We are gathered here today because despite proven benefits of information and communication technology, universal access cannot and will not happen on its own. We'll make the world equal for opportunities. Our message has never been more urgent than right now. Let me therefore strongly encourage each and every one of you to make your voices heard louder and clearer than ever to ensure that broadband is properly recognized as a crucial element of the development process. Established in May 2010 as a joint ITU and UNESCO initiative, the Broadband Commission for Digital Development believes that expanding broadband access in every country is key to accelerating progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals. The Commission is committed to engage in high-level advocacy to promote broadband in developing countries and underserved communities, ensuring that the benefits of broadband are realized in all societies around the globe, regardless of their social and economic standard. 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Welcome back everyone. The sound is fixed. So we can have the questions first and then we will get into our next chapter. Shani, please go ahead. Oh, hi. So the question that I have, I know that you said is blessed the devil can't touch us. Our finances are health. Yes. So what about when believers have been believes for a long time know all this when they get sick and they bring the sickness on themselves like I say cancer or MS or Graves these stuff like that. How do you explain that in terms of because them getting sick. Yes.  Yes. Yes. Yeah. So what we're saying is the spiritual reality is that Satan and his demons cannot touch us. In the earlier chapter when we saw the workings of Satan, the methods of workings, we looked at one particular technique or tactic scheme that uses which is called as trespassing. What is illegal is what he does. So legally he cannot enter. But he tries to enter. So the way we would approach sickness when Satan is trespassing is we can evict him. We can get him out. Now for whatever reason for maybe there's a small opening of some sort in that believer's life due to a false confession or a false belief or some dedication, you know, something. There's some reason why there's an entry point and Satan trespass through it. And I recognize that as a believer, it's very simple.  So we can deal with that like that.  And that brings us awareness that, okay, there is some area in our lives which we still have to firm up. Okay, so does that make sense, Shani? Yes, I guess what you're saying is that if a believer who has faith in different things like that and who gets, because I hear about different pastors who are in terms of faith pastor, different things like that. And so people who get believers who get like these illnesses that are not brought on by themselves is some kind of entry point in their life that they have that allowed it. So what about if somebody got the sickness as a child, like when they're seven or eight, you can't say that a seven or eight year old brought that into their life because they're seven or eight. Okay, so yeah, yes, yes, yes, so I would strongly recommend for you to go and look up a video which we recently did in the mentoring hour and it's titled suffering. Okay, so what are the reasons for suffering that people go through and sickness comes in that category? You see, our understanding is that Satan has trespassed. There can be so many different reasons why Satan trespassed in that particular issue, right? We're not blaming the people. See, the last thing we must do is to say, oh, it's a faith problem. You have a faith problem. You don't have enough faith. We know that in the past in the Christian, in the Christian, what do we call it, like Christian circles or in various movements, people have done that. People have blamed believers for not having enough faith or doing something else that has caused the sickness that has caused the problem in your life, but that's not the right approach. In certain situations, we can clearly tell that, hey, this is the reason why such and such a person is sick, but there can be so many other reasons and sometimes we don't find the reason, Shani, and that's a reality. And for that, I just want to state this scripture. It is in Deuteronomy 29-29 where it says, the secret things belong to the Lord. See, there can be instances where there are godly people very strong in the word to the best of their knowledge and ability they are following God, but something untoward happens in their lives. And we're not able to point to anything and say, oh, it was a faith problem. It was a confession problem. It was this problem. Nothing. We're not able to point to anything and say, hey, what exactly went wrong? Why did this good believer or this pastor experience this in their lives? You see, the Bible also says that there are certain things that Deuteronomy 29-29 says, the secret things belong to the Lord. Sometimes we ask the question, God, why did it happen? Tell me, maybe we want to receive an answer, maybe. There are things that have happened in our lives and we're wondering, how did it happen? How could it happen when I'm in faith? And we may not receive an answer to those questions also because maybe for God, he thinks it's not necessary for you to know. And we need to be okay with that. As children of God, as believers, as human beings, we may not get to know everything and we should be okay with that. My relationship with God should not become weak because I'm not able to understand why this happened in my life. So that is something that we have to develop. Yes, there will be things we won't understand why it happened. But as Deuteronomy 29-29 says, the secret things belong to the Lord. After some time, you just have to let it go. Okay, I'm not able to understand how this could have happened in my life. But God, I let it go. You are still good. You are still faithful.  You will redeem my time, my opportunity, my blessings. You will redeem it. I believe that. So I'm going to forget about the past. I'm going to forget about this thing. Whatever I know from the word, I'll hold on to it and I will keep moving forward. So that's the attitude we need to carry. So to be able to live with the unknown, Shani, that's my point. There are unknowns and our faith should be such that even if there are unknowns, we must be so strong in the Lord where we say, okay, I don't understand, but it's okay. Does that help a bit? Yeah, I guess. I mean, that helps, but I just kind of sometimes wonder about like, you know, if the devil can't touch us in terms of children, why are children like raped and murdered, things like that? Because the devil can't touch us. I think children, I don't know about children cover. I kind of have questions about that too, like, especially if they have parents who are believers. Yeah, yeah. So I think it would be case by case. If we are just trying to explain why it happened to them. And we really have to seek the Lord and then look at how that could have happened. But in a broader understanding, you know, we live in a corrupted world and so certain things happen sometimes even to good believers. Okay, thank you. Yeah, sure. Thank you so much. Kofi, you could go next, please. I think my question has been answered. So thank you. All right. All right. Yeah, glad to hear that. That's wonderful. Yes, yes, Brother Sanjay. Yeah, first I just wanted to add something to what Shanu was sharing about why, in a way it's like, why do bad things happen to good people? And so when you mentioned that we live in a fallen world, and so this is more of a fruit of the fallen nature of man or sin. It's more of a fruit of sin. And we've seen across all over the world, irrespective of where you live or irrespective of from the beginning of time till date, we have seen how sin has been playing out since the beginning of time and how we, if the wages of sin are death, I mean, that speaks volumes. But the fact that we're still alive today is something to be thankful and grateful to God. One thing. The second thing I'd like to just add is like in this world, if there were no consequences for sin, if everything was like very normal and happy, then most people will be diverted and they'll be given to the things of this world. The fact that we see unexplained things happen like sickness, disease, deaths, little children being harmed or people's lives being taken away at a very early age, we see all these things. It's more of a wake-up call for us to turn towards God and turn away from the world. What happens if we don't see these things happening? Our focus will be more into the things of this world. We'll get too distracted. So in a way, it's a wake-up call for everyone. It's a wake-up call and nobody's waking up. In a way, God is screaming out at the top of his voice. This is not our home. This is not where we belong. We belong to another kingdom. We belong to the kingdom of heaven. But yet people are so caught up in this world and caught up in the things of this world that God just has to wait for people to wake up. That's all I wanted to add. Thank you, brother Sanjay. It's true that it's a wake-up call but the world has been like this since the inception. So there's a wake-up call every day since then till today and just to kind of reiterate that God is not causing it to happen or making it happen or pushing the consequences on the world. It's just that there are consequences. Actions have consequences. I can't put my hand in the fire and say, how can it get burnt? That would be a silly question because if anybody does that, the property of the fire is it will burn. There are consequences and we make in this world in that way because Adam and Eve opened the door to sin. I'm not talking about personal sin of every human being known. That sin that came into the world and corrupted the world, that has already happened. That's the consequence. It's so sad that we see sickness, disease, calamity, floods, earthquakes, all kinds of natural disasters. Sometimes we see evil things happening to people. We see wars. We see little children being born with deformities. What did they do to be born like that? We asked the question, how can this happen? That's what I'm saying when I'm saying it's a corrupted world. It's a fallen world. That sin that corrupted, it exists. That is why we are learning about authority. We can exercise our authority and all these things. We can exercise our overcoming power. Whichever is the work of Satan, we do away with it. I do understand that in some situations, we may not see a transformation. Just do what you know to do. The best example that I can think of, I know some parents who have special children. There's a lot of improvement in the children, but still sometimes there are struggles as the kids are growing up. They are not ordinary kids. They can't go to regular schools. There are so many difficulties that the parents are facing. Are they believing God for healing? Are they believing God for the child to get better? Of course, they are very good believers, strong believers, exercising authority, everything. But even then, in such a situation, when you see that the child is needing help, what is the best thing that we can do? We should do what we know to do, to love them, to care for them. Sickness is supposed to be healed. But when somebody is still sick and we don't know why they are sick, what can I do? I can help. I can take care. I can be a blessing. I can do what I know to do. I think as believers, let's do that. I know there are situations where we struggle. If we have authority, why is this still happening? Let's do what we know to do in those situations. Don't stop praying for healing. Don't stop praying for transformation, change, healing. Don't stop. Well, it's not manifesting the way we want it. What can we do? Do what is right. Be a blessing. Speak life, help, support. So that is something we can do. Yes, Shani, please go ahead. Okay, so I just want to make sure, because I know that it's God's will to heal. In the Bible, Jesus healed everybody. So you are saying that even if somebody has been praying for somebody or a child that has been sick for a long time, it is God's will to heal them. But even though they haven't seen the healing manifest, or maybe a little bit to keep just having faith, because eventually one day the person will get healed, because Jesus healed everybody in the Bible. And this God's will to heal all. Is that what you're saying? Yes, that's what I'm saying. Okay, thank you. Yeah, sure. Thank you. All right. Yeah, this is a good class. Interaction is always good, keeps us awake. So really thankful to all of you. Please bring those questions. That's what we learn. Isn't it? We learn, we look, we try to look at things with different perspectives. Okay, makes us also sharper. So, so far we've understood the foundation of our... Yes, yes, Nelson. Nelson has something to ask. Ma'am, through Christ, do we have authority and power? So any specific thing that all testament people have Okay, did they have authority? Right? Yes, so they had authority, but not the kind of authority that we carry. So all authority Jesus gave us, right? Over demons, sickness, and the power of the enemy, after he redeemed us. But before that, did people have authority? You see, in general, yes, people had authority. Now the people of God, you could say, had authority also because of the blessings. God blessed them and gave them, you know, certain... He spoke over their lives. So they had a certain capacity of authority, okay, for victory. But what we would say is, the level of authority wouldn't be like how we have. We believers under the new covenant, under the old covenant to some extent, yes, they could have exercised authority, but not full. Good question. Yeah, thank you. All right. Yes, yes, Shan, please go ahead. Okay, I'm not able to hear you. Could you please unmute? I'm sorry. So I just kind of piggyback. So can you give example in terms of you had authority about how they exercised it? I was kind of not understanding how they exercised their authority in the old testament. So they had authority and how did they exercise? See, I can only think of, I mean, right now, I can think of Jehoshaphat, right? Like Jehoshaphat when they had to go against an enemy army. They worship God, they send the Ark of the Covenant ahead of the, you know, like with praise, they sent the Ark of the Covenant in second chronicles, chapter 20. So that's a way of exercising authority. So what happened? The enemy was overcome because of praise, because of worship. We can look at Joshua, you know, blessed by God, commissioned by God. Here is a man and a people who are marching and the walls come down. That is a symbol of exercising authority. Enemy territory is conquered. So in this manner, Shani, based on the commissioning of God, the blessing of God, we do see victories, isn't it? Okay, you understand now. Yes. Yeah. Yes, Kofi. Yeah, I'll just add to what you just said. I think because of the authority of Jesus Christ, now we, the Gentiles, can also exercise that authority. In the olden days, the Gentiles had no authority to exercise in the name of God. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, that's very true. That's very true. So for the Gentiles, it's only after Jesus gave it to us that the Gentiles can exercise, right?  But today we can also exercise authority because of what Jesus has done. We're all included and that is the powerful reality. Okay, thank you. Yes. Thank you so much. Let's then move on to the next chapter here, which is chapter seven, which helps us understand the realms where we can exercise our authority. Can we exercise authority however we like? Actually, no. There are certain realms where our authority is effective and it works. So we need to understand that. Okay. And that's what we will cover in this chapter. We have seen in history people who have exercised authority and who have seen wonderful, wonderful miracles of God. Now sometimes you read about all these generals of God when we started our course here in fall semester. For the on-campus students, we took us through God's generals and we looked up the lives of people and then we examined their lives very, very realistically. You know, the good things, the bad things and how we can learn from their lives. But when we consider the good part, you know, the way they moved in the authority of God, the way they overcame sickness, disease, we saw this one particular minister of God those days, like today we have, you know, live class and people are sitting in other countries and listening to what is being taught in a different country. So it's all happening today. But when we consider some of these old ministers of God, one particular minister those days, apparently through telegraph, he used to send prayer for healing. So can you imagine, can you imagine? Requests come to the ministry and just one line or a few words, be healed in Jesus' name. Telegraph, okay. But people used to get healed. Can you imagine people exercising authority like that? Amazing miracles, stories of amazing miracles because somebody sent a telegraph, be healed in Jesus' name or something small like that. So we've seen in history people who have used their authority, okay. And I'm not saying we should copy them or it'll work exactly the same way. So you do it the same way.  But they hit the person who's sick, right. But we understand better now that we don't really have to do that to be violent against a human being because they are sick or they are demon possessed. We should not do that, okay. So there are all these things that we can look at but the key is authority was exercised. Many real stories. One particular minister of God I remember and I just cannot forget. I used to listen to... His books have been read out by someone. He was not a great writer. So they've been read out. Like the version... Someone else wrote the book, the stories and it's been read out. So I used to listen to it again and again and again. All the miracles. So one miracle goes something like he went to a home and a child was very, very sick and he was a man of faith. So he said, don't worry, we'll pray. So when he started praying he felt that he needs to pray alone. We wouldn't recommend all this. So I'm not telling you to do this. Please, before I state the story I'm telling you.   That was the situation.  Can you imagine?  What will happen tomorrow? So crazy, isn't it? But you were such a man of faith he didn't give up.  In the morning the child was fully healed alive he gave the child to his parents and came back. And his ministry is marked by resurrection of the dead. Good number of resurrections in his ministry. How is that possible? We ask. All these are real stories in the past. Some of which have many witnesses and some of which have been verified. People were exercising authority like this. We may have our own stories from our families, from our churches where people have exercised authority and it is possible to see victory over sickness disease demons and all of that. So the question is can we do that? Yes, of course we can do it. But we have to understand where that authority works and where that authority will not work. That will also be helpful when we exercise our authority. So there are these stories and I would just encourage us to go back to some of these stories from history and just listen listen and see what experiences people have had what was right, what was not right how could we do that better so that we too can work in the authority and if you are not the kind who wants to read those stories so many instances Jesus healing the sick you know Jesus casting out demons, he is our ultimate pattern our example. So repeat, repeat, keep reading keep reading, keep reading Jesus healing Jesus coming the storm Jesus doing this, multiplying the bread the supernatural works he took authority and it worked in his life. So today the expectation that we have to build is I can also see God's authority work through my life and it will help to understand where it works so the first one is our authority works against Satan and all his demons and we have already you know talked a lot about it right we can exercise our authority against demons but some other points that we want to make right now one is to not become very demon conscious ok don't become very demon conscious exercising authority against demons is a good thing but you know when we start crediting Satan and demons to everything that is going wrong for example if you take a little child let's take a 3 year old child ok and the child is so naughty the child is destroying everything in the house and pushing things around and doing all these things would it be right for us to say oh this kid is demon possessed the demon of disruption is working in this 3 year old child what would you say to a statement like that then why is the child even doing all these works mischief why is this child doing all these works must be a demon a demon is behind the activities of this child it's so unreasonable to say that it's a 3 year old I mean this is a 3 year old child you can't expect anything else from a 3 year old child so the point is let's see not everything is a demon when we become demon conscious then what happens we start blaming demons for everything the bulk got fused oh it must be a demon the demon doesn't want me to study bulk is gone I'll cast it out in jesus name please bulk just change the bulk that's all so that way it's when we become so demon conscious that we'll see a demon in everything that's not a good place to be that's actually wrong because we have gone off balance we've become very demon conscious and we are seeing a demon in every situation so yes cast out let's cast out demons we know that Jesus said you will trample on serpents and scorpions nothing by any means shall harm you so we have authority over demons but I should not go trying to cast out demons that don't exist okay so that's the point so when I'm exercising my authority against demons I've got to be I've got to gauge is it really a demon if it's a demon try to cast it out if there is no demon then fix the situation the way it should be fixed okay so that is how we would do this so all all believers can cast out demons but firstly we've got to identify that there is a demon now what do demons do or what are some of the demonic works are sicknesses diseases because we see Jesus working against this isn't it so Jesus opposed his enemy satan and all the works of the enemy whenever he saw sickness disease what did Jesus do he healed okay he passed out demons obviously Jesus is working against his enemy satan and we know scriptures tell us in one John chapter 3 verse 8 that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil so Jesus is destroying sickness and disease where is sickness and disease from simple maths this is equal to that that is equal to this what is equal to what where is sickness and disease from satan okay so sickness and disease is from satan so whenever we say things like God has given the sickness so that I can become better or God has given the sickness so that I can become mature you don't find any basis to that in scripture how can God who takes away sickness also give sickness it wouldn't make sense right like God has to decide either you give it or you take it we notice him only taking it away how can we say that God is giving the sickness so that I can become more mature I can get more understanding I can have a closer walk with the Lord that does not have basis God does not give sickness and disease okay more about sickness disease I would refer you to one book which again you know has written ministering healing and deliverance in detail it is there the basis of our trust in God our faith in God that he is the healer how can we say that does God always want to heal answer is yes it's explained in the book just that we don't have time to get into this so point again that we are making is sickness disease are demonic works so we can take authority over demonic works what what did we say earlier firstly identify what is demonic everything is not demonic after we identify then go against it then we are saying sickness and disease is demonic works okay then situations there can be certain situations where Satan is trying to slow us down he's trying to hinder us he's trying to cause confusion he's trying to cause you know some form of disturbances and quarrels many different things where things are disorderly that also can be caused by Satan because it's working against the purposes of God what God wants to do obviously Satan will do opposite to that he's bringing delay and trying to stop it then we could see influences of demons in many aspects so firstly in the lives of individuals people so when we are ministering to people and we see some demonic influence in their lives I have the authority to to destroy that okay I can either cast it out or bind it or you know declare the word tear it down so how to help people that we will see later but broadly now demonic works we said sickness disease in circumstances it can be influences over people that also we can take authority over and we can destroy the works of the devil then we have world systems world systems means political system business system we we've already discussed this right when we see influences we can pray we can make declarations or we can do certain things that will change that system and you know make it a more godly system so we can exercise our authority in that area maybe take up for example just I'm just saying take up entertainment entertainment industry these days there's so much happening not I mean television is gone nobody even looks at the television it's all about you know entertainment on demand so people are watching YouTube and Netflix and all these things but we see so many ungodly things ungodly standards we see things that are influencing people in the wrong way then when we identify these things we recognize it's not from God how do we overcome people pray that entertainment will become cleaner that it will have godly influence yes so we can pray we can declare we can also have people godly people go into that field imagine if people start coming up with better scripts okay stories that are filled with hope stories that are telling people the right information what to do then it comes to education relationships marriage career it will be such a blessing if gods gods power can take over the arena of entertainment it's like that so every arena even business and I stated politics entertainment arts okay if there are pictures that people create or you know art pieces that people create that is influenced by the spirit of God it will bring healing it will bring blessing hope to people so in all these ways we as believers can exercise authority okay so there are many different ways in which we can actually make it happen but the point is we have to influence so all of us may be called in different fields maybe some of you are in the field of music some of you are in some other field but exercise your authority to whatever capacity and make a difference so we find that godly people in ages past have influenced their generation and you know their their situation for example if you take Joseph okay in the bible there was a famine do you all know that story yes of course so think about it there is a huge famine and nations of people will die if there is no food but the leadership of Joseph we read how god gave him wisdom in the season of plenty learn to store properly in the season of lack give it distribute it properly so people from other nations started coming to Egypt because of Joseph's influence isn't it so what does that tell us there is a circumstance caused by Satan which is you know famine and death in people's lives but a child of god is exercising authority doing the right thing and it saved so many lives so you could even say that Joseph was influencing the political realm of his days like that there are many examples men and women of god even under the old covenant people like Moses the way he led the people he is so much to learn from Moses's leadership Moses's relationship with god so we could learn from him Daniel Daniel was living in a lot of I have especially heard young people say pastor you don't understand we live in a very difficult time don't tell me because Daniel also lived in a very difficult time so it's it's the same actually the world around us has not changed it's putting pressure it's you know pushing us in the wrong direction but if a man like Daniel could stand up for god in Babylon we can stand up for god wherever we are so the point is there are people who have exercised authority in different capacities to influence even world systems in positions of influence they were there they made it happen they lived for god they made a change so we can learn from all these people there are many names I am not going to go over all of them so we can exercise our authority over systems then of course regions in spiritual warfare we will learn about it and we also touched on it we can influence or we can overcome the occult and the demonic world the expressions of the demonic we can overcome doctrines of demons the bible says there will be many teachings that will be birthed from it will not be from god it will be from the demonic realm so they are called as doctrines of demons so we can overcome that how do we overcome a false teaching how do we overcome a false teaching exactly so we should speak the truth speak it more speak it loud so the more we speak the truth of god what happens everyone will come to know that what is being spoken otherwise is a lie so it's as simple as that just teach the truth of god's word in the right way when we keep doing that automatically people will understand that the other things that are being said are wrong they are false so doctrines of demons there could also be people who are known as messengers of satan the bible says there will be so called people who are spreading the word but it will be all false teaching not giving glory to jesus and untruth so even such people we can overcome by our authority so the demonic world we can overcome sicknesses diseases we can overcome circumstances situations we've seen that and even natural elements I know there's a question on the online from one of the online students but I'll finish this please and then we can get to the question so when we say we have authority over natural elements jesus said that he who believes in me the works I do he will also and greater works than these he will do because I go to my father so jesus told us that all of us we will do greater works okay greater works then jesus do great works then now jesus is saying that we will do greater works what is the meaning of that he already did great works and he's saying we will do greater works what jesus is trying to say here is I believe that of course jesus can he's done the greatest of all works but I think because he had he was on the earth only for a short while we can do more in the sense we can do more in the quantity of it that's true yes yes excellent thank you Warren so that's what it means jesus already did many mighty things now we're not really saying we we will do something more exceptional but in terms of quantity we may do more than jesus because his ministry anath was only three three and a half years and it's also possible that we do some things which are unique for example in jesus's times they probably did not have surgeries where metals were inserted into the body but today we have and we have testimonies of people who say oh my metal turned into bone right how can that happen it's amazing creative miracles like that we talk about it today because we have such medical practices right and and so some unique things could also happen in our times which was probably not existing in the times of jesus so that is what greater works is all about now talking about natural elements we know jesus calmed the storm he spoke to the storm he said peace be still and the storm calmed down other times when jesus interacted with nature is the fig tree he spoke to the fig tree he cursed the fig tree and it withered away jesus walked on the water so all this is like amazing how can this happen normally it never happens but supernaturally these things took place there was a coin found in a fish's mouth he told his disciples ok we will pay taxes go collect it so they did that or the multiplying of food ok where bread fish was distributed and a little quantity became a large quantity and it actually met the need of the hungry people so god demonstrated his supernatural power in this way so can we do that can we speak to nature can we speak to the rain can we speak to the winds can we maybe walk on water everything is possible but in a time when you know it is required ok so you see just because let's say jesus walked on water we don't see that he was only transporting himself on water everywhere he still went on a boat or he walked to places or think about this you know he broke bread and multiplied food he didn't tell his disciples this is a great idea why don't we have bakeries we will just sit and multiply food you go distribute it make money let's all make some money ok some godly bakery or supernatural bakery jesus never did it everyday he did it like a one off thing or whenever required because at that point it was necessary so today as a believer if I say I am not going to cook just get me bread get me or whatever get me roti and meat I will sit and multiply it all of you have to pray for me if I do that because it won't work there are natural laws what are the natural laws we have to wake up and do our stuff everyday but if there is some kind of let's say a crisis or a situation where god wants to intervene supernaturally that's when we can expect such miracles but otherwise the natural law keeps happening we cannot do these things randomly or cleaning the house I think I already gave that example like we could say I am not going to clean my house let the angels come and clean the house everyday ok god please you assign angels angels will be like we have better work to do than cleaning houses we have to do it because we are here and you know we experience just the normal way of how things happen you know how things become disorderly you have to back to order and learn to do it the natural way so when it comes to engaging with natural elements as believers it's not like we can look at these examples and say we are going to do it all the time it won't work only if it is required in that situation we can trust in the power of god and such things can take place so alright let's go to the question now we have a couple of minutes left Warren yes I wanted to ask I mean as you've explained so Jesus said we can do greater things than he did we have the ability the authority to do that but there are times when I met some you know men and women of god who specialize in only certain gifts like which is mentioned in Mark you know when it says you know some will be apostles some will be prophets so how does that tie in because I know there are some people who are very good in the gift of prophecy and you know that's what they do but they don't have they're not experienced like healing or that sort of thing okay sure yeah thank you Warren so actually there are at least two questions in what you asked so first Corinthians 1228 is that passage that you pointed to where it says God has given some in the church first apostles, second prophets teachers, workers of miracles so one is about I think the I am assuming you are asking about the 5 fold ministry offices and the graces that God gives people it is true that God gives certain graces to people based on their call so based on our call there is a grace so Ephesians 4 7 it says the grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift so based on the calling the gift will operate so let's say for example somebody who is called in the office of an evangelist we may see miracles and healings take place because that's how people will come to Christ so there may be more miracles in the case of an evangelist as compared to let's say in the case of a prophet because in the case of a prophet I mean this is just for understanding I am not saying that this is how it is but in the case of a prophet maybe there is more grace to prophesy to speak the prophetic word compared to do other things but if you look at a pastor the gift of God, the gift of Christ over a pastor's life is to be able to nurture to be able to shepherd, to be able to raise up leaders, build them up so the grace is according the gift is according to the grace so what in in short that's what I would say did that answer your question? sorry yes thank you very much ok great yes alright thank you thank you everyone so we will stop here and we shall pick up in the next class so have a good week and God bless you all thank you so much


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Sometimes in life we can be quick to jump the gun We can be quick to make Decisions sometimes based off of emotions Sometimes based off of just how we feel in in that current moment without really thinking things through completely Now I'm not saying that was the case with one David Najoku, but it is one possibility Because David Najoku he and his agent Rose and house they went back On there wanting to be traded so David Najoku apparently no longer wants to be traded He tweeted just yesterday that I'm all in Cleveland and it's time to work and Drew Rosenhaus said that That David Najoku has some good meetings with Andrew Berry who is the Browns GM And some others and he decided to give the team his full commitment right now and then go from there so the trade request is officially off the table and It could have even been one of those things where they let him know like a um, no No, even though Drew Rosenhaus he got a lot of pull man. If Drew Rosenhaus wants somebody traded then they're gonna be traded But one of my guys who um, he actually said that he feels like he doesn't even think that David Najoku ever wanted to be traded He said he felt like with David Najoku He thinks that this was just something to see exactly what his role was gonna be and where he stood with the team So who knows man, but he is definitely Because it's gotten talked about so often this offseason with with Kevin Stafansky and how much he loves the tight ends and how much he values the tight ends And he uses so many different two tight end sets. So with that being said David Najoku is definitely going to be Part of Cleveland Brown's plans now, of course, he's not gonna be the starter Because money talks, but if it's anything like the Raven situation because you know with the Ravens They definitely use their tight ends a lot. Obviously Mark Andrews He ate the most he was their starter, but Nick Boyle He also ate a little bit too now and he was out there on the field a lot now I know a lot of a lot of Browns fans have told me so much Ever since this whole David Najoku trade thing first came about they say engraving This dude cannot block. He has struggled catching. We're just waiting to see what's gonna be so special about David Najoku Because we all know he got speed We all know he got some speed and he can make some big plays after the catch But you got to be able to catch the ball in the first place But blocking is has been the the biggest problem for David Najoku and that's what a lot of Browns frustration is So with Austin Hooper, I'm not familiar with how his blocking is but with David Najoku if he's just going to be the secondary tight end Well, even as a secondary tight end, you will want to have somebody that is a good blocker But you would just have to hope that with Kevin Stefansky and his system and his scheme and just the training in the coaches That they can coach David Najoku up to where he does become A better blocker and if he can become a better blocker Then that'll serve his purpose as that sort of number two tight end or if they go like one a one b Either way, he's gonna be involved in this offense. I mean, you already saw Baker Mayfield He posted this the short clip of the Browns posted that short clip of him showing off his new footwork for the team again Kevin Stefansky already implementing everything as this season goes or as this off Season goes, excuse me. So that'll be good for for David Najoku as his role it is gonna decrease a little bit But he's still gonna have a significant role nonetheless and also just in some other Browns news Jarvis Landry and if I was a Browns fan, I wouldn't freak out about this at all. It is not super early But it's still pretty early Jarvis Landry got put on the physically unable to perform list So if he started the regular season on a physically unable to perform list Then he would have to miss at least six weeks and then after those six weeks was up He would either have to be activated to the active roster or he would have to be put on injury reserve But he couldn't stay on a physically unable to perform this but he has a month left before the season starts He had the offseason surgery. Of course, they said it went good He's on time. He's on a timetable to come back by the regular season. So All you got to do once he's healed up ready to pass the physical pass the physical boom comes off the list done So I expect him to be back by the regular season and I didn't know I think Mary K. Cabbage She tweeted out that he he has not missed a game in six seasons something like that I'm like, oh, okay. That's that's great. That's great But of course, you know him him and Odell Beckham Junior last year They were banged up throughout the entire year But they still put in work both of them still put in work So both of them are gonna be very they're gonna be vital to this new system Especially with both of those two being the veterans on the team They are going to it's gonna be up to them They're a lot of other receivers on the team are gonna look to them as leaders They're gonna look to them like hey, oh, they'll Beckham Junior. Oh, he's getting it. Okay. Let me get it, too Oh, Jarvis juice is getting it. Okay, you know what? Let me get it, too Because when you have a new a new system that's coming over especially in a time like this the veterans are gonna be looked to more than ever now Because they got a shoulder younger guys like hey, this is what he's supposed to do Hey, that's what you're not supposed to do and so on and so forth. But anyway That is what it is with David Najoku He said hey, I'm all in and I ain't going nowhere no more So like David Najoku no longer wants to be with the Cleveland Browns I'm out


Well, you may not be able to read everything perfectly there. Anyway, the talk I prepared may seem too similar to what Jardar just told you, but I want to give a different point of view. Here it comes. Well, I have to admit that due to technical problems, this is not free software. It's bound to have problems. It's much better quality, but then you couldn't record it on video, so that's the reason we are using this video cable here. Okay, well, not to worry, let's get started. But the problem here is the lack of free hardware. Yeah. Now that we're stopping here, it's not here at the moment, so... Okay, well, so... You may have to... This machine likes to go to sleep. But anyway... After 10 seconds. Anyway, what I want to talk about is why this is more a social movement than a technical one. I mean, the result we see of free software is that we have a technically superior system for technical users, and well, it's time more for all kinds of users. Okay, I want my presentation. Okay, let's start with definitions. So, what is free software? Well, in order to understand that, we need to talk about what software is. Software is knowledge. I mean, any program is just a series of steps you need to take from a known starting point to a known desired ending point. And well, yes, the relations may be too complex, and it's not just one algorithm or one set of algorithms. A program is much more complex, but it can be reduced to a series of algorithms pasted together with some user interaction. So, software is knowledge. It's knowing how to move between a starting and an ending point. Knowledge is information, and information is science. So, what I'm talking here is that software is like science. So, software production has been shifted from being a production of knowledge to becoming a production of a commercial product. And that's what I think has got us to the wrong direction. So, let's first assume that writing software is like writing science, where different groups specialize in thinking in our ways, but anyway. Now, about freedom. Let's talk not only about a software product or a program, but here we're talking about societies. We're talking about even living organisms. Freedom is also determination. If I am a free person, I know that I can leave you here and nobody will come with the police after me. Yes? Well, maybe so. A program that has auto-determination may grow the way it wants to grow. Yes? And it will lead to evolution. Remember what is evolution? Arbitrary changes enter as species, and the best changes survive. So, my program may be forked. I mean, two people may take my program and make it grow in different directions. So, we have in the end two different programs that compete with each other or that collaborate with each other. And that's not bad. Well, maybe one of them will die on the way forward, but maybe both will survive. And well, that's natural selection. Yep. And cross-polinization means we have multiple sources of new information coming into a program. I mean, or into a project or anything. For example, we at Debian, well, we know what we're doing. Trust me, please. Really. But we still, we get information from other projects. I mean, there's not much I may say that I like about Fedora. But we may learn something from them. For example, giving a coherent experience to the end user brings more users in. So, if we want more users in, maybe we want to have a coherent view for them. Yep. Different projects will learn from each other. And of course, science has always been like this. Science has always been free. Yep. 50 years ago, the scientific process, well, it was simple. A scientist or a group of scientists researches on a subject. Which subject will, either something he cares about, if he like say, Socrates has the resources to, I mean, he comes from a good family and has money, or he got it from, I don't know how to translate to English, but they understand the word is similar in many languages. Mesenas, a sponsor, someone, there's someone who's not a scientist, but this is interesting in getting more knowledge processed. Or maybe he's working for an institution, like most people are today in a university. Or maybe for a monarch. Many monarchs sponsored science through time. Yep. And well, he works on this project for a couple of years, then he delivers the project, and he's paid for the time he invested. I mean, he's not just working for free, but if he is, well, it's his right also. But whatever he publishes becomes the property of everybody, the property of mankind. Anybody can now build on what was discovered 3,000 years ago. Yep. Of course, if I want to build over somebody's work, I have to credit him. I have to say, well, thanks for Aristotle for discovering that volumes in water move the liquid out and blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. So, well, Isaac Newton said this phrase that is very appropriate to what we're doing now. It's not that I'm a very tall man. It's not that I see further than any of you. It's that I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. And by saying that, well, he become part of the giant as well. So we're growing. But what... Sorry, I have a bit of short throat. Why am I saying that this happened until more or less 50 years ago? Well, first because of corporativism. Big corporations, big companies now have too much power. They have enough power to buy governments, to change laws, to push the direction of mankind. Burning coffee. To push the development of mankind into something that just generates more money for them. Now, we have laws such as the patent law or the copyright law, which were originally created to help the lonely inventor be able to stand up to the big corporations and not have a big disadvantage with them. But they have been twisted and perverted and well, now both laws are against the lonely inventor and work for the big companies. We have a transition of the patented process to absurd. Patented process is, well, a patent is a legal monopoly given to the inventor of something. I mean, if I make up a way of drinking coffee without burning my throat, okay, then I can sell it to you. But, of course, it will probably be some kind of apparatus. Some mechanical artifact that covers my throat and gets it down to my stomach. So I will wear it, but I wouldn't know this. But, of course, I have only limited resources. I have two hands and no money. If you have a big company, then you will start mass-producing them and drag me out of business. I can get a patent. The patent allows me to charge you if I want to give you permission to use it. But in the beginning it was a good idea, maybe 400 years ago, but it has become stupid. For example, the USPTO 59060411 granted to Peri-Hartman and other people say that it granted them in the year 2000 a patent to buy over a communications network. Well, first, I have bought over communications networks, I mean, over internet specifically, since 1996 or 1997. So this patent should not have been awarded as its prior art. All other people have done that. Second, it's too broad. Maybe in 1980 or something, I bought a pizza over the phone. That's a communications network. Maybe I took a bus to the store and bought something there. I used the communications network as well there. John Keough was awarded in 2001, if I'm not wrong, a patent for a circular device and apparatus for the facilitation of transport. In Australia, you must pay him if you want to use a wheel. In Mexico, we have a popular dish called cochinita pibil. It's very good. I would like to suggest you to try it. But since 1993, the process for making cochinita pibil is patented as well. And well, it's not that they're granting the patents to the first inventor who comes around and gives it, but we now have companies who devote all the time, that only exist to manage a portfolio of patents so they can charge others. And there are companies that only hire lawyers. I happen to have some lawyer friends, but other than that, we often regard them as the lowest life form. And we have so many patents nowadays that it's impossible to research them all while working on a project. We have millions of them. And I can assure you any project breaks many patents. Well, I'm more or less skipping the explanation here. Copyright has become eternal. I mean copyright was originally for 28 years. Now it's for the natural life term of the person plus 70 years. So we cannot just use somebody else's ideas even after he's dead. And we know all talk about intellectual property. Well, that's a very strange idea that brings together three concepts that have very little to do with each other. So I suggest you don't use the term intellectual property. Know what you're talking about because I don't think there can be any intellectual property. I mean, knowledge doesn't have an owner. Okay, so that leads us to the world today. What happens here? Well, science is health hostage. On one side, well, we are all very happy here because we won a battle, but there's still a lot of work going on in many, many other countries because there's an international discussion regarding if you can patent not an industrial process, but a mathematical one or you can patent even an idea. Not even an algorithm, just an idea that's on the air. In Europe, less than one week ago in the whole community, well, union, no. It's been approved that patents will not be effective for non-industrial related ideas. I don't have the details yet. Someone else will surely explain soon. For example, we have a very important case. You'll remember some years ago there was a lot of talk about the race to get to the human genome sequencing. We now have the human genoma fully sequenced and the leader behind the main effort was John Solston from Sander Center. But he was not, of course, the only one doing that. He was competing with other teams that wanted to have it differently. So one of the other teams was Celera Genomics. Celera Genomics wanted to patent the human genome. So if they had it their way and tomorrow I want to have a child, I will have to pay them because I'm using very intellectual property. Yes? But the thing is, if I patent the result of my research and someone else just translates it into code, well, I am not getting a patent. He is. Because patents are only for tangible works. Someone said that code is tangible. I still don't know why. But you can patent a program already made. You cannot patent something that's expressed in terms of, well, mathematical language. Well, I'm skipping here a little bit. This I already talked about. Okay. So let's get started on our talk. What is free software? Free software is the software that keeps freedom. It's software that keeps knowledge characteristics. That lets us claim back knowledge. That lets us continue working, continue developing humanity as we did up to 50 years ago. And well, many of us are in this movement not because we want a superior operating system or because we are technofreaks. We are also. But we want freedom. We want mankind to continue advancing even after we're gone. And this is the only way to claim it is back. Now, being a critic, I know Geltar already said this, but free software is the software that's assuring us freedom of use for any conceivable use. Freedom of learning. The only way I can learn how a program is implemented is by looking at its code and understanding each of its parts. Freedom of improvement. If a program works wrongly, well, I can make it better. Freedom of redistribution. I mean, I can share my knowledge with my friends. Okay, this is completely covered by him. Actually, could you go back to the slide? Of course. I think I can go back to the slide. Okay. Yeah, to tie this into your theme of science and the way scientific knowledge is disseminated, we can even think of these freedoms as like being freedom to observe, freedom to learn, freedom to experiment, and then the last point, freedom to teach. Yes, very important. Because we don't redistribute just to repeat. Okay, repeat. Well, I was going to let you tell the people, but you're the leader. Oh. Anybody?  Well, here's Brandon. Okay, I was just going to make the observation to tie these points in. I mean, we often talk about the four freedoms. For those who aren't familiar, these freedoms are from the essay by Richard Stallone of the Free Software Foundation titled something like The Four Freedoms of Free Software. And we often speak in terms of these exact verbs. You know, use, learn, improve, and redistribute. But in Gunnar's theme of scientific knowledge and research and dissemination of learning, I think there's another way to look at it. These are the same activities, but we can think of them as observing, that's usage, experimenting, improvement, and freedom of redistribution would be teaching, which is the counterpart of learning. You learn from reading the source code, but if you can't share your work, you're not able to provide the knowledge that you've acquired in a form that is easy for another person to pick up and adapt. So I think there's an educational angle in here with the scientific part. Sorry, I talked way too long. No, of course you. Now, going a bit further down, Brandon's path. Well, yes. We're quite strict on what we consider free software. We demand this for freedoms from everything we are including in the VN. For example, well, I haven't seen if the new Solaris license, I'm not just familiar with it, but I've read through Java's license or things like that. Son has a quite ambivalent position regarding free software. They say they like free software, but it's not exactly free. So that's exactly what they don't allow us. They have this thing called a son community source license. It says, well, once you're a member of the community, I mean, once you accept our license, you can learn and share and improve and modify and redistribute to anybody who has also assigned to be part of the community. So we cannot just go to an open forum and teach. Okay, this was covered by Intel Air. Okay, well, free software, actually most of us live off free software. What we do is free software, that's it, and we charge for it. There's nothing wrong with that. It's the most natural thing to do because as I told you before, the scientific process is that the researcher works on something, then gets paid and publishes. So, well, I also care for my time. My time is also valuable. So if I am developing something, I expect to be paid for it. Even I can even just get paid for telling oh, the solution for you is to use postfix. That's 100 euros. See? Okay, now a couple of last points. As a developer why do I want to not only to ask, but to really prefer for my development to a client to be free software? Well, first of all I know this is a country much more legal and much more organized than where I live in. But this will make even more sense here. First of all, I want the ability to use the code I've written before in my new developments. That will save me the development time that will reduce cost for the client because instead of working for six months really doing what I already did, I'll only work two months adapting it to the current needs. And if you're not developing software explicitly free then you don't have the right to use what you gave to one client to another one. Peer review. I can legally give any of you a copy of my code and tell you well, please can you help me solve this problem? Because I can share this code with anyone. And the way we all work is by having peer review. By having other people look at our stuff. Usually even peer review means that someone will say what you're doing is already implemented in this project. The ability to collaborate with our past works in larger projects. Well, first of all I want to collaborate in larger projects because I want to help the project and help the world have a wider knowledge of itself. But on the other side I am also a selfish person. So if I contribute to an important project I will get recognition. By having more recognition I will be invited to contribute in larger projects which will give me more recognition. And that will become well maybe a DPL. And well it also encourages good programming practices. You know the three main virtues of a programmer. A great programmer is impatient, lazy and hubris. I mean, he thinks he's the best. This was said by Larry Wall, the author of Bell.  I want to be able just to copy a block of code from one place to another and it should work. Then if I am a good programmer I will isolate my functions so I can just copy them over. But then again looking through thousands of lines of code searching for the right function is also a pain. I am also quite impatient. So I take the work to organize my code in such a way that I can easily find what I'm looking for. So I can be impatient. And then the most important point for free software is that I want you all to believe I am great. So I will write clean code, I will come into the lines, I will write clean information, I will indent everything as if I were not writing a spell. I mean I will make the code so easy to read you will all think I am a good coder. And by doing that I will be a good coder. Or what at least better. Okay now if I am hiring someone to work for me because not everybody is a programmer. Why do I want it to be free software? If I am just the client. Well, first of all it guarantees the system can be maintained. I mean if someone hires me to write a code for them. And then I decide to stay in Finland because the weather is very nice here. Well, someone else can take over my code. They don't depend on me. It will reduce costs because because many programs are already solved as I told you just search and many of the programs you are going to solve are already taken care of. Okay, I also depend on a single provider. This is the creation of development groups and systems integration. This means maybe now I have a small company but five years from now this may grow a lot. And I may be hiring 10 people. Maybe the 10 people I hire for system developing are not experienced developers but by having them be able to read the software that was written for me I will be able to make them into a group and start having interesting results. And of course that gives recognition and publicity to my company. Just well, I don't have the list of sponsors here but sponsoring something like this even if it's just like having people come over to them gives recognition to a company and that's something that they say that matters in the real world. Okay, so just as conclusions free software is a radical departure from the knowledge production systems we have grown used to in the last decades. It's nothing new, it leads us back to development as it has always been before this. It challenges the relation between knowledge producers and knowledge consumers as we are all the same now. And finally, even if you don't want to free software will get you. So, well, I think we're a bit short in time so I don't know if I should display this but I can be reached at gmail.dbm.org and if you can read more or less I will put the slides in that address somewhere during the next couple of years. So you're lazy but we're impatient. But you're hubris will win out and you'll put the slides out. Okay, so you can take maybe one or two questions. Okay, so I can take maybe one or two questions. I suppose depending on the length of them. Is there any question? Come on, I can take one or two. Okay. I have another comment I don't want to dominate these things so if somebody has questions, please take one. Well, if no one asks a question grab the wheel. I do that at work too. One thing that I noticed or that just occurred to me on one of your last slides was the fact of basically open sourcing consulting work I think it has I think there's a bit of a double-edged sword to it but the good edge is that in a way I think it encourages what I'm going to boldly call virtuous behavior. In other words, by open sourcing the work that we do for a given consulting client it keeps us from being lazy in a bad way and just trying to fit all solutions or keep fitting every different pattern in the same hole. So we don't keep reusing the same tool and instead we properly customize for each client because while we can use the same fundamentals in practice most consulting jobs are highly specific in nature. At least that's my experience of progeny and if we open source the stuff that we do it encourages re-use in the good ways but it also probably keeps us from or I think it keeps us from falling into a trap of being bulky or resistant to the customer's needs because we really just want to reuse this thing that we had five years ago that's a black box, we'll tell the customer oh it can't be done, just pay me my $50,000 for this undocumented source code and it's important for progress as you talk about it's important for scientific progress to keep thinking keep working, keep attacking problems and coming up with new things instead of just extracting economic rent on old things. Yeah, I don't know if everybody about to hear it but yes I agree with what he says we have to be lazy but in a good way we have to take care of our code we have to be able one very important characteristic of pre software is that it doesn't matter if five people implement the same thing in a different way and four people's work of months gets thrown away we have to be ready to throw our code away if there's a better solution or if our code has grown old and full of quirks and un-maintainable it's very important to be able to recognize that and not only for pre software just for programming in general so well I'm leaving because Aigar seems to be getting mad at me he's not speaking a good talk


So the second inductee tonight We'll see a video for Robin Morton coming up Robin Morton Contributor to the sport Philadelphia native Robin Morton started her involvement with cycling when her husband Glenn began racing with the Pennsylvania bicycle club in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 1980 2014 bicycling Hall of Fame inductee Jerry Kasal was the president of the club at the time and he became Robin's mentor as she assisted with the amateur racing team and club races Robin moved from amateur cycling to the professional ranks by organizing the Geos team for the inaugural tour of America in 1983 in 1984 Robin organized and registered a US men's professional road racing team Making Robin the first female team director in the history of professional cycling the team sponsored by Gianni Mota Was the first US team to enter a grand tour the 1984 Giro d'Italia at the time European cycling rules prohibited women from the race caravan Before each race the organizers would vote on whether Robin could even be allowed to ride in the team car The team she put together the following year in 1985 Xerox Benotto was the first US team to compete in the Vuelta a España the criterion Dauphiné Libaré and others Robin managed teams for nine years and her professional cycling teams competed throughout Europe North and South America She then transitioned into event management working with Jerry Kasal and Dave Chowner at threshold sports for 17 years As the technical director for cycling events, which included professional national championships UCI races and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic and Paralympic Games In 2005 Robin and Alice Armstrong Founded G4 Productions a women owned event production company They have organized races non-profit fundraising rides and the US professional road racing championships and the US masters and paracycling national championships With her extensive team and event experience at the highest levels Robin Morton has become a groundbreaking contributor to the sport of cycling And here she is Robin Morton Well, I'm so honored to be here and to be inducted this evening It was such amazing athletes that have accomplished so much in our sport and especially my friend Mari You know It's been an amazing Trip for me 30 years an adventure something that I really never anticipated getting involved in I'm probably the only inductee who has never raced doesn't ride and I'm here because I didn't like sailing My husband Glenn Wanted a sailboat even though neither of us knew how to sail and Instead of taking sailing lessons or starting out with a day sailor We bought a sailboat and headed out to sea and as you can imagine that didn't end well So Glenn bought a racing bike and he did join the Pennsylvania bike club There were a lot of notable racers that came out of the PBC including Dave Choner and Miji Riyadh who were in the Hall of Fame Bruce Donagy and John Eustace Was the winner of 1982 and I went to an end of the season club party and was introduced to John and At that time John was one of the few Americans that had a contract on a European pro team One of the other ones was George Mount David Mayer Oaks Jonathan Boyer and so I started talking to John at the party I was introduced to him and he mentioned that he was pretty burned out from living in Europe and Didn't have a contract for the following year and was interested in putting together an American team to race in Europe and Was I interested in helping him? So I don't know I must have had sucker written all over me but I said yes and so The first team we had was for Geo's for that tour of America, which was a great event It was a small stage race in northern, Virginia and Washington DC and it was organized by capital sports they were actually boxing promoters and They brought a lot of big teams over from Europe had a good budget Unfortunately, it was only around for one year but through Geo's I met Gianni Moda and Gianni was an ex-pro turn bike manufacturer for those of you who don't know him He is a big celebrity in Italy blonde blue-eyed very outgoing He had won the Giro third in the Tour de France Won the Tour Switzerland just about every single day event in Italy And he wanted to have an American team on his bikes in Italy So in 1984 we put the team together. It was basically then comprised of a lot of free agent pros Some Europeans and in April we headed over to Italy And it was you know, I was completely unprepared for all of the Press and attention that I received being the first Woman to manage a men's professional team As the as you know It was said in the video that they had to vote as to whether or not I could even be in the team car in the caravan I don't know what they what I would have done if they said no because I was already there So I guess things would have changed and I wouldn't be here now if they had said no But um I made a lot of friends that I still have to this day and and one of those is riccardo migrini Riccardo was an italian pro. He was captain of the metro mobility team He spoke english was very funny. I actually looked like jerry louis And that year in the Giro Ranchelio was a sponsor of the Giro. They manufacture espresso machines And every day they would come to the stage start and bring their RV and give out free shots Of espresso to everybody So one day riccardo says to me hey, you know, we want you to come and be part of the ranchelio club The ranchelio club is it was loosely called They would allow the team captains to hang out inside the rv before the stage each morning to kind of get away from the public and You know have a few minutes up to themselves. So off we went and we're sitting there and they're all chatting away having a good time At least that's what I thought because I didn't speak italian But um, so we're just hanging out and riccardo gets up and he says to me well Since you're part of the ranchelio club And now we think of you of one of the guys, but you're missing one thing So i'm thinking okay, they're going to give me some like really great sign Malia rosa or some one-of-a-kind Giro memorabilia and riccardo stands up And he hands me a tray now keeping in mind the ranchelio club It's all the captains of the teams like seroni And mozer and vincentini and finyone and all the big riders of the day and me And so he stands up and he hands me this tray and he says This is for you now you'll be like us and on the tray Was an arrangement of vegetables made to look like male genitalia So it wasn't all that spontaneous because they actually had a photographer there taking a picture of the whole thing So, you know, I was really mortified. They thought it was completely hysterical And I I tried to be a good sport about it, you know and and take it in the spirit in which it was intentioned Because the only way I would have been accepted is if I kind of just went with the flow and didn't Expect them to make exceptions because I was a woman Um, the next year we had a team in the vuelta, which was crazy hard rugged race The vuelta was in april then and then I managed teams for the next six or seven years Usually they had an italian component That enabled us to race part of the season in europe And after that, I was really lucky that I was hired by dav chon and jerry casale as their technical director And I worked with a great team of people and we put on some of the best UCI races in the country including san francisco of philadelphia Thrift drug classic. We did the first tour of georgia And now with my partner alice and g4 We still produce the philly race and i'm really proud to say that it's one of the few world tour races only two in this country for women We have equal prize money for the women and it's the featured event of the day And so So I just want to leave you with this one story In the giro The riders contracts were written So that they had to finish in order to get paid Right, this is cycling. So that's not a big surprise. So they had to finish in order to get paid And one of our sponsors didn't want to pay them So he managed to talk one of our mechanics Into tightening their bottom brackets. So every day after they turned their bikes in to get cleaned and whatever He would tighten their bottom brackets just a little bit more So that by the end of the giro, they told me it was like pedaling in wet cement So but they all finished they all finished and so For me the lesson is that You know cycling Is just like life sometimes Just finishing Is winning Thank you Robin Morton everybody