So my beautiful people, I am back with another Out of the Ring video and today guys I just want to talk about why in my opinion is the best summon in this game right now, especially post 1.03 patch where from software Nerf the Mimic. This is now, right now in my opinion the best summon that's been found. It's called the Blackknife Teesh and today we get into it. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you do enjoy the video leave a like, it really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more Out of the Ring be sure to subscribe. Okay so I actually made a video about a week and a half, two weeks ago comparing the Blackknife Teesh to the Mimic Tear summon and in that video the end result was I preferred the Blackknife Teesh. Yes the Mimic Tear pre-patch was an all round better summon but for the way I played the Black Tear and the Blackknife Teesh was just just better it suited my playstyle more but either way the Mimic Tear Ashes helped me with bosses no other summon in this game could do so for instance um god through the first out on lord I basically used the Talisman which allowed after what's it called now never quick lock it's called the Shaburi's wall this constantly attracts enemies aggression so what I was doing was with my Mimic Tear I was putting this on basically then summoning my Mimic then taking this off the boss would then concentrate mainly on my Mimic so I could get damage and land damage from a range or from a file whatever so that's where the Mimic the Mimic now still even after the patch is still better if you set him up as a tank you use this then like I said summon your Mimic take this off the boss would concentrate on the Mimic because he's basically tanked out he's gonna hold that damage you're gonna take all that damage or you can do other things to the boss taking take him out from afar that's the only reason now I would pick the Mimic Tear over the Blackknife Teesh that's it just no nothing else I mean to be honest prior prior to the the nerf my Mimic Tear was sometimes a bit dopey I mean like I said this in my other video like I could have like the for instance the rivers of blood I could have that in one hand I could have a staff in the other hand well for some reason he'd pull out a torch he'd pull out a torch and try and hit with a torch I wish I would have recorded it I wish I would have recorded it like where I'm going mad at my Mimic shouting at him like it's an annoyed kid yeah but either way now post nerf the Mimic in my opinion just doesn't have a patch on the Blackknife Teesh now the reason in my opinion the Blackknife Teesh although it costs a chunk of fp points to cast him 132 which is quite a lot it's just the way it the way it works it's all mechanics it's like I said the Mimic the Mimic is basically just a replica of you it works how you work well not anymore anyway but if you give it all the weapons you want to load it out with it will use them to be honest in good manner or previously in good manner now it don't now it it's like do I use a flask I'm at like a quarter half do I take a half flask or do I not before half half that that Mimic's taking that flask and now it's just not the same and it doesn't use weapons the same don't use spells the same you know it just it just isn't anywhere near as good as what it was but like I said it can still be used in good effect for tanking it really can but other than that Blackknife Teesh is just on another level in regards to mechanics it has its own mechanics and the way in which this works is it's in and out it hit an enemy then get out it's it's it's evasive like heck I mean yes ain't a tank this thing can't sponge much but it does some serious damage I mean more damage than anything else I've tried and I've tried quite a lot now there's obviously more tankier someone's out there which you can get I just don't think anything's as efficient especially in endgame as the Blackknife Teesh I just I just I just I just don't think it I could be wrong if someone knows of one please let me know um also I think it uses like a a red flame projectile which does percentage damage and it does some serious percentage damage guys if you've used it you will know about this and it's absolutely amazing against those uh bosses with all big health bars it's just it's just is it's just is and it's just like I said how evasive it is how tricky it is for bosses to hit and because it's in and out they it just run into a boss hit them and it just like a weird like swoosh around and it evades the boss's counter attack and you see this more often than not I mean yes it sometimes gets hit but a lot of the time it don't and that's what I love about it I love about it it's just unbelievable and yes I know we have things like the banished knight engvore we have there's quite another few of us as well ancient dragon knight christoph ain't too bad either we also have the clean clean knight finley sorry this isn't bad either these are much tankier summons but in regards to dealing damage getting the job done the Blackknife Teesh in my opinion is just it's gotta be the best in the game right now I mean if I'm missing one or I'm missing something I mean I haven't got them all I know I haven't got them all I've just gone for the best ones I've seen reviews on them I've seen guides on them and I just know what fit me in the way I play the game and this is 100% in my opinion the best we have right now so how do you get this thing well if you're watching this and you don't have this and you don't know how to get it it's it's quite a distance into the game oh I've shouldn't have done that I've just gotta run away I've just gotta run away I've just spawned enemies in front of me and I'm trying to do a video I'm going back to the grace there we go okay so this is obtained and can only be obtained after you do run his quest line now run his quest line starts initially in the church of Ella real early on I believe you have to speak to a runner there then guys you need to make your way up to carry a manna and clear out carry a manna means you have to take care of Loretta and then once you've done that guys you need to come down here to run his rise and start the quest yeah now I've got a full guide and I'll link that in the video description you can definitely check that out if you want to um it'll guide you through the entire run his rise quest and once you basically get to about 95 percent of it you end up here they can only get up to this area at the end of the run his quest line so you need to come to you'll come to this well you'll come up there and you need to come to here the moonlight water that grace the run his quest finishes there but this grace is the important one because we need to come left then to the ringleaders ever ever jail I almost thought that said gold but it's ever jail I love being corrected I really do but yeah the bus of this black knife teach a a uh someone a black knife teach take it out guys and you get this spirit summon and it's just unbelievable and you're seeing footage of it it's just next level guys it really so yes if you haven't got this yet and you're looking for a decent um spirit summon you can definitely rely on and one like if you're limited with your grave warts and your great grave warts and you don't want to waste them trust me this one level it up level it up and use it will not let you down and there we have it guys just want to drop my opinion on the best spirit summon in the game right now like I said I compared these about a week and a half ago and I was still in two mines and it was I was about 55 45 to the black knife teach but in regards to the mimicry and what it could offer all around in regards to boss battles and just being a tank and the way you can set up the way you want to the mimicry I probably had the edge before the patch post patch just no question now there's no question now there really ain't black knife teach all day long guys and there we have it guys if you enjoyed the video leave a like really helps out tell me your thoughts on this down below also let me know if there's another uh spook someone I should check out uh if you're new around here want to see more out on things be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


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Hawaii, the state of clean energy. I'm your host, Mitch Yuan. Our underwriter is the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, and that's a program of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. You'll see all my brand new background as our logos and everything else, and I just did that today. So I'm really pleased to welcome our guest and my good friend, Peter Sternlite, from Sustainable Energy Hawaii, SEH. So we're going to be talking story today about spaceship Earth, and we have a problem, Houston. So today we're going to define, today we're going to define our energy system problems, and we plan to make this one of the first of a series of shows, and the subsequent shows will be talking about solutions, because yes, there are solutions. So Peter, welcome to the show. Hey, Mitch. And let's throw up the first slide, and I want to talk about the first slide, because we're living on spaceship Earth. So the spaceship, so spaceship Earth is just like the shuttle. So we're living in a space, in a spaceship. It's called Earth, and with all of its life support systems. And essentially, it helps us with three things we need to sustain our life. We need food, energy, and water. And today we're going to be focusing on the energy part. So Peter, talk to us about energy and your aha moment when you said, wow, Houston, we've got a problem here. Oh, wow. I mean, the aha moment was kind of, it goes back to the first Gulf War. And when I realized that that was all about energy, you know, and what we use for our economy. But there have been a number of aha moments, which you know, have been evolving over time. And I guess it was in the early 2000s that I realized that, you know, really pragmatically that petroleum was a finite resource, and that it was intertwined in everything that we do. From there, I got into realizing that it's not just petroleum, but it's all natural resources. And it gets compounded with exponential growth of our population and increasing demand and pollution and climate change. And it just, we've done a number here. And finite means it'll run out. And are we ready for when it runs up? Peter, why don't we talk a little bit about sustainability, which is the topic of our next slide? Yeah, I do not think we're ready. I don't think we understand what sustainability is. I mean, we named our organization, our nonprofit, Sustainable Energy Hawaii. And I was really hesitant about using the word sustainable in the sense that it's such a cliche word. And it's like, what does it really mean?  But the definition that resonates for us at SEH, Sustainable Energy Hawaii, is that it's a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, all its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems by planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals for future generations. It's a long term vision. So I really want to make the point that renewable and sustainable renewable energy and sustainability sustainable energy are really two different things. Yeah, it's really important. And we'll be talking about this today is like not using up all the good stuff for us. And then essentially leaving nothing left in the kitty for our kids, grandkids and even looking way out in the future for future generations. I mean, it's basically the survival of the human species and also all the other species that inhabit, you know, spaceship. So let's talk a little bit about, you know, our extractive economic system and the energy system. So next slide please, which is the GDP slide. Yeah, so one of the things I've had the opportunity to get involved with, you know, with some pretty serious academics. And one of the things that I stumbled across was that there's a correlation between energy consumption and GDP. I think to understand the nature of energy is that it is the ability to do work. That's the way the science of physics defines energy. It's the ability to do work. And so everything we do requires energy. And our GDP is the output of the work that we do. So there is when you graph the when you graph GDP against the consumption of energy over time, you find that they virtually track identically within less than 1% deviation. So the thing is, is that we're at a critical point now where we're obligated due to climate change and also resource depletion to change the paradigm of what we do, where we source our energy. And are we going to be able to have the same amount of energy using what we consider renewable energy as compared to fossil fuels? And that's going to be a stretch in not just my opinion, but the opinion of many learned experts. So when we're planning this show, there's actually a plan for this show, believe it or not. We talked about our extractive economy and how it's always going to be bigger, faster, better, and growth, constant growth.  Is that a sustainable economy, Peter? Is that a sustainable business model? You know, I'm not an economist. I just play one on TV. Marcus Welby, sorry about that. Anyhow, it doesn't seem sustainable to me. My, what I've, everywhere else that I know of where you have rampant or continuous growth, it's given, you know, it's usually in a medical sense and it's called cancer. It is, you know, life has ups and downs. It has contractions and expansions. And the theory that we can grow our population and our economy and that there's enough stuff to allow us to continue doing that infinitely, I think has been one of the great feats of storytelling, you know, in our civilization, in our society. So if our energy supply starts contracting, what's going to happen? According to your graph, our economy will be going down, correct? Yeah, I think that's a fair assumption, less energy, less productivity, less products, less stuff. And, you know, so I see human behaviors being something that is, that we need to worry about because people have been told and taught that continuous growth is the way to be. It's the right way. It's what we can expect. It's what we should have and we're entitled to all this. And I just don't see, excuse me, I don't see how it, how that can continue happening, especially as we stop using or starts use less fossil fuels. I mean, an example, I mean, the concentration of energy that's in fossil fuels is unequal to anywhere else in nature. You know, for instance, there's 12,500 kilowatt hours of energy in a cubic meter of petroleum. That's an enormous amount of power. And it's in a very small, very portable form. So you can use it. It's easy for transportation. It's very difficult to run a tractor trailer or a trans-oceanic freighter on when mills are solar panels. Right. And it's been relatively easy to get. When you look at the supply chain for getting that gallon of gas to our gas station here in Kenioa or over there in Milo, you know, if it starts out, let's say Saudi Arabia and it flows out of the ground, they've got to run it to the ship that loaded on the ship. Then the ship's going to come about three or four thousand miles to get here. And then it goes into a refinery. And then from the refinery, it goes into a truck and then it's distributed. Everybody's got to have a little piece of the action all on the supply chain. They've all got to get a little bit of a profit out of it. Otherwise, they're not in business. Yet we can still deliver a gallon of gasoline up until like a month ago for about three or four dollars a gallon. Right. That's pretty unbelievable. If you look at the calories or the output energy of human labor, a gallon of gasoline has about four and a half years of human labor wrapped up inside of it. So at the point you can get that for four dollars after all the processing, it's really remarkable.  I mean, so I yeah, I wanted to make the analogy that that petroleum replaced the free labor we had up until it's discovered the human free labor that we had. And just to give you an example, like let's throw up the next slide, which talks about oil tankers, getting that petroleum from Saudi Arabia, for example, here. It's incredible that, you know, you've got a hundred million barrels of oil per day arriving on, you know, or being distributed around the world every day. We had a great slide, which we couldn't use because of copyright issues that showed the number of tankers at sea. And it was unbelievable as Alex, yeah, as a next submarine guy, I was saying, wow, look at all those great targets, you know, but a hundred million gallons of oil a day is a lot of a lot of oil that we have to displace. So I kind of wrote a couple of little notes down, do we really have a problem?  So, gee, is the sky really falling? Exponential growth is one of those things where everything seems fine until it's not. And like one of the people that I interviewed for a documentary that I made a number of years ago, a guy named Dr. Albert Bartlett, who was a physics professor at the University of Colorado, he put together a really amazing video of just basically talking about exponential growth. And one of the examples he used was, if you have a container, and this is a mind problem, so if you have a container and the rules are, is that you put in a thing and you double it once every minute, and at minute zero, it's empty, and at minute 60, it's full. How many minutes have elapsed when it's half empty? Oh, 59. Oh, okay. At 58 minutes, it's three quarters empty. If you, if you add three more containers, how much additional time? So if you have three more earths, let's say earth is that container, if you add three more earths, how much time do you, additional time do you have? Two minutes. Right. So we're at a point now, for example, I mean, if we can go to the human population growth, I mean, this is probably a good time to bring that slide up. Slide five. There we go. So when, when my father was born in 1922, the population of the entire planet was 1.9 billion people, and it took the Homo sapiens, our species, 300,000 years to grow to that point. Right. In 100 years, we've added another six billion people, all of whom want to live like Americans, all of whom want to live like Western society, all of whom want to consume, and our economy wants to deliver all that stuff to them. Right. And there is no notion that we might not be able to do that. So. Oh, sorry. No, that was, that's it. Well, the other factor that came into that, I mean, why, how, how are we able to support an additional six billion people? Well, it was the development of fertilizers, ammonia, which made the land four times more fertile than it was before in the early 1900s. And so, I mean, I think they developed ammonia around 1922 in that, that, that era. And that just allowed food production to basically explode excellent exponentially. Yeah, fossil fuels. Yeah, fossil fuels enabled that. I mean, it's not just, and fertilizers are wholly dependent on fossil fuels. But you have all the machinery that you use for farming and for transporting and the centralized production that you have. And the factory farming, all of that is dependent on fossil fuels. We're in a situation now where everything has to be transported. And ninth, even today, with, I mean, I have an electric car, I have solar panels, even today with, with the vast expansion in our perception that it's expanded a lot, electrifying transportation. 96% of global transportation still relies on fossil fuel. Yeah, another interesting fact, you know, with this Ukrainian war going on, as I, the number I heard was like 75% of ammonia is produced by Russia.   So this is a kind of a really interesting time we're going through right now, because that war has really woken a lot of people up about the fact that gee, maybe it isn't as great as we thought. Maybe the lights aren't going to go on. We're going to have a blackout because we can't get enough natural gas into our system. Yeah, Russia is, Russia is also the, I mean, it kind of goes back and forth over the last few years, where it's been going back and forth between Russia and the United States being the largest oil producers in the world. The United States has achieved that due to, it's due to the development of or the fracking, basically shale oil. And that those, those people who track oil production, conventional oil production peaked in 2018. And all of the increases in the years in the last four years to the global market for petroleum have come from U.S. fracking. The thing about fracking is that it is very short-lived. You, you drill a productive well and within, within two years or two and a half or three years, it's producing half the volume in it, it did when it first started out. So looking at, looking at the well count on a daily basis, I mean, we're, we're basically at a standstill right now in terms of being able to increase the amount of petroleum there is to move the global economy from one end of the planet to the other. So it's, it's a very, it's a very mixed bag because we have this global economy and we want to transition away from fossil fuels. But just to get the solar panels from China to the United States, you got a, all of this involves fossil fuels for transportation, for mining the natural resources, for it, it's still all wholly dependent on it. And, and looking at the sun as a renewable energy, that looks at the source of energy. It doesn't look at the unified system. And the system, the whole system, I mean, essentially I'm very comfortable saying there is no renewable energy today without fossil fuels, which is really a conundrum to deal with. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Let's throw up the next slide, slide six, which talks about recoverable oil. Right. So there's, there's an energy analytical company in Norway called Bricehead Energy. And they pulled together the three major oil or energy assessments each year, which are put out by the United States government, the EIA, the international, excuse me, there's a freaking plot pardon me, fly flying in my face. The International Energy Agency and the BP Statistical Review, which comes from British Petroleum. And they gather all this data and then Bricehead takes and it parses all that and interprets what they've said. And in, in July of last year, they made an incredible statement, which was that the recoverable oil, not the oil we're using, but what we know is still there to be recovered, contracted by 9% in one year. And they're forecasting that by 2050, the flow rate of petroleum will be less than half of what it is today. So if you look at energy consumption, and especially how much is dependent on transportation, liquid fuels, having half of what we have today is going to have an impact on the scale of the global economy and the global economy, and all of the people and all the wise people who have been, who have been going grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, are going to have to re, rethink their, their assumptions. Right. So let's, the other factor is the critical raw material. So let's pull up the critical raw material slides. So I mean, they're not finite, yeah, they're finite resources too. Right. So, so you have, you have raw materials like cobalt and lithium and nickel and, you know, some, some very subtle, very rare earth metals that are all essential to producing the systems that provide us with what we call renewable energy today, our solar systems, and our wind systems. And the rate at which we're mining these is, is, is at a staggering rate of consumption. There are reports that have been put out in Europe where they're estimating that the ability to produce batteries, for instance, to replace internal combustion engines for light duty vehicles can be done one time in terms of producing batteries. Let's look at the next slide as well, because it kind of really illustrates what you're talking about. Thank you. So what we have is, we have a situation where the slide on the left, this where in blue what you have is you have the known global reserves. And then in yellow, what you have is the amount needed to phase out fossil fuel use in light duty vehicles, which is cars, buses, vans, delivery trucks, motorcycles, etc. So the thing is, is if you look at cobalt, there's not enough cobalt to do that one time to replace it. And these batteries only last if you're lucky 10 to 15 years. So what do you do after 15 years? Where are those replacement batteries? We'll have a new technology by them at scale? Maybe, maybe not. Can you recover them easily? No. We don't have a, everything has to happen at a massive scale. I mean, you might be able to do it in a laboratory. And it may, you know, you may be able to have technology that's feasible, but getting out of the lab and into the marketplace at scale is an enormous problem. And all of that is going to be dependent on the same critical raw materials that these systems are. So, yes, recycling is going to have to be part of it. But once, I mean, the slide on the right takes a look at a scenario where we're now we're talking about solar and wind systems that have battery backup, that have battery storage, power storage. And the ability to do that, it becomes, we can't even do that one time to replace the existing fossil fuel power generation. And that doesn't even begin to deal with industrial scale transportation. So space, earth, we have a problem. And the thing is, is that the solutions that we're using now have been, we've been told that this is a stepping stone. This is a solution. And I personally, I question that. Right. Yeah, if you look at what it takes to recycle batteries, and we're not just, like I said, it's not just like on a lab where you can take it apart slowly. You have massive tons and tons of batteries coming in. First of all, some of them are charged, some of them are not. So if they're charged, they've got electricity in them, and there could be dangerous. So you've got to bust them up and grind them up. And you've got all this potential electricity floating around. You've got acids. You've got a whole variety of materials. And it's not, it's not obvious how you're going to be able to recover that. Now, I've heard also read that some manufacturers are developing new batteries like lithium ferrofosphate batteries that are solid state and are claiming that they can recycle up to 99% of the lithium. So that's hydro come back has got a battery that can do that. There's a scientist that came out of Tesla who has, who has now left Tesla and has started a recycling company to recycle batteries of all different kinds. And it's really impressive what he's done because like you said, he's able to, he's got a pipeline, he's got a production pipeline that could be scaled. But when we say could be scaled, I can't picture how big the scale is for dealing with this on a global basis. So, and, and the thing, I mean, the great equalizer and all this is time. How fast can you do it? It's not like we have, it's not like we have forever. And we can just sort of amble our way into, into getting this done. Because as we, you know, as rice dad was saying, the transportation, the liquid fuels are simply not going to be available in 20 years at the scale that we're dealing with now. So, and if we, if we don't find ways to recycle or dispose of it properly, what's kind of happens going to end up in the landfill, or somebody's just going to dump it and eventually get into our groundwater supply. And you know, heavy metals and groundwater isn't a very good thing either. So, so there's a lot of, a lot of issues that have to be solved. So, we do have a problem in spaceship Earth. And there is no Planet B, Plan B, Planet B, that we can just, oh, well, let's just dump this planet and let it sit around for a couple million years and regrow the trees and get better. And we're going to go off to this other planet and do the same thing. So that's not going to work. We have to change the stories that we tell ourselves. We have to want different things. There has to be a different metric for being happy, for bringing happiness to ourselves. We can do this, but we have to know that that's part of it.  You know, we have to be really smart about it. So, I want to throw up the last slide, which is about 25 years ago, I was working for a company in Florida and we produced a little brochure and this was the end message on it. Basically, our world is fragile. Our future energy needs are great. It's time for those of political power and financial strength to make a difference. And so, in our follow-on episodes, as we go forward with this, Peter, we want to look at what are some good plans that people of political power and financial strength can do to make a difference because that's what it's going to take. It's going to take a combination of good policy and finance and the money to do it. If I look here in Hawaii, I don't see the big dollars. We want to be 100% this and 100% that by 2035 or 2045. Like you said, it's got to be at massive scale and I don't see massive resources like money, which is the engine being put where our money and money where our mouth is. So, that's why we need to have this kind of a shift. This is why we need this kind of a conversation. That's why we need to get our political lead on board. And we got a lot of very wealthy people here in Hawaii. They come out here to retire. I hate that word retire, but they're coming out here and they can really help us here in Hawaii, spaceship Hawaii. And we can show an example for everybody else. So, final comments from you, Peter, before we dial out. Well, I'm thinking that probably the most renewable, sustainable source of energy I know of in terms of making both transportation fuel and electricity is, and we're very lucky here in Hawaii, is geothermal energy. And that's something that theoretically could be available anywhere on the planet. You just have to drill deep enough. And it's really, you know, so we can talk about that as, you know, in the next shows, but it certainly here it is an option for us to minimize or to mitigate the degree of impact that the inevitable change will be having. Absolutely. We're going to talk about that in our follow on show because that's definitely a gift that we need to utilize. Otherwise, it's not going to be as business as usual. It's like you said, you know, it's like the nine, we're at the 96% point. You know, we haven't got that much time. We've got to, we got to get off the dime and get going. So thank you. Thanks a lot, Peter, for helping us put the show together in the series and using your enthusiasm and great and great communication skills to help us out on this path. So I'm going to leave it there. And we've been watching Hawaii, the state of clean energy on think tech Hawaii. And today we've been talking story about spaceship earth and our broken sustainability system with Peter's stern light. Who shares insights and in our following shows, we'll be discussing solutions. It's not all problems. We've got to have solutions. So thank you, Peter. Pleasure. And Aloha and thanks to our viewers for tuning in. 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Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and I'm back with another vintage GI Joe toy review and this time we're going to do something a little bit different. Up till now I've been looking mostly at 1982 through 1984 GI Joe action figures and vehicles because that's mostly what I have. But this time we are going to leave 1982 and 1984 behind and we are going to look to the future all the way to the year 1985. Up until 1985 all of GI Joe's general purpose vehicles were based on the original 1982 VAMP. In 1984 they came out with the VAMP Mark II and it was still based on this 1982 design but in 1985 we got an all new general purpose vehicle that was not based on the old VAMP. I'm talking of course about the 1985 AWW Stryker. This is the AWW Stryker with driver crankcase. It was released in 1985, it was also sold in 1986, it was discontinued in 1987 when you might say it was replaced with the Crossfire which was a radio controlled vehicle. Or you could say it was replaced by the Battle Force 2000 Eliminator but I wouldn't. The AWW E and AWW Stryker stands for all weather and environment. It was worth three flag points because it came with an action figure and as I said it was the first GI Joe general purpose vehicle that was not based on the original 1982 VAMP. The AWW Stryker came with an action figure crankcase and I'm going to take a closer look at crankcase in a moment so I'm going to set him aside for now. The AWW Stryker is based on the real world F-A-V or fast attack vehicle used by the US military. The F-A-V was later named the DPV or Desert Patrol Vehicle and if you look at the real world vehicle that this is based on the similarity is striking. Let's look at the parts of the AWW Stryker and most prominent is this very large cannon up at the top. It is held on on a very small turret which you might notice is much smaller than the turret that was on the VAMP and this is it. The blueprints call this a 10 round 70mm automatic launcher. This turret is pretty small and it can get white plastic stress marks if you play around with it too much. This thinner side of the turret fits into this slot on the cannon and you just slide it in until it snaps in and the cannon can elevate and it can turn 360 degrees but the cannon is actually obstructed by the antenna. The AWW Stryker had two antennae and they were pretty tall. They extended the height of the vehicle quite a bit and these antennae are just very thin pieces of plastic and they tend to get white stress marks like this or they tend to permanently bend so you see a lot of AWW Strykers with the antenna permanently bent over. Now ironically when they are bent like that they no longer obstruct the cannon so that's one situation where when the toy is in less than perfect condition it actually aged the functionality a little bit. The antenna can come out, it does not snap in permanently although it does hold pretty well once you have it in there but since they can be taken out they are often lost. In the front here it has a fire control camera with a black rubbery tube that goes to the base of the cannon and this is so the cannon can be controlled by someone sitting in the passenger seat. This wire can come out and since it can be removed it is another frequently lost part. In the back the AWW Stryker has an engine cover and you just kind of push it up to pop it out. It has a couple of tabs right here that fit underneath to secure it in place and once you have the engine cover off it has a removable engine block. The engine block has a hole there that fits in this cross shaped peg. Without the engine in there the back looks pretty plain but it does look like it has a car battery in there so that's a nice touch. Inside it has this steering wheel and I don't know if this steering wheel is removable but I hope you'll forgive me but I'm not going to try. While we're at it let's look at the interior detail and it has some nice detail. It has a texture pattern on the floor, it has some nice cushion seats, a gear shifter and a dashboard and unfortunately the dashboard on mine is really dirty. Note to self, clean these things up before you do a video review. Let's look at the features of the AWW Stryker and one of the coolest features is that it has front and rear independent suspension so you can bounce it up and down like that. Turning it over we can kind of see how that worked. The back wheels were connected by this bar in this kind of leaf suspension system and both of those kind of could move and on the front likewise we had a suspension system that allowed the front wheels to move up and down a little bit. This front suspension can be a little bit of a weak point so sometimes you will see AWW Strykers that have one or both of the front wheels kind of tilted inward because the axle that holds the wheels together is broken. The AWW Stryker did not have a metal bar axle like the VAMP did so all four wheels each move independently. Another feature that was an improvement on the original VAMP was the turning front wheels. These wheels actually turned and that is pretty cool. In the front it had a grille and headlights and these headlight lenses are another frequently lost part. On the sides here and here it had foot pegs and those foot pegs could be used for other GI Joe action figures to ride along. You just put the pegs and the holes on the bottom of the action figures feet and this vehicle could carry two additional action figures in addition to the two that would ride inside and that is another improvement on the old 82 VAMP. Following the cab and going all the way over the engine cover is this roll cage. It's a pretty nice looking roll cage but it is pretty thin plastic and these connections here and here at the back do come out pretty easily so be careful about that if you have an AWW Stryker do not break the roll cage and just be cautious that it doesn't pop out on you. The 1983 GI Joe Headquarters Command Center had this motor pool that had four indents for wheels and those four indents perfectly fit the 1982 and 1983 VAMP and it almost fit the AWW Stryker. It did not fit exactly the same way that the VAMP did but it still holds in there fairly well. Let's take a look at the action figure. This is Crank Case and let's start by looking at his accessories. Crank Case came with a gray helmet and I think this was a unique helmet. I don't think any other action figures had this exact helmet. He also came with an assault rifle and the grip on this assault rifle is a little bit thick. I don't really like to put it in his hand, I feel like I might break the thumb. As far as a real world match for this toy assault rifle it kind of looks like the Belgian FNC. The Belgian FNC has a folding stock that looks a lot like this. It also looks a little bit like the Swedish AK-5 but the Swedish AK-5 did not enter service until 1986, which of course was a year after this toy was released. This is a really nicely designed assault rifle. This is a great accessory but I don't think it's the right accessory for Crank Case. Crank Case is a vehicle driver. He doesn't have a lot of opportunity to hold an assault rifle. He doesn't really display well with the assault rifle in his hand and when he's inside of the AWW Stryker. So really I just don't think that he needs this. I would much rather have given this gun to another action figure and just left Crank Case with the helmet. I think that would have been more appropriate. Since the assault rifle does not display very well in Crank Case's hand I always place it right here for storage. Let's look at the articulation of Crank Case. He had the typical articulation for 1985 G.I. Joe action figures which means that his neck was on a ball joint so he could turn his head from left to right and he could look up and down. That was a new point of articulation introduced in 1985. Before that G.I. Joe heads were on a swivel so they could only look left and right. His arm could swing up about so far and it could swivel all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow so he could bend at the elbow about 90 degrees and he had a swivel at the bicep so he could swivel his arm all the way around. The figure was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside so he could move at the torso a little bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could bend at the hip about 90 degrees and his leg would bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the sculpt and the color on Crank Case. He has orange hair and a mustache and he has kind of a round head and the round head kind of makes him look a little bit unusual. His chin sticks out pretty far. He has a light tan shirt with a very slight green tint to it under a darker green pullover shirt and he has the same color on his trousers that light tan with a very very slight green tint to it. He has brown straps that go all the way around to the back in this Y pattern. He has a brown belt and a belt buckle with some pretty impressive detail. He has a gray pouch and a brown strap that looks like it has a sculpted buckle and it looks like that strap is supposed to continue to his holster but it doesn't. It just stops right there and that looks very strange. On his trousers he has these very prominent pouches on the front of his legs. On his right leg he has a black holster and nothing really on his left leg. And he has some nice brown boots. He has black gloves and on his left wrist he has a gray watch. He has red marks on his epaulettes. His sleeves are rolled up and on his right sleeve there is a unit badge that to me looks like a pegasus and I've tried to narrow this down and I actually think that this emblem belongs to the World War II British Seventh Light Infantry Parachute Battalion. You might ask why would an American soldier be wearing a World War II British patch on his shirt but I think that the file card answers that question. Let's take a look at his file card and whoa that is a lot of text. They reduced the font size to squeeze a lot of text on this file card. Compare that to Short Fuse's file card and this one is about average and you can see that Crane Case's file card just is loaded with a lot more text than your average GI Joe file card. This file card was printed on the back of the box that the awestriker came in. There's nothing on the other side, it was just the back of a box.  His portrait is from the art on the front of the box that the awestriker came in and that looks pretty good. It says up here awestriker driver codename Crane Case, file name Elwood G. Indiana, primary military specialty motor vehicle driver which means he has a driver's license so good for you, secondary military specialty armor, birthplace Lawrence Kansas and hey I've been to Lawrence Kansas, that's a pretty cool town. Great is E4. Okay, let's get to this mass of text. Chapter 1. There are several ways to get from one place to another in Kansas and driving fast is most of them. Crane Case was racing street machines when he was 16. You know what his background is actually not that dissimilar from Clutch who was the driver of the vamp. This is no great feat since he had been building them from the time he was 13. He worked the stock car circuit for years until the boredom hit him like a brick wall. A recruiting sergeant with a crooked smile signed him up for a burst of four with promises of speed and glory. Crane Case attended ranger school and desert warfare school and attended the special air service tactical driving school under the NATO exchange program. And that I think explains why he has a british patch on his shoulder. The special air service is the british SAS and he may have picked up this patch during his service in britain. I have no idea if the SAS actually has a tactical driving school but it sounds really cool and I hope that they do. I assume that James Bond trained there. Qualified Expert M16, M1911A1, M60 and TOE. Chapter 2. This quote down here says, ever get irritable when you're standing in a line that just doesn't seem to be moving at all. Well the whole seems to be m- the whole, the h- hold on, there's a word missing here. This is another typo. This doesn't make any sense the way that it's written. This is the fourth typo that I've found on GI Joe file cards doing these reviews. I think this is supposed to say, the whole world seems. It makes sense if you read it that way. Well the whole world seems to be moving in slow motion to Crane Case all the time. That's why he's constantly ticked off. He's just not happy unless he has a wheel in one hand, a shifter in the other, and the wind in his face. I really like the image of Crane Case that is painted by the file card. So let's put Crane Case in his natural environment. He's going to have one hand on the wheel, the other hand on the shifter, and the wind in his face. That was my review of the 1985 AWW Stryker. I hope you liked this video and if you're thinking of getting an AWW Stryker I hope you found this video informative. If you liked this video, go ahead and give it a thumbs up on YouTube. And don't forget to subscribe. I've got a lot of great new GI Joe toy and comic book reviews coming up. And don't forget, if there's a GI Joe toy that you would like for me to review, go ahead and leave a comment on this YouTube video and I will get to it as soon as I can. For my next review video we're going to look at a GI Joe item that's somewhat rare. I'm very excited about it, but it's a surprise. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I will give you a little hint.


The GER is a cultural educational space for us, people, the Mongolians living in Australia. We're using the GER to teach our next generation about our own culture. GER, first of all, GER is a Mongolian word, means the house or the yacht or something like tent in English word. So the GER is a basic living space for Mongolian people who live on the steppe because this is the part of the nomadic culture. Inside GER is everything, sleep. Traditionally, there are lots of routes. For example, male will sit on this side, female will sit on that side or sleeping on this side, cooking on the other side. But nowadays contemporary GER has the bed. On the both sides, people, even inside GER, they are sleeping on the bed. So welcome inside the GER. You'd avoid stepping on the threshold and then to the left is the women's side and this is the male side on this side. Yes, so this is the central tone, which is the central circular area and it's a very important part of the GER. It lets lighten as the woman is cooking and there's these two central pillars, the women's side and the male side. It's like the pillars of the family. So this is a sort of symbolic representation of a fire. In ancient times they used to have fires like that but now it's more like a pot belly stove. While it's standing here, I can visit here very often and for some personal use, just sit here and fill in the time pass away doing some Mongolian calligraphy. So that type of stuff, just have some relaxing stuff. Sometimes I will invite also invite my friend, come here together, just have a casual talk about the Mongolian culture.


Featherbrook Estate, perfectly straddling the fine line between tranquility and convenience with both cradle stone moor as well as silver stock casino within easy reach. Here we are within an estate that takes nature seriously. Indigenous trees and greenery surrounding you and behind me a four-bedroom five-barthroom stunning home that has been built to perfection with so many very fine and very important details kept in mind. My name is Chad Viveros. This is the private property home shopper show and today we are joined by our local pooch, Mia But come with me because as usual welcome home Walking up this granite staircase flanked with stainless steel and glass We find ourselves approaching an entry hall that opens up through these double doors both of them tinted Then coming into the entry hall the first thing you'll notice is just how many clean lines this home encompasses We've got stunning light flooring as well as light walls and the ceiling above me being at least four meters tall really does make this feel Like a special special place to be but one of the things of the features of this home that the homeowners have done so Well is incorporating nature into the design of the home. Featherbrook Estate for those of you who know is nestled into the foothills of Kruger's Dorp and all of that greenery those plants and that Luscious vegetation has been incorporated because you can see it from almost every room. This entry hall for instance, let me shuffle over here Beautiful sliding doors that open up and give you a picturesque view of those foothills another thing I'd love to mention about this home and throughout this home is you'll notice how high the ceilings are Making this whole home feel very very spacious and also giving it an incredible sense of grandeur But the design of their home has been done such that none of the rooms feel too big or too difficult to occupy And I love that feature now Let's move this way down the hallway and first off to the left again through beautiful beautiful pocket doors Wooden pocket doors and you'll see that that's a design element that continues throughout the home We find ourselves within the library if you didn't know that by the bookshelf behind me again above Beautiful lighting elements incorporated throughout the home So you've got a unique chandelier that serves as a centerpiece for this room and another centerpiece that I definitely Cannot not speak about is this fully enclosed wood fireplace? You can't have a library without being able to sit down on one of these leather Ottomans and really enjoy a good book While flanked by two windows giving you a view of that foothill over here We've got another door that opens and stacks leading out to the pool area behind me But we're gonna be coming to that nearer the end of the video Take a look at the stunning wood flooring and then coming out we pass aluminium wall sconces providing character lighting down this hallway And yeah, we are flanked by two very very cool rooms to my left We've got the outside area the outside deck if you will with the pool area But to my right we have an indoor outdoor sitting room slash balcony area And for those of you wondering how it becomes outdoors these frameless glass panels Push all the way aside you can see that for those of us worried about safety We've got again glass railings almost invisible when looking outdoors Because I mean look at that view that view could 100% take your breath away And it's not the only view you get in this home But imagine sitting out here with friends with family enjoying drinks enjoying a party or even just enjoying a breakfast Because you can see how much space we've got here and taking a look out at that view looking at the sunset Really must be picturesque now again No outdoor sitting area would be complete without your chef's sink and you can see it is built in right here Beautiful stone basin and then we've got a gas fireplace on the left hand side So if you'd like to whip up a meal here and entertain while having your guests over you can do that For those of you paying attention in the ceiling you'll see speakers Situated right over there again with this stunning down lighting again a unique characteristic for this room So those speakers you'll see throughout the home And then you do have a central home entertainment unit that you can utilize not only to listen to the radio But to play music and individually throughout whatever rooms of your choosing But I'd like to bring my cameraman over here for a second Erasmus come run over here when we talk about just the details and the quality that the homeowners have taken when building this home Take a look at the inlaid wood that's been done through these railings so rare Well, you find those details being taken care of but guys you're buying a home That is incredibly unique and you're buying a home that really has been Taking care of from the ground up with those homeowners and you see it through every detail over here We come through again another stunning door wood framed with glass Providing or making sure these rooms feel open and airy you can see through almost the whole house from one room And we find ourselves in a sitting area a lounge area if you will that has a bar This is called the gray bar beautiful beautiful Caesar stone countertops Inbuilt shelving all of the lighting built in and what a boy is complete without an inbuilt bar fridge and There's some nice goodies in this fridge over here. We have one Juliet balcony and another one right over here I love our again their flank this informal sitting room area and just giving you a gain access to those stunning views And as I've mentioned informal sitting room area beautiful place to sit down have a drink Maybe have a light meal because right over here is the kitchen area But before we get to the kitchen area come along this way Because before the kitchen we do definitely need to speak about a dining room area right over here We've got a 10-seater dining room table again above it another one of those art pieces that I call Downlighting stunning chandelier Plenty plenty of space over here bulkhead ceiling above me with two of those speakers built in because if you do like Some mood music playing while enjoying a meal with friends and family This house has got you catered for and then over here again What is a stunning dining room area without a wood fired fireplace this one slightly different from what we've just seen Previously and I think it fits us from even better You've got that dark wrought-iron look flanked by a light and then colored wall Giving you that piece of character see the two bosses of wood Can you imagine sitting here at the head of this table with friends with family? Maybe even with business colleagues Celebrating your successes because living in this home You know your life is gonna be nothing but success moving forward and successes definitely mean you need to have a Celebratory pool day, so let's head outside and take a look at what the pool area is and Yeah, we are within the pool area and let me tell you what I think this pool area is so special one We've got the inbuilt floor lighting Which I think really does bring a lot of character to pool areas specifically at night and then we've got this pool Which is one of the bluest pools we've ever shot on the home shop a shot I love again that attention to detail and that love and care the homeowners have put in when building this home in In front of me.  You've got that done over here We've got a wood-fired barbecue and then around the corner for all of your storage needs Maybe if you're sorting out laundry or just need some storage area for all of your pool lounges and your pool chairs And that stuff you can do it just around the corner Something else I'd want to mention is take a look at this We've got this clear fencing right over here so you can see out and enjoy nature because you are flanked by it Let me swivel over this way guys take a look at the 180 degree views behind me It is absolutely incredible and then we can go down these stairs and we'll find ourselves at another patio But that patio comes a little bit later because what we need to speak about right now is that kitchen So let's head on inside and take a look at what the kitchen has to offer And now that we've showed the outdoor cooking areas. Let's not talk about the indoor cooking areas Yeah, we all within this stunning kitchen first thing I'd like to notice is as I mentioned convenience is a key feature of this home and in terms of convenience We've got a plug point built into these Caesar stone countertops and it is illuminated if you want to use it at night So I really love seeing this we don't see it nearly often enough right over here central island again And I want to mention over and over we've got the feature lights for this room this down lighting pushing down onto the center island So if you do need that illumination, we've got you covered I love how this oh how large this center island is how far it stretches and the fact that just underneath here You can pull out some chairs so they are hidden and not in your way on the right-hand side as I've mentioned Chef's sink is the number one key feature You're not living in a luxury home unless you've got one of these chef's sinks But this home takes it further and we've got this right here Some of you are probably familiar with it But this gives you either instant chilled water or instant boiling water So for those of us tea lovers, it's covered guys at night You don't need to wait for any kettles to boil.   We've got I know guys this is this is this is Kitted out. We're not playing over here We've got an inverter over here and then over here your teppanyaki brawl and then take a look above us This is not just any kind of bulkhead ceiling your extractor fan is built into the ceiling you can see the down lighting there as well Really cool place to be and I can only assume it must be an even nicer place to cook And then rounding off this kitchen is our inbuilt freezer right over here and then the fridge over here All the way tucked out of sight So it's not going to bother you but then flanked by this stunning white countertop and then over here guys my favorite You know, I love going wine shopping every time I do one of these shows We've got an inbuilt wine chiller with gloss so you can still use that you can still see what's going on in there and Enjoy wine on a day like today, which is blisteringly hot But stop right there because over here is your pantry so behind these sliding doors is exactly where you'll find your pantry I love again how the clean lines of this home are kept by utilizing like really really smart and Interesting cupboard designs, so I do dig that but yeah We are within the back end of the kitchen and over here is where you'll find the remainder of your sinks We've got a double sink over here with a single large rectangular sink over there under counter storage throughout and this is also where you can find Any of the space that you might need for your under counter appliances again as I mentioned clean lines are key feature of this So that's your dishwasher and that's one of your dryers and right through this door You're back outside to your outdoor cooking areas where we started this culinary experience should I say now The remainder of the upstairs area is dedicated to bedrooms and offices Which for a lot of our regular viewers, you know, we leave that for lost I'm going to put you back inside because there's a really cool feature and let's go Downstairs and talk about the garage space and talk about the remainder of what's downstairs some of those surprises We're gonna be taking a ride that we haven't taken in quite a long time And that ride is this right over here this home has its very own elevator So when you're parking your cars to get those groceries from the downstairs storage areas or the parking lot Upstairs to the kitchen is done right through this baby right over here. So we're gonna wait for the lift to arrive We're gonna jump in it We're gonna go downstairs and we're gonna find ourselves in the laundry slash downstairs storage area and here it is And yeah, we are after that cool little ride We find ourselves in the downstage storage section You'll see beautiful cupboard space right over here for you to store all of your dry goods and coming through this walkway Yeah, this is your laundry area So you've got your washer your dryer combo with another sink and for those of you who need it And I think for a home like this is definitely gonna come in wanting is some space for another double fridge And yeah, we are guys. This is your garage area a Five car garage all of the doors are automated. You can see the lighting throughout You've also got the speaker system So if you want your music to be playing when you arrive this garage has got you covered stunning stunning flooring as well You can just see exactly how well kept this home is with how clean the flooring is on my right hand side I we flick this switch right over here. We've got another storage area Yeah, that you can utilize as you see fit But that does cover the garage is only so much to talk about before we go guys Take a look at this as I mentioned You've got a central home control unit and here is one of the many control pads you'll see throughout the home So if you want to up your music if you want to change your radio station, that's done right over there And then yeah, we are in the downstairs entry or so for those of you who maybe don't want your guests to be coming on Upstairs and walking through a lot of the living areas Here is a downstairs entry hall that you can utilize as you see fit down through these double doors You'll find the granite stairs that I took a walk up at the beginning of the videos You'll also see your water feature down there as well as the rest of your garden But this downstairs area includes features that are more than just that Elevator over there as cool as that elevator maybe right in front of me. We've got your guest bathroom. So let's take a look at that right now So coming through your wood frame door you find yourself in your guest bathroom It includes a single vanity with mirror above it again stunning lighting elements in this bathroom with your toilet Soft-close toilet seat hidden system that's tucked away just to your left Now that we've got the guest bathroom out of the way Let's take a walk up these stairs and you'll find yourself in something that could be another bedroom But right now I think it makes perfect sense for it to be what it is and that is the gym area No gym is complete without plenty of lighting and music and you've got the speakers in the ceiling just for that You can see all the equipment over here You've got a huge mirror on this side of here that runs across the length of the wall and then over here One of the coolest features your very own dry sauna So you've got a cedar sauna right in there glass door opening up you can go right on in and sweat Sweat it out sweat out all the stress Although today is hot enough to be a sauna all on its own and then on the right-hand side again flanked by this beautiful wood is Another shower slash toilet area.  So follow me because we've got some stuff to talk about The first thing you're gonna see is this large set of stairs They go all the way upstairs those stairs take you right to your entrance hall So as soon as I walked into the home, that's where those set of stairs lead off We're gonna go down this passage. I ever so follow me down and Here we are within a very special area very cool area probably an area There's gonna be many of our children's favorite area. That is your own indoor cinema above us We've got that bulkhead ceiling with very very particular dice lighting You can see the shape of the lighting and how it's cost onto the ceiling then in the edges of the bulkhead ceiling We've got some LED lighting throwing out color changing LED right on the ceiling just lending this room and air over it being more playful More fun just a bit more special We've got air con in this as well as that surround sound speaker system built into the ceiling Got posters movie posters all across the wall and then throughout the whole home I think this is a good place to talk about it You've also got your heated flooring and coming out of the cinema We find ourselves in this special place right here another one of my favorite places upstairs Was the gray bar this right here is the black bar We've got ourselves a microwave another one of those chef's sink built-in fridge right over here Oh containing a lot of wine that my itchy fingers might be digging into an over here a little bar area If you sit down enjoy your popcorn Maybe even whip up a small meal before you head back into the cinema So I love that it's included and the access is so easy to get to where the cinema is and here We are now finally taking a step out onto the outdoor patio downstairs after exploring the upstairs Patio and taking a look at it now I love that this patio is included for numerous reasons one you've got this wrap around garden that explores out to you You can take a look at the beautiful view outdoors But my favorite favorite favorite reason is this right here You've got this wraparound seating you can throw some cushions on it turn it into a little fire pit area Roast some marshmallows after enjoying a movie inside Can you imagine enjoying the stars or taking a look at them out here at the foot deals of Kruger's Dope There must be hardly any light pollution the sky must be incredible and I'm telling you I don't think you can find another home in Johannesburg with access to all the amenities and a sky or a night sky just like this But there's more to explore downstairs to add on back inside and let's take a look at what it is They're leaving the black bar behind me We find ourselves in another sitting room area the downstairs pajama lounge if you will above us bulkhead ceilings Plenty of down lighting to speakers built into the ceiling as I've mentioned every room in this home has got access to that sound System over here. We've got all the connections already built into the wall for you to throw on an LCD screen And if you'd like to enjoy movies here, maybe in a little bit more cozy or personal area you can do it You don't always need to use the cinema over here We've got two doors that open outwards onto the remainder of the back garden And we find ourselves now in a hallway leading off to the guest bedrooms the first one being this right here So let's take a look at it and let's talk about it above us You've got a majority bulkhead ceilings that hides away the top railing of your curtain I love that design element down lighting those speakers in this in the ceiling and then over here You've got these stunning floating shelves built in I love that design element You've got a built-in desk as well So if your children do need a place to do homework, that's covered You've got some cupboards here that are built into the desk and then these gloss cupboards across providing all the storage space For your clothes or your guests if they are staying for a long time now coming out of that bedroom We've got our second guest bedroom and this one being a little bit bigger a little bit more granjos Beautiful wood flooring again that majority bulkhead ceiling hiding the curtain rail We've got this huge open wall right here that you can throw a flat screen on that attention to detail extending So if you do want to put a TV here, all the connections are there plenty plenty plenty of space here for a bed Even bigger than this and right here. We do have a queen bed So you know just how big this area is in the left-hand side You can put a little smokers corner Maybe a reading nook a place for you to sit down with a good book Maybe a cup of coffee or whiskey and enjoy yourself and again a continuation of that curb Window area looking out onto this stunning front lawn with all that greenery and that incredible water feature But this guest bedroom does also have its very own en suite bathroom and a couple of things beside that Another one of those desks in case you need to do some work Went away from home a cupboard space should you need it and let's take a look at this bathroom This guest bathroom. It is also a little bit bigger than the one we saw before it includes this time a bathtub again A floating toilet tucked away in the corner with a hidden system single vanity Under counter storage your mirror just above it and the shower really is the standout feature Yeah, your shower is completely walking with a floor to ceiling window looking out onto the garden area Really letting you enjoy the fact that you're living right there in wilderness So coming out of the guest bedrooms as well as a downstairs area We find ourselves at the foot of another set of stairs guys You remember me talking about that first set of stairs that I said winded its way up all the way to where we Started this video this hallway here brings you around the outside and you'll find yourself just on the other side So what that means is you've got two beautiful Set of woodclad stairs that allow you to make your way up to your front door and over here You can appreciate how that hallway wraps around because yeah floor to ceiling glass letting you enjoy that view an incredible view It is but we've also got a set of doors downstairs So if you do want to have access to your front yard Enjoy that water feature enjoy all of the greenery in that manicured lawn You can do it and then come on right in through that set of doors What a walk but yeah, we are right up to where we began where this all started But instead of going right we're gonna be going left because this side Or this wing of the home has some really cool surprises in store for us and the first one being immediately to my right Before we go in there though There's something I need to talk about not many homes have two guest bathrooms This one does he has your second guest bathroom So anybody coming through the front door if they do need to make use of their blutions of the facilities Yeah, it is right here. The theme continues You've got your hidden system tucked away into that beautiful tile then your single vanity as well as a massive mirror just above it And here we are the first of those many special things that you're gonna find upstairs This is another guest bedroom if you will but this bedroom what makes it oh so special is this a view right over here Incredible view of the nature reserve behind Featherbrook estate Living in Featherbrook estate as well does give you access to the botanical gardens at any given time and some other Amenities of Featherbrook estate world you've got a restaurant You've got squash courts tennis courts biking trails river walks You've got everything you could think of an upmarket estate that is in Johannesburg now this room Yeah, also has access to its very own bathroom area. Let's talk about that Let's do a quick tour around it And then let's walk out take a look at the office and then the creme de la creme the master suite now You're on suite bathroom. You've got your toilet tucked away again soft-closed lid walking shower And this is a fully walk-in shower beautiful glass framing at your single vanity mirror above it some storage behind it And then your bath tub tucked away in the corner They really nice spacious bath tub with a window above it again giving you those incredible views of the outside and the nature Reserve the bird life everything you could ever want while enjoying yourself above a bath Now coming out of that guest bedroom we found it's twin right over here a lot of it copied except this one is Dedicated exclusively to it being in office You've got all of this inbuilt desk space as well as cupboard space and shelving above it again the theme of those beautiful neutral colors Continue start this home stunning flooring and then that window just in front of you letting you do some work here Get a lot done but still do it in style do it in luxury and do it in tranquility because again You've got the heels of Kruger's dob running just in front of you. I love how it's been done I love the thought process when it came to putting in different windows above us plenty of Downlighting those huge tall ceilings built-in speakers above us And then the bulkhead ceiling again cutting off the top railings of those curtains making it just look a little bit more Exurious than usual now out there guys. I'm sure you can get a peek of it I'm covering it on purpose because that right there is the master suite the creme de la creme Let's take a walk into it Let's take a look at what living and sleeping in a 29 990,000 in home in featherbook estate feels like after you and here it is guys The creme de la creme the master suite and first the master bathroom Not many bathrooms are so large that you can fit an area rug in but there it is. You've got an area rug You've got this stunning jacuzzi tub Dominating the center really making the statement piece and this bathroom definitely does make a statement because if your eyes Weren't drawn to this then it definitely was drawn to this shower right over your glass Panel reaching the whole length of it talk about a walk in shower And I'm actually gonna go take a walk in it over here rainfall shower head not one not two But four auxiliary jets all controlled by this stunning stainless steel control panel Basically looks brand new got the stunning gloss again that I have to mention and over here It's not floor-to-ceiling, but you could basically say this is a floor-to-ceiling window that you can enjoy the greenery outside You can really enjoy that view while getting ready over here another statement piece You've got all of this inbuilt lighting in the shelving over here two mirrors flanking it and cupboard space inside of that You can display your perfumes can display your cologne can even display your towels in front of me two Single vanities, you know his and hers vanity under counter storage beautiful Caesar's tone flanked. You even got your very own Shower right over here for this again, you know ease of use is Name of the game when it comes to this home. I've seen it in so many different areas on rooms in this house We've got wall-to-wall mirrors over there when getting ready again some windows over here Providing you a different view and not a view you see often in this home But a view outside and the remainder of Ramsey and then right where you guys are standing is a separate private area That's your toilet area with another basin for you to utilize you can close the door and really have all the privacy You need so that's quite a clever touch as well But that's not all it's not all for the creme de la creme because we've also got a walking closet right over here So follow me in and here it is your walking closet now This closet is special because again some careful really good touches were applied when making this because this is air-conditioned No windows in this room. So we've put an air conditioning system inside with plenty of downlighting Mirrors flanking here. So when you are getting ready, you know that the mirror there is Exactly where you're gonna be getting ready in front of all of these Sliding cupboards open up to provide you all the cupboard space you might need and I love again that those design elements have continued Throughout this home with that white-faced cabinet beautiful gloss And here it is guys the creme de la creme the master suite The flooring I cannot get enough of from when we come from the cream that cream poured concrete to this beautiful wood It really does feel so well taken care of and so high quality I think it's these small touches that make a house really feel expensive above me again a bulkhead ceiling two of the speakers Incorporated into the ceiling and over. Yeah, the ceiling extends even higher giving you that that that feeling of grandeur But I think the key feature and one of my favorite features is this right here We've got these windows that run the whole length of this wing and you can open up all of these windows Individually opening them up, but for safety and security. You can see these glass railings having built in Tilted down you can slide this open. Enjoy your front yard Take a look the manicured lawn and the stunning view all the way down to lancuria I mean that is not a bad view you can see planes landing guys and this is all from your master suite I love how it's been done. I love how this house has been put together There's a couple of other features I'd want to mention and I think a lot of you are thinking Cleaning this house must be so difficult, but it's not there's a central vacuum system I've mentioned the heated flooring then if you'd like to keep pets this home a lot of the homes inside Stays like this don't have it, but it's fully walled off so you can keep your pets We've got an intercom system with a camera in it So when you do have guests coming, you know Well, you're gonna know exactly who it is and then electric fencing running the whole complex 24-hour security guards at the front access codes Safety is not something you'd even need to worry about and over here We've got the panels controlling all the systems in the house your central home entertainment system as well as the alarm system We've got these beautiful really hefty doors beautiful wood and then you've also got a central generator system So when the lights do go out, they're not going out over here You know, you're gonna be taken care of and that does conclude this incredible home in Featherbrook estate So let's head off outside Let's talk about pricing and let's talk about how you can arrange a viewing all for a lot of you How you can purchase this incredible home. Let's go and There you have it folks. We've taken a tour around this incredible 29,990,000 in home and right here we are Outside at the front in front of that water fountain or what a feature I was mentioning earlier So ladies and gentlemen if you'd like to purchase this home The person to contact is Devin Brough and he can schedule either viewing or taking through the steps necessary To become the new homeowners of this incredible home right here in Featherbrook estate Guys do not miss out. I think this at this price point is an absolute steal But that's it for myself Chad Rivera's everybody at the home shopper show Thank you so much for tuning in every Monday and Friday at 8 p.m And for everybody looking for a home searching for a home, whether it's this big whether it's this lavish Whether it's this meticulate anywhere in between guys, please go to www.privateproperty.co.za because we incorporate every single home across every single estate agency Across South Africa all in one easy to find and easy to search location. So I'll see you there and I'll see you next time Thank you so much and goodbye


Hello, folks. Kubernetes has become a go-to environment for running your applications, and they also store a lot of the mission critical data, obviously, in these clusters. So it becomes, obviously, very important to have that data protected and measures in place for such applications. Now, in this video, we will go through and have a look on how you can achieve this with Microsoft Azure. Today I have the pleasure that I'm joined by Rashad, Senior PM in the Azure BCDR team, who will tell us more about how you can protect your Azure Kubernetes service or AKS clusters. Welcome, Rashad. Great to have you on today. Thanks, Thomas. Great to have you in here and me there and helping out customers tell them how they can protect their AKS clusters today. Awesome. So, Rashad, customers are increasingly using AKS to run their applications on Azure. Can you tell us why backup is critical and how this can be achieved with Azure backup today? So Azure Kubernetes service has become a default platform for customers right now to running their containers. Customers have usually been using AKS for running stateless, but storing state in those clusters has become a key thing now. Customers are running databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, relational, New Age, Cloud Database, everything is now being run inside Kubernetes. And the key thing when you're running a database is to store that data and back it up, so in case you can have any kind of a failure, deletion, something like that or any mishap happens, you have your backup to protect you.  And that's why the key thing comes in for AKS also is to have a data protection product in line. And taking that approach, we in Azure backup, we built our AKS backup solution. The focus that we built on to is around app centricity, that's the key in Kubernetes, that's what we focus on. Customers get like a set of filtering capabilities which allows them to identify what they want to back it up in their AKS clusters like namespaces, labels and all from coming from the Kubernetes world, they can do it. And then they can easily backup not just the data that's stored, but the other application state that's there, we call it cluster state in Kubernetes or in that they can also protect. So all in all, customer can encompass, define what's their application is and pack it up on a regular basis. And then with Azure backup being there, they get all the additional facilities that's going to come along, that may be long term retention, monitoring and governance capabilities that they need. And then they also get ransomware protection on the line. So all these features are in place that customers need in backup solutions for the AKS also. That's awesome. That's awesome to hear especially what AKS backup now can do for our customers. So you talked about application centric approach, right? And I think we do that a lot, especially now these days, when it comes to Azure and the cloud. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Yeah. So fundamentally, when we talk about app centricity in Kubernetes world, that's the basic tenant on which Kubernetes was built to basically keeping aside the application deployment and development process, separate from infrastructure as in case, that's how Kubernetes has been built. And that's what the key part of backup is you're not looking to predict the infra on which you're running your application. You're trying to predict the app in itself. And that's what we talk about, app centricity in Kubernetes. And I'm going to quickly just do a demo for you how you can configure backup and highlight to you how the app centric approach comes into picture for AKS backup. So this is here. I have a generic AKS cluster running. It has a WordPress app deployed in it. So I'm just going to show it to you quickly where the app is as in case. So app is deployed within namespaces in the AKS world. And that's where it's a logical boundary as in case. So it's a WordPress app that you can see there's a MySQL database running it and a WordPress application also running within this cluster. And that's what I'm going to look to protect. So first thing that we have done in context of experience files in itself, you get your backup inbuilt within the AKS portal. It means the experience that is there for Kubernetes in Azure. Just get it there so you can manage your backup directly from here. And you can, the entire experience basically lies in the same platform. Now with this coming up, I'll show you how you can do a backup, how it works and what the app centric approach may talk about will cover picture. So first I'll select a vault. Vault is the key component in Azure backup world. That's the management layer for us in context of backup. So that's here. I'll move forward. And then I'll do something in the next step that is called creating a policy. What is a backup policy? It's something in which you define the schedule and retention of your backup. In the backup world, it becomes key to have a specific RPO in order to even trying to back it up. So you can do it in here. So I'll just quickly create a backup policy here. And I'll define the schedule and retention under this policy. You can see I can schedule backups for hourly basis. Every four hours I can back up my AKS cluster. I can do a backup daily basis. And then I can retain each backup from seven days to an year as per my requirement. So that is available in the AKS backup. Now quickly this policy once it's created, then I can move forward and basically configure the actual application and define what it would look like. So this is where I came from. And now I'll define the application. So first I'll name the app name, let me name it WordPress. And because I'm backing it up, let me instead of backup. As I talked about the namespace being the logical boundary Kubernetes world, you have an option to pick up which particular thing that you want to back it up. And here I want to back up my WordPress app. So I'm just going to pick it up. What else do I have in here? You have labels. Labels are basically tags that you provide within your application components and Kubernetes. You can use them. What it allows is that you can pick and choose specific resources within your cluster, including secrets and all. You can also add app customization by writing some pre-post hooks. Hooks are basically certain commands that you need to run as part of your backup. And then you can have application consistent backups. They are very crucial in the databases world, like MySQL MongoDB, that's where they come in handy. And that's what is also available. So that's how you have defined in my app boundary as it is. I picked up a namespace, I can use labels, I can pick and choose some particular resources and all I can do that. And after that, I need to select a snapshot resource. This is where the backups get stoned. You can run the validation and my backup will proceed for this particular scenario. So that's how you can define an app boundary within AKS backup and basically back up your application. As in case I have already created a backup configured one for this cluster, which you can see it here. It's an entire cluster backup. In AKS backup, you get an option to back up your entire cluster and even any changes comes into future will automatically get backed up. So you don't need to worry about it. So that's also comes in. You have a recovery point already in place. So this is how backup can be configured for an AKS cluster and the app centric approach that I defined right now comes into flow. Awesome. Like that, making the life of application admins that much easier, that's obviously the goal. So obviously we discussed a bit like, okay, we have these stateless and stateful apps, and so there's different scenarios. Can you tell me in which scenarios backup really can help customers? What are the scenarios where backups will come in handy? Yeah, so backups are crucial thing in a stateful scenario. That means when I say stateful, a data is being stored inside the AKS cluster. It becomes very important that you have backups in place and how backups help at that point of a time. What if we basically dropped a table in the database that you're running, and then how are you going to bring that data up if it's in production environment? There's no way to get it. So at that point of a time, AKS backup comes in handy. You have your data backed up, you can just restore it, and then you can have your tables backed up to a particular time in the past where the table existed. Do that simply for that. Then new scenarios coming up, their backup becomes handy is something like application migration. So I want to upgrade my Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes every six, 12 months brings out a new version. AKS also upgrade with that. So if as a customer, I want to upgrade my cluster to move to a newer version of Kubernetes, I can use backup then. One of the big scenarios that's around is application migration. I want to move my application from one cluster to another cluster. There's another key scenario that comes in is what if I have a bug in production, I want to fix it. But what I need to do is that I need to clone my production environment, move into a test environment, test out the bug, and then redeploy it. In every single place that you have the scenarios that are when that's where backup comes in handy, because then you can use backup, not just as backup for your deleted data, but for newer scenarios like migrating your application from one cluster to another, DevOps related experiences that you have, or you want to do an app upgrade or cluster upgrade. So everything comes in handy. So it's not just one, but multiple use cases comes in with backup. In terms of experience part of it, even the restore experience that we have built in Thomas is app centric for AKS backup. So as I showed you, this is the backup that I have right now. And what I'll do is that I'll just quickly do a restore experience also. This is the recovery point or basically a backup that I had taken earlier for this cluster. And what I'm going to do is that I'm just going to restore it. So I'll start the restore flow. So I can simply select multiple restore points right now. There's just one. So I'm just showing it that I can have options of multiple restore points available. I can select the Kubernetes cluster that I want to use. So let me I want to use, okay, here's my cluster. And then what I'm going to show is the app centric approach within the restore flow also. So similar to you have seen that backup configuration, same thing comes in restore also, that's the cool part of the solution. You can pick and choose what namespace that you want to restore. Don't need to just restore all of them. I can decide that okay, I just want to restore my WordPress app. I can do that or maybe another component out of it I can do that. Even within those namespaces, you still have much deeper options to filter out and restore. So you have labels, API groups, these are more Kubernetes components that are there. You can use them to define what particular items within your backup that you want to restore. I talked about the application migration scenario. That's where namespace mapping kind of comes in namespace is a logical boundary for an application. Maybe I want to move my application components from one boundary to another boundary. So what I can do is that I can create an altogether the new namespace and restore the resources there and just have migrate my app from one environment to another altogether simply by just this thing. There's a little conflict handling while restoring these resources. How can manage if similar resources comes in appearance? So that also gets managed. You're going to also option to customize or restore. You can put up a simple Kubernetes CR inside the cluster and then the CR will be picked up by the backup service and then your backups also will be done. So you can have customizations also while you're performing at a store. And with this, you get your app centric approach around for AKS backup. The good thing is that that with the AKS backup being in Azure backup, you get the entire set of experience of restore also. So you can keep track of your restore jobs and all how they're performing when they're performing. So you have that option available in that case. So this is how the restore works and how you can use the restore functionality for different different user scenarios that has come along, which I mentioned earlier. Oh, this is fantastic. I love the namespace mapping. That's especially especially not just like if you want to restore obviously, but also if you do some migration or testing or you want to do different things with the real data, right? Super excited about this. And I'm sure like a lot of our viewers are also very excited about this. So where can they learn more? So you can just go to aka.ms aka cluster backup. You'll reach to our Microsoft Learn Portal. We can go through the documentation here. We have given you entire set of scenarios how you can use the product in a detailed manner and you can use our tutorials with quick learning sections and use them to start putting clusters from today itself. Awesome. Thank you very much for all this great information today and walking us through these new exciting solutions for AKS. That will help a lot our customers. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.