Hey, good morning everyone. Welcome to a new week. Everyone can hear me, okay? Is my voice audible? Yes, Pastor. We can hear you. Okay. All right, great. So Shall we start off with the word of prayer? We one of us can please read the prayer. Can I pray, Pastor? Go ahead, Afla. Dear God, thank you so much God for this day. Thank you for everything that you're doing. Thank you for everything that Lord, you are such a faithful person, you are doing good as we're about to read the book of first Corinthians. God, that we may hate it into our heart and by God, that we may understand what Paul has to say and through you, Lord, you have spoken to him, God. That we may grow stronger in your knowledge and your wisdom, God. That we are both of what we've been taught, that we may apply in our life and understand to grow stronger in your love and your Lord, thank you so much for everything. You made me pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Asha. All right, so let me just present the notes. Okay, so we've been doing first Corinthians. Last week we completed first Corinthians 11 and 12. In first Corinthians 12, we talked about the whole thing of desiring the gifts and the apostle Paul talks about how there are different kinds of gifts for different kinds of functions. So we looked at this, the picture there, the nine gifts, membership gifts and the five-fold ministry gifts and so he's basically advising the church or he's exhorting the church saying, you know, these gifts are given by the Holy Spirit and it is for every believer, yet there are also certain functions that people have. So there is the pastoral calling, there is the evangelist, there's the prophetic, there's the apostolic calling. So he's just differentiating between the ministry gifts, the membership gifts within the church. Now, why is he doing this? There could be many reasons. One, it could be because we know that there was already division within the church. There were complications, there were several issues. So Paul is basically trying to lead the church towards understanding the principles that govern church setting or the congregation, how a congregation should be. Now we know that they were spiritually quite mature, yet there were things that they were doing which were very, very immature. So he wanted them, especially the congregation to grow in every area. So he closed off chapter 12, we will move into chapter 13 and chapter 13, 1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most wonderful passages in Paul's episode because we all know it, mostly preached at weddings, talking about the great passage on love. So let's begin with chapter 13 and verse one onwards. It starts off by the more excellent way. So let's look at that. Verse one, Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but not have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanking symbol. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all the mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but not have love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but not have love, it profits me nothing. And verse four onwards, Paul is characterizing what God's love is all about. He says, Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, it is not puffed up, it does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, it is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails, but whether there are prophecies, they will fail, whether there are tongues, they will seize, whether there is knowledge, it will vanish. Let's just stop here and see what is Paul talking about here. Now in 1 Corinthians 13, Paul is trying to inform the church that it's wonderful that there are a lot of gifts, there are a lot of people who are talented, and you are already flowing in the gifts of the spirit, there's a prophetic, there's a word of knowledge, you're flowing in all these gifts. But here's the problem, when we do all these things, when we exercise the gifts, when we have membership functions, when we do charitable deeds, when we even offer our body to be burned, which means even willing to martyr ourselves, and all these things, if we do without being motivated or guided by God's love, he says this so powerfully, he says all this is empty and it has no benefit. What God striked me was, even to the point of offering your own body to be burned, that means we may come to a place of saying, God, I'm willing to give my life to you, but if it is not governed out of love, it is nothing, it is of no benefit. Now this shows the importance of abiding in love when serving in ministry. So whatever we do, we must be governed by this God kind of love. Do it out of love because love for people is what will really guide us in that ministry, in the ministry. Verses 4 to 8, he's saying love is not, if we are impatient, if we are unkind, if we are jealous, if we are boastful, if we are behaving rudely, if we are self-seeking, if we are self-promoting, self-centered, irritable and all of these things, then we are not governed or motivated by love. Now why is Paul saying this? Why is love superior than all these wonderful, why is love greater than prophetic gift? Why is love greater than having the apostolic gift? Why is love greater than being just a pastor of a church? Why is it that way? Because there will come a time, so Paul is trying to exalt the church saying, there will come a time that all of these membership gifts, the gifts of the Holy Spirit will cease. Everything will stop. It will no longer be in use, but the only thing that will be there is love. The Bible says in revelations, they will look upon the one whom they have pierced. In heaven, heaven is, God is love. So heaven is a lovely place. It's full of love and this is God kind of love, a Kape kind of love.  There's no speaking in tongues, prophetic and word of knowledge and word of wisdom. All those gifts are not there in heaven. So there will come a time when all these gifts will cease, but love will remain. This is so powerful, right? So maybe some of us may be thinking, hey, I don't, I can't flow in the prophetic or I can't, I don't have a word of knowledge or I'm not gifted in worship. We may have these different ideas, right? We have these different thoughts that are coming into our mind. Remember this, if you have the love of God, if you are walking in the God kind of love, you have a greater, superior gift than all the other things and all the others. You can have a great man of God, a woman of God, but walking in jealousy or anger, but you can just be a believer walking in the God kind of love. You are doing something greater than what the other person is doing, because love is greater than that, right? Remember faith, Galatians 5-6, faith works through love. Without love, faith breaks down and faith does not produce when there is no love, right? Now for example, we see that the Lord Jesus, when he ministered to people that he met in his earthly ministry, in many places it says that he had compassion. He loved them and out of that love he was able to minister to them and bring healing. So the root or the basis of each of our lives, of each of our ministry, of everything that we do must be out of love. Now this is an ongoing process, right? God knows we are a work in process, we are growing, we are learning, right? But here's the beautiful thing. God has also given us the Holy Spirit to walk in that God kind of love. Is it possible to walk in the love that Jesus walked in? Yes. Why? Because of the Holy Spirit. Right? So let's just look at those characteristics. It's so beautiful. Love is patient and love is kind. Right? When we mean patient, now picture this, maybe, you know, there's a pastor or a god for, and they've been in ministry for 20 odd years. All of a sudden there's a young person who comes into the church. Now it's very easy for us to say, you know, because we know everything from the scriptures, we've gone through different seasons. It's very easy to look at them and say, hey, you know, how come you don't know this? This is so simple. How can you not understand this? You know, this is just basic word of God. How will you be able to, you know, understand the greater, bigger revelations of God's work? Now we must understand that people are from different levels in the spiritual understanding. Right? Love is patient just so much so that how God is patient with us, we are to be patient with people. Right?  No, we have to be bold, we have to be firm, we have to be confident. Right? You know, when we meet people, maybe we are sharing the gospel with them. Be bold, be firm, be confident, because you know who you are. Yet, be gentle and kind. That's the balance that we must develop. Right? Don't be harsh. Don't be rude. Right? Now, there are times the Holy Spirit will minister to us to say a word or speak about something to a person and it may be something very, you know, very stern. Even as we do that, do it with love. Right? Not with a pride saying, okay, God is telling me, you are this, this, this, this. Because eventually we want the person to come to Christ, to turn from their wrong ways and come back to Christ. For love is patient, love is kind. Right? One of the things that, for me personally, was being patient. Right?  If I plan, I usually plan a week or sometimes, you know, when the year starts, I do a six-month plan and then I break down that six-month plan into three months and I like to follow that plan. Right? And I, you know, I prefer that plan to be followed and then I break down those three-month plan into weekly plans and sometimes when things are not going the way that we expect, we become impatient. Right? But over time, I'm learning that, you know, it's okay. It's good to plan, but there will be times when, you know, we must understand that other, the people that we are ministering to or the people we are serving need time. Right? So we need to walk in patience. Right? Love is not jealous. Now, this is, this is, this is very, very important. Right? We did this in laying the ax to the root of jealousy in the beginning of the semester. Right? Jealousy is something that is, you know, just, it can just turn us away from God in a matter of moments. Right? So we must guard our hearts against jealousy.  They're manifesting these wonderful signs and we think, hey, why is it not happening to me? How come God is using them? It's very easy for jealousy to come into our heart. Right? So when God is working, the best way is when God is working through people around you. Right? Celebrate what is happening in their life. Right?  Celebrate what's happening in their life by saying, God, thank you that you have blessed them. One day you will do that for me as well. So what are you doing? You're guarding your heart. You're saying, you're not allowing the enemy to bring jealousy into our heart. Right? And the perfect, perfect example would be, you know, Saul and King Saul and David. Right? It's a perfect example. David killed the mighty Goliath. The people of Israel started singing, Saul killed thousands. David killed tens of thousands. That moment jealousy came into his heart. The Bible says from that moment he tried to pursue David, to kill him, just because of that jealousy. But what could have Saul done?   And if it's your, you know, he could have done it the nice way. He could have just said, okay, David, you can be the next king.  And David would have just come into the throne. It would have just gone in smoothly. But jealousy leads to unhealthy competition. That is strife. All of his life, Saul lost his peace. All he was doing was instead of running and chasing after the enemies and defeating enemies, he was fighting battles that was not worth. He was just running and trying to catch David. Right? So love is not jealous. We are to guard our hearts against jealousy. Third one, love is not proud, arrogant or boastful. Right?  Right? Now, we must be strong. We must be confident in our identity in Christ, but we must also walk in humility. Right? So for example, you know, we can, God may give us opportunities to preach in many, many places. Right? So we must go with confidence. Right? We should prepare, you know, prepare the word prayer, you know, go with confidence and trusting God to work miracles and do wonders in those meetings. But the moment we say, you know, we don't walk in humility and we become arrogant or boastful or proud about it. There was a time I was not doing anything. Now, now see how I am here. They have these pastors calling me, this ministry is calling me. These people still want me. They ping me so much. They do this. They do that for me. You know, they, what's happening? They are losing focus. Right? Always, always walk with a humble heart. You know, here's the thing I've noticed, right? But we start off small. Right? So for example, somebody is starting a business or you're starting your own ministry. When you start small, there's nothing to be proud about. But if all of a sudden that ministry grows to thousands of people or the business becomes really big all of a sudden, what happens? Pride gets into our heart. Now, look at this Lucifer. He was the second in command in heaven. He was so beautiful that he had angels under him and they would all be in awe of Lucifer. And the thought just came to him, hey, I just, everyone out, so in awe of me, what happened there? He thought more highly of himself than what he had to think of. He should have thought that, hey, God is God and I'm just his creator being. Right? Be watchful over our words. When we speak, we are not to draw attention to ourselves or the work done through us, but the work done through God. Right? So be very careful. These are weeds that can come into our life. Love is not rude or ill-mannered. While ministering to people in the anointing of the Holy Spirit, be gentle, be loving, be courteous. Show them that you love them in a time that we are in. I've seen this. I've seen many videos that people have sent me over the past years. And I see it in my heart breaks because there were many, many of these, you know, wonderful men and women of God, but they have, I don't know who they've ill-treated the believers. Now, there will be times when God will, the Holy Spirit will ask us to, you know, do strange things or unusual things. That's okay. But then, if it's something from our own imagination, the outcome or the fruit will speak of itself. If it's from the Holy Spirit, it will bear fruit in the other person's life. If it's from our own imagination, we're trying to do something, it's not going to bear fruit. Right? So why minister to people? Remember, people lied. Jesus was not rude. He was not ill-mannered.  No. He walked in that love. But was he stern? Yes, he was stern. But he was never rude or ill-mannered. Right? So even be as believers when we are ministering. Minister has to be as courteous as possible. One of the things we follow in APC is, you know, when we preach, we don't say you should do this. You should do that. It's applying even for us. So we say us. We say we. We should do it. It's for all of us. When we are preaching, it's not that we know everything and we're preaching to the congregation. No, as we are preaching, we are learning. Right? So we come into that submission under the Holy Spirit so that we know that, hey, you know, we're just walking. We're all growing together. Right? Then love is not self-sector, self-seeking, self or self-promoting. Now, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to us not to make us look good, not to make us look famous, not to make us look like we are holier than thou or we are the holiest of all people. No, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are given so that we can serve people wherever we are and serve effectively to build people and to glorify Christ. Right? So the gifts of the Holy Spirit is given so that we can serve people powerfully, effectively, so that they will see a change in their lives and the Lord Jesus will be glorified. Right? Now, we are not to use the gifts of the Spirit to promote ourselves or to draw people to ourselves. The moment somebody walks out of a service saying and drawn towards the person who is preaching, more than the word, I have failed in my preaching. Right? Yes, of course, there will be people who will say, you know, thank you for sharing the word or you share the word well. That's okay. You could just say, okay, please God, thank you. But if people are drawn to you as a person, what I spoke or the way I spoke, the the intonation and all of those things, then it's of no use because I've drawn people to myself and I am nothing. Right? So we must draw people not to ourselves but to Jesus. Right? This is not about us. The more people have been used by God, the greater impact we will have and more people to be ministered to. There's a joy just seeing people's lives changed and there's a greater joy knowing that their life is changed not because of my preaching or teaching but because of the love of God on their lives. That's a greater joy. Right? So then I'm in freedom. Okay, I could say, hey, it's not me. It's God. God has just used me as a vessel. So it's not about me. God can use anybody. But the important point is that they have received and they have heard from you and they're glorifying Jesus Christ. And so very important, right? Even as all of us are ministering, look to draw people to Christ and not to us. Right? Next point. Love is not irritable or easily angered. Right? Now this is again something that I've been really walking in and I want to grow in this area. Sometimes, you know, there are things that may go wrong. You know, maybe we plan something and there are things that may go wrong. You know, some of the things that for me personally, right? If I plan to be at a place, if I have to meet somebody at 10 o'clock, I'll be there at 9.45. Right? And if they don't come at 10 o'clock, I start getting frustrated. I get irritated. 10 o'clock is the meeting. I've got to be there much before that.  Right? So sometimes I get irritated or easily angered. Right? I remember there were times and, you know, people would say, hey, you know, I don't have, I would, I would share with people, just talk to them. They'd say, hey, I don't have time at all. Work, the office from 9 to 5. I don't have time to feed or I don't have time for prayer. And I used to get really irritated initially, you know. I'm just being frank. I really used to get very irritated because I used to work in the IT company. I know it's tiring.  Yes. But if you really want to make time, you can make time. It's not, you know, there's a saying, right? Time flies. But the good news is you're the pilot. So I used to get really frustrated. So many times I used to tell my friends, you know, hey, if you really want to do something, you can do it. You don't have to give any excuse. And I said, you know, say that. But then over time I realized that, hey, is it right by me talking this way? Because I see that I am getting irritated because they are not doing something. Or I am getting easily angry because I expect them to read the word for one hour or to pray for maybe half an hour, spend time, they are not doing it. So I'm getting upset.  I'm not working in the God kind of love. So I had to really make that conscious effort to change. And I started saying, okay, my responsibility is to minister to them, give them advice, give them exhort them, teach them, now encourage them and lead them to Christ. Also, there's another example here. For example, if you've been invited to a place to minister, there were several things that can go wrong. You know, and I've been through so many times, so many kinds of meetings where the mic stopped working, or there's a jarring on the mic, the guitar cable or the musical instrument cable just stopped working, or the drummer missed the timing to the song, or suddenly there was a power failure. All these things can get us irritated or angered. Now, remember, if the enemy is attempting to interfere with something that is, you know that it's a spiritual thing, spiritual battle, then you can deal with it and you pray against it. But in general, we are to keep our heart full of love towards people. So even when we go to different states in our nation of India, there are many states where the facilities are not very good. They could have some old speakers, or the mic system may not be as good as the ones in the cities. Sometimes they don't have a mic system, or sometimes they don't have fans, there's no AC, the food may not be good, the food does not suit our body, things are not set in place, there's no order. So these things can cause us to become irritable. But we must say to ourselves, hey, I've come here to minister to them. I want to love them. Now, if I get angry and irritated by the things that they're doing, I will not be able to minister out of love. And if I don't minister out of love, this whole meeting is of no use at all. So we must make that effort, conscious effort, to walk in love, to avoid being irritable. And there could be many things. It could be within the family, it could be traffic on the road, it could be the city, could be our leaders, so many things. There was this one season where there were a couple of these roads that were being fixed and it's maximum takes about a month, but it's been years, but that the road has not fixed. Sometimes you get school, irritated and angry about it. But many times I had to say, God pray for good leadership, that they were good leaders who can get these things sorted. This is you have given us the authority, you have given us the rule and reign in our nation. Help us to have good leaders, raise up good leaders. And so then what am I doing? Freeing my heart from being irritated or easily angry. So it could be anything, but we must guard our heart. Next one, love has no evil intent.  Now when we are ministering on the gifts of the Spirit, we must keep our heart free from desire to control, to manipulate or take revenge. So for example, if somebody has done something wrong to you, it's very easy when we are ministering to manipulate and to control or to take revenge on them. Right? Never try to use the gift of prophecy or the gift of word of knowledge or word of wisdom to get back at an individual. Motives should be clean. What is the motive to be pure, be genuine and seek to glorify the Lord alone? Right? Now what is it to control? Love does not control. Now there will be times when people, you know, so for example, there are the members of our church and they want to attend a conference that's happening in the city. Many times, many leaders have said, no, don't go to that. Right? Trying to control people. Many times, leaders have pastors and leaders have manipulated. You do this, you know, if you sell your property and give that money to the church, God, then the prophetic word comes, God is going to give you seven times more than what you have given. That is called annihilating.  I think there's a question. Yes, Shri Kumar, go ahead. Thank you, sir. I just want to know, as you said now, is it how we will be able to know that if a man of God is saying that give your, you know, the potion and this is something God is saying and how we can able to know that he's doing it in that street or, you know, what I'm saying? Yes, yes. Because Elijah, when he asked that woman when she was, when he was, she was only half her little, but that was directed by God. So and she, I believe she also understood because she is a man of God. So how in today's circumstances, because now you can find everywhere prophets and apostles. So how we can understand that, yes, this man of God is genuine and this is not from God. Thank you, Pastor. That's my question. Yes, that's a wonderful, wonderful question, Shri Kumar. And now I think this is a challenge that all of us have, but I'll just, I'll just sum up some of the ways that we can understand, right? One is we all have this spirit of discernment, right?  We only think of the spiritual and we switch off. We don't think, is this something that God would want me to do? Right? Now, for example, yes, you brought up the whole thing of Elisha. Now, when somebody is, especially when it comes to giving unto God, right? We must always see in the sense that like, are they pushing us to do it? Is there a force? The moment a preacher or a pastor is forcing the believers, you do this only then you will be blessed. Only then God will give you double fold or seven fold. I personally will not give, right? Because God is a God, the Bible teaches us everywhere. God loves a cheerful giver, right? And when people were, especially when pastors and leaders put a call, put a, you know, a statement like if you do this, only then God will do it. God will bless you.  Then it's like putting a, you know, they're putting a, how do I say this? Like, you know, they're putting a condition. Yes. Thank you for that. They're putting a condition that only if you do this, God will bless you. Now, that's not what Jesus said. That's not what Jesus did. I mean, when you look at ministry, that's not what it is, right? We, let me give you this example. There was this old woman that I knew of. She was going to a church and it was a rural church, very small church. But the leader of the church, they manipulated her because they knew that she had a couple of, you know, land in the city and they said, you know, if you do this, God will bless your children. You will have a two-floor, three-floor house and all of that. And in her innocence, she sold it, gave it to the church. And now the children came back from work or from different parts of the city saying, okay, let's, you know, they had saved up money to build a house. They came to the mother and said, okay, let's start building. We have saved up money. And the mother says, no, I sold, I gave the property away, gave the money to the church. And the children were so heartbroken. They had saved up and done so much. Now, the moment somebody forces, if there's a force, if there's a push, then I would say that it is not from God. Because God is not in it for the money. And we know that, you know, it's the heart that God sees. So, in terms of this giving, always leave it open. Now, there will be times the Holy Spirit will say, tell this person, this is what he has to do. He has to go, you know, probably take half his income from the business and give it to this ministry. And this is, and this is how God will bless. Now, there's a way of putting that across, right? There's a way. Hey, if I'm ministering to somebody, a businessman or a businessman, I would say, brother, sister, this is what I sense the Lord telling me, but I leave the decision up to you. You have a business and I sense the Lord saying that if you give 50% of it to the ministry, you can give it to any ministry. If you give it to the minister, give it unto the Lord, I sense that God is saying that he will bless you even more. He will increase you from every side. Why don't you go home, think about it, pray about it, see if this is what God is leading to you towards. And then you can feel free to make your decision. The decision is yours. That's how I would do it. Now, how does this sound and how does this sound? Brother, God is saying, you have a business, you have to give 50% of it. When you give it, God will bless you and you have to give it. Only then God is going to bless you. You see, there's a difference on it. It's the same message put across in two different ways. Right? So again, it's all about how we also, you know, we speak, we speak with kindness and gentleness. We get put across the same message in a gentle kind of way, honouring, respecting the person. But the problem is, Shri Kumar is right now, pastors and ministers of God have become so great that they feel they are, they have the right to do it. They have the right to ask and to say it and nobody can question them. And especially in our nation, nobody's going to question. Right? And it's wonderful how the Apostle Paul, we did in chapter, in the previous chapter, I think in chapter nine, the rights of an Apostle and Paul says, I did not ask anything from you. So you always leave that option open. The moment there are conditions, I would think about it. But yes, you can always put it across the right. Right? I hope that helps you, Shri Kumar. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Everyone can see the screen. I think I'll have to stop. Just a moment. Okay. Next one. Love is truthful, honest and holy. So handle the gifts of the Holy Spirit with honesty, with purity and holiness. Right? And these are the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. So it's, it's not that, oh, I am the greatest, I can promise, I know, but there's a sense of all, there's a sense of holiness, God, the God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, His Spirit, reciting in me, just a regular person and His gifts expressed in and through me. It's not a place of boasting, but it's a place of just being in awe of the God's presence. The Holy Spirit is making, you know, ministering through us. Now, here's the thing. If God is speaking, do it in sincerity and truthfulness. If God is silent, do not make up something that is fake. Do not be pressurized by faking things or the gifts of the Holy Spirit. God does not anoint invitations or invitations. Now, for example, every Sunday, you're getting a prophetic word in your ministry. There's word of knowledge that is, you know, word of wisdom, there is prophetic word, there's gifts of healing. Every Sunday, you're ministering to people. Now, maybe one Sunday, you're not getting anything. I'm saying, God, speak to me, but there's nothing. No, you can't say, oh, how will I close this church service now? They all are waiting for a prophetic word or they're all waiting for a word of knowledge. What do I do? What you have to do is pray and close. No need to be pressurized to making up things. It's okay. Remember that, you know, it's the gift. It's the Holy Spirit that is speaking to us. I'll tell you one shocking thing that I had got to know. It really surprised me to the levels that people can go to. This happened in our nation, the city of Bangalore, South of India.  Many people from many churches would come for that two days meeting. Now, a friend of mine was a volunteer for one of his conferences and he came up to me and we were speaking and he was talking to me about the gifts of the Spirit about word of knowledge prophecy and I knew that he had some questions but he was not willing to ask. He was just, something was holding him back, but here's what he asked me. At the end, he could not hold on. He asked me this. He said, do you think people can get words of knowledge through, you know, their name and date of birth? I said, yes, God can do it. God can call people from their name, use the date of birth. I said, why do you ask me? I said, no, because in these conferences of this man, whoever enters into the conference writes their name, number, date of birth and the place they're coming from and that all that book before the conference starts, half an hour before the conference, that, that the details written down goes to the green room where the preacher is sitting and many times I have seen him read through all the people's names, make notes on the four or just write down a few, just memorize a few and then he would go on to the stage to read everything and at the end of the service, you know, just begin to call the names, what he has heard. Is there a David and you're from, you know, this city, this is your full name, this is your date of birth and when I heard that, I was really surprised. So what is it? There is, it is a cooked up word of knowledge which the Lord is not going to anoint. He does not anoint invitations. He does not anoint things that are fake and made up. He anoints that which is expressed by the Holy Spirit. So just be faithful, serve faithful, no need to put up a show. Last couple, few more, love holds up beliefs and hopes and then yours. So when ministering the gifts of the Holy Spirit, when dealing with difficult situations, sin, failure or wrong intentions, our intention must be that we are bringing that individual to God for God to do the best in his or her life. Look at how Jesus exposed the sin and problem of the Samaritan woman. She was hopeless, she was sad, she was burdened, but after meeting Jesus, the Lord Jesus exposed her sin, said, Hey, you're not really married, so dance with the one who you're living with is not with your husband. But through the end of that whole thing, what happened? She goes back and she says, I have found the one who is the Messiah. The end result was she was in awe of the Messiah and she became the tool to reach out to the entire village. Jesus exposed this person, exposed her problem, but he also let them know that in your hopeless situation, in your feeling of rejection, God can change things for you. So when we are ministering to people, don't bring people down. Our goal is to bring people to Christ, lead them to Christ. And love never fails. Okay, this is the last one, then we'll take a break. Love never fails. The Greek word fails means ekkipto, which means to be driven out of one's cause or to become inefficient.  We'll run it the right way. Walking in love helps us to walk the right path. When we walk in love, we will not be powerless, we will not be dishonored, we will not become useless, but we will have impact and we will have effect upon people that we meet. People will recognize the anointing of God when we walk in love because love never fails us. The God kind of love will bring honor, glory, and make us walk the right path in every area of our life. So this is so wonderful. So when we are ministered or governed by the love of God, we know that we are in the right path and nothing can go wrong because God is with us. So these are so powerful. Paul is exhorting the church and he brings this chapter to a close. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back in 10 minutes. Let's come back at 10.5 and then we'll continue with the class. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad and this session we would look at the statement of retained earning and stockholders equity statement. This topic is covered in introductory accounting course, intermediate accounting and the statement of retained earnings and retained earning concept is covered in advanced accounting. So this is a very important concept for you to understand and I'm going to be approached it from a basic perspective. As always I would like to remind you to connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so. YouTube is where you would need to subscribe. I have 1600 plus actually right now 1700 plus accounting, auditing, finance and tax lectures. This is a list of all my courses. If you like my lectures, please like them, share them, put them in playlist, subscribe, connect with me. If they help you, it means they might help other people so share the wealth. Follow me on Instagram and on my website you will have additional resources such as PowerPoint slides through false multiple choice practice exercises. If you're a CPA candidate, I do have plenty of resources, thousands of CPA questions, exercises, CPA quasi CPA simulation that's going to help you get those extra 10 to 15 points. So check out my website. So let's talk about the statement of retained earning. What would the statement of retained earning looks like? This is what the statement of retained earnings looks like. We will start with the beginning retained earnings and let's assume it's a new company. If this is a new company, we have no retained earning at the beginning of year zero. So when we start, we have no retained earnings and what's going to happen? The company will generate revenues. Let's assume $100,000 of revenues and they will incur expenses to operate the business. Let's assume $60,000 of expenses and they will have a net income of $40,000 for that particular year. So what's going to happen? We started with zero retained earnings because we had no earnings. Then we add net income because we generated net income of $40,000. Then what's going to happen with this $40,000? The company might pay out some of it. So let's assume for the sake of simplicity, this company has a payout ratio of 25%. So they're going to pay 25%, which is $10,000 in dividend and what's not paid in dividend, which is $30,000, the company keeps. So we're going to pay $10,000 in dividend and that's going to be minus $10,000 and the company will keep $30,000. Now this is the ending retained earnings. Now this is year one. Now when we start year two, here's what's going to happen in year two. When we start year two, the beginning retained earnings becomes $30,000. Now remember the ending was $30,000 and year two, the beginning becomes $30,000. Then we add net income or if we incur net loss, we subtract net loss, we subtract dividend, then we have ending retained earnings and ending retained earnings becomes beginning retained earnings. And this is basically what it looks like. For example, this company here, company ABC, they have retained earnings as of December 31st, 2017 of $50,000. This is the beginning of 2018. So notice December 31st, 2019, it's technically January 1st, 2018. Then they incurred net income. They generated net income of $20,000. Then they paid dividend. They paid dividend more than what they generated in net income for that particular year. But they had enough from prior years. Then the ending retained earnings is $30,000. Now when we start, when we prepare our December 31st, 2018 retained earnings, the beginning retained earnings becomes $30,000. Then we add the new net income, subtract the new dividend, then we have the new retained earnings. So this is basically how retained earnings work. So it's very important to understand that retained earnings is a cumulative amount. And if you remember from closing the accounting record, retained earnings is that account that everything is close to all the net income losses dividend is close to. So it's a cumulative over the years of reported net income, minus losses, minus dividend declared since the company started its operation. So every time you think of retained earnings, here's what you should be thinking about mainly. If this is the account retained earnings, this is what it should look like. Net income on the credit, loss on the debit, and dividend on the debit. So those reduces retained earnings and net income increases retained earnings. Are these the only thing that affects retained earnings? No, there are other things that affects retained earnings, but those are the main three activities that affect retained earnings. We have treasury stock losses. If you had a few sold treasury stock at a loss, which we saw in the prior session, it would reduce retained earnings. If there is an error or adjustment, it could reduce, it could increase retained earnings, but those are not the norm. Those are not what we do when we adjust retained earnings. Also retained earnings could be restricted. What does it mean retained earnings restricted? It means we earn the money, but somehow it's restricted. And it could be restricted for two reasons. Either illegal reason, which is most state restrict the amount of treasury stock purchases to the amount of retained earnings. So for example, you cannot buy your treasury stock more than your retained earnings. Buy back your treasury stock. And if you're following the news these days, treasury stock, it's an important topic. Treasury stock is basically the same thing as the president called stock buyback, is when the company buyback their own stock.  How so? You buy your stock. It's like you're buying your own stuff.  You're buying it with the company's money. So buyback is the president saying if we're going to be helping you as a company, you cannot have buyback. You cannot buyback your own stock to make yourself richer. Therefore, in some state, they have a legal restriction in the sense that you cannot buy treasury stock in excess of retained, in excess of your retained earnings, restrict that amount. And you could have also what's important and more relevant, and you see it more, is contractual regulation. Contractual regulation means you went to the bank to borrow money. That's fine. The bank might give you the money, but they might put restriction on you. What type of restriction? The bank might say, look, I'm going to give you money. But to protect myself, your retained earnings, you have to restrict retained earnings. For example, let's go back here. Remember what I told you after the company makes a profit here? If you remember after the company makes a profit, you remember they made a profit of 40,000 for the sake of my example. Let me restructure this example. Remember they made a profit of 40,000 and we said we're going to pay 25% or 10,000 of this retained earnings and keep the remaining 75%, 30,000. Now the bank might say you cannot pay 25%. You can only pay 10%. They'll put restriction on you. 10% means you can only pay 4,000 of your earnings and you have to keep 90,000, which is 36,000. So this is basically a contractual agreement. Now why would the bank do so? The bank would do so to protect themselves. The bank wants to make sure you don't pay out all your earnings in dividend. So they would restrict you in paying dividend. Why? Because they want to protect themselves. How do they protect themselves? Well, if you don't pay it out in dividend, you're going to have the money to pay interest because they want you to pay interest because you have a loan and they want the money back. They want you to pay the loan. So they want you to be able to pay the interest on the loan. So to guarantee that's going to happen, they would restrict you from paying out the earnings that you make from the company. So they put a contractual restriction. Now we looked at basically this is what I called a clean retained earnings statement. Basically simple clean retained earnings. So here's what happens sometimes. Sometimes the company might have an errors or mistakes. Errors or mistakes. So what's going to happen when you have an error from the prior period? So prior period. So from prior year, prior year. So what's going to happen when you have a mistake in the prior year, you cannot go back and change the prior year because the revenues and the expenses are gone. So what's going to happen? This error, it's going to go into retained earnings. So prior period adjustment are corrections of material errors in the past financial statements that result in the change in the beginning retained earnings. What does that mean? Let's assume you understated an expense or you overstated a revenue. Okay, or you overstated an expense or understated a revenue from the prior year. Well, for one reason or another, you made an innocent mistake or you made a mistake on purpose. It doesn't matter. Any of these mistakes from prior year if they are part of the prior year, the prior year is closed out. So the prior year is closed out. So what's going to happen when you make the adjustment? The adjustment is made into retained earnings. So you fix the beginning retained earnings. So let's look at an example to see what this looks like. And this topic is covered much more in intermediate accounting. Let's assume the retained earnings December 31st was 4,700. So this is the proper retained earnings as of last year. Then we find an error. Here's what's the error is cost of land incorrectly expensed net of tax $60 tax benefit net of tax benefit of $60. What does that mean? It means we expensed. So we bought a piece of land and for one reason or another. So we expense 200 net 200 and let's assume we paid cash we paid cash 200. This is what we did when we bought this land. The entry should have been debit land credit cash. So what we did is we expense the land by mistake. Now to fix this, we can't go back and take care of this expense because this expense is basically closed out. But this expense because we had an expense, we had an expense of $200 over reported. What happened is understate retained earnings by 200. So to fix the problem, we overstate retained earnings. So we'll take, we'll start with the normal retained earnings 4,700. We add the 200 because the expenses were overstated by 200. We reported 200 of expenses. Now we have retained earning as adjusted, the proper retained earning 4,900. Then we're back to normal ad net income minus dividend to get to to get to ending retained earning. And basically retained earning follow this base thing B, A, S, E. B is the beginning. A is the addition subtract then ending. So notice beginning plus addition, subtraction and ending that follow this acronym base, base acronym. So hopefully this will help you remember what the statement of retained earnings would look like base. It's a base. It's a very important statement as you will see later on in your accounting study. So don't underestimate understanding this concept. Take a look now at the statement of stockholder equity. The statement of stockholder equity is more inclusive than the statements of retained earnings, which is basically the statement of retained earnings sometime is included as part of stockholders equity. Because remember, when we think of stockholders equity, think of two components, retained earnings and common stock. Common stock and part of common stock is paid in capital. So now we're going to be looking at a statement of retained earnings. So statements of stockholders equity. Sorry, we looked at the statement of retained earnings. So bear in mind that to have a complete picture about this statements of stockholders equity, you need additional notes. So I don't have the notes. So some numbers may not make sense or we may not be able to know exactly what they are. We can speculate, but the purpose is to give you an overview about this statements of stockholders equity. So the statements of stockholders equity, they'll give you the number of shares, common shares, what you started with, the dollar amount, common stock, the beginning retained earnings, other. So this other could be accumulated other comprehensive income could be many things. So we don't know what this other is, but it's other sections of stockholders equity and total equity. So notice total equity, 128,249, the majority is one retained earnings to common stock. So notice retained earnings and common stock are the two main component in stockholders equity. Simply put, what the investors invested and what the company made and retained represent the majority of equity in any particular company. Then the statements of equity will show the changes in these accounts. For example, the company earned 48,351. That's going to increase retained earnings by that much because that income increases retained earnings. Then the company issued more stocks. Now notice here issuing more stocks, they issued 36,531. Notice here it's a negative 913. I don't know why there could be other issues. The company maybe issued them at a loss less than part. I don't know what the issue is. It's negative. Here we have some of the issue in stocks reduced retained earnings. It could be treasury stocks issued at a loss. We really don't know, but don't worry about this. Just know that you will have the details of the changes. So these numbers will have notes accompanying those numbers. Then we repurchase shares. They repurchase 246,496. Notice here the common stock went up. I believe it should have went down rather than go up. Maybe it's a mistake also, but it doesn't matter. Retained earnings went down by repurchasing shares. Maybe they're using a different method rather than the cost of treasury stock. It doesn't matter. And notice other was affected by 784 because notice here it says other. So we really don't know the details for this number, but the point is the statements of stockholder equity will have a detailed of the changes. But those details are not provided on this screen. Then we have cash dividend cash dividend should only reduces retained earnings. Okay. And then we have the ending balance for the number of shares will take the beginning plus the addition minus the subtraction. Then we will have the retained earning ending balance and the other ending balance and total stockholders equity. Basically, if you like this recording, please like it, share it for it in playlist. Visit my website for additional lectures, especially that I have other courses rather than just financial accounting. In the next recording, I would look at equity related ratios. They're not called equity related. I call them equity related such as earnings per share, dividend yield, PE ratio, the book value per share as well. As always, stay safe, study hard for your CPA exam and stay safe during those coronavirus days.


Hello, it's Ken Loach, and I'm speaking from London, and I want to wish you a very successful first conference of Mira 25. And this is a great development, and I'm sure it will be a splendid one. And you have many friends across Europe and across the world who wish you well, particularly since we know you've been through very harsh times when you elected the government to carry out the wishes of the people, and that hope was dashed. And now we all face the same struggles, the struggles against neoliberalism in Europe, where people find it very hard to live the lives of dignity and security, the insecure work, insecure housing, insecure healthcare, poverty, hunger and a feeling of anxiety, well-founded anxiety. And now we face problems across the world of peace, of oppression, of regimes that pursue aggressive foreign policies and we think particularly of the struggles of the people in Palestine and the people of Gaza at this time, as we have done for the past week or so.  So big questions and big responsibilities for those who seek to lead. A paraphrase Gramsci saying the old daughter is dying and the new is yet to be born. Well it's our responsibility, owner's responsibility to be the midwife of that birth. So good luck. It's a big task, but we do our best. Solidarity and good luck.


So, one of these questions is talk about how your work relates influences new art activism like the Degenderettes, and I will jump in and just share that a lot of the works that I do, there's documentation work I did a short on Teresita La Campesina called Wanted Alive in 96. I also did a movie called Viva, Viva 16th in 1994 with Augie Robles, and gender and sexuality are at the forefront for me as a genderqueer person before the concept of genderqueer was out there. My friend Osa was working on a movie, that's how we actually met, Lenore and I have known each other for 30 years, something like that, a long time, and Osa recently shared a photo of me that's on the flyer that Mason used, where I was using lipstick, I just always thought I used lipstick a lot, and sometimes people would ask what is, what's up, or maybe they wouldn't ask, they didn't really say, but how I connect today's gender activism and the Degenderettes in particular to that work, or to that time is that we were really creating our own spaces, we were creating our own identities, and in some cases people like Teresita, Chili D, Virginia, Benavides, we kind of challenged gender in our own ways on a daily basis, and we resisted labels, so I'm going through digitized video of Teresita right now, and I asked her when did she first start doing drag, and she didn't correct me, but her response said I first started dressing up when I was 16, and what she goes on to share is that she is not trans, that she is a man and a woman, and it's really something that I relate to, and I think the Degenderettes, I think what's Mason and the Hormel Center are putting out there in terms of questioning gender, it really relates to me because I think sometimes people really are into the labels and categories and forcing our stories in ways that don't allow us to tell our own stories. Well, those were just some from the audience if you wanted to answer any of those, and then there's some other ones that I have too, either way. Okay, this actually could relate to the Valentines as well. My question here is, how did you, they experience slash overcome or reconcile challenges in the development of subject slash work? In terms of my own work, my body of work that I've developed over the years, one of the strategies that I used when I realized that it was pretty difficult as a woman and as a person of color later as a queer person to get work that I might be interested in doing into quote unquote mainstream galleries, I learned very quickly that for all the talk that I used to hear all the buzzwords about how avant-garde they were, the reality is that there were certain barriers in terms of content that you couldn't get your way into these spaces with a shoehorn. That's just the reality. You could submit as many slides, back in the day there were slides, but it would just be completely ignored. I did manage to get some of my work into juried competitions locally, regionally and around the country. Sometimes I would get some into places that would have a call for artists work that had to do with families, and sometimes I would get into them. But the challenges that I would sometimes be faced or would hear about later is somebody would write in the comments of the books that were laid out particularly in places like in Concord or across the bay somewhere, why did you include this piece? For instance, the piece I showed of John Arbuckle and his then partner who died with her cat, that had to be moved from a place where it was installed. That particular show had to do with Anne Frank. The curator, his intent was to broaden the topic of tolerance. This particular spot, it was like a pop-up gallery kind of place in a shopping center in Corda Madeira. The location of the painting then could be seen through the windows, and there were some objections to its inclusion. So as not to have a lot of pushback, they just moved it to be less visible. I only found out about it when I went to pick up my painting after the show was over and some of the artists saw me coming through with my painting in the parking lot and they said, oh, how did you handle that one? And I had no idea what had happened. Another case was over at, in Concord, there's a, I can't remember the name of the gallery, but it's over in Walnut Creek, that area. And I had a painting, it was a domestic scene of two women in a kitchen. They were partners at the time and they were just, you know, over a kitchen stove. And that was, again, was part of family theme and somebody objected to that as well. So I've had those kinds of things in quote-unquote mainstream venues, but on top of that, I was also getting my work out there through, you know, nonprofit community organizations. I've shown in a number of places all over the Bay Area, South Market Cultural Center, Mission Cultural Center. You know, just about every cultural center in the city. So I've got my work out there that way and the other thing that I began to learn through my politics and grassroots work is to create your own community. You know, so I was part of a number of organizations like the Asian American Woman Artists Association and I was a board member and founding board member of QCC and its president for some 13 years. And so we started reaching out to the cultural centers in the Bay Area, in the city, pulling our resources. Sometimes some of us would have grant expertise or we knew how to put a show together or something like that. Other people had a venue. We were always a virtual cultural center. So those were the kinds of things that we developed to create a network and an infrastructure in a day when you couldn't necessarily get your work out there easily. I think with the question, okay, I like the work and being influenced with the new art and activism. I want to give credit to Natalia Vigil, who's been doing still here. I like thank you to her and Christina Mitra, who started that with her. They both, they started it and I think for five years they did it together and then Christina stepped down. So I was able to participate and still here twice with them and I actually wrote to them, I submitted my work when I was still living in New Mexico, because somebody said you should apply to this. I was like, sounds great. So I applied from New Mexico. They're like, sorry, but we want people who are living here. And I was like, all right, okay. And then when I came back, they again accepted me two times. And thankfully through them, I've been able to connect with them and some younger artists, including Mason and a couple other folks. But it is harder at this time, I'm older, I'm a full-time teacher up in Sacramento. I have a five-year-old son and those two, the son comes first and last and then the job and then have a partner. It's hard to, you know, it's hard to find time to write my own stuff, let alone connect with other people. So I try to run down to the bay when I can, again donate some money. So again, so I wish I could say I had a lot more to list, but thank you to still here. And yeah. Thank you. So I had a number of questions that I had already prepared, but it seems like you kind of answered the first one about activism and your work and how they, are they mutually enriching or how do they inform each other? And so I was going to just skip to the next one and then, okay. So the next question was, often as artists and activists with many identities, we navigate many worlds. This requires a journey through insider and outsider perspectives. Can you say something about this navigation or does this not resonate with you? Yeah. I think, I think as you saw in my slides, I started off with my family's place on 18th Street. And I feel like insider, outsider is, it's like I was born in, I was born in Kaiser, not in the mission, but born in San Francisco. That's true. So I grew up in the mission, but it was a kind of like parallel universes. There's like my family and then there's this whole of the world and it's the whole of the world. We're very insular, very insular. We have so many cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents all in the same house every night for dinner that we didn't, and they kept, and a lot of us were girls. So I think they kept a close eye on us in a way, and we grew up here, and the adults who took care of us, they didn't walk around the world like, yeah, this is my world. That's why I didn't, I didn't really feel that. They were like, be careful. So I feel like that's my first insider, outsider was a family and everybody else. And then there's, again, being queer, it's like, well, I've seen all these, I've seen the neighborhood changing where my uncle Joe used to live on Castle Street and it was just Castle Street, and now it's the Castro. So there is that thing, and then there's class, and then there's academia. And one thing about academia is that as I started going up in the levels, I didn't want to lose my family, and that has to do with probably, you know, my mother dying in my second semester of my first year of college, and I was very close to her family, and I wanted to maintain that closeness, and I wanted to stay in school, but I didn't, I could, I heard, I didn't just, it wasn't just my imagination, but you know, with Richard Rodriguez is one of the Chicanos out there, Mexican Americans who's saying, education and me separate myself. And I knew I didn't want that separation. So I would share what I was learning with my family, and also academia was a weird thing to me. I'm like, wow, I mean, because I went there as a high school student at these summer trips, summer, summer programs, and I remember discovering this thing called the bagels, like, whoa, what's that, you know, and I was like, cream cheese, and I'm like, I don't like cream cheese, I like bagels, but it was the whole of the world, but I knew I didn't want it cut off, and it has taken work. Any other thoughts? I think Vero, Vero Mahano and I had a conversation about a couple of months ago that I think is connected to this in that, like 24th Street, there's the Mission Latino Cultural District that's out now, and, but Vero and I, Vero works at Cap, Mission Neighborhood Center on Cap, and a lot of my work revolves around 16th Street, and like, love, life, death, crime, everything on 16th Street, and we were talking about how they're so different, how 24th Street and 16th Street are so different. And ultimately what she said was, oh, 16th Street is shady. And I was like, what? And she is like, 16th Street is very shady, whereas 24th Street is kind of like more respectable now. And I was like, oh, okay. Yes, 16th Street is shady and it's still shady. And how I relate it to this is that we are outsiders, that I, I can walk on 24th Street, I work Shanti and has an office on 23rd between South Vanessa and Folsom, but I feel more, I'm an outsider when I go to that part of the mission, whereas on 16th Street, they're like, hey, girl, like, where you been? I haven't seen you for a long time. And that's for real, because there's still, a lot of us still live there. Like Mahogany grew up, was raised on 16th Street, and Teresita lived the Mission Hotel at 16th and South Vanessa. And Lulu, who passed away a drag queen, lived around the corner from me. She committed suicide on Valentine's Day in like 88.  And we are outsiders, but we're not outside when we're on 16th Street. Is there anything? Oh, just real briefly, sort of. I was actually kind of having a little flashback because I didn't grow up in the Mission. I grew up on the other side of the city in the Richmond district. And my dad tried to buy a house down the peninsula. And he lost money in the venture because he was basically run out of town before we arrived. That was 1951. And so when, when he decided, OK, we can't, we can't get a house there. He was trying to get the family out of Chinatown. I never lived in Chinatown, but I was born at St. Francis Hospital. We lived kind of near there until I was two. So anyway, he tried in the Richmond district, which in those days was not like it is now. If you, if you know the Richmond district, it's, it's now it's like highly Asian of all sorts, you know. But it took decades to get there. And, and the newer people who moved out there since then have no idea what happened when my dad brought the family out there. I learned as an adult that there were death threats. And when my dad bought the house through a third party so that he could kind of slip in there.  People wouldn't think of that now.  Well, it's not. It never really has been. But back in that day, it was worse and it was very blatant. And unfortunately, some of this stuff is coming out again because, like, for instance, a little segue. I was in Japan town to, to go to a movie and, and I had to use a pass. You know, so I had to talk to a person. I couldn't use their kiosk. Well, I'd been standing around the doors weren't open yet. And some, some guy comes up behind me and he objected. He thought that somehow I had cut in line. There was no line when I came in as a white guy.  You know, in San Francisco, in Japan town of all places, right, but unfortunately in today's climate, it has become prevalent. And I'm hearing things as an adult that I haven't heard since I was in elementary school. So getting back to the question about inside, outside, when I was in the Richmond district growing up, I was always an outsider. But I didn't know that at the time. I thought that was normal. That was my normal, you know. And then as I got a little older, then, then I, you know, learned a little bit more about all these different barriers. I never understood why whenever I went to the supermarket, that's when they went to take a break, right? And then I realized, oh, they just don't want to serve me.  But yet I would go down to the the Fillmore or whatever with my black high school friends and have no problem, none.  And when I was little, my closest friends were Japanese Americans or Jewish, you know, and later I realized that because it was because we had something in common. So as I became an adult, because of my family's influence and my dad, who was very worldly, he was a mathematician and he had friends of all kinds and he worked with them. I learned to have a more open idea of the world. And so I've always felt comfortable moving in different neighborhoods and with different cultures, largely because of my friends. So, you know, that that was just sort of my experience. Thank you. Do you guys want to answer that question about hatefulness? Yeah. OK, it seems like a good segue. Yeah. It's like, how have you coped with hateful, hateful hatefulness, any encouragement for younger folks? Like, this is, yeah, the insider, outsider. And, you know, part of the thing about growing up in the mission and seeing part of it become the Castro, it's been kind of weird because the mission's home. But there are times when, as I started coming out, felt safer in the Castro. But then later it was like, oh, yeah, really, I'm like safer in a way in the Castro. But these big white guys are just bumping into me and kind of run me over here. And I say, you know, I love the mission. It's I love it. And but I have to say it's the place that it's been the hardest at times to be out. I mean, not just in Galeria de la Raza, which just feels like home, you know, but like walking the streets and just being out. And I mean, I've been harassed on the street. I've been chased on the street. And besides, you know, verbally cussed out or yelled at. And I say, and one of the people who yelled at me, I'm so it was a little old lady. And all she she was like, she saw me, she goes, lesbian. It's like she'd been nice.   I don't know.  And it was somebody, you know, it's been so how do we do with it? Most thankfully, I don't know if it's as age or what, but it hasn't happened in a while. But because it has happened multiple times in multiple places and not just here in other places, too. Yeah, it's like we're comfortable shoes, be ready at any. I try to be ready for anything. Really, that's that's real. Try to talk. You know, again, it hasn't happened in a while. So thankfully, I'm a little rusty on it. But I don't think it's never going to happen again. I know it can happen. I know that and I don't like that. That's that's safe right now. I well, I take from like situations where there's openly there's hatefulness that comes out is. Know your worth and find people not necessarily who are like you, but who are who are your partners in crime. And because sometimes that's what it comes down to.  Be fabulous, be brilliant.  And this is not for them. This is not for the way I look at it is I wake up in the morning and this is for me.  And these sisters, these people, my brothers, they're we're here for each other and everybody else, they can do their thing.  This is this is a moment in time where you should own it. And what I learned from my like drag queen friends or my druggy friends or my poet hippie friends is, you know what, live your moment because we may not be here tomorrow and but hopefully we are tomorrow.  And if somebody can't take that level, they should move to Concord. Out of California. This this is it. One thing I want to say is that about the hateful part is that when I moved back from Iowa and I again, I had been to my family had been evicted in 1983. So it wasn't new when I came back from Iowa in 98. But the gentrification in it was just, you know, you know, just I felt I think more empowered. So I felt angrier and and actually I was one of those hateful people on the street and I would see somebody who I thought was an outsider, who I thought was a gentrifier. And I did not physically hurt anybody, but I would purposefully scowl, you know, look upset. And and and I would spit with disgust near them, not at them.  And I and I but I realized is that my hatred, my anger was just hurting me.  And I was like, well, OK, let me go back to writing.  Do you have anything to add? Not really, except that I agree with Kathy, you know, because like the fellow who who had a problem with me being at the Kabuki. I just turned around and said, you have a problem with it. And I just ignored him after that. And there's nothing he could do. You know, because otherwise they're just wasting your energy. Thank you. So we have two more questions that came from the audience. And I'm just going to read them. And then if you have any thoughts on either of them. Just in the last 10 minutes or so. How do you feel you can speak or how do you feel? Or can you speak of the difficulty, if any, in sharing space with queer youth today, for example, with language? And how do you feel like white supremacy slash academia still controls or dominates social slash political agendas regarding LGBTQ communities? What can we do? It's a little easier. So if it's OK, I'll kind of jump in. I worked at Lyric, a lavender youth recreation and information center for about six years. And I guess what I learned there or what I learned in other contexts that I took there and got reinforced was that the oppression that's occurring externally that we're able to make spaces and projects and art that supersede those things. And that in the process, like sometimes people will talk about working toward a revolution and waiting for that revolution for the utopia that we want. And I don't believe in that at all. What I what I think is an act your utopia today. But and and what I learned being at Lyric was be intentional, like talk about your boundaries and talk about what works for you and what we're going to do, how we're going to do it and hold each other accountable that we're and also we deserve high quality things. We deserve high quality programs and art and fabulosity. And that really takes a little bit of extra work. And in the process, our oppressions pop up and we act out against each other. And that's not OK. It's understandable, but it's not OK that we perpetuate those things or that we mimic those systems of oppression. So what I take away is. Acknowledge where people are at what they've experienced and to not let people stay there, that at least not with you in that moment. Like if they're after they're working with you outside of that project, outside of that space, if they need to devolve back into whatever they were right beforehand, that's OK.  And that sometimes even the best of us monsters need a break, some slack need to cry. I was just thinking about Katie Gill-Martin, who runs the Queer Ancestors Project. She's based at SoMarts and and now she's one of the sisters. And I love her when she's in that sort of incarnation, but one time she invited me to come to one of her print workshops where she was, you know, sort of assisting some young people in how to create prints and when she reached out to me, you know, sometimes I forget just how old I am at this point because my mind hasn't changed, you know, I just don't rise up as fast. But but one of the things that I found interesting and I try to sort of in part when I talk to college campus classes and things like that, we don't have all the answers by any stretch. And so it's a learning curve for us as well. But I think one of the things that young people look for is encouragement. You know, they're trying to figure out their own lives and and how they're going to carve out their niche. And I think the thing that resonates the most is that they each have to find their own passion, whatever that is, there's no formula. And if they have a strong interest in something, don't let it go. Because there's a lot of people that we encounter throughout our lives. And we all have, I'm sure, where somebody says, oh, no, you can't do that. You know, that's not what's being done or that's not what's current or whatever. That's not popular or like some people used to say, well, are you doing work, you know, based on your culture or your whatever? Why don't you do this or that if you make more money?  Well, like with my work, that is my universal theme because I come from my own cultural perspective. And so that's what my my subjects are about. They're not about somebody else's lives unless unless we collaborate on a project or whatever. So for young people who are just starting out in in their art production or whatever it is that they're going to to do with their lives, I think it's you just have to encourage them to find that. And it doesn't happen overnight. But also to find people with like minds and interests, because that's where you'll be the strongest. Yeah, one of the earlier questions was, is everything going to be OK? So I kind of answer this together and it's like, well, well, yes and no.  You know, that's that's huge. Our the history of our country is a violent history. It's racist. It's anti women.  It's anti so much. So it's a hard time, definitely. Believe me, I feel bad, like, God, I thought I was going to leave something better and easier for you on younger people. I was like, sorry, but I'm really, you know, I really do feel that. Like, I thought I thought we were progressing forward, even though we're having some steps back. So OK. But the thing is not the thing is, but one thing is we we have the moment. I mean, you know what you're saying, Valentina is right. Is that all we and the North like all we have is ourselves. And and and whoever our people are. And sometimes it's the family we're born into and outsiders. Sometimes it's not our family we're born into and it's other people. But we have I don't want things I don't try to do anything alone. You know, I really try to show in this, you know, seeing different names popping up in places.  Like how I ended. And and and and find those people that you can ask those questions, whatever you need to ask and say, well, you don't know, you know. And instead of sometimes we try to act like we know everything and we don't have any questions and we have just the answers and we're going to do it. And it's great to have goals, but life is not linear, you know, and we make mistakes and we make. And not only do we make mistakes, but sometimes we mess up on purpose. We do bad things, you know, we're human and we have jealousy and anger and pain. And we act out in bad ways. And I say, try to learn from it. Try to learn from it and try to you know, apologize as we need to. You know, ask forgiveness. You know, you may not get it. You may not, you know, and we have to live with it. And I, you know, speaking from experience here and keep doing your art, whatever it is. And I know, believe me, I this book came out 20 years after it should have. And it's I love it what it is. But man, I think about if I had put out an earlier version. Oh, well, can't we can't beat ourselves up forever. So do follow your passion, whatever that is. And writing, dance, painting, walking, gardening, cooking, all of that. Building houses and teach. And you don't have to you don't have to teach in a school. I teach in a community college. I have a lot of friends who teach in a university. And I'm a professor, but I'm more of a teacher. My title is professor, but I'm a teacher. I taught high school. I taught in community arts organizations. And I'm so glad. And I feel like I'm so sorry. I'm such a better teacher now than I was. But I wish I was this good then. But, you know, learn again, learn from it. And and, you know, take time. You know, sometimes we get a work, work, work, work. It's great to work. It's important to work, of course. But and, you know, we've got to live hard, play hard, all that stuff. That's my answer. Thank you. We just have a couple more minutes before the end. But I just wanted to thank you all for coming and talking about your work and your lives. And I didn't really. Yeah. I just remembered I meant to say this at the beginning, but I do have copies of the books if anybody wants to buy it. Yeah. Cool. Any other we need a copy for the library of well, we have missions, salvation missions, but the other one, we've been trying to get it in for like three months. I don't know. We'll figure it out. But anyway, if I can add just one little thing is in terms of maybe the question like, are we going to be OK? And also youth and sort of looking at like, I don't know, a path and just one thing that I'll share is that like to be literal, we're still here. The people who are of the generations like my generation, other generations before me, like we're still here. And the idea that we're these separate islands is not real. And the idea that our projects and that our art and that our work is separate is not true. Instead, what I would say is connect with us that we're not. We're here. And so I do love that people, younger generations, are tapping into history. And then they come up with these weird versions of what happened. Really awesome. Can you give an example? Yes, I can. So I was a part of La Chica Booms walking tour in the mission, displacement tour, which is awesome. And I love La Chica Boom. And what happened was I was a follow up kind of to a walking tour that I co-led through radar productions that was organized by Juliana Lopera. And she's fabulous. And but La Chica Booms walking tour, we had we went to the mission and they were like closed bars. And so my stop was we she did a remix of a clip of Viva 16th. And and we went to like Amelia's and Lexington.  And that's awesome. I don't say that in any bad way at all.  But what she did was she took the clip of Viva 16th, remixed it and put this weird, sad, spooky kumbia song over it and did this dance. And it was really nasty.  Like it's not didactic. It's not it was not like, you know, I'm going to teach you about history. This is nor.   And it was completely awesome. Wow, it was really, really great. And and some of us were like Augie Robles. My sister was there and and Laura's and some others. And we had a great time. It was not at all our history, though. So I mean, it was connected to the site of Esta Noche. Most of the people who were doing that art had never been in Esta Noche. They were too young. And and if they were there, they weren't there in the way that like Esther and I would hang out at La India Bonita. And like so like when we see something like what La Chica Boom did, it's kind of like, OK, so what I would say is do your thing.  And also connect with us because we were here and it's not like people have these narratives that we're all dead or that we're like they sold our mouths shut or we can't make fabulous art anymore.  What was it like? The stories are not linear. They're not clean. But what in the process you will do is actually connect with history and beyond what you're imagining what it was because that's it's cool and trippy and fun, but it's not really connected to what happened at Amelia's or it's not really connected to what happened at different periods of our lives. I think and finally, I think everything is going to be OK. Yes. But I like this connection. Communications will contribute to the conversation. So sometimes it seems like you don't have to know everything. You don't have to be lack of confidence. It's like it's just sometimes our ego gets in the way. OK, and I think and I say that because sometimes people are like too big of ego and sometimes too small of an ego, but it's like just just do it. Just do it, put the ego aside, just do it. And you're going to get the connection and and be part of the conversation. And like you said, like that's that's a great creation. It's not what the original is, but that's that's what we're all doing. We're all doing our own thing. I mean, I remember as to no change, the flying beer bottles. I was there. I would say in terms of like, is it going to be OK? Is a better question is, what am I doing today to make today better? And and that's it. You know, and then do the wake up and do the same thing the next day. And everything else, if we're the world blows up, you can't help that. Or Trump does whatever you can't help that.  Did I laugh? Did I create really great art? Did I help and did I help people on a daily basis? The answer should be yes. Then you're OK. Thank you.


English slang words about school from espressoenglish.net. Today I'll teach you 15 slang words about school and studying.  Then, at the end, try the quiz to review the words and test your knowledge. Number one, ace a test. If you ace a test, it means you get a very good grade. For example, how'd you do on the chemistry test? I aced it. Number two, cram. To cram means to study a lot in a short period of time. For example, are you going to the party tonight? Nah, I have to cram for my history test. Number three, cut class. To cut class means not to go to a class when you're supposed to attend. For example, I'm going to cut math class so that I can finish this project for biology. Okay, I'll tell the professor you're sick. Number four, drop a class. Drop a class means you stop taking that class permanently. For example, I'm really stressed out this semester. I'm thinking of dropping a class. Number five, hit the books. Hit the books means study. For example, I gotta go hit the books. I have a final exam tomorrow. Number six, pop quiz. A pop quiz is a surprise quiz. When the teacher gives the class a quiz without previous warning. For example, we had a pop quiz in philosophy class today. I was completely unprepared. Number seven, flunk. The word flunk is an informal way to say fail, get a grade that is not passing on a test or in a course. For example, I've flunked economics three times. Really? Maybe you should get a tutor. Number eight, slack off.  For example, a lot of students start to slack off near the end of the school year. Number nine, dorm. Dorm is short for dormitory, the place where college students live. For example, how's your dorm? It gets a little noisy on weekends, but in general I like it. Number ten, quad. Quad refers to a rectangular area surrounded by buildings on a college campus. For example, where's Jenny? She's sunbathing out on the quad. Number eleven, freshman fifteen. This expression refers to people gaining weight in the first year of college. Many students, in their first year living at college and away from home, gain up to fifteen pounds of extra weight. We call this the freshman fifteen. For example, I go to the gym every day so that I don't gain the freshman fifteen. The word freshman refers to a first-year student at a college or university. We have specific words for students in each year. So a freshman is a first-year student. This word is used for both men and women. A sophomore is a second-year student. A junior is a third-year student. And a senior is a fourth-year student. These words are actually used for both high school and college. So you can say a high school senior for someone in their fourth year of high school or a college senior for someone in their fourth year of university. Number twelve, full ride. If you have a full ride, it means you have a scholarship that pays for one hundred percent of the education. For example, she got a full ride to the state university thanks to her good grades in high school. Number thirteen, senioritis.  For example, even the best students often get senioritis just before they graduate. Number fourteen, pull an all-nighter. If you pull an all-nighter, it means you stay awake the whole night, usually studying. For example, I had to pull an all-nighter to finish writing my paper for history class. Number fifteen, frat. Frat is short for fraternity, which is a social organization of male college students. For example, my brother joined a frat his first year of college to make new friends. Fraternities are often known for their parties, which are called frat parties. Okay, now try the quiz to test your knowledge of these slang words. Click on the link in the video to go ahead and try it. You can learn hundreds of English slang words in my e-book about slang and informal English. Just click on the link in the video for more information and some free samples.


Hi everybody, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing 1718 Penini Crown Royale basketball eight box half case break random team number one Had a little technology glitch Camera didn't want to function. So we're using our old setup a little bit not as crisp Color balance will work on it before tomorrow, but uh Distance-wise a little bit blurry, but right here. We're in focus. So all the hits and everything will still be in focus guys But we'll we'll work on this and adjust it before tomorrow's breaks release day. So back to the randomizers Here is the break half case break random teams We did a really bird spot where we gave away We were gonna give away one spot for the first 20 spots in this We actually threw it into a filler break pretty quickly. So there was only a five-spot spot straight up Johnson he bought the first five spots. So he automatically actually got the early bird spot also Because we gave away the next 24 spots 12 spots in Chronicles pack 179 and then 12 spots in Chronicles pack 180. So grads Yancy you got your free spot and Here are the teams the Atlanta Hawks down to the Washington Wizards Dice roll here to see how many times we're gonna randomize each list and pair them together Four to six ten times. So one two three four five six seven eight nine and 10th and final time from Yancy down to Jeremy Now we're gonna do ten times on the teams one two three four five six seven eight nine and 10th and final time from the Lakers Down to the Sacramento Kings We will open up a trade window remember this is 2017 18 crown Royale Keep that in mind in regards to trades So Yancy with the Lakers Sean Maddock with the Jazz Robert Runkel with the 76ers Oliver Soria with the Nets Robert Runkel the Pistons Dwayne Hoover with the Thunder Jeremy Port with the Clippers Yancy Yuzan with the Knicks Jeremy Cobb with the Wizards Yancy Yuzan with the Hornets and the Timberwolves Matt McLaughlin with the Grizzlies Yancy Yuzan with the Celtics and the Heat George Cobb with the Toronto Raptors Robert Runkel with the Mavericks Oliver Soria with the Suns Stephen Kendrick with the Bucks Tom Jones the Nuggets Robert Runkel with the Warriors Cavaliers and the Pacers Brian Cowell with the Bulls Robert Runkel with the Rockets Raymond De Jesus with the Pelicans Robert Runkel with the Magic and the Spurs Juan Escobar Pena with the Trailblazers George Cobb with the Hawks Jeremy Port with the Kings So those are the teams and Who respectively everybody has? Let's go ahead and sort this by team names We're doing a half case here. So let's go ahead and switch it over to the break real quick. Here is the case itself 18 basketball crown Royale. Let's go ahead and open it up and figure out which eight boxes we're doing The other eight will be for break number two. So it's left side right side So there's eight on the left and eight on the right See the two stacks of eight Nice roll here to see which one we're gonna do One two three for the left four five six for the right the last the six boxes that we do not do here We'll be for the next break. Good luck and It's a three So we're gonna go packs on the left boxes on left. These boxes here will be for random team number two Jason, can you text in the chat real quick just so I can see if it's working properly? Okay, cool. Thank you. We'll run it on the front here So looks like people are good with sticking with their teams So you'll see right there on the front RT2 Cool. So since there's no talk of trades, we'll go ahead and print and rip So random team two will be in the store probably coming up shortly and here is the final list last spot mojo For Yancey Straight up got him the Boston Celtics Good luck everyone super deep draft class, so Lots of options for lots of teams Yeah, there you go, Yancey Well starting off with one really good rookie Deer and Fox Sacramento Kings That's going to Jeremy Port Anthony Davis of the Pelicans Terrence Ross You got a James Harden Numbered 50 of 99 for the Houston Rockets and Robert Runkle Numbered 23 out of 25 Chris Paul Panini's Choice Awards Houston Rockets as well Rob Runkle Kyle Kuzma patch auto silhouettes to 199 For the Los Angeles Lakers and John C. You son very nice congrats and Tony Bradley relic to 249 for the Utah Jazz and Shawn Maddock My bird Bojan Bogdanovich Julius Irving and Pete Marovitch box to Start with Yanis onto to compo for the Milwaukee Bucks and Stephen Kendrick and Jared Bayless For the Philadelphia 76ers for Robert Runkle numbered 73 of 99 die-cut Hakeem Elijah on to 99 round ball royalty Houston Rockets and Robert Runkle Frank Nidolkina to 199 For the New York Knicks John C. You saw semi-ogeley Patch to 249 rookie jerseys Boston Celtics John C. You saw Jonathan Isaac rookie Orlando Magic Robert Runkle King of the bubble Jamal Murray Josh Jackson CJ McCollum and Bobby Portis for the Chicago Bulls Brian Kapp 13 out of 99 round ball royalty Bob Pettit to 99 For the St. Louis Hawks, which are the Atlanta Hawks George Cobb and Rookie Otto Laurie marketing To 199 Chicago Bulls Brian Cow 93 of 199 and Arellic is Terrence Ferguson to 249 rookie jerseys for the thunder and Dwayne Hoover Drowson Petrovic for the Trail Blazers Go into Juan Escobie, Pena 76 out of 99 power in the paint Patrick Ewing Kyrie Irving 10 out of 25 silhouettes Patch and Otto Boston Celtics Yancy is on last spot mojo Spot he purchased straight up There you go, man. Very nice and Rookie jerseys Derek White to 249 San Antonio Spurs Robert Runkle Not too bad so far. You don't see No, let's keep it going Marie's Harclas for Portland Juan Escobie, Pena 32 out of 99 round ball royalty Gary Peyton to 99 The Sonic which is Oklahoma City Thunder and Dwayne Hoover artists Gilmore to 99 San Antonio Spurs Robert Runkle Relic to 249 Palgo Sol also for the Spurs and Robert Runkle box 6 Markel Foltz Philadelphia 76 with Robert Runkle He should have a nice resurgent year next year in Oklahoma and Orlando, hopefully Seems like he kind of got rid of the yips Vince Carter for the Sacramento Kings Jeremy Port numbered 88 out of 99 and Round ball royalty Ben Wallace for the Detroit Pistons numbered to 99 for Robert Runkle Pachanotto Terrence Ferguson number 2199 Oklahoma City Thunder Dwayne Hoover and Relic Julius Irving 89 of 99 Philadelphia 76ers Robert Runkle box 7 Zack Levine Chicago Bulls Brian Cow numbered 4 out of 99 and Round ball royalty Paul Pierce to 75 for the Boston Celtics Yancy Yuzone Luke Canard patch and auto to 199 for the Detroit Pistons Robert Runkle and J.R. Smith To 249 patch for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Robert Runkle and last box guys. Good luck, everyone See if we can find one of the bigger rookie names in this one for us Member second half of this case will be in the store Kind of up shortly random team number two I Saw Celtics, I was hoping that would be Jason Larry Bird Boston Celtics Yancy Yuzone 36 out of 99 Chris Paul Penny Choice Awards to 75 Houston Rockets Robert Runkle. Yeah, hopefully it stays like that for the case Evan Turner to 25 Otto for the Portland Trailblazers Juan Escobie Pena and Last card Relic Stephen Adams for the Oklahoma City Thunder and Wayne Hoover There you go guys. That was the break It's my stuff in there, especially for the Celtics Nice one for the cow kuzma Silhouettes rookie patched Otto as well Guys that was 2017 to 18 PD me crown Royale basketball eight box half case break random team number one I'm Sean a Jaspies case breaks calm Random team number two second half of this case should be in the store shortly check it out. We'll see you next time. Thanks


Hi everybody, I'm Yuri, I'm creator of Kubernetes global balancing projects that I want to talk about today and What is KGB it is open source projects that is Targeted to solve interesting challenge of global traffic management So it basically makes your applications Globally available and resilient in a situation when you were dealing with a multi cluster Scenario when your Kubernetes clusters are deployed in a geographically dispersed manner so it can be multiple data centers multiple regions So highly distributed environment the main differentiators of the projects of the pro KGB project is that it's Kubernetes native So it's exposed as a gsob crd to control quite challenging global traffic management configuration There is no single point of failure because there is no need for management cluster. So you would deploy KGB next to your workloads We are using DNS protocol that is battle-tested. It's running the internet and Whole setup is distributed by design. We're supporting multiple load-bouncing Strategies like failover, run, robin and geo proximity The whole solution is designed to Solve high impact regional failures and why it is gsob global service load-bouncing solution It's also has a new property of figuring out what is actually happening on your cluster down to the pod status pod scale check granularity So roughly how it works We have A canonical example of KGB setup. We have two clusters deployed in a two different regions region A region B And it can be different data centers. It can be different cloud regions like AWS US Europe or any cloud provider and even hybrid mode whatever environment you need to target KGB is getting installed next to the workloads. So to your workload clusters and I guess there with the main orchestration KGB controller it also Ships within itself for two important components. It's external DNS and core DNS That is dedicated core DNS deployment not related to the standard Kubernetes one What external DNS integration is doing it that automatically configures the zone delegation in your Environment DNS provider so it can be routed to three Azure public DNS and Someone prep solutions cloudflare anything after the zone delegation is configured the DNS Request from the client is going to be automatically forwarded to the core DNS instances that are controlled by a KGB and this core DNS instances are going to response with dynamically crafted DNS responses according to to GSLB strategy and your application health status and last but not least KGB is also continuously monitoring your Associated application status through the ingress and service and pointer rate transitively. So this way KGB can steer The traffic in a global manner to the healthy application So in standard the most straightforward scenario you would have a failover strategy in a and you will pin geographical Tech to region cluster in region a and assuming application is filling there is a KGB will steer the traffic to the healthy cluster whenever The applications getting recovered on our original cluster is it will serve it back so and clusters are Thinking and cross pulling each other. So they are always aware of the status on the neighbor cluster of the status of this Associated application. So basically you can do very interesting global traffic steering failovers one scenario You can do a round robin and also more complex Geographical proximity stuff. So this is quite amount of moving parts controllers Etc. And luckily All these complexity is abstracted away with a single GSLB CRD As you can see the example we have a embedded ingress back there So it's really in great embedded ingress type and highlighted on the slides is a strategy stanza That's exactly the parameters that are controlling global load balancing strategy If you have a bunch of ingresses flying around in your home charts you can use an annotation since that and basically it will ease KGB just will be adoption you can enable the global load balancing for your application just to buy by setting an annotation on a standard ingress and KGB will pick it up and create a CRD for you CR for you the GSLB one. So As I mentioned it can be KGB can operate in virtually any Environment can on-prem cloud hybrid scenario. It's enough to have a KGB It is enough to have a Kubernetes conform at Kubernetes cluster And some form of DNS server Where you can basically configure the zone delegation and for a set of providers we we have this fully automated zone delegation Scenario and here is the list where we have a like a nicely tested set of the environment where you can just plug it in and It will work out of the box. Otherwise It will work with any DNS scenario and the new providers are easy to add Because we are building not from scratch, but we are we are using external DNS community and the set of providers The current project state of CNCF sandbox I plan to apply for and keep it in waiting Level this year. Let's see how it goes. We have a three companies who are Public other earth surrounding KGB in production Via the project via two times on a final list of very nice event CNCF security slam that enabled us to Heavily enhance security posture of the project highly related to that point. We have a Highest CLO monitor score on all the all the metrics We have a diverse set of maintainers up to where it was originally created upbound and catify And we have also very nice set of contributors including millennium bcp Who also both adopters and contributors and recently folks from Petra joint and send some PRs and participated in discussions? So, thank you so much To learn more, please visit website to try KGB locally And in your environment join slack starts in github add yourself to adopters if you're using it And last but not least please join our first ever KGB Contribute us it contributes this Friday at 11 the morning. Thank you so much