the natural side, it means that we are being productive, right? Because, well, what is spiritual affects the natural and vice versa, right? So, so when we, when we look at productivity, you know, let's look at this word efficiency. Okay, being efficient in our work, when we efficient when we increase the way we are efficient, then our output, or what we, what we put forth, right, through our efforts and everything becomes, we can say, okay, it's, it's productive. So efficiency is, you know, if you want to use a formula, it's, it's the output based on what we are using as our input. Okay, so it's the output meaning the result end result, which comes out because of various factors, which is our time, the kind of effort, not just hard work, but the kind of effort, smart effort, the energy, and everything that we put in. Okay, so, so there is this time, effort, creativity, and all that that we put in in order to get the desire result. Okay, in order to be efficient, which leads to better productivity. So, when all these things that we're looking at, you know, when it's time, when it's, you know, physical energy, and, and, and the effort and everything that we put in, we see that, well, as human beings, it is, we have limits, right? There's 24 hours in a day. And in that, there are some, you know, hours which we use for various things, right? We rest, we, we, there's time for food, and intake, nutrition, there's rest, there's leisure, and all that. So there, there is, you know, there is this limitation, there is, okay, we can expend the energy up to a certain point. And after that, we need to rest as well. So, so how can we be, you know, how can we increase our efficiency? Knowing that, okay, there are some limits. Like, there are these limits to this time, there are limits to one's energy. And, you know, depending on how all that person is, or the season of life that person is in, and, you know, other responsibilities, there are some limits. So within that, right? So how can we be even more, how can we be efficient? How can we use time efficiently? How can we use the other sources efficiently, and increase our productivity? Okay, so, so, so productivity, and, you know, being fruitful, need not be, need not have a negative connotation, right, need not have paint, a very negative picture, especially if you're, if you're, if you're a person who worked in that kind of a setting. Okay, now, you know, just personally, I work in a setting where it was extremely, extremely competitive, extremely aggressive. Everybody, you know, it was not a very nice setting. I worked, I worked in across four organizations. I would say, okay, maybe two of those were okay. You know, there was some kind of a good environment. But otherwise, it was, and especially the function of sales, you know, it was all about, how much can you do today? How much can you bring in today? How much? So that is your work actually as a, as a person there. That is all your work was how much can you do? How much can you bring in? So, so when it came to productivity and fruitfulness and all that, you know, it's, it's, if you're, that's kind of a setting, it's, it's, you could actually go back to that. And look at that and, you know, feel all bad about the whole thing of productivity itself. But the fact is this, you know, as believers, that we are, the bigger picture is this, that we are actually spiritually, this is what is happening in the spiritual realm, we have access to the very best, the wisdom of God, we have, you know, we inspired by him, we have empowered by him, so we have, we can actually receive and put it to good use and God and over and above that the Lord is looking at us is saying, okay, I'm encouraging you.  So God is for us. And he's actually encouraging us. So there is that shift, right? So it's not, okay, I, I don't get any value if I'm not productive for a day, but you know, I, I work from a place of value. Okay, work from a place of great self-worth, because of my identity of who I am. And from that place, I bring in, you know, I'm bringing fruitfulness from that place, I work, I make some choices, I make the decisions I yield to the leading of the spirit. I, you know, press on, as Paul would say, to apprehend those things, to lay hold that for which Christ has laid hold of me, right? And it requires effort. Okay, number one, it requires effort. It doesn't just happen. Okay, it requires effort. It requires time, us investing time. It requires that it requires our energy. So please don't come for a human being, a person, it doesn't come as it's not an unlimited resource in the sense, yeah, we need to, you know, rest, refresh, and get back. So within that time, you know, how can we be very, very, how can we be efficient? So here are some practical things. So with that, you know, that's the, that's the background. And we just took some time to talk about that background, so that we, you know, in our wanting to be efficient, we don't do it out of a different context. Okay, it's not that you will, you know, we, we will gain a self worth or we will gain we perform so that we will be accepted by God, none of that. We know the context. It is from that place of reassurance that we actually do more that we actually stretch, right, and bring in more from a place of great reassurance. Okay, so that's why it is taking some time to dwell on that. Okay, so here are some practical things that we can do. First of all, we organize. Okay, we looked at organize, you know, how we need to organize people, how we need to organize finances, you know, our ministry, right, so that we can actually be better at what we do. So simple things like be organized so that you can we can be efficient. Okay, so organize would mean, you know, different things in all the tasks that, you know, that we're looking at, maybe ministerial tasks, maybe things, maybe you're working in an organization, you know, how can you be better organized so that you can be efficient? So one of the simple things is, you know, access to information, right, we need information in order to be effective. It could be information about people, it could be information about, you know, whatever, different things, but is that categorized and is that easily accessible? Okay, I guess we'll take a break and then we'll come back to this. Thank you.