So, who we are is small farms made up of four people, there's three locations, 55 acres, and we started it, well let me back up a second, it's evolved through a lot of different enterprises and the current ones are apples, hogs, and sheep. And back in 2008, I was at the Leeds Center at a workshop and they had a presentation on how to add value to your tree fruit. So that was my first experience with adding value to crops without expanding acreage, which I think Vetter talked about that yesterday or last night, that's one way to go and we're not going to, we don't have the skills nor the capital nor the land to scale that way or desire. So we started looking at value added and I would say it was somewhat of a success, the apple thing, but that led us to look at other things and I had some, a waste product from the value added apple product and that led us to hogs and then the hogs led us to a restaurant and then I started thinking about how can we make better money with hogs, although our gross income right now and hogs is averaging about 550 a hog. But how can we increase our income and that was through charcuterie. So what I did was, I wanted to talk about what charcuterie was first because a lot of people apparently don't know what it is, it's preserved meat and we're interested in traditional preservation methods, not non-heat treated shelf stable. Heat kills just about, takes care of everything so that's a pretty safe way to do it. But the non-traditional method where you're going to ferment, get the pH down in a timeframe and then get the water moisture down by drying in another timeframe to make it shelf stable, that's the one we're interested in and it's the hardest because there's not a whole lot of it done here in the U.S. and we've gotten away from that kind of thing. So in a nutshell what this project was it brought together a set of growers, small growers of Heritage Breed hogs and we're all selling at markets and we're growing under 70 head a year. I'm probably the largest producer at 70. And as I was saying we're wanting to expand our increase our income and also deliver some profit margins and not the narrow profit margins we're all dealing with. But through the relationships I had with the restaurant and USDA processors we thought maybe we could bring this all together and explore the idea of charcuterie. So this is kind of where we started. We're all selling small or selling whole half or cuts at the farmers market, a little bit of wholesale, narrow margins if they exist at all. When I figured out my cost of production it was 85 cents a pound live weight and the sale barn was 45 so that's not very rational. And I'm also wanting to make a certain amount of money per head and I'm trying to account for cost of land and equipment as well. Low sale barn prices. I have one friend that raises $5,000 a year and their goal is to make $20 a head on the contract hogs and that's not something we could do. First of all the capital would require that I'm not willing to work like that either. And our USDA processing options just keep getting narrow and narrow. We've got two basically and that really boils down to one because one can't deliver consistently what he's doing. Within an hour and a half of me there's a two. High feed cost because of our small scale numbers for grown grain or anything we're having to buy feed and customers are asking for non-GE feed and I have finally compromised my position on that and we do non-GE feed hogs. Although there's a couple of us now looking to maybe drop in that and doing something a little different but as I said the capital no none of us have a lot of money laying around which also brings to mind that one of the benefits of SARE farmer answer is we don't have R&D dollars but this allows small scale people to do it as well as large scale. But I know we all appreciate the SARE program and it allowing us to explore stuff like this and all of us recognize some demand for pasture based even though hogs don't eat grass, hog production and the environmental impacts customers are asking about those things so it's a selling point for us. So a little bit of research turned up a couple of projects. One of them was the scaling up New England's viaduct meat industry and that identified some trends. This has been a few years now. Something to look for was local value added meat products and in the traditional style. These are the two books too that we used for recipes and we just took those the highlights from that and folded it into this project. Smoked, cured, dry aged. If you can put that on your packaging that's appealing to customers. And the other thing about charcuterie is it's long shelf life premium product and it's high value, perceived high value too. Copa, Lanza, Pursuto style hams are $1.50 an ounce so that was another reason we looked at this as the opportunity but one of the past serra projects was Fair Willow Farm and they were looking at how to just pair with a small processor to do retail cuts just to show that you could produce more income per hog which I think when we sell our hogs that through the city market they gross $900 to $1,000 ahead. So what I did was take I also work for Lincoln University and have kind of a non-threatening relationship with a lot of producers and it was easy to talk to them about other Berkshire growers, other heritage breed growers. What if we pool our resources? I've got a creative person in the form of the restaurant who had trained, experienced, he also teaches at the culinary college owner on board to help us with recipes. I have a USDA processor that's interested in adding this service so that he can increase his income and also create a niche for him, cut out a niche. And then I had Lincoln University or K States Dr. Boyle, the meat lab person, she was going to review our, she did review our hassa plans and provide a lot of input and she eventually did a workshop. And then we also had access to open source hassa plans from I think Underground Meats maybe has one online, a couple for the ground or whole muscle cures. So the idea was we bring all this together, we get through the project and in the end we have a pathway for anybody to go, any hog producer or even beef too to take their animals to the processor and have a high-end traditional style charcuterie product that can sell either hope because it's USDA they could sell a wholesale where they can take it to the city markets or the current customer, some of them are selling a farm. So that was the idea, that was the solution to increase income for all of us. So these were the steps we took. The chef created a couple of recipes at the restaurant, they had a curing cabinet and they were doing some things with our hogs there and we could test the market and get some feedback from people and reproduce the recipes that we could get that down before we handed it off to the USDA processor who then would start making the stuff in his facility and we'd go through enough, I think there should have been three iterations and then we would be submitting samples in to have the steps validate that we did indeed control the five major organisms but so the USDA processor started working on the HACCP plan the same time they started working on recipes and the difference between restaurant and processing plans for HACCP plans is huge apparently and also it's not fully understood or policed I guess for lack of a better word in Missouri. So the restaurant maybe shouldn't even be making this stuff but they can and nobody's prosecuting so we started at the same time trying to get accomplish this HACCP plan and once he got the USDA does not sign off or approve they just review it and sign it once we got that then we could do the batches that we were going to test again for validation determine the cost of production so we could price this stuff and we could price everything for profit and place it in the marketplace as a premium product and then everybody every farm was going to have a labeled product and be able to go take to the farmers markets and their markets and sell it and get feedback they could do sampling or whatever that was the idea so there are lessons to be learned even from failures and in this upside down current upside down world maybe I could say it was a success but we did end up with a product shelf stable one batch. The USDA finally signed off on the ground muscle product which was the hardest of the two you had either whole muscle or a ground product you could pursue and all three batches passed so that validated that the steps that we have outlined to make in this case it was picante salami uh they controlled E. Coli's staff Listeria Salmonella and Clostridium and we ended up with a farm labeled product one farm so you you can hear already I'm saying I'm using words like it was supposed to happen this way and we ended up with less than we were starting out for shooting for but some of the lessons I learned from this and I'll explain further how this ended. I'm the project investigator on this and went out had many conversations with the participants then put together a proposal sent it back out to them asked for comments and I must be really smart because no comments came back but now in hindsight I know that was because I had maybe hadn't read it or they didn't fully understand a part or they maybe didn't even read at all there should have been some input so in hindsight I don't feel like I had to buy in I needed from everybody it was easy to sit and talk to me and say yeah that sounds like a good idea I'll do that um I did then when we got the award of the proposal gave everybody a commitment letter and then a condensed version of what I expected their part to be and what they were going to have to do and everybody signed it and I also gave them a copy of the grant proposal so that they could review that again um I don't know that there's a stronger way to because I'm not going to get involved in lawsuits or anything but a commitment letter I think is a strong thing is I can ask for I didn't expect to learn so much about hassle plans or the charcuterie process I made a few batches at home I expected that the service provider was going to build on his base knowledge and I could pay him for those services and I thought that's what we talked about but it didn't quite work out that way and the USDA because there's hardly any a non-heat treated shelf stable product out there and depending on your region and your inspectors not a lot of it has gone through the review process and they are resistant to considerate and very slow to make any forward movement I mean you're providing white papers to justify what you're doing but it's it was that was the biggest struggle the hurdle was I know they have a full table and have other things to do but we had to ask for an extension and it was just trying to get them to finish the review but it finally got done towards the end so they have a lack of knowledge and they have lack of exposure so the more this happens I think the more the easier it's going to be the first one was tough something else that I did not understand was the lack of or the turnover rates in restaurant industry so my partner there the guy that had the experience when I went in to have him sign the agreement he asked if his other partner could sign it and I didn't think to ask why it's because they were splitting up so he was gone and there went the main skills and I didn't have a backup at that point after we signed it and then I find that out and then every six months you're dealing with a different restaurant manager so it'd be like this education process and then the people under them would be turning over and then there sometimes there was nobody that had the skill to do it you couldn't you couldn't risk it same problem with the processor I knew him for about a year had been taking hogs in there I overestimated his abilities and skills and human resource skills in particular so there's a lot of turnover there and I offered to work part-time I offered to rent the space I offered to pay wages for the a dedicated person to learn the skills and be in charge of the project but they don't stay long enough so that didn't none of those options worked out but I guess I'm hardheaded because I kept at it and we finally did get that last product through but no sales were made I'm not confident in what I saw even though past the validation test came back positive I noticed there's spots that the the curing salt does not appear to have gotten to and they are backpacked so that's a anaerobic environment so potentially what is it staff I think creating botulism so so that's how our project ended and we have out of that there's a couple of paths we could go and right now there's I now have a person that has a meat distribution company spent five years in Italy learning the skills and that's what he wants to do but he's not can't finance it we still have the producers in interested and now we have I have a curing cabinet and the innovation it's a commercial kitchen innovation center has warehouse space we can house the curing cabinet a drying cabinet there and they've had meat products come through they've written hasps for meat products although they were heat treated so there's still a group out of this and this what we're looking at now is a little different arrangement not the coalition but a little more other a brand where people have ownership in it and we have control of what's happening so that's where we're at and I say the hat I have the happiest talks because our first value-added product was apple brandy and all the mash spent mash goes out to those hogs and there's residual alcohol though it's really little we also have do a rye whisking put that out there too so I'm a concise speaker so that's probably pretty quick questions you have to be somewhat self-critical why what else could have happened well I was motivated and wanted to see it happen so maybe I wasn't assessing the processor skills as harshly as I should have or as critical as I should because I really want to work and my options are this and maybe I should just slow down so I mean there were some other things like personal introspection that I benefited from so my hope is that this that method was going to leave a pathway for anybody that wanted to have charcuterie made to do it anybody that's selling direct small scale which this is a hurdle for all of us could go into this premium market and our first value-added product I positioned that premium and I wanted a meat product because many of the same people that are buying that will express interest in this premium meat product to consume while they're drinking and in wineries already have our snack sticks and some cooked some heat-treated shelf-stable food like Italian sausage and pepperoni and things like that it's just that's not high end the the margins are lower there's no producer in Kansas City area yet but over in St. Louis there is that's another option was a saloon Badoo started I heard that they'd they scaled up into a facility that's with excess capacity and I've been talking to them too about what if I bring you 10 hogs and we you do copac they're considering it to use that up to create more cash but yeah but there's and that's something we can ship I had a friend went to Washington D.C. and it pulled up the they went to a restaurant to eat and open the menu and appetizers she snapped that and said well where's of the earth but in there was La Quersha from Iowa that does the prosciutto so people it's something we can ship to the coast where there's denser populations and that what we've been talking about in this new the next step is how to try and understand people on the coast the mindset and how they see the central part of the United States and especially in the the stillers guild right now there's a conversation about this too because we have some control on how we market this stuff but that's probably a little over my head in comparison well yeah in Europe yeah yeah it's coming here it's what we're a little behind but I think I think it is the original deli meats


I really don't think like Hertz don't have a cannon You got to make decision the thing about having a like a weak arm is you got to make decisions like so much faster Because of that, right? Oh my god Herbert I'm telling you he's been carrying carrying Herbert YouTube what's up last weekend league of the year so I gotta bring no money spent out of retirement I'm sorry for the lack of videos it is madden is kind of dead right now and I'll also move so I've been working hard on that But it's the last weekend league of the year you guys can watch these games live on twitch all those links are below You guys know that by now going to be a big madden 23 for me I appreciate you guys pushing me over 35,000 subs So if you're new here hit the sub on the channel if you're in the chat exclamation point yt Head on over to YouTube. This is the team that no money spent. I haven't played with this team Probably since Thanksgiving, so let's see what they got boys Let's see I don't want you to know in the comments. Let me know how many games do you think I can win with this team right here Here it is. This is the offense. These are some cards You probably haven't seen forgot they were even in the game, but we're gonna start with Justin Herbert You guys know he carries no money spent every single year Justin Herbert 82 speed 93 throw power we're gonna has Passly delete and long range that I own him. I mean he has carried no money spent back to back years That's why we have the autographed Herbert helmet everybody asked me Why do you have a Chargers helmet Herbert his first team all Hall of Fame no money spent so he's gonna be the quarterback wide receivers were rocking Jalen waddle and will Fuller. We have a Dolphins team team to get these guys the 94 speed I don't think there's a player on either side of the ball and mutt right now. That's 94 speed I think everybody is 99 speed but my wide receivers will be 94 speed and the money man in the slot right now Christian Kirk you guys know captain Kirk has carried this no money spent from the receiving side all Year there he is 92 speed 82 medium route running 87 short I mean not to not on paper not the best but he's got that slot of medic ability 89 overall. This is the best Christian Kirk. We got all year. So that that cards pretty Pretty us. So this is the team. We got Kyle Pitts right here 89 Kyle Pitts Thurman Thomas is my running back You see him right here Thurman has a 93 speed Dolphins team team Thurman Thomas. So that's the offense boys I'll be honest. I'm really not that worried about the offensive side of the ball. It looks nasty, but Defense looks nastier. We got 92 Derwin James 92 Justin Simmons Jesse Bates Jeremy Chin Eric Rowan a slot Jason McCordy. Let's see how fast I got these corners that on the outside I want to hope 94 92 speed on my outside corners that that might be a little bit of trouble this weekend on the weekend league We'll see Justin Simmons and our boy Derwin James up top 92 speed on Simmons as well. So they'll be chasing around 99 speed all weekend I don't know. Let me know in the comments. How what you can call it half What you are how many wins do you guys think I get with this unit with this team right here pass rushing? We got our boys. I'm not gonna try to say his name Odeff away. Yeah, Vince will fork Dante Fowler, Jr Not the most intimidating front Special teams we have Matt Prater base elite nice nice Oh, there it is you guys know we're running Seattle that's still a man turf the pre-order for man turf We'll be coming out soon to boys. So make sure you guys check this out But check out some of these weekend league games with the no money spent You're ready for no money spent madden 23 hit that like button and watch these games But do you think my my overall helps with matchmaking at all boys? Do you think that matters? I Mean my girl stills like OD though like look like no bulls Not still but she'd be trying to get away with way more.   I might put his own What is dude is goaded?  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, no huddle again. Come on Bro, how does that get like a cloud over there? Y'all didn't know how to why do I not have a safety that I'm user in here Yeah, well That amazing play that Mike Mars drew up right there worked because I had Ah, so I co okay. Okay. What's the name jock? Hmm. Oh my god fumble the boy Yo, I remember they used to fumbling man when heads did catch that be cool if they brought that back home boys I mean his dude is the best. Oh, this dude's the best. I've seen enough the return after a eight month hiatus Justin Herbert brought the boys back two-man rush What is this dude? Boys, I don't care how bad y'all struggling on defense If you're struggling on defense the best advice I can give you is blitz more people swear to God The answer is never put more people in coverage. Never that's never the answer if you're struggling on defense. Trust me Not even there's chicks everywhere Confirmed California.  Jesus Christ. That dude was fast as No, my god, and we're in a hole now boys We're in a hole. We're in a hole. I don't think he has acrobat or he would have dove for that and fell on the ground Now he's blitzing everybody. He's had enough. He's in the chat. He heard me You can tell by how they move their user before the snap that they're blitzing Like they just instantly go into the box instantly like this to blitzing All right, bro. What's up right now? Then when somebody gets two stops on you like that you think in their mind Oh, I know what I'm doing. I should have been blitzing the whole way See presses brings this dude right in the box. Definitely a blitz here. Oh My god, he just baited my life a little not baited me was just way faster He moved way smoother than I thought he would pause. I feel like as somebody with a family You should live in the cheapest spot. That's good for your family low key. Oh Why check time? Let's go Callie's I'm a bro living expense different than spending on your mutt team. No Florida nasty I couldn't live somewhere where I didn't have a summer winter fall and spring. I feel like that's a Like you all got snow trash.  I feel like snow is cool as it when you're a kid like honestly like yeah When you're adult that's trash, right? But for a family and a kid that snow is cool, bro Yeah, I feel like experiencing all four seasons is a big deal at least for kids and a family really to see I think he got a skateboard as he does This won't be nasty game. Oh my god, Jesse Bates. I swore I got a linebacker just to play this spot, though Is this carrying good? I mean, bro, how do you like?  No points. Good tackle. Dubby.    Oh, you're gonna do it again Yeah, I'm gonna put some again man. He wasn't ready for it last time. I'll get him this time with my five-man rush Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I mean come on Herbert. Let's get rid of football here Let me tell y'all something boys ain't no wrong making mistakes that happen. Sometimes you feel me? Let's go pits. He's not ready for high octane. Is he he's not ready for high octa snap He's not ready for high octane is he oh My god, I had six people. Let's go. Let's go Thomas.  Let's go man The captain do we win this game boys? Does anybody have faith right here? All right. I like this wide nine against this guy I do because He wants to roll out the problem is I don't think I contained last time nice I'm not live with it. I mean we know this play bro.  We absolutely know this play with everything. We know we know this play Tackle, let's go. No huddle. Come on and it's dude. Don't know how do I respect gun Oh, this is a new one. Oh, they're gonna cover through cloud and we use her this guy That's gonna be good. I promise you guys this will be good If it works the right way, I'll be good No, no, no, no, no Here we go, come on bring him to the line bring him to the line kid. Just bring him to come on For a no money spent. Oh Good play.  What is he's 15 for 16? Who is this guy? pick Back these buddy. He snapped so fast. Oh god, man We got him back.  You got to do what it's made for here kid He's gonna go back to spacing like he did watch here. We go.  Let's go Money drive time boys. Oh my god. We like he's up by seven points. That's 70 What are we doing here? Yeah, holy He's up by seven points. He's he's into blitzing right now. That's his that's his Let's go Thurman. I don't think he's believe he's not in the box yet. He's doing adjustments and he's spread his line But I don't think he blitzes here.  He's blitzing. See how fast he got in the box. I think he blitzes here That'd be philosophy. Oh, he done blitzed there. Oh, I got him There's 99 speeds. Oh my god We're 94 speed. What a dot Let's go, baby Up top till will Fuller now some would say He's right where he wants to be.  Come on.  Like we really know this play Slant. Oh, we don't know this play for sure. Like we really don't know this play Oh, man Oh my god Bro, like this is just the most OP in the game is the god Man, just snap it run man. He was a super kicker. That's an impossible to hit god They just snaps the ball and runs with no play Like you don't even have a play that he wants to run. He just snaps the ball. I'm out of here Guess what I'm out Should get banned.  We're just running for his life the whole game Okay, nobody on my team catch this


Welcome to the Hindu news analysis by Shankar Ayas Academy. These are the news articles chosen for today's discussion. They are given along with the page number of different traditions. Link for the handwritten notes in PDF format and the time stamping for the discussed articles are given in the description box as well as the comment section for the benefit of the mobile viewers. Now let us start with the first article. Now let us take up this small article. It is about the lowering dependence on H1B visas. See in the last few years, various regions around the world have been under lockdown. We all know this because of COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the places around the world have been under lockdown. So because of these lockdowns, more and more people are working from home and remote locations. So the physical presence of employees is no longer required by the companies. This has led to the lower dependence on H1B visas. This is the gist of this article. So in this context, let us learn about H1B visa. See H1B visa is a favorite topic among Indian parents, IT employees and Indian matrimony sites. What is H1B visa? See H1B visa is a visa of United States. It is issued by United States of America under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The H1B visa allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. This is the purpose of H1B visa. The keywords are temporary and specialty occupations. What is a specialty occupation? See specialty occupation is an occupation which requires application of specialized knowledge under bachelor's degree or an equivalent work experience. This is the official definition of specialty occupation. So if a person satisfies these conditions, he or she is eligible for a H1B visa. The duration of stay through H1B visa is 3 years. This can be extended to 6 years. And it is important to note that majority of the applicants of H1B visas are Indians. This is why I jokingly said it is an important topic among Indian parents, IT employees and Indian matrimony sites. Almost 70% of the H1B visas issued by the United States of America are given to Indians. So we can see majority of the applicants are Indians. See H1B visa is not the only visa issued by the United States of America. It is the most popular among a long list of other visas. Now let us see the other visas issued by United States of America. Have a look at this table. The first visa is L1. L1 is regarding intra company transfers. This visa is issued for intra company transfers. The next visa is J1. The J1 visa is issued for exchange of visitors. Similar to H1B, there is also another visa called H2B. It is also issued for temporary visitors. H2B visa is issued by the US to fill a transient vacancy. So far we saw about H1B, L1, J1, H2B. Finally, let us see about H4. The H4 visa is given to the dependents of H1B visas. For example, if an employee is taking his spouse or dependent to the US, they will go under H4 visa. So these are the important list of visas issued by the United States of America. See, many of these visas were suspended or under a lot of restriction during Trump's presidency. We all know that Trump was against immigration. He believed the job should be given to the Americans first. He worked under the slogan America first. We have already discussed about this. See, because of the Trump's policy of America first and ban on immigration, USA is now facing widespread vacancies and joblessness. See, because of the Trump policy of America first and ban on immigration, there is widespread vacancy in United States of America. So this anti-immigration stance is now reversed by the current United States of America administration. Joe Biden is the current president of United States of America. So he has removed the restriction on these visas. To be precise, he has removed the restrictions on H1B visas. Many experts believe this move will bring a lot of immigrants into the country and will fill the job vacancies in the United States of America. But to the contrary, the lockdowns have lower the dependence on H1B visas. So the demand for H1B visas has fallen. This is the cruel irony. As long as work from home and remote locations are continuing, the dependence on H1B visas will be lowering. This is the gist of this article. With this, we have come to the end of the discussion. In this discussion, we saw both the lowering dependence on H1B visas. We discussed about H1B visa. We also discussed about other visas like L1, J1, H2B and H4. Now let us move on to the next discussion. Now look at this article. This article is regarding the upcoming Padma awards. See, according to this article, the Central Government of India has asked the citizens of India to make recommendations for the upcoming Padma awards. This is the gist of this article. In this context, let us discuss in detail about the Padma awards. What are Padma awards? See, the Padma awards are one of the highest civilian honours of India. It is announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Padma awards are given in three categories. The first one is Padma Vibhushan. It is given for exceptional and distinguished service. The second one is Padma Bhushan. Padma Bhushan is given for distinguished service of higher order. And the final one is Padma Sri. Padma Sri is given for distinguished service. So these are the three categories of Padma awards. What is the purpose of Padma award? See, the Padma award seeks to recognize achievements in various activities and disciplines where an element of public service is involved. So the key word is element of public service. So to put it in simple words, Padma awards are given for recognition of public service. These Padma awards are given on the recommendation of a committee. The name of the committee is Padma Awards Committee. This committee is constituted by the prime minister every year. See, the beauty of Padma award is that the nomination process is open to public. Public can nominate the award recipients. Another beautiful thing is even self-nomination can be made. So this is the beauty of Padma awards. Now, coming back to Padma awards committee. See, the Padma awards committee is added by the cabinet secretary. This committee also includes home secretary, secretary to the president, and four to six eminent persons. So the public will nominate the persons to this committee. Even self-nominations can be made to this committee. And based on the nominations, this committee will send the recommendation to the prime minister of India. And the prime minister will finally send it to the president of India for approval. This is how the entire process works. See, so far we saw about Padma awards and Padma awards committee. Now, let us see about the genesis of Padma awards. See, in 1954, the government of India had only two civilian awards, Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan. Later, the government of India added three classes to this Padma Vibhushan. The name of the three classes were Pahela work, Dasra work and Thisra work. These three classes were subsequently renamed as Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Sri. It was renamed in 1955. This is the genesis of Padma awards. Since we are discussing about Padma awards, let us discuss about Bharat Ratna in brief. See, Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the country. The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the prime minister to the president of India. Also, the number of Bharat Ratna awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year. Padma awards does not have such restrictions. So, these are the important points regarding Bharat Ratna. Now, coming back to Padma awards. Government servants, including those working in PSUs, are not eligible for Padma awards. But there is an exception. Doctors and scientists who are working for government are eligible for Padma awards. Now, have a look at this list. This list contains the activities and disciplines for which Padma awards are given. Art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, civil service, sports and others. So, these are the fields of activities for which Padma awards are given. See, Padma awards is not normally conferred posthumously. So, it is not usually given to a person who has passed away. But exceptions can be made in highly deserving cases. Also, higher category of Padma award can be conferred to a person only after five years. For example, if a person receives Padma Shree this year, he or she can receive Padma Bhushan or Padma Vibhushan only after five years. However, exceptions are made in highly deserving cases. See, the Padma awards are presented by the President of India. The award is usually given in March or April every year. See, the winners of the award is usually announced on the eve of Republic Day. But the award is given usually in March and April. The awardees are presented a certificate signed by the President of India. In addition to the certificate, the awardees also receive a medal. It is important to note that Padma awards does not amount to a title. So, it cannot be used as a suffix or prefix to the awardee's name. So, legally, a person cannot use Padma Shree, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan as a suffix or prefix to the name. But illegally, many people are using it. So, these are the important points regarding Padma awards. With this, we have come to the end of the discussion. In this discussion, we saw about Padma awards, the three categories of Padma awards, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shree. We also discussed about Padma awards committee. We discussed about the genesis of Padma awards. We discussed about Bharat Ratna in brief. We discussed about the activities and disciplines of Padma awards. And finally, we discussed about Padma awards ceremony. With this, we have come to the end of the discussion. Now, let us move on to the next topic. Now, let us take up this news article. It is regarding Gaganian space program. So, in this slide, let us discuss about Gaganian program. The relevant syllabus covered by this article is highlighted in the screen. Interested aspirants can go through it. See, Gaganian program is a human space mission. It was formally announced by a Prime Minister on August 15, 2018. Gaganian program is our most prestigious space mission. Under the space mission, India plans to send astronauts to space on an indigenious launch vehicle. And we are trying to bring them back safely to earth. This mission is expected to send three persons into space for a period of seven days. And the spacecraft will be placed in a low earth orbit of 300 to 400 kilometers. These are the important points. For this mission, we will be using GSLV MK3 launch vehicle. We will be making use of this vehicle because this is the only vehicle which has the necessary payload capability. See, as the name says, GSLV MK3 has three stages. You can observe the three stages from this picture. Now coming back to Gaganian space mission, Gaganian space mission will be launched from Sri Arigota. If India succeeds in this space human mission, it would place India among a very allied group of countries. So far only USSR, that is current day Russia, United States of America and China have successfully conducted human space missions. So if India succeed in this mission, India will be the fourth country in the world to send successfully humans into space on an indigenous vehicle. So this will place India among a very allied group of countries. This space mission will also provide a unique microgravity platform. We can use this microgravity platform for conducting space experiments. We can also use this platform as a test bed for future technologies. See, when we are discussing about any space mission, one question comes to the mind. Why do we need this Gaganian mission? It takes a lot of money, it takes a lot of time. So why do we need to conduct these kind of missions? See, so far most of the countries of the world have explored land, sea and air. So the obvious next frontier of global dominance and exploration is going to be space. We can already observe this. We can see many countries rushing and competing among themselves to explore the vastness of the cosmos, discover new resources on the moon and also to find signs of microbial life beyond our orbit. So many countries are already competing in this field of space. For example, United States of America and Russia are dominating the field of space exploration. China is also slowly cruising ahead with its plans. China is building its own space station. It is collecting samples from asteroids. China is also keen in exploring planets like Mars. So many countries are keen to explore the field of space and they are planning to dominate the space. So India should also join in this fight. See, India has also achieved a lot of success in the field of space. We have reached Mars, we have reached moon, we have attained these missions in extremely low cost manners. We have launched a lot of satellites. So India is also fighting in the field of space. But till now, India has not launched an indigenous crew mission. So by launching an indigenous crew mission from India, it will put India at the center of this space exploration and dominance. It will shape the geopolitics of the world. So it is important that we continue with missions like Gaganyan. Another important thing is missions like Gaganyan increases global collaboration. For example, Israel is taking the help of France, Russia and United States in some crucial activities and supply of components. Russia and France are providing key training and equipment needed to carry out this mission. Similarly, a Russian company called Gagarian Cosmonaut Training Center is providing space suits for Indian astronauts. So as we can observe space exploration programs like Gaganyan increases global collaboration. India is getting the best equipments and knowledge from other countries. So these are the important reasons why India should continue with space programs like Gaganyan. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. In this discussion, we saw about Gaganyan and its significance. Now let us move on to the next discussion. Now let us take up this article. It is regarding NABAD. See, NABAD stands for National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Recently, NABAD has launched four projects in Kerala. This article is regarding that. First, let us see about those four projects. The first project. See, the first project is regarding an evaluation of vaccine. This vaccine was developed against the bacterial disease index. The name of the disease is Rhymeralosis. So vaccine was developed against its disease and NABAD has launched a project to evaluate the vaccine. This is the first project. Now let us see about the second project. See, the second project launched by NABAD is to provide long-distance wireless connectivity. This long-distance wireless connectivity will be provided to tribal settlements in Malapuram district. Malapuram district is in Kerala. So first project is regarding vaccine. Second project is regarding long-distance wireless connectivity. The third project is regarding skilling eng fisherman in repairing fishing vessel motors. So the third project is regarding skill development. The fourth and final project involves training under the additional skill acquisition program. So these are the four projects launched by NABAD. First project is regarding vaccine. Second project is regarding long-distance wireless connectivity. Third project is about skill development. Fourth project is regarding training under additional skill acquisition program. This is conveyed in this article. In this context, let us discuss about NABAD, its genesis and functions. The syllabus for references displayed on the screen. Interested aspirants can go through it. NABAD. See, as we discussed, the word NABAD stands for National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. This bank was established in 1982. It was established by an act of the parliament. See, NABAD is a development bank. It is mandated for providing and regulating credit. This will be used for the promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, and handicrafts. This credit will be extended to other rural crafts and other allied economic activities in rural areas. So, we can see the main aim of NABAD is to promote integrated rural development. It also aims to secure prosperity of rural areas. So far, we have seen about NABAD and its aim. Now, let's see about its genesis. See, the importance of institutional credit in boosting rural economy has been clear to our government right from its early stages of planning. So, our government insisted RISO Bank of India to form a committee for this same purpose, that is to create an institution to provide credit to the rural economy. The name of the committee is Committee to Review the Arrangements for Institutional Credit for Agriculture and Rural Development, Graphic Card. This is the name of the committee. This committee was formed in 1979. It was formed under the chairmanship of Sivaraman. Sivaraman is a former member of Planning Commission. See, this committee, after reviewing the conditions of rural areas, submitted its report in 1979. In its report, it outlined the need for a new organizational device for providing undivided attention and pointed focus to credit-related issues linked with rural development. To put it in simple words, the committee recommended for a new organization, which will be focusing only on credit-related issues for rural development. This is the gist of the recommendation of the committee. So, based on this committee recommendation, NABARD was formed. It was formed by an act of parliament. Like we already discussed, NABARD came into existence in 1982. It took the agricultural credit functions from RBI. It also took the refinance functions from the ARDC. See, ARDC stands for Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation. Before NABARD, this organization was responsible for the refinance function in agricultural sector. From this organization, NABARD took the control of refinance functions. NABARD was set up with an initial capital of 100 crores. Now, it has grown into a huge organization. As on 31st March 2020, its paid-up capital was around 14,080 crores. So, we can see from 100 crores, it has grown into an organization of 14,000 crores approximately. It has become a huge organization. And currently, NABARD is fully owned by the Government of India. This is the key point. It is fully owned by the Government of India. So, these are the important points regarding the genesis of NABARD. Now, let us discuss about functions of NABARD. See, as we know, the Government of India encourages farmers in taking up projects by subsidizing a portion of total project cost. So, the Government gives a lot of subsidies to farmers to initiate a lot of new projects. These new projects will help in rural development. NABARD has been a partner of the Government in some of these projects. Now, let us discuss some of these projects and schemes. First, let us discuss about farm sector schemes in which NABARD is a partner. The first important scheme, Diary Entrepreneurship Development Scheme. Second, Commercial Protection Units of Organic Inputs. Third, Agri-Clinic and Agri-Business Center Scheme. Fourth, National Livestock Mission. So, these are the important farm sector schemes in which NABARD is a partner of the Government. Other schemes in which NABARD is a partner are Interest Subvention Scheme and New Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure Scheme. So, so far we have seen the farm sector schemes in which NABARD are a partner. Now, let us discuss about our farm sector schemes, that is, non-farm sector schemes. The first one is Credit-Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme, CLCSS. This subsidy scheme is for Technology Upgradation of Micro and Small Enterprises. So, this is the first off-sector scheme in which NABARD is a partner. Another important off-sector scheme is Day NRLM, that is, Dindaya Anthodaya Yojana, National Rural Livestock Mission. NABARD is a partner of this off-sector scheme. And finally, NABARD is a partner of CHDS. CHDS stands for Comprehensive and Looms Development Scheme. So, these are the off-sector schemes in which NABARD is a partner. Finally, have a look at this list. This list consists of Clients of NABARD. They are the Credit-Related Partner Institutions of NABARD. Scheduled Commercial Banks, State Governments, State Owned Bodies and Corporations, Regional Rural Banks, State Cooperative Banks, District Central Cooperative Banks, State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Banks, Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks, Non-Banking Finance Companies, Farmers Collective and Producers Organization, Corporates, Companies, Individual Entrepreneurs, SPV under PPP mode. So, these are the important institutions who are Clients of NABARD. Just go through it once. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. In this discussion, we saw about NABARD, the four projects launched by NABARD in Kerala, the aim of NABARD, Genesis of NABARD and Functions of NABARD. These are the important topics we have discussed in this discussion. Now, let us move on to the next discussion. Now, look at this news article. It is about the measures taken by the government to clean a thousand years old temple. The name of the temple is Sri Vasudeva Pirmal Temple. See, this temple was built during the Chola era. It was built during 12th century. So, in this slide, let us discuss some important facts related to Chola Empire. Let us also discuss about Chola achievements. See, the Chola Empire was founded by Vijayalya Cholan. Vijayalya Cholan led to the rise of mighty Cholas by defeating the Pallavas. The Chola dynasty originated in the rich Kaveri River valley. Urayur was its oldest capital. The current name of Urayur is Tirucharapalli. After Vijayalya Cholan, its successors conquered neighboring regions and the kingdom grew both in size and power. See, Chola Empire ruled for five centuries, from 9th century to 13th century. There were strong foes in the south. And when we are talking about the kings of the Chola Empire, we have to necessarily talk about Raja Raja I. He is considered to be the most powerful Chola ruler. He is remembered for expanding the control and reorganizing the administration of the empire. Raja Raja Cholan was succeeded by Rajendra Cholan. He was the one who expanded Chola Empire to the north. He ventured into the banks of Ganges. The empire, the new empire capital under the Rajendra Cholan was called as Gangaikonda Chola Brahm. See, the period under Rajendra Chola is considered as the golden age of Cholas. Because after the Rajendra Chola, Chola empires are widespread downfall. See, when we are talking about Cholas achievements, during the reign of Cholas, the society and its culture saw massive developments in the reign of Cholas. Cholas were art and patterns of art, poetry, literature and drama. They also built a lot of temples. Temples were the main center for all social and religious meetings. See, the Cholas were known for building huge temples. They were also known for making bronze images. The bronze images made during this period were most distinctive. Apart from these cultural developments, the Cholas were also remembered for new developments in agriculture. See, the societal structure during the Chola dynasty was divided among Brahmins and non-Brahmins. During Chola dynasty, several gods and goddesses were worshipped. Among all god and goddesses, Shiva was the most popular god during the period of Cholas. Art, religion and literature benefited greatly during this period. And as we know, Tanjavur temple still stands to be the biggest and tallest among all the temples in India of its time. And many of the temples built during the Chola reign are recognized as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. And many of the temples built by the Cholas are considered as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. For example, Bredeshwara temple, Gangekonda Chola Varam temple, Ayuravateswara temple, they are all recognized as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Now, let us discuss about the administration of Cholas. See, during the Cholas, the entire administration, the entire southern region, was brought under the umbrella of a single governing force. The Cholas ruled in a sustained monarchy, but they separated their territories into provinces or mandalams. The mandalams or provinces were further divided into districts which were called as Nadu. So, these were the divisions when we considered the administration of Cholas. King remained the central authority. He would take the major issue. The king would take the major decisions. He would carry out the governance. The decisions made by the king will be passed on to the mandalams and Nadus. So, these are the important points regarding the Chola Empire. With these details in mind, let us move on to the next part of the discussion. See, the next topic is regarding inflation. We have discussed about inflation in detail in our June 16th video. In our June 16th daily news analysis, we have discussed about inflation in detail. Interested aspirants can go through it. Now, let us move on to the next topic. The next topic is about ASEAN. Again, about ASEAN, we have discussed in detail in our 19th April daily news analysis. Interested aspirants can go through it. The final topic is about black fungus. We have discussed about black fungus in our 8th June video as well as 12th May video. So, the interested aspirants can go through the mentioned daily news analysis for deeper understanding of black fungus. With this, let us move on to the practice problems question. Practice problems question. With reference to the Padma wards, which of the following statements are correct? First statement. It is the highest civilian award of India announced annually during the Republic Day. Second statement. The Padma wards are conferred on the recommendation made by the Union Ministry of Culture. Select the correct answer using the code given below. A, 1 only, B, 2 only, C, both 1 and 2, D, neither 1 nor 2. Now, let us take up the first statement. The first statement is incorrect. Bharathratha is the highest civilian award in India. It is not Padma wards. So, first statement is incorrect. Now, let us move on to the second statement. See, the Padma wards are given based on the recommendations of Padma awards committee. It is not given based on the recommendation of Union Ministry of Culture. The Padma awards committee is constituted every year by the Prime Minister of India. So, the first statement is incorrect. Second statement is also incorrect. The answer is option D, neither 1 nor 2. Now, let us move on to the second question. Consider the following statements. First statement, Chola temples are the nuclei of settlements and centres of craft production. Second statement, Chola bronze images consisted of both deities as well as devotees. Which of the statements given above are correct? A, 1 only, B, 2 only, C, both 1 and 2, D, neither 1 nor 2. Now, let us take up the first statement. The first statement is correct. See, the Chola temples often become the nuclei of settlements. They also were the centres of craft production. So, first statement is correct. Moving on to the second statement. See, as we discussed in the article, Chola bronze images are considered among the finest in the world. And Chola bronze images consist of both deities as well as devotees. So, second statement is also correct. The answer is C, both 1 and 2. Moving on to the third question. Consider the following statements regarding NABAD, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. First statement, it is a statutory organisation which regulates credit facilities for the development of agriculture and small-scale industries. Second statement, at present, Reserve Bank of India holds 49% stake in NABAD. Which of the statements given above are correct? A, 1 only, B, 2 only, C, both 1 and 2, D, neither 1 nor 2. See, from our discussion, we know that the first statement is correct. NABAD was established by an act of a parliament, so it is a statutory organisation. It also regulates credit facilities for the development of agriculture and small-scale industry. First statement is correct. Now moving on to the second statement. See, at present, NABAD is fully owned by Government of India. Before 2019, RBI had shares in NABAD, but after 2019, NABAD is fully owned by Government of India. So, second statement is incorrect. The answer is option A, 1 only. The first statement is correct. Second statement is incorrect. Thank you.


Hi, Mods fans. Will Critchlow here, CEO at Search Pilot. I want to start today by talking about the NBA in 2001. This is what the shot chart looked like. So these are the 200 most commonly shot from locations in the NBA in 2001. So in professional basketball, you can see that they took a load of shots around the rim. These are the dunks and the layups. They took a load of shots from outside the three-point line. And they took a lot of these mid-range shots, which are all the jump shots in between. Something happened in the subsequent 20 years because today, the shot chart looks more like this. It's pretty mind-blowing. You can see there's still a ton of dunks and layups, still a ton of three-point shots. But the mid-range has all but disappeared. Why is that? Well, what happened was they installed advanced camera systems in every NBA stadium, every NBA arena, and applied a whole load of advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to track all of the players and the ball throughout every single game. And using those advanced statistics, they could track all kinds of things that they didn't have before, like how closely guarded the player was when they were shooting, whether they dribbled left, whether they dribbled right, all those kind of little details. And out of that data, they discovered that these mid-range shots that had been part of the game forever were less effective than everyone had assumed. It turned out that they were almost as hard to score as the three-point shots, but of course, worth far less. The dunks and layups were only two points, but easy enough to be worth shooting. The three-point shots, worth half as much again, worth shooting, but the mid-range, less so. But it took the advanced statistics to be able to figure that out. I'm going to argue that we're undergoing a similar analytic revolution in SEO. The equivalent of the cameras in every stadium is not cameras watching this type. It's SEO-AB testing, where you can take a hypothesis, so you can take the particular on-site change that you're thinking of making that you think is going to bring a big benefit to your organic search performance. And you can test it in a scientific way and get the expected impact as well as the confidence in for on that impact. I'm not going to get into detail today about how to run those tests. We've talked about that before, and we'll link in the show notes to more detail on how you can run those tests. But the point being, this kind of testing is available now. And what it's doing is it's bringing a similar kind of realization to especially Enterprise SEO, very large website SEO that happened in the professional basketball game. And the equivalent, I'm going to argue, is that the mid-range is all of those untested changes to your website, all the little things that maybe you do because it's best practice, or you heard something from a Googler, or you heard something from an expert, maybe even someone like me.  But actually, they're way lower percentage than we'd always assumed, just like the mid-range shot is in the professional basketball game. And you have all of those cases where you get excited. The equivalent of your crossover is you find maybe an insight from some keyword research, and you have some new thought about how searches might be looking for your website. And you pull up to that mid-range jump shot where you make the change. So you start modifying your titles and meta information, for example, on a whole bunch of pages based off these insights. But too often, that's a massive airball. We've seen so many cases where we have rolled out changes that are based on that kind of insight and huge negative impact, minus 20%, minus 27% organic search performance as a result of some of those untested changes. And so my argument of Moneyball as the future of SEO, the strategies that I think those large websites are going to be building upon in the future is a combination of winning tests. Those are our dunks and layups, the things that we're very sure to make those shots. And the equivalent of the three-point shot, I'm claiming this is new content. So new pages, new site sections, super valuable. If you don't build out new content, you're going to struggle over time, but super hard as well, just like the three-point shots are in the game. They're harder, but they're worth more. So you build the strategy of building out new content and rolling out winning tests, which are your dunks.   So the basketball equivalent, again, is that over this same time period, possessions per game are up almost 10% over that time. And the reason for that is that if you have an edge, if you have an advantage over your opponent, which is exactly what this kind of advanced insight gives you, you want more goes. You want more repetitions. And that's just like you walk into a casino and you play roulette once, maybe you win. You play roulette 1,000 times. The casino is definitely winning. And that's because they have the edge. So if we have the edge, because we're running these tests, we want to drive the number of tests up and test cadence. And so the very highest performing teams that I see doing this kind of moneyball SEO approach, they are building their strategy of this kind of thing, new content, and winning tests. And then they're setting KPIs around test cadence and making sure that they run more of those tests. They run them more quickly. And that they're driving performance that way. So I hope you've enjoyed this little ramble through NBA basketball into SEO testing. I'm Will Critch though, CEO of SearchPilot. Take care.


Mom brings boy who vandalized senior center in front of the camera to teach him a lesson. The world seems to have been upside down since the pandemic started, and there are times we can only get comfort at home among our family. But some of us don't have that luxury. There are a lot of people out there working essential jobs, or just not having a family, or a place of their own anymore.  That was until some kids wreaked havoc at the Hancock House. Unfortunately, the seniors at the Hancock House haven't had a peaceful life this autumn when several incidents had shocked them all. Just a week before the incident with the kids, a senior that was waiting on the bus got shot with a paintball gun. The paint was red and although it didn't cause more than minor injuries, the senior was in shock and very afraid. You have a senior that just moved here from Memphis. He was terrified. He thought that he was shot, said the property manager of Hancock House, Arletha Patterson. So just a week after that incident, the kids showed up at the house and terrorized the residents. What those kids didn't know before planning their fun times was that very single move was caught on camera. What did they do? Let's see the footage. We know these times are tough and frustrating for everyone, even for kids. During the pandemic, kids can no longer enjoy sports or activities they regularly had within a group. Some get in trouble. No matter how miserable you feel, this doesn't mean you have to make someone's life harder. That was what Josh Sean would learn when he was brought in front of the cameras by his mother. What did he do? It was weekend when three kids stormed into the Hancock House and frightened the elderly. There was a senior that tried to stop them, and they told her to shut up, says Arletha Patterson. Everything was caught on camera. But there's more. The three kids stole two fire extinguishers, and that was not the only thing they did. They ran out and fired them at the brick on the house, and then ran off in the area, said the senior citizens that live at the residence. They called the police. Chicago police came to see the footage and start the investigation. Then, the whole thing showed up on the local news. That's where Kiara Cunningham noticed that one of the three kids was her 10-year-old son. Arletha told reporters that she would like to talk to them and make them apologize to the seniors who they've terrified. Meanwhile, Kiara was stunned. She couldn't believe her son did this, and here's why. Kiara works as a security guard, so she was shocked that her son would do something like this. Her job was keeping buildings safe, so imagine her amazement. This is why she decided to teach him a lesson he'd never forget. That's my son. My son is on the news, she recalled in the interview, adding that she I replayed it again to make sure that I was seeing what I was seeing. I knew my child, Kiara said. I know his body and the way he walks from anywhere. So she decided the best way of action was walk her son back to the building and make him owe up to his mistake.  That's something you don't do. Joshan went to the senior center to apologize and explain himself. I'm sorry for coming into y'all place, or take your stuff, Joshan told Arletha Patterson. How did the manager react when he came to the center? Okay, and I accept, humbly accept your apology, Patterson replied. When asked how he felt like when his mom got so mad at him, Joshan replied, sad. Then, Kiara added a few more details. I do my job, Kiara said, explaining that Joshan was at a place at the wrong time, and he followed behind the wrong people. However, the property manager had a reaction Joshan might not have expected. To come here and see them both, I have nothing but love and respect for her, Patterson Smith said about Joshan's mother and we're here to help. So Joshan received a gift that day. Joshan needed the right kind friends that wouldn't get him in trouble. So the property manager decided to help them out by teaming Joshan with Marlon Haywood, a mentor from the urban mail network. Actually, Patterson is Marlon's aunt, so Joshan was in for a treat. I'm like, oh my god, that's my aunt's building, said Marlon when he saw the news. Then, he learned it was kids aged 8 to 10 and decided to help out. But Marlon wasn't angry. He was sad about what happened. It made me sad because when you look at the news and what's going on right now, you have the pandemic, the rioting, the looting, Marlon explained. I think it's important to understand there's still kids. So he decided to help. The pandemic has been a tough moment for kids that have single parents who have to go to work. So Marlon stepped up and decided to become a mentor. Now, he volunteered to be Joshan's mentor. Marlon had a few words to give to Joshan's mother as well. I know that all it takes is having the right people around you to kind of steer you in the right direction, said Marlon. What will they do? Marlon will be Joshan's friend. Together, they will play ping-pong, pool, video games, and anything interesting, so that they can talk and spark Joshan's creative side instead of his destructive side. And that's just part of it. I told him the next time Lakers play the bulls, I told him we're going to get tickets and go to the game, Marlon said. And Joshan now also has to stick around the seniors building as part of his apology. What will he do? Joshan will have to help keep the building tidy and pick up leaves at the senior center. This way, he will be able to get to know the seniors and the community. Urban Mail Network had been mentoring around 100 kids and teens from Chicago over the past years. It's good to know that Joshan will have someone that will help him find the right direction and stay out of trouble.


I found so many Bolo's today, thrift with me. Hey Bolo buddies, thanks for watching. Let's get started. So I walked into the store and I was super excited to see all of these Goosebumps books. 25 cents each guys and 30% off today. So that is my first big Bolo. I found so many Bolo's today at the store. I am super excited.  So I did go back and I did find a couple things. Unfortunately, my phone ran out of battery so I only have a little bit of footage of me in the store which is so unfortunate because it would have made for a great video me finding the stuff that I found today. So here's those lights that you guys told me to go back for. I went back and got them. I have five packs, $2.50 each with 30% off. This thing comps look really good. It's something about help prevent check fraud. I have no idea what it is but at the end of the video, I'll show you some comps. It's pretty exciting. This is a little Yankees lovey and it's still got the original tags. Super cute, great bread butter item. I think it was a dollar with 30% off. This is called, I can't remember, Vow Slide, some sort of exercise thing. And you guys just wait until you see what I found. So exciting. Okay, I think this is from Toad from Frog. It's an Eden plush from 1979. And I thought I was missing the hat but his hat's on there so we're all good. But his pants keep falling down because the elastic is so stretched out. I think that's a Joyce Meyer and I've heard that her stuff does pretty decent so it's probably a good bread and not butter item. It was only 25 cents with 30% off so definitely should make some money on that one. All right, here is the ice cream and freezer maker thing. And it says never used but I'm like it's a thrift store like how do they know? So there it is, there's the front. And I'm gonna open it up and take a peek. I saw, well you'll see at the end of the video like some people part them out and just sell the motors. So I think I'm gonna sell it as everything you see here. And hopefully it's a complete set really never used because that'll be great. So that's a jewelry designer. You guys just got a picture of my crocs that I've had since I was like 15.  So those have been there probably since I was 15 also. I wear those out in public sometimes by accident and I'm like, oh, that's a little bit embarrassing. So they just made it to my video. So these are the buttons I got. They're kind of cool. I don't know, maybe it was a bad buy. They're bread and butter. They were a buck each, so I got them for 70 cents. And I should definitely make some money. I did find the South Park, but the other ones I couldn't find exactly the same thing under the soles. There's the little honey bear that you guys told me to go back and get. So I went back and got him.  There's the little Indian boy, Native American boy, I'm not sure what I'm gonna use them to title. So cute, so cute. Okay, so I'm not exactly sure what this is, but I think you paint by number and then somehow apply it to your shirt. I'm not sure, but they were a dollar each. So I got them for 70 cents each and I'm gonna take a chance on these and hope that maybe some crafters will be interested. And I did get this. I couldn't find comps on it that had sold. So we'll see. The ultimate baseball, the game. I have no idea what this is. I can't find comps on it. It's sealed. I mean, I can't find comps. Has anybody ever seen this game before? If so, please comment below. Oh yeah, there's the monopoly and I do grab it because it's sealed. Okay guys, here's the big money. Are you ready? It's called Body Boss Total Workout Systems. All right, so here soon I'm gonna go over to eBay and I'm gonna show you guys what these items are selling for, which is gonna help me compare prices so that I know what to list my items for and hopefully you guys enjoy it and learn about some maybe things you didn't know about. Did I score big today at the thrift store? Yes, yes I did. I found some major bolos. Wait until you see the comps on some of these items. All right, so these are the solds, okay? And that one says open box, brand new, went for 189. Mine is unopened, brand new.  Now look at, let me go to the actives, which the actives are like crazy prices but they're not selling. So I don't know. I gotta look into it a little more to figure out how I'm gonna price mine but these prices are crazy. Now that one's only 50 and it says open box. So my box is still sealed and I'm trying to remember what I paid for it. It was like $4 or $5. It was in the video, it showed it on the front. So super cool find. I'm glad I scanned it because I had no clue what it was. I'm still not even sure what it is. The next item is this rival electric ice cream and yogurt maker freezer and my box looks like that one and this sold for $149.95. Now this does say brand new and I did open mine in the video and it said never used but I really need to like confirm that all the parts are there but I mean, look right here, this is just the motor only and it went for 75 and that looks like it might just be the bucket. So I definitely, that one went for, that one's different. So yeah, I definitely got to do a little more research on this but how cool is that? Now mine's a five quart, those are six quarts and I can't remember like five or maybe this one was $8. I have to look at the video. Sorry, I shopped all day today so I'm having trouble remembering the numbers but those are two big Bolo's I got today. This little game, I bought this today, it was sealed. If I find a game that's sealed, I feel like it's gonna do decent or it's gonna be bread and butter. This one, I mean, one of them sold for $19.99 plus shipping and the shipping was what, $15 on this. So I don't know, I gotta do a little more research but comps are kind of crazy on this. It says trending at $11.74 so it was pretty cheap. And today everything was 30% off so that's even better. All right, you guys saw the baseball game. I put in Glyphsby, I think that's how you say it, baseball game and these are the only things I could get to come up. I cannot find the exact one I have and it is sealed and I do believe it's vintage. I need to look into it a little more but if you guys know anything about that game I showed at the beginning, please let me know because this is similar but it's definitely not the same. So no comps available, I should do a Google search, maybe I'll find it that way. Okay, so I got this fun guy today and if this says he's from the Adventures of Frog and Toad and he is a 1979 Eden Vintage Plush Doll and mine, the outfit is a little rough, the elastic on his pants is pretty stretched out and I don't think he has a hat. So I don't know how I'm gonna list him yet and his eyeballs have some issues but he is really cool and I picked him up today. All right, this New York Yankees, mine is pink but you can see here, 15.95 free shipping so a great bread and butter item and this looks like the one I got, it's called Vow Slide Sliding Exercise Discs.  So I'm gonna look into this a little more but this one sold for $24 plus shipping. And you know, this one sold for $35. So we'll see, gotta figure out how I'm gonna list that. All right, this Native American boy picture, this is the one I got. Somebody has it listed for $25 or best offer plus shipping. I just thought it was adorable so I grabbed it, it was $4 with a 30% off. Okay, the rattle, I cannot find the rattle you guys so here's the Snoopy one and this is a Smurf but they're not as cool as the one I got, the Donald Duck. So I'll probably just come up with my own price on that one. Here's the Honey Poo Bear that I went back for and I need to wash it because it's kind of dirty but I think it was only a dollar but this sold for 10 plus shipping so a bread and butter item for sure but my subscribers told me to go back and get it so I did. I tried to look for some of the other items too. I did get one more. Okay, so the pin back buttons, they were a dollar per set so I think I have both of these so I'm just gonna lock them together and these are not solds, these are active so I could not find any solds. Now the same with the Green Bay Packers I could not find the exact buttons. These are active, mine is different so it's not really a great comparable but it's just something. Here's the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Again, I could not find the exact buttons so I'm just gonna have to come up with a number on my own. Here's the South Park, now that is a sold. It sold for $10 and the buyer paid shipping so I paid a dollar with 30% off so I've got 70 cents in that. So that's a great bread and butter item, I think that'll do well. Same with the Lord of Rings, it's not Lord of Rings is that what it is? Yeah, nope, yeah, Lord of the Rings. Now this has more on it than the one I got could not find the exact comp so I will just make up a number. This is a jewelry over the door hanger. It's not identical to mine but it's similar so I'll probably price it around there. I thought it'd be good on Poshmark also, even McCurry. So this is the little like, I think it's called an ultrasonic cleaner. This is very similar to the one I got. They're calling it, I have no idea what that is, what that C word is. I don't know, but lasonic and it cleans jewelry so I think I'm gonna keep that because it's got like speeds, two speeds in it. Yeah, it cleans it and the solution's in there so I paid $5 for that and I think it's brand new and I think I'm gonna keep it and use it for my jewelry. Okay, another huge score today, goosebumps. This is like one of those items that I know about and I've never been lucky enough to find and I found it today, super excited. Let me just show you some comps. I have 60 books that I bought. They were 25 cents each and they were 30% off, oops. And I do not have a complete set so that's where it's gonna get tricky is trying to figure out how to list them but you can see if you guys can get a complete set or I mean there's 62 in that one and it went for 275. But again, I have 60 books and it's not complete so I have got to figure out how on earth I'm gonna list these if I wanna sell them all together, if I want to try to sell like one through 10 together, I don't know. Do you guys have any suggestions? Please put them in the comments below. That goes for anything in the video if you have any suggestions or comments, that's great. But you can see Goosebumps are definitely a huge bolo so I'm really excited to have gotten those today. The red, white and blue patriotic 4th of July lights, this is the only thing I could find that was even remotely close and they sold for 24.99 with free shipping. I think mine are cooler and I have I think five sets. They were $2.50 each and I got 30% off. So I don't know what that equals. But anyway, probably less than $10 for all of them. And I do need to test them still but they did say on the packaging that they worked. And the score of the day, I got this for $6. Pre-owned went for 167.89. Now this is very heavy. So I am not doing free shipping. So I will probably lower the price. Like here's this one. It went for 80 with plus shipping. So I gotta look into it a little more but let me go over here to the actives. You guys can see. So this one's active, it's pre-owned. It's at 120 to 50 plus shipping. So that one's up right now but it looks like it has the box. Mine doesn't have the box. And this looks like it's just the bag. So yeah, I've got some homework to do for sure but I do wanna get these things listed ASAP and that is from my next haul. So we will go into that in another video. Be sure to check out the description of the video. Like, comment, share and subscribe. Thanks for watching.


Live from the FIIA Barcelona Grand Via Compensator in Barcelona, Spain, it's The Cube at HP Discover Barcelona 2014. Brought to you by headline sponsor HP. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live. We're winding down day two of three days of wall-to-wall coverage with The Cube, SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's flagship program. We go out to the events and strike the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Dave Vellante. Our next guest is a famous return of our famous Cube alumni, Alan Nance, who's just with us earlier this year at the BDC, the big data conference from the Vertica users group. You had that epic video that went viral. I mean, it went, our interview that we did went super viral thanks to some nudging by Dave Vellante saying must see on LinkedIn. We pumped it up on Twitter, but it really resonated with the folks. Certainly we were super impressed. Really timely good content in the moment, very relevant. Welcome back. Thank you for having me. It's really cool. So I know you're busy, so just stop by to share some thoughts. So now the cloud consumption is in place for you guys. Give us the update. You're now an HP customer. You couldn't really talk about that in the last interview. Give us the update. What's going on with the cloud? What's in production? What's not? What's the highlights? A couple of things. First of all, I do want to thank you guys for the last video. It's the first tech interview I've ever done that was the subject of conversations at birthdays and parties. So that was a huge hit. People coming up to me all over the place, hey, that was a great video. I don't know what it was about, but I saw it too. Really cool. Where are we now? So we have just done a true up of expenditure. And for 2015, we were aiming at moving about 30 million of run rate revenue to the consumption-based cloud. We are now well over 100 million, pushing against 130 million. So from our goal of revenue synchronicity, we're really pushing ahead. We've still got another good 400 million or so to go, which is going to come in in 2015. We're going to work on that. And we've also started to move legacy. So last time we spoke, I did say we were only looking at new stuff. Since then, we've moved with HP. We've moved a legacy BI application at considerable cost savings and flexibility from our legacy system to a new cloud-based platform. So I'm very excited about that as well. In terms of the HP contracts, we've signed contracts with HP to really start to co-create three very critical areas for us. One is orchestration. We can come back to that. Orchestration, I see, is a very big topic with a short-term and a long-term view. Second thing is shoring up our unified threat platform with the HP security knowledge. And the third is we did sign up for the analytics. So the analytics, we are now starting to roll out. We've taken a decision today on the first proof of concept on machine-to-machine using the HP analytics platform. So when you talk about 130 million in revenue going through the consumption-based model, you're talking about revenue that Phillips transacts? So you're talking about the budget that you're now using? No, for our budget. So taking budget that we were using either in the sunk cost in our own environment or a budget that was yet to be consumed that's now consumed by a consumption-based model. And you guys have an enormous IT budget, as I recall? It's a significant, it's who you compare it to. But the total amount we're looking at is about five or six hundred million of addressable spend that I'd like to put into this model. So you're moving very rapidly to that model. We've talked about this last time in August, but the majority of your spend is going to be in this consumption-based model over the next ten years, whatever it is. Absolutely. Okay, and now you also told us that many of your vendors didn't sign up for the model. I didn't say many. There's a few. Sorry, I said a couple of key ones I'll say. Has that changed? So this is interesting because the message is getting out there. They thought you were kidding at first. So I know that there are vendors today that use your video and cut to the point that I make very clear distinctions about ELAs and they're using it as sales training techniques on things we shouldn't be doing. Well, you're an awesome customer reference because what's happening is you're now basically coming public and saying, this is the consumption that we need to be successful. You're essentially defining your agenda, laying out an architecture and pushing that requirements onto the vendor community, which is a way to do it. So kudos for you. I think that's one of the reasons why I think that video for me and others I talked to felt compelled was it was just a very logical way to run things and I think putting out the consumption strategy of saying sign on the line that's dotted, this is how we work, is a great way to do business. That's very cloud-like. What I would say, which I think is very cool, is that the suppliers are now pushing it. The suppliers that are most successful in the model are pushing it. So there's one here, not HP but ATOS, and they tell me everywhere I turn up, they get four customers calling them after saying, hey, we want that too. So even the suppliers are now getting more and more enthusiastic because I think there was always a long theoretical debate. Is this the right model? But now they're seeing revenue coming in, they're seeing growth, they're seeing interest from other customers. That I think is, at some point in time, we're going to flip through escape velocity. It's a recognition of the inevitable. There's no reason why vendors can't make money in this model. Absolutely. The only thing you have to be cognizant of is that there is a transfer of risk from us to the supplier. So the supplier is better off when they have the scale of multiple contracts because they're taking a lot of risk. Yeah, if it's a one-off, then they're exposed. Well, there's always been shared risk. Now the shared risk shifts to a different platform. So I think, to me, companies either set up day four or they're not. And I think, if you're smart enough, you just figure it out and you'll know pretty quickly if you're set up for it. So again, that's why some people might be scared because it's a threat to their existing revenue lines. They're not set up for it, but HP apparently is, so they did do the deal with you. Yep, HP has done a deal with us, ATOS has done a deal with us, and IBM has done a deal with us as well. Some of them are finding it a little easier than others because I'll be honest with you, anybody who engages us for the first time is like, how do I sell this back at the base? And so I think there is, back in the corporate headquarters of these larger traditional companies, I think there's still a lot of soul searching going on, but we're certainly pushing ahead. But you had mentioned your large SAP shop, obviously, and I think you deliver now SAP through AON as one. Through ATOS and now through HP. So the SAP HANA as a service is coming through HP. Okay, so HP is part of that deal. And then you mentioned the risk. When you read Amazon's SLA, it's very clear that they're not willing to absorb too much risk because of the massive volume that they have. When you think about the public cloud, aka Amazon, will you allocate only certain workloads there or will you stay away from it because of that? No, so the compliance discussion has become very complicated, especially around privacy. So I think from an FDA activity, we're fine. We're absolutely fine on the public cloud, and we're still okay for a lot of privacy regulations. But I think we spoke about this last time, that's a moving target. So a lot of countries are trying to come up with very specific rules, and we're going to have to figure out whether that is going to require an adjustment. I don't think we're going to not use public cloud, but it may limit the choices of where and which. And what you put on it. Exactly. Okay, well so, I'm almost awestruck at this conversation because you guys, you took what was theoretical, what you just called theoretical, and everybody sort of knew this is the direction that the market was going. You said, all right, let's act. Let's act now. And the catalyst was your, I believe, CEO. Yeah, the CEO has been a big pusher of this. But also, you know, now in our health tech group, the CEO of our health tech informatics software services team is also a big believer. He honestly said, he said it in an interview the other day, I just cannot believe that we can make enough progress fast enough if we don't do it this way. So you were talking earlier about a data warehouse, I believe, an enterprise data warehouse. And you were talking about significant savings. We've seen in our Wikibon customer base, people have started to baseline their traditional EDW, trying to figure out what to do, playing around a little bit with the new stuff. It sounds like, again, you were a little bit more aggressive there. Well, I don't think we are aggressive yet because I think if you look at our strategy, it's still, we still have a very strong terror data commitment for enterprise data warehouse. And I think there are certain things that we need to continue there. There is a discussion opening up based on things that AT&T, for instance, are doing, that there are certain workloads that we believe can be used effectively in a more of a big data setting.  So in the grand scheme of things, do you really want to spend time on that when you're looking at a 90 petabyte challenge in the Internet of Things, in the systems of engagement? I don't know how much time you want to spend on that. Yeah, so what I was characterizing that we're hearing from our clients, accurate, in terms of applying to you, and trying to find innovation in other areas, is that pretty much? I think it is, and I think there's always going to be, or there is going to be for the foreseeable future a role for structured data in something like a terror data informatic or environment. But I think if you're looking at the future of the business, I think the focus is going to move elsewhere and it's going to move more outside the enterprise. And I think one of the challenges that we're seeing now, and this is my orchestration I think is going to be important, is we're moving more towards exponential organizations coming in. So there are 3 billion people now connected to the Internet. And I heard a story recently, if you give one Masai warrior in the desert Internet and smartphone, he has more information and connectivity than President Clinton had. Now if you imagine those people now starting to collaborate, there's a huge, I know what the word is, it's a phenomena almost, most people can collaborate with you or against you now. And so a lot of innovation is going to come outside of traditional R&D. So the point of our orchestration for me is not just the orchestration of individual cloud components, that's the first phase. Ultimately you're going to be orchestrating supply chains that are virtualized and then you're going to be connecting to these great new sources of energy and innovation with people you've never even heard of today. Wow, and then as you said, those systems of engagement start to span so much of that. So everything we learned today, I think in 5 years is going to be used in very, very exciting ways. Which way are we going to get started?  No, we use a lot of Amazon. So you're good with Amazon. Amazon fits the model. Amazon fits the model. Amazon is also changing in very positive ways. Amazon is also working on our health team on more specific stuff. It's not my major concern. So very much tailored around the digital health suite. But what I'm doing, I'm seeing Amazon move in very positive areas around compliance. They're really trying to get their head around it. But as a partner, they're very fast and they're also very proactive. Well, they brought up, I think Arlene and Irina, we talked about Germany. They just launched their new data center, Region, in Germany, in Ireland as well. You highlighted that in your interview. You brought up the EU-Ireland issue. And then boom, what happens? That domino fall. So again, great interview. What's new now on the big data front? Are you secure with your data? What's the security scheme behind it? Is Vertica doing it? So the big data discussion is still ongoing in the company and there are different views. What I'm looking at, the area that I control and that I can drive is, first of all, the security. And that's a five petabyte opportunity that we're looking at with Vertica today. The second one is we're using idle in our university. The third one is we're starting, as I said, machine-to-machine proof of concept. The Digital Health Suite platform is looking beyond that. They're looking at how that integration would be in other areas like using hoarding works, for instance, and stuff like that. So there's a huge discussion going on in the company that will, you know, work its way through in the next few months. But certainly I think there's enough work for us to do, even in the limited scope that we've started to work with. How about activities at the scope? I'm hanging out with a meeting of colleagues, sharing information with peers. I think you did some presenting. Give us the update. I did a session with Colin Mahoney and a session with Robert Young-Johns. And it's the same thing. Where does this go after this? Because even though I say what we're doing is exciting, but there is a second and a third phase five years down the road and it kind of starts now. As I said, how are you going to orchestrate more flexible supply chains? How do we, the big data, transfer into identifying new areas of R&D that could be in places we've never looked at before?  Those people are now connected. How do we identify those people? How do we make ourselves attractive as a learning ecosystem that they want to be part of? And the idea that for 123 years, Philips has been able to survive on its own R&D. Just like an HP, just like an IBM. I believe that the next generation is being an ecosystem of R&D. That's going to change, that's going to require a cultural change, but technology is going to enable that. And this technology is going to enable that. Great vision, great to have you on the Cube again. Thanks for coming on and it's always good when we do an interview and again, it's all about timing. Sometimes you do some great content. It just doesn't hit the right rip currents. It goes out and flies around. So again, timing of cloud, obviously with HP show here is a big deal. You're right ahead of the curve. Congratulations. And great to see you again. We're live here in Barcelona. This is the Cube. We'll be right back after this short break.


Here is a simple three step process that I use to stay happy in medical school. Yes, medical school is tough. You'll be working long hours, studying your tail off, and you'll be stressed and burnt out from time to time. But using these three strategies, I was able to keep myself happy throughout those four years despite working hard. One was having some form of exercise or workout that I would do. That way, even if the rest of the day was a complete failure, my exercise was done. Number two was having some kind of just chill session. The last thing I wanted to do was go from lecture right to studying. So I would spend 30 to 60 minutes going into something as easy as just watching my favorite TV show and catching up on the episodes that I'm behind on. And then finally, three, making time for my support system. When I was in medical school, I was living three hours away from my now wife as well as my family. So it's very easy to feel lonely, but instead I scheduled time every single evening, usually by the time my studying was done to go ahead and get on a quick Skype call with my parents or go ahead and just call my now wife and just talk about her days. Having these three aspects guaranteed every single day helped me one, progress physically and make sure that my body was in check. Two, just have some guaranteed chill time that I didn't have to feel guilty about. And then finally, make sure that my support system was always on my side. If you guys enjoyed these tips and strategies, make sure you hit that follow and subscribe to get more content just like this one.