We were looking at the damped harmonic oscillator and we had found that the solution to this equation, to this linear equation for weak damping using a regular perturbation series produces similar secular terms as we had encountered in our solution to the non-linear pendulum while using the regular perturbation method. We had understood this that the exact solution of the damped harmonic oscillator contains an oscillatory term which is cosine of t with a certain frequency and that frequency is a function of the small parameter epsilon. So, this was the origin of those secular terms. In particular we had mentioned that a generalization we will introduce a more general technique which is the method of multiple scales using which we will be able to eliminate such secular terms up to any given order. We are also motivated this technique by saying that if you look at the exact solution of the damped harmonic oscillator you can observe different processes showing up at different time scales. So, at early times you can just describe it as a harmonic oscillator with unit frequency and no damping. At slightly longer time scales we had seen that the effect of damping starts showing up at even longer time scales you can see that the frequency of the oscillator is slightly different from unity. So, in order to reflect that description we said that we are going to convert from a single time to at least 3 different time scales. So, T0, T1 and T2 you can go higher up but we will have to do more algebra in order to obtain solutions up to a given order in epsilon. So, we are going to now do this up to order epsilon square and we will see what we get as a consequence. So, let us now continue. So, as I had said we are going to convert this equation from an ordinary differential equation to a partial differential equation. The independent variables will become T0, T1 and T2. So, our derivative d by dt becomes del by del T0 into del T0 by del T and then this is just 1. I will replace this derivative del by del Tn with the symbol dn. This is just a shorthand notation. So, del by del T0 which just becomes d0. We have to just remember that all the d's are derivatives and the subscript indicates which variable it is being derived with respect to. So, this is epsilon d1 plus epsilon square d2. We want the second derivative in our equation. That term, the first term is a second derivative with respect to time. So, we want, this is an operator operating on itself. So, this is the square of this and if you open it up you get d0 square plus twice epsilon d0 d1 plus epsilon square d1 square plus twice epsilon square d0 d2 plus dot dot dot. So, I am not writing any further because these will be higher powers of epsilon. If we now, we also have to do an expansion for our equation. So, x is now x0 which is a function of T0, T1 and T2 plus epsilon times x1 which is also a function of the same 3 variables plus epsilon square x2. So, let us find the solution. So, now we will have to go back and substitute this expansion into the governing equation. So, let us do that. So, we have the operator in the first term and as a coefficient of epsilon square we had 2 terms d1 square and twice d0 d2 and this term, this operator operates on x0 plus epsilon x1 plus epsilon square x2 plus the second term is the damping term that has a first derivative. So, the first derivative is just d0 plus epsilon d1 plus epsilon square d2 operating on again the same thing and the last term is just x which is and this is our equation. Now, like usual we have to collect terms at various orders. So, you can readily see that the term at order 1 is d0 square. So, that is this term operating on x0.  So, I can write it as d0 square plus 1 x0 equal to 0. Remember that d0 is defined as del by del t0. So, d0 square is nothing but del square by del t0 square. Now, let us collect the terms at order epsilon. So, we will get, so we will get the structure of the left hand side will remain the same. So, we will obviously have d0 square plus 1 operating on x1. So, that is d0 square operating on x1 that is an order epsilon term and then we have an additional x1. So, that is the, let me put it this in color. So, this operating on this and then this and on the right hand side we will have, so we are collecting terms of the order epsilon. So, we will have minus 2 d0 d1 on x0 and minus 2 d0 of x0. How do we get those terms? So, we will have 2 epsilon d0 d1 operating on x0. You can see that there is that is an order epsilon term. We will also have d0 operating on x0 and that is an order epsilon term because of the epsilon pre-factor in this term. We have already taken into account the order epsilon term from the last equation that I have indicated in green and that is on the left hand side of the equation. So, this is my order epsilon equation. Note the structure of the equation. On the left hand side we always have d0 square plus 1 operating on the variable which reflects the order of the order at which we are operating. So, this is order epsilon to the power 1. So, that is why d0 square plus 1 is operating on x1. At order 1 which was epsilon to the power 0, it was d0 square plus 1 operating on x0 and on the right hand side at the lowest order it is always 0. At higher and higher orders we have more and more terms but whatever appears on the right hand side should not depend on a quantity which is at the same order. So, you can see that all these terms operate on something which is already known. So, order epsilon, we already know the order 1 solution. We cannot go to order epsilon and solve the equations unless we already know the order 1 solution. So, on the right hand side should only be things which we know and on the left hand side should be things which we are going to find out at the given order. So, this is the structure. Let us write one more order and that is because so we are really going up to order epsilon square. What we are going to do is we are not going to do a very long tedious calculation where we go all the way up to order epsilon square and find out all the corrections. We will just find the order epsilon square correction in the first term or in x0 and that you will see will contain the essential aspects of the calculation.  So, order epsilon square. So, we are going to order epsilon square because as you can see the damping is going to show up at order epsilon as we will see. But the change in frequency, the fact that the frequency is not 1 but slightly different from 1 will appear only at order epsilon square. So, in order to see that we will really have to go all the way up to order epsilon square. So, with that in mind we are writing down terms up to order epsilon square. So, again the same structure we will have d0 square plus 1 now at operating on x2. So, that is coming from operating on that and then that. So, the left hand side is coming from the terms I have indicated in red. What do we have on the so, on the right hand side we will have let me write down the terms and then I will explain. So, the first term is twice d0, d2, x0. So, let me use another colour. So, twice d0, d2, x0 will be coming from this term operating on that term. You can see that there is a prefactor epsilon square. Then we have d1 square x0. So, that is going to come from this operating on this. Again there is a coefficient x0 square. Then we have twice d0, d1, x1. So, we have twice d0, d1 operating on x1. So, you can see the product of d0, d1 contains an epsilon and then there is another epsilon. So, the whole thing will be epsilon square. So, then we have twice d1, x0. So, this is going to come from the product of this with that. You can see that there is a epsilon sitting before. So, it will multiply and then we will get twice d1, x0. And then at the end we have 2 d0, x1. So, that will be once again this into that. So, that is the origin of various terms. I have listed them out one by one. So, this, this, this, this and that. Note that all of them will have a minus sign because they occur on the left hand side of the equation, but I am going to shift them to the right hand side to show that they are really inhomogeneities for the differential equation. So, now the procedure is exactly like before. It proceeds by solving the equations at every order. We have to start at the lowest order and then go step by step. At every order, we will have to find the complementary function and the particular integral. In particular, we will have to be careful that the particular integral should not contain any resonant forcing term. If it contains resonant forcing terms, we will have to set those to 0. When we do that, you will find that we actually obtain something called amplitude equations. And the quantity which will appear as a constant at a given order will actually be a function of a slower variable or a longer timescale variable at the next order. And the resonant elimination of the resonant forcing term will give us the equation which governs that quantity. So, let us learn how does this work. So, at order 1, that is the simplest problem. This is just a linear homogeneous equation. x0, which is a function of t0, t1, t2 is a function of a0 e to the power i t0 plus complex conjugate. x0 is a real quantity. In this case, x is a displacement and x is being written as a sum of x0 plus epsilon x1 plus epsilon x1 square x2 and so on. All the epsilon's are non-dimensional. So, x1, x2, x3 everything represents a displacement. So, it is a real quantity. So, I have to, if I am using complex notation, I have to add its complex conjugate to make it real like before. Why did I give a gap here? Because I know that x0 now is not just a function of t0, it is also a function of t1 and t2. We are integrating this equation as if it is an ordinary differential equation. So, we are going to integrate it. However, when we integrate it, we have to remember that x0 is a function of t1 and t2. And so, what I call as my constant of integration, actually here is not a constant, but is a function of t1, t2. Similarly, you will get a complex conjugate term like before. This is going to be a complex quantity, which means that if you give it a real t1 and t2, it will return a complex number to you. So, a0 is a complex function of t1 and t2. So, this is slightly more complicated than what we had encountered earlier. Earlier we were encountering complex constants. Now, we are encountering things which are functions of t1, t2 and are going to return complex numbers. Let us see how to determine these unknown functions of t1 and t2. So, up to this order, this is the only thing that we can write. If y a0 is a function of t1, t2 is not clear to you, I encourage you to differentiate this equation with respect to t0 and substitute back at the order 1 equation and convince yourself that this equation satisfies the differential equation that we have written at order 1. So, now with this, so our order 1 problem is completely determined. There is nothing more to be done at this order. It is also clear that a0 remains undetermined at this order. Now, before we go further, you can see that a0 is a function of the longer time scales. t1, t2 are long and longer time scales. So, you can immediately see that on a short time scale, so order 1 is the shortest time scale. So, on the shortest time scale, a0 is going to behave. So, if you think of a0 as some function of t1 and t2, the dependence of a, and the fact that a0 depends on time is not going to show up unless you go to times as large as t1 and t2. So, at very early times, a0 is effectively a constant. So, if we stop the solution to the problem at this order, it is just telling us that this is a constant into e to the power i t0. What does that mean?  So, a constant into cos t. This is consistent with what we have argued earlier, that at very early times, it just behaves as a harmonic oscillator, no damping and with unit frequency. So, this is the description at this order. Suppose I want a more detailed description, which is consistent with what I observe if I go to longer times, at slightly longer time, I will start seeing the fact that this is a damped harmonic oscillator. The effect of damping will start to be seen. So, we have to proceed to the next order. So, at order epsilon, we have the left hand side remains the same operating now on x1, but now it is an inhomogeneous equation. And we had found that the right hand side is twice d0, d1, x0 and then there is one more term twice d0, x0. We have just found that x0 is a0, which is a function of t1, t2 into e to the power i t0 plus complex conjugate. So, what is, so let me work out these terms on the right hand side, this and that. So, the red term is twice d0, d1, x0. And so, you can see that this term is just twice i, the d0 of x0 will bring, will differentiate e to the power i t0 and it will just pull out an i. And then the d1 will differentiate just a0 because e to the power i t0 is not a function of d1. Once again I remind you that d0 is del by del t0 and d1 is del by del t1. So, d0 into d1 is nothing but del square by del t0 t1. And if this operates let us say on x0, then it is just del square by del t0 del t1 operating on x0, which is a0 e to the power i t0. And when you do this derivative, suppose you do the t1 derivative first, then this becomes del by del t0. So, when you do the t1 derivative first it is only a0 which gets whose derivative gets taken because this part does not depend on t1. So, it just becomes del a0 by del t1 e to the power i t0. And then when you do the next derivative which is with respect to t0, then it is only this part which will get derived because this part is just a function of t1 and t2. So, this part will behave as if it is a constant and then you will have i e to the power i t0. So, this is what I am writing here. So, it is twice i del a0 by del t1 e to the power i t0. Now, that is not enough because I also had a complex conjugate. So, I need to take the complex conjugate also. I leave it to you to show that if you took the complex conjugate, then what you will obtain will actually be just the complex conjugate of this. So, this is just equivalent to saying that you can do the derivative first and the complex conjugation later or vice versa. So, I will get a complex conjugate of this part. So, all the i's will become minus i's and remember that a0 is a in general a complex function. So, you will have to put a bar on the top of the derivative del a0 by del t1 also. In this way, the one advantage of the complex notation is that that we can only take one half of the part into account while doing our algebra. However, when we multiply things, we will have to be more careful. We will encounter that later. So, now let us take the next term. The next term is twice d0 x0 and twice d0 x0 is just i, so 2i a0 e to the power i d0 and again like before it is cc. Whenever I am writing cc, it only means that it is cc of this. So, this cc means cc of the term in red. This cc in black means cc of the term in black. When I add them up, I will have a cc of the term in red plus a cc of the term in black. So, I will write a single cc, which means the complex conjugate of the whole expression, the first term plus the second term. So, let us write the expression. So, I will have, so I am now just writing the equation. It is d0 square plus 1 into x1 is equal to minus twice i. There is a minus because both the terms on the right hand side have a minus. And then, so you can see that this term also has a twice i, this term also has a twice i. I am going to add them up. So, I can put take them 2i common and then I have a del a0 by del t1 plus a0. e to the power i t0 is common in both the terms. So, I am writing it outside the bracket. And as I said before, the sum of this complex conjugate plus that complex conjugate gives me another complex conjugate, which is now the complex conjugate of this entire expression. So, this complex conjugate is the complex conjugate of this entire expression. I hope it is not confusing to you that I am using cc, cc. So, this cc is not the same. So, if you want to prevent confusion, then you can write cc1, cc2, cc3 and this is the cc of the whole thing. So, just to ensure that this cc, cc1, cc2, cc3 is not the same as this cc. So, now I need to solve the equation at order epsilon, until now we have just written down the equation and we have figured out the explicit form of the right hand terms. Now, you can immediately see that although we are using complex notation, when you add the complex conjugate e to the power i t0 is basically cos t0. So, this is going to give me a cosine term with unit frequency. So, it is cos t0. So, now look at the solution to the homogeneous part. If you just look at the left hand side and if you set it equal to 0, you will see the expression for the left hand side is the solution to the left hand side is sum alpha e to the power i t0. So, some constant into e to the power i t0 plus minus i t0 is a solution. The plus is what comes here, the minus will come in the complex conjugate. So, once again we have the familiar situation where we have a right hand side term which is a solution to the homogeneous equation. And so, this term unless we eliminate this term, this is going to cause secular terms.  It will give me a term of the form in expressed in real notation. It will give me a term of the form cos t0. And if you look at the left hand side, cos t0 is a solution to the homogeneous equation for the left hand side. So, if you have to guess a particular integral, you will have to take t0 cos t0. And so, that will give me secular term which will grow in time. I do not want that because that was the problem we had encountered earlier when we were doing regular perturbation. Now, this method gives me a way of getting rid of such kind of secular terms. What do we do? We say that we want to set this entire term, this entire term to 0. You can pay attention that if you and set this entire term to 0, then you are also setting the complex conjugate to 0 because if you have some function for complex number and if you are setting it to 0, then it is equivalent to setting the complex conjugate also to 0. So, this is one advantage of the complex notation that if you just set this to 0, this part automatically, the second part automatically gets taken care of and it is also set to 0. So, what I am going to do is I am going to set the coefficient of e to the power i t0 to 0. Notice that it gives us an equation for a0. This is exactly what it should be because as recall that in the earlier calculation, in my order first order calculation, I had said that if you stop the calculation at the lowest order, then a0 is just a constant. a0 is not really a constant. We already know that a0 is a function of the longer variables t1 and t2. So, at this order, so if you look at very short times, you will find that a0 is just behaving like a constant because you cannot see its variation. You need to look at a longer time window to actually realize that a0 is varying and varying slowly as a function of time. So, when you go to the next higher order, that correction appears. Going to the next higher order is equivalent to asking what happens on longer timescales. So, on longer timescales, a0 actually varies as a function of time and the process of elimination of resonant forcing term at the next order tells us what is the equation for a0. This is why I had mentioned that this is like an amplitude equation. If you think of a0 at the lowest order, if you think of a0 as an amplitude of the oscillator, the e to the power i t0 term is an oscillatory term and a a0 was its amplitude. Its amplitude is at the lowest order, its amplitude is just a constant.  And what is the equation which governs that slow variation? That equation is determined by eliminating the resonant forcing term at the next order. So, the equation that we will find is just this, del. So, I ignore the constants. The minus 2i is just a constant because I am going to set this term to 0. So, that constant is not relevant plus a0 is equal to 0. So, this is my equation governing a0. Note that a0 actually is a function of two variables t1 and t2. But this equation will not tell me the dependence of a0 on t2. This will only tell me what is the dependence on t1. We will still have yet another unknown amplitude which is function now of t2. And one has to proceed once again to the next order in calculation to determine that unknown amplitude. We will continue in the next video.


Okay. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to week two of our class of Marriage and Family. I'd like to thank all of you for coming on time. Also, welcome to all the e-learning students who would be watching this at a later point of time. I hope it's discussion and what we're learning in class is truly blessing you all. So, welcome everybody. I think we're yet to have a few more students to come, but I think we'll get started. Okay. Great. All right. So, we are on week two of our class, and we're looking at how we can establish a biblical foundation for marriage. And last week, we looked at understanding marriage in the way God has designed it. So, we looked at different biblical perspectives of what the Bible talks about marriage is and what God designed marriage to be. So, today we will... So, but maybe just before we get started, just a quick recap. So, could you all kindly unmute and maybe share a few of the perspectives that we learned last week, some biblical perspectives that we learned last week. You can just quickly unmute or if you want to use the chat, you could do that as well. Okay. I just need to call out some... Okay. God is the one who designed marriage. Thank you, Anthony. Yes. God is the designer of marriage. He's the one who solemnized the very first marriage between Adam and Eve. So, he is the designer. Thank you. Right. What are the other perspectives? Okay. I think that's covered. God designed marriage. What are the other perspectives about marriage we learned about? It is a covenant. Okay. Marriage is between one man and one woman. Thank you, Anthony. Anand says marriage is a covenant. Yes. It is a solemn covenant. It's a promise made as God being witness. Nikhil says marriage is a good thing. Yes. That's what God designed marriage to be for it to be a good thing. Okay. Anyone? One or two more? We learned, I think, around six or seven perspectives, right? Publical perspectives. One or two more? Anybody else? It's being united as one. Yes. Being united together as one flesh. We looked at different words that really relate to a man and being one flesh. We had spoken about companionship, agreement, unity, relationship, connection, all of that. Excellent. Wonderful. Marriage is an institution to be honored. Yes. Thank you, Nina. Great. Wonderful. So just glad that all of you were paying attention or at least looked through your notes to understand what the Bible talks about marriage. Now, today we are going to be looking at chapter two. This is again another foundation of marriage that we want to really focus on. And this entire chapter talks about how a couple, the two individuals who are joining together in marriage, an important task for them is to prepare themselves for marriage. So when we look at marriage, we know that there are two people. It is two people coming together and becoming one. And so when you're looking at a man and a woman coming together, you do see that the man and the woman have come from different, maybe their own personalities or they've had different experiences. Their entire framework is very different when they walk into marriage, right? So they come from two different frameworks. And this could mean so many things to them, the way that they see life, the way that their personal walk with God or their personal experiences that they've gone through, their upbringing, their personalities, their temperaments, all of this, there are two different things that come. So when you are, when there are two people uniting together, there is a chance that it can become something very united and can progress into something really, really wonderful in God's eyes. Or it can also be something that creates a lot of pain. Because of the fact that two people come from different worlds and trying to join together as one, there is an opportunity of it being made beautiful, but there could be possibilities of it going the other way as well. So that's why it's so important that both individuals in the marriage needs to be well prepared, needs to be well equipped and ensure that when they come together, they make something good about the marriage, right? So that they can become one as scripture suggests they can together become one. So often, very often we do see that people get into marriage for wrong reasons, right? It could be because of the pressure of parents or it could be a social expectation. It could be to eliminate, you know, for someone to take care of the business or it could be some kind of gain that they're getting out of money or it could be sexual gratification. All of these are wrong reasons for marriage and that's what often can break or devastate a marriage. So this sense of preparation, we want to take an example of what actually happens in a Jewish wedding. A Jewish wedding, like we said, it portrays or it pictures the coming wedding of Jesus and the church, right? And it's a custom that they follow even in their marriages at this point of time. So once the arrangement of marriage has taken place between two families and there is the ceremony or the engagement or the betrothal ceremony that takes place. There is often a year waiting for the wedding ceremony. So once the engagement of the betrothal takes place, there is one year of waiting before the marriage. Now this waiting period is basically meant for two purposes. One, it is to prepare them to prepare.  So the first purpose is a preparation. The second purpose that you would see in a Jewish wedding is the testing. So that one year period is a period of testing, one for the bride to prove her devotion to the groom or the fact that she is waiting for the groom in devotion and impurity. Whereas it's for the groom, he demonstrates that he's tested while he demonstrates the responsibility of making or getting the place ready for the bride to come. So it's a good lesson to learn. Although, you know, we're not advocating the fact that, you know, we should follow these traditions, but nevertheless, we are taking the meat out of this, which means, you know, having a period of preparation is something that is highly recommended. So here at church, we often take a couple through a six month period of preparation, where a couple desiring to be married and having the permission of their family members. We take them through an entire six month period of preparation and taking them through these lessons and through important discussions, both biblical, spiritual, as well as practical discussions on how to lead a family. So, and this is something that's extremely important and really recommended for couples getting married. So even as we are addressing this chapter, we're going to be looking at seven important areas that really need to be addressed and which is a spot of preparation for anyone, for any couple who is preparing to get married. So we're going to look at seven important areas, and I hope to cover this in the next two hours. And, you know, for those of you who aren't married, the encouragement is to actually deeply look into these seven areas, have a quick insight and evaluation of yourselves and work towards improving some of those areas. And for that, for some of us who are already married, it is to really align ourselves to work towards preparing ourselves and being the best for our spouse. Okay. So the first part that we're going to be looking at is how do when you're preparing yourself, it is to become the best person or becoming the best you are often, you know, when we consider marriage or when we're thinking about marriage, the focus is always finding Mr. Right or Miss Right. Who is that right person that we can find? Well, although that's important and that's what we're going to be looking at the chapter next. It's important that we also pay attention to what we are bringing into marriage as a person. What part of preparation are we personally doing as we enter into marriage? So how am I working on myself so that I can have, I can be a good partner or a good spouse to my future spouse or to my or to the family or or to the marriage in itself. Okay. So the best thing that you can give into marriage is you yourself is a prepared version of you yourself.  So it's always best to look at yourself and understand how you can prepare yourself. Okay.  He has redeemed us because of what he's done on the cross.  Right. And right now the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit is working in our midst to prepare us as blameless, to prepare us as pure, to prepare us as faultless without, without any blemish, right to him.  So when the church is made made ready, we are and you guys, it speaks in Revelation 22 17, we're calling out an expectation said even though Spirit come, come. So what is it that we have a takeaway from this is that we need to become what God wants us to be even when we are looking at marriage. So as part of your preparation, you know, tell yourself that you will work on yourself before, before you get into marriage and you have the help of the Holy Spirit, you have the help of the Word and he is the one who is going to partner alongside you to make you a best, a good person, a best person for your spouse, even in this institution of marriage. Okay. So when we look at becoming the best you, we're looking at different areas of it. So we're looking at it collectively. Now think of it like a wheel. Okay. Now when you think of a wheel, you see that there are different slices or compartments of that wheel, which are separated by the spokes, you know, by those are rods that you see on the wheel. There are spokes that separates the entire wheel. Now imagine if these spokes on the wheel operated only at, let's say a 30 or a 40%. Okay. All the spokes operated only at the 30%, which means instead of having the full length of the spoke, you have only half of it or you have only 30% of it. What would happen? The entire wheel will collapse, right? Or if you have some spokes that are at 100% and some spokes that are at 20, 30%, the wheel will run, but it's very, very unstable. It will wobble. It is, it's not going to have its life. So similarly, when we're looking at ourselves and becoming the best you, we look at us as ourselves in different compartments or in different ways. So either physically, how are we taking care of our physical bodies? How are we taking care of our emotions? What are the kind of reactions and responses that we give in emotional interactions? How are we socially? How do we connect with other people? Do we withdraw from other people? Are we friendly? Are we kind? Are we compassionate? Or are we aggressive? Or are we always in a bad mood? Right? How are we professionally? What are we doing in intellectually? What is God, what the kind of abilities that God has given us? How are we using it for his kingdom? How are we using it for the benefit of others so professionally or through our career? Financially, are we always in debt? Are we always short of money? Or are we wise in the way that we deal with money? And of course spiritually, what is our walk with God like? What is our relationship with God? How much of time do we invest in reading scripture? How much of time do we invest in in praying, in getting together as a community of believers? So when you look at this entire thing, there is that look at it as a wheel and see that, you know, in every area of your life, go back to assess to see if there are some areas that really require you to work on to be prepared before you get into marriage. Because when we get into marriage, half baked or when we get into marriage, when we're not equally ready, we are going to be throwing a lot of burden on the other individual, on the other, on your spouse. And, and as a result, there can be conflicts and issues of surprise. So the first part is becoming the best view. Is are there any questions? Okay, I think that there is a question here by Sean with what mindset should we enter marriage in? Okay, that's a good question, Sean. And I would want to bring that up to back to the group because I think a lot of that should be enter marriage. So I'd like some responses. Yes. This is an interactive class. Okay. So you, you can talk a pure mindset. What would you mean by that? When you say a pure mindset, what would it mean? Thank you, Rin. That is that's good. If you could elaborate. Like when you have pure mindset, very, very, like, similar to, like what you said, becoming the best view.  You have, like, I think you have your idea what's right. Okay, sorry, Rin. I don't think I heard you. Well, your audio wasn't very clear. But I think you said something like being the best to you. Okay, so all right. Okay, I think she'll come out, said an open mind to accept the person. So I think I want to add over here. Okay, thank you, Anthony.  So you shall become one. Thank you so much. So when marriage is, is not for fun, right? Marriage is something that God has taken extremely seriously, so much so that he's actually written so much about it. There are so many scripture that talks about marriage that talks about how we relate to, to one another. Okay, so as we said, when marriage is to be seen as a divine covenant, it's, it's something that is a promise that you take, you keep till, till death do you part.  Because when God brings two people together, you know, he knows best as, as he's bought these two people together. And he's the one who gives the power and the ability to work. So we don't, don't look at marriage flippantly, like maybe the world sees it. When it is inconvenient, you can walk out. When there is, when there is hardship, you can walk out. When there are disagreements, you can walk out. Now all, all of that shows, I think an immature response, but a mature response is knowing that the person that you have shared your vows with, where God has been the witness in your marriage, you decide that no matter what, you know, with the help of God, you will continue to live through that and in the midst of it to become one, to become unified, to become distinctly together so that, you know, the purposes of God can be, can be fulfilled. Okay. So it's, I think someone's written, I think Jack in is written, it is not for a social or parental pressure. Yes, that's not the mindset. I'm not getting married because my daddy and mommy asked me to, or because there's no one to look after the business or because if I don't get married, my sexual appetites are not going to be, are not, are not going to be fulfilled. Those are, those are not valid reasons for marriage. This is a coming together of two people for a godly purpose, for something that God wants to see. So we, so we are to look at it just like the way God designed marriage to be, to be together, to, to work together, to be one together till death do us part. Okay. I think Nina's written, preparing for it in every way possible, keeping in mind that it is compared to the union between Christ and the church. Absolutely. Yeah. So the fact that, you know, I thank you for bringing up that point for the fact that marriage is looked upon as a relationship just like crisis to the church, which means marriage was meant to be something extremely, in God's heart. It was out of God's heart that, that it was, it came about. Okay. Thank you. All right. So let's move on to, to the second, to the second one. It is the next one for preparation is your emotional health. Okay. Now this part of us, the emotional part of us is what makes up a large part of our being. So I'm sure in probably in your first year class, you have looked at how man is a tri, tripartite being where there is body, where there is soul and where there is spirit. Right. So the part of your emotions fall in the part of your soul. Your soul is that which actually expresses who you are.  So all of what you are is expressed by your soul and one of the key aspects of that is your emotional health. Okay. Now when two people come together in marriage, it is always important. What are they bringing in? They are not just bringing in their experiences or they're upbringing, but they are bringing, they are also bringing in their attitudes, their emotions, their personalities into the marriage. So when, when there are two people in good emotional health or in healthy, a very healthy emotional space, there is, it is definitely going to pay off. It is going to be a lot more easier and a lot more, then there's a lot more engaging and togetherness that happens. So being in emotional, good emotional health not only helps you, but it helps your spouse.  It helps others around you. So remember that often, you know, because in, in, even in the field of counseling, we do see that people decide to get married because they feel if they are married, then this, the sense of loneliness and this emotional trauma that they feel will be cured. But marriage is not a cure for emotional problems. Okay. On the, the fact is that marriage will only blow up some of those weaknesses that there are. And so what, and once that happens, it can be very difficult for the relationship in itself. So it is good to evaluate and identify, be aware of your negative emotions or the space of how, what your attitudes are like, right? Because before you enter marriage, so that when you're entering into marriage, you're not taking the burden of your emotional difficulty onto, onto your partner, onto your spouse. Okay. So if you look at page 12 and that's in the book, but I think it is in the ebook it is in page, page 12. Yeah. That's also in page 12. Okay. So on the ebook, it's in page 12 and there are a list of I think around 17, 17 odd unhealthy emotions and behaviors that have been listed. Okay. And I'm just going to read out these, give you all some time to really evaluate and find out where you all are in, in these spaces. Now remember, we, each of us may have some areas of difficulty or some areas of weakness and, and that is okay. It's, it's good to own up. It's good to identify and recognize that we are there rather than denying or blaming or justifying that we are like this because of something else. Right. It is important for us to, to know that our emotions will not just impact us, but it impacts others. So let me just read out some of these emotions. If you have your books, you can follow through. There is outbursts of anger. There is depressive and emotionally vacillating a demeanor as opposed to being joyful, unable to handle stressful situations, being critical and judgmental, having negativity and pessimism, guilt and shame, being insecure, inadequate and having a sense of lack of self-worth or self-esteem, being emotionally dependent on other individuals or on parents, being self-centered and and not being willing to take on the ideas of others or, or, you know, respect the ideas of others, jealousy, pride, being controlling, demanding assertive, always wanting to have your own way, being manipulative or cunning, unforgiving and calculative, being selfish or stingy, being deceptive or secret, secretive, being suspicious or untrusting. Okay. So these are some of the negative emotions that we've just kind of highlighted for us to be aware. It's, it's always important that we are aware of this. Some, some additional ones could also be being very sensitive to criticism or being extremely sensitive to some kind of feedback. Right. So what do we see?  Like it's not, it's, think of, think of a sea with a wave, with a high tide wave. What does it do? It destroys things around like a tsunami destroys things around. So similarly, our emotions affect our behaviors. It affects the way that we respond to others. It affects our actions. It affects our some of our decisions. So, you know, while, while these probably are things that we recognize, we must learn how, first of all, to identify it and recognize it, learn how to manage it, learn how to regulate our emotions and also learn of how we could eliminate or work through some of these emotions. And as, as a, and instead of that, being able to walk in, in a place of strong, healthy emotions, being in a place of, of walking in right emotions. Now, this is not that we'll take place in a day or two, especially since, you know, you've been carrying some kind of a negative emotion or a behavior or a negative thought process over very many years. It takes, it takes patience. It takes just a yielding, yielding of your own emotions to God and asking for help, you know, through every moment, through every situation to deal with this. Okay. So we also need to know that these emotional problems or emotional situations do not just occur just like that, but it can sometimes have some background. It can, it can come from some problems in the past that has not been addressed, you know, certain situations that has caused this, which is, which does not get addressed. Like for example, when there's insecurity or when there's inadequacy, that leads to a suspicious behavior of the spouse, right? Maybe there's been some issues of low self esteem. So every time, maybe the spouse goes out or is in conversation with somebody that is a sense of extreme suspicious behavior. So all of that it can stem from some emotional problems, which is something that requires healing. Okay. So these emotional issues are something that needs to be, needs to be assessed. So we're going to be looking at some part of this in chapter five, where we're going to be looking at attitudes, behavior and temperament and how to develop more Christ like attitudes or more temperament that is controlled by the spirit and the behavior that is, that is led by the word. Okay. So that's what we would, we would like to do. Okay. Now, even as we, we, we work through the this part of emotions, remember that generally the way that, that two people may, may respond to a certain situation can be very, very different and it is a way to understand and grow and respect each, each other even as they move forward. So learning how to support and understand and react in a way that is helpful for your marriage is something that really works well. Okay. So that's at the second one. So dealing with your emotional health. Is there any question here before we move to the third point? Any question? Okay. All right, then we'll move on to the third point, which is personal management. Okay. Now personal management, it's important to know that, you know, you're not just, when you're entering into marriage, you are entering in with all of that you are, right? So as scripture says, let's just look at problems 25 28.  So what, what does personal management really entail? Personal manage, personal management is basically checking to see whether the different aspects of your life is in place or is in order, you know, being able to manage your own life and your own responsibilities are important skills that we need to develop. Okay. And some of them that we have kind of focused on are just for them. And it is a comprehensive list of one, your personal responsibility of your own career, your finances, your time and your ability to manage your household. Okay. So there are four areas of your career, your, your finances, your time, and your skills of how you manage your household, because each of us have to need to be responsible for things that concern us. Okay. So let's look at each one in detail. So when we look at career, the question that we often need to check back is to see that with whatever I'm doing, is there some purpose in what I'm doing? Do I have, have I been able to work on something that I know is God's purpose for me? So that could be in some way a job or a profession that you are involved in. So looking back to see whether you are fulfilling the responsibility of holding a job or keeping to a profession and thus being able to provide for your larger family. Okay. So that's, that's the probably the first thing that you, the area for marriage. There may be certain questions that that is important to understand is just getting into marriage. Would that be a time that you may be changing here when you're just married, because the initial times and months maybe first year is something that really builds connection together. So to be able to discuss some of these things and because there shouldn't be any surprises later, right, that after marriage, you tell your spouse that you know, you've got an offsite in a different country that would be unfair for the relationship. Right. So it is important to have any kind of an of what you see would happen as changes or promotions or you know, even, even, even maybe you want to do a business of your own in the next one. Yeah. These are things that that is important for you to understand and know and prepare not just yourself, but the person you're going to get married to so that they will understand. Okay. Also certain guidelines that you look for when, when you're looking at the specific option of career is in the last two, three years, a lot of people work from home, which means there is no space between home and work. The home is an office and so people get up, get into work, you know, just come to the dinner table for meals and then then go to bed. So and as a result of which that can be detrimental to the, to the family. So setting some guidelines to, to see how that can be worked at. So if that's a change that you need to make, that's something that you need to look deeply into. Also a guideline, guidelines for separation. That is in case your work takes you to relocate or to live, live separately after your marriage. There is a general recommendation that you know, as husband and wife, you should not be living separately for more than maybe, you know, for, for a certain period of time, maybe for a, for beyond three months or at a stretch, because that in itself impacts the, the connection, the, the relationship and it can, can lead to certain other, other issues like affairs or, or extramarital friendships. So it is, it's a guideline to avoid being away from each other immediately after marriage and to, to keep together to add to the focus on the marriage. Okay. So that's the first part of career. The second part is on finances. So when we look at finances, we all have different, we may have different ideas about finances depending on what we saw growing up. Okay. So it is, it is good to know and evaluate for yourself how one, what is your idea and your thoughts about finances, about money. Okay. What do you do with the money, with the income that you get? How do you manage your income? Is it, do you see that your expenses usually go way, your expenditure is usually way above your income?  Again, with the money that you have, how, how are you committed in honoring God with your finances and being faithful in giving offerings or tides to, to the church? Okay. So that's again, another thing that you will need to look at. Also, what are your financial goals going ahead? What would you, what, what is the kind of living that you would like to make? What are some of your plans that you may have? Maybe it's a five year or a 10 year plan. What are the ways that you have learned to save or invest? What are the things that you're actually doing that helps you to build an invest something for your marriage and for your future? Okay. Apart from this also, what is your attitude towards money?  And so when it comes to even finances, there should be a more, it should be a more single unified approach in dealing with money so that there is transparency in sharing these financial details and sharing the responsibilities around the home. So these are some things and additional also debt. What is your attitude towards debt? You know, so, so that there are, there could be people who are okay to take debts at all times, right? Or for those or there may be others who, who completely do not take loans or thing and they live within that means. So it is always recommended that, you know, before, before marriage, the you know, debts are generally cleared off or if that isn't a possibility, then to be transparent of the fact that there are debts that need to be cleared off even after marriage because often we see that debts can affect personal relationships and you know, it could affect the entire marriage in itself. So the, so finances in itself is something that we need to look at. The next is time management. When we look at time management, it's to have a clear evaluation and insight into the way you yourself manage your time. What are your schedules like? How do you, how do you lead your schedules on a daily basis or on a monthly basis or an annual, annual basis? So you keep to, keep to understanding what do you do to invest? What do you, how do you spend your time? You know, right from the time you wake up in the morning till the time you sleep. What, how much, how industrious are you? How much of time goes and maybe daydreaming or how much of time goes and doing things that really add no value? Also looking at how much of time do you really spend for your spiritual growth, for your spiritual maturity to be able to come to a place to see and understand if you're consistently maintaining that time for the Lord. Right? Also looking at how, how, how punctual you may be and whether you're able to fix time, plot out your time in such a way that you respect others and respect the way that you keep certain commitments. Also in time it matters of how you balance all your work, you balance your family, you balance ministry, other kind of hobbies that you're doing and being able to work through different kinds of aspects that you are involved in. So time management again becomes a huge, sometimes can become a huge area of conflict because of the way how two different people work. So, so this is again another place of evaluation and the last one is household skills. How do you develop certain skills to maintain your home? And, and here let me, let me bring this out that skills are needed for both the man and the woman, right? To take care of a home and family. House owned skills doesn't just mean it's for one person to do it, but for both to jointly hold the responsibility of working at a home because there are so many things that need to be done, especially now because both the husband and the wife work professionally. It would be unfair to ensure that just one person sticks to doing the household chores, but have both people work together in working through these areas. Okay. Now it's, it's a good thing to to start preparing like for example, if you don't know how to cook or if you've never washed clothes before, or if you've never taken up a mop or a, or a, or a, or a broom, it's time that you probably began to learn those skills because it is always useful for you as well as in your marriage. Okay. So we've come to three areas. I'll, I'll just stop in case we have some questions. I think there is a, there is a comment, I think, okay, from Nina, she's written, while we take time to prepare emotionally, we would still need to be prepared for things that might crop up in the areas mentioned. And so we will need to be dependent on God to be able to handle sought out differences and keep things going the right way to honor God. Thank you. Yes. Yeah, that's true. Right. Any other, any questions, any questions before I start on the fourth point, like to maybe have some continuum. So we have around five minutes and leave it open for questions or for some comments, no questions or no comments. It's, it's a good time to just reflect maybe on the first three points and probably maybe what, what really made sense to you. What stood out for you that you could know, I was just thinking that while I was getting married, I didn't have these sessions and you know, just going through these sessions like I'm just thinking like how much I could have avoided and now it's good thing that I can prepare for, I can pray and prepare for my daughter and nieces, nephews and all those things. The course is going to be really beneficial for me. Thank you. One point of, you know, just, I know I'm just thinking that, you know, God has just helped my marriage. It's nothing. And when I go through these things, maybe like 10% of what I'm learning now, at 42 years is what I would have known when I got married, but so thankful God for this course at this point in time. It's really a lot of things and God is the one who does things this way. Thank you. Thank you, Jacqueline, for sharing. Thank you. Yeah, so Rin said regarding the household skills, it's something that I did not know that both should work and share together. Okay, wonderful. Then, yes, it's a responsibility of all of us to be industrious and make use of what what we have. It's a responsibility of the husband as well as the wife. Yeah, there may be certain skills one person may be more stronger in and that's okay, but yet to to encourage your spouse to get useful in the house and do things makes it's a it's great meaning because it will it also communicates responsibility. It communicates that the space that you're living in is your own, right? So it's a good thing. So men, women on this call. It's your responsibility to take care of your own home. Okay, Rin also said I also like that we should see from each other's perspectives and look for the welfare of each other. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. So the next couple next point is about relationship skills. Now, even when we go through this, we're going to be expanding some of this in the chapters to come. Okay. And here we're just we're just looking at an overall framework. But we're going to be looking at these specific relationship skills in length in the chapters to come. So but this is just an overview. But if you've gone through the general notes, you will find that each of these points have been expanded later, we will get into the depth of that. Okay. All right. Shall we break? I know we're two minutes early, but it's okay. Let's break for a 10 minute break. We will come back at 1058 and on my clock it's 1048 right now. Let's come back at 1058 after a break.


What's up guys and gals laying here with late in sports cards. We're ripping 2023 tops chrome black baseball 12 box case break number 32.  I will then update the header and we will get ripping Aaron P diamond backs Andre K. Orioles, Anthony K. Cubs, Ben B. Red Sox Brandon S. Rays, Brent C Dodgers, Chris B. Marlins Dike O. Astros Dean E. Guardians Eric L. White Sox Reds George M. Twins and Rangers Joe T. Mariners John B. Metz Jordan N. Rockies Justin A. Yankees and Phillies Kendall M. Cardinals athletics Christopher W. Braves Larry P. with the Tigers Michael R. Brewers Nathan B. Giants Paul T. Nationals Ryan N. Royals Pirates Blue Jays Scott F. Angels and Tyler R. with the Padres Let me just one second y'all. My bad about that. There we go. Now it's correct. Good luck everyone. So bad. The sad part is that I have to do the like the change on fanatics too. So it's not like I should forget about changing the title. That is true. Oh, you see that? Brissette's going to start for the commanders the rest of the season. Harper you see Sam Hal got benched for the rest of the season. Maybe they just don't want to get him injured before like next season. They're not making the playoffs. They're not making the playoffs. So Tristan Kossas, Mr. Kuskus, Mr. Kassas. Nice hit Red Sox. And there it is. Josh Young out of 99 for the Rangers. Yeah, Russ got benched too, Jase. Josh Young and Vinny Pasquantino. That was a nice first box. Nice rookie pack right there. Here we go, y'all. Oscar Gonzalez for the Guardians. It's a very nice box. Four rookies. Here you go. You take those. I agree. No sense in him getting hurt. It's just very interesting for them to make that move after he got benched two straight weeks during the game. But yeah, he's their guy for next year. Without a doubt. 100%. Freddie Freeman out of 199. Miguel Amaya out of 75 on the blue. Nice hit there for the Cubs. Miguel Amaya out of 75. And Joey Meneses for Washington. I think that's Orange. Jazz Chisholm out of 25. Going to the Marlins. There you go, Miami. Where's Spencer? That's Spencer's guy. Jazz Chisholm. Very limited spots left for Jay and I for our last two breaks, y'all. Very limited spots remaining. Miguel Vargas, base. Corbin Burns Green out of 99. Five to go, y'all. In the dual case. Five and five. Five and five. Literally. Vaughn Grissom for the Braves. Ten total spots left for Jay and I, y'all. Andrew Jones out of 150 on the Refractor Auto for the Braves. Very cool card there. On-card auto, too. I guess those knives are a little stronger than I thought. Plenty of pressure. Literally. The pack's won over. All right, there we go. Matt McLean. Riley Green on the Purple Mini Diamonds out of 150. Riley Green. Riley Green. And Matt Olson. Miguel Vargas for the Dodgers. For the Doyers. Miguel Vargas, base, rookie auto. Y'all, we are not going to do a recap on this one. It's a quick break and we are slightly behind. So we're just going to move right into the next break, which has five to go. Taj Bradley. Four to go now. Four to go, y'all. Out of 75, Ezekiel Tovar Blue. Going out to the Rockies. Chris Bryant. Can you drop a link? Orioles. Kyle Stowers Green out of 99. Going to Baltimore. Nice hit there. Baltimore. Kyle Stowers out of 99. Jay's dropping a link for y'all. Correct, Joseph. It's the World Baseball Classic set in Bowman, Chrome. The only other way you're going to be able to find Yamamoto cards is going to be ripping Nipon League Bowman or Nipon League Bowman tops Chrome. Jeremy Pena. Shane Bieber out of 199. And Fernando Felix Hernandez. King. King Felix. Man, they do not make pitchers like him anymore. I miss those old school pitchers. Him, Doc Holliday, Cliff Lee, the ones that went nine innings every fifth start. The biggest thing was was that they were the work, they were the actual work horses, they were the actual aces of work horses. Yeah, they were aces and they were willing to give you as many innings a year as you needed. 100%. What's up, Jacob? Jacob. Hope you're having a good day, man. Carlos Correa. Oh, that's sick. That's sick. 39 out of 50 Julio Rodriguez on the gold mini diamonds. Nice hit there, Seattle. Oh, there you go. Just got a PS5. There you go. Yuri Perez for the Marlins. I love my PS5. Great purchase. And there you go, Yankees. Man, there we go. Anthony Volpe on the base rookie auto. Very nice hit there, Yankees. Jealous, so jealous. Yeah, that's a nice hit. I'm waiting for him to change his auto. He already kind of has. No, I mean, even worse than even like more short printed than that. What, you wanted to do the AV? I'm saying, I think it's gonna happen. That's why I said I'm waiting for him to change it. Not that I want him to. I've already got his full auto. Oh, the Cardinals are gonna be looking for a lot of rookies in this. Like that. Like that. Literally like that. Like Jordan Walker. Say a Suzuki green wave out of 99 and Brett Beatty base rookie.  James Altman for the Dodgers. James Altman Dodgers base auto. Two to go. Two to go in the next break, everyone. Just Rockies and Marlins. Nathan Miller for the A's. Short print rookie variation for the Tigers. Riley Green. Go Tigers. And that's really nice also for the Cardinals. Nolan Gorman refractor out of 199. Jacob, you asked who the Cardinals are looking for. Back to back boxes you got shown. That's, uh, talk about calling the hits. Really? Cedric Mullins out of 150 on the refractor auto. Cedric Mullins. There you go. Orioles second hit of the break. Orioles with the Cedric Mullins. Nolan Aronato. Nolan Aronato for the Cardinals. Kwan Soda. Blue out of 75 going to the Padres. And Edward Julian for the twins. Kid can hit bombs. I hit Diggers. Edward Julian is very good. And our auto for the Blue Jays. That is sick. That's cool. Roger Clemens for the Blue Jays. That's not one you see every day. You see a lot of Roger Clemens for the Yankees, for the Red Sox, even the Astros. I feel like you never see him for the Blue Jays. Sick hit their Toronto. The Rocket. The Rocket. That's what I'm saying. Like that's a sick patch. I would love to see a game used like patch from the Blue Jays with that. Oh man. Especially with the Old Montreal logo. That's what I was saying. Like yeah. That's the one I want. Yes please. It's like I'll take one of those. How to create your own card. I'll take one of those. Make that happen. Garrett Cole. Bingo. There we go. For the Red Sox. Gold rookie out of 50. Tristan Casas. Let's go Boston. Oh we got a redemption. Come on. There we go. Yo the Orioles are crushing this break. Man. Gunner for the Orioles. Third auto of the break. Gunner the stunner. Gunner is really good. And Tolero's. Which Sox? White Sox? Red Sox. Red Sox. That sounds bad. Because he just got killed. Oh yeah he did get traded. Literally since there hasn't been like any trader. Slow Mo's. You missed one of the most insane Bowman cases I've seen in a while. Still two. I think it's gonna say sold out. No two. Same with the next one. Two and four y'all. Six total spots left for the day. For me at least. Trey Turner out of 150. Kyle has plenty of spots tonight. I believe Hockey is already sold out though. Jonathan India. Here we go y'all. Last hit of the break. Gold for my team. The Rangers. Ezekio Duran. Gold mini diamonds out of 50. William very different. Yeah very different players. Thank you all for filling that up. Again no recap because that was a quick break. We're going to be moving right on. Thank you all.


Good evening. We're live and it's 525 here at Channel 17 Town Meeting Television where we have been focusing on the 2018 general elections. In fact, we've been focusing on them not only throughout the month of October where we hosted 31 debates and 100 candidates, but also throughout the primary. So tonight is a big night as we look forward to election day and that is tomorrow the 6th of November and we hope that you have had the opportunity or will have the opportunity to vote because of course that is a great privilege that we all share and it's very important even though You may feel like it doesn't matter It does and there's some really important races So I'm going to recap some of those races that we're watching here at Channel 17 and tomorrow night at 7 30 We will go live with our election results program. This is an election results program We've been doing since 1990 when we started Channel 17. So that's about 28 years ago And we were in a smaller studio with a smaller staff, but it was equally exciting So we're glad you're here to join us If you have any comments or questions or anything you want to raise here on the program for the next few minutes Feel free to call us at 8 6 2 3 9 6 6 We're always glad to hear from our old friends and new here at Channel 17 Town Meeting Television So tomorrow night Diane Meyerhoff and Shay Totten will be here to talk about the election results And we will be bringing live footage live streaming interviews from the campaign parties That is the Republicans and the Democrats will be meeting here in Burlington to review the results and celebrate the outcomes and the progressives will also be in Burlington I believe it fully knows To be looking at the results and celebrating the outcomes So for governor, we're looking at a race with governor Phil Scott the incumbent And he's being challenged by Christine Halquist a Democrat and also a slate of other independent and third-party candidates Many of whom have been very vocal about being included or not included in the in the debates that were sponsored by various media organizations of course here at Channel 17 we invite everyone and so we had some very Interesting forums with the candidates for governor and all the statewide and local races So the statewide races include the governor's race lieutenant governor. We have David Zuckerman who is our incumbent being challenged by Don Turner who is the Senate is the house Minority leader and also the town manager of Milton He's been running a fairly spirited campaign bringing his family on the campaign trail and they they are the top two folks that we are going to be watching and then we go down to some of the other statewide races which include Secretary of State Jim condos is running and let's uh, let's just have a look at who he's running against You know the language of elections is an interesting one Peter Diamondstone the late great Peter Diamondstone Liberty Union candidate perennial candidate who passed over this past year Always said we aren't running races and we're not running for election so the words sometimes are hard to find as alternatives and I tend to agree with with that but we're going to be using the verbs running and competing against so as I mentioned Secretary of State Jim condos is Being challenged by Mary Alice Hebert who is again a long-standing Liberty Union party member We have the state treasurer Beth Pierce who is a Democrat and she is running against Richard Morton a Republican I don't think he was able to make it to one of our debates And of course you can watch if you want to get educated fast take a crash course tonight or tomorrow You can of course come to our website or YouTube channel and channel 17 and channel 17 TV CH 17 TV and watch all of these forums Because as I said we've had them all on All right, so the Attorney General TJ Donovan the incumbent Democrat is being challenged by Rosemary Jekowski a Liberty Union and Janssen will wait from a Republican Now the races that we really are concerned about and look at here, of course the statewide races. There's no question But there are the county-wide races and let me just mention I did forget that there is a US Senate election and a Congressional election and Peter Welch is our incoming congressman a Democrat and he is being challenged by Chris Erickson an Independent who is also running for governor Laura Potter Liberty Union candidate and Anya Tainio Tineo a Republican sorry about that and then of course senator Bernie Sanders is running for a six-year term for re-election He's running as an independent although. I imagine he will be at the Democratic Party tomorrow night And he is being challenged by a series of people full of Saudi Adelaula an independent Russell Bestie an independent Bruce Boussa independent at Gilbert independent Reed Kane Liberty Union Brad Peacock independent John Svitowski Independent and Lawrence Zupan a Republican so they were all here channel 17 So you can watch them if you'd like so as I was saying the state Senate the state level The county level races are the ones that we are particularly concerned with here in the Burlington area the Chittin County region And there are six state Senate positions open They're currently occupied by Democrats and they're being challenged by seven additional combination of Republicans and independence and so when you go into the polling booth You're gonna see 13 names some of them you or be familiar with and others that may seem entirely new to you So that's the state Senate race and then of course probate judge an assistant judge, which are the two other competitive County races for probate judge the incumbent great Gregory Glennon He's a Democrat is being challenged by Bill Norful as a Republican and that means seem odd to you the bill Norful Who's a former Democratic? Mayor of Wynuski would be running as a Republican, but he did not win the primary And so he opted to run again as a Republican so that will be a race to watch Along with assistant judges similar thing happened We call them side judges or assistant judges These are folks that work a lot with family court and they help the judges work on a variety of processes and We have two incumbents currently Charlie Delaney and Connie Kane Ramsey and they Well what happened this is what happened is that Charlie Delaney and Connie Kane Ramsey ran with Suzanne against Suzanne Brown who's running as a Democrat in Zachary York who's running as I think a progressive and I should know that as signs are everywhere and Charlie Delaney and Zachary York got knocked out of the primary the Democratic primary and have opted to run Not as Democrats in this election, but Charlie Delaney is a progressive Republican and Zachary York as a progressive So they've both been endorsed by the progressives and so that will be an interesting race to watch and then of course we have Kevin McLaughlin who is running unopposed as sheriff and Daniel Gamlin who is running unopposed as high Bailiff and Sarah George who is running unopposed as State's attorney I'm not seeing. Oh, it must be at the bottom of this. These are long ballots. These are super long ballots now in Their house races all over the county and there are several contested ones and the ones that I can Speak to just off the top of my head include in in Williston we have the incumbents there Terry mckag and Jim McCullough who are being challenged by Kathleen Orion and Joy Lamoge And if you remember, maybe you do two years ago joy Lamoge came within just a few hundred votes of Unseating one of those two in Democratic incumbents joys running as a Republican So that will be an interesting race to watch in Winniski. It's not exactly a contested race, but it certainly will be One that takes a little time to get the results on because we have Deanna Gonzalez Who is a progressive Democrat and she was a seatmate with Clem Bissonette alongside Democrat from Former mayor, I believe of Winniski Who decided once his name was on the ballot for various reasons not to run and so Hal Colston is Stepping in as a writing candidate. How Colston also did this in the Winniski City Council and won that race last March and those That write-in of Hal Colston will be interesting to see if he gets more votes in Clem Bissonette Who's on the ballot and also just so everybody knows Because it's a write-in it will probably slow down the Burlington results as we gather them because part of that district is in Ward 1 of Burlington and part of it is in Winniski. So Those will take a little longer to count. I understand that many of the absentee ballots were counted today in Pulling places all across the state the early voting numbers have been quite high and that's very exciting That we have such high participation or let's hope that we have high participation And sometimes those absentee ballots are done on election day and they tend to slow down the results tallies after seven o'clock so in Essex, there are also a couple of Contested races that are important to pay attention to Linda Myers who has been in the seat For Essex, I think since 19. Oh 2001. I have my notes right here She's in a three-way race for two seats So there are two seats in district 8-1 in Essex Linda Myers is the incumbent and there are two new faces Mary Beth Redmond who's running as a fresh voice and Tanya Vya off ski. I'm sorry Vya off ski She's running as a progressive Democrat and she's an Essex native and a social worker And then in 8-2, there's a two Incumbents Jill Dylan GM Batista was a Democrat. He's a first-termer and Lori Houghton was a Democrat She's also a first-termer. They're being challenged by John Brennan who is he's run before he says But I couldn't find when so maybe somebody out there might remember that in Colchester There's also two contested races in Colchester 9-1 Jim Condon former Representative and good friend of ours who passed away this year very sadly his seat is open and Kurt Taylor who's the Democrat is running is faced by Seth Chase Democrat and two Republican challengers Desiree Moran and Clark Sweeney both Republicans and in district 9-2 Maureen Dakin is stepping down after many years of service. I think 21 years and Patrick Brennan is run running for re-election and there are three other candidates Pam LaRanger who won the nomination In the primary she had a right in vote and she beat the folks that were on the ballot But there was a there was a recount. It was very dramatic And then Herb Downing who's a longtime Colchester resident and Serita Austin. They're both running as Democrats And then in Milton That's a race that is not that familiar to me, but there's an incumbent Chris Mattos Who's a Republican and he is? There's two seats and John Palacic and Todd Buick are running also to get one of those two seats or all three of them two seats in Grand Isle Mitzi Johnson, who is the Head of the house There's a word for that. It's escaping me at the moment. She's the speaker of the house. She is being opposed by two cousins who are related to Don Turner in Milton and So Judge Ben Joseph who's a regular here on our show and Mitzi Johnson Those are the two incumbents and then there's two others who are Specifically trying to unseat Mitzi Johnson on I think Gun control legislation is one of their issues and that among other other topics in Heinsberg Bill Lippert who's the head of the House Judiciary Committee is being challenged also by a Sarah Toscana who is particularly concerned on gun rights issues and that's what inspired her to vote so we'll be watching that as well and Then let's just see what else we've got. Oh and Burlington, of course we have from We have we have six races, but only one is contested and that's in the new north end That's words four and word seven will be voting on that recurrent right the incumbent Republican just endorsed by the Democratic Mayor of Burlington is running with first term legislator Carol Odie Who's a Democrat and Bob Hooper who's a Democrat and there are two seats open there And then in South Burlington John Colackey former executive director of the Flynn theater and is Running with he as a Democrat and Frank Davis is running as a progressive for Helen heads seat Helen had had that seat. I think since 2003 and I mentioned Williston So I think that we have touched on all the major races that we are watching here And of course there are some ballot questions and the ballot questions are always interesting and certainly important and The most important ones really I well I am saying most important because they loom the largest as a Burlington taxpayer and the first is approval to issue bonds for the high school and I think that's a 66 percent 66 and two-thirds percent vote that's needed for the general obligation bond to Improve Burlington high school and then there are revenue bonds for improving the wastewater and Stormwater utility projects and that adds up to about a hundred million dollars So it'll be interesting to see how Burlington voters vote on those. They're fairly expensive legacy capital projects That will own unfold over many years in Winiskey. There's a simple ballot question that has to do with Giving some flexibility around the the time and the date of the school district's annual meeting So that would be a change and then in South Burlington There are several interrelated ballot questions that have to do with moving the municipal office to the new a new downtown location and city center and leasing that property to the school district and then the school district has Related ballot questions that allow them to take up the lease So there's sort of this land swap in South Burlington in Richmond There is a ballot question to adopt the town plan and I think there is one other one But let me just see if I have those here if I do Colchester to authorize Colchester school district can to convey land parcel to the town So those are really the ballot questions We will also be watching here in Chittenden County. So once again our election results program starts tomorrow night at 7 30 Here we'll be live with interviews from the Democratic and Republican parties in in Burlington and we will also have in studio be our Commentators on the state and national elections Brady Tenzing and Kevin Ellis who give a good counterbalance to what's happening nationally Which of course the mid-term elections are in many people's minds and what the outcomes of those are there are many governor's races and countless house and Senate races and we'll see what the composition of the Congress is as a result of the elections tomorrow night and Kevin and Brady will be talking about that and of course here in Studio a we will have Diane Meyerhoff who leads our results She'll be joined by Shay Totten and then Seth Leonard and some others over the course of the evening so we really hope that you will tune in and Watch the elections and you can go to ch 17 TV to look at our election results because we will be collecting those results as we report them We will be reporting those results as we collect them here With the help of clerks and poll watchers all across Chittenden County for with whom we could not do this program So we are very grateful to the probably two dozen people that helped make our results program a reality And I just like to give a very warm Thank you to the staff here at channel 17 towning meeting television who have provided such incredible and extensive coverage and To the candidates who have willingly come on the air and talked about what it is that is important to them it is it quite moving as a Moderator to be at a table with candidates some experienced and some not so experienced Who are willing to say what they think and stand behind it as a matter of? Political principle. It's very powerful to hear that and see that and we are Very appreciative that we can help keep the wheels of democracy turning We think of ourselves as the grease monkeys of democracy so thanks so much for watching and thanks Kevin for being in the booth and We'll see you tomorrow night at 7 30 here at channel 17 town meeting television


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