What's going on and welcome to the NBA DFS Q&A show. My name is Tom Vecchio. I'll be here for the next 30 minutes taking your questions about tonight's five game NBA Slates. Obviously, there's a ton of information, injury news, players in and out of the league's COVID protocol that we have a lot of value and there's not a whole lot of top tier options on tonight's lead. I think that they should make roster construction pretty interesting tonight because we have a few very clear options we want to be targeting and then there's just a number of different value options. We have a lot to get through. I think we're in an okay spot. There's obviously some players we're waiting on when it comes to their injury information but the games themselves, I think are looking pretty good. Starting off, we have Grim on YouTube is saying on Yaka Akangu or Enus Freedom. That is the center position. We're obviously looking for a bit of value because Clint Capella is ruled out for Atlanta and just the Boston's pretty strong but we still should be seeing some minutes for Enus, Canter, Freedom. I like Akangu at $4,000. We know he's going to be on a minutes restriction. I just like the matchup overall going up against the Magic who we know we're shorthanded and the Madrid are one of the worst offensive teams this season against centers, allowing the fifth worst or the fifth most defended points for him opposing center. So we're going to see them, we're going to see them Yaka Akangu on another minutes limit. Hopefully it's more than 30. I'm expecting around 15 to 18 for him tonight and I'll be looking there ahead of Canter or should say Freedom, just because his minutes have been increasing. I don't think we're going to see the 40 that he did the other night but realistically we should be seeing the usage go elsewhere and the lack of bigs for Atlanta I think is going to be more prevalent than another 20 minutes from Enus. So that's the way I'm looking at it. If you want to be taking a bigger stand on him I think that's certainly fine. I just don't expect the 40 minutes we saw the other night. I think that's obviously an outlier game against Juel and Pete, especially against a shorthanded Cavs team. We could certainly see Tatum and Brown kind of take care of things for the Celtics and then it doesn't leave a whole lot of offensive usage for Freedom. So that's my kind of take on it. The center position tonight, in all reality, I think you should be trying to spend up for Joakic at the center position. I think that he is the clear top option on the entire slate regardless of position. I think you should be making him a priority. Spending down at center I think is fine in certain circumstances but really the best play is just to spend up for Joakic. I think going to Joakic, going to Drew Holiday and then one of Tatum or Paul George or both of them or Tatum plus Chris Middleton is really, I want to say a very viable roster construction path and it doesn't seem like a lot because there's only 4,200 per player remaining. There's just so much value on tonight's slate that you can realistically get up to three or four of the top stars on tonight's slate which really aren't that expensive. So if you want to be looking to, I'm going to say a lot of the value potential that we have from Atlanta, some of the value that we have from Cleveland, this is actually realistic to have three players above 9,000, three or four players above seven or so thousand. I think that this is certainly a viable path on tonight's slate. You know, Kevin Herter, 5,500, he's not super expensive but we should be seeing plenty of minutes for him. What's going on? What's the look for? We're in Lance Stevenson in my lineup, not sure if he's playing, that's what Sal on YouTube is asking. Yeah, that's something that we would need to get some clarification on overall. So Lance isn't even in the player pool as of now, if he gets updated that would be good whether you're playing on Fandal or other sites. You know, that's something we need clarification on like just because he's signed is he actually going to be available? That would be something like I don't have the information. I get that information at the same time as you. I would have some interest in him realistically if he will be active, if you know, we get some type of clarity on that. DJ is asking, I know the game is canceled but what can you tell me about Brandon Goodwin as a starter? If he's going to be there, I think it would be fine if his minutes are going to be secure but I mean, I'm not really, that's not like really something I'm focusing on because that game is done. Same on Arizona, Eliasova. Like again, if he's going to be available in the player pool set to play minutes, that's something I would consider. Eliasova is obviously a veteran, has been in league or in and out of the league for a number of times over the past few years. You know, we had seen him be a consistent value play especially when he was with Milwaukee when we saw Giannis out of the lineup for those seasons like Eliasova is a player if he would be minimum salary, 35, $3,800. That's a player I would be considering as long as we knew he'd be available and he'd be in the rotation at least. So the top tier, again, very straightforward tonight. I think the value is where things can get a bit confusing because there's so many different value options. You know, where should he be going on a given slate or on this slate, where should he be going? How many minutes are we going to be seeing from these players? I'm going to stick with the players that have been largely in the rotation at least for some capacity for some of these teams. We know that they are calling up G-League players and these emergency signings, the exemptions, but they're there because they have to be there. Like they need X amount of players. They need eight players to be available just because they are signed. Unless we have some type of clarity from the coach that they are going to be seeing 15 some odd minutes you should not necessarily be taking a shot with them. Grace now in 4,200, we know he's going to be playing going to some of those types of players is the ideal path. You want to be taking random shots with players that may or may not be in a rotation. Payton Prichard should be seeing minutes. So you're working with a good core of players that have a high volume of minutes along with players that we know have immense upside like Tatum, Middleton and Yoke, which obviously all things considered, especially for Middleton with a tense combo out of the lineup. So that is the kind of route that I'm going. I'm not just taking some random shot on G-League players unless there's like concrete information about them. Sal was saying I want some DeMarcus cousins. Yeah, DeMarcus should be in four minutes because Wood is out and they're still without Brook Lopez, et cetera, et cetera. You know, if he doesn't play a whole lot of minutes which is what is ultimately concerning to me or is, you know, what has me a little bit hesitant about DeMarcus cousins like he's never going to be out there for 35 plus minutes. Probably run things small. And we've seen the NASA's tense combo play at the center position. We've also seen Sandro Mamu Kelashvili see some minutes for them at the center position. The 42 minutes again, I'm going to say is something that is a bit of an outlier. We should not be seeing 40 plus minutes from him again. I would say 18 to 25 is a bit more realistic, splitting time with DeMarcus cousins. Again, the issue I have with cousins, I have with Yoke, what I have with Enus freedom is that it just blocks you from playing Yoke-itch, which is he's just the best player on tonight's lake. He's going to have the highest projection. He's going to have the, you know, he has one of the best matchups, all those things. You should just be looking to play Yoke-itch. Like I get the idea of trying to be different, but it's Yoke-itch. You should just play him and trying to just lock up center and go elsewhere from there. Sal was saying the same thing with Kevin Love. It's like, yeah, Kevin Love should be out there for a considerable amount of minutes if he's going to be playing. But obviously he popped up earlier today with this questionable tag. Like if he's out there, I want some shares of him at the power forward position, but knowing that his ceiling is going to be limited because he doesn't play a whole lot of minutes. I'd rather take a little bit of savings and come down to Dean Wade. You know, Luke Hornet in theory could be a player that sees minutes if we see Kevin Love ruled out. But again, a player that I'm not looking to very, very heavily. DJ is asking, are you more in favor of playing John Collins or saving salary for a guy like Derek Habers? John Collins is a player that I'm big on today. I already bet the over on his points, rebounds, assist prop, which was sitting at 33 and a half. I bet the over on that. I think that this is just a spot where two things. One, we know that Klinkerbell is out. Two, Gallinari is out. And three, Aneka Kongu is on a minutes restriction. So there's a good possibility or a very high possibility that we're going to see times when John Collins is the acting center for Atlanta, right? And they're going to be running things small where he'll be out there alongside, let's just say it's right, Bogdanovich, Kevin Herter, Cam Reddish, and then John Collins. Like it'll be that five. And the match against Orlando is a spot that we want to be attacking. Like I said, Orlando is super weak on defense against the center or the power forward position. So no matter where he's lining up, that's the spot I would be going. So it's John Collins, but it's John Collins at the power forward position tonight. If you want to be going to favors, I think the dual position eligibility is just one. Yeah, so favors is a fine option. We know that Mike Moskala is ruled out due to rest, but again, only putting him at the power forward position. Jeremiah Robinson Earl should also be in there for some minutes. So, you know, you want to split some, they're going to be splitting minutes. So if you want to split up your shares, that's fine. But again, only for the power forward position, you don't want to be blocking center tonight. Like that's the main takeaway is like for me, it's Yokic, it's true holiday. And then it's mixing in Paul George Tatum Middleton. Like it's, those are my two cores of holiday and Yokic and then three of the other top stars or two of the other three top stars on tonight's slate. SGA, I think is also going to be in the mix just because players, or you know, DFS players have so much salary available that getting up to him or Halliburton is obviously very easy. So that's where I go. Yes, Sal is saying Lou Wills out. So Lou Wills is out, Trey Young is out. It's going to be a lot of DeLon Wright for Atlanta. We should also be seeing, like Jalen Johnson, they just called up. They could in theory, you know, put him out there at the shooting guard position depending on how they run their lineup. Like that's not something I'm anticipating like a whole lot of minutes for him. They would have to have some other player like ruled out between now and TIT for me to consider it. Like a lot of these G league players like Hassani Gravett played up some big minutes the other few days for the magic just because they're so short-handed. But again, if Cole Anthony is going to be healthy and starting, you know, this is not a player that I'm necessarily going to be considering. Like again, it would have to take some extreme circumstance with all of these players or a number of them ruled out for me to considering some of these secondary G league call-ups. So that's really like the main takeaway for tonight's slate. You want to be sticking with the players that have already have established roles, you know, just because a player is recently signed doesn't mean that he's going to be out there for 30 minutes.  So I would start with Jokic. I would start with Holiday. You want to go to Halliburton. You want to go to SGA. You want to go to Middleton, Jalen Brown, Paul George, Tatum, John Collins. Like these are the players I'd be mixing in alongside Jokic and Holiday. Like this is really where like the core of my lineup build is going to be. These players, John Collins, Tatum, 4,300 remaining, there's a ton of value at the guard positions tonight. Like that's where we should see a lot of like popular lineup combinations. Forward position, the value here I think is fine. Get Ayosman, not super cheap. He could obviously be in for plenty of minutes, especially if we see Kevin Love ruled out. That's something I would keep my eye on. Like Vanessa's Tentacumpo should be in for a good amount of minutes tonight. See if we have him projected high. I mean, 17, yeah, 17 to 20 minutes is realistically where we should be seeing him on tonight's slide. I will say the game that I have probably more interest in than any is probably L.A. Sacramento. The four and a half point spread is obviously nice, but we also have two teams in the top 14 of the league when it comes to offensive pace.  Then for the Sacramento side, we should just be seeing their main guys all playing 30 plus minutes, if not 35 plus minutes, especially for Buddy Heald, Halliburton, Harrison Barnes. That's what we should really be seeing. Heavy, heavy minutes for them. Rashawn Holmes is still listed as questionable. He's still dealing with his eye injury. So if he is not going to be in the starting lineup, then it should be Tristan Thompson. So Halliburton, Heald, I have to say Buddy Heald is still very, very affordable for Sacramento. He's only $5,800 and he's playing heavy minutes for them because they have so many players ruled out. So, and with his three-point ability, taking five, six, eight, nine, threes per game, this is always a player I'll look to for some scoring upside that can exceed value very, very quickly. You know, I know some people could be looking to Justice Winslow or Terrace Mann. I think these are all fine options on tonight's slide. I don't have like a super strong take on any of them. Getting up to the top stars is, again, going to be my priority.  But again, I think it's still doable overall on tonight's slate. I also took, let's see, the over on Eric Gordon. His threes prop was two and a half, I want to say it was. Got it earlier in the day. Hopefully it hasn't changed too much. Yeah, two and a half made threes for him. I think it was at plus 138 earlier in the day, plus 140, going up against Milwaukee. They're on the third most made three-pointers from their opponents per game. So, plus money for Eric Gordon, who's gonna be out there for a good amount of minutes. He's taking a consistent amount of threes on a nightly basis. We'd like to see him back to that, you know, six, seven, eight range compared to four. Obviously just giving him a, you know, better chance to, you know, reach that. But the plus money on over two and a half is the spot that I took for Eric Gordon. And then Gordon Collins and, forget the other one that I took. I have to double check that. Sal's asking Cavs and Orlando Moneyline. Cavs and Orlando Moneyline, let's take a look at that. So, I said this morning on the podcast on the daily ice so that I liked Orlando. I think it was plus eight or plus eight and a half at that point, just because the Atlanta's so shorthanded that Orlando could cover and still lose this game. That's ultimately, I wouldn't care for Orlando at plus eight, I think is where I got them. The Cavs, I don't have a ton of interest in on the Moneyline. The magic is a spot that I would consider going on the Moneyline. We just want confirmation that Cole Anthony will in fact play because he is listed as questionable. Let's give this a quick refresh just because the injury situation is always changing. So just an update on the Clippers player available. Players available is always good to see. So I would say Orlando ahead of the Cavs. I know the Cavs have been this like covering machine as of late. They're covering like, was it like 12 straight games? They've covered and it's like 15 out of their last 18 or something like that. They've been covering and winning a lot of games. But shorthanded now, no, let's see no Evan Mobley, no Jared Allen, potentially no Kevin Love. That could mean a big game for Darius Garland, a player that's really stepped up, especially after Colin Sexton went out. What's his line at? 33 and a half, only minus 106 for Garland. See how, I know he's been obviously doing consistent lately, but 30, was it 33 and a half, 36 and a half? 33 and a half for Garland. Like that's a spot he could get to tonight. That's a realistic spot. Garland at minus 106 is a spot. Thoughts on our Money Brokes, Pat Connington, Josh Christopher DeLon right and Buddy Heald. So big fan of Buddy Heald has already spoke about our Money Brokes for Houston as a player that I've written about a number of times over the past few weeks. And I'll be on board with him tonight. I know he's already in my player pool. Some of the first lineup runs I did through the optimizer. He's in there just because the minutes are gonna be strong for him. Like it's a pretty solid matchup against Milwaukee. Like I said, there's probably a lot of threes this year. They're also playing very fast. So Milwaukee and Houston, both in the top 10 of the league when it comes to offensive pace, our Money Brokes is yes, gonna be involved for me because Jalen Green and Kevin Porter are both still out. Pat Connington, I think is a fine option. You know, the minutes should obviously be there for him and Grayson Allen. Pat Connington doesn't necessarily move the needle for me a whole lot tonight. I prefer Grayson Allen over Pat Connington simply due to the salary. That's all it comes down to. Grayson Allen 4,200 compared to Connington at 57. So I think, again, Pat Connington should be playing 28, 35 somewhere in there when it comes to minutes. I just prefer Grayson Allen simply due to the salary. Josh Christopher, I think is okay. I would prefer going to Gordon and our Money Brokes in that lineup. Obviously Christian Woods, I was not the same question because Wood is much more expensive, plays different position, but the long right. So of that group, if I have to rank this group, Buddy Heald, I think is number one just because he's gonna be playing 35 plus minutes, takes a ton of three pointers. I would say Heald, Wright, Brooks, Connington, Christopher in that order is the way I would be targeting them. Just based on everything, their salaries, their minutes, what their usage and their potential production it should look like. That's really where I'd be going. Definitely Buddy Heald number one. I still think he's like very affordable at $5,800 for playing 36, 39 minutes in some of these racing games. Again, that's the spot I'd be looking number one overall. So as we get more injury information, what I'll say is be ready to pivot based on anything. If some player gets ruled out, know who your core guys are and then know where you're gonna be pivoting off of them. So by chance, just this is pure speculation, if you were gonna be heavy on Chris Middleton and all of a sudden he gets ruled out, whether it's the knee injury or it's the health and safety protocols, be ready to shift your shares to Jalen Brown, like someone that's in the same salary tier. If you were big on, I don't know, Garrison Matthews or Dean Wade, be ready to shift them to another player. So have your pivots ready. Are Georgia Man your favorite clippers tonight? Well, Paul George is always gonna be my favorite clipper just based on his usage. He's back in the lineup. I mentioned him on the podcast this morning. He only played 30 minutes in his first game back. Obviously we have to take that with a bit of a grain of salt because it was his first game back. Hopefully we see his 30 minutes go to 35-ish tonight. Obviously this is phenomenal point per minute production. If Sacramento is able to keep this game close, which is what's expected to be, I think the four and a half is a good indication that we should be seeing more minutes from Paul George. So Paul George is always going to be my number one option when it comes to the clippers. Man, based on his salary, you can make an argument he would be number two. Yeah, I think we can make the argument that Man is number two for me, especially with Reggie Jackson out. Eric Bledsoe, like, eh, it's fine. That is, it's fine. I would actually, yeah, I'd definitely take Man ahead of Bledsoe. Any Q's to the O.K.C. prop bets you like tonight. Yeah, I said I already took the Eric Gordon over two and a half main threes, which is sitting at plus 136, right? Plus 132 for Eric Gordon. I already took that earlier in the day. O.K.C. props. Let's take a look at those. I haven't seen, or I haven't taken any of those today. I took Gordon Collins and I took one other. I can't remember. You looking for like three point props or let's just look at some of these lines overall. Josh could be 26 and a half, minus 120 is a little bit. Monty Morse, 20 and a half isn't bad. Okay, I think these are all pretty spot on. I don't like the juice on Josh Giddy there. Threes, SGA, two and a half, he's not taken a ton. Six and a half minus 102 for Josh Giddy. Is that a spot that we could, I mean, if they keep this game close, like that's well within his range of outcomes to have over six and a half assist for Josh Giddy at minus 102. So that's certainly one that is probably at the top of my list right now at like the first glance. Like none of these are, like none of these are jumping off the page significantly for me as of right now, but Josh Giddy would be number one. Over six and a half at minus 102 would be the spot to look. 13 and a half points for Josh Giddy. Let's see, because some of these are obviously, 13 and a half is not bad with his volume of shots he's been getting up lately that's sitting at plus 102. So two Josh Giddy props plus 102 and minus 102 over 13 and a half points over six and a half assists. That is those are the two spots I would look for. Okay, see like I said over two and a half main threes for Eric Bledsoe. Garrison Matthews could also be in the conversation for over threes for the Rockets just because we know he does take a lot at times. Let's see what his line is at plus 110 for Garrison Matthews for over two and a half. Like I said Milwaukee third most three pointers allowed per game to their opponents. Sitting at 14.2, we want to look to Garrison Matthews. He's taking, you know, four, nine, seven, six, eight, 11, like he's taking a lot of threes and it's only at two and a half and it's plus money. Garrison Matthews also on the table. Just joined, how do you feel about Yochich? Yochich is number one options nicely. So between Jerry on Facebook and Michael on YouTube you're both asking about Yochich. Michael is saying only playing one GPP lineup. I feel like I have to roster Yochich and Jerry is asking, how do I feel about Yochich? Yes, so I said at the top like Yochich is just the best player on tonight's slate. And this is because, you know, someone was asking about, you know, some of the value options at center, which I think are fine, whether it be DeMarcus Cousins, whether it be Tristan Thompson, he should be in for minutes, Freedom, or Onyeka Akangu, like those are all fine options if it were a little bit of a different slate but Yochich is just the best option on tonight's slate. So I've said it before, just roll with Yochich tonight. Yochich and Holiday, as you can see here, are like the two players I'm locking into a lot of lineups. And then after them, it's going to Tatum, Paul George, Chris Middleton, Hallibur in Brown, like those sets of players that are just a little bit less expensive, but we can get to them because there's so much value. So to answer your question, yes, go with Yochich. He's realistically, like he's the only player that could like conceivably get to 70 points and it not be a surprise. Like Tatum's great and all, like I love Ross from Tatum, but he's not a player that like gets up to 70 points. Like 55 points is like a big game for Tatum or like 60 points, but like Yochich going for 60, 65, 70, like really isn't that crazy. And he's basically the only player on the slate that can do it. So I'm not fading Yochich tonight. I am rostering him in as many spots as I possibly can. Again, there's some spots that I'll look to just differentiate a little bit, but he is going to be in the overwhelming majority of my lifestyle. And my nuts for taking Cleveland or Orlando on the Moneyline at Grimm on YouTube is asking, someone asked that already or a variation of that. Like I said, I would be much more comfortable with going to the Magic at plus 260 just because Atlanta is very shorthanded. And especially if Cole Anthony gets ruled in, he's listed as questionable. Let's just give this a quick update. So nothing new on that. Like going to Orlando plus 260 makes sense. I said this morning that, you know, I like him at plus eight, but I have much more interest in going to Orlando on the Moneyline compared to Cleveland. Like Boston is fully healthy or essentially fully healthy. All right. And Cleveland shorthanded missing Mobley and Jared Allen and could be missing Kevin Love and they're missing who else? Just flip to the cabs, just the cabs. Mobley, Allen already out. Kevin Love could be out, Okoro is out. Like they're shorthanded. I don't have any interest in them on the Moneyline or Orlando would be the spot that I'm going. Jared is asking, do you think Smart and Garland will hit their value tonight at price for GBPs? So I have more interest in Garland than I do for Marcus Smart. And I think Garland is just because they're going to be so shorthanded. Like their usage really should be concentrated around him and Ricky Rubio, right? Like no Jared Allen, no Mobley, especially Kevin Love is ruled out. See if I can do this real quick. Allen is out, Mobley is out. We have to account for Colin Sexton. Let's just say Kevin Love. I don't think too many of the role players matter that much. Like Garland, high usage rate, you know, nearly 30%. If we adjust for every single player, maybe you'd boost him over one fan new point per minute. But he's been playing well as of late. I like Garland more than Marcus Smart in that specific circumstance. Mike, Michael Starr on YouTube is asking, Robin Lopez could give me 35 or so at 5K, but Yokoch could go for 70 and the lowest, you know, 35 cents. I agree with that. There are fine options at center in the mid tier, whether it be Robin Lopez, whether it be like Robert Williams. Like there's nothing wrong with Robert Williams tonight, especially going up against a depleted Cavs team, but Williams isn't going to go for like a massive ceiling game that's going to offset the cost of, you know, or like the opportunity cost of not rostering Yokoch. Also, if you're not rostering Yokoch, there's really not a whole lot of stars that you like can pay up for. So it just comes down to that. Like the Time Ward should eat tonight. And I totally agree with Sal. Like very depleted frontline for the Cavs. And I'm not doubting that. I'm not doubting the Celtics ability to win this game or Robert Williams to reach and exceed value. It's just the opportunity cost of not rostering Yokoch when you're not like transferring that salary to someone else that can give you equivalent upside, right? Like Drew Holiday is great tonight. And I love Drew Holiday. And I told you I'm going to be rostering him a ton, but there's no like other player that's going to have as high of a projection as Yokoch. That's what it comes down to. Jerry's asking what are some of the guys we should want to target dealing with all the COVID protocol injuries? So the long right for Atlanta, he's going to be in for just a ton of minutes because they are so shorthanded at the guard position. That's very clear. We could be seeing extra minutes for Laurie Markinen, Dean Wade, because they are shorthanded to begin with, especially if we see Kevin Love ruled out, that's not going to be a surprise. That game's canceled for Sacramento. I still think Buddy Heald is very affordable at $5,800. Going to be in like 35 plus minutes because they are still shorthanded, like 39 minutes in each of the past two games. He's taken a ton of shots, a ton of three pointers. That's always good. Grim is asking, do you like SGA or Drew Holiday tonight? If I have to choose between them, I'm taking Drew Holiday with no attention to Goompo going up against the Houston Rockets. Obviously not worried about that. That matchup like at all. That's why like Drew Holiday and Jokic, again, where I'm starting the overwhelming majority of my lineups tonight. After those two, it's mixing in shares of Tatum, Paul George, John Collins, Halliburton and some SGA. But if I have to choose between Holiday and SGA, it's going to be Holiday, literally like nine and a half times out of 10. Just because his usage has been phenomenal with attend to Goompo off the court. Yes, some of those games were without Chris Middleton, but we still should be seeing him absolutely feast tonight against the weak Rockets defense. You have Halliburton and Heald, and Heald mixed up tonight. I like them both. I'm going to be on board with both of them. Halliburton because he's been unbelievably consistent running the offense for the Kings with no deer and fox. And then Buddy Heald, I think his salary is too cheap and he takes plenty of shots. Michael Starr is asking, do you like Josh Gideon? I do. I just went over some of his player props. I think that's a spot I'd be looking as well. For his assists and his points. All right, so that does it for today's Q&A. I'll be back next week at 4 p.m. right here on the Fandle YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter pages, taking your questions about the Knights NBA DFS. You can follow me on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom. Until next time, good luck in your contests.


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What we are about to unbox in this episode James play the t-rex from Super Nintendo game What we're about to see in this video is something that I didn't think Would ever really be made again because it has already been made a long time ago back in 1993 It was or two ago and the first movie was released that one for whatever reason there must have been enough demand The Mattel were like, you know what we'll give the people what they want and for the first time ever it pretty much was What we wanted presenting the toy we've always wanted the beautiful assistant Look at the gorgeousness that is this machine to run a source Rex Fletch set we're not interested in the t-rex here We've seen that we've seen this t-rex a friggin million times before we don't want you to see it anymore two amazing things But really we've only had one of each and that is the Ford Explorer and So we have a look at the box you can see the back you've got a little illustration there of the t-rex It shows the t-rex sort of through the roof, which is and something that is completely new for this one So without further ado, how about we open her up? Shall we?  Let me if we just look t-rex T-rex Roberto I think she was called never had a tail But oh, oh that is all that is Smell it. Yeah, I'll never smell it in a million Anyway, it's a movie with the night vision goggles Probably the only thing I'll say well We'll see when we get into it that could be changes the night vision goggles as you can see there the yellow and No one cares about a bit of dust hey look it's the thing I I almost bored before Chronicle collectibles went out of business and screwed everybody over I Taste good Anyway, yeah, they are the well obviously not screen use These are prop replicas the night vision goggles and made by a secret private party who wants to be named Nameless who wants to remain nameless. That's the one Chronicle collectibles was going round issuing cease and desist to everybody who was making props and For them to go out of business and rip a lot of people off So as you can see there's a bit of a difference between Tim Tim Murphy's night vision goggles and these ones the biggest difference there and you can zoom in onto the box and Tim Murphy They're pretty much the same even though it's a render and they're green They're yellow but they're kind of missing the black of the lenses and when you look at the rest of this You know this play set They could have easily just done like a tiny bit more paint on it So let's get this out of the packaging shall we stop making us have to buy t-rex's Mattel Damn it. We've already got him ready close up for the foot if people want the 25th t-rex Well, you know what? I'm kind of happy just leaving the tail end because I Quite frankly dear. I do not give it out Oh my god, it's beautiful Oh Wait here X this is it This is what we want just the underside has got so much detail on it They've even put the spare tire that the Ford explorers have on them. That's so good. I love that I love that basically when it came to this this car this car right here the the Ford Explorer There was a lot of issues with Ford actually licensing So even if you notice in Jurassic World Evolution the cars that are in that aren't for explorers They're like knockoff versions and you'll notice in the Jurassic Park pinball as well that there was some game pinmaster Whatever did that the explorers that are on the menus aren't Ford explorers because they couldn't get the license However, if you look at this guy you turn it around it has the insignia It actually has the Ford logo on the opposite side. It has The Explorer XLT, which is it precisely what it was. They've got a lovely gradient there The Jurassic Park isn't exactly I mean we're getting that picky here If you were to look at this and look at a glance you'd be like that's it That's the car, but if you were to be a bit That kind of person you could say that the Jurassic Park logo is on the side or a little bit small and far apart You could say that the wind wipers aren't black for whatever reason they just decided to keep them all You know green the vents on the back of this extra bit on top of the roof should be black when it's actually see-through But you know, we're just just little things here We don't really care about it But if we get the t-rex and we put him through the roof and you can recreate that scene from the friggin movie How cool is that? Yeah, I'm looking and I've already put scratches on that roof from that t-rex and oh that's not very good now is it? There's only like two scratches on the a little front of the plastic Ah, it's gonna. I mean it's gonna happen, isn't it? But the PSL are resistance when it comes to stuff like this. We have friggin opening doors Should have put locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors Look at that. They've even put if you have a look at the inside of the doors Yes, it's not painted or anything like that, but the detail is there They've even put as if you know those door handles there the ring mirror is actually on the car They you know some little little things that I didn't have to do the interior is kind of half-height seats and the man of the hour Friggin Tim Murphy in his baby blue shirt and shorts and everything else look at that sculpt Look at that sculpt. Does it look amazing Whitney? He's wearing like similar colors to what Alan Grant was wearing lovely little bit of character wardrobe design there The I mean the sculpt on it is friggin that that's I mean you couldn't get more accurate But I mean for you've got a kid a smaller character You think maybe they couldn't get that much detail or articulation, but no I mean with the arm you don't have the elbow articulation which is fair enough But the leg you actually do you can actually bend the legs and the knees which is pretty sweet Like just for something that's this small they they managed to get that level of detail in there And the shirt itself is made from a different material So it kind of like opens up as if it's a real shirt. That's wow. He's got like little blushes He's a good little baby. He's got blushes on his cheeks. Good question when he can he go in the car? He can friggin drive the car. That's right Tim Murphy. You can do anything. There he is He's all ready. Look at him. He's sitting up a little bit Tim You need to keep your eyes on the road Tim. It looks amazing, doesn't he? Can I do a kickflip? Yeah, nice. Oh, that's right Tim. You should be used to that. There you go. That feels more natural, doesn't it? Watch out Tim! You need to get down the tree! Why are we still here? Just to suffer 1993 Ford Explorer. Yeah, you must have got some official documents to actually say 1993 Ford Explorer on this spring mechanism If you look at the back here when I tilt the the glass, there's a little spring there. It seems pretty durable Yeah, that'll last you. Yes, that thing that runs along the side Another little feature that could easily be missed on you know, just anybody making this toy. Yeah, there you go Just like in the movie and the car runs off of them The size comparison is great like you can imagine the t-rex pulling its head down there. Yeah, that's perfect That's really good to scale. And you know what even though it is another t-rex It's not too bad I would have preferred if it was like really dark brown like almost a black that would have looked sweet I mean if you if you look at the scene the t-rex is so dark and to sort of reflect that it would be nice to have Maybe a black t-rex. I don't know. It would just be something different, something rather than this kind of like Beigie color that we've got. I mean if we compare it to you know, the original color t-rex It yes, it's a little bit muted. Just don't touch the expensive night vision goggles or the steering wheel So when talking When talking about this absolute beauty There's something that we also need to talk about and that is the previous one and here it is the jungle Explorer by Kenneth. You can't fault this art. It's action It shows the characters that you can buy, you know in the other sets There's a t-rex chomping on the grill there and on the back I should say this way you've got you know an action scene like a diorama with the t-rex that you saw on the previous Illustration, it's just oh it's everything about it's like oh, that's the car, but with a twist This is a collector's thing. Yeah, I've even got the original instructions So Here you are this is what it looks like base But we kind of need to get the grill and all the other equipment out You've got the camera something that I think this was only in the concept now This could be because this toy went into production around about the same time that Well, you know when the concept art was out for the movie not when the movie was made So in the concept art for the Explorer it had one of these it looks like a regular Explorer I mean when you compare it to this one from the outside It's obvious that Mattel takes the cake when it comes to screen accuracy for a start like the logo is wrong Unlike the new one the old one cannot open its door. They're completely solid whereas this guy Can't open the doors and that it's a level of detail. You just can't match really. Yes This is completely, you know screen accurate. It looks really good. I still think it can't compare with this The old kind of one and I'll show you why so you have a look at the back It's got this weird little door going on. So what'd you do? That's right You grab it and you can turn upside down, but why would you turn upside down? That's because you would stick a freaking gun on it. You've got your missiles These are the DNA missiles that you would put On the side of the Explorer the way this kind of worked was they didn't want to make it too Aggressive to let's shoot everything kill the dinosaurs by my man sort of thing It was all about capturing the dinosaurs so instead of this being like a huge freakin rocket launcher It was a DNA sample dart collector So what you would do as you can see if you look here at the DNA dots themselves There's nothing here. There's an empty bit and it looks hollow So what you do is you put that inside the launcher you fire it There you go, and now if you look at the DNA dot It's got the red DNA in it as if it hit the dinosaurs and you've got the sample So what do you do? You put it back Into this launcher. Oh, sorry into the you know to collect it and when it goes in it's taken the DNA ready for the dart to be used again and No matter what level of screen accuracy we can get to like something like this Which is pretty much almost 100% screen accurate down to the interior down to the two monitors that are actually in there They're not painted, but they are molded doesn't compare to What it is in the end and that is You know you want to play it like a tool vehicle like it is in the movie you put that away You can take the darts off. You're ready to go So you might be thinking well, how did you get carried? You know people in there well you would lift up the thing instead of having the t-rex kind of put its head in and Almost get halfway there With this guy you could get the whole t-rex head in there Well, pretty much can and not only did you have this blend between Childlike creativity and screen accuracy to do with the DNA sampler a little bit of action there So let's say the t-rex just bumps into the front of it and bam takes off the engine I mean you could have it wrecked you could have a wrecked version You know so I mean they thought about everything Maybe he just wants to have this as a completely separate thing and just used as right We're gonna be researching on a dinosaur island. We need to collect the DNA samples Well frig it just pull out the back of the door load of the darts and you're ready to go When it comes down to it, you've got these two Amazing Jurassic Park explorers You've got the old one that was just a blend of like 90s kids toys Which was like yes, we'll take something from the movie put our own spin and it will put this huge cannon that shoots at dinosaurs It really felt like the team had sort of thought about what a kid would want to do and Maybe a bit like me. They're like well, I'll do was you let's just add this whole other thing to it And kids can use their imagination You know, maybe maybe they're inside the car and they couldn't they're using the camera to look about and to track Down dinosaurs and then you know it's they can't get out the car because they'll be attacked So then they use this hatch to quickly nip out, you know turn the car shoot the thing get the DNA and bugger off Out of there something like that and now you got Mattels, which I know in comparison from how I've sold this old kennec It's it's kind of nostalgia It's not I didn't really have this growing up and even now I can acknowledge and appreciate the amount of effort and share joy that this car can deliver to a child or anybody really even my even me a grown man child They have thought right okay kids are gonna and they've sold the t-rex with us So they're gonna be like okay, how are kids gonna play with it? They're gonna try and get those characters in there and everything, you know They're gonna have a great time with it But you might think we've ended it there and that could be everything that James can say about the Explorer because really this is Amazing piece. There's one more thing we can compare it to and it's not toy If only there was a real Explorer that we could just jump into what we're saying we can just jump into this one In the closest thing that we can get to the actual screen used for the Explorer. That's right Oh five, baby and a million cars come in So what better way to compare the Mattel Explorer the toy Explorer to the real thing Let's take a look. So how about we look at the back of the vehicle. So as you can see Yeah, I'd say that looks quite screen accurate. Well, of course, this isn't the screen accurate one This is one that I had done two years later since Frontier Expo, which is quite some time And since then we've had a couple of changes made to the vehicle. How about we go over those quickly? So we had the screen accurate rear guards put on these were found from an old NASA Explorer Take them off put them on and then sort of sell the other Explorer for scrap I felt really bad doing that the biggest change that we've had done to it Modification made to it is one of the hardest and this is a complete custom Prop roof. This was lovingly done by a company down south. They cast it painted it set it up and it looks beautiful So comparing it to the Mattel It looks really screen accurate this one from Kenneth Yeah It's a little bit to be desired doesn't it so thinking that round definitely Mattel wins that hands down There isn't really a competition there and as well as the rear bumpers We had the front bumpers from that same Explorer put on with the correct lights and everything They actually aren't hooked up at the moment and yeah exorbitus Winnie's lovingly donated her coat to hide the license plate one gripe I have about the the Mattel Explorer is the actual side Jurassic Park that you see here This is as accurate as it could get to the one in the movie and if you would compare it to the Mattel one I don't know what they did there I think obviously this is just what worked better instead of having this weird overlap which the explorers in the movie also had It was a little bit of points there, but it looks perfect. Just a little bit different How about we move on to the inside of the car and see what You do gonna safari We've looked at the outside. Let's have a look at the interior shall we Inside the Explorer we're back in the car again This has been a whole complete custom dashboard made here everything you see here. This is all custom Some people might be thinking oh, well, how do you drive this? Well, what happens next will most likely shock you We don't have any dials as you can see we've got the screen accurate cameras right here You'll notice we have a keyboard there and we'll get to that in a second, but here if we look down There you go, that's how I check how fast I go and not only that but you've also if you look down there We that's the computer of course when it came to these consoles For Jurassic Park the prop department just got a lot of different CD drives and computer parts to create this as well As if you needed to call, you know home base visitor center whatever you want to do there You have this microphone which would allow you to speak to the people in control Also, we have a camera at the top right there so you can see yourself on the screen Just for security purposes and all that now we look into this Explorer They have also put the center consoles in here as well a little bit of change with the the dials and stuff But basically unless you're really looking for screen accuracy, you're not gonna notice these things It's pretty it pretty much does the job and of course we have a custom half-height seat chairs to recreate that scene where Laura then turns around and does the Chaos effect on the hand also in the Mattel car. They've done as well, which is a really nice touch at this point We talked about the boot however in Mattel's Explorer version. They didn't bother modeling the boots So as well as the back of the car with these the weird black event I don't know what it was supposed to be useful But that also appears if not see-through on Mattel's Explorer. Oh, and how could I forget of course the console? So this is the actual TV or you know that the make the brand that was used and if you look here This baby was one of the hardest monitors to find and I didn't realize that the company that was gonna do this Was gonna gut it completely. So we do still have all the parts and in a perfect world I'd love to actually make it, you know work also if you look above you You've got a beautiful view. However, when it's very sunny, it gets incredibly hot in here But as you can see it's a little bit louder than John Havin's electric versions Unfortunately that here and this concludes our review of Mattel versus the kind of screen accurate But not used in the movie Jurassic Park Explorer Back to you in the studio team Oh There we go. Hey, so that is the comparison between the Kenner the Mattel and the real one inaccurate And even though it has the missile thing it has nothing to do with the movie Hmm, and it just felt like all this time you always say we just want things from the movie They finally give it to you and you've complained that it doesn't Yeah true Well, I think there's definitely a fine balance between screen accurate and fun when it comes to a toy from there They're pretty much the same. I mean, yeah, of course that this one and like I said They've got 30 years difference of toy manufacturer here, but then you got the fun bit of the back No party in the back business in the front party in the back.  Good God. It's been a long one I don't know how I'm editing this but it's probably been a long one for you guys to Mattel have done an amazing job with it I also can't stop singing its praises. So if you've enjoyed this video a little bit like let me know in the comments down below Is there anything that they could have improved on or is it just tip top? Where's a ten out of ten? I don't know you let me know until next time. I'll see you cutie beaver babies later. Oh, buh-bye You still recording you still recording


What are you expecting from Friday's jobs report? Okay, I think the jobs report is going to be fine and confirm once again that the Fed can be on course to raise rates. The bank stocks are strong and an otherwise very negative market will put out something. We're assessing what to say about the jobs report, but I want to make this point about the jobs report. We're not seeing wage growth and because we're not seeing wage growth, we're not seeing a lot of inflation. And that some of the people in the Fed are now saying, whoa, we don't need to raise because not a lot of inflation. I think that that's mindless chatter and what the Fed has in its cars is the September rate hike. And that's why the banks are moving up and it makes a lot of sense because why not try to normalize your policy at a time when unemployment is at an incredible low, even if wage growth is not good? Now, why is this important? Because I think there are a lot of people out there who say, well, listen, if wage growth is not good, why would the Fed ever tighten? The answer is that the Fed just wants to get back to where it used to be so that it can have a normalized policy. I totally get that. Referring back to my European piece this morning, I think that the best place to invest is Europe because they too have to get back into a more normal environment, which would be fabulous and confirming what I think, which is that Europe is getting reliquified and ready for business.


Hello everyone. Today, Xiang Qian and I will give an introduction and feedback for the Kubernetes data protection working group. My name is Xin Yang. I work at VMware in the cloud storage team. I'm a co-chair of CNCF tech storage, a co-chair of Kubernetes 6 storage. I also co-lead the data protection working group with Xiang Qian. Hi everyone. Thanks for coming. My name is Xiang Qian. I work for Google. I'm right now co-lead the data protection working group with Xin. Next slide, please. Today, Xin and I will go through these topics and this is an agenda. We will go through what motivated us to establish this working group and who are the parties that get involved in this data protection working group and explain a little bit what we think data protection is in the Kubernetes context and go through what are the existing building blocks or modules that allows application owners or cluster owners to protect the stateful workloads and what exactly are the gaps that this working group is looking to build or propose to help providing data protection in the Kubernetes context and the very last Xin will go through how to get involved in this data working group, this working group. Next, please. Many of you may be very well aware of the day one operations for stateful workloads actually pretty well supported in Kubernetes context. In order to, there are persistent volume operations, including provisioning a volume, attach a volume to a specific node to hold your data or your workloads and data, to the app orchestration APIs, like workload APIs, deployments, and stateful support to use those persistent volumes in an application context. It's been there for a couple of years and is very stable. With that, the direct impact is more and more stateful workloads like databases, message cues, etc. etc. are looking forward to utilize those constructs as well as Kubernetes very nice feature of scaling, scalability, etc. etc. to move into the Kubernetes environment. However, the date to maintenance operations for example to how do I protect my stateful workload within the Kubernetes context is still in need. It's very limited at this moment for various of reasons. Kubernetes users as of today uses GitOps to protect their stateful workloads config files, but the story around how do I protect my stateful workload, including the configs as well as the volume data is still yet to be discovered and also supported by the community. Next slide, please. With all this reality, there's a lot of companies that are supporting this initiative for providing data protection in Kubernetes context. The listed companies over here actively attending data protection working group meetings by weekly basis. If I missed any company over here, please let me know or we can add your names there. Next slide, please. Moving next. One of the charters for this data protection working group is to define what exactly means to protect stateful workload in Kubernetes. The main purpose of this group is to propose and design modules to ensure an application like database, including its config and data to be restored to a previously preserved state, meaning a backup. In case there's any disaster happened to that application, that could be lost in a cluster or clung to just delete the whole namespace where the application is wrong, et cetera. In Kubernetes context, it mainly basically involves two pieces. The one piece is the API resources that describes the application. The other piece which is more critical is the persistent volume data the application writes into the disk. This is a very complicated and a layered problem. It includes backup and recovery at different levels, including persistent volume, the application level, or even up to the cluster level. When the cluster is actually gone, you want to restore the whole thing into a new cluster. Next slide, please. As I mentioned previously, part of the working group's charter is to define a list of Kubernetes-native constructs to enable those workflows, state-to-operations to protect your stateful workload. That includes how do you provide constructs to protect persistent volumes. We have volume snapshot and volume backup, and volume restore, of course, when restoration is needed. The application level is more about what composes an application or what are the resources that stateful set, secret, and the service that application explores, et cetera. Another tricky piece is a lot of application wants to achieve application consistency, snapshot, or backup. That means it needs to be able to quiet, basically freeze itself from writing before the backup is taken, and unfreeze itself after the backup is taken. That's the quiet and quiet hooks I was talking about. Lastly, what does the orchestration look like at the namespace level and the cluster level? Next slide, please. Talking about all the definitions, let's drill down a little bit. What are the common use cases? There are three listed over there, but there are definitely more, but those three are very typical, and it covers a different layer.  For example, a bad rollout. You have a bug in your system, and they corrupted your data. You want to roll back into the previous state. The other scenario is more about migrating or geo expansion, meaning that, okay, you have a database running in Europe. Now you want to expand your business into Asia. In this case, you want to migrate whatever the data from one area to another area. Those are the common use cases as a SQL database owner or application owner. If you move up a little bit to the class owner's role, typically a namespace owner, typically that is owned by a cross administrator, they want to enforce protection over the namespaces they own in the cluster. That not necessarily means that they understand every single workload within the namespace, but they have the desire to protect the cluster as a whole. Should disaster happens, the cluster owner can seamlessly restore a cluster as a single unit or namespace as a single unit from an existing backup. Moving further up, in big organizations, especially for enterprise businesses, they typically have this data protection administrator who wants to enforce an organizational like RTO or RPO policies over every single workload running on Kubernetes clusters. They typically do not understand the details of the workload running on those Kubernetes clusters. The only thing they want to enforce is you have this application running on a production Kubernetes cluster. I want it to follow a certain policy that it's backed up in a certain schedule and it can be restored to an any given point of time such that to satisfy the company's compliance requirements, etc. With all these common use cases and there's a lot more, of course, that drives the working group to deliver desired components to achieve those goals. Next slide, please. With this, I want to walk you through what exactly a backup workflow looks like. Within the Kubernetes context, that workflow starts from the left and it ends up in the right. Basically, a user kicks off a backup process. This process, as mentioned, previously includes two pieces. One is the Kubernetes resource that that backup can contain may be scoped to a certain application, for example. This resource will most likely, in many cases, just a simple API resource, YAML file done and getting exposed into some remote repository that has independent lifecycle to your cluster. The other major piece is this so-called data backup. There are many ways you can do data backups. One of these is using an application native data dump. Typical tools like MySQL dump or Kafka dump, etc., this kind of thing. You basically dump whatever the data into a backup location and then there's some remote, there's some local process that copies this dump data to a remote location. Again, this remote location has to be kind of independent lifecycle to your cluster so that you can restore from it. Another way is this so-called controller-coordinated. It is a module that the community is looking forward to providing the future as well. Basically, it's agnostic to what kind of application it is. What it does is that it first goes ahead and check, okay, should I acquire this application so that normal rights is accepted and then it conducts YAML snapshot using the YAML snapshot API, etc., and doing the YAML backup and then inquires the application. After all this is done, then the YAML data gets transported again to an external location so that it can have independent lifecycle. This is basically described as a whole really 1000-foot view of the backup workflow. Moving to restoration, next slide, please. It's kind of the reverse, right? So basically the user starts a restoration and then the first thing is to import whatever the backup from a remotely maintained storage system, typically object storage, into your Kubernetes cluster and that has two pieces level. One piece is the Kubernetes resources. Basically, re-create the deployment, or Stateful said that re-create the secrets, re-create the service conflicts for your application, and then when you ask for the storage layer, it re-create the PVC and then force back into two branches as well. Once the one branch is, once the volume is there, the application-native tools can read from the remote and restore data from a data dump into the volume and the application can orchestrate all the restoration process, or rather a more Kubernetes way like re-hydrate PVC from a previously stored volume snapshot or volume backup. Next slide, please. Given that, I'm describing the workflows, so what are the modules needed to accomplish all these workflows? There are a couple of existing building blocks in the Kubernetes community to already support that. In the application layer, we have Stateful Sets and deployment, DemonSets, which are really well-established workload APIs, and those workload APIs can easily tell you what are the resources contained for this application by doing a simple label query. There's also an application CRB, which tells you what are the components composed of this particular application. In the storage layer, there's a volume snapshot, which is a GA feature. It's a CSI snapshot that gets built on top of the CSI driver. Next slide, please. But let's take a look at this picture. The workload API is like Stateful Sets and SIG apps applications. CRDs solve part of the problem of figuring out what are the Kubernetes resources that a backup process should be backing up. Next slide, please. The volume snapshot feature is really fitting to the data piece where there's no, let's say there's no native application, native data dump. The controller can go ahead and then create the volume snapshots from a PVC and inquires the application. With that, next slide, please. There's a lot more. With that in the restoration process, the volume snapshot can be used natively to rehydrate the PVC from it. Next slide, please. With this, there's still a whole bunch of missing building blocks, volume backup or change block tracking, which allows very efficient volume backup and the data populator, which reads the volume backup and repopulates the PVC. We talked about a remote place to store your backup, such that it has an independent lifecycle than the cluster itself. And the inquires and inquires hooks that allows application level, sorry, application consistent snapshots, etc. All this are yet to be built. Fitting into the workflows. Next slide, please. This gives you an overview of what are missing components in this community, right? The green box are existing ones. The yellow box are ongoing efforts, and the orange boxes are to be designed. She will give more details into this one. Next slide talks about the restoration, similar things. Yellow boxes are the causes basically an effort to provide object storage interface. And the green box are existing ones, and the orange box are yet to be developed or proposed. With that, I'm going to hand over to Xin to continue a deep dive into the missing blocks. Thanks, Xin. Thanks, Chen Chen. So the first missing building block we identified is the volume backup. We need this because we need to extract data to a secondary storage. We've already got a volume snapshot API, but there's no explicit definition made in the design to have snapshots stored on a different backup device separate from the primary storage. For some cloud providers, snapshot is actually a backup that is uploaded to an object store in the cloud. However, for most other storage providers, a snapshot is locally stored alongside the volume on the primary storage. Without a volume backup API, the alternative is for backup vendors to have two solutions. For storage systems that upload snapshots to object store automatically, a snapshot is a backup. For storage systems that only take local snapshots, use a volume snapshot API to take the snapshot, and then have a data mover to upload a snapshot to a backup device. We are at the very early stage of discussions about this one. So let's take a look at this diagram. Volume backup is next to a volume snapshot here. We put it in an orange box to indicate that it is a missing Kubernetes component. We have started discussions about it, but there's no concrete design yet. The next one is a CBT change block tracking and the change file list. Without CBT and change file lists, backup vendors have to do full backups all the time. This is a not space efficient, takes longer to complete, and needs more bandwidth. Another use case is snapshot-based replication, where you take snapshots periodically and replicate to another site for disaster recovery purpose. So what are the alternatives? Without CBT, we can either do full backups or call each storage vendors API individually to retrieve CBT, which is highly inefficient. We are currently doing a design for this feature. Let's take a look at this diagram. So CBT is next to volume backup and volume snapshot, as it's used to make backups more efficiently. It is in the yellow box indicating it is work in progress. The third missing computing block is backup repository. Backup repository is a location or repo to store data. This can be an object store in the cloud on-prem storage location or NFS-based solution. There are two types of data to backup that we need at the restore time. Kubernetes plus to metadata and local snapshot data. We need to back them up and store them in a backup repository. Currently, there is a proposal for object store backup repository that's the proposal for object bucket provisioning or COSI. This proposes object storage Kubernetes APIs to support orchestration of object store operations for Kubernetes workloads. They are for bringing object storage as the first class citizen in Kubernetes. It also introduces container object storage interface COSI as a set of GRPC interfaces for object storage providers to write drivers to provision object stores. Kubernetes COSI is currently a subproject in SIG storage. It has weekly meetings and it is targeting alpha in 1.23 release. Let's take a look of this diagram so we can see that COSI is in the yellow box indicating it is a work in progress Kubernetes component. This is an object store backup repository. It can be used to export a backup and store the data. At the restore time, COSI is used to input the backup data. So the next missing building block is a volume populator. Without a volume populator, we can only create a PVC from another PVC or from a volume snapshot. But what if backed up data is stored in a backup repository such as object store? The volume populator feature allows us to provision a PVC from an external data source such as backup repository. In addition, it allows us to dynamically provision a PVC having data populated from that backup repository and honor the wait for first consumer volume binding mode during restore to ensure volume is placed at the right node. The pod is scheduled. There is an any volume data source alpha feature gate which was introduced in 2018 and had a redesign in 2022 release. There are repos for shared library for volume populators and a controller responsible for validating PVC data source. And we have already got our first release from this repos. And this feature is targeting beta in 123 release. Let's take a look at the diagram. We can see that volume populator is needed at restore time. It's in a yellow box indicating that it's a work in progress Kubernetes component. It's used to rehydrate the PVC from a backup repository during restore. The next one is quiesce and unquiesce hooks. We needed these hooks to quiesce application before taking a snapshot and unquiesce afterwards to ensure application consistency. We investigated how quiesce unquiesce works in different types of workloads. They have different semantics. We want to design a generic mechanism to recommend containers. But we want to mention that application specific semantics is out of scope. We currently have a proposal called container notifier. Cap is submitted and being reviewed. We are targeting Alpha. Well, actually, we are targeting Alpha in 1.24 release now because we actually did not make it in 1.23. And so let's look at this cap. In phase one, we propose to introduce several API changes. Adding an optional field notifiers, which is a list of container notifiers into container. Adding an inline type container notifier handler, which defines a command. Adding a core API type, pod notification, which defines request type to trigger execution of container notifiers in a pod. Introduce a new gate container notifier to toggle this feature. A single trusted controller, pod notification controller, will be introduced to watch pod notification resources execute the command and update their statuses accordingly. In phase two, we propose to add a core API notification type and the controller, which possesses notification resources. Add an inline pod definition for signals and allows the API object to send a request to trigger delivering of those signals. More logic in the pod notification controller into Cubelet. Cubelet watches pod notification objects, runs the command and updates statuses of pod notification objects accordingly. In phase three, a probe may be added if needed as an inline pod definition to verify the signal is delivered or whether the command is run and the results in the desired outcome. So as shown in this diagram, container notifier, this is mainly used at a backup time to do requests before taking the snapshot and unquest afterwards. The next one is consistent group snapshot. So we talked about the container notifier proposal, which tries to ensure application consistency. What if you can't quiet the application or if the application quiet is too expensive, so you want to do it less frequently, but still want to be able to take a crash consistent snapshot more frequently. Also, an application may require the snapshots from multiple volumes to be taken at the same point in time. That's when consistent group snapshot comes into the picture. There is a cap on one group and group snapshot. It proposes to introduce a new one group CRD that groups multiple volumes together and a new group snapshot CRD that supports taking a snapshot of all volumes in a group to ensure a right order consistency. This cap is being reviewed. So let's take a look of the diagram. So we don't have a container notifier to do requests here, but if you have a consistent group snapshot here that facilitates the creation of a snapshot of multiple volumes in the same group to ensure right order consistency. And we have snapshot APIs for individual volumes, but what about protecting a stable application? There is a cap submitted that proposes Kubernetes API that defines the notion of stable applications and defines how to run operations on those stable applications such as snapshot, backup, and restore. This is still in very early design stage. As shown in this diagram, application backup handles the backup of a stable application. It can leverage container notifier to do requests and use COSY to be a backup repository. Similarly, we can have an application restore that handles the restore of a stable application. So these are all the missing fitting blocks that we have identified and are working on. Next, I will talk about how to get involved. As discussed in previous slides, this working group is working on identifying missing functionalities in supporting data production in Kubernetes and trying to figure out how to fill those gaps. We are also working on a white paper on data protection workflow. We have bi-weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 9 AM Pacific time. If you are interested in joining the discussions, you are welcome to join our meeting. We also have a mailing list and a Slack channel as shown here. So this is the end of the presentation. Thank you all for attending the session. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Thank you.


But he is surging right now in the polls and the Democrats seem to love Boni and particular young people seem to love Boni so I thought we'd take a little bit of time today to talk about the Boni Sanders phenomenon. I haven't talked too much about Boni partially because I think you all know what I think about Boni and and and his ideas and his policies but I thought we talked a little bit about Boni Sanders and what he represents and why he's so successful I think that's the real question is is you know has America become such a place as to make possible a a Boni Sanders to facilitate a Boni Sanders and that is we will see we will see in the weeks to come whether that is the case I mean I really hate Boni Sanders and despise the man you know because of his policies because of his ideas because of his history because of his you know his Marxist roots and his support both for the Soviet Union for Maduro's for Chavez's of Venezuela he hasn't seen a socialist regime he didn't like at least some point in his life the man is clearly committed to a socialist agenda even though he tries to portray socialism as being Scandinavia and you know here we are a candidate like that a candidate who is an apologist for communism and socialism's worse somebody who who visited the Soviet Union partied in the Soviet Union said positive things about the Soviet Union and supported the regime of Chavez in Venezuela said very positive things about Chavez in Venezuela and has and calls himself a socialist without any without any qualms that you know it's shocking that somebody like this is a viable candidate in a major political party in the United States it truly is stunning somebody says he's making a prediction that if Sanders gets a nomination Trump will win I actually think that's true I think that's true and I think it's primarily because what you're what'll happen I think Sanders will steal a lot of Trump voters and we'll get to that so I think some people who voted for Trump will vote this time for Sanders who would not vote for other people in Democratic Party would would vote for Sanders but I think that if you look at the mix a lot of moderate Democrats and a lot of a lot of you know mainstream Democrats would vote for Donald Trump or stay home if Bernie Sanders is the candidate he's yet to prove he can bring out the black vote which is crucial for winning in places like Philadelphia or Pennsylvania Michigan and places like that he's yet to prove that he can do that I you know I don't you know I don't think that he so it's not clear to me that he can win the Democratic nomination but if you want the Democratic nomination I just don't see how he could be Trump given that I think that many mainstream Democrats just like there was many never Trump is I think they're gonna be even more even more never Bernie on the left and that'll mean there'll be a lot of no shows on the on the Democratic Party side people who won't even vote and then I think a lot of moderates and a lot of middle-of-the-road people I think you know it'll be interesting but I it'll be it now let me just say this I'm terrible at political protection predictions so just humor me right you know I couldn't have imagined Trump would win although in the competition with Clinton actually thought he would win it was the you know towards the as the as the election as November approached I thought he had a better and better chance of actually winning so it wasn't shocking to me that he won but I didn't think he would win the Republican nomination so I've been wrong in politics over and over and over and over again so I wouldn't take my predictions but I do think it's an interesting interesting to think about it right yeah somebody Bernie is Bernie is the you know represents everything that this country has stood against for a sense of founding and certainly since the rise of the Soviet Union in 1914 so sorry 1917 what am I thinking so Bernie you know Bernie represents everything that is antagonistic the antithesis to everything this country stands for I don't think there's any world in which one could vote for Bernie Sanders but let's let's let's talk about why why he's popular well because he really uses the same technique in a sense as Trump and he leverages the same existential angst the same frustration the same alienation the same you know just the idea that that something's wrong in this country something's fundamentally wrong things are falling apart things are working clearly in the wrong direction and he taps into that just like Trump tapped into that and of course there's a sense in which all of that is true but what Trump does and what Bernie does very well is they appeal to people by saying look the world is truly falling apart the world is really rotten for you and I know who is to blame you know so for Trump it was China and it was immigrants and then it was the elites for Bernie it's much closer to home and it's more visceral and much more right here and in that sense much more even more anti-American I think Trump is appeal is very anti-American but I think Bernie's is explicitly anti-American he's telling us no the villains are the corporations the villains are the 1% the rich the wealthy the bankers Wall Street and of course the elites so they both share hatred of the elites whether it's media elites intellectual elites wealth elites Wall Street like elites cultural elites and they use that they use the fact that most people seem alienated from those elites particularly the intellectual elites that most people don't care about the issues that the elites think about and most people think that their elites are manipulating the system on their own behalf so blame the bankers blame the 1% blame the corporations the evil corporations are responsible for all the evils in our country and young people in particular people who don't have a lot of experience in the world that they're people who are ignorant people who are being trained almost brainwashed by our government educational system but even the private schools to hate business to hate Wall Street to hate finance to hate capitalism and to associate whatever troubles exist in America today with capitalism so we live in a capitalist system supposedly and therefore all the troubles are the troubles of capitalism we've got a whole generation several generations that have been trained with explicit leftist Marxist interpretation of American history the exploitation of capitalism the evil of wealth and the evil of the country the inherent evil they take real injustices real weaknesses of America and turn them into the fight like slavery and racism and define them into the defining characteristics of the country and instilling people and having instilling in people for decades and decades a class warfare mentality a class warfare mentality it's you against them and them and them is the rich the connected the wealthy the successful and this is partially why I think Bernie's gonna have a hard time because I don't think this message resonates in places centers that have significant democratic support both financial and in terms of voters so I don't think Bernie really resonates in Silicon Valley I mean those of you in Silicon Valley can tell me I'm wrong but I don't think Silicon Valley's leftism is the kind of Bernie Sanders leftism I think it's much more of a politically correct anti free speech transgender rights you know social issues leftism whereas Bernie is an old-style socialist he's an old-style class warfare and I don't think the class warfare plays in its constituencies and places like in democratic constituencies and places like New York and California I don't think you can win the primary in New York and I don't think you can win the primary in California and can you win can you win the democratic nomination and can you win the presidency without winning with the democratic primary California and New York I'm just I'm skeptical yeah I think somebody says Jack says that Silicon Valley people tend to be more for Warren than Sanders and I think that's right I think one is just as bad on many economic issues but one has positioned her views as saving Silicon Valley saving capitalism Sanders has no interest in saving capitalism he wants to smash it and destroy it what he's appealing to is hatred what he's appealing to is nihilism but what he's also appealing to is frustration and anger he's appealing to the same emotions that Donald Trump appeals to and I think he'll attract a very similar audience I wouldn't be surprised if some Republicans in Iowa are going to caucus as Democrats who voted for Trump will now vote for Bernie Sanders he's appealing to the working class you know I don't know if you've read his trade policy but his trade policy is straight out of Donald Trump right I mean let's go to trade policy where is it trade I've got I've opened up his there's fair trade fair trade right it says fundamentally rewrite all our trade deals to deals to prevent the outsourcing of American jobs and raise wages ensure that strong and binding labor environmental and human rights standards are written into the cortex of all trade agreements he's appealing to the same people who hate trade now Bernie Sanders is is pretty anti-immigration he won't run on that of course because the Democratic Party has positioned itself as pro-immigration and he doesn't want to alienate too many people but he is anti-immigration so he's not gonna run on a huge he's gonna run on a on an altruistic immigration policy oh we need to we need to stop deporting people and we need to we need to do more in terms of asylum but he doesn't want to bring people in with jobs he's anti you know immigrants who get a job because he doesn't want to competition for American workers so Sanders appeals to that working class but he appeals to their hatred to the resentment and to the alienation and what's scary I think is if you take the core Trump supporters and he take the core Bernie supporters and you add them up I mean the core ones the ones that excuse everything the ones that are anti-trade the ones that I hate immigrants the ones that you know you know really resent the elites and want to want to clam down on media and want to shut down Silicon Valley if you add them all up I think it's a large percentage of the American public is now on economic issues fundamentally on the left whether through a Donald Trump form of fundamentally to the left or Bernie Sanders and fundamentally in some core way nihilists in some way about tearing down so Sanders stands for all that is worse in a democratic agenda at least on economic issues I don't think Bernie really cares about the social issues I don't think Bernie cares about transgender and racism and stuff like he says he does and he talks to talk but it's not his thing he is an old line socialist who's interested in ripping down wealth and tearing down corporations and bringing people down successful people and he's not you know he's a he's a real old line socialist so what is he what are his big issues well obviously Medicare for all no compromises no private insurance really at the end of the day no private doctors everybody gets paid by the government every good good buddy gets paid what the government pays which means government becomes the I mean doctors become the equivalent of government employees he's huge on the Green New Deal and I did a whole show on the Green New Deal so I'm not going to repeat here all the evils of the Green New Deal but he's he's a big time Green New Deal and there's no accident that AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of his big supporters and endorsers and spokesmen out there he's big on college for all free college all public institutions should be free for anybody who wants to go all college debt should be written off he stole that from I guess from from Elizabeth or she stole it from him or whatever he's for workplace democracy now workplace democracy this is the big socialist agenda you know huge support for unions big you know federal protection for fired workers provide unions with all kinds of protections and you know in a sense force over the unions onto business but in a big way in a bigger way than I think even FDR and Democrats of the past were and dictate wages for employees so he says deny federal contracts to companies that pay what he calls poverty wages or outsource jobs overseas or engage in union busting or deny good benefits pay and pay CEOs outrageous compensation packages he has a whole agenda about figuring out ways to lower CEO pay so there's a whole thing here about about you know where is it let's find I mean he wants to tax taxes on the rich yeah he says corporate accountability democracy fundamentally shift the wealth of the economy back into the hands of the workers who created it that's pure Marxism break up corporate corporate mergers and monopolies split it up companies and then increase the taxes and he's got some provision here I you know somewhere here he says if a company pays the CEO a lot it should pay more taxes the more the CEO gets paid the more the gap between the CEO and the average pay of an employee the bigger the gap the more they will be taxed in general he wants to increase taxes dramatically increase taxes and corporations and we know and I've talked about this before corporate taxes are paid by consumers and employees it is a tax on employment and a tax on consumption a tax on it's in that sense it's a regressive tax you would think that Bernie Sanders would be against a regressive tax but he doesn't want to tell you that corporations are just legal entities that pass through all their costs and they don't pass them they don't pass them to you know to the shareholders they pass them because he he needs a villain he needs a villain and the corporations are his best villains and what do we do to villains we penalize them we tax them so you go through his agenda I mean it's truly you know you couldn't come up with a more consistently Marxist I mean without being at all a communist which he's not right he's not advocating for the dictatorship of the proletarian yet right but all the classical old line socialist policies of 30 to 40 to 50 to 60 years ago not the communist but the socialist ones the ones that led us very close to communism the ones that were horrific and basically impoverished the united kingdom basically impoverished european countries that used them and basically impoverished any country that applies them and this is by the way much more radical much more consistently socialist much more anti-capitalist than anything any scandinavian country has no scandinavian countries has laws like this relating for example to corporations and by the way corporate taxes in scandinavia are relatively low because they know that corporations don't actually pay taxes right he wants to expand social security expanded it's going bankrupt but we're gonna expand it we're gonna expand medicare to medicare fall matters we'll have social security fall he wants to do federal he wants to have the post office do banking which is basically to nationalize parts of the banking system right high speed internet for all the government is going to fund internet for everybody right that'll encourage a lot of you know investment in in internet and high tech and fiber in the ground and infrastructure because hey companies love to compete with the government when the government is offering something for free i mean at every level this guy is you know massive taxes on the rich right for you know particularly on the richest of the rich real wall street reform break up the banks reinstate the last eagle cap interest rates cap interest rates which is going back to a failed policy of the united states from the 30s where interest rates on savings were capped from the 1930s until the 1970s interest rates on savings in the united regulation q it was called what capped in the united states a complete another disaster that partially ultimately led to the s&l crisis and the creation by the way of things like money markets and many many other financial innovations that were meant to get around this kind of nonsense so you know bony sanders is and so so he's just he's just you know what do you call it he's he's a leftist marxist economic you know driven by envy capitalizing on the age of envy capitalizing on the fact that people have been conditioned to be envious of those who are successful and his appeal comes from a whole for generations of people being taught that all their problems are caused by corporations and wealthy and the one percent and wall street and bankers and capitalism it is a consequence of a morality of altruism and a morality of attitude towards envy and it is a it is a consequence of a country that is lost it's lost its way it's lost his way and it's not like times are that hard that's the other thing you know in 1970 what is it 1972 mcgovern ran against nixon and mcgovern was quite a leftist i don't think quite as leftist as bony sanders was quite as leftist and um the country defeated him in a landslide and but the reason he could even get the nomination is because there was real angst you know nixon there was inflation there were nixon it imposed price controls maybe just after the election imposed them but there were price controls there was inflation there was a war in vietnam there was violence there was crime i mean things were really rotten in the day-to-day lives of americans i don't think things are quite as rotten in the day-to-day lives of americans the economy is not great but it's not bad there's no inflation we're fighting wars but meaningless wars stupid wars but not anywhere on the scope and the scale of vietnam we're not seeing body bags come back every day in a failed war there just isn't the objective existential angst that would justify people becoming so crazy as in you know so desperate as to elect bony sanders all for that matter in my view at donald trump now culturally philosophically ethically morally the country's gone to hell and it's what's worse than the 70s and that explains where we are today collectivism is rampant on left and on right tribalism is rampant an appeal to tribalism to kind of an altruistic tribalism well tribalism is altruistic and altruism leads to tribalism but it's more explicit today than ever and resentment envy hatred of the other in trump's case the other being immigrants or or china in bony sanders case the other being the rich the corporations the elites but it is truly truly a depressing and sad statement about this country that this is where we are today that we have an election that is so dominated by fear hatred resentment envy truly truly sad state of america that america supports this and an overwhelming it looks like a majority of americans you know maybe a minority a large minority of americans support these kind of policies this kind of attitude this kind of atmosphere okay um so we'll see we'll see bony wins um i hope not i hope the democrats come up with something better i hope the country rejects bony resoundly i hope even the left in america rejects bony resoundly so that we don't have to face a bony sanders donald trump election but we will see we will see it is very very um it is very early and it looks pretty bleak again bony sanders surging the polls and i've said before i think elizabeth won is more dangerous because i think she's more electable and i think she's more she's smarter and could get more done but the very fact that bony sanders is successful is a very bad sign for this country and where we are heading what we need today what i call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role 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