Let's turn our attention to the two significant archetypes in our developing model of the psyche, these being the anima and the animus. Samuels defines the anima and the animus as, and I quote, the inner figure of woman held by a man and the figure of man at work in a woman's psyche, end quote. The anima exists in a man and the animus in a woman. Don't make the common mistake we all do when we begin with Jung's psychology of thinking they both exist in a man or both exist in a woman. They are archetypal images and they are not available immediately to consciousness. Both are of vital importance to the psyche's functioning, but because that they are unconscious, they can also be projected. Samuels goes on further to say that, and I quote, they act as psychopompy or guides of soul, and they can become necessary links with creative possibilities and instruments of individuation. Because of their archetypal connections, anima and animus have been represented in many collective forms and figures, as Aphrodite, Athena, Helen of Troy, Mary, Sapientia and Beatrice, or as Hermes, Apollo, Hercules, Alexander the Great or Romeo. In projection they attract attention and emotional fervor as public figures, but also as friends, lovers, commonplace and ordinary wives and husbands. We meet them as consorts in our dreams. As personified components of psyche, they connect and involve us with life. The last sentence that of personification is really important to our model. We tend to project a sense of otherness. In other words, as a man, I project a personification of the anima onto women. Because this personification is quite other to me, it is not me in its form. So as a man, the otherness is projected as female. For a woman, this otherness is projected as male. In so doing, the anima and the animus act as mediators between the ego in consciousness and the unconscious. These two archetypes are contentious issues in our day. When Jung published his ideas, being a man of his time, he wrote about these two archetypes in a very stereotyped fashion. And it is this manner of writing that has led to the controversy. Whether you agree with the constructs or not, start with beginning to understand them in terms of the psychodynamics of the psyche. Once you consider yourself fluent in their use, then go a little further and try to find alternative ways to represent otherness in the psyche. If you're interested in this material, there's a great book that you can read about the issues of masculinity and femininity and the contraceptual archetypes in Jungian psychology. This is by Susan Rowland, and the book is called Jung, A Feminist Revision. One of the core issues in the anima and the animus is that one can be gripped by these powerful images, and this may cause an alteration in your behavior. Samuel's notes that, and I quote, possession by either anima or animus transforms a personality in such a way as to give prominence to those traits which are seen as psychologically characteristic of the opposite sex. Either way, a person loses individuality, first of all, and then in either case, both charm and values. In a man, he becomes dominated by anima and by eros principles, with connotations of restlessness, promiscuity, moodiness, sentimentality, whatever could be described as unconstrained emotionality. A woman subject to the authority of the animus and logos is managerial, obstinate, ruthless, and domineering. Both become one-sided. He is seduced by inferior people and forms meaningless attachments. She, being taken in by second-rate thinking, marches forward under the banner of unrelated convictions. So you can see just from the very loaded language that these constructs are hot topics in analytical psychology. We also note from the above quote what would happen to us if we are dominated by the anima or the animus. Let's try a quick experiment. Think of your ideal partner. So for a straight male, imagine the ideal woman. What would she look like? How tall is she? What does her body, her hair, and her skin look like? How does she behave? What does she do for a living? How is she in bed? How does she comfort you when you are having a bad day? Is she strong and dominant or more submissive? Does she write poetry or paint?  Now that you have this ideal woman in your head, realize that you have just personified aspects of your anima. For a straight woman, do the same thing. Imagine the ideal male. What does he look like? How tall is he? Is he strong or is he weak? Does he protect you or lead the way? Does he initiate activities? Is he nurturing and communicative or silent and deep? How is he in bed? What does he do when you feel upset or scared after a hard day at work? This ideal male is a personification of the animus. You can also find Jung's definition of the anima and the animus in a series of short paragraphs that can be found in collected works 6 under the section called definitions. I have offered a very short overview of the anima and the animus and will enlarge on this material in later episodes. But for the moment, hopefully you have a basic understanding of the constructs and as a result have more components of the psyche to work with as we develop the psychodynamics of the psyche. The three books I mentioned are firstly La Planche and Ponthalice. That's L-A-P-L-A-N-C-H-E and Ponthalice P-O-N-T-A-L-I-S. The book is called The Language of Psychoanalysis. It was published in 1973. The second book is one I've mentioned before. That is Andrew Samuel's book called The Critical Dictionary of Analytical Psychology. And the third book mentioned is by Susan Rowland, R-O-W-L-A-N-D. And the book is called Jung, A Feminist Revision.


Thanks for checking out this video. So this is one of my opinion videos if you haven't seen them yet And that's just basically where I a little bit more relaxed I don't have notes on my phone that I'm actually going off of and just kind of talk about something that I either find interesting Something I want to present my opinion on or something that's driving me crazy Which this is one of those ones that it's something that's driving me nuts So this might be a little rant-ish, but there's merit to this I will say that so I've seen too many films recently that fit into the realm of being too long films that you can tell were padded or Seem to be padded for for a specific runtime now if you think about it a lot of films when they come out Especially horror films are usually hitting somewhere between an hour and a half in two hours Usually closer to the hour and a half mark because that's kind of like the industry rule of you know An hour and a half is probably more than enough time for a horror film now That said there are plenty of other films who kind of go off do their own thing usually more independent Who will say you know, hey, you know, it only takes us an hour and 15 minutes or in the Example of and I know I do this all the time in my reviews the film host on shutter Not like the biggest fan of the actual film. I think it was executed well for what it is It's just not my subgenre that I really enjoy but one of the things I love that they did and I greatly appreciate and more people Need to do is they had a runtime that was just for how much story they needed to tell They didn't even feel like they needed to hit an hour It was I think it's like 56 minutes or something like that And that's wonderful because it feels compact. It feels like it's a tightly written script Even though I know some of the stuff was kind of improv But those are the types of films that I want to see those are the types of films I think the majority of people want to see I don't know anyone I'm just saying I don't know anyone. I'm sure there's someone out there And if you're that this person put it in the comments and let me know But I don't know anyone who goes to see a film either at the theater or theater at the theater or at home and Says man, I want to make sure I spend at least an hour and a half At the theater or sitting here watching this film or I want to make sure that I'm using at least an hour and a half to two Hours of my life. No, it's usually the opposite of that and I'm I'm the opposite way I'll look and I'll be like, you know, I have other things to do. I only have X amount of time Let's go, you know, is this movie too long? I can't watch it right now.  Whatever don't waste our time because time is very much precious And the other thing is you're also wasting time in production You're wasting money to make a film a certain length and I know that the length is based off of You know an industry standard for a reason but I think that's probably changed at this point and I really think that it needs to be Re-evaluated because it drives me nuts when I'm seeing these films and I've seen a lot of them recently where I Get done with it and I'm like it's too slow It is way too slow and it's not slow because it needed to be slow It's slow because it feels like a lot of the shots went on way too long And they should have been edited down or they were intentionally putting extra stuff in there That's totally not needed that a hundred percent seems like it's in there to pad the time to get it to that one and a half hours So do this go through your collection, you know go through your collection of films And you know, maybe I should actually take my own advice on this and pull them out and just start looking at how long these movies are And they're usually pretty close in timing I'm just saying like the fact that that is the case is not good It's saying that they're trying to all fit into the same category of runtime and that's not what's needed What is needed is what story do you have to tell? can you do it in a succinct manner That makes the movie move well and you get everything you need from it You have the rich characters you have the character development You have a full range of the story that you need you get the resolution that you want If you have all the components and it's not an hour and a half say it's an hour and ten minutes Say it's under an hour do it That's what we should be doing and those things should go into theaters, too It shouldn't be just the hour and a half to two hour films making it in theaters or making it on to streaming services You know one of the great things about net Netflix has been that not you know They have shows that usually would have been on television otherwise. They have shows that Not every running time is exactly an hour or what ends up being like 40 some minutes because of commercial time. It's not Gear towards that it's however much it takes But then you do also have those instances where you can tell that they ordered a certain number of episodes and There's not enough material for those episodes. So they're just being ends up being an insane amount of padding for those episodes Iron fist Well, that's just that's just a mess in general. But you know Anyway, I think I'm coming kind of the end of my rant and the big thing is this I want to kind of put this out there because I think a lot of people feel this Like what I'm feeling with this but they don't talk about it Like I don't see people talking about we need to be cutting down runtime where it's unnecessary Now if a film has a long runtime and you watch it and you're like wow that was two hours It did not feel like two hours great That is totally fine because that means they needed that time to tell that story and that's great I am down for that but this the situation of being like oh man We're at like an hour and 15 minutes on this film. We got to add 15 minutes more No, that's thinking should be gone that that needs to go. So anyway I just want to hear from other people put in the comments Are you do you feel me on this one or or are you that person who sits down as like man? I would really like to kill an hour and a half to two hours right now I want to set find the longer films Because I'm pretty sure that everyone I've ever talked to it's more they look and they're like up this film's too long for right now I need to go get a shorter one, but anyway. Oh And that also leads me to something to tack on to the end Which I should make just an entire video for this but short films are film and They're very enjoyable film and I don't think they get enough credit I think they should get more credit So I should probably do a separate video about that But just want to tack that on to the end because it you know fits into the whole runtime thing But sorry, this is a little bit rambling at times, but put your comments down there Let me know your thoughts about film runtime Does this bother you at all because it's really been driving me crazy lately like I was raging about it last night like Sorry last night to my wife, and she was just like yeah. Yeah, I feel yeah I think she's patronizing me a little bit, but you know That's what you do with when your spouse But yeah, put your comments down there Thank you hit the subscribe button if you can and you can it's literally takes a second And that's your way to keep me motivated to not only do these videos, but mainly do my movie review videos So I would appreciate that also hit the notification bell button because then that way you'll know when I'm putting up any new videos But regardless, I really do thank you checking this out and you know at least appearing to care What my opinion is on this stuff and if you watch it and you don't that's fine, too I'm just kind of throwing it out there. I just want to get as many people in this bandwagon of let's change this runtime Culture in the film industry this this has to go, but anyway, thanks for taking your time to watch this until next time Keep it brutal


Welcome. This is Melissa. I'm over the socks. What should I reviewing to video? So on Friday I called the 640 NVIDIA calls that expire this week. It was a great trade It was a great call again. You could have get out of it Friday But of all the things that I like this is one of the things again You can't hold every trade to a piggy target, but this is one that you could hold to a piggy target You could still actually be in those trades. I think it's fine There's no way that's gonna go any there's no way this is gonna go against us In fact, this is something we should talk about tomorrow in the room, but again I'm watching a plane. I'm watching a really big plane go by this building so close to this building But anyways, you could be out today, but it's gonna go to 700 which I did stay in the room this morning It's going to 700 and then I called the 700 calls too. So the one thing about NVIDIA is it's very very very very Very expensive Sometimes I look at it and I said well, it's cheaper than I thought and sometimes I look at it and say Yeah, that's pretty much what it is But again, let's go over the Friday So this closed on Thursday at 6 30 27 boom ran up in the morning open right basically at the strike that I called it ran up Ran up and ran up into the close with the market and pretty much everything else on Friday great earnings out Thursday night That rocked this market to its core and you could have got out this beautiful green extension bar Friday called it a weekend Book the money been done with it if you stayed through it You got the profits today some people did some people got out again nice trade here If you booked the money could have done the new trade today. I called here the 700s, but I said this morning It's going to 700 I called the new trade and again I don't think it's a problem is something this far through the strike. It's like $60 for the strike I think could be in the 640s Anyways, but you could have booked the 640s and took the new one today and that's up to so but again None of these none of these are cheap. I mean, they're just not and when you take a trade Why don't you take any trade a day trade option? You've got a size your risk accordingly. So what do you mean by risk? I mean choose the amount of money not the contracts not the shares Say I want to risk $500 a trade. All right, well, they can't do the video You know, it's just this this is going to cost more than you can afford But that's okay. You do the other trades again. I have a busy newsletter. Oh, did you just see that a visible tick? Lanta Wow, I just caught that here. Do you see that does does everybody see that right there in the square the top of the square? It says 712 70. Do you see that? There it is. That's an invisible check. Oh My This is pushing up tonight. This is up in the after hours here actually that is what I call an invisible tech It's not a real print. It's an invisible tech Anyways, I said this was going to 700 so We were discussing this in the room this morning. You can't hold every trade forever and I'm calling a lot of trades It's an active active active options newsletter lots of trades But again, if I call multiple trades and get out and one take the other in this case here because it was This is never going to go where anywhere under 640 in the next five days So you could still be in it and I said it was going to 700 and this is probably going to gap up tomorrow It's gapping up tonight Wow, so we just saw an invisible tick live and There it is Gonna write that number down We'll see where we are tomorrow people. I Mean here, it's five o'clock almost as could go to 700 a night This could be a 700 a night in the after hours. I wouldn't even put it past it Yeah first Well, I'll look at the targets for this tomorrow, but this was a nice gap options newsletter call That happened quick 24 to 48 hours could take it a Friday get out Could take it a Friday get out today could taking it Friday. I think it's still be in it So last people asked me well, how long do your trades last as long as they last I mean if the trade had not gone Friday if I was down in the trade Friday, which I wasn't but if I was I Would have held it through the weekend So I don't kill trades my stop is my risk for my options if I lose in it I lose the whole thing goes bust by the end of the week Like you got to give the trade a chance to work if it goes green though. I'm not gonna let it go bust I'm gonna book that I'm gonna book profits in this at some point. It could be tomorrow So this could what one big nice fat gap up tomorrow and run or it could open tomorrow gap up Really really big and sell off in which case you get up you get out and gap up So again, one of the reasons why it's so great doing options is you can capture overnight moves with a limited risk and You can trade a stock like this which we're not day trading. You you know, we did like one trade in this I think and it just was too whipping you you these stocks are so much better and so much nicer Even at the price points that they normally are So much nicer to straight as options And and really there's less whip, you know day trading of stock like this and we like I said we did it It's a whip a whip a whoop. It's just too much whip and even the spread Even though there's a spread in the options that has a heck of a lot better than the spread of the day trade so And it was exciting to me who is seeing a visible tick tonight on this way over 700 over 7 10 7 12 and change we'll see where this goes Tomorrow. Good luck everyone if you're interested in signing up for the gap options and newsletter email me and Melissa at the stocks Wish.com. Have a great night everyone


Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar A.S. Academy, displayed at the list of news articles taken up for today's analysis, along with the respective page numbers of Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram 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 comment section below for the benefit of the smartphone users. Let us now start our analysis. First, let us see about the editorial that revolves around the Draft National Education Policy of 2019. The analysis of this editorial will be relevant in your problems preparation under the area Indian polity, particularly under public policy and also in your social development, especially in social sector initiatives. The analysis will be more important in your main syllabus in your general studies paper too, under government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design, then in issues relating to development and management of social sector services relating to education. Now, in the recent days, we have seen many editorials related to this draft national education policy of 2019, which discusses about the concerns and criticism based on the draft policy. Look, first know that it is a draft meaning it is not a finalized document or a policy which has been released by the government. The Indian government has uploaded this document for public scrutiny and has invited recommendations from the public for the reforms that have been proposed by the draft national education policy committee. This committee is also called as Dr. K. Kasturi Rangan committee and this committee submitted its report on 31st of May 2019 soon after the new government came into power. The committee was constituted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in the year 2017 in the month of June. This report proposes an education policy which seeks to address the challenges that are faced by the current education system such as access, equity, quality, affordability and accountability of education system. The draft policy provides for reforms at all levels of education like that it proposes reform at the foundational level and early childhood care and education. Now, this editorial is based on these two areas. In this editorial, the author discusses about the major concerns and also criticizes the recommendations given by the committee. If you see the title of the editorial it is shaky building blocks. Here shaky means shaking or something which is unsteady or unstable. So, the author calls the recommendations of the committee as unsteady or unstable foundational level and early childhood care and education because the foundational level education and early childhood care and education are the basics for the literacy of the children in the later stage. If both these are not strong then the whole literacy which a person acquires in his lifetime will be unsteady or shaky. This concern is because of a report named as annual status of education reports of 2018 in short it is called as ASER 2018. The report mentions that many children in elementary classrooms across India cannot read and write proficiently. Whenever we say elementary classrooms or education it means the primary schooling which is from the age 6 to 11 years and then the upper primary schooling which is from the age 11 to 14 years. The elementary schooling in most Indian states refers to education from class 1 to class 8. So, the essence of elementary education is that every 14 year old should acquire the basic foundational skills such as the ability to read and write with fluency, numeracy, comprehension, analysis, reasoning and social skills such as teamwork. Here the word numeracy means to perform basic operations with numbers such as addition, subtraction, etc. Now if these foundational skills are not acquired at elementary education it affects the other school-based learning and it will also affect the functioning in societies and economies that values literacy. Also know that ASER is an annual survey that aims to provide reliable annual estimates of children's schooling status then basic learning levels for each state and rural district in India also. It is the largest citizen led survey in India if you see. It is also the only annual source of information that is available in India on the children's learning outcomes. Here in this editorial the author first appreciates that chapter is devoted to foundational literacy and numeracy in the Traff National Education Policy. But the author says that while focusing on the limitations of the non-academic nature of the Anganwadi experiences and the limitation on many private preschools such as inappropriate circular and pedagogic practices, the authors of the Traff National Education Policy have left something which is very important. The author says that the Traff policy appears like it has not incorporated the advances made by scholars, practitioners and policy makers in the field of early literacy. Now remember this term early literacy and in this discussion the word pedagogy and pedagogical will be used many times. This meaning for the this both words like pedagogy and pedagogical are the method and practice of teaching especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept. This is because the author has many concerns which we shall see now the first concern is that the author worries about the analysis that has been presented by the committee for the failure of children to learn to read and write. This is because it largely points to the factors surrounding the teaching and learning process. The factors include health and nutritional status of children than your higher student teacher ratios etc. The author says that these factors are important because they do not address the curricular pedagogical and teacher education related issues with sufficient clarity. These issues cause trouble to the teaching of early literacy and learning of early literacy in many Indian classrooms. Then another concern of the author is that the Traff policy reinforces restrictive and outdated ideas for the goals of foundational literacy program such as still most classrooms across India view foundational literacy as teaching children to master the script or the letters of the language and then able to read simple words and passages with comprehension. But the higher order capacities such as critical thinking, analysis, reading and responding to literature and writing are reserved for the later years of their schooling. The author says these methods of teaching and learning are outdated. It is because emergent literacy has been ignored in the draft. Some research evidence from around the globe shows that without doubt even very young children are capable of using early forms of reading, writing and drawing. These early forms of reading, writing and drawing are to express themselves and also for them to communicate. Then the research also shows that the young children are capable of inferential meaning making that is arriving at conclusions based on evidence and reasoning and then critical thinking etc. Now these are all what we call as the term emergent literacy. But the draft has ignored these and it proposes oral activities for the pre-primary grades then reading hearts for grades 1, 2, 3. Then reading hearts and an additional hour for writing which starts only in the grades 4 and 5. Now this is like a sequential order that is one level at a time. So these proposals contradict the research evidence which suggests that young children can be taught to listen, speak, read and write simultaneously but not sequentially. Then another concern of the author is that the recommendations are based on the generic theories of early childhood education. Now these recommendations are like the children belonging to age group 3 to 8 must be involved in learning together in a flexible play-based and activity-based ways. The concern is that this recommendation does not use the ideas that are specific to the teaching and learning of early literacy because the author says early literacy requires a balance between helping children to acquire the script and engaging them with higher order capacities like critical thinking. And additionally teachers need to know how to give different instruction for learners at different levels then how to provide specific help to students who are struggling. Now this may not be possible when children of different ages are engaged together because different age group requires different kinds of attention and different age groups will be placed in different classes so the required level of subject or script knowledge will also differ. That is why the author worries about this recommendation which has been proposed in the draft national education policy. Then the last concern of the author is the lack of discussion about the preparation of teachers. The preparation of teachers is important to successfully teach the foundational literacy in a multilingual country like India. So each state needs teachers who can teach in the language that the child can very easily understand. And this language should be mostly in their mother tongue which the child speaks and learns at home as well. But instead the document recommends recruiting volunteers and community members to support the acquisition of early literacy. This is in the primary grades under the guidance of teachers. The report exactly mentions this sentence that if every literate member of the community could commit to teaching one student or one person to how to read then it would change the country's landscape very quickly and this mission will be highly encouraged and supported. Now the author says the idea that any literate person can teach literacy is a very dangerous one and also an erroneous or a wrong idea. The reason which the author gives is that this idea undermines the sophisticated or advanced understandings that a well trained teacher has with respect to children's development and literacy learning. The author adds that the volunteers can be used but they cannot be used as a primary mechanism to deliver the foundational literacy to the students. The author mentions some suggestions that should be included in the pedagogical approaches. First is reading aloud to children then guiding children in their own efforts to read and write next encouraging independent exploration by the child and then helping them to learn about different genres of text etc. On a whole the author says that a balance of materials is required. The balance here is between acquiring the script and acquiring the higher order capabilities and this should be achieved by moving beyond textbooks and workbooks to a high quality children's literature. With this we come to the end of the analysis of this editorial. Have a look at the practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article is about the retaliatory tariffs on 29 products of goods of United States of America. The analysis will be relevant in your prelim syllabus under current events of national and international importance and in your mains preparation in your general studies paper 2 under effects of policies of developed countries on India's interests and also under bilateral groupings and agreements involving and affecting India's interests. Now this news article can also be linked in your general studies paper 3 under Indian economy. Last year in the month of March that is in March 2018 the US government has imposed or levied a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum that are imported from many countries which also includes India. The exemptions from these tariffs were given only to the neighboring countries of USA that is both Canada and Mexico. The US government announced that for other countries to get exemptions they have to negotiate with the United States trade representative. India has repeatedly asked for exemptions since then but no assurance was made by the US government if you see. Therefore in June 2018 the Indian government announced that it is thinking about increasing import duty for 29 goods from United States of America but India did not actually enforce this announcement because it thought that there could be some favorable benefit that it may get from the US government. Every time for the purpose of negotiations India kept on extending the date of enforcement of this increase in tariff on 29 US goods. So these 29 goods are like walnuts, apples, pulses etc. While India expected with hope that it would get some favorable outcome it actually did not happen that way if you see. Instead what happened was the United States government warned India not to import crude oil from Iran or US will put sanctions on India. This happened around April to May 2019 if you see and US has also removed India from the beneficiary list under its generalized system of preferences program. India was removed as a GSP beneficiary with effect from 5th of June 2019. Now apart from the trade related matters US is also threatening India with sanctions under its CATSA Act if India purchases or makes payment to Russia for S-400 missile system. Now know that CATSA stands for countering America's adversaries through sanctions act which became an enforceable legislation of USA in the year 2017. Even on May 4 in our analysis we saw that India's once again extended the deadline to impose retaliatory tariffs on 29 US goods and today's news is that the weight is almost over for India as India decides to officially announce on June 16 to impose higher tariffs on 29 products of United States. The tariff increase is in retaliation to the higher import duty imposed by United States on steel and aluminium imports of India. Therefore these tariffs are called as retaliatory tariffs. Now the general meaning of retaliation is taking revenge. One of the implications because of the US's tariff on steel for India is that India's steel export to USA has decreased by 49 percentage in the year 2018. It is mentioned in the news article that the tariffs to be announced by India will have the same impact as the tariffs imposed by USA on India last year. Now what can we expect in such a scenario? Most probably the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be coming to India on 24th of June 2019 and during his visit he may make an announcement to re-include India as a beneficiary in GSP program and he may also give few other trade concessions as well. So if such a decision is already made by USA and if that decision is known to India, India will not officially announce retaliatory tariffs on June 16 because it will plan to wait till June 24 to get some trade concessions. See the USA desperately needs Indian market and by market we mean Indian people because Indian people have some sizable potential customers or consumers to buy the imported goods of USA. If USA does not give concessions to India it will be a backlash on its companies and USA also requires to somehow get the data of Indian citizens with respect to several matters for its companies and other things and purposes as well. So most probably USA will come for negotiations with India. With this we have come to the end of this discussion. Let us move on to the next news article. Let us see the editorial that discusses about the Chennai to Salem Expressway case. Now the analysis of this editorial will be helpful in your prelims preparation under current events of national importance and also under economic and social development. The analysis will also be helpful in your main preparation in your general studies paper 3 under conservation, environmental pollution and degradation and also under environmental impact assessment. Now the author tells that the Chennai Salem Expressway case will test the judiciary's assessment of environmental and economic interests. In few weeks from now the Supreme Court will hear the arguments on an appeal which was filed against a judgment of the Madras High Court in P. V. Krishnamurti versus the Government of India case. If you see the Madras High Court quashed the government notifications on acquiring land for a proposed eight lane expressway which was bound to connect Chennai to Salem in the state of Tamil Nadu. And the Supreme Court has already denied the national highways authority of India's urgent request for a stay of the judgment by the High Court. Now this particular news has been covered in our combined analysis done for 2nd and 3rd of June 2019. The link for the analysis is given in the description section and also in the comment section. So this is how we have to connect the news articles. Let us come back to the editorial. The author guesses that the Supreme Court might ensure that its judgment to be delivered on this expressway case should have a nation-wide implementation. If you see this proposed eight lane green field expressway between Chennai and Salem is part of the Bharat Malha Pariyojana. Now let us see in brief about Bharat Malha Pariyojana. It is basically a centrally sponsored highways program and it is being managed by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. This Bharat Malha Pariyojana is an umbrella program for the highway sector and it will focus on optimizing the efficiency of freight and passenger movement across the country. This optimization will be done through effective interventions like development of various corridors and green field expressway is one among such corridors. Note that this Chennai to Salem eight lane expressway is a green field expressway. Here the term green field denotes the developing the previously undeveloped sites for either commercial development or exploitation. So this means green field. This Chennai to Salem eight lane expressway is mainly aimed as a corridor for more efficient freight movement and it will cover more than 250 kilometer and once this expressway is constructed this expressway will cut through a number of agricultural and reserve forest lands on its way. Now the author tells that the biggest controversy in these cases was an environmental impact assessment required before acquiring land for the highway project. If not at what stage of the project was such an assessment required. The main argument placed by the petitioners in this case is that the state government had failed to obtain an environmental clearance for the project before acquiring the land. They have argued that the state government had violated its responsibilities since it was sure that it will not get the environmental clearance to continue the project. Because the project would have harmful impact on the forests, the surrounding water bodies and also the wildlife of the region through which it cuts across. But in this case the government denied the accusation by the petitioners. The government had argued in the court that its power to acquire land under the National Eyeways Act 1956 was unconditional. The state government also said that there was no law mandating an environmental impact assessment before efforts are made to acquire private land and the state government has also said that the environmental protection rules of 1986 is not applicable for this Greenfield project. Now you have kept hearing the term environmental impact assessment as the name suggests it is an assessment that should be done by the implementers of the project. If that particular project to be implemented will have any kind of impacts or consequences on the environment. Now this is the issue which the author has discussed but the main theme of this editorial is about the concept of sustainable development. So let us see about the theme now. The author has mentioned the history about how the definition of sustainable development was conceived. He mentions that in the year 1987 a United Nations bad committee led by the former Norwegian Prime Minister Grob Brunckland proposed a long term strategy and this long term strategy was called for the sustainable development. The title of this event program was Our Common Future. This program defined the principle of sustainable development which is to ensure that any development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs. The author then tells that in one of its judgments in 1996 the Supreme Court has said that sustainable development is the answer that both development and ecology should be addressed jointly or simultaneously even before this concept of sustainable development became binding worldwide. The author tells that this concept is very tough to be implemented practically because in India mostly the development priorities have overtook the environmental interests in all these years and mostly the sustainable development has remained as a balancing sort of exercise like balancing between the economic interests and the environmental interests. But if you see mostly the economic interests like the growth priorities and development priorities of India overtake the environmental interests like the conservation of the environment and building a healthier environment for the future generations. The author tells that the sustainable development will be successful only if the environment interests are seen as valuable as compared to the economic interests. This is the basis of the Madras High Court judgment in this Chennai to Salem Greenfield Expressway project case. We saw the details of this case during the starting of our editorial. As we saw and as we discussed Greenfield means developing a new project on an undeveloped land so this undeveloped land can be an agricultural land or a forest land. If the project demands to cut down the forests then it causes an environmental impact and if the project demands to take over agricultural lands not only it causes environmental impact but also it causes impact on the social and economic life of the land owners nothing but the agricultural land owners. So the Madras High Court has told this fact that without the environmental impact assessment the social and economic life of the land owners will be affected and hence it ruled that economic impact assessment sorry the environmental impact assessment is very crucial. One of the judges in this case has noted that the agricultural land provides dignity for the person so the agricultural land provides dignity for the person. The author says that the judgment holds the state accountable for violating the due process of law meaning it has not done the environmental impact assessment as per the procedures and the judgment also sees the possession of farmlands by farmers as an article of faith. The most important take away from this High Court judgment is that the ruling highlights the importance and commitment to the protection of forests and water bodies. It places the environment first rather than the development process which is nothing but the economic interests. So the author tells that this ruling of the Madras High Court as effectively reverse the prevailing scale of priorities. So this is the title for this editorial today and this ruling demands attention since it comes at a time when the government further weakening the existing norms for environmental clearance and this dilutes the environment protections. So the author suggests that the government should be compelled to look beyond the exercise of balancing and focus more on environmental interests that is conserving the environment like how the High Court has seen while delivering this judgment. Now have a look at the practice mains question. Let us move on to the next news article. The next news article is about genetically modified brinjal. Now the analysis of this discussion will be helpful in your problems preparation under current events of national importance and also under general issues on environmental ecology and also in general science. The article can also be linked to your main syllabus in your general studies paper two under government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation and also in your general studies paper three under science and technology developments and their applications and effects in everyday life and also under awareness in the field of biotechnology. Now this news article is about the genetically modified brinjal which was found in a farm in Haryana last month. So why finding a vegetable is reported in the news? This is because the vegetable brinjal which they have found was a genetically modified crop and it is banned in India. Now in this context to understand why this genetically modified crop was banned let us first know about the Genetical Engineering and the Genetically Modified Crops. Both these topics are important in the prelims perspective because they have been asked many times in the preliminary examination. So now let us see the terms. The term Genetic Engineering is used to describe the process by which the genetic makeup of an organism can be altered. So this alteration is done using recombinant DNA technology and this process involves the use of laboratory tools to insert, alter or cut out pieces of DNA that contain one or more genes of interest. Genetically modified crop in short which is called as GM crop is also known as transgenic crop. So this transgenic crop is a plant that has a novel or a new or an unusual combination of genetic material which is obtained through the use of modern biotechnology. For example, a GM crop can contain a gene that has been artificially inserted instead of the plant acquiring that particular gene through a normal pollination process. So if this artificially, if it is artificially inserted then the resulting plant is called as the Genetically Modified Crop. Now GM crops are made through a process known as Genetic Engineering. Here the genes of commercial interests are transferred from one organism to another and there are two primary methods which currently exist for introducing the trans genes into plant genomes. The first method involves a device called as gene gun. Here the DNA to be introduced into the plant cells is coated onto tiny particles of gold or tungsten and these particles are then physically shot onto the plant cells and then incorporated into the genomic DNA of the recipient plant. In the second method, it uses a bacterium to introduce the gene of interest into the plant DNA. We have seen the background very clearly. Now let us see some facts about Brinjal and also about BT Brinjal. Brinjal is also called as eggplant in North America and aubergine in Europe. So it is a very important common man's vegetable in our country. It is also called by some as the king of vegetables. Brinjal has grown on nearly 5,50,000 hectares in India making our country the second largest producer of Brinjal after China. Brinjal is an important cash crop for more than 14,00,000 small marginal and resource farmers. Brinjal is a very hardy crop so it yields well even in the drought conditions and it is also grown in almost all parts of the country. Now here the RD is a term which is used to describe a plant's ability to survive in a specific climate zone even through the coal of winter. Major Brinjal producing states in India are the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Gujarat and Bihar. Now this important vegetable Brinjal is prone to attack from the insect pests and diseases. The most serious and destructive of such pests is the fruit and shoot borer which is in short called as FSB. Now this FSB feeds predominantly on Brinjal and it is prevalent in all the Brinjal producing states. This particular FSB poses a serious problem because of its high reproductive potential. The FSB larvae is cut into tender shoots and fruits. So this retards the plant growth then makes the fruits unsuitable for the market and also unfit for the human consumption. Now if you see the reported fruit damage is as high as 95% and also losses of up to 70% is seen in the commercial plantings. So as a measure to tackle this FSB resistant Brinjal or BT Brinjal was developed. This BT Brinjal incorporates the cry1 AC gene. The cry1 AC gene expresses the insecticidal protein which acts as a resistance against this FSB. The cry1 AC gene is sourced from the soil bacterium which is called as bacillus thuringiensis in short it is called as BT. So that is why we are calling this genetically modified Brinjal as BT Brinjal. Now when this gene is ingested by the FSB larvae, the FSB larva dies few days later. Now this BT Brinjal was developed by Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company which is commonly called as Mahaiko. Also BT Brinjal is the first food crop which is under evaluation for the commercial release in India. Since its development in the year 2000 the crop has undergone rigorous scientific evaluation. This is primarily to assess its food safety, environmental safety, human and animal health safety and also the biodiversity point of view. Now the regulation of this gene crops in India comes under the provisions of Environment Protection Act of 1986 and also the Environmental Protection Rules of 1989. The act was passed to ensure the protection and improvement of the environment. Then we have Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee which is the apex regulator for the GM crops and this particular committee comes under the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Now it is responsible for the environmental release of genetically modified organisms or GMOs and it is done through the field trials and commercial approvals. So, even though there are so much benefits in the GM crops of Brinjal, why it was banned? The first genetically engineered crop commercialized in India was the BT cotton. The introduction and spread of BT cotton in India gave rise to many problems. Many reports began exposing various problems experienced by the BT cotton farmers despite the GE industries glowing testimonies about the crop. That is, these genetically engineered industries tell that the crop grows well but the farmers had many problems. So, the fact finding teams visited various regions where the BT cotton was being grown and they reported the occurrence of new diseases and pests in the fields and then they have also reported high cost of cultivation, then uneven crop performance, crop failure and no reduction in the pesticide use. The teams have also found the incidence of mortality and morbidity in sheep that had grazed in the BT cotton fields. So, this caused fear among the people. So, here mortality means the death and morbidity means acquiring the disease. Eventually, all these led to protests everywhere in India to ban the GM crops and thus it was indefinitely banned by the then environmental minister. Now, coming back to the news article after the GM Brinjal crop was found in Haryana, samples were collected from the farmers field by the Haryana Articulture Department. This happened after an activist made a complaint about this issue. Then the seeds were sent to the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources for testing. Now, let us see about this National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources in short. Its headquarters is located at New Delhi and this National Bureau has played a very important role in the improvement of various crop plants. Then also in the diversification and development of agriculture in India through processes such as germplasm introduction from various institutes, organizations located in the foreign countries and also germplasm collection from within the country and abroad. Then all these germplasm are conserved by this bureau. Now, we need to know what is meant by this germplasm. Germplasm is a living tissue from which new plants can be grown. It can be a seed or another plant part such as a leaf, a piece of stem, pollen or even just a few cells that can be turned into a whole plant. Now, this germplasm contains the information for a species genetic makeup which is a very valuable natural resource of plant diversity. The samples that were sent to this National Bureau for testing confirm to be of a genetically modified variety. Soon after that committee of experts was set up by the Haryana government and the committee confirmed the findings and said that the genetically modified brinjal had been sold in the market. So, the farmer on whose land this crop was found was forced to destroy the crop. This happened in the presence of local officials and activists of that village. But what still remains a mystery is that the source of the seeds because the source of the seeds of this particular GM crop has not yet been identified. Because the test results of the sample established that genetically modified brinjal did not come from the line that was developed by the mahaiko company. Next, because of this the activists are also anxious over the extent of the genetically modified crop cultivation in India. The activists blame government agencies for adopting a very casual attitude in dealing with the situation. They say that if the government had been really serious about protecting India's biodiversity and consumer health then the government should have done the following. Like it should have undertaken an extensive strip testing of the brinjal and then mapped the extent of genetically modified brinjal cultivation in the country. Here strip test means it is a very preliminary test that is conducted using a kit. Then a test like event test should also be done. Here event is a term which is used to describe the point on a chromosome where a genetic tweaking has happened. Genetic tweaking means an addition or deletion of a gene. So, by identifying the event scientists can exactly say from which line the crop came from. But the activists complain that neither the state government nor the central government has done this. In the mid of this agitation there are people who are also supporting the GM crops. Now they are demanding that the central government should allow the cultivation of genetically modified crops including that of brinjal. They claim that the GM crops are absolutely safe for consumption. Also they argue that the farmers should be allowed to reap the benefits of modern technology. And this would help them to boost their income by getting better returns. They argue that these genetically modified crops are used in many parts of the world like countries like United States and Canada are using this GM crops. They also add that with the use of genetically modified technology costs are reduced then pest attacks are lowered and finally the production is higher. Some also say that the ban on genetically modified crops is not just restricting the farmers from accessing the technology. But it is also promoting an illegal market for GM crops like the issue that we saw now because the news told that the actual source of this particular GM brinjal crop was not the one which has been developed by the Mahiko company. So, here the illegal market cannot be regulated and this may lead to bad consequences. Let us move on to the next news article. Now this news article is about wholesale price based inflation. It can also be called as wholesale price index based inflation. It has hit a 22 month low. In May the value is 2.45 percentage. This is because of the fallen prices of food articles, fuel and power items. Now the analysis of this news article will be helpful in your prelims preparation under current events of national importance and in your economic development. It will also be relevant in your mains preparation in your general studies paper 3 under Indian economy. Now as you can see in this graph in April 2019 the WPI based inflation was at 3.07 percentage while it was 4.78 percentage in May 2018. Next is the core inflation which is at 1.2 percentage in May 2019. If you see this is a 29 months low. Now the experts say that this is an indication of weakening of demand impulse in the economy. The weakening of demand impulse was also shown by the dwindling or diminishing auto sales and FMCG sales growth. Here FMCG means the fast moving consumer goods. So, it simply means there is no demand in the economy to purchase the items. This is called as the weakening of the demand impulse. Now the experts also add that the delayed and less than normal monsoon in the coming months could aggravate the food inflation further. So, in the context of this news article let us know about wholesale price index. Volatile price index measures the average change in the prices of commodities for bulk sale at the level of early stage of transactions. In simpler words it captures all the bulk transactions of goods that are carried out in the domestic market. The universe of Volatile price index comprises all possible transactions at first point of bulk sale in the domestic market before the retail level. So, WPI accounts for changes in price at an early distribution stage. WPI is calculated using the base year 2011-12. Now you need to know who compiles and releases this wholesale price index. It is compiled and released on monthly basis by the office of economic advisor. If you see this office of economic advisor comes under the department of promotion of industry and internal trade. Now just know that the department of industrial policy and promotion in short dip was renamed as department of the promotion of industry and internal trade in February 2019. So, this particular department comes under the ministry of commerce and industry. Also remember that the consumer price index is released by central statistics office under the ministry of statistics and program implementation. So, WPI comes under the ministry of commerce and industry and CPA comes under the ministry of statistics and program implementation. Just keep this difference in mind. Whenever we say the term basket in economics this particular term refers to a fixed set of consumer products and services which is valued on an annual basis. So, the index basket of the Volatile price index covers the commodities falling under the three major groups. First one is your primary articles, second one fuel and power and third the manufacturing products. The prices which are tracked for all these three groups are X factory price for the manufactured products, Agri-market or Monday price for the agricultural commodities and X mines prices for minerals. Also the weights or the weightages that are given to each of these commodities covered in the WPA basket is based on the value of production which is adjusted for net imports. So, if you see out of these three manufactured products have the highest weightage it is 64.2 percentage and next we have primary articles which has a weightage of 22.6 percentage and finally the fuel and power which has a weightage of 13.2 percentage. Now, if you see this primary articles can be subdivided into food articles, non-food articles, minerals, crude petroleum and natural gas. Among this in the month of May the inflation in fuel and power category was 0.98 percentage in May. It has decreased from 3.84 percentage last month. This is because of the softening that is the fall in value of the global crude oil prices. Then the manufactured items also saw a decline in prices with inflation at 1.28 percentage in May. This value was 1.72 percentage in the month of April. Then the inflation in the food articles basket was 6.99 percentage which has decreased from 7.37 percentage in April. So, the next major group is the fuel and power and this can be subdivided into coal, mineral, oil and electricity. Now, of all these major groups comprises of sectors. This index covers prices of products or commodities only pertaining to four sectors. The four sectors are agriculture, mining, manufacturing and electricity. The other sectors of GDP in particular the services sector are not covered under this wholesale price index. Please keep in mind that the services sector are not covered under wholesale price index. Now, the number of items in this entire basket is 697. The wholesale price index does not include taxes. This is just to remove the impact of the fiscal policy. Further, we have a core inflation WPA. This core inflation WPA is also known as underline inflation or non-food inflation. So, this is measured by excluding the food and fuel items from the wholesale price index. That is, as its other name insists, it includes only the non-food manufacturing industries. Now, let us see the uses of wholesale price index. Basically, wholesale price index is an important measure to monitor the dynamic movement of prices at the wholesale level. So, in a dynamic world, we know that the prices keep on changing. So, this is a very good measure to monitor the dynamic movement of prices. Then, the wholesale price index is used as a deflator for various nominal macroeconomic variables which includes even your GDP or the gross domestic product. And wholesale price index provides estimates of inflation at the wholesale transactions level for the economy as a whole. Now, the news was based on this only. The estimates help in timely intervention by the government to check on the inflation. In particular, the inflation in essential commodities before the price increase spills over to the retail prices, so that the prices can be controlled at the wholesale level only. Next, the wholesale price index is also used for indexation by users in the business contracts. Now, you need to know what is meant by the term indexation. It is just a technique to adjust the income payments by means of a price index. Purchasing power of the public after the inflation can be maintained. And finally, the global investors also track the wholesale price index as one of the key macro indicators for their investment decisions. Now, have a look at the practice question. With this, we come to the end of the analysis of all the news articles taken up for today's discussion. Let us move on to the practice question discussion session. Now, the first question is, consider the following statements with reference to wholesale price index. They have given four statements and I have asked you to choose the correct statements. Consider the first statement. As we know from our discussion on wholesale price index, that is nothing but the definition of wholesale price index. This first statement is correct. Now, the second statement, it is wrong because WPI or the wholesale price index is compiled and released on monthly basis by the Office of Economic Advisor, not the Central Statistical Office. And this Office of Economic Advisor comes under the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Now, the statement 3 is correct because the base year used for calculation is 2011-12 only. And the final statement, here the first part of the statement is right, that is, wholesale price index is calculated under three major groups, namely primary articles, manufactured products and fuel and power, but not services because we clearly saw during our article discussion that services are not included in wholesale price index. So, here the question is asked for the correct statements. The correct answer is option 1 and 3 only. Moving on to the main question, the question is the draft national education policy aims to bring a paradigm shift in the field of education, critically comment in the light of ongoing debate related to the recommendations made by the draft national education policy of 2019. Now, for answering the question, we first need to know the recommendations made by the draft national education policy of 2019. The recommendations include three language formula, then right to education act 2009 can be extended to the children in the age group of three years up to six years, then reforms at the foundational level and early childhood care and education, which was the crux of today's article discussion. The three language formula, then right to education act of 2019, which can be extended to the children from the age group of three years up to six years have all been discussed in a very detailed manner in a previous analysis dated June 1, June 3 and June 13. Now, if you can visit those videos for getting a detailed understanding and writing the answer, the link for these have been provided in the description section and also in the comment section. This particular draft is a very burning issue. So, many criticism may also come in the future as well. So, this is how you need to build up your current affairs notes, because a main's question will not be asked in the examination based on a single news article. The same news will keep on appearing continuously sometimes for weeks or sometimes even for months. So, just keep building the appropriate notes as and when the news article appears. Now, for the foundational level and early childhood care and education, you can take the points from today's analysis, like you can say that using of volunteers is not a welcome step as teacher are well trained to teach the children so that it will be helpful in a very beneficial way. Then you can say that multiple age group play based activity and activity based learning may not help as children belonging to different age group needs different kinds of attention. Likewise, you can also try adding your own viewpoints as well, but make sure it is an appropriate one. Moving on to the next main's question. Do you think that the developmental priorities of a developing nation like India should proceed the environmental interests analyze the question asks you to analyze and this is also like a opinion based question. So, it asks you if the developmental priorities should overtake the environmental interests. Now, you cannot tell if developmental priorities should overtake the environmental interests or if the environmental interest should be given preference over the developmental interest. You need to have or to take a very balanced approach. So, this is where the role of sustainable development comes which we discussed at large in our editorial today. Now, the concept sustainable development means the development without compromising or degrading the environment. So, try to frame your answer in such a way that both the development and environment should go hand in hand, but the environmental interest should be never be compromised and that it is possible only if the government has strong policies to promote the sustainable development and you can also tell that the citizens will and their participation is also very much necessary for sustainable development. Now, you can quote few examples like the government policies for example, like green highway projects we have not discussed today, but just make a note of it and you can also stress on the need of ground level implementation and also people's participation and try to give some diverse local level examples and any unique projects that is currently news under this sustainable development head. For example, like renewable solar or wind energy setups that have been set up at local levels and which are very much successful, then your sustainable farming practices by certain farming communities across India, you can try to give some examples, then you can also give some unique reuse or recycling techniques that have been invented in the cities. So, try to diversify the examples, both country-wise and sector-wise and make sure the examples are very unique. And finally, you can conclude this answer telling that both developmental priorities and environmental interest needs to go hand in hand that is both have to be taken or carried out together. With this, we come to the end of the analysis of all the news articles taken up for today's discussion and also the practice question discussion session. Do like, comment and share the video and do subscribe to Shankar IA's Academy YouTube channel for latest videos and updates. Stay focused and motivated friends. Thank you.


Everybody, I am Greg Sussman joined today by JJ Zachariasin to go over the players that we're buying and selling as we head into week number seven. What's happening, JJ? Not too much, man. Ready for week seven to start. Absolutely. So let's kick it into high gear with some players that you're buying this week that brings us to Houston's Deandre Hopkins who hasn't had the blow-up game yet. We've seen it from Will Fuller. We've seen it from Darren Fells, even Kenny Stills. Not so much Deandre Hopkins. Is this the week it happens in Indianapolis?  He does have the third highest target share still among wide receivers in the NFL. He's seen at least 20% of the team's targets in every single game this year. If there's one cause for concern, it's the fact that he's only seen one target within the opponent's 10-yard line, but that's something that's a statistic that he led the league in with 15 last year. So if we look over the larger sample, Deandre Hopkins is a good red zone threat. We know that. So as a result, I'm looking at that sample as opposed to the six games that we've seen. And that's why I'm buying Deandre Hopkins. Deandre Hopkins, one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. In fact, one of the first two players you took in your fantasy football drafts at the wide receiver position, it was him and Deandre. It was him and Devante Adams. Adams, obviously out of injury. Deandre Hopkins underwhelming to this point. Hopefully that turns around soon. Another player that JJ is buying here this week is the Bills. Josh Allen is coming off a buy. And he's been really good for fantasy purposes this week. He's home against Miami. We talked about him yesterday on the program. Why do you like Josh Allen? Yes. So last week on the show, I talked about John Brown as a player to buy and Josh Allen, it's really the same logic. They're walking into a cake schedule to get Miami this week. They're going to face Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland and Miami again over this five game stretch. You know, I don't usually trade for a quarterback. You might not even have to trade for Josh Allen. He might be on your waiver wire, but he's someone who could really benefit your fantasy team over the next month. The schedule easing off is obviously helpful to Allen, who's been a fantasy commodity, given what he can do with his legs. I like Allen a lot with that soft schedule. It's time to grab him. Continuing your trend of buying buy week players, that brings us now to DJ Moore. DJ Moore has teamed up with Kyle Allen has been pretty good. The question obviously in Carolina is who will be the quarterback coming out of the buy now that Cam Newton has been cleared to practice. DJ Moore, no matter who the quarterback is, though, you're buying. Yeah, exactly. You know, we've seen over the last two weeks, DJ Moore finally see good usage with Kyle Allen under center, which should give you confidence that no matter who's under center, he should see some volume. Kyle Allen's first two games, DJ Moore's target share was around 11%. Over the last two weeks, it's been 27% and 32%. And DJ Moore has been underperforming in the touchdown column as well. I love to look at yards versus touchdowns because yards correlate strongly to touchdowns. So the more yards a player has, generally speaking, he will score more touchdowns. DJ Moore right now, based on his yardage total, and this is based off of the last five years worth of data, but based on his yardage total, he should have about 2.6 touchdowns right now, but he only has one. So you're looking at a situation where his target share is really strong, but you're able to buy low, not just because he's on a buy week, but because he does have a positive touchdown regression coming. Things looking up for DJ Moore, let's hope it continues for the Carolina Panthers. Now we have to get to the part of the show where we tell you who we don't want anymore. And that includes Terry McLaurin. Scary Terry has been really good when he's been on the field for Washington, and he has a clear connection with Case Keenum. The question, of course, is how much longer will Case Keenum be the quarterback for the Washington football team? This week, Terry McLaurin and Lorenzkin's faceoff against one of the best defenses in the NFL at San Francisco 49ers. You're selling Terry. Yeah, that 49ers matchup is going to be really tough. And then after that matchup, he gets Minnesota and Buffalo on the roads. Those are three really rough matchups three weeks in a row. And then on top of that, just going back to the yards to touchdowns conversion at wide receiver, Terry McLaurin right now has five touchdowns. But based on his yardage total, he should have about half of that. So there's negative regression coming in the touchdown column. It's a tough schedule. And we don't know what's going to happen with Case Keenum under center as this season goes on. So as much as I like Terry McLaurin as great of a season as he's having, I think now's the time to sell. Yeah, McLaurin has been absolutely awesome thus far. But can it continue easy this good? Can he handle some of the better defenses he's going to face? Well, those questions will be answered on Sunday. Right now, I'm not willing to take that risk. Another player that JJ is moving on from is Miles Sanders in Philadelphia, which is kind of interesting here, JJ, because as you get deeper into the season, most fantasy players are buying some of these younger running backs like a Miles Sanders or a David Montgomery. But you're selling. How come? Yeah, look, I want Miles Sanders to be a thing in Philadelphia too, but he's trending in the wrong direction despite the fact that he had a pretty good outing as a receiver this past week. He still only saw 15% of Philadelphia's running back rushes in the 7% target share, and he had the lowest snap share of his entire season. Given the fact that he did have a good game, though, it's the time to sell. You know, I do like Miles Sanders as a talent, but they like Jordan Howard and Jordan Howard has has earned time in that backfield. So I think all of that combined just makes Miles Sanders a sell. It's convoluted in Philly as it seemingly is every year. We always jump on board whether it's a Miles Sanders or a Josh Adams last season. And they always let us down. This year right now, Miles Sanders is doing just that. Use his last game as an opportunity to sell him off. One last player that we are selling away and that is Kansas City's Damien Williams. It's a tale of two weeks here, JJ, because last week, Damien Williams returned and he looked every good every bit as good as he did for the second half of last season. Now, this past game barely got the ball. He was barely on the field. It was the Lashaw McCoy show. You're selling Damien Williams. I am, you know, if you look at his season long numbers at the end of the year, he might look okay enough. But I think that we should should not ignore the predictability aspect of things. And right now that Kansas City backfield, no matter the fact that, you know, there is a lot of fantasy points to be had there, it's a headache. You know, dealing with these running backs in the backfield, week in and week out, it's going to be hard to predict who's going to perform or not. You know, two weeks ago, Damien Williams sees 90% of the team's running back rushes and over a 10% target share. This past week, he was barely used. But fortunately, he did find the end zone and you can use that when trying to sell him this week to another person in your league. He just didn't do all that much this week despite finding the end zone. So again, with much like Miles Sanders, use that as a selling off point. We're not telling you players that you can't sell. We're telling you players that you should sell. Damien Williams fits that category. That's going to do it for us here on The Fandals. Hurry up, JJ. Best of luck on your waiver wire this week. We'll talk to you next week. Thanks, Greg. Appreciate it. Tomorrow, Jim Sannas will join me as we take a look at week seven from a daily fantasy perspective. Have a great night and we'll see you tomorrow.


This guy's really kind of doing it for me. B.B. Energy. Man, She-Hulk was so good this week. Really? Wee-wee! That's how I sound to you. That's exactly how you sound. And wow. What a surprise. You're not watching it. Shocker. Focker. Don't do this. What turned you off of it exactly? Was it the, um, the powerful women? Was that, was that what bothered you? Yeah. Listen, I like Tatiana. Was it because She-Hulk is a strong female lead? Can you not cut me off? It's about time. The show is a corny, ugly 15 minute waste of time that for some reason has eight full minutes of credits. I just don't care to watch it. Not a big deal. Great. Good. They don't want you to watch. Did it occur to you in your small, feeble mind that perhaps Disney isn't catering this show to a pathetic, middle-aged man-child? Are you sure? I'm sure I love comedy. CGI work is certainly a joke. The whole show is a joke. Oh, God.  It's anti-patriarchy. It's anti-man.  I have several videos, which I record from my car, breaking it all down on my channel. The show is not for you. The show is not for anyone. It's a corporate agenda-pushing hellscape. Enjoy the heat.  What's the agenda? What's the agenda? That's not how I sound.


Hello all, this is Satish KS and I head the engineering at the company called ZOTAP. Prior to ZOTAP, I worked in OLACAPs. I was taking care of the data platform and the fraud prevention platform. I have 18 plus years of experience and I have spent the last eight years working in data and big data areas across various domains. The current one being by virtue of my current company, it is an ad tech and market and prior to that, it is an e-com and prior to that in a couple of IoT domains. Today, I have a small presentation around my personal thoughts on the NPD draft or the non-personal data build draft which the government is or MEA is proposing and what I perceive as its impact on data business. A disclaimer here, this is not the views of my company or my organization, it is my personal views. So with that, just an intro on the NPD draft, I know a bunch of you in the audience would have already gone through the draft. First and foremost, if you look at the non-personal data build, that means a data set which is, I would say stripped off its personal information or personally identified information that is defined as non-personal data build as per the Indian government which is under the draft. So if you take a read at it, it has the implications on the whole org. When I say the whole org, it's across the value chain starting from your engineering, product, infra teams, security teams, as well as your legal teams, as well as it could have an implication on the teams which is working on your pricing and the external business contract aspects as well, right? And the second thing which is very striking about the builders, if you think about it, it defines something called a threshold which doesn't have a number to it as of today. And based on that threshold, if any business is collecting data beyond that threshold, it automatically has to register themselves as a data business. Now, if you think about it, with the explosion of the data which any online business or any tech company is seeing today, within one or two quarters, every business would sort of become a data business on its own. So that is another impact of the non-personal data bill. And if they have to cater to the asks of democratizing and commoditizing data which may not be part of the core business of what the business is operating on, that requires additional investments across the org again in terms of since it has implications or it has additional investments across the org. That is another aspect. And one of the foundational thoughts there in the NPD bill is it is striving to create something called a level playing field between small business, medium business as well as a big tech company. And while we are going through the presentation and then we are concluding, we'll just give some thought over it whether it is really in the interest of say, a startup or a small business, this particular bill, whether it is having adequate protections to help them as well. So that is a brief info on the non-production bill.