I love this cornbread so much because I love corn and this cornbread is just corn, it makes it gluten-free instantly. There's some corn flour sifted together with baking soda, some cornmeal, mix up some eggs and a bunch of buttermilk to make a super liquid batter. Pour it in a warm skillet with some butter just kind of warmed up and browning there in the bottom and then you let it bake in the oven until it is just kind of set almost like a solid polenta. It's unsweetened so you can sweeten it as much as you want depending on what you're eating and how you like it anyway. Add a little butter, you can add a little honey, a little sorghum syrup, as much or as little as you want and it is just delicious.


أشهد أننا سيدنا محمدا عبد الله ورسوله وصفيه من خلفيه وحبيبه أد الأمان وبلغ الرسالة ونصح الأمة وكشف الله به جملة وجاهد في الله حق بهذه حتى أتاه دفنين فصروات رمبي وسلامه عليه وعلى كل من اتدى بسنة إليه اليوم الدين والعاكرة الدين متقيم اللهم جعنا منهم يا رب العالمين آمين آمين ثم آمين يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتنا إلا وأنتم مسلمون أما بعد فقال الرسول من كريم صلى الله عليه وعليه وعلى آل وسلمه ذاك فرم الإيمان من رضية بالله ربا وبالإسلام إيمان وبمحمد رسوله the beloved messenger صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلمه said he has tasted the delight of faith he has truly tasted faith and so do we not feel that yearning in our hearts for who he is about to describe the prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلم has said he has tasted faith he has truly tasted faith and we will spend our lives trying to taste the delight of that faith if only for but a moment of our lives but the prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلم but the prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلم gave us the formula in this hadith and if we want to have a fast the fast pass if you will I'm here in Northern California right the fast pass if we want that shortcut for the delight of faith to be experienced in our hearts then on the last point that the prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلم gave us that shortcut and it is through Rida it is through contentment he said the one who is content with Allah as his Lord with Islam as his religion and with Muhammad as his messenger صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلم the one who is content with Allah as his Lord with Islam as his religion and with Muhammad as his messenger صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلم صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وسلم and this is the first question or the only question that we will be asked in the grave once we hear the last traces of footsteps leaving the place where we will make our final abode in this creation in this life the angels will raise us up each one of us in our graves and ask us about those three entities who is your Lord what is your religion and who was the prophet sent to you and those are not easy questions to answer those are not questions that we can memorize and pay lip service to but those are questions that we will be able to answer with the confidence that is commensurate with our contentment with them in this life that if we are content truly with Allah as our Lord if we are truly content with Islam as our religion and if we are truly content with Muhammad as our messenger then the ease with which we will answer that question will be to our greatest benefit once we are opposed with that question and so he said he will taste the flavor of his faith it was related that the prophet said to a group of the faithful who are you they said we are the faithful he asked his companions whom he is building from the ground up into men and women and he asked them who are you they said we are the faithful we have iman they said and he said what is the sign of your iman in that case they said we are patient with tribulation we are grateful with our contentment and we are content wherever the decree of Allah فقال فقال he said faithful and I swear by the Lord of the Ka'ba that you are so and in another narration he said he said scholars people who truly have understanding in their innermost core and from that understanding they are virtually prophets that is how he described his companions that they were virtually prophets by what they described of their faith because they were finally able to taste the delight of it in their hearts through the contentment that they had with Allah as their Lord and so this word this word this word it comes from three letters and right and and and and this word means to be content to be pleased but it's connected if you switch the ordering it's connected to right right which in its is right which is a meadow in a garden and so this word if you switch the order of it you have contentment contentment that allows the heart to be a meadow of paradise contentment that allows the heart to experience paradise as though you were walking through its meadows and this meaning was not lost on Imam Al-Razi who talks about when you get this variation in switching the order of the letters and he talks about this and he says that that know that the servant is created body and spirit body and spirit they fuse together to make the human being for and so the heaven of the body is the heaven that is described by Allah SWT throughout the book and the and the of the soul of the spirit is the contentment with his Lord is contentment with it so jannah is contentment with Allah that you could already be in jannah if we have you and I if we have this contentment with Allah SWT it's as though we walk in jannah before we even get there this is the meaning and this contentment with Allah SWT in terms of the that's lexically what it means but in the sciences on the tongues of the people of the heart the doctors of the heart they say that contentment is they said that they gave different definitions one is inward contentment of the heart it is happiness inward happiness of the heart with how the decree falls upon a person how the decree flows through a person that Allah's decree flows through us like the blood through our veins and if we find happiness in our heart with the decree of Allah SWT then that is the station of contentment they said that it's also that when the decree of Allah comes that we receive it with happiness we receive whatever that decree is with utter happiness and they said نظر القلبي and it is also the tranquility of the heart under the decree as it falls and it was also said that it is how the heart perceives the pre-eternal choice of Allah SWT the pre-eternal will of Allah SWT with respect to us every one of our affairs and so and knowing that Allah SWT has only willed that which is for our benefit and that which will ultimately be for our good to have certainty in that that Allah's choice for us is the best choice for us أبو عبدالله السجي said that there are people among the creation of Allah باشفونس with Allah SWT just like the bashfulness of young children that there are men, grown men who have the same bashfulness from Allah SWT just like the bashfulness of young children I met some of these men in Mauritania you don't even see their faces they cover their faces they cover their mouths so that you don't even see from sheer bashfulness they'll cover their mouths in front of other men and so you'll never see them eat never see them laugh and you can only hear their voice from behind the veil I've met grown men like this and they said that their bashfulness with Allah SWT is such that they don't have any happiness like said عمر ابن عبدالله عزيز used to say in his daily every time he would wake up he would say that I have entered a new morning so happiness except in the places where the decree of my lord falls wherever the decree of my lord falls that is where I have my happiness that is where I'm most happy and so this does not mean and don't get it twisted this does not mean that we don't resist injustice for example that we see oppression and that we're pleased with that every situation has an appropriate response and so Allah SWT is not pleased with corruption Allah SWT is not pleased with فصوك عسيان and all of these vices and he uses this word Allah SWT says ولا يرضى ولا يرضى اللي عباده الكفر Allah SWT is not pleased كفر for his servants although he wills it but he's not pleased with it and so we as bearing the names and attributes of Allah SWT upon us as well there are moments where we are pleased with something and moments where we are displeased with a thing moments where we accept something with good contentment and good pleasure and moments where we resist but ultimately we are pleased with the outcomes that Allah SWT decrease ultimately we have with the outcomes that Allah SWT decrease because we know that the unseen is the context for everything that defaults us in the scene the unseen is the context for everything that defaults us in the scene and it may be and according to the Prophet SAW that the men who is giving the most in this world and have the most the most luxurious life will be placed in for an instant and he will negate any blessing that he ever had he will not remember a single blessing that he enjoyed in this life and the opposite is true the one who suffered the most in this life will be put into jannah for an instant and he will negate all of the suffering that he ever had to endure in this life that is the context for everything that we see in that is the the way that we can perceive and interpret good and evil in this world that it's all from Allah SWT but in the next life if we have that view in the next life we know that everything is ordained and everything is decreed with a grand wisdom and purpose and ultimately Allah SWT is not unjust to any of his servants من رضي أب الله ربا whoever is pleased with his lord pleased with Allah SWT as his lord whoever is pleased with Allah SWT as his lord صفيانة ثوري once made this رابع العدوية he asked her to pray for him he asked her oh dear رابع ask Allah SWT and she said ألا تستحي من الله صفيانة ثوري ألا تستحي من الله she said don't you have bashfulness in front of Allah you ask that Allah be pleased with you while you are not pleased with him how do you ask Allah that he be pleased with you while you go not pleased with him while every day you complain he's not talking about him directly like criticizing him but reminding him waking him up to the reality of the human condition that we go day in day out complaining about any number of things and in every complaint is an expression of frustration with the decree of Allah SWT and then in the end of the day we say oh Allah be pleased with us in the most exalted way be pleased with us in the most sublime way be pleased with us ya Allah while we are not pleased with Allah the mu'min does not complain the mu'min does not complain why? because the beloved is Allah SWT Allah is our حبيب Allah is our beloved and if Allah is our beloved truly 입니다 then everything the beloved does is beloved if it's true love whatever the beloved does is beloved to you because it's coming from the beloved whatever the beloved does is sweet to you because it's coming from the beloved whatever the beloved does is pleasurable for you because it's coming from the beloved and it makes the beloved happy this is how we treat our wives and our husbands إذا كانوا أحب cold that we would try to furnish it for them. Why because what ever makes them happy makes us happy. What ever makes them pleased makes us pleased. So that which makes Allah pleased makes us pleased. That with which Allah is pleased makes us pleased as well. And so whatever Allah does is beloved to us. And what this requires is a real orientation. What it requires is a wake up call. ما يحتاجه هو لنا أن نفتح نظامنا إلى حقيقة ما يحدث لنا في موضوع اليوم كما يحدث as a community and as individuals إمام علي عليه سلام سد ما رأيته شيء قط إلا ورأيت الله قبله وبعضه ومع that I have never seen a thing إلا أنني أرى الله قبله وبعضه ومع it that nothing happens except that I see Allah as the cause at the cause at the effect and I see Allah in the moment so ultimately there is no cause and effect in our أقيدة there is no such thing as cause and effect there is only the fear of Allah there is only the action of Allah so when I take this match against this paper that fire does not cause the paper to burn in the example that our theologians give us that paper does not cause that fire that that fire does not cause that paper to burn but Allah causes that fire to ignite and now Allah causes that paper to burn so in that we we witnessed two acts of Allah and the miracle is that we witnessed two acts that we witnessed Allah in two acts as opposed to one because if Allah willed he could have that that fire ignite and that paper not burn and you and I would call that a miracle and yes it is a miracle because it it it contradicts what is conventional because it opposes what is conventional but is not two acts of Allah that much more awesome than one act of Allah is not the ignition and the burning that that much more miraculous than than withholding the burning and to see Allah in every moment to see Allah in every moment with the with the eye of certainty with the eye of certainty this allows a believer to begin to reinterpret and to and to interpret correctly all of the events that befall us in our day to day all of the if the men can come forward please all of the events that happen to us on a daily on a daily basis for if we truly see Allah سبحان تعالى then how will we respond to the test when it comes how will we respond if Allah سبحان تعالى is behind every word if Allah سبحان تعالى is behind every act how will we respond to that the next the next problem that faces us in our family that we see the test of Allah سبحان تعالى in that and that he wants to bring us through that test closer to him in every step of the way there is قبض and bust there is constriction there is expansion and the constriction is there to test us the expansion is there to test us and Allah سبحان تعالى is there with with with every decree he is there with every decree and so this pleasure of Allah سبحان تعالى this ridah of Allah سبحان تعالى is what the the believer seeks to seek after that the person who wants something other than what Allah has decreed the person who wants something other than what Allah has decreed has not left one iota of ignorance he has not left one iota of ignorance because everything that Allah سبحان تعالى he decrees with his wisdom and if we were to if we were to to want something else other than that after it happens after it yes we resist oppression we resist unjust injustice but whenever the decree comes it's irresistible sometimes and it comes sometimes against our against what we desire and we have to have contentment we have to have contentment and learn from the lesson and learn from every from from every act of resistance we have to learn we have to get stronger there were certain there were certain battles at the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the companions lost and they had to learn through that and there are certain battles that they won and they had to learn from that and in every in every battle was the wisdom of Allah سبحانه وتعالى الله was teaching them through their defeats and they said that mistakes are sometimes the very best of teachers ميمون ابن مهران he said that the person who is not content with the decree of Allah سبحانه وتعالى there is no medicine for his stupidity and so the greatest closing this part of the خطب أب the greatest thing that you can possibly ask for just imagine the greatest the greatest blessing in جنة the greatest blessing in جنة is to be able to see to to be whole your Lord that is the greatest blessing in جنة is to be able to behold Allah سبحانه وتعالى to behold the countenance of your Lord and as everyone is gathered in that in that reality in that realm may Allah سبحانه وتعالى make you and me among them as everyone is gathered in that realm to experience that reality just imagine that Allah سبحانه وتعالى asks you and he says he says ask of me and you are already there beholding your Lord which is the yearning of our souls from the very moment we were created to be in communion with him and he says saloonie ask of me what could you possibly ask what could you possibly ask for in that moment ابو طالب المكيه in his book قوت القلوب he says that when people and he's he's quoting he says that all of those souls that have just been asked to ask of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in that moment where they are beholding their Lord they will say in unison as they said before قالوا بلا they said yes you are our Lord in unison again they will say رضاكا your contentment your contentment رضي الله عنهم ورضو عن your contentment can you imagine asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for contentment after having that beatific vision could you imagine asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for anything else but in unison all of us will ask inshaAllah you and i will be there all of us will ask رضاكا يا الله رضاكا we want your contentment يا الله we want we seek your contentment يا الله سبحانه وتعالى ابو طالب المكيه says that the reason for that is not because the contentment is greater than the beatific vision but because through his contentment the beatific vision will perpetuate through his contentment the beatific vision will be repeated through that so do you see the great status of رضا it is the highest of the مقامات الروح as we ascend from sabr to shukr from patience to gratitude and from gratitude all the way we go through all of the spiritual mqams inshaAllah الله سبحانه وتعالى bring us and raise us up through all of those those runs on the ladder رضا is the highest of those stations رضا is the highest of those stations الله من لا تحلنا رضا يا رب العالمي وضع عننا رضاكا لا اطفع الله معامين قامين اقول قلوا يا عذاب وستفروا الله لي ولكم يسالل المسلمين فاستفروا انه هو الغضفور الرحيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على أشق الانبياء والمرسانين سيدنا محمد سيد الأولين والآخرين وعلى صحابتي هو من تبعهم بإحسان من رضا بالإسلامي دينا ومن من who is content with Islam as his religion as a community we have departed from the prophetic definition of Islam we have turned it into an identity and as such have ascribed ourselves to an entity where Sheikh Hamza coined Bani Islam we have taken a word whose first connotation is described a relationship between creator and creature and turned it into an ID card the Shahada which is a spiritual perceptiveness and witnessing is plastered onto the flags of political nation states and picket signs it is appropriated as a symbol of national identity and thereby politicized into the consciousness of the citizens of the state from time to time it assumes political sovereignty and unleashes untold havoc there is no Islam but Islam and Muhammad is the messenger of Islam if we are truly pleased with Islam as our religion we have to know what is this word what is the nature of Islam what is the reality of this word because we wear it like an ID bag sometimes so when Islam is a noun it's a person, place or a thing it's an organization, it's a convention it's a book, it's a body of scholars it's a mosque, it's a movement it's a university degree it's a legal code, it's a box you check on an application or it's a way of life and when Islam is an adjective it describes a noun it's Islamic, it's cultural it's an affiliation it's the desire to Islamize something it's sectarian, it's an accessory it's posturing, it's an ideal it's an ideology it's an identity however Islam being a verbal noun a musta it is a jarred or an infinitive it is submitting it is an intention it's a process it's practice it's tribulation it's success and failure it's discovery it's endeavoring it's serving it's living who is the Muslim he is the one who named you مسلم إبراهيم عليه السلام so that that is our faith that is our religion it's endeavoring and it's struggling and if we're pleased with Islam as our religion then we have no we bring to it no filters we come as we are to Islam as it is to aspire to be the best version that we can be of ourselves and it is a process it is an approach to our Lord and if you come to Allah with a baggage with luggage of isms that weigh you down then how would your spirit ever soar and every ism is a prism of a mind in prism every ism is a prism of a mind yet in prism so we don't bring our prism to the to the threshold of faith we leave our prism we leave our isms at the door when we enter into to receive the generous hospitality of our noble Lord and sit at the at the banquet of his blessings we leave our prism our isms behind and that is submission ودخولو في السلم كافة enter into submission entirely enter into peace entirely enter into this tranquility entirely with your mind, body and soul this is Islam and if you are pleased with that then burn away the isms burn away all those identity markers that are barriers inevitably between you and your Lord and come to him seeking his good pleasure with you not worshipping Allah على حرف on an edge so if it conforms with what I believe then it's good and it's wholesome and if not then there's something wrong in it or there's something that has to be reinterpreted in order for it to fly and you will not fly you will sink ومن رضي بمحمد رسولة and the one who is pleased with Muhammad as his messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم are we truly pleased with Muhammad as the messenger are we truly pleased with the Prophet Muhammad as the messenger النبي أولى بالمومينين مننفسهم الله سبحانه وتعالى says الله says this this is not some hadith where you can look into the sun of the chain of transmission and say well what is really going on here because it really seems that people have sort of gone overboard in their love for the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and such that they made him more entitled to us than we are to ourselves النبي أولى بالمومين مننفسهم the Prophet is more entitled to the faithful than they are to their very own souls that's a verse out of the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that is not some hadith that is a verse out of the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وَلَا سَوْفَ يُبْتِكَ رَبُكَ فَتَرْبَ and your Lord will give you to the point that you are well pleased that you have contentment and his contentment is connected to you and me his contentment is never personal his contentment is never for himself his contentment is never to recompense himself or to compensate himself for all that he has suffered and lost and all that he has sacrificed for the sake of this ummah his contentment is just for you and me and that's why on the day of judgment he will say نعم أنا لها أنا لها when all of the other prophets will forsake their people he will say I am for this I am for that I am for this intercession and all of his intercession will be for you and me and he is now in his grave interceding for us you don't believe me he says he said حياتي خيرٌ لكم ومماتي خيرٌ لكم in a hadith related by Sahih Muslim so don't talk to me about the chain of transmission that my life is better for you and my death is better for you as for my life we share space and time you call talk to me I talk to you I talk right back to you we share these days and nights and as for my death توعردو علي أعمالكم he said that your actions will be presented before me either individually or as an ummah there's a difference among the scholars about that either individually that our deeds will be presented before the beloved son of Allah in his grave or as an ummah so he is not aloof of what his ummah finds and he said that if I see good I will pray for you and if I see if I see good I will praise my Lord and if I see otherwise I will seek forgiveness for you and this is happening now this is happening now in his grave in his grave this is happening are you not pleased with that are you not pleased with him صلى الله عليه وسلم does he not have jurisdiction over your life does he not have rights over you and me does he not have the right to command you does he not have the right to forbid you does he not have that right بلا يا الله يا الله بلا he has that right النبي أولا بالمومنين من أنفزي the prophet is more entitled to the faithful than they are to their very own self so are you not pleased with Muhammad as your messenger and if we are truly pleased صلى الله عليه وسلم as our messenger if we are truly عشاق رسول الله if we are truly the عشيقون of رسول الله then our deeds must be such that bring upon us his عشك our deeds must be such that they must be worthy of his عشك for us if you are truly عشاق of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم truly yearners lovers of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم then your deeds must be in conformity with what he brought with the شريعة that he brought with the guidance that he brought with his command and with his prohibition because he loves you more than you even love yourself he loves us more than we love ourselves and that was the realization of say when he said I love you more than anything more than my wealth more than my family more than anything more than everything I own except this nest that is between these two sides and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم addressed everyone through عمار he addressed you and me through عمار he addressed you and me through عمار and he said that none of you none of you will have his faith perfected until I become more beloved to him than all of his property all of his wealth all of his family everything he loves even his own نفس between his two sides and say I love you more than anyone who had a moment of utter transformation in that there was a veil that was lifted off of his eyes in that moment and he said يا رسول الله I swear that you are more beloved to me than this nest you are more beloved to and he remembered that this was the same نفس that was on its way one day on a suicide mission to killing the messenger of Allah and he would have surely died that day the companions would not have allowed that believe what you will about say عمار on the battlefield there is no way that the companions would have allowed him to touch the Prophet of Allah no way and he was he was willing to die that day and he said this was the same نفس that led me to kill this man who was sent to this nest to clutch it from from to rest it out of so how could I not how could I not give my heart to this man how could I not give my mind over to this man how could I not give my being over to this man how can I not bask in the light of his countenance how can I not allow all of what he has to give to be received how could I prevent that by my own love of this nest you take this نفس يا رسول الله it is yours you are more entitled to it than I am my Lord told me that you are more entitled to this nest than I am to it and he said الآن يا عمار now or عمار now or عمار now or عمار now now it's real now it's pure now it's perfect now you can taste it's sweetness قلوم صلي و صلي مبارك أنا سيد محمد و صلي و صلي مبارك أنا سيد محمد في الآخرين و صلي و صلي مع أنا سيد محمد في الملأ الأعلى اليوم الدين و صلي تسنيم كثير كثير اللهم فلنا ضنوبنا و كفر عنا سيئاتنا وتوفننا مع الأبراء وجعننا من المحسنين يا رحم الراحبين اللهم إنك عفو انت اللهم إنك عفو كهدي منت اللهم لا تحلم ايها لسلاح ايها لسلاح ايها للطلاح ايها للطلاح قد قامت لا قد قامت لا اللهم اكبر اللهم اكبر لا ايه لا


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What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another comic book video. Today I'm gonna share with you some X Factor comic books that were included in the 2000 lot that I purchased. I didn't realize I had so many X Factor. I think there's about 50 X Factor comics. So there's gonna be two videos worth of this X Factor. So I'm only gonna do half of them today. And then in the future you'll see another video of more X Factor comics. I'm gonna start off with this pile here. It's more newer ones. But honestly I don't know what issues are there. I don't know if it's in order or anything like that. But let's just get straight into it and see what we have. First one here is Divided We Stand issue 29. Now this comic here looks cool, but it's really rough. It's all torn. And for a newer comic, that to me is terrible. Was not taken care of whatsoever. Next we have issue 133. Again a little bit too new for me. I like more of the 80s personally. But it is a really nice cover. I do like the artwork. So I'm gonna have to decide if I wanna keep this one for myself or if I do want to sell it. If you guys see in any of my comic book videos something that you're interested in, let me know. Even if you're in the United States, I can work out a deal with you or possibly a trade. I just have to figure out number one, if it's still available, if I haven't already sold it. Or possibly if it's something that I wanna keep in my collection, obviously I'm not going to want to sell it. But we can work something out. Next is issue 136. A lot going on and this is kind of a messy one. I like where it's kind of like simple covers but really nice artwork. Issue 127. I like that one, that one looks nice. I'm gonna try to angle it so there's no glare. Make it a little better for you guys. This one looks cool, I like it. 122, that looks really cool. That's interesting. I'm definitely gonna have to at least read this one. You look like, it looks like Mystique is terrified in the reflection there. This one here, I'm assuming it's 120. One thing with the later 90s comics, if it doesn't say the issue number, which sometimes they don't for whatever reason, in the bar code you can see it. So it says that it's issue 120. This one here, again it doesn't say this is 119. Really weird, I don't know if it's one that's one of the side ones. It doesn't look like it because the image is this way. Usually it'd be the other way if it was one of the side ones. This is 116, interesting. But the late 90s is honestly not the stuff that interests me so much. It's more of the mid 80s or any of the 80s, honestly, 60s, 70s, also hard to find those in good condition in my area. And early 90s, but not the late 90s. This is 115, like the artwork of them though. I'll give them that. The artwork of these are really interesting. It's just not what I like to collect. This is 114. I like that, I like that they change the location of the title of it all the time. These aren't bagged and boarded by the way, you guys can tell that's 113. Some might be, I don't think any that are gonna be in this video are gonna be boarded at least. 102, this is more of the stuff that I like, more of the stuff that I collect. This is one of the original titles instead of the 90s one where it's different. 98s, what going on in that one? That's really cool, I like that. 93, not too familiar with X Factor to be honest with you, but they are interesting at least. 83, I have no idea who this is. Comment down below if you know. Looks crazy right there. Cool though, the joy of collecting. You never know what you're gonna find whenever you purchase a huge lot. Now I did purchase this lot to resell but some of it might be staying in my collection. I just right now don't know how much. This is 112, interesting. 99, 94, has a little wear discoloring here. Can't really tell on camera though. 87, a lot's going on here. That is cool, I like that. It's just neat, looks cool. 82, so hoping for some earlier ones. Maybe in the next video, maybe I split the stack of them wrong. Should have done the other one first. Maybe it's older ones in that one, more what I collect. 79, yeah, cause we're working ourselves the wrong way. 77. I must say they are interesting comics. It's just, I don't know too much about X-Factor. X-Force, X-Men, yes, X-Factor. Not really, none of the covers are really ones that it's like, oh, that has so-and-so on the cover. I need to keep that so far. I haven't found any of those. 72, but they are interesting covers. Like, I think before I sell these, I am gonna be looking to see exactly what there is or read them maybe, some of them. And issue 60, that's the last one for this video. So, I don't know. Again, I'm not really into X-Factor. I'm more into X-Force, X-Men, Spider-Man, other ones, but they are interesting. In what I just shared with you, there's nothing that really stands out to me that I would wanna keep in my collection. So, if you're interested in any of it, let me know. But I will have this listed very soon. So, before this video is even uploaded, it might already sell. I'll let you guys know if you guys are interested, just let me know. But I am gonna be doing part two for X-Factor very soon. And as you guys see on the channel, there's a lot more comics to come. And I even have a lot of kind of expensive comics or more expensive comics that I'm gonna be sharing that were included in this lots. And then after all of that, once I've went through most of the lot on camera with you guys, if you guys wanna see some of the more lower end stuff mixed between Marvel, DC, just not popular stuff, if you want me to put a box right next to me and just start pulling stuff out, stuff that honestly I don't even know if I've went through yet. If you guys wanna see that, that's gonna be completely random comics in each of those videos. If you wanna see that, let me know. But for the most part I like whenever it's one of the videos X-Factor, one of the videos Spider-Man, things like that because you guys do love that as well. So let me know if you guys want me just to pull out a box that I have not gone through and just start going through it on camera and seeing what exactly is there. I definitely could do that. If I'm gonna leave this video here, please take care. Peace.


Good morning everyone and welcome to the first press conference on the third day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos 2016. Thank you for joining us here in the room and also on the live stream. You're joining the press conference that is asking the question, can relief build the foundations for a more resilient future? And we have an expert panel here today, both from the humanitarian and the development sector, that will try to answer that question. Let me quickly introduce the panel to you. I'll start at the very end. We are joined today and very pleased by that, by Danny Sriskandaraja, the Secretary General of Civicus, the World Alliance for Citizen Participation, based in South Africa. He's also a member of our young global leader community. Next to him is sitting Badr Jafar. He's the Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Enterprises, based in the United Arab Emirates, also a young global leader, and also a member of the High Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing, which is very important to us, especially here today. Right in the center of our panel, we are joined by Helen Clark. She is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program, or UNDP. And right next to me, we have the pleasure of having Stephen O'Brien, the Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, as you may know it. Thank you for joining us all here on the panel. And without further ado, Stephen, I jump right to you. The discussion about relief to development has been, has been going on for a year, for years, and yet it still appears to be a challenge. What is, what is the problem? What are you, what is the challenge we're facing, and how optimistic are you that we can solve that, solve that problem and address that challenge? Thank you. Well, thank you very much. And I think this is a really important question. If you like, the question has been around for decades, and it's perhaps not surprising. When there are people in very severe emergency circumstances, and this is much easier to imagine as a result of a natural disaster, then the response of the rest of us is to get what they need to do to them extremely fast, and to give them the chance to save, to have their lives saved, to have themselves protected from continuing threat, and to set them on a path for some security and to thrive. And at some point in that process, you move from that immediate need to mobilize resources, relevant life-saving and other support commodities and skills into what is going to underpin their future that is going to give them both hope and a lack of vulnerability. And that is why this has taken such a long time to debate, because the way things were set up, not for any bad reason, and for good organizational reasons in the past, was to see these as separate episodes. And as I say, in natural disasters, this is easier to understand. The emergency relief people can go in, and when their work comes to an end, they can think of an exit as they hand on, hand the ball on to continuing to work with local people, local government capacity where that is in place, but above all also the global reach and citizenry represented primarily through UNDP, but also many implementing partners and civil society. And that's where it's called development, but this is called early recovery. It's called how do you get people back on a path. The challenge that now confronts us is because the scale of need for emergency relief in our world today is both 80% occasioned by complete man-made conflict contexts. And as a result of the political failure to bring those conflicts to an end, and the flea response, which is natural when you're fearing bombs or you have no hope of being able to return home, is that you need to have a perspective which is much longer. And by definition, how long can emergency be? And this is why the challenge of definition has sometimes overtaken the reality on the ground. And so I'm very clear that, for instance, a very immediate step with the upcoming London Syria conference where this is being framed not just as it has to be, a pledging conference to ensure that the world wills the means for what it wishes to see as the relief, the emergency relief of the very dire circumstances continuing for the Syrian people both in Syria and in the neighbouring countries, but also strategically because it is possible to start putting in place a much more investment approach behind the people in Syria or enabling them to be able to return to their own homes and to have the ability not only to have the staples of life and local infrastructure and to help increase the ability of local municipal authorities to support them, but above all to enable education, jobs and the context which give people a hope and a future. And the idea that that should be one episode to another rather than a graduation, a blend where development actors can get in at an early stage even whilst the conflict is raging perhaps elsewhere in the country and to do that which is not dependent upon a relationship with the host government because so often in these conflict situations that is part of the problem. And so the World Humanitarian Summit in May in Istanbul on the 23rd and 24th, one of the central planks and this will appear in the Secretary General's report shortly to be published by the end of January to support that World Humanitarian Summit and with many of the member states and the stakeholders arriving in Istanbul with concrete ideas as to how do we break down the humanitarian development to provide because inevitably when you have organizational definitions it is completely wrong that Helen Clark here and myself should think of ourselves as working in separate silos. The fact that we're sitting beside each other shows that pictorially this is how we should be working horizontally with each other, not apart from each other. And I think it's that kind of mental map that we need to re-score to help us all come to a much better understanding of what is necessary and indeed is happening in many places on the ground. But we need to make sure this is much better understood and to make sure this is done through live examples of programming, of multi-year financing, of ensuring that we have a therefore multi-year programming and that we have a good immediate relief of the cohort of need as we find it. And that is our measure with the impartiality that international humanitarian law demands in terms of our safe unimpeded access, but at the same time making sure that we're putting in place those building blocks of a future because hope is ultimately what we are about. Once a life is saved, once a life is protected, it is no point in leaving that life in vulnerability. It's at that point you want it to have dignity and to thrive. And you can't do that either as just humanitarians or just as development actors. It's because we combine to bring the best of both our disciplines, our skills and our attitudes of commitment that will help deliver that for the people who are the most vulnerable in the world. And because we must not leave any behind to reach the most vulnerable first. Thank you, Stephen. Helen, over to you. From your perspective at UNDP, if you think of the ambitious agenda of the SDGs, what are the concrete actions that can be taken to bring the humanitarian and development work closer together? Firstly, on the SDGs, we start with SDG 1, eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. This cannot be done unless conflict ends. And the tragedies we see unfolding with South Sudan, Central Africa Republic, the Syria crisis, Afghanistan, how do you eradicate extreme poverty when the crisis burning all around is keeping people dug into that. So I think when we're thinking about the ways forward, we absolutely have to underline the critical importance of trying to achieve peace, political, diplomatic settlements because otherwise we're all struggling to meet the demands the crises generate. And then I want to follow on from Stephen's point that there is, of course, a point in the natural disaster cycle. And my own country is very disaster prone. So I know a little about this, as well as observing so many others around the world. There's a point where everything is thrown at relief, you know, earthquake, things have fallen down, people people attract desperately need support. Humanitarians right in there, it's a relief, it's a rescue. Very soon, you need to bring the development people in because getting people involved in their own recovery is so vital. So that comes quite soon. But what I think has provoked a lot of the debate now around relief and development and it not being a spectrum, but actually needing to go absolutely hand in hand, are these protracted crises where it's not really first, then development, because the crisis ain't over the Syrian ones about to clock up the fifth anniversary. And so as Stephen said, the focus of the discussion has moved very much to how do we do both? Because you take the situation in Syria where we see the most terrible scenes of people in dire need. There's also a lot of areas in Syria where life is going on, the war isn't actually raging in a lot of communities. And there, yes, there is a need for support for food security and a lot of the things that humanitarian agencies do. But there's also a need to keep the micro businesses going, get the startups, train the youth, empower the women who are often the woman headed households much more common these days, people with disabilities, they've got ongoing needs as well. People want their children in school, they want they want the health service, they want the power, the water, the sanitation systems working. So they're very practical things that the development people can come in and do alongside the relief people. And I think that getting getting this mix right is going to be absolutely critical to trying to stabilize people where that's possible in Syria in their communities and also very important in the neighborhood as well where people want to live in dignity in the host communities and the refugee communities as well. So this is something we're extremely interested in. And I think if we think about the humanitarian financing panel report which was released in UAE at the weekend, one of the areas of key interest to the development actors is the chapter that says shrink the needs. So we feel that by really bringing development in alongside humanitarian, we can shrink the needs if we can get more people into livelihoods, more services operating, we can take the burden off relief. So it's just a question of how we get that right. I mean, we do need a much more risk informed development, which means factoring risk into all development planning in a country. We need much more disaster risk reduction, easier said than done, easy, easier to reduce disaster risk, where countries are stable, not fragile, and there are strong institutions. There's often reasons why countries suffer greatly from a natural disaster. Yes, it could have been mitigated. If everything else had been going right to the country. But let's very much emphasize the importance of that. The last point I think I want to make is that when we think of the transition out of crisis and conflict, so many countries lapse back in. And sometimes I think in the height of a crisis country or community will get a lot of attention. And then after the peace or political settlement, people say, oh, well, that one's done. We go off to the next one. And yet if you're not continuing very, very active efforts on recovery in every sense, it is disturbing how often countries and communities will lapse back into crisis because there wasn't the long term perspective. But in short, look, we just have to be together. We have to be joined at the hip and the lip between relief and development. And that will get the best results for people, which in the end is what we're all about. Thank you, Helen. But you're behind the report that Helen just mentioned. So you represent the private sector here on the panel, but you're also deeply involved in the work there. What's your perspective on the issue as a CEO and also as somebody on that high panel? Sure. Just a few overarching points to start with. I think it's safe to say that the private sector or the business world and humanitarian world are yet really to find each other. The numbers speak for themselves. In 2014, less than 5%, I believe it was around 4.8% of total humanitarian aid was met by business. So on the one hand, that's a huge opportunity, but there are some underlying reasons why that happens. First off, really, the politics of the crisis, whereas the turn of the century crises were fairly evenly split between human conflict and natural disasters. Fast forward 15 years, as Stephen just mentioned, the vast majority, 80%, are human conflict. And that of course comes with its fair share of politics, which business tries to avoid. So something about really helping businesses and this is potentially the job of governments to help guide businesses on how to engage and how not to engage in these protracted crises. Second really is the issue of trust and trust deficit that does exist today between the business community and the humanitarian sector. That could represent billions if not tens of billions of lost opportunity. In order to bridge that trust, the panels come up with the concept of a grand bargain, which in effect is helping to work through better governance, through transparency and accountability to rebuild some of that trust. And in return, donors would provide not just potentially more funding, but also better quality funding and less earmarked funding. Third is really a lack of a clear platform for engagement with a sort of maze of humanitarian and development organizations doing fantastic work. It's very difficult for businesses who want to be engaged and active to find out exactly how they can do that, not just through writing checks, but also through using their products, services and networks and the capacity to scale. And so a form of a sort of one-stop shop or universal platform, if you will, in order to pool all that information together is something which the panel has suggested. And of course building local networks nationally, regionally and of course internationally for businesses to help share best practices and coordinate their efforts. And lastly, really this perception that humanitarian aid is a one-way street, it's a donation. And then in return, there's a footnote in a CSR report. So the importance of moving from charity, as it were, into investing in resilience to build resilient societies, which ultimately leads to resilient economies, which is good for business. And that's something which needs to happen, really being in the sort of enlightened self-interest of all business leaders to actively engage. I'll make a point about Islamic finance. The Islamic Development Bank estimates that between $200 billion and $1 trillion between Zakat and Sadaqah is donated every year. And there is huge potential to capture some of those funds. Considering 31 out of 33 of active conflicts today occur in Muslim-majority countries, there must be smarter ways to channel some of these funds into humanitarian system. Just on filling the humanitarian development canyon that exists, I think the private sector actors can span the two worlds, maybe in ways that the government donors and NGOs may not be able to, simply because of the way that rules of engagement are currently structured. Businesses don't currently have the same baggage or preconceptions. And if you consider humanitarian and development organizations needing to carry out joint planning to address these risks in a coherent way, then businesses can be partnering with both to make that happen. A final point just about SMEs, they do represent a significant untapped resource. They make up over 90% of private sector companies worldwide. They generate 50% of total employment worldwide. They generate over 60% of formal jobs in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and up to 80% in low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. They're small, nimble, trusted by local communities in a particularly important and fragile communities. Continuing or restarting business operations is critical after a crisis, and SMEs can deliver services, maintain employment, and facilitate cash-based assistance, and just get communities functioning again. However, there are few mechanisms, no real global mechanisms that exist to coordinate their involvement in humanitarian work or development projects. The interests of local SMEs and their employees really transcends the boundaries between development projects and humanitarian work. There are members of fragile communities, not just donors, and should really be at the front line of this effort. Thank you very much, Bader. Danny, we've heard from the two key international organizations we've heard from the private sector. What's your perspective as a civil society representative? I think from the perspective of most civil society actors in the humanitarian development space, this is a rather artificial divide. If you're acting on the ground to provide relief or development services, you don't care what bucket of money your funds come from. In fact, operationally, these are challenges that are faced on a day-to-day basis that civil society is stepping up to resolve. But I think when I talk to most of our members who are involved in this work, there is an optimism that we have a moment here, especially in the lead up to this World Humanitarian Summit, and especially in the context of the willingness that is represented by Helen and Stevens to work together to reform the system, not just to get more investment into the humanitarian and development agenda, but to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of those systems. The other reason why I think what we're talking about today is really important is we have an international aid and development architecture that's built on some assumptions that feel rather outdated. It's incredibly important that governments, particularly in the rich world, do their bit to support development and humanitarian initiatives. But aid or overseas development assistance, as we call it, is only one part of the wider agenda. And we, I think, need a new system for how we think about public finance for global public goods. In our high level panel report, we talk about a generosity index, because if you think about a system that today largely only counts for official international flows into the humanitarian system, we're missing out on a huge amount of what actually is happening to support humanitarian efforts. So for example, the Turkish government has been spending billions of dollars hosting refugees in Turkey very admirably. But that money doesn't get counted at the moment in terms of the humanitarian heavy lift. Nor, for example, does the in-kind contribution of Turkish businesses in supporting those refugees. So I think we need to cast the net wider to come up with a better way, we call it a generosity index, we might need to find a different name, of capturing all of the efforts by many, many actors to provide these global public goods. And in the context of that spectrum, when you add things like peacekeeping on one end or climate finance at the other end, I think we need a system that really does think very differently about how we all need to play our part in investing in those global public goods. And I think that's what we hint at in this report. From a civil society perspective, there's another fundamental challenge that we're very interested in, which is around how to build local capacity, how to build the resilience of local actors, particularly civil society, to do the delivery of humanitarian assistance, to be the first responders when disaster, disease or displacement strike. And at the moment, the system seems far from perfect in terms of supporting local actors. So presently, only 1% of all aid goes directly to non-governmental organizations in the global south. And only 0.2% of the billions of dollars raised for humanitarian assistance went directly to southern NGOs. And we think that needs to change rather dramatically, not just because those first responders can be more efficient in dealing with crises, that they can respond more quickly, but because if we are to have any chance of building the resilience that Helen talks about, then we have to build the capacity of local actors so that they can come up with local solutions to those problems when and where they emerge, obviously with the support of the international community when it's appropriate and when it's needed. And finally, in that context, one of the concerns that we also talk briefly about in this report is that if civil society is to play its rightful role on the humanitarian or development agendas, then we need to do more to promote and support the enabling environment for civil society to thrive. At Davos, we talk a lot about the enabling environment for business. But what's becoming clear for us is that the enabling environment for civil society is actually getting worse, not better in far too many countries. So our research shows that in 2014, there were serious threats to one or more civic freedoms in 96 countries around the world. That the freedoms of assembly association and expression were under attack in those 96 countries, which means six out of seven people on the planet live in a country where citizens cannot organize and mobilize as freely as they should be. And we think this needs urgent attention and collaborative attention, including the business community, doing its part to protect civic space. And unless we do that, we won't have a chance of building the local resilience that will help us deliver on the humanitarian or development agendas. Thank you very much. I think we heard some very encouraging notes today from all three sectors represented here on the panel. Mindful of the time, I'm very sorry. We have the next press conference in waiting. So I strongly recommend to all of you follow the excellent work of our panelists towards the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May. And I'm sure the panelists might take questions online, but I'm sorry that we have to close at this point. Thank you for watching. Thank you for joining us. Thank you.


Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering Accelerate 19, brought to you by Fortinet. Welcome back to theCUBE's continuing coverage of Fortinet Accelerate 2019, live from Orlando, Florida. Lisa Martin with Peter Burris, and we're pleased to welcome back to theCUBE one of our alumni, John Madison, the executive vice president of products and solutions from Fortinet. John, it's great to have you back on theCUBE. It's great to be here again. Lots of momentum that Fortinet is coming into 2019 with. I can't believe we're in April already. Lots of growth in revenue, product revenue was up. You guys talked about the expansion of the partner network. We've had some of your fabric ready partners on already today. You talked about this third generation insecurity, how Fortinet is uniquely delivering that. For our viewers who weren't, didn't have the opportunity to attend your keynote, kind of talk to us about that in this hybrid world, but how is Fortinet delivering this third generation? What makes you guys different? Yeah, so we talk about the third generation. Now everyone has different generations, that's fine. We call it the security-driven networking, and it's really the genesis of Fortinet for a long time in bringing together networking and security into one place. I think these days or in the past, people have built out the networks of the network layer, and they try and connect users and applications, and they go, oh, wait a minute, there's some security over here and a bit over here and over there. In our mind, start with both. Start with a security-driven networking concept, make sure it works end-to-end, and that'll be the most sophisticated, most secure application and network you can have. And what enables Fortinet to deliver this uniquely? Because a number of times today, and Ken's keynote, I think Patrice as well, I can't recall if yours, competition came up where the audience was shown the strength in numbers that Fortinet has, so what makes you guys unique in what you're delivering? Well, one of our key differentiators from the start has been making sure we can run routing stacks, sometimes today referred to as SD-WAN stacks, also security stacks in a very small footprint. And to do that, you need to spend a lot of money on what we call security processors, which go inside our appliances to make sure that runs very fast. But having said that, I definitely think customers are going to be in a hybrid world forever, for a very long time at least, in any way, where not only appliances, but also virtual machines and API security. And we also talk about this fabric concept that enables to cover the incomplete digital attack surface. So those are very important points. And we find a lot of customers now agree that they want to consolidate, they want to make it simpler. They need to move faster to this digital world. And the only way you're going to have to do that is through a consolidated approach. So let's build on this. They want to consolidate, they want to make it simpler, more common in policies and management. Now along comes the edge. What's the dynamic there? Well, what's happening is, a lot of people refer to the perimeter disappearing. Okay, and that's happening to a certain extent because data's moving into cloud, you've got different WAN implementations. But what's happening when you do that is you're creating new edges. A really good example is SD-WAN, which used to be very closed off. The WAN used to be something that connects branch offices back to the data center, and nobody got involved in that. Well, now you're opening up that WAN to different types of transport mechanism, you're creating an edge. I always refer to these edges as being created by different trust levels. There is maybe a secure trust level here, less trust here, it creates an edge. And you absolutely need to protect all those edges. But give us an example of that. So for example, when you say differentiated trust levels, my edge might be at a customer location. Is that kind of what versus my edge might be at a branch office? Is that what you mean by a different trust level? Push that concept forward. Kind of, it's more, for example, I've got a branch office and I've got one connectivity going back to my data center that's encrypted and secure, but I've also opened up connectivity at the internet. The trust level between that encrypted link and my connection to the internet is very different. The internet's open, anyone can see there. So that trust level between those two is very different and that's what creates the edge. And so therefore that becomes a key feature in how we design different edge implementations. It is, it's also a key requirement on what type of deployment mode you use. We have appliances, we have virtual machines, we have clouds, containers, APIs going forward. I'm finding that customers are still very reluctant to put software implementations of firewalls against the internet. Appliances are hardened, they run faster. Having said that, inside the cloud obviously and inside software defined data centers, virtual's fine. What are some of those customer concerns that you're hearing? Well, I think what happens is, you know, if you're putting a piece of software against the internet, it's open to all sorts of attack. It's the same as giving IP addresses to anything inside your factory, that creates an edge as well and you need to harden that edge against that threat. And how can SD-WAN help? Why is this such a crucial component of digital transformation? You know, sometimes markets are overhyped. I remember that the CASB marketplace a few years ago, it just was a feature, to be honest. I think SD-WAN is extremely important. The reason it's important is the SD-WAN controller. That controller eventually tells users and devices how to get to the applications. And so I tell customers, that investment for you is extremely important. You need to own it, you need to make sure it's flexible, you need to make sure it's secure. And so I think the SD-WAN marketplace, or one edge is the kind of larger term for it, is extremely important investment for customers. Do you anticipate that, I mean, you guys invested, you guys put forward a lot of products, made a number of different announcements. Again, going back to that notion of simplicity, that notion of consolidation. What is the breaking point for your typical IT group in terms of the complexity that they can accommodate and absorb when we start adding additional function within the overall network, especially from a security standpoint? Well, I think it's a bit broken already. They're really struggling to keep up. From our perspective, today we announced our 40OS 6.2 is our major operating system. And what we try and do is consolidate functionality as much as possible. Inside our fabric, through a single console, through a single operations capability. So it's easier for the operations people, for the security people to implement things and find information. We're also implementing automated mechanisms like security ratings, which will do a background run of best practices, for example, that make it again easier for those teams to run a full analysis of what's going on. So was it about 300 features? Roughly. Roughly three. I counted them individually. Good. We'll do a recount of that. Okay, all right. But a tremendous amount of feature addition to 40OS announced today. What are some of the things, business outcomes? Peter and I were talking about outcomes with several of our guests earlier. Business outcomes, new revenue streams, new products going to market faster. Also being able to become less reactive, maybe more proactive in terms of security threats. Can you walk us through some of the outcomes that 40Net customers can expect to achieve from some of the OS announcements and enhancements? Yeah, we already talked about one, which was the consolidation, which means they can do multiple things with the single platform. That's an important one for them. Also, some of the cost savings around that, some of the operational cost savings. I think also for our partners, for example, they like the fact that we keep adding services on top of that fabric. They can take those services, then apply them to their customers and make sure they can add value inside as well. So there's two angles to it. The one is making sure our customers are better protected, they can consolidate, save money, invest, have better training, and then to our partners so that they can provide more value to their customers. So one of the things we were talking to Ken about is the fact that you have invested in ASICs and security processing units and content processing units, et cetera, that are capable of accelerating the rate at which these crucial security algorithms run that opens up, that creates additional capacity to add more function both for you as well as your partners. Are you starting to see some of your ecosystem grow faster as they better exploit that inherent power and performance that you have within your appliances and devices? Definitely. I think we're seeing new partners come from new areas. It also fragments a bit and that's why we announced this new partner initiative going forward, which is a bit more customizable. But I do think that going forward, both our customers and our partners are looking for more of an architecture approach.  And again, when you saw those security threats, yes, we produce a point solution to fix it and we keep moving on. They're now looking at architectures over the next five years. And not only just cybersecurity architectures, but networking architectures, storage architectures, and all coming together. So we definitely need to train our partners. I think here we had over 50 of our, what we call network security expert eights. It's the highest level of architecture and half of them are partners. But going forward, we see much more partner involvement in an architecture approach and our customers want that because they don't want to have a point solution that's out of date in a year's time or a new threat comes along and makes it redundant. So how are you, you mentioned network security and storage. What other things are starting to inform that architectural approach that you're taking? It's everything now. So the factories now are completely automated. All the different utilities have IP addresses or running almost all the way down to the endpoint. Just everything has more flexibility and it's more open. And so definitely all of that information's bouncing around inside IoT devices, inside the WAN, inside data centers, and all that data needs protecting. That's the key, you're protecting the data. And to do that, again, we keep saying you need to have an integrated approach to networking and security. How does the customer work with Fortinet and your partner ecosystem to achieve that integrated approach? Assuming that there is a, you know, an enterprise out there that's got a spectrum of hybrid multicolline environment with a spectrum of security point solutions pointed at different components of an infrastructure. How do you help them on that journey of taking the many disparate security solutions and leveraging the power of Fortinet and your partners to get that integrated, truly integrated, consolidated view? It's a couple of steps, maybe many steps. The first one is customers don't want to throw everything out straight away. And so what they want to do is be able to integrate and connect. And so we have some of our partners here, for example, our fabric ready partners. We have connectors we build into their platforms and orchestration systems. And that's their first step. Once they get there, they start looking across to see what they can consolidate. So can they take a specific solution from this and bring it inside? And then eventually, they start to look at the long-term architecture if they're moving apps to the cloud or they want to open up their WAN or they want to provide kind of SD functionality inside their branch. And so it's definitely a phase approach. I don't see many customers, some customers could take an application and create it from scratch inside the cloud. They can't do that with their infrastructure. They can't just completely wipe it clean and start again. It's definitely more of a phase approach. So as you think about the phase approach and you talk, we heard from the sales and support side, the notion that the SPs, the service providers want greater customization, the enterprise wants a different level of access to the core technologies so that they can do, not customization, not exactly, I don't remember exactly what the term was, but what degree will customers retain control over how that architecture gets implemented versus what degree is it going to get baked into the stack itself? A bit of both, I think, for most customers, they're running towards a digital platform and they need to own that digital platform. If they give up complete control, how do they control their destiny going forward? So they want to own the digital platform but they haven't got the resources to do everything. So they'll outsource some to service providers like Arias, some of their partners, for example. But again, I keep coming back to this. They want to get to a point in five years time where they've got a digital footprint that's very flexible but they also want to make sure it's very secure because as you open up that digital footprint, you're opening up all these different edges inside the network. And it's coherent, which is the architecture approach. Because if they don't have a coherent approach to doing it, they don't know what interfaces are or are not competent and that includes interfaces with partners. Yeah, they have to look forward and say, I'm going to implement XMAT in the cloud, I know I'm going to have some edge compute going on here. I want to make sure my branches have the best quality of service for these certain applications that go back to this. So they will look at all those parameters and then architect something from there. So I know that security, network security, app security, info security, cloud security is our imperatives for every industry. But I did notice that the breakouts today feature, I think there's a couple of vertical features, healthcare, financial services, retail. I'm just curious, are those just great use cases that show the potential and the power of 40 Nets technologies? Or are those industries that are either early adopters or maybe more leading edge because they have such a tremendous amount of data that needs to be secured as their ecosystem does this? Yeah, so the industry verticals, I think for the very large ones, they're very similar. All of them have IoT that's expanding. All of them want to have a flexible WAN system. All of them have got some compute power in the cloud and the edge going forward. So I know there's differences in industries for the very large enterprises. The problem seems the same. There's huge organizations and they have all of these things going on and each trying coordinate. As you come down to mid-enterprise, I think there's more reason to consolidate but you see more differences in the way they approach things. Like healthcare that really, really focused on that. Healthcare kind of security of devices inside the hospitals, et cetera. Education, oh, they need to connect in these big data banks and transfer the research information. So big organizations, I say, pretty much the same problem. Midsize organizations become more relevant to the specific industry. Well, John, thank you so much for carving out some time to speak with Peter and me today. We appreciate that and it's exciting to see and feel the momentum that 49 is bringing into 2019. Well, thanks for inviting me. Our pleasure. We want to thank you for your time as well for Peter Burris. I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE.