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Yeah Hey everybody, what's going on? It's your man, Kory. Welcome to the digital dash Why I be giving you guys tips on how to market your songs and get those numbers booming now for those You who don't know who I am who may be new to the channel. I'm a digital marketer myself I specialize in helping artists get their songs heard through platforms like Spotify like Instagram like YouTube and a bunch of others Now what I want to talk to you guys about today is how to throw your own shows This video was pretty much inspired by a question that I got on Instagram in which they asked could I make a video about Throwing events and putting them together and things like that Plus I'm always telling you guys to reach out to me that I think that throwing your own show can be a good move Especially for those you who are in the beginning of your career It's fun to get the ball rolling with performances and things like that Now the first three steps are actually pretty simple You'll want to find a team and tell me a budget and of course figure out what date you want the show to be on now I do encourage you all to definitely find you a team of people that can help you put this event together Hypothetically speaking you could throw the whole show yourself, but trust me It'll definitely be stressful as all hell in the end now personally I like to have at least three other people helping me when playing events It just helps to have people that you can delegate tasks to and have people who pick up on things that you may have Forgotten about especially in the pressures that comes with throwing a show and of course you need to know your budget because that would pretty much be The parameter of which you base the entire event on now You may want to throw your show in that nice Downtime venue with the rooftop setting But if you only have four hundred dollars to your name then you're gonna have to plan your show a little bit differently And of course you need to date make sure you give yourself enough time out So you can promote it at least three weeks from the time that you plan on putting it And that's if you want to be very last minute and try to put together a show pretty quickly Other than that I would say give yourself at least two months outside of when you actually start planning the event Then the next thing that you want to do is to find a venue now This is definitely a crucial step in throwing an event I've seen events crashing brand because they picked the wrong venue. It was terrible. It was in a bad spot It didn't have nice sound equipment a bunch of different reasons man The venue is definitely an important piece now what constitutes a good venue does change from person to person But pretty much you want to a make sure it's in a good location be make sure it's affordable and see make sure it Fits the amount of people that you realistically think will come But also isn't two spaces that it makes your event look dead in the event that there aren't that many people there now When in doubt go for the smaller venue if you don't know how many people are coming out It's always better to overcapacitated venue than to not have enough people to fill it out now Next you'll want to find local acts to be on your show now Assuming you don't have a headlining for your show these local acts are pretty much the untray for the entire event That's going on now if you're an artist This is the point where you need to kind of step back and think about the scene that you've seen going around you in Your city and think about what acts would come together to make a good show and actually bring out a crowd of people that You'll want to perform in front of try not to curate shows or to just your friends Remember that after all of this you do want to dip into different audiences So reaching out to other local acts that are in your scene that you know can bring out five or ten or fifteen or twenty people It'll be a good way to pretty much pack out the show and make sure that there's a diverse crowd of people That actually wants to come to engage with the show next you're gonna want to determine if you want to have a headliner Now you don't necessarily need a headliner I've definitely seen shows that pack out a venue without having out a major act or Some big superstar coming through just to bring people out as a matter of fact shameless plug After a festival in Atlanta called blue summer and we pretty much been packing our event with just local acts from the Atlanta scene That we like and that we want to work with but there are rappers who have taken Throwing their own shows as an opportunity to bring out a bigger act because they know that that act will bring out people And then they just put themselves right on in front of it a good example is this artist out of Memphis named I don't know Jeffrey. He pretty much talked about it in his no jumper interview. That's really how I got out Like I made music I got kind of known and then I started like booking niggas for shows Like I booked suicide boys Eddie Baker smurf all in Dallas and I performed with Snuck in I didn't even take any money.  We just put our money together get the venue keep it off. That's dope Yeah, that's how I got my name. I really like I really don't even get booked like that to be honest So like I was saying you don't have to have a headliner act But having one doesn't necessarily hurt you go back to the first step and pretty much determine if it's going to fit within your budget So real quick, let's run through what we have so far.  If it doesn't do you know where you're going to get it? Do you have a sound guy to run this sound equipment? Do you need security? Do you need someone to run a bar? These are all little details that you need to take care of depending on the other parts of your show that come together Pretty much these are things that you need to think about in advance to make sure that you don't have some little Mishal come up in the long run outside of that make sure that you have all the materials you'll need for a show such as wristbands Tickets all these things once again These are all pretty much little checkpoints that you'll need to check off to make sure that the show is going to go Well, once you have all of these things the only thing you need to do after that is to promote the event Make sure you tell all of your friends make sure you have the acts promoting Make sure you have the DJ and anyone that's involved in a part of the show is actually hands-on and promoting this event to make Sure that the most amount of people as possible will actually come and check it out And if you've been watching this video this whole time wondering why would I want to throw my own show? Why would I even want to put myself through that stress pretty much? It can be a good way to give yourself some show experience Especially if you're not at the point where promoters are just reaching out and booking you on the regular You could sit around and wait for a promoter to book you you could pay to get on to somebody else's show Or you could take that same amount of time and money and resources and put your own event together Giving yourself some show experience and some event planning experience as well now just to help you guys out I've made a little checklist of things that you need to make sure taking care of before your show can get started I'll make sure to leave a link to that in the description below as well Let me know if it helps you guys out now as always guys if you feel like you learned anything today Please like and share this video hit those post notifications as well as I wouldn't want you guys to miss anything Once again, my name is Kory and I'll see y'all next time


Good afternoon everyone and thanks for coming up for this session. We'll be talking about the efficient strategy about OpenStack backup. These are the outlines we are going to talk in this session. And first we'll introduce who we are. Myself, Ghanshyaman, I'm a software developer in NEC. I'm working in OpenStack upstream developers since 2014. And I work in QA and NOAA and doing some of the POC and backup and storage site. Yeah. Good afternoon everyone. I'm Abhinav, Abhinav Adhraval. I work as a solutions architect with NEC Technologies. And I'm from bottom of my heart. I'm a systems software developer since 2005. Primarily spent my time with virtualization, cloud, big data and IoT storage technologies in last about 12 years. So you can catch me on Twitter at techieabhinav. So that's all about my introduction. Thanks. So OpenStack backup. This is an open question actually. If you are building a cloud and one of the key consideration is about backup and recovery. Because we have a lot of resources in OpenStack, VM volumes, we have database and configuration things. And there are a lot of backup solution available for clouds, but those are either specific to specific vendors like Microsoft, VMware only. And there are a lot of questions comes in mind when we think about the OpenStack backup. Like, can we use traditional backup solution for OpenStack? What all to backup for OpenStack? We have a lot of things. And what should be our RPO, RTO and TCO things. So all these questions and everything we will be discussing in this session. So we know the very first question. Maybe audience also would like to know why we need to backup cloud. So all these questions can you just summarize initially. So you can get the background. Thanks, Kansyam. I'm sure that audience here would have similar questions when they are attending this session. Like, first of all, the very first question is like, why do we need to have backup of OpenStack? So I would like to, you know, summarize that with this slide. Why OpenStack needs to be backed up. So, you know, there are, so the primary reason for having backup is recovery from a data loss situation. And data loss can happen due to multiple reasons, including human error. So, you know, your engineer, a single RM minus RF can cause all your data lost or something overwritten by engineer by mistake. So, you know, you need some mechanism to recover from those kind of scenarios. There can be data corruptions through other ways, not just by human errors. So even in those scenarios, you need to have some mechanism to recover. And none of the hardware in the world so far is 100% reliable. So even if it's 0.0001% not, you know, guaranteed, then also you need to have, because your critical data is residing in the cloud. So you need to have some mechanism so that you can recover from there. Not only data loss, but there are scenarios when your full system can go down. Your full cloud can go down basically. And then so there are scenarios like, for example, you're performing upgrade. So during upgrades, something nasty happens. Some power failure happens. Some script is not working as you expected. And then you're gone. So typically the best practices says that before update, you take backup. And in case something bad happens, at least you have something to, you know, roll back your system to some stable state. There are very rare scenarios of natural disaster like some flood or something, some earthquake, those kinds of scenarios. So there are DR solutions required for them. And for DR also, you need to have some backup. Not only these, the recovery situations, but you know, you add some business values if your cloud is basically planned well for backup. So like you get competitive advantage as compared to other providers or other solutions that you're deploying. Basically, you're ready for any kind of worst case scenario. So you can survive in any kind of, those kind of scenarios which are explained earlier. And then for some of the industries backup is kind of compliance requirement. Typically industries like healthcare, they are HIPAA compliance. They need to have, you know, all the servers and all the data needs to be backed up. Finance industry and many more. I mean, they need backup as a compliance requirement. And if you have a cloud which you say that is backup ready, that's ready for those kind of industries. So yeah, this was very first question. And I guess I've explained it that why backup is needed. Now, backup is needed. It's known from long time. And there are multiple solutions. I call them traditional backup solutions. They're typically there for long ages. But now, since we are talking about cloud, why we need something different for cloud? Why traditional backup solutions are not a direct fit for cloud kind of backup requirements? So the first and very important thing is scalability. So as you know, like OpenStack is designed to become scalable. There is no, theoretically there is no limit on number of nodes or storage and all. But most of the backup solutions which are existing today, traditional backups, they mostly have limitations either on number of generations. I mean, the storage they can handle or number of servers they can handle. But so it's a contradictory situation when for OpenStack, you need a backup solution which needs to be limitless, especially for scalability kind of scenario. Then multi-tenancy. So your traditional backup softwares, they manage users mostly through Active Directory integration and those kind of scenarios wherein OpenStack or any other cloud is, for that matter, is multi-tenant. So instead of users, you have group of users as tenants residing on your cloud. And you need solutions or your backup behavior different for each tenant. So one of the possible ways could be to have different backup solution for each tenant. But then you're losing on the management cost and effort required and you're asking your clients to take that burden. But as a cloud provider, if you want to have a single backup under a single umbrella, then also you need to have that considered in your backup plan. Next thing is the context aware part. So when I say context, so in cloud, you're not just backing up your user load like the VM or the volumes. But you also need to have backup of information like your VM network settings, the configuration files of your cloud services, some audit requirements, audit trails, and all those things are also required. So the context that your application is running on cloud is important and that also needs to be saved. Then distributed architecture. So most of the current applications, they are kind of distributed, clustered applications wherein it is not simple as a single node application when you are taking backup. You have to maintain synergy between services running in different nodes. So typically cloud will come under that kind of applications would be running in the cloud and you need to handle those kind of applications backup.  So given all these, I think none of the traditional backup is 100% fit for cloud, for implementing cloud backup. And then we need to have some solution which is way beyond this. So what happens due to these challenges, like the requirements, what kind of challenges admins are facing in open stack when they have to plan their backup if they're not considering any automated solutions. So things like, as I said, like there is volume backup, there is your VM backup, there is configuration backup. So all these things are scattered. Your admin has to plan a regular backup of all these things in a different manner. There is no single one-click solution ready for admin to deploy. Then once the admin is doing, basically he's trying to write some scripts to take backup of logs, configurations, DB. It's kind of error-prone. He has to execute backups manually. He's not able to schedule them properly because of the lack of... So he's not able to utilize the features of traditional backup. So there's no integrated user interface, one-click backup kind of scenario. And during backup, if some failure happens, he has to handle all these things manually. So looking at all these challenges that your admin is facing, you need some solution which is basically solving the purpose and helping the admin. And now while you're designing your cloud, you also need to consider integrating such solutions in your cloud itself. So Ganshyam would be later explaining about what all solutions are there. So before I hand over it to Ganshyam, I would add some of the key considerations admin should basically consider while he's planning the backup policies. So typically the standard backup best practices apply when you create your OpenStack backup policies. So for example, your tolerance to the failure or how quickly you want to recover would drive your frequency of backup.  Whether you want to keep your backup off-site or on-site would also depend on the kind of failures you are anticipating. One of the most important things while planning backup is you should also plan... See, only taking backup is not enough. I mean, you also have to ensure that once needed you are able to restore and make your system up and running. So you have to ensure that whatever backup you have taken is correctly taken. But it's not possible that every backup all the time you are able to verify. So you need to also define how often you want to verify and test whether your backups are correctly taken. The targets where you are storing your backups, they also need to be reliable. So you have to carefully choose which target you are going to use for your backup target. For example, you want to use SIF, you want to use Swift, some manifest target or those kind of different targets are available. You need to define different matrices like RPO, RTO, which are targeted for the cloud operating. So all these things I think before you consider any solution, you should take into mind and then you should carefully choose the solutions. Now I will hand it over to Ghanshyam for further explanation of the solutions. Yeah, thanks for explaining the very important question why we need cloud backup. So now the question comes, what all things to backup for OpenStack cloud? We have VM, we have volume, we have other configuration files, data files, log files, like what all to backup and what all are important. So on cloud source side we have configuration and log files. So every service is in OpenStack, they run against the set of configuration which varies their behavior between different cloud. So on your cloud whatever configuration you have set, you wanted to backup those things. And similarly, log file you have. And then obviously the database, each OpenStack services have their own database and their resources, information and metadata, et cetera. On the user workload side we have volume and VM. So the user workload side, the VM and volume, they can be backed up as a complete workload or you can backup like VM and all the test volume with them. So now on configuration, log file and database side, so configuration backup, we have configuration files like by default the location is etc slash stuff like NOAA, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, et cetera. Or whatever you have configuration location in your cloud. So from there you can take the backup, you can have the file level backup for those. Similarly, log file, we have the log file on configured location like by default we say slash where slash lag log NOAA, Neutron, Cinder. So wherever you have configured the log file location in your cloud you can keep taking the backup. So depending on how big your cloud is and how frequent the request comes on that so log files may be very big. So it's up to you guys that how many log files and till long you want to keep those log files. And on DB backup, so we have a database for each OpenStack services and those database can be on separate controller side, controller node or they can have a separate MySQL server where they keep all the database for all services. So if it's on single node, you can take backup for all the database together like for example with MySQL dump tool. Or if you want to take backup for particular service, for example, NOAA, you can take that. So yeah, MySQL dump, like we can question depends like for speed and reliability this may not be good. So I'm not recommending this is the only way you should backup MySQL. You can choose the other solutions and your own backup utility for database. So these are the resources we should at least care about in OpenStack backup. And now let's discuss what's the essential features we need in cloud backup solution because backup is not just copying the data from somewhere to somewhere. It needs a lot of things and we should consider a lot of features and factor when we are choosing the backup. So very first thing is kind of backup type like full backup, then differential backup, incremental backup, file backup. We can say like still it has the redundant differences of backup with respect to the previous full backup. But yeah, incremental backup is kind of much needed because you don't want to back up, you don't want to take full backup every time. You don't have that much of storage, nobody has I think. So incremental backup is very needed and file level backup. So if particular file you want to backup and restore, the feature should be there. Next is policy-driven backup. So there are a lot of things you want to define in policy, like your retention policy and about your permission on particular storage, your data format and your encryption types on particular tenant or particular user. So those kinds of things you can define in policies and that backup solution should care or should consider those policy and automatically do backup according to those because each time you don't want to, as Abino explained, nobody wants to do the manual backup. That's why we have the backup solution here and that's why we should have a policy-driven backup support in its backup solution so that you can define policy at each level and obviously the automatic backup, the skew dealing and all these things you can, the automatic you can do if you want to like schedule backup overnight or weekend for particular time, you should be able to do that. Then we have on restore side. So restore, yeah, one click, like we have backed up 100 of VM, 1000 of VM. We don't want to restore it one by one or for example, I have a particular tenant and I have backed up the complete data of the tenant so I should be able to restore it completely. So one click restore should be there. It's restore everything whatever you have backed up. And then selective restore, that is also very important because if I like under one tenant or as a single workload I have backed up 1000 of VM and my one VM got corrupted so I want to restore that VM only. So I should be able to select the particular VM or resource from a complete workload or tenant backup and restore that. Then yes, the file level recovery. As I said, if particular file we want to restore or recover we should be able to do because if I got one file corrupted and want to restore it, I don't want to back restore the complete image and then put the VM and then restore it from there. It should be able to map the backed up image and from there I can choose the single file or particular file to restore. So next we have deduplication. That is very, very important because nowadays as I said nobody has too much storage. Storage is very important. So in any kind of storage, any kind of data we store we want deduplication and same in the case of backup restore also. So with deduplication we can save a lot of storage, bandwidth so that is really important. On similar note we have data compression so if we can save some space with compression technology that is also good. Next, data security. So that is all up to cloud provider or depends on the user, VM they want to backup. So they want to provide a data security or not kind of some authorization, authentication things or at least encryption way of the data. But there are a trade of like if you support the encryption things obviously it makes backup and restore slow because it has to encrypt and decrypt the data. So if we have a use case of much data security so the backup solution should provide the encryption support. And next we have multi-tenancy as we know explained why traditional backup cannot be used and one of the factor was the multi-tenancy in OpenStack which is very nice and much needed. So each solution should backup each tenant resources or workload with by providing the isolation between tenants. It should not be like I have backed up one tenant and restoring there and changing, modifying or disturbing the other tenant resources. So that should not be there. So the tenant isolation should be taken care while doing the backup and resources. Next, non-disruptive. So if I'm using VM volume and my cloud provider want to take backup, I can do backup but don't ask me to stop the services or any downtime. So that's what we want to do. So it should be non-disruptive. So irrespective of VM or volume downtime or read-write, read-write stop, the backup should work. Next, geolocation. So, yeah, we can locally backup on NFS storage or anywhere but still due to a lot of factor we want to have one backup copy or at least the backup on the remote side or other geographic location. So if backup solution has support for this, that is really nice. Next, we have scalability. So OpenStack, as we know, it can be scaled out at any level. It can be of 100 node or 1,000 of node or million nodes. So, and initially, we don't know how much we need. So maybe cloud keep growing, keep scale out. So backup solution, whatever we choose, it should be scalable. So it's not like you just work for 1,000 VM and after that, okay, there's something, some issues. Of course, it will not be there. So as OpenStack is scalable, the backup solution should be scalable. And here, unlimited data transfer. So there should not be any limit on data transfer if I have very heavy VM or heavy volume of 1 TB or anything. So there should not be like there is a limited data transfer things there and which makes my backup and restore very slow. And this is very important. And most of the traditional backup has some agent installed on the particular resource, VM or on the directory, which you want to backup. So in case of OpenStack, we don't want any agent to be installed on VM because that makes slow. Even because we know when we take the VM backup, so the image of the backup lies under the translation layer on host. So if I trigger backup, it goes to VM, some agent there. It goes triggered again at the down. In translation layer of host, get the data images, then it goes all the way there. So that's obviously we don't need and we don't want. So there should not be any guest to agent required for backup solution. Just would like to add one more point about the agentless requirement. So it's not only, the performance is definitely one of the requirements, but other than that, scalability is also affected if you need to install agents on every VM. So basically, if you don't need agents to be installed on user workload or user VMs, you can scale your cloud in independent of your backup requirement. So that is one of the key requirements to make your backup architecture such that you don't need to have agents running on each VM. Yeah, that's really true. And next, the resource requirement by the backup solution. It's not to be there, it needs 50% of your cloud resources to backup your cloud. So as minimum, as required is always good. And next, last but not the least, is user interface. So admin or anyone who is doing the backup, they don't want any complex interface or they don't want to have a lot of internal technical knowledge of how that solution or software works. So as simple as interface for that backup solution, is good. So those are the essential features we actually look for backup solution in case of OpenStack backup. And next, we'll go through what all we have in market currently. So the first we'll go with the Trilio Vault. So on Trilio Vault is a backup and recovery solution for OpenStack from Trilio Data. And it provides multi-tenancy self-service policy-based solution. And yes, no agent on guest. It's available non-destructive and it provides point-in-time backup of data and configuration. And yeah, on Restore, one-click Restore you can do selective Restore also and file-level Restore also. And it provides a flexibility of selecting, selectively restoring the VAM on different network or different availability zone or different cloud, region or different cloud. So there might be scenario like in my cloud I have multiple compute node in multiple availability zone. So I have backed up one VAM from one compute node under say XYZ. And while restoring, I don't want to restore that on the same compute node because that compute node has gone bad. So I should be able to restore backed up VAM in different compute node under different availability zone. By selecting the availability zone, I should be able to restore that in different compute node. So that is also present here and then, yeah, file-level backup and Restore support. And they have backup storage support on NFSF Swift and AWS. And next, I got this architecture from Trilio team. It's very simple and easy to explain. So I will not go deep into this architecture. What I want, why I included this architecture here to understand from deployment point of view what all things we have to install and where we have to install and how they work at very high level so that we can understand how and how much hardware resources or how complex they are etc. So on Trilio architecture, in Trilio Vault, on the NOAA and Horizon side, we have Trilio Vault API and Horizon Plugin. So on the same OpenStack dashboard or whatever you have dashboard, so you can have the integrated UI. And then you have Trilio data on compute node and you have Trilio Vault. You can install it on VM or physical server. So what happens when you trigger backup or restore from Horizon, so it goes to the Trilio Vault and it trigger data mover on compute node to get the backup of those VM and then they do the backup on their select to restore storage on NFS, Swift or Chef or Red Bullets whatever it is. So that's how it works. There is no agent on VM or there is no other complexity. So we have done the functional POC on Trilio data and it went very well. But the performance POC and DR things is in progress. And if you want to know more about Trilio data, we have a couple of sessions tomorrow or day after tomorrow also. So next we have Freezer. So you might know this. We have this as an open stack project. So Freezer is a distributed backup, restore and disaster recovery as a service platform. So this is an open stack project and key components are Freezer, scheduler, agent, WebUI and Freezer API. So it is, we will explain what all components are installed where and what all they do. And backup file level using point-in-time snapshot and multiple compression algorithm they have and synchronizing backup and restoring on multiple node. So this is the architecture of Freezer from, you can get it from GitHub, it's open stack. And so as we explained it has four key components. So Freezer, scheduler and Freezer is and they get installed on node, either VM or physical server from where you want to execute the backup. So what Freezer, scheduler does it retrieves the, it's a demo and it's retrieved the data from Freezer API and it's in the form of job, job template you can define. You can define the accent inside the job what all you need to do, what VM you want to backup, what all policies and all those things. So it retrieves the data from Freezer API and it trigger the jobs and Freezer agent to execute those accents and the job. And Freezer agent then it execute either it can be executed standalone or by the scheduler and it provide the flexible way to execute the backup restore and other action on running system. And then Freezer API is used to store the metadata and it provide it to the horizon GUI and talking with scheduler and all. And next we have Converture. So this is a open stack this is backup for open stack and KVM so only it is for KVM, open stack KVM only. But yeah if you have that environment you can use it. So it do automated policy based backup and yeah it has full and incremental backup and their storage target yes with TC2, S3 and local remotely you can do with SSH they have compression option retention policy, scheduling policy and encryption option but as I said this is only for KVM so it doesn't spot much other hypervisor. So next is RQ so this is the backup solution from Avnix it's a backup restore utility for open stack with STN and it do STN backup restore policy based backup with automation then you can customize the policies and the offsite application you can do for DR things and it do full VM backup and tenant level backup also so at all together you can backup the complete tenant data so whatever network and VMs and everything you have you can backup together and does full backup and no agent in this so these are the four solution one is only for KVM so four solution we have currently which can do the open stack backup and we have these matrix from our POC and investigation which those feature I already covered so I'm not going to ex going each and every one for each and all solution so you can refer those even later so it's same continuation now we'll summarize those so as we know backup recovery is integral part of open stack cloud we cannot say this is the cloud and we don't need backup no we need backup in various scenarios and backing up solution in a traditional backup way is not an option as we explained traditional backups are way behind from what we need for cloud and open stack and open stack backup solution as we explained like we have currently four solution I think before 2, 3 years we didn't have much so those have merged a lot since few years and features still missing in existing solution or in progress maybe one is like network failure handling like when I do the backup and it's very heavy backup at the like 90% state network failure happen and again I have to take the backup from scratch or starting that's not good so that should be there some failure handling network failure handling or some mechanism to resume the backup whenever you fix the network should be there Trilure data has some default retry mechanism but that's not configurable as of now and I think it will be in the roadmap somewhere and then deduplication so many solution they say like deduplication they don't need because they do incremental backup because it does only incremental backup and as I explained deduplication is still needed because in incremental backup also we can have a lot of duplicate data and that depends on how big cloud we backup and all so those are the things and yeah we summarize with those so we have mic there so if you have any question please ask so with OpenStack they do or they do backup on OpenStack yeah I don't know with that actually so because we load on OpenStack it's fine but what we're talking about is backup of cloud itself because other backup solution we another they do the backup on OpenStack like on Swift here we are talking backing of the OpenStack cloud so as I explained earlier in my slides like backup of workload is different from backup of cloud so there are traditional softwares available not only convolved but there are various others who are offering backup for workload only but in this session we were trying to focus more on the needs for backup of cloud itself and how is it different from traditional backup? A lot of traditional backup they're moving from doing backup on towards the backing of on cloud that is the separate thing but cloud itself how we can back up so that only those four we have great thank you so quick question then so it sounds like you're differentiating the infrastructure from the workloads the applications that we're running in our environments what are your thoughts on bringing those two together because ultimately to recover my business I have to recover the cloud and have a consistent recovery of the workload I think this we're not saying that we're isolating workload and the infrastructure part we are we're talking about a solution which takes care of both together so yeah for example like in VM we have full context in that what all network setting is there what all security group was attached and all volume so as a complete workload when we say so some of the solution like we did the with the Trilio so they do the complete backup of complete open stack so say for example I have VM one with security group one two three volume attach one volume bootable I backup and then I restore so every setting of all security group and everything will be same as before data and it's capturing all the workload payload data if you want to think of it both in the ephemeral storage as well as the underlying volumes that may be supporting exactly thank you yeah because if they do separately then it's more towards that additional backup yeah okay maybe we can discuss with you because it will be nice to get to know more solution thank you yeah so regarding open stack freezer I believe that it's quite easy to you know there are steps to basically take a backup of a file or a db or a or a vm so in your experience what are the steps that we can take to use freezer for taking backup of the whole cloud how to restore it because these standard options and there are very essential things like we discussed there should be the complete workload backup with full context of the vm and volume so that is the one we should care like in ZOB we can define the accent with particular vm we want to backup I'm talking about doing a backup for the whole cloud as the infrastructure backup not the vm workload backup so you mean the particular vm the infrastructure backup so freezer is kind of backup as a service solution which gives you backup of any kind of resource including databases including your vm or including your service at all right so I think it's pretty easy I mean you just have to combine those apis and you know once you have listed those resources so I think it's lacking in that part as of now that it doesn't have a single click cloud backup the whole cloud backup integrated in freezer but I think implementing that is not daunting or challenging task so is it possible to do that with a policy file yes I think I think it should be yeah please have auto time but yeah so we're using Galera on our control planning and my expertise it's not super there where it comes to that is that backup you know any difference my SQL cluster right so is that backup process going to be different or were those products you talked about support you know a database that's handled with Galera or is it for single control plain some of them they have single control things with also like with freezer and database you can do separately but yeah internally like what text internally they use and what efficient that we don't know much so it's all at the single plane you can do complete database backup also yeah thank you sorry very quick question which backup tool would you most recommend and why yeah so as we discussed all essential features and the metrics things so still we did only functional POC on Trilio and freezer things so Trilio and tool good and freezer also but the performance POC and DR thing we are still in progress so it's like we have the features available in each solution and up to like SLA and RPORTO we can I think there is no single question it's a tricky question and to answer it tricky way I would say there is no single backup solution I would recommend for all kind of scenarios you have to evaluate them based on your need I mean so for example if as we are discussing like if for freezer if you have to write something on top of this but for Trilio if you already have that probably you can go for that I mean it's not recommended as of now from our side you have to evaluate their features and your needs match them and you know you get the answer thank you I have a question thank you for your session that was very excellent the question is that you mentioned four different solutions for this backup but does NEC also offer any kind of backup solution yeah currently no so actually sorry Gansyam let me interrupt but NEC has solutions on the storage side target side of it I mean NEC has a product called HydroStore which can be used as a backup target unfortunately it doesn't have a control plane software for the backup part of it as of now but most likely they are planning to have that kind of so it could be from the partner ecosystem it could be from their own but it's not yet final so for target part they have yes thank you for your backups there is there any quiescing that you guys do for the backups any kind of quiescing like a flush to the file systems before you do the backups flushing the file system no yeah I mean our system it uses a database but the database actually uses the NTFS file system for the structure of it so in like in vmware we'll call a quiesce on the database before we back it up so we're doing like a vm snapshot we'll do a quiesce on it I don't know if any of those four that you mentioned have a quiesce option no not as of now but that would be a good future required it would be yeah thank you thank you ok thanks everyone for joining the session thank you


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So I'm going to be signing a national emergency, because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people, and it's unacceptable. And because he was already including gang members, so that they would find me and hurt me. So I knew that gang members have more power than the authorities in my country. So I knew that there were two things that could happen. One was that they achieved their goal and killed me, or that they took away my child, which was one of the two things they wanted. So the moment comes when after so many threats, so many bad deals, and all that, I decided to leave Honduras, basically almost three years ago, in 2018. Every day, entire families from Central America flee violence, chronic poverty, and failed harvests due to environmental degradation and climate change, embarking on a dangerous journey to the United States in search of asylum and a dignified life. This became visible to the United States public with a flood of unaccompanied minors from the three Northern Triangle countries, starting in 2012, and large caravans of migrants in more recent years. Well, I decided, we decided both, my husband and I, we decided to leave because of the situation, because when the flood came, we were taken to the church. So from there we decided to join a group of, like on the phone, there is a message that they send, so they send the caravan over, so we asked for the caravan, but the road is difficult because there is one that walks and walks, it's cold, it's hungry, we walk almost two weeks, just walking and walking. The mainstream narrative often implies that the poverty and violence that trigger the migration of Central Americans are of their own making. Some argue that immigrants should stay in their own countries and work to resolve their problems, but this fails to recognize the role of U.S. intervention. From outright military aggression to trade agreements that attack small farmers, all of these forms of U.S. meddling have contributed to the North Ward flow of migrants. The U.S. government has repeatedly intervened in Central America to protect U.S. companies, starting in the early 1900s with the United Fruit Company, which was the largest landowner between Colombia and Mexico, and which violently quashed all banana workers' efforts to organize unions. U.S. Marines were called in whenever necessary. My name is Selva Guilar. I came from El Salvador at the age of 36. The reason why I came was mainly economic. I saw that it wasn't enough to be a single mother. I saw that the situation was more and more difficult. I lived in that insecurity. In those boxes, all of them seemed to be locked in jail, because you don't know if someone will come in at night. As we said, we slept in El Salvador with one eye closed and the other open. The circumstances that forced me to go to the U.S. were poverty. Here in El Salvador, my father was killed in the war. In 1990, I was 5 years old, and my mother was left with 9 children. It was a very difficult time for me, because I always wanted to study and move forward. But my mother said that she didn't have money to give me, and I could continue a university career. The women and children separated in separate groups in the church, the convent and various houses. Around noon, they began taking the women and girls in groups, separating them from their children and machine gunning them after raping them. Many families were ordered to remain in their homes while soldiers set fire to their houses. Over 140 of the children, some mere infants, were jammed into the convent next to the church. Their soldiers blocked the doors, aimed guns through the windows, and fired into the mass of children, murdering them all in cold blood. They then threw an incendiary bomb into the building, collapsing the roof and adobe walls. In the 1980s, the United States armed, trained, and equipped the Salvador Armed Forces, in particular the Army. At El Mazzote, U.S. guns and bullets were used to massacre infants, children, women, and men. The causes for the recent wave of immigration from El Salvador date back to the early 1980s, a popular block inspired by the triumph of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in 1979, clamored for change, including revolutionaries, group in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. In the face of this challenge, the United States and the President Reagan spent more than $6 billion in aid to the government and military. These programs contributed to the fierce repression that resulted in the death, disappearance, and rape of over 75,000 people in a cycle of violence that left the country with widespread poverty and long-term post-traumatic stress. In the 1980s, because there was a very large intervention of the United States, this intervention was military, economic, and political. We were about to have a progressive revolution, but just as in Vietnam, the United States intervened to prevent it, and what was achieved was a long civil war of 12 years, in which there were especially thousands of young men who were not recruited by the armed forces. They did not want to join the guerrillas either. When they arrived in the United States, they were alone, without family, without their mothers, without good friends, without a favorable environment to be able to study and overcome. What they found was a hostile environment of harassment by the gangs, and many of those young men, because of the desire to survive, joined these groups, in addition to seeking family heat. They found it somehow among the criminals on the street. After a while, these young men were sent to jail and deported to their countries of origin, Salvador, Honduras. The intervention of the United States has been in different frames, in different moments in our country, and these are the results. Right now I do not have a job. I am working in the maquilla of San Pedro, but I quit. I quit to emigrate because the minimum wage was not enough. I have four children. That is why it is my main base, to have a house for them. In the 1980s, the U.S. under the Reagan administration trained a paramilitary group known as the Contras on Honduran soil in an attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua. The sale of arms and military aid to Honduras increased, as did the militarization of the country. This set the state for massive Honduran immigration to the United States. Another immigration surge occurred in the wake of the U.S. aided overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya, who implemented popular reforms. Since the 2009 coup, a series of corrupt administrations have unleashed open criminal control of Honduras, intersecting organized crime and drug traffickers with the country's police force, all with the blessing of the United States. We are not going to stop here. The minimum wage I earned was $2,900 or $2,300, because they made deductions for me. That is to spread it in my past, in the case of the school, the school, the university. I am Carla García. I am the coordinator of international relations of the fraternal organization Negro Hondureña. I have been living in New York for centuries. I have been in the United States for eight years. I work permanently to achieve what is claimed once the rights of our communities are defended. In this particular case of the Garipuna community. We defend life, we defend the territory. By defending the territory, we are defending the right of nature to continue being and providing for our generations, not only those of the Garipuna community, but generations around the world. However, we see how governments agree with cooperation. We talk about governments, for example, like the one in Canada, the government of the United States, the government of Japan, Taiwan, China. To stay with pieces of territory in Honduras that unfortunately are territories that are located in the areas where we live, to make economic developments, whether it is a hotel or production. The production brings as a consequence chemicals that damage our land and hotel complexes do not allow us to return in a natural way to the beaches or to the sea. I have been analyzing, I am 36 years old. I have five children. I am from here in Progreso, and I dedicate myself to recycling of bottles and of iron. I was 16 years old, I worked more than that because I never had a study. My study is only the third degree. The work we do is, I leave from five in the morning until three in the afternoon. When things are going well, people give it to us because there are people who give the bottles, iron, they give the materials, so we fill the bottle, then we return in the morning, but when we do not, we have to walk all day. We always go crazy with the coffee, we eat all day, when we are like this, because when I help the children, instead of hitting them, then I do it, then people give me my bottles. But it is difficult. Good afternoon, my name is Ana Jose Farrayo. I am originally from Manabua, Nicaragua. My first career was when I left the university, I took industrial engineering, with the time and with the opportunities provided, I started studying pharmacy, I took medical technology, I took the career of business administration and I achieved the opportunity provided to be able to get a master's degree and a degree in public health, and a degree in sanitary registration. I took a degree in the morning and a degree in the afternoon and I was already taking a degree in the morning. It is a better opportunity to take a degree. The social political situation in Nicaragua, in the last nine years, it has been a little difficult. However, despite that difficulty, we continue to be the most secure country. Nicaragua is catalogued as one of the most secure countries in the last five years. The security in Nicaragua is marked, also because of the support or the level of organization that the population has developed and also because of the support that institutions in the government have been implementing. I think that the opportunities of work in Nicaragua have increased. In the case of women, each time we are having more opportunities, opportunities are being opened to study, to work, and that also helps and allows us to improve the family economy. So all of that helps us to keep in touch or to fight for being a family and to really take care of the family core that is very important. So there is a number of factors that we have to consider and that have allowed the situation of immigration in Nicaragua to be considered. In neighboring Nicaragua, few people are migrating north today. This is partially because the country is one of the safest in Latin America. In stark contrast with its Central American neighbors and also as a result of social programs implemented by the Sandinista government to alleviate poverty, the migration that occurs tends to be of a temporary nature, mainly seasonal work, to get higher wages. But Nicaragua is not free of U.S. intervention. In the 1980s, Nicaragua's popular revolution was stymied by the U.S. run counter-revolutionary war which killed over 30,000 Nicaraguan peasants and government workers, maimed thousands and decimated the economy. In a desperate bid to end the war, the terrorized population voted for Washington's candidate in 1990, ushering in 16 years of neoliberal rule. The Sandinistas returned to power in 2007. The U.S. responded by imposing sanctions to block Nicaragua from accessing development loans. Last year, journalists uncovered a U.S. aid plan for regime change in the country that seeks to impose a corporate-friendly economy. We also have a farm located in the municipality of Juy Galpa. We have five farms on land. We have a pig farm there. We have cattle, not a large amount of cattle, but milk is taken to farm, and we have chickens from different areas. I emigrated four years ago to meet the country of Panamá. Panamá, right? But I did this because I thought I wanted to strengthen that farm that we have because we have various fruit plants. My father used to tell me that he wanted to emigrate because he was looking at the wages and the policies offered to young people. Those policies are false from all the countries where they tell us that if you emigrate to a country you will have a very good salary earning well and that you will be able to send returns to your country, to your family. But it really isn't like that. Nicaragua is an evidently agricultural country. The effects of climate change generated in previous years migration from the city, from the countryside to other countries, especially Costa Rica, thanks to the institutionalization of productive programs for the agricultural sector, the government of reconciliation and national unity. Families are doing resistance in the countryside through agricultural production. Programmes like Hambresero, Usuracero, the food product, among others are programs that have come to transform the quality of life of women, to transform the quality of life of families and above all to generate development in the countryside. I was chosen within the whole place. We were chosen several times. And they took me with a cow. She was pregnant. So she brought another little cow which is now also pregnant. This is her. And this little one is the one she is breastfeeding. US-backed governments in Honduras and El Salvador have promoted free market capitalist policies known as neoliberalism that go hand in hand with the weakening of the country's limited social programs which in turn has exacerbated social economic inequalities and poverty, setting off the massive migration that we have seen in recent years. Corporations undertake mega-projects for the exploitation of natural resources which have a devastating environmental effect. ruining small farmers who end up leaving the area. Finally, women are the violent victims of the violence that these Washington-promoted policies have produced. Just as they are the most vulnerable in their own violence-ridden countries, they are the most vulnerable in the precarious journey north. What conditions would have allowed me to stay in Honduras? A little more security? Well, a little bit of security. I would have been able to stay. At this moment, it is very difficult. The insecurity is terrible. It increases more and more and the economic situation is extremely difficult. I think that it is very difficult to stay in Honduras. It is very difficult because the economic situation is very difficult in my country and when the economic situation is very difficult, insecurity grows much more. When we look at the history of the United States' intervention in Central America and its impact on migration flows, it becomes clear that the best path to immigration reform is to reform U.S. foreign policy. Perhaps if the U.S. could see its southern neighbors and respect their differences, Central Americans could work out their problems without having to leave their home and we could begin to work together as equal partners to tackle the world's biggest problems that require global cooperation, such as pandemics and most particularly the climate crisis. For migration, the war on drugs, poverty and the environment, we only stand to benefit from a policy that is facing peace, cooperation and respect. Go to codepink.org slash good neighbor to find out more and let's work together to transform the U.S. into a good neighbor. You can also take action against sanctions and economic war by visiting sanctionskill.org slash petition to tell the new U.S. administration to end economic sanctions in the face of the global pandemic. Also, if you want to read a good analysis of the Biden-Harris administration plan for Central America, go to migrantroutes.org slash reports.


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And now, stay tuned for the mystery program that is unique among all mystery programs. Because even when you know who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the final curtain. In the signal oil program, the Whistler.  I'm the Whistler, and I know many things before I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of many women who are tested to the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not steal. And now, for the signal oil company, the Whistler's strange story. World food. Marty South wasn't sure when it began, but too much like walking in the middle of a nightmare. And then remaining, living. The shipwreck, the confusion, was all there again. Coming back to him, but slowly, ably. News of planes, buzzing, Marty's ear, pressure. The sound of the sea. Whirlpool of confusion. He gradually out of the whirlpool. Voices. Yes, thank you. Voices. Growing. Coming closer. Coming closer. Coming around? You alright, Captain? You sure? You sure? So Marty South, we focus. Those few swift minutes before the ship peeled over on its side, before he leaped for the lifeboat and missed. It was a girl. Yes, a girl standing in the companion way just outside her cabin. Marty remembered her face, her fair skin. Her clear eyes, wild as he shouted at her practically. Don't stand there. Get up to the deck, the lifeboat. Boats? Oh, yes, I was just... Oh, wait a minute. Is anybody inside in the cabin? Cabin? No. No, I'm alone. Go on. Up those stairs. There isn't much time. Hurry. It's been a long time. Can you hear me? I'm the ship's captain. Do you want to board the Air Base Air going down to Singapore? Yes, yes. That's right. Singapore, here. Try to drink to something that's in here. I think that board right there. What do you mean? What do you mean? You sure did, hasn't it? I think so. There could be any mistake about the defense, I think. Oh, no, I'm not sure he is. You can't say there's no doubt about it. His wife has identified him. Oh, could you get her to come in and get him? What? My wife? No, I... No, no, I'm just... You were suffering from a shock, Mr. Hudson.  Oh, but...  No, no, I don't have it. You stop, Marty. The boat has dying in your throat. If you struggle up to one elbow, look toward the door. It's the same girl. The one you faked in the companion way and shouted at. But now she's coming towards you. Thinking different. Very different. My darling, I was so upset for you, but I told him it would be when I told him who you were. Why? Why? Doctor, she isn't the lady. Don't worry, Mrs. Mason. Doctor? Yes, Mrs. Mason. I believe it's alone, man. I'm sure, and I'd want to be alone with my wife. And certainly, Captain, you'll wait out in the deck. Anything you say. Okay. Now, you want to tell me what this is all about? My darling, you should be trying to turn out. Excuse me, but I can talk. They'll pick me out in no time. Of course you will. My name's South. It's like this or in a thing dressed through. It's South, Marty, South. It's a nice name, my love. That's fine. You look... Mrs. Steven Hastings is a shame, my love. You can call me Lucy. What about Mr. Hastings? My husband is dead. One that didn't make it? One that didn't make it. What happened to him? How come you... I don't know. Stop it. Stop looking at me like this. Like what? My husband's feeling this like this. And he had a nice relationship with me. He doesn't have to fear anything worse. Welcome to what? A chance to die? I don't know. You couldn't get him out? No, I didn't send anybody back yet. I didn't see anything like that happening. I couldn't have been thinking since. Yes, plenty of it. Come on, I'm waiting. My husband, Stephen, has some money for me. It's waiting for him now in Singapore. Waiting for Mr. Hastings to pick it up. And he'll make sure he can do it. Twenty thousand now, thirty thousand a couple of weeks. Fifty thousand now together. I can't believe it could be you. Yes, to begin with, how can you stop me? I'll put your husband here on board. There's quite a few survivors, I guess. Nobody knew, Stephen, he should have had a massive load. Most of the others were picked up by the police. Oh, the police in Singapore? No, the police is heading to the United States now. It's still in Singapore now. Where's the money come from? From an old friend in Shanghai. E.J. Galloway. I don't know. I don't know. You see, E.J. made a mistake on a business trip. I found out about it. I thought he was too young for that. He did. He doubted his words. It sounds good. He must have felt good getting the old fella blackmailed. Stephen didn't have to do that. E.J. doesn't know you're the blackmailer. He didn't. Stephen is really so different. Stephen picked up the money in Singapore, and makes it clear that you're the man in Singapore. Stephen is Singapore's brother. He's blackmailing you. Nice guy. You're nice. The lawyer doesn't know you're the blackmailer. He's her brother. He'll be any perfect sometimes, just thinking about it. About blackmailing you very much. Why do you go ahead, E.J.? You're blackmailing me. Why? Oh, Jesus. I can't be quite a hero. Maybe. The guys like to see the nation. But not the guys like to see the nation. You guessed it. You're cute. If you get lonesome, call me back. See you soon. That's all I got. That's all, Marty, and we should go. We don't need to think it over. But you know her time. Loatheal is a man's act. We think you'll be back soon. Try to help me make up your mind. But that's where you make a mistake, giving a smile. Unless you rest too soon. But don't you find yourself clueless, too.  Money is important to you, too. Yes. Half a day out of Singapore, you can't stand it anymore. We call the doctor in Singapore. They're sitting out on one. They're doing better than that. Oh? I don't know if it's because you don't know the doctor. I don't know. Am I nice to you, sir? I don't know if it's because you don't know the doctor. I know. We like men. And you know I think you'll be back soon. You had it with the first part. But just this. I know what I'm going into. To include you in it because you're necessary to me. You need me at first. I'm very necessary, darling. So is your having a husband to see me? Okay, I'll put my eyes to it, darling. Darling, I need you. No, no. But it is nothing you don't need. The husband made a big mistake when he's telling you everything. I'm not going to make a mistake. What's going to happen? Oh? I'll never let the love in a field with my son. Oh, good. Everything all right, Miss Grayson? Oh, yes. Fine, doctor. Isn't it good? Yes, darling. Sure it is. And don't worry, darling. You'll be a baby. Everything is going to be so much better. This being the first program in March, I'm reminded of that old saying, In like a lion, out like a lamb. The signal gasoline is just the other way around. 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That day aboard ship, when she suddenly thrust opportunity into your hands by asking you to pose as her dead husband, Stephen Hastings. But there's another thing you've decided on, and that's more important than anything else. You're not going to make the same mistake he did, are you, Martin? No. You're not going to fall in love with Lucille, because that doesn't fit in with your plans at all. Money is still the most important thing, isn't it? Even though you don't have very much of it at the moment.  You've never let your heart rule your head, where money is concerned. The first night in Singapore, the two of you moved easily around the dance floor at the Port Plaza Hotel. Seemingly the very devoted married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hastings. You dance well, do you? Stephen's learned to dance better? Might better.  I think we should stop talking about that. So it's me. Come on back to the table. Let's talk about it when we go to work. All right. Richard? Thank you. You're not. That's me. I think we'd better wait a day or two. You can go there when you need to, but I'm facing you. The second will be ready in a couple of weeks. E.J. couldn't raise it all at once. Where do I go? Well, I'll have to look at E.J.'s letter again at the gas station. It's a little Taylor shop, somewhere on Congress Street. You don't have to look again. Not with that memory. It's a Taylor shop. But why Wednesday? No reason. I just came to stay. Or? Hmm? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. How did you always miss me? I just didn't even really miss you. You always stood still for 50 grand straight down. Why didn't you just give it to me? Send it to you, all right? Why always knew each other? This is my idea, not E.J.'s. Is E.J. E.J. couldn't raise it all at once, didn't I? Or decided to talk with E.J.'s father, isn't it? That ought to be much better than E.J.'s father, isn't it? With me, but a poor guy never goes home with me. I'm not going to come to your midday. No time, I'm not in your post office. What do I do when I get to this Taylor shop, isn't it? I just do it, you don't have any questions. You can wait for it if you can prove it. Tell them you're in the same thing. But if they want proof. You say you can call the hotel and I'm in the same thing. But there you go, don't relax. Sorry, I can't relax. It's nothing till I've had my coat pressed. I want to get this coat pressed. All right, I'll wait for the name to be seen. Oh, yes. And you're saying? The Fort's Plaza. What? An opinion situation, huh? Just curious. If you're going to call or anything, my wife isn't there for you. No, no, Mr. Houston. If your coat is... I'll take it for you right away. Good. You watch the proprietor of the little Taylor shop, but he takes your coat, moves off toward the back of the establishment. You look around nervously, ready to run for it if anything goes wrong. But nothing does now. He's back in a matter of minutes, isn't he? And you're nearly pressed full across the counter.  Feel the buzz of a heavy envelope in the inside pocket. Is that your secret? All right, thank you. Will you be dropping him again? Yes, yes. Perhaps if you'd called the day before... Good. He'll give you quick service, sir. Good morning. Half a block away, you open the envelope and look inside. It's there, isn't it? $20,000. You smile as you put it away. But there's still another pair. Another $30,000.   And you'll realize that we see you in the stills to be as fast as ever. If you guess you might pick up the money a day early, not wait for the win. You turn, hurry down the street on your way back to the hotel. You don't have to knock the door down. My own husband would have an everything. Never mind. Inside. That's all the excitement. What kind of a double-cross is this? You had me followed, didn't you? Did I?  You're going to tell me what's going on. When you calm down, you might tell me. And I went there. It's like you said. The tailor shop? Yeah, went through the whole routine. Didn't they give you the money? That's not the beef, Lucille. I'm talking about the guy who picked me up on the way out.  A high-powered insurance policy. You're not making sense, darling. If somebody followed you, it's because you're in Singapore. Stay out of the alleys, darling. Rough neighborhood. This is a big, bad city. I wish I could buy that. You can buy anything, Mr. Hastings. How much you get? 20,000. Yeah. To me and the local. Pretty. Didn't it? Darling. Yeah? Speaking of double-crosses, I thought I told you not to go to the tailor shop until Wednesday. It's only Tuesday. I'll forgive you this time. Will you? I'll try. Oh, what are you thinking? I mean, it's simply pretty foolish. But sometimes you'd really like to level it. Right. Darling, put your arms around me. What? So I can hold on to the sleigh ride? I wouldn't take you on a sleigh ride.  Mommy. Too bad it's not the case, Lucille. Tomorrow it could be a knife in my back. You don't understand, Lucille. That's fine now. You're spinning as you leave her, Marty. You're afraid, aren't you? Because the one thing you've tried to guard against is happening. Slowly, surely, you're falling for her. And you know what it can mean. You don't do anything about it the next day, or in the days that follow her. Just go along. Try to keep your head above water. Then one night as you walk alone through the streets of Singapore, you catch sight of him again. A man she's had following. Hurry forward. Turn into an alley. You stop. Wait. What do you want? Just a moment, Mr. History. I just wanted to talk it over. Talk what over? Why, it's a deal. I thought maybe you'd change your mind the way you've been acting, avoiding me. Of course this is a crazy set up. Well, I naturally thought you were going to meet me here when you got in last week.  Naturally, but I almost forgot what you looked like. You didn't know what I looked like. You never saw me before. You made the deal with the man I worked for, remember? I think you'd better keep talking, Mr. Gray is good enough. Mr. Gray, you might be. Oh, I don't blame you for being careful, Mr. History. I'll deal right this. But how does this sound to you? You take your wife to the Red Inn to get there tomorrow night. Just casually have dinner with her, the last one. Then stroll out in the terrace. Terrace? Yes, hardly anyone ever there. Just give me a chance to get lined up and then light her cigarette. The match will give me a target, an easy one. Well, what do you know? Stephen. Get you sudden. Stephen Hastings, the weakling. He'd actually set up a plan to kill her at the end of the voyage. A plan that he would too least to go through with. Perfect, isn't it? You can get rid of these dealers tomorrow night. And a few days later, you can drop around to the dealers shop, pick up the rest of the money and leave town. But you're not sure that this is the way you want it to be, are you? Not even for $50,000. What is the matter, Mr. Hastings? You haven't changed your mind. Changed the mind? Well, I would like a little more time to think it over. I've been doing some thinking. I want the $5,000 you agreed on, Mr. Hastings. $5,000. Okay, look at it. Yes. Please leave in your hotel box. Small and new bills. Yes, you're sure. It's great. Really? Give the money from the box. More night. You'll see it from the wife and me at the Red Angel, Mr. Hastings. On the terrace? Yes. And to light the cigarette. That is right, Mr. Hastings. And take your time thinking it over. You've got a decision for a man to make. In your position, I don't blame you. You sleep on it. I don't mind waiting a little longer. And you do think it over, don't you, Marty? All night and all the next day. It's the hardest decision you've ever had to make.  Present times you might have in the future. Then you remember her husband, Stephen, how she persuaded him to blackmail his best friend. How callous she was about her husband's death after the shipwreck. You'll recall how she lied to you at the time of the shipwreck when you asked her if there was anyone else in the cabin. And that's why it makes certain your husband's death. You also remember something else. The 20,000 she had. And the 30,000 she's expecting in a few days. That evening... Why not if you know about it, please? I think it's ready, too. I heard somebody mention it. Like it very much. And I like Lucille very much. You'll see who I am. You want to talk, but come on. What are you going on? Out on the carrier. Oh, but... Oh, okay. It's here. Can you see the light? Beautiful, isn't it? Yes. I've not even heard going to tell you something, have I? Yeah, I suppose. I think I know what it is. You know, Marty, you're not like Steven at all. There's anything to bust me. Except when it comes to putting this sort of thing in the mirror. I don't give me a cigarette. I don't give me a cigarette. Anything wrong with that? Nothing wrong. Nothing wrong. See you. Thank you, Marty. Can I dance the way you're looking at me? You do love me, don't you? Madam, do I? Oh, would you give me a light? You're really beautiful, Lucille. Come on, honey. Just something I'll never forget. Here's your light. Thank you, sir. Because the past several months of cold weather have been particularly tough on car batteries, here is some news that's worth remembering. There's now available an improved type battery which is not only much more powerful, but lasts far longer. I'm referring to the new signal deluxe battery, available only at signal service stations. Unlike ordinary batteries, which may be guaranteed for 12 or 18 months, signal deluxe batteries are guaranteed a full 30 months on a service basis. Also, signal deluxe batteries deliver up to 35% more power to give you quick, dependable starting and to take care of the many electrical gadgets on modern cars. The secret of this superior performance in signal deluxe batteries is their superior construction, which includes the latest Micro-Polis all-rubber separators, plus an improved design all-rubber case, which doesn't need water as often. When you take into account the generous paid-in allowance signal dealers are now giving for old batteries, plus their convenient credit terms. You can see why more than new batteries at the same station, where they fill up with the famous Go Farther gasoline, at signal stations. It was like a whirlpool, the shipwrecked, the swirling water, Marty South fighting his way through the sea, awakened to find a new life and wealth, placed in his hands by Lucille Hastings. But somehow, in the police station of Singapore, that part of the story was a little concerned, as the arresting officers huddled around a man sitting under that glaring white light. Cameron Gray, we know you didn't. No, no. You've been followed since you asked for that money and Hastings held care of us, but the clerk didn't like your look. And Mr. Hastings gave me the money. He left it for me. Not like it for. No, no. Gray, you were seen firing the gun. How do you think he arrested you so quickly? Oh, hey, I... Oh, my God, did he? But it was Hastings' idea that's what the money was called. But why did he... I guess Hastings was just tired of everything. He was a weakling. Suicide's there in his mind for months, only he didn't have the nerve. So he hired us, me, to do it for him. But why his wife? Oh, how do I know? He was crazy about it, I guess. Didn't want anyone else to have it. That's the only reason I can think of why Hastings set up this thing. So they'd both die together. Oh, for the signal oil program the Whistler eats Sunday night at the same time. Signal has asked me to remind you that today the Red Cross must not only be prepared to save lives and relieve suffering in any disasters that may occur anywhere in this country, in addition it must provide blood and other needed help for our GIs overseas. Good reason why this year the Red Cross needs more of us to help and more help from each of us. Featured in tonight's story were Bill Foreman as the Whistler, Jack Moyle, Betty Lou Gerson, Ted Von Elk, Raymond Burr and Byron Kane. The Whistler was produced and directed by George W. Allen, the story by Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hatt, who was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler was entirely fictional and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or dead is sure. 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Alex, not just Israel, but in general, you have strong opinion regarding politics. I know my politics. I know my geopolitics, Alex. I've been writing about geopolitics for 20 years. Check out my previous site. I had articles that were political articles that were on the front page of Dig, Stumble, and Reddit. Multiple years my articles were on the front page the top hits on world politics, news, politics, conspiracy. On Reddit, before they prevented people from linking articles from blogs, you have to be from accredited media to be on the top of Reddit posts in politics, news, world politics, geopolitics, or anything like this. So unless you're a government propagandist, you barely made it to the front page of main social media platforms. A lot of the stuff that I wrote about has become true. For example, two years ago, we started talking about Russia, Ukraine, right off the bat. I said, this is insane. This was an unnecessary war. Ukraine was going to lose it, lose so much, so much death and destruction. Russia's going to destroy NATO, stuff like that. And people even right now are saying, oh, Russia's losing. I'm like, what part of done? The war is already done. Don't people understand? Back then, you should have seen it. People are like, Chico, you're crazy.  You're this. You're this. Ukraine's going to win. NATO's going to win. Russia's going to be annihilated. Russia's going to be balkanized. You're crazy. I'm like, look, people, you guys don't understand what's going on here, man, right? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Two years later, oh, gee, what? Right? So for example, Alex in the mid 2000s, in 2005, six and seven, I was writing about a major economic collapse that is about to happen all the way to 2008. And then the market crashes, economic collapse, people, blah, they're printing money up. I was one of the people that predicted, right, warned people about the collapse of the economy, the 2008 financial crisis they call it, the biggest scam in human history until three years ago, right? People were like, oh, Chico, you don't know what you're talking about. The economy is booming, booming, booming party. I was like, you guys are idiots, right? When it's said and done, oh, Chico, you were right. Okay, Alex, look at my history. That's it. Okay. Alex, no one is winning, both Russia and Ukraine are losing. Why choose a side between, it's not choosing a side, it's looking at a situation and saying, oh, this side is winning. It's like watching a soccer game, football game.  Let's assume that's what's happening. Allerga likes Chelsea, right? Chelsea, seven, Manchester United won. I come along and say, Chelsea is winning. You come along and say, why are you choosing a side? And I turn to you and say, what? No, Alex, human lives are not a game, right? Ukraine has lost 400,000 to 500,000 people dead, right? Russia, 50,000 dead. This war, 100% the responsibility of the Western world, Minsk one, Minsk two, they signed a peace treaty agreement in Turkey a month into the conflict. They armed Ukraine, trained Ukraine, brought in the neo-Nazis. No, Alex, I was one of the ones that was saying this is the most unnecessary war in human history that I know of, right? That I know of. People are like, no, there are other unnecessary wars. I'm like, no, man, you guys have no idea, right? The 2014 coup, okay?  At the same time, their, their, their stipulation was, oh, Ukraine, you can sign the trade agreement with us. They're like, okay, great. But you have to destroy your trade agreement with Russia. And they're like, what? This is before 2014 coup, right? Why should I, why should I, if I, if I'm a person, I've been doing business with someone for decades.  I say, yeah, sure, let's do business. And you turn to me and say, oh, yeah, the only way I'll do business with you is if you, if you get rid of that customer. And you're like, what? What are you talking about? That customer is my main customer. I got a gas pipeline coming through my country from that customer feeding you with energy.   Right? That's what Ukraine told them.  And the puppet in power, what do they do?   Look at my, look at my site. Look, go into Armenia, Ukraine, right? There's an article I wrote regarding that trade agreement. Alex, educate yourself. Otherwise, you're just a pawn. You're just a tool.   So many fools did that, right? Crazy. See the ways. How are you doing? I was looking at the chat. Freya Sanchez says, we can't do anything. We are not politicians. It is no Alex. We could do everything. You are way more powerful than what they, what you think, right?