Okay, welcome back after the break. I'll just present the PDF copy so you all can view it. Okay, are you all able to see? Yes? Yes, go ahead. Okay, thank you, Jefina. Okay, before we went for our break, we were looking at Chapter 7. We're talking about being co-workers in the Kingdom of God. We're called to co-work with one another in the Kingdom of God. We are also called as co-workers. When we work together with others, there is always a challenge or a difficulty when we relate with people that there are differences. We don't agree on different points and that can bring in strife and disagreement. We said that at such times, we need to maintain unity in the spirit. A couple of two references here, one from Ephesians chapter 4 verse 3 and the other from Philippians chapter 2 verse 1. Ephesians 4-3 says, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Philippians chapter 2 verse 1 says, therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit, if any affection and mercy. So the two important characters, the work of the spirit or when we can expect the spirit to work in our midst, is when there is unity amongst us and there is fellowship of the spirit. When there's unity and there's fellowship, then it also is the right conducive environment for the move of God, for the Holy Spirit to move in our midst, to work in our midst. And if you want to be a kingdom builder and you want to know if you are truly a kingdom builder, then you need to see if you are a person who is trying to bring about unity, striving to keep the unity of the spirit, the fellowship also of the spirit in your team or the church that God has called you to minister, to oversee and to lead. So wherever there is unity, the body of Christ is strengthened, there is fellowship, there is oneness, and there we can see the work of the spirit moving or the power of the spirit just moving powerfully. The unity of the spirit that is the presence of the power of the spirit just moving mightily in our midst. There can be people who might not be from our same denominations, they might not worship the same way we do, they might have their own criterias, their own things, but because they do not worship like we do, they do not follow a so-called liturgy or a style that we follow. We need to remember, irrespective of all our denominational differences, we are all still part of the kingdom of God. Yes, denominations, denominational differences divide us, but we are one, one body in Christ. We belong to one God, there is no division in that. There is no different kingdoms, there is just one kingdom of God and whatever they are doing, we also need to know they are also being part of building the kingdom of God. So here we see in read in Luke chapter 9 verses 49 to 50, John tells Jesus that there are some people who are casting out demons in the name of Jesus and he asked them not to do so because they are not people who are following Jesus, they are not part of the group, the core group of Jesus in his disciples and the other people who are following Jesus. And Jesus, what is Jesus' response? He says, do not forbid them for he who is not against us is on our side. So people can, all of us can be worshiping the true and living God, they can be worshiping Jesus. We are on the same page regarding the work of the Father in sending his son. Jesus coming down as a Messiah, Jesus dying on the cross for us since the finished work of the cross and believing in the finished work of the cross, accepting him as our Lord and Savior and worshiping Jesus. When we are on the same page then irrespective of the way that we worship our style, our denominational differences, we need to know that all of us are together building God's kingdom. And we also need to partner with them, co-work with them in extending God's kingdom and also furthering the work of God's kingdom. We need to be kingdom-minded, as I said, it's very important for us to be kingdom-minded, not to be having a mind where we are thinking we are building our own empires, our own kingdoms, our own denominations, thinking that us, the only denomination of people who will get to heaven know that's a wrong mindset. But as he says in Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 10, you shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. So we all need to have the same mindset that we are worshiping one God. We are worshiping the finished work of what God has done on the cross. We are people here who are to, with that kingdom mandate, we are preaching and teaching and baptizing people in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. When we are doing that, we are all kingdom-minded, we are focusing on that, we are trying to extend God's kingdom together. Then we see this advancement in the kingdom, there is unity that is being strengthened, there is fellowship in the spirit. But if we are not thinking in the mind, then we are pursuing our own personal agendas, our own denominational agendas, then it's like we are plowing together with an ox and a donkey. You can't plow a field with an ox and a donkey, it doesn't work. You will let just not get the work done, you will waste your time and energy. Hence it is important for us to know that irrespective of all our differences, we are here to build God's kingdom. We are here to fulfill the kingdom mandate of going into all the world, preaching, teaching and baptizing people in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. So whatever is our denominational differences, that is small, that is not something that we hold on to, make it as a big difference, whether we should be jewelry or not, whether men should sit on one side, women should sit on one side. Paul even talks about this in Romans chapter 14, basically Paul is saying, leave all these elementary things. Do not hold on to elementary things of what kind of food to eat, what are certain days you need to observe, certain days you need to keep. So he says, whatever kind of food you want to eat, you eat. Whatever days you want to observe, you observe. Let it be between you and God. But don't make that mandatory for other believers because that is what the Jewish people were doing. It was kind of bringing a division in the church, trying to bring a chaos with the unity. So he says, whatever you want to do, do it between you and God. But he's saying, you know, but keep the unity of the Spirit. You know, love everyone, love the weaker brothers. The weaker brothers here in this context in Romans chapter 14, he's talking about the brothers who are new to the faith. When they come in, new to the faith, you know, and they don't see you following certain days, doing things in a certain way, eating certain food. Then you can say, well, this is my privilege. This is my, you know, freedom because in Christ we have the freedom to dress how we want to eat the kind of food to observe certain days. That is a freedom we have in Christ. The new covenant, we are not bound by all of these things that, you know, the Jewish laws and rituals.  But there are new Christians, new believers who are coming. They don't know this. They don't know that their freedom in Christ is still learning. They're still growing. So, you know, don't say that, OK, it's their problem. They have to learn. But Paul is saying, if I have to give up some of these freedoms, some of these rights before other believers, so that I don't become a hindrance to them, then, you know, I'm actually a furthering the kingdom of God. I am actually bringing glory to God. So, you know, there are times when, you know, all of these, and he says, don't take all of these things and, you know, start an argument about all of them, because this is all unnecessary. And sometimes we can hold on to all of these things, you know, that men should sit in one side of the church, women should sit in one side. Some denominations follow that. Some denominations, the women should not wear jewelry. You should just wear white clothing. You know, some denominations, they say you have to be baptized. What about that is then only you can take part in the Lord's Supper. So all of these things are, you know, based on different denominational beliefs. So, but don't get into unnecessary arguments and fights, because these are kind of really trivial, unnecessary. And when you get into all of this, it's going to cause, you know, bigger problems, divisions. Just overlook all that as far as, you know, you know, if you look at what is mentioned here, as far as we agree on the core essentials of the faith, what are the core essentials of the faith? Who Christ is, His finished work on the cross, His death, His resurrection, His soon return, the Great Commission, what He has left us with. We all believe in one mind, you know, we can see the advancement of the Kingdom of God. Yes, we have our differences, you know, but those are very small. We might not agree on some things, but that doesn't really matter. But, you know, as far as we agree on the core things and we walk alongside each other, build each other up, we can see the advancement and the building of the Kingdom of God.  One is keeping the unity of the spirit, and the other is the fellowship of the spirit. Okay, so let us be Kingdom minded in strengthening the unity and the fellowship of the spirit and working together. Okay, the next one is put the growth of God's Kingdom ahead of personal ministry advancement. Let's look at what Matthew chapter 6 verse 33 says. Matthew chapter 6 verse 33 says, seek it first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. So we're basically seeking the advancement of God's Kingdom. Yes, it's true that, you know, each one of us, God has given us a vision, a call, a specific function. We are responsible to carry this, to run with it, to be good stewards of what God has called us to. But even as we do that, we need to operate out of a mindset of a Kingdom mindset where, you know, we are our main agenda is pursuing or building the Kingdom of God. And it's not just our own individual visions called ministry or church that God has entrusted to us. But as we build on our personal vision calling ministry in the local church, we are also, you know, using that as a platform to build the Kingdom of God or the advancement of the Kingdom of God. So if you look at this paragraph, it says, you know, we need to put the advancement and the growth, the Kingdom of God ahead of our personal advancement. And when we do that, this is one way we are dying to ourself. And we know that it's not easy, you know, we can constantly have our own personal pride, personal things that hurt feelings. You know, feelings of not being recognized, being put down, being overlooked. But you know, even as we try to die to those things and we say, God, all this really doesn't matter for me. What matters is advancement of your Kingdom. And I'm going to do everything that I'm doing. I'm going to do it for your glory, for the building of your Kingdom so that you, your Kingdom can be advanced. And it's not about me and my name and my faith. Okay, we must also learn to connect and work with each other. We are designed for partnership. We're designed for fellowship. We see this in the very beginning when God created man. He created man to basically have fellowship, have communion with God. And also we see that, you know, God knew that it was not good for man to be alone. So he made him a helper, you know. So Eve came along and hence we see that, you know, we are not here to be an island by ourselves. We're doing everything by ourselves, but we are here. We are designed by God, a basic design, a basic makeup is to, you know, to fellowship with people, to work with people, to work alongside with people and to partner with people. So in the body of Christ we're designed to partner with others. The famous illustration that people use for partnering the body of Christ is about what Paul says, you know, when he uses the human body and he says, you know, in the human body there are different parts and different parts have different functions. But all of those parts are very, very important. Some are very significant, some are very insignificant, small, some are big, but irrespective of all of that, you know, each part in our body has a function and each of the part has to fulfill its function for the body to work effectively. The same way in the body of Christ each one of us have different functions. Some of our functions can be big like being in the five-fold ministry office, being a pastor, an apostle, a prophet, a teacher, an evangelist. But that does not make us great.  You know, we can look down on them and say that they are insignificant, they have small roles. But, you know, Paul is saying whether the role is big or small, each one of us have a specific function and each one of us doing our specific functions, you know, if we do it all together, we are basically doing it for the enriching and the building of the body of Christ. So partnership is, you know, in the body of Christ is complimenting each other. We are complimenting each other and we're not competing with each other. Okay. Most of the time in the body of Christ, we see that there is more of competition than complimenting. You know, Eve basically was brought into compliment man. That is how we are created. So we are created here to compliment each other, to support each other, to fill in where the other person cannot, where we have that specific gifts and calling and the grace of God. So let's not get into a competition, but let's be there to fulfill our function in the body of Christ and, you know, and compliment each other. So we are all needed with our different giftings for the smaller, big for God to move in our lives and also for the body of Christ to be extended for it to grow so that the, you know, when each one of us are fulfilling our functions, you know, we are basically doing it for the edification of the body of Christ, for the enriching and the edification of the body of Christ. So each one of us are positioned, equipped and released into our specific call and function, you know, we do it for the furtherance of God's kingdom and for the edification of the body of Christ. Look at these two references here in John chapter 4 verses 36 and 38 and 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 5 and 5 to 8 here.  But, you know, whoever is come into whichever season, they have to be, they have to acknowledge those who have labored in the previous season. Now, if you are in a season where you have entered into this place where you are just reaping the harvest, you're seeing God's word, it works smooth, mightily. It does not mean that it's because of your spiritual maturity or your intimacy with God or how holy you are that God is just, you know, his move is there and you're reaping, you're seeing the move of God, people's life being touched, people's lives being saved. You know, it's also because people in the previous seasons have functioned, have labored hard, they have toiled, they have cried out to God, they have prayed, they have worked in that mission field. They have basically come in and till the ground, they have sown in the seeds, they have, for some of them have watered, some of them have nurtured and you've come into the season where you're just reaping. So, you know, like it says here, you know, I sent you to reap for that which you have not labored in John chapter 4 verse 38. Others have labored and you have entered into their labor. So even as you've entered into other people's labor, you know, and it comes to a place where you are celebrating, you know, also celebrate along with them. Acknowledge those people who have in the previous seasons labored hard, done what God has called them to do. Of course, they have moved on, maybe they've gone to different places, maybe they've moved on to glory. You can recognize them, their inputs share what they have done, what God has done in and through their lives, which means that we don't take all the glory and honour for ourselves and it also doesn't mean that it's all because of us that, you know, this is happening here, that people's lives have been touched. It's a great move of God. No, it's because of other people who have also labored. Look at what Paul says, you know, some people in the church at Corinth, they're saying we belong to Paul, some say we belong to Apollos and some say that we belong to someone else. So, you know, Paul is saying, who is Paul? Who is Apollos? Aren't we just ministers of God whom God has given us this responsibility? So Paul is saying, maybe I've mounted the church at Corinth, but Apollos watered, but who gives the increase? It's basically God who works in all of the seasons. So it's Paul is saying, it's neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but it's God who gives the increase. Okay. So and Paul beautifully ends this, you know, passage is saying, you know, each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.   And the reward is what they are able to see the reaping of the harvest. Even if they've moved on to glory, you know, the harvest is a reward of the work that they have done. Okay. So we need to also acknowledge other people who have stepped in, you know, who have worked hard and, you know, and have done their part. Okay. Even in the kingdom mindset, it's very important to know that, you know, we allow other people to step into our field, you know, our vision. We've already spoken about this. God brings in other people to step in, to, you know, work on the vision, the calling that we have given, that God has given to us. So it's God who sends people to labor, you know, but if you don't have a kingdom mindset, if you don't think, okay, kingdom, what God has entrusted to me is also having to do with partnering with others, co-working along with others, you know, and we're not able to see that then we will, what we will do is we will be basically sending away, you know, laborers whom God has sent into our field or into other vision that he's given to us. And then sometimes we are wondering, you know, we are working hard, we have sown the seeds, but why aren't we able to see the harvest? Or sometimes you're wondering why there are no seeds or the, or maybe wondering why the seeds that we have sown, why they are not crowing, why they're not springing up. It's basically because, you know, we don't have a kingdom mindset. We're not working with a kingdom mindset where we are willing to take in people that God has sending into our field and we're just chasing them away because we're thinking that if they come in, they will take away what is ours or we are thinking that, you know, hey, I labored, I work hard, they will take away what is mine, all my hard work, so why should I allow somebody else? Well, that is not the kingdom mindset. Okay, so John chapter 13 verse 20, Jesus says, whoever receives those whom the Lord has sent has received him, has received God himself. So he says in John chapter 13 verse 20, most assuredly I say to you, he who receives, he who receives, whoever I send receives me and he who receives me receives who sent me.  At the same time, you know, like I said earlier, we need to be cautious, you know, we need to be on God, who we allow to enter into our work, the vision God has given to us, because there are some people who can come with their own selfish interest, their selfish agendas, and we need to guard against false prophets and people, you know, who pretend to be ministers of Christ, but who come with their own personal selfish agendas, and that can trot the work of God, that can delay the move of God and the things of God because of the things that are happening within the divisions, the fighting, the jealousy, the insecurity, okay? We need to remember that in the kingdom of God, you know, it is God's kingdom, he will do things his way, not our way. So in God's kingdom, increase comes through partnership because God has designed it that way, okay? So, you know, just remember that we cannot reap unless, you know, other people have plowed the ground, sowed the seeds, watered, done it to their own sacrifice, prayers and labors, and when we are reaping their benefits, we need to rejoice and celebrate along with them, okay? So an important aspect in kingdom partnership is that we must know where God wants us to be positioned in any given season of our life, what role he wants us to play, whether he wants us to be, you know, sowing or digging or laying the foundation in somebody else's field or vineyard or whether he wants us to reap what somebody else has sown or whether he wants us to move out from somebody else's field or vineyard into our own field to begin our own work. So, you know, what season of life God is calling us, we need to be very mindful and God shows us the seasons that, you know, that he takes us through, he prepares us for those seasons and we need to be very mindful of the seasons that God is taking us into. Yes, Paul, you have something to say? Hello, Paul, do you have something to say? Sorry, Paul, we're not able to hear you. Sorry, sorry, it's just a mistake. Okay. Anyone has any questions so far? Any questions? No questions? Okay, just looking at Paul's life, you know, Paul also was a co-worker. He had so many people whom he co-worked with, who worked, he worked alongside with, he traveled along in his missionary journeys, who he trained, who he equipped, and who also he, you know, gave them responsibilities. So, all of these references on your screen from Romans chapter 16 verse 7, verse 21, 2 Corinthians 8, 23, Philippians 4, 3, Colossians 1, 7, Colossians 4, verse 7, 10, 11, 1 Corinthians 3, 2, Philemon, you know, basically Paul, before he begins his letter, or when he ends his letter, he always acknowledges the people who are along with him, who are serving along with him, who sends the greetings to the various churches that he's writing epistles to, and he addresses all of these co-workers as fellow prisoners. That means when he was in prison, in house arrest, people who were alongside him, working along with him, ministering to him, bringing him things, and also doing the things that he, you know, Paul is entrusting to them to cause him fellow prisoners, work fellow partners, fellow helper, York fellow, fellow laborers, fellow servants, and then he mentions a whole list of names. So, we see that not only just men, but also women who labor along with him, who partner along with him, and this is a good example for us to follow ourselves, that, you know, when people who labor along with us, we recognize them, we honor them, and we give them the honor that is due, the due recognition that is due to them, because of what they are doing and how they're laboring alongside with us, okay? The next point is even as we are, you know, looking at bringing them minded in the sense of co-working with others, allow God to bring about divine connections. A good example given here is in 1 Corinthians 12, verses 16 to 18, verse 22, and verses 38. So here, this is a passage from the Old Testament, and we see here that, you know, David was anointed as a king, and when he, you know, once David stepped into his calling, we see that, you know, the Spirit of God actually moving in various people, causing them to come to David to serve under his leadership, okay? We also see that when David was, you know, running away from soul, he was in the wilderness, in the cave hiding in the caves. We see that, you know, God brings in 400 men, later on become 600 men, and these 600 men become a strong army, a strong force for David, and later on when David becomes the king, you know, many of them hold key positions in his kingdom. So we see that, you know, the Spirit of God moves and brings many people to come to David to serve under his leadership. At first, David was very apprehensive, he was very scared, but then we see that once he realized that these were people, you know, who were sent by God, because if you read here, it says, for your God helps you, so David deceived them. He says, you know, these people say we've come in peace, and we see that David deceived them, and then we read in verse 22, from that time they came to David day by day to help him until it was a great army, like the army of God, okay? So we see that, you know, many of them came, become part of David's army, his group of men or family that were close to him, and they become strong leaders and men of war, okay? So we also need to recognize that, you know, as we go about kingdom building, going about fulfilling God's vision and call for our lives, you know, God will bring about such divine connections. We must honor these connections, you know, these relationships that God sends into our lives, honor them, treat them carefully, walk wisely, like David, you know, we read in several places, David walk wisely with God, and also we need to work together.   So we see that it's God who calls people into his kingdom, leadership roles and responsibilities. It's God who determines who he's going to raise up, who he's going to anoint, who he's going to, what he's going to do with that individual for the extension of the work that he wants them to do. So there are people who come in the, like we see in this parable in Matthew chapter 20 verses 1 to 16, we've already looked at this parable, you know, where this owner of this vineyard, he goes out in the morning, hires laborers for one dinarist, he goes out in the third hour, and then he goes out again in the sixth hour, ninth hour, eleventh hour, and he brings in laborers to work in his vineyard, and then the end of the day he pays everybody, those he brings in the morning, those he brings in the eleventh hour, he pays them all the same, and when the people who came in the morning are questioned, how can we get the same as those who came in the eleventh hour on the ninth hour, you know, the owner of the vineyard says, isn't it lawful for me to do as I wish with my own things, you know, and he says the last will be first, first will be last, for many are called, if you look at verse 60, so the last will be first, and the first last for many are called, but few are chosen. We already looked at this parable, okay, we learned that, you know, it's God who calls, there are many who would come in the later stage, who have the benefit of building upon the grace, the revelation, the anointing of the previous generations, you know, and hence, they don't have to labor hard, like the previous generations, because the work has already, the foundation has been laid, the seeds have been sown, things have, the crop has already been watered and they're ready for harvest, you know, so the harvest, the work is quicker and easier, the harvest is there, but we need to celebrate and rejoice with what God has done through the lives of the people that we are harvesting and the people who have labored in the past, okay, and if you look at Romans chapter 14 verse 4, it says, you know, we need to, we shouldn't be judging another man's servant, and also, 1 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 5, Paul says, don't judge anything before time, because it's God who judges, so avoid comparing yourself with other ministers of God, you know, it's their calling, it's their leading, what God has called them to do, you be faithful and sincere with what God has entrusted you with, what he's asking you to do, and don't judge other ministers, because you know, we have a judge who's, who's going to judge our deeds, everyone's deeds, and we stand accountable to him, okay, each one is gifted differently, we all know that we have different gifts and all of our gifts, though they are different, are needed, are important for the function of the body of Christ, and it profits everybody, it edifies the church, okay, so don't raise up walls of division because of differences that are there, you know, just overlook those small petty differences, but you know, focus on the main core, like we said, what was the main core of kingdom building, of what God wants us to do, so don't major on the minors, don't debate on things like I talked about, Romans chapter 14, you know, don't allow the significant issues to divide us, but look at the overall thing, the important thing about fulfilling the kingdom mandate and doing about what God, going about doing what God has called us to do, okay, we also need to value partnership in the kingdom, you know, it's great to talk about unity, it's great to talk about being one, it's great about talking, of practicing unity, working together, partnering with other people, but when it really comes to doing it, you know, we need to step in and, you know, do things and also, you know, look at practical ways in how we can partner with other churches, local churches in our city, other Christian organizations so that we can build God's kingdom. Now, partnership brings strength, okay, Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verse 12 says, you know, one can be overpowered by another, but if there are two people, you know, two people can withstand some of the else and a chord of three strands will not be quickly broken. So we already saw that a kingdom, when it's divided within itself, cannot stand, but on the other hand, if the kingdom is united, you know, there is strength in unity, there's power in unity and, you know, when we are united or, you know, the evil one cannot advance against the church of God, cannot advance against the kingdom of God, but one way Satan knows that he can taught God's plan or the move of God's kingdom or from, you know, people receiving the gospel of the truth that is in Jesus Christ, one way is to bring about this unity in the church.  So, you know, scripture says, whatever we can do, you know, whatever it takes for us, let us do to keep the unity in the spirit, the bond, the unity of the spirit. So whatever it is, let's overlook everything else and keep the unity of the spirit. We also know that partnership advances the kingdom of God rather than each one of us doing things by our own self, trying to figure out things, you know, if you partner with like-minded people who are in the same field, the same vineyard working the same vision that God has called us to, you know, if you partner with them, we can learn things quicker, we can strategies we can receive, we can, you know, support each other and it just helps in building the kingdom of God quicker and faster. Things that in the partnership is like I said, you know, me and my mentality, it's all about my kingdom, my vineyard what God is entrusted to me, but we need to lay aside that and look at the bigger picture. The other thing is what is it in for me? So even, you know, like we are partnering with others, we are trying to, you know, co-work with others, build a unity by partnering with others, but our motive is something different. Our motive is okay, let me partner with them so that I can to see what I can receive, how it can benefit me, how it can help me. Well, that's a wrong attitude, but yes, when we partner, we learn from others, but also an important thing is what I can give to the other person, what I can contribute, you know. Sometimes we don't want to contribute, but we want to be people who are the other end just receiving the wrong mentality. We also looked at comparing and competing, we don't compare and compete in the kingdom of God, because all of us are like the part of our body, we are just we need to think as the kingdom of God as my body, where every part is doing its work. What if you know, the different organs in my body is competing with each other and comparing themselves with each other, there will be total chaos in my body. So, you know, we're not here to compare and compete, but we are here to complement each other and build each other up in the faith and edify the body of Christ, okay. You know, don't promote discord very intentionally or unintentionally, you know, because it weakens the body of Christ, just try to maintain the peace and the love, love your neighbor as yourself, that's something very difficult, but with the help of the Holy Spirit we can do that, love people in the faith in the body of Christ and don't pretend to partner with others, you know, by just talking about partnership, by co-working, but really invest in doing something to see that it's unity in the local church, in the body of Christ, in your city and there's unity among the believers in the body of Christ, in your city or in the place where God has called you to be a leader, you know, you can also be a leader where you are partnering with other women of God to build God's kingdom. Yes, Paul, you have your hand raised up. Yes, Paul. Okay, while Paul unmutes this mic and asks this question, anyone else has any questions? Any questions, anyone? Okay, no questions. Okay, if there are no questions then we'll end class. Thank you for joining class everyone. Have a good day and a good week ahead. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you, Zenitoli. Thank you, Pastor. God bless you. Thank you, Lysha.


It's a fascinating experience because it forces me to think very carefully about English and how we use it.  It's fun to be able to dig back into the history of words and things you just never, ever, ever stop to think about. It's interesting to hear them try and place their culture inside our culture, wherever they're coming from. You know, we think of it this way, but you guys think of it that way and you can see them trying to kind of morph some sort of package together that will work for them. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes we don't. Certainly get a lot of information about the way, you know, other countries have, you know, various cultural things about the way they use the language or even a word that they understand perfectly well as an English word and among English speakers in China they use it this way, but that's not exactly the way we use the word here. And then we have had some fascinating discussions, particularly with my current student because she's a linguist, so we have some fascinating discussions about what happened to the English word there as opposed to the way we use it here. It's fun getting into the language. It's fun trying to help people to understand, to function in a language that has so many different levels of meaning. Particularly I'm aware of it with the grad students who live primarily in academic English, which is not the same as television English, it's not the same as street English, and it's not the same as slang, and yet they're hearing it all. So I have to kind of divide up my head and divide up their heads so they can begin to function in all those different worlds. The other piece of it that I really enjoy is I'm a history political person, and so many of our words come out of our connotations out of our history and our politics. So I'm teaching a lot of American culture as well as American language, which is fascinating for me because I love that too. Sometimes it's a very structured kind of thing. Some days it's much more at a conversational level. I'm dealing with students who are really pretty adept at English, so we very rarely get down to struggling through sentences. Oh, with some of the grad students they have brought me job application forms and resumes and thesis synopses at a written form to help them work because they realize that the written language is not quite the way we talk it. So I get involved in that, which is again pushing another one of my buttons about writing, and boy have you got to be flexible. There's no curriculum plans here. Every day is different, certainly each student is different. Some of them come in for sort of a crash course because they've got a thesis due in nine months. Some of them are here for a longer period of time and they're more interested. They've got family here or they want to stay here, so their language demands are different. So you've got to keep adjusting all the time. But it's fun meeting and getting the other side of the world.


You need to know what to call the labor law, you need a labor law in Qatar, then definitely also you need to understand what is the prevailing basic salary and what is actually given for the role and that is quite very important right now. When we talk about the salary of the security guys, before you begin discussing and having what to call expectations which are going to be higher than the reality, no what is the basic salary apparently by the government or by the law, the basic salary by the law it is 1000 that is for 8 hours of anyone who works for 8 hours you get a basic salary of 1000. Then apart from the basic salary 1000 you are given a top up of food allowance which is what is called 300 Riyal, so meaning that in total if you are to be paid a month for 8 hours you are going to be earning 1300. For those companies that are not giving housing they will add you 500 on top of that, so for your 8 hours you will be earning 1800, so before you come to Qatar as a security guy, before you come to Qatar as a cleaner, before you come to Qatar as any low skilled job, because these are two types of jobs we are talking about, we are talking about the high skilled and the low skilled jobs. When you talk about the low skilled job, the security guard, the cleaners, the other, that one in that category is that you definitely know your basic salary is going to be starting from 1000, top up 300 for food is going to be 1300, if you are not given housing then you have 1800, so it is going to be in that ratio. So stop having what you call the higher expectations and then when you are recruited by that company or by that sponsor then definitely you start making drama for that cause, that is what you are supposed to earn unless otherwise there is an entitlement that you are supposed to get on top of that, that is always discussed in what you call the offer later. And that offer later, it will stipulate everything that you are supposed to get and when it gets to that contract, all will be listed out what you are entitlement, what you are entitled to and what you will be paid at the end of the month, depending on what kind of duration, oh how long are you going to be working? 8 hours, 6 hours, 9 hours, 12 hours, that is going to be duration but remember the startup hours for 9 skilled jobs is going to start from 8 hours, that is what you call the basic paystas from 8 hours. So your expectation or your reality and the way you are thinking when you are looking for this job in this Gulf countries, definitely your reality and expectation, let it be stationed or let it be focused on that level that you are going to be earning that amount of money that is going to be startup. When it comes to overtime, if it is stipulated in what you call your offer later or your contract and the amount of the overtime is written out clearly that your overtime per 1 hour will be let's say for example 50 riyal. It is clearly written out and stipulated in that offer later and that contract. So that is you have a right for it to fight for it but let's say for example it is not stipulated and the company will say the rest will be overtaken so it will be up to them to discuss or it will be up to them to give you the overtime they want. So you find that sometimes you have what you call varying salaries at the end of the month depending on how you want, if you take day off, if you don't take day off or if you took more day off than another person. So your salary will not going to be the same unless the company has a policy that all people who get 6 day off will be paid this amount or 2 days off will be paid this amount of money. Or if you get 3 days or 4 days you will be paid off this amount of money. Or if you do not get any day off you will be paid this amount of money. That is where exactly you need to understand when it comes to that salary. Before you begin to complain with the salary that is being given to you at the end of the month. We have families, we do have families, we do have people we look after. But you find that sometimes that money is not enough when it is given to you when it comes to the time try to divide it to one or the other. But remember what you signed, remember what you signed. Let's say what you not signed does not comparably make you make a fight with a sponsor or make someone who gave you the visa because of that money. Because you need more money which you did not sign for in the contract to solve your problems or your problems or to solve your family issues. This sponsor is going to get rid of you. That is what happened. He is going to get rid of you by replacing you, by terminating you and you end up losing everything. Let's say for example you work with that sponsor for 2 years or 3 years and you decide to terminate your bleach of miskonda. He has a right of not even paying you a single or what you call the end of service bonus. So just quickly know that that one is going to be in that level. Then let us look at situation 2. Situation 2 for security guards or for any other school that it will depend. Most of us or most of us come to these golf countries. We do not come with a title that come as a supervisor.  But remember when you come to this company they will identify those people with the skills. They will identify those people with the zillions. They will identify those people who are at work. They will add you a title. They will add you to another position. Let's say they give you a team leader and that team leader depending on the company it will be. It will be with what you call an extra entitlement to you. Let's say an addition of 100. An addition of 200 depending on how you accept it. But if you are not given to that at one moment of time. Then definitely know your salary is going to be down on your salary. Is going to be the same with other people at the same time. So never have a lot of expectation that I'm going to receive 5000. I'm going to receive as what you call the agents tell you or what you call the agents. Misleaning people which is not the case. So when you talk about salary of security guards depending on which kind of company you are going to work to. You are going to have a startup of the basic salary of 8 hours which is going to be 1300. Remember I told you most of the security guards, most of the companies here or most of the cleaning companies do give accommodation to their employees. They do give you accommodation. So meaning that for that case what you have in hand or what you have on your table to divide or to sort out all your programs you have is the 1300 that you need to have to send your family, have your eating, take care of yourself. And something else that we definitely need to talk about also is what you call the medical. Most of you medical, medical, medical. You need to access the medical. It is what you call the medical card. You need to have what you call an unhealthy card. Any healthy card that is going to help you to access the medical at a cheaper price that is in what you call the government hospitals. And as otherwise that you have a very bigger problem that you need to resolve in one way of medical that you need to access but still you need to access what you call the government hospitals. What is Hamad hospital which is a little bit cheaper than what you call the private medical centers we have which are extremely expensive that when you going to convert back to your home country's car is a little bit higher than even sometimes even half of your salary is being taken after. So for the security guard for all kininas if you are coming to Qatar definitely know what you are going to start up as your money or as your salary that should be within the line of your expectation should be 1000 for 8 hours and the $4 allowance is going to be 300. That is what is gazeted by the government and that is what is gazeted by the law in Qatar regarding what you call salary. Hope after I share something for you. Thank you so much for coming back to this channel. Remember it's next creation. 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I'll speak normal speed, so hopefully everybody can understand me. I'm sorry, I'm an English speaker, so I won't be able to speak in your native languages, and I know there's a variety of them here today. So thank you guys for having me. I'm Colin Griffin. I'm here today representing the Platforms Working Group with the CNCF. A quick show of hands. How many of you are aware of the Platforms Working Group with the CNCF, and awesome, perfect. It's surprising, I know. How many of you are familiar with the maturity model? Awesome. Is anybody using the maturity model in practice today? We'll get more of you there. How about the white paper, my last question? Awesome. Great. Well, today I'm going to give you a quick update of the Platforms Working Group, what we're working on, and how to work together with us. Let's jump there. So a quick thank you. I am newly appointed as a co-lead on the working group, so it's an honor to be able to present this stuff to you today. The other co-leads of the working group are Josh Gavant, Abby Bangzer, who you've heard from already, Robert Strand, and then me, Colin Griffin. So who is the Platform Working Group? We're a diverse group of collaborators. We are people from all walks of technology development, whether data teams, application development teams, platform engineers, IT folks, all across the board. We also have a large variety of industry experience. We're seeing people from Fintech, HealthcareTech, from Tech, Tech, you name it, we're covering just about every industry. I think one of the unique things about the working group that I've been able to experience is that we're not only a group of people that are developing capabilities and products that people can use in their platforms to deliver those capabilities, but this is the most diverse group of end users and vendors that we have seen as well. And those end users and vendors are participating to tell us their stories and their practical implementations and how they've approached platform development, and it's been an incredibly valuable experience to get insights into platform engineering and the practices of growth from all different kinds of perspectives. So the working group's goal is to surface industry experience with internal platforms and platform engineering teams, and to develop patterns, practices, and terminology to help those companies develop platform engineering patterns and practices. Seems pretty straightforward, but I think everybody in the room knows that that's a tall order. There's a lot of different ways to approach this problem, and that's why we're all here today. So what's platform engineering really about? Platform engineering is more than just providing efficient tools and processes to our end users or our internal developers or our data teams. It's about providing end users and those teams, no matter what the type, with the tools they need to work together effectively, and that's near and dear to my heart. I'm still a practicing applications developer, so here as platform engineering, the ultimate purpose is we want to make lives easier for those end developers. That may sound really cheesy, as we would say in the States, but that's really what it falls back to. So a quick thank you to everybody that's actually here. You literally are here today to make other people's lives better and easier, whether it's your developers, your data teams, whoever. So please, it's really cheesy, but a quick round of applause for yourselves. Seriously, it's awesome to see this evolving as a practice, so thank you guys for being here. So the platform's working group has some key initiatives that we're working on right now, and there are ways that you can contribute and collaborate. Obviously you're aware of the white paper. We're continuing to iterate on the platform's white paper, so patterns for what platform implementation looks like and how to stitch these parts and pieces together. Also the platform maturity model, there were a lot of shows of hands, we're continuing to iterate on that as well. And finally, we've published a glossary of terminology. So through research, through actually talking with these end users and the diverse groups, we get 30 plus people on these calls. Please join us. There's a lot of great conversation. We've determined and we know we need to help provide and define terminology for end user perspective. So how did developers approach platform engineering and what terminology did they use, but also we as platform engineers, how do we provide terminology and communicate with each other when we're communicating these practices? So the glossary's goal is to help surface that terminology and the different types of terminology. The two key initiatives that we have going on right now are the research around platform as a product. Platform engineering and that practice has evolved and we know the evolution of DevOps and everything there, but one key piece is the ability to empathize and understand the needs of your end users and provide them with the appropriate capabilities and serve and deliver those capabilities as product. And that's one of these key initiatives to help define and do research around that. And then also, we've got an initiative to get industry feedback and provide an easier way to contribute. So for platform as a product, you'll see some of these faces around KubeCon as well and today. A quick thank you to Michael Luskind, Dominic Kress and David Stangline for spearheading and driving a lot of that conversation forward. It takes a lot of work and they're doing a great job of facilitating those conversations. So platform as a product research is geared around development of a platform as a product white paper, researching the approaches, tools and patterns for delivering the platform as a product, so methods of delivering as well. And we need practical experience from industry and we want to synthesize all of this research into those publications and provide that guidance. One of the nice things again, who can help and participate? Platforms working group is a unique position to collaborate with both end user companies, vendor companies, as well as the project owners, the publishers and the capability providers of these tools as well. So we need everyone to provide their perspectives because as platform engineers, even the people that are developing the software are important, right? So we need those people developing the software that needs to be adoptable by platform teams to contribute as well. So obligatory QR codes, if you would like to participate in the research and are willing to share your experience and journey, please fill out this really, really easy Google form that the QR code will link you to. And I made sure it worked before the presentation but yell at me if it doesn't. But the QR code will take you to that form. Please submit that and it'll be important in a minute but we would like you guys to at least let us know that you're willing to contribute and we can help facilitate that conversation afterwards. Really, really easy form. The next key piece is the industry feedback and contribution framework. We quickly realize that we need more people to be able to contribute more freely and easily and so we've developed some patterns that we've published on the GitHub as well as in the tag app delivery site to help you understand how to contribute. So the publication process is very simple. First, join the conversation, go to the working group page, find the regular meetings. We meet once a month every second Tuesday. So join in, at least listen in, don't be afraid. It's a great conversation and everybody that's in there is providing great insights. Once you're ready, just propose an idea. If there's a gap, if something's missing, if you have a unique approach, propose an idea on the GitHub and there's an issue framework for that as well. What we'll do second to that is we'll review the idea, discuss it as a part of the group or maybe we'll ask you to discuss it as part of one of the working group meetings and we'll find a sponsor for the idea, somebody that can help facilitate and review through the publication process. And then we'll work with you through the development and review process and publish that straight to the blog and the pages via a pull request. So a little bit of get-ops for publication, right? So really, really easy. Here's a QR code you can use if you would like to contribute. I know everyone here is going to have a lot of opinions as the day goes on for what you should be publishing, for what guidance we should be providing, what we got wrong. That's totally okay if we got something wrong, right? We should. So please submit and contribute your ideas and we'll help provide guidance and facilitate for the rest of the industry. So at KubeCon, find us at the tag app delivery booth. There will be lightning talks as well as lightning interviews. So if you fill out the QR code on that previous form, and I'll pop that back up real quick, fill out this QR code and then let us know if you're attending KubeCon and would like to do one of those lightning interviews as well. And we'll walk you through the interview process and help you decide if contributing further is something that you would like to do as part of your story. Now again, as part of that story, we'd like to surface industry experience. We'd like to tell the story of end users and help surface how people have approached platform engineering. It will be incredibly valuable to the rest of the industry. So please feel free to share and I'm sure your marketing teams will love you as well. So that's all I've got. That's our update. But again, thank you guys for being here. Thank you for helping, for contributing.  And I'm super excited to learn from everybody today. Please feel free to talk to me or Abby or any of the other contributors as we're here. And we look forward to talking with you guys further and delivering more content. So thank you.


power atched remark pre view everton, faces Tottenham Hotspur to a clock on Sunday. Tottenham in town with a new manager. Great Antonio Conte in stalled as the Tottenham manager just in time to play us in a game. It is notoriously a difficult game for ever in any way Tottenham e一個 dessin. relay uch yn ffwrdd i'r iswans goed. Dwi'n cael bryd. It's gonna be a tough game, any team that comes up against the continous teams is always very difficult, makes them hard to beat and I'm sure he'll have spares organised. That's what he's probably hoping to take away from, especially cos they'll be playing tomorrow as well. Felly, mae'n gorffa fwrdd, ond os fawr hwnnw'n gweithi'r fanaidd i'r fan o'r wneud. Yn yw'r ni, fel oedd, mae'r fanaidd i'n gweithio'r wneud. Felly, mae'n gweithio, i'n meddwl, maen nhw, rhaid i ymddi wath, ond mae'n gobar o'r fan o'r wneud. Fel ydych chi'n gweithio bod ywn ar gweithio'r gweithio eich cynyddu hi eich cymateb, dw i'n ni'n defnyddu meddwl, felly mae'n bwysig. It's Week 11 with £5,000 prize pot to win in Ultimate Fan. Yw'n ni'n etym ni'n bywch chi i'ch ddechrau gyda'i gynhyrch. mae'n gyfw BB'r cyfl gebeith drwy'r bod hefyd. Be ganddimensional drwy newydd 5. Werthroch. Mae fasion wedi curunwyr tyfwyr y mae'n hynny. Neid oedd ymar yn unrhyw'r cyfl fantasyf, mae gennym hyn byddabbwn crefle. G Марfer pesso ar gyfer cysyllwedd, yn yr ydych chi ynghy, yn andrwyarn gyda dechrau nhw. Wrth yn i? I'm going to put Lucadine back in my side, I'm going to take Andy Robinson out. Also, in my pack this week I got Romelu Lekaku. But I don't know whether he's fit, so this might be a last minute decision to put him in there. So I might just have to leave that for now, that might be a decision I go with quite late. Go on, what are you having, what are you going with? Basically my team's going to make one change and I'm taking Son out. And he's getting swapped with Richard Charleston. Chelsea are my team, I'm leaving them. Van Dijk is staying in. And then in midfield, Havertz and Peruno Fernandez. And then Richard Charleston and Manny are front. I really want another midfielder. Man United are my team. Tent Alexander, great form, he's in defence. Lucadine's in defence. Kevin De Bruyne Philforddon, Manchester, Derby, but there you go, keep them in. And Cavani and Salahroff front. I know, but last week I got 12 points last week. So this is the beauty of the game. Net one of five last week. Net one of five is basically Brighton and Villar and all these terrible players. But he's that prudent though. He hasn't got a subscription. He's got the free ones and he won money last week so that proves it. He's proven that this game works. So don't forget, check it out every Tuesday. That's when the cards, the packs get released. If you can play for free. You can get a silver subscription to £99, a gold subscription for £499. There's loads of little perks like Uber Eats vouchers and subscriptions to different things. Discounts, all the rest. If you check it all out by clicking the link in the description or on the screen right now. And go and play, ultimate fan. That is a really good point. Spears are a good side. They've got players there. Sun, Kane, More, Baywine on the bench. People like that. They've got Brian Gill that came in as well in the summer. He's got tons of football reggae on. Emerson Royale. There's good players in that side. Don't believe he's a fantastic footballer. We know that as well. It's mad to think that he wanted to get out in the rain. He was there. He couldn't wait to go. He kept them in. He's playing very well at the moment. I think you'd like country. He'll come in and he'll get the shape. I'm hoping he hasn't had enough time to get this instilled into them on Sunday. He'll come in and he'll get them organised. For me, he won't be long before they're moving in the right direction. Because they have got good footballers in that team. The big thing for them will be trying to get Harry Kane motivated. He spoke to Flavie. He's a big space fan. He's seen him a couple of times in the last few weeks. Kane doesn't look interested. He'll be interested now to see whether bringing in Antonio Conte switches that form. We've made a big decision to bring this fella in. This is how ambitious we are. Do you think that can swing Kane back into the top form? I think he'll lean on Kane straight away. I think he'll make him feel special probably again. He looks like he needs a bit at the moment. He looks very down and not 100% committed to Tottenham. Which I'm quite surprised because he looks a good professional as well. You hear a lot of people talking about him as a professional. I don't think any player should ever down to tools personally, whatever the case. You wonder whether this is the manager to maybe get his love back for Spares again. He's a top manager. You look at his achievements since he's left playing football. Massive success at Juventus. Chelsea into Milan. Kane always loves a goal against us as well. We'll have to wait and see. At the moment our defence isn't the most secure at the moment as well. I think we've got to look out for maybe a Kane bounce back. Let's hope not. Let's hope he'll start for a couple of weeks. It's going to be there. One of Kane's greatest achievements is his hair. Baldi at one stage and I've got a fantastic head of hair on. Now just go from an evident perspective at this. The last 15 minutes against Wafford was an absolute nightmare. The opening 45 at Wolffers, the next game. I really wanted to see in that Wolffers game a reaction from the players. I wanted them to take that thing of embarrassment out of that Wafford game. We're going to show everyone tonight that we're better than that. We were all over the place. I personally think we should have had three in my field, but we didn't. But even with that, and people have talked about the ban on, it wasn't up to speed, which is not going to be his first start in two years. Even with that thing, there still wasn't enough desire for me. It's not that. I don't believe any Everton players sat in the dressing room and were like, I'm not bothered if we went tonight. I don't think it's that. Do you know what I mean? I'm not questioning the integrity of our players. What I'm saying is, have they got that inner strength? Whether it's confidence, because a lot of them didn't want the ball. You've seen it with Ben Goffrey for the second goal. He didn't want it at his feet. He didn't want to have to take the responsibilities to take it up the pitch, which is why he's trying to give it back to the keeper. Lot of players did that the other night. I don't want it. Shame's calling. I don't want flicking it to anyone. In times when things aren't going well, you need to be brave, don't worry. We're going to have to be brave this Sunday. You've got players out. You feel like everything's against you at the moment. The Watford game, weirdly, games like that can sometimes happen. I can deal with that. But the first half against Wolves was a bism. Probably one of the worst displays I've seen in a long time from an Everton team. There was nobody... They were all arguing with each other or telling other people what to do. They were concentrating on your own game as well. It was just an absolute mess first off. Every time Wolves went forward, they looked like they were going to score. There was no organisation, no players saying, come on, let's get into it or do your job. There was just nothing. It was just a team full of no... It was like a leader, basically, again. We've been saying this for now five years of lack of leaders in the team. It's proven that it's not been addressed. The 40 vibe in it to Wolves, it cannot happen again, especially on Sunday in front of a full house of gooders. The fans won't put up with that. You see what the reaction was like at the end of the Watford game. The fans had a boiling point at the moment to say with the team, not the manager, the players, which is right. We all know Rafa made a bit of a mistake with the line-up on Monday. Having the same as you, I would have played another midfielder.  I know it sounds mad sometimes. But if I can't see players rolling their sleeves up and giving it their all, I can't really accept that as a fan, because we've seen the teams in the 90s make their way in a very good teams. One thing you could say, they give as much as they could to the course. But this team, you do worry sometimes by looking at a lot of the body language of some of them, whether they are that assed off of them. It is very strange, isn't it? Because the amount of money we've spent, the squad should be much better than that. We know that the recruitment has been a nightmare for everything, being some good players brought in is no question about that. But other players just haven't lived up to what they thought. We've over prayed for a lot of players, we haven't gone. Sometimes it's weird because there's a lot of footballers out there, and yet we've just seen to go for ones that everyone knows. Do you know what I mean? That isn't always a bad thing, but I think there's been not enough mixture of that, I think of the two. What we've been left with is, said to you before we started, once you're 11, when everyone's fully fit, I think we've got a good side. I think it's comparable with everyone outside the top four.  This is where I suppose my own argument will fall down, is that when I say, Everton are good enough to be anywhere between 5th, 6th to 12th, they're in that band of teams. You could guarantee a generally healthy season for Everton, I think we're going to Europe, but you can't guarantee that for any team. So once you go, well ease out, ease out, ease out, the replacements that come in just aren't good enough. I think other clubs have better replacements than what we do, and that ultimately will be where Everton fall down. The first three games proved what you just basically said. The first three games of the season, we had our full strength team, with Charleston. You didn't have Mina, did you? Sorry, didn't the first three games? Mina didn't play, he played at Leeds in a Mish Bright, but I didn't see anything we had. That's what I mean, we were good with him. You're seeing the difference in the quality of the players, we should have won, we should have beat Leeds away. Bright and should have been five or six. Exactly, but we had our course of everything.  We're talking about West Ham, right? The players, they've got probably decent options off the bench where you look at our bench and you've got players who are coming to the end of the contracts at the club and it's not always a good thing, to be honest, from my point of view, I'd rather see someone who's going to maybe improve, who's going to improve the game when he comes off the bench and I don't really see that, to be honest, you're scratching your head thinking, you're looking at Chenthouse and that's when I, the alarm bell is starting when you're thinking, I'm going to bring in Chenthouse and try and change a football game. He ain't done nothing really for three years at the club so why is he going to do it now? He's the first one off the bench, isn't he? He's the first one off the bench, isn't he? Let's have a look at Spazer's formation from last time out. They were beaten by Manchester United, we'll have a look at that now. On the screen, so under noon now, they were playing with that 4-2, 3-1 and obviously when you look at those three attacking players there, you've got Kane, you've got Mori, you've got Son. They're players who should be scoring goals and creating chances and yeah, they didn't have a shot on target against Manchester United last time they haven't had a shot on target for over two hours apparently. So that was how noon now went with it and that's pretty much how ever, and I've lined up when they've been for most of the season. Sunday will be different because stuff coming out of Spazer at the moment is that county's gone in there and already he's had an 11 v 11 and both teams play 3-5-2 in behind closed doors and he does five of that, doesn't he likes that 3 at the back, he did it at Chelsea, I think he did it at Milan, that into Milan. So that possibly will be what Spazer's do. How do Everton approach that? Because Everton came up against 3 at the back on Monday against Wolves and because of the way they played, we struggled till the second half when we changed a couple of things around. I mean, what do you think beneath as you'll do in terms of that on Sunday? Do you think you'll match them up or do you think should he be thrown another midfielder into that midfielder and to make us a little bit more solid? Yeah, I was saying to you before, I actually think he might match Tottenham and go 3 at the back on Sunday. I would prefer the formation use there, the 4-3-3 and put, I even give Gabbam another go with another midfielder in there though and try and get control of the game because Spazer, if you look at their two midfielders, they're not the most creative like your Holbergs and all of the skippers at the moment. And a Dumbledavey's fifth. So I personally think we can get control of the game in the middle of the park as long as we put another one man in there. We can't go 4-4-2 again because Conti's team will just out of the park and we will get overpowered in every part of the pitch as well. So I've just got a funny feeling probably Raffer will match Tottenham and go 3 at the back, maybe like Keane, Godfrey and Holgate and then Coleman and Dean and make it like a... because United did the same and they did snuffed Tottenham out like you said. They had no shots on target or anything like that as well. So yeah, I don't like the formation. I don't think they've ever been any good at playing 3-5-2 personally. So I spoke up from under Angiol, see that's am and we had no one to play over the positions, but personally I'd like to go 4-3-3 with an extra man in the middle of the park. Because that can be 4-5-1 at times because I think the big thing I've enough to do at the weekend is make sure that we take something out again. Stop the rots, 3 defeats on the run. You can't become 4, 5 and 6 so you have to try to stop the rots I think and if you're solid and then play on the counter attack with the Marey Grae with Ritialis and with Tamsen I think you can cause space problems and with the crowd and all that but I think if it's too open or without numbered when you've got Harry Kane and son they can score from at any time. And now Kane hasn't started the season brilliantly but he's just still a fabulous footballer. You're down losing. It was like that mate. I personally, I used to say in Balwra Charleston before we can't isolate like we did on Monday first half. I was looking at the team and you had your centre backs your defenders and then my Charleston was there. It was just the gap. And in the second half when he went to 4, 5, 1 Tamsen was a bit favour the Wabie was a bit favour and we can't afford to because we do that we'll get absolutely battered. The player I've picked and Harry Kane but the player we've picked out is Sun. So far nine appearances so far this season. Four goals one assist. He's the top space player in our ultimate fighting as well. He's got 66 points so far this season. But he's a you know, Evertonians he's not Evertonians favourite player shall we say after the Gomez thing. But he's a real threat isn't he and we're going after watching because you know he's direct running. We've seen that time under Michael Silver when he beat us 62 he was just too open and he put us to the shot and we can't afford to do that because you just like they said at the moment you don't look capable of keeping the clean sheet do we so when you've come up against two lads like they've got and Lucas Moriru lively and got good movement you're going after defend perfectly out me to get anything out the game. I actually think Sun this season when he's played in the middle because I know the first couple of games on Kane didn't play he played as like in like the two I think or the one on his own and I actually think if they're going to go to a 3-5-2 we've got to be very careful of Sun as well because his movement and Kane's drop off and stuff like that so he's a good player he's an annoying little but he's a top player and we've got to watch out for him it's all about the defense keep just keeping concentration no stupid if you're not sure get rid of it none of this arson round with the back of it and all that if you're not sure get it out but yeah he's a top player like we said they're the Takham lads they've got some top players sort of but it'll be interesting we've just got to like I said a few early tackles on them wouldn't be a bad thing to get people off the seat definitely There you go tough game on Sunday for Everton you know but the last three games I thought we had a chance to win them all three of them and we haven't so maybe this one we're a little bit more reserved maybe still lose that's it you've got to stop the rot and our record is not brilliant against Spades but let's hope it is better this Sunday there you go let us know what you think in the comments section below tough game for the Blues on Sunday as you think it will go give the video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't check out Ultimate Fandalink is in the description it's free to play there's two subscription models as well £2.99 and £4.99 for a silver pack and a gold pack if you want to get involved but it is free to play and you can win part of the £5,000 prize pot if you want more videos including daily live videos and exclusive videos why not join us on Patreon the link is there too thanks for watching big thanks to Steve see you later


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We have learned so many things about groups and here is yet another thing. The end is not in sight. We see what the center of a group is. Now I want to talk to you about a centralizer. Something slightly different, the centralizer. So I'm going to consider once again a very arbitrary group G. It's going to be made up of a set and a binary operation.  I'm just going to take some of these elements. And then I'm going to define the centralizer of A in G. And we write it as such, the centralizer of A in G. Something like that. And we are going to show that this is actually a subgroup of G. And we are going to define it as such. So it's going to be a group and it is a set and it's the set of all elements G. Elements of G set such that G composed with A or G binary operation A equals A, a binary operation G for all A elements in A. So I've got my set G which makes up my group. I take some of the elements out there and I call that subset A. And I take each one of those in any particular order. I'm just taking each one of those A's. And I'm going then through all of the G. Remember which is some of them are in A. But I go through all the G's. So I take my first A and I say is my first G composed with A equals A composed with G. The second one, the third one, the fourth one run through all of G's. Then go to the next A which is in A. And in all of those which we have this commutant. So in other words, if we have this commutant of property, then we call that set this centralizer and it does make a group. It does make a group. Like yesterday I changed those two around on the day before. It doesn't matter. So this is a group I'm saying that C, the centralizer of A and G is a subgroup of G. Now we have to prove the four things. Associativity is included because it is a subset. And you don't actually need to prove the identity element because it just falls out of the inverse being made. So let's just have a look at the two important ones. The closure and the inverse is there. So let's prove that there's closure. So I'm saying if G1 and G2 are elements of this centralizer of A and G, that implies that G1 composed with G2, that binary operation is whatever this element is, is also an element of the centralizer of A and G. So what would that mean if it is? It means if I have G1 and G2 and A, that must equal A and G1 and G2. So that is what we must have. If it fulfills that property, then by all means there is closure because that would fall whatever this element is, it falls in that definition. So let's just have a look at G1 composed with G2, composed with A. Let's write compose this with the identity element. And one way to write the identity element is if I take G2 inverse composed with G2. That is very simply just the identity element. I take G2 and it's inverse in that order. But remember I said that G2 is an element of this. So if it is, it means G2 composed with A equals A composed with G2. So I have G1 composed with A, composed with G2's inverse, composed with G2's inverse. G1 composed with A, composed with G2, composed with G2 inverse, composed with G2. That's what we have there. Now with our associativity we have this and that is just the identity element. So let me go up here, so I have G1 composed with A, composed with, let's say identity element, composed with G2. But G1, remember, is an element. I'm giving that that is an element in there so I can commute those two. So I have A, so that equals that, that equals that. So I have A, composed with G1, composed with G2. So I see that indeed I started off with, I started off with this. G1, composed with G2, composed with A and I show eventually that it does equal A, composed with G1, composed with G2. That fulfills or satisfies my definition of this. So I have shown there is closure. So if G1 and G2 is there, the binary operation between them is also an element. So we have closure. Let's just look at the inverses then. So I'm saying that inverses if G is an element of the center of A and G, that implies that G inverse is an element of the center of A and G. If that is so, what would we have? We would have the G inverse of and A equals A and G inverse. That's what we would have. Now, let's see if we can get there. Let's see if I start with this. And that would be equal to G inverse and A. And I suppose I can put the identity element there. And one way to put the identity element there is once again just G composed with its inverse. That's the identity element, so I've done nothing. Associativity, so I can do those two. But G is an element of that, so I can swap those two around. So I have G inverse and I have G and I have A and I have G inverse. Associativity with those two, that's just the identity element. So I have A composed with G inverse. And I've shown that G inverse of A equals A with G inverse. G inverse composed with A equals A is composed with G inverse. Once again, that satisfies my definition of the centralizer. So we have the fact that if G is in there, its inverse is also in there. We've shown that we have the important properties. And if they are both in there, if they are both in there and G and its inverse, if you compose the two, you get identity elements. Of course, the identity element is one of them. Let's say the identity element falls out. We don't have to prove the identity element every time. So there we have it, the fact that we have this centralizer. And there's something very special then about this set of elements in G. And sometimes we don't always just look at a whole. We just take one of the elements in this group, in the set that makes up the group, and we see what is the centralizer of just that one element. But you can take more than elements in arbitrary element and there will be a centralizer and that centralizer will be a subgroup.