Hello and welcome to the Hindu news analysis by Shankar A.S. Academy. The displayed news articles along with the page numbers from different editions of the Hindu are displayed here for your convenience. The PDF link of the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles is given in the description box and also in the comment section. Let's start with the first news article analysis. We know that a tropical cyclone named Nisirga is a wrecking havoc in the states like Maharashtra and Gujarat. We are also aware of a cyclone Ampan which caused heavy damages in the states like West Bengal and Odisha. In that context, we have elaborately discussed about the formation of a tropical cyclone and its features in our 21st May Hindu news analysis video. And you can always refer this video to understand the fundamentals of a tropical cyclone. Now to start with today's news article, let us rewind what is meant by cyclones in brief. That is, cyclones are intense low pressure areas and the wind circulation around a low pressure is called as a cyclonic circulation. From the center of such intense low pressure areas, the pressure increases outwards and the magnitude of the drop in pressure in the center and the rate at which the pressure increases outwards determines the intensity of the cyclones and the strength of the associated winds. As the name indicates, a tropical cyclone is a cyclonic low pressure system occurring in the tropics. And we know that the tropics lies between 23.5 degrees northern latitude which is also known as a tropic of cancer and the 23.5 degrees southern latitude and this latitude is known as a tropic of Capricorn. Know that a tropical cyclone forms when the central pressure falls by 5 to 6 hectopascals from its surrounding and the maximum sustained wind speed reaches about 34 knots that is about 62 kilometers per hour. It is a vast violent world of 150 to 800 kilometers spiraling around a center and progressing along the surface of the sea at a greater speed. Know that the tropical cyclones originate only over the seas or oceans. They originate and intensify over warm tropical oceans and there are certain conditions which favor the formation of tropical cyclones like the presence of a large sea surface with a temperature higher than 27 degrees centigrade and the existence or presence of a Coriolis effect which is also known as a deflection effect as a result of rotation of the earth. Then the pre-existing weak low pressure area or low level cyclonic circulation and the presence of upper diversions of air column above the sea level system. Now we will see the different names for tropical cyclones and these names are based on region specific. They are known as cyclones in the Indian Ocean, hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, typhoons in the western Pacific and the South China Sea and willy-willy's in the western Australia. With this information let's take up the news article. It says that Cyclone Nisargha made a landfall in Raigar district of Maharashtra with torrential rains with a wind speed of up to 120 kilometers per hour or a radius of about 60 kilometers. Cyclone Nisargha was expected to hit the Gujarat coast but this did not happen as the cyclone moved northeast towards from Maharashtra. As a precautionary measure the Gujarat government had shifted over 60,000 people living in low-lying vulnerable areas in South Gujarat to safer places. The government also deployed several teams of NDRF and SDRF to tackle any untoward incident. The Gujarat and the Maharashtra governments also took several other precautionary measures to minimize loss of human life and property damage and they also ensured that COVID-19 hospitals in the affected areas have power supply without interruptions and they have also issued advance warnings to fishermen to return from the sea to the safer places. The people associated with the prawn cultivation and salt pans have been shifted to safer places. These are certain important measures taken by the state governments in the context of Cyclone Nisargha. Know that Cyclone Ampan was named by Thailand and the Cyclone Nisargha was named by Bangladesh. In this context know that the upcoming cyclones are already named and these include Cyclone Gati which is named by India, Cyclone Nivar which is named by Iran and then Cyclone Burevi which is named by Maldives. These are certain important aspects in the context of Cyclone Nisargha. The display practice question will be discussed at the end of this session. Let us proceed to the next news article analysis. This news article talks about cabinet approval for agriculture reforms which are already announced as part of Atman Erbar package and these reforms are considered to be important reforms to transform agriculture sector. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is highlighted here for your reference. Know that Essential Commodities Act of 1955 was enacted to ensure the easy availability of essential commodities to consumers and to protect consumers from exploitation by unscrupulous or unfit traders. Know that the government often uses Essential Commodities Act of 1955 to regulate the production, supply and distribution of large number of commodities and can declare these commodities as essential so that it is available to consumers at fair prices. But know that the farmers suffer huge losses when there are bumper harvest especially the perishable commodities because of inadequate storage facilities. This is because the frequent and unpredictable blanket stock limits on commodities are imposed by using the Essential Commodities Act of 1955 and frequent intervention by the central government is considered to be one of the reasons for inadequate or lack of investment in cold storage or warehouses or other related processing aspects of agriculture commodities as entrepreneurs or private investors are frightened due to restrictions or stock limits. So in this context the cabinet has approved an amendment to the Essential Commodities Act of 1955 and as per this amendment the commodities like cereals, pulses, oil seeds, edible oils, onion and potatoes will be removed from the list of essential commodities. Now the freedom is ensured to produce or to distribute or to supply these commodities as it removes fees of private investors. So it is considered that it will lead to ornishing of economies of scale and can attract a private sector or foreign direct investment into agriculture sector and it can drive up investment in cold storages and modernization of food supply chain. So increased food supply chain or storage capacity can prevent wastage of agree produce and can increase the income of a farmers of perishable commodities. Know that the proposed amendment also safeguards the interest of consumers because it provides for regulation of such agricultural foodstuff or commodity in situations of war or famine or extraordinary price rise including natural calamities. The amendment also provides exemptions for exporters and processors at all times to ensure that investments in agriculture are not disgraced. This is all about the amendment to the Essential Commodities Act of 1955. Now we will discuss one more reform in the agriculture sector that is approval of the forming produce trade and commerce ordinance 2020 for barrier free trade in agriculture produce. Here the necessity is that farmers suffer from various kinds of restrictions in marketing their produce outside the notified APMC market ads. The ordinance is expected to pay way for creating one India one agriculture market as it will create an ecosystem where farmers and traders will enjoy a freedom of choice of sale and purchase of agree produce and can promote a barrier free interstate or interstate trade and commerce outside the physical premises of markets notified under a state agriculture produce marketing legislation. The ordinance opens more choices for farmers and can reduce marketing costs. Farmers will not be charged any kind of assist or levy for sale or for their produce. But note that agriculture and markets are state subject which means that respective state governments have exclusive power to legislate on these matters. Now the central government is planning to promulgate an ordinance based on the fact that trade and commerce in foodstuffs is listed as concurrent list but here also there is one contention that is trade and commerce within the state is listed as a state subject in the 7th schedule of the Indian constitution. So the central government has clarified that markets are not disturbed by this ordinance but it provides for the expansion of Mondays run by APMC committees to the full country. Now we will discuss one more important reform that is approval of the farmers empowerment and protection agreement and price assurance and farm services ordinance 2020 and this ordinance aims at empowering farmers. The ordinance is aimed at facilitating contact farming and it empowers the farmers for engaging with the processors wholesalers aggregators large retailers exporters on a level playing field without any fear of exploitation. As per the ordinance it will transfer the risk of market unpredictability from farmer to sponsor because the private buyer contracts to purchase a crop at a certain price at the beginning of a season itself. This ordinance is considered to facilitate a private sector investment for building supply chains for supply of union farm produce to global markets. So the farmers will get access to technology and also advises for high value agriculture and they will also get ready market for the produce. So we can say that farmers will engage in direct marketing eliminating intermediaries so that it can enable a full realization of prices by the farmers. The ordinance also provides adequate protection to farmers because sale or lease or mortgages of a farmer's land is totally prohibited and the farmer's land is also protected against any kind of recoveries by the private players. To conclude this news article we have discussed some of the important agriculture reforms to promote ease of doing agriculture in our country. Now let us move on to the next news article analysis. This news article talks about power subsidy given to the farmers. The essence or crux of this news article is whether a farmer's can be provided free electricity for agriculture or not. The news article says that the central government is proactively pushing the state governments to do away with the free power scheme and to replace it with direct benefit transfer. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is highlighted here for your reference. To begin with the analysis of this news article know that the subject that is electricity is listed under the concurrent list of schedule 7 of the Indian constitution therefore both the state governments and central government can legislate on this subject. In this context the central government brought the electricity act of 2003 and as per this act the subsidy component and type of subsidy is left to the state governments and know that as of now states like Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu are providing a significant free power to the farmers. When you say free power it means that farmers are provided electricity at a free of cost by the power distribution companies and the cost associated with this is burned by the state governments. It was estimated that the power subsidy in the four southern states and in the state of Punjab together is about 33,000 crores. So in this context the author suggests that time has ripened to discontinue this mega free power scheme to the farmers. In this news article the author outlines severe consequences of continuing free power to the farmers. He mentions that the reasons like financial stress and also widespread wastage of water and electricity because of free power given to the farmers. In this regard it is important to know that India is the largest user of groundwater even exceeding the combined withdrawal capacity of China and the United States and this was the estimation given by the Indian Statistical Institute. Then the other reasons mentioned by the author includes injuricious use of groundwater which is leading to worrying rate of groundwater depletion. The author also mentions that the extension of the free power scheme to the farmers to different states over the years encouraged installation of more pump sets. For example in the state of Karnataka the number of irrigation pump sets increased from 17 lakhs to 30 lakhs after introducing a free power scheme to the farmers. Then the other reasons mentioned by the author in order to discontinue free power to the farmers includes absence of meters for these connections difficulty of measurement of consumption by the farmers because of absence of meters because there won't be any meters for this power supply. So farmers are given power connection without any meters. As a result power distribution companies find it convenient to reduce their aggregate technical and commercial losses that is AT and C losses by clubbing a portion of these losses with energy consumption by the farming sector. So these are the certain negative consequences discussed by the author related with the free electricity to the farmers. On the other hand there are significant reasons or valid points to continue the free power scheme to the farmers. These reasons includes farmers who are not covered by canal or tank irrigation should be given a free electricity ensuring food security to the growing population. Free power to the farmers reduces input cost so that it can be one of the active tools available with the state governments or with the central government to double the farmers income to provide remunerative prices to their produce. Then one of the important reasons to continue free power scheme to the farming sector is that farming sector is mostly dominated that is about 80 percent of our farmers include small and marginal farmers. So we can say that these are certain reasons to justify or to continue a free power scheme to the farmers. Now that at the start of our discussion we said that central government is actively pushing for direct benefit transfer instead of a free power scheme. In this context recently the central government brought the draft electricity amendment bill of 2020 to amend the existing the electricity act of 2003 and the proposed bill mandates state governments to do away with a free power scheme and to replace with the dbt scheme in lines with the LPC dbt scheme. Know that the central government has prescribed that the free power supply scheme should be replaced with the direct benefit transfer scheme as a condition to allow state governments to increase their borrowing limit. See the article 293 class 3 says that a state may not without the consent of the government of India rise any loan if there is still outstanding any part of a loan. Using this provision the central government asked state governments to introduce dbt at least in one district of a state by this December 2020 and from the next financial year a full rollout should be made and this led to widespread protest and criticism from chief ministers to former unions across the country. Know that when we are discussing about an article written by the honorable vice president of India Mr Venkain Aidu on 20th May 2020 we said that farmers are not getting the good price for their produce. Additionally many of our farmers belong to small and marginal category and many are dependent on minimum support price and a free power offered by the respective state governments and if dbt is introduced in place of a free power without correcting these issues faced by the farmers lives of many farmers would be affected and this may also endanger the food security to the alarming rate of population growth in our country. In this context to have a balanced and detailed understanding of this news article we recommend to watch our 28th May Hindu news analysis video where we discussed about former issues and supply chain bottlenecks in comprehensive manner. With this we have come to the end of analysis of this news article the display practice question will be discussed at the end of the session let us proceed to the next news article. Now let's take up this question which is based on emergency credit line guarantee scheme and the background for this question is that PSBs dispose about rupees 3893 crore loans to MSMEs. We know that the lockdown associated with COVID-19 had severely impacted manufacturing and other activities in the MSME sector. So in this context the emergency credit line guarantee scheme that is ECLGS was launched to mitigate the economic distress faced by micro small medium enterprises. So this will be done by providing them additional funding of up to rupees 3 lakh crores in the form of a fully guaranteed emergency credit line and the main objective of the scheme is to provide an incentive to member lending institutions that is MLIS to increase access to and to enable availability of additional funding facility to MSME borrowers. Know that member lending institutions includes banks financial institutions and also non-banking financial companies. Now let us see the silent features of the scheme that is all MSME borrowers accounts with an annual turnover of up to rupees 100 crore and with outstanding credit of up to rupees 25 crores subject to certain conditions are eligible for funding. See the eligible MSME borrowers would get a maximum of 20% of their entire outstanding credit up to 25 crore rupees as on 29th February 2020. Know that the entire funding provided under the scheme shall be provided with a 100% credit guarantee by the national credit guarantee trustee company limited that is NCGTC to member lending institutions. The tenor of loan shall be four years with a moratorium period of one year on the principal account on the NCGTC will not charge any guarantee fee from the member lending institutions under the scheme. The interest rates under the scheme shall be capped at 9.25% for banks and financial institutions and at a 14% for non-banking financial institutions. In this context we should know something about NCGTC that is a national credit guarantee trustee company limited which is a private limited company incorporated under the Companies Act of 1956. It was established by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance as a wholly owned company of the Government of India. It acts as a common trustee company for multiple credit guarantee funds. With this information let's take up the given question that is a consider the following statements regarding emergency credit line guarantee scheme. It aims to mitigate the economic distress faced by MSMEs by providing them additional funding of up to 3 lakh crores. Then the second statement says the entire funding provided with a 100% credit guarantee by the national credit guarantee trustee company limited which of the given statements above is or correct. Okay the both statements are correct so the correct answer for this question is option C both one and two. Know that the emergency credit line guarantee scheme is expected to enable micro small medium enterprises to meet their operational liabilities and to restart their business activities and the scheme is also expected to have a positive impact on the economy. With this information let's move on to the next news article analysis. Let's take up this question which is based on major ports. We have framed this question because union cabinet has approved the renaming of Kolkata port as Shamaprasad Mukherjee port. Know that he was an eminent jurist, academician, thinker and leader of the masses and also he was the founder of the Bharatiya Janasang. In this context we are going to discuss major ports of India. See ports in India are classified as a major or other ports as per the jurisdiction of the central and state governments as defined under the Indian Ports Act of 1908. Major ports are owned and managed by the central government whereas other ports are owned and managed by the state governments. Know that major ports are listed in the union list of the 7th schedule and are administered as per the provisions of Indian Ports Act of 1908 and the major port trust act of 1963. Each major port is governed by a board of trustees appointed by government of India. The trusts operate on the basis of policy directives and orders from the government of India. Their functions include planning, management and operations of ports. The tariffs for major ports are fixed by the tariff authority for major ports that is TAMP. Now in case of other ports or minor ports these ports are managed at the state level by the department in charge of ports or the state maritime board. The functions of the state maritime boards are similar to those of port trust. Now we will see the number of major ports that is India has 12 major ports and about 200 non-major or other ports. Among 12 major ports six ports are located on the east coast and the remaining six are located on the west coast. So these are the 12 major ports and their special features and these special features are important for your prelims examination and is given for your reference. Now with this information let's take up the given question. Here the question is based on the special feature with reference to major ports that is the first pair is given as a Enur port as the oldest port, second pair as Jawaharlal Nehru port as largest container port, third pair as Kolkata port as corporate port. For this question you have to choose incorrectly matched pairs. Know that Kolkata port is the oldest major port and Jawaharlal Nehru port trust which is located in the state of Maharashtra is the largest container port and this port often in the news and has world-class international container handling facilities. Enur port which is the satellite port of Chennai port which is also known as Kamraj port limited is the only corporate port among the major ports. So the pairs 1 and 3 are incorrectly matched and the second pair is correctly matched. So the correct answer for this question is option C 1 and 3 only. Now let's take up this question which is based on protected areas located in the state of Assam. From this news article we need to note two important aspects that is the location of important national parks and then the conservation status of rhinoceros. Know that in the state of Assam there are five important national parks namely Kajiranga national park, Dibru Saikova national park, Rajiv Gandhi Varang national park, then Manas national park and then Nameri national park. See the Kajiranga national park is known for Indian rhinoceros which is naturally found only in three states of India that is in the state of Assam then West Bengal and then the state of Uttar Pradesh. In this context know that the IUCN status of rhinoceros is endangered category in the red list of threatened species of IUCN. If you look at the news article it reports that the arrest of poachers in the Kajiranga national park. And know that poaching is one of the main reasons or main threats for the conservation of Indian rhinos. With this information let's take up the given question that is which of the following protected areas located in the state of Assam. Here they have given four national parks or tiger reserves like Rajiv Gandhi Varang national park, Kajiranga national park, Pakke or Pakve tiger reserve, then Nameri national park. In this context know that Pakke or Pakve tiger reserve is located in the state of Varnachalpadesh and the remaining national parks are located in the state of Assam. So the correct answer for this question is option A. Let's take up this question which is based on border area development program and the background for this question is that central government is planning to strengthen infrastructure along the international borders. So in this context let us discuss in brief about border area development program. The program aims to meet the special developmental needs of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the international border. This program aims to saturate the border areas with the essential infrastructure through the convergence of central or street or BADP or local schemes with a participatory approach. It was initiated to ensure balanced development of border areas through the development of infrastructure and promotion of a sense of security among the border population. Know that the Department of Border Management and the Ministry of Home Affairs is implementing the border area development program through the state governments. It is classified as a core central sponsor scheme and the funding pattern of BADP for North Eastern states and Himalayan states is in the ratio of 90 to 10 and in respect of six other states it is in the ratio of 60 to 40. In this context know that if it is totally funded by the central government that is if the 100% funding is from the central government it is known as central sector scheme. If the program is funded by central and state governments it is known as centrally sponsored scheme. So we can say that border area development program is a centrally sponsored scheme. Now the program covers about 111 border districts located along the international land border. Under this program priority is given to the areas closer to the border. Know that only states with international land border are eligible for this scheme. The states with maritime border are not included in this scheme. For the year 2020-21 border area development program has been allocated about 784 crore rupees and this money is distributed to the border states and the union territories depending on various criteria such as the length of international border and the population density. So to improve the infrastructure along the Indo-China border the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to spend 10% funds on projects along the Indo-China border. Therefore about 78 crores will be utilized for projects in areas inhabited along this border. So the projects that have been identified by the border guarding forces will be given priority. This additional spending assumes significance in the context of ongoing confrontation along the line of actual control. Know that this fund is going to be utilized for the construction of roads or bridges or primary schools including health infrastructure or irrigation works so that it will be a win-win situation for the security forces and also the people living near to the international borders. With this information let's take up the given question. Here three statements are given and you need to choose correct statements. Statement one says it is aimed to meet the special development needs of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas near the international borders and this statement is correct because it is one of the main aspects of the border area development program. Second statement says it is a central sector scheme and the third statement says it is implemented by Ministry of Defense. Here both second and third statements are incorrect because it is implemented by Ministry of Home Affairs and it is a centrally sponsored scheme. So the correct answer for this question is option A1 only. Now let's take up this question which is based on different names for the tropical cyclones. Here three pairs are given and you need to choose incorrectly matched pair or pairs. The first pair that is hurricane is matched with the western Pacific then typhoon is matched with Atlantic Ocean then Willy Willis is matched with western Australia. In this context know that cyclones are low pressure systems associated with strong rotating winds. Cyclones are of mainly two types that is tropical cyclones and extra tropical or temperate cyclones. The cyclones which originate within the tropics are known as tropical cyclones and those cyclones which originate beyond tropics are known as extra tropical or temperate cyclones. These cyclones that is either tropical or extra tropical cyclones rotate as a result of Coriolis effect or the deflection effect and they rotate in anticlockwise direction in northern hemisphere and clockwise direction in the southern hemisphere. And this question is framed based on different names or region specific names for tropical cyclones. Know that these cyclones are given different names that is cyclones or tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean, hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, typhoons in the western Pacific and the South China Sea and Willy Willis in the western Australian region. So in the given pairs first two pairs are incorrectly matched whereas the third pair is correctly matched. Therefore the correct answer for this question is option B 1 and 2 only. With this information let us proceed to the next questions. This is a practice mains question that is what are the reformative steps taken by the government providing freedom to farmers for marketing their produce at a place and price of their choice. This is a 15 marks question and you need to write in 250 words. Let's take up one more practice mains question. Okay the question is what are the different types of agriculture subsidies given to farmers at the national and state levels. Analyze the free electricity scheme to agriculture and its consequences. This is also 15 marks question and you need to write in 250 words. For the practice mains questions we request you to post your written answers in the comment section and for the posted written answers will give suitable feedback within the reasonable time frame. With this information we have come to the end of analysis of today's in the news analysis and if you have enjoyed this session please do like share comment and subscribe Shankarai's Academy YouTube channel for more updates on civil services examination. Thank you.


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This video is about using grid algebra in the Mathematics classroom. In the opening window, choose the interactive grid algebra. Press the Run button, and you immediately get a grid that is empty to start with. One of the things that you need to do with a class really before you do other things with grid algebra is to get them familiar with the grid. And so this video is about what you might do with a class to help them get familiar with the structure of the grid. To start, I recommend that you change the grid a little bit. If you go to the Menu button on the Tools bar, choose New Grid. Choose 24 columns, say No to allow negatives, and choose 1 to 24 times table, and click on OK. And accept that. The grid will look the same. The only difference will be that there are now slider bars that appear. On the Tools bar, click the button that says 1234. Numbers will now appear in the grid. And one of the first things I tend to do with a class is to ask them to tell me what they see. And this will range, of course, what their responses are. It will vary. But usually somebody comments on the fact that there are times tables. So in the two times table, we've got 246, 810. They may also notice it coming down 246, 810, and so on. I usually then ask them, once they've commented on a number of things that they've noticed, ask them, OK, this is going 369, 1215. What would be the next number to the right? And get them to predict that. I then get hold of the scroller bar, scroll bar, and move it one to the right. And they will check to see whether they're right. And likewise, we might do it with another row, and decide in row five here, what might be the next number over there, and then stroll and make that movement. Similarly, we could ask about coming down. So we're coming down, say, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, what might be the number below. And then get hold of the other scroll bar and scroll down and see whether that's right. That's one of the first activities I do, and you can decide how far along you go. You might scroll quite some distance and then ask the same question. So what might be the next number to the right of 52, and so on. And you might scroll down to higher times tables that are there. Following that, I sometimes then load a file that I prepared earlier. And if you go to File and Load Grid, which you can either get from the File menu at the top, or from the toolbar, you can go to Menu, File, and Load Grid. And there are grids that at any time when you've got a grid, you can save that grid and you can load it up later. So I've got a grid that I had saved earlier, and I'm going to load now. It's called Missing Numbers. I decide to call it. And this looks very similar to the grid that we just started with, but if I was to scroll along a little bit, you see that there are some numbers that are missing. And also, down the bottom, there's a little box here with numbers in that box. And that comes from pressing the button 1.2 in the menu. If I press it again, that box will disappear. If I press it once more, it will come back again. And the idea here, then, is to think about perhaps what number should be in this missing cell here. And if they decide it's 16, they go along, find the number 16, click, drag it, and then let go. And then it will stay there. If anyone puts in an incorrect number, so if I try and click on 16 and drag it to this cell here where it's not right and let go, then a rubbish bin appears. And if you click anywhere on the screen, the 16 will drift into the rubbish bin. And so I usually get people up at a time to come and put a number into one of the missing cells. Just to say how I get the missing cell, then the toolbar, there's a rubber icon. And if I click on that, then actually I go to any cell and just click, and it will rub the number out in the cell. And then when I finish rubbing, go and click on that button again to stop doing any more rubbing out. So we can scroll to different places within the grid, depending upon how high you want the numbers to be. And then that exercise can be continued where they can try and get a number and place it in. The bottom number box only goes up to 200. If you actually are going to have some numbers larger than 200, so if we go perhaps here, and we've got a number we want to put in into this cell. And so looking at that, it's the 18 times table, so I want 18 more than 306, so I want about 324. There's an expression calculator that I can click on. Go to the cell I want, click on that cell, and now I can enter something that I want to go into that cell. And I think I said 324, and then click enter, and then that will go into the cell. So that's one activity here, looking at missing numbers. I have another file that sometimes I use that's similar, but what I've done in fact is to rub out most of the numbers, and I only left a few in. So given this number here, I then sometimes click on a highlighting color and highlight a cell and ask someone to come up and put in the number that they think should be in that cell. Again, I need the number box, so I'm going over to 1.2 to get the number box there, and then it will be about getting the number dragging into that cell. And then sometimes once one pupil's done that, I then get them to choose a color and choose somewhere else and see whether somebody else can come up and enter the number into here, and then someone then will enter their number there, and then choose another color, or the same color, and go and choose another cell.  It depends how mean they want to be to each other. So that's an activity which is getting the more and more familiar with the grid, and I find it very helpful to be asking the question of how did you work out that number so that they're beginning to articulate some of the structure to win the grid, how they worked out what might be here given the information that they've got already. Then there are two other things that I'm going to suggest here about getting to familiar with the grid. If we exit here and go to the original main window and click on Resources, if I click on the topic of multiplication tables and go to Handouts and choose the handout that says which number goes here, and it can either be one row, two rows or four rows or six rows, depending upon how challenging you want it to be. I'm going to choose four rows and click on Open. Then there's a sheet here that you could print out and give to a class where the idea is that they're given one number in one of the cells and they have to write down what numbers would be in the highlighted cells. So sometimes there's an opportunity to do some work on paper away from the focus of the software that's based on the work they've already done on the software. If I go back to Main Menu, another thing I sometimes use is one of the tasks here. These are computer generated tasks. If I click on the drop-down arrow there, they're done listed in alphabetical order. If I go down to Place the Numbers, there's a single player or two-player game. I'm going to choose a single player, select that, and you get a box here deciding what level you want to start with. I'm going to start straight away at level one, click on OK. Here there's always a box with instructions that appears, and I'm going to click on OK, and that then reduces the size of that. Here we've got a grid with just one row here. The target number is four, and I have to decide which cell the number four should go in. And if I think it's this one, I just click on it and the number four will appear. If I'm correct, the next target is five. I click where that should go, and so on. And when I finish, I can either go for the same level again or click on the next level. And again, I click where I think the numbers ought to be. If I've actually clicked in the wrong place, so if I think the number seven should go here, when I click, actually the number seven will appear in a cell where it should be. But it will be blue to indicate that the computer did that rather than the person doing the clicking. And so the levels continue. If at one time I want to jump a few levels, I can go to File and Restart Task, and that gets me this little box where I can go and choose the level. So perhaps I might go up to say level 15 and see what that's like. And so that's going to end up being a bit more challenging. So I think number 13 is there. And then I have to think about where does the number 30 go in this grid, given 12 is there. So that's an activity sometimes that children can do individually or in pairs in a computer room, or it can be done within a class with interactive whiteboard as well. And that's where I'm going to finish here about thinking about activities that you can do that help children get to know the structure of the grid.


So, I've recently found out about Alpha M, who's this male improvement channel, helps guys with their looks, their confidence.  Another bit of it is telling them what they want to hear. And a big bit of it is selling them nonsense. I think I saw this guy selling like a $200 jump rope. I think it might have even been more than that some weeks ago. So, let's see how much he sells out pertaining to his diet, or if he actually has some decent advice to offer.  Sure, let's do it. No, no you don't. What's up gentlemen? So, you're gonna take, I wouldn't take any advice from a guy wearing two earrings, that's just me. As I've said before, proper diet planning prevents poor diet performance. And so today, what I thought I'd do is actually show you what I eat in a day, all right? But I'm also gonna show you sort of like how it starts. I mean, just earrings in general, right? Not like a good look. As today is Sunday, and every Sunday, my wife and I sort of prep the food. What do you, what do you, what do you? You prep? Are you prepping? I prep! I'm prepping! I'm prepping! Today I'm prepping! I'm gonna bring you along, I'm also gonna show you what my day looks like in terms of my diet. But it all starts with Sunday prepping all the meat. So my diet is pretty boring. I eat the same thing pretty much every day with the exception of my HelloFresh that we do, like once a week where we'll actually make like three meals. HelloFresh is today's video sponsor. I'll tell you a little bit more about them later. But the bottom, I mean, not that great of a salesman to get started. First, he admits he doesn't actually prep his meals. Second, you know, he's not really selling the HelloFresh too well.  I love it, it's great. The line is every Sunday, I prep the meat that I'm gonna be eating for the entire week. Let me show you the meats that I'm gonna be grilling this week. I'm gonna be having chicken legs, also about three pounds of salmon filets, and then a pound of ground bison. I like a variety.  I'm also making a huge pot of hurled barley. Is he watching my channel? I honestly have to go back and see if, I have to go back and see if he's ever eaten barley before. Like, I've honestly, I've just never seen someone else actually eating barley on any dietary regimen, let alone YouTube. So I'd be curious if he saw my barley stew and that type of stuff and started making it. Could just be a coincidence, that's probably what it is, but I've seen one too many copycat coincidences on YouTube lately. Take like a grain every week, whether or not it's quinoa, wheat berries, or barley. Barley, let me grab that, looks like this, right? You get it in the store, pretty much like where all the rice and things like that are. Now the reason why I love barley is because it's super like low glycemic index and it tastes like pretty much anything you season it with and to use it like rice, but in my opinion, this has like more substance to it. It also is like crazy high in fiber. You boil it, you strain it, it's ready to rock. Pearl barley isn't that high in fiber because it's pearls. You know, glycemic index is irrelevant in the context of a meal that has fats, carbohydrates, and protein that's all going to digest around the same rate. The real concern would be if you have, you know, gut dysbiosis, microbiome imbalances and you're consuming sugar in the meal. That's the only time where glycemic index might be relevant, which is actually for quite a bit of people. You know, most stands in American dieters do have gut imbalances and most stands in American dieters consume a lot of sugar. So that's where they are damaging their bodies. In regards to the protein he's choosing, you can't really get much worse. That looks like farmed salmon as well as conventional fatty chicken. Literally two Omega-6 bombs that are laden with chemicals, pollutants, pesticides. I would without doubt 100% bet that this guy is taking, you know, some type of HRT testosterone replacement therapy if he's eating this type of diet and he's displaying that type of energy. So when the barley's finished, this is what it looks like. So the meat and the barley will act as my foundation for most of my meals for the week. But like I said, three nights a week we will actually do HelloFresh. What do you want to have tonight? So first he said that he does HelloFresh one day for three meals. Now he's saying he's doing HelloFresh three nights a week. So maybe the Wi-Fi EMF in his house is frying his brain a little bit. Look it out, I'm cooking because the deal is all of these meals are like super quick, they're easy, they're fresh, they save you time and honestly I can do it and I, and which one? Let's go meatless. Let's do Mediterranean baked veggies with couscous. There's no way I'm watching a three minute HelloFresh advertisement. We're skipping through that. And the main thing to understand here is these companies are astroturfing. Like you know astroturf the fake grass. It normally takes you a couple of months to grow a proper lawn. Astroturf set up in one day. These companies had an established prior business with infrastructure, employees, product, whether it's blue apron, purple carrot, HelloFresh, there's probably over a dozen of them right now that deliver meals to your door. And I would bet it's the same company just rebranding under different names to increase their sales. It's a great tactic but it's kind of scummy because you have this giant conglomerate business that just controls the entire market that's pretending to be a new fresh startup or a new thing or you're supporting a new company.  So from a nutrition perspective, he didn't mention organic throughout the day. He's never mentioned grass, feta or high quality. That meal is basically some quinoa, some asparagus, feta cheese, almonds, some seasoning. I guess the main concern here is that he's not really getting that much animal nutrition. The food isn't organic so there's an agrochemical or a pesticide concern. Hypothetically, if everything in that dish was of the highest quality, it wouldn't be bad. Obviously you want more animal foods. Obviously you want to remove those chemicals but that could be said about pretty much any meal quality solves the problem. This is incredible. But now what I'm actually gonna do is tell you and show you exactly what I'm eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. Gentlemen, good morning. It is officially Monday and the time is 8.45. I've been working now for about two hours. The only thing that I've consumed since 8 p.m. last night is a cup of black, actually two cups of black coffee. Coffee might be one of the most damaging things that's accepted as okay to do.  What does that say about your diet? And as I said earlier, I would bet this guy is taking HRT testosterone replacement. I don't know if he said that before on his channel or if he's been honest that he takes it before but if he's not, it's very, very, very misleading when you're shooting yourself up with testosterone.  When in reality, there's a lot of things you don't understand about health from removing negatives from the lifestyle, wifi, EMF, as well as the diet. 10, 15, time to eat breakfast. So in terms of what I eat for breakfast today, I'm going with a protein shake. Typically I will get into like ruts where I will eat like egg whites and oatmeal with a scoop of protein for like a month.  And then I go protein shake. Currently I am on a protein shake kick and I go with a third of a cup of ice. I also use almond milk. Almond milk is awesome because it's super like low calorie and honestly I think it's delicious protein powder. Today I'm going with peanut butter, one pack of sweetener. I have never counted my calories. I've always focused on the quality and the quantity of the food that I'm eating. And I also know that, hey, if I look in the mirror and I look a little chubby or I hop on the scale and my weight's like going like this or it's going like that, I can pretty much adjust my calories according. Literally impossible. This is this guy, Shrol, and he just said he doesn't count calories. And then he says, I changed the quantity of food and then I can adjust my calories accordingly. Oh my God. And he said that his food is high quality and he's pouring almond milk and protein powder. There's probably 50 chemicals in just those two foods alone. To wing a healthy diet, if you're going out to eat like two, three times a day or like a few times a week, now for me, my wife, we will go out, or actually we've been ordering in, typically on Friday and Saturday, we'll do like one meal where we're ordering out whether it's pizza or sushi or China. This guy's a walking contradiction. I don't know how anyone watches this guy. This is funny. Chinese or whatever, but it's a great way to sort of break the monotony of a diet but also allow yourself a little freedom, a little flexibility in order to not be so super strict. The other thing that's helped is the HelloFresh. It breaks the monotony, but still, the quality of the food is there and also like we know the ingredients, we see it.  Now what I'm gonna do is actually get a shower, come back out before I leave for work. I'm gonna make lunch, talk about that. All right gentlemen, feeling fresh.  This tool bag. Listen, I might be able to pull that look off because I'm some like Italian dude with slick back hair from New York, but there's no way this guy should be wearing. Got lunch, I'm going to eat. Especially with those even. One of these. Salmon, barley, and let's do some carrots and some cashews. Scoop out about two cups of barley and then I'm gonna have, let's see, one probably do, another one. I'm also gonna be adding a little seasoning, all right? I'm gonna be using Frank's Red Hot, few little dashes of that and then I also will throw a little sriracha on as well. One of the reasons why I have upgraded my container game to glass is because it's a lot healthier, a lot better when you heat it up and put it in the microwave, all right? Containers like this Tupperware. Okay, I'm not touching anymore on the conventional food that's full of chemicals. He's not talking about organic, he's using farm raised salmon full of pollutants. I mean, farm raised salmon is one of the most poisonous foods you can consume. If you missed our fish is toxic video. This guy's talking about plastic. Half the stuff you've showed today isn't plastic, the HelloFresh, duh duh duh, and you're using the microwave.  They're great if it's cold, but you should not, from what I understand, heat these up. I will also take some salted cashews. Cashews are my favorite nut, and so what I will do is get a little baggy and take- A plastic bag. Probably about that much, what is that? Like half a cup of cashews, they're salted, they're delicious, some good fats, and they're just a nice little snack.  Crunch after work. I will also take about three carrots. I love carrots, and so typically each day I will bring a few carrots with me. Definitely wash these before you consume them, and so this essentially is what I'm gonna be eating for- Wash them with fluoridated, chlorinated estrogen-filled tap water. Now, dinner, let's talk about dinner. Dinner typically is going to be for me around 7.30 or 8 p.m. I will also be using about a cup, cup and a half of the barley, but instead of the salmon, I will cut the meat off of about four to possibly five legs, depending on the size. I'll cube them up, and I will toss them in the barley. I will also throw half an avocado. And season with my dynamic duo, the Frank's Red Hot and the Sriracha. Now for dessert, little sugar-free jello. All right, jello is amazing because it tastes great. It also has like zero calories, and this is the perfect thing to satisfy my sweet tooth at the end of a day, instead of like grabbing like a cake or a piece of candy, this stuff is amazing. Now during the day, if I'm hungry, if I want like a snack or I need something a little bit sweet, typically I will keep like protein bars around the office. I'll have half of one or I'll eat a full one depending on how hungry I am. But essentially, that is my daily diet. This is it, this is my diet. This is the reason why I am able to maintain a low body fat percentage, lean muscle mass at the age of 44, 44, exactly, 44. Clean living, clean eating, and tease, Hanley.  And that's actually the video. There's only seven seconds left. This whole thing is distasteful from the marketing to the contradictions to filming it in the first two hours of the day. He said it was 10 30 a.m. And he's already done with his day of eating. Is this guy not have the time to do a legitimate day of eating?  He woke up, he said he had some coffee. He just made the protein shake. Then he says, oh, this is my lunch. And then he talks about what he asked for dinner. This isn't a day of eating. This is me telling you guys what I eat in a day after a half-assed, hello, fresh advertisements. I don't know, I don't really have anything to say. I mean, it's just discouraging. It's not a good look. So thank you guys for joining me today. Please make sure to drop a like on the video. Leave a comment down below. 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Hello everybody hooded cover commander 788 here, and I'm doing another donation unboxing video This is actually in early January because I got a couple things in right after I Recorded last month's donation unboxing video, and I didn't want to leave these in the boxes for another month Before I got to open them. So I've got two items here I'm gonna open them up and show you what they are And if I get anything else in later in the month I will do another segment to show you that stuff, but I wanted to get these things opened right away As I always say you should never feel obligated to send anything to me I appreciate the donations that I get but please don't send anything to me unless you're sure you really want to and if you do the P.o. Box will be on your screen right now. That's where you can send stuff if you are so inclined But for now, let's check these out. I've already opened this one So I know what's in it, and I've cut this one open so I can get into it better But this one here was sent to me by Chris peers of the YouTube show comic tropes So I'm gonna go open this first because I already know what's in it because he told me what it was gonna be So I am happy to show you what Chris sent me and that's actually the reason I'm wearing this t-shirt Chris sent me Pull it out carefully pull it out of the bubble wrap from Japan a Japanese Carded stalker figure look at that Very nice card Yes, G.I. Joe was released in Japan and this Right there there, you know stalker is my favorite character And that's just really cool. Check out that check out that file card At that this is amazing Chris was in Japan. He saw it. He thought of me and he knew stalker was my favorite So he got this for me. I don't usually get international figures let alone carded international figures So this is really cool So thank you to Chris and thanks to everyone else who has sent international figures to me. That's it's really amazing I really probably would never see them or actually get to hold them in my hand if they weren't sent in by viewers So Chris does the The YouTube show comic tropes It's a really really good YouTube show about comic books And it's one of my favorite shows. I've worked with Chris a few times. He's a really great guy So if you haven't checked out comic tropes, you should give that a try and thank you very much Chris And finally this box is from Michael Johnson a longtime supporter of the channel from the UK And so he sent this to me and it was meant to be for Christmas But apparently it got held up a bit Maybe didn't make it through customs as fast as expected. So I didn't even get it until after New Year So I did get it. It did arrive safely Michael. He's given me a general idea of what's in here so this is from the UK and I'm gonna open it up this one. I have cut the box open, but I haven't looked inside to see exactly what it is But if it is what I think it is I think we get to do another taste test Okay, let's check it out. We have some paper packing material here We have a letter we have a letter. Let's see He was very thoughtful to print it in a large font. So I don't I don't need my glasses to read it I said I wanted to send you a Present to say Merry Christmas to you and your family and thank you for running a fantastic YouTube channel Well, Merry Christmas to you late. Merry Christmas, but Merry Christmas nonetheless He says the way you've instilled your personal values into your videos has helped to foster a respectful and supportive community Uniting GI Joe fans around the world. Thank you. I hope so A couple of viewers have sent you a chocolate and candy from their home country So I thought you said I'd send you something from Britain a Please find enclosed a selection of British sweets a few classics and a few retro things that probably shouldn't be Allowed to survive past the 80s Best wishes for the new year Michael Johnson. Thank you very much Michael and now I'm taking a look at what's in here. I'm going to try a sampling of these things But I can already tell tell right now. I'll look here There's a crunchy bar in here and Susan loves these I can't eat this. I have to give this to Susan. She'll she'll break my arms if I don't give this to her so Let's tear into this and see what Michael sent setting aside the crunchy bar for Susan we have a Terry's chocolate orange interesting we have bounty We have a a Yorkie we have Wispah I Love the names on these Torrell what's that? mini eggs a Gold coins now we have gold coins. I was used to love these as a kid I wonder if these are any different from the gold coins that we typically have here in the States You know you give a kid a gold coin and he feels rich, right? He feels like he's got a million bucks and you can eat it I It's a curly whirly I am aware of some of these British candies as I have watched a lot of British television So I'm I am aware of some of them So it's kind of cool and we've got a Nestle Kit Kat And we do have Kit Kat and I'm curious to see if if this is any different from Good old red blooded American Kit Kat We've got flake That's perfect, you know, it's named after me. There you go flake we got Wham So wham some kind of a candy inspired by George Michael We have a milky bar I'm gonna have to have take like just a nibble of these because Susan will want to try these I cannot eat the whole thing Because she will be very mad at me Cadbury cream egg and Rolo It's always a big fan of Rolo. All right, so now I have a big pile of candy in front of this table here and I'm just going to start tearing into these and Give them a try and see what we think. All right, let's try a curly whirly I've never never had a curly whirly and I've always been curious All right, there we go Okay, yeah, we've got some caramel. No, that's not bad at all. No, that's not bad. It's like chocolate and caramel No, that's good That's good. I like that. I've got a system here. I've got a try them They move over here to save the rest for Susan so she can try some now. I'm curious about these gold coins See if I can just Get one out This looks like a oh wow we are rich. That's one pound We got a one pound coin And let's see the chocolate quality in American gold coins Is not very good. So let's see It's a little bit better, but it is still reminiscent of the gold coins that we have but of course we've got British currency denominations. That's that's cool. I like that. That just brings back a lot of memories so what is Terry's chocolate orange What's that you suppose?  Oh, this is segmented check that out All right So we've got oh, yeah, we've got sections that actually look like orange slices. So let's give this a try It tastes exactly like what it says it is Exactly All right, that's cool. Susan's got to try that Okay Let's try Cadbury mini eggs Let's see here open this. Yeah, here we go mini eggs No doubt laid by mini Easter bunnies. That's good That's good, of course kind of evokes Easter But that's tasty that the chocolate overall is pretty good. Let's see. Let's okay Another one I'm curious about is flake is flake flakey.  Oh, that's really interesting. Let's let's give this a shot Oh That's nothing like what I was expecting It's tasty But yeah, I can see why they call it flake. It's a little flakey Well, I dropped some I'm gonna have to clean it up But that's all right. Let's let's keep this going. This is exciting This this happens every once in a while somebody sends me stuff from their home country And we just have we just have to try it.  So you might as well write it out might as well write it out We'll get through this together. All right. This is a whisper and Apparently I can win VIP tickets to something. So let's see what whispers like Kind of like a whipped chocolate in the center but I'm not really thinking of an American candy. That's exactly like that. It's it's just different It's lighter But it's tasty that's cool I really think Susan will dig that one too. I'm so excited. Let's just keep going. Let's keep going Let's try a twirl Let's see. What's a twirl? Twirl Let's see what a twirl is It looks like Oh, one of them broke. I was going to say it looks like a twix bar, but it is not one of them broke And it's definitely not like a twix yeah I mean It's chocolate You brits really like your chocolate nothing wrong with that But um, you're pretty intense on the chocolate um I think uh from the british people that Have come to the states and that I've heard of who have tried american sweets I think the general consensus is that you know, the average american chocolate is not quite the same quality As the chocolate you can get in britain Um, so you guys You guys really dig your chocolate. That's that's good. That's all right. So let's try. Let's try Let's try wham Let's see. Let's try wham Let's see if this tastes like george michael Oh, hey, this one is a chocolate. It looks like a A taffy Is pink Let's try it What flavor is that? original It's original flavor I'm really glad I tried that one. It was kind of refreshing after All that chocolate to have a little break And have something that's kind of fruity flavored kind of like a fruit punch kind of flavor Very nice Really nice. Let's uh Let's move on and try Try the milky bar Uh Milk is our number one ingredient Let's see. Oh and it's white Makes sense. It's a milky bar So let's try this I'm not trying too much because susan will want some. Hmm. I was also a nice More subtle flavor After all of the intense chocolate that I've just eaten in the last few minutes Hmm Oh, that's that's nice I haven't tried anything bad yet. Everything's been really good Um, let's I keep keep wanting to try the yolo here. We do have uh yolo I keep wanting to try that rollo here Well, we have rollo in the in the states So I have had these but I just don't know if they're any different Um So let's try one Should be pretty basic rollo kind of a Rolled candy with a caramel in the center and chocolate It's been a while since I've Had an american rollo But my recollection um Based on my recollection. I think these are softer like the caramel seems softer than I remember rollo being In you know just in the states and with what we can get But I always like rollo. That's always a favorite of mine, but speaking of another Candy that we have in the states. We have a kitkat Let's see if this is uh any different from a An american kitkat.  Let's be honest Now it is a little different There's a subtle difference in the flavor that I think is a little different from our kitkat But I like it better. I've never really been all that big a fan of kitkat. I mean I'll leave them every once in a while, but um But that's I don't know. I think I like that a little better, right? It's not wildly different. I mean the u.s. Kitkat bar It seems like it's pretty close to that. There's something a little different something subtle Uh that I like So let's try We'll save the yorkie for last and let's try the the bounty and There's a picture of a coconut on there. So I assume it has coconut and I like coconut. So that's just funny Not everybody likes coconut. You surprised how intensely some people dislike coconut But I'm not one of those people Pretty much exactly what you think it is. It's shaved coconut covered in chocolate So Bounty All right, last one. Oh, I forgot the egg No, if I eat the egg, then I can't share it. Okay. I'm not gonna eat the egg I'll let Susan have I know Susan likes these right These category eggs. I know she likes those I will let her eat it. I don't want to be selfish But um So this will be the last one we try the yorkie yorkie Uh yorkie original Let's see how original it is All right It's my favorite part of the show You know, I'm not gonna go into my own video comments and complain about this part of the show because I like this part of the show All right, we've got We've got sections here.  So, um, this is the perfect thing to finish a A taste test of British candy on is some it's some chocolate. So, um, that's that was awesome Thank you, Michael and thank you for your long support of the show You've supported the show for quite some time now It really means a lot to me You've supported in in some very nice ways and this is just now the latest really cool thing that you've done So thank you very much for that. Uh, this means a lot to me I'm sorry we couldn't open it up on on christmas or even new year because it came too late Not your fault, you know, it's uh, it's it's one of our mail services that didn't get it here But it's here now everything's still good. Everything's still delicious Uh, and thank you, Michael. Uh, this was was a lot of fun. Hey, it's hoodie. I'm back again And I'm going to finish the donation unboxing video for january 2020 This is the rest of the stuff that came in in january I recorded that other segment earlier and this is all the stuff that came in since then. Oh, wow Uh, and once again, I want to tell you guys that you should never feel obligated to send something to me You guys have been sending a lot and in Huge boxes And I appreciate it. I thank you for all of that, but I don't want anyone to ever feel like I'm asking you to send anything or that you're obligated to send something I really am happy just having you in the audience and watching the videos So thank you just for being here For those who do want to take the additional stab and donate things to the channel The p.o. Box will be on the screen now But again, don't feel like you have to do that If I get anything in the month of february, I'll do another video like this in march But if I don't get anything then I won't do a video and that'll be absolutely fine I'll still be just as happy having you just here and going on this journey with me and watching the videos So there's a lot to go through here. I have already cut each of these boxes open They are all already cut open But I haven't dug in here to see what's in the boxes yet So I'm going to start actually with this letter And this letter looks like it is from a friend of ours that Has sent letters before from the uk. Oh, and it is a christmas card It is from gary watson and gary watson sends a christmas card, which I got a little after christmas upside down Which I got a little after christmas, but still much appreciated. Thank you Best wishes for christmas and the new year to the hcc 788 family from gary. Thank you gary And gary includes a letter And yeah, this one is a short one. So I'm going to put on the professor grandpa glasses and Just read gary's letter here briefly He says I've recently began to write up my versions of the fact files for the unique cobra figures that were only sold in Argentina and brazil. That's very interesting I used information from the yojo and blood for the baron websites both very good websites I have to admit south america really got a lot of mileage out of the snake eyes version one figure molds Yes, that is true And to use them To create cobra characters the color scheme on the cobra mortal figure is bizarre I don't know if you've seen the cobra mortal figure You should google that if you haven't seen it I hope you have a merry christmas and here's to 2020 hopefully a year of gi joke goodness You are sincerely gary. Well, thank you very much gary And as with all letters I receive I will be keeping this letter forever And I don't get rid of any of the correspondences that you guys send me and I will be keeping this christmas card As well. Sorry. I get a little after christmas But thank you gary for sending that. Okay, I'm going to keep with the envelopes first This comes from uh, david nunez te harina. So david, thank you and I've Split this open it has some weight to it and I see I first of all I see a letter in here and I see an interesting object in there, too This is on rabbit engineering letterhead The letter says first apologies that this is not hand written. Well, that's okay Not a problem My handwriting skills are such that I did not want to wondering why someone sent you a letter in samarian cuneiform Uh, I don't know. I just put it into google translate see if it can come up with anything I'm greatly enjoying your vehicle unboxing slash building videos I have not built any gijo vehicles myself, but I have built many model aircraft So it's something very familiar however seeing you use the exacto knight to cut parts from the spruce is drives me Nutty it puts a lot of strain on the parts. It's bad for your tabletop and dangerous for your fingers We the audience spend a lot of time Staring at close-ups of your fingers. So I'd rather not have them covered in scars and stitches. So I've instead Hope you instead use this set of plastic nippers Look at that. This is a tool That I can use to nip those little parts off of those plastic frames Hope you get to see more vehicle construction videos in the future I hope so if I can get some good ones that are you know That I can assemble and at a reasonable price. I really enjoy doing those things Thanks for all the love you put in your videos and keep up to great work Kind of guards to susan and the kids ps. I have a small youtube channel. Okay Rabbit it's um Videos dot rabbit engineering dot com Uh mostly on uh 3d printing diy and retro gaming feel free to drop by well. I'll check that out Thank you very much damon david and thank you for the useful tool And let's go with this box next since it's on my right and it's on top And this is from seo toy review another youtube channel. Uh that I enjoy very much And uh kevin from that channel. I have met in person Really cool guy. I uh have opened the box and I find a letter.  We made it to 2020. Yes Looking forward to seeing what this year has in store for your channel and gi jo as a brand I still remember coming out of the the theater after seeing gi jo retaliation with my dad for my birthday He looked at me and said there was kind of a lot of ninjas for an army movie. Yep Um, so I included in this package is a mostly oh wait hold on If I keep reading this, uh, I will give away what's in the box and I want it to be a surprise I'll read this to myself just for a moment. All right. I have finished reading the letter Thank you very much kevin and uh, this really cool. Uh, harry truman Quote on the top. Uh, that is cool. I will be keeping that letter and because I read the letter I know what's in the box. Do you want to see what's in the box? Do you want to see what's in the box? Why would you click on the video if you didn't want to see what's in the box? So I'm going to well packed well packed very good job of packing it And let's see we have Yes Yes, yes, yes, we have some of the parts are in the bottom, but uh, we have the Tiger force tiger fish There are the the engines I'll put those back on in a minute and missile But uh, yes, let me where's my yeah, this is something that I did not have um the Tiger force tiger fish Um, I've got a few holes in the tiger force collection. I have most of it now But there are a few odds and ends including this uh that I didn't have yet So that obviously is the devil fish that has been recolored in tiger force colors and those uh very striking tiger stripes So this this helps me this helps fill a hole in the collection. It helps me getting get closer to another review And you know SEO tour review as I mentioned has a youtube channel. Make sure you check that out And many thanks to you kevin, and I hope I can see you in person again soon I almost forgot something in the bottom of the box. Uh, this is what you were talking about in the letter I got you now. It is a cobra bottle opener So, uh, yeah, I'll probably have uh some Bruce keys for Super Bowl sundae and uh I'll open them up with this. That's really cool. I've never seen that It's uh, it's a cobra bottle opener. Thank you kevin. This next one is from portugal. This is a very international uh donation months this month, and uh, I'm really curious. This is kind of a heavy box I've cut it open on this end because looking at the box. It seemed most logical to do it that way So, uh, I am just gonna open it up and see what we got from portugal There is on this end A black bag and I can feel it as parts in it like I yeah I can feel parts In the black bag. Oh my gosh It's this is huge This is like a massive bag Of stuff i'm going to open the bag and see what's in it in just a moment But there's more stuff in the box. There's There's a t-shirt.  Okay one thing at a time. Well, first of all, there's this gorgeous Uh, sky striker t-shirt that is amazing Uh, awesome And there's a little baggie of action figures and you're gonna get a kick I'll show you those just just a minute just a minute. There's more stuff. Oh look at this We have some snacks. We have some uh, some snacks from portugal and of course that means We have to try them out. So this is um, this is also a uh, a taste test video Uh, that that's the other theme for this video international Uh, trying snacks video. Uh, these are Filipinos they look like little little donuts Um, and there is more in the box. Hang on. Oh, there's a letter. I didn't see the letter Hold on and this what is this? Oh many sticks Uh, oh, it's more snacks. Uh, yes. Okay. Uh, there's a letter. It says hcc 788 right there Um, maybe I should have read the letter before Opening it. Ah, okay. All right. This is really tiny type. Hold on one second Let me read through this. I'll read through this myself Really quickly and make sure it doesn't spoil any of the surprise of what's in here. Okay I did read this letter and it doesn't really spoil what's in here But it does have some personal information, which I'm not sure he would want me to read in a video But christian, thank you for this and thank you for the the earlier messages that you sent And I hope things are going better for you and this is exciting. So I'm just going to keep digging in the box because we are there's still one more thing that we've got We've got truffles So I think that's it. That's that's a lot of stuff in this box. I'm going to move the box Because I'm going to move the the sweets aside Because you've got to see You got to see what figures he sent so you he sent this is I'm going to be careful here. Let me zoom in The figures that he sent there are two figures in here and one of them is mutt Sort of like A slaughter's marauder's mutt, but with different coloring and junkyard is in here too We do you have junkyard? If I can get them out, there we go There's junkyard With a really interesting gray coloring Um as mentioned, I don't collect the european um or International toys. I am interested in them But I don't actively collect them. Uh and because of that when people send Some international figures like this. It's really fascinating to me I just like like looking at them and like seeing what the The differences are between the american releases like the different like how the plastic feels Just any molding differences. I really dig that so That's one figure that he sent. The other figure is It's out back Yep It's out back with the tony the tiger shirt and the santa claus Hair and beard Yeah, that's uh, this is a figure that I never actually thought I would have This is not one that I had been pursuing but a lot of american fans really dig this Outback figures. So even though this wasn't one that I was after this will this will have a special place in the collection This is one that a lot of people are uh like to get But amazing Yeah, so you've got the the tiger stripes on the back That orange shirt and then the front of the shirt is this like Sort of cartoony growly tiger thing. Uh, which I think is hilarious and just fascinating that this is the direction they went For outback. Um, amazing Amazing. Okay. So now I'm going to I'm going to look in this giant bag here for the first time And I I can feel there's a lot of parts in here Um, a lot of vehicle parts and oh my Oh, wow. Um, that's an understatement It's overflowing We've got some figures here some intact and some otherwise. There's There's uh, there's stalker. He's fine. He's fine. Um, and we've got like part for the snow cat Uh, oh that's a part for the moray That is a part for the thunder machine And now this is really interesting to me too because I'm curious if any of these parts are significantly different from the american releases that is a sky patrol Parachute with the parachute still in it the silver parachute That is incredible. Um, obviously I can I just want to swim in it, right? Obviously I can't Um, show every single item in here because it's so much.  Um, but I'm going to be spending probably hours digging through there's uh, there's, um Tomax and zeemot the the twins I will be spending all that is really cool this, um For uh for sneak peek there's sneak peek Um, I am going to spend probably hours going through this and look there's just a bag of parts Uh, there could be some parts in here that that I can use and that are I need Oh man, this is just like I just want to oh, I just want to dive in and swim in it We've got missiles. We've got 90s missiles. Um, we've got A a gun for the all striker We we've got topside We've got a leg for the pogo We've got a disc launcher for for Destro. We've got a missile for the warthog It's there's just so much this for the the tiger Water moccasin that I can't think of right now. Oh, look at this Look at this and there Is the man himself Cobra commanda now this I'm gonna get my american release Cobra commander version 1.5 out and look very closely and see if there are any differences Between that and this one But uh, I'm gonna go through this later It's too much to go through right now, but this is exciting. Um Thank you. I don't know what else to say But but my deepest thanks for this and I'm just gonna have a ton of fun just going through this Okay, um, if I if I keep going through this, I'll be busy for hours I'm setting this over here for right now But I will be diving into that as soon as I'm done with this video Now the sweets I set those aside. Um And uh, I guess yeah, I I will save some for susan. These are for susan Um, but she won't mind if I just take take a nibble of each one Okay, let's let's open this one first because it just happens to be the first one I cook out of the box Oh, they're yeah, okay their doughnut shape, but they look more like a cookie Oh, oh good Yeah That's a very good crunch It's um It's like white chocolate on the outside and like a chocolate cookie on the inside And that's fantastic. I may give some of these to susan. Maybe I haven't decided Um, so let's now try this Which is um Mini sticks. Let's see. This is the top Open this up Susan's still getting most of it She won't she won't mind just I'm just gonna have one. I'm just gonna have one All right, uh, let's see here. All right, just one They look like uh chocolate sticks. All right, let's see Oh chocolate and mint Susan will definitely like that She'll be very glad To know that I tested it out um So that I could be sure She would like it chocolate and mint She loves it and those are that's a like Perfect balance of chocolate and mint. So now Let's try truffles truffles classic Um, it's got a pull tab here on the top. So let's pull it. Oops All right, that didn't go too well. There we go um, and Let's see and we've got a a sealed bag inside Let's see Let's open the sealed bag There we go Um And I'm going to take one out. It looks great Sorry dog sparking right now, but oh, that's good That's very rich Yeah, um I'm done. I will I will give Susan her share But that's fantastic Uh, that that that is great. Thank you christian for uh the gifts and for the experience. Uh, that that was really awesome So I now have two Huge boxes one of them is from brandon knight And brandon always sends cool stuff Uh, and we've got uh one from j lubey j lubey has sent stuff before And uh, he has sent some really cool stuff. I'm not sure which one to open first But uh, you know since it's on my right I will go with brandon. So both of these boxes are massive So let's open this up And see what brandon sent this time and brandon. I love you. I do. This is awesome Just I don't want you to send more stuff than you're comfortable sending and then uh, you've got you sent a lot But but and thank you But just just so you know, I'm I'm really happy just having you around, you know You've been a supporter and a friend of this show for a long time Uh, and you don't have to send anything. Um, the fact that you do is greatly appreciated by me. Thank you brandon So we've got some stuff. I'm going to remove the packing material. Everything's always well packed. Oh, there's a letter There's a letter. It's written in a large enough, uh, that I don't Need the glut my glasses to read it. So thanks for that. Um It says what a great year, uh to start, uh, 20 20 this year will be a challenge For the 90s, but we have to do it. Absolutely Um, so many figures and vehicles to go through but don't worry. I got your back inside this huge package Our items to help you get through the 90s All right, that now that is something I can appreciate some items can help to break take a break from the 90s Also, very important So excited for joe fest 2020 and cobra convergence five. Remember you have project cobra to turn to still can't believe we have 10 000 subscribers. Yeah that uh That's proof that uh, there are still many gi joe fans out there Thanks for bringing us together and making gi joe fun. I love to keep learning new things about gi joe. The knowledge is endless We'll take care And keep up the good work. Let's one day have a drink together whiskey on the rocks until next time. Remember gi only gi joe is gi joe And knowing is half the battle yo joe your pal brand tonight. Thank you, sir. And yeah, we need to Um, especially if you're gonna make it to joe fest in august georgia this year at the end of june Uh, we gotta hook up. We gotta hang out. I would really be happy to do that So let's go through here. We've got some more packing material more packing material um I see some things that are intriguing in here Just kind of move this Ah Okay, so we've got some plastic bags Yeah, okay. Hold on. I I thought I recognized this when I saw the corner of it poking out um, and it is battle action force annual 1986 so I guess that I believe this is a collection of the battle action force comics from the uk for 1986 um, and As with the european exclusive figures, this isn't something I actively collect but i'm still interested in it And it's always a privilege to have a chance to see it Um, and actually hold it in my hand and look through it myself um, so This is cool. This is really cool. Thank you randon. Um, and uh, I'm going to move these out of the way and um And we've got more Yeah, he's he's helping out with the 90s. We've got Let me zoom it in a little bit We've got iceberg version two the uh The kind of yellow iceberg um, we've got um, yeah a star brigade star brigade general hawk Yeah, there's the guy general hawk and his uh Whatever they call that the the battle tech suit or whatever the the um, uh, the robo joe style suit That's super 90s. We've got some accessories here and um A lot of them are not gi joe But I think they go with I might go with some of the figures that are in here that are are not gi joe. So Um, let's take a look and we've got Um, some figures that I believe are uh from the core They're not well. I don't want to I don't want to send all the parts flying through here But those look like uh, the core figures. This looks like a remco Um, yeah, american forces uh defender 1986 remco these remco figures I got a few when I was a kid and I always liked them because they uh had A nice like military look to them and that's something that was uh important to me Uh, this this guy's it's dojo, right? I always End forever forget this guy's name Uh, but uh ninja force dojo, right? And then more of the core whipsaw 1986. I think it's fascinating that People are collecting the core because back in the day I mean these guys were like, uh Fodder for customization And uh, at least my friends and I didn't play with them like Out of the package as you know their own figures. They would be like backup guys Or side characters for gi joe or we take them apart and customize them Put them together with you know, some of some of the parts would fit together with gi joe figures But I tell you I mean looking at these and I remember I remember these figures. I had them I had maybe not all of them. I don't think I had that guy Um cyber uh, yeah cyber trooper 1990 definitely didn't have that guy, but These guys, I know I had these guys Back in the day, uh, there is a treasure trove of The core figures in here. Holy moly and I know that, um Brandon would like for me to do a review of the core and I would like to do a review of the core I just have to somehow find a way to fit it in the schedule, which is not as easy as you might think um But oh my gosh, I certainly will have enough figures to do it. Well, there's slipstream There's gi joe figure. I'm gonna I'm open slipstream here Um, the slipstream figure that I have is not in the best shape Uh, so and that's that's better Um, nice nice slipstream. I'll put them back in Um, and there's a big box in here. I'll show you in a second It's cool. What's in the box, but you'll have to wait to see it. Oh my goodness. There it's just There's so many. I don't know. It's like the the previous box if I go through each and every one will be here for hours that's more No, that's the core Or no, that's that's renco. Yeah um There's so many um I You can't you can't see that unless I take it out. There's there's more remco Really, that that would be an excellent pilot figure combat king 1986 We've got some cases which I can always use more of We've got more packing material. Oh, yeah, we've got oh file cards. We've got Duke and heat viper We've got Uh, the talking battle commanders It's talking to battle commanders, right? general hawk file card as you may know, um File cards are important to me. I need the file cards in order to do the review. Oh, and there's There's hawk right there the guy that's a file card is for and a lot of times Sellers don't include the file card and not not every collector Cares about the file card and I understand you don't have to But for me, it's important to to get the file card to include with the review So, all right Finally one more thing making sure one more thing is in the box. Are you ready to see the large the the Large box in the larger box ready? he has sent The original action team And look at that It's the three and three quarter inch figures that are based on the old action soldier 1960s gi joe includes the space capsule Which 12 inch gi joe had But you got the action soldier action marine action sailor action pilot and action astronaut That is amazing and they are it's all still sealed It's all still still sealed and like It's got I didn't know that but it has like file cards for each one Exclusive commemorative edition that is just You know I The history of gi joe is important to me. I care about it And this is a unique piece of history So thank you for this brand and thank you for everything you do brandon has done a lot for this channel He's very much appreciated and uh, yeah, um, let's get together And let's have a drink Okay, I had to put everything carefully back in the box because we still have one more really large box to go through This is from j lube. I know j has sent stuff before and thank you for that I have cut the tape on this one so I can Okay, I'm trying to open it up. Okay, there we go. Uh, so this is also full of stuff Uh, and there is a letter is a letter Here I will need my glasses for this one one moment Um, let me read through this make sure it doesn't give away any surprises or any personal information Hold on one moment. Okay. I think I can read this one aloud It it tells generally what's in here But uh, not not specific and it doesn't have too personal too much personal information in here It says greetings hooded one. Hello I love the channel and the information you provide you sir are truly gi joe It has been a year ago since I saw your first video. Now I have been hooked ever since. Thank you Uh, enjoy your hard work and fair grading of every figure you review. That is the point Isn't it is to be fair, you know That's I think the job of a reviewer even if you whether you like something or dislike it the job is always to be fair Uh, while back I sent some figures from the 90s saying that I thought they were the most realistic looking figures Oops, I was wrong. The early 90s figures Were better looking and more realistic than 92 to 94 figures since this is the year of the 90s Yep, everybody's gotten that message now I thought I would send some and also include something I thought you would You would be better assembled by you would be better assembled by you instead of me So something to assemble in here Interesting. Let's find out what it is Um Dr. Mya Mender will probably hate me for it, but I hope you and your Fellow joes will enjoy it. Uh, Justin Lubey the killer weasler. Uh, jock higher higher Thank you, Justin. Uh, and thank you for the letter I'm keeping this with all of the other letters and now I'm really curious what's in here So let's take a look Okay, so we've got right away one of these, uh, these power gliders Cobra one, I don't remember who this goes to But I will look that up. These these can be a little bit hard to find. Uh, so thank you. Thank you for that Um, we've got oh, yes, um, my my We've got Law, what's this like version three? I want to say three or I don't know I lose track but the the Law that looks crazy and weird and different. It's got like A totally different uniform. He's got like a mask and stuff A complete departure from the earlier versions of law So let's see. Let's see. What else we got just kind of taking it off the top I can see what's in here that he wants me to assemble Uh, you guys are going to get a kick out of this. Um, this is Uh, oh, yeah, um Yeah, snowstorm, right. I'm sorry. I had to read the file card because I was blanking out his name But snowstorm And this is you know, they had when they switched to like the baseball card size file cards uh snowstorm This seriously will actually be helpful We've got a lot of 90s stuff to go through this year. Um, and we've got some carded figures. Look at this Speaking of snowstorm, there's snowstorm carded My gosh And here is another snowstorm. Oh, yeah, it's got both colorations. Yeah So it's got the whether you consider them different versions or variations We've got snow. Uh, yeah snowstorm here Both sealed on the card amazing amazing And uh, we're gonna keep going. Okay. Oh, yes, that is I I think he's complete. I'll have to to check but yeah air devil Air devil and I think he's complete and this guy's file card these These can be kind of a pain to find that is a huge help huge help. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you So I've got to remove some packing material here and I think we're down to the The large box inside the larger box and uh, when you see it you will understand that it is something that Potentially I will assemble and since I got these new Nippers I can do a better job of it. So are you ready? Let me see if I can hold on Let me see if I can get it out. I mean have to stand up get this one. Hold on Hold on Here we go It is The brawler And I've never seen the box for it. I've seen the toy But I've never actually seen the box the box is bigger Than I thought it was this thing is huge. I know the toy is big But the box itself is massive so, um Yeah, we we have permission from Justin to open this guy And assemble it. So I think I have an obligation to do that. So at some point in the future Uh, this thing will be opened and assembled. Well, that's it everyone This one has been an endurance challenge But uh, with my deepest gratitude to everyone whether you send anything to me or not If you're watching this video, I am really glad to have you here. Thank you very much Um, I this is overwhelming. Um, honestly when I started this project I wasn't sure if anyone would watch. Um, and when a few people started watching I was pretty thrilled About that. Um And since then the the response has been more than I ever expected Um, and I don't know what else to say but thank you. Um, this channel is about my Journey my collecting journey. Um, and my journey of discovery of gi joe kind of rediscovering it as an adult and um, you guys have are going on this journey with me and It's I'm grateful to have you on the journey And uh, we're gonna have some fun, you know Try not to take it too seriously. We're gonna have a good time I think when you talk it about toys, I think having fun and having a good time is kind of the point So we'll try to do that And hopefully, you know, we'll build some strong friendships and build a strong community. So Thank you everyone. Um, once again, I will put the address for the po box on the screen now If you would like to donate something, that's where you would send it. Um, if I get anything in the month of February I'll do another one of these. If not, I won't and it'll be fine Uh, but thank you everyone. Um, and I'll see you soon with another review and until then of course remember Only gi joe is gi joe