So, our topics of the day, open acreage licensing policy, SALSA, 70 point performance grading index for main propellants and quota for general category on mains perspective. So, now let us move on to our first film's topic, open acreage licensing policy. So, why it is in use? The union minister of petroleum and natural gas and skilled development and under pressure has launched NIO and MRSE, which means notice for inviting offer and model revenue sharing contract for open acreage licensing policy bit round two, ok. So, it is an auction process. So, initially the government has decided for five auction rounds, ok. Now, it is going to be the second auction on which was delayed for several months, ok. This government is planning to auction nearly 30,000 square kilometers of areas for exploring and production blocks, ok. So, they have decided 14 exploration production blocks for exploring hydrocarbons, ok. So, this is done by the most investor friendly health project, which means hydrocarbon exploration licensing policy regime, ok. So, out of this 14 exploration and production blocks, 10 blocks are decided by expression of interest given by the investors themselves. So, who are all exploring? They have given the area of 10 blocks and the 4 blocks were carved out by the government based on the national seismic program and reassessment survey, ok. Based on the data, they have given 4 blocks. So, this is the news, ok. Now, let us see what is the background, ok. So, before 1997, most of this oil and gas explorations were done by ONGC and OAL India, but most of the states have started demanding for incentives in exploring because the most of the projects are becoming unviable. So, for fulfilling those demands, the government has introduced NEL, which means New Exploration Licensing Policy in the year 1997, which was continued till 2016. But what is the problem with this NELP, ok? This NELP is only for the conventional natural gases, ok. It does not talk about the non-conventional natural gas because non-conventional natural gas was not present at that time like shale gases, etcetera, ok. And it also has different licensing policy for each hydrocarbon. So, that is also a major problem here. Then it also says that government will carve out the areas for exploration and the bidders have to auction it and they have to get the areas. But the problem here is with 2016, nearly 250 blocks have been given by the government out of which 254 blocks were taken by the bidders. But out of this, 156 blocks were relinquished back to the government because of the unbiability. So, it is a problem with the NELP. So, for that, they have introduced a program called New Domestic Pricing Policy only in the difficult or a great licensing areas, ok. So, in that, the government will give special incentives for the most difficult exploring areas, ok. Even that is not fulfilling. The NELP government introduced HELP which means hydrocarbon exploration licensing policy. So, why it is important? This is a single licensing policy and also it has expression of interest which means the investors can choose the location of their own choice, ok. And added to that, the government has also introduced open acreage licensing policy in which the bidders can choose their area and national depository data registry which means it shows the potential area for the exploration of natural gases based on the seismic studies, ok. That will help for this petroleum exploration. So, this is a background regarding this open acreage licensing policy. Now, let us see why these reforms are important. So, we must know that. So, India is the third largest oil importer country, ok. But the problem here is most of the oil or importer we are aiming to reduce this oil import bill from 10 percent to 67 percent by the year 2022, ok. But still the energy demand is around 81 percent by imports, ok. This already we had seen that this NELP challenges and exploration production policies were already a challenges. So, that is why we have chose for this HELP regime, ok. Then this production sharing mechanism was initially used by the government which was to get maximum revenue. But now we have shifted to the revenue sharing mechanisms in which the government will have most of the revenues as well as the investors will have the more option for investments. So, hence we are choosing these reforms to have more investments as well as the domestic production in order to reduce the import of hydrocarbons from outside countries, ok. Now, how this HELP will help, ok. Now, let us see. So, it is a single license regime for all conventional and non-conventional fuels. So, it covers all the hydrocarbon compounds, ok. Then it will have the increased productions based on the investor friendly mechanisms and it also gives more responsibility to the investors in order to take care of the environment facilities, ok. Then they promote more investments, jobs and self-sufficiency because India does not want to depend on foreign countries and it also increases ease of doing businesses and reduced royalty which was a problem in with NELP and also there is no SESS mechanisms and revenue sharing mechanism which also helps to reduce the problem with the NELP mechanism, ok. Now, they had given marketing and pricing freedom to the bidders because initially the government will fix the rate of this hydrocarbons. Now they had given the independence to the investors, ok. And now apart from that we have expression of interest, auctions and online bidding programs. So, these are the important reforms made in this HELP team to increase the production of hydrocarbons as well as reduce the import of hydrocarbons to India, ok. So, this based on open acreage licensing policy. Now, let us move on to our next topic Salsa. So, what is Salsa means? That is subglacial, Antarctic lakes, scientific assess. So, this was a two-year program to start in the year 2016 with nearly 14 scientists from various US institutions, they are seeing the, they are actually drilling the Antarctic areas to see whether any life form is available, ok. That is termed as the hunt for life below Antarctic sea, ok. Now, what is the present news, ok? They have discovered a lake called Lake Mercer which is a subglacial lake which is hydrologically active and it encompasses nearly 60 to square miles below 3500 feet, ok. This is a second of its type after Lake Willam which was actually discovered in the year 2013. This lake Mercer is located 370 miles in southern side of the South Pole, ok. Now what they had said is, this is not a new discovery, it was initially discovered a decade before by a satellite study, but we have not explored. Recently in the last December, we have explored this subglacial lake, ok. So, now what are the studies they are going to do? This salsa is an extremely freshwater lake, ok. This Mercer is a freshwater lake and they had used a high-pressure hot water drill to reach the lake. So, now they have reached the lake, but what they are going to do in future is, they are going to collect waters and sediments, sediments from bottom of the lake and microbial DNA to check whether any life form is available in this lake and also to check the ice from the top of the lake to know the nature of the ices above the lake surfaces. Then for the first time, they have used a remote vehicle to submerge into the lake and take videos and cameras which of 4K video range, ok. And they are also introduced another instrument called CTD instrument which is nothing but conductivity, temperature and depth instrument that is going to read the temperature and structure of water and they are also going to compare the habitat of the lakes compared to the deep ocean, deep water habitat in Mars as well as in the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, ok. And it also helps to understand another lake called Lake Willem which is of fragile ecosystem which is of very pure ecosystems and it is isolated and it also helps to build the future of Antarctic Radia which is still a mysterious one. So, this is the most important perspective of this Salsa mission which is going to it is an ongoing program, ok. Now, let us move on to our next topic, 70 point performance grading index, ok. Recently, Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched 70 point performance grading index program to assess the quality of school education in all the states, ok. So, out in this program there is a 70 parameters which scores nearly 1000 marks each parameters will have 10 to 20 points per parameters, ok. The most interesting thing is all the 35 states and union territories have already confirmed for this participation in this index and they use 70 parameters. Some of the parameters like teachers vacancies, infrastructures, leaderships, their cleanliness, sanitation these are taken into consideration and Ministry of Human Resource Development has also given many other information like they are going to print more NCRT books in the future nearly 6 crores which is of greater demand in recent times. So, it is helpful for private institutions and parents to get the cheaper books, ok. Now, what are the highlights of this index? Now, they said the index will give a correct picture of states positions. The states will know where they are standing compared to other states. So, this will help to assess the area of deficiencies and give a targeted interventions to reduce the deficiencies and provide a level playing field. So, that will enhance a fair competition as well as the improvement of all the states developing together, ok. Another important perspective is NITI-IO with its School Education Quality Index is also going to use 33 parameters out of these 70 parameters produced by Ministry of Human Resource Development and in another initiative is with NCRT and HRD Ministry they are going to institute a central institute for assessment and handholding of states. This assessment will give a comprehensive method of all these education institutions and it also handholds states to improve their standard in education, ok. And what are the other highlights? They are going to give schools with digital board in order to increase e-learning mechanism in schools and another initiative is they are going to start a four year integrated bachelor of education degree in all school center and state level universities and also private universities if they are up to do four year integrated courses. This will help to have a comprehensive experience for teachers from class 1 to 10 and it is based on internship programs and teacher training institutes. So, these are the basic for this four year integrated bachelor of education degree. So, this all these mechanisms will help to have a well-equipped teachers and have a parity in all center state and private institutions, modern pedagogical tools for developing students and e-learning mechanisms and also helps to compare with other global best practices. So, hence it is an important topic for problems, ok. Now, let us move on to our main topic, quota for general category. So, why it is in use, ok. So, Ministry of Social Justice has introduced 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill 2019 in Lok Sabha and it was also passed and now it is also passed in Rajya Sabha. If it is accepted by half of the state, if it is ratified by half of the states it will become an act, ok. So, according to this bill that is the 10% reservations for general category in economically weaker sections. So, once it is become an act it will change the article 15 and 16 which is based on reservation for an employment as well as education, ok. But this economically weaker session will be determined by each state. So, it depends on each state who are going to be the economically weaker sections and this reservations will be applicable in all state and center education institutions, jobs as well as in private higher educations. So, this was important in use, but now we are going to see what is reservations. So, reservation is given for development of a particular homogeneous group, ok. In India 15% reservation is given for scheduled cast and 7.5 for scheduled tribes, 27 for other backward class. For general category and open category it is 50.5%. So, this is a reservation criteria in India. So, what is the background for this reservations? For India, the reservations started from the pre-independence era of Pune PAC 1932 between a father of nation Mahatma Gandhi and leader of people without nation which is Mr. Ambedkar. So, between them it was signed. So, it was to improve the standard of depressed classes. So, in that PAC one of the criteria is reservations. So, that started the reservation mechanism. And in constitutions we have also given article 340 which says about socially and educationally backward people to given representatives, to give reservations. And then the 9th schedule was introduced into the constitution by first constitutional amendment act 1951 in which the reservation is also a criteria which prevents supreme court from judicious scrutiny into that schedules. And later on the government also formed the first backward class commission by Kalka Kaleikar in the year 1953 and it submitted its report in 1955. But this commission report was rejected because it does not give any objectified attitude to the backward classes. Then again this backward class commission was formed in the year 1979 by BP Mandel and he had submitted the report in the year 1980. Later a decade the government, this VPC government has started to scrutinize the report and they had given 27% reservation for OBCs. Okay, in the year 1990s, again in 1991 Nasim Rao government has said that that must be two criteria for this OBC. One is giving preference to the poor OBCs that means creamy layer. Another one is 10% for economically weaker session of Hayaka. So, this was started in the year 1991. But supreme court rejected this provision because constitution only recognizes this educationally and socially backward class, not economically backward people. Again, based on this they have introduced creamy layer and in 1992 Mandel case they had said this creamy layer must be introduced changing the article 16. Okay, then according to this they have also constituted Ram Nandan committee in order to identify the creamy layers within the other backward classes. Okay, now based on this perspective they have also started National Commission for Backward Classes in the year 1993 but in the same year the Indra Shani case had came up that also said that the constitution has determined only the social and educationally backward caste not economically backward caste and that is an exception to a particular state called Tamil Nadu. In the year 1994 they have introduced 76th Amendment Act which provides 69% reservations for Tamil Nadu based on special conditions and at the last the least one is 2007 which is the judicial review of nine schedule. So, supreme court had said that any inclusion of nine schedule after 24 April 1973 will be subjected to judicial review and it is not escaping any judicial scrutiny. So, this is the history of this general category or otherwise this OBC categories. Okay, now let's see what are the pros and cons. So, what are the arguments for this quota reservations? They had said that the quota must be reserved for poor people because it is not based on equality. Equity must also be considered. So, poor people and economically backward people also must get reservations and they also said that it must help the urban and rural poor people because they are mostly they are economically backward. So, economically backward reservations will help to improve the livelihoods of urban and rural poor people and they also helped to reduce undue benefits which is going to reach the higher income group of these OBCs and SCST communities and they also stopped the rush to SCST and OBC status. We recently seen recent times like Marathas, Jads and Patel or actually rushing to get OBC status in order to get reservations and they also said that this existing reservation mechanism is inadequate to fulfill or mainstream this SCST communities. So, hence the economic reservation is also important and this unemployment is not subjected only to the poorer people or SCST people. It is also there in major communities and general category, hence this quota reservation is important and it benefits educated youth. What they have said is this caste based reservation is temporary which was introduced only till 10 years but it is even extended more than 70 years. Okay, hence a reform must be needed in this one and other things are like this non-poor beneficiaries getting reservation is actually increasing the social divide which can be seen in this Patel strike or Maratha strike or Jad strikes and what they had said is all these reservations have not prevented the ill treatment towards SC and STs or Dalits. Hence there must be a reform to get reprieve for this deprived people. Okay, now let's see the arguments against quota. So what they had said is it will play a full on Supreme Court judgment of 50% cap. So it will again increase another 10% which is 60%. So it is going to violate the judgment of Supreme Court and what they had said is the criteria is given for this economically weaker section is they must have at least income below 8 lakhs and they must have acres below 5 acres but this will actually accommodate 90% of Indians even in the budget they had said that most of the farmers in India are having lesser than one acre of land. So hence it is going to cover 90% of Indians and in constitution it does not mention any economically weaker section. So once we implement this it is going to be constitutionally violated and what they had said is the purpose of reservation is social justice. It is not a poverty alleviation program or economic program it is a social justice program which wanted to abolish the untouchability which was practiced for a longer time. This is the basic structure of constitution also and according to the former secretary of India P.S. Krishna who was very much renowned for the social justice he said that this quota will actually violate the constitution. That must need to be an economic programs for this economically weaker sections like giving scholarships, loans and employment opportunities, skill development but not reservations. Hence we already know that reservation process is becoming more unsustainable in recent times and what they had said is the government jobs in central as well as state are actually reducing year by year. Also even the public sector banks recommendations also getting reduced. Hence this is getting unviable and one more thing is this reservation is actually a 1960s and 70s concept it is not applicable for the present day. Hence what they had said is that should not be efflensy or evimsy of this political gimmicks rather than provide a sustainable as well as a structural benefit for the economically weaker sections not to deprive people of what they deserve. Okay, so with this I conclude today's topic. Please like, share and subscribe to your YouTube channel. Thank you.


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A very good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hindu news analysis brought to you by Shankara A's Academy. Here are the list of news articles chosen for discussion today and our video is timestamped for your convenience. Now let's move on to the discussion. So here is the first article that we are taking up for discussion today. So this is titled China goes malaria free with multi-pronged health strategy. This is a very notable feat. See following 70 years of effort recently China has been awarded this certification from WHO and if you see 1940s it reported about 30 million cases of disease annually and right now it has been awarded a malaria free status and that is why it is very important and in this context let us discuss this article which speaks about the strategy adopted by China which can be a lesson for the rest of the world. So here is the syllabus for your reference. See few days ago we were discussing about malaria in reference to some other news article right. If we recollect we understand that malaria is a disease life-threatening disease caused by plasmodium parasite and the parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected female anopheles mosquito called the malaria vectors and generally five different species cause the disease in humans but if you see only two specific species are the greatest threat. First is the plasmodium falciparum the next one is plasmodium pivax and as we saw they are spread by mosquitoes which are called the malaria vectors they are generally female anopheles mosquitoes and know that in 2019 alone about 229 million cases of malaria was reported across the world and however the WHO regions of the southeast asia eastern mediterranean western pacific and the americas they are also at risk they are not spared and if you see the symptoms generally it is manifested as fever and chills and individual acquiring malaria for the first time generally displays symptoms in 10 to 15 days after the infected mosquito bites the individual and if they are not treated within 24 hours it can actually turn out to be fatal and we also saw that the life cycle of a malarial parasite is completed by the humans that is half of its life cycle is in the mosquitoes and half is in the human body especially in the rbc's with that recollection in mind let us also know that malaria is very much preventable and curable that is globally about 40 countries and territories have been granted a malaria free certification from WHO and if you see the china is the first country in the western pacific region to be awarded a malaria fee certification in more than three decades so there are other countries who are in western pacific region who have been accorded these status this includes australia which was accorded in 1981 followed by singapore the very next year and brunei darsalam in 1987 and india is not malaria free we harbored a huge burden of malaria in our country now let us discuss the significant developments in china's malaria elimination journey so it started all in 1950s where the health authorities in china they worked to locate and stop the spread of malaria they provided preventive anti-malarial medicines for people and the country also made major efforts to reduce mosquito breeding grounds by stepping up the use of insecticide spraying and in 1967 the chinese government launched the five two three project remember this it was a nationwide research program so it aimed at finding new treatments of malaria this effort involving more than 500 scientists from 60 different institutions so this paid off and this led to the discovery of artemisinin in 1970s so this is one of the main state treatment for the malaria which is in vogue even right now and its core component of artemisinin is based on the combination therapies and in 1980s if you see china was one of the first countries in the world to extensively test the use of insecticide treated nets for the prevention of malaria and this was well before the nets were recommended even by the who for malaria control and as we know the insecticide treated nets are a form of personal protection that has been shown to reduce malaria illness by 1988 more than 2.4 million nets had been distributed in china and the use of such nets led to about substantial reduction in malaria incidents in the areas where they were deployed and by the end of 1990s the number of malaria cases in china came down drastically to 117000 and the deaths were reduced by 95 presentation you can imagine in less than 50 years this progress has been achieved so in this journey china was also helped by global funds to fight AIDS tuberculosis malaria so this fund remember was launched in 2002 and in 2020 after reporting four consecutive years of zero indigenous cases china applied for an official who certification of malaria elimination so what is this indigenous cases the cases that have seen spread and origin within the country okay those are called as indigenous cases but if non-indigenous cases something that is imported from the outside that is when a person lands inside china and that person is a carrier of malaria and they end up spreading and that is when it is a non-indigenous cases so for four consecutive years china has not had any indigenous cases so that is why it applied for the who certification and in 2021 china was declared as malaria free country by the who so to conclude we can say that this significant feat achieved by china shall help countries like india to realign their roadmap and it is also very important strategy that india can adopt to reduce its own load of malaria so with that information in mind let's move on to the next part of our discussion now let us take up this news article see recently us troops departed from the bagaram airbase so this airbase coordinated the 20 year long war in afghanistan and in this context let us discuss the afghan issue from the mains perspective and this discussion is divided into four segments for a better understanding so let's see them one by one the first one is regarding the reasons for us invasion of afghanistan first that is the beginning of the issue second part will be the motives of the us in pulling back its troops right now right following the doha accord and all and the third one is the role of pakistan in afghanistan politics and the fourth one deals with india's interest in the entire issue so the fourth part is going to be much more important but the first three parts are very much important for understanding the fourth part all right so here is the syllabus for your reference so let us take up the first segment first reasons for the us invasion of afghanistan see the history of afghanistan especially between the period of 1970s to 1990s it has witnessed large number of internal conflicts within the country that is within afghanistan and this internal conflict began in the year 1978 between anti-communist islamic gorillas and the afghan communist government and note that till that period these issues was seen as a intra-afghan conflict only but the real problem began when the religious fundamentalist groups within the afghanistan which is the taliban started to rule afghanistan from the year of 1996 so following that on 11th of september 2001 the attacks in the america killed nearly 3000 people you may remember the twin tower attacks famously it is called and it was identified that osama bin laden who is the head of the terror group al-qaida as the person behind the attack and the taliban group who ran afghanistan protected bin laden and they refused to hand him over to the us government as well so what happened as a result the us president george w bush declared war on the afghanistan because they failed to hand over the man responsible for the twin tower attacks and alongside this the natto coalition group led by the us quickly dislodged the taliban regime and established a transitional government and due to this the al-qaida's leaders and key operators fled to safe heavens in pakistan and with this let us move on to the next segment as to the motive of us in pulling back its see many experts say that taliban is a powerful fighting force so and it is believed to threaten the afghan democratic institutions citizens rights and the regional security and if you see the group has withstood counter insurgency operations from the world's most powerful security alliance which is the natto and three us administrators and it is reported that afghan war has killed more than 6 000 us troops and contractors and over 1,100 natto troops and some 46 000 civilians have died and an estimated 73 000 afghan troops and police officers have been killed in operations since 2017 you can see the nature of the war in afghanistan now the figures look really ugly isn't it and also the us had reached the conclusion long ago that the war was unwinnable this was the opinion about among the many experts as well and in 2015 july the obama administration had sent a representative to the first ever meeting between the taliban and the afghan government that was hosted by the pakistan in muhri so note that the first meeting that brought the terrorist group to the negotiation table was hosted in pakistan under the us director right and following this the president donald trump who succeeded obama appointed a special envoy for afghanistan so what was the mandate it had a mandate to directly negotiate with the taliban and this negotiation finally concluded with an agreement between the us and the taliban insurgents and this agreement is what is famously called as doha accord remember that and along with this information let us discuss about doha accord in brief let us just know what is the essence of it right briefly doha accord dealt with four aspects of the conflict the first demanding the talibans to end the violence so that is the first demand and the second one is the withdrawal of the foreign troops so this was a demand from the taliban side that is the foreign troops including natto troops have to withdraw the third one is asking talibans to join intra afghan peace talks and the fourth one is to prevent the use of afghan soil by terrorist groups such as al-qaida and the islamic state so the compromise from the us side is to put pressure on the afghan government to release thousands of taliban prisoners and this is the essence of the doha accord so coming back now focusing on the second aspect of the deal see let us know that us pledged to withdraw all its troops by may 1st itself of this year and it was said that at the time of signing of the agreement say in february 2020 but after the regime changed in the us the britain government also endorsed the trump taliban deal but what the new government did was they pushed the deadline for withdrawal further to september and till now we in detail saw about the us entry to its uh plan to exit in afghanistan now let us know the role of pakistan so why is pakistan's name being pulled inside the afghan peace talks first and foremost yes of course it's the neighboring country so involving it is going to be important and apart from that pakistan was one of the three countries that had recognized the taliban regime in 1990 and also the taliban captured much of the country with the help from pakistan's inter-service intelligence and even after september 11 attack on the us the pakistan government continued its support to taliban and remember we earlier discussed that our transition government was formed in afghanistan after us in near to invasion and as a result the terrorists fled to pakistan they sought refuge from pakistan and pakistan provided it and during these times the taliban regrouped they raised money they took recruits and they planned military strategies all this to place in pakistan soil and they staged a comeback in afghanistan now when the us is leaving and the taliban is advancing pakistan is again in the spotlight because of the help it provided to the insurgent group earlier and all this is happening but india's name also repeatedly pops up in the afghanistan issue so how does this development impact india's interest so that will be the fourth and the most important part of our discussion see in the past due to the terror activities of taliban india has been very critical of the taliban coming to the power and we have also shown resistance to publicly dealing with the afghanistan that is india never was in support until recently to negotiate with taliban in equal terms the same table okay and also india supports the ashraf ghani government and backs the idea of an afghan led afghan owned afghan controlled process but at the same time news reports quoting a kathari official mentions that india made contacts with the taliban in doha in recent times and one must be surprised in the sudden change in the afghan policy of ours see this is because ever since the us began pulling its troops taliban have made rapid territorial advances they are taking up control in major areas and according to the long war journal by the month of may taliban had controlled only 73 of the afghans 407 districts but right now the number of districts under taliban has gone up to 168 and this advance is just achieved in two months hence india's move in engagement with taliban is seen as more of a pragmatic approach but why india is more worried about this situation see india has three critical areas in dealing with the taliban one protecting its investments which run into billions of rupees in afghanistan because we wanted to have a good relations we invested a lot of money in afghanistan all right so that is one reason and the second preventing a future taliban regime from being influenced by pakistan so during the course of discussion we made it very clear how the insurgent group took refuge in pakistan and regrouped itself and came back pakistan is not a friendly state of india so pakistan when it can nurture a terrorist organization in its soil against one neighbor it is also a possibility that it'll nurture the terrorist organization against a not so friendly neighbor which is our country which is india and even time and again india has been very vocal and about the problems that pakistan is causing to india regarding terrorism so that is no secret right third reason why india has interest in the afghanistan part is that india is trying to make sure that pakistan backed anti-india terrorist group do not get support from the taliban so the second point is about the terrorist group getting support from pakistan and third point is about terrorist group getting support from taliban so it is more of a security question that india is worried about in the afghanistan so in the vicinity india does not want any more problem apart from pakistan and china so that is our concern with respect to the afghan issue so with this we have come to the end of this article let's move on to the next part of our discussion now let us take up this news article for discussion see recently the price of crude oil has been rising sharply so this article largely deals with what exactly is causing the spike in the fuel prices see in india the fuel prices has four major components but first is the crude oil frightened processing charges the second one is the excise duty charged by the government next is the dealer commission to the gas station and then comes the value added tax levied by the state government so as you can see one component that is excise duty is charged by the central government and the vat that is value added tax is levied by the state government now let us see the impacts of the taxes on the price hike see note that increasing central and the state taxes on fuel are the key reasons for the prices of petrol and diesel being this high in our economy see the central government in 2020 hiked the excise duty on petrol and diesel petrol it hiked at rupees 13 and diesel it hiked at rupees 16 and why did the central government do this this was to shore up the revenues at the as the pandemic led to sharp fall in the income of the central government so in order to compensate for that it wanted more revenue to spend more for the people so it ended up charging more in the petrol and diesel and in delhi if you see the central and state taxes account for about 57 percentage of petrol prices and 51.4 percentage of diesel prices see in other words if you take one litter of diesel and if you have the price of the diesel it is the actual diesel cost without tax that is almost half the price of a litter of a diesel is contributed by the taxes and in order to curb the prices few states including Rajasthan, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya they have reverse hiked the state levies that is we saw that central and the state taxes contribute to the price of the petrol so as the central government has increased the price in order to keep the prices low the state governments have decreased the prices to keep the prices of the diesel and the petrol stable and the decrease in the price has been brought about by decreasing the state taxes so as you can see this will take a hit on the state revenue but the central government's revenue would still remain stable see will still remain stable because the central government has not cut the central taxes and if you see even RBI has been asking central government to cut the taxes because RBI sees that the increase in the fuel price will contribute to the inflation that is general price rise in the economy so typically when the fuel prices rises the inflation also rises so consequently what happens is the goods and services will become much more expensive and the investment returns will also decrease so let us take an example say some lorry is transporting some raw material for a textile industry from a different part of the country so when the lorry is transporting it requires diesel right so when the raw material is transported from a different part of the country the lorry diesel prices increases so the transportation charges increases and thereby the textile that is being manufactured so the cost of the textile is also increased so that is how the inflation accumulates in the other sector as well so when this happens the number of people buying that particular textile will be discouraged from buying because it is much more expensive than it was before right so the demand will get muted so the person who is investing on these textile the investments return will also diminish so this is how we understand the phenomenon right now if you remember India's retail inflation raised to 6.3 percentage in May 2021 and if you see it has breached the upper limit of the central bank's inflation target that is 6 percentage for the first time in the six months and this brought further pressure on the economy whipped up by the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic infections because of the lockdowns that was reimposed during the second wave so what is the way forward recently the ratings agency ICRE proposed that the government may cut ses lavis on certain retail prices of petrol and diesel to ease the prices and according to the agency's estimates petrol consumption is estimated to grow 14 percentage and diesel by 10 percentage in the financial year 2020 year on year so this is mainly driven by the recovering economic activities and mobility after the lifting up of the lockdowns see the higher the consumption of fuel the greater will be the indirect taxes that will accumulate with the central government so this estimated growth in consumption would result in rupees 40 000 crore of extra ses collected during the current fiscal compared to the last fiscal so that is the estimate by ICRE thus according to ICRE government can afford a window for a partial reversal in ses hikes that were imposed last year if the government foregoes the additional ses revenue that could accrue during the higher fuel consumption the existing fuel prices can be cut by rupees 450 per liter of petrol and diesel so that is the estimates given by ICRE which seems very valid given the high prices of fuel that is prevalent in the economy carrying the risk of inflation that can accumulate subsequently in the other sectors of the economy let's not forget that fuel is the basic raw material for any manufacturing order service industry so with that knowledge in mind let's move on to the next segment of our discussion today now our next discussion is going to be on this article see this article is written on the basis of the green passport system that is making bus see this system of green passport has raised protests from india as well as the african union so in that context this article is more of an explainer about the green passport and the implications of it around the world so this is the syllabus that covers this article so before getting to know about this article so let us know what is a green passport see recently the european union implemented the eu digital covid certificate and this is what is popularly called as green passport so this green passport is expected to ease travel restrictions for people traveling to the EU country that is those people who are vaccinated will be allowed to travel to the EU country that is the essence of this and for that green passport is a digital proof all right so this green passport attests information on the vaccine information of the individual and this passport recognizes four covid-19 vaccines and all these four covid-19 vaccines have been cleared by the european medical agencies or receive a negative test results or recovered from a viral infection so these are the criteria for one to get a green passport let's go over it again first one is vaccination with four vaccines that have been cleared by the european medical agency number one second one is receiving a negative test result that is rtpcr or someone who has been recovered from the viral infection and if you see the certificate includes information such as the name date of birth date of issuance the name of the vaccine or the details of the negative test result or the details of the recovery from the covid-19 so these are the parameters that the green passport requires and note that the certificate contains a digital signature in the form of a qr code and each issuing body has its own digital signature key all of which are stored in a secure database in each country and note that the certificate is recognized by all the 27 european union countries as well as switzerland, lichenstein, iceland and the norway so therefore a person possessing this certificate will be exempted from free movement restrictions and the member states should refrain from imposing additional travel restrictions on such holders until unless they are necessary to safeguard the public health and those who do not possess the certificate they will be subject to the usual travel restrictions and quarantine rules which are in effect in every country now the issue is that the european medical agency has listed only four vaccines we saw that right so this includes an oxford astrazeneca vaccine which is a vaxivaria and pyser biotech vaccine that is comernati and another moderna vaccine which is a spike vaccine and johnson and johnson vaccine which is janssen and this means that none of the three vaccines that india is utilizing that is covishield, covax and sputnik have featured in the list this means that only essential travel is allowed into the european union countries and that too special permission have to be taken from those traveling from india so this has made traveling for indians to europe much more difficult right and with the global concerns over the delta variant which was first detected in india more restrictions have also been put into place and making the travel more difficult and according to the european union the reason behind excluding the indian vaccine is that the serum institute of india vaccine that is covishield is biologically a different product which means that it needs to apply separately for an ema clearance so in this line the serum institute of india and astrazeneca are in the process of seeking clearance but what is being left behind is the covaxin see covaxin is yet to gain recognition even from the world health organization however there is a hint of racism that is being claimed behind it because if you see all the vaccines that are being approved they are being used by the north american people and the european people but they have not been used in the other countries that is the third world countries as it is called or the low income countries and the middle income countries and who in this regard has held that the vaccine passport should not be made mandatory for travel and it should be optional only so that is what who is calling for further it stated that the proof of covaxin vaccination should not be required as a condition of entry and exit from a country now coming to india stand what has india done in response to the green passport so in the recent g20 ministerial conference the external affairs minister registered a strong protest over the issue and as per the sources india was prepared to initiate reciprocal harsh quarantine measures against the countries that discriminate against the indians and see india's concerns in this regard are threefold and one is vaccine inequality or the vaccine passports being restricted to passengers from countries that do not have the same access to vaccines then is to gain recognition to covaxin first is vaccine inequality second one is to gain recognition to covaxin and third one for the indian approved vaccine to be given recognition across the globe so this is the three concerns that india will be fighting for india future and like india the african union and the african centers for disease control and prevention has also raised the concerns over the green passport because they have also been using the covaxin vaccine and this they have pointed out that has been the backbone of the EU supported international covax alliance program in africa so they have also registered a protest regarding this coming to the present currently at least nine countries including these countries like switzerland netherland austria germany have independently made exemptions for covi shield whereas estonia has accepted both covi shield as well as covaxin so there is a hope that enough pressure will be built on the AMA to include exemptions for the indian vaccines as well so with this we understand that how vaccines have been used as a tool to discriminate between the worlds and how india is fighting to get recognition for the homemade vaccines across the world and have travel access for indians to the europe and the other western countries so with this we have come to the end of this article discussion now let's move on to the next part of our news discussion now let us take up this news article which reports about the recent findings at codomanal excavation site so the news is that 2300 year old stepwell has been found for the first time at the codomanal excavation site by a team of the state department of archaeology see stepwell is nothing but where the water is stored in the well and the surrounding walls of the well are constructed in the form of stairs because during summers when the water level recedes the people can go deep down walk deep down and fetch the water so this stepwell trend in archaeology is very famous in india this particular picture that we are displaying is not about codomanal but it is just for your general understanding of a stepwell so in this slide let us see some important facts about codomanal excavation site and also the recent findings first let us see about the excavation site see codomanal is located at a distance of 40 kilometers from e-road this is a district in tamil nadu and it is located in the northern banks of river noyal and this is a tributary of kaveri if you recollect and note that the excavation at this site has brought to light two cultural periods and they are the megalithic period and the early historic period and the site is believed to have served as a habitation and an industrial site as well this is because the excavation since 1981 on this site revealed the presence of a industrial complex the industrial complex made beets and semi-purchase stones and there were also evidences of presence of a number of iron smelting units making steel at the site which was a trade center from the 5th century BCE to the 1st century BCE and remember this village lies on the ancient trade route that connected the cheira capital of karur with the cheira port of musiri in patinam in kerala so remember these facts they are very important from the example perspective now coming to the recent findings see a circle shaped stepwell has been found so this is found for the first time during the excavation of this particular site and the scientific dating that was done last year revealed that this well is about 2300 years old and note that back in 2020 the team unearthed rubble masonry wall of 3.5 meters which was believed to be a waterway so in this line during the current excavation a trench was dug near the last year's trench to know more about the waterway and this resulted in the discovery of the well and the well is found to be about 2.65 meters wide and the depth is expected to be known only after the deposits are removed and the step of the wells which is constructed using weathered rocks slopes down from the ground to the well that served the habitation and two rubble masonry walls existed on the either side of the steps and since this site is believed to be a habitation cum industrial site as we saw earlier the water from the well is expected to have been used both for household needs as well as for polishing the beach and the other industrial activities and apart from this the other objects excavated at this site so far includes pottery like black and red ware and black slipped ware russet coated ware and apart from that we also have red slipped ware and we have beads made of quartz and clay and portraits and megalithic cairn circle iron ward double edged axis and we also found some small daggers so this is all about the codominal excavation site you may expect a prelims question out of this and that is why we discussed this article so with this we have reached the end of this discussion with that in mind let's move on to the next segment of our discussion now let us take up some small topics for discussion that are very important from the preliminary point of view we have three topics in that direction so this topic is from the trivandrum edition of the hindu so this article talks about subiksha keralam let us know about the scheme alone which could be asked in the exam see this subiksha keralam scheme was launched to attain self-sufficiency in the state especially regarding the agriculture and food see if you see the kerala state is not very self-sufficient with respect to agriculture it imports a lot of stuff from the other state so in order to cut the expenses in this regard the government has launched this particular scheme so what does it do is the fellow lands in the state are being turned towards cultivation and for that various government machineries have been roped in to initiate the cultivation so that is all about this particular scheme this particular scheme can also be quoted as a case study in any relevant gsmains answers as well so with that let's move on to the next topic this is about the opec plus grouping so recently the oil prices have been reaching very high prices and the opec plus have been trying to you know regulate the prices of the oil and for that they have been convening various rounds of meeting and this news article is about that so let us understand opec and opec plus from the preliminary perspective with respect to this article so first let us start with opec opec is nothing but organization of the petroleum exporting countries and if you see it is a prominent intergovernmental organization and it has about 14 members and all these 14 members are oil exporting developing nations and if you see it was created in 1960 at the Baghdad conference and it has five founding members that is Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela and the other members of opec include Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates and many others and if you see they are all oil rich countries capable of exporting oil and Qatar was also a member but it left opec in 2019 January and there are other oil exporting nations apart from these and these other nations join the opec meetings as observers and this is a mission of the opec nations that is displayed here and the opec is headquartered in the country of Austria that is in Vienna and the secretariat and the executive organs are also located in Vienna and if you see the notable publication that is released by opec is the world oil outlook with that information let us know about the opec plus countries see this is a loose group compared to the opec itself so this has about 24 oil producing nations that is 14 opec members and 10 non opec members and if you see the non opec member country include also Russia so Russia is also an oil exporting country remember that and this was born very recently in 2017 only because in 2017 if you remember there was a glut in the oil production and there was a free fall in the oil prices in the global market so in order to stabilize that in 2017 opec plus was formed and it reached deals for members to voluntarily cut and ramp up production in response to the changes the global oil prices and here the members collectively agree on how much oil to produce or how much oil to cut in production so if you can see overall the opec and opec plus nations exert considerable influence over the global oil market prices and it tends to keep it stable not very high or not very low thereby to maximize the profit with that information let's look into the next article so this article is taken from the Chennai edition so the Tamil Nadu government is in this age in bringing Krishna water through pipelines so traditionally the Tamil Nadu has been taking Krishna water through canals and this is resulting in a lot of theft by the farmers on the way so the stipulated amount that is supposed to reach Tamil Nadu according to the Telugu Ganga project or the Krishna water supply scheme the actual amount that is stipulated under this project is not reaching Tamil Nadu so pipeline to bring Krishna water to Tamil Nadu is being envisaged in that context let us know about Krishna river in particular see this Krishna river is a east flowing river of the peninsular India and it rises in the Mahabaleshwar in the western guards in Maharashtra so the total length of the river is about thousand three hundred thousand four hundred kilometer and it drains into the Bay of Bengal and if you see the Krishna basin extends over four states that is Andhra Pradesh Telangana Maharashtra and Karnataka and together this covers about eight percentage of the total geographic area of our country and the river is bounded by the Balagat range in the north the eastern guards on the south and the east and we have western guards on the west see it has about 13 major tributaries which join Krishna along the 1400 kilometer course and of the thirteen six are right bank tributaries and the seven are left bank tributaries and among the major tributaries the Ghataprabha Malaprabha and the Thungabhadra are the principal right bank tributaries and if you see Bhima, Mousi, Munneru are the principal left bank tributaries and note that the major hydropower stations in the basin are Koina, Thungabhadra, Srisailam, Nagarjuna Sagar, Almatti, Narayanpur and Badra. Remember a few of these which can come handy for your preliminary exam and the basin is said to possess rich mineral deposits and this can create a good potential for industrial development and iron and steel cement sugar cane vegetable oil extraction and rice myelin are some of the important industrial activities if you see around the basin and the major urban centers in the basin are Pune, Hyderabad and all and remember that the hydrological observation in the basin is carried out by the central and the state government and the central water commission maintains a 53 gauge distal site also in the basin so this is all about the Krishna river and with that we are at the end of the discussion on the news analysis and we are at the fag end of today's discussion that is practice preliminary question we have two questions in that regard let's go over it one by one so the first question is this which of the factors that are mentioned affects the price of the automobile fuel in India so this is the question and we have four factors listed we are supposed to identify what are the factors that influence the petrol and diesel prices in India so from our discussion we'll remember that the frightened processing charges to the dealers excise duty charged by the central government that by the state government are all components of the fuel prices and but the higher tax slab under GST the fuel prices are still yet to be inducted under the GST regime so it is still kept out of it so option C is the right answer when we eliminate the fourth factor from A, B and D itself so with that let's move on to the next question so this is a two statement question pertaining to malaria so the first statement goes like this malaria is a bacterial disease spread to people through the bites of infected female anopheles mosquito see this statement is wrong because the malaria is not a bacterial disease but it is a paracital disease which is spread by the female anopheles mosquito and we also saw plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium ovale are the most threatening species in the malaria so with that let's move on to the next statement in 2020 India was declared as a malaria free country by the world health organization see it is not so we also saw in the discussion that India is not malaria free and it almost harbors majority of the world malaria cases so statement two is wrong so we are asked to identify the correct statement so our option is option D neither one nor two and these are some of the main questions inspired from our discussion today write these answers and post it in the comment section for peer review see writing one or two answers every day will give you a very good edge in your GS preparation right so with that information in mind let's wrap up our discussion today if you like the video like share comment and subscribe and we provide the PDF link for the hand written notes in the description box as well as in the comments box stay home stay safe good day


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Hi, my name is Carl Griffiths and I'm an Account Manager in the UK Super Office team. I am here today to talk about one of my favourite features within the Super Office CRM solution. The feature I'm going to be referring to on today's video is dashboards. So what are dashboards? Dashboards offer any user the ability to see their CRM data as a clear visual representation. For example, I have created this total overview where you can easily see a wide range of key metric data from the system and making changes is easy. I can simply click on the drop down here and choose from a wide variety of pre-created ready-to-go dashboards. As long as you have the data from the system, Super Office will make it very easy for you to see this in a dashboard form. You'll also notice the many tabs I have at the top. I've also created these myself, making it extremely efficient for locating the specific data I want. You can create a new tab by simply clicking the plus symbol. You will first want to create a title. In this example, I want to create a customer watch list where I want to focus on two elements. So for this reason, I will then select two tiles. Now we have created the new tab. We will now choose the two tiles I want to see. I want to choose the custom dashboards I created earlier, where one tile has shown me a pie chart of all customers needing deleting for GDPR purposes and the second tile is showing me all customers who haven't yet purchased from us this year. You can create custom dashboards by using selections you have made in Super Office. I would like to finish this video by showing you an example of this. If we move over to my user adoption tab, I would like this to show two key dashboards, one being activities by company category and I'd also like to create a new dashboard for seeing all my team's overdue activities. If I select new, I can start creating my tile. You can give your tile a name, so it's searchable in the dropdown. You will then choose what data it is showing. As this is activity information, I will select activity. I will now choose the chart I want to use. And finally, the data source. So where is the data coming from? Well, I want to use the selection I created earlier. Once I click the dropdown, it will now show me all the selections that are available for the parameters I've selected. And now, with a few clicks, I have within seconds created my own custom dashboard showing me exactly what I want to see. One last thing, dashboards also allow you to directly work within the data. If I click into the overdue activities, for example, I can now see the specific data listed and can now easily communicate this to my entire team to action. This is not a feature you tend to currently use. I do hope this short video has inspired you to see some additional value in using dashboards and super office. Thank you for watching my favorite feature of super office. For any further information, please feel free to contact with the details provided. Have a great day.


Excited this morning to join and seek and send our time here at Radiant Church, where we're praying both in our homes and corporately. And this is day four, and about halfway through, we're gonna be opening up and praying from Psalm 27. But this morning before we begin in worship, I wanna read out of first John four. It says this in verse 16. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God. And God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment because as he is also so are we in the world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. This morning that we calm and approach the Lord in love and say that I want to abide in the love of God, his perfect, abounding, never ending love. And that when we abide in your love, you abide in us. And so we thank you for this truth. We thank you for this mystery. And what we would be like those in John 15 that we're in the vine. The branches are in the vine, not disconnected, not broken, not fallen. And the vine dresser comes and restores us and reattaches us and puts us into the vine. So today we abide in you. We abide in the fullness of your love. And we say there is no other love that's perfect other than your love. And we thank you for your perfect, never ending love that comes and chases us down, that loves us with a never ending, compassionate love. And we wanna receive the full reality of that love today. And we thank you for your love, your peace, your strength, your kindness towards us. And we open up our heart to receive that love. And we praise, acknowledge and give you thanksgiving today that you will be honored today, honored in your love. Can we just even open up your hands and say we receive the full love of God, deposit within us your love. I wanna abide in you and no one else, not a person, not a thing. I abide in Jesus today. We abide in you, the vine today, Jesus. We bless you, we thank you in the name of Jesus. I try to pursue the great pursuer as hard as I think I'm running after you. Just as you chase us down in your love God that we would respond in praise and the beautiful exchange that your love comes after us. And it's our joy and opportunity to respond in praise and honor and glorification of you, King Jesus. We're gonna shift our time in our Seek and Send focused today, day four and Psalm 27. If you have your Bibles, we're focusing today on God's heart, walking in intimacy with the Lord. In Psalm 27 verse four, it says, one thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. God, we ask that you would help us today to grow in intimacy with you. Whatever has captured our hearts in other ways, affections that have been given to other things. God, we ask that we would shift those things towards you and to you that there's a seeking after and a gazing on the beauty of the Lord. Let our affections today be captured by the beauty of the Lord. Captivated in heart and mind that we're gazing, we're looking and we're taking in, we're beholding the beauty of God and that there's one thing that I'm after. There's so many other things that I could pursue. I could pursue happiness. I could pursue an American dream but I reject that norm culturally. And I say, I'm after Jesus today. My heart is seeking after you Jesus that I would be captivated by your love and by your beauty. Let my heart respond to your love and saying I desire more of you. I'm after you Jesus today. There's one thing that I'm pursuing, one longing in my heart. It's you Jesus. And let my affections, God, put it well up within me. And God, I say one thing, God. Let us have one heart, one pursue, one thing in mind and it's you Jesus. God, let us pursue you. Pursue you with strength, pursue you with confidence. It says that we can approach your throne of grace and we receive mercy and grace. So God, give us mercy and give us grace as we pursue you today in the name of Jesus. Once that lost sheep and you left the 99 and you came after us today, we're saying because you sought me, now it's my turn to seek after you. And even in a father, mother relationship with their son or their daughter and hide and seek in the home.  And now father and mother goes to hide and the child is now seeking.  God, we're chasing you down. There's a pursuit in our heart. Yes, that we've been found but now we want to find. So we ask Lord that you would help us in our pursuit of you. Be gracious to us. God, not hiding your face from us but that you at times create distance so that we'll come after you, that there's a longing that actually builds up in our hearts and in our souls. And so we say today, there's one person that we're after that I have been sought after and now I can respond in the seeking. God, that we're coming to find you. We're coming to chase you down. We want to know your heart. We want to know your voice. You are good. You are kind. You are merciful. You're slow to anger. You're abounding in love. So God, we're after that. We're after you. The fullness of who you are. God, we want more of you. More of your love. More of your beauty. More of your kindness. God, we're seeking you. We're chasing after you today in the name of Jesus. The one who seeks finds. And God, we say that we want to be those that are called, those that have found, that we have sought you and that we have found you. And so in our seeking, God, let yourself be found. Do not hide yourself from us. Let yourself be found by us. And God, that that desire in our heart, the seeking after you, seeking first the kingdom of God and all the other things will be added unto you, God, that there will be one pursuit, one longing, one thirsting and one hunger in our hearts. It's you, Jesus. Let all the anxieties, let all the disappointments and discouragements fall away. We're after one thing today and it's Jesus. We're after your heart. We're after your word. We're after your voice. We're after your presence because in your presence there's fullness of joy that when we find you, God, we're releasing of joy in our hearts and this relationship, there's a bonding agent that takes place. And would you release joy in this seeking and this finding, God, would you release joy that in your presence you're releasing fullness of joy? So release joy into your hearts. Release joy into your children and release love, God. In the seeking and finding, one pursuit, one seeking, God, let joy be released in the name of Jesus. We see this with princes. It's what you do, what you do. Joy and in the promise in John 16 that no one will take your joy from you, that we can rest assured and be confident in who Christ is and in the joy of the Lord today. There's one thing that we're seeking after today, church and it's him, it's his heart. We thank you for this prayer time together. Thanks for joining in, bless you, be filled with joy, joy of the Lord in the name of Jesus.


Everybody, this is Brett, and this 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is stock number 13287Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep and Jeep Grand Cherokee headquarters. This 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee has the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi engine. This vehicle puts out 470 horsepower, and it has been fully a safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this Jeep Grand Cherokee is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. Inside, start it up and take a look under the hood. Bright white is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it's your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. Going down this side, doors and rear quarter and fender all look really good, and if you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notification so you get updates every time I do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the 20 inch painted and polished aluminum rims. Of course, it's going to have the Brembo brakes on it. It has Pirelli Scorpion Zero 295 45 ZR20 tires, and these tires I would say have right around half the tread left on them. Front fender is in excellent condition. You get the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, and the LED fog lamps. We're going to turn all those lights on at the end of the video, so stay tuned for that. It's only a couple of minutes away. You can see it does have the adaptive cruise, forward collision warning, all that good stuff. You get the special SRT heat extraction hood, blacked out Jeep lettering, and the front bumper is in excellent condition. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes. Passenger side front fender looks really good, and the passenger side front rim, no scuffs or scrapes on there. Now as you go down this side of this 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective, and mirror like that paint is. Take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by, you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that was helpful and that brought sense to you. Back rims in nice shape. You get the Brembo brakes back here as well. And once again, if you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel in the upper right hand part of the screen. Back tires have the same amount of tread as the fronts. And coming around to the back here, where your bumper is in nice shape, does have the backup parking sensors, the dual outlet exhaust, LED tail lamps, blacked out SRT and Jeep lettering. This is a power lift gate that lifts up like so. Does come with the factory subwoofer back here, and the back storage area is very clean.  This does not have a spare because the tires on here are run flats. That button puts the gate down. It does have the factory subwoofer back there as well. For full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape as well. No scuffs or scrapes. And we'll take a look at the interior. It does have blind spot monitoring, heated mirrors, and directional signals in there. Inside the SRT package gives you the black leather and suede interior. Look at the SRT stitched into the backrest. The red seat belts, both of these seats are heated and cooled and power. Factory floor mats, you get the bright pedals, auto headlamps, carbon fiber trim on the dash, and door, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and memory driver's seat. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. These back seats are heated on the outboard side, two USBs, and a 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in. These seats do fold down like so, and you can see just how nice and flat that they go in the Grand Cherokee. That's one of my favorite options in the Grand Cherokee is that the functions is just how nice and flat those back seats go.  Carbon fiber on the back doors, and child safety locks on the back doors as well. Bottoms of the doors all look really good. We'll hop inside and check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this Jeep has to offer on the interior. So you can see that this one has 35,857 miles. You get a digital speedometer there on that 7-inch LCD display. Get the compass and time up there. You can change those corners to read pretty much whatever you want. This one comes with the heated leather-wrapped SRT8 steering wheel, adaptive cruise controls, regular cruise controls, Bluetooth information center controls. You have your paddle shifters there, audio controls on the back, kind of the flat bottom steering wheel. This one has the UConnect 4C radio, which gives you AM, FM, and serious satellite radio capabilities. It also has, of course, the factory navigation that you saw there. There's Highway 41, so that is working nicely. You have your heated and cooled seat buttons, as well as your backup camera, and you can see that that is working nicely. You have all your different apps in here, including projection manager, you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. We actually did a demo on Android Auto if you want to check that video out. That's in the upper right-hand part of the screen as well.  This one has the 8-speed automatic transmission with the center console shifter there. You have your keyless entry with remote start and rear gate button. And then this is your four-wheel drive system. You get sport, track mode, snow mode, and tow mode, and then custom. And then, of course, you have your launch control right there. Carbon fiber dash. Door trim goes right around the door. Looks really good. Passengers side seat and format are in excellent condition. Smells very clean inside this Jeep. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And then you get the panoramic sunroof with the second-row fixed glass. Home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems, sunroof and sunshade controls as well as a rear gate control. SOS and assist buttons in the mirror. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Check out all those HID and LED lights up front. Starts right up. Engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully, from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition and options on this Jeep. HID and lights, LED running lights, LED fog lamps, very nice and bright. All working well. And under the hood, we have the 6.4-liter V8 Hemi Engine. Engine bay is very clean. Engine's very smooth. Once again, this Jeep has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this Jeep is 100% ready to go. There is your emission sticker. And you can see that heat extraction hood there.  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It is Sunday. I'm with some friends. I just met Harley, but this is Taylor, and we've hung out. We've hung out for a day Was that the only day we hung out? Yeah, but it's love. Yeah, it was love at first sight But we are getting breakfast at the hillside pharmacy. I had this bookmarked on my yelp So I'm very excited. I literally already know what I want. So let's get some food Our food. I got a fried egg sandwich with a fried green tomato in it. I love fried green tomatoes I'm super excited. What'd you get? I got blueberry pancakes and a side of cheese grits, but they don't look very cheesy We're about to dig in. Look who got home at the same time as me I got gas. That's how I asked for ETA. It's in my car wash. Fetty Walk put out a new song today. Good to know. Thank you for that information Was it good? I was wondering where Fetty Walk was Just got home from brunch Yeah, it looks it was so it was really cute. It was just very cool We are planning on going to Barton Springs. I Don't think you can take her to Barton Springs though I feel like I thought it said no dogs, but I don't know where I heard that I went to the gym. I Need it. This is my gym the third floor. I know I'm thinking about doing orange theory, but It's not super like close by wait, would you just say no there is the girl that I went to lunch with today She said crush fitness Crush She said I was similar to orange theory, so I'm gonna have to check out my options because I need someone to like tell me what to do. I don't know what to do in the gym Sophie Sofers Sophie come here come here So Yeah, I'll bear you I'll bear all of you her teeth right now.  I just bring my hair and I feel like I have never done this hairstyle I don't know if it's like Flattering or what but Just getting some towels for us for Barton Springs Austin has so many like bodies of water that you can swim in like springs and Like what is called like whorries. I know I don't know we also need to go to Lake Travis It's really pretty But I am using my beach bag I got this on Amazon and it is super freaking cute has these little taxes on it and I'm pretty sure it's around like 50 bucks But it's so worth it. Maybe it's not I don't know maybe it's like more expensive I'll link it down below for y'all to check out but it is so cute and very sturdy. It has like this canvas Sort of material Okay, you know what? Nobody needs to know about my sauce. I'm a sauce girl. So I bought literally all these sauces on Amazon Because I could not find them in the stores. But anyways back to the Amazon bag Um, very cute very sturdy has like a canvas material inside of it So I guess you can't really see it, but it's like really good quality. Um And it's really cute. So I've been using it ever since spring break. I think I bought it for my cruise I think so What do you want? Do you want to get in it? Do you want to get in the bag? Do you want to get in? So I took a nap in the car much needed um, but we just got to Barton Springs and There's so many people here. So we don't even know what's gonna happen. I don't even know where to go, honestly Um, so we'll keep you guys updated. I also wonder how deep it is here But it's so cool and there's like a diving board there The city view over there Rocks over here. We just got out of the pool and I jumped in And I just got in so yeah, but I jumped in and legit Had a panic attack because it was so cold like it is freezing Not that bad If I was if I was hot and then just jumping nearly in it would have been a greater So I got in slow I feel like jumping in is better, but anyways, yeah, I think I had a panic attack So that was great, but other than that this place is so freaking cool and I mean, there's like a lot of people, but I don't know definitely gonna wear my choppers next time because like I still my toe like five times so So as y'all know I took a nap on the way here, but Ryan said that there wasn't a line at terry blacks I don't know if it's open. I'm pretty sure it is. Okay, we need to find out We need to find out because I like don't say terry blacks around me unless you're taking me barbeque because I like was craving it when I was in california I was like I need freaking brisket right now like and that's not something I usually crave, but Terry blacks was really good. All right moment of truth Parking looks small. I think it's just out the door. That's how it was last time I kind of don't mind I'm kind of craving it Should I do it? Should I go stand in line and you find parking somewhere? We got some jalapeno sausage, cornbread Potato salad It's way more. I hope it's good. I don't say Yeah, taste has to 27 and I didn't wash my hair just because I want to work out tomorrow morning And so I want to like have a really good workout and like not have to worry about sweating through my hair So I am gonna wait till tomorrow But I'm probably gonna end the vlog here because we have a lot of cleaning up to do Our apartment just I don't even know how like it literally blew up But there's just messes all around so we need to clean up and be focused So I hope you all liked this vlog and I'll see y'all in the next one. Bye