So what do you think, so I could move in on the company? I think it was attached to you. Sure. Well, that was really... Sure. Yeah. I'll decide in a second. You just talked to us. All right. Thank you so much, everybody. I love this music. We've had a really good... You've come a long way to your mind, but I like your attires, and I really appreciate it.  When I taught you something new, you just sort of took a part in it. It's just a really amazing experience. I couldn't be happier. And I'm more excited about the day. I love this music, and it's built for us. This is a great, really solid piece. This is the first movement, too, and I think the whole thing of hard-presenting is precious to me. Anyway, I hope you're excited, too. Thank you so much, and I'll see you back here. I'll tell you how it went. What do you think? Good morning. Welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual. As together, we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Karen Rose Gredler, and on behalf of the entire congregation, I would like to extend a special welcome to visitors this morning.  This would be a great time to silence cell phones as we join together in a few moments of silence for contemplation, meditation, prayer, as we become fully present with ourselves and one another on this glorious morning. Good morning. We will sing hymn number 1003 in the teal hymnal, and we will sing each line twice before moving on to the next line. There are four lines total. All right, do you have that instruction because then I have another one. We're going to sing it together from top to bottom as a group. Then we're going to divide into a round. So over here will be group one and to my right group two. And Karen will be singing with group two. So if you get lost, just look at her mouth or contemplate these questions. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Again there. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Where do we come from? Again where? Mystery. Life is a riddle and a mystery. Mystery. Mystery. Life is a riddle and a mystery. Where do we come from? Where are we? Group one please. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Where do we come from? What are we? Life is a riddle and a mystery. Back to the beginning let's do it all again. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we? One more time. Life is a riddle and a mystery. Let's repeat that last line group one. Where do we come from? Where do we come from? We may be seated on this amazing and heartbreaking day when we, people who come from many places and representing an array of ages and identities, we gather together to be renewed, refreshed, re-ignited on this heartbreaking and amazing day when we, a people ever mindful of the mysteries of life, we gather together to seek companionship on our journeys, feeling that we may indeed be on the brink of all that we have ever loved. And together we join in reading aloud the chalice-lighting words printed in your orders of service as together we say, all that we have ever loved and all that we have ever been stands with us on the brink of all that we aspire to create, a deeper peace, a larger love, a more and embracing hope, a greater generosity of spirit, a deeper joy in this life we share. I invite you to turn to your neighbors for a friendly greeting. Presentation this morning our Director of Children's Religious Education, Leslie and we usually on the fourth weekends of the month do lighting of joy and sorrow candles, so we'll be doing that later in the service because today we have something special. A super important part of this story because without you all, we would have no story to tell it off. And that's because our story today is about a special group of teachers that we have here at the First Unitarian Society. We have lots of teachers every year. We have about 100 teachers every year. But this special group today are people who have taught year after year after year. Some of them are celebrating their fifth year of teaching. One of them is celebrating her fifteenth year of teaching. That's a long time. How many of you here are five years old? Anybody? We've got a few people here. So think about this. You're seven. For those of you who are five, many of our teachers have taught as many years as you've been along. That's a long time, isn't it? Yes, you're four. I'm not even going to tell you how old I am. Nobody here has taught that long. So anyway, we want to celebrate their gift to us by the many years that they have spent teaching here. And I'm wondering what you all think about this. So on Sunday mornings for you guys, we have all these adults who come here to teach your classes. They could be home sleeping. They could be home meeting the newspaper. They could be out on a walk. They could be riding their bikes. But they're here with you. Why are they supposed to do that? Do you have any energy with you guys? What do you think? Because I want to make sure you're doing well in school. Okay, good. Any other ideas? Yes, it's a different kind of school, isn't it? What do you think? Why are they here? Maybe they get exercised. They do have to run around you guys a lot. What do you think? Do you guys like it? Definitely true. That all of those things are true. We give them a year row. We give them our gratitude and our love. That's it. Anyway, they care a lot about your curiosity and your learning and your happiness here at First Unitarian Society. And that's why they come to spend their Sunday mornings with you. We have 12 teachers this year who are celebrating their 5-year, 10-year, or 15-year anniversary. And we have four of them with us this morning, because some of them were here yesterday and some will come at 11 and some just couldn't be here at all. So we're going to call them up here and, gosh, how are we going to get them up here? Do you guys think you could scoot back a little bit? Yes. Okay. Would you like to help me pass out a little gift bags? Sure. It's easy. It's your birthday party today. Yeah, but don't bring birthday. Okay, can you scoot back a little bit? We've got to make room for our teachers. Can you scoot back? No, it's for the teachers. So the first teacher I want to call up is Laurie Brody, who has been here. We shout a big thank you to them, okay? One, two, for our teachers, but we're also steeped in looking forward to next fall and all the teachers that we need to get for next year's classes. And my partner in crime, Mariah, and I have a really brief and inspired skit for you to inspire you. We'll see if it works. Would you like to teach UUs? Tell me which you choose. Would you like fifth grade or the first? Choosing none would be the worst. I would not, could not teach UUs. That is not something I would choose. I can't imagine where I'd start. What great knowledge would I impart? Could you, would you with support? You'll have co-teachers, a grand cohort, story staff and curriculum too. Supplies and support to guide you through. Well, possibly with such support it does sound fun, I must report. And UU values past to our young. How could that go terribly wrong? Would you like it if I say that you will come to church one day and a smiling kid will wave and that you'll be the one she's waving at. You'll watch kids learn and smile and act with parents along the way. They'll thank you for the job you've done in working hard to teach their young. And if those reasons aren't ideal here's one that will likely appeal. When you teach you just might find your beliefs and spirit will feel sublime. That does sound rich as you say with kids waving and smiling and busy at play. I love the thought of nurturing their minds, their spirits and hearts grown unbound. But it's important that you know I've never taught before. Not even a toad. Would you could you if you knew that there are trainings and resources too? The time it takes is not that long. Only about six six hours. All month long.  Alright, why yes. I'll sign up now. I've heard good things from near and far. I'll jump right in and become a part of UU Learning and UU Heart. But where but how but what would but what do I do now to seal the deal to take my vow? That's great. That's grand. Welcome aboard to the commons you must go. There you'll find teachers to sign you up to chat and schmooze and gladly erupt. We're grateful, we're proud, we're glowing inside to have so many adults caring for our young crowd. It takes a village as you know if we all pitch in our movement will grow. Our kids will know they're loved and revered for all their great thinking and growing done here. And if there are others wanting to join well now they know too we're to adjourn. The commons, the commons all must go. Let's make this work. Let's rock this show. Let's sing the children out singing hymn number 1023 Building Bridges We'll sing it once through all together and then twice through us around same as before. Let us rise in all the ways that we do. Bridges between our divisions I reach out to you Will you reach out to me With all of our voices and all of our visions Friends we could Group one Build Group two Build Group two Build Group two Build Group two Back to the beginning. Let's do it again One more time. Indeed make such sweet harmony together so thank you for that. Today's worship service focuses on the ways in which this congregation provides ministry to people of all ages. Specifically we are exploring the stories and dreams of young adults. Two Unitarian Universalist students from UW Madison are instrumental in planning this service and though they could not be with us this morning in person we have a recording of one of them who graciously agreed to present the readings for today. This is Carly Wilson. Today's first reading is by Unitarian Universalist minister the Reverend Dr. Jennifer Kwong and it is entitled From Ally to Advocate. Today's second reading also done by Carly is adapted from the work of Unitarian Universalist Dr. Janice Marie Johnson and it is entitled Theology of Accompaniment. The Spanish word differs in complexity, texture and weight from the English to a company which can be used for something as mundane as when the grocery store is open. The Spanish word connotes something deeper. It's like being joined in the head set upon the head of a tree. When I have a partnership I am striving to empower the community and build bridges. I think of working collaboratively with various organizations and individuals especially those who understand the difference between providing services to the disenfranchised and breaking-riding civilians. A Theology of Accompaniment calls us to move beyond othering, beyond tolerating, beyond embracing. It calls us to honor our siblings as the unique and precious beings that we are. Here ends the readings. A couple of weeks ago we had the great joy of participating in the first chalice ceremonies here at First Unitarian Society. During these rituals second and third graders got to stand bravely in front of their peers and families as one of us ministers read aloud for everyone to hear the reflections written about them with love and admiration written by their families. These seven, eight and nine-year-olds then also received a gift of their very first chalice a way to remember this moment in their lives when we acknowledge that they are indeed growing out of being young children. And today we experience the joy of the larger religious education program. We honored the life-giving work of our teachers and facilitators those who have guided our young people through their classrooms through their developmental stages through their questions and their answers. These adults have accompanied our young people on their learning journeys for years. And that is a gift for everyone involved. In a couple more weeks from now we will likely be in awe of our coming of age ninth graders. They will be sharing with us the culmination of their year of introspection and participation in a rigorous spiritual course. They will articulate their belief systems as they currently understand them to exist and we will join them in proudly recognizing their accomplishments. On that same weekend which happens to be Mother's Day weekend in case you're interested in attending there will also be a bridging ceremony. This ritual will acknowledge some of our high school seniors who are moving on from their secondary education and into the next chapter of their lives. Like other bridging ceremonies and unitarian universalist congregations across the country this ceremony will mark a significant moment in the lives of these teenagers. A similar though much larger ceremony will occur in the middle of June at the General Assembly of Unitarian Universalist of the congregations of the UUA the Unitarian Universalist Association. This year General Assembly is happening in Spokane, Washington. During many bridging ceremonies the teenagers move literally and or figuratively across a bridge a bridge that represents the transition from one known experience to a life that is largely unknown largely filled with question marks. Now if you're like me you may be wondering what are these young unitarian universalist bridging into? This bridge must go somewhere where exactly will this bridge land them?  You see as part of my seminary education I have been asked to lead this congregation in a single focused area of ministry. The first question posed to me when we were considering what area I should focus on was what is a currently underserved population at FUS? What is a population that could benefit from my leadership attention and intention? In conversation with my teaching pastor the Reverend Kelly Crocker and with other key players on the staff team and in the congregation we decided that I should focus on campus ministry. Now some of you know that campus ministry has a precedent in this congregation. Numerous interns, staff and ministers before me have lovingly and with dedication shared their unique ministries with many young adults both on campus and here in this building. And I am here to assure you that those efforts have made a difference in the lives of young people and in the life of our wider denomination. I, in fact, have two examples from my life alone that share this truth. First of all, right now I'm in seminary with one of the people who attended weekly gatherings on campus with the Reverend Mary Ann Macklin. A couple of decades ago she's about to graduate in May. And second, one of my good friends is another person who similarly engaged in campus ministry and he is about to celebrate his 10th anniversary as a Unitarian Universalist minister. My point is that First Unitarian Society has a history, an important history of supporting and ministering to Unitarian Universalists who are in their late teens and early twenties. And that tradition has saved lives that are now saving lives. Your FUS tradition has made a difference. And I'm hoping that through this focused initiative I can help renew our commitment our collective commitment to that campus ministry tradition. To support this renewal I have started to imagine our campus ministry project as having two main goals. The first goal may not surprise you is to build a UU community on the UW Madison campus. Through experiences that are developed in conjunction with UU and UU curious students young adults will be empowered to collectively enrich and bolden and embody their spiritual lives. The second goal that is to engage committed congregants who will act as an enthusiastic group of campus ministry flame tenders. Now these are the folks who will support the campus ministry in any number of ways yet to be determined but including shepherding the campus ministry between student leaders and between intern ministers. Now obviously I am humbly aware that these two goals represent a working draft of a vision for the campus ministry much of what will actually get implemented depends on the young adults themselves and it depends on the congregants who feel called to get engaged in this life transforming initiative. Clearly this initiative requires collaboration. So in an effort to lay the foundation for this ministry my first priority was to listen to the young adults themselves as I mentioned earlier when introducing today's readings there were two young adults in particular who were instrumental in planning this worship service. Both Carly Wilson and Riley Oktemeier are UW undergraduates, students who are active, studious, delightful and giving. Both are white women who were raised as unitarian universalists. They have brothers and roommates weekly quizzes for games classes and jobs social lives and summer plans. Last week Carly and Riley took time out of their busy schedules to sit down with me and together we chose hymns to sing readings to explore and messages to underscore during this worship service. While neither of them could be here with us physically today I assure you that their fingerprints were over this service. Take for example that first reading that Carly read and share entitled From Ally to Advocate. This is a poem that came to our attention when we were flipping through the books I had brought with me to our brunch meeting. We were trying to find pieces that spoke to us when out of the blue Riley pulled out her phone and started taking a picture of a page with this poem on it. That's how much she was moved by this poem she wanted to take it with her. Now if you'll recall it's a poem that calls us out of our places of privilege and into perspectives that might not be all that flattering. Thought I was so liberal till my good intentions produced the opposite results. This poem takes courage to engage with and both Riley and Carly seem eager to do exactly that. This From Ally to Advocate poem seems relevant when they mention being shocked to hear disparaging comments from a white dorm mate about an African American resident assistant simply because their peer leader was black. This From Ally to Advocate poem seems relevant when they mention being surprised to hear a classmate ask incredulously, you mean being gay isn't a choice? This From Ally to Advocate poem seems relevant when they mention wanting time with fellow Unitarian Universalists so that they could together unpack these social situations and figure out in community how to spend, how to respond to such comments in the future given our UU principles and shared values. How do we as Unitarian Universalists move from being allies to advocates? When they boiled it down Carly and Riley expressed the importance of campus ministry in this way.  How might FUS be a support to young adults asking the big questions of life? As we begin to explore the options of how best to support college age people through a campus ministry initiative I invite you to get in touch with your inner young adult. Now there may be someone in this room who is under 18 and if you're here feel free to just imagine yourself in the present. For those of you who are older than 25 think back now to that time in your life when you were 18 or 20 or 22 what were you doing? How are you feeling? What were you thinking about? Who were you trying to be? Whenever that time in life happened for you there were likely big questions you were facing. Some of the big questions that Riley and Carly mentioned about relationships certainly resonated for me how do we make new friendships? How do we negotiate romantic interests? And how do we interact with roommates and classmates with our integrity intact? I remember the first night in my dorm room thinking to myself oh my god I'm trying to sleep in a room with a complete stranger in it. Carly and Riley also raised questions about choosing majors and envisioning careers. What is required of us as we move into adulthood? What kinds of lives do we want to live? What happens next? And who can accompany us on this journey? Now lucky for us these two young women offered up some ideas of how a Unitarian Universalist congregation like FUS might be able to support college age folks. The first idea includes one-on-one relationships. So what if there was a program something along the lines of adopt an adult? In this idea young adults and congregants would be matched so that the congregants could offer extra emotional and spiritual support to young people who were undergoing huge transitions in their lives. I can't imagine for example inviting a student over for a home-cooked meal. Sending them a text or their final exam went. Or offering a ride to FUS worship service on the weekend. Because young adults may be away from their families of origin for the first time having trusted and established adults who can provide a listening ear could be a helpful, could be helpful as they ask the big questions and make big decisions. A second idea is to have a regular campus ministry presence that allows Unitarian Universalist students to gather in a safe and brave space to have discussions on current events. Those events that are very personal or local or national or global. Carly and Riley are interested in bringing an explicitly UU perspective to issues that are present and relevant in their lives. In the past given the fact that they were being exposed to new, usually more conservative perspectives, the campus ministry gatherings were a place for Carly and Riley to sort through their thoughts and feelings with UU peers. A third and final idea offered up by Riley and Carly speaks to the deep desire to have time for contemplation and spiritual development. Through group meditation practice or time to reflect on readings, young adults could have the opportunity to slow down and reflect. Time set aside from their usually busy lives. Because they spend so much time considering where they came from and where they are going next, spiritual sustenance can help young adults practice making intentional time to live in the present moment. So just to recap, young adults are suggesting that congregants of FUS can provide support, can provide help to them with support, exploration and renewal. As I reflect on these three suggestions, I realize that all of them are examples of the theology of accompaniment that was underscored in the Janice Marie Johnson reading. We are embodying a theology of accompaniment when people are supported by one another over something so simple as a home cooked meal. We are embodying a theology of accompaniment when young adults explore current events together with a UU lens. We are embodying a theology of accompaniment when a campus ministry program offers mindfulness walks that help young adults feel spiritually renewed while being in community. Of course, there are many other ways we can engage with a theology of accompaniment. As Johnson writes, when I think of partnership, I think of striving to empower the community and building bridges. I have to agree we should partner together to build a vibrant campus ministry. Let's empower the young adult community that is clearly ready for more. Let's build bridges to where young adults are at and let's build bridges that lead to somewhere. All young people need time to transition into the next stage of their development. Whether they are getting their first chalices, articulating their this I believe statements or bridging beyond high school. Wherever we human beings are on our journeys knowing that our fellow Unitarian universalists will be there to accompany us on the way makes all the difference. What a gift to know from these young people the several ways that we can renew this congregation's commitment to our tradition and to the campus ministry. If you are curious and interested in joining me on this journey, feel free to reach out to me after service or via email. And until then may we all continue to consider the ways we can move from being allies to being advocates. And may we all know the deep satisfaction of embodying a theology of accompaniment. Blessed be and amen. Each week we partner with a local organization to share our offering with them. And this week our organization is called the Sierra Club for Lakes Group. I encourage you to read more about them in your Red Floor's insert. We sincerely appreciate all your contributions in today's offering. We also appreciate the generous gifts of time from those who help our services run smoothly. Today our greeter was Claire Box. Our ushers were Jane Nelson Warrell, Mary Bergen, Karen Jagger, and Brent West. At our information table the main double duty was also Mary Bergen. Hospitality, coffee preparation and all is being provided by Franz Annelini, Mussaret Varga. Our lay minister is Lois Evensson. John Powell will be our tour guide and if you would like a tour after this service today please meet him up in front by the windows near where the ramp starts after the service. Thank you. I do have three opportunities to let you know about today. The first one is that today after service a member of our Board of Trustees Marsch Schweitzer will be available to answer your questions regarding the current transition between called ministers. This will take place here in the auditorium for about 20 minutes between the services. Also the annual Warthman lecture is happening today at 2 p.m. over in the landmark. Our featured lecturer is Dr. Kate Ott. At 5 p.m. then Dr. Ott will be facilitating a youth workshop also in the landmark. You can find out more about this lecture in the news from the red floors insert. Now here's something that we need to remember so we're not confused and don't end up someplace expecting something to happen that will not be happening. Starting Memorial Day weekend that's May 26 and through Labor Day weekend as we've sometimes done in the past we will hold just one single worship service weekend at 10 a.m. here in the atrium. Also during this time we will not be holding children's religious education classes and children ages 5 to 12 are invited to participate in summer fun activities. This is also noted in your red floors so check that if you're even the slightest bit confused. We've done this in the past but I don't believe we did it last year the one service business. Thank you very much. I want to take a moment to just thank another group of people who have contributed so much to FUS this year. It's coming early our last Sunday to sing with you in service but Society Choir and I'll say the same when Meeting House course has their final Sunday of the year Society Choir has done a great job this year and it being my first year here on staff I'm so appreciative of how welcoming they have been and how generous they have been with their time but not only that one of the very first things that they said to me was about coming up to my first service with them here was make sure you set out a basket because the ushers won't give us a chance to contribute money because we're singing so if you could have a basket out so we could also contribute money and I thought you understand you're contributing your time and talent and are actually taking part in the service but that wasn't enough of a contribution for them they're so generous hearted and I just wanted to give you an opportunity to thank them as well. Society Choir, thank you. On this fourth weekend of the month we bring together our joys and sorrows to light candles and hear them spoken aloud so if you brought a joy here so heavy that you need help to hold it or if you have a joy so large you can't help but share it we invite you now into this time where you can come forward to light a candle and share briefly your joy or sorrow I now open the floor and the application has been accepted and we are now starting the home process study to adopt from foster care Mary Ann, I discovered that I'm in the right age demographic to fall into the Grand Canyon and I'm going I'm traveling with my brother and his wife for the first time to travel with them road trip to the Grand Canyon Hi, I just want to share I don't know if any of you knew a gentleman here a man named Larry Elliott who passed away last Sunday he was a great friend of our family and have a miserable heart Hi, this isn't precisely my sorrow but you know that very recently there were terrorist acts in Sri Lanka in churches and yesterday there was a shooting in a synagogue and I'm just feeling really sad about all of the terror that's been happening and health as a portion recently So this is a deep bow of gratitude to all the staff at First Unitarian Society who along with the board are guiding us through this period of transition when we all know that we need to bring our best hearts and hopes for these next years and also a deep bow of gratitude for all the services over the Easter weekend what an incredible gift thank you Well like one more candle for those joys and sorrows that are too tender to share right now and are just held in the safety of our hearts many blessings on these joys and sorrows and for this day ahead we will sing together once again hymn number 348 Guide My Feet I invite you to rise in all the ways that we do Undisraised God is raised God is raised in vain Undisraised Undisraised Stand is raised in vain Undisraised Fond is raised in vain As we move through our lives finding ourselves always newly wise and newly foolish we ask that our mistakes be small and not hurtful we ask that we gain experience that as we gain experience we do not forget our innocence for they are both part of the whole and in this spirit we extinguish the chalice of this community remembering that we hold in our hearts unminds the fire of commitment the warmth of love and the flame of renewal to our greater whole together again may we go in peace and may we also be seated for a final gift of music


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Nurses in Zimbabwe's public hospitals won a major victory last week. The government announced that from May 18th, they will get two weeks off after each week of work. This is after an agreement between the Zimbabwe Nurses Association and the government. This agreement awarded a nurses strike last week. The agreement was reached on May 13th. The shift for each day will be for 8 hours. On returning to work after the two weeks off, nurses will be tested for COVID-19. Due to the extreme shortage of PPEs in Zimbabwe, nurses are particularly vulnerable to contract COVID-19. The nurses have been threatening a strike due to their working conditions. Their real incomes have eroded by over 85% over the past two years. Nurses have a monthly salary of as low as $1,000 to $2,000 Zimbabwe dollars, which is around $40 to $80 US dollars. They are often unable to travel to work. Two years ago, prior to the de-dollarization and introduction of the new unstable currency, the wage of the lowest paid nurses was around $284 US dollars. In order to minimize expenditure, nurses were working under a flexible working hours system. They were taking turns on 12-hour shifts for only two days a week. The government agreed on the system after a strike by the union. On May 6, without consulting the union, the government announced it would withdraw from the agreement. The Zimbabwe Nurses Association issued a strike notice on May 11, warning that the nurses will down-tools from May 13 if the government does not concede. The government conceded to the nurses' demands on May 13. However, the dispute over wages is not over. Nurses continue to demand that their salaries should be fixed at an inter-bank exchange rate equivalent to $1,000 US dollars.


It is pack opening time Yo, what's going on leave finish this leave her back again and welcome back to the channel today We have a big pack opening. It is Wednesday for me So a new team the week has come out and it's a good one So looking at the team of the week here, man. Oh my goodness 96 Leon dry side on 90 Nikolai healers Andre Pallat 93 Mitch Marner, you know, I'm gonna have to get this we got coconut We got Kempe, Rahegi, Kopp and Bjork strand on D. Tyson Berry with Zacharenski Jeff Petrie, which isn't a bad card with Mackenzie Weigar and then in a net we got Philip Grubauer So not too bad of a team of the week. We also have other content that is out right now We have this event obviously, so we have a chance of pulling any of these 94s 97 McDavid 90 Keith Matau. I don't know if those are impacts actually We have a chance at this texia. It's the new card that just came out a chance at this rod Brindlemore, which isn't a bad card and prime times. We've got a 94 over 93 point 89 Henry 88 Khadri and 88 Philip Ronick. So we have our division rival reward. We didn't finish too high We finish gold. I think I'm going tradable just to stock up the collection with gold players So let's do that and let's hope we can pull something. We're gonna call this a hunt for 93 Mitch Marner I need to pull a man need to need to need to so we got a jumbo elite pox and then two NHL players pox So we'll start with the McKinnon pox As they are the lower end overall pox compared to the jumbo elite pox. So let's pull something good Teddy Bluger Oh, man. Okay. We pull a prime time already Adam Ernie doubt. He'll be used but distributor and gladiator Decent, but he won't be used, but it's a prime time a raffle Valomac E.T.J. Brody Yankol Oh, Adam Lowry does have an 85 or 86 so we pull his base, but that's fine. It is what it is We move on to the next one. All right, let's go. I'm excited for those jumbo elite pox I don't think I've ever opened up those so maybe we pull something there We pull base Mitch Marner when he has his 93 team of the week out EA are such trolls man such trolls His 84 it could have been his 93 team of the week. Yeah, I hate to see him and Sammy Vatanen Derek Stepan My god, I'm a little salty about them and that could have been his 93 Sergei Gaunchard Trevor Moore leaf legend. That is it man.  All right onto the jumbo elite pox This is 20 items with at least 11 80 plus overall players. So let's see what we can get in here We got 11 plus 80 plus is so the odds should be somewhat decent in these Give me something good here. Yeah, come on. Yelena Makaev another leaf legend. Love that guy to death. Nick Felino Andre Casa Fiddler God, give me a purple man. It's been so long since I've pulled something worth anything man And I said in every pack opening I've done. I haven't pulled anything since that team of the year Victor headman I think I'm due man. I think I'm due for a good pull We pull another Adam Ernie nice game Martin Jones Nugent Hopkins and Brandon side next pack for sure. We're due for a good pull. We like I'm being serious We are due for a good pull. It's got to be in this one. Yeah, I'm telling you it's got to be in this one Casey Zezika's Ryan Reeves strawman come on Max Domi There's got to be something man like yeah Let me see a purple tainted player here has to be Sue Bann grew Bauer who also has an 87 team of the week out EA is trolling me and they're loving it. They're loving every second of it Not that much of this pack that is left Dylan strome Come on three cards left Golgowski and that is it man EA does not want to give me a good pull anymore.  I'm going to try my hardest to get that 93 Mitch Marner And there will be a debut gameplay video on the channel for that So stay tuned for that but that is if for today's video if you guys did enjoy Be sure to drop a like on it if you guys are new around here Make sure you hit the subscribe button down below We're in the road to 4,000 subscribers and guys leave a comment section down below Let me know if you pulled anything from your rival and hutch hams packs Hopefully you guys had better luck than I did but like I said that is if for today's video Thank you guys very much for watching. I'll talk to you later


created by Cy Howard, with Mary Schiff as Kay, and starring Marie Wilson as Irma. Kay Foster, and I live with Irma Peterson, who can best be described as an abandoned automobile. Why do I say it's abandoned? Well, the body's there, and it's beautiful, and it gets around alright, but the things that happen to it make you wonder if there's anyone behind the wheel. Would you like an example? Okay. The other night I was reading an article about the canneries in Seattle, and I said to Irma, did you know that one fish makes 12 cans of salmon? He does! Imagine what he could make if he worked overtime! In the subway, amidst the rush and bustle of the fast-moving crowds, through the roar and din of the machine age. Yes, and Irma's the victim of the machine age, because there she stands at the foot of the stairs, putting a penny in the gum machine, the peanut machine, the candy machine. She's gone over to the weighing machine. Well, this I don't get. Most people stand on the scale, but she's sitting on it. Honey, what's the idea? Well, I'm trying to reduce, so I want to see what my hips weigh. Irma Peterson, stand up. People are watching you. Oh, here comes the train. Wait till I get the little car! Alright, you can read it on the train. You made it. Well, Irma, what did your car say, huh? Well, my weight is the same, and they guessed right at my fortune, too. They did? Yes, it says, you are gifted with great intelligence. Too bad you weren't home when it came. Let me see the card, honey. Hmm. Oh, I see. This card's for Capricorn people. You were born in June.  I couldn't be gay. My parents came from Sweden. Oh, no, dear. Gemini is a sign of the zodiac. It means the twins. Twins? Well, what do you know? Hey, I'd better write to my mother. Why? One of us is missing. I know, dear. Oh, look, we'll take this up some other time. This is where I get off. If you want to learn about the zodiac, stop at the newsstand and buy a horoscope magazine. Oh, I sure will, Kate. I think no matter how smart a person is, I can always learn a little more. Peterson, what in the world is the idea of ending all my letters with the respectfully yours, Mr. Clyde the Bull?  Never mind what sign I was born under. If you don't stop this nonsense, you will die under the sign of Milton J. Clyde, Attorney-at-Law. Look, Peterson, throw that trashy book out the window. It's not trashy. This book is all about astrology, and it's given me a new outlook on life. What do you mean? Well, according to my chart, I'm a very responsible person, and I should be entrusted with important things. Ms. Peterson, I wouldn't trust you to jump out of the window. You'd probably land on somebody and kill them. You're the only girl I know who licks a stamp on the wrong side because you don't like the taste of glue. If you, because it says here, Yemeni people should never argue with our interiors. So here it is. That's okay. First people never raise their voice. You do what the book says. What? Give you responsibility while I'll be out of my mind. Now look, Ms. Peterson, I've got to get ready for that trip to Washington. Let me see the affidavits, briefcase. Where's the police that was under my desk? Well, I sent it to the hotel you're stopping at in Washington. But I hadn't packed my clothes in it yet.  Where are the train tickets? I put them in the police for safekeeping. All right, Ms. Peterson, you want responsibility? Oh, yes, Mr. Kite. Well, I'm giving it to you. I'm leaving here. And if you read in the paper that I've thrown myself off the Washington Monument, it's your responsibility. Goodbye, Yemeni. Any back from work so early? Irma, say something. I'm sorry, Kay. Yemeni people aren't very talkative. I started you on that horoscope kick. Irma, watch out for those papers on the table. Jesus, place looks like an office. What are you doing? Oh, I'm doing a little extra work for Richard. Your boss is always giving you extra things to do. That's not fair. Not fair? No, my horoscope says I can be trusted that I'm dependable, and yet nobody depends on me. And if you were a true friend, you would depend on me. Honey, I tried to depend on you. Last night I wanted to make some chicken fricassees, so I sent you to the butcher to buy a half-dozen drumsticks. What happened? Okay, I looked in the window and honestly didn't have any six-legged chickens. And what about this morning? Well, you told me to let the tub run, but I didn't say forever. That's only me, Professor Kropotkin. Hello, Kay and Irma, my two little chocolate bars, one plain and the other nuts. Oh, Professor. I didn't joke to cheer me up. Oh, what am I going to do, girls? I'm out of my mind. Well, what's wrong? Mrs. O'Reilly is studying opera. Oh, no. How does she sound? The only way I can describe it is to tell you that if she sang during the war, more people would have volunteered for overseas durings. You circle. It's not even what you hear in a well-run barn. What are you mumbling about? Look, Mrs. O'Reilly, if you have to sing, can't you at least sing softly like maybe lock yourself up in a closet? I don't see why to be able to sing is a great gift. And if something one shouldn't keep to themselves, it's like a ray of sunshine. It should be spread around. Well, you don't have to do it with your voice. You've already done it with your figure. Now, wait a minute, you obnitiated mongoes. Oh, great. I'll have you over. All right, you can yell at me.  The stars? What are you talking about, Irma?  That I know. Well, Capricorn's Sagittarius people are attracted to each other and make the most successful marriages. They do? Let me see the book, Irma. Here. Sagittarius and Capricorn people make a perfect match. Let me tell you something. There's more heat in a dead glow worm. See, tonight should be very favorable for Sagittarius and Capricorn people because there's going to be a full moon. Well, Professor, aren't you going to take advantage of it? I certainly am. With the moon coming through the hole in my ceiling, I'll be able to read tonight. It's so hard to get. I'll go down to the room and wait for him. Well, how do you know he'll be there? When I cook lunch for him today, he'll be down to ask for some bike covetage. He's still got her head in the stars. In fact, she's been reading that hard-stoke book all day. Okay, this is interesting. What? My father was a bull and my mother was a crab. It is. Look, honey, I don't mind you being interested in astrology, but don't go to extremes. Okay, I believe everything this book says, especially the part that says I can handle responsibility. Come in. Hi, Adalphe. Hello, Kay. Hi. Hello, fish. Fish? Yes, Joe. Your Pisces, the fish. Now, beautiful. You don't have to call me a fish just because I once borrowed a fin from you. Joe, that is not a Zodiac. You're Joe. Or I must spend a dollar for a book on astrology and there's just no living with her. Astrology? That's pretty interesting. Zalphe, see what the book says about me. I'll tell you whether it's on the level. Oh, now let me see. Well, here it is. Pisces men are honest, hard-working and ambitious. But well spent. If you can sell it for a dime, grab it. No, no, Kay. Now, I still believe the part about myself. All I need is a chance to show it. Hello. Who? Miss Peterson? Yes, Hermes for you. Oh, thanks, Kay. Hello? I was right away. Say, honey, come and roll. I don't know, Kay, but I better hurry over there right away. Beautiful. If you did anything to jeopardize our livelihood by losing your job. Oh. Remember, Irma, you just bought that genuine mink stole on credit and it would break my heart if the man came and took all those rabbits back. Aww. Please, both of you. Now, let's see. My lipstick, my eyebrow pencil, my comb, my wallet, the dress book, my scissors. Now, how am I going to carry all these things? Do you mean how? Aren't you going to carry your purse? A bag? No, I can't. The book says, Germany people like to take things in their own hands. Mrs. Clyde sent for me. Oh. Oh, please come in. Would you mind waiting in the library? I'd like to, but I haven't got a card. It's 30th. Oh, you're vigorous. Then I should be very popular at garden parties. Irma, you couldn't possibly mean Virgo. Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant to say. You know, I'm Germany. Where's the bull? The bull? Yes, your husband. He's Taurus, the bull. Oh. Mr. Clyde is ill. The doctor's with him now. He'll see you as soon as the doctor leaves. Oh, Mrs. Clyde. You redecorated the house. Just a little. Oh, God. Hey, what kind of candlesticks are these? Those are old Dresden. Well, with prices so high, I guess one has to buy something secondhand. Painting over the fireplace. Is that a family portrait? That's the full horseman of the apocalypse. Oh, all it's nice to have relatives who ride. All right, Mrs. Clyde. I'll drop in again in the morning. Good day. Goodbye, doctor. You may go in, Miss Peterson. The first rule to the right. Oh, thank you. And beyond your guard, Mrs. Clyde, the book says you'll have a very exasperating visitor today. Now, she tells me. Sleep with a bonnet like that? Mr. Peterson, I can't go to Washington. Beside myself, you're the only one who can possibly understand these notes. The notes you've transcribed for me. Yes. I want you to fly to Washington and deliver them to the Pentagon duty. Oh, boy, I'll be glad to, Mr. Clyde. This is a great day for Germany people, and I'll show you I can be as responsible as the book says. Well, I certainly hope so because it's a very important matter. You can stop by at the office and pick up your plane there. Oh, don't worry about me, Mr. Clyde. Just take care of yourself. Uh, can I do anything before I go? No, thank you. Oh, yes, yes. You read the label on that medicine bottle and pour a dose in that glass of water. Would you please? All right. What's the matter? Oh, there. Drink it down. Thank you. Goodness, never tasted so strong before. How much did you put in there? Six tablespoons. Six is one tablespoon three times a day. I know, but I won't be here for two days so I want to make sure you get it. Yeah. I'll face this as the opportunity I've been waiting for. What do you mean, Joe? I want you to discuss me with the secretary of labor. Joe, will you please stop with your cheap chiseling tactics? Irma's going to Washington for Mr. Clyde and nothing else. Come on, honey. I'll help you pack. All right, Kate. Boy, am I excited. Gee, I knew the stars were in my favor.  You better take some warm clothes. It's just as cold there. Yeah, and don't let me forget this map in case I get lost in Washington. But, honey, that's a street map of New York City. I know, but if I get lost, I'd like to be in a neighborhood I'm familiar with. Thank you for calling us again. Sagittarius and the old goat. You're not good. Irma's going to Washington for Mr. Clyde. Mr. Clyde? I can't believe it. Could this be the same Mr. Clyde that always makes you take a three-cent stamp to the post office as a sample so you won't bring back the wrong kind? Yeah, but not anymore. You all tried to give me an interiority complex. Well, everything has changed because the stars are in my favor. Neptune is closer to Venus and Juniper has entered the first house of McCuric Chrome. I think Kinsey should investigate this whole thing. Some things will be different. You've all treated me like a baby, but now I'm old enough to change myself. I've struggled with this turn of events. It's just still a little hard to believe. Funny, the book prophesied everything just as it happened. If it's right about Irma, maybe it's right about the part where Sagittarius and Capricorn make the best marriages. You agree, Professor? Mrs. O'Reilly, the only way a book would make me propose to you would be for the dictionary to follow my head and knock me unconscious. Oh, Professor, you're making a mistake. Remember, you all laughed at me. Yeah, but Irma, you haven't come back from Washington yet. How do we know what will happen down there? And what if Irma proves she's a responsible person? Then would you believe the part about you and me? Well, in that case, being a gypsy and a little superstitious by nature, I would have to agree that the book was right and that maybe Sagittarius should ask Capricorn to become Mrs. Sagittarius. Oh, lucky poops! You're as good as married. I'll call you as soon as I finish my business in Washington. Honey, don't you think you better get started. You don't have too much time. All right, Kay. I sure wish you could go with me. Well, so do I, but maybe the experience of going alone will be good for you. I guess so.  Maybe a box of Martha Washington candy. And if the story isn't crowded, I'll ask Martha to autograph it for you. It's been two days. You'd think she'd at least call us, postcard. Gee, I'm going out of my mind. Come in. Mr. Clyde, I thought you were sick. I am, but I couldn't stay in bed with Washington calling me every hour. Where is Miss Peterson? I don't know. Well, Mr. Clyde, why did you send her?  She was responsible. You know how a woman can talk into things. I know how they can cry. Don't lie, Mrs. O'Reilly. Oh, be still. I haven't given up the ship yet. I can't understand it. She said she'd go to the airport and take a plane to Washington. Now what could have happened? Tell me where the Pentagon building is. Sorry, never heard of it. You never heard of it? Oh, dear. You know, I've asked 10 person and no one knows. Do you mind if I use your phone? Yeah, go right ahead. OK. You don't know, but it's three blocks from the Pacific Ocean down to Washington. And Gemini has flown in from the other Washington. Right now, I'm looking through the astrology book trying to find out how people born in the month of May can get their jobs back. I just don't see how she does these things. Really, I don't. In the first place, I just can't understand how she can sit there so unconcerned about the whole thing. Honey, aren't you worried about your job? No. No, not at all. Why not? Well, the book says Mars is in conjunction with Juniper, and Saturn is in a straight line with McCure Chrome, which makes things very favorable for Venus. Venus? What's Venus got to do with it? Well, if a girl without arms can get a job, I certainly can. One has a job to do. And me, Kay Foster, my job is to keep in my right mind as I continue living with my friend Earth. I came to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.


Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Iyer's Academy. Displayed are the list of news articles selected for today's analysis and their page numbers in Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles are provided in the description box and the time stamping for the benefit of smartphone users is been provided in the comment section. Now let us move on to the first news article. The first news article talks about the clearances obtained by DRDO for setting up a missile testing launch facility. The analysis of this news article will be relevant in prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and in Indian polity and governance, then in sustainable development and also in general issues on environmental ecology. The analysis will also be relevant in main syllabus under GS Paper 3 in conservation, environmental pollution and degradation and more importantly in environmental impact assessment. Now this news article states that the defense research and development organization that is the DRDO has been granted environmental clearance and coastal regulatory zone clearance for one of its projects. The project is setting up of a missile testing launch facility and technical facility. The launch facility is proposed to be set up on the Bay of Bengal coast and the technical facility is proposed to be set at Gulala Moda village in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. The environmental clearance and the CRRZ clearance are granted by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Why the clearance is required see the DRDO has proposed to set up the missile test launch facility in around 154 hectares and the technical facility will come up in around 130 hectares out of this 154 hectares and the test facility will be developed in 6 hectares of the area. So this project occupies this much space and it is also said that the project is exempted from the public hearing of the environmental impact assessment or EIA. This is because this project is a strategic requirement and is of national importance. Also it cannot be located anywhere else other than this particular location and this exemption is given under environmental impact assessment notification of 2006. The newspaper has mentioned it as EIA notification 2016 but it is not 2016 it is 2006 notification. Therefore with this recent clearance the DRDO has obtained all the necessary clearances to begin the construction work for the particular facilities. So now you may think why there is a need for environmental clearance and coastal regulatory zone clearance for a defense project. To understand this we first see about this environmental impact assessment. We can say that every anthropogenic activity or every human activity will have some impact on the environment and the activity is found to be more often to be harmful to the environment than being beneficial to the environment. However these activities have to be done for the food, security and other needs of human beings. At the same time there is also a need to harmonize the developmental activities with the environmental concerns. This environmental impact assessment is one of the tools that are available with the planners to achieve this harmonization of developmental activities with the concerns of environment. So the environmental impact assessment is a planning tool and it is generally accepted as an integral component of a sound decision making with respect to a project with respect to an environment. The objective of environmental impact assessment is to predict or to foresee the potential environmental problems or concerns at an early stage of project planning and project design. Next is to deal with how to address the same potential environmental problems or concerns. So the environmental impact assessment should assist the planners and the government authorities in the decision making process with respect to a particular project. This will be done by identifying the impacts or the issues and also by formulating mitigation measures for the impact reduction measures. So we can say that this environment impact assessment is a process that is used to identify the environmental impacts of a particular project prior to its approval or before its approval and this impact assessment systematically examines both beneficial and adverse consequences of the proposed project. It ensures that the environmental impact and the mitigation measures are taken into account during the project design itself at the early stage itself. There are many benefits of considering environmental effects and mitigation early in the project planning cycle. The benefits such as protection of environment, optimum utilization of resources and saving overall time and also saving the cost of the project is also possible by having a environmental impact assessment. See during the environmental impact assessment if we find that a particular project is having huge harmful effect on environment, the project can be immediately dropped. By dropping this project we are protecting the environment, we are saving resources, we are saving overall time and also we are not wasting money. If we take India, the environmental impact assessment was started in 1970s that is in 1976-77. It was started when the planning commission asked the then department of science and technology to examine the river valley projects from an environmental angle. At that time this assessment lacked a legislative support because there was no law talking about environmental impact assessment at that point of time. So for giving it a legal background, the government of India enacted the Environment Protection Act in May 1986. This act in section 3 has given the power to the central government to take measures to protect and improve environment and under section 6 of the act the central government may by notification make certain rules with respect to the matters mentioned in section 3 of Environment Protection Act of 1986. Thus to achieve the objectives of environment protection, one of the decisions taken was to make the environment impact assessment as a statutory. So a notification was issued on January 1994 and it was subsequently amended in 1994, 1997 and 2000. These notifications and amendments made the environmental impact assessment statutory for around 30 activities. This is the principal piece of legislation or a statutory provision that is governing the environmental impact assessment and it derives its power and authority from section 3 and section 6 of Environment Protection Act of 1986. In addition to this, the government of India issued a number of other notifications under the Environment Protection Act of 1986 that are related to environmental impact assessment. But these notifications are limited to specific geographical areas. One among them is regulating the activities in the coastal stretches of the country by classifying them as coastal regulation zone and prohibiting certain activities. So that is the reason why the DRDO project had to get a coastal regulatory zone clearance. Also know that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is the nodal agency for making rules or regulations pertaining to environmental clearance or EC. The ministry has made the environmental impact assessment and environmental clearance mandatory for certain development projects through its notification of environmental clearance and post clearance monitoring in the year 1994 under Environment Protection Act of 1986. Then subsequently, after keeping in view the experience gained in the environmental clearance process over a period of 10 years or a decade, the ministry has brought out another notification that is environmental impact assessment notification in September 2006. This is the notification which the news article refers to. That is environment impact assessment notification of 2006. The 2006 notification actually defines the process of granting environmental clearance for projects. This process comprises of four stages. They are screening, scoping, public consultation and appraisal. The screening is done to see as per the statutory notification whether a project requires environmental clearance or not. The screening criteria are based upon scales of investment type of development and the location of development. Scoping is a process that details the terms of reference of environment impact assessment. That is what are the things that the environment impact assessment has to look into. Then the third stage is public consultation. Public consultation refers to the process. This process ascertains the project as appropriate by taking into account all the material concerns in the project or in the project's design, the activity design. This public consultation actually settles the concerns of local affected persons and others who have a credible stake in the environmental impacts of the project. This means that anyone who is likely to be affected by the proposed project is entitled to know that the project is appropriate. The affected persons may include local residents, local associations, environmental groups that are active in a project area. It also includes any other person who is located at the project site or sites of displacement. Within this public consultation it has two components. One is public hearing. A public hearing at the project site in a district twice manner is to be carried out. This is for ascertaining the concerns of local affected persons as we have discussed. The public hearing in all cases is to be conducted by State Pollution Control Board or the Union Territory Pollution Control Committee with respect to Union Territory. They have to forward the proceedings of the hearing to concerned regulatory authority. Here the concerned regulatory authority is Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. This ministry at the national level and at the state level the regulatory authority is State Environment Impact Assessment Authority. Now the next component within this public consultation is to obtain responses in writing from other concerned persons who are having a credible stake in the environmental aspects of the particular project or a particular activity. Now many projects or activities have to undertake public consultation but six projects or six activities are exempted from this public consultation process and one among them is the project with respect to defense. Under the exemption or under this exclusion the notification states that all projects or activities concerning national defense and security are the projects involving other strategic considerations as determined by the central government. So this is the reason that the project of DRDO which is a defense project has been exempted from the public hearing which is a very important component of public consultation and this is because as the news article says it is a project of strategic requirement and a project of national importance. With this we conclude the analysis of this news article the displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. This news article is about India's second lunar mission. The analysis of this news article will be helpful in prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and international importance. In mains it will be relevant under GS paper 3 in achievements of Indians in science and technology indigenization of technology and awareness in the field of space. When we say lunar mission it means a mission to moon. This is because in Latin the word luna means moon. The news article says that ISRO has conducted the full rehearsal for the second mission for moon. In one of the sentences of the article they have used the word dry run to communicate the meaning of the word rehearsal. The launch is scheduled on July 15 early morning 2.51 am. The time we are mentioning is not to take note but if possible you may see the launch which will be from ISRO's launch center that is from Satish Dhawan space center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The article says that Chandrayaan too has been designed to have a robotic rover inside the lander and the composite module will also have a orbiter. When we say composite module it consists of lander and orbiter inside the lander we can see robotic rover. One of the major objectives of this mission is to soft land Vikram near the lunar south pole. The name of Vikram is for the lander. So far only three countries have demonstrated the soft landing capability on moon. They are United States, the former Soviet Union and also China. If India becomes successful in the mission India will become the fourth country in the world to demonstrate the soft landing capability on the lunar surface. India may not be the permanent member in United Nations Security Council but India has a chance to become one of the top five countries to display soft landing on moon. Recently Israel's mission attempting for soft landing on moon has become unsuccessful and this happened in the month of April this year and Israel's lander crashed while attempting to soft land on the moon and that is one of the reason why Israel has postponed the mission Chandrayaan 2. For India Chandrayaan 2 is the first space mission to conduct soft landing on the moon and one speciality is that this attempt is to be with indigenous technology or with homegrown technology. It is also Israel's first mission to land on any celestial body. Usually it observes the celestial body from the particular body's orbit and India aims to soft land closer to the south pole of the moon. If successful, India will become the country in the world to reach the south pole closer than any other country in the world. Therefore it is expected that Indian mission will provide more insights into the completely unexplored section of the moon. Thus India has the possibility of discovering something new through this mission. Also the south pole of the moon holds the possibility of presence of water so the payloads will carry out necessary tests to verify that and the area near the south pole of the moon is supposed to have ancient rocks and craters. By studying these ancient rocks there is a possibility to decode the origin or the history of the moon. These are some of the reasons why the lunar south pole has been chosen for landing. The mission plans to conduct detailed topographical studies and comprehensive mineralogical studies and other experiments and it will help to know better about the origin and evolution of the moon. Overall the mission has around 13 Indian payloads which will conduct scientific experiments to widen our knowledge about the moon. It will carry one payload of NASA. The robotic rover will have some three scientific payloads or scientific instruments that will analyze the content on the moon's surface. And after analyzing the content on the moon's surface the rover will send back the data and images back to the earth. After the launch on July 15 it is expected to take around 35 to 45 days to reach the moon. That is one of the reasons why the expected date of landing Vikram or the lander on moon is on September 6, 2019. The composite module will get out of earth's orbit in around 16 days after the launch. Then it will reach close to moon's orbit by another 5 days. From then it will take another 27 days to man over and to orbit the moon and once it reaches the orbit of moon at 100 km altitude from the surface of the moon after entering the moon's sphere of influence then at a right time the lander will separate from the orbiter and perform soft landing. That is after entering the moon's sphere of influence once it reaches the orbit at 100 km altitude from the surface of the moon at the right time the lander will separate from the orbiter and perform soft landing. And once soft landing is done the robotic rover will come out of the lander and start conducting experiments. The launch vehicle for this mission is GSLV Mark III, the heaviest launcher and the cost of the entire mission is close to 1000 crore. So approximately 1000 crore to be accurate news article says 978 crore. And it has been said that the budget is lesser than the budget for many Hollywood movies. ISRO's first mission to moon was called as Chandrayaan 1 and it was launched in the year 2008. The launch vehicle was PSLV Rocket The launch vehicle for Chandrayaan 2 is GSLV Mark III Rocket and Chandrayaan 1 carried a moon impact probe that hit or made an impact on lunar surface near lunar south pole. See it had an impact it did not soft land on lunar surface which the Chandrayaan 2 will attempt. We will get more news on the newspaper either on July 15 or 16 and we will revise again probably on September 7 on the day after the scheduled landing of Vikram in moon. With this we conclude this news article. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the final session. This editorial article is about the recent measures announced in the budget to make a transition to electric vehicles. The author also mentions other requirements with respect to electric vehicles. The analysis of this editorial article will be relevant in prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and also under economic development. The analysis will be helpful in mains in GS paper 2 under government policies and interventions for development for various sectors and the discussion can also be linked to GS paper 3 under Indian economy and changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth and also in infrastructure with respect to energy for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Firstly the author talks about the recent initiatives announced in the union budget 2019. We know that the phase 2 of fame India scheme has commenced from 1st April 2019 and outlay of rupees 10,000 crores have been made for a period of 3 years under the scheme. The government has committed to encourage faster adoption of electric vehicles by way of offering upfront incentive on purchase of electric vehicles. When we say upfront cost generally means the cost of a product at the time of purchase that is the cost just before purchasing. When we say upfront incentive it means that financial incentive that will help reduce the price of electric vehicle. The upfront incentives also act as demand incentives. Now demand incentives are those financial incentives that help to generate demand for electric vehicles by reducing the cost of purchase price of electric vehicles. The author says that the initiatives under the phase 2 of the scheme will be a great boost to the commercial electric vehicles and also for the setting up of charging stations. Then under mega investment in sunrise and advanced technology areas the government has announced that it will launch a scheme to invite global companies through a transparent competitive bidding. The purpose is to set up mega manufacturing plants in sun rays and advanced technology areas. So of several areas two sun rays and advanced technology areas are linked to electric vehicles that is setting up mega manufacturing plants for lithium storage batteries and for solar electric charging infrastructure. The government has also announced that some kind of direct and indirect tax benefits will also be given to the companies participating in this mega investment. Now in addition to the above the government has also exempted the customs duty on certain parts of electric vehicles. Now when we say customs duty it is nothing but tax paid on imported goods. These steps are being taken to incentivize electric mobility. The union budget for 2019-2020 has envisioned India as a global hub of manufacturing of electric vehicle. For such a vision the government has reduced the GST or the goods and services tax for electric vehicles from 12% to 5%. Also it was announced that the government will provide income tax deduction of 1.5 lakh on the interest paid on loans taken to purchase electric vehicles. But to avail the benefits of the income tax deduction the loan is required to be taken on or before 31st March of 2023. That is why the author is saying that the government has announced a tax incentive for the early adopters. Because the tax incentives can be availed only if the loans are taken before 31st March 2023. So that is the status as of now according to the recent budget. The income tax deduction is in addition to the GST tax rate reduction. These steps are being taken to make the electric vehicles affordable to the consumers. All the above measures announced in the union budget are called as bold move to make a transition to electric vehicles from the present petrol and diesel based vehicles. These petrol and diesel based vehicles are also called as fossil fuel based vehicles. The author says that the measures announced in the budget to leapfrog into an era of electric mobility and domestic electric vehicle manufacturing is forward looking policy. And this will be led by public transport and commercial vehicles. The author here mentions public transport maybe because under phase 2 of FAME India scheme if you see the top allocation of demand incentives given by department of heavy industries it is to electric buses. That is the highest allocation of demand incentives is to electric buses under the phase 2 of FAME India scheme. It has allocated 3545 crores out of the 596 crores as demand incentives for electric buses. The numbers are not important but what you have to keep to know is the top allocation has been made to electric buses. That is why the author is saying the forward looking policy to be led by public transport and commercial vehicles. The budgetary measures will also have an immediate impact on pricing of electric vehicles and it will also bring in more new models of electric vehicles that is what the author thinks. With these measures the government has accepted some of the demands of automotive industry to popularize the electric vehicles. In the FAME India phase 2 the government has decided to undertake a suitable information education and communication program for creating consumer awareness with respect to electric vehicles and also for the promotion of FAME India scheme. The author feels that to achieve the goals related to electric mobility deadlines are necessary and also a market driven approach is also necessary. Both the deadlines and market driven approach are required so that India does not trail behind China in terms of capabilities and infrastructure with respect to electric vehicles. The Indian market driven approach is a different approach of providing non-fiscal incentives to the vehicle manufacturers. Generally when we say fiscal incentives it refers to exemption from payment of local taxes fees and charges or providing subsidies to the manufacturers. But we saw Indian approaches to provide non-fiscal incentives. When we say non-fiscal incentives it refers to services and assistance provided to the manufacturers which do not have any connection with respect to taxes and subsidies by the government. For electric vehicle manufacturers India offers credits. These credits are based on carbon dioxide emissions per kilometer and also based on vehicle efficiency. The manufacturers who exceed the emissions target will have to purchase credits but those manufacturers who meet the emission targets will be rewarded. Thus this market driven approach will have significant impact because this approach will make electric vehicles with low emissions as a cheaper vehicles and the polluting electric vehicles will become expensive or costly. The author calls for fixing a realistic time frame for scooters, motorcycles and three-wheeler carriages with 2030 as the outer limit. We know that India has targeted to achieve 30% of electric vehicles by the year 2030 in the overall composition of vehicles. In the next five years it aims to achieve 15% of electric vehicles in the overall composition of vehicles. In the article in the second paragraph the author talks about enabling a fast rollout of charging infrastructure. Already the operating cost of electric vehicles is far lesser than what it requires for petrol and diesel based vehicles. But this alone will not make the electric vehicles to look attractive so that the consumers will buy and purchase and use it. So there has to be charging infrastructure where the charging is also affordable. There should be both normal and fast charging. In December 2018 the Ministry of Power has set some technical standards for public charging stations to enable normal and fast charging. And this fast charging should be available in parking lots and in addition to this there should be retrofitted fuel outlets new public charging stations and charging facility should also be available in hotels, offices and also in homes. These things are also required. By retrofitting the meaning is to fit the electric vehicle adaptation technology in the petrol or diesel based vehicles so as to convert them into electric vehicles. This is also another requirement when the country moves into an era of electric mobility. The government should also consider while setting up the charging infrastructure to enable swapping of drained battery with already charged battery at various locations. And there has to be a policy priority for a longer term to set up the lithium battery production and also solar charging infrastructure. And this infrastructure should meet the demands of the number of electric vehicles to be adopted or those number of electric vehicles that we are planning for all the demands of such vehicles has to be met by the charging infrastructure. So these are the things that are required and we can expect speedy spread of electric two-wheelers with the presence of price competition. See with price competition the purchasing price of electric vehicles will come down. And this will result into larger adoption of electric two-wheeler vehicles. This is because around 79% of conventional vehicles sold in our country are two-wheelers. So with these measures in place the consumers will move from a fossil fuel based vehicle to electric two-wheelers. And we should know that around 4% of the vehicles sold in last six years are three-wheelers, 12% are economic or cheaper four-wheelers and 2% are costly or premium four-wheelers and 3% of the composition are buses and large goods vehicles. The adoption of these electric vehicles is necessary because of the pressing health concerns due to poor air quality and noise pollution caused by petrol and diesel based vehicles. These are the things that the author has mentioned in the article and we have analyzed it. With this we conclude the analysis of this news article. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. This article is about plan B. The analysis of this news article will be relevant in prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and also in general issues on environmental ecology and biodiversity. The analysis will also be relevant in main syllabus in GS paper 3 under biodiversity and environment particularly under the area conservation. Indian Airways has awarded the best innovation award for the financial year 2018-19. The best innovation award has been won by the Northeast Frontier Railway shortly called as NFR. A cash award of Rs. 3 lakhs have been awarded to the winner. This award is for the adoption of unique strategy by Northeast Frontier Railway to keep wild elephants away from the railway tracks. The Northeast Frontier Railway serves the northeastern region of India. When we say northeastern region it comprises of 8 states that are Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Misuram, Tripura and Sikkim. The unique strategy adopted by Northeast Frontier Railway is Plan B. Under this Plan B devices were installed at several level crossings in the state. These devices play to imitate the sound of swam of buzzing honey bees. Swam means a large or dense group of flying insects. In our context it is dense group of honey bees. This sound will drive away the pachyderms.  Pachy means thick. Derm means skin.  This Plan B was implemented to save the wild elephants. It is because large portions of rail tracks pass through the forest areas of Assam. So elephants would often come in the way of speeding trains and that results in the death of elephants. And it was found that around 67 Pachyderms were killed by trains from 2013 to June 2019. And therefore there was a huge need to find an elephant repellent. And most of these 67 deaths were reported from Assam and northern West Bengal. And this is because there are 29 earmarked elephant corridors within the operating zone of Northeast Frontier Railway. This is spread across the northeastern states and parts of Bihar and West Bengal that is the elephant corridors. Trains are required to slow down at these corridors and they have to adhere to a particular speed that is specified on the signboards. But despite the reduction of the speed elephants have traveled into the paths of trains even in the non-elephant corridor areas. And this has often led to accidents that has resulted into death of the elephants. So it was found necessary to have a particular plan to drive away the elephants from the tracks and also to save them. This was successfully carried out by the Plan B of Northeast Frontier Railway. They have actually done some test runs or dry run or rehearsal prior to the installation of these devices many test runs or trials were carried out. A team tested the Honey Bee Bus on a domestic elephant in northeastern Assam's Ranga Para. The second test was carried out at a tea estate near Rangia division of Assam. It was found that wild elephants started to move away once the sound was generated. So following the successful trial the equipment was designed to generate an amplified sound of Honey Bee. Here when we say amplified it means making the sound louder. This amplified sound is audible from a distance of about 700 to 800 meters. The first instrument was installed at a level crossing on a track adjoining Rani Reserve Forest. And it is an important elephant habitat in the country. This Rani Reserve Forest is in the state of Assam. Presently Northeast Frontier Railway has some 46 devices that are installed at various vulnerable level crossing points. You may cite this Plan B as the best practice that can be adopted nationwide at various vulnerable level crossings. And therefore it is a measure to prevent possible man-animal conflict. And we can avoid deaths of elephants and we can protect this environment. With this we have come to the end of this news article discussion. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. This news article is about the Kartarpur Corridor. The analysis of this news article will be relevant in prelims levels under current events of national importance and in Indian polity and governance. The discussion is also relevant in main levels in GS Paper 1 under salient features of Indian society, diversity of India. And in GS Paper 2 the discussion will be relevant in India and its neighborhood relations. It can be linked to GS Paper 3 under roads in the infrastructure heading. The news article states that India has asserted or declared that the construction work on Kartarpur Corridor will be completed in a fast pace or expeditiously. The construction work includes construction of a passenger terminal building, a four-lane highway and other amenities. It is said that these were being built at a fast pace. This response from Indian government that work will be completed as soon as possible has actually came after the report stated that India is actually lagging behind Pakistan in the construction work of Kartarpur Corridor. The particular report also stated that Pakistan has completed 70% of the work while India is lagging behind. In India a four-lane highway connecting the zero point of Kartarpur Corridor up to national highway 354 is being constructed. It is constructed by national highway authorities of India. The zero point is the meeting point of Indian side of the corridor and the Pakistan side of the corridor. And it is said that nearly 45% of the work has been completed from the Indian side and according to the article the road is scheduled to be completed by September 2019. So what is the importance of Kartarpur Corridor? It is important because the corridor will help or let the Sikh pilgrims from India to visit the iconic Gurudwara Darbar Sahib which is situated at Kartarpur. This Kartarpur is located in Pakistan on the banks of river Ravi. When we say Gurudwara it means a Sikh temple or a Sikh shrine. Gurudwara Darbar Sahib is important because the founder of Sikh religion Guru Nanak Dev Ji had assembled the Sikh community at Kartarpur and he has lived there for 18 years till 1539 AD. The Gurudwara Darbar Sahib is built where Guru Nanak Dev Ji took his last breath. That is the place where he died. So this Gurudwara is a sacred holy place and spiritual heritage of the fraternity belonging to the Sikh community. It's a place of spiritual attachment. Hence visiting this pilgrimages spiritually and culturally important for them. To realize this wish from the Sikh community the government of India is building the Kartarpur corridor from the Indian side. The same is also being carried out by the Pakistan government for the Pakistan side. And one another thing is that this year is the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. So to mark this event the government of India decided in November 2018 to build the Kartarpur road corridor. This corridor is up to the international border between India and Pakistan. It is being carried out as an integrated development project by both the countries. So it is necessary that the facilities on both sides of international border have to be ready by the time the celebrations begin in November this year in Kartarpur to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. This is the reason the Indian government has stated that the work will be completed expeditiously. See both India and Pakistan had announced in November 2018 that they will build corridors on their respective sides to let Sikh pilgrims to visit the holy shrine without visa. So this will help the pilgrims to walk across and come back without having to secure a visa. Therefore this will enable the Sikh pilgrims to visit the Gurudwara throughout the year with much ease. Because there is no need to secure visa. So as you can see in this picture the Indian side of corridor starts from Dhera Baba Nanak town in Gurudaspur district in the state of Punjab in our country. It extends up to the international border between India and Pakistan. The international border is represented as a dotted line and then the road extends to Kartarpur Saheb which is located in Pakistan on the banks of river Ravi. As we already saw this project corridor or this corridor is to be developed by national highways authority of India and will be funded by government of India. And this corridor will have four lane corridor along with the service road. When we say service road it is a subsidiary road that runs parallel to a main road and it gives access to houses, shops or businesses. And it is considered that this corridor will be a historical landmark between India and Pakistan and it will also boost tourism as more pilgrims will visit the holy shrine throughout the year between two countries. With this we come to the end of the analysis of this news article. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. First question is with respect to environmental impact assessment. They have given two statements and are asking which of the above statements are correct. The first statement National Green Tribunal is the nodal agency for making rules or regulations pertaining to environmental clearance. Now the statement is incorrect because the nodal agency for making rules or regulations pertaining to environmental clearance is not National Green Tribunal but the ministry of environment, forests and climate change. Therefore first question is first statement is wrong. The second statement Public hearing under the environmental impact assessment is conducted by the State Pollution Control Board. The second statement is correct because the public hearing in all cases has to be conducted by State Pollution Control Board or the Union Territory Pollution Control Committee. If the statement had the term only that is it is conducted only by State Pollution Control Board then it would have been a wrong statement. It does not has the term only. So the second statement is correct. So the correct answer for this question be two only. The next question is with respect to Chandrayaan two mission of ISRO. They have given three statements and are asking which of the above statements are correct. The first statement the second lunar mission of India aims to orbit the moon and also to soft land on moon surface any one of the poles. Now this statement is partly correct partly wrong because the second lunar mission or the second mission to moon the Chandrayaan two aims to orbit the moon and also to soft land on moon surface. But not on any one of the poles but it is very categorical on closer to soft land on a location that is closer to South Pole. So that is the correct statement. So the first statement here is wrong. The second statement it aims to soft land the lander at a location so far been unexplored by any other country in the world. This statement is correct because the location where ISRO has planned to soft land has not been explored by any other country in the world. That is why we saw therefore India has a chance to discover something new. The third statement it is ISRO's first mission to land on any celestial body. This statement is correct. Earlier we have mission to Mars and we have one earlier mission to even moon. Both missions are orbiter missions but now it is both orbiter and at the same time landing soft landing. So the third statement is correct. So the correct answer for this question is option B two and three only. Now this question is with respect to plan B. They have given four options and are asking which among the following best describes the objective of plan B. We know that plan B is related to the flying insect B. So by looking at the options you can eliminate option B since it talks about the efficiency. If you take first statement it is also wrong because it talks about conservation of bumble bees. If you remember the discussion you can recollect that we discussed the plan B under the innovation award given by Railway Ministry and this award was awarded to Northeastern Frontier Railway and was related to saving elephants by getting them driving away from the railway tracks. Otherwise they will meet an accident due to the running train and they will be dead. So our answer should mention about rail tracks which is given in option C. So the option C it aims to install devices that play or imitate the sound of swarm of buzzing honey bees to drive away the packy derms from the rail tracks.  So the correct answer for this question is option C. Now this question is with reference to Kartarpur Corridor. They have given two statements and are asking which of the statements are correct. If you look at the first half of the first statement it states that the Kartarpur Corridor will facilitate the Sikh pilgrims to visit the Gurudwara Darbar Saheb. Yes this part of the statement is correct and remember it is Gurudwara Darbar Saheb. The second part of the statement states that the visit will be without visa. During our analysis we saw that India and Pakistan had announced in November 2018 that they will build corridors on their respective sides to let the Sikh pilgrims to visit the Holy Shrine Gurudwara Darbar Saheb without visa. So this means that the entire first statement is correct. Now let us come to the second statement. It states that it is constructed by government of India to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh. Note that Guru Gobind Singh is the 10th Sikh Guru. The purpose is to celebrate the birth anniversary of 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji who is the founder of Sikh religion. So the given second statement is wrong. Therefore first statement only is correct. So the correct answer for this question is option A, one only. Now let us see the main question. India has set ambitious target of achieving 30% of total vehicles to be electric vehicles. In the light of the above statement discuss the measures taken and challenges of realizing the target. Now we know that India has kept this target to achieve it by the year 2030. Now regarding the measures you can mention the recent announcements from the union budget 2019 from our today's analysis. Points such as giving income tax deduction of 1.5 lakh on the interest paid on loans that are taken for purchasing electric vehicles reduction of GST tax rate from 12% to 5% to further incentivize the consumers and provision for a scheme to invite global companies to set up mega manufacturing plans for lithium storage batteries and also for solar electric charging infrastructure. In addition to this the government has also plans planned to provide direct and indirect tax benefits to such companies and then the commitment of the government to encourage faster adoption of electric mobility by providing upfront and demand incentives. The government has also decided to provide exemption of customs duty on certain parts of electric vehicle to promote manufacturing and for other purposes. For challenges you can write points such as difficulty in market acceptability and challenges with respect to non availability of technology with respect to electric vehicles. When such technologies are not domestically available this will obviously increase the price of the vehicles because the technology will be imported. So obviously it will increase reflect on the price of the vehicles because of the import duty and also challenges with respect to setting up of charging infrastructure and one another point is that industries are already in trouble transforming from Bharat 4 standards to Bharat 6 emission and fuel standards. In addition to this now there is a target to transform to electric vehicles from fossil fuel based vehicles that too within 10 years to contribute 30% of overall composition is really tough. These points you can address challenges and we have also seen the measures. Thus you can take some points from our today's analysis to answer this question. With this we have come to the end of our today's news analysis. If you like the video press the like button, comment, share and subscribe to Shankar Ayes Academy YouTube channel for daily updates and content on civil service exam preparation.