Internal Revenue Service IRS Tax News for National Small Business Week. What? National Small B- You're not nationalizing my small business. I'm an independent entrepreneur for crying out loud. Dang, Socialist Commies always trying to control the means of production. It's especially dangerous for someone like me who produces words. They probably want to install some kind of jaw, tongue and vocal cord mechanical control mechanism to control my word production, which I can't imagine would be very comfortable. And it would most likely slow down my overall word production, which is sure to have a negative impact on the economy's GDP. For National Small Business Week, special tax credit can help employers hire workers. Key certification requirement applies. IR 2022-104, May 6, 2022, Washington with many businesses facing a tight job market. The Internal Revenue Service reminds employers to check out a valuable tax credit available for hiring long-term unemployment recipients and other groups of workers facing significant barriers to employment. So there's certain groups, of course, that might find it more difficult to get back into the job market, one of them being if you've been out of the job market for an extended period of time, which has kind of been incentivized with the unemployment and then, of course, this whole situation with COVID and whatnot, so you have a significant amount of people that might have a barrier to get back into the job market, might have some incentives in order to help them to get back in. So during the National Small Business Week, there's a link to that here. May 1-7, IRS is highlighting tax benefits and resources tied to the theme for this year's celebration, quote, building a better America through entrepreneurship, end quote. For any business now hiring, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, there's a link to that here, may help. What is the WOTC? That's the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, by the way. This longstanding tax benefit encourages employers to hire workers certified as members of any of 10 targeted groups facing barriers to employment. With millions of Americans out of work at one time or another since the pandemic began, the IRS notes that one of these targeted groups is long-term unemployment recipients who have been unemployed for at least 27 consecutive weeks and received state or federal unemployment benefits during part or all of that time. So, obviously, this whole situation where basically people to some degree were kind of encouraged to not be in the workforce for an extended period of time in part with the incentive programs, that's part of the pros and cons of an incentive program, the pro, of course, trying to get the money to people that need the money, the con then being that it sometimes disincentivizes people to go back into the workforce, because if they go back into the workforce, they're going to lose the unemployment they may have otherwise been able to receive. But then, of course, that could extend the timeframe where there's nothing on the resume, and that can make it more difficult to jump back into the workforce after that point in time. So there might be in some incentives, there's a significant amount of people. We know the job market is still tight at this point in time, so there's a significant amount of people that you might actually get some benefits from to help them get back into the workforce. So the WOTC is available for wages paid to certain individuals who began work on over four December 31st, 2025. The other groups include certain veterans and recipients of various kinds of public assistance, among others. Specifically, the 10 groups are temporary assistance for needy families, TANF recipients, unemployed veterans, including disabled veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals, designated community residents living in empowerment zones or rural renewal counties, vocational rehabilitation referrals, summer youth employees living in empowerment zone, supplemental nutrition assistance program, SNAP, SNAP recipients, supplemental security income SSI recipients, long-term family assistance recipients and long-term unemployment recipients. Qualifying for the credit. To qualify for the credit, an employer must first request certification by submitting IRS form 8-8-5-0, pre-screening notice and certification request for the work opportunity credit. There's a link to that here. To their state workforce agency, the SWA, it must be submitted to the SWA within 28 days after the eligible worker begins work. Employers would not submit form 8-8-5-0 to the IRS. So don't go to the IRS. It goes to the SWA, the SWA. Helping new hires. Since many new hires may lack workplace experience, one way that employers can help these workers get off to a good start is to make sure they have the right amount of tax taken out of their pay. A great way to do that is to encourage them to use the tax withholding estimator. So as you pick it up, new employees as you turn over any employees in the workforce, but possibly especially people that have been out of the workforce for a while, the tax withholdings can be more complicated these days, possibly than prior years due to all the fluctuations in people's work, people being out of work can confuse that situation as well, multiple people working and then just changes to the tax code. So you pretty much need a software to help you to calculate the W-4 withholdings and whatnot. So you got this tool here you can take a look at. A free online tool. It's available on irs.gov, irs.gov, B, B for victory over tax questions. By filing in a few key pieces of information, an employee can use the tax withholding estimator to estimate the right amount of tax to have taken out of their pay. Among other things, this online tool can help them see how withholding affects their take home pay, expected refund or tax due. The tax withholding estimator also will also help them correctly fill out form W-4 Employees Withholding Certificate, which is of course what we need as the employer to get the proper withholdings. The employee gives this form to their employer, not the IRS. Once an employee has been on the payroll for a while, they can also use this tool to update their withholding to reflect impertinent life changes. So as life changes happen, you can update your withholding estimator. You should do that first. You should look at the tax consequences of every choice you make and then make it in accordance to the best tax situation. Now I'm just kidding. But use the tax withholding estimator. So like getting married, getting divorced, having children. Obviously you calculate the numbers and then you make the decision. Just kidding. But you should keep the numbers in mind as things happen. So the tax withholding estimator can also be a useful tool for existing employees by helping them avoid a year-end tax surprise. So obviously you don't want to owe money at the end of the year and or penalties and interest. So for more information, you can visit irs.gov forward slash withholding. There's a link to that here. Claiming the credit. We want to claim the credit. Eligible businesses then claim the WOTC on their federal income tax return. That's how you get it done. It is generally based on wages paid to eligible employers during the first year of employment. This is a one-time credit for each new hire and an employer cannot claim the WOTC for employees who are rehired.  That would be trying to not be honest with the system there. That's not right. You can't do that. The credit is first figured on form 5884, work opportunity credit. There's a link to that here. And then claimed on form 3800, general business credit. There's a link to that here. Though the credit is not available to tax exempt organizations for most groups of new hires, a special rule allows them to claim the WOTC. So for hiring qualified veterans, these organizations claim the credit against payroll taxes on form 5884C, work opportunity credit for qualified tax exempt organizations hired qualified veterans. There's a link to that. They're a very descriptive title to that form, clearly. A lot of detail in that title. Additionally, see the LB&I and the SB slash SE joint directive on the WOTC. There's a link to that here. It's on the IRS. It issued it to help certain employers affected by extended delays in the WOTC certification process. So if you've got questions about this stuff and you want to look into more research and you want to dig into it, there's links that every time I said a link, that means there's a link here to it. And there'll be a link to this in the description.


On this International Youth Day, we recognize and celebrate the endless potential of young Canadians. This past year has shown us the power and determination of young people. We know that the pandemic has been tough for so many of you. You've missed milestones, had to adapt to online work and learning, and maybe some of you even lost your jobs.  From staying at home to keep others safe, to fundraising for local charities and helping your communities to getting your first and second vaccines as soon as it was your turn, you've represented the very best of our country. And you did it with the same dedication and passion we've always seen from young Canadians. You've had our backs, and that's why we'll continue to have yours. Over the last few months, our government has introduced real solutions to the challenges that you're facing. Whether it's waving interest on federal student loans, creating new internships and work opportunities, or helping you get the skills you need to find a good job, we're here to support you. And as we all work to finish the fight against COVID-19 and build back better for everyone, we will need your voices to continue to push for the change we need to see. From fighting the climate crisis, to walking the path of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, to creating the jobs of tomorrow, these are the challenges that we can solve if we work together. So raise your voice.  Because to build a better Canada and a better future, we need your leadership, your drive, and your commitment. And together we can and we will create positive change for all. Happy International Youth Day, everyone.


Hello everyone okay so right now I am trying to develop my first application using Android Studio. It is quite difficult for me to understand the concept but I will take the challenge to make my first application which is the Kiva app and I hope it will work as as planned so stay tuned for the next update. Okay right now I am doing some base code which is quite in progress right now I just implemented the code for the animation so you can see here this is the Kiva so this one doesn't have any sound right now but I just add some animation when you press the pipe it will make it sound later on and when you press the head it will change into the red one so I'm going to put the sound after this and I hope it will work just fine so stay tuned for the next update. Hello everyone okay so today in this video I'm going to show you the Kamen Rider Kiva Driver app so I already compiled everything into a single application and yes this is how it looks like yeah that's pretty beautiful so in order for you to use it there's a three main function so if you press on the wing yeah we'll speak and if you want to go henshin just let it bite your finger yeah that's that's pretty beautiful so I think that's it if you enjoyed watching my video please leave a thumbs up leave a comment and don't forget to subscribe also don't forget to share this with your friends


All right, cool. So this morning, we are going to be talking about what is a disciple. We're going to try to answer that question. What is a disciple? And it was some time ago, and I'm expecting everyone to remember, but the last time I was up here teaching Sunday School, we talked about why we make disciples. We tried to answer that question. What is the reason for us as a church, for us as individual Christians to make disciples? So can anyone answer that question? Why do we make disciples? Anyone remember at all? Barbie, do we have a mic to go around at all? No, there we go. Perfect. Barbie, why do we make disciples? Yes. Oh, it's not on. It's a commandment from God? Yes, it's a commandment from God. It meant God commands us to make disciples. So if nothing else, right, if God commands it, it's something that we should do. Are there any other reasons why we should make disciples brahlio? We're to teach others to obey, to observe, to guard the Word of God, and it's for the glory of God. So it's assuming that we're evangelizing, so we're making disciples out of those converts to love Christ, to follow him, to obey him, and then to make other disciples. Yes, that's a good reason too, right? There's tangible results from making disciples. It's not just the command from God, but we see that on earth it's good for us to make disciples. Any other reasons? Josh? It was prophesied, so, or I should say, if we have a desire to see Christ come back, then we should be making disciples. The scripture I'm thinking about is Matthew chapter 24, verse 14, and it says, and this is the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the worlds as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come. Amen, amen, that's where we're getting at. Mr. Prime there, I saw your hand up. Do you have an answer too? I was going to say to make more disciples. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We make disciples, disciples are made, and then they make more disciples. Amen. So all of those things together, they're all true, right? It's commanded, we see tangible results, right? God is ordained, us evangelizing and making disciples, so that that's how he has decided for his kingdom to spread, and also ultimately, we have a forward, we're looking forward to the future. We're looking to the day where we are glorified, we are with Christ, and he has his final possession, his people, and we are all worshiping him. This is the end to what we're looking toward. So when you think of a disciple, when you think of the purpose of discipleship, you're thinking of seeing people on their way to heaven to worship the Lord Jesus Christ, so that Christ receives the reward for his suffering, so that Christ has his final possession, his reward. So today, we're going to speak not simply about why we make disciples, but we're going to talk about what is a disciple, okay? So I want to get from you guys, and we don't have to pass the microphone for this, you guys can shout them out, I'll repeat them, let's do it to the cattle. When you think of the word discipleship, what kind of things come to mind? Discipleship, what things come to mind? Don't everyone say it at once. A follower of Christ? A follower of Christ. Anyone else? You guys can just blur them out. Imitation, okay. Anyone else? A learner, okay. Discipleship, what do you think of? Anyone else? Pete, disciple or, let's broaden that a little bit, like what kind of activities do you envision when you think of discipleship? Evangelism, evangelism, prayer, reading the word, yeah. Edgar, fellowship, for some reason I thought I'd be able to write a lot faster than this. Anyone else? Who is it? Pastor Michael. Patience, patience. Mitch, loving, Barbie, rebuking, come eat, sacrifice, Sabbath day teachings. I'm going to shorten that. Barbie, encouraging. All right, so how about stuff like also do you think of one-on-one, right, one-on-few? You think of Braulio? Obedience. Did any of you guys think of like a classroom setting when you think of discipleship? At all? This one. This one, this class, yeah. So many things come to mind. I don't think anyone said anything wrong, right? No one said anything wrong here about discipleship. So, so let's look, let's look at what the Bible says about discipleship. Let's look at what the Bible says. Let's go to Matthew chapter 10, verses 24, verse 24. I'm going to read here. It says, A disciple is not above his teacher nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house beelzebo, how much more will they malign those of his household? What does this passage tell you about discipleship? The purpose of discipleship is that the individual who is being disciple is, that's why I said imitation, I was thinking of this passage, that he becomes more and more like the individual who he's looking to. So, when a Christian looks to Christ, he looks more and more like him every day.   The same thing. Egger. It seems in the text that there's a connection between the idea of looking to learn or become like someone and their traits and characteristics, but then it makes a connection I think with a functional idea because it compares them to a slave. So the relationship here, it's interesting that a slave is not over their lord. There's an understanding that there's authority involved. There's an understanding that there is service, a completely, fully committed, regulated service that in this case would be regulated by the word of God. Amen. Like there's an aspect of submission involved, right? I'll pass for Michael. Let me call Barbie first. Sorry about that. Matthew 10, 24, a disciple is not about his teacher nor a servant of his master, meaning there's a completely submission to the word of God, no matter what we think. Amen.  Amen, complete submission. Pass for Michael. Yeah, I think in the in the passage where Christ is really doing is he's letting all of his followers know that there is a cost to discipleship and the whole aspect of a disciple not being above its teacher is basically to give them realistic expectations of what they may meet with or will meet with in following him as his disciple is that they're going to suffer just like he suffered. So whatever Christ encountered or endured hostility from sinners against himself in the way of discipleship, if you are a disciple of his, then you can expect to meet with that same type of adversity. Amen, amen. So we covered that the goal of the disciples to be like his teacher. We covered that there is an understanding of a master slave relationship, there's submission. We recovered that a disciple is supposed to expect the same results of the teacher. So if you're following someone, they act a certain way and you act the same way, you expect the same results. And just like Pastor Michael said, there's a cost and the fact that there's a cost, there's a consistent theme of Trump. There's a consistent theme, I'm sorry, of what we'll be talking about today. You're going to hear that word cost a lot. Thank you, brother. In verse 25, he says, it is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household? The context here is with Christ. It is Christ whom they called Beelzebub. He is the one who in this context is the teacher and the master. He is the one who is and so if there's a master-slave relationship, it is with Christ. Amen. It is not with a brother who is discipling. It is with Christ and he is the master and the teacher with whom we are to be conformed to. Yeah, amen, amen. And we didn't get to that particular issue yet, but yes, our understanding is we're all disciples of Christ. For instance, I am not, let's say Noel is spending time with me. He's quote, unquote, discipling me. I am not Noel's disciple. I am Christ's disciple. However, Noel will be acting in obedience to Christ by discipling me. Any other, oh, Sabio. So when I think of discipleship and this passage specifically, I think of learning about Christ. He's teaching and also learning Christ, learning to be like him. Amen, amen. So there's a few other implications we get from this, right? Like, so you can learn a lot about serving Christ from a classroom. Like you can learn a lot through instruction, right? Just verbal instruction. But there's an understanding here that this learning is a learning for transformation, right? This isn't just head knowledge. You're learning to be like someone. And what's implied here is you're attempting to be like someone. And in this particular case, you're attempting to be like Jesus Christ. You want to be like him. So let's look at Matthew chapter 8, verses 18 through 22. It says this.  And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. Another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and bury my father. And Jesus said to him, follow me and leave the dead to bury their own dead. What is this passage? Tell us about discipleship. No, well, there is a cost to following Christ and that it could maybe not in everybody's circumstances, but it could potentially even cost you. It could cost you everything. It would be willing to make that commitment. Yeah, it cost you everything, right? Barbie. It says another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and bury my father. We are to make this partnership a priority. Yeah, amen, amen, amen. What what kinds of things here does Jesus specifically telling these people that following him is a priority over Logan? Relationships outside Christ and the church. Yeah, yeah. So the second one here, you see a relationship, right? He wants to bury his father first. It could have been he's looking for an inheritance. It could be that he doesn't want to leave his family. Various reasons. Was that Lauren or Sarah? Um, earthly comfort.  You may not have that either. Amen, amen. Christ is telling this guy, hey, look, foxes, um, foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests. Like animals, animals live better than I do. Right. Are you willing? Are you willing to pay that price? Raleigh. In verse 19, it says, then a scribe came and said to him, teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. And in this verse, it's not just a mere profession. Just saying I'm gonna do it because in verse 22, Jesus says, follow me and allow the dead to bury their own dead. So it's not just saying you're going to follow him. It's an action. It is an action. Amen. Everyone knows someone who always talks about what they're gonna do. Right. You know, I'm gonna do this. I want to do that. And then they never do any of what they say. Right. These people say, Jesus, I want to follow you. And he doesn't, he doesn't sit there and say, oh, that's great. That you want to follow me. Right. He tells them, oh, come follow me. Leave all that stuff behind and come. Come follow me, brother. Along those lines, you can see that discipleship is something that's immediate and continual. It's not something that you can put off. And it's not something that you can do for a while and then stop and then do for a while again later. It's something that's, it has to be, if you make a commitment, it has to be right now. And it has to be until the rest of your life. Yeah, yeah. My first thought when thinking about that, I think of when Jesus calls James and John, right?  You can imagine their father calling out to them, hey, hey, we have work to do.  Right. They, they know that their priority is with Jesus Christ. It's an immediate call and you, and you follow him. Discipleship is not, following Christ is not something to put off. And if you have that attitude, then you don't have the attitude of the disciple. If you put it off, Brian. It's also not a, it's not like a, like, what Christ does in that first instance there, where the person said that he wanted to follow him. He, it's not, he doesn't like to try to discourage him in so much as he, he wants him to understand that this is a serious commitment and you can't make it frivolously. Like, it's almost like, you know, if, if, if it was another church, they would have let him in the prayer, right? Yeah. But Christ, Christ says, okay, well, understand that if you come, you might not have a house or belongings or possessions. And he's trying to tell this guy that this is a serious commitment. And you really need to think about it. That's something that you really want to do. Amen. You have two, you have two principles in play, right? You can't be flippant. It's not, it's not spur of the moment as in, it's just a wild decision. But at the same time, it's something that can't be delayed. You have to, you have to make the decision. Brother. Yeah. I'm, in all of this, to sum it up, we're no half-hearted Christians. He's calling for us to be fully committed from that point to the end of our lives. Amen. Amen. Full, full commitment, Mitch. And to this point, Christ had manifest his, that he was the Son of God and the miracles that he had been performing. And so many who were there, many of that crowd knew who it was they were seeking to follow. Though many were deceived and what they believed to be a good motivation and he would have many turned away, they're not just following somebody dressed nicely to a, to a degree. You know, it was his miracles, his testimony of himself that they were following. Amen. He gave proof of himself, right? It wasn't, these people weren't making a, it wasn't just a guess. They knew what they were getting themselves into, right? Amen. Amen. Let's go to, so you put all the legions aside to follow Christ. You're not coming to a life of ease when you follow Christ. So the life of a disciple is not an easy life. And it's not a life where you can have multiple masters. You can't be pulled one way and pulled the other. You have a singular focus. You're following one person and that person is Jesus Christ. Okay. So let's look at Luke chapter 14 and starting at verse 25.  Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you desiring to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, this man began to build and was not able to finish. Or what king going out to encounter another king in war will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with 10,000 to meet him who comes against him with 20,000? If not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Why the same principles, right? So what other things does this text teach us about discipleship? Barbie? You have to be willing to forsake everything and anything for Christ. Forsake everything and anything. Amen. So Christ is using examples. The first one, I think, the idea of edifying a tower. He's bringing up the fact that even in that time to build or edify a tower, there's expectations. There's a sense where there is a norm. This is what it's going to take. Jesus is saying if you cannot quantify, right, what we know is the cost to do that, then you're going to do it a halfway, which means you won't be successful, which means you didn't reach the goal that you're looking to reach. And I think there's a sense where the Word of God, where obviously we know this through further revelation, there's an idea of what it costs to follow Christ. And so if it's clearly understood to not clearly comprehend or take to the task of what that means, it means you're going to fail, which proves you're not a disciple. Yeah, yeah. Would you start building a house when you don't have enough money to complete it, right? There's no way you're going to get it done. He gives another example about common cause right after that. What was that with the king? Can anyone explain that one? Any chance?  And you have 10,000. He has 20,000. Who's going to win? I won't win. How much? 20,000, right? So are you going to risk the destruction? Are you going to risk being destroyed or are you going to surrender? Ryan, do you have a handle? It's not related to the king. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Just in the first verse of 25, the context of the situation helps too. There's great multitudes with him. And he turns to them and says this, so they're already people who are following him. And it's a multitude of people. Yeah. And he's telling them this very strong language about hating these relationships, these people that you're related to, and hyperbole, which are the closest finds apart from the disciple of Christ. And using them and the word hate to help describe the commitment level that is absolutely necessary to being his disciple. And it helps illustrate how we, all people throughout history, need to be on guard against valuing numbers over commitment. And I think that's this helps illustrate that because if the Lord was most interested in numbers, then he was the commitment that he's describing here. You wouldn't see him doing this. Amen. Amen. Yeah, these people weren't there to follow Christ, the person. They were there for some benefit that they can get from him, whether they wanted him to perform some miracles, some food, get some food, whatever it was, they were there for some personal benefit, but they weren't committed to Christ himself, brother. Also, I think the last couple verses, therefore, salt is good, but if even salt has become tasteless with what will it be seasoned, it is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile it is thrown out. He has ears to hear, let him hear. I think that's relevant to the cost of discipleship because just as salt has a function and a purpose, and if it has no saltiness, then you're just going to throw it out in the same way. If you have a Christian and the general pattern of his life is not fulfilling the purpose to which he's called, then he's useless and he's worthless and he's going to be thrown out. Amen. Amen. Amen. Brother. Oh, sorry.  What I really like about this entire text is how the Lord is telling us that we're either His disciples or we're not. Amen. And there's no middle ground and this scripture alone should cause us all to examine ourselves. And if these things are not happening, like we're not loving Him above all, we're not obeying His word, we're not in repenting, turning from our sin to Christ, then we cannot be His disciple. If we are His disciple, then these things are going to happen and it will be completed not by our own strength or power, but because God is working in us. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Brother. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was going to say. And to that point, it should give us a urgency or a sense of the importance of counting the cost when we're first discipling anybody that's new to the church or in evangelism because the Lord doesn't give an alternative to counting the cost. He says if that person that sits down and wants to build a house doesn't, otherwise, and then he finds out that he laid the foundation and can't build at all, it says otherwise they will mock him or they will just read it. So otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish it, all who observe it begins to ridicule him. And then with the King, it says, or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. And the ones that we go to war with as disciples of Christ are the flesh, the world, and Satan. And peace with them is, the Lord tells us that discipleship following Christ is in that he with the world and those things don't coexist. So if you don't count the cost, if you're not prepared to go to battle against the greater numbers, you're not going to, there's no alternative, you're not going to be a follower of Christ. Oh, I'm sorry, Keith. Just along those lines with the terms of peace, I see, maybe I'm wrong, you can correct me. As a unbeliever, you're coming up against the King of Kings. And terms of peace run his terms. We send him, okay, what are your terms of peace? It's not we offer this, we offer that. How can I surrender? Yeah, yeah, amen, bro. Like you come before the King who is able to destroy you and you must submit to him. So you consider the cost in one way. This is going to require this much of me to build this house. And then on the flip side, you understand, you know what, if I don't follow him, this is going to cost me dearly, it's going to cost me my life, my soul. So consider what we're going through here, so Jesus explains to the crowd, he explains to the crowd that they're to give up all of their allegiances to the point where it looks like you're not literally going to hate your family, right?  Yeah, much of the time have some of us experienced that, not all of us who were Christians or many of us. You've experienced some form of that, right? It may not be the exact same people in your life, but you experience hatred for following Christ, for evangelizing to those who are lost, for not running with the same folks that you used to run with.  And you have to be willing to leave your friends and your family, because Christ is far better. You also have to count the costs, like we're just talking about. And you have to be willing, you have to bear your cross, you have to be willing to die, you have to be willing to give up everything. You're understanding that this life isn't about you, right? When Christ went to the cross, he wasn't going to the cross for his own pleasure. He came and he demonstrated that when he was on earth, his life wasn't, obviously everything is about Christ to us, right? You understand that? But what he demonstrated as a man was he demonstrated a life of humility and submission, and what it looks like to live life not for yourself, but to give it all. And that's what we are to do. So when you come to Christ, you're not coming holding on to anything. You come to Christ with an open hand. Now, we've been implying the same thing, and we get good teaching at this church, right? So we understand that a disciple is a Christian, right? And a Christian is a disciple. And we see that clearly. If you look at the surrounding parables, these are all about salvation, right? When you look at the language of what it means to be a disciple, the cost of following Christ, you see that this is repentance language. The call to discipleship is the call to repentance. So you cannot be a Christian and not be a disciple.   It's like you look at a pig, and one person says, well, that's a pig. And the other person says, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's a swine. We're talking about the same thing, right? It's just two words that mean the same thing. Okay? So the other thing I want to bring up, and I think Broly touched on this, is we all have to examine ourselves. And sometimes when you're in a church like this, where the Gospel is preached regularly and faithfully, going to passages like this, if you go out on corporate evangelism every week, some of you read this same passage every Saturday. I open this passage up a whole lot, right? And what's dangerous sometimes is that this can become very normal to you to hear these words. And once they convicted you a lot when you were first converted, you used to mull over them, you used to think about them, you used to examine yourself and say, oh man, you know, am I following Christ? Am I totally committed to him? Am I one of his disciples? But as you go along, you kind of get used to it. And then you forget to examine yourself. So I want to encourage you brothers and sisters to use this passage to examine yourself and these other passages. Think through it. Don't be the person in Matthew 7 who calls Christ Lord but does not do the things that he says that doesn't live for him. Be the person who not only believes this in their head, but obeys this with their full heart. Okay? But Pete. Yeah, that following repentance, okay, we're told that we need to turn to Christ by faith with a total commitment, as you mentioned. And in order to maintain that, we need to immerse ourselves in the means of grace, okay? And that's every Tuesday and Wednesday night, we have small groups where we have accountability and it's based upon the means of grace. And then we can also do that on our own, okay? We need to sit back and say, okay, am I reading my Bible? Am I evangelizing? Am I sharing all these different things in them that he has given us not only to sanctify us, but to keep us from stumbling? Yeah, amen. Amen. When we think through the church, the church is in place to facilitate discipleship. When you think about everything that we do, everything that we do as a church is for the sake of discipleship, right? What's our, I don't know what it's called, motto statement, whatever, what making disciples for the glory of God, right? Everything we do. And not every little pedantic thing, right? I'm not saying that, you know, if Joby is replacing a light bulb that he's essentially someone, right? But the purpose of even all of our service is to facilitate discipleship in the church. This is discipleship. So let's actually, on that note, let's go to Romans chapter 16. And one point I want to bring out, so sometimes when we think of discipleship, we kind of think of just the Gospels. And you see discipleship all throughout the Bible, especially the New Testament. And one little tidbit of knowledge, right? The word, the Greek word for discipleship is mathetes. That means to learn, be a learner, a follower, a learning follower. And that's a now. Well, there's an accompanying word to mathetes is montano. And that's the verb form of mathetes. It means to learn or to be discipled. Right? And you find this word, you find this word all throughout the New Testament. Take a look at Romans chapter 16, verse 17. I think we're, yeah, verse 17. I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been learned, taught, discipled, montano. Avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. And by smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the naive. For your obedience is known to all. So that I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. So he tells them, he tells them that they're to learn good doctrine, right? They're to be discipled and good doctrine.  I'm starting to run out of time. I see. He also, he also does this so that they can be wise and obedient. And he looks forward to the final victory of Satan being crushed under their feet, right? But you see, they're being discipled. They're being discipled in good doctrine. So you as a disciple, you want to be discipled in good doctrine. See, let's go to Ephesians chapter four, starting at verse 17. Now this I say and testify in the Lord that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you Montano learned have been taught Christ, been discipled in Christ, right? Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life, and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God and true righteousness and holiness. So you're not only to be discipled or taught in good doctrine, you're to be discipled and taught how to live, right? How to put off the old man and to be renewed in righteousness, is to be discipled in that. Let's move to Philippians chapter 4, and starting at verse 8 here. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have Montano learned, have been taught and discipled, and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. But that I am speaking of being in need for I have Montano learned, have been taught, have been discipled, and whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. So you see the importance of a godly example in discipleship, right? Paul didn't just instruct them with his lips. He didn't just tell them what to do. What did Paul do? He was an example, right? He modeled what it looks like to follow Christ in front of these people to the point where he is able to tell them, imitate me, do what I do. Have you ever asked yourself, can I tell someone else that? Can you tell someone else that about your evangelism? Can you say imitate me and my evangelism as I imitate Jesus Christ? Can you say study the scripture the way I do? I'm not talking about, again, the pedantic details, right? Like, did you read Romans 1 yesterday? Like I did? No. But imitate your faithfulness to it, right? What about your speech? Can you tell others to imitate your speech? Imitate the way that you put off sin and are renewed in righteousness by putting on righteousness? Those are the things that Paul was able to say, and Paul is a man just like us, right? That's not the special duty of an apostle. These are the things that Christians are expected to do. Go one chapter back, Philippians chapter 3, verse 17. It says, Brothers, join in imitating me and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many of whom I have often told you and now tell you, even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their God is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Right? So he's even able to say, imitate me in watching out for these people, for these false teachers. Imitate me and don't imitate them. Right? So you should be able to say those same things that Paul says. You should be able to say those same things. Let's go to Matthew chapter 28. So this is a quick recap, right? We, in the very beginning, we recapped on why we make disciples. We talked about what is a disciple. We talked about the cost of discipleship, how a disciple is to leave all of his allegiances to follow Christ. We talked about, we looked in the, in some of the epistles here, and we looked at some of the practical examples of what discipleship looks like. And it gives us some, it gives us some feet to how we're to do that in the church a bit, right? If you, and again, like I mentioned, if you think about the church, everything we do is discipleship, everything from corporate evangelism, small group, being here on Sunday service, Sunday evening, right? All of these things are discipleship. These are all put in place for you to follow Christ and to follow him better. Some of them are by instruction, by word. Some of them are by example. Some of them are a bit of both, right? But let's look at Matthew 28 because, and we already touched on it a little bit, but a disciple has a duty himself. Starting at verse 16, now the 11 disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him, they worshiped him. But some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age. What do we call this passage? You can blur it out. The Great Commission, right?  Or her, right? A disciple is also to, to produce more disciples or produces in the right word. But we make disciples. By the power of the Spirit of God, we go and we preach the gospel. They come in to our fold and, and we teach them. And then they go out and they do the same. It's recursive, isn't it? Every disciple makes disciples. Every disciple is committed to making disciples. I mean, it doesn't necessarily mean every disciple is great at it, right? But every disciple does and is fully committed. Right? If, if you consider yourself to be a disciple, you say, I follow Jesus Christ. But you show either through your words or through your actions that you don't have interest in seeing other people converted and seeing other people, your brother, your brethren, sanctified. What does that say about you? Because you're not a disciple. You're not a disciple. Because that's what a disciple does. You see? A disciple is committed to Christ. And if you really think about it, right? What are some of the biggest, what are some of the bigger things that cause someone to refrain from being a disciple? Is it, is it just the Bible reading? Is it just a prayer? Those things can be difficult at times. They require some discipline. But the hard things are when you have to deal with people, isn't it? It's when you have to go and preach the gospel to someone who may hate you for it. It's when you have to go and talk to a brother or a sister after a small group about their sin. Or it's when, it's when you, as a disciple, have to be honest about your sin. And it's when it's, it's time to be held accountable. Those are the things that make it hard when you deal with people. And these are the first indicators that you may not be a disciple sometimes. When you're not willing to love your brothers and you're not loving the lost. And when you don't love your brothers, and we, and when you don't love the lost, right? You read the book of 1st John, it means you don't love God, right? You don't love Jesus. You don't have him. So it's very important to think through these things, right? Like we said these all the time, like this is not a new message. You've all heard this before many, many times. But if you're honest, it should never get old. All right. This is, this is central to what we do. So as you go through the day today, think about, am I committed to Christ? Am I fully committed to him? Am I willing to suffer for him? Have I counted the cost? I'm not talking about being introspective and going through every detail of your wickedness and sin.   And pray as God if you are. And if not, today is a perfect day to repent, right? Be committed to Christ today. Count the cost today. All right. Let's pray. Father in heaven, Lord, I pray that you would, you would bless on the teaching today. Lord, that, that your people and including myself would be encouraged from your word, understanding what it means to be one of your people, one of your disciples. Lord, as one of your disciples, I can, I can say very clearly, Lord, it is a joy to follow you. It is a joy, Lord, to be in service to you.  I can't wait for the day where I'm glorified to be with you, Lord Jesus. And Lord, I pray for my brothers and sisters here and for every lost person in here, Lord, to examine themselves, to think through, are they one of yours? Are they one of your disciples? And to live it out. And for those who are already disciples to live it out better, better today than they did before. So Lord, may your name be glorified and then, although we praise you and we are very grateful, Lord, of this privilege of seeing what your word has to say about discipleship. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


And if you have a market where there's a lot of speculative buying going on and hopes to flip the properties really quickly, once the rug gets pulled out from under them, all those buyers go away and everybody loses everything. The whole thing crashes and burns. I think you were just saying, Hey, it's a really interesting market that we're in right now. That was your, the language that he is, if I might ask you, what, what were you, what do you mean by that? You were saying, I think something about inventory and well man, uh, let me dive into it, bro. Right now, every buyer is competing against eight other buyers and no owner wants to list their property because there's nothing to buy. There's nothing to replace what they have. If they were to list it today, they're scared that they might leave money on the table since the market's moving upward so fast, okay? Because of the lack of inventory. So in this really interesting market where it's really tough to represent a buyer that's competing against eight other buyers on the same property and trying to get listings in a market where nobody wants to list their property. Now I'm not stereotyping the market that nothing's happening because if you look on MLS, there's tons and tons and tons of closings happening every single day. I'm just saying that the market is very tight and the effort per transaction right now is at an all time high effort per transaction, especially for newer agents who don't have their foundation established in the market and their personal brand matured, if you will. So that's what I mean about the interesting market. It really feels like 2003 all over again in terms of the amount of demand and how quickly listings sell. There's a couple of big differences. One is prices are already really high right now compared to where we started in 2003, whereas we were at the very bottom end of prices and we had a lot of room to grow and price wise. I still think we have a lot of room to grow from the point that we are now, but how high can it really go? That's the question. Back then, the reason why price is doubled in two years is because there was no regulation on lending, right? You could walk into a bank. You didn't have to document your income. You could put whatever you wanted on your application and then the banker's best friend appraiser goes out and appraises the property for whatever they wanted to appraise it for. Now there's all kinds of regulations on documenting your income and you have to go through third party vendors to set up the appraisals. The bankers can't even talk to the appraisers anymore. So there's a lot of regulations on the lending side that is really different than what it was in 2003. In 2003, it was easy to get listings because prices were going up so fast, faster than they are now. And it was easy to find somebody who wanted to make 100,000 today or make 150,000 or make 50,000. So it was easier. It was easier to get listings. And furthermore, the buyers right now, the buyers buying in today's market for the most part are all end users. They're buying the house to live in for a long time. They're investing in the house to buy and hold it and rent it out for a long time. Hardly anybody is buying to flip. Now, that was more so true last year than it is this year. Now I'm starting to see a little bit of flipping going on in the market, just a little bit, not a lot. As that speculatory buying increases, okay, that's where the bubble starts to build. And if you have a market where there's a lot of speculative buying going on and hopes to flip the properties really quickly, once the rug gets pulled out from under them, all those buyers go away and everybody loses everything. The whole thing crashes and burns. So I think if you ask my opinion on the state of the market, I think we're in a very healthy market, a very stable market with a great foundation of great fundamentals. I think that we are in the beginning stages of a possible bubble starting to build. But I think we're on the front end of it. I think that we're fixing to go on one of the largest real estate runs we've ever seen. I think it's going to be an incredible run. And I'm along for the ride. And I know how this story ends. Okay. I've been through this a couple of times. I know exactly how this story ends. And it's really good to be in my position where you have actually experienced this same story play out time and time again, where I can actually sit back and I can play chess with the situation and put all my pawns in position to really capitalize all the way up and all the way down. So that's what I mean by interesting market. Okay. I just want to quickly ask Ricky a question before we do leave, don't mind Robert. So in some ways, I totally agree with you, Ricky. But how long do you think this, I'll call it a ball market, this run, how long do you think it could go like two, three, four years before the final outcome as you remarked? You never know, man. You never really do know. If it's anything like 2003, that one lasted two years, right?  So you never know. That is unpredicted that you nobody can tell you how long that's going to last. If I really had to put my finger on it, you like back me into a corner and said, how long, you know, tell me something, then I would say two years if I had to put a number on it. But it could be six months. It could be five years. You don't know. I have a question, Ricky, because as you've already pointed out, you're saying effectively new agents without systems in place are going to work hard.  So let's actually take that 10 reasons why realtor is fellow instead of say, if you're a new realtor and you're looking at all this extra work, why do you think, what would be the warning signs for you inside? Like you're looking at that new realtor. What would you tell that new guy and saying, you know what, we're in a really weird market right now, and then you give them a couple of pieces of advice, what would that be? Well, here's the thing. Here's a couple of things to say about that. Right. So number one, it's not hard for a guy like me. Here's why, because I understand what the Google's, Facebook's, Apple's, Amazon's, Zillow's of the world are doing. Right. They're all after one thing, data. It's a drug. They're addicted. They can't get enough. Okay. They'll lose money every month, every quarter, every year because they'll take their revenue and put it towards buying more data. Like they don't, they're not even trying to make money anymore. They just want more data. They're an addict. Right. And so what you have to do is you have to think of your real estate business the same way, just a smaller scale. We need, we need to learn from these large corporations that are crushing it because they own all the data and understand that our real estate agent businesses need to be the exact same way. We need to collect as much data as possible. The reason why it's not hard for me is because I spent 15 years as a data collector, a data collector first and a real estate agent second through my journey of trying to collect the most data in the market. I closed tons of deals, but at the end of the day, I created a database that I live off of now that produces 100 deals a year through past kinds referrals and referrals over referrals because I built my brand using the data that I collected over the years.  You don't have to do Facebook ads. You don't have to do anything because you have all the data. You have the price of the data and you have a way that you stay in touch and in front of everyone in that database. OK, it's a base of data. Then then you can literally live. So since I own all the data and the market is tightened up, sellers that want to sell in this market, the ones that actually do, who are they going to call? They're going to call me. And so I just have people calling me and what's happening with the listings. They they sell in one hour. Now what's going to happen when the pendulum swings the other way? Prices come down. Demand comes down. Inventory goes up. What's going to happen now? The investor buyers that are laying dormant right now in my database will come out the woodworks and who are they going to call? Ricky, hey, I want to buy all these great deals that are on the market right now. So when you own the data of the market, you own the entire market. It doesn't matter what the market does. As long as these people know who you are and you've built a brand around being a hard worker, honest, dependable, professional, you've used it the right way and built your brand the right way, then it doesn't matter what the market does. You own the markets. OK, so so understand that the effort per transaction is at an all time high for people getting into the market. But another statistic effort per new relationship created and data contact created is the same as it's always been effort per transaction all time high effort per new relationship, new friendship, new contact, same as it's always been. So so so the goal needs to be how many friends can we make in the market and collect their data? That's what's going to that's what's going to create this scenario where you win and put you in a position where you crush the market regardless of what happens when you own the data, your effort per transaction pretty much stays the same no matter what the market does. But here's the difference. There's a lot of sales people out there that aren't collecting data and that's where I see a lot of people struggling is when you're in the sales business, you got to go out there and sell again. Then you got to go out there and sell again. Then after that sell, sell again. If you're in the data collection, personal branding business, it looks the same in the first couple years because you're out there hustling and bustling and talking to people. But after three to five years, you're the two businesses look completely different. The personal brand or, you know, he's an autopilot, but the sales guy that's not collecting data that's just trying to do deal after deal.  So it depends on how you look at it.


Harry, first goal of Holly Parade, how are you feeling? Very good, bit of a bit of banter in there with Andy's trying to claim it, so it didn't go over the line but the line didn't flag, so that was good enough for me. I didn't see, but I think I know Andy's trying to claim it, but I think for the celebration alone we've got to give it a chapie. I think you know, it was a great run from him and whether it's over the line, whoever scores you know, we'll just bother about winning. It's something I usually do for my first goal, yeah. I don't do it often obviously, the risk of injury and stuff like that, so I do it for my first goal and then that's it.  Hopefully the fans can see what we've been working on during the week while we're training sessions and we're finally playing in practice, we're moving teams, we're making M-wire cards without the ball and the gaps are opening, so yeah, I'm delighted with the week in general. Yeah, I think you can see today, you know, especially in the lads all putting it in for each other, so I think, you know, when we play like that and when we create opportunities like we did today, I think we had opportunities in the first half before they had a man sent off, so it's a good sign and I think we've just got a build on it week by week. And obviously, you made Ritchie scoring in the first half as well, also quite a brilliant goal. Who do you think was better? Oh, Ritchie's definitely. Mine was my individual, but Ritchie's is a great strike, he's a left foot swinger, so I'm not sure he knew where it was going, but yeah, it's a better ball than mine. Lovely mate, thank you very much.


July is going to be hotter than ever because you get up to $50 off any smartphone at Appalachian Wireless to your agreement required. Better service? Bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky network company. We put our hand on our hip and our finger on our lip so we don't touch our friends and we don't talk in the hallway. Even though classes in Johnson County schools don't start for another two weeks in coming kindergarteners at Porter Elementary School showed up bright and early this morning for something called Kinder Camp. They have exposure to a typical school day before any of the other students get here. This allows for students to have an introduction to teachers and some staff members. That way on the first day of school they can see familiar faces and that takes away some of the anxiety. Attending Kinder Camp is not required of all incoming kindergarteners but 40 of the 65 member class were there this morning and teachers all agree that will make the actual first day of school run much more smoothly. Some have gone to preschool, some have gone to daycare and you know some of them are used to other kids and some of them aren't so this is a really good chance to develop those social skills before school starts as well. Children were grouped with classmates they will be with throughout the school year and participated in activities that encouraged interaction. We did some singing and dancing because five year olds always loved that and we made some crafts. We even had a snack and we met Coach May in the GM and now we're having some recess on the playground. All other students in Johnson County will report for their first day of classes on Thursday, August 3rd. Reporting from Porter Elementary in Johnson County, I'm Shannon Deskins for EKB News.


On the Ground. Presented by theCUBE, here's your host, John Furrier. Hello everyone, we are here on the ground in San Francisco for our special On the Ground, CUBE interviews. We go out to the action and find out all the information, extract the signals. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, co-host of theCUBE with Dave Vellante. Our next guest here at the Dell IoT Influencer Press, analyst around here, Rob Enderley, Enderley Research. Great to see you. He's a veteran in the tech industry. Welcome to On the Ground. Thank you for having me. So, one of the things that we were just talking about, you've been around the block many times. We've seen these cycles before. We've seen the movie. What movie is IoT? Can we look at this and say, okay, obviously it's hyped up. We know that. We're both critical of that. But also it's transformational. What movie is this? It's got a lot of potential, but this is kind of the third sequel of a bad movie. So you kind of hope that this time it's going to come together. The elements that need to be in place have to take us from, excuse the term, a techno-weeney environment to where our spouses could use it and not hate us. So that's where we have to go. We have to get to the solution part and away from the components part.  I mean, just work on the ending or what is? So the story is good. It's like one of those things where you really love the story but nobody can seem to pull a movie out of it. That's it. The story is really good. You could have something that was fully automated where the office would configure itself when you went in where your home could do what you wanted to do when you went in where your power was optimized, your water was out. That's all a good story except somebody has to do it end to end. So when you walk in, it's all automatic. You don't have to program it yourself. You don't have to worry about security. It just simply works and we're not quite there yet. We're getting closer but in every iteration we get a little closer but we're still not there. It's a classic IT joke.  I thought the demo version. That was a demo version. It only worked. So the point here about the trailer and the movie we're in really isn't pretty intoxicating. The transformation opportunity. But it's really complicated. What's your take on that? Because there's networks. There's devices. There's software. And it's not just shifting software that was written for the data center and moving it over there. It's complicated. Is that the bottleneck? Is it just security or is it just lack of education? Well, we've got a lot of bottlenecks. One of the big problems is a lot of companies have already done an awful lot of internal automation but they didn't think about, not only didn't they think about wanting to connect to each other, they didn't want to connect to each other because they used their isolated networks as a competitive advantage. It's very hard to display someone's there in a shop. So that makes it incredibly hard to connect all these separate systems into a solution that's intelligent and does what you want. And so you have to step back and say, okay, what do we have to do to fix this? It's almost the case where you might take a place like, oh, an emerging market like India or whatever might get it first because they don't have those ecosystems in place that you have to redo. The baggage. Or the baggage, yes. It's the difference between marrying somebody who's been married three times before and marrying somebody for the first time. There's no baggage. So the end result is that that's where we gotta do. We have to get rid of the baggage and we have to get people to focus on what's the user experience and making that user experience almost magical. I mean, we kind of need what Apple would do here. It's what I'm trying to say. Yeah, complete game changer. Really, complete game changer. Just level the playing field. Just say, we're going this way. I totally agree. The baggage, AKA legacy, is a problem. And as you mentioned, India, great example. Greenfield, if you will, with wireless and new devices. But there's also another problem I want to get your thoughts on because you cover this all the time. I've been following your career for many, many years, going back decades since you were writing. I think we feel really old. IT used to be the nirvana. If you were in IT, you were a rockstar. And then it went through a decade or so of total cutting to the bone. Outsourcing, offshoring. IT was anemic, consolidate. And then all of a sudden, within the past five years, they got to do everything. So now I'm an IT guy. I got to do IoT now. Just another rock on my back. This is the general center. Is IT ready for this? No. But the fact of the matter is, IoT has been really driven by IT yet. I mean, it's one of the issues that where it exists, it exists in ops, it exists in manufacturing. It exists in the line organizations. They're the ones that have been driving these efforts so far. That's really where most of it is. IT's been asked to kind of start pulling this stuff together. It's often the case.   You go, I don't have any staff. Well, that's what causes this cycle where you've got this feast and famine trend at IT. Where they cut it, because it's the problem of being a staff organization. When you're a staff organization, you're always going to get cut. You got to figure out a way to be operational. So that's where all the money's been is in operations and the line organizations and the people that have to get things done. But when you get to a particular critical mass, then IT has to step in and say, let's put it together. Let's get synergies across groups and start showing some real value. Are they ready for that? Because now if I'm an IT, you can't say no to the future. Oh, of course we got this covered. So it reminds me of the mainframe days. It's like, okay, I got it covered, but they're not really going to execute. What I'm hearing is similar like, they're not moving too fast. Are you hearing the same thing? Well, they don't have the budget for it. I mean, the thing is, is what often happens is that given the responsibility and then somebody figures out it's failing and so they finally get the budget. Same thing here. They're being pushed to responsibility, but no place has their budget been relieved so they've got the headcount. You know, that's why they, for so long, dodge mobile devices. They said, you're not giving us any money. We're sure as hell not going to support it, but they got dragged kicking and screaming and managing these mobile devices. They'll get fired if they get, of course they'll get fired if it has a security breach. But they don't have any budget. But remember how we deal with these security breaches, we wait until there's a really big one.   So I'm not the next guy that gets fired and then we get it fixed. We're waiting for that kind of an event here, I think. All right, so what's your outlook? Obviously you're, I mean, you do a lot of critical analysis.  Are you bullish on the direction, the arc of the future of IoT? What's your thoughts and what do you need to see in your mind for this to be kind of really getting some traction? Well, I need to see some kind of a quintessential event and we may have just had it. The US government has put in place a set of GSA requirements that will require an awful lot of these systems to be connected and to be secured. Otherwise, you not only can't supply the government, but you can't supply the people that supply the government and that kind of thing could force a level of connection in interoperability we haven't had before, but customers are going to say, unless we've got this, we can't sell to our major customers, so you vendors fix it, or we're going to fix it ourselves and that's the kind of thing that could drive change. So one of the things here at the Dell IoT event was all like, oh, great stuff happening, but one thing that didn't come up, and I didn't want to say it, I didn't want to really put a downer in the room, was compliance. You already did it. Compliance. No, it was provocative, you were provocative. But the downer in all of this is compliance.  Punch me again with more regulation. IT guys don't want that, CIOs don't want it. It might be a forcing function, but compliance is a problem. What's your take on the current state of compliance relative to big data and the IoT, this whole thing? It's not ready for a compliance model yet, but as I say, the GSA is going to try to force it and they've got enough money to make that happen. The realization is, as soon as nation states got into the business of going on and attacking people's cybersecurity, we needed to bring up everybody very rapidly. We haven't done it yet, but the government's coming around to the idea that we don't, we're going to lose an awful lot of infrastructure. And you know, if we go to war and we can't actually get the people to build tanks, we're going to be in a lot of trouble. So they get that there's a problem, it's still going to take us a while to fix it. That's great insight, Robin. I'll just throw out the security as a conversation here, but one thing that didn't come up is data sovereignty. Data centers are all regional now by country, certainly Amazon, Oracle, IBM, they're moving like the wind to put out these regional country data centers. Well, they had to after Snowden. So after Snowden came out and made it very clear that the US government was looking at all this data, then the data centers had to go regional because there's no way in hell Europe or Japan or China are going to put their data on a US property. And of course, US is not going to ship their data overseas because they're just as distrusting. So suddenly we've regionalized everything. So Larry Ellison's pushing encryption down the chip. There's now actually cycles to actually have the horsepower to handle the overhead. But to your point, if I have different sovereignty states, do I have to decrypt and uncrypt data in and out of countries like passport?  I mean, this is a nightmare. What's your date? It's an absolute nightmare and more important, they're trying to put laws on the books to give the US government a key to all the encryption that's produced here which will pretty much ship all that business overseas. But you've got to figure if the US does it, every other major geography is going to do it. So maybe our encryption software comes from the Cayman Islands after this.  So international, global, the world is flat. How much of an impact is that to your customers that you're advising, some of the discussions that you're in? Well, it creates panic moments because what do we do? It's all in flux. But lately with regard to security, it's all in flux because none of these guys want to have a situation where a foreign government can look at their data or where any of their customers believe that the government can look at their data because that means their customers are going to move to somebody else. So yeah, it's kind of a mess and there's no way they can really deal with it because it's a lobbying effort and you've got to actually roll against your own government to try to keep your business in place. Great conversation here with an influencer and an analyst who's actually had so much experience who's seen the movies before who's on the front lines right now with us and I got to throw this out to you because I've been thinking about this, I've been talking about it publicly a little bit. It's kind of hearsay in the Silicon Valley community is I think we're going to see a swing back to commercial applications because I think there's so much complexity customers like screw open source unless it's totally vetted. I don't, I want vertically integrated. I want bulletproof end to end. That's a swing back to the 80s. It really is. And you think about it, if you've got to certify everybody that worked on a piece of software, how do you do that with an open source project? This is the new game changer. So vertical integration, horizontal integration, data, final question. What's going on with data? Is it going to be horizontal? It's going to be stovepipe, what's your thoughts? Well, it's going to be both, depending on the application. The thing is for long while we focus too much in data, not enough on the analytics, it's really not collecting data. In fact, if you look at the big problem with the government right now, they want to collect more and more data. They haven't been able to analyze the stuff that they've got creating. You know, we can't do it with a little bit. You don't want to get a whole bunch more stuff until you actually are successful with a little bit. So that's been the mess. We focused on big data. We didn't focus on analyzing it first. So our quality of suffering is a result of quantity. Businesses have to deal the data. Otherwise they'll choke on it. Final question, software. What is going to happen with software? Are people going to build their own? Is there going to be some new companies coming out of this? What's your thoughts and what's the relationship with enterprises and the compliance stuff, the new GSA stuff, do you mention what's happening? Well, so I think we're going to have a swing back to larger companies and a lot of the software because they can meet the compliance requirements. We still have a lot of startups going off and we've got things like Indiegogo and a lot of funding models that are breaking out these smaller firms. But at least for the short term, while we've got security in the front of our minds, at least with regard to enterprise activity, I think we're going to favor the bigger firms. Amazon's in a beautiful position at the moment to kind of take the market. They could run the table. Rob Enderleys, internet celebrity, analyst, experienced person, friend of the cube. Thanks for joining us. It's theCUBE on the ground here at Silicon Valley in San Francisco. Thanks for watching.


Hi, my name is Shayna Hercke. I'm a flight position here at the 353 Sauce. I am the flight commander of the OSM. I think two favorite parts of my job, one would be that I get to take care of the best patients in the US military. The second most favorite part of my job is just the constant challenge of where I will perform medicine in the back of which vehicles in what locations, in the middle of what seas and what lands or what assets are available. And trying to incorporate all of that to get them to the highest level of care as fast as I can. I find that particularly challenging and rewarding.


So, continuing we will see that the 2 to the power n terms will cancel and here n square minus n square I take the n out. So, n square will when you take it out it will come out as n here and 1 minus m square by n square will come here. Similarly, this term also is n square minus n square. So, when I take out n it will be n to the power n n it will be it will contribute here when I take out to the n then and n will cancel and as a result I can write in a simplified way the denominator as equal to pi that n will come then it will have e to the power minus n will come and as I mentioned n to the power n also will come then the terms are square root of 1 minus n square by n square will enter here then we will have 1 minus m square by n square to the power n by 2 and here you will have 1 plus m by n divided by 1 minus m by n to the power m by 2. This is going to be my expression and we have not still reached asymptotic form. So, to proceed further of course, we said we will take the limit n tends to infinity, but that is not just sufficient. As we have seen as the number of steps increases his mean dispersity also is increases that means, the walker is likely to be more and more farther away at sites of m closer to one standard deviation which we know is proportional to root n. So, since distance of m bar not really m bar m square bar to the power half is of the order of root n, we must also make m tend to infinity in order to get an expansion. So, our limit should involve n tends to infinity and m also tending to infinity and there needs to be a rule and that rule is such that m square by n is held fixed. We have to impose this criteria in order to arrive at some meaningful or tangible result because this result this choice is hinted by the understanding that the site m also increases rather his occupancy to larger further sites increases and we are looking at around that point. So, the since the standard deviation is proportional to root n this could be the choice. So, in other words as n tends to infinity and m tends to infinity, m square by n is fixed and denote that fixed quantity by quantity x square like this which basically means a limit n tends to infinity and m tends to infinity, but x is some fixed quantity. So, we take now the asymptotic approximation subject to this constraint note that which means x equal to m by root n. Basically the we can even say that it is a scaling method we force see that the scaling of m should be done with respect to the mean dispersity that is root n. So, then we can see that wherever m occurs we should write which means wherever m comes it is x root n or whenever m by n comes which we need in. So, this is going to be x divided by root n and wherever m square by n square comes n square is going to be m square by n square can be written as x square because m square by n is x square. So, it is going to be x square by n. So, with this understanding we can write the expression denominator as d n equal to pi n e to the power minus n n to the power n square root of 1 minus x square by n and next it is same thing, but 1 minus let us separate this definitions 1 minus x square by n to the power n by 2 and here it is going to be 1 plus x by root n divided by 1 minus x by root n to the power m by 2. So, m by 2 is going to be x by 2 root n. Now, we have to carefully take the limit. So, we must then use the definition of e to the power x as a limit n going to infinity. Of course, the first term first few terms up to n to the power n they will remain as such we want we do not want to take the absolute limit of n becoming infinity, but n going towards infinity. Now, the term here is just a square root of a 1 minus x square by n and x is held fixed as we said then x square by n will tend to 0 it is just a square root of 1. So, it will remain as 1. Here it is tricky because it will become as n tends to infinity the second term will go to 0, but 1 to the power infinity it will become and that is what always is to be carefully done e to the power and. So, is it going to be here also as n goes to infinity since x is fixed this will end up as 1 to the power infinity. So, we should take these limits properly and make use of the fact that limit n tends to infinity 1 minus x square by n to the power n by 2 will be e to the power minus x square by 2 the definition of e to the power x itself basically we have made we made use of property 1 plus x by n some x or anything else let us use another notation z by n to the power n equal to e to the power z limit n tends to infinity we made use of this property. So, here z is minus x square. So, you are getting minus n and then of course, whole to the power half. So, you are going to get x square by 2. Similarly, we note that 1 plus x by root n to the power root n into x by 2 that was another term that was hanging there and this is going to be e to the power x square by 2 again, but plus interestingly the denominator term 1 minus x by root n to the power root n and again minus x by 2 it was because it is always to the same power as the second term here this also will become e to the power x square by 2. So, the sum and substance is all the 3 important quantities that is the 1 minus x square by n to the power n by 2 1 plus x by root n to the power here as well as 1 minus x by root n to the power minus all the 3 have been now given their asymptotic forms and when we substitute it systematically we are going to have the denominator as pi n e to the power minus n n to the power n e to the power there are 3 terms. So, e to the power minus x square by 2 e to the power plus x square by 2 and again e to the power plus x square by 2. So, one of them will cancel eventually giving rise to pi n e to the power minus n n to the power n e to the power minus x square by 2 sorry e to the power plus x square by 2. So, this is as n tends to infinity. Now, we go back and look at the numerator we have seen that the numerator we have defined whose asymptotic approximation as n tends to infinity is going to be n to the power n e to the power minus n root 2 pi n. So, if we bring it forward we have our final expression W n limit n tends to infinity W n m will now have W n x and which will have the form numerator divided by denominator that will be root 2 pi n n to the power n e to the power minus n divided by pi n n to the power n e to the power minus n and e to the power x square by 2. When we carefully simplify all the terms cancel out n to the power n will cancel e to the power minus n will cancel. So, here this is a root 2 pi is extends include n. So, the 1 by root 2 will remain, but 1 by root pi n will come. So, you will have basically it will be square root of 2 by pi n e to the power minus x square by 2. This will go up as minus x square, but we can re express in terms of the original variable it will be m square by 2 n and this is an asymptotic limit n tends to infinity m tends to infinity. So, we have arrived at a very neat looking expression which of course, is Gaussian or normal distribution Gaussian distributed which again we had seen from central limit theorem to be true. Only difference being that now we note that that parity constraint is still valid this distribution is 0 whenever the right even odd combination does not occur that is whenever n equal to m whenever n is odd m should be odd otherwise the probability at that point will be 0. So, we should remember. So, it is basically giving you distribution for any step at alternate points that has to be conserved. It is quite interesting that if we actually calculate this the probability occupancy probability with the exact solution as well as is asymptotic distribution at various values of n steps. If they sort of closely agree for n sort of exceeding 4 or 5 percentage errors become negligibly small although we have made this assumption n tending to infinity that asymptotic level is reached fairly quickly. So, that is where the problem of exact solution is valid when we want to understand the behavior in a very few steps early steps or in extremely confined situations where one has to be able to predict the stochastic progress of the stochastic phenomena. Otherwise in a sufficiently open system when the large number of steps are involved the continuum approximation that we have achieved via the asymptotic mod asymptotic approximations is quite valid. To carry forward and connect this distribution to reality in terms of a continuous distribution we have to do us mapping of a site to location and that is what we do now that is converting we will take a first page converting to continuous distribution. So, to do that let us note let us be on the only one side of the axis to safe space and let us locate sites 1, 2, 3, say 4, 5 and let us say 6. So, let us consider an E 1 event let us say n is E 1 example. So, this is W occupancy probability W n say if n is E 1 let us say yes is an E 1 case then the probabilities will exist only for 2, 4 and 6 and of course, 0 also. Now we will have to distribute to be continuous we will have to distribute this probability mass which are pure probabilities to neighboring sites and this is true because when it is E odd it is going to be completely shifted to the odd. So, in either case there are always 2 numbers adjacent to the probability mass which are not occupied and that can be done by ensuring that the total probability that we have indicated is conserved and we distribute it over a length of 2 units this length is 1 and 3. So, it is 2 units similarly here the 4 we distribute between 3 and 5 6 we distribute between 5 and 7 let us say. So, this way now we are assigning probability at every point continuously the what was earlier a probability is now distributed. So, locally if you see it is going to be probability density. So, with that convention we can convert that discrete distribution to a continuous distribution here we have to now define a continuous quantity and let us say as we began let the each of these distances is L. So, which means at the mth site the position is going to be m into L. Similarly, let us assume that the random walker takes a step at regular intervals of time tau. So, so is the step n equal to some time by tau we will use this for replacing steps with the time similarly here we will replace m equal to x by L. So, x is some continuous variable say position similarly here tau t continuous time. So, with this we have to just replace m and n in the asymptotic approximation that we obtain, but that is not just sufficient we must note that since we are spreading the total probability and total probability has to be conserved my probability density W of now x and t that multiplied by the total length because this is height is going to be the probability density representation. So, height into the width that should be the total area under the curve. So, that is a twice L and that should be actual probability mass functions or occupancy probabilities that we already derived thereby implying that my probability density function therefore, will be 1 by 2 L of W n m this will only conserve the total probabilities. So, with this crucial assumptions and from the fact that we have derived W n m equal to root of 2 by pi n e to the power minus m square by 2 n. So, if we carefully represent this is going to be root 2 by pi and n is t by tau. So, it will be t by tau similarly here m is going to be x by L. So, it is going to be x square by 2 L square and it is again t by n is t by tau. So, we will arrive at this expression here we introduce a very important concept of the concept of diffusion coefficient for the process is a definitional, but it is very important. So, diffusion coefficient we define at the moment as L square by 2 tau and here we have to also add 1 by 2 L by virtue of mass conservation. So, that will enter here. So, when we eliminate L square by tau everywhere you will finally, end up with the expression W x t is going to be 1 by square root of 4 pi d t e to the power minus x square by 4 d t. It is easy to see because L square by tau is going to be 2 d. So, you will have 2 into 2 d is 4 d and then time will remain 4 d t. Similarly, here when you take L inside it is going to be L square and then 2 it will going to be 4 when you square. So, that will also lead to 4 pi d t. So, this is a completely normalized probability density distribution function for the evolution of the position as a function of time for a random walker obtained by a model called the random walking model. At this point it is a right opportunity to note that one can have several models not necessarily the one we have adopted to arrive at this form of a distribution function. So, it is a kind of degenerate because many processes whichever may be the actual transition probability distribution eventually end up giving us a Gaussian distribution in the symptotic limit. The difference therefore, essentially lies only in small time or small step limits where individual memories will be held whether he has been only a nearest neighbor walker random walker or he has been performing length jumps to other sites or not. Just to complete this we note that if you plot it as a function of x at a different times originally it could be a delta function which eventually will broad as I mentioned with the variance which is given by sigma square will be 2 d t or sigma will be square root of 2 d t which is the famous Einstein result. This is consistent with that we introduce ourselves now to an extension or going a step beyond the symmetric random walk. Symmetric random walk assumed that random walker had no preference to move either left or right. Same random walk model the fundamental concept and formulation that we made can be applied to a situation where there could be a slight bias in moving backward or forward. To give you an example a small fine dust particle which settles under gravity if it is of course, very large it will be so much affected by gravity that you would not expect it to have a random walk it becomes a very deterministic motion. On the other hand if the particle is extremely small then because of viscous drag the it does not feel gravity as much, but it feels its Brownian motion very strongly. So, there will be a significant random walk, but however gravity must act at some level so there will be a some bias in that particular particle taking either an upward jump or a downward jump. Random walk formulation allows us to handle this kind of situations and that is called as random walk with bias. Without having to worry about what actually is the physics that governs this bias in our model it is very easy to introduce this as symmetric motion by merely saying that the probability of right jump and that of the left jump need not be half now. We introduce a symmetric by saying that if p is the probability of right jump then it is just 1 minus p is the probability of left jump, but p need not be half. So, with this slight generalization one obtains fairly interesting expression with much wider applications in many many several problems which we are going to study in next couple of lectures. Thank you.