Hello from Chicago, Lisa Martin back with you and John Furrier. This is day one of theCUBE's coverage of AnsibleFest 2022. John, we've been having great conversations all morning about automation and how it's really pivotal and central. One of the things that we want to talk about next is automation as a strategy. You know, some of the barriers to customer adoption. One of them is, well, can we really understand where the most ROI is going to be? But another one is automation happening kind of in pockets and silos. And we're going to be talking next with one of our alumni about working those down. This is going to be a great segment from the customer perspective, the conversations they're having, problems trying to solve, and really got a great CUBE alumni back to share. And we're excited. It's going to be a good segment. We do have a great alumni. Walter Bentley, fresh from the keynote stage, is back with us, the senior manager of the automation practice at Red Hat. Walter, it's great to have you back on the program. Thank you. Thank you for having me back. I really look forward to doing this every year. And you know, it's exciting. So we had your great energetic keynote this morning and you were really talking about organizations need to think about automation from a strategic lens perspective, a really, a true long-term investment. Where are most organizations today and how are you going to help them get there? Right, so most organizations today are kind of in that sweet spot where they've discovered that they can do the tactical automation and they can deal with those small day-to-day things. And now they want to move into the space where they're really able to plug automation into their current workflows and try to optimize it. And that's the perfect direction to be heading. And what I always encourage our customers is that once you get to that point, don't stop. You got to keep going because the next phase is when you begin to innovate with automation. And when automation is at the beginning of everything you're creating. And at that point, that's when you're really going to see the great benefits from it. How have your customer conversations evolved over the last couple of years, particularly as the world has changed, but we've also seen the acceleration of automation and so much advancement in the technology. Right, you'll be shocked that our customers wanted us to speak to them in more of an enterprise architecture level. They wanted us to really be able to come in and help them design how they're going to lay out their automation vision. And that surprised me at first. My background being in architecture for many years, I didn't know that automation had evolved to that level. And that was one of the things that we tried to do our best to rise to the occasion and be able to answer that call. You know, Walter, one of the things when we were in person last in 2019, you were on theCUBE and we did the remote, we were kind of right. You got it right when we were talking about this. Hey, if this goes the way we think it's going to go, the automation layer is going to be horizontally scale with the cloud. So income's cloud growth, lift and shift. Now I got some refactored applications in the cloud and I got on premises edge coming, hybrid steady state. What does automation look like? You had said it's going to scale. And so as clients realize, well, this was kind of a group within the group doing some automation stuff with Ansible, all great stuff, product leadership, great community, check, check, check. Now, how do you make that a global architecture for a company? What's the take to make that an enterprise scale architecture? What's the next step for the journey and for the community and the customers? So one of the major announcements today is actually one of the right steps in the right direction, which is now that you can deploy AAP on all of your hyperscalers, right? So you have a local, you're covering your private cloud area, now you're able to cover your hyperscalers. Now it's time to unite them together so that they can all kind of work as one function. And to me, that is the enterprise approach to AAP. And I'm just so excited that we finally have rolled it out for AWS, we have it for Azure, of course we have it inside. And we're also working on things, like you said, like the edge, but also things like making sure we're covering customers that are air gapped, customers that do not have the capability of the ingress of being able to go in and out of that environment and that network, right? We're working on strategic solutions to be able to do that better for them as well. It's interesting, we've been talking about super cloud on theCUBE, I've been calling that term at re-invent about people using cloud in a different way to kind of do things, and it's become kind of also a term for multi-cloud. Yes. So if you think about what you just said, it's interesting, this cloud services that could, that they all have stores, they have compute, there might be a day where they're all kind of invisible. Yes. And you can have spanning services across the cloud, but yet they can still differentiate on their own. So it's not so much about standards, it's more about that interoperability. How do you see that? What's your reaction to that? Well, that's one of the core reasons why we moved to the name of the Ansible Automation Platform, Platform being the key, right? Is the platform is supposed to be able to span into different environments and really kind of unite them together. And that was one of the things that I really liked about when we went to that late last year, yeah, late last year, and we've been working with our customers to make sure that we make that front and center that they move towards that environment so that they can begin to do better scale and really operate at that executive level. What's your favorite customer story that you think really articulates the value of what you just said? Right. So the one, so I'll give you a different one from the one that I talked about on stage. And again, when we went in from a services engagement, we did not expect the outcome of the fact that they would access this particular customer. We went in something very tactical, just laying down the platform for them. And the expectation was we would lay it down and walk away and hopefully they would pick it up and kind of run with it. What we came to realize is that they liked the oversight and they liked the way that we were working with them and they wanted to take those preferred approaches and really embed them, right, in their organization. And so they invited us back, actually for two or three different consulting engagements to come back and just help them drive that adoption. And this is, they're at the very beginning, right? So they're doing it a little bit different in a lot of other organizations. The other organizations would lay down the platform, do some things and then call us back to help them with adoption, right? The report card out? Yeah, absolutely. They did it differently. And that to me stood out as the level of maturity that our IT organization is. It sounds like they went from tactical to strategic pretty quickly, which is not normally the case. No, not at all. Not normally the case, but as you can clearly see that we're starting to see that more and more with our customers. They're up-leveling, I hate for the theme, but they're up-leveling, right? And that's what I meant by my organization, my team that I run, we have to do more with our customers because they are expecting more. For them to level up, and I loved how that was used this morning. I'm like, yeah, that's a cool term, level up. We all got to level up with some degree. How are you helping organizations do that from a cultural shift perspective? Because of course the people are so integral to this being successful. Can't forget that. Absolutely. So you know, remember the days of when you would have the DevOps team and that was like the thing, like you have to form your DevOps team and once you got that, you're good to go. And I always tell our customers that's a good start, but that's definitely not where you want to end. And you have to get to the point where you have all parts of your organization writing automation content, feeling comfortable, being able to kind of control their day to day. And so that's where you have to break down those silos.  And if everyone kind of takes care of their own world and write content to control what they do on their day to day, they can bring those together. Walter on buzzword, it's been kicking around, Silicon Valley and the tech industry recently is multiplayer versus single player software. Yes. I carry them, must be gamers, obviously. Yes. This course, Pop, I heard that on stage here in the nature's announcement earlier. You know, when you talk about teamwork, ops, devs, while working together, clearly the operator role is changing. What that means is changing. Devs are getting stronger and more open source. They're shifting left and all that good stuff in the CID pipeline. As the teams work together, multiplayer in an organization, what's the success form of that you see emerging for how to organize, how to motivate, how to get people kind of in a good teamwork, past shoot score, kind of team oriented approach? What I'm really proud to talk about is how AAP has really enabled that and kind of fast tracks that ability for everyone to work together. Within AAP, all the functionality that's now built into it, there's pieces of it that are focused on different operators or different parts of the IT organization and were made to be able to help to bring them all together. I love the components such as the service catalog. Imagine being able to have a place where you can publish all of your content for other people to consume. Back in the day, everything was stored in a repository and you had to know what you were looking for. Just small changes like that, having the Ansible 2E, right? So you having tools that are actually built in for those who are writing the content to be able to have their fingertips, the ability to test their content right from inside of the 2E, right? So the terminal interface. Just those small little nuances to me is what helps to bring it all together and kind of create that clue. Great leverage, not a lot of busy work and hunting and packing for stuff and configuring manually. Absolutely. Awesome. For you guys. Well, you know, we have some big announcements coming up tomorrow. I won't get into it as much as I want to talk about it. Ed Shea, events. Yeah, yeah, something starts with the E. But also some really fantastic technology. What we're doing is we're really taking the idea of automation and really feeding into it in a sense that we're building into some really smart technology into AAP. And I'm excited for the direction it's going and I know everyone tomorrow is going to really hear some great things. We heard up leveling, we heard up leveling. Cultural shift, if I asked you, what does culture shift mean? How would you answer that? I would answer that in a sense that the culture shift is shifting from the place where you feel that you're on an island and you have to solve for it alone, as well as feeling that you have to solve for the whole ribbon of whatever you're working on. And that culture shift is moving from that mentality to the fact that you have a whole team of folks who may know how to solve for that already and you feel comfortable being able to reach out to them and work with them to be able to build that. And that, to me, is the change. I'm an old school infrastructure dude. I was the one who would wake up two o'clock in the morning to fix a problem. I thought it was on me. But now the cultural shift is now we're a team and we're going to work together to solve it. So that's kind of my view on it. And the appetite in organizations is there, because oftentimes in the siloed world, I own this, this is my baby, how do you help them as a trusted advisor to really open up the kimono and embrace that collaboration because ultimately it's the right strategic direction for the business? The first step in that is making sure that everyone is kind of operating from the same book or the same plan.  So that's the first thing we do is write down that plan, make it available for all the consume. And at the beginning, not everyone runs to it, but over time, if their curiosity begins to peak and then over time, they begin to consume it and possibly contribute to it themselves over time. That's how we kind of conquer that. And so far we've seen some good success. What would you say if someone said, I want some proof, proof in the pudding, proven methods to help accelerate the time to value with automation and help organizations to really understand and quantify the ROI for doing so? And to me, this is a conversation I love having because we've come out with something that we call success metrics. And yes, they are exactly what they sound like. There's some metrics that you can use to measure in your organization to kind of determine your maturity around automation. The two key things that I would love to share about that is that when we think of metrics, we think of performance, we think of how well something is running, how long it's been running. Those are all great, but the two additional success metrics that we include in there are around more of the cultural field, the perception, right? The perception as well as how comfortable your employees feel using that product. And that's where the shift of looking at the cultural, not just the technical side, but the cultural side of things, has made a big difference. So I love sharing those metrics with our customers. It usually resonates, and then we help them dig in on to see how they fit and also give them some ideas as to how they can improve going forward. I'm sure they appreciate that, knowing where we are now, how do we get to the, not the end state obviously, it's a journey, but how do we get farther along in this from a unified front approach rather than operating in these silos, which is not going to get us to the journey that we should be on. Yeah. So some good stuff coming out tomorrow, not going to give us any nuggets. We totally understand. No, no, you're going to be very excited. Yes, it's good stuff. Awesome. I got to ask you one quick question before we wrap up. You mentioned multi-cloud earlier. This is a big conversation in the industry. A lot of people are debating what that is. It sounds good on paper. Where's the customer's view as they look at this journey, because we see a future where there'll be services that won't be common across clouds because of differentiation, and some that will be, and that just be shared, like compute for instance, and let us be there where you can call in to the multi-cloud. How do your customers think about multi-cloud? Are they having that conversation more they ago? Is that more of a destination than the future in their mind? It feels more like a destination of the future. Right now, a lot of organizations have kind of solidified on one cloud per se that they want to be able to roll out as far as being able to scale up and down their resources. But the idea is eventually, you're going to go with whatever works best for that product or whatever works best for that business case that you're trying to solve for. And that's why I love the fact that AAP is kind of generically being able to be applied across all of them so that that is going to be your unifier, right? That's going to be the layer that will stay the same no matter where you go. And that's one of the things that I love about our product around that is that we are meant to be the unifier and we're trying our best to hold to that. It's a great opportunity for Ansible. That's there, all right. To be the unifier, last question for you before we wrap. What was some of the feedback about from your session this morning on Ansible really being that unifier? Any folks come up to you and say anything that was particularly insightful? Well, you know what? What was kind of alluded to or shared with me directly was the fact that thinking about automation as you would traditional platforms, right? And building a strategy and the idea that you need to write that down and actually make some decisions around that. And it wasn't that it wasn't thought about it. It just never came front to mind. And so I'm happy that I was able to plant that seed because that's what we're seeing that makes the difference between those who are very successful with automation and those who may not be. Writing it down. Sometimes it's fact to basics that really help fuel the growth of organizations. Walter, thank you for joining John and me on theCUBE today talking about what's going on automation as a strategy, the vision and how Ansible is really on its way to becoming that unifier. We appreciate your insights. No, it's my pleasure. And thank you for having me again. Our pleasure for Walter Bentley and John Furrier. I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE live from Chicago. Day one of our coverage of Ansible Fest 2022 continues next.


Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org, and this is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.tv's coverage of IBM's Information On Demand Conference. For those of you who weren't able to watch the show yesterday, IOD is really a show that's evolved over the years. It's IBM's premier software event. The software group here at IBM is led by Steve Mills. He's the chief honcho. Many at IBM thought that Steve Mills would be in line to be the next CEO. Ginny Romady actually became the next CEO, but Steve Mills, many people believe, is the heart and soul of IBM's transformation in the software business. I've known Steve Mills for a number of years. He's a super geek, but also a tremendous business person, and this event really has been about the manifestation of IBM's strategy over the last several years, bringing together not just the traditional transactional systems of the likes of DV2 and then later on InformX, but really bringing in the analytics component of IBM's business, so the Cognos acquisition, the Nates acquisition, more recent acquisitions like Vavissimo, who we heard from yesterday who does unstructured data search. Now I'm here with Jeff Kelley. Jeff, welcome back to theCUBE, my co-host today. Thanks for having me, I appreciate it. And John Furrier, of course, our other colleague is flew the red-eye last night, is in Strata. He just landed in New York. A lot of biz dev going on down in Strata. A lot of people setting up. The Cube is on its way south from Massachusetts, and so we will be broadcasting live from Strata tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, but we're here all day today at IOD. As I was saying, Jeff, this conference is really about the transformation of IBM's business. It really is an information management conference. Information management is a topic that is kind of boring, actually. It's all about governance and the federal rules of civil procedure and things of that nature, and things that, frankly, aren't that exciting. It's about general counsels and information risk and how you defensively dispose of data. It puts a lot of people to sleep. At the same time, it's very important because if you don't handle that properly, you're going to be subject to lawsuits and the like, and we've seen a lot of very high profile lawsuits to that effect of people who've had to pay huge fines. But, Jeff, you follow this business very closely. IBM has really one of the leading, if not the leading portfolio in big data analytics, and this show is all about big data. IBM has used the term that Thomas Watson coined of think. It's IBM's mantra, and they're using the term, Jeff, think big. What do you make of all this? You know, I think, first of all, like the slogan, I think it works, but I think really what we're seeing here is the, we're beginning to see the culmination of all this work around, IBM's been doing around acquiring analytic companies. They spent over, I think, 15 billion over the last several years acquiring, it might be up to two dozen or so, analytics-focused companies. So, the big job, of course, is to integrate that into a cohesive big data portfolio. And I think one of the things that IBM's been knocked for recently is, indeed, as you said, certainly has a very comprehensive portfolio. It pretty much has its hands in just about every type of analytic function. The issue around, with customers, I think, has been around a little bit, around confusion, around exactly how to bring that to market, how to package that in a way that makes sense speaks to the business, who isn't necessarily concerned with each individual component, but wants to know how big data and analytics is going to solve real business problems. So that's kind of been, IBM's challenge, in my opinion, has been really kind of knitting that cohesive portfolio together into products and solutions that can be delivered and translated into the business value. So a huge part of IBM's success, Jeff, still, even in software business, relates to its mainframe business. I mean, it's got huge margins on those mainframes and huge margins in the software and services that it provides to mainframe customers. At the same time, it's strung together a portfolio, assets like Cognos, SPSS, Vivissimo, Netiza, who are some of the other ones that really are driving their portfolio? Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, I think, well, you mentioned a couple of big ones. So Cognos acquisition was in the around 2008 timeframe, and that was when we saw the major consolidation in the business intelligence space with business objects going to SAP, Hyperion gobbled up by Oracle. So there's been a lot of pressure, I think, on IBM to make good on that acquisition. And Netiza's really the other big piece, I think. We've seen in the last several years, maybe the last five or so years, the development of what we're calling kind of the next generation data warehouses, which take advantage of MPP architecture, data compression, columnar architectures, to really drive really fast, deep analytics. In addition to Netiza, we saw, obviously, there's Vertica, since acquired by HP, Green Plum since acquired by EMC, and Aster data acquired by Teradata. So really, that's a very important part of their big data platform, and really one of the underpinnings along with their big insights platform. So I think what's key for them is to continue to show the results, show the business value that can be brought to bear now through their pure data line and other products. We had Rob Thomas on yesterday. Rob Thomas is the group vice president for the information management and the software group at IBM, and heads up a lot of the M&A. He actually did, was the executive, led the Netiza acquisition. I asked him, why did you buy Netiza? You had the pick of the litter. Really, IBM was the first company, Netiza was the first company to go. We saw subsequently Vertica go, Aster data went, and so forth, Green Plum. And I asked why, and I thought he was going to give me a technology answer, Jeff, and he didn't. He said it was the people. I got to know the people. They delivered on their promises. They executed, obviously they fit into our strategy from a technical standpoint, but it was really the people. Rob talked about what IBM looks for in an acquisition. They look for team. They look for traction, and obviously, yeah, technology, but it didn't start with the technology. I found that very interesting. Yeah, it was interesting. I think, from my perspective, I think that's really telling because they were not looking at this as simply a tactical acquisition, trying to fill a gap. They were looking at this, how is this going to fit into our larger portfolio in terms of our approach to analytics? That said, I think there were certain technical aspects of the Nantesa line that was probably attracted to them, and I think one of those things was the appliance model. Really, it started to really take hold in the data warehousing market several years ago, and Nantesa was one of the first analytic databases to really start packaging their products with pre-configured hardware and these kind of really easy to install, drop the box into your data center appliances. And we've seen that now evolve into the pure data systems, again, taking that kind of that approach with all the hardware and software in a box delivered, ready to go. So, we've talked a lot on theCUBE on SiliconANGLE and Wikibon about data becoming the new source of competitive advantage. People being able to actually get insights out of data is what it's all about, creating business value from data. And I've often been very critical of the notion in Nick Carr's book, does IT matter that the premise of the book being you cannot gain sustainable competitive advantage from information technology, complete nonsense in my opinion. However, it did underscore symbolic shift in spending within IT that CEOs really had an attitude that IT is this big sucking sound after Y2K. Now, having said that, we really do believe that as many have said, data is the new oil, it is the new source of competitive advantage, and Jeff IBM has really tooled its business, to talk about smarter planet, but really the whole data analytics business. Now, you earlier this year did the industry's first market sizing of the big data market. You came up with about a $5 billion market size for 2011, growing to 50 billion by 2017. And you did a market share estimate. Now, of course, granted, these were rough estimates. First of all, you got to define big data. It's a fuzzy definition, but you really did a great job in trying to figure it out. IBM came out number two, and I've been thinking about that. I went back and looked at it. I think IBM is actually number one in this business. I think it's bigger than HP. Now, HP was bigger only because it had the vertical acquisition, but IBM has more assets than HP and big data. What do you think about revisiting that? What's your sense? Do you think my premise or my gut instinct is right that IBM is actually the biggest in this business? Do you think that's valid? Well, I think there's no question they have the broadest portfolio number of products, and certainly with their services organization, are doing a lot of business around what now is called big data. Perhaps maybe a few years ago, they were getting started in that space, but really wasn't called big data. You mentioned the whole smart planet initiative, and that really at its foundation is about making better use of data. And in this day and age, that means big data. So I certainly think it's possible. I mean, we're definitely going to revisit that report. It was neck and neck between IBM and HP because they're the two largest companies, so of course they're going to just by their sheer size. Right. Again, depending on how you define big data, but they were right there, and I think that's going to be an interesting, part of it's a definitional exercise. The other is the portfolio. Now, the other thing I want to talk about is, we're going to be at Strata this week. A lot going on down there, different event. This is a business event. A lot of business partners are here. We've heard from many of them. A lot of guys walking around in suits. A lot of business being done. This is a classic IBM, and of course it's the transformation of IBM. So it includes a lot of legacy businesses, a lot of DB2 businesses. You got people talking about IMS even here at this event, as well as some of the new emerging folks, and you've got some startups. We're looking at the couch-based booth, for example. The Tableau booth is here, for example. So there are some new and emerging companies, but Strata Jeff, it's all about the startups and the new and emerging companies. It's Cloudera, it's Hortonworks. Certainly Tableau will be there. Couch-based, the guys from Squirrel there, the Hadaapt data stacks, and on and on and on. And certainly IBM will be there, and NetApp and EMC will be there, with Green Plum and HP will be there, but really it's a show about the small guys and the innovation, right? Absolutely. So what do you expect there at that event this week? Well I think there's two areas, well three actually, that I'm really interested in seeing. And anytime you go to a Strata, and let's not forget Hadoop World event, now Hadoop World is now basically a co-event with the Strata Conference in New York City this week. But anytime you go to one of these events, it's all about the ecosystem. And so you're going to see a lot of partnerships. The nature of this ecosystem right now is there are a lot of startups that are focused on discrete parts of the big data market. But the reality is to make big data work in the enterprise, you've got to knit these together. So there's a lot of partnerships happening between the Hadoop distribution vendors and the data visualization vendors, and the more relational database, traditional type vendors. So you're going to see a lot of partnership announcements. But I think the more interesting thing, from my perspective, we're going to see, from what I'm hearing, a lot of talk about real-time components or real-time capabilities, I should say, making their way into the Hadoop stack. And when we say real-time, we should define that. And that doesn't mean streaming type of real-time analysts, but we're talking about SQL query type of real-time, query the database, get an answer in sub seconds. So we're going to see some announcements around that, and it's going to be very interesting to see how the ecosystem and the community responds to that. Okay, we're going to talk more about that today. There's other stuff going on. Apple's got its iPad mini announcement. The stock market's all red today. DuPont, 3M announced. IBM, of course, announced, I think it was last week, or a week before I can't remember now, and announced slower revenue growth. A lot of people are concerned about the economy. The debate last night, people are saying, no matter who wins, it's bad for the economy. Obama's going to raise taxes, and Romney's going to start a trade war with China. So the market is sad about that, and S&P is pressuring downward, so maybe talk about that a little bit, but we're here at IOD, this is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of information on demand. We'll be right back with our next guest, Bill Hartman, who's the president of Terra Echos, a very interesting company, who portions of its IP were spawned out of the US Navy. We're going to talk about what they're doing to actually take data and turn it into value. So keep it right there, we'll be right back.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today. We're looking at a new release from Ruger called the security 380 chamber and 380 acp Now they have a full security line when the security nine came out It came out with the four inch barrel and the three point four two inch barrel People really enjoyed it. They said it's a budget gun. It fires great. It's a hammer fired gun They love the trigger and a little history on that Ruger took the technology from the LCP to The trigger component group essentially and added it to the security nine and if we look there We'll see the triggers are pretty identical And that is intentional because people loved the LCP to trigger. They also added it to the LCP max and now the security 380 along with the Security nine compact with the three point four two inch barrel This has a three point four two inch barrel as well it ships with a fifteen and a ten round mag for those states that Don't have magazine restriction capacity and all that does have a brown follower right there and if we look at the Ruger security nine we will see that the size anyways is pretty identical The weight is different. This feels much lighter both unloaded handguns each view this security 380 feels much lighter And it is this is chambered in nine millimeter But the 15 round mag is nice full three finger contact and if I go with the ten round mag This is loaded. I'm going to get this on the scale This also offers three finger contact with that extension with the base plate three finger contact So that that's what they're aiming for people with lighter Or want to shoot a lighter shooting round and a light rack all right the LCP 2 and 22 is also a light rack very light recoil spring makes it easy to charge the gun This has cocking ears is what Ruger calls it and the security 380 has cocking ears It just sticks out a little bit charge the gun get a little a little better Grasp on the rear of the slide those have been forward serrations. There's not much But it also has cutouts in the slide that could also be used as forward serrations But this is also a light rack very light recoil spring marketed toward people with weaker hands Perhaps injured or just want to shoot a lighter shooting round like 380 I like the sight picture.  It just Helps that that green stand out right in the midst of that cutout with the rear sight Has a three-slot pick rail right there and I mentioned the same trigger it breaks right around Five and a quarter pounds. We'll go ahead and check that out 3.42 inch barrel and It's a hammer fired pistol Right there and also has a thumb safety right pretty Unintrusive thumb safety sticks out just a little bit not too much sweep down and you are live ready to go I think it looks cool. They have the same grip texturing as The other security nines, but added it to the 380 model now. This is meant to be holstered It's not a micro 380 like the LCP max Okay, this this comes with a 10 and a 12 round mag currently has the 12 round mag in there But if we look at the differences, we will see that it's pretty substantial we look at it from this angle and Even the weight is very different and that is intentional because they they they're not looking for a Pocky carry pistol much like these two up here I'm going to disassemble it with the help of my knife and pull the slide back a little bit already showed clear We're gonna pull this pin out and off comes the slide from the frame. You can see the frame right there Long frame rails here We have a captured recoil spring and the 3.42 inch barrel also has a Integrated barrel bushing right there that locks up nice and tight with the muzzle as it is it mates with the slide I'm gonna go ahead and put this Recoil spring back in there. Nobody saw this coming. I certainly didn't I didn't see this coming Ruger just came out with it and You know, I think the the the people they are marketing to see if I can get this pin in here Find that sweet spot. There we go And you're good to go. I think the people they're marketing it to will enjoy it. It's got nicer goes Three finger contact. It's not super light But it's not heavy either. Let's go ahead and get it on the scale The unloaded weight with the 15 round mag inserted. I like that 15 round mag. Actually, I think that's pretty cool is 20 and a quarter ounce, but let's go ahead and throw the 10 round mag in there This is loaded with 10 rounds. The the mags are the same as the the 9 millimeter at least the same Structure build has some sight holes there so you can see the loaded rounds And that's the 10 round mag 23 and what's that say three quarters There's 23 and three quarters that was 23 and a quarter, I believe Loaded with 16 rounds. I'm sorry 11 rounds because that's the 10 round mag. All right, and we'll go ahead and Take that out and show clear MSRP on this pistol 369 dollars, I think they priced it well and that was one of the attractions with the Security nine is that they they priced it really well people say that's a budget gun that works. It's American made it's Ruger They stand by it excellent customer service and and so the security 380 is gonna offer everything that Security nine and these two have in terms of those attributes with Ruger It does have some texturing in the front of the trigger guard overall nice field nice sight picture hammer fired The LCP to technology with the trigger people loved it with the LCP to they they certainly enjoy it with the security series now there are now three guns These two and the four inch barrel. I also have that didn't want to bring that out But this is it the Ruger security 380. I'm gonna get this to the range and see how it does all indications It's got a light rack light shooting round should be a lot of fun Yeah, if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate the thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


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That's where all the archived episodes are Understand the of the 500 and I don't even know no idea 70 something episodes We have only about 250 of them are available to you on like iTunes or Spotify or whatever If you want to get the archived episodes we either have to Buy the audio book which doesn't make me sad or use the Archived there's a search function top of the website All right you guys today Today we are talking about rooming. What's in my tack box now? My tack box is a little rusty a little bit out of date but I thought I'd take you on a little tour of that and I'll also if we have time introduce you to one of the crew here at the Scotia kennel and let you meet one of the dogs and see some of the grooming Systems that we can do All right understand also that I'm a little bit Limited for ability to interact with Facebook. I have my friend and cohort here Stacy Stacy is going to shout out from the Facebook page if there's a question that needs answered And she will read it to me from the Facebook page, and I will answer it for you live So this is like I say we're like stretching our wings. We are totally out of bounds here. You ready? Go. All right We have here the contents of my Tack box, right? I think everybody can see that Yeah, we can see just there we go good There's a lot of stuff here a lot of things to go through. All right. This is this is sort of grooming 101 I want you guys to understand that if you want fancy-dancing poodle grooming Leading edge dog show Academy can help you that Allison can take you through poodle grooming I'm going to take you through dog grooming 101 So we're going to start with some of the most important things that you can have shampoo Everybody has a favorite product, right? I have several. I am an enormous fan of the pure pause products So I'm going to take some of these up here where you can see them I am so bad at this camera thing. There you go pure pause Amplify this is for your double coated dogs, right? You see it great stuff Brilliant. Nope. I cannot get this right brilliant conditioner. This is another Phenomenal product particularly if you have white dogs If you have light-colored dogs, these pure pause products are amaze balls Okay couple more of my favorites Couple more of my favorites in the shampoo category There you go white Right see that pure pause this stuff is amazing on the whites on your dogs that have high whites on your white dogs On whatever it is the important and most important thing to remember if you are using any kind of whitening shampoo you must I cannot emphasize enough must Condition after you bathe And for conditioner and shampoo another product that I'm quite happy with our good friend Janice the Barker. This is the conditioner. They also have a shampoo Fabulous fabulous fabulous product. Check it out if you have not Here's one for those of you again with white dogs or PS Beards all of us with bearded dogs another pure pause product For I could only just go the right way This is the enzyme treatment spray Unfortunately, Janice telling us that she learned last weekend pure pause is being discontinued. Oh my god. If you have it keep it Keep it forever. Oh my god. No, that's terrible Plush puppy is another Vendor that I have always enjoyed if that is really really true And plush puppy you can see the brand name here. This happens to be swishy coat This is a product that you'll use for any of your drop-coated breeds Anything with long hair that you want the hair to fall nicely in a nice straight line, but not be Sticky, right you dilute this in your spray bottle Plush puppy if you can't find pure pause if your pause is going to break my heart and go away Then my next choice would be plush puppy For those of you who have the option to find any of these items still available Pure pause texture spray or texture these little granules In your wire coated breeds or actually anything that needs a little volume in their coat Brand that we're all familiar with and happy with and has some phenomenal products if I could only get my lefts and rights correct This is Chris Christensen No, it's not. This is number one all systems. Sorry. I lied number one all systems this Shazam Again for anyone who has some staining on their white dogs. I'm maze falls It is a clear gel I can even open this container. I'm not entirely sure I've used it in ages and Nope, it's all gone clear gel that you can use on your stained areas Hot dry it with a hot dryer and then condition the hell out of it So number one all systems another option and here we have Chris Christensen Chris Christensen another brand that we're all If we're not we should be familiar with this happens to be their cholesterol product for Coats that you want to keep in condition and as a conditioner It's also will help hold the the coat in place if you have leg hair For example, this is what we use for wire hair pointers when we're getting their legs to be just so Okay But it is designed as a conditioner. I used it as a conditioner many many times Before we get too far down the road Some basic hygiene chlorhax for their ears When you clean their ears Use your ear cleaner. I prefer the tris ultra use the ear cleaner and then use the chlorhax Amaze balls Will help heal anything. I had it heal a surgical implant When it's ditches pulled and I use that and it healed with no problem and teeth Can I talk to you as someone who judges dogs these days? Dirty teeth are just disgusting like I actually have to look in that dog's mouth You need to look at the at the molars guys if they're green and yellow and gross Nobody's nobody's really interested This is a great way to help keep them up without having to actually use a toothbrush and just put your pad on your finger Wake them out clean Hey Laura Gabriela wants to know do you have a reference sheet somewhere with all your favorite grooming products? Gabrielle, I do not but it's not a bad plan. I could probably do something like that to add as an appendix Addendum appendix One of those to to our event from tonight. Yeah, I'd be happy to I know Natalie had talked to me about trying to get Amazon back links to all this stuff. I'm so bad at this So fortunately hopefully someone smarter than me will figure this out And we'll be able to get you links actually to go buy all this stuff For those of you with short-cutted breeds Honest to God if I could just get this right Ridgebacks Manchester's great stuff mink oil Spray a little bit on your hands rub on the dog rub them down with your hand brush but a bing but a boom They're all shiny and pretty This is actually human product I don't recommend a lot of human products, but this Was recommended to me by one of my mentors in Kaisen's and This was incredible for lift in the in the spits breeds Any of the double-coated breeds that you really need to get a little lift on your coat?  There's many many brands. I really really like this one brushes in nice Don't forget you'll need to have a chalk brush A little bristle brush looks like so if you use white chalk and a colored chalk make sure make sure That you have a different color brush for each chalk Pro tip Laura and wants to know do you worry about judges feeling the texture powder in the coats? Super great question in when I use any grooming product. I do my own touch test Okay, so I'm trying to back far enough away that you guys can actually see me So I touch their legs I touch the anything that I put product in I touch it I mean to be sure that no product is coming off on my hands I will sometimes hit a dog with course driver real quick to blow it in the extra Harsh coat chalk is a great example of something that you can Put on the dog's legs and then blow any extra out if you use the cholesterol first To create a base you put the chalk in on top of the cholesterol Brush it in into the desired shape if you will and then spray it lightly Everybody's favorite Chris Christiansen thick and thicker There's lots of other hairsprays if you're a poodle person you have Special poodle hairspray everybody's got a special hairspray. That's my go-to and And if you do those things you are going to be less likely to have anything come up on your hands So be aware don't overdo Understand that the rules are any foreign substance in the dog's coat is a DQ so Don't make it obvious Some judges care some judges don't Don't make a mistake and find the one that does that Okay, other things probably the single least valued item most undervalued item water and a spray bottle Okay, that is designed to when a dog is cold it pops up its hair Yeah So all your double coated dogs your Aussie is anything that you want the hair to stand up that works Anything with a curled coat which you use water dog and Irish water spanula Any of those sort of breeds that you want to have a tight curl a little white spritz will re-curl the coat spray model of water Can be used when you're in a ring with carpet and the dog slipping and you need the dog to have better traction if you dampen the pop pads the little horny stuff opens up and They are able to get a better grip on the surface So they're not going to slip as badly. So you'll notice people with the spray bottle of water. All right listerine another Kim's coming to visit us. So maybe you can check on that Listerine is another one of those unbelievably undervalued products listerine in a 50-50 Solution just straight up listerine did straight up right, but you know what it says here on the bottle Anti-gengivitis anti plaque it's actually somewhat antibacterial and particularly when you're talking about Breeds with beards, okay Breeds that you're going to hand strip any of those sorts of things the listerine will act as a mild cleanser and Any of the times that you've pulled coat on a wire coated dog and you've opened up those hair follicles, right?  Okay, so friends.  So handy Okay Now we're gonna get to a couple things that I think no one should ever leave home without In this case, no one should ever leave home without gas X if They have a breed that's prone to bloat Any of the bloating breeds we have gas X in every Room in our house in every vehicle and every bag if the dog looks at you funny Give it a gas X I'm not gonna hurt it and you might very well save its life Gas X will break up the gas bubbles that are causing the dog to have a discomfort Potentially Preventing an actual GVD. Okay, never leave home without gas X A couple items that I keep around for dogs that You know, we're stressed. Haven't had the the best Experience maybe they're going through a fear period whatever it might be and these are two different products that are non What would I say not they're not drugs, right, we're not trying to drug our dogs We're just trying to give them a good Basis for getting through life This particular product is used on bulls and it keeps them calm in the mating season Seems like it might be okay works great on dogs rub it on their nose another product in the age of you see this there you go in the age of of Everything marijuana is free hemp in and CBD oil are non Drug right the non psychoanalytic Yeah, has no THC won't make your dog sick, but has benefits This is another one that's very very useful for your pet for your dog for any dog Whether it's a thunderstorm whatever it might be both of these are handy items Bitches in season Whatever it might be. So there we go. Now. We've got some basics now. We're gonna get into the more complicated stuff Everyone should have their dog on the table once a week Minimum I don't care if you have a whip it it needs to be on the table once a week no matter what Tonals it's a grinder. There's a ton of clipper do what you like. Everybody's got a thing Do their toenails every week start when they're tiny babies. I understand some of them won't like it They don't have to like it. They need to be okay with it So work with them give them a treat after each foot after each toe if that's what it takes Okay, toenails must be done Your dog's toenails touch the floor when it's standing up Right standing up toenails are actually touching the floor You can hear the dog touching the floor with its toenails.  Okay? I promise you if you are strong and brave your dog will be strong and brave, too We can do an entire episode on how to turn your dog's toenails. I'm just telling you trim them start early Do it frequently every week by putting your dog on the table every single week to do nails Check ears check anal glands check for lumps and bumps check for mats all of those things You are a Making sure your dog is staying healthy B You know growing that relationship with your dog, which is a big part of the thing You do this from the time the dog is eight weeks old. I promise I promise It will be okay to be groomed when it's a grown-up dog and if we have time at the end of this I will show you an example of what I mean by that. Okay. All right next up and everybody Should have You guys can see this of course dryer. This happens to be the one I like. It's called the X power Got a little moveable dial Helps you get water out of the coat If you have a cat you can do an entire seminar on how to properly blow dry the dog for your particular coat for your particular breed for your particular animal and Begetting the water out of your dog after a bath Force dryers tag those tools many of you should also have a hot dryer Not everybody when I had double coated free. It's they never had a hot dryer and of course try So it depends on your breed depends on your coat Next up something that many of us should have Do you see this from there? It's your basic clipper. This one happens to be an Oster Everybody has the one they like. I love that are cook slippers that are like a 9 to a 40 in the same blade I just killed three of them. So I finally just gave it up These have of course replaceable blades the larger the number of the blade the shorter the Trim on the hair. So if you have a 40 blade, that's almost a surgical Okay If you have a four or a five, it's gonna give you about half an inch of hair left So many of you will use that, you know, if you're poodle people, clearly you've got 90 million of those blades if you're someone who's just trimming potty trails and Underneath of the pads and stuff like that a 10 blade for 90% of what you need is probably gonna be enough Obviously There's exceptions. There's 200 breeds. We're not gonna discuss all of their grooming needs in one one-hour session a common brush I think that So much of the world's problems in life could be solved If we all just used our brushes and our combs properly. It's a very lovely Chris Christensen Pen brush with a nice ergonomic handle love this one This is a slicker brush kind of a beat up one, but you understand what I'm saying Slicker brush you're gonna use that on Anything it's got short little thingies. There's different textures of pens soft and hard. This one's pretty hard Use it brush up your legs. You're not gonna be getting any mats out with this. You're never gonna use this on Super fragile coats anything like that Most people in most breeds are gonna find the most use for a good pen brush This is another I'm pretty sure yeah Chris Christensen brush super nice brush thing to know about this great pro tip that was on Pure dog talk sometime ago from Alison Foley again leading at show dog Academy Keep your brushes in the boxes. They came in right protect these pens once these pens are bent broken spindled and mutilated They're actually gonna break the coat and they're gonna be of little or no value And then you're gonna have a comb. This is a big old poodle comb, but it shows you double sides Single sides a good steel comb will solve 90% of the world's problems in almost every breed Kinds of options for your bristle brushes this conceivably one of my most treasured items This is a pen brush with a little borer bristle in the middle. I use this on back coats I use this on beards on the wire coated dogs. This is a Phenomenal tool separates the hair nicely. This is a copper infused bristle brush as you can see badly worn and that I've used on back coats on wire coated breeds for I don't know 10 plus years and Those items are incredibly incredibly handy if you Oh with it or any of the shorter Manchester anything with a ridgeback anything with shorter hair That you need to get a little bit of shedding done on these little rubber squeegee brushes Fabulous sheep AF Little rubber to do to do right scrub with the grain of the hair Get those things showed up super fast this item comes from The feed store This is what's called a lava block in horses. It's called a bot block It is a little tiny chunk of pumice stone and you can use this in horses We use it to take the flies eggs off their legs, but in dogs We use it to take fuzzy hair off their ears off of any place. We don't want anything little fuzzy downy stuff We don't want it to be you can hear Right what that feels like you have to be careful. You can really if you're digging in there You can cut your dog. So be careful with these Another thing that you can pick up while you're at the tax door Happen to have Happen to have a bottle of it handy, but you can pick up some cowboy magic anybody who has Dogs with feathering right coated dogs with feathering that might be getting into something They shouldn't be or snow or furs or you name it cowboy magic Particularly their what's it called detangling detangling product Is amazing.  The silicone is not good for the dog's coat, but it will help you get crap out of the dog's coat Without losing as much hair as you might The other thing that you can pick up at the feed store and this is just the handiest little item For those of you who have short-cutted breeds that you'd like to remove whiskers on This is a whisker trimmer that we use on horses. You can see these little Teethy things, right?  It's amazing For those of you who have ever tried to trim whiskers With a scissor and cut the tongue on the dog in the process right before you go to the group rank high pick me It's it's a lifesaver I'm gonna tell you and the next thing that I'm gonna encourage you to spend a lot of money on as much money as you have Available to you is your scissors Everybody's gonna need scissors at some level Okay, and these are curves. These are just like little I don't know five inch curves something like that You want to look for something that has good balance in your hands. Everybody's got a different balance point Again, always remember we're not use these are not Scissors like you'd use in school right the important part is the Ring finger does the work. These are old sticky thing scissors ring finger does the work You put the ring finger in here.  I have never found them again. I bought them. I They're 25 plus years ago Fabulous pair of thinning shears. I think I've sharpened them once another Fansier version of the curves right again Okay, you want to be able to have them move smoothly. Keep them sharp Don't cut wet hair with your good scissors. Keep a pair of crappy scissors just for that purpose Same with your blades Don't run your clipper break blades on that coat unless you want to replace them Keep a crappy blade that you do just that way Next items on the agenda stripping knives those of you who have wire-cutted breeds You do not want these to be sharp This particular knife is again probably 15 20 years old very dull does not cut the hair If you have any doubt that you can do this Pull coat right so you're pulling Right no bent no motion in the wrist. No nothing. This is just grip That's all that is to have a grip for your thumb. And so find the knife that fits your hand the best You can put tape or That wrap around here if you're uncertain that you can pull hair without cutting it You can use the end with your thumb Just a couple different shapes and types of knife That might be easy for people to use depending on the hand depending on the area on the dog they're working on and These are particularly lovely set of knives that one of the patrons actually gave me so Um But for quick and easy you can also use this to rake undercoat this little guy course with a stripping knife cast like I don't know 12 bucks stripping knives like scissors me to fit your hand and what's comfortable to you a couple final items before we actually get to a real-life dog eat cook King This happens to be the giant size Freaking love this thing Again, I don't even know how many teeth this has 32 And it's you can hurt the dog if you're not careful, right? These are hooked and sharp, but if you pull straight don't Pull straight you can pull a lot of undercoat with this thing and not break the code If you have a double coated breed, this is not the tool for you This is a tool for wire coated breeds anything that you want to pull undercoat Without breaking the top coat and this little item is the coolest thing It's just a like a mat splitter rake. It has this squishy rubber handle So for those of us with really bad hands When you're trying to get through something that's matted up puppy coat coat change anything like that Hand you a light always remember when you are brushing your dog particularly Wine brushing doing anything with coach.  You're gonna have a spray bottle We're gonna say that the spray bottle has conditioner at the very least it has water Ideally it has heavily diluted conditioner Spritz right nice spray right spray spray brush And those two things go together lift up brush Duck brush spray. Do not brush dry coat. Do not brush dirty coach Okay, so in the scheme of things of all the things that Andy Laura has in her chat box Couple other sort of miscellaneous items a towel, right?  You know, what have you and then for at the dog show If you have a dog Pretty much any dog up to and including a whip it Everybody needs tubs. You have two of these a little warm water Put a ditty dab like a quarter-sized ditty dab of shampoo in one This one says rinse in the rinse. I put a ditty dab of conditioner sponges. Just straight up You know 25 cent sponges and you can table bath your dog On day, you know Two through seven right so that they're not bramming and gross for the judge to feel when they go over them If you are putting any kind of product in your dog's coat Any kind of product in your dog's coat it should be washed out at the end of every day Otherwise the dog's coat is going to break and look like hell and you will be sad When you wash the dog out most of the dogs will need to be dried all the way down to the skin Some if you're just doing legs because that's the only place that you have product can be towel dried Some of the wire could have reed like that Okay, well, we're doing a little table change. Do we have questions Stacey? Yes Gabriela asked she's heard some people say that That cholesterol can be drying For the coat. I'm assuming Gabriella. Have you found this to be true? Um, Gabriella Cholesterol is actually a conditioner. It's literally its job is to be a hair conditioner for women That's what it was designed for. We have transitioned it into the use in dogs But its original purpose was as a heavy conditioner for women If you're going to use can cholesterol the issue with cholesterol is that if you leave it in the coat for more than a day or so It's going to collect dirt. If you're going to use cholesterol to condition You put it in leave it in for a day or two. You wash it out And you dry and then you put new cholesterol There are better leaving conditioners that we have today a lot of people still use it from the olden days when that was a pretty common and and Popular conditioning item, but we have much much better leaving conditioners these days next Ingrid mentioned the importance of branding your tools or brushes Indeed Ingrid And this is a perfect story You will see that this brush has my name on it Um from when I was handling dogs. I retired five years ago Um, this brush was loft somehow by sun assistant somewhere Who shall rename? Nameless and a dog show and someone picked it up And took it with them and literally five years later I got my brush back that I love more than life itself.  It's got my tape on it Um, and I wrote my name on the tape although that's worn off. Well, it even does have my name on it I'm not sure you can see it. There you go. Um label everything Uh people you forget things People have white fingers.  Um, that's the way to Resolve that is to label everything and try and keep it from walking off Any other items, um, Jen mentioned she carries like we do the gi emergency kits She's got gas x uh probiotics um What is that Jen callan pectin gala pectin right? Yeah, and so there's lots and lots of medical things that we keep in the box I always have gas x um, I often um No matter So much anymore because I don't travel as much but I always had a bloat kit straight up look kit in my um med box an entire box that was Leaved in my motor home that was designated for medication So in that box there would be um some cephaloxin some amoxicillin some metroniasol and Just a couple days worth in terms of if I've got an emergency I need to deal with something right away Before I can get to a veterinarian if you're able to do that. That's a really super great way to go Um have a first aid kit go to vimeo and look up K991 and and there's six sessions of maria and I talking about Your first aid kit what should be in it what you can treat what you can't Etc. Um, so those are all things that I would absolutely have on hand Um anybody else before we start with our doggy? No, I think that's Okay We do have a special guest this evening I was I had to I had to think the long and hard about who was going to be the special guest for tonight But I decided that Everybody's favorite. Yep the uh like like Guests for this evening would be like And uh, he has been a special guest for a number of grooming sessions over the years And because he's so atypical for a sheba. He's my favorite dog to show off because I just love him And because he is an example of what you can do when you start young with these dogs, right? Hi, I love you too. He is Stay this is a 11 year old dog Hasn't been shown in some time he's Pretty good fellow stay he is definitely not a typical sheba So Anyone who's ever met a sheba, you know in a groom shop at a dog show anywhere else Knows that they can be pretty horrible about their toenails And so I'm going to use blade as my demo dog of why the dog doesn't have to be a jackass for their toenails now late and I had many conversations about this over the years And every now and then we have to like look at each other in the eye To discuss how we're going to behave while we're having our toenails done But as you can see we understand this whole process one of the things and again, I worked in a pet grooming So I've worked with a lot of unruly dogs over the years One of the things that I have learned over time When you're trimming your dog's toenails start with the back nails For whatever reason they're just easier for the dogs to deal with When you pick the dog's foot up Don't crank it all the way up here Just because it's more comfortable for you doesn't make it more comfortable for the dog. All right I keep the dog's foot as low to the table as I can And still be able to see it Also this tail doesn't fit me Um, this particular dog does not like a dremel so we're just going to use the clippers because that's what makes him happy And as you can see As you can see This is straight up black magic Because a sheep of it will stand there and hold his little paw up to have you trim his toenails is Against the natural universe And this has come stop. Okay. You want to sit down? Hey, okay. Um, this has come because the breeder is Mars Jones who produced the stock Started with him when he was a puppy And I stopped and I have continued with him Every week since then And he doesn't love it.  If you're chalking their legs So Ian you have Laugh hunt I remember I think a finished laugh hunt. Okay. Um, if you're if you're chalking their legs Right and you and you're putting chalk in their legs cholesterol and chalk in the legs Yeah, I would wash that out Even that short so like the short Hair on the front of these legs If you're putting product in there wash it out. All it's going to do is collect or irritate the dog's skin Um, it's just not it's not necessarily a good thing for the dog to be left in for an extended period of time Now I am going to turn your troubles And you're going to be okay And you see the difference between the front and the rear like He's not horrible for his friends, but he's not nearly as quiet for his friends as he is for his room He asks do not try this at home.  He's terrified. He's not terrified. He's mad. I don't want to And so if you just talk to him for a minute And move on The dog is not having any more trauma from this than you would have from having your toe fingernails turned Stop stop it doesn't hurt them It hurts them if you cut it too quick. I know he wants to do that That is not our goal But at the same time people Become so concerned That they're going to hurt the dog understandably That their stress makes the dog stressed And so if you'll notice I'm not worried about this and if I'm not worried about it He's not worried about and that's something that we can all Take as an example When we're working with our dogs I think you all know Oh, she's a We all know that if we turn the toenail over Even if it's a black nail We can see where the quick ends and Where it's safe to turn the nail without Cutting into the quick and hurting the dog It's like looking at a canoe And the part that doesn't have the quick Will be empty and the part that does have the quick Will have what looks like, you know flush in there. So avoid that part Helps if you turn the toenail over and you can see that Okay, so there you go black magic Yes, you can trim even a sheba e news I want to talk a little bit. How are we doing on time? We've got seven minutes any other questions any other questions while we get started doing some brushing here Remember I said we don't brush dry hair And well lady has not had a bath Or say He's a super tidy dog. So we're just going to go with he's pretty clean And I always have done anytime I'm brushing any dog. I start at the bottom and work my way up And he's not ready to drop coat yet, but he's getting there You can see the little bit of tufting And so if we want to talk about double-cutted breeds for a minute We can talk about line brushing. We can talk about how to get a dog to move through its coat blow or Even just roll their coach um, all of which can be done So akitas Shebos any of your double-coated breeds If you are campaigning them if you just can't bear the thought Losing a month or two to no coach You can essentially Roll the coat and so you'll notice what I'm doing here. If you can see it, I think I'll try it on this side So we're doing sort of a modified version of line brushing, right? Left hand pulls up right hand brushes down The important part is that you have got to got to got to got to brush to the skin And so the way that you can do that is if you pull the hair with your hand And then brush In the direction that the hair grows and you have to look and see the skin And this is equally important and you can see spring is coming. Can you see it? For those of you who know double-coated dogs spring is coming.   I love you too All right, you guys we're about out of time Thank you all for joining us. I will work on getting us some lengths And affiliate lengths and all the cool things that I don't know how to do I said we I mean Natalie I Don't forget please please please please please please please go to puredogtalk.com Go to the top of the page click on the survey fill it out Get in or for drawing for a prize Go to puredogtalk.com backslash patron And join the patrons because we've got three retreats coming up this year We've got one in Tacoma in July. We've got one in Chicago in august with the international health club of Chicago And we have one down around austin texas that we're planning in october So lots of opportunities to get together and hang out with what is quite legitimately The best community of dogs All right, you guys glad five Have a good one


Our inbox and DMs are flooded with messages like these. In this video, I'm going to give you my researched opinion on the entire USA FN visa slot availability scenario and what is it that you can do about it, keep on watching. Hi guys, my name is Shachi and I'm a travel and visa coach. On this channel, you'll find lots of useful videos on the US visa process. We have entire playlist for FN visa, so make sure to check out all of these videos. Now, let's start today's video by understanding a little bit about the background and what all has happened up till now. Before every major intake, that is before the fall and the spring intake, the US Embassy conducts an event, it's a Facebook live event, where they discuss their plans of the slot schedule, how they're going to handle the interviews and what is it that students can expect from the embassy. They had one such event for the spring 23 intake as well and in this Facebook event, the plan that they laid out was that they are planning two bulk openings of slots one sometime in October, one sometime in November and another opening towards the end of the intake. That means sometime around December for people with a previous refusal. Now, the reality, the situation as of now has been quite different from what was the original plan. We are almost end of December here and till now we have seen only one bulk opening of slots which also came quite late towards the end of October and post that I would say there have been two mini openings, one in November and one in December. Now, the problem with this situation is that the number of slots that have been opened up so far has covered about roughly I would say 60 to 65% of the people who wanted to go for the spring intake but there's a big chunk of 35 to 40% of the students who have an I-20, who haven't admit for the spring intake but they do not have a visa slot and many of them have a previous refusal that means that they have a refusal in 22 but they haven't been able to give their interview again for the spring 23 intake. So, cut to the present, the embassy has a visa Q&A event every Friday and in this event they answer questions regarding US visa interviews. The recent event that they had had most of the questions being asked about slots where students ask the embassy whether slots will be released, what should they do should they differ their intake and so on. Now, to a lot of these questions the reply that was given was a very standard reply which went along the lines of our capacity is limited, we are trying our best and most of our slots have been filled for December and January and this sort of set of a panic wave, our inbox, our DMs were flooded with students concluding that no more slots are going to be released and this is the end of the road for the spring 23 intake. Now, here is my take on this entire situation. So, cutting to the main question, are no more slots going to be released for spring 23 intake? Well, my answer is not necessarily, there is still hope, there is still a very good chance that slots might be released for spring 23 intake and here's why. Number one, if we look at all the replies that have been given by the embassy on that particular visa Q&A there are numerous screenshots floating around and in many of those replies we see that the embassy is telling the student that keep tracking the system, we do release slots in bulk and whenever we have a bulk opening you will be able to get it in the one or two days of that opening so make sure that you are tracking the system, you are logging in appropriate number of times and checking the availability of slots. So, from the embassy itself there is this communication, you can see the screenshot also right now it says that keep tracking the system. The second reason why I feel there is still chance for spring 23 intake is the historical data, the past events. So, if you look at the fall 22 intake something very similar happened. It was August and the embassy released a communication saying that we have filled up, we have processed most of the visas for fall intake and we are done for this intake and at that point of time there were still good number of students who hadn't given the interview, many of them had a previous refusal. So, towards 15th, 16th of August or somewhere around 15th, 16th August the embassy ended up releasing another bulk slot which sort of catered to all of those who were left which means that for this intake also there is a possibility of something similar happening and we can expect some slots to come into the system towards the end of December or Jan. It might not be a full-fledged bulk opening but you can expect some mini bulk slots to be released. And the third reason why I feel that there is still hope for spring 23 intake is what we see on a day to day basis. Every day we see students being able to book slots, being able to get an interview appointment and they are doing this by a combination of tracking the system on their own being part of telegram groups where they are able to get some information and taking help from a third party or taking help from an agent. Whatever are the methods that they are following the fact of the matter is that they are able to book an appointment and get an interview slot. So, which means that more slots are coming into the system it could be a combination of cancelled appointments it could be a combination of tiny slots here and there which are being released by the embassy. So, looking at all the three factors the replies given by the embassy, what happened in fall 22 intake and what we see on a day to day basis I strongly feel that there is still hope for spring 23 intake there is still hope of you giving an visa interview and going for the university for the spring 23 intake. Now, with this information here is what you should be doing right now. The first thing is to sit tight for the next 10 to 15 days the next 10 to 15 days are going to be really crucial and honestly this is not the time to give up or to feel dejected or to feel frustrated I totally understand how this situation might feel to you how the uncertainty and not really knowing whether you will be able to give the interview or not can get to you but the next 10 to 15 days are crucial so for the next 10 to 15 days really sit tight do not give up and whatever you are doing to get a slot whether it is tracking yourself, pulling up with your friends or getting help continue doing that and make sure that you are on top of your game when it comes to getting a slot. A lot of the slots that we are seeing recently are basically in Mumbai and Kolkata Embassy so you could also prioritize these locations when you are looking for the appointment. The second thing you could do right now is to try for an emergency appointment so emergency appointment is an option given by the embassy to you and it allows you to request for an expedited appointment and I would say that this is one option which literally costs nothing it does not harm you in any way and there is no harm essentially in applying for an emergency appointment so you have the option to apply for an emergency appointment from your CGI portal itself so do check out this video where we explain the exact step by step process of applying for an emergency appointment and if you need our help in drafting an emergency application reach out to us, the link for this is in the description box below A lot of you also ask us whether you should travel to a third country to give the visa interview and in my opinion honestly I have not seen much success through this route there are a lot of Indian students who go to countries like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Singapore to give interviews many of them have gone for the spring 23 intake as well but do not see a very good visa approval rate when students go to a third country and a lot of communication released by the embassy earlier also states that they do not encourage people travelling to a third country just for the purpose of giving the visa interview so if you are thinking of applying from a third country might not be the best option right now I would suggest that you still try and get the slot from your home country itself the third thing that you should be doing right now is talking to your university so talk to university not about getting an extension but also about deferring to the next intake now when I say next intake I am not talking of fall 23 there is something which comes before that so many universities either have a summer intake or they have an early fall intake which means that the classes start sometime in March, April, May now this is just couple of months ahead from your spring intake so it's a very good option to have a very good fall back option to have so do check with your universities whether this is possible for you and the last thing I think the final but the most important one is that utilize this time to improve your profile right so for some reason if you are not getting a slot and you have time on your hand this is the time that you should be using to improve your profile in all the frustration, in all the rush of getting a slot I think the visa preparation sort of gets neglected and students end up getting an interview date but they are not prepared for the interview so if you feel that your profile needs a little bit of rework whether it is adding internship whether it's adding some experience or online courses or getting a better admit itself now is the time that you can utilize to do all of this so yes this is my entire opinion on the current situation I really hope that this brings some sense of clarity about what you should be doing right now and what are the steps that you can take to safeguard your education and your career plans in the US of course we will be tracking everything really really closely and any updates that we get about availability of slots will be coming right here on this channel so make sure that you stay tuned and do check out all the videos that we mentioned check out the video to draft the emergency appointment check out all the preparation playlists and also check the links in the description box where we have tons of resources for you we have free resources for you to prepare and also you can take one to one sessions with me you can take more sessions to get you ready for the visa interview if you have any more questions feel free to leave it in the comment section below you can also DM me on Instagram my Instagram handles as chachi.mull and I'll try my best to get back to you so that's all for today stay tuned we have more videos coming up particularly the next video is going to be about Mumbai Embassy and how to answer the questions being asked in Mumbai Embassy so stay tuned for that signing off for now I'll see you in the next one


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I bring you another Destiny 2 video and today I will guide you through the fastest way you can obtain the Black Armory Forge Hand Cannon, the Kindled Orchid. But before we go any further guys, if you do enjoy the video and would love to show you support you can by hitting that like button. And if you are new around here and enjoy daily Destiny 2 videos, be sure to subscribe. Ok so last week we know the Kindled Orchid was a super rare drop from the Nessus Golfhanon Forge. I ran this thing a gazillion times and never had it drop, nor did any of my numerous fireteams I did this forge with, nor did any of my clanmates or friends. So it was super rare indeed. This week it's one of the weapons Aida 1 offers the schematic for. But before you can even do that and are able to collect the schematic, you have to do one of the two later bounties she has, which you can see on screen now. These two bounties offer a ballistic luck which you need to obtain the schematic. So go ahead and complete these weekly bounties, or one of them at least, and then go ahead and grab the schematic. Once this is obtained, the first two steps of this schematic are to obtain a weapon core and get basically 25 vex kills, which rewards you 25 unstable radiolarius. The weapon core needs to be thrown one of the two Forge bosses unnecessary, so either one in the artefacts edge area or the hollows area. Just wait around for the Forge boss to come in, you don't actually have to kill the boss, just basically grab it from one of the crates, that's born in where you have to destroy one of the drones before you can actually open it, so just do that. Once you've done that people, you can then go ahead and go into this lost sector within the artefacts edge. Vex are all over the place and you will get this part done in a single run, the 25 kills on them, I mean in fact you could probably do this while waiting for that Forge boss to spawn into the same area, actually really easy like that to be honest. The next step then is to get 25 hand cannon multi kills and 75 hive enemy kills, till they get this done super fast, simply go through Mars and load into the Breitek Futurescape area. Once in here, head into this lost sector as I do the core terminus. Just run through killing absolutely everything, once you have killed every enemy in this lost sector, fast travel back to the same area and then start up the escalation protocol and finish off what you still need. The next step is to get 30 precision hand cannon kills, so do what you can at this escalation protocol while you're still here until the enemies get a little more powerful, then go back into the core terminus lost sector and finish off what you need. Once done, don't leave Mars as the next step is to get 20 radiant seeds.  The next step then is to go back to Aida1 within the tower to get the hand cannon frame, then the next step is to go and complete an SS go fan and forge. Still not the easiest for a lot of people, but it is the final step in obtaining this hand cannon, so you must do this to actually get the hand cannon, so probably if you ain't high enough, wait until you've actually done all your weekly, so you get that powerful gear to level yourself up before attempting it to make it easier on yourself, that's probably the smart thing to do, but it is the last step so you have to do it before you are rewarded this hand cannon. It does drop with random rolls and to be honest mine ain't too bad, the best of my fire team for sure, but when you do these people let me know what roll on the hand cannon you get, but yes people just a quick guide in getting the black army forge hand cannon, on that note guys we have come to the end of the video, if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out and if you are new around here and enjoy daily destiny to videos like guides, top fives, gameplays, reviews, just about everything make sure you subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload turn notifications on by hitting that bell button, but again thanks for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


Hello everybody, and welcome to this week's barns takeout, your weekly serving of art from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. I'm Bill Perthys, the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education, and today we're going up to the second floor to Gallery 17, which is a small corner gallery devoted largely to works on paper. And here we're looking at the north wall. It's actually anchored by a late painting by Henri Matisse. You see it here. And this wonderful tin glaze, I'll go in this tin glazed dish above it, one of the examples of the unique mixture of objects that Dr. Barnes used to create the ensembles that are really a signature of the Barnes Foundation. Around that, those works, you'll see watercolors. I'll zoom in a little more. Two works by Jules Pascal. But these works here, three on this side, three on this side, are watercolors by the American artist Charles DeMuth. He's an artist I've discussed in a previous takeouts. Now we're sort of stepping back a little bit and looking at yet another variation of DeMuth's work. And the work I want us to focus on is down here, the lower left hand corner. And here we see it in its full full view. It's called Jugglers with Indian Clubs and it's from 1917. It's a watercolor on what's called wove paper. So just really just watercolor paper essentially. Just as a recap in case you hadn't seen the earlier DeMuth talks that I gave, DeMuth was born in Lancaster, so just outside of Philadelphia in 1883. He went to the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry here in Philadelphia as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He traveled a fair amount and in 1912, he lived for a little more than a year and a half in Paris. Paris in 1912 was really the hot bit of modernism. And DeMuth had traveled there before, but this was an extended stay. And it was while he was there that he, among other things, took classes at what was called the Academy Moderne, an arts academy for a modern art academy. And it was there that also that he had the opportunity to practice his drawing skills, in particular because at this academy they did quick three-minute poses with models, which gave students the opportunity to really improve their quick sketch techniques. And this was a method called croaking, called croaking, and it was one practice that was made famous by the sculptor Auguste Rodin. And many of DeMuth's early works really take on a quality that resonates with Rodin's drawings. When DeMuth returned from Paris, he settled in Philadelphia and then eventually in New York, but Lancaster always remained a home base for him. Indeed, he readily returned in state for extended periods of time in Lancaster. And it was perhaps there at the Colonial Theatre in Lancaster that DeMuth would have seen the subject of this watercolor. These jugglers would likely have been part of a vaudeville, a traveling vaudeville troupe. In the 19th century and 20th century, vaudeville was perhaps the most popular form of entertainment. And what was vaudeville? It has origins going all the way back, probably to the 16th century in the tradition of the Commedia dell'Arte traveling performing groups in Europe, in Italy, and very well known in France. In fact, in the 18th century, these traveling troops were popular subjects for artists such as Boucher and Long Cray, all the way through to the 19th and early 20th century, where Cezanne and Picasso also painted a subject drawn from the Commedia dell'Arte tradition. But in the United States, American vaudeville was something quite different. It was usually a series of unrelated performances, little sort of sketches. And the variety of material that was presented in these performances was really quite remarkable. It could be anything from a scene from a Shakespeare play to acrobats, comedians, singers, dancers, or as we see here, jugglers. And it was in vaudeville in the late 19th or early 20th century that many very well known stars got their start. So people such as Jack Benny, W.C. Fields, Bob Hope, Abedin Costello, the Three Stooges, as well as Will Rogers all began their careers in vaudeville. So it was a real hotbed for performers. So what would have attracted Demith to painting these subjects? And I'll say that in the collection we have many examples of Demith painting from vaudeville as well as circus performers. Well, one reason probably would have been that these performances were fairly inexpensive, so they were easily accessible. Another remarkable thing about vaudeville is that it attracted, not only was it widely popular, but it also attracted audiences really that crossed all sorts of boundaries in terms of socioeconomic as well as racial. And this was nationwide. These traveling troops really went everywhere bringing these acts across the country. So the accessibility was certainly had been something that attracted Demith, but also I suspect because of the subjects that he chose, it was also the dynamic and the active quality, the animated quality of these subjects that attracted him as well. So taking that skill of being able to quickly draw something as he practiced in those croaky classes in the Academy Mauden and now going to these vaudeville and circus performances and seeing these acts in motion and having this skill to be able to capture that sense of animation quite deftly. And so I want to go back and show you this picture because it's a fairly small picture and you'll see in this ensemble that it's amongst many other small and even smaller objects. So it's a picture that could easily be overlooked, but it is well worth spending some time looking at. Some of the things that I appreciate about this picture, not just this picture but others, is Demith's technique and his skill at using watercolors. This can be a challenging meeting, particularly to get a sense of the quality that he's able to achieve. For one thing, the color has a light luminosity to it. And yet despite that, there's also remarkable variety in both texture as well as the opaque to transparent quality that Demith is able to achieve. So for instance, if we look at the we look at the jacket of the man on the right, notice how what variety there is in the quality of the color. These lighter areas, perhaps this is an area where Demith might have put the color down and then gone back over it with a cloth to sort of dab it a little bit, taking some of that color off and giving this wonderful variety where this deeper spot here or on the sleeve is an area where he might have gone back over the watercolor with some more color to give it a bit more of a sense of opaqueness. If we look at an area like this side, these striations are were perhaps created by him going over the color with just a wet brush, just with some water on it to loosen it a little bit and to add, again, varying textures. And so what the effect of that is that rather than flat areas of color, we have all of this variety. It adds a sense of decorativeness as well. And as I said, also a sense of texture. Another thing that I really find remarkable about Demith's technique is his quality of line. It has a fluid curvilinear quality to it, a delicacy to it. And very often, again, this is remarkable skill if we look at the woman, his ability to both adhere to and then sometimes move away from the edges, the boundaries that that line creates. So being able to keep the color, the watercolor within boundaries and then using, again, his technique to have it sort of wash out fade away. And again, in quality of line, giving us detail, but not an abundance of detail. So little touches like the slipper shoes of the man, the very delicate way in which he articulates that or the color and tie on the man, just these little these little details that just enliven in live in the picture. And then finally, in terms of technique is his ability to use open paper that is paper that doesn't have any any color on it. So the white area that we see in the man's trouser or the woman's dress, that's blank blank paper. But it functions as color. And this is a technique that he absolutely would have seen and admired in the watercolors of Paul Cézanne and Cézanne learning how effective open support canvas or paper could be in a composition. That's something he would have learned working with the with the Impressionist. Certainly it's a technique that he used both in his watercolors as well as in his his oil paintings. And now let's talk about how Demith composes this picture. It's I find it just this just absolutely captivating. So he pushes the the figures to each extreme to the left and to the right and then populates the center of the picture, the sort of space between them with all of these objects.  These those clubs as they tumble yet are suspended mid air between the two figures and then behind them in what little bit of picture space there is because there isn't a lot. But behind them behind the figures is this accumulation of other objects other props perhaps for this juggling pair or for other other acts in in the vaudeville troops or the top hats the umbrella and the cane. This is a bouquet of flowers. This this is a candlestick boxes perhaps again for for juggling and this floor lamp. So it both it both the inclusion of these objects both creates a bit more context with within the within the picture. But because they populate the center it gives us these points of interest to look at you know and it gives a depth certainly to the to the subject. But what I think is so remarkable about this is the fact is the way that Demith draws our eye through this picture. What I mean by that is by putting the figures on either extreme and then populating the center with these objects as well as this this shape this sort of mandorla shape this sort of oval type shape that has this strong luminosity to it and that sets the objects in the background apart. What that does is it it encourages our eye to move across to see and pick up these little objects or the objects in the back from figure to figure so that our eye moves side to side in a kind of arching movement just in the same way that if we were audience members in the in the vaudeville theater watching this performance that our eye would be carried back and forth by those those throne and tumbling Indian clubs. So he's he's so skillfully able to convey the experience of what it would be like to see these performers in person in the static medium of of a watercolor. So giving us the the sensation of that active movement back side to side back and forth between the two jugglers even in this small yet such rich such rich watercolor and as I said this is one of many in the in the Barnes collection and as I said there's they tend to be small so I encourage you the next time you visit to keep your eye out for them because they're they're really just so so wonderful and so rewarding and as I said easy easy to overlook so keep your eye out for other this work in gallery 17 on the north wall as well as other works by Charles D myth in the Barnes collection. So until next time thank you very much. I'm Tom Collins new Bauer family executive director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed Barnes takeout subscribe and make sure your post notifications are on to get daily servings of art. Thanks for watching and for your support of the Barnes Foundation