Good evening aspirants. Welcome to Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Ayes Academy for the date 18th May 2020. In today's discussion, we will see diverse topics based on international relations, geography, policy, economics etc. For that, these topics have been chosen and it has been provided along with the page numbers of different editions of Hindu newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes in the PDF format and the timestamping for the discussed articles is provided in the description and for the benefit of smartphone users it is also provided in the comment section. Let's move on to the first news article discussion which is based on these four news articles as these news articles are about the current hot topic in international relations regarding Afghanistan. A significant internal peace deal was arrived yesterday among the two major political leaders and their parties of Afghanistan and this news article is about this news only. Now this news article presents India's position or stance on the power sharing agreement that was agreed between the two political leaders of Afghanistan and this editorial article and the interview article deals with where India stands at the international level when it comes to ensuring peace in Afghanistan. These articles also present different suggestions to the Indian diplomatic circles in the context of Afghanistan which we will discuss in this discussion today. The syllabus that is relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference. First let us begin our discussion with the yesterday's development in Afghanistan and before that let us see the background of the issue. See on September 2019 the presidential elections for Afghanistan took place and the results were to be announced in October 2019 but there were lots of allegations on the manner in which the electoral process was carried out and these allegations were mainly from the major opponent of President Ghani of Afghanistan who is Mr Abdullah Abdullah. After this in a surprise on December 22nd 2019 after 80 days from the date of election the election commission in Afghanistan released only the preliminary results but the preliminary results confirmed one fact that is the incumbent president who was the president Ashraf Ghani has won the elections after securing 50.64 of votes this meant that he has won a second term for the office of president but these results were contested by Mr Abdullah. Now after this in due course on February 18 2020 the election commission of Afghanistan declared the final results also and that also confirmed once again the presidency of Ghani but these final results were also not recognized and accepted by the opposition members of Ghani. In fact in the month of March 2020 on the same day that is on March 9th Mr Ghani and Mr Abdullah both sworn in as president in parallel inauguration ceremonies and there Mr Abdullah declared himself as president of Afghanistan. So this was the scale of disagreement in domestic politics in Afghanistan. Now these dates are important to understand the global politics which happened around Afghanistan this year and last year but before this declaration earlier on February 29 2020 a historic deal was arrived between the United States of America and the Taliban. This deal was signed in Doha by U.S. Special Envoy Zalmal Kalinsad and the Taliban political chief Mulal Abdul Ghani brother. Now we have discussed this deal and its implications in detail in our daily news analysis on March 1st of 2020 and March 2nd of 2020. You can have a look at it to have an elaborate picture about this deal. Now this deal provided that U.S. and its coalition partners will reduce their troops from Afghanistan in two phases. Initially the number of troops will be reduced within 135 days from February 29 and this comes in the month of July 2020. Then by the end of April 2021 all the military forces of United States its allies and coalition partners will withdraw from Afghanistan. Now to ensure this phased withdrawal of U.S. troops political stability in Afghanistan is important because the U.S. Taliban deal had provisions to achieve some kind of understanding and cooperation between the Taliban and the national government in Afghanistan. Here there are two sides one side is the Afghan government and the other side is Taliban. The provisions in the U.S. Taliban deal said that there will be release of combat and political prisoners from the Taliban side and from the Afghan government side also and up to 5000 prisoners of Taliban and up to 1000 prisoners of Afghan government where to be released by March 10th of 2020 and this March 10th of 2020 is to be considered as the first day of intra-Afghan negotiations under this deal. Now here you may connect why on the day before March 10th both Ghani and Abdullah sworn as presidents of Afghanistan and after this March 10th all the remaining prisoners were to be released by both the sides over the course of subsequent three months and even United States committed itself to completing this goal. Now this plan of expeditiously releasing the combat and political prisoners was put in place in the deal to act as a confidence building measure between the two sides. So far both sides have done limited progress in this regard that is in releasing the prisoners. In addition to this after the start of intra-Afghan negotiations the United States will initiate an administrative review of current U.S. sanctions and the rewards list against the members of Taliban and this will be achieved with the goal of removing these sanctions by August 27th of 2020. Then U.S. will also start diplomatic engagement with other members of the United Nations Security Council and Afghanistan and this is to remove the members of Taliban from the sanctions list and this is aimed to be achieved by May 29th of 2020. So we will know more about the updates regarding these conditions in the coming days. So you can understand there are two major challenges in ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan. One was the tussle between Taliban and Afghan government and the other was between President Ghani and Mr. Abdullah informing government in Afghanistan after the elections. Now among these two things one thing was settled yesterday that is on May 17th 2020. As a result we will see more news articles regarding Afghanistan in the following days. Now the issues between Mr. Ghani and Mr. Abdullah and their followers are somehow settled by way of a power sharing agreement between the two and in this power sharing agreement between Ghani and Abdullah there are three main points. One is that Mr. Ashraf Ghani is to be the elected president of Afghanistan government. Secondly high council of national reconciliation is to be created for which the chair or the president is Mr. Abdullah and this high council is to represent the government in the intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban and thirdly political followers of Abdullah or some members of Abdullah team are to be inducted into the cabinet of president Ghani government. Now with this power sharing agreement one major internal tussle has come to an end finally. Now together they will deal with Taliban if they continue to work together. Now news reports are also saying that US was also a force behind the power sharing agreement because US had said that it will not release financial assistance of 1 billion US dollars if things did not work out between Mr. Ghani and Mr. Abdullah. Now what does India stand on this power sharing agreement or the political agreement between Mr. Ghani and Abdullah. See yesterday ministry of external affairs has released a press release titled as India welcomes the political agreement concluded by the political leadership in Kabul. This press release has stated that India hopes the political agreement and creation of the high council of national reconciliation will result in renewed efforts for establishing enduring peace and stability and it will put an end to externally sponsored terrorism and violence. Here though it is mentioned as externally sponsored terrorism we can infer that it may refer to the support of Pakistan to Taliban. Now in the press release India has also expressed its deep concern on the continuing and enhanced violence and terror in Afghanistan. Recently there were terror attacks in some places in Afghanistan you would have seen it in news as the attack was on a maternity ward in a hospital where more than 10 innocent persons including mothers and newborn babies died. Many reports were saying that though the attacks were carried out by Taliban but Taliban has denied its involvement in this attack. Now Taliban has denied it because it wants to attain legitimacy in the upcoming intra-Afghan talks with the Afghan government and if you see even the United States of America and even few others have put the blame on ISIS only and not on Taliban regarding this attack. So now coming back to our discussion on India's stand on power sharing agreement India has welcomed the political agreement between the two political leaders. Now this development of power sharing agreement was also connected to a meeting organized by United Nations secretariat in the month of April 2020. This meeting was on Afghanistan and the meeting was called as 6 plus 2 plus 1 meeting. The number 6 refers to the current physical neighbors of Afghanistan which are China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The author of the editorial did not include India as one of the current physical neighbors of Afghanistan because Pakistan has illegally occupied the border region that India shares with Afghanistan. Now in this 6 plus 2 plus 1, 2 refers to the two global players who are USA and Russia and the number 1 refers to Afghanistan. So you might be wondering throughout all these about discussions on Afghanistan we talked about Taliban, UN, US, Russia, Pakistan, Iran and few other countries but we did not discuss much about India and the reason for this is given by the author of the editorial who has mentioned that because of current Indian foreign policy on Afghanistan India does not have a place in the international diplomacy on Afghanistan or India is in the margins of international diplomacy on Afghanistan. India not having a place in international diplomacy on Afghanistan is not in the best interest of India remember it. This is because of the security reasons as developments in Afghanistan has security implications to India. If you see the present foreign policy of India on Afghanistan it is that India stands with the present Afghanistan government which is elected by its people. Therefore India seeks to avoid open contacts with Taliban. As a result the US special envoy on Afghanistan peace process has said that India has limited its international diplomatic efforts and regarding this the author of the editorial has mentioned that India has been playing a constructive role in Afghanistan for the last 18 years and it must be part of the international diplomatic efforts with reference to Afghanistan. The author even criticizes that neither US nor Afghanistan has reciprocated India's constructive role in Afghanistan. This is because both these countries did not lobby for India's inclusion in the international diplomatic efforts. So the author calls for necessary changes in India's approach by openly talking to the Taliban and all other political groups in Afghanistan. Even the US is also feeling the same its special envoy to Afghanistan states that India should talk directly to the Taliban and discuss terror concerns directly. Now these points mentioned by the author are important because this editorial has been authored by a former Indian ambassador to Afghanistan. Now let us see the concerns which are mentioned in the interview article. These are the concerns expressed by another former ambassador of India to Afghanistan. According to this former ambassador Taliban is a destructive force and India should not engage with it until it becomes a constructive political force. That is Taliban should openly live by example that it has no affair against India and other countries and Taliban should drop arms and it should have the only objective of serving Afghan people. So like this if Taliban becomes a constructive political force then India can engage in talks with Taliban according to this former ambassador. Apart from this the ambassador has also mentioned another condition which is that Taliban should deal with India as an independent entity as a nationalist Afghan entity and not as a proxy for other countries. Now one way to understand Taliban becoming political force is by dropping arms and by engaging constructively with the Afghan government in the intra-Afghan peace talks. Only then India can have an open contract and communication with the Taliban. Now this suggestion is actually a well calculated advice to the Indian diplomats regarding the Afghan issue. Now here you should note one point that if Taliban joins intra-Afghan talks constructively then India must be ready at least by that time to communicate with Taliban. Otherwise India might even move far away from its present presence in the margins of international diplomacy on Afghanistan. So that is all about the recent developments in Afghanistan. Whatever points we have discussed in this discussion is important from Mainz's perspective. In this analysis we saw about the recent power sharing agreement between the two political leaders in Afghanistan and also India stand on it. Then we saw the position of India on international diplomatic efforts on Afghanistan to ensure peace and security to Afghanistan and we also saw some divergent suggestions in this regard. Thus we can expect that the foreign policy changes on Afghanistan by India will be a carefully calibrated one. With this we come to the end of this discussion. The displayed practice questions will be discussed in the last session. Moving on to the next discussion based on this editorial, as we know the finance minister has announced a tranche of reform measures for the agriculture sector. These farm reforms which are part of the Atmanir Bhair Bharat Abhyan was elaborately discussed on 16th May in the news analysis. You can have a look at it for better understanding. Now this editorial is an analysis of these reform measures with specific focus on essential commodities act of 1955. The syllabus that is relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference. First let us discuss in brief about the proposed reforms. The author of this editorial feels that the centerpiece among the reforms was the rupees one lakh crore fund that was announced to finance agricultural infrastructure projects at the farm gate and at the produce aggregation points. Now here farm gate is nothing but the gateway to a firm. See it represents the location for direct purchase of farm produce from the farmer itself. So this fund will finance the agricultural infrastructure projects at the farm gate and at the produce aggregation points and this finance will create the most needed infrastructure like cold storage facilities. So farmers will be able to realize higher price for their produce because forced harvest losses will be reduced especially the losses due to perishables will come down and this proposed infrastructure fund will be provided to the agricultural cooperatives, farmer producer organizations, rural entrepreneurs and startups. In other terms the owners of creating the appropriate infrastructure or logistics solution is on the principal beneficiaries that is the farmers themselves. Now this is one of the reforms which was announced. Now along with this a 10,000 crore scheme to promote the formalization of around 2 lakh micro-food enterprises was also announced. Now this promotion will be cluster based approach that is focused in different regions on signature produce like mango in UP and then chilli in Andhra Pradesh etc. So this will help in the long term because due to this promotion the unorganized enterprises will scale up or increase their food safety standards to earn the product certification and also to build the brand value. So this was the second reform. Now the third proposed changes is in the Essential Commodities Act of 1955. So first let us discuss some features of this act. See in a market economy like India this act empowers the center to intervene in the market and know that this act is administered by the Department of Consumer Affairs under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. So how does this work? See as and when required the center declares a commodity as essential under this act. Then the center can regulate its production supply and distribution in order to make those commodities available to consumers and that too at fair prices and if you see the list of items which are listed as essential commodities under the act includes drugs, fertilizers, petroleum and petroleum products etc. Apart from this the center can also include new commodities and can also take the existing commodities out of the list based on the prevailing situation in the country. So when the center imposes stock holding limit on a commodity then the states or the union territory administration enforces it. So the wholesalers retailers or even the importers who are dealing with this commodity are prevented from stockpiling that commodity beyond a certain quantity. So in turn it prevents holding and black marketing and by this this act improves the supply of commodities but if you see all is not well with this act because if center announces two frequent stock limits then traders may not be interested to invest in better storage infrastructure which is actually essential for stocking and as we know food processing industries need to maintain large stocks to run their operation smoothly so the stock limits announced by the center curtail their operations. So large-scale private investments are unlikely to flow into the food processing facilities and cold storage facilities. Now based on this scenario only the union finance minister had said that the essential commodities act will be amended to deregulate agriculture food stuffs including cereals, edible oils, oil seeds, pulses, onions and potato. So stock limit will be imposed only under very exceptional circumstances like national calamities, famine with the surgeon prices etc. Along with this no stock limit will be applicable to processors but this condition is subject to their installed capacity and also there will be no stock limit applicable to any exporter subject to the export demand. Now this move of government is aimed at enabling a better price realization for the farmers by removing restrictions and by facilitating enhanced marketing freedom and here author feels that due to enhanced marketing freedom there may be inflationary food price spikes in the future. So these are some of the points mentioned in the editorial that you should take note of that is all about this discussion the displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. Moving on to the next discussion which is based on this editorial in this editorial author has provided critical views on relaxation in the labor laws by the government amid this pandemic the syllabus that is relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference as you know for reviving the economy India is slowly lifting the nationwide lockdown at the same time many states have suspended its crucial labor laws for varying lengths of time now this strategy is adopted because it enables flexible labor laws and environmental laws now these flexible laws are key instruments through which India can improve its rank in the ease of doing business index as you know that India's rank has jumped from 130 in 2016 to 63 in 2019 in the ease of doing business index which is released by World Bank now improvement in this index is important because it attracts foreign direct investments and it also encourages domestic private capital apart from this the move also forms the core of make in India program now here in this picture you can see some important labor laws now to know about what are labor laws what are their objectives what are the recent changes made by various state governments you can also view our 12th May Hindi news analysis where we have discussed it in detail now in today's editorial discussion we'll discuss about the concerns raised by the author about the way in which the labor laws are suspended here the main problem noted by author is that these relaxations have been made without tripartite discussion between employers workers and government the ordinances by the state governments are promulgated and the rules are notified for suspending the labor laws without this discussion now this move is considered as undemocratic by the author that is why he notes that the novel coronavirus pandemic simply provides a window for the government to aggressively fulfill the long-term agenda of diluting labor rights because as you know in normal times if this would have happened then it would have led to widespread protests and massive strikes then the next problem is if you see most of the states have extended daily working hours from 8 hours to 12 hours and this is to address the problem of labor shortages but there is no provision for overtime pay in some states such as Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat and similarly if you see the Uttar Pradesh government also passed an ordinance that exempts employers from complying with the minimum wages act of 1948 this was done on purpose because the minimum wage calculated by a government appointed committee in 2018 was rupees 375 per day but whereas the national floor wage under the codon wages 2019 which was calculated in the same year was a mere rupees 176 per day and now the state governments under the codon wages are directed to set their minimum wages only above the national floor wage this move is to encourage private investments and obviously the state would also essentially consider the national floor wage only and this in effect would dilute the idea of minimum wage because as we know minimum wage aims to ensure minimum living standards for workers across the country and now it is compromised now we just know that the codon wages of 2019 makes a distinction between national minimum wage and national floor wage now in addition to this the Uttar Pradesh ordinance also exempts employers from complying with the industrial disputes act of 1947 therefore employers can hire and fire workers at their own will hence here the firms or the industries hardly face any problem in adjusting their workforce and here again the workers interests are not considered then after that the Uttar Pradesh government also passed a notification on May 8th which diluted the provisions of factories act of 1948 and it also increased the work timings in manufacturing units from the existing eight hours to 12 hours however a petition was filed by the Uttar Pradesh workers front in the alhabad high court and after that the government has withdrawn its recent order then if we consider Madhya Pradesh the Madhya Pradesh ordinance exempted the factories which are employing less than 50 workers from regular inspections and it also allowed third party inspections now here the author notes that a similar thing has been proposed under codon wages because it also severely eroded the inspection mechanism as it snatched away the powers of inspectors to conduct surprise checks and the codon wages even states that even when violations in law are detected the inspectors are mandated to advise they are mandated to provide information and facilitate the employers to comply with the law and if you see in fact now the inspectors are called as inspector come facilitator only so you can see where Madhya Pradesh got its idea from not only this the Madhya Pradesh ordinance further states that for new establishments provisions guiding the industrial dispute resolution provisions regarding strikes lockouts and trade unions would cease to operate and it seems that this has been inspired by the industrial relations code of 2019 as it proposes to raise the membership threshold of a trade union from 15 percentage to 75 percentage of the workforce in an establishment and this has to be done for recognizing the union as a negotiating union so these provisions not only put the interests of workers at stake but they also pay a way for labour exploitation by the employers now why the labour laws are suspended in the first place it is because it is to reduce the labour cost which will thus enable stimulation of private investments and which in turn will revive the economy but here the author questions whether such move really stimulates private investments and the answer given by the author is no because in the past even rba designed policies that reduce the cost of borrowing capital to improve private participation and as you know in september 2019 also government reduced the corporate tax but all these moves made no impact in boosting private capital and it did not revive growth in the subsequent quarters so according to the author resorting to private investment for economic recovery is useless because private agents wait and watch for a predictable environment before they invest their money and therefore private players cannot be the principal agent for guiding an economy and deviving the economy thus as a conclusion author notes that suspension of labour laws is a violent attack on the fundamental rights of workers and this move also clearly exposes the authoritarian nature of the state hence he has finally asked every section of the society to come together and resist this relaxation of labour laws together to protect the rights of workers so that is all about this editorial in this editorial we saw the concerns raised by the author about the relaxed labour laws or the suspended labour laws in the states and finally he has also noted that the main reason for relaxing the labour laws is to revive the economy by stimulating the private investments but as we saw according to the author it is not going to happen so that is all about this discussion moving on to the next discussion which is based on this question this question has been framed on this news article which mentions that Punjab farmers are favouring the direct seeding of rice technique in this curry season and this is due to the imminent labour shortage that was caused by COVID-19 outbreak see as you know many migrant labourers who are working all over India and also in Punjab have left their place of work and they are returning their hometowns hence there is a shortage of labour this year and that is why Punjab farmers are favouring this DSR technique or the direct seeding of rice technique so what is this DSR see it is a rice sowing technique in which rice seed is sown and sprouted directly into the field as you know in conventional method rice is sprouted in a nursery and then these sprouted seedlings are then transplanted into the standing water now this conventional method is called as puddled transplanting system or in short PTR but if we consider direct seeding of rice technique in this technique rice seed is directly sown into the field and thus this technique saves irrigation water labour and power and this is why Punjab farmers are favouring DSR and also because it is less time consuming than the conventional or the traditional practice of sowing nursery and then transplanting it but there are some constraints associated with this technique as it includes high weed infestation evolution of VD rice it causes increase in soil bone pathogens then it also causes nutrient disorders there is also incidence of blast disease and rice etc but still why Punjab farmers are preferring DSR it is because a new DSR technique has been developed by Punjab Agricultural University and this new technique of DSR is called as tarvatar DSR in this new DSR technique the field is first laser leveled and then pre sowing irrigation is done and after that preparation of the field is done when it reaches the tarvatar condition that is good soil moisture condition after that rice is immediately sown and then the first irrigation is applied 21 days after the sowing and then the succeeding irrigations need to be scheduled as per the monsoon rains now the benefits of this new DSR technique is that as June month is very hot and evaporation is very high the delayed first irrigation under this new technique saves irrigation water not only that this delayed first irrigation also reduces weed problem thus this new DSR technique takes care of the weed associated issues which are tackled in a normal DSR technique then the third advantage is that the roots of rice plant go deeper due to delayed irrigation thus it reduces the incidence of nutrient deficiency especially the iron deficiency and then in this technique rice can be direct seeded in medium to heavy textured soils such as sandy loam soil loam clay loam silt loam soils actually if you see these types of soil textures accounts for 87 percentage of area of Punjab so that is why this technique is beneficial for them and also the profits from this new technique are at par with the rice transplanted in the puddle field according to the research studies and it is said that this technique also improves groundwater recharge and it also provides best yield and quality because it involves more precision in timing and greater accuracy in operations so this was about the direct seeding of rice technique and this new DSR technique now if you look at this question the question asks which of the following statements is correct regarding DSR technique first statement it requires large quantity of irrigation water for puddling this is incorrect because it does not require large quantity of irrigation water rather the conventional method requires this then option B says it is a labor intensive method of rice cultivation no it is the opposite rather it requires less labor intervention so this statement is also incorrect now the third one is in this technique rice is sprouted in a nursery and sprouted seedlings are then transplanted into standing water now this statement talks about the puddled transplanting system so this is also incorrect so the correct answer to this question is option D which is rice seed is sown and sprouted directly into the field in this technique which we already discussed now let us take the next question this question has been framed based on this news article which describes about sovereign gold bonds see a sovereign gold bond or STB is a bond denominated in gold and it acts as a substitute for holding physical gold these bonds are issued by reserve bank of india on behalf of central government and know that after consulting rba government of india issues sgb in several branches for a specific period now the bonds will be denominated in multiple grams of gold with a basic unit of one gram and know that the tenor of bond will be for a period of eight years but with an exit option after fifth year and know that these bonds are not sold to everyone it is restricted for sale to individuals hindu undivided families trusts universities and charitable institutions only and this is the minimum permissible investment and this is the maximum limit and these bonds will be sold through scheduled commercial banks except small finance banks and payment banks then it will also be sold by sscal and designated post office and they are also sold through recognized stock exchanges like bomb-based stock exchange limited so how are these bonds priced the bonds are priced in rupees on the basis of simple average of closing price of the gold which is of 999 purity this would be published for the last three working days of the week which is preceding the subscription period so what are the benefits of buying such sovereign gold bonds see the investors will get a holding certificate and the bonds can be converted into demat or the electronic form so investors who want to invest in gold can buy the sovereign gold bonds they don't have to worry about safekeeping of physical gold they don't have to worry about the locker charges making charges or even the purity issues apart from this these bonds offer an interest at the rate of 2.5 per annum and not only that know that these interests on gold bonds are taxable but there is one exemption which is the capital gains tax which is arising on the redemption of these sovereign gold bonds to an individual has been exempted see as you know capital gain refers to the profit which is earned by an individual on the sale of an asset like stocks bonds or real estate and capital gain happens when the selling price of an asset exceeds its purchase price and the tax imposed on this is known as capital gains tax and this has been exempted for the redemption of sgb now another advantage apart from this is that sgb can be used as collateral for loans from banks but know that sgbs are not risk free because we already discussed the pricing of these bonds and thus the redemption price is based on the average closing price of gold which is of 999 purity for the previous three working days so if gold prices fall in these working days then it will result in capital loss for the investor and that is why we are saying it is not risk free so based on this if you look at this question the question asks which of the following statements is incorrect regarding sovereign gold bonds so from the given options you can say that option c is incorrect because it mentions both the interest earned and capital gains at the time of redemption are exempted from paying tax no interest is not exempted from paying tax we already saw that the interest on gold bonds are taxable so that is why this statement is incorrect now let us take the next question this question has been framed on this news article which talks about national legal services authority that is nalsa see in march the supreme court of india observed that physical distancing would be difficult in prisons hence the apex court issued guidelines formed committees and asked the legal services authorities such as nalsa to work together and release undertrial prisoners and for releasing those who are on bail and parole so that they can bring down the prison population and based on this as per the recent nalsa report over 42 000 undertrial prisoners are released and around 16 000 convicts are freed on parole to decongest the prisons this is what is mentioned in this news article now know that the national legal services authority has been constituted under the legal services authorities act of 1987 and this act was enacted by the parliament to establish a nationwide uniform network for providing free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society now since it has been established under an act nalsa is a statutory body and know that the chief justice of india is the patron and chief of this authority and the senior most judge of the supreme court of india is the executive chairman of this authority and the principal objective of nalsa is to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society and also to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reasons of economic or other disabilities and based on this only nalsa provides free legal services which also includes free legal aid now know that nalsa lays down policies principles guidelines and it also frames effective and economical schemes for the state legal services authorities so that they can implement the legal services program throughout the country so yes there is a state legal services authority also which has been constituted to give effect to the policies and directions of nalsa and there is also a district legal services authority which has been constituted to implement legal services program in the district and primarily these are the functions delivered by the legal service authorities and now this question asks which of the persons given above are eligible for getting free legal services under national legal services authority now see the sections of society which are enlisted under section 12 of legal services authority act are entitled for free legal services and these are the sections of society who are eligible for it women and children members of schedule cast or schedule tribes disabled persons victims of mass disaster ethnic violence flood draw earthquake etc then persons in custody then victims of trafficking all are eligible to get free legal services under nalsa so that means one should be in answer two should be in answer three should be in answer and also five should be in answer but four should not be in answer because it mentions persons whose annual income does not exceed rupees six lakh see as of now know that the income ceiling fixed by the state governments ranges from rupees 15 000 to three lakhs to get the free legal services so that is why the persons whose annual income does not exceed rupees six lakh will not come as even in supreme court those persons whose annual income is less than five like they are only eligible to get free legal services hence the correct answer is option d one two three and five only now let us take the remaining questions which were displayed during the news article discussion sessions this question is based on Afghanistan the first statement mentions it is not a landlocked country see we say a country as a landlocked country when it does not have any maritime boundary so as you can see in this map Afghanistan does not have any maritime boundary because it shares borders with other countries such as India Pakistan Iran Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Tajikistan and China now the second statement mentions it shares border with Pakistan but not with Iran now the statement is incorrect because just now we saw it shares border with Iran as you can see here clearly and here the question asks for the correct statements and both the statements are incorrect so the correct answer is option d neither one nor two now this next question is based on essential commodities act of 1955 the first statement mentions the act empowers the central government to regulate the production supply and distribution of a commodity by declaring such commodity as essential now this statement is correct because it is one of the main objectives of this act and for declaring any commodity as an essential commodity it has to be listed under the schedule to this act now the second statement mentions the act is administered by the ministry of home affairs and is often used to prevent hoarding during national calamities now the statement is incorrect because this act is administered by the department of consumer affairs under the ministry of consumer affairs food and public distribution it is not administered by ministry of home affairs but the second half of this statement is correct but since first half is incorrect the whole statement is incorrect and here the question asks for the correct statements so the correct answer is option a one only now let us take one main question based on jsp2 the question asks discuss the possible factors that inhibit India from establishing diplomatic contact with the Taliban as part of ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan now while writing answer to this question you can mention the points like the association of Taliban with terrorism then it is continuously being a non-constructive force in Afghanistan then Taliban has association with Pakistan diligence and army and it is acting against the interests and security of India and you can also mention that there is lack of protection for India in the U.S. Taliban peace deal and also India was not included while arriving the U.S. Taliban peace deal so like this you can mention the points which we discussed during the news article discussions you can also add your own viewpoints which you think as factors that inhibit India from establishing a diplomatic contact with Taliban but be careful do not exceed the word limits beyond 250 words with this we have come to the end of today's in the news analysis if you like the video don't forget to like comment and share and do subscribe to Shankar IAS academy youtube channel for more updates related to civil service examination preparation


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A side street cab stand on the fringes of the city's theatrical district. A tall man dressed entirely in gray detaches himself from the doorway of a shabby hotel where he's been loitering and approaches a taxi that has just moved up to the first place in line. He opens its door and... Take me up to 132nd Street. Casey! Whereabouts in 132nd? I'll tell you when we get there. Just take the shortest way. Okay. You a good driver? I don't get no complaints. You look kind of young to me and experienced. How long you been hacking? Long enough. Yes, you're how long? A couple of months. I figured you were kind of wet behind your ears. Look, Mr. I drove army tanks from Normandy right up the furlain. I think that ought to qualify me to sit behind a wheel of a hack.  Your hack license here says your name is Isidore Goldfarb. That's right. Watch your driving, Izzy, and watch your step. Then we won't have no trouble. Look here, Mr. I don't like your kind of talk. If you're looking for trouble, get yourself another taxi.  You know where the Sutter Avenue Theater is? Yeah, it's up 130 seconds. Well, drive me past there after we get to 130 seconds. I want to see what Moby's playing at the Sutter Avenue Theater. Turn around here, Izzy, and take me past the Sutter Avenue again. I already drove you past that theater twice, mister. What are you going to... You're at a third time. Okay, but what's the big idea? Well, you care as long as you get your fare paid. A good picture playing at the Sutter Avenue, about cops and robbers. It's exciting I hear. And you like pictures about cops and robbers, Izzy? Yeah, they're all right. They're made for jerks like you. Now, wait a minute. They teach you that crime don't pay. Stop here, let me out. Mr. I'll be glad to. There's two bucks so long. Wait a minute, Mac, the meter says 240. You want to make something out of it? Oh, I... I guess that's a gun you're holding inside your pocket. You'll start something, you'll find out if it is. Ha, ha, ha. I was only kidding about the dose app. Here's a five-spot. Keep the chains if you get you ever saw them. Remember that, punk. So long. No one's pushing Izzy to a gopher around like he didn't get away with it. He drove right here to your precinct house here. Now, where'd the guy go when he left your gopher? He ducked around the corner of Olive Street. That's the last I seen of him. Well, you just figured he had a gun in his pocket, didn't you? You didn't see it. Yeah, but the cloth posed out like there was a cat underneath. Mm-hmm. What do you think of it, Casey? Uh, sounds like the old gag, sir. Gag? Yeah, Goldfarb and what you've told us, this guy probably wouldn't have gotten into your cab if you hadn't been a new hacking. What's that got to do? Son, this world is full of screwballs. One particular kind of sage has got to impress somebody. Often he gets into a cab and starts to act tough like he's seen done in gangster movies. Yeah, old-time hackies are wise to type out, pal, and they either humor the guys or give them a quick brush up.  There's 20 to 1 that the gat was nothing more dangerous than a pipe. Well, why'd he have to drive me past the Sutter Revenue Theater three times and... That was part of his mystery build-up. His world is full of screwballs, son. You mean I just been played for Saturn? I think so, because the last thing a real crook wants to do is attract attention from anyone. But I'll take down this guy's description just in case. Yeah, yeah, he was tall and skinny. He was dressed all in gray. Light gray hat, dark gray overcoat. Oh, excuse me. Yeah. 47% police station, Sergeant Vanelli speaking. Hold up and murder. Huh? Sutter Revenue Theater? Sutter Revenue. Yes. Yes, I've got it. Men will be there in a jump. Goodbye. Hey, what is it, son? Theater manager and girl cashier stuck up by a lone heist guy dressed all in gray. All in gray? Looks like the gags on us, Goldfarb. Now, you stick with us, we may need you. Olson? Yeah. Brush your detail over to the Sutter Revenue Theater. Yes, sir. Bogarty? Yeah. A lot of cold-to-call cars. Pick up a slender man about six feet tall wearing light gray fedora and dark gray overcoat. Advise caution. He's a killer. Right, that's right. Hey, who'd he kill, son? Theater manager. I'm calling Captain Logan a homicide. I'm getting to that theater with my camera. Oh, wait just a minute, Miss Summers. I want still another picture of you. Stand on the left side of that office door this time. Hi. I'm so upset, Mr. Casey. I can't pose anymore. Look, this won't take a second. This will be a profile shot. You've got a swell profile here. Break it up, Casey. Uh-oh. You'll find a guy to your Logan, huh? I'm here, and you'll take no more pictures. Hey, you precinct guys had no business to let this newspaper box you in. Don't blame them, pal. I got here at the same time they did. Hyped down. The dead man's in that office, Sergeant. Yes, Captain. Nothing's been disturbed in there. After we made sure he was dead, we came right out here in the lobby and closed that door. You take man, get in there and do your stuff. You too, Doc. Yes, Captain. Is girl the cashier? Yes. She's got her name as cute as she is, Logan. Betsy Summers. It's Betty, not Betsy. Betty's cute.  I mean, Summers, my report is that you witnessed the holdup and murder. Yes, sir. I'm Captain Logan, Homicide Squad. Please tell me everything that happened. Well, I work in the booth out by the main doors. I'm the ticket seller. Tonight, as I always do after the feature goes on for the last time, I check the last of the day's receipts, close the booth, and brought the money and the remainder of the last ticket roll used to Mr. Mackle's office. Is Mackle your theater manager? He was. Go on, please. Well, as usual, he was inside checking the previous receipts I'd given him and his door was locked. The door being locked was usual? Yes. Yes, I knocked and just as he opened the door, a hand was pressed down over my mouth. A man had come up behind me. I hadn't seen or heard him. When the door opened, he pushed me inside, closed the door and said he'd shoot Mr. Mackle and me if we made any noise.  We found a gun cap. Oh, wait, Sergeant. Go on to some of this. The man told Mr. Mackle to open the safe and Mr. Mackle did as he was told. Then he must have thought he saw a chance to grab his gun. Anyway, he jumped at the man and the man shot him. And then he, the man ran out that door and I, I screamed. People finally heard me. They came to the office and that's all I know. Anyone to see him make his getaway? We haven't found anyone who did, sir. Logan, take a look at this layout here. There's a fire exit leading to an alley, only a few yards away from the door of that office. The guy went out that way, then through the alley to the street in back, which isn't heavily traveled. We know he did that because he found his gun at the alley, only a few feet from that fire exit. Oh, now let's see the gun. Here, sir. 32 revolver, no fingerprint problem. One shell fired. Very recently. Now, Miss Summers, I understand you were able to provide a good description of the bandit. Well, I can't be sure about his face, Captain. Things happen so quickly and his hat was pulled down, his overcoat collar turned up, but I am sure about his height, his figure, and his clothes. That's more than most witnesses are sure of. And, Logan, have you heard about a previous report made by a cab driver on a mug answering the same description? What's that? A hacky named Goldfarb came to the precinct house just before this job was pulled, Captain. One thing at a time, you fellows. I want to know about this hacky and about everything else, but first let me get a complete picture of what's happened here.  About, I guess, about $6,000. Yeah, not a bad haul.  Didn't anyone hear the shot that killed Mackerel? No. The picture being shown here, Logan, is a crime picture. The time the shot was fired in that office, a noisy gun battle was coming over the soundtrack. I see. Well, I'll take a look inside that office now. Captain Logan. Yeah? I've got the guy in gray. You've got... Good nuts putting a pinch on me, Copperhead. Come on, you... You held us up, Captain. He's the man who shot Mr. Mack. What's this babe talking about? I never saw her before. I saw you. I recognize your clothes. You're the killer.  Where'd you find this guy, officer? I spotted him in the crowd outside. I was there for the same reason the crowd is. I heard the bit of stick up there.  You searched him? First thing, sir. There's no gun on him, and he's not carrying the stolen dough. Yeah, we know what he did with his gun. Yeah, you fellow, where's the money you took? I asked you a question. Answer it.  I'm taking that advice till I see my lawyer. Stuff like that'll get you to no place. Where's the dough? I give it a charity. Well, since you want to play it the hard way, take him down to headquarters, boys. The Athelbird, have Walter bring me up another cup of coffee with him. Sure, Casey. Hey, Walter! Another cup of jamber for this guy who never gets his breakfast before noon. How about you, Miss Wim? I don't want to spoil my appetite for lunch. You were able to get to bed at a decent hour last night, Annie. I had to follow up that theater job. Uh, finish telling us what happened after the cops took that guy in gray down to headquarters. Well, they identified him as a small-time crook with the name of Clint Morris. He's been wrapped a couple of times, but no gun stuff. He's none that's on the record. Goldfarb, the hacky, positively identified him as the tough guy he drove past the Sutter Avenue Theater three times. The guy out of his cab only a block away from him. But he admitted nothing. Not a thing, though. That guy's really tough. Well, his toughness won't get him anywhere, not with the evidence he's up against. No, no, no. That evidence is far from complete, Annie. He's still got to be connected with that stolen dough. Well, he will be. Just give the cops a little time. When they have an almost closed case like this, it isn't often they fail to shut it tight. Yeah, yeah. But I can't help wondering about a lot of things. What things? I, uh... No, I'm probably all wrong. I won't stick my neck out this time. But when and if I ever get that second cup of coffee, Annie, let's you and me go down to headquarters and see what's happened since last night. This is what's happened. The case against Morris is completely blown up. Blown up, love? Captain! And you helped do it, Casey. But me, I... No, I'm glad it happened now instead of later. The pictures you took of Morris right after his arrest, pal. One of them ran in this morning's express. Uh-huh. I don't page one, too. Well, a guy saw it. A conscientious guy runs a corner drugstore only three blocks from that theater. He comes in here with three other guys about an hour ago, and they all swear that Morris was in the drugstore when the stick-up and the murder was committed. So Morris has an alibi. He has a perfect alibi. Yeah, I figured he might have. You figured he... Well, after I woke up this morning when it was too late to do anything about it. It's funny, Casey. I got about the same idea at about the same time. Yeah? You men are so clairvoyant. No, Annie. No, we're slow on the uptake. In fact, we're dumb. I don't get it. Sit down, chums. Let's have a meeting of the so-called minds. Here's how to brighten up your breakfast table for years to come at a cost of only a dollar or two. Get a few cups and sauces, a few plates of gay, colorful jadeite. Yes, jadeite. The revolutionary new dinnerware developed by Anchor Hawking. Jadeite is a delicate, inviting green in color. It has the texture of rare and costly porcelain. Yet jadeite is as strong and heat-proof as the fire king oven glass you use for baking. And jadeite is incredibly low in price. For instance, a cup and saucer cost only 15 cents for the two pieces. And a complete 35-piece dinner service for six is yours for less than five dollars. Ask for jadeite at your favorite chain store, department store, hardware store, or any store selling chinaware and glass. Remember jadeite, spelled J-A-D-E-I-T-E. Jadeite, newest triumph of Anchor Hawking. The most famous name in glass. Well, first, Logan, have you freed Morris? No, but I'll have trouble holding him much longer. We've got nothing on him now. Well, it's alibis on the level. There's nothing we can tell you. I think it's funny he could tell any. I guess Logan does, too. Yeah, the guy made himself look guilty, Miss Bridget. You mean by his actions with that cab driver? Well, sure. Morris deliberately called attention to himself. I figure now, and it's a little late. And he was working with another guy, another guy about his height and figure who wore the same kind of clothes. And the other man did the stick-up. Yeah, while Morris was establishing an alibi. And Morris got himself arrested, so the other guy had plenty of chance to get away with the dough. Well, I don't altogether agree with that theory, pal. Why not? Well, why should there have been another man in the deal? Well, the girl cashier saw him. Yeah, and only the cashier saw him. Well, that girl? Uh-huh. Yeah. Hey, she was trusted by her boss. He's opened his safe while she was there. It was a matter of course. She could have shot him under cover of that noisy picture and had thrown the gun into the alley from that firing. Well, sure. She got the dough in a temporary hiding place before she yelled. Yeah. Morris, her boyfriend, would be pinched for the job before any kind of a search could be made. Well, you let her go. Well, she's had all night from this morning to recover that dough into really high. Have I been dumb?  I listened to Goldfarb and told him his tough guy passenger had been putting on an act. Yeah. And I fell for the act. Well, I'll turn Morris loose at him tailed night and day. Eventually he'll contact that summer's teller, whoever worked with him, and then... Yeah, yeah. Better take a long time, Logan. Well, of course, you know a quick, easy way. Well, maybe. The summer's babe is a pretty cute little number. What's her looks got to do with it? Oh, to Casey, a gal's looks has everything to do with everything about it. Now, you're wrong, Annie. You're wrong. But that applies to a lot of guys less smart than I am. It might apply to Morris. What are you driving at? Well, deals between men and women that result in robbery and murder are seldom just business deals, Logan. Look, they made us fall for a corny old trick, pal. I think we can make them fall for one, too. I know my right, Captain. You've got no excuse for keeping me here. Two days ago, you learned I had an alibi that I couldn't have pulled a theater stick up. Now, you gotta let me go. Take it easy, Morris. We can hold you on suspicion. Casey, this guy denies everything. Mm-hmm. He sounds on the level to me, Logan. You don't know he's kind like I do. Hey, I'm on a level. Oh, look, Casey, you're not a cop. You must know I'm getting a raw deal here. Can't you do something through your paper? Oh, no, no. I'd like to, Morris, but you know how things are. Yeah, sure. You gotta string along with these coppers so you don't get news or pictures. You gotta be as lousy as they are. Come in. I'll be right with them. Morris, don't try to crash out on Casey while you're alone with them. That chance with bars on the windows and steel doors with cops outside it. I think you'll stay here. See you later. You know, I'm really sorry for you, Morris. You are getting a raw deal. Nuts, Casey.  No, no, no. Because I think I owe you something. You owe me something? Yeah. What? Whatever that meant for you, I wouldn't have met a swell babe. Babe? Mm-hmm. The cashier at that theater. Betty Summers.  I've been getting acquainted. She went to dinner with me last night. Yeah? Uh-huh. Got another date with her tonight, too. And she's the kind of a gal I really go for. I guess she isn't finding me too hard to take, either. Why tell me about your love life? Well, because by accident, of course, you got me acquainted with her. You know, the only fault I find with her is that she's too easy to know. Oh, she is, huh? Yeah. All I know or care about her is that she made a phony identification of me. Of course, she doesn't admit it was a phony. You're nuts. How could you claim otherwise when my alibi's been proved? Haven't the cops told you? Cops don't tell me anything. Hey, look. That gal doesn't really hold out on me being the guy. Ah, I shouldn't have mentioned that. I didn't know. So that's why they're still keeping me here. And she's going places with you. Well, going places with me has nothing to do with her insistence that you were the stick-up man in spite of your alibi. Well, thank her for what she's doing when you see her tonight, Casey. Tell her I don't forget little favors like that. Hey, you're not threatening my gal, are you? Your gal? No. I'm not threatening anybody, Casey. Well, thanks very much for letting me take these additional pictures of you, Miss Summers. Oh, you're welcome, Mr. Casey. You know, it's an awful nice little apartment you have here. It's comfortable. Rent is cheap. That's good. That's all a working gal can ask for. If you wish, reminds me I got to be getting to work. You'll excuse me, of course. Oh, sure, yeah. I'll be on my way right away. See, I guess it isn't easy for you to go back to that theater every day after what happened. No, it isn't. I think I'll have to give it up and get another job. Uh-huh. By the way, the papers say that the police is still holding that man, that Morris that I was still mistaken about. Oh, yeah. They may hold on to him for quite a while. Why? It's been proved he couldn't have shot Mr. Mackle and stolen that money. Well, off the record, Miss Summers, the cops have an idea he may have been working with the real heist guys, eh? But if he was, he's got no big worries and he knows it.  What do you mean? Well, even if it can be proved that he connived in the crime, his alibi puts even the clear as far as a murder rap's concerned. You see, his partner takes the rap all the way along the line. His partner did the killing, his partner took the money, and Morris took an alibi.  Hey, don't you think so? Oh, I... yes, but, uh... Mr. Casey, I-I thought... What? I thought that, uh... that when two people plan a crime together, they take the same chance, and... and if they're caught, both are considered equally guilty. Isn't that the law? Well, in principle, yeah, but not in practice. You see, Morris is an experienced guy, and he protected himself. He's quite a character, that Morris. Miss Summers, as a woman, would you figure that that low-browed, sour-looking string bean is hot stuff with a gal? I don't know what you mean. Well, the cops have found out that he's left broken hearted dames all over the country.  Quite a guy, huh? Oh, say, look at me.  Well, I'll run along, and thanks again for letting me come up and shoot those extra pictures, Miss Summers. You're welcome, Mr. Casey. So long. Bye. Clint. Let me in. Just a minute. You've escaped. No, the cops turned me loose a couple hours ago. I'm legally free. Surprise, ain't you, Betty?  We're not supposed to know each other, and if you were following... I wasn't following. I'm smart enough to know when I'm being tailed. You were smart in a lot of ways. Yeah. So were you, babe. I wasn't, but I'm learning. You learned fast. Too fast. No, I learned almost too late. But I can think when an idea hits me in the face, Clint. And I've been thinking hard ever since I started for work this afternoon. I'm glad to see you tonight. That goes double, everything you said. But I thought I might have to stall around before I could see you until your boyfriend left. My boyfriend? Yeah, I listened for a long time outside your door there to make sure you was alone. What are you talking about? You played me for a sap. I played you for a sap. And how?  Sure, you planned all the dirty work for me while you set up an alibi that'd keep you in the clear. That alibi'll keep me in the clear, even if you had the chance to rat on me.  I didn't! Don't lie to me! Clint, let me go! I'll show you for what you did.  Help! Get your mitts over through, Boris. Take them off! Logan! You cops were outside that door listening? And we heard a mouthful from both of you. Your alibi won't do much good now, Morris. This was a plan, Casey. A trap. Yeah, and how you walk right into it. Casey, you... Call me sweetie, Betty. Or didn't you know that I am your boyfriend? We'll join the crowd of the Blue Note in just a moment. I'd like to remind the thousands of people in the United States listening to this program of one simple fact. You can now buy your favorite brand of beer and ale in a new kind of bottle that requires no deposit and never has to be returned to the store. Because practically every one of you has known the annoyance caused by empty bottles, I repeat. You can now buy your favorite brand of beer and ale in a new kind of bottle which requires no deposit. This new anchor glass one way no deposit bottle is light and compact. Easy to carry home takes up little space in your refrigerator. For more than 100 years, Americans have preferred beer and ale in clean sanitary glass bottles. So here's a good rule. When buying beer and ale, always demand glass bottles. And remember, you can now buy your favorite beer and ale in a new kind of bottle that requires no deposit and never has to be returned to the store. The new anchor glass one way bottle. A product of anchor hocking. The most famous names in glass. Found a stolen money, huh Casey? Yeah, Bethelbert. Betty Summers told him where she'd hidden it. She told him everything. And what she didn't tell, Morris did. After those two former lovebirds started to talk, it was hard to shut them up because each one of them was blaming the other for the mess they'd gotten into. I'll bet they blamed one another most for believing the stuff Casey told each one about the other. Well, that did seem to be a pretty sore point with them. What made you figure they was that way about one another, Casey, and that you could bust them up the way you did? Well, I heard... Casey knows all about love, Bethelbert. He learned from books. From... Uh, Annie, the vernal equinox will soon be here. Hmm? Spring. You might let me take you for a drive by the seashore on some moonlit night in spring. And? Well, then if it doesn't rain... Yeah? I might show you some things that can't be learned from books. Casey, I can hardly wait for spring, moonlight, and guaranteed dry weather. Say, what? You two are spoofing them. Why, Ethelbert? I don't approve a spoofing the tender passion. As my sister, Edna, says, quote, love may not be all it's cracked up to be, but folks who won't give it a try ought to be cracked down on. Unquote, and I got business to attend to. I'm afraid Ethelbert and sister Edna have something, Casey. Ah, yeah, Annie. I'm afraid they have. Uh, it's almost spring. There's no moonlight. And it's raining. 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You think Brable should win Coach of the Year? Absolutely. I believe in this team. The gift that you give me is you let me coach this football team. It is an honor and it's a privilege. He might be a little bit mad that I'm going to say this, but I think he should be up for Coach of the Year. Just the job that he's done this year, the injuries we've had with all the different moving parts that we've had to keep the team and keeping us all together, keeping us locked in. He's got my vote for Coach of the Year for sure.  Who's a better candidate right now than Mike Brable for Coach of the Year? I mean, it has been an incredible run what they're doing. You and them shoes, you better have a date. That's all I'm saying. Don't apologize for anything. You earned it. So don't let anybody take it away from you, but we got to be better. You don't have to say a word. I look in your eyes and I know you're laying it on the line. What Brable has done really is incredible.


Is it recording? I have this. If I have to have any worry or fear, it's that I'm just talking to no one and it's not the capture.  Welcome back to Spoonsville. Hello. Today, on the program, we will be covering Intouchables. Intouchable. Intouchable. Intouchable. In French? Yeah. Yeah, it's the original French version movie, not the American remake of it. It came out in 2010, 2011, something like that. Brief synopsis, 20 seconds. We give ourselves to give an overview of the thing in case you missed it or haven't seen it for a while. I want to touch it. Touch up. Okay. Follow the story of a guy who... Shoot, meets... Quadriplegic. Quadriplegic, who is needing another helper, and hires a guy who at first just needs to get his benefits. It comes in, so he checks off the paper, but then they end up becoming friends and then they form a friendship, a lasting friendship throughout their whole lives. And... Yeah. Good job. Oh, first like five seconds. I couldn't mind my own brain fart, but it came together. You helped me there. I kind of cheated a little bit. Thank you. Thank you. But it was so sweet.  Jinx, you owe me a Coke. I don't really like Coke. It was just really heartwarming. I found kind of skipping to the end, but I found at one point, when he finally has to say goodbye, or at one point he gets him just to help him with one more thing. Yeah. And it makes you so happy that they're realizing how much they need each other. But it was just... It was so... Can I think another word for sweet? What's another word for sweet? It was juicy. Enduring. Yeah. So for me, yes, it was absolutely heartwarming, but I felt there was a lot... I cried afterwards a lot, not tears of joy, just tears of... Tears of tears. Tears of tears. No, I was sad. Even right now as I'm thinking about it, when you talked about the last scene, I can tell my voice is already shaking. I hope I can pull it together. It was just so sad. Yeah. It was a culmination of two people that really realized how much they... Not even needed each other, but also just got so much out of each other's company. True friendship, true free from... Obviously they have to eventually slowly get to know each other, but by the end they... I don't know. It's like they were meant for each other. Yeah. Those kind of friendships. Yeah. You never want them to be apart. Are you clipping my nails just now?  Why they become friends is because Driss, the helper, he just treats them like a friend. Yeah. He makes jokes at his expense. But he doesn't worry about like, oh wait, I shouldn't have said that because that could take offense because you can't move your body. Yeah. Which all the caregivers that are interviewed before this guy decides to hire Driss... They're all very nervous. They're all very nervous. Making sure they... Yeah. They try to make sure that they're sweet and kind and gentle, make sure that they don't offend. Yeah. So that's the thing where I felt like this movie just puts you in the mind of people that are disadvantaged in societies in a certain way, that they just want to be treated normally. Yeah. Like I do not want for you to treat me differently from other people just because you think that I need you to be sensitive. Yeah. Right? Because for example, banter. That's fun, right? Yeah. People who are not... Who don't have physical disabilities, they make fun of each other. You know? Like does your stroke joke around? Yeah.  People are much more open to joking and, you know, banter because you're like, well, you're confident enough in yourself because you don't have any issues. Yeah. So I can make... I can make fun of whatever. But then with other people, the people who do maybe have certain very visible disabilities, then you feel like you don't want to do that.  You know, I don't want people treating me a certain way because they assume that I have certain struggles and so they cannot have a certain conversation with me. Like I've, you know, one, I am female and of course, skin tone. So I have had that experience of people having... Sensoring themselves and having certain conversations with me in a certain way because they feel that they don't want to offend me or they assume that whatever issues that are happening in the world that pertain to my, you know, like how I look, I wouldn't want brought up or I wouldn't want negatively affected by it. And so then they don't... So then they're... The conversation isn't open.  It's very restricted. And even I feel uncomfortable. And that is not something that I like. I don't like people walking on eggshells around me. I think that it's nice for human beings to engage with each other openly. And if there is an issue, address it. It's okay to offend but acknowledge it and then say, how would you like for me to treat you in future, for example? So our go-to is to be sensitive and which can be very detrimental. And so the quadriplegic Rich Guy Philippe, he then hires this ex-prisoner because of the fact that this guy just treats me like everyone, this thing that I long for. Just be treated like everybody to not be like, to not have people walking on eggshells, to have people laugh, you know, just make fun of me about the fact that I can't feel anything. Yeah. And I think that is why he hires him. He doesn't even know him. He doesn't care that he's a prisoner. He just cares that even though other people are worried, this is an ex-prisoner.  And he's like, I couldn't care less. I just like the fact that he makes me feel like a human being. Yeah, yeah. So it's also such a funny movie. It's such a perfect blend of tragedy and the sad parts of life with so much great humor. It's really, it's one of those movies, you think about it, it's a very sad movie, but it's so funny and so heartwarming that it's so easy to get through and so entertaining. I love that. And that's a hard balance to make. Yeah. There are, there, remember that scene where he's shaving him? I do. And he, he's doing all these goofy looks as he shakes his beard. And then the last look is Hitler. And he starts making fun of, you know, him being kind of like Hitler or whatever and talks about- Like speaking German. Put his hair down. He's just speaking German with his hair down. And we were just talking, remember we talked about how, you know, how like life is so complicated, right? And it's good. It's bad. There's ugly. There's awkward. There's pain. You know, there's happiness. And there's sometimes making fun of things that made other people suffer. suffer, which, you know, I think people, when they do do that, it's not necessarily that they are feeling like, I love that, you know, that this happened or you know what I mean? It's like, you know, it's almost still to kind of cope with making sense that that was something that happened. Yeah. Yeah, like, because sometimes, you know, there, you cope with humor, right? When something sad happens, for example, or you, I don't know, you interact with something that was tough in a way that's more in a humorous way to let it out, you know, like, you're almost kind of laughing like, geez, right? Maybe if you came from a family of, you know, like, neglectful parents, like, Jesus, I was raised by wolves, you know what I mean? You'll say stuff like that. But anyway, I think the point is with that movie, when they were talking about when he was making fun of the guy looking like Hitler, when you watch that, if you were, if that was happening in public, you would think how insensitive, you know, so many people suffered, you know, and so it's interesting because I think everybody can relate to in the privacy of their own home. People have done things like Yeah, making fun of something or someone, even understanding that I would never do this in public because the public doesn't know me. Like, I can do it with my husband because my husband knows that I'm a good person and they, my husband knows that I don't want any ill, wish any ill will towards this person.   You know, like, am I like, yeah, I don't know, am I the dumbest person alive? You know, for example, right? These are just things you'll say in a humorous way but these are actually very deep things.  You realize how deep a conversation they're having and yeah. Yeah, I think also they're doing it was happening while they were shaving, which is I think something where the mundane things in life that you end up doing, you know, like shaving how many hundreds of times throughout your life or or showering how many times throughout your life, you know, it can kind of get just too routine and too habitual and, you know, if you want to try and enjoy life, sometimes you have to take a chance of, well, while I'm showering, maybe I'm gonna sing really loud and just go nuts and pretend like I'm an opera singer or while I'm shaving, I could look like Lemmy from Motorhead or I can kind of mess around with different while I'm shaving. Anyway, I might as well see what kind of things I can do with my face just for a joke, you know, just to also enjoy the mundane parts of life more too. Yeah, you know. Philip who was the quadriplegic lost his wife to cancer, I believe, was it? Yeah. And then he had the paragliding, the paragliding accident. Yeah, the paragliding accident. And yeah, he says not living with her is more painful than being a quadriplegic. Yeah. That was really sad. Yeah. And then you have dress who comes from a very tough background. Obviously, he left his country in West Africa. Never you never leave your country for any, you know, like for any easy reason, right? Yeah. And now so he was obviously tough conditions back home. He moves to go to France to live with the aunt. And it's in a very disadvantaged community and already being an immigrant is incredibly difficult. You are moving to a country which you weren't raised in you weren't socialized into and so it's very hard to navigate everything that you knew about how human beings interact with each other is just it's not applicable anymore. And so you have to figure out how to how do I deal with this new environment. And a lot of the times our parents like the aunt, for example, she moved there as an older person.   And a lot of the times family situations, they repeat themselves, right? They replicate over time. Like if you come from a poorer family, then a lot of your the likelihood of you staying poor or higher, we see that, you know, dress is basically in that situation. And a lot of the times, unfortunately, when you have when you are an immigrant who is struggling in those ways, sometimes you turn to crime, because you're just so desperate, you don't understand the system that you're now this new system that you're now living in and how to make it in the system in a way that's like in a healthy way, you know?  And then you find yourself doing things like turning to crime, especially when you have immigrant parents who don't really understand, know how to cultivate you're growing up in a way that's going to help you assimilate to the system. And so that's basically I think what happens to dress. And it makes me it may be really sad, because even when he goes to the interview, he just said just sign my paper and say that you didn't want to hire me. Yeah, I think he just faced a lot of that. And he had been so he'd he built a defense against it. And he was like, I it's this is just the expectation. Yeah, let's make this rejection just part of our routine. Yeah, that's the thing that I thought about a about how many people there are who do go through those kinds of things. And you know, it's also an example of where people feel like, Oh, well, you know, if you feel like this is you can recognize this is an unfortunate situation, you find yourself in just, you know, really pursue a way to get out of it. But it really is tough when you don't everyone else you know is in the same spot. It's and no one really has any idea of like, Oh, why don't you try this? I know that could be good for you. When basically, everyone you go to is just like, I'm just yeah, I really have nothing to help you with. And so it's really tough to, to on your own, basically, keep every day trying to find something that will help you, I don't know, get you out of whatever you find yourself in. It's really tough. Yeah, you see people struggling. Yeah, you know, and, and you or maybe people homeless people, not always just themselves that's holding them back. Yeah, exactly. You know, sometimes you're trying.  Yeah. Yeah. So that also made me sad. I don't know. I know I know I clicked it. I don't have this but sometimes I'm just like, is it correct? I have this. If I have to have any worry or fear, it's that I'm just talking to no one and it's not captured.  Not be good. They write that at the end. They explain what happens to two characters after the leaf moves back to Morocco turns out he's he was from there originally. And then dress moves back to Africa and has a farm, you know, and Algiers. Yeah. And that made me very sad. I don't know. Yeah, it made me sad. Just wondering if dress was okay. Yeah.  I just wondered if dress was okay. That's probably why they told you what happened after because they knew people were gonna want to know what happened to them both after. Yeah, I just hope he is. And yeah, and that the friendship, it was obviously for me, the end, even though they don't explain it that time that okay, this is the end, but it was the way that they looked at each other. And you know, just, I don't know, like nodding at each other knowingly. It felt like they were saying, yeah, okay, you are gonna this lady's outfit. Yeah, you'll be okay. You don't need me anymore. Yeah. And so it was kind of like, this is it. Goodbye. I helped you for as long as I needed to and off. I just made it. Is that your favorite moment? No, my favorite moment. That was the moment that wrecked me. My favorite moment is when he he's like, I need to get some air like just take me somewhere and he's like, okay, I'll handle it. And then at one point, it takes him to a spot where you can see the ocean. There's just a big body of water. And and Philly just gives him this look of just like love and appreciation for him. It's it's the kind of I don't know. It's the kind of look that a man that once had true love for a woman could show to another man. I'm getting emotional again. I think relationships like the one that Dris and Philippe have are so hard to come by. Having that level of reciprocity in a relationship, that level of care and appreciation for someone and where both parties are showing that, you know, and both parties are truly fulfilled by this relationship. That is so hard to come by. So that's why I was I feel sad even now that they weren't it didn't they weren't living or Dris didn't continue to be at the caretaker. And I do sincerely that hope that he's both of them are well. One could say, well, you know, like, you know how we always talk about sometimes people need each other in a certain period of time. And they needed to he needed Dris needed to be his caregiver for that moment that time. And that's it, right? And the next chapter and the next chapter. And it doesn't necessarily mean that the next chapter is a negative one. It's kind of like with parents, you know, when their kids move out of the house, it's still sad. It's a chapter. It's a new chapter. You don't have your kids, your kids aren't kids anymore. They're your peers because they're adults now. And that is a new dynamic as a new relationship.  But because they were such a meaningful part of your life for so long. And of course, especially if you had that great deep connectedness that these two people had, it does feel, you know, I don't know, you feel you do feel very heartbroken by its ending, as much as you understand that it has to happen. You can always reread the chapter, but it won't be quite the same as the first time you read the chapter.  So yeah, it was a very beautifully done movie. The acting was just fantastic. I think the casting was just brilliant. The actors, Philippe, the guy who plays Philippe, whose name I don't remember. I think it's not same as Cluzet. I don't know. I don't remember. But and then Omar, Omar say, who played say so I see who played S why he played dress such a fantastic, incredible actor. He's the guy the Lupin guy. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a movie that everything ensemble, it makes you want to be a helper with that guy at his house because of you start to connect with all the other helpers.  That's the kind of quality that everyone should aspire to. Yeah, in whatever you do. What would you give it? 100 out of 10. Yep. Yeah, 110 ripe tomatoes. So 1000% on ripe tomatoes. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. But what'd you guys think? Have you guys seen into shade into shabla or the untouchables or just untouchable in English? Yeah, what do you think? Did it? Are you still? Are you still affected by it too? Let us know in the comments. Yeah, I'm still affected. Yeah, I'm still affected. Okay, be affected. Yeah, I'm affected by a lot of stuff all the time. Every time. That's it. Till next time. I'm gonna cry. Yeah, so we gotta cut right now. Bye.


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dhan of AmitDhan.com Today I'll have another episode of Alexa Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about how to change Alexa voice on your device So this is not about how to change Alexa accent I do have a separate video on that which I'll put a link in the description box below Today I'll show you how you can change Alexa voice on your device And I have instructions right here, so basically these are the instructions you have to follow which I'll show you as we go along So the first thing you need to do, you're going to have to go to your Alexa app and from there you're going to be able to change your Alexa voice Let's first hear what type of voice Alexa has Alexa, what is the weather today? Right now in Toronto, it's 7 degrees Celsius with mostly sunny skies Today's forecast has clouds with a chance of showers with a high of 7 degrees and a low of 1 degree Okay, so you can hear that Alexa has a female voice and we're going to change it to a male voice So let's go to the settings, you need to know for this So I'm just going to put the instructions right here So let me show you how you can change Alexa voice So the first thing you're going to be doing, we have to open up the Alexa app from the phone So if you go to your Alexa app and click on it And then here you're going to go to device which is going to be kind of on the bottom right corner So let's bring this little here, so if you click on here where you see device Your positioning may be different but that's what you're looking for, devices So just click on that And from here you're going to check or look for all devices Let's put this right here So if you look on the top and look for all devices So you're going to click on it And here you're going to see all the devices you have with Alexa And then I'm just going to click this device which is Echo Show 5 So let's click on it And then from here you're going to go to settings for this specific device Which is going to be located on the upper right corner Because you can see that it shows Echo Show 5 here So if you click on it And from here you're going to go to voice Now I do have the general before that So you may not have this option but after settings you either will see general or voice So if you look here then I can see that I have, let's see Alexa voice right here And which you can see that it shows original So I'm just going to click on it And let's click on it Then here you can see that there are two options Original which we just heard in the beginning of this video And then new So let's click on new If you choose this option this is what I'll sound like on this device So it looks like it's changing to a male voice And I'm just going to stay here And then let's go back And I'm just going to minimize this app And let's ask Alexa and see if that voice has changed Alexa, what is the weather today? Right now in Toronto It's 7 degrees Celsius with mostly sunny skies Today's forecast has clouds with a chance of showers With a high of 7 degrees and a low of 1 degree Okay, so you can see that the voice has changed to a male voice So that's how you can change voice right now For me I only see two options, male and female But you may be able to see more options Where you're located or in the future if they have updates But right now I can see only two options But I don't like the male voice It sounds too kind of like you know robotic I like the female voice, it sounds like more human So I'll change back to female voice But that's how you change Alexa device voice from one to the other And again this is not the accent change for that Please see the link in the description box below I do have a video on that how to change Alexa accent So thank you for watching this video There will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly


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Today we're going to be going over five different ways on how to lace the Air Jordan 7s. I'll be using one foot for the example showing you guys the step by step process and we're going to do some on foot looks for each style as well. That way you can see what they look like. And if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ and this is the DNA show. On this channel, I love talking about sneakers and especially giving you guys tutorials like this. So if you haven't already, consider subscribing and joining the VAM. We're on the road to a million subscribers and you could be the next one to get us there. Now let's take it to style number one, the dead stock look. So as you can see right here, this is typically how the sneaker comes when it's fresh out the box and you haven't worn the shoe yet and we as sneaker heads like to call this the dead stock style. So if you flip the laces up from behind the tongue, you can see right here it has the knot and some people typically either wear it with the knot exposed or with the knot behind the tongue. So let's take a quick look at both styles on foot and then we'll take it to the next style. How did you guys feel about that first style? Me personally, not my favorite, but I have seen people rock it. So I wanted to make sure I introduced that to y'all as well. Now let's take it to one of my favorite styles. This right here, we call the loose fit. So what we're going to do is undead stock the lace style and then we're going to take the laces out from the front end because they go outward and inside to the holes. We want to go from inside out. That way we can make sure that laces are able to hang throughout the outside. So what we're going to do is this lace it through this bottom hole again, let it hang maybe about, I don't know, about two or three inches down low and then we're going to do the same thing right here on the opposite side. And then what we're going to want to do is take our fingers and loosen it up just right here on the top and slowly disperse the laces throughout. I like to take three fingers and pull it like this. That way there's an even disbursement throughout the laces as we loosen it up. And then, oh man, this is going to be my favorite. I love rocking these like this. That's why I'm so excited to show you guys. So as you can see right here, this is more of that loose style. It's going to look a lot more better on foot. So let's just see what it looks like on foot. So how do you guys feel about that style? Now when it comes to the Air Jordan 7, this shoe is configured almost kind of like a harachi. So it has like a booty basically all throughout the inside of the foot.  I know a lot of people have that concern, but as you can see from the constructions right here, this material, this nylon material goes all the way throughout and into the back, which locks your foot in. So it's pretty hard to have the shoe fly off your foot.  So what we're going to do is tighten this shoe back up and get it looking a lot more formal. And I think a lot of people typically when they see people wear their Air Jordan 7s, it is kind of hard because you got the flaps on the sides right here. But what they typically might do is wear this with some jeans or something like that. And they'll either lace it right here and put a knot just like this, looking like almost like they're about to go hoop or something. But you'll see it with the knot right here, or they'll go to the top and put it up one more hole above and then lace it up all the way high, super high at the top. Now, me personally, I don't really like this style because I feel like I'm just going to be ready to go hoop and play in a basketball game or something. But I definitely do see people rocking it like this and they'll have the knot with the bow tie and then they'll have like their jeans kind of draped over or something like that. I even seen people rock this with shorts this way. So I'll give you guys a couple of different looks and we'll see what you think about the on foot looks. So what do you guys think about that style? Drop a comment down below and let me know. What we're going to do next is do another style when it comes to the bow tie, but a little bit different. We're going to unlace it again and leave these bottom two holes open. And then what we're going to do is go back to a similar to that dead stock style. We're going to go from the outside and work our way in. And then we're going to do the same thing on the opposite side of the foot and go from the outside working our way in. And then we're going to want to do is put a bow tie right here. And this is going to kind of sit on the inside at the top and then we'll loosen it up and give it that loose vibe. And I've seen a lot of people wear their Air Jordan 7s this way. So I'm going to loosen this up and show you guys what it looks like on foot. This style in particular, I think is a fan favorite. Like I said earlier, I see a lot of people rocking it with this style. I have done it before, but not too often. I feel like the loosey goosey just, you know, just laces all over the place. That's just been my style for many years for all my sneakers. I never liked tying my shoes. I like to just slip them on and go. And honestly, you could pretty much do the same thing with this because it's pretty loose down here. So I'm interested to see what you guys think about this style. Now we have one final style that you know we got to do in every single video, the bars. Okay, so what you're going to want to do is make sure that the shoe is entirely unlaced and you just have the initial bar up front. And then we're going to do one hole, skip a hole and go to the opposite hole. So we'll start with this right side first. We'll go immediately in this first hole. And then we're going to go up and over across and create that first bar. And then what we're going to do is the same thing on the opposite side, but we're going to skip two holes. So we're going to let this one sit and we're going to take this original lace now from the left side and go underneath this, pull it through up to the second hole right here, go under and out, bang, bang. And then we're going to pull across directly to the opposite hole and create that third bar. And we're going to repeat this process all the way to the top. So instead of going here, we're going to skip a hole, bam, run it through. And then on this one, we already skipped the hole. So we're going to bam, run it through. And then we're going to go directly across. Pretty simple process. Just always make sure that you're skipping a hole when you're going through. I'm interested to see the bar style on the Air Jordan 7. We always do the bar style on every single Jordan. So it's always fun trying to figure out how to lace it depending on the model and everything like that. So I'm having fun doing this. And sometimes it actually ends up coming out looking pretty solid. Now, I don't know exactly, we're probably going to leave this one. We're just going to tuck this one on the inside when it comes to the top. This last and final one, we're going to do the bar across, bang, and then we'll tuck that inside. So this is the bar style on the Air Jordan 7. I'm excited to see what these look like on foot. Let's check it out. Now that was definitely a very interesting look. I can't say it was my favorite, but I'm not mad at it. And again, I'm excited to hear what you guys think about the different styles down below in the comment section. So don't forget to let me know which styles you guys liked the most and stick around to the end for the final comment of the day. Yo, if you enjoyed this video and want to grow your collection or make extra money on the side, I built a VIP mastermind that will teach you everything that I've learned about growing my sneaker collection over the past 15 years. This will also give you access to the DNA fam in my VIP community where we talk about investing outside of sneakers. And don't worry, if you don't plan on joining the VIP community, it's okay. I'll also set up a private DNA fam community that gives you access to all the behind the scenes looks from the studio and multiple chances to win free sneakers and gear from weekly and monthly challenges. 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