What's going on and welcome to the solo shot. My name is Tom Vecchio. We have a 12 game MLB Slate tonight lock is set for 705. As always, this is one of the many shows on the Fandall podcast network, you can find that anywhere, whether it's Apple podcast, Spotify, Google, you name it, you can find it there. The video version is on the Fandall YouTube page and Fandall TV Plus. Before we hop into things right now, get ready for NFL season with incredible offers from Fandall America's number one sportsbook. New customers can bet $5 and get 200 in bonus bets guaranteed. Plus all customers who bet $5 will get $100 off NFL Sunday ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. Now is the best time to join Fandall. The app is easy to use and you can bet on everything from spreads to player props and more. Fandall official partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and present in select states. Fandall is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under agreement with Kansas Star Casino LLC. 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No refunds, terms, and embargoes apply 100 off NFL Sunday Ticket, not YouTube TV. YouTube TV Base Plan required to watch YouTube TV Redemption requires Google account and current form of payment commercial use excluded. Alright, let's jump into tonight's 12 game MLB Slit again. Lock is set for 7.05. There are just a very few minor weather notes for tonight. Baltimore Orioles there at home hosting the Chicago White Sox. Could be a little bit of rain in this one. Very, very minor issues overall. Same thing with Boston at home hosting the Houston Astros. A potential for a little bit of rain later in the game. It's really not going to be too much. New York Mets are at home hosting the Texas Rangers even less so of a worry of rain. There could be some rain but it's not going to be impacting the game overall. Chicago Cubs at home hosting the Milwaukee Brewers. A little bit of rain. Probably prior game and then winds blowing in from left at about 10 miles so that would be a nice bump to the pitchers. Speaking of pitchers, let's start things off there. We have a number of expensive pitchers on tonight's slate let off by Pablo Lopez at 11.3. Clay Kershaw at 11.1. Meryl Kelly at 10.9. George Kirby at 10.8. Justin Steele at 10.6. Corbin Burns at 10.3. Jose Boreos at 10.1. There are a number of options that are above 10K. This is not to mention that there are several options we could be considering above 8000 as well. There's also a very, very inexpensive pitcher that we could be looking to use tonight due to his matchup. And due to the fact that we, of course, field on tonight's slate, yes, we saw the Braves put up a pile of runs last night as you would expect with the league's best offense in the league's best hitting environment. Let's start off with two of the pitchers up at the top. Pablo Lopez at 11.3. I like him tonight. I'm not sure if I love him and I think his salary is just a touch too high. Combined with the fact of, you know, this matchup he has against Cleveland is no doubt a good one because Cleveland's not an overwhelmingly strong offense. It's just the fact that they don't strike out. The Guardians come in with an 18.9% strikeout rate versus righties, which is the lowest in the league. They're rather disciplined at the plate, but they also come in with a 97 WRC plus versus right handed pitching, which is 18th in the league. And they come in with a 134 team ISO, which is 29th in the league. So they do not have a ton of power in their lineup. They really don't have any power in their lineup. And yeah, they don't strike out a ton. So this could limit Pablo Lopez and the potential fantasy upside, which has been really solid this year. This is a 29.3% strikeout rate, 6.1% walk rate is only allowing 1.13 homeruns per nine. Very solid 3.41 Sierra, which is skill interactive ERA. He's a big time medium contact pitcher at 51.9%, along mostly ground ball pitcher at 41.8%. So he really has the skill set to kind of, you know, keep these guardians bats quiet because they don't have a ton of power. He's going to generate that medium contact. He's not going to allow fly balls. And the thing holding him back is probably that strikeout upside, which he has in himself. But the matchup isn't necessarily 100% favorable for that just because, you know, Cleveland, they don't give away free chances at the plate. So I like Pablo Lopez tonight from a consistency standpoint, but up at the top, I mean, George Kirby is jumping off the page right now at 10.8. And due to this matchup versus Oakland, surprise, surprise, we're going to be attacking Oakland when we have such a favorable matchup. I do think Pablo Lopez is great, but you know, for a pitcher that's in a, let's just call it a below average or kind of a bad strikeout matchup 11.3 is pretty expensive of a salary to be paying. So I like Kirby Moore. I like Justin Steele. And then we're going to get to a pitcher that's less expensive than all of them that we should be considering tonight. So yes, I do like George Kirby tonight. He doesn't have the same strikeout upside individually that Pablo Lopez has. George Kirby has a 23% strikeout rate, which is obviously not the same, you know, compared to Pablo Lopez up at 29. George Kirby has an insanely low 2.3% walk rate, which is great to see. Not allowing hitters on base for free is one of my favorite things to see when it comes to rostering a pitcher. He's only lying 0.98 home runs per nine. He has a 3.67 Sierra. He's a big medium contact ground ball pitcher. Again, 52.2% medium contact rate and a 44.2% ground ball rate. So George Kirby is piling up the innings, not allowing runners on base for free, limiting the home runs, limiting the damage. And this matchup against Oakland is one that really should help accentuate that and probably reach towards a strikeout ceiling just because the athletic strikeout 25.1% of the time versus righties. Which is the third worst in the league. So, you know, if Pablo Lopez was going up against Oakland, we'd be all in on Pablo Lopez because the strikeout upside would be massively there for him. So Kirby doesn't strike out as many hitters as Lopez, but Kirby's less expensive and Kirby, you know, is facing a matchup that could present him with a bit of upside. So it's kind of some positives and negatives for both of these pitchers. I think I would lean towards George Kirby simply due to the salary difference, which isn't massive. George Kirby's 10.8 and Pablo Lopez is 11.3, but you know, on a slate that we have course field, and we saw the upside that the hitters from course field have with the Braves last night with Acuna having what is a five RBIs last night, a pile of head stolen bases, Austin Riley having a home or like all of the potential upside, we're going to want to get some exposure to those hitters. So I'm going to take every bit of sigh relief that I can. So George Kirby slightly above Pablo Lopez and it's simply due to the matchup versus Oakland. Now I also think we want to be considering Justin Steele tonight who is 10.6. So again, we're kind of splitting hairs here, 11.3, 10.8, 10.6. All these pitchers are around the same salary tier. As I mentioned up at the top that there's a bit of wind blowing in at Wrigley Field. We know that Wrigley Field is a venue that is largely impacted by wind both positively and negatively. So when there's extra wind blowing in, it's an even bigger boost to pitchers. And you know, Justin Steele has been solid this year. 0.72 homeruns per 9 allowed is awesome to see. He's not a big strikeout pitcher. It's at 23.2%. 5.2% walk rate is obviously awesome. Good stuff from him. Overall 3.82 skill interactive ERA. And more importantly, he has a really nice matchup going up against Milwaukee. This season, the Brewers versus lefties have a 24.5% strikeout rate, which is the 7th worst in the league. They also come in with a below league average 95 WRC plus in this matchup, which is 19th in the league. And they also don't have a ton of power in their lineup with a 156 team ISO versus lefties, which is 20th in the league. So kind of a plus strikeout matchup for Justin Steele. Good pitching environment. I know the Brewers have been super hot. They won seven, eight games in a row, whatever it is at this point. But Justin Steele has been solid. And with the wind blowing in, it really should help him with what he does best. And that is no fly balls, no hard contact. He has a 27.3% hard contact rate, which is so low. That's awesome to see. He's a 54.6% medium contact pitcher, and he only allows a 30.9% fly ball rate. So if the ball does get in the air when Justin Steele pitches it tonight, which is less often because he has a 48.7% ground ball rate. So if the ball does get in the air, it's probably not going to be going for a home run because he's good at limiting those to begin with, plus the wind blowing in. So really do like stuff from this matchup and the whole mix of things for Justin Steele tonight. So Kirby versus Steele, I think I would take Kirby just because the matchup versus Oakland is a little bit easier compared to Milwaukee. Again, they're still below league average offense, but they have been hot as of late. You know, that's a bit of a coin flip. I would probably take Pablo Lopez ahead of Justin Steele just because I want a higher level of consistency.  We want to get these hitters from, we want to get these hitters from Coors Field on tonight's slate. There are a number of other good stacks we could be looking to. You know, where is the real salary relief option on tonight's slate? We have 12 games, there's, you know, 24 pictures in action. Who do we go to? We're going to drop all the way down to 6.6K for Cole Raggins from the Kansas City Royals. He has been piling up the strikeouts in a big, big way. Now, this is a pitcher who, earlier in the season, was a reliever, made the jump to the starting rotation back in the middle of July. He has 6 starts under his belt since joining the rotation. Of those 6 starts in all of the 6 starts, I should say, he's allowed 3 early runs or fewer in all of them. And he's allowed 1 earned run or fewer in 4 of the 6 starts. He is not allowing any action. Also, over these 6 starts, he has 11, 9, 5, 11, 8, and 3 strikeouts. So we're seeing 8, 11, 9, and 11 strikeouts in 4 of his 6 starts. So it's 6.6K. Cole Raggins is a pitcher that we should be considering tonight. Overall, in the season, he has a 28.7% strikeout rate. He does have a 9.7% walk rate, which is an ideal.  We don't like pitchers allowing hitters on for free. That's not something we like to see, but he's only allowing 0.76 home runs per 9. So that's okay. And he's not a fly ball pitcher. So ultimately, if you allowed runners on for free and was a fly ball pitcher, that's a really dangerous mix because that's what presents upside for opposing teams. But he has that strikeout potential to get himself out of a jam. If he does allow a runner to on for free, he can strike them out as he's been showing with, you know, these double digit strikeout games over his pass bunch. He also is a 51% medium contact pitcher. So he's not getting hit hard if runners are on, which is what we love to see. And then the matchup tonight going up against the Pittsburgh Pirates is something that we're really, really interested in. This is what it comes down to not only salary, not only strikeout potential, but it's the matchup which will accentuate his strikeout upside going up against Pittsburgh, which will also allow us to stack the hitters that course field because he's only 6.6 K. So Pittsburgh and offense right now, that's, you know, right around the league average, they come with a 23.4% strikeout rate versus lefties. It's 14th in the league. So they're right at the league average, but an 89 WRC plus is not something that we're worried about in any capacity for Pittsburgh and their offense. That's 26th in the league. And then they simply just don't have any power in their lineup with a 135 team Iso versus lefties, which is 28th in the league. So it's a great mix for Cole Ragan tonight, who has really been solid with these strikeouts. So I will take 6.6 K for a pitcher, probably one of the best values we've had in a while on a point per dollar basis. If you want to load up on those hitters at course field. So pitching tonight is really strong of the top several pitchers over 10 K that are worthy of a roster spot tonight. And I didn't even mention about Klein Kershaw. I didn't mention Corbin Burns, two pitchers that have been, you know, solid for years. But there's just a, you know, a variety of different factors. If I had to choose one of those two, I'd probably go to Corbin Burns. I like that pitching environment, you know, going in really few with the wind blowing in that should be a nice boost to him. He's also, again, less expensive compared to Kershaw, who's 11.1 Corbin Burns is 10.3. I'll just take this out of relief just due to the hitting environment that we have on tonight's slate. So speaking of hitting, let's flip over to stacks. Again, we have course field. I mentioned it yesterday. I specifically talked about the Braves and like, again, I don't love talking about course field when it's on a slate just because it's a given. But man, when the league's best offenses at course field, we have to be considering them. So, you know, same take for that tonight. I don't want to belabor the point about the Braves and what their potential is to score 10 plus runs seemingly on any single slate. So, yeah, roster the Braves tonight, no matter, you know, any of them that you could afford, Acuna, Olsen, Riley, Murphy, Albee's, Harris, Azuna, you name it. They're super, super expensive and they are well worth it as we saw last night. But outside of course field, we're going to be going tonight. Let's turn to the Toronto Blue Jays. They are at home. They're taking on the Washington Nationals. The Nationals will have Mackenzie Gore on the mound tonight. A former top prospect for the Padres was traded in the Wadsono deal a couple of years last year.  That's what it comes down to. He does flash a nice strikeout upside at times. However, you know, he has a 26.8% strikeout rate, which is solid. But he has a 9.8% walk rate and he's allowing 1.63 homeruns per nine. He has a 4.11 Sierra.  So, again, allowing runners on base for free is never a good thing. And then the home runs specifically when it comes to righties is where he's struggling. He's allowing 1.76 homeruns per nine to right-handed hitters this year, this season, and it's 1.07 versus lefties. So ideally, we'd be attacking him with righties from the Blue Jays. And then when we look to the splits versus lefties and righties, it's a 41% fly ball rate versus righties, which is not good. And it's down to 27% versus lefties. He is a left-handed pitcher, so it does make sense. So really, and the same thing with the hard contact rate, a 36% hard contact rate versus righties and only 32.9% versus lefties. So it makes sense that we attack him with righties when it comes to the Blue Jays, something that they have plenty of in their lineup. They just put Matt Chapman on the IL yesterday. Boba Shed is listed as day-to-day. He did not play for them yesterday, so we do need like a fully updated lineup from them. But really outside of, even if Boba Shed does not play today, Vladdy, George Springer, Whit Merrifield, Danny Jansen, all players we want to be focusing in on tonight when it comes to getting some power in our lineup. You could also be looking to David Schneider. For them, he is 2,800 tonight. Really nice value playing. Kevon Bizio and Dalton Varshow should probably be in the lineup for them. They're just not players I'm like jumping to get into my lineups. Alejandro Kirk is 2,200. Also has some nice power versus lefties. You could look to him if you need that sour relief. I think we're in a pretty good spot. Even if Boba Shed is not in the lineup, we know that Matt Chapman is on the IL. So we're still going to be in a pretty good spot for righties from the Blue Jays for some stacking potential tonight. So that's team, I guess it's called team two. Look to the Braves at Coorsfield. Surprise, surprise. Look to the Blue Jays tonight. I also want to take a look at the Seattle Mariners who apparently are never going to lose a game again. They're just absolutely on fire. Tonight they're at home. They're going up against Ken Waldichuk from the Oakland Athletics. A picture again we don't need to be worried about. A picture that, you know, I've talked about before in various articles. Coming in with a 21.8% strikeout rate, which is right around the league average. Not good. 11.6% walk rate is not good. And that allows runners on for free. And that presents so much fantasy upside combined with the fact that he's allowing 1.72 homeruns per nine on a 39.7% fly ball rate. This is like the ideal mix when, you know, he's going to allow a single. He's going to allow a walk and all of a sudden there's two runners on and we have like a power header coming up versus lefties and righties this season. He's allowing a 581 slugging to lefties and a 500 slugging to righties. Specifically 2.14 homeruns per nine to lefties and 1.62 homeruns per nine to righties. It's an awesome spot for basically anyone on the Mariners who and apparently everyone on the Mariners is just capable of putting up homeruns left and right. Now, of course, we would love to have things let off by Julio Rodriguez who is seemingly going to be hitting a homerun every game or every other game. And he's 4500 tonight, but after Rodriguez, he's the only player that's above 4000. The next, the next closest player in terms of salary is Teosca Hernandez at 3100. So Jayrod at 44 and then Hernandez at 31. So we can get a lot of sour relief when it comes to the Mariners, whether it's Hernandez, Cal Raleigh is only 3K. J.B. Crawford is 3K. So realistically, yes, I would love to have every single stack with Mariners with Julio Rodriguez.  The Mariners offer a lot of good hitters that are in great spots tonight and they're pretty affordable to get into your lineups. So you want to mix in a Dylan Moore just because you're throwing him in a stack. Like that's not my favorite thing. You know, seeing with Cade Marlowe, like you're throwing these players in just because you need the sour relief and you want a full Mariners stack overall. That's fine. Again, I would prefer to have the hitters at the top of the lineup, you know, in my stacks with France, Suarez, Rodriguez and Hernandez and Raleigh. Like that's where I want to be going ultimately. But again, it comes down to a lot of salary, you know, salary considerations. So those are, you know, very clear teams to be stacked tonight. Seattle, Blue Jays, Braves, all pretty easy teams to be looking to. And then I just want to touch on the Baltimore Orioles quickly. They're at home.  They're probably going to do the same thing tonight going up against Jesse Shultins from the Chicago White Sox. A picture that does not have an insanely large sample size this year. It's his first year in the majors. It's only 65 innings pitched this year. So, you know, take it with a bit of grain of salt. 1.38 home runs per night is super low. 16.8% strike-out rate. It's just not a dominant strike-out picture and an 8.1% walk rate. 4.91 Sierra is not good and a 41.4% fly ball rate. Again, it's only a 65 innings sample size, so it's not massive. But ultimately, once he's out of the game, I don't think we're going to be too worried about the White Sox bullpen. And I'll be taking the power that the Orioles have in their bats, which is up and down their line of whether it's Gunnar Henderson, Anthony Santandere, Cedric Mullins, if you want to be going to him. Ryan Mountcastle, Rachman Hayes, like Ryan O'Hearn, like they have so many options you can be considering. And ultimately, they're not super expensive, whereas Santandere and Henderson are both $3,400. That's the most expensive hitting option that the Orioles have tonight. So I love this matchup versus the White Sox and Shultins on their bullpen. It really doesn't matter. And we're getting the Baltimore Orioles at a pretty fair salary tonight, which I think should make them a very popular stack. And depending on how you work things, they really could be a bit of a secondary stack, depending on who you use and who makes their lineup. It's kind of pair with some of the hitters, potentially, from Cors Field. So several options under 3K really present a whole lot of flexibility when it comes to your lineup construction. All right, let's close things out with some homerun calls tonight. Number one is going to be Teosker Hernandez for the Seattle Mariners. As I mentioned, this is just an awesome matchup going up against Ken Waldechuk.  And then we can be looking to him pretty easily for a homerun. And then a slightly, you know, deeper one going to be going with Eddie Rosario from the Braves. He's got solid power. Again, he's not like the number one suspect from the Braves. When it comes to be looking at homeruns, it'd be Olson and Riley and Akunya, et cetera, et cetera. But I like Eddie Rosario in this split. And I think he's obviously not going to be a prime target in the stack, which I really do think should make him an awesome option tonight. And again, it's relatively speaking. Eddie Rosario is still going to be popular tonight. Just not as popular as Akunya or Olson or Riley, whatever it might be. All right, so that does it for today's podcast. Jim will be back tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. I will be back next week and we will continue with that, at least for the short term. As always, this is one of the many shows on the FanDuel podcast. Network, you can find that anywhere, whether it's iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, you name it. The video version is on the FanDuel YouTube page and FanDuel TV Plus. You can follow me on Twitter at Tom underscore Vecchio1. Until next time, good luck in your contests.


We're back, and we're back again with the exact same human life cycle drawing. Don't get irritated with me for providing the exact same image for multiple parts of our course. Today, we are zooming in and focusing on yet another part of the human life cycle. In the last lecture, we talked about mitosis, which is the process of nuclear division that leads to identical daughter cells. And it's how we grow. In this lecture, and I warned you, make sure you understand mitosis before we move forward. So this is your moment of checking yourself. Do you understand mitosis? Because I'm going to count on you understanding it. So if you need to go back and review, go. Go shoo shoo review now. But if you stick with me here, then we're going to assume a relatively comfortable understanding of mitosis. And today, we get to talk about mitosis. This is a part of the life cycle that we haven't looked at yet. We've speculated on the fact that there's got to be a process to create gametes that have half the DNA. And in fact, we looked, look over here, we've got the word haploid. We already talked about haploid and diploid cells. And we looked at the fact that mitosis results in haploid cells that combine. Remember haploid cells have just one copy of every chromosome and two haploid cells combine. That would be an egg and a sperm. And that forms the diploid cell. You all as I go. That goes through mitosis to make the fantastic specimen you are. Myosis has several purposes. Number one, we have to get rid of half the chromosomes. Okay, that's super important. The reduction of a diploid cell into a haploid cell, that's a critical component of or a critical purpose of myosis. But number two, myosis is about generating genetic diversity in a population. Myosis is about sexual reproduction. And I'm going to argue that we're going to spend the rest of the course talking about sex. In fact, we have an entire lecture dedicated just to sexual reproduction and parasites. But you didn't know that those two were connected. But myosis provides the foundation for generating genetic diversity that we can then leverage in sexual reproduction. Alright, so let's look at an overview of myosis. Compare it to mitosis and then dig into some of the specific details.


Welcome, this is Melissa Arm over the stocks. What should I review in Adobe? This was the stocks will show play the day today in the trading room and I also called an option in this to actually to To trades, but this is one of the ones that I had been watching. It did have earnings last night I was thrilled to see this last night Sometimes I see an earnings at night after four o'clock and I go to bed and I know that I'm gonna be trading at the next day That doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes I go to bed and I have no idea what I'm gonna do the next day But this in particular I saw last night. Let's take a look at it It closed at 466 45 boom open this morning actually tanked into the open Opened at 437 51 and fell and really again for this stock to fall $20 almost $20 in a day probably breaks a low here into the close. It's 209 We got plenty of time left yet for that to happen You know is it's not like even what I would call a jimungus bar for this Like let me just look here like this bar here With sixty some dollars Like we're one-third of that today. Do you know what I'm saying this bar here? Well, this was less than that bar, but this bar here was more than this bar So again, this bar could look similar to that bar by four o'clock And if it doesn't it's gonna continue to drop until tomorrow. So I Also think the market's lower too, which I have been predicting So again, it was a fake rally. I know it lasted a week, but it is what it is It wasn't a real rally. What do I mean by real or fake when I say a real rally? I mean a rally supported supported with institutional money. I did not read it that way I was perfectly willing to step aside and wait until see what really was gonna happen if we were gonna continue And if I saw the institutional money coming in in a bullish cap, I was perfectly willing to go along what happened I looked every day. I was looking so hard. I had a headache But the reality was it just I didn't see it that way and I think I will turn out to be right after all So we shall see We shall see is a don't being getting some help for the market Maybe but this would have worked anyways and again the market actually this morning was green while this fell which was gorgeous Dream target on this again in as far as the option goes 400 the break of 400 meaning who knows so It's been a really nice time to trade this year and I think the last two weeks have been a little tricky a little tricky But we've managed to get our way through it And there's times to go heavy into trading and there's times to pull back and I've learned that through experience And I think I've done a good job of that as well as well this year and again particularly in the last two weeks So again, there's time to you know, put the put the put your foot in the gas and go and then there's times to stop You know and take a break and that's okay. That's okay. You don't have to do a trade every single day You absolutely don't but anyways long story short. I love this Adobe lower We'll see where it goes if you're interested in more information and you want to sign up for the Golden Gap class It's this weekend March 26 and 27. Have a great day everyone


Okay, good morning everyone welcome back to a new week. Hope you all are doing well and fine All right, so let's begin the session with a word of prayer could one of us please lead us in prayer Father you have a good cause of you are the other you are a provider Amen Amen, amen Thank you so much, Kennedy, for leading us in prayer. All right, so last week we closed on chapter three. We looked at how having the right workplace attitudes matters, right? Wherever we are, having passion, having excellence, hard work, maintaining integrity, truthfulness. And there are so many attitudes, right workplace that we must apply, whether we are in the workplace, whether we are in ministry, some of us may think, okay, I'm already a pastor of a church, or maybe you are just stepping into ministry, how does this help me? It does, because these are principles and characters that each and every person, whether we're in the workplace, whether we're in the ministry, we need to carry these right workplace attitudes. And when we do that, God is pleased with that. We looked at in chapter three that God is as much interested in our work as he is in the ministry. We may be in ministry, God is interested in it. We may be just doing something in the workplace, but God is as much as interested as that, as those who are in ministry. So it's not like God is saying, okay, let me look at those in ministry first, and then those at the workplace, no. And we also looked in chapter three that in most times, our attitude will show us our altitude in life, right? When we have the right workplace attitudes, when we display the fruit of the spirit in all that we do in whatever has been assigned to us, we will see God's blessing in our work and in everything that God has assigned for us, right? So any questions, any thoughts you have in chapter three, before we move to chapter four, any thoughts, any questions? Okay, so shall we move to chapter four? Is that okay? Yes, sir. All right. Okay, let's move to chapter four. Chapter four, we're talking about corporate vision, mission, values and culture, right? Now, this chapter starts with corporate vision, but what we will do is we will also translate all these principles, the mission, values, culture, we'll translate it even in the ministry, right? So how can we, as believers or those in ministry, have this vision, mission and value, values and culture that we must create for our workplace and for the ministry, okay? So what is a vision, right? I'm sure all of us know what a vision is. Vision is something that we wish to become as a personal in your personal life or as an organization. And it is something that is pursued over time. Remember that, you know, we all have a vision or we have a plan, hey, maybe 10 years from now, I want to see myself as a good worship leader or I want to see myself writing songs and praising God with these songs. So these are visions that God gives us or God may put it in your heart. 10 years from now, five years from now, I want to start my own small business and these are all pursued over time, right? We cannot wake up one morning and say, I want to be, you know, the best worship leader or I want to start writing songs. No, it is pursued over time. God takes us through that seasons and of pursuing the vision that he has for us. The mission describes how we're going to achieve the vision that we have, right? Remember the book of Proverbs, you know, we learned so much about, you know, hard work and diligence. We saw that lazy hands profits nothing. And so we may, we have a vision. How do I go and achieve that vision? That is called the mission, right? And we see the Lord Jesus did that so beautifully. But he had a vision, he knew what he has to do and he had a mission. He chose 12 people. He said, okay, this is what we're going to do. And he went about doing it. So there needs to be some work. And then there are values. Values stand for ethical standards and what the organization stands for, right? I'm sure all of us have worked in different companies and they have certain values, okay. As an organization, we believe in equality. As an organization, we believe in, you know, providing equal opportunities. So every organization has certain values. And, fourthly, the culture of the place, the workplace, the work environment, how people work together in the organization. Now, remember this, just like, you know, when you see in churches or ministries, different churches have different cultures. They have a different essence, right? They have a different taste, right? It does not mean that, you know, maybe we are part of a church.  No, every church has its own essence, its own culture. Now, the culture is always, it's formulated or it's built on the people in the organization. Of course, the leader, the pioneer is the one who sets the stage, and the people in the organization create the culture. So if you look at ministry, maybe some of us are pastors or even life group leaders, small group leaders, what we do and how we, you know, how we portray ourselves in the ministry will also show the culture, you know, it'll affect the culture of the church and of the group, the small group. Like for example, if, you know, as a leader, if there is somebody, not putting anybody down, but just giving an example. If there's somebody who speaks a lot, like he always speaking and always talking, it's most likely that, you know, even the people in the group will begin to start opening up and the group will be an active group, a lot of talking, a lot of, you know, talking and conversations happening. So the culture is something that we develop within the organization. So let's look at a few points as we study this. Corporate vision, mission, values and culture, right? Your vision influences productivity, right? Let's read Proverbs chapter 29 and verse 18. Proverbs 29, 18. Yes, could one of us please read that? Proverbs 29 verse 18, where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint, but happy he who keeps the law. Hi, man. Thank you, Abinas. So here the word revelation simply means inspired dream or vision and the writer here is saying, if there is no vision or there is no revelation, people are cast off restraint, which means if there is no vision, there's, you know, what vision does is it captures our imagination, right? It grips our heart, it fires our passion, it inspires action, it does so much in our heart. Last semester we studied about, you know, revivals, visitations and the moves of God. And one of them had a vision, you know? Remember we studied about that last semester? All these wonderful men and women of God, they had nothing with them. Some of them were well educated, some of them were not educated, but they did not stop them. When we have a vision, and if God gives us a vision, it doesn't matter if we are, you know, educated, uneducated, we can, we are accepted or not accepted in society. A vision is always something that grips our heart, it fires our passion, and we will always look to fulfilling that vision, right? A vision always results in productivity. We saw how these wonderful men and women of God in church history did such great things, started small, but ended up with just doing such great ministries. How is that? It is because of the vision that God put in their heart, right? Remember we studied about the Azusa Street Revival, William J. Seymour as a black person. He was put outside the Bible college. He could not even sit inside the class and nobody was willing to listen to him. But he had a vision in his heart and we studied that how, when he started that small center, that small church, and how God used him to impact thousands of lives, how did that happen? Vision brings productivity. Now the moment we don't have a vision, we will not have something to look at in the future. And when we don't have something to look at or to fulfill in our life, we don't become productive, right? So a vision is very important. Each one of us, we can, even as we are in the workplace and ministry, even in our personal lives, have visions, have inspired dreams, have things ahead, look at things ahead and say, okay, God, here is what I want to do. These are things that I feel in my heart that I can do and with your help, I can achieve these things. So we look ahead, right? And what does it do? It increases our productivity. I'll just share a few thoughts here. I remember I must have shared this in April, sorry, in July 2018, as a family, we came to the city of Mangalore and the church was about 8 to 10 people. And I was really excited, right? And the first thing we did, I remember, was, I asked all the 8 or 10 of us in the church to meet one day and I began to share with them the vision of the church. I said, this is the church. This is what we stand for. This is how we will deliver with integrity, excellence. We will stand for these things. We will avoid these things, right? This is what we will do. And I remember the eight, nine of them of church were just sitting and watching me wondering, why are we even having this meeting? And I began to tell them, this is how we will do outreaches. These are the events we will do. Saturdays will be worship evenings these are the weekends, the schools of ministry. And so I made everything. And what did I do? This was some vision that I had for the church. And I put it forward to the church and I said, okay, this is what we will do. And in one year, let's see what is our progress. And then every half-yearly, let's meet and discuss on what is our progress. And so we saw that after every month, we saw people started opening up. The eight, ten people who were in the church, they said they began to invite other people. There was suddenly a change in the atmosphere. There was a change. They were not just coming, sitting in church and going back. They felt that, hey, this is a vision of the church to reach out, to be solved, to be light. So I need to share the gospel summary. And slowly they began to invite families. So vision influences productivity. Second one, when we have a vision, write it, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, keep repeating it again and again and again. Let's read Habakkuk chapter two verse three and four. Habakkuk chapter two verse three and four. Let's go ahead. Then the Lord answered me and said, write the vision and make it plain on tablets that he may run, repeat. So the mission is yet for an appointed time. But at the end of it, he will see and it will not lie. Though it carries, wait for it because it will surely come, it will not carry. Amen. Thank you, Kennedy. So we see here in the book of Habakkuk, he's writing and he's saying, write your vision, make it plain on tablets, which means what? Repeat it. Write it down, read it, keep meditating on it. Now when we don't write down our visions or when we don't keep repeating it, it's easy to forget what God has spoken to us. Or it's easy to forget our vision, especially when times of, you know, maybe in the initial stage, we are working towards our vision and somewhere in between we may, you know, there are challenges, there are difficulties and that's where the test really stands. So the more we repeat the vision, even through the difficult times, we are focused and we say, God, I know these season that I'm going through, it's a difficult season, but the vision is still clear. It is fresh in our mind, it is fresh in our spirit. And also as leaders, it is very important that we communicate our vision to the people who you're working with, maybe your team or even those part of your organization. As a church or as a ministry, it's very important to communicate your vision. This is what we want to achieve as a church. This is what we want to achieve as a life group. This is what we want to achieve as an organization. And when you communicate that, when you write it down, when you display it to people, it's always fresh in the mind. One of the things that we do at APC is every Sunday we have video announcements. Every Sunday, the church congregation will hear the vision of the church every single Sunday. Why? Because we are reminding them, this is a vision. This is the bigger picture to be salt and light to the city of Bangalore and voice to the nation and the nations. So we are propelling them. We are constantly reminding ourselves also, to see the church, ourselves also, to keep ourselves motivated and say, okay, we need to do. We need so much more. The anointing of God, we need so much more to do ahead of us. And so it energizes us. One of the things that a lot of organizations do, I remember when I was working in the IT sector, I don't know if they do it now, but we used to do something called as the SWOT analysis. Opportunities and threats. And so when we do the SWOT analysis, we sit and look at, okay, in the year 2021, what was our strengths? What was our weaknesses? What are the opportunities? And what are the threats that we saw? And then we work on it. So if you want people to run with you, with your vision, repeat it. Repeat it again and again and again. And the same thing can be translated for our personal lives as well. So if God has put a vision in your heart, write it down. Write it down, maintain a book, write it down and keep reading it every now and then. Don't let circumstances and situations, just let that vision to fade away. Write it down, declare it, speak it, ask God to help you to empower you, to strengthen you. Maybe some of us, a lot of them have shared with me that post COVID, the pandemic from 2022, many of them have just discarded their vision because of all the challenges that is around. But God is bigger than all of that. God is able to help us achieve that vision. All he needs is that self-energizing and say, God, you're able to do it. And so vision is something that is needed to be repeated again and again. Third one, a compromised vision will leave people confused. Matthew chapter 6 verse 22 to 23. Let's read that, please. Matthew chapter 6, 22 and 23. Anyone? Yes. Matthew chapter 6, 22 to 23. The lamp of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.  If, therefore, the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness? Thank you, Maggie. So if we have basically what the writer here is saying is, if we have a clear vision, we have light. So if we have light, we have a clear vision, we know where to go. But if our vision is dark or it's blurred, we're not really sure where to go. Things are unclear. Should I take a left? Should I take a right? Should I just keep moving forward? And we don't know which part to take. And sometimes we may stumble at the wrong direction and we may remain in a place, in a wrong direction, in a place that is completely not in line with the vision that you have. And sometimes what happens is we may make decisions that are not aligned to the vision and the purpose of the organization. So when our vision is clear and our vision is clearly shared with people, communicated with people, then we have light. We know what step to take. When the focus, when there's no vision, the vision is blurred, everyone are doing their own things. What happens? Productivity drops. Why? Because everyone are not working on the same cause. The same vision is not there. And so very important is to re-estate, to clarify, to make things right. Make your vision clear. And share it with people. That's when the team also can work towards that. State your mission again, loud and clear. Now we saw what the vision is, but how do I achieve that vision is through the mission of doing the work. And so we have to state the mission. Yes, it's good to have the vision saying, okay, we want as a church or as a ministry, we want to see ourselves here. This is the vision. But how are we going to achieve that? It's a mission. And we cannot just have the vision, communicate the vision and tell them, this is the vision 10 years from now, this is how we want to be. But if we don't communicate the mission, they'll be wondering, okay, the vision is great, but how am I going to achieve that vision? How are we as a team going to achieve such a big vision? So the mission also needs to be communicated loud and clear. Let's read Luke chapter 4, 18 and 19. Luke 4, 18 and 19. Luke chapter 4, 18 and 19. The speed of the Lord is upon me because he has choose me to bring the good news to the poor. And he has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of the sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed and announce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people. Amen. Thank you. So the Lord Jesus here has come into this world. He's launching out into his earthly ministry. And what does he say? He reads the passage from Isaiah. He says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has chosen me to bring the good news to the poor. So he's stating the vision and now he's stating that vision loud and clear. Then he also backed up that vision with a mission to achieve it. What was the mission? He said, okay, let's choose 12 people. He chose 12 disciples. He was able to teach them, train them over the course of time. And it was quite apparent that if you wanted healing, you wanted miracles, you wanted freedom from bondage, the oppressed, the sick, the demon possessed. Those who were unwell, everyone who wanted freedom in life, they had to go to this one person named Jesus. A few months back he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me. This is the mission to proclaim liberty, set the captives, to recover sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed that the time of the Lord has come to save people. That's the vision. How did he go about doing it? The vision? He didn't, you know, Jesus didn't sit at home and say, okay, those who are oppressed, please come to my house. This is my address. No. He had to work for it. He chose 12 people. He went about fulfilling that mission that God has for him. So even as a vision is loud and clear, make the mission also loud and clear. Remember John the Baptist? He came with a mission. All of a sudden, there's 400 years of silence in Israel. And all of a sudden this man is coming in the desert and he's saying, prepare a way for the Lord. And he's, you know, baptizing people in the River Jordan. What does he say while he was coming? What does he say? Hear the voice of the one who's preparing the way of the Lord. What was the vision to prepare the way? What was the mission? You know, baptism by repentance and bringing people to the, to knowing that the repentance is required. And so follow through of the act of your vision is very important. There are a lot of people out of folks who have a vision but don't follow through. Now we cannot blame God for that, right? God, I had this vision but I could not achieve it. Maybe because of the pandemic. No, no. There's a lot of students who are very interested in learning music. They want to, you know, learn guitar or keyboard or whatever instrument. Now the vision is, okay, one day I want to play in church. That's a wonderful vision. It's great that God has given us. That vision needs to be backed up or followed through with corresponding action. So you've got to firstly have the instrument, purchase it if you don't have it, and sit and practice, maybe join classes.  You've got YouTube, you've got tutorials. You've got so much online that free material that you can learn from. Growing up, we used to look at others, how they're playing and we used to figure out, okay, what God is that. So it was not really easy. But now things are so easy. And, you know, when God has given us a vision, we need to follow through that with action. If God is calling us to start a business. So there needs to be an action. Not necessarily that we should, you know, quit our job and start immediately. No, plan through. Careful planning is very important. But you need to work towards that vision. And we see that the Lord Jesus did that. He declared his vision and he also followed through with a mission. John the Baptist did that. He says, this is a vision. God has called me to prepare the way. And how am I going to do that? By baptism of repentance. And he again raised up few disciples and was able to fulfill the vision that God had gave him. Even though he was just doing, his ministry was for six months. The Lord Jesus himself says, there's no one greater than that of John the Baptist. So it's not how long that vision is, but how faithful we are in completing that vision. Next point is values. Values are very important. Let's read 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 8. 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 8. If the trumpet makes a certain sound, who is prepared? Thank you, Kennedy. So during the ancient times, olden times, even in the Old Testament, the sound of a trumpet was always a sound of battle. It is to alert the people, right? To alert the, okay, you know, the enemy is coming or to alert for any kind of, you know, things ahead. High risk management. And so if you remember in the book of Exodus, as the people of Israel were going out, the people blew trumpets first, right? And even through leviticus and numbers, as they went through many battles, we see that there was trumpets blown. It was only to say that, okay, things are ahead are not right. We need to be geared up, ready for battle. Now, what happens if the battle, if the trumpet is not sounded clear? Imagine there's a trumpet sound, but it doesn't even sound like a trumpet or it's too low. Okay, was that a trumpet sound? Or do we need to get ready? There's uncertainty, right? And so here's what we're trying to bring it. When we are working in an organization or even setting up your own organization, set certain values, clarify what you stand for, right? Many organizations stand for different, you know, values. Some have good values. Some have bad values, right? Some are truthful. Some don't really, you know, they don't matter as long as the company is making their profit and they are making profits, it's all right. And some companies, they say, okay, honesty, some companies, it's okay to cheat people, but make sure that they'll be getting the sales, they're getting the business in. So values are very, very, very important. These values that you and I stand for, maybe as pioneers, will flow down to your team members, right? So many values, integrity, honesty, excellence, equality, dedication, hard work. These are different values that each one of us must carry. So for example, you're working in an organization and the organization, you know, does not have right values. So in the sense that it's okay to cheat and as long as the business is coming in, but here's where you take a stand. We cannot say, okay, anyway, the, you know, the organization values or cultures that people cheat. So I'll have to also do the same thing. No, we cannot say that. Remember that God is our, you know, our boss eventually. He's the main boss. So make sure that our values, if we're working for a company, if the values are good, work towards those values. But if those values are certain things that take you away from God, then stand for what God has called you for. Stand for the values that the Bible principles teach us, right? So some of our core values in APC is mentioned here on the next page. Some of the core values of APC, first one, integrity. Integrity is something that we uphold very, very strongly, right? Integrity over profit, right? So as an organization in APC, it's not about, you know, receiving funds and only, you know, doing all, you know, trying to receive funds from different, it's not about that. We value integrity to work with integrity, right?  No, integrity is number one. Be faithful in our attitude, integrity should be shown. Excellence, now as a church, this is something that we all strive at. We want to be excellent in what we do, right? Especially when we try new things, you know, 2020, we went into online Bible college. And so there was a lot of IT back-end work involved. You know, we know that, hey, I can't do a half-hour job because we as an organization stand for excellence, even as our, you know, our teaching, preaching, graphics, everything. What is in the back of our mind? Excellence. We're here to do our best, right? Three, we value people, right? Now, this whole, you know, rat race of, you know, making money and making the organization big and, you know, all these cultures and all of that that we try to instill in an organization. We forget that people are the organization, right? Even in ministry, if we look at all the things that we are doing, you know, which are important like graphics, video recording, IT work, all of that is important. But why are we doing all this? For people, right? Without the people, the ministry is nothing, right? Remember what Apostle Paul wrote? I love that. Apostle Paul writes and he says, you are my crown in heaven, right? He does not say the first missionary journey, the second missionary journey or the churches that I've planted is my crown. So when I go to heaven, I can say, God, these are the, in the first missionary journey, these are the places I've been second here. These are the number of churches started. These are the number of episodes that I've written. So accordingly, please bless me with the crown. No. He says, Paul says, you are my rejoicing in heaven. You are my crown, the people. So ministry and organization is about people. And so we are to value people and treat people well. The sad thing that we see is when ministers and leaders treat people according to their financial standing or how much they give to the Lord or how much they can contribute. That is a wrong way of dealing with people, especially in ministry. We are to value people. Whether they give to the Lord or no, that is secondary people. God has created them. God has a plan for them. So we value them. Yes, there are policies in place, we said, but the people are more important than the policies, right? And then some few, two more core values that we have as a church is creativity. We pursue the creativity in everything, you know, not just stuck to the same routine. We try to do come up with new ideas, creative ideas. Now, even when we look at the ministry as a whole at EPC, we've tried everything, coffee talks, youth meetings, and we continue to try a lot of things. So it's not like we have to do it this way. We try different evangelism ideas, different strategies, and we see what works best. So creativity is important. And finally, unity, what we accomplish together is more important than what we accomplish as than an individual's accomplishment. Now, in EPC, one of the things that we very sternly, you know, believe and we follow and we, you know, stand for is unity, right? So it's not about one person. It is about a team. Like for example, we have the Bible college going on, we have maybe about six staff. So it's not because of the staff, the Bible college is going on, the lecturing, the teaching stuff. It's not because of that. There's a team involved, there's IT teams involved, there is the graphics team involved who did all the promotion. So we all, as a church, we always believe in unity. Everyone is given the same honor and preference in a team. So it's a unity. It's not a one man's job. It's all of us working together. And so even now, these are values that have been set many years ago and we work towards it and we work as a team. And so none of us can say, okay, because of me, this was done or because of me, we accomplished this. No. So as a church, we know that, hey, all of us work as a team and this is a team effort. And so these are some of the core values we have plenty more, but just a few are here. And so even as you maybe planning to start your ministry or your own business, you can use these core values. Now, we may feel, okay, but my ministry is only five people or 10 people in my church. It's all right. When you set the stage now, you're setting the stage when there's five or 10 people. When it comes to maybe 50 or 100 people, you don't know, I have to worry about, oh, you know, we need to have a meeting. We need to share the core values. You've already done it. You've already done it in the ground stage. Your own congregation will know these are the values APC stands for. As you communicated to the congregation, your own congregation members, your own church members will know. Hey, these are the values of our church. So we will walk with integrity. We will walk in excellence. We honor people more than policies and more than what they can do for the church, but we honor them as people. So set these values. And as your ministry or your business grows, you'll find it easy because you've set these things in place. One of the things that is really important is to understand that when we set these values, people watch in a congregation. People watch. I'm sure you've heard of this. Many people may not remember your sermons that we have preached. They remember our lifestyle. So when people watch, they will learn. They will watch. Okay, this is something that we can see. And so that whole culture is automatically the values of the churches or the ministry or the organization. It automatically spreads within the people. So for example, there are people who may be talking back, gossiping about somebody else or talking bad about somebody else behind their back. When we have certain values and we've instilled it in our church members, maybe our church members will say, hey, no, we stand for integrity. We have certain values that we treat people with respect. We honor them, even though we may not agree to everything that they say, but we honor them, respect them. And so maybe the new people wonder, wow, this ministry or this organization really stands for their core values. So it's very important to set this in place. One of the things that we've done is taken printouts and stuck it in the church, in our office. So every time we pass by, we look at it and say, okay, we remember these are our values. Even as we fulfill the vision, maintain these values. Yeah, so let's go to the next point. Create a culture aligned to your vision, mission and values. Let's read Nehemiah chapter 2 and verse 20. Nehemiah chapter 2 verse 20. Nehemiah 2 verse 20. So I answered them and said to them, the God of heaven himself will prosper us. Therefore, his servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem. Amen. Thank you, Mangi. Thank you. Now, the story of Nehemiah is a powerful example of how we can have a vision. We work towards that vision. That means you take the mission 2 and 3, what are the values that we can set in the organization. Now, what we'll do is I'll just share a little bit about Nehemiah. And then we will pick up from certain principles and it's a wonderful study on the book of Nehemiah. We will pick up points from next class as well. But let me just bring a context of what we're going to do from the study of Nehemiah, right? Now, Nehemiah, the city of Jerusalem is destroyed. The Babylonians came, they've destroyed it. And now Nehemiah is working under a Persian king, right? And his work is a simple work, which was, he was a cup bearer. So every time the king wanted his refreshments or they were, you know, any dinner parties or any time, he had to bring, you know, cups and he had to make sure that everything was set in place. So that was his job, right? It was not something very difficult. But when he heard that the walls of Jerusalem have, the gates have been burned down, the walls have been broken. The Bible says that Nehemiah broke down and he wept. Now, here's the thing. Many of the Jews living in Babylon had heard the same news. Many of them heard the news. But for Nehemiah, it became a burden. It became something that is a vision in his heart. What was that vision? The vision was Jerusalem is my city. Jerusalem is a city of God. Jerusalem is a blessed city. It's God's blessing to us. But now the Babylonians have come, they've burned the gates down, they've broken the walls. There was a burden in his heart. What I want to go there and repair the gates and build the walls and restore it back to its former state. That was the vision.  It was a big vision, right? What are the hindrances? One, why should a Persian king give permission to a Jew to go and build the walls of Jerusalem? No, you know, the Persian king can just say no. No, you've got to work here. You can't go there. You can't do that. One, two, even if Nehemiah had the vision, he cannot go and build a wall alone. He can't repair the gates alone. He needs people. He can't just say, OK, I've got the burden, so I'll go and I'll do it myself. No, he can't do it alone. He needs a lot of people to build a wall and fix the gates. Three, who's going to provide the finances, the money and the material to be bought? How are we going to achieve that? Again, problem. Four, we don't have the skills to build the wall and the gates. We are not people who are skilled in that area. Nehemiah wasn't skilled in that area. And five was, of course, the king giving the permission. So there are plenty of hindrances for Nehemiah. But here's the thing, when we have a vision, we don't look at the hindrances, but we see the finished work in our mind. Yes, there may be 100 things that is against fulfilling that vision. But when a vision is in our heart and it's burning strong, we only see it in our mind's eye as completed. I'm sure Nehemiah may have gone back to his room after the day's work and he would have closed his eyes. He would have thought, now it's broken, but one day those walls will be built and the gates will be back to normal. The city of Jerusalem will be restored. Maybe he saw it in his mind's eye. That's what a vision does. It does not look at the limitations, but it looks at the possibilities. So we will stop here. Tomorrow, we'll pick up from the life of Nehemiah and how he was able... The vision, the vision, the mission and the values and the culture that he created. How this one man with that one vision got people together and completed the task in 52 days. It is not easy and so we will learn from that tomorrow. Any thoughts, any questions before we close? Is that okay? Is everyone able to track along? Is it something that is able to understand and apply in our lives? Let us close now. Could one of us please close in prayer? Rupa, is it okay if you can close for us? Okay, sir. Thank you. Father, God, we thank you. We bless your holy name this morning. Thank you for your presence in our midst, Lord. Thank you for teaching us the value of vision, mission, Father God, and how to carry on the vision with your grace and help, Lord God. Father, as we have learned your word, let your word be treasured in our hearts and give us the grace to put them into action and let it bear fruit in our lives in the ministries, in the call over our lives, Father God. We bless Father Foster Paul for sharing anointing even more and using for your glory as a family, as they serve you in Mysore, Lord. Let your kingdom come and you will be done in that place and be established in that place in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rupa. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Have a wonderful day ahead. I'll see you tomorrow. God bless.


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Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re-invent 2017, presented by AWS, Intel, and our ecosystem of partners. Hey, welcome back everyone. Live here in Las Vegas is theCUBE's exclusive coverage of AWS Amazon web services re-invent 2017, Amazon web services annual conference, 45,000 people here, five years in a row for theCUBE and we're going to be continuing to cover years and decades after, it's on a tear. I'm John Furrier, my co-student and man. Exciting times, one of the biggest themes here is AI, IoT, data, deep learning, deep lens, all the stuff that's been really trending has been really popular at the show and the person behind that, Amazon is Swami, he's the vice president of machine learning at AWS, among other things, deep learning and data. Welcome to theCUBE, good to see you. Good to see you. Thanks for coming on. You guys, you're the star of the show. Your team put out some great announcements. Congratulations, we're seeing new abstraction layers of complexity going away. You guys have made it easy to do voice, machine learning, all this great stuff. Yeah. What are you most excited about? I mean, so many good things. Take a child and what, I mean. I don't want to pick my favorite child among all my children, but our goal is to actually put machine learning capabilities in the hands of all developers and data scientists. That's why, I mean, we want to actually provide different kinds of capabilities right from like machine learning developers who want to build their own machine learning models. That's where SageMaker is an end to end platform that is lets people build, train and deploy these models in a one click fashion. That supports all popular deep learning frameworks. It can be TensorFlow, MXNet or PyTorch and we also not only help train but automatically tune where we use machine learning for machine learning to build these things. I mean, that's very powerful. And the other thing we are excited about is the API services that you talked about, the new abstraction layer where app developers who do not want to know anything about machine learning but they want to transcribe their audio to converts from speech to text or translate it or understand the text and or analyze videos. And the other thing coming from academia where I'm excited about is I want to teach developers and students machine learning in a fun fashion where they should be excited about machine learning. It's such a transformative capability. That's why actually we built a device meant for learning machine learning in a hands-on fashion. That's called deep lens. And we have like our developers right now in our readment where from the time they take to unbox to actually build a computer vision application to build hot dog or not hot dog they can do it in less than 10 minutes. I mean it's an amazing time to be a developer. Oh my God, swan swami. I've had so many friends that have sat through that session.  So they're super excited. Last year it was the Echo Dot and everybody doing skills. This year, deep lens definitely seems to be the one that all the geeks are playing with, really programming stuff.  Oh that's awesome, glad to hear. Talk about the culture at Amazon because I know in covering you guys for so many years and knowing being intimate with a lot of the developers and your teams you guys just don't launch products. You actually listen to customers. So you brought up a machine learning for developers. What specifically jumped out at you from talking to customers around making it easier? Was it, it was too hard? Was it or it was confined to hardcore math driven data scientists? Was it just a thirst and desire from machine learning?  In Amazon we don't build technology because it's cool. We build technology because that's what our customers want. Like 90 to 95% of our road map is influenced by what listening to customers. The other five to 10% is us reading between the lines and one of the things I actually, when I started playing with machine learning, having built a bunch of database storage and analytics products, what, when I started getting into deep learning and various things I realized it's a transformative capability of these technologies but it was too hard for developers to use it on a day to day fashion because these models are too hard to build and train or they didn't have the right level of abstraction. That's why we actually think of it as a multi-layered strategy where we cater to expert practitioners and data scientists. For them we have SageMaker and then for app developers who do not want to know anything about machine learning, they're saying I'll give you an audio file, I'll transcribe it for me or I'll give you text, get me insights or translated. For them we actually provide simple to use API services and so that they can actually get going without having to know anything about what is TensorFlow or PyTorch. So TensorFlow got a lot of attention because that really engaged the developer community in the machine learning, current machine learning because it was like, oh wow, this is cool. And then it got, I won't say hard to use but it was high end.  What was the driver? Our driver is, I mean in Amazon we have been using machine learning for like 20 years. I mean since the year of like 1995 we have been leveraging machine learning for recommendation engine, fulfillment center where we use robots to pick packages and then Alexa of course and Amazon Go. But one of the things we actually hear is while frameworks like TensorFlow or Apache MaxNet or PyTorch is cool it is just too hard for developers to make use of it. We actually don't mind our users use Cafe or TensorFlow. We want them to be successful where they take from idea to production. And when we talk to developers this process took anywhere from six to 18 months and it should not be this hard. So we wanted to do what AWS did to IT industry for compute storage and databases. We want to do the same for machine learning by making it really easy to get started and consume it as a neutrality. So that was our intent. Yeah, so many, I wonder if you can tell us, we've been talking for years about kind of the flywheel of customers for Amazon. What are the economies of scale that you get for the data that you have there? I think about all the training of all the machine learning, the developers. How do you, can you leverage the economies of scale that Amazon has in all those kind of environments? Oh, when you look at machine learning, machine learning tends to be mostly the icing on the cake. So even when you talk to like the expert professors who are the top 10 scientists in the world, the data that goes into the machine learning is going to be the determining factor for how good it is, in terms of how well you train it and so forth. So this is where data scientists keep saying the breadth of storage and database and analytics, offerings that exist really matter for them to build highly accurate models. And when you talk about not just the data, but actually the underlying database technology and storage technology really is important. And S3 is the world's most powerful data lake that exists that is highly secure, reliable, scalable and cost effective. And we really wanted to make sure customers like Digital Globe who stole high resolution satellite imagery on S3 and Glacier, we wanted them to leverage ML capabilities in a really easy one click fashion. That's- So I got to ask you about the roadmap because you say customers are having input on that. I would agree with you that would be true because you guys have a track record there. But I got to put the dots that I'm connecting in my mind right now forward by saying, you guys are telegraphing here. Certainly we heard more burners say it, and Andy, data is key and opening up that data. And we're seeing new relic here, sumo logic. They're sharing anonymous data from usage, workloads, really instructive. Data is instructive for the marketplace, but you got to feed the models from the data. So the question for you is, you guys get so much data. It's really a systems management dream. It's an application performance dream. You get more use case data. Are you going to open that up? And what's the vision behind it? Because it seems like you could offer more and more services. Actually, we already have. You look at X-rays and service that we launched last year, and that is one of the coolest capabilities. Even I'm a developer during the weekends when I write cool apps, being able to dive into specific capabilities of what are the performance insights, where is the bottleneck. It's so important that actually we are able to do things like X-raying into an application. So we are just getting started. I mean, the cloud kind of transformed how we are building applications. Now with machine learning, what is going to happen is we can even do various things like which is going to be the bottleneck or what kind of data sets.  You could literally reimagine applications that are once dominant with all the data you have if you opened it up and then let me bring my data in. Then that would open up a bigger aperture of data. Wouldn't that make the machine learning and then AI more effective? Actually, you already can do similar things with legs. Legs, for think of it as it's an automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, where we are pre-trained on our data, but then to customize it for your own chatbots or voice applications, you can actually add your own intents and several things. And we customize the underlying deep learning model specific to your data. So you are leveraging the amount of data that we have trained in addition to specifically tuning for us, so it's only going to get better and better to your part. It's going to happen. It's already happening. It's happening, yeah. So, Swami, great slate of announcements on the machine learning side. We're seeing the products get all updated. I wonder if you could talk to us a little bit about the human side of things because seeing a lot of focus, right. It's not just these tools, but it's the tools and the people putting those together. How does Amazon help the data scientists? Help retrain, help them get ready to be able to leverage and work even better with all of these tools. No, I mean, machine learning, we have seen some amazing usage of how developers are using machine learning. For example, Marinus Analytics is a nonprofit organization that is goal is to fight human trafficking. They use recognition, which is our image processing thing to actually identify persons of interest and victims and so that they can notify law enforcement officer, like Royal National Institute of Blind. They actually are using poly or text-to-speech to generate audio books for visually impaired. So, I'm really excited about all the innovative applications that we can do to simply improve our everyday lives using machine learning and it's such an early day. I mean, Swami, the innovation is endless in my mind, but I want to get two thoughts from you. One startup and one practitioner because we've heard here in theCUBE, people come in saying, I can do so much more now. I got my EMR, it's so awesome, I can do this. They're solving problems, so obviously making it easy to use is super cool, so that's one. I want to get your thoughts on where that goes next. And two startups. You're seeing a lot of startups retooling on cloud economics. I call it post-2013. They don't need a lot of money. They can hit critical mass. They can get product market fit earlier. They can get economic value quicker. So, they're changing the dynamics. But the worry is how do I leverage the benefit of Amazon? Because I think we know Amazon's going to grow and all clouds grow, especially you guys. How do I play with Amazon? Where's the white space? How do I engage, Joe, I just, and how do I, once I'm on the platform, how do I become the new relic? Or how can I grow my marketplace and differentiate because Amazon might come out with something similar. So, how do I stay in that cadence of growth if I'm a startup? I mean, you see in AWS, we have tens of thousands of partners, of course, like right from ISV, SSIs, and whatnot. So, I mean, software industry is an amazing industry where it's not like a winner-take-all market. You actually, for example, in the document management space, even though we have S3 and work dogs, it doesn't mean Dropbox and Box are not successful either or in so forth. So, I think what we provide in AWS is the same infrastructure for any startup or for my team. Even though I built probably many of the underlying infrastructure. Nowadays, for my AI team, it's literally like a startup except I probably stay in an AWS building, but otherwise, I don't get any internal APIs. It's the same API, so EC2-S3. It's a level-paying field. The other way, everyone should know, he wrote DynamoDB as an intern, or what was that? And then, SQS, Rockstar techie here. So, it's great to have, you're what we call a tech athlete. Great to have you on. No white space, just go for it. It's the innovation is the key. And the key thing, I mean, what we have seen amazing startups you've done exceptionally well is they intently listen to customers and innovate and really look for what it matters for their customers and go for it. All right, the biggest buzz of the show that you're from your group, what's your biggest buzz from the show here? Deep Lens? Deep Lens. Deep Lens has been our idea was to actually come up with a fun way to learn machine learning. And machine learning, it used to be, even until recently, actually, as early as last week, it was actually an intimidating thing for developers to learn. While there is, it's all the buzz. It was not really straightforward for developers to use it. So we thought, hey, what is the fun way for developers to get engaged and build machine learning? And that's why we actually concede Deep Lens so that you can actually build fun applications. I talked about hot dog, not hot dog. I'm personally going to be building what I call as a bear cam because I live in the suburbs of Seattle where we actually have bears visiting our backyard, digging our trash. I want to actually have Deep Lens with a pre-trained model that I'm going to train to detect bears that it sends me a message through SQS and SNS, so I get a text. All right, so here's an idea we want to do. Maybe your team can build it for us. Cube cam, we put the deep lens here and then as anyone goes by up there, Twitter follower, the cube, they can send me a message. Swamming, great stuff, Deep Learning. Again, more goodness coming. That's awesome. What are you excited about? What are you most excited about? I think if you see, in Amazon, we have a phrase called, it's day one. Even though we are a 22 year old company, I jokingly tell my team that it's day one for us except we just woke up and we haven't even had a cup of coffee yet. So, I mean, it is, we had just crashed the surface of machine learning and there is so much stuff to do. I mean, super excited about this space. And your goals for this year is what? What's your goals? Our goals for this year was to put machine learning capabilities in the hands of all developers of all skill levels. I think we have done pretty well so far, I think. All right, well congratulations. Swamming here on the cube, Vice President of Machine Learning and a lot more. All those applications that were announced Wednesday live with the deep learning, the AI and the deep lens, all part of his innovative team here at Amazon. Changing the game, what's the cube doing our part bringing data to you, video and more coverage? Go to siliconangle.com for all the stories, wikibon.com for research and of course the cube.net. I'm John Furrier, Stu Miniman. Thanks for watching, we'll be right back.