Hello, David Diga Hernandez here and I'm excited for what you're about to hear. You're going to hear a powerful testimony about a man who went from atheism to Christ and then had a powerful encounter after fasting for 24 hours. I want to welcome now my friend, Talyn Michael. My friend, welcome to the broadcast. It's a blessing to have you. Thank you so much, David. I'm very happy to be here and I'm excited for what tonight has to offer. Well, we're excited to hear this testimony. You know, I just want to say real briefly, I've been seeing what God has been doing with your ministry and I want you to know and I want everyone to know we're very excited for what the Lord is doing.  So it's a joy to have you on. Thank you for joining me. I want to dive right in. Take us back to that place now. Take us and tell us about the old Talyn and how he was an atheist and far from God and what happened from there. Absolutely. Well, I'll summarize it the best I can. I did not grow up in a Christian home. I grew up just about as far away as you can get from a Christian home, a very broken home. And I don't say any of this to like dishonor my family or my parents or anything like that. This is just the reality. But I grew up in a broken home. Parents went through a divorce. My dad was a severe alcoholic, physically abusive, just a very dark upbringing. And when I was 12 years old, eventually things with my own father had gotten so bad between him and I that I had to move in with my aunt and my uncle. And they were very gracious. They took very good care of me. But growing up in an atmosphere like that, it makes it more difficult to believe in God or at least so I thought because immediately you just associate the father with your father. So my relationship with my dad was terrible growing up. So basically I looked at the Heavenly Father like I don't want another one of those. But obviously that's just the lies of the devil that get into your head through experience. But as I was growing up through middle school and through high school, I knew that I didn't want to have a life like my father at all.  Although I was the guy in middle school and high school and even in college that would mock Christians. There was still something in Christians, which I know now what it is. It's the life of God. But there were things in Christians that I longed for. But I was too prideful to ever admit it. Well, long story short, I played sports and I began to excel in high school football. I got a high school football scholarship to go and play college football in the state of Iowa at a private Christian college. Go figure. Well, I go to this private Christian college and I didn't believe in any of the stuff they were telling me. Most of people on the campus were the type of Christian that they partied with me on Saturday night. And then they were inviting me to church on Sunday morning. So it was, to me, it was a bunch of nonsense. It didn't make any sense. But I met one guy that changed my life. This man was baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire. And the Bible says that the eye is the lamp of the body. And when your eye is singularly focused, meaning that you're pure, you're singularly focused on Christ, that your whole body becomes light. And that's what he was to me. I saw something in him that I'd never seen in anybody else before. Well, I was in the darkest place of my life. I was drinking all the time, partying. I was empty, had anxiety, had depression, had everything terrible that the world could offer. And at that lowest point in my life, he started to plant the seed of God's word in my heart. And then a few months later, he ends up asking me if I want to make Jesus the Lord of my life back in September of 2017. And just him, me and God as our witness, he baptized me. I gave my life to the Lord and the rest is kind of history. I love it. And I want to go back and touch on something real briefly. You had mentioned that your perspective of the Heavenly Father corresponded to your perspective of your earthly Father. Can you touch on that just a little bit and why that's something important that people understand? Absolutely. Well, fatherhood is a spiritual thing. You know, just being born into the world is natural talk. But father and sonship is spiritual talk.   So the way that I had no, I had no intimacy with my dad. I had no relationship with my dad. My dad was always striking me instead of loving me and molding me that way. The discipline was different. So what it does is it scars you. It changes your heart. It makes you heart of heart toward a father figure more or less.  When you hear all of this stuff growing up, it seems so far-fetched because you've never encountered the love of a father. But then when you actually do, it changes you forever and it changes you from the inside out. So in terms of who you used to be, I'm trying to get a grasp on what your perspective was just in a little more detail. You had mentioned that you would mock Christians, that it was something that you thought was just somewhat of a joke. I'm trying to understand the mindset behind that individual because there are people watching who are praying for people right now who are right now like you used to be. And so maybe minister on that just a little bit and then I want to talk about this encounter that you had with the Lord that shortly followed after your salvation experience. Absolutely. Well, there was a great evangelist named T. L. Osborn. He traveled the world, led massive crusades for Christ, led many to the Lord, had assigns and wonders miracle ministry. And he said that the gospel in one verse would be John chapter 10 verse 10, that the thief comes to steal, he comes to kill, and he comes to destroy. But Jesus came to give you life and give you life abundantly. See the number one trick of the devil is that when you don't know God, just like every other atheist out there, you blame everything on God. If the devil could have his way, he would get you to think that he has no affiliation with anything in the world. He gets you to think that everything happening, all the starving kids, all the terrible things, all the murder, all the all the roughness in the world, he gets you to pin it on God. Well, when you take the devil out of the equation, you get a goofy state of religion, where all of a sudden you start thinking, well, if good things happen to me, then it's God. If bad things happen to me, then it's God. But that's actually not the gospel. So I grew up thinking that all these bad things happening in my life were because of God, when really it was because of the devil. So when light was shed on that, and I realized that God's not the only one at play here, there's a devil that has a plan for my life, just like there's a God that has a plan for my life. But the devil's plan is a terrible plan. He's the one that caused all the destruction, all the stealing, all the killing, all the destroying. When I realized that I don't have to have anything to do with that anymore, and God has a good plan for me, a plan to prosper me, not to harm me, to give me life and life abundantly, that's when everything clicked. And I realized, oh, the devil really is the father of all lives, and God really is a good God. And thank God for that man who lived his Christian faith without hypocrisy. There may be someone watching right now who's listening to this, and is praying for someone who's very stubborn, hard-hearted, and seems to be distant from God. I want you to listen to what Talon just said, that there was an individual in his life who truly loved him, and who truly lived out the Christian faith. And in that, there was power when he ministered the gospel. Okay, so Talon, you received the Lord, take me to that moment, just describe that somewhat, and then we're going to talk about what happened shortly after. What happened in the moment that you received the Lord? Well, the heavens opened in a lightning bolt. No, I'm just kidding. It wasn't anything like super spectacular, like a lot of people would hope, although I've had some spectacular encounters with God, and we'll get into them a little bit later. But basically what had happened was, I had mentioned to you, I got kicked out of college because I was causing so much trouble. And during that time of my life, this man, this mentor of mine, he was more or less a spiritual father to me, who led me to the Lord. He didn't have any hypocrisy in his life.  And in Matthew 13, the Bible says that God's Word is seed, and it's planted into the soil of your heart. So he began to plant the seed of God's Word for about six to nine months, just loving me into repentance, just sharing the truth of God's Word. He never gave up on me. When the school gave up on me, when all my friends gave up on me, when everybody else turned their back on me, he was there. And he kept planting God's Word into my heart. And then eventually he asked me to make a decision. There does come a day where you have to make a decision, and every Christian will have to make this decision to go all in for God, to get off the fence, to not be lukewarm, but to be cold or hot.   You've got to believe in your heart.  And you have to make him your Lord and Savior, then you'll be saved. And so I agreed. And I said the sinner's prayer. And a lot of people, they don't like the sinner's prayer, but hey, the sinner's prayer worked for me. I said it. I meant it in my heart. I believed it. I spoke it. Yeah, he dunked me in the water. I came up and on the outside, nothing changed. But on the inside, I was a new person. I was born again. And I knew it. I couldn't explain it, but the old man had passed away and all things had become new. And that following weekend, I tried to go live the same life that I was living before. But on the inside, the Holy Ghost wouldn't let me. The Holy Spirit would speak to me. He would convict me. He wouldn't let me go live the same way that I wanted to live. That's him. And so I was just, I mean, he cleaned me from the inside out. I couldn't continue to live the way that I was living because Talon died that day. I died and I was raised again in Christ. I was a new creature. And then the Holy Ghost began to sanctify me and pull me out of the world. I like to say that the Bible doesn't mention the sinner's prayer, but it often mentions sinners who pray. And the Bible talks about confession corresponding with salvation. So that's something that I believe is absolutely valid. Now take us to this place now. You're saved. You're born again. Those layers and those years, the Holy Spirit had worked through your heart. Now you've surrendered your life to Christ. Take us to that place now where there's this desire for something more. And this is actually the title of the video that we're using, which is what happened to you after you fasted for 24 hours. Tell us this story. Wow. Well, there came a time about a year after I was saved, gave my life to the Lord. I realized that there was more.  And she got healed when he prayed for her. And when I saw that, it was like, I don't know how else to explain it, but I knew my calling in life. It was like every cell in my body screamed at the top of his lungs. That's what you're supposed to do for the rest of your life. And I knew I was called to evangelism. I knew I was called to pray for the sick, but I didn't know how to do it. I knew that there was power that I hadn't tapped into yet. So I began to hunger for an encounter with God. And this man that led me to the Lord began to speak to me about the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. And so when I was hungry for it, I said, Hey, I want to go up to this church that was an hour away. It was a spirit filled church. And I said, I would like to have hands laid on me to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Well, they prayed for me. I got filled with the Holy Spirit. I began to shock a Baba and I didn't know what was going on. It didn't make sense in my mind, but I knew it was right in my spirit. So two days later, I was at a worship night. I was on college campus worship and I was, I mean, I was like the Saul to Paul conversion. I was people looked at me funny when I showed up to the worship night. They were like, there is no way that this guy is here. But I was there and I walked in and I remember quietly praying to God that night. And I said, Lord, if that was you and I spoke out in other tongues, I need the full encounter. I need the full measure. It didn't feel like enough because I'd only gotten a syllable. And when I said that, can I just know because I know some might be wondering, what did you mean by it didn't feel like enough? I'm curious what you meant by that. It was, it felt like I got a drink, but I didn't get, it was like a drop of the Holy Ghost. Like I knew that I had encountered the Holy Spirit. And I think I got one syllable that was like shaka or something like that. It was like, like a syllable of tongue came out. But I knew that there was more like I knew I had not hit the gusher. And I had, I had to hit the gusher. And so I said that quiet prayer. And I just said, Lord, I need the full thing. The moment I said that, not, not any time in between, it was like a fire erupted in my spirit man and bellowed out of my mouth. I don't know if I could yell that loud to this day. And I began to speak ferociously in other tongues. And I went for probably 30 minutes. And it didn't stop. It just kept going. And to fast forward to your question, I started pressing in to this revelation that I was getting on fasting. And I started researching videos on YouTube about fasting. And I saw some of pastors, pastor Benny's videos on fasting and other people's videos on fasting. And I knew that fasting was tied to the power of God. So in that season, I started depressing to fasting in what the Holy Ghost had to offer. Well, that's an incredible thing that the Holy Spirit put in your heart that hunger.  And that's really the work of the Holy Spirit. I love what he does. So you fast now, and you are you begin to look into fasting. What began to result from this? Well, the very first time, and this is, this may be the first or second time that I've publicly shared this experience, because there's some, there's some encounters with God that are just very holy, that they're almost too difficult to talk about. And this was one of them, because this was my first, my first glorious encounter with God, I would say. And I had this unction in my spirit that I was supposed to do my first 24 hour fast.  So I didn't, I didn't know what to do with fasting. But I went to a worship night on a Thursday night. And I was, I was fasting for the first time in my life. After that worship night, I was about 20 hours into my 24 hour fast, no food fast, just the water fast. And I felt the Holy Spirit speak to me. And he said, go back to your apartment and pray. So I went back to my apartment. I locked the door. And I sat down on my couch, and I just began to pray in English, Father, you're so good. Thank you, Holy Spirit. And I just began to worship the Lord and pray. And I knew I was supposed to pray in other tongues. So as I began to pray in other tongues, I closed my eyes and I lifted my hands up toward heaven. And as I was praying in other tongues, the brightest, most glorious orb almost of light appeared in my room. And I know some people might not believe this.  I couldn't open my eyes. The fear of the Lord fell on me. And it was the whitest, most glorious light that I'd ever seen in my life filled my room.  And I just kept praying. But the power and presence of God had flooded my apartment. And it was the most precious thing I'd ever experienced in my life, even talking about it now. I feel the anointing on it. And from that moment forward, it changed my life. I realized I already knew this thing was real. But when that happened, I realized there are realms and there are dimensions that nobody talks about. There is something so real about this, and I need to press into it. So that kind of began my journey, where I started pressing in more to fasting and prayer, because that encounter forever changed my life.  That actually reminds me, and I'll share this briefly about a vision that I had, where I saw my physical body. And within me was this orb, like a glowing, pulsing light. And the light would pulse and grow and then pulse and shrink over the light was a layer of soil. And on the soil were certain structures, they look like little buildings. Every time the orb would shrink, that soil would become uneven because obviously it created space or a vacuum for it to fall. And the structures would begin to topple over. And every time the orb of light would grow, the soil would become even again, and the structures would stand tall. The Holy Spirit revealed to me that this was His presence, His power, but that influence on my life came through prayer, through seeking His face. And every time I allowed for that influence of prayer to shrink in my life, the soil which represented my life would become uneven. And the structures which represented ministry, my marriage, responsibility would begin to topple over. So it's interesting that many, and I've heard other stories like this, where people talk about this light, this bright light that is described in your story. So I believe you 100%. That's an incredibly, incredibly intense, tangible manifestation of God's power. What did you notice in your life and ministry after that? Things that seem to be so heavy were just broken off. And the Bible says it's the anointing that destroys the yoke. And it was when the presence of God flooded my room that night. It was like everything in this, it's like that old hymn that says the things of this world will grow strangely dim. It was like from that moment forward, everything in the world was dim to me. I used to love sports. Suddenly I lost every taste that I ever had for sports. I used to love being entrepreneurial. And I still am very business minded, but that sensation to, that longing for money and to be very wealthy and powerful, it just left my life. It was all the things that would have been attached to the world grew strangely dim. And suddenly the only thing that I loved was praying, spending time in the presence of God, reading God's Word and preaching the Word and ministering, going, I mean, I'd go to Walmart, pray for the sick, go to restaurants, pray for the sick, go to the gym, pray for the sick. I was just, I was lit on fire for God. It was like William Seymour said about a hundred years ago. He said, Father, dip me in the kerosene of your spirit and light me on fire for God so that the whole world will come to watch me burn. That's kind of how I felt. I love it. Why do you think prayer and fasting are so powerful and why do you think it was so pivotal in your story? Well, I heard it put it this way once. Prayer combined with fasting is like dynamite with a detonator. If you just have prayer and no fasting, prayer is powerful, but you lack power without the fasting. And if you just have fasting without the prayer, you're kind of just on a hunger strike.  Like in Hebrews chapter 10, the Bible likens the flesh as a veil. It says that the tearing of Jesus's flesh was likened unto the tearing of the veil. Your flesh is a veil more or less for the glory of God that's deposited in your spirit man.  So there's something about the crucifying of your flesh to make your spirit man reign over your soul and over your flesh again that accesses the supernatural power of God's anointing. And it shows God that he can trust you because the ways of the flesh are now killed. They're subject to your spirit man. And he knows that you're not going to go and fall easily into those fleshly temptations like so many other people would. Even as you're talking, I know that spiritual hunger is being cultivated into people who are listening to this. So there's someone watching right now who's hearing what you're saying. They've heard about how stubborn you were and how God broke that with his love. They heard about how you encountered his beautiful presence in such a glorious way. They heard about how you applied fasting to deepen that level of surrender in your life. You've talked about the what, but people are asking, How? How? How to fast, do you think? Or how to press into power? How to fast? How to surrender? How do they position themselves in this way that you're describing? Man, well, number one, it does take a hunger. And it seems just like you said, David, people are hungry right now. If you're hungry for God, the Bible says that you will be filled. Those that hunger and thirst, they shall be filled. So if you're hungry for God, that's the first step. You getting hungry. Number two is start where you're at. For me, I didn't, I didn't just like go into a 40 day fast. Now Jesus did. I'm not gonna, I'm not at that level. We'll just put it that way. But I started with a 24 hour fast. You can start with where you're at. Just believe God. This is, I was teaching on this at a Bible study just yesterday at our church to our young adults. And as I was teaching the young adults, I said, you know, believe God for a supernatural encounter when you fast. The Bible says God is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. Attach a reward to it. Believe God for something big and just, just start with where you're at. Say, okay, Lord, today I'm going to consecrate this day, maybe tomorrow. I'm going to consecrate this Friday of this week. I'm not going to eat for 24 hours. I'm going to subject my flesh and I'm going to press into my spirit, man. I'm going to pray. I'm going to spend more time with you than I would before. I'm going to get into your word. I'm going to believe for fresh revelation and I'm going to believe for an encounter with you. Start with where you're at. Start in proportion to your faith and you are guaranteed that God is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. He will show up right on time. He'll show up to bless you. He'll show up to touch you. He'll open your eyes with fresh revelation. And I love it. One of my favorite verses in the Bible is Isaiah 58.8. It says that the glory of the Lord will be your reward. You will encounter the glory of God when you step in to a life of consecrated fasting and prayer. And then once you start small, you just build on it. You know, I did one 24 hour fast and then I did a 48 hour fast and then eventually a 72 hour fast and I just built it from there. Start with where you're at and God will reward you for it. I love that you said that because even as people hear about fasting, it can be quite an intimidating topic where they hear, you know, they've heard the stories of the 40 day and of course, you know, we recommend also taking some medical considerations and consulting with certain people if some of you have health issues. So there are practical steps to take in this as well as spiritual ones. But in terms of what you're describing that 24 hour fast, you know, people who are puffed up will go 24 hours. That's nothing. You know, we fast for 40 or we fast for 30. And I mean, think that's great, but we have to start somewhere, which is why I wanted to share this particular story, because people need to know there's a starting point to and this is a beautiful example of someone who just had a genuine hunger for God. And think about this, you probably, you probably experienced more in that 24 hour fast than many people who've experienced those 40 hour fast. I mean, that kind of encounter with God, you can't put a price on that. You can't manufacture that. You can't do anything to cause that on your own or in human effort. That's strictly by the Holy Spirit. So here's what I want to do, Taylor. I want to pray for those who are hungering. I mean, deep within they hear this to say, Lord, please, I want an encounter with the Holy Spirit like that. Lord, please, I want a touch of your power. Lord, please, I need breakthrough like that in my life. Let's pray with those who have the faith or believing for the faith, if that even sounds right in order to access that kind of power. Can you please pray? And then I'll pray after you. Absolutely. Wherever you're at, wherever you're watching this, there's no time in the spirit realm.  Father, in Jesus mighty name, every single person under the sound of my voice, as they're believing for a fresh touch from heaven, I pray in agreement. I pray that you would encounter them now from the top of their head to the soles of their feet, strengthen them in their inner man by your spirit to press into a life of consecrated prayer and fasting. I pray that you would enlighten the eyes of their understanding that from this day forward, they would have deep revelation on the power of fasting. And Father, as we press in, I thank you ahead of time by faith that you are a rewarder of those that diligently seek you.  Father, I pray that one receiving this now would sense the precious Holy Spirit near to them. Holy Spirit, make yourself known in that room I pray. Wherever they're listening, let there be a manifestation of your glory. And Father, I pray that you would take them to higher places, draw them closer than they've ever been. May they see Jesus, the Son of the living God. May they become more like him in character and mannerism and speech. Father, we pray that you would remove from us everything that displeases you. We're the clay. You are the potter. We surrender our lives now on that potter's will. And Father, we ask just one thing. We just want you. You are our greatest treasure.  You give us purpose. Let there be stirrings of the Spirit deep calling unto deep, draw them by your Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus and bring deliverance and healing. Touch each one I pray in Jesus mighty name. Amen. Well, Taylor, and thank you for doing this with me. I sense, even as you were sharing, I just sensed strong anointing on what you were talking about. And I believe this is going to bless many men. You're going to hear this and be drawn into the depths of the Spirit. So I encourage you, those of you who are watching this now, if you enjoyed this interview, you'll enjoy my time I spent with Taylor on his channel, where we talked about impartation receiving from previous generations and, of course, the precious Holy Spirit. Until next time, remember, nothing is impossible with God.


Another tip for proving trigonometric identities is the following. When adding or subtracting trigonometric functions, always find a common denominator. If you're not sure how to add or subtract things, write them as fractions and then have a common denominator. Believe it or not, that simplification, that idea of using fractions can actually be useful for us. So in this situation, let's prove the identity sine theta plus cosine theta times cotangent is equal to cosecant. Starting with the left-hand side, we have sine theta plus cosine theta, cotangent theta. So not sure what to do. I might use one of my previous tips of writing everything in terms of sine and cosine. Sine, of course, is already in that regard, so it's cosine. But cotangent, I can write as cosine over sine, for which when you multiply together the cosine with the fraction there, you're gonna end up with sine theta plus cosine squared over sine. So in the process of writing cotangent as cosine over sine, I introduce fractions into the problem. Well, how am I gonna add those together? Well, if I could have a common denominator, that would be very helpful. I would want a sine in the denominator, but if you're gonna put a sine in the denominator, you have to put another sine in the numerator, which I can live with that, right?  Now I see there are squares now involved in my identity. I have a sine squared and a cosine squared. So my Pythagorean sense is tingling right now. Whenever squares are involved, you probably are gonna use a Pythagorean identity. In fact, we're gonna use the mother of all identities that is cosine squared plus sine squared is equal to one. And so since I have a sine squared plus cosine squared, that becomes a one in the numerator, one over sine. And then there you go, one over sine, that's the same thing by reciprocation. That's just cosecant, which is the right-hand side. And so we've now proven our identity. So like we saw here, that if you have to add together fractions or subtract fractions, well, you're gonna need to find a common denominator. So rescale things so that you have a common denominator, add them together, and perhaps that's the trick you need. And so this gives us proving trigometric identity tip number four.


Let me tell you the thing about us a thing that makes you and I different and if you don't have this trait I highly suggest you get it because I used to not have it and It's a quick recipe to guarantee you're gonna be poor a long time and not successful the difference between us and most people is We understand that time tells the truth What does that mean? Well Here's what it means You want to know who your true friends are be patient enough keep them acquaintances for a little while When everybody else is rushing into instant friendships you keep them as acquaintances you could be vulnerable You could be open keep them as acquaintances because time will tell you if you should Go into a deeper relationship with them whether it's dating business partners, whatever What's the difference between us? And most people that didn't get this training.    They set up a small controlled experiment time revealed whether that experiment is successful They don't bet the whole freaking lab on it. They don't bet their whole life.  No Well, then you're part of them. I'm talking about how to be part of us People who understand that time tells the freaking truth You must love time embrace time when everybody else is more impatient. Oh, I want this to happen now I want this to happen you go. No, I am part of that I'm part of the people that love time because time sets in Begins to reveal whether your business will be successful. I'll tell you a true story. There was a guy not far down the street Santa Monica he had an idea for an app. There was an app that was an address book He thought it was a great idea He but he was smart enough to set it up as an experiment with an open mind to let time tell the truth Then as he began to launch that app not that many people used it Now here's where he was different than most people He listened to the time telling him the truth some time transpired as it was clear that his app wasn't such a good app He pivoted he changed said let's build something else We got a smart team building this calendar app. It ain't really working. Let's do something else. They launched something else They said let's try photos They launched that two three years later. They sold it for a billion dollars. The name of that company was Instagram Time tells the truth if you're one of those impatient people here's my suggestion to you because some people pride themselves on their impatience Do you pride yourself on bad breath?  Hey, I'm that dude with bad breath I hope not or you have no freaking social skills. Well when it comes to impatience, you meet some people I'm just impatient. I'm impatient to me.  What do you think they're gonna?  But some people don't love time and that's why they don't drive those now. I'm not bragging about those I'm just showing a lesson. This is a true story. You could argue whatever you want This isn't a set I didn't pull these cars in to shoot this little five six minute video So people are like tie just pulls in this Yeah, I ran all these you think I read all these just to pull in here No people who say that they don't love time Time tells the truth love the truth equals Love time a plus b equals c Therefore c-minus b equals a that's how the algebra equation goes love it Next time you're like, but I I don't know what I should do in my life Well, let time set in run a whole bunch of experiments give them time and time is this true sayer that will start whispering in your ear Yo, do this Grabbing some late-night food When it comes to diet same damn thing People like oh, I read a book says veganism is what I should do.  You got to deserve it Time will to time will tell you what you deserve Sorry for eating Some of you gonna say that's rude. That's what I say to you Bye bye. Bye. I'll try to eat with my mouth closed I'm hungry too and since you didn't pay anything for the video.  I love time tells me who to block on my Instagram. It'll tell you who you should block from your friends Time will tell you When you're in need and you need some to borrow some money from people all these people that were your quote unquote close friends They don't call Time told you the truth about so I guess what I'm trying to say in a long-winded way is Be patient Be patient a red by the way supposed to eat Forget how many ounces of nuts a day. So again my almonds My black seed hemp seed chai Cashews, I guess we'll let time tell See if I'm getting in better shape. You know, I most people in this shirt says read Cool. Okay. Sorry. How do you read? time That's well more above it reads 800 pages a day because he lets time Work in his favor. He sits down and reads a book People go well tie I'm gonna become great. I Hope you are you watching this. I hope you become great But time's gonna tell Fear time love time respect time You know, some of you seen I was at the Grammys yesterday And I went to play boy mansion when I go out to big things I'll bring some bodyguard guys just because Not that I get weird fans That are mean, but sometimes people want too many pictures and I call Rome the keeper of the peace and um, I respect Rome He's six foot seven three hundred pounds three oh five and bench presses five fifty as 21 and 22 inch biceps I respect Rome. I Don't fear him, but I respect them I might fear him a little bit if you got mad at me. That's how time should be for you Respect it. It'll save your life. Rome might save my life one day Don't mess with that. I don't mess with Rome We got a good relationship Don't start shit with him. I respect him.  It's one of the greatest minds of all time Einstein Hawking they contemplated time They spent years and decades of their life contemplating time Time it's hard to understand. 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Let's solve a couple of questions on excess pressure inside liquid drops. So for the first one, we have the pressure inside a water bubble is found to be the same as a point four centimeters underwater. What is the radius of the bubble? We can use these values and we need to choose one answer out of these four options. All right, pause the video and first attempt this one on your own. Okay, hopefully you gave this a shot. Now first let's try to draw what the question is telling us. So we have, what do we have? We have, let's draw a beaker and you have some water inside of it. Okay, now the pressure inside a water bubble. So there is a water bubble outside. Let's say this is a water bubble and because it's a bubble, it has two interfaces and let's also draw water right just like this. All right, so this is your bubble. Now the pressure inside the bubble. So the pressure inside this pressure, it's the same as a point four centimeters underwater. So a point four centimeters underwater, let's say this point, this point right here, this is four centimeters. The pressure inside this bubble is the same as the pressure at the four centimeter mark. So let's, let's write that pressure inside the bubble. Let's write pressure bubble. This is equal to, equal to the pressure at the four centimeter mark. Okay, now we can ask ourselves, what is the pressure at this point, at the four centimeter mark point? We know there is some atmospheric pressure P naught. So P naught plus P naught plus rho G H, that was the pressure in a fluid, right? At a depth H, the pressure at a depth H was given by rho G H. So this is rho G into H and P bubble, we know that there will be an excess pressure inside a liquid bubble and that's really, that's really P naught plus four S by R. It's four S by R, four S by R is your excess pressure. So the excess pressure here, this is P naught plus four S by R. All right, now let's try to work out, let's try to work out this. We know we can see that P naught gets canceled off and we need to figure out the radius of the bubble. So what do we need to know is we need to figure out this. So let's do that. This is, let's keep R on one side, let's take R to the right-hand side and everything else on the left-hand side. So when we do that, this becomes four S divided by rho G H and that is equal to, that is equal to R, this is equal to R. Now let's put in the values, we know what S is, S it's given in the question, we know what rho is and as well as H, H we can take as, we can change it to, change it to meters to keep everything consistent. So when we put in the values, this becomes equal to four into 0.072 divided by 1,000 into 10 rho G into H, which is 0.04. Okay I encourage you to pause the video and work out this calculation. Okay, when you work this out, this will come out to be equal to 0.0007 meters and when you change it to millimeters by dividing it with thousand, you will get the answer as 0.7 millimeters. And that is option B. Okay, let's look at one more question. Here it is. So air leaks out of a soap bubble, reducing its radius by one-fourth. What is the change in the pressure inside the bubble? And we can, we can note that S is a film air surface tension and R is the initial radius. So, so to begin with, we know that an excess pressure inside a soap bubble, excess pressure inside a soap bubble is given by this, this relation right here. The excess pressure is 4S by R, that is your excess pressure. Now this is true for a soap bubble with radius R, but when you reduce the radius by one-fourth, when you make the radius, when the new radius is really, when you change the radius by fourth, then the excess pressure, then that is given by, that becomes Pi, let's write N for new, this is P0 plus 4S divided by R by 4. It's R by 4. This 4 goes to the top and this becomes, this becomes P0 plus 16S, 16S by R. Now we can clearly see that it really increases and by how much we can use Pi new minus Pi old. So this will be, this will be P0 plus 16S by R minus P0 minus 4S by R. P0 gets cancelled and this becomes 12, 12S by R. So the pressure inside increases by 12S by R. Alright, you can try more questions from this exercise in the lesson and if you're watching on YouTube, do check out the exercise link which is added in the description.


Okay, looking good, Billy Ray, feeling good, Lewis, looking good, sounding bad, but much, much better, folks. We've got a, what we call a totally red day, almost, with the exception of soybeans and a few things that are up, but golly gee, look at the 18 things that I follow, and what does, 15 of them are down, stocks are down sharply, but folks, we've got a big, big, big, big, big new moon today. As Norm Winsky pointed out, and also Stan Harley pointed out, that we should be over some type of interesting bottom here in the stock market, and if you hold on for just a second, I will see if the trading gods are with me today and see if we can see what we've been waiting to see for a very long time. Let's get this up here. Don't actually bet on this, because the odds of it happening are a little between slim and none. We'll try to get it up here, but we're very close within a couple of points here. The number we're looking at here in the S&P is at 44.37, and I think we're 44.40, something like that. Now it didn't work, son of a gun. I don't think it did anyway. Let me double check. No, it didn't work. Let me try it one time. Sometimes if I do it twice, to me this is an important chart, because we've been thinking this was going to happen today and this is where we are. Those of you that get the videos and stuff, of course, you saw this last night, and we'll be watching what we're waiting to see here. Hold on one second here and get this thing working, and maybe it'll work this time, but probably it will work. I'm sure. Watch this. Hey, look at this, Billy Ray. It worked. Here's your triple ABCDs, three-drive to a bottom, below the 78% level, but that's a 78% off of this, not off of the bottom one. So this is a three-drive to a bottom pattern. If you're willing to sell that three-drive to a top pattern up in here, you've got to be willing to buy the three-drive to a bottom pattern down in here. That's what we're waiting to see. Now the NASDAQ target is lower by about 80 points, and the Dow Jones one hasn't even come close, because it's holding up relatively well, but the S&Ps, the one we're following today, that number is 4437, and you risk about 10 points on that, and you'll see if you're going to be right or not. So that's what I think is going to happen. Our guest is supposed to be Jim Bartolioni today, folks, of Bart's charts, but unfortunately I'm not sure we're going to be able to get him in the house to see if things are going to be working the way we'd hope. So we'll be right back.


In this presentation, we will present value bond cash flows using Excel. Support accounting instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Now there's a few different ways we can do this present value calculations, but by far in practice using Excel is the preferred method because it's going to simplify the process and it'll allow us to do things in a few different ways a lot more easily than we would be able to do elsewhere. Of course, if we're taking a look at a book question or a test question, it's more common that we're forced to use tables in a very simplified calculator that doesn't have present value. And that can help us to kind of understand how tables work. It also might be the case that in a more of a math oriented class that we have to do the actual math, which could give us an idea of what the actual math is. So that they all have their place. If we go to Excel, however, and then of course it's a financial calculator that we could use all the same way to do the same stuff. The advantage of Excel is we can kind of formulate these in different ways and look at them in different formats. So I'll try to give an idea of why that is here, why that can be useful. And we'll give an idea of how to calculate within Excel and see that we want to know that it's all the same stuff basically want to know what are we doing, why are we doing it. And then note that if it's done in different formats that we're all doing the same thing and see how we can get information from it, how is it going to give us value about decision making. So we've got our bond information. The face amount is 100,000. The stated rate is the rate on the bond, 8%, the market rate is 10%. It's going to be a semi-annual bond. We pay it every two time periods and for two years. That means there's going to be four time periods, which is going to be because it's paid every six months for two years. So if we think about the cash flow in total dollars then we know that we have 100,000. We're going to get back at the end. And then we've got the interest, which is calculated as 100,000 times 0.08. That would be the interest for a year, but it's semi-annual. So we'll divide that by two, 4,000. So we're going to get 4,000 every six months where we're going to give 4,000 every six months if we're issuing the bond in interest. So, and then we're going to times that times 4 because there's two years times two times a year and that'll give us 16,000. So there's 16,000 cash flow of interest we'll pay in two years, four time periods on this bond plus the 100,000 original amount. That gives us the 116,000. So we have 116,000 cash flow in terms of just total dollars. Now what we need to do is present value that, which is of course going to be something less than the 116. So the first way we can do this is just to use straight present value formulas. And we're just going to say present value of one and we're going to take the bond amount. Remember, we're always breaking out the bond versus the interest payments. So that's why bonds are so great for present value formulas. Even if we don't deal with bonds, they're really good practice for present value because there are two cash flow methods are in the bond. So we could use a formula. The easiest way to learn the formulas is to go to the formula tab up top. So I'm in Y5 and we're going to go to formulas up top. And then I'm going to look for the formula. I'm going to go to FX over here and it'll give us a little thing on us finding formulas. So if I type in, I want the present value, then it'll give us these things here. And it says value. No, no, it's actually this one, present value returns the present value of an investment. That's what we're looking for, PV, present value. Probably just want to know that PV is going to be present value. Okay, if we say, okay, it'll give us a dialogue box. So this is the first way we want to do this and just kind of know the dialogue box. It'll give us a little thing down here to describe what we're putting into this little dialogue box. Now, the confusing thing about this one is we use the same dialogue box when we use the present value of an annuity and the present value of one. We're using the present value of one payment here. And so it's a little confusing, but it's nice once we get used to it that we're using the same present value because then we don't need two different formula things. So we'll have to just get used to that. So we're having present value of one. The rate is another kind of confusing piece because we're going to use the market rate. We know that, but we're not going to have two year time periods. We're going to have four time periods because it's paid semi-monthly. So we can't have two year time periods. We have to have four, and therefore we can't use the 10% because that's a yearly rate. And we need a rate per half a year. So we're going to take this rate and divide it by two. So it's 0.1 divided by two. So 0.1 divided by two. Notice it's building the formula over here in a linear fashion, which we could do. And it's faster if we get used to this formula. And then we'll go to the... This is number of periods, so total number of payment periods. Not payment amounts. This doesn't mean we're going to pay this amount each period. It's just the number of periods we're going to be covering, which would be two years, but we pay semi, so it's times two or four is going to be the number of periods. And then the payment, here's the tricky piece, is the amount paid each period. We're not going to pay an amount each period. This is just going to be the amount at the end of four periods that we want to bring back to the current day. So if we put 100,000 here, it's going to get all messed up because then it's going to think that we're making an annuity payment. And that's the difference between an annuity and Excel and a non-annuity. So even though this is bolded and looks like it's a required field, it is not. And that's the confusing thing here. So actually we're going to use that when we do the annuity. We won't use it here. What we want instead is this future value. And what that means is like we're telling Excel, hey, I know what it is at the end of the four year time period in terms of future dollars. It's 100,000. We were trying to bring that future value four time period back into the present day. So we're just going to type in the future value 100,000. Is that right? I don't have a comma there, 100,000. And then that will give us our amount of 82, 270. So we say okay. And there we have it, 82, 270. Now, if you want to flip the sign, there's a couple ways to flip it because we don't really need a negative number. I'd like to represent it as a positive number. So I typically just double click on it and I put a negative in front of the P. Some people will say the negative should go elsewhere, but whatever, it's going to go there and then enter. Okay, so note you could type it in there this way too, like you could just type it in just like this. So if we were to not use that formula box, we can say equals present value. Double click the present value and it gives you a nice little indicator here. So we're currently on this one. So we just say the rate is once again 0.1, 10% divided by 2 because it's every two time periods. Which will take us to the next argument and that's going to be number of periods. So there's going to be four periods, which we could say it's two years times two times a year or four, and then we're going to say comma. And then the tricky thing is that there's a payment. Remember there is no payment. So we could just put a zero there in comma, which I kind of like doing because it, but we can also just put two commas and that'll just mean there's nothing there and that'll say skip that function. I kind of, if you want to see it, you can say put a zero so it'll go to the next function and then we're going to say the present value or the future value is 100,000 and then close up the brackets and then we got it. We double click on it. I'm going to put a negative in front of the P. So those are the two ways you just do the same function. So that means that this 100,000 present value is worth 82,270. So then we're going to do the present value of an annuity. I'm going to use the same function up here. I'm going to go to the formula tab formula. Same present value function that probably is at the top now and we'll do the same thing. The rate is the same. It's going to be the market rate point one, 10% divided by two. Number of payments is going to be the same two years times two times a year or four. The payment amount this time is 4,000. Why? We're paying 100,000 times .08 the stated rate divided by two. So we're paying 4,004 times every period. So every period, four periods, every six months we pay 4,000. So this time we're going to use this number. So note we're using the same present value but this is present value of an annuity because we're using this payment field and not using the future value field. The present value of one would use the future value field and not the payment field. So we're going to put in the 4,000 here and that should give us our 14,184 and okay. So again I typically double click on it, go to the end of it and put a negative just to flip the sign and there we have it. If we wanted to type that in there this way we just say present value and then double click the present value and then again the rate is going to be the market rate .1 divided by two comma goes to the next function number of periods which is going to be two years times two times a year comma and in the present of the payments now our 4,000 and then close it up. We don't have any future value that's all we need and that's the other way we can do it. So I'm going to put a negative here so that means that our total then is going to be equal to the 82,270 and the 14,184. So again our cash flows are 116,4,000 times 4 plus 100 but to present value them they're only worth in today's dollars 96,454. Now this is the fastest way to do it but it also doesn't give us a lot of detail. It's nice to do it a couple different other ways it'll give us possibly more detail which you're pretty easy to do in Excel. For example we might set up a table like this and say that we have number of periods 1,2,3,4 periods and then we could say okay well how much cash flow is happening each of this is number every six months. How much cash flow is happening in these periods? Well the bond is only going to have a cash flow in year four because we're going to pay back in year four. In years one, two, three it's going to be zero so if we were to present value the bond after each period then of course it would be you know the present value of the cash flows would be zero after one, two, three and then period four would be the same formula meaning it would equal this number I'm sorry equal the present value of the rate point one divided by two comma number of periods is going to be two times two or four comma zero payments because it's just we're just present valuing one comma and then the future value is this hundred thousand and I'm actually going to change this a little bit. I'm going to change this four periods to just equal this four periods here and that's it and then that will give us this number I'm going to flip the sign by putting a negative in front of the P and then note I could just copy this all the way up I could auto fill I'm going to put my cursor on auto fill and copy it up now again obviously all these are zero because there's nothing happening here but just note we can standardize the table very easily this way if we look at the interest we're going to have four thousand which is the one hundred thousand times point oh eight the amount on the bond divided by two so there's the four thousand and here I'm just going to say equals it's going to be the same for the second period and then I'm just going to copy that down so interest is going to happen every every period six months four thousand so the total interest we're going to pay equals the sum of sixteen and we could sum these up as well some the bond and equals the sum of the present value so we're going to pay sixteen thousand now if I present value it notice we present valued here as an annuity this whole sixteen thousand present values to fourteen one eighty four but it might be useful for us to present value it each time period so now we're going to use the present value of one after each time period and we'll get to the same number this could be useful for us to see what is happening each year what's the present value each year so we'll use our same present value formula equals the present value and then we'll enter our data which is going to be the rate first which is point one ten percent divided by two comma and then the number of periods which I'm just going to point here now to this number it's going to be one period out one six month period so we're not using the annuity we're not using four periods we're bringing this one four thousand which we're going to pay six months later back to the current period so then we're going to say comma payments we're not going to have a payment because this isn't an annuity we're not going to say we're not doing it all in one calculation we're doing them one at a time using the same formula we did here except that of course we're using one period at a time out and so we're going to say zero on the payment and then the future value is this four thousand and then we'll close it up now I'm going to double click on it and flip the sign by putting a negative in front of the PV and there we have it so this four thousand six months later is only worth three thousand eight ten I'll do that one more time and then we could just copy it down using the autofill function so just to show us one more time I'm going to say the present value of this four thousand I'm sorry present value of the rate which is point one divided by two comma number of periods which is two so this is two months or two six months periods out or two periods in our workings here and then we're going to say comma the payment we don't have one zero comma and the future value is this four thousand and we'll put brackets around it enter I'm going to double click on it again put a zero in front of the P and so there we have it so of course it went down in the second year the same four thousand or another four thousand but it's worth less than the four thousand that we got you know six months ago and then we can just autofill this down I'm gonna put my cursor on autofill and just drag that down and we get the same pattern here so now we know what the present value of each of these payments were back to you know period zero and then we're going to sum those up equals the sum and we should get the same number that we got over here when we used an annuity calculation and so if we were to total everything then in terms of present value it's going to equal the present value here plus the present value here and if we copy that down autofill that down then here's our present values per period so we can say this is our present value every six months and that gives us a lot more detail than over here getting to the same end result number so that's just a benefit of using Excel once you get good at that you can do that pretty quickly one other way you might want to see it just to see this one more time we can say the same periods one two three four and if we have to present value cash flows in any kind of cash flow we might just first want to know what the total cash flows are for any given period so for every given period zero zero zero for the bond and then a hundred thousand at the end of the last period and then four thousand for the interest I'm going to say equals that one auto fill it down so the cash flow then equals the sum for the bond total we'll copy that across and then the sixteen thousand here so if we sum them up each period then it's going to have the bond plus the interest or four thousand I'm just going to auto fill that down so four thousand cash flow for period one six months out four thousand for the next six months four thousand for the next six months and then a hundred four thousand paying the whole bond back plus the four thousand for the interest so then we can just present value the total payments the total cash flow this is the total cash flow we'll present value each period so we can just say equals present value and we'll take the rate point one divided by two comma number of periods one for this first one comma payment zero and then future value is that four thousand and then that's it so same formula I'll double click on it put a zero in front of the P and then I'll copy that down I did that a lot faster but it's the same formula up here we're just present valuing instead of each component the total cash flow which is very useful for projects but you'll use this you know any any time of financing thing it's going to use this type of calculation and then if we just sum that up then we could see that we had a hundred and sixteen thousand cash flow but present value wise at the rate of ten percent per year or five percent per six months is really only worth ninety six four fifty four in current dollars what does this mean in terms of recording the bond well it means that we're going to get cash if we were to sell it at the present value of this amount the bond's going to go on the books for the one hundred thousand and that means that there's a discount of three thousand five forty six so if we post this out then of course cash goes up the bond goes up discount here meaning and I did that really fast I know but this this is just to show you the journal entry related to it so we got the bond payable minus the discount then ninety six four fifty four so the point here is that when you see these in terms of the calculations of the problem they usually will have you calculate the problem first and not really look at the journal entry but if you look at if you connect the two out it gives us makes more sense it's also useful to see how this thing could be broken out a few different ways one because it gets you a better understanding what this formula is doing when this formula can be just numbers just popping out of nowhere if you do it by cash flow it makes more sense plus if you actually do projects and look at that projects and cash flows it's really nice to see things as a cash flow per year and this is very common you'll use it in in managerial accounting finance type of decision-making


OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. What we're going to talk about right now is what I call, you know, the brass tacks of the program. This is where the rubber meets the road because it has to do with your deliverables. It has to do with your continued funding. And my goal in this presentation is to make it, I mean, to make this process, you know, regardless of what you had thus far, as easy as possible. So that by next week, you know exactly what you're on hold for, and there is no confusion about that. So at the end of this presentation, you should be very clear about certain things. So what we're going to talk about, we're going to talk about data and accountability entails both academic performance data. And it also entails some things that are related to the fiscal part of our program. So every year, the beginning of the year, we come out to the beginning of the year later. It stipulates what you're supposed to do during that fiscal year. I'll share that with you. And then we also provide you with a calendar of deliverables. And then within our program, we have program, I mean, we have agencies that have grouped together and applied as coalitions. And so that's what 1.3 refers to. And then as an administrator, there are some things that you have to address in 1.4 that relate to data collection training and reporting. I mean, you have to know these things and make sure that your stuff does them and on the monitoring party to be your work. Yeah, these are the sort of things that relate to 1.4. And you should be clear when we're done. 1.5 is about your local assessment policy. Jay talked a lot about it. The only thing I'd add to Jay's conversation is that he forgot to mention that we added a new line as the CDE to the local assessment policy. What we want you to do is tell us when you reviewed it with your staff. And that should happen every year because that's a working document or living document kind of guides your work as it pertains to your assessment. And if your assessments are wrong, it's going to affect your future funding and so on. So you need to stay on top of that. And then we'll talk about the end of year data submission and how that all works. Item two in our objectives is data privacy and personally identifiable information. We're going to talk about social security numbers. When you talk about individual text identification number, we're going to talk about consent forms, both the paper based and the electronic version. And then finally on three, we just talk about data monitoring. Like I said, you know, what you do in the interim as an administrator in those intervals, you know, between your calendar of due dates, which I do usually quarterly. Okay. So let's let's begin.  I'm hoping in the future will change that and make it the beginning of the year later because I think that makes a straight line of where all this begins. And then as a housekeeping type of thing, if you see on the slide, any of these items underlined, it means that you can click there and go to the web page, and then you can visit this. So this is obviously a sample that I'm in the picture, and you can see where it begins it talks about how to manage your local administrative costs. Aturo, you know, discuss that in depth. And then it talks about monthly attendance requirement to the next paragraph and so on. All right. And if you want to look at it. I mean I'm not going to keep clicking these links but it's taking its time. This is what it looks like. And it just tells you all the changes we've made like that are pertinent to that particular fiscal year because this thing changes from year to year. Right, like I just talked about the assessment policy. There's a new guidelines for this fiscal year regarding the administrator and local assessment policy with your staff. We want that to happen. So this part has changed and I've made you aware of it. There's memorandums that have been discussed by Neil, you know, and Catherine Peacock. So it covers all the things, all the changes that you're on the hook for. And these things are legal requirements, and yeah, I mean just follow them. That's all I can say. I'm going back to my slide. Back at my slide, you know, I've shown you how the slides are going to go moving forward. There's illustrations of what the webpage looks like. And this one covers the beginning of the year later program and accountability requirements. And then we're going to move fast enough. And then we also provide you with a calendar of grant deliverable due dates. Like I said, I'm going to make this simple. When I first came to the CDE and was working with my 13 or 14, you know, I mean, 23 esteemed colleagues. This is what they told me I must do. They told me I'm gala. You need to get the calendar of deliverable due dates. That's what you as a consultant and the CDE are on the hook for. And you need to help agencies do this. And then if you want to go deeper and deeper into the we are titled to program. And learn more.  But by next week. You should know that this is what I'm supposed to address. So there's some things that happened that are required by September the first by September the 15th. Regardless of, you know, I know I'm addressing a crowd of experienced and some people that are not experienced. These are the things that you do. You are due for. And these things keep you in good standing with the CDE. Like David said, you know, how do you identify programs that are performing well. This is one of the criteria. And these things are not coming on time.  Okay, so be very keep that, you know, posted on some board somewhere. And, you know, as you're running the program learning more about these intimate details about the program, keep that calendar there. And that calendar, however, you know, now I'm on the next line. We have agencies that group together and apply for the grant as a coalition. And so some of those deliverables have to be submitted by the individual agencies, and some of them have to be submitted by the coalition.  So the fiscal agent, you know, they can see their responsibility in the second column of that table. And the individual agency can see their responsibilities. You know, demarcated in that table. Next. Well, later on, since I'm still going over the, I'm still in the overview, we're going to go over data collection training and reporting. And this is stuff that is separate from the calendar. And some of the things that are pertinent there is that you need to have your agency complete two trainings. Okay, two training somebody during this next fiscal year from July 1 2023. Yeah, June 1. All the way to July. I mean to not to June. I'm sorry, July 1 to June 30. You should have somebody always present that has taken the accountability training and the implementation training. All the time, and you should be able to provide CDE, you know, especially when the people go on FPM records, if we call you, because the data is not coming in correctly. I mean, this is one of the things we look at, you know, to see if you have someone, you know, that's competent to handle TE and understands what we're talking about right now in terms of what is what are the deliverables. And the CDE through CASAS, you know, offers you all these manuals, technical assistance, and please, you know, take advantage of it. Okay, the next thing. Oh, sorry, I skipped. I'm sorry, I skipped the pay. The next topic I'm going to talk about is the California assessment policy. If you go to this link. You will find a document. It mentions all the tests that have been approved by the feds for us to test our students for the next fiscal year. As Jay mentioned earlier, some of you may be continuing with the old test but there's a great period, you know, regarding that. So after a while, those tests are going to expire. And then some of you have jumped onto the new test.  And this is a pass through item I need to stress that. When I say it's a pass through item, what I'm trying to say is that the CDE cannot decide which tests we should use for this particular program. They have to be approved for reliability and validity through the NRS. And then they can be administered, you know, throughout the country. And California is working with CASAs, you know, to do that. And so look at this document very carefully and it will inform you, you know, on what is valid, you know, for this fiscal year. And then so we pushed that down to you. That's why I say it is a pass through type of deal. I ask you to make a local assessment policy to guide your agency and to guide your staff and everyone who's in your data team should be aware of what the local assessment policy, you know, the content. You need to provide a template.  Who does it? What are your testing intervals? When are you going to pre-test? When are you going to post-test? Those things need to be expressed in your local assessment policy. And you need to share it with your staff. That's why I said it's a working document earlier in the prison. You need to share it with your staff.  And all that that you need to educate your assessment people on how to do, you know, the virtual testing. Okay, on next slide. And then since a lot of you are new administrators, maybe you haven't participated in this exercise of submitting end-of-year data. Four months, usually four months before the end of the fiscal year. Before June 30 of next year, we're going to send you some documents on how to submit your end-of-year data. And as you can see, like Jay mentioned earlier, you know, end-of-year data is due before July 15. And if you submit your data before July 15, submit what you have. Okay, submit what you have. I mean, do your best to clean it up, but submit what you have, because sometimes we get questions from agencies that sort of postpone the whole thing because they're trying to be perfect. But CASAS can look at that data for you and tell you where the holes are much quicker and help you fix your data. So submit what you have on July 15. You have a grace period where you can correct whatever data you submitted to us. It's about 15 days, so take advantage of this. And within that end-of-year data submission notification, you'll find documents such as the submission instructions. And this provides you with a step-by-step guide of how to submit your data in TE. I mean, as you can see, all those areas that are enrolled within this diagram, I mean, it just tells you the clicks to follow, you know. And if you have trouble with this, we have a troubleshooting document. And it allows you to look at the data integrity detail, payment point summary audit, data payment point flags, and so on. So if your data or the payment points are not looking like you have seen your agency, your agency's performance in the past. These are some of the things, you know, that will, you know, these are the low-hanging fruit to find out where the problems could be. You want to maintain your payment points and make sure that they're the same level as they always have been because that's what's going to stabilize your funding. And so that's what this relates to. Okay. Next item, we're going to talk about data privacy, securing, you know, personally identifiable information. We have a management bulletin that describes, you know, how you are supposed to treat social security numbers. We are updating it right now to include the individual tax identification number. But what I can say ahead of that, even before we approve, is that the same guidelines that are working for the S social security number are exactly the same as those for the item. Basically, there's three requirements basically with this stuff. One, you have to tell the student that it's voluntary. Not that it only, yeah, so one you have to tell the students it's voluntary and it's not going to stop you. Or it's not a barrier for us, you know, for you participating in this program. That's one thing that as a CDE consultants will look at. Right. So it is, it is not a barrier. And then the fact that it's voluntary. And then you also tell them what it is being used for. Right, just to track their employment status. And basically that's it. And so after reading the bulletin and learning more about the data privacy guidelines as indicated in number one. You can begin to formulate your own. And we have a template. And it relates to item number two. In this slide, and where it begins voluntary authorization to share, you know, personally identifiable records form. So that's a template that contains all the three things that I mentioned, and you can create your own. And it can be online, you know, when you give the student and they can read it on their own just like we do the bank records and all those kind of things. And yeah, I'll finish that. I mean with that on that part. And then we also have translations in the 16 most popular languages, you know, California, I'm actually proud of this page. So I'm going to share. So everything Arabic, Armenian, Cantonese, Farsi, Japanese, all those kind of things. And if you guys can make more translations depending on your location would like to see more of them. Okay. I'm going to go back to the slide. And then we have an FAQ, you know, you can dive into that. And yeah, that's all I have to say on data privacy, you know, there are the three requirements. We provide you a template, you know, see item number two here we have translations to deal with, you know, some of them in the most common, you know, languages that you will encounter the 16th talk. And then we have some questions that have been asked by previous administrators. And this is management, you know, bulletin 1701. Just a sample. This is the voluntary, you know, authorization to share, identify a goal. This is a template. And it has a lot of words, yours does not need to have, you know, all these words, as long as somehow you find a way to put the three requirements that I mentioned, you're good. And then electronic or paper form. Here's the place where we keep, you know, the translation. And if you click that underlined area, as we mentioned, as I mentioned in housekeeping, it will get you to that side. And then here the FAQs. And these FAQs also relate to the item. So we are going to update our documents because the item is a new development and essentially what we're going to be doing really is just putting item next to SSI because the rules are the same. And then, in terms of action, I mean, next we're moving on to data monitoring reporting. And I'm going to be talking about a lot of action items here. So you as the administrator right now you should have dealt with the program entry and update record because you have some students that you've enrolled. I imagine that you have tested them to determine, you know, what level they are at and you've inputted that data. That is the best practice and that should be an action item for you. And then as I'm discussing this, I also wanted to let you know that for this program, you have to enter attendance monthly in that entry and update record because that's how we track exits. And we mentioned this attendance monthly as a requirement in our assurances. And so everyone signed up and said, yeah, we can do this. And we really need this to happen because we're trying to increase our employment and I mean improve our tracking of employment outcomes. And if we don't do this, it's very hard to be successful on the other end.   And deliverables, you know, main. Okay, so that's one that these are action items, things that you have to do, you can't get around them. If you don't do them, you're going to be getting a call from the CASAS program specialist or just CASAS technical support. And then if it doesn't happen, you're going to be getting an email from the CDE consultant. And if some of these things are not completed, it's very hard for, I mean, well, it will delay your payment, not that it's very hard, it will delay your payment. We need this done before we process the payment. And on the survey, like Jay said, it's not necessary that, I mean, it would be fantastic to get the responses. That's what we're shooting for. But when I say full responses, I'm saying the student entering, you know, all that information is required. All we're looking for here is response rate. Did they say something, you know, in return? So don't be afraid to send the emails in the text actually to improve your number sometimes. I'm again, I'm sorry to interrupt. This is Jim. We have some questions. Would you like to take those all at the end or what's your preference? We can go right now. Okay. Maybe when you move to a new section each time, just check in with me and see if there's any questions. But we'll go over the ones we have. Just a moment, please. Okay. Our first one if we have all of our students enrolled in ESL and HSE classes fill out the CC apply admissions application. Does that count as a social security release form? The application included the consent to release information statement. Yeah. Because I mean, I, okay, so I'm saying yeah, because I imagine that the community college right when they designed the CC apply electronically, they have a consent form. Right. Yes, that's part that's part of the application I asked that question so I work for a community college and the students already fill out a lot of forms so I don't want to duplicate. You know, adding an addition to the social security number release form if the CC apply already counts because they have that the release of information, the consent to release information. So most of the students mark that they're willing to share their information, but there's some that do not want to share and we pull that information from our student information system. So I just want to make sure because right now we're in the, we're going to be monitor so I'm submitting all the documents and I want to make sure that we comply. Yeah, so, yeah, so all you need to do if someone was conducting the FPM and monitoring your agency. Or even if the feds came to and asked you about your data security policies, you just show them the portal where the students enter. And this is the language that's there. And then that's it, you're done. Okay, thank you. Great, and we have just a couple more at actually Janice just provided a link from cast us about student data security if you want some additional information you can find that link in the q&a and then our final question. Do we need to keep the social security number release form for record keeping and if yes for how long. I mean it's that's a really. I think you should destroy it after five years. Because we already have that SSN in our database.  Because after we've done our match with the EDD. We're confusing what's going on in that space because the feds want us to do longitudinal studies and the longitudinal studies take more than five years. They are confused, we're confused, but I would say like if you look at if you listen to. I'm not sure I mentioned, like, in the fiscal part like how long you're supposed to keep certain documents and before you destroy them. I think it's true. Can you help me on the documents that was supposed, I mean when we're supposed to delete them. Yeah, I am here for the federal regulation is three years. But the CD recommends by because the CD had all the feds have authority to go back five years for the federal part. I, I'm sorry I didn't, I didn't hear the specifics but like for example for personal information transcapes and all those, those are permanent those you keep those as long as you forever, and now you can keep those electronically. And, but it will depend whether the documents are federal or just the, they say that they're under the education console. It will depend on the specific but I get in general federal is three years says the regulation, but we recommend five because the gap. Requires or I guess authorized federal agencies to go back five years and look for if there was any miss spend funds or something like that. Thank you, Arturo. So, I think we should go with five years right because we're going to be viewed by the feds, right. Yes, I'm going to come to CDE and ask about agency documents and you know that's what they do sometimes they take a sample of the agencies to see if they're doing a job properly. So, in order for us to answer those questions properly, we need to agree. I agree. I just, I just mentioned the extra stuff because sometimes we make questions about a specific you know like transcapes or records that personal records, so those are different than the, these ones for data accountability and those that are required for the federal for the afla grant, which I agree. Five years is the recommended time. Okay, and Arturo, I posted a link on our records retention bulletin in the chat. Just for everyone's reference. Perfect. Thank you. We have a management bulletin on it. Thank you. And, and we had one more question that came in. Do we need to complete the sip every year. So, yes. I mean, well, in the years that we are doing an RFA, the CDE recently, you know, decided that in those years we don't do the same because we don't know who the successful candidates are going to be. And so it's a continuous improvement plan. You know, it goes over one year. So in the years that we do the RFA your application. You may not have to do the sip and that's more of a Carolyn type question, but that's what that's how I'm thinking about it. So the next three years, you have to do a sip. Right. And then that fourth year, when we go to the RFA application, you may not. Yeah, it's very unlikely that you have to do a sip based on our logic right now. Does that help? I hope I answered the question. Yes, it looks like we okay we just had another one roll in for students that re enrolled in the current year. They need a new sign form, especially for students and rolling towards the end of the previous year. Help me understand what the sign form. They perhaps are Laura could could you clarify are you talking about like the social security release form or if you feel free to go go off mute. Hi there. Hi. I am referring to to that form. And what I'm talking about is for those students that enroll, let's say towards the around May. They finish the year in June. They come back and enroll in the program in July. So do we need to have to one form for each program year. No, no. You don't need to do that. Right. It's not like you can avoid the fall. You remember when I doing the community college example, like if the students took off, and then they come back and CCC apply as that default page where you have to read it. So what are the guidelines. Yeah. Because, yeah, well, yeah, you do have to do it again. Sorry. If you're doing paper based, you do have to do the form again. Every year. Yeah. If they take off and then, you know, Jay talked about. Well, Jay. And then Carolyn have been hopping to you guys about periods of participation, right. You've heard that car, right. Yes, right. But what I'm saying is this is students are the first year is 30th. So in May, fiscal year and 30th. So they're going to come back. As of you like first. We have to do it again. Okay. Yeah. And we had one other one, a person's asking, does that mean no sip for 2324, but they will be required for this program. You're right. I'm a Gala. Yeah, so they said no safe for 2324. Yeah, but that that just supplied to last year because we were doing the RFA but for this year, it is going to be required right that's my understanding. So the last fiscal year, it was not required. And then the current fiscal year. I'm a little bit confused by the question because they're saying 2324. Yes. And it's not required. Well, she, she's asking, does that mean is, is no sip required for 2324 in April. No, it will be due is my in 2024. Right. Yeah, in April. This coming April. Okay. We have a sip too. Okay. Okay. She wants to clarify her questions. So then go, go ahead and go off mute, please. Thank you. That's exactly right. I know that a sip is due on in April 2024. I meant, we don't have one to continue on because we finished hours for 2223 that we had written the previous year. So we don't have any, we don't have one that we're working on right now, is that correct. What we're working on now is creating a new sip that will be due on April 20 in 2024. Am I saying that right. Is that correct. Okay. And I don't think you have to formulate something like radical change. I mean, I don't know your situation, but if you are continuing agency. I mean, your stuff has been continuous. Even though we said we don't want you to submit something. Does that make sense. I think so we are a continuing agency and so we're going to be working on creating a new wish sip right our goals will reexamine our goals and go forward. Yeah, I think I got it. Yeah, we were trying to deal with agencies that are not continuing. Okay. Because I mean that's why this policy is there that's what I'm trying to say it's like, why have them submit when they're not going to continue. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. So it should inform your future. That's all I'm trying to contribute. Okay. And then I talked about the two trainings that are required. This is another action item as an administrator. It's just one California accountability training course. And then one country implementation course, you know, which is item number two, how to use tea basically that's what that is and Jay gave you a little bit of a taste of that this morning. Next is the DIR. So I gave you a calendar of deliverables.  But as an administrator, you also need to think about the things that you do in the interim periods. I mean the simple things. Right. Because these simple things. The DIR, the data integrity report in the interim can tell you that you're heading into problems before the quarter is over. If you look at the DIR, and there's no pre test after three weeks, you know, when the students have been there. That's a problem for you as that because that's going to affect your performance because we are all educators, you know, in this conference. And we know that the most learning happens at the very beginning, like, you know, at the very beginning the learning graph is like this. It's really on when the student becomes more proficient.  And so if you miss that first part, it means that maybe you've hurt your agency in terms of getting payment points, because that's when the student could have grown the luck of the most. And you would have your agency would have been rewarded for your effort teaching that student. And that intervening, you know, with the ABE ESL and getting them to the next level. I mean, this is a very, very important point for all you administrators to understand. And if you delay in testing your students. Sometimes you can delay too much. That is too late, you know, to do a post test with that instances where sometimes you find a program hasn't done a pretest. In January in the spring. Sometimes even late spring. And, you know, we at CDE and Casa Sakana scratching our head because once it gets to that point. It's this very little that we can do and it's going to hurt your data and all the work that you put into that student is not going to show. So in the interim, that's why the administrator needs to look at the data integrity report. And so I'm going to share some things with you on the data integrity report. Okay. So if you go to the Casa site, yeah, this is the DIR. If you go to the Casa website, you click on their documents that pertain to the data collection. There were some PDFs there that have the data dictionary. Those the data dictionary is above on a table. You know, it's more in the overview of the section and then Casa says a table and they have all these documents that you can look at that are PDFs. And one of them is called the DIR and this is our latest one. So with the DIR, if you look items one through 12. Right. All these things related to gender, no ethnicity in your data. Missing birth date. You can do a pretest and post test with that student. And if you're missing any of those things, your work will not come. I'm trying to stress with this. Okay. And then just to show you what, I mean, this is almost like a template of the DIR. What your agency DIR will most likely look something like this. Okay, so I create, I mean, I played around with the Casa thing I called it, no administrator school, because I cannot share the agency where I got this form. I was just hiding the data, but you can see, you know, they have 128 missing. I mean, less than 12 hours of instruction. You as the administrator in the interim need to discuss that with your staff. Hey, what's going on, you know, with our orientation. Right.  Right. So this is a working document. Like I said, I want to keep this simple. We gave you the beginning of the year letter gives you a calendar of the things that you need to do throughout the year in your first year. Very simple. Right. You talk to your data coordinator. You create a program for that. But then in the spaces in between to save your energy as an administrator because you know all these things are happening. This is the report from CASAS, the DIR that you should be looking at. It'll, I mean, it'll make your life easier. And then later on, as you become more proficient in the program, you can go deep in the weeds and, you know, start going in depth or if you have questions about some of those things in the calendar, some of these things in the data integrity report. Okay. Jim, do you have questions? There are currently no questions. Okay. I'll keep moving there. And I'm at the end of my presentation. And I mean, initially I wanted to have questions at the end, but it looked like it was working better, you know, during the presentation. So in terms of technical assistance resources.  And here are a few links, you know, that may help you. So anything to do with California accountability, if you have questions, use the email address in item number one, shipping and payment questions. That's where you get your orders for electronic and paper assessments, you know, addressed with item labeled number two. And then on a short term basis, if you and your data staff are confused, item number three on the slide tells you where to get the tech support. And sometimes CASAS will come to your site to resolve these things. In fact, most of the time, if you guys are struggling and it's just not happening, do not hesitate to contact CASAS and ask them to come to your site. Because our program specialists are located in different geographical regions, unlike us, the consultants were here in Sacramento. And then it's their software, you know, so they know how to navigate it better than us. And then if you cannot resolve your problem within, you know, that space, then you consult with your CDE regional consultant.