Thank you for checking out this unboxing video. This is for the July snack who box which is always a good time treats from Japan and Yeah, so Usually a big fan of this one. I Usually try and get to it as fast as possible. So I apologize that I didn't get to this faster I've actually had this for over a week. Maybe even close to two weeks. It's just I've been kind of busy The other thing is if I start to look like I'm getting a little Glistening it's because it's a little warm at the moment because I always have to turn the air conditioning off when I do these videos Because there's our AC area right there Otherwise it'd be too much noise too much noise in the video and I don't want to screw up the audio quality for you guys Sorry So yeah, so let's let's get in this July one and the theme is kuma moto which has a cool little cute panda and And Let me see I'm not gonna read all the little like text in the beginning So if you want to pause on that and read it feel free to do so I will do the reading of the information on the snacks as I do the snacks. There's some good-looking stuff I'll let you know if it's part of the themed portion of the of the box Or if it's one of the popular snacks that are listed on the side here So and then I'll show you this afterwards. All right, let's open this up Love me some snack you I think was it the last box or the box before that it was like one of the best I thought that I've gotten This is what it looks like in there some good-looking things So let me get into it. Oh I need to grab my water real quick Because I definitely need to take drinks of water. I Had just recorded a video prior to this so my throat's already a little Parched okay, here we go grabbing this one premium sweets This one nothing on the back really this would be one of the kumamon premium assortment Snacks it looks like there's three different types you can have kuma moto exclusive cookies There are three types of cookies sweet cheese butter Okay, milk chocolate crunch and pastry puff chocolate sandwich Which one is your favorite? So I think this is the milk chocolate crunch This looks like it's probably gonna be more like straight up. It basically looks like like Chocolate and rice crispies and a bar kind of so I'm not gonna try that one This one must be the cheese one Yeah, the the sweet cheese butter I feel like I should do this one because it's more weird Interesting. Where's the other one? Oh, and then this one this one is the Pace pastry puff chocolate sandwich, which this one looks like it's probably amazing I had something we had something kind of like this in a recent snack box So go back and check those because it's basically like pieces of pie crust that are like Sugared have like large granules of sugar on it with chocolate in the middle and I guarantee this tastes awesome I bet this one tastes pretty good. Don't know about this one So we're gonna go ahead and do this one because it's the most interesting and that's what I want people to see in these videos Is the stuff that's most interesting. So yes, once again sweet cheese butter Let's uh, yeah Little worried to see how this one is. Oh, it's actually more It's it's not as soft. I figured it would be like kind of soft And it's more hard. You know if I start putting some pressure on it's giving It looks like the bottom's like nicely browned there. Yeah It smells like cheese. There's like a little bit of that funky cheese Note in the nose. Yeah, you can smell the cheese. It smells like like a cheese bar cookie I don't really smell that sweet because all that cheese It's very cakey. It's kind of like A really soft, um, like butter cookie It's very buttery and you do have that kind of like savory cheese flavor tail And it's a little bit salty as well Which I'm down with You know Hearing what this is the description of it Well, the name is basically the description of it I was very apprehensive, but It's pretty good. It's not super sweet. It's more of like Kind of a savory cookie I'm I kind of like it. It's good It's not amazing or anything. I wouldn't like go out of my way to be like, oh my god. I need more of those but For being in this box. I'm happy it's there because it's interesting And it tastes good and if someone gave me more in the future like in the you know another snacku I'd be like, okay, sounds good What is this one? I think I'm gonna have to open this first to figure out what it is Oh, I think it's one of these. Okay. I think I might okay. I'll show you the the packaging first Okay Very cute packaging Cool cute cool. It looks good. It's pretty. Okay. It is this so this is one of Okay, so there's two of these things that look kind of similar on here So I'm gonna have to figure out which one this is This must be okay. This is the shiwase mayu Take a look. It's it's like purple And just like brown around the edges. It looks like it's like crispy rice krispies in the purple cream there What is this? another award-winning snack made by kumamoto jin sion Local purple ube potato puree is whipped together with organic chocolate and sandwiched in a delicately baked butter cookie This is one of our all-time favorite snacks.  Hmm. Hmm Yeah, there are like, um Like little rice krispies in there because there's a bit of a crunch It's not cream in the middle like it is nice and buttery But I do get that potato knowing that it's in there It like makes it more like starchy and a little bit of like a potato flavor But there's a nice sugary sweetness to it too, but it's not over the top And I really like the crunch that there's krispies in there giving it because it adds nice texture I'm a big person on texture, especially when I'm having snacks. I really like crunchy um, yeah And there's like butter wafer cookies on the outside Tastes exactly like that. You know like butter wafer cookies And I'm trying to figure out If somebody gave this to you and didn't tell you that there's potato in it Yeah, I don't think you'd know Because of the level of sweetness and the butteryness coming together It kind of masks a lot of the potato unless you know, it's there and you can kind of look for it. So I like that I I could see I mean, I I could see why they'd say it's their favorite, but I've had many snacks from snaku. That's they're a lot better But it is good. I'm excited for my wife to try that. She'll like that Yeah, man That's good. Okay, so let's jump over to another thing that looks like it's crispy Oh, there's the texture of that one. Okay, so this is from the popular snacks The other two were from the actual like featured theme ones So this is black puffed rice Yep, looks like chocolate puff rice baked organic japanese rice puffs glazed with dark soy sauce and black sesame paste Isn't that crazy? It looks like chocolate. It looks like it would be chocolate, but it's not Sorry if it's very noisy I just don't want to be getting stuff all over the floor Because I'm just doing it in my basement. Yeah, look at that.  So if you're not like big with soy sauce flavors Like there's it's there, but it's not like super tangy or in your face Which I assume part of that's because of the sesame kind of like downplaying that tanginess Yeah, this is good for for a savory snack And there's a little bit of a saltiness It kind of like grows as you continue eating it, which I like like a nice salty quality with my savory snacks I like that. That's good Okay Next let's go with another one that is Off the popular snacks portion. This is heavy star ramen There's an actual ramen. Let's find out. Look at this You see that? But boom What is it? Dried ramen noodle crisps flavored with Japanese miso Okay Pretty concise to the point I'm always I always worry when I'm opening bags like this from the top because I mean, obviously that's a preferable way Preferable way to open them But sometimes they're like really tough to get and then when you're really going at it You can just like rip it because it reaches that breaking point And then you're still exerting too much force and it's just like So I always worry about that Anyway Actually, am I able to show you inside there? Kind of without dumping them everywhere. There you go. There you go You can see it. Look at them all in there. They look overexposed because of the lighting. So sorry, but Look basically Yeah, it's just like ramen noodles Oh You can smell the miso, but it's interesting because it it almost smells like beer It totally kind of smells like beer. It's really weird Obviously, it's crunchy. You can definitely taste the miso. It's very miso driven This is a fun snack to be honest I mean It's mainly just like a like a like a miso flavor With like a starchy noodle flavor coming in after the miso And it's crunchy like there's not a ton of flavor to it. It's just like Miso starchy noodle crunchy So it's kind of more of like a Munch on this maybe after you've had some beers to be honest Um, and just enjoy like the texture of it I can see like you'd eat them kind of fast to be honest just because they they go down kind of quick. They're not like super flavorful Those are okay. Not my favorite. They're all right. I don't think I need them in the future You know What is this?  What the hell's going on? Okay, so that one thing I'm very interested in that it's it's very interesting So we'll save that for last What is this this would be? I don't know I'm gonna have to open it. I think it's xion We'll only find out and if it is the xion then it is part of the theme For this I don't know. That's the problem with using just like a camera on your laptop I'm not high class here I'm not spending a lot of money on this because I don't make money on it. It's just a hobby Anyway, oh, yeah, okay So I've had something kind of like this before it's kind of like a little bit like a like a cake bar And the last time I had this was like a brownie with dehydrated Um strawberries in it. It was amazing. So this one I should read. Let me show you it first There's some purple in there. This looks like cake with like a purple filling But it's got that purple potato An exclusive snack from kumamoto jin xion Which has been making delicious word-winning snacks for 10 years The light deliciously baked bite-sized cheesecake Oh, okay Is made with local kumamoto kumamo To kumamo to kumamoto They cut the word up weird in there formatting Made with local kumamoto rice and purple ube potato picked by local co-op farmers in the region A perfect snack to go with a cup of tea or coffee Oh, it smells cheesy just like the um that sweet cheese butter bar It smells cheesy. It's weird Yeah I can smell actually a little bit of the potato, which is weird Doesn't smell sweet at all Tastes a lot of potato To be honest There's a little bit of a sweetness in there And it does taste kind of cheesy, but it's very much potato oriented It's very soft my cheese cut right through it. No effort whatsoever It's very very soft.  So You know, I like how soft it is like the softness of it is Pretty impressive Okay, moving on Okay, let's go to one of the popular snacks On the sidebar This is Genji pie Delicately baked folded pastry puff snack topped with granulated sugar Looks like like elephant ears. Is that what people call them in the united states? like that type of like texturing And pastry it's like an elephant ear. Am I right about that? Put a comment down there. Let me know. Am I right? Okay, so there's kind of broken That's fine. I'll just show you a piece of it up close. There you go See Nicely brown smells very sweet buttery Yeah Hmm Hmm I like the texture on this Oh, it's really buttery There's like a nice sweetness, but that gives way to the butteriness them And it's a tad bit salty Which I do like in this in this flavor profile, but like these like layers Are very Like nice flaky pastry I love that type of Texture I love this type of flavor. It's like a nice buttery pastry Are really nice So it's a bit crunchy But it's also very soft and easy to chew I love it That's really good. That's a really nice pastry And it's not super sweet either is there's just like a little bit of a sweet sugary coating on the outside But it's mainly like focused on the buttery pastry flavor And that's nice. That is very nice. I like that Uh, I'm gonna say yeah, it's my favorite in this box thus far Mm. I like that. I love it Okay, next let's go with another. Oh, I don't think I'm gonna like this. Well, we'll see These look interesting Bourbon poochie eebie poochie eebie, whatever Bourbon, I don't know. I don't think it's actual bourbon. See the prawn on there Shrimp prawn I don't know shrimp things. Yeah, okay. Let me come on. There we go. Soft or light. Thank you Send by rice cracker made with grilled baby shrimp caught off the sea of Japan The packaging is weird because it's kind of like this sleeve I'm gonna go to get this open. I don't even know My hands a little There we go. Helping my keep Okay, no, I'm not gonna open this all the way but oh my gosh, there's a lot in here So if you see how it's kind of stacked in here and the length of it There's a lot of these in there, but they're like small. They're like real small little crisp discs There you can kind of see what that Yeah, show you the other side see And that smells like shrimp and salty. It's like salty shrimp Very nice crunch the crunch is great. So the the shrimp flavor is actually not as Fishy as it usually is in these types of things is it's more dialed back and has a really nice saltiness to it I'm actually good with these. I kind of like it This is another thing that I think would be good after beer Which I think I'm gonna have a beer to tonight. So I'm gonna keep these available to munch on Probably mainly after the beer Okay That's actually pretty good. I kind of like that. I'm very very iffy with um the shrimp flavoring but With this one Hey, good job because it's not too over the top. Like I said, not too fishy I really try to get that flavor out of my mouth for the next thing All right, moving on. Where we going here? What we got? What is this one? Heavy or no, we did the this must be oh the geca no Kumamoto jewel Sorry I probably just slaughtered that It's a terrible job with it. It's like one of these little like cakes filled with stuff These snacks are only available at the Kumamoto castle. Let me have a castle. I didn't know about that.  What is wrong? Keep it soft Anyway, sorry So I don't think I'm really gonna like this most likely. I've had Jesus, I'm gonna be able to even get it open Teeth again Oh, there we go Got got it at the right angle Uh, so I don't think I say I don't think I'm really gonna like it because I've had the chestnut paste and stuff before And I don't I don't like it. I'm more of a red bean paste kind of guy with things like this So, yeah, it looks like kind of like one of their little pancake things I mean, it's soft on the outside And it just smells sweet. I'm like ready. There's just a really grainy mealy texture to it That i'm not digging so much You can see a chestnut paste there Yeah, so the texture is weird because it's like very bean-like, you know, it's like grainy beanie texture We get a lot of beans in your mouth I don't like that texture It's sweet It tastes a tad bit vanilla-y I get the chestnut flavor It's actually okay for as far as like How I feel about these chestnut paste flavors It's on the better side of what I've experienced. So it's decent. It's not for me though. I'm not like huge on it. So Pretty sweet though as you continue to eat it just kind of becomes like more and more sweet Okay, second the last item. This is gigantic.  Taco octopus senpai Look at this octopus there. Yeah octopus is a thing At some point I'd love to be able to try some takoyaki Which if people don't know what that is, it's basically like a like a pan case pancake batter that has octopus in it that is then um Like done in these little In these little like cups so that they make them into balls And then they put some sort of like sauce on top. Okay. Well, these are individually wrapped within So that makes it easier. So I have to go These smell fishy. I mean it's from the ocean. So, you know, it's gonna happen It's octopus. I guarantee when I show these to my wife. She's gonna be like no, thanks I'm still gonna make her try it at least like one bite. That's kind of the rule It's like you have to at least try it make sure you don't like it Oh, it smells pretty fishy though. Check that out. It's pretty thin It smells fishy a little bit salty. That's about it. It's harder than I thought it would be Hmm, so it's it is fishy and more fishy than I typically like But the flavor is also kind of like a soft seafood at a frame time kind of weird There's a slight sweetness on it with a decent amount of saltiness It's okay. I mean, I'm not I'm not wild about it, but I don't dislike it either So that's a plus I don't know What's not gonna like it Should be like too fishy. I just smell it immediately and just be like I believe we're going to the come on going to the last thing Yeah This is gonna be interesting.  It's completely normal and safe Do it Is it natural if I feel less comfortable after reading that like when you give a warning like that It's kind of like making me suspicious. Oh man, this might be like really hard on my teeth I don't know as you get older people You gotta be more careful with your teeth. I'm just saying.  Okay Hmm That's weird I would not expect it to be like that Okay, there we go On my second bite It's starting to taste what I was thinking is tasting like peanut butter. It's starting to taste more like Sesame Yeah, so a few bites or maybe like a whole eat a whole one of those at one time They're gonna taste more sesame than peanut butter But it still has this kind of weird peanut butter note And when I say weird, it's not that I dislike it. I love peanut butter So I like it. I think that tastes very good. I really like that And it looks cool It's like a fun thing But Like caramel is very chewy very sticky Let's see if my mouth is black at all Uh-huh Black tongue That's fun Okay, cool. Uh, so overall with this box, um Yeah, once again At the least with this box. It's always fun. It's always interesting if you like trying new things So let me go ahead and give you the rundown real quick. These are all the ones that were the themed items go ahead and pause and read those if you want And then on the side are the ones from the popular portion that are not part of the theme Same thing pause when you want to read those things. Okay. So what were my favorites? Hmm the black sesame caramel Definitely one of my favorites the genji pie. Definitely one of my favorites Those are my top two for sure. Um, the kum, uh kumamon premium assortment here I have a feeling that the this one right here the like puff pastry Like the pie crust with the chocolate in between that that's going to be amazing And the shiobase mayu The this purple one that was quite good, but my favorite favorite favorite I'd say my number one the genji pie and then that black sesame caramel but pretty close between those two But anyway another successful, uh snaku. Thank you so much for checking this video out Um Check out snaku if you want to they don't you know, I don't get their stuff for free. They're not sponsoring this like nothing I'm just doing this for fun and doing it because I like it. So just know that So go ahead and sign up for it if you like what you see Uh, but let's put some comments down there. What do you think about this box? Are you getting this box? What did you like if that's the case? I would definitely be interested to see what people are into Um, but please subscribe if you like any of the videos I do Um, give me a thumbs up if you're so inclined, but thanks for checking out and until next time keep it brutal


I learned, welcome to Newsclick. Today we're going to review what have been the results of COP26, which ended on some positive and some negative note. If we look at what has been happening, particularly after the Paris Agreement, which itself was a problem, but after which we had the additional problem of President Trump walking out of it, taking the biggest problem of the global warming issue, the United States out of the Paris Agreement. Biden coming back, how do we see this agreement? Is it a step beyond Paris? Is it a step below Paris? Or is it something which is potentially still to be realized? And we hope for something better in the future, but at least it has opened the discussions again. My assessment is that it's a marginal step forward from Paris. If you go by the narratives of the UK, which were the hosts of this meeting, Boris Johnson and his Minister Alok Sharma, or if you listen to President Biden or John Kerry in particular, his climate envoy, you'd think this has been a major achievement in Glasgow. I suppose that's to be expected. The host will always say that he's had a good party, but one should ask the guests what they thought of the event. And if you judge by the outcome in concrete terms, there's only, I think, three major concrete achievements that one can speak of. One is by cajoling and pressuring, etc., etc., with additional commitments by various countries, you've managed to reduce the gap. You're now looking at a potential temperature rise of 2.4 degrees Celsius instead of 2.7, which was the position before Glasgow. Now, that is a minor achievement, yes, but it's not a great achievement in view of the fact that you want to reach 1.5. The second achievement, I think, is that for the first time, in whatever imperfect manner, fossil fuels and coal have actually made an appearance as terms in the Glasgow pact, which till now all the agreements have spoken loosely in terms of reducing emissions. The third is that there has been some small incremental gain in the promise of adaptation funding, which the developed countries have promised to double by 2025 compared to what they had said earlier. But as I said, these are all incremental changes offset by huge negatives. If I take the last one, the pledge of $100 billion a year, which they have now said we will double by 2025, is still a promise. It was mentioned first in Paris itself in 2015, later reiterated in 2019, now promised in Glasgow, but now they have said this will start in 2023. That's a big loss in terms of this. And as I said, the temperature rise is only 2.4, no major emission reduction promises by the developed countries. I think that's been the biggest loss in this, that the main agenda and action points emphasized in COP26 have been the agenda points pushed by the developed countries. And if we had heard the closing remarks of more than 20, 25 countries, we heard representing much larger groups, group of 77 in Africa, least developed country, groupings, the island states, all of them said we are very unhappy with the statement, but we have to get some statement at the end of this. So let's look at the positive side and let's go forward. You talked about the developed countries not meeting their whatever promises they had made. In this particular case, we did talk about what are the emission cuts, what are the various things countries would do, but the promise of money is only going to be discussed next year in terms of commitments. And the fact that they have made again another promise of doubling the non-existent funds which they had promised earlier, that itself still raises question that people are being asked to commit to cuts of either emissions or future emissions, but the ones who have the money, they're not being asked to produce the money right now. So this delinking of the two itself is a big issue as far as this agreement is concerned. Absolutely. And that's why I said the developed countries have been allowed to get away with their agenda setting. The least developed countries and the island states have been focused this time far more on adaptation funds and on loss and damage funds and they have not pushed as much as they have done in earlier cops on mitigation and reducing temperatures.  And I think that has been a bit of a problem in the way negotiations have been conducted by overemphasizing the financing aspects we have lost out on the mitigation targets in the COP26 negotiations. When you come to mitigation targets, when you talk of 2.4 degrees, it might not appear to be such a big number, except for the fact that this is an average global temperature rise. Even on this 1.1 degree rise, which is what we have already reached, you saw temperatures like 45 to 50 degrees over North America, Canada, something that you had never seen before. So already extreme weather events is also rocking not only the rest of the globe, but also the developed countries who thought being cold countries, they were not going to suffer from global warming. They now see also that that's not true. But nevertheless, this 2.4 degrees, 2 degrees actually do not tell us the full picture because rise is what you see as the highest temperature that you might see. And if it rises in parts of the tropics by 3 to 4 degrees, which is what is likely to happen in summer then with a 2.4 degrees average, you're likely to actually make it uninhabitable. In fact, the average global rise of temperature is only one indicator of a much wider multi-dimensional process of climate change because what we have witnessed now is not just a global average temperature rise of 1.1 degree Celsius. It's also resulted in more frequent storms. It's resulted in forest fires. It's resulted in large-scale drought covering most of the southern United States. So we must remember climate change is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. And if we are seeing these scale of climate changes at 1.1 degrees Celsius, the mind boggles at what kind of changes we are likely to see if temperatures rise crosses 2 degrees or more. Also some of the other problems which have not come to light in this discussion is the fact that while renewables are the obvious way to go, the problem you have is of course the daily storage which you can handle with what would be called battens. But when it comes to seasonal variations, as we saw for instance in Germany, that they had to up their fossil fuel consumption because stealing of the winds led to much lower wind generation. Renewables also need seasonal backups and that the world does not seem to be prepared for. And those are technological issues still to be solved. But again, there does not seem to be so much of discussions on these issues and there is a techno-optimism, somehow batteries and particularly because Mr. Tesla keeps on, Elon Musk keeps on talking about batteries, which he doesn't produce but keeps on talking about them, is somehow obfuscating the market benefit certain companies seek to achieve from the real hard technical and techno-economic decisions we need to take. I think that's absolutely correct in terms of the power generation, which as you know contributes about 75% of the total greenhouse gas emissions that we are talking about. But there is another side effect to this you've already spoken about the technical limitations of phasing out fossil fuels, that's easier said than done. So in a sense, what has been made a big fuss off at the last leg of the Glasgow conference that India said, look phasing out is a problem if you talk about that and therefore a compromise language of phasing down was introduced. The basic issue is however that even the phasing out language didn't set a timeline. But I think there should have been an emphasis on the fact that whether you phase down or phase out, one will lead to the other, you can't phase out without phasing down. That's fair enough, but both of them will require a lot of other technological adjustments in terms of production of electricity, storage of electricity, diurnal across as well as seasonal. And these need to be taken into account and they need to be far more technical inputs into this. The second aspect is I think because of the emphasis on the power generation part of this, there has been less emphasis on all the other things that you can do in terms of emissions reduction. Now they are part of this 25% that do not come under the power generation emissions, but they are important when we are talking about a couple of points of degree Celsius this way or that way, they make a difference. For instance, the methane pledge, which is not a documented formal pledge, it's an informal agreement by countries saying we'll reduce methane by 30% by 2030. This is expected to contribute a drop of about 0.2 to 0.3 degrees Celsius. Now that looks very small, but when you're talking about the difference between 1.5 and let's say 1.8 or the difference between 2.4 and 2.1, 0.3 makes a big difference. You know, coming back to this issue about what you call about methane, you know there's also about coal. What important issue is that Europe as well as United States has chosen gas as the intermediate proven from coal to gas and then from gas to renewables as their route. It's only India and China who do not have access to gas easily and they have large reserves of coal. Therefore the problem is not identical for both. In fact, that is one of the reasons India had a problem and even China and the US talked about phase down. They didn't talk about phase out. But if you look at that, that if gas is not an intermediate fuel for India, for example, then of course the issue is different and methane in fact in India would be more agriculture as well as livestock. Unlike those who have a large gas infrastructure, whether it's Russia, whether it's West Asia or it's United States which does a lot of fracking. So the methane emissions are really more concentrated on these issues. Coming back to what you have said that the technology part of it, in fact, that is a weakness that we see that we have focused too much on only the emissions and not to the technology side and we have assumed that if money is available, technology is available and it's interesting that Africa, how does it make the transition or does it not make the transition at all because it is still infrastructure has not been built and infrastructure will need large amounts of energy investment. They have access to oil and gas but the way the whole discussion is going, Norway which wants to expand its gas is moving resolution saying no finance and finances should be made available to Africa for gas. So those are very unfortunate directions we see. What is good for us is not good for you. Absolutely. So that way we don't seem to see these issues come to the fore in COP26. Absolutely, the only example that one can think of where a different route has been taken was in South Africa which has been promised money to phase out coal in an accelerated manner but even there the source of the alternative source of generating electricity has not been mentioned. Some positives of the agreement from what you say but unfortunately very much detailing on the balance and so is global climate change from negotiations to what is likely to happen. A small word on India before we leave I think and that is India has not just not covered itself in glory at the end of this COP. Of course the India blaming by the developed world if you see most of the western media it was India which has been cast as the villain of the Glasgow summit. It's not so much I think because of the position India took but of the way in which India has conducted its negotiations throughout the Glasgow summit. You had the Prime Minister come first and make a series of announcements which are actually quite significant emission reduction announcement particularly when you compare it with the very poor emission reduction commitments by the US and several other developed countries. He makes these statements makes no mention of any conditionalities or anything then suddenly the Indian delegation says all this is yes very good but this is all conditional upon India getting 1 trillion dollars of financing. So it was extremely badly and then to have this last minute drama 24 hours extension the minister on his return has written a blog where he has spoken of the Indian position and talked of how it has put forward the opinion and views of the developing countries as a whole. Unfortunately on the floor of the plenary none of the developing country groupings the Africa group G77 and China group least developing countries group island state none of them have supported this position. India was left alone to feel this position not done well at all and I feel many countries would feel that India has conducted these negotiations not just badly but in bad faith. So I think Indian performance in this except for the initial announcement that was done the rest of it has been downhill all along the way. What you mean is that the announcements made by the prime minister was either not worked out to the delegation that was there properly they were as surprised by the delegations by the announcement as other delegations or that it was thought to be appropriate to delink the two in a way the prime minister covers himself with the glory while the in glory comes to the delegation not to the PA but unfortunately no one doesn't see it as that India and therefore it whatever brownie points we might have won by the declarations exactly of it lost most of that most of that most of the goodwill and we have particularly lost again goodwill of the developing countries which is why the president of the corp Anok Sharma finally even said that India and China he said would have to explain themselves to these countries but that's a bad faith declaration but Mr Sharma as well considering Johnson Mr Prime Minister Johnson was promising a new coal mine in UK very recently but the point is they would like to turn the divisions between India China and others quite clear of the sidelines and exactly disavow that historical responsibility which still shows the largest amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere come from this few countries the rich countries absolutely anyway Ragu thanks for being with us this is all the time we have for news click today do keep watching news click and do visit our website


Hello everyone. So today I want to talk, well, okay, before I start my talk, please don't forget if you haven't yet to subscribe if you want videos about freelancing, about freelance translation and stuff like that. Now we'll get to the video. Today I wanted to talk to you about sales, about a specific thing that I've come across when doing sales for translation and for translators and in my experience, this is more or less how it works. Usually nobody you talk to needs translations. Nobody you talk to will need translations in your language combination. And this is what I've found when I'm talking, when I'm networking, when I'm doing sales, when I'm going to these meetups and to these conferences and trying to see other people who might need my services, who might need translations done. No one needs any translations ever. But what happens is they will three, six months down the line be in touch with someone and then hear about someone who does need translations or at some point in the future they'll hear about someone who's working on a translation or who needs something to be in a different language or something along those lines. And so what will happen is all these people you talk to who don't need translations will in the future have access to or be in touch with someone who does need translations. And at that point in time you can get that business hopefully. But this is very tricky, right? Someone you talk to if three, six months down the line they find out that someone needs a translation, how can you be sure that they will contact you for that translation, right? Well, there are various methods to do this. First of all is obviously to keep in touch. Whoever you talk to, keep in touch with them. Don't bother them, but follow up. If it's a friend, obviously, then you don't need to worry about it too much there.  They don't associate you with, oh, my middle school friend who used to drink a lot and wears really weird shoes. But my friend from middle school who wears really weird shoes but is also a translator. And, you know, some of these things they need to be top of mind. And so make sure that your translation aspect is top of mind. But for people you're meeting at these networking conferences and stuff like that, a thing is just to keep in touch. Whenever you talk to someone, something will come up. Maybe you'll say, oh, did you read the latest article about whatever this? Oh, I heard you're interested in golf or something along those lines. So a couple weeks down the line send them and hey, I saw this article about golf in our area. They're opening a new golf course. Did you hear about this? Stuff like that. Just to keep in touch. And again, just to keep it top of mind. And that way, three, six months down the line, when they hear about someone who needs a translation, they'll be like, oh, yeah, I know a translator. Here, let me find their information. I'll forward it to you. And you can see if you need that translator services. And so every time you're networking, every time you're meeting someone, even if they have no need for translations and they say, I don't need a translator, I've never needed one, probably never need one, it's still a good contact. It's still someone to keep in mind. And this goes for friends. This goes for acquaintances. This goes for people you meet on the street or wherever it might be.  Now, one method to do this, which will really depend on your situation is to offer commission. Now, this has worked for me in the past on certain occasions and certain times not. It really depends on your relationship with the person you're talking to, et cetera. I've found that this works better with friends, people you know, well, rather than complete strangers. But you can say, look, for every translation job that I get, I will pay you a 10% commission or whatever it might be. And that person is usually happy. They get 10% just for forwarding you an email address and then you get business. And presumably if you're getting paid, you have no problem giving 10% of what you get paid to someone for letting you get paid. Right? The reason I say it works better with friends is because friends know you, they trust you. Some random stranger, like they'll say, okay, I can get 10%, which isn't much money, but I don't want to risk ruining my reputation. Sending a contact to a translator who have only met once and I'm not sure if they're any good or something along those lines. That's why I feel like offering a commission works better with someone who knows you well, but that just might be my impression. You can see what works best for you. It has worked for me in the past though. And you know, certain people, they're happy to do that. In fact, I've had certain people who keep sending me different possible translations. Not all of them work out, but when they do, I'm happy to pay that 10%. This could be a good method. I know of some people who even put it on their business card and say, I will pay a 10% commission for every translation you do. I don't do that. I do send it out on my invoices. And the idea there being is someone who's already worked with me and so hopefully likes me and my work and trusts me. At that point, they'll be more comfortable to recommend me to someone else and send me as a referral to someone else if someone else needs a translation. See what works best for you. Either way, when you do sales, it's just one of the things that I found in my experience that you should keep in mind.  I need a French to English translator right now for what I'm doing. No. And many times they'll say, oh yeah, I think we have something that's interesting that usually never works out. What does work out is three, six months down the line, they'll be in touch with someone who needs a translation done. And at that point, you should hope that they know how to get in touch with you and that they do get in touch with you by whichever method works best. If you have other methods that work well for you, please feel free to share them in the comments below. If you know a way in which you can stay top of mind or in which you can get translation jobs, even if the person you talk to at that moment in time doesn't need a translation, right? Hopefully you do find this useful and you can find it useful going forward with your translation career or whatever career you might have. If you're any other type of freelancer, if you're a freelance designer, chances are whoever you talk to doesn't need a design done right then and there, but they might need something in the future in which case hopefully you can stay top of mind. So once again, please don't forget to click like so I know what works and what doesn't. And don't forget to subscribe if you want more videos in the future like this that deal with freelancing, freelance translation and stuff along those lines. Okay, thanks. Bye.


Hey guys, Ken Ross here, and I'm a business consultant that specializes in reducing costs for businesses By looking at their personal expenses and today I have a question for you very quick question How important is your personal appearance when it comes to your business? Is it something that you really pride yourself in doing? Is it something that you have to spend some time thinking about because honestly? I really do believe that if you take the time to invest in the right appearance For the job that you're doing it makes all the difference in the world Let's let's take a quick example for example, right when you go to a restaurant, right? And you see the service there are all the servers wearing different items different clothes Or do they have clothes with their logos on it and how does that play into your overall thought of the experience, right? Because honestly, I really do feel like a lot of businesses today they just need a lot of tweaking when it comes to certain things and Appearance is definitely one of those things If you come off as a professional business or you want others to think that you're taking this thing very seriously because you are taking this Seriously, this is your business. It's your livelihood You should really want to invest in something that helps show that to your customers And the best way to do that is to invest in a brand make sure you have one make sure it's well known and It's reputable right that your business is something that people see Value in not just what it is that you offer But what it is that you're putting out in into the community, right when it comes to what it is you're doing say say you're an electrician for some for For you know for the area for business whether you're a commercial electrician or your residential Electrician, it's certainly great to do a great job that that fits the standards of commercial electric electric electric standards as well as the standard, you know home Standards when it comes to electric, you know an electrician But what if you did all of that work and you were a professional about it and you had a professional appearance whether you're Somebody like myself who prides himself in his appearance with a nice shoot, you know, sorry suit and slacks and a nice shirt on to exude a great business acumen or You're an electrician and you just have a nice collared shirt or even a t-shirt with your logo on it That's something that would definitely set you apart from your competition would make All the difference when it comes to what electrician should I choose should I choose one that gets the job done and Does a good job or they do a good job and they actually have a really good look about themselves. I think honestly folks do Play on emotions in their hand and they that the look of things actually is appealing they say in in in in restaurants 90% or 80% of what what a food Experience is life is about the look of the food not just the taste of the food So in business I want to think that your appearance is definitely something that you should invest in and it's part of the experience It's something that most people are going to look at and they're going to find value in it And it will be definitely worth the investment in the end So with that that's what I have love to hear your thoughts I know I kind of fumbled through a little bit of this here But but I was thinking about it today as I was Around in the different areas. I'm thinking how much does does the appearance of things really play into the business of? What it is you're doing and I think that's something we can have a conversation about so with that would love to hear Your thoughts about what I have to say in the comments section below I'd love it if you'd like this video and share it with others that you know help them Understand that we are having a discussion here We want to share information as business owners and empower each other to do the right things for our business Invest in the right areas. It's something. I'm really priding myself and doing this year as well as I really do Want to help you save money? So if you haven't already check out my video how to save money today and put it up over here on this side On this side over here Take a look at that video check it out Utilize the tools. I'm giving you in those bit in the in the videos proceeding that as well and Try to save some money today and with that I am Ken Ross. Please visit my website. I am Ken Ross calm and until next time See you around


This is your girl Shannon Boudre, and we are here at the BET Experience, sponsored by Coca-Cola at the LA Live. And Live is the only way to describe what's happening today. So we want to meet all the fans, see why they're here, and see how hyped they're going to get. Bum Bum. I have a freaking time. Okay, you are the MVP from last year. So this year, is it like a serious thing for you? Well, I know, you know, they stacked the teams up this time. So they don't want us to win as bad as we did last time. But we're going to have fun, man. I'm glad everybody out here at BET weekend. Get a chance to go out there and show what we do on this basketball too. Are you going to have game today? You know what? I don't know.  You don't know? That's the wrong answer. They got Chris Brown, man. He's good. Why is everybody more scared of Chris Brown than the actual NBA players? Better than Chris Brown. I'm just saying they got Chris Brown. So it's like a good competition. Who's going to win this game? Who's going to win MVP? What are your stats going to be? My team is going to win because white is right. Not all the time. But white is right tonight. Now, this game was insane.  But it was stacked with celebrities. And the best part of all is the crowd was insane. If you guys weren't here, I'm not sure what you were doing with your time. But me personally, I am exhausted. All that screaming, all that cheering. And we definitely aren't even halfway done the day yet. We still got the NWA concert later on tonight. So stick around and stick with your girl because I got the all actions passed. And you want to roll with me. Show me level and at level so I never forget where I came from. I love that. Sponsored by Coca Cola. And we are here to see what's up. We the boys. It's from San Diego, California. Australia. I'm Siobhan Mili. I'm from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Louisiana. You know. From Russia, where did you come from? How did you get here? I wanted to come for BET for a long time. Now my dream came true. Keep doing it. That's it. The BET Experience at LA Live. The BET Experience brought to you guys by Coca Cola.  I can't even contain excitement. It is a sprite hip hop night. The West is in full effect. BET do something iconic tonight. BET did it. Kendrick Lamar, Skullboy killed myself. You know what I'm saying? West goes hip hop. Born bred and bred. Ready to do what we do. Blah. How you feeling? What? You said it. Yay, yay. For everybody else right now who's sitting at home who didn't come out tonight. What do you want to tell them? You missed it. It was probably one of the best concerts ever. It's the end of the night. It's the end of the night. It's the end of the night. Peace. Love. And the soul. Let me know how it felt to be on the stage tonight together. It was dope. You know, NWA, we ain't been on stage since 1989. It was dope. I loved it. Man, it was good being out there with them since 1989. That was the last time we all got down together. It felt good, man. It was like going back in time. We older, wiser. It felt good. Real good. What does BET mean to NWA? Everything. You know, BET is the reason why we're here. BET is the reason why black music has flourished and live on BET. Black star power. What's going on? We're here with a sneaker head extraordinaire. I think you're selling, right? Yes, I am. And what's your name? Where are you from? Caleb Valentine from Compton, California. Oh, is your last name Valentine for real? That makes sense because I think I just fell in love. Ooh, man. Every attendee. Selfie malfunction. Oh, my... If you weren't clicking post in and with hashtag BET Experience 2015. Okay. Well, you were at the biggest... Thanks for watching the Top 10 Moments of the 2015 BET Experience. Well, that's a wrap. And I hope you guys enjoyed the 2015 BET Experience as much as I did. I'm Shannon Bodram. I'm Javicia Ludwig. And I'm Rich LaRue. We out.