This is Dave Vellante from wikibond.org and this is theCUBE's Silicon Angles coverage of HP Discover, we're here live in Barcelona. Margaret Dawson is here, she's with HP's Cloud Services. Margaret, great to have you on theCUBE. Thanks, great to be back. So, Discover, Barcelona, this is a good show, a lot of good vibe, a lot of energy, what do you think? It has been fantastic, actually there is more energy here and I think we've actually as a company announced more exciting things and products across the entire spectrum than I've seen. Yeah, so the cloud picture's starting to come together, it's a little more in focus, why don't you take us, take us through what's happened since we last were on covering HP Discover six months ago in June and Las Vegas. In beautiful Las Vegas. Well, yeah, hotter, not as elegant and certainly not as much of a European flair unless you go to Paris, Paris, Paris, right? So, what's happened in the last six months in HP's Cloud? I think there's a few things. One is that six months ago we had already said we're committed to cloud, we're here for the long run, here are some of the things we're doing. I think what's changed over the past six months is organizationally, just internally, we've now organized ourselves where we are one cloud business unit. So, all of the cloud solutions, R&D, go-to-market, sales, is in a single team. And what that means for our customers is they have one place to go, whether they're looking just to figure out their cloud strategy with our services team all the way through implementing private cloud, public cloud, virtual private cloud, or any flavor of those. And the strategy that's behind that is really being delivered on. So, I mentioned that we've announced so many things. If you look at what we announced just this morning at Discover, seems like it was three days ago. We announced Next Generation Cloud System, which is our main private cloud solution for customers. We announced great progress on our public cloud, a new virtual private cloud portfolio, everything from a basic public cloud up to customized managed. So, literally, this hybrid vision that we talked about even a few months ago now is not only coming into fruition, but we are absolutely executing against it, as well as with the open stack. So, there's just been a huge momentum in terms of execution, our strategy, how we are going to market, and our ability to show that we are executing against this vision of open enterprise-grade hybrid cloud. And a lot of times you get the organization right, and all of a sudden good things start to happen, right? So, essentially you guys are, you know, you got to be committed to cloud in this day and age. So, you're a distribution channel for the enterprise group, right? I mean, you can buy their products if you so choose, and if they don't live up to the grade, you can go somewhere else, right? And that's an interesting point. You know, we hear a lot that cloud cannibalizes traditional infrastructure sales, and I think there's two things about that. What we have seen at HP, and I would say what I've seen in the market overall, is that cloud can actually pull infrastructure sales. So, you know, we are seeing a greater build-out of infrastructure to power cloud computing. I always call it, you know, cloud is the data center in disguise. So, massive infrastructure build-out. But it also drives next generation, right? It drives innovation, because we need higher efficiency. We can't do things in the same way. So, I think that those two things are actually working very well hand in hand. You know, that's a good point. I'd like to talk about that a little bit.  And we have examples of that happening, but the thing about cloud is this notion that it's, okay, it's lower cost as a result that's going to eat out the core of sort of IT that's been bloated and over-inflated margins, et cetera. My experience has been, and I wonder if you could just comment, is the markets elastic? If you reduce the cost of compute and storage, and also importantly, reduce the labor cost around that, innovation occurs, and people end up buying more networking and computing storage. And so, okay, so you agree with that, now it's self-serving, but do you have evidence of that actually happening? No, absolutely. I mean, I think we can see that. And I think what is also a little bit misleading is that three, four years ago, when you asked people, why are you going to the cloud? Cost was always number one, right? And that was very public cloud focused, right? Or even SaaS, the application side. And now if you talk to you, especially large enterprises, but really companies anywhere, it cost maybe a factor of it more from a, what is my return on investment, or how is this going to impact my overall IT budget or business budget. But it's agility. It's time to market. It's innovation. It's really what's driving them using the cloud. It's how do I get this out to my customers or my employees in a better way, in a faster way, in a self-service way, right? And spin it up very, very quickly. So that agility has become the main thing, not the cost. And so in doing that, you're seeing a lot of people create private cloud, right? Which has that infrastructure piece and is not necessarily the lowest cost, but it fulfills all those other things that they need to do for the business. So it's not just public cloud. And that's why we've invested in this entire spectrum, because it's not happening. There was, you know, pundits that were saying five years ago, oh, everything's just going to go to the public cloud. The big switch. Right. It was neither realistic nor is it happening. Sorry, Nick. You got that wrong, too. Right. We love Nick Carr. Right, right. But it's just not happening. And the reason is, there's still a lot of investment in that legacy, so-called legacy IT, right? And the reality is also that some applications aren't ideal for cloud. And I think that's the learning we're having. And so how do you then bring this all together from traditional IT, where some applications are going to sit, mission-critical data is still going to sit. We're not going to throw that all over the place, right? That's very, very sensitive, compliance-wise. And the build out of private cloud is very, very strong and has become a huge market. John and I often talk. I mean, cloud's relatively new, but we're entering even yet a new phase, probably the fourth great phase of cloud. But at first, it was just sort of this development platform and web startups could use it. And then when the economy dipped down, you saw a rush to shift gap to OPEX, whether it was going to the public cloud or even trying to just be more efficient in the private cloud. And then coming out of the recession, you seem to have this big innovation cycle with so-called shadow IT. Right. Now, we see CIOs, many of them, still some people with their heads in the sand, but many CIOs really embracing this saying, look, this is the trend, it's happening. And I want my IT to run that way. So I wonder if you could comment on that and see what you're seeing. Yeah, so I think we need to be careful because shadow IT is absolutely a reality and it's happening. And the quote that's everyone's favorite is the CMO is going to have a bigger IT budget than the CIO, right? I don't think that's necessarily true, but I think that the CIO or the IT needs to embrace the business's need to perhaps go into some of these new cloud solutions, whether it's on their own, but they can't lose the governance of it. And I think what we're going to see in the coming year is IT actually saying, okay, you can go do that, but I still need to have some kind of control if for no other reason that they have lost control of their data, right? People are putting data everywhere and if something happens to that corporate data, there's one person that's to blame and that's the CIO, right? The CEO isn't going to go to the marketing guy, they go, oh, we just had a data breach, right? That's going to go back to the IT department. So there's this balancing act that I think really needs to happen in the next year, which is, first of all, do an audit and make sure you know where are all these clouds, because if you talk to most CIOs, a lot of them don't even know what's out there or where their data is. So first of all, just find out what you don't know. And then I think it's determining, okay, how are you going to govern this and allow the agility the business needs, but you have got to have some kind of compliance, governance, security controls around these cloud applications and around your data. And finding that balance, I think is going to be an interesting tension as we move through this year. And I do think that's the role of the CIO. I mean, we've saw this before with distributed computing. It's going to be hurting cats if everybody goes off and does their own cloud. So do you envision the CIO having essentially a cloud portfolio? And these clouds are certified for these types of workloads and these are. I think that's a good way to put it. I think there could be a certification role that they play and definitely maybe a vendor criteria. Or okay, you're going to go out and do this. Here's the three things we need or here's the security things that you need to have. And I could tie that back to our own cloud portfolio. We have a security officer and we are sought compliance and my public cloud, my website, my private cloud solutions, they all have to make sure we maintain that compliance because that is our promise to our enterprise customers. The same thing's going to happen if you're a PCI compliant industry, so retail or something like that, nothing you do can break that. And so it doesn't matter who is behind the budget in that cloud, the CIO's role has got to be maintaining that governance model so you're not breaking your promise to your customers or to your regulators. Okay, so how would you just summarize HP's cloud strategy? So we are a hybrid cloud strategy and it's the cloud enterprises rely on. So that's a little bit of a tagline, a little bit of marketing speak, but it really is what we're building. So there are three tenants to that. Open is one and that's about choice. That's about open source, literally. So we have committed to OpenStack as the technology foundation for our common cloud architecture and we will continue to build on that so that everything works together and customers have that confidence of a single common platform. What that also gives is that interoperability. So one of the biggest pain points that people have in cloud right now is I've got all this different stuff going on, whether it be on-premise or private or public or applications, you've got to have an open ecosystem and an open architecture to support that. And I think one of the things that I hope we're going to be pushing more is to drive APIs to more of an open yet standard-based structure. API complexity right now in proprietary APIs is causing a lot of pain in the market if you talk to even small businesses. And there's talk about, you know, should OpenStack work with some of the proprietary APIs? I would push it back to them and say, well, maybe some of those closed APIs should figure out how to interop with OpenStack. So open is a key thing. Well, that doesn't seem to be happening. Yeah, no, there's not a lot of that now but I think if the market starts demanding it, you've got to push and pull, right? It's true with any market that we've seen. But that concept of the, you know, everybody says Amazon turned the data center into an API. It's a very powerful concept. It is, but look back at Linux. Look back at open source, right? Did Microsoft want to play with Linux in a day? No, but then they were forced to. But essentially you're saying that's the right framework. It's the right thing to do for the customer. But it's got to be open. That's your argument. So at re-invent, we had Jerry Chen was on it. You have a great comment. He's coming back from the OpenStack conference in Hong Kong. And I said, how would you compare, you know, what Amazon's doing with OpenStack? He said, well, Amazon's trying to be one thing to everybody and OpenStack's trying to be all things to everybody. And I thought that was sort of a good summary. So then we started the discussion. Well, OpenStack needs some muscle. Is HP that muscle? Absolutely. Okay, so to me it's not necessarily a bad thing that OpenStack is trying to be. Maybe it's not all things, but a lot of things to a lot of people. That's essentially what HP is. Is it company? Correct. So what we're doing with OpenStack is we're saying we will make this enterprise great. So we will provide a hardened version of OpenStack for our enterprise customers. And we'll do that in a few different ways. But you know, if you were going to use OpenStack with HP, you will know that it will work with other products within our portfolio. So it'll be interoperable. That it will be secure. You'll guarantee that. I mean essentially. Right, it will be under the SLA that you expect, whether it be the four nines or five nines or whatever your SLA says, right? So there's an enterprise commitment that we are making to OpenStack. So we went back before talking about three tenants. So that open is one, enterprise great is another. So everything we do in cloud is something that an enterprise can rely on. And the third thing is hybrid. That we are going to build out this hybrid portfolio so that you can have this experience no matter what cloud or traditional IT you're using. What, let's talk about enterprise grade. Because that phrase gets thrown out there a lot. But let's unpack it a little bit. What does enterprise grade mean to you and to HP? So I would turn that and say, what does it mean to a customer? Because that's who cares about it, right? So one of them is security. So it means that everything they buy has the security that they need, whether it be that they are allowed the access control rules that they need, right? And that is consistent. The manageability so you know what's happening in it. Just the hardening, meaning the code has been tested. A lot of people forget that when we talk about IT security there's security at the very basic level of the code itself and how it's tested. Is it built with secure development processes? So that and much more is what we, that's one piece of the enterprise grade. Reliability, so it's the SLA. Sar made a joke this morning in his keynote that an SLA should be something that you know about that you get support with, that you have a live person letting you know something's going wrong. You shouldn't learn about it from a Twitter feed. So when we talk about enterprise grade it's about reliability and customer support that is real. There are some SLA's like hey we'll do our best if we don't send us an email and you know. We've seen a lot of issues with reliability in a lot of public clouds where things go down and you find out about it in the news media. Sure, but would you agree that for, even for HP public cloud you've got to have an SLA that reflects the massive potential for scale and it's okay to have an SLA in the public cloud that's less stringent than an SLA in a hybrid cloud. Absolutely, but the point is that when you publish that SLA and for the public cloud we have a published 99.95% SLA, that it means something. And if something does happen that you have live real people in support that you can call and talk to on the phone. That's enterprise grade. That's important, so that is a difference between your public cloud and the other public clouds out there. I mean we're talking about Amazon, we talk about the public cloud. They invented the concept and so I like to, I know you don't like to mention their name necessarily on camera, but it's good for customers. This is a conversation we have with customers all the time. So the difference between your SLA would be that you can actually talk to a live person. That is one of the differences, yes. Okay, talking about your public cloud SLA and obviously the private cloud's a whole different ball game. Right, but the point, so if you think about our hybrid strategy, we're taking oftentimes the economics or the self-service ability of public cloud and putting into other cloud models and taking that hand-holding or more premium service level that you get with private cloud to the public cloud, right? So it's bringing it together so it's that consistent experience, no matter what delivery model you're using, that's what we bring. So another question I have because in talking to customers I've found that a lot of times what they want is, we're talking about security. Everybody talks about how great our security is, everyone. So it's hard for a customer to kind of, it's hard for them to discern. The big difference seems to be, and correct me if I'm wrong, is you will do specials. If a customer says, this is what we need, you say, all right, we'll do that. And I think that's a really good point because going back to the enterprise and the enterprise grade, there is that ability to adapt to what the customer needs. I will tell you in past lives, I was building out a DR architecture and we were looking, do we build out a secondary data center or could we use the cloud for that? And the problem we had with using the public cloud is we could literally not create the architecture the same as we had it in our primary data center. So we couldn't actually do a warm or hot DR scenario. And that was because the way we wanted to architect failover and our load balancers, we could not repeat because they said, no, this is the box. This is how we architect this. Take it or leave it. So we left it, we couldn't do that. That was not our promise. So you see that a lot and there's times where they need a very customizable and sometimes even a managed experience for their cloud. So if you want a standard vanilla, you self-service it, you do it all, we've got that. If you want highly customized, configurable, managed, we've got that too and that's the promise. And that concept applies to the public cloud piece of the spectrum as well or not necessarily? So I mean most people that are wanting public cloud, they want it to be fairly standardized. I mean HP's public cloud. Right, so it's a fairly standardized based on OpenStack. There's still things we can do to be agile and flexible. We work with a lot of solution partners, that type of thing. But when you talk to people about more of that customizable experience, that tends to be more about the private cloud anyway. Or the hybrid. Or the hybrid experience. And I think one of the things is that overall, when I think about cloud, I tend to use the words extend and attach. And I think that that is a way, a lot of enterprises think about it, but it's not the way someone who their whole business is that, whatever, talk about cloud. But at the end of the day, for cloud to really be successful, for the enterprise to be successful with cloud, is that they're looking at it as an extension of what they're already doing. So if you've invested millions in an SAP installation, you're not going to flip that over and throw it in the public cloud. That would be ridiculous. And very hard, by the way, because SAP wouldn't really do that very agile-wise. But it's also probably not the best thing. So the question is, okay, well what if my SAP is working with some kind of data store and I want to extend or burst to that for excess capacity or for storage or test dev, or I'm going to build some apps on top of it or whatever it is. So the cloud can extend that, whether you do a private cloud, you do a VPC or a public cloud, you're enabling this ability for them to grow their IT infrastructure or grow their capacity in a very seamless way without investing millions of dollars again. So interoperability across your ecosystem with the OpenStack component is something that you are committed to? Absolutely. And I would say that, there's been some discussion in the media this week. We are also committed to interoperability with third-party clouds, especially when it comes from private cloud to public. So we support AWS bursting from our private cloud today. We just announced three additional public clouds. So Azure, ArcIS and SFR, ArcIS and SFR are two big European providers that we partner with that now cloud system, our private cloud solution can burst to those. And so I think that there's a couple different ways to look at interoperability, right? There's the OpenStack side and then there's times we have to work with other third parties out of what the customer wants to do. How about packaging applications in your cloud, bringing ISVs from your ecosystem in? I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit. So we're doing some of that today. Our public cloud actually has a very strong solution partner ecosystem. A lot of those come through the OpenStack community as well. But we are building out a very large solution partner ISV ecosystem across HP cloud. And I think there's lots of different ways that they can collaborate with us, whether it be repackaging reselling what we already have, selling their applications on our cloud. And then we also have what we call HP on HP. So you can assume over time that anything that we sell from a software application will be available across those different delivery models.  Do you want Vertica as a service on our public cloud? Do you want it deployed on your private cloud? How do you want to consume or deliver or build that? And so that's absolutely key part of the vision and strategy. So our research at Wikibon clearly shows, I mean, hybrid cloud is the dominant strategy. In fact, if you add up the people who say we're going hybrid or private, it's probably 80% of the customers, about 10% say, you know what, we're all public cloud and it's startups and it's small businesses and a number of people are going that direction. But the large enterprises clearly are going to hybrid. Even the guys are saying they're going hybrid. They're actually hybrid today, I think they do, yeah. Right, so I presume you see that as well. So what are you seeing with hybrid? What is it? How is it manifesting itself? Are you actually seeing federated applications? Do you expect to see that over time? We can talk about that a little bit. So I think that in the research that we've actually done with our customer base, it's interesting because a lot of people say, oh, we're hybrid. It's maybe about 40, 50%. But then when you say, do you have private cloud? They say yes. Is your company also doing anything with public cloud? Yes. And yet they didn't answer that they're hybrid. So there's some misunderstanding even, you know, within the community of what is hybrid, what is not hybrid. The majority of our customers have private and public today. Now it may not be under the purview of IT, but as a company, you know, they are already dealing with hybrid. And I think it goes back to what we were talking about before that, you know, the challenge for IT is somehow getting some kind of centralized governance and control and management of that. In terms of federation, I think, you know, the biggest issue around federation of anything is more around identity and access controls. Not whether that app can sit in five different places or in private and public. I think we'll see some of that. But when I talk about federated, it's always federated ID, you're federated security, you're federated access. And so I think that is actually the biggest issue from an IT perspective. Okay, but so we're coming full circle on the strategy. I mean, essentially your strategy is to, yeah, hybrid, however you define hybrid, public and private, all these different clouds, HP strategy is to essentially wrap them in a way that you can manage them consistently, govern them consistently. I mean, that's been your cloud vision all along. And we're executing on it. So talk about where you're knocking down wins. So, I mean, starting with private cloud, we're number one in the market. And that was just validated by a Forrester Wave that came out that said, we lead the pack in private cloud. Cloud system is our key solution there. So we're number one in private cloud, and that is our anchor. It was funny, Bill called it the Forrester Magic Cloud. He did indeed. I got a good chuckle out of that, I love it. We will work to make sure. We love Forrester and Gardner, they have different products. We love Wikibon too. You need to have your triangle or whatever you're going to call it. We just let the community vote. There you go, there you go. The customers can decide. So obviously, and we've seen huge growth with cloud system. While we don't release revenues, it's just been a hugely successful product. So that's really our anchor. And now we're able to, we obviously have public cloud. We launched that just over a year ago. Huge growth there, continue to expand our public cloud footprint. We just launched the latest version. So we're on trunk with OpenStack, which is going to be an ongoing thing. Currently OpenStack's on Havana. So we're on Grizzly moving to Havana. So you'll continue to see us do that. Lots of new capabilities there around larger instances, which the enterprise needs. So that's another enterprise grade capability. We then have our VPC portfolio. So virtual private cloud is another one that a lot of people talk about. So it's taking that multi-tenancy of a public cloud, but locking that down so you can control it in just your organization uses it. And you can get that, again, just standard self-service spin-up of VPC on our public cloud, or you can customize it and have it managed for you in another way. So it's literally that entire thing and we're executing on all those levels. I wonder if we can unpack your announcements a little bit. You said you had a next-generation cloud system, new public cloud, basically just laying out the hybrid vision. Start with the next-gen cloud system. Give us a little detail there. So a few things. One of the reasons it's called next-gen is we now support OpenStack. So I go back to what our vision and strategy was that OpenStack will serve as that technology foundation across our hybrid cloud portfolio. So OpenStack is now integrated with cloud system. We also added additional integration with new public clouds. We also now have added a ton of new features around the way you can configure things, a user experience that is very consumer-inspired. So what you'll see across all of our cloud solutions is much more of a consumer-widgey-widge type of UI that everyone is demanding. That whole smartphone and tablet mentality has been driven into the enterprise. So you'll see that kind of UI and consistent user experience across all of our cloud products. And this cloud system incorporates the latest version of our management platform, which was another announcement we made, which again is taking that common UI, common experience, and the ability to look for everything from traditional IT all the way through public cloud or VPC and be able to manage that holistically. Because what enterprise is one is that single view or that consistency of management. And for their users to say, oh, I'm in this cloud, I want to spin up an instance, or I want to go download this application, it's the same experience for them. It needs to be just very, very simple. Okay, so I think you're right. I think there was this sort of perception, okay, HP's all in on cloud, but six, nine months ago, there was a lot of marketing around cloud. Clearly a management commitment, but you just couldn't feel the, you could feel the enthusiasm, but you really couldn't touch it, you couldn't see it, so I'm sensing not only enthusiasm now, but real proof points. So let's look out a year from now. What kinds of things should we expect as outside observers? More features, more functions, more customers. So with that layer, I think your labs are gonna see continued innovation around feature functionality, ease of use, making hybrid simple or simpler to use to manage, to configure, to scale. But there's also gonna be just fundamentally some great new things happening, continued pushes on the management side, but on the open stack side specifically, I think you'll see some great announcements of how enterprises can get their hands on that a little bit more and start to deploy it more easily in whatever they want. So there's been a lot of push for us to allow enterprises to have their own open stack distribution that they don't deal with, that we make that easy for them. So we announced something quite a while ago called CloudOS, which is that technology foundation. You'll see a lot of progress around that and how we're using that across the company, as well as how enterprises can use it themselves. Awesome, we're really excited about the open stack initiatives. We'll be at the open stack summit. We were there last year. One of the best events that we did last year was in Portland. I hear it's going to be Atlanta this year, is that right? Yeah, so we're excited to be there as well. And I appreciate you coming on theCUBE. Margaret, it was great to see you. You too. Thanks for sharing your insights. Thank you. Everybody, John Furrier and I will be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE, we're live from Barcelona. We'll be right back.


In this video, I want to talk about taking limits as x approaches positive or negative infinity when you have an exponential function. And to be able to calculate the in behavior, it's important to think of the graph of your typical exponential function. So if we have an exponential function whose base is a, which is greater than one, this will be a growth exponential function, it will be increasing along its domain. You'll see in that situation that if you take the limit as x approaches infinity, a to the x will equal infinity and it'll actually be growing very rapidly, much faster than any power function. But it's also important to know that as you go towards negative infinity, this thing actually will decay towards zero. A growth exponential function actually has a horizontal acetote at y equals zero. But only on the left side of its graph on the right hand side, it goes off towards infinity. Now, if you have a decay model, an exponential function whose base is less than one, you actually see the opposite behavior going on here. On the left hand side, it goes off towards positive infinity. On the right hand side, it goes on towards zero from above. But a decay model is just a reflection of a growth model across the y-axis. So if you know the growth model, then you'll know the decay model as well. So keep track of that. The key thing to remember here is if you ever see a to the negative infinity, that's going to equal zero. Again, assuming that a is greater than one. Or if you take like a to the infinity, that's going to equal infinity. Again, if a is greater than one, if a is like one-half, it's less than one. You get the reverse principle. So pay attention to that. So if we considered the limit as x approaches zero from the left of e to the one over x there, we would compute this thing as the limit as x approaches. Well, we really can just plug it in to the we can plug it into the rational expression because we can actually bring the exponential out. It's a continuous function. We get e to the limit as x approaches zero from the left of one over x. This is going to give you e to one over zero from the left. If you approach zero from the left of the exponential function here, excuse me, of the rational function one over x there, if you approach it from the left, that's going to be a negative infinity. So e to the negative infinity is going to equal zero, of course. Notice how this is different to if we take the limit as x approaches zero from the right of this thing, e to the one over x. In that situation, you pull out the exponential. You're going to get one over zero plus. That's going to be e to the infinity, and that then gives you infinity as well. So this is a function for which when you approach zero from the left, you're going to get zero. But if you approach zero from the right, you're going to get infinity. So this function has a one-sided vertical asymptote, which kind of makes sense because exponential functions have a one-sided in-behavior horizontal asymptote on the left side, but it explodes on the right hand side by composing an exponential with a rational function. You can force that behavior to happen with vertical asymptotes. It's a vertical asymptote on the right hand side, but it's a, it's not a vertical asymptote on the left hand side. Consider the limit as x goes to infinity of two e to the x over e to the x minus five. Now, the way that we can handle limits of these ratios is like we did before with rational functions. I could take the numerator and multiply it by one over e to the x, one over e to the x, and this would then end up giving you the limit. On the top, you'll get two on the bottom. You'll get, of course, one minus five times e to the x, like so, for which you could rewrite that using exponential rules. This becomes two over one minus five e to the negative x right here as x goes to infinity. If we plug in infinity in this situation, we get two over one minus five times e to the negative infinity. Like we saw a moment ago, if e is going to the negative infinite power, that's actually just a zero. You get two over one minus zero. That is two over one. The limit here turns out to be two. But personally, I like sort of a simpler approach. This mechanic works each and every time, but I like to think of it in terms of who's the fastest growing term here. In the numerator, the fastest growing term, well, there's only one, it's two e to the x. On the bottom, you get e to the x. That's the fastest growing term right there. And so as x goes towards infinity, nothing really matters in the end, except for, of course, the leading term. So you get two e to the x over e to the x, for which you see the same thing again, the e to the x cancel and the limit's going to turn out to be two. It's a much simpler calculation, but why is this method justifiable? It's because of all these details right here. It's kind of like proving the quadratic formula in an algebraic class. You compute, you get the quadratic formula by completing the square, but once you've done that, you don't have to do it over and over again. You could reuse the results of that quadratic formula. I should also mention that in this video, that is if we take x going towards negative infinity, if we had done that one, things will look a little bit different, of course, because if you plug in negative infinity in this situation, let's actually do that one. Let's take the limit as x approaches negative infinity of two e to the x over e to the x minus five here. If you plug in negative infinity, you'll get two times e to the negative infinity. You'll get e to the negative infinity minus five. e to the negative infinity is gonna be zero, so you get zero over zero minus five, and the end, this gives you zero as well. So that's a different result. It's important to remember with exponential functions that the behavior on the right is not the same as the end behavior on the left, and so therefore functions that have exponentials in them will likely inherit that property from its parent. All right, so let's look at one last example in this video here. Let's take the limit as x approaches infinity. We have e to the three x minus e to the negative three x over four times e to the three x plus e to the negative three x. In terms of dominance, I want you to be aware that as x goes to infinity, these terms are gonna go off towards zero because you're getting this e to the negative infinity there, and so this right here, because those terms are going off towards zero, they're recessive as x goes to infinity here, you're gonna end up with just the leading terms. The dominant term will be e to the three x over four e to the three x. The e's cancel out and we see the limit here is gonna equal one fourth. On the other hand though, if we take the limit as x approaches negative infinity, we see the exact opposite happening. Let me just copy this down right here, four e to the three x minus e to the negative three x, like so.  The other terms aren't because if you plug in, if you plug in a negative infinity times a negative three, that's actually gonna be a positive power of e. So in terms of dominance, you actually end up with the limit, this time as x approaches negative infinity of negative e to the negative three x over negative e to the negative three x, for which we're gonna see that everything's gonna cancel out and this limit turns out to be a positive one, which is different than the one fourth we see there. So be very careful when you work with exponentials, look for these dominant terms, but also make sure you pay attention, am I going towards positive infinity or negative infinity, because the result is very different in all the direction you're going.


Felly dyfodb dda i'n gyffredinig o'r ffordd golffu neu rydw i'n ffordd. Felly mae'r un o'r ffordd a'r meddwl, yna d amdano yn rhan o gyfrod eau'r wahanol, ond rwy'n meddwl i'n rhan o'r ffordd, ac rydw i'n rhoi'n mynd i gydigodd yn cyfrwyd dwy modd. Felly mae'n mynd yn ei wneud i wneud i'r mewn porraf ac norw. Mae wedi bod yn ysgrifennu i'r ffordd ei dddir o'r newid. Nike beth yn ystod yn fwyig mewn. Ond efallai yw'n gweithio y blaid, oedd efallai yw'r lleifod, oedd efallai yw'n lleifod llent, o'r lleifod dros ymgyrch Dyma, o'r lleifod o'r lleifod, roedd efallai yw yma yn glwyddon. Ond efallai yw'n gweithio'r llunion, yn gweithio'r lleifod, yn gweithio'r lleifod i'r gŵl yma yng Nghyml teisio'r cael hefyd, mae'n gweithio yn gweithio. Rwy'r lleifod ar hynny wedi gwneud gwasanaeth yma yn gweithi ddweithi ddim yn cwym bwynt deisch Audience Mae'r llwyddiadr honno'n beth yw'r hyn wedi amladd ei wyunio yn dweud. Mae'r llwyddiadr yn cymdeisio, ac mae gennymall fel yfynu gynhyrchu ymarfer y modd mewn gyntaf. Mae'n bwysig, ac mae'n ddaw i'r gwneud, neu'r gweithio'r boann SNR yn ein gwybod, mae'r gweithio'r boll yn wneud. Mae'n gweithio'r boll hyn yn unrhyw fawr i'r llwys llwyddiadr, i'n ei gwybod i ymgaredd negatidd gwyrdd phoedd.  There are the kind of things we're going to test and find out if that's true if this ion from Cobra. So I mentioned I first tried this ion last week and I'd not seen it before. It's the Cobra, LTD, X-range... It's again, like I said, got all that kind of bulky top line. I quite like what they've done at the back end of it in terms of shelf appeal but I'll let you be the judge of that, and again different colouring on the bottom of the sole ..ddai'n看看io nifer o'r f inference ac oedud .. ..au'r un i ddweud yn gynllun o'r leiddiad y byddur. Ond wedi bod fel amser yn ei ddweud hynny .. ..ant ei achos yn y wneud yn eich praswn. Ond beth ond y gynnwys yn yng Ngheirlo... ..yna ddweud y club yn mynd i fynd i gynllunog ymlaen eich mynd. A rwy'n oedd i bobl ac efallai oed yn digwydd un o'r ddweud... ..oedd eisiau symud oedd yn rhaOL sy'n rhaEs. Er oeddai'n bobl yn rhaEs sy'n dda. diwethaf sydd ei gweithio, yn ni'n gweithio y rhaid i'r clywed o'r ffrindwyr yn rhaid. Ond wedi bod wedi'i gwneud o'r dda i'r ffrindwyr ond mae'r ffordd o'r ddechrau'n rhaid i'r ddechrau'n rhaid i'r ddweud? Ond o'r ddod o'r ddweud o'r ddweud, maen nhw'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Dyna ddwy'n gweithio i'r ddweud o wneud o'r ddweud o'r gweithio'n gweithio. ddechrau'r cwmiaid. Iech chi'n ddod o'r gwaith dechrau. First of all, yna'r ddechrau'r gwaith dechrau'r gwaith dechrau'r 165 hwn yn ymweld, mae'r 7 hwn, ond ddim ymweld i'r gyflwynghau. Ond y lle ar y ddysgu'r cwmiaid, mae'r ddysgu'r gwybod yw'r hwn yn yn ymweld i'r gwaith. Ond yna'n ddiddordeb yn ei gwneud o'r cyflwyng hwn. Mae'n ddiddordeb yn ymweld i'r gwaith. One of the things that's obviously criticised is this is a strong lofted iron, arguably a five iron in terms of traditional lofts. So to be getting a 5,000 on average rather of above 5,000 revs of spin, that's a really impressive number and again I reference for this type of club. But there are negatives, I'm afraid. You see one issue I have, a major issue and I surprise I suppose again, I keep referring to this type of iron. I said in the intro, you're looking for something that launches the ball easily and generally that means launching the ball high, particularly for slower swing speeds, which is generally what this club is aimed at. But it doesn't, it launches the ball actually particularly low and that surprised me a great deal. I've tried a few different shafts as well to see if we get any variations in sort of my launch conditions, but it doesn't alter that much and some occasions you can see from the spread of numbers. It's actually quite low indeed and that would worry me. Now on a windy day like today on a Lynx course in the UK superb, but don't forget this iron is designed to help people and one of those considerations, like I said, is slow swing speed, struggle with launch and what I'm seeing, it doesn't quite do that. And that then impacts on land angle and once again is coming in a little flat. So even it, even with that impressive spin number, that low launch, low land angle is really working against each other and suggests there may be a bit of a problem in terms of stopping this type of iron on the green. Now the one thing I've got to give major credit to Cobre for is just how good these irons sound and feel. It's become a regular topic. I always mention it because it's a big deal to me. A lot of people say it doesn't matter what a club sounds like, but like I said, I can only view from my own perspective and it's a big deal like I say. And they've done an incredible job. I always say again that kind of like the marketing stories about the magic that's inside these clubs are often that, a marketing story. Some people believe them, some people do not and actually dislike them. Mine is all about the proof is in the pudding and in this instance, whatever they've done, whatever they've done in terms of the manufacturing process, they've done an incredibly good job. It's very soft in its feel. I've tested a couple of irons of late that have managed to do this, so they cast irons, but they feel incredible and sound really good. So a massive thumbs up for me and I've got to say I mentioned briefly about the looks. It looks a really good iron as well. So yeah, massive thumbs up to Cobre on that level. Right back inside to look at the numbers. And I've just done my sort of first checks into what these clubs are in terms of the makeup. And the first thing I said was, oh my God, 26 and a half degrees. That was a bit of a shock when I said they'd be strong lofted earlier on. And that was on the assumption between 28 and 29 was the idea that I had. So certainly that 26 and a half degrees explains that low launch angle. And it doesn't really compensate in terms of a carry distance because at 26 and a half degrees I'd be expecting the ball to carry a lot further. So that's come as a bit of a shock to be honest with you. However, it doesn't deter from the fact that thing I said earlier about the spin number being really, really good.  Spinning it over 5,000 revs for a club at 26 and a half degrees is ridiculously good. The other thing I found out, and again, you could argue that this is poor planning on my part and that we didn't do enough research into the club before I test it. But I would argue that I like to test the club out on its own merits and then find out what it's supposed to have done, has it done what I found if you like. And the other interesting thing is that it's a forged milled CNC face on these ions. So, again, I'm never convinced that a forged face in an ion in terms of insight in a cast head often feels like a forged face. But in this instance, it did, like I said. So that's two major, major positives. And my overall thing about these ions is that I was really impressed. I really liked them on the way they looked, on the way they performed, how ease of use. You'll see again, I said how far it went, 166 on average carry club head speed of 78.5. So, again, it's doing OK. You know what I mean? There's nothing wrong with that. But maybe again, from that sort of loft, you'd expect just that little bit further in terms of a carry distance. The other big positive is the price point. Cobra always seems to do well in terms of their positioning on price. These are coming in around 110, 115 per ion in UK pound. So, again, big ticks. Like I said, it's hard to be negative, but there clearly are. If you're looking to get custom fit, my only issue would be, and don't forget, this is me, my numbers. So you might go and try these things and find out totally different. But if I went into a fitting room and I came out with those kind of numbers, particularly the launch, 16.5 degrees, don't forget my sort of regular sort of 7 ion. Even the sort of players distance ions, which would be a sort of 30 degree 7 ion.  And just so we've got that number, the last one I'll give you if I can see it there. Yeah, land angle of 43.2 with a 7 ion in hand. That, again, is a little bit flat for me. So lots of positives coupled with a few negatives, and it really depends on what you find when you try them. And that's, again, that's the all important message, isn't it? You give them a go, see if your numbers reflect mine, or maybe they're totally different. Anyway, short and sweet, as ever with a club review, we're trying to get to the point very, very quickly. Report my findings. Hopefully we've done that, pointing it in the right direction. That's it. Thank you for watching. Give me a feedback. You might have tried these yourself already. They're certainly in the stores to try. So let me know what you have thought. Is there anything that you have found that are in my numbers that you also found, or maybe totally different? Either way, let me know and I'll see you all soon.


Our next caller is Damien from Minnesota. Hey, what's up Damien? How can we help you?  This is kind of unreal. Yeah, huge fans. Anyway, so I've gone through little context. I've gone through a number of your programs now. I think about five coming up, but I found my way to power list recently. Really been loving it over halfway through. And I've worked in the past to be able to pass all three compass tests in that prime. And I prime regularly, you know, work on mobility when appropriate and stuff like that. But I've developed some kind of intense left hip flexor pain that pops up not while I list, but kind of after the after I list that day or the next day. And I've never had hip flexor issues in the past. I've had some issues with tight hand strings and a little bit of a self diagnosed posterior pelvic tilt that I've worked on correcting. So I've never had hip flexor pain before. And just kind of strikes me as a potential issue down the road if I want to keep power lifting, which I do. So I'd love your thoughts on maybe what's causing that and what I could do to prevent injury in the future if I keep lifting heavy. Yeah. Great question, Damian. And it's so funny that you just asked this question. So I was just talking to Marlon Chamelle. He's one of our trainers on our YouTube channel. Really, really smart guy, really strong guy, tremendously strong for his body weight. He also competed in power lifting recently. He puts us all to shame. And I just had a conversation with him the other day.  And he sends me a message and he goes, you know, it's weird. He goes, I was having hip issues. I couldn't figure out what it was and what it was was my hip flexors were weak. Now this is not common. Usually hip flexors are tightened people. You find weak hip flexors and people that are generally weak, but people that tend to lift or train often, you typically don't like work on strengthening their hip flexors. It tends to not necessarily be a solution. But in his case, it was his weakness in his hip flexors. He strengthened them and the pain was gone. Now the reason why I'm communicating this to you is because you did the compass tests very well. You don't have mobility issues. You've followed all of our programs. I bet I can guess you've never really tested your hip flexor strength. Most people don't. So I'm wondering if you actually have a weakness in your hip flexors. And then the second thing I would say is to look at core stability because they're so closely connected. Look at those two things. Is your core stable and strong enough to support the rest of your body? And do you in fact have a weak hip flexors? And if you do strengthen the hip flexors, that might actually solve your issues. I want to add to this. Damian, have you ever squatted barefoot and looked at your feet? I've squatted barefoot at home, like with dumbbells, body weight, pistols, stuff like that, but not at the gym with a heavy barbell. Well, I don't need you to load it heavy, but I would love to see you record your feet. And by the way, I'll have Doug sound like you have most of our programs. I'm always trying to get foot videos. This is not for my fetish, Damian, I promise. I'm going to have Doug give you access to our private forum because this is how we use the forum all the time. And I'm always very careful to try and assess somebody over the podcast because this is very nuanced and very tough. And especially for this. Yeah, exactly.  So I'm not going to just take a wild guess and say that something's weak or tight or something's wrong unless I could see you move. But what I would want to see is I would love to see your feet in a really deep squat and see what happens. Now, what could also be causing this is something very similar because I have a very similar issue. And it comes from actually my left foot will actually pronate when I get really deep in the squat. And that pronation also internally rotates the femur, which makes it really tight. And when I'm loading the bar really heavy, I'll get some pain in that hip flexor on that side more than the other side. So I would actually want to see your feet and see if there's any discrepancy from the left to right before I just assume that you have a weak hip flexor. So if you could do that, that would help me assess even better. But I agree with Sal. You could also test what he's saying. Yeah, that would be great. I'll send that. I'll send that right away. All right, perfect. Thanks, Damian. Thank you guys. Thank you for all you do. I'm a personal trainer and I say I got certified through eighth, but I actually learned stuff from Mind Pump. So thank you guys. Oh, awesome. Thanks, man. Yeah. Yeah. It was such a weird way when I heard it from Marlon and then it made sense, right? He's like, I would have never, because I mean, let me ask you guys, how often have you has an issue been solved because you strengthen someone's hip flexors, right? It's very rare. It's rare to even check that. And I think I'm trying to remember exactly what drill that was that really exposed that for me. And I think it was where Dr. Brink placed a book on my stomach and I held my knee in and then lifted my leg up and then tried to keep that from separating and just using that to really try and like isometrically squeeze and hold. Oh, I've never even heard of that. Very difficult. So you brought your, you had a book on your, explain that again? So you have a book that you're trying to smash into your stomach, your ribs basically and then now I'm like extending my leg out. Oh, wow. And then back in and trying not to separate the two. And you saw a difference between right and left? Yes. There's discrepancy. Oh, what a great assessment.  Because if your hamstrings are tight and your hip flexors are trying to stabilize and so you're pulling against each other, I mean, believe it or not, it could be weak hip flexors, not common. But if he's got like all these great mobility, he's doing all the passes, all the marks otherwise. And he hasn't looked there. I'm like, we'll look there and see what's going on. I would also though always look feet first now. Of course. That is something that I did not do as a trainer for a very long time. It wasn't until hanging out with Dr. Brink did he completely just blow my mind on how much of the stuff that we have going on all up here, all is stemming from my feet. And that actually is it. So it's my left side and it's because my left foot pronates and I still battle with it. So I have to really be cautious of not allowing that to happen. Now here is the difference with him is he says he has a posterior pelvic tilt. I know you have an anterior pelvic tilt. Yeah. Do you think he really has a posterior pelvic tilt? Well, that's what he said. He's a trainer. So I have to trust this. And I would need to watch a video. That's right. Because a lot of times, two people confuse it too. It's because a posterior pelvic tilt is very normal to me. It's very, very rare and it looks really weird.  Do you see it? Well, because you're right. You're right. Nothing's better than seeing a video of him. But because he's a trainer and the way he was talking, and if I took his word for it, posterior pelvic tilt, passes all the compass tests, pain in his hip flexor, I mean, could be the issue that I said. But again, there's no way of knowing until we watch. It does kind of speak to a weakness there. It does a little bit. So we'll see.


I finally made it to H.E.B. This is one of my favorite grocery stores. Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. And I am here today with a haul from one of my favorite grocery stores, which is H.E.B. Now, if you're not familiar with H.E.B., it's a grocery store chain that is only here in Texas.  The reason H.E.B. is so great is because they have a lot of local products to Texas and they use Texas farmers and growers and manufacturers. And so I made a special trip there just to pick up some of my favorite Texas items. Now, this grocery haul is not going to be a healthy grocery haul at all. It's not going to be a traditional grocery haul where you're going to see fruits and dairy and meat and stuff like that. This is really a lot of snacks and like I said, things that are specific to Texas. And so I am doing this haul on my kitchen table. Normally I would be doing it on my dining room table, but my husband's been working from home since the pandemic started. He kind of took over the dining room table. So I'm going to show you, this is probably going to be in two or three parts. So let me just jump in. If you liked this video, please make sure you give us a thumbs up and we'd love to have you join our YouTube family. So let's get started. We'll start at the back of the table. I got some Arroz Compollo. This is a rice and chicken mix. All you do is add chicken to it. I got two boxes. I have not seen this before. I only make a trip to HEB probably once a year because it's more than an hour away from me. So I haven't seen that before. So I grabbed two boxes and all this stuff is really inexpensive. I think this was less than $2 a box. The other thing that I saw that I'd never seen before was their Hill Country Fair Wild blueberry mix. And this is a store brand too. So HEB has HEB products and then also Hill Country Fair products as well. So they have this blueberry and muffin mix that I'd never seen before. So I grabbed two boxes. I also grabbed two boxes of their Deluxe macaroni and cheese mix. And then I grabbed actually several boxes of their pound cake mix. I have had this before and it is really, really good. It tastes homemade. As you can see, it was made in Curveville, Texas. And I grabbed a box, some boxes for me and also for my mom as well. Now this I have seen of course in local grocery stores but I haven't been able to find it. So I just grabbed a box and then I grabbed HEB cheddar crackers as well. And then I also grabbed some Texas style sweet tea and this is not the refrigerated kind. This was on the shelf. So I grabbed that and then I also grabbed for my dad who I'll be whenever I see him next I'll be giving this to him but he likes sweet tea and he likes lemonade like an Arnold Palmer. And he also likes strawberries. So I got him this which is strawberry lemonade with iced tea which I thought was pretty interesting. Then I grabbed two packages of HEB pasta. One of them is the mini bow tie and I got it just because it's cute and I've never seen mini bow tie pasta like that. These were 82 cents a bag. And then I also grabbed a bag of penne because my husband likes that. We don't have any penne and this was like I said 82 cents a bag too. These are one pound bags. I got to mention that. I also got some HEB cooking sauce for Scampi and here's a description. It says Italian inspired, prepared with white wine, garlic, butter and lemon juice. So I got a package of that. Never tried that before, but I wanted to give it a try. And then I also got two packages of their creamy tomato and basil soup. And there it is right here description. It says a creamy blend of tomatoes with basil, Parmesan and extra virgin olive oil. And it's a microwavable package. You just tear it and then you microwave it. And my husband and I, we both like tomato, basil soup and I stay at home full time with the baby and he's been working from home. So this will be a quick lunch for us. I grabbed two packages of the pizza crust because I have had a hard time finding this in my neck of the woods. So these were a dollar package. So I grabbed two and then I saw another sauce packet that I hadn't tried before. This is creamy Parmesan. And all you do is add meat to this. I think I need to check, sorry. Oh, so you add chicken. So you add chicken to this and then you can add pasta as well. But I thought that's a quick dish to make during the week. I don't feel like cooking. And then I really, really like their sweet and salty bars. So I've had the almond before and I've also had the peanut before. What's new to me is this one, which is sweet and salty pretzel and honey and then also chocolate chip and peanut butter. So those sounded really good to me. Let's see what else. I grabbed two small cans of crushed pineapple because I have a couple of recipes and I have had the hardest time finding small cans of crushed pineapple. So I grabbed two of those and then I grabbed this trail mix for my husband. I think this was $3.28, I believe.  So I got him that. He liked stuff like that. I got this for me and for also for my husband if he wants to try it. So this was something new to me. This is sweet onion almonds and that sounds really good. I love almonds and I love savory things. So I'm hoping that's more savory than sweet. And then I got a PB and chocolate lovers trail mix for myself. And this says semi-sweet chocolate chips, peanuts, mini peanut butter cups, creamy peanut drops, honey roasted sesame sticks and almonds. And again, this was $3.28. And then I just got some cake flour because it's so cheap there. Again, it's H-E-B, it was $1.98. And then I got another cooking sauce. This is bacon and chives and you just add potatoes. And it says creamy butter sauce, prepare with bacon chives and some salt. So I grabbed that. Grab these cinnamon cookies just because they sounded good. I've never had them before but they come individually packaged and they look like they're crunchy and I like crispy, crunchy cookies. So I got that. For my husband, I picked up this box of cookies. It says the Mehdi Blonde. It comes with pecans, coconut, cashews, macadamias, almonds and peanuts. And it also has white chocolate chips as you can see right there. And then this is a cookie that I think I'll like. My husband may like it too but these are cowboy cookies which are a popular cookie in this region of the country. But I've never seen them packaged like this. You can just buy them off the shelf. So it comes with pecans, oats and chocolate and that sounded really good to me. Here is another local flavor that was new to me too. It is a sandwich cookie but it's a cinnamon-spiced cookie with sweet cream cheese flavored filling which is really interesting. It sounds good to me. So I wanted to give that a try. And then I also got these Mehdi Monster Cookies and they come with chocolate chunks, chocolate gins which are like basically plain M&Ms, almonds and oats. And then they had a ballpark trail mix which is something that's just seasonal so this is not something they have all the time. But it comes with peanuts, almonds, caramel, popcorn, pretzels, honey roasted sesame sticks and chili cheese corn jacks. So that's what they look like. And then they have the best cake mixes as evidenced by that pound cake. But I got a couple of boxes of this Texas sheet cake and it comes with everything that you need. It comes with the frosting, it comes with the cake mix. Turn it over so that you can kind of see what you need to make the cake and the frosting. And so I got a couple of boxes of this sheet cake mix for me and my mom. Let's see here. I also got two boxes of rice. One is south Texas flavor and that one has tomato, onion and cumin. And then I also got a queso which is rice with cheddar cheese and jalapenos. So that sounded really good to me too. And then I got some HEV almond butter with honey, HEV peanut butter with honey with Texas wildflower honey. And then I also got just a jar of just regular Texas creamy peanut butter. So let me put this stuff up and then I will come back and show you the rest of the pantry items that I picked up as well as some kitchen items. And then I also got some freezer items as well. So I will be right back. Okay, I'm back with part two. There is gonna be a part three by the way. So I got this HEV juice for my husband. This is orange juice in mango puree. And then I got two jars of just the sauce carbonara. And it comes, it has pancetta and pecorino cheese. It's excuse me, it's pancetta and pecorino cheese sauce. You just add pasta. I like carbonara but I do not like the fact that it has egg yolks in it. This does not. So I was excited about that. Grab two of those. I got some pizza sauce with roasted garlic for the pizzas we're gonna be doing. And I got several different pasta sauces. I got garlic and herb pasta sauce. And then I got tomato and basil pasta sauce. And then I got a large jar of medium picante sauce. I got a couple of juices for my husband. I got mango and not sure how to pronounce that but I got this one.  So I got two cans of cream of mushroom. I will say I've never bought store-brand cream of anything. I usually just get Campbell's. But I love HEV products so much. I'm hopin' and I'm sure that this is probably gonna be just fine. Two cans of cream of mushroom. Two cans of cream of chicken. This is a new one for me. Cream of jalapeno and cream of poblano. I got two cans each. I like to make a lot of casseroles. So I thought maybe depending on the casserole I can sub out a cream of mushroom or a cream of chicken for jalapeno or a cream of poblano. I got two cans of the charro beans. These are really good. We like these. And then I got two cans of spicy charro beans. And then I got a can of country-style baked beans with bacon and extra-round sugar. I got two cans of refried charro beans. I got a couple of bags of lightly salted Fritos. I got a bag of spicy barbecue Fritos. I said Fritos corn chips. And then I got a bag of ghost pepper corn chips as well. A bag of unsalted restaurant-style tortilla chips. I've never seen unsalted anywhere but HEV. And I love unsalted chips. And then I cannot remember if I showed you guys this when I was showing you the other groceries just a little while ago. I got two packages of this pizza crust mix. And this is a local brand. I wanted to give it a try. So I got the Betty Crocker and then I got two of these. And I've never tried them before but they were pretty cheap. So I wanted to try that. And then I had been looking everywhere for Rainier cherries and they haven't looked good around here. So I saw these were so pretty. I grabbed them, they were $497 a pound. And okay, that's it. Let me put this stuff up and then I'll get out the frozen stuff. Okay guys, so this is the last of it. So I got four different pints of HEV ice cream. I tried to get stuff that we hadn't tried before. So I got this candy bar creamy creations and let's see, rich peanut butter ice cream, natural flavor, chocolate covered peanuts, caramel swirls. I don't know what else is in there. That's all I see. And then got a lemon cookie one. Now this is just plain old vanilla which of course we've had before but my husband loves vanilla ice cream. So he wanted to try this one specifically and also got us a coconut almond ice cream that sounded good to both of us. Then I don't think I may have tried a sesame chicken before. It's one of the kind that you make in a skillet and you add the sauce. Now I may have tried it but I know I haven't tried HEVs version so I grabbed that. Also I have never tried this. These are breakfast floutes and so this one is bacon egg and cheese and then this one is brisket egg and cheese and they come with like a little crisper thing that you use in the microwave to make them crispy. So sounded good to me. You get six of them in a box and then I wanted to try a couple of their dinner entree. So I got the poblano chicken lasagna with cream sauce that looked good to me and then I got a pepperoni lasagna with marinara that also looks good to me as well. Last couple of things I got. I got these disposable pizza trays. They are oven safe and you get five in a package and I got three. So I had the bright idea to get these so that when Howard and I make our own pizzas we can bake them at the same time because right now our pizza trays are so big you can only cook one pizza at a time. So I thought these would be small enough to fit in the oven. I just tried them in the oven and you cannot get two in there side by side but they're still pretty good because you can make your pizza right on the tray. You don't have to move it anywhere else.  So I got that and then I have been wanting a meat chopper for a while and they had them there and they were pretty inexpensive like $3 in some change. So that is it. That is my entire haul from HEB. Like I said, it's not a traditional haul at all. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please make sure to give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. We do grocery hauls and I also have what's for dinner videos that come out on Tuesdays. We do taste tests and all sorts of fun stuff. So thanks so much for watching and we will see you guys next time.


The Equitable Society presents, this is your FBI. This is your FBI, an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. To your FBI, you look for national security, and to the Equitable Society for financial security. These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight's file, The Marriage Rackets. In the years that have just finished their parade into the history books, the people of the world became accustomed to the cruel reality of having the earth fertilized with the blood of millions of soldiers. Sudden violent death became the normal thing. The pages of every newspaper carried their mournful honor rolls. But that was war. That was a crime all of civilization was guilty of having committed. That was a crime the FBI could neither prevent nor solve. But now we've come upon a period of peace, a period when the FBI can and does prevent crimes. Above all others, it's most important that the FBI and all law enforcement agencies prevent one certain crime. Because once that crime has been committed, all that remains is catching and punishing the criminal. The victim is beyond saving. This crime is murder. Our story tonight takes us to a pleasant farming community in Iowa. Chris Newton, who owns 200 acres of the best land in the county, has just returned home from the city with a new wife. This is their first day together at home. Ella. I'm in the kitchen, honey. Oh, well, something smells good. Chicken. With dumplings. With dumplings. Golly. You just get over there and wash up. Everything's just about ready. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Huh? I got something for you. Kind of like a surprise. For me? Mm-hmm. Here. Chris. Go on. Open it. Oh, sure. Chris. It ain't much. Why, it's the most beautiful set of feathers I've ever seen in my life. The man says you can wear them on your head or around your neck. It don't make no difference which. Oh, they're just beautiful. Chris, you're so awful good to me. Well, I just feel lucky I got you. Even in spite of what folks in town will say. What do you mean? Well, I know they're thinking you ought to have picked your wife from around here instead of marrying a stranger. Well, a man's got a right to marry whoever he wants to. If he can get her, I wanted you and I got you. You mean I got you? Then we're even. Oh, Chris. Now you go over and get cleaned up and I'll set... Who's that? Must be Jeff Holmes asking to drop by. Come in. Della. George. Who's he? George, it's my brother. Come in, George. Come in. Okay. For heaven's sakes, how'd you get here? Hitchhike. Chris, this is my brother George. George, this is my husband Chris. Hello, George. Well, this is a surprise. It is to me, too, Della. I didn't know you had a brother. Well, she probably forgot. I ain't seen her in a couple of years. You been in the army? No, I'm working in war plans up and down the coast. How'd you find out where I was? Well, Uncle Ben told me. I hear you two have just been married. Uh-huh. Congratulations. Thanks. George, you look very peeked. Have you been sick? No, I just tired. I need a little rest and some fresh air. That's why I came here. Well, bless you, George. I'm glad you did. You think you'd like some company for a while? Oh, of course. We'd love to have you, wouldn't we, Chris? Sure, sure. You just in time for some deed. Let me have your coat, George. I'll keep it on. Which room do I use? You take the one at the end of the hall on the left.  No, thanks. I'll go change my clothes, sis. Della. Yeah, Chris? You don't suppose your brother's in some kind of trouble, do you? Trouble? What do you mean? Well, you saw how he acted when I offered to take his coat. Yeah? You noticed that bulge in his coat up near the shoulder? No, why? Della, your brother's packing a gun. The smallest clue may lead to solving the biggest crime. And so the FBI is always careful to check every lead supplied them by alert local police forces. The day the Della's brother, George, came to visit his sister, the police in Des Moines picked up an abandoned car bearing an Oregon license plate. Checking, they found that the car had been stolen the week before in Portland. The Des Moines office of the FBI was notified. And within a matter of minutes, special agents, Adams and Kendall were on the scene, going over the car with a fine toothed coal. I say whoever abandoned the car intended staying in the vicinity a while. What do you think, Bob? Uh-huh. You find anything in the back? Oh, just a couple of newspapers so far. Well, while you're looking around, I'll start getting a few fingerprints. I ought to get some clear ones off the doors anyway. Hey, wait a minute. Huh? What'd you find? Marry me. What? Oh, it's a magazine slept behind the seat. Marry me? One of those, uh, lonely heart things published in Chicago. I can't imagine a car thief having a magazine like that. Here's the name of a woman's subscriber, Stan Salana. Who is she? Well, it was originally addressed to a Della Williams in Chicago, but it was forwarded to, uh, Mrs. Henry Lewis, Portland, Oregon. A lonely heart must have found a mate. But it wasn't the owner of this car. His name's Hancock. You know, we'd just better take this magazine along with us. Okay. Now, help me get a few fingerprints, Bob. We'll get them off to Washington. I've tried to look after the stock. Oh. Then it's time we did a little talk. But he may come back any minute, George. And he's already very suspicious of you. What do you mean? He knows you're carrying a gun. How? You gave it away acting like you did about your coat. Ah, I'll fix that. You think you got a good sucker this time? Chris is such a wonderful man, George.  How's, uh, the dough department? Oh, they say he's worth more than any farmer in the county. Oh, good, good. Then we'll go right to work. I don't want to stay around here any longer than I have to. But it's very nice here, George. I like it.  Okay. I ran into a drug the other day that's out of this world.  Oh, everything all right? Out back, Chris? Yeah, just fine, Diller. Oh, uh, say, Chris. Yes? I brought a little present for you. Oh, what's that? A gun. I used on a night watch and job out west. A gun? Oh. It, uh, might be useful to you around here. Well, thanks, George, but I don't think I need it. At least you know why George was carrying it now, don't you, Chris? Yeah, sure. Well, we'll be getting on to bed. Come on, Diller. All right away, Chris. Night, George. Night. Back to carry that. And tomorrow, honey, we break in the new drug. Sorry, I took so long for lunch, Bob. Anything from Washington on those fingerprints? No, not yet. But I just finished talking to Portland about Della Williams. Oh, what did you get? She married a man named Henry Lewis three months ago. He died suddenly one month ago. She collected $3,500 insurance and left Portland right away. Anything strange about the death? Mm-hmm. Overdose of, uh, sleeping tablets. They let it go as a suicide. But what's that got to do with a stolen car? Della Williams met Lewis through that lonely heart magazine. Yeah. And Della has a brother who lived with him for a time. What's his name? They didn't know. You think maybe the brother stole the car because we found his sister's magazine in it? Certainly seems plausible. Yeah, that's right. It's the Washington's report on those fingerprints. Oh, thanks, Tom. Well, what's the verdict? You hit the jackpot, Bob. Oh. The man who stole the car is George Williams. Served two years for robbery. Last lived with sister Della Williams in Chicago. He's 35, 5 feet 10. Bob. Yeah? Maybe Lewis didn't commit suicide after all. Listen to this. Williams and sister suspected of murder in connection with death of her four former husbands. But not enough evidence was ever found to warrant their indictment. Oh. Mary and murder for profit. Yes. And if that's their business, they've probably already started on the next victim. And since Williams abandoned his stolen car in Des Moines, their next victim must be somewhere in this area. Right. If we want to save somebody's life, Bob, let's get busy. What a sufferer. Oh, Chris. I mean it. George, your sister's about the finest cook that ever hit these parts. Yeah, she does okay. Oh, now stop that talk, both of you. How about some more coffee? Yeah, just fill it right up, Della. Okay. You want some, George? No thanks. I had enough. I think I'll take another biscuit if you've got some more handy. Oh, sure. You're the best dog gunner. Oh, Chris. Oh, what's the matter, Chris? Oh, my heart. My heart. I can't. Can I do anything? Get, get Dr. Matthews out. Shall I call the doctor? Sure, why not? This has got to be a very legitimate murder. We momentarily closed the Equitable Society's presentation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation file on the marriage racket. We will return to this case in just a moment. One of the best things about being in the life insurance business is that you get to know a lot of different people. For instance, in the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, our circle of friends is a very wide circle indeed. It consists of three and a quarter million individuals. That's the number of men and women who have become members of our society. And since the Equitable Society is a society in fact, as well as in name, and is entirely owned by its policy holders, our members never hesitate to speak up when they have something on their minds. They tell it to our agents or write personal letters to President Parkinson. Farmers give us their ideas on our farm insurance programs. Heads of great industrial enterprises volunteer their opinions on our group insurance plans. Fathers of families tell us their special needs in regard to home protection, the education of the children, or retirement income for themselves. Here in the Equitable Society, we consider it a great advantage to have our fingers constantly on the public's pulse. Thanks to these contacts, we are able to modernize and liberalize our life insurance policies and annuity contracts. We have streamlined them to give our members protection and security exactly suited to their needs. That is why the Equitable Life Assurance Society's many services are always up to date, planned with an eye to the future. On the same principle, in investing Equitable Society dollars, our management always keeps in mind the future economic health and prosperity of the entire nation. And so, by serving its members, the Equitable Society serves America. And now, back to the file on the marriage racket. George Williams, with that sublime ego which drives all criminals to the belief that they're too smart for the police, had stolen a car and driven it across a state line. That was a mistake, a serious mistake. Because it invited the FBI to take a hand in stopping his career. This was not the ordinary chase after a criminal. This was not a race between Williams and the FBI. This was a race between the FBI and death. On the Newton farm, Dr. Matthews has been treating his patient. And now he emerges from the bedroom. Doctor, how is he? Is he gonna pull out of a duck? Well, I have relieved his pain. His pulse seems to be a little more regular. Then he's gonna be all right. He's gonna get over this attack. But he must have quiet and rest for a few days. Oh, we'll see that he gets a duck. My sister'll take good care of him. Of course. Chris is such a wonderful man. There's not a finer man in the whole community, Mrs. Newton. And I'm doubly sorry that this should happen so soon after... after your marriage. I can't understand it. Chris is as strong as an ox.  Well, he's worked mighty hard all his life. Anything especially you want us to do, doc? No, no, just keep him quiet. I'll drop by to see him tomorrow. Oh, thank you for coming, doctor. Well, I'm glad you could reach me. Good night, Mrs. Newton. Good night. Uh, doc. Yes? Suppose he has another attack and we can't reach you. What do we do? Well, there's not much you'd be able to do except hope for the best. Yeah. I guess so. Good night. Good night, doc. Well, honey, we just have to give the sucker one more dose. Bob. Yeah? Any police reports on that alarm we put out on William Jett? No, and time is ticking away fast. If Marion murders their game, we're racing against the death of their next victim. If we haven't already lost the race. Well, we're not getting anywhere waiting for reports. Hey, wait a minute. Yeah? Why haven't we thought of it before? That lonely heart magazine. If they contacted their other victims through the magazine, give me the phone. Calling Chicago? Yeah. I'll get the editor to give me a list of all the men in this area who've been trying to find a bride through the magazine. Uh, hello, operator. Uh, get me the editor of a magazine. I'll make you the editor. How's he doing, sis? Chris is sleeping, George. That's good. We want a little time for the news to get around that he had a heart attack. So nobody will be surprised when another one kicks him off. I know. Ah, that's beautiful stuff in those little capsules. What's in them? It's a drug we should have been using all the time. A little bit kicks to pump around and too much stops it for keeps. And it's scientifically impossible to find a trace of it in the body. George. Yeah? Chris is such a wonderful man. Okay, you said that before. So what? Would you be awful mad if I asked you to do something for me? Like what? Well, Chris is such a wonderful man. A wonderful man. All right, all right. You said that. He's been so good and kind to me. I wish you'd let him... Nothing's doing. Please, George, I want to stay married this time. I said nothing doing. But, George, you don't... Look, Ella, you got a crush on a couple of your other husbands too, but you got over it. Yeah, I know. But Chris is different. They said the same thing about that guy, Brown. Well, they both touched the mother in me, I guess. And that last guy, Lewis.  I couldn't help it. He was such a gentleman. Look, honey, this is strictly business, see? Chris has got a lot of rocks all the way. And we can sell the farm for another pile. George, please. No dice. We've got to go through with this, Delet. But I'll tell you what, I promise you the next guy you like, you can keep. Okay? You mean it, George? It's guaranteed. You're the sweetest brother a girl ever had. Well, here we are, Bob. The names of four marriage prospects in this area scattered all over the state. Well, let's get on them right away. And we better try telephoning. And ask them what? If they've found a mate? We won't be that blunt about it. Let's take them right on down the line. Reeves, Johnson, Mason, and Newton. George. Yeah? The telephone's ringing. What'll I do? Leave it alone. No, wait. I'd better answer it. You stay here. Is this the Newton residence? Yeah. I'm sorry to bother you this time of night. Who is this? Are you Mr. Newton? No. Mr. Newton's sick. Very sick in bed. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Good night. Hey, wait a minute. Who are you? Hey. Hello. Hello. All right, all right. Keep your shirt on. I'm coming. If you want Dr. Matthews, he's not here. Then maybe you can help me. I'm not a doctor. I'm just a housekeeper. We're very sorry to disturb you, but we're special agents of the FBI. The FBI? But gracious, what's the matter? We want to ask you about a patient of Dr. Matthews. Mr. Newton. Oh. Well, the doctor went out there about suppertime. The station agent said Mr. Newton had a heart attack. Maybe so. The doctor don't discuss his patients with me. You'll have to wait until he gets back. When will that be? No telling. He drove 50 miles out in the country to deliver Mrs. Weaver's baby. Could we reach the doctor by telephone? You could if the Weaver's had a telephone. Do you know if Mr. Newton got married recently? I said the doctor don't discuss his patients with me. You'll just have to wait for him. You got his tray ready, sis? All I have to do is pour his coffee. Wait a minute. Let's, uh, sweeten the cup a little bit. Oh, George, I hate to do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Now pour in the coffee. Okay. This one's going to last him a long time. Come on. Okay. Chris, honey, I got something to eat for you. Thanks, Della. I'm real hungry, too. How you feeling, Chris? Fit is a fiddle. I don't see why I have to stay in this bed. Well, it's a doctor's order, pal, and you're going to stay there if we have to stand over you with a shotgun. It's nice of you, George, to want to do what's right about me. Now look, Chris, look. Della's a happy daemon. I want to see her stay that way. Here's your tray, Chris. Thanks. Now who's that? Probably neighbor. Well, Chris ain't supposed to have company. I'll get rid of him. Go on, eat, Chris. I'll take care of it. Okay, okay, okay. I'm coming. I'm coming. Oh. Are you Mr. Newton? Mr. Newton's sick and can't have company. I don't think it'll be necessary for us to see him. Then what do you want? I think we want you, Mr. Williams. Huh? We're special agents of the FBI. Where's your sister? I don't know what you're talking about. No, you drop that gun. George, who heard these men? We're special agents of the FBI. Huh? You and your brother are under arrest. Oh, dear. Where are you going? I've got to throw out some coffee. In any form is offensive to the civilized mind. We are incensed by the killing committed in a fit of passion by the bank robbers' killing of an innocent teller by the brutal murder committed by the mental or moral degenerate.  Investigation into the deaths of the former husband of Della Williams proved conclusively that murder had been committed in each case. Thanks to the speed with which the FBI worked, the life of Chris Newton was saved. And George Williams and his sister were tried by local authorities and convicted of murder in the first degree. In the long roster of criminals, they were fairly unimportant people. But the file on their case proves once again that crime is not a profitable profession and can never become profitable so long as lawbreakers are being fought relentlessly by the FBI. You'll hear about next week's case in just a moment. Tonight, will you join the Equitable Society in a salute to America's dairy industry, to the farmers, milk companies, and their tens of thousands of employees. Above all, a special salute to the boys and girls of the dairy farms. During the war, while a father or elder brother was at the front, these patriotic kids got up at dawn to feed the cows and gave up their playtime hours to get the milk through to the milk-processing plants. Thanks to tireless efforts of both youngsters and old-timers on the dairy farms, it was never necessary to point ration the milk that means so much to the nation's health. In fact, per capita consumption of milk went up 25% during the war, and wherever it was humanly possible, milk and milk products were regular parts of the Army ration. Milk and ice cream were symbols of home, the things our boys wanted most. Now that peace is here, America's dairy industry is looking forward to making greater contributions to the country's nutrition and health than ever before. In the future also, there will be an increasing number of appetizing new food products, even wearing apparel, all made from milk. Over a long period of time, funds of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States have played an important part in dairying. Hundreds of dairy farmers in all parts of the country have taken advantage of the Equitable Society's many plans for the business of farming. In addition, the premium dollars of equitable members are invested in a number of the leading dairy companies. Just as Equitable Society dollars were fighting dollars in wartime, so at all times, they are security dollars for you, your home, and your country. Next week's colorful and exciting story will be based on the Federal Bureau of Investigation file on the Serviceman Swimble. The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Society's broadcast are taken from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious, and any similarity thereof to the names of persons living or dead is accidental. Programs in this series of particular interests to servicemen and women are broadcast overseas through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Tonight, the music was under the direction of Leith Stevens. The author was Frank Ferries, and your narrator was Reid Hadley, who appears through the courtesy of Twaddle Century Fox. This is Your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This is Dick Joy speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time for This is Your FBI. Friends, for your unfaltering courage during the war years, you've won and you deserve your country's highest citation. Through the days of conflict, your contributions were limitless, and your victory decisive. But the only complete victory is victory with responsibility, and to that end our work continues. Every individual in America has a stake in the job of converting to peace-time economy as smoothly and as quickly as possible. Soon, price controls may no longer be necessary to our economic well-being, but until that time go on doing your level best, spend sensibly, and avoid buying goods which are still in short supply. Co-operate with the remaining price and rationing controls, and if a question arises over any point of cost, refer it immediately to your office of price administration. America's war against inflation is still raging. Remember, the most important single contribution we can make to world prosperity and peace is a stable economy here at home. This is the American Broadcasting Company.


The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has said over 70 percent of medical drugs being dispensed in Nigeria are substandard. The agency, other than the majority of Nigerians, did not have access to health services. It made this known on its website ahead of the Primary Health Care Submit-Tagged Remaging Primary Health Care in Nigeria. And joining us this afternoon is Omolayo Awulola. The pharmacist is good to have you join us, Omolayo Awulola. Good afternoon. Yes, good afternoon. How would you describe the quality control of relevant supervisory bodies like NAFDAG in this regard? Well, I'd like to say that there are several reasons why drug dispensing in Nigeria are substandard. And one of the reasons is as a result of unregulated open drug market, of which I know that NAFDAG are working towards trying to reduce the amount of open market in Nigeria. Of course, room is not built in a day and it takes time because some of these things are hurting because they have illegal access to some of these drugs, which makes them substandard. And the NAFDAG is working aimlessly to have to try to reduce this. Another issue that we have is cross-border monitoring and surveillance systems. So the NAFDAG and other agencies are also working aimlessly to ensure that some of these loopholes at the border whereby importation of drugs come into Nigeria to be able to work on these loopholes to ensure that quality drugs are being imported into Nigeria. And then patients, clients, everyone have access to quality drugs. Also, we try to, as promises to try to advise patients that they should get their drugs from a registered pharmacy because when you get your drugs from registered pharmacy, you are sure that you're getting the quality drugs. And you can also use someone accountable. Thank you. Well, what are the ways that consumers can immediately dictate a substandard drug? Well, there are several ways. There are some drugs whereby they have some scratches on it and they have some pain on it whereby you can scratch and then send an SMS or through a full free line, whereby you can be able to know whether some of these drugs are substandard of quality or not. So those are one of the things that have been put in place. Also, research is continuous. In the course of the importation of drugs into Nigeria, when quality investigations are being done on some of these drugs that have been imported and they realize that a specific batch of drugs have some similar things on their label that indicates that they are substandard, they immediately announce to the regulatory bodies like pharmacies and also announce to the public to ensure that if any of these labels are being seen of this batch of drugs, they are substandard and should not be used. So those are one of the ways in which we help. All right, just before we let you go, what would be your advice for consumers on precautionary measures? My advice would be that to get drugs from registered pharmacies and not quacks really because like I said earlier, you can hold people accountable when you get your drugs from registered pharmacies and as well, when you get your drugs from registered pharmacies, you are sure that you're getting a quality drug that has been stored at the right temperature and also quality investigations are being done before this drug has been procured and stored on the shelf to ensure to get your drugs from registered pharmacies.