Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. So as you know, we have a podcast, Dear Hank and John, or as I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank. And on that podcast, I recently confessed that instead of pouring milk on my cereal, I use water. Now Nerdfighteria is generally a very supportive community, but their condemnation of my cereal eating habits was swift and nearly universal. People send in scientific studies supposedly proving you're supposed to eat cereal with milk. And then there was this vine, which recreated one person's experience of eating cereal with water. But along the way, Hank, I learned there is a secret community of people like me out there. According to one study, 13% of Americans put coffee in their cereal, another 12% use orange juice. I even heard of some people who use lemon lime Gatorade, so today I am going to taste test all of the ways of moistening cereal. Which cereal? Well, I chose raisin bran because it tows the lime between healthy and delicious. I mean, you know it's healthy because it has bran in the title, but you know it's delicious because it has more calorie, sugar and sodium than lucky charms. Speaking of which, I also picked up some lucky charms because it turns out it's healthy. Okay, first off, we have raisin bran mixed with delicious safe American tap water. Note, only safe and delicious in certain jurisdictions. Ah, it's so good. I just love raisin bran with water. It is delicious. That is just absolutely magnificent. Five raisins. Next up, we're going to mix our raisin bran with some Florida orange juice. No, no, no. Two great ingredients that when mixed together just turn out horribly. For me, the orange juice is one raisin out of five, even that's a little generous. Okay, up third, raisin bran with lemon lime Gatorade. In general, I'm a big Gatorade fan and because I just had the orange juice, it was so much better by comparison that it was almost good. But it still wasn't good. Two raisins out of five. Fourth up, hot black coffee straight from my AFC Wimbledon mug into the raisin bran. I gotta say, for me, this tastes almost exclusively like coffee and not at all like raisin bran, but whatever, I like coffee and it's fine in bran form. Three raisins out of five. And then lastly, we have raisin bran mixed with cow's milk. Ah, it's just disgusting. It's so rich. It tastes like I'm eating cake or something. I just, that's not breakfast. I'm going to give milk two raisins out of five. By the way, Sarah just built a Louvre out of Legos and then Henry and I attacked it with a clone army. So there you have it, Hank. According to a scientific study of my taste buds, the best liquid to pour on your raisin bran is water, followed in order by coffee, lemon lime Gatorade, that stuff that comes out of the nether regions of a cow and orange juice. Now, Hank, you said on the podcast that you tried cereal with water and you didn't like it. You're a milk guy, so we have an intractable disagreement. But I think we're going to continue to respect each other and collaborate anyway. And there may be a lesson in that. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Covering IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit. Brought to you by IBM. Now here are your hosts. Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. We're back, welcome to Boston everybody. Stu and I are going to do a little riff on this week in Kube Land. And we're here at the Chief Data Officer Summit at IBM. Hashtag IBM CDO. We got a crowd chat going on, Stu, I believe. Crowdchat.net slash IBM CDO. Yup. Or a CDO summit? CDO, IBM CDO. Nice and simple. Okay, great, thank you. And Bert Lattimore's manning that. He's documenting what's being done on theCUBE. So thank you, Bert, for doing that. So Stu, we're going to take a little break from the CDO conversation. We'll come back to it, but there are three things that we've been covering this week. You and I were at IBM Edge on Monday and Tuesday while our colleagues on the West Coast, including Greg, who's now here, we're doing Oracle Open World on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. And I want to talk about that and of course we're wrapping up the week here. So at Edge, it was interesting. Edge is an infrastructure show. We certainly heard IBM plugging its infrastructure story into Cognitive and so it's fitting that we're punctuating the week with an event around Chief Data Officer and Cognitive and Analytics. And so, you know, in thinking about Edge, sort of start there, IBM's kind of created three businesses for its systems division. The mainframe Z business, the power and the open power business, kind of call that the second one. And then of course the storage business. You got Z sort of managing the decline of that business and it's been in sort of flat the decline mode. Sometimes it grows when it's a product cycle for years, you seem to be doing a good job there. It also drives a lot of other IBM software and services business. The power is an exciting story, opening up that ecosystem. You know, we talked about the China angle. We can talk about that some more and then storage doing the software defined thing. So that's all sort of pretty clear. There's some gaps. We talked about the gaps and hyperconverged and the like. And then contrast that with Oracle, you know, who's got this vertically integrated approach. The both companies are chasing value, not volume, but Larry Ellison this week said, you know, look out Amazon, here I come. What do you make about of that statement? I mean, say that exactly. But basically saying we're going to bomb prices and infrastructures of service. Amazon's got a new competitor. We're going to take those guys on. We're going to be 20% less expensive, 10 times faster, five times better, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What are people saying about that? What's your take on that?  The last quarter, I think cloud revenue, I think was what, $150, $200 million from Oracle. So obviously they were small player, but you know, up, you know, we're going to be the cheapest and we're better. And we've got a 20 year lead on database. I'm like, look, number one, Oracle has the stickiest application in enterprise and they are doing a good job at switching a lot of their applications over to Sassify them over to cloud. But if we're talking, you know, infrastructure as a service, it's not just the, you know, price per CPU, you know, price per gigabyte out there. Amazon has built, you know, you know, we talked, is there a standard in the cloud? The line we had is, yes, there's a standard out there. It's called Amazon.  If you're not compatible with that, what are you doing? Because that's where the customers are. Customers such, Amazon is such a broad marketplace and ecosystem out there. That's where, you know, the developers are. That's where, you know, so much is happening there. So it's a little bit bombastic for Oracle to come out and say, you know, oh, we're just going to, you know, knock them aside over something like price. Yeah, so, and, you know, it's interesting, Oracle's really got nothing to lose by doing that, by saying that. So of course, it's going to, you know, take the bravado road. So that's kind of interesting. One of the things that I want to talk about, Stu, that we learned at this conference, and Gene Kolker just mentioned it, was how IBM's Global Services Division is trying to bring cognitive into its business. This was really fascinating to me and this is what I think everybody's missing about IBM. IBM's services company has been leading with services, but at the same time, IBM has always had a big R&D investment in technology, particularly in software, obviously infrastructure as well, but big, big investments in software, generally in cognitive specifically. It seems to me, Stu, we talk about this all the time, the curves, and if you go on Wikibon, you'll see all the discussion we have about what Amazon is doing to the technology provisioning, provisioning compute storage and networking, which used to be a very labor intensive activity. Now Amazon's automating that and it's driving their marginal costs down. IBM, to a certain extent, is trying to replicate that in its services business. It's like the nirvana of services. How do we replicate what we've done? And it's always been very, very difficult because things are so different and whether or not IBM can pull it off, we'll see, but I'm confident that it can do so in certain industries. So what it's doing is it's taking Watson and applying Watson into, let's say, healthcare, for example, it will do the same in financial services. It seems to be doing the same in its own services business. What that ostensibly could do for IBM is drive down the marginal cost and allow IBM to be more profitable at volume. I mean, the gross margin of IBM's business is not nearly as big, for example, as Microsoft's, despite the fact that IBM has a huge software business and it's because of the giant services content in IBM's business, you were at EMC for years. A hardware company like EMC in the enterprise can have 60% gross margins. EMC lived on 60 plus percent gross margins for years. The enterprise storage companies generally can achieve that. PC companies never got close, right? Dell's gross margins before it went private were in on the high teens. And so it's going to be interesting to see if IBM can take this services business and drive a new profitability model by taking its industry expertise, automating with cognitive many of the functions typically done by humans, Gene called the technology led and human assisted, that could be a sort of game changer from a profitability standpoint for IBM. Yeah, Dave, definitely. We talked before about if you take Dell and Dell plus EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise and how little software they have. Doesn't mean they don't have any, but they divested themselves of all of the non-core software piece as opposed to IBM. IBM's got a lot of software in a lot of places, both things they've developed, as well as so many acquisitions. I mean, I feel like every single day IBM makes an acquisition. They're such a big company out there. However, unlike Oracle, which is, let's vertically integrate everything and bake it all into one piece, IBM, the services piece means we're going to work with you on our stuff. We're going to work with other things at IBM Edge this week. It's like, okay, you want to use Amazon? Great, we've got services to help you do that. They've got so many places that they can get into a customer and everything from, they can build the platforms for you, they can offer services for you. And there's just so many places that IBM can help your business. They're good at the thought leadership and moving people forward. The whole message around cognitive as a service seems to be resonating with the customers we're talking to and where things look to be going. So, and the challenge has always been profitability at scale. So we'll be paying close attention to that. Okay, I'm really stoked. Next week is big, big week for SiliconANGLE Media and theCUBE. We've got Splunk.conf. John Furrier is going to be down in Orlando with John Walls covering that event. It's a fantastic event. I'm disappointed that I can't be there, but I'm actually psyched that I'll be in New York with big data NYC, get that in a second. But the Splunk.conf is one of the best conferences that we do with theCUBE and what makes it so great is the customers. The customers bring content, they're passionate. Splunk has done a fantastic job taking this mundane notion of log files and bringing automation to IT, helping with security problems. It's really, really a great conference with some fantastic content. So John Furrier is going to be down there. That, I believe, is on Monday and Tuesday. We are running big data NYC as part of Data Week in New York City. It runs concurrent to Strada, which is at the Javis Center. We'll be at 37 Pillars, which is on 37th Street. Joke, it's a John Furrier or a John Greco. Seven Iron, for me, it's two drivers away from Javis. But it's a short walk and 37 Pillars is a fantastic location. We have three days, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, no, four days of coverage. Four days at Big Data NYC, let me go through it. So Monday, we start off in the afternoon with NVIDIA. So NVIDIA is a super hot company that been doing cool stuff in AI and GPUs. And so, O'Reilly with Strada has added an AI day and deep learning, machine learning day to Strada. So Monday is deep learning day and we are partnering with NVIDIA to cover presentations and panels that cover those topics. And it's all about building the next generation of applications. So that's on Monday. And then Monday night, we got a party with NVIDIA, which is going to be awesome. And then Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we have wall-to-wall coverage of Big Data with CUBE guests, dozens and dozens of practitioners and technologists. And we'll be really focusing on the next generation, sort of beyond Hadoop. Obviously a lot of talk on Spark, next generation apps. So that's all day, Tuesday, Tuesday night. We're doing, actually Tuesday afternoon, we're doing a mini event within an event with IBM talking about data science and data scientists. And then that evening, we're collaborating with IBM to have a second party at the Mercantile Exchange, which is just across the street and up the block from 37 pillars. So excited about that. And then Wednesday and Thursday, full day, all day coverage of what's going on at Strata, what innovations we're seeing. So we'll probably have 40 to 50 interviews, we'll be doing on the grounds at the IBM event in the evening. So super excited about that. You won't be there. You'll be, I think in, what are you? I've got an analyst event to go. Oh, okay, great. In North Carolina? Yep. Yeah, okay, good. So we'll miss you, but Jeff Frick will be there hosting, co-hosting with me, George Gilbert, Peter Burris will have the whole crew there. So if you're in New York City next week, definitely stop by, 37 pillars will be there from Monday afternoon on and would love to see you. So give you the last thought here on IBM CDO event. Yeah, the last thing that Dave, we mentioned it at the IBM Edge, so, but kudos to IBM for really some of the women in tech activities they're doing. It seems that the panel we had this morning over breakfast was really interesting. CDOs have a greater percentage of women than kind of tech in general. About 25% is, I think, the latest Gartner data on that. It's great if you look, we had six segments for the six. We have women on the program here, so it's always good to see. And naturally, in there, as you said, IBM from the top has the direction. They've got one of the most important women in tech as their CEO, and hopefully we'll have her on the program at either the Grace Hopper event or World of Watson. Well, hopefully both, yeah. Yeah, so Grace Hopper's coming up the second half of October. We've got so many events coming up. I can't keep them all in my head, but that week is sort of Texas week. You and I will be at Dell World, and then I'll be cruising over to Grace Hopper, the women in tech event, which we're really super excited about that. We've got our fellowship that we're doing, the partnership with the Ground Truth and theCUBE. We call it the Tech Truth, and it's all about training the next generation of journalists, which is super exciting. We've got three senior fellows, graduate students that are now in the process of doing background research. They're gonna be covering some key issues on women in tech, equality in terms of pay, how companies, how many startups are doing with regard to hiring women in tech. So we're gonna be digging into that and then covering that, obviously, at the Grace Hopper event. So lots coming up this fall. Check out siliconangle.tv for all the upcoming events. Check out wikibon.com for all the research, and siliconangle.com for all the news. All right, so that's a wrap for this segment. Stu and I will be back right after this. This is theCUBE. We're live from IBM's Chief Data Officer Summit in Boston. Right back. My name is Dave Vellante, and...


Okay, let's try another problem. Alright in this one you have 90 mls of water at 58.0 degrees Celsius and your lab partner also has a beaker of water and she measures its temperature and finds that it's 75.0 degrees Celsius. Now she adds some of her water to yours but she forgets to measure how much, she doesn't measure its volume or its mass. So you stir the mixed water thoroughly and you find that the final temperature of that mixed water is 69.0 degrees Celsius. So the question is how much water did your lab partner add? And to solve this we're going to assume that the density of water is 1 gram per mill. So for every mill of water it's 1 gram of water. Okay, so the way to approach it again is to write down what you know. So let's write down what we know about your water. We know the volume of your water is 90 mls so we're going to say that its mass is 90.0 grams. We know that its initial temperature is 58.0 degrees Celsius. We know that its final temperature, once it's been mixed with the other water its final temperature is 69. And from those two things we can work out delta T, 69 minus 58 equals 11 degrees Celsius. Don't forget that point zero, it's an important significant figure. The other thing you know about water is, and I haven't specified it here but you should be beginning to remember it by now, is that the heat capacity of water is 4.19 joules per gram Kelvin. Okay, let's write down also what we know about your partner's water. We don't know the mass of the partner's water, that's what we're working out. But we do know its initial temperature, which was 75 degrees Celsius. And we do know its final temperature, which is also 69. So we can work out delta T, 75 minus 69 is 6 degrees Celsius. And again because it's also water we do know its heat capacity, so 4.19 joules per gram Kelvin. Okay, for your partner's water we don't know the mass and we also don't know the energy transfer so we can't do anything with that. However for your water we know mass, we know delta T and we know heat capacity so we can calculate Q, the heat transferred. So we plug those values in, the mass is 90, the heat capacity is 4.19 and delta T is 11. And if you calculate that out you'll find that that is 4,148 joules. So that means we know that the heat lost by your partner's water was also 4,148 joules. Alright, and now with Q, C and delta T we can work out the mass of your partner's water that was added. So we rearrange our equation to make mass the subject and that's going to give us mass equals Q over C delta T, which equals 4,148 over the heat capacity times delta T for her water was 6.0. So plug that in and the mass that you get out is 165 grams. Let's check the sig figs situation. We've got 3 here and 3 here and 3 here. If your partner's water, we've got 2 for her temperature once you've done the subtraction and 3 here so 2 is going to be our final number of sig figs. So we have to round our 165 up to 170 grams. So she added 170 grams of water at 75 degrees Celsius to your 90 grams of water at 58 degrees Celsius and the consequence was that you ended up with 260 grams of water all at 69 degrees Celsius.


Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. And I am here today to share a quick and easy recipe for apple pie biscuits. And you just need a few ingredients. So you are going to need some frozen biscuits. You can use whatever brand you like, but I happen to like Pillsbury. You're going to need some butter, brown sugar, some cinnamon and nutmeg, some powdered sugar, some half and half, and some apple pie filling. Now this recipe is pretty versatile. If you prefer to use cherry filling or blueberry filling, that's absolutely fine. And I have a preference for a cast iron pan because it leaves the biscuits kind of with the crispy bottom. But if you don't have a cast iron pan, any casserole dish will do. One thing I wanted to mention is that you are going to need your frozen biscuits thawed out and at room temperature. So if you want to see how these delicious biscuits come together, stay tuned. So I let my biscuits thaw for about five hours. And so I have them in a buttered skillet. I have eight biscuits. You can use eight to 10 biscuits. However many will fit in your casserole dish. I have one stick of unsalted melted butter. And then in this bowl, I have some brown sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon. And I will make sure to link the recipe in the description box so that you guys can have it. So the first thing that I'm gonna do is dip the biscuits in butter on both sides. And then I'm gonna coat the biscuits in this brown sugar mixture right here.  Then I'm gonna take the rest of this brown sugar mixture, which is not a lot. And I'm just gonna sprinkle it over. Next, you're going to take your apple pie filling and you're just going to get it out. And as you can see, they're in pretty big slices. So you do kind of wanna cut these up a little bit. So I'm just going to use my kitchen shears and just kind of chop them up in the bowl. Nothing fancy. So here you go. And then I am just going to spoon the mixture over the biscuits. And this is what it looks like. Now I've got my oven preheating to 350 degrees. I'm going to pop this in the oven for about 45 minutes or so, or until the biscuits are golden brown. While our biscuits are in the oven, I'm going to make the icing. Very simple.  So this is finished. I'm gonna set this aside for a little bit and it'll thicken up. And I'm going to pour this on the biscuits when they come out of the oven. So here are the apple pie biscuits hot out of the oven. You can see it bubbling right there. So I did let these bake for about 45 minutes. I'm gonna let them cool for about 10 minutes. Then I'm going to add the icing. Then I'll take out a biscuit so you guys can see what it looks like. So here it is. As you can see, I added the icing right on top and it looks and smells so delicious. I have my husband here. Here is one of the biscuits that I took out and he is going to cut a piece so you guys can see what it looks like. This is what it looks like. So delicious. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel, I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time.


Welcome back to another FNA for new animators and this is part eight of the animation blocking series. And today we're going to talk about notes and chunks. That's right, notes and chunks. That is the topic of today's series. I'm going to combine two of those elements from the list. So we've covered planning animation, test your rig, create your post library, act up your play blast and last time it was using sound as reference. But I'm going to take a list of notes and work in chunks into one element for today. And I'm going to skip pops and arcs, body mechanics and avoid repetition, not because they're not important. But after this, one of the series I'm going to do is most common animation mistakes since the semester ended for animation mentor and Academy of Art. I noticed something that really occurs in every semester. They're always the same mistakes pops and arcs are obviously one of them. But one friend direction changes one axis, all kinds of things that I bring up in every semester. And I think it will be hopefully very helpful to do a series that really outlines and shows with demos what I mean by the mistakes or how to fix them because it comes up in every semester and body mechanics pops and arcs and avoiding repetition. All that is part of that. So I want to skip this right now and package that into the next series. So today list of notes and work in chunks. That is the focus of today's FNA. And it's actually quite timely because I had a couple emails from students and also workshop people where they have problems kind of adjusting their schedule and getting their work done and putting in enough time where it's really important shot wise and schedule wise and classes. And there are many things that you can do to get your schedule in order.  So planning out your animation is super important. We've covered that before having your tools ready. You can do your scripts and your body pickers, your library. There's all kinds of things that you can do to kind of prep properly with planning and reference and thumbnails and all that good stuff. But as you work, one of the things or two things right now that you can do to really get into a faster workflow is making a list of notes and working in chunks. Now the first one is a bit tricky because as you start animating your eye might not be critical enough or you might not see what's wrong. So you're going to rely on teachers or mentors or your co-workers or your co-animators, your friends and students. So something that I do at work when I have my shot is that I look at my shot and whatever really sticks out where I cringe or like, I got to address that first. That's the thing that is top on the list and then smaller things and into details and so on and so on and obviously things that the client wants to address. So hopefully when you get notes from someone, you're going to get them in a structured fashion. So by that I mean you're going to look at the overall impression of the shot first. If your shot tries to be funny, is it actually funny? Is the emotion clear or the acting choices clear? The main structure is that clear and coming across correctly. If not, you got to look at the broader points, your acting choices, your ideas, your staging, kind of the bigger things that you can address right away. Then on the more technical level, I will look at the bigger things first as in the root, then the chest, the head and then arms and legs or whatever you need to do first. But I would not spend a huge amount of time on fingers or specific facial points and pulling your corner here and adjusting your ear when your root is not working. If the general balance is not working, the weight is not working, then details are not going to matter because if you have your beautiful arc and you spend hours on that arm and then you move your root, well that is going to change your arm depending on the rig and then your arc is broken again. So I will look at a general tone and then overall body mechanics or root, chest, head and then arms and legs again depending on the priority. And once that is working, then you can get into hands and fingers and facial features and just more detailed stuff. And again, you're going to rely on other people at the beginning. So whoever you have that looks at your shot can give you those notes. But if you get multiple notes from multiple people, try to kind of group them into those aspects. So bigger picture first, is it sad if I want to do a sad shot? Is it actually sad or are people laughing at the shot? So once the emotion, the story points are clear and that is working, that's your top block. Then you're going to look at the bigger points. So if someone has a specific finger pose note, put that at the bottom and look at the bigger root, chest, head, arms and legs. Just the bigger, broader body mechanics notes for weight and weight shifts and balance and all that stuff. And then at the end you're going to put in your finger and facial and whatever detail notes. So hopefully you get those notes structured from a teacher or co-worker or your friend or whatever. Or if you get multiple notes from other people, it's up to you to then structure that into those bigger points towards the detailed points. So it is more structured. As time goes by, you will develop a better eye. You will be able to self critique your shots and then it's all about practice and repetition. And you'll be able to make those notes for yourself. For me, when I have my shots and I look at them at work, I look at, you know, that first play blast or whatever, you know, the name is in your software package. But for us it's an A blast actually. So I look at that and I go, ooh, that's, ah, and I have those cringe moments. So that to me is like, I got to fix this, this and this was, it stands out right away. So the shot just dies if I don't fix this. Once I have that, then I go into my other structure and I kind of fix what's needed. Obviously always thinking about what the client wants or whoever is in charge and that gives you the notes. So obviously address those notes first, but as a whole kind of keep an eye on those cringe worthy moments. So that to me is the notes section. Make a list and give you like a top three, a top five, a top 10, depending on how much time you have. So if you have only two more days, there's no need to do 50 notes and I'm going to address all of them. Like I got two days, I can maybe address three notes, three major points and maybe five smaller ones. So be very strategic in terms of what you're looking at, what needs to get fixed. And again, if you need help and ask other people to look at your shots and go, what stands out to you the most? And then you get all those points and then you package that into your top three, top five, top 10, whatever you want to do, depending on the time. Now, the second part is work in chunks. And I feel that's something that's slightly underused by students. I think it's kind of my observation. A lot of times I get notes or just feedback from students saying they're overwhelmed. They're overwhelmed with have so many notes or just the shot is too long. It's just too much to do and then I know where to start and what to do. So to explain that, I'm actually going to take a look at a shot that I saw online. So this is a shot that I saw a couple of days ago online on Twitter by Kristen Miller. Kristen Miller from Germany. And she works at Sony and did this awesome test with those new rigs that just came out. And you can see her work here on Vimeo. There's a really, really cool acting shot here. I'm going to post all that information in the description below. But let's take a look at her sit down test. So let's take a look at the shot here. She looks at the letter sits down and has that reaction at the end. So let's pretend that this is your shot. It's also an awesome shot out of it. So if you're looking at the shot, you can see that this could be a section. She walks up till here. This could be the section of sitting down. This could be the section of getting more comfortable.  Even then you can go into thought process and reaction. So you can break this up into many other steps. So if I bring up my counter here, you can see that from frame one here till maybe around here. Let's say frame 40. That is your chunk number one, my European one or your American one here.  So from here to here, that's your second chunk. Then it's till here until she has kind of that thought process here. This is your chunk number three. And then you can argue this whole ending can be number four. Or you can break this up into this whole section until here potentially where you have that thought process. And then that your end reaction. So this technically could be four and this could be five. So to me, this is something that is manageable. So I know that the next couple of days I'm only working on those steps, the way shifts and everything she has here. Then the next couple of days or however long it will take you. You can just concentrate on the sit down here and so on and so on. Now that's one way to do it. I kind of prefer those chunks where you can kind of look at your shot and divide them into beats or chunks again. What do you want to call? If you're comfortable with just cutting a section just working from whatever to whatever, you can go into 50 frame chunks or 100 frame chunks or 20 frame chunks. And depending on the complexity of the action. So it doesn't have to be beats. You can also just chunk it up into 50 or 100 or whatever frame blocks if that's easier for you. Now that's for something where the whole shot is important. So you want to attack everything. Then you're going to break that shot up into those beats and chunks or whatever sections that you have. Well, let's pretend this is an assignment for school and your assignment is a sit down. Let's go back to the shop. Technically your actual assignment is here. You want to show the weight shift, the sit down, the timing of the plop down and the settle. So when it comes down to schedule and you have that much time, then I would say concentrate just on this section. This is what you want to do because that is the assignment. That is the most important thing. Now if you have more time, then you can go backwards and animate the beginning. So now I have done this. This is fine. I'm going to work on this chunk now and this is just that beginning with the steps transitioning into the sit down. And then let's say you're really fast and still have time, then you can still do this as an ending that has more acting to it. So if you are at school and you have a specific assignment like a weight assignment or a sit down or a gear change or whatever you have, I would focus on that element first because that is the actual assignment. Anything that you have before and after that can plus the shot, which is cool is technically not as important as nailing the actual assignment. So for me in terms of schedule, I'll look at what is really important and look at that chunk first. Now within that element, you can break it up again into beats or specific notes that you got from teachers or coworkers or friends. And once that is done, then you can fan out into the beginning and the end. So depending on if you have time to get to everything. So have a list of notes. Either you make that list yourself or you rely on other people for notes. If those notes are scattered, make sure that you then group the list into the bigger story points, the bigger body mechanic points and then detailed points in terms of fingers and details and stuff like that. Once you have that, you can always eliminate some notes depending on the schedule that you have. So what are the most important points in that list? And or you look at those points and you look at the chunks of the shot. So again, if you have a walk-in, a sit-down and then a reaction, look at, hmm, the sit-down is the actual assignment. What kind of notes did I get for that chunk? Okay, let me prioritize those three points just for that chunk. Once that is done, you look at, hmm, but I like that beginning. I have time. Let me add that beginning. What notes do I have for that beginning? Okay, put that in and so on and so on. So making lists and working in chunks to me is a huge time saver at work. I can imagine or hopefully it is also a time saver for you. So if that's something that you've done already and you feel like, yeah, that actually really helps me and you have more tips as always. Comments are super appreciated so that you can let other people know other animators that struggle. What is your method or you've done this and it works. Maybe you've done this and tweaked it. As always, replies, comments, concerns, anything you have regarding this topic will be super appreciated by other animators. And that's it for now. So as always, thank you for watching until the very end. Like and subscribe. You know the deal. It helps me in those vanity metrics, but it helps me to catch the interest and actually I've seen a lot of subscribers. They're probably coming from Sir Wait's clip with the recommendation. Thank you Sir Wait. That is super, super appreciated. So welcome to all the new subscribers and that's it from me. I will see you next week.


Designing assessments so that students can prepare personalised submissions either at an individual or group level can help them adhere to good academic integrity practices. Students can be more invested in an assessment if they are preparing a personalised submission for it. Technology can help assign and manage personalised assessments for small groups of students and even students individually. Let's look at how you might do this by taking DCU's virtual learning environment loop as an example. We're going to use three different features of loop to enable the provision of personalised assessments, groups, group choice and access restriction. As the lecturer I'm going to make available a few different topics for a group-based assessment. I want students to individually self-select a topic and in doing so be placed in a group with others who will also have chosen that topic. The group will then need to work together to submit the assessment. First let's create a group for each of the assessment topics. On your loop course page navigate to the administration panel, click users and then groups. If you had a large number of groups you could list them all in a CSV file and then use the import groups feature to upload them and automatically create them. But we'll create some from scratch and we can do that by clicking create group. Use the group name and group description fields to give a title for your group and an explanation. Click save changes when ready. The group has been created and has zero members. Let's add a few more empty groups by following the same process. After the groups have been set up, return to the loop course page, click turn editing on, add an activity or resource and select group choice. Give the activity a title and a description using the name and description fields. I'm not going to allow students to join more than one group so I'm going to leave the first check box blank. In the publish results drop-down menu there are a few options for students to see the results of the group choice. Do not publish results, show results to students after they answer, show results to students only after the choice is closed and always show results to students. I'm going to select always show results. In the privacy of results drop-down menu I'm going to publish all of the results including student name and choice because I want group members to know one another and contact each other to work on the assessment together. I'm not going to allow students to update their choice and I'm not going to show a column for all the unanswered students. I am going to enable limitations on each choice because I want to limit the size of each group. In the general limitation field enter a limit for each group. Click apply to all groups. In the groups area we need to add the groups that we have created to this group choice activity. I click into the available groups panel and then select all by clicking control A on my windows keyboard then click add group and the groups appear in the selected groups panel. There are also options to restrict the answering of the group choice to a certain period but I'm going to skip these settings and move to the activity completion area. I want students to be deemed to have completed this activity when they both view the activity and when they also make a choice. Click save and return to course when finished. Now let's set up the assessment itself on the loop course page. Click turn editing on. Then click add an activity or resource and select assignment. Use the name and description fields to give a title for the assessment and information as to what it is about. Configure other key settings like availability, submission types, feedback types and so on. I want students to submit these personalized assessments in the groups that they have self-selected. So in the group submission settings set students submit in groups to yes. Set require group to make submission to yes as well. This means that students must be in a group on loop in order to submit the assessment. Scroll down to the restrict access area. I want to apply a restriction so that students will not be able to access the assignment at all unless they have completed the group choice activity previously and self-selected a group for this assessment. Click add restriction and from the list of available restriction types choose activity completion. Now let's define the condition for access restriction. I only want students who have completed the group choice activity to have access to this assignment. So therefore students must match the following condition that the activity choose your group for this assessment must be marked complete. Ticking the I symbol next to the condition so that a stroke appears through it means that this assignment will be totally invisible to a student until they meet this condition. Leaving the I symbol unticked means that the assignment will be visible to students but grade out and they won't be able to click into it until they meet this condition. I'm going to choose to leave it this way because I want students to see that they can't access their assignment until they complete their group choice activity. Click save and return to course when finished. Now let's look at things from the student point of view. The student accesses their loop course page as normal and sees that their assignment activity is grayed out. The short message next to it reads restricted not available unless the activity choose your group for this assessment is marked complete. So the student knows they first need to complete the group choice activity before they can get a look at their assessment. They click on the group choice and are presented with a list of available groups as well as the current number of members in each group and the total capacity for each group. Clicking the show descriptions button makes the description of each group available too. The student ticks the radio button next to the group they want and then clicks save my choice. On the next screen they can see their choice has been saved and by clicking show group members they can see who else chose the same group. These are the people they now need to work with. Returning to the loop course page we can see that the assignment has now become available to the student because they have completed the group choice activity but first they need to reach out to their fellow group members and they can do that using loops messaging features. When it comes time to submit the assessment one student in the group needs to submit the work and a submission is recorded on loop for each of the members of the group. This is because the group submission settings were configured by the lecturer when setting up the assignment. Looking at the assignment now from the lecturer's point of view we can see how the group submission works by clicking into the assignment and clicking view all submissions. In this grading table we can see that some students were unable to submit their assessment because they were never placed in a group and we can see that the students that did place themselves in a group each have a copy of their submitted work attached to their name even though just one student in the group performed the action of submitting on loop. You can either choose to give each student in the group the same grade or grade them individually. This can be done from within this grading screen. Click the grade button next to a student. Having read and annotated their work on the left hand pane I have collapsed that so that I can access the grading screen and use a rubric that I have already predetermined. Under the feedback comments text box there is an option to apply these grades to everyone in the group or just to this student who is currently being graded. I'm going to choose yes and let the grades and feedback be applied to everyone in the group. Click save changes and then okay to acknowledge the success message. Click view all submissions to return to the grading table. Now we can see that each member of the group has received the same grade for the work that has just been graded. Allowing students to complete personalized assessments at a group or individual level can help them avoid breaches of academic integrity and the features of loop that provide for groups and group self-selection are very useful in managing this process.


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Hey everybody, I'm Greg Sosman and MLB opening day. He's just hours away to break down the DFS sleep with us. I'm joined by Jim Sonnis of FanDuel.com. Jim, welcome back. Finally, man, like we get to talk some MLB. It's been a long winter, like a lot of snow, a lot of annoying stuff. You know, it's been a downtime for sports. So I'm so ready for this, Greg. I excited to talk baseball. How are you doing?  I am just tired. I'm run down. Break over, Jim. Yeah, no, it's fully over. This week has been kind of crazy, but like in a good way. You know, like when you're like at that point where you're like really busy, but it's like a good busy. I don't know if that's like relatable, but like that's where I'm at right now. Like a really good busy, I think is where I'm at. Good. Excellent. Awesome. All right. Let's start the DFS sleep for Thursday. Top pitcher on the board, on any board, on any day is always Max Scherzer. Does it make sense to pay up for Scherzer on opening day? Yeah, I really think it does because you do have a lot of really good options, but among those really good options to me, I think that Scherzer is kind of, you know, the top guy that I want to target for both cash games and for tournaments, and he's facing the Mets and the Mets have a good lineup that is actually better this year than it was last year with the additions that they have made. So I don't actively target the Mets. I don't want to for 2019, but when it's Max Scherzer pitching at home in cold weather, which is good for pitching, I want to use Max Scherzer.  On top of that, Max Scherzer was insane this spring and spring numbers do matter for pitchers, specifically strikeout rates. And Scherzer went nuts there, 34 strikeouts, over 26 and 2 thirds innings this spring. So his funnel tune up, seven innings, 12 strikeouts, no concerns over a short leash. So I think the matchup here is not one I want to actively target, but when it's Max Scherzer on the bump, I don't really care who he's facing. He's going to be the top pitcher in my mind. He always is. And if you are willing to pay the price, seemingly he'll never let you down. Scherzer is the best pitcher in baseball, taking the mantle away from Clayton Kershaw and makes for a very safe start on tomorrow's slate. Up next, we will go to Houston where Justin Verlander gets that big contract extension and now starts on opening day against the Rays. Obviously a matchup you're going to like. Oh, absolutely. And Verlander earned that contract extension. Like he pitched so well last year. And I think when you look at him on Thursday's slate, he is more so a tournament play, whereas Scherzer is in play for both cash games and tournaments. And the main reason I prefer Scherzer in cash is because he is at home, whereas Verlander is on the road. But for tournaments, Verlander's ceiling is really good. Like you said, he was good all last year, earned that money. But over his final eight starts of last year, there was an extra little change up here for Verlander because he started throwing his curve ball more often. It was a nasty pitch for him all year. Now where the final eight starts, he really emphasized that pitch and it led to amazing results. A 2.28 skill interactive ERA with a 38% strikeout rate. Fees facing the Rates. And the Rates are not a bad offense by any means, but their active roster, based on their 2018 numbers, ranked ninth in the league in strikeout rate, the ninth highest strikeout rate in baseball. So they do add a bit of an extra ceiling to opposing starters. So to me, when I look at this opening day slate, I think that Scherzer is the guy I want for cash games. And then Verlander and Scherzer, the two guys I want for tournaments. I like Blake's now. I like Jacob DeGrom and Aaron Nolan is fun too. But when I look at this top end, to me I think that Scherzer and Verlander stand out most. Verlander could go a little bit more overlooked than Scherzer. So for tournaments, he has a lot of appeal for me.  I don't know how many people realize that he struck out that many players. And hey, Verlander seems to get better with age and makes a lot of sense on opening day against the Rates. One name that you just left off when you were giving out DeGrom and Nolan and Verlander and Scherzer was Masahiro Tanaka, who faces what could be the worst team in Major League Baseball and that's the Orioles. Easy answer, you want to play them. Yeah, and I generally, Greg, am not a proponent of targeting players just because they have a good matchup. And that worries me a lot of the time. But I think with Tanaka, there are a lot of other things working in his favor that make this something that's more than just a matchup-based play. Last year he upped his splitter usage to the highest it has been for his entire career for a full season and it actually went up even higher after he came back from the disabled list in July. Over his final 15 starts, Tanaka had a 3.21 skill-interactive ERA. His strikeout rate went up to 26% and he didn't walk many guys. Like Tanaka was just a really good pitcher over that stretch run after he came back from that injury. Now the thing to be cautious with, with guys who use a splitter quite a bit is that sometimes it can take them some time in the season to get a feel for that pitch. So you may wanna be cautious with them at the onset of the season. So Tanaka, I think I do put more weight into what he did this spring. But what he did this spring was nasty. He had a 34% strikeout rate in the spring. So I don't think that splitter is an issue. It seems like he's gotta feel for it. I love that. And the Orioles, like you said, they're not great pop. They're probably gonna be terrible. Their active roster had the third highest strikeout rate in 2018 against right-handed pitching. And it's the highest strikeout rate for an opponent of any of the upper tier arms for this main slate. So I think that Tanaka, if you look at the ego beyond the ACEs, beyond Verlander and Scherzer, he's probably going to be the most popular mid-range pitcher at $9,400. But with this matchup and with how good he was last year, how good he has looked this spring, I'm okay with that. Mousler or Tanaka is a very logical play. I think that if you do want to go with a cash game play and spend down from Scherzer, not something I would do in cash games, but I think that if you do, you do want to do so, Tanaka makes a lot of sense and he has a good play for tournaments as well. He's a very good play for the tournaments that you'll have on Thursday on opening day. Tanaka, one of those middle of the road pitchers that is before a nicely matchup is right and has a little history on opening day as well, pitch well this spring too. So lots of like when it comes to Tanaka. Let's move on to some of the stacks, particularly with the hitters. And we'll start where we left off with the New York Yankees and Tanaka. If you're looking at some of the hitters to stack, one that comes to mind is Luke Roy. He's very cheap on Fandal. He's gonna start at the designated hitter position. You know, Roy's always a threat for a home run. Yeah, I think the Yankees are on paper the best matchup we've got for this opening day slate because they're facing Andrew Cashner and Cashner is not really what you would think of for an opening day starter. For the Orioles here, last year he had a 5.33 skill interactive ERA, just a 15% strikeout rate as well. And both those numbers are the worst among starters for this opening day main slate. Back in the past, Andrew Cashner was able to get around that lowest strikeout rate because he kept batters in the ground, got a lot of ground balls and navigated around it that way. But last year, that was not the case. His ground ball rate went down to 40%. So I think that on paper, the Yankees check every box you want for stacking. The one concern I would have is that they will be very popular and baseball is a high variant sport. So I try to deviate from the most popular stack when I can for tournaments. But for cash games, the Yankees are a great option. You mentioned Luke Voight. He is a great hitter, no matter if he's facing a righty or a lefty. And I think you look back to Monday when they had most of their entire strutting roster out there, he was batting fourth in that lineup. So Voight's probably gonna bat fourth or fifth for a loaded lineup and a great matchup. So Luke Voight makes a ton of sense. Greg Byrd, the other guy in that first base battle, probably gonna play first base on Thursday. He is $2,300 cashner, terrible against lefties. Brett Gardner is a value option too. So you got some value options. You got your studs here at the Yankees. So I think it's okay to fade them in tournaments if you want. But for cash games, my hitters would start with New York. We'll start with New York. The matchup's too good. Andrew Cashner's too bad. You gotta love Luke Voight and the Yankees in this matchup here on Thursday. Another stack that Jim's interested in is the Chicago Cubs. In particular, Chris Bryant. The Cubs facing off against the Rangers who also aren't exactly starting a stud on opening day. Why else do you like Chris Bryant? Yeah, I mean, I like Mike Miner in a lot of ways. Like I think he's a good pitcher. The problem is, like you said, not really what you expect on opening day. And Mike Miner last year, too, his credit made some really good changes. He was getting clobbered by right-handed batters. So started to throw his change up a bit more. And that did lead to really good results from July onward when he emphasized that change up more. But even when we look from July on, right-handed batters still had just a 19% strikeout rate against him and a 48% fly ball rate. Those are numbers that can lead to home runs pretty quickly. So while I like Mike Miner and want to credit him for the strides he made last year, I do still think this is a stack we can target here for the Cubs. The Cubs are gaining a DH as they go to an American League Park. They're in a great environment for hitting in a very warm park when not a lot of parks on this opening day slayed our warm and, like I said, they do gain the DH and face Mike Miner, who's not quite on the same tier as a lot of the starters for opening day. As far as Chris Bryant goes, I think the appeal here should be pretty obvious. Last year before he got hurt, he was playing really well. Just a 17% strikeout rate, his hard hit rate in his fly ball rate was both above 40%, but then the injuries piled up and things started to tail off for Bryant after that. So he's got a full offseason to rest up now down to $3,800 on FanDuel, playing a great park with the platoon advantage. I want to buy in on Chris Bryant while I can. Got some good value options here between David Bodie, you got Wilson Contreras, Alberto Amora Jr. as well. So the Cubs, I think a team you can go to both for studs and for value and a team that I do want to target in that awesome environment down in Texas. It's a great hitter spot and that's why you want to go with a better hitting team. The Chicago Cubs and it's Chris Bryant and it's a whole lot of other Cubs.  One last stack to get to before we hit the break and that's with the St. Louis Cardinals who should be in a high scoring affair in Milwaukee Miller Park against the Brewer's and one Cardinal that stands out. He's Matt Carpenter. Carp was brutal in April last year and in March as well. Why is this year gonna be different? I was very aware that he was brutal. Lost a lot of money on him in DFS and had a lot of season long teams that looked pretty bad with Matt Carpenter out there, but I think could get started in a good way on Thursday against Julia Chassine and the Brewer's. And I last year did not stack against the Brewer's very often but I think that there are four things working in the Cardinals' favor for this one. The first one is that Chassine himself is, you know, not, he's kind of like Mike Minor where he's not bad, but he's not quite in the same tier as other guys starting on opening day. The second thing is the Brewer's bullpen is not what it was last year. Corey Kinable's not gonna be available for this one. Jeremy Jeffress is out. So I avoided the Brewer's in general last year from a stacking perspective, but I don't think you have to as much this year even though Josh Hader is still there. This game is also indoors. That's awesome for St. Louis because it's going to be warmer than what we'll see in New York, in Minnesota, other places we could look to for stacking. That helps Matt Carpenter and the Cardinals as well. And I got a guy named Paul Goldschmidt in the middle of that lineup. That's awesome for Goldschmidt, but I think it also gives a boost to Marcello Zuna, all the guys in this lineup, just because it gives them additional opportunities for run-scored and RBI's and should extend the game too, having a guy like Goldie in the middle of that lineup. So Matt Carpenter can be a bit risky with Josh Hader lurking the bullpen, but everyone's risky with Josh Hader in the bullpen. But the good thing here for the Cardinals that if they get a lead early against Jolie Chassine, the Brewer's may not waste Hader against this lineup. So I think that Matt Carpenter's a stud I want to prioritize here. Yadir Molina's a bit cheaper at 28, and he's got some good power. Got Colton Wong at Dexter Fowler if you want to take advantage of what Chassine did against lefties last year. So got some options here. I'm not opposed to Goldschmidt and Ozone and De Jong, but I think that guys like Carpenter really do stick out in this matchup. Absolutely, in Miller Park, where it's going to be warm because you're indoors, these players are gonna feel like they're in Arizona and Florida again. Just hitting bombs away. It should be very, very nice, unlike in the Bronx where it probably won't be. We'll take a break. We'll give you the stacks, the superstarters you want to play. And now when we come back, we'll give you the undervalued players. Guys, you may not be thinking about where they'll make good starts on opening day. Stick around. More from Jim Sanez next on the FanDuel Hurry Up. Back with you on the FanDuel Hurry Up, Greg Suspin, Jim Sanez hanging out. And like we said, we gave you the superstarters you need to get in your lineup. Now let's go under the radar. And we begin with a starting pitcher, and that's Luis Castillo. He wasn't under the radar last season coming into the year as he was projected to break out by many experts. He didn't until the second half where things got a little bit better. The inconsistency remains for Luis Castillo. Why do you think Jim will see him be a bit more consistent, at least on opening day? Yeah, inconsistency is not a bad thing for DFS. You can predict when the good side of that inconsistency will come through. And I think that for Castillo last year, we kind of saw what can happen when that good stuff comes out. And with him, it's $7,600 for opening day. I think that he is appealing. And now normally I would be wary of this guy, tapping as being under the radar because if he is the best value coach, I think he is, people could turn that way as they try to pay up for guys like Aaron Judge and like Giancarlo Stanton. But there is a lot of value hitter on this slate and with guys like Verlander, Scherzer, Snell, DeGrom all available, I don't think people will be paying down a pitcher all that often. I think that Castillo will still be low owned for this slate and he stays in the pirates. They are not a high strikeout team, but they're also not the most potent lineup. That should help out for the consistency for Castillo. And I think that last year, when he got better in the second half, as you mentioned, it was partly because he started to throw his change up more often. So it was a tangible change for Castillo that led to the improvements. Overest Vinyl 9 starts using that change up more often. Castillo to 3.34 skill interactive VRA with a 26% strikeout rate and a key 6% walk rate. Cutting down those walks was a big thing for Castillo in that second half run. So I expect him to have a good year overall given what he learned as the season went along last year. And I think that could start on opening day in a lower temperature environment facing the pirates, not the best offense in the world. So Castillo to me, I think he's a pretty good salary saving option at $7,600 who may not be as popular as he would be on other slates. Price is not going to be too high and he's not going to be out there on many teams and tournaments. But Luis Castillo, if you hit it right, would pay off in a major, major way. Consider him, but then don't actually start him. Up next here on the hurry, one last picture to get to. It's one I'm a little bit more excited about and you know, Jim is as well. It's Jose Berrios, and I'll let you do the accent properly. But Berrios placing off against the Indians not exactly the lineup you want to face. You'd think now that Francisco Lindor has sprained his ankle again, Jose Ramirez, a legit question mark going into this game, their offense isn't what it was. Yeah, I think when you look at this matchup, people are going to see Cleveland and be like, oh man, I'm not going to target this offense because they were so good in 2018 and they were so good in 2018. And I never used pictures who were facing them. But it's not just Francisco Lindor. It's not just Jose Ramirez. It's Michael Brantley. It's Jason Kipnis. Those guys are not going to be on this roster for opening day either. And even if Ramirez is there, it's still going to be a much lesser team than it was in 2018. Berrios is kind of like Castillo, where he's a guy where he is very high variance. He can have really bad starts sometimes, but we also saw last year that he is a workhorse who can pitch deep into games and can get you really big point totals when he hits the plus side of that variance. He is $8,900. I think that ceiling is pretty good. He's also a good discount from the other arms, like Tanaka, like Scherzer, and like Verlan. Last year, I think that Berrios had this issue where in May he didn't really trust his curveball, that kind of Bugs Bunny type pitch that he has, didn't really trust it. But once he got a feel for that, from that point on, he had a 27% strikeout rate for the rest of the year, despite having another funk in August. So Berrios, I think the upside here is really good. I don't think anybody will use him because if they look back at 2018 stats, Cleveland's not an offense you want to target, but given the injuries, given the departures they had this all season, they're a team I'm totally okay going against with a pitcher and I think that Berrios makes a lot of sense doing so at $8,900. You can see the fact below me, Berrios, nine shutout innings in his first start last year. As Jim said, he goes deep into games and he's successful at it. Hopefully that is the case on opening day against Cleveland. We know Jim's hoping for it. Some of the undervalued hitters on this slate begins in Texas and that is with Red Dead Odor and I'm glad we bring up Odor here because it's facing off against the John Lester that was just awful in the spring and a lot of his success last year seems to be a mirage. What makes you like Odor on opening day? Literally everything you said, Greg. I think that you kind of hit all the marks there. I like a lot of this matchup here and I would be totally okay stacking the Rangers here if they didn't have like nine left-handed batters in their lineup. John Lester is not great against lefties which is part of the reason we can go to a guy like Ruggedo Odor here. Just kind of kills the buzz a little bit from a full stacking perspective. But Lester last year, 4.57 skill interactive ERA which to me says that ERA, a little bit flukey, just a 19.6% strikeout rate for Lester and Ruggedo Odor can bang left-handed pitching. He had a 45% hard hit rate against lefties last year, a 39% fly ball rate and his strikeout rate did go up but it was still just 23% which is not all that bad for a guy who does strike out a little bit. And the other thing you have to love about Odor specifically against Lester is that he can swipe a bag. Lester, not the best I would say at holding guys on base at first base. So Odor can add some upside with his bat. He can add some upside with his legs as well. So if you find guys in the Rangers who can hit left-handed pitching despite being left-handed, I think you should go with them because Lester was not good overall last year from an advanced metrics perspective, struggled against lefties too. So Odor's in play, Joey Gallo's in play, stacked them with the Gallic Elvis Andrus and maybe she ensued Chu for another lefty too, could get a pretty contrarian stack as people try to avoid those lefty and lefty matchups. Ruggedo Odor, I really like him coming into this season and I think on opening day against John Lester I think you're gonna get a little small taste of how good he could be. I really like him tomorrow in DFS. Moving on, we get to a Colorado Rockies player despite the Rockies not playing in Coors Field and that's David Dahl in Miami. Why Dahl over some of the other Rockies players? It's not even that they're not even in Coors. Like they're in Miami, which is like the polar opposite of Coors from a park factor perspective. So that's definitely a downside but I think you can go with any of the Rockies lefties here.  I would not talk you out of Ryan McMahon. Because he is a value option left-handed ban I think he should be in there on opening day as well. So not to say not to use them but I think that my favorite one of these lefties is going to be David Dahl. He's facing Jose Urenia and Urenia has had flashes of being really good but even when he's been good Urenia has struggled against left-handed banners. Last year he tried to combat that by throwing more change ups and even after he did so his straight get rate against lefties which is 16%, he allowed a 38% hard hit rate and a 41% fly ball right. Now that doesn't sound, it's not as bad when you're in Marlins Park and getting to benefit from how good that park is but Marlins Park is also not as big of an advantage this time of year when it's colder elsewhere. I think that the park really becomes bad when it gets warm elsewhere you can get the better advantages for hitting in those other parks. David Dahl was tremendous last year against right-handed pitching. He had a 38% hard hit rate, 36% fly ball right. And I don't think he'll get much attention just because they are on the road but Dahl, good hitter no matter what the environment may be facing a pitcher struggles against lefties. So I think you can go with any of the lefties for the Rockies here. They should all be pretty low owned but I think that Dahl stands out to me if you're willing to pay a little bit then Ryan McMahon is a good value play as well. Even though of course Field and Marlins Park are two completely different stadiums Rockies are always intriguing whether it's Ryan McMahon as you mentioned David Dahl or somebody else I'll let you say it again Jim. Jose who? Jose Urena. There it is. Urena, I cannot do it, you can do it. Facing him, it's a good match for some of these Rockies players so consider getting him in there. Now up next we go to the White Sox. We go with Yoan Moncada facing off against Brad Keller and the Royals. The good news is Moncada will probably have trouble striking out against Keller who doesn't really strike anybody out. That news is he'll find a way. He will always find a way, Greg. There is always a way for Yoan Moncada to strike out but I think for me in DFS I like Yoan Moncada because he has upside. He can steal bags, he can hit home runs and that's always a good thing but I have this hard and fast rule where I refuse to use Yoan Moncada against a right handed pitcher who can get strikeouts. I won't use him against lefties no matter what the situation but against righties I will not use them if they can get strikeouts but as you said Brad Keller not exactly the highest strikeout guy. He made 20 starts last year for the Royals in those 20 starts just an 18% strikeout rate against lefties and a 13% walk rate. Now walks can be annoying for DFS because it's fewer balls in play, fewer opportunities for doubles but for a guy like Moncada who can steal a base it's a chance to get him on first base and to potentially get you those six points for a steal on Fandall. So I think that for me this is one of those flowcharkings for Yoan Moncada where is he facing a high strikeout guy? No, so I think you can use him here for sure he's got that monster upside and I think that the White Sox in general not a bad team to check out here Eloy Jimenez doesn't strike out against anyone pretty much so I think that he's interesting too as he was added to the Fandall player pool today so you can go with the White Sox youngsters have a little bit of fun there with Yoan Moncada, go with Eloy Jimenez and I think that this is a good time to do so. The White Sox in general team I do not use it against high strikeout pitchers but now they've got Jimenez there they got a fun little team and Moncada could be one of the guys who benefits in a plus matchup on Thursday. Matchup is fun and it's a plus like you said Yoan Moncada, well I think many people are kind of expecting a breakout from this year could get started nice and early against Kansas City on opening day so consider playing him and getting him in there. Up next we move on and we get to Hunter Renfrow and the thing with Renfrow is Howard is there and everybody knows that there are concerns in season long leagues about his playing time but he's expected to be in the lineup on opening day which means he has a good of a shot as somebody at hitting home run as well, anybody. Right and I think that that's the thing with Renfrow is I couldn't get him in season long because I was worried about the playing time but for DFS it doesn't matter if he's playing on Thursday you can use him on Thursday and he's facing Madison Baumgartner and Baumgartner has this big name appeal where he's always been this really good pitcher but last year kind of struggled overall so I was watching him a lot this spring didn't really seem to be fully there for Mad Bum and he faced 100 batters this spring and his strikeout rate was just 20%. He didn't walk a lot of guys but what that also means is he's allowing a lot of balls in play and he got punished on those balls in play in the spring and again, not a lot of strikeouts which can help a guy like Renfrow unlock that massive power. Last year against lefties a 47% hard hit rate and a 48% fly ball rate, probably about in fifth and batting fifth to the pod race is different this year than it was last year because Manny Machado is there which gets an extra guy in base in front of Renfrow and Will Myers is at least for now, healthy. So those are two really good things for a Gallic Hunter Renfrow coming into this year. I think you could justify stacking this pod race team using Machado, using Myers, using whichever other righties they plug in there and trying to see if Madison Baumgartner can rebound from the struggles he had this spring. It's very possible he will. You know, he's a veteran maybe he was just tinkering around during the spring trying to get a feel for other things and that's very possible. But in DFS, I am okay taking that risk and with that risk comes monster upside for a Gallic Renfrow and for the rest of the Padres lineup as well. So yes, it can be risky to stack against Baumgartner in DFS but I think the upsides for that are very much worth it. The upside is, well, it's tantalizing when it comes to Hunter Renfrow and if you just hold one against Bummy, as you said, is not near the picture that he was. Well, it wasn't gonna go a long way. I like Hunter Renfrow as a very sneaky start and daily fantasy on opening day. That's gonna do it for us. You're on the fan bill hurry up. This has been a blast. I will be joined on Friday by Jim to go over the Friday slate. No day games Friday. What gives Jim? I don't know, man. I always get pumped for like the early season day games but they're depriving us of that on Friday. So all the word with Rob Manfred and see what we can do about that. Sure. Enough planning for these rainouts. Give us more baseball. That's what we want. We'll get it on Friday with Jim. Tomorrow on the show, we'll do some March Madness and some NBA. So enjoy that. Until then, for Jim Sonis, I'm Greg Sushman. Thanks so much for watching the fan bill hurry up and we'll see you back here tomorrow.


Okay guys so I am back with another Destiny video and today I give you guys my recommendations of what you should spend your Legendary Marks on come the 23rd of May 2017 but before we get into the video if you guys want to be with a chance of winning my weekly giveaway either a Resurrectionist emblem or a Destiny 2 Bear Code simply drop a like and comment down below details are on screen now okay so getting straight into the video and today I give you guys my recommendations of what you should buy this week and straight away there's just basically nothing here the Crucible Quartermaster I mean the event horizons not too bad in fact it's actually pretty good we've got any short gaze perfectionist or underdog about quick draw or casket mag and hidden hand so that's a decent weapon but everything else here is just shocking it really is there's nothing here in my opinion worth you spending your marks on just not my opinion anyway so what we're gonna do now guys is we're gonna skip to Vanguard okay guys so we're at the Vanguard Quartermaster and again nothing that great this week and we've got a feeling guys it's gonna be one of them bad weeks I mean the best weapon here is probably either the Parthenon Shot or the Angels Advocate nothing though in my opinion here is a must buy I mean on the Parthenon Shot we've got Counterbalance which is great and we've got Outlaw which is also great but Brace Frame or Rifle Bar to be honest this is probably the best weapon here I mean you wouldn't want to use Brace Frame on this because it lowers magazine size down to about 21 but then you need stability for this to be a two Brace headshot kill because if you miss one shot it won't kill your opponent so using Brace Frame would make sense with Counterbalance but then you've got Rifle Barrel as well so yeah it just don't waste your marks people may just save them and prepare for a better role next week because that's when the best role is coming you mark my words but yes guys don't even bother don't bother okay so the Angels Advocate this in my opinion is a decent scout I've actually got a great role of this and it tears things apart within PvP here we have Firefly Perfect Balance or Armour Piercing Rounds with the life support or Hughes Next to be honest I'd probably have this for a PvE role Firefly Armour Piercing Rounds and life support that isn't too bad it seriously ain't but are you really scared for the amount on offer in this game is unbelievable but other than that guys there's nothing here there's nothing here so we're gonna skip to dead orbit okay guys so we're at dead orbit and to be honest nothing again nothing again I mean I almost got my hopes up with a keystone but it's got no stability and I've brought this with no stability before and it just it's just uncontrollable with its balance and it puts you off this thing definitely needs stability but other than that it's great I mean we've got extended mag or outlaw in hand but it does guys it seriously does need stability so don't waste your marks on it as you will regret it other than that there's nothing great this rocket launcher could have been amazing but it ain't got tripod if it had tripod would have been a must buy seriously would have but it hasn't so yeah save your marks again and that's it people and there's nothing here there's nothing here at all I mean the extremophiles are good weapon but it needs stability as well this one's got rangefinder hammer forged and extended mag I mean the range on this thing would be ridiculous we've got a bit of stability here with rangefinder I mean it probably ain't the worst weapon in the world but in my opinion don't even bother people don't even bother actually you know actually you know extended mag rodeo and rangefinder could work but at close range only I mean like I've got one of these which has got a lot of stability and it's actually quite decent that range so yeah but that weapon there that is a close range weapon without a doubt there's no stability anyway okay so we're gonna skip to future war court and see if they have anything decent to offer this week okay so future war court this week and to be honest ain't nothing as a must buy right here but if there's one weapon I tell you guys to spend your marks on it would be this wounded right here and the wounded is a great weapon for PVPs underrated and not many people use it but with roles like this I mean it would tear faces off I mean we've got a decent sight in MD reflex we've got any high caliber rounds snapshot outlaw perfect balance and hidden hand so if you to sit back as you should do this get rifle in PVP use hidden hand outlaw and high caliber rounds so this thing will absolutely murder things it will it will it seriously well I mean my role I've got ain't as good as this and it's a great great weapon so if she's gonna spend your marks on anything this week so far that wounded isn't too bad but other than that there's nothing that great here I mean the waltz needs stability I mean we've got counter alice yes but we've got no other stability perk and this thing seriously needs it I mean it's all over the place it really is but yeah nothing great here guys to be honest nothing at all but yes guys what we do now is we will skip to new monarchy and hopefully they have something there to offer us okay guys so we're at new monarchy and again guys nothing that great here nothing that great here whatsoever and we've got this assemble to assembly to sorry on this we have on its hidden hand perfect balance and extending bag I think extending bag takes up to about 77 bullets but it does really need serious stability as well I mean we've got perfect balance but I don't think that quite cuts it for this weapon but hidden hand it as well so that close range this would be unstoppable but trying to hit anybody at a speeding distance you ain't got a chance you really ain't and what else we got here I mean there's nothing that great I mean the deep position seven isn't too bad on this we've got ambush we've got any quick draw or high caliber rounds we've got small ball or triple tap with hidden hand so that's a quite decent sniper not the worst but do you really need a sniper rifle the amount I've been on offer it's crazy but other than that guys there's nothing that great right here I would say this three well three is okay but the range as standard is so bad it's unbelievable we have that range finder and hammer force but yeah it's a whole arc type of this actual hand cannon I think it's completely pointless within this game especially when you can get handcannons like the ISLune and the Panhandjord it's just completely pointless but guys that is it for another video nothing that great here this week to be honest at all probably the wound is the best weapon so far but guys hope you enjoyed the video do smash that like button I do appreciate the support subscribe for destiny if you're new around here hit that bow button next that subscribe button if you want to miss a video of mine because you will receive email notifications and I will as always guys see you on that next one