Okay, this is the third part of lecture one on algebraic geometry where we will cover the theorems of Beizu, Papus and Pascal. So we start with the theorem of Beizu. In fact, this theorem was originally stated by Newton in his Principia. It's book one, section six, Lemma 28, if you want to see it. Newton didn't really prove it, or at least his proof was kind of a bit informal and difficult to follow. So what does Beizu's theorem says? Well, it says, roughly speaking, says two curves of degrees M and N in the plane have at most M, N points of intersection. Well, that's not quite true because the two curves of degrees M and N might have an entire component in common. For instance, they might even be the same. So it should say if there are no components in common. Well, there's a slightly stronger version of Beizu's theorem that says the number of intersection points should be exactly M, N. Except to get the number exactly equal to M, N, we need to work over an algebraically closed field such as the complex numbers. Secondly, we must somehow count points at infinity because we might have say two parallel lines of degree one that don't meet anywhere on the plane, but they sort of meet at infinity in some sense. And third, we have to worry about intersection multiplicities. So if we've got a curve, a straight line, meeting a parabola, then you need to count that as meeting at two points rather than one point to get it right. And it's actually quite tricky to get even a correct statement of Beizu's theorem. And the problem is defining intersection multiplicities isn't all that easy. So people used to define intersection multiplicities by saying you perturb both curves slightly and count the intersection multiplicities. And the problem is it's actually quite difficult to make sense of this. So you can see Beizu's theorem is plausible. For example, if we take two ellipses, like this, it's kind of plausible. They have four intersection points and so on. We can give a very informal proof of Beizu's theorem, as I haven't even stated Beizu's theorem correctly. I certainly can't prove it correctly, but here is an informal proof. Suppose the curves are f, x, y equals zero and g, x, y equals zero, where we assume both of these curves have degree m and degree n, we assume there. Then what we can do is we assume that the number of intersection points doesn't vary if we perturb f and g. So we can just vary their coefficients. And what we can do is f is a product of linear factors and g is also a product of linear factors. Well, then Beizu's theorem is now obvious because f is just a union of m lines. For instance, it might be a union of lines like this. And g is also a union of n lines, so it might be a union of lines like that. So if f and g both are degree three, then f might look like the green thing and g like the purple thing. And it's completely obvious that two lines have a single point of intersection, so the total number of intersection points will be mn. Well, there are several things rather doubtful about this proof. The main one being how do we know the number of intersection points doesn't change if we perturb f and g. And we run into all sorts of problems because as we perturb f and g, we might get multiple points and so on. So this is really unclear. Well, this sort of style of proof was very common in algebraic geometry in the early 20th century. So there was a big school of algebraic geometry called the Italian school of algebraic geometry, which had some spectacular results. But it just sort of peated out in the middle of the 20th century. The problem was they used a lot of this sort of informal reasoning. And the number of results they produced that were incorrect just kept going up and up. And by about 1950 or 1940 or 1950, it had just become impossible to tell whether the results they proved were correct or not. And this was eventually fixed by people like Zariski and Andre Ve, who finally put all of algebraic geometry on a much firmer fitting, much firmer foundations. The problem was the proof became a lot more complicated. I mean, this proof has the disadvantage it's wrong and meaningless. It doesn't have the advantage that it's very simple and easy to understand. So these sort of informal proofs do have a use there. They're good for guessing what the right answer is. For example, if you understand the reasoning of this proof, you can easily figure out what happens to Bezou's Theorem in higher dimensions. For instance, if we worked in n dimensions and had n hypersurfaces, sorry, n, then you could perturb each hypersurface. It was a union of hyperplanes and you get the analog of Bezou's Theorem in n dimensions, which says that if you take an intersection of hypersurfaces of the right number, the total number of intersection points is the product of their degrees. Anyway, that's Bezou's Theorem. Next we go on to Pappus's Theorem. So Pappus was one of the last of the great classical Greek mathematicians. He lived around 300 to 350. And at the time he lived, classical Greek mathematics had almost come to an end. So there were a few people like Pappus and Diophantus who did spectacular results and the trouble was, as it was coming to an end, very few people knew what he was doing. So he wasn't all that well known and very little is known about his life. Anyway, one of his theorems is a really spectacular theorem because, and what is so spectacular about it is that it's just a theorem about straight lines in the plane. And it's very difficult to think of anything interesting to say about lines in the plane because they seem so simple and basic. Anyway, his theorem goes as follows. Suppose you take two lines in the plane. So here I'm going to take two straight lines and on each line I'm going to choose any three points. So here I'm going to choose three green points. And here I'm going to choose any three red points. I actually want to number these as one, two, three. And now I join up every point to the points with a different number on the other lines. So here I'm going to join up points one and two like that. And I'm going to look at their intersection point. And then I'm going to do the same with points two and three. Join them up and mark the intersection point. And then I'm going to join up points one and three. And then I'm going to mark the intersection point. And now what you do is you look at these three intersection points. And Pappas's rather astonishing theorem says that if I've drawn this accurately enough is all night on a straight line. And if you try and prove it using methods of Euclidean geometry, you'll find it's not actually all that easy. It's not too difficult to prove using coordinate geometry. Coordinate geometry wasn't invented until about a thousand years after Pappas lived though. So I guess he had some other way of proving it. Pappas's theorem incidentally turns out to be essentially equivalent to commutativity of multiplication. What this means is you can define a plane over any division ring. So we can say Pappas's theorem is equivalent to multiplication commutative. Because if you look at the analogous results in a plane over a division ring, you find that Pappas's theorem is true if and only if the division ring is commutative, in other words, a field. Well, we're going to deduce Pappas's theorem as a special case of Pascal's theorem. So Pascal was a French mathematician. He's famous for having Pascal's triangle named after him although he was nowhere near the first person to think of it. Anyway, Pascal's theorem was discovered when he was a teenager and it goes like this. Suppose you take an ellipse and I'm going to choose six points on the ellipse and I'm going to number them as one, two, three and I'll number them as one, two, three down here. So you would choose any six points. And now I'm going to join up these points in pairs like this. So I join up one and two and I join up points two and three. I join up the points three and one like so. And then Pascal's theorem says that if you look at these three intersection points, they all lie on a straight line and they probably won't because I'm not terribly good at drawing accurate ellipses. Well, that seems to work out quite well. So you get a line like this, which is called Pascal's line. And it should be pretty obvious from the way I've drawn them that Pascal's theorem is very similar to Papas's theorem. In fact, you can see that Papas's theorem is really the special case of Pascal's theorem. So Pascal's theorem holds where this is any degree two curve and one rather special case of a degree two curve is just two straight lines. It's a sort of degenerate case. So here we have a degree two curve consisting of two straight lines. And you can see that Papas's line is just the same as Pascal's line in this special case. So how do we prove Pascal's theorem? Well, we don't actually know Pascal's original proof because it's kind of been lost. There are some plausible reconstructions of it. So you can prove Pascal's theorem by first of all proving it for a circle using Euclidean geometry, although it's not all that easy to think of a proof. And then you notice that theorem is invariant under various projective transformations and you can use a projective transformation to turn any circle into a conic. So Pascal's theorem holds for conics. Well, we're going to use a different proof of Pascal's theorem using algebraic geometry that uses Bezut's theorem. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to let's number these lines in order as line number one, two, three, four, five, and six. So six is that one, two is that one, and so on. Incidentally, you notice these six lines really form a hexagon, although it's a kind of funny hexagon that intersects itself. So the hexagon goes one, two, three, four, five, six. I've drawn a funny hexagon that intersects itself rather than an honest one that just rather than an honest convex one, partly to show the connection with Papas's theorem and partly because if I drew a proper hexagon, these three intersection points would be a long way away and would be even less likely to line up in a line. Anyway, so we've got a hexagon and I'm now going to choose six linear polynomials, p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, where pi equals naught on line i. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to look at the polynomial p1, p3, p5, and the polynomial p2, p4, p6. And now these polynomials obviously vanish on all six points on the hexagon. I think I've gone off the bottom of the piece of paper, so let me try again. So these vanish on all six points. So what we can do is we can consider the first polynomial minus lambda times the second polynomial, and this will again vanish on all six points. And now we can adjust lambda. So p1, p3, p5 minus lambda, p2, p4, p6 vanishes on the seventh point of the conic. And we can do that because we can just choose any point on the conic. These will have some values at the point and we can just choose lambda so that this thing vanishes. Now we notice this is degree 3 and the conic has degree 2. So by Bezut's theorem, there are at most 2 times 3 equals 6 intersection points. Okay, well we seem to have a contradiction because we've got 7 intersection points and Bezut's theorem says there are at most 6 intersection points. Well that's not a contradiction because if you remember Bezut's theorem says that there are at most 6 intersection points unless they have a common component. Well the conic doesn't split as a product of smaller degree polynomials, so the only possible way they can have a common component is if the conic is actually contained in the degree 3 curve like this. So this degree 3 curve is equal to the union of a conic and a line. Well this line will obviously be Pascal's line because, for example, if we go back to Pascal's theorem, we notice that p1, p3, p5 and p2, p4, p6 both vanish on all these 3 points. So these 3 points must be on the degree 3 curve and since they're not usually on the conic, they must be on the line. So this gives a proof of Pascal's theorem using Bezut's theorem from algebraic geometry.


Okay, welcome back. Hope you had your cup of coffee. Alright, I think someone has added something here. Okay, that's very interesting. And there's written, I like to eat slate pencils as a child, but it wouldn't go. Then I started opposing every urge with the Word of God and I was delivered. Glory to my Master. He empowered me. I'm free. Amen. I have one of my relatives has a similar testimony. So she was very anxious as a child and she used to bite her fingernails. So, you know, she's as close to me in my age, but she would continuously bite her fingernails. And there was a period of time that, you know, she was just seeking the Lord for something else. And she was just, she had kept herself for a couple of days, was fasting and praying and was just in the presence of the Lord. And after that point of time, she never experienced the urge to bite her nails. And she said she, that was not been one of the prayers that she had, but just the presence of God took away whatever anxiety that she felt, you know, that would make her bite her nails and now she doesn't bite her nails anymore. Yeah. So amazing. Thank you, Anita. That's a lovely testimony. Yeah. Good. Okay. So we were looking at the third point of healing and deliverance coming as a result of certain things we need to do through our active resistance. And we did look at how we need to resist the devil. The second action point that we need to look at is found in 1st Peter 113. It says, therefore, gird up the loins of your mind. Be sober, rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  We people wear long robes and this was this this actually came by because even warriors in in the times of the Bible, you know, they would have long.  And you cannot run with a flowing rope that's there.   It's called a lungi pull up his lungi and he will tie it and then he goes to fight. So gird up your loins means in a sense of being prepared, being prepared to do the fighting. So we hear it saying gird up the loins of your mind. That means be prepared, get ready, become watchful, be there to fight whatever is coming with the enemy. And it says be sober and rest your hopefully upon the grace that is to be bought.  So these are those two action points that the more that you get to a place of offense. Okay, it's not defense. It's offense where you're going ahead of the attack of the temptation of the need to think those thoughts of the need to open that door to habitual sin is you're going into that action step going to that offense and being prepared to fight so that you're And through doing so your healing comes by. So what we've just presented here are three specific pointers for our healing and deliverance. The first we spoke of was what happens as a result of our regular consecration, our regular sanctification, our healing and deliverance that comes just with the presence of God. Just with the anointing of God. And we looked at how we can actively resist. Now we also want to bring about some things we can do by praying or by bringing coming together in Jesus name. Now there are a couple of points that if you would look down in the notes you would see around 14 points that are there. Now even as we're going to go through this, remember this is not like an equation or a formula that you have to do it step by step or one after the other. And it's not even necessary that you need to do all of them. But the idea, the understanding is to apply the situation wherever in whatever situation you are applied to a person that may be involved. These points is why we focus on this is to keep the house tidy and the house clean. So we need, like we said, it is important for us to engage in that place where we are bringing about healing and deliverance for yourself. Especially when you know that maybe certain areas that need to be washed out, that need to be completely cleansed, that slightly gets open to the enemy. So we do these points and if we're looking down at the points that are one to 14 points, we're just going to be looking at the first four points today and we will take the rest up next week. But the first 10 points are things that we do as we engage in prayer and the last four points are ones that require changes in us, that require transformation in the way that we live our lives so that our healing can be maintained on and on. And after these points, there's also a time of prayer that we can engage in at this point of time so that we apply what we are learning and we receive our healing right here and now as we go through our prayer. So even as maybe I'm praying or someone else is probably praying that there are some prayers that have been noted down in the notes if someone's praying, you can use your own words also to pray. Okay, so let's review the first four points and we can take each one, we can even pray as long. There are sample prayers that are given here which can be used and of course you're more than welcome to say it in your own language or maybe let's review this. The first point that we're looking at is to come to a place of repentance. Okay, now we all know that repentance is like a turning away from the life that is the life of that area in your life that is ruled by sin to an area that is characterized by submission and obedience to God. So, and even as your certain areas come to your mind, remember that the Holy Spirit, maybe as we're talking and as we're sharing right now, the Holy Spirit is the one who brings a convicts us of some areas that we may be in sin and convicts us to a place of repentance.  It is the turning away from us from a sinful cause to God. So, a person, someone who is truly repentant, definitely recognize that God is the most important factor one in the life of the individual. So, recognizing what is wrong and turning away from it and you're also and when you're doing that, you are also choosing to turn to God and His ways. Okay, so as we see in Isaiah 55-6-8, these are what's written on in your notes. Okay, just to just to quickly read that out. Speak the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.  Let Him return to the Lord and He will have mercy on Him and to our God for He will abundantly pardon. So, knowing that there is an area of sin in our lives and we come to a place of returning to the Lord because when we do that, we know that we have mercy from Him and from Him will come pardon. Okay, so I just want to take maybe a minute or two of just some quietness for you to put down or write down any thoughts that you may, any kind of wrong thoughts or any patterns of habitual thoughts that you engage in or things that you keep believing about yourself. That is in true contrast to God's Word.  If there's anything that you can remember that you've said, you know, even things like, and I'm not going to do, I'm not going to be anyone, I can't do this, you know, I will never succeed in this, those words, those kind of statements that you make where you say never always ever, you know, that. So, just spend some time to think if there is something like that you've engaged in and, you know, take a pen and a paper and write that down, or if there is any kind of a habitual sin that you are engaging in right now, whatever it may be, it could be something that the Spirit convicts you about, put that down, or it can be even your involvement in any kind of practices, any occult practices, any kind of false practices that you know is not in line with God's Word and whatever it can mean something as believing in a superstition or it could be, you know, reading a horoscope or looking at the stars or, you know, maybe some things that may not, you may have not even thought of as occultic or as evil or even, you know, chanting some kind of a, maybe a word or a prayer or something that you've probably been used to. Anything, anything that you feel you've involved something that's false or something that's occultic, put that down. Let's take a minute to do that, just giving you all, and this you do it on your own, you don't, don't please put it up on the chat. This is something that is just between you and God because we are receiving our healing and deliverance. So just take around 30 seconds to do that and I'd like to pray together with you all as we submit this and repent and confess what we have been engaged in. Okay, 30 seconds. Okay, let's just take time to just pray and I think even as I'm praying, you know, I'll probably give some space in between so that you could wherever you are just take some time to pray on your own, confessing specifically, you know, specify what is it that that that you are you're confessing be specific about your confession also and you know those thoughts that you are aware of or those words that you're aware of. So specify that even as I'm praying, probably leave a few seconds of gap so that you could do that. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you that we can come to you at your throne of grace right now. Father, we come in confession, Lord. Lord, we confess and we repent of every thought that we have engaged in that has been outside of your thoughts for us. Lord, we know we read that the thoughts you have for us is far more glorious than the thoughts we think about ourselves. We come to you and confess and repent of every negative thought of every thought that has been filled with self pity with self loading with self condemnation. We come to you and ask you Lord to forgive us for engaging in us engaging in that. Father, we pray Lord very specifically for thoughts that that harm ourselves, harm our spirits, harm our souls. Lord, the thoughts that we think of about who we are Father and all of this we recognize a sin. We confess and we repent that Lord. I'm just going to give you a couple of seconds to do this in your own words specifically to confess and repent on the thoughts that are specific to you. So take this time to make that confession and repent. Lord, we confess and we repent of all the words that we've spoken against ourselves, those prophecies that we have said over ourselves, those negative, those harmful prophecies that we declare of ourselves. The way that we've inflicted ourselves with wrong words and commenced. Father, which we may have heard as a result of our past that continues to play in our minds. Father, I come against all of that Father and we confess it Lord right now in Jesus name. We confess and we bring before you Lord our hearts and say we are sorry for how loosely we have used those words against ourselves.  Lord, we confess this, we repent. I'd like you to take some time to specifically bring the words that you have spoken over your life and ask the Lord or come to the Lord with repentance confessing. Lord, we come to you and confess Lord and repent over the sins that we participate in over that which we know keeps us away from you. Father, whether it be the sin in the mind, in our thoughts, in our words or in our deeds, we come to you and we truly repent. We confess that we have hurt you, that we have pained your heart from engaging in things that have kept us away from you. We confess and we repent. Lord, we confess any form of gossip that we have engaged in, slander, malice, pornography, any kind of sexual addictions, thoughts that have been defiling, acts that have been defiling to our own bodies and our own minds, pictures, images that we've replayed in our minds. We pray, we confess and we repent. We turn away from our ways, we look to you. I'd like you to take some time yourself to specify any specific sin that the Holy Spirit is convicting you in. Lord, we confess and we repent over practices we've engaged in. Even if we've done it inadvertently without our knowledge, without our understanding, we confess and repent. If there are articles in our homes that we've kept, if there are practices we've engaged in in the past, if we've gone trusting in superstitions, in old wives' tales, Lord, we repent, Lord, we confess that we have done that which is displacing to you. When we have looked at hope to something else other than you, thinking they will save us, Lord, we repent. Lord, when we've kept objects as good luck charms or some things that we carry around, instead of our faith and our devotion to you, Father, we confess and we repent. Take this time to specify anything, any practice or any kind of a false religion you've engaged in and repent and come to a place of confession. Okay, we move on to the second point that we look in after we confess and repent. It is to ask the Lord for forgiveness. We know that when we ask Him, He is quick to forgive us and we read in so many scripture around us that all that we need to do is believe and confess and ask for forgiveness and He has mercy on us. The way that He demonstrates His love to us is by taking away the sin, whatever we've confessed today in this last five minutes, He's taken away that sin and redeemed us. So we come to a place of asking for forgiveness and asking that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from whatever we have confessed and we have repented of. We see it in scripture. It says, when we walk in the light, 1 John 1, 7 and verse 9 says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Okay, so let's just take this time to ask for forgiveness. We spend some time repenting and confessing. Now we will just come. I know I'm just breaking it up just so that we can be in the presence of God and through the healing even as we are doing this. Okay, let's just pray once again. Heavenly Father, we thank you that your word says when we confess, you are faithful. You are just to forgive us. You desire, Lord, to give us forgiveness and Lord, we confess and we've repented of things that we've engaged in thoughts that we've had, words we've spoken, deeds we've done, false things we've believed in, held on to his anchor. Father, we pray, we ask for your forgiveness. Lord, we believe that you died for us to take away our sin and we come to you knowing that what we have placed on the cross, Father, you have redeemed us. You have given us. You have exchanged it, Lord, for our life and for our freedom and for our joy. Forgive us, Lord. We want to be in right standing with you. We pray for the empowering of your Holy Spirit to Lord, to not just forgive ourselves, but to receive this forgiveness from you. You have gladly given it to us, Lord.  We thank you. We thank you that you have bought us to a place of rightness with you. You have clothed us with your righteousness even as we've confessed and repented. You have taken away our sins as far as the east is from the west. So far have you removed our inequities from us. We praise you. We thank you for forgiving us. Jesus' name. Amen. The third thing we understand and we look at is now it is a believing and receiving what Christ did for us on the cross. Now this is the only one and only reason why you and I can be made free and be made whole and be made well, you know, just because of what he did for us on the cross. And we continue in this journey knowing that because of the cross, we do not have to be, do not have to succumb to the place of sin. If when we look at Isaiah chapter 53 verses four and six and I and I just want to read that out, it says surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. Verse six, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the inequity of us all. Now because of what he did on the cross, all that we just confessed and repented and spoke about right now is something that he has borne for us. He has carried for us and he was stricken. He was smitten. He was afflicted on the cross. So because of that work for us, we are let free or we have our freedom because he took the inequity of it all. And Ephesians one seven also says in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. It's not the intensity or the or the level of what we've done that forgiveness gets needed to us, but because of what of the shed blood of the land because of the shed blood of Jesus. And it is only because of that that you and I have redemption. You and I have freedom for that. So let's again just take some time to pray and come to a place of declaring what he has done for us on the cross and declaring that we have been cleaned and washed and redeemed by the blood of Jesus. Knowing that it is only because of what he did on the cross that we have been made complete made whole that that whatever he suffered and whatever he went through brought about our healing and our wholeness. Okay, and we will what we will also do is to declare some areas that you need healing and deliverance for. Okay, so you can take this time to speak and pray over those areas and declare the work of the finished cross over your life. Okay, so let's let's just take some time to pray. Thank you, Heavenly Father. We thank you for the cross. We thank you. We thank you. Lord, we believe that on the cross you took away every one of our sins. You suffered. You were afflicted. You were smitten. You were bruised. You took every burden and curse of our sins upon yourself so that we could be set free. We believe what you did on the cross bought our wholeness. We believe what you did on the cross made us free, gave us joy, brought about our wellness and our wholeness. Lord, we we know that we because of what who we believe in because of what you did for us on the cross because of our redemption Lord. We stand washed. We stand cleaned. We stand sanctified. We stand consecrated. You have made us holy because of what you have done on the cross. You have washed and cleansed our thoughts. You have washed and cleansed our words, our mouths. You have washed and cleansed our attitudes, our deeds, our behavior. You have purchased the price of it all and we stand declaring that what we have in you and because of the cross has bought us our freedom. So you can take some time to specify some areas of your life that you want healing and deliverance and stand in belief of what Christ has done for you. Lord, I just come against and just let in my spirit to pray for a few things. Lord, we just come against strife that is in relationships that creates a lack of peace in our hearts. Father, you came to give us freedom, to give us joy. Lord, to build your togetherness and your unity, Lord, in our homes. Lord, I pray, Master, we believe that you have taken away everything that keeps us bondaged to places of strife and disunity and disharmony. We exchange your joy for all that comes against us. You can take time again to pray or if any of you feel led to pray for something that the Holy Spirit is putting in your hearts, you could unmute and pray something that God's put in your heart, some specific area that may not necessarily apply to you, but you sense that applies to somebody maybe in the room, somebody in the call. Please unmute yourselves and you can pray for somebody else. You don't have to call out the name if you know who that is for. You could just call out what the issue is and pray. Exercise what God's given you and pray. Lord, we just come against anyone who experiences mistrust towards somebody else that there is this feeling of doubts and paranoia that keeps engaging them. Father, we know that you have bought about healing in these areas, a place where they're not able to delegate to somebody else but takes on extra pressure by taking on more things, fearing that it wouldn't be done well or fearing that they cannot trust another individual Lord, we release your healing power and your deliverance from a mindset or an attitude such as this that may create again hardships in that relationship. Lord, we pray God, Lord, because of the work of what you've done for us, Lord, what you've done for us on the cross that you will release your peace, your shalom, your faith over this individual. Lord, I come against thoughts that are repetitive. Lord, we come against Lord those obsessive thoughts that keep lingering over and over again that does not allow us to focus on the things of God. Lord, to whoever this may apply to, Father, I pray, Lord, by the freedom you have given this individual on the cross, Lord, I ask that they be healed, delivered from obstructive thoughts, from thoughts that are repetitive and obsessive. Lord, we break these chains because of what you've done for us, Lord. They are called free every bondage, every chain. Lord, we break right now in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, we'll go on to the last point here, which is to be able to release forgiveness. In your journey, we know that there can be people who have hurt. They've caused you some pain and some things that stay deep within. They may be people who you're still living with and are those who you may be seeing over and over day after day. But our healing also comes when we release forgiveness to not just ourselves, but also to those around. Matthew 6.12 says, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespass. So we will take some time to receive healing, not just for what has happened to you because of the experience you've gone through that has hurt you, but also to release forgiveness to someone else, to that person who has hurt you. And also receive healing for any disappointment and rejection that you've had for those who, for any kind of expectations that have gone unmet. Okay, so I'm just going to lead us again through the prayer. The prayer is there on the notes and I'm going to refer to that because there are a couple of things there.  And I'd suggest right now maybe in that paper and pen, write those names down. Whoever the Holy Spirit is bringing to your mind, write those names down and submit to the Lord and ask that He gives you the power to forgive and that you will be able to release forgiveness to them in turn, whether they have hurt you intentionally or unintentionally. Let's just take time to pray. Lord Jesus, we just come to you and we thank you because you have brought us to this moment where just you and us are here, each of us in our own spaces. Lord we pray that you will release your healing over those events that we've gone through in our lifetimes. Those experiences that have been unexpected that have been sudden. Lord that we may not even have had a choice over. Lord we pray God for your healing.  Lord we ask that you release your healing right now. Lord we pray for those homes who've grown up through negative experiences, where there have been wrong models, where there's been compromises in the way a family has been led. Lord if there have been anyone who've been victims of violence, Lord of divorce and separation, children who've come out of single parenting, who've come out of significant economic crisis. Lord for where there has been physical ill health, where they've grown up in homes or been in homes where there has been mental health concerns. Lord we release your healing, where people would have grown up in environments where there have been constant fights and quarrels, physical violence, grown up in homes where there's been poverty. Lord there's been lack. Father we release your healing over each one of us. Like you to take some time to specify anything that has hurt you and brought you pain. Specify it and receive your healing right now. Lord we come to you and we pray that we will release those who we've held captive in anger, in bitterness, in pain, in our hurt, those who we haven't released, those people who've hurt us and said, done things to us. Lord we release them from our own clutch father. We do not want to hold on to them. They have no power over us. We release the bitterness, the anger, the pain, the struggles, the fear. We feel towards them. We release it and we declare and we ask that you give us the power to forgive so that we can extend mercy to them as you have extended mercy to us. Lord when we consider what you've done for us Lord for how you've forgiven us, how much more are we in places to release our brothers or our sisters who've sinned against us. Teach us Lord to release. You can take some time to specify or mention people whom you would specifically like to release. Lord we also take this time to receive healing for disappointments or rejections we have felt because of expectations that haven't been met. Lord we would have walked into places and relationships thinking of a lot, expecting a lot but been rejected and hurt over and over again. Lord this has caused us emotional pain and hurt. We receive your healing in these areas. And Lord that we will look to you only to be satisfied. You will be the fount which fulfills all our thirst and our hunger and we would look to know other Father. Lord we also release forgiveness to those who've hurt us, to those who have not stood according to their promises or stood according to their words. We release them. We take them away. We unbind them Lord from our minds and from our hurts and from our pains. We release and ask that the love of God fill us so that we can love them in return. I'm speaking specially to homes where in marriages where there's been a lot of expectations that you've had walking into marriage or expectations you've had of your children. Just to find out and to come to a place that a lot of them go unmet. I call to those of you who are in that space today to release them, forgive them, have your healing, ask the Lord to heal you, to take away that rejection and pain you felt and commit to seeking the Lord as your provider for everything. If there are people you would like to release and call out as you pray, please go ahead, take the time to do that. Lord we come to you Father and ask that you will heal us from things Lord that we have engaged in, from mistakes we've made, from choices that we've made that has brought us into wrong consequences too. Father we pray that you will heal us from those Lord. Lord from places we've been in our foolishness, in our immaturity where we have not sought you at the right time and done and chosen the wrong things. We pray for your forgiveness, we pray for your healing. Lord we also pray that we will learn and we will be in a place to forgive ourselves for the mistakes we've made, for the choices we've made. Lord we know that we are in you, that we are sanctified by you, that we are righteous in you. And Lord when you look at us as your precious children, Lord may we not condemn ourselves. Lord we pray that we will stand in the boldness knowing that we are washed and cleansed and redeemed by you, that we are loved by you, we are chosen by you, we are called your own. And if you look at us with such pride and such joy, Father maybe never make the mistake to look at ourselves otherwise, but to look at ourselves through your word. Thank you for the worth that you have built in us. Thank you for the value that you have purchased for us. Thank you for the cross that brings about our healing, that brings about our deliverance, our wholeness. We are ever grateful to you, Heavenly Father. We speak in joy and we thank you. Just like to spend a minute just to thank God, just come to a place of gratitude and thank God before we close. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for your love. Thank you for healing us. Thank you, Lord, for taking away everything, Lord, that is not of you. Thank you for bringing us to a place of wholeness and freedom in you. Holy Spirit, we just give you praise. We give you glory. We thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Do you be all glory? Do you be all power? Do you be all honour in Jesus' name? We pray. Amen. Amen. Alright, thank you so much for joining in today. I truly hope that just through this time of prayer that each of us have been blessed and walk in freedom. We all have freedom and let's walk in that. God bless. We'll meet you next week. God bless. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye-bye.


What do you think allowed you and Severino to really get on the same page tonight? That's just a lot of communication between us though. We had a plan set like we always do. You know, we were able to execute tonight. Do you feel like his command and his off-speed stuff was a lot better tonight? Yeah, definitely. He was better all around his off-speed. You know, just a couple he missed, but you know, overall he was really good, really good tonight. Robertson got two outs quickly there in the seventh inning, but then things unraveled pretty quickly from your vantage point. Why did things unravel? He had a really good bat there, you know. I took advantage of that pitch. Location wasn't exactly where we wanted it, but you know, credit to him. You know, he was able to connect on that pitch and the following batter, it was a pitch outside and he could swing on the ball, you know. Your wild card lead over the ace has dropped to one game. What's the general feeling in this clubhouse? Well, the focus is the game at hand, you know, and our next game is on Friday and that's our focus. We're not paying attention to what anybody else is doing, what Oakland is doing. We got to worry about our game, you know, and we have one on Friday.


Welcome to another show of Celebrate Life. My name is Gary DeCoralis and I'm your host. This show is all about capturing the lives of people while they're still vibrant and active in our community. I don't know about you, but I've read too many obituaries where I've said to myself, gosh, I wish I had gotten to know that person while they were alive. Well, this show is all about doing something about that. All of our guests are very alive and vibrant in the community, living life the way you would hope one would live life, and it's a chance for us all to celebrate their life. I know for sure that everyone has a story to tell, and so this show is all about giving people a chance to tell their story. If you are interested in being a guest on my show, please write me at celebratelife0747 at gmail.com. Or if you have a question for one of our guests, again, send me an email and I'll make sure they get that and respond to you, and that email again is celebratelife0747 at gmail.com. Well, today I'm honored to have as my guests Sterling Peoples. Welcome Sterling. I'm thinking you. Great to have you on the show this morning. So Sterling, I've gotten to know you a little bit from reading some of the things that you've written, and you're quite a great writer. But why don't you take us back to when you were younger and, and let's talk about that wonderful life that you have. Where did it all start Sterling? It all started in 1982. I'm a person that was down syndrome. I also have a serious medical heart and lung condition. Great. And so you grew up in Montpelier. Is that right? Yes, it is. Yep. Has that been a nice place to grow up in? Yes, it is. And how, how are the schools there when you were younger? They were excellent. Great. So when you think about your early life, what, and growing up with Down syndrome, what, what was the key ingredient that really made things work for you as a young person? Well, being included in school, I also went to the early essential education program, the triple E program. Mm-hmm. I had. First in Vermont and I was lucky that I lived in Montpelier. Mm-hmm. Yeah, go on. Before there was the internet in Amazon, my mom went to the Vermont State Library. Mm-hmm. I'm up here and found every book possible on Down syndrome. And her childhood intervention resources, resources really helped. That's wonderful.  Read it from cover to cover, I bet. Yes, it is. I bet she and you could write another book right now. It's possible. Uh-huh. So your family played an important role in your life, Sterling. Talk to talk to us about that. I have three siblings. I have a brother that lives in San Diego, California. And my sister, Skye, lives in Sexton's River. It's $2,000.  Is that right? Yes. How important was that love for you as a young person? Yeah, it helped. It helped shaped who I was and who I am. Yep. Okay. So, okay. So you, you went to triple E program early essential education. And, um, and you were very included in all of your early classrooms and, and, um, daycare. I think you mentioned daycare as well. That you always, you know, yeah.  How were those, how were those years in school? Like, did you have friends and things? I had friends. I had my sister. We were in the same grade. So. Okay. Yeah. Tell the audience about your relationship with Skye, your sister. What are the things that you really like about your sister, Skye? She's funny. She's funny. And she is a great person to be with. Oh, that's great. What if the sky was to talk about you? What would she say about you? I'm funny. Sometimes. That's great. That's great. Now, one thing about you that I picked up in the. Little bit that I was able to read is that you have a lot of determination. Where does that, where does that come from? Sterling. How did you get that determination? No, I did a lot of camping as a child. Hmm. And did a different adventure trips. Mm-hmm. Cooking hot dogs. And a common stove. Mm-hmm. What's the most? Oh boy. And it's been out. Canoing and a family fishing. More boats. And kayaking. Wow. And swimming in different places like. The ocean. The local pool. And. At different lakes. And going to my family. Camp. By the small lake in Western Maine. No. So you've had a lot of life experiences. Growing up. Yes. That's fantastic. So now you're in. Let's go, let's go to high school. How was high school for you? Of course. What courses did you like? Well, see. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. High school. Yeah. Yeah. And were you the mayor of Montpelier High School? I used to be a class Elvis. Class Elvis? Yes. That's great. So that you were determined that you were going to be successful in high school. Have friends, go to dances, get involved in the school and make it a good experience. Yes. Yeah. And did it work? It did. Fantastic. That was pretty popular that day. That's fantastic. That's great. And now school didn't end at that point though, did it? Well, not for me. I was an average researcher in a computer junkie in high school. And I used to spend a lot of time in the library reading books about computers and technology. Wow. I always have been interested in digital and technology literacy. I first became a storyteller. As a student in graphic communications and video technology program at the regional location and technical center, which is now known as Central Montpelier Center. Wow. In graphic communications, I learned how to do graphic design using Adobe Illustrator, Korg Express, and Adobe Photoshop. I also learned about digital photography. Another thing I learned is that I studied at the technical center was filmmaking. Wow. Wow. So I did a semester long internship at Book of Media. I learned how to use and operate cameras, how to check for white balance, and how to use phone call code 10. Wow. You might have a show on CCTV someday. I might be available. I read books on my bookshelf on filmmaking screenwriting. Wow. So that interest in filmmaking and media and computer research started in high school. And then you got involved at UVM as well, right? Yes, I did. How did that come about? I went to, when I was 24, I wanted to go back to college. So I went to CCV. I mean, I got ready, I was going to take a class on dinosaurs or something, just a class. I was still, I didn't belong there. Wow. That was when I did occur. So then, so you started at CCV. But I also took some basic foundation classes. And that helped me to be a much better writing reader for college. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. And how was that experience? I mean, that's a, that's a pretty, that's a positive experience. That's a, and that's, we're talking about a pretty high academic university here. Yes. And you were able to handle that curriculum. I was using all the college, different college classes. Nothing changed, but I was missing. So I did all the classrooms all at home, same as everyone else. Wow. Wow. Wow, that's very impressive. And then you got also involved in some leadership education at the medical center. Yes, I did. So tell us a little bit about that, Sterling. The leadership education, neuro-developmental and related disabilities, then the program. Mm-hmm. Leadership education and neuro-developmental and related disabilities, wow. So I took two graduate classes. Jeez. I got an A in both classes. I have a sense that a lot of people think very highly of you. I think I'm not going to put words in people's heads. Okay. We'll let that sit. Right for a second. Now, you've, so you've done a lot for yourself and I, and we're getting a good picture of that through school, college. You've also been an advocate for other people with disabilities. Is that correct? Yeah, it's correct. How do you do that? And what, what, what's, what do you say? Well, I advocate for, for implement first thing. The association of people supporting implement first. Absolutely. Mm-hmm. In the national, actually, we have a more active chapter. Say that again. I didn't quite get that. They have a national absentee. There is a more absentee chapter. Oh, okay. So there's a national organization. Yes. That you work through to advocate on behalf of people with disabilities. Just for implement. But I also use the employment. I have mentioned. In some place. Mm-hmm. I also work for a nonprofit. I'm not familiar. Call green amounts of advocates. Okay. Green, green mountain advocates. It was. I let it run by people with disabilities. Mm-hmm. So I started later in 2006. Hmm. And I've been happy to run. That's it. That's it. I do some testimony. Legislative. Really? A few months ago, I did a testimony on housing in Vermont. Mm-hmm. So you advocate for a decent housing for people with disabilities. Oh, different things like housing. Disability rights. Disability rights. Yep. Yeah. Do you have a situation where you were discriminated against? I have not. Okay. Well, that's a. That speaks well of Vermont, doesn't it? Yes. That's great. Have you offered trainings or any workshops ever? I've done the workshop. I don't see level eight. National level as well. Wow. Wow. I've done that. The absolute conferences. Mm-hmm. Local. To my dogs. That's fantastic. Starling. Have you ever. I know you're very humble, but have you ever had any, any awards given you? It's okay. I knew that was coming. Let's see. So. Back in 2016. I was awarded the Vermont Bison Star Award. For 40 under 40. Wow. That's wonderful. In 2019. I got this national award. I'm absolutely. Cheers. And then I. In. 2017. I won that to the word Susan. To avoid. Being one of the best advocates. Wow. We mountain sub-advocates. Wow. That's fantastic. I actually know Teresa Wood. Used to work to get. She's really cool. She is cool. Absolutely. Yeah. And she's a legislator now. Yes. Yep. That's wonderful. And are you are you working at this point? I have two part-time jobs. Okay. Of course I see what. Advocates. Right. And think college Vermont.  Is it. Do you actually go to your work in Burlington when you're with that job? Yeah. I mean. I was a playboy. But I also played events. So I go up to play. Howling events. So. Howling is my favorite. Holiday. I also am. Photographer. In my spare time. I've actually, I have seen your photography. On Facebook a lot. beautiful sunsets. Yeah, you do a beautiful job. I'm very impressed. Thank you. Thank you. Because I am also an industry of the employment corner. That's a volunteer job. Well, that's great. Is there anything that you haven't done in your life yet that you would like to do? Let's see. Like maybe go to Hollywood and make a movie or something. I love to travel. Yeah. Where would you like to go that you haven't been yet? I've never been to Lake Willoughby, but I just recently been there. So I can cross that off my list. New Jersey? I said Lake Willoughby. I just went. I never been. Okay, gotcha. Nice. So how about some words of wisdom for the audience? What would you want them to know that you have learned in your life? People with disabilities need to believe in themselves and find opportunities that what they want in life. Let them be capable and also let them find meaningful employment. Yes. Now, there's something I've learned a long time ago that there's two things in life that we all need. One is meaningful work and the other is love. If we've got both of those things in our life, we're going to do pretty darn good. If we've got one and not the other we can get by, and if we don't have either of those things, we're probably not doing well. So having meaningful work is a critical piece of having a good life. Absolutely. That's a good thing. So anything else that you want to talk about here? I know you love to travel. I know you're terrific photographer. Got some great jobs. I'll talk more about your mom and dad. What roles have they played in your life? Well, they have given me awesome support throughout my life and they've been there for the last 39 years. It's fun people and really trying to hang out with them. Yeah.  That's fantastic. Maybe I should have them on the show at some point, huh? That's an excellent idea. Yeah, I think that would be a great idea. Anything else that you want to talk about this morning? We cover everything? Is there something we missed? Let's see. Yeah. What's Skye doing these days? What's her job? What's she doing? She's a full-time parent. She's a full-time parent. Yep. That is a full-time job. So you're an aunt? I'm an aunt, yes. That's fantastic. Any other questions you have for me? You know, I don't have many more questions, but what was your favorite teacher in high school? I had a lot of favorite teachers in high school. Oh, good. Tell me about some of them. Some of them they helped me become more self-confident. Yep.  Yeah. So but the key takeaway is that they helped you become self-confident in yourself and what you'd love to do. And they helped me belong. Right. Help you belong as a guy. You can't ask for anything better than that. Nope. So when you think about it, you've got a wonderful set of parents, a fantastic sister. You've had some great teachers who helped you become all that you want to become. You've made friends on your own out there. Got a couple of great jobs and a wonderful hobby of photography. And it sounds like filmmaking is another thing you'd like to do. Let's see. I used to do life histories. Really? Yes. Like what I'm doing right here? Yes. But I did with youngness of advocates in different parts of the world. That's amazing. So maybe someday you'll take my job here. No. Okay. Well, any last words you want to share with the audience and we can close the interview. I also have a brother that lives in San Diego. Oh. What's his name? I'm Cam. Cam? Yeah. All right. What does Cam do? He's a hard scientist. Wow. Batteries or something. Uh-huh. Now, do you have an aunt named Giovanna Peebles? Yes, my mother. That's your mother?  She's a, isn't she a archaeologist? Yes. Uh-huh. Well, actually, I knew your mother about 40 years ago when I was working for the Department of Mental Health. She helped me find a cemetery that had been lost. Okay. Well, say hi to mom for me. I will. All right. She says hello. Oh, she's okay. Thank you.


and here in front of the entrance. And hi, so who are you? Hi, I'm Judith Stewart with TF Massive Technologies. And so today we're very thrilled to be showing that our Lumiere FlexTech displays are wrapped around this post at ID Tech X show in here in Santa Clara. So this is an extra large flexible circuit behind it. And so what we do is that we integrate flexible electronic elements to it, such as those flexible lighting elements. In this case we added those QR codes so you can find about the agenda and the exhibitor. But we can also integrate touch sensors as well to be interactive. So right now it's a little bit sunny, but a little bit later when it gets darker it's just very, very attention grabbing, right? It's beautiful, it catches the eye, and it just can't miss it. Nice. And then you have some partners in there, some customers that are using your setup. Yes, we have a couple of customers here at ID Tech X that are currently using our Lumiere FlexTech displays, which we're very excited about. Maybe they approached you in previous ID Tech X shows, right? Yes. Because they started a booth? This one we met through, that was our engineer, we met those guys through a different trade show. So this is Volterra, and so we wanted to showcase their technology here and how we can control our lighting, flexible lighting elements in there. You can change the colors? Yes, there's a color, and so you can really control everything here. And that's their core technology that we're using here. So we're partnering up to do it together. And this is a cool attention-grabbing setup? Absolutely, absolutely. So we have another customer here from Canada, which we're a BC-based company, so we're quite excited about that, that is using our Lumiere FlexTech displays, which are perfect for trade shows, as they are very portable. In this case, they used it, so we retrofitted it to a retractable display, a retractable stand, so they can literally pack it in a little bag, bring it to the show, put a USB battery on, and it's working automatically. And some of the other markets, maybe you didn't mention in the other video, put it in every month? Yes. So this can be used in the... Is it here? It can be used also for the entry decoration. So we're working on paneling all those flexible displays to make interactive wallpapers. So we're very excited about that as well. We're already in discussion with many manufacturing partners about that. So right here. Hi, and this is one of our partner, IntelliFlex. Cool. So this is very attention-grabbing right here. You got the Canadian... Yes, Canadian flag, and so you can't miss it, this cool glow that goes with it, and it's really easy to use. You just... You can plug it to the wall, or you can put a USB battery, and it's a turnkey. All right. Right there. And then to make it work, you simply let it out, and it starts by itself. Cool. All right. So it's only slightly more expensive than a standard poster, no? I'm joking, but there's a little bit more cost in there. Yes, yes, absolutely. So something like this would start at 480. 480? Yes. But this is where you are right now. It depends.  Absolutely. So you do a thousand of the same price economy of scales and everything. We're not a print shop. We are a technology company. Nice. And what are some of the other potential growth areas? You could do more interactions, right? More... Yes, yes. So in this case, we could have added the touch sensor and create some games. So one thing we're working on in the future is also having this dice games, where it will be two dice, the lighting will be flashing, and as you press on it, then you find out what's your price associated with the numbers. Nice. So that's what we're working with some of the big brands right now. You can maybe swap the light when you get close. This could be like a human body sensor, detection movement sensor or something like that. Yeah, absolutely. There could be sensors. So that when you walk by, you can collect data, the big data eventually. So this is just the beginning.


Today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Whopper whopper whopper double junior triple.  Yeah, me too. But today everything changes. Well, not really. I'm still broke. Not like financially, just like my spirit. Today we're venturing over to arts and crafts YouTube to build a special camera rig that can do what Kodak doesn't have the balls to do. That's right. We're going to try recreating air chrome with an asterisk. Obviously, it's not real air chrome. What is Kodak air chrome for the 100th and hopefully final time it is a discontinued color film stock that was sensitive to infrared light and created these really wacky images that you are probably familiar with. It's really expensive stuff nowadays and super rare. So I've been spending the past couple of months years actually trying to find a way to remake it convincingly. I've always wanted an all film solution to rebuilding the chrome but it's not exactly an easy task. A lot of people do a process called trichroming where they take the same photo three times with different color filters and once with a visible light blocker and combine them in post to make something kind of air chrome adjacent. There are a plethora of issues with trichroming. The biggest one being you'll always need to use a tripod and because it takes time to change filters and set exposure, things in your scene will have moved and you'll get this really colorful prismatic effect that is super groovy but yeah it's kind of a dead giveaway that you're not shooting air chrome. But what if there's a way to get the same image in the same moment on two separate film stocks and even more you wouldn't need a tripod. Sounds pretty crazy right? Well here's the concept. Two recorders pointed at a beam splitter held in place by a portable handheld rig. Sounds simple enough right?  So a beam splitter is a special piece of glass that allows a certain percentage of light to travel through it and then the remaining percentage of that light to bounce off of it or reflect. It basically partitions your light into two or more separate beams that produce the same image. That's where recorder number one and recorder number two come in. And by recorder I mean 35 millimeter film cameras because why not make this as inconvenient as possible? But what can we do with this new found power? Well like my uncle once said before he was brutally murdered in a robbery gone wrong with great power comes great responsibility. What does this mean to us if we could hypothetically capture the same image twice? Well what if we could capture the same image on infrared black and white film and visible light color film separately? Then what if in post we splice the infrared image into the visible light color image? We would theoretically have something that is very very similar to the film photography Holy Grail Aerochrome. Okay well great that sounds good to me. How do we make these dreams come true and even build this rig? I don't know I'm not an engineer so I'm just gonna figure it out step by step. Oh maybe I am an engineer. First in foreskin or whatever the phrase is I'll need beam splitter glass a big piece of it. Luckily teleprompters use this alien technology constantly. So I bought a teleprompter system off of jungle.com one that was made of metal and looked sturdy. As an added bonus with this system we get a free tripod mounting socket for recorder number one. Step number two would be to find a way to mount recorder number two at a 90 degree angle underneath the system. And step three profit I guess. Here's our double shutter release cable. There you go. So like when I go to take a photo it'll have to be like a okay now I just need another Nikon camera. I can just borrow one from Caleb. I have another one of these lenses on the way so the lenses will line up. I just need to find a way to mount this now underneath the the beam splitter because there is not enough clearance. Yeah I feel the same way but. So with the build going super well I had high hopes that this dream project would come to fruition shortly. All right what's up welcome back to another build day I guess you can call it. It's a couple days later I got a bunch of the parts in. I'm very excited to see what we end up with. I'm also very excited to see what parts I still do not have and I do not know that I do not have. So this is basically gonna go it'll probably be like right here. That's just because when we set one of the recorders down here it's kind of seeing the top portion of the beam splitter a little bit this area instead of the center which would be ideal but just kind of working with what we got here. So to match the angle of which it's hitting the beam splitter glass we need to lift the first recorder up a little bit here. It'll make sense when it's all assembled or I don't know maybe it won't. These are going to go on the bottom of the of this thing the bottom mount. They're basically just going to extend here a little bit so that we can nail the L bracket in here like this to hold the camera. If I can hold it from down there then that's a good sign right? Hopefully you can see that. That would be kind of the setup. All right welcome back to test assembly number three. Here's the iPhone mount just needs something to basically hold the camera in place. Basically I just need to detach this piece and use this piece. I'm thinking we might have enough room to attach this guy like so to hold our recorder number two in place. So we'll just do it with no viewfinder. See how that turns out. Fits. Oh the lens kind of doesn't fit though. Final thing make this thing easier to hold. This is a grip definitely makes it portable. I need to figure out how to fix the angle of view on this though because the 35 millimeter lens is seeing a little bit past the beam splitter up here. If I could angle it like this and then I'd have to angle recorder number one down a little bit that would work out well. Assessment build number four I think. Things are looking a little bit different. If you originally remember the metal went up to here but it was causing a problem. We were kind of seeing off the top of the the beam splitter which was not good. So let's just assemble it back together and see what we're working with. See what new problems arise. I guess now we just need to add our ground glass and our recorder number two which is Caleb's Nikon F8. So now theoretically if I look through the ground glass I am seeing what the beam splitter is seeing. Finally the fruits of my complaining had paid off and I had a working completed build. Eager to get this field tested I decided to load up the cameras and get them optically aligned for battle. Alright camera number two this is Caleb's Nikon F8. I've never loaded this camera before but it's a Nikon. How hard can it possibly be? How do you load this?  Does it open from the other side? No the hinges are over there. There we go. So this is going to be recorder number one. It's going to capture the infrared film so let's go ahead and load this. Caleb's Nikon has the R72 filter on it which is pretty crazy. I'm going to make sure that's tight. Yeah there's a bit of a delay on one of them. Okay so I think this is now optically aligned. Do you see that the recorder number two and then that's the overlay the ghost image there is recorder number one. So I think they're pretty close. About as close as I'm gonna get them to be anyway. Well it's finally time to test out the beam splitter in the field and like a boat going out to sea for the first time I thought I'd christen it with some flaming hot Mountain Dew. So after hundreds of light meter readings reading through the beam splitter glass reading the light bouncing off the beam splitter glass I came to the conclusion that this is gonna be impossible and I should just give up. Okay that's a bit dramatic. I somehow managed to figure out that I could meter the scene at 100 ISO and then add two stops of light for the ectochrome which would be sitting on the bottom of the rig and absorbing the 30 reflected light and then on top of that an additional two stops of light compensation for the infrared film behind the visible light blocker. So that would be four stops over in total for the infrared through the beam splitter glass. Sounds pretty complicated right? It's actually pretty easy. He said is he totally f***ed up the exposure on the first shot. F8 500. Cool. Did it? Did it. There we go. So as planned when I took this photo of Monica I exposed the same shot on both Rolly Infrared 400 and Kodak Ectochrome E100. I decided to choose Kodak Ectochrome for the visible light color image of this rig because it's very closely related to Kodak Aerochrome. Anyway now how do we combine these two powerhouse forces together for the betterment of humanity and make Aerochrome? For starters on the ectochrome scan I'll bump the shadows exposure and contrast then right click and go edit in photoshop. Cool. Then I'll find the corresponding Rolly Infrared shot that has already been converted in negative lab pro and I'll lower the overall exposure a bit because it's a it's a bit hot and then go down right click edit in photoshop.  Let's control A and control C copy the Rolly Infrared on over to the Ectochrome workspace. If you flip the all-seeing photoshop eye on and off you'll notice how big of a difference there is between the shots because the cameras were not actually perfectly aligned because at the end of the day I am only human as far as you know. With both shots selected we can go to edit auto align layers I usually leave it on auto and then slam the okay button. No power slam it. Great now we have to assign the infrared layer to the red channel and shift the ectochrome channels down accordingly kind of like real Aerochrome. With the top infrared layer selected let's go ahead and add a new adjustment layer channel mixer. This can be pretty dense stuff if you're unfamiliar with compositing or you just get headaches from doing simple tasks like me. So I'll just give you the photoshop GTA cheat codes that you'll need for this but fair warning if you do use them it'll give you five stars automatically so be ready. Flip your drop down menu here to green and set green to zero. Now flip your drop down menu to blue and set blue to zero. Now the whole comp is the red channel but we just want it to apply to the infrared layer. So grab your adjustment layer and infrared layer and merge them together. Now select your bottom ectochrome layer and add this same channel mixer adjustment layer. So time for some more cheat codes here flip the drop down output menu to red and change that to zero because the infrared is going to be acting as our sole red channel. Next flip the drop down menu to green and set the green value to zero then change red to 100%. Now the visible light red channel of the ectochrome is the green channel which is kind of like real aerochrome or so I've been told. If you want true 100% genuine aerochrome you can even flip the drop down menu here to blue set the blue to zero and change the green to 100%. I chose not to do this step in my shots because I gave the images a very strange green turquoise kind of look. The final step here in Photoshop is to simply take your top infrared layer and set the blending mode to screen so that all the pixel values get added together. Now you can save and jump back into Lightroom to make any final adjustments that you want or just delete the photo entirely because you hate it and you're just in one of those moods again. I personally did not like how turquoise the sky looked sometimes so I shifted the blues a little bit and occasionally there were sort of these blue purple random color casts in some of the shots so I balanced those out by going down to the split toning and adding some warmth to the shadows. And that's it. Now you can do this whole process again for every shot until it becomes muscle memory and you're doing it in your sleep at which point your partner, friends and family will start to be concerned for you unless you don't have any of those. Okay, one one thousandth at four, one two fiftieth so five hundredth. We're just gonna focus this set to infinity and beyond. All right, I hope these photos turn out and this isn't all just a waste of time. Okay, this is not a struggle at all. All right. Oh yeah, one five hundredth. If we can just get one photo that is not f***ed up, I will be happy. Okay, it's not a test video without the uh the pool shot. How ridiculous does this look walking around in public with this?  It looks like a radar gun.  What did they think it was? Um I heard them say something about like oh it's a light refractor. Light refractor. I guess what's a light refractor? I don't know. It's a beam splitter.  Yeah, I suppose. Kind of. It doesn't really look too similar to air chrome, at least in my own opinion. I mean you got the red orange foliage, but that's about where the look comes through a screeching halt. To me it looks like air chrome in the same way that s*** looks like chocolate. There were a handful of things that went wrong as well. Though I did my best, the cameras were not perfectly optically aligned. Additionally, while I was shooting, I literally couldn't see the composition whatsoever. I was basically just guessing, so a lot of them have a significant amount of headroom, which I think it'd be kind of nice if we could all just make a blood pact right here right now that that was intentional on my part and I was just trying to be artsy. Because the images weren't perfectly optically aligned, a feat that might be impossible just from eyeballing it, there is some prismatic aberration going on as well. Mostly towards the edges. And finally, because of the slight shutter delay between the cameras from the shutter release cable, some of the objects in the scene are misaligned. Like my spine. Probably now. But anyway, before we jump in and hear my closing arguments, I'd like to thank today's sponsor, Squarespace. 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So was this whole thing a worthwhile endeavor? I guess so. It's fun to try out new theoretical concepts like this, even if it doesn't really go your way all the time. Some of the photos look cool in their own right, but I don't really think it's the style or look for me. I need something a little bit more convincing. Maybe in the future, if I was doing some sort of project that would work well under this guys, then maybe I would consider it.  Probably not. I'm pretty weak myself, and I can barely even carry your interest in this video up to this point. The cool thing is that this technique can be used in a variety of formats. I do believe with the build that I currently have, there is enough room to mount two Mamiya sevens and produce some six by seven fake Aerochrome. That might be a cool video.  Anyway, this was a fun theoretical video and hopefully it serves as a way for people to get excited about the campaign to get Kodak to bring back Aerochrome once and for all. But until I find a better solution, I'm just going to keep on chugging.