Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar IA's Academy for the date 5th of September 2019, displayed at the list of news articles taken up for today's analysis along with the page numbers of Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Trivandrum editions, the handwritten notes in PDF format and the time stamping of all the news articles taken up for today's analysis will be available in the description section and also in the comment section for the benefit of the smartphone users. Let us now start our discussion. This news article discusses about Azhar Afiz and Dawood being designated as terrorists. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of the news article is given here for your reference. Under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967, certain persons have been declared as terrorists. We know that recently this act was amended by the Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment Act of 2019. So the principal act is Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967. A bill was introduced in the parliament and it was passed and the assent was given by the president. So once the president assent is given, amendment has been made to the principal act and the amendment act is called as the Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment Act of 2019. This amendment act inserted new schedule to the principal act. The new schedule is the fourth schedule. It was inserted to list individuals as terrorists under section 35 of the principal act. If you refer the principal act, it would state an act to provide for the more effective prevention of certain unlawful activities of individuals and associations and for dealing with terrorist activities and for matters connected therewith. So the principal act always had the notion to curb the unlawful activities by any association and even by the individuals. But only by the recent amendment it became possible to list individuals as terrorists. So this is the difference that you need to know. Now as per the recent amendment, even individuals can be listed as terrorists. So what is an unlawful activity? According to the act, unlawful activity means any action taken by an individual or association to do the following. Firstly, when the action is intended or when it supports any claim to bring the session of a part of the territory of India or the cessation of a part of the territory of India from the union. When we tell union, it is an Indian union and even the action that is any action which incites any individual or group of individuals to bring about such session or cessation can be declared as an unlawful activity. Here session means transferring a territory of our country to another country and cessation means the act of becoming an independent territory by leaving the union. Here the Indian union. Secondly, the action which disclaims questions, disrupts or is intended to disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India is also an unlawful activity. Thirdly, any action which causes or when it is intended to cause disaffection against India, then it also amounts to unlawful activity. In this context, let us also know the other three schedules to this unlawful activities prevention act of 1967. So there are three schedules. The first schedule consists of the name of the terrorist organizations. Currently, if you see, there are 42 terrorist organizations that are listed in this schedule. Additionally, the name of organizations that are listed in the schedule to the UN prevention and suppression of terrorism, implementation of Security Council resolutions order 2007 also come under this particular schedule. The second schedule contains the international conventions and international protocols and international treaties. Currently, if you see, there are nine such conventions and protocols. This is included because all these conventions and protocols define offenses that constitute terrorist acts and the unlawful activities prevention act of 1967 includes all these terrorist acts. Next, the third schedule. The third schedule contains security FIHs to define high-quality counterfeit Indian currency notes. Some of the security FIHs include watermark in the notes, etc. Now, with this background knowledge, let us discuss the news article. Based on the recent amendments made to the unlawful activities prevention act of 1967, the central government has decided to declare certain individuals as terrorists. The central government has also decided to add the names of those individuals to schedule four of this act. They are declared as terrorists by the Ministry of Home Affairs through a Gasset notification and they are declared as terrorists under section 35, subsection 1, clause A of this principal act, nothing but the unlawful activities prevention act of 1967. This section empowers the central government to add any organization to the first schedule or the name of an individual in the fourth schedule by a notification in the official Gasset. So, who are these individuals who have been added as terrorists? First one is Maulana Mazood Asar is the Chief Founder and Key Leader of Jaisi Muhammad or JEM. Remember that Jaisi Muhammad is listed as a terrorist organization under Schedule 1 of the principal act. The second person is Hafiz Muhammad is the Chief Founder and Key Leader of Lashkari Taiba or Jamaatud Daba and Lashkari Taiba is also listed as a terrorist organization under Schedule 1 of the principal act. The third person is Zakir Rahman Lakwi is the Chief Operation Commander of Lashkari Taiba and one of its founder members. The fourth person is Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. He runs an international underworld criminal syndicate and he is involved in perpetrating acts of terror that is spreading acts of terror. All of these individuals are involved in terrorist attacks in India. Also know that these individuals have been designated as global terrorists under United Nations. Earlier when the terrorist organizations were banned these individuals associated with those terrorist organizations will just simply change their names and they continue to carry out terrorist activities. But now since they will also be listed in the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act after the amendment it will be easy to take actions against these terrorist individuals. So know that as per the recent amendment made to this Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967 the central government is empowered to designate individuals as terrorists. So the government can act strongly against terrorists. Now have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. The next news article which we are going to see is regarding the gold reserves which appears in the business column in all the editions. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. First let us try to understand the balance of payments. This balance of payments comes under India's external sector. When we tell external sector it deals with exports of goods and services and financial capital between nations and the term balance of payments is nothing but a systemic record of the country's all economic transactions that a particular country has with the outside world. So in our case it is India and India's economic transactions that it has with the outside world and all those transactions for a particular year will be recorded and know that these transactions include the transactions of the government as well as the transactions of the private. So this is the format which is used in the economic service of the finance ministry which is tabled in Indian parliament before the budget session of every financial year. So under balance of payments you have all this and this data is compiled from the Reserve Bank of India's balance of payment sheet which is released by the Reserve Bank of India for every quarter in a financial year. Every quarter means once in three months. So this particular table was presented in the economic survey of the financial year 2018-19. You can find this table in volume 2 of economic survey in page number 160. So we can see different subjects like the current account, capital account, errors and omission, overall balance and reserves change. Now let us focus on this reserves change because this is relevant to our topic. The reserves change in general denote the monetary movements in and out of India. They are the foreign exchange reserves. I know that the balance of payment is the sum of the current account balance and the capital account balance and also know that when the balance of payment is surplus, the balance is added to the foreign exchange reserve and when the balance of payment is in deficit, then the balance is deducted from the foreign exchange reserve. It means the payment is made out of the old balance of the foreign exchange reserve. This foreign exchange reserve consists of foreign currency assets, then the gold reserves of the Reserve Bank of India, then the special drawing rights that is SDR Holdings of the Indian Government with the International Monetary Fund that is IMF and the Reserve Trance. Now let us focus on the gold reserves or the gold stock of the Reserve Bank of India. So these gold reserves are maintained by the Reserve Bank of India. It is used as a backup to issue currency and it is also utilized when an unexpected problem in the balance of payment happens in any financial year. So when there is a huge deficit for an example, then whatever gold reserves that we have will be utilized for the payments. So this is the primary use of the gold reserve and know that the value of these gold reserves is expressed either in US dollars or in Indian national rupee nothing but Indian currency. If you see today's news article, it tells that India is the 10th largest country in the world with gold reserves and this news article also tells that it is based on the July 2019 data. So as of July 2019, India has gold reserves worth 618.2 tons and if you see in March 2019, India had 607 tons and in the first quarter of 2000 that is before 19 years, India had a gold reserve of 357.8 tons. So you can see that approximately there is an 80% increase in the gold reserves in these 19 years and know that this data also includes the International Monetary Fund because International Monetary Fund also holds some of the gold reserves. So the data that has been released by the World Gold Council IMF stands third. So it has the third largest gold reserves. Also know that United States has the largest amount of gold reserves which is followed by Germany. So Germany is the second largest and the news article also tells that if IMF is left, then India is the ninth largest country with gold reserves and we saw that the gold reserve data is released by the World Gold Council. So let us see in brief about this World Gold Council. It is a market development organization for the gold industry which works across the entire supply chain of gold industry that is starting from mining till where the gold is marketed and it is head quartered at London and United Kingdom. Let us move on to the next news article. This editorial is about India and climate change. How India is vulnerable to climate change and India's resilience to climate change. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this editorial is given here for your reference. Throughout this editorial, the author has discussed about the report released by HSBC Bank in 2018. HSBC stands for Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. So this bank has released a global report on climate risk after studying 67 countries and this report focused on vulnerability to climate change risks, their impacts, then transition to low carbon economies and the availability of funds to respond to climate change. This report said that India is the country which is most vulnerable to climate change. So remember this fact. Let us see more about the methodology of the report and about the outcomes of this report at the end of our editorial analysis. Now let us see what the author tells in this editorial. First, the author is telling that despite the scientific warnings, carbon emissions continue to rise in countries like China, United States and India. And apart from this is the recent incident which is happening in Brazil where there is forest fires which is happening in Amazon forests. The author is telling that Brazil is encouraging unprecedented deforestation in Amazon forests under a false pretext. That is Brazil wants to promote economic growth. So it is going for deforestation and hence it is encouraging forest fires. So the author is telling that rise in carbon emissions and unprecedented deforestation along with this forest fires will worsen global warming. So this will result into more severe floods, storms, heat waves and droughts throughout the world. The author is telling that the most hit country by this global warming would be India. So we can see the trend of easing in the environmental norms or the environmental regulations. The author is telling that Brazil is not the only country that slashes environmental regulations in the name of promoting economic growth. But also countries like United States, India and even some other countries use the same method but in varying degrees. That is they have different approaches. So the author is telling that if the environmental norms are relaxed, there will be a boost in the investment. So there will be a boost in the short-term economic growth of that particular country and it will also benefit the interest groups like the industries or the MNCs that is the multinational corporations who wish to invest in that particular country. But the author is telling that it will cause a permanent damage to the already fragile ecology. That is already for us a shrinking in many of the countries but now if incidents like forest fires that is happening in Amazon, if it is going to continue in other countries also, the entire ecology will suffer permanent damage. So this will have an impact in the long-term growth of whichever country which is involving in such an activity and ultimately that is finally it will affect the overall well-being of the entire world population. So the author is trying to tell that though there might be short-term gains, but there will be long-term losses in the future. Next the author is telling that most of the climate risk surveys consider three important factors. The first factor is the exposure or sensitivity of countries to the climate impacts. The second factor is the ability of countries to cope up with the climate impacts that is in terms of money and technology. And the third factor is the intensity of the climate hazards. The author is telling that in all the three factors, India's performance is worsening each year. Next the author has mentioned some reasons why India is becoming more vulnerable to climate hazards. One reason is the vast coastline of India because we know that India is open to Arabian Sea to its west, where Bengal to its east and Indian Ocean in the south. So this makes all the coastal states vulnerable to climate hazards like the rising sea levels, then the storms, then the frequent cyclones, then also because of floods. The second reason which is mentioned is the high population density. Because of high population density, whenever there is a climate hazard, there are more chances of loss of lives and also loss of property. So this makes India more vulnerable to climate hazards. To substantiate this, the author has mentioned few examples. Like for example, the author is telling that a number of Indian states have experienced extreme heat waves in the past three years. So a heat wave is a period of unusually hot weather that typically lasts for two or more days. And to be considered a heat wave, the temperatures have to be outside the historical averages for a given area. Recently, if you see Delhi recorded a temperature of 48 degrees celsius, which was the hottest day of Delhi in 21 years. And more frequently, we can see heat waves in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Maharashtra. The next recent event is the floods and landslides that happened in the state of Kerala. If you see 2018 also, Kerala was affected by the worst floods. And this year also, Kerala was affected by the floods and landslides. Then the author is telling that the increasing temperatures and changing seasonal rainfall patterns have aggravated, that is they have increased the droughts in many parts of the country. So it has ultimately hurt at the agriculture sector across the country because majority of agriculture depends upon the monsoons and they have least access to irrigation. So they are more vulnerable to climate change. Next, the author has also mentioned that extreme storms like the one that hit Odisha during summer this year and also the 2015 Chennai floods are becoming the new normal. That is we cannot tell anymore that these are once in a lifetime events but every year some part of the country is facing worst climate crisis. So the author is telling that these events will become even more damaging if the infrastructure is not resilient. So the term resilient means the ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. Say if an area is affected by flood, how soon is that area able to recover from that flood and come back to a normal condition. So we need to have proper infrastructure in order to have resilience. So the author is stressing this fact is telling that the most important solution is to build resilience to the climate change hazards. So he has listed down some measures. Let us see one by one now. First, the author has told that India should focus more to boost its inland and coastal defences. For example, like building seawalls wherever required, then protecting mangroves, then building floodgates, then replenishing the beaches, then protecting the wetlands, then constructing buildings above the flood level and also modifying the necessary infrastructure in order to reduce the impacts because of natural events. Then the author suggests to build resilience in different agricultural sectors. Then the author also suggests the need to build resilience in fisheries, manufacturing, energy sector, transport, health and education. So when a country becomes resilient to climate change risks, the extremity of events are going to come down. So the author is suggesting that both the central government and also the state governments have to spend more or put their priority more towards spending for the disaster management. So there should be an increasing spending on disaster management and adequate resources must be allocated for implementing the climate action plans which has been prepared by many of the states. Then the author is telling that India should in fact be alarmed at the destruction that is happening in Amazon that is the deforestation and the forest fires which is happening in Amazon. Since India is most vulnerable to climate change, the author is suggesting that India should lead in pressing the global community to take effective climate actions. Finally, the author is also telling that India should replace urgently its energy needs. Right now if we see India is more dependent on generating energy from fossil fuels, but the author is suggesting that India should shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. So these are some of the measures that has been suggested by the author in order to build resilience towards climate change. Now let us see in brief about this report that has been released by HSBC Bank in 2018. This report is titled as fragile planet scoring climate risks around the world. The methodology used for calculating climate vulnerability included the following. First is it included the potential of the countries to respond to climate risks that is the financial resources that particular country had and also the national governance. The second factor was the energy transition risks like the use of fossil fuel in that particular country. And the third parameter was sensitivity to extreme events like the number of deaths and the damage caused to that particular country because of the natural event that happened in that country. And finally the physical climate impacts like the average temperature, the water availability and also the extreme weather events. So based on this the report has concluded that the most vulnerable countries to climate change are India, Pakistan, Philippines and Bangladesh. And the least vulnerable countries to climate change are Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia and New Zealand. So just try to know about the methodology based on which the report has been prepared. It will be helpful in your exam. Now have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article discusses about the Megalithics vote which was discovered in Kannur in the state of Kerala. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. Let us now see the news article. This news article states that the state archaeology department in Kauriko, Kerala has unearthed an iron sword and it has also unearthed chisel and a few decorated pot trees. The state archaeology department says that these equipment are from Megalithic era. They have got these equipment from a rocket cave at Poduva Chheri which is located in Kannur district of Kerala state. And this rocket cave is a semi-spherical shaped cave with a diameter of around 2.5 meter and a height of 90 centimeter. Rocket caves are unique laterite monuments found on the west coast of India. These caves may have single or multiple chambers. Stone benches are sometimes carved into the sides of the monument and the burial goods are placed either on them or under them. And the iron sword which they have found is of 105 centimeter length and it is believed that this sword is 2500 years old. As we saw the news article mentions that the equipment and the artifacts were found in the Megalithic era. Now the term Megalith means big stones. Mega means big, lith means stones. Like the ones you can see in this picture. These big stone boulders were carefully arranged by people and they were used to mark burial sites in those times. Now in those times means according to NCRT this practice of placing Megaliths began about 3000 years ago. So it has been practiced by people who lived before 3000 years. And if you see this practice was prevalent throughout the Deccan region of India then in southern region of India and also in the north eastern region of present day India and also in Kashmir. Some of the important Megalithic sites are shown in this map. For example you can see Adichanallur which is located in present day Tamil Nadu and Brahmagiri which is a Megalithic site which is located in the present day Karnataka. And you can also see some other Paleolithic sites, Neolithic sites in this map for your reference. Now some Megaliths can be seen on the surface whereas some other Megalithic burials are often underground and sometimes archaeologists find a circle of stone boulders or sometimes even a single large stone which is standing on the ground. So these might be indications that there are burials beneath and which have to be discovered. All these burials have some common features. Generally if you see the dead people were buried with distinctive colored pots. Now they are called as blackware or redware. Sometimes other things are also found in the burials like tools and weapons of iron and sometimes you can even find the skeletons of horses then horse equipments and sometimes even ornaments made out of stone or made out of gold are also found in these burials. So these are some of the common features of these Megalithic burials. Now have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article speaks about Sardar Sarovar Dam. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. Know that Sardar Sarovar project is on river Narmada. First let us see about Narmada river. It originates from Amerkantak plateau in the state of Madhya Pradesh and it travels through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat and it drains at Gulf of Cambay which is located in Arabian Sea. So the mouth of this river is located in Gujarat and Sardar Sarovar Dam is a concrete gravity dam which has been built across river Narmada. Coming to the news article, this news article tells that the rising water levels in Narmada has submerged the village of Nazirpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The news article tells that the plan to fill this Sardar Sarovar Dam was done at a menacing speed that is at an alarming speed by the Gujarat government. See the full reservoir level of the Sardar Sarovar Dam is fixed at 138.68 meters. So it was planned to store water till its full capacity by mid of October and till the end of September it was planned to store water up to 135 meters. So this is the usual schedule that was planned but now itself the water level of Narmada has risen to 135.6 meters. So we can see that this was not done according to the schedule. Because of this the villages that are located along the banks of river Narmada which is upstream to this Sardar Sarovar Dam has been flooded and those people who were living in these villages have been hugely affected because the rehabilitation measures was not taken in advance. The news article says that the affected families have been shifted to the relief camps which has been set up by Narmada Valley Development Authority and those people who were forced to migrate await rehabilitation. But the worrying factor is that even the rehabilitation claims of people who were affected by this project itself is yet to get complete. The reason given by Gujarat government to increase the level of water across river Narmada is that it needed to test the integrity of the construction joints of this dam by filling the water till its full reservoir level. But we saw that the level that has to be reached by the end of September has been reached now only. So it has affected the people those who lived upstream. Now let us see in brief about Narmada Valley Development Authority. This authority was formed by the government of Madhya Pradesh and its motto is to exploit the enormous water resources in Narmada river. This authority basically oversees all the major development projects in the Narmada basin and this body also ensures that the proper rehabilitation is provided to the displaced people that is those people who are moved out of their original places where some projects needed to be constructed. And this authority also ensures that the negative impacts on environment are minimized by taking appropriate measures. This Sardar Sarovar Dam was associated with several controversies if you see. This project was stalled for some time by the Supreme Court due to complaints over the displacements of the people especially the tribal people who lived along this river and this movement was spearheaded by Narmada Bachav Andolan. Now know that the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan receive water and they also get electricity from this project. So this project also plays a critical role in irrigating the most drought prone areas of Kutch and Saurashtra in the state of Gujarat. Now let us see in brief about this Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal. Under the Interstate Water Disputes Act of 1956 the central government constituted Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal in the year 1969. So basically this tribunal adjudicates the sharing of Narmada waters between four states which are the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. During the start of this discussion we saw that Narmada flows only across three states that is the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat but know that the Narmada waters are shared by four states including Rajasthan and also know that Narmada control authority has been set up under the final orders of this Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal as a machinery for implementation of its direction and decision. So this authority started functioning from 1980 onwards and this authority has representatives from the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and also one representative from the government of India that is the central government. The secretary of water resources government of India is the ex official chairman of this authority. Now have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article is about the global livability index of 2019. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. Know that global livability index is released by the Economist Intelligence Unit or in short the EIU. The EIU is the Research and Analysis Division of the Economist Group. This is a sister company to the newspaper which is named the Economist. This index assesses the concept of livability. It assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. So why there is a need for such an index? It is because assessing livability has a broad range of uses like it helps in benchmarking or it provides basis for perceptions of development levels in that particular city and also it helps to assign a hardship allowance as a part of expatriate relocation packages. Now the term hardship allowance means the extra amount of money which someone is paid with for working in difficult conditions and expatriate means a person who lives outside their native country. So assessing the livability will help to assign the extra amount of money for those people who are in a foreign country and those who are working under difficult conditions. In other words, companies pay a premium to employees who move to cities where living conditions are particularly difficult and where there is an excessive physical hardship or a notably unhealthy environment. So this index suggests the hardship allowance corresponding to the rating. So this is the purpose of this index. The livability rating quantifies the challenges that an individual may face in any given location. Every city taken for assessment is assigned a rating for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors and the factors are across five broad categories which are stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. The stability factor includes prevalence of petty crimes, violent crimes, threat of terror in that city, then threat of military conflict in that city and the threat of civil unrest or civil conflict in that city. And the healthcare factor includes the availability of private and public healthcare, then the quality of the private and public healthcare that is available in that city and also the availability of over the counter drugs in that city. Next is the culture and environment factor. This includes humidity or temperature rating of the city, then the average weather conditions of the city, then the discomfort of climate to the travelers, then the level of corruption in the city, then the social or religious restrictions in the city and also the consumer goods and services that are available in that particular city. Next is the infrastructure factor. This includes quality of the road networks in that city, then the quality of public transport that is available in that city and also the quality of water provisions. So, each factor in a city is rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable and the scores are then compiled to provide a score of 1 to 100 where 1 is considered intolerable and 100 is considered ideal or perfect and this index has surveyed 140 cities from India, New Delhi was included in this survey. So, New Delhi is a only city from India which has represented this survey. Now, let us see the outcomes of this index. This index has ranked the city of Vienna as the most livable of the 140 cities which were taken for the survey. Know that Vienna is the capital of Austria. Last year that is in 2018 Melbourne city from Australia was in the top spot but this year Vienna has attained the top spot, Vienna scored 99.1 out of 100 and Melbourne has scored 98.4 out of 100. Two other Australian cities also feature in the top 10 ranking which are the cities of Sydney and Adelaide and one more city from the continent of Europe has scored among the best. It is the city of Copenhagen in Denmark and it has scored the ninth rank. The other top ranked cities are from Japan and Canada. Now, large number of cities have scored low mainly because of the exposure to the effects of climate change in that city. These cities include New Delhi as well. If you see the ranking of New Delhi is 118 out of the 140 cities assessed in the survey and New Delhi has dropped 6 ranks when compared to last year. Why New Delhi has scored low is because it suffers from terrible air quality and other cities which have been ranked low include the Cairo city from Egypt and Dhaka from Bangladesh. In both these cities as well air quality is a major issue. Apart from this, New Delhi has also scored low scores in culture and environment due to undesirable average temperatures in the city and also due to inadequate water provision in the city. Then it has also scored low instability due to rising crime rates in the capital. So, these are some of the reasons why the ranking of New Delhi in this year's survey has reduced. Now have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the practice questions discussion session. The first question is consider the following statements with reference to unlawful activities prevention act of 1967 and they have given three statements and they have asked you to choose the correct statements. The first statement tells that individuals can be listed as terrorists under section 35 of this act. The first statement is correct. Individuals can be listed as terrorists under section 35 of this act. So, this was added by the unlawful activities prevention amendment act of 2019. This amendment act amended the principal act which is the unlawful activities prevention act of 1967. And under this amendment act, fourth schedule was also added to the principal act that is the unlawful activities prevention act of 1967. So, it is not the third schedule it is the fourth schedule. So, the second statement goes wrong here. The third statement it tells that the first schedule consists of the name of organizations that are listed in the schedule to the human prevention and suppression of terrorism implementation of security council relations order 2007. This statement is correct because schedule one not only contains the names of organizations listed as terrorist organization by the ministry of home affairs or the government of India, but it also contains the names of the organizations that are listed in the schedule to the human prevention and suppression of terrorism implementation of security council resolutions order of 2007. So, the third statement is correct. Now, the question is asked for the correct statements. The correct answer is option B 1 and 3. Moving on to the next question, the question is the Brahmagiri Megalithic site is situated in which state they have given four states Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. During our discussion, we saw that Brahmagiri Megalithic site is located in the state of Karnataka. So, the correct answer is option D Karnataka. We also saw one more Megalithic site which is Adhichan Allur site which is located in the present day Tamil Nadu. Moving on to the next question, which among the following sites is our Megalithic sites? They have given three sites Bhimbetka, Adhichan Allur, Brahmagiri and they have asked you to select the correct answer. So, we just saw that Adhichan Allur and Brahmagiri are Megalithic sites. We need to confirm if Bhimbetka is Megalithic site or not. Know that Bhimbetka site is located in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is a magnificent repository of rock paintings within natural rock shelters. And this site has archaeological evidences of habitation that is people have lived in this site and also the lithic industry from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. And even NCERT has listed Bhimbetka under the Paleolithic site as you can see in this map. So, it is not a Megalithic site. So, one is not there. You can easily eliminate three options here. If you go by the elimination technique, options A, B and D can be eliminated. So, the correct answer is option C, 2 and 3. But we also saw that Adhichan Allur and Brahmagiri are Megalithic sites. So, the correct answer is option C, 2 and 3. Moving on to the next question, consider the following statements. They have given two statements which is regarding Narmada river and they have asked you to choose the correct statements. The first statement tells that Sardar Sarovar Dam is located in Narmada river. This statement is correct. We saw during our discussion that Sardar Sarovar Dam is located across Narmada river. The second statement tells that Narmada water dispute tribunal was formed to adjudicate upon the sharing of Narmada waters between the three states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. During our discussion, we highlighted that Narmada river flows across three states which are the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. But the waters of Narmada are shared between four states. Apart from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Rajasthan also shares the Narmada waters. So, it is four states, not three states. So, the second statement goes wrong here. The questioner has asked you to choose the correct statements. So, the correct answer is option A, 1 only. Moving on to the next question. The question is the global livability index is released by which among the following organizations? World Bank, Transparency International, the Economist's Intelligence Unit, International Monetary Fund. As we saw during our discussion, the correct answer is option C, the Economist's Intelligence Unit. So, do not confuse this index with the Ease of Living Index. The Ease of Living Index is released by World Bank. But global livability index is released by the Economist's Intelligence Unit. And know that Transparency International releases Global Corruption Report and Corruption Perception Index. And International Monetary Fund releases Global Financial Stability Report and World Economic Outlook. So, the correct answer here is option C, the Economist's Intelligence Unit. Moving on to the main question. The question is, recurring climate change hazards like floods, storms and heat waves have become the new normal in India. Can we say that India is the most vulnerable country to climate change? What all can be done to improve India's resilience to climate change hazards? Now, the first statement tells that recurring climate change hazards like floods, storms and heat waves have become the new normal in India. During our discussion, we saw that there are frequent heat waves which has happened for the past three years. Then the state of Kerala is affected by floods. And there are also some storms and cyclones happening in India. So, you can just mention that. And the second statement is, can we say that India is the most vulnerable country to climate change? So, it is a question. So, you have to take a stand. From the examples that we have given, we can come to a conclusion that India is the most vulnerable country to climate change. You can also add on the 2018 HSBC Global Report that we saw during our discussion and tell that India is the most vulnerable country to climate change. The final part of the question asks, what all can be done to improve India's resilience to climate change hazards? So, in our discussion, we listed some measures where India can build up on its resilience to climate change hazards. So, you can list out the measures like focusing more on boosting the inland and coastal defenses of India, then building resilience in different sectors of agriculture, then building resilience in fisheries, manufacturing, energy, transport, health and education, then increasing the spending for disaster management at national level and also at the state level. Then also focusing more on adequate allocation of resources for tackling climate change, then the need for shifting towards renewable energy. So, these are some of the measures that we saw. If you have some other measures that can be written for this question, you can include them, but make sure it is relevant. With this, we come to the end of the analysis of all the news articles taken up for today's discussion and also the practice questions discussion session. 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what's up everyone how are you guys doing today Tuesday night stream we are here how you guys we can been going so far let me know if you're here let me know what's been up in the chat here we go what's up guys ish males here squalls here mischiefs here ex gamers here the legend dropped your stuff today ex gamer dunks what's up Jason how's it going I'm doing great Jason let's crack open that box it's gonna be fun I'm an oldy sword master in first edition very nice epic pulls as always let's hope so let's hope so so you can deal with slight meta you mean sprite meta I think that's what you mean sprite LeBron James sponsors you go now how are you doing very good battle chaos break good luck man ex gamer in the church what a legend you're on Wednesday in your country nice nice you're back in time here first box break good luck hands rally it's gonna be fun man Garrett what's up man appreciate the delivery waiting on it hopefully it'll get there soon man three ultras that would be well usually at one ultra per GX box GX style box so this is gonna be ulti so we would want three altis here ulti deck dev I actually just traded one of those at the UICS pretty cool what's up Tristan what's up to you and your brother Zach would you polish the dark magician excuse me I'm doing great man how about you guys should you like the live yes you should if you guys are in here you should like the live because once we hit 200 likes we're gonna start the opening flaming eternity first edition hobby box let's just check it out we're waiting sauce TCG is in this is in the house let's say in the stats that's that's not right thanks for the 199 sauce TCG how's it doing how's it doing over there man how you doing I am not speaking correctly so far so here we go 103 024 that's the hobby box code that means we can pull ultras and supers as ultimate rear is out of here next lot Nathan I appreciate it everything to playing Edison format yeah I've played it before I played it a lot actually we did it no we didn't do it on stream yet on twitch but we have done goat on stream so if you guys want to follow the stream link below for twitch streams no I haven't done a worth that are not a long time because now pretty much everything's worth it because there's an $18 rate so when are you gonna try and pull the seal seal of ory calcos well I've already put a lot of seal of ory calcos because it's like a really easy pull in dragons a legend thanks a lot trippy hippie appreciate it we're at 150 likes at 200 we will start the opening every day almost on twitch we haven't this week though because I hurt my knee and basketball so I felt awful today so it's like you know what we're not streaming Monday I had to deal with my car again today I said deal with my car for the third time so alright see no ulti deck dev you think so and the cover card in the same box you think so it could happen amazing pulls thanks for the 99 cents how much does this box box cost me like 1500 to 2000 somewhere in there it's kind of hard to find any you know comps for this thing could I possibly show you a card you can show me a card no big deal it is Seymour the guy you cancelled auction now I'm just kidding I'm just getting take it off take it off I didn't say that how much do I weigh 502 ounces it's a big opening people hype it up why is officially nostalgic keep getting censored like I don't know what you said right there but the YouTube does not like you for some reason ulti flaming chicken I actually never noticed this giant hole right here it like looks weird it's like there's a giant hole in the bird but it's actually just cuz he's got you know skinny waist over here when are you gonna start playing Rise of Kingdoms I don't know what that is but thanks for the 199 emissary piece I'm blessing the brothers of legend pulls right now man good luck 52 likes till we start this thing what's up joey thanks a lot man hey toan toan's in this opening I just saw his name toan foe show what's up Gabriel how you doing man you excited for the box opening since this is or was your box TCG trusted cars thanks for the 10 box 10 box the 10 bucks for the one box opening appreciated $10 for the good luck in the opening hopefully that will let us get an amazing ultra rare or two we would take both hit the thumbs up button let's get this very start am I saying the flaming chip chicken is dummy thick I mean yeah it's up to you to decide but it's up to you guys to decide very nice yeah yeah yeah the deck dev yeah I know I didn't realize that either but you can see it through the hole in the chicken it's very wild so technically we could get both cover carts that'd be pretty cool the bird is a lady we don't know that for sure but what do I not want to pull we're not gonna say any bad juju because then we're gonna pull it that's what's gonna happen flesh and blood I haven't actually tried that I've heard good things about it for the most part though and not only not be able to see skinny waste firebird yeah I know I know this is what you get when you watch our streams demo get in here you learn a lot of things about the artwork is this a box break for you or for you this is a box break the box break on and by the way we have one more box break still open we sold out of the hobby box of Legacy of Darkness we do have the retail box of Legacy of Darkness left I think maybe half the packs left something like that there's other next one will be Legacy of Darkness hobby and then we'll do retail I'm praying for you in the sweltering hot nice spicy ramen just became a discord member you can click that link down below to join the discord and then just connect your YouTube to discord for full access spicy ramen if you guys want to join that as well all you have to do is be a twitch member or twitch subscriber a YouTube member or a patreon to have access to the discord you'll also get emotes and badges as well we are 19 likes away from starting this thing up the sod box yeah yeah the sod box is pretty rough it was pretty rough pretty rough semi-modern set in the last 10 years a lot of options there a lot of options last 10 years I like those from the past to of course that was a great one hobby box breaks coming up right now we don't have anything but you know people message me all the time with stuff so we might have some stuff coming we'll see is there a heatwave where you are too it's been hot over here for a while so it actually isn't that hot those like 89 so it's actually not terrible John Bishop you can contact me through email Rodney ruckson34 at gmail.com that's a really good way to contact me then there's also you can use of course the Instagram and Twitter stuff like that so playing dinos no I'm not pod openings we're gonna do it as soon as we get them as soon as we get them and we're gonna open Pope good luck on this box rocks thanks Bogzilla member first 13 months over a year now that's pretty insane 200 likes it's time to get going guys let's go John it's interesting you say that I'm actually making a top 10 biggest losses video I just recorded it today so I'm gonna sometime this week probably you're gonna see it so I'm gonna do my top 10 biggest losses on the channel and it's gonna be a lot so let's go let's open this thing up and you guys can see how much I lost just from those 10 openings so that could open really easily which is like kind of weird actually so hopefully we're good hopefully there's no sort of a funny business going on here 108 degrees that's awful that's really awful okay flaming attorney this they have such a weird box like the texture of this box is really weird like I think that's normal though for this box okay let's see let's open this up okay it looks pretty good pretty good so far so that's good you always got to be a I have a little bit of worry when you open a little booster box even if you know what they look like it can still be sketch but I believe no this isn't European this is definitely because of the code we know it's not so 24 packs let's go all right I guess you have to wait and find out night cipher see which one is the worst there's some pretty bad ones in there let me tell you I was revisiting I was like man these were awful so the duals actually isn't that bad of a set there's a lot of decent cards in it there's only a 60 card set it's just really hard to pull good cards out of there all right let's go it's time guys Jonathan S is first up with one singular pack what will we pull out of one singular pack usually two ultimates in these sets occasionally one ultra sometimes even zero Ultras which is really weird so let's see if we can pull something good all right ex-gamer said good luck and you we guys you guys have seen the ex-gamer's luck it's pretty insane it's pretty insane his five ghostries the other day okay first pack the arm samurai Ben Kai there it is the Ben Kai OTK we have the element doom starting it off the big march of animals there's a lot of different artworks on it see if we can point them all out we've got ojama king bazoo the soul leader we've got the behemoth king of all animals desk Oala rescue cat what else is in there what card is this I recognize that card but I can't remember the name what is that oh I don't remember any of these cards names but there's so many different I mean like beasts in here wow check all those out if you recognize some let me know let me know in the comments in the chat I should say because we're live kangaroo champ not recording a video Ben Kai very nice I just recorded a video before this and I didn't have my mic on so I had to record it twice it was great it was awesome football with the contract with a flame ruler insect night the man himself of all insect fighters he is the paragon of the indestructible insect invaders which only the elite of the elite can join we can no longer ignore their unmatched battle power prowess why can we no longer ignore because they now have the insect night in there in their squad or whatever we can no longer ignore it that's insane penalty game it goes this looks like what is that movie with a gold do with a robot what movie is that yeah we got the zoo soul tiger was the card giant rat is in there sacred face what's up what's up Ian how's it going man I was just reliving one of our openings it was in our biggest one of my biggest loss videos and what when we open together alright oh this is the next pack by the way that was John s I got to remember this is for Gabriel V three packs so yes this one and he has one two packs all right let's not get carried away that is John s we'll pack that up after we're done with this you only one pack let's go did you miss the insane pulse so far just a rare at 19 19 attack or 1900 attack four stars definitely pretty powerful yeah back on the day that was all I cared about like 1904 stars the earth hex sealed fusion we got a pole position okay this card's actually really annoying which I didn't know installs watching some Cmo videos kangaroo champ the maji guy panda or was it might have been in BT I can't remember we got the whirlwind prodigy of a rescue cat that's a great common before they reprinted this recently this was like a $15 common so unfortunately it's not that much more I think it's maybe three bucks a bar you she only when the cross-counter I thought it was the deck dev it wasn't and then the divine dragon ragnarok so it looks like it is four from the back here is blast magician hobby yes blast magicians a super rare I believe regularly okay so let's sleep up this for Jonathan s this nef this or nef these I don't know however you want to say it however you want to say it up to you oh we dropped it be careful bad start bad start we're dropping stuff all right very slippery in these in these sleeves okay very nice first pack up Jonathan s thanks for being in it by the way you will get a bonus foil for not getting anything will you buy custom mats maybe waifu ones no I'm not buying waifu my mats in a video okay next up tag number two play me eternity let's see if we can pull some good blast magician is beautiful all the ultimate rears in this okay I say all but most of the ultimate rears in the set are beautiful all right space mamboo very nice release restraint catnip kitty the poison fangs elemental burst element valkyrie be sole swap the refusion oh and a silent swordsman level five we've already got an ultimate rare oh my goodness look at that you could see the artwork through the back classic flame eternity but there's like no scuffing on this card okay there's a little bit but for flaming eternity this is not much at all that's an ultimate rare right off the bat oh my goodness that's a great pull third pack we have a silent swordsman level five beautiful card oh my goodness that is awesome silent swordsman let's go beautiful two packs in for Gabriel v that is such a nice card whoa that is a pretty card guys flaming eternity has the best-looking cards oh my goodness it looks so good that was an awesome pull let's go well where did you say you're selling a powers of the elements hey christian just check out my link in the description actually that might not be the updated link if you go to my youtube community page I just posted about a recent link because he had to change links the new link is there code ruxant power case for 5% off so go to the youtube community page if you go for the box listing that one will be fine the one in the description I need to change that thank you for reminding me that okay here we go Gabriel v one more pack the earth exiled fusion that was a heck of a pull that looks beautiful element doom space mambo release restraint the hyena light exiled fusion good goblin housekeeping the rescue cat oh my goodness these pulls are crazy and kairon the mage is actually a pretty cool card I still remember my pop a corn deck and dual links and I use this card it was like an earth based deck with bastion he could like automatically put out that tree they gave you 500 attack the popcorn was like 2800 on someone it was so epic yeah I know pop a corn deck was awesome I stole the video on my channel by the way so if you don't want to go watch some garbage content some old dual links content from back in the day there you go that's your that's your option right there okay let me put this in a card saver the silent swordsman level five the fact that this is a $75 card is criminal look at this I'd pay 75 bucks for that it's beautiful beautiful oh my goodness looks so good play me eternity is underrated let me tell you guys all right let's go to do okay give it up like this and we'll put this into the bag what a good start what a good start guys very nice next up we have Matthew DS two packs he is searching for I don't know what he's searching for probably the you know the what's your color the sacred Phoenix I would guess let's see what we could pull two packs favorite card of all time I would love to pull the ultimate I've never pulled it no ruxing on this garbage okay you haven't watched the doolink stuff it was pretty bad it's pretty bad but thanks Ian I appreciate it thanks a lot that was a fun deck though like I had a lot of fun playing that deck I wish I could still play it but obviously doesn't really work anymore because doolinks has evolved since then alright kangaroo champ I got the pole position at it again earth exhale fusion Josh Evans thanks for the $2 rescue cat looks familiar I did pull you a super rare rescue cat didn't I alright a bar you she only we've got the element burst element of Valkyrie be so swap oh and there's the blast magician beautiful super rare card even better as an ultimate rare there's the big March there's more cards a spot with check out all those beasts in there blast magician a good start for Matthew D super rare one of the coolest looking ones I'd have to say myself very nice super rare next pack guys here we go let's leave this up real quick all these comments pulling three book of moon three book of moon are you talking about the CP we pulled two of those I don't know about the three book of moon maybe it was out of PGD or something just you're still playing doolinks I always come back to it every once in a while I haven't played since master dual came out but I don't really play master dual anymore that much so maybe I should return because I've always really liked doolinks I thought it was fun pole position we got the earth's hexio fusion I know a lot of people don't agree they don't like it they think it's dumb down format but I think it's fun divine dragon with the poison fangs good goblin housekeeping the centrifugal field choose gay the mouse fighter flame ruler and oh the cross counter again that's the second time we've pulled that guy okay nice card nice card but one out of two is not bad not bad at all okay let's see grandmark I actually pulled a grandmark in our booster box when we open this while back the one I opened for myself so yeah I think I know I didn't sell that one to Cimo because he didn't want it big mistake Cimo should have bought it dude just saying they're not time for master dual yeah master dual is like you got to keep up like not current meta but six months old meta it's a lot harder how much is this card worth okay I must have missed a message because I don't see the I don't see what card it is all right sleeve this guy up or should I say top loader this guy up Matthew D congrats on your super rare pole not bad so what have we pulled now one super one ultimate yeah there are some nice trap cards in this set actually which is unusual but yeah there are some good trap cards in here Matthew D congrats on the super all right on to the next one it is now Joseph W's turn he has a one singular pack any one pack magic this let's go here we go so what if you said yo yeah yeah I read that I read that I read that okay here we go four we have the threatening war this is such a good comment that you forget is in here pole position poison fangs we've got the divine dragon Ragnarok insect knight his battle prowess I don't really do the name of this thing the indestructible insect invaders the II I pretty funny fulfillment of the contract flame ruler warren prodigy oh and there's a deck devastation virus one pack magic super rare beautiful you'll have to see this man you know what they say about these hobby boxes when you pull the super you have a good chance of pulling the ultimate we're gonna find out if that is the case here we would love to pull a deck dev okay the sleeve is not participating in you know the sleeving process here there we go got it okay that's nice that is nice okay three packs let's go or three foils so far so we will potentially get six to seven in here because we're gonna get two ultimates possibly an ultra possibly four supers it's usually about that but you can't always be sure Joseph W congrats one pack magic you don't do that every day that's not bad all right saying a plate for the stream Dominic nice nice hopefully you can make it through next up we have oh yeah Michael S went crazy on this one guys seven packs so let's see one two three four five six seven he got us all the way to the other side of the box so hopefully you can get some good pulls will he get the other ultimate rare or will he not hopefully he does you know for him because about seven packs let's see what we can do let's go let's pull something awesome only sacred Phoenix is really honestly kind of cheap like if you think about it like how old it is how tough it is to find like every time I see it it's like for like a hundred or two hundred bucks like it might not be mint or whatever but still it's pretty cheap all right Michael firebird the big March of Animals at it again the dark hex sealed fusion kangaroo champ hyena the bin guy light exiled fusion and centrifugal and brain jacker ah the brain jacker I remember when Lewis ripped one of these in half after he pulled it out of a retail fbt box at a collector god that was very entertaining but yeah he got he was not happy with the brain jacker okay next back I'm pretty sure wasn't it like an old team know it might have been yeah I think it was like an old tea I was like dude what the no maybe was there maybe it wasn't I don't remember okay next back I can't I got remember I have the video somewhere fire burn dark exhale fusion threatening or a great card space mambo what does this say a space mambo floating in the vast universe this living relic was found in the ruins of super civilization on alphara alphard for it's always interesting to see these these like regular vanilla's like 12 13 sets into the like yugioh universe it's like why is that there it has crazy text like the insect night could go up in housekeeping centrifugal field oh and the spell absorbing yeah if you actually have a vanilla in one of these sets you have to give it great flavor text because like what else would be the point of that being in here you know what I mean all right number three oh team samurai the skippers here the guy who didn't come to nationals there he is he's here he said he didn't go because he's poor but that's a lie that is just a straight up lie I don't believe him what's up Sam how's it going man I was recording today record anything all right two three next up we've had Simo and Sam here pretty cool Batman for real thanks for the five bucks love your channel dude you got me back in yugioh and having a blast good luck on the pulse thanks a lot man DD Dynamite we get the golem sentry element doom rescue cat good goblin housekeeping lighthex shield fusion hyena kairon the major wait oh yeah we did three from the back that time and head of nephus are we gonna summon that we're gonna summon that sacred fiend it's a nephus gotta be nice I would like it all right you got beat by the common I keep pulling what was a threading roar all right so far he's over three let's get Michael something good because he bought seven packs hopefully we can get something great what is up with the lore of fbt dude I don't know it's wild wild the insect night is cracking me up poison thanks okay what is this one a legendary dragon sent by the gods as their instrument legends say that if provoked the whole world will sink beneath the sea okay that seems like it should have more than 1500 attack or a good effect I don't know that's what I'm saying I'm just saying that okay that's kind of weird ruxin is too rich holy help me be on your level you just gave me 25 dollars that's like the opposite I guess now because you're giving me your money I'm more rich I guess that's how it works you know I have 25 more dollars thanks Sam I appreciate it third exhale fusion element doom good goblin housekeeping the light heck sale fusion hyena abora you shione and no penalty game I thought that was it man I thought that was it oh that's rough that's rough oh man oh man that's rough over four but all he needs is one big pull all he needs is one big pull you will see a video from nationals hopefully tomorrow actually hopefully tomorrow did I watch poker of video yeah I watched the whole thing I watch all of his uh hit the entire pack opening it was awesome yeah an hour 20 or something like that yeah he said uh he told me like after you recorded it how like how long it took him it took him forever it but that was a great video if you guys like like Pokemon at all make sure to go check out poker of every pack opening video especially if you like mine for you yo it's pretty similar but it's Pokemon all right make a dog we got the space mambo threatening or dark heck sealed fusion be soul swap we get the abari ushione the flame ruler centrifugal field and uh oh oh a getling dragon whoa that's a huge pull okay there it goes that's a nice one this card's pretty expensive and ultimate rare huge congrats Michael you hit something finally it was an amazing card team sam thanks for the 70 canadian fake dollars I really appreciate that dude I'm your favorite youtuber well team sam you're my favorite youtuber so suck it all right thank you guys so much man oh thank you guys thank you sam especially oh my goodness galing dragon dude check that card out two is this three ultimate box I've never seen one but it could happen whoo that's a pretty card I think this one is worth quite a bit more than the other one I think even like the regular ultra is worth like 75 in the last one okay we still got what two more packs here he can still pull something let's see let's go two packs to go for Michael s big congrats on that pull man that's a nice one wait let's check the back let's see if it's greatable if this thing's greatable it'd be crazy because fbt's tough okay there it is the pack scuffing it's really not that bad but it is a big streak right down the middle but if you look at it like this you're like you can't see it but when you get it like that you can really see it classic galing dragon two backs to go the yugituber power in the chat is a lot of yugituber power yeah some uh some clutch watchers right now plus all of you guys you guys are clutch as well don't forget don't don't downplay yourself gg vision you got some yugituber power as well dude all right Michael s we got the mecha dog maren release her strain cat nipped kitty that's always a very just strange name the dark axle fusion two skater the mouse fighter flame ruler whirlwind prodigy element burst and a lightning vortex dude i forgot about this one this is such a cool card lightning vortex super rare oh my goodness the poles are fire right now he started over four but he got back to back hollow hits lighting vortex i love that card and ultimate especially all right one of my opening another box for yourself i did literally last week sold the do list so yeah uh yeah if you miss that one go check it out all right play me it's ready let's go let's see what we can do final pack for michael s all right you hear the uh you hear the noise yeah nice let's go cat nipped kitty the dark axle fusion cat nipped kitty hello hello that's just weird okay they're multiplying okay release her right good goblin house game we've got the rescue cat again nice refusion element valkyrie and big tusk mammoth this is what i pulled in the every pack opening i pulled an ultimate rare very nice big tusk mammoth very cool can i join next break sure dude feel free man hop in there i got lod unlimited for you if you want to do that all right seven packs one ulti one super that's not bad man that's not bad solid performance for michael s let's go let's get it ultimate rare guys we got to take one more look at this beautiful so we have now pulled two ultimate rears out of this box i've not pulled an ultra yet so hopefully we'll pull the sacred phoenix of net this ultimate rare is this okay this is good sometimes you got to be careful with these toplers they'll come bent and you really got to be careful there you don't want to bend your cards but this one seems to be okay very nice michael s huge congrats on those pulls man am i gonna be able to fit this in here maybe maybe not i don't think so we're gonna have to do a little maneuvering later okay eric bees up next two packs let's go let's see what he can pull oh i left all these uh packs out again big mistake rookie mistake what am i doing what am i thinking all right put these in there we're over halfway through this box now we got a few packs left let's just let's just go like that we'll figure it out later when i'm packing it up there we go all right two packs to go for eric bee let's go thanks kevin i appreciate it band of darkness is super rare yes it is yes it is i open one with a old school expert it's pretty cool pretty cool we had a good time opening it all right threatening war let's go space mambo mega dog marin release restraint flame ruler whirlwind prodigy the hyena and and shadow slayer all right the shadow slayer kind of a cool looking card but not the guy we really looking for when you're opening this what's up fable master you didn't miss it we're still going dude we're still going we got a pack left but uh it'll be up on youtube if you missed it for sure all right let's go next pack we have golem sentry dd dynamite hand of nephis blade rabbit element burst majigaya panda the arm samurai benkai fulfillment of the contract and swords of a concealing light this is a really cool retail oldie very pretty looking card when it's an ultimate rare even some of these rares are like incredible oldies it's just like a really solid set overall okay so eric 0 for 2 but you will get a bonus foil for that so thank you for being in the break man appreciate it all right if you guys are enjoying the stream make sure to like the stream right 294 likes hit that like button guys we're almost to 300 okay a few more packs left decent amount of packs left actually all right robert r three packs let's go three packs for robert r can you get an ultra rare that'd be pretty epic let's see if we can pull the sacred phoenix there's only four ultra isn't here so i don't really remember what they are besides the uh the sacred phoenix let's see all right uh oh chelsea's calling we gotta we gotta sorry chelsea she calls back then then we'll know that something is wrong that's what happened last time when she was uh broken down okay dd dynamite so hopefully that did not happen this time i think she's just leaving hand of nephis we got the golem sentry the blade rabbit whirlwind prodigy element burst arm samurai benkai and second night yet again and a meteor of district now this is the one you don't want out of retail that's not very good robert r first pack no we'll just pull it yeah it's usually one to zero per box you might not even pull one second pack let's go white tonight sorry matambo'd she forgot that i was streaming all right second pack for robert r whole position kangaroo champ big march of animals the element doom flame ruler centrifugal field choose k the mouse fighter whirlwind prodigy and we got the ultimate insect to level five i do like this an ultimate i think it looks pretty dope uh does it have a level seven is there a level seven ultimate declined wife call ultimate chad ruxen no i will always answer her unless we're in the middle of a live then i won't unless she calls twice then you have to answer because there might be something wrong okay but i'm pretty sure she's just calling on her way home because she hasn't called back so that's definitely what it was all right i have some sealed unlimited fbt that's still cool man all right third pack here we go big march of animals element doom robert r is o for two so far can he get something dd dynamite choose k the mouse fighter good goblin housekeeping hyena arm samurai bin guy another meteor oh come on man another meteor wow that that's pretty rough o for three so robert r not the best showing for you but i will send you a couple of uh some bonus ulti or a nice one you know one of two we'll figure it out so uh sorry about the uh the bad luck but you will get a bonus foil thanks for being in the break of course all right um boom boom there's a level seven and lost plenty of oh yeah yeah the one and lost plenty of that's why i couldn't remember it because it wasn't in this set okay a couple more packs left we have towin up next with two packs towin foe show toto yamori thank you for the 1000 huf not sure what that is but thank you very much you've managed to keep your box of sealed yeah you should definitely not open them yeah you shouldn't open them at all all right let's go she got off early i think she was supposed to leave a lot later all right next pack we have catnip kitty very nice of rye day thanks for becoming a discord member you guys can uh have access to the discord if you guys do that link in the description connect your uh youtube account to uh you know discord for full access so check that link out in the description if there are x earth hexio fusion refusion element valkyrie will there be an ulti in here be soul swap the opera ishione and the behemoth the king of all animals there it is i feel like he's in every fbt opening so one pack in he got a super not bad behemoth the king of all animals very very nice we have now gotten to phoenix yeah we're still looking we are still looking next pack up uh putting that last pack magic in the air big fan what's up hobby air thanks for the 15 months as a member dude last pack magic in the air i'm down for it i'm down for it let's go second back for toan we have a hand of nephis blade rabbit firebird the dark hexio fusion the light hexio fusion centrifugal field the insect knight the fulfillment of the contract and more ceasefire i actually have this in an ulti it looks really nice like it has a really nice pattern to it so kind of cool card okay we'll take that one for two is not bad toan not bad at all we will take that okay let's leave these up and uh we'll go on to our final person who has three packs will they get the ultra rare will this box have an ultra rare it might not but if it if it does have an ultra rare kevin a is getting it because he has all the last the packs the last three okay so leave it up behemoth the king of all animals phoenix in the last pack i'm down let's do this let's pull it no ultras are zero to one per box at gx or like this isn't technically gx but when they started doing ultimates ultras became zero to one per box a lot of people don't realize that they're actually harder to pull than ultis in terms of the rarity yeah you get one to zero versus two ultis per box all right three packs to go all with kevin a will he pull the final pack magic sacred chicken of neftis let's go let's see we can pull i don't know what our numbers are right now but i think that we have like uh what how many a few supers like four we might have four already i don't know do we have three i don't know all right here we go we're at what 338 likes we get 400 likes we're definitely going to pull in the last pack right is that how that works i'm not sure but i guess we'll have to find out just hit the like button threatening where we get the dark xl fusion we're also at almost 135k subscribers so that's pretty cool firebird we got the blade rabbit a bario shione the beast soul swap element valkyrie a refusion first pack for kevin oh and an ultra rare silent swordsman level five so this was an ultra rare ulti that's actually sick i forgot that this was one of the ultras that really shows me that that card is underrated that is crazy okay ultra rare silent swordsman level five kevin a not final pack magic but you did get third to last pack magic that's pretty good man that's pretty good we'll take that all right two packs to go will there be anything left in these packs i don't know maybe maybe not we'll see pull both rarities that's pretty usual for these things i'm surprised well not surprised wait gaddling is an ultra too this was a double ultra ulti box that's actually a pretty awesome box if you think about it here we go firebird blade rabbit because those are a lot harder to pull than super ulti's hand of nef this we got the dd dynamite choose get a mouse fighter whirlwind prodigy we got a member for 17 months galzo thanks for renewing man element burst we got a majigar panda and a brainjacker that kind of looked like an ulti percent i was like wait do we pull another one that would be crazy yeah the uh silent swordsman looks incredible as an ultra as well it looks really good in a secret rare as well there's like a secret in uh what is it it's one of the special editions i think it looks beautiful okay final pack kevin a final pack of this box been a pretty awesome box so far i'd say we've done pretty well let's see what we can pull here can we pull another ultimate another ultra just any other foil something crazy rescue cat common any of that stuff another cat named kitty of course well he's just straight mega dog marines space mombo arm samurai bin kai in second night what will kevin get he's already gotten one ultra the only ultra of the box the moment of the contract and majigar panda and phoenix wing windblast our first time pulling this actually a fantastic card this is it like the best retail ulti in the set very valuable ultimate rare actually a pretty good rare overall so not bad at all i mean this box turned out to be pretty good and almost everyone hit a foil a couple people didn't but uh pretty solid distribution of all the stuff so pretty good you love to see that huge congrats to everyone who was uh involved got something good especially thank you guys for being in the break kevin a congrats on your ultra rare as well we'll take this pretty solid pretty solid opening okay let's uh sleeve up this silent swordsman very carefully and then we will be uh be done with the livestream so hope you guys have enjoyed it we will be doing a legacy of darkness next for the next uh box break we do have another livestream probably before then though where i'm going to be opening up packs to search for the starlight blue eyes white dragon from from the ocg yeah i got a lot more packs we're gonna do a live we're gonna open until we get it i think so it should be pretty awesome pretty epic and if you want to get in on the retail legacy of darkness opening that is also available on my website raxon34.com so make sure you guys go check that one out as well so this has been fun been awesome if you guys want to see more live streams we'll be live on twitch probably tomorrow i think i'll be back by then so uh go check that out in the light in the link in the description all that stuff thank you guys for being here this has been really fun really awesome as usual so hope you guys have a good rest of the week all that stuff i'll be seeing you guys on my