Derby videos do pretty good. Derby videos? Yeah, all mine have been pretty good. I hear Derby videos do pretty good, John tells me. And that's exactly what you're going to... That's exactly what you're going to get today. Welcome back to the channel, y'all. That's right, me and JB, himself, right here, Derb. It's been a minute. I'm glad to be back in the presence of Rackley. We just said, hey, if we're going to fish together, we might as well, you know, just fish a Derb. I guess that's what we're doing, going all in, man. Actually, Fun & Son is putting on a termin out here today. A little charity Derb, and we are on a place formally known. He told me it was formally known as Squaw Creek. I just think might be considered a derogatory term now. So what is it? It's now Comanche. Comanche.  Which, dude, I vibe. I vibe with the Comanche. Right here in central Texas, where they used to dominate the plains, the prairies, the creek bottoms, making their bowdark sticks, riding on horseback. Just dominating the plains from Mexico all the way up to the Dakotas. But we're not here to talk about Indians today. We're here to catch some largemouth bass, at least 14 inches, and hopefully have a sack to weigh in for you guys. What are your predictions? What do you think will be at, come way in time? I'm hoping to sit around eight or nine pounds. Cool. Setting the expectations real freaking low. There are a lot of small fishing here, but there have been some decent ones caught out of here. We're in wintertime, but it's a power plant. So fish could be anywhere from pre-spawn to spawn. We don't know. It's kind of a mystery. You've fished out of here before. What are you thinking? So I fished here, I think maybe two times. Both times have been incredible. It's one of those places where you're going to catch arguably triple digits, potentially. You're going to catch a lot of fish. Yeah, you're going to catch maybe like 50 fish. But like Rack, they mentioned they're all going to be tiny. The last time I was out here, they were eating fun stuff. Buzz baits, big 2.5 inch, googing cranks. I mean, it's a lot of boats, a lot of competition on tiny body water, but I have high hopes. I think we'll get 18 pounds. I think we'll get 18 pounds. I think it's probably going to take like 25 to 20. I mean, mid-20s, high-20s. But it's not one of those places where it's like fork. You're not going to fish it for like eight or nine powder. It's a weird time of the year, and it's a hot water discharge.  But that's why we're here. Finger or ma'am. Buddy. Hell yeah. Glad to be fishing with you either way. Absolutely. It's been a hot minute. John has been on a tear. By the way, go check out his adventurous videos. Recently, you just got a camper. You got a camper video coming up. You inspired me. I had to get one. We got to do it together one day. Yes. We need to get salty, start farting in some clothespaces, drink some brown water, eat some broths. Some good stuff happens. Maybe catch bass. I don't know. It's just good times. So you guys are in for a little treat today, the duo.  We're actually, you're leading the charge here on a little southern border trip. Yes, which we're doing on the border challenge. It's something we have yet to... We've always talked about it, but... I know. I haven't done it. It's insane that we haven't pulled the trigger on a lot of the ideas that we have. We've got good ideas.  Sorry. I just blew you out. No, it's fine. All right. So you guys stay tuned for that. GuggenSquad.com, if you want to pick up any wintertime fishing gear, we just drop the spoons and the shad wagons. And the a-rigs, yeah. Yep. So those are available now. It's time. It's time to get those. You can use my promo code, LFGSafe10. I think John has one, too, floating around out there. Yeah, I think it's somewhere. I don't know. I gotta go find it. Anyway, you can save an extra 10 at checkout. Plus get some of the fresh hoodies. Stay as looking fresh out there. Stay stiff in Mondos. We got to get to business, tie some stuff on. There are, I think, 128 boats out here. So it's going to be an interesting launch. Thanks for funding us on putting this derby on. Poker tournament was last night also, which I am... You won big. Here's part of the deal. It's poker plus fishing. Your combined score is a win. Unfortunately, John, I was the first person out of the poker tournament out of 128 people. I was the first one out. Went a little aggressive. So we're not starting out on the great foot. That means we got to catch about 28 pounds to win this thing. Yep. Let's get after it. Oh, plus Zaldane's here. This is floating around here somewhere. We'll probably see him out here somewhere anyway. I ran into him last night. Smell the coffee if there's a black rifle coffee set in the air. Let's crank up the national anthem and let's get this derp started. I don't know. I think we're close to tie for Titus fitting life vets today. Yeah, that is. I'm not sick, you know. Yeah, I think we got here and I was like, I hope I have a life jacket in my boat. Yeah, that's a life jacket. Yeah, we had to. Straight from the Titanic, honestly. You put a side bet, you guys. What's that? $100 side bet. I'm down. Yes, sir. It's time to party. He's time to party. Time to party. Look at John. Looks like he's safe. He's ready to go. He's not sinking today. Oh, dude. I got a boy Zaldane over there. And I've known him for a long time. Matt Pangrax, his partner. Got a little side bet going on with him today. $2,000. $200. Oh, no, $100. No. I think it was 20 packs as in or $100, whichever one comes first. What do you say? Boat number what? 8. We're at. Boat number 12. Thank you, 13. Wave at me, guys. 13. Boat number 14. Thank you. We're real close. We're docking at the next 10 boats because you're holding yourself up, guys. 13, 14. Thank you. 13. 13. 13. What time's the way in? 1.30? 1.30. 1.30. Look at the fast master. Music playing. Don't forget about your camera, too. Oh, yeah. Man, we're legal. Ready to go. Let's kick it off. Not going to hammer down full strength there. Derp time. This is the life. Oh. Is this our first derby together? Yeah. I think so. First official here. Wow, dude. We competed against each other. We're not much of a competition, though. Drop that power pole for a second, and then we're going to commence dangling. Oh, I see a good one on the scope. A pie. Jerky. Jerkable. Get them fired up with the aquatic sounder. Oh, my gosh. Look at this tree.  Shad balls. You're going to like this out here, John. You're going to like what's happening. This is the longest pee in my life. Water is 73 thus far. That's pretty warm. OK, guys. So John is throwing a large wake bait to start. He's just said, you know what? I'm here. I've got a small life jacket, and I've got a big lure. I'm starting out with a scout. Just doing a little hunting. Me and John are not really dialed into anything. We just really needed to pee. This looked like an open spot to urinate. I was like, yeah, do anything. You know you probably haven't, but you don't know where it is. That's where we're at. I'm just thinking of blazing our arms to see what they're doing. Oh, God, something big just swirled up in there. To the left. Oh, there's one. There, boys. Here we got a boy. Yeah. That's a keeper. Blazing more of a strikes. Oh, John's got the... We're going to get dialed here. Never mind. It's not working. No, I don't think this is going to get us to 28 pounds. No, but it's not a system. 2-5. 2-5. I'll do the calling. Yeah, buddy. That's two bites. Got them on the blazer. Yes, sir. That is me and John's first boated bath and a derp together. Yeah, he was out a little bit. The other one was too. Just kind of picked it up where it started dropping. A little subtle guy. A little blazing worm, guys. You know what it'd be doing. You know what it'd do.  That's the Gregmatics of scoping these things. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that's like, hello. Here I am. I don't know. You were there. You moved one. We're on that freaking edge again. All right, fishing freaks. We got one keeper. We actually had a few bites on that bank, but only came up with one solid little keeper though. You know, probably need four of those and then like a 12 pounder and we'll be fine. 12 pounder sounds about right. I've never caught one before, but we are together and magic tends to happen. You've caught a 12. You've caught a 14. 14, yeah. You can't say that without smiling. A 12 pounder caught a 12 pounder.  I've caught a 14 though. All right, we're going to try another hole, guys. Fisher kind of everywhere. Some are suspended. Some are on the bottom. I liked what we were fishing there. It was kind of a transition area. That would be good for pre-spawn, going from deep channel with points, starting to flatten out. And there's a group of fish on it. Let's see if we can find some similar stuff. Yeah. That's what eateries kind of found there. I was kind of watching your fish, but then I saw a group in the tree that I was coming through and I just kind of worked it through there. Just kind of general area and then felt a good doinked. Seeing that from five feet away. It's another truck and drum. Spending 20 feet of water. It's my third non-bass species on this tree. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? Go wherever you... I wasn't... Yeah, I wasn't in. Get it. Log into the matrix. So I got a sign in real quick. All right, JB. What do we got right now? What are we rocking?  We got some bass finally. Starting to find something. I'm getting bit. You're getting bit. We got two in the box. That's not bad. It's not great though. I had a couple of biggies on the scope. Yeah, missed a couple big bites, no doubt. I'm in a tree. That's the way she goes. All right, so what we got going on here, guys, is there are some little bassoids hanging around the trees. There's some shad. Got one on the slurping spoon. I actually had one good one come off on the slurping spoon, and John has had a couple on the swim jig. Yeah, I just forget to set the hook. That's my only issue. It's my only pitfall. Oh, he's got it. Yeah, that is a big one. I saw her turn. She's almost shad, dude. Should I get the net? Should I go ahead and get the net? They're not eating it well. That one I had earlier freaking choked it. I had one that absolutely swalled, but I don't know how you didn't get hooked. Nets out. No more fish would be caught. Yeah, literally. All right, made a little move. Did some scope, and we're going to try to worm a couple bad boys up here. Shake your head into blazing to see if we can kind of fill out. Fill out the rest of the box on. John B is on. Keeper-ish. My guy. My guy. I could not, but it would be a great time for it. Mid-day update, folks. There are thousands of fish in this lake, and we have two little decents. We got a couple hours of fish. It's coming in hot, y'all. 130 weigh-in. We got to get something going here. I'm itching. I'm itching for another bite, but it's a lot of boats moving around. People just... I don't think anybody's doing great. Somebody's got 25 pounds, but... It ain't us. Yeah, it ain't us. I think the majority of guys are... I haven't seen another fish boated. Usually, I think on this lake, you would see a lot of fish boated. It seems like now that the sun's coming out, they're kind of locking on in the trees a little bit more. I'm just hoping for, like, just a rando. A rogue four or five would be mint. One up for a sec. High seas of squaw. I'm gonna have to throw this jerky real quick. All the two of them. There's none of them with it. It's too thick. It's crazy. I was like, what is going on? Yeah, the other one looked a little bigger. I'm gonna do it. No. I'm not gonna do it. Back from the point. I don't think it was the deal this morning. It made me with the wind. Oh, God, that's a good one. Net me up. Net you up? Yeah. Smashed it.   Oh, man. I thought that was gonna be three pounder. Be a caper. Doesn't feel like a bass. Be a caper. Need the net? Sure. No, don't need the net. Drum me up. Sat tilapia. It's tilapia. It's nice. Wow. Nice one, John. Salt to the moon, brother. Dude, if we were fishing a drum and tilapia term today. Yeah, let's hurt. It's a bass, dude. It's sizable. Fight him out. This could be a wayable. Perfectly calm spot. It was looking right at me. There's no shaking. No shaking. Of course he did. Yeah, this one has literally every hook possible. This one feels good. It's gotta be a drum. It's either a drum or a big one. It's a drum, baby. And then a good 20 pound sack of these today. Good drum. Good keep. Good keep, bro. Good keep. Keeps it down. Play him down. No, he ain't gonna make it. He's a short, squatty one. Baddest bass I've caught all day and he's short. It'll be tight. Smallest pliers ever right there. Come on, baby. Squeak out. Squeak out one time. Hey, what do you got on this? What do you got on this? Hey, is that touching? I think he's legal.  Get some. Did he come off? Dude, this is the second back of a pocket that they've been in. Oh, there we go, Johnny. Boy, that's a good one, bro. Get in that net, guys. Dude, we might squeak out a last minute. We might squeak out, man. Despite all the failures, that's a good one. That's my boy. That's my boy coming in clutch. Here we are, guys. The last GoPro battering, the last 15 minutes of the derp trying to finish out a limit. Just had a fish a minute ago that was a keeper. Would have finished it off. That would have given us five, but I lost it at the boat.  I have no idea why. We were at the other wits end. The last few fish, they've come in the back pocket. We could get a limit. That's the goal right now. Try to get a limit. John just caught a nice one. I'll feel accomplished if we get a limit. Fish number five, baby. Me and John B, we're not getting skunked out here. Yeah, buddy. Five fish with like 12 minutes to go. Let's see if we can call one real quick. Final fish came on the old scout. One of my favorite colors that is the perch. I don't know why they like it, but they tend to get on it a little bit. What? It's all right, buddy. We'll get another one. We got a limit. Last minute, cold one time. And I just caught another drum. We got five minutes left. We're going to take it to the ramp. We ain't going to do well this dirt, but I'm anxious to see what Zaldane and Pangrack have. Let's see if we can get our little side bet. Key today. Last minute, limit. Never give up, baby. Never give up. One time for Ike and Ellie. Never give up. Never give up. 13. 13 with 30 seconds left. John Beazy. That's it. Strong finish, my guy. All five of us strong finish. Let's go see what we got. All right, going to the bump board. 13. John and Justin. One of our valiant finish. We could have two fish right now. It's not great, but we scrapped out. Justin Rackley and John Barzikini. Nailed it. Harder than to say. We got a photographer. 12.62 on the way. All right. Thank you. Legal.  I don't know, dude. Those are generous. I think the one you caught was actually pretty good. Really? Yeah. That could have been like three or something. I would just need to find out what Zaldane had. He played it right before. I know. Where'd he go? It's squirming. Steve Sinekoff. All right, we placed a little bet this morning. $100 bet with the boys here. I hope you beat us. We weighed 14.08. No, they did. They did. What did you guys have? We miraculously had 12 pounds. 12.62. Yeah. That's the only winning we did this week. 100 bucks. Tech gun. Well, we thought we were going to come up with two. Really?  The drum were steady on the carpet. It's tough. Drum, huh? Really? It's all like 22-pound sack of drum. All right. All right. You got it moving, dude. It's time to get out. Celebrity. You got to get out of here. We'll see you guys later. All right. All right. Well, we lost. We lost our side dirt. Dude, we lost. We lost. Yeah. We lost poker. We lost the fishing tournament. We lost as I did. Pay Greg. Not good. Not good all around. Didn't do so well today. But we had a strong comeback. I'm still waiting for the results to come in. And I had not fished a tournament with John ever. And I'm glad we had a strong finish. And shout out to Fun & Sound for putting it on. This fishing rod can glow. It's a fishing lure. It's a slurpin' spoon. This one's actually not available yet. It's a little special run there. So I actually did catch some fish on slurpin' spoons. Again, if you guys want to catch or get some slurpin' spoons or any of these shadwagons or anything, you can use my promo code at googinswad.com and get 10% off at checkout. And thanks for tuning in to a Derb video. I'm actually getting everything ready right now to go to basically Mexico tomorrow. Me and John, Rob, Lojo, we are loading up in the trucks and we are heading down south. So that's going to be a series you're going to want to stay tuned for. Could get a little spicy down there on the board.  Thank you guys for being here once again on another outdoor episode. I hope to see you back here again. Subscribe to the channel, smash that like button and I'll see you soon. See a lot of boats going out there. That's one of the options.


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Hi everyone, Joe for jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with jaspy's kickoff football mixer giveaway break This is break number one. We are guaranteed either The $3,000 high-end mixer spot or a mystery item The mystery item could be a pack a box cards I'll tell you what they're mostly cards and then there's a there's a little redemption inside That'll give you a spot for the $3,000 mixer $3,000 spot mixer, which should be pretty awesome So one of the packs these are these jaspy silver packs that you're pretty familiar with Inside here one of them will be a redemption to win a spot that guarantees you a spot in The $3,000 spot mixer and the rest will be another item I think there is one box in here and mostly But mostly like single cards All right, so with that being said big thanks to this group right here. Thanks folks Appreciate it. So we're gonna randomize your names randomize you a pack number And then we'll see who gets what Let's roll it. Let's randomize it three and a three six times for names and numbers heart six one two three four five and Six All right, we got a couple callings down to Michael and then three and a three six times for the numbers pack numbers one two three four five and Six We got eight down to 18 All right, so calling with eight and three Shane with 11 Sean with 15 Karen with 16 Tom with two Roy with 17 Matt with 13 Ryan with five Robert with four Robert Wolf with 10 Sean with nine Nicholas with six Matt with one Sean with 14 Colin with seven David with 19 last Bob Mojo Josh with 20 Adam with 12 and Michael with pack 18 So we're gonna do these They weren't do let's do these in numerical order, so let's sort by column B by number and I'm gonna print these labels out really quick So you can fast forward through this part if you're watching live And then we'll go in numerical order, so stand by just a sec while I do this. This is Tuesday Just make it easy on our soul. We'll just call this mystery item number one on a Tuesday the seventh Thanks for spending your Tuesday, but let's hopefully everyone had a good Labor Day weekend If you're lucky enough to get Some places don't give you that that that extra day off. We're more of a retail business So we ended up being open on on days like that, but hopefully some of you got days off and spent it well All right pack one Going to Matt. Let's see what you got pack one is gonna be a card. Yeah, it's a card And it's bold ticket autograph Henry rugs of third 19 out of 25 It's on card auto as a raiders fan we are i'm Got a lot of high hopes for Henry rugs all right Not the three thousand dollar spot matt But at least you got this rugs going your way Thanks for giving this a shot Tom pack two What do we have in here? Oh a graded clutch That's not about 1992 hoop basket ball Shaquille O'Neal ps a8. All right. That's not too shabby Tom not not the three thousand dollar spot But a a rookie shack ps a8 Collin with pack three Will this be the three thousand dollar spot? No But it's a graded card and it's ps a eight and a half LeBron James From 2014 hoops That's 354 out of 399 Silver. All right. There you go Collin. All right So i've not seen the three thousand dollar spot robert robert gets A silver cam acres autograph from prism football poor cam acres Maybe one to hold on to All right, but sorry not the three thousand dollar spot I didn't see any orders for those jonathan. So chances are Uh We've probably taken them out to create fillers That would be my guess Unless someone bought like yeah, I see zero orders coming in so jonathan. So You must be creating fillers for those right now all right Ryan pack five Hmm just another single card here, but it's edger and james the edge three out of five From 2016 preferred football Train whistle All aboard the big hit express Nicholas pack six and it's a shohio tani rookie card From diamond kings The red frame not numbered Not the spot, but not bad either. All right back to you Collin with a couple more here Seven and eight a graded card And a a larry bird from 1981 tops basketball It's pretty cool graded in eight Nice again, not the mixer spot, but Not not a bad card You've got one more here pack eight. It's like another graded card Oh psa 10 Lebron james out of 2019 select basketball And that's premier level Which I think might be the middle level In in short printedness Not bad Pretty strong Sean maddock is this now it's just another graded card And it's four out of five brett farve. I don't know what What that set is right there But from 2009 brett farve Vikings edition psa nine mini cloth Well, here you go Sean out of five All aboard the big hit express Whoop whoop pack 10 Yeah, I feel like I don't even remember that mayo set allen All right robert Not the spot, but a patrick mahomes psa 10 2019 Contenders for about just a couple of years after his rookie year But a perfect 10 out of contenders psa 10 for robert wolfen pack 10 We have not seen I hope we remember to put that redemption here. We have not seen the $3,000 spot yet halfway through these packs Ah tray saying that mayo was a cigarette cart company back in the day They're shane Is this it? Oh, that's a redemption Shane it's Ah, it's a box a box of 2020 2021 Uh panini prism english premier league soccer cereal box edition There it is sealed right there for you nice All right, there you go. The sealed box will be going your way right adam pack 12 Does not feel like the redemption for the $3,000 spot, but it looks like a graded card and it's It's a 959 shane beaver from 2018 bowman platinum top prospects autographs even battling injuries all year long But he's pretty solid centering edges surface a 95 corners a nine autograph a nine For a 9 5 10. All right, there you go adam Matt we're running out of packs here You need to find that You'll find the need that $3,000 football spot. Hey, how about a lamar jackson rookie card though? PSA 9 In 2018 prism Could have a big year this year matt could be a good time to to be holding this card Sean Pack 14 is lebron james 2003 upper deck basketball PSA 9 Lebron James That's pretty cool. There you go. Sean The $3,000 mixer spot is still out there in the world Sean and remember we got we got another uh another version of this up on the site right now All right, this is not graded, but we got a nice immaculate patch auto rookie patch auto michael pittman 35 out of 99 rookie i-black jersey michael robinson thinks it's going to be in pack 18. Good luck michael We haven't seen it yet Karen with pack 16 This feels like a graded card Karen not Because with every pack that goes by That $3,000 spot is still there It's another lebron james 2003 upper deck basketball PSA 9 phenomenal beginning Lebron james that spot is it for roi pack 17 Well another graded card Sam thinks it's pack 17. It's not it's a PSA 9 another lebron james 2003 upper deck lebron james phenomenal beginning. It's a different looking lebron james phenomenal beginning. All right, michael robinson pack 18 Is this it? Oh Michael robinson calling his shot one spot in the 48 box high-end nfl kickoff mixer a $3,000 value nice congrats to michael There you go, man. He called a shot. All right, so what's what's next david gets pack 19 And this is going to be a robert scove patch an autograph From tops boondestliga. That's a great patch right there tier one four out of ten an autograph Tier one boondestliga.  I know the $3,000 spots already gone But let's see what graded card we can have going your way. It's going to be Hey, jerry rice 1986 tops football psa 6 jerry rice There you go josh, and there you go everybody congrats to michael robinson once again Getting the $3,000 mixer spot in the high-end mixer with pack 18 Thanks for watching. Thanks for getting into it That was our first mystery item break. We got break two in the store completely different mystery items But one spot is going to have that redemption to win a spot Michael will get your name in there and we'll put a i'll put mystery One next to your name. So you know, that's how you want it. Thanks for watching everybody I'm joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next break


So, our next speaker is Helen Bygrave. So, she's going to continue with a slightly older age group. And these are children which have already been diagnosed and it is looking at the Kailicha project and how to deal with adolescents who are on treatment but seem to fail. Okay, good morning, everybody. First of all, I'm not Jonathan Bernheimer. So, I'm very much here on behalf of the Kailicha team this morning so I guess they're watching online so they can tweet and do whatever they're doing online if I say something wrong or to add things to this presentation. So, Jonathan is one of the most kind of enthusiastic pediatricians I've worked with or met in the last few years and I'm sure he and I are both delighted that we've got not just one but two pediatric HIV presentations this morning. Because certainly it's an area I think that we haven't paid enough attention to in our programs. So, I'm going to follow on from what Katie said. Why is this so important? Of the 35 million people living with HIV, 3.2 million of them are children less than 15. All the children, less than five, most countries have followed the WHO guidelines so they're all eligible for arts, they're put onto treatment straight away and in fact a number of countries are now putting all children less than 10 on art. But still after kind of 15 years of kind of more of HIV programming, I think there is still a real bottleneck around putting kids on treatment and the challenge of pediatric adherence still is really massive and when you chat to our counsellors and our clinicians, it's a real challenge that they face. And what's interesting in the last two, three years as we've scaled up routine viral load in the projects is that we've started to get a feeling of how big a problem this adherence challenge is. So, what do we already know from the literature? So, from the idea cohorts, there's around about 20% of kids failing by three years and another South African study, even worse rates of failure, up to 38% of children failing. So, not great, okay? If we look at our, these are OCB cohorts where we started to roll out routine viral load in the last couple of years and you see similarly not great outcomes and really quite consistently children having kind of two to three times the rates of virological failure compared with adults. So, this pilot project was started in Kailitsa. It's one of our oldest HIV projects within MSF. It's an urban township just outside Cape Town. And really what happened in kind of in the analysis of the viral load data, the team really started to see and flag up, you know, 30% of our kids are failing, what are we going to do about it? So, they actually set up a specific pediatric risk of treatment failure project. It's in a separate building, it's very child friendly, it's got dedicated staff, the program is nurse led, but there is a doctor, a pediatrician involved. And basically they enrolled in the program all kids from infants up to the age of 19. So, basically any kid, so child or adolescent who had a high viral load was enrolled into the program and they received some specific adherence interventions. And that really was a combination of kind of one-on-one counseling with some, you know, pediatric friendly tools and combined with, and I think this is the really important thing, it's not just about sitting for a longer period of time with a doctor, but very much combined with peer support. So they had family clubs for the younger ones, where the caretakers also kind of brought together, and then kind of team clubs for the older adolescents. So very much kind of learning from each other, finding out about their disease from each other. And the other really important thing, I think Jonathan wanted to bring out, is just having the luxury of spending more time with that child. And I just want to link back with Emily's presentation yesterday. If we can employ strategies to decongest the clinics and get the stable patients kind of out of the queue, maybe our healthcare workers will be able to spend more time with the kids and also the adults that are failing and need more kind of clinical input and attention. So, after getting that adherence intervention, they get a repeat viral load. If the viral load is still high, then the clinicians are deciding to do any switch the regimen. Or actually, if the viral loads kind of come down a bit, will we go on and do a further adherence intervention? So if we just look at the kind of demographics of the kids who went into this program, so up to the time of analysis, 133 kids had been enrolled in this project. The median age when they started their ART was three, which is quite late. And the median age at time in enrollment in this failure program was 10 years. Mediantime on ART was four years and the viral load at enrollment, 14,500. Four of the kids actually, on questioning once they got into this clinic, weren't actually taking their drugs at all. But the majority were failing a protease inhibitor based regimen. In South Africa, it's really the only country in the region at the minute that is using a protease inhibitor based first line. Although it's recommended other countries haven't quite got there yet because of the difficulties around the formulation still. Three children, only 2% actually had to concurrent TB at time of enrollment. But 15% did have other comorbidities.  So ranging from nasty skin infections, tinnier capitals to pneumonia.  And then I think some interesting stuff around this kind of the social situation. The majority, 68% did come with their parent. But clearly what came from the team is that these kids are swapping caretakers. So they might come with the parent, but you know, they're kind of past pillar to post in terms of who might be giving their drugs. The other interesting thing I think is 71% of those caretakers were HIV positive themselves and I'm going to get the team to look at, I'm quite interested in this, are they suppressed? Is the parent taking their drug or not? But I don't have that data yet. And ignore that slide because what we did actually, we've actually looked at disclosure rates according to age. And 83% of the children, more than 10, who should have been disclosed, were disclosed. But that still means one in five didn't know they had HIV. Yeah. And when we talk about disclosure, does the child know they've got HIV? But it's also about disclosure within the family. And often another story that came out was, often if a lady gets a new partner, she's not then telling that partner she's got HIV. Therefore, she's not telling that part of the child's also got HIV, hence the drug stop. Disclosure is a bit of a hot topic for us. So just to also say, a colleague of mine looked at this across our projects. And again, despite the fact we've been trying to do this for 10 years, we're not doing that well. So most projects hovering around 50% of the kids who should have been disclosed to getting to that point. So we look at suppression of these kids. Having gone into this program, having had those adherence interventions, left-hand side kids failing on a protease inhibitor, right-hand side kids failing on a navirapine-based regime. 67% of the kids on a PI suppressed after around about three months, 53% on an NNRTI. And if we look at those kids who suppressed, the majority, 85, 87% say it stayed suppressed. For those that didn't initially suppress, we're giving them a bit more time, giving them a bit more support. A further nine, so 60%, went on to suppress on a PI. This side of the chart, the kids were actually switched so they would change their regimen to a protease inhibitor. And again, a third of them went on to suppress their viral load. So overall, of the kids who'd been in the program for, let's say, nine months plus, and had three viral load follow-ups, 84% of them had managed to be suppressed through basically good adherence support. They also, in Kaliica, they managed, they genotyped 34 of these children. 100% of the kids failing an NNRTI regime were resistant, kind of supporting the public health principle of switching from directly from NNRTI to a PI. And 43% of them showed resistance to the protease inhibitor. So in conclusions, some of the points Jonathan wanted to make, the median age of starting ART was very late. We need to be better, we need to be testing those kids earlier and getting them onto treatment. Disclosure rates weren't good enough, although they were better in Kaliica than some other places. This is something we really, really need to do better in our projects. Most of the children on NNRTI showed resistance, kind of as we suspected, with lower rates of resistance in those on the protease inhibitors. Basically, Shane, we need to push towards a PI-based first line. We need to get a formulation that's accessible in our settings. And this was a pilot project. It was quite resource intensive, say, specific HR, specific building, but I think there are some really important pieces of this implementation that we can take to other settings. So I'm gonna say again, disclosure counseling, with the tools available, we need to be supporting our staff to do this better. And actually, it's not just about MSF projects. I don't see any Ministry of Health that's providing these tools, providing counsellors, somebody even to do the job. And this is something I think at national level really needs to be addressed. Really simple, just book your kids on the same day. Automatic kind of peer support for the caretakers, peer support for the teens, on the same day that they're picking up the drugs, and preferably after school. Can we organize that in our clinics? And also just thinking about is a home visit possible? Because I think seeing that social situation and understanding that better is kind of a really important piece of the puzzle. And as I said before, just having the luxury of spending a bit more time with these vulnerable kids, with these vulnerable caretakers, yeah? And to do that, if we're gonna put another 15 million people on treatment to add to the 15 million already on treatment, we're gonna have to revisit how we're delivering the services in the clinic. Okay, so thank you very much. Thank you very much to the Kailita team, the patients there, and yeah, to you for all listening. Thank you very much again. Anybody, any technical questions? Otherwise, we will move on swiftly and leave it to the discussion round. Thank you very much. I think it was an excellent presentation and goes back to all the great work the Kailita project has been doing. It links to both of your presentations from the previous speaker as well. Helen, can you tell a little bit more what this project is also doing with regard to the identification of the children because your presentation, of course, is very focused on the children under care. What are the strategies in the project for creating access for the ones not yet being diagnosed? Identified, that's a really good question. I really think it's an area we haven't worked hard on because I think the issue of testing kids where they're coming to EPI, to the under five clinic, it's still not a routine thing that's in those caretakers' minds. We see time and time again, kids are coming with diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea, and they're still not getting a test. So I mean, certainly, I think now we're starting to have a bigger push about trying to normalise testing within the EPI. And trying again to work around some of the barriers around healthcare workers, the issue of mature minor, the issue of healthcare workers, the best interest of the child principle is a lot of quasi-legal issues that we have to take on board with the ministries of health at country level because healthcare workers often just don't feel comfortable to test a child without that guardian consent. And it's a very fine line for them. I don't blame them. But there are some training issues, but there's also some kind of political issues around it. Thank you very much.


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So the other day, I was just scrolling through Twitter, minding my own business, when suddenly I see this. Mariah Carey. Oh my god! Miss Mariah posted a picture of herself with a stack of books saying essential 2020 reading. And like, I just knew in that moment I had to make a reading vlog. Like I had no choice. Miss Mariah is the Queen of Christmas. She is the Queen of December. In December and a Christmas time, we're all just living in her world. Like she is in control. Anyway, so I'm in control, but I'm out of control and I'm also, um, controlled. So in a way, I'm everything. I love her. I think she's an icon. She's a regular on this channel in terms of like means. I love that she is posting a picture of herself with a stack of books and like telling everyone educate yourself.  I love her. Thank you, darling. So I looked at the stack. It's a nice stack. It's a very nice stack. Some really nice books on there. I have read Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. It's the only book on that stack I've read. I really enjoyed it. I listened to the audiobook and it was great. He narrated it. I would really recommend it. The only book on this stack that I already owned was Such a Fun Age by Kylie Reid. So this is going to be the first book I read.  And it's like a very racially charged situation. Someone else films it on their phone like you often see with these kind of situations. Then I think it's kind of about how the white people in the situation act in the way that they think they're being allies but they're often doing much more harm than good. I've had so many good things about this so I'm very, very excited to get to it. Then I had a look at the other books on the list. I didn't own any more of them. But one of them I had wanted to read for a very long time and that is The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. All I know about this is that it is about two twin girls and I think one of them chooses to present as black and one of them chooses to present as white. I think and it's about their relationship and how this affects them and it's about race in the time that they're living. I think it's kind of, yeah, like the 1950s to the 1990s. So I'm really excited to read this. I've had so many good things about this. It's won so many awards. It's like one of the most popular books out there. So this is gonna be the second book that I am reading this week. And then I thought it would be unfair. Like I thought it would be unfair for me to do this vlog and not read her new memoir. Like I have to do it. And I was actually, I was watching, I was watching a video of her the other day. Not for research. It's just what I do in my spare time. Like I wasn't even thinking about this video. And she mentioned that she likes the audiobook. Like she was like, oh my God, please read my memoir. Especially the audiobook. So I am gonna buy the audiobook. She narrates there. And I think it's gonna be really fun. I'm really interested to learn about her. So I'm gonna start with Such a Fun Age by Kylie Reid. And I'm gonna go start this now. But to get into the Christmas spirit first. Cause this video is to get me into the Christmas spirit with Mariah Carey.   So let's go do that now. Well, we'll just have to wait and see. You are so inquisitive, my darling. Page 113 of Such a Fun Age. So I'm just over a third of the way through. And I'm really enjoying it. The thing is with this book, and I think probably all the books in this video is that it's not got a lot of plot. It's not really about that. These books aren't going to be plot heavy. They're much more based on like characters and characters' feelings and characters' journeys and emotions and motivations. So like I said, the main character in this gets confronted by racist people essentially in this store. They think she has kidnapped the young girl that she's taking care of. But that happens like within the first 20 pages. And then the rest has kind of been us learning about the white characters in the story, their back stories, the parents of the child that she looks after, particularly the mum. It's really interesting to see the way that these characters act in ways that they think they're doing the right thing and that they're helping, but they're really not.  You. Are you dumb? And it's just because they're so blinded by not only their racial privilege, but their class privilege and like when privileges intersect, it like doubles. The privilege is more than just the sum of its parts because you have all those different privileges. That is a privilege in itself. And I think if you're white and you read this book, you should really look at what you do yourself that you think is helping. Trying to look at the ways in which we act. Wrongly, you know, like the ways that we act and we think we're helping, but we're really not helping. You should be using it to critique your own actions. I mean, true to a story is going to go now. I don't think this is a spoiler, but I'm not going to like explicitly say it because I don't want to spoil anything accidentally. But we're starting to find out some tea between some of the white characters that Amira is linked to. So there's tea between her new boyfriend and the mum and like. I didn't call me a bad server because I always spill the tea. What are the chances of this happening? So I'm really intrigued to see where that is going to go. What part we're going to go down with that? I think it is dealing with the themes of race, white privilege, ingrained racism. What it's doing so well is it's showing how racism and white privilege and ignorance, racial ignorance is embedded in everything these characters do and how they move through the world. It's the first time I've ever read that. I think I've always read books where racism has been more overt or even if it's been like subconscious bias, it's very like this is subconscious bias, you know, like how you usually read about subconscious bias. But this is doing very well at embedding that throughout everything else. So yeah, really excited to read on. I have actually finished such a fun age. I did want to check in at the two thirds mark, but I just couldn't stop reading last night and I just wanted to get through it all. So I didn't just finish it. Your behavior. Come on. It's unacceptable. And I really, really liked it. I'm going to give it four stars. There's no, there's nothing wrong with it. I just didn't get that five star feeling from it that I think you need to get to give a book five star. I feel like just the discussion, it opens up about ingrained racism and white privilege and like how someone will act. The difference in how people act, if you're constantly chasing success and never getting it versus if you have success from birth and you're constantly trying to grab it and hold on to it. I think they're too polar opposite. Experiences obviously. But I think it was really interesting how they were examined in this book. I think the writing was great. I think the dialogue was really, really well written and it read so fast. Like if you're a bit intimidated of it because it's kind of like an adult contemporary, don't be. Amira is such a cool, relatable, young character. Briar, who is the toddler that she looks after. Like Briar almost made me cry in this book.  And you just hope that she's not gonna end up like the culture and the adults around her. But you're also terribly scared that she will. But she's so funny. Like that kid is so funny. And her and Amira's dynamic is just beautiful through all of the other kind of difficult and serious stuff to read about in this. And the discussion of like boundaries and how privilege can erase boundaries. Like I think when you have privilege, you start to become unaware of other people's boundaries and what is the normal thing to do and what is the acceptable thing to do in some situations. She kind of becomes a bit obsessed with Amira in this strange way. And it was so spur on with how it examined white people's attitudes towards black people even when they think those kind of people who think they're doing the right thing but they're really, really not.  It was such a quick read, such an enjoyable read. I really, really loved it. I would really recommend if you haven't picked up yet that you do. Yeah, I really, really loved it. I would really recommend it. And what's worse, she's on her way to a special audience she hates. I am now 100 pages into the Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett which is the second book that Mariah Carey had on her list that I chose. So basically this is about two sisters who live in this town full of black people who are light skinned. And so it's kind of like you shouldn't be dark skinned if you live in this town. You're supposed to be very light skinned almost able to pass for white. And the girls when they were teenagers ran away somewhere along the line they separated and have been separated for many years. And one of the twins returns to hometown. And that's what we've really read so far. I guess it's gonna be exploration of time and of these characters coming apart and coming back together. And just an exploration of like what it was like to be light skinned during this time. I really liked the writing so far. It is very character-based, very like writing-based which I'm kind of in the mood for something like just quick and fast. Do you know what I'm... I'm just in the mood for something that's got a really fast paced plot and this isn't it. So if I was mood reading I wouldn't be reading this. Do you know what I mean? But I am still enjoying it. I think it is really well written. I'm starting to get more into it now. I'm really intrigued to see because one of the girls, Stella she is the one who has kind of gone missing. No one knows where she went to. She is living as white. So she's presenting as white. We don't know to extent people in her family know that she isn't white. And so I'm really intrigued to see where Stella is and what's happening with her because so far the book has all been about Desiree who is the other twin. But I am enjoying it. They took me a second to get into it but I'm enjoying it much more so now. I am now 220 pages into the vanishing half and I'm loving it. Yes! Yes! It took me a hot minute to get into it but I am just obsessed. Like I'm really really loving it. It's such a beautifully written story. It's so interesting just looking at these characters in such a deep deep way. So we followed Desiree for much of the first 100 pages and then in the past 120 pages we split our time with Jude her daughter and Stella who is the sister who ran away. And usually I struggle in books where we follow a character for 100 pages and follow another one for 50 pages and we're just constantly being introduced to different stories. But I'm really liking this one to see the different paths that all these women are going on from the same family, how race and gender and their role in society affects each of them differently and affects their paths and they're all connected in this really subtle, interesting way. It's quite slow, it's quite drawn out. You're really just taking a really deep dive into how these characters think. You just follow them along in their life, you know? Like it's not like a plot book, you know? It's necessarily a start, middle and end. But rather it's just an exploration of these women throughout time. I really love Jude. I think Jude is a really interesting character. As much as it is interesting to follow the two sisters, the twins, and see where they end up differently, in Jude's storyline, issues of gender and being transgender have been introduced through various characters and exploration of gender and I just wasn't expecting that from this. It wasn't something I had heard anyone speak about and it is beautiful and so interestingly explored, particularly for its time period, like in the 1970s and 80s, I've never read about a trans character from that time period and it is just so interesting. I feel like that's something that needs to be spoken about more is about gender and not fitting gender binaries throughout history because I feel like a lot of the great literature we're seeing come out now about being transgender is contemporaries, like young adult contemporaries where I love reading from a historical standpoint on this topic. I didn't realise till I picked this up but that is definitely one of my favourite parts. I am loving this way more than I initially thought. I initially thought I was going to be bored, but I have really gone into it across last night and today. I finished the vanishing half and I'm going to give it four stars. I really, really liked it. I feel like the pacing in the last part wasn't as good as in the middle but we followed Kennedy for a large majority of it who is Stella's daughter and I just wasn't interested in her. Oh really?  And I wasn't entirely satisfied with the resolution at the end but I think you always knew that you weren't going to be. I always knew that I wasn't going to feel completely satisfied with it because it's not the kind of story that's going to be wrapped up neatly with a bow on it but it was just beautiful, intricate prose the look at racism within so many different communities and in so many different forms the idea of passing and the privileges that gives you but also the difficulties that it brings look at sisterhood, look at motherhood like it was just really great across the board. I really, really recommend this. I've had a really successful vlog so far. I'm really glad I read this because I would never have read this for like years to come. Like I probably would have got run to eventually but thank you Miss Mariah. Thank you Queen Icon Legend. She's an icon. She's a legend and she is the moment. Now come on now. For recommending this because it was a great fascinating educational amazing read. So yeah, I really, really enjoyed it. So now we are going to move on to the book of the Queen herself Miss Mariah Carey. We're going to read her autobiography. I've got the audio book and I'm so excited to listen to her talking about her life. So let's go start. Christmas. Hmm Christmas. I don't know what to say about it. Kind of obsessed with it. Let's see. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Never performed it. So I'm halfway through the meaning of Mariah Carey and I love it. Like I love her. I love Mariah Carey. She's incredible. She's a beautiful person. Her talent and brilliance is beyond. It's so interesting learning about her life and all that she's been through. She's really gone through a lot. I didn't know before coming into this what she'd been through. Predominantly the part I've listened to a lot of it was focused on her childhood I would say up until like the 40 maybe 45% mark it was all focused on her childhood and now we have gotten into the start of her music career and her first marriage which was a very abusive marriage. She's just so open in it. She's so honest and brave and so interesting to listen to. So I'm really loving it in a way that I never expected. Like when I started this off I was like yeah I'm gonna be reading Mariah Carey's book. But it's actually so interesting and enlightening. There's this kind of persona of her as this materialistic diva and in this you can just completely see where she's come from and all that she's been through the really poor, disadvantaged life she had growing up and let me tell you Mariah was not lying when she said it's so much better as the audiobook because like she is incredible. Like I want her to narrate all audio books because she's a teacher. She's constantly going darling and she just put so much life into the book like she's constantly laughing at memories or you can tell when a memory is really sad for her to recount and like one thing that I adore is that obviously this is written in the book too but like randomly it will just break out into one of her songs like she'll just start singing one of her songs when that song obviously applies to what she's talking about she obviously wrote it about the experience that she is discussing now in the book let me see if she's let me put it on one speed so you can actually hear her she just starts singing she just starts singing I just live for it where's, hang on it's a whole as production like Mariah didn't come to play it is a whole as production the echo on the vocals come on now come on I never thought I would be like super recommending Mariah Carey's autobiography but I am I remember I watched an interview and she said it was like I don't know if she was just saying this to get people to buy the book but she was saying that it's the most important project she'd ever done and sometimes I think you read celebrity autobiographies and it's like okay but this feels like it's important to Mariah Carey like it feels like it's really important to tell her life story and to discuss everything she's been through I think it's so hard to be a woman in the industry especially at the time she was coming up like I think it's easier now for women but musical artists of her age like there's barely any of them left and they have to constantly reinvent themselves and constantly change it up in a way that I don't think girls have to do now and I just think they were treated differently and so I just love hearing from her and hearing her point of view so I'm really enjoying it I'm gonna go finish it and then I'll come back to you with my final thoughts so I just finished the meaning of Mariah Carey and I loved it I'm gonna give it I think a 4 stars maybe if it's even closer to like a 4.25 4.5 Thank you darling she's an incredible woman she's been through so much shit just learning about the logistics of the media industry and what she's had to go through and just to how she's become a woman today it was actually fascinating in a way that I could not have expected if you're gonna read this read it via the audiobook like I think that's how it has to be consumed she's amazing at narrating her life you can really hear the emotion about every single part of her life Mariah Carey needs to narrate every audiobook I read from now on I loved it I would really recommend reading the meaning of Mariah Carey if you haven't already I don't think many of you will have read it but it was just fascinating and such a fun audiobook and I loved it I never thought I would love that book so much but it was fascinating and she is such a strong woman she was so open and candid about her relationship with her abusive husband her relationships with her family I love that she made fun of the New York New Year's Eve debacle where she like it all went wrong the performance went wrong because that's what I always thought of but in this book she was like that was nothing like I've been through more shit that was just one bad night the world can't seem to forget about it and I can and so it was just so interesting to hear all this other stuff behind her that we didn't know I love her so much now after reading this I hope you've enjoyed this vlog where I read like her for a week it was actually so much fun it was super interesting to see what she likes to read she spoke in the book about reading fairly often about like finishing a book and having to turn back and sight again straight away so she's obviously a reader herself and I really loved reading like her for a week so I hope you enjoyed this video I hope to help get you in the Christmas mood a bit make sure you give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you did enjoy it if you got to the end of this video comment the Christmas tree emoji down below because we're getting super Christmassy I'm so excited for Christmas like I can't wait I'm so excited I will see you very very soon in another video bye


It's people that are ready to do business, not a buyer lead that didn't call you back. These are people reaching out to me like seeking me out to try to get me to do a deal with them. You know, that's what you want. You want to make so many calls that your prospects cold call you. This is what I believe. I'm sharing that with you for nothing.  Ricky, so I want to talk a little bit about your specific journey. Like Connor just alluded to, you know, obviously a lot of your marketing prowess came from an email list that you have just, you know, been hammering home consistently over time. What would you tell an agent today starting out? You know, what are some methods that you are advising people to start? Whether it be email lists in addition to other things. Talk about a little bit, you know, not only your success and your strategies, but also the mindset into executing these things daily. Well, man, you know, like as far as execution and strategy, it really depends on what you want to happen. You know, like what industry are you in?  What are your goals? What's trying to, what do you want to happen?  And I look at the strategies and I think, okay, what are these strategies trying to do? Right, what are, what is putting videos on Facebook trying to accomplish? What is direct mail trying to accomplish? What are open houses trying to accomplish?  What are, you know, you do all these activities and what are you trying to get out of these activities? Right, and so I'll break it down very simple. All those activities are designed, right? To do two things, one to build a brand, okay? One to build a brand, of course, and that's great, that's fine and dandy, okay? But overall, you don't have a business unless you're actually having conversations with people, all right? And so everything that, the entire, all the different strategies out there for real estate agents is designed to get us to a conversation with someone, which then you could try to convert into a relationship, which then turns into the transaction, eventually, right? And so I look at that process and I think, well, you know, all these activities are set up, here's me as an agent and then there's all these activities I can do to try to create conversations, here's the conversation, why don't I just skip all these activities and just go straight to the conversation, right? And just have conversation after conversation after conversation, right? And so what are agents? The agents, you know, most agents get caught in this loophole of trying all these activities to try to build their business. You know, they spend all this time and money trying to do these things to create conversations and what I'm saying is, is let's skip all the time and money and just go straight through the conversations, you know, just have one after another after another. And they're like, well, Ricky, these aren't, you know you, you're cold calling people. These aren't warm leads. I like warm leads. And I'm like, okay, well, give me one of your warm leads. Let's call one of your warm leads, right? You call the warm lead and they're like, who is this? Why are you calling, right? I'm not interested, right? It's a cold call, okay? It's a cold call that you just spent several hundred dollars for, $30 for whatever. And it's the same thing. You're spending all this time and money tricking yourself into thinking that this is a way out of cold calls when you're just doing a cold call, right? So all you're doing is spending a lot of time and money to do the same activity. So man, listen, for me, I made a hundred thousand calls. I did the math. It was on average about 130 a week for 15 years. A dollar with my fingers. There was no dialer. Okay, there was no dialers. By the time I got to making a hundred thousand cold calls, you know, and stopped making them because I didn't need to because I had such a huge business in place, then dialers came out, right? And then you could actually press a button and get thousands of people's phone numbers to click up a mouse. I had to reverse look up these people, you know, their address on Spokia on Bigfoot and White Pages one at a time. And now people can just click a mouse and find thousands of phone numbers and way better data. There was no cell, I wasn't finding cell phone numbers back in the day and dialing with my finger, okay? And people complain, they're complaining and they have it so good. So very simply, man, I made a hundred thousand calls. Okay, I got about 5,000 contacts out of that who either did business with me now or later, right? And through that entire process, I started a weekly email in 2007, every Wednesday since 2007, and it's literally the foundation of the reason why I'm able to sell a hundred properties a year as a single agent without cold calls, without social media, without buying leads, without open houses, without direct mail, nothing. I do absolutely nothing. And I'm talking about even social media, I don't do anything for real estate in terms of building my business or trying to create relationships or get deals except for my weekly email and people come to me and these are repeat people, referrals, referrals over referrals, people that are ready to do business, not a buyer lead that didn't call you back. These are people reaching out to me, like seeking me out to try to get me to do a deal with them.


A very good evening aspirants. As you all know, Prelims is coming nearby. It's vastly approaching. And Shankara Ace Academy has launched free All India Prelims mock test. And these tests will be conducted across 13 centres, both online and offline modes. And if you are wondering when it will be conducted, it will be conducted on 15th May 2022, 22nd May 2022 and 29th May 2022. I'll give you the link in the description. So please make use of it. And with this information, now let us get into the daily Hindi news analysis for the date 2nd of May 2022. Displayed here are the list of articles that we are going to discuss today. See first of all, we are going to discuss a previous year Prelims question and then we are going to get into the article discussions. And at the end of the discussion, we are going to solve some of the Prelims questions and I'll give you a main question for your practice also and we'll wind up the session. Without any delay, let's get into the article discussion. Now we'll discuss this previous year Prelims question that was asked in the year 2019. See this question is a history-based question. To be more specific, this is a culture-based question. See when it comes to UPSC, Buddhism and Jainism area is very important. So concentrate more on that. You can expect at least one question from this area. Now let us try solving this question here. If you know what Mahayana Buddhism is and if you know what are the characteristics of Mahayana Buddhism, then it is a very easy question for you because the statements given here describe the attributes of Mahayana Buddhism. But let us say you do not know anything about Mahayana Buddhism. Then how should you approach this question? I'll tell you. See it is not very difficult. What is the first statement here? It says that Deification of Buddha is one of the features of Mahayana Buddhism. So what is Deification here? It is the process of making someone or something deity or God. So this statement is saying that Mahayana Buddhism makes Buddha as God. So the statement one may or may not be true. Now let us see the second statement. It says treading the path of Bodhisattvas. Here it means following the path of Bodhisattvas. This also may or may not be true. Let us leave this statement for now. Now let us see the third statement. It says image worship and rituals are the features of Mahayana Buddhism. See here only we have to be very careful because in this question there is a connection between statement one and statement three. Statement one says Deification of Buddha and the third statement says image worship and rituals. See only when statement one is true, three can be true. This means only when Buddha is considered as God there will be image worships and rituals. Right? If he is not considered as God then there won't be any image worship or rituals. So there are two probabilities here. In the answer both one and three should be there or both should not be there. Let us consider both the scenarios here. Firstly let us say statement one is wrong. Then statement three is also wrong and both statement one and three should not be in the answer. So search in the options whether two only is there or not. It is not there. Right? Now we'll consider the second probability which is considering statement one as the right statement. Then statement three should also be correct. Right? So now search in the answer where any option has both statement one and three. Yeah, there is. Option D has both one and three. So that is only the right answer and this is how you should approach a question and don't panic if you didn't study the topic. Try to narrow down the options. Here in this question we directly arrived at the answer. Right? Because we searched for the options where there are statement one and three. Option D had both statement one and three. So we directly arrived at the answer. But there will be instances where you will only be able to narrow it down to two options. Say you will be able to narrow it down to A, B or B, C or C, D or something like that. But then also don't worry. Take an educated and informed guess. You have 50-50 chance of getting the answer right. So we solved this question here. I've given some of the features of Mahayana Buddhism here. Just go through it and use this opportunity and revise the topic again. Look at this text in context article. See it talks about the reason, distress of the jute industry in West Bengal. See the distress is due to several reasons like greater prices of raw jute, cyclone ampen in May 2020 and the subsequent rains. Also Bangladesh provides cash subsidies for varied semi-finished and finished jute products. Hence the competitiveness emerges as a challenge for India. See the challenge lies in exploring export options to compensate for the domestic scenario. And this is the crux of the news article given here. In this context let us discuss about the jute crisis in detail. First of all what is the problem here? See here the problem is high procurement price of raw jute. See this is so high that it is greater than the price of the processed jute or jute products. So it simply means that the price of the raw material is greater than the finished product. To understand this we have to know the process behind this procurement. See in case of jute the mills procure raw jute from the middlemen. And what do the middlemen do? The middlemen procure jute from the farmers and after this it is bailed. See here bailing is a process by which large bundle or package is prepared for shipping, storage or sale. That is the fiber is tightly compressed into bails and secured by wires. And finally the bails are brought to the mills. Here the middlemen charge a price for all these services provided by them in addition to the MSP fixed by the government. See MSP that is the minimum support price for raw jute procurement from farmers is increased to 4750 per quintal for 2022-23 season and it was fixed by the government. See I have given figures here for the year 2021-22. You could see how the MSP is increased and note that in addition to this MSP the mills have to pay service charge for the middlemen. Now you may have a doubt why is this price increasing and what happened to the supply? The main reason was the occurrence of cyclone ampen in May 2020 and the subsequent reason in the major jute producing states. See these events they led to lower production and yield compared to the previous years and also they led to the production of lower quality jute fiber. And why is this? See this is because of the water logging situations in large fields and they led to premature harvesting. And with this understanding now let us see the ideal condition for the jute cultivation. See jute grows well on well drained fertile soil in the flood plains. Here the soils are renewed every year and the next condition is the requirement of high temperature during the time of growth. Now you know why the cyclone ampen costed so much for the jute industry. See this map here it shows the major jute producing states in India which includes West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Odisha and Meghalaya. Note that West Bengal, Bihar and Assam alone account for almost 99% of India's total production. See in addition to the lower production and yield there were hoarding issues at all levels that is right from farmers to the traders. And what is meant by hoarding? See hoarding is the purchase and storing of large quantities of the commodity with the intent of benefiting from future price increases. So this is also another reason. And the last reason is the subsidies provided by the Bangladesh government. See Bangladesh provides cash subsidies for varied semi-finished and finished jute products. Hence the competitiveness emerges as a challenge for India. See these reasons they can be more understood once you know the global position of India in the jute production. See this image here shows you India's position in jute in the global market. As per the Food and Agricultural Organization FAO, India is the largest producer of jute followed by Bangladesh and China. However in terms of acreage and trade Bangladesh takes the lead. Bangladesh accounts for three fourth of the global jute exports when compared to India. See this is because India lags behind Bangladesh in producing superior quality jute fiber. And what is the reason for this? The reason for this low quality production is the infrastructural constraints relating to retting farm mechanization etc. And it is also due to the lack of availability of certified seeds and varieties suitable for the country's agro climate. So these are all the constraints that are in the jute industry. Now let us see some of the uses of jute. Firstly it is used for packaging purposes. See there is mandatory provision to use jute in packaging. It is mentioned in jute packaging material compulsory use in packaging commodities act 1987. It says that 100% production of food grains and 20% sugar production must be packaged in jute bags. And other than this it is used in furnishing materials, fashion accessories, floor coverings or varied applications in paper and textile industries. And now comes a question what if the jute mills are closed due to crisis? See the jute sector it provides direct employment to 3.70 lakh workers in the country and it supports the livelihood of around 40 lakh farm families. Hence the closure of mills is a direct blow to the workers. And not only this indirectly it affects the farmers whose production is used in the mills. And hence as a solution to all these problems and to increase the economic growth of the country the following measures have to be taken. Firstly application of jute area must be increased. Secondly India needs to work on quality by adopting new technologies. For this jute research organizations must work together to utilize resources for the betterment of the industry. And also government must take efforts in the R&D that is the research and development to strengthen the jute industry and this can be done by developing newer technologies and then diversifying the products and improving machinery through intensive modernization. And all these will fetch more profit. And also it has less market competition when compared to its synthetic counterpart. This is because of its eco-friendly property which has good prospects in the coming days. And that's all about this article discussion. In this discussion we saw the reasons for the crisis in West Bengal and what are those. The high procurement price of raw jute, cyclone ampen and Bangladesh providing subsidies for varied semi-finished and finished products. We saw the ideal condition for the jute production and after that we saw the major jute producing states in India and India's position in jute in the global market. And we saw some of the uses of jute and finally we ended our discussion by seeing some of the measures to be taken to improve the jute industry. And with these points in mind now let us move on to the next article discussion. Our next news article is going to be based on this image. See in this image you can see at logger heads a pair of black bucks locks This image was taken at the Talchapar Sanctuary in Rajasthan's Churu district. So let us use this as an opportunity and learn some of the important facts about the black bucks. See by its pronunciation don't think it is an insect. The black buck or the Indian antelope is a species of antelope native to India and Nepal. It was once widespread throughout the Indian subcontinent. Now only scattered herds are found in protected areas in India and Nepal. It has become extant in Pakistan and Bangladesh. So know this if a statement is given in your prelims question that it is found in Pakistan and Bangladesh it is wrong. Now coming back to the article. See they are active during the day and form groups consisting of only females, males and bachelor herds. The black buck is easily recognized and how it is recognized. They are recognized through the dark brown to black color of the upper part of the males and apart from this the most striking feature of black bucks is the long spiraling horns of the adult male which have ridges from the base to the tip. And remember females do not possess horns.  See here both males and females have white patches around their eyes on their inner legs, mouth, underside and on the rump. See these animals they reproduce two young ones in a year and they carry their baby for six months. See the territorial male black bucks reproduce in order to defend their territories which can be as small as 20 acres. See they mark their territory by depositing dung middens and black pre-orbital secretions on the bushes and stems. Now we will see about the diet.  As summer dries these it eats more pots, fruits and flowers. It eats more browse and pots, fruits and flowers they supplement their diet. See black bucks they are timid at the feed stations and they will stand back while other animals feed. See the black buck they are diurnal in nature as in they are active during the day though it becomes less active at noon. Black bucks are as fast as any antelopes and they rely on their eyesight to avoid danger. It can run at a speed of 80 kilometer per hour. They inhabit grassy plains and thin forest areas with easily available water resources. The herd size largely depends on the availability of forage and the type of habitat the black buck lives in. See large herds they have an advantage over the small ones and in what sense see it is because they can deduct danger or the threat faster. Now coming to the last and the most important part which is the conservation status. See black buck is designated as least concerned according to the IUCN red list and in India hunting of black buck is prohibited under schedule one of the wildlife protection act of 1972. And with this we have come to the end of the discussion in this we saw some of the characteristics of black buck we saw that they are native to India and Nepal. They became extinct in Pakistan and Bangladesh and we saw some of the physical characteristics diet and features of black buck and finally we saw the conservation status which is least concerned according to IUCN red list and in India it is protected under schedule one of the wildlife protection act 1972. And with these points in mind now let us move on to the next article discussion. Now take a look at this news article according to the article top functionaries of the Union Labour and Employment Ministry have informed that the ministry is working on a mechanism to process accident insurance claims by unorganized workers registered on the eShram portal. So this is the cracks of the news article given here since eShram is frequently in news we might expect a question in the preliminary examination. So let us quickly brush through some of the facts about this portal. See this portal was launched six months back on August 26 2021 and it has seen over 27 crore registrations so far. Here Shram is a Hindi word and it means Labour. So it is basically an eLabor portal to be very specific post pandemic this portal was launched with the name of creating a national database of the unorganized workers and to facilitate social security schemes for them. See this database will be seeded with the other as well. In India the workers in the unorganized sector have no social security coverage so the government must step in to provide them with the social security but for this to happen there must be a database of the unorganized workers right? Only with the proper database can the government provide a well formulated welfare scheme and this is why eShram portal was launched. The eShram portal will help build a comprehensive national database of the unorganized workers in the country. So it is the first ever national database of unorganized workers including the migrant workers, construction workers, gig and platform workers etc. See the main objective of this portal is to improve the life and dignity of the unorganized workforce of a country. This portal contains details of name, occupation, address, educational qualification, skill types and family details etc. thereby it helps to protect and safeguard the interest of the workers and to provide social security to labour force in the unorganized sectors. It also helps to enact and implement various labour laws which regulate the terms and conditions of the service and employment of workers. Some of the other objectives are given here for your reference. Just go through it. Having seen the objectives, now let us see the registration process. See the registration is totally free and the workers do not have to pay anything. They can get themselves registered in any of the common service centres. Once a person gets registered in the eShram portal, a eShram card with a unique universal account number would be provided. Using this eShram card, workers will be able to access the benefits of the various social security schemes and it can be accessed anywhere, anytime. See getting registered with the eShram portal will come with the additional benefit of accidental insurance. If a worker is registered on the eShram portal and if that person meets with an accident, he will be eligible for 2 lakh on death or permanent disability and 1 lakh on partial disability. Now talking about the eligibility, any worker who is working in the unorganised sector and aged between 16-59 is eligible to register on the eShram portal. Example, migrant workers, gig workers, platform workers, agriculture workers, MNRE GA workers, fishermen, milk men, Asha workers, Anganwadi workers, street vendors, domestic workers, rickshaw pullers and other workers engaged in similar other occupations in the unorganised sector. And with this we have come to the end of the discussion and in this discussion we saw about the ePortal and the objectives of the portal and the registration process and the eligibility factor. So with these points in mind, now let us move on to the next article discussion. Let us take up this news article for our next discussion. According to the article, the proposal to develop a jungle safari and trekking routes in Aaravalli within Gurugram has been welcomed by wildlife and nature lovers and conservationists in the region. See the idea is warmly welcomed with the expectation that the Aaravalli's fragile ecosystem will not be disturbed once it is exposed to the commercial tourists. But still wildlife specialists believe that making Aaravalli a national park will better conserve its forest and wildlife. This is what the article says. In this backdrop, let us quickly go through some of the important facts about Aaravalli ranges. Now look at this picture here. The map shows India's physical features. In that on the left corner here you can see the Aaravalli ranges. See Aaravalli's form a part of Peninsular Plateau. The Peninsular Plateau is a table land composed of old crystalline, igneous and metamorphic rocks. It was formed due to the breaking and rifting of Gondwana land and thus making it a part of the oldest landmass. Yes you can see the drifting of Indian Plate in the image here. See Indian Plate was once a part of the Gondwana land and because of this reason the Peninsular Plateau forms the oldest landmass in India. Now talking about the Aaravalli ranges as I said already they are one of the oldest fold mountains of the world and the oldest in India. See they are aligned in the north-east and the south-west direction. They run for around 800 kilometers between Delhi and Palanpur in Gujarat. They continue up to Haridwar. See the range is prominent in Rajasthan that is they are continuous to the south of Ajmer where it rises to 900 meter but it becomes less distinct in Haryana and Delhi where they are characterized by a chain of detached and discontinuous ridges beyond Ajmer. And talking about its elevation see its general elevation is only 400 to 600 meter with few hills well above 1000 meter. At the southwest extremity the range rises to over 1000 meter. Here Mount Abu a small hilly block is separated from the main range by the valley of Banas. Here Mount Abu whose height is 1158 meter is a small hilly block and it is separated from the main range by the valley of Banas. Gurshika which is the highest peak is situated in Mount Abu and Gurshika it is 1722 meter high. See Piplikgat, Divayur and Desuri passes allow movement by roads and railways. Now let us see some of the significance of Aravalli ranges. Firstly they act as a barrier to check further spread of desertification to the east of Rajasthan and subsequently to Gangetic Plains. The Aravalli acts as the barrier for the clouds to shift eastwards to the lower Himalayas thus contributing to the climate of north India as well. Secondly they are responsible for the adequate monsoon rainfall and therefore sustaining a plethora of diverse flora fauna, rich biodiversity, livelihood and agriculture in the constituent states. Thirdly major rivers such as Luni and Sabarmadi originate from the Aravalli range and fourthly it protects the plains from the effect of worstally flowing from the central Asia region and fifthly the Aravalli even with its shrinking forest resources act as a buffer for the urban landscape to observe the pressure and shock of the increasing anthropogenic activities and pollution. And finally a greener Aravalli acts as a groundwater recharge for the region facing acute water scarcity. And with this we have come to the end of the discussion. In this discussion we saw the physical features of India and one of that is Aravalli ranges. We saw about Aravalli ranges, its characteristics and features and finally we ended our discussion by seeing some of the significance of Aravalli ranges. Now with these points in mind now let us move on to the next part of our discussion that is the practice prelims question discussion. We have three prelims question today. One of them is a quiz question for you. Now let's start solving the questions. The first question here says that black bug sometimes seen in news is related to Chinese malware and unidentified object, a species of antelope native to India and Nepal, name of a butterfly. See it is a very easy question from our discussion we know that the correct option here is option C, a species of antelope native to India and Nepal. Now moving on to the next question see this is a quiz question for you. Consider the following unorganized sectors statement one Asha workers, Anganwadi workers, MNREGA workers, Gig workers, migrant workers which of the above sectors are eligible to register on the eShram portal. Think carefully and attempt the question and post your answer in the comment section. Now moving on to the final question consider the following pass see this question contains mountain name and the type of mountain statement one Alps, Young fold mountain, Aravillian range oldest fold mountain, Appalachians very old fold mountain which of the following pass are correct see here all the given pass are correct see there are three types of mountains fold mountains block mountains and volcanic mountains Himalayan mountains and the Alps are the young fold mountains with the rugged relief and high conical peaks. The Aravillian range in India is one of the oldest fold mountain systems in the world the range has considerably worn down due to the processes of erosion. The Appalachians in North America and the Ural mountains in Russia have rounded features and low elevation they are very old fold mountains. So here the correct option is option C 1 2 and 3 only. I have given a main question for your practice so interested aspirants write it and post it in the comment section and if you have any queries related to the articles that we discussed today post that also in the comment section and with this we have come to the end if you find the video useful please like share and comment and do subscribe to Shankar Reyes Academy's YouTube channel thank you


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