Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Ayes Academy for the day 23rd of October 2019. Displayed are the list of news articles taken up for today's analysis along with the page numbers of Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Trivandrum editions. The handwritten notes in PDF format and the time stamping of all the news articles taken up for today's analysis will be available in the description section and also in the common section for the benefit of the smartphone users. This news article states that there is a 30% increase in the number of cases which are recorded as offenses against the state. This conclusion is based on the recent Crime in India report of 2017 which has been released by the National Crime Records Bureau. If you remember yesterday only we discussed about this report in detail and we told that we will be getting frequent news articles and editorials regarding this report. So today there is a news article which has discussed about offenses against the state. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. Now based on this Crime in India report of 2017, the news article is saying that there is a 30% increase in the number of cases in offenses against the state in 2017 when compared to 2016. Among the states and union territories, the states with more number of cases are Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. So what are these offenses against the state? It is also known as crimes against the state. Broadly speaking, all crimes are against the state. Here the state is nothing but the government. So it includes all acts or actions that disturb the public tranquility or public peace then which disturbs the national integration and public order. Apart from this, there are also some other criminal activities that are directed against the existence of the state itself such as treason, sedition and rebellion. Here the term treason is the crime of betraying the nation. This is done by acts that are considered dangerous to nation's security like selling military secrets to a foreign power then like giving aid to the enemy in time of war etc. Next, the term sedition generally refers to the offense that is related to conduct or speech that is inciting or encouraging people to rebel against the authority of a state or government. Then we have the term rebellion. Here rebellion means the attempted overthrow of a government and if this rebellion succeeds, it is called a coup or revolution. The term coup means sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government. Now if you have seen our Indian Penal Code of 1860, there is a separate chapter that is chapter number 6 which is on the offenses against the state. This chapter covers sections from 121 to 130 of Indian Penal Code. But for the purpose of this report along with the sections that I mentioned in this chapter, certain sections from other chapters have also been taken into consideration. So in addition to the crimes such as treason etc that are treated as offenses against the state, the National Crime Records Bureau also included offenses that promote enmity between different groups as offenses against the state. It is because even such acts disturb tranquility or peace in the society and they are very prejudicial or detrimental to national integration that is here against national integration. So under chapter 6 of IPC for this report, sections 121, 121A, 122, 123 and 124A of Indian Penal Code have been taken along with this sections 153A and 153B of Indian Penal Code have also been taken and have been listed as offenses against the state. Here you need to know that section 124A of Indian Penal Code is with respect to sedition and a total of 51 cases were reported in 2017 under sedition as per this report. When coming to section 153A, this section deals with offenses that promote enmity between different groups. It might be on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc and it also covers those acts that are prejudicial or harmful to the maintenance of harmony. If you see the offense committed in places of worship is also covered under this section. You know that in addition to the offenses under the Indian Penal Code, some other special acts and local laws in short SLL are also included in this report under the heading of offenses against state related acts. So the laws and act under this SLL are the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act of 1984, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967 and the Official Secrets Act of 1923. In this report cases were registered under Official Secrets Act of 1923 and also under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967. Next this news article also states that in this report many new categories have been included. Some of the new categories are sexual harassment of women at the workplace or at public transport, then offenses relating to elections, then obscene acts at public places, then circulation of fake news. This particular category we saw during our yesterday's discussion, then chit funds fraud, then also cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act and Mental Health Act, then noise pollution and defacement of public property offenses. So all these offenses have been included as new categories in this report. Apart from this one more new category has also been included which is crime committed by anti-national elements. This particular category includes such as offenses by North East insurgents, then offenses by Naxalites or the left wing extremists, then the offenses by the terrorists which also includes Jihadi terrorists as well. Next this news article discusses about the incidences of cyber crimes. It states that more than 21,000 incidents of cyber crimes were reported in 2017 and this is a rapid increase when compared to the number of cases that were reported in the year 2016. Because in 2016 only 12,000 cases were reported but in the year 2017 21,000 cases have been reported. So it is a rapid increase and out of the 21,000 incidents that were reported in 2017, the cyber crimes reported against women was 20%. Then certain new categories have been included like cyber stalking and bullying of women and a total of 542 cases were reported under this particular category. Under the term cyber stalking of women means monitoring women by the use of internet, then monitoring the use of the internet by a woman or monitoring the email or any other form of electronic communication. So when a person does all these acts then he commits the offense of stalking and the term cyber bullying is a practice where an individual or group uses the internet to ridicule, harass or harm any other person especially a woman. Now why we have discussed the statistics related to cyber crimes because of late more cyber crimes are being reported and we can also see them in the news articles. So this will be relevant also from exam point of view where you can quote certain statistics whenever there is a question on cyber crimes. And we also have seen an editorial in the recent past where cyber crime can also be committed from space. So this particular topic is of high significance. This news article is about the recent search that was conducted on the premises of self style Godman Kalki Bhagwan. Accordingly the enforcement directorate has said that it will probe into the suspected violations of the provisions of foreign exchange management act of 1999. The violations have been caused by the associated entities of this Godman. In this context it is important to understand about the important provisions of the foreign exchange management act of 1999 and about the enforcement directorate from exam point of view. First let us see the important provisions of the foreign exchange management act of 1999. This act has consolidated and amended the laws that were related to foreign exchange based on this. This particular act replaced the foreign exchange regulation act of 1973. Now the main objective of this act is to facilitate external trade and payments and to promote the orderly development and maintenance of foreign exchange market in India and also note that this act extends to the whole of India. Now let us see some of the important provisions of this particular act which is relevant to our news article discussion. The first thing to note that is this act deals with the regulation and management of foreign exchange. Here the term foreign exchange means the foreign currency. Section 3 of this particular act deals with foreign exchange or foreign security. In brief if you see this act tells that the transactions of foreign exchange or foreign security can take place only with authorized persons and according to the provisions of the act. Here the persons are authorized by the Reserve Bank of India. So as per this act no person shall deal with foreign exchange to any non-authorized persons. It can happen only through authorized persons. Here the authorized persons can be authorized dealer, a money changer or offshore banking unit and so on. Next note that section 4 of this act puts certain restrictions on holding the foreign exchange. And next note that section 5 talks about the restrictions on current account transactions. Here note that current account transaction includes payments related to foreign trade, the interest on loans, the expenses in connection with foreign travel etc. So this particular section tells that the central government in public interest and in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India can impose reasonable restrictions on such current account transactions and such restrictions can be imposed even if the deal is done with the authorized person. So the central government has the power to impose reasonable restrictions on current account transactions. Next let us discuss the penalties for non-compliance of this act. Section 13 of this act says that any person who is contravening or who is contradicting the provisions of this act or any direction or any order that is issued with respect to this act shall be liable to pay a penalty. This penalty will be thrice or three times the amount that is involved in such contravention if the amount is quantifiable. That is if the authorities are able to identify the amount then the penalty will be thrice the amount of the identified amount. If the amount is not quantifiable then the penalty is up to 2 lakh rupees. So section 13 of this act discusses about the penalties for non-compliance. Next one more important point which you need to know from this act is that this act prescribes arrest only in exceptional cases. Section 14 of this act says that if a person fails to make full payment of the penalty that is imposed on him under section 13 within a period of 90 days from the date on which the notice of payment of such penalties served on him then he shall be liable to civil imprisonment. So within 90 days of notice the person has to pay the penalty if not he is liable to civil imprisonment. This section also tells that there shall be no order for arrest and detention of the defaulter. Under the adjudicating authority has served the notice to the defaulter to appear before it and also to show cause why he should not be committed to the civil prison. And know that all these actions can be taken only after the accused is adjudicated guilty. So the defaulters shall be given reasonable opportunity of being hurt before imposing the penalties by the adjudicating officer or the adjudicating authority. So this adjudicating authority will have the same powers of a civil court and they are appointed by the central government. One more point to note is that the adjudicating authority has no sumo to powers that is they cannot initiate enquiry on their own. Apart from this there are many provisions under this act we have seen some of the important provisions that are relevant to today's news article discussion. So this is all about this foreign exchange management act of 1999. So this act is basically a civil law which has the power to impose penalties on those who are adjudged guilty. But let us discuss in brief about the enforcement directorate. Enforcement directorate is mandated with the task of enforcing the provisions of two acts. One is the foreign exchange management act of 1999 that we have seen and the next act is the prevention of money laundering act of 2002. Also know that as per fugitive economic offenders act of 2018 enforcement directorate is responsible for processing the cases of fugitives or fugitives from India. This enforcement directorate as its origin since 1956 at that time enforcement unit was there which was formed under the Department of Economic Affairs under the Ministry of Finance. Note that enforcement directorate as its headquarters in Delhi and it is a specialized financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue Ministry of Finance at present. So when it was formed it was under the Department of Economic Affairs at present it is under the Department of Revenue. We saw that enforcement directorate as a mandate to enforce two acts. One is the foreign exchange management act of 1999. As we saw this particular act is a civil law and the other act which is the prevention of money laundering act of 2002 is a criminal law. Under this law the enforcement directorate has the power to conduct enquiries to locate and to provisionally attach unlawful assets. Then enforcement directorate also has the power to arrest and prosecute money launders. If you see there is also a recent current affairs where the enforcement directorate had lodged money laundering case against the ex finance minister of India Mr. P. Chidambaram in the year 2017 and right now he is under the custody of enforcement directorate. So we can see that the enforcement directorate has the power to conduct enquiries, arrest and prosecute money launders. Now let us come back to the news article. As per this news article during the simultaneous searches that were conducted by the income tax department on the premises of the spiritual guru or the god men and the properties that are located in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, foreign currency worth rupees 20 crore was seized and this seizure violates the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act of 1999 until and unless the legal customs declarations and receipts are produced for the foreign currency that was seized by the income tax department. Now if the investigation is going to point the flow of unaccounted foreign currency that is if this particular foreign currency amount is being declared as unaccounted then all the assets of the god men can be considered as proceeds of crime under the prevention of money laundering act of 2002 that is the assets can be declared as those obtained through illegal activities. So if they are able to produce the declarations and receipts for this 20 crore then they violate just the provisions of the foreign exchange management act but if they are not able to produce then it will be considered as a crime and they will be prosecuted under the prevention of money laundering act of 2002. Now the search team from the income tax department has also found a record which has maintained all the unaccounted cash collections that were used to make investments elsewhere for the purchase of immobile assets as well according to the news article undisclosed gold and diamond worth crores of rupees were also seized during the search by the income tax department. So from this news article try to know about the foreign exchange management act of 1999 and about enforcement directly from exam point of view. You may post your answers for the displayed practice question in the comment section below and you can refer the PDF link of the detailed explanation note with answers for today's practice questions which will be made available in the next session video and the PDF link will be available in the description section and also in the comment section of the next session video. This news article is about the apprehension or the anxiety or fear of a hydropower producing company over the environmental flow notification of the national mission for clean Ganga. If you see we discussed in detail about this notification about the important provisions and its advantages in our yesterday's analysis. So in line with that we will see this news article today to know more about the notification on the important provisions kindly refer to our yesterday's video. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. The issue that this news article discusses is regarding the e-flow notification that was issued by the national mission for clean Ganga in 2018. The objective was to ensure minimum environmental flows at locations downstream of the structures of projects which are meant for diversion of river flows for purposes like irrigation, hydropower, domestic, industrial and other requirements. And if you see this notification as also specified minimum ecological flow of water throughout the year. It is for the upper stretches of river Ganga from its origin in the glaciers until Haridwar where it touches the plains. That should be at least 20% minimum monthly average flow of the preceding 10 days between November and March which is the dry season and 25% of the average flow during the months of October, April and May which is the lean season and 30% of the monthly average flow during the monsoon months of June and September. And if you see the initial deadline to ensure proper compliance to the mandated flow was three years that is still the year 2021 but now the national mission for clean Ganga has advanced this deadline to December 2019. And this news article tells that there are 19 power projects which are located along river Ganga. Among them 11 sites were studied and it was found that 8 sites were fully compliant. So most companies do not have the need to take major design changes in order to comply with the new requirements. This is the reason why the date was advanced. This means that now the hydropower projects along the upper stretches of Ganga will have to release more water throughout the year from December 2019. This notification would also require the existing and the upcoming projects to change their design in order to accommodate greater flows. So this is the actual issue now. Now the hydropower companies are reluctant to release this extra amount of water because it will reduce their power generation. Now let us come back to the news article. This news article tells that Alaknanda hydropower company has sued the national mission for clean Ganga and the Uttarakhand state government on this issue. Note that this company is located on the Alaknanda river and it is 330 megawatt project which was commissioned in the year 2014. Now let us see in brief about river Ganga. It originates from the Gangotri glacier which is located in Uttarkashi district in the state of Uttarakhand. It originates as River Bhagirathi. Later River Alaknanda joins Bhagirathi at place called Deva Prayag. From Deva Prayag this river is called as River Ganga. Now let us come back to the news article again. Now what are the demands of the company? The company says that their power production and profits will be affected if the flow has to be increased. So this power generation company is seeking a compensation from the government and it has sued the national mission for clean Ganga and Uttarakhand government. The news article tells that the company is claiming losses of nearly 4000 crores. So this is all about the news article. In the context of this news article we need to understand about the national mission for clean Ganga or in short NMCG. It was registered as a society in the year 2011 under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 and know that it acted as an implementation arm of National Ganga River Basin Authority which was constituted under the Environment Protection Act of 1986. Later the central government gave approval to the River Ganga Rejuvenation Protection and Management Authority's order 2016. As per this order it created National Council for River Ganga, Rejuvenation Protection and Management which is also referred to as National Ganga Council. The Prime Minister of India is the chairperson for this authority and this National Ganga Council replaced the already existing National Ganga River Basin Authority. Now this National Ganga Council has the overall responsibility for the superintendents of pollution prevention and also for the rejuvenation of River Ganga Basin. As per the 2016 order National Mission for Clean Ganga was declared as an authority with powers to issue directions under Environment Protection Act of 1986. This National Mission for Clean Ganga will comply with the decisions and directions of the National Ganga Council and it will implement the Ganga Basin Management Plan that was approved by National Ganga Council. Also know that National Mission for Clean Ganga coordinates and carries out all the activities that are necessary for rejuvenation and protection of River Ganga and its tributaries. So as per Environment Protection Act of 1986 there is a 5-tier structure at national, state and district level to take measures for prevention, control and abatement of environmental pollution in River Ganga and also to ensure continuous adequate flow of water in order to rejuvenate River Ganga. The first of the 5-tier structure is the National Ganga Council which functions under the chairmanship of Prime Minister of India. Next is the Empower Task Force on River Ganga. The chairman for this task force is the minister in charge of the ministry of Jal Shakti. Then comes National Mission for Clean Ganga. Then at the state level there are state Ganga committees and next at the district levels there are district Ganga committees. All those districts which touches River Ganga and its tributaries will have district Ganga committees. So this is the 5-tier structure as per the Environment Protection Act of 1986. From this news article we have seen about the minimum ecological flow of water that has to be maintained as per the e-flow notification that was issued by the National Mission for Clean Ganga and the objections or the apprehensions raised to this notification by a power generation company from the state of Uttarakhand. And we have also seen about National Mission for Clean Ganga. This discussion is based on the open editorial about the reasons for slowdown in some sectors of Indian economy. This editorial is written by an IAS officer. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this editorial is given here for your reference. In this editorial the author points to the reforms and policies as being the reasons for slowdown in some sectors of Indian economy and also as a reason for causing disruptions. According to the author the new reforms and policies actually aims to weed out or it aims to remove the adverse and disadvantages practices in Indian economy but they are also programmed to cause disruptions in reality. Normally if you see the reforms and policies that are carried out by the government are expected to help the growth of the economy but the author of this editorial is telling that the disruptions that are caused by the new reforms and policies of government are the intended disruptions. That is they catch people of God meaning these disruptions come as a surprise and people are often unprepared for such situations. So from this it is clear that these disruptions reflect the lack of preparedness and unwillingness of the people to accept the reality. The author is noting that the recent temporary slowdown in some sectors of Indian economy may carry lessons that will help India to prepare for such disruptions in the future. So in this context the author has taken an example of the automobile sector. We have been seeing for many days that the slowdown in the automobile sector is due to the demand slowdown which in turn caused a fall in the sales of vehicles. The author has given three reasons for this slowdown in this editorial. Let us see them in brief. The first reason which the author has given is that more people are using public transport and paratransit options in the major cities. Here the term paratransit means alongside of transit. It is a transportation service that supplements the larger public transit systems. Some examples of paratransit are the taxi rides from the metro stations or the bus stations, then the auto rickshaw rides from the metro or bus stations, etc. So all these are called as paratransit systems. So they supplement the larger public transit systems. And the author tells that for many decades there have been discussions about pollution, congestion, and accidents that are caused by the rapidly increasing number of automobiles in the cities. As a solution to these, shifting from owner driven transport systems to the mass transport systems was proposed. The main advantage of these mass transport systems are that they are more environment friendly, they are less polluting, they are cheaper, they are faster, and they are also safer mode of transport. So as a result of this, many cities are building mass rapid transit systems. So more the public transport usage, the less will be the personal transport usage. And this in turn will reduce the purchase of vehicles as well. So there is a very less demand for the personal vehicles and this has hit the automobile sector. Since more people are using public transport and paratransit options in the major cities. The second reason which the author gives is that in today's scenario, the cost of owning a vehicle is very high. It is because the personal vehicles involve so many hassles in the mode of cost such as the rising petrol cost, rising diesel costs, then the vehicle servicing charge, etc. So the author is noting that some people may actually prefer taxes over owning personal vehicles. And this trend is also seen in the developed countries, that is in the developed economies. So in turn now people are not buying the new personal vehicles. This is the second reason. Coming to the third reason, the author tells that why the automobile sector is seeing a slow down is because there is a decline in demand for the new trucks. According to the author, this may be because the trips per truck has increased now and this in turn has reduced the need for new truck. So how did the trips per truck increase? It happened because the interstate check posts were removed. According to a study by Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India Limited or INSHOT ICRA in 2018, post the GST, the turnaround time for the long distance trucks reduced by at least one-fifth of the previous turnaround time. Here the term turnaround time is nothing but the amount of time taken by a truck to get ready for a return trip. So when the turnaround time gets reduced, it means that the truck has more time and it can carry or take another trip in a short period. This is how more trips are made possible per truck. And because of this, there is a decline in demand for the new trucks, which is one of the reason for the slow down in the automobile sector. So all these are the three reasons which have been mentioned by the author for the reasons for slow down in the automobile sector. So the author is saying that based on the reforms and policy changes that so far has happened in the automobile sector, we should have expected the vehicle sales to fall. And we should have prepared for alternatives. And in fact, we have seen that the vehicle sales have fallen down. So our reaction to slow down in the automobile sector is indicative of how we might respond to the future shocks. So this is an example from a particular sector, let's say the automobile sector, in the same way we can also expect future shocks from other sectors as well as per the author. Now based on these observations, the author is noting that the productivity improvement in one sector may actually affect or it may cause catastrophe for another sector. For example, the author has given a very common example. Now we used wheel luggage while we are traveling. So we do not require a porter in a railway station who carries a luggage in the railway stations. So the use of wheel luggage has reduced the need for the porters. Or we can tell that the porters in the railway stations are going out of business. Similar to this example, the author is pointing out that the decline in the coal or petroleum sectors may not automatically imply that the sector is actually facing the slow down or it is in doldrums or depression. From so far what we have discussed, we should know to expect that the decline is because India is moving away from the non-renewable energy sources and India is investing heavily in renewables. So more and more industries are opting for renewable resources now. And as a result of this, the thermal plants will become increasingly stressed. And this in turn will show the decline in the coal and petroleum sector. So here the change is for good and we cannot tell that the coal or petroleum sectors are actually in slow down. To conclude this editorial from all these examples, the author is trying to convey that whenever changes take place, disruption is inevitable. So we should not naively expect the change to be inconsequential or negligible. And the industry also should not hope that the growth in the sector will surpass the disruptive effects of the reform. What we have to actually do is to stay prepared for the disruptions. In the present we can see that there is a disruption because of technology, digitization and also because of the green public policies. And all these will have an impact on several industries in the days to come. Especially the impact will be very severe on the polluting industries. And due to the reforms and policy changes by the government, there will be priority to environment and ethical governance for the national and societal welfare. So the other sectors should be prepared for this. This is what the author is trying to convey from this editorial. To summarize this editorial, the author is given many examples to prove that disruptions will happen and we should stay prepared for the disruptions. This news article is about the penalty that has been imposed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India on a particular insurance company. Now this news article is not important. What is important to know from exam point of view is about the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India in short IRDAI. So let us discuss in brief about IRDAI. It is a statutory body. When we tell statutory body, that particular body has been established by an act of parliament. In this case, the act is the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India Act 1999. This act also mentions the composition of IRDAI. Section four of this IRDAI Act of 1999 tells that the authority shall consist of the following members, namely a chat person, then whole-time members or full-time members who shall be not more than five and it shall also contain part-time members who shall be not more than four. So overall it is a 10-member team, a chat man, five whole-time members and four part-time members. Now let us see the important duties, powers and functions of IRDAI. Overall this authority has been formed to regulate, promote and ensure the orderly growth of the insurance business and reinsurance business. When we tell insurance, it refers to a contract between two parties. One side there is the insurance company or the insurer and the other side there is an individual or organizations. Now the insurance company or the insurer will compensate the loss or damage that the other party faces. They will pay some amount whenever there is a loss or damage to a particular property based on certain terms and conditions. Now this can be ensured by the insurance companies in exchange for premium or say a particular amount that is being given by the other party, in this case the individual or the organizations to the insurance company who is the insurer. So the individuals or organizations keep paying premium at defined time periods as per the contract and whenever these individuals or organizations face any loss or damage to any property then they will receive compensation. So this is how the insurance business works. Now there are many types of insurance to classify broadly this IRDAI handles life insurance, general insurance and health insurance. Now let us see some of the important duties, powers and functions of IRDAI. One is to protect the interests of the policy holders. The next function is that IRDAI can call for information and it can conduct enquiries and investigations which also includes audits of all those organizations that are connected with the insurance business. And IRDAI promotes and regulates the professional organizations that are connected with insurance and reinsurance business. Then IRDAI also has regulating powers, it regulates the investment of funds by the insurance companies. Then IRDAI also adjudicates disputes between insurers and intermediaries or the insurance intermediaries. Then IRDAI also supervises the functions of the tariff advisory committee. Then IRDAI can also impose penalties as per IRDAI Act of 1999. So this is also one of the function of IRDAI. So these are some of the important duties powers and functions of IRDAI as per section 14 of IRDAI Act of 1999. Based on the powers imposed upon IRDAI, it has imposed penalties on a particular private insurance company that is mentioned in the news article. So from this news article try to know about insurance regulatory and development authority of India or IRDAI from exam point of view. Next let us see the data point which is regarding Global Innovation Index 2019 and India Innovation Index report 2019. Now you can make use of the data that is given in this data point in your mains answers that are related to innovation in India. If you remember in our July 25th analysis we have discussed in detail about Global Innovation Index 2019. Just to revise in brief know that Global Innovation Index 2019 has been released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Cornell University and NC together. And this index ranks 129 countries and India's rank was 52 out of 129 countries. Now let us see this horizontal bar chart which compares the rankings between the BRICS nations. Here the BRICS nations are nothing but the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Out of these five countries you can see that China's leading in innovation. It is ranked 14 out of the 129 countries. Next comes South Africa which is ranked 51st and then comes India which is ranked 52nd. Then Brazil and Russia. So you can see that amongst the BRICS nations China's leading in innovation. So such comparisons of India with BRICS nations or India with certain other regional grouping will give an edge for their answers that you write in the mains examination. Next let us see the map that is given in the data point. Again if you remember on 18th of October we discussed in detail about Niti Ayokes India Innovation Index report 2019. This map is related to this index. During our discussion we saw that the south and the western states are leading in innovation when compared to the north and the eastern states with exception of Delhi and Haryana. And as you can see in this map Delhi leads the country with innovation index of 42.98. Then you can see the southern states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana which are high in innovation index. Also you can see the state of Charkhand which has code low in the innovation index. And during that day discussion we also saw that the innovation framework of this India Innovation Index that has been released by Niti Ayokes as two main dimensions. One is the enablers and the other is the performance. Enablers means the input that we're giving. For example say the human capital nothing but the manpower then investment nothing but the money and the business environment and certain performance indicators like the knowledge output and the knowledge diffusion that is the knowledge dissemination. Certain examples of the indicators for enablers are mentioned here like the number of students of engineering and technology that is in terms of manpower then FDI inflows that is in terms of investment then number of incubators which is an example for business environment. And examples for performance indicators has also been mentioned in the data point like the number of patents file which is the actual output and the number of GI tax nothing but geographical indication tax. So this India Innovation Index has two main dimensions one is the enablers that is the input and the other is the performance nothing but the output and based on this this graph has been given. Now you can split this graph into four blocks. The first block depicts those states which are relatively higher in enablers and also relatively higher in performance. You can see the state of Delhi we just saw that Delhi leads in the Innovation Index with a score of 42.98. You can see that the enablers that is the inputs that are given is high and also the output is high in terms of innovation. Then you can see some best performing states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra etc. Then if you see this block that is the block number two this block contains those states which are lower in enablers that is the input is low but the performance is relatively high. The states of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh are certain examples and if you take this block number three it depicts those states which are high in enablers that is the inputs that are given to innovation is quite high for example the states of Sikkim, Himachal, Punjab etc but the performance is relatively low. So you can see that there is an outcome gap when compared to inputs and those states where the enablers are also low and performance is also low are the states of Assam and Jharkhand which is the block number four. So you can see that the state-wise performance is mixed when it comes to India Innovation Index and during that day's discussion we also saw that for ranking purposes the states have been categorized into three one the Hill and Northeastern states which is the blue color as depicted in this graph the next is the Union Territories and certain small states which is the orange color and the major states which is in pink color. So from the horizontal bar diagram which is the first diagram which we saw this gives a comparison of the Global Innovation Index 2019 ranking between the BRICS nations and the map depicts the southwest and the northeast divide and this graph gives an idea about the states in terms of the enablers and performance. You may post your answers for the displayed practice question in the comment section below and you can refer the PDF link of the detailed explanation note with answers for today's practice questions which will be made available in the next session video and the PDF link will be available in the description section and also in the comment section of the next session video. With this we come to the end of today's the Hindu News Analysis. Thank you.


Hello everybody. Happy Monday. Welcome back to Esoteric Atlanta. Of course, my name is Bryce. Normally on Mondays we either do a mystery Monday or as most of you know for now we are going through all of the emerald tablets, thoughts, emerald tablets, which is going to take us a while. We're also going through the emerald tablets over on Aquarius Rising Africa and since we are a little bit ahead on this channel, then we are of Aquarius Rising Africa and since this is the first full week of the 60-day Shadow Work Challenge, I thought today would be a good opportunity to just kind of talk a bit again about the Shadow Work Challenge, about what's to come this week, all that kind of stuff. So I am so proud of you guys. We are on day three. As you know, the challenge started on Saturday, which is technically a rest day and I did have you guys journal your knowledge or do your own research since Saturday is steering this challenge our self-study Saturday. I had you research what Shadow Work actually is and so I want to reiterate this. I did leave a voice message in the signal group on Saturday and I will be leaving a lot of daily check-ins with the signal group during the 60 days. However, on YouTube we're only going to be doing videos about it every couple of days. So if you're not in the signal group, go ahead and join that and before we get into it, if you have not joined the 60-day challenge and you would like to, the email address is down in the description box below. It's never too late. It's never too late. You can start at any point. It's just a template that I'm sending you so you can ship the dates or jump in where you want. It's totally your choice. It's never too late to join. But anyway, on Saturday I asked you guys to journal about your understanding of what Shadow Work is, what inner work actually is and I talked about this in the voice message to the signal group and I wanted to kind of bring this up here as well. Sometimes I think we get very distracted by the macro. I do as well. We get distracted by the story that's unfolding in our world. In fact, that's how most of you guys found me is by the ever-shifting timeline that we find ourselves in as our Earth tries to ascend right now. And we get really distracted by the story of this generation, of what's happening, what's going on with the white hats, the black hats, all this kind of stuff that sometimes I think we forget or we get distracted by the fact that the story of what's going on outside of us really is not that important. It's what's actually going on inside of us that's important. It's the macro. So we have the macro and we have the micro. The macro is never going to change. It's never going to heal unless the micro heals because if you've been in this world for a long time, you know that what you see in the world is actually mere reflection of what's going on in you. And the way that spirit works, the way that everything works is the things that you need to work on. Your wounds, your shadow side will keep appearing until you actually take the bull by the horns and you work on it. And that's what shadow work is. And as I said to the group and the voice message, we have to remember that when we decided to come down into our bodies in this very dense planet at this time, we were looking for a soul path, a soul contract that would refine parts of our soul. So if maybe part of your energetic body or soul is lacking in the wisdom of betrayal or jealousy or all sorts of stuff, right? You name it. If your soul is lacking in the wisdom from that experience, maybe you decided to have some experiences that would help you settle into that emotion so that the soul could learn and have and know itself and have that strength and that wisdom. I hope that makes sense. And I think that is one of the most important jobs that you will ever do in this life is actually taking all of those wounds and working through them. With that being said, I want you guys to be very, very, very careful especially when you're new at this about playing the blame game. That's a form of escapism. We like to shift our problems onto something outside of ourselves because it protects the ego, right? And so I want everybody to be very, very careful when they're doing their shadow work challenge and they're leaning into some of these really gross feelings and they're trying to learn from them. They don't take that and then project it out onto their family or their friends or themselves that they go about this in a very healthy way. They don't blame shift, all that kind of stuff, right? Like when I went through my trauma therapy, my trauma therapist was really, really big and I have complex post-traumatic stress disorder, but she was really, really big on the fact that we weren't going to blame even though we worked on issues of things that had happened to me, we weren't going to blame those things that had happened to me. We were going to look at the effect of those things and then work on myself, right? So even though somebody did something to me, that person wasn't important anymore, right? It was about me. It was about my reaction to that something that happened, if that makes sense, okay?  That is not shadow work. That's just creating more karma for you, okay? So you need to really understand that. Now with that being said, if the shadow work gets very overwhelming and you get to a place where you're mentally feeling very, very overwhelmed, I really, really encourage you to reach out to a therapist. I know a lot of people have very skewed views on therapy and I want to remind you guys that black and white thinking is a form of a mental disorder, okay? Just because there are some therapists out there that are no good, that are shady, doesn't mean that they all are. I have had incredible experience. My therapist saved me. My therapist, the therapy I went through with her with EMDR therapy really helped integrate my experiences in my life with what I was learning through my yoga practice, okay? And I will forever be grateful for her because she really helped me. That does not mean that the cause and effect of CPST ever goes away. I still have triggers of CPST and I probably will for the rest of my life, but I know what they are now and I know how to lean into them and I know that they are just a side effect of something that I should look at, right? So if you feel overwhelmed, once again, the point I'm getting to is if you feel ever feel very overwhelmed and you're having a hard time not lashing out at people, I would very much suggest looking up trauma therapists in your areas. If you need to stop the shadow work challenge in order to really focus on the talk therapy, do that. That's totally fine. This is not a competition. It is just an opportunity to really understand your soul and to get you back on track with what your soul came here to do, which was to refine your energetic body, okay? So I really, really want to express that just very, because this is the last shadow work challenge we did was 30 days. This one is 60 days. So it's double the time. And then after we finish the 60 day challenge, we're going to wait a little bit and then we're going to do an intensive 10 day challenge. So you guys can see how different lengths of shadow works challenges work in different ways. The work is not really done, but this is just something to help you help get you in that mode of understanding what it is you're doing. So if you need help, you can always ask for people's help. I am going to be releasing more videos on colts. Be very careful in the spiritual community not to fall. I mean, if you fall victim to a cold, then maybe there's something you need to learn from it, but I am going to be doing a lot more deep dives into colts so that you have, we have more discernment on what that looks like versus a healthy educational system. So all right, Monday, January 23rd today. So exercises, please select the one that's appropriate for you. You have a warm up of hip strap here, a hip stretch here. And then for both beginners and experienced challengers, try to start your exercise program by doing five Surinamaskar A and three Surinamaskar B. If this is too much for you in the beginning, just do the beginner exercises for the first week and then try to add Surinamaskar A and B next week. Here they are. This is also helping you gear up for this. If you want to participate in Shanti Sun Salutation Challenge that is starting on February 27th in this challenge, we use exercise again. We use the body. We use the identity of the body, the fault sense of self, to trigger the GPS of the soul, to trigger the the implant, the imprints of trauma that you need to work through to know your soul. So that's why exercise is hugely important. The body is the Shakti of the soul in order to pull up energetic responses. So for beginners, we have an eight minute bar exercise with Marnie Alton and then more experienced challengers. We have a 45 minute bar exercise with Marnie Alton, which a lot of you have already been doing, or I've introduced another bar teacher as well, named Laurie, with Fit by Laurie. This is a 60 minute bar. She does use hand weights in this video. I use two, when I do weights with my bar, I do two pound weights. That's enough with weights, especially for women and men, but more for women. I think sometimes we have this false information, this false knowledge, where we think if we hold like 10 pound weights that we're burning more calories are going to get stronger. No, no, no, no. That's just going to make you swell up. Okay. So like two pound weights is all that I work with because it allows me the mobility to actually move my arm in different motions while putting that extra resistance on my body. And I only use two pounds. I don't go over two pounds. Okay. So be careful with that. You can also opt to not use weights. You can do the body in a very control. So like you see me here, I'm moving my arm. Like if I had a weight in my hand, it looks no different than if I haven't, because I'm able to engage my muscle. I know how to engage muscle to create body resistance without actually having resistance. So you can also opt to not use weights. You can use water bottles if you don't have weights or can soup. If you want weights, weights are pretty cheap. I don't know what that is. In the United States, we use pounds. I don't know what two pounds is in like kilograms or whatever people use in other countries, but you can just Google that and Google search to figure out how much resistance that means in your mind from what you're used to from how you grew up. All right. Journal from today. If you worked out first thing this morning, how did it affect the rest of your day? What was the experience of the bar class like? Do you feel any emotions come up in the class? If so, what were they? Can you explore these emotions more privately? If this is your second time in the challenge, how are you feeling this time in comparison to the last challenge? If this is your second time, which exercise selection did you pick and why? And so, you know, it could be that you've been exercising for a really, really long time, but this morning you woke up and maybe your body felt heavy or you were tired and so you opted to only do the eight-minute exercise.  I'm going to do that when you probably should have done the 45 or 60 minutes. So that's up for you to explore. You know, I can't answer that question for you.  But if you are more experienced and you picked the eight-minute video, why? And you only, you can answer that question. Was it because you genuinely needed to only do eight minutes today or is it because it was an easy out?  All right, before you go to bed tonight, go ahead and lay out your work clothes for tomorrow. This is a well-known secret in the yoga world. Your morning practice or your morning workout, if you're not into yoga, always starts the night before. By getting your clothes ready, you start to prepare your mind. I have laid my clothes out on my dresser for 17 years now. It's just what I do. We had to do that growing up. When I was a kid, we had to pull out our clothes for school the next day and pull them out so that we would have them ready to go. My mother made us do that. And so that was an easy habit for me to get into. All right, turn off all electronics one hour before bed. Instead, read a book or write more in your journal. Go to bed before 10 p.m. Bonus challenge. So this will be the same every night. The bonus challenge is, streak 64 ounces of water today to help you detox from the exercise. Try not to go over 64 ounces of water. Overhydration is way more dangerous than dehydration because it drowns out your organ. So only stick to 64 ounces unless a doctor has told you otherwise, okay? If you're a meat eater, can you try to go without meat today, replacing it with veggies? Take a hot bath with salts before bed. I do that every night. Try to relax in the bath and allow the muscles to unwind, okay? So these are just bonus challenges. Day 4, tomorrow, Tuesday, January 21st, you're going to repeat the same exercise as yesterday. All right, you're going to see that throughout this challenge. And you saw that in the last challenge. There's going to be some days where the same exercise is going to be repeated. And it's going to show you, first of all, when you get more comfortable with an exercise, you start to drop into the exercise more. Also, you're going to see that sometimes you can have the same exercise program five days a week, but every day pulls up different emotions. And so it's going to give you that information, right? Because knowledge is power, knowledge protects, and knowledge is infinite. So it's giving you more of an aha moment about how you react, how your body, how your psyche reacts to certain things. So same exercise selection as Monday. Now, day 4, new challenge, during your morning shower, try to make the water cold for the last five minutes of your shower to help with inflammation and blood flow. So a lot of you are already doing this from the last challenge. But if you're new, and I think I told you guys in the 30 day that this was, everybody feared the cold showers, but it turned out to be one of the things that people enjoyed the most. It's only five minutes. And I thoroughly enjoy cold therapy. I'm a baby when it comes to cold weather, but I take a cold shower every morning. I used to go to cryotherapy once, one to two times a week where I was in a refrigerator for three minutes, below freezing naked. It really changed me and it really helped with inflammation on a very physical level. And there's something very spiritual about it too. So I have some links here, especially if you're new to cold therapy. There's a link I did with Shanti, a video I did with Shanti over on solutions with Aquarius Rising Africa. The link is here where we talked all about cold therapy. We talked about what it does for you, the benefits where it comes from all that kind of stuff. And then we have here a Wynn Hof. He's big into cold therapy. We have one of his links as well here. So you can educate yourself further on what this is. And that's the crux, right? Don't just jump into something because somebody tells you to research it. So I'm giving you links and props here to actually research the things that I'm asking you to do. I don't want you to take a cold shower just because I told you to take a cold shower. I want you to heed the suggestion of taking a cold shower and then do your own research as to why cold therapy is good for you. And also look at the counter indications to cold therapy, right? So that you have that. So you are autonomous, so that you are self-governing, right? So questions to ask yourself or Tuesday, where you saw today, if so, how did the soreness affect your workout? What emotions did the soreness invoke in you today? Did new emotions pop up today different from yesterday? If so, what were they? How did going to bed before 10 p.m. affect your sleep and your energy level the next day? What was the five-minute cold shower life where you were able to breathe through it? Is cold therapy new for you? During the course of this challenge, you notice how your body starts to respond to the cold shower. Does inflammation go down for you? Do you have more energy during the day? How does the cold shower affect your mood, list five things you like about yourself? Okay, that's another thing. If you're new to this, you're going to be sore. And soreness is not an excuse not to exercise. I've been sore for 17 years. It's just a part of it. If people just rested every time they were sore, they would never get anywhere. You would just be on a constant hamster wheel and not get anywhere. So you're going to have to break that pattern of thought. If you, for some reason, have it made up in your mind that if you're super sore, you don't exercise, that's a mental programming that you're going to start to break in this challenge. All right, same thing. Lay your clothes out at night. Same bedtime routine. Wednesday, day five. So we're going to be... Let's hear. Okay, so we're going to be doing yoga today. So you can do the 15-minute sun salutations. I give that as an option. Or you can do the beginner 20 minutes for Ashtanga yoga or guided half primary if you're more experienced. If you are completely new to yoga, I would definitely do the 20 minutes. The half primary series is an advanced class. Okay, so don't be fooled by that. All right, this is a lineage based practice. So if you're new, just do the 20 minutes with Ashtanga nurse. Okay, so again, we're doing a five minute cold shower. Questions to ask yourself, where was your soreness today? How was the yoga different from the bar? Did the yoga pull up different emotions from the bar? How was the five minute cold shower affecting you? How is it going to bed before 10 p.m. affecting you? List five things you like about yourself and list three things you want to work on. Look three people in the eyes today and smile at them. Same bedtime routine. Day six Thursday. So you've got some choices now. All right. So same warm up, hip warm up and you can do the sun salutations if you want to or you do the beginners Ashtanga yoga or for beginners you can do the beginner or you can do the 30 minute bar class with Barney Alton or you can try both of them together. For the experienced, you have guided half primary with Ashtanga nurse or 60 minute bar fit by Lori or if you were experienced again, you can opt to do the 20 minute beginner and 30 minute bar class together or if you're a beginner, you can pick one. Yeah. So you have a ton of options here of how to how to create your your workout for this morning. Okay. Again, five minute cold shower questions to ask yourself after five days of exercise. How are you feeling? Are you sore? What emotions are there? How does your soreness affect your mood? How is going to bed before 10 affected your week? How have cold showers changed you? If you've done the bonus challenges, how have hot baths affected you at night, do you sleep better? List five things you like about yourself? Go into deep detail about the three things you want to work on. How have these things created obstacles in your life? Ask these three things what they want to teach you. All right, do one thing today to help another person. This could be opening the door for someone or buying someone lunch to donating clothes to a charity or simply telling someone how beautiful they look etc. No kind task is too small. Look through people in the eyes saying closing same night time routine. All right, Friday, January 27, day seven. Okay, this is going to be your first potential oil bath as well.  So once again, you can mix and match different workouts or just do one of the videos totally up to you. You have some wiggle room here to start to take some control about how you work out this morning. Five minute cold shower journal as of tomorrow, you're weak into the challenge. How are you feeling? How is the perception of yourself changed? Are you feeling anger, shock, resistance? Please note these feelings are wrong. They just are. Let yourself be with these feelings for a moment and then lead into why you may be feeling this.  What is reality and what is expectation in the past? Has your expectation ruined the reality of an experience? Can you let go of any expectation you've put on yourself for this challenge and just allow the reality of the experience to unfold? Where can you apply this in other areas of your life? Letting go and allowing life to happen type of here is letting go and allowing life to happen. Oh, no, no, no. Sorry, I misread my own writing is letting go and allowing life to happen hard for you or easy for you. This will be discussed deeper tomorrow in your second self study Saturday. So what is expectation? What is reality? All right, again, do one thing today to help another person out. This could be something so simple like smiling at someone or open the door. Someone are just sending someone a text and ask them how they're doing. Look three people in the eyes and smile. Now you can option to do the Friday night oil bath. Once again, this is optional and it is not an actual bath. Okay.  That's not what an oil bath is. It's called an oil bath because you're slathering, you're bathing and slathering your body and cast your oil. So I have a description right here. Place towels on the floor of your bathroom. Cover your body and cast your oil. Sit on the towels and slowly self massage the oil into your body. The castor oil is used to pull heat and inflammation out of your body. Sit with the oil on your body for 10 to 60 minutes. If you're new to oil baths, only sit for 10 to 15 minutes. After the time is up, take a hot shower to remove the oil and then get into bed. Your nose may run due to the heat removing toxins. You will sleep pretty hard tonight. Let yourself sleep so your body can heal. That's why we do it the night before a rest day. So I do have a link here to a video that I did on oil bathing so you can watch it if you want to be more better educated on an oil bath. There's also tons of resources out there. You can just Google castor oil baths or are you Vedic oil baths and get more information on that. All right. Saturday. So your second self-study Saturday.  You're a weekend to the challenge by Saturday, January 28th. So this is your rest day from exercise. Sleep and an extra. If you can't sleep in an extra hour or two, go ahead and do so especially with the oil bath. The oil bath will knock you out so you will have a deep sleep. So let your body use that sleep for healing. All right. So you're going to be researching dharma and karma. All right. So that goes back into expectation and reality. So they're all kind of working together here. What is dharma and what is karma? What is your role in both? How is karma your work in this life? How is the law of dharma ruling your life? But understanding these two concepts, you can let go. Can you let go of any expectations you have put on yourself during this challenge during your life? Is it possible to work hard towards a goal but let go of the outcome of that goal? This is the concept. This is a concept we will explore this upcoming week. And this is a huge concept in the Bhagavad Gita and that's really hard especially for Westerners because as Westerners we have been conditioned to work, work, work, work, work hard for something for some reward. Get the corporate job so you have a lot of money. But in the Bhagavad Gita, there's a time where Krishna tells Arjuna, can you do the work for the sake of the work without any expectations of the reward? So without even thinking about the fruits of your labor, can you be in that really hard exercise where your muscles are burning and just be there in that moment and enjoy that moment without knowing that the benefit is going to be a six pack? Can you lean into that experience or let go of the expectation that if you do all this workout, you're going to have a killer body? Can you let go of that expectation and just lean into the reality of what is here now? Okay, same, let your clothes out again, same bedtime routine. We'll go ahead and look at day 9, Sunday, January 29th before we get this video. So again, most Sundays are going to be Sunday fun days with fun exercises. Some of them will not be depending on what big shadow work portion you're in. But I do want you to, on the Sundays where it is a fun day, I do want you to have fun because I know that a lot of people don't think of exercise as fun. They think of it as a punishment and surely it can be a punishment if you have the propensity to try to punish yourself through exercise at the total different topic. But we can also learn to have fun. And so Sundays should be about that for the most part and get it less indicated otherwise on the challenge. So again, for beginners just like last Sunday, there is a 10 minute Zumba class you can take or Jane Fonda is a blast from the past 45 minute low impact aerobics or sun salutations with me just 15 minute sun salutations. For experienced practitioners you can do sweat to the oldies with Richard Simmons or both or for both beginner or experienced challengers take a brisk walk outside for 60 minutes you can either do this alone with your friends or with family just make sure to have fun. You can also take my live class my half primary series live class the link is right here at sacred garden yoga on Sunday mornings at 830 a.m. Eastern time it is advised that you understand how primary series before taking this live class is a live class okay so I am teaching you can you can jump in on zoom and take the class with me I will be teeter will be students in the class with me but if you have never done half primary series before of our strong yoga I highly highly highly recommend that you do our stronger nurses have primary series that's in this challenge or look it up and get familiar with what it is before you take the live class because it is not a beginner class it is a pretty advanced class okay all right so here's the registration right here take a five minute cold shower questions you ask yourself yesterday you explore the concept of dharma and karma after a day's worth of contemplation what other thoughts around this topic come up for you are you a person of faith if so why if not why doesn't matter this is you if you're not a person of faith then that's fine too you just journal as to why you don't believe and it's again nobody's I don't want to see your journals this is your personal journal no one should see it if you even want to get one of those old kids diaries will walk on it go and get one of those locks to put on your journal so nobody reads it right it's just your personal feelings what experiences in your life have left you to feel the way you do about spirituality all right same closing and then we will look deeper into uh next week starting Monday January 30th a little bit later on so I know that's a lot that's a lot of big heavy concepts especially the way I started this videos and I know if you're confused about something um right now it's totally fine um one of my favorite Beatles songs is let it be I know people have a have thoughts about the Beatles but it still doesn't mean their music isn't good and I love the song let it be when I find myself in times of trouble mother mary speaks to me seeking words of saying words of wisdom let it be so if something is confusing to you right now um just let it be let it integrate into your system okay don't you don't have to have all the answers right away none of us have all the answers that's why we decided to come back into a human body okay so you guys are doing amazing this is really really hard work it takes a lot of courage to do this and so I'm very very proud of you once again this is just a template so if there's something on the template that you don't want to do or you don't feel comfortable doing you don't have to do it if the day goes by and you totally fuck up and you don't do anything don't quit tomorrow's a new a new day one of my favorite lines is from Anna Green Gables where her teacher tells her Aunt Shirley tomorrow's a new day with no mistakes in it tomorrow's a new day with no mistakes in it you can always start again tomorrow so you guys are doing great if you have any questions please ask me down in the comment section below um join the signal support group it's in the template if you want to join it's a poppin group we're almost at like 300 members now so it's great group of people who are supporting themselves through this um Emmy and Nicole are running the book club the first book the first month is romp dos polishing the mirror second month is going to be walking each other home another romp dos book and so that book club is a subsection of this challenge so if you want to join that the signal link is in the template all right you guys i will talk to you soon


You know how you can tell that Soul Eve isn't trying for a direct remake? Because no one was scared shitless of Gadget in OG Paragon. She wasn't bad back then, but she didn't make you want to headbutt your keyboard when you saw her in lane. She's so easy to play that you can outdamage everyone with one hand and thank god for that because with this skin, my other hand is preoccupied. It's Q is our good ol' proximity mind which over-prime calls obsessive bombs.      You pick the order, Gadget.  Gadget's secondary ability, speed gate, was buffed because yeah, that's the problem. Everyone has been complaining so much about how Gadget's speed gate needed a buff, come on. She had one weakness man, one. Gadget's R&B, Seek and Destroy is what you use for wave clear so you can save your minds for the enemy hero. Gadget's ultimate lets you turn the kitchen light on and watch the enemy team run like roaches. It really doesn't even hit that hard, but goddamn people will literally run towards your ADC to get out of it. Why take some light ticking damage when you can eat 12 twin blast crits?     Press R to make the enemy team press F1 in Paragon today.  Mangooos.


Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell. I want to do a video today just taking a look at the online Shufra Sal website and how you can search for foods that are specifically low in fat. So I did a video last week talking about how basically since I had my gallbladder removed two years ago I've been really struggling with a lot of digestive problems. Some people who have the operation are, others seem to just get on with eating normally, but I've had a lot of issues with that and I saw a dietician last week who recommended that I start following or that I adopt a low-fat diet. Now, this is all very very new territory for me. I've never followed not only a specific nutrient diet. I've never followed any kind of a diet really before. So I've been learning over the course of the last week what is low fat. As far as I can tell the answer is 3 grams per 100. So 3% is the cut-off. Below that it's considered to be a low-fat food. Above that it's considered not low-fat. Don't quote me on that. I'm not a nutritionist. But that's a pretty good start for me to just begin buying things at the grocery store. That's what I'm looking for is 3% or less. Now what I discovered, so I just did actually my weekly shopping in Shufra Sal, which is a big grocery chain in Israel. Something I noticed is I think you really want to do this. Do your homework before ideally either do your shopping online or sort of know what products you're looking for and I do like you do my super marketing in a store particularly now because I'm trying to learn how to recognize what are the low-fat products because you get to the dairy counter and there's just like hundreds of yogurts and cheeses and whatnot and it's really helpful if you know what you're looking for. So here's what I'm doing. Might strike some as a bit OTT, but this is what I'm doing anyway.  What I'm doing is just taking a few screenshots of products I found on their website, Shufra Sal's website, that I know to be low-fat and I'm going to show you how to search for those. And that's really basically my system. I'm just eyeballing these. I'm not sure I'll print it out. I might just have this to go when I'm browsing the aisles. So instead of having to pick up a nutritional label every couple of minutes, I'll just surgically move in on these different products. But what I wanted to show is how you can actually look this up on the Shufra Sal website. It's really, really good. And two things I think I always try to praise Israel for. There are things I criticize Israel for all the time, the cost of living, being kind of absurd. And actually, you see that reflected in the prices here. But one thing, one or two things I think Israel does really well is that the quality of healthcare is consistently excellent. For instance, being able to see a dietitian for free is awesome. Also, they do digitization really, really well, in my opinion. And I think that the Shufra Sal website is just a reflection of that. They've really done a great job, in my opinion, of putting information up there on the internet. For instance, if I search for Dal Shuman, which means low fat, and I want to call up one of these results, let's go for this one. This is the Pastrami BBQ Dal Shuman, the BBQ Pastrami. So I can do a 360 tour. Whoa, there's my Pastrami. I can look at the product labeling. More importantly, from a nutritional perspective, these are the government mandated labels. So this is actually a high sodium label. The Israel Ministry of Health has the interesting online information for anybody interested in knowing what the actual levels are. So as you'd expect from Delhi Mead, it's like not super healthy. It's quite high in sodium. But in any event, you can look up for Shumanim. Shumanim is fat in Hebrew. So this is one gram of fat.  So that would be three grams. So one gram in 100 grams is really, really low fat, very, very lean. So that's why it matched for that. So I know this is a low fat product by this company, that I can be on the look out for. And I'm going to actually pick up some more products tomorrow. So that's one way to do it. But another way to do it is to just search for food you want. So let's say I want to go into milk products. And now we're getting a bunch of eggs, as you can see. And just to the right of the screen here, I have all my filters. So I can search by category, by brand. I can search by Allergens here, Lolo, Allerganim, Soya, Shqadim, Betsim, Chalav, different allergies that you can add. Kashrut Pesach, the kosher status is here as well. Kashrut, the different kosher certifications are here as well. But the area I want to draw people's attention to is Achuze Shuman. So this is the fat percentage. And you can see here, we have 0 to 9, 0 to 1, 1 to 3, 3 to 5, 5 to 9, 9 to 15, 15 to 22, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So what I can do is, if I want to click on zero, let's say. So now I've filtered on 0% fat within the dairy category, and it's returned for me 45 different products. So for instance, if I want to put in, go into this Yaplay yogurt, so I can see, okay, Yaplay have a range of these yogurts, they're 150 grams, they're five shackles each in Shufrasal. And these are basically fat-free, Shumanim zero grams. As well as the total fat content, and this is a whole other Nefesh Benefesh have a good video about how to read nutritional labels in Hebrew.  I guess they don't, if it's something like yogurt, and if it's already zero. But if you go into the meat category, you'll see Shuman, and I just looked up the vowelization to make sure I have a correct Reva'i, that is saturated fat. And Shuman trans is trans fat, it's just trans in Hebrew, and Shumanim generally is fat. So for instance, so I can look through, there's actually quite a lot of these, quite a lot of options. I've got myself a few yogurts, if I want to have a Greek yogurt, yogurts but ta'am to Reva'i, this product is also 0%. So what I'm doing right now is just kind of a hacky system. I'm just grabbing the product photo and just putting this into my Google document. No particularly sophisticated method, but this to me is a lot better than showing up at the store and reading a bunch of nutritional labels. I know what I can get. So that's, I can also look for let's say 1 to 3%. And now I'm actually, see I have these two filters applied. It's a really great system. So I can even click on, let's do three filters, and I'm getting everything up to and including 3% fat. And I've actually got myself 300 products, including Shufrasal own brand Greek yogurt, which is 0.9% fat with apricot. So you can see, if you're also trying to follow a low fat diet in Israel, and you're comfortable shopping at Shufrasal, you have an online account. They've really done, I think again, a terrific job and making it easy. Let's just go to one more category before I call it a wrap here. If I want to go into, so something I'm trying to figure out at the moment is what can fish I can have, but let's say I wanted to go for just regular fish, right? So Dagiim, I have 110 options at the fish counter, but I also have my trusty, fat content selector. And let me just turn on again, I'm going to do up to and including 3% fat. And now I whittled that down to only four options. I don't know all the fish names in Hebrew. So this is a filet of bacala. So I haven't really bought much fish here, and there are glaring gaps in my Hebrew, as you can tell. Ah, so this is cod. That makes sense. In Portuguese, cod is bacala, random, I think in Spanish as well as bacala. So bacala is maybe that's frozen. Yeah. So that's that's frozen. That's why I haven't really seen it that much. I think this is tapi. Yeah, I'm known. What is I'm known in English, tilapia. So tilapia is an option. That's an option. And so on and so forth. I can go through the whole supermarket virtually without leaving my house, search through all the different product categories and become acquainted with what is available if I'm following a fat restricted diet. So yeah, that's basically what I wanted to show. I think as I said that Shufasal has done a excellent job here and I am going to be doing videos soon, testing out all these different foods.  I found it all to be pretty good actually. And I'm really, really enjoying being on this new diet.  I hope this video was helpful just to show you at least at the time of recording some of the options that are out there to help you make the make the right selection and pick up the right foodstuffs.


Thursday and Friday will be again hot dry weather across the state, so wherever you are in Victoria, be conscious about the weather. But as important, think about the fire danger rating. Go and understand what it is. It will be severe in the western side of the state on Thursday and will move across on to Friday and that weather. The other thing though is really important is it's going to be a hot night, so think about the health issues around heat but also be very conscious about fire and we saw last week that fire moved through the night very aggressively around the Hayfield area, so don't think that fires just run during the day and night they're passive. Think about that as you think about your plan, think about where you are, what you and your family are doing. The only thing that's really important is to make sure we don't light fires. I mean if we don't cause fires we don't have fires, so everyone's got a role to play there. So everything you do down to the simplest thing about whether you're mowing the lawn out in open areas, think about where you are, think about what causes fires and make sure you're not part of that. If you see suspicious activity report it. And the only thing that's really important is think about what you're doing. If you've got a plan to leave early, put it in place, know where you're going, know what you've got to take with you before the day comes and catches you and if you're not intending to leave, know what to do with the fire starts. Think about your pets, think about your medication, think about your neighbours, think about what you and your family will do, how do you react, what you've got to do, if a fire starts, how do you get information, where will you get information and what will you do with that information. So some real key things about you, you and your family, but the main thing is about safety and you making sure that you don't get yourself in a position where fire is the threat to you.


We continue today with Chapter 20, The Vision of Holiness, Holy Week. This is Palm Sunday, the celebration of victory and the acceptance of the truth. Let us not spend this holy week brooding on the crucifixion of God's Son, but happily in the celebration of His release, for Easter is the sign of peace, not pain. A slain Christ has no meaning, but a risen Christ becomes the symbol of the Son of God's forgiveness on Himself, the sign He looks upon Himself as healed and whole. This week begins with palms and ends with lilies.  Let no dark sign of crucifixion interfere between the journey and its purpose, between the acceptance of the truth and its expression. This week we celebrate life, not death, and we honor the perfect purity of the Son of God and not His sins. Offer your brother the gift of lilies, not the crown of thorns, the gift of love, and not the quote gift of fear. You stand beside your brother, thorns in one hand and lilies in the other, uncertain which to give. Join now with me and throw away the thorns, offering the lilies to replace them. This Easter I would have the gift of your forgiveness offered by you to me and returned by me to you. We cannot be united in crucifixion and in death, nor can the resurrection be complete till your forgiveness rests on Christ, along with mine. A week is a short time, yet this holy week is the symbol of the whole journey the Son of God has undertaken. He started with the sign of victory, the promise of the resurrection already given him. Let him not wander into the temptation of crucifixion and delay him there. Help him to go in peace beyond it, with the light of his own innocence lighting his way to his redemption and release. Hold him not back with thorns and nails when his redemption is so near, but let the whiteness of your shining gift of lilies speed him on his way to resurrection. Easter is not the celebration of the cost of sin, but of its end. If you see glimpses of the face of Christ behind the veil, looking between the snow-white petals of the lilies you have received and have given as your gift, you will behold your brother's face and recognize it. I was a stranger and you took me in, not knowing who I was, yet for your gift of lilies you will know. In your forgiveness of this stranger alien to you and yet your ancient friend lies his release and your redemption with him. The time of Easter is a time of joy and not of mourning. Look on your risen friend and celebrate his holiness along with me. For Easter is the time of your salvation along with mine. And from the workbook, Lesson 158, Today I learn to give as I receive. What has been given you?  Nor have you left your source remaining as you were created. This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well, so every living thing, for by that knowledge, only knowledge, does it live. You have received all of this. No one who walks the world but has received it. It is not this knowledge which you give, for that is what creation gave. All this cannot be learned. What then are you to learn to give today? Our lesson yesterday evoked a theme found early in the text. Experience cannot be shared directly in the way that vision can. The revelation that the father and son are one will come in time to every mind, yet is that time determined by the mind itself not taught. The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary, yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it, for time but seems to go in one direction. We would undertake a journey that is over, yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us. Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic, yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end, your doubting has been set, for we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again, reviewing mentally what has gone by. A teacher does not give experience because he did not learn it. It revealed itself to him at its appointed time, but vision is his gift. This he can give directly, for Christ's knowledge is not lost, because he has a vision. He can give it to anyone who asks. The Father's will and his are joined in knowledge, yet there is a vision which the Holy Spirit sees because the mind of Christ beholds it too. Here is the joining of the world of doubt and shadows made with the intangible. Here is a quiet place within the world made by holy forgiveness and holy as it is by love. Here are all contradictions reconciled for here the journey ends. Experience, unlearned, untaught, unseen is merely there. This is beyond our goal, for it transcends what needs to be accomplished. Our concern is with Christ's visions. This we can attain. Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body and mistake it for the Son of God who was created. It beholds a light beyond the body, an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation and it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees. This can be taught and must be taught by all who would achieve it. It requires but the recognition that the world cannot give anything that faintly can compare with this in value, nor set up a goal that does not merely disappear when this has been perceived. In this you give today, see no one as a body. Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness. Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all. In his forgiveness are they gone, unseen by one they merely disappear because a vision of the holiness that lies beyond them comes to take their place. It matters not what form they took, nor how enormous they appeared to be, nor who seemed to be hurt by them, they are no more, and all effects they seem to have are gone with them. Undone and never to be done. Thus do you learn to give as you receive, and thus Christ's vision looks on you as well. This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. If he be lost in sin so must you be. If you see light in him your sins have been forgiven by yourself. Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ's vision shine on you and offer you the peace of God. It matters not when revelation comes, for that is not of time. Yet time has still one gift to give in which true knowledge is reflected in a way so accurate its image shares its unseen holiness, its likeness shines with its immortal love. We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today, and by the holy gifts we give Christ's vision looks upon ourselves as well. Amen.