We have to be rid of this idea that just because your persecution isn't as bad as someone else's persecution that therefore it doesn't count as persecution. It's important that you understand what persecution is because when you understand that you're being persecuted it does two things. It helps you to prepare yourself spiritually so that you can stand strong under the persecution but it also encourages you to know that there is a privilege in persecution. It's the fellowship of his sufferings. If they persecuted the Lord Jesus they're going to persecute you. That's the fellowship of his suffering. That's to truly understand his ways by way of suffering. Now I'm not saying that the believer's life should be one of misery but all of us will face conflict of one kind or another. All of us should at some point endure some kind of persecution and again this allows us to prepare spiritually and it also encourages us to know that greater glory is coming because when persecution comes upon your life so does glory. Glory and persecution come hand in hand and I'll show you that a little bit later but first let's look at the various different kinds of persecution there are four of them. Number one insults yes this is a form of persecution. Matthew chapter 5 verse 11 and 12 says this, God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers be happy about it be very glad interesting that he says that for a great reward awaits you in heaven and remember the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way so again this idea that something doesn't count as persecution because others in other parts of the world are being persecuted more severely that's just not biblical. When you're insulted for the sake of the gospel that is a form of persecution when people call you a bigot when they call you narrow-minded when they call you ignorant or old-fashioned that is a form of persecution it's quite possible that you're the only one in your family who serves the Lord maybe you're the only one with your last name who's actually going to church who's actually serving God who actually believes on the Lord Jesus and it can become difficult especially when you come to family gatherings and there are all these people around you who are mocking you who are who are verbally insulting you who even behind your back speak things about you like oh they think they're better than us or oh they got really weird or oh they're in a cult that's another thing they might say they might say that you're in a cult especially if you insist on holiness think about the fact that Christians are portrayed in the media as being these bumbling old-fashioned fools who don't know anything about the real world and these types of insults these types of how shall I say perspectives on your character perspectives on your personality perspectives on you these are actually forms of persecution the scripture says in Luke 626 what sorrow awaits you who are praised by the crowds for their ancestors also praised false prophets what a warning here what sorrow awaits you who are praised by the crowds now this doesn't mean that we should have a poor reputation in the world in fact the scripture is very clear on the standard that the believers should meet we shouldn't have bad reputations but if we're persecuted for righteousness sake then there is great reward but when we're celebrated by the world that's when you know things are probably a little bit out of line that's actually a really good indicator if you're a preacher and you're watching this if the people of the world constantly agree with you if the people of the world celebrate everything you say if the people of the world are never offended by the truth that comes out of your mouth when you're standing in that pulpit then it might be time to start preaching the gospel when we are persecuted in the form of insult there is actually reward for this now the scripture says god blesses you when people mock you and when they lie about you when they persecute you when they say all sort of evil things about you why because you are my followers now not because you're super religious and hyper critical not because you're sad and stoic and super serious and a lot of believers think that the more spiritual they are that the meaner they should become or the less approachable they should become or the more stoic they should be don't confuse stoicism for spirituality a lot of Christians think that if we're to be deeply spiritual we got to be serious we have to be mean we have to be harsh we have to be rude we have to be angry we have to be off put by everything around us no that's not spirituality but if we're persecuted not for being weird not for being mean not for being hypocrites if we're persecuted for being actual followers of christ that's when there's a reward many times people are of the impression that just because they claim christianity and people don't like them that that's a form of persecution but many times it's because people live like hypocrites that the world doesn't like them but if you are actually being persecuted because you're a follower of christ if you're actually being persecuted for righteousness sake if they're actually speaking things against you specifically because you're doing things the way scripture teaches you to do it well then there is a blessing that comes on that so what sorrow awaits indeed those who are praised by the crowds that is a good indication that you probably aren't on the right path but when you begin to walk on that narrow path people say oh that's a bigot now people tell me all the time you're very narrow minded i say yes well jesus said narrow is the way so number one is insults that is the first form of persecution and again just because it's not a violence or death just because it's not a more severe form of persecution does not mean that it's not a legitimate form of persecution let me just say this and this may upset some people but that's okay we need to attack some religious thinking here i don't attack people i address problems in thinking and so sometimes people say things like that well you know you shouldn't complain people people suffer on the other side of the world in much more severe ways and really that's a powerless religious superstitious virtue signaling ideology and really what what it is ultimately is its spiritual pride it's this idea that that we should criticize those who are maybe a little hurt or maybe struggling with persecution in the form of insults look just because someone else has it worse doesn't mean that you don't have it bad so it's okay to acknowledge insults as a form of persecution those who are spiritually prideful might say well you haven't suffered as much as me that's not truly persecution but the scripture is quite clear that you can be insulted and that still count as a form of persecution now watch this now let me know in the comments actually if you're watching live or on replay let me know if you've experienced this form of persecution whether in your family among your friends at work in school and so forth number two is rejection now this one is a little more severe because people who insult you don't always necessarily reject you they may mock you they may even somewhat joke about you right there in front of you and behind your back but another form of persecution is outright rejection and in fact many of you are living under this many of you aren't even allowed at your family gatherings because you love Jesus many of you are afraid to even fly back and go home because of your faith in Jesus many of you have been disowned by parents and siblings and aunts and uncles because you love Jesus I for example have an uncle who I love dearly and I remember great childhood memories oh my goodness we had great times together and he's labeled me as a a fraud as a hypocrite as I mean he's he's just very much against what I do for the Lord now that of course hurts but I recognize that that rejection comes not because of anything that I'm doing that's wrong it's rejection that comes because I'm following the way of Jesus and perhaps you too are experiencing something like this maybe you have a parent who won't talk to you maybe you have a child who won't talk to you but it's outright rejection Luke 10 16 says this then he said to the disciples anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me anyone who rejects you is rejecting me what comfort in those words of the Lord Jesus anyone who rejects you is rejecting me and anyone who rejects me is rejecting God who sent me so when people reject you for righteousness sake and let me be clear I have to say this again because many times people get this confused I'm not saying that if you're a Christian and you're rejected that you're being rejected on behalf of Christ no because sometimes we do things that are deserving of rejection sometimes we behave in ways that are not very Christ like but if you're being rejected because of your faith in Christ you're being rejected because of your love for God well then there's reward for you because you're embracing him despite others rejecting you they don't want you let me just be honest with you they don't want you to have influence in society people don't want Christians to have influence in the school systems in the workplaces in culture they don't want us to have the say they don't want us to have any influence why because they don't like the truth in John 3 the scripture tells us very clearly that they reject the light simply because they love the darkness now you may be saying I'm really discouraged because I'm rejected I'm really discouraged because I'm not allowed around anywhere I'm really discouraged because people don't want me to be where they are simply because I love Jesus but I want you to think about this you may in fact be the only one in your family who loves the Lord the way you love him now I have been blessed to come from a spiritual heritage I'm a fourth generation Christian third generation preacher now this doesn't mean that I don't have family members who dislike me I have several family members who will have nothing to do with me they absolutely do not like me and you know they're ashamed of what it is that I do as an evangelist but if I look at my spiritual heritage I see I had you know great great grandparents who eventually had children who came to the cross and they were saved and it affected generations positively my grandpa's a pastor my dad's a pastor I'm an evangelist my brother's a pastor my brother-in-law is in ministry my sister's in ministry right I have family in ministry now you may look at my life or the lives of people like me and you may say I wish I had that I'm really really discouraged in not having that generational blessing I'm really discouraged because I wish I had praying grandparents I wish I had saved parents I wish I had a family system that supported my faith I wish I wish I wish that I was blessed with spiritual heritage let me encourage you with this you may not have a spiritual heritage yet you may be the first in your generations to follow Jesus and that may be discouraging that may be difficult but I want you to be encouraged in knowing this even though you may not have a spiritual heritage yet you can be the one who establishes that faith for generations to come you can be the one who breaks that line you can be the one who breaks the power of the enemy you can be the one to stake take a stand for your family name and say from this day forward we will serve the Lord that can be you John 15 19 through 20 says this the world would love you as one of its own if you belong to it but you are no longer part of the world I chose you to come out of the world so it hates you do you remember what I told you a slave is not greater than the master since they persecuted me naturally they will persecute you and if they had listened to me they would listen to you so if they persecuted Jesus think about the fact that Jesus is perfect we're talking sinless perfection he lived a life flawlessly he never once disobeyed God he never once committed an act of sin even had a sinful thought he walked in absolute perfection and they crucified him so the more godly you become the more like Jesus you become the more that persecution begins to intensify on you people come against you because you walk closer to that light and that light irritates the darkness in their spiritual eyes so number one is insults number two is rejection this is something that many of us face so these are the first and I would actually say I think it's safe to say that there are varying degrees of persecution and I would put insults on the lower end of the spectrum this is not to say that it doesn't count this is not to say that it doesn't hurt but I would say that insult that's probably the first layer of persecution now we here in the united states I don't know what the situation is in every country in the world but we here in the united states you know there was a there was a we used to be a christian nation despite what people might say that's just a historical fact we were a christian nation and so there was a time and a day when christ was celebrated when his teachings were the center of our culture but now we've kind of shifted from that and so what's begun to happen now is we've moved from being insulted to being rejected and now we're moving into number three especially you here in the united states pay very close attention it's gone from insults first they started to criticize the bride of christ in tvs and movies on radio and magazines and culture it became in vogue to criticize christians and to label them as you know these these hate filled people so that's number one we went from insults and now we shifted to rejection where they're being they're pushing us from society they don't want us to have to do with anything outside society they want us completely out so insults then rejection and number three this is what we're moving into is oppression this is where they limit your movement with imprisonment they limit your speech with censorship and they limit your gathering with government control does this sound familiar to you they limit your movement with imprisonment they limit your speech with censorship and they limit gathering with government control now you may say well that's not happening because you know my church they they they're actually partnered with the systems of this world look if your church is not being persecuted if your ministry is not being persecuted you have to begin to do some evaluation to look at what you're preaching because in this culture when you preach the gospel and you shine that light you are going to cause major irritation and offense it's impossible to not do that especially in today's climate cultural climate now this is not to say that we should set out for the purpose of offending nor is it our goal to make anyone upset the goal is to communicate the truth and if that upsets or offends people while we're doing that then so be it but in this climate in this cultural climate in this nation and in several nations of the world when you preach the true gospel it stirs something in people there's a spiritual agitation that begins to take place and that's precisely because they don't want to hear the truth because they love deception they don't want to see the light because they love darkness and we're going to begin to see more and more of this look i don't want to sound like an alarmist you know me i'm not i can i call them conspiracy christians with their spiritual tinfoil hats i don't think everything's a demon i don't think everything's a curse i take a very biblically balanced approach to spirituality i love the holy spirit his power and so forth but let me just tell you straight up we are going to begin to see people imprisoned here in the united states for what they say that day is coming and it's coming quickly in fact there are already some hints of it happening happening now i've heard some stories i you know there's two sides to many stories so it's not quite that blatant yet but indeed it is now here it is happening and it is happening even in subtle ways there will be a day and it's coming very soon hear me now please there will be a day and it's coming soon and i pray that things change i pray that we see revival i pray that that we begin to influence the culture in such a way that there's a shift and i believe that that can happen but if things continue down this road and i'm not prophesying i'm just making an analysis of the trajectory of society if you look at the way things are going now i'm predicting that we will begin to see pastors imprisoned here in the united states not for doing something but for simply speaking something that they will say should not be said under the label of hate speech they will try to control the preaching of the truth and we need to be ready for it people will be imprisoned for preaching the gospel not only that you're going to see a stronger censorship come on the even this i don't even know how much longer we can use these social media platforms i mean i love that we can use them i'm all for it i think i want to use them for as long as possible but there may come a day again i don't want to sound like an alarmist but there may come a day where they're going to begin to kick christians off the platform there i think is coming a day even sooner than we think where we won't be able to pray for the sick on live streams we won't be able to pray for the sick on camera or in videos because that will be considered we're labeled as practicing medicine and they'll take the medical route am i prophesying this no but i'm beginning to see trends i'm beginning to see things form and this is a form of persecution it is oppression they are trying to limit your gathering they're gatherings with government control we saw a little bit of this during the lockdowns and you may say brother david are you getting political well to some degree you can't separate the politics from persecution because it's always going to be a system in the world that brings forth that persecution now it just so happens to be that in this day and age in this generation that the governments are the ones doing the persecuting and that's how it's been typically throughout history so while this isn't a political observation this is a spiritual one there are still some political factors at play you think that we saw something during the lockdowns that was a test run again you may say david i think that now you're getting into conspiracy theories i'm just telling you like i see it and we're praying against it we're praying that the gospel continues to go forward but we will see an increase in this type of oppression and i believe there can be revival but if things continue down the way that they're going we will see that use of power to come against the church use of oppression we see an example of this in acts chapter five verses 17 through 29 the high priest and his officials who were Sadducees were filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail but an angel of the lord came at night opened the gates of the jail and brought them out then he told them go to the temple and give the people this message of life so now they were imprisoned for this so at daybreak the apostles entered the temple as they were told and immediately began teaching i love this when the high priest and the officials arrived they were convened the they convened the high council the full assembly of the elders of israel then they sent for the apostles to be brought from jail for trial so they fully expect them to still be in their cell but when the temple guards went to the jail the men were gone so they returned to the council and reported the jail was securely locked with guards standing outside but when we opened the gates no one was there when the captain of the temple guard and the leading priests heard this they were perplexed wondering where where would all end they're basically getting frustrated now they're saying wait a minute when is this gonna stop okay we we they're causing trouble by preaching we put them in jail we leave them in there and now we come to convene and we want to talk to these guys and suddenly they're not there when will this all end verse 25 then someone arrived with startling news i love this i wish i could see the look on their faces when they heard this so here here here these high priest and officials um this high priest and his officials have have have locked these ministers of the gospels in jail and now they're convening and they're saying bring us bring us those those rebellious men bring them here the guards go to get them from the jail and they say hey they're gone i wish i could have seen their faces when that happens so verse 25 then someone arrived with startling news the men you put in jail are standing in the temple teaching the people doing the very thing that you locked them up for the captain went with his temple guards and arrested the apostles but without violence for they were afraid the people would stone them then they brought the apostles before the high council where the high priest confronted them we gave you strict orders never again to teach in this man's name he said instead you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about him and you want to make us responsible for his death but peter and the apostles replied we must obey god rather than any human authority listen here the moment that what people tell you to do even those in authority the moment what they tell you to do directly contradicts the clear teachings of scripture you have to say we must obey god rather than any human authority so that's how we respond to that oppression now this isn't quite violence yet and you notice here even in the text that we read that they arrested these men without violence so we have insults this is where they speak against you or behind your back rejection this is where they begin to push you out of family gatherings they push you out of society they push you out of places of influence then there's oppression this is more on the offensive now where they're limiting movement with imprisonment limiting speech with censorship and limiting gathering with government controls now number four this is when things get really bad and i say bad i mean i understand that on this side of eternity it looks really bad but from the perspective of heaven it's it's an opportunity to really really have our faith tested number four is violence now i don't know if this will happen in our lifetime here in this nation it's definitely happening in many parts of the world i mean i could name country after country here where there there's there's such violence that people have to have their services underground and they have to have their bible studies underground and and this is actually happening look persecution and and martyrdom that's not something that just happened in the early church age guys this is happening right here right now people are being martyred for their faith today people are being persecuted for preaching the gospel today people are being beaten violently so today because of the name of jesus our brothers and sisters are standing against persecution in many parts of the world this is why we have to pray for the persecuted church this is why we have to lift them up and ask that god would give them strength i heard something quite convicting i don't remember exactly what nation they were from but someone who had endured great persecution had commented that well we appreciate the prayers of you praying for us we actually pray for you because sometimes and sadly this is the truth when there is no persecution it's very difficult to see who's truly committed to christ so insults that's the first i should say level of intensity of persecution and many of you are experiencing insults and that that is a test of faith and there's rejection that is a test of faith oppression that is a test of faith and then we see violence look at this example here very very very famous portion of scripture acts chapter seven i'm going to read verses 54 through 60 watch this now act seven when they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they gnashed at him with their teeth but he being full of the holy spirit gazed into heaven and saw the glory of god and jesus standing at the right hand of god and said look i see the heavens open and the son of man standing at the right hand of god think about this then they cried out with the loud voice stopped their ears and ran at him with one accord and the feet of the young man at and excuse me i skipped the portion verse 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him and the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named saul we talked about this on the stream i did on the life of saul who is paul the apostle and they stoned steven as he was calling on god and saying lord jesus receive my spirit then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice lord do not charge them with this sin and when he had said this he fell asleep steven the martyr preached the truth he spoke words that pierced the hearts of the religious leaders he spoke words that deeply convicted the listeners he didn't hold back he was too filled with boldness compassion and god's love to hold back and he declares these words and those listening to him were so deeply convicted so deeply troubled by the truths that he spoke that they placed their hands over their ears began to cry and scream and began to stone him and in the middle of him being stoned in the middle of him being persecuted cries out lord jesus receive my spirit he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice lord do not charge them with this sin what a privilege it would be to be tested in this way i'd like to think i'd say i'd like to think that this is how i would respond i often asked the lord i said lord if i'm ever in the situation give me the privilege to endure persecution in a way that would bring you glory i'd like to think i would respond this way i'd like to think i would be able to have such boldness and faith and one of the things that we should note here is found in verse 56 look i see the heavens open and the son of man standing at the right hand of god you realize that in the other references to jesus being at the right hand of god we see him seated at the right hand of god and here we see jesus standing at the right hand of god why was jesus standing perhaps he was standing out of compassion as a parent would rise as their child falls and scrapes their knee perhaps jesus stood to look upon his child in pain maybe it was the lord honoring his servant by standing perhaps he was standing to welcome him whatever the reason this is certainly a unique description of that heavenly place the right hand of god fellow believers around the world are beaten they're tortured they're killed paul was beheaded peter was crucified upside down because by the way he said he was not worthy he was not worthy he says he says he was not worthy to die in the exact same way as jesus died so he said crucify me upside down historically it's believed that andrew was also crucified thomas was killed by spears that matthew was stabbed to death in ethiopia it's believed that james was stoned and clubbed to death james was stoned and clubbed death simon the zealot as is consistent with his character was killed after refusing to make a sacrifice to an idol i could just picture that john the revelator the author of the book of revelation was boiled in oil and survived maybe maybe have the same faith i you know paul said i pray you're just like me except for these chains so we should never pray persecution on fellow believers but if it just so happens to be their circumstance we ought to pray for strength and even if we never face this kind of violence we should pray for that kind of faith even if we never face this level of persecution we ought to pray we ought to pray that we have this same devotion that same love for the lord jesus same passion for his name to be able to cry out jesus is lord even when people are telling you to not even speak his name lest they kill you lord give us the privilege to have that kind of faith give us the privilege to know the fellowship of your sufferings now i've heard people manipulatively use our fellow suffering brothers and sisters in christ for example when people weren't allowed to gather in church i actually heard this and i i oh man i i i can tell i could tell you i could tell you if i could tell you anything i could tell you this the holy spirit was so grieved at the lack of discernment at the at the thought that they they believe themselves to be so clever as to say something so foolish i heard people actually say things like well you know people are actually being killed for their faith don't complain just because you can't gather i thought first of all that's that's manipulative that's manipulative what they were trying to do with that phrasing but i thought no shouldn't that be just the opposite that many were able to lay down their lives and they were able to pay in their blood we didn't even want to pay fines we were we were afraid of being sued they they they didn't fear being killed well people might criticize me they could criticize us they crucified them no my friend we owe it to the early church we owe it to the martyrs we owe it to our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world who are now facing violence for their faith in christ jesus we owe it to them to endure insults to endure rejection to endure oppression and obey god rather than man and if we ever find ourselves in this circumstance and i pray you don't look if i'm being honest i pray i never find myself in a situation like this i don't want that but i pray that if it was ever god's will for me that he would give me the strength to endure it in a way that glorified him first peter 414 says if you are insulted because you bear the name of christ you will be blessed watch this now watch this now for the glorious spirit of god rests upon you persecution attracts glory you think about the early church and how they walked in such power you think about the parts of the world where there's such heavy persecution it always seems that with the intensification of persecution comes the intensification of demonstration of power and when we begin to face that kind of resistance there's something about that kind of resistance that brings forth great glory now let me tell you what i think it is and i can only speculate based upon what i know about the scripture i could be wrong but this is what i speculate when i look at scriptures like this i mean think about how stevens face begin to shine when they became angry with him that glory manifested when there was resistance to what he was saying and so what i think is happening is that when we are persecuted we're sharing in the lord's suffering we're fellowshiping with him in that way the fellowship of his suffering and i think that when we endure persecution it does something to our character it tests our faith in a way it refines us like gold and it removes the fires of persecution remove impurities from the gold that is our faith and when we face that kind of resistance it does something in our character and in our nature that causes us to become so like jesus that the glory of god can rest on us we are hear me now we are never more like jesus than when we glorify god in the midst of suffering we are never more like jesus than when we glorify god in the midst of our suffering we are never more like jesus than when we love those who persecute us i want to see that glory take that as an opportunity when men revile you and reject you and seek to oppress you and seek to physically harm you take it as the opportunity to fellowship with his suffering to know him in that way i really do sense a strong anointing right now and i want to pray with you i want to ask the lord to give you strength i want to ask the lord to give you strength under persecution and i want to ask him to cause you to rejoice knowing that no matter what level of persecution you're facing that there's great reward for that so here's what i want you to do in the comment section right now whether you're watching live on replay write these two simple words strengthen me let that be your prayer to the lord strengthen me god give us the privilege of glorifying you even when everything is falling apart father i thank you you that you're touching your people with power from on high and lord i pray that we would glorify you in the midst of suffering cause us to be strengthened by the might of your spirit cause us to be so focused on eternity that no matter what we face on this earth we would remain encouraged we thank you lord for that resurrection life which flows through us we thank you for that power that rests on us and now we pray lord give us the privilege of the fallowship of your suffering thank you for the privilege of persecution however we're facing it thank you for the opportunity to glorify you may we stand strong in this hour in the mighty name of jesus we pray and i want you to say it because you believe it say amen now listen to me just because the world is getting darker doesn't mean that the gospel doesn't shine bright the gospel still has power the gospel is an everlasting light and it shines bright even in dark times especially in dark times so let's be rid of this defeated mentality this victim mindset that says lord i don't want to suffer get me out of here and look as i said it's not my prayer that you should suffer but it is my prayer that if if you should suffer that you would be strengthened in that suffering that you would glorify god in the way that you suffer now we as believers have a responsibility and please hear me now because if you're a professing christian if you claim to love the lord you have a responsibility all of us do we all have a responsibility to spread the gospel of jesus christ all around the world you must you must you must spread the gospel even when people persecute you for it and one of the ways that you can help spread the gospel is by standing with this ministry look you may look around the world some of the things that are happening in the culture in the nations even 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Supplies is an example of a deferral adjusting entry. It occurs when cash is paid before supply's expense is incurred. Let's look at an example. Assume on January 1, Morrissey purchases recording studio supplies for $2,000. Let's answer the following questions. What is the journal entry on January 1? Is this an adjusting journal entry? What are the balances on the unadjusted trial balance for supplies and supplies expense? The journal entry on January 1 is a debit to the asset account supplies and a credit to the asset account cash for $2,000. This is not an adjusting entry because there's an underlying transaction that happened on January 1. So the unadjusted trial balance for supplies at the end of the month is still $2,000. As of yet, no supply expense has been recorded. Let's assume that $1,500 of supplies were used up during the month. What is the adjusting entry on January 31st? Well, the adjusting entry on January 31st is a debit to the expense account supplies expense and a credit to the asset account supplies for $1,500. At the end of the month, Morrissey has used up $1,500 of a supplies asset. When we use up assets, we create expense. So now the account balances are correct. The asset supplies has an adjusted balance of $500 and the expense account supplies expense has a balance of $1,500 for January. Okay, sometimes we might face a question where the amount of supplies used is not given to us. For example, the question might have been phrased this way. Assume that Morrissey has $500 of supplies on hand at the end of the month. How much supplies have been used? Using our T account, we can see that we had $2,000 of supplies available at the beginning of the month and now we only have 500 remaining. So we must have used $1,500 of supplies. Once we know how many supplies were used up, we can record the adjusting journal entry and post them to the ledgers to arrive at the correct balances for supplies and supplies expense.


please have a roll call commissioner Conway here Dawson here spellman here i can't hear you peter but i see you speaking low greenberg here maxwell here nielson here chair shifrin here we now move on to uh and no one's absent are there any statements of disqualification is anybody in the audience does anybody want to do oral communications is there anybody in the audience who um wants to speak during oral communications chair there are two members of the public on the line if any member of the public wishes to address the board at oral communications please press star nine to raise your hand i don't see any raised hands okay let's move on to approval of the minutes uh from october 14th 2020 are there any comments on the minutes chair we're requesting maybe continued by me staff is requesting that you continue approval of the minutes to the next regular meeting oh okay um any objection to continuing the minutes would somebody like to move to continue the minutes to the next meeting i'll make a motion to continue the meeting minutes until the next planning commission hearing there's a second all second i need any discussion can we have a roll call vote please commissioner conway hi dawson hi spellman hi greenberg hi maxwell nielson hi shifrin the motion to continue the minutes to the next meeting passes unanimously we now move on to public hearings 238 carbon arrow drive uh file number cp 19 0111 slope variation design permanent invariance to construct a single family dwelling on a slope exceeding 30 percent to the second floor that exceeds the maximum floor area permitted on a substandard lot can we have a staff report please yes good evening this is ryan bayne senior planner um let's see so this proposal is for a design permit slope variance and variance to allow for the development of a 3273 square foot single family home and attached garage on a vacant site zone for a single family home project was last heard the planning commission on june 4th of 2020 the project was continued indefinitely due to a concern about the proposed categorical exemption from sika that was being proposed as part of the project although the site is not mapped for a sensitive habitat the site is within a mile or so of known habitats for several listed species and is adjacent to an open space open space area so based on that proximity the majority of the commission at that meeting determined that the project um could not be considered exempt from sika without a biotic investigation ruling out the impact of the project on the potential presence of of species and that a biotic review should be required a biotic report was completed by albion environmental in june of 2020 the report indicated the presence of the san francisco dusky footed wood rat nest within the project area and this is a species that is listed as a species of special concern by the california department of fish and wildlife so an initial study and mitigated negative decks were prepared confirming that the project would result in an impact to the nest but that mitigation measures would reduce that impact to a less than significant level so the mitigation measures require a pre construction survey delineation of a buffer zone around those nests and development and implementation of a wood rat relocation plan in consultation with the california department of fish and wildlife if it is not possible to avoid one or more nests during construction so the environmental review um has also included standard mitigation measures regarding the timing of tree pruning and removal in order to avoid impacts to nesting birds and bats and all these mitigation measures um that were presented as part of the mitigated neg deck have been included as conditions of approval as conditioned the project meets all the required site area standards and the findings uh for the approval of the design permit variance and slope variance the staff is recommending approval based on the findings and the conditions of approval provided with your staff report that concludes my presentation i'm available for any questions thank you very much to any commissioners have quite uh questions of staff none i'm going to open the public hearing are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this matter you have up to three minutes again if any member of the public wishes to address the board on this matter please press star nine to indicate that you want to be recognized i don't see anyone's raised their hand chair okay i'll give another few seconds and then i will close the public hearing no members of the public who want to testify i'm going to bring back the item i'm going to close the public hearing bringing the item back to the commission for discussion consideration and action do any commissioners want to uh comment on on this project help if the uh screen was turned back to the commission i could see hands uh commission and dawson there we go sorry couldn't find my mute um i i just wanted to just have a couple brief comments about this um and i want to thank my fellow commissioners and staff um for um supporting this project going back um for the environmental review i think as as the planning commission i think one of our charges is is really to be thoughtful um about all projects but certainly projects um in the wild land sort of urban interface and um i think going having this go through the process i think this is just a great example of the process working right went back to environmental review there were were concerns and now that is integrated into this project going forward so i just want to thank the commissioners who supported this going back for the full secret review and just encourage us all to be especially thoughtful moving forward when there's these projects in these wild land urban interface and have them go through the process like this one so that they can move forward so um thank you other commissioners want to comment on the make any comments on the on this project or its analysis you know and i'm just going to say if um say if you were along the lines of what commission and dawson said i think for me this is a reason why it's important that these kinds of projects that need um that you know have potential effects on the environment either through slopes or through the urban wildland interface come before the commission and have an independent review and not simply have the staff determining whether there are issues or not not that the staff doesn't have a significant interest in these issues but that it's important to have an independent analysis as well from people who haven't worked with the staff through the process so i um want to appreciate the work that the staff did and i i think it has made for a better project and i'm happy to be supportive of it at this time is there are there any other comments if not would somebody like to make a motion to take action on this on the staff recommendation sure i would move to accept the staff recommendation second that it's been moved and seconded to prove the recommendation that the planning commission acknowledged the environment of determination approved the design permits slope variants and variants based on the findings listed below and the conditions of approval listed in exhibit a uh russia spellman did you want to say something before we vote on the motion no i was just seconding the motion i thought your eye got that so it's been moved and seconded is there any further discussion all in favor i will have a roll call vote please mr conway aye dawson spellman aye greenberg aye max welch mielson aye shifrin motion passes unanimously we now move on to information items are there any information items hi chair shifrin this is samantha from the planning department they do have a couple information items just want to let you know some items that are coming up thank you um oh okay um so since your last meeting we actually had a first and second reading at the council um and they approved changes to the beekeeping ordinance the parking ordinance and then the streamlining and cleanup uh cleanup changes to the ordinance that you had heard previously so those were all approved um and then coming up on the next agenda you'll hear a presentation on um a resilient coastline from uh tiffany-wide west and you'll also hear a project um at 119 coral which is housing manner matters and it's um 120 studio units better to be used as permanent supportive housing and then that includes ground floor space for supportive care services and some residential amenities um so those are some upcoming projects can i ask uh when the uh council is going to hear the commission recommendation on the section 8 option under the inclusionary ordinance uh yeah let me look that up for you um see yeah i look like that is scheduled for november 24th great thank you any questions of staff on um information items are there any subcommittee advisory body oral reports i i could do just an update on the um affordable housing committee great so um we've concluded our work and um i understand that the report is being noticed i haven't heard exactly what the date is it'll be returning but it's sometime after i think it's the first meeting december um was the estimate when we concluded our work could i ask whether the subcommittee considered the later uh one of the recent bills that was passed by the state legislature having to do with school district housing yes you did okay um thank you very much there is no report on the west cliff tack because um things are happening but we'll be hearing about it at our next meeting from uh disney wise west are there any items that commissioners would like to refer to future agendas none i want to thank you all for this 15 minute meeting and uh i'll say we're adjourned and i'll see you about our next release case of meeting have a great day


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We've got zeke elliott for the cowboys And these are not numbered. They're just the exclusive. I believe these maroon ones were target We've got tommy stevens rookie on the maroon daikas premiere level Van jefferson concourse. Yep concourse rookie daikas We've got a patent manning club level daikas That's when that colts Then we've got silver rookie jeffa kuda lions Unbreakable jerry rice michael pittman jr. Rookie jimmy g colt commets brett farb tommy stevens and a tason hill club Field level pickups, man um, i'm gonna go limited next Biggest card in my collection. I really don't have anything crazy one that I consider the most valuable just because I love it so much my 2004 tops big ben rookie um It's a first edition pop 10. That one is really thick pop 10 so uh That's my favorite card in my collection Yeah, jill mixon. We've got a sam darnold out of 149 for the panthers And we've got cowboys amari cooper stadium stars to 99 52 of 99 antonio gibson and a divante adams I forgot they were buckles in these. I don't think I've ever pulled one before mark andrew's tyrod taylor. We've got Dolphins to a limitless patch to 75 I had no idea there were booklets in this either and I had had two personal orders for this one night And I pulled booklets in back-to-back boxes. Oh, wow. I think it's a case hit. Thanks for subscribing matt got landry and myle sanders Dumb thick We've got uh melvin gordon the third Carson wintz a Leonard for nets and a ian book rookie for the saints What do we have here? Partnership dual booklet 18 of 25.  That was a beautiful herbert too Um, I doubt it and there I doubt we'll get more 18 out of 25 It's probably why rich lower the price a little bit Probably contenders next right? yeah contenders contenders hobby How cards do ship out of this? It did say all cards ship. Yeah I've got rookie ticket auto jaylen phillips Marshall falk No feeler show Good one jaylen hurts mvp's. Oh, yeah for sure. Yeah romanoski It's only three patch though What's up vaughn? Hey vaughn Got uh playoff ticket to 99 deserts patrick titans antonio gates Yep, say it'll be doing personals after this break No ender it was like it's 34 separate orders. It's like different people. It's not just one person Oh rookie of the year kind of channel. Yeah. Yeah, it's all different people that bought that got jamar chase to 99 rookie of the year We did have someone that ordered 36 boxes of sapphire the other day. So it is possible We've got etn that's both jags on that one. We had um Jeremy ordered what 22 boxes of leaf that one personal that I top loaded for you on sunday. Yeah pro set Or memory my homes. Yeah memories. Yeah, although the leaf before I think it was pro set The same thing in the most two full cases We've got jamar jefferson rookie ticket auto lions Winning ticket during waller Oh, yeah, that's what uh our head of acquisitions told us That one cook We've got bills carlos boogie batch and playoff tickets at 99 To uh playoff tickets there Russell wilson Patrick my home steve young Even Montgomery bears Yeah vikings amir smith marcet on card auto Big palm and Dimey brown gonna roll the dice here one two three top four five six bottom That'll go for the rest of uh the break because we do have another contenders Coming up unless it's a one of one or an auto that is a five going to the bottom Dimey brown on this one No, I am a stealers fan nick and I'm a ravens fan nick Optics I don't know Yeah, just because there's more cards. Yeah, there's more color in it. I feel like All right, um next we're gonna do prism. No huddle. I have not ripped any of this yet. I like no huddles though Yeah No There's more we've got disco rookie fireworks, justin fields Funk disco and drew grease sinks mac jones rookie and red disco of ed oliver for the bills 27 of 50 Sorry Izzy Sorry to get your hopes up The Warner disco rookie javante williams broncos nice. There's one variation for box, correct? Yeah Brady base davis mills And we've got blue disco kenneth gainwell. That is to 79 shy smith Ian book rookie disco That is the variation there used to be at the top You know saints Nice hits Very fair michael carter rookie. We've got blue disco of james white Patriots Ernest jones. We've got lockdown disco of charles hailey niners It's not bad. Nick. They're uh, we're gonna be pretty good this year Yeah for sean slater. We've got emergent disco nazi harris Far move rookie stealers. We've got disco all out of davante adams No, a gray rookie. We've got purple Irv smith jr. That is 235 vikings javante williams rookie And disco rookie auto hundred long dolphins Dolphins taking the auto here Really they're around through the third. We've got dalvin cook brilliance that black on the top of uh almost got me Got davante smith rookie and green rookie quinn miners. That is four out of five broncos There you go, brocco Went to the same college as uh Caleb. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's cool. Nick bolton That's cool Got darren waller on the blue for the raiders to 79 kelin amon rookie vikings hype disco love schichannel jr. And a Kyle juice check Niners muckas stevensson class packer wangwoo and a very sanders disco lions All right I don't know. I think he fits in pretty well Well, I don't hate your mix out of the aps north. I don't really care but I agree Better fit than he was in fit for a good thing. Mike evans. There he slay green scope rookie is 75 ps Nice one there broncos and silver rookie otto tutu at well rams Any packers? Think so dan. No, not yet. Dirty dan Like gallop blue waved 199 deon jones falcons brilliance of alvin camara Uh, it was a case so 12 box. Yeah, that was a very nice case loaded I would go back and rewatch that if I were you. This does not have any rookies I just realized that bocelli into 225 silver rookie otto zack wilson Jet w very nice wilson otto We'll mag that one. I don't know rookie basis on this Got hyper to 175 quitton nelson and silver bradley chub i'm a steelers fan I thought you weren't paying attention.  TJ watt we've got blue ice to 99 jordan lewis and purple power emergent jack wilson Three out of 49 And jet's doing very well That is prism box hold that same card and lock prison break or was it the press and fina? I'm a new recruit It was new recruit I am missing i'm sitting in hobby, huh? Can you run and grab me? There is good catch there rock lessner and patrick mahomes We have tray mckinney rookie on the blue wave to 199 chargers and all out d-hop I'm sorry. I should have double checked before you started ripping Say the prism hobby prism No, my bad there you go. Thank you Apologize about that everyone good catch though Yeah, no rookies on this one either to 125 Jarvis landry brown silver ej green I got confused because when you said 10 boxes, I thought she meant 10 boxes of obsidian And we had a 12 box case break earlier Uh nice color match here for the lion king 199 bary sanders And cadere uh, no sake one on that one Claypool got orange a 249 andry reed and a silver rookie mica parson's Nice hit cowboys Last pack of prism here Now that he says I'm just gonna be a color blossom in the city and let's do it green scope to 75 adam felon and emergent ricky rishad beeman It's happened before I'm saying We've got tyler boyd base bangles. Thanks for the follow. Um Miss obis we have joey b Red 10 of 10 There you go bangles Nice book in there adam b with the joker Joe shiesty Then we've got yellow edge to 25 baker mayfield browns We've got to 50. Look at that patch rookie eruption of davis mills texans this patch is there then we've got Sam's boy rookie autos Dwayne escridge seahawks That is out of 199 To 50 for the bucks aura of ronald jones the second and we've got to 50 rpa ian book two color and two color Ian book for the saints I'm gonna go contenders trouble Again first off the line sticker right there for contenders Again all cards do ship. Maybe we can pull an erin rogers auto out of um nt. Yeah Woodson, I think some Yeah, we've got um rookie auto of jailen philips dolphins josh an greasy God bills carlos boogie bash him on the championship tickets at 49 I believe the bills have the playoff and championship tickets from this break Uh, we haven't ripped the the 2020 box yet. That is a good point Got the uh team all prism We'll do that one next big rookie dragon scale We've got larry round tree the third rookie auto chargers dual Jags Drombettis Got um rookie ticket auto ronnie perkins patriots Etienne It's uh, justin fields rookie supernatural And the p erin rogers. There's a rod Got redemption rookie of the year and jammin waddle. Good luck everyone We've got kyle pits rookie ticket rps red zone variation falcons with the first off the line hit there falcons Travis b Nope, it's right here That is next dan paren rogers Pax left. We've got chase young on the uh red zone Joe thomas and last factor. That's gonna go bottom mac jones all right We'll do 2020 prism team all time Find one exclusive base or rookie prism red and yellow number to 49 or less Yeah, the select um with a hanger. There were no no join loves out of that one We've got a marie cooper 400 points silver rookie antonio gibson washington We've got a devon singletary on the yellow and red for the bills That is three out of 49 bills Thaddeus moss rookie and ques Watkins rookie I'm gonna be completely honest. That's probably one of the worst prism team all I have ever seen That's the only one I've ripped Yeah, we got 400 points in a singletary Wow, all right prism first off the line box Wow, that was boo boo Okay big hit here and big hit an nt to make up for it Tommy trumble kizzerius tony rookies. We have rookies in this one Christian bar more on the hyper to 175 rookie and all out dk metcalf Herbert second year Felipe ranks. We've got zack wilson rookie red shimmer of kareem hunt to 35 for the browns purple ice to 225 julio jones titans and silver aj brown body ingbo rookie aziz aje lari and silver berry sanders Maybe can't look coming up adafi away buggy fashion of will fuller the fit for the dolphins to 25 And rookie fireworks of jalen waddle semi fahoko rookie And daz newson. We've got blue shimmer of irf smith jr to 25 vikings Hyper to 175 michael thomas and silver cheese clay fool. It's a monra same brown rookie lions Hunter long rookie dolphins purple ice at 225 being in here as patriots an emergent rookie of justin fields Come on got kyle pitts rookie and jamie newman blue wave to 199 on Levi on wuzerike lions silver rookie urnist jones ramps trevor laurence rookie base chamber chile We've got red nice color match here to 35 d hop for the cardinals 34 35 on that one cam acres to 249 and brilliance kyler murray in book rookie Ben scaronek we've got blue shimmer of kelvin joseph for the cowboys to 25 And silver rookie auto of chas rat vikings vikings silver rookie auto So looking for one more got cornell piled your dokes blue ice to 99 pile juice check And hype of joe burrow that gold shimmer coming up paint and turner rookie Got asante samiel jr. Rookie Eagles a Darius slay jr. On the gold to 10 One of ten on that waltzer painting to 125 bears and blue shimmer auto rookie hunter long one of five For the dolphins hunter long All right, and see he better be very good to us. Come on Last pack here Tyson cambell to felly. We've got red wave to 149 michael gallup cowboys and new recruiter ricky davante smith n t time come on I need a big one here got midnight to 20 delvin cook vikings Superbowl immortality to 55 Bob lily for the cowboys Century patch to 49 joe mixon bangles joe mixon Century patch to 49 for the niners charles hailey We've got dual rookie patch to 25 tiris marshal jr. panthers dual rookie patches here for the bears justin fields and kalil herbert Man jets probably had the best hits of the night in this break Five Elijah more the black border there on the five of five died w five of five Do you ever watch and play what's that one rock show that the rock was in he was a character ballers Yeah, oh yeah.  There you go ravens on that one Then we've got nice patch auto to 99 justin herbert Chargers jeremy q nice herbie patch auto on the second year there. That is player worn too Very nice. We'll mag that and the last but not least to 25 rpa broncos javante williams Nice hit broncos Alex s on the three colored patch auto We'll mag that as well again. Give me one second to set up the random here for the 400 points Four and three that is seven times on the random Again top team after the random will take home the 400 points one two three four five six seven Cardinals Cardinals taking home the 400 points All right, let's do a recap here patches here Patches and autos we had the duel for the bares fields and herbert's Charis marshal jr panthers charles hailey niners joemix and bangles divas mills texans to uh Dolphins on marie cooper cowboys terrell sucks ravens hundred long dolphins chests are at vikings falcons redemption of kyle pits ronnie perkins Patriots layer around trees the third chargers boogie basham bills jaylon phillips dolphin Handbook saints ronald jones the second bucks doain escridge seahawks tutu atwill rams hundred long dolphins Amir smith marcette vikings boogie basham bills jamar jefferson lyons deschwitz patrick um Titans jaylon phillips dolphins Then for our mags cards and booklet we had the dual booklet to 25 autos of michael bick and jamal anderson. That was sick The 10 of 10 joe burrow bangles purple powered of 49 emergents uh zack wilson jets five of five elysia more field level jets javante williams rpa to 25 broncos justin herbert to 99 chargers And silver auto zack wilson jets That will do it for the 10 box tuesday and group rakes tonight everyone. Thanks so much


Well hello everybody, John Wall is here on theCUBE and glad to have you along here for day two of our coverage here at AWS re-invent 22. We're up in the global startup program which is part of AWS's startup showcase and I've got Kevin Farley with me. He is the Director of Strategic Alliances with MariaDB and Kevin, good to see you this morning. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, appreciate it. Yeah, first off, tell us about MariaDB. Obviously, data's your thing, but to share that with some folks at home who might not be familiar with your offering. Yeah, so MariaDB's been around as a corporate entity for 10 plus years and we have a massive customer base. There's a billion downloads from Docker Hub, 75% of the Fortune 500. We have an enormous sea of really happy users but what we realize is that all of these users are really thinking about what does it mean to transform IT? What does cloud monetization mean and how do we build a strategy on something we really love to drive it into the cloud and take it to the future? So what we launched about two years ago, two and a half years ago, is SkySQL. It's our database as a service. It leverages all the best elements what we provide on the enterprise platform. It marries to the AWS cloud and it really provides the best of both worlds for our customers. So your thought then, what problem is that solving? I think what you see in the overall database market is that many people have been using what we would call legacy technology. There's been lots of sort of stratification and mixes of different database solutions. All of them come with some promise and all of them come with a lot of compromise. So I think what the market is really looking for is something that can take what they know and love, can bring it to the cloud and can drive the performance and scale that completely changes the landscape, especially as you think about what modern data needs look like, right? What people did 10 years ago with the exponential scale of data no longer works and what they need is something that not only can really deliver against their core business values and their core business deliverables, but gets them to the future. How do we drive something new? How do we innovate? How do we change the game? And I think what we built with AWS really delivers what we call cloud scale. It's taking something that is the best technology and I as a beacon build, marrying it to Kubernetes layer, marrying it to global availability, thinking about having true global high availability across all of your environments and really delivering that to customers through an integrated partnership. Could we see this coming? I mean, because data, right? I mean, everybody talked about the tsunami of growth back 10, 11 years ago, but maybe the headlights didn't go far enough, but you could see that there was going to be crunch time. There's no doubt, and I think that this has been a, there's been these sort of pocket solutions, right? So if you think at the entire no-sequel world, right? People said, oh, I need scale, I can get it, but what do I have to give up? Acid compliance. So I have to change the way I think about what data is and how I can govern it. So there's been these things that deliver on half the promise, but there's never been something that comes together and really drives what we deliver through PSI SQL is something called expand. So distributed SQL really tied to the SQL query language, having that ACID data, so having everything you need without the compromise built on the cloud allows you to scale out and allows you to think about, I can actually do exponential layers of data, data modeling, data querying, complete read write, driving that forward, and I think it gives us a whole nother dynamic that we can deliver on in a way that hasn't been before. And I think that's kind of the holy grail of what people are looking for is how am I building modern applications and how do I have a database in the cloud that's really going to support it?  Isn't there, or at least maybe not mystery, there's a little, I guess, confusion or just misunderstanding. I mean, nail that down a little bit. I would say the best way to say it, honestly, this is the great thing is people believe it's too good to be true. And I think what we see over and over again. You know what they say about that. But this is the great part, is we've just had two taste studies recently with AWS with Hit Labs and Certified Power, both on expand, both proof in the pudding. They did the POCs, they're like, oh my God, this works. If you watched the keynote yesterday, Adam had a slide that was as big as the entire room, and it highlighted Samsung, and he said, you know, we're doing 80,000 requests per second. So the story there is that AWS is able, as an entity, with their scale and their breadth to handle that kind of workload. But guess what that is? That's MariaDB expand underneath there, driving all of that utilization. So it's already there, it's already married, it's already in the cloud, and now we're taking it to a completely different level with a fully managed database solution. How impressive is that, right?  I mean, to your kind of previous point, it's like one of those things, do I see what's coming? And it's here, right? You know, is it actually ever going to be possible? And now we're showing that it really is on a daily basis for some of the biggest brands in the world. We're also seeing companies moving off, not only transitioning from MariaDB or MySQL, but all of the big licensed conversions as well. So you think about Oracle, DBS Bank is one of our biggest customers, one of the largest Oracle conversions in the world, on to MariaDB, and now thinking about what is the promise of connecting that to the cloud? How do you take things that you're currently doing on-prem, delivering a hybrid model that also then starts to say, hey, here's my path to cloud modernization. SkySQL gives me that bridge. And then you take it one layer farther and you think about multi-cloud, right? That's one of the things that's critical that ISVs can really only deliver in a meaningful way, is how can we have a solution for a customer that we can take to any availability zone? We can have performance proximity, cost proximity. We're always able to have that total data dexterity across any environment we need, and we can build on that for the future. So if we're talking about cloud database, there's so many good things going for it here. You're talking about easy use and scalability and all that. But as whatever, have you talked about this? There's some push and there's some pull. So what's the other side that still, that you think has to be addressed? And I think that's a great question. So we see that there's pull, right? We've seen these deals, this pipeline growth, this great adoption. But what I think we're still not at the point of the massive hockey stick adoption is that customers still don't fully understand the capabilities of the distributed SQL and the power that can actually deliver. So the more we drive case studies, the more we drive POCs, the more we prove the model, I think you're going to see just a massive adoption scale. And I also think customers are tired of doing lots of different things and lots of different proxies. So another one of the key elements of SkySQL is we can do both transactional and analytical data out of the same database, driven by the same proxy. So instead of having DBAs and developers try to figure out, okay, I'm going to pull from this database here, that there, it's this big spaghetti wire concept that is super expensive and super time intensive. So the ability to write modern applications and pull data from both pockets and really be able to have that as a seamless entity and deliver that to customers is massive. I mean, another part of the keynote yesterday was a new deliverable, like kind of no ETL. Adam talked about Aurora and Redshift and the massive complexity of what used to exist for getting data back and forth. You also have to pay for two different databases. It's super expensive. So I think the idea that you can take the real focus of AWS and us as customer value, how do you deliver that next thing that changes the game, always utilizes AWS, delivers on that promise, but then takes a net new technology that really starts to think about how do we bring things together? How do we make it more simple? How do we make it more powerful? And how do we deliver more customer value as we go forward? But you know, if I'm still an on-prem guy, just pretend I'm not saying I am, just pretend I am, just for the sake of the discussion here, it's like I just can't let it go, right? I still, you know, there's control, there's the known versus the unknown, the uncertain. So twist my arm just a little bit more and get me over the hump. First of all, you don't have to, right? And there's going to be some industries and some verticals that will always have elements of their business that will be on-prem. Guess what? We make the best AWS in the world. It can be MariaDB. But there's those that then say these elements of our business are going to be far more effective moving to the cloud. So we give you SkySQL. There's a natural symbiotic bridge between everything we do and how we deliver it where you can be hired and it's great. You can adopt the cloud as your business needs grow and you can have multi-cloud. This is that idea that you can have your cake and eat it too, right? You can literally have all these elements of your business met without these big pressure to say you got to throw that away, you got to move to this. It's really how do you gracefully adopt the cloud in a way that makes sense for your business? Where are you trying to drive your business? Is it time to value, right? Is it governance? There's different elements of what matters the most to individual businesses. We want to address those and we can address those. So you don't have to dive in. You don't have to dive in. You can go ankle deep, knee deep, whatever you want to do. Absolutely and some of the largest MariaDB users still have massive, massive on-prem implementations and that's okay. But there's elements that are starting to fall behind. There's cost savings. There's things that they need to do in the cloud that they can't do on-prem and that's where Expand SkySQL really says okay, here is your platform, grow as you want to, migrate as you want to and we're there every step along the way. We also provide a whole SkyDBA team. Some guys just say, I want to get out of the database world at all. This is expensive, it's costly and it's difficult to be an expert.  They'll optimize it. They'll troubleshoot it. They'll bug fix. They'll do everything for you so you can just say I just want to focus on building phenomenal applications for my customers and the database game as we knew it is not something that I want to invest in anymore. I want to make that transition. That makes DAS really attractive to a lot of people because you talk about a lot of headache there. So let's talk about AWS before I let you go. Just about that relationship. You've talked about the platform that provides you and obviously the benefits but just talk about how you've worked with AWS over the years and how you see that relationship allowing you to expand your services no pun intended. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I would start with the way we even contemplated architecture. We worked with the SaaS factory team. We made sure that the things that we built were optimized in their environment. I think it was a lot of collaboration on how does this combined entity really make the most value for our customers? How does it make the most sense for our developers as we build it out? Then we work in the global startup team. So the strategic element of who we are not all startups are created equal, right? We have 75% of the Fortune 100. We've got over a billion downloads. We come in with promise and the reason this partnership is so valuable and the reason there's so much investment going forward is because what really, what do the cloud guys care about the very, very most? They want all of these mission-critical big workloads that are on-prem to land in their cloud. What do we have? A massive, massive TAM sitting out there of these customers that could go to AWS. So we both see like if we can deliver incredible value to that customer base these big workloads will end up in AWS. They'll use other AWS services. And as we scale and grow, we have that platform that's already built for it. So I think that when you go back to the tenants, the core principles of AWS, the one that always stands out, the one that we always kind of lean back on is are we delivering customer value? Is this the best thing for the customer? Because we do have some co-opetition just like many other other partners do, right? So there is Aurora and there is RDS and there is times when that's a great service for a customer. But when people are really thinking about where do I need my database to go? Where do I really need to be set for the future growth? Where am I going to get the kind of ROI I need going forward? That's where you can go, hey, SkySQL, expand distributed SQL. This is the best game in town. It's built on AWS. And collectively, we're going to present that to a customer. I'm so done. I love it. MariaDB, check them out. They're on the show floor, great traffic. I know at the booth, they're here at AWS re-invent. So check them out, MariaDB. Thanks, Kevin. Hey, thanks, John, appreciate the time. Appreciate it, great. That was great. Back with more. You're watching The Cube, the leader in high-tech coverage.