Good morning everyone welcome to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. My name is Heather Conley I'm senior fellow and director of the Europe program as I was entering this room I thought this feels like a family reunion my goodness my goodness And I think the foreign minister was seeing many many friends and acquaintances that he hasn't seen for a while So we welcome you again I have to say two days before the Thanksgiving holiday and on a rainy day You are a hearty lot and we thank you very very much for joining us We are extremely grateful to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund because it's due to their generosity this morning that we can gather here today to talk about two very critical international issues that Unfortunately are not getting perhaps the attention and the focus due to a lot of Economic noise shall we say emanating from Europe from the United States from the global economy But this conference and today's release of a report co-authored by my colleague Janusz Bugajski Senior associate here at the CSIS and of the Europe program We're releasing a new report and if there's one thing I want to leave with you today After we're done with our conversation is the phrase time for change This is certainly the approach that Janusz and I took to the report It was going to be a very brief policy memo It turned into a little longer than we had anticipated But we felt it was absolutely vital to to give a recap of where the transatlantic community has gone Particularly in Bosnia over the last 16 years since yesterday's 16th anniversary The original signing of the Dayton Peace Accords So where did we go in the last 16 years? But most importantly where are we heading in the next 16 years and we hope that this Conversation will be an examination of a time for change and a change in transatlantic policy and approach Not only is it a time for change. It is a time for questioning Assumptions and today as we watch the stock market go up and down and up and down We know that we have to test some assumptions about the future of the European Union integration project if the ongoing financial crisis It cannot Allow the EU to deepen and widen as US policy towards this region assumes It is also time for questioning the future US role in the region and to see what what the United States will continue To pursue in the years to come so we hope as you listen to today's conference And we hope before you leave if you haven't already done so to take a copy of our report we want to demonstrate that there are differences of approach between the United States and Europe towards the Serbia and Kosovo as well as Bosnia We want to instill in policymakers a deep desire for change that the status quo is no longer a viable Approach and certainly your presence today in the room does exactly what we wanted to accomplish Which was raise the awareness in Washington that this region has some unfinished business And we need to galvanize our policymakers to renew their focus and their interest and With this lead off I can think of no one better to begin our discussion than the foreign ministers then I'll Call I and a man who needs no introduction to this room But as the current foreign minister of Bosnia, Herzegovina Minister I'll call I you have been a Long-serving ambassador here in Washington from 1994 to 2000 That's why you have so many friends in this room But has also served from 2004 to 2007 as the ambassador to the kingdom of Belgium and the head of the mission to NATO So steeped you are the transatlantic approach my friend and we look forward to your comments Please join me in welcoming foreign minister Sven Akalai Excellencies ladies and gentlemen Dear friends as had mentioned there really so many good friends. We worked on the Bosnia issue for a long time since First my arrival in Washington and the end of 93 So I've been in this business for a long long time if I get the benefited stars for this it might help So It's it's like a homecoming to this forum to see CSIS was always excellent forum for the issues on Bosnia Herzegovina when you work closely with Janusz and the other friends also with the big Reginski who was very Instrumental in many many of the policies which were created. So we always Think of best of this institute as one of the leading institutes in Washington policymakers and those who are Creating and influencing Policies of the United States and not only in the United States a world worldwide. So I'm really honored and Please that I got an invitation header. Thank you once again for Also your kind introduction Today during my tenure as you mentioned in as ambassador in Bosnia Herzegovina Washington DC I address this forum in a number in number of occasion and During all my years in Washington. I had the privilege to be the first Ambassador of Bosnia Herzegovina to and to participate in the negotiation in Washington agreement then That means creation of federation of Bosnia Herzegovina and the date and peace talks and many other Developments that are important and crucial for Bosnia Herzegovina So ladies and gentlemen yesterday as I mentioned we marked 16th anniversary of date and peace accords Which ended the war and created a constitutional and political framework for the state of Bosnia Herzegovina But interestingly enough the date was not celebrated in the Hall of Bosnia Herzegovina in Republic of Serbska It is a it was national holiday Celebrating what some call getting an autonomous state within Bosnia Herzegovina and looking back on those 16 years Since the Dayton piece accords. What can we say? There has been progress and achievements in a number of areas I will mention just a few of the achievements in Bosnia Herzegovina on the path to EU Signing those stabilization and association agreement with EU Which was signed in June 2008 and all the countries member states of EU have ratified it Citizens of Bosnia Herzegovina got the travel visa free into Schengen states and we get the status That our visas to get into United States are valid for 10 years now Bosnia Herzegovina was elected as a non-permanent member state of United Nations Security Council for the period 2010 2011 and our term ends this December. I think our participation in Security Council was Perceived by the other countries not by us as a very important and very constructive role Another very important issue in the past to NATO was The Bosnia Herzegovina got into membership action plan, which is the last step last stage before full membership Under the conditions, which I'll be talking later on Because on the very successful defense reform in Bosnia Herzegovina and Taking into account that major reforms were made until 2006 and Years after we see no significant moment in the past years which resulted in stagnation on the EU and NATO path Bosnia Herzegovina is the only country in the region that did not submit its application to become EU member Due to not being able to fulfill the necessary conditions The same goes for the NATO Accession that the major issues become state defense property as a condition to move forward The last example of this stagnation was when the law on state aid one of the conditions to present our application to EU Was on the agenda of the House of Representatives of Bosnia Herzegovina the law proposed by a minister for trade in economic relations who is a Bosnian Serb Adopted fully with concessions with the council ministers with all ethnic groups voting for it has been rejected By the House of Representatives by Bosnian Serbs member of parliament The main reason for all of this is the fact that the Dayton peace agreement has not been implemented in its central parks agreement has not Being implemented and instead has been continuously adjusted to the realities on the ground Which have resulted from the systematic violation of the agreement and not to the other way around Most of the problems and challenges that Bosnia Herzegovina faces today stem from the failure to implement the central elements of Dayton peace agreements particularly its annex seven For those who are not familiar with all this number of annexes This annex guarantees the right of all refugees and displaced persons freely to return to their homes of origin in safety and right confirmed by this Disagreement as a result of the systematic and continuous violations of the annex seven out of some 47% of non-serbs who lived in Republic of Serbs kind to be for they were either killed or cleansed only 8% of them live there now The failure to implement the annex seven has resulted in the most serious constitutional problem-facing was near Herzegovina today the so-called entity voting mechanism which was Intended as a safeguard for legitimate territorial interest of the two entities as Perceived by all three constituent peoples has morphed into mechanism by which one ethnic group From one entity blocks the state without any input from the other constituent peoples And this mechanism continues to be used as if the annex seven Had been fully implemented right now the House of Representatives in Bosnia Herzegovina's example has 42 members of Parliament 28 of them come from federation of Bosnia Herzegovina and 14 of them are from Republic of Serbs of all these 14 coming from Republic of Serbs not a single one Is a Bosnian Croat or Bosniak? They are all Bosnian Serbs That tells you that the return annex seven has not been implemented fully The entity voting mechanism allows only 10 Serb deputies elected from Republic of Serbs entity Who constitutes only 22% of the Parliament's 42 deputies to block any proposed decision of the Parliament of Bosnia Herzegovina and Over this 14 years those 10 deputies have used entity voting to block over 260 proposed laws in Construct the Parliament past less than 150 laws in the same period This ethnic monopoly or particularly veto power on territorial interest solidified ethnic division renders the state dysfunctional and in turn perpetuates instability Or as mr. Doddick the president of Republic of Serbska puts in himself and I quote We have demonstrated that we are ready and capable of defending our autonomy and our values It should be said that our concept is that for Republic of Serbska to be more independent in Bosnia Herzegovina and for our rights to be Reinstated and quote obviously this view is not shared by all the political factors in Bosnia Herzegovina but this fact on entity voting was confirmed by very prestigious Institutions worldwide first United States Congress in its resolution European Commission European Parliament Council of Europe and the Venice Commission who have all rightfully identified Entity voting as the main obstacles to the efforts of transform Bosnia Herzegovina into viable and self-sustainable country Capable of functioning in the absence of the office of high representative All of these institutions have recommended that the entity voting must be eliminated or reformed and all of their Recommendation has so far being ignored To put this into perspective to the US Constitution Provides federal government with 18 enumerated Responsibilities the rest are essentially left to the states But neither level of the government can block the other from exercising its respective responsibilities In Bosnia Herzegovina the state has 14 enumerated Responsibilities which is close enough to the US model and the rest are granted to the entities However, while the state cannot prevent the entities from exercising their responsibility one entity Can and does block the state from exercising its own This is due to the fact that the failure of sustainable return has caused the decision Making process in the state parliament to morph into ethno territorial voting mechanism Whereby Republica sub-kindity represents only one ethnic groups The second fundamental problem the question of a state property Stems from the fact that the right given to the state of Bosnia Herzegovina through annex for the Constitution of Bosnia Herzegovina annex our constitutions a part of peace deal Have been set aside in favor of political compromises necessitated by the realities on the ground Under article one of the Dayton Constitution Bosnia and Herzegovina is a sole legal successor of the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina And the Social Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina and as such it remains the owner of all property registered to these predecessors Similarly under succession agreement Bosnia Herzegovina is the owner of all former Yugoslavia property on its territory The entities have no ownership rights on basis for claims over any such property Bosnia Herzegovina ownership of the state property is the right Guaranteed by the first article of the Dayton Constitution and was unequivocally Confirmed as such by a final and binding verdict of the state court of Bosnia Herzegovina The court created by the office of high representative generously funded and supported by many of your government and Staffed by international judges and prosecutors from an even greater number of International countries from international community. It is therefore unacceptable to seek consensus To implement this existing law or to seek political compromise with those who block its implementation The same mistake was made when a high representative imposed the entity based privatization in 1998 With obvious negative consequences for return of refugees consolidation of single economic space and reintegration of the society Just to make a very important point one of the demands made by Slobodan Milosevic in Dayton And I can vividly remember that was to divide the state property between the entities He did not achieve This goal and it's puzzling that some still insist on this demand It is true that Bosnia Herzegovina has two entities by the Dayton peace agreement But that agreement also preserves the legal continuity of Bosnia Herzegovina including of course the ownership over the state property This was one of the key balances that made Dayton possible and it also said as a primary factor between the two entities The state property is a central to Dayton and it is in the two entity structure ladies and gentlemen Security Council of United Nations had a very good reason for insisting on the implementation of Dayton agreement in its entire Entirety when it adopted resolution 1031 The solution of a myriad of difficult compromises built into Dayton ensured that agreement would function if and only if All the elements are fully implemented Non-implementation of one of the element Made many other difficult or if not impossible to function So it's not the sheer Arbitrateness on this list that is Disconcerting but the fact that the closure or office of high-representative rather than Dayton implementation has become a goal in it in and of itself and One of the central elements of Dayton has been marked for a change in order to serve that goal Namely Bosnia Herzegovina ownership of state property These ladies and gentlemen will not lead to the Dayton implement implementation in its entirety But more likely to its demise Dayton was a difficult compromise Creating necessity for a number of its elements to function in unison The office of high-representative was put in place to ensure Precisely such functioning not to give legitimacy to an a la carte implementation Just so it can leave If the OHR mission had morphed from the full implementation node to the departure mode We can only conclude that such transformation is not in accordance with the clear language of this Council resolution 1031 and the same time we cannot be expected to provide assistance for this transformation Not only do we take our internal obligations? Including Security council resolution seriously we more ever remain conscious that the dangers facing Bosnia Herzegovina if Dayton central elements are slowly reduced Modified or completed taken completely taken away For that ladies and gentlemen if one of central element is on the table, so must be all others and As stated by the international community and particularly the US the objective of having a single state of Bosnia Herzegovina capable of fulfilling its domestic and internal obligation is to be achieved two things Must be done First the state must be given a political life of its own that is independent of the entities The state must be able to carry out its stated responsibilities throughout fully Democratic process at the same time contains protection from the vital interest of each Ethnic group Bosnia Herzegovina is a complex country and those vital ethnic interest must be protected But no country including Bosnia Herzegovina can function as a viable state if every decision can be blocked Unless reform is undertaken in this direction the debate about what specific Responsibilities the state should have in the future is misguided we could transfer all responsibilities to the state level But that would be a futile exercise if the state has no mechanism to implement them in the entities Second in order to achieve the first objective the country's leadership must be elected from the entire territory of Bosnia Herzegovina Due to obstruction of refugee return today's politicians are forced to appeal to their ethnic base only By electing their representative at the state level from the country as a whole the waters Voters will be able to choose between those who offer concrete economic and social programs and those who are mired in The politics in the past The political elites will in turn have no to concentrate on building appeal that transcends ethnic lines And that truly serves to real interest of all the citizens in the country not just the perceived interest of individual ethnic group more ever the electric Elected representative will have to mandate of it of the entire country when carrying out the state's responsibilities greatly eliminating insensitive and Tolerance for blockades The debate about future of Bosnia has gone has has for far too long been stored steered towards the wrong issues The issue is not whether Bosnia Herzegovina has multiple levels of government aimed towards the separation of powers The issues whether the state can exercise its Responsibility without being prevented to do so by the entities the issues whether there will be a viable functional Bosnia has gone with the true separation of powers Order dysfunctional Bosnia has gone in which the entities decide how and when the state shall exercise the powers That's clearly has under the constitution and today's situation When Bosnia has going is a lagging behind in all reforms on EU and NATO path within the neighboring countries When conditions are not met by BH authorities when our constitution is discriminatory to the extent that all citizens of Bosnia Herzegovina are not equal or Eligible to elect to certain political office in the country and that after 14 months after the election We cannot form the council ministers eyeing government all this shows that there are serious problems in the implementation of data in moving country forward when we are hearing Calls for a friend for secession continued obstruction from politicians from Republic Kassup's car calls for the creation of the third Ethnically pure entity we have to step back and say that serious steps might be made by an international community to preserve Bosnia Herzegovina as a state and not to allow a new crisis to evolve in I'm not talking about the possibility to slip back into the violence or armed conflict God forbid war that is very remote possibility But we must ensure that Bosnia Herzegovina has functional institutions and introduced reforms necessarily for your Atlantic integrations All mentioned deficiencies cannot be changed in a parliamentary procedure because there's no political will to do so and Constitutional obstacles mentioned earlier which are used and abused especially from the Republic as Subscar side which is steering towards the creation of a state within state Please note that these are not my words, but the words of the leadership of Republic of Subscar said and repeated over and over So we have to look for a new ways of moving the country forward Fact of the matter is that Dayton piece accords which have ended the war and the bloodshed in Bosnia Herzegovina allowed my country's progress as we have certainly advanced to where we are today But at this point within this framework, we cannot move forward But Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot make the next crucial step that will propel Bosnia Herzegovina into Euro-Atlantic integration At this point in time my country needs more than Dayton Can offer therefore new ideas are welcome and one of those is a possible conference on Constitutional changes to remove the obstacles preventing Bosnia Herzegovina to move forward this gathering ought to be convened by US European Union and Russia to then together with other signatories of Dayton Accords These changes in the new era for democratic peaceful and prosperous state of Bosnia Herzegovina With efficient and functioning institutes can be launched. It is my sincere hope that discussions today Will take place here will help us and the proposals that brought before us will bring forward to such Goals and we will offer it will offer new perspectives for Bosnia Herzegovina. Thank you Well, let me throw out the throw out the first question And and if I can tease out a bit of this the conference on constitutional change As being there 16 years ago as Dayton was signed what are the critical elements of that of that conference and In the 16 years if you could provide your insights on how the roles of the US and the European Union Have changed in your view Over those last 16 years and what do you need from both? Washington and Brussels in the future to help move through these very entranced Issues whether that's entity voting or on the state or on state property Thank you for this question and I mentioned the problems and I was not able to give the answers if I could I would gladly do we did a couple of Attempts to do constitutional changes. Everybody here follows Bosnia Herzegovina remembers April package which was Done in April 2006. There was this second attempt to put me so-called put me process in a military barracks Near Sarajevo, so everybody resembles a bullet but mere Dayton. Maybe there'll be a success story No, but the proposed Things was and I can say just my opinion because I was not part of the negotiation There were some only party leaders and my friend Miroslav Leitschak was there would remember more in details I Can say just my personal opinion The proposals who had done that were fall short in April package. There were really good proposals Except having the flow Which was entity voting because then entity voting could be used in the in the parliament of Bosnia Herzegovina to elect Someone you liked and who will be obeying so if you don't like someone you just Entity voting and and then he won't be elected. So and There was another flaw that after three unsuccessful attempts to elect Chairman of the council ministers or even a member of presidency We would be into new elections So we can be by the will of this entity voting on the continuous perpetuers Elections trends on the state level. I have to at the same time on the entity level would thrive They would be can function without Any impact on the state? But what what is known to everybody to become member of EU and NATO the entities cannot Only the states can become members. So I think we have to make state institutions much for Better more function. That's why we need constitutional changes to eliminate and if if we should judge what US Congress said what Venice Commission with EU Parliament what the Council of European Union said and they notify that's the main reason Then we should I think move in that direction because there are much more Experts over there in those institutions than than myself My my party party for BH was accused of Turning down this April package, but I have to remember all of all of here who are that there was this Abolish entity voting we will vote for April package because that was the major major thing but my package had it was done under the EU leadership, which which Gave some solutions which were not accept accepted by anyone Those who are poor brosnia and those who are for for a different options So it was not accepted by all the parties and it was rejected We are always for whoever good tries to have to to to see but what I think it's not that I'm Today in this country, but I believe without US leadership things would not happen. It's not insult to EU. Sorry Miroslav, but I think it happened during the war. I experienced when US had a policy we don't have dog in this fight You remember John Harper Jim remembers that very well until and that was my main to bring and US to get involved and we had this contact group and It was very large support. So I believe we have to have all these three players EU US EU and Russia because without Russia definitely we cannot do they should be involved But I think US has to take a leadership. I stopped here I'm Mike Halsell from the Center for transatlantic relations John's often sighs spend Aside from the the usual suspects the players that We're not able to Get the April package through and not working at boot me or plus the Russians of course what about Making a role in a in a conference on constitutional change. What about making a role for civil society in Bosnia? Some of the civil society groups transcend the entity borders Would give Democratic legitimacy. I know most people when they hear civil society think it'll be a food fight, but you know we have a An example in the OSCE much much larger group than you know simply Bosnia-Herzegovina that Is giving civil society an increasing voice in its sessions? I'm saying a voice. They obviously don't have a final vote, but they have a significant voice What about what about carving out a role for civil society in this conference? Wonderful question if I can just take one or two more gentlemen to the right Alex and then Baster calls rich there and then you can wrap up. Okay Over at Kessich TSM global consultants Mr. Minister your speech laid out very well the position of Sarajevo as to the talks on constitutional reform I'm wondering How do you? See the implementation of your ideas given that both of the crucial things that you identified are opposed The first one opposed by the Republic of Sipsca and the second one opposed both by the public of Sipsca and the major Croatian parties in Bosnia other it seems to me that the Implication was that you see that the international community would impose these type of solutions is did I misread that? Rich Kozler. It's George Mason University. Welcome back to Washington. Mr. Minister. Good to see you again If the politicians of Bosnia-Herzegovina cannot form a government after 14 months How are they going to be able to agree on a new constitution? tough fire away Official is not an easy task trust me. I Used to have a dark hair when I came to Washington and you see what's happening now. It's like snow. It's outside Now I'll go questions Michael Thank you. I think you cannot have a better support of work role of civil society in me We need and you can you have so As you said transcend ethnic lines. They're so eloquent that's an knowledgeable they are really present the situation and Obviously any constitutional changes should go beyond political leaders It should be put before the people before the parliament and also before the people where the people have their say all this maybe one of the flaws of this any any was of this Education changes was because it was always the closed circles. It was not accepted by the political leaders or group of political leaders of all of them but at the end who raised the hands is The parliamentarians who are listening their party buses. Unfortunately, that's why it's important to threaten the role of civil society of those ground roots groups to have their say much stronger and They can threaten not elect these officials in a next elections, which are really around the corner in 2014 It's not that that far. So I would Support fully this and I think those who would be Discussing and thinking on on a Dayton plus or Dayton to whatever. It's some kind of conference should take and envisage strong role of Civil society, we know what what the NGOs were able to do in Serbia It's a vivid example how this power of Voice of people can be heard and can be heard very loud. So we should do it in Bosnia I think we have good groups knowledgeable groups, but we have to give them a chance. So thank you for this my friend Obrot, okay Of course, I was expecting that he will say policies of Sarajevo, but this is once has to be made clear Even Republic of Sub-Saharan Federation are in Bosnia Herzegovina in spite of the those calls We hate the Bosnia Herzegovina. We are in a tight We cannot progress in Bosnia Herzegovina. We want to do this and that this is position of Viable state of Bosnia Herzegovina And if all the entities work together in a good faith, I think we could create very good country I'll take you one example Visa liberalization process we got a map road map for this very difficult Things to achieve but it was in a common interest for this Visa liberalization to appeal to the electorate to give them visa-free travel in Europe Even in Republic of Sub-Saharan, they decided to transfer some authority or so-called Sovereignty of the entity to the state level it had to be so we believe that Placing Bosnia Herzegovina into the European Union as soon as possible can be a format where the entities and the state of Bosnia Herzegovina can find its way both without saying oh, we are endangering the entity Status or we are taking authorities from Transferring authorities from the entity to the state. No one is taking because All if we move forward will bring benefit to all the citizens and we have to start thinking in that sense Not to look. Oh, what would I do for my? Entity for my people. That's why I was proponent maybe different election election law which would bring more transparency to that you Answer to every citizens of Bosnia has not to appeal to your ethnic group and then of course You're saying oh, you see there's a terrorism. There's of a habits all over the Bosnia. They are after Christians or whatever so I believe we should not look to the policies as Sarajevo policies policies of Bosnia Herzegovina and and the I Think you impose differently. I was not imposing that anything In that sense what you were mention mentioning I was saying that we should be working for Bosnia Herzegovina together and to move forward because European Union for all the countries of forming us love Bosnia Herzegovina Serbia Montenegro Macedonia is the best possible format to achieve all the rights of all the ethnic groups of all the peoples and bringing them better better stand on all the way and Answer to be short to the ambassador Kozleric Forming of the government. I think that's not the main goal. Everybody think that forming of the government It's going to to solve all these problems of our accession to EU or NATO No, why we don't have form form government so far I think what is important to hear to understand the package that reforms are adopted It easier would be later to divide the chairs who would be playing Clarence who will be trombone who will be doing this and that but I think we have to agree and I tend to agree with these policies that we look for the package to fulfill this Conditionality necessary to move on EU to fulfill the conditionality to move on a to these are two Critical issues and to hold the census in Bosnia Herzegovina if political leaders who will be creating majority in the new parliament would agree on the on those Main issue. I don't think that the would be a big problem in distribution of the chairs of the in the council Mr. Ockel I thank you so much for those comments and please join me in thanking the minister


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This is one of their first palettes I think it was probably their second or third and it's a really beautiful palette. It's very feminine And I guess I like it a lot It's just I find that this palette cools very very pink on the eye what you see in the pan It's not really what you get on the eyelid, but here's the thing I like what shows up on the eyelid just because the pans deceive you I'm putting this as the worst But deceive is not even the right word. It just pulls pink and that's not a bad thing So this one I feel like I had to sacrifice for this video But something about putting it here doesn't feel right because I just don't have a bad color pop palette that I've Experienced yet. I don't let's talk about the rock now I don't have too many new palettes from the rock But I did have quite the collection a few years ago So I did want to talk about the brand so I want to talk about the best palette from the rock And that is the unzipped eyeshadow palette this palette is still bomb I would totally buy a fresh one and put this in my kit because look how pretty the colors are the quality on this is great The shimmers are beautiful and this is just such a universal palette so many people love the shades in here And I think we've forgotten about this palette, but it truly is such a good pretty everyday palette I need to pull this out and use this because looking at this is exciting me. I really love the colors in here So this is the best palette from la rock and they were very popular a few years ago I think we've forgotten about them, but such a good palette to you worst palette that I've tried from la rock was the mega pro For I struggled with this palette This was another one that I pulled out of my declutter bin so this I'm trying to get rid of and I just found the Quality in here to be horrendous. The colors in here are very very ashy. They're very light So if you have any sort of color to you This is just not going to work and a lot of the shades were so chalky. They blend it away. They're just horrible I don't know what happened to this palette, but I did not like it. It's by far They're worse because I feel like in a lot of ways as far as eyeshadows go the rock couldn't go wrong But they went so wrong with this one. Let's move on to Jeffrey get start cosmetics So my favorite palette I was toying between this one and the jawbreaker But I ultimately just decided on the bloodlust palette because purples, you know 90% of my video I'm wearing some type of purple makeup some type of purple top and I just really fell in love with this palette I don't think that the formula here is superb Like yes, the shadow makes my eye burn, but I really feel so inspired by this palette I think he really nailed this purple palette as far as putting in colors that Compliment purple that aren't purple as well. So overall for me It's just a really well rounded purple palette and since I'm such a purple fiend This is his best palette in my opinion now He has a lot of great palettes don't get me wrong and this one is totally a personal decision on my part because not Everybody likes purple, but he does have a lot of other beautiful palettes But for me this one was his best work his worst work Unfortunately and I still like this But I just found it hard to work with and I still managed to make it work because it is such a unique palette And that is blue blood, but I really do kind of have to really work to make this work for me There's too many pressed pigments in here They don't blend their patchy and you have to put a lot of work in to get a really killer look with this palette But that being said this definitely has a soft spot in my heart Because it's an all blue palette and no brand has really ever come out with a palette like this You know it was a very brave move on his part and I think color curation wise This is a gorgeous palette and it excites me to use this palette it inspires me to use this palette I don't really dislike any of his palettes as a thing This one is just the worst because I mean it's it's a little bit more difficult to work with all right So let's move on to morphe. I have a small ish collection of morphe palettes I definitely don't pick up every palette that they come out with but over the years I have built a bit of a collection enough to include the brand in this video So I think that the best palette for morphe which should come as no surprise to anybody is really the original Jacqueline Hill palette I do enjoy the volume to as well but color story wise this one is so popular for a reason It has really good colors and the quality is definitely a few notches up from their regular quality It's good quality. It's a great value and this palette in particular I mean the color curation in here really is perfect for the everyday woman I don't reach for this palette as much personally just because I have a lot of higher end Luxury makeup that I want to get my money's worth out of but if I didn't have the large Collection that I do have or this had come just a few years earlier when I was like in high school I would have murdered this palette every pan would be hit if this had come out a few years earlier for me So this is a really good palette and the quality is very impressive Especially for the value now the worst palette for morphe and I know for a fact They've had worse palettes, but when I was taking a look at the palettes that I do have I had to pull up the 3502 Now this isn't necessarily about quality because I was toying between this and the Jeffree star collaboration But I ultimately decided to go with this palette because it's 50 shades of brown literally There's just like one shade in here. This could literally be turned into a quad I could take four shades from here and I would still achieve the same looks of this whole palette though I do like the colors in here. That's why I purchased it I've wasted my money because I just bought literally four shades of brown Yeah, they just put all of the one shade in here and morphe has done this a lot Especially in their older palettes and this is an older palette, but oh my gosh I opened it and I was just like why this who put this together This is horrible and why did they think it was a good idea? Every single one of these shades kind of look the same. So that's why it's the worst in my opinion Let's move to Charlotte Tilbury next now I was hesitant to put Charlotte Tilbury in here because Charlotte Tilbury is next as far as my rankings videos go However, this could change. Okay? I'm going through my collection currently and I am retrying every single palette and quad that I own from Charlotte Tilbury But as of today, this is where these palettes will rank as far as the best and worst But that is subject to change as I'm retrying and replaying with the palettes But the best palette from Charlotte Tilbury in my opinion is the starry eyes to hypnotize palette and reason being this is a great Charlotte Tilbury formula. This is her great Charlotte Tilbury formula I guess is how I should rephrase it and the best part about this is you get four different tones here The thing with Charlotte Tilbury is lying as you guys know is a lot of her tones are the same So a lot of things can kind of look the same or have the same idea on the eye So what I like about this palette is it's not all one tone you get four different tones So you really get the best of Charlotte Tilbury and every single tone that she offers in here So that is why this is my favorite the quality is like her regular great quality But you just get a lot more color options in here and the worst palette from Charlotte Tilbury in my opinion Is this supersonic girl luxury palette of pops. I know some people really do love her pop formula I hate her pop quads. I really do I don't mind one of the pop shades in a palette or a quad But all four I just can't get down with it These don't have enough of a pigmented base to justify all four being in here They get hard pan they get all over my face as well I just don't like this formula that much to begin with and so the fact that it's in a quad It's just not worth the money I also have a pillow talk version of this because I can't stop myself and the pillow talk is bad too But something about this was extra flaky on me. I just don't think this is worth the money You can get so many better lid topper kind of formulas from other brands. I'm just I don't like this one So the rest are brands that I've already covered rankings wise But there are a few things that I switched in and out so be prepared and then there's also some that I didn't So we're gonna do Tom Ford which was my most recent rankings and this one did not change So I'm gonna talk about it really really quick. My favorite of course is daydream which thanks to you guys letting me know It was restocked at Nordstrom and Macy's don't know if that is still the case But this is just my favorite purple quad from Tom Ford my favorite quad ever from Tom Ford The shadows in here are such good quality They blend and I find the shades of these purples to be very unique They're like blue based lilac based and silver based which is not something that you find a lot from purple quads So I just love this one so much and by far the worst Tom Ford quad ever that I've tried is the bad-ass palette Oh my gosh, this is just horrible. This does not feel like his regular formula at all. The shadows are sticky They're patchy. They look different on the eyelid than they do in the pan I just I have a whole shot my stash where I tried this and I did not have a good experience with it And it's just not a good one from him. I don't recommend it definitely not worth 88 dollars I will tell you that busy art now this I don't think was my top ranked palette from busy art But it is the best in my opinion. I do love my grande pro volume one But this one I love because of all the textures you get in here So this is the liaison palette which I heard this was gonna restock in months down the road I'm gonna message busy art and ask them because I'm not really sure if it will ever restock But this is again another purple palette. I mean I can't help myself This is one of the best purple palettes ever to exist in my opinion as well The shadows blend really smooth as far as the mats go The shimmers are very very foiled and you get for just a nine-pan palette a really great range as far as purples go You get really great complimentary mats over here and get so many different tones of purple and quality is spectacular The color story is spectacular They did a really great job with this nine-pan and the worst palette from this year in my opinion Which this again is not even a bad palette This is the rose a edit and for me this one was a bit dull, but it's really soft and pretty That's kind of the idea behind it So even me saying dull doesn't feel right because that feels negative. This is a soft palette It just doesn't move me in other ways that other busy art palettes do but this is still a really great palette And I do recommend you pick it up just because it's their worst busy art can't do no wrong Is what I'm trying to say so that palette is still good Let's talk about what a beauty so the best palette that they've come out with in my opinion is the desert dust palette I love their big palettes to begin with but I really like this one because I feel like there's a lot of variety in here I mean obviously this is a pretty pin-pointed color story So there's not a ton of variety but based on the colors and the color stories You do get a lot of different colors to work with that you can create different looks with I love the textures in here the undertones in here just everything about this palette I am a head over heels for I don't know that this is like my Favorite palette all of the big palettes really are in a very close battle because I almost picked Mercury retrograde for this But really this is just such a good palette as far as wearability Color story and textures and just it's one of their best for sure And then the worst one that I've tried this is the neon I think yellow or neon green from hood of beauty. This was not worth the money at all I really bought it because I wanted some neon shades last summer, but these shimmers are all lackluster They don't have much pigmentation to them. You can't really get a lot of looks with this as well I think the curation of colors is a bit odd quality. He's not there This is just not not a good palette from them and they have so many good ones Well, this one was not it I'm so happy I passed on the pastels because I heard those were bad too But this one is also like not good They tried too hard with this one and they did not succeed. Let's move on to ABH So I've been talking a lot about ABH It seems or mentioning ABH in my videos a lot So I've made it pretty clear soft glam and soul tree are the two best palettes in the ABH line However, there's another one that is actually the best, but of course you can't get it I'm talking about the master palette by Mario This is like one of my favorite palettes that I don't get to talk about because it is limited edition And there's no way you can get your hands on it really anymore But it's just these really muted tones that all blend together seamlessly They just give you this really sultry sexy kind of eye something about the formulation in here as well It's just so good. This is such an easy palette to use Unfortunately, it's starting to get up there in age, which makes me very very sad But this is one of the best palettes all time to come out of ABH Seriously so good the worst palette in my rankings. I think subculture was the worst But truly like the longer I've had it prism has just dropped way to the bottom at least with subculture I liked the color story. This palette is a bit scattered for me I don't really like the colors that are in here and the quality here is actually very good And you can create beautiful looks with this. So even me saying it's the worst palette I still like it. So don't get me wrong This is a good palette if I was doing palettes that I hadn't tried the little ABH Palettes the like the little mini norvina palettes. Those would be the worst But I haven't tried those so I want it to be fair. Maybe the quality in those is amazing I mean this one still has good quality, but doesn't inspire me It's a bit of a random palette and I need to declutter it But it's still good quality shadows. So I can't Pat McGrath This is a repeat from my rankings video, but of course the best palette ever is bronze seduction I love this palette so much. There's something about the curation of colors in here that make it so easy to grab for It inspires me you can really do a lot of different looks with it because of the colors that she shows the pop in here But it also is super wearable at the same time. I love this one I'm skipping through it fast because I've said this in a billion n1 videos And then the worst palette from pat mcgrath is the bronze temptation I just thought this one had some weird colors in here that weren't up to par To her quality. Now don't get me wrong. When you look at this, you think you would like it I think I would like it a lot. It's very neutral wearable colors But this red shade is just not good. It looks ugly on the eye But that's really all I can say and I'm just not really tempted to ever grab for this palette I love my pat mcgrath palettes I hold them up to such a high standard because she really comes out with the best palettes in the industry In my opinion and this one just didn't hit it for me the colors aren't very inspiring to me And I think they're kind of not pretty Just something about this I don't really like as much as I love the others Like I still like this. That's the thing, but I love the others and this one I don't love All right, so now let's talk about the very last brand Natasha Denona Her best palettes in my opinion are her 28 pan palettes These are her original ones the ones I got her brand started and I wouldn't say these are my Favorite from Natasha Denona. I love my gold palette But really these are the best. I think formulation wise. There's something really special about her original 28 palettes Now this one is pretty much untouched. I think I've used this like twice But that's because I've had the green brown for a very long time. So I think it was for black friday She had 50 off. So I picked up a fresh one. So that should tell you a little something This in my opinion is the best palette the purple blue one is also the best But color story wise this one I just tend to grab for more And there's something really special about the formulation here that really is top notch Even in her own line the formulation in here is just Is just amazing. So the 28 green brown I highly recommend Hey, so let me just add that from this point on for some reason one of my eyelashes is just Popping off one of my eyeballs It's a big pet peeve of mine and I almost Refilled this whole video because of that. Let me stop but fair warning one of my eyelashes are popping off It happens to the best of us and the worst palette from Natasha Denona Natasha Denona has had some duds in her line. So there actually was a feel that I pulled for this one Ultimately, I'm deciding on these two I'm counting them kind of as one because the problems within these palettes are kind of the same These are the mini sunset and mini lila palettes. So these kind of started off her new now very popular Mini range, which is very good. But these two were a very rough start I think she really did try to cut some corners with these guys and change her formulation to something that was cheaper And really rip you off and these you can tell are not Natasha's formula at all now. Don't get me wrong. You can make them work They're fine But just because she spoiled us with such a beautiful formula before instantly These were not good and you could tell shimmer shades are lackluster They get hard pant and then the matte shades were difficult to work with especially on the lila palette here It was tough. These aren't bad palettes, but for natasha denona. They're bad They really are we have hit all of the brands the best and the worst I hope you guys enjoyed this video as always It was very very fun to do this challenge Once again, if you know of any fun palette challenges, make sure you comment them down below to let me know If you aren't subscribed to my channel, I hope you guys take the time to do so and I will see you guys in the next video Bye guys. Have a good one


Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the Smithsonian's Undersecretary for History, Art, and Culture, Richard Curran. If I could just have it, just have your attention for a moment. I'm a New Yorker, and I know a rowdy New York crowd, but it's great to be here tonight. Welcome to the National Design Awards Gala. Tonight, we celebrate 14 years of the National Design Awards. To all the winners. Because of you, we experience the world in a unique and interesting way every day. Just last month, our winners were honored at the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama, our honorary patron. We thank her for her continued support. We also thank this year's winners, jurors, and guest designers who shared their knowledge with 300 teens at the Washington, D.C. Design Fair. And let me just say, we heard the voices and the excitement of those teens in the Smithsonian, and it was pure pleasure.  And so we're glad now that the museums are back open. 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Okay, the recording is on. Welcome to the class today on church and ministry administration. Thank you for connecting to the class. I think the others will connect soon, hopefully. But let's just get started. Let's just take a moment to pray and then we will start. So Kiran, could you please pray for the class and then we will start? Yes, sir. Father, we just say thank you Father for everything. Thank you Father for the goodness and thank you Father for the good. All is told in Father God. Father God, help us to understand the subject Father God and apply to your kingdom. Father God, keep your more revelation and your wisdom and knowledge. Father God, to the situation. Father God, help us to move to your kingdom. Thank you Father God for everything. Almighty Jesus, name be praised. Amen. Thank you. All right, welcome to this class on church and ministry administration. We have been covering different topics that are useful for us to know how to basically run a Christian organization, whether it's a church type organization or some of the ministry. We've been just looking at various aspects. And last week we focused on projects, on managing basically how we execute and coordinate projects. And so we talked about that just give us a little idea on how to do that and not necessarily a full project management course or something. But it's good for us to know what goes in to run a project and many things that we do, whether it's a small thing like planning for an event or a conference or a mission trip or if we are planning something bigger.  We usually run it like projects. There are certain things we look at to manage that area of ministry. So all the ministries and the things that happen within those ministries are typically run as projects. This week, we're kind of getting close to wrapping up this course. So one of the final things I just want to make mention about is leveraging technology in the administration of the church or Christian ministry. Next semester, we will have a more in-depth course on media and technology in ministry. We will get into the media aspects and I will talk to you. We will learn about different aspects of the media right from when you run doing a service or doing a live stream or doing what are some of the things we need to know. Now, of course, these things will be handled by the technical people, people who are experts in this field. But as a pastor or as a Christian leader, it's good for you to have some awareness, some understanding of what actually goes in because the fact of the matter is, even though you are a pastor, you're not a technical person. The technical team would come back to you for approvals. They would say, okay, should we do this? Should we not do this? Because they want to make sure that whatever they are doing is aligned to the vision and the ministry of the church or the ministry. It's aligned to the vision of the church or the ministry. So eventually, the technical people, the media people, they're all going to come to you and say, is this okay? Is this not okay? Now, of course, as a pastor, you're not an expert in that. You need to have some understanding of what they're talking about. So from that perspective, I think it's important for pastors, Christian leaders, especially in urban contexts, to have understanding of technology and so on. So we will get into that course next semester. But today, what I just want to give us an idea of some of the things that we could use from an administration point of view when you want to, you know, manage the church or the Christian organization well. And I just, you know, just give you a demonstration to show you some of these things. And some of you who've, you know, you may be familiar with some of these things that we are using here at All People's Church. Now, one of the things that we already mentioned when we talked about finances is to use accounting software. All right, that's important. You know, maybe when things are small, okay, we could manage things in an Excel sheet. But are there after at some point, you know, when you get when you cross 100 people or so, you would definitely need to use an accounting software. And in India, one of the commonly used accounting software packages for small organizations, businesses and so on is Tali. So Tali is the accounting software that you could purchase a license for and use it. To maintain, manage your finances. Now, there are other aspects of the organization for which you can use software. And I'll just show you some of these things. One is for managing staff. Okay, let's get a little basic now. One is just for the work, the office work. We call it just office productivity. That means for the work that's being done in the office. Then of course, many of us are familiar. We can use, you know, if you want to use the commercial Microsoft products, you can use Word and Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook. So that's what many people are familiar with. And I so use Word for writing your documents, PowerPoint for presentations, Excel sheets for your spreadsheets, calculations, charts and so on, and then use Outlook as your email client. Now you have free versions. You could use the whole Google suite of products, Google Docs and spreadsheets and presentation and Gmail. You could use that, which is all free. So, you know, there is both the commercial version and the free version, whichever, but I think it's important for running a church or a Christian ministry that all the staff, you know, work digitally. You know, just working on paper and notebook.  Especially in an urban context. So encourage your staff and try to get everybody on to using, you know, digital versions. Either Microsoft products or go, you know, the free Google suite of products that can be used for word processing presentations and so on. And of course, there are other open source software available. There is also products from Apple that could be used whatever, whatever's comfortable, right? But that's one set of software that the office productivity software that everybody should be using every organization. And you need to say it has to happen this way. You know, you have to use Word and Excel and spreadsheets and emails to for communication, documentation, presentation, so on. And, you know, we get people to learn those things or provide some training so that people can do it. And this way you can even archive, you know, so you can be mostly digital so you don't have to print paper and have notebooks and store files of, you know, things, documents. Everything, if it's done digitally, saves us all of that effort in space and so on, right? So try to, you know, in the organization from the very beginning, try to be as much as possible be digital. Things can be stored electronically, online or other places. So do that. So that's one part, the office productivity tools that we must be familiar with. And I'm going to put all this in a simple one page document so that you have a reference of this, okay? The second thing is to manage information about people, right? You're basically a contact management. Now, for a church, that it becomes important when you need to manage the information of those people who are part of your congregation. You know, 10, 15 people you can manage, you know, maybe in a notebook or a notice on the phone also, we can just, you know, create your contact list and so on. But when it gets to several hundred people to manage the contact, you know, to know their names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, wedding anniversaries, birthdays, you need to use some form of software. And so that's one aspect or if you're a Christian organization, you may need to take care of your people who are your donors, people whom you want to reach out to keep informed about your, you know, your work. So you need to, again, manage contacts. So that is another aspect of software we need, which is contact management. So we will talk about that. Then you need to manage your own staff. So, you know, how will you manage people who are working for the church or working for the Christian organization, right? Christian ministry, what would be used for that?  So that's another software we need to talk about. And then there is, of course, a communication. You want to broadcast emails, messages and so on. You need an email list manager that you can use to manage. And lastly, of course, you need a website by which you share information with your audience and so on. So the good thing is a lot of these software products are available as free and open source products so that you don't have to pay money to license the software. They're available easily and you can use them and you can customize them. So of course you need some technical people to do it for you and you can customize it. So what I'm going to do is just show you some of these products that we've been using. And I'll just mention, I put it down in the document so you could be aware of it. And at some point you can also make use of these products. Right. So for, let me just go ahead and share my screen. So for managing, so we use our church management software. So this is all running, these are all web based online. This is church management software and it actually is a product that's called Rock RMS. And I will give you, I'm sure you put it down in the document. So this Rock RMS or church management software is, you know, helps us to manage all our information. So we use the same software to manage our congregation. We also have set this up as a portal for Bible College and so on. I'll show that to you. But the same software we're using it for different purposes. So as soon as I log in, I can see who are, whose birthdays are today. So there's a student, ABCBC means ABC Bible College. This is his birthday today. These are church people. These are the anniversaries. Susan George or Susan husband, Christina and Barbara, their anniversary.  I can send them a message. So these are the anniversaries. Right. And in this software, I can also, you know, so I can search for people. So if I want to find out somebody's name, you know, I can just start typing here. And there's, okay, I just write you. So I can immediately go.  He's, this is his, you know, whatever information we have tags on these people. So, you know, he's a member, but then central and so many things. And that's his age. He's married 26 years. It's son, wife, daughter information. That's a home address, mobile email. So, right. So, and these are people who, you know, we can have, we can track, we can post comments against them. So these are people who verify details and so on. And so there's a lot of things we can do here in this church management software, which we are kind of extending for our use. But for now we use it to manage all our church people. And, you know, we, we, we have various reports that we could run. We know, okay, who are the people we can get, you know, anniversaries, birthdays, congregation lists, people in life, the life groups or children, you know, so whatever we want, we can. We're also managing Mangalore and Bible college as well. And so, so we can do, you know, we can do a lot of reports we can work with and that we could use for our purposes. But this is how we manage church and then we also have a Bible college integrated into this. This is this is my view. So this is not something students will see. But, you know, we can look at less we can search for people will see the people have applied all of the data is. So basically we use this, we use this software to manage the church to manage Bible college students separately we manage congregation Bible college students on. So this is our church management software. And, you know, we use it like I mentioned here we use it for different purposes. So, for instance, the same thing we have customized it for Bible college. It's the same software product. We have customized customized it for Bible college students and we haven't really launched it work is going on. And this gives us data only about our These these number of students is not does not include the e learning students right it's just as of now it's only the online students at the homepage. Yeah, so we haven't completed this but this is where, you know, we will be able to Students will be able to view their attendance and so on. And so so this is a work the same product we're customizing it and Students will be able to see the grades register for courses download their certificates and so on. So these are things that's happening the same product that's being customized for Bible college. And we use the same product for our code relief. So when we, when we, when we ran our code relief project, and we got people to send it request. We had a huge number of requests come in from across India and all of that data went straight into this management Software and then from here, you know, people would screen them and And, you know, we could example. Of course, we could search for people. Let me just go directly to a list. Yeah, okay. So if I wanted to know who are the people who applied for pastor support, you know, I could filter by language so we have we were doing about 14 languages, I think. And we could filter by all of that and then, you know, these are all the people who had written to us. And then each one would be verified and then we would, you know, either Send them the support or for various reasons, they would be disregarded and so on. But this is how we managed close to 8000 requests and that came in. And then after that, we have converted this project into India care. So we are continuing to. So we did the code relief that is sending help to the people. But now we now continue to reach out to these people. I think the people who reached. There are totally what 11,000 contacts, because that includes the people who were given as references names pastors will give us as references. And we are just, you know, the team is calling them, continuing to care for them and help them spiritually. So we have converted the code relief into an India care project but they're using the same software to manage all the data so it's about 11,000 individuals whose data is being managed through this portal. So these are the examples where the same product, which is called rock RMS rock RMS. That is relationship management software. So it's a free church relationship or church management software which we are using. You can download this and you know, and you can begin to customize it and use it. So this is what we are using and we've customized it for our congregation to manage data for congregation we customize it and use it to manage this covert relief, which now we're calling as India care project. We're also, we also customized it and we are continuing to work on it to do for our Bible colleges. So the same, you know, rock my RMS or church management software, you know, you can use it for different purposes, and we continue to customize it. You know, eventually we wanted to make it a very useful portal for our congregation. Also for our Bible college so that that work is going on. But right now the team is kind of busy on other things, but that's our eventual goal. Right. So this is what we use to when we say contact management or managing information about people. This is a useful product. The other thing that we use to this what I mentioned about staff management, that means for all the people who work with us. So we have full time staff. And then we have people who work from around the country as consultants doing work for us. Close to about 30 plus people. And I'm not including the translators, you know, people who do translation of our books and all that. So if you include them as well, we probably have 40, 40 to 45 people who are in different parts of the country doing work for the for all people's church. So, you know, we have an office here, people are working in the office, but a lot of people are working from different places in India. So what do we do? How do we manage a lot of that? One of the things we have is we use this HRM or human resource management software, which is again an open source. It's what we saw as an orange HRM. So this, so all people are working for us other than translators. They use this, right? So they can, so you're seeing an admin view. So I have an administrative view on this. But when they log in, they will see just, you know, certain parts of this product. And basically, our staff and our consultants can report their time, you know, so everybody reports the work that they are doing, right? So each one for every day we interact time or against various things, what we're doing and so on. So for every week, you know, you could every week. So that was my time sheet for last week. So for all the work we did every day, you report your hours, what you did, right? So like that, you know, every week people will be entering their time sheets. And then we have our, we have our human resource person, our admin people who will I just got the dashboard, who will review the time sheets, approve it and so on. We also request, you know, we apply for leave here. So we manage, you know, so the software automatically keeps track of the leaves that are taken, what are the leaves that each staff is entitled to for that calendar year, so on. So this HRM is a useful way for us to manage staff and consultants, right? So this is a software, again, we would recommend people, organizations using, right? So we have a church management software that helps us manage contacts, people and so on.  A lot of things happen. I'm not, I'm not going into the details of all the things we do. I'm just, you know, letting you know that these are products that Christian organizations can use and they're open source, whether it's, you know, a church or a Christian ministry, you can use it. A third piece of software, I would encourage churches to use of course is a list email list software and that means when you want to send out an email to people, you know, how would you send an email? Let's, you know, if you want to send an email to say, for example, you know, 12,000 people or so, how would you send it? No, how would you do that? You can't send it manually. So what do we do? We use a list manager. So this is again a free open source software called PHP list. And here you could add all the email IDs. Of course, you add it not manually, but you could push all the email IDs into your, into your, into the database. And you can also create subscriber lists. That means you could, you know, categorize them. So we have different, you know, groupings, like we can go by locations. These are pastors and ministers. These are outreach churches in the, or these are ministers around the world by the college, alumni students. So, you know, you can create lots of different lists. And within that, there could be even further lists. So within categories, you know, we have different lists of people, groupings. And so you can target your emails, right? So you can create as many lists as you want. And one person can belong to more than one list.  So every week we send a little outline, I mean, a little email on what, what was a sermon about. So that's a campaign. So, for example, the last Sunday sermon that went out on the 26th, and it went out to about 12,000 people, 12,777 people, email IDs. So far now, about 1,366 have viewed the email and some have bounced. That means the email may not have been right or so. So, you know, you can send out emails. This is a weekly sermon. We can target emails, meaning if you want to send email only to our people in Bangalore, we can send, you know, if you want to send it to other groupings. So for example, this particular email, somebody in Bangalore had passed away. So it was sent only to our APC Bangalore people. Now that was about 2,121 people and out of that so many people viewed it. So you can target your email. So this, this, this email list manager is a very useful software for the church or the Christian organization to use. Right. So we've looked at three different kinds of software, the church management software, the human resource that is a people management that is a staff and consultants, and then also an email list manager. These are three, I would say, are simple but useful pieces of software that any church or ministry can use for their work. Now this is in addition to what we had already mentioned. Having an accounting software. People in the office using their, the office productivity tools like Word and Excel and PowerPoint and email. So in addition to that, these pieces of software are useful. And lastly, for all churches and ministry, ministry is important for you to have a website. So, and I think all of you know it, but just just for completion sake, so we have our church website where, you know, we, we built it in such a way that's easy for people to come know what's going on, you know, especially for new people. They want to know what is all people's church about. Well, they come in, they can just scroll through the web, you know, the first page and they get a lot of information about who we are, what are the resources available. You know, how do I connect to church from a first time visitor, I want to volunteer, I want to join a life group, right. I need a member care assistance. I'm a member needs an assistance. So you make that available. There's information about the church itself. What are the events that are happening of course now it's mainly the church services. What are the ministries the church is involved in. What are the resources available. And later are books that are available in different languages. What are the mission trips mission missions and some of other websites and how do I contact the office and so on. Other locations so having a website that you know is is kept up to date with relevant information for your congregation or for new people is always is a useful thing and perhaps necessary thing in our world. Right, so that's it. I think I will just, you know, stop with that meaning this is, if we are if an our church or organizations able to use this, these pieces of software, I think it's great. Now, of course, there's a lot more you can do like for instance we have the Bible College and the e-learning portal, and the other other things that people, you know, can do. We have specialized websites for different things like chrysalis counseling or politics and other other sites that that work is going on designed for other purposes. So there's a lot that we that a church or ministry can do in leveraging technology. We will get into more details next semester in the media and technology course, but I just wanted to touch on some amount of relevance of in the management and the organization of a church or Christian ministry. Right, so I'll put this up in a one page document I'll post it online and you can just have it as a reference and in the future, you know, for your church for your ministry. And like I mentioned, all of these are available available for free. So if you can just get the help of some IT people, some software developers, some people may even be able to volunteer their time. They can set these things up for your church or for your Christian ministry. And then, you know, you know, it's so good to be able to use it to serve people better. All right. Now, there are a lot of technical people, you know, people who love technology who understand software developers and so on, who want to serve God, who want to do something for the kingdom. They want to use their skills. And, you know, you could definitely invite them to come and say, hey, can you use your skills and help us set up this church management software or this HR software or a website or this email list software for us. And most of them will be very happy to do it. They may be able to volunteer their time, or in some cases you may have may be able to hire people, and they will be able to help with the work of the ministry. But as a leader or as a pastor, if you have some understanding of these things and you can ask for the help that you need, get this thing set up. And it will be a wonderful asset to the church and the ministry. Any questions? Any thoughts on this? Okay, so let's pause here for today. And we will probably have one last class next. We will have a last class on Friday. I just want to wrap up with some, you know, concluding thoughts and just do a full review of the course, what we've covered. And so we will do that coming up the next class. Okay. Let's pray and then we will dismiss it out. Could you please pray and dismiss us? Sure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Connect with you on Friday again. Thank you. Bye now. Thank you.