To Hadoop Summit, this is the heart of Silicon Valley. It's kind of quieting down. This is the last wrap up. We have Coronas on the set. Actually, not endorsed officially a sponsor. But part of the placement, they could be World Bank. Talk to Jeff Frigg. You'll be happy to help. There's no official beer yet of the Cube. So we're always interested in being the could be your beach, ESPN of tech, you know. Cold hard facts, Budweiser, Corona, whatever. We love to drink beer, but not necessarily theCUBE. We're here to wrap up Hadoop Summit. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. John Krisa is in the house. John, welcome back to the Cube, end of the show. So let's talk. What happened? What's your take on what transpired? What went right? What surprised you? What came out of the woodwork? Yeah, yeah. So thanks for having me back on. Good to see you guys. So, great energy again at the conference, right? I think just sort of at the top level, we're super excited with how things went. As a host or co-host with Yahoo, tremendous attendance, great buzz at the show. I think there's a couple different themes that were coming through very clearly both in terms of what the sponsors were talking about, what the speakers were talking about. One overarching theme that was really very clear to us was that Hadoop was really crossing that chasm. It's really becoming that key component of the next generation data architecture. And that's really borne out in the presentations that we saw from the speakers here, both in general session as well as in the breakouts. Though that was one kind of core theme. Another is that Hadoop itself, Hadoop 2.0, is really going to be driven around the yarn architecture, right? And the fact that its yarn is going to enable a bunch of new kinds of workloads. It's really going to open up the platform for a broadening of how it's used in the enterprise. So we're very excited about that. We had the, there's an enterprise panel today, which you may have caught, where they were talking about the implications and importance of being able to run multiple workloads on that panel. And we heard it from an ecosystem panel we had today. We had a bunch of different vendors on the panel. And they were also talking about what it meant to their business in terms of being able to integrate more deeply with the Hadoop platform. I saw what you were talking to Herb earlier. We call it the yarn love fest. Which the reason I love it so much is because it's not a single vendor announcing a product. You know, we've got a lot of these shows and it's just amazing marketing and thrust into your face about this new product. So this is the community bringing it forth. And that's what's exciting to me, is everybody's happy about this. It's not just one single vendor leading the charge. You guys have said that. It was really, I think everybody realizes what the importance of that is. So we hear it a lot on theCUBE. We'll just share some of the highlights today. And I think the theme here throughout theCUBE was obviously the enterprise grade cut over the tension. Some people were poo-pooing it, saying they were enterprise grade before now. And what does that really mean? But ultimately, there's three major themes that are three major focus areas that people are all looking at. Obviously number one, engineering. People are looking for more and more engineering talent. Platforms under massive construction. There's a lot of demand for developers. The platform is out there. So being 100% open, having the platform be robust and industrial strength and be ready. Two, growth. Field sales force, consultancy. We had Silicon Valley Data Science on it. Consultancy Accenture guys. Two, companies training and subscription support. So a lot of field activity. A lot of sales, motions, kind of a growth. That's the business value conversation. And finally three, the third thing was the partnership angle. You mentioned the ecosystem. Both in the communities of the coders and also on the commercial side. So again, those are the three common areas. That seems to be where all the dollars are focused. You seen the same thing? Yeah, I mean I would agree with that. For example, there's 68 sponsors here at the conference, right? So just a record number. Huge growth off of last year. Just really shows the ecosystem rallying around this technology from a wide set of areas and up and down the stack. Everything from storage vendors, compute vendors, all the way up to the analytics vendors. So this is all here talking about and trying to talk about how they integrate with the platform, the importance of them, what they contribute to that as an ecosystem. And really the other thing that there were a lot of here were kind of I'll say more traditional enterprises, right? You saw practitioners, data management specialists, architects and like more than ever here trying to learn about Hadoop, talk about Hadoop, just get into the community. It's part of the growth that we're seeing in the conference. Yeah, and you know what? I want to just say thanks to you guys for supporting us here as a sponsor. We've had a lot of other sponsors support. I'll say Clodera helped us a little bit with Squirrel.  Just kicking in to support the mission of theCUBE. And I just want to say thank you for all your support. Thank you guys. Horton versus Ben, been a great company to work with. Certainly support theCUBE. It's the biggest CUBE stage we've ever had here. It's massive. It's massive. Denise, shout out to Denise. Hook this up again. But again, this is the way theCUBE works. And a lot of people are thankful for theCUBE. So just, they love the media coverage. They love the in-depth reporting from Wikibon and SiliconANGLE. So really appreciate it. Thank you for enabling us to cover it. You're welcome. And we love having you guys here. It's great coverage of the conference. It really amplifies and helps everybody get the message out to the community. Those who may not be able to join, they're able to check it out and sort of get the vibe and the feel from listening to you guys and talking to you guys. All the videos will be on YouTube. So you're watching YouTube.com slash SiliconANGLE. All the videos are on demand. I got to ask you, the only complaint I heard here in the summit was, it's freaking freezing.  It's like an air-conditioning, like cold blast of air. I'm the twittest for you. There's actually, I don't bring a jacket, you know? And I always look at the twittest, you know we mind the twittest. So I have the little, we have solar search on our platform about a year and a half now. Shipped that a while ago. We search for the word fail. There's only one tweet with the word fail on it. That's like, it must be 50 degrees in this room. That wasn't from Dave Vellante either. Yeah, that was one of you guys did it. Literally the only complaint. It was the only complaint we've heard, but a great show. You guys had a great execution here. Fantastic venue, a lot of space, a lot of networking. What surprised you? Good. I mean, I think generally speaking, just not a surprise, but really just the continued energy as things continue to grow and yet the energy continues to be there with the interaction of the ecosystem. And we had like a design cafe here this year, kind of one of the new things that we added. And that was a place where kind of the technologists who really wanted to dig into one particular issue could go and get together. So I walked by there multiple times and they're in there, kind of seated in beanbag chairs, somebody up at the board, you know, scribbling out some solutions. It was great to see that. And I think that just sort of shows, you know that there's still kind of the tech edge here around Hadoop and around the associated technologies. So that was really good. And I think just the overall feel and vibe. I mean, people were really kind of rallying around the technology and continue to drive it forward. There was a good balance this year. There wasn't so much, a lot of commercialization. When you had the vendors out here were in business to make money and create business value. Obviously, you mentioned the sponsors and the booths were very well attended. All the big names are here. But also there wasn't a land grab to try to commercialize the show. You guys had still stayed true to your roots to the developers, obviously the engineering side. Is that still the, was that part of the design? Yeah, absolutely. And it's still a conference for the community, selected by the community. We still have the track chairs and the committees who select the content for the session. So, you know, it's driven by the community. And yeah, we're going to keep it true to those roots and continue to drive that forward. You think so? You think you can fight off the suits for the commercialization by the only guy who can tie these things? There'll be plenty of hoodies around. Yeah, but you know, because here's the thing. So, you know, you go to these events and maybe a couple of years ago, a lot of tire kickers, a lot of people sort of, what is a dupe? We had the LA Children's Hospital on and he said, Mohammed said, I really heard about a dupe maybe like a year, year and a half ago. And here I am now, we're doing big projects, we're implementing it. We brought it to our research department and you're just going to see more and more and more of that. The numbers are just going to explode. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't think that necessarily indicates a change or a need for a change in the conference. I think, you know, this is the place where people who want to be in the know about what's happening with the dupe come. And it is the first and oldest conference and it will continue to be that and will continue to drive and keep that vibe. So we've already got thoughts on how we're going to continue to evolve it next year and keep it fresh and keep it healthy. A lot of these conferences start like, you know, the hardcore techies. I mean, you might be EMC world in the early days. It was just like, you know, a thousand hardcore techies and we do EMC world every year. It's just this enormous, you know, we're all, I can see similar things happening here. So you got to hang on, John. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're all, we're drinking beers here. Come on. We're all old enough to know. I mean, you know, the scene in these, the computer industry, for example, when I broke out of college, I was building out, watching an industry get built from scratch, really to me is really the most precious thing I'd say about this ecosystem, because, you know, there's always an effort to get ahead of your skis and over-commercialize and try to get that extra, squeeze that extra dollar out of it. What's happening here in Hadoop and in this inflection point that we've been documenting at theCUBE is, this is really an industry being created, a new industry. And the people, the tech athletes, as we say, they're building this industry. And to us, that's what's exciting is that, and keeping an eye on that, and that's our goal, right? And you guys have preserved that, so kudos for you. And to the folks out there that are trying to learn, this is an industry still early. Yeah. So congratulations. And it's hard to predict what's going to happen. I mean, there's been a lot of discussions that we were talking last night about, you know, how many distributions of Linux there were in the early days and how many there still are, right? And so it's a very, look at the database market, you know. Look at the ERP market, very hard to predict sort of what's going to happen, how it's going to shake out. And ultimately, John's always talking about business value. It really comes down to how you deliver business value. Yeah. You know. Some of the funding, by the way, that was big news. Obviously, we're at the Forbes post, but Rob and then Herb, we're talking about it, but I mean, what was the buzz of the show? People like, hey, congratulations, little fist pump.  I mean, is that you'd be respectful to the community? Little blog post, yeah. Just wanted to get the news out there. Little blog post. No, but you know. By the way, we got a $50 million in financing. Thank you very much. You didn't wait for the event to announce it, right? You didn't announce it at the event. You announced it before the event. That's right. Was that out of respect for the community? And you wanted sort of. I mean, we had other news coming. We just wanted to make sure that we got the news out there. People knew it, and then led into the other news we had. It's a big number. I mean, it certainly takes that rumor acquisitions.  Certainly, that changes the game a little bit and increases the price of the acquisition. That, as we were saying, thank you. And an option to be independent. I mean, that's a lot of cash. Yeah, I mean, I think we're going to stay true to our strategy, right? We believe that for Apache to do become the next generation data platform, we have to continue to contribute back to the community and continue to help that grow and make sure that Apache Hoops and Enterprise viable data platforms. Rob Bearden said something that really impressed me on this cube, and he's a very impressive guy. I won't be the first time.  But he said a comment, he said, we're here to finance. We want to finance, not necessarily pay for the community, but it's an investment, not just in Hortonworks, but the community. I think that is a distinction. I think needs to be pointed out that it's not a, I mean, it's self-serving on one hand, but at this point he's saying, hey, you know, we're stewards. We don't mind making an investment. You saw that with Intel, like early days in the computer industry. They were financing a lot of the ecosystem indirectly, in some cases directly. Right. I mean, there's no doubt that the work we do kind of lifts all boats at some level, but you know, we understand that. It's not going to change our strategy. We're going to continue to invest in the community and continue to work and contribute everything back to the community, because, you know, that's what it's going to take to make this technology grow, make the market grow. I'm sure Rob would have said that, you know, that we want to make the market happen as fast as we possibly can, and this is the way to do it. So what's next for Hadoop Summit? Obviously to get the European tour wins, that those dates are those guys who want to sign.  Well, all right, we need one of those, John. Yeah, very handy. So, I mean, that's it. You know, this is a wrap. It's been a great event. We'll take a short breather and then start to think about the next event, which will be Hadoop Summit in Europe. So we're very excited. Haven't sorted out the exact date, but it'll be kind of in the end of Q1, the early Q2 timeframe. And that'll be a great event. And then at some point, we'll also start thinking about the next Hadoop Summit. In fact, it's a great idea. So while we're here, let's wrap this up. Let's go right to the wrap segment. Dave Vellante, I want to ask you, Dave, as an analyst, you've seen a lot of the events this year. Now, so we've covered the four seasons of the Q. What's your takeaway from Hadoop Summit this year? Well, again, to me, John, it was about the practitioners that were here kicking the tires, you know, year, year and a half ago at Hadoop World and events like this and other conferences that are now actually implementing their driving business value. We're seeing, you know, it's going to be interesting to see if Merv was on, that was one of the highlights for me was Merv's first Gartner and let's ever on the cube, the real cube desk. We had a couple of drive-bys with some analysts before, but Merv's point was, you know, history, they were destined to repeat the failures over the past where, you know, IT is sort of, you know, not embracing some of these new trends. I'm not so sure this time around. I actually think, you know, in talking to a lot of the practitioners here and other places, I think they are embracing this new movement and I think that we are going to see much more of an alignment between IT and business and I think we're seeing it already. So that was actually one of the surprises for me that I took away. The other is obviously you're seeing a whole new wave of co-opetition in this industry like I've never seen before. I mean, it took, you know, a decade plus for a Linux to emerge as it did and it's not going to take that long in my view for, you know, this whole Hadoop community is not, you know, nearly as long and you're seeing, you know, interesting relationships being formed. I think you're seeing the old line, the traditional IT suppliers really embracing this now and, you know, adopting things that perhaps they would have fought before in the past and they're just trying to figure out ways to move up the stack and add value. So those are two of the things that I really, that stood out for me, John. How about you? Well, I think to me the big, I mean, there's a lot of different conversations that are all on YouTube. We're going to go back and look at the tape. That's not technically tape, it's disk at this point but I think to me it's pretty clear. If I read the tea leaves, it's a call to arms in the community. You're seeing the emphasis here is on the platform. I think everyone is realizing that, hey, we got a row in the same direction. Our boats might bump into each other. At the end of the day, it's not high tide yet. The tide is coming in, it is a high tide and it will float all the boats, but it's not there yet. The platform needs to get to the finish line. That will increase a massive amount of development in the development community. I call it the general purpose mainstream developer community. That's not there yet. I think to me, Dave, my takeaway is that was the theme. Enterprise grade is just kind of a buzzword to highlight the fact that there's massive demand and right now more than ever, the community needs to kind of stick together around this mission of get the platform out there and win. The second observation, Dave, is that the solutions that people are talking about that's at business value are not what people think they are. They're different, they look different. We heard obviously about Omni channels, meaning there's now multiple different channels but transactional interaction and kind of emotional data. That's just an analytics framework and that the startups are going to look different. It's not going to be your grandfather's computer company. It's not going to be that software company and that's going to probably confuse the capital market. So I'm seeing that as the solutions are going to be different, but unique and compelling and that's going to be a challenge for the investment community and it's going to be a challenge for the big companies to figure out where they fit. Newtonics, for example, they're disrupting the HP, the IBMs because their box is essentially I call it Facebook in a box. They're building the DevOps, God Box. That's not a switch. It's just a different type of solution. So again, the solutions might not look the way people thought they were. So platform and the business value is going to look and be a little bit different. So it's going to make, create more confusion but at the end of the day, this is a massive growth opportunity, massive opportunity for new solutions, new wealth creation. So I'm really optimistic. Well, and I think the disruption is actually going to be quite substantial and I think companies like Hortonworks and Cloudera in particular have to be very careful with the way in which they position because they've got big partners but I think that these big partners like Microsoft, like Oracle and IBM and others, I think they see the disruption coming. I think they realize that you can't keep shoving all this money into the container, as we like to say, that there's all kinds of innovation around that. So you see the platform companies being very careful about how they position it, it's coexistence. I think it's going to be a lot more disruptive than that. And the reason I say this is because when you go inside of IT organizations and in enterprises, you're seeing that tension, you're seeing the organizational disruption. So I think there's a big tsunami coming that we haven't really focused a lot on because I think that we're trying to be balanced here. But I think it's going to be really game-changing. The other thing I want to point out on this more of an inside baseball instead of open source community is that I think for the first time in open source history, you're seeing that the smoky backroom deals that go on and kind of the brokering of which projects get with traction, who's got what is going to be changed because the fud that goes on in competition, the fear and certainty and doubts that's generated by different players and depositioning others, whether it's a big guy or fighting for the leadership position, it's all out in the open. And what's really interesting with theCUBE here is that we get to hear all the stories. And I think in the open source community with Twitter and with social media, everything is out in the open. And that's why I think our point about the standards bodies being the communities is really a big deal because now if someone's throwing mud at another vendor, it's public. We had a lot of folks on theCUBE and it's all out there. And you know what, that's good. I like that. I think it's going to be fair game.  If they want to play that way, if they want to be nice and be a good citizen, that's going to be noted as well. So I think that's an interesting dynamic. We'll see how that plays out. Yeah, and I think the, no, I always talk about cloud, mobile and social. I think that has changed things so dramatically. And that's a three new variables into the equation that we didn't have to deal with in the past. Everybody likes to look at history and try to project forward. But as we know, past is not prologue. And there are a lot of variable dimensions that we haven't seen before that I think are going to make this really exciting. I'm thrilled to be here on theCUBE covering it. And as we're saying this, I'm reading the top secret documents from the government, from NSA on the Guardian website. So, I mean, there are no more secrets. John, what's your take on all this? Oh, I mean, I think it's, I think you're right. I think the pace of innovation is, you know, sort of outstripping even what proprietary industry can do is in the open source market. And I think it will be disruptive. I think it still remains to be seen exactly kind of how and where the disruption occurs. But, you know, there's definitely disruption occurring and there's definitely a movement. You know, Hadoop has sort of cemented its place as at the center of the kind of big data revolution. And now we've got to just see how the whole ecosystem plays out around that. Well, and too, I want to add, you know, because when we say disruption, we, a lot of people infer from that, okay, it means that old line vendors are going to get crushed. And I don't see it that way. I think companies like Oracle and IBM and EMC, I think they're really smart. I think they got a lot of cash and they will spend that money.  They don't want to be the next deck prime, Wang, DG. They understand that they killed those companies and then their legacy says that they have to survive. And I think they will. But one, the other thing I wanted to add, John, is security. That's another big theme that we've heard. And that says to me that Hadoop is really coming into the enterprise. And I think the other thing is that business value is going to trump a lot of those security concerns, but security is going to have to really move fast to keep up. It's coming. I mean, it's exciting. It's exciting time. This is theCUBE. John Chrysler, thanks for having us again. Shout out to the team. Denise, thanks for having us as well. The entire Hortonworks Yahoo teams as well. Mark Hopkins, Kenny, Alex, Jeff Kelly. Thanks, and all the sponsors out there without the underwriting support to allow us to do our independent analysis and bring theCUBE, we would not be here. Let me give a quick rundown. So obviously Hortonworks, you guys, the anchor sponsor, you really appreciate that. Squirrel, Nutanix, H-Streaming, Cubool, Cloudera, Teradata, WAN, Disco, Adapt, MapR, and Splunk. Really thank you so much for your support in allowing theCUBE to happen. And again, John, thank you for having us here. And thanks to Hortonworks for hosting this. Thanks, Dave. Great job, guys. That's a wrap to Hadoop Summit 2013, Silicon Valley live here in San Jose Convention Center. We'll see you next time. This is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE, Wiggy Bomber, but we'll see you in the next show.


Cabbage grows well in many areas of Alaska. One favorite way to use cabbage is to make sauerkraut. I'm Julie Cascio with the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. By definition, sauerkraut is acidic cabbage. It's the result of natural fermentation by bacteria in cabbage in the presence of 2-3% salt. Lactic acid is produced during this fermentation. This lactic acid, along with other byproducts of fermentation, gives sauerkraut its characteristic flavor and texture. Research on food preservation is an ongoing process. The United States Department of Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension Service continuously apply new research findings to their recommendations for food preservation techniques. The guidelines in this module may be revised as additional knowledge is gained that may increase the margin of safety or improve the quality of home-preserved foods. Consult your local Cooperative Extension Office annually for updated information. You may do this through telephoning us, through looking for our resources on the web, or through our publications. Let's talk about equipment needed for making sauerkraut. A one-gallon-sized container is needed for each five pounds of fresh vegetables. A five-gallon container is the ideal size for fermenting about 25 pounds of shredded cabbage. Food-grade plastic and glass containers and lead-free stone crocs work well. Other 1-3 gallon non-food-grade plastic containers may be used if, lined with a clean food-grade plastic bag, be certain that foods contact only food-grade plastic. Do not use garbage bags, trash liners, or plastic buckets not meant for food use or that have been used to store non-food products such as cleaning supplies. You'll also need a knife and cutting board or food processor or a mandolin to slice cabbage, a tamper such as a wooden spoon or a plastic potato masher, canning and pickling salt, a scale, a large mixing bowl or pan, a measuring spoon, and then you'll need something to weight down the cabbage.  Let's grab our cabbage and get ready to slice it up. Mature, large-headed types of cabbage, weighing 6 to 15 pounds with a solid white interior are the most desirable for sauerkraut. Red cabbage may be used, but the color changes during fermentation and not everybody likes what results. Work with about 5 pounds of cabbage at a time. Remove the outer leaves and any portions that don't look very good. Anything undesirable. Wash them and then drain them, which I've already done. Cut the cabbage into quarters and remove the core. Then you're going to cut it into thin shreds, either using a mandolin, a shredder or a knife. We're going to start with a mandolin. You do have to be careful. You're using a tool like this not to get your fingers close to the blade What you're looking for is uniform shreds of cabbage and you want to get them about the thickness of a quarter. If you have larger shreds of cabbage, pick those out, put them aside. You can use those later for cabbage or another kind of cabbage dish for coleslaw. Having shreds of cabbage that are the same thickness is because of the fermentation process. You want them all to ferment about the same length of time. So they all need to be about the same thickness. Sometimes you'll have to cut up some of the cabbage toward the end so that you can use the nice pieces. You can also, if you don't have a shredder, just use a knife and cut all the shreds from your cabbage by hand. When you add the salt to the shredded cabbage, it causes the juices to be extracted from the cabbage. This juice contains fermentable sugars. The microorganisms present on the cabbage leaves will, in the absence of oxygen, use these sugars to produce the lactic acid. The acid is then what preserves the cabbage. It's very important to use the correct amount of salt when you're making cabbage. Less salt will cause the cabbage to spoil rather than to ferment. So if you want a product that has less salt, you still use the same amount of salt while you're fermenting the sauerkraut.  And we need just a little bit more cabbage in here. We're looking for five pounds of cabbage. The proportion of salt that you need to the cabbage, five pounds of cabbage to three tablespoons of salt. When we've gotten a little bit more cabbage, we're going to measure it out, taking out our larger pieces. Sometimes, depending upon how you're holding the cabbage, you can see how this one is really thick. And since it's the rib of the cabbage, you really need to make sure that it's thin enough. And again, these can be either used in your compost pile or used for other cabbage dishes that you don't need to ferment, such as coleslaw or cooking it on the stove with some nice sausage. Good things to eat. See how much cabbage we have. Let's see if I can do this balancing act so the container doesn't fall off of my scale as I'm putting the cabbage into measure. Okay, we have just about two and a half pounds. Okay, and we're going to add this to cabbage that we already have measured, which is another two and a half pounds, into our large container. We're going to mix this five pounds total of cabbage with three tablespoons of salt. And I want this to be measured properly, so I'm going to use a straight edge and sprinkle it all around. My cabbage. And then mix it thoroughly. After I get this mixed thoroughly, I'm going to let it sit for five to ten minutes for that wilt to occur so that the natural juices again come out of the cabbage. While we have been waiting for the cabbage that had the salt mixed into it to wilt, I've also chopped up some other cabbage, shredded it very finely, and I wanted to show the difference between cabbage, this is five pounds of cabbage with three tablespoons of salt added to it and how this is beginning to wilt and this is five pounds of cabbage that has not had the salt added to it yet. A salt that we've had wilting the longest is in this container. We're going to transfer it to a suitable fermentation container. Firstly, ferment. In smaller containers, if you have smaller amounts of cabbage, and later we'll show you the quart jar method for fermenting cabbage and making sauerkraut. Right now we're going to go through the method for fermenting cabbage, large amounts of cabbage in a larger container. Take that down, but in the meantime I want to get this cabbage started wilting. So again, our method is the same. Notice that in this cabbage we have some darker pieces of cabbage from the outer leaves and these outer leaves they're not going to hurt anything but you need to know that at the end of your fermentation process the darker green cabbage will be a darker color. It's nothing bad, it just means that the color is different. Since we have five pounds of cabbage we're adding three tablespoons of salt and mixing it thoroughly to set aside to wilt. Now this cabbage that's wilted we want to press down. We can use a tamper it's made for that purpose a wooden spoon or in this instance we're using a nylon potato masher. Notice there's some metal here I do not want to touch the cabbage with the metal I only want to use the nylon for the plastic part. Metal can interfere with the fermentation. And as I'm packing this you'll notice that the juices are beginning to show up. It takes some energy. So the strong person in your house is a good candidate to recruit for this part of the method. And we're going to repeat we've already done the shredding as I've mentioned. We have some cabbage that's wilted and we work with five pounds of cabbage at a time and layer it. You get a better opportunity to get as many juices out of the cabbage as possible. Cabbage that's fresh out of the field you will find that it doesn't take as long for it to wilt and that you will get more juices. If you purchase cabbage or take cabbage that's been stored the juices take a little bit more coaxing. You even need to add a little bit of sugar to help those juices be made more readily. You can use your hands as well to press the stone. This glass or this plastic container is fun. Glasses too because you can actually see the layers that you've put into the container. I'm going to continue pressing this and we're going to wait while the next part next layer of our cabbage is wilting. If the final batch of cabbage is less than five pounds adjust the salt. One pound of cabbage needs one and a third teaspoons of salt for proper fermentation. Since we have two pounds of cabbage in this container we would add two and two thirds teaspoon of salt. Right in this container we have four five pound batches of shredded cabbage. So it makes the cabbage. The cabbage should be covered with one to two inches of liquid. And here we have when we press down on the cabbage because it likes to float to the top of the juice. We can see that there's about oh and three quarters of an inch of juice on top. If that's the case, if the juice doesn't cover your cabbage or there's not enough you may add some boiled and cooled brine. The concentration of this brine is one and a half tablespoons of salt to a quart of water. Do not add plain water as this will dilute the salt concentration that's necessary for proper fermentation. There's two methods of covering the cabbage and waiting it down to keep it underneath the brine and I'm going to show you both of them. The first one that I'm going to show you you cover the cabbage with a thin white clean cloth you want to tuck it down on the sides so that any floating tendrils of cabbage are caught underneath and after you get the cloth tucked in on the sides you place a plate a flat object that just fits beautifully inside the container and then you want to put a weight on it and the weight needs to press the cabbage down underneath the juice. That's one of the methods that you can use and the weight could be weight like we have here it could be jars filled with brine that are seated on top just so that it's heavy enough to keep the cabbage underneath the juice. The other method that I want to show you uses a plastic bag and brine you fill it with brine in case there's a leak in the bag. Take your plastic bag I don't want to lose any of this wonderful juice the brine concentration is the same and because we need more brine we use a gallon of water to 6 tablespoons of salt. Replacing it on top of the fermenting cabbage and getting it all the way out to the sides you may need to adjust the amount of brine that you put into the cabbage or into the bag so that the cabbage stays underneath the brine in fact I think I'm going to add a little bit more liquid to this bag but the idea to use the thickness of two bags just in case the one that is actually holding the brine gets a puncture in it get the air out tie it securely in this instance we could just zip it shut the filled bag seals the cabbage from exposure to air and prevents the growth of film yaster molds it also serves as the weight the bag should be of heavy weight, watertight plastic and of course be food safe do not use plastic garbage or trash bags the amount of the water in the bag as I mentioned can be adjusted watch as you have the sitting and fermenting for bubbles rising inside the fermenting liquid this shows you that fermentation is occurring a room temperature of 70 to 75 degrees is best for fermenting usually takes from 3 to 4 weeks to completely ferment though it may work slower if it's kept at cooler temperatures hotter temperatures can be a danger and you can have more spoilage than actual fermentation taking place if you weigh the cabbage down with a brine filled bag as we're showing here don't disturb the container until normal fermentation is complete and usually bubbling seizing tells you that that fermentation is complete if you use the plate and weight method the first method that I showed you check the crowd 2 or 3 times a week and remove any scum as it forms now that I've shown you how to prepare sauerkraut in large containers I will show you the quart jar method you start by preparing the cabbage in the same manner as for the large container method using a grater or knife to ensure uniform slices combine with the salt in the same manner that we previously demonstrated then after allowing the cabbage to wilt you pack it tightly into sterilized jars and as you're packing you want to leave a head space of 2 inches takes a little bit to get to that 2 inch space because we'll start with 2 inches but as we pack it of course it gets compressed quite nice and juicy and this was about 2 pounds of cabbage so as you can see that these liquid on top of the cabbage is about 2 inches of head space between the top of the liquid and the edge of the jar you can either do one of a couple of different methods in order to keep the cabbage below the brine pack a clean cloth into the head space to keep the cabbage in the liquid and then put some kind of a weight on top of it or you can use small plastic bags filled with brine and use that to keep the cabbage I'm going to use that method today and pour the brine in using the double bag method. I like the brine filled bags because I think that it does a good job of keeping the cabbage submerged I want to make sure though that it fits snugly into all the corners so that no air gets inside remember we're looking for an anaerobic environment another option which you could do because the brine filled method is to take the bag out have the cloth inside put the lid on top of the rim of the jar and put a band around it and tighten it not so tight or not too tight but tight enough to keep air out again we're looking for that anaerobic environment let it ferment 6 days sometimes it takes a little longer if you have cooler temperatures in the room where the sauerkraut is working until the liquid has a chance to settle and the bubbles no longer rise to the surface this sauerkraut has been fermenting for 4 weeks at 70 degrees fahrenheit during the first week bubbles rose to the surface and broke during subsequent weeks bubbles continued to form but not as actively they just kind of sat in the sauerkraut now that the bubbles have stopped fermentation is probably finished another indicator that fermentation has stopped is color change from opaque and white to golden yellow and translucent smell it it should smell like sauerkraut and then taste it to check for characteristic flavor we're going to remove the bag there's been sitting holding our crout underneath the brine take a non-metallic spoon or utensil it tastes like sauerkraut you may notice residue on the inside of the container this is salt sediment left behind from moisture evaporation it's not going to hurt anything fully fermented crout may be stored in the refrigerator in the freezer or on a shelf after being canned in the refrigerator sauerkraut can be kept tightly covered for 2-3 months sauerkraut before storing it in the refrigerator can use any kind of non-metallic container and scoop it in this particular container is a freezer container you can check that by the package the words on the package we want to make sure it has enough juice and we're going to have to add a little of the brine that we have cooled in on the side so we have enough brine to cover this can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 months as long as it's kept tightly covered you could take your original container and put that in the refrigerator depending upon whether you have enough place in your refrigerator for it to store set that aside and put it in the refrigerator a little later to store it in the freezer pack your crout and juice a lid plastic moisture vapor proof freezer container a glass jar leaving one and a half inch head space for expansion or in plastic freezer bags make sure that you mark the freezer bag or the lid of your container with a permanent marker say the date frozen indicate that it's sauerkraut because when you have containers in the freezer it's sometimes difficult to distinguish where they are and you can store it in the freezer for best quality no more than 8-12 months for canning the sauerkraut place your boiling water canner on your heat source with enough water to cover the jars by at least one inch crout can either be hot packed or raw packed to hot pack empty the crout from the container that it was fermented in into a large heat source and bring it to 185-210 degrees that's a simmering temperature do not boil we'll be back when our crout has come to a simmering temperature we're going to pack our hot sauerkraut into our hot clean jars up to a half inch head space and we'll put in the juice to fill in those holes a little too much if we get it too full the problem ends up being that the juice will run over the edges and very well can compromise the seal we do need to make sure that we clean the rims of our jars as that liquid brine can be very sticky then we're going to take the lids that have been softened according to manufacturer's directions about two minutes in hot water and add the lids that will keep the rings on that will keep the lids from popping off during the processing we'll add our hot liquid hot jars to our boiling water and the boiling water bath and as soon as that comes back up to boil we'll add our timer for the correct processing time it's important to start the processing time when the water comes to a boil jars should be processed for 10 minutes when they're pint jars and 15 minutes when they're quart jars after the processing time has elapsed, remove the jars set them upright and allow them to cool and when they're cool of course we're going to label to raw pack, pack your clean jars with one heated and liquid leaving a half inch headspace again this time you're going to start with cool water in your canner and bring the whole thing to a boil start your processing time again when the boil comes up it will be processed 20 minutes for pint jars and 25 minutes for quart jars if you have fermented your cabbage into sauerkraut you will pack it only using the hot pack method so we're going to remove the brine filled bag from the top that has held the crout underneath the brine during the fermentation process we're going to put it into a pan of cool water up to the rim of the neck of the jar and we're covering that pot and putting it on our heat source we're going to bring that to a boil for 10 minutes alternately, if you wanted to take it out of the jar you could pour the crout into a container and put it on the heat source again though you want to boil it for 10 minutes this is different than what I told you about processing with a hot pack for sauerkraut that had been processed or fermented rather in a larger quantity with the one quart jar method that added measure of safety of boiling the liquid and the crout together for 10 minutes before you place it into the jar then you will follow the hot pack procedure so now we've gone over three methods of storing your sauerkraut you can either put it in the refrigerator in a tightly covered container store it in the freezer in a freezer proof container or make it shelf stable by heat processing it and storing it on the shelf when the canning process is complete and your jars have cooled for 12 hours check the seals by tapping the jar lids if some jars did not seal reprocess the unsealed jar lids using a fresh jar lid reprocessing must be completed within 24 hours alternatively you may freeze the contents of unsealed jars or refrigerate and use within a couple of days rings may be removed from the jars when the cooling process is complete and you've checked the seal label your jars with the date the processing method and processing time and of course it's good to put the product on there too sometimes when they sit on the shelves for a while you may not remember what's in each of those jars store your canned goods in a cool dark place for best quality use sauerkraut within a year people often have questions about spoilage in sauerkraut spoilage of sauerkraut is indicated by undesirable color off odors and soft texture if your crowd has spoiled here's some things that may have gone wrong soft sauerkraut may be due to insufficient salt uneven distribution of salt or air pockets caused by improper packing measure your salt accurately mix it well with the cabbage to get rid of those problems and pack it carefully and be sure to weight it properly to get rid of air pockets pink kraut is caused by the growth of certain types of yeast usually it's on the surface of the kraut these yeasts may grow if there is too much salt again if there is an uneven distribution of salt or if the kraut is improperly covered or weighted during fermentation rotted kraut is usually found at the surface where the cabbage has not been covered sufficiently to exclude air during fermentation scum may also form on the surface this scum does not cause trouble as long as it's skimmed off before it stops the fermentation process remove it every day or so for spoilage which occurs on the surface you may be able to remove the spoiled kraut and use the rest molds that grow on the surface of kraut can change the acidity making it susceptible to spoilage microorganisms that are harmful molds grow best when they get some air try to keep the kraut container air tight check your kraut often for mold and quickly remove any that you see darkness in kraut may be caused by improperly trimmed cabbage that's the darker green leaves give a darker color in the kraut that's not bad but it also may be due to insufficient brine in the fermenting cabbage exposure to air or a long storage period in the kraut after fermentation is complete may also result in darkened kraut another cause of darkening may be high temperatures during the fermentation stage processing stage or during storage these are some ideas on what may have gone wrong with your sauerkraut if spoilage occurs


A minute and 40 seconds to guess, 10 shoes blindfolded. This is the blind running shoe test. Let's do it. Onward and upward, onward and upward to the year 2020. Isn't that crazy to say? Like 2010 wasn't that long ago, but together we've just lived through a decade on this earth. And now we're about to cast out into the 2020s. I think it sounds kind of cool. It's got a nice ring to it. But before we get to 2020 and talk about, oh my goodness, goals and races of 2020, I wanted to take a vlog today to reflect with all of you on the moments that we've shared here in the studio. And there's been so many. There's no way I could put all of the best moments into one vlog. But I went through over the last like hour and a half, just kind of picking out some that jumped out at me, some of the top five moments I would say that I experienced and was able to share with all of you here in my shed. That's right. And for everyone that's new, this is where I record the end of the vlogs where we talk about training philosophies, running shoes. We do live streams in here, running shoe giveaways, all sorts of different opportunities to grow together and become hopefully better runners together. And at the end of the day, at least what I'm trying to do is just be a better person here on this earth. So that's what we're up to today. And we're going to kick it off with adversity in running and on YouTube. That is the title of the vlog from probably about 11 months ago. It was a tough day. Roll the tape. And what really, really is frustrating is that a half hour before the live stream goes on air, it's working and then it stops working. And then it just freezes. And I get this spinning wheel of death that you see on your screen right now. And it just will not connect well. So I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to give up. And that is the keyword is perseverance. The keyword for today is perseverance. Cause I'm just, as you can tell, a little perturbed, a little perturbed. And it makes me frustrated because you are carving time out of your schedule to sit at a computer, an iPad, a TV, a phone and just to love is here. Good M&Ms. That's sometimes all it takes. Oh, the keyword is perseverance. Amen. I'm going to advance with the capital P. The capital P. This man right here. Oh, we're trying. You're doing, honey, you are doing so good. So. I'm sorry to interrupt. I just had this. That's okay, that's okay. I was like, yes, never, never give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never. It's a revolution. Oh. Honey, it's a revolution. Sorry, it's so tight in here. You can see what might happen. That's right. True love came out to save me after a live stream failed to work. So frustrating. I think we're now in a good rhythm. I think we've done five live streams in a row with no technical difficulties. It's very good. I'm very excited about it, which by the way, next live stream, just note your calendar right now. Shout out to everyone in Africa and Europe. The next live stream is going to be noon, December 31st, 2019. December 31st, is that a Tuesday, Wednesday? Anyway, it's next week, noon, my time, which is about six PM-ish depending on where you're at in Europe. So my hope is that everyone in Europe can hang out here in the studio, December 31st, 2019. Okay, so it was a tough moment here in the live, here in the studio with getting the live stream up and running, but it was all about perseverance. And isn't that what this running thing is all about? Like, I've got the knee injury right now. Oh my goodness. I had the foot injury before the Cleveland Marathon. Like, oh, one, it's a perseverance pays off in so many ways in life, really. And for those veterans out there, you know what I'm talking about. For those that have had a career or career changes throughout your life and you're just finding your way, you know, like, oh, putting your nose to the grindstone sometimes really does make a difference. So there you go, adversity in running and on YouTube. And the next one is a little more light-hearted. That's right, we have good times here. And Too Love came out to help me for this one as well. The blind running shoe. 40 seconds, a minute and 40 seconds to guess. 10 shoes, blind folded. This is the blind running shoe test. Let's do it. For 10 seconds? No, you just let it run to a minute 40. And do you want to stand back here so you're in the shot?  And I'm just going to drop on it. That's going to drop on it. Get set, go! Oh my gosh, Nike, Bill Bowerman, Myler's shoe. On Cloud X. Sock and E, nope. Skechers, razor three. Oh my gosh, you're amazing. Oh, Solomon S. Lab Sense 6 SG. What's your question, Nick? On Cloud. Hoka, Hoka, Clayton, Hoka Clayton, two. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.  Nike, Pegasus 35 Turbo. Oh my gosh, you're amazing. He's amazing. I know, these are where I've never seen these in a while. Thanks so much for hitting me. Okay, there you go. So I was blindfolded, so fun, trying to discern what shoe I was holding in my hand. An amazing time. I think I got like eight out of 10 right, if I remembered correctly, but it was a good time. And the next vlog that jumped out at me as far as what we did here in the shoot-io has to be actually the sign is sitting right there. You know what it is, the 10,000 subscriber vlog with Luke. Luke is a vlog fan from Indiana. He's been watching for a long time. He was visiting Denver and it just so happened when he was in Denver, we passed the 10,000 subscriber mark and through thick and thin, we kept going, we kept going and Luke, they did something. That's from Luke. No. That is from Luke. Look guys, Heather. Isn't that amazing? You read my mind. I told him, I wanted to make you a day got away. It was busy. It was busy. This is the best sign I've ever seen. Congratulations and onward and upward. And oh my gosh, look at him go. Oh my gosh. What did I say? Congratulations, Papa. Congratulations, Poppy. Thank you, buddy. Congratulations. Thank you. Basically, no, it's a sign. What? We're just getting started. We're just getting started, YouTube family. Okay, there's not much else I can say today, but I will say one thing real quick. I almost quit. I almost quit 600 vlogs in and we're almost, I think we're heading toward 1200, so about 600 vlogs ago, I almost threw in the towel. I was done. I was tired. I was a little burned out and I said, you know what, maybe this isn't gonna work. So the message from that vlog and that studio time is hope. There is always hope. And I had uploaded for three and a half, no, three years straight, three years straight with less than a thousand subscribers and that's fine. But then somehow we started to find you runners out there and YouTube started to feed these videos to other runners on YouTube and the channel began to grow and it was really hard at the beginning. Anything in this life worth fighting for is probably gonna be hard. And sure enough, getting to that 10,000 subscriber mark, I'm glad, I honestly, everyone, just so you know, I almost gave up legit. Like talk to true love about this. I almost gave up on this YouTube channel at least three, if not four times where I really, really was about to throw in the towel because it was just so hard. It was so hard to do it every single day and nobody was really watching. Like there were a few and shout out to the original people. You know who you are who've been watching a long time. We're talking like over three years ago but it was just hard to do it every day when each vlog is getting 50 views. But I'm glad I stuck with it and thank you for sticking with me. So okay, moving on to the next one. We are going with the mental side of running alone. It's a good topic. It was a topic that struck a chord with a lot of runners out there. So the mental side of running alone, roll the tape. When you approach peak fitness, it gets easier. Running gets easier. And how does that connect to running alone? Basically, you start to have more fun. And I really mean that. Like running should be fun. I know it's hard, but the more fit you become the easier in quotes, a little easier it becomes. And yes, I believe the more fun it becomes. And frankly, in this world, the world we live in, like we need a little more fun in this world just like good, healthy fun. Because sometimes the stresses of money or politics or whatever else is in, oh, hold on, or light's going out. I don't know.  So anyway, I just, I lean into the goodness of disconnecting and of running and and and. Okay, there's no bike involved. There's no rope. There's no kayak. There's no nothing.  And I love that simplicity. And that helps me when I don't necessarily want to go run, which is very rare. In fact, it hardly ever happens, but it's taken years to build up to that. All right, there you have it. Peak fitness really does make running alone more fun. Because I get it. Not everybody can run in a group. And so that's why I made that blog and it struck a chord with a lot of people. Thank you for watching it. And at the end of the day, it's like patience and consistency equals great fitness. And yes, I just like from, and again, shout out to the veterans. You know, when you're at a high level of fitness and running becomes easier, it's fun. It's just, I don't know how else to, I don't know what else to say. Like you go faster, your legs turn over easier.  So anyway, that is video vlog number four, studio time number four, that I'm gonna give a shout out to. And last but not least, this one really struck a chord with a lot of people. It has over 150,000 views, marathon training, the two hour principle. If I had to go back and re-film it, I probably would, because there's some additions that I would like to make to that video because it's done so well. But roll the tape. To your training vlog. Two, two hour training sessions throughout the week. So maybe it's a Sunday, Thursday, okay? Where you're hitting a two hour training session. Now we're just gonna keep going here. There's so many benefits, it's insane. But to the steady state aerobic training is that at longer intervals, it improves our pulmonary ventilation. The lungs become more efficient because they develop more active pulmonary capillary beds. You've heard me talk about that before, which enables our blood to absorb oxygen faster and more easily. How crazy is that? I do my best to educate myself on these topics around exercise physiology and around our own anatomy because why? It gives me confidence. And it gives me peace of mind when I arrive at the starting line in Amsterdam to know that I put in the work. There's nothing else I can do. If I put in the work, I trust the science. I trust the studies that I've read that okay, there's nothing else to do but to put the shoes on and let it rip because I believe my blood is ready. My lungs are ready. Not quite yet. I've got a little more work to do, but anyway. So I hope that helped at least paint a little bit of the picture behind why I train the way I train that two hour plus window is just that sweet spot. Butter my bread, butter my bread. Arriving with confidence at the starting line. There's nothing like it. Unless you arrive with too much confidence and too little experience as I did in Amsterdam. Like I felt confident. I felt fit. I had applied the two hour principle into my training a lot going into Amsterdam. And I went out in 10650. It's like, so I had to rain it in a little bit but I'm telling you, arriving with confidence at the starting line there's just nothing like it. So that is the last studio shout out from 2019. There's been so many and I know I'm missing some. Therefore, question of the day. What is one of the most favorite moments from the studio or from the blog that you remember from 2019? It could be in the last week. It could be in the last, you know, it could be six months ago. Anytime from 2019, is there a moment that we got to share in here together that really struck a chord with you and hopefully helped you become a better runner. All right, so that's the question of the day. Thanks for reflecting with me on 2019 here. I just love this time of year because it's like turning a page, learning from the past and looking to the future, to new goals, new challenges, new opportunities to push ourselves to new heights. Boom, that's it, that's it. All right, all right everyone. There you go. I'm gonna toss it back on the right too. The vlog from exactly one year ago from late 2018, that'll be on the right. And then on the left, I'll toss it back to the 10,000 subscriber vlog. Oh, just, oh, I can't believe it. Oh my goodness. Seems like a lifetime ago, but it was not too long ago. All right, there you have it everyone. Seek beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow.


Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in trigger con 2023 one of the suggestions I get almost all the time whenever I come to a convention like this is people want to see budget guns, and I'm surrounded by high-end $1,000 plus handguns rifles shotguns you name it, but SDS imports has the t-sus PX9 gen 3 and there are three models that I want to show you they are Very much budget price. They all come in at a different MSRP, but I have some experience with the PX9 I had the gen one performed great a lot of people loved it the gen 3 has some improvement as well as a couple higher-end models With optic ready options and so forth. So let's go ahead and get after it and you can let me know what you think Let's start off with the most basic T-sus PX9 gen 3 this has iron sights only serrated black rear sights and A front dot four and a quarter inch barrel One of the things that they offer are additional back straps and side panels much like HK Okay, custom fit the user's hand size also. This is an 18 round mag But in the case it chips with a 20 round mag and these are P226 Compatible so you have 226 a sig the way I do You can use those mags makes it pretty nice has a pick rail on the dust cover I think I mentioned four and a quarter inch barrel the triggers are pretty nice That's one of the things I noticed with gen 3. It has that red Trigger bar some people call it a dingus or whatever, but the trigger pull feels to be I would guess Between four and a half and five pounds. It's a nice trigger pull with a reset not really an audible reset but a It's pretty smooth for a budget handgun right around $280 I think they offer a ton for the money Nice handgun, but let's move on to something with a couple more features One step up from that is the px9 duty threaded. It's got a 4.8 inch threaded barrel same trigger pull which I'm telling you that's a pretty nice trigger pull 18 round mags One of the things I didn't mention is these come with a trigger guard holster in the case along with the 18 and 20 round mags this has a 3 black rear sight one third Co-witness with the fiber optic front sight and why does that matter? It's optic ready It has it has a direct mount optic system there cut to fit a rmr footprint Clearly, it's flat dark earth It also has a flared mag well, so you're getting a larger gun for all intents and purposes with the barrel length and Optic ready. It's in flat dark earth Sure, they have other colors with it, but this is what they're showcasing here and the longer barrel length MSRP you're looking at around $380 you guys wanted budget guns and this has a ton for the money and that's considering the the side panels and backstraps Why am I speaking this way? Well, I mentioned in the Opening that I have some experience with the t-sus px9 the gen 3 one thing that I'm noticing is the trigger And the additional options especially optic ready so popular these days and if you're not into it You don't have to use it. You know a lot of people tell me I'm I'm not there yet Well, I say be careful because they are addictive, but for under 400 bucks This is certainly a nice pistol this one here really excites me. It's the px9 night stalker Sericoded in platinum gray. This is the top dog in the px9 gen 3 line Not only does it look cool But it has those lightning cuts in the slide as well as on the top strap But it also has a tritium front dot serrated black rear much like the one I just showed you that is a one-third co-witness also a 4.8 inch threaded barrel so you get the slide cuts the optic ready direct mount RMR footprint and the tritium front dot You're looking at right around 450 bucks and that's including the Side panels and back straps that could be custom fit to the shooters hand size Okay, much like HK. I always say much like HK, but it's becoming more and more common the trigger once again I'm telling you guys like right around four and a quarter four and a half pounds is my guess But it has that short reset budget priced considering, you know a direct direct mount extended barrel slide cuts looks cool Shirt functions great 18 and 20 round mags once again a little trigger guard holster offers a lot for the money And that's what people on this channel wanted is Something that is in the working man's budget the one thing that excites me is the threaded barrel You say why why does that excite you you have other guns with threaded barrels? Well, that's true But I have a can coming in I kind of got lucky on something I'm going to share it shortly, but I have a I have a can coming in I'll be able to enhance a pistol like this and show all the capabilities. So instead of just saying it's a threaded barrel I'll be able to shoot it suppressed and Perhaps it'll add a little bit more content to what the capabilities are Along with an optic that I already have picked out So I had big plans with this the longest short of it is you're going to see this thing on the channel again because I think it's great right around 450 dollars offers a lot and I Just find it an impressive handgun Offered by t-sus the px-9 gen 3 night stalker So those are the px-9 gen 3 models made by t-sus imported by SDS imports They are budget priced offers a variety of options and so forth, but I've shot the gen one. I'm really looking forward to get my hands on the gen 3 and showing you guys What it could do. It's going to happen. Hopefully very soon, but I like what they offer I like the price and I think that They offer a lot for the money and especially some of those optic ready models for under 350 right around that price is pretty good. 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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have here with us Mr. C.H. Venkatachalam, the General Secretary of All India Bank Employees Association, A.I.B. Welcome to NewsClick, Mr. Venkatachalam. Yeah, how are you? I am good sir. Today we have read in the news that government has announced more than two lakh crores of capitalization to the Indian banking sector, probably public sector banks. So, as a bank employee and a leader of bank employee employees union, what do you think is going to be the impact on the banking sector? This is that way a welcome measure because we have been demanding. See, the point is that banking sector, public sector banks are totally connected to economy and its development. So, if our economy has to develop and grow and progress, naturally there is a link between the development in the economy and the progress of the banks. But banks, there is a crisis now in the sense that number one, banks are not able to lend more because there is a problem of capital. And why there is a problem of capital? Because banks are earning profit but everything is going diverted towards bad loans provision. So, there is no capital and their capital adequacy ratio is coming down. So, they are not able to lend. So, that's why we have been fighting two things. Number one, the government should take effective measures to recover the bad loans so that the banks are not required to provide more and their capital adequacy ratio is not adversely affected or the government should keep capital so that the banks can do business. So, that way, I think one portion, we know the nexus between the government and the people who have taken the bad loan is not that easy for them to recover rather they pamper them, they give all concession for right of. So, at least this and now they are coming forward. Let's hope faithfully, sincerely they will give this capital and banks will be able to use this money for productive purpose, for agriculture development, for small scale industries, employment generation, education, infrastructure like that. Again, this money is also, government has been telling, 2013 it has been given to some people by the previous government. So, if the government also will give loan to all types of people, same will be in square one. We hope it doesn't happen, but to that extent it's a welcome measure. Is the amount declared enough to capitalise the banks, adequately capitalise the banks? It is not enough at all. We need more than four lakh crores, 50% of that, that two in two years they are telling. But in the meantime, there is no hope or possibility that bad loans, the NPS will be contained. If again bad loans will be increasing, again whatever capital they give, they will be getting eroded because of more and more provisions. So, this is only one step. This loan is not going to help unless it is also simultaneously corresponding to that followed by recovery. That is where the real weakness in the banks are now. The banks are not able to recover because the economy is not doing well, somebody deliberately shitting. So, that also government has to keep in mind. This is okay, but this loan is not going to solve the problem. We may be again in the same deep trouble after one year or so when whatever has been given will be siphoned out because of more provisions. So, this loan is not enough. Real problem is recovery of bad loans. Talking about the economic recovery, government linked this recapitalisation of the banks with economic recovery, especially of special lending to MSME micro and small enterprises. How is it going to help because in any way there are norms for priority sector lending. Is this new lending going to be additional to the existing priority sector lending? There is nothing new that can be anticipated. The economic development pattern, we know that earlier also and now also, the same pattern will continue. It will benefit only the rich people. With all that MSME, whatever they say, ultimately only some section of the top rich affluent who can afford credit, they will be benefited. Incidentally, some it may go to the real needy people. For example, agriculture, we need more money. Hardly 30% of the needs are given by the banks. Even in Tamil Nadu right now there is a big problem in southern district. Some children have committed suicide by burning themselves because they are not able to repay the loan or interest. So, when that is so, unless these loans are given with a particular project in mind or purpose in mind. Again, it is like a corporation water tab. It will get leaked out. It will go to somebody. Purpose will not be solved. Their intention is to revive the economy. But we know how the corporate people, how they are manipulating. They are not taking loan. They say, you give us further concessions. Then only we will take loan. That means the cost of lending will come down and to match it, they will reduce the cost of funds. That means ordinary people who are saving the money, they will not get the return. So, the burden will be on the poor people again, ordinary people. So, it's a vicious circle. Basically, government must follow a pro-people economic policy. They are talking of only reviving the GDP numbers. Simply, GDP increase doesn't mean people are economically better off. Because the bulk of the portion of the GDP benefit is high fund out to the big people's benefit. So, it's not going to solve. They will show numbers of development. GDP is going from 5.7 to 6.7 like that. But if people will continue to suffer, let's hope that they change their policy and do something good for the people. Let's hope. As you said, banks need about 4 lakh crores of recapitalization. But government so far has announced only little more than 2 lakh crores. So, is there any particular reason behind it that government wants to shut down some of the smaller banks or do the merger of bigger banks? Is there something like that? Yeah, quite obviously. Quite, you are right. Quite obviously. That's also an agenda that they will strengthen big banks, close down to small banks, merger. And that is the thing now.  Big banks by themselves do not mean that they are good banks. We need good banks, those banks which will help the common people. What is the purpose of big banks? That means, the risk is more. We have seen in America, elsewhere, very big banks, they have collapsed. So, India cannot afford to take the risk at this moment when already we are in crisis. So, I think the government is trying to take a big risk in making the bank bigger. We need good banks. We need effective banks which can help the people. In the sense, the real economic revival, agriculture must be remunerative. Job generation is very important. Urban living should be better. Retail consumption should be matched with production. Industrial development is also equally important. But they are going round the boatway. So, I don't think this is going to help us. Rather, this is going to be risky. Big banks mean definitely risky. Mergers is not warranted at all. We need expansion. Expand the banks. Open more and more branches. Give more loan. Our GDP ratio is hardly 47-48%. Yesterday, I saw somewhere a report. In other countries, it is 100-110%. China, they say, 147%. So, under the banks, we will give loan for production. How there will be production? And then it will go to the people. Prices will stabilize. So, now these loans are all helping only speculation, not stability. Thank you for giving us your time. Thank you, Srijana. Thank you. Thank you for watching NewsClick. Keep watching us on NewsClick.in.


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I'll read your legends welcome to another reddit video Yeah, I said I was gonna do another one and um... Ah, July! Ah, that sounds about right, yes. So, let's see what you crazy people have been up to on the rabbits. On the rabbits? Reddit, reddit, reddit. People when there's a new hybrid. No, no, stay with me. Don't leave me. Yeah. Me seeing another car car, we're getting ready for the millionth time. I mean, there's a reason. It was fully an eloquent summary of Beaver's Isle experience. Does anyone have the video of Mini Beaver filming the camera go in the toilet? Wait, what? Oh, you mean from the... Oh, what was that? Darn it!  Wait, it's not on there? We're about the deadline. Was it deadline? Did deadline have it? Yeah, there they are. Look, T-Rex tribute and Triceratops tribute 13 years ago. It's just like three days grace. T-Rex tribute. Why can't I have a go? Because everyone at the time was just making these videos of... It was just like... I remember just googling going, that looks cool, that looks cool. I think, do I put some effects on? Or is it just all like fade-ins and stuff? Yeah, pretty much. There's probably not... There's probably other... Oh, look at this. Yeah, I thought that was funny. Oh, look, a man. There's some of these. Okay.  Yeah, yeah, look at this. This is 2007 Google search result for T-Rex. I remember Ody Rock On sent me that one. Yeah, that's probably not a T-Rex. It's probably like an allosaurus. That's from Turrock. Another one from Turrock. Is that like in the middle of the video? That's why I chose that thumbnail, because you couldn't pick thumbnails back then. Jesus. Yeah, that is definitely not a T-Rex. It's like a saurofaginix or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, it's just... That's all this was. That's it for now. Right after this. Oh, there we go. I think that was a little on the music. What song was this? Music Three Days Grace. Animal Eye Have Become Yeah. I'm not playing that because I'll get copyright strike. I'm like, because it's a little when it kicks back and I'm like, right after this. Do it anymore. T-Rex. That, I think, is from the Natural History Museum in London, I think. I think it's still there. Yeah. Is there any pictures that I took? I can't remember. Yeah, look at that for a PNG. Beautiful. Look at this. 1.5 million reviews? Views. What's the most recent one? Newest First. Oh. Oh, but one of the oldest comments two years ago. Who came from the Game Beaver? So I'm still having an effect at two years ago. There's got to be a jump. Here you go. You're getting like five comments a year now. So this was before me. This is how I found out that this swerve had watched my old videos. Look at this. Look at all these people. It'd be so funny to see like somebody who's a verified account now on one of these comments and like a really big YouTuber. The first one 13 years ago. Awesome. And then somebody replied a year to 12 years later. Check out the Game Beaver. This guy probably doesn't have an account anymore. He probably doesn't use it. This was even more successful with 2.6 million views. My God. Why did this one do so well? This I think is still three days great. It's 1x. Yeah, yeah. It could be a start of tributes but you can never know. I said I was like, oh, these are doing good. Oh, this one has 200 less comments though. Christ on a log, it's still around. I learned a lot about seratopsis from that image. You're welcome. It was all me. And there it is. The first comment. Love it. Thank you. Thank you, Wolf Prince for inspiring little baby James to make these videos.  Like 13 years ago. I was like 16. I was 16 when I made this. I was in high school. I was going to say I can't really read that but apparently according to this must be from a forum post for Jurassic World Evolution 2. It says you can choose the theming, Jurassic Park or Jurassic World in sandbox mode. Yes, if you're on PC, PS5 or Xbox Series X. You can mix eras. But if you're on PS4 or Xbox One you'll need to choose one or the other. But why? Why would you do that? That's so weird. Why? Is there none of space? Oh, that's weird. Okay, well there you go. Some more Jurassic World Evolution 2 news for you. Breaking news. Karko was bought by Xbox. Karko machine. Mechanic simulator. Oh, I see where that guy was coming from now. It's become a thing. Oh, yes. More Kinder Eggs. Ah, I see. Ah, more Karko. Yes. Yes. This is very good. Very good. This one sparks joy. This one does not spark joy. That should have been around when it was happening. And neither are used anymore except for Induraptor 2 and Gen 2 and Raids, I think. The beard. Did James forget about this channel? No. I didn't forget about the beard. Just... I don't have one anymore. I can't believe it didn't cry June Titanic. Two mana feelings. Yes. Hey, look. Somebody picked up that I actually changed my channel banner. Karko on the source. Karko on. Karko. Kaa. I don't know if you got in the game, but just remember the words Ian said when seeing a dinosaur for the first time. But congratulations. Point of view. You are Beaver. And heading to Frontier Headquarters. Thanks for getting in the game, Frontier. When Beaver realized he was in the game for not seeing it. Freaking you. Is Game Beaver as intrestable level 2? And he didn't notice. It's got 153 upvotes. My God. So this is what I wanted to actually mention and talk about. Yeah. I'm not actually in the game. The reason why I didn't react to it was because it wasn't me. If I find the footage and I'll like fade me out. It wasn't me there. In fact, if you look closely, when the menu comes up. Can't be bothered to. I could have done it, but I couldn't be bothered to like mask me out.  But then it wasn't until editing. Oh, sorry. Once I recorded, I went downstairs and I was talking to Whitney about the game. I was saying that there's all these like scientists who just faces are just like. I mean, the font was easy. It was just like Ariel bold or something. It was just like a simple font. So it's easy. I just had to change two things. A picture and then my, you know, the actual name itself. It worked really well. And actually everyone was like, he's legit in the game. Oh my God. I felt kind of bad for it in the end. I was like, oh no, legit people are starting to think I'm actually in the game. Even Evo squared. I think she made a video. The gaming beaver is a scientist in the game. That is such a fun detail. Oh no. But she did later. I think somebody told her that I wasn't legit. And I think she posted on Twitter, which is why I retweeted it. But I wanted to, I was like holding up for this video for the thumbnail and still be like, I'm in the game. But frontier, if you want to put me in the game, I'm all good. I'll do it. I mean, the main reason why I think, not just me, any YouTuber will be in the game is because if it was this, if this was Frontier's own personal project, then I think even at a push, it would be quite hard to get me in the game. I'm not asking for it really. It would be an honor to be involved anyway, at all.  Enough. But to be in the game, I think it would take a lot for Frontier to be like, you know what, we'll include somebody in the game.   Which I can understand 100%. Even if we jump through those hurdles, those hoops, if you will, there is still the biggest elephant in the room, and that is universal. Universal have to give the green light to everything that's in the game. So chances of me actually being in the game, Frontier, maybe, very slightly, maybe, but universal? Nah. They'll just, they'll be like, nope, not doing that. Well, anyway, I think. We'll see. I don't, it was just a joke. I'm not holding out hope that I will be in Drosteville Evolution. As though it was a fun little thing. I didn't expect so many people to think it was legit, but some people clocked on to it right away. But it took a good few days for I think everyone for it to circulate that I wasn't actually in the game, and it was an editing thing. They do that all the time. I don't like putting things into the videos. And I was like, it would be funny if I just was like, So I found like an old picture of me and I was like, perfect, use that one. So there you have it. I've spoiled it to so many people. I'm so sorry. But I'm not in the game, unfortunately. This is how Lydia treats hybrids in Drosteville the game. Another carnival. It should just be everybody. All the other ones down there, because that's pretty much it. It's just all terrible. I mean, this is pretty much at this point when this game came out or my footage came out. It's just all going to be this on the subreddit, isn't it? Beaver, how in the world you didn't realize that you were in added to Drosteville Evolution 2? I've made Beaver on the game before, but I like a Frontiers version. Wait, were you maybe in the game before? What? No way! Somebody predicted it before I even did it. I hope Frontiers add Beaver as a researcher in Drosteville Evolution 2. And that vote, because it took me two hours to make this. Oh, wow! I had no idea! Oh, I remember Dragon Riser Burke.  Now that I don't have it anymore. Beaver's killed man in Belarus. Incident is the latest in series of Beaver attacks on humans in the country, as animals make comeback following hunting paths. That is not true. Oh, no, it's real. A Beaver has attacked a 60-year-old fisherman in Belarus, slicing an artery and causing him to believe to death. Sorry, believe to death. It was the latest in a series of Beaver attacks on humans in the country, as the rodents of razor sharp teeth have turned increasingly aggressive after wandering near homes, shops, and schools. What an artery in the leg! Or something. Like, how?  Like, how does a Beaver just get him from behind? Oh! Oh! In Belarus, in the Soviet Republic between Russia and Poland, the Beaver population has tripled in the past decade to an estimated 80,000 according to wildlife experts. This caused Beavers increasingly to encroach on populated areas. The Belarus emergency services said they were received a rash of reports of aggression by Beavers, which can weigh up to 30 kilograms and stand about a meter. Yes, when we compare it to this, then yes, I can see how a Beaver could kill a man. That's like it's really on its tiptoes to do that, and most of the time they're hunched over about one foot. Okay, wow. Okay, I didn't realize that was a real thing. Well then, resty a soldier, you've seen too many car car memes. Oh God, I didn't realize it got to this state. Stop it! Naughty! I just need to post this dinosaur as a receptionist somewhere. Yeah, that's the dinosaur hotel in Japan. Oh man. That is definitely one place I would go to when I'm next in Japan, which is whenever like this COVID thing is going on and like Japan's having a really big problem with COVID at the moment. But yeah, I would definitely like to see the dinosaur hotel. Now, I did see this in Jurassic World the game. They made a park and it was Camp Cretaceous forever as you can see. And I and Kylo saw which makes sense because it's bumpy. Bumpy's not in the game. Otherwise it probably would have been bumpy. You also have Stegosaur which was in the game in the series as well. But then you have Spino. Are they really bringing, because we've had a Spinosaur park now. We've had a Spinosaur's Camp Cretaceous toy itself. Hold on. Hold on a second. I've got it over here. Spinosaurus for this. And then you've got the Camp Cretaceous thing. So it's like, is it a coincidence? Are we getting Spinosaur in season four? And if we are getting Spinosaur, is it a case of like, well, Spinosaur won't be in Dominion, but here it is in Camp Cretaceous maybe. I don't know. I don't know. It's interesting to see a stop motion animation thing. Oh, that's so cool. Oh, wow. Nice. What is this from? I'll tell you. I'll tell you what that's from. That is from ages ago when maker was a thing. Because I was actually partnered with maker for a while. There was a thing called the Civil War. I feel like the future of modern warfare is in the militarized dinosaur. And there is only one channel that seems unhelpfully obsessed with dinosaurs. And his name is The Gaming Beaver. And it was like, it was two teams. It was angry Joe and I think Total Biscuit. And I was on Total Biscuits team. There was like, it was a whole roster. It was like, when football clubs pick footballers or whatever like that, and the NBA, God knows what, where we all just stand on and then like, they were like, I was going to be picked for a team. And then it was like, I think it was live streamed or something. I just remember I was like, I'm part of this. It was like, all these other big YouTubers in it, and I'm part of it. I was a really cool time. I remember that was when the first, I was like, wow, I'm actually part of something. This is cool. Five minutes up to people logs. I'll allow us to introduce ourselves. Buggers. Whoa. Oh my God. We had bumpy before bumpy was a thing. I never, I never noticed that. Yeah. That's crazy. We actually had a bumpy in Jurassic Park builder. Why have we never noticed that? Surely somebody, well obviously this person noticed it, but, oh my God. Yeah. That is weird. Exactly. The same yellow, the blue, the white nodules on top. That is weird. Also, we have a car car city in the Philippines. It's in the Philippines. Wait, not only is in the Philippines, it's in Cebu. Oh my God. Maganda forever. The virgin car car. The charred invisible Draco Rex. But we don't have Draco Rex. I am invisible. How can they do my boy allosaurus like that? That's amazing. That's like that pretty little, what's it called, the green T-Rex thing I had. Oh my God. People, when he explains the survival plan in the aisle, me that knows he's going to die straight.  The audience would be to start singing. Well, you don't like it? You don't, you don't like me singing? Out of all of those, the most painful one, I think was probably either the suko, like the Subrax killed by suko's, or the trike, because I was like, I couldn't do anything with the trike. And it was literally, I was stuck on the sign. I just had to wait for it to come and kill him. I was like, yeah, I'm done. But then the Subrax killed by suko's was really bad, because I thought I had it. I was like, nah, I can easy take these guys on. I didn't, and I died. Oh, yeah, that was it. Is that where it was baited by a joker cat? Yeah. I remember now. He added me to the group, and then when I finally went to find him, he just killed us and ate us. Oh, that joker cat. Yeah. I know you love it.  You do. I know you do. Deep down, you really do. Another friendly Kano invite. James the Kano that traveled the hall. I did a travel so far, psyched tonight. It was so bad. I hated that. I had a feeling. I was like, he's not being friendly. He's just walking around.   Get out of here. Get. Get. They're clever, you know. They're clever, you know. Oh, that was funny. I had a good chuckle at that one. Nice one. So we're going to start looking at Delta. No. No. No. The dinosaur human hybrids. Could you imagine that she went with that? Well, guys, that's going to wrap up the Reddit video. No more damn car car memes. All right. Good. All kindre. We'll pass that now. That's old. You don't want to be cringed. Anyway, guys, if you enjoyed the video, leave a like. Until next time, I'll see you be with babies later. Oh, buh-bye.