These are the notes that I have for the Duke review These are notes. It's not exactly a script Except sometimes if I want to say something in a specific way to get a specific a point across I will kind of type out word for word what I want to say, but that doesn't mean I won't change it on the fly If I think of something better The script starts with a cold open. I'm having a guest do a scripted segment So that's what this is what I do is I type the the note out in word and I Print it and then after I print it I go through and I mark it up. I highlight in pink Was a pink highlighter any other figures or vehicles? I need to grab for this review so I can have them handy I've got so I've got to have the other versions of Duke here If I don't have any of those figures then I usually ask for some help with some Images of those figures that I can throw in and Timmer is a huge help with that And I have I thank him frequently because he's just been a massive help with these with figures that I don't have yet Eventually, I will have everything I am trying to get a complete vintage collection, but I'm not quite there yet Few missing pieces So when you see pink Pink highlighter there, that's a figure that I need to grab So I've got like stalker because he's got the submachine gun that was used for Duke and roadblock because he has the green helmet without holes airborne because he has the backpack I also add if I Have anything in here that I need to talk about that I didn't type out then I've got I have to add it. This is one benefit of printing this out rather than just using an electronic copy I can When I mark it up if I see something that I've missed I can add so I didn't I Forgot to put in the notes the bit about the file card backing I talked about the file card variant as far as the front of the card, but not the back of the card So, you know, I made some notes there and Yeah, that's it. This is I think I think it's eight pages Seven or eight pages and that's about average. I think I'm averaging about seven or eight pages of notes for a video And that'll translate this will I'm guessing this will be roughly a half hour video Here's another second a scripted segment. What I've done is anytime I need to appear on Camera so the camera is pointed at me. I just take this light green highlighter and I I run a line Down those sections. So this is the open And So I've thrown in this little scripted segment was my guest and so I've highlighted that I've highlighted my own lines on there To make it easier to remember which ones I'm supposed to do and check them off when I've done them and And let's see So that means at the back of this That's where I give my overall impression of the figure when like in the background of doing the 360 spin of the figure and then I have some still images of the accessories and other things like that So this is what I intend to say during that segment and then I am finishing up With another little brief scripted part So this is what I've got to work with and this is what I've been working on for several days I've tried to Get as much information in here as I can I'm doing my best to make sure it's accurate information The sources for all of this information is in a text file, which I will be Putting in the end scroll of the video It's important to cite sources and so all my sources should be in there and this since this is the I always record the core review first and The core review starts here So this is the page that I'm actually starting with I'm starting with page two And we're starting with the general information about the the figure when it was released when it was available How it was available, you know where it falls in the vintage line later Later versions of the character and so on So that's where we start and I have my clipboard here just because Sometimes I need to move this around or set it on the table or whatever now. I just find it easier to Move it around and and keep it where I can read it if it's on the clipboard Here is my basic setup for doing a review.  It's probably about time to replace it And I've got the two Duke figures set up ready for the first shot of the video I am not using figure stands for these guys because The plastic is a bit fragile, so I have just a little bit of sticky tack to Just stand them up there. I don't want to put any stress on the the footholds with the foot pegs I've got the file cards behind them There's the 4k camera with the microphone pointed at me I've got a couple desk lamps for lights here and I do move these around as needed to make sure that the lighting is Appropriate. I've got the camera at a slight Down angle because I find that that's better And easier to see the details on the figure then if you are like dead straight on So I just I find that more Aesthetically pleasing angle There is my my clipboard that's my notes there I've got a single backless chair here With that's I don't use a backless chair, you know because it's better. I just use it because that's what I have I don't have a better chair right now So that's That's where the action happens, but I also have over here I've created this table as like a staging area for the other items I will need in the review, so The figures that I have highlighted On the notes. I've pulled them out here. I've got the other versions of Duke that I have I've got roadblock there, you know, I've got the figures that made up the parts of Duke Such as gung-ho and doc and major blood I've got Flint and Beachhead here. Oh, I need to get Hawk version 2. I have Hawk version 1 there I need to get Hawk version 2 because I Think I will talk about the chain of command in the GI Joe animated series and If I do that I may want to show The figures for those characters Not a hundred percent certain. I'll I guess I'll just decide So that's my staging area That's much more full when I'm doing a vehicle because often I have other vehicles setting up there But I find it easiest to have Have those over there so I can just kind of swivel chair over and grab them and Move them into the frame of the camera when I'm ready. I'm shooting this video with my older camera It's a Sony HD handy cam the 4k camera Is what I'm using for the core review and the final video will be rendered in 4k But I have a two-camera setup right now I will not be doing that in the near future because the older camera. I am sending to a friend Sending it out on an extended loan to someone who needs it more than I do but for now I use the the HD camera the older camera for Video where I'm in front of the camera But the video of the action figures where I want it to be as crisp and clear as possible I use the 4k camera for that But then I but of course the entire video has to be rendered in 4k So that if you watch it on your 4k device It will it will come out with that picture quality. Okay, I'm set up I'm about ready to start recording about ready to start the the first segment of the review And there are a few techniques that I use to try to make things a little easier on me I Try to record maybe a paragraph or less at a time The reason I do that is because it reduces the amount of stuttering and stammering that I have to cut out of the final version also, I Want to keep the video Moving and so if I stop the recording Frequently enough I can move in other figures that I need to use I can adjust the figures So it's not just me because it's important because I'm recording the audio at the same time I'm recording the video So if I'm not moving things and if I'm not stopping the video in order to change the angle of things and such Then it's you're just seeing a static image on your screen and hearing me talk over it So I want to keep the videos visually interesting and to do that I need to make sure that it's not static at least not for very long So to do that. I have to stop the video from time to time move things around that gives me an opportunity to make sure that I Am ready to say the next segment without stuttering or stammering Even so it often takes me several tries to get through each video segment So what I will do is I'll start that segment If I screw it up, you know, I'll stop it and I'll just start it over And I'll keep trying till I get What I think will be the final version that will actually appear on the finished video And then I then I stop stop the camera What that allows me to do is when I'm editing I've got a distinct clip for each segment of the review Not necessarily each paragraph, but each part that's going to be a cut on the camera So that allows me to take each of those and as long as I do those as long as I get each of those clips then it means I don't miss anything and when I drop that clip into The timeline of the video usually I can look for the last Take in that clip and that is usually the one that I want to use for the final edit and not always but usually It allows me to Easily quick and quickly cut out all of those attempts that I screwed up and just use the one that I think is going to be the right one You'll also notice that sometimes I will I'll do a countdown before I start Speaking and talking about the the figure and saying what I want to say in the review That's just to make sure that the audio levels are kind of evened out So when I When I do the final edit You know, I don't have like You know my audio levels way up here at the beginning and kind of trails off I've had that problem a few times before and so this just sort of helps me when I'm editing make sure that The audio levels are where they should be When I clip that that final segment so That's it. The rest of it is just You know pointing The camera at these little dolls here and talking about them. So I guess that's what I'm gonna do now all right this is This is Duke G. I. Joe's first sergeant from 1983 the figure was introduced in 1983 as a male away exclusive offer released carded in 1984 Duke was released carded in 1984 He was also available carded in 1985 and discontinued for 1986 He was later available through the mail again from Hasbro direct Okay Here we go gotta make sure the microphone's on very important Okay, need a two-second at least a two-second lead-in This is Duke G. I. Joe's first sergeant from 1983 the figure was first introduced in 1983 as a male away exclusive offer Duke was released carded in 1984 He was also available carded in 1985 and was discontinued for 1986 He was later available through the mail again from Hasbro direct Not bad. There's a noisy automobile outside, but I don't think that got on the microphone, so My neighbors didn't spoil that shot. That was pretty easy Next I'm gonna overlay a picture of the order form On this next segment, which will again provide a bit of both information and visual interest for the video So I'm going to I'm keeping these guys where they are for this because I'm gonna put an overlay. All right In 1983 order forms for yeah That sucked or I was trying to get In 1983 order forms for Duke were included with boxed vehicles to order him You had to turn in seven flag points and one dollar All right, these I've kind of broken these next two lines up But I'm gonna try to say them together because this is going to lead in to The other versions that I'm gonna move into the screen When I have this first shot here, I try to line it up so that it looks good You can clearly see both figures and the file card and it takes up, you know, most of your screen I don't want them to be too far away. I don't want them to be zoomed in too much I want you to see everything And I wanted to when it's on your screen. I wanted to like take up your screen, right? So I don't mind holding this shot for a little bit just so that as you're First getting into the review, you know You have a chance to absorb that image for a few seconds before I change it But after this next segment here, it will be time to change it Because I've got to bring in some other figures. So let's do this I'm gonna say there are some variations between the mail away release and the carted release This is the first version of Duke, but there were many versions released throughout the vintage era Here we go. All right ready three two one. Here we go There are some variations between the mail away release and the carted release This is the first version of Duke, but there were many versions released throughout the vintage era See, I'm making it look like I Nail it the first try every time, but that is not the case. That is not the case I'm just getting lucky with these first few lines Okay, so I'm going to bring in later versions of Duke. I don't really care so much about their accessories I just want to show the figures. So there's version two Three and four Now there are a couple I don't need the file cards for this part And I think I really only need one of the Duke figures for comparison purposes And I'm going to put them in chronological order. So I'm moving this one off screen Version one needs to go over here Version two over here three Four let's kind of line those up. Now what I have to do with this shot because I don't have versions five and six Timmer has agreed to send me some images of five and six and I will thank him on screen with an overlay and The URL for his channel as I usually do Timmer great help Timmer a good guy too. He's been a good friend a Good collaborator Really creative guy I Like what he produces and I just I really love working with the guy So thanks Timmer if you're watching this So what I have to do is I have to frame this a little bit differently. I've got to pull this out I don't I'm physically moving the camera, but I can zoom out a little bit, too. I Need to get these Four guys in here, but I need to leave enough room enough enough space to Overlay the images from Timmer Okay Now I could absolutely do that in post-production right I could just Take a shot that is you know wide and Crop it you know crop it to fit But if I can just do that in camera where I have this space next to the figures on camera It saves me the trouble of having to do that. So I mean why make things harder on myself? so I have lined these up where I on In the frame, I'll be able to easily drop in two Images that I will get from Timmer. So here we go We are going to Talk about version two. I'll rehearse this a little bit so that I don't waste too much time recording In 1988 there was the version two from Tiger Force It had almost the same mold as version one, but with some updated parts All new colors including an occluding a new hair color. I'm gonna take his helmet off because I want to show The updated hair color. In fact, I'll just I'm gonna take all of all of his accessories. He doesn't need them I'm not I'm not reviewing version two So I'm not going to go into great detail about version two, but I do want to show the differences So we'll do it that way All right, where was I? Including a new hair color version three from 19 Version three was in was released in 1992. He's blonde again With a tan and red Camouflage uniform. This is desert camouflage uniform. This is not a bad version. I've reviewed this version and I generally like it 1993 I'm sorry version five was released in 1993 as part of the No, I skipped one. Sorry version four was introduced in 1993 in Battlecore it had a more realistic desert camouflage and a non-removable helmets not a fan of that non-removable helmet Version five was also it released in 1993 as part of star brigade It was an armor tech figure the same year It was released the same year as the realistic looking battle core figure Duke was also released Duke was in star brigade armor tech and he had a missile Missile launcher for an arm, which is insane. I have in my notes insane Okay, and then finally Version six was released in 1994 That figure was also in star brigade. It was not an armor tech figure But it was another space figure Okay, here we go Three two one ready Version two of Duke was released in 1988 as part of Tiger Force It used almost the same mold as version one, but with some updated parts He had all new colors including a new hair color version three was introduced in 1992 He was blonde again with a red and tan desert camouflage uniform. This is not a bad version Version four was released in 1993 as part of battle core It has a more realistic desert camouflage and a non-removable helmet Version five was also released in 1993 as part of star brigade in their armor tech Okay, I got lost there, but I'm not throwing all out of way. I'm gonna just start over with version five Okay, version five. I Mention armor tech twice. I'm gonna Mark out that first one that's redundant And maybe it'll make it a little easier to say. Here we go version five was also a Version five was also released in 1993 as part of star brigade the same versions Version five was also released in 1993 as part of star brigade The star brigade figure was released the same year as the realistic looking battle core figure. Duke was all I need this okay this This is why sometimes a script might work better. All right, let's try it again version five was released Version five was also released in 1993 at Version five was also released in 1993 as part of star brigade That was the same year as the realistic looking battle core figure This was an armor tech figure and he had a missile launcher for an arm. That's insane Version six was released in 1994. It was also a star brigade figure, but it was not an armor tech figure It was a normal o-ring action figure, but it was another space figure All right That's good enough for the girls I go out with Okay, I'm gonna keep this shot for the next Couple sentences and then I'm gonna switch it up because I'm gonna talk about Him splitting leadership with Hawk and I'm going to Well, all right, I'm not sure about how that was written. Let's see. Okay. No, I got I have a plan I have a plan. It'll be fine All right, three two one ready. Here we go most of Duke, okay Most figures of Duke emphasized his gritty military background until someone in the 90s decided to send him in Most figures of Duke emphasized his gritty military background until someone in the 90s decided to Most figures of Duke emphasized his gritty military background until someone in the 90s decided to send him to space I imagine Duke as always having his boots on the ground. All right, so I've made I've added an opinion I've made a point about the space figures, but I'm not going to belabor that point because This isn't a review of them. It's a review of version one. So For now, I'm done with these guys These guys back over to my staging area oops I dropped the Drop a figure stand there we go Don't need that What I need is Hawk and I'm for this segment. I'm using using version one of hawk, but I'm gonna have to use version two A hawk for the next segment Okay All right, I made a quick change Let's see this recording is Going fine Okay got to realign that shot see center Tighten it a little bit Adjust the angle a little bit. Let's turn them inward a little bit so they're not staring at you in the face Looks good Okay, okay ready Next segment it's a long one, but I'm going to where am I gonna stop No, I'm just gonna go I'm gonna flow through this one ready. There we go in all forms of GI Joe Media since the character was introduced Duke has had a leadership role on the team He was the ultimate leader of GI Joe when he appeared He was the ultimate leader of GI Joe when he appeared in the animated series later in the series it explicitly stated that he was Second in command behind hawk in the comic book series He became the field commander though. He was slower to field opposition than he was in the cartoon series I'm Gonna cut that last part because that would require too much explanation Then I am doing in this segment of the review And I've I've written in here a bunch of words that are really hard to say I could make things easier on myself by not writing words that are hard to say, but this just not how I roll Okay We're recording already. Wow. Okay. Here we go in all forms of GI Joe media since the character was introduced Duke has had a leadership role on the team He was the ultimate leader of GI Joe when he appeared in the animated series Later in the series it was explicitly stated that he was number number two not he was second in command bloody hell Okay All right in all forms of GI Joe media since the character was introduced Duke had a In all forms of GI Joe media since the character was introduced Duke has had a leadership role on the team He was the ultimate leader of GI Joe when he appeared in the animated series later in the series It was explicitly say to say did say did Stated in all forms of GI Joe media since the character was introduced In all forms of GI Joe media since the character was introduced GI Joe has had a leadership role on the team He was the ultimate leader of GI Joe when he appeared in the animated series later in the series It was explicitly stated he was second in command behind Hawk in the comic book series He became the field commander leaving it there Okay, so this is where My idea is to bring in I need to get I'm gonna pause this for a second because I need to go get version two of Hawk which I Inexplicably forgot to bring in here There's Hawk version two now why I want to do I have this idea of Creating a visual dichotomy Between the command structure in the animated series versus the comic book series so Even though I didn't write it down I recall From a rise serpent or arise that the packing order was Hawk duke Flint and beach head So I've got Hawk Flint and beach head and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use Hawk version one here and this Duke figure to just kind of show like Hawk and Duke in the comic book series kind of one and two there and Then in the animated series. I'm gonna use my other Duke figure And we'll go like Highest level on the Inside and working out so there's Flint and beach head so that's kind of the order That's the command hierarchy in the animated series. So I'm gonna have a little bit of space between them not that much space Just to sort of show a divide there right so we're visually representing the difference in the command structure in the animated series versus the Comic book all right and Another visual hint at that is that I'm using Hawk version two on the side that represents the animated series and Hawk version one on the side that represents the The comic book see here Come on man. Come on Duke stand up for yourself Be a man Stand on your own two feet. There you go. It's supposed to be a tough guy No fallen over. That's not allowed All right, I'm just trying to get everything in frame in a way that Look, okay, you know, it's like most of the visual interest so far has been created by Just changing wants in the frame Not very much in the frame is actually moving So I could practically use still images for this part and sometimes if if something is screwed up and like the audio is okay, but like the The figures aren't in the position. They're supposed to be or I forgot to put a figure Where it was supposed to be or a figure falls over When I'm talking Sometimes I will use a still image rather than what I've recorded here, but this is just faster than trying to Cut a bunch of audio and then cut a bunch of still images to fit over the audio If I were to do that, there's no way I could get videos done in time. So Let's roll with this Let me Figure out what I'm gonna say For fans of the animated series Duke was the first leader of GI Joe when Hawk was introduced in 1986 He showed up out of the blue with no introduction in the animated series the command hierarchy started with Hawk at the top and then Duke was next after Duke was Flint and then beach head in the In the comic book series Hawk was the first leader of GI Joe hold on a second Yeah for the fans of the comic book series Hawk was the first leader of GI Joe and Duke showed up abruptly and was given leadership responsibilities How you feel about Duke probably depends on whether you primarily follow the cartoon or comic book series Yeah, we like that. Let's do it Okay For fans of the animated series Duke was the first leader of GI Joe when Hawk was introduced in 1986 he showed up out of the blue with no introduction in the animated series the command Hierarchy started with Hawk at the top followed by Duke then Flint then beach head for fans of the comic book series Hawk was the first leader of GI Joe and Duke showed up abruptly and was given leadership Responsibilities how you feel about Duke probably depends on whether you primarily follow the cartoon or the comic book series Okay, I Wanted so okay, so I've got a segment here about Wrong root ass just a very brief Discussion of the the design of the figure So I'm going to move these guys out of the way And I'm gonna get a close-up because I will probably drop in like a A stock photo of Ron And by the way, I did ask Ron if he had any insight about Duke that he wanted to share for this review and he Did not give me anything so that's okay. That's okay I thought it would be a good idea to ask anyway Besides there's quite a bit written about Duke it's like Duke is not an obscure character There's a lot a lot written about this guy. So there is plenty of research material Excuse me research material to use For a Duke review. Let's see focus now focus focus Come on. There we go All right, hold on what I want to do is I want to frame this kind of from the waist up But with some space where I can drop an overlaid Photo and as much as possible if I'm using a single Duke figure in the frame I'm trying to use the mail away one the one with the flag sticker because The extra color Makes it a little more appealing. I think plus it's the the first one. That's the original one And so I want to use that As the example of Duke as much as possible and then we'll talk about the differences Between that one and the retail version in a bit This is just a quick couple sentences and then I've got another quick couple sentences and I want to add some kind of motion to the video So what I think I'm gonna do is I'm gonna manually like turn the figure around because I'm gonna talk about the reused parts But let's get this part done First Duke was designed by Ron Rudat for Hasbro Ron was tasked with creating a heroic character. His stature and demeanor Are imposing and authoritative Okay Duke was designed by Ron Rudat for Hasbro Ron was tasked with creating a heroic character. His stature and demeanor are imposing and authoritative sort of We'll talk about that And let's see Here's what I'm gonna do for this next spot Back it out a little bit move you out of the way All right, almost nothing on this figure is original Almost all of his parts and accessories are reused from other action figures This figure was made on the cheap yet. It is one of the most iconic figures in the entire line Okay. All right ready No, we're not ready. No, we're not a lot I Start recording and then decide that my camera angle isn't good. So now I have to adjust Okay there and okay ready Here we go Almost nothing on this figure is original almost all of the parts and accessories are reused from other action figures This figure was made on the cheap yet. It was one of the most iconic figures in the entire line I don't like how that you do this ready and go Almost nothing on this figure is original almost every part and accessory are reused from earlier action figures Not earlier other action figures somewhere at the same time Okay, try it again almost nothing on this figure is original almost every part and accessory are almost Almost nothing on this figure is original almost every part and accessory are reused from other action figures This figure was made on the cheap yet. It was that yet Yet it is one of the most iconic figures in the entire line Almost nothing on this figure is original almost every part and accessory is reused from other action figures Almost nothing on this figure is original almost every part and accessory is reused from other action figures Almost nothing on this figure is original. Almost every part and accessory are reused. Almost nothing on this figure is original. Almost every part and accessory is reused. Almost nothing on this figure is original. Almost every part and accessory are reused from earlier action figures. This figure was made on the cheap. Yet it was one of the most iconic figures in the entire line. Almost nothing on this figure is original.  Almost nothing on this figure is original. Almost every part is... Almost nothing on this action figure is original. Almost every part and accessory is... Ah, fucking... Pardon me. I used a bad word. Okay. Almost every... Almost nothing on this figure is original. Almost every part and accessory are re-used from other action figures. This figure was made on the cheap, yet it was one of the most iconic figures of the entire line. Good enough. Okay. So, struggled through that one. Hopefully that will not be how the rest of the video goes, but there we go. And that is actually the end of that segment. It is now time to stop for a break. I want to take a shower. I want to clean up a little bit. And before I tackle the accessories segment. Alright, awesome. It looks like I had the microphone off for part of the recording of this behind-the-scenes. So what I'll probably do is a time-lapse of the video that I have without audio. So that's how we solved that. And it'll look like it was intentional. If I didn't mention it here, you'd never know, right? It would look like I intended to do it that way. Anyway, I'm down to the media section. It's a lot of reading. I've set up Duke in his hero pose like on the version 1 card art. I thought that would be nice. I've got a space in the frame here where I can overlay video and comic book images. This segment takes almost as long as the rest of the video to edit. It's just very time-consuming. And so what I've started to do is I've started to pare it down to just the essentials. Because a character like Duke appeared in dozens, maybe hundreds of animated episodes and hundreds of issues of the comic book. And I can't realistically go into a lot of detail about each of those appearances. So I'll pull out a few, I think, key appearances and talk generally about how he was used. But I'm trying to keep it to a minimum. Mainly just to help me edit the videos because, yeah, it's tough. It's really hard to finish that media section when I'm editing. But even though I've trimmed it down to what I think is the minimum, Mila Dog has decided to come up and join me. Hi, Mila. How are you doing? Even though I've tried to pare it down to the essentials for a character like Duke, it's still pretty long. So I'm going to go through this. I've got my notes here. I'm just going to look at my notes, read it. Well, I won't read it word for word. But I'll look at my notes and talk about it. And then I need to do the 3D spin. And then I need to take the still images. And then I think I'll be done. But I think Miss Mila wants to go outside. You want to go outside, Pop? If you don't want to go outside, why do you want to go outside? Okay, the dog just wanted to play. And so I played with the dog a little bit and gave her a treat. She's very happy now. So now I'm going to do what I intended to do when I first sat down here and do the media section. So if a certain pup will not crunch too loudly while I'm recording, that would be lovely. Okay. All right, and here we go. Looking at how Duke was used in G.I. Joe Media, he was involved in the animated series from the very beginning. He first appeared in the first animated miniseries in 1983. He was the main protagonist and the leader of the team. He was voiced by Michael Bell. He was in many episodes throughout the series. He had a knack for getting captured and going into comas. Twice Duke went into a coma, not just in that movie. He had gone into a coma before. Apparently he's coma prone. Let's see. This is the bit about the animated movie and a little bit about the Dieck era, and that's it for the animated side. Like I said, I'm trying to keep it minimal. All right. In the 1987 animated movie, it was revealed that Lieutenant Falcon was his half-brother. Duke was mortally wounded by Serpentor, yet he didn't die. He had another coma. He was supposed to die, but dialogue was added that were... Okay. In the 1987 animated movie, it was revealed that Lieutenant Falcon was his half-brother. Duke was mortally wounded by Serpentor, yet he didn't die. He was... Okay. In the 1987 animated movie, it was revealed that Lieutenant Falcon was his half-brother. Duke was mortally wounded by Serpentor, yet he didn't die. He went into another coma. He was supposed to die, but dialogue was added later that reversed his death. After the backlash from Optimus Prime dying in the Transformers movie... This is it. This is it. In the 1987 animated movie, it was revealed that Lieutenant Falcon was his half-brother. Duke was mortally wounded by Serpentor, yet he didn't die. He went into... Okay. In the 1987 animated movie, it was revealed that Lieutenant Falcon was his half-brother. Duke was mortally wounded by Serpentor, yet he didn't die. He went into another coma. He was supposed to die, but dialogue was later added that reversed his death. After the backlash from Serpentor... From Serpentor. Optimus Prime... Okay. In the 1987 animated movie, it was revealed that Lieutenant Falcon was his half-brother. Duke was mortally wounded by... In the 1987 animated movie, it was revealed that Lieutenant Falcon was his half-brother. Duke was mortally wounded by Serpentor, yet he didn't die. He went into another coma. He was supposed to die, but dialogue was added later that reversed his death. After the backlash from Optimus Prime dying in the Transformers movie, the decision to kill Duke was changed. Unfortunately, they had already completed the animation by then, so they had to do it with a bit of awkwardly placed dialogue. Alright. Last bit on the animated series... Duke appeared a few times in the Deke era of the animated series as well. He was a popular character throughout the vintage era, and if I go into any more depth on the animated series, I will be here all day, so that's all I'm saying about it. It's all factual, it's all true, but that's all we gotta say right now. Alright. Looking at how Duke was used in the comic book series published by Marvel Comics, he first appeared in issue number 22. He and Roadblock shot down a Cobra Rattler that was attacking General Flag's funeral. After that, he started leading the team in the field. In the next issue, number 23, he led an undercover team in the Alps that captured Cobra Commander. This next segment is about a Larry Hama interview, and I do have something that I can overlay from that interview. It took Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, some time to warm up to Duke. He had some appearances, but okay. I know that probably everybody who watches this knows that Larry Hama wrote the G.I. Joe comic book, but I have to present this for somebody who might not know. In fact, I mentioned the Deke era of the animated series without explaining what that was. Some people may not know what that is, so I gotta be careful about abbreviating things and not explaining them. Anyway, carrying on. It took Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, some time to warm up to Duke. He had some appearances, but on some missions other Joes took leadership roles. It took Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, some time to warm up to Duke. He had some appearances, but on, okay. It took Larry Hama, it took Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, some time to warm up to Duke. He had some appearances, but on other missions, okay. It took Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, some time to warm up to Duke. He had some appearances, but on some missions other Joes took leadership roles. roles. It took Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, some time to warm up to Duke. He had some appearances, but on some missions other Joes took leadership roles. Larry said the character of Duke never gelled with him. Duke always seemed like an afterthought. He said in an interview with Toy Fair magazine in 1998. Duke had some good leadership moments, such as when he led the team on the first attack on Cobra Island in issue number 42. His best first sergeant moment was probably in issue number 82, where he was running drills on new GI Joe recruits and selecting new team members. He was harsh, mean, demanding, and merciless. He was Duke. In issue number 109, he led a Joe squad into the fictional desert of Trucial Abysmia. The squad was captured and most of them were executed by a Cobra saw viper. The loss of the troops under his command severely affected Duke. He had some good moments in the comic book, but who was never the dominant figure that he was in the animated series. Okay, there is an odd appearance of Duke in Marvel Comics Secret Wars, actually not in Secret Wars, in Amazing Spider-Man. There's a character that looks like Duke and is called Sergeant, and I just wanted to comment about it and bring that up. Okay. GI Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was published by Marvel. That appealed to me. I wanted GI Joe to occupy a space where nobody was bulletproof. GI Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was published by Marvel. That appealed to me. I wanted GI Joe to occupy a space where nobody was bulletproof, except for bulletproof. GI Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was published by Marvel. That appealed to me. I want a G.I. Joe to occupy a space where nobody is bulletproof, except for bulletproof. And nobody wears a cape on a regular- okay, dang it, okay, I got a flow, okay. G.I. Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was published by Marvel. That appealed to me. I want a G.I. Joe to occupy a space where nobody is bulletproof, except for bulletproof.  At least not until Dr. Meinbender and Serpentor came along. Ah, okay. G.I. Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was published by Marvel. This- okay. G.I. Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was- Ah, Lordy. I gotta get through this. G.I. Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the- G.I. Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was published by Marvel. G.I. Joe wasn't part of the Marvel Universe, even though the comic was published by Marvel. That appealed to me. I want a G.I. Joe to occupy a space where nobody is bulletproof, except for bulletproof.  At least until Dr. Meinbender and Serpentor came along. 1986 was a weird year. Um, okay. But is it really true? Is it really true? But is it really true that G.I. Joe was separate from the Marvel Universe? Transformers appeared in G.I. Joe, and Transformers were in the Marvel Universe. Also an amazing Spider-Man number 268, a character called Sargent, who looks almost exactly like Duke, makes an appearance. Last bit. Duke had many post-vintage appearances in cartoons, comic books, and live action. He is in nearly every incarnation of G.I. Joe. Okay. That's it. I'm going to take the still images. I'm going to break out my turntable here and do the spin. And I'm not going to record that because there's nothing interesting about that. But I'm done shooting for the day. That's it. That's the core review. So tomorrow I can do the work in front of the camera, the col-open, the open, the overall assessment, the close, all the scripted bits. It's a lot. It's more than usual. So I mean this is, excuse me, it's a major character. I think it deserves a close look. I think it deserves a thorough review. It should be a lot. I don't think you should, I would not review Duke and just take 15 minutes and be done with it. Duke deserves more attention than that. So I'm expecting this to be a fairly long video. But I'm hoping that it'll be a good one. I'm hoping that the work that's going into it will be worth it. So anyway, that's all for now. I will be back tomorrow for the rest of the shooting and I'll see you then. It's the next day and it's time to do the work in front of the camera. There is my Sony handy camera right there. There's the green screen. I've got the lighting set up. I'm trying to get a nice, even, soft light on the green screen behind me so I don't have too many shadows.  I have my scripted parts and my notes. I have my remote to operate the camera and we should be ready to go. Right now I'm working with a two-camera system. I've got the 4K camera that I normally use to record the core review and I've got this which I usually use to record the green screen stuff. As I said, this camera is going on an extended loan to a friend so I'm going to be back down to one camera and it will be the 4K camera so when I'm operating with just the 4K then everything is going to be shot in 4K. Those 4K files are really big and they can be a challenge to transfer and to edit and the fully rendered video is very large and takes a while to upload but the picture quality is much better and so we'll be in 100% 4K here shortly but for the time being I'm still using the Sony Handycam for certain shots. In order to get the full effect of the 4K on the core review I have to render the whole video in 4K but I figure I don't usually need a 4K camera to shoot my mug, right? But anyway, it's all set up. This is going to take a while. I've got a lot to do so I don't know how much of this I'm going to actually record. I'll record some of it so you can get an idea of how it works. It works much the same as the core review in that I'll stop the video after each line when I've delivered the line in the way I think I want it to appear in the final version. I will stop it so I have a clip and I can trim off all of the failed attempts and just keep the good one. And that's it. I've got the script in front of me and I've got, let's see, I need to stand right there in order to be in the proper place in the frame. The microphone is on. Double check. Microphone is on. And that's it. It's time to record. For the first line in the cold open and for the first line of the regular open I have to leave a few seconds lead-in time because it fades in. So here we go. All right. I wrote this so you'd think I would have it memorized but I don't. So I'm going to tune in with my communicator watch and the line is hoody to duke. Hoody to duke. Come in duke. That's easy enough. Recording. Hoody to duke. Hoody to duke. Come in duke. That's not bad. I want a little bit more lead-in so I'm going to do it again. Action. Hoody to duke. Hoody to duke. Come in duke. Next line. It's me. HTC 788. These are short lines. So now essentially I've tuned him in on the watch so now he's on an imaginary screen in front of me so I'll change my attention from the watch to the camera. It's me. HTC 788. Next line is know me. We did a video together three years ago. Know me. We did a video together three years ago. I'll do it again. Know me. We did a video together three years ago. All right.  Anyway, I'm doing a fresh review of the first Duke action figure and I'm inviting you to and I'm inviting you to join. It's no it's no it's yeah it's Timmer. I'm doing a fresh review anyway. I'm doing a fresh review of the first Duke action figure. I'm inviting you to join. Okay. It's important that I get this first reaction right. That's what kind of makes the joke work. No it's yeah it's Timmer. Anyway I'm doing a fresh review of the first. No it's yeah it's Timmer. Anyway I'm doing a fresh review of the first Duke action figure. I'm inviting you to join. Do it one more time. No it's yeah it's Timmer. Anyway I'm doing a fresh review of the first Duke action figure. I'm inviting you to join. I'll just pick which one looks best. Next line. I did but it was a long time ago. My videos were pretty rough back then. I think I could do a better job now. I did but it was a long time ago. My videos were pretty rough back then. I think I could do a better job now. Alright. Ready? Action. I did but it was a long time ago. My videos were pretty rough back then. I think I could do a better job now. I did but that was a long time ago. My videos were pretty rough back then. I think I could do a better job now. I'm not the best actor. In fact I'm not a good actor at all but if I have to make the choice between acting and clarity I usually choose clarity. So where I could deliver the lines sometimes more naturally I feel like I just want everything that's said to be understood. So sometimes I sacrifice like a natural delivery just to have it more clearly heard and understood. Next. Not everything is perfect on the first try. Haven't you ever made a mistake? Not everything is perfect on the first try. Haven't you ever made a mistake? Not everything is perfect on the first try. Haven't you ever made a mistake? Not everything is perfect on the first try. Haven't you ever made a mistake? Not everything is perfect on the first try. Haven't you ever made a mistake? Not everything is perfect on the first try. Haven't you ever made a mistake? Next line. That's impossible. Everybody makes an error from time to time. That's impossible. Everyone, okay, action. That's impossible. Everyone makes an error from time to time. That's impossible. Everyone makes an error from time to time. Next I have to pause because I am reacting to something ridiculous that Duke tells me. So, at this point I'm starting to get a little bit put out with Duke's hyper-perfectionism. So, it's gonna be something like pause. Do you wanna be in the video or not? Do you wanna be in the video or not? Do you wanna be in the video or not? Ready? Action. Like I said, action. Do you wanna be in the video or not? Longer pause. Do you wanna be in the video or not? A little bit more of a reaction. Do you wanna be in the video or not? Last line of this segment. No, it's, yeah, it's G.I. Joe. Yeah, it's G.I. Joeberg. The running gag through this video is Duke keeps calling me by the names of other people because he doesn't actually recognize me. Okay, ready? Last line is, and now there are sirens outside. I hope that's not being picked up by the microphone. Ready? Action. No, it's, yeah, it's G.I. Joeberg. No, it's, okay, hold on. No, it's, yeah, it's G.I. Joeberg. No, it's, okay, come on. No, it's, yeah, it's G.I. Joeberg. Okay, those are all my lines for the cold open. Now, after the cold open, we have the post-themed song. Probably what I'll do is I'll record this and then I'll cut off the behind the scenes bit because you get the idea. It's just more of this. So I'll do this segment and then I'll move on to something else. So we start this with the new standard open that I created for this year. Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. This week I'm redoing a review I did years ago. When I first started this channel, I was so eager to show my toys, I reviewed some major characters right away. I probably should have waited until I had better examples of those features in vehicles and until I developed my style and format. Let me go through that one more time. Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. This week I am redoing a review I did years ago. When I first started this channel, I was so eager to show you my toys, I reviewed some major characters right away. I probably should have waited until I had better examples of those figures in vehicles and until I developed my style and format. Okay, let's attempt that. Oh, and the following line, this means occasionally I will redo an old video. Let's see if I can sneak that into. All right, gotta be at least a two-second lead-in. Action. Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. Four. Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. This week, this week, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. Blah, blah, blah, slow down. Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show, oh my God, okay. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. This week I am redoing a review I did years ago. When I first started this channel, I was so eager to show you my toys that I reviewed some major characters right away. I probably should have waited until I had better examples of those figures and vehicles, and until I developed my style and format. That means occasionally I will redo an old video. Okay. Hello, everybody. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. This week I am redoing a review I did years ago. When I first started this channel, I was so eager to show you my toys that I reviewed some major characters right away. I probably should have waited until I had better examples of those figures and vehicles, and until I developed my style and format. That means occasionally I will redo an old video. Next, Duke needs a redo. He's one of the most important characters in the entire line. He appears in nearly every iteration of G.I. Joe. He deserves special attention. Something has changed since, okay, I'm gonna, okay, that's a good stopping point. Duke needs a redo. He's one of the most important characters in the entire line. He appears in nearly every iteration of G.I. Joe. He deserves special attention. I wanna just get that part. I don't need to lead in this time. Duke needs a redo. He's one of the most important, hold on. Yes. Duke needs a redo. He's one of the most important characters in the entire line. He appears in almost every iteration of G.I. Joe. He deserves special attention. Something has changed since I reviewed, something has changed since I last reviewed the figure. I was never a big fan of Duke. I thought he was a little too perfect, a little too Hollywood, a little too much like Hawk. He, Hawk, who was the real leader of the team. Something has changed since I last reviewed the figure. I was never a big fan of Duke. I thought he was just a little too perfect, a little too Hollywood, a little too much like Hawk, who was the real leader of the team. Maybe it's the fact that I've seen a lot of weird, ugly, and bizarre figures. Now, I wanna, I wanna just get that paragraph. I think, let's just do that. Ready? Something has changed since I last reviewed this figure. I was never a big fan of Duke. I always thought he was a little too perfect, a little too Hollywood, a little too much like Hawk, who was the real leader of the team. Maybe it's the fact that I've seen a lot of weird, ugly, and bizarre figures in the last six, figures in the last six years. I didn't write that down correctly. A lot of weird, ugly, and bizarre figures in the last six years, but Duke has grown on me. I find myself liking the figure and the character more than I did before. That's why I invited the real Duke to join us as we look at his first action figure. And then I have to cut there because I'm bringing, I've got a clip of, or I'm going to have a clip of Will, as Duke that he's going to say a line and I'm going to react to it. So, all right, ready? Ready. Okay, maybe it's the fact that I've seen a lot of weird, ugly, bizarre, and bizarre figures in the last six years, but Duke has grown on me. I find myself liking the figure and the character more than I did before. That's why I wanted the real Duke to join us as we look at his first action figure. Let's try that. Ready? Maybe it's the fact that I've seen, yeah. Maybe it's the fact that I've seen a lot of weird, ugly, and what? Bizarre. Maybe it's the fact that I've seen a lot of weird, ugly, and bizarre action figures in the last six years, but Duke has started to grow on me. I find myself liking the figure and the character more than I did before. That's why I wanted the real Duke to join us as we look at his first action figure. As a reaction to Will's line, I am going to have a long pause and then I say, a little bit frustrated. HCC788 presents Duke. I can do this on the first try if I get my reaction right. Reacting to his line where, once again, he calls me by somebody else's name. Ready? Action. HCC788 presents Duke. Let me do it one more time, just in case I need one more. Ready? Action. HCC788 presents Duke. I like that one better. Okay. So that's all I'm gonna show you for right now because I don't wanna just keep running this camera. I'll finish up the green screen stuff and then I'll show you the next steps. So, see you in a bit. Okay, next phase. I'm not ready to edit yet because I don't have the clips from Will yet and I don't have the images from Timmer yet. So I've decided to start working on the thumbnail image and I'm going to draw Duke. I'm doing it on my phone because that's the only device I really have to do it with. I'm launching the full force on YouTube as I'm doing this. So it's late in the evening. I'm starting to relax a bit and working on this artwork. Let me show you how I did it. This is on an app called Sketch. It is an app that is no longer supported. I don't know if you can even get any more. Sony published it at one point and it's the best free app that I found for drawing on a phone. So, this is my canvas here and I'll kinda show you my process by getting rid of some layers here. I basically started with an orange marker and kinda blocked out where I wanted the figure to be and what pose I wanted to be in and what its proportions would be. And then on top of that, I blue penciled a bit more detail and kinda worked out where everything was going to fall.  Oops, hold on. Eliminate the orange. And so, this is what I started drawing the pencils on. So, with a pencil, I started actually doing like the real detail and you can see I got some scribbles on the hands a little bit. I'm working on getting those right. So, once I add the pencils done, you know, kinda get rid of the blue line and that's what I'm going to do the inks over. This app, oops, this app has a variety, hold on. There we go. This app has a variety of tips and pens and brushes and, you know, other things. This, I want this drawing to be kind of gritty. So, I'm gonna try to have a lot of really thin, scratchy lines and when I do the coloring, I'm gonna use a brush and really try to get a very organic, rough feel to it and hopefully that'll turn out good. And of course, there's the color palette and I can make a color if I need to. But that's the pencils and on top of that I have started Oh, here we go. I have started inking. So, if I eliminate the pencils, you can see how much of the inks I've done. I've got a long way to go. I want to kind of get the basic inks in and then I will, I'll add a lot more detail and then I will color it. So, yeah, that's the process. I don't know exactly where the text is gonna go. I'm kind of leaving a lot of negative space so I can move the drawing around if I need to to place the text wherever I want it. But this is how it works and this is just on the screen of my phone. That's how I do it every time. So, I'm gonna finish this. It's getting late. After I finish this, I'll probably go to bed and then soon I should get some clips from Will and some pictures from Timmer and then I will be ready to edit. Okay, I'm editing. I stayed up way too late last night working on this but I got video clips from Will and I got pictures from Timmer and I just couldn't help it. I felt like editing so I worked on this too late. So, I've already put probably a couple, maybe two and a half hours into this and I'm up to the file card section, as you can see there. So, this is what it looks like right now. These are the different layers that I have, video and a few audio layers because on some of the audio I needed to adjust the volume a little bit this section over here, you can see there is a bunch of the green screen stuff that I shot and I've chroma keyed out the green and the chroma key actually looks okay this time, a little better than the previous video, I think. So, and there's Will as Duke, the clips that he sent me. So, I've spliced those in so we can have a conversation. There is the introduction and theme song and there is the title card image, the finished one and here is where the actual review starts and there are those 4K files which the editing software has to build proxies for and that can take a while. This part's fairly straightforward and I've got the scripted bits here, I've got my introduction here and we've got the more traditional core toy review here and I start out talking about the the history and background of the toy and then we move into talking about the accessories and I've got these lead-ins, these text overlays for each segment. I've wanted to more clearly demarcate each segment of the video but this is the best way that I've found to do it is just doing these kind of these headers. I had played around with the idea of having like a musical stinger between each segment or to introduce each segment and I actually edited a video that way and I really didn't like it after I saw it so I gave up on that idea. I might try to get it sometime but at least for now each of the segments of the video has a header like there's file cards and that should be that should not be plural, I'll fix that. Anyway, so still some things to fix apparently. So this is it and each of the clips that I shot I have placed them, they're not in exactly the same order but most of them are. I discovered some mistakes that I made and some errors during the editing so I have fixed a couple of those, I've cut out a few lines, I have switched a few things around and used earlier takes for a couple of things because I realized that in my final take I didn't say certain things right so I've had to correct myself and unlike text I can't just go into a word processor and clip something out or edit, this is video so if I've recorded something wrong I have to find a way to work around that or I have to re-record it. Fortunately I don't think I need to re-record these bits, I think I've got enough good video and audio here so I can work with it. Guess I should show you what I'm working with here. This is my folder for Duke. I have 2020 reviews, there's not very much in here right now because this is a new laptop, I had to replace my old one, it was having some hardware issues, some technical issues so this is what I've done so far in 2020 on this laptop. So there's Duke, I've got a folder for Duke and I've got a folder for, when I'm including comic book pages I usually crop the part of the page that I want to use and I have a folder there for the page crops although I haven't gotten all of those done yet, I will have to crop some comic book pages when I get to the media section which is coming up pretty soon. This is the raw video, this is the unedited video of all the stuff that I shot, all right? So from both cameras that's just the unedited stuff and let's see, this is the stuff that's actually gonna be uploaded so that's gonna go in the uploads folder. Right now I only have the thumbnail that I finished, the fully rendered review video will go in here and also the early access video and I think I'm done, this is the final edit. It's, the video turns out to be just a little over half an hour long so I was pretty close in my prediction that it would be half an hour. I've got all these cuts here, everything from here to here is the core review of the figure, that's the introduction, that's the, well I guess that is the review as well, that green screen is me talking about the figure and then the rest here is the close and that's it, I've got multiple layers of stuff on here, text and image overlays, kind of minimizing everything so you can see the whole thing pretty much on one screen but yeah, every single cut there has to be made. Every time something appears on screen like the name of a figure and the year it came out that all has to be put in and fade out and fade in so it's not too abrupt. Every time there's an image on the screen that has to be added in. So yeah, the things that you see on the screen they just don't appear there, I have to add them. So that is the final edits and I am ready to render this. There we go, that'll take a few hours so that's the perfect time for me to make some dinner for the child. There it goes, the final edit is uploading now, it's quite a bit of time, I get the weight while it uploads and we're done, that's basically it. It is scheduled for next Sunday at four o'clock in the afternoon, my time and hopefully everybody likes it. I really enjoyed putting it together and yeah, it's done, now I can move on to the next project. I'm sitting on my back patio enjoying some wine and celebrating the completion of another video. I'm pretty happy with this one, I hope everyone likes it. I put a lot of extra work in it. I got a guest in, a cosplayer to play Duke for me. That was fun and thanks to Will for doing that. Timmer helped out as well, so thank you also to Timmer. And yeah, it's done, what do I do now? Now I move on to the next project. I'm going to take a week off after the next video but I want to get the next video moving and get it in the can. I know what it's gonna be, it's gonna be something from the 90s and something pretty wacky. But it's time to get started. Tomorrow is Father's Day, it's Saturday evening right now. So I'm gonna be busy tomorrow, lots of activities tomorrow and of course Monday I work but after work I really need to be writing. I need to be writing. In fact, tomorrow if there's any time at all I need to write on the next episode. And you know, kind of pace myself. So the writing is done maybe by Wednesday evening and I'm set up and ready to record. So I can be finished recording by Friday and so I can edit and have everything up hopefully by Saturday evening. And yeah, that's it. I do put a lot of work into these videos. I don't want to be known as just the guy that works hard. I want to produce good videos. So hopefully you see the work that I put into the videos on the screen. But whether you like them or not, you know, this is what I do. This is my process. I want to end this video with a challenge. A challenge to everyone who creates videos for YouTube on a regular basis. I challenge you to make a behind the scenes video and show us your process. I think most people who watch videos don't understand how much work goes into producing them. And so show us. Also, I'm just curious about everyone's process because a lot of people are doing it like me. It's a one person project. I'm doing everything myself. I'm not trained to do any of these things. So I had to learn how to do them myself. So another person's method may be totally different. As you made videos and developed styles and techniques, your process may look totally different. And I'm curious, I want to see how you do it. So that's my challenge. If you make YouTube videos, show us how you do it. I think that will be very enjoyable. But that's it for this behind the scenes. I hope it was fun. It, no doubt, is very long, probably boring, but this is not for everyone to watch. This is really just for people who are curious about the process. And I know that'll be a small percentage of the audience, but for those of you who would like to see the process, I hope it was enjoyable. That's all. I'm done. This one's in the back. Now it's time to start the next one. See you later, everybody.


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Working together can go a long way to strengthening relationships. U.S. Naval Forces Europe Africa hosted the Eurasia Partnership Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Development Workshop. It was aimed at helping six nations improve leadership skills at the NCO level. Here at today's workshop for the rest of this week, we'll be talking about how we raise in the United States Navy an E1 to E9 with additional opportunities for officer programs in many of the fields. We've also learned about petty officer training programs, the recruiting process and CPO 365. Attendees appreciated the workshop and say it will help them when they return to their country. As far as our NCO programs is still in the process of developing and that's why it's great that we have a chance to share experiences and get to know how it happens in other countries for us to be better tomorrow. Being able to interact with one another face to face can improve camaraderie and helps build long-lasting relationships. I've made friends in a different country that are in a different military and I think that's going to break down some barriers. I can go directly to them, I can call them, I can email them, Facebook them, it'll make my job easier. Participating countries are eager to use the knowledge they learned from the workshop and they look forward to coming back together for next year's workshop in 2015. The officer, Matt Wright, Naples, Italy.


So at the beginning of the year things looked really bad for Democrats It seemed as if November would be a bloodbath, but slowly and surely things are starting to change at this moment It doesn't look like they'll be able to recapture the house But when it comes to the US Senate, it's looking a lot better for them And I think there's a number of factors for this certainly their extremism when it comes to a number of issues namely abortion has hurt Them also their votes against marriage equality Against contraception as a right against capping the cost of insulin These are all things that the American people want that the GOP does not support so their extremism is hurting them But also another problem is just the candidates aren't very good and we all see it But you want to know who else sees it Mitch McConnell because he actually cares if the Senate is not retaken by Republicans He cannot be the majority leader again And he doesn't want that to be the case. So he's talking about, you know, their prospects and he's saying Maybe the quality of candidates, this is his words are the reason why you know, it's not looking that that good Let's take a look at what he says here This is from NBC News quote I think there's probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the Senate Senate races are just different they're statewide Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome He said in Florence, Kentucky at a northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce luncheon when asked about his projection for the 2022 election quote right now we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country But I think when all is said and done this fall we're likely to have an extremely close Senate either our side up slightly or Their side up slightly so it's subtle, but he's saying there that candidate quality It has a lot to do with the outcome meaning the GOP base is not sending their best and this is pretty obvious I mean when you look at individuals like Dr. Oz Herschel Walker They've been a disaster I mean, let's talk about Dr. Oz first on Thursday cook political report shifted the Pennsylvania Senate race from a toss-up to Lean Democrat following a plethora of gaffes from Dr. Oz and just instances where he makes himself look stupid and more importantly After polling indicates that he's trailing his progressive opponent John Fetterman by an average of eight point seven points So what was a possible win for the Republican Party is now leaning out of their favor in Georgia Herschel Walker chose his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock by more than four points on average after Herschel Walker Just continues to make a fool of himself with bizarre and incoherent statements And there are also ads now detailing the violent abuse of his ex-wife and that's gaining more attraction And that didn't really have an impact during the primary but in a general election Things like this are going to hurt you where you hear somebody's ex-wife talk about the things that he's saying the threats that he made on her life And even if that wasn't a factor I mean if you go to one of his events and you just listen to him Who can understand what this guy is saying like I actually think he's not mentally fit to serve in the u.s. Senate But you know GOP voters rolled the dice and they went with them Now they both were propped up by Donald Trump both received the endorsements of Donald Trump Now was that the best strategic choice for Donald Trump? I don't know But Trump doesn't necessarily make endorsements based on Who's more electorally viable or who has the better policy positions really what he does Is he bases this off of loyalty?  Maybe there's some you know friendship there Herschel walker is a long time ally of donald trump. So that's what he did He didn't really factor in the particular states and the needs of constituents and what they might want He just said well, I like this person And just by doing that, you know, he propped up these candidates Now i'm not going to say that trump made or break these races But certainly that is a factor and mitch mcconnell has got to be a little bit pissed off That donald trump may have sunk in these Seats for them Now it's not just dr. Oz and herschel walker who are doing poorly because marco rubio and ron johnson incumbents Are also in danger. So keep that in mind We're not just talking about new gop primary winners. We're talking about incumbent republicans. This is huge So as chris walker of truth out explains fresh off his primary election victory in wisconsin lieutenant governor mandela barnes Appears to be in a good position to oust incumbent senator ron johnson in a marquette law school poll published on wednesday 51 percent of voters said that they back barnes or leaned toward doing so while only 44 percent of voters said the same for johnson who has been marred by a number of controversies including his involvement in the fake Electors scheme being pushed by former president donald trump in january of 2021 Meanwhile a university of north florida poll shows Representative val dennings slightly ahead of incumbent senator marco rubio Demings has 48 percent support among voters in her state while rubio has 44 percent support according to the poll Now when it comes to val dennings, i'm not necessarily super enthusiastic about her because she's just a pretty standard corporate democrat but for her to come That close in this race. So this isn't even you know, within the margin of error She's leading marco rubio at least according to this poll. We have to see others. So this could be an outlier, but Nevertheless, she's she's leading marco rubio. That is Huge because florida has effectively become a red state So i didn't even think that it was possible for her to defeat marco rubio And the fact that she's now leaving him at least according to one poll That is no small thing and again, i'm not enthusiastic about her But she'd be a giant trade up compared to marco rubio So that in and of itself should be sending the gop completely, you know, uh terrified But at the same time i'm not going to be convinced about this particular race until we see more polling But still really good indication when it comes to mandela barns. Now, that's someone who is an incredible candidate He's not just pro worker pro union. He's pro medicare for all And ron johnson, you know, he's hurting himself again He's now implicated in the fake elector scheme as the article pointed out But when it comes to certain issues like marriage equality He's not taking a firm stance.  They released an ad essentially attacking ron johnson because he won't take a stand He said, oh, well, there's no reason to be against it But yet he won't firmly commit to it. So the people who want marriage equality, which is now most americans They're not satisfied and the people who don't want marriage equality also aren't satisfied So when you ride the fence sometimes you end up hurting yourself in an effort to please both sides So, you know mandela barns if he were able to defeat ron johnson, that would be Giant that would be huge now I don't want to like paint this overly rosy picture because it's not like progressives are going to sweep Certainly we have john fetterman mandela barns really exciting Candidates I think but then we also have charles booker now based on at least one poll by mason dixon He is trailing ran paul by 16 points And that's really unfortunate because I believe in charles booker and i'm not going to discount him yet But again, this is of this is going to be an uphill battle because he's in the state of kentucky So very difficult to pull out a win in a deep red state like that. But perhaps, you know Things will change. He has a really huge grassroots organization behind him in this state And you know, I'm not going to count him out yet, but again, it's going to be a minor miracle for him to actually defeat ran paul So that's one race where you know, it's not all Cookies and rainbows unfortunately, but the reason why you know, mitch mcconnell is seemingly worried about this is because in the event He's not the majority leader if republicans don't take back the senate Then he loses control over judicial nominees And we all know that mitch mcconnell likes to stack the courts. He helped donald trump stack Huge numbers of far-right conservatives. He helped republicans Take back the supreme court So if it is the case that he's not the majority leader in the next couple of years And there's a supreme court vacancy. biden gets to make that appointment You know, mitch mcconnell can't do much to block it. So Overall, I am crossing my fingers. I'm really crossing my fingers. I don't have much hope for the house But when it comes to the senate, things are looking good But I'm remaining cautiously optimistic because we just don't know so many things can change between now And november so I don't want you to get your hope up if you're in one of these states Then certainly you should do your part to help these candidates defeat these republicans who are ghouls And um, yeah, we'll leave that there. I'd love that mitch mcconnell is essentially Trashing these uh, these republicans And he's right. I don't think that any republican is appealing at all But when you have people like dr. Oz the g.o.p equivalent of hillary clinton when you have pershal Walker Who doesn't even know where he is? I mean republicans have been knocking joe biden for a couple of years Claiming that he you know is out of his mind and I think that that's true to a certain extent But when you have a candidate like hershal walker I mean, I don't even know who this appeals to like he says right wing talking points sometimes But he's very clearly incapable of serving Because he he has issues that need to be addressed not like don't give him power Like give him help his family needs to step in and intervene and get him the help that he needs because very clearly Something is off there.


The congested government is demanding an apology from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the EFCC, over its insistence that the government diverted 20 billion naira meant to pay workers salaries. The state has given the anti-graft agency 48 hours to do so and also retract all accusations, failing which it will take legal action. Plus TV Africa's Hillary Norooka reports. The dust raised by the allegation of the diversion of 20 billion naira by the Kogi state government is yet to settle and might not settle soon. And that's because the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is insisting the state move the money into an interest shielding account. The state is now asking the anti-graft agency to show proof. And we hereby again challenge the EFCC to produce the account mandate, account package and the phone number and BVN of those who are legally opened and operated the Kogi state salary bailout fixed deposit account. The Kogi state commissioner for information also wonders why the EFCC is yet to publish details of the signatories to the account and arrest them. He is in addition demanding an apology by Tuesday afternoon, otherwise the state would go to cuts. Plus TV Africa tried to get the reaction of the EFCC, but it says it does not react to news conferences. On Friday, the agency released a statement saying 19.3 billion naira from the controversial bank account has been moved to the central bank of Nigeria. It insists it was operated by Kogi states. Hillary Norooka for Plus TV Africa.


This is a demonstration of the muscles of the back. Before I start, first things first, take a look at the skin of the back. The skin of the back is very thick, and the subcutaneous tissue is firmly adhering to the skin. And under then, there's a thick layer of fat. The skin of the back is quite different from the skin in other regions. After we have reflected the skin, we see the muscles of the back, and we shall classify the muscles of the back into two broad groups. The extrinsic back muscles and the intrinsic back muscles. The extrinsic back muscles are not the true back muscles, and that's the one which we can see here first. Take a look at this muscle that we see in front of us. This is one muscle on one side. There will be a similar muscle on the other side, and this muscle is the trapezius muscle. The trapezius muscle is one of the extrinsic back muscles. It does not act on the back. It acts on the pectoral girdle. It is called the trapezius, because when both the sides are combined together, they'll form a trapezium. That's why it's called trapezius. The next muscle that we can see here is this big muscle. This is the latsomus dorsi. This is also extrinsic back muscle. It is not a true back muscle. This also acts on the upper lip. Now let's cut the trapezius and reflect it up, and we have cut it here, and we are reflecting the trapezius up. Once we reflect the trapezius up like this, we see yet another layer of muscles under the trapezius. This muscle that we see here, this is the rhomboids major. Just about that we have another muscle. This is the rhomboids minor. And further up we have the third muscle. This is the libator scapulae. These three are also the extrinsic back muscles. They are not true back muscles. They act on the pectoral girdle. Now we shall reflect the rhomboids major, and we have cut it, and we are reflecting the rhomboids major, and we are retracting the rhomboids minor to show you yet one more muscle underneath. And that is this muscle here. This is the cirrhosis posterior superior. This is also an extrinsic back muscle. This does not act on the pectoral girdle, but it is an accessory muscle of respiration. This is the cirrhosis posterior superior. Now we shall do the same thing with the latsomus dorsi. We have cut it here, and latsomus dorsi also takes partial origin from the outer layer of the thoracolumbar fascia. So we have split the thoracolumbar fascia here, and we have cut the latsomus dorsi here, and we are reflecting it. And once we reflect it, we see yet one more muscle under the latsomus dorsi. And we can see that the direction of fibers are opposite to that the cirrhosis posterior superior. Cirrhosis posterior superior fibers were running like this. These fibers are running like this. This is the cirrhosis posterior inferior. This is also an accessory muscle of respiration. So all these muscles are the extrinsic back muscles. They are not the true muscles of the back. Now we will reflect this. As I mentioned earlier, we have already split the posterior layer of the thoracolumbar fascia, all along its length, right from here up. After we have split the outermost layer of the thoracolumbar fascia, as you can see here, now we have exposed the true or the intrinsic back muscles. The intrinsic back muscles are so-called, are called intrinsic back muscles because of a few special features which they possess. Number one, they are all supplied by the dorsal ramia of spinal nerves. Number two, they are located between the outer layer of the thoracolumbar fascia and the middle layer of the thoracolumbar fascia. And the third point is they act specifically on the vertebral column, and that's why they're... In this particular case, the muscles that we see in front of us, this is the intermediate layer of the intrinsic back muscles. And they are also called the erector spinae muscle or the sacrospinalis muscle. This has been classified into three subgroups, going from lateral to medial. Let's pick up the first subgroup, which I have lifted up here. This is the iliocostalis. And we can see it is starting from a thick, strong tendon at the back, and this is the tendon which we can feel on our back, on either side of the vertebral column, in any normal person. This starts from the ilium, and partly from the sacrum, and goes all the way up, and it gets attached by means of multiple slips to the ribs. Therefore, this is called iliocostalis. And depending on the region, it can be called iliocostalis lumborum, iliocostalis thoracis, iliocostalis services. Going next medially, we have the next muscle, and that is this one which I have lifted up here. This is the longest muscle. This also has a common origin as the iliocostalis, from the ilium and the sacrum, and it goes straight up all the way. Of course, it does have a few slips attaching to the ribs, but most of the muscle goes straight up, and I have lifted that muscle up here. And it goes continues up, and it gets ends at the occipital bone in the region of the buccal line. So, this is the longismus. This also, depending on the region, is divided into longismus thoracis and capitis. Going further medially, we have the third subgroup, and we can see those muscles here. This is the spinalis muscle. Spinalis muscle is relatively small, and it is situated right next to the vertebral column. And this also, depending on the location, can be either spinalis thoracis or spinalis services. So, this is the intermediate group. There is a group deep to this, which is collectively called the transversal spinalis, but that is clinically not so important. The importance lies in these three groups of this subgroup of muscles, namely the iliocostalis, longismus, and spinalis. They are the type one. Red muscle, posterior muscle, anti-gravity muscle. They are fatigue resistance, they are slow twitch, and they are the ones which are responsible for us maintaining our erect postures. There is yet one more group of muscle, which is very small, and which is called the superficial group of intrinsic back muscle, and that can be seen if we look very closely here. Now I'm focusing on the superficial group of intrinsic back muscles. There are two very small muscles which are located superficial to the erector spine, and they are collectively called the spleenus services and spleenus capitis. Spleenus means in Greek bandage. So it's a thin, flat muscle, almost like a bandage, and the muscle that we see here, which is located just under the cilidus posterior superior. This is the spleenus services. Spleenus services, and further higher up, will be the spleenus capitis. So this is the superficial group of intrinsic back muscles. So these are the three groups of muscles which are located in the back, which are the intrinsic back muscles. Thank you very much for watching. If you have any questions or comments, please put them in the comment section below, Dr. Sanjay Sanyal signing out.


Hell yeah, what's up guys, this is KurtzPyte. My friends, call me Banksy. I'm back in action today. We're continuing that series, where I show you how to be the best video editor, audio editor, you know, step by step using free software and free tools, guys. I'm gonna show you how to become amazing at this using free stuff. It's pretty wild. Let's get into this. The other episodes, we covered a little bit of video editing. We covered how to record gameplay footage. In this one, I'm gonna show you how to record your audio professionally. And what do I mean by that? I mean, we've all heard it.  Or the guy, or the gal speaking over top of the game is too quiet and the music's too loud and vice versa. Or they've got multiple people on the call and one of them's just blowing out loud and the other one you can barely hear. We're gonna sort all that out using Audacity. Let's get right into this. All right, before we start getting into Audacity, I do wanna remind you that you will need a microphone for it. So there are two, basically two types of mics that are usable. One of them is a desktop mic, of course. You know, blue Yeti's, blue Snowballs, all those different types. And then there's headset mics. If you've got a desktop mic, I do recommend keeping the microphone about nine inches away from your mouth. And yeah, apparently according to my girlfriend, I don't know how long nine inches is. So you better measure it because I've been rounding up. Sorry about that. And if you've got a headset microphone, well, you basically wanna keep it as far away from your mouth as possible just to keep the pops down and any crackling and any loud jarring cracks. And I'm gonna show you how to take those out. So with that preamble out of the way, let's get into Audacity. All right, here we go. The first step to downloading Audacity, again, free software, is you wanna go to audacityteam.org. There we go. You wanna go there and then left click on download Audacity. It might start the download automatically for you. If not, just click on the first link, Audacity 3.1. Whatever it says or whatever it shows you at the time of watching this and download it. Once you've done that, left click on the EXE file and it will quickly install the software for you. It's very small, very quick, very good software. All right, let's keep going. All right, here we go. I have a copy of Audacity open in front of me. And yeah, it looks a little overwhelming and scary, but I promise you it's very easy to use once you get the hang of it. All right, the first thing you wanna do before you go any further is you wanna make sure you've got the correct microphone selected. This is often a problem for people because if they don't have it selected, it often has the default built-in microphone to your laptop, for example, and it's horrible. So again, make sure that you have the correct one selected. I'm using a blue snowball for this one. So again, make sure that this here is selected to the correct microphone. All right, now that we've got the correct microphone selected to record, you just basically wanna left-click on this red button. This is R4 record. And as we do that, you're gonna see it going here. And as I talk louder and quieter, you're gonna see the waveform adjust up and down. That's exactly what we want. It looks good. All right, so that is all you gotta do. And if you wanna stop it again, just click on that stop button and that will be the end of it. So I'll just do that right now just to show you, left-click there, stop, okay, we've got like almost 10 seconds of audio. I'm recording with another program in case you're wondering how I can keep talking and this isn't recording. But now let's get into some professionalism. This, in a lot of cases, if you have a perfect environment and you're in a quiet environment with no distracting sounds and you've got a great mic and you've got it all set up, you might be able to just go to File and then just go to Export as MP3. If you're in a good spot and you don't wanna make any changes, you got your settings right, go ahead and do that. That's all you need to do. But there are a few things you can do to make audio a little more professional and I'm gonna show you the top three. So let's get right into those. All right, the first one we wanna do is we wanna get rid of any noise reduction. So any buzzing, anything that sounds just distracting, let's get rid of it. In my video, I have the mic close to my laptop and my laptop fan is going a mile a minute. So it's really, really buzzing. So I wanna get rid of the laptop fan for me. So how do I do that? Simple, I'm gonna go ahead and select some of this audio here. I just left click on the timeline and I just dragged it back and this allows me to select that part of the video. Now, what I'm doing is I'm basically selecting a time period, a period of time where there's nothing, no audio at all. It's just a background fan, I'm not talking. So once you've got that selected, you wanna go now up to Effect and we're going to go ahead and do some noise reduction. Left click now on Noise Reduction. When you do that, you'll have a few options. The first thing you need to do is left click on Get Noise Profile, click on it. So now we have the noise profile. Basically, we've isolated the sound fan or the background humming sound, okay? That's what we wanted. Now, the next step is you wanna hit Control A, Command A if you're on a Mac, but you're probably not. So Control A and that is select all because what we wanna do is we wanna apply noise reduction to everything. So we have the profile, now we're going to apply it.  When you do that, you're gonna see here that at the beginning of the timeline, it went from a little bit of a buzzy waveform to basically a flat line. We have isolated the background noise and taken it out. That is the first step and it's very, very important, especially if you don't have optimal conditions. Okay, let's get into step two. All right, everybody, the second step is the Compressor step. Basically wanna take out some of the highs and the lows. It's very, very easy to do and it adds another level of professionalism to the audio. So what you do is you basically click anywhere and click Command or Control A, Control A if you're on a PC.  Now under Compressor, you have a few options. They're pretty good right out of the gate. I like to increase the ratio from the default two to one. I increase it up to about, yeah, let's go to six to one. So we're basically just going ahead and taking out the highs and lows and normalizing the audio. Left click on OK and watch the wave or the waveform. See how it adjusted up a little bit? Basically, we're just going ahead and making the audio a little bit better. All right, the third and final step, again, making sure you've selected everything in the timeline is a limiter. We wanna make sure that there's no overly loud bangs or crashes or noise that basically scare people off. And again, they may opt, especially for really loud noises. They may opt to disconnect or close the video. And again, we don't want that for video search engine optimization. So again, what you wanna do here is you wanna go to Effect, left click on Effect and drop it all the way down here to Limiter, left click on Limiter. And then you wanna basically just this highlight right here, it's Limit to DB. In my case, I don't want the audio to ever go above zero decibels. If it goes above zero decibels, you run the risk of getting blown out audio.  So set that to zero, left click on OK. It won't make many changes, you won't see it. But basically we set a limit to it and that's it. Now, if you play this back, let's see what happens. All right, so that is all you gotta do. And if you wanna stop it again, professional audio, it sounds great. The last step is to go to File and then you wanna go to Export and you wanna export this as an MP3 and then you wanna save it. I'm gonna save it to desktop and I'm gonna call this audio.mp3, whatever, it doesn't matter. Left click on Save Presto. We've now got audio. And you know what, as a little bit of a bonus because we're on a roll here, I'm gonna show you something else. And this is an important part because it does trick a lot of people.  How to sync your gameplay and your audio. So when you're speaking through your mic and your gameplay that you're playing on your computer, a lot of the times they're not exactly synced up, especially if you started recording one before the other. You're off by a few seconds, milliseconds. Let's just fix that problem right here. The way to do it, if you wanna go, and this is using HitFilm Express. There's other programs that are actually better at this but I'm gonna show you how to do it the manual way using HitFilm Express. Left click on Import, once you've got it opened up and I'm just gonna import some footage. So I'm gonna import the AE4 video that I've got here. That's just me playing Age of Empires 4 and you'll see here that it is loading up and that's what we want. So it'll take a few seconds and then I'm gonna drag and drop that onto my timeline and I'm gonna start it exactly at the beginning. It says here, do you wanna change the sequence settings? Yes, I do. I want them to match my gameplay footage and as I scrub through it, you'll see here, boom, presto, that's me playing the game and again, that's just the beginning of the game. The next step is you wanna import the audio which is the separate file that we just created and I showed you how to create and that's called AE4 Audio 3. We're gonna import that as well and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag and drop the audio onto its own separate audio track. So let's see if I can do that. Right about, what do you think here? There we go. So we've got the audio now and you'll see here that they're matched and they're scrubbed together. Now there's a, oops, I didn't wanna do that. What you wanna do here, and this is where it gets a little tricky but you're smart so you can figure this out, is you basically wanna go right to the beginning of the clip and then you wanna basically match it up. So I'm gonna go ahead and delete part of this audio and what I'm doing is basically wherever I say, wherever I want the audio to start, I move it along the clip. So if I start doing my talking around, let's say exactly at the 30, 28 second mark, for example, or 28 frame mark, then I would move my audio to there. If I wanna, if I don't say, okay, here's where I start talking or I start shooting or whatever you do, you just basically nudge this audio one frame at a time until you get them to match up. There are programs like Adobe Premiere Pro where you can do it automatically but HitFilm Express is still manual so just drag and move the audio until you get it exactly where you want it and then from there, well hey, they're both gonna match up and I'm gonna show you how to export and do all that other stuff in HitFilm Express in the next movie. Thanks for watching this one guys, ton more stuff coming up, stay tuned, be back.


This study investigated the effects of zinc and estradiol on renal ischemia slash reperfusion injury, IRI, and ovariectomized rats. It found that both zinc and estradiol can reduce renal damage caused by IRI, with zinc being more effective than estradiol. Estradiol improved renal function and reduced oxidative stress, while zinc had a greater impact on reducing oxidative stress. This article was authored by Phurobercat, Ardesher Talibai, and Metinemetbax.