Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these really pretty spinner cards and I've made this style card before but it was about two years ago maybe even more so I will link that with tutorial up here but I thought I would revisit it as part of this creative card series and when I received these papers which I'll show you in a moment I just thought they're going to work perfectly because they are double-sided so actually I'll show you that one because that one I realised afterwards that actually you want to do them upside down so that when they spin they're all the right way so this is how they work. You can see on the side here and then you would kind of wind them up and then pop them in the envelope so wind it up and pop it in like that or the right way up and then obviously when that person takes out the envelope it will spin around and the nice thing about this is is it does balance itself and then it will kind of just sit there and it looks really nice and also I put these out in the garden because I was looking at them out there and when the wind catches it just a nice light breeze this just went around really nicely on its own and it was so pretty so that's the one using a circle and then this is the one using the square look at that adorable fox's face so I've got sending hugs and happy thoughts because I thought that's just such a he just looks like he's just someone that would give a really good hug and then this one here is wishing you a day of happiness and I think that would work quite nicely as a wedding card because you know she's got like the nice little kind of floral headdress on there there's something about it I think it could definitely work for a wedding card but obviously that could also be for a birthday or any kind of nice day you could just be sending it just to wish someone a nice day of happiness so but and again with this one here you'll see it balances and it will stay obviously upright but again you can spin it around but like I said if you have them so that one's that way up and if you stick the next one upside down then when they spin it's always the right way up so I mean it spins pretty quickly and you wouldn't really notice it on that one but it's obviously if it did it's not going to stay like that because it's the way it's been kind of stuck down it knows that this is the front but yeah really really easy to make so let me show you okay so for this one here I'm using the absolutely stunning paper boutique magical forest so I did show you this one in my what did I get video last week or maybe a couple of weeks ago now and you get so I say it's a kit because you get the really nice eight by eight papers you get 36 with six designs but then you also get these toppers and that's what I've used and because you get four pages of each you've got obviously doubles of everything so you can see where I've been using them now I'm going to use the owl on another one but I'm going to do yeah I need to choose which one I'm going to use today actually for this one because I've done the fox in the square so I'll leave that one so I think I'm going to do the little owl so we'll pop him out now they're really well made they're on really thick cardstock so I'm just going to pop those two out there but I've still got all of these probably lots of other cards and then you also have square ones as well but I'm going to do a circle one today because I want to do it the right way up so yeah there's all the images slightly different so you can see that one there what a different look but they're just gorgeous beautiful palette of colors love the soft pinks and the soft greens so it's yeah definitely going to get used a lot and I just thought it worked perfectly this just whole card I think shows off the papers beautifully so I've already chosen my paper and I've already cut that to size the stamp set you know it if you've been watching me you're going to see this one all the time it's £2 it's a bargain go get it because you'll use it loads and yeah so I've used the wish and you a day of happiness sending hugs and happy thoughts and then I've already gone and stamped lucky to have a friend like you and oh I know I did choose because I've chosen him no that's fine because I remember now how bad's that I have all these because I do a lot of filming throughout the day so I have piles of all my cards kind of ready so I'd forgot but look so that's who we're going to have on this card doesn't he look like he is saying he's lucky to have a friend like you and he's got a little bouquet of flowers so that's the one I've got ready there so prepare all of that this here is like glitter very strong glittered it is a fabric but it's almost like very very strong paper but you can tie it in a bow I picked it up from B&M and it was a pack of just counting them two four six eight glittered rolls and this beautiful pink has just worked lovely with this collection so I'm working off of a six by six card blank here okay so see there just a normal one but you want to cut this down I don't need the scoreboard you want to cut it down to four by six so but you want to keep the folded top okay so I'm going to pop it in my trimmer this way okay and then just go up to no what am I doing you want to go in that way with the fold on your left hand side the fold needs to line up with the four inch marker and then just trim that if you are worried you don't want to put two pieces through at the same time then obviously cut each one separately but now you should have a piece of four by six and then I've got this piece here which is three and three quarters by five and three quarters and that's going to sit perfectly over the top and then I've gone ahead and done all these pieces to decorate then I've got my circle now this will vary depending on what you're using because I'm aware that not everybody will have this paper pack that I'm using so whatever your top will be whatever your image is you can use anything and it doesn't have to be the same image on each side it can be something different so and it can also be words it doesn't have to be a picture so the circle that I'm using is roughly three and a half diameter just a little bit over it's just kind of shy of three and five eighths so something I guess roughly that size but you can have smaller if you want to now it's up to you if you want to cut before you add your paper or after personally I prefer doing it after because it saves you having to faff about with all of that so that's how I'm going to do it so first of all I'm going to stick this down first okay while I'm just letting that dry so I need it to be completely set before I run it through the dye machine I'm going to prepare my little topper so because I've got these double images here one of them I'm going to flip upside down okay so I'll do that again in a minute but what you want to just turn over whatever one it is now the string I'm using is just really really really old you can see how old this is and it is a 12 inch cord machine thread it's just very very strong it's not like a you know some of those threads you can't even feel them in your finger you can really feel this it's quite a thick one so again I'm not really up on my threads so I'm sorry by the poor description but you want something that you can't snap in your hands I can't snap this when I do any sewing sometimes I'm really naughty and I might just pull something just to kind of you know because I've got my scissors at hand this I can't this is really strong so if that's an easier way to kind of gauge the kind of strength of the thread then yeah that's the best I can do but I'm just going to cut some of that off and first of all so you want to make sure your image is straight so there's the top of his head so I'm just going to turn that over because I need to make sure what I stick down is kind of in a straight line because that's what the string is going to follow along so I'm going to take that backing off and I'm just going to stick that on there so you want to stick your string right through the middle okay and then I'm just going to put another bit of double-sided tape over the top so that kind of sandwiches that in there and then just cover the rest of the circle with some double-sided tape and I will also add a little bit of liquid glue as well and then you just need to remember what way up this one is so that's the right way up so this one needs to be going on upside down again try and get it as straight as you can so having these does take a lot of the work out for you because you're these really pretty images you know and the fact that there's so many of them works perfect for this style card so again I'm just going to now let that really dry so now this is nice and dry so along the folded top you want to lay down your circle or whatever shape it is you're using you may not be using a circle oval shapes triangle well no it can't be a triangle because it needs to be able to twist around on the side but square rectangle circle ovals those will all work so you basically just want to sit this roughly halfway over the card okay so you can see there okay so I'm just going to get that run through my die machine okay so just take that all away okay so now we have our card and you've obviously got lots of room to write inside there as well next we need to I'm going to decorate this part so I have a piece of white card stock which is five and three quarters wide by one inch and then I've got this piece which again is five and three quarters sorry long by three quarters of an inch so just a few little kind of mats and layers there just to decorate on top for bring that out you can see that I've just used some scraps from that one there when I made that and then I've got that sentiment which is going to go no sorry then I have that that's going to go over the top so I'm just kind of built up a little nice border here then I've got that piece that's going to go over it with a beautiful bow which is going to go there so I'm going to go get that all stuck down okay so that's all stuck down I'll do the bow at the very end because I'm going to add some gel glue to that one so now you want to sit this inside and you want your image to be lined up and the string to run right through the folds of the card so what I'm going to do is grab some double sided sticky tape and you just want to stick it not right from one end to the other just kind of in between so I'm just coming in a little bit and then sticking it because I'm going to cover this with a tiny little bit of decorative paper just to cover that up so I'm going to just peel off my backing tape there and also you want to trim off the excess of that string I probably should have said really how much you need but I'm not that precious with the strings there's so much on there so I'm just going to cut away now so you've got about three quarters of an inch hanging out you don't need much at all so like so because you don't want this hanging out the side of the card so then what you want to do is sit it down and you want equal border so you want an equal ring all the way around so you can see my grey mat underneath it's the same all the way around there and then you just want to kind of let that string kind of fall where it needs to but you need to keep it taut too at the same time so you do have to you can kind of lift it up a few times once we put the rest of the tape over the top and it'll be fine okay so I'm happy that that's where I need it to be and then kind of holding that down pull it quite taut so you haven't got a great deal to hold on to but as taut as you can you may want to not cut your string until you've done this bit because I've made a few of them so I'm not really worried like that there we go okay so just make sure yeah probably don't cut the string straight away just leave it on and now you could trim it so now I've got that where I need it then I'm going to get my other side of tape and again put some more over the top just to really seal that in and there's not going to be any tension on this I mean you're going to wind it up a little bit but other than that it's just sitting there so you know you don't need to go and add loads and loads of glues and stuff like that it's um you know it's only a card at the end of day it's just a little bit of fun so yeah double-sided tape will be fine you can use red line up but that's that can be quite thick you don't really want to have I guess more bulk on this okay then I've got two pieces of half an inch by one inch and these will just sit perfectly within this section that's if you're using the size circle that I used if you've got something bigger then you'll need that to be smaller and the opposite way if your circle's smaller then this piece will need to be bigger but that fits just perfectly in there like so and again I can stick that one so just use again scraps of the same paper because it ties it all together so now now that's that day you just want to fold it ever so slightly just to kind of work it back into that fold like so there we go and then I'm just going to grab some of my gel blue here pop some onto the back of that and then just there and there you have it so now if I just wind that up so this is what you would do before you put it in the envelope what you may find is the card start to bow a little bit that means you've got it quite strong in terms of the tension you don't want to twist it too much because you don't want it pulling out of where you stuck it in but now I can pop that in the envelope and it will fit into a six by six envelope and then you take it out and it spins and then when they've just finished with it and they're just enjoying it it will hang there and kind of just yeah move around if the wind catches it I love it I think he's so cute all of them are really cute I haven't got a favorite because they are all so sweet I'd love to know who made you know who drew the illustrations because yeah they are beautiful there you go three really pretty spinner cards I love how these are turned out the papers have just done all of the work really for me so hope you've enjoyed it hope you're enjoying the series so far please give me a thumbs up if you haven't already and subscribe to my channel so you get to see the rest of the series and also all the other tutorials in the future thanks for watching bye


There are many, many stories of children coming to our doorsteps for care and really needing to have a physician recognize that they're in an unsafe situation. When I see a child or a family that's struggling, I know that they may be at a crossroads and we can make things different for them. The health care system is a vital player in the prevention, recognition and response to child abuse and neglect. We created the Child Abuse Services and Prevention Program, which is also called CASP. Designed for providers to have a better idea of what to do when they suspect child maltreatment. We have CASP champions and their teams at every medical center. The champions have extra training, so they are a resource for their peers. CASP teams are made up of social workers, ED doctors, pediatricians, nurse practitioners. We have medical assistant as well as psychiatrist. We have the ability to support one another. A group of people who have come together for this passion work of preventing child abuse. CASP involves making sure that we at Kaiser Permanente have the systems in place to appropriately address child maltreatment. We have the e-consult. We are developing smart phrases and smart sets. We have the Abuse and Assault website for providers to guide them through the initial stages. With having an electronic medical record and being an integrated medical health care system, we're able to be sure that we don't lose any child through the cracks. If a child presents to the clinic or the emergency room, the physician can easily and rapidly access the history of diagnoses related to possible neglect and abuse. We have regular meetings with our CASP champions. In addition to supporting providers internally, their role is also about making community partnerships with CPS, with law enforcement, with their local child abuse prevention councils and other child advocacy groups. Making connections with schools, with organizations, family resource centers, other hospitals in the community is what creates an even bigger safety net or wrap around. So it's collective impact. Given what we know about adverse childhood experiences and the profound effects that it can have into adulthood, we have a responsibility to appropriately address children and families who are at risk of maltreatment. We want everyone to have a healthy, happier life. We need to build resilience and control these adverse childhood experiences, and that's the basis of our child abuse work.


My name is James Bottomley and I'm here to talk to you today about a title that is somewhat of a false pretense, I'm afraid. The reason this came about is because the original title of this talk turned out to be rather too scary and controversial for the program committee. But since I am now here and it would take a large amount to drag me off the floor, we can actually change it and put back the original title that I submitted to the conference, which is the essential guide to hacking the legal system.  For open-source developers, of course. I was also supposed to put my Twitter handle on, which was on the previous slide, but I have to warn you that for me, Twitter is pretty much a write-only system. So if you want anything that's real-time instant messaging, you can find me on Matrix. And so that's my Matrix ID, or just by email. Being a kernel developer, we all use email all the time anyway. So it's no hardship for anybody. So before we get into this, I should tell you a little bit about me. So I've been a container evangelist for a long time, actually since 2011. Before 2011, I hated virtualization, so I had a road to the Damascus conversion. What that actually means is nobody else would offer me a job other than somebody in containers, so suddenly I learned to like them. I have been an open-source advocate for an incredibly long time. I was actually chair of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board and on the Linux Foundation Board of Directors for about nearly 10 years from 2006, actually it was until 2014, so eight years. And one of the things that being chair of the Technical Advisory Board included at those times was trying to sort out a lot of thorny legal issues that happened to come along with open-source, which we'll get into. I'm also a kernel hacker, a SCSI subsystem maintainer, peer-risk architecture maintainer, so I do a lot of technical stuff. On that resume, nowhere is the word lawyer, so I have no legal qualifications whatsoever. These are a load of controversial opinions which you are free to disagree with. But that being said, let's get into the controversial opinions. So the original title of the talk was hacking the legal system, so what do you mean by this? So the Oxford English Dictionary defines hack as to use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system. Who would agree with that definition? Tim. Okay, justify it. First question goes to him. So what Tim did is he gave me the Humpty Dumpty interpretation, which is a word can mean anything I wanted to mean. So for the rest of the world, hack can mean this. But the point is that most of us in this room who work on computer systems would describe ourselves as hackers. And we don't mean we spend our ages all day trying to break into computers to steal people's data. What we actually mean is that we try to cleverly use or adjust a computer system or program for an unintended purpose. So you take something that existed and you give it a use or do something to it that actually expands its range to a whole new system. This is essentially the genesis of open source. This is what open source is. You take an idea that somebody else did and you make it larger, make it more expansive, go on and on. So this is why open source people describe themselves as hackers. This is the meaning of the word hack that we're going to apply to the legal system in this talk. So since we're on the Humpty Dumpty and getting into what words mean, what does it actually mean to hack the legal system? When it sounds taking something and repurposing, I mean law is all about statutes. It's supposed to be immovable, right? Once it's written, it's set in stone, courts interpret it. How do you hack the legal system? Well, hacking the legal system really just means making it work to your purposes. That's nothing else. And if you think about where all the laws come from, so this is the United States Congress building, legal hacking or hacking the legal system has been going on an incredibly long time. All you basically have to do is to go up to that building, apply a huge amount of money in bribes. Did I say bribes? I'm terribly sorry. I meant lobbying. A huge amount of money in lobbying and laws will magically get rewritten or written for your specific use case. This definition of hacking the legal system has been fair play for centuries, right? Have enough money, find a Congress critter, pay him enough through lobbyists, and you will get what you want out of the legal system. I mean, for some things out of the legal system, it takes enormous financial amounts to do this. You're talking millions to billions of dollars. Some hacks are really simple. I mean, if you can present your Congress person with an idea that he can sell to his constituents as having brought money back to his own constituency, chances are you can get your legal hack for almost free. This is how most of the pork appears in the US spending budget, for instance. But if you want something specific, often you have to pay for it. So the problem in early days of open source, and I should also apologize to free software, people, everything, the acronym for free open source, Libra, whatever, is just getting so long that it's so difficult to use. So everywhere, I'll be saying what I'm used to, which is open source, but you can interpret this to be whatever term you wish for open source, because basically the true nature of open source is it's a bunch of individuals who wouldn't particularly agree on anything except the code, all marching in sync together towards one specific goal, and when they get there, they all split off, you know, have schisms, and then come back together to do some other purpose. It's not about everybody agreeing with everybody. So I'm using my definition, you're free to use your own. The other question we should probably get into is, why is there so much interest in legal systems and open source? I mean, this isn't really that usual for, you know, you come out of university with a degree in computer science or physics or whatever, and the first thing you do is witter endlessly on Debi and legal about legal issues. Open source attracts this for some reason. And the real truth is it's historical. This is Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch. If you've never seen Monty Python, the sketch is brilliant. It's the one they did at the Hollywood Bowl. It basically, it's about four people from Yorkshire who go around making up wilder and wilder stories about their youth until exhausted by the lack of invention where they sink back and go, and if you tell that to the young people of today, they'll not believe you. So the object is basically that old people always invent stuff and it was never as bad as they said. Oh, I should also mention since the Code of Conduct now precludes, you know, humour for our accents regions, whatever, in Yorkshire as a region, that's its regional flag. I was actually born in Halifax, so that's the real one, not the one in Canada, which obviously makes me a card-carrying citizen of the country of Yorkshire or as we like to call it, God's Own Country, and therefore perfectly entitled to use the accent even for humorous purposes. But the point I'd like to get to is it really, really was that bad in those days. Open Source began with no support from anybody and no backing from the legal system and it was really unlikely that we would actually get any. You know, no money, no corporate support, which will be surprising to all of you today because LinuxCon is essentially a corporate conference. Nowadays, corporations are falling all over themselves to get on the open source bandwagon, show their open source credentials, do everything. Back in those days, open source free software was a pariah. You know, no corporation really wanted to touch it. It had no buy-in from anybody. And certainly it had no issues that Congress would want to touch. There was no way an open source person could convince Congress to do anything in legal terms to support open source because it wasn't really a vote winner for the constituency and they were long-haired, smelled a bit, didn't have any money. So, every inch of the ground that open source stands on today was fought for by someone and that fight was often done in legal terms. Hacking the legal system was actually one of the weapons of choice we used for this. So the first ever hack to the legal system happened long, long after open source was born. So I'm not going to bore you with history but you know that long, long before any of the licensing issues or anything came along, source code was born free and then large companies of whom my employer IBM was one decided to take it and imprison it behind copyright and licensing and then all source became closed until Richard Stallman came along in 1985 and decided that he didn't like it. So this was actually our first big legal hack. The copyright system was used to close off what had been formally open source and make it available only to people who control the copyrights of the code. So this was effectively using a system that was designed to protect books and songs and radio and using it to protect software instead and just in case that didn't work they also used patents as well. So the whole of the IP arsenal was arranged against source code to try and close it all up and the clever legal hack that the Free Software Foundation came up with was to reverse the concept of copyright turn it into copy left and use the weapons of... I mean it's wrong to call them the enemy because they're all our friends today. They're always the enemy. Now they're our friends. But to use the weapons of the people who are fighting us against them. This is precisely what copy left does. It's definitely a hack on the legal system because it involves using all of the provisions of the copyright code to actually force the source code to stay open. This is what the GPL family of licences does. Like I said it was conceived in 1985 by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. It is sort of the first actual open source legal hack I can find so I have to give him credit for that. I won't go into what's happening to the Free Software Foundation at the moment but I will say that some of the deeds are great enough to stand on their own regardless of personalities or factionalization or even scrubs by various corporations and this was definitely one of the first. They took what existed and there was no modification of the statutes required. They just turned the very provisions of the Copyright Act back against the corporations who wanted to keep the code free and forced it to become open. Like I said it was exemplified by the GPL family of licences. Now in the strictest sense being open source people you think of hacking as modifying the code. So in the true, really, really strict sense of modifying the legal code this wasn't a hack because it didn't do anything it took exactly what existed and used it to a different purpose to achieve its aims. Now in the broader definition of hacking that is definitely still a hack but in the code definition we use perhaps it isn't. But anyway it changed the use case but not the code and thanks to this we actually now have a section opened up in the law all about open source licences and licensing and everything else. The GPL has been fought over in court so the theory upon which this hack was based has now been proven in the legal system. But one of the things you might be interested in is the first actual hack to the law. So how in an open source fashion do you change the statutes? Well we can't hack the statute itself because you need to pay Congress. Everything that's written in law comes out of the houses of Congress and is signed off by the President in the United States. There are a lot of legal systems in the world but the point is that US law isn't all statute law. There's this thing called common law that runs through a lot of the English legal systems that is inherited by the US as well and we can hack that. So common law basically means legal determinations that are not based on statute but are instead based on precedent and expectation and there is an amazing amount of that. This thing that you probably heard a lot of in the Supreme Court battle, Stare decisis is one of the main pillars of common law. It's very simple. All it means is that one future judge would respect what a previous judge decided. It basically is Latin for let stand what is decided. So it means that once a legal decision is made every other decision after it should respect that legal decision if it's handed down by the highest court. But once the decision is made by the court from which there is no appeal that decision has to be respected and obviously given what's going on in Texas Stare decisis is not doing very well in the United States together at all today but that's okay because we don't rely on it. The other thing that common law is based on is an expectation of the parties. Common law particularly the common law of contracts that underpins most of industry today is based on the expectations of parties. So the way you change common law in the United States today is by changing the expectation of the parties. The parties have different expectations going into a contract into a license into whatever the law that governs it has changed. So how do we do this? The way we did this is by something called the developer certificate of origin. Who's actually heard of this one? There were a few people in the room. This is a contribution system pioneered by the Linux kernel for making contribution to open source projects very easy. It's actually online at developercertificate.org if you want to look it up. It's basically phrased as a set of representations. I'm not going to put it up because it's not really that germane to what I'm talking about. But you signify your agreement with the representations by a fixing signed off by and your email address into the source code that usually goes into the Git commit. There's usually a chain of signed off by's from everybody who took the patch and transmitted it into the Git tree. This is what we mean by developer certificate of origin. What it did is it swept away the old idea that you had to have contribution license agreements or contribution agreements or some other legal mechanism to make a real genuine contribution to a project under the license. Instead all the developer has to do is put signed off by at the bottom of their email address into the source code. I've just told you everything is good. What actually is the problem? Well, the problem in the early days was that the DCO actually only works for individual contributors. It doesn't work for corporate works for hire. The reason for this is the issue of agency. Agency is another massive area of common law. What it means is it's the law of how a corporation can act because if you want to sign a contract with let's say your telecom provider as Verizon and you want to sign a contract with Verizon, you can't go and knock on the door of Verizon the company and find it and get it to sign the contract because Verizon the company is just an idea. It's made of a body of people. It has no arms and legs. It can't take any actions on its own. So the law of agency is how individuals act on behalf of a company. Corporate councils actually spent a lot of time and money for a long, long time trying to reduce the agency for intellectual property to be what they call principles of a company, which usually means directors or vice presidents and above. And if they succeeded in doing that, this means that developers have no agency in the IP rights they are required to give up under the signed off by because they're effectively signing off to a license that certainly requires copyright and also may require patents. And if they're not directors or above of the company under the current law of agency, they have no agency to do the signed off by. All signed off bys and work for hire would be invalid. So fixing the agency problem actually meant hacking common law. So let's do a description of how the hack was made. The DCO itself was invented for the Linux kernel in 2005, hot on the heels of the SCO dispute. The idea was to track and verify all contributions to the Linux kernel such that if somebody like SCO ever came along again and tried to claim the code, we would have provenance of the entire history backed by an immutable source control system that would prove exactly where it came from. It was actually written by a lady called Dan Peters who's now I believe at Wikimedia Commons, although I might have that wrong, but there were many, many different ways of doing this. There was sort of a huddle of Lina's lawyers and a few other people trying to figure out how the hell we would do this because the lawyers told us right, in order to present this in future you have to have contribution agreements for the Linux kernel and we basically said that would destroy our development velocity, we're not doing it, come up with something else. And eventually after months of haggling, they did come up with something else, which was the DCO and signed off by. And they figured it had enough agency that it would work. Then there was a very wise copyright lawyer, one of the world-renowned experts of copyright who actually joined the Linux Foundation around 2007. Her name was Karen Copenhaver and as soon as she saw what we'd done with the DCO she immediately appreciated the agency problem that we were actually setting ourselves up for on down the line. And so what she did in collaboration with a echelon of kernel developers and the technical advisory board was formulate what was effectively a multi-year, in fact it was a decade plan to fix this agency problem. The reason I'm telling you about it now is because it is fixed. The strategy we adopted was basically to expand the DCO far and wide beyond the kernel. If we could make it the de facto contribution agreement, all of the witterings by all of the corporate lawyers about who had agency for IP would go out of the window because every corporation was now relying on this agency being granted by the developers. It didn't matter what the corporate lawyers thought, what was happening in the world today was that everybody was relying on agency by developers and agency was granted because everybody's expectations were that agency existed. And when this happens the laws are changed and this is actually what happened to make the DCO workable as it is today. In 2021 we have hundreds of projects with DCO sign-offs. They're relied on by thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of companies. It is now too late to go back to the idea that only directors and buffs have agency for intellectual property in a company. It is now de facto accepted that an engineer who does a work for hire and contributes it to a project under a sign-off by has the agency for all rights required that the corporation requires to give that contribution effect in the project. This is now pretty much an immutable fact. We've had 15 years, well 14 years to work on this it's too late to go back to your court. So the final thing I'd like to get, well I suppose I should pause there and ask if anybody this is supposed to be a conversation these are my opinions. Anybody have any counter opinions you want to raise before I get on to the last topic which is owning your own copyright. This is another hack to the legal system but it's a slightly different one so we might as well pause here. Yes, Mr. Bird. So Tim's comment is I may have just made the life of the open-source program offices a little more difficult at this time. I presume the reason for that comment is because you thought none of the corporate councils had noticed this. Is that the basis of your opinion? I don't think there's any corporate council who hasn't noticed this. There are a bunch of corporate councils who are starting to band together and try and say this more forcefully which is partly the reason for this talk but it is my firm belief that this is way too late. The position as an open-source program office that you need to take is this is Stare decisis. You know, you did it a decade ago. It is too late to go back. Developers are agents for intellectual property required to contribute under open-source licences get over it. I mean, what is going to happen? Who's going to sue? Let's say some corporation were nuts enough to do that. It hasn't been tested. This is correct. Okay, so Tim says the issue is it's still a problem convincing managers that it's okay to contribute code. And the answer to that is that the desire to contribute code on a corporation was almost non-existent back then. Now, as I said, everybody else is tripping over themselves to get on the bandwagon. The bandwagon effect is forcing managers to contribute. They can raise legal issues as a slight barrier but we have lots of people who can go and talk to them and say, you know, that's not really a barrier. And the thing you say is, well I work for Corporation X and you're right, there may be a legal problem here so we should not contribute. We'll let Corporation Y and remember if we don't contribute and we're worried about this that also means we can't make use of open-source. Right? So we'll cut ourselves entirely off from the open-source ecosystem and flounder around until we die while our competitor Corporation B takes all of this open-source code and takes a better platform and kills us in the marketplace. Is that really the end-point you want from this conversation? Will that work? Well, yes, but it won't work. Well, I thought you were sitting around drinking martinis. Sorry. So what Tim said is I'm creating work for the open-source program office but I think they need to do more than just sit around and drink martinis so I think evangelizing on this point is a key thing that the open-source program office should be doing. So unfortunately I may have applied the electric cattle prod to your backside and you have to go and do something about it now but I'm not going to apologize for that. Okay, sorry. Any more questions about the DCO and what we've done? So the question is, is there anything I want to say about CLA's? All I really want to say about CLA's is that A, they're pretty much pointless. Anything you can do with a CLA you can do with the DCO. A lot of lawyers claim you need so CLA stands for Contributor License Agreement. It's usually a signed piece of paper between a project and a developer to make a contribution, often electronically signed. And lots of projects claim that the contribution isn't correctly made unless you have a CLA and there's another claim that it insulates the project from legal risk. Both of these claims are complete rubbish. The contribution made under a DCO has just as much standing as the contribution made under a CLA. All of the legal points a CLA would fail under which is basically where somebody is lied or there's been mismanagement or misrepresentation going on. A CLA does not protect you from. All it does is it gives you a legal piece of paper to say you shouldn't have done that, that was naughty. And the DCO provides exactly the same protection. So there is no more legal safety from a CLA than from a DCO. CLA's are also being used in the marketplace by corporations to actually try and take more rights than the license requires. CLA is often not reciprocal. That means that if you sign let's take the Apache CLA for instance. This is a standard CLA that everybody adopts. What it actually, and every Apache project that I know of uses it including OpenStack what it actually says when you sign it is I contribute all my licensing rights in this code to the foundation. It does not say as long as they license it under Apache 2 it says all my rights. And then the foundation licenses it into the project under Apache 2 but they still retain the rights that I signed off on. And what this means is that if a clever corporation and I won't mention any names but Elasticsearch might come to mind also were to adopt this process that makes them the sole deciders of who the license of the project can be and gives them carte blanche to relicense all that code you thought you were contributing under a free license. This is the trap that CLA's are setting you up for. And indeed when things like the license of Elasticsearch change to SSPL there was a lot of complaints and backbiting about this and the reason a lot of developers have tripped up into signing contribution agreements that basically gave away all their rights and allowed the relicensing is precisely because the Apache foundation was doing it so it must be good. CLA's are bad from this point of view because people rarely read them and they don't understand what they're signing and often they're signing way more rights away than they should be giving. So that's why CLA's are bad and what they're going on about is they're just friction. They're sand in the process. Open source is all about process velocity. Anything which interferes with the wheels of open source turning is bad and having to pause, get a CLA often if you're a corporation signing a CLA you need to get your lawyer to agree which can take months it's bad for the open source ecosystem. So CLA's are bad on three grounds. Is that enough of a reason for you Jeff? Okay. Any other questions? Right, then we can move on to owning your own copyrights in open source. So copyright ownership is actually the key to rights enforcement in the entire open source ecosystem. If you don't own your own copyrights you can't do any enforcement. Now, I know most of you modern web kids who contribute code to all of the fancy go and python and node projects under the Apache license think this doesn't matter because those licenses are permissive so there are very few rights to preserve by legal action. So in theory copyright is something you shouldn't be worried about. In fact a lot of people haven't been worrying about it for a while which is how come the SSPL relicensing happened because they weren't paying attention to the rights they were giving away. But the point is permissive licenses have obligations too. The Apache license is not just a hey we give it away you can do anything you want with it it has a specific set of obligations including how users use patents, how contributors are credited and so on. And the key one that you might be interested in as open source developers is preserving authorship. As an open source contributor your contribution record is your key to getting a new job joining a new community being known for who you are. And if somebody can take that away from you I think you wouldn't like that. And if you don't have a license to your code they're entitled to do that. They'll have committed an offense under the license but you can't sue for it because you don't have standing. You're not the author you don't own the rights. And that means that if anybody does this to you and let's say you were just working on behalf of your company and it was all work for hire and somebody actually stole your code and put their own name on it you'd have to go to your corporate council and say I don't like this can you do something about it because you can't do anything about it yourself without owning the code or without some type of ownership in that code. So obviously the first route to owning your own copyright is actually to ask your employer. It's not as bad as you think. So a lot of employers, especially for well known open source developers and remember the market is frothy for open source at the moment. I think I read a report a week ago that said open source developers are the hottest commodity ever. So you have a lot of leverage when negotiating your employment agreement and even after negotiating your employment agreement. And so asking for a right to own the source code that you're actually going to be contribute is not such a fast stretch. I mean when I joined IBM I did it. So what I have now is joint ownership of any code I contribute along with IBM. Joint ownership is actually usually a good way of doing it because what that means is I myself own all the rights to enforce and I could if I wanted to. But the corporate being counters at IBM also get counted as their contribution because they're joint owners, right? So everything I create, the ownership is split between myself and IBM. And the corporate councils at IBM seem to think this is a reasonable way of accounting for a project. And I don't think it's impossible for any of you in the room to also negotiate something similar. A lot of people are afraid to and the reason you're afraid to is because when you're negotiating for a job you always feel like you're sort of the underdog. I mean the thing you're usually fighting for is you know I want the salary and I want the benefits then when you've got it all you think oh my god so now do I upset the apple cart and ask for copyrights and open source and everything but the answer is yes. Usually they are willing to deal. But assuming they are not willing to deal there are actually strategies you can use involving legal hattigry to achieve the same ends and so this is what I'll tell you about at the moment. Hacks for copyright ownership. So I'm sure you've all signed agreements with a company in the US. Every company from the smallest to the largest for something to do with software which is effectively intellectual property forces you to sign a statement of prior inventions. It will always have been somewhere in the packet that you signed when you joined the corporation. They will not have left it out because it's a key cover your business mechanism for the company. So somewhere some time you'll have signed this. Most people just sign and say I have no prior inventions. What you're supposed to do is to actually fill in all the prior inventions that you may have created for some other company or prior inventions you have claimed to that you might then see your employer for. It's usually just supposed to be a list of what you worked on before and often when you're actually given this thing to sign it's usually in this huge bundle of stuff in the first day they say they're going come on come on you've got to get your badge you've got to go up you've got to go and see so and so sign all that stuff so you just go through it you sign it on the nod nobody ever realises what they've done but that form would have been there somewhere. The key promise that this form binds you to is not actually incorporating any of these prior inventions into the code.   However you left the list blank so nothing is on that list you signed it you promise not to incorporate it and another key to that list is you promised full disclosure and you didn't fully disclose so now code from a prior project got incorporated in this company's thing it was a project you worked on it must have been you who did it it's your fault and it's your fault for not disclosing it. This is the whole purpose of this piece of paper they make you sign and you lose again that's why it's a cover your ass mechanism but the key point for all of you here is that statement also represents a list of projects which are de facto outside of the scope of work so all of the projects you've listed there are outside of your scope of work for hire so anything you work on that was on that list worked on in your free time cannot be claimed by your employer. This is how you get all of the code contributions you want to do in open source outside of your employer's control. All you do which is what I've done for every company since time immemorial is actually list all every open source project you work on or would like to work on on that list what that basically means is that anything on that list I can work on it I don't have to ask my employer for permission to do so I'm free to sign a contribution agreement the free software foundation if I insist and tell them that yep I have the sovereign right to this code because it is on that list and it's outside of my work for hire. And obviously because of that your employer would have no basis for claiming any work on that list in the future because they signed it too so it's a binding contract between the two of you that says all of these things listed we've already agreed are not going to be part of my employment brilliant there's no come back for them there's no come back for you the only problem is you also promised not to work on them for your current employer so the only problem you have under this is when your employer actually asks you to work on a project that you've already listed on the schedule right and that is the point at which you could open negotiations for an agreement to own your own copyrights and open source with this leverage if you really wanted to. This gives you a way back in a legal way because basically either we have to rewrite my employment agreement Mr. Employer or just give me blanket ownership and we won't mention this anymore everything will be okay so this is what actually allows you to claim ownership of all of your copyrights now the problem for all of you is if you're all safely employed you can't pull this trick until you actually move to your next employer because what you signed for your current employer is already done but it is a trick you can use in your future jobs and I encourage you to do so so conclusions legal hackery occurs every day well for people with enough money to burn however and I hope I've given you examples at least three it's quite easy to work creatively outside congress to achieve the same legal hackery you wanted both in common law and just by simply using the things that have been created to ensure some end goal for a completely different end goal another different form of hackery most open source projects depend on this if this hadn't been done in the early days chances are there would be no open source today and you can depend on it too if you want to try the trick for owning your own copyrights the next time you get a new job so with that I would say that this was all done with everything open source this presentation is actually a web page using impress.js you can download it play with it and modify it if you like it it's by a guy called buttocksoper I have extensively changed it but all of the changes are in the presentation if you download it of course that does make me a web developer which in kernel terms is now even lower on the totem pole and rust developers so I'm really doing badly the presentation is available at handsonpartnership.com press slides linux.com 2021 the reason it's linux.com is because this was supposed to be presented in Dublin and apparently this event is substituting from Dublin so even though I stand however far away from Dublin it is notionally I'm there so you can all buy me an Irish whiskey after this and the reason you have to do this as well as the Linux foundation is using some proprietary piece of web thing called shed.org that doesn't seem to allow me to attach this presentation to it so this and I will actually do a write only tweet giving you this as well if my twitter handle was on the slides also JJB underscore so you should be able to find it and with that I'll say thank you and call for questions if there are any did you ask all of your questions in the middle so nobody has anymore that they can think of well if there are none I will say thank you very much okay there's one so Tim asks do I expect an FSF response to this talk I will have to ask disingenuously why you think I would get an FSF response to this talk because I've just praised them for the first legal hack what is it you think I should be wary of right so what I should say is that first of all creating new DCO so Tim's comment there was a blog post by the FSF about their desire to create a new DCO creating new DCOs is very bad the copyright of the DCO is owned by the Linux foundation it's immutable for a reason and the reason is the hack that we all rely on that brings the DCO into existence and causes it to work because for everybody's mind to be changed everybody's sort of opinions and expectations to be changed there needs to be one thing they all think they mean when they say DCO if there are many things you would build a gap through which lots of corporate lawyers could slither over doubts about which DCO were they signing and was the code properly contributed so preventing fragmentation of the DCO is key to preserving the ecosystem of the DCO and all of the guarantees that we rely on and therefore for that reason the FSF were being a bunch of pillocks when they did this and they have already been forcibly told by a lot of people in open source and they will be being told even by the people who fund them so I believe effectively hopefully this topic is over the DCO was crafted in such a way that as far as we can tell and we have had a lot of really strange situations that want to be covered by the DCO the current DCO actually covers all of them so there is no need to modify it but the flip side of this is that modification of the DCO would be the way by which you destroy the DCO ecosystem and all of that code upon which is sort of legal contribution provenance as your companies rely so not modifying the DCO is both nice because we think we got it right first time which is unusual and also a requirement because once you start modifying it you will fracture the ecosystem you will destroy the expectations and the guarantees and you will reverse our hack to common law that actually makes it all work and that stands a chance of causing a lot more damage than anything else do that sort of answer your question so the question is have I heard of blockchain and NFT NFT means non-fungible tokens right I've heard of them so the question is do I know anything about blockchain and NFTs how they can make a contribution to the DCO ecosystem so I have to say that there is a similarity between the way DCO works and the way blockchains and NFTs work because I didn't actually really get into the DCO ecosystem I made a whole talk on that and I only have 5 minutes left to do all of this but the point about the DCO is somewhere you need an immutable record of who did what and that only came about in the Linux kernel because at the same time we adopted the DCO we also adopted Git so the DCO and its guarantees don't mean much unless you have a provably immutable repository collecting all of the signed off buys these are the filing cabinets that people actually did with contribution agreements and actually the fourth reason Jeff's already gone that you should never do contribution agreements is because they're pieces of paper and people lose them right once you've lost them you have no proof the proof should always be in the source tree and so Git because it's based on this sequence of immutable hashes is all very like a blockchain in that regard it doesn't have any of the cryptographic stuff but you can't modify a previous thing and not have the modification detected so it basically gives us it's not really a blockchain it's much more like a transparency log but it shares a lot of the commonality with things like blockchain and NFTs for that reason so this is a piece of learning I won't really say that I mean it's arguable that Git came before blockchain so perhaps we were first perhaps blockchain was first but it's definitely a parallel sequence of learning that we still make use of if that was the thrust of your question okay any more questions well with that I'll say thank you very much and I hope you've enjoyed this talk as much as I enjoyed giving it particularly as it might be my last now that I went back to my original topic thank you


with us. In your presence this morning, thank you because you're here with us. You're here, thank you Lord, we glorify you Lord. We came to give you praise and to honor you. Oh what a friend we have in Jesus, hallelujah. All of our sins and griefs to bear, hallelujah. We came to praise you today. We give you honor, we glorify your name. Thank you for taking care of us and bringing even giving us safety as we travel today.  Lord, we came to honor you and to praise you today. Bless this service, oh God, take your, have your way Lord. Be glorified in all that we say and do. May we all give honor and bless your holy name. Thank you Lord, in Jesus' name, bless those who are on their way, give them safety in traveling, in Jesus' name. We honor you Lord, in Jesus' name I pray, thank you Jesus, amen. Amen. Praise the Lord, thanks. I'll be reading it to you here in Proverbs the third chapter, verses one through six. It says, my son, forget not my law, but let thy heart keep my commandment, for let the days and long life and peace shall they add to thee. Lord, let not mercy and truth forsake thee. Find them all about thy neck. Write them upon the tables of thy heart. So shall thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not to thy own understanding in all thy ways, not some always, in all our ways. Acknowledge him and he shall direct our past. He shall order our footsteps according to his word. May the Lord have a blessing to read them his word. Hallelujah. There's only one.  Hallelujah. We're welcoming the Lord's presence in here this morning. He's already here. I encourage you, hallelujah, to reach out to touch and try and touch out for the Lord. Hallelujah this morning. He's here to do miracle signs and wonders, even to those that are in the hearing. We welcome the Lord today and to this place. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord, you are welcome. So we lift our hand as we lift our heart. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Lord, the word of God says that the Lord will give us the kind of peace that will pass all understanding. Amen.  Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Do is refreshing. Hallelujah. It's renewing. It provides us with all that we need. Hallelujah. And because the Lord is our provider, he's our waymaker. He's our savior, our redeemer. He's everything that we need. He's our peace. He's our joy. He is our strength. Hallelujah. He upholds us with his righteous right hand. I love the Lord. I love the Lord. I love you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And all those things that he is for us, I love him just because he is the great I am. He is God. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Lord. Lord, the worship that we have to give him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I invite you to stay in the presence of the Lord as we have our sister Shy Gilliam come with a solo this morning. Amen. Jesus said, here I stand. Won't you please let me. It's so much easier. Stand. Won't you my hand? And you said, come on y'all. Tomorrow's not promised. Jesus said, who supplies all your and you said tomorrow. You see, so many birthday wishes, so much kindness as I have in this particular birthday. And I thank the Lord for you. I think some of y'all love me. Amen. And I'll tell you, I love you as well. So I'll just say thank you so much for all you've done. And I'll not forget. Now, I'm excited today as I sat in the chair there, saving my voice. I just marveled at God. I know that he's an awesome God and I've known that down through the years. But as I saw how the service unfolded today, I saw the continuity of the spirit and how every just about everything that went forth. It was being directed to the message on today. The last one that we just heard is you are everything that I need you to be. You're the great I am. I made notes with my notes to kind of lost. I guess I was in the spirit a little bit too much because I was writing down the songs that were pointing to the message on today. But I want to begin as we start the message. I want to use this morning for a topic. God over my circumstances. God over my circumstances. What we understand is that scripture said that man that is born of woman is of a few days and full of trouble. And it also said that if we're walking with God, there'd be a test and trials that we must go through. And so we have adverse circumstances from time to time in our lives and we're not surprised. We know that it's a part of this life on earth. For the scripture reading that we had this morning, I want to go to that first and speak a bit on that Proverbs chapter three. It talks about the best way to travel on this road in life begins by my son forget not my law but let thine heart keep my commandments, keep my commandments for length of days and long life and peace. So they add to thee, let not mercy and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck. Write them up on the table of thine heart. He said mercy let not mercy forsake thee. You're going to need mercy. He said, bind them about your neck. Write them on the table of your heart. He says, don't just read this and pass over it. He said, you need to make sure this finds a seat in your heart. He said, so shall thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and men. He said, if you follow this third verse, he said, you're going to be favored by God. He said, yes, there will be tests and there'll be trials and there'll be circumstances beyond your control. But he says, God will favor you in any condition that you find yourself in. Come on somebody. I'd rather be favored than to be rich. Come on somebody. See because riches can't reach everything that comes with my way. There are circumstances that come where money won't take care of it. When I don't have peace of mind, when I don't have love in my heart, money can't buy that. But the Lord says, I'll give you favor in every circumstance. And what I point out is every circumstance in life is a test. It's a test. Whether the circumstances is good or bad, circumstances gives us a unique opportunity to grow stronger in character, to be stronger in our fruitfulness of life. Good circumstances gives us, among other benefits, the opportunity to have joy. Come on somebody and to rejoice in the Lord. Some circumstances come upon me and I accept it wholeheartedly. And I say, yes, this is the day that the Lord has made. And because the Lord has made this day and because of what he has arranged for my life, for my situation, my circumstances, I'll say I'll give him praise. I'll give him glory and honor. And I'll praise his name with all of my might because God favors me. That favor is not a good thing in some instances when it's not directed towards us. Come on somebody. You ever been in a circumstance where you should have been favored and somebody else got favored instead of you? Uncomfortable. Uncomfortable. But it's a test. But now the Lord is watching. When somebody gets the honor that we deserve, he's watching to see what we're going to do. No, he's not watching to see what we're going to do. He knows what we're going to do. Hallelujah. So shall thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Then verse five brings it right on down home. It says, trust in the Lord. Trust in the Lord. Don't trust in your own self. Don't trust in your abilities. Don't trust in your wisdom. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, with everything that's in you. You need to know that God is able, no matter what comes, no matter what goes, I will not fear. I will not quit. I trust in the Lord because he promised to be everything we need. And that's what I'm seeing in all of these songs that came this morning. He's telling us. He said, church, you don't have to go afoul trying to bring things the way into the order you might want them to be. He said, I am your everything. I favor you. I love you. God loves this church. God loves his people. Hallelujah. Thank God. Thank God. Hallelujah. He said, trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. He said, don't get so smart that you say, I got it figured out. Can I tell you what? You'll never figure God out. Because if God did what he does, the same thing over and over without question, there's no room for faith. So we're talking about faith right here this morning. We're talking about when the chip seems like they're down and there's no way out. You need to understand that God favors me. I have faith and I trust him because he cannot lie. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path. Now what that says to us is if we trust God, we can never go wrong. It's kind of hard maybe to wrap your mind around that is that your life is planned by God if you allow him. See, he said in all your ways acknowledge him. In other words, let the Lord handle it. Let the Lord take care of it. Whatever the circumstances is, he's got it.  If you don't say tomorrow in all your ways and everything you do, acknowledge him. Ask the Lord to guide my steps. Lord guide my steps today. Order my steps in your word. Come on. Lord, I want to please you with all that's in me and I ask you I surrender my will. And I give my will over to your will so that you can guide me in the path that I need to go. I'll go to the book of 2 Kings where we're going to spend a little time to date. I won't hold you long and I know every time a preacher say I'm not going to hold you long, it looks like it takes longer than that. But if the Lord is the help, we'll go through this quickly. In 2 Kings chapter 6, beginning at verse number 1, we'll be considering verses 1 through 7. And then in this text we find the prophet Elisha was over the school of the prophets and the prophets saw something that they felt was worthy of consideration and so they went to the prophet and they made a request. Verse 1 says, the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now the place where we dwell with thee is too straight for us. He said, the prophets came to him and says, we're overcrowding. He said, the school has grown at such a rapid pace. We've not been able to keep up with it and we're bunched up and we're crowded and we need more room. Now one thing I appreciate about this is that the prophets had their eyes open. Sometimes there are people who don't see what's going on around them and they suffer uneasiness. They suffer because they don't see and they don't say. So the prophet said to Elisha, it's getting too crowded in here. We need to add an addition. We need to build something else where we can stretch out and be comfortable in doing the work that God has called us to do. And so they said to him in the second verse, let us go, we pray thee unto Jordan and take thence every man a beam and let us make a place there where we may dwell. And he answered, go. They made a request. He said, here's how we do. We have a plan that we've put together and we're thinking that if we go over to Jordan and every man cut a beam, we can put those beams together and we can have the room that is necessary for us. And so Elisha says, go. And one said, be content. I pray thee and go with thy servants. And he said, I will go. So he went with them. When they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. And I can see them in that group kind of like what happened here at this church. The people got together and I don't take full credit for what the Lord has done for us in this case. During difficult times, during our circumstances, God favored us and somebody saw something that needed to be done. Somebody says, why should we sit on the parking lot and wait until it's over? Why don't we do something on the inside? Come on, somebody. And so the Lord honors the willingness to work and the Lord honors more willingness to work continually and work hard. So when Elisha said to them when they asked him to come and go with them, he said, I'll go. And they went and they began to do their work. So they went with him and when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. Verse five says, but as one was failing a beam, the ax head fell into the water and he cried and said, a last master for it was borrowed. Now understand, many of us, hopefully all of us, when we borrow something, we need to understand it was not a gift. So when you borrow your neighbor's lawnmower, it's not supposed to wind up in your garage for the next three years. So we are to have appreciation for what has been favored us and take very careful care to return it as you found it. And I thank the Lord. I got teased when I was a teenager when people would ask me to go do an errand with their car. I would take the car, I would go do the errand and I'd come back and I'd be delighted to park it where it parked when I took it. It was just in me. I need to put it back on the spot where it got it from. Well in this case, a young man had borrowed that ax and it was an iron ax that was in the early days of iron tools and he felt the need to get that ax back to the one who loaned it to him and when it, when he was chopping with it, the ax head came off and fell in the river. Well, you know, I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and the Mississippi River runs right on the edge of town, separates Missouri from Illinois. The Mississippi River is muddy and I can see the Jordan River being the same thing and I kind of peep and took some, some look back into what the Jordan River was like and the Jordan River wasn't on the flat. It had higher walls down into the river and it was muddy and it says that the Jordan River was one of the worst of a hundred rivers in all of the world and so when that ax came off of that handle, the man's heart began to pound and he said, I don't know what I'm going to do. He said, I can't figure out how I let this happen and I don't know what to do about it. I'm in a circumstance that I have no control over but I got to find a way to get that man his ax back. Well, it wasn't no getting down there and looking in the water to see if you could find it. He went, verse six said, the man of God said, he went, he went to the prophet, the prophet, I'm sorry, he went to Elijah. He said, the man of God says, where fell it? And he shoved in the place and he cut down a stick and cast it in thither and the iron did float. Have you ever heard of any such thing? That's hard even to imagine how he took his knife and cut a stick off and he said, where did you throw it? I mean, where did it land? He said it landed right over right along in there and he took the stick and he threw the stick and when he threw the stick into that place, he said that the iron did rise and swim. Come on somebody. Come on somebody. Now, when I was studying this, it brought back to my mind when Mary and Martha sent for Jesus because Lazarus was sick and they were hoping that he would get in a hurry and come and take care of their situation. But he traveled on and on to several places before he got to Lazarus' house and Jesus said, where'd you land? Come on somebody. See, he's got a history. He said, you just tell me where you laid him and they said, Lord, it's too late. This situation is completely out of hand. He's been there for days and he's stinking right now. Jesus said, that doesn't matter to me. He said, I've got power. I have the ability to turn things around. I've got the ability to set the wrong in the right spot. He said, you just show me where you laid him and when they took him to the tomb and they went to the tomb, when they were taking the tomb back, they were doing all this kind of stuff. Jesus said, last one. Last one. Come forth. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.  Last one was wrapped in those tight clothes, the body wrappings and he came and Jesus said, loose that man. Loose him and let him go. See, he's no longer bound. He's set free. He said, I can do anything that is necessary. I've got you and I have you in my purview and I favor you and whatever comes, whatever goes, there's no mountain that's too big. No thing that is too hard for the God that we serve. Hallelujah. Thank God. Thank God for a mighty God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. So they said to him, we threw it. I mean, the ax went right over in that area. So he did, he said, and the ax just, the ax head just came to the top. Now, can I tell you he is not a magician. He wasn't a magician. He wasn't pulling any tricks. He wasn't working with any unknown spirits or untoward spirits. When he did that, the ax just got up, rolls up to the top and starts swimming. Won't he do it? Won't he do it? God is able. There's nothing, nothing too hard for the God that we serve.  You let me fix it. Be not to your own understanding. In all your ways, come to me. Everything that's wrong in your life, come to me. Bring it to me. I'll take it. I'll fix it. I'll turn it around. I'll give you a victory like it never had before. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank God. Thank God. The God we serve is without compare. Hallelujah. So he said, as he cut the, cut down the stick, cast it thither, the iron did swim. Therefore he said, take it up to thee and he put out his hand and took it. It's the main object of this text. You've got to believe what is real in your life. Your circumstances don't matter. Come on.   He's going to give me a victory and I'm not worried about it because I have faith in his ability to do what he said he would do.  It's impossible. He cannot lie. If it looks like a lie and he says it, then it ain't lie no more because everything that is, he spoke it into existence. Hallelujah. Now the thing in the seventh verse, the last verse, therefore said he, Elijah said to the young man, take it up to thee and he put out his hand and took it. Do you know that young man had to make a decision whether to do it or not? The answer was given to him. But in this instance, what a wonderful thing. All he had to do was stretch his hand out. Come on somebody. Come on somebody. Somebody's wrestling with a situation. Somebody has a temptation. Somebody's got a trial that they're going through and the answer is there. The answer has been given to you. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Trust God with everything that's in you and don't lean on your understanding.  Your mind is not powerful enough. He said, you got to trust me. He said, if you trust me, I'll make it easy. Now, Elijah should have told, he could have told the guy, well, swim out there and catch that ax before it gets away. I brought it to the top. Now you swim out there and get it. God, the God, then put us through things that's unnecessary. He said, I can do whatever you asked me to. Just have faith and believe. Many blessings you will receive. There is no failure. No failure in God. He cannot fail. He's the omnipotent God, the almighty, the powerful one, the great breasted one. He cannot fail. He'll never leave you. He'll never forsake you. Now it said, trust in the Lord with all your heart, not with all your brain. Come on, somebody. Why are you trying to figure it out? He already then worked it out. Come on, somebody. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You need to get that faith in God down in your spirit. You got to know that he's going to do it. He may not come when you want him to come. But I tell you, he's going to come and he's going to make it right. He's going to favor you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm excited. I'm excited about the Lord. The Lord loves you. Do you know he loves you? He's not trying to see if he can keep you out of heaven. He's not trying to see how much you can take. He knows how much you can bear. He knows what your situation is coming to and he can fix it. Hallelujah. Sometimes we say he's going to fix it by and by. Sometimes it ain't by and by. The moment you call him, he said, before you call me, I'll answer that I know Jesus.  I'm glad that I know him. I'm glad that he knows me. Hallelujah. Thank God for the relationship I have with my father. He never lets me down. He'll never let his children down. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I love the Lord. I love the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. And I told you, it won't be long. The final point is when you have the faith, God's got the power over your circumstances, over your circumstances. He's got the power to deliver you. He cares enough for you that he's going to fix it. There's not a mountain too high, nor valley too deep, or a load that is too heavy that he can't handle. So he says, when I make the provision for you, have no doubt. Have no worry.  Come on somebody. Hallelujah.  Show that you are receiving that that God has provided. I love him. I love him. I love him. Hallelujah. I want to encourage you each today. I want you to be encouraged.  And can't nobody fix it but God. Yes, it's a mountain too big for me. I admit, I couldn't begin to figure out anything to fix the mess we're in. But God, but God, but God is able. He's able to deliver you. So I'm saying the God I serve continually is able to deliver me. Oh, he's able. He's able to deliver you. He's able to deliver you. Hold on. Hold on to your faith. Let him do what he wants to do in your life. That's an encouraging message. Come on. That's what the Lord gave me. The Lord gave me that for this body right here. The other thing I'll add to that is persistence. Persistence. It's not enough to work hard for 15 minutes and say, where is it at? The Lord knows us. He knows our capability. He knows what you're able to produce. You know how he knows? Because all of your ability has come from him. Come on, somebody. The Lord chanted your life before you were born and he knew what he was going to put in you. He knew what your propensities would be and he knows and because he knows, guess what? He expects. Hello. Oh, y'all didn't say much there right there. Come on somebody. Let me tell you this. I'll just, I'll start out at the low point. He knows you can be a church on time. You know what? I was a fireman for 30 years. I would never leave. You know why? Because there was somebody at the spot that I was going to take when I got to work that wanted to leave and go home. And so I honored that and I made sure I was on time. I didn't have somebody standing at the door waiting, wondering when he's going to get here so I can get out of here. You know what being on time is? A habit. You know what being late is? A habit. A habit. And God knows you can do. They say, he doesn't stop preaching and go on to meddling. Well, let me meddle just a little bit more than I quit. If you know you're doing less than you're capable of doing, you need to step up. The Lord will honor your stepping up. Maybe the length of your test is extended because you're not stepping up. The Lord loves you. The Lord loves you. The Lord loves you. The Lord loves me. Amen. Let us be faithful to our charge. Let the Lord bless you in Jesus' name. I don't know if y'all know this, but Bishop got a new mic. That was one of his birthday presents from one of our members. Amen. They saw a need and they said, I'm going to do some about this and we praise God for it and it's working good, isn't it? Amen. Wow, wow, wow. That's all I can say about the message in the service today. It's wow, wow, wow. The altar call has already been preached and sang and everything else. Minister Merlin taught a Bible class on Wednesday night about being hearers and doers of the word and obeying God, obedience to God and what obedience to God would do.  So whatever circumstances you're in, Buddha can't help you.  They can't help you anyway. The banker can't help you because your credit is too low. But guess what? There's a God who can't help you. There's a God who can work every situation out. God can do everything for you. Who would not serve a God like this? Who can do everything?  And another thing, he owns it all. He said cattle in a thousand years is mad. All the money in the world is mad. And all God do for those who think they got some money is allow you to be stewards over that.  It can be gone. So who wouldn't serve a God? God over my circumstances. Who would not trust in God? She's saying this song about tomorrow. He said, oh God, Jesus said he would supply all your needs. And if a God would supply all your needs, why not serve him? And think about it. And why should you wait till tomorrow? The son goes on and say tomorrow is not promised to you. So you better choose in the day. The scripture said the day you hear my voice, heart not your heart. So we have heard the invitation already. We've heard the message. Now it's up to us to do what we've heard. And don't wait till tomorrow to do it. God want all of us to be saved. He want us all to go to heaven. He want all of us to dwell. You know, that's why he came down here. To give us an opportunity to connect back with him. Because when Adam and Eve was in the garden, they was in perfect condition. And that was it. But when they sin, God said, I got to make another provision. I got to make a way where men can come back to me. And women and boys and girls can come back to me.  I have to come down from heaven, put myself in a body, come down, walk among the humans for a while, let them know who I am, the miracles I can do, and all those things I can do.  He did it for us.  He died on Calvary Cross where I sinned. He knew no sin. We're the only ones had sinned. He knew no sinned. So he died on Calvary Cross where I sinned. And not only that, all the beating, all the persecution, you think you're going through something now? I don't think any of us can handle what Jesus went through. All the persecution that he took, the beatings that he took, all that he took, guess what?  And who would serve a God like that? I don't know who's not saving this building today. I don't know who don't know the Lord today, but I do want the, the, the, the altar workers to come for it because somebody might need prayer. Lord, I want to get a little bit closer to you. I want to trust you more, Lord God. Lord God, I want, in other words, I want to start swimming just like Elijah's throw this through that stick out. I want you to say the man could have, could have, could have went out there. He could have told the man to go swim, but he had to ask to come to him. So I want you to say I want to start swimming for God. I want to start swimming for the Lord. So I want to start doing what God want me to do.  Now I don't want you to come up and, and really not mean it, but I want you to come up and ask one of these ministers to pray for you. You know where you are in the Lord. I don't know where you are in the Lord. You know I want you to search your own soul, your own heart and say I know I'm not right. I've been baptized in Jesus' name. I've been filled with the Holy Ghost, but not my life is not what it should be. I'm not doing everything I can for the Lord and I want to do everything for the Lord. Why? Because tomorrow is not promised to you. Amen. Does anybody need prayer? Does anybody need God to touch their hearts? Does anybody need prayer come up for prayer? And I, if anybody's that's not saved and you need salvation, you need to come up and talk to one of the ministers. Amen. And I know these children's not the only one that need prayer. We all need prayer. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I address you and obey. When your spirit speaks to me, I'm a whole heart answer will be yes. Lord, I'll say yes. Lord, yes. Do yours. Lord, yes. I will answer you and obey. When your spirit speaks to me, I'm a I'll say yes. Lord, yes. Do yours. How to obey God more? I will study because in the Scripture it says that if you do this, God will do this. But if you don't, you'll get curses. If you do what God said, bless shall you be. Bless shall you be. Bless shall you be. Bless shall you do. But then if you don't do what God say, do cursed shall you be. The same blessings you get the antithesis of the blessings. If you don't obey God, we don't have the option. We don't have the option. And those curses are scary. I don't want nothing to do with them. I don't want anything to do with them. So I'll say yes. Lord, yes. To your will. I'll say yes. Lord, yes. I'm going to trust you because when your spirit speaks to me with my whole heart, I'll answer will be yes. Lord, yes. Hallelujah. Amen. It's offering time. Come on. The Scripture says give and it shall be given unto you. Good measures. Press down, shake him together and a running over. God'll take the basket and bounce it so that it'll settle. So the room will be made in the basket for him to put more in there. Find yourself doing what God said, do. Hallelujah. If you want to be blessed, be a doer of the word. Amen. Come on. It's offering time. If you're ready, bring your offering. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Bless you, Lord. Bless you, Lord. We thank you. We thank you for your word. Thank you. You are so faithful to us. You bless us all the time. You increase our understanding. Amen. You help us to learn more about you and to learn how you operate and your expectations for us. You've already got a plan for us and we know it. You've got a plan for us. Amen. And we thank you. Hallelujah. For making that plan known. Hallelujah. And helping us to adhere to that plan, helping us to say yes. Hallelujah. To your will and to your way. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Father, we thank you. Thank you for those that gave. Thank you for the offering. God, you are faithful to your word. Now bless it. Bless it. Bless it. Hallelujah. Those that gave. Hallelujah.  I see smiles on the faces of the saints. Hallelujah. And their hearts are married toward giving to your kingdom. God, we thank you. Hallelujah. Increase them, oh God. And bless it in the name of Jesus. We thank you and we praise you. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Come on. Put your hands together and give the Lord some praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Bishop, is that it? Are we going to be determined? Yeah. We're determined. Hallelujah. Come on. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. And you've given us information, knowledge. Hallelujah. With your word, we have feasted and we are full and we praise you and give your name. Glory. Bring us back at this place. Oh God, at the appointed time, we'll lift our hands and give you praise. Lift our voices and glorify your name. Hallelujah. Cover us with your blood as we go to our several abodes, God. And when we come back, we'll be glad to give you glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Walk with me. Walk with me. Walk with me, Lord.


As vaccinations continue to tick up, daily new COVID-19 cases are continuing to trend downward. And that's really, really good news. But, having said that, the protections put in place during the pandemic are still very much needed because it is going to take years to build back what we lost during the pandemic. People who lost their jobs, lost their health insurance, lost their livelihoods are still trying to find their footing. Some still haven't yet, and it's going to take time. So you can't just automatically declare the pandemic over and get rid of all of the protections put in place during the pandemic. If we actually care about people, then we have to make sure that there are still protections that remain in place for a while. But there are some individuals, oligarchs in particular, like Charles Koch, the Koch brother, who did not die, who's already trying to undo pandemic-era protections. And he's doing this before the pandemic is even over yet. So as Andrew Perez and David Sarota of The Daily Poster explain, billionaire Charles Koch's foundation has bankrolled three conservative legal groups leading the court battle to eliminate prohibitions against tenant evictions during the COVID-19 outbreak. At the same time, Koch's corporate empire has suddenly stepped up its real estate purchases during the pandemic, including making large investments in real estate companies with a potential financial interest in eliminating eviction restrictions. In the last few months, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Pacific Legal Foundation, and the New Civil Rights Alliance have been pushing federal courts to strike down the CDC's eviction moratorium, which is designed to protect millions of Americans from being thrown out of their homes during the pandemic. The groups have so far won two rulings. Between 2017 and 2019, the Charles Koch Foundation contributed almost $7.7 million to those three conservative organizations. According to the Foundation's tax returns, reviewed by The Daily Poster. So long story short, it is not lucrative to have these moratoriums on evictions for an extended period of time. Landlords, real estate developers, they want to make money. So they want these eviction moratoriums to be gone as soon as possible. And they're winning that battle. And Charles Koch is helping to bankroll this process because he also has financial incentives to make sure that these moratoriums on evictions go the way of the dodo.  I mean, evicting people in general, that in and of itself is wrong, considering we have to decmodify housing in America. But to do this during a pandemic, that is really like a unique kind of evil. And to push for this, it's just, it's gross. I mean, I don't have much to add here to the story because I think that the details speak for themselves here. They're trying to evict people during a pandemic who are struggling to survive. The federal government offered almost no help compared to other developed countries. And already the pandemic is not even over and what little protections remain in place. We have right wing ghouls. We're trying to get them thrown out. It's just despicable. But this isn't at all shocking when we live in a late-stage capitalist society where policy is dictated by what the oligarch and ruling elites want. I think that it's important to shine a light on what he's doing because this truly cannot just go without mentioning.  And I know that this is basically what we expect in our society now, which cares more about profit than people. But we still shouldn't just like not talk about it because we're numb.


There's an old Chinese saying, and it says the temptation to give up is greatest right before you're gonna succeed. So do this, when you emotionally feel like giving up, I promise you that means you're closest to succeeding. It's crazy, it's like you're walking through your house. The UPS guy left a million dollars, somebody shipped you as a gift.  And right when you get to the front door to open it, most people give up right there. I read a report which basically said 70% of people give up after one obstacle. 70%, anything they do. Anything, trying to build a business, going to college, whatever. The second thing is after two failed attempts, 90% of people have given up, and only 10% of people stick after three times. People wanna learn lose weight, they go to the gym, then they'll lose weight right away, and 70% of people never come back. That's why gyms make a lot of money, because they have small spaces and they can sell 1,000 memberships because most people sign up for a gym, go once or twice and then give up. Same with making money.