Hello and welcome to the session. In this session first we will discuss about algebraic expressions. We already know that expressions are formed from variables and constants. Let's consider the expression 2xy plus 3. This is an algebraic expression formed from variables and constants. The variables in this case are x and y and the constants are 2 and 3. Then you also know that value of an expression changes with the value chosen for the variables it contains. So for different values of x and y the value of this expression also changes accordingly. Now let's discuss about terms, factors and coefficients. We know that terms are added. To form expressions, let's consider the expression 2x plus 3. This is an algebraic expression in which we have two terms 2x and 3. These terms, the answers can be formed as a product of factors like the term 2x is formed by 2 into x.  We have the numerical factor of a term is called its coefficient like the term 2x in the given expression has coefficient 2. So we say coefficient of the term 2x is 2. Now we shall discuss monomials, binomials and polynomials. If an expression contains only one term then we say that it is a monomial and if an expression contains two terms then we call it a binomial. If an expression contains three terms we call it trinomial. In general we can say that an expression containing one or more terms with nonzero coefficient and with variables having nonnegative exponents is called a polynomial. So a polynomial may contain any number of terms one or more than one. Consider the expression 3x square. Now since this expression contains one term so we say this is a monomial. Next we consider the expression 2 plus 2y. This expression contains two terms so we say this is binomial. Then we have 3x plus 4y plus 6. This expression contains three terms so this is a trinomial. Now the expression a plus b plus c plus d has four terms in it and so we can say that it is a polynomial. Next we discuss like and unlike terms. Like terms are formed from the same variables and the powers of these variables are the same too but the coefficients of like terms need not be same. Like for example 2x minus 7x these are all like terms. Now in the unlike terms the variables need not be same and the powers of the variables also may not be same. Like for example if you have 3x and 4y these are the unlike terms. Since the variables are different. Next we discuss addition and subtraction of algebraic expressions. While adding or subtracting the polynomials first we have to look for the like terms and add them or subtract them as required then we will handle the unlike terms in the given polynomials. Consider a polynomial 2x plus 3y plus 5z. We need to add this polynomial to the polynomial 4y plus 2x plus 3z. What we do is we write both the polynomials that is this is one polynomial and this is the other polynomial. In separate rows first we write this 2x plus 3y plus 5z and below this we write the next polynomial in such a way that we get the like terms one below the other. So we write this as 2x plus 4y plus 3z and we need to add both these polynomials. First let's consider this first column in which we have 2x plus 2x this gives us 4x. So we write 4x below this. Now then we have in the second column 3y plus 4y which gives us 7y since 3 plus 4 is 7. So we write here plus 7y. Let's consider this third column which has 5z plus 3z. This is equal to 8z since 5 plus 3 is 8 so this is plus 8z. Hence on adding the given 2 polynomials we get 4x plus 7y plus 8z. This is the answer. In the same way we can subtract the given 2 polynomials also. Now we discuss multiplication of algebraic expressions. First let's see how we multiply a monomial by a monomial. Let's multiply 2 monomials 2x and 5y that is 2x into 5y would give us 4x plus 7y plus 7y a monomial only because when we multiply 2 or more monomials we get a monomial as a result. So to get the coefficient of the product of these 2 monomials we multiply the coefficients of both these monomials that is we have 2 into 5 which gives us 10. So this is equal to 10 and then we multiply the algebraic factor of 1 monomial by the algebraic factor of the other monomial to get the algebraic factor of the product that is we have x into y which gives us xy so we write here xy. So 2x multiplied by 5y gives us 10xy as the product. In the same way we can multiply 3 monomials. Let's multiply 2x with 5y and 3z that is we need to find the product of 2x, 5y and 3z for this again we need to find the coefficient of the product which would be equal to the coefficient of the 3 monomials multiplied together that is 2 into 5 into 3 which gives us 30. So 30 is the coefficient of the product of these 3 monomials then the product of the algebraic factors of these 3 monomials is x into y into z that is xyz we write xyz here so 30xyz is the product of the given 3 monomials. So in this way we can find the product of any given number of monomials and the resulting product would be a monomial itself. Now let's see how we multiply monomial by a binomial consider the monomial 2x that needs to be multiplied by the binomial 3x plus 2 that is we need to find the product of the monomial 2x and the binomial 3x plus 2 in this case every term of this binomial is multiplied by the given monomial that is this is equal to 2x into 3x plus 2x into 2 that is we need to find the product of the monomial 2. Now we already know how we multiply 2 monomials so this would give us 6x square plus 2x into 2 is 4x. So this is the product of given monomial and binomial. Next let's see how we multiply monomial by a trinomial consider the monomial 2x we multiply this monomial 2x and the trinomial 2x plus 3y plus 2. So we need to find 2x into 2x plus 3y plus 2 in this case also we multiply each term of the trinomial by the given monomial. So this would be equal to 2x into 2x plus 2x into 3y plus 2x into 2 this gives us 4x square plus 6xy plus 4x. So this is the product of the given trinomial and monomial. As we seen both these cases that is well multiplying the monomial by binomial and monomial by trinomial we have used the distributive law that is a multiplied by b plus c is equal to a multiplied by b plus a multiplied by c. In case of trinnovials also we have use the distributive law that is a multiplied by b plus c plus d which gives us a multiplied by b plus a multiplied by c plus a multiplied by d. Now let's see how we multiply a polynomial by a polynomial. First let's see how we multiply a binomial by a binomial, consider a binomial 2x plus 3y to be multiplied by 2x plus 5z. That is we need to find the product 2x plus 3y multiplied by 2x plus 5z. In this case we multiply every term in one binomial with every other term in the other binomial. Like this would be equal to the term 2x of this binomial is multiplied by 2x plus 5z plus 3y into 2x plus 5z. Now we follow the distributive law. So this gives us 2x into 2x plus 2x into 5z plus 3y into 2x plus 3y into 5z. This is equal to 4x square plus 10xz plus 6xy plus 15yz. Now in this case as you can see there are no like terms but in case if we have like terms in the product then we combine those like terms. Now let's see how we multiply a binomial by a trinomial, consider the binomial 2x plus 4y. We need to multiply this and the trinomial 2x plus 3y plus 5z. That is we need to find the product of 2x plus 4y and 2x plus 3y plus 5z. Each term of the trinomial is multiplied by each term of the binomial. That is this is equal to 2x into 2x plus 3y plus 5z plus 4y into 2x plus 3y plus 5z. Now following the distributive law we get 2x into 2x plus 2x into 3y plus 2x into 5z plus 4y into 2x plus 4y into 3y plus 4y into 5z.  Now in this product let's look out for the like terms and combine them. So as you can see 6xy and 8xy are the like terms. When they get combined we get 14xy. So the resulting product would be 4x square plus 14xy plus 10xz plus 12y square plus 20yz. Now let's discuss what is an identity. Basically identity is an equality which is true for all values of the variables in the equality. On the other hand we say that an equation is true for only certain values of the variable in it. That is we say that an equation is not an identity. Like if you consider a plus 3 multiplied by a plus 4 equal to a square plus 7a plus 12 for a equal to minus 3 and minus 4 we get LHS would be equal to the RHS. So this would be an identity. Since it is true for all values of the variable. Now we shall discuss some standard identities. Like the first one we have a plus b the whole square is equal to a square plus 2ab plus b square. Then the second identity is a minus b the whole square is equal to a square minus 2ab plus b square. Then next one that we have is a plus b into a minus b is equal to a square minus b square. Now another useful identity is x plus a into x plus b is equal to x square plus a plus b into x plus a b. Let's find the product x plus 3 into x plus 3 by using any of the above identities. Now this could be written as x plus 3 the whole square. So for this as you can easily see we will use the first identity that is a plus b the whole square equal to a square plus 2ab plus b square. In this case we would put a equal to x and b equal to 3. So this would give us x square plus 2 into x into 3 plus 3 square that comes out to be equal to x square plus 6x plus 9. So we get x plus 3 into x plus 3 is equal to x square plus 6x plus 9. So this is how we can use different identities to find these squares and products of algebraic expressions. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the concept of algebraic expressions and identities.


So the AVR is the annual brigade review. We've talked about it for some time and on the first of July four regions 244 brigades will commence a pilot to replace the Section 29 process and it's a diagnostic tool that we'll use to really understand what's ticking in each one of those brigades from finance to admin to your operational capability, your training, connection with community, even your people, how many are responding, how many not responding, what their skill sets are. So it's a full diagnostic test of each and every brigade. So we've got a number of districts in the south, southeast of the state, we've got a district in the southwest, the western region, and right up in the north as well. So we've got a real cross-section geographically and a cross-section of the type of brigades as well that will be involved in the pilot. The annual brigade review has been tested at District 9 over the last 12 or 18 months and and through that testing we've got some really good feedback from the district and also brigades that were involved. And what we've done is streamlined the questions and provided more evidence in the annual brigade review to make it more user-friendly. So it'll be able to be utilized by all brigades and all districts in an easy way. So with Evan Knopf's office of present at this ABR with their brigade and BMT members we're able to all openly discuss and understand from an office office of point of view, a BMT point of view and a firefighter point of view of what the best direction to take our brigade is going to be. The ability for the people, all the members to actually see what questions are involved and then to be able to openly debate on it and to answer where they believe our brigade is travelling, not just the BMT saying this is where we are but brigade members actually having an input themselves, outside of what the BMT is saying. The feedback's been overwhelmingly positive by brigades but also importantly the district management team, our staff supporting volunteers. It's the first time that we've really been able to capture at a district level, region level and at state level how our brigades are travelling. So the fact that we have a conversation with the brigade, we work through, we provide them with data statistics on their performance and we have a conversation about how they're going and then we foster all that into one tool of which we can drill down into that data to assess that.


Okay, according to this we are live it appears we are live and it appears we have volume and all of that wow I have had a crappy day it has just been a day from the crapper but we are gonna try to make it better so what do I do to make my day better I come on here and talk to you guys hello everyone who we got here we've got the big gay Dave and the mcdj acdc and sergeant slaughter's slaughterhouse and Lester and jump in general and Peter hello everyone thank you for being here I'm so grateful that you're here I need you guys here there is there's something that I discovered I could do I could know hold on hold on let's yeah there we go there I can I can give myself an annihilator head except as you might expect that my head does not fit in the helmet it's yeah yeah it doesn't quite work hello out back and Mike Layton and LJ and ex-priso how do you do hello New Jersey from the United States thank you very much for being here hello Matt Rubin hello sparkster how do you do hold on me okay all right I'll move it I'll move it I'll move it down here anyway yeah so I I can almost wear a an annihilator helmet hello JG peak and I do have some stuff planned for this evening I have some activities and things so we'll have a little bit to talk about a hello Bob's dungeon hello Jeffrey I guess the the GI Joe team for Hasbro is going to do a live stream tomorrow so of course that's too late for me to report on it I I'll just what I'll do is I'll jump in my time machine hey super chat from comic tropes hi comic tropes presumably you've been you're still paying for all the gas you use there yes I am so thank you comic tropes and thanks for being here thanks glad you're here of course you know I think everybody here is fully aware of comic tropes it's a much bigger channel than mine but make sure you check out to comic tropes on the YouTube hello Bart and Chad and Evan what's up yeah I had it I took a trip I went out West for a little while it was a road trip gasoline is incredibly expensive did have a nice time did have a good time took my daughter with me we had a great time I now I will just you know I have to save some money by eating ramen noodles for the rest of my life but you know but we made it there and we made it back hey there Matt Edwards thanks for being here so I do have I have I have stuff I have stuff I have stuff to do I have stuff to show you and and I have activities hello I think I said hello Chad but I'll hello again yeah there will be more latest about GI Joe in the near future oh there is some there were some announcements that I guess we're made apparently we are getting a shipwreck classified figure and a rock and roll classified figure I'm wondering how much of the rock and roll figure will use the breaker body but I think the breaker body you know uses a lot from other figures so it is kind of like 1982 GI Joe isn't it hello Thane Woods how do you do thank you Bart I appreciate that I I do I do yo Joe says greetings from Texas greetings Texas from the United States I was just in Texas just a few days ago it's where I got this shirt so yes yeah Jen Conn and on August will be demonstrating the GI Joe games okay as well as preview the upcoming Transformers and pony RPGs that is cool as you may have seen in a previous episode comic tropes sent me the the book for the GI Joe RPG and I would like to put like put it to some youth but life has been complicated what do I think shipwreck will look like I think shipwreck will look like Tom I think shipwreck will look like John Waters and a Navy uniform that's it that's it shipwreck is gonna look like John Waters cosplaying Donald Duck so we'll have the hat and I'll have the shirt he'll have like the the blue shirt no pants and and just that that little pencil mustache that that's my prediction that's what classified shipwreck will look at it just mark it down I know that's gonna happen hello James clap clap clap clap deep in the the heart of Texas I I had some deep in the heartburn of Texas that's a that's a different story hello hey Rob Vegas how do you do hello Kelden not nice to see you there it will look exactly like surely he'll bear a striking resemblance to stinky diver yeah well you know the classified series gonna take it's gonna take a surprising left turn it's gonna suddenly be a an adult toy line because because one of those designers at Hasbro decided to stand his ground he wanted a literal interpretation of a Donald Duck cosplay so and Donald Duck does not wear pants so you know way to stick to your guns Hasbro guy hey there Chad and hey it's Bader Ray Bob how do you do Bob I hopefully you got the thing the the magnet that I sent if not I'll work on it I'll work on it hello Andrew Andrew hello Steve oh woodman I you snuck by me own rod draws to I almost didn't see draws how do you do guys the gang's all here it's nice to see everybody well I I I needed the opportunity to hang out with some friends and that that's it's it's important this evening it's it's been a crappy day but not anymore this is what turns it around this live stream is what will make this a better day everything that's happened previous today it's all done it's all gone we we we move forward and we're moving forward to a nice conversation about the G and the job the G on the I and the Joe that's good bar thanks yeah so no I I I'm guessing based on the classified figures that we've gotten recently that both shipwreck and rock and roll will be pretty close to their vintage interpretations and I'm assuming that it'll be like a version 1 rock and roll I haven't seen any pictures I don't know if there any pictures out but but if they do a version 1 rock and roll they can use most of the breaker parts just like the real version 1 rock and roll did hello Eric how do you do nice to see you yeah with a bottle of GI Joe cologne I really think that they'll give you a shipwreck that looks like version 1 shipwreck I think it's gonna be close to like a one-for-one interpretation that that's my that's my guess yeah mega marines clutch review I do I think I do have mega marines clutch and speaking of mega marines a couple months ago I was I was thinking of doing another mega marines review doing a review of a figure I had something that I had planned for some time but when I started writing it and getting it ready I felt like it was too soon after the monster blaster review because I was just repeating I was repeating stuff when you're doing a review of like a sub team like that you there are certain things that you have to cover to put it into context and I had just covered that a few weeks before so I put that off I'll hopefully get to it soon because it's something that I would like to do hello John how do you do yeah lots and lots of people like the annihilator John in fact let me look look I've become the annihilator how about that who all right how big do I have to make this to actually make it fit on me look my head the top of my head is sticking out there and my chin is sticking out there so to make this actually fit on my head it's got to be okay so this is the what the actual size of the annihilator helmet would be in order to fit on a human head that there's there's your frame of reference oh let me put this back and to make it that large it's gonna be like it's gonna stick out like that far anyway but that's not the orange figure that I am going to talk about tonight that's not the orange figure that I'm gonna talk about tonight I have a different orange figure orange figure to talk about because last week I opened a Cobra bat classified figure and this week I wanted to open another classified figure that I haven't opened yet and I decided to open the alley viper so oh hello Christian bricks how do you do greetings Denmark feeling from the United States always not happy to have you here so in honor of our friend Byron Joe motion videos 82 who who loves the alley viper I'm gonna open this and of course I have I have the I have the the vintage alley viper here as well so we'll take a look at these take a look at these side-by-side well what's tomorrow okay some things tomorrow yeah so we'll look at those we'll look at those in a minute and then after we're done with that after what done with that if I didn't say hello to you guys hello you I think I may have said hello but if I did hello again hello photo viper nice to see you there thank you for being here I think I said hello to Nyquist but if not hello how do you do and John and Bob's dungeon hello hi nice to see you and I think I said hello to Woodman but but hello again anyway so alright the the other thing that I'm gonna do after we open this because I have not opened this and I don't I have not taken it out yet I did cut the tape so I can open it for this livestream hello Gray Fox oh thank you thank you yes I I did I did the 72 ounce steak talent challenge at the big Texan in Amarillo Texas I did not succeed I failed as I do at most at most things in life I failed at the 72 ounce steak challenge that's a lot of steak it's basically a whole cow and I just couldn't do it but okay so we're gonna open this and in fact I'm gonna name this alley viper in honor of Byron this this alley viper's name is Byron now so we're gonna open Byron here hello David and hello James and wjde85 how do you do the other thing that I'm gonna do after we do that to finish out the hour of live streaming we're going to do story time but we're gonna do it a little differently somebody suggested this and I apologize I don't remember who suggested it but what we're gonna do is we're gonna do the find your fate book we'll start with number one here the way we're gonna do this okay hello Dave how do you do nice to see you thanks for being here yes you're right Andrew there was a guy who started the challenge the 72 ounce steak challenge before I did and it didn't go well for him he got a lot further along than I did but it was not pleasant anyway yes I have seen the great outdoors and it's it's likely and by the way you have to beat the challenge you have to not only eat the steak but also all the stuff that comes with it they give you a potato and a salad and some shrimp and stuff like that you have to eat the whole thing and somehow people have actually done it without dying not me not me anyway so here's what we're gonna do as you know with these find your fate books with you find with these find your fate books when we get to one of the pages hello Ivan thanks for being here when you get when we get to the one of the pages where there's a choice to be made like a turn to page 54 or turn to page 62 you will you the audience will decide which page we turn to okay so whatever page wins at on that on that decision we will go to that page but we will go to that page in the next book and we will read from that page in this book until we get to a choice and then we will make the decision on that and in whatever decision is made on that choice we will go to that page in the next book and we will just keep doing this until we win or until we die I just I just thought it was a crazy idea and I'm a crazy person so oh is Kujo in here hello Kujo hey Kujo I almost missed you hello Kujo hello Steve yes we are going to we're gonna we're gonna go crazy we're gonna go nuts you know that this is some this is some high level entertainment right here this I should have my own Vegas show basically or Branson put me in Branson I should have my own show but but but that's later that so we're gonna we're gonna create our own story that's never been told before using these books it's not gonna make any sense which means it will be more true to life because life makes no sense so there we go so we're gonna we're gonna find your fate in all of these books okay oh hello JLS comics I almost didn't see you come in there how do you do hello Dio Soth nice to see you so let's hello Dr. no good how do you do yeah see that's what that's what I'm saying Rob I don't know if I quite make it to in Vegas but put me in Branson Missouri and then we got something essentially it'll be a one-man show but it'll be interactive with the audience the audience will shout out the page to turn to and I'll just read through this and I feel it like this will sell out for five years you know that this is the future of my career right here so we'll do that but first but first but first let's open Byron looked up the average adult stomach size is 2.5 ounces and it can stretch but 72 ounces is dangerous yeah yeah yeah I you can't quite appreciate how large a 72 ounce steak is until you actually see it and you actually try to eat it so like they serve it on a big plate like a big plate and it it it hangs off over the big plate it is larger than the big plate I they make you actually sign a sign a waiver before you start and in case your your stomach explodes oh thank you Andrew Andrew for the super chat clever idea thank you I'm a clever guy let's let's open Byron so let's I've been curious about this now this is another classified figure that is very sorry very very close very close indeed to the vintage figure it looks at least from the surface like they upscaled the vintage figure but let's let's find out hello Cyclonus nice to see you so let's see let's see you do realize the average age of Branson Surrey show audience is 65 plus right yeah exactly and I think that's perfect because they can they can nap during my show that'll be a major major selling point napping is allowed to just take a little snooze and you know they're tired you know especially if they've spent a long day and in Branson you know they just want to kick up kick kick their feet up and yeah so I think this is I think this will work you know I actually think this is gonna be a plus all right all right here we go I am opening the the alley viper because I've been curious about this I mean I haven't been quite as curious about this as I was about the cobra bat I'm a bigger fan of the cobra bat than of the alley viper but I'm still curious about the alley viper so here's some of the the artwork on it and it's almost like an animation style kind of looks like like it you could imagine that in a in an animated show right so there there's the artwork there here are the here are the specialties the symbols that represent the specialties so yeah we will make up something appropriate for those when I actually review this thing oh hey JLS comics actually found an alley viper in the wild that's amazing I the so lately the only classified figures I found in the wild have been the snake eyes movie figures and they're just not moving that not only are they not moving the stores have not been putting them on clearance to help move them so and I already have them except for scarlet right so I don't need them and I'm not gonna buy multiples of them so it's time it's time to restock it's time to restock our classified figures so here is here's Byron and I'm gonna take his visor out because that's a little loose it seems and let's I'm gonna try to do this without crinkling the plastic too close to the mic to the microphone so does anybody know how Timmer feels about the alley viper I can guess I can guess how Timmer feels about it oh thank you for mentioning it it is Tuesday which means it is a new episode of half the battle and this week sorry this week Timmer is covering GI Joe figures that shared names with transformers so a bit of a crossover there for you transformers fans I was aware and I've pointed this out a couple times but GI Joe did did cross pollinate a lot of names from GI Joe to transformers you know they they own the trademark so you know why not hat Hasbro is nothing if not frugal waste not want not hello Jay diarumus how do you do thanks for being here and I'm sorry if I missed anybody come in I try to say hello to everybody I am even if I missed you I'm glad you're here thanks for being here trying to take the the shield out the shield and we've got a backpack and some some components he has multiple weapons me the magazine came out let me see if I can get back in there there were you he has a submachine gun I don't know that assault rifle we'll call this an assault rifle because he has this other submachine gun that is more like his his vintage weapon okay now for the figure and I'm really really trying not to I'm holding it over here so that it won't crinkle too close to the microphone hello welcome some studios how do you do there we go there we go okay set this aside so here he is here he is the alley viper the viper of the alley yeah so as you can tell he's quite orange and here he is side-by-side with with the vintage and immediately you can see they copied a lot over there that's a little bit different they added some some color to the knee pads on the classified figure they added some black accessories on the legs that's helpful hello to in bubblegum how do you do 2002 alley viper is better because they actually are in urban Campbell I have seen those I have seen those it makes a difference it does yeah so here's this so let me let me assemble the accessories on this guy and and we'll take a look at it I'll try to I'll try to do this on camera as much as I can oh I guess there was something else I was gonna mention I am working on a review video I'm doing my best to get a video for you guys this week okay it's written the core review is done I just got to do excuse me I've got to do the part of the video where I'm in front of the camera finding the time to do that has been surprisingly challenging because I'm I'm doing a lot of other work during the week at like 50 plus hours so so it's been a challenge to just find the time to sit down and record when I did the the core review like the the part of the review that is actually like camera pointed at the toy and talking about it it took a long time why because even just taking a relatively short break it was like I'm I feel like I'm out of practice it took like extra tries to to like say the words and to get the shots so what what that obviously means is I'm not allowed to take breaks breaks are apparently bad so JLS says Ali Viper would look good in an urban camo some later versions were in more of a realistic urban camouflage it makes a difference it makes a difference and you know this is this guy fits a role that Cobra would probably want as an urban fighter and and crowd control yeah I could see Cobra using a guy like this but but whose choice is it to put him in orange and blue mindbender did you do that I'm blaming mindbender anyway let's so he has he has a wrist sheath for his knife and that is yeah just like like the the vintage one so the went vintage one has this brown knife on the wrist this one has a knife that is removable it's yeah it's removable that is one nice thing about figures at this scale is they can do some accessories that could only be sculpted on the smaller scale they can actually have them removable at this scale so that is nice I do like it when they take advantage of the larger scale I really think if you're gonna do six inch figures and six inch figures is not everybody's bag and that's okay I understand that nobody is required to like or collect anything you know just because you should get what you like get what you like but if you're gonna do a six inch scale figure take advantage of that larger scale you can do some things at this scale that it is difficult or impossible to do at this scale or at the six inch scale for like 30th anniversary figures so yes thank you comic tropes thank you for reminding me of that I have two points while I put together the accessories for this guy two points number one today is Larry Hamas birthday I don't know that he necessarily wants a lot of birthday greetings he at least he didn't seem to on the Facebook but happy birthday Larry Hamas we would all not be here talking about this stuff without his work that he did point number two is our own comic tropes Chris interviewed Larry Hamas on his channel comic tropes and I did share that and I hope everyone has had a chance to see it if you haven't the link is on my Facebook or just go to the comic tropes channel it's I think it's still the well other yeah it should still be the latest video on on comic tropes but Larry Hamas is obviously we know him from GI Joe but he has worked in the comic book industry for decades he has worked with almost everybody and he has a wealth of knowledge about the comic book industry that we're really lucky that you know that he will share and Chris did I think a great job of tapping into that knowledge sometimes Larry can be sometimes Larry is not the easiest interview sometimes Larry is not the easiest person to talk to he's certainly not the easiest person to to pin down to even do an interview but once he gets talking you know he I think he really likes talking about his industry experience and that is good because historians of the comic book industry will appreciate that knowledge in in the years and decades to come and so the more we get to hear Larry share those stories I think the better we are off hello Burgess Meredith how do you do hello Yojo OC how do you do nice to see you here the so Chris at Chris did talk to him a little bit about GI Joe but Larry has done a whole lot more than GI Joe so that that interview ranges through a large part of his career so so yeah it was it was good and thanks to comic tropes for doing it I appreciate it so so yeah and and happy birthday Larry even though Larry will not watch this of course he's not gonna watch this but but nonetheless happy birthday yeah so for those who who just got here we're we are we're assembling the the six inch classified Ali Viper I decided to open this guy I was really excited last time to open the classified bat I'm not as excited to open this guy but you know I'm still interested hey Diana Davis how do you do yeah I I don't know who said he secretly hates GI Joe but that's that's probably not the most intelligent comment that we've that we've had on here yes and thank you Diana's you are correct and and hi Diana how you do I hope you're doing well nice to see you here yeah so I'm I'm putting together well hold on hold on hold on time out time out time out of time time time time time okay new plan so this I put I I just put in this this assault rifle in his right hand but he has this which is based on the the vintage figures submachine guns so I'm gonna I'm gonna use this one but on the vintage figure this one is awkward this is this is this an awkward one yeah hang on okay so let's let's move on and see if I can get okay so all right so this thing look at look at it hello Eric Hunter how do you do so look at it it's got this magazine that's like behind the the grip oh come on there we go that's behind the grip and then it's got this for grip here and that configuration is really complicated to get in the figures hand it was complicated with the first one it's complicated with this one so let's get okay so one thing okay I know that's a lot of GI Joe fans have wanted the classified series to more faithfully copy the the vintage figures and they are doing that they are doing that but in some cases in some cases it could be updated a bit because this this is this is awkward this this is something that could have been approved improved upon from the the vintage design I anyway oh Diana Davis says I have to tell you number 293 out tomorrow is fantastic issue number four of Saturday morning adventures out next week is just a ton of fun SMA has some cool Easter eggs very cool in fact I had I had the Saturday morning adventures comics over here but I think I know I put them away but I have read the first two issues my local comic shop that I typically go to the one that I used where I used to work I go there because I used to work there and I try to support the place hello Rodimus how do you do but they don't carry the Saturday morning adventures when I'm trying to get them to hopefully I will get them to do it if not I'll just I'll just order one I'll I'll get it get one sent to me but yeah anyway there is that but I don't know is there a place to put this is there a place to put this I don't think so I don't all right so I guess this is this is superfluorous and unless unless I can find some place to put it but I do like this because it has a removable yeah there we go removable magazine so that's nice there we go so we'll just we'll just set that aside now let me put the the vintage figures accessories on there can I will he stand there he'll stand there but he's just he's just under he's just under frame oh well anyway there will be a Saturday morning adventures a gathered edition out in October okay that's good but I'm gonna try not to miss the individual issues and they have been fun they have been fun they I mean they're they're based on the the animated series and there are a lot of GI Joe fans who like the animated series a lot lot I grew up with the comic book series primarily but a lot lot lot of people got on board with the animated series and and if you like that style man they didn't like it is amazingly precise how closely the Saturday morning adventures series matches that style so if that's what you're looking for you will 100% get it with that series okay that is that's sort of it now I have reviewed this the alley alley viper I have a few problems with it besides just the the color oh that's that's awkward yeah the shield okay so there's this there's the vintage alley viper there's that there's that submachine gun and as you can see like the magazine sticks out like on the outside of the forearm which is weird with it sticking out that way like it it would like hinder the the buttstock from from going to the shoulder and that you wouldn't want that that that it's it's a very awkward and unusual weapon design and and and it's repeated here and you know what I dislike it's enough I dislike it enough that I'm I'm giving them I'm giving him the assault rifle it were just we're going a little bigger hope Larry gets more attention Larry was nominated for the Eisner Hall of Fame this year I I I don't know that he will get it this year but I wish that he would I think more people should appreciate his contributions to the the comic book art form and the industry which is far beyond GI Joe is far beyond Wolverine and the other things that he's most known for I I think I think long time industry people know and are aware more of are aware more of Larry's contributions to comic books maybe that then like some modern readers are so I'm hoping at some point that the industry people the people who know who the people who've been around will recognize those contributions I I'm not Larry I don't know what he wants but I think he would appreciate that I think he would so so there we go there there is the guy all assembled I I've I've I've taken away this the dorky gun the derpy gun and I get on something more substantial so we're good we're good this this I gotta say this is like the biggest problems of course are the colors I mean it's obnoxious in it and it's hideous I that I will die on that hill but that this I get so frustrated with with with the vintage figure that the classified figure just feels better it just feels better it fixes some of the some of the frustrations of the the vintage figure not not not the color it doesn't fix that but but you know hey you it's customizable you can customize this guy hey chill bro I would like to do a firefly as I assume you're talking about a firefly classified review I have done the firefly vintage figure and I do have the classified firefly but I will save that for another time what can I say about this it's substantial but like it very faithfully copies this I mean it there are some changes but I actually I'd say most of the changes are in the legs because the legs you know here they have it has the brown shin guards it has the knee pads with the color but like the vest they got that that strip of pouches in blue on the on the right side you know they got they got like the the tactical vest with the pouches that go around the front it's yes comic tropes I definitely prefer the aesthetic of version 2 alley viper and this could easily be changed to a version 2 you know a few different parts and different colors and you can this could be a version 2 and I you know I'll bet they do that at some point in the future is do a version 2 of this guy so there there he is there there's the guy this you know I feel I'm glad that I did it one thing that's that's that's nice is this this like a crossbow or whatever it is it like on it's on the it's on the vintage backpack but on this one it is it is removable it kind of pegs and come on it pegs and wedges in there you go but it's removable and it can be used by the figure so another nice thing that you can do at this scale nicely done so okay all right let's let's let's set this aside for now because do you know what time it is do you know what time it is it's story time are you ready for this yeah if you don't Diana if you're talking about the classified figures yeah they like it this it's it's a it's a hefty figure it's it feels substantial I've said this before when they first started doing six inch figures hey Robbie was very thanks for being here nice to see you like the pursuit of Cobra color scheme yeah that was a good one that yeah that was better but yeah I wasn't all that keen on six inch figures when they first came out with them until I picked up a few and then I ended up liking them I wasn't expecting to like them but I ended up liking them a lot more than I I thought that I would so this guy will eventually get a full review 3d 3d but net for now for that for now it's Miller time it's story time so so here's it here's what we're gonna do it makes no sense but but life doesn't make sense so here's what we're gonna do find your fate books I don't have all of them here but I have some of them we're gonna do the find your fate books right and as per usual when we get to a page that has a choice to make for instance this page has a choice between turning to page 24 and turning to page 34 right you will make the choice you will make the choice I will do a completely unscientific poll and just see which of the options has the most votes in the live chat now keep in mind it's not a good idea to spam the live chat you know put your your answer in a whole bunch of times YouTube could flag that and kick you out I don't have any control over that but if you that it's probably not a good idea so don't spam the live chat but but you will type your answer you'll type the page that you want to turn to based on the story when we turn to that page when when they turn to that page we will not turn to the page in this book we will turn to that page in the next book all right in the next book and then when we get to the choice in that book when you make that choice we will turn to the page in the following book we are going to blaze a trail creating our own nonsensical story in the find your face books and we will continue until we until we we win or die there we go yeah the comic tropes is right one and I don't remember which one of it is but one of these books starts with Duke pulling the pin on a grenade and throwing it at our character and our character is supposed to defuse the grenade before it goes off so I mean so these are hyper realistic I mean it was probably written by Tom Clancy under under a pen name you know that probably ghost written by Tom Clancy but so here we go but let's let's do this we're gonna are you ready are you ready well here's it here we're gonna why we're gonna do that I can't talk but here's I can't talk but I'm gonna read we're gonna start with page one in book one operation star Raider and it looks like we will go how many pages how many pages we'll go a few pages before we get to a choice let's see looks like maybe about five pages to read this is weird okay it's been a long time since we've done this one all right are we ready let's do it okay GI Joe operation star Raider page one can't you move any faster ripcord what's your problem did jump out of too many airplanes without a parachute blowtorch gives ripcord a playful shove as you follow a group of Joe's through the armored corridor where's the fire blowtorch ripcord replies shoving him back the other GI Joe's laugh because it was very funny I told 600 hours on Sunday morning you can understand why your fellow GI Joe's are a bit edgy why has Duke your Sergeant called a briefing session at this hour it must be important you enter the low ceiling room and take your places around the long table there are seven of you waiting in silence for Duke to enter hey I smell smoke mutt cries jumping up from his seat what's burning here page two smells like burning rubber airtight says with a peculiar grin on his face it's my boot mutt cries he begins stamping his foot trying to put out the fire airtight you idiot there's no time for your stupid practical jokes airtight falls off his chair laughing the other GI Joe's are laughing too man am I not giving this enough gravitas am I am I not am I not I should I should this is a serious story blowtorch doesn't laugh fire is not a joking matter to him mutt angrily leaps at airtight but snake eyes pulls him back with a simple flick of his wrist you shouldn't play jokes on mutt you tell airtight who is still laughing mutt spends so much time with dogs he's likely to bite your leg you're right he gave his own mother rabies airtight shoots back everyone laughs even spirit who usually disapproves of routiness you know how he is but the laughter stops immediately when Duke enters the briefing room time to get serious guys he says rubbing a hand slowly through his short blonde hair I've got a small job for you paint my house page 20 Duke switches on the slide projector and thank you once on Joe mine the singing cats I think are on page 12 and thanks for being here make sure you check out what's on Joe mine he usually does their lives through a live stream on Friday so do check that out I was not able to check out this week's because I was on the road and I did not get to a place with Wi-Fi in time to watch it so but but usually I do try to be there as much as I can so hello what's on Joe mind and thank you for being here okay Duke switches on the slide projector and a face appears on the screen is the face of a man with wavy white hair piercing blue eyes and a short cropped white mustache the man is dressed in a long white lab coat it's barren iron blood no no it's Dr. Newton Fitzsimmons Duke says he is an Australian scientist this is Dr. Fitzsimmons invention he clicks on the next slide it shows a small red metal device it doesn't look like much does it but it's a heavy-duty machine what is it exactly Sarge you ask is called the star raider it's a nuclear anti-missile device a nuclear anti-missile device Duke answers it can be launched from any kind of space satellite you better believe the boys at the Pentagon are real eager to see this little how this little beauty works that's where we come in we're going to borrow it from the scientist airtight says that's too simple Duke says we're not going to steal it we wouldn't need you guys for that we got other guys for that no it seems that this events department has invited Dr. F to Washington he's agreed to fly here and bring his plans for the star raider to show the big boys at the Pentagon page 21 and our job you asked our job is to protect Dr. F during his visit to the US Duke says you see I've left out one detail Cobra say it's an all it's an all caps it's an all caps so he's yelling Cobra it seems knows about the star raider and Cobra also knows about the doctor's visit to Washington my guess is they'll try something anything to get those plans for themselves how did Cobra know I'll tell you how Cobra knew Falcon let them on the base you look around the table at the GI Jotin that will be with you on this mission snake eyes the silent master of the martial arts rip core the paratrooper blowtorch the fire expert spirit the soldier with the special skills of a Native American medicine man airtight whose specialty is chemical warfare and whose hobby is practical jokes and mutt the feisty dog handler Cobra should know should know better than to tangle with this group Duke presents you with two different plans for protecting Dr. Fitzsimmons and his invention a strategy specialist for the strategy specialist for the team you will have to decide which plan to put in operation page four so we read pages four and five and we got to pick a plan okay so so yeah we we got a yes we got to protect Dr. Fabulous so Dr. Fabulous yes another great Aussie invention see this is what comes out of of your great country nuclear anti missile devices you guys build those in your garages right so thank you Australia for your strategic defense initiative contributions page four in in all caps now wise guy for your eyes only operation star rater two strategies plan a in full view object to throw Cobra off the track by doing what they least expect what would Cobra least expect they would least expect us to just give him the guy you know that they that would that would shock him that would surprise him that the red little MacGuffin device how about you just like leave that you know on a table at Wendy's and is you know look around just kind of walk away wink wink that is what they would least expect well what does this say background Fitzsimmons plane will land at Kennedy airport in New York he will then be taken to Washington Fitzsimmons will arrive on parade day in New York City a giant parade in honor of all the other parades that are held in the city is scheduled so it's a parade to honor parades that's what we need and I'm sure the the people of New York City appreciate having their streets clogged up for for another parade just to honor the other parades I'm I'm sure that they have many friendly and nice things to say about that strategy don't try to hide doctor Fitzsimmons have him ride in the parade up Fifth Avenue and with the mayor in full view of everyone maybe put him in a t-shirt with a big target on it you know that says shoot here at the end of the parade route the mayor gets out the car continues on accompanied by the Joe team to the meeting in Washington rationale Cobra will be totally surprised also it would be next to impossible for Cobra to kidnap Fitzsimmons from an official limo in the middle of a crowded parade page five plan B so that was plan A plan A is uh is just parade him out in the open secrecy screwed at who needs secrecy secrecy is for wussies manly man just do do it all out in the open interpret that as you please plan B mountain retreat object to get doctor Fitzsimmons to the most hidden secluded place possible background snake eyes owns a small cabin in the high sierras where he goes to escape from the world with his pet wolf it is secret and secluded as far as as it is known Cobra is unaware of it although in the comic book Cobra attacks it like every other issue but anyway but for for our purposes Cobra has no idea strategy take Fitzsimmons directly from the plane to his hidden this hidden cabin in the mountains have the defense department officials meet with him there and see his plans then fly him back to australia rationale he can be gotten in and out of the country without Cobra ever knowing where he is also the mountain cabin should be easy to defend against attack if Cobra should happen to locate Fitzsimmons okay all right so now you have plan A and plan B plan A is a parade and plan B is the cabin so you're gonna choose one of these i'll give you the page numbers in a second but remember whichever page you choose we're not going to that page in this book we're going to that page in this book okay so if you'd like plan A which is the parade type 32 if you would like plan B which is the cabin type 62 i'm sorry 54 sorry 54 did i say 52 type 54 for the parade 62 for the cabin 54 or 62 so type your answers i'll give you a minute i'll give you a minute and uh well i mean who knows that's pretty that's pretty far into into this book that could be the last we could die on this first move uh so um 54 or 62 54 or 62 uh let's see we've got some 54 we got some 32s but i'm i'm reading those as 62 so uh i'll count those but we got we've got a few more 54 so it is um 54 or 62 if i said 32 earlier i apologize it's 62 but i'll i'll interpret your your 32s and 62s lots of 54s lots of 54s i'll give it i'll give it a few more seconds to see if the 62s catch up but uh but i it looks like 54 it may win this one um i want that couple 62s couple 62s um five four spelling you're really spelling it out there 42 close close enough um okay uh i think 54 one uh 62 did catch up there a little bit but um i probably did say 32 for plan a but that's that's because i can't read um which so this is the perfect act uh activity for me so but it's okay this way and i've interpreted the 32s as 62s we're fine but i believe that 54 has won so let's turn to page 54 in operation dragon fire operation dragon fire page 54 all right it's about this time okay it's about time this cobra business was brought to an end you say okay let's move out now an excellent decision says destro removing the map from the wall and rolling it up just then one of his men enters and says urgent message from sector seven sir destros eyes light up as he examines the message he says my cobra spy has just informed me that there is a new intelligence is new intelligence on dragon fire a meeting has been set up for 1650 hours at 1650 hours you lady j roadblock barbecue destro and the rest of this his crazy outfit arrive at the designated location sectors sector seven is a barren alley surrounded by low a barren valley a barren valley surrounded by low hill so i've been saying alley all night because of alley viper and i need to say the word valley and i leave the v off lady j pulls out her field glasses and scans the terrain there they are she points to the left page 90 this is going great this is probably the best thing i've ever done i shouldn't put like some kind of like uh no it doesn't matter destros strides out to meet his contact lady j continues to peer through her binoculars i don't like this she says the one standing out uh standing on the right is the bareness she's cobra's top intelligence officer i just don't think she would betray cobra commander and work with someone like destro wow um you're uh you're making me uneasy says barbecue destro moves closer to the bareness suddenly she raises her hand and destros stops in his tracks a battalion of cobras has just moved over the hilltops roadblock groans the uh the whole bunch of us has have been set up and uh and had i think i want to uh to do this over but it's too late cobra commander has won for now unless your gi joe teammates can uncover dragon fire themselves cobra will soon rule the world the end we lost on the first you know i can't wait i can't end it that way i can't end it that way um so no i'm not ending it that way so so this we're calling this an unlucky book and by the way the writer the writer thinks that the bareness wouldn't betray cobra for destro for somebody like destro huh um so yeah it's a nice try william snow but we all know better than that okay we're gonna do this again uh with uh with uh with operation terror trap um and uh let's see what what is it we said 54 i'm just picking it up at 54 um okay deciding to sneak into the meeting is one thing getting in is another but you get a lucky break you spot the bareness in the hall with only a single guard the bareness is uh the bareness is a major player in these books you zip into action quick kick puts the guard away while you and lady j overpower the bareness dragging her quickly into a tiny supply room they've discovered lady j swiftly goes into uh exchanging identities with the evil cobra captive they they're stripping the bareness aren't they that that's what they are implying i i don't think lady j just had a bareness costume you know in her pocket so they've they've captured the bareness and then they are now um they're now stripping her okay i'm following um you knew lady j was good at disguise but you didn't know she was that good uh the set of her jaw her voice her posture she looks so much like the bareness you wouldn't uh you begin to doubt your own eyes leaving quick kick in charge of the two unconscious enemies you in the guards uniform and lady j as the bareness hurry down the hall toward the meeting room page 78 hey we get another choice we get another choice uh you and lady j enter the ballroom uh where the cobra meeting is being held cobra commander looks in your direction no he shouts pointing right at lady j your heart stops i will not tolerate lateness your heart starts again lady j offers her excuses and cobra commander goes on she pulled it off i i think the bareness's um excuses would mostly consist of a middle finger this is an important day one of the most important days in the history of cobra cobra commander goes on by nightfall all the poltron gas will be headed for mount terrapin that happens to me after i have taco bell the u.s government thinks uh we don't know about their secret missile base but they're wrong we know about it and soon we will own it what about the one asks destro he won't live to see tomorrow come my dear bareness cobra commander says to lady j let's go to the docks and watch our precious cargo as it is loaded what a disaster cobra is going to use the poltron to overpower the forces protecting the base at mount terrapin uh the thought of these missiles in cobra's hands is too awful for words your you've got to rate uh to radio hq but how can you leave lady j alone with cobra commander quick kick uh quick kick no quick make a decision all right ready okay if you want to follow lady j and cobra turn to page 40 i think i mean cobra commander if you want to follow lady j and cobra commander turn to page 40 40 if you want to slip away and radio the rest of the team turn to page 3535 okay so there's your choices in in your live chat if you want to go with lady j and cobra commander type 40 40 if you'd like to slip away and radio the team type 35 35 uh i have no idea what a poltron is andrew uh that's a good question i will have to google it later we have a 35 we 35 is winning all right cool i should have i should have done like a um like a uh uh uh uh i should have done like a super chat incentive so like if you did a super chat you could i would change to that page immediately but i'm not doing that i'm sticking to the rules i don't want to change the rules in the middle of the um in the middle of the show but we got some 40s we got more 40s and 35s so far well let's give it a few more seconds or give it a minute or so i feel good about this one i feel i feel i feel if we if we do if we finish this one it even if we lose i will have to that i'll cut it off there we get one mole again after that you know we gotta we gotta wrap it up so i think 40 is winning i think 40 is winning i'm i'm declaring that 40 has won uh so okay here we go here we go i'm turning oh but not in this book i'm turning to page 40 in this book uh operation robot assassin all right what what is what is this book gonna do for us you know if we don't die this could be almost infinite here we go there's got to be a time to check one more room after all what are 30 seconds when you're looking for a robot that's going to blow away world leaders you rush to the end of the hall and open a big wooden door slowly it's black and silent sorry that's a contraction it is black and silent inside the room you step in cautiously suddenly the lights come on the room isn't empty it's filled with russian soldiers they're shouting something in russian and then one of them steps forward holding a birthday cake with candles it's a russian birthday party they were expecting someone else and they're as surprised to see you as you to see them but they're they've got more guns than you do so you are their prisoner a few hours later a russian general general uh tarkinov sure uh is speaking to an american general on the phone thank you general tarkinov says i just wanted to check with you before i look i took appropriate actions tarkinov hangs up and smiles at you my friend he tells you general brooker says there is no covert gi joe activity in geneva during the peace talks you will have to tell the truth about who you really are we know you're not a gi joe page 50 so have have we gone rogue and we stumbled on a russian surprise birthday party do russians do that did russians do that in the 80s did they have cake it it would it would be communist cake it would be state approved cake they they would only have red icing the russians hold you prisoner for a week hmm they know as well as you that general brooker is lying through his teeth but you but if you eliminated all the lying from politics it just wouldn't be the same fun game your life as the roost what your life at the rooster mansion follows a calm routine you're well fed and in the afternoon you even get an exercise period outside the guards don't watch you because they're pretty sure you're not going anywhere to get out you have to you'd have to face the electric fence the wolves and the glass wall again unarmed and alone the guards must not watch the sky either they don't see the brown silhouettes sweep down from the blue swiss horizon and hover above your head it's a helicopter they they didn't notice the helicopter huh with flint in the pilot seat flint is a helicopter pilot that is true and snow job uh throwing the ladder down to you while firing rounds with his machine gun i wonder if they've noticed yet uh they perhaps they were on their vodka break page 64 the robot you ask as soon as you're on board the helicopter we pulled its plug snow job says mission accomplished the world is safe from cobra once again for a while regards from general brooker a flint says with a smile he's off my christmas list you say no he came through flint says when he found out that the russians uh what the russians plan to do with you back in russia brooker told me three words get him somehow by the way what held you up in the mansion i stopped for some birthday cake you say with a weary smile flint points the helicopter toward the secret swiss airstrip your job is finished you're all going home the pit is calling you back the end we won we won i have no idea what we did but we were successful we stopped the robot we actually didn't stop our robot we got captured we we we uh crashed a surprise birthday party uh yeah like it's a communist birthday party so like i i think the only presence that they're allowed to give is like rocks and sticks and bottles of vodka but but we we want we we've got captured but but somebody else somebody else defeated the robot and then eventually busted us out so i'm counting that as a win i'm counting that that's a that yeah that's the classic joe mission where we get captured and miss all of the action only to be you know broken out later that and take credit for it uh so great job guys you defeated the robot assassin without even doing anything without we did nothing we we like we sat in a jail cell with an exercise period for months uh so i i i'm counting that as win i think i think you know when they start divvying out the medals i think i think we should get one i think we deserve one so anyway i think that is that's gonna wrap up our hour of live stream today i thank you guys it it really was nice talking to everyone and it it really does help my mood to hang out with you guys and and chat and today like i said today just kind of sucked so um it's it's a little bit better now because i've had a chance to hang out with you guys so thank you i am as i mentioned before i am doing my best to get a video out this week i'm really trying it has been a challenge to find the time to sit down and shoot it but i'm really really trying i'll do my best but no matter what i'll be back here on tuesday and we'll do this again so good night everybody and i will see you next time bye


I'm a first lieutenant. My name is Jake Mencer. So we're at Camp Navajo at the M4 range. We're doing a stress shoot today. They're gonna go through a couple of workouts, get that heart going, and then they're gonna go on to the line and fire. I'm Private Daniel Grissom from Charlie Company 158 Infantry Battalion. A lot of what we do is we have to be calm under fire and that's where the training is really kicked in of focusing on the fundamentals of shooting and really just being able to engage the targets accurately. It's not just sitting on a lane and just taking your time without any stress going whatsoever in a real situation. There's gonna be a lot of stress and so that's where this exercise really helps out. My name is Staff Sergeant Stephen Ingalls. I am 11 Bravo Qualified for a squad leader with Charlie Company. Every time that we do an effective training mission we put it in our toolbox and we add to it and we take these experiences and we mold a very realistic model of training for these soldiers and develop them both professionally in the civilian world and in the military world.


Mom gives birth to quadruplets, then doctors look at their faces and see it. When a routine ultrasound revealed not one, but four babies, newlyweds Bethany and Tim Webb of Alberta, Canada were left speechless. Married for less than a year, Bethany and Tim could do little more than stare in disbelief when faced with the ultrasound report. I could not believe it, I was in such shock, Bethany told CBC News. Honestly, I thought the ultrasound tech was joking. Initially, the Canadians were happy when they discovered that they were expecting however, they were completely unprepared. For quadruplets. And if finding out you're pregnant with quads isn't impossible enough, there would be an even crazier surprise waiting for her when the expecting mom finally made it to the delivery room and laid eyes on the four little ones for the first time. Before their lives were turned upside down, there really wasn't anything too out of the ordinary for the young couple. Bethany, 22 and Tim Webb, 23, exchanged vows in June, and like many normal couples very much in love, they started thinking about having children. In fact, they were thrilled when they found out in September that they were expecting. My husband definitely wanted to wait a year, Bethany told CBC News. I was fine with whenever it ended up happening, but when we found out we were very excited, only thinking then we were having one, not four. The day before Christmas Eve 2015, the first time parents attended a routine scan. That's when they were given their first peek into their eventual future. When the nurse asked if there was any history of multiple births in either of. Their families that the couple knew of, they were understandably caught off guard. Still uncertain of what multiple births would really mean for them, the couple shook their heads no. It was then that the nurse delivered some unexpected and unbelievable news. During the ultrasound, Bethany said she saw the technicians looking and pointing at two different areas of the screen. She had therefore assumed that she was going to have twins. She turned the screen and she started counting babies and she counted baby one, baby two, baby three. I was thinking okay you can stop at baby three. Baby three is enough, and she counted out the fourth. Baby, Bethany reported to Canada's global news. That's when I just about fell over. Tim added. I definitely did go through some panic attacks, Bethany admitted. While they had originally planned to start a family slowly, all of that changed in seconds right before their eyes. In one day, their small family of two tripled. Realizing the full gravity of the situation, their joy and excitement were suddenly replaced with panic. That day with the ultrasound, when they counted the four, I actually felt quite faint and I had to ask for a seat because it was just too much all at once, Tim recalled. As there was no family history of multiple births in Bethany and Tim's families, and the couple did not use fertility drugs or in vitro fertilization to conceive their children, the news of their pregnancy is even more astounding. The doctors said it's just something that happens. It doesn't happen all the time, it's very, very rare. As of 2007, there were approximately 3,500 sets of quadruplets recorded worldwide. I'm definitely glad I was laying down because I could not believe that there were four there. I thought there had to be some kind of mistake, she laughed. One of the nurses that works at the hospital said it was a one in 67 million occurrence. Without a doubt, the webs had more than what they could handle. As a result, Tim's mom has offered to house them to give them a helping hand or two. But help didn't stop there, as you might have imagined. The people of Hyth, Alberta, the tiny Canadian town of 820, were lining up to offer their support. The community held a fundraiser which brought in approximately $50,000, and there's a GoFundMe site set up by friends, Tim told the National Post. Completely. Blessed and overwhelmed, the webs even had to start stockpiling additional supplies and reserves in a local church. Bethany confessed that while she was excited for the babies, the notion of how much they would need to care for them is overwhelming. After all, four times the love means four times the cost. I realized that we didn't have a vehicle that could support four babies, Bethany said. We were good until that four number kicked in, then we weren't prepared at all, Tim added. The soon-to-be parents of four were planning on staying in their one-bedroom apartment after having their first baby, but since learning they were to become a family of six they have had to consider other options, including moving in with Tim's mother. Going from one to four is like four times everything. For strollers, for car seats, for cribs. Diapers. Diapers everywhere, Bethany lamented. Diapers and formula, that's probably going to be the most expensive part for us right now. The webs calculated that they would need approximately 48 diapers a day now once their daughters arrive. So whose responsibility will it be to change all those bottoms? Hers. Tim exclaimed. I have a weak stomach. I can't change diapers. Despite having to completely reinvent their lives from the bottom up, the pregnancy was going quite well. Considering that the webs are from the village of Hyth though, which isn't equipped with a large hospital, doctors had advised that she be transferred to the state of the Ark Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. I'm excited, but it is weird when they start moving. Sometimes I'll feel more than one move at once and. It kind of takes me by surprise, even being 27 weeks pregnant, I don't think it's sunken that there's further yet, said the happy mother-to-be. The doctors couldn't let her go full term as it could jeopardize the baby's health. To avoid complications, she would need a C-section at the 33-week mark. I'm definitely nervous about the birth, but I'm also really excited to see them, she said. Just in time for Mother's Day and only weeks before their very first wedding anniversary, the webs became an instant family. This was an anniversary gift that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Tim told Global News, it was kind of like a magic show, because they're pulling out one, two, three, four. It was kind of surreal. Yet the true magic didn't become apparent until the girls were laid side by side. What the doctor told the webs next changed the odds of this pregnancy from one in 15 million to something even more impossible. So not only had the webs already won the baby lottery by getting quadruplets, but miraculously they ended up being all girls. And if those won in over 15 million odds weren't astronomically small to begin with, just wait until you read this. Incredibly, all four newborn girls were all identical. It only took about an hour to deliver the babies, who ranged in weight from three pounds to four pounds one ounce. Tim.  Living with five girls. Yikes. I don't know what I'm going to do. It's going to be overwhelming, being the last man standing. But then on Friday, May 6th, as each of the girls arrived and were lined up next to each other, everyone was stunned. With the high risk nature of the pregnancy, there was always talk that there was some risk of delivering very early, said Dr. Billy Wong, the couple's obstetrician. For us to get to this date and the pregnancy, almost 33 weeks, we were actually very fortunate. The webs say they are extensive. Support system back in Hyth, where everyone is waiting for the new family to arrive home. The relieved dad said, according to the Edmonton Journal, I feel overwhelmingly awesome that the babies are here. I feel blessed. Relieved too, because you worry with multiple births. There's risks, but all of it was perfect. And now, we are proud to present the little girls who were one in 15 million, Emily, Grace, Makayla, and Abigail. So the downsides of having quadruplets clearly means quadruple the trouble, but you at least get one nice perk to it all. It was nice that we didn't have to pick our favorites, Bethany told Global News. We could pick four we liked, we didn't have to choose just one. Now Tim and Bethany have a new problem. How do they tell them apart? To make things a bit easier, differentiate one quadruplet from the others. Immediately after the birth, each girl was placed in her own tiny incubator. Just don't take them out of the incubator. Speaking to CTV News, Bethany revealed, right now I'm glad there. Separated so we can tell them apart. But even just holding two side by side, I can't tell them apart at all. Soon enough, however, our new family is going to have to come up with a solid plan to distinguish the girls from one another. Luckily for new mom Bethany, their individual temperaments couldn't be more different from each other. Certainly, that will be the most distinguishing factor in telling them apart. Abigail is the smallest and youngest, so she is a bit hotheaded. I'd watch out for that one. Emily and Makayla are apparently super chill, however Grace, on the other hand, is described as a character. And yet, now that they're all home and a bit more relaxed, the couple has hatched a makeshift plan to differentiate between each girl. Each girl will get a designated color-coded bracelet or hair accessory, as if they even have hair at this stage. They've also considered painting their toenails as a more semi-permanent solution. Bethany Webb was a bundle of nerves one evening in early June. That's because the next morning, her two month old identical quadruplet girls would have their very first photo shoot. I was nervous that they wouldn't sleep and they'd be awake the whole time or crying in fussy, Webb, who lives in Alberta, Canada, tells us weekly. But they did so good. The project took much more planning and assistance than photographer Cassandra Jones was used to. Five extra people helped her set up the shoot. One person per baby and one person to help arrange the flowers and props. It took three large vehicles to haul all the items needed to the outdoor location in Grande Prairie. Obviously, feeding, changing and caring for four babies is an incredible task, but photographing them so perfectly wasn't easy either. Photographer Cassandra Jones was blown away by the infants. There were absolutely no tears, she told today parents. In fact, they didn't even raise an eyelid. They slept like little angels for the entire shoot. The girl's knit hats and wraps were custom-made specifically for the shoot. Jones chose white outfits so that she could coordinate all of the different hats without having to change the babies and risk waking them up, she said. Meanwhile, the tiny sisters are already confounding adults. They may be just two months old, but sisters Abigail, Makayla, Grace and Emily Webb have already managed to steal the hearts of thousands. The photos from the shoot have since gone viral with more. More than 5,000 likes. Jones admits she and her assistants did struggle to tell the girls apart, however. The pictures she took are absolutely beautiful, and I love them so much, Bethany smiled. Since the girls are identical, the parents came up with a solution to help them identify their daughters. Each baby has her toenails painted a different color than her sisters. As for a more permanent solution, mom Bethany revealed that they recently had the girl's ears pierced and each wears a different color of stone, purple for Emily, red for Grace, blue for Abigail, and pink for Makayla. Each baby has her own distinct personality as well. Abigail is the feisty one. Emily's usually pretty quiet. Grace is the one that is most sensitive to pain and Makayla is a combination of all of them. She can be feisty, but is also calm and collected. All four girls share a regular size crib. They like sleeping together. They don't like being apart, says Webb. If we separate them, they're not happy. Bethany said Tim was esoteric about becoming a dad, but still needed to get used to the idea of being the only man in a house of five females. I think my husband has gotten used to the idea that there are four babies, but I don't think he's gotten used to the idea that there are four identical girls, the mom to be laughed. As for the dad to be, I think of them as blessings really. I'll probably be pulling my hair out a year from now, but now I'm excited. My dad passed away just about a year ago, and so this is kind of a blessing to have the family that I have and the community that I have and the doctors that we have here, he said. The chance of having quadruplets without fertility drugs is one in 729,000, Dr. James Bofill, a professor of maternal fetal medicine at the University of Mississippi, told today when he treated a Mississippi woman who gave birth to quadruplets in 2014. But the odds of having identical quadruplets are about one in 15 million pregnancies, according to raising multiples. The wet babies are the fifth set of quadruplets born in Alberta since 2004. As the high-risk obstetric and maternal care center for Northern Alberta, last year, the LHHW delivered 240 sets of twins and six sets of triplets. I'm looking forward to the memories and how close they'll all be, proud dad Tim told Global News. Bethany, a bit more weary, added, it's going to be crazy the first few years. But it'll be very exciting.


Good morning. Cyber traders. Happy Friday everybody. Good to see you all. Good morning. Good to see you Lawrence. Keith, good to see you. Keith, my chickens are doing great. My chickens are doing really well. Thank you very much. It was good to see you two in Florida everybody. I saw a bunch of people who were in Florida for the on site for DTI. It was great seeing you all there.  Now we got a little rally. Now we got a little crash.  But anyway, I know you guys got class today. Just want to remind everybody you got Josh is doing. I think it's phase two again. I think he's dealing right. Yeah, phase two. You can be. Yeah, you can be do face and then we continue phase three going into I believe next week we got it. So look forward to seeing you all in the next week. I mean, yesterday I always want to bring this up really quick. First of all, I want to point this out. Level four, if you look right here, look at this iceberg order right here get filled right that trader got done and then another trader got came out here. He got filled. Now remember the big thing that we teach you here is you follow the money and you could see here on the big trade. What a nice run up all the way up to about 12 o'clock. So you know what this stock is going back on the watch list. And not only that, I think it could be a good swing trade. I was watching it earlier right here, but it came right back down. But it is a pretty volatile stock. But keep an eye on a I and for some of you that probably don't know this but a I. If I go back pretty far out last year, this thing was $180 stock. Now when you look here in the long term chart right here, you could see it's got some pretty big resistance levels right around that $30 price range. And you know a lot of us were trading at the beginning of the year was like $10 and had a good run up. But you could see when you go back in November back to now big, big resistance. So just be really, really careful on that which leads it to a couple of the stocks when we talk about yesterday because we had a lot of good stocks that we had yesterday and we'll cover it. So let's do that first and then we'll go through the watch list. Now I'll tell you the truth. I didn't see that many good stocks this morning. I was going through the watch list. You got the market down. It actually recovered a little bit. It was down about $350. We came back about 100 points. I think the numbers they tell you that's not as a trader. I always want to remind everyone when you got good news coming out and the market doesn't go up that's a bad sign. Okay. That is a really, really bad sign. It means nobody is interested. You hear that job reports have been pretty decent this and that. But let me tell you and that's why you learn as a trader what we teach at Cybertry University is that when you sit there and you're looking at like, wait a minute. They beat earnings. Why is it not going up? Oh, they just they just CPI numbers weren't that bad. You know, and all of a sudden it's not going anywhere. That's not a good sign as a trader. So, you know, as a swing trader, you better be careful and as an option. But as a day trader, that's what's going to prepare you to do those good shorts and so on. Anyway, let's go through a couple of watch lists because this thing was retarded yesterday. Oh my god. This thing was crazy. So anyway, we traded this stock yesterday because some of you have been right everyone. We saw this let me zoom in over here because this was just like out of nowhere. So this stock right here went from 11 dollars and just got halted and halted and halted and from literally at what time was that right there? That was at 935.  Come back and got halted again. It ran all the way up to about $26. What really freaked me out about the stock is it didn't go anywhere. It kind of held there for a while but that was unbelievable. The only bad thing about that stock I know I told a lot of us don't trade it is because the volume was extremely low. Okay. But when you look here on that long-term chart I got that thing was just out of this world at $10 to 28. That was at 300. Anyway, that's what we traded yesterday. Snapchat also did really well too and had a good run up and you can see right here did a good nice little pop right here and then all of a sudden it kind of came back down. You can see it came right back down. Snapchat all speculation. We're talking about Snapchat because what's going on right now with tiktok. You know that the CEO was down there in congress. They were talking about him about what's the story with tiktok? Why are you part of the your Chinese spy or whatever it is? So it helps these companies out. So Snap did come back down. I don't know how it ended up if it's going to continue the way it is but I did keep it on the watch list. Now remember it's always nice to trade stocks that we found from yesterday. They do spill into today. Okay. So Snapchat I'm going to keep an eye on this morning and the only reason why is because I'm not seeing that much out there. Coin got crushed yesterday and then they made a nice really recovery. So Coin went from 60 dollars all the way to about 68. That was a really, really nice bounce on Coin. You can see that from the day before. I mean the news it just literally just got was a catastrophe. Came all the way back down and finally recovered. So Coin did really well. I don't think I want to put it on my watch list this morning. Square got crushed yesterday. You can see it here. Stock was all the way up to about 77. Went all the way to the 57. Had a nice little bounce. That stock I might consider it Square. Square is a little bit easier to trade than Coin. AI, put it back on the watch list. AI is doing I'm looking at AI right here on level 4 and you could see those very simple red block orders. I mean now look this buyer out there is for 25,000. Any sellers out there you got 20,000 share seller 2640. By the way, everyone here is watching it on social media. When is the last time someone taught you and showed you and say hey, just let you know there's a cop down in the end of the road. You better not speed. What are you going to do? Speed? I got my radar looking behind me not in front of me. Well, the metaphor and the whole part about that is you want to go out to trade don't you want to know where the other orders are? So you know how to have a game plan. That's what you guys learned a lot. That was a pretty good example. That's why I really want to point that out a little bit more. But anyway, that's going back on the watch list.  And this FRC took a huge dive. I mean like look at that. You know what that looks like cyber traders? What does that look like to you right there on the long-term chart? Does that look like a foul-steal flag to you? Does not look good for FRC. Let me tell you people averaging down and averaging down. Listen, it's a fun day trade but it is hell no swing average down trade. Now, what else is out there looking at it? Listen, it was this company dated obviously it's an IPO. Very dangerous stock. I saw drama DRMA. So this one is not terrible. It's got a nice little push yesterday.   Let's go check on level four and see what's out there. See what we got in the orders. Okay, so we had a big iceberg order for about big, big iceberg order right around that 201. I'll show it to you right here. So you're right there, big order right there. It looks like it came back down. Not really going anywhere. So it's going to probably a good level one stock for some of you here to trade that. Now, listen, we're right now at the number two biggest percentage gainer. Now, watch when we start working our way down. Once we get below 10%, we're pretty much not really interested in a lot of these stocks. So there's not that much going on there. On the losers list we all know what why DHH I'd say is in there. That was a big rally yesterday.  Boyle you know Boyle took a huge hit. I'm glad I got out of that stock. My god. Yeah, I took a I got it. I thought that stock was going to make a little bit of recovery. Let me tell you when it broke this 25 that was game over. Okay. Mage mage supports. UVX-Y is moving. I mean these are all ETFs. The problem with UVX-Y going to bring up a level four is that it's very difficult to see you know the iceberg orders is where you get a lot of rainbow effects. Now it's not terrible right now. You could see that there's a 221,000 share buyer right around six bucks. So it's kind of obvious but you start seeing you see all the algorithms over there. Those are all goes.  It looks like you got hit. How much was it here? Oh look at that was 375. He did sell a hundred. He's still out there for another 120. So it looks like it looks like he bought about 125,000 shares. That's not drop change. Drip drip drip. Looks like it's moving also. I'm really intrigued you have too much. Loser is not looking too well. Deutsche Bank not doing too well. You know what? Have they been talking about Deutsche Bank too? Let's keep an eye on Deutsche Bank. TB. I didn't hear that. Let's see we might going into another one. I told you this. I had him. Oh, Mark, you got a short on it. Mark got a short on Deutsche Bank in the trading room. Alright, where you go, Mark? Where you go? Put that in there. There you go right there. Pretty good. Pretty good. It's Deutsche Bank. Let me tell you what a good swing trade. It was a great short from yesterday. I told you this that there was a lot of stocks out there. A couple of weeks. A couple of banks might get a little pinched right here. So we'll see how that goes. Alright. Alright, Simon, anything else before we go? Get ready for the market open. You got about less than 20 minutes. Listen, we had a lot of people that attended our open house yesterday. So for all of you that are new, and by the way, if you still want to join on the top left-hand corner on the on the restream right here, you can see this as a free live workshop. Just take your phone and just scan it, you know, right there. You've probably done it already and you can join us. But remember, if you are new here to Cybertree University, make sure you book your appointment, your education advisor, let them teach you a little bit about how the market works, what we're going to be, what you're going to learn in the trading room so you can be there all day and, you know, pick a day that you guys want. But just do yourself a favor. Don't buy anything that we trade because you're not here to trade, you're here to learn. Some people want to do this, but you don't know if it's really for you, and that's okay. So just please make sure you do that. Alright, in the meantime, guys, enjoy your weekend. Alright, we'll see you back here when the market opens up at 9.30, and if you're watching on any of these streams, we'll see you back here at 2.30. Alright, good look everyone, happy trading, be safe. And if I don't see you, like I said, enjoy your weekend.


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alright guys what is going on day 104 and today is actually just going to be a physique update but it's going to be a comparison now this video has been brought on because of my over analysis over and over again of the 100 kg physique update video that I put up so those those sets of poses that I did whatever angle whatever lighting I tried to do I could not get myself to look like I did in the mirror or what what I thought I did in the mirror and then I remembered that the one the one place I can actually get good lighting in my house is right behind me by the computer desk and that is where I've done a few of the body fat percentage videos that I've done previously so what I'm going to do today is first of all I'm going to show you guys the physique update that I did and I said to myself yep okay I'm about 10% body fat right now so at that point I was about 89 kilo 89 to 90 right now I'm just over a hundred so you know that's at least 10 11 if not 12 kgs with with a weight gain and you're about to see what that looks like on my frame so yeah the six month natural bodybuilding bulking comparison is about to go down right now so I will set up the camera right here do a few poses and then at the end I'll let I'll show you guys a bit of video footage from the one that I did back in the day so here we go comparison between 89 kilo and 101 kilo


Okay, hello everyone. My name is Xiang Feng and today I'll be talking to you about the overhead of ECU sidecars. This is a joint work with folks at Duke University and Bidens. First, just a few words about myself. I'm currently a graduate student at the University of Washington where I do research in microservices, sewage meshes, and application networking. And this is my email address and personal website in case you want to reach out after the talk. Performance versus functionality trade-off is a key concern for both ECU developers and users. This is a quote I took from the Envoy FAQ page and the performance overhead of Envoy and ECU depends a lot on the features enabled development environment and workload characteristics. For example, developers might want to know how to configure ECU given a performance budget or should I use Vibe Assembly or Lua to extend my service mesh. To solve this problem today, developers rely on ad hoc menu configuration tuning. They do black box measurements of different configurations and workloads. However, such approach have a key limitation. The configuration space of ECU is huge. For example, you can intercept traffic in different protocols and there are many ECU and Envoy features you can enable. Workload characteristics like required size and rate also have an impact on the magnitude of the overhead. And to this end, we build machine side to systematically quantify the ECU sidecar overhead to enable two important use cases. First, we want to help the ECU users to navigate the tradeoff between performance and functionality. And also for ECU developers to be able to estimate the impact of their optimization to make informed decisions. We consider two primary measures of overhead in this work, in other words latency and CPU usage overhead. And we build machine side mostly for sidecar mode but we believe it can be extended to the ambient mesh that is coming up. And machine side is written Python and using it is pretty straightforward. First, you need to run the offline profiler which generates performance profiles for Envoy on different platforms. And once you have the profiles for your development platforms, you can predict the end to end performance for specific call graphs using the online predictor. And the readme file in the repo has a lot more details. Instead of using a black box approach, we model per sidecar overhead based on a decomposition of model. The figure on the bottom shows the data path of a request. We break down data paths into several finer grain components. The read system call and there's three side components that represent parsing, the filter chain processing and the baseline processing. And then the write system call and finally the inter process communication between the Envoy and the application. The nice thing about this component is that they're independent from each other and when you compose them together, they represent the end to end overhead. And with the per sidecar model, we can go ahead and predict the end to end overhead. Mesh inside rely on what we call extended call graph to predict the end to end overhead. It captures the service communication pattern, the platform specifications, the sidecar configurations and workload information. Extended call graphs can be constructed from the distributed tracing or mounting to like yogurt and graphonum. And finally, given the call graph, the end to end overhead will just be the summation of all the sidecar overhead in the extended call graph. And for latency, the calculation is only based on the critical path. Okay, let's see how machine side work in practice. We apply machine side to a large scale Alibaba microservice trace to show how overhead vary across different settings. And we conducted the prediction using five configurations. In other words, TCP, HTTP, GRPC and HTTP and GRPC with setoff filters. The figure on the bottom here shows the CDF over the predicted end to end latency overhead. The main takeaway is that the performance overhead can vary by orders of magnitude for different settings. When you look at the P50 value of TCP versus GRPC with the setoff filters, they can vary by up to 10x. And different call graphs and end points also introduce huge variations. When you look at the overhead of the same configuration, when you compare the P50 versus the tail, which is P99, it can vary up to 50x. And we have a similar observation for CPU usage overhead as well. So these massive variations across different settings is exactly why we need to like machine side. So developers and users can learn the overhead of their specific development of interest without actually spending precious time profiling. We start, I will conclude my talk. Machine side is available on GitHub and we also publish a paper about machine side at the symposium of cloud computing last month. And I'll please check out the paper for details. Thanks everyone for listening. I don't think we have time for questions. Oh, yeah, sure. Oh, I should probably slide. Questions? Yes. Can you come to the mic maybe? So in the overhead graph that you showed, how much of it is actual overhead of the sidecar versus how much of it is because of the load, you know, queuing, etc. Do you isolate the two? Right. So the graph here shows you the overhead of just the sidecar. So for latency measurement, we have very, the load generator operate at very low load. So the overhead only shows you the service time. It does not include the queuing delay. So I'm curious, did you all look at any of the differences relating to things like TLS overhead and not? So one of the things I see a lot is people install the mesh, they do in TLS, and then they go, whoa, it got way more resource utilization or similar. And so one of the things that might be interesting is like, how much of that is the cost of TLS? Yeah, yeah, let's see what we do question. We did not consider TLS in this work, but it's definitely the plan to consider in the future. Thanks for the question. Okay. If there's no questions, if you're interested in the word, please come talk to me after that. Yes. Thank you for the talk. Then do you have any solution in your mind to utilize the benefit of Envoy, Sidecar, all the stuff, but at the same time, optimize the performance? Yeah, the purpose of this work is to kind of break down the overhead, see what are the primary contributors to the overhead. But I think previously in this conference where there are talks on how to augment data paths, for example, using BPF and also we're just replacing the IPC with a lighter weight mechanism. And also, I think Celium has trying to push the proxy to the kernel to save some system call at contact switches overheads. Does the mess inside give any details around the packet size that are transferred between the control plane and Sidecars? No, it is only a focus only on the data path. So it does not involve any measurement of the control plane and data plane communication. Thanks again.


I want to take this opportunity to thank you for all the positive feedback that's been pouring in over the last few days. It's been great to hear from you and thank you for your support.