Good morning guys and welcome to a new vlog. Started the morning off a little rough because of hyper. Okay so I slept in a little bit to like seven which isn't that so much sleeping in but she's used to getting up at five. So Sherrily had to go to the bathroom but I wanted to stay in my bed and let her out. Didn't have the leash and then she peed on the floor. Uh not all the way because I like grabbed her and I was like put her leash on. We're okay. She got a lot of energy this morning.  Like I like to stay in my bed you know like I like to relax but with a dog like you have to like let it out and I don't I don't like that part and I also don't like the part where sometimes she like pees in the house. Not about that either and sorry that camera's all like foggy. We're just going for our morning walk where she goes to the bathroom pees and poops. She's about to poop I think at least I hope. On my way to cycle bar now I'm like almost kind of almost there. I'm probably like 15 minutes away now. I always forget actually how far this location is for me but I really wanted to ride Jin's class. It's been a hot minute since I've gotten to take her class. I just wanted to pop in for a ride and I'm actually on my other camera because I put the little strap on so I can just like put it on my shoulder. I find like carrying this thing is like the most annoying thing but if I can just wear the camera then it'd be easier. So today I'm going to downtown with some friends which is going to be pretty fun. As you guys know like downtown isn't like my most favorite activity but I'm with people so like I'll be safe and won't be end up murdered or date rape drugs. It's been a hot minute since we have gone downtown so this will be pretty fun. I don't know if any of my school friends are coming but I invited them so that'll be exciting. Also too I'll be really tired because like my sleep has just been like everywhere. I've also been contemplating do I sell like my big camera to get like the newer Canon G7X? I don't know. I feel like I just I use my G7X so much now. Number one for photos. Number two for vlogging actually because if I just want to take my belt bag like I'll just vlog on my Canon G7X and that's totally fine with me like I'm a lot less picky now and not like I have to use this camera because I have it I don't know because of that mindset like it made me not like vlog as much because I was too worried about like a freaking camera but I don't care if it's on my phone my G7X that has dust particles in the lens I don't care about all that but I'm not going to vlog with like that giant camera and I never do like sit down videos anymore and if I were to do a sit down video it would definitely be with this camera what even is this I forgot what camera this is shoot the Canon M50 I'm like how can I forget the name of this camera because I like use it quite a bit the Canon M50 with a 11 to 15 millimeter lens for like the wide angle if I were going to do a sit down video it'd probably be on this so like I don't know I'll have to talk to people I always get like my parents and my friends input if I'm going to be doing something like that because basically I would use the money from that to put down on my a new Canon G7X Mark 2 I think I want to go with the Mark 2 because the Mark 3's are just like I just have heard like not so good things about them so I'd probably go for the Canon G7X Mark 2 and the Mark 2 is like um a little cheaper I would think than the Mark 3 that's where I'm like I don't know which one to get I'd probably have to do some research but yeah I just think I would get more use out of the newer Canon G7X than I am right now on like that giant camera that I am not going to use like I haven't used it in like more than six months like and that drives me crazy also to like this Louis Vuitton bag that I have I've been contemplating on selling it too and I'm like do I sell it do I not I think I would regret if I sold that so that's why I haven't sold it but with the camera I don't think I would regret it because I'm putting it to a new camera that I would use a lot more that would fit in my bag that's where I'm at right now on thoughts okay we made it on time it was good because there was like two traffic backups and I was just like oh my goodness what's going on am I gonna make it and they charge you if you don't make it so that sucks but it's like I can't predict traffic people like come on now I'm just gonna put up the hairs I'm gonna get into class now got the Starbucks after the ride and now I'm gonna head home it was kind of nice I don't know why it's like so dark but it was kind of nice that I got to live my old routine in a way but now I'm gonna go back and I think we're gonna go to the dog park hyper absolutely loves when I roll down the window for her she sticks her little head out she's living her best life man we are on our way to the dog park we made it to the park and yeah we're just living our best lives hyper loves to chase things oh she sees a butterfly and there she goes okay so this is what I'm wearing tonight I'm carrying my Louis Vuitton favorite as well but yeah pretty casual but still cute in case we like take pictures and stuff like I wanted to wear something cute and this gives me an excuse to wear this dress because I have nowhere to wear this dress honestly and comfy shoes curled my hair and did my makeup wasn't gonna do this but you know what I was like fuck it like I'll just get ready because I had some time on my hands anyway I did some chores and then I didn't do anything so yeah I had time and then this is what the back looks like and yeah so we're gonna get on the road to go to downtown pretty soon but I just want to show you the fit I did a get ready with me tiktok so head on over to my tiktok to watch that I can't post it on shorts here because it's more than a minute so it kind of sucks but guys here are my friends melanie and auntie's here gots the drinks red wine look that's a balancing act right there what'd you get auntie uh dancing queen oh that's what I get what'd you get melanie they'll yell at you if you eat inside so you kind of have to just eat on the side of the curb so that's what I'm gonna do now I just wanted to update you guys then because they ordered on like the little top order with you and she was like yeah I'm gonna eat now so last night was so much fun um we just went around two at different bars downtown a couple my friends did karaoke which is so fun and then we were just walking right and this guy was like do you girls want free champagne like you all look so good tonight or whatever I don't really know what he said we're just like yeah and then got this like special I don't know like it looks like a place where you can reserve for like parties and special events I don't know I felt like Sierra Fortuna because we got to like go in this little like box and then they served the champagne which is like actually so cool and it was free so that was a plus as well and it was called room 22 in downtown and then we went to other like little bars and stuff we went to karaoke went to Robinson and then like a few other shots I guess so it was like super fun and we just like drank hung out they sang and that was pretty much it then we got Taco Bell after and oh we also went to chillers it was another bar overall it was like such a good night haven't had it that good of a night in a bit like you know going out downtown Piper's here chilling with me she missed mom because I got up super late it's like 11 um and also guys look at this like hairdo I thought I could never pull off like the slick back ponytail but the thing is I my hair is like dirty so it actually lays flat and I don't have like a bunch of like wispies and it doesn't look like half bad I mean maybe reviewing this footage it'll look shitty but I don't know gotta get ready for Piper's grooming appointment soon and I want to get some photos off this SD card because we took some photos on the Canon G7X okay so I got some Starbucks I just got the espresso drink because I need some energy today um we're going over to my family's later to celebrate my aunt's 50th birthday so that'll be fun and now I'm heading to pick up Piper from the groomer and I did come to the conclusion I am going to sell my big camera I know I've been talking about that I am going to sell it and get the Canon G7X Mark II now when is that gonna happen I don't know because I need to like research how much to charge and like how much the lenses should be as well so that'll update you guys oh my goodness there's my gorgeous girl oh I absolutely love it when she gets groomed because they blow her out so beautifully look at her coat it's coming in so nice oh my god she's the most gorgeous doggy ever aren't you aren't you yes gorgeous anyway also got some dog treats here but for now we're just gonna head home all right guys so I am actually going to end this video here just because I want to edit it and get it up for you guys because it's been a minute since I posted a video so I don't know if I'm gonna start a new video I might start one tomorrow but I don't know I just haven't I haven't decided but anyway if you enjoyed this video it was super fun give it a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video bye


On day 10 of the 50th Street inaugural tour, at last, it's the land of Oz, Hyattop Beach Mountain in North Carolina. And a visit to Elsewhere Gallery in Greensboro, the thrift store of the lost. A complete series of videos and interviews will come later this month after the tour is over. Meanwhile, follow 50th Street for tour updates every day.


Like this, it's like I put on a flash pod and I can take that off and then all of a sudden I can do this, you know, maybe I don't have to un-equip it, is that the key? You don't have to un-equip it do you? Probably don't. I get used to using these things. Okay. You don't have to un-equip. Okay, that's what it is. You just have to hit shift. I think that's why I'm confusing myself because I think I have to use left click to issue the thing. It's actually a different button. It's shift for me, but it's probably different for you guys. So I can go shift. Swing, swing, swing. Boom! Gym chat. Come on, Jim. Come on, Jim. 6th star, the Hunter Raytheon. Yeah, you should SOS that. I sold a whole bunch of Dragonite. I probably shouldn't have. I had like 300 Dragonite and I sold 200 of it because I was really, really desperate for money. Tom. Alright, Jubilis, we're helping you. Let me craft this.  I just got the gym. Second try. Woo! Last time you joined my session, we had DCs. I'm going to try to join yours, I guess. Yeah, actually it's easy to join mine. It's easier to join mine. Let's see if this patch actually did some stuff. Yeah, go ahead and join mine. I'm going to go make this Legi on the mail. You can join me on Steam, too. You know that, right? I am logged in on Steam. I should be. Yeah, I am. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Forge equipment. Give me that chest piece, plus. Legiana, Legiana, Legiana, Legiana, Legiana. There we go. Right here. Boom! Yes, equipped now. Hey, we kind of did it. Alright, I missed bow gun. So, the next thing we're going to do after we help Jubilis, we're going to start... I'm going to keep using bow to do this, but... That guy's eager. We're going to... I got to pick out an armor set that I'm going to use for heavy bow gun, because I don't know what I'm going to use. Or armor pieces, I should say. Not an armor set. Just go ahead and post a quest when you're ready, Jubilis. I'm pretty much just... derping around right now. Oh, can I... Wait, I got to upgrade this chest piece one second. Hold on. I got a little money. Whipped. Whipped. Yes, level one. Let me upgrade this real quick. I think I got them up to... five? Yeah, let's do five. This one is... Oh, that's seven, actually. I got them up to seven. That one's five. That's seven. Let's do this one. Can't do this one, seven. Ooh, there goes the money. This is why I sold all that stuff, because I want to upgrade my armor pieces. It was starting to eat up all my money. Alright, I'm joining. Hold on, I'm joining. I'm joining. Optional, right? Alright, we're doing... Rathian? Alright. I think it's Rathian. Oh, haha. Oh, that's not the camp. Thanks, game. Haha! Alright, we are fighting a... I hear this screaming. Wait, what? Wait for the scout flies to make up their mind. Where'd he go? Man, they're fighting. That's a lot of screaming. Hello? Scout flies, please. I can't navigate this place. I tried to, but I rely on your scout flyness to lead me back to camp, to tell me I went out the wrong exit. Here we go. Oh, that's what's going on. Oh, there's three dudes. That's kind of hilarious. Haha! Kind of crazy. Look at that gravy. Who are we fighting? I'm assuming this guy, because everybody's over here. I was like, why am I getting such crappy numbers? Still not that good. We're going to pop ourselves some dash use. Try to run out of stamina.   Now you like the maples. Rathian. Lollipop. Pay attention to the quest then. You'll still get credit, even if you don't find... And honestly, you don't have to find a single footprint to complete this.  But I wish I would've realized that on the PS4, because you don't have to find a single footprint. I could've used another gem game, just for funsies. Alright, 2K. Oh, I'm 45 now. Nice. Update the title. Getting them hunter ranks. 49 is going to come really fast. I'm going to be like, we're going to take a little break from progression, and we're going to just do other stuff, because Kieran awaits. You know, Kieran is kind of one of those things you have nightmares about. You have nightmares about them, chat. I'm going to go with my tail writer real quick. Then Jubilis can queue up again. I need animancy, that's true. Mr. Cloth. And we're selling the rest. Wow. Deploy. Bonkers. I actually don't care that much. Timber Kieran, I'm not ready for that fight. I think I could beat them. One day. One day. What was I going to do? You're at 49. You don't have another rating quest? What about investigation? It has to be in that area, right? It doesn't? I thought it did. Okay. I was wrong. Okay, that's why I was thinking that. It's only for the Elder Dragons. We can just do any high level quests. Okay, just do any high level. Make sure it's high level. If you do find yourself not able to catch my stream live, I encourage you to follow my YouTube channel, youtube.com. I'm uploading my archives of various games. I'm going to be adding more soon. In the form of 30 minute episodes. We upload an hour per day. And I've got videos queued from all the content I've been making to the end of September. So I almost got another full month of content going up to YouTube from all the stuff I've been doing. I've been streaming a lot. Streaming is a lot of content. Compared to what people typically do on YouTube. Streaming stuff with high production value. Whatever. There's so much stuff going up. And I still got to get the Zelda thing I did last sub-a-thon before Torch deletes it. I think I'm in the wrong area. We're fighting Pukie Pukie, right? That's Diablos. Let's go over here. I still got to upload the Zelda. We did like a five hour Zelda run. Right. And we're fighting Raytheon. That was Pukie Pukie. Okay. I was confused. We got the Zelda thing. I think there was one more. I got all the Fortnite ones. There's just choice. Different games I'm going to be uploading them to YouTube in that format. So if you can't catch the live stream all the time. Follow the stream. They're separated by episodes. I actually got more often. That shift moves. You almost got me there, buddy. Got about the three. Three blind mice. Well, everything is in no time, Jubilis. I think you have to do like six. I think they give you like 15 to 20% per. And then you'll be on to the next one. So I think it's like five or six you have to do. Before you get to the next one. I may be wrong. It's been a while since I did it. What's this? Slinger bomb. And to Doty. So what's a tanky armor set, guys? We can start talking about this while we're helping Jubilis. A tanky armor set I needed for heavy bow gun. Something really, really tanky. Not necessarily. You know, some skills I'd like to have like the Diablos. I have Diablos armor already. I already have that ready to go. But I'm thinking about getting more tank. Yeah, I'm using shield with it. Exactly. That's the plan to use a shield. How many missions has it been? I don't know.  Collect. It's full. Do I need to change this? Actually, it's pretty good. Get some more of them flies. All right. I'm going to life powder and demon powder. Yeah, might seeds. That's where I'm lacking here. I got plenty of God bugs. I've been growing those. And there's that. Yeah, demon drug. Crap, I should have used that for that. Armor skin. I only got one catalyst. Let's make some more catalysts. Let's do like 13. No problem, dude. Thank you so much for the support. I saw some love in the chat. Crafting is the height of monster hunter gameplay. Thank you so much, man. Oh, and hard shell powder. I can make a bunch of these. Oh. Oh, sorry. Try to use all the adamant seed on this. I'm always out of a hard shell powder. Now I got a lot because I've been growing both of these now. Oh, feels good, man. That's why I grew. That's why I was growing both of these. So we'll do all except 20 adamant. I like that hard shell powder, boy. Boy. 12 months of the road, man. Thank you so much, Libre Knox. You're the man, man. Best defense is not to get smashed. I got to say I agree. I have to say that I definitely agree with that. That's actually a very fair assessment of what you just said. We need a bunch of this. So let's do like 150 because you use up all that honey. Honey and mega nutrients. I haven't been making these. I think I'm going to add these to my build. I'm running out of space. I got the demon powder. I don't have a life powder anymore. I'm running out of space because I want life powder. I want the hard shell. I know you used that to craft the other stuff. But I got to cut it off at some point and make a nutrients. I got one slot. Nice. Consider quick sheath and maybe guard. I'm not sure how good the shield is on heavy bow gun. So guard may not be worth picking up either. Maybe not be worth picking up either. Okay. All right. We'll get rid of this. Oh, two slots. Not going to be able to gather much while I'm out. These are useless. I need the bigger ones. Mega nutrients to dash use. Armor skin. Yeah. I don't need this. I don't need to saw me to craft more potions now. I may need it for bigger fights but not now. All right. Let's save this. Okay. Is the quest been posted yet? They consider it to be a meme? Well, I was told, okay, maybe I'm taking it on bad advice. I was told that most people go with a tanky build for HPG. I guess I should take how people say stuff because they're probably talking about their circle with all the friends that they talk to instead of everybody. So yeah, we'll see. But I've got armor for hammer. Well, actually, I don't have armor for hammer. I have a armor set for hammer. I'm going to probably have to step up my game for the next level of stuff. But I want one for heavy bow gun. And then after I get my armor for heavy bow gun, this is my plan. After I get a good, like, higher level armor for heavy bow gun, then I'm going to start trying a new weapon. Yeah, I finally got that.  I finally finished crafting that. So I got a really good weapon. I just need armor now. And then we can start thinking about our next weapon. I'm thinking about trying one of the more advanced stuff. Maybe like Insect Glaive or the the bagpipe. What are we farming? Is it Baroff? Baroff. I just want right past him. He just strolled right by me. I didn't know we were hunting them. Even though I followed the flies right to him. And I don't know, man, I'm starting to lean towards bow as my high level killer, you know. Because I feel like I could do the most damage with this. I just feel the armor skin. But then again, once I get, you know, some of the melee weapons that do a lot of damage, that may change. That may change. Because hammer, man, hammer can get frustrated. I love it and everything. It's a good weapon, but oh my goodness. Can it get frustrating? Especially for those monsters, even the ones that you flash that um Oh, I need this done. Come here, come here, come here. Get away. Give me this. Um, that you flash and they still like I guess you have to trap them because they just, they just run everywhere. I took it off. I don't know why I took that coating off. I must say it are by accident too many times. Oops, I like your work right there. These paralyze, gents. You know what to do. Deal it from your half, too. Am I on the space? I am on the space. I keep dropping stuff. Are you guys hunting low rank? Uh, I don't think so. The last one that check was six stars.


Good morning everybody. Good morning. I'm Nancy Lindbergh. I'm the president here at the U.S. Institute of Peace and I'm delighted to welcome you here this morning for an important conversation. And I also want to welcome everybody who's joining us on Facebook. You can tweet questions for us during the audience Q&A using the hash hashtag Ernst Duroc, USIP. As many of you know, USIP was founded by Congress in 1984 as an independent nonpartisan federal institution dedicated to reduce and violent international conflicts that pose a threat to U.S. national security. And we do this by working in conflict zones around the world providing partners with the tools, the approaches and the training so that they can manage conflict so it doesn't become violent and resolving it when it does. And we also host conversations like this here in our Washington Global Headquarters on critical policy issues of the day. So this morning we are honored to host Senator Joni Ernst to join us this morning to discuss U.S. policy options following the defeat of ISIS in Iraq. Senator Ernst brings true front-line knowledge to this issue. She served as a company commander in Kuwait and Iraq. She led over 150 army National Guardsmen during Operation Iraq Freedom in 2003 and she retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard after 23 years of service. Last fall Senator Ernst led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Iraq where she met with U.S. troops and senior military and diplomatic leaders in the region. She's been a leader on these kinds of discussions focused on stabilizing Iraq and meeting the challenges of evolving global threats. In her role both as a member of the Armed Services Committee and as chair of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threat and Capabilities. She is the kind of leader we want and need in Congress today. And so we'll have a chance to hear her thoughts on how to sustain the military gains we already have made in Iraq once again at this pivotal post ISIS moment. This is an important topic for us here at USIP. We're especially pleased we can have this conversation today as it is one of our priority countries. We've been there continuously since 2003 working to strengthen the institutions and communities in their efforts to resolve conflicts. And I had a chance to see our USIP programs in February when I traveled there with our board chair Stephen Hadley who's here with us today and we met with partners from our network of Iraqi facilitators who we've supported and trained for over a decade and together a decade ago in Makhmudiyah known as the Triangle of Death we helped broker a peace agreement at the request of the US military between Sunni and Shia leaders that at the time stopped violence and lasted for a decade and helped that community withstand ISIS when it overran Iraq and more recently we focused our efforts with those same facilitators on supporting peace agreements in areas that have been liberated from ISIS and these have enabled more than half a million Iraqis to return home. We also visited Nineveh Plains where we partner and support the Alliance of Iraqi Minorities which advocates for political and social inclusion of religious and ethnic minorities like the Christians, the Shabbat, the Yazidis who are fighting to regain their lives in their communities after the brutal ISIS occupation. But in our conversations throughout the country we heard how fragile the country it still is and how the security threats persist. So we applaud congressional leaders like Senator Ernst who are keeping these issues at the forefront of the National Security Dialogue. We look forward to her thoughts today on the challenges and with that please join me in giving a warm welcome to Senator Joni Ernst. Thank you everybody and thanks for the great introduction too. I really appreciate it and it's it's good to be amongst so many friends and and thank you again. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about obviously a topic that's important to me which is U.S. policy in Iraq. As many of you know and as we just heard I did spend time in Iraq as a National Guardsman. Iowa Army National Guard and I deployed to Iraq where my company provided logistical convoys from Kuwait on up into Iraq and I can vividly remember those days the the sounds the smells the feel of the sandstorms coming in and that experience instilled in me a desire to facilitate peace and prosperity in that region that has been so devastated by war for so many decades. During our operations women and children would often come up to our trucks as we were pushing up into Iraq and they would literally beg for help. They would come to us seeking water or oftentimes food and many of my my soldiers would get very upset about the fact that we could not give them water or food and as we told our soldiers because if you start handing food or water out the windows of your trucks in a convoy you will bring more. They if you have it and you give it they will come and understanding then that we had to stay in our vehicles we couldn't hand out food we had to continue the mission. The more people that get into the roadways and into those villages into those areas the greater our our vulnerabilities would be out on the road so as we experienced that and it was especially some of my younger mothers too that had left children back at home when they saw young children that were hurting or that were hungry they wanted to stop. The American soldier is drawn to stop and assist and we were not able to do that because of our own vulnerabilities. We did not want to be at risk of ambush or attack. Now in my current role as a United States Senator from Iowa I am working to be part of a solution to the needs of the Iraqi people who desire to live in a prosperous nation they want that separate from the devastation and the humanitarian crisis that still plagues the country. Following the declared defeat of ISIS in December of 2017 the U.S. must now find ways to support Iraq's development as a free and democratic society while also ensuring that Iraq has the training and resources necessary to defeat any reemergence of ISIS or any similar type terrorist organization. We also need to work with our international partners to ensure the safety and well-being of the religious and ethnic minorities who have suffered the greatest burden of the violence in Iraq and finally the U.S. must work with Iraqi institutions to prevent Iran from poisoning the Iraqi transition to fit their regional goals rather than those of the United States or of Iraq. Our first and our highest priority must be to ensure that the Iraqi government has the equipment and the training to conduct sustained and resilient counter-terrorism operations. As we saw during the height of ISIS's gains in Iraq our efforts and those of the international community failed to prepare the Iraqi security forces to defend themselves adequately against ISIS. Reports and footage of Iraqi security forces abandoning U.S. provided arms and vehicles in their retreat from ISIS should serve as a reminder that unless we are confident in Iraq's capacity and ability to defend themselves U.S. presence in Iraq will remain necessary to protect our interests. The consensus to date is that the U.S. train, advise and assist mission has taken the lessons learned from the rise of ISIS and the Iraqi forces being trained today are considered much more capable than those that we saw trained in 2012. And as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the chairman of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee I've worked with my colleagues to provide consistent resources for this mission. Now that ISIS violence levels are down to their lowest level since the U.S. pulled out of Iraq we must buckle down and continue to bolster Iraqi security forces rather than becoming complacent and seeing some of the mistakes of the past. Secondly we must ensure that our stabilization efforts in Iraq do not overlook the most vulnerable and highest impacted communities which are those religious and ethnic minorities. Rather than providing blanket stability funding to Iraq I believe that the U.S. should in fact prioritize aid to those who have been most affected by food shortages violence and persecution. To accomplish this the U.S. must work with groups and partners such as the U.S. Institute of Peace thank you so much who have the relationships and the access that's necessary to reach into those communities and areas that are still being plagued by violence. The reality of the situation in Iraq is that some U.S. diplomatic and government personnel are unable to travel around the country due to security concerns. If we ever hope to support marginalized groups in Iraq we must improve our ability to move throughout the country so that we can reach those groups and provide the services necessary for them to prosper. To this end I would like to commend the current administration especially kudos to Vice President Mike Pence for pushing the United Nations to increase funding to these minority groups. Additionally I support the administration's efforts to provide direct relief to these groups through USAID rather than waiting for the UN and others. It is clear that Vice President Pence and others are committed to bringing these desperate people relief and I will continue to use my position in Congress to facilitate these efforts. Now the final point I would like to discuss is the need to counter Iranian influence in Iraq's government institutions. There is a school of thought out there that because the U.S. and Iran both seek to defeat ISIS that our strategic interests are therefore aligned in Iraq. And I categorically reject that premise as we have seen Iran's true regional goals in Syria and through their support for terrorist organizations that have killed United States and allied personnel across the Middle East. And we need to look no further than the constant Iranian call of death to America to realize that we are not and will never be strategically aligned with the Ayatollah regime. Iran's goal is to manipulate Iraqi development to allow its extremist fighters and weapons to have better access to Iraq and Syria where they can continue to support undemocratic governments such as the Assad regime. Iran's strategic goals would be significantly hindered by a free and prosperous Iraq with a with their strong western allies which is reason alone for the United States to continue countering these efforts. To do this the United States must remain a partner of choice for Iraq as it develops into a young democracy. We must continue to provide the Iraqi government as well as U.S. aligned groups in Iraq with the necessary security assistance and aid for them to transition into a prosperous nation that supports U.S. principles and values. So if we are giving up our hope or turning our backs on Iraq they will seek help elsewhere. We have already seen Iraq look to Russia for some of their military equipment which is counter to our goal of limiting Putin's influence over our allies. While there have been instances of U.S. arms falling into the wrong hands and the U.S. should make every effort to prevent those occurrences, Iraq will seek this aid regardless of our willingness to provide it. When we provide this aid rather than our adversaries we are more able to ensure that the employment of those articles is in line with our standards of combat and to conclude I would like to reemphasize that our top priority in Iraq should be to bolster the Iraqi security forces capacity to stamp out any reemergence of ISIS or the rise of any similar terrorist organization in Iraq. Our greatest security interest in the region is to defeat terrorist organizations before they gain the capability to project attacks against the United States. For decades U.S. service members have risked their lives to protect the freedoms that we hold so dear and during my own deployment there were even and I love this but there were even Iowa Army National Guard cooks that volunteered to join our logistical convoys as drivers in order to contribute to our overall cause and we owe it to those men and women especially the ones who have given the ultimate sacrifice as well as our Iraqi partners to complete the transition of Iraq into a prosperous and democratic society. While there is still much to be accomplished I am confident that our will to succeed is greater than our enemy's desire to see us fail. Again I want to thank you very much for allowing me to be here and I look forward to our question and answer session so thank you very much thank you for being here. Thank you very much. Now we're going to turn to the chair. Thank you again for joining us. My pleasure. Great to have you here and I'm going to take the prerogative of asking you a few questions before we open it up to our audience and I want to start you mentioned several times the importance of working to train and equip the Iraqi army and you also mentioned of course what we saw happen at the beginning of the ISIS invasion. What gives you faith that we'll be able to do so differently this time and and leave a stronger Iraqi army behind? Well I I do think through the trained advice and assist mission we have come a long way and we have taken through through our after action reviews we have taken some valuable lessons learned so the Iraqis truly do want to do better and I think that's key to their successes just that that they have that desire to overcome now and they have seen the leadership coming from the United States for many years now so we are seeing those those forces that are coming up having witnessed American leadership and gain knowledge from it and now they are in positions where they can project that strength forward so I do think that we need to continue pressing very hard with those trained advice and assist missions it's not something that we can let go but we are starting to see some of that leadership develop throughout those ranks and I think that that will be key in the future so many times I've heard from different units or different organizations that are doing the trained advice and assist missions that at first they were very hesitant unless they had an American that was with them leading whatever activity they were engaged in now the Americans are able to just truly do that advise portion and they are letting their Iraqi counterparts really provide the leadership necessary so again we have to push very hard in that area but I think we've come quite a long ways and in the past five or so years we heard when Steve and I were there we heard from a number of Iraqis that there was a sense that their military that the Iraqis had played a strong role towards the end of the defeat of ISIS does that does that give a different runway for working off of basic confidence right I was going to you said confidence I was going to say empowerment but certainly once you start to see success you feel success you see yourself as a successful leader and so again developing those those fighters through the ranks as they develop their skills and rise up into those leadership positions you will continue to see more of that that is what we are hoping for but again we have we have to keep our foot on the gas pedal with the trained advice and assist mission this is not something that I think that we can back off on right now at some point I think there's a lot of folks out just we were talking a little bit ago about across America what are people saying there is a bit of weariness when it comes to whether it's Iraq or or Afghanistan but we have a role to play there and we do not want to see what we saw occur with the rise of ISIS we cannot we cannot afford that and you alluded to this in your speech Iraq is in a tough neighborhood there's a lack going on and so what do you see in terms of you know critical issues in the region that affect our interests and also affect Iraq's ability to move forward well I I think there's the the typical discussions of Syria and so forth but I would say from my perspective to another area that we really need to spend some more time on and in a really solid discussion is the issue of Turkey I have had some some issues I know others will as well understanding that Turkey should be a close ally of ours they are an ally but they're supposed to be an ally so it is very tough when when you see Erdogan holding Americans prisoner in what is an allied nation we look at Andrew Brunson Pastor Brunson was just on on the news he's been released under house arrest now so that's a step forward but the fact that he has been imprisoned for so long is a serious issue that that should be dealt with so there's so many so many other issues whether they are attempting to purchase Russian made military equipment that doesn't work with NATO equipment there are just so many issues there that are complicating that region even more and I go back the issues I have with Turkey going back to when I deployed when I was a young Iowa Army National Guard captain my power projection platform for my transportation company was Turkey and for those of you that remember going back to 2003 Turkey denied the United States the ability to use their country as a power projection platform and so because of that then my company ended up rerouted into Kuwait where there were thousands and thousands and thousands of other Americans waiting to get into Iraq because they were supposed to go through Turkey too and so we had this backlog of movement trying to get into Iraq and it was a very difficult time because Turkey didn't want to enable the assault into Iraq so it increases the stakes in Iraq yes it does given all of these multiple influences you of course mentioned Iran as a competitor for Iraqi interests as well absolutely and that's a really difficult situation as well when we talk about our our big adversaries Iran is one of those one of the top countries that we will look at and they complicate the issue as well and I don't have much good to say about Iran as well I mean it's just really very complicated and you throw in a little bit of Russian influence too and it's very complicated and that's one of the issues that we were discussing earlier how we have we used to have Rex Tillerson as the Secretary of State we have Secretary Mattis at the Department of Defense and we would have Dan Coates come in and talk intelligence and they would give briefings in the skiff under the capital and they talked about so many of the different relationships that exist in that region and how you have some certain countries aligned with other countries but they are not friends of this country and Secretary Mattis he said you find that your enemy one day is your partner the next and he said it is extremely complicated and it is ever changing you you mentioned of course the difficulty of the religious minorities in Iraq and we have going on this week the U.S. hosted ministerial on international religious freedom where this is among the many topics being discussed what what do you see as the priority assistance that we can and should provide to help the Christians the Shabbat and the Yazidis try to try to gain I mean it's a talk about complexity it's a terribly complex and heartbreaking situation it is and and that's why we do have to rely on international partners as well I think that that is very important and then other organizations that we have our non-governmental organizations that can go in and provide that assistance pushing the U.N. I think is very important and that's why I said kudos to the vice president for engaging in that discussion because it was absolutely necessary we just can't throw a blanket of money at a country and expect that money to get into the populations that need it the most so when you're talking about those persecuted minorities we have to ensure that they are getting the medical supplies they are getting the food necessary that they have clean water all of that is required we just have to make sure they get that so working like with folks at USAID and others I think that is the best way to do that and of course mark green the aid administrator was just over there one final question then we're going to open it up but when Steve Hadley and I were over there we heard from a tribal shake who leaned over and said you know we've won the war three times now what do we need to do to win the peace oh gosh and so the question is how do you answer that question what do we need to do and the three wars big the saddam the the awakening and then ices okay and ices yes we fought the military has fought one right three times right and again it's so difficult because they have so many different ethnic minorities and different religious groups across iraq but we can't win the peace for them and I think that's the key to any region where we're engaged we can't want it more than they do and so we have to build or foster that desire with the iraqi people to find peace and we can help them collaborate as groups we can foster discussion amongst groups we can provide guidance but we can't we cannot do it for them if we are doing it for them we won't see a lasting peace so that's why with the going back to the train advice and assist missions it's all well and good if you have an american soldier that is leading the charge but the iraqis are not learning the leadership unless they're actually engaging as a leader in that charge so we really do need to to bring them together help them collaborate guide that discussion but it ultimately is up to them and it takes a much longer time than most americans imagine right which is one of the challenges of course the time horizon after the kind of change i'm going to open it up for questions we have a couple of mic runners um and yeah we'll start right there and then go to kurt second good morning thank you for doing this my name is rafael salido from fnews they wanted to know your opinion with the recent elections now you have that also there do you think that the situation has changed there because me in the past he was not precisely friend of the u.s that's how it's going to change things there but the well we still wait for their yes and time time will tell and no not exactly a friend to the united states however we do have to continue working with the established government once once everyone is in in place we continue working that's the way we are as the united states we have our objectives within iraq we need to make sure that those are fulfilled that means working with whoever the iraqi people have elected whether it's our choice or not if that's who they have elected we will work with them again because we can't afford just to step back from this such situation as nancy said this is going to take a long time and i think back to when we first went into iraq in 2003 a lot of the soldiers that were there with me had also deployed for desert storm desert storm was a very quick in and out conflict war okay and what we saw going into iraq in 2003 was very different so there was a preconceived notion that this is going to be quick and easy it's going to be over with la di da but those older wiser more senior members of our military said and at that time they had said we'll be here a decade well we've been there 15 years now so um we have a long ways to go yet but we will work with whoever is in place we have to can i just note i mean we it really does feel like a different moment uh in terms of the iraqi's own desire to forge peace in their country your comment that we can't want it more than they do but when they do want it our support absolutely absolutely and and that is key because now that they are tasting tasting that little bit of peace they do have people that are advancing into leadership within their own forces they are able to take ownership of their situation and that's what has to happen in order to be successful we are getting there are we there yet we are not there yet and the weariness that we're experiencing just as we're talking sitting in this senate arm services committee through our meetings people are asking when are we going to get out of iraq when are we going to get out of afghanistan we've been there too long what what gains are we seeing um under understood i get that we have expended a lot of lives in iraq but we can't just let go and expect that all will be well and the united states will not be another target at some point in the future uh kurt senator kurt boker executive director of the mccain institute any member of nancy's international advisory board and uh and uh special representative for ukraine negotiations oh i'm not going to ask you about ukraine i actually want to come to um just what you are talking about uh which i think is a critically important thing first thank you for your service and your leadership and for the position that you're taking uh which is articulating a very strong case for robust american leadership uh to address an issue that is of critical importance to our country and also globally um but what i'm curious about is how do you see the trends in the american public is that a position that you can sell to people can you explain to people um can you sustain support for that can we all do that because i do believe it's critically important but i think we're we're facing a time and and i'll even say even you know particularly within the republican party we're sustaining that level of international leadership and commitment is getting difficult you're right and we just had this discussion before we entered the room about what what does the american public think and what are we hearing and it it used to be a time especially when i first entered the united state senate because we saw the eyes or the rise of isis it was on everybody's minds but now that we have seen isis um pushed out of iraq now the public's not talking about it how many of you've heard media stories in the last couple of days about iraq just a couple folks um what we're hearing is trade and tariffs and the e u and nato meetings and putin meetings and and so we're not focused on on where we are engaging our troops and and that does disturb me because if we don't have the support of the american people those of us that are elected to represent those folks back home we're not going to put the emphasis on it either so every night i get a tally sheet of what people are calling in about and from each of my iowa offices as well as what they're calling in about at my dc office and i review that i can't remember the last time i saw somebody call in or talk to me about iraq for or against for or against not it's just none it's it's not the topic of conversation right now i bet you could walk out into the streets here in washington dc and just ask random joe on the street hey do you know we still have troops in iraq and they'd probably be like no we're not there so um so it it's really difficult for those of us that serve in the senate to continue supporting when we're not hearing that level of support coming from back home and therefore the the weariness why are we spending so much money there when it's not a top priority for our constituents it's why those of us that see that bigger picture in the global impact it's why we have to communicate with those other members why it is so important because we're not hearing it from constituents we're not hearing about it through the media so it does make our job harder but as i said before we came in i said in in iowa we have a very high percentage of of veterans we have nearly seven percent of our population our veterans in iowa and we have no active duty installations we have reservists and national guardsmen and then we have the the active duty folks that will leave iowa and go somewhere else to serve um but we have those members in every community and so when you talk to people in the communities they're familiar with the war in iraq they know someone who has served in iraq they get it but we're just not talking about it and we need to do more of that um the mic is coming right there hi um only back here from the consulate for relations and the high university senator we talk about the post icis to that but in fact icis is still very much there and in fact last week there was a big article in the washington post about how the road between kirk and bagdad is not safe um right because icis is essentially blocking very often and people have to fly instead of driving and but icis is not just an iraq problem it's a regional problem and in fact my question really has to do with the administration's policy or the white houses policy with respect to icis because on the one hand we have troops in syria fighting icis and and the president wants to pull them out and he actually would like to have pulled them out months ago if it wasn't for general matters so what would you be your advice in terms of to the administration and whether or not you would like to push back the administration in terms of being much more active in terms of fighting icis because if you pull the troops out of syria icis is going to come back right and icis is and the thing about icis is like it's it's a virus it will spread and if you don't keep the pressure on them that's what they will do yeah and that is a great way to describe it and i would say that we do have to push back on the administration and it's it's not just with icis it's you know pulling troops out of south korea i think there's just so many instances of we want to bring our men and women home and and that's great i would support that as well you know i'd love i'd love to have a peaceful world but we know that's not true so we have declared victory over icis in iraq but we still know that they exist many of them have just dismantled they have they have gone back into general population so it's almost like what we would call whack-a-mole one pops up here you slap them back down and then another one pops up over here and that's why we have to have that continued trained advice and assist mission in iraq because we have to be there we have to assist with that leadership um we have to make sure that icis doesn't redevelop and i think your description of icis being like a virus is spot on it is perfect uh and how we should be describing icis because the minute you take your eyeball off of it it is going to multiply and you are right so in syria icis is a big issue and that's why we have our american men and women in that region in syria and fighting um the president again would as you said would love to pull them out of syria and that is not feasible that is not feasible and secretary mattis does have the president's ear and i'm very thankful that that the president does listen to that he does listen to the secretary and so we still have troops there we will continue to push against that i think those of us that understand how volatile the situation could be if we pull our our troops out we will continue to be pressing very hard to make sure they they remain um so thank you it's a it's a great point and of course senator as you mentioned earlier it's the it's the military plus other capabilities of NGOs and and others and international partners yeah that's uh right here thank you for being here today senator uh charlie rogan artist international in all research outside of mozo two weeks after the east bank had been cleared we actually found among Sunni Arabs that the Kurds and the Peshmerga were the most respected talking about how today there seems to be a different climate in iraq and the officer corps and the nco seem you know more likely and more determined to actually carry out their mission what do you think's changed from today compared with 2011 well again i think it's it's the leadership opportunities that have been afforded but the Kurdish Peshmerga and just from from my experience and and those that i have worked with are are very highly respected and they will always be highly respected they have been such great partners to our u.s. servicemen and women but i i do think it's the leadership opportunity and the fact that they have been able to grow in their ranks develop those young officers and nco's as you stated they have had the opportunity to serve in those positions now they know their tasks it's just like any young nco or officer in our armed armed forces the more you are rehearsing the more you are completing a task the better you are going to be at that task and the way i and i should have described this earlier but leadership when you define leadership the way the army the united states army defines leadership or a leader is someone who can inspire others towards a common goal or objective for the good of the organization or the unit that's a leader and so the fact that we now have those in roles where they can inspire others to follow them follow their example they are becoming a much a much better force thank you senator we have a question from facebook wow asking what is the threat presented by the iranian forces present in iraq and is there anything we can do to remove them well we need to keep keep pushing against the iranians and their threat is no matter where they are there is a threat they enable the killing of so many u.s. service members during our time in iraq through the development of ied's and other types of of bombs and and so forth they want americans gone they want americans gone and that poses a security risk a stability risk to iraq because their interests are not our interests in iraq and so what is the ultimate path forward in getting the iranians out of iraq i can't detail that to you today and again it goes back to that interesting web that secretary mattis was trying to describe to us and who's partners with who and and who's the adversary of who and it it just becomes extremely complicated but you know as i always say russia's is not our friend iran is not our friend either um we have a question over here hello uh laura kelly from the washington times thank you for being with us today um i think what we saw in the fight against isis was this unprecedented unity among the iraqi forces and they did gain a great deal of skill with the training assist program from the u.s. and international partners but i think now what we're seeing is they're taking that leadership and skill and they are coming into their own groups and they're separating and they're protecting their own interests and of course iran is involved in this as well with the shia militias so how what is the role of the u.s continuing going forward in promoting unity um and also balancing all of these different self interests and absolutely and that's um why we were talking earlier about the collaboration and the leadership that needs to be provided by the united states whether it's through our military organizations or through other non-governmental organizations and international partnerships we have to be the ones fostering the discussion amongst the different groups uh it is really important that we are leading the discussion and again we can't solve the issue for them they have to find that path forward and take ownership of their own destiny again they have to want it more than than we want it so it is really providing providing the the necessary steps to work forward in a in a discussion and working with those groups well that that is a discussion that i think in a debate that would need to happen up the hill there there again are just so many different interests involved and so whether it's promising arms to a certain group or deciding not to arm a certain group those are some of the discussions that that we can have um and then there can be other discussions with our international partners as well um so that's one method carrot or stick um but yes we just have to be able to pull them together though and they they have got to figure this out they have got to figure this out quickly goes to the complexity that you've that you continue to mention um we'll take uh two final questions here oh and then on the aisle hi senator thank you for your service i'm phil Schrafer i'm a retired international healthcare worker and spent three years in active duty in the marine corps uh the complexity of iran um i believe general matt has actually thought that we should have stayed in the nuclear agreement i believe i've never heard ruhani or the foreign minister saying anything about death to america way back ack mcdinejad said something about death to americans but so i i don't know where that where that comes from i mean is it more of a Shiite Sunni struggle that isn't that part of the complex it is part of the complex as well again going back to that very same web that we've been talking about there are so many different interests so many different factions so many different groups and they're all competing to be that alpha leader uh so it it is very complex and the nuclear agreement is another level or layer of complexity now with iran as well so we do have a number of international partners that are still engaging and the united states now is not so again finding our way forward and working between congress the administration department of defense uh we have to speak with one voice and we have to work with our international partners as well to find a path forward the path forward is not clear it is not clear and last question yeah senator thank you very much chef selden from voa you mentioned earlier the lack of focus on us troops in iraq in syria in afghanistan do you think leaders at the pentagon like secretary madis need to be more vocal invisible and also very quickly how effective do you think russia's been in picking off u.s allies across that part of the world well to the the first point having certain leaders be more vocal and and visible i if we could clone secretary madis i think we could make him a lot more visible and and vocal if you look around around the globe with what we have with north korea with um with russia i mean there's just so many other areas of interest right now that he is also working on so i wish we had i do wish we had more of him because he is a very good communicator and i think we need to raise the level of iraq syria and afghanistan and we need to keep that out in the news so people are paying attention and so that we do have the support of the american people unfortunately we can't clone secretary madis so we have got to find other leaders that are going to inspire out there as well so that will fall on some of us that are in the united states senate and the house uh other leaders throughout the do d that can be kind of a voice of reason out there as well so that's that that piece we just have to have the right people inspiring others as far as russia picking up uh or picking off our allies in the region is that they they make some interesting promises and and we know they try and you know voice their their systems off their military systems off on on folks in that region too and they make big promises but i think the partner of choice is the united states of america and many of those countries will understand and many of those groups will understand that if you are working with the united states there is an opportunity for peace in the future there is an opportunity to advance there is an opportunity to align yourself with the west um if they choose russia they go on a totally different path and again the partner of choice would be the united states of america there's just so much more opportunity presented by partnering with the united states senator i know you have a busy day on the hill uh we thank you for taking the time to come down and talk to us about this issue um i want to really thank you for the strategic focus that you bring on this critical issue as well as so much heart and humanity that you bring to the conversation we thank you for being up there working this hard thank you for joining us this morning please join me and thank you senator


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I share knowledge with you and extract the signal from the noise. This is theCUBE. We go to all the top events and we don't care if they're engineers, CEOs, VCs, individuals. If they have knowledge, we want to bring that to you. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com and I'm joined with my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org. We're here live at Strata. We got a great guest, Eric Baldishweeler from Hortonworks, a founder, former CEO. Congratulations, you got the job that you really want. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. So you guys, obviously we covered your announcement with Yahoo when that happened last year at Hadoop Summit, which now you guys are running and so we're excited to bring theCUBE to Hadoop Summit and that's going, Denise is working on that, so that's all going to happen. A lot of great stuff, right? Back then the conversation was, oh, Cloud Air is number one, now Horton's in here competing. Looking back now, you said, hey, you know, we're going to do this, we've got a great team, we're going to start a company, you have benchmark funding, you great firm, they brought in talent to help you, you said, hey, I'll be the CEO, but you're a technical guy, so you like to do a lot of the product stuff. So that's kind of the new news with you guys as a company, but as a marketplace, it's growing like crazy. So first share with us, one, what's going on at Hortonworks relative to your new role, the new CEO, or not new CEO, but a CEO who turns CEO, and then kind of the marketplace, what's happened in the past year for you guys and the market? Sure. In terms of what's happening at Hortonworks, it's not a big deal, right? I've been the technologist behind our team since its inception. Last year, as we were forming the company, the real focus was on getting our technology together and figuring out our tech strategy, and it just made sense, the CEO job and the tech job were pretty much the same. But now as we're planning to go to market, you've got to choose what you're going to do with your day. Rob and I have been pretty much two in a box since the company started, and we just decided it made sense to have him be the CEO face and do a lot of the things that were keeping me from doing the technical job that I think I'm frankly very good at and would like to do that. And the CEO job too is like, you've got to deal with the blocking and tackling of building a company, payroll, making sure you're hiring people. It's really product stuff, right? There's a lot of administrative and operational things that could be distracting for product geek, right? There's a lot to do and I'm glad to have helped doing it. So there was a lot of... Go ahead, sorry. I was just going to go to your other question, which is when you talked about what was happening at Summit last year, and what I said at the time was our focus at Hortonworks is really in growing the whole ecosystem. We think that there's a lot of room for everybody to succeed and I think that's what we've seen and that's what we're seeing. We're very excited to see so many new players coming in to the space and certainly the sorts of partnerships we've been able to announce in the last few days and months have really, I think, reinforced our message that we can add a lot of value by bringing our Hadoop expertise to the market with partners. So we've recently announced partnerships with Teradata. We're here talking about the exciting stuff we're doing with Microsoft and today we announced a partnership with Talon and if you look at what that brings, we've got Microsoft bringing all of their user tools and their user base to bringing Hadoop to all of them. I think that really democratizes Hadoop. It's exciting. We see Teradata. We see there's so much data in Teradata and so many people trying to figure out how Teradata and Hadoop products integrate. It's really exciting to be building joint reference architectures with them. We think that'll solve a lot of enterprise problems and, of course, Talon is the leading data integrator, leading open source data integrator and that's very exciting to have them committing to working with our product. Well, I just want to say while we're here on the air and formally on the record, I guess, since it's being recorded, I'm really impressed with you guys, Hortonworks. When you guys launch, there's a lot of controversy. A lot of people in the press were reporting, oh my god, competing with Cloudera. At that time, Cloudera really didn't have any competition. There was some things being said. You guys handled that very well and it turned out that you were correct. The market is growing fast. There's plenty of room for a lot of people. Growth does that. Growth creates opportunities. Room for everybody, if you will. By the way, it makes the overall ecosystem better because competition is a good thing. Congratulations on that. I think you guys handled that with class and I just want to say that formally that we appreciate that. So congratulations. Eric, I have to ask you. There was a lot of speculation when the management changes were made. One of the publications, I think it was a gig at home, came out with an article basically speculated that you guys had to pivot. You wrote a blog saying, no. Can we clear that up right now?  Let me explain. For the audience that may not know, Hortonworks came out and said, we're going to make money by providing services. Everything we do is going to go open source, give it away for free, free use, all the licensing aspects associated with it. We're going to make money by providing services. When you came out with, public with Hortonworks, we talked on the phone and us and other analysts, I'm sure you talked about that as your primary strategy. That has not changed, correct? No. To be clear, our brand promises that we are going to provide a distribution which includes a completely free Hadoop platform. We believe that it should be complete and it should be free. That doesn't mean that in the future we won't provide other products under different licensing. But Hadoop, the Hadoop platform, we are absolutely committed. No change in strategy. It will be free. And this is completely consistent with what I said last summit. The board is completely behind it. There hasn't been any pivoting or change in strategy. So a lot of people who come into this market say, well, Hadoop is not enterprise ready, they'll say for example. You wouldn't necessarily disagree with that. You might have debate tone, but basically you're saying, so many would say it's not enterprise ready. As a result, we're going to put a layer on top of it and we're going to charge for it. Now what I'm hearing from you is, you may at some point do that. Not specifically with Hadoop. To be very clear, we're not going to put a layer on top of Hadoop to make it enterprise ready. We're going to make Hadoop consumable by the enterprise. We're going to work with the community to make that happen and with partners. So you might layer other things outside of Hadoop. Once Hadoop is established, there's lots of problems to solve in the universe. But the innovation around Hadoop will stay free and open source. That's your mantra and you're going to make money as it relates to that on services. Okay, so just to clear that up. Thanks for helping Claire. Yeah, you're welcome. We find ourselves correcting most of the times in the journal. Giga Ohm now, I guess. Now the obvious follow-up question there, Eric, is benchmark capital.  Index as well. East Coast guy, index and others.  It's somewhat rare that VC companies will back a services company with such high profile, right? Known for these huge revenue multiples and these frothy type of valuations. Talk about that a little bit. I mean, why is this a good investment for your partners? We are a services company in that we provide training and support. But to be clear, we're not a professional services company. We're not going in and building people's applications, right? I think Red Hat is a closer model, which is a successful company built on services. Ten billion dollar valuation. Who funded Red Hat? You guys, right? Your investors. Absolutely. I think they know a little bit about Red Hat. So, I mean, the key, for the reason I think they're so enthusiastic about, Hadoop is just because the opportunity is so immense. What we're seeing is that there's an opportunity for Hadoop to be the next generation data platform for the enterprise. Unstructured data is growing so much faster than the other data that enterprises need a new solution. The majority of data is going to be unstructured and Hadoop is sort of the default answer. If you look around the trade floor today, I think you see a lot of validation for that thesis. There's a lot of people out here talking about Hadoop. All right, so let's talk about, I'll be met on talking about HDFS. He believes in that. It's totally a good way to go. We also talked about HBase and the innovations around HBase. I asked him about Cassandra and other projects where, you know, the proprietary, not private, but different file systems. What's your view as Hadoop becomes standard and platforms maturing, application explosion on top, hence a lot more services in general across the board are going to be happening, and applications will be services in a way. How does that compare and contrast decisions that customers have to make around things like Cassandra versus Hadoop versus other BI and existing investments? How do you guys look at that from a technical perspective and reconcile that in the marketplace? It's a little early, I would say, honestly. I mean, there's a lot of things that can be done with the Hadoop stack, and we're talking to a lot of people who do great things with Hadoop stack and all those other products. So I don't think one precludes the other. Each of them has their sweet spots. I think that there are emerging reference architectures around Hadoop and HBase and those things, and I think we'll see a lot of that. But I think all these proprietary products and all of these other open source products all address niches and are going to do very well in those. As I said, it's a pie that's growing very quickly. So there's room for all these solutions, and I look forward to seeing how they work together. That's fair. I can buy that. Let me ask you a different question then. Along the same lines, what's the trend line or trends in the developer community around Hadoop specifically, because that's where you guys are playing, and you guys have a lot of experience there at Hortonworks. What is the trend line towards developers? Just in general, appetite for it. I'll see if it's high. What kinds of things are developers really kicking the tires on and getting deep on? What areas can you share with us that you see engineering and developers working on? Well, I would say that the newer, every time somebody brings in something that gives people more leverage, there's more interest. So HBase is an area where people are very excited because it gives you the scalability of Hadoop and a more immediate read-write model that they're used to in terms of managing data. So there's a lot of excitement around that. There's a lot of excitement around pig and hive because that again provides higher level data models. I think that my hope is that people are going to find as much value from the talent as we expect them to. We think that bringing in visual programming and all of that will again just democratize Hadoop. The work that Microsoft's doing, I think we're going to see a lot of tire kicking really quickly because that lets people use Excel against Hadoop. And there's a lot of Excel users in the world. A lot of JavaScript programmers, which is the other thing they're doing. Eric, what are some of the limitations of Hadoop that you're passionate about addressing through the open source movement? Limitations of Hadoop. Let's see. More challenges and opportunities, as they say. Absolutely. It's a growing market, so you've got to fix that. You talk to customers, they're like, come on, I need help, fix this for me. So if I look at what we're going to be really focused on in the next six months, we're really focused on two lines of development on what we call the Hortonworks Data Platform 1, which is Hadoop 1.0 based. We're really focused on management and management in general, both data management, which is the H-Catalog project. We're putting a lot of energy there. And the idea there is just to let people work at a higher level of abstraction with data so they can use Hive and Pig and MapReduce on the same sort of tables. And down the road, we want to really sort of generalize that. We think that there's a lot of leverage in that and a lot of opportunity to make it easier for people to use different programming models with Hadoop and to manage their data in a lot of different ways and still use the Hadoop programming tools. So that's very exciting. And then there's the Umbari project, which is providing a suite of monitoring and cluster management tools. That's just an intimacy. It's a project that we're investing in and that we think is going to add a lot of value to the community. So that's the short-term stuff. Long-term, we're very excited about the 0.23 work and new next-generation MapReduce. I think, in particular, it's going to just blow the doors off the kinds of things people can do with Hadoop. We're just inviting people to bring all of their new programming models and ideas to Hadoop. I think we're going to see just a whole new wave of innovation. Real-time explosion, subsequent. I think streaming and things like that will be really facilitated by that. Data mining, all kinds of things are going to just be possible. We're not seeing yet. Umbari is interesting. It's new. As you said, but it's potentially disruptive to some of the existing models where people are saying, hey, we're going to charge for that management. You're saying that that's something that you're going to do and that's part of your open-source promise. Absolutely. Yeah, so I see that as very disruptive. What kind of timeframe before we actually see some function that users can sink their teeth into? Well, with any new open-source project, I think it's going to... Definitely the first half of this year we expect to see people using it in production for some value, but I think it's going to take a number of years to evolve into everything that it could possibly be. The key focus for us is not to try to build something that replicates all the management features and all competing sort of products. The key thing is to open up the Hadoop with APIs that will allow vendors to integrate their existing management suites with Hadoop. There's lots of... I was talking to a bank CTO the other day who said we have 27 management consoles and we need another one. We don't need another one, period. Manager of managers of managers. The real thing for us is to open up Hadoop, open up the APIs, help people integrate their tools with it. Yeah, so you want to set the foundation that's like Abby Mast said. I'll make the APIs available and let the ecosystem do its thing. Absolutely. How's Arun doing? He was on theCUBE with us at Hadoop World. What's he up to right now? He's very involved in finalizing MapReduce, the next generation of MapReduce. Right now we are deploying that on real applications in Yahoo at scale and just learning a lot and getting some great early numbers. We're really focused on making that real. How is your relationship with the Yahoo thing going on? Because you have a service contract with Yahoo, is that correct? Yeah. So you get a lot of use case from Yahoo and you know the territory there, honestly. How is Yahoo doing? They still have a big Hadoop investment growing like crazy. They're huge Hadoop investors. They're bringing in lots of new hardware this year and they've still got more than a thousand active users and five million jobs a month and all that's just growing. So it's a great collaboration. I know that but there's still active investors in Hadoop as well. We are mentoring up a whole new set of committers at Yahoo who are working along with us on 23. Well I think what's great that people might not know about, I mean Dave, Volante's team, Jeff Kelly, the lead analyst in Big Data, put out the study of the market size and vendor revenue. You guys are now going to be going to market with Rob leading the charge. What people don't understand is that now there's a lot of different actors in this big data ecosystem. You've got existing vendors. Cloudera and Hortonworks kind of we call Pure Plays. Even though we put Vertica kind of in that because there's still kind of a sub and even with HP. You guys are actually, it's a good thing that more and more codes being contributed into the Hadoop community because no matter what the outcome is in the Hadoop open source community, Cloudera and Hortonworks and Yahoo are significantly contributing tons of code to that effort. That's true, right? That's a true statement. It's absolutely true that we're contributing tons of effort with ourselves and that our partners are and that Cloudera is contributing some and that there's lots of other people are contributing as well. So that's a great community. It's robust. It's vibrant. It's always kind of mud-slinging in communities but that's just nature of the beast. But overall progress is good and you guys are doing great work. Hortonworks is funded by Benchmark. Aggressive firm. Congratulations on all your success. Say hi to Arun and the team for you and we'll see you at Hadoop Summit. I'll do that. Thank you. Thanks for coming on. It's great to have you.


All right, thanksgiving Mopar fams and we're carving the truck instead of the turkey. Knee haul. We did some more cutting. So we basically use the saws all with a long blade and we cut pretty far back just to the very back of this cowl under the windshield here on both sides and then we can kind of push this down and now what we're going to do is use an air compressor and a cut-off wheel or a ziz-wiz whatever you call it and we're going to go in here and cut from about the back corner and go straight across here with a ziz-wiz. Because that's kind of the only tool that I can think of that's going to really fit in there and cut this easily. You probably do it with a dremel also with a little dremel wheel and cut it. But yeah, a dremel would also work if you don't have air tools. You could probably get a dremel cut-off wheel back there to cut across the back and then after that we should have more than two and a half inches of clearance up here because the intercooler core or the intercooler assembly is two and a half inches thickness overall. So we're going to be raising the upper manifold lid up two and a half inches. So we should have plenty of room here after we finish this last cut.  All right Mopar fam we have all the cutting done ziz-wiz and a solzol seem to do the trick and that is where we got so far. Cut all this out all the way back to the very back of the firewall and then what I did here is the very two bolts on the back for the holly is real tight when you get up here with the air to water intercooler. So instead of trimming out all this again and it's getting real hard to get the ziz-wil in here I just kind of did some triangle notches and that's where we got so our bolts can drop in there in the back with a little bit of finessing but other than that we should be good and that's what we're looking like so far but there you go that is what we're looking like so far so we're going to start putting some parts on. All right Mopar fam we are getting closer we have pretty much everything laid out we got our water lines hooked up to the new intercooler we have our dry nitrous nozzle mounted back up we have laid out our new plumbing and that's all there is it's a short 90 degree pipe we clocked the torque storm supercharger pretty much going up straight up we used to be poured in straight down the way we used to have it plumbed up when we had the intercooler in the front here used to come out here so now we're going to be coming up the top a little L pipe and now we're to the point where we're going to start doing the TIG welding and we got to weld in the blow-off valve adapter onto the pipe we got a weld of bong on right here for our meth nozzle to screw in and we're going to weld another bong for the dry nitrous nozzle to go in on the backside of the pipe right here and then we will be pretty much done so that's what she's looking like so far and we got this side plugged off with two plugs we have the new 417 motorsports intercooler installed this is the air to water intercooler 1500 horsepower model it's two and a half inches thick and it fits in between the holly hyran manifold and the top lid we have some just good old cheap water line hooked up to it right now just to get things going as we're running out of time to be able to go test and race so we will down the road eventually make this look a little bit better we might do some braided lines like we did the fuel lines and everything but for right now this is working just fine we got it clamped on there with some a n barb fittings running all the way to the icebox i had to redo my pressure pipe as we got rid of all the intercooler pipes that was down here we got rid of the intercooler that was behind the grill and as a lot of you know we had the supercharger outlet we had it clocked at the bottom to accept the intercooler pipes down there so now we have it clocked coming up the top here it's kind of similar to how we did storm and we have now a aluminum pipe no more stainless steel pipe we got aluminum pipe here we got the blow off valve installed methane section right here and the dry nitrous nozzle mounted here along with the nitrous solenoid mounted on top of the holly lid so we got a super short pipe it should make boost quicker we should make a little bit more boost because we don't have all the extra piping and intercooler volume to have to fill to get the system pressurized when it starts to make boost so you know i would think we should be a little quicker right here in the back right behind the fuel cell this is our icebox for right now we just got a little cheapy one from cx racing and you can see we have so you can see we have the ice cubes in there and the water nice and cold this should give us some super super cold iet's we will find out on our first log but it is super ice as you can see it is literally sweating right now that is how cold this box is we have a little drain right here i can hook a hose to it and we can drain the water out and add more ice if we need to


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