Welcome back to my channel and welcome. If you are new here, you have a fantastic air fryer video coming your way I have two yes, two delicious air fryer recipes We're leaning towards the Chinese fake outside and a little bit of Mexican fajita flair on the other side I have both a pork recipe and a chicken recipe So if you want to see the two absolutely amazing recipes that I have in store for you just stay tuned For tonight's air fryer dinner, I am making chicken fajita roll-ups, but I'm also making Roasted potatoes so first let me show you what is going to be in the chicken fajita roll-ups And then I will show you what is going to be in our roasted potatoes for the roll-ups You'll need some non-stick cooking spray salt and pepper Some bell peppers. I'm gonna do red and yellow and a red onion of course some chicken breast garlic powder oregano cumin Paprika and then you'll need some toothpicks to seal closed the roll-ups and then for the potatoes I'm going to be using these private selection petite red potatoes.  So this particular one has spices mustard Dehydrated garlic and dehydrated onion and that's it that is all that is in this seasoning and it is packed with flavor This one is outstanding on roasted potatoes. So I'm going to be adding a little bit of that To my little bag of potatoes if you're interested in Dax, I do have a 10% off discount code It will also give you free shipping It is here on the screen for you and there is a link down in the description box below But they have about 20 seasonings I own every one of them and I love them so much if you're wondering what my top seasonings are Just leave a comment down below and I'd be happy to share those with you So definitely check out Dax. I cook with it a lot So if you want to duplicate my recipes, then I would highly recommend picking some of these up So that's what's going to be on the potatoes. So let's get started with these chicken fajita roll-up So the first thing that we need to do is chop our vegetables and our chicken So we're gonna slice these into pretty thin slices same with our red onion And then I'm actually going to cut these chicken breasts in half Butterfly them and make them thin cut So let's get cutting and then we can start putting these chicken fajita roll-ups together So The next step for our chicken is we're gonna grab some parchment paper We're actually going to put our breast of chicken that we have Onto the parchment paper and then we are going to fold it over and then you're going to use something heavy So I'm gonna use my rolling pin and we are gonna pound it out Until it is thinner. So we want it only about a quarter of an inch thick So just take a rolling pin. You can use a cast iron skill use anything heavy and just pound out your chicken To the point that it's thin Again about a quarter of an inch. So that looks pretty good So see how thin that rest of chicken is and then we're just gonna peel it off and We're literally going on repeat and we're just gonna do that over and over again Until all of our pieces of chicken are flattened So we're gonna put together the seasoning for our meat So we're gonna go ahead and add a little bit of salt and again, you can do this to your liking I'm putting it here on a paper plate Because I am going to rub the seasoning on all the pieces of my chicken So I want it kind of all nice and mixed together I'm also here adding a little bit of black pepper.  So basically we just made chicken fajitas Without the tortillas. We've got that same seasoning. We have our chicken. We have our fajita vegetables Yum and then from here we're actually going to take our chicken and this is the tricky part and we're going to roll it up with those pieces of pepper and Purple onion inside. Oh, this looks so good And then once you get it rolled up, you're going to grab a couple of toothpicks And we're just going to secure it close So I would really push them through like both sides of your roll up And you can use as many pieces of chicken as you or I'm sorry toothpicks as you want because we're just going to remove them Once the roll-ups are cooked through. We just want to make sure they stay closed So there you go. Look at that. So that's the back side with the toothpicks And then there's the front side. These look so good So we're just going to set that aside and I'm going to repeat this until all of our roll-ups are done So here's our fajita chicken. It looks so good The last step we have to do is just dice those potatoes in half and season them with some daks And we're ready to put everything into the air fryer So we're gonna get our potatoes ready to go. So I have a bowl here I'm literally just going to chop my potatoes in half and add them here to my bowl That will just help speed up the cooking process in the air fryer Once I get these chopped in half We will season them with some of that daks and some non-stick cooking spray and that's it you guys It's pretty easy. The potatoes are super duper easy. It's just getting everything cut up and prepared and then we're gonna line These onto our trays for our air fryer. If you have the basket Style of air fryer, you would just lay these in a single layer in the bottom You may have to do it in two separate cooking sessions one for the chicken and one for the potatoes So whatever kind of air fryer you have you just kind of have to accommodate it to that air fryer I have the oven style. It is linked in my Amazon store below So I will actually be able to cook everything at once So let me get these potatoes just chopped in half and I'll be back to show you how I'm going to season them And we'll get everything cooking So I have my potatoes just cut into half very simple I'm going to spray them with some non-stick cooking spray So I'm gonna spray the top layer just kind of give it a quick stir I want to get the potatoes not coated in the non-stick cooking spray but I do want a little bit of the non-stick cooking spray on all of the potato pieces only because that's just what's going to help Stick the seasoning to the potatoes plus it helps them brown up a bit in the air fryer So that actually looks really good and now we're ready to add in our Dax And you're gonna go ahead and do that to your liking. I like quite a bit of seasoning. So I put Probably two tablespoons worth of the Dax steakhouse in here with my potatoes. Oh, it smells so good We'll get that mixed together And then we're ready to get everything on to the trays and into the air fryer But look you guys don't these potatoes look delish So I added my potatoes here to this tray. These are the trays that I have for my air fryer I'm also and the other one going to go ahead and add my pieces of chicken So we're just gonna lay those out evenly on to the tray and then my potatoes I don't feel that we really need to spray though those with any additional non-stick cooking spray But I do want to spray my chicken only because again It just sort of helps it brown up and not stick to the pan So let's get these into the air fryer So everything's in the air fryer potatoes on the top chicken on the bottom That way the chicken doesn't drip onto the potatoes about halfway through I will be rotating these I will put the chicken on the top and the potatoes on the bottom But about halfway through I want it to be this arrangement. So we're gonna shut the door That's going to turn on our air fryer. I'm gonna cook it at 400 I don't know what it is but I seem to cook everything at 400 and I'm actually going to set this for 25 minutes Only because of the chicken and make sure the potatoes are cooked through There is a light on my air fryer and there you have it my friends Everything is cooking away. So I'll be back in 25 minutes. So here is the dinner out of the air fryer So here's our roasted potatoes with that Dax steakhouse seasoning.  So I have one of my chicken fajita roll-ups. You guys these are zero Smart points, isn't that great? You can have this delicious Main part of your dinner for zero points. So I have a lot of points left today So I decided to have five smart points worth of the roasted potatoes So my dinner is a total of five smart points for tonight's air fryer dinner We are making Chinese fake-out sweet and sour pork. I cannot wait for this We're just going to serve this over a little bit of rice. I will probably use basmati You could do Jasmine brown rice, whatever you prefer. We are going to make a homemade sweet and sour sauce So I'm going to show you everything that is in the pork Pieces as well as what is in the sauce. You're going to need some soy sauce Ketchup. I'm going to be using the g-hue sugar-free Rice wine vinegar. This is also the sugar-free version Salt and pepper some sort of sweetener alternative. I have some stevia in the raw some pork I'm just doing these really lean pork chops. I will remove all of the fat sesame oil Chinese five spice garlic powder Cornstarch or potato starch and some eggs. So let's get started on tonight's air fryer dinner So the first thing that we're going to do is go ahead and trim all of the fat off of our pork and cut these into bite-size pieces We are going to add one cup of cornstarch or potato starch here to a bowl to that I'm going to go ahead and add a little bit of salt and a little bit of Pepper and that's just going to give you a little extra flavor here to the cornstarch and then we are also Let's try that again We are also going to add in some Chinese five spice So that my friends is proof that even those of us that cook a lot are not perfect in the kitchen So go ahead and add some of that in as well We're going to give this a stir and then go ahead and grab out a second smaller bowl So we can combine our eggs and our sesame oil in your smaller bowl We're going to go ahead and crack two eggs And then we are also going to add approximately one teaspoon of Sesame oil and this is just going to add that real authentic taste to it So just about a teaspoon of that we're going to give this a quick stir together And then we're ready to coat our pork pieces. So now we are ready to get our pork together We have our cornstarch mix our egg mix our pieces of pork And then I've also sprayed the rack of my air fryer with some non-stick cooking spray You would do the same thing if you were using the basket style. So basically what we are going to do is go ahead and take a Piece of pork. We're going to dip it first in our cornstarch mixture Get it kind of coated shake off the excess Then we're going to dip it here in our egg mixture And then we're going to put it right back into our cornstarch mixture And there you have it and then these little pieces shake off any excess are just going to go directly into your air fryer Basketer on to your tray. So I have quite a bit of pork to coat So I'm going to get these coated up and then we'll be ready to get these into the air fryer And while they're cooking that's when we'll put together our sweet and sour sauce Super easy to do. So let's get this pork done so we can get these into the air fryer All right, our pork is in the air fryer. Look at how good that looks nice and coated with the starch and the egg So we're going to go ahead and turn this on We want this to about 350 degrees and we're going to let this cook for about 15 minutes I am going to be rotating my shelves as it cooks just because I want to get that second shelf up on the top and get It nice and crispy and while this is cooking. Let's put together our sweet and sour sauce So while our pork is cooking in the air fryer apologize It's right here so you can hear it kind of working in the background We're going to make our sweet and sour sauce So we are going to add one half of a cup of our sugar substitute again This is the stevia in the raw. I'm also going to add about a tablespoon of soy sauce I'm not going to measure. I'm just going to eyeball that about a tablespoon worth of that We're also going to add in some garlic powder I have one half of a cup of my rice wine vinegar and that kind of sets that up Look at that and then we're also going to add in a little bit of salt And lastly I have five tablespoons of sugar-free ketchup So we're going to go ahead and add that and then we're going to give this a stir and my friends We have a homemade Sweet and sour sauce and it is zero points. So how exciting is that? So I'm going to go ahead and throw this into the refrigerator We'll let this kind of sit and it'll thicken a little bit as well while our pork continues to cook Right our first batch is out of the air fryer. You can hear the second batch I just moved it up to the top rack, but look at this Pork doesn't this look delicious nice and crispy like the Chinese restaurant I went ahead and cooked up some jasmine rice and there is our sweet and sour sauce So I'm going to get this plated up and I'll be back to show you my dinner and give you the smart points All right, so here is my dinner. I have one half of a cup of jasmine rice on the bottom of my plate and to that I added One fourth of the pork and I topped it with the sweet and sour sauce and a little bit of sesame seeds So this entire dinner this whole plate of dinner you guys six smart points and I tried the pork It is delicious. So this is going to be my oh, I'm sorry Six smart points for the pork and then three smart points for the rice. I almost forgot the rice So this is actually a nine smart point dinner Thank you for joining me on another episode in my ww air fryer series That Chinese sweet and sour pork was to die for and those chicken fajita roll-ups. We Loved those I was thinking after we ate them that they would be really good if you added a little bit of cheese to them before you ate Them but they were outstanding. You didn't need any toppings. No sour cream guacamole I mean they were that good by themselves. We loved both of these recipes so much I get a lot of questions on my air fryer It is actually linked down in my Amazon store my Amazon store is in the description box Along with all of the other discounts that I can offer to you on some of my favorite WW products and these two recipes so definitely check it out I would love it if you would take a moment and subscribe and hit the bell if you are new here That way you become part of my YouTube friends and family and that bell will just notify you every time that I upload So you don't miss out. Please give this video a thumbs up It helps my channel out tremendously and I really appreciate it and of course comment down below Let me know what you guys thought of these two recipes and which one is the absolute must try today And thank you guys again so much for watching and I'll see you all in my next video. Bye


My name is Maya from Ghana and I'm visiting South Africa for the first time. We're trying to get to know what other Africans are doing in South Africa and we came across you and we felt like no, you're the best person to share your story with us. First of all, your name and then where are you from? Well, my name is Ken Ayeran. I am a Nigerian. I've been in South Africa for over 23 years. Over 23 years. First of all, what brought you to South Africa? Well, originally, I was a media practitioner. I was sent here as the bureau chief of the news agency of Nigeria, covering the entire South Africa. After doing that job, I went back to Nigeria, took voluntary retirement and then went to private. I came back, I was here in 1996 to 2000 and came back 2002. And then went into my own things. Wow. A lot of people are talking about you here in South Africa doing an amazing thing. But people watching us really don't know what to do in South Africa. When I do a bit here and there, I got involved with the Chevron group. You know, the Cartex franchisee. That was in 2002. I became the first Nigerian to get a franchise in the world, in the country. And they are operating that franchise in the West Bank. In 2003, I established the home base group, which essentially is where we are now. We're doing food not just for the Nigerian people, but for the African community. And we're targeting Africans from the different parts of the continent and tourists who visit Africa. Of course, if you have a group of Italians, they won't come here and be looking for pizzas and pastas and those kinds of things. They've seen the best of it where they're coming from. And obviously they want to know what these Africans eat. So the home base menu is essentially a collection of what Africans eat from the different regions of the continent except for North Africa. Because those ones do more Mediterranean things. And you're South African, Zambian. Zambian, can you find your food? If you're from Ghana, I suppose you will. You'll find your Jollof rice here. You'll find your Gary and Gary photo. And red red and everything. But that's essentially what we do. And the idea actually is to project that which is African because I believe that we have the best food, the very best if you cannot compare what we eat to what other people eat. The varieties there, the nutritional value is there. So apart from the restaurants, is there anything that you do that when people come in here, maybe you can accommodate them or you can have them? So I own the Golden Rose Lodge in Fendel. Down has been on since 2009. And we host a lot of people there. Sometimes you get, like now, places have been booked out. Which is the reason I told you we couldn't. But people once had some privacy for themselves. And as the commission they say, they would prefer some privacy and all of that. Since 2009, we use it during the World Cup and we use it consistently ever since. We also do luxury car rentals. You know, we have May bags. We have Bentley's. We have Mercedes Benz that we let out. We're not running a taxi business. These are high-end, high-value cars that we use. But only when we have clients who know the value and can afford these cars. So say you're president around, for instance, and you want to say, you don't want to drive into a Toyota Corolla, for instance. Or who knows? Then we provide some services. We have the right car for England. And these cars are driven by our own trained shoppers who are also trained bodyguards. So they provide protection. They know the terrain. They take you to where you go. And they drive in luxury. We do that. But let's talk about this. I really understand. I'm just trying to tell Africans that whenever they find themselves in South Africa, you can also do something for yourself. Just like Mr. Ken. But Mr. Ken, we want to know how Nigerians live in South Africa. We all know what we heard before coming here is about xenophobia. Do you have anything to say about that? Look, I've been here for so long. I'm very honest with you. And what you hear sometimes and what you see at two different things. Thank you.  Have something that you want to go and do. And don't leave your home and go and become constituted nuisance in somebody else's place. You know, I came here to do business having worked here. You know, I brought capital and invested. And I'm employing South Africans and other nationals. Here in this country in all of my ventures I think that the world will work for me in excess of 100. And these are people who have families. The guys have wives and have children and have dependency. And the ladies have children. Some have husbands who don't work, who don't have jobs as they look at. So the ripple effect is from the different things that we do we're taking care of a quite a number of people. The system appreciates people like that. I wouldn't say Zerufuba is not dead but I say I've not experienced it. I sit quietly and do my business. I conform to the rules of the land. I keep our baby long. If the law says if you come into the country make yourself legal. I came here as an investor. You know, as a businessman I got a business permit, I got a permanent resident, I got a citizenship. So I do, I play by the rules. You know, when it's time to do statutory things you do statutory things. But it is not to say it is not, it is not there. But most of the time you'll find that the people will be reacting to what they perceive as the negatives coming from the foreigners. Some of them would accuse the foreigners of doing drugs. They would accuse foreigners of taking their women, of doing fraud and those kinds of things. And sometimes, maybe when they feel they have had too much of such from people from elsewhere who come in and don't obey the rules of the land and they tend to take laws into their hands. But the government is also doing a lot to try and encourage the people to say look you can coexist with the people with a lot of them conduct skills let them come with capital rather than attack them and then you know, you can actually work with them and learn from them.   Look I've been here for let me talk like a South African they say touch wood it's been good and my message will be look South African welcomes investors no doubt about it the president has been going all around there's nothing I've tried to get in this country that I did not get that being in Nigeria because I would go about it the right way you want to run a business first of all be legal legally resident in the country so you don't see the policemen see home affairs people from the Ministry of Interior and then you start talking and regularize your state you know, identify what you want to do once you have done that if you have capital to invest identify the business you understand what I'm saying where we are now this is Santan city I'm sure they would have told you this is the most prestigious mall in the country I mean and nobody has discovered one from their business here just playing by their book then when you come and your intention is to get rich overnight I've been doing business I've been working I told you 24 years you know whatever comes to be I think whatever I get from what I do might be little drops we put together and we live our lives I enjoy peace I don't want that type of life where you want to turn rich don't turn become extra wealthy overnight but you can sleep at night now I would rather just do what to you know be able to send my kids to school be able to feed be able to to change my shirt and having done all of that I want to go home with my wife and then relax you know not when you hear that when a cop grows you think it's a policeman that is looking for you you know you I don't like that kind of life so that's my advice you want to come to a country like this if you have capital to invest identify the opportunities if you have skills you know they have such things they have the skills shortage go to the embassy in your very respected countries apply with your skills that you have this skill that skill they will grant you so when you come you can go to the various departments there's a ministry of labour you've got to register with the people whether it's there are labour brokers there are recruitment agencies you go to number one you would have been legally respected when there's an opportunity I'll give you the job I've seen a lot of people, my friends who came in like that and they are fine and they have it where people have problems is when you come and then you won't do everything you will do it the other way exactly you won't know but you know that there are people who are doing it the other way that is why it's bringing all this you know of course alright I mean I think Mr. Ken has talked a lot today and most of you have heard from himself not from me so I want to tell you whenever you come to Johannesburg his place is there for you to eat his um is it a hotel or lodge? yeah my lodge is in Fendian the lodge is there for you to sleep and you know if you want to drive some luxurious cars his place is there for you it's your boy Mr. Garda baby right here in Johannesburg St. City I'll see you in the next one peace out thank you so much thank you very much


Oh, he's not quite as scary now as he was. He claps on him? Oh, I'm dead. I'm so dead.


Live from the FIIA Barcelona Grand Villa conference center in Barcelona, Spain, it's The Cube at HP Discover Barcelona 2014, brought to you by headline sponsor HP. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone, we are live in Barcelona, this is The Cube for HP Discover 2014 in Europe, they're European customer show, this is The Cube. The Cube alum in Barcelona of last year, Vegas, you're regular now, welcome back. So we had Seamus on yesterday, great guest, he's loved his accent, he's just also dynamic, but he was very, he had a spring in his step, business is good, and so he launched on The Cube and they had no revenue, now he's doing billions of dollars in revenue, he's also happy, so service is the key, but networking is a big growth area, obviously with NFB, with network virtualization, we saw even going back to the shot heard around the world in the VN where he bought Nacera, you know, OpenFlow was out, you guys had some shipping products with some of the first sports on OpenFlow back in the day, now we're a few years down the road, where are we, what's going on with the networking stuff, what are some of the pain points for the customers, and what do you guys work with? Yeah, so great to be back, thank you for inviting me. So I think clearly from an HP perspective software defined networking has been a big investment area for us, a strategic area of investment, and you know customers have really, I guess, kicked the ties around SDN for a while, there are a number of different solutions available on the market, and it's a big transition going from a traditional, very static network to something that's very new and dynamic. So we're now actually getting to the point where customers are starting to implement software defined networking, which is great, and of course the support experience that we have to provide them is quite different to a static network, where really, we've been providing remediation support on a device with SDN, we're having to support the full infrastructure, it's really a system that we're supporting, so it's the devices, the control layer, and the application layer, so the experience is very different, and it's very important that we get that experience right, because it's a key component of SDN. Can you describe in some more detail the difference, sort of the static versus dynamic, you talk about the service, the experience you're supporting, many more layers, can you just double click on that a little bit and help us understand and add a little bit more color to that? Sure, absolutely. So in terms of the traditional network, I mean very typically the customer would have an administrator that would do a lot of the manual activities, a lot of the work to really program the network, very manual, very transactional, very slow actually, and with an SDN network, we're automating many of the tasks. And really the requirements that the network admin had of a support provider like HP was really just turned up when the device fails. In terms of what we're doing now with SDN, there's far more requirements to really fully understand the integrated stack, so really understanding how these components are interoperating. And if there is an issue or a problem, we have to have the ability to really drill down and identify the root cause very quickly. So I would say the stack is far more complex, but our role really is to hide the seams for the customer and ensure that they're getting the reliability really that they require. When you go around, Alstair, and talk to customers, what are you seeing in terms of SDN adoption? I wonder if you could frame it in terms of sort of those that are really hardcore going for it, those that are showing interest and those are sort of, you know, not really there yet. What's the market telling you? What's it look like right now in terms of the maturity model? So I would say all customers are certainly interested in looking at it. You know, it's now a reality. I think for a number of years it was a theory. And now it's a reality.  We have many different apps now that you can apply to an SDN network. So I think people appreciate that in order to get to this, you know, vision of software defined infrastructure, software defined data center, the network really is probably the laggard of all of the technology domains that we have. And for me, customers are really now starting to look at where can we really start? Where's the right inflection point for us to start to implement SDN? So I would say, typically, based on my experience, applications like Link, so in the collaboration space, that's really where we've got something very tangible. You can really, really see the difference that an SDN-enabled network makes using something like Link, where you can dynamically program the network to cope with the various traffic patterns. I mean, we use that exclusively in HP. We are probably the biggest Link user of any enterprise. And actually, the productivity and business value that it generates is significant. So I think that's the area that most... And is that how customers are looking at their sort of looking across their application portfolio and saying, all right, where does this apply? And then let's attack that, as opposed to trying to do a big overhaul? And is that a feasible way to approach it? Or is SDN more of a whole house decision? I think it's certainly something that you can look at applying to an existing network. And I know Dom, while I was on yesterday, talking about the various partnerships we have and the technologies options that are available. I think for me, it's critically important that really the customer is looking at the business outcome. The way that we would approach it really is to really start from, what's the business value that you can drive from SDN? What's the difference a programmable network can make to the business? So rather than starting at the technology layer and really looking at, well, how can we insert this bright, shiny thing into an environment? Where's the real business value? And that might take us down the path of, well, let's pick something like Link, which is typically in every enterprise. It's typically something that you can derive some tangible business value from because it's driving productivity of the employees. Or it might lead us down a path that says, well, actually, there is some other business process or transaction that can really benefit from having a programmable network. So for example, at a certain point in a course or a month, you need to provision extra resource for certain transactions. That's a direct business benefit. Exactly. So there's probably no one answer, but are you finding that the business case is primarily IT efficiency driven or it's business, like that example you just gave, end of order? Obviously it's a mix, but many times though, for a technology that's going to have big productivity impacts for the IT department, many organizations will dismiss the sort of softer business benefits. Are you seeing that typically with SDN or because of the whole move toward cloud and agility and the need for speed? Are you seeing that SDN is one of those technologies where people are buying into the software, call them software. Yes. Do you know what I mean by that? Yes. Ones that oftentimes IT people say, well, we can't justify it based on that. So what are you seeing there in terms of the business value? So I would say, I mean, we deliberately, as part of our life cycle services approach, we really try and force a business and IT discussion to happen. So really, we're exposing both the IT efficiency benefits and the business benefits as early on as we can in the engagement. So we have these transformation experience workshops that will be run and you've heard a number of people mention those, I know, but they're very successful at really bringing IT and the business together to really identify where's the value here and I think that that exposes all of the above. Now, in terms of where the real business case is, I would say typically the big driver is really just to speed up the time to value in a legacy network. You might decide something today, but it could take you three weeks or four weeks to actually get it to a point of implementation. In my experience, those numbers dwarf the IT benefits, but then they're so big, people don't believe them. So then they say, okay, can we justify it based on the IT benefits? Yes, if we can, then, oh, wow, we get all this other huge benefit. It's huge, and we know it's there, but we're not going to tell the vendor. We'll get that for free. Where's the action? Is it over the top? Is it just their business model? What's going on in that market that's really driving the NFV opportunity? Is it just pressure, have a mobile infrastructure, all of the above? Give us a quick rundown of where the hot pain points are, where the opportunities are for these guys. Certainly, I think really it's the business pressure that these guys are under. Clearly, big financial pressure coming from a number of different angles, clearly competition in the market over the top, for sure. Again, I think we've gone through a maturity curve with NFV where probably 18 months ago, these were projects in the CTO office of a telco. Which is code for science project, R&D. Exactly, it was a technology project. All the components exist now to build at NFV infrastructure and NFV platform. The telcos and the network of equipment providers who we partner with, over the past 18 months, have really been playing. They've been determining, based on the Etsy reference architecture, where are we going to play, what it's going to look like. We're now getting to the point where companies are seriously starting to look at the deployment schedule. I think this is now a point where they're looking at what's the ownership experience, what's the service experience that needs to go along with the technology solution. There's operational challenges too. I was just talking with David today about just the amount of data that comes out of the telcos customer base just on pure activity record system. In terms of pure big data, it's massive. The gesture data, every single piece of interaction with the mobile device, for instance, it's huge. Operational business model, which one is driving it right now? Both? Would you say equally 50? I just used one example, operational pressure. What do you see there? Which one's driving it most? Is it both? Is it 50-50? I think it's certainly both. I would say it's really the operational pressure that's driving the acceleration and the speed of implementation. We were talking before you came on. It's had been around all the parts of there within HP to do this. When James was talking about data considered care, flex service, all that, and I call it the flex capacitor. It reminds me of that movie, Back to the Future. Flex capacity has been a big hit. Dave pointed it out on our summary yesterday. What's the equivalent version for service providers? They went from zero revenue, James's group to billions, cobbling together different offerings going out and having resonance with the customers. What's the similar approach for you guys with service providers? Is there the same kind of product? Is it different products? What's working and what are you guys focused on? Data center care really is the basis from which we'll develop the ownership experience for the service providers. Interestingly, in my position, I have two views of the service provider. I've got the telco service provider where I'm wearing my network hat. I would say data center care is really a perfect fit for them. The only addition that we all feature that we really need to look at is around SLA and penalties. That's an area where clearly compliance is hugely important. That's table stakes. It's table stakes. It's not just a remediation service is not enough. So that's a really data center care based. Flex capacity is a big deal there, especially for some of the smaller providers too. And then the other angle I look at service providers is more from the service space, so it's the cloud titans, hyper scale guys. They have a different set of requirements. They really are looking at skinning down remediation. They've built such resilience into their software that they don't care if they're concerned about it. But they have a different set of challenges that we have to. Their service is driven, not so much server driven. They have redundancy built in. And also they have different user experience probably, right? Different user service providers. What's the hottest area for you guys? What's growing? What's the hot spots for you guys growth wise? So hyper scale or telco? Well, it's both. I mean, I think for us, with our partnership with Foxconn in the service space, we've really looked to provide credible alternative to white box, ODM providers. And that's got a lot of traction and interest in the market. And that was very much an exclusively available product for a certain set of customers. And clearly there's some interest, I would say, for some of the tier two smaller players on their ability to adopt that technology. But that's growing. It's a tough, very competitive market, but it's one that we're in and we're committed to. And then with NFV, for us, really, it's a complete green field opportunity. It's replacing technology that we've never had in our portfolio. So replacing these proprietary network equipment technologies with essentially enterprise IT, hardened, carry a great enterprise IT. So that's complete green field for us. And we did some really nice business towards the back end of last year. And we think it will accelerate as customers come out of the proof of concept and really start to deploy. So I like the way you've framed it that you start with the business outcome and kind of work backwards from there. But when you sit down to do your three year planning, you obviously are looking at the technology trends, how they're evolving, and how you have to adapt the service experience to exploit those technologies to create the business outcomes. You kind of come back from the business outcome, then go the other way. My specific question is around security. How when you sit down to do your three year plans, how do you look at security and what specific actions have you had to take in order to accommodate from a service perspective that experience and how that's changed and has it changed? And if so, how? So that's a great question. So I would say security, in all of our customer engagement, security is a critical element. And in fact, in all of our sort of advisory and transformational services, we include security regardless of the technology domain or industry vertical approach that we're looking at. We really integrate security into that dialogue. And just to ensure that our customers really appreciate and understand the nuances and the technologies that are available. And clearly as part of the support experience, there's a very important security aspect that we have to maintain. So we partner very closely with our colleagues in enterprise services and in HP software, both of which you have security solutions and very comprehensive solutions for our customers. So we can integrate that into our overall support experience. So again, it's one number to call, hide the seams, that's really the key motivating and customer driver for us in technology services. And they're really making sure that customers have the right connection points into the rest of the industry. Yeah, so it seems like so much of the world of security is going from this sort of, I always say, take the motor around the castle to everybody talks about the network flattening east west. And so security seems to be coming out in as opposed to sort of protecting. So our customers, are they rapidly changing? I mean, it's hard to rapidly change security. It seems like the demands, the information demands are moving faster than the ability security guys to keep up.  And I've never felt, you know, more under attack, more exposed. So I wonder, how are customers dealing with that with that tension? And are they moving faster? I certainly I would say based on our customer engagement site, I believe they are moving faster. I mean, it's sort of a business action for many of these customers. So they're being proactive about that being they're being they're being proactive about it. You know, again, there are many alternative solutions on the market. So really our job is to help them navigate that path and be the guide for them, help advise. And yeah, I think they're being very, very proactive. Allison, really appreciate you coming on theCUBE again. Great to see you. I know first thing in the morning, Barcelona, because the clocks are weird here. They have dinner late, they stay out late. A lot of good stuff happened, customer events, you've got your team here. Give me the final word, just quickly summarize what you guys are announcing, the quick story for you guys, get the plug in for what's happening with your group. Well, I think as you will have gathered from the theme of the show, I think our messaging has been very consistent actually over the past couple of years. So, you know, we're really on the path of execution. You know, for TS in Barcelona, really it's about extending data center care. It's about our infrastructure automation, so our partnership with Chef, which I heard you reference in your intro. It's about multi-vendor support and the work that we're doing there really to support the ecosystem, not just the products. And just really our flexible capacity model and the fact that that's something that's growing, very exciting. And we'll continue to see that option next year. Awesome. Again, great stuff with the data center services you guys have, data center care, not going to telcos. Very successful. Congratulations. Again, we had James on yesterday. Business is good in your department. Customers are moving faster now. It's awesome. This is theCUBE. Of course, we're bringing that data, sharing that with you. I'm John Furrier with Dave O'Laughlin. We'll be right back into the short break live from Barcelona. This is theCUBE.


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Guys welcome to this periscope. I'm just gonna flip them How's it going? So for those who are Watching this on replay just want to say hi. I think what I'm gonna end up doing with a lot of these posts Is putting them on our youtube channel called I love the Book of Mormon so people can watch back later So if you're watching this on youtube, how's it going? We're gonna talk just about some of the misconceptions that the Book of Mormon clarifies frequently when I am talking with people Online about the Book of Mormon. The first question they'll ask me is we have the Bible Why do we need the Book of Mormon? and it's a really interesting thing for someone who I grew up a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Mormon or Latter-day Saint and for someone who did not grow up a member of the Church of Jesus Christ and then Just had the Bible and then later was able to see the Book of Mormon I think for them it's a lot clearer The differences and the benefits and the blessings of the Book of Mormon, but Before I get into that hi everyone who's watching thank you for joining feel free to Tell me where you're from I'm a convert Awesome, so you'll understand this a lot better than I will My parents were converts as well So I get the question a lot Boston awesome. I grew up in Hingham, Massachusetts So I know Boston very well member of the Hingham stake Um Why do you need the bible of madrid awesome? Hello madrid colorado? Awesome feel free to share this with your friends too. You can share it So more people can jump on because we're gonna have a really good discussion and I want this to be a discussion I'm gonna kind of lead the discussion in at some points, but georgetown, massachusetts awesome Georgetown mass, I don't I don't think I knew there's a georgetown massachusetts But for those of you who are watching this on youtube, you won't be able to see these comments But people are commenting st. Louis awesome. Thanks for joining. They're telling me where they're from Um, you list, texas great texas. Hopefully the weather's okay there. I know things have been Um, kind of crazy out there Um, and if you're wondering, yes, I am in a closet Just because it's the quietest place right now But I'm going to be talking about a book called the infinite atonement By tad callister and in this book he addresses this question people will say we have the bible We don't need like what need do we have For the book of mormon and one of the things he talks about this book Obvious is about the atonement of jesus christ. Yeah, feel free to tap some hearts if you want. That's great Just so I know that you're awake Appreciate those You got the cool little 2016. Love that book. Yeah Actually just starting reading it, but I've really enjoyed it so far um One of the doctrines, obviously he's emphasizing the atonement of jesus christ, which we feel the book of mormon Provides a lot of clarity on and I'll talk about that in a future video um But he talks about the doctrine of the fall and he said it's one of the most Misunderstood doctrines in christianity and he says It seems paradoxical that the very doctrine that is essential to our salvation Is also one of the least understood doctrines in the christian world. So he talks about all this misunderstanding. So um Maybe for those of you who said you were converts Maybe tap the screen or let comment. Let me know what misconceptions you perhaps believed But those were clarified with the book of mormon. That would be interesting for me to know um He goes on saying the misunderstandings confusion and doctrinal heresies associated with this foundational doctrine Speaking of the atonement and its precursor the fall our rampant So he goes on to explain Some of these misconceptions Taught by many in the christian world today now I served my mission in panama and I remember my first week hearing all these really strange We were um, it's predominantly caught catholic and panama and a lot of the people who had questions. Um, or You know when they'd give answers to questions we had it reflected a lack of understanding They believed in some things that I I just had never heard before Let me just read this list and then we'll probably take um We're going to be reading a lot from This is my second Nephi chapter two. I think I'm at So second Nephi chapter two in the book of mormon Is such an amazing um Learning tool misconception true love of christ awesome If you want to elaborate on that are you I know that some from some people they've talked about um You know in their religion before they thought god was a god of Anger, but they really learned about god's love. I converted from catholic awesome um So let me read this first first misconception Um, and this is one I heard I am an ex jehovah's witness awesome Um Yeah, we also met with a lot of jehovah's witnesses and I'll tell you they Knew the bible very well like as it related to their understanding. They had they studied it very very well First misconception of the fall adam and eve would have had children in the garden of edin if they had been allowed to remain And we know that's not true Um They were in a state of innocence and would have remained we'll read about that. I'm gonna read the verse But that's the first misconception number two adam and eve were not in a state of innocence in the garden of edin But rather we're experiencing unparalleled joy Another misconception, okay Um, and if you have any comments you'd like to maybe Bring something else up. I'd love to kind of dialogue with you guys and kind of talk back and forth So please do that third misconception the fall was not part of god's master plan But rather a tragic step backwards. It was a stumbling block not a stepping stone in man's eternal journey I like that eaves and blame for the fall. Awesome. Yeah, there's definitely a lot of blame And there's so many different stories and um Um, you know, I remember hearing people on my mission in panama saying, oh man, if they just hadn't partaken of that fruit We'd be in peace we'd be living in Um bliss Um, and another thing is adam and eve are really looked down on But we review adam as a prophet and we know that he was michael Before the earth was created and he helped create the earth Um And eve is just a glorious woman who we admire and love so much But I know from other people I've kind of had experiences, but they don't feel that same way Um, another misconception Who was blamed? Well, I think Um Eve was From perspectives I've heard eve was given a lot of blame for everything about that happened I just love what you're doing right now. Thank you for that. Awesome. Yeah, thanks for tuning in Again, if we go on youtube and look up. I love the book of Mormon. There's a youtube channel or people all over the world are sharing Verses from the book of Mormon A lot of them are kind of on their own camera, but The fourth one if adam had not fallen all of adam's children would have been born in a state of bliss to live happily ever after in Edenic conditions Okay, so there's first four talk about adam and eve would have had children would have been in a state of joy Um, the fall wasn't part of god's master plan Um, and we would live happily ever after now I'm just gonna turn to one verse in the book of Mormon and again guys, please comment. I love your comments. I'll read them all Um, feel free to tap the screen show some love Um, feel free to share this tweet with other people because they can join on I'll probably be on for another 15 minutes Um, just talking about stuff and then later when this is over. I'll post this video on youtube So people who are searching for questions about the fall or the doctrine of the fall Hopefully people who are trying to understand more of Of what this doctrine is. They'll find this video and maybe be pointed to the infinite atonement this book or Even the book of Mormon But lihi in the book of Mormon he shares a verse um in chapter two And he says and now behold if adam had not transgressed He would not have fallen But he would have remained in the garden of Eden and all things were which were created must have remained in the same state In which they were after they were created and they must have remained forever and had no end I used to be confused about the trinity before I converted and the gospel helped to make sense. Awesome Yeah, that's again I have a lot of dialogue with people who aren't members of the church because I try to kind of spread Nausea about the book of Mormon and generally the comments I get are people who don't like it But one of the things they'll frequently have a hard time with is their understanding of the trinity Where they believe kind of God's one being um, but we believe that God the father is A being of flesh and bone perfected body and we believe the same of jesus christ That he's a separate individual with a perfect body of flesh and bone And that the holy spirit is a third being They are one in purpose And it's interesting in the intercessory of prayer when jesus is praying to god saying I want my disciples to be one like us I think that's one of the easiest ways to understand it The disciples and apostles they all their own bodies. I'm not thinking that christ was saying we want them all to be one body So to me that's a clue that they aren't one body. Anyway, which makes more sense for me at least and i'm not a member Yeah, well great. Thanks for the comment. Yeah, it makes I mean it it seems to make more sense with christ baptism Where the voice of god was in heaven and the spirit came down as a dove and jesus was in the water And then steven when he was stoned If you if he looked up in the heaven, he saw god and jesus at his right hand. So there's you know, there's lots of Parts in the bible where it shows them in different places and Um, but again the doctrine of the trinity or of god's true nature That's one of the doctrines that was lost over time and that's why it was important for joseph smith Who saw an envision he saw god the father and jesus christ. That's kind of that was the purpose of that vision to help clarify that um Doctrine, okay, let me just continue reading really quick this one verse it says and they would have had no children Wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence having no joy for the new no misery doing no good for the new no sin So lehi was saying a little earlier in this chapter. He says that you can't have sin without Said that there's no law there's no sin if there's no sin there's no righteousness if there's no righteousness There's no happiness and Adam and Eve were in The garden of Eden where there's no law I mean they The law they were eventually given was don't partake of the fruit um Anyway, it's just a very interesting verse that lehi Shares, let me go into misconception. This is number five Because of the fall all infants are tainted with original sin Again, that's this is a misconception that many people in the christian world believe and if you want more clarification on that There's a chapter in the book of Mormon.   He's like no, that's not god's a god of mercy. Does not make sense um, but he goes on to say um Little children cannot repent. So it's awful wickedness to deny them the mercies of god just Saying that they needed baptism Um, but he's saying that all children are alive in christ um So that's one of these misconceptions of the fall is that there's this original sin But christ redeemed us from the effects of the fall. We'll talk about that a little more, but another This is misconception number six six k Grace alone can save us regardless of any works on our part Now this is one of the biggest uh This is a very misunderstood doctrine. I think even in the Mormon church about Salvation and what you need to be saved. Um at all of the religious world. It's a big Debated point and I think it's very misunderstood Now in this book They want us to read from 2nd Nephi 25 23 to talk about Um Grace and so i'm going to read this but i'm going to have some interesting commentary on it So this is Nephi talking about grace. He says this is the end Um For for this end was the law given Wherefore the law has been become dead unto us and we are made alive in christ because of our faith Yet we keep the law because of the commandments. That's the wrong verse. Sorry Okay For we labor diligently to write to persuade our children and also our brethren to believe in christ and to be reconciled to god For we know that is by grace that we are saved after all we can do Okay, again any comments questions you want to invite people you can do that by I think there's a way to invite people and retweet this um periscope to people As members of the church of jesus christ of ladder to sands or mormons or ladder to sands We believe in a principle of salvation and exaltation Okay salvation for us is when we are saved from the effects of the fall Now the fall is when adam and eve adam and eve partake of the fruit. They were cast out of god's presence And their bodies were changed. So So they there's a I get you called the spiritual death meaning they were removed from god's presence, but then They were prone to the if not prone. They were um How do I say this? They were I can't i'm losing it death was then death ended the world and so did their They were no longer innocent. They could choose for themselves. Okay We believe that through jesus christ That separation from god or death. We believe that we will Everyone's gonna be restored back into heaven. Well, not to heaven back into god's presence momentarily um, so We'll all be resurrected Best talk about grace his grace is sufficient. It's a bw talk, but But i've read little hawks. Yeah, I've actually read that one and I think it's great and I wish everyone could Read it, but I still think even in that talk um They're still like it's still hard because There's this salvation where christ saves us from death through the resurrection and also from sin Or that separation from god Where he brings us back into his presence and he's like, you know what? I'll bring you back into his presence and I'll bring you Back from death and so we're before god and it says that in the book of mormon lots of times There's lots of verses where it says the atonement of christ restores us to god's presence now Mormons believe in a principle called exaltation where we believe that Our ultimate goal is to be with god, but also to become like him Now exaltation is where our works come in to a point Um, a lot of people think, you know, if I just believe in christ That's the only principle I need just to believe in him um Now for salvation christ saves us and there's nothing we can do like I can't resurrect myself I can't bring myself back into god's presence. Jesus christ redemption did that Okay So there's no works that I've done to do that now once I'm back in god's presence I'm going to be judged and I'll be judged on my works um And based on my works god will determine where I'm going to be living for eternity and we believe in a judgment We believe joseph smith received a revelation about the afterlife There's different degrees of glory based on the way you lived your life And that's something kind of really foreign to other christians and they don't necessarily agree with They believe christ saves but so do I Christ saves me from sin and death from the effects of the fall and brings me back into god's presence I don't believe I will ever be equal to god. I worship only him now Sheila I understand that completely and I'm grateful for you saying that I just want to pull out a different a few scriptures one of them, uh, I just want to go to matthew because The way I've always looked at this Any father if we truly believe that god is our father any father when you have a child You you want to teach him everything you can like you you love them with all your heart You want them to achieve everything that they can in life and you want them to have everything you have all the Blessings and happiness and good times that you've ever had you want them to have that But you also you want them to be better than you if it's possible like Let's say you're in high school and you got a 3.7 You wouldn't want your kid to like do worse than you you bought them to you do better and you'd help them to do better There's a scripture in matthew five Again, she'll this is kind of just to talk about that point because Again, this is one of the doctrines that we believe is misunderstood and uh That the book of Mormon and additional scripture and revelation and prophets that are on the earth again today can clarify Matthew 548 Jesus says Be ye therefore perfect Even as your father riches in heaven is perfect We don't take that as Kind of a nice thought we take that as like a commandment from christ like I want you to be perfect like your father in heaven is perfect and there's others references were You know it talks about being as the gods um We believe that we have as children of god god we have this divine destiny and that's And for some that might seem like Um, yeah join areas with christ is another scripture in the bible People think that somehow we're taking something away from god if you want to be like him or it makes him any less Of importance to us, but I don't see that From my perspective, but I just wanted to read Um There's another scripture. This is actually found in the book of Mormon It's maroni chapter 10 And I really love what it says. Basically, it's says come unto god and be perfected in him Okay At the end of the day when all of the dust settles we're still going to have imperfections And we're not going to be able to do everything right, but that's where the atonement of christ comes in again Where it can perfect us um And it says if the by the grace of god are perfect in christ You can in no wise deny the power of god To believe that god's grace is sufficient for you that by his grace he may be perfect in christ So we believe in the principle of grace Enabling us to do that we could something we couldn't do by ourselves Um, and again that first in matthew 548 where christ says be therefore perfect Even as your father in heaven, which is in which is perfect and then also You know be I think it's Corinthians where talks about being joint areas with christ or maybe it's romans And it says we're all children of him and join as I can't remember but Thank you for bringing that up and thank you shila for Your comment and it kind of explaining what you believe Um, yeah, romans. I think it's chapter eight now the last there's two more, uh Misconceptions of the fall number six We talked about was grace And they know the thought that grace is the only thing we need now from a mormon perspective lbs perspective Grace is all we need to be saved like christ is all we need but again, we believe in this principle of exaltation Where we're judged according to our works and then again the atonement of christ can enable us to be more than we could be by ourselves Misconception number seven that the physical resurrection of the saver was merely symbolic We will be resurrected as spirits without the limitations of our physical body Um, and we believe that we will be restored to a perfect body in a perfect frame Every hair of our head that has been lost will be Um Getting back to us again. This is in alma 40 23. Let me read it real quick The soul shall be restored to the body And the body to the soul in every limb and joint shall be restored to its body Yeah, even a hair of the head shall not be lost But all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame So that's what we believe Regarding that and then number eight the atonement Does not have the power to transform us into gods. In fact, such a thought is blasphemous So again, that's a misconception that most of the christian world has Again, this is according to our beliefs. And so we've seen some on here who've kind of said yeah I mean, I think I only worship god and I don't think we can become like him And that's I mean a lot of people believe that and again, we don't see it as something of Us becoming people that can be worshiped. It's more of God is our father. We have a divine origin He loves us and he wants us to be happy and to be with him And he's given jesus christ to the world to save us from our sins and from death But also to enable us to do things which we couldn't do on our own Want to be christlike Yep, that's something that the gospel of jesus christ Um, definitely teaches in 3rd and e5 27 verse 27 it says, um This is christ speaking when he came to the american continent. He says What manner of men ought you to be? Barely assay into you even as I am so again, he gives the injunction, you know be as I am So those are the eight misconceptions about the fall That The book of Mormon helps clarify and again So just to kind of wrap things up a lot of people will comment with me to me and say we have the bible We don't need additional scripture. Why do they need the book of Mormon? And for even some members of the church of jesus christ have lettered his hands Who've been members their whole life and have had access to the bible in the book of Mormon? Sometimes it's hard to understand Wait, what what are we truly getting from the book of Mormon? That's not in the bible because we kind of see them as one group of scripture So sometimes it's good to analyze what we actually learn from the book of Mormon. That's not in the bible Anyway, there's any comments on here any other thoughts. I'd love to talk about something else um Do you guys have any maybe other things you've learned from the book of Mormon that you think are important? I can address those think in my next periscope. I'm going to talk a little bit about uh specifically at the atonement and what The book of Mormon teaches about the atonement of jesus christ because there's some Truth that the world in general doesn't know about when you say atonement That might that word might be a little foreign to some people, but we believe that's the Um death of christ um His sacrifice on the cross is death and then his resurrection But also we believe you know a lot of people in the christian world believe you took upon The world the sins of the world, but we believe he also took upon The sorrows and sadness and kind of not just the physical things that the world suffers with but I think i'm going to wrap it up. I appreciate those of you who've been on this periscope Tap if there's anybody left. I think there's a few people Feel free to tap the screen I think that it's important to remember that god loves all his children all over the world Yeah, exactly. That's and uh, yeah, thanks for the love. Thanks for the taps on the screen It's fun to see the 2016 popping up um Yeah, there's I wish I had the verse right in front of me. I don't know if it's 24 15 or 15 24 The I think it's 15 24 when nifa has a similar thought. He's like, you know what there's so much um I should know this It's in second nifa. Is it second nifa? Is it second nifa 15 24? I'm not sure it basically he says Oh second nifa 29. Yeah, there's There's also another one. It's a it's a different reference. I think um But says, you know, I don't understand everything but one thing I do know is that god Loved his children And everything that is done by the prophets and leaders of the church It's to reflect that love of god that he has for His people and I'm gonna wrap this up. Thanks for hanging on this periscope um Again, if you have other questions, you can feel free to contact me. You can email me Um at info at I love the book of Mormon.org you can email me there or you can send me a direct message on twitter The handles at book Mormon today And yeah, Sheila Bye for now some interesting points I will think about yeah, Sheila. Thank you so much for hanging out with us and for your comments Bless you. Thank you for this Al all awesome. Yeah, thank you as well and I've been I I did it more of these in the past. I kind of took a couple months off but I'll be doing these kind of more often just um One to kind of talk with you guys and it's a lot easier when you're kind of just watching something on screen to Kind of open up and kind of see what they're thinking um, but also I'm going to be posting this video on YouTube so people who maybe have questions about the fall of Jesus Christ Excuse me the fall of adam and some of those misconceptions. Hopefully they'll be landing on this video um Leanne yeah, thank you for joining. Um, it's good having you on here And we will look forward to talking to you guys later. I'm gonna sign off for now. Thank you. Happy new year


A group of students at Central Lakes College is heading to the nation's capital to present their project that hopes to help veterans and active members of the military cope with stress. Our A.J. Feldman has more. A group of mobile app development students at CLC is making headlines. I thought it was crazy that, you know, a small Central Lakes college in Braynard, Minnesota got recognized on the national level. That was pretty cool. For the Community College Innovation Challenge, they created an app that can connect veterans with trusted friends and family members with the touch of a button. You can set up an emergency contact to say you're in a dire need of assistance. You're going to have this immediate contact group that when you hit the button, it'll contact those people. The group, comprised of people with various web development skills, will head to Washington in June to present their app to members of Congress. Those that are new to the mobile app development program, then they are testing the graphical user interface because we have veterans in the team. We have active military, so they have different roles. So even though they may not be experts in programming, they can still distill what's going on behind the scenes. It's good to be part of a team because it's not just one person. It's everybody who's involved and, you know, that's helpful, I think. The team has four active or former members of the military making it a personal project for many of them. I personally lost a friend when I was in a unit in Thief River Falls to suicide. And I know when we first heard the news, it was pretty much a group think of what could we have done. Because nobody knew that he was even thinking about things like that. And then the stories like that are just all over the place. The group says that while the competition and the national recognition is nice, that if the app can help just one person, it'll all be worth it. It's nice that we're able to get them the resources that they need and get them the help that they require as just one more pillar to that to that building. Reporting in Brainerd, A.J. Feldman, Lakeland News. The group will participate in an innovation boot camp in Virginia before presenting their app to members of Congress. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.