Okay, six solar panels on, that's how many there should be, that's a good thing.  And that would be pretty easy to move. Once they're partly up, it's pretty easy to just grab this end and shove it and get it into the more tilty slots. There is one thing I want to do though. In this first slot, I want to cut it like that so that if I lift the back end, it'll just slide right back, because the way I have to do it right now is I'll use the hook, grab the other end and lift a little, but then at the same time I have to lift this side to get it up over this edge. But if I cut that, then I can just lift the back and it'll pull the solar panel right along the track. And that should make it easier. Well, I'll do that to one and see how it goes. The reason I didn't do that is because when this thing is in one of these slots, like say it's in this one, if there's a lot of rocking of the boat and a lot of high winds and stuff, the panel could conceivably get shoved this way and out of the slot, but since it's got a flat back, it'll get stuck there and kind of stay in place. Maybe I'll just do it to the front ones because it's not going to get, when the solar panel is laying flat, it's not going to just slide that way out of there. Maybe I'll end up doing it to the other ones too, but yeah, I'm just going to cut that like that. It'll probably take me a few times to really get the technique nailed down for this, but that's pretty easy to move once they're up out of the first slot. Now when I put this down, I don't want the backside to slap down, which is another reason I have the hook thing. Oh, it's still in. Alright, so that's that slot. Okay, so before I had to hook back here and then lift on this side at the same time, which was kind of annoying because I had to get both sides out of their slot before I could lift back there. And now hopefully, I said to pull it right. Yeah, that is much easier. And you know what? Since I just have to lift one end, I don't even have to hold this end. I should be able to lift these from under the boat, just reach my arm up, push them up. So if I'm driving with all the panels down and the sun's over on one side and I want to lift one side, I should be able to just do it by lifting from the bottom. At least to get it into the second slot. But then I don't know if I want to do the same thing I just did to this next slot, which would make it easier to move to the next one because I don't want it to. No, you know what? It probably would be fine if I did that because the way this panel is right now, it's got so much pressure pushing this way. It's I don't imagine I'm ever going to be in such rough seas that the panel is like lurching that direction. I think it's fine just like that though. Yeah, I'll get this. I got all these first slots trimmed and I think it'll be good. And then I can trim any other slots I feel like in the future.  My other boat over here always gets leaves on the thing. And it's kind of a pain getting the leaves off. Like I'll have to close one panel to reach the next one or lean over with a paddle and I can it's hard to get the leaves on the back. This I can wash the panels get the leaves off. No problem. I still have to wash this one. I washed all the other five, but I didn't wash this one before I put it up. This was the first one I did. All right. What's next? Put the motor on. If I'm using that motor, that's the motor that came off. So it would be the easiest one to put back on motor or wires. Go cook an omelette. I think I'm going to go cook an omelette. Oh, that was a tasty omelette. OK, I've got this motor here and this was originally the part of some outboard and then all this stuff I put together. And then this is an electric motor that I stuck on top and, you know, attached to the old gas engine attach riser. No, I think I'm just going to put this back on the boat because it's already got the thing. It's all ready to go. I might end up changing the motor. However, I think this is a good place to start. Before I take it out, though, I kind of want to look inside it. So good. That screw comes loose. I hope all these screws come loose. Come on. Oh, that one moves good. Yeah, I've definitely got some rust on the surface. Hopefully it's not in there too much. Probably like some wasp nest or something. Oh, that one's sticking. Come on, move. Oh, good. Yeah, I think I'll just open the motor. You know, oil it a little, clean it. Oh, let me see if I can. Oh, OK. It doesn't look too bad in there. You know, a bit of rust. But to be expected, in here are all the brushes. Ah, just first glance. Everything looks fine. I'm just going to do a bit of cleaning, maybe with a paintbrush. Put a bit of oil and everything, and hopefully it'll be fine. Actually, you know what? If I turn the propeller. Yeah, maybe I'll see that moving in there. Yeah, seems to be spinning pretty easily. It's a good sign. It's a little bit scratchy.  I think some rusty bits from here, dirt and stuff, is falling down in there. There's not a lot of space between the spinny part and the not spinny part. So I might be getting some gunk stuck in there. However, I do have a super powerful vacuum cleaner. It uses a lot of electricity, but I think I can turn it on for a few seconds and, you know, suck this sucker out. And I think I'll paint a little oil on. Oh yeah, definitely up there. Here around this thing. Oh, I just remembered one other thing I have to check. Down here in the bottom. Oh, come on, son. I need to check the oil in here. And there's a little screwy plug down here. I can use to drain the oil. And then a screwy plug up here I can use to put oil in. Man, I'm getting some really bad lighting right now. I kind of want to just check how much oil is in it and what it looks like. It might be fine. Haven't used this motor in years though. So I guess I need to take this plug out and have a container under. And just see what starts coming out. And I'm going to leave this one in so that whatever comes out comes out real slowly. So I have a chance to put this back in if it looks fine. All right. All right, I couldn't get this plug off. And then I remembered, yeah, that's when that one's been sealed since I got it. I got this one off and there's definitely oil in there. Doesn't look great. I don't think it should be great like that. But I'm just going to leave it for now. You know, this crappy oil should be good enough until I can go get some gear case oil and replace it. Yeah, it'll be fine for a little while. I mean, this whole thing is so old and used. All right, there's one other thing I want to do to the motor before I put it back on the boat. I mean, besides paint it, I'll paint it after I get on. This is the part where it swivels and I want to get some grease in there. I want it to be able to swivel kind of easily more easily than it has been. So I've got some grease here. You know, maybe I have to put some oil in there because it's going to be hard to get grease to go down in there. Yeah, maybe I just get some motor oil and kind of drip it in there.  No, I don't want to do all that. Yeah, I'm just going to get some motor oil and stick it in there because you know what? The truth is I don't know if I've ever oiled that and it's been, you know, functioning. Oh, it turns nice and smooth with that oil in there. That's great. This hits up here though. Might have to do a bit of trimming. I attached three pulleys back up here. So I had to take them off when I removed the roof. So hopefully this thing works. I think I'll have to put some grease on this too. Whatever, it's working. All right. I'm going to wash it. And hopefully if I pull that, one of my pulleys just broke.  Oh, man. I guess it's been in the sun too long. Well, maybe I'll just skip that pulley. I can lift it with one, get some grease on there. Totally broke. There's the pulley that broke. So what it used to look like was, well, it's fine when you can actually see. Yeah, little red wheels in there. I guess that one was in the sun for too long. Got brittle and broke. Well, I don't think I need it. Oh, I do have another one. Oh, it's low tide right now. All right, so yeah, I just have to attach the steering. So I guess I need to put that down, put my rudder down. All right, I've got my rudder pretty much straight ahead.  Yeah, well, it looks pretty straight. Okay, now I'll get my motor straight. Well, it looks pretty straight right there. Yeah.  Okay, piece of cake all connected and with any luck when I turn this, this guy will rotate. Oh, beautiful. Oh, I love this steering. Okay. And if I'm lucky, really lucky, I can pull this motor up and leave this attached. Hmm. And if not, well, I don't want to, I don't want to disconnect it from this end because the threads are through the steel part and I've got a nut on each side. So it's locked into the steel rod so that there's a smooth part of the bolt going through the plastic thing that's loose. So to take this off, it would be kind of a pain in the butt. However, I just took this nut off and just laid this on there and probably stay. Anyway, let me just see if I can pull the motor up and be an issue. All right, motor, let's go. I don't know if I can leave that like that. It goes up fine. But sometimes I'm going to want the motor out of the water when I'm still using the rudder. The rudder I think will pretty much always be in the water when I'm driving. But sometimes this guy is going to want to come out. I don't know if that's going to. Looks like, looks like it's all right actually.  All right, I don't have to do any fancy tricks. Oh, that's great. Okay. Oh, I think it's done. Oh, I got to cover the motor with something. Okay, I used a chip bag is obviously not going to be the permanent solution. However, if it rains tonight, that'll be fine. I also wouldn't want to run it with that on it because it's going to cut off the airflow. But anyway, that's fine. I'll find something to stick on top of there. But now it's not urgent. Do it whenever. Well, next is wires from the solar panels through some switches and gobbledygook to the motor. I can drive it then. I mean, I could drive it now just on the pedals. But yeah, I get the wires in there. I can motor.


Thank you very much for your kind words and so urbanization in China is that I've been engaged in a project four year project by the European Union on urbanization in China which finished last year so as well which is not four years is definitely not enough to go into all the aspects of urbanization so I'm still working on the area and probably still kept on working you know until I have not no longer able to do so so what I want to do is just to outline some salient features if something is not clear please stop me when I'm going because it may be easier just to clarify that issue so let me start with basic information in 2011 that's about five years ago the first time in China long history that majority of population was ever so for all of China's long history China has been and rural society and really pedantry and rural areas have played a very important role in in Chinese history so in some sense in a more fundamental sense it changes the social dynamics of Chinese society we have yet to see is full implication but in general it would work very differently from what it has done in the past and the second point I want to make is China obviously might say China has a long history so urbanization in China must have a long history too so if you look at the present urban population almost sixty to seventy percent of it is really days from the period of reform so in fact urbanization in China most of it has taken place in the last thirty to thirty five years so when the economic reform started in China in 1978 urban areas something like eighty percent of the population was actually rural so China was overwhelmingly a rural society I should mention that rural and urban in China have a very distinct Chinese meaning and a lot of areas rural in China doesn't really look rural but it's more like very urban because population density in China especially along the coast is extremely high so if you compare as I did some years ago looking at the rural population density and comparing with the United States and Europe by American standards a lot of Chinese rural areas look very urban rather so there are certain implications for urbanization which I'll come to so in terms of if we look at the main features of Chinese urbanization it is huge in scale in terms of population so just to give you an idea that in thirty four years from 1980 to 2014 China's urban population grew by five hundred sixty million and numbers always big in case of China this is sixteen million per year roughly a city size of Shanghai per year it does depend on how you measure Shanghai but by world standards it's huge and it's going to accelerate for the reason is that now the Chinese leadership has decided that instead of resisting urbanization as they've done for most of the period in 1952 they're going to welcome it and facilitate it so a lot of people who were treated as rural migrants living and working in cities are going to be in next twenty years or so granted full ever residency rights so the process is going to accelerate the second thing is really the physical aspect of urbanization is anybody who's been to China regularly goes to China is amazed at the rate at which skyscrapers appear so if you don't go to Beijing for about three or four months then you go back sometimes you cannot recognize the place because the main landmarks are changed and second is the work proceeds at a very rapid pace in fact my experience in Beijing is that building laborers work for twenty four hours and so in the middle of the night you will see people still working because many of the building laborers are peasants and they come to do a contract job and it's in their interest to finish it as quickly as possible and then go and do another something else and the third thing which is important about China and it's also true for India and other Asian countries that is urbanization is taking place under very tight or stressful environmental constraints so in general in European sense we say think that before urbanization industrialization the air was cleaner the water was unpolluted and so on but in China given population density and what I said very urban density it means the rural areas in China already have a lot of urban features so if and the problems which are like urban problems also apply to rural areas so in that sense the second is very very serious problem of water shortage in China the northern half of China is seriously short of water and its long term consequences are huge for example much of water in northern China is underground water so underground aquifers are being rapidly depleted it means that field agriculture the future of field agriculture in northern China plain is extremely doubtful unless you find some other sources of water and with urbanization more and more water is going from farming to urban areas so this is a long term consequence of what is the future of agriculture and farming as an industry in northern China so the way I would look at urbanization in China is the urbanization everywhere consists of basically two processes so I would say what are these two processes and what forms do they take in the Chinese context so first is the rising share of urban population in the total involving mass rural to urban migration is actually a feature of Chinese urbanization second is urban scrolls that is steady diversion of rural land for urban development and so if you've been to China, I start my first visit to China was in 1987 and so I went to attend a course in Beijing Chinese course and also traveled over China and went to Shanghai and so on so one of the cities called Wusi which is traditionally known as land of fish and rice and very famous for its farming so I went there a year and a half ago and what I find very shocking is that there's no countryside there is almost continuously urban similarly I went to Canton in the south and went to a town called Foshan we drove back there was no sign saying this is Foshan and this is where Canton began so what we see in China come to is actually consequences is the emergence of urban collaboration which have no boundaries as the boundaries are there they're constantly shifting so it means that in some sense what we are going to get urban pattern in China is not just growth of large cities but actually giant urban collaboration and that's something which the government actually accepts so what is urbanization with Chinese characteristics what the Chinese say Junko Thursala and so like the two institutions which are particular to China one is the household registration system who call Kukho and the second is the public ownership of land and its division into collective and state ownership so Kukho is really part of daily life of Chinese citizens it affects their lives in many different ways so in some sense for example in case of education this is something which parents have to worry about and I've come to that so what is Kukho which is a population wide system for recording data on individuals and also commonly referred to by the locality where the whole race is resident so you get named like Beijing, Kukho, Shanghai, Kukho and so Beijing, Kukho can be have its way in gold and I'll come to reason why there is such privilege attached to a particular locality so it is used for two purposes it is used for individual identification so in that sense it is very similar to the European ID system so like France and Germany you have to have an ID like United Kingdom and United States don't believe in it but on the other hand they have something equivalent to the United States when he said three pieces of identity with your photograph on it so instead of ID card but the second use of Kukho which makes it particularly Chinese is really sorting or dividing people for determining access to certain facilities so when I say access to certain facilities for example a lot of social security in Tartar Men are only available to people who are actually resident in a city second and in fact the preferential treatment goes much deeper so one which has attracted attention recently is for young people that is the university entrance exam which has a huge influence on a young person's life is you only allowed in most provinces of China you only allowed to take the university entrance exam if you have the local Kukho and so there has been a lot of problems like two years ago there was a big scandal where a girl who originally parents came from Anhui which is an interior problem she studied all her life in Shanghai but she was not allowed to take the university entrance exam in Shanghai on the grounds that although she has never been to Anhui she is still officially treated as an uncaught person so at 30% of students in Beijing schools are actually migrant children and who are not allowed to take the university entrance exam in Beijing and why does it matter? it matters greatly because if you have Beijing Kukho then you get privileged access to leading universities in Beijing so for example Beijing University, Tsinghua University, two leading universities if you have Beijing Kukho you get much lower marks than if you have an outside Kukho so they are still trying to change the system so and this is accepted in China so just to point out that certain things would be regarded as very out in the European context some others are regarded as almost a southern nation in China that is in most European countries the idea that a leading public university so that discriminates against even depending on the locality where they lived in there could be on two or three years basis these are students who spend all their lives in the locality it's certainly strange but I will come to reason why it still is there so let me just point to one of the reasons why Kukho is so odd that is the two entries in Kukho which are very important one is the official place of residence and the second is the Kukho statement so although these categories are factual in some sense place of residence every ID document will have your address but in China because they are used for granting preferences they are actually control category so it's very much similar to what in French called Appellation Contrôle that is to call it worthwhile something you need not just say Kukho is champagne you have to observe certain conditions so in some sense these categories are actually no longer factual in that sense I would come to that is the large number of people in China who actually their official residence is not where they live and work and they may be living and working completely different the second thing classification which was introduced in 1958 was between agriculture and non-agriculture at that time it actually corresponded to the occupation so basically agriculture was some people who were dependent on farming one way or the other and non-agriculture basically urban population with certain exception but now this is the label agriculture is really inherited so if your parents are classified as agriculture then you will automatically inherit the label agriculture so let me give an example I come to that the China urban population is meant to be account 55% but if you look at the people who are classified as non-agriculture it's only 35% so it means 20% each point of people who are misclassified so let me just indicate the size of what I call anomalous a misclassified population in 2014 there were some 298 million people so not a small number that is over 20% of the total population of China were living and working in a long temple in a locality other than the one recorded at their home in the Hukou and the proportions and a large majority of them are rural migrant living in urban areas so in fact if you take it what proportion of the population they constitute in urban areas is over 40% so over 40% of China's urban population is not classified as residents of the locality where they are actually living and working proportion is much higher for Beijing and Shanghai both Beijing and Shanghai majority of residents actually do not have local Hukou so I just say why does it matter because access to a lot of social services such as education entitlement to social security benefit non-contributed social security benefit access to certain jobs and even getting certain qualification actually it depends on whether you have Hukou of the locality or not so it means that basically urbanization in China has created a very segmented population that is in big cities almost and more than half of the population do not have access to the facilities which are not provided to the population so let me give an example of Beijing and second thing which is more serious is that this disadvantage is inherited and passed to generations so for example not only affects a migrant living in Beijing but also equally well applies to migrant children because Hukou is inherited so more than 30% of school children in Beijing are actually migrants and most cases they cannot go to the local school the local school do not have places for them so they go to special school where the education level may be very poor so in some sense the disadvantage is being transmitted across generations and to education it can be serious because the work done at Beijing University says that in many some cases if the child has stayed in rural area and not migrated to Beijing or Shanghai his or her education attainment would have been higher if he hadn't migrated so in general if he says migration to town actually improves education qualification it does not apply to all migrants in China now I turn to question why do these anomalies persist if this question of change in name you can change the name and some Chinese cities actually tried to do that some years ago but really it persists because of public finance reason historically when China was found this because government resources were limited it was decided there is better to concentrate government subsidies in education social security on the urban population so as not to dissipate the effect but it more or less got institutionalized so subsidy per urban citizen is much higher than subsidy per rural citizen of person classified as agriculture so if you change a person whose status is rural resident to an urban resident there is government expenditure to be taken it's quite substantial so and the numbers we are dealing with as I pointed out is 298 million people most of them so it's a problem which actually cannot be solved simply by changing name and but in 2013 the Central Committee of the Communist Party did decide that is this the segmentation has to end so the plan is by 2020 something like 100 million people numbers always big for China are going to transfer status from rural migrant to urban resident and then also another 100 million would be transferred from coastal area to interior area so the first one is the most important because it requires a very radical reform of the China's public finance system so let me just indicate in 1994 China undertook a very important fiscal reform but it only affected the relationship between provinces and the central government did not have an effect at the relationship at the sub-provincial level and the peculiarity in some sense of China is that most of social expenditure almost all of social expenditure is undertaken at the sub-provincial level so it does not affect education it does not affect social security so that reform still has to conduct it and it has to be part and parcel of any reform of the Hukou system so my own guess is and actually with the challenge that the system and the present distinction would disappear but it will not disappear quickly in some sense it might take 10 to 15 years even with considerable commitment and parcel of the central leadership land is publicly owned in China and in India for example it isn't so one natural question one would ask what difference does it make to urbanization and obviously should be important because an important aspect of urbanization is physical that is expansion of urban areas into the surrounding rural areas but in China the public ownership is divided into state ownership which is equated with urban areas and rural public ownership in rural areas is equated with collective ownership collective is basically he refers to public institutions we do not regard status of government so it really applies to grassroots rural areas so the important point for present purpose is that because the division between state owned and collectively owned coincides with urban and rural so with urbanization there has to be constantly shifting boundaries between urban and rural so before a piece of rural land can be used for urban purposes it has to be first acquired and transformed into state property and then auction lease auction for urban development and this process can only be conducted by city so in some sense like every country there is a piece of land agricultural land can be used for urban purposes value goes up maybe 300% or 1000% but in China most of that is appropriated by cities very small proportion actually accrues to peasants so first there is a great deal of disenchantment in the rural population with the low level of compensation but it also means that it has provided cities with ready source of money so what is very striking in China compared to other Asian cities is the infrastructure in China is so much better than other areas so part of it is explained by public ownership of land there is the cities actually we get most of the most of the revenue but there is like all good stories there is a limit to that the limit is that cultivable area in China is very limited so for example China covers large territory but only 15% of it is actually cultivable in India area is not as large but 50% of Indian territory is actually cultivable so what it means is that urban expansion we look at into the cultivable land so the central government has to constantly control this process of urban sprawl in order to preserve cultivable land so it means that process of relying on the way local governments collect revenue from land is really not sustainable over time they have to find some other ways of actually collecting income so let me just press on to just look as I want to look at what do cities and towns look like in China there is something like 666 cities in China they are archically divided four cities have the status of provinces these are Beijing Beijing, Shanghai, India and Chongqing and then some cities in the middle that really constitutes the core of urban area are called prefecture level cities of which about 260 and then there are small cities which are country level cities and I want to comment on one aspect of policy of the Chinese government that is traditionally Chinese government has always emphasised that it favours the expansion of a smaller medium sized town and really restrict the growth of large towns but it hasn't really happened for example in fact big towns have grown much faster than small towns second towns on the eastern seaboard have grown much faster than in the interior for simple reason they offer better economic opportunity so it means that this is an area where the policy the second thing is the policy is actually non-sustainable if you think of this way that if the policy were really successful then small towns and medium sized town will grow into big cities so after some time what you will see is really expansion of a small and big sized city and there will be automatically classified big cities what is happening apart from growth of big towns is given the high population density in China's rural area what we see imagine that cities grow and they might enter next to them so what an effect what you see in China is rise of urban commemoration where you get a continuous urban area and without any boundaries so in some sense ordinary sense of time actually disappear so next two or three decades what we will see in China is the urbanization rate will continue and growth there will be obviously towns and cities but also we see the emergence of 5 to 6 giant urban metropolitan region that is one in northern China that is already Beijing Cienji and Hubei province with a population of 120 million then one around Shanghai which is really linkable to Nanjing is more or less like already an urban commemoration with a population of 160 million people one in south of China which is Guangzhou and Hong Kong that we are dealing with well over 200 million people so these are the metropolitan regions something which we never experienced in world history the largest urban commemoration now is Tokyo Bay with 28 million people so I will just say what problem why do they pose a particular problem pose a particular problem if you ask the question who will finance the infrastructure for this entity because they do not fit in any administrative boundaries so now in Beijing the central government is supporting the development of what we call Jing Jing Di which is Beijing, Cienji and Hubei and a lot of infrastructure is being financed by the central government but after it is completed how is the responsibility divided second the idea is that administrative region the second is what actually happens through economic division so this is one way the Chinese government wants to contract so-called the tendency of cities to replicate each other so if China has too many steel wheels not because central government actually authorize them if such a city has steel wheels we are going to have one too so the idea is that competitive industrialization is what partly responsible for example huge surplus capacity in steel and we also going to get it in car so this idea that if you have a bigger region then it might control it and second why it is important is why environmental purpose Beijing environmental problem such a well known but one idea is that Beijing has been clothing down all factories so capital steel wheels has been closed down in Beijing but pollution levels are not affected so they move next door to Hubei province so instead of pollution originating from Beijing one originating from the neighboring province and by the general situation remains the same so the idea of what economists said if you have a bigger region then you would you would take into account the environmental aspect so it remains to be seen but that's the thinking behind the emergence of this region in the northern area so I think what other things we would want to say in China it is generally accepted that really there is no alternative in China that is but to accept rapid urbanization so really the question is not whether to have towns or not towns because you get exactly the same problem in areas classified as rural so having much rural population is actually often turned amount to according an area which is urban in all respect except name the part of it accepting people who are urban citizens because that's the reality they are urban citizens so I think and it's only then that China can have an urbanization policy and the second is that what is very clear that government cannot control the size of town cities is because in China government is powerful leadership is powerful it can do many things but what it cannot do is to say Beijing's population cannot go beyond 20 million because it will grow but it will just take form which are never intended so let me end here and I'd be happy to take comments and answer any questions you may have. Thank you


I am, but I'm not really keyed in to the, you know. You know, actually, I heard that they're asking also if you have registered for the Huduma number. Yes, they're also asking for the same. I was counted in the first day, 24th, the night of 24th. Yes, around 9 p.m. it was counted. Are you chairman of the Nyumbakumi Initiative? No, I'm just... Because I want to ask you all the answer. I matter in the community. We welcome people to youth and politics. Today, we'll be looking at youth unemployment and, of course, later on, youth empowerment. But before we get to look at the statistics that are there about youth unemployment, I want us to have probably just discussed briefly about the census issue. Dan, you have not been counted, I know, as you have just said. Do you think the government is aiming at taxation, or are we talking about employment for those who are unemployed? Well, I think the census definitely is meant to underscore a number of, you know, objectives. One of which is to know the exact number of people within a certain locality, or a constituency within a geographical area, for the purposes of national planning and resource allocation. Yes. That befits the interest of the national housing and population census in 2019. The other thing would also... One of the... What our people should know, the Kenyan populist should know, is the fact that we're not only interested in knowing the numbers, but, you know, other classical things that are needed, for example, knowing even the number of employed people not, and the average income of a housing. Yes. Even if you own a cow or not, and all these are meant to gather a certain information, not only for the government but spread across. My only reservation, as a rights probably defender, is to know why would somebody be interested to know my passport number. Passport? Right. And national ID. And whether or not I registered for a Duma number. I think that within the security measures and the freedom for rights and freedom for privacy, I think it's something that should be considered. Knowing that we are coming from a bug group of... All these talks about data mining in the safety, pure safety of information and security of data. Of which, if you mentioned about privacy, I remember once, I think one week ago before we began the census, the managing director actually noted and said that any information given is private and confidential. So I believe that data collection is private as per the government has noted. So for me, I really want to know from your side what you think about the collection of data and they have already said that everything is private and confidential. Well, I think like I've said, we are coming from a very still emotional election where you understand that one of the international data and political institutions got some very sensitive data from Kenyans and they after started to influence the outcome of the election through personalized data. Remember the story about Otomofu and the rest. So all in all, what we are saying is that I would not hesitate to provide my government with the information that is much desired for me and to help me, but then I would question that in rest of the spectrum. What is the safety of the information I'm giving you? Is it handled by the servers that are controlled overseas or is it within the government locality so that it would inspire me to give information that my government would be useful to them to provide me with services that I require? I want to come to you. Do you think that the services probably the government has been trying to offer now that we have Huduma Namba and we are doing sensors? Do you think we try and merge and try to bring in like the Huduma Namba, the one number digit because you have mentioned about passport, about Huduma Namba and of course your ID number, the government seeking to merge all these even in HAF and all that stuff? Do you think the government is trying to do these in order for us to be able probably just to synchronize everything and bring it to make it one? How will it help? You remember last week when now President Kenyatta and the Kenyatta family were doing the memorial service for the first president of this country. Remember what they said? What the president said is that this is the last time we are doing such a service. Other time, not sensors. For the last president. He said that would be the last time they are doing it. Others they will have other elements of doing it. Maybe private something. It should also come to sensors. The last time they are doing sensors. It should be a better way of handling this. We are not in 18th century where people have to be head counted. It should be the last because they are, like you said they said Huduma Namba. Every time you buy a kai, the interest I do know if you have a kai or not. Every time you have a kai, because they have to go through the sensors. When you sell it, they also capture because they are transferred. So this should be the last time we have sensors so that they should not bugle us with those questions. Remember what they were asking?


From the SiliconANGLE Media Office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante. Hi, everybody, Dave Vellante here with Stu Miniman. We have some breaking analysis. We're going to break down the acquisition of IBM. Red Hat by IBM was announced today that it closed Stu. It was originally announced in October, a $34 billion acquisition, so not a surprise. Surprise that it closed a little bit earlier than people thought. People were thinking well into the second half, closed in July, they got through all the issues in Europe. What does this mean in your view to the industry? Yeah, so Dave, we did a lot of analysis when the deal was announced. Absolutely, the cloud and the ripples of chains that are happening because of cloud are the impetus for this. And the question we've been having for years, Dave, is how many companies can stay kind of independent in their swim lanes or what they're doing? Or are we going to see more massive consolidations where not that far off of the $67 billion acquisition of Dell by EMC to go heavily into the enterprise market? And of course, there are cloud implications, what happened there? And we're watching the growth of cloud, what's happening in the developer world. We've watched Red Hat for a long time and Red Hat has a nice position in the world and it carved themselves out a nice role into what has been emerging as hybrid and multi-cloud. And in my opinion, that's the number one reason why Arvind and the IBM team went to take that 20 year partnership and turn it into, now just part of the IBM portfolio. Arvind Krista, executive at IBM, who's a long time player there. So the deal is, so you talked about Dell's acquisition, we've talked a lot about the VMware model, keeping the company separate. Of course, Red Hat is not going to be a separately traded public company. It is going to be a distinct unit inside of IBM's cloud and cognitive software group, as I understand it. Is that right? So the question is, will it be reported separately or is it going to be, oh, we're going to throw everything into our cloud number? Yeah, so Dave, this is where all of us that have watched and known IBM for our entire careers because they've been around over a hundred years ask what's going to happen. So from reporting structure, Jim Whitehurst reports to Ginny from a Wall Street standpoint, it sounds like it's going to be just thrown into the cloud piece. Dave isn't it the standard practice today that you throw lots of stuff in there so we can't figure out what your cloud business really is. I mean, let's look at Oracle or even Microsoft and what they had. Amazon's probably the only one that clearly differentiates. This is revenue that we all understand is cloud and can touch and feel it. So sure, IBM, you've got all of the piece that used to be soft layers, now the IBM cloud piece. There are lots of software pieces in that mix. The cloud and cognitive is a big umbrella and Red Hat adds a few billion dollars worth of revenue into that stream. So IBM's assumptions here, Ginny talks a lot about chapter two. Chapter one was a lot of front end systems. That's what a lot of the growth was. Everybody thought everything was going into the cloud. That's really not the way it is. The 80% of the workloads are still on-prem and chapter two was all about connecting those to any cloud, multi-cloud, her words, the IBM cloud or the Amazon Google or Microsoft cloud, et cetera, et cetera. She made the statement that we are the only hybrid multi-cloud open source company. Okay, I guess that's true. Does it matter that they're the only hybrid multi-cloud open source company? And are they? Yeah, so I mean, Dave, any time a vendor tries to paint themselves as the number one or leader in this space, that's how they're defining it. That's not how customers think of it. Customers don't think as much about whether it's multi-cloud or hybrid cloud. They're doing cloud and they're working with more than one supplier. It is very rare that you find somebody, I'm all in and then you dig in. Oh yeah, wait, I'm using Office 365 and Salesforce and oh wait, there was that cool new thing that Google announced that somebody off on the side's doing. So we understand that today it's a multi-cloud world. Tomorrow it'll be a multi-cloud world. Absolutely, open source is growing at great leaps and bounds. Red Hat is the best example we've had of that trend, something I've been watching for the last 20 years and it is impressive to see it. But even when you talk to customers, most customers are not flag-waving. I must do everything open source. They have a little bit more nuanced view of it. Sure, lots of companies are participating and contributing to open source. But I've yet to talk to too many companies that were like, well, when I'm making this decision, this is absolutely what it is. Am I concerned about my overall costs? Am I concerned about transparency? Am I concerned about security and how fast I can get things resolved? And by the way, open source can help with a lot of those things. That's what they need to think about. But look, IBM had a long-time partnership with Red Hat. Red Hat has a strong position in the marketplace but they're not the only ones there. You mentioned VMware, Dave. VMware, of course, has a strong play across multi-cloud environments. We see Red Hat at all of the cloud shows. You see IBM at many of the cloud shows. But you've got Cisco out there with their play. It is still this chapter two, if you agree with Ginny's terminology, we are relatively early in that. But IBM, I believe, has strengthened in their positioning. I don't think it radically changes the landscape just because Red Hat is still going to stay working with the Amazon, and Microsoft, and Google, and other players out there. So it doesn't dramatically change the landscape. It just consolidates two players that already work closely. Well, let me ask you a question. So IBM is clearly positioning this as a cloud play, generally, and in a multi-cloud specifically. Is this a cloud play? So I'll say yes, but, Dave, so absolutely the future and where the growth for Red Hat and where IBM and for this $34 billion to be successful, the tip of the spear is open shift. And therefore, how does that new cloud native, multi-cloud environment, where do they play? But at its core, Red Hat is still Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is still, that is the primary driver of revenue. And Linux isn't going away. As a matter of fact, Linux is growing. Microsoft just revealed that there are more Linux workloads sitting in Azure than there are Windows. We already knew that there were strong Linux out there and Microsoft is at Brace Linux. We saw Satya Nadella at Red Hat Summit. And we've seen that proliferation of Linux out there. So Linux is still growing in where it's being used out there and in the cloud. Linux is what most people are using. So the reason why I think this acquisition, it's interesting, Jim Whitehurst today said publicly that it was a great deal that IBM was getting, but then he couched and he said, of course it's a great deal for our shareholders too. So, and Ginny chimed in and said, yes, it was a fair deal. Okay, fine, 34 billion, we'll see. The reason why I think IBM likes this deal and IBM generally has been good in history with acquisitions, clearly some mega acquisitions like PWC, which was transformative, maybe we have time to talk about that. Cognos and some of the other software acquisitions done quite well, not 100%, but the reason why I think IBM likes this deal is because it's a good cash flow deal. So I think in many ways, and they don't talk about this because it's not sexy marketing, but IBM is a services company. Over 60% of the company's revenue comes from professional services. IBM loves complexity because they can bring in services throw the big blue blanket around you and do a lot of integration work. And the reason is that I think this is an interesting acquisition from a financial standpoint and Ginny says this all the time. This is not about cost synergies. This is about revenue opportunities. When you try to put everything in the cloud, you always run into the backend systems. And her point is that those backend systems need to be modernized. How do you modernize those backend systems? Open shift, it's not trivial to do that. You need services. And so IBM has a large install base, probably by my estimate, certainly tens of billions of dollars of opportunity there to modernize backend systems using Red Hat technology. And that means that it's a front loaded deal from a cash flow standpoint that they will find automatically revenue synergies to plug in to IBM's captive install base. What are your thoughts? Dave, I think that your analysis is spot on. So Red Hat has been one of these most consistent revenue companies out there. You steadily, when they went from a billion dollars to now they're right around three billion dollars, they had the March to five billion dollars. They had a couple of minor blips in their quarterly earnings, but if you plug in that IBM services organization, you really have the opportunity to supercharge. This is not, the opportunity is to have that huge IBM services organization really help grow those engagements, do more OpenShift, get more Linux, help Ansible really become the standard for automation in the modern workplace. The challenge is that too many IBM people get involved because the thing that everybody is a little worried about is IBM's done well with a lot of those acquisitions but they don't leave them stand alone. Even VMware for many years was a standalone company. Today, VMware and Dell, they're one company. They're in lockstep from a management standpoint and they're working closely together. What differentiates Red Hat is, IBM has groups that are much larger than Red Hat that do some of the same things, but Red Hat with their open source mission and where they're driving things and the innovation they drive, they move a little bit faster than IBM traditionally does. So can the Red Hat brand, the Red Hat people and Red Hat still stay independent enough so that they can till hop on that next wave. They jumped early into Kubernetes and that was the wave that really helped them drive for what they're doing with OpenShift. Even Dave, Red Hat had bought CoreOS which was a smaller company moving even faster than Red Hat and while they've done a really good job of integrating those people, absolutely from what I've heard, it has slowed things down a little bit just because Red Hat compared to CoreOS was a much bigger company and of course, IBM is a BMF compared to Red Hat. So will they throw these groups together and who will be making the decisions and can they maintain that culture and that growth mindset? Well, the point is structurally, we bring up VMware a lot as the model and of course when EMC bought VMware for a paltry $635 million it folded it in and then spun it back out which was the right move, certainly allowed the ecosystem to blossom. I don't think IBM is going to take that same approach. Blue Wash is the term, they'll probably Blue Wash that now. Oh no, Dave, they said, IBM has said they will not Blue Wash, there's no purple, red stays separate but absolutely there's concerns. So to get those revenue synergies, you're going to have to plug into IBM systems and that requires some work and IBM is generally good at that. So we'll see, we'll keep our eyes on that. But I would predict that IBM is not going to do a VMware like, it's going to be some kind of hybrid.  Yeah, let's talk about succession planning. So a lot of rumors that Whitehurst is next, he's 52 years old, I've said I don't think they would do that, but let's talk about it. First of all, you know Jim Whitehurst, I sort of interviewed him a number of times, but you know him quite well.  So you know, I talked with Jim a little bit at Red Hat Summit, you know, he kind of makes light of it. He said, you know, knowing IBM the way we all know IBM, IBM has always taken somebody from inside to do that. He feels that he has a strong mission still to drive Red Hat. He is super passionate about Red Hat. He wrote a book about the open source culture and is still driving that. So I think from everything I see from him, that's still the job that he loves and wants to do. And you know, it's a very different challenge to run IBM. I'm not saying he would turn it down if that was the direction that it went, if it went down to it, but I did not see him angling and positioning like that would be where he wants to go. Well, and of course, you know, Jim is from North Carolina. He's got that kind of Southern folksy demeanor, you know, comes across as the nicest guy in the room. He's also the smartest guy in the room. And so we'll see, we'll see what happens there. I've said that I think Martin Schroeder is going to be the next CEO of IBM. Martin Schroeder did, you know, three years of combat duty as the CFO in what was a tough time for IBM to be a CFO.  They had to put together those strategic initiatives. And so he has CFO chops. So he understands finance deeply. He ran, you know, one of IBM's big services business. He's now responsible for IBM's revenue generation. He's a spokesperson, you know, in many ways for the company. He's like the prototypical choice. It would not be surprising at all to see IBM plug him right in. A little bit of history. As you know, Stu, I'm a bit of a historian of the industry. I've been around for a while. John Aker is back in the early 1990s when IBM's mainframe business was tanking and the whole company was tanking and it was at the risk of actually, believe it or not, running out of money. They were going to split up the company because the industry was breaking apart. Intel and microprocessors, Microsoft and software, Seagate and disk drives, you know, Oracle and databases. And to be more competitive from a product standpoint, they were going to split the company up into pieces. Gershner came in and said, no way. Gershner was, you know, CEO of American Express said, no, that's not how customers want to buy. He bought PWC for a song compared to what Carly Fiorina at HP, Carly Fiorina at HP wanted to pay, I think 15 billion for it. I want to say IBM paid five billion or maybe even less for PWC. They completely transformed the company and it transformed IBM into a services company. And that's what IBM is today. They don't like when you say that but that's where the revenue is coming from. What that did, and they also started to buy software companies. IBM was restricted from getting into applications for years and years and years because of the DOJ, because they owned the mainframe, they had a monopoly, well, Microsoft and Intel changed all that. IBM started to buy software companies and bought lots of them. So they became a services company with a collection of software assets and the mainframe and the power, they have a storage business and finance, IBM global finance business, et cetera, et cetera. So my point is, how about sure Jim Whitehurst would want to run that? You know, it's kind of messy. Now, what you need to run that is somebody who really understands finance, knows how to turn the knobs. And that's why I think Martin Schroeder is actually an excellent pick for that, to keep the cash flow going, to keep the dividend going, to keep the stock buybacks going. It's still, in my view, not a growth play. I think there's certainly near-term growth that can be had by modernizing applications, but I don't look at IBM as a growth company. I look at IBM as a portfolio company that throws off a lot of cash. And if and when the market stops rewarding growth and profitless growth, a company like IBM will become more favorable to investors. Yeah, and the question at the end of the day is after spending $34 billion for Red Hat, does IBM help weather the storm of what is happening with the phenomenal growth of AWS, the changes happening in Microsoft, build more of a relationship than they've already had with Google, and help position themselves for this next wave of IT? Does IBM help create a lot of the waves that happen in IT? Well, the pure-play cloud players are in it for the long game. You know, Amazon's philosophy is give tools to builders and allow them to disrupt the traditional old guard, whether it's old guard technology companies or old guard industry players. And you've seen the stat of how many Fortune 1,000 companies or have gone out of business in the last 20 or 30 years, whatever it is, that's going to continue. And Amazon and certainly Google and Microsoft want to support that disruption by providing cloud tooling and put the data in the hands of people that allows them to create new business models. Now, that doesn't mean everybody's going to throw out their mainframes, it's not going to happen. It's certainly not going to happen overnight and probably will never happen. But I just don't see how IBM becomes a growth company in that scenario. The growth is going to continue to be with the cloud. But Dave, we had seen IBM, I'd say struggle a little bit when it comes to the developers these days and the Red Hat acquisition is definitely going to be a boon to them in this space because Red Hat, all about the developers, that that's what their customers are. So that's such a huge community that they've already tapped into. So Jenny has said this hybrid multi-cloud is chapter two, it's a trillion dollar opportunity. So who else is going after that trillion dollar opportunity? Let's lay it out there. Who are the multi-cloud players? VMware, obviously IBM Red Hat with OpenShift is in there. Google with Anthos, Cisco is coming at it from a network perspective. So they have coming at it from their position of strength even though they're relatively new entering into this space. Everybody wants to be the new management layer in this multi-cloud environment. What VMware had done is had, vCenter became the console for everyone as they were consolidating all of their silos. And when I go to a multi-cloud environment, right. Where do I live? Microsoft has a strong play there. That's the other company. So it's VMware, IBM Red Hat, Anthos, Google Anthos, Cisco and Microsoft. Yeah, and of course the one that while they won't say that they are multi-cloud, you can't talk about multi-cloud without talking about Amazon because Amazon is a piece of everyone's cloud environment. We're seeing what they're doing without posts there. So they are the kind of specter looming over this entire multi-cloud discussion. Yeah, you're right on. I think you got to put Amazon into that mix. They will be an entrant into this multi-cloud play. And it's not going to be a winner-take-all deal. Like I say, Cisco's coming at it from a position of networking strength. Microsoft has its software estate and it's going to do very well there. IBM Red Hat coming at it from a standpoint of modernizing applications and there's a services play and services component there. And VMware, of course, coming at it from the infrastructure operating system. I don't see Oracle as interested in that market. There may be some smaller players like Turbonomic, who probably get gobbled up by one of these guys that we just mentioned. But that really is the landscape. And there's five, six companies, a trillion dollars, there's plenty to go around. All right, Stu, final thoughts on the Red Hat news, the IBM news that they've finalized the Red Hat acquisition, what should we look for? What should we look for? So what you want to look for is, first of all, what's happening organizationally? If OpenShift is the primary, the tip of the sphere what we're talking about here for this cloud-native, multi-cloud world, what does the IBM cloud messaging look like? They're going to have an analyst event here in a couple of weeks that they've invited all the analysts to going into what does that cloud portfolio look like? How do they sort through all of the Kubernetes options that they've had today? Do they try to elevate IBM cloud to be a stronger player? Or will they let Red Hat continue to play across all of the cloud environments that they have? So organization and product positioning are the two things that I'm looking at the most. Tom Siebel said publicly yesterday that IBM is a great company, a national treasure. But they miss cloud and they missed AI. I wouldn't agree totally. They didn't miss cloud. They were late to cloud. They had to buy software. They're in cloud, just like Oracle's in cloud. They're not as competitive as the AWS cloud, but they've got a cloud. HP doesn't have a cloud. Dell doesn't have a cloud. These two companies that I just mentioned do. AI, yeah, they're not sort of generalized AI like with Google and Amazon and Facebook and Microsoft are doing. IBM's trying to solve big chewy problems. IBM's a services company, as they said. So Watson, you see a lot of negative stories about Watson, but Watson requires a lot of services to make it work. And it's, as they say, solving different problems. So they're a player in AI. Multi-cloud is new. And this move, the acquisition of Red Hat, yes, $34 billion expensive. It's not going to be pretty on the balance sheet, but they got good cash flow. So they'll deal with that over time. It puts them right in the mix as a leader in multi-cloud. So thanks, Stu, for breaking down the acquisition. And thank you for watching. This is Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman. We'll see you next time.


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Hey everybody I'm Lance Coyke and today I want to show you some foods that you can buy if you're trying to become a Healthier person in general anything that's perishable. It's probably gonna be good for you a food that can advertise itself to you It's probably not good for you You want to avoid things that are processed and get things that are fresher that that can go bad Which means you kind of got to go to the store probably more than once a week And you got to make sure that you take care of everything and plus you're gonna need to do some prep for a lot of stuff But once you can get past that stuff just start looking in my general rule. It's just buy the stuff. That's on sale It's generally more in season and it's cheaper for you So your body's gonna like it a little bit better the environment's gonna like it a little bit better And it's gonna save on your wallet Now pantries are kind of notoriously hard to film in because we don't have External light to push into there right now So I just pulled some stuff out that I think is we kind of go through these things a little bit more than the others And hopefully it'll give you some ideas for dry goods that you can store Let's start with just the nuts. So these are not all of what I'll get. I got some pine nuts I'll get some sliced almonds. I like those on salads Peacons I've been putting on salads These pistachios are delicious just for snacking and then here's some freshly ground from Whole Foods nut butter peanut butter This stuff is is generally high calorie, but it's also generally pretty healthy as long as you have it in moderation You're gonna be fine. You probably want to be super moderate about it if you're really trying to lose weight though Next up Let's end with maybe the worst stuff tea. I love having tea late morning I try not to have it any try not to have caffeine afternoon Because then it's hard to go to sleep and sleep is the most important thing you can do for your recovery So in your pantry, I like to have tea just plain old green tea is super good It's super healthy, but whatever you like whatever you think is a little more tasty green teas and black teas We're gonna have more caffeine Whereas you could get like a white tea is gonna have a really little amount of caffeine or some sort of herbal tea We'll usually give you some nutrients, but won't keep you up at night. Just make sure you read the package We'll do some canned and jar stuff to you canned beans are nice in a pinch They're super cheap if you can make them fresh, but we always forget to soak them overnight Which kind of makes them a little easier on your gut and then Sometimes we'll put tomatoes in and we'll kind of make our own sauce But usually we're using something from a jar to kind of get us going This is a sensitive marinara with no onions or garlic That's been a lot better for my gut because I've been really sensitive to that stuff. So we highly recommend this This is from Rows homemade. I don't know if this is a local thing Probably not but I just get all this stuff at Whole Foods because it's super close Next let's talk about this because it's kind of in the same vein dry lentils We got rice in there. I didn't pull that out, but it's the same idea just like the beans Just another thing you can cook this. I mean that stuff is super cost effective Especially if you're a vegetarian you're gonna have to have a lot of stuff And you're gonna have to be pretty active so that those carbohydrates have somewhere to go But that's a good way to get some protein on a vegetarian diet. I Have oatmeal every morning. I don't have a whole lot of it And I do actually I put some honey on it I have some manuka honey from one of my clients from Australia his his family From Australia, New Zealand from New Zealand caught me there His family runs a whole Business and they do bee honey stuff and it's great 309 honey. Definitely check it out. It's super good So delicious, so I have a very small amount of that with a very small amount of oatmeal in the morning and that kind of just Gives me some energy for the day and then we've got this they move this Let's go. These are kind of like our Probably shouldn't have too much of this Chips are just like an easy. I don't have to cook it kind of carb source But this is a little bit more process You're gonna lose a little bit of nutrients, but generally not a big deal something some kind of chip where at least as it as long as it's not Super oily and super deep fried or whatever You're you're gonna be okay. That's the biggest issue is just the oils and And then I've been having some gluten-free pretzels I've been trying to avoid gluten since I have a lot of gut sensitivities and it just tends to make my Stool not as happy. I'm gonna leave it there these gluten-free pretzels are Not something that I was definitely something that I try to avoid and do not have even every week probably but They're good in a pinch Especially if you know if I if I only have salad, but I did have a pretty hard workout and I need some carbohydrates Then I might add some of this after my meal and then the last thing I did want to mention was some sort of protein powder I I have recommended muscle feast as a whey protein powder. They got all sorts of stuff their stuff is super I just they were the first company that I found a product where nothing else was in it was just whey protein And it's absolutely disgusting, but if you don't want all that extra stuff in your body like Do it What I do now I've switched to a pee protein because I'm trying to avoid dairy because my gut is kind of it's sensitive I feel like there's a recurring theme here The pee protein works super well what I'll do is I'll just put frozen fruit from the freezer Into the blender blend it up, and then I have something sweet that kind of masks the terrible flavor of Highly processed protein powder, but this is a good way to get a super quick meal Only takes you know five minutes to drink as long as I go fast, and I don't know that's that's pretty much the pantry though All right, so starting here on the door in our lower shelf This is kind of the stuff that we're not using very often I got a little bit of clearance here, so we can't put some bottles or some larger jars Honestly, I don't even think we bought this we am I use this this I mean we've been here in Ten months probably and that's how much I've used that we've got some salsa that we will use red hot We will use and horseradish we use when we want to make our own cocktail sauce for some shrimp Up here. I use this one a lot It's really easy to reach and it holds my egg container super well, so I got 18 can or 18 egg containers here I'll usually put two on top and though it doesn't seem like it fits there is this little ledge that stops it from falling out So it works chicken broth is a tall item so it can go in this you could also put like you know gallons of water here But we don't we don't hang on to a whole lot of that behind that some cured meats and some smoked fish I Don't have that too often anymore just cuz it's so expensive And we'll we'll go up to the top here in a sec. Let's go down to the drawers In the main compartment, so we've almost always got a bag of bunch carrots They keep really really well and they keep for a long time We can always just pull some out of the bag and then we've got our reusable vegetable containers here. Here's some tomatoes We've got a bell pepper And we've got beets back here Beets are nice because they do keep a really long time green beans. However, they do not these are still pretty fresh We bought them recently Moving up above that You'll see this container. We bought two rotisserie chickens And Allison just pulled both of them all off the carcasses. We were able to throw it all the way get rid of the smelly chicken carcass So it didn't just sit in our house forever and all we've been doing is just open it and we pull out of there That's been really good Rotisserie chicken is already cooked for you and if you get the cheap one, it's like six bucks So I highly recommend that that's been great to just throw in my eggs in the morning Or on a salad in the afternoon I got my baby carrots here, which I like to use every morning for breakfast and then we got some berries behind there Which we don't use too many anymore But love them now We move up we've got this here so on the door just some other stuff like Not using the stuff on the door too often, but these are condiments. We have some ketchup. We have some mustard You know, we have some mustard. We have some mustard We've got Let me move the mic here. We've got some more salsa and I love this stuff this Tessa May organic green goddess. I use this on my salad. It's super great and Buffalo salsa. It's really not a whole lot of bad stuff in here We've been using that super well something like hot sauce something like mustard you can use that and still be super healthy Because it doesn't throw in a bunch of extra calories And then if we move over to the main compartment again, we everything here is just like packaged Probably already been cooked will expire if we don't use it kinds of stuff And that's kind of the secret to being healthy when you're eating you got to have fresh stuff that goes Goes out. It's got a bunch of preservatives in it It's been processed and they remove the nutrients during those processes So I had this big container lettuce because I've had a lot of lettuce for lunch And we got a backup one. I'll send you like a rugola. There's some Parmesan cheese here, which we don't use super often Block is super old. Here's some romaine Leftover stuff Allison made some taco stuff So here's a corn that she's split in half and she just shaves off some corn and some pre-cut tomatoes And then behind it. We've got just some taco meat. It's already been cooked Here's our leftovers from last night. I'll probably have that for lunch some bread pre-cut Half in that's the word I'm looking for we've got Avocado we've got cilantro in this bag We've got a bell pepper that's already cut a jalapeno that's already cut all that stuff is just hey If I want some salsa or make some guacamole on my own It's right there. It's ready I just got to finish cooking it and then on the top we got herbs on the side here some chocolate behind there I've got these cookies that they sell out Whole Foods that Allison absolutely hates They're just they're too gross for her to eat even though they're cookies. That's how that's how quote healthy They are Some beans just in a container our big stuff since this is a big compartment if we make soup or chili or something We'll put it over here. Just because we have the clearance There's a jug of water and some almond milk there and then just last thing on the door. We've got some butter various oils fridges Not super packed though It's got a lot of turnover too because again, there's a lot of fresh stuff That's not gonna be quite as fresh because I left the door open for so long to do this video But we've got ghee and we've got some vegan butter just because we haven't been doing very well with dairy So we're trying to avoid it And then for the last piece of this video, I just want to show you our spice and oil cabinet Down here, you know spices you can pretty much use as much as possible They're not usually adding a bunch of calories as long as it doesn't taste sweet as long as they don't put sugar in it You're pretty much fine to use it So we like to use a lot of salt because we don't otherwise since we got rid of a bunch of the preservatives in our food Salt is kind of hard to come by so we definitely put salt on everything we eat Salt and pepper are kind of just like the most used ones. We got this. I don't know how to say that but puget Pepper grinder thing and it is great. That's one of the best gifts I've ever gotten anyone Some dried oregano. We have some of our own We grew some herbs in the back and they're dried in paper bags or plastic bags behind everything But then just you know, whatever kinds of taste that you're looking for like we got curry. I love cumin We use those pretty frequently. There's some turmeric back there but most of the time what I'm using is basil, oregano, chili powder, salt, pepper and then if we move up, we've got our fats So fats are kind of a touchy subject Olive oil is like it's healthy, but it doesn't hold up to high heat very well So we don't cook with the olive oil. I'll use it on something that's not cooked very like if we do long Cooked vegetables in the oven. I might put olive oil on it But if we're gonna put it above 400 degrees, then we're usually using this grapeseed oil here I had done you can see behind it. I had done coconut oil and avocado oil But they're at the back of the shelf for a reason My body just doesn't do very well with them. So I just don't use them very often And then recently I've been trying out this duck fat Which has been really good in my eggs, but it makes Allison kind of like nauseous So she doesn't use that. So whenever we're making something for ourselves We use either grapeseed oil or extra virgin olive oil And then just some vinegar up here and maybe worth mentioning We don't really drink very much at all for me, but We might cook with wine and then we've got our whole peppercorns that we put in that beautiful pepper grinder thing But that's it. That's the kitchen Thanks for watching if you learned something hit the like button and subscribe to be notified when I release new videos If you need something else to watch check out my playlist on Kitchen stuff. 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