So hi, everyone. Welcome to Quantum Healing with Candice. It's July 18th, 2017, and this is in 5D's show, Quantum Healing with Candice, but we're doing something very special today. We are broadcasting on two platforms, live, Zoom, and also being pushed to Facebook. The topic of today's show is catching up with Alba Weinman, and we're going to do that in just a minute. But for that, if you've never met me before, my name is Candice Crog-Waldman, and I am the managing director and the founder of the original Quantum Healing Support Forum. I've been doing past-life regression work for just about 10 years now, and I was very blessed and very honored to have been taught personally by the late and great Dolores Cannon and also assist her in her live classes. We have a really great, great show for you tonight. Excuse me. Today, it is only 11 o'clock in the morning. I got up early. Maybe it just feels like tonight. We're going to be talking to Alba Weinman here in just a moment. So Alba and I know each other from a few years ago. She actually was in Arkansas when I met her for the first time, taking some training with Dolores Cannon, and she's been doing this work now for several years as well. And Alba is a transpersonal hypnotherapist and a clinical hypnotherapist. She's been traveling the world doing her very own method of hypnotherapy that she calls the spiritual journey of forgiveness. And we're going to catch up with Alba today and see what she's been up to. So let me turn on her video. And there you are. Welcome, Alba Weinman to the show. Thank you. Oh gosh, how are you doing? And where are you exactly? I'm in Portland for another day, and then I go to Seattle. So I'm all over the place. I'm all over. All right. So I want to make sure before we start talking to you that we're actually on live with our Facebook friends. So if you can give me just a moment, I'm going to go over there. Yes, it looks like we are live. Excellent. So there's a little bit of a time delay and a little bit of button pushing that needed to happen. And I wanted to make sure we were doing that.  And some of the energy that was working right before this show is so funny. Alba, I thought I would share it with everyone. Do you want to share it? Sure. Why not? It's just fun how this works. So Alba and I are doing the technology duration to connect with this show today. And she's not sure if she's using her phone or a hotspot or a phone to use as a hotspot with her laptop. And we're working all of that out. And at one point she drops off. And I'm a little confused. And all of a sudden I look down at my phone and I see a call coming from Portland, Oregon that I don't recognize. And I'm thinking, huh, maybe she's got an issue. Maybe she's using her hotel room phone. So I pick up the phone. And it's a man who asks me about during sessions. And I'm like, whoa, wait a second. And I'm looking at the clock. It's like two minutes to live. And I'm saying, well, you know, I'm going on live on air here in a moment.  And this is so interesting. I only picked up because it's so Portland. He said, I'm just here visiting. I'm actually living your town. What? This is crazy how things like that happen. And I want to talk with you more about energy as the show goes on and how it sort of clumps and comes together like that. But I think this is a great way of kind of illustrating how that works, don't you? Oh, yeah. Technology is so funny. A few days ago, I thought I'd have to run out and get new speakers because my speakers weren't working on my computer. It was crackling and the energy was terrible. And I'm thinking, oh, how am I going to get to the mall here to get new speakers because I can't hear anything. I can't play my music and stuff. And the next day, it was gone. It was like nothing happened. It was like, what was that all about? And it happens a lot. Some clients bring energy with them and fizzles things up and crush them. Right. Exactly. Well, Alba, you and I have known each other for a while. Of course, we met with, you know, and how amazing is that? Actually, I was thinking about that, prepping for the show, looking at the exact dates. And so I noticed that you took the online class to begin your work with Dolores and that class is still available. But then you came to Arkansas and you got to study with Dolores. That would have been the second to the last time she was teaching live before her passing. But what a gift, right? Oh, amazing. It was a gift. And I met so many beautiful people there. And I still have very good friendship with some of these people. So it was a beautiful time. It really was. And that, oh gosh, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. She must be here. So I'm just thinking about that, you know, after that class that we had the reunion and we had so many activities together. And what was so much fun for me, let's, we're going to be doing a little Dolores reminiscing here, was so much fun for me was Dolores participating in our, we called it the SC summit. We did a group regression on stage with other practitioners. And Dolores, I have to tell you the first year we did that, Dolores was like, I've never done that before. I don't know about this. And she was a little, you know, she had some concerns. And so I didn't know how she would feel about it. I said, well, it worked well. We're going to do it next year. It showed up. And then not only did she show up, she tottered down the auditorium aisle and then participated at the end of it. Do you remember that? I remember that was when that plane disappeared, that they were looking for that plane. And nobody knew what had happened to the plane. And nobody wanted to ask about it. And then at the last moment, she popped in and asked about that question. Isn't that fun? You know, what was so much fun about it was we took questions and had them on little index cards from the audience. Now the audience was primarily practitioners who had come for the classes. But I think there might have been one or two. Yeah, I think most of them are practitioners. Yeah, almost all of them were. We made that one, it was the official reunion and we made that one event at the end live for the public. So not too many people showed up for that, but a couple people did. And my favorite part about it of all was Dolores went and got herself an index card. And she wrote her own question down on an index card right at the end. And it was it was the most magnificent thing. It was classic. It was classic. What I remember most about my class is I wasn't really good with my voice, which now I'm known for. But when I went to the class, I had I had received some critique from from one of the practitioners because I had put something out in audio form because that's all we did. And during the the reunion, I met up with her and she says, you know, I don't really I don't really like telling you this, but you need to work on your voice because it sounds it's a little bit too assertive or something like that. And and I was like, oh, my God. And I actually got Dolores to teach me we had the groups where we broke out and she's the one that taught me. But as I develop more and more, that's when I develop my own voice, which was very important that because I go into trance, I'm channeling while I'm doing my sessions. So the voice that comes out is not my voice. And that's why in the videos, I make sure that I put an interview at the end. So people know what my voice actually sounds like when I'm goofing off. And but during the sessions, that's my higher self's voice. That's the cadence of my higher self. So when I have a session, I actually put myself in hypnosis. And that's, that's what comes out. So, you know, practicing on the voice, I just had to start channeling. And that's, that's how I develop the voice. So now more and more, my own voice is starting to sound like my higher self because we're, we're one. Absolutely.  And it actually kind of kicks it back to Dolores again. And I, it's feeling a little bit like old home week here with you. It's so much fun.  And for many years, even when I had the very distinct pleasure of doing things like walking her from her hotel room to the class or doing things with her in her office, etc. And she and I, you know, when I first got that opportunity, I imagined this sort of idea of doing a whole lot of comparing of notes and, you know, and these, these, these deep conversations. And we never had them really barely. I mean, every once in a while, but very small amount of time. And I used to think, Alba, that she was just tired of being on all the time and wise all the time and teaching all the time, etc.  And you know what, I've changed my mind. I don't think that at all. I think it's more like what you were just saying when you was doing her sessions, but also when she was teaching. Also, when she was lecturing, she clicked into her higher self. She milled with it. And that's the Dolores Cannon. We see on the videos, we see, you know, in our hearts and our memories of our classes, etc., and in sessions because she really did just care about the weather and cookies and her car and things like that. You know, and I used to think Dolores Cannon, you know, you're not talking about anything like parallel lives or whatever as we're walking through the parking lot. And that I think now is because of that connection she had with her own higher self. Yeah, yeah. Every session that I do and any session anybody else does is totally unique. So we can't be thinking about what the session is going to be like. We can't really prepare for a session ourselves as practitioners or hypnotherapists. We're on just like that. Whenever it happens, it happens and the higher self kicks in and you have no idea what's going to happen next. And you can really feel that, can't you? You can feel it. It's the same or a similar feeling when you are the one being regressed or even the one facilitating. You kind of, you feel a presence or you feel an energetic shift is probably a better way of putting it. Well, whenever I was regressed, it was, it was quite dramatic. So I don't, I don't, I can't compare that. My past life regressions, all of them have been so dramatic. And a little story which most people don't know is I was in hypnotherapy class and we had to, we had to always come up with something to work on. And whenever I was regressed, I had the habit, I guess, whoever it was that was making me do this, of actually getting up and walking around the room. So, so there's a video that's online of the World War II pilot and the story behind that one, I'll tell you that one because that's kind of interesting. In our hypnotherapy class, we were not allowed to record anything at all. And my teacher and all of the students there did not want their voices recorded. But on the last day of my class, my guides, before I left the class, the house, they said to me, get your recorder. And I'm thinking, but why, you know, they, she's not going to let me record. And they said, get your recorder. And I said, okay, I popped it in my purse. And it was time for me to be regressed in my class. And the, the, the intention that was set was pick, let's go to the life, the previous life that you had before this one. So we were going to reset the intention to go there. And I asked her, you mind if I record this? And, and she said, we don't allow that because your guides, your guides may not allow that. And we'll have to ask your guide for permission.  It's her rules. So I set the recorder right on the arm of the recliner. And I told the hypnotherapist that was going to do the student. I said, just push the button. I have it on pause. Just push the button whenever my guide tells you that it's okay to record. And I'm rolling my eyes. Oh God, you know, so immediately I go into this past life of I see my feet and I'm in a cockpit. And of course, the first thought that comes through my mind is I'm making this up. This is not real. You know, this is the logical mind. This is not real. But as I looked, I kept looking at my feet, you know, the boots were so vivid. And then I looked around. And there were airplanes, you know, flying all around me. And we were being, we were being attacked.  And, and I'm, I'm getting up from the chair of the recliner, trying to see out of the windows of a cockpit, you know, and in all of that, you know, moving around and we're being hit, we're being hit, you know, and all this going on and, and the recorder falls off the, the arm and into the seat. Right. So finally I start bawling my eyes out because I had been hit. I died and I went through the funeral scene and everything. And as I lay back, the button turned on by itself. And, and 15 minutes into the session is when the recording started. By that time, I had had my composure. I wasn't crying as much anymore. And, and it was recorded until the, the, the hypnotherapist realized, Oh my God, she told us to record the session. And she's trying to fish the recorder out from behind my butt, you know, that had fallen there. And she finally presses the button. And that's when it stopped because that's all that needed to be recorded.  But in another one, I actually got up and walked around the room and was addressing my counsel. And it was, it was whenever I was in hypnosis, people wanted to be there to witness it because it was very dramatic. It reminded me of Princess Leia coming out of, you know, in Star Wars, coming out of the machine as a hologram. That's how I felt. I felt like I was like in a hologram. And, you know, I knew people were there, but at the same time I knew what was going on with me. So my sessions are very dramatic. They're not like my client sessions. That's so interesting. And it, you know, proves a little bit of a point about how unique we all are when we experience this. And some people are just as still as stoned, very moved at all. And I remember once actually being regressed by one of our colleagues, and she put the recorder right on my chest. And I remember just going, that doesn't see there. I don't want that on my chest. I mean, it was really distracting. And I can see your movement and getting up, you know, to carry. Oh yeah. I get up and walk around. And it's really interesting. And the funny thing is that when I'm in hypnosis, obviously, I am the observer. So the stuff that's going on in my mind is, oh my God, what are these people thinking? You know, what are these people thinking? And I could hear people going in and out of the room and everything, but I'm aware of what's going on in the room, all of the students that were there. But at the same time, I'm still watching this movie. So it's like being in a movie theater and watching the movie, but then watching the people going up and down the aisles and kind of trying to ignore them.  And I remember feeling that same way. I would be feeling the complete emotion of whatever and the story of whatever life I was experiencing. But I also felt and absolutely knew that there were people out there. But more than that, sometimes I would feel their emotional connection to what was going on in my story, which had nothing to do with this physical body. Right, like when I was the pilot, I was crying and crying. And so were the people in the room because they were into my emotion too. So I could hear them sniffling and blowing their nose. And I said, oh my God, you know, this could be a good movie. But yeah, you feel their emotions too. In fact, that's how I passed my hypnotherapy exam, is that they were, there was a bunch of people in the room and I'm horrible at memorizing, terrible at memorizing. And I had to memorize the entire script for my hypnotherapy class. And I couldn't get it right. And they said to me, we'll be in the room and we know that you can pick it up. So we'll just feed you the information. And that's how I passed my class is I'd be talking all of a sudden, I would get like, oh, yeah, I got to do this now. So that's how I actually did my hypnotherapy exam with all of my classmates in the room feeding me all of the answers. You know, I was thinking, as you're talking about that too, about how we're kind of these two perspectives, when you go into these experiences, these journeys, you can have kind of two side by side perspectives. And it's a beautiful way to actually feel that word that we throw around all the time, multi-dimensionality, right? Oh yeah, absolutely. You know, some of the sessions I see and witness are so out there, so out there. You know, I'm just thinking of just a few of the ones that I've just had this week. And oh my God. And a lot of them can't go on YouTube. You know, a lot of people will never see these sessions because they're very personal, but man, they're so good. They're really good. Right. Actually, I've got a question about that myself. So, you know, you've taken the YouTube world by storm. And when people contact you, it's, I'm going to guess that it's primarily because they've seen you and seen your sessions on YouTube.  So, but do you record all of them or how do you decide what gets posted, what doesn't, etc? Well, I record audio. I don't have it here. I record audio and I record video automatically. Everybody gets recorded because I want them to see what I see. That was the main reason I started recording videos is because, first of all, I love the way people look when they're in hypnosis. I mean, I mean, I just love looking at them.  To me, it's just pure love that I'm looking at no matter who it is. It's just a beautiful thing.  So, when I was just recording audio, I felt, you know, these people are missing what I see. I want them to see exactly what I see. I want them to see the little tear. I want them to see how the face changes and how the voice changes because you can't get that on audio. And so that's what I did. That's the reason I put the recorder, the webcam, right on their face. That's all I want people to see because, to me, that's the most beautiful thing is to see that beautiful face in that pure state. And then at the end is when I ask my client, if it's a session that's purely personal stuff or hypnotherapy, a lot of my sessions are hypnotherapy.  They have to go through just normal hypnotherapy sessions because they have stuff to deal with. Those never go out. And then if it's very personal, but it does have a universal message, then I request, you know, all right, we discuss what parts are we going to take out of here. And if it's really, really extensive, I had one recently that it was so sensitive material and so personal, a lot of personal stuff that we worked on that we cut out an hour of her video. And it was still over two hours long. So that's what we discuss is how do we get this message out there without putting sensitive stuff out. And not all of them go out. I mean, I've had so many sessions in the last two weeks, only two of them will be published. So, you know, hardly any of them get published compared to how many I do. Right. I have a question a little bit about some of the visuals. And I have to tell you that not everybody, but every once in a while, I've got my camera going now on as well. And so I might have some snippets to share myself at some point. I'm not there yet. But here's my question. And it's because of the little bit of experimenting I've been doing with video. It exists sometimes, and it's not every time. And I don't know when it's going to happen, but sometimes I see things. Sometimes my third eye, sometimes my physical eyes, and my third eye combined. Sometimes I'm not sure what anyone can see because sometimes like in interview, a light ball will fly across the room and I'll say to my client, did you see that? And sometimes they'll say no. And I'll go, okay, then I guess, you know, maybe that was just for me. But my question is, have you ever had anything come up like that on video, the lights or the flashes or the sparkles or the things that we see in sessions or that some of us see sometimes? Well, I don't see anything, unfortunately, you know, or maybe it's fortunate. I think it's fortunate they only give me what I need. I don't see anything. Some of my client, some of my viewers actually say they see things in the videos, but I don't spend much time looking at them. But I do have a session coming up in a few weeks where this man actually came from Shanghai, China to see me all the way to Miami. And it started out that he was the wind. And he was one of the elements. So I'm getting goose bumps. All of a sudden, and the sun was bright. It was shining. It was beautiful South Florida day. And all of a sudden, the wind started picking up. And the palm fronds were slapping on my window. And it was like a mini hurricane for about five minutes. And the creepy thing is that my client says, they're here. It was like, good to know, good to know. So it would have been kind of fun to move that camera up and show your window going like this. But it was that was kind of like, you know, it was it was one of those moments they're here. So that was kind of cool. And that will be shown in a few weeks. There's so many things that go on. Somebody had had posted here, what's the most profound healing you have witnessed. And I wanted to tell you a little bit of some of the sessions that have not gone out that to me have been the most rewarding. And these are the spirit releasements that I do in mass. And the first time I did it, it was so profound. It was a woman that had come from Rwanda. And her family, her immediate family had been saved from the massacre. If people don't know about that, please Google the Rwandan massacres. It was it was horrific. But her, her cousins and extended family were all massacred. And of course, the people from Rwanda have a lot of pain, you know, because of all of this. And during the session, we actually did a mass release of all of those loss of those souls that had died in Rwanda. And it was it was amazing. It was it was just so amazing. So of course, that didn't go out on YouTube because that was a very personal one.  It was an entity. The first, as soon as the session started, she was drowning. And it was that she had been put in a cement box by the mafia and was drowning in the Hudson River in New York. And we went through the past life to find out how it had happened. But at the end, we talked to that entity. And he helped us release all of those that have been killed in and were in the Hudson River. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that didn't go out because she felt that she had to prove it. And she felt embarrassed about the video and felt that people would judge her for putting something that that didn't go out. But I'll tell I told you about it.  And that happened. But just a few days ago, we had a really amazing session here that will be posted sometime in August. And it was a woman who was a Native American, an Indian woman who they had been ripped from their land by the soldiers. They were on the trail of sorrows. They were relocated. People died. They were starving them to death. And we did a mass release of all of those Native Americans who had died. And not only that, but they continued the light continued to Hawaii. And it moved all around the world where they started picking up all these souls. And I lost that I was crying during the whole session because that was so amazing. There was so it was so so much passion in that. So those are the things that that I've seen. This one will be released so people could see how that's done. But wow, that was amazing. You know, Alba, one of our colleagues, Mary Beth, is saying every time Candace or Alba say they have chills, I have them at the exact same moment just before they say it. How about you? She's asking in the chat room. This is another way we're connected. Another way it's demonstrated we are all one, right? Yeah, yeah, we are all one. And when I have these sessions, what's really freaky is sometimes I'll have a session in the next day. It's almost the same session. I'm going, wait, is this deja vu? Did we just do this? It was really crazy. I had two sessions back to back with Jesus in it. And the first one was really funny. Well, it wasn't funny. It was very, I'm saying it's funny because of the situation, but it was very emotional. The man was a fisherman who says, you know, there's a boat coming and it was Jesus coming to him. And it was his friend. This was his friend. And this man had a knowing that that something was going to happen to Jesus and begged him, please don't go into town, don't go into the city. And of course, things happen. So I got to talk to Jesus a little bit. And I asked the man, you know, does Jesus have anything to say to me? And he says, you're always talking to him. Like, you know, you're always, you're always talking to him. So it was funny because yeah, I have a lot of clients where Jesus comes through and yeah, we talk all the time. So it was like, yeah, we talk all the time. What are you talking about? And then right after that, I have another session with Jesus. So I had that happen once in Texas. I remember the very first time it ever happened because I had this man go back in, but here's how this happened. He went back into a life where he was a piano player at a saloon at the Old West. And then it went on about his life. And there was a gal who was, you know, one of the saloon gals and their kind of torrid relationship and how their struggle of life and everything. And the next session I had, and the woman went back to the Old West and she was a woman who had a, and they both came, and here's the thing, they both came into the exact same scene of the piano being played. The man had, you know, was the one playing. And then the woman, anyway, I was like, whoa, and I, not directly, but I tried to figure out he didn't know each other. No, no. That's the amazing thing. And the funny thing now is that I'm getting such mind blowing sessions one after another. And when people leave, it's like, I tell my guys like, how do you do this? How do you do this? How do you bring these people? One is, I thought that one was good, but this is even better. And it's one right after another. It's amazing. It's amazing. And they all kind of group, right? You know, when we were in Germany with the International Practitioner Summit this past May, the Parisian, the French practitioners were talking about how they will talk and all three, five of them will have the same kind of sessions at one time. I actually, once I had three out of four clients in a row had metal in their bodies. And I actually called Dolores up. These were, this was years ago. And I said, Dolores, have you ever, and I talked about the metal and the bodies.  So I think this is happening across the board with all practitioners. Yeah. Yeah. You find one thing. And then the next session, it's like, didn't I just do this? You know, right? Is this deja vu? Did I just do this? I thought I just did this. And then you realize, no, that was somebody else. Yeah, it's really freaky. And what I noticed was really funny is that we pick the people where they live, they seem to have past lives in that area before, you know, it's like you come back to the same area.  But it's really interesting how we come back almost like to the same place, not always, you know, I have people all over the place. Yeah, it happens a lot. Alba, you know, there's some questions coming in both from the platform and also Facebook, and this is actually somebody who's following us live on Facebook. Matt is asking a question to you, Alba. Are you planning on doing a book with these sessions that they don't want on YouTube? Oh, God. I just got, I just got an earful this morning from my colleague, Antonio. Antonio is my colleague. We met in the second class and we talk almost every day. He's like my brother from another mother. And we've trained together and all the stuff. And he was kind of like telling me about that just this morning. So he's picking up on when Antonio was telling me, yeah, I do need to do something right now. Overwhelmed is too small a word for me.  So yeah, it's on my to-do list.  And I don't call people anymore. I don't have time to call people because when I start working, it's usually after 10 o'clock at night and it could be past midnight where they are. So I just answer emails and do everything online. But yeah, the book will be coming when I'm guided to do that. So I have to weasel that in. I have to tell you this though, you know that thing we were talking about doing sessions and then not even really remembering them. I started my own book along with some of this work last November. And I looked at it just briefly a few weeks ago. And I just didn't even remember writing it. So the same thing will happen when you're writing your book too. Yeah, I don't remember the sessions. You know, it's funny for me to even read the comments on YouTube about the sessions because people assume that, you know, I remember everything about the session. They start asking me questions about the session. It's like, I have no idea what that session was about. I really have no idea what that session I'd have to watch it again. Because the moment people leave, it's gone. It's gone because I'm in a trance. I'm in a trance just like they are. It's like a dream trance. And just like when you have a dream at night, you go to the bathroom and it's gone. Just like that. When they leave, it's gone. I don't remember. So even the notes that I write, it's like, what does this mean? You know, and so it's very difficult for me to even edit my videos because then I have to go through the whole thing again, you know, to cut and everything. You know, I ask the people, please send me at least the times that you want cut out because it'll make it so much easier for me because I don't remember. I have to go through the whole two hours and start snipping, but a lot of work. Going back to Dolores again, seeing you is like bringing Dolores back. You know how she used to be almost like an encyclopedia about her own books and her own session. She would also say, oh, I don't remember you and I don't remember all my sessions, but she would, she would click on to her higher self and she would remember. So it's kind of like you have to step back into the higher self mode to be able to talk in that way because right now, and people are talking to you and asking your questions, you're in the conscious everyday mode and you don't have access to that all the time. Right. And I don't choose to have that information in my head because the stuff I hear and see is just too much for me to carry. I'm not going to throw that over my back. There's just so much crazy stuff that goes on that is, you know, I put a Teflon globe around me and it just nothing touches me. Africa, you know, Alba, you've been such an amazing member of our support forum all these years and I just wanted to mention because we've said it, you know, within our private community, but I want to say this out loud publicly. The other practitioners, our peers are so grateful to you and your clients for sharing some of these sessions on YouTube because it's a wonderful way for horizontal learning. Right. I learned from you. You learned from other practitioners learn and we all talk about different things. Even today as we're talking, I'm sure some of this information will help not only practitioners out there, but you know, people with their own awakening, etc. So I want to thank you for that. It's my pleasure. And I thank my higher self for this because I couldn't do it with my higher self or my team of all my angels, wherever they are. Yeah. Thank you.  So I have just, I have a couple questions about that. I'd like to know kind of how you're working out, how that's different from what she taught and how it's the same. And I also want to know, does she show up in your sessions like she does in many of our own quantum? Well, she's to show up at the beginning because I used to request her assistance all the time when I was, you know, like you do with anything when you're first learning something, you want your teacher there. And I used to ask for her all the time. Once I felt I got the okay from her that it's like, okay, you're done. You got this and you take, you're doing it on your own. I never get her again because I, I'm not attracting that anymore. I'm on my own. I'm doing it my way.  And that's wonderful. There's a whole lot of others who, who look to you and thank you because we are taking our own quantum healing methods beyond and also feel the same way about Loris's blessing. Actually, there's another question coming up on zoom. Would you like to hear another question? I'm hoping I say her name right. Madel asks, do you know of anything about a person having a mission to help people transition? They continue to have this mission even if the person doesn't believe in God and what can this person do if the person doesn't want to have this mission? Wow, that's a pretty interesting question. Have you ever That's my mission. I mean, I was born to help people transition, you know, I think she was asking if you ever had a client like that asked that and then not like the sound of their mission. Oh yeah, of course. But on a soul level, it's very different than what we're doing consciously. I did not ever in my mind in my entire life think that I would be doing something like this. Never. I mean, I was a business woman all my life for over 40 years. I've been working in an office, you know, little cubicles or offices.  I never expected to be doing this with people. I'm a very introverted person. I'm a loner. I do not like to be around people. You know, I love one on one. Don't put me in a crowd. I really, you know, I'm always finding the corner to hide in. But you know, this is this is a mission that I've been given. I was right through the through the the fires of hell to get here. And I understand this is what I need to do. So I have now accepted my mission with the help of all of my guides and divine, you know, ascended masters and everybody else who's helping me with my whole team. The mission is easy because I have accepted it and I just allow them to take me. So when you're going against the current, yeah, it's going to be hard like anything. But since you I've accepted it and my my guides, you know, when I get overwhelmed like this, because of my mission, you know, they tell and I look like the other day, a few weeks ago, I was looking at my calendar that had been booked all the way into the middle of 2018. And I just looked at my calendar. I just went, how, how am I going to do this? You know, what if I can't get sick?  Nobody could die. Nobody, you know, there's no time for that. And and and my guides, you know, I do the automatic writing and they said, when you're walking to any place, you can't count the steps. Okay? You just know there's a destination there, but you do one step at a time. So when I have a client in front of me, and I spend four hours with my client, that is the one step tomorrow or in another hour, I have another step. So that is how I'm looking at my mission. You can't you can't be thinking of how big this is. You just have to do one step at a time. Because yeah, it's overwhelming if I were to, if I were to focus on how many clients I have for the next few months, it would be like, it's shocking. It's shocking. It's hard for it's hard for our conscious mind to deal with that.  And so myself a it's like a four foot by three foot whiteboard and I filled it with my to-do list and all it does now is scare the living daylight. I don't even want to look at that because yes, one day at a time, one step at a time. One step at a time is all you can do. And that's why right now I'm taking the time to travel by rail so that I can enjoy a little bit of my time. Look at, look out the window and see the beauty of this country.  Brilliant, brilliant. Well, Alba, we've spent a great almost full hour together right now. Let's talk a little bit about this where you're traveling, not too far from home. This October, you're going to come up to Sarasota and this far up there. Yeah, that will be, that will be fun, you know, to be, to be somewhere close to home at least. It's kind of the same vibration. Yeah, that will be a lot of fun to see a lot of these people in person that I've been talking. I've gotten a lot of emails saying I'm going to be there, looking forward to meeting you. And it's nice to see people, you know, face to face and see some of these folks that I haven't seen for a while. Heather, for example, Heather Shea is going to be there. I did a great regression for her a couple of years ago. That was fun. And Sian, who is darling, you know, it's Michelle. Everybody saw her regression. Let me just say that out loud for those of you who don't know, we are putting on a public conference. Michelle Walling and I are sponsoring the Quantum Healing 5D and Beyond two-day conference in Sarasota, Florida, this October 6th and 7th. And it's a two-day event and it's for the public. But a whole lot of practitioners are showing up and very soon we're going to have a way for people to have to see some of these practitioners are coming to do sessions with the public. So we're going to be a little hot bed of doing a session while we're also listening to speakers. Alba is our keynote speaker. And we're also doing some really fun events. Michelle's got the whole beautiful holiday in set up and for a meeting room and we're going to do a group regression on the 6th. We're going to do some sound healing with some beautiful singing bowls. And then on Sunday, our friend Greg Prescott of N5D.com, he holds a wonderful public drumming circle and we're all going to head to the beach on Sunday. Stand around on the 99.9 crystal sandcourts beach and kind of ramp up the energies even more. So if you are anywhere near Florida in October, you need to head on down. And you know what, if you're not near Florida, you need to head on down even more. And I've already noticed that some of the people who bought tickets are from Canada, from Seattle, Montana, you know, some places up north, it's perfect time to be coming to Sarasota and get your bones warmed up to head on back up, you know, north for the wintertime, right? Yeah, it's a beautiful time for my birthday. Yeah, that'd be cool. And people have asked if I'm going to do sessions there. I had sent out that information via my newsletter. Anytime I have sessions anywhere around, I send it out newsletter, they are all fully booked. So I would definitely recommend that people look at that list of other practitioners because it's going to be great to have sessions with anybody over there. Yeah, a lot of practitioners are going to be swapping sessions with each other and making their hotel room or other BNB, Airbnb or whatever place is available to be able to do sessions with people who are interested. And you know, Alba, isn't it interesting when a whole hotel is kind of doing this work, even if the session is like, you know, down the hall or on a different floor, just being in that energy in that place, right? It's going to be magical. It's going to be just really, really great. Yeah. Our other speakers, Katja Turner and Andrew Martin are also showing up. They're really great people who are going to be on the next Quantum Healing with Candice show on my birthday. As a matter of fact, August 7th, with them. And it's actually kind of transitions into another question here because my friend Cherokee Turner might like to hear this Cherokee is Katja Turner's husband. Robin Mantz on Facebook asks Alba this question, these shows need to be, these stories need to be a TV show is addicting. Be interesting TV show, wouldn't it Alba? The history channel actually contacted me yesterday. They want to use a little clip from one of my sessions. So yeah, it's going, it's getting out there. That's amazing. That's really amazing. Well, in closing, what would you like to tell to your YouTube fans out there? Oh man, this is such wonderful time to be living right now. People are waking up all around the world. I'm loving hearing this. It took me many decades to get to where I was, to know what I'm knowing. And I almost envy these people who now all of a sudden, they knew nothing and now they're awake and it's such a beautiful thing to witness this. That's what my whole purpose is, is really to awaken people around the world, to light up the world with this energy, one person at a time. And I keep my YouTube channel as positive as possible. Somebody mentioned that I'm like, it's like whack-a-mole. I try to get rid of all the negative stuff on there because that's what I want to grow. I want to grow a beautiful garden of positivity and hopefully every single person who watches one of those videos will wake up another one expanding the light over and over and over again. And that's really what we need right now, is this expansion of light. So each and every person is really important. If it takes two minutes of meditation, just three breaths to bring in that light and spread it out. That's all we need. If everybody who was listening here just brought in that white light and spread it out, it's going to make the world so much better. So that's really what I want everybody to know. You have to spread your light. Don't keep it. Don't keep it within. Beautiful. Lava, thank you so much for taking some time out talking to me today on your very busy travel and journal. Excuse me very much. I didn't say that journal. Maybe I'm trying to bug you into starting to write about it. Maybe that came out because of that. This has been marvelous talking with you and reminiscing about Dolores and what she started, right?  And we also have a brand new directory. For those of you out there who are looking for a Quantum Healing Practitioner, our directory lists people who've taken Dolores's class, but we've expanded and opened up and anybody who is teaching or, excuse me, offering other modalities or even not offering Dolores's modality but their own unique modality or something else like EFT or regular hypnotherapy, crystal healing, any kind of work like that. Our directory is expanding, growing day by day and it's for you out there if you're looking for clients and that is QuantumHealingPractitioners.com and I want to thank, thank you again Alba for being here and I want to thank Michelle Walling and Greg Prescott for watching and Greg, thank you so much for sponsoring the N5D Quantum Healing with Candice Show. It's a blessing to have met you and thank you so much for that and I want to remind everyone about, again, about the Sarasota event in October. We will have all of those links. I'm going to update the YouTube replay and this Facebook. Please like and follow Quantum Healing Beyond on Facebook. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. It's brand new. We want to get that custom URL out. We have a lot of videos there but we've recreated our YouTube channel. The replay will be on YouTube shortly but go over there and subscribe so we can get our custom URL. QuantumHealingandbeyond.com is also another place you can connect with us. Once again, thank you everyone for showing up. Thanks Alba. Talk to you later. I send you a virtual hug. I'll send you a virtual kiss. All right. Thank you everyone. Facebook Clan thanks those of us or those of you who joined us on Zoom. Until next time, August 6th, August 7th, Quantum Healing with Candice. Bye-bye.


Now when studying or revising four characters in A View from the Bridge, of course the main protagonist is Eddie Carbon and you do need to remember key quotations and of course do word level analysis when discussing what these quotations illustrate about Eddie's character. So as you can see behind me, essentially I've selected the key quotations to remember when it comes to Eddie's character, whether you're revising A View from the Bridge for your exams or whether you're using this for an essay and of course do bear in mind that there is a course on this that I've created so make sure you check that out. We're going to lots of detail when it comes to both Eddie's character as well as other aspects of A View from the Bridge. Now I'm going to go over the key quotations to remember when it comes to Eddie Carbon's character. Now do bear in mind that he is presented as a tragic figure. In other words he is the protagonist through his fatal flaw which is his attraction to his niece Catherine, this unnatural attraction. He makes a series of mistakes which ultimately leads to his downfall and death okay. Now the first quotation to remember when it comes to his character is when he's telling Catherine that you're the Madonna type. Now bear in mind that this is a metaphor him referring to Catherine as Madonna. Now Madonna essentially refers to the Virgin Mary in the Bible. In other words here we're getting this sense that he sees her as almost this pure virginal creature that he needs to protect from the rest of the world. So whilst we know that she's his niece he has raised her as his daughter and here we can see that he almost has this obsession with protecting her chastity and her purity. He doesn't want her beauty to be seen by any man. So we're already starting to get hints in this quotation that Eddie has almost this unnatural desire to protect his niece's virginity. The second quotation to bear in mind when it comes to Eddie's character again illustrating his relationship with Catherine and how protective he is overprotective to a fault is when he states you can't take no job. He doesn't want Catherine to take a job and again this goes into his overprotective attitude and his overbearing attitude towards his niece. Now the one level analysis to do here is firstly the pronoun you here has been very common towards his niece. Again we sense that this goes beyond a father daughter or an uncle niece relationship. He seems very obsessed with almost protecting her from the rest of the world as if he wants her all to himself. The other one level analysis you want to do is the assonance of oh and no and job. Now the other quotation to bear in mind when it comes to how he is very suspicious of Rodolfo almost jealous is once Rodolfo and Marco arrive he states that guy ain't right ellipsis. You know what I mean?  Also the other word level analysis you want to do here or rather a structural point you can make is of course the rhetorical question when he's stating you know what I mean in other words he's trying to see whether other people kind of understand that Rodolfo perhaps might be a homosexual okay.  Now the word level analysis you hear firstly is a simile like a dog of course here initially we bear we remember how Eddie actually he had a really good side to him he looked after Catherine he worked really really hard he was a typical Italian immigrant who came to America who worked very very hard to look after his family so of course the simile is embodying that however he seems really resentful that now Catherine is older she is giving herself over to what he sees as a punk and this is a metaphor describing Rodolfo whom he looks down on. The other quotations remember when it comes to Eddie's character is when he states and this is when he calls immigration services and he decides to report Marco and Rodolfo he states I want to report something illegal immigrants okay now of course these two are declarative sentences bear in mind that a declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact feeling all mood now here of course this begins the fast trajectory on his downward spiral of course what this will mean once word gets out that he has reported to people from his community is a lot of other Italian migrants will see him essentially as very scarred by this experience they will of course want to avoid him this is also going to be really really bad for his reputation within the Italian immigrant community who always saw anybody who reports and betrays anyone within the community with lots of suspicion okay so of course here he makes a major fatal error and this is of course what leads Marco to resent him and to seek revenge which ultimately leads to his death the final quotation is when he and Marco have a standoff during Catherine and Rodolfo's wedding before Marco ultimately has him killed so of course he turns in the knife that Eddie has on himself and prior to that Eddie is really angry because of course word gets out that he did report Rodolfo and Marco and his reputation is really tarnished and ruined within the Italian migrant community where he lives and he states wiping the neighborhood with my name like a dirty rag I want my name Marco and of course here what Eddie is trying to do is trying to cling onto any shreds of respectability that he has left of course he is blaming them for letting the word out that he had reported them and of course everybody now really sees Eddie in a negative light and he's trying to cling onto any form of respectability which is completely lost and of course he ends up losing control and dying by his own knife now the word level analysis you want to do for this quotation of course when he's talking about wiping the neighborhood with my name like a dirty rag of course like a dirty rag is a simile and also the other word level analysis to do is of course when it comes to both sentences they end with exclamation mark meaning that they are both exclamatory sentences this shows Eddie's increasing desperation and sadly it ends with tragedy because he dies soon after okay so that's really it when it comes to Eddie's character and key quotes remember for his character make sure you check out the course


Call the special meeting of the common council order. Please call the roll. Boren, Berg, Serta, Davis. Excuse. Gough. Excuse. Hannah, Kittleson, Clowness, Manny, Meyer, Montemayor, Racky, Ryan, Sushia, Vanderweal, and Verhasselt, 14 present. Quorum is present. This time we will ask Sue Richards to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Madam City Clerk. All women, Hannah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move that the report of officers 1581 and 1583 be accepted and placed on file. Second. Motion second. Under discussion. There be a none. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 1551, beginning to 1569, all of them, Hannah. I move that the report of committees be accepted and adopted. Motion and second to accept 1551 through 1569. Any discussion? Alderman Vanderweal. Thank you, Your Honor. I have a question for Rich Gebhardt on 1565. If there's some confusion, if you could explain a little bit what we're doing with that. I believe we passed the general ordinance through council and that we raised that fee. Now, are we restoring that money or where we're at with that? Thank you, Your Honor. The there is a listing of amendments that is being recommended by the finance committee that was on your desk this evening. You found them in your bin. Two sheets stapled together. The caption says 207, budget analysis. In about the third section, there are adjustments for the building inspection. And it does show increasing the revenue estimate for the sewer permits and to increase the appropriations for the salaries and building inspection by 33,662. Excuse me, I'm sorry, I gave you the wrong caption. It's finance committee recommendations. My apologies, right in the middle of the page. Correct. Again, I'll review that. OK. The proposal from the finance committee for this evening is to increase the revenue estimate for the building inspection sewer permits and increase the appropriations for the building inspection salaries by 33,662. In addition to that, because the estimate for the increase of revenue is 60,000, the finance committee is also proposing to increase the appropriation for the general contingency by 26,338. President Burke. I'd like to pull forward, if we're done with discussing this matter. Is there any discussion on that anymore? OK. OK, this will be 1562. That is the budget for the police department. Motion in second? Well, just what is it? What I'd like to do is, in reading the document, the sentence that said, recommends that the report of committee be accepted and adopted without the amendment of 1.5%. I would like to strike the word out, of without, so that the budget for the police department is increased by 1.5%. This will be applied to the salary line item. Mr. Gibbard, there was a second to that. Seconded. Almond Ryan, second? Mr. Gibbard? Mayor, if I may just suggest, since this is the report of the finance committee, I'm not sure about the procedure for amending a committee's report. The real document you want to amend with that motion is the last one on the agenda. 1588. That actually establishes the budget and establishes the levy. These are just house cleaning, report of committees, and report of officers that are coming in. If that is your interest is to increase the police department's budget by an amount, and you're able to tell us where the money's going to come from, and you can do it on 1588. Right. Is it OK? Right. I've got the motion. OK. Let's draw a second. Thank you, gentlemen. Anything else? Otherwise, we're going to act on 1551 through 1569 to accept and adopt report of committees. Holders in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Alderman Hanna, 1587. I move that a resolution 1587, 150607 be put upon its passage. Motion in second to put 1587 upon its passage. Under discussion. There being none, all those in favor, say aye. Well, hold on. We need a roll call. I'm sorry. Yes. Excuse me. We need a roll call. Yes. Please call the roll. Burke, Serta, Hanna, Kielsen, Clayunas, Manny, Meijer, Montemayor, Radke, Ryan, Sushia, Vanderwheel, Verhasel, and Boren, 14 ayes. Motion carries. Thank you. 1588, Alderman Hanna. I move that resolution 1588, 160607 be put upon its passage. Motion in second to put 1588 upon its passage. Under discussion. Alderman Burr. Thank you. Again, Mr. Mayor, I think at this time, I would like to make an amendment to the police budget to increase that budget by 1.5% with that amount to be placed in the salary and fringe light item. Under discussion. Yes, thank you, Mayor. Under discussion, the 1.5% for me represents a reasonable compromise to maintain a level of staffing that I feel we will be shortchanged with. The police budget was, that will increase the budget by about $158,000. The 07 budget was reduced by $76,041 from the 2006 budget. The percent and a half increase restores that cut and in addition adds an additional $82,873 to that budget. This roughly translates to two patrol positions. My belief is that it's vital that we continue to plan and maintain increasing our commitment to public service. Police services are among the most specialized services the city has to offer. Annually, the police department responds to some 50,000 complaints each year. Every time a citizen picks up the phone, they expect to have a prompt and adequate response to their concern. A factor that I consider significant is that it takes approximately one year from the date of hire to put a police officer on the street due to the training time, et cetera. I think it is vital that we continue to have a stream of qualified personnel so that we can continue to account for retirements and the ongoing personnel needs of our department. Thank you. Alderman Recky. Thank you, Your Honor. As much as I believe in police protection and the public protection safety of our citizens, I also believe that all the other departments came in with 0% increase in the budget. And I have a question for Chief Kirk, if I may, Your Honor. Is that allowable? Yes. OK. Chief Kirk, please come up. To my understanding that this money would probably put two more patrolmen back on the street, did we not approve money last year for three patrolmen that were never hired? Is that to my understanding, Chief? Well, like this year, last year was no different. We had to give back, if we want to stay at a 0% increase, we had to give back $534,000. So how do you do that? We're at 90-some percent of our budget is personnel. So last year when we had to give back a certain dollar amount, Rich could probably provide that answer to you. We had to leave these positions vacant because we agreed, in order to give that money back, if you wanted to maintain whatever budgeted items we were allowed or whatever budget numbers we were provided, we couldn't hire anyone.  So we had no choice. If you want me to come up with a $534,000 give back this year, I just can't fill the vacancies. If you are to tell me that you want me to hire three more people last year, I need $210,000. For this year, you want me to hire five more, $70,000 apiece. So was it my choice? No, it wasn't. You had to give back a certain dollar. So if we approve this money to the budget tonight, will those two people be hired in 2007? Yes. OK. Thank you. Thank you. Paul and Ryan? Thank you, Chief. There were any of my voices, so if I sound like a sponge about spudging Patrick, it's totally unintentional. I agree with President Burd that this is not a huge amount of money in the city budget for a 1.5% increase. That's only increasing the police department budget by $82,000 over last year. The police department has in the upcoming year Assistant Chief Weiss is retiring. There is another person of high rank in the department that may be retiring. We are not asking those positions that Chief has agreed will not be filled. They will not be advanced pay grades to fill those positions. What we're trying to do here is to hire some young police personnel to become in training that they will be on the streets. They will not be in an office. They will be doing preventive policing, which is what our department tries to do. If we do not hire personnel this year, next year, we're going to take the hit anyway. We're going to have to hire that many more people. From what I understand, it takes a good amount of time to train a police officer. They'll just take them out of the academy and give them a set of keys and a pistol and say, they'll do your job. In order to keep the efficiency of the police department where it needs to be, there's a lot easier to train two people at a time than five or six people at a time. I just believe it is in the best interest of our community to keep the police department fully funded. Crime is not going down in the city. It's not going to go down in the city. If we do not fund the police department properly and have preventive policing, have personnel at the high schools, liaison officers, the DARE program, et cetera. If we do not do these things, we are going to transition the military from preventive policing to the reactive force, basically going up and mopping up what's happened, rather than trying to have enough personnel in the streets to avoid that situation of happening in the first place. I think this, I believe this is supported by the majority of the public and the majority of the citizens in the city. And therefore, I do agree with all of you for it. Thank you. Alderman Susha. Thank you, Your Honor. I just wanted to clarify something that Alderman Radke had started with the chief, that at the beginning of 2006, there was money in the police budget to hire more officers. Chief Kirk decided to divert that money to help pay for the wage increases for the union settlements. It was that decision. It's not that the money was given back to the taxpayers. It was a decision made by Chief Kirk to divert the money to fund something else within his budget. But the Alderman approved those positions prior to last year, probably even before I was on the council. And I think if those positions had been filled, perhaps I could go along with maintaining the people that are on, that actually have been hired. But being that those people have never been hired, I don't think it's right that now suddenly we decide that we need to hire them. Because if you remember back on October 31, the Sheboygan Press ran an article talking about how the Sheboygan area is the sixth safest community metropolitan area in the United States of America. We are the sixth safest area in the country. It's great to strive to be number one, but I don't think the answer is to dump this extra financial burden on the tax rolls. I do agree that we could use more officers on the street. That one hurt, but there's another way of doing that. You do not need to hire from outside the organization to fill the bottom of the table of organization. The answer is that we have too many sergeants, lieutenants, captains up at the top. The answer is to put some of those folks back on the street. There's no reason we should have about 20 people in supervisory positions sitting behind desks when we have about 56 people or so out on the streets. That span of control is less than three to one. In any other sector, a three to one ratio, that's not normal. That even if you're in a public safety, those people in the management ranks need to be back on the streets. And that is something that salary and grievances working on. I've been to several meetings with the mayor, Alderman Manny, the police chief, when the process of looking at different options. But I think that is the answer to get more people on the streets is that we push them out from behind their desk and back onto the street rather than hire new officers. So I will not increase, I will not support increasing their budget. They're no more special than the city assessor's office or public works. Everyone else held it to zero. I know the library was approved for a little bit of an increase. I voted against that. So I'm gonna stick to my guns and vote against this increase as well. Thank you. Thank you, Alderman Susha. Alderman, Warren. Thank you, your honor. In expanding, first of all, on what Alderman Ryan had said about deputy chief Weiss retiring and another senior person in the department retiring, from what I know about deputy chief Weiss salary and benefit package, if we are not replacing him, that money right there should replace, would probably put two officers on the street. And I would imagine the other individual with salary and benefits, probably one officer on the street. Also, for 2007, the budget for health insurance for the police department is going to be $1.5 million. Currently, the police union is paying 2.5% of their premiums with a first dollar coverage, no deductible, unheard of in these days. That 2.5% out of a $1.5 million budget for healthcare comes to $37,500 contribution from 87 sworn officers, which amounts to $431 a year or $35 a month. Again, unheard of in today's and the public or private sector. If the police, and I'm not here to negotiate contracts, but it's high time our police union gets real with what they're going to contribute to health and towards their health insurance premiums. For example, if they would contribute 10% of the $1.5 million, that would bring in an additional $150,000 or at what I was told by Mr. Surick to hire a police officer salary and benefits with a family medical plan, $58,000, that would put two officers on the street. At 15% contribution towards their health insurance, $225,000 or four more officers. At 20%, an additional $300,000 or five officers. And at 25%, and incidentally, I believe Alderman Hanna brought in a report from the Rand Corporation earlier this year to finance or at least mentioned it in finance, that the average private sector contribution towards health insurance in 2006 is 28% of their premium. But let's just say hypothetically the police officers decided to pay 25% towards their health insurance premiums. That's $375,000 in additional money or six officers. So I think before we talk about tapping the city of Sheboygan taxpayers for more money, the union has to get realistic and do their part and save us some money on what it's costing us for health insurance. We have to get real and we have to be realistic. And 2.5% towards health insurance and this day and age is not realistic. So I guess before I would vote to increase what we're charging the taxpayers, let's see what the union is gonna do for the benefit of the taxpayers. Thank you. Thank you Alderman Bourne, Alderman Montemayla. Thank you, Your Honor. Good words Alderman Bourne. The other departments have made their adjustments. It was difficult, it was hard, they've done it and they're still doing their jobs. I fully believe the police department can make the adjustments also within their 10 and a half million dollar budget. I can't support asking the taxpayers to come in their pockets and give more money. The other departments have done it, it's only fair that police do it also. Thank you Alderman Montemayla, Alderman Meyer. Thank you, Your Honor. I just wanna say I agree with Alderman Bourne, Alderman Sousha, Alderman Montemayla. I think there are other ways of finding this money to hire more officers like Alderperson Sousha said, we're looking at the TO. I think right there is a great opportunity to put more officers on the street and we are the sixth safest city in the nation. That tells me that our police department is doing a fantastic job with the money they have, with the personnel they have and I do not feel unsafe in my city. I'm appalled when I hear people say that they are fearful to walk down our streets because that reflects badly on our police department and our police department does a fantastic job and I will not vote for an increase in the taxes. Thank you Alderman Meyer, Alderman Ryan. Thank you once again Mr. Mayor. I agree that insurance, the amount of dollars that the police department contributes toward insurance is unrealistically low and I do believe that they realize that also and that will be changing. However, to demote an officer to say, okay, you've done a fine job, but we're gonna demote you, you're gonna go back on patrol.  If you demote somebody and it doesn't matter if you demote them at the same rate of pay, if you demote them for doing their job, you might as well just fire them because that person is not going to be around for long. They're going to go somewhere else. If they are around, I guarantee you they will not be doing the job that they did before. So I don't think that taking police officers from their present position, awarding them by demoting them is a good thing. It's amazing to me how on this council, we've consistently picked out the police department as the whipping boy, so to speak. I think it's time we stand behind our police department. The sixth safest city in the country is a great thing and that is commendable to the efforts of our police department. But is it bad to have the fifth safest? Are we going to be the sixth safest next year after not replacing a couple officers or two years down the road when we do not have qualified officers because we've demoted some and they've gone elsewhere? I do believe that the police department will negotiate fairly on the insurance question. It is unrealistic for the police department and all city departments to continue at the present contribution that they are responsible for on their insurance. At the same time, I think it is our duty as a council to the employees of the city, to the public employees to treat them with respect and to take into account the morale of city employees. I do believe that budget cutting should be done through retirement, through attrition and changing the TO accordingly. Not by demoting people, not by laying people off or firing people. We have a great workforce in the city and in order to keep them, we cannot continue to treat them as salary numbers rather than an asset to the city that they've been in the past. I do believe in our police department, it will be the case that we will be losing qualified officers if we start demoting people. As people retire and these are the higher salaries, to not replace those positions is a great idea. To have more officers on the street is a great idea. To demote people is not the answer. We will not have the same quality of officers that we presently have. And therefore, I again ask the council to agree with the increase on this budget. Thank you. Alderman, Hannah, you're next. Thank you, Mayor. And I know this is somewhat of an academic discussion tonight but still I think it's important that we have it. I probably get next to the dog issue, I probably get more phone calls about how we budget for our police department. So I know it's a topic that's of interest to our citizens. I think some good points have been made tonight. I think the benefit issue is clearly an area that we need to work on. The national statistics are obvious that we need to drive our benefit packages much more towards the national norms. I too, I think would much more favor the utilization of retirement events to reorganize a department. I think there's merit to what Alderman Ryan says in terms of morale and that the demographics of the department actually lend itself to us doing that. So I think that there's gonna be opportunities out there. Yes, the job of the police department has been outstanding. The national ranking is wonderful. And it's always difficult to think about spending more money in an area that's doing well. You know, it's tough spending money to prevent that heart attack that doesn't happen. So you've got to balance some things there. At the end of the day, I would like to see more officers. How we get there is really not a big concern to me. Whether we do that through reorganization, whether we do that through increasing by one and a half percent, whether we're able to find fund balances to do it at the end of the day, we need more police officers out on the street. So I like the fact that this discussion has been friendly and informative. And I think we need to move forward with that. Thank you, Alderman Hennep. Alderman Montalala. Thank you, Your Honor. I don't believe any member of the police department would feel that it was a demotion to be working directly with the citizens again. I just don't think so. And the police department has not been the whipping boy. I think they've been our favorite child for a long time with repeated increases in their budget. I think history will show that. Definitely they're not the whipping boy by any means. More than any other department, they've received increases. Also, the liaison officer with the school, that is not in danger whatsoever at all. That's not even part of this budget. Thank you. Okay, Alderman Montalala, Alderman Vanderwill. Thank you, Your Honor. The reason why we're the sixth safest city is because the police department has been a priority in the past and because of the caliber of officers that we have. You can't just walk in here and become an officer. You need to be highly qualified. I have talked to people who are moving out of state because they know they won't be able to get a job as an officer in Sheboygan because at this time they're just not qualified enough. And it has to do a lot with the qualifications of our officers. And not increasing tonight is, I believe, is putting us in the wrong direction. What we'll see when we start doing that is the caliber of the candidates of the officers that we have will suffer and the quality of the performance will suffer. And about four or five years ago, shared revenue was an issue. We were concerned that the state was gonna take it away and there was an election and we didn't know it was gonna happen. And I remember at that time that Governor Doyle said that he will reinstate shared revenue because every citizen in the state should have police and fire when you pick up that phone. That that is a priority and that is why he reinstated shared revenue. So for me, as long as we benefit from shared revenue, police and fire will be a priority. Thank you. Thank you, I'll remind you all. Alderman Mani, your next, sir. Thank you, Your Honor. If you look at my record, I've almost always supported the police with my votes. I'll be voting against this amendment though this evening. And as a part of that, I'd like to share some budget thoughts because these things deeply concern me as I look ahead at the next year at this budget and the totality of our financial situation at this point in history. So bear with me. These things I think I just wanna say in general. Next year, the loss of revenue, wheel tax $210,000, stormwater fee $500,000, loss of revenue in 08, $500,000 stormwater fee, increased costs in 08, the police station, $300,000 for operations. We may have a possible revenue increase in 08, but it's highly theoretical at this point. That is, if a study committee would determine in fact, that taking the ambulance service would in fact provide the same quality service and bring in some dollars. That is to be determined. Beyond that, there are no other revenue streams of significance that I find beyond the levy. For perspective, in the 10 years prior to 06, the tax levy has basically gone up about 1% over the inflation rate. During about the 12 years prior to 2006, both DPW and the library maintained their costs at about the same point, which means they then decrease their actual operating revenue vis-à-vis inflation by a good 30%. During that same timeline, we maintained our revenues with the inflation rate for both fire and police. Those facts clearly indicate that we have been committed to fire and police, public protection and safety, as our number one commitment in public service. At the same time, those figures indicate that both DPW and the library have increased their efficiency markedly by reducing the number of employees and by using further more efficient technologies. Big picture issues as I look at them. Number one, government is by nature evolutionary and not revolutionary, or so we hope. It's taken us a long time to get here. It's going to take us a good while to get out of this situation. There is an elephant in our midst. It's the insurance cost that we all know. We need soon to apply pressure upwards and we need to invite other municipalities to do the same so that state government begins to look at and bring out a committee, a workable, multifaceted insurance approach that will combine mandatory involvement, universal coverage and market mechanisms. Today, because of the situation with the cost for medical care and coverage, we have what is sometimes an adversarial relationship established with our unions. It's not their fault. The costs have gone up for insurance as they have. On the other hand, it's not our fault that we don't have the income to well pay all the requirements to take care of those coverages. Labor is becoming cost prohibitive for Sheboygan as well as for countless other cities. No longer can this continue the way it's gone. It's made worse by the situation culturally and economically. The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. There is a shrinking middle class. Therefore, there's lots of anger of living in political life. I think it gets focused locally. We don't verbalize nationally very often. We don't think we have any impact on the state but we can speak locally and maybe that's a very good thing. The League of Municipalities in one of their recent publications noted that this is a very difficult time to be involved in city government and service.  We're not responsible. This is not of our creation in some sense. It's a cultural thing. It's a national issue. We see the realities of that flowing out the sides and through the seams consistently. So, in the midst of that, what's responsible government? I think it's the first call to transform the insurance system. Secondly, short term, we must do what we can to find cost savings in our insurance coverages and provide more cost shifting to our employees as most in the private sector carry. That has been verbalized tonight quite well and I appreciate that. I'm voting against this because I think we have to have shock treatment in the unions, in the city hall, in our whole population so that we go beyond this space and speak to Terry Van Ackeren, to Joe Leipem and to others and to get other citizens doing the same so that we begin to address an issue that's threatening our whole national fabric as well as coming down incredibly on local municipalities. So, shock value. I'm voting yes for the budget as it is, although I hate it. I like budget increases slightly below the inflation rate. That's what I would prefer. This point in history, I don't think allows us to do that as much as I would like that. So, for what it's worth, I'm voting no. Thank you, Alderman Manny. Next we have Alderman Rahasel. Thank you, Your Honor. Like Alderman Manny, I've tried to gain a historical perspective on this budget issue, department by department. And just to share that with the group here a little bit, over the last 10 years, the police department budget has seen a total increase or cumulative increase of about 45 to 50%. Okay, now to put that in perspective because it is a 10-year period, DPW was nearly flat, the fire department was up a little over 30% and the parks department was up a little over 20% during that same time. So, it gives you some perspective between departments. In my mind, this isn't about picking on people or picking on departments. I think we have a very good police department. I have some policemen who are my neighbors. Some of them I'd consider friends even. So, I don't think, in my mind at least, it's not an issue about picking on them. I think we just have an issue right now. We need to manage our resources. So, I guess I would just like to ask the police department to work with us here in 07 and we'll see what we can do after that. But I think we just need a little bit of help financially here in 07. Thank you. Thank you, Alderman Rassel. Next we have Alderman Warren. Thank you, Your Honor. On what we've talked about so far, just to reiterate briefly, if we would take the salary and benefits of Deputy Chief Weiss retiring, and he's gonna be a tremendous loss to the police department in my opinion, his salary and benefits, and if he does retire in December, that money should free up in early 07. That should be two officers. The other senior individual that I'm told tonight is gonna be retiring, presuming salary and benefits should equal one officer. That's three officers. Depending on what we do with the union negotiations, if they go up to 10% contribution towards health insurance, that's $150,000 or two officers. That's five officers right there without even considering this amendment. If by chance we could even get the union to go up to 15%, that would be $225,000 in additional savings or four officers or a total of seven without even considering this amendment. I guess I would like to make a motion to table this until after we find out what the union negotiations are going to end up being, and then come back to the council, and if we're still short 40 or 50 or $60,000, I would rather consider it then after we see all of these pieces of the puzzle fit together in early 07. So I'm gonna make a motion to table this until after the union negotiations. Alderman Barn, the budget, we're asking to pass the budget tonight. There is no need to table. The budget can either be passed or not passed, and that issue can still be addressed later. So there's no need for that. So if you don't mind, would you withdraw that motion? I'll withdraw. Thank you, Alderman Barn. Appreciate that. Next we have Alderman Susha. Thank you, Your Honor. I just wanted to clarify, when I spoke earlier in regards to taking some of the sergeants and lieutenants and pushing them back down and putting some of those folks back on the street, I never said anything about demoting anybody. Everybody would keep their titles. It's just they would have more interaction with the public. So I don't want this to be viewed as people being punished or demoted in any way. If anything, I would like to work with the chief on creating more opportunities for people to be professional career police officers. My background is in sales, and you could be coming as a sales representative, you're promoted to a senior representative and ultimately to an executive representative. And I'd like to see some type of promotion within the ranks of the officer, as well as putting more sergeants and possibly lieutenants on the street as well. So I think there's lots of opportunities for changes and we should exercise those opportunities before we just keep doing business the same old, same old and hire from outside and keep bringing in more. But in regards to prioritizing, I mean, I think everybody thinks that public protection safety is very important. And with a 10 and a half million dollar budget, I'm not concerned about the police department. They will function just fine. I'm a little bit more concerned about over the years what the long-term effects will be if we continue to cut public works. Whoever made the comment that they're running very efficiently, I agree. They're doing a great job. But you also have to look in terms of, we do have a drug problem in Sheboygan, but let's think about what happens if we start cutting public works too much. The citizens of this community need clean water to live. We have to make sure they have clean water. Imagine what would happen if you could no longer flush your toilet. If we keep cutting public works, we can't take these things for granted. Like we just have to accept that. That'll always be there, but oh, the police need more money. No, I think we need to start looking at things differently. We have to look at the need for keeping our streets clean. I mean, if we didn't have public works, if we didn't have money in their budget to plow the snow, how would the emergency vehicles get through in the middle of winter? How many extra car accidents? How many citizens will be killed if we don't plow the snow? So I think that to say that in the past, the police department perhaps was the favorite child in the words of Alderperson Montmere. I think I would have to agree. And I think it's time that we don't have, we don't single anybody out and treat them favored. They all need to be treated equally. This council decided in August that there'd be a 0% increase. We decided that together. And I think we need to stick to our guns. The 0% increase is where we need to go this year. Thank you. Thank you, Almond Susha. Next we have President Burke. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. In terms of the 0% increase, my belief was that we were going to take a look at what that would mean. And I think we've done that. And I think I commend all the departments for coming in and doing a good job. Again, some of that is done by transferring money that's left over at the end of the year to make up revenue for 2007. What we're really talking about is a three quarter of 1% increase in the police department budget over this year. You know, there are some things we can control and some things we can't. If this council could realistically control healthcare in Sheboygan and we could bottle that, I think we would probably be on the cover of Time Magazine. We can't do that. That's not something that we can easily control at this time. For me, the focus is more on what can we do this evening in terms of our budget? And that's why I am suggesting that what we can do is look at maintaining some level of human resources in our pipeline so that we can continue to have trained and qualified officers available to serve the public. I think we talked many times about other departments and what we can and what we can control. One of the things we can control is a number of calls that come in for police services. And I think if you look, that has been an increase. I think the nature of the calls are changing. And my belief is that we need to continue to be responsive by supporting a level of human resources that are trained and in that training pipeline so that we don't all of a sudden get a bulge two or three years from now when we are caught short of not having those human resources. Thank you. Albert Ullerman, Hannah is next. Thank you, Mayor. And I agree with Alderperson Manning's comments that the elephant in the living room is insurance cost. I mean, that's what's driving all of our discussion. And it's, you know, we've got multiple departments that are wonderful and we're fighting over scarce resources and insurance costs are eroding those resources. I mean, that's the issue.  I mean, I have no argument with the numbers. Some departments lend themselves to efficiencies and some are just manpower intensive. And so we need to strike a balance there. You know, I just would hope and I had hoped during the entire discussion process that somehow we'd be able to find fun balances to adequately get enough police officers on the street. And I'm encouraged by the comments of some of the Alderman tonight that we're gonna be looking at that in 07. And I really hope we do come back and look at that. We need to do that. I know that the police department takes a large portion of our budget. I wouldn't argue that that's not inappropriate. And I really believe we are ignoring some very real costs at the Department of Public Works. And I'm very concerned about all of those structure things. The mayor and I are gonna try to work with Madison to try to improve shared revenues.  But let's keep working together. You know, let's try to treat people fairly and let's make sure that our citizens have adequate services. Thank you. Next, we have Vice President Schroeder, Senator. Thank you, Your Honor. Just to give a little history here on our budget process, I just wanna make mention that when we had discussed the budget originally and we had decided on those older persons who had decided on just doing a 0% increase, it was reiterated to us again that this was something we would bring to the department heads. We'd allow discussion and see if it was feasible. So to discredit our departments or department heads by coming forth and just saying, this is how it's gonna affect the efficiencies of our department. I don't think we need to penalize them in any way. It was a suggestion of the older persons who made those motions, which have brought it forth here tonight. So I like to leave any idea that the department is not being a team player, not working with the confines of this budget. They were only asked to do what we were told them to do. Second of all, I don't think it's fair to compare each department's budget to each other, comparing apples to apples. If that's the case, we would have an easy answer and that would be every department would get the same amount of money and they would have to do what's necessary with that. That would be easy, but we all can recognize that each department is different and our priorities are different. And maybe it's just me that I have a different philosophy in government and business, but I don't feel that we have to resort to tactics of shock value, strong arming our unions. I still have faith in the system. I don't believe that this is the correct forum in which we need to tell our unions to point fingers and say, you better work with us. That's what salary and grievance for. If we do this, what we can end up doing and seeing is we can move it into arbitration. Look at our budgets, justify them accordingly. We don't need to resort to shock tactics. So I will be supporting the 1.5 increase. Thank you. Thank you, Alderman Clayudas. Thank you, Your Honor. I'm hearing some great discussion, great comments. I think that we have to work together on this and I believe departments have worked hard. I agree public works, it's taking a hit of 28% according to the calculations I have in front of me, which is a big chunk out of a budget. It's over a quarter of their budget is being cut by this move to have no increase in taxes. They are working hard at it and they are going to do the best they can. It is also an element of public safety, as Alderman Susha mentioned, are the condition of our streets, the condition of structures in our city that they are safe and public works is going to try to do this best. And I would ask that we all work together for not ruining any department on its own during the new budget year and leaving them saying good luck with what you have. We're gonna work together. We have many qualified department heads who can help departments, I think manage their money, the spending and work together on this so that we come out together as a team. And I give all faith in Rich Gebhardt, the finance director, he's done a great job in guiding us in this. He's swallowing a bitter pill too and not having an increase but he feels as if, let's get on with it. Let's get going and let's see what we can do. I believe we're better than this. I think we have a lot of talent and we can do this with no increase. Thank you, Alderman Claymus. Okay, we're going to call the roll on the motion to increase the police budget by 1.5%. Before I do that though, I want to just say a few words. And this is important to me because I don't want anyone to believe that when somebody calls a police department, someone won't be there to respond. There will always be someone there to respond because if there isn't, someone's going to have to deal with me as the executive. Someone's going to have to deal with me. There will always be somebody responding to the people of Sheboygan just because the budget is not increased by 1.5% and we can minimize that in any way we want to rationalize it and justify it in any way. Does not mean that we are whipping or doing anything contrary to the police department or that we're against the police department. My position has been and will continue to be that we treat every department fair and equitably. Are they different? Sure, but not so much different that we have to give one department more money than the other departments because everybody has taken a hit. Everybody came in, took their hit and said, let's go. This budget is important to this council as being a responsive budget to the citizens of Sheboygan. If you hold it dear in that respect, you'll vote this motion down. Call it roll, please. And this is an amendment to the police budget by 1.5% to be placed in the salary line item. Correct. That was the motion. Serta. Aye. Hannah. Aye. Kittleson. Aye. Clayunas. No. Manny. No. Meyer. No. Montemay or? No. Radke. No. Ryan. Verhasselt. No. Boran. No. Berg. Aye. Six-eyes, eight-nodes. Motion fails. You need eight votes. Nine votes. To pass. To pass. It failed. The amendment failed. The amendment failed. Now we're going to vote on the resolution, the motion to put the resolution upon its passage. 15, 88. You got me. Pardon me? You got me. All of them are in the way. Thank you, Your Honor. I would like to amend resolution 15, 88 to add $98,000 in the Fire Department budget and reinstate two positions. Two positions per. Well, $90,000 would reinstate two positions in the Fire Department. They already have it, two positions. So I apologize. I'm just reading what's here. So I would add to $90,000. Because it was not approved what a public protection safety recommended. The public, you mean when the Fire Department came and asked for those two positions? Those two positions were dealt with by finance, and they're funded now. All right. Yes. Then I apologize. OK. Thank you. OK. Alderman Susha. Thank you, Your Honor. I just wanted to thank the mayor, thank Rich Gephart, and thank the department heads and the Alderman for working together to come in for a 0% increase. I think this is a major, major accomplishment. Just so the citizens know that by doing this, there was approximately $2 million that was cut out of the original request. And I think that that says a lot for this current administration. I think we're moving in the right direction. And I just wanted to thank everybody for cooperating and finally giving the taxpayers a break. Thank you. Thank you, Alderman Susha. Alderman Bourne. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was just going to explain to Alderman Vander, really, what we did in finance to maintain those two positions on the fire department. But you've already taken care of it. Thank you. Thank you. One more. Alderman Mediwell. Thank you, Your Honor. I just wanted to state that I respect everybody's position in this room. And I respect the people who stuck to their guns and said that they would stick with 0% and stuck with it. And also, I respect you for your position, Your Honor. And in the beginning, I said I'd take a look at it and I would try to stick to 0% and obviously, from my vote before, I thought that maybe we shouldn't. And I really agreed with Alderman Manny what he had to say before. And I kind of feel the same way when I'm always voting for increases by hate-paying taxes. But sometimes I just see that this department or that department, it deserves to be a priority. So thank you. We do have one thing that we need to do. Rick, would you like to explain it? Alderman Hanna. Pardon me? Yes. Alderman Hanna. We'll just need a motion to approve the Finance Committee recommendations to be included in 1588. I'd make a motion that we approve the Finance Committee recommendations for inclusion in 15-88. Motion in second. Any discussion on that? Please call the roll. Hanna. Kittleson. Cleonis. Manny. Meyer. Montemayor. Ratke. Ryan. Sushia. Vanderweel. Berhasselt. Boran. Berg. And Serta. 13 ayes, 1 no. Motion carries. No. I don't think so. What do you need? We need to have a motion to pass the resolution. But I thought you meant something else. No. OK. President Berg, a motion to pass the resolution is amended. Thank you, Rod. I would move past the resolutions as amended. Is there a second to that? Second. Any discussion on that? There being none, please call the roll. Kittleson. Cleonis. Manny. Meyer. Montemayor. Ratke. Ryan. Thank you. Sushia. Vanderweel. Berhasselt. Boran. Berg. Serta. And Hanna. 12 ayes, 2 noes. Motion carries. Motion to second to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Stand to adjourn. Thank you very much. All in favour?


EFNN, The Tiger, Financial News Network, TFN News Update. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman here on the 29th of November, Tuesday and we are coming in here for the 10 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update. Downs down 12 at $32,836. Very sharp move to the downside yesterday. My assessment of this particular point is that we're in a digester phase, started that yesterday morning first thing and it should continue just a little while longer and we'll see just exactly how it plays out. The technicals of the Dow so far are still very good. The S&P was a tad stronger today than the Dow, it's up one at $39.64, got repelled at a peak G slash C, it could be a G right at the 200 period moving average. Second, third time it actually got repelled from that. We're looking at the QQQ, NDX100 trading down 0.38 to 282.34. This is a little different, it's really working very hard to hold support in the 281 area. IWM is the Russell 2000, just under the 14 period exponential moving average at $18.291. It's up one, it's got that H pattern, we're going to be watching this very closely. The dollar, meanwhile, is attempting to rally. It is up 13 ticks at $106.79, for the fourth time it's just pushed above the 200 period exponential moving average. That's important for at least a counter trend bounce, and because of that gold, which was up quite a bit more earlier on, hit $17.73, now it's $17.66. Digest in big gains still under the 200 period moving average. You're looking at the U.S. bonds down 13.30 seconds at $126.31 at a peak E, just really working very hard, the rates have been coming down and that's important. Crude oil, crude oil is trading right now sharply, up 158 to 78.83, still making lower lows and lower highs. Let's see if it's able to get to the 81s this week. I'll be back in a few minutes for the Tiger Technicians, I hope you can stay, check out my opening call, my daily newsletter, be back, hope to see you in a moment.