What is up everybody it's Stas here and in this video we're going to be doing an overall market update taking a look at the Dow Jones the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ from yesterday's session on the 29th of November and I also want to share with you guys what I did in terms of trading yesterday as well as a couple of trades that I'm involved with in my swing trading account and I also want to go over you guys guys because you guys and natural gas they got absolutely pummeled they got hit through the floor massive drop I wasn't even expecting a drop this big and we have to go over that and talk about kind of what are my plans right now involving you guys D gas and natural gas kind of what my thoughts are there but before we do get into the video all I ask from you is if you enjoy the video if you find value in this video simply go down below hit that like button consider subscribing if you want to see further content for me and if you want to be a part of our community the StrifeSmart community the discord link is down below the Facebook group link is down below and I'm also running a 20% off Black Friday sale on the StrifeSmart merch that is linked down below as well so without further ado guys let's get into it let's talk about the good old S&P 500 so you guys can see here on yesterday's session or rather in yesterday's session the S&P closed down $12.65 down .4% so we had quite a retracement yesterday in that little short day of trading and by the way yesterday the day ended at about 1pm Eastern Standard which is why you can see the candlesticks ended right around here with about three hours left in the market because the market typically closes at 4pm Eastern Standard time that is so you guys can see again the retracement we saw in terms of the S&P which is quite healthy in my opinion and if you guys have been following my videos over the past couple of days I've actually been talking about this very correction that we're starting to see right now because through my point of view here and I'm sure a lot of you all could relate the S&P was quite a bit over but at this point in time when it hit that all-time high at around $31.54 so RSI was extremely overbought we were overextended above that 50 S&P which is this green line so I figured sooner or later we're going to see a retracement more towards that 50 S&P to bring that RSI down to a healthy spot and really over the past couple of retracements we've held that 50 S&P as support which is what led me to this decision and you guys can see now we're starting to retrace right so what am I looking here in terms of the S&P like what am I looking at maybe we pull down even further and this is really going to depend on what the futures market looks like tomorrow Sunday 6pm when it opens up let's say these futures gap down you know you could expect a potential pull down on Monday maybe down to that 50 S&P at around $31.30 but ultimately I think this thing will continue going up at least in the short term here and I know a lot of you guys are following the trade war you know between the US and China let's say we get a huge trade deal done I think this market will continue to fly up so treat this I'm not telling you to treat it but treat it as a potential dip that's at least what I'm doing but again you know don't buy the dip just because I'm saying to do that do your own research in terms of that and make your own conclusion really so let's go to the Dow Jones let's talk about that very quickly on the hourly chart you can see same as the S&P it's retracing right from 28174 which was that all-time high that we hit now we're starting to pull down to that 50 S&A which has been a level that we've held after every retracement over the past couple of weeks pretty much right so there are size getting down to that healthy spot so this in my opinion could hold maybe 28,000 bucks flat could be where it flatlines and potentially runs up more from there and again I'm watching these futures markets guys very very important because if they gap down Sunday and that gap down holds through Monday morning that could be a huge sign that we're pulling down even further and that's what I'd be watching you know this level is where I'd be watching for the Dow to hold so I could potentially buy the dip and for anybody else out there but again I am not telling you to buy the dip right so NASDAQ here down about 32 points yesterday down about 0.4 percent hit that all-time high what day was this the 27th what day is it today the 30th okay so we hit the all-time high three days ago right and we actually got rejected at that same level roughly at that all-time high so that's looking like a double top here and now we're making a lower high so now we're looking like we want to retrace down to that 180 SMA on this NASDAQ right because you can see each time we've pulled down we've held that 180 SMA you can see it here here here here as well you know we pulled down a couple days ago we triple bottomed right around that 180 SMA ended up launching above it again so I'd definitely watch this level maybe around 83 50 on these NASDAQ futures and um yeah really that's it guys in terms of these markets nothing crazier to go over they're just simply retracing everything that goes up and again these markets have been going up for the past couple of days here everything that's pushing up aggressively it's ultimately going to see a breather which is what we talked about in these previous couple of videos and that's what we ended up getting in these markets yesterday so let's talk about what I did yesterday in terms of my trading and the truth is guys I didn't really do anything you know that I'm swing trading Home Depot that's one of my new swing trades here that I'm in and Home Depot is one that I was getting in pre-market I believe on Thursday right Thursday pre-market I ended up getting into Home Depot pulled down shot up to 223 now we're seeing yet again another retracement down to about 220 bucks so here I'm not looking to add more money quite yet but I still feel comfortable holding my shares because they are if I remember correctly in the 220 to 221 level so that's really all I did I was considering taking a position in Tesla here guys which we'll talk about in a couple of minutes but I didn't want to pull the trigger quite yet to see if I could potentially get a lower starting cost point maybe here on Monday and let me show you guys why very quickly before you know we talk about you guys and D gas but with Tesla here you know we did not really see a confirmation that we're breaking to the upside quite yet we are seeing a strong support here which could end up launching us up but again we did not get the launch up quite yet which is why I didn't take a position and also I could get a lower cost point here especially on Monday if we gap down and start to test 320 bucks which is a major level of support where I'd love adding a little bit in Tesla if it finds support there and if it starts to climb back up so Tesla you know I love it I did not take a position on on Friday but I'm looking to take one here on Monday I almost did guys I'll be honest I almost did but I'm going to give it some time here so let's go over you guys and D gas and natural gas guys which was an absolute bloodbath well not for D gas D gas did absolutely fantastic natural gas and you guys absolute bloodbath let's talk about that NGF 20 and guys we've been talking about this over the past couple of videos haven't we I literally said and have been saying that D gas in the short term is the winner in my opinion natural gas there's a lot of downside that's what I've been saying over these past couple of days due to the mild demand that we've been seeing for natural gas with a 28 billion cubic feet withdrawal this past Wednesday which is a lot less than what we would like to see and it's a lot less than what was expected right that's showing the lack of demand and honestly the mild weather across the U.S. it hasn't been as cold as a lot of people thought so that's putting some pressure on natural gas a lot of pressure at that to the downside right so this thing is down guys I can't believe I'm saying this 7.5 percent right now well it was down 7.5 percent on Friday which is insane this must be this is probably the biggest drop I've seen that I could remember here in the recent future right so we were down 18 cents down about close to 20 cents here down at $2.31 guys and like I mentioned in previous videos you know rather and I think it might have been the last video you know now that we're breaking levels down that we haven't really been to ever there's nowhere to look in terms of supports at least here on the January contracts right in turn or the January futures rather so you can see here this is technically the low of all time in terms of these January futures contracts so if we go back to that 20 day one hour what am I looking to see here right in terms of natural gas well in the short term like I've been saying degas is probably in the favor which goes up whenever natural gas is going down but that doesn't you know that doesn't deter me from saying that you guys could see a bit of a comeback here maybe in the next day or two just simply because natural gas is extremely oversold it's extremely oversold right any type of push to the upside here will give us a short term play in you guys right it will give us that short term play in you guys let's say if this goes up to the 50 SMA again and again I think ultimately it'll continue the downtrend here in the next two three weeks but in the next couple of days we could maybe get that pop where we could play you guys and then once it's hitting that 50 SMA maybe at about 240 238 whatever it may be then if it's if it's continuing to go down from there we could flip over to degas and profit on the continuous downside that we could be seeing here over the next two three weeks like I've been saying in these videos so that's kind of what I'm waiting for here guys a lot of red it's this is terrible guys this is really really terrible but again the RSI well actually the RSI is not too bad in terms of the five day five minute but I'd still just watch for that potential comeback play honestly the potential comeback play is there because judging off the trend here guys you can see you know each time we've hit a lower low and this is a drastic lower low right each time we've hit that we've come back a little bit right just like the S&P hitting all-time highs it has to pull down right that's kind of the same thing with stocks eat in futures for the most part that are going down right they're getting crushed down down down eventually they're going to come up a little bit before breaking up completely or continuing to go down so that's kind of my thoughts there on natural gas right now if you flip over to you guys you can see two dollars and fifty cents you know in the red 21 percent down and one day that is insane guys nine dollars and twenty seven cents and you guys can kind of see what I'm talking about there with the potential bounce back play it looks like it's forming slowly after hours and towards the end of the market on Friday so watch that you know maybe we go back up to the EMA maybe at 990 10 bucks maybe we break that and rally back up to that 50 SMA who knows that's kind of what I'm looking at right now on you guys but nonetheless guys I am probably sticking to the sidelines right now maybe Monday I hop in if anything's looking extremely attractive in terms of these two but they're extremely volatile right now and if you get caught in the wrong trade which I know a lot of people have you know if you get caught in the wrong trade it could really crush you right so do you guys now up 21 cents or not 21 cents 21 percent up 30 bucks we broke completely out of that triple top that I was talking about in yesterday's video that triple top resistance that we saw a couple weeks ago right here which was at about 150 we completely blew right through that now we're looking to test 180 bucks here that is the next level of resistance so maybe we pull down on D gas like I said because you guys might see a bounce back place so look for D gas maybe at around 155 maybe 160 that could be an interesting level to get back in potentially and that's kind of my plan right now right my plan right now is to just focus on you know the short-term pop potential here in natural gas like I mentioned right if we get that I'm looking to trade you guys here in the next one to two days maybe the next three days I could potentially get a pushback up on you guys but again if that doesn't play out I'm not sweating it because I'm in other trades but if we end up getting that I'll play that and if you guys ends up not doing that let's say D gas continues to ride up like I mentioned that could be a play here in the next two three weeks because again we're getting mild weather the weather's not cold here not really as cold as people expected but I think that will change in this next month we just have to wait and see how this the rest of this December month really how how the December month in general ends up playing out in terms of weather patterns and of course what the what the withdrawal rates are of the natural gas supply and so and so forth so that's kind of my thoughts there I know a lot of people have opinions on this so let me know down below in the comments what your thoughts are and yeah it's pretty much it guys and for natural gas you guys and D gas let's talk about some other stocks very quickly rapid fire that I'm kind of watching here Google I like this for a potential pull down and and an entry at around 1270 you guys can see this is kind of a head and shoulder kind of on the on the smaller scale here you can see it head and shoulder forming on Google and it seems like it is selling off to form that right shoulder completely so if we get that full pull down again 1260 could be an entry off of the bounce on that 180 SMA here on the four hour chart at V is another one that did quite well despite the market selling off on Friday up 35 cents up 0.64 percent now I'm looking to enter this one in these next couple of days because we got a critical break above that 180 SMA now we're looking to fill the gap up to about 56 bucks which we did that multiple times over the past couple of weeks so I like at V here really really attractive short term play in my opinion of course Home Depot I'm looking to add more once we get closer to maybe 223 on Home Depot and of course Tesla already talked about that one but looking to add heavily not heavily but maybe add a little bit at 320 if we do get that downwards break if we get the pop might add here at about 335 and then write it up hopefully it gets back up to the 340s and that's where I'm looking to end up profiting so overall guys that's kind of the rundown of the markets you guys D gas hope I didn't butcher anything hope you guys understood kind of my point of view on that again let me know down below in the comments what do you guys think and that's pretty much it leave a like subscribe if you want to see further content join the Stryvesmark community down below discord and the facebook and again if you want to check out the Stryvesmart merch store Stryvesmart store.com we're running a 20 off black friday sale that is linked down below there's no discount code simply just go to the website and if you want to buy anything it automatically takes the 20 off and that's going to end on monday so check that stuff out I appreciate all of you guys as always for rocking with the channel you are awesome I'll catch you all in the next video enjoy your weekend peace out


Hey guys, thanks for watching. I was a short one today. I'll see you next week in my Tai Chi on Sundays and Chigo meditation


We'll come back to the channels. It can be a very short video. Right here we have one, two, three products in our cart. What we're going to do is that every time we add to cart and go to view the cart, we are quickly going to jump from our shopping page immediately to our checkout. We want to reduce the number of steps that actually are taken. So usually our shopping process is we add to the cart, then we go to view the cart, then we have the option of changing everything here, then we go to proceed to checkout. But some of our customers just like having the process quite short. So today we're going to look at that in a very short video. Five lines of code and we are done with this whole process. So let's jump in. So I have my little plugin here that I've written. I'm going to drop it into my editor. I'll open up a quick file, give it the same name. We'll start off in everywhere that we start off plugins and I have a short code snippet that allows me to quickly enter all the information that I need to here. So we have all the details that we need right here. Of course it's going to be a different license. We'll license it under GPO2 or later and we're good to go. And we're going to add a filter. So we'll use the add action add filter and in this add filter we're going to tap into the wukamas hook. It's called the wukamas add to cut redirect and after that we're going to just add an anonymous function which I'll just call a skip cut. We shall just call it take a press skip cut. So I'll just come back here and then start writing the function. Of course give it its name and then after naming the function then we can we are ready to actually start working on this. So we shall now add one particular thing. So the only thing that we are going to be required here is to actually just return one item and that is going to be we're going to return the wc get checkout url and this is a function that is by default in wukamas. That's why it has this in this prefix of wc. So it's basically just saying get the checkout url and our checkout url we already started in our settings in wukamas. We already said that our checkout page should actually be the checkout page. So that's the url that's going to come if we set it in any other page that's what would come in place of this. So what we're going to is we're going to save this go back to the plugins reload them and then we shall see take a press short checkout. So when we click activate here we are now ready to reload our shop here and when we add to cut and click view we immediately take into our checkout. So within just four lines of code five lines of code we are able to make this process that was so long. Sometimes we lose customers because they just want to pay and get out of there. So this is a short code snippet that you can either add in your theme but I wouldn't advise you to do that because when you change themes you can lose such critical settings rather I would advise you to put this in a plugin just like we've done. Very short if you don't want to use it anymore you just go and deactivate it and you're back to normal settings. So thank you for watching if you like the video if you want to see more of these please let me know in the comments below and like the video. So thank you for watching and bye bye.


Yesterday I asked you, Freedom Family, should we create a new GFX team? And you overwhelmingly said yes, but there are two criticisms that I will feature in today's episode and a new forum post that introduces something for the GFX people right now. It's launching in beta and you can get into the beta by replying to that forum post. The link is down there in the description below. Let's get on to your comments from yesterday. NoNoTouchMyNoNo wrote, Hi George, I would also be happy to make banners, do graphics and anything else that they may need so I can grow. I would be willing to do all this for free in exchange for promotion. Many of you designers came out and said the exact same thing and that makes me so happy and so proud that we have such a great family that can help each other grow together. Gersba said, I would enjoy to be part of the GFX team in exchange for a spotlight. ForcePlay's MC wrote, I'm a Minecraft graphic designer but can make anything. I can do anything for the channel for free with pleasure. I would like to join the graphics team. This is the overwhelming support I mentioned. There are criticisms. GFXCWSboss wrote, I've been asking for this for like going on two years now. Why is it taking so long for designers to get recognition for the work that they've put into other channels? I'm sorry it's taking this long but better late than never right? I sacrificed also criticized Dust who said, You already had the service in place but chose to get rid of it along with me. Really? I don't know that. Tell us in the comments below I sacrificed what we did and let us fix it because we'd ever want to get rid of any promising partners. It's usually a misunderstanding but let's talk through it.  That's quite a claim. And both are under the Freedom Network. You're all part of the Freedom Family. Thank you for believing in us. And if you want to join Freedom, click that I up there and be part of this wonderful family because our spirit is we all help each other grow together as a family. And the forum post I mentioned is right here behind me where we talk about a GFX and VFX store to help partners and designers. It actually started a month ago as a question. Do you want it? But if you skip ahead to the latest post, which is on page three, you will see that Anthony wrote, All right, we have committed to trying this out and we've purchased a piece of software and we will set it up and make it do everything you need it to do. In order to get involved in that beta test, simply reply to this forum post and Anthony can at mention you with any updates. The link to this post is down there in the description below this video. Axel MCYT had a great suggestion. He said he thinks this is a great idea, but what we can also do is make tutorials on how to make banners, thumbnails and branding so more people will be able to create their own stuff and join the GFX team. I love that concept. Do you have great tutorials on how to do these things using GIMP or Photoshop or other tools? Send us links to those down there in the comments below and if you have a playlist that organizes a series of your tip videos, even better, send us a link to your playlist. Inspire Photography shared a different concept. It is a cinematography channel bringing new and exciting videos every week to YouTube. Let's have a look. Here is the channel behind me. It only has 14 subscribers, but it has great content and potential to grow. Let's roll your trailer. Great music, emotional, very appropriate for your scenes. To check out this channel, click that i up there and let's have a look at your playlists, popular uploads, created playlists, stock footage mashups, and your uploads. Let's have a look at your video thumbnails. You have videos about skylines, night skies, and a surfer's paradise. And I would love to see what you will come up with in the future. Speaking of unique channels, Melanie Anzaraoth just joined us yesterday. We helped her through the missing learn more in her dashboard. And when I checked out her channel, I was really surprised to hear this. Dance in style. It stands for a while. Heaven can't wait. We're only watching the skies. She does cover songs, beautiful cover songs, where she plays the instrumental, the piano, and sings. Let's listen to her intro beginning. Hi, everyone. Welcome to my channel. This is the page where I sing anything that I like. That means something special to me, or that comes to mind. I spoke really fast right there. Yes, you did. Thank you so much for stopping by. It means a lot. All the links are below if you wish to follow me on any social media. Check her channel out. Click that I up there and tell us if you like the music that she sings. Let's have a look at your playlists. So you have uploads for no hero, a mashup, and nothing compares to you by prints. But you don't have any other playlists. I would encourage you to create more on your home page so people can see the variety of content that you have on your channel. Let's have a look at your video thumbnails. So in each thumbnail, you have four pictures of you, which is a unique style. Oh, not only. You also have pictures where it's just one of you. And you have quite a variety of different backgrounds that you use, different hairdos, different styles for your thumbnails, but they all feature you. And I love that consistency. It is a very effective strategy for getting people to click on your music. Mr. Outro wrote, Hey, I'll happily make banners, thumbnails, et cetera for the freedom family. And he already makes free outro videos on his channel. I even asked him once before if he'd be willing to make templates if I was spotlighted a while back. He'd obviously like to make these in his free time. Here is Mr. Outro behind me. Let's have a look at your channel trailer. Oh, it's a song remix. It's not really a trailer. Why don't you have a trailer introducing us to your channel and its great content? Looking at your playlists, you have only two kinds of playlists. Why don't you add more playlists to your homepage so we can see all the categories of videos that you feature?  Each one is colorful and featuring you as the brand. Very clear text, very easy to read. Oh, wow. A freedom spotlight contest entry. Awesome. FIFA 16 top five goals of the week. Everything is super clear. Click that eye up there to check out Mr. Outro's channel. The Husky Jerk wrote, Hey George, I'm a graphic designer. I make logos and banners and Twitter headers for free. And I would love to participate in this new program. I make my GFX for free. And I'm looking forward to see how this program will work out. And I'm hoping to be part of it. Here is the Husky Jerk behind me. You don't have a channel trailer. Why not? It's the most important video that introduces us to your channel and it should answer one question. Why should I subscribe to you? If you don't have one, you're missing out on potential subscribers and future fans. So please create one. And you also don't have any playlists. You just show the uploads. I would encourage you to categorize your content into playlists. Let's have a look at your video thumbnails. So your thumbnails, some of them are really awesome. Modded account giveaway and Grand Theft Auto God Mode wall breaches. Very clear. But others like this one are hard to understand. The text is really hard to read. It's really small. This one also, this one also. So it looks like you've started improving your thumbnails only very recently, which are these two right here. And that's awesome to see. I hope you continue. Click that eye up there to check out the Husky Jerks channel. We will continue spotlighting you, the graphic designers in the Freedom Family, as you're offering your services to help everybody grow together. And who am I? I am George Sunpai, Papa George, and many other names the Freedom Family has given me. I am George, CEO and founder of this beautiful family called Freedom for Freedom and the GFX team. I am George and you've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom Family. You are part of it. We are all part of it and we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.


Scratch Blocks, what are they and how do you use them? Well get those hands nice and warm because in this tutorial of Scratchery Basics I'm going to explain all the types of blocks in Scratch Programming through a demo that we'll code together in just a moment. Hello world it's the surfing scratcher here, teacher, surfer, programmer and lover of learning bringing you the goodness of learning through code. On this channel we code projects together using video tutorials so if you're new around here consider hitting that subscribe button. Be sure to check out the show notes and links in the description below as I list out a bunch of resources and unplugged activities that can help you along on your learning journey. Alright let's get stuck into it. Alright so you may press that create button but I recommend you grab a copy of this starter project for this tutorial. You can find a link to it in the description below so go and click on that first. Okay let's talk about Scratch Blocks. Scratch Blocks can be found under the code tab and they live in this column just here. I want you to be thinking about a jigsaw puzzle that you may have done. So jigsaw puzzles have those center pieces and they have pieces that go around the edges. We're going to be talking a little bit about Scratch Blocks with that sort of metaphor of jigsaw pieces. Let's move on to the first type of blocks in Scratch. Ad blocks. Ad blocks start a script or a block sequence and they've also got these bottom bumps that you can connect other blocks to. They're mostly found in the events category. You can also find them in your custom blocks and extensions. Let's go use our first one. We're going to click on the cast sprite. Head over to events and drag out when the green flag is clicked. Okay let's look at the next type of block. Stack blocks. So stack blocks are like the middle pieces of our jigsaw puzzle. You'll see they've got a top notch that you can connect to other blocks which are above it. They've also got a bottom bump which you can connect other blocks beneath it. Stack blocks tell the sprite what to do. They are the main commands or instructions. Here I've listed out just a few from all the various categories. They're found pretty much everywhere. Let's go connect our first stack blocks. Going to jump over to the car. Head over to the motion. So when the green flag is pressed we want the car in this position. So let's go ahead and grab the stack block for it. Go to the current X and the current Y value. We also want to point it in the current direction that it's in. So let's go get that stack block. See how I've just connected them both and we're going to change that to zero which reflects the current direction. You'll see that as I move my car over here and I press the green flag it now goes directly back to the starting line. Okay so we want our car to go around the track. To do that we're going to use a block that will animate our car from this position up to a new position here. Let's just move our car. So we want to move it through code. The block that we can use to do that is a glide block. A glide block just animates a sprite for us. So over one second it's going to glide to this new position. So let's press the green flag and see what happens. There we go. So after the car has hit this position we want to change the direction that it's in. So we want to point it west. Let's go get our point block and change it. Okay now if I press the green flag we'll have gone to the start and now our car is oriented. What I want you to do now is repeat what we've just done but for every straight and every turn around the track until we get back to the start. I'm going to do it and I'm going to speed it up for you. But follow along with me. Okay so now if we just go ahead and click the top of this we'll see our car animate around the track. And it's pointing in all the directions that we would expect it to do and it'll head all the way back to that starting point. Head on over to the events and just grab out another when the green flag is clicked block so we can start to talk about our next type of block.  We use them to loop things and to check conditions. I'll show you an example of what I mean. Let's get into the costumes of the car. You'll see here that we've got two costumes. We've got a blue costume and a pink costume that we can alternate between. We can change the color of our car depending on the direction that it is pointing. So let's code that. Head back over to the code of the car. We're going to go over to the control category and grab out an if statement. And what we're essentially going to say is if our car is pointing in a direction then we want to set it to the blue car. And if our car is pointing in the other direction, set it to the pink car. We'll put that specific information in this hexagonal shape here, which is a nice segue to our next block type. Boolean blocks. They have this hexagonal shape and they fit inside other blocks. Now a Boolean block just means that something is either true or false and that can be represented by a zero for false and a one for true. So what we're going to do is we're going to check the direction of our car sprite. Let's do that. Jump over to the car. Now head over to the operators. Grab out a greater than Boolean block. And we're now interested in another type of block. Reporter blocks. These are rounded rectangles. They fit inside other blocks as well. And they give us a value about the sprite. Sort of property or attribute or a feature of the sprite and its value. So you remember that we were just interested in the sprite's direction. So what this block does is it tells us a direct reading of this value here. So currently our block info is selected. If I were to click this, it should come up as 90 and it does. It's just telling us what this value is equal to. So we're going to use this direction block for our car. Jump back over to the car. Head on over to your motion. And scroll down until you see these three reporter blocks here. Exposition, Y-position, and direction. Grab out direction. If you click direction, it will say 90. That is the direction the car is pointed in. We're going to get this block and put it inside that Boolean block. I'm going to say if the direction is greater than, well, let's go zero. If the direction is greater than zero, let's show our blue car. So if our direction is greater than zero, let's switch to our blue car costume. Head on over to your looks. We want to switch to costume here and we want to switch to the blue costume. Cool. Now we can go ahead and duplicate this block by right clicking. Bring it down there. We need to go back into our operators and get a less than Boolean block here. Let's make that zero. I'll duplicate the direction once more. Place it into the Boolean block. I'm going to get rid of this by just dragging it onto the blocks. Now let's put that new Boolean block inside that hexagonal shape there. Cool. Now we want to change this costume to pink. We can connect those up and we can connect it on a green flag press here. So let's press the green flag and boom, our car is blue. But it's not doing anything. And the reason for that is it only does it on the green flag press. So we need to fix that. That's a good time to talk about our last type of block, cap blocks. All right. So these have a top notch so that you can connect it to other blocks above it. But it has a flat base, which means this is the end of the road. Nothing can be connected to the bottom of it. And these blocks stop a block or a script from running. So you do this right at the very end. You notice over here that these are our two cap blocks. And I've put in this forever C block in here as well because it also has a flat base. And this is going to be the one that we're using, but it's not actually a cap block. It's still a C. Encourage you whenever you see drop down menus like this to click on them and have an explore of what you think they might do. Let's jump back over to our car. We're going to need that forever block. Let's go into our control blocks and grab out a forever block. Now, what you can do is if you drag your forever block to the top of that cap block there, that will just place all those other C blocks inside that forever block. Now, if we press the green flag here, we should see our car change from blue to pink and then back to blue. There's also a quicker way that we could have done this. If you scroll back over to your control category here with all the control blocks, if you get an if else statement, we can just put in one condition there. So if the direction is greater than zero, we can switch the costume to blue. Otherwise, just make it pink. So we can actually just simplify our code a little bit there. I think we should do a few laps of this racetrack. So let's go out and grab a repeat C block. And I like the number three. Going around three times seems pretty cool. Let's get that C block and let's place it just beneath those two stack blocks where we start the project. So when we go to that first position and we point in the direction, then we want to go around the track. That's all these instructions here. The final thing that we're going to do now is we're going to go back into our control blocks here. And we're just going to get one of those cap blocks that finally stops all the scripts running in our project. So we've covered all the types of scratch blocks. And in the future video, we'll talk about all the types of categories of scratch blocks as well. All right, it's time for a scratchy question. Are you still a little bit fuzzy on some of the scratch block types? It's totally cool. You're learning. Comment below on your fuzziness. And I'll point you on some more stuff that can help you out. Hey, thanks for checking out this tutorial. Subscribing the bell if you're new around here. And be sure to have a scout of my other content, which is on the screen right now. If you can't get enough, then head on over to my Patreon page where you can join a membership tier for access to exclusive content. Link in the description below. But until then, I'm off to go find a wave. I'll catch you in the next one.


Focus on getting the entire industry, entire aviation industry, over to zero emission, not just a small segment of small aircraft with batteries, for example. If you take that approach, then you quickly realize that almost the only way to do it is through hydrogen. Hydrogen is a very light fuel. It's actually on a per mass basis per kilogram of fuel. It contains three times more energy than jet fuel. So your fuel system can be made lighter than the current systems that fly the aircraft. Scientific barriers. We don't need new science in order to get there. We need to constantly improve the systems and increase the temperature and pressure in the fuel cell chambers, cores of our system, which we're well on track for. But in the 15, 20 years, I think, we can cover all sizes of aircraft. Innovation can only happen if you have knowledge on which to base it. If you continue doing the same thing as you've always done, that's not innovation. And if you want to innovate, you need new ideas, new thoughts, new knowledge. And that's what fundamental research creates. So there are, of course, many societal problems that are of interest to all leaders, politicians and also entrepreneurs. Climate change, the pandemic, but also clean water for everyone, world poverty, inequality. So you could say, well, why don't we just do research specifically on those? Well, people do, and that's really good and has to be done. But let's remember that all the solutions for all of these also need fundamental knowledge.  COVID is one, the COVID vaccine was generated within eight or nine months. That obviously couldn't be done by new research. It takes much longer to validate new research. It was stuff that had been done before, fundamental research for completely other purposes. So you never know what you might need. You need to create knowledge that might help you solve a problem that you didn't even know about. It's funny that for research, you have to defend and say something certain comes out. When we look at venture capitalism and investing in startups, it's perfectly normal for funders, investors in these, that many of them fail. That's the nature of risk. So why should that be different for research? And in fact, research has the added effect, even if it doesn't come with a sort of mind-blowing result, it will still establish new knowledge. That's essential for everybody. Let me add that in research, the humanities, the social sciences are at least as important for innovation, for understanding how to improve the world. What is the message of research to business? Come and listen. Come and listen. It's so exciting what's going on. Just seek out researchers, learn and listen. Everybody will benefit and it's fun.


trading room. There's a stock that's running up right now. The stock PHIO. You see the stock making a big run? Stock was $4 and about 10 minutes ago. This stock is at $620. Can any of you here tell me why is this stock going up? What's making the stock go higher? Does anybody? Let me show you live level four. This is live data. Okay. This stock got halted. There were big sellers out here. They got executed. Big seller right here was at 540. He got executed. Then there's another seller out here. He got executed. The stock is making breakout.


I was always very curious about the stories behind the big dirt bike companies and when I had to look more into the companies and the models to do the steps to podium buyers guide I decided to do this new series of videos. At these behind the scenes I'll tell you more about the story of the main companies in the off-road community and explore where they're heading by interviewing people from inside the company and we'll start with the fastest growing dirt bike company in the world, Sherco. Stensively, are created by frames that the bodywork are well done. Sherco is no stranger to the off-road community, especially if we're talking about trials where the brand started. In 2016, Sherco even won the World Enduro Championship showing us that they are here to stay and leave a mark. Sherco's founder and current CEO, Marc Tessier, was a professional trials rider in his younger years so he always had a deep connection with the sport. He decided to create Sherco in order to extend his passion beyond riding and start building motorcycles able to measure up against the best in the sport. The company started small and is now growing to a semi-industrial size but its philosophy remains the same, as Tomatessier explains. We want to be more of a Ducati off the off-road than Japanese brown that make units and units of different kind of products. Both are doing a good job, it's just a philosophy. We prefer to do less quantity but good product. This is not that we want to be a Ferrari, and to do a super limited quantity, it's just that we want to create nice products, but ourself will purchase. Because we are speaking to humans, not numbers. It's the product and all the things around and you must share an experience with people, not just share a price. This is why if you see the product that we sell right now, a big majority is a factory product that is more expensive in the market. For sure there is good equipment on a product and all, but to people they want to have a nice product and they want to have nice friends and they want to clean the head on the weekend. My word internally is we are selling a psychologist, we are selling a psychologist on wheels. A shrink on wheels. Because when I ride a bike on the weekend it cleans my head, everyone needs to clean the head on the weekend. But let's go back to when it all started. In 1999 Marc Tessier bought the image rights of Bultaco, a famous Spanish two stroke bike manufacturer at the time. They decided to call their first bike, Bultaco Shurko. Why Shurko? Well it was a combination of the word Sherpa, a famous model bike from Bultaco and the last syllable of the name Bultaco, hence Shurko. Later on they decided to change the name of the brand to Shurko to make things a bit more simple. And that's how Shurko was born. Either way, they released the Bultaco Shurko 250 with the 250cc two stroke Bultaco engine, aluminum frame and all the best parts that the trials bike could be fitted with at the time. In the same year, for the first time, Shurko wins the most important trials race in the world, the Scottish 6 days of trials. And with a rider that you might recognize, the one and only Graham Jarvis. Yes, that Graham Jarvis. He ended up winning the race with Shurko three more times. Shurko was actually the winner of this legendary race for four years in a row, also with the victories of Juan Pons and Sam Connor. In 2002, Shurko acquires HRD and joins the Enduro and Supermoto segment with a 50cc two stroke engine and a 125cc four stroke engine. They also expanded the company's production capabilities by building a second factory in Neem, France, where the headquarters is currently located. Two years later, Shurko becomes the first manufacturer to introduce the 450cc and 510cc four stroke fuel injected Enduro bikes. My father, for example, on the product was to do different things. He started, imagine, with a 450 four stroke injected. It was possible to start with a bike, two stroke, with a cabbie. No, no, no, with a 450 four stroke injected, the first injected engine off-road in the market. Oh, really? I didn't know that. Yeah, before anyone. And we are not speaking about six months in advance. We are speaking about months in advance, years in advance. Androcolina, also a trials athlete in his days, was one of Shurko's most influential shareholders. He was very respected for its valuable inputs on the brand's management, and still has a deep connection to the story of the company. However, he ended up leaving Shurko in 2008. It was the same year that Graham Jarvis put on a show again by winning the world's toughest hard enduro rally, Red Bull Romaniacs, on a Shurko 454 stroke. The only reason that Graham stopped with Shurko is because we had no two stroke at that time. That's it. Really? It's the only reason. Only reason. With a hard enduro? With a hard enduro? Yeah, yeah, because he started with a 450 after with two three four stroke. At that time, they were with 450, like in Erzberg with big bike. And finally, they switched to two stroke and in extreme enduro on a long race, you need to have a friendly two stroke and we are not this product on the line. Jarvis moved on, but a company kept developing. A year and a half later, in 2013, Shurko finally launches the SE range with the 250 and 300cc engines. Easy to maintenance. My argument was you can change your piston and clean your carbine alone. That's it. That's a two stroke. In the meantime, Shurko also continued with the acquiring spree. In 2009, the company acquired Skorpa after declaring bankruptcy. Funny story, Skorpa is a trials bike manufacturer that was co-founded by Marc Tessier. However, Marc left Skorpa when his business partner didn't agree in critical business decisions and founded Shurko. However, Marc always had a sweet spot for Skorpa, so he didn't want the brand to die. The first decade of Shurko was filled with important achievements, but it is from 2010 on that Shurko really starts making an impression in the off-road competitions. Stay tuned, there's more to come.


your pitching staff has been so good all season long are you almost taking it back when you see them give up that amount of runs I mean yeah it's gonna happen it's a really good offense over there obviously you know they had a couple big swings yeah I mean yeah I mean just just obviously big swings with with you know a grand slam and a three-run homer that obviously really hurt us you know I thought Castro got ahead of Chapman first two pitches looked like strikes right there and and you know ahead of the guerrilla homer somehow don't get those so that's you know that's a little frustrating but credit to guerrilla you know he worked up and a bat got to two strikes and and didn't miss his pitch and then I thought Teosker put a good a bat on Wandy what did you think overall of Severino? I thought Seville was good you know it took him I thought an inning or two to kind of get settled in there but I thought he got into a nice rhythm and got rolling there and that was kind of middle innings you know started pounding the strikes on a lot more and I think probably ran out ran I guess a little bit there you know debated sending them back out for the 6th but wanted him to I felt like he was a good match up through Kirk and just you know couldn't put Fladi away or or Alejandro there and they put good at bats on him to to force him out of the game. I don't think so he looked strong to me his stuff looked good you know and and I thought as he I thought he again I thought he got a little bit better as he as he rolled along there might have ran out of gas a little bit but I thought it looked pretty sound. You didn't use kind of a lefa in the night? Yeah just he's a little hamstring soreness so I just wasn't gonna mess with it today he was gonna be an emergency only for me. You see that as an issue going forward? No I think it's I think it's a minor thing and you know we'll see how he is tomorrow but and he was good to go today I just didn't want to I wasn't gonna outside of emergency situation I was gonna stay away from today. When did he start feeling that Aaron? Just been a little sore the last couple days. You may start him tomorrow? Yeah man we'll see we'll see how he is.


Welcome to the Hindu news analysis for the date 24th February 2020. The list of news articles taken up for today's discussion is displayed here along with the page numbers of five different editions. The handwritten notes in PDF format and the time stamping of all the news articles is available in the description section and also in the comment section for the benefit of the smartphone users. Let us now start our analysis. This news article is about a recent report released on the state of children in the world. The report is titled as a future for the world's children. So in this context, let us see who has developed this report and then we shall see the important findings of this report which will be helpful for your mains preparation. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. See, we know that the world is committed to achieve the ambitious sustainable development goals by the year 2030. Some of the important goals are to end poverty, to reduce inequality and to enable more peaceful and prosperous societies by the year 2030. Here it is to be noted that the sustainable development goals cannot be achieved without the realization of child rights. They can be achieved only if children around the globe can secure their right to good health, also quality education, a clean planet and more. Because children are the leaders of tomorrow, so their ability to protect the future depends on what we do to secure their rights today. So this report which is titled a future for the world's children provides an insight into our achievements in child development so far. Know that this report has been jointly developed by the World Health Organization, then UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund and the Lancet. Now let us discuss the important findings of the report. See this report is based on the status of children in 180 countries across the world. The numbers of these countries were monitored on factors such as child flourishing and future profile, then sustainability and then economic equity. It also covered the sustainable development goal indicators of the concerned country and the future threat to children from greenhouse gas emissions. The worst part is that not a single country performed well on all these three measures of child flourishing, sustainability and equity. This simply means that not even a single country in the world is adequately protecting children's health, the environment and their future. We know that over the last few decades there are many improvements in survival, nutrition and education of children but even then today's children face an uncertain future. So what are the major threats faced by children and adolescents across the world? According to this report children and adolescents are under immediate threat from ecological degradation, then climate change, then inequalities and then conflicts and also because of migration. So they are under threat from exploitative and predatory commercial and marketing practices that is being followed across the world because such practices heavily push the processed fast food, then sugary drinks, alcohol and even tobacco at the children and it ends up threatening their health. Next if you see another persisting issue is the so called double burden of malnutrition. It means that overweight and obesity can coexist with undernourishment and micronutrient deficiencies. Within a single population, here micronutrients referred vitamins and minerals. See the world health organization describes the rapid rise in childhood obesity as one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century because the number of obese children and adolescents has increased 11 times in the past four decades. It was 11 million in 1975, it has increased to 124 million in the year 2016. This has mainly happened due to rapid urbanization, which increased access to junk food and reduced access to play areas and safe exercise spaces. So more food intake but less physical activity has led to obesity. So these are some of the threats that are faced by children and adolescents across the world. Now let us know about the top performing and bottom performing countries mentioned in this report. The performance are indicated by the child flourishing index, we have already explained about the factors contributing to this index that is discussed in this report. As per this report, countries like Norway, South Korea, Netherlands, France and Ireland are the top performers. Here you have to note that all these countries are high income countries. As per World Bank definition, countries with a gross national income per capita of $12,376 or more are called as high income countries. This value is as of 2018. Now if you look at this report, it has mentioned the bottom performance of this child flourishing index, which are the countries of Central African Republic, then Chad, Somalia, Niger and Mali. Here you can see that all of them are African countries. Also they are low income countries. So as per World Bank definition, low income countries are those countries with gross national income per capita of $1025 or less as of 2018. Now let us discuss India specific findings. See India's rank 131 out of 180 countries. Also note that India is classified as a lower middle income country. As per World Bank definition, a lower middle income country has a gross national income per capita between $1026 and $3995. Now let us compare India's performance with its neighbors. See the country of Pakistan is ranked at 140, then China at 43, Afghanistan at 171, Nepal at 144, Bhutan at 113, Myanmar at 120, Sri Lanka at 68 and Bangladesh at 143 out of 180 countries. So from this data, we can see that many of India's neighbors are performing far better than India in several aspects, though India claims to be the leader of the region. Now let us compare India's position with BRICS grouping. See Brazil is ranked at 90th, Russia at 79th, China at 43rd as we just saw and South Africa at 127th. So even among BRICS grouping, India's rank is at the bottom. So as we always insist, try to know the ranks of India's immediate neighbors and also with certain groupings like BRICS, SARC, etc. whenever you are studying about any indices. Now let us get back to the report. Earlier we have said that most of the high income countries are topping the list, but all is not well with them as well because many of the high income countries are high emission countries. Also they have a very high per capita carbon dioxide emission rates. That is, they are polluting a lot. So based on this, this report has ranked 180 countries. That is based on carbon dioxide per capita and carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal targets. And this is called the Sustainability Index. In this list, we can see a flip-flop. That is, in the sustainability ranking, low income countries like Burundi, Chad, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic are the top performers. The bottom performers are high income countries like Qatar, Trinidad and Tobago, then Kuwait, then United Arab Emirates, then Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. You can note that majority of these countries are oil producing countries. In this index, India's ranked at 77 out of 180 countries. There are some countries which is on track to beat the carbon dioxide emission targets by the year 2030.  They are the countries of Albania, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uruguay, Vietnam, etc. We know that over the past two decades, the world countries have improved a lot in child and adolescent health. But the progress is stalled and it is set to reverse. The report says that an estimated 250 million children who are younger than five years old in low and middle income countries are at risk of not reaching their development potential. So what can be the solution? We are well aware of certain common solutions. Like we need our governments to make decisions and policies which will protect today's children and youth, their health, their rights and above all, this planet. But if you see this report has suggested certain solutions which is different for different countries, it tells that the wealthier countries need to focus on cutting the carbon dioxide emissions because we just saw that as per the Sustainability Index, the high income countries, that is the wealthier countries are high in carbon dioxide emissions. So if they're not going to reduce the emissions, then these carbon dioxide emissions will affect the future of all children across the world. Then this report suggests that the low and middle income countries need to achieve more development, more equitable distribution of benefits with special focus on children and adolescents. So where they need to focus is on health, education and other social sectors within their budgets. Here we know that India spending less than 2% of its GDP on health sector. This report suggests that if India can spend 5% of its GDP on health, then that would be a fourfold increase in government spending on health. Likewise, this report has suggested different solutions for different countries. Apart from this, this report has also given certain recommendations for placing children at the center of the Sustainable Development Goals. As you can see in this picture, now we can make use of one or two recommendations from this picture for your main exam. Here you can see that most of the recommendations are policy level recommendations at the international level. This is all about the discussion of this news article. In this news article, we have seen a report which has been developed by the World Health Organization UNICEF and Lancet together, which is titled, A Future for the World's Children. This report focuses on securing the rights of the children so that they would protect the future better. In this context, we saw the important findings of the report and two indices which are a part of this report. One is the Flourishing Index and the other is the Sustainability Index. And finally, we saw the suggestions given in this report, which is different for different countries and the recommendations given by this report for placing children at the center of the Sustainable Development Goals. Let us move on to the next news article. This editorial is about the demographic dividend of India. The author of this editorial, who is a former secretary to the government of India, lists what needs to be done to make use of the available demographic dividend. So first, let us see the definition of demographic dividend and then let us move on to the editorial. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this editorial is given here for your reference. So what is the definition of demographic dividend? See, when the working-edge population is growing faster than the other age groups, then these conditions can yield an opportunity for accelerated economic growth. So this is what we call it as demographic dividend. In other words, demographic dividend is the economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population's age structure, mainly when the share of the working-edge population is larger than the non-working-edge share of population. According to United Nations, the working-edge population is 15 to 64 years. And the non-working-edge population is 14 years and younger and 65 years and older. Now if you see with respect to India, India has an advantage of demographic dividend like no other country in the world. It is because India has over 60% of its population in the working-edge group at present. Especially if you see, 35% of India's population is between 15 and 29 years of age. Hence, India's population is among the youngest in an aging world according to the author. In addition to this, the author even notes by the year 2022, the median age in India will be 28 years. See, median age is nothing but the age that divides the population into two parts of equal size. On one side, there will be persons with ages above the median. So this number will be equal to the number of that population with ages below the median age. Here it is 28 years. So we can say that India is having a favorable median age also if you compare with other countries. According to the author, for China and United States, it will be 37. For Western European countries, it will be 45. And for Japan, it will be 49. But if you see in case of India, it's just 28 years. So India has a favorable median age. Then the author adds that the demographic dividend of India started in the early 2000s. And it is available for close to the next five decades, that is from 2000s till 2050s. So this is an extraordinary opportunity for India to use its young population to attain the economic growth. This is why the name of this editorial is titled as Youth Can Be a Clear Advantage for India. But if you see, there are two limitations in this advantage for India, which the author has discussed in this editorial. The first limitation is India has population heterogeneity. That is, population of different age groups are scattered across India. So this ensures that the demographic dividend becomes available at different times in different states. For example, Kerala's population is already aging. But in Bihar, the working age group is predicted to continue increasing till 2051. So according to the author, by the year 2031, the overall size of our vast working age population would have declined in 11 major states. The second limitation is how we are going to harness the demographic dividend. Because harnessing the demographic dividend will depend upon the employability of the working age population, then their health, education, vocational training and skills, and also appropriate land and labour policies as well as good governance. So all these factors are required to harness the demographic dividend of India. But for this, we need policies and programs which are aligned to the demographic shift that we just discussed. Then only India will gain from its demographic opportunity. So using the available demographic dividend is quite important for India. It is because this will lead to economic growth. According to the author, even countries like Japan, China and South Korea have attained spectacular growth due to their demographic dividend and due to the factors that we just saw. Now what could be learned from these countries is that the countries will benefit from the economic potential of their increasing number of youth when that country succeeds in providing good health, quality education and decent employment to their entire population. So these three are the prerequisites, good health, quality education and decent employment. It should be provided to the entire population, not just to certain segments that are defined by socioeconomic status, geography or historical legacy. So how to provide good health, quality education and decent employment? First, let us look at employment. For employment, government should have appropriate policies that could create additional jobs which can keep pace with the projected annual increases in the working age population. The next important point in decent employment is that it can be provided if the workforce is well educated and appropriately skilled. But the necessary skill set and education level is not available in India. According to UNICEF 2019 reports, at least 47% of Indian youth are not on track to have the education and skills that are necessary for employment by the year 2030. So if the required education and skill set is not available to the youth, then the projected demographic dividend would turn into a demographic disaster because there will be unskilled, underutilized and frustrated young population by then. Now what is the reason for this poor education and skill set? Firstly, according to the National Family Health Service, the poor infrastructure in government schools, the malnutrition of children, the scarcity of trained teachers all together has led to poor learning outcomes of the children. And these children have become today's youth. So this is one reason. Here the need of the RIS is high quality education as it achieves gender parity and it motivates people forward for a more productive life. So to provide high quality education in India, a coordinator incentive structure is required and this structure should stimulate the states to adopt a broadly uniform public school system. And these public school systems should focus on equity and quality so that it will yield a knowledge society. And they should also ensure that geography does not surpass the demography. That is for those children who are living in remote locations must also have access to public school system. So geography shall not surpass demography. Then such public school systems should also ensure that the child completes high school education and the child is pushed to appropriate skilling, training and vocational education in line with what the market wants. As we just told, this has to be ensured irrespective of rural or urban setting. According to the author, this kind of structure will achieve the required goal faster than privatizing of school education, which is happening at a large scale at present. See this kind of public school system can be achieved as today, most districts have excellent broadband connectivity. So there is an opportunity that school curricula can be modernized. More investment can be made in teacher training. Then new technology can be deployed to put in place virtual classrooms together with massive open online courses in short MOOCs. So this will help to prepare the huge workforce for the next generation jobs. And then if you see the investments in open digital universities can be done, which would further help to yield a higher educated book. The second reason is that even though female literacy is growing, it is not translating into relevant and marketable skills. So focus on this area is required. A comprehensive approach is required to improve women's likelihood to end up in gainful employment. For this, we need to have flexible classrooms with flexible entry and exit policies for women. Such policies should be available in virtual classrooms, even in modules for open digital training and also in vocational education. Next, with respect to women workforce, nowadays job portals and organizations are providing employment for trained women, even from home. So if they are paid equal pay, then it will make them to stay longer in the workforce. So this is all about education and employment, which the author has discussed. Next in line is good health. According to the author in India, the health of the population, that is the health of Indian population, is caught between two things. One is the rising demand for health services. And on the other side, competition for scarce resources. See, as per the National Samples Survey Office data of 2018 on health, there is a deep rooted downturn in rural economy. It means that quality healthcare is not affordable for the rural people. So now what people are actually doing in rural areas is that they're moving more towards public healthcare systems and their dependency on private hospitals has reduced. So this is the present scenario, but if you look at the recently table union budget for the financial year 2020-2021, it lays emphasis on private provisioning of healthcare. So what the author tries to convey is that instead of investing on public health infrastructure, this move of the government will divert the public investment away from the public health infrastructure to the private infrastructure. And this is going to only promote the earnings of underutilized private hospitals. Instead of modernizing and upgrading, the most required public health systems in each district. So what the author suggests is that 70% of health sector budgets should be assigned to integrate and strengthen primary and integrated public healthcare services. So this is what the author suggests. As a conclusion, from the above discussion, we can say that the policies that we adopt and the effective implementations of those policies will ensure that India's demographic dividend will be a boom for India. This is all about the discussion of this editorial. In this editorial, we saw the definition of demographic dividend and the suggestions given by the author in order to make use of India's demographic dividend, which will be available till 2050s. So far, we have seen a news article on Lancet report and an editorial on India's demographic dividend. See the children of today are also the future demographic dividend of India. So in this respect, the suggestions that we saw in both these articles will be helpful from your mains preparation. So try to have an idea. Now have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. Now we are going to see three news articles which discuss about the tiger reserves. So the common theme here is tiger reserves. Let us see all these three news articles one by one now. The common syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of all these three news articles is given here for your reference. First, let us look at a news article on MM Hills Wildlife Sanctuary. The news is that the Malay Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary in the state of Karnataka will soon be declared as a tiger reserve in the near future. So in this context, let us see in brief about this Malay Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary and then we'll see about the other tiger reserves that are present in the state of Karnataka. Know that there are several previous equations asked in UPSC prelims which are directly or indirectly related to the tiger reserves in India which I'll look at them at the end of the analysis of all these three news articles. Now let us discuss in brief about this Malay Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary. See the Malay Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Division is located in Chamrajnagar district in southern Karnataka. It was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 2013. It covers an extent of about 906 square kilometers across Kullegal, Hanoor and Malay Mahadeshwara Hills subdivisions in the state of Karnataka. So just have an idea that it is present in the state of Karnataka. Now let us understand the flora of this region. See the forests of this wildlife sanctuary are principally of dry deciduous type. It degrades to scrub forest in the fringe areas. Also if you see there are patches of moist deciduous then semi-ebergreen, then evergreen and shola forests that are interspersed at varying altitudes. Now let us look at the fauna of the region. You can find animals like tiger, elephant, leopard, wild dog, bison, sambar, sputter deer, then barking deer, sloth bear, wild boar, foran antelope. Also you can find varieties of reptiles, birds in this wildlife sanctuary. Now let us come to the news article. The news article says that the Malay Mahadeshwara Hills wildlife sanctuary is likely to be declared as a tiger reserve. So once this wildlife sanctuary is declared as a tiger reserve, then the Chamrajnagar district in which this wildlife sanctuary is located will have a rare distinction in the country. So what is the distinction? This district is going to have three tiger reserves. The other two are Bandipur Tiger Reserve and next the Biligiri Ranganada Temple Tiger Reserve. So the portion of all these three tiger reserves will be within the territorial limits of this Chamrajnagar district. Now what is the significance of declaring this MM Hills Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve? We already said that it covers an extent of about 906 square kilometers. According to this news article, this tiger reserve will have a core area of around 670 square kilometers. Also at present it has 20 tigers. Now this wildlife sanctuary is contiguous to Biligiri Ranganada Temple Tiger Reserve on one side and Satyamangalam Tiger Reserve on the other side. As you can see here, also if you see the Kaabheri Wildlife Sanctuary borders it. So together all these will be providing a contiguous forest cover of over 3,500 square kilometer. This is the reason why this announcement of declaring MM Hills Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve is significant. So this contiguous forest cover will act as a sink to absorb the surplus tiger population and it will help increase your numbers. So we can expect that it will be a potential rival for the already contiguous landscape which is located in the state of Karnatakan, Tamil Nadu and Kerala which is the Bandipur Nagarhole Vayanad Mudumalai landscape. Finally let us see the existing five tiger reserves in the state of Karnataka. They are Badra, Dandali, Anshi, Bandipur, Nagarhole and Biligiri Ranganada Temple as you can see in this table. This is all about the discussion of this news article. Now let us see one more news article which mentions about Mudumalai Tiger Reserve is about a temporary bridge that is constructed across Moya River in the state of Tamil Nadu. This area comes within this Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. The article says that this temporary stone bridge has been constructed illegally and it will have an impact on the ecosystem because the bridge will block the natural flow of water along the Moya River. So this is likely to impact the river and ecosystem because this river is home to otters, marsh crocodiles, the unique species of fish and other aquatic life. Also, this bridge is likely to promote illegal tourism in this region so the ecosystem of this region is likely to face destruction. So this is about the news. Now what you need to know from this news article from Prillam's perspective is that Moya River is a tributary of river Bhavani and this river Bhavani is a tributary of river Kaveri. This is one thing which you need to know. Now let us look at the other tiger reserves which are located in the state of Tamil Nadu. We just saw Mudumalai is located in the state of Tamil Nadu. Then Anamalai Tiger Reserve, then Kalakkad-Mundandurai Tiger Reserve and then Satyamangalam Tiger Reserve are all located in the state of Tamil Nadu. So this is all about the discussion of this news article. Now let us look at this news article where three more tiger reserves are mentioned which are present in the Northeastern part of India. This news article mentions that a new highway has been planned to construct within the Pakke Tiger Reserve in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. It has also mentioned about Namdafa Tiger Reserve which is the easternmost tiger reserve in India which is also located in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. And apart from this, if you see this news article Nameri Tiger Reserve from the state of Assam is also mentioned. So just have an idea of all these three tiger reserves which are located in Northeastern part of India. Now if you see there were two previous prelims questions on two of these reserves. One was on Pakke Tiger Reserve. See initially it was Pakkui Well Life Sanctuary. Now this Pakkui Well Life Sanctuary was designated as a Tiger Reserve. So a question was asked on this in 2018 prelims question. And then if you see in 2015 there was a question about Namdafa National Park. But the question was in a bit different perspective. The question was that which of the following national parks as a climate that varies from tropical to subtropical temperate and arctic. Here Namdafa National Park is the correct answer because it experiences all these four climates. And know that it is the eastern most tiger reserve in India. This is all about the discussion of all these three news articles which are related to the tiger reserves. In this context we saw about the tiger reserves which are located in the state of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and few of the tiger reserves that are located in the Northeastern part of India. With this we come to the end of the discussion. Now let us move on to the next news article. In this news article, the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mr. Ranil Vikram Singh as stressed for the revival of the regional grouping SARC which is the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. In this context let us see the comments made by the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. And then we shall revise about two regional groupings. One is SARC and BeamStick. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. See the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka as called for successful regional integration both in economic sphere as well as security sphere in the South Asian region. For this he has stressed the fact that full functionality of SARC is required. As you know SARC is in a kind of standstill since the year 2016. It is because in the year 2016, the 19th summit of SARC which was to be held at Pakistan was suspended for an indefinite period since the member countries declined to participate. They refused to attend the meeting citing the absence of a conducive regional environment and they cited the deterioration of peace and stability in the South Asian region due to the rise in terrorism activities. See the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka has also noted that BeamStick is not a substitute for SARC but still it is a starting point for integration in the South Asian region. Therefore he has called for the revival of SARC. Also if you see the ex-Prime Minister called to conceptualize a sub-region. He told that the sub-region should consist of the five southern states of India and the country of Sri Lanka. For this he has proposed an economic integration roadmap in order to tap the population of around 300 million people and a combined GDP of over 500 billion US dollars. Then for the successful regional integration, the ex-Prime Minister wanted the countries to address the para-tariffs and non-tariff barriers. Here you need to know what is meant by para-tariff. It is an extra fee or tax that is imposed on a good in addition to the tariff that is stated on the country's tariff schedule. In other words, it is the charge on imports that act as a tariff but they are not included in countries' tariff schedule. For example, we have statistical tax, stamp fees, et cetera. Next if you look at the tariff barrier it means imposing tariffs or duties for the imports and a non-tariff barrier means other than the tariffs or duties like by means of policy regulations or quantity restrictions. For example, like the e-commerce policy of India that favors the domestic Indian companies instead of foreign companies. So this is all about non-tariff barrier. So if these tariff barriers and non-tariff barriers are removed then it will open up the markets and it will create export opportunities. Then the ex-Prime Minister has also called for enhancing tourism in the region. So this is all about this news article. Now what you need to focus on this news article is that we need to know the facts related to Sark and Bimstek. Now since prelims examination is near let us revise the facts related to Sark and Bimstek. First let us see about Sark which is the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. It was established in 1985. It was established after a Sark charter was signed in Dhaka in the country of Bangladesh. See the Sark comprises of eight member states which are the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. And the secretariat of the Sark is located at Kathmandu which is the capital of Nepal. See the objectives of this Sark is outlined in the charter. One is to promote the welfare of the people of South Asia and to improve the quality of life. The next is to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region and to provide opportunity to all individuals so that they live in dignity and they realize their full potentials. And the next objective is to promote and strengthen collective self-reliance among the countries of South Asia. The next objective is to contribute to mutual trust, understanding and appreciation of one another's problems. And the next objective is to promote active collaboration and mutual assistance across many fields like economic, social, cultural, technical and scientific fields. Also, it aims to strengthen the cooperation with other developing countries. Apart from this, there are many objectives. So try to know some important objectives of Sark. See in Sark, the decisions at all levels are to be taken on the basis of unanimity. Further bilateral and contentious issues are excluded from the deliberations of the association. Know that the meetings of the heads of state or the government of member states is the highest decision-making authority under Sark. So this is all that you need to know about Sark from prelims point of view. Now, let us look at BIMSTEC. What is BIMSTEC? It is the acronym for the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation. See, this is also a regional organization. It came into existence on the month of June 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration. See, BIMSTEC comprises of seven member states that are lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal and it constitutes a contiguous regional unity. Here, the word littoral means a region that is lying along a shore. So in BIMSTEC's context, its members are the region or countries that are lying along the shore of Bay of Bengal. As you can see in this map, the seven member states include five countries from South Asia, that is the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and two countries from Southeast Asia that are the countries of Myanmar and Thailand. See, BIMSTEC was first conceived as a sub-regional forum bringing South Asia and Southeast Asian regions. It is one of the forums to give India's Act East policy a different orientation to the development process of the North Eastern region of India. So this regional group constitutes a bridge between the South Asia and the Southeast Asia and it also emphasizes the relations between these countries. Also, if you see, BIMSTEC has established a platform for intra-regional cooperation between Sarkand Asian members. Now, let us see some facts about BIMSTEC region which will be helpful for you in your main exam. Know that BIMSTEC region is home to around 1.5 billion people which constitutes around 22% of the global population. And also, if you look in the last five years, the BIMSTEC member states have been able to sustain an average 6.5% economic growth trajectory despite global financial meltdown. Now, the purpose behind this BIMSTEC is to make use of the shared and accelerated growth through mutual cooperation between the member states. So the member states will collaborate in different areas of common interests and they will make use of the regional resources and geographical advantages. See, BIMSTEC is not like many other regional groupings. It is a sector-driven cooperative organization. If you look, BIMSTEC started with six sectors for sectoral cooperation around 1997. This included trade, technology, energy, transport, tourism and fisheries. Then in the year 2008, BIMSTEC expanded to embrace nine more sectors which includes sectors like agriculture, public health, poverty alleviation, counter-terrorism, environment, culture, people-to-people contact and climate change. So you can see that BIMSTEC is a sector-driven cooperative organization. Next, the chairmanship of BIMSTEC rotates among the member states. If you look, the present chair is the country of Sri Lanka. India was the chair in 2000 and then between 2006 and 2008. The permanent secretary of BIMSTEC is at Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. So remember for Sarkates, Kathmandu for BIMSTEC, it is Dhaka. Next, the BIMSTEC summit is the highest policy-making body in BIMSTEC. See, the first summit meeting was held at Bangkok in Thailand. The second summit was held in New Delhi in the year 2008. Now, this is important to us. So remember this fact. And if you see the recent and the fourth summit was held at Kathmandu in Nepal in August, 2018. So this is all about BIMSTEC that you need to know from prelims point of view. So far, we have seen about Sark and BIMSTEC. Now, from this picture, also try to know the member states of one more grouping, which is called the SASEK, that is the South Asia Subregional Economic Corporation. Try to identify the common member states in all these three groupings. This is all about the discussion of this news article. In this news article, we have seen about Sark and BIMSTEC from prelims point of view and about the need to revive the Sark as emphasized by the ex-prime minister of Sri Lanka, Mr. Ranil Vikram Singh. Now, have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. Now, let us look at this editorial, which is about the recent announcement of the government to have a public private funding for investments in research and development in India. See, yesterday we discussed about this announcement by the government in detail. Whatever we have analyzed yesterday has been discussed at length in this editorial as well. Here, the author tells that the funding as well as the expenditure for research and development is mostly done by the government. So the government share is high and the private share is low, but an increase in private sector spending on research has been noticed in the last decade. In 2004, 5% was 28% whereas in 2016, 17%, it was 40%. And now the government has decided to have a public private R&D fund with a target of 40 crores. So the author is telling that this is not the first time that the government is trying to get private sector money into research and development because when startup India and making India schemes were announced, the government tried to pull venture capitalists as well as some of the government departments who are involved in scientific research to pull some money and invest in the startups similar to yesterday's announcement. But if you see that initiative did not materialize, now what the author tells is that too much of India's investment in research and development is focused on a small pool of scientists in a limited number of institutions. Also, if we see the private sector scenario in India, it has less capacity to absorb the scientists as well as not much focus on research and development is there in the private sector. Usually, if you see the private research funding materializes more by partnerships between the companies rather than having a tie up with the government through centrally funded research programs. We just saw that the private funding is increasing but still the impact of the funding by the government to the private sector is not visible in India because there are many operational and technical issues like who will have the intellectual property rights and who will share the license fees and certain other operational difficulties. So what the author suggests is that there should be greater participation and cooperation at smaller levels between the companies and the government that is between the private and the public. So one way if there is cooperation at smaller levels between public and private, whatever schemes that the central government announces towards boosting research and development in India will become a success. So just announcements are not going to work but more participation and cooperation is required at macro levels between the public and the private. So the private has to move from this partnership between the company's model to public-private partnership model so that India can compete with other developing countries in terms of more investments in research and development. So this is all that you need to know from this editorial to know more about the government's announcement. We request the viewers to have a look at our yesterday's analysis. With this we come to the end of the analysis session. Now let us move on to the practice questions discussion session. Look at this question, four pairs are given, tiger reserves and states and you need to choose the correct pairs. Look at the first pair, Nameri tiger reserve, Assam, second pair, Anamalai tiger reserve, Kerala, third pair, Dandeli Anshi tiger reserve, Maharashtra and fourth pair, Bhadra tiger reserve, Karnataka. From this map given here, you can see that Anamalai tiger reserve is located in the state of Tamil Nadu, not in the state of Kerala and Dandeli Anshi tiger reserve is located in the state of Karnataka, not in the state of Maharashtra. So if two and three are incorrect, then the correct answer is option D, one and four only. Make use of this map. This is the official map of the list of tiger reserves in India. Now look at this question, the question is with reference to SARC and BIMSTEC, which of the following statements is incorrect. Look at the first statement, it tells that India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka are members of both the organizations. From this map you can see that Myanmar is a member state of only BIMSTEC, but not SARC because it is an observer country in SARC grouping. So the first statement is incorrect. Now look at the second statement, it tells that 2010 to 2020 is the SARC decade of intraragional connectivity in SARC. Yes, this statement is correct. From this table, you can see that the theme for 2010 to 2020 is decade of intraragional connectivity in SARC. So this statement is correct. Now look at the third statement, it tells that secretariat of SARC and BIMSTEC is at Kathmandu and Dhaka respectively. This statement is also correct. The secretariat of SARC is located at Kathmandu, Nepal and the secretariat of BIMSTEC is located at Dhaka, which is the capital of Bangladesh. Here you need to choose the incorrect statement or statements. The correct answer here is option D, one only. Now look at this main question. This question was asked in 2016. The question is demographic dividend in India will remain only theoretical unless a manpower becomes more educated, aware, skilled and creative. What measures have been taken by the government to enhance the capacity of our population to be more productive and employable? Try to answer this question in 250 words. It is a 15 marks question. Please post your answers in the comment section. We shall review and give suitable suggestions and feedback within a reasonable timeframe. With this, we come to the end of the analysis of all the news articles taken up for today's discussion and also the practice questions discussion session. If you like the video, press the like button, comment and share and do subscribe to Shankar IAS Academy YouTube channel for latest videos and updates. Stay focused and motivated friends. Thank you.