Live from Vienna, Austria. It's theCUBE, covering .next Europe 2016. Brought to you by Nutanix. Here's your hoes, Stu Miniman. Welcome back. Digging into some of the ecosystem partners here at the Nutanix .next conference. Happy to welcome the program. First time guest, Simon Taylor, who's the president of Comtrait Software. Another Boston-based person.  And here we are. Right, yeah. Great to be here. So good morning, you know. Absolutely. All right. And good morning. Simon, actually, so tell us a little bit about you, how long you've been at Comtrait. Now Comtrait Software, maybe kind of tease that out for us a little bit as to what that is. Yeah, sure. So I've actually been a Comtrait group for about 10 years. I started at the company running the US sales force, set up their first US sales office. And Comtrait started off as a software engineering business. So a thousand software engineers located across 10 different campuses, most of which were in Europe. So I set up those first sort of American sales operations, started selling outsourced software engineering. But over the course of that 10-year period, we started to move up the value chain. So we looked at what we really were doing in the services side of the business, and we said we are really good at two things, backup and monitoring. And there's not a lot of companies out there that can say we've got a thousand software engineers and we're incredibly good at backup and incredibly good at infrastructure monitoring. So rather than continuing to sell services in the marketplace, we began looking at ways to productize that experience so we can move up the value chain and be more valuable to our customers. So we started to do that by building our first, what we call management pack, which was an end user monitoring and infrastructure management tool that was supporting Citrix environments. We went from building one to two to 16 of those over the course of a five-year period, and that product line actually became one of the most profitable and biggest sellers in the company. So we began that sort of evolution away from services into the monitoring and the backup world. And then in January of this year, Citrix came along and acquired that part of the business, and we've continued to develop a long-term relationship with them ever since. So Simon, your company is proof we've talked about most companies in the future, you can end up a software company in one way or another. It's hard to avoid. So my understanding, you've got a bunch of your team that I've met are based in Slovenia, which is right down the road from here, but you've also opened a Boston office. So what's the makeup of Contraged software now? Sure, so after the acquisition, we spun off the entire software division and said, let's really focus on monitoring and backup. And most of the engineering teams were in the countries of Slovenia, Bosnia. So what we would sort of call central Europe. We then decided because our US presence was where the business was being built, and because we were focused on Citrix and Nutanix, we really need to re-establish ourselves as a US company. So just a few months ago, we launched our global headquarters right there in Bosnia, Massachusetts. That's great. Now let's speak, you've got a management pack now for Nutanix, what is that, how does that fit in? Yeah, sure. When we looked at the ecosystem and we looked at Nutanix, we said, these guys really have created a new industry. Going beyond hyperconverge, enterprise cloud, we see Nutanix as the clear leaders in that space, just like we saw Citrix as the clear leaders in the virtualization space. Because Prism does such a wonderful job of correlating data and pulling data out of the Nutanix environment, what we wanted to do was make sure that major platforms had that available. So we began building a management pack for Microsoft system center operations manager as well as OMS for Microsoft, porting all the information out of Prism and then adding some very cool features. So we add something called application awareness. And this application awareness feature is one of the first times in the marketplace where systems administrators can now go in and see what applications are running on which virtual machines. So it really changes the whole paradigm because now we're enabling those systems admins not just to look at what's going on in the environment but to actually dig down to the VMs and figure out what applications are running on them. And from a hypervisor standpoint, is that the Acropolis hypervisor, do you also do VMWare, what hypervisor? So it's hypervisor agnostic and really the key to it is that you do need to have Microsoft system center operations manager, which is great because Citrix is now offering free management packs to all of their Citrix Platinum customers. So you're seeing this massive growth in the scum world. And by offering the Nutanix management pack, we're allowing people to monitor and manage their entire environment right under a single pane of glass. Okay, so I'm curious. Obviously Nutanix is definitely a leader. From our standpoint, we say from a revenue standpoint that they are still in lead. But if you look, there's other options out there. And if you look at Microsoft's making some moves, you kind of look, Azure Stack next year, they've got Azure pack. And VMWare of course has their own virtual SAN. Is that something that ComTrade software looks at, plugging into those? Or is there something special about Nutanix that enabled this? I love that question. So we absolutely look at it and we absolutely say no. We believe that Nutanix is the platform to follow when it comes to hyperconverged. And we believe that for a number of reasons. One, there's a lot of followers in this industry as we know. I think that absolutely VMWare did a great job in the virtualization space. We're not knocking anybody. But in terms of who built hyperconverged, in terms of who is actually building a platform like economy around hyperconverged, you can only really look at Nutanix. They're big enough, they've got the growth, they've just IPOed. But more than that, I think that Derage and the executive team at Nutanix have a true vision for building Enterprise Cloud. And that's the vision that we want to support.  So is that not open for partners to be able to do solutions like you're doing from Nutanix? Yeah, I mean, it's certainly open. And I think that from a VOPS perspective, ESX is obviously still a key part as a hypervisor in the Nutanix world and so forth. And again, there's many wonderful vendors out there. But from a platform perspective, where we see growth, where we see adoption, and frankly, where we see the best customer stories and customer experiences is certainly coming out of Nutanix. So I think when you're picking a platform partner to extend, you're picking a platform partner to work with, you want to make sure that they've got wonderful growth, that they are delighting customers across the world, and that they have a vision you can really get behind and invest your team into. And for us, that's Nutanix. Yeah, obviously they've reached a level of maturity if you're building a product specifically that's just running with their environment. Absolutely, and you're going to see a lot more products from Comtrey coming out specifically for Nutanix. This is certainly where we're placing our investments. We think it's a game changer. We just love what these guys are doing. Simon, how's the show been for you? It's been fantastic. I think the great thing about Nutanix, where it's at as a company right now, size-wise, you really have that customer intimacy. You've got the ability to interact with the executives at Nutanix here. Everybody's very open. It's a great environment to come as a partner because you can really spend quality time with the people that are making the decisions. So we've really hit a great timer. Okay, any good stories from the customers you're hearing, kind of excitement there? What's bringing them over to your booth? Yes, so we actually just launched what we call a super pack. And the super pack is correlating all the information from the Nutanix management pack with all of the information from the Citrix management packs in one place.  So we've had wonderful discussions and chats with Citrix Nutanix customers who want to be able to monitor everything under a single pane of glass. All right, and being at the European show, is there anything different? You guys obviously have a strong presence in the area here. What do you see kind of adoption-wise, customer discussion different here versus back in our neck of the woods in Boston? Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of excitement about Nutanix globally, right? They are still new. They did just IPO. There's a ton of buzz, whether it's Silicon Valley, whether it's Europe. I think the interesting thing is there is people sort of learning about Nutanix here. And I think that creates even more buzz, even more excitement. So we're seeing a lot of partners in particular coming up and saying, oh my gosh, we're now selling Nutanix, it's huge, people love it, what else can we do? How else can we support that customer base? And I think that's where the ecosystem partners like Comtrey software really come into play. We can then put, add the monitoring, add the infrastructure management, add the application awareness, tie them together with Citrix and do all these sort of fun things that are going to help those partners to then, you know, add even more value to their customers. Simon Taylor, president of Comtrey software. Appreciate you joining us here on theCUBE. Expect to see you back in the Boston area. We'll be back with lots more coverage here from Nutanix.NEXT 2016 in Vienna, Austria. You're watching theCUBE. Thanks.


This is TFNN the Tiger financial news network Good morning everyone Basel Chapman. This is the 10 o'clock Tiger financial news network market update Can you believe the dows are $450 at $35,575 obviously like the economic news this morning? But look at this. I'll do more of this in the show. Well, let me spend a little time Look at that the nine-period moving average did not go even close to crossing a negative and that allowed the Dow to keep Bouncing and hold it so far. We've seen this three days in a row where there was weakness earlier And this is overnight as well. And then there was a turnaround. We'll see this one looks to me like it can hold so that's a very important aspect with the Technicals now improving and the very short term, but the magnate and stochastic are still weak We're looking at the S&P. That was a little different Look the S&P did go pink the nine-period went under the 14 just barely and now we've popped up But it hasn't changed the Notation there. So this is a good balance 57 points at 45 25 in the S&P. You got the QQ Q Trading up 614 at 374 so that's up 1.7% does up 1.25 S&P's up 1.29% And now you've got the IWM Which has only just now gone as that means that the nine-period moving average has slipped under the 14 to go pink But it's up a dollar 81 or 193 not a good gold Gold trying to run it sharply is holding up about four points at this moment in 1954 That 1940s is going to be the hot that that's really a base of support that gold needs to hold and the dollar Poor old dollar every time it tries to run the over the last couple of days. It just gets stuck in this range It said one or two twenty three We're watching this closely really needs to get to the one or three to say hey This is something different right now. It's just a retracement of the last big decline Crude on is actually the big issue here. Crude on is holding one is down 36 Sans at 84 You know, I'll talk about this in my show when we get back because it's an important moment We're really what is an important moment is that the bonds didn't break to the upside they had from the low That was made just five sessions six sessions ago. This should be up in the 98s. It's a 97 11 I'll be back in a moment for the target conditions. I'll check up my open call dating was never


This study proposes a novel approach to treating drug-resistant bacteria using a non-antibiotic method called furoptosis. The researchers developed two single-atom catalysts, sacs, consisting of ruthenium and iridium which are capable of generating reactive oxygen species when exposed to light, or hydrogen peroxide. These sacs were then used to treat various types of bacteria including MRSA, gram-positive and negative bacteria, and biofilms. The results showed that these sacs were highly effective at killing the bacteria and also had good biocompatibility and therapeutic potential. This study suggests that this non-antibiotic approach could be used to treat drug-resistant bacteria and provide a promising alternative to traditional antibiotics. This article was offered by Baohong Sun, Xinyu Wang, Ziqiu Yi, and others.


Patriot missile systems are already in Ukraine. Thanks to Poland, Ukraine received Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems and the first Leopard tanks said the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak. He did not disclose their number. The minister clarified that since the beginning of hostilities, Poland has transferred arms worth 2.2 billion to Ukraine. I must emphasise that thanks to the efforts of Poland, Patriot batteries or the first Leopard tanks, among other things, have already reached Ukraine. We are not only the main points of transfer of aid, but also one of the largest donors. Blaszczak said in an interview with the Razon newspaper, sending the Patriot to Ukraine was planned as part of the US military aid package announced on December 21, 2022. In January, following talks with US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Berlin would also send Patriot systems to Kiev. On January 16, the Ukrainian military arrived in the United States for training in the use of the Patriot systems. On the same day, similar exercises began in Germany. Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rut also spoke about the intention to transfer Patriots to Ukraine.


Hi, everyone. Before we start the presentation, just a quick reminder. In this session, we will be using English as a medium of presentation. But if you need other language support, especially my friends from the Chinese community, you can use a live audio interpretation service using Interactive, as you can see on the screen. And OK, let's begin. Let's begin. Hi, everyone. This is Michael from Chinese Wikipedia. In this session, I will discuss about our game reputation experience, especially about how we implement game-like developments in our context. So first of all, a brief introduction for me. My name is Michael. I'm a Wikimedean since the year 2018. So three years of experience for now. In Chinese Wikipedia, I have organized two editions of our annual contest that we will discuss later on. And also, I'm also a board member of Wikimedia Community User Group of Hong Kong. So anything about Hong Kong or Chinese Wikipedia, you can ask me later on. So first, before we start, let's ask ourselves, what is a content contest? There are some on the screen. You can see some very prominent contests, like Wikilabs monuments, Wikilabs Earths, and Wikipedia Asian mums, and probably many more from our community. But among these content contests, what makes one contest stand out between each other? You may ask. Is that how to distinguish between a good contest and a bad contest? For me, I think that a contest should have a very low barrier of entry. So basically, every Wikimedean or Wikimedean, broadly speaking, can participate without much hurdles. Also, it should be fun to compete in a contest. You don't want someone to be bored out in a contest. And what you intend is make contributing to Wikimedean projects like a game. And also, everyone should be rewarded in some way. Do not only reward a few people who are participating the best, like they have written a lot of articles or they have scored a lot of marks. We try to reward everyone who makes a meaningful participation in a contest. And finally, a contest is not here to entertain the contributors by using a contest or a game like reward method. We would like our final goal is to make a measurable impact in terms of content depth and quality. So in this session, what we are going to do here is to showcase an example of an annual contest run in the Chinese Wikipedia community. The tradition actually starts way before in the year 2006. And it becomes annual traditions in Chinese Wikipedia since the year 2007. In total, until now, we have 19 total editions. With the fifth editions, two of this year's 19 editions are run in an annual fashion. It is, for the time, it is mostly held in the summer vacation period, lasting about two and a half months because according to what we have found, most active participants on our projects are actually fairly many of them are high school or university students. So we choose this time period, the summer vacation. So everyone are easier to participate without much burden in their real life. We try to achieve that. Before the contest begin, of course, we have to organize everything well. The preparation process actually starts two months before the contest. We will initiate a discussion on community discussion forums and we try to organize everything in the way of a deliberative democracy. What does it mean is that we are trying to gain consensus just like how we make decisions in the Wikipedia movement. And sometimes when discussions need some help, I would say, we would use a popular vote to decide on things. But of course, both a discussion and a popular vote are something that complements each other, not replacing it. For the jurors, we will elect about 8 to 10 people who will be judging each article where participants are submitting during the period and also, we will select about 8 specific topics for the participants to write in. These topics are only as encouragement. Participants can submit any articles given that they meet general standards. But they are encouraged to write in these topics so that they can narrow the content gap present in our Wikipedia project. So during the contest time, in the two months time, the participants should... What the participants should do is, of course, to write articles. The barrier of entry is very low. All to confirm users, so-called, they can participate in the contest by just submitting one rally article submission. And the basic requirements for a participant is also very low. It's very easy to complete it, so-called completed. You only have to write two rally articles, and most participants can write much better, some even writing hundreds of articles in one sitting. It's not uncommon. We accept either writing new articles or expansion of existing articles. But every article a participant submits must be of acceptable quality. They must not submit a stop article or something that violates content policies and guidelines. These articles are, of course, not accepted. But this acceptable quality is quite easily achievable. They will only need to write about 3,500 bytes of article contents to be qualified as of acceptable quality. And our scoring is something that makes this contest special. We are scoring participants using an algorithm, not quite like a game, and quite different from other contests, I would say. So how does the algorithm works? We factor five points in our algorithm, including article length, the status of the article. Does it achieve good article or future article status? Of course, if the article is counted as a quality content, they will receive a much better score comparing with other articles. And we factor in the topic of the article. As we have mentioned, we will choose about eight topics in each run of a contest. If a participant writes in-topic articles, they will be scored much higher than other topic articles. We will also factor in any additional contribution apart from the articles. For example, did they shoot any photos or draw any images by themselves? Did they record an audible article for his or her submission? And also, we are favoring slightly on existing articles rather than writing new articles. But generally, most participants will choose to write new articles so that they can have an upper hand, I would say, to choose what topic they are most favored to write in. Of course, with an algorithm, you can't score it by hand. And in two years ago, we introduced a script to help us viewers to calculate scores for each article submission and also updating the statistics of a contest. And the total score earned by each participant will be used to rank them. Other very different aspects of our contest is that almost everyone gets rewarded from participating in this contest. We are not giving out the prizes to only the top score, but we try our best to score everyone. We will give out virtual awards to every jurors, top scorers in total, and also for each selected topics. We will also give awards to new users and also recurrent participants. And by design, about half of the participants will get a reward from their activities in the contest. So talking about this, how did the contest perform? In last year's annual contest, 175 recipients are participating in our contest. About 74% met the basic requirements, that is, writing or expanding two valid articles. We received 1,172 submissions, and 203 of them are considered quality content, including good articles, featured articles, and featured lists. Let's take a look in the article count for each edition since the 5th in 2007. We can see that since 2010, the submission count has been stabilized in the range of about 800 to 1,200 articles. And in recent years, by improving the scoring algorithm, we encourage more quality content, such as featured and good articles. You can see that in the last year's edition, we received 203 quality content submissions. Much increase from what we have seen in 2018, there is only 42 articles. So at the end of this presentation, it will be a Q&A time, and you may ask questions. If there are no questions currently, this will be the end of this presentation session, February 1. If you have any questions after the contest, you can find me on Matter. This is my username. You can ask any more questions.


And so we begin the next arc of Dragon Ball Super. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. We have episode 47 of our Dragon Ball Super Watch today. And now I did not check out the, I think like four or five filler episodes in between this and the end of the last episode that we watched. I did a poll on Patreon asking like, if I should react to them, I should watch through them. I'll probably watch through them, but many, many, many people said to react to the baseball episode and I looked it up, it's like somewhere in the 70s. So when we come along that, I will check it out. Yeah, I have no idea what we're gonna get into to start this next arc to kick it off. Oh, I'm excited, let's hop into it. Also drop a sub. Stay awhile. Oh my. Trunks. What has happened? Was I, should I have watched the filler in between this? Not it. Shinran. I don't know. Nah, this is gonna be one of those starts where like you're insanely confused. The animation looks spectacular by the way where you're insanely confused at first, but things may hopefully possibly start to be together. Animation's pretty impressive though. This isn't the Trunks we know, because Trunks we know is a kid. Is this like the Trunks from the future as the title implies? Again, this is a different timeline. Those pipes going to work. This Bulma I'm assuming. Oh my God, that long hair though. Yeah. Aw. You guys don't look great. I'm gonna be honest. Aw. For a time machine. Did he leave the door open? Future Bulma and the captions. I'm guessing he is whoever he was running from in the beginning. What have they been doing over the course of the year to create this? I'm guessing it is like juice to be able to time travel. Even if we have to sacrifice everything to- Oh, this is daunting.  Maya's waiting for us. Maya? Oh no. I already have a bad feeling about Bulma. That entire speech just like led up to it too. Oh no. Yeah. Well, good thing you literally just finished. Stand out of here! Do you hear me? Oh. There's no way he can make it back and protect her. And whatever that thing was, it was moving at like light speed. Oh no, she ran away. Oh no. Wow, that foreshadowing did not foreshadow very far. I don't think that's Shenron. Is this the trunks that time traveled in Z? I'm guessing. Well, red future Bulma. Holy. The world is all like, it's all fact- factorial. Meanwhile, is the presence of dinosaurs explained? Cabbage! Too bad this amount of cabbage would feed him for like one lunch time. Oh my. Farming! Let's go! But he does not realize he was fooled. That's so cozy. At least he knows it was in disguise. Oh no, Goten already got brainwashed into thinking it's training. She's being Goten just like Gohan. That smile was like, just drop out dude. Oh man, he was at the ready. It's an ego thing. Well, they can make bank off this much cabbage. I get it. Yeah, why is Goten not partaking? Oh yeah, you're supposed to go study. Carrots! That was so cute. What's up, Krillin? Oh, without him? Ooh. Maybe after the tournament, Vegeta's feeling a little, like he's lacking. Oh, he just needed like an energy to latch on to. Now that Goku's gone, he doesn't feel as though. No, the cabbage! It's so watery. What happened if he brought nothing? Would he just be a little obssetti spaghetti with him? I'm guessing this is the old capsule core. I feel like if, oh, oh, future Mai, that's who they, that Bulma said he was looking for. I feel like if anybody knew who Trunks was, though, that's chasing him, they would know he would try to go to capsule core. Oh wait, is Mai that young girl? Bastard Black energy. Black?  But you have enough juice? There's this. It's just like that movie. What's it called? Oh, it's got shotgun! Like it's just like the three kids from OG. She's with the other two. Like stick together. Aw, this is cute. Where was he keeping the ramen? Oh yeah, that guy. I'd love more information about him. The Omni King.   That's power scaling for you, baby. Okay, see, that's what I was thinking. He's not a fighter, but he's the mightiest. He's just a powerful deity? What? How did he come about? If it ever struck his fancy, he could eliminate everything. That's daunting? Has he ever done that? I mean, instantly destroy him. Yeah, like, what if he just woke up mad one day? What? The fighter used to have 18 universes instead of only 12. He's deleted six! No wonder they're terrified of him. If he destroyed us, how? Oh, that's why he didn't want to host one. I don't think I've ever had a fish cake or a Naruto. Isn't it like what they can be called? Anytime I've had ramen. It was cool seeing people just from Champa's universe. I like this cut back and forth. I'm guessing he's going to show up. They're maybe both of them together are going to show up. Because I think Mai, like the tiny Mai, does have that like star insignia thing. Meat! Are we desperate in these trying times, huh?  You can eat dirt outside. Aw. Oh, is it their cat? True. Bad! Totally! My cat wouldn't. Goddamn, Jill! One bite! Why not take the cat with you? I know I have friends back in that timeline. OK, so this is the same chunks that came back in ZIC. I figured, what has changed now in his timeline? How has this terrible timeline gotten worse? Oh, there's Capsicord. God dang, it looks rough, brother. I was saying, yeah, but like, if whoever black is can, like, knows who Trunks is, they would know that he would come here. Tripwire! Doesn't even seem like it's like a human. It's like some deity. Oh no, wait, this is just a tornado. I'm shocked that Capsicord isn't just flattened either. Quiet the entrance! Mai, he said go! An animation looks really good, actually. Oh no, wait, he actually lost his blade? Mai! Go! Oh, that is not any regular shotgun, never mind. She might be okay. Her limbs are intact. I don't think she lived. Kind of a basic fit. Goku! Earring Goku! Is that black? Goku black. I feel like I've heard Goku black before. Like, just from Dragon Ball fans in general. That sounds familiar. Is this, like, just an evil Goku? I brought this this point up whenever we were, like, introduced to the multiverse thing with, like, Champa's universe and how we, like, met this other Frieza who was very, very similar to Frieza in more ways than just, like, a lookalike and I said, like, are there other Goku's Vegeta's stuff, like, other Krillins? And maybe that's this, but on a different timeline? So it's multiversal, multi-time... Euler? That's my best guess, but why would there just be a Goku here? The Goku that was in this universe already died, right? Well, I didn't expect that for this episode.  Guys, that's been it for episode 47 of our Dragon Ball Super Watch. Do drop us some on the channel if you haven't already. And I'll catch you in the next one. Peace, peace.


For me, Europe starts in Stockholm and the Stockholm region, we need the European Union because we need to equip our citizens with the skills that a future labor market needs. As a local politician, I know that my community needs the European Union and EPP has proven time by time that we have the right solutions to solve those issues that our citizens find problematic. Therefore, I support Manfred Weber.


A very good evening viewers and aspirants welcome to the hindi news analysis brought to you by shankaris academy and today we'll be covering the hindi newspaper dated 7th of april 2022 and i have taken these news articles for discussion today many of them are important from both brilliance and mains perspective from the international relations angle i have taken this editorial article and followed by that we'll be discussing about the presidents of india and Sri Lanka in this next discussion then we'll be seeing about mission vatsalya in the third discussion which is based on this editorial article and then following that we'll be discussing about a tibetan committee to which india provides grants in aid in this discussion and finally we'll be ending the discussion with few facts about common university entrance test and at the end of these news article discussion i have the practice prelims question discussion also followed by which we'll be taking up the quiz question for today so now let's get to the first discussion so this discussion is based on the editorial article which is on india-napal relationship why this article has been written it is because recently only the napali's prime minister visited india and remember this is his first bilateral visit after he became prime minister of napal so in this editorial author has discussed about the outcomes of this visit he also mentions about the growing influence of china in napal and finally he has mentioned certain measures that need to be taken by india to revamp india-napal relationship so let us see all these points in this discussion now why this discussion is important particularly it is important from the mains perspective here you can look at the two questions that appeared in 2014 and 2015 in gs paper 3 and gs paper 2 these were the questions framed by upsc because our current prime minister came to power in 2014 and since then he has been focusing on neighborhood first policy so these questions become relevant in that aspect and also the last napal specific question in mains was asked in 2012 so you can expect that this time there might be a question about napal or indian napal relationship or india and its neighborhood relationship in general so for all these types of questions you can find points in this current discussion so pay attention here so now this is the syllabus and which this discussion can be brought in let us start the discussion now we all know that historically india and napal have had pretty smooth relationships but recently that is to be specific after 2015 indian napal relationship has been going through highs and lows it started when indian media insensitively covered the 2015 napal earthquake say during 2015 napal earthquake india was the largest donor to napal in addition to this operation mai 3 was also a huge success see this operation mai 3 was a rescue and relief operation in napal by the government of india and the indian arms forces after the 2015 earthquake but despite all this the insensitive coverage by indian media tarnished india's good image among napal's public and after this only india was blamed for interfering with napal's constitution then there was also an official blockade of napal by india and in addition to this there was also growing chinese presence in napal so since 2015 indian napal relations have not been very good and particularly the former prime minister of napal exploited this situation so who was the former prime minister of napal mr kp sharma uli he reinforced the notion that there cannot be napal nationalism without anti-indianism that is he said that napal nationalism and anti-indianism are two sides of the same coin so he was turning napalese against indians so all these factors make the current visit of the incumbent napalese prime minister very significant but in this visit the divisive issues between india and napal were not discussed so it attained many positive outcomes let us see these positive outcomes now the most important outcome is the cross border rail link see a 35 kilometer cross border rail link from jayanagar to kurta was operationalized here the jayanagar is in bihar and kurta is in napal and this is the first broad gorge cross border rail link between india and napal in the future this railway line will be extended to two other municipalities in napal there will be bijalpur and bar dibas so bijalpur and bar dibas are in napal now this railway line is aimed at boasting people to people linkages it will also further boost the trade in commerce activities between the two countries and it also holds certain cultural and historical significance because there are total eight stations and halls in this jayanagar kurta section and it also involves the importance of janakpur see this janakpur is believed to be the birth place of sitha so this janakpur has many temples so due to this cross border rail link it is expected that both sides will have tourists as well as pilgrimages who will be using this railroad and due to these potentials the operationalization of this railway line is the most significant outcome of napal pm's visit so this was the first important outcome now the second one is the concessional loan for the construction of double circuit transmission line so this is important because napal is planning to export its excess hydropower to india you all know that water resources are considered as the backbone of napal economy because napal has many perennial rivers and the rugged geography of napal also makes it ideal for hydropower production and that is why it is planning to export its excess hydropower to india and to make this dream come true napal needs huge investments especially in the transmission lines so india provided a concessional loan of 200 crore rupees through its export import bank of india that is eximbank and this loan was used for the construction of a 90 kilometer long 132 kilowatt double circuit transmission line this transmission line connects tilla to mirchaya this tilla is in solukumbu and mirchaya is in siraha here you can see solukumbu and siraha solukumbu is in the northern part of napal where there is huge hydropower potential whereas siraha is in the southern part of napal and it is located in india napal border so this double circuit transmission line is mainly for ensuring the export of napalese hydroelectric power to india now this outcome is to be seen along with the us millennial challenge corporation so this was an agreement signed by the napalese prime minister through this agreement napal will receive a grant of 500 million dollars and this grant will be used for building 318 kilometer of high voltage transmission lines along with the substations this is important for india because once these transmission lines are established then buying hydroelectric power from napal will be cheaper and less polluting for india than building a new thermal power station in india so the second major outcome was constitutional loan for the construction of double circuit transmission line the next outcome is regarding the mahakali treaty say this treaty was signed in 1996 india napal as you know this mahakali is the name of a river which originates in napal this mahakali river forms the border between the two countries for a considerable distance and this is recognized by the treaty along with it the scope of the treaty also covers sardar barrage the tanakpur barrage and the proposed pancheshwar project now the issue was even though this treaty was signed in 1996 the implementation of the treaty is very slow and here the pancheshwar project is important because it is a 7 billion dollars project with the power production capacity of 6700 megawatts so as a result of the recent visit by napal his prime minister both the sites have agreed to push for an early finalization of the detailed project report and if this pancheshwar project is completed it has huge potential in cross-border transmission linkages and coordination between the national grids so these were the three main outcomes along with those agreements were also signed for providing technical cooperation in the railway sector then it was also ensured that napal will be inducted into the international solar alliance then an agreement was also signed between indian oil corporation and napal oil corporation so this will ensure regular supply of petroleum products and these were the important outcomes of napal's prime minister's visit to india now let us see some of the steps taken by the chinese government to increase its influence in napal she as i said in the beginning the former prime minister of napal did not have a great relationship with india rather he increased napal's relationship with china and for that he even visited beijing in 2016 where he negotiated an agreement on transit transportation and three years later a protocol was also concluded between napal and china according to this protocol napal was provided access to four seaports and three land ports of china then in 2017 the chinese defense minister visited napal for the first time after this visit a joint military exercise was conducted between napal and china along with this china also announced a military grant of 32 million dollars for napal and also in the spare of economy china recently overtook india it overtook india as the largest source of fdi in napal and china is also involved in airport expansion projects at pokhara and lumini so all these shows that china is trying to increase its influence on napal and according to the author of the editorial instead of competing with china india must resolve its differences with napal and india should up its own game so in this manner author has pointed out three issues in india-napal relationships and he has told us how these issues can be resolved and the first among these issues is regarding the 1950 treaty of peace and friendship say whenever we talk about india-napal relationship we always talk about 1950 treaty of peace and friendship this treaty provides for an open border between india-napal and this treaty allows napali nationals to have the right to work in india see although this treaty was signed with good intentions today this treaty is viewed as a sign of an unequal relationship and an indian imposition so according to the author this treaty must be revised to reflect the present nature of the relationship between india and napal actually efforts were already taken for updating this treaty in 2016 at that period an eight-member eminent persons group was set up even though this group has submitted its report further steps have not been taken yet so author is of the opinion that there is no progress regarding this treaty so he is suggesting two things first is making this report available to the public and second through this author is suggesting to kick start the track two diplomacy what is track two diplomacy it is also called as back channel diplomacy it is nothing but a practice in which there is informal and unofficial contacts and activities between private citizens or group of individuals so this is in contrast to the track one diplomacy what is track one it is the official governmental diplomacy that occurs inside official government channels and in between these two we also have a track 1.5 diplomacy these involves the conversations that include a mix of government officials and non-governmental experts here the government officials participate in an unofficial capacity and all the officials including the government and non-governmental experts they all sit around the same table and discuss the matter so regarding the 1953 treaty author is suggesting to use the track two diplomacy for renegotiating the treaty this was the first issue and the first solution now the second issue is regarding the demonetization see we discussed this fact on our april 1st in the news analysis you can listen to that analysis to see what is this issue i'm not going to repeat it again and according to the author the solution to this issue is arriving at a mutually satisfactory solution and the last major issue pointed out by author is the boundary issue between napal and india we know the boundary issue is with respect to the kalapani matter we discussed this also on our first april in the news analysis so please view that analysis so that you can link those points with today's discussion now regarding this issue a solution can only be arrived to this problem only if any expression on territorial nationalism is avoided on both sides that is by both india and napal so after avoiding any expression on territorial nationalism both india and napal must lay groundwork for a quiet dialogue on this matter this is the third solution provided by the author so these are the points that we have to take note from the editorial discussion in today's discussion we saw the important outcomes of napali's prime minister's visit to india what were the outcomes first outcome was the cross border rail link from jayanagar in vihar to kurta in napal it will have many benefits like it will boast people to people linkages it will boost trade and commerce it will also increase the influx of tourists and pilgrims and second outcome is the concessional loan for construction of double circuit transmission line this will enable export of hydropower from napal to india and this transmission line was constructed from tilla in sulokumbu to mirshaya in siraha and the third outcome is regarding the mahakali treaty especially some of the components of the treaty which are regarding sarada barrage tanakpur barrage and the proposed panchesha project and both sides have agreed to push for an early finalization of detailed project report on this mahakali treaty then there was an agreement for technical cooperation railway sector then napal's induction into international solar alliance was ensured then an agreement was also signed between indian and napal oil corporations these were the outcomes then we saw about the influence of china in napal in that we saw that napal was provided access to four seaports and three land ports of china and then joint military exercises between napal and china were conducted after 2017 and then china provided military grant of 32 million dollars for napal then china also overtook india as the largest source of fda in napal then we saw that it also has two airport expansion projects at pokhara and lumbini then finally we saw what are the issues between india and napal and how they should be solved and the first issue is regarding the 1950 treaty of peace and friendship according to the author this treaty must be revised to reflect the present nature of relationship between the countries and second suggestion is using track 2 diplomacy to renegotiate the treaty the second issue which we saw was the demonetization issue between india and napal and for this a mutual solution that is satisfactory to the both sides have to be arrived at and the third issue was the boundary issue and regarding this author has told that territorial nationalism should be kept out of detox and then a groundwork for a quiet dialogue should be started in this matter so these were the points in this discussion now let us get to the next one so now let us take up this news article this article is regarding the economic crisis in Sri Lanka we have already seen that Sri Lanka is facing a severe economic crisis right so now the people of Sri Lanka are asking for the resignation of Sri Lankan president goth by Rajapaksha to this demand the chief government whip of Sri Lanka has said that the president has no reason to resign in Sri Lankan parliament so we're not going to discuss the issue here rather we are going to take this opportunity and we are going to compare the features of indian president and Sri Lankan president like we'll be discussing about the term of office the election procedure etc etc so let us start now see first of all we all know that in india the indian president is only the head of the state and the head of the government is the indian prime minister but in case of Sri Lanka the Sri Lankan president is both the head of the state as well as the head of the government so this is the first difference between indian president and Sri Lankan president now next if we come to the election process here also the procedure is quite different first if you take the indian president the president is elected by the electoral college this is as per article 54 of indian constitution now this electoral college consists of elected members of both the houses of parliament and the elected members of legislative assemblies of the states and what is the procedure in which the president is elected in india as per article 55 of indian constitution the indian president is elected by proportional representation by single transferable vote now what about Sri Lankan president see the Sri Lankan president is directly elected by the people by an instant runoff voting system so what is this instant runoff voting system in the system the electors that is the people will rank the candidates who are running for presidential election they will rank them in an order of preference up to three candidates so here the candidate who obtains over 50 percentage of the first preference will win the presidency and then that candidate will be appointed as the president but what if no candidate receives an overall majority of first preference votes then in such a scenario except the two leading candidates all the remaining candidates will be eliminated and their votes will be redistributed among the leading candidates now this will help to determine a winner in the second and the final round now coming to the term of office this is provided in article 56 of indian constitution according to it indian president has a term of five years but Sri Lankan president has a term of six years then can the president be re-elected in india and Sri Lanka yes actually they can be re-elected and this is as per article 57 of indian constitution in case of indian president so in india how many times the president can be re-elected it is for any number of times actually but in case of Sri Lanka there is an upper limit the Sri Lankan president can hold office for only two terms so after two terms sure he cannot be re-elected and finally what will happen if there is casual vacancy of president now in india this is dealt by article 65 and as per this article during casual vacancies of the indian president it is the vice president who discharges the functions and duties of the president so here the vice president is given the charge of the president but in case of Sri Lanka during the casual vacancy the president may appoint the prime minister of Sri Lanka to exercise perform and discharge the powers duties and functions of the office of president so in india vice president is given the charge but in Sri Lanka the prime minister is given that charge so these are some of the comparisons and differences among the indian president and Sri Lankan president see these points will be helpful for you in your problems and particularly in main sansa writing why because our main syllabus also covers the area of comparison of indian constitutional scheme with other constitutions so that is why i took this article today with these points in mind now let us get to the next discussion so now our discussion is going to be based on this editorial article it is actually a criticism on the schemes that are focused on child and woman development particularly here author points out a complication in mission vatsalya and this complication is regarding the implementation of the child line so to understand the article let us see about mission vatsalya first then we'll see the issues in the child line implementation now the syllabus that is relevant to this discussion is given here so that you can understand the relevance of this topic to upc preparation now this mission vatsalya is one of the new triad of schemes along with mission shakti and mission portion 2.0 so what are these mission shakti mission portion 2.0 and vatsalya see these are the schemes under which all major schemes of the ministry of woman and child development were brought under for their effective implementation in financial year 2021-22 that is in the last financial year only all the major schemes of the ministry were brought under these three schemes now among these we are going to focus on mission vatsalya so here vatsalya means affection and this has schemes focused on children and the main aim of mission vatsalya is securing a healthy and happy childhood for every child now it focuses on children because they are one of the supreme national assets and we also know that India has home to 472 million children and they comprise 39 percentage of the total population so keeping this in mind the objectives of the mission has been framed as i already said securing a healthy and happy childhood for every child is the first objective along with it it also aims to foster a sensitive supportive and synchronized ecosystem for development of children that it also aims to assess the states or unit territories in delivering the mandate of juvenile justice act of 2015 and through all these initiatives the mission also strives to achieve the SDG goals that is sustainable development goals particularly those ones which are focused on children so now this mission vatsalya has several components because protecting a child has many components so in that manner its components includes territory bodies then service delivery structures it also has institutional care or institutional services and there are also non-institutional community-based care then there is emergency outreach services then there is also training capacity building under the mission and there are many programs that fulfill all these components we are not going to get into that today but you have to know that the mission vatsalya actually covers an already existing scheme of the government which is the integrated child protection scheme so this integrated child protection scheme or the icps it was launched in 2009 and it was aimed at supporting the children in difficult circumstances and this is a centrally sponsored scheme with the view of building a protective environment for children and this is done through government civil society partnership so in this manner icps institutionalizes essential services and strengthens structures it enhances capacities at all levels it creates a database and knowledge base for child protection services it also strengthens child protection at family and community level and then it ensures appropriate intersectional response at all levels so now you may think this is what we saw under mission vatsalya also yes exactly this icps is now under mission vatsalya so their components and strategies are one and all the same so for example under the icps scheme the institutional care is provided through child care institutions and this is done as a rehabilitative measure and many others programs and services include age appropriate education access to vocational training recreation health care counseling etc so these come under the institutional care or the institutional services now under the non-institutional care support is extended for adoption foster care and sponsorship and as part of this only the child line was also functioning so what is this child line it is the child line 1098 as you know 1098 is a phone number that spells hope for millions of children across india this child line is a helpline so it is a 24 hour service that is provided 365 days a year it is free and it is an emergency phone service for children who are in need of aid and assistance now this helpline responds to the emergency needs of children but along with this it also links those children to relevant services for their long-term care and rehabilitation now the nodal agency of the union ministry of woman and child development that is responsible for setting up managing and monitoring the child line is the child line india foundation that is cif so this is the sole body responsible for establishing child line services across the country it also monitors the service delivery it finances the child line it also trains and does research and documentation it creates awareness etc etc I note that this child line service has received a special mention in the juvenile justice care and protection of children act of 2015 but how does child line functions it functions under a unique model which is a public private model of operation it works in partnership between the government of india department of telecommunications international organizations voluntary agencies academic institutes corporate sector the community etc so this was what happening so but now the icps is under mission vatsalya and that is why the author is saying that its implementation will have many issues particularly the implementation of child line is expected to face many issues now why issues before that you have to know that the child line will be staffed by the home ministry under mission vatsalya and the reason provided for this is they need to preserve data sensitivity see we know that the children who call the child line provides certain sensitive data along with their personal data so stating that we need to protect this data government is bringing child line to be staffed by the home affairs ministry now along with this it is also expected that police personnel will first attend the call or they will answer the call and then later implementation will be handed over to NGOs now here involving police at initial stages of child line is an issue and this issue was previously addressed by the child line that is why a separate setup was maintained by the child line and only in the end when there was a need for police assistance the police were called but now according to the author of the editorial the police personnel will first answer the call but why this is an issue cited by the author it is first because children do not feel comfortable confiding in police personnel that is it is difficult for them to tell the police personnel what has happened to them we know that making a child talk is a big task and for that repeated efforts have to be made so we may not be sure whether the child will talk to the police personnel also due to the fear a child has on a police so here the main objective of the child line is itself defeated because if the child doesn't confide then how will we know what is the issue with the child and how will we provide her assistance now there is also another issue with police assistance at the initial stages it is because it will burden the police force see actually this fact is stated based on an experiment that was conducted in Shanai in 2003 and it was found that making police personnel involved in the initial stages of trial and actually burdens the police force here the police will be overburdened not because they are not willing to assist but because most of the time the child just wants to talk to someone and often in such cases police intervention is not needed so once the child talks to someone the child gets a clarity and if it is essentially a situation where police intervention is needed then it can be called in otherwise it is deemed unnecessary so the issues that will be faced by the child liners police personnel attending the call now keeping this in mind the government should implement the child line scheme because as of the data available on the child line website three million children across the nation were offered care and protection by the child line services so if this service is to continue with the intended benefits then government should look into the issues we just discussed now so with all these facts amending this discussion in this discussion we saw about mission vatsalya we saw what is it then we saw it subsumes the icps that is integrated child protection service and this icps has many components and one among them is emergency outreach services which is provided by the child line 1098 so far it was under the union ministry of feminine child development and its management was with child line india foundation but now under the mission vatsalya it is said that the child line will be staffed by the home ministry officials especially by police personnel who will be answering the first call and we saw why it is an issue it is an issue because the child do not comfortable talking to the police personnel in the first place and second it also burdens the police force so with these facts in mind now let us get to the next discussion so now let us take up this news article it says that union government has extended the scheme to provide grants in aid to Dalai Lama central Tibetan relief committee this scheme provides 40 crore grants in aids to this committee and now it is extended up to fiscal year 2025-26 so in this regard let us see few facts about this central Tibetan relief committee now before that let us see briefly about the Tibet issue see after china occupied Tibet over 80,000 Tibetans were able to safely follow Dalai Lama in exile this happened in 1959 and after that a government was formed for these exiled people and it is called the central Tibetan administration it is also called as the Tibet government in exile now the most important task of Dalai Lama along with this government was to provide relief to thousands of traumatized and dislocated Tibetan refugees so this led to the establishment of the department of home under this government it is one of the first departments to be established and it was given the huge important task of coordinating relief and rehabilitation works for thousands of Tibetan refugees see these Tibetan refugees fled from Tibet to neighboring countries that is to India Nepal and Bhutan then India 1981 the central Tibetan relief committee was formed it was formed because the department of home had huge work to do and to give a legal standing to its activities this committee was formed actually this committee is registered as charitable society under Indian society registration act of 1860 and this committee acts as the relief and development wing of the home department of central Tibetan administration that is the Tibetan government in exile so in this manner this committee which is the Dalai Lama central Tibetan relief committee is a non-profit organization which is dedicated to welfare and socioeconomic development of 140,000 Tibetan refugees who are exiled in India Nepal and Bhutan and it is the reliefing of central Tibetan administration it is dedicated to preserve the cultural and religious heritage of Tibet it also aims to build and maintain sustainable democratic communities in exile now this committee has certain objectives its basic aim and objective is to promote and assist in the upliftment of the poor needy backward underprivileged handicapped and the sick within the Tibetan community in exile along with that it also aims for the promotion of social welfare promotion of rural development promotion of religious and charitable purpose such as the establishment of funds for welfare of military orphans it also aims for the welfare of political sufferers and other main objective is to coordinate to rehabilitate and settle Tibetan refugees here the coordination is established between individual voluntary agencies and the Indian government now note that this committee has great linkages with the Indian government because as I already said it is registered under Indian society registration act only and further for receiving funds the committee is registered under FCRA that is foreign contribution regulation act it was registered in 1985 itself so this helps the committee to receive donation in cash or kind for development purposes and because of this all the reports in the accounts of the funds that is received by the committee are submitted to the home ministry of government of India and further note that it includes members from 53 Tibetan settlements in India Nepal and Bhutan and this committee is also dependent on generous international assistance from governments especially these three countries that is India Nepal and Bhutan and also from philanthropic organizations and individuals so in this manner only government of India is providing assistance in the form of grants in aid to this committee so these are the points that you have to remember regarding Dalai Lama's central Tibetan relief committee now let us get to the next discussion so now let us take up this news article it says that Tamil Nadu chief minister has written to our prime minister to immediately withdraw the common university entrance test and the reason behind this letter is any entrance examination based on NCRT syllabus will not provide an equal opportunity to all students who had studied in various state board syllabus across the country this is a valid point because state board students constitute more than 80 percentage of total student population and they come from marginalized sections so according to the Tamil Nadu chief minister this central university entrance test should be withdrawn in this manner let us see few facts about this entrance test so we all know about national testing agency right it was established by the ministry of education for conducting efficient transparent and international standards and these tests are required to assess the competency of candidates for admissions to premier higher education institutions now this NTA is also assigned the task of conducting central university's common entrance test which is CUCET this CUCET was conducted for undergraduate and integrated courses and also for postgraduate programs it was conducted for 12 participating central universities as you can see here so this CUCET is conducted for admission to different programs of the participating central universities it also provides a single window opportunity to the students to seek admission in the participating institutes or universities now the game changer here is university grants commission has announced the introduction of common university entrance test so just now we saw about CUCET now I'm talking about CUET now the CUCET has been made mandatory for undergraduate admission at any of the 45 central universities in the country so what is the CUCET it is the revamped version of CUCET and as per the announcement CUET will be conducted for the admissions to 45 central universities in India therefore students of class 12 will be eligible to appear for entrance exam and it will be conducted in online mode by the national testing agency now what is the need for having the CUET the need stated by the government is that for the last many years there is a trend of skyrocketing cutoffs at several central universities including the Delhi University for admissions to undergraduate courses and as per the courses this high cutoff is because of CBSC CISC and other different state boards in India because they all have different evaluation patterns so it is unfair for the students who are applying to central universities with a wide diversity in evaluation patterns therefore a single common entrance test was demanded and because of this only this CUT will be conducted for everyone who is applying at these 45 central universities some of the major central universities covered in this are Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Aslamia, Igno that is Indira Gandhi National Open University, then Aligarh Muslim University, Banarasanthi University etc and note that after conducting the exam NTA will prepare a merit list and based on this only central universities will admit these students so with these facts in mind now let us get to the last session of the day which is practice questions discussion session and I have three practice questions for you and one quiz question let us take up the practice question now this is the first question consider the following statements with respect to the impeachment of president of India statement one is impeachment procedure of president is based on parliamentary convention this is incorrect obviously the impeachment procedure of Indian president is as per the Indian constitution it is mentioned in article 61 of the constitution so since we know that statement one is incorrect we can eliminate option a and option c because here the question asks for the correct statements now let us see the remaining statements statement two only elected members of both houses of parliament participate in the impeachment procedure now this statement is also incorrect see during discussion we saw that during the election of president there is an electoral college and this electoral college has elected members of both the houses of parliament and the elected members of legislative assemblies of states but in case of impeachment of president only the elected members and nominated members of parliament participate but the elected members of legislative assemblies of the states does not participate in presidential impeachment so here the statement states only elected members so this statement is incorrect because the nominated members of parliament also participate in the impeachment procedure the moment you know this statement is also incorrect we arrive at the correct answer which is option d none of the above so that means statement three is also incorrect let us see what it states it mentions during impeachment proceeding a resolution has to be passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds members present in voting now at the face of it this statement might look correct but pay attention here it should be not less than two-thirds members of the total membership of the house see generally in upc here the two-thirds would be mentioned as one-third but for a change the question could be asked like this also here the two-thirds members of the total membership of the house is the correct one so the correct answer is option d now let us take up the next question consider the following statements with reference to the common university entrance test first statement c u e t will be conducted by national testing agency this statement is correct we saw it during discussion itself second statement it is mandatory for admission at any university in the country now this statement is incorrect as of now this may become true in the future see as of now ugc has announced the c u e t as mandatory for undergraduate admissions at any of 45 central universities in the country not all of the universities so this makes statement two as incorrect and here the question also asks for the correct statements so the correct answer is option a one only now let us take up this next question on mission vatsalya first statement is the mission is implemented under the ministry of home and child development this statement is correct see there are three umbrella schemes of ministry of woman and child development as of now they are mission portion 2.0 mission shakti and mission vatsalya let us take up the second statement its objective is to ensure safety and security of women and strive for the empowerment of women see among the three umbrella schemes of the ministry mission shakti is for women and mission vatsalya is for children so from this itself you can identify that statement 2 is incorrect mission vatsalya is to secure a healthy and happy childhood for every child in India and the objective which i have given here it is the objective of mission shakti so here statement 2 is incorrect and look at the question here it asks for the incorrect statements so be careful while marking the right answer the right answer is option b 2 only so with these three questions now let us take up the quiz question for the day it is based on the central tibetan relief committee discussion of today try to answer this question in the comment section and if you are unable to answer go back to the discussion again and then try to attend this question so these were the prelims questions now let us take up the practice question in mains this is a question in gs paper 2 you have to answer this question in 150 words interested aspirants can write answer to this question and post it in the comment section and whenever we get time will review your answer so finally we have come to the end of hindi news analysis for 7th of april if you like this video don't forget to like comment and share and also subscribe to shankar eyes academy youtube channel for receiving regular updates thank you


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So at the end of the day from fishermen to fishermen, we're helping each other out and we're doing it legally. And the other topic that I wanted to talk about, a lot of you guys asked Noah, how do you get permission to some of the places that you fish? Now let's talk about this for a second. So if you go pull up to a pond and there's a sign that says fishing for residents only, you cannot fish there unless you live there. But if you have your buddy Joe that lives there and he wants to come out and fish with you and he has obvious permission to fish there, then that is completely fine. If you see a farm pond on the side of the highway and it's clear as day that that is not your property, somebody clearly owns that property. Don't just go walk up and start fishing that.  He could even think that you're trying to break in his house. You know, he could think that you're trying to break in his shed that's right next to the pond and steal some of his stuff. And some bad things could happen.  If you do want to fish some areas like that, make sure you know the homeowner, the property owner, and you do ask them politely if you could fish there. And if they do tell you no, you have to understand that guys and be respectable because at the end of the day, I totally get it.  I would be mad as well and you do need permission to fish those areas. You know, I'm from Atlanta, like Lake Lanier. About an hour away, you got Hartwool, you got Sinclair O'Coney, all within a couple of hours of each other. Those are all public fishing areas. So you're allowed to go fish there. Like I said, you just need to have your fishing license. That's very important. So those are the few topics I really wanted to talk about guys. At the end of the day, listen, it's a privilege to be able to fish and we're all so blessed to be able to go outside and pretty much get on the water and just go fishing, enjoy life, have a good time. But you do have to follow the rules to be able to do that. We're very blessed too. So we're gonna go ahead and hop back into this intro. Listen, man, this is crazy. And we also catch some really big fish in this video. Hope you guys enjoy it. Hit that like button. Let's hop right into it. Now. Oh, God. Are you okay? Yeah, this is my face, bro. Let me see. You better film it. Let me see. Ow. God, dude.  Take a picture.  I'm sorry, Fletch. I gotta put it on video. That's not good, bro. All right. I'm not too happy about this. We gotta do some surgery. I know you're not happy. I know you don't want the camera, but you wanna film it. You have anything to say. All right. Larry. I'm so sorry. Ow. Dude, that's a good picture. No, that's a good picture for you. I feel so bad. It's okay. We're gonna handle it. All right. Do you want to... First of all, here. Let me get the scissors. I don't know how much he trusts me. I'm not holding this. You wanna film this? It's my face. We're gonna get it. You don't want me to take it out? No. Are you sure? Yeah. It's been a crazy morning, guys. We left his house and the moment we left his house, my camera just flies out of the whole golf cart, just gets destroyed on the ground. And then, literally before we can even fish, that happens. That's nice.  By the way, this is Larry. First time on my channel, a great introduction. Thank you. Hey, I wanna hook people in the face. The hook setter over here. Then we got Fletch, and we got Mike over here. And we got my boy, Adub, over here. I hook fish in the face. That's what I do. Anyways, what we're doing, I don't know if I announced the giveaway winner, so if I didn't, I'll do it now. If you wanted to give away DM me on my personal Instagram, at Noa Pescatelli, and I will get some Mock Smash reel out to you. So we're gonna hop into today's video. I'm actually gonna be fishing by myself.  I'm going through the pond. Larry's like, look at that. I don't know where we're going. I just know I need to go and get this professional. Do you know, have you been to like a hospital around here? Not around here, dude. A loaf on one foot is the closest one. Oh man, this has been an interesting one. But guys, I'm gonna be fishing by myself. We're gonna catch an awesome bag of fish today. I'm excited about it. Where our goal is a 20 pound bag of fish. So we're gonna go ahead and hop into it. I hope you guys enjoy this video. Hit the like button if you guys want to see some more collabs of the boys and let's hop right into it. Well, so Fletcher and Larry just left to go to the hospital. Got my boy, A-Dub, right here. You got Mike. What do you guys think about that whole scenario, man? I've never seen some stuff like that, man. The thing is, it was a frog hook. So it was like thicker.  We were joking that there's gonna be a hole. He's gonna try to drink water. He's gonna be like, he's gonna be right now. It's crazy. I was on my phone. Dude, I don't even know what's happening right now. All I know is I'm about to go catch a big bass. That's what I know. It's gonna be a good day, man. It's gonna be real good. Let's go ahead and hop into it. They're gonna be in that boat. I'm gonna be in this boat. We're gonna go out to this flat to start off with. I wanna start off with a crankbait. I gotta rig up my poles real quick. So I think we'll do that. And I actually stole one of Fletcher's rods. Not really. He left it here. And another thing is my camera. I actually dropped it out of the golf cart as we were driving here. And look at this, man. I almost messed up my camera, but I messed it up a couple of weeks ago. That's just unfortunate. It's been an interesting morning so far. So let's go ahead and tie up our baits. I think I'm only doing it on the dock just so I'm not floating out there. It is pretty windy today. If you guys are wondering about the conditions, good bit of wind, overcast. The pressure has skyrocketed from the last couple of days to today. But then again, we have seen a few fish come up and eat some baitfish. So it could be really good. I think we're in a bust of 20 pound bag today. We're gonna try our best crankbait bite, big jig bite, chatterbait bite. And we're gonna make it happen. So let's get started. So this is Fletcher's combo. He has a big jig on it. I'll probably throw it just cause he left it. And then on my mock smash over here, you guys know this is like one of my favorite little crankbait rods. Not for big crankbaits, but for smaller ones. And the one that I'm throwing is between four and eight foot. So I think it'd be good. I have like a little brim hook and a split shot on right now.  I've been like, live bait fishing with all my combos. So they're all messed up. Look at this. This crankbait right here, and this is in lavender citrus, four to eight foot. This one is going to be some juice. So I think we're gonna get on a good crankbait. As long as we cover water and, you know, keep throwing it. I think we're gonna catch some good ones. So on the second rod, I'm gonna rig up a chatterbait. This is just a basic white chatterdonk. It's got a little bit of sparkles in it. It's not the regular white. We got a regular fluke trailer on it. Sorry about my phone, man. This happens all the time. So this is what I got guys. Crankbait chatterbait. I got Fletcher's big jig over there, and then I have a frog on. I don't even know if they're gonna eat top water today, but I did bring my frog out just in case. I'm fishing by myself. I love fishing by myself guys. I don't get to do it much. So I'm actually excited about it. I feel like I fish a lot better when I'm by myself and really figure out the fish good. So we are going to launch this boat and get after it. I'm ready. We're gonna go have some fun after everything's been going down. Here we go boys. I'm excited to do some fishing today. Hey dude. That was very close. We don't need none of that. All right, you wanna go to that flat? Just follow me, chief. All right, so we're gonna head to our first little spot that I'm thinking. There's a big flat.  It could be really good. While we're at it, we might as well do it. I don't know if I showed this footage, but I actually caught one. Trolling last time is almost a five pounder. It's kind of crazy doing this with a crankbait. All right, so we just made it to this flat that we're gonna be fishing.  We'll give it a fish bite. Yeah, but I'm telling you right here, bro. I mean, you don't have to fish it, but. See, that's what I was thinking. Oh gosh. Yeah, that's a big one. Instantly, yeah, you guys need to fish here, bro. He feels big. Could be just I'll have him hook. Oh, they're schooling right there. Throw in there. I fired them up that quick. Look at them schooling. Yeah, that's not big. This is the way I had them hooked. Look at that. Boy's first fish instantly. Those fish are schooling. We're gonna try to get back in there, but that is our first fish today. Little one pounder. What's up? How you guys doing? It's an awesome day outside, man. It's beautiful. Thank you, man. I really appreciate that. What's your name, man? What's your guys' names? Gavin and Teddy? Big shout out to Gavin and Teddy, man. Supporters of the channel. You guys will be in the video, man. If they can see you. There he is. Oh gosh. That might be a big one. I was just schooling. I don't know if he's big or not. It feels good. It's hard to tell him this crankbait. He's running at me. I don't think he's big at all. Oh, he's bigger than the last one. Oh, he came off right there, about a pound and a half. All right, quicker at least. I don't mind. See if there's another one right here. Those fish come up, you know, they hang in packs. When you get out in these cloudy conditions, guys, especially when the winds pushing like this, especially since we're falling into this fall bite and that fall bite, what these fish do is that they're feeding on baitfish. Oh, there he is. There he is. Oh gosh, dude. That's a good one. Really good one. Oh my God, I'm gonna get this fish in the boat. He's barely hooked, dude. Probably, he might be four. Nice three. I'm trying to get him hooked a little better. Yeah, that's a three pounder. That's a good one right there. Oh God, dude, what? That actually terrified me.  Look at that guys, they are munching that. It's probably a three to three and a half pounder right there. It's good, we've got three fish today, two of them were small and now we're upgrading. Like I said, I want to catch that 20 pound bag today, so hoping this one to be our smallest today out of our best five. That was a good little three pounder right there. Thick and chunky, man. He is feeding up. That was a good fish. Let's go. That was awesome. He actually bit it like a little brim. It was weird, it was like tick, tick, tick. I never, I rarely get bites like that on a crankbait, but let's go boys. That was our first good one today. Crankbait. Mind it, you mind it?  You might need to tie that curve that you have in the same color. Oh, Mike. Oh, Mike. Oh, that might be him. Dude, that's like a, that's a big one, Mike. Eight of. That's a good fish, bro. Good job. That's awesome. There he is. That's a big one. That's a big one. Has to be, has to be. Come on. That feels bigger than any fish I've hooked today. Oh, oh, oh.  Yes, this is a good one. He is a good fish. Crankbait is getting it done today, boys. Sorry about that wind. It is brutal today. It is so bad. Saw some baitfish flickering out here. I wouldn't say that's a three and a half, but that's a three pounder all day. I need to get us before we blow in this tree. Good fish right there, man. Let's go. Who was? Oh my gosh. Look at that, man. They're loaded here. Get them on this crankbait. We got a five-bass limit now. They're short-striking it. I'm gonna try to get any pockets today. I've been fishing offshore all day. Should be one back there. Oh, that's a giant. I mean, guys, this is a huge one. Might be my PB out here. He's running at me. Huge, guys. Oh, dude. Oh, dude. It's a giant. I mean giant. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, it's freaking choked it. That's a five pounder all day. I thought he was bigger. Oh, he might be bigger in five.  Look how he ate that. That is a five-pound bass, boys. Oh, yeah. I would love to get a picture of this, but I'm by myself. Is there a scale in this boat? I think it's in Adams, and they just went the other direction. I just had a good feeling about this spot. Oh, yes. That is a five-pounder, baby. Just look at that mammoth.   Let's go. I said I wanted to catch a 20-pound bag today. That's the ones we need. Oh, man. That's it. It's three good fish. We need two more good ones. He swims off right there. Wow. I thought I lost that. I literally thought I lost that fish. He was all the way in this back corner. On this thundercricket, I usually always throw the regular chatterdunk, but this thing just looks nasty, honestly. It's like really big. Haven't really got to throw it much. That was a freaking big one, man. First fish on this thing. Wow. It's actually tougher than I've ever seen it. Really? You remember that time? Oh, yeah, I got one right now, but. Oh, nice. On the chatterdunk, you want to say hey to the fan? They can hear you. Oh, what's going on, guys? Fletcher's getting back from the doctor with layers right now. No, we're not even talking about it, we're done. After today, no more talking about it. That fish choked that chatterbeet. Oh my gosh, bam. The hook is out of my face. Thank God. Yeah, that was a catastrophe, man. All right, guys. Well, just caught one while I was on the phone with Fletcher. Nothing big. My phone's slipping, so I'm going to try to get him back in the water. He's only about a pound and a half. He could be two pounds. He's got a two pound head, but one pound body. A little pound and a half. We're on the chatterdunk again. It's going to keep on going. I've been fishing shallow for a good second now. You know, skipping this chatterbeet under the trees and I haven't had any bites, but the one thing I noticed on this bank versus the other ones, you know, where you're down in that canal, this wind wasn't really peeking through too much and now the wind's coming up. And as you guys can tell, you really need to pay attention to how the wind is positioned and this wind is hammering right in this bank right here. And that's exactly where I caught that fish. You know, those fish are going to be sitting there waiting to ambush baitfish. And it's important to pay attention to where the wind's going. The wind can really help the bite. The pressure is super high today. And I think that wind has helped me tremendously. I'm really paying attention to that wind. So we're going to work our way back here and I want to hit a spot or two more on that crank bait. And then we're probably going to start heading back the way that we came, but hopefully we'll hook a few more big fish. I really want two more good ones. What's up brother, how you doing? What's that? Oh man, it's been really windy. It's actually helped out the bite a lot though. Really? Yeah man. Look at that right there. Oh gosh, got him right there. There's more right there schooling. This one ain't as big as that one I just saw. There's baitfish popping right there.  There we go guys. What's your name man? Scooter. Scooter? Big shout out to the Scooter man. We just, we having a good conversation over here. Just talking some fishing. Yeah, they started schooling right there on that bridge. I want to go do it bad. I've been on this catfish phase man. His dad caught two huge ones there. Right there, another cast. They're under this bridge. Right there on the chatter bait guys. Small, that's about a pound and a half. Those next cast, they're chewing these baitfish and they're pushing them up on these little tiny pillars. It's a pretty bass right there. Nothing big, but they're fun to catch.  Let's get back in there, I bet there's some more. There's some fish right here. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Oh no. That was a good one. I might have been, that one might have been three, four pounds. Ah, he's been running perfect. Oh, are you kidding me? All right. Dude, that's a good one, I think. There we go. On the jig, first slow bite today. It's not a bad one. It's all a two and a half. Got a huge head on him. Nice. I had him good, he was running. That's why I had to freaking crank my reel like that. Ain't nothing big, but that's a good little fish right there. Beautiful one. Man, this has been an awesome day, guys. Been a great day. Awesome day outside, man, it's beautiful. Yeah, actually, I just caught two. They were small though. Thank you, man, I really appreciate that. What's up? What's your name, man? What's your guys' names? Gavin and Teddy? Big shout out to Gavin and Teddy, man. Supporters of the channel. You guys are being the video, man, if they can see you. You know, thank you guys for the support, man. That means a lot. You guys have a good one. All right. Big shout out to Gavin and Teddy. Thank you guys all for the support. Everybody watching, man. I wish I could meet all you guys. Unfortunately, I don't know if I could meet every single person, but, man, you guys rock, man. I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today if it wasn't for you all. Get a pair of stop recording.


Good morning everyone, Merry Christmas Felicia Navidad and Mele Kalikimaka and all that stuff Hope everyone's having a great day so far and I know it's early but by the time you see this I won't so hope you had a great day I'm gonna put some charcoal in this grill. I want to let it get burned down to some coals I've got a piece of wood on there. I got another piece of wood If I need it for later, it's going to take about three to three and a half hours I'm just going to smoke this ham. You know hams, it's not that hard to do They're pre-cooked so I mean just got to get an internal temperature of 130 to 135 ish You don't want to dry out though So let's go ahead and let's put some charcoal in this grill. Let's get it fired up Okay guys, one of the things about filming outside, we got dogs barking Sounds like we got vacuum cleaner running over there somewhere So anyway, sorry about that. Let's get this in here We'll use about half this bag to start with. Get it all heated up nice Then we'll spread the coals out. We'll get the ham on Then I don't think I'm going to glaze the ham this time because of sugar reasons You know in the family so I'm just going to put the ham in here I'm going to smoke it. Here we go This stuff lights so easy guys I'll show you what I'm using here in a minute if you didn't see it I'm using this stuff here. It's cheap and lights right up Okay, so let's go get the ham ready Okay guys, I've got an assistant over here Raise this up Merry Christmas mama Merry Christmas everyone Sit this down there So I can just slide this over That sucker's heavy Yup, it's heavy That's going to be okay Almost 14 pounds, 13.88 So I want to make sure we have plenty All right, we'll see you in about an hour An hour and a half There's monkey, let's get monkey over here for you Look at her all pretty Aw, thanks Yeah Merry Christmas mama Yeah Say that No Say it for the, it's Christmas Say it again Merry Christmas Merry Christmas So is she just a Merry Christmas to all our Hawaiian friends Yup Okay guys, we're sitting on about 3.45 ish I did come out and I turned it over once Added some more charcoal Ooh, look at that We got some juices starting here Closer back up Let it go for another hour It's been about an hour and It's been about an hour and 25 minutes This is going to take about 3.5 hours You want to go about 15 minutes per pound A lot of people will tell you 20 minutes That doesn't really matter as long As the internal temperature of that ham Is around 130, 135 Because remember, this is a pre-cooked ham So really all you're doing is heating it up But I wanted to get that smoky flavor Take one more gander at it There we go Yes And my next video You'll get to see all my stuff I got for Christmas Monkey and her mom always know what to get And it's amazing So anyway, there we go I got to go and make some noodles I already have a video of that So I'm not going to show that So monkey's going to help me with the noodles So we'll come back out a little bit And check on this See every time you raise that You got to be careful it's going to drop down But it'll slowly come back up Okay guys, it's been about 2 hours 45 minutes Ooh, it's looking nice I did scrape some of the coals up under there You can see it's starting to split So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make some mustard sauce And put over this And I'll let it cook About another 45 minutes And then I'll take it in and let it rest You can see the juices They aren't split open Good It's getting there guys Okay guys, so I think it's worth mentioning You can do this with a spiral ham But remember That spiral that's already cut So if you do a spiral You have to kind of babysit it Because if you don't There's nothing to hold the juices in Juices are going to come out And they're just going to lay in the pan And it's going to dry out on you So you got to be out here Every 10 to 15 minutes No more Based on that ham, okay So that way if you You know If you want a spiral Yes, you can smoke it You just got to babysit it Because like I said All the juices come out Well you got to keep them juices in So you have to put them back in Now the ham we used was not spiral cut So you know it still had It's run or it's skin on it To hold the juices in Also I used a 12 pound bag Of Hell you guys can't see anything I used a 12 pound bag of charcoal What I did was I used about half When we started And about halfway through About an hour and a half I put the I scooted the coals over underneath The ham And then I put the other half in Let it If you do it that way Just make sure your ham Don't get too hot by them flames Because what I would normally do Which I don't have is What I call a chimney We call them chimneys in Ohio You can put your Your charcoal in And you light it And it gets hot And it's ready Then all you got to do is dump it in But if you're careful You can do it the way I did it But I used Like I said Approximately six pounds to start And then once them start burning down You slide them under the ham And then you put your other About six pounds beside it Depending on the size of your ham too But you know like I said That's pretty big ham It's almost Might as well say 14 pounds So I just thought that was worth mentioning So keep that in mind If you're going to smoke a spiral ham There it is I'm going to take it off of here And I'm going to take it in And once my stuffing gets done I'll put this into the oven Just to reheat it a little bit But it does It is 128 degrees inside now So that's pretty much done And uh Yeah I'll show you one more When we're cutting into it But I'm going to Like I said I'll leave it out here for a little longer Then once my stuffing's done Then I'll put that back in the oven Just to make sure It's going to heat up a little bit more I might not have to So I think it should be alright though But I'll show you When we cut into it Besides I want to get the pan drippings out of here And make some gravy Okay guys So I started cutting Almost forgot to turn you on But this is the ham That we smoked Look at that Oh Isn't that nice Yes Get around that bone there This is a bone in ham too So It looks juicy And pink and good All right Monkey, we need to throw a piece of this Mm-hmm This one for you Is it hot? Mm-hmm It's really hot How is it? It's hot How is it? Very good It's hot, yeah I know It's really good Oh Can you taste the smoke? Mm-hmm Yeah Oh yeah Isn't that good? Mm-hmm Did a great job Thank you Okay guys so There you go Merry Christmas everyone And that's how you smoke the ham So real easy Put it in Check it every hour or so Based it in between times Good to go All right Merry Christmas everybody Merry Christmas everyone Bye guys Merry Christmas Shay Bird, Mr. Man of Legend Gone for now, Monk Make sure she's out for now you guys Bye Bye