Ladies and gentlemen, the jaws of Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin presents the Halls of Ivy, starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. I was curious. I tasted it. Now I know why Schlitz is the beer that made Milwaukee famous. If you like good beer, you'll find it pays to be curious and learn about Schlitz for yourself. And now the Halls of Ivy. The College of Ivy and the Town of Ivy, USA. Dr. William Todd Hunter Hall, president of Ivy College, has all the troubles common to college presidents. They consist mostly of fiscal matters, financial affairs, and money. As he's often been heard to say, a man in his position must be one part babysitter, one part mediator, and 98 parts panhandler. But Dr. Hall has at least one advantage over his scholastic opposite number. He has a wife named Victoria, formerly a glittering ornament of the English musical comedy theater. And now the epitome of what a tired man should come home to. Now what a lovely room this is. Not an old grad in sight. Vicki, are you here? Yes, Dr. Todd, Todd, had a rough day. Oh, not too awfully bad. I have pledges of $151,000 toward the new gymnasium. Well, that's wonderful. $150,000 seems like a great deal of money. Yes, yes it does, until you remember that these are pledges, not cash. I suppose there is a difference. There is indeed. The same difference that exists between the sudden slight illness of a wealthy uncle and the reading of the will. Is Penny ready with the tea? Right here, sir, and some of your favorite biscuits, too. Thank you, Penny. Yes, mum. How many times must I tell you, cookies, not biscuits? We are now in the United States of America, and we speak Mr. Truman's English, not the King's. Yes, mum. I'll keep trying, mum. Lifts his elevators, trams his streetcars, lovies his trucks, and a dope is a prize fighter's fist. Cookies, she says. Oh, stop grizzling, Penny. There you are, William.  The way she makes tea should cement British-American relations for years to come. Yes. Yes, and the way she makes coffee would dissolve the cement overnight. Has anything happened today? Well, I think there was a young man named Gray who wanted to see you. He came three, four times. He's rather emotionally upset. Emotional upsets are not infrequent among college-age young men, Bickey. They are psychic growing pains. Ah, that's probably Mr. Gray. You'd better take care of his growing pains and call me when he's cured. I'll be in the kitchen. Tonight, I'm making the coffee myself. A gentleman to see you, Doctor All, and Mr. Millott. Mr. Millott? Millott? Well, he couldn't be the... Ask him in, Penny. Right in here, sir. Hello? How do you do? Well, Penny, please take the things away, will you? Unless I can offer you a cup, sir. No, thank you. Dr. Hall, I'm Mike Millott. Yes, I've seen your picture in the paper. What did you wish to see me about? Well, Doctor Grapevine says you're out after some dough for a new gym, is that right?  It's rather common knowledge. What about it? I want to give you some. May I ask you a question, Mr. Millott? Sure. But I warn you, Doc, I've been questioned by experts under brighter lights than you've gotten here. Go ahead. What business are you in? Well, that's a fair question. I got a string of dry cleaning joints. That's on top on the bottom. I make book. Bookmaking is not legal operation, Mr. Millott. Legal or illegal, Doc, depends on locations. Horsebooking is against the law in this country. In England, it's legal. And I suggest you make your donation to Oxford. That's in England. I ain't got a kid in Oxford. You have a kid attending Ivy College? Yeah, son. I didn't know that. Hell, not many people do, Doc, and I want to keep it off the record. He's a good boy. I want to see him get the breaks that I didn't get when I was a kid. In a cold water flat laying on a cheap mattress with a piece of billiard cue waiting for the next rat to come out of the plaster. Mr. Millott, I fully sympathize with your intention of giving your son the advantages you lacked. I'm not asking for sympathy, Doc. I'm asking for a square deal for the kid, that's all. Ivy College does not sell square deals, Mr. Millott. We have here the sons and daughters of rich men, poor men, beggar men, thieves, doctors, lawyers, and merchants of almost everything. I doubt if anyone here expects more of a square deal than he is entitled to through hard work, decency, and a certain civilizing contact with his fellows. How do they get this contact? I should think that would be obvious in classes, fraternities, sports. Yeah, but Eddie ain't getting it. Why, isn't he? I don't know. He's got a nice personality, but no nice friends, only Stooges. I want to get him into a fraternity, and don't tell me that ain't for sale. I do tell you that. Now, wait a minute. If this school gets, say, a quarter of a million bucks toward a new gymnasium, you mean nobody can pull hard enough to get a boy into a fraternity? Mr. Millott, I'm afraid your somewhat violent training has distorted your social viewpoint. Well, break that down. I shall. You, Mr. Millott, have had too much experience with special privilege. You've spent too many years purchasing crooked policemen, aldermen, judges. You've made yourself a power in the land through money, through fear.  If your son wishes to... Does he, by the way, know that you are here in his behalf? He knew it. He'd slog me. Good. What? I say good because now I'm interested in Eddie. Eddie who, by the way, I gather he is not using your name. Oh, great. Eddie Gray. I'll talk to your son, Mr. Millott, but I'm afraid I must refuse your donation to our gymnasium. You mean my money ain't good enough, huh? Oh, money has no status of its own. It's merely a medium of exchange. The only question that arises is, what would we be expected to exchange for it? In this case, special privileges to one Eddie Gray. However, I am impressed by any boy who has the integrity to poke his father in the nose for attempting to buy him into the good graces of his fellows. You don't accept a donation, huh? Not yours, Mr. Millott. Well, that's my personal reaction. I may be overruled. Uh-huh. Well, okay. Wellman thought you might take that attitude. Wellman? Yeah. You mean Mr. Clarence Wellman of our governing board? Mm-hmm. He really wants this gymnasium, you know? Well, thanks for the conversation. Uh, you don't have to go to the door with me. I, uh... I won't steal anything on the way out. The only thing I have which you might want can neither be stolen nor sold, Mr. Millott. Good day. I'll be seeing him. A quarter of a million dollars. All I'm afraid your vaunted integrity will someday get you a fine position running a filling station. Would I be too inquisitive, Toddy, if I asked what Mr. Millott wanted? Oh, so you recognized him, eh, Vicki? Uh, I recognized his voice. I've heard him in the courtroom, in newsreels. I never forget a voice. He's, um, arrogant, isn't he? He has the arrogance of purchasing power. A man who has lifted himself by his own bootleg if I may perpetrate a mild punishment. Uh, Vicki. Yes, yes. See if you can get a student named Eddie Gray to come over and see me, will you? Certainly. Uh, oh, Eddie Gray? Well, that's the boy who's been trying to see you all day. Yes, he's Mike Millott's son. No. I'm anxious to talk to him. His father is a sterling character. Devaluated. I want to see how far the devaluation has gone. I was curious. I tasted it. Now I know why Schlitz is the beer that made Milwaukee famous. There's a story behind those words, a pleasant story that may suggest something equally pleasant to you. So before we return to the halls of Ivy, starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman, here's a curious artist who tell us about the masterpiece he discovered aboard a steamer. I'm a portrait painter, and other people's faces are my fortune. So it isn't surprising that studying faces has become almost second nature with me. Just last month, for instance, during my trip to Bermuda, I was in the lounge pretending to read a magazine, but actually watching a man drink beer. As the beer passed his lips, you could see his expression change from pleasant anticipation to complete satisfaction. But the more I watched, the more distracted I became. Instead of just observing the man's expression, I found myself wondering what it would be like to taste a beer that could give so much satisfaction. I took the trouble to look at the label on the bottle. The man was drinking Schlitz. I'd heard about Schlitz, of course, but I'd never tasted it. So I called the waiter and ordered a bottle. I discovered that Schlitz was more than a work of art. It was a masterpiece. Here was a beer so fine and so distinctive that the complete picture of its goodness could only be painted by tasting it. As I sat there drinking my glass of Schlitz and enjoying every drop, I happened to glance into the mirror. There was that same look of satisfaction I'd seen before. Only this time, I was wearing it. As an artist, I'd doubt my beret, if I had one, to the beer that can command such a reaction. No wonder they call Schlitz the beer that made Milwaukee famous. That's around us. I'd be aware, Mrs. Hall is asking a question. Would you prefer to be left alone with a boy, William, when he gets here? On the contrary, Vicki, I wish you'd stay. One of the reasons I married you was so that I could utilize your understanding for young people. Or did you think it was just because you were beautiful, charming, and I loved you very much? Well, I really don't think you had very much to say about it, Toddy. The minute we met, I decided to marry you. And with typical British tenacity, I followed through. Any regrets? No, no, no. I've liked it from the first. And not only for the usual reasons. Love and affection and admiration and all that. Historically, our marriage has perspective. It has, dear? Yes, England has always been married to America. All they may bicker a bit, criticize each other's manners, argue over the paycheck, but let one of them hear a burglar in the middle of the night and they start helping each other look through the bureau drawers for the family revolver. Which, for some reason, they never keep loaded. Yes, I always think that... Was that the doorbell? Yes, it must be Mr. Gray. And you do want me to say? Oh, please, you can be maternal while I am in Loco Parentis. Well, whatever that is, dear, I'm sure you'll do it very successfully. Mr. Gray, yes, Penny, a young gentleman to see Dr. O. Well, bring him right in, Penny. Yes, sir. Just step in here, please, sir. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mrs. Hall. How do you do? Hello, Doctor. I'm Edward Gray. I'm sorry I was out when you called before Gray. Won't you sit down? Thank you, sir. I think we've met before, Mr. Gray. You were kind enough to carry some books out to my car at the bookshop last week. Oh, that was all right. I was just in there, killing a couple hours anyway, buying some magic stuff. Magic stuff? Parlor magic, Doctor. It's kind of a hobby. Look, I'll show you. Here's a deck of cards. Take one. Anyone? Very well. This one. Okay. Now put it back in the deck. Remember the card? Yes, it was the... No, no, no, no, don't tell William. Go ahead, Mr. Gray. Okay. Now I shuffle the deck. Fire a pistol, which I just happened to have in my left hand. And if you'll look up, Doctor, I believe that's the card you selected fastened to the ceiling with a thumb tag. Well... Very interesting. How did you do that? William, please, one never asks a magician to reveal a trick. Oh, I'm sorry. That was very well done, Gray. Sir, I have a lot of time to practice. I don't belong to any of the organizations around here, so... Well, that's why I wanted to see you. Why, what do you mean? I think maybe I ought to leave Ivy. That seems a little drastic, Gray. Have you discussed this with your faculty advisor? No, sir. My faculty advisor is Professor Bolton. He's a droop. I mean... Oh, don't apologize, Mr. Gray. I think he's a bit of a droop myself. Who would he be a droop? Yeah, just maternal. Exactly, why are you unhappy here, Gray? You've been getting good marks. Oh, I don't have any trouble with studies, Doctor, but the guys... I mean, the men and girls I'd like to go around with. Well, I seem to attract just the free ride, kids, if you know what I mean. May I make a suggestion, Eddie?  Oh, sure, Mrs. Hall. Get rid of that big, shiny convertible. Send it home. Get a broken-down Jalofi. Jalofi is the word, my friend. Its origin is obscure, although etymologists believe there is some slight connection with the Mexican word Jalop, which is a purgative tuberous... Oh, excuse me. I didn't mean to be pedantic. You were saying... Well, I was telling Mr. Gray to get rid of that big, flashy car.  Too obviously expensive. How do you expect to be one of the gang when you ride around looking like a Maharaja? I think Mrs. Hall has a definite point there, Gray. A lot of Ivy students are working their way through school.  By Good Heavens, I resent you myself. Gosh, I never thought of it like that. I always had that stuff, and I wasn't trying to throw it around. Eddie, will you do something for me? I don't think there's anybody in the school that wouldn't do anything for you, Mrs. Hall. Oh, thank you. And the Junior Follies is just six weeks away, and we need you. Me? You need me? Oh, gee, what for? Well, we're rather desperately in need of a good act in one. In one what? In one. In one. It means in front of the curtain while they change the scenes. And if you do a magic act for 10 or 12 minutes, you'll be one of the most popular men in the school. Hey, I'm not good enough for that. Well, you'll have six weeks to brush up, Graham.  Well, I... Oh, but look, I'll just have to have something to say, won't I? I can't just stand up there and throw rabbits around. Can you meet me in the auditorium at, say, three tomorrow? Have you a class then? Oh, sure, but for this I'll cut it. How about my pattern? The word is pronounced Pater, my boy, and I think he'll be very pleased when he hears the truth. No, William, no, no. He said Pater, not Peter. Pater means a monologue. All the magicians have a line of Pater, Eddie. And I can write to one this very evening that can't possibly fail. Oh, gee. Please watch me closely and you will notice that as I perform this feat, my hands never leave my arms. You're not the sort of thing. Tomorrow then. Oh, it's a deal, Mrs. Hall. Thanks a lot, Doctor. This has been wonderful. Yes, I found it rather interesting myself. Let me know how you get along, Eddie. A good day. Bye, sir. Bye. Bye. Vicki, if you pull this boy out of this sensitive isolation and make him one of the crowd, it'll be a magic act of which you may well be proud. Oh, not since, dear. He's really a nice boy, not a cry. He'll be all right. And if he makes a fraternity, then maybe you can accept his father's donation to the gymnasium. Oh, I think it's not, Vicki. I don't want to seem a stuffy moralist. I'll get it. Doctor Hall's residence? Oh, yes, Mr. Merriweather. Yes, of course I'll tell him. Yes, he'll be here. No, no, not at all. Goodbye. Mr. Merriweather. Yes. He and Mr. Wellman have something they wanted to discuss with you. Three guesses, dear. This is a certainty. Mr. Merriweather and Mr. Wellman have been asked or have volunteered to make me change my mind by coercion, persuasion, blackmail or blunt instrument. And can you offhand think of a blunter instrument than Mr. Wellman? Oh, dear. Nor a duller one. Oh, I hope to goodness they're not going to stay long. Dinner tonight is especially for you. Lentil soup. Ah, lentil soup. Ha, ha, ha. With little bits of sausage swimming about in it. Ho, ho, ho. Wishing they were being eaten at Luchows instead of Halls, eh? Ha, ha. You remember Luchows on 14th Street, Vicki? Of course I do, darling. You took me there the night I landed in New York. Lentil soup. Venous schnitzel. Strawberry pancake. Ha, ha. And I was the slim young actress with the new wardrobe who was about to open and give them tears. Personally, by the time we'd walked all the way to Central Park, I was hungry again. Someday, Vicki, I shall endow the city of New York with a special Central Park bench. The Victoria Cromwell Memorial Bench for the exclusive use of lovers. And you could put a little brass plate on it that says did you sit here? And it gently rains. And you stay anyway. You have the blessings of William and Victoria. Better put your hat on, Toddy. It's raining. Oh, it isn't raining very hard. It feels rather good. It's refreshing. But, um, I don't want you to catch cold. Oh, I won't, dear. I've walked miles in fog worse than this. You won't miss London and England too much, will you, Vicki? If I was still Victoria Cromwell, I'd probably miss it terribly. But as Mrs. William Pod Hunter Hall, geography doesn't seem very important. Who means more to me than where? Let me put my coat over your shoulders a little more there. And your hands are getting wet. I know. But if I put my gloves on, I can't look at my ring. I'm afraid it's a very little ring. Darling, it's the biggest thing that ever happened. I love it. And I love you. And I... And I borrow your hand just... Thank you. Well, we'd better go. Your cheeks are getting wet. Not from the rain, Toddy. I always weep when I'm happy. I think you should know it now, because I expect to be doing the lot of it. I hope you'll never have to weep for any other reason, Vicki. Where your tears are concerned, I'm all for private ownership of water power. Oh, my dear, you're so... Well, well, well now. What's all this? Oh, hello, officer. It's a lovely evening, isn't it? No, it isn't. It's raining. Oh.  I'm paid to stay out in it, but you're not. I'm being amply compensated, officer. So don't worry about us. My wife and I like the rain. Oh, your wife? I thought you were sweetheart. Well, I guess I don't have to worry about you two carving your initials on the bench. Good night to you. Good night, officer. Oh, cynical fellow. Doesn't think husbands and wives can be sweethearts. I think we should teach him a lesson. Oh, sorry. Have you a jackknife? I'm going to carve two hearts entwined on this bench. W-T-H loves B-C. I think I... Sorry. Oh, watch a little thunder. It isn't raining hard enough to... Sorry? It isn't thunder. Someone's knocking. Well, let them knock our first night in New York. William, dear, there's somebody at the door. At the door? What door? Central Park hasn't any... Oh, the door! Maybe it's a good thing I... might have carved our initials on the piano. Oh, Toddy.  Yes, I'm afraid I am, Victoria. Incurable. And incredibly lucky. That's why. Because my darling few daydreamers can return to an actuality one half as pleasant as mine. Mr. Maryweather and Mr. Wellman to see you, doctor. Oh, good afternoon, Mr. Maryweather. Oh, thank you. Sit down, gentlemen. Thank you, Mrs. Hall. I won't keep you but a few minutes, doctor. You probably know what we're calling about. Yes, I think I do. It's about an offer of a quarter of a million dollars for our new gymnasium, Dr. Hall. Am I correct in believing that you refuse to accept it? Quite correct, Mr. Wellman. Personally, doctor, I don't think you'd turn down a sum of money like that without some very good reason. Clarence here and some of the other board members are pretty upset about it. I'm upset, did I say? Dad said their ulcers were jumping like popcorn. The Board of Governors had a right to be upset, Maryweather. As badly as this college needs a quarter of a million dollars. Yes, yes, yes, we know, Clarence. It's a lot of money, but money isn't everything. It's almost everything. I'll admit. But let's give Dr. Hall a chance to explain. How about it, Dr. Noy? It's very simple, Mr. Maryweather. To me, at least. Well, to me, it's a down-like... Be quiet, Clarence. A witch burner. Gentlemen, when an institution dedicated to shaping the characters of future citizens accepts money from a dubious source, it must also be prepared to accept the accusation of undue influence. I couldn't agree with you more, doctor. And I couldn't disagree more, Maryweather. The source of this donation is not important when you consider the benefits of a new gymnasium in this college. Mr. Wellman? Yes, sir, Mrs. Hall. Mr. Millott warned my husband that you wouldn't care for his attitude. He was right. I don't, sir. I'm sure he had no intention of disturbing any friendly relations that you might have with Mr. Millott. What friendly relations? Is that hoodlum a pal of yours, Clarence? Certainly not.  I know the man only in a business way. Business? What business would you have with Millott? Oh, it was a long time ago, and not important. I had stuck in some cleaning establishment, and Millott used his influence. That is, we had a little labor trouble. Is this general knowledge, Mr. Wellman? No, I don't think so. Oh, I hope not. But the point is, doctor...  What a juicy item for the papers. College official uses influence to take donation from ex-gangster friend. Good gracious man, you don't think... They'd hang you from the chapel, Steeple, and you know it. That's bad money, Mr. Wellman. You can't take it. I'm sorry if you disagree. He doesn't disagree. Neither will anyone else on the board when I explain it to him. You're right again, doctor. I don't know why we can't seem to learn that. Come on, Clarence. Very well. What a quarter of a million dollars. It's a lot of lettuce, but there's too much oil in the dressing. Good night, doctor. Good night. Good night. I think you handled that very well, William. It was Merriweather who handled it, my dear. Merriweather and you. Hi. My dear girl, now don't look so innocent. That sympathetic remark of yours about not wishing to disturb the tender relationship between Wellman and Malat. That was blackmail. Sheer, downright, beautiful blackmail. And, uh, yes, Penny? Dinner is served, sir, and will you be in this evening? Yes, Penny. No, Penny. What, dear? We're going for a walk. We're going to go for a walk after lentil soup in the park. Now, let me think. Where did I put my jackknife? I was curious. I tasted it. Now I know why. Slitz is the beer that made Milwaukee famous. And here again are Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. My dear, there are times when I think that you should be president of Ivy College. What else should you think that? It was a popular belief that the female of the species is devious, indirect, and entirely intuitive. Personally, I find the methods of your sex appalling list straightforward. I once wrote a two-line verse on the subject. What, how? I called it advice on practical plumbing, but it contains a rather atrocious pun. It went something like this. For that difficult task, just go to your bench and select for the job an adjustable wench. Honestly, that's very amusing, Dan. If you'd excuse me, I'll go and adjust myself for dinner. Certainly, darling. Good night, everybody. Good night. Next week at this time at the Halls of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. The other players were Herbert Butterfield, Willard Waterman, William Conrad, Gil Stratton, Junior, Ted Osborne, and Gloria Gordon. Tonight's script was written by Don Quinn and Walter Brown Newman. Our music was composed and conducted by Henry Russell. The Halls of Ivy was created by Don Quinn, directed by Matt Wolfe, and presented by the Joseph Schlitz-Browing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ken Carpenter speaking. Over most of these same NBC stations.


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It's important to see that the operations that we're involved in from now on are not going to be linear in nature. We're going to be conducting concurrent operations. Afghanistan wasn't one operation. It was one of many operations in the context of broader international efforts. And even within Afghanistan, there were different lines of effort. So we need to be able to see past particular parts of the mission, say the security mission or the diplomatic mission or the aid mission, and to see them as a part of a greater whole, meeting not only national strategic objectives, not only the objectives of the coalition that's deployed, but very importantly, the requirements of the host country or host countries where you find yourself involved. The Afghan Lessons Learned Report is one of our major products. I say that because it's probably the largest piece of work we've done in terms of looking at Australia's performance over a decade-long period. It's important that we do this work because we feed it back into the decision-policy-making cycle that exists within government. That's something that goes on all of the time. This particular report took a longitudinal analysis of a ten-year period of Australia's developing commitment to Afghanistan. It looked at the different challenges that emerged during that period, and it came to a number of conclusions. It's not history, but it is perhaps the first draft of history. It's most important for us in government because it gives us in government the opportunity to comprehend what is happening as it happened and to feed that back into the policy process. There are a number of things that came out of it, but perhaps most importantly from my perspective was the understanding that we need to have high-level strategic policy alignment for offshore contingencies, and we need to establish that early in an operation. We need to match that with cross-agency coordination of all the other activities, which means establishing institutional methodology to establish and share information, and that effectively means setting up cross-agency task forces to manage crises. And then it has to filter down to the field environment where when people are deployed into an operational environment such as Afghanistan, they understand their place in the overall Australian and international coalition model, and that they understand the role that they will be playing effectively in a team effort to achieve the objectives of the operation.


Hi there, and welcome to another edition of Tuesdays with Corey. If you hadn't heard, we're back. We took a seven or eight month hiatus, mostly thanks to Rick. But we are now back, and we have some. I know, I throw him under the bus right away. Because the beautiful part is that he doesn't have a mic. So there's nothing that can happen this way. That length is suspicious. Hiking the Himalayas? I know. Exactly. So we are back with an awesome topic. A great example of how we are expanding out beyond just the realm of Azure into a lot of different areas. And today, a particularly exciting area in GitHub. Well, thank you very much. Hi, I'm Matthew McCullough, and I lead Field Solutions at GitHub. And what we want to talk about is how dev and ops and SRE and developers are getting closer and closer and closer together. And they have some competing concerns, but I think there's actually a way to make those harmonious. Harmonious? Yes. It's an exciting word for an exciting topic. That's unpacking. I'd love to. And so what you're saying is that we've got all these roles, and today they fight a lot. And you're going to show how we can avoid them from fighting. They do. And let's talk about a couple of reasons why to start the stage. Go. Ops wants consistent. They want controlled deployments. They want it managed. Of course. Because, of course, they're responsible for the outcome of the application. That's right. And all developers need to do is move fast and break things. I thought I saw a poster one time, right? So just produce a lot of code. Finally, we're seeing that those two might be at odds and there's a middle ground to meet. So we want controlled deployments. And I think a lot of things, even our CEO, Nat Friedman, says, ship to learn. And that's actually a better way to think about software development. You're learning all the time. If you're not getting better, stop. You should be improving. So what are we going to do to that? We're going to put a little bit of automation into our workflow and our deployment. We're going to talk about Azure deployments specifically today. And we're going to zoom in to GitHub Actions, as it means to do that. I'm super excited. And you said, so we'll talk about GitHub Actions. We'll talk about it in the context of Azure. But it is not limited to Azure. It is a multi-cloud capability that you're going to. Did I ruin already the surprise later? The secret weapon. I'm sorry. We have the cape down. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Okay, fine. I'm going to shut up and let the great show some now. So that's a little bit of the frame. It is. Should we show a little bit of what you had in mind? We should. But we should add one more reason. Why? Sorry. It's a multi-cloud solution because we really believe in the Azure solution here. We have friends that are not all in on this yet. And it's actually great to meet them where they are. I think it's kind of a corporate culture here. So if we have the ability to deploy to multiple clouds, we can bring some of those into the family. Absolutely. That's my motivation. And look, I think it's not even whether there, it's a lot of customers have the plan to be multi-cloud forever. And that's great, right? That's no problem. We want to be able to support them in their endeavors and make sure that they've got single tooling that they can use to be able to accomplish those goals. So I'm excited in all the ways. So we're going to first head over to a page because I want things that the audience can touch and see. I love it. So github.com slash features slash actions is the entry page so you can do more reading. We're not going to read your slides. Do you want to read the slides out loud? Well, I could. But I feel like they're pretty good at that. We're going to let them do that on their own. Exactly. But this is a workflow management system. So let's set the stage. Okay. We're going to zoom into a specific part of it today, which is just a round deployment. But you can think of triggers like a contributor license agreement. Corey, have you signed the agreement such that you can contribute to this project? It could be there. But it can also be for deploy. Okay. It can be for issue management. Corey, you have an issue open that's been for 21 days or is it eight months? I remember that. It's eight months. The issue. And to sign a REC right now. It is. Okay. So we can have it. I reassigned it. I reassigned it. Perfect. So it can be on that. Yes. But then we're going down to the specific deployment. Okay. Today. Now what I'll tell you is Microsoft is a huge contributor to this as our US and as is GCP as well. But we're over in Azure slash actions. Okay. So we can see the work that outside contributors can put into this action system right these little modules, Lego bricks. So that they work with whatever those, whatever that environment may be. Got it. Issues or deployments. So here's the page where you can view some of that source. Pretty cool. It's open source. You can dive into it. But we're here to look at how it actually works. Love it. Now for the deployment ones, we can get a specific detection. If it's a type of JavaScript application like, you might at least see a little recommendation that said, would you like to use this? Yes. But you can also dive in and specifically pick them. If we had labeler, for example, we can dive into that particular action and just apply that to our particular project. Now I've got one set and ready to go over here. We're going to slide over to the Azure bookstore application. Okay. Shout out to VTor and Alarm for helping me set this up over the last couple of days. Okay. And this is deployed out to Azure websites or will be very shortly after we discuss this. Okay. So right now it's, it's, we're still, we've got to, we're not ready yet. On the edge. Ops is set, hold on for a minute. On the edge. Okay, great. Exactly. And I want to talk to you through the syntax before we do that because it's kind of the reverse of a magic trick. I want to show you how the trick is done and then I'll show you the magic trick at the end. So opposite of usual. Okay. We're going to go into a .github folder over here. Okay. And there's a couple of file formats and there's an extension. You're going to love .yml, yaml, familiar to so many in the Azure ecosystem. Anybody using pipeline to the like would know that as well. Yeah. We're going to drop into deploy yaml to take a quick look over here and this is part of our configuration. Super easy to read. We've got the groups. We've got the name for the different environments. Key value pairs. Perfect. But there's no answer yet. We're just looking at text of how those environments interact with the code that I'm changing and that's going to be part of the reveal in a moment. So I'm going to ask you to kind of hold that. Hold questions until the end I think is what you're telling me. Maybe you're just hold that thought. Okay. The questions can flow. The questions can come. Okay, great. Then we're going to go over into workflows which is another piece. This is where we define these behaviors on an action system. Or yaml files, build, clean up, master deploy, deploy to QA or deploy to test. Configuration free. We'll just drop into one just for the sake of example. Slide down to this. Pretty easy to parse this. You don't need a user manual. That's what the yaml fun is about. Deploy to production with all the exclamation points. That's right. It's four exclamation points. And it's got Ubuntu. I hear that the overall Microsoft ecosystem is now much friendlier with Linux. So Ubuntu is... That's right. Is that official? That is official news. Since soon we're going to have like a Windows subsystem for Unix, Linux, something like that. Yeah, we don't talk about that. Okay. I thought it was released. Yeah. No, it is actually. That's right. So now for... Yeah, it's for you actually. Great. It's in there. So we've got that. That's where we're deploying. So we're going to slide over here. And this is basically our build system. So should we just make this happen? Yes, we should. We're going to go to the top level of the project, Azure Bookstore. And we are going to immortalize you by dropping it over into the source file. And then over into main, and then over into the web app. Got it. And then over into books.html.  All of your audience is going to go, Matthew does not know how to code. He's breaking the HTML. What is he doing? But I'm sliding down right over here to... Let's put it over here in the title. And we'll just say Tuesdays with Corey, you're going to be so famous. This is on the internet. So... Don't get removed. So this is serious stuff. That's serious. I mean... Tuesdays with Corey and number two, because this is take number two, if you will. Okay. It's always better. It's the second version. We're going to propose the file change on a branch. Okay. And I'm going to slide over here to labels. And I'm going to pick a deploy to test in this particular case. Okay. And now what's happening here when I create this pull request is a couple of things. By this label, just a ticketing system, if you will, to this change, this pull request, we are sending signals that can be captured by those Lego bricks as we call them to the workflow. And you'll see that I added that deploy to test and the robot. I love when robots do my work. I love bots. You too? I do. We share that. Well, I love the little hands too. I think that they... They're perfect. They're perfect for typing. And so what you've got in this particular case is commit status checks failed for Tuesday with Corey too. And so what I wanted to show with this particular piece is that the bot is interacting not just with the code that we changed, but in fact the labels as well. Based on the label, it's doing different things is what you're saying. That's right. I got it. So what's the value of this? Let's talk about the value prop for just a second. We've made this human approachable to do devs and ops things again, which was our first premise. Right, right. Which environment do I want to go to? I need to change the parameter and hold my hands a certain way, make sure I change the config. No, just apply the right label. Just put the right label and the right behavior happens. And it's grouped. Exactly. That's cool. Super easy to approach. So this will maybe do like a more significant level of testing or more so, okay, got it. Perfect. And we can even simultaneously deploy them, but I already warmed this up over at the top so I can show I did a master right before we started this build so we can save our time. And you'll see in fact that if I click my way over to this, we have the master branch still nice and stable. And this is the beautiful contrast. I blew up. So you're still going. Test. Yeah, yeah. And I've still got prod in a beautiful state, but I'm working out of a single repo. One of this which repo or macopying and pasting and moving it to a second one to do the other deployment single source of truth, right permanent history and record with the issues everybody working together. You can tell what the which code has gone to production, which code has gone to very, very cool. So you know that my putting my name into it, you can quickly identify that that broke everything. It wasn't going to say it, which is I get that feedback a lot. So that's good. I'm going to leave that to you. Thank you. I'm going to be kind and gentle. That's nice. I'm going to ask, you know, do I have any visualization though? It's nice that there's all this magic, but come on, give me a, give me a lens, give me a view of some beautiful Azure dashboard into this. Here's a beautiful GitHub dashboard. We think alike. So when we're looking through this, we can see all the workflows. We can see the same named ones that went through in the individual files. We can see the deployed QA or review app or the deployed production. And the prod one came a little bit earlier. I've triggered that one six days ago to get that nice and clean up stage. We can look at some of these. And if we want to go into a build a feature branch, let's dive in and even look specifically why this thing blew up. We can dive into any one of these. And we can view the workflow file, view the pull request, cancel the run if it's still running at that point. And on any of these, we can also look at the time that it was built, who was the person that did the build. And last but not least, I want to take you over to one more piece on this, which is the ability to go way back in history so we can scroll back over here. We can go to previous times and we can filter this by particular users too. So in this case, I can just narrow it down to the ones that are Matthew. So what does this give you? An audit log. This is back to Dev and Ops. Yeah, of course. Meeting together. Give me some logs. Give me some history. Exactly. Let me query what's happened in the past and find the intersection of those two things. So that's really what I intended to show you at the top level. What else have you got from the point? I mean, that's awesome. So I mean, I basically just to, oh, so one question, you know, one of the other things that, so moving fast and especially from an Ops perspective, sometimes securing and making sure you've got your credentials in a good place is a challenge and sometimes a place that people get tripped up. So I'm wondering... You can almost read my mind. Wow. So what we do is we go to the logs. It is a skill set of mine by the law. Because the password is printed in the logs. That's the perfect place. Back. We can reuse it. Got it. Oh, wait. That's the opposite. We're not supposed to do that. That's not what we want. So I'm going to show you over here that it is sanitized. When we expand out any of these stages. This is the build log itself. You'll notice that if there is a place that I took a environment variable, an important word, environment variable, and paste it in here. You would not see the password exposed because it is a special type of environment variable called a secret that can be used in the build. Some folks will now scrub back in the video. They'll see the little parameterized environment variable for password in there. Yes. And that is set under settings. I'm going to slide my way down over to secrets and you can see that we supply you with a very simple key value secret store. There you go. And the beauty of this is that you have users.  You'll be able to sub these. You're paying the bill for the Azure consumption. You don't need to let the rest of the team actually see the value. They can just use it as an environment variable. And then you can manage sort of roll over and all that stuff happening in the background as needed. The people who develop against it don't need to know or care. Again, splitting the needs of ops and the needs of developers into sort of these two roles, but again, having a single source of truth. And you have permissions such that you can divide those responsibilities and yet they're playing in the same space. Got it. Got it. So it's almost as if their badge gives them the proper permissions. Yeah, yeah. Very cool. So that's it. Front to back. What do we see? We saw that Dev and ops can meet in the same repo. Yes. They can deploy to different environments and keep production stable, happy, happy. But still a single source of truth. Absolutely. Move fast so they can be doing that test in QA and then it gives ops a lens into what's coming because it's in that same place. Well, also giving an audit log going back in time. Absolutely. By-person filterable queryable. I've been tensioned. This is good. This is good. This is going to be successful for you. This is going to be good. You're going to have a demo out here pretty soon. And then you can see all those history. We can see the one deploy that you've done in the 92 that I've done in the past test rate over here. Thank you. Yeah. It's not a competition. That's right. The issue that was open for eight months versus the one that mine was open for just a few minutes. And then lastly, down the security credentials over here, we can store these as key value pairs. Again, with access control based on that. Right. Everything you just showed works no matter what cloud you're deploying to. That is one more reveal that we can take right over here. Yes, it is. We're going to find our way over to actions and I'm going to click over into the deployment category. Sure. And so if you look at the URL over here, github.com slash marketplace, we're thinking of this even though you don't pay individually for these actions. Yes. We're thinking of this as a shopping for the behaviors that you need in the system. Yes. And we do support all of the clouds out there, whether it's Heroku, AWS, GCP, of course, strong support for Azure. And the beauty of this, again, is you can actually do a matrix build and a multi-cloud deploy. And you can deploy any of those clouds. So it is not a binary choice. Right. It is a maybe all of them. And then again, it comes back to that single source of truth in your code, but deployment options that can go anywhere. You can even say test goes one place, production goes another place. And no problem. Exactly. And if you're trying to test your path and move over to Azure, you can imagine that you could have production be a different cloud. Totally. And already getting yourself in that habit. That's right. So that's it. Matthew, what a cool set of things that you just showed. I think we're going to, there's a lot of other things I feel like we probably have not yet dug into that we're going to need to have you come back and talk about more. Hours. And I would love to. Hours. Hours. Hours. We will, the next Tuesdays with Corey will be a three-hour long show. Yeah. It's called the Marathon Edition. The GitHub Marathon Edition. Yeah, exactly. I like this. It's a pleasure. Thank you for the time. Yeah. Awesome show. Awesome set of stuff. And thank you for joining us. Let's go back and have an awesome set of demos. If you have any questions for me or for Matthew or about the show, hit us up at a new tag phrase here. Tag phrase. Is that what we say for Twitter? A new tweet thing. That's what the kids say. I think we say tweet thing. A little tweet thing. Hashtag TWC solutions because we're talking about all solutions now in Microsoft. And ask us questions, comments, give us feedback or new topics. Or. Hashtag GitHub or hashtag Octocat, our mascot. There you go. And those are tweet things too. So just FYI. Thank you so much for your time, Matthew. Thank you. And have a wonderful day. Thank you, Corey. Thank you. You got it? You want to do it? Let's do it. No, you got to do only one person. So you got it. Because it grits a whole bunch of confusion if we both clap. All right. Are you ready? Okay. I'm going to do an intro such that this could also be just the first show. Just based on the quality. In case we need to read it. In case we find that this is a higher quality show than the other one. Setting the bar. Setting the bar. Wow. I need a moment. Take it. Just breathe in. It'll be okay. But you've got a lot to live up to. All right. You ready? All right. All right. All right.


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Okay, good morning everybody to BC 308, our class here on Daniel, Revelation and Daniel. We have been going through the book of Daniel and we paused in chapter 7. We are going to pick up from there. Let's take a moment to pray. Good morning Asha, Siddhant, Kumbhulu and everybody else in the class. Let's take a moment to pray please and then we will start. Could somebody lead us in prayer? Can we pray? Yes, John. Dear heavenly and revealing God, we thank you so much that you love us so much to deliver that you allow us to understand your will, to understand even the coming times that you revealed long time ago but they are still being revealed even to us. Therefore, Lord, as we prepare to learn that you will give us a spirit of learning and that you will be able to learn. And even if Father will pray that even our teacher will be able to have the right vocabulary to talk to us and that will give him your action that will be able to be lived by you in doing this. That your chapter will be edified and your name will be glorified when Jesus' name will pray and believe. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Charles. Thank you, Rowan. Okay, so we have been joining through Daniel. We read through Daniel chapter 7 and we are going to look at it in greater detail today and then we progress chapter by chapter. Just a quick review. We started in chapter 2 where we had Daniel interpret the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had which was that of an image, head of gold, chest of silver, waist of bronze or I could say brass, legs of, thighs, waist and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, feet, iron mixed with clay. So that was the image that Nebuchadnezzar saw. He also saw a big rock that wasn't cut by human hands. It came out of heaven and crushed this whole image. And so we said that serves as an outline for a lot of things that are going to unfold in the coming chapters in the book of Daniel and we explained that Daniel points out saying each of these parts of that image actually represent empires or kingdoms to come starting with the Babylonian kingdom. Yeah, and through that, then we looked at a portion in chapter 5 where Daniel foretold the end of the Babylonian empire and this was with Belchazar who was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. He says, it's the end. Your kingdom is going to be handed over to the Medes and the Persians and sure enough that night Belchazar was killed. The Medes came in, took over, Darius was appointed. So we saw that and then we read through Daniel chapter 7. So Daniel 7 was actually a vision that Daniel had much earlier. He had written it down. But in the book of Daniel, it's given to us starting from chapter 7 on because chapter 7 on is the prophetic section of the book. So in writing this vision down, Daniel, this is into the chapter now.  So in verse 2, Daniel begins by seeing these winds of heaven that are stirring the great sea. So here again we said, you know, we have to use So God is showing, giving this vision to Daniel using images. So there is wind, there is sea. Verse 2. So we have to always interpret images or biblical typology. You can call it that because God is using a type or he's using a picture. So we have to interpret these pictures within the context of the scriptures itself. That's the way to do it. We don't want to make up something on our own. No, we stay within the Bible. So we cross referenced Mark chapter 13, 26, 27, where Jesus himself talks about the four winds of heaven. Basically it's a working of God and it's a movement. Meaning things that are happening. Now, how God causes it could be varied in this particular case. God is causing things to happen on the earth. In Mark 13, it is God sending his angels to gather people from everywhere. So how God is causing those things can vary depending on the context. But really the four winds is representing action movement that is being caused. And here it's being caused on the Great Sea. So then we cross referenced Revelation 17, 15, where we saw that the waters, the Great Sea represent. Multitudes of people, nations, tongues, tribes, nations worldwide. So basically Daniel 7, 2 is telling us, God is saying, look, I'm going to cause things to happen on the earth or among the nations. And then it's going to unfold like this. How's it going to unfold? Daniel verse 3 sees four great beasts. So this is the difficult part in Daniel 7 and also in Daniel 8, we will see that he is seeing very strange images. He sees a lion. He sees, that is in verse 4, he sees a bear. Verse 5, verse 6, he sees a leopard. And verse 7 is even more confusing because he sees, he just calls it a beast. There is no clear description. It's just a beast that looks very dreadful. Now I will just share the PDF of which we have given in the coursework. And it's very interesting to compare what he saw in, what was given to us in Daniel chapter 2 with Daniel chapter 7. So, and we can easily put these two together, these two together, right? So he saw four great beasts coming out from, I mean, Daniel chapter 7 verse 3, four great beasts coming from the sea. That means this is from among the nations, right? The first verse 4, the first was like a lion that had eagle's wings. And it was lifted up on the earth, made to stand on two feet like a man, a man's heart was given to it. So this in some way captures what happened to the Babylonian Empire, but more specifically what happened in Nebuchadnezzar. He was lifted up from the earth. And when you read the earlier chapters of Daniel historical information, you know, there was a time in Nebuchadnezzar lost his mind and behaved like almost like an animal. But then, you know, he was raised up. I mean, he came out of that.  And then he was restored to be a man. And so that points to the Babylonian Empire. And we will also see later on. So now if you jump to Daniel chapter 7 verse 17, let me pause here. I think somebody raised their hand. Yes, say you have a question. Sorry about that. I didn't see. I forgot. Okay. No problem. So if you look in Daniel 7 verse 17, Daniel explains, right? Actually, the Daniel is asking the angel. What does all this mean? The angel begins to explain verse 17 Daniel 7 17. Those great bees which are for are for kings or for kingdoms which arise out of the earth. So now the explanation is given in the scriptures itself. So saying, Daniel, you saw these beasts. What are these beasts represent? They represent four kingdoms. Well, then immediately we go back to what happened in chapter 2. Hey, there also was talking about kingdoms. Here again, he's talking about kingdoms. They spoke about four kingdoms. Here he's also talking about four kingdoms. So obviously there is a parallel to both of these. So that's an interesting thing. So we line these up side by side and we will understand a little bit more about these empires. And then he says here, the bear then going back to verse 5, Daniel 7 verse 5. There was a beast like a bear, which had three ribs in its mouth, between his teeth, and it said arise and devour. Now, don't worry too much about the details like the lion with wings. So what do the wings mean? Don't worry too much about those things. It's just part of the image unless the wings have something significant to do. So the lion with wings is just representing a beast. The key that we understand is it's representing a kingdom. But don't worry about the lion has a tail and the lion has wings and the lion has four legs trying to break all of those things down. If you start doing that, it will be unnecessarily getting to get off into unnecessary things. So that's very important unless the scriptures itself start telling us something. Oh, the wings represent something. Then we have to get into it. The scriptures don't say anything about it or don't tell us to do anything with it. Then leave it as it is. Same thing here when you see about this bear, that's in verse 5. And it says here, it had three ribs in its mouth between his teeth.  Okay, God was just using images here and using the image of a bear to represent the meat of Persia. Later on, there will be some more details coming in in chapter 8. That's when you will see an example where fine details become important. For instance, in chapter 8, he talks about two horns, one long bigger and one smaller. There he begins to tell us specifically. He starts speaking to us about the horns. Then that's when you pay attention to the minute details. Otherwise, don't worry too much about it. Okay, the same thing in verse 6.  Now, in verse 6, he's talking about a leopard and he's talking about four heads. In this chapter, he doesn't tell us to do anything with four heads, so leave it aside. But when you come into chapter 8, there these four heads become significant because then he starts telling us why four heads. That's when he's specifically telling these four heads represent something. Okay, then you pay attention to it. But as of now in chapter 7, he just says, there's a leopard, a beast. He sees a leopard, four wings and four heads. Okay, leave it as it is. But the moment he starts focusing on certain details, which will happen in chapter 8, then we also do that. We pay attention to those details. Okay, but for now, leave it as it is. Leopard represents a beast. Okay, that represents, you know, that corresponds to this waste of bronze or brass in Daniel 2. Okay, that represents the Greek Empire. We understand that there is a parallel. And then in verse 7, there is, he says, a fourth beast. And again, this beast is very strange, so we don't even know what it looks like. He just says it's dreadful and terrible. He had huge iron teeth. Now, what did he see in chapter 2? Iron. What do you see here? He's saying iron teeth. So there's some sort of a, again, a parallel. And iron represents strength, very strong, right? And then he says it had 10 horns. Very interesting. 10 horns. Okay, in chapter 7, he begins to talk about the 10 horns. Then we pay attention to that. So for example, in verse 19 of chapter 7, he says, this angel was explaining this vision to Daniel. He says, look, this fourth beast is a very dreadful beast. And it is very strong, very powerful, because it tramples the residue with his feet. And he says conquering everything. So it's a very powerful empire, conquers everything that's left. And then in verse 20, he's picking up on those 10 horns. So now we pay attention to that detail, right? So when the scripture is pointing us, focusing its light on some smaller detail, in this case, 10 horns, then you also pay attention to it. Now, suppose the scripture didn't have to say anything about the 10 horns. Okay, we don't, we'll just make an observation that, hey, the 10 horns in this beast represent or correspond to the 10 toes in the image. Okay, there's similarity happening. But what is interesting is in chapter 7, he focuses on those 10 horns. And what does he say? This is verse 20 of chapter 7. And the 10 horns, hey, saying, Daniel, that beast that you saw in verse 7, which had 10 horns, those 10 horns mean something. What do they mean? And the 10 horns that were on its head. And the other horn, which came up before, by which three fell, namely that horn, which had eyes and a mouth, which spoke pompous words, which is greater than this. He goes on to say in verse 24, I'm skipping a few verses because he's going to tell us, the 10 horns are 10 kings, which shall arise from this kingdom. Okay, so here's an example where in this whole image of the beast, which has 10 horns, the 10 horns do mean something. So that's when we begin to look into it. And we don't go off and start making, for example, it says this beast had teeth. It doesn't tell us how many teeth it had. So we shouldn't try to, you know, make up something about the teeth. Leave the teeth alone. Focus on the horns because the scripture is intentionally pointing to that. And he says in verse 24, the 10 horns are 10 kings who will arise from this kingdom. So that is interesting. That means there will be 10 kings. Kings in the Bible represents leaders.  In today's world, we would have political leaders like government leaders, you know, highest ranking, which would be usually presidents or prime ministers, people in power and authority. So we don't have quote unquote kings as such in our day. But we do have people in places of, you know, government, political leadership. So we can translate that. These 10 horns are 10 leaders. And where do they come from? Not from any part of the world. They come from what belonged to this kingdom of this beast, which corresponds to this kingdom of legs of iron. So that is why we look with interest on countries of modern countries that were part of the former Roman Empire. And for the most part, these countries lie through Europe and not exclusively Europe, but most part. They lie through Europe. And of course, they come over to the on the other side of the Mediterranean, which is they come into Turkey and Syria and even to the northern part of Egypt. So the Roman Empire extended over all of these places. So we look with interest on those countries because Daniel Daniel's prophecy said very clearly. There will be 10 leaders who will emerge from what belonged to the beast, this fourth beast or this legs of iron, which is the Roman Empire. So you look, all right, and we see certain leaders from that part of the world, France and Germany and others. And now you would see Turkey and what's happening in Greece and Italy and those parts, you know, how are these leaders interacting with each other? So 10 leaders coming up. How are they all interacting? So you keep an eye on that. The other thing he said was, so I'm going back and I'm jumping back in the first part of Chapter 7 and the latter part of 7. Because first part is the vision. The latter part is the interpretation and we're connecting the two. So going back to verse 8, Daniel 7. So he saw 10 horns coming from the fourth beast. And then he says in verse 8, I saw another horn, a little one. So now we know what does horn represent? It represents a king and it represents a leader. So in verse 8, he says, I saw a little horn, meaning another leader who came, but he was a little horn, meaning he was actually insignificant. So he probably comes from a country that may not be very renowned or very prominent, but this little horn comes. And what does he do before home? Three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. That means this little horn somehow may not necessarily always be through military force of political power, but he somehow gains control, influence on three of these other leaders. So we saw 10 leaders coming out of that. What was the former Roman Empire? There's another little horn from some insignificant place. But he is able to influence, so influence that he's actually controlling these three of these 10 leaders. Okay. Just keep it in mind because in chapter 8, he's going to tell us where this little horn comes from. Okay. Right now in this chapter, he doesn't tell us that. He just says, I saw another little horn. He takes control of these three horns. And then he says, it was this horn, that is verse 8, and there in this horn were the eyes like of a man and a mouth speaking pompous words.  He speaks pompous. He speaks like, you know, to the heavens.  Okay. Let me pause here for a moment before I continue speaking a little, some more about this little horn. Are you all with me? Are you? Is it clear? Everybody with me? Any questions so far? Anybody left behind somewhere? I think everybody is following. Okay. So in case, in case you get lost, you know, just, just tell me to pause or explain again. I can do it. All right. Let's just move forward. So in the same chapter, he's telling us something more about so this little horn. He's going to tell us more about this little horn. And he says there, verse 20, I'm jumping now to the second half of the chapter because he's, that's where the interpretation is. He says in verse 20, the 10 horns that came on its head and the other horn, which came up before which three fell, namely that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words. His appearance was greater than his fellows. I was watching and the same horn was making war against the saints and prevailing against them. What does this little horn do? This little horn is going to make war against the saints. That means God's people. This little horn. Okay. Something more about this little horn. This little horn is going to really persecute, really go after the people of God. Okay. Now, in this chapter, there is no indication of timeframe. Like, when is this happening? Okay. He's just telling us this is going to happen. He doesn't tell us any timeframe. What we do know from chapter two is that it is in the days of these, when the iron mixes with clay. In the days of that happening, God will set up a kingdom. So, and so we know iron mixed with clay, 10 toes. So if we just keep that in the back of our minds, then we say, okay. So this little horn is going to come into visibility and start doing his work somewhere during this time. That means when the iron is mixed with clay, sometime before God is going to set up his kingdom, somewhere there. Other than that, there is no indication of time. He's only giving us information on what this little horn is going to do. He's going to persecute the saints. He's going to attack. Basically kill or go against God's people. Verse 22, until, so when is this little horn going to do this? Until the ancient of days came and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the most high. And the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom. Some indication of time. When is this little horn going to do his, you know, these things that he's telling us about? He's going to speak pompous words. And he's going to be able to take over three of these leaders and he's going to speak pompous words. And he's going to attack the saints when it's going to be right around the time when God will come and set up his kingdom. Somewhere there. So it's really towards the end of the end times is really towards the end of the end of the age. Because when this little horn is doing all these things, he says in verse 22, God himself will come and judge favorably for his people. And he's going to the saints will possess the kingdom. Okay, so it's going to happen at somewhere at that time. Now, right after that, what's going to happen? The saints are going to possess the kingdom. Now, when we come into the New Testament, there's a lot more information.  In Daniel 7, he's already said, you know, that middle part, we will come back to it. But in Daniel 7, he tells us the saints are going to rule the rule and reign. So this little horn is going to be doing his stuff and then God himself will come and judge and hand over everything to the saints. Okay, now let me make a side note here. Okay, this is not the, this is not part of Daniel 7. It's just a side note where I want to understand that there are two dimensions or two expressions of the kingdom of God. There is a spiritual expression and there is the physical expression. The physical expression is when God himself will come and rule physically on the earth, Christ will come and rule on the earth. And the saints will rule with him physically. That will happen in the millennium. Very clear. And we will see it when we study the book of Revelation. Very clear. And it's also mentioned here in Daniel 7. But right now, the saints are expressing the authority and the dominion of the kingdom here or not in a spiritual way, not in a physical way. That means, are there saints on the earth? Yeah. But are the saints, you know, governing the earth? No, not in a physical sense. But we are exercising kingdom authority to advance the purposes of the kingdom of God, which is take the gospel to all the nations, bring people out of darkness into God's marvelous light and to destroy the works of the devil. That's the spiritual expression of the kingdom. Right. But there is a physical or a literal expression of the kingdom, which Daniel 7.22 is talking about, which is when Jesus sets up his kingdom here on earth, then the saints will possess the kingdom. Are we in the kingdom right now? Yes, of course. But it's a spiritual expression for a spiritual purpose, which is, you know, bring people out of darkness into light. But there's a coming physical expression of the kingdom, which is in the future. Okay. That's just a side note. And we must be very clear about it because in some parts of the Christian world, there is a teaching where this is mixed up. So there is so much of pressure or emphasis on, hey, we, the Christians, must be, you know, the people in charge of all the important places. You know, we must be the presidents and we must be the prime ministers and we must be the CEOs and all those things. Of course, God may raise up some believers to be in those kinds of positions, but it's not like we are going to do it now. That's not now. That is coming later when the Christ will set up his role and dominate on the earth. That's coming later. Right now, our work is a spiritual work. We were ushering in the kingdom, into the hearts and lives of people. We're advancing the kingdom of light and pushing back the kingdom of darkness. Okay. Just a side note. Let's get back to Daniel 7. So more about this little horn over to us 24 Daniel 7. The 10 horns are 10 kings who will arise from this kingdom. And another shall arise after them. He shall be different from the first ones and shall subdue three kings. So this little horn, like we said, he's going to, you know, gain control of three of these kings verse 25. He shall speak pompous words against the most high shall persecute the saints of the most high. And he's giving us some more information now. Daniel 7.25 and shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time. Interesting.  So he already said he's going to speak pompous words. Yeah, we know that he's going to persecute the saints of the most high. Yeah, he already told us that, but he's telling us something more. This little horn, verse 25 will try to change times and law, meaning he. Therefore, we can say he's someone who's in political power because he's going to try to control times and law. Like what is happening in those times? What is happening in terms of jurisdiction or in terms of politically what's happening with the people? He's going to try to change that. What exactly is going to change? We will see in chapter 9. Okay, but he's giving us something here, something more about this little horn. Therefore, he's a king, he's a political leader, and he's going to really try to maneuver and manipulate and change the way things are being done. And even the laws that have the laws or he can say the laws or the things that people have agreed to, he's going to try to change it. And he says in verse 25, the other part of verse 25, the saints will be given into his hand. That means he will be able to harm God's people. He's going to do a lot of hurt to the people of God for how long?  Now, when you read it here, it's not very obvious, but this amounts to three and a half years. A time represents one year, times represents two, half a time represents half a year, so for three and a half years. Now, it's not very obvious here, but as we go into chapter 8, as we go into chapter 9, and even as we go into chapter 12, then we look back, this will become more clearer. For now, he says time, times, half a time. I have told you it's three and a half years. It's not obvious just by reading this, but we can say that with confidence because of what is going to come and what we will read again also in Revelation. We can say with a lot of confidence, he's basically talking about three and a half years. Okay, so for three and a half years, which is half of seven years of tribulation, this three and a half years is the latter part of the seven-year tribulation period. It's called the Great Tribulation because this little horn is going to be able to really harm God's people. Then what will happen? Verse 26, but the court will be sated and they shall take away dominion to consume and destroy it forever. That means at the end of these three and a half years, we know what will happen. This Antichrist, this little horn is going to be, his whole term will come to an end and he's going to be destroyed and cast into the lake of fire. Okay, so we've understood the image of the beast, the ten horns and the little horn. What we still need to look into in chapter seven is the parenthetical portion, which is, he's told us there are four beasts coming out of the earth, but then he also has a vision into heaven and sees other things happening. So we're going to look at that from verse nine. So Daniel chapter seven, we're jumping back to verse nine. Let me see. I heard something on the class. So maybe somebody has a question. Say you have a question. Yes, sir pastor. Just clarity or maybe this will be explained later, but I just don't want to miss this question. That's why I keep on seeing the holy people, God's people. And we're talking about tribulation and when all this would happen, when the Antichrist will torment. So I've just tried to understand. I know we dealt with this, but just to clarify again. Are we talking about God's people who would remain during the time of tribulation and will hold on to Christ? Or are we talking about another set of people? Because my understanding is that by tribulation, the saints would have been raptured, which we learned in our second year. So I see here holy people, holy people. I just need to get clarity. Are these the people who will stand not to take the mark of the beast? Is that people? Daniel is referring to. Yeah, good question. Thanks for asking that. So in Daniel seven, the word saints is used. Now, in general, it references God's people, saints. But that same word is used in two settings, one saints and in the same chapter, in the same chapter. In Daniel seven, the word saints is used to refer to the saints will receive the kingdom and they will rule. So saints. But it's also used to talk about this little horn who will persecute the saints. Same word. But of course, in both cases, referring to God's people, but it's referring to different sections. I mean, different groupings. Who will the little horn, little horn persecute? It will be the saints that is God's people who are in the earth at that time during the three and a half years of tribulation. So there will be people, like we said, both Jews and Gentiles who will believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who will be on the earth. So those are the saints. The saints, as we will see in Revelation 12 or more correctly, the elect over there in Revelation 12, are another subset, meaning the Jews, the Jewish people. So there are two groupings of people during the tribulation whom the antichrist is going to go after. The Jewish people, as well as those who believe in Jesus Christ. We see that very clearly in Revelation 12 and 13. So those are the people who will be persecuted during the tribulation because the antichrist is going to go after the Jewish people. And that is in Revelation 12 by the woman who bore the man child. That's Israel. But he's also going to go after everybody who refuses to receive the Mark of the Beast. Everybody believes in Jesus Christ. The word saints that is used in Daniel 7 in a broader sense, talking about the saints who will receive the kingdom. That refers to all the people of God. Because after the battle of Armageddon, when Jesus comes to set up his kingdom, all the saints of God, all the people of God will be here to rule and reign, which means it includes all Testament saints, New Testament saints, those who came through the tribulation. Everyone, they will rule and reign here on earth. So the same word saints has to be understood depending on where it is being used. I hope I explained it clear enough. Thank you very much. That was very clear. Thank you sir. Charles, question. Is this ancient of ages Jesus? So as we will see Charles in here in Daniel 7 verse 9, the term ancient of days or the ancient of ages is referring to God the Father. And in the presence of the ancient of days is the Son of Man. The Son of Man is the eternal word, the Lord Jesus Christ. But when the Lord Jesus is acting on behalf of the Father, so that where it says in verse 22, the ancient of days came and a judgment was made in favor of the saints the most. That means in verse 22, we know the ancient of days is God the Father, but we also know it's the Lord Jesus who's going to come and establish his kingdom here on earth. So Daniel 722 must be understood in that context that it is the internet is God the Father, but it's actually being carried out here on earth through the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay, I hope I answered your question. All right. So Asha, go ahead. Thank you so much, Pastor. It's elaborate. Thank you. Yes, Asha? I'm sorry, Pastor, just a little help. You're mentioning about the side note where the two dimensions are spiritually and physical, but Asha will be telling about or God himself will be coming with the saints to the desert. And can you please explain the spiritual one? No, that was a physical part. That is Christ coming on the earth. And then the spiritual part is what you and I are doing today. Right? That means... So let me explain it from the beginning. The kingdom of God, the expression of God's kingdom. There is a spiritual expression. There is a physical expression. Right? The physical expression is the literal kingdom on earth, meaning the Lord Jesus Christ is physically present here on earth. And he is physically ruling and raining on the earth and we are physically ruling and raining with him here on earth. And we will administer his kingdom literally. That means, Asha, you may be in charge of 10 cities. You may be in charge of another number of cities. That means you have to take care of those cities. Literally, you have to do it. So that's a literal kingdom here on earth. And the saints are literally doing the work of the kingdom. But today, you and I are still part of the kingdom. We are doing the work of the kingdom, but it's in a spiritual sense. Meaning we are advancing the kingdom of God. We are destroying the works of darkness and we are proclaiming the gospel. How are we doing the work of the kingdom? It's a spiritual advancement in the kingdom and the hearts and lives of people. And of course, that will result in transformation of their lives. It will result in its impact on society. It will result in its impact on cities and other parts of the world, but not in the same way as in the literal kingdom. There, God's people will be appointed over cities. Here, we are doing a spiritual work. You can win souls without being the mayor of a city. You can win souls without being the president or the prime minister of the country. We are still advancing the kingdom. Are you understanding? Did I help you understand that? Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Christopher, are you seeing works of the saints in the current times? Please provide examples. Right now, we are doing the work. For example, we are studying God's work. This is part of what saints do. We speak the word, we minister the word, and our lives are being changed. This classroom is an example of the works of the saints. We are spreading the word of God and doing the work of God.  We are doing the work of the saints. We are doing the work of the kingdom. It's expressed in so many different ways. The saints are doing what God wants us to do. We are being salt and light. That's the work of the saints in the present time. Is that okay, Christopher? Faster. Let me make a distinction between the presence of the saints in the supernatural sense in the current times and what part are they playing? Do we see any of... I mean, I'll be able to discern that those are actually can be actually the saints. That's where I was coming from. Yeah. Sorry, I kind of didn't understand that. Could you say that again, Christopher? I didn't understand it. No, I would just say... Earlier in the... This was in the chapter. You mentioned that there are saints that are present in the earth right now. And they are doing their part to ensure that God's purpose is fulfilled or is getting fulfilled. And obviously, also the Holy Spirit is also here in each of us also. But where I'm coming from is... Are we able to identify that some of these works could be attributed to the saints that are present right now on the earth? Yeah, so we have to clarify.  Saints means God's people. You are one of them. All of us are saints. We are all saints. So saints don't understand it in the Roman Catholic sense. They use the word saints as in somebody they consider very special. But the scriptures talk about you and me as saints.  Every person in this classroom is a saint. So it's talking about us as saints. That's what I was referring to. I was using the word saint in a biblical sense, not in the Roman Catholic sense. So in the biblical sense, every believer is a saint. And we are doing, we are serving God. We are doing the works in so many ways. That's what I was talking about. All right. Thank you for your clarification. I think as you were talking, I just suddenly realized that I probably got a bit confused with the saints and angels actually. Maybe playing a part, you know. Okay. I guess. Yeah. No problem. No problem. Okay. So we have a little portion left in chapter seven. That is about the saints, about the saints. Okay. So what we'll do is we'll take a break, come back and we'll cover that. And then we go into chapter eight. It's going to be more unfolding of details on what, you know, we have seen so far. All right. So let's go for a break. Come back in 10 minutes, finish seven and then go into eight and maybe we can touch nine also today. Okay. See you shortly. Thanks.