Ma'am, you were on mute. Thanks, Sid. Sorry, my mic was muted. Welcome everyone for today's session. Even before we could start, can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Jeffina, would you like to pray? Anyone else would like to pray? Brother Abu Bakr, would you like to pray? Yes ma'am. Yes. Thank you, we glorify your name for this hour. Thank you for our class. Thank you for our teacher. Thank you for the student. We bless your name. CP that is sorted in Jesus' name.  Father, have your way. Take proper control. Teach us yourself from above in Jesus' name. I pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. I'm just setting my camera right. Okay. So how was your weekend?  Okay. I see a complete silence there. Ma'am, weekend well well in ministry. Your weekend went well. Wow. That's nice. Nice to hear and also see how you serve along with your dad said. That's nice. Okay. So today we are going to study on the book of which many scholars believe that it is the greatest book in the entire Bible. Which is that book? It is the book of Romans. Yes, brother. Thank you. It is the book of Romans. The book of Romans is also known as the book of justification. Okay. Please make a note. Okay. Let me discuss on this book. There's so much to learn and share from this one book. I would request you all please make a note. So the book of Romans is known as the book of justification. So what do we know? Who's the author of this book? And what do we know about this author? Class, let's keep it interactive. Just unmute, share, talk. Don't worry. It won't be a wrong answer. Just share what you know. Ma'am Paul. Yes, Apostle Paul was the author. Okay. So what do you know about Apostle Paul? He is a Jew writer who changed his name to an entire name from Shawol to Paul. Okay. Anyone else would like to add? Ma'am from a Christian persecutor. He became a Christian preacher and missionary. Super. That is one of my points that I would want to share. That's really nice. Thank you from a persecutor to a preacher. That's nice. Yes, Brother Lubega. You would like to share? He was a member of something like that. He was a member of, sorry, I didn't get that. He was among the 70, he was in a group of the 70 scholars who were in Jerusalem. Okay. Okay. Thank you for sharing that. Well, the book of Romans was the first of many books written by Apostle Paul. So Paul wrote at least 13 letters of 13 letters. That is the epistles of 27 books in the New Testament. So the books range in size. Okay. Some some letters like the letter to Philemon was about one chapter and the other books were about 16 chapters or less than that varies. Okay. So all of these books are the epistles or the letters we call it to the individuals or to the church, including, including with a greeting or the message was all about greeting or addressing or exhortation admonitions or some of them, some of the letters were about the doctrinal instructions and personal information. And it ended with a salutation. I wanted to see through from the book of Acts like initially he was addressed as Saul of Tarsus and then later he continued with the name of Paul. So what is this Saul and Paul? Did he change his name after his encounter with Jesus or how did this name change happen? Yes, brother. Go ahead. I think he was, I think he was both a Jew and a Roman citizen because in Jewish he was called Saul. But when you look at his Roman citizenry, this is Paulus, something, something like that, Paulus, which means I think Paul. I think there was. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. That's right. That's right. So Saul was his Jewish name and Paul was his Roman name. So both was his name, nothing to do with the encounter, but then both were his name. So Paul was born in Tarsus. We see that in the book of Acts chapter 22 verse 3, that was his original name being Saul of Tarsus. And Paul was also born as a Roman citizen. In the same chapter, when we continue to read down, we see that Paul was a Roman citizen and Paul was a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin. These are certain things that we need to remember. Paul was a Jew from the Benjamin tribe and he was educated in Jerusalem under under the leader Gamaliel, a teacher of considerable reputation in both in secular and in religious world. And he was fluent in at least three languages, which were the common language that they spoke during that time. Anyone can share. Aramico. Okay. One of the language, which are the other two? Greek. Yes. One more to go. The others of what? Latin. Okay. Sid, what do you say? Hebrew. Hebrew and brother Lubeika said Latin. Good. All are right. Okay. He was fluent at least three to four languages. That's what the history says. One was Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and possibly he also knew Latin. So he was trained as a Pharisee. When we read the book of Philippians, we see that he was trained as Pharisee. And we also see he's been groomed for the Sanhedrin in the book of Galatians. We see that. And Paul became zealous opponent of Christianity. Oh, we know that because he was the key player in the death of the first martyr. Who was the first martyr? Stephen. Stephen. We see that again in the book of Acts last week. Stephen was the first martyr. And he was the key player in that incident. And, and he also became a lead persecutor of the church. And he received the letters from the authority to imprison all the Christians. And that's why with that letter, he headed towards Damascus. And we later, we know the story of how he had a personal encounter with Jesus. He also participated in a lot of tortures at trials and the death of many Christians. And he was the instrumental for scattering of the, of scattering the seed of the New Testament church where people, you know, they were scared of him and they flee to different places. With that, we also see after his encounter with Jesus, we see that Paul was a persecutor now become a preacher. Paul was a good candidate for salvation. And sometimes people that resist, you know, we see from his lifestyle, we can say that people that resist the most becomes the most zealous for the truth. We see in Acts nine how Paul transformed from being a persecutor to become a preacher and just not a preacher like the common man. But then he was very zealous to carry the word to the utmost part of the world. Despite even if it, you know, even if it cost his life, he was on the journey to share and teach the word. And yes, we are studying on the book of Romans, but then we need to know a little bit background about Paul. So where do we see the background? Yes, we see from the book of Acts. So when we turn to Acts nine in this experience and this preparation to the ministry. So Paul was confronted on the road to Damascus. Paul was confronted by Jesus while he was he was on his way to kill all the Christians there. Paul was after that incident, you know, Paul was commissioned by Ananias. He had to meet him. And then we know the story how his site was restored back to him. Paul preached briefly in Damascus. He just shared his experience with Jesus's encounter with Jesus, with the people, the Christians who were there and who were meeting in the underground churches. And he spent about three years in Arabia. Then he attempted to join the disciples at Jerusalem where he met Barnabas. This is the first time that Paul is meeting Barnabas at Jerusalem. And later after a lot of commotion and he's been rejected and a lot of death threats. He returned to Tarsus, all the disciples and all sent him to Tarsus.  And we don't know much what happened there. But after about, you know, some scholars says 10 years, some of them says 14 years. But after 14 years or after 10 years, 10 to 14 years, he was remembered by Barnabas. God made Barnabas to recollect about Paul when there was a need at the church of Antioch of Syria. So here we see in the later chapter, we see in the later chapter of Book of Acts, we see how Barnabas went in search of Paul. Went in search of Paul to bring him so that he can assist in the ministry.  And later part, when we study the Book of Acts, Acts 11, we see how Paul assisted Barnabas in laying the foundation of church at Antioch. Then we also see how Paul accompanied him in the ministry. He went on the first missionary journey with Barnabas and he collected the offering for the famine relief. And then we see how, you know, Barnabas, John Mark and Paul went on the first missionary journey. And when we were studying on the Gospel of Mark, we learned about John Mark how he was so scared with the things happening around him and he was not ready or prepared enough. So he had to leave Paul and Barnabas off the way in the first missionary journey and he returned back, which brought a drift in the second missionary journey between Paul and Barnabas. And he had an argument of which they both were separated and they went towards a different journey. So we, yeah, the Acts, the Book of Acts says that Paul and Paul took Silas and also Timothy and he went on the second missionary journey to the places as a follow up to where they ministered in the first missionary journey. And later we also see Barnabas taking John Mark and going towards the journey on a different way. But yes, not much of what Paul and not much of what Barnabas and John Mark would have gone, those are not been recorded. But then the places that Paul visited and Paul ministered to the churches and to the individuals are been recorded as the epistles to us has been added as an epistle in the New Testament. We see the different missionary journeys. The first missionary journey, yes, was initiated by Barnabas. And the second missionary journey, as I said, they all took Silas and Timothy and in the third missionary journey. Yes, it was a follow up and also the extension. This time, Paul takes Silas and Timothy and he broke new ground in the place called Ephishes. So this journey ended up with Paul and his team in Jerusalem presenting a relief offering for the Gentile Church. At the end of Book of Acts, we also see Paul's arrest, death and other traditions. So when we talk about the death and the arrest and death, yes, the Romans were very good at it. In fact, under the reign of Nero, let me share the presentation that I have here. Please give me a minute. Is it projected? Are you able to see? Yes, ma'am. Okay, so let me go to the presentation. Okay, the book of Romans we see and here I kept here. So the Christians were persecuted under the Roman Emperor Nero. So some Christians were attacked by the wild beast. This is the Colosseum, which is present in Rome. And all the people of Romans have been seated here watching what's happening to the believers, what's happening to the Christians, the new set of Christians who believe on Jesus. So the Roman Emperor thought these new set that is growing very rapidly are being a threat to them. They were asked to worship the Roman gods. They were asked to do the customs which the Roman did, the traditions they asked to follow to worship the Roman and the Greek gods, which the Christians, the new believers who believed in Jesus refused to do so. So in accord to that, you know, they were punished, they were arrested, they were persecuted, arrested. And then they were, you know, they made a spectacular watch to the people so that they thought by doing so they will bring an end to Christianity. So they caught all the Christian believers, they led the wild beast to come and attack them, as we see in this picture. And also we see some of them were crucified. I just selected this picture. I'm not too sure whether all three incidents happened together at one time or it happened in three different ways. But then here in this picture, I could cover all three different trials which the Christians underwent during the Roman Emperor Nero. So we see the Christians were attacked by the wild beast and we see some of them were crucified on the cross and some of them were lit as a torch in this place. And this is some of the ways where the Christians were tortured in those days in the time of Paul and Peter. So what did they do? The history says that Paul's death was unknown but the tradition holds that he was beheaded in Rome and thus died as a martyr for his faith. So we see that his death was part of the executions of the Christians ordered by the Roman Emperor Nero, which the reason was for following the great fire in the city. This incident happened about 64 AD but then what we see here is some of the tradition says that the fire was set by the Romans itself. But they blamed the Christians just for the reason to persecute them to kill them. So they thought they will bring the end to the leaders so they caught Peter and Paul. So Peter as he was the leader, so they actually wanted to crucify Peter. So Peter we see that as he requested that his cross will be upside down as Peter personally felt that he was unworthy of being crucified just in the same manner as they did to Jesus. So he requested them to crucify him upside down when he received the sentence of death. And yes, both of them was a martyr in the Christian church. They died this way during the reign of Nero. Yeah, so this is what I want to share. So with this we see that some incidents that was happening even in our time, we see that the history been repeated. It's not something new, but then there's a history being repeated in our time as well. So just to go back to go back what happened before Paul was beheaded. He was arrested in Jerusalem by the Romans. So Paul was arrested in Jerusalem by the Romans and he stood trial before the Sanhedrin. And we see he was rescued. Paul was rescued by Rome and sent to Syria where he stood trial in front of different leaders like Felix and Agrippa. And his sentence to death was delayed of over two years. And Paul was realizing his inability to get a fair trial. So we see that he appeals to Rome in Acts 25. He appeals to Rome and we also see how Paul traveled to Rome as a prison on ship. And we see the shipwreck scene and how they were rescued on the island of Malta and how he ministered to people there. Some of the things may not be understood then to Paul, but later when we read the book we see how God's hand was upon Paul. How God continued to minister even in the prison. Even when Paul was in the prison, the spreading of gospel was not stopped. Even when he reached the island of Malta, the very instant of a wiper, they thought that Paul may die, but then through that God's name was glorified. He could reach the gospel to the people of Malta and he could minister to them, see healing in the people who were there. And then Paul also, we also see that how Paul ministered to the soldiers in the ship. They started believing him. The prisoner became the leader, dictator in the ship, what needs to be done, what needs, you know, how we can rescue everyone. You know, he took the leadership even there. God always made him the head and not the tail. And also in Rome, Paul was put in his own rented house and even there how he continued to minister to people who personally visited him. He continued to write letters from that place. You know, the ministry did not stop with the trial of Paul, but it just continued. You also see, even in this place, how Paul continued to write the epistles. He wrote first Timothy, Titus during this period. And we also see how, you know, at all times, how personally he could meet people, visit people, minister to them and God continued to talk to people through Paul. And the book of Romans, to whom was this book written? Anyone from the class? And what was the purpose of writing the book? I think it was written to the Christians who were in Rome. And it was basically written for either dogfino papas or to prepare his visit to Rome. Correct. While we learn from the book of Romans itself that Paul wrote this book to the believers who made up a church, who built a church in Rome and were living there. And Paul had never visited this Roman church before, but he's writing a letter to them and expecting to visit them sooner. And he had a great respect for this church and even they had a great honor for Paul. And yes, but it is not difficult to see why the Christians from the Roman church met Paul with such great affection while he finally came to Rome as a captive. And what was the very purpose of writing this book? To show that salvation is to both Jews and Gentiles alike. Yes, you're right brother. While we see that there was a debate about the purpose of writing this book, Paul wrote this book well, a couple of things that has been noted, I would like to share it here. We know from the book of Acts that the church in Rome and existed for some time, that it was made up of Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Christ. But at one point, the Roman Emperor Claudius had expelled all the Jewish people from Rome. And then because they had a kind of fear like where these Jewish Christians are increasing, so he expelled them. And then about five years later, after the death of Claudius and the edict that he issued expired, and then we see the Jews, including the believers, allowed to return back. And they did. And when they did come back, they found a church that had become very non-Jewish in custom and in practice. So this created a lot of tension in the church believers, so that Paul's day, the Roman church was divided between the Jewish and non-Jewish people. And there were a lot of tension and disagreement happening between them. They were debating about the traditions, about the circumcision or about the Sabbaths that they kept and they celebrated and many other traditions they always debated between themselves. So Paul is writing this letter to accomplish few things. And he wanted this church to be united on a very practical ground. So he was hoping that the Roman church would become a staging ground for his mission to go even further west all the way to Spade. So we see that these circumstances are what motivated Paul to write out his fullest explanation of the Gospel, the good news that he wanted to share with them about the life of Jesus' death and resurrection. One thing when we see that whichever letter we read, despite the situation, there is one message that Paul is reiterating it again and again and again. That is the Gospel of Christ. Very clearly.  So with that, the letter is designed to have four main movements or parts that is there in this book. So what is that? One, we see to prepare the future visit. Second, we also see to strengthen the foundation of the church. How? So chapter one to chapter eight, we see to strengthen the concept of salvation is by faith. And chapter nine to 11, he emphasizes the spiritual heritage over the natural heritage in God's tree of faith. And chapter 12 to 15, he focuses on the practical expression of the Christianity that must be resulted in faith. So it is one thing to be doctrinal sound and it is another thing to put our faith into practice and demonstrate God's love in practical ways. And the last chapter 16, he is greeting Phoebe and also the other saints in the church. Yeah. And this letter was taken by Phoebe to the church in Romans. So what is the main message of this book? Anyone from the class, what is the main message? What do we learn from the book of Romans and why is it, scholars say it is one of the greatest theological book that we need to know. I think you said it is a book of justification when you are beginning the lesson. Yes. Yes. That's right, brother. So the key verse in the book is the righteousness of God. The words righteousness and justification occurs over 60 times in this book. The righteousness with God becomes the main theme of this book. That being said, we also see a leader in the church. Martin Luther was also impacted by the very verse on chapter 1 verse 17, which says that just shall live by faith. This verse impacted Martin Luther towards the Reformation in the church. So as we study the chapters from chapter 1 to 4, it talks about the righteousness that is required for us. And from chapter 5 to 8, we see righteousness been received, how we can receive the righteousness. Paul lets us know that the only hope for a man is if God himself provides for man's righteousness. And it demonstrates that Christ has acquired this on our behalf by his work on the cross and that we have the access for this gift of righteousness. How? How do we have the access for the gift of righteousness? It's only by faith in Jesus Christ and the work that he did on the cross. And from chapter 9 to 11, we see righteousness rejected. Here we see how Paul expresses his love for his own Jewish people. And how they were used of God to preserve a seed and the word of God for the rest of the world. But he also makes it clear that God has one tree of faith made up of both Jews and Gentiles. And the Jewish branches that rejected Christ were cut off of the tree of faith. And the Gentiles who received Jesus as the Lord and Saviour were grafted into the tree of faith. How well he explains it here. So the way into the tree is through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. He also says the way out of the tree is only through the unbelief. So our unbelief removes us from the tree of faith. Despite you may be a Jew or a Gentile, you have no access into that if we have unbelief. And from chapter 12 to 16, we see that the righteousness been revealed. Here we see that Paul turns a major doctrine of Bible into the implication of the doctrine. And he allows us to focus on how these things we call it as faith should affect our life. Well, Paul focuses on the practical side of Christianity. And what it actually means to display the righteousness of Christ in our relationship with each other and the world. So with that, we can go towards the unique feature. So what is the unique feature? What are some of the unique features that we find in this book? Yeah, y'all can refer your notes and give out some points. So the class is very quiet. I would request y'all to please go through, brush up the notes. So as you all share, you would know, okay, these are the things that has been shared in the classes already present in our notes. Okay. So yes, we talk about justification. It is the process by which God declares us not guilty based on the acceptance of the finished work of Jesus on the cross. We also see propitiation, which has been noted in Romans 3 25. Propitiation. Can I request one of us to read Romans 3 25 said you'd like to read. Can I read? Yes, please. Romans 3 25. God gave Jesus Christ to the world. Men's sins can be forgiven through the blood of Christ. When they put their trust in him, God gave his son Jesus Christ to show how right he is. Before this, God did not look on the sins that were done. Yeah, thank you. So in our NKJB version, it says, and when God said forth as a propitiation. That means Jesus is a mercy seat. Propitiation means Jesus is a mercy seat. So it's a process by which God removes the due punishment for us and because of the sprinkling of Christ's blood on our behalf. We also see the third point here redemption in this book in the same chapter verse 24 redemption being justified freely by his grace through the redemption. That is in Christ Jesus. We see it's a process again by which Jesus Christ paid the debt that we owe freeing us from the bondage to sin and death. We also see sanctification in this book Romans chapter five verse two sanctification. We have been sanctified in Christ. It is a process by which the Holy Spirit of God takes the level of our experience in Christ up to match our position in him. We also see the glorification of Christ in Romans chapter eight verse 18. We see the glorification of Christ. Again, it is a process, but it is an act of God by which man completes the process of full redemption with his whole spirit, soul and body, which overcomes the effect of sin and death. Yeah. So what makes the book of Romans so special? What experience do we get when we read the book of Romans? One of the key verses that we see when we read the book of Romans is, you know, as we read the book of Romans, we also get to walk the Roman roads of salvation. Okay, some of the key verses that we see through this book is Romans 323 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So what do we see here? All people on earth are sinners. Why is Paul writing the statement to make sure the Jews in the church felt that they were perfect and there was a tension between the Jews and the Gentiles in the church. So here Paul is bringing them listen. All people on earth are sinners, sinners separated us from God and keeps us from fulfilling our destiny and he brings them all on the same level ground. And he says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And again in Romans 623, the first part we see that, yeah, we see that for the wages of sin is death, for the wages of sin is death. So what do we learn here? We see that the scripture verse says the penalty for sin is death. Death that is referred here is both physical and spiritual. So there's an, there's also an eternal death that is separation from God himself. So he is bringing an awareness to both of them, Jews and Gentiles. And in chapter 5 verse 8, we see that God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. So here we see that God set his love upon us in spite of our sinful condition. Here we see Paul bringing a need like how important, what is our condition, what is our place we are in and how we need God. Because of God's great love for us, he provided a plan for our condition to be saved.  In that we also move on to chapter 6 verse 23 again, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life and Christ Jesus our Lord. So what we see here Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, that he became our sinless substitute. So that in order to receive that gift, we must reach out and accept the eternal life as the gift. We also see in Romans 10 verse 9 to 10. Okay, as we have very less time, so I'm just going through the scriptures Romans chapter 10 verse 9 to 10. What we see, if you confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. What we see here Christ died on the cross. He made it possible for us to receive the forgiveness of sins. So this gift of salvation is given to those who call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and those who agree and accept him as the Lord and Savior. And as we conclude this book, as we conclude this book, I would like to know why this book was so special. Yes, we see many scholars, many leaders who ever have meditated and read the book of Romans have been convicted, have been impacted. Yes, even Martin Luther was impacted by the very verse chapter 1 verse 17 which says that just shall live by faith. So it was the book of Romans that inspired him to have a personal relationship with God, to build the personal faith and put the seed in his heart that triggered the reformation. And it was in Luther's commentary on the book of Romans that stirred the heart of John Wesley and caused him to receive Jesus in a personal way. Yes, we also see the truth has been found in the book of Romans that have served as the basis of faith for all who call upon the name of the Lord. To many leaders. So I would request each one of us to please go through the book of Romans so that we each of us may be impacted by the word. So that we may be justified, we made righteous and be sanctified in the Lord. I said in a different order first we may be justified, sanctified and be made righteousness in the Lord. So I leave it open for the class to discuss, share what you learn from this book. Please go ahead. So that's the book of Romans that we end this book and we can prepare for the next book tomorrow on first Corinthians. So leave this time open for a class to share your learning from this book. What a back to do was there anything new that you learned? What touched you? Paul, would you like to share? Yes, please go ahead. Just unmute and speak up. What? One is righteousness and two is redemption. Yes, brother. Sid, you would like to share something? John, I hope that I'm audible. Would you like to share something? Lyndon, Paul, John, Paul, Sally. Would you like to add, share? Ma'am, can I say something? Yes, Sid, please go ahead. Ma'am, the most fascinating thing about the book of Romans which I like. Like there was an author by the name of Mr. G. K. Chestern. He wrote in his book, he wrote in his book like if there is a situation for the Christians, like they are in a desert and they are very of downtrodden situation. And only the one book is available from the Bible, which book they will choose is the book of Romans. Because unlike the rest of the New Testament book, it is not just focusing on the dry theology, but it is also focusing on the revival of the Christian history we have faced. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Sid. Anyone? Jeffina, you are very quiet. Are you able to hear? Can you unmute and talk to us? Okay. Okay. I hope this class was helpful, revealing a lot of insights from the book of Romans. And I, because you're very silent, I hope that you all have got the message, you all understood. Yeah, I see some of the messages here, that's the way you commute, but I would like you to post messages, ask questions, keep the session interactive so that it's live and interesting. Okay. As the time is up, let's bring this class to a close. Can I request one of us to please dismiss us in a word of prayer? It's a wonderful lesson. We also pray for the person who has taught us, who has been a person, who has taught us the Holy Spirit, who guide us well in the hand of the Spirit, because the Bible says that we want to lift up our hands, so shall receive the Spirit that will correct us, will correct us, remind us, and we can teach us a lot as we're going to push the, as we're going to close the lecture a lot, to pray that tomorrow we may be in peace, but not in peace, and to pray in the mobile phone, just pray so everyone can see. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Brother Lubega, for praying. Thank you each one for joining in today's session. See you all tomorrow. God bless. Thank you.


Today, we're going to talk about bogus bacon and why you should stay away from it Hey there and jrew22.com today with a little I don't know what it's what this is low carb or product review or whatever, but The the product we're talking about in particular here is called greenfield natural meat company bacon And there's a lot similar many similar products to this where they have this big bold thing on there This 12 ounce package is around 12 bucks. What I mean. I'm sorry 12 ounce pack was around seven bucks and Just as comparison 799 in fact, I think You can get four packs of the same size 12 ounce Jimmy Dean bacons for the same price as one of these little these Marketing bacons, I don't know what you want to call them, but in big bold letters on the packaging. It's clear to see There's pork raised with no antibiotics no grow it growth hormones and it's Humanely raised No, wait a minute. It wasn't the animal killed for this and what what difference does it make how humane it was anyway vegetarian feed for this non-vegetarian Product and then gluten-free the big magic gluten-free because all these people need to be gluten-free and I Always thought that all slabs of bacon were gluten-free. I don't see any wheat in the meat.  There's no reason to go through this nonsense. Oh night trade free And that's a whole nother fear thing as well. So I say no I do the regular bacon I buy the cheap stuff at supermarkets when they're on sale and We love it if you cook it right so if you liked the video, please hit the bell subscribe and all that and I'll see you next time


In this video I will show you how to create objects which will represent as push buttons or indicators like an indicator light.  When you click on it you have to move your mouse over to the screen to see how it turns into a crosshair. Left click and drag to the size that you want. So I'm going to leave it about this size right here. So that is my push button. Now I'm going to do a indicator which is going to be a light for my indicator light.  Now if you look you can see most of the both of these look identical. So one is a push button was indicator light. So I want to click on indicator light see how you have the little selection made.  Right now it's rectangular so you want to select circle. Now you have two separate icons here so if you look and see where your text is located you can come in this window on the state zero could be off. So when I click one that's what it looks like when it's on. Go back to zero. Now you can click right here and justify your vertical lower or back to the top. So I like to keep my text in the middle and do that for the zero states and also for the one state. I'm going to do the same thing for my push button. Now I'm going to change it to one and put that in the center also. So this is how you add a push button and an indicator. Next what we're going to do is I'm going to address these objects right here. The previous video we actually created tags and here's the window again that we've done on the previous video. I'm going to go back to my screen one. So when you double click on your push button for example go right here where it says right tag. Here all the tags we created so this is going to be my start stop push button. Now this is a single bit. In other words it's either going to be open or close and I'm going to leave it as normally open. And I'm going to click OK.  I'm going to double click. Now if you notice I don't have an option of a zero or one state or a single bit. So what I have to do first is go to my states here. Over here I have zero, one, two, three states. So if you click on three on the number three hit delete on your keyboard. Do the number two also hit delete. Now you have only two states.  So I want to do zero because I want the light to be off unless the PLC turns it on. Now I'm ready to read my tag. This one is located all the way to the bottom of the screen. And this is your pump run indicator that I want to do. Now I'm going to go into my edit tag just to make sure all my addresses were fine. When we created the tags all these addresses got put here. The tag name and the type is also a bit and also your node name. Node happens to be your PLC. Click OK. And I done stop, start stop button already. So this is how to address a push button and an indicator. On the next video I will show you how to change the colors and the text message also.


So, the man who took this powerful computing to the moon is in our hands, yet we are in a well of a lot of ignorant people. We are not just ignorant, we are so arrogant about it.


Hi guys! Hello! Welcome to Saturday's vlog!  This is what I'm wearing to Cycle Bar this morning. I'm actually doing a double ride because I want to get a couple rides in and I won't be going a lot next week, so next week I'm only going like three days a week, which is fine, but that's why I just wanted to add another ride in and they're super fun, so it's like cool. Then we will get our Starbucks all like normal, hopefully I won't forget to make this TikTok and then I'm getting my nails done because my nails look horrendous. That's a day today and yeah, so let's get the day started. I'm on my way to a Cycle Bar. I wanted to come on and tell the story and I think it's just like the best saying story while I'm driving in my car because it is about the I4 express lanes. Oh my gosh guys, like I have a story for you. As I'm driving home from work, I know that it's like the first day for the express lanes and I'm like, you know, ready to go home and I have like this pattern. There's this place on this road called South Street where you can just get on I4 and it's just a left turn and then bam, you're there. So I normally just go on my route and I turn left but like I get into the lane that's like just a single lane because it's been a single lane for quite a while because of the construction and stuff. So I'm just really, really used to that. So I make my left turn and there's these like solid cement walls and it's like I can't get out like if you're claustrophobic or like have anxiety when driving like it will definitely make you a little anxious. I mean I don't really but I'm like yo I can't like get out of this lane if I get in it by accident, you know what I mean? So I'm in this lane, I hate when motorcycles like drive in the middle of cars when anyway that's another tangent but that just happened. I get on the ramp and of course I am like secluded from the rest of the like oncoming traffic because they're all like far over to the right then there's this big cement wall like between us. So the left side is the express lane then there's and then on the left side of me is like another wall and on the right side of me is the wall and then there's there's the rest of the civilians so I'm like whoa like how do I get off this thing and especially like I don't want to be get charged so I am like kind of freaking out. Luckily they weren't charging because it was like the first day of them so I was like okay but still like I don't want to do this in the future so I'm like on this road and I'm like okay let's see if I can get off of this express lane you know when we finally we're done. No the cement wall is still there it's still like really really crazy and I'm like how long am I gonna be on this thing like I hadn't like really researched anything or looked anything up because I'm like oh I'm definitely not taking that because um they're just like kind of expensive and stuff. They're like 50 cents a stretch like it's 50 cents every time they snap a picture of your um license plate and I keep on driving and I swear the cameras snap my license plate like at least twice so that's like already a dollar and like I haven't even gone that far on the road you know so um and the traffic wasn't even heavy that was like even if I wanted to save time like it didn't save me any time so then I get off um finally at this road called Conroy I was gonna try to get off at John Young because I had already like in my mind taken those tolls so I like didn't want to take any more so I try to get off there you can't get off there you have to keep driving until like you find an exit like until it lets you you can't just merge over and change lanes because of that cement wall so I just wait until the first exit I get off at the first exit and basically to be able to get off of an exit you need to cross like three lanes like I find it to be really dangerous especially if you have anxiety or like scary to change lanes like don't take express lanes because how you get off is like you have to cross so many lanes if you don't need to get off and you just want to get out of the express lane you can but I mean the people taking express lanes probably are going to stay on there until you actually need to get off at the exit so I just find it to be like really dangerous if people aren't experienced drivers or if people have like anxiety driving so um yeah so when I got home I researched like where to get on and off the exits and I like was looking at my GPS and I came to the conclusion that on that road south street I need to keep driving just like half well not even half a mile like two centimeters forward and then I can get on to the non-toll road the non-express lane so I was I wasn't used to that because I was used to just that single left turn and then I like turned on there now they have it clearly marked so that's good um but I finally figured it out how to not take the express lane going to work and then coming home from work or like going to cycle bar and everything it's not effective because my route it's not like you can't I mean you can get on an express lane probably but it's not as like crazy and confusing um and I just take the same route so we are all good going downtown and everything but coming back at least I know now because I don't want to make that mistake again I just don't see any point or reason why I would need to take one especially because I don't have anything pressing that I need to like you know save more time like but then spend more money so I definitely won't be using them but I thought that was a funny story and I wanted to tell it um because again I just think it's kind of funny so I'm gonna go to cycle bar I am going to do like a TikTok so what I'm thinking I'm going to do like a montage for you guys but like the footage might be vertical so sorry but it's just hard to like double film for things but I'll see what I can do to make the video like good I guess I don't know I'll put like a cute background or something okay so I'm just vlogging on my phone just easier and I have it but look at all the cute merch like this how freaking cute I already have a shirt kind of like within that color but I really want to get this a little crazy so probably not gonna get that but I absolutely love all the merch because it's just because I like the logo I don't know guys the first ride went really really good I burned like over 400 calories because of that after it but I like to believe it is and then I rode 15 miles which is so cool so I'm really tired and I'm ready for the second ride I probably won't get any footage in there because I already have some footage so it'll just be repetitive okay so I'm just enjoying the day outside I'm sitting on this little bench here and um I don't want to have lunch like super super early I'm probably gonna go pretty soon but um I'm gonna get some Starbucks I want to make this TikTok I'm already sorry my hair's looking crazy but um I have a brush in my car so we'll fix that a little later I am going to get Starbucks obviously want to make this TikTok but it's also going to be like included in like the day in my life TikTok that I'm going to make and I need to get um I need to get some pre-filmed sorry there's this like lady walking you know like kind of awkward but anyway it's always so awkward like vlogging in public but the thing is like I'm alone so it shouldn't be that awkward but there's still people I'm gonna try to film like some extra TikTok so I can like post every day but it's just really difficult I think I'm gonna like stop posting every day because I don't know sometimes I'm like kind of running out of content but I'm gonna do my best to like attempt to do that I spontaneously said to my parents like let's go to Disney Springs I think we're gonna go tomorrow because the weather supposed to be exactly the same so we're gonna go and like just walk around Disney Springs tomorrow I don't know if that's gonna be a new vlog it'll probably be a new vlog I don't know I haven't decided yet yeah so I just want to give you the rundown on what's going on right now I had a really good morning it's been like so peaceful I love double writing it's just so nice and you really feel like you're getting your money's worth when you do that I have my nail appointment at 1.45 so that's kind of why I'm just like sitting relaxing enjoying the day not in the sense of like content creation but like ideas like what do I do like getting footage and the thing is I want to get more footage for like YouTube too so I don't know I hope it's okay I think I'm gonna take a rest like I said on TikTok but we'll see the easy ones are like obviously easy but when you don't have anything to post it's like oh shoot man like it's okay we'll figure it out I am just kind of using TikTok as like a fun outlet because like I don't make money from it and I want to make more reels for Instagram but the thing is like I don't want my whole fee to just be like reels I don't know it's just too hard and Instagram I do get paid now by Instagram but I don't know it's just again hard like I don't know what to do now I'm just rambling so I'm putting in my order for Starbucks because I always do like the mobile order because it's just easier and faster oh my gosh I'm so glad I tried the toasted vanilla shake and espresso that day like on Thursday because the store is out of the ingredients and they're like out of vanilla so I'm so glad got to try this drink and I just bit the bullet and got Starbucks that Thursday morning they're out of like some other stuff too but I went with my vanilla sweet cream cold brew with caramel drizzle okay totally forgot to vlog this but you guys saw some clips from my TikTok I got the bites and then I got just the vanilla sweet and cold brew my favorites okay I know the angle is kind of weird but I wanted to show you guys the nails I'm gonna get before I go in so I just uploaded something to Pentress and I was like oh my gosh I need to get the photo of like what my nails look like oh poor guy I do feel bad for him he doesn't look like he's doing that well so for the month of March okay I'm gonna do these nails sometime in the summer because look how cute so follow me on Pinterest if you're not already I pin like such cute things at least in my opinion and everything my nails are like so bad guys they've like all like popped off okay so these are the nails and I think they're so cute I don't know if you can see but it's just like a light green with like some flowers I don't know it just screams spring that's kind of hard to say all together it screams spring and it's like March so I always like you know associate March with color green because it's St. Patrick's day and stuff so that's the vibe I'm going for I'm sure like Ella can do that because she's really talented and everything like that but I cannot wait I've almost like broken my nails because they're just so like thin because you know they filed them down but I've been so afraid that I was like gonna break one so I've been like trying to be super careful with them but I'm going to head in now okay so I'm done getting my nails done and I wanted to show you guys this is what they look like I absolutely love the colors like look how pretty the green is like perfect it looks a little bit more bright on camera it's more like muted green she like matched the picture so well she was having kind of some trouble with the green part like right here but I think it looks amazing and it looks like the picture so um yeah I'm really happy with these I think I'm going to go home I need to get gas and I want to stop by Publix to get my friend's husband a birthday card because I think I'm gonna try to make it to his little like birthday party that they're throwing at their house so I'm going to get him a gift card so yeah um that's what I'm going to do now I love my nails I like them a lot more than the February ones not gonna lie I mean I liked the February ones but I think that these just are perfect for the month of March so I'm going to get on the road it's probably gonna be a little bit hectic it's about four o'clock right now so um I can't wait to just get home and shower because I just feel the best after my shower okay so sorry you guys are kind of crooked but I got a birthday card this is just what it looks like it's just a generic like happy birthday one because I honestly didn't know what to get him so it just says it's your it's your once a year day so celebrate kind of generic um if my friend watches this hi girl um and then I also got him just like a gift card it says to remove this tab but like once it's purchased but like I don't know like probably not gonna do that I'll probably just give the gift receipt so I got that and now we are officially gonna go home oh my gosh guys gas is so expensive like I spent $40 on gas and man I'm glad I don't take tolls because crazy all right I'm gonna go home now okay so it is a much later in the day and I showered as you guys can tell um and now it's dinner time my steak was like almost falling off but as you guys know we always have like our filet on Saturdays which is so good it's so yummy um so I'm just gonna show you the food didn't forget to vlog I think I'm gonna just start a new vlog for tomorrow um and I also want to film a couple main channel videos I don't know we'll see let me show you guys the food okay so this is what the food looks like also two guys like I did a lot of laundry today well I'm not a lot but I tried to like bust through a couple loads so we have the corn we have the steak and green beans are coming oh there it is sherry hasn't been in the vlogs recently casserole yes what do you have in there that's green beans oh just regular green so I'm gonna do a TikTok I need to do uh I need to take some clips for the TikTok


What's going on new friend and welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button, turn on your post notification bell, leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a post notification shout out at the end of today's video. So guys, I'm gonna make this intro really, really quick because I'm not gonna lie, your boy is honestly really excited to get into today's prank. As you guys can tell by title and thumbnail of the video, your boy is basically gonna be telling his girlfriend that she's not invited to my family's Thanksgiving dinner this year.  So right now she's actually in the bedroom, she's reading her book. Now that I think about it, she's been reading a lot lately. It's kind of concerning, but yeah, she's in the bedroom, she's reading a book.   I'm basically just gonna break the news to Janice that she's not invited to the Thanksgiving dinner, and I really wanna see how she's gonna react to this, especially since it's gonna be coming from my mom. But yeah, guys, enough talking. I just wanna get into the prank at this point. I'm sure you guys do too. So if you guys are ready for today's video, make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button, comment down below to Team Isaiah all day every day. And without further ado, let's get into today's video. I think I heard you. Your little tip of tappers. Little paw prints all over the place. Why is it cold in here? I don't know, it's freezing all the time. Speaking of all the time, you've been reading all the time as a boyfriend. I don't feel like my needs are being met. What? I don't feel like I'm getting enough attention. I'm trying to get some inner peace. I'm halfway done with this book, and I started it yesterday. I am your peace. Okay, there's a lot of other things that bring me peace in the world than you. I still love you though. What? Disrespect. Are you telling us of a book? Yeah, maybe I am. I'm used to it as like, I'm putting it in the fireplace. Why don't you come sit down next to me? Absolutely not, I'm not reading. Exactly, so then that's your problem right there. I don't even know how to read. I'm about to take a shower. You couldn't have fun. I won't have fun. I buy myself. I'm not using soap. You have to use soap. I'm not using soap, it's not Saturday.  Yeah, you probably wanna sleep next to your book. I just sleep next to all my books, actually. I'm putting all of them in the fireplace. We don't even have a fireplace. Yeah, I... Yeah, what's up, huh? Nah, nah, just got back from getting a haircut. I was about to hop in the shower and you called. No, I got some. I got some. None? Same old? What'd you been up to? Ginny says hi.  Man, noise in the background. Sounds like you had a party or something. What you got going on today? The usual stuff. Oh yeah, same.  Nothing crazy.  Ginny says they're already giving me a face because she's excited. Speaking of, are you doing that? You're still doing that Thanksgiving dinner this year, right? Okay, but if she didn't give you a reason, then why would? I'm not saying that. I'm saying if she never gave you a reason, then why wouldn't you want to include her? Okay, I get that, I understand. But what's your reasoning behind it? Man, you can't just not invite her just because you're feeling sometimes. That doesn't even make sense. Yeah, I get it, but this is something that you do every year. This is something that you've been doing for the past couple of years already.  How are you not gonna invite her to it? Okay, I understand that. Yeah, but that doesn't, I'll tell her, but I don't, like I said, I'll tell her, but I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make it then because then this is just gonna spark a whole, I already know it's gonna be a problem. I already know it's gonna be, that's all I'm saying. Okay, and I understand where you're coming from at the same time, it doesn't make sense. Like I said, I'll tell her, but it doesn't, all right, all right, expect the call back. All right, bye, love you too. What was that about? So the Thanksgiving dinner that we have every year, like my mom's, you know, I was sure you knew we were gonna fly back, whatever. Of course. She basically said that she doesn't want you there this year, that she doesn't want you to come to the Thanksgiving dinner this year. Why not? She said that the way you acted last year, didn't sit right with her, and I'm telling her that doesn't make sense because you didn't really do anything, so you heard me, I was basically telling her that doesn't make sense, that, I don't know. I don't even remember how, like anything, like I don't even do anything. That's what I'm saying, but I don't know, she says she doesn't want you there, and I was like, all right, well I'll tell her, but expect the call back, and I already know it's gonna be a problem, so I told her.  Yeah, but then how does it look like I'm going to do Thanksgiving dinner without you? Yeah, I'm kind of upset. Okay, yeah, and her reasoning behind it, like it doesn't make sense, the way she acted out, you didn't do anything last year, so you heard me on the phone, I'm like, that doesn't make sense, the reasoning behind it. I feel like everyone was fine, I was like helping set up the dinner plates, I was like helping cook and everything, I didn't do anything wrong. I don't know, but she said you're not invited to the dinner, so we have to figure something out. Would you be all right with me going, and then you staying behind? I don't know, I mean it's your family, but I kind of feel like they're my family too, that after all these years we've been together?  I mean I'm not gonna force you to stay with me, but it is really upsetting. I think you gotta call her. But I don't get it, we talk all the time, like if she had an issue with how I was, or what I was doing or anything, I thought we were closer than that, I thought we could have just had a conversation. I'm just as confused as you are. But I would never, I would never do anything to offend her, I would never do anything to hurt your family. I know, I understand, like I said, I'm just as confused as you are, but you're gonna have to give her a call and figure out what's going on, she wasn't really giving me much reason behind it, like I said, I'm just as confused, but. And she said it's how I acted last year? She said something along the lines of that, like she was like beating around the bush kind of, but I was like, the reason that you heard me, I said the reasoning behind it just doesn't make sense, like, especially that you've been coming to the ones the past couple of years, it just doesn't make sense, but I told her that I would tell you and this is me telling her.  I get it, and that's why it's throwing me off guard too, but I would just call her, but I'm just like, you know that I'm still gonna go, so. But why do you keep saying that to me, like I'm still gonna go, like you don't, like I feel like your demeanor is like pretty weird.  But like I said, I'm not gonna tell you not to go to hang out with your family. That's clear, I got it.  Like I'm not gonna say that. I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that. I just give her a call, talk it out amongst yourselves, y'all both grown women, figure it out.  So I feel like it's gonna be sad for me, like yeah, I have my family here and my mom and stuff like that, but like we always go to your mom's house for Thanksgiving. I get it, I get it.  But like what do I even say to her?  She didn't, she wasn't like mad over the phone or anything, she didn't have an attitude and she was literally just simply telling me, like, you know, this, that, and the third. So I don't just give her a call and talk it out amongst yourselves. When you do get on the phone with her, make sure you tell her that it's just a prank. Bro, you can't do that.  Nah, it was just- I wasn't even on the phone with anyone. I wasn't even on the phone, nah, I wasn't. Look, this is what I did. That's what I did. Anyway, Timo's there for the one? You can't do stuff like that. I do whatever I want, baby. You know I love- I gotta tattoo now. I do whatever I want.  I do whatever I want. That's a learning my feelings. I know it did. Anyway, Timo's there?  Is that what it is? I'm doing this because I'm jealous of a book. Yeah, you are jealous. You touch that book more than you touch me. Oh my God. Now I'm gonna go shower. Goodbye, you're so mean. All right guys, before I actually go and shower and scrub all the taint off my body, you guys already know I gotta close out today's video.  No, I'm not saying nothing. You know what, maybe you're not invited to the Thanksgiving dinner this week.  And that's probably a fact. And you know who likes me? You know, I'm not even gonna say it. I was gonna mess up my sons. I was gonna say who doesn't like me as much as they like me. I was gonna go back to the book.  So with all that being said, infinite fame, that is it for today's video. I hurt your feelings a little bit. That wasn't the goal. I kinda wanted to see you get a little mad. But you gave me the opposite reaction, which is still fine because I still collect my dub. Why would I get mad?  I'd get mad if your mom said like, yo, Isaiah's not invited to the Thanksgiving dinner.  What's up? No, imagine. But yeah, guys, that is it for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you guys did, make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button. Again, comment down below.  This is great. Another banger under my belt. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, you mad. After taking mad L's, so don't even.  I give you credit. See, this is me giving you credit. Look, I gave you credit. You got me hella times. But now I'm back, baby, and I'm coming harder, false. It is now time for today's post notification shout out. Today's post notification shout out goes out to Ashlyn Scully. Shout out to you, girl. Thank you so much for the love and support. If you guys want a post notification shout out, all you guys gotta do is Like, comment, share, subscribe, and turn on your post notification bell so you'll be notified whenever we post a new video. And with all that being said, damn, we pray to do what Isaiah, and we'll catch you over there.  Bye.


In 2005, I was young, a young postdoc, younger, and I was invited to give a talk in Strasbourg, but my train was delayed, and that day, Thomas offered to pick me up at the station so that I had time to have a quick lunch and a coffee before my talk, and we never met. It was the first time that we had contact, and I was grateful to him that he did that for me. And in 2012, I moved to Strasbourg. I was recruited there, and when you moved to a new place, you arrived at the June fight for the attribution of the lecture, and for my settling, Thomas did many things to ease this, and also he just gave me his lecture that he was doing the previous care, so when I did my first year in the real life of teaching, I had a nice lecture to give, and I'm also grateful, and I think many other colleagues in Strasbourg can add a similar story when they moved in. So, in the name of all your colleagues that you have, and in my name, I would like to thank you, and to wish you a happy 15th, nice, point, 98th birthday. Okay, so I would like to report on some joint work with Anna Wienard and with François Gaboris, Anna Wienard, which try to give what is a positive structure on a frag manifold, that is gmod p, and I will give a greater precise definition, but it's some orientability condition on this frag manifold, and our maybe first motivating example is the circle with its orientation, and when you have the orientation of the circle, you can define many other things, but the thing that will be relevant here is that when you take three points, x1, x2, and x3 in a circle, distinct, you can say when they are either positively oriented or negatively oriented, or negatively oriented, and Gator will explain what is a positive structure on a frag manifold, but it is really a set of triples that mimic the property of this positively oriented triples that you can find on the circle. So what can we prove with this definition that I didn't give so far is that we know all the frag manifold admitting a positive structure. So it's a classification result that I will be able to state completely after giving other, more many for example, that's just this circle, and when you have a positive structure, I will be able to define the notion of positive representation and establish properties on the positive one. So this is joint work with Anna Wienardt and the second result with François Gaboury. So I take a group that is either a free group or the fundamental group of a surface of hydrogenous, and for this example, I will not define what are positive representation. You can guess if you know a little about the boundary of this group, but I will give a later this definition, but a positive representation, so from this free group or surface group into G is a very nice discrete representation. So it's faithful, maybe there is only one line, has a discrete image and has many other relevant discreteness property. The set of positive representation in the set of all the monomorphisms from gamma to G is stable by deformation, so it's open, and under some condition we can show that a limit of positive representation is again positive. I don't know, there are infinitely many, yes it's probably semi algebraic, but I didn't think too much about this question. What is the third property? The third property is some closeness property, so if rho is a limit of positive representation, so it's my hypothesis of positive representation, and rho is a risky dense, then rho is positive, so maybe this can help answering a Frédéric question, it's connected component in some, a union of connected component in some algebraic. Okay, but in fact we expect that for surface group this is always a closed condition, so and this was established in some cases by Jonas Behrer and Beatrice Potseti, so it's a collaboration. So if gamma is a surface group and G is a SOPQ, so this is one group that is in the list of known group admitting positive representation, then three poles without the risky density, and colorally already from this point three that is conditional, but that is easier to obtain with the unconditional result of Beatrice Potseti and Jonas Behrer is that there are people constructing nice in the X-bundle parameterization of surface group, so gamma is again a surface group for this color, sorry, and the connected component that I can call generalized each in component that were understood by Brailleux, Collier, Garcia-Paler, Goten, and Oliver, so there are explicitly parameterized component of the set of the representation space of the surface group by some holographic object that are fiber bundled over some known base, but all of this consists of positive representation, so what I gave the result that I can stop my talk at any time, so the chairman is particularly happy, and I would like to give some classical instance of a flag manifold admitting a positive structure, so a notion of three poles that you want to call positive, and I will then explain what is axiomatic that you want for such a positive structure, and then give the classification result, and if this time permits I will give more combinatorial and algebraic property of this positive structure. If PQ is two-one, are there other positive representations than the particular ones? No, no, this really works here when Q is bigger than P plus one, and you want this at least and PS is two. This is a range, and the notion makes sense. Okay, so for Q equals P plus one, there is a chain component, but it was known before that it consists of positive representation. Okay, so what are the cases that were previously understood of positive representations? They are really action on the circle, and I'm leading to this from a really algebraic point of view. This is a very rich subject, but I don't go into action by homomorphism. So here I have still a surface group, and I define a representation to be positive into PSL2R. If there is a map from the boundary of the group to the projective gain, so I call it beta, so from this circle that is the boundary at infinity of the surface group to RP1, that sends positive triple to positive triple. Okay, so sending a positive triple to positive triple, in a way it's orientation preserving, and yes, you want this map to have some reaction with a wall, and it has to be the equivalent with respect to the reaction. What is known about positive orientation? So depending on your background, it's either a theorem or a sequence of tautologies, but when I had a course in, I don't know in matrices or they are about logic, the lecturer says that every theorem is a tautology, so every proven theorem is a tautology. So representation is positive, if and only if it belongs to the Taichmuir space, so it is the autonomy of a hyperbolic structure on the surface. So the equivalent map is unique, it is continuous, so in fact it has a finer continuity property, but I would not like to describe them. The set of positive representation here is the Taichmuir space, which is a connected component of the representation variety, and a last property that is also well known is that the mapping class group, so here exactly the automorphism group of gamma has a nice action on the set of positive representations, so this action is, probably, continuous. Again, I think this is all that I would like to say, but this very classical case, I would like not to give one other well-known instance of positivity, which is still classical in a sense. It is a case of a speed group, three speed groups, so my example of a speed group today will be not s1, but s1 and plus 1, and it is a little more convenient to take this as the stabilizer of the anti-diagonal quadratic form with alternating sign, so it makes, apparently it is a life more complicated, but many formulas simplify.  And what I would like to annoy you with other classical combinatorial data associated with this group, there is a vial group that is around here, so that I can see as a subgroup, exactly as a subgroup of g and r stabilizing this set. So it's a finite coaxial group, it's generated by the reflection s i that are associated with the simple root, so s i sends is a hyper plane reflection that sends i to minus i for i, and since you have this finite group and this generating family, you have a length function from w to n, and there is one element in w0, which is a minus identity seen as an element of g and r in this example, and w0 is the element of longest length. And what is the length of w0, I will denote it by capital N, but in this example it is equal to n to the square, so you can understand precisely this. And I will need further notation here, and then I will be able to state a result for the one parameter unipotential group associated with the f i, so I denote x i, the map from r to s1 and plus 1, that sends t to the unipotent matrix that looks like this, so this is for i less than n, and this is going i, and for i equal to n, so xn is a map that sends t to a little more complicated unipotent, that has this 3 by 3 centribrals, that is 1t t squared over 2, 1t and 1. Okay, so all of this has r. So the second t is on line 2n? This is 2n plus 1, and this is 2n maybe plus 2 minus i, okay, and a sequence E i, E n is like to belong to the sequence of the deck of w0, if so n is the length, capital N is the length of w0, if w0 is the product s i1, s i2, etc., to s i n. So there is maybe an old theorem due to this teach, so that I am stating in the particular case of s1 and plus 1, that says that the set u subscript positive, that is the set of product of the form x i1 of t1, x i2 of t2, etc., x i n of tn for t1, tn positive renumber. This set a priori could depend on the sequence you choose, but it does not, so it does not depend on the decomposition you choose of this longest world w0. In fact, there is more, there is the map from r positive to the n to u that is defined by this formula, the product of the x i of t1 is a normal morphism, so this set is a ball of dimension n, which is not at all obvious from the formula there, is that this set is a semi-group. And I must say that I am just quoting a few of the properties that Gustav established for this positive one. The ball of isomorphism is a semi-group isomorphism or just a normal morphism? No, no, this cannot be a semi-over. So, once you have this property, you can define what is a positive triple in g mod p. So, f1, f2, f3 in g mod p to the cube where p is a Borel subgroup here or the minimal parabolic subgroup is site positive if it is of the form p u w0 applied to p and w0 applied to p for some u in this positive subgroup. And you want to saturate by the g action, so I will add a g in front of each of these factors. So, there is g mod p, what is g mod p in this case? What is g mod p in this case sort of a Lagrangian or whatever? In this SON and plus one case?  So, maybe I don't need to put this isotropic condition in. Is it not just maximizing tropics? No, no, no, I need all the intermediate one. Yes, so there is for g in g and if gamma now is a free group or a fundamental group of a surface, our group that has a cyclic structure and it's boundary but there is not many other examples of these two families, then I can define a representation on gamma e2g to be positive if there exists a map beta from the boundary of the group to g mod p that has something to do with rho that is a rho equivalent and that sends a positive triple to positive three. Maybe the main result here is due to François Labourry in the for the g equal to s again r and to Falken Gottrauf in the general case, it says that the etching component consists of positive representation. So, a component that was built by etching and that we now call the etching component of the space of representation from gamma into g that is constructing through X-bundle via an explicit parametrization as all its representation satisfying a very nice geometric flavor that connects connect in a sense to the classical Taichman theory. So, the etching component consists of positive representation. So, the other classical situation that was also well studied in the literature and that I represent in maybe biased way is the case of Hermitian New Group. So, g is such Hermitian New Group. So, here I go back to maybe a more classical situation in this classical setting and didn't try to have some more complicated group. So, g is this v group. g mod p here is the Schiele boundary. So, it can be characterized in different ways but here for my explicit example it is the space of n-dimensional space of r to the n that are isotropic with respect to the simply kick form. So, it's the Lagrangian manifold and in this case I have an invariant that is the mass of number that is invariant with respect to the action on g and that produce out of three Lagrangian integer that is bounded by n. So, if you ask me I can explain what is this integer but I will be thankful if you do not ask and I define a triple is said to be maximal if its mass of number is equal to n. And this we play the role of the positive triples so I can define the representation to be positive. Maybe I will not write this definition, probably I have already guessed it. I need an equivalent map from the boundary of the group to the space of Lagrangian sending positive triples to positive triples. And I would like to write away this is not the triples is positive, the mass log is negative, the triples is positive, the mass log is maximal. It is said positive. Okay, so you use two words for the same. The triples is positive, its mass of number is maximal. So this is not the correct way to define this representation. But I will not to much into this but I will not like to give you the impression that this is the correct definition. Please have this in mind. Are you saying that it is a short definition that it's not useful or are you saying that it is not a definition that it is not? I don't understand the remark. Are you saying that you are cheating or are you saying that it is a cheap way that hides a lot of the theory. So and the main result due to Mark Berger, Alexander Yodzi and Anna Wienhardt. Again I stated only for a surface group but the theory is a return. First is that the set of positive representation is open and closed. So it's a number of connected components in the deformation space of representation of gamma into Sv2Nr. That positive representation are nice from a point of view of discrete group theory. So they are faithful. They have a discrete image and they also have a compact center laser. And furthermore I want to add that the mapping as group action on the set of positive representation is a property discontinuity. And strictly speaking this guy's point is a result of Anna and or François Labouille obtained independently. Good. No but this is true that in this situation for closed surface there is a unique such a map and it has more regularities. So it is either continuous. Usually it is not more. You cannot expect C1 or other. So now I would like to go back to a general situation and state what are the properties that you expect for a positive structure on a fragmented fold. So we take G now a simple really group P which is a parabola result group. So G mod P is my fragmented fold and maybe it's my definition. A positive structure on G mod P is a subset of the triples that will be qualified as positive that is a gene variant. So it is a list that you want to ask and there is a property kind of maybe co-cycle properties that makes you able to construct other triples if you know that a quadruple is in a oriented position. So if you have X1, X2, X3, X4 in G mod P such that X1, X2, X4 is positive so it belongs to T and X2, X3 and X4 belongs to T then the triple X1, X3, X4 also belongs to T. So orientability or positivity is a way to say when X2 is between X1 and X3 or X1 and X4 and if you have X2 between X1 and X4 and X3 between X2 and X4 you expect that X3 is also between X1 and X4. It's like a cyclic ordering. I must say that I didn't check the definition of cyclic ordering so it may be exactly the same definition but I'm not sure. So maybe the definition should state in one sentence it's a G equivalent cyclic ordering but okay so the classification result is the following. That positive structure exists for much more example than the classical one that I get. So it exists exactly for the following list. So one which is the first classical example I gave so G is split and P is a borelzavrup. Two which is classical two. G is Hermitian. I think I forgot to give one condition that may put a different, a little more difference with. So I want this set to be open. I want a stability by deformation that is open. Okay sorry for so the set of positive triples is stable by a small deformation. G is Hermitian of tube type so it rolls out a number of Hermitian loop for which there exists a kind of rigidity result that we are first established by Togedo. So for and G mod P is a sheik of modality. Okay and there is one other family and a few exceptional groups. So the other family is SOPQ where P is bigger or equal to 2 and Q is bigger than P plus 2. Okay and now G mod P is the set of complete but one flag in SOPQ. So it's the set of flag F1 included in F2 etc up to Fp minus 1 where the dimension of Fi is equal to i and Fp minus 1 is isotopic. And my last example for is G is one of the simple rigidity group whose restricted root diagram is of type F4. Okay so there is the split form of F4 and there is one refer of E6, one of E7 and one of E8 that are there. Sorry there was a small interruption so I'm not totally sure when it was interrupted so maybe I'll repeat quickly what is the positive structure on G mod P. It's a set of triples that mimic the that have that we can call cyclic ordering thanks to remarking the audience that is G invariant and that is open. And I gave the statement of the classification statement of positivity there are the classical case there is one other family for SOPQ and four other groups and identified G mod P when the G group is of type F4 and I will just try to quickly give an hint on how you can prove such a result. So what is important here is egg the levy subgroup of P and the action on L and U which is the unipotent radical on our in term of Liege-Gebrach's unipotent radical on the Liege-Gebrach P. Okay so there is a decomposition on U into irreducible conditions that is well understood thanks to Carton so there is a decomposition that is similar to the decomposition of the Liege-Gebrach G in a restricted workspace so it's a kind of restricted root decomposition and in R plus you have as well so it's in general this is not the positive root of the root system it's a subset of the dual space of some things that has some nice properties but that is not a root system so there is a simple system that I record maybe a big D a simple system and the main proposition that is the key to the classification result and the key to understanding many of the properties of the positive semi-group that you can define mimicking the definition of glue stitch of the positive semi-group in the speed case is the following that G mod P admits a positive structure if and only if for every simple root in D so those are not really roots but it's convenient to keep this terminology as there exists there is a cone in this piece an invariant piece of the decomposition of U an invariant acute convex cone and this is the most important property because there is a result due to Carton and Hegel-San that characterizes the irreducible representation of reductive G-groups admitting an invariant convex cone and thanks to this characterization applied to this situation you can end to this list and I will stop here thank you very much so you didn't say that the safety when the positive structure exists is unique in the examples you said maximum yes yes and this is not really the correct definition because you you here I could just put an equality here so this is this is not but yes when you when you saturate by the direction and by this properties that induce the semi-group property and the cones there there is more questions inside the room also online if you're still there no Alex so the first example in which we don't have positive structure is SL2C yes yes it's two transitive and triple it's transitive too much transitive as this is what you mean yes yes yes but is the next example which is not abuse SL2-1 yes but SL2-1 is almost an example any I think any rank one group that is not a SITURA is an example so SL2C I understand why there is no positive structure because it's transitive on triples yes but I expect to give us a simple argument for SO14 stating that is yes I mean a geometric show that white white is not transitive on triple there so another question is why does this exist while I say to R okay so more questions no so thank you again thank you


Hi everyone, it is Brandon of Happily Dressed, the fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency, and welcome to this video. I actually don't know how long this video's gonna be, but I'd be grateful for any amount of your time, as I explained something very important to me and very crucial to the core of Happily Dressed and why it exists. So I've had this conversation with a few people actually recently, and it inspired me to do this video because just the things that I said resonated so hard with me and the people that I was speaking with that I think it's important to share, and that is the idea of how to get everything you want and need out of life. And what's so important is that I've had this revelation over 2020 and I've been trying to live in it in 2021, and it's that the road to everything you want and need in life is not this way. It's not some external goal. It's not a five-year plan. It's not external. The road to everything you want and need in this life is this way and it starts with self-acceptance because there is a value that we all intrinsically have that we oftentimes deny or compromise or shush or mold into something different for the expectations of other people. Everything you want and need goes this way. And you can't even start on that journey unless you like who you wake up and see in the mirror every day because if the road goes this way, this right here is the door and you have to see it and believe in it and that this is a part of who you are and important to your being.   Are you speaking your mind? Are you giving your opinions? Or are you staying quiet to keep the peace or to not rock the boat and keep things the way they are? If that's the case, you're not living honestly and accepting this as the start to everything that you want. It's not about the approval of other people. It's not about keeping the peace externally. I believe that there is a path for everyone and it is self-sustained. So if you want a new relationship, if you want a better job, if you wanna make a lot of money, if you wanna, it doesn't matter. Whatever your external expectations are, they all start this way. You don't go after them this way, you go after them this way. With an internal deep dive, really getting to know yourself, really getting to know what you like and what you don't like and not letting other people make your mind up for you. Because the more you're in tune this way, the better you line up this way for everything you need to come to you. And that's not with this idea of you can just think happy thoughts and blessings and money just come rushing to you. When you go this way, you are doing inner work that inspires external work.  You're not weighing other people's external opinions more than your own. You're trusting that the role you deserve to be on is already yours and it's about discovering how to get there. So as you're going this way, it's like, oh, I really like this. I really enjoy this. Let me learn more about it. Let me do more with it. Let me go out and make my mark in some way or somehow, even if it's the tiniest action, that's what I'm talking about. Because yes, thoughts are extremely important because thoughts inspire action and actions without thought are empty. But anyway, I'm getting a little sidetracked. I just want to let you guys know the road to everything you want and deserve in life is this way. It'll never be given to you by someone else. It can never be taken away from you by someone else because it's all this way. You have everything you need. It's about discovering what that looks like for you and discovering what are your true wants and desires and not something imposed by society, your family, your culture, being able to step back outside of all those things and decide who do I want to be in this world? Who do I want to be on this earth today, tomorrow, the next day, and it can look different for everyone and every day. We are dynamic human beings conditioned to take one part of ourselves and blow it up to 100% as if that's all we are. Whether that's in career or race or gender or sexuality, we are dynamic human beings with so many facets and faces and we need to start giving each and every one of them our attention. And that takes time. It can be very cumbersome but it can also be extremely rewarding. Self-discovery is one of the best gifts we have while we're here because it can take us so many places and it doesn't start out this way. It starts this way and it saddens me because there are so many people who wake up every day and because of those topics, whether it's their culture, their race, their sexuality, their gender, they wake up and they don't like the person they see in the mirror and it's not because they don't see value in them. It's in the fact that their culture or their environment does not see their value.  But truly, their opinions do not matter to your end goal and to your purpose here because that's all this way. They can't reach inside you and snatch out something that does not belong to them but you have to know that. And also too, this is a great segue to the fact that your opinion about someone else's life does not matter.  You're gonna be in battle with different parts of yourself that have been conditioned and programmed in you to believe. So it's not gonna always be pretty discovering who you are. So give people that same grace. As someone's like, I wanna be this person today and you're like, that's not who you've always been. That's none of your business who they wanna be. We all have self-made success, purpose, determination, inspiration and support right in here if we just wake up and choose to acknowledge it and give it the value it deserves. Happily dressed exists because one day I woke up and thought, you know what? I have a passion for self-discovery and I do that through the clothes that I wear. I love to express myself through the clothes that I wear. What I wanna do is get rid of the middleman. Why not start making the clothes that I really enjoy wearing and discover new silhouettes and new ideas and new pieces that haven't always been accessible for my race, my gender, my class, et cetera. I took my self-expression and my passion into my own hands literally and thought, I can do this for me. And also anything that I make no matter how good or how bad or if I'm just a beginner or I'm an expert has value because it came from my two hands, it came from my heart and it came from going this way. Not anyone else's external opinion on the clothes I should make or how I should dress. It all started with being brave enough to go this way. And this can apply to so many other people's talents, wants and desires and what you wake up feeling inspired to do but you don't give it the chance because of society or your community.  Support starts with you and if it's not echoed in your environment, it's time for a new environment. As we discover new facets of ourselves, it's only natural that other things people wants and habits fall away. That's how life works.  Don't be sad if people fall away or old career goals fall away, old career paths that you thought you once wanted fall away, that's natural because new ones are coming to replace them. I think there's a trust that's also involved with knowing that this path is one that is not faulty. It is one that will never let you down and as you're on this path, as you see things falling away, know that but this is the path to me, to my purpose, to why I'm really here and it can't let me down. It's not designed to let me down. So even though my external reality is like, oh, all these friends are gone. Ooh, that job that I thought I wanted, oh, it's now gone. Oh, I don't wanna do that anymore. Well, what do I wanna do? Keep going this way and you'll find it and more. I guarantee that. I give you a 100 day money back guarantee if it doesn't. So the money you spent watching this video. But yes, it's just so important because it makes me so sad and like it comes out as like frustration and like a passionate speech but it makes me so sad to see some people wake up and not trust their own intuition, not trust their own wants and desires because other people are whispering in their ear and they're letting them. At the end of the day, we let people convince us not to do the things we want to do. We let people come in and try to devalue something that is priceless, that they don't get a choice to value in the first place and yet we give it to them. That makes no sense. So please stop doing that and start waking up, looking in the mirror and saying, hey, this right here, cause you know, I can see myself. I'm doing this on my front facing camera. This right here, this is the starting path to the road of who I wanna be, of who I'm always becoming. It starts with accepting this, seeing it, loving it. And if there's something that you don't like, have this question, is this from an external opinion or an external group think mindset that something here isn't lovely, something here isn't worth being loved? And that's the case.  If there's something here where you're like, you know, I don't like the way I always feel, that's different. Feeling goes this way. Address that, start that journey, but it starts with seeing this door and accepting it and being ready to open it and discover so much more of yourself that you would have never allowed yourself otherwise.  I said something on my other account before that others can't lift you up if they don't know where you stand. And I think that's so important. And if you yourself don't know where you stand, that's okay. You have a whole lifetime to figure that out. Give yourself the grace and the flexibility to be the dynamic human that you were already born to be. We all have several facets of us that are untapped and yet to be discovered and we have to give them the room to breathe. We need to stop taking one part of ourselves, whether that's a career or a personality trait and posturing it up like it's all that we are. There's so much more that's left in the dark that needs the spotlight, that needs time for you to shine on that part of you. And then another time to shine on this other part of you. Anything less than that is a disservice to who you are. Okay, I think that's the end of this video. I feel like I hit all the major points that I wanted to go this way, always go this way. If you catch yourself going this way, it's time to stop, rethink and go back this way. Also, knowing the value of this, you are not allowed to ever go into someone else's life and be like, hey, you should do it this way. You need to do it that way. I don't know why they're doing that.  That is none of your business. Your opinion means nothing to the weight of their soul's value and to the weight of their purpose in their own road.  But your opinion has no weight or value against someone else's purpose, road and destiny. So keep that in mind. And also, step one to this wonderful life and wonderful road always starts with seeing this bad boy or girl or non-binary human and accepting them for who they are always becoming. There is no end to this. You end when there's no more breath in your lungs. So as you grow, you will always be continuing to change and grow and discover more of yourself. And it might be different opposite 360, 180, 270 of who you were yesterday, last week, three months ago. And that is okay. Now I'm really done. This was lovely. Thank you guys so much. If you watched to the very end, I really appreciate that. Having this conversation with me, it's been actually extremely satisfying to like say this to a public audience and not just have it live in conversation with good and amazing friends. I definitely want to do more videos like this because I think happily dressed, it really comes from this part of who I am and not just this ability to make clothes or this want to make clothes and express myself. It comes from something deeper and acceptance of who I am and an acceptance of the dynamic human being that I'm always becoming. Until next time, we'll talk soon. Bye everyone.


We are still going on with our series of sessions on whistleblowing and now we are going to move on to from the more tactical to the more strategic level that whistleblowing strategies which would exist within the organization. Now when we are talking about strategies then we are talking about top level involvement in whistleblowing and how they should be perceiving whistleblowing, how they should be encouraging whistleblowing and what are the consequences of these strategies or these policies of whistleblowing. So when we are looking at whistleblowing policies, organizations that intend to pursue its activities in high ethical order will frame policies for whistleblowing. So those are very important. Whistleblowing policy must provide confidentiality with respect to information and the identity of the informer. So that is very important that they should be a very strong element of confidentiality and the identity of the informer should be protected so that repercussions can be limited and that informer or that whistleblower does not have to face a lot of enmity and hatred within the organization. The policy should provide for the protection of whistleblowers and a quick action against the wrongdoers. They could be achieved when the designated authority dealing with whistleblowers are either independent, senior and responsible. So whistleblowing should be dealt at the highest level through independent, senior and responsible employees so that the other employees do not have any vested interest. We also see that in the policy the manager should address disclosures of wrongdoing to avoid damage to individual organization reputations and other negative consequences. So it is very important that the concerned manager which usually nowadays is called the ethics manager should try to mitigate the damage and negative consequences. All parties in the problem involved must be adequately heard and proper recordings should be made. So again it is very important that recordings should be made that a very famous saying of law is Audi Autrampartem that no one should be condemned unheard. Everyone should be given a chance to express their own opinion. Those people who are involved in the corruption or negative activities and also those people who are trying to substantiate that they are taking place. So the policy should be such that everyone should be given a voice. Then we also see that the elements of the whistleblowing policy should explain how the whistleblower is protected as per the policy of the company as well as the law prevailing in the country. So they could be internal policies and internal mechanisms and then they can also be country based laws, regulations and institutional support. It should state the good intention of the company in promoting whistleblowing within the company. So the policy should be very clear, very candid and should encourage people to blow the whistle. We also see that in the elements they should specify the consequences if the guilt is proved and the seriousness and severity of the measures taken after the whistleblowing. So it is not only the whistleblowing process, it is also about the measures taken once that whistleblowing has been proven. The policy should specify how the immunity is provided on staff who have positively contributed to the entire episode of whistleblowing and that is a very, very strong element to ensure that whistleblowing takes place because those who are involved in blowing the whistle or in giving evidence about the issue or who one way or the other are directly or indirectly involved, they all should be protected and they all should be encouraged to continue as employees who have a voice and are concerned about the organization as a whole. Feedback should be obtained from all the parties involved in whistleblowing so that maybe the mechanisms can be improved or maybe some new stipulations can be added or new processes can be added. The timeframe must be specifically mentioned in finding solutions to issues involved in. So it has to be a timeframe. So it should not be that once the whistle has been blown and it has been proven then things just linger on for years and years, there has to be a time involved, there has to be a deadline and based upon that the whole process should be aligned and calibrated to ensure that there are positive results and feedback from the whistleblowing. Now there are benefits of a whistleblowing policy. First of all, good governance based on ethics. So this policy tends to substantiate that the good governance policies of the organization are based upon ethics. It creates a good ego system for whistleblowing. It prevents corruption and nepotism within the organization. It tends to promote corporate social responsibility, good relationships of executive with employees, discouragement from mistakes and unethical practices. So what we see is that it would discourage people from indulging in such things because they know that the whistleblowers would damage their career. So ladies and gentlemen, what we see from this session is that the policy should be articulate. It should be something which motivates and promotes whistleblowing which ensures that the whistleblower and all of his or her associates who are providing evidence to the incident or to the episode, all of them are protected. It should encourage ethical practices and most importantly it should ensure that the people who are taking a decision on the whistleblowing, they must come from the senior level and if the whistleblowing is proven, then there should be a timeline for the consequences on an individual and institutional level. Thank you so much.