And you get some nice properties out of that too. But I'll talk about that in a little bit until we get started. But I'm gonna give it just one more minute because we can see some more people coming in now and then get going. All right, I guess we can get started and feel a pretty good amount of people in already and more people are joining but probably won't miss too much in my first few minutes. So first off, I would very, very much like to thank the hosts of this. I'd like to thank Aaron, Kamlesh, and Vikram for helping put this together. I really, really appreciate it. I think that these sessions are great and I'm just really happy that we were able to make something work. And yeah, just to give you a little bit about myself, my name's Anthony. I am a developer advocate at Digital Asset and we work on a programming language slash tech stack called Damo. Damo doesn't stand for anything, it's just Damo. It used to stand for something, it doesn't anymore. And yes, for myself, I've long been interested in the more public blockchain space and as of last January, not this January, I started working at Digital Asset because I thought Damo was a really cool language because it solves a lot of coordination problems and private blockchains do in general that I think get overlooked a bit and are just really interesting problems to solve. So one other thing to mention before I get started too is that at the end of this, we'll be doing a little giveaway. We have a Damo certification course and so the first certification in that course or exam in that certification is the associate one, which is the very basic level, but we'll be giving it away for free and there'll be a coupon code on the last screen about that. So at the end of this, you're interested in learning Damo, you can pick up the coupon code and then go ahead and try out Damo a bit and then if you like it a lot, you can go ahead and just take that exam. And of course, you can register it ahead of time too. So I would snatched up if you're all interested once it's on screen. And lastly, you can ask questions whenever you want, more than happy to answer them. So I'm gonna be talking of course about Damo and Damo is a very interesting language in that it's designed to be right once and run anywhere with respect to your persistence backends and other parts of your tech stack. And so the first question most people might be asking themselves and probably been asking themselves for the past 10 years is don't we already have all the programming languages we need? And I'd say we don't. I would say that we have a lot of languages that do the same thing, but in different ways. And even when it comes to languages that we have for blockchains and distributed ledgers, we find that they behave a lot like languages that are for their contemporaries for parts of the tech world that aren't like blockchains. So we have languages that really act as if they weren't running on a blockchain or distributed ledger. And partly because of that, but on top of that, we also end up in a situation where we're managing very low level concerns in our code. Damo's a much higher level language that I'll get into. So really Damo differs in what it does. And what it does is becomes a portable language for DLTs that really abstracts away the ledger itself for you. It's not a great analogy but you can think of this like how you don't always write code to commit to SQL led, to SQL databases anymore. You kind of use libraries that do a lot of that for you. And you can think of Damo sort of like that but it actually goes far beyond that. And also this portability gives us quite a lot of features. So really when we're talking about Damo, the things we get out of it, and I'll actually go into this with some code examples and I'll show you Damo running live, but we end up with Damo being very concise. It's really quick to prototype your use cases and you only focus on your business logic, not your infrastructure. Damo actually from your templates which you can kind of think of as classes in another language and I'll show an example of them, just derives everything that it needs for the backends from that because Damo is a very strongly typed language based on Haskell. And if you've ever written Haskell or another functional language, you might know that oftentimes when you're writing in those languages, you have to write a lot less because the compiler and in Damo's case, the runtime actually does a lot more of that work for you. And Damo's particularly efficient in this too. Damo is very secure by default. So what I mean by that is we have these concepts called signatories, observers, and choices. And these basically correspond to read, write, and execute permissions in a Unix system. They're similar in that way in that when you're writing Damo code in every single template you write, you are very explicit about which parties can create a template, can be responsible for being a signatory on it, which parties can read a template, can basically be an observer on it, and which parties can execute what on a template, basically having different choices on that contract that they can exercise. So these are all explicit up front and that gives you a lot of very nice security and privacy properties. It's also very fit for purpose here. When we're talking about distributed ledgers, we're talking about multi-party systems and Damo is really designed for multi-party systems. It's not so much designed for single-party systems or systems where essentially one bit of code is responsible for the entire thing. Damo's not really designed so much for that. It could do it, but I think you might find other tech stacks more useful in that case. Damo's also portable. So when you write your Damo app once, it works across multiple platforms and that means that you don't actually have to change any code, the same code that you, and I can actually show this if we have time for me to show it, deploying on both, but the same code you write for fabric and deploy to your Damo runtime, you can then compile it and deploy it to a Damo runtime that's connected to Sawtooth, for example. And lastly, Damo also is becoming much more interoperable. We're still working on this, so it's not perfect yet, but we have another part of our tech stack called Canton that is essentially going to enable different disparate ledgers. So if you have a Sawtooth node and a Fabric node and you have a Damo application and you wanna run it on both and get communication between both your Fabric and Sawtooth node via your Damo application, you'll be able to do that. You can actually try it out now at canton.io, but it's not, I wouldn't say it's ready for production in all cases right now. And yeah, so that's basically the Damo tech stack. And so just briefly, we can think of Damo as a, and really it depends on who you are. So if you're a developer, it's kind of a consistent language for distributed and relational databases and you only need to know one of them. In that way, it's also very similar to SQL in that you have a very common language for talking to these different ledgers. It also reduces complexity when developing distributed applications. So if you're a project manager or a developer, that might be very interesting to you because there's a lot less boiler play code and a lot less, I like to call it scaffolding that you need to put up in order to get your application running. And this, of course, if you're a decision maker, results in faster, more accurate development of your distributed applications because there's a lot less concerns for your developer staff to worry about. And so now we're gonna get a little more technical. This is starting into the technical portion of this presentation, but, and of course, if you have any questions at any time, always feel free to interrupt, I really don't mind. But here's how Damo looks and Damo, this is an actual application that I'll show in a little bit. But Damo essentially has these concepts called templates. And what a template is, is kind of like a class in an imperative language. And so when you're using Damo, what you're doing is you're instantiating these templates much the way you would instantiate a class. And then that's basically a sort of contract on the ledger where different parties can do different things. So Damo's very explicit. So let's get a little into this. You can see on the left under the proposal template, there are arguments that it accepts. So here, the beer proposal accepts a beer IOU. And then that's basically the things you need to instantiate your template. So you need to provide it a beer IOU in order to instantiate the beer proposal. And the reason we're doing this, instead of just doing this in one template, where we would just have the IOU is because Damo, like I said, is very explicit. So this beer IOU, if we look over here, we see that it requires a signatory of giver and recipient. That means it needs two signatures from two different parties in order to actually be instantiated. So the way we go about this is we create our first template, which has our signatory, which is the giver. This is the person offering it, the observer, the person receiving it. These correspond to the giver and recipient on the right side of the screen. And then we have some things we're ensuring. And then we have a set of choices. And we have choices where the recipient can choose to accept this offer or reject it. Maybe they don't drink beer or maybe they don't believe that this is an offer that they want to accept because they don't wanna owe somebody something later. And then we also have the option where the giver can actually cancel this proposal. And one nice thing, one nice property of Damo is this proposal here, when you execute a choice on it, it's atomic and it archives that proposal after that choice is executed. So that means you can end up in a situation where both accept beer and cancel beer are called at exactly the same time and both go through. There's no real worrying about race conditions here because Damo is a UTXO-based piece of software that essentially makes sure there can't be any conflicting state here. Everything is nice and atomic. And so the other thing to note here too that's really interesting and cool I think is that the giver and recipient, you can end up in a situation where somebody is reading code where for example, I have an obligation to somebody else for this proposal. Like I can automatically make my obligation for somebody else. Like I can automatically say, okay, I owe Aaron something. Aaron has to agree that I owe him that thing. And that really helps avoid a lot of just issues down the road where people may end up having obligations to each other that they didn't intend. And so it's really nice that everything's explicit there. And then because somebody signed off because Aaron goes and says accept on this IOU, what'll happen is it'll go ahead and create this IOU and it can do that because now the proposal contract had my signature and the one other signature required for this IOU was Aaron's and so then it gets created. And then later Aaron can actually mark that as received. And it is actually quite a lot of functionality that we're getting in about 30 lines of code. Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't had the chat up. So I haven't seen the questions, I apologize. Rafael says it's impossible to find anyone who can reject a free beer. Yes, exactly. So that's often though when you think when you're coding these things and then you end up in a case where somebody would. And Ram has a good question here, what does peer do? Peer basically within this functional context is similar to what it does in Haskell which is it just does nothing. Peer is basically just kind of returning, I forget what they call the thing in parentheses but it's basically returning nothing. And what that does as a consequence of the Damel contract is it archives the beer proposals such that no other things can happen. So beer proposals is instantiated, somebody calls reject or cancel, that exercises peer and by the very action of calling that choice this proposal gets archived. So that's why rejecting cancel are the same code. These are kinds of really just niceties. Actually as the giver, I wouldn't need this choice down here, cancel beer because the signatory who is the giver here doesn't always has the option to archive a contract. Archiving the contract is basically a choice that the signatory always has. And so that's kind of how that works. So how enforceable is this when we are trading slash settling stock? Damel actually is being used within the Australian stock exchange, Hong Kong exchange. So if they trust it, I'd say anybody could trust it but it is really actually designed for making sure that when you're settling things between multiple parties that it is as safe as you can possibly get it. And yeah, so that's a great question. And then Giovanni has the question here, choices seem to be actions or possibilities that a signatory can perform, probably confirm, yes, a signatory or observer like you said there can perform these choices but each and every choice also has a controller. So you can have a controller who's a beer.recipients and can control some choices and the beer.giver can control other choices. And say this IOU here had a third party on it but they weren't in the signatory or observer. You wouldn't be able to actually have them do the choice. They would have to be specified as an observer at the very least in order to control choices. How do we query proposals for proposals still in flight? That's a great question. So you can query for things, commands submitted to the ledger that are still in flight. There's a variety of ways to do that especially through the ledger API, the JSON API. I believe there is a way to get the active contract set so you can do that. So I can actually show you how it works in this code too is that when I go through the code here, what I'll show you is a query where I asked for all the beer proposals and then get them back for the user that's asking for them. And I actually asked for them in a very broad way where I try to get back more data than I can than I should and DEML then goes ahead and enforces that I only get back the data that I'm supposed to see. For a choice to enforce, do we need controller signatures? Yes, sort of for a choice to execute you basically need the controller to be the one submitting that transaction to the ledger. So for example, this reject beer, the recipient needs to actually sign a transaction themselves with their authority to go ahead and reject the beer. And yeah, that's kind of how it works. Also signatures are a little different here in that they're really managed by the node that you're talking to. And then you have a permission layer in between that, say OAuth or some other IAM that is responsible for making sure that it itself can sign for that recipient that that recipient has the right token to say they're the right person or the right party because parties aren't always people. Sometimes parties can be organizations or groups within an organization. So that's what DEML looks like. And these are great, great questions. So always feel free to keep them coming. And then DEML actually goes ahead and produces or powers front ends that look exactly like this. This is all the code I wrote in view.js for my DEML front ends. You can actually though write code. DEML has support for Java and JavaScript essentially for easily making a variety of classes that it just generates from your code that make them very easy to interact with your underlying DEML ledger. And the nice thing there too on the JavaScript side is it actually generates TypeScript but you can use that from vanilla JavaScript. Like I did here, you just don't get the nice type enforcement that TypeScript gives you. So let's actually go ahead and check out a toy production app. And we're going to check out the OBEER app like I talked about before. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to live deploy this application. So I'm gonna deploy this to Fabric. And what I'm going to do is go to our demo on Fabric repository. What I would normally do is I would make sure my fabric tools are installed. I would set up my path and then I would go ahead and get clone. The one thing that I'm gonna skip here is the cloning just because once I get down to these steps it starts downloading a bunch of Docker images and building them and that takes a little bit. So I've already pre-built these so that they're ready to go. And one thing I'm going to do before I do this is make sure I'm not running any other Docker images right now. That was running some stuff. Take those. All right. Let's go ahead and navigate into this directory here. And then we're gonna run gen.sh which basically generates a config for us. You can actually manage the configuration yourself as well. It's in config.tx but it's in a different folder. And yeah, so that just generates a quick test config for us basically. And then we go ahead and start Fabric. And so what this is doing is starting up the Fabric instance itself. So that's up and running now. And now what we're going to do with our Fabric instance is we're going to start our Damel driver to run against that instance. So I'm gonna hop over here to the deployment guide. This deployment guide actually was written for a different application called create Damel app. But one of the nice things about Damel is that the deployment is so similar I can just use this one for my different application. So now we're gonna run the Damel driver which is basically the interoperability layer here that is going to talk between our Damel code and the Fabric instance and allow data to be read in, written from it. So we'll start that up. That's actually going to take a moment. So while we're doing that I'm gonna go ahead and build my Damel app. So the app that I'll be building today is called Obeer. It's for owing your friends a beer. It's actually a double on big old notation. And so what we're gonna do here is Damel build which will build the application. And then we're going to run Damel code GenJS. And in a little bit too, once I have the application up and running I'll actually show you some of the code behind this particularly with respect to the front end and how Damel enforces some of these nice things. So with code GenJS now what that's done is and actually I'll show you this now because it's a good time to is it's gone ahead and taken our Damel models with our over here. This is basically the same code that I was showing you on the slide plus some tests and what it's done is it's created all these other nice nice little classes here and we can actually go ahead and import this. So all the classes related to here so we'll have a beer dot beer proposal or beer dot beer dot beer proposal that we can actually go ahead and access. So right here we see that we have this nice little class that we just made for us and we can even see that it has all these choices on it and we didn't have to write any of this code or show teach our application how to interact with our backend. This was all just made for us, which is very, very nice. So I can go ahead and just query the ledger with that. We got another question here. Do we have to know Haskell to debug the runtime? I don't think you're going to end up in a situation where you need to really debug the runtime. So I wouldn't worry too much about that. If you wanted to modify or change the runtime, then I'm not sure because I don't actually work on that that's a great question. That could actually be the type of question that you could ask on our forum. And you can go to discuss.demo.com, click on new topic and ask the question in the questions category. But personally, I wouldn't worry too much about that because if you reach a point where there's a bug in the runtime, that's something that we have quite a lot of developers on our end at digital asset, you know, we are a company of about 150 people now, that yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about that. But I would imagine that I know the demo compiler is to more closely answer your question. I know the demo compiler does use GHC on the backend. So that's very much Haskell. And then the demo runtime, I imagine parts of it would use, would be related to Haskell because we have a lower level language called demo lf that's basically a stripped down demo that our demo application compiles down to. And then that is, then there's probably other code in there that is not Haskell, but chain code and other things and probably also depends on what ledger you're talking to. So yeah, I apologize, but I can't answer that question perfectly. So anyway, kind of related to that actually though is like I said, demo compiles down to a demo lf which is a lower level language that actually runs on our, on our demo driver. And it has a .dar file when it produces this. And that is actually very similar to a jar file in Java in that it's a self-contained zip file that has all the parts of the application that you need to deploy. And you're very welcome to add. Yeah. So anyway, now we're going to go ahead and deploy this application because I assume our demo driver is up and running and it is, you can actually see we're running on port 6865 over here. And then if we come over here, you can see that our fabric node has actually been talking to our runtime when the runtime was getting itself set up. So now we're going to deploy the code. And in order to do that, we'll hop over to our deployment guide. And right here, we have this nice little command demo deploy. I built this application, but demo deploy actually rebuilds it, but none of the codes changed in between so it doesn't really matter. So it's deploying and it's also allocating a couple parties that we're going to use for testing everything in a little bit. And what you can see here is that there was a bunch of data written that came through to our demo driver and then was also written to our fabric node. And so that's kind of how that works. And now something else we get for free is our JSON API. So this is actually, this is nice for two reasons. One, you don't need to build out your own JSON API. Everything is provided for you and is very easily implemented on the front end side. The other nice thing about this is that once you've written one demo application, you'll know how to use the auto-generated API that you get and you can go ahead and use it again. It's almost exactly the same why you're just changing out templates and what you're doing. So that's really, really nice to have. So that's going to get started up right now. That'll just take a moment. And yeah, so while that's getting started off, I'm going to set up the front end. With the front end, the one thing I do need to do is I need to make sure I have the right ledger ID. So depending on what you build this in, it'll be different how you specify it, but the front ends and the JSON API in particular want to make sure that when you're talking to them, you're requesting the right ledger. This is good for when you're developing so that you can have a ledger in called development and you can have one in call production. And then you never end up in a situation where your UI is accidentally talking to production when it should be on development and vice versa. So that's just a nice little thing there. Let's see if our JSON API is up, it is. And now it's running on port 7575 and that's where we're going to go ahead and talk to it. So the commands here are actually for starting up a little React app. So I'm going to do it slightly differently. Gonna hop over to my readme for starting my UI. I've already ran the on install since we don't want to wait for everything. And I'll go ahead and run yard serve within my UI directory. And then in a moment, we'll get our front end and be able to talk to our application. And so yeah, this is our front end. So I'm going to go ahead and log in as Alice. We'll see right here, I'm just typing in names. We do actually have facilities to do proper full authentication, but this is just an example app. And one thing we released or are in the process of releasing right now with the 1.10 release candidate and stable is hopefully coming out next week is a middleware for OAuth so that actually implementing the OAuth workflow is now very easy in demo. So I'm actually waiting to be able to update my application in order to take advantage of that. And so as Alice, I've just offered Bob a beer and a lot for Carol one too. And so we're going to get separation of concerns here. Bob and Carol aren't going to be able to see each others. And Alice is only going to be able to see the ones that they owe each other as well. And I can actually demonstrate how each of these users is really only able to get the data that they're supposed to. And that's right over here. You can see in get beer proposals, what Alice did when she logged in or I can actually log out and log back in now to just run that bit of code and make sure it's pulling it right. When Alice logged in, she said to the ledger, hey, ledger, I'm doing a query and I want all the beer proposals. I don't want them limited just to me. I want everything. And the ledger went ahead and said, okay, here are the proposals you can see. And she wasn't able to see any of the ones that she couldn't. So for example, I can go ahead and log in as Bob and I can see that offer from Alice. But as Bob, I can actually go ahead and offer Carol a beer too. And I'll go ahead and accept the one from Alice. So we can see that. But what we'll see is when we log back in as Alice, Alice went and requested every proposal. But Bob's proposal or Bob's offer isn't going to appear here because that was between Bob and Carol and Alice wasn't involved. And so Alice can go ahead and say cancel her offer to Carol and Bob could later go in and accept it, accept his offer from Alice. And then Carol can go ahead and accept her offer from Bob, for example, and mark that as received as well. And what you'll see too is that data is actually going, it's coming through the ledger API and then it's hitting our demo driver and then our demo driver is committing it to our fabric instance. So that's basically it all in a nutshell. But then, since we have some time and obviously I can also answer questions if you have any more, but what we can do now is we can go and take that code that we wrote and go ahead and deploy it not to a fabric instance, but to a sawtooth instance. So I'm gonna first just get rid of all my other containers and I'm gonna add to my demo on Sawtooth. And this one's going to just be slightly different. One of the reasons I like showing the fabric one first is that fabric, when we're going through the process of starting it, this one actually starts up a Sawtooth node and our demo driver together. So it's kind of nice to separate those for demonstration purposes. But yeah, let me show you that one. Did I take that in my UI? Okay, I did. So yeah, this is the forum by the way too. I definitely recommend if you get interested at all in demo, check out the forum and go ahead and click this link and you can actually have a bunch of useful links for you to check out to kind of learn demo and get an understanding about it. If you're interested in learning about it more, of course. Also bit.ly slash try demo is the other way to do that. You can just type in bit.ly slash try demo and it'll bring you right to this page as well. So anyway, we're gonna hop over now to demo on Sawtooth. This is actually built by one of our integration partners blockchain technology partners is what they're called. And yeah, so they've made this and a few other of them, I think. And yeah, it's really cool. So now we're gonna, don't think I need to run that build step actually. Let me skip that for a second and see. So what you would normally do though is you would go run the build doc, get Docker installed if you didn't have it, get clone everything and wait a few minutes for the project to build. And Ranga Swami is asking for GitHub links to the different demos we're demoing. Yes, absolutely. Let me actually share some of those. So share those in chat right now. This is demo on Sawtooth. And this is your repository and probably the most important of all is demo itself. So let me get you the link to that. And yeah, so you can go work through there and check that out. One other thing though, if you're interested in all of this is to actually go to demo.com slash learn. And there you can actually go and run a lot of these things just within your web browser to just kind of try them out and get a feel for them. Obviously we love people installing and trying demo on their local computers. But if like the first thing you might wanna do is you can go and try out deploying demo on production ledgers and this will go ahead and run through where you can actually deploy that same application. So you can for example, go and say, oh, I wanna try doing pulling demo on Sawtooth. And you can start that scenario and basically you can click all these commands in order to run an application and build it all in your web browser. This runs in the cloud on other instances of a Linux box. So yeah, that's another option for that. You can go to just demo.com slash learn. But of course, once you wanna really get started so I went to definitely install the demo SDK and then go ahead and try these applications out because obviously there's no learning like doing it yourself. And yeah, so first I'm gonna just try, I might have to build this project again. So it might take a moment, but hopefully I don't. And we're gonna do Docker slash run, let's start. Yep, so I need to build this again because I deleted all my Docker containers. I probably shouldn't have done that. So we're gonna run that. So I already have Docker and everything installed and then we're gonna run build.sh. And hopefully that's going to complete within the next few minutes so that I can finish showing the rest of this. But while we're doing that, I mean, we have plenty of other things we can kind of look at. So over here, if I come back to my little page here, installing demo itself, it's pretty easy. You can just, it does have a Java dependency. So sometimes that can hang people up on occasion, but we do have some instructions here for managing that. If you're on Windows 10, you have an installer that you can run.  There is also a manual download. So if you want to verify everything or do some sort of non-standard install, you can go ahead and follow the instructions for manual install. And so there's that. Like I said, demo.com slash learn is a great place to try things out for the first time. docs.demo.com is a great place to really learn demo and dive into it. So we have the getting started guide. We were just there at its own SDK, building your first application, adding some features to it. We have that. Then we have writing demo. And this is mostly, I believe, written by Bernhard, who runs a lot of our demo product side. And he's just produced a great guide on really learning demo and really understanding it. And then we also have language references too, so you can dive into that and a whole bunch of documentation on everything else related to demo. Yeah, we also have our YouTube channel where you can see recordings of this video which we'll be up shortly after. And a variety of other ones. We have tech examples and we also have things where we explain different verticals and different use cases where demo is being used and where it's beneficial.  Discuss.demo.com, the certification, demo.com slash certification where if you wanted to get certified in demo, you can check that out. And then down here, the demo associate exam is the one that I'll be giving away for free at the end. Well, I could actually kind of just show you the code now. It's HLDelui. So if you were to go to demo.com slash certification, you could like purchase the exam, but then on the following screens when you're actually entering it, there'll be a section for coupon code so just enter HLDelui in there and you'll get 100% off. This is limited to the first 20 people that take it. So if you are interested, go ahead and take it ahead of time even if you're just a little bit interested. And then if you decide you're going to learn demo and later want to go through the certification to kind of test your skills, you can go ahead and do that. And that has a question here, is it possible to migrate existing go-chain code to demo? No, it is not. But what I would say is that the nice thing about having that chain code already written is you already know how your application is going to work and that's a major benefit just in general, obviously with any application, but with demo you'll be able to say, oh, all these concerns I had and all these different parties that I know about that I want to work with, that's actually really easy to transform into demo code yourself. But unfortunately no, we don't have a layer to translate it. We even do have, there are some blogs, there are blogs that go into kind of comparing demo code to others. There was one, I don't think it was Go, but it might have been Hotline or something on Porto where there was translating between it. And so there are blogs on it and just not sure I'm gonna do it. Moment, I'll actually follow up with you on that and send it out after this. So now Harsh has a question. Hi, I was using demo and went through the demo design pattern. So I wanted to know whether you were trying to achieve pluggable consensus using those patterns as they enable to write transactions to different layers only after certain signatures of those transactions. Only those signatures that we had to find. Yes, so basically it's not particularly consensus in the sense of the network achieving consensus. For that we leave it to the node, but when it comes to different parties having to consent amongst themselves like consensus versus consensus, yes, that part is something that we want to be very explicit about. And so the only way to write certain transactions to ledgers is to make sure that all the signatures that they require are present on those transactions. So hopefully that answers your question. That's a great question, Matt. Yes, thank you for that. So it is two way consensus, two times consensus, one at the code level and one at the ledger level. If you deploy in suppose say fabric. Yes, that's correct. So you'll basically have at the ledger level is you're making sure that different parties are consenting to the contracts that they are parts of. And then at the fabric level that's actually achieving the network wide consensus these are the valid transactions that happens when and where and in the order that they happen. So fabrics doing the ordering as well, everything that fabric does. And Anil is asking a question here. So I write once and can have sawtooth beers and HF beers but those sawtooth beers stay in the sawtooth world and HF beers stay in. Yes, so it depends. So like I had mentioned, there is, let me just show that really quick too. There is canton.io and this is our synchronization protocol that we're developing where it's going to enable you to not worry about that world and actually get interoperability. So right now with the demo applications that I'm demoing and deploying, yes, that's true. But if you use canton, your sawtooth and your fabric beers can actually cross-chat if you were to deploy it using canton instead. And so you would still have the same demo code but you would then have this additional layer that allows for that interoperability. And that's a really, really cool part of demo that's still being worked on and that's just at canton.io if you wanna check that out. There's a bunch of documentation on it and you can even go ahead and download it. I've also seen some interest from other times as I've given this talk. So I think we're probably going to eventually do a talk on canton as well, hopefully, if everybody's amenable to that, but that's something we could always chat about more in depth. But yeah, anyway, so now I have a second here. Okay, so now I've got demo on sawtooth built. So we've built it in time and answered a bunch of more different questions at the same time. And now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna start it up. So right here, well, Aaron's interested in learning about canton. So I think we'll definitely do something in the future on canton. I'm gonna make another one. Cool. And yeah, so right now our sawtooth ledger is starting up and it's going to start up not only sawtooth itself but also the demo driver you'll see in a moment, you'll see RPC going by and that's the demo driver. So you could actually start them up separately like we did in fabric. It's just that this little shell script that helps that out doesn't have that going on. So the RPC starting up and should be running in a second. So I'm gonna just hop back over to here. And yeah, okay, so we've started and we're running now on port of 9000. So it is slightly different. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna build the code again. I would actually like to show you this without truly building the code again but demo deploy rebuilds it. You can just trust me that this code over here has not changed in any way to be special to sawtooth. But I'm going to go ahead and deploy this code now to port 9000. And you'll see just as before we'll start committing transactions. Not sure why that's not responding. That should definitely be working. But that's the fun of live demos. Let me cancel that one quickly. I guess maybe this wasn't fully. I seem to have some awkward time out. Okay, I'm not sure what I did wrong here. Probably done something wrong. Yeah, anyway, if you want, you can go to youtube.demo.com slash demo driven. Maybe something's changed since I last built this and I need to file a bug report. But you can actually see that over there or I do have videos up of this talk previously where we went and deployed demo on sawtooth. But yeah, so that's the presentation ending on a high note there. And if anybody else has any other questions, you can feel free to ask me. You can head over to bit.ly slash try demo. And through there, you can go and see all the links and get to the forum and ask questions and no report logs if you encounter them. Like I just did that. But yeah, thank you very much and thank you all for asking the great, great questions. I have a couple of minutes left if you have any more, but if not, then I can give you a few minutes back. Awesome, I'm glad you've all found it very useful. All right, I'm gonna stop sharing then and yeah, this is.


All right, what's up guys? So two topics I want to talk about today. I want to talk about the stimulus check stuff and I want to talk about ACY short squeeze. So first things first, I want to talk about our holiday Christmas sale that we're still running.  This is kind of our last promotion before we raise our prices in January. So we're gonna be raising our prices for everything in January. And when it comes to lifetime, we are gonna have a new application process where I'm going to manually review it and kind of have a little bit of an interview with someone before they join lifetime. So now instead of kind of just handing it out, we want to kind of limit it, tear it out and kind of do a little bit more limited and the exclusive stuff on it. So yeah, myinvestonclub.com slash xmas or text Tosh at<PHONE_NUMBER>. So stimulus check, so let's talk about this guys. So if you guys saw the news over the weekend, there was a stimulus check of like $600 and then Trump said he wanted to do it for $2,000 and then long story short, I think he just signed it for the $600 one, right? So the way it works is every single American gets, well, if you fit the criteria, you get $600 in a stimulus check and most of the other money goes foreign, big business, this and that. I don't really know about this. I don't really want to comment on that stuff. That's way above my pay grade.  A lot of people are losing their jobs. A lot of people are not able to feed their families and in America $600 can't even get you through a week. So I don't know what the hell's going on in our government. I don't know what these guys are thinking. I think these politicians are the most corrupt people in the world. I think they are the biggest criminals in the world.  As a business owner, if I had a retail store or some type of store, I would keep it open until they put me in jail, man, because that means that I'm not having enough money to feed my family.   It's groceries for a week if you're lucky, right? So I think it's a big, big, big disgrace that this is what's happening in our country right now and it's very upsetting. But other than that, what happened last time with the stimulus check was every single motherfucker put it into the stock market, right? So last time we had the stimulus checks of $1,200 guys, right? And that was when the market was kind of going straight down because of coronavirus. There was a lot of quantitative easing on the Fed, the Fed coming in and buying up stocks. This and that coupled with all these, all this money coming in with the stimulus checks and last time, every single person when they got these stimulus checks, they opened up a Robinhood account and they started buying and buying and buying and buying. And although it's not $1,200 again, $600 is half that. And I saw something on Twitter that said there's 15 million Robinhood users with an average account size of $600. If all of those users get stimulus checks and put it into the market, it's $9 billion worth of new buying power coming into the market. And remember, the market is all about supply and demand. If there is demand for these stocks, they will continue to go up and up and up.  There was so much demand. And with these stimulus checks coming in now, I anticipate that as soon as the first checks start going in, we're gonna see another parabolic style move in the market, right? And this is me kind of anticipating by using prior history to kind of help predict the future with this stuff. So the stimulus check stuff, guys, I think is gonna be a very, very big pro for the market.  They don't really care about it.  When I say uneducated money, I mean people that have not studied the markets, people that are treating the markets as gambling and the more money that flows into the market, you know, the more educated people like us have the ability to take advantage of that. When the stimulus checks were first happening, guys, if you guys remember, we had so many crazy, crazy runners in the small cap world because people were just gambling and gambling and gambling. And I remember that the month that the stimulus checks came out was one of my highest profit months in the market because that was when there was the most amount of dumb money entering the market. The stock market is very simple, guys. If you just kind of go to the root of it, it is educated money taking money from dumb money, right? It is educated people taking the money from dumb people and putting it into their pockets, right? So if we have this inflow of stimulus checks coming in, I mean, if I had a stimulus check, I wouldn't put it in the bank, right? I'll put it into the market because the market just keeps returning and returning and returning. Yes, we might be in some sort of bubble. Yes, we might be in some sort of crazy internet style tech boom, but a lot of people from what I'm hearing or what I'm seeing is this coronavirus rally, this coronavirus market, might be even bigger than the tech bubble, right? So we had the tech bubble and yeah, that was crazy, but what if this is going to surpass that? What if this is going to be bigger than the tech bubble? What if this is going to be the thing that they write history books about, the coronavirus bubble or whatever the, I don't know what you want to call it, stimulus bubble, whatever, but to me in my eyes, it does not seem like the market is going down anytime soon in the short term, especially because most of the market guys, 50% of the market is Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Netflix and Tesla, right? Five stocks are half of the market and if these tech companies continue to make money, it'll cause an effect to push the overall markets higher. So stimulus check is pretty much bullshit for the average American, but when it comes to the average American investing it into the stock market, I think it is a huge, huge pro. I think the stocks are going to continue to go higher. I think that dumb money is going to continue to pour in and that just gives us educated money more of an edge, right? So that was number one. Let's talk about ACY guys. So ACY, if you look at the stock guys, closed on Thursday at like $2.38 or $2.50 and as I am filming this right now, it is at $38 and let's talk about how that happens and how to make money on these setups and how to avoid these setups overall, right? So we are in a market guys where there's a lot of algorithmic trading that is driving the market. There is a lot of dumb money driving this market and on a stock like ACY, you have the number one thing that you do before you even look at this stock guys is you look at the float of the stock, right? So the float determines how many shares are there in the market to be traded, right? So for example, anything that has a float of, I would say less than 5 million is considered a low float. Anything that has a float of less than 2 million I would consider a nano float. For me personally guys, there's a rule that I like to follow and a rule that sometimes is very tough to follow is if a stock has a float of less than 1.5 million or less than 2 million shares, you are now allowed to short it, right? That's number one. Number two is if Bao can buy the company himself, you don't short it. So what happened on ACY guys is the float was 1 million shares, right? 1 million shares and I guarantee someone bought the float, right? Someone bought the float, let's say it was trading at $6 a share, someone bought the float for $6 million, right? Bao made that in one year trading these OTC stocks, right? So you have someone that's buying the entire float at $6 and just pumping and pumping and pumping and pumping and pumping and pumping and pumping it up until they kind of call shorts to domino over themselves and then when they dump it, they're not gonna be nowhere to be found again, right? So these stocks guys, the way what ends up happening is they end up halting up and because you are stuck because there's not enough liquidity to exit the stock holds up again. So if you notice what was happening on ACY, it went from 10 to 14, right? And then just went $4 a share from there to 18, you can't get out. And then it went to 25, you can't get out. And then it went to 30, you can't get out. Then it went to 35, you can't get out. Now it's at 38, you can't get out. So all of a sudden 15 minutes ago, the stock went from being at $11 to $38.   So this is kind of like a domino effect. It's a domino effect that's happening, right? And on stocks like this guys, we mentioned in MIC this morning that ACY is a nail and bail only because of the low flow. If anything, if anything, I should have done a better job telling everyone to avoid it completely. But I was, it was impossible, impossible to anticipate this type of move guys. It's impossible.  This is what we call a black swan setup. It is an anomaly, but in 2020, we've had the most amount of anomalies in history of the stock market. And that's why I am not, that's why I'm convinced that this whole bubble might be another anomaly, bigger than the tech bubble as well, right? So how do you profit on stocks like ACY or how do you avoid them? Number one is again, if the float has less than 2 million, you have to take it off your screens. I mentioned to every single person in the room that I love junk food. I love sweets. I love candy. And if I have candy at my house, I'll just find a way to finish it all until my stomach hurts and I'll regret it in the morning. So these days, what I do is I don't even keep it in the house so that I am not tempted. Same thing with the dangerous stock guys. To be able to avoid it, you need to take it off your screens. If you have, if you don't have the willpower to avoid it yourself like me, I have no willpower to avoid it myself. So I need to take it out of these situations guys. So number one, stock has a flow of less than 2 million.  Number two, if the stock has a float of less than 2 million, you should probably look to go along that stock, right? So use these things as signals. Use these things as indicators. Nano float, low float, this float, that float. It has a high probability of squeezing, right? Because the float, float is low, which means that there's low supply and high demand. So if there's high demand and low supply, you're gonna get a skyrocket move like this guys. So again, I guarantee there's a lot of people that blew up today. I guarantee that there's a lot of people that lost all their money today. It is almost impossible. Actually it is impossible to survive short on this stock today if you short it anywhere today. You could short at five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. You still would have been dead because right now it's at $38. And it might go to 50, it might go to 100, or it might go to two. The point is guys that these stocks are way too difficult. You need to protect yourself. And number one thing to protect yourself is hard stops guys. So again, risk management is the only thing that will keep you alive in this market. So let me tell you some forms of risk management that I use personally that maybe you guys could kind of take and add to your process as well. Number one form of risk management is a max size at the broker level. So go to your broker and tell them that you want a 1,000 share max size. That means that you could not add to any position over 1,000 shares max size. Number two is max loss at the broker level. Go to your broker and tell them I don't want to lose more than $2,000 a day.  We lose 2,000, we get pissed, we're down 4,000. We're down 4,000, we get pissed, we go down 8,000. And then when we're down 8,000 we say shit, if I just stopped at 2,000 I would have made this back tomorrow. So max size at the broker level, max loss at the broker level. And what I also do guys is I like to wire out, right? I like to wire out. So that means that God forbid. So in the past guys I used to trade with a $100,000 account. I used to trade with a $500,000 account. I used to trade with a million dollar account. And back then I didn't know. I thought all the big guys, the only way that they were successful is if they traded with a large account. And what I learned from my trading personally guys is it doesn't take much money to make money in this market. So I trade with a $35,000 account and every time I get to $50,000 I wire out $15,000 to give myself a paycheck. This paycheck allows me to have some money in the bank in case I screw up. This paycheck allows me to be more confident in my trading setups. And number two is if my account is only $35,000 I could only afford to lose $10,000 before my account goes under PDT. If my account goes under PDT I cannot trade. So having a smaller account size is a form of risk management as well. Cause if I was trading with a million dollar account I guarantee, oh, I'm down 100,000. No big deal. I got 900K left. Oh, I'm down 500,000. No big deal. I got a 500,000 left.  So that's it guys. I wanna make sure that you guys today after ACY you go to your broker you set a max loss at the broker level.  In this day and age guys with a $30,000 account they gave you four times leverage. So you have 120K in buying power which is more than enough for these small cap stocks that we're playing. Just to give you guys heads up on like a $5 stock I use maybe 5,000 shares which is what $25,000 it's not even my entire equity and that's max size. So it doesn't don't be fooled to have million dollar accounts, don't be fooled to have six bigger accounts less is more because it'll protect you. So that's basically the topics I wanna talk about. So I wanted to open up to a brief Q&A for about two or three more minutes until we guess, until this ACY on halts and that's it. So do you guys have any questions for me? Is everything clear guys? So if everything I'm saying makes sense leave a like on the video. If you guys have any questions let's talk right now and if you guys are watching the replay of this video leave a comment with your question I'll try to get to it. But for now we're gonna take these live questions right now guys. Yeah protect yourself at all times guys exactly. So appreciate the video. Thanks guys. So I mean that's basically I wanna show you guys that if you are in MIC that you're getting all this commentary. If you are in MIC you get all of our plans. If you guys are in MIC you get all these warnings. Oftentimes it's actually funny because me and Bao joke around that we say whenever we warn a stock if we just had a separate account to go along these stocks that we warned about we're probably making so much more money guys. And I've been trading for almost seven years now guys which is kind of crazy to say. And I'm still learning. I'm still improving. The way that I relate trading is to exercise guys. So I just recently started exercising in my life and the reason why I never found success exercising is because I would do it for a month and I wouldn't see results and I would stop. And then I would do it for three months and I wouldn't see results and I would stop. And that would discourage me out of making me upset. And now what I told myself this year is I wanna give myself one year of exercising. I wanna give myself a real clear shot of one year that I'm not focusing on the results. I'm just focusing on showing up to the gym and after six months of showing up I now am finally seeing results and that makes me happy. So if you're starting your trading journey and you're not seeing results in one month, you're not seeing results in two months, you're not seeing results in three months, let me remind you that you cannot build muscle in one month. Let me remind you that you cannot be a doctor in one month. Let me remind you that you cannot be a lawyer in one month guys. So my biggest problem was patience and now I'm learning to be a little bit more patient in my life in a whole other aspect. So that's basically it guys. If you have any questions, let me know. Please leave a like on the video. Please leave a comment on the video. I am personally the person that responds to every single comment on the video and I will see you guys back in the room at MIC. So thank you again. Have a good day everyone.


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Okay. Good morning and welcome to today's class. We'll continue in the book of Acts. We'll start with a word of prayer and then I'll get into chapter 9 where we were when we stopped last class. So maybe I'll just say a word of prayer and then we'll pick up from there. Heavenly Father, we thank and praise you Lord for this day. Father, we thank you for your grace in our lives. Lord, we thank you for your leading of God. Father, we pray that even as we take time Lord to meditate in the book of Acts that Lord you will give us the understanding that we require and God that each one of us Lord will be equipped in a marvelous way. Father God to serve your kingdom. Thank you Lord. Thank you for Lord this great opportunity where Lord we can focus on your word. Lord, we pray God that your presence will completely take over and minister to each of our hearts in our lives. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Okay. So Acts chapter 9, we started with the portion where we saw how Saul, we went about threatening people and he was moving towards Damascus to cause a lot of destruction for the people of God. And on that road to Damascus was that incredible encounter that he had with Jesus and Jesus asks him about why he was persecuting himself, which is Jesus. So we saw how God feels about the persecuted and then we saw that this was a very real encounter which Saul had and after that he was not able to see, he in Damascus with the believers he was there for some time. There was also a believer by the name of Ananias who God used to minister to Saul so that Saul could be healed of his blindness and then go on with the work that God had called him to do. We saw how God had spoken to Ananias about the destiny of Saul and told him not to worry because Saul was somewhat who had a great purpose as far as the kingdom of God is concerned. And then we went on to observe that Saul tried to launch off his ministry but he was not able to do that because people were not receptive of who he was. We saw how because of his personality or because of his background and being the persecutor to the church even the apostles had such a difficulty in trusting that Saul could be a minister of God. And so we saw that he made a very brief stop in Jerusalem after which he went back to the region of Cilicia which was the original region of Saul and he began to spend time there. So that was how this entire chapter was heading out and then towards the end of the chapter. We saw some ministry happening and this is the ministry of Peter and I kind of rushed through that. So we went through chapter 9 but then once again from chapter from verse 32 where we saw the ministry of Peter in places like Lidda and Jopah. So in Lidda we saw that there was a person by the name of Annius and this person was bedridden for 8 years and was paralyzed. So we know that there were many mighty signs and wonders that were taking place through the ministry of the apostles. Now once again in a place called Lidda, this has happened. Do you know any other place where somebody was able to walk earlier in a miraculous way? In the book of Acts, have you seen anything earlier? Something very powerful and mighty. Chapter 3. Okay, Jafina is saying when Peter went to the gate beautiful and John you said something? I was saying chapter 3, the same Peter and John. Yeah, Peter and John exactly. So the thing for us to notice is that the church, the early church and the apostles, when we say the early church, we'll see later on that it was not just the leaders of the church but even the believers. We already have an example and that example would be Stephen because he was just a volunteer in the church. But he was a man of faith and a man who moved in mighty signs and wonders. Now one thing that I want us to take note of is that in the church, all these supernatural works are so common. It was not a big deal at all. So when Peter goes for ministry, a man who's eight years paralysed, I mean how many times do we see that in our churches today? But it's sort of common. We said earlier that the first eight chapters is roughly about a decade. So in the first decade, there were signs, wonders and miracles. Now we moved on into chapter 9 and we're talking about the next decade of what is happening in the church and these things are continuing. Somebody who couldn't work for 40 years was miraculously healed in chapter 3. And now again in chapter 9 through the ministry of Peter, you observe somebody who's eight years paralysed being able to get up and function normally. So these are all things that we must kind of understand the fact that God was working so powerfully through the early church and these things were normal. So again, I said this earlier that there's nothing really in scripture that says that God has stopped working in this way and that there was a special sort of mandate of God only for the early church for such things to happen. There's nothing like that. So we do can expect God to do these mighty signs and wonders in our lives and trust God for supernatural manifestations, even healings and miracles. So one miracle that we are noting in the ministry of Peter is the rising up of this man and he is who was eight years bedridden. Now I told us last time that there was one more ministry that Peter had to do. So just think about it like you know in their daily ministry, people would have come and ask them to come and minister in certain situations. So right now there is a lady who's passed away, who's dead and Peter has to go there and minister. So it's amazing you know the kind of faith that the early church walked in. Just some time ago there's a paralysed man who's getting healed and now Dorcas who has passed away, Peter goes there to minister and he actually was able to minister to her and she rose from the dead. So he calls out to her, right? In this particular situation it's a command. He says Tabitha arise and she opened her eyes and when she saw Peter she sat up. So in this way there were lots of wonderful and amazing things that kept taking place through the ministry of the early church. So just wanted to kind of go over this portion for us to think. Can we expect this today and is it happening or let's say you know can it happen? What are your thoughts about that? Supernatural ministry like day to day, right? More than just preaching, teaching, there are miracles taking place. Any thoughts? Yeah, actually I asked too many questions at the same time. But the point that I'm making is you see a great manifestation of the supernatural in the early church. So is that something we must expect today? If yes, why not? I think we can expect the same because God has not changed. Okay, that's great. We can expect. All right, all right. Fine. So what was that one factor that probably helped the early church to manifest these miracles? Okay, so Jaffina is saying faith. Okay, that's great. Yeah, anyone else? Because they were with Jesus and they saw Jesus and after Jesus rose from the dead, you know like the Holy Spirit came on them and it empowered them to do all the science wonders and miracles. Yeah, so they observed the ministry of Jesus and they learned from the ministry of Jesus. Okay, great. Yeah, thank you for that. And Jaffina says fellowship of the believers, kingdom mindset, which they had. Okay, great. Yeah, so all these could be the reasons, faith, their desire to pattern the ministry after the ministry of Jesus, their fellowship. And through the fellowship, another important feature that we have seen earlier is that it was a praying church, isn't it? They were all people who got together and prayed about everything. So it was a praying church and another crucial thing that happened in Acts chapter 2 is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So from that point onwards, flowing in the miraculous was but normal and very common for the early church. So even today when we walk in faith, when we are a prayerful body, when we pattern our life and ministry according to the ministry of Jesus and the teachings of the Word of God and as well as another thing is the baptism in the Holy Spirit. The empowering of the Holy Spirit. When we walk with all of these things, we'll see that today our ministry will be no different. So moment to moment, we can express our faith and that's where all these miracles and healings and things like this take place. So to be full of faith and to carry on with life with faith because we don't know which moment what requirement may come to us. I mean, I think of myself when I read especially this portion about Peter, where he was in Litta and then he went to Joppa. Just imagine, he may not have woken up that day thinking, okay, I could have meet somebody who's eight years paralysed or he would not have woken up thinking, somebody will be dead and I have to go and raise them from the dead. So it's crazy but as we do our ministry day today, we don't know the kind of needs that we may encounter. But the beautiful thing is that the early church knew how to navigate through all these situations and circumstances because of the different factors that we just discussed. So it's an inspiration for us to be the way that they were. Caleb is sharing, they waited upon the Lord and it would listen, evangelized piously. Also after Jesus was taken above and Holy Spirit started to guide the disciples and apostles for the first time like never before. Okay, right. Sure. So I think similar points as we have spoken earlier. But thank you, Caleb, for that. Now, there's another very unique thing that is mentioned in this passage. We find that Peter, he stays, the last verse there, verse 43, he stays in Joppa with Simon a tanner. Now, Simon a tanner, that is a little bit of a shocker because when we think about Peter, he was a very devout Jew. And you know, as far as Peter was concerned, he did not want to associate with non-Jews. Neither did he want to associate with people who were considered somehow lower by the Jews. But after the baptism in the Holy Spirit, after the ascension of Jesus, there were many changes that were taking place in the heart of Peter. God was really working in his heart and in his life, opening him up to the possibility of ministering to all kinds of people, not necessarily the people who are from his own community, the Jewish community. So, when we read here in verse 43 that Peter stays with Simon a tanner. We all know who a tanner is, tanner working with the skin of animals, dead animals. So the Jews those days, they looked out upon tanners and they would not associate with tanners. But as the believing community grew, we find that Peter is not feeling bad about associating with somebody like a tanner. He is even living in the house of a tanner. And the scripture also says he stayed many days in Jobah with Simon. So it's showing us that Peter who is known for his Jewish, you know, his pride in the Jewish traditions and culture. He is also opening himself up to ministering to any kind of a person. So, you see, so far what we've seen till Acts chapter 9 is that the gospel and the ministry of the early church, it is more focused towards the Jews. You remember, even when Jesus ministered as part of the covenant, he ministered to the Jews. But there's something dramatic that is going to happen from Acts chapter 10. Remember that very key scripture that we all talk about, John 3.16, what does it say?  So God so loved the world. So far the promises, the blessings, the covenant, all of that is for the Jews. But from Acts chapter 10, God will do something historical as far as the church is concerned. And what is that? We will see that the gospel will now be taken to the Gentiles by the church. And who is God going to use to do this? He's going to work through Peter, the same person or the same individual who's not very open to ministering outside of his own Jewish community. So that is incredible that God would use a person who was earlier unwilling to do a work for the kingdom. So the work of God in people's hearts is so evident. Let's move now to Acts chapter 10 here. We'll start from verse 1 and we could read till verse 6 to begin with. If someone can, please unmute and read that would be very helpful. Acts 10, 1-6. There's a certain man named Caesar called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave our centristly to the people and prayed to God always. About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly an ambition, an angel of God coming in and saying to him, Cornelius. And when he observed him, he was afraid and said, What is it, Lord? So he said to him, Your prayers and your arms have come up for a memorial before God. Now sent men to Job and sent for Simon whose surname is Peter. He is lodging with Simon at London whose house is by the sea. He will tell you what you must do. Okay. So in this case, we see that Cornelius receives a message from God. Who is this man Cornelius? A centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment. So he's a man of influence and a man of authority, a centurion who commands 100 soldiers under him. But what is the specialty as far as his character or his devotion towards God is concerned? He also teaches us that he was a devout man, a man who feared God and gave arms. He prayed always and he also gave arms generously. So notice this. There is a man who is devoted to God and he's trying to follow God by serving him. And God has taken notice of this particular person and God wants him to know about what Jesus has done so that he too can walk in salvation. So then what happens at the night hour? We are told he saw clearly the vision and angel of God coming in. In the book of Acts, there are very many communications of God and in various ways. We've seen earlier, you know, you saw an angel just showing up for Peter and John, right? Like the initial time when they were caught. At that time also you have a message through an angel coming through to them. We are now seeing that in the vision, there is an angel of God coming and bringing the message to the people. So in various ways, people are hearing from God. And in Acts chapter 8, we saw how Philip was receiving the prophetic word. We saw pieces of the message of God. He first heard like a small, he heard a phrase and then he heard a sentence. He followed through with it and then he was able to minister to the Ethiopian unit. He was able to move on in his journey. So God has communicated in various ways. Now in this particular chapter, God is communicating to a devout man called as Cornelius and God is speaking through an angel in a vision. So these are all ways in which God speaks to us and we must be open to that. So what did he tell him? He told him your prayers and your arms have come up for a memorial before God. Now notice that also, that's also really beautiful. Prayers and arms, sometimes we feel like our prayers or our giving has not really broken through before God. But think about this, God is taking notice of everything. A devout man Cornelius, he does not even know the gospel. He does not even understand the gospel but he is just trying to be devoted towards God and follow the right actions. But God is taking notice of that.  It doesn't go waste. God notices and God has taken notice of such a man known as Cornelius. Even earlier, we saw about Dorcas, her good life and she was a good woman. God had taken notice of the way people were actually living their lives. And notice how each one is from a different community, each one is from a different class and section. Now we are looking at somebody like Cornelius, who is a pretty person of authority in the Italian regimen. So no matter who they are, God is taking notice of their acts of devotion. And then it says that it has come up for a memorial before God, meaning God has remembered you. And instruction is given to Cornelius that you need to send some men to Jobah and exactly where. Remember we talked about the word of knowledge. Even when Ananias got told if you need to go and minister to Saul, how did God tell him to go to this street called Strict? So that's the word of knowledge where facts or information in the natural is provided to us. So even here the address is given. What is the address? Cornelius, you send some men where to send them, send them to Jobah and over there there will be somebody known as Simon, whose surname is Peter. In case obviously they are going to find a man who they don't know. So they need to know God is giving the full name. Don't go and catch some other Simon. Go and meet Simon Peter. And there is the Simon Peter in that city of Jobah. He is lodging in Simon the Tanner's house. So notice very, very clear instruction. Same thing today is God able to even tell us somebody's address if we have to go and minister to them. Why not it happened in the Book of Acts, right? So it can happen even today. These are all examples that should really build expectation in our hearts. So we are seeing people who were sick for so long healed. We are seeing the dead raise. We are seeing people receiving information, communication from God. That's even so specific. The address is being provided. So God is instructing. God is orchestrating. So while we look at the Book of Acts as the Acts of the Apostles. It's really the Acts of God through His people. It's really the Acts of the Holy Spirit through His people. Doesn't it look like God is directing everything? It's almost like one scene is playing out here and another scene is playing out there. It's only because people are willing to listen to God and do what God was telling them to do. So now God is given an instruction to whom? To Cornelius. Now the other very crucial thing about Cornelius is he's a Gentile. Apart from his position, personality, devotion, community. Which community does he belong to? He's a Gentile so far. We have not seen the Gospel being intentionally taken out. And nobody is planning that among the Apostles. But who is planning that? God is planning that because remember Acts chapter 1 verse 8. What did it say? It said that you shall be my witnesses. The final portion of that. In Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth. So the Gospel has to go out to everyone and it has started in the book of Acts. So in that second decade, the Gospel is moving out of the community of the Jews. So Cornelius is that first Gentile tomb. The Gospel will be preached to by one of the Apostles. So now let's move on. God, we will read from verse 7 and we can continue till verse 16. And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants. And a devotee shoulder from among those who waited on him continually. So when he had explained all these things to them, he sent them to Japan. The next day, as they went on their journey and journey to the city, Peter went up on the house top to pray for the sixth hour. When he became very hungry and wanted to eat, but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. And so having opened an object like a great ship boat at the four corners descending to him and let down to the earth. In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild bees, gripping things and birds of the air. And a voice came to him, arise Peter, kill and eat. But Peter said, No, so Lord, for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.  This was done three times and the object was taken up into heaven again. Okay, at this point, there is the communication. So I told us that God is orchestrating. So it's like a very good planner. First God speaks to Cornelius. How does he speak to him? He uses a certain method in a vision through an angel. He speaks to him. Now we see that Peter, another crucial person in this particular happening, needs to know what has to be done. So what's happening now? So we find that Cornelius has followed through on what God told him. But Peter is having a vision. So in Simon the Tata's house on the house top, he went up to pray about the sixth hour.  So he followed the prayer times, just like the Jews, he kept those traditions. And at the time, at the sixth hour, that's around the time that the meal would be served. It says that he became very, very hungry. And he fell into a trance. So think about this. Sometimes the very situation that we are going through, God can use that situation as well to speak to us. Isn't that wonderful? It's not only like, you know, so disconnected from our situation. Now Peter is hungry and that instance, God is using to communicate something to him. But what is the method through which the message comes to Peter this time? It's a trance. What is a trance? Anyone, what is a trance? Vision, okay, we all know vision, what that could be. What is a trance? No idea. Anyone here, would you know what a trance is? It's a vision face. Huh? I just said some vision. Okay, yeah, that's the advantage of being an online student. You can Google anything and everything. Okay, so John Paul is saying a vision completely in an unconscious state. Yes, that would be the description. So a trance is when both in your mind and in your body, right? You just feel weak for a moment where you're no longer functional. Suddenly you kind of encountered the spiritual realm and it's almost like as John Paul is saying, unconscious state. Okay, but you're very much alive as far as the spiritual communication is concerned. So though physically you may have fallen down or even there are trances where people don't necessarily fall down. But where I've heard testimonies of people who became like statues for many hours. Okay, and this you can read up the story from the life of Maria Woodworth Etter. And she had these experiences when she used to go and minister in meetings. Apparently she would just freeze for many hours and nobody will know like what's happening. Why are people frozen? But it's a trance. They've just become like unconscious sort of and in the spiritual, God may be imparting many things into their spirit. God may be speaking many things. They may be receiving messages from God. So similarly, when Peter is very, very hungry that day, he goes into a trance. I always imagine it as maybe he just laid down and he was very weak. So he was lying down and unconscious. And at that time in a vision, he saw that there was a sheet that came down and you had all the animals that were shown, which actually according to the law, which was given earlier, those were forbidden for the Jews to eat. But in this particular vision, God is saying Peter, rise up, kill and eat.  But God says, what God has cleansed, you must not call common. So basically what God is saying is, there's this whole thing about kosher and non-kosher animals in the Jewish law. Don't even classify. Everything is blessed by God. Everything is cleansed by God. That kind of a message comes to him. Now, what do we understand from this particular vision? We'll see how this vision is actually processed. So maybe we should read a little bit more and then we will have an idea. So we've read till verse 16. Now, let's keep reading on. It's quite long the passage, but let's read till verse 23, 17 to 23. Now, while Peter wondered within himself what this vision is, he had seen men. We hold the men who had been sent from the Cornelius had made enquiry of Simon's house and stood before the gate. And they called and asked whether Simon, whose son name was Peter, was lodging there. While Peter thought about the vision, the spirit said to him, behold, three men are seeking you. Sorry, arise therefore, go down and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them. Then Peter went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius and said, Yes, I am he who you seek. For what reason have you come? And they said, Cornelius the Centurion, a just man, one who fears God and has a good reputation among all the Jews, nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house to hear words from you. Then he invited them in and lodged there. On the next day, Peter went away with them and some brethren from Job accompanied him. Yes, thank you, John. So we see what's happening. Now, Peter has a vision. Okay.  Don't go by that. All these animals are clean. So he's wondering what could this vision mean? So he does not even have the interpretation of the vision. He's in that state. But while he's still thinking about the vision, what happens? Those three men remember Cornelius had sent them, those people come to Simon's house and God is speaking another word to him. Now, he has not yet understood the vision in the trans. Before that, one more communication where God is telling him, three men are seeking you, arise therefore, go down, go with them, doubting nothing for I have sent them. So God is clearing his doubts. Okay, but he's still not clear as to what God is doing. So thank God for, you know, somebody like Peter who was sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit. At least he knows what he has to do next.  He tells those three men who came and they introduce themselves. They say, look, Cornelius the Centurion, a just man, one who fears God, you know, man with a good reputation, he's the one who has told us to come here and, you know, to take you. So Peter went with them and some brethren from Joppa accompanied him. So Peter's itinerary, right? Like, God is just making the ministry happen. So there are different, different opportunities coming his way. But how is he going about his ministry following the voice of the Lord? Okay, is he clear about all things by now? Not necessarily. He's still wondering what could that mission lead? By God is saying you can eat all animals, even those forbidden animals. He's wondering about that. And yet the next instruction he follows, which is actually to go to the house of Cornelius. Now, let's read on. Now Peter is going to meet this Centurion by the name of Cornelius. So we'll see that in this passage, there will be a lot of repetition of what that dream was, what God spoke to Cornelius, what God spoke to Peter, so on and so forth. But you'll just bear with me as we sort of go through the entire chapter. So let's quickly read now from verse 24 to verse 33. Acts chapter 10 verse 24. In the following day they entered his area, now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends. As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up saying, stand up, I myself am also a man. And as he talked with him, he went in and found many who had come together. And he said to them, you know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company without to go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or clean. Therefore I came without objection as soon as I was sent for. I asked them for what reason have you sent for me. So Cornelius said, four days ago I was fasting until this hour and at 9th hour I prayed in my house and behold a man stood before me in the bright clothing and said Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your arms are remembered in the sight of God. Send therefore to Joppa and call Simon here who certainly missed Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner by the sea. Then he comes he'll speak to you. So I sent to you immediately and you have done well to me. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all the things commanded you by God. Okay, wonderful. So you see now Peter left from Simon the tanner's house and he has come to Cornelius's house in Caesarea and remember we said that Peter didn't understand the meaning of the vision. But when he finally came to Cornelius's house what is Peter doing? He's explaining the vision, right? So it happens to us also. Sometimes we see a vision, we have a dream. We don't know what it means. We just have to keep praying and trusting the Holy Spirit to give us the interpretation of that vision. So thankfully in some time Peter got the interpretation. He understood what was God saying. See how clearly he's explaining what that vision was verse 28. He says, you know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with a go to one of another nation. So he clearly understood basically what that vision meant was it was not just about animals, right? It was about meeting people of another nation or another community as a Jewish person. But what God has shown him, he says, God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. So that is the point which Peter has understood. And he's now open to ministering to Cornelius. And Cornelius now repeats his story of I saw a man with bright clothing meaning an angel came and he told me that somebody will come and he will tell you something.  So now what is going to happen in the house of Cornelius? Let's see if this is also like really encouraging to see the response of the family. So we can maybe I will read from verse 34 to verse 43 says that Peter opened his mouth and said, In truth, I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation, whoever fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him. The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all that word, you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism with John preached. Now God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did both at the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. Him God raised up on the third day and showed him openly not to all the people, but to the witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead to him all the prophets with witness that through his name whoever believes in him will receive remission of sins. So you see how Peter actually preached Christ. So he's preaching from all the incidents that took place in the Judea region that people knew about Jesus and the miracles that Jesus did and all that. But you see what is the point of the preaching? It's always to proclaim Jesus as Christ and that's what Peter is doing towards the end. He's letting God in his snow that this Jesus he says to be judge of living and the dead. Who can that be? It can only be God. So he said Jesus is God. Jesus is dating and you know it is through the work of Jesus that sins are forgiven. Now the message is being preached. Okay, as per the format of the service but something very wonderful happens. I'll quickly read the next couple of verses here that we can go for a break.  We don't have time to read other verses. I'll do that later but one point that I want to make very very important point. You see how beautiful it is. The gospel is now being preached to the Gentiles. They just heard the message about Jesus just like moments ago and what does the Bible say? Verse 44 is very special because it says while Peter was still speaking his servant is not over. But what did God do? Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. So they are already being baptized in the Holy Spirit before the servant got over. Is that possible in our churches? Yes, why not? Generally we find that when we lay hands on people they receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit but in the case of Cornelius and his household the Holy Spirit fell even before Peter stopped his message. So it shows how God was eager to touch the nations to touch communities even the Gentiles and to really see the spread of the gospel across. So let's go for a break now. We'll just come back and we'll see the other different things that happen in Acts 10 the last portion as well as Acts 11. Thank you. See you in 10 minutes.


The Sun was up over the hills now, and the mist had cleared, and it was wonderful to be striding along the road with the dog in the early morning, especially when it was autumn, with the leaves changing to gold and yellow, and sometimes one of them breaking away and falling slowly, turning slowly over in the air, dropping noiselessly right in front of him onto the grass beside the road. There was a small wind up above, and he could hear the beaches rustling and murmuring like a crowd of people. This was always the best time of the day for Claude Cubbage. He gazed approvingly at the rippling velvety hind-quarters of the greyhound trotting in front of him. Jacky? he called softly. Hey, Jackson? How you feeling, boy? The dog half turned at the sound of its name, and gave a quick acknowledging wag of the tail. There would never be another dog like this Jacky, he told himself. A beautiful, slim, streamlining, the small, pointed head, the yellow eyes, the black, mobile nose. Beautiful, the long neck, the way the deep brisket curved back and up out of sight into no stomach at all. See how he walked upon his toes, noiselessly, hardly touching the surface of the road at all. Jackson, he said. Good old Jackson. In the distance, Claude could see the Rummins' farmhouse, small, narrow and ancient, standing back behind a hedge on the right-hand side. I'll turn round there, he decided. That'll be enough for today. Rummins, carrying a pail of milk across the yard, saw him coming down the road. He set the pail down slowly and came forward to the gate, leaning both arms on the topmost bar, waiting. Morning, Mr Rummins, Claude said. It was necessary to be polite to Rummins because of eggs. Rummins nodded and leaned over the gate, looking critically at the dog. Looks well, he said. He is well. RENZIE RUNNING Don't know, Mr Rummins. Come on, RENZIE RUNNING. He's only ten months yet, Mr Rummins. He's not even schooled properly, honest. The small BDIs of Rummins peered suspiciously over the top of the gate. I wouldn't mind bettering a couple of crudgy raven off of him somewhere secret soon. Claude moved his feet uncomfortably on the black road surface. He disliked very much this man with the wide frog mouth, the broken teeth, the shifty eyes. And most of all, he disliked having to be polite to him because of the eggs. That hay-rick of your- RENZIE RUNNING Sample complete. Ready to continue?


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This study investigated the potential of biologically inspired materials for ballistic protection applications. Finite element simulations were used to compare the performance of various biomimetic materials to a monolithic material with the same thickness and projectile impact conditions. The results showed that certain configurations of these materials could arrest a fragment simulating a projectile with an initial impact velocity of 500 meters per second, which was comparable to the performance of the monolithic material. These findings suggest that biologically inspired materials have great potential as lightweight, cost-effective solutions for ballistic protection applications. This article was authored by Abdullah Ghazlan, Twanno, Pingtan, and others.