Good evening aspirants, welcome to the hindi news analysis by Shankarai's academy for the date 30th of May 2021. These are the list of news articles taken for today's discussion. They have been provided along with the page numbers of these articles in different editions of hindi newspaper. Now, let us start our analysis with this first news article which talks about damage to Sundarbans. As we know recently, India witnessed two back-to-back cyclones and among them, Yaa's Cyclone made landfall in Odisha, that is, it crossed over to land in Odisha. And because of this, the eastern states of West Bengal and Jharkhand were also severely affected. And this is what has also affected the Sundarbans. So in this regard, let us see about Sundarbans and the threats to it. See, Sundarbans is located in West Bengal. It lies on the southeast of Kolkata and it borders the Bay of Bengal. It is situated in the swampy delta of the river Ganga, river Brahmaputra and river Magna. Actually, Sundarbans is mainly located at the confluence of Ganga and Brahmaputra basin in between India and Bangladesh. That is, it spreads over India and Bangladesh and it extends over a vast area of about 9,630 square kilometers. And in India alone, it spans a vast area covering about 4,200 square kilometers. So from this, we can say that the major part of Sundarbans lies in Bangladesh only. Now, next note that Sundarbans is bounded by the river Hoogli on the west. Then it is bounded on the east by Ichamati, Kalindi, Raimungal rivers. And on the north, it is bounded by Dampier-Hodges line. And to its south lies the Bay of Bengal. Now, the Sundarbans consist of mangrove forests, swamps, estuaries, river canals and forested islands. And that is why Sundarbans is very important from ecological perspective. And note that there are more than 100 islands of various shapes and sizes where around 50% of them are inhabited. Now, it also has faunal and floral diversity. It houses many rare and endangered animals including aquatic mammals, tigers, birds and reptiles. Mainly note that the tangled mass of the roots of mangrove trees, these roots provide safe homes for a large number of species like from fish to shrimp. And most importantly, Sundarbans is home to nearly 200 royal Bengal tigers. Here you should note that Sundarbans is the only mangrove forest in the world which is home of tigers. Other than this, more than 170 bird species are known to inhabit these mangrove forests. Now, coming to its flora, note that Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal, helophytic mangrove forests in the world. Here, helophytic means salt tolerant. Apart from this, Sundarbans is also the world's largest deltaic mangrove forest. Now, the mangrove forests in the Sundarbans are characterized by heritera forms. It is also known as heritera minor. This is a evergreen mangrove tree species and this species is valued for its timber. Now, this species is found abundantly in the freshwater zones of Sundarbans. And this is one of the reasons why this swamp forest is known as Sundarbans because locally the species is known as Sundari. Then another reason given for the name Sundarbans is that because it is a beautiful forest where Sundar means beautiful and Bun means forest. Now, apart from its biodiversity, Sundarbans also serves as a crucial protective barrier against the floods for the inhabitants in and around Kolkata. Sundarbans result from the cyclones and we know that cyclones are a regular occurrence in the region. Then the mangroves in the Sundarbans also reduce the fury of cyclonic storms and it prevents the erosion that is caused by tidal action. Now, apart from this, the islands are also of greater economic importance because the islands in the Sundarbans act as a storm barrier. They act as shore stabilizers. They provide nutrient and sediment trap and they are a source of timber and natural resources and they also support a wide variety of aquatic and terrestrial organisms. So, the islands of Sundarbans are an excellent example of the ecological process of monsoon rain flooding, delta formation, tidal influence and plant colonization. Now, finally, Sundarbans is also important because it represents a society that is primarily agricultural. So, millions of people depend on Sundarbans ecosystem for their livelihood. They sustain their livelihood through fishing, through collection of honey and also through collection of fuel, wood or timber. Now, because of all these ecological importance and its economic importance, part of the Sundarbans was declared as a reserve forest in the year 1978 and subsequently it was also declared as a tiger reserve. Now, this total area of reserve forest is around 2500 square kilometers and it includes around 1600 square kilometers of land and then the remaining part is water body. Now, within this land area, around 1300 square kilometers is designated as core area and this core area is declared as the National Park by the Government of India in the year 1984. Now, we saw the ecological importance of this area and based on this, the Sundarbans National Park has been designated by the UNESCO as a natural world heritage site in the year 1987. Now, further protection is also provided to Sundarbans because subsequently in 1989, Government of India constituted the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve. So, Sundarbans is a biosphere reserve of India. This also received the recognition of UNESCO under its Man in Biosphere Program. So, Sundarbans is a biosphere reserve of India and it is also a global biosphere reserve under UNESCO. So now, what are the threats posed to Sundarbans? See, one of the threats is climate change because the effects of climate change can be directly seen in Sundarbans and due to that, Sundarbans also faces several challenges. See, Sundarbans is an area that is cyclone-prone as we saw already. It is monsoonal and it is also low-lying. Now, as a result of these characteristics, when changes in climate happen, it significantly impacts the area, it impacts the flora fauna and also the population living within it. So, one of the main impacts of climate change is the rising sea levels. Now, due to this, the islands are disappearing. A decade ago itself, that is in 2010 itself, it was observed that due to the rising sea levels, the New Moor Island or the South Talpati Island disappeared. And based on this fact, scientists already predicted that the other low-lying islands in the region could also vanish if these sea levels continue to rise. So, based on the subsequent studies were conducted in the following years and in that, it was found that there is a change in size and shape of Goramara Island and Lohachara Islands. These are situated on the Hooghly River. In these islands, few dozen houses and acres of land go under water every year. So, this has forced thousands of inhabitants of these islands to leave the islands and now they have become environmental refugees. Then, apart from this, another threat is the increase in salinity in the water and soil. This severely threatens the health of mangrove forests and it threatens the quality of soil and crops. Additionally, there have been also serious disturbances to the hydrological parameters and there is change in fishing patterns. So, all these have affected the fishermen also. Then, apart from this, the frequent cyclones and erratic monsoon raining pattern, these are also damaging the ecology and humanity of Sundarbans. So, in this way, the recent cyclone, that is the Yas cyclone, has also caused serious damages to Sundarbans. How? Because cyclones cause strong winds and breached embankments. Now, these breached embankments lead to ingress of seawater. That is seawater gets in and this in turn leads to large areas being flooded and due to the Yas cyclone, the Goramara Island is fully inundated and this has led to scarcity of drinking water in many of the islands because now the water resources are inundated by the seawater. Now, this inundation or flooding not only destroys the crops, but it also destroys the land because land cannot be cultivated due to the increased salinity. So, these are some of the threats and challenges faced by the Sundarbans in the recent times and also because of the cyclones that happen in the region frequently. So, in this regard, the news article provides a suggestion by the experts and this suggestion is adopting a long-term planning and such a planning should contain strategies that will minimize the impact of climate change and it will also lead to formulation of disaster management that is suited to the region. So, these are some of the points that I should know about Sundarbans and the threats. Now, let's move on to the next discussion. Our next discussion is based on this snippet news article from the science page which talks about dark filaments. See, the news is that a new map has been published of dark matter present in the local sheet. See, this term local sheet is nothing but the extra galactic regions around the Milky Way and other neighborhood galaxies. So, basically, now the scientists have mapped the region around the Milky Way and this has exposed more components about the dark matter. So, these findings are based on the dark matter only and that is why today we will see about dark matter. See, this dark matter is a very interesting concept.  So, that means we come in this 5% of the universe only. Now, in this, our human eye along with technological aid can only see certain areas in the universe. Now, these areas which we can see, they mostly lie in visible light or they lie in infrared radiation or in the ultraviolet spectrum. But the rest are not visible to us even with the aid of technology. Now, this is what dark matter is. So, actually, we don't know what is dark matter. What it contains in it is still a mystery to the scientists. In many ways, scientists know more about what dark matter is not than what it actually is. So, based on this, they speculate that dark matter possibly could be brown dwarfs. See, your brown dwarf means failed stars. That is, they never ignited as they lagged the mass which is needed to start burning. Now, they also speculate that dark matter could be white dwarfs.  Then they speculate that the dark matter could be neutron stars or black holes. That is, as you know, these are the remnants of large stars after they explode. And they even speculate that dark matter may not be made up of the matter we are familiar with at all. So, they say that the matter that makes up dark matter could be different. It may be filled with particles which is predicted by theory. But the scientists are yet to observe these particles. So, that means all these speculations which we just saw are just mere speculations or ideas with no concrete proofs yet. Now, since scientists cannot see dark matter directly, they have found other ways to investigate it. One of the ways which scientists use to indirectly study dark matter is the gravitational lensing. So, what is this gravitational lensing? It is a way to look into the universe. We know gravitational force. It pulls objects towards it. Now, you consider a massive object. Now, the gravitational field around this massive object will also be tremendous because the object is massive. And such massive objects can bend the light that is passing in their vicinity. That is the light that is passing near them. Based on this, scientists say that this amount of bending helps them to have a look at the massiveness of the objects. So, based on this, they think that they can also study dark matter. Now, coming to dark matter, in addition to these indirect ways, scientists at NASA think that they also have a direct way to detect dark matter by using the Fermi gamma ray space telescope. They are saying this because dark matter has a lot of gamma rays releasing processes. So, in short, we can only have one good fact about dark matter which is that it can be classified into three main categories. And these three categories are cold, warm and hot. Now, these categories have no conjunction or concurrence with the actual temperatures. Instead, these categories describe the rate at which the particles randomly move within the universe before slowing down. Now, such a movement of particles only leads to the expansion of the universe as a whole. So, based on the particles movement, scientists have classified dark matter into cold, warm and hot. So, that is all you need to know about dark matter as of now. Now, let us move on to the next discussion. Our next discussion is based on these news articles. See, recently there is a controversy in West Bengal. According to several media outlets, the West Bengal chief minister skipped the review meeting with the prime minister which was regarding cyclone EAS. But this is not the controversy which we are going to discuss. See, after a few hours of this review meeting, the West Bengal chief secretary, Alapan Bandhopadhyay received an order from the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. He received an order to report to the North Block in Delhi by May 31st. So, this has created a tussle between the centre and the state again. And these articles are regarding this issue only. So, let us discuss these aspects now. The syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference. See, first let us see about the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. See, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet decides upon the appointments to several top posts under the Government of India. The committee is composed of Prime Minister of India who is also the chairman of the committee. And it also includes the Minister of Home Affairs. So, this committee through the Department of Personal and Training which is under the Ministry of Personal it ordered the chief secretary of West Bengal to report to New Delhi. But this is an unprecedented move. That is something like this has never happened before. And this was done by the committee by invoking Rule 6, Clause 1 of the Indian Administrative Service Canada Rules of 1954. So, now what is this Rule 6, Clause 1? See, this rule pertains to deputation of Canada officers. Now, according to Rule 6, Clause 1, a Canada officer may be deputed for service. Now, this is to be done with the concurrence of the state governments concerned and also with the concurrence of central government. Now, the officer can be deputed for service under the central government or even a service under another state government or under a company association or a body of individuals which is wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the central government or by another state government. Now, based on this, the committee has asked the chief secretary to report back to New Delhi. So, now what happens in case of disagreement? That is what if the Canada officer does not want to be deputed? See, such a scenario arises because according to the article, there is a custom that an officer will not be deputed against her or his will and a remedy in this issue is also provided by the 1954 rules and under these rules the Rule 6 Clause 1 also states that in case of any disagreement the matters shall be decided by the central government and the state government has to give effect to that decision of the central government. So, this provision was invoked by the central government to recall the chief secretary of West Bengal. See, so far before any officer of the All India Services is called for deputation to the center, her or his concurrence is required. So, this is the convention so far and here also the central government invites nominations from the state governments. Now, once the nominations are received, their eligibility is scrutinized by a panel and then an offer list is prepared. Now, this is done traditionally with the state governments on board. Now, from this process the central ministries and officers choose. Now, then the order for central deputation is passed for the concerned IAS officer. So, this was the convention so far but this convention has been totally avoided in the case of West Bengal chief secretary and that is why there is a controversy regarding this issue. So, now what will happen if the officer that is the chief secretary refuses to comply with the order. See, when such non-compliance of an order happens the All India Services discipline and appeal rules of 1969 is invoked but in this case that is in case of deputation of cadre officers, these 1969 rules are not clear on the punishment in such cases but the rule 7 in these 1969 rules says that the authority to institute the proceedings and to impose penalty will be the state government. So, we can see that there is a lack of clarity when it comes to non-compliance of the order in this issue. See, as we know, IAS officers are technically recruited by the center and they are lent to the states but if the officers are recalled at the whims and fancies of the central government then the entire state government machinery will crumble and this would lead to complete and total anarchy in the country. In addition to this, it will also deter the officers from following the state government's order because they may fear that they can be recalled by the central government at any moment. Therefore such moves set wrong precedence and they should be avoided at all cost. So, these are the points that we need to know about the ongoing issue with the Chief Secretary of West Bengal. Let us see what are the developments in this issue in the coming days. Now, let us move on to the next discussion. Our next discussion is based on this news article which talks about the studies on the genomes of Neanderthals. So, in this context, let us know about Neanderthals and also the important points from these studies. See, Neanderthals are members of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 2 lakh years ago and they emerged during the Pleistocene epoch. I note that they were replaced or assimilated by early modern human populations that is the Homo sapiens between 35,000 and 24,000 years ago. And these Neanderthals, they inhabited Eurasia from the Atlantic regions of Europe to the Central Asia. In addition to this, they even occupied places as far north as present-day Belgium and even as far south as the Mediterranean and southwest Asia. And it is also said that similar archaic human populations lived at the same time in eastern Asia and in Africa. Now the Neanderthals lived in a land of abundant limestone caves and these caves preserved bones of the Neanderthals. I note that the news article also mentions that the bones of one of these Neanderthals was first discovered in the Neander Valley in Germany and that is why they derived the name of Neanderthal. See, until the late 20th century, Neanderthals were regarded as genetically, morphologically and behaviorally distinct from living humans. But however, more recent discoveries have revealed an overlap between the living humans and the archaic humans. Also note that the Neanderthals lived even before and during the last Ice Age of Pleistocene epoch. So they lived in some of the most unforgiving environments that were ever inhabited by humans. And these are some of the Neanderthal sites. Just take note of it. So in this regard, the news article adds little information related to Neanderthals. See, recent genetic analysis of one of the samples from the region showed that Neanderthals first came to the Bako Kiro Cave in Bulgaria and this happened more than 50,000 years ago. In addition to this, the genetic analysis also confirms that the modern humans also came in two to more waves and they even littered the cave with beads and stones and this happened around 45,000 and 36,000 years ago. So this clearly showed that the modern human population in that region, they had interbred with the locals that is the Neanderthals and they produced a cross-bred group of people and this cross-bred group of people is what is called by the researchers as modern with Neanderthals. And the news article mentions that this has provided certain benefits to the modern humans such as the Neanderthals have already adapted to colder regions for more than four like years. So this gave the modern humans variations in skin and hair color which was better suited to the colder regions and it also gave adaptive variants of metabolism and immunity and it is said that this also helped the modern humans to better adjust to strange new food sources and to adjust to the unfamiliar disease-causing viruses in the new environment. So these are some of the recent findings relating to the Neanderthals and the modern humans. So that is all about this discussion. Let us move on to the next one. Our next discussion is based on this FAQ article which is regarding the developments on the recently introduced IT rules of 2021. We have already discussed this topic on our discussion on 26th May 2021. On that day we saw about the features and important provisions of the rules and in today's discussion we will discuss the issues in the IT rules of 2021 and we will have a special focus on the traceability clause which is focused by this FAQ article. See this issue of traceability clause is gaining ground because the Facebook owned messaging platform that is WhatsApp is challenging the Indian Government in the court regarding the traceability clause in the new IT rules. So today let us see about these now. The next 11 to this discussion is given here for your reference. See there are positive aspects about the IT rules and there are also equally glaring ambiguities and unclear provisions in the rules. Now while challenging the Indian Government in the court of law WhatsApp has invoked the 2017 case law which is Justice Case Putters Swami versus Union of India case law. It has invoked this case law to argue that traceability provision is unconstitutional and it is against people's fundamental right to privacy and we know that Supreme Court underlined right to privacy as a fundamental right in its 2017 judgment only and in this case Supreme Court also discussed in detail about the scope and ambit of right to privacy. So before going into this traceability clause issue let us see what are the positive aspects in these rules. See the rules must be credited for their mandate duties such as removal of non-constitutional intimate pictures within 24 hours then publication of compliance reports to increase transparency etc. In addition to it the rules also provide setting up of a dispute resolution mechanism for content removal and adding a label to the information for the users to know whether the content is advertised, owned, sponsored or exclusively controlled. Now these few measures will protect the user's interest and that is why these measures have been welcomed by various sections of the society but however there are also many issues that are mainly concerned with user privacy and arbitrary authority of the state. So let us see these issues one by one. See the first issues regarding the provisions that apply to the intermediaries such as social media platforms which is provided in the part 2 of the IT rules. Now in these rules the rule 3 sub rule J mentions that intermediaries are mandated to provide information under their control or the information which is under their possession to the government within 72 hours of receipt of an order. So that means if the government wants any information from the intermediaries they have to provide that information within 3 days. This is one of the issues cited by the intermediaries. Now the second issue is regarding the rule 4 of the IT rules which mentions about the significant social media intermediary. See as per the new norms a significant social media intermediary is a social media intermediary which has more than 50 lakh registered users. Now under the rule 4 such an intermediary who is providing services primarily in the nature of messaging they shall enable the identification of the first originator of the information on its computer resource. An intermediary has to do this only when an order is issued in this regard by a court of competent jurisdiction or when an order is passed by the competent authority under section 69 of the information technology rules of 2009 and this is the clause which the WhatsApp is challenging because here the identification of first originator is what is called as the traceability clause and it has asked the courts to declare this clause as unconstitutional and it does not want this clause to come into force. See here the term traceability can be defined as an activity to keep track of who said what and who shared what for billions of messages that are sent every day. This traceability requires messaging services to store information that can be used to ascertain the content of people's messages and therefore it will lead to breaking off the guarantees which is provided by the end to end encryption especially the ones which are provided by WhatsApp. See here the issue is the traceability of content or enabling the identification of originator of information is equivalent of asking the WhatsApp to keep a fingerprint of every single message that is sent on WhatsApp. So this infringes upon the right to privacy of an individual also the immunity that users received from end to end encryption was that intermediaries did not have access to the contents of the users messages but if this mandatory requirement of traceability is imposed then it will break this immunity and thereby it will weaken the security of the privacy of these conversations and it is feared that it will also render all these data in these conversations vulnerable to attack from ill intention third parties. So here the threat is not only to the privacy but also there is fear of extent of invasion and also deprivation of a safe space to converse. This safe space is important to circulate one's own views. This has been upheld by the Supreme Court in one of its case laws. This case law is the life insurance corporation of India versus Professor Manu Bhai Desha which is a 1992 case law in which Supreme Court elevated the freedom to circulate one's views as the lifeline of any democratic institution. Here Supreme Court even went on to say that any attempt to stifle or gag this right would sound a death knell to democracy and it will help to usher in autocracy or dictatorship. So that means if there is no safe space to circulate one's own views then we are no more in a democratic setup and based on this fact only WhatsApp is challenging Indian government in the court of law. So now what the government of India says regarding this see here government of India is saying that it is committed to the right of privacy of citizen but at the same time it is also responsible for ensuring national security. In addition to this to prove that traceability clause is required the Ministry of Justice has given two legal points in a notice released by it which is related to the traceability requirement. The first legal point which they are saying is that no fundamental right including the right to privacy is absolute and it is subject to reasonable restrictions. So here they are using the reasonable restrictions clause where they are saying that the traceability clause is for the purpose of prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution or punishment of an offence and here the offence is related to sovereignty and integrity of India the security of state or offenses affecting the friendly relations with foreign states or offenses that affect public order. So this is one of the arguments put down by the Ministry of Electronics and IT for substantiating its need for demanding of a traceability clause. Along with these reasonable restrictions there are also other instances like the offense could be in relation with rape sexually explicit material or child sexual abuse material etc that is the offenses which are punishable with imprisonment for a term of not less than 5 years. So here the government is arguing that if the traceability clause is present then it will help the government to get evidence for prosecuting the offender. So on one hand whatsapp is taking the precedence of supreme court for substantiating its argument and on the other hand government of India is taking national security as a reason to enforce the traceability clause. Now let us see what the court decides in this matter. Now other than this traceability clause there are also other issues in the IT rules. Let us see them now. The next issue is regarding the power of the Ministry of Electronics and IT to frame regulations for digital media. See as per second schedule of business rules of 1961 the ministry does not have powers to frame regulations for digital media. This power belongs to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting only. But in today's case the rules were framed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and that is why this is one of the issues discussed with these rules. Now another issue is that an intermediary is now supposed to take down a content within 36 hours after receiving orders from the government. So this 36 hours time limit deprives the intermediary of a fair recourse because even if the intermediary wants to disagree with the government's order it cannot do due to this strict timeline. Now the next issue is that the Information Technology Act 2000 does not regulate digital media. Therefore the new IT rules which claim to be a piece of subordinate legislation of the IT Act they also does not have the power to regulate digital media. But what happened was the IT rules have been framed for digital media also. So that means the rules travel beyond the rule making power which have been conferred upon it by the IT Act. So this is one of the issue. Now lastly the rules also create a futile additional operational costs for the intermediaries because it requires them to have an Indian resident nodal officer, compliance officers and grievance officers. So this makes profit making as a far-fetched goal for the multinational corporations and startup intermediary enterprises. So this is also one of the issues cited by the intermediaries. So today we have seen some of the issues with the IT rules. Now regarding the traceability clause we can say that in the absence of a data protection law enforcing the traceability clause would render more disadvantages than advantages. So that is all about this discussion on FAQ article. Let us move on to the next discussion. Our next discussion is based on this news article which talks about the genocide towards Indigenous people of Canada. So first we will see about the Indigenous people of Canada then we will see the news. In Canada the term Indigenous people or aboriginal peoples it refers to First Nations Metis and Inuit peoples. They are the original inhabitants of the land which is now called as Canada and as per Canada's official statistics the Indigenous people constitute up to 4.9% of their national population that is the Canadian population. So that means there are three categories of Indigenous people in Canada they are the Inuit people, Metis people and First Nations people. Now in this the Inuits they primarily inhabit in the northern regions of Canada. Their homeland is known as Inuit New Angad. Now this region includes much of land water and ice that is contained in the Arctic region. Now the Metis peoples are of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry and they live mostly in the priori provinces and Ontario of Canada. And then comes the First Nations people. They were the original inhabitants of the land and now they occupy the territories of south of Arctic in Canada. I note that there are more than 630 First Nations communities in Canada and which represents more than 50 nations and 50 Indigenous languages. Now these Indigenous people formed complex social, political and economic cultural systems in Canada before the arrival of Europeans to the North America. But the Indigenous people and their livelihood had been severely threatened by these colonial forces. So due to the colonization and white settlement the traditional Indigenous ways of life have been altered in Canada. And in their places certain colonial practices and policies control and assimilate the Indigenous people. And these colonial practices and policies include their Indian act then past system and then the residential schools system. These practices and policies have had historic and ongoing impacts on the generations of Indigenous people. But today we will only focus on the residential school system of practices that is focused by the news article. See during the 19th and 20th centuries that is approximately from 1863 to 1998, Canada removed Indigenous children, especially the First Nations children from their families and the government placed these children in the federally funded boarding schools. Now this was done with the intent of assimilating or incorporating the Indigenous children into the broader Canadian society. And these boarding schools were called as Indian residential schools. But these schools, rather than making the children educated, they compulsorily made the children to leave their identity of being aboriginal. See what happened was in these schools the children were forced to convert to Christianity. They were not allowed to speak their languages or they were not even allowed to express their cultural heritage and identities.  Now as a result of this the aboriginal people were expected to have ceased to exist as a distinct people having their own government's cultures and identities. And due to this particular system of residential schools, it is estimated that around 150,000 First Nations children suffered abuse in these schools. So to find out and document the impacts of this Indian residential schools system, the Canadian government launched the commission in 2008 and this commission submitted a report named Truth and Reconciliation Report. Now in this report the commission has found that large number of indigenous children never return to their home communities. Which means that either the children lost to the touch with their parents or even they died or they were even killed. And it is said that up to 6000 children have died in these schools. So based on this the report concluded that the Indian residential schools policy has amounted to cultural genocide. So in the same year that is in 2008 itself the Canadian government formally apologized for this system. Now this policy is again in news because in one of the schools under this policy remains of many children have been found. This school is the Kamloops Indian residential school and here remains of around 215 children has been found. And it is said that the remains of more children will be found as the search proceeds. So this incident has resurfaced the painful and shameful history of Canada. So that is all you need to know about this issue. Now let us move on to the next discussion. Our next discussion is based on this news article from the Science and Tech page. This news article reports about a study which highlights the decline of forest bird species in western Himalayas. See western Himalayas is also known as Panchab Himalayas. It is also regionally known as Kashmir and Himachal Himalayas. Now these western Himalayas refers to the westernmost section of the vast Himalayan mountain range and it is spread across the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Now the study which we are talking about was undertaken in the temperate forests of the state of Uttarakhand because these forests house a large number of endemic bird species. As you know endemic species means those species exist only in one geographical region and their habitat is also restricted to a particular area due to the factors like climate change, urban developments etc. Now as per the findings of the study the abundance of important birds in western Himalayas is facing a decline due to the invasion caused by non-native species and invasive species and also the decline is caused by land use changes. See land use change refers to the process by which human activities transform the natural landscape. And here you need to understand the difference between non-native and invasive species and note that both are different. Non-native species are the organisms that do not occur naturally in an area but they are introduced as a result of deliberate or accidental human activity. These non-native species simply exist where they have not naturally occur and they may not hinder or prevent the survival of others within the ecosystem. Now among these non-native species itself there are some species which can cause damage and such species are called as invasive species. In simple terms we can say that invasive species are also non-native species but they are capable of causing economic harm or environmental harm or even harm to human health. Now such invasive species have got the potential to reduce the ecosystems biodiversity and they can cause economic harm to people who depend on the ecosystem's biological resources. And these invasive species also prevent the native species from obtaining food, living space and other resources that is needed for their survival. And such invasive species also serve as disease vectors that spread parasites and pathogens which may further disrupt the invaded areas. So due to these species it was found that the bird species in the western Himalayas have been affected. So this was the one of the important findings of this study. Now there was another study conducted in the western Himalayan region and it focused on the role played by the woodpeckers in a biodiversity. In this study it was found that woodpeckers play an important role as an indicator of bird diversity. As per the findings woodpeckers enhance the diversity in the regions or in other words a strong population of woodpeckers at a site denotes a rich population of other bird species. This is because the cavities which are made by woodpeckers on trees are also used by other variety of birds to build their nests. So this is also one of the important finding that we should know. So that is all about this news article. So with this we have come to the end of news articles discussion session. Now let us take up the practice questions that have been framed based on the discussions so far. Now our first question is based on mangroves that is a question that was asked in Prillin's 2011. The question asks the 2004 tsunami made people realize that mangroves can serve as a reliable safety hedge against coastal calamities. How do mangroves function as a safety hedge? Option A, the mangroves firms separate the human settlements from the sea by a wide zone in which people neither live nor venture out. Now this statement is incorrect because today we saw about Sundarbans among the islands in the Sundarbans 50% of them are inhabited by people. Now the second statement is the mangroves provide both food and medicines which people are in need of after any natural disaster. Now this does not substantiate the point that mangroves function as a safety hedge. So this is also an incorrect statement. Now option C is the mangrove trees are tall with dense canopies and serve as an excellent shelter during a cyclone or tsunami. Now this statement is also correct because generally mangroves are not always tall. They vary in sizes sometimes they are short shrub-like trees and sometimes they can even reach more than 60 meters of height and this feature does not enable it to protect the people from a cyclone or a tsunami. So this is an incorrect statement. Now option D if you see it states the mangrove trees do not get uprooted by storms and tides because of their extensive roots. Now this statement is correct and these help the mangroves to reduce the destructive energy of a tsunami. It is said that around 90 percentage of the energy of tsunami is reduced by even 100 meters of dense mangroves and that is why this statement is correct. Now this next question is based on dark matter. It is a two statement question. First statement is scientists merely speculate what it can actually be. Now this statement is correct because we saw that scientists are still arguing to figure out what dark matter actually is. Now the second statement is they constitute only 5 percentage of the universe. Now this statement is incorrect because they make up over 25 percentage of the universe. We saw this during discussion. And here the question asks for the correct statements and the correct answer to this question is option A one only. Now this next question is a two statement question. First statement is endemic species are found in a particular geographical region and nowhere else in the world. Now this statement is correct. This is the definition of endemic species. Second statement is an invasive species is an organism that causes ecological and economic harm in a new environment where it is not native. This statement is also correct because an invasive species is a non-native species which causes ecological harm or economic harm. And here the question asks for the correct statement. So the correct answer is option C both one and two. Now this next question is a direct question it asks. The word Neanderthals is sometimes mentioned in media in reference to option A fossils of a kind of dinosaurs option B an early human species option C a care system found in northeast India option D a geological period in the history of Indian subcontinent. Now the correct answer is option B an early human species because we saw that Neanderthals are the members of a group of archaic humans. And here archaic human means early human species. So the correct answer is option B. Now this next question asks the terms Inuit Metis and First Nations recently seen in news refers to the aboriginal people of option A, Indonesia option B, Mexico option C, Canada option D Spain. And from the discussion we know that they are the aboriginal peoples of Canada. So the correct answer is option C. So now let us take two main questions. These questions are based on GS paper 2 and this question you have to critically examine the IT rules of 2021 and you have to mainly focus on the data privacy issue and the traceability clause. So in the 250 words around 40 percentage you should be focusing on these two aspects. Now this next question is based on independence of civil services. Now this is a general question so you can answer the challenges including the challenges which we discussed today. With this we have come to the end of today's Indian news analysis If you like this video don't forget to like, comment and share and do subscribe to Shankar IS Academy YouTube channel for more updates related to civil service examination preparation. Have a nice day.


Progressive Christians on tiktok are going wild and I can't help but respond. Hey, what's up guys? It's Isaac David and this is the daily disciple where I help you follow Jesus daily if you're new to this channel I'm putting up videos every single week so subscribe because you're gonna have a good time before we get into today's video I just want to give a huge shout out to everyone on patreon It means so much to me that you guys continue to support me on there We need 19 more patrons to reach the goal for this month So if you want to help support what I'm doing helping people find Jesus and follow him daily I might ask you to go to the link in my description and you get all sorts of benefits along with that But just to be real with you guys you guys have honestly changed my life like the amount of view that's on there already It's meant that I can spend more time on this and dedicate days off where I'm not at my other job I'm just here making content for you guys and I'd love to do this full-time. That's my dream That's my goal. So your guys support means a lot to me and thank you so much for helping me do that Okay, so now you guys know I'm on tiktok. Well, maybe some of you don't if you don't at it's Isaac David on tiktok I post quite a bit on there It's actually my biggest social media platform So I spend a lot of time and energy on it learning about it And so also that means consuming content the funny thing about tiktok is that you often come across things that you Never expect or maybe on YouTube, you know your experience or watching experiences very catered to what you like what you agree with or It's what you decided to subscribe to but on tiktok. You're offered up random things from random people the other day I saw somebody shooting a tiktok in jail. I'm like you got a phone in jail that he sneak it in How is he a Wi-Fi a lot of questions, but it's very interesting also people at like family Reunions or in college dorms all sorts of stuff and I came across some a series of Progressive Christian tiktoks that were very interesting to me kind of mind-blowing And so I wanted to respond to them today not as a means of hating on them because you guys know me I'm not like that's not my MO. I don't want to just pull up stuff to make fun of I actually want things It'll build us up and you know help us actually follow Jesus daily And I think through these things will actually learn where we can go off in Conforming our own beliefs to the culture as opposed to the word of God and some of the excuses that people use in doing that and and the Honestly the trouble the problem with progressive and woke Christianity and what that actually looks like there are a lot of things to learn here, so let's get into it and Yeah, let's go growing up in the church as a good old Christian boy I was taught to check the teachings of the world against the teachings of the Bible because if it didn't line up with the Teachings of the Bible well then obviously that's how you would know it's not true But what I was not taught was to check my interpretation of the Bible Against what I knew to be the character of God and I think if Christians performed that test They would have a much clearer picture of what the Bible actually says Oh, okay a lot of meat in this this guy's coming in with a hot take So you need to interpret the Bible through what you believe the character of God to be hmm interesting I mean if you've grown up in the church, you know the whole thing about look if you something's going on in the culture, right? There's a new new Ideology or something else like that and we got to compare that to the word of God And that's how you be a good Christian because you're discerning right of course We do that on this channel all the time But this guy's coming in with his hot take saying no no no what you think God's character is that's what's most important And then you use that lens to look in the Bible and if something doesn't you know line up exactly then you know That's that ain't it my question is this how do you know God's character without the Bible, right? Okay, well you have general revelation so you can see the world around you. It's beautifully designed It is he is creative. He's a creative God. He's an orderly God He focuses on Simplicity but also complexity and he merges those two really nicely within creation There's certain things that we can identify about him through general revelation through creation So that tells me a little bit about his character But I still need to know more if I'm really gonna use it as my main interpreting principle of the Bible So then we look to the special revelation of God the Bible, right? And he's spelled it out clearly who he is what he has done who we are all that we need Oh, it's in there. We're good homie, right? Like we're good. We're solid The problem is is this guy's like well, you know, that's not a special revelation like come on now Like that's probably probably has some mistakes in it a little bit What's most important is what I think God is who I he uses the phrase how who I already know God's character to be really interesting. You already know who God is without the Bible Hmm. I don't know if that's necessarily true because I have a feeling that often that that's just coming out of What you got want God to be right if we were like, you know what God isn't he's not about that hell thing like that Well, that doesn't really align with who I think God's character is or I don't think God is Judgmental or he has any kind of wrath in him at all or maybe he doesn't even hate sin or maybe some things in the Bible that He calls in there. Yeah, but that's not really a alignment with what I think God's character is So that needs to change a little bit. Some people say I would never serve a God that would send people to hell Well, then you're willing to only serve a God that you can manufacture in your own mind because a God that is truly loving That's the interesting thing and they're so obsessed with love God's about love God's about love God's about love But if a God if God is truly loving and he is truly good He has to punish sin think of a judge that just lets criminals go free. That is not a loving judge Just ask their family members of the of the victims. They're not happy about it. They're like judge. What are you doing? How could you do this?  They don't like the idea of sin They don't like the idea that we're broken or we need Saving and so they kind of lift that from it. They're like, well, I don't know if that really fits in the Bible So let's just remove it But when they do that they actually stripped the beauty away from the gospel You see the gospel means good news and in order for the gospel to be truly good news We need to understand the bad news the bad news of sin of God's Judgment of us and how we actually deserve the penalty for that sin Which is hell but the good news of the gospel is that Jesus came to this earth fully God and fully man without Sin to live the sinless life that we could not live to die on the cross the death We deserve to die for our own sins against God and he rose again on the third day Defeating death so that we could be born again so that we could be freed from the presence and power and ultimately the penalty of sin That's a beautiful message. So no do not interpret the Bible based on your own Presuppositions about who God ought to be no look for the Bible look to the Bible for that special revelation of who God is Actually claimed to be what he has done and conform your life to that I got to mute the audio on this one because it has copyrighted music, but you'll get the point Karen wanted to spend her life as a missionary bringing Christianity to the third world. That's nice Everybody loves that found out they're happy in their own religions and she just had a white savior complex Okay, so it's like okay, well that's nice like you're gonna go Vangelize that's cool go into all the world and preach the gospel to every nation. That's cool Oh, yeah, I forgot about the part where Jesus was like Yeah, but not other nations though because you're gonna be like oh don't have a white savior complex come on now stain your own place They're probably happy in their religions. Just chill like what? It's like that's like woke Jesus he comes in go into all the world not the world You know what just keep it yourself You know what people are probably happy in their own religions or maybe their atheists or maybe their agnostics Maybe they believe in a lot of gods. That's cool, right? Did I it's not like I said I was the only way or anything or the truth of the life Wait, did I say that no probably not Christianity is not about you being happy like bro Like that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard like when we if you believe that and if you start teaching that That's gonna lead to so much destruction and heartache And I honestly think a lot of people were taught that in church if G if you have Jesus in your life You'll be happy fulfilled wealthy healthy like all this stuff But that's not the case right God doesn't promise that our emotions will always be like well We're always gonna be so happy and joyful and yeah, yeah, yeah, like you know like we're in a quartet or something like that I don't know why that came to my mind. I just imagined at the peak of happiness here in like a Quartet singing Never mind. I'm gonna cut this out Do we forget about all those verses about going through trials and experiencing heartache and Weep with those weep and all those kind of things and then also we need to understand the heart of Christianity It's not that we okay. Will we go there to make them more happy people? No, no, no We go there to proclaim the good news that Jesus has taken the penalty for our sins And so we're saying hey look, you know what you're not perfect as you are you need somebody else You need Jesus he said he's the only way you are not enough in and of yourself You need Jesus it doesn't matter if you're happy or not Obviously that is a very intolerant message according to the world But it is nonetheless true and that's the reason that we are called to go into all the world and proclaim the gospel making Disciples and the interesting thing. Why does she bring race into this? She has white savior complex I feel like this is the same kind of lady that would say that Christianity is a white man's religion is only used to Oppress people well, I'm gonna talk about that a little bit more after we watch this bit next video here We go. This is prepare yourself. This is gonna be intense Are we ready to talk about how white Christianity does nothing but perpetuate rape culture and it started at the conception of Jesus Married and consent to that Okay, okay, that's a lot. That's a lot. I was not prepared for that that was What? What? There's so much in that.  We are all one in Christ Christianity is not a white man's religion and anybody that tries to propagate that message is lying to you Jesus wasn't white and Anybody that uses the church as a means to gain power over people or oppressed people Those are not Christians. Those are people that are trying to usurp the Christian system or church or whatever kind of institution organization in order to maintain Dominance or whatever like that's not a Christian thing and we can gladly all point all those people out That's bad. Don't do that.  No We as Christians need to be focused on our central identity our central identity is not in our race It is in Christ and if you disagree with that, I'm sorry But that's what the Bible has to call us to it is that we are new creations in Christ and that is our central Identity okay, but she accuses the church in Christianity of doing nothing, but propagating rape culture Which is quite an accusation, but here's what I would say is that well the culture celebrates promiscuity and Perversions of all sorts they applaud it God has called this to something much greater a higher standard Where we're supposed to keep each other accountable That's an aspect of it where we're supposed to understand power dynamics within the church to keep a careful eye and making sure that There isn't abuse and when abuse happens calling it out and should the church get better at this of course But we are made up of individuals the church is made up of individuals So it's our job to keep ourselves accountable as well continuing to pursue Christ but here's the thing at least we have a standard by which we're able to say Abuse is bad and this is wrong at least we have a standard see the world is just appealing to whatever the The morality of the day is which is constantly changing You see progressive Christians trying to twist the Bible as quickly as they can to try to appease the woke mob But they can't even do it fast enough. They're like we're changing this. No, we don't believe this We don't believe this you see when we hold to the word of God It actually gives us standards of justice by which we can say abuse that's wrong we you're out, right? You need to repent you need to be punished for this Christianity elevates the vulnerable of society and takes care of them That is what we are called to I don't even think I need to address that last part where she's like Mary didn't even give consent Like what on this earth like oh my goodness. I don't understand people that they try everything They will do anything possible to obfuscate on their accountability before God They will accuse him of every conceivable thing whether it's the Old Testament or New Testament They will bring accusations against him to justify their own unbelief Okay Okay Okay Man, you know, we have two decisions We can either look at God's word and conform that to our own lifestyle. So, you know what that doesn't really fit with me You know what? I'm gonna kind of manipulate and move it a little bit We'll still maybe call ourselves a Christian, but you know what? We don't want all that bigoted hateful stuff in there. That's just outdated that is not Relevant to our culture nowadays. So I'm just gonna take the good stuff We can either do that and you know, our life is at the forefront everything else conforms it to what we want What we desire is most important. What we think is good That's what we're gonna take in and everything else We're just gonna kind of spit out like a little bit of an erasable Bible or we can conform our lives to what God says Which is what we are called to do I'm not saying it's easy friends But I'm saying that when we walk in step with Jesus when we begin to Seek after him as most important when we don't understand our own opinion and perspective as the most important But rather we want to conform our lives and beliefs and character and heart to that of Christ Then there's so much freedom from that because we're no longer held to the standard this new religion of Wokeism or progressivism where they're like you need to conform your life constantly to our ever-changing morality No, you don't need to do that You need to hold your life Against the standard of who God is and what he has done and what he has said in his word And when you fall down there is grace and there is forgiveness available There is no forgiveness in the progressive Christian world There is no forgiveness because it is a constantly changing morality where it is constant repentance It is constant. Oh, I'm sorry. I offended you. I'm sorry. I've done this. I'm the oppressor here I am terrible piece of garbage all that but there's never any forgiveness and lightness knowing that God is Who he says he is and he has forgiven us and we are free And we don't need to constantly be trying to evaluate is this who God is I don't know if this aligns with what I believe his character is and maybe I take this or lose this it's like no just sit at the table and enjoy and Rest and follow because what God is inviting us to is light and that's what I want to invite you into well Other people may celebrate confusion and not really knowing exactly. I'm not sure if God exists or I'm not sure if Jesus is really God. I'm inviting you To know God to love him to know that he is who he says he is in the word of God And to begin to develop a relationship with him and to get a little self-reflective I think each of us needs to look at our own lives and say what have I Taken out of the Bible or raised out of the Bible because it didn't fit what I wanted to believe about God Or it didn't fit my lifestyle or it didn't fit It made me uncomfortable because I had to confront some stuff in my own life what are those things And we can bring those to God and say God. Hey, I've been doing this. I'm sorry I I I've been prideful in thinking that I should control what is true What is right? What is good when you are the definition when you have standard of that Can you forgive me and he does And once again he gets He coaxes us to get up and walk again with him and that is the amazing father that he is Hey guys, thank you so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it Let me know in the comments down below what your thoughts are on all of this I know there's a lot of meat to it, but I love to hear what you think about it Thank you again to everyone on patreon It honestly means so much to me that you continue to support me and my mission of helping people find Jesus And follow him daily. Um, it means a lot. Thank you so much for watching guys, and I'll see you next time. God bless


So, today we're going to talk about a couple stories here that I found extremely interesting. One of them is, well they're both actually really good news for the Nintendo Switch, one more so than the other, but it's hard to really complain too much. First off, in Japan the Nintendo Switch has kind of hit a milestone. The Switch is about, you know, a few days short of its sixth month anniversary. I don't know if that's even a thing, but six months off from release, a few days short and the past week's sales numbers in Japan have come in and well, guess what? The Nintendo Switch has sold 1,527,962 units thanks to the 69,654 units this sold last week according to media create. That means it sold over 1.5 million units in just under six months in Japan. That obviously, if you're paying any attention, puts it on pace to top 3 million in its first 12 months on the market in Japan. That's huge and that's way better than the Wii U performed and heck it's kind of on pace, maybe even surpassing the pace of the 3DS during its first year. In addition, we learned, and this is just part of the same story, that Splatoon 2 has crossed a million units in Japan. That's not, that's surprising. I guess Splatoon 2 has been killing it in Japan and it just sold 1,004,180 copies. That is just awesome. I mean the game's only been out for a month and a half or so, two months. That's just amazing and Monster Hunter Double Cross just released and yeah, that's going to have a huge week in sales when we get this week's run because Monster Hunter obviously does really, really well in Japan. So let's talk about the next story. This next story I find extremely interesting because it's subjective in nature, but it kind of agrees with something I've been pondering since the release of the Switch. So, Respected UK Gaming Publication Edge, they're one of the few magazine publications left out there, published a huge 100 greatest video games of all time list and these kind of lists are always just interesting. You know, you're going to disagree with a lot of placements, everybody disagrees with a lot of placements, but what I found to be most interesting is that, you know, includes all games ever released and Breath of the Wild is number one. Let that sink in for a bit. Out of all the video games ever released, Edge Magazine has Breath of the Wild ranked as number one. I put a couple images up so you can kind of see what other games are right by Dark Souls is number two, Grand Theft Auto V is number three, Last of Us number four, Bloodborne number five, Half-Life 2 number six, Tetris number seven, number eight is Super Mario Galaxy 2 number nine, Ocarina of Time, and to round out the top 10 is Resident Evil 4. So it's really interesting looking at this list and I'll put a link down in the description, you know, in case you want dive deeper into it and maybe see some of the reasoning behind it, you'll need Edge Magazine itself if you actually want to read the article on it. But it's very interesting to me that Breath of the Wild is the number one ranked game of all time according to Edge Magazine because I actually agree with them. And it's interesting, obviously, because I haven't played every single video game out there. So I can only base how I ranked video games based on the games I've actually played. Now I have high respect for a lot of games I haven't had the opportunity to play. And maybe they would make a list just based on my respect level. But again, I haven't played them. So it's hard to rank them ahead of games that I have played that I actually admire. And Breath of the Wild is my favorite game, period, not just favorite Nintendo game, favorite game of all time. Number two, Nippin at the heels for me is Secret of Mana. And it was kind of interesting because as I was looking at this list, I realized Secret of Mana didn't even make it. That's naturally disappointing for me. But that's okay. There are so many great games just because it's my personal, you know, used to be like my favorite game of all time with Secret of Mana until Breath of the Wild came out. And I was reminiscing on this because a lot of times the latest and greatest games that come out are going to, they're the freshest in our minds, right? So we tend to overrank them as it were. But I don't actually think it's the case of Breath of the Wild because I'm still playing it to this day. Now, to be fair, I still play a lot of games to this day. But when I'm thinking about it in my brain, just just contemplating everything that Breath of the Wild was, I still just can't knock it off that number one perch. And it's an interesting thing to think about because as I still run the Zelda and former Facebook page, I see a lot of people always offering up counter arguments because we post a lot of Breath of the Wild related content there because that's the Zelda game that came out this year. And that's the freshest content being made by fans, you know, the memes and the art and all that stuff. And a lot of people just talk about how Breath of the Wild isn't as great as people think it is and they don't understand why it's ranked so high. So I just want to take a moment and revisit a topic I probably talked about back in during March and April, just talking about why Breath of the Wild to me is the greatest video game I've ever played crossing all genres and all video game systems. And it's it's hard to explain because it's a feeling it's a feeling I get while I play. I feel like I am on this grand adventure and people get this feeling in a lot of different games, you know, it's an adventure game, an action adventure game, people get this feeling in action adventures and RPGs and even FPSes and tactical strategy game. I mean, you can get this feeling sense of an adventure playing many different types of games. But Breath of the Wild just did it to me in this special sort of way. Now, I have to admit I obviously have some bias towards the Zelda series.  If I obviously didn't have an affinity towards the Zelda series. So there's just an overarching theme of how much I love Zelda. But despite all of that, Secret of Mana was always my favorite game. And there was nothing that even came close. I mean, the closest game was World of Warcraft, which again was another game that always has continued even to this day, 13 years later as it still gets expansion packs to fill me with a sense of wonder and fill me with a sense of adventure. And that's a huge reason why I love World of Warcraft. Plus, I love the lore and everything else behind it. And even that couldn't top the Secret of Mana as a standalone game. So Breath of the Wild, barely, it was about, I'd say, I didn't really realize that it top Secret of Mana for me, probably until after I started replaying the game after I had beaten Ganon or Calamity Ganon. I'm not going to dive into too deep of spoilers here, but I defeated Calamity Ganon. And in most other games, once I beat the emboss, I don't replay it. I don't really feel this urge to replay games. And a lot of you out there are different. A lot of you replay your games over and over and over again. I'm not a person like that unless it's like a multiplayer game or a game like a sports title like Madden or something like that. I don't really feel this urge to constantly replay something. I generally had this amazing experience the first time around. And that's what I want to hold on to. That's what I want my memory of a game to be. Now, there obviously are different occasions when I replay games. Obviously, when I need to record footage for something I'm using here on YouTube, if I need to, if I need to try out a glitch or if I for some reason want to 100% a game. Now, I'm not someone who's a big completionist and always want to 100% every single game I play, but like I am working on a second playthrough right now in master mode of Breath of the Wild wanting to 100% it because I never did that the first time around. And I find myself enjoying the game just as much, you know, doing that with the intent of 100% as I did the first time I played through the game. Some of it's because obviously master mode added some new enemies and some twists and made things harder. But that's really an aside. It's the adventure that really has me hooked. And I realized as I started replaying in master mode that this game is just special. And it's weird saying that because no, it's not the greatest story in video game history. Heck, some way I'd argue it's not even the best story in Zelda. I might have a nice counter argument for you. But at the end of the day, we all enjoy different aspects of stories. And people there's a lot of people that just weren't impressed by the story. Some people don't like the way the world is built. Some people don't like the way that the characters are presented. And they feel the characters are weak. And it's kind of interesting with the champions and how important they are. I think this future DLC coming up, it's really going to hit on the individual aspects of these champions that needed to be expanded upon beyond the brief introductions we get to them. And that's fine. I'm really looking forward to that DLC. And Breath of the Wild, none of that is really why it's at the top. It's not about having the best characters, the best world, the best, you know, story, even the best art direction, I have other art directions, I prefer more than Breath of the Wild. But it's the culmination of its approach to just playing the game from the physics engine to the unique gameplay to how the world is built. I know that some people want more. Everyone wants more. I want Breath of the Wild to be more than it is to that's only because of how much I freaking love this game. It is. It's really hard to even wrap my mind around explaining the feeling because it is just a feeling I have only ever had one other time. And that was when I played Secret of Mana. And in fact, to ensure that Breath of the Wild was my number one game of all time, I actually went back and replayed the, you know, almost all of Secret of Mana and realized I'm not getting that feeling anymore with Secret of Mana. I don't know if it's because I outgrew it or because I know everything that's going to happen. I don't, I don't know, but I still get that feeling with Breath of the Wild. And I usually don't get that when I replay games. And Breath of the Wild just, the way everything is built, regardless of if you think it's a good story, if you like the characters, everything feeds into this fully believable world. And everything's explained, like, if you think about a lot of games have enemies that respawn. It's just part of video games and we don't question it. But Breath of the Wild gives you a reason that the enemies are respawning. It has to do with the Blood Moon. And yes, there's still a lot of mystery with the Blood Moon and why it still happens after Calamity Ganon is beat and blah, blah, blah. Like there's a lot of mystery behind it. But at least it gives you an explanation for why enemies respawn.  Everything has a purpose. Nothing is just there to be there, right? If there's something unique in the landscape or some unique rune or something, there's a purpose to it. There's a reason that it's there. And I feel like the exploring of this world, the playing of this game, the fighting of the enemies, the intimate use of the physics engine, which I have never played a game that had a physics engine that's worked quite as well as Breath of the Wild did in the way that it works. I've played plenty of physics-based games, but nothing to the level of Breath of the Wild in terms of the world scope in terms of the physics playground you get. And everything just works so well together that for one of the maybe one of the first times since I was a kid, I feel like when I play this game, I am inside this world. I am transported into the world of Hyrule, exploring these interesting things because everything has a purpose. And I feel like that's the difference I think with Breath of the Wild compared to so many other games that I play is that there's these fine little details that aren't necessarily fully explained. But the more you think about it and the more you research and the more you know about the Zelda series, especially the more you realize the purpose of its existence. And no other Zelda game I think has ever had this kind of attention to detail.  You know, I mean, for the longest time, I always thought that the northwest corner of the map was kind of useless, right? There's no Divine Beast, there's no big dungeons, yada yada yada, but then I finally got a chance to really explore a lot of those mountainous terrain. You start to understand why that terrain exists and what its purpose was in Hyrule and some deep history that might have happened in the past here, even though none of it's explained in the story. And I think this is why I don't really have an issue with the story in Breath of the Wild as some people do, because while a lot of it takes place in memories or through little quips you get from characters and side quests, reality is that I feel a lot of the story is just told in the world itself, and told in a way that it's not like someone's, you know, like you're, you know, Zora's domain in the game, right? There's no secret, you can read slabs of stone there that have some of the history of the Zoras in there that explain how they got to the state they're in today. But there are things in the landscape that give me all these additional details that just below my mind, the developers even thought to put it in the game because it really interconnects everything. And it's part of the reason why I subscribe to the theory that I think Breath of the Wild is the game that converges all the timelines back together is a dragonbreak as an example, just because of the intricate way I feel like there's more to the story than meets the eye. And it's just it's awesome and everything just works together so well. And I'm sure other people have had this feeling about different games as well. I'm sure there are folks that had this feeling about Horizon Zero Dawn, Skyrim, Dark Souls, you know, Super Mario Galaxy 2. I mean, people have these feelings, but for me, it's so hard to even explain deeper than that because it's such a personal feeling I get as I'm playing the game. And it's a big reason I know I'm going to play this game at least all the way through master mode 100% not just because I want to do it for a live stream and for content here, but because I want to do it. And all the live streaming does for me is remind me, hey, I really need to get back into it because there's always new games coming on, playing Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom metal a lot right now, working on a review for next week. And in the back of the mind, all I can think about is, okay, I want to finish this game so I can do my fair review of it. And then I need to get back into Breath of the Wild because I have NBA 2k 18 coming out in a couple weeks. And I would like to spend some, you know, get another stream or so in of Breath of the Wild before them because I want to get back into that world. I almost don't even want to leave. When I stopped playing, it almost pains me to turn it off and do something else, even including making videos here. So it's just a very interesting feeling for me. And all these feelings are just kind of reemerge as edge ranked at number one, because while I understand that there's a lot of places that said, Oh, it's the greatest game ever made. Well, you know, once you get six months out, I always felt once they sat back and they thought about it, there's no way Breath of the Wild would have stayed as a number one game on any of the greatest video games of all time list. And here it happened with Edge, showing that at least there's someone out there that maybe they didn't get out of, you know, out of Breath of the Wild what I did. But at least they have some sort of agreement with me in my mind where I've had time to reminisce on Breath of the Wild had time to sit on it and think and know it still is my number one game of all time, period, and a story. Anyways, folks, with the success of the switch in Japan and Splatoon 2 and Breath of the Wild and, you know, pretty much all the Nintendo games you see on this top 100 list, I'm just blown away right now. We are in a golden age, a resurgence, a golden resurgence for Nintendo of a Nintendo I have haven't probably seen since the SNES days, but I'll get into that in another video. Anyways, folks, I am Nathan DeRufflejans from Nintendo Prime. If you liked this video, you know what to do, and if you disliked the video, hit that dislike button, subscribe for more content like this, and as always, folks, I will catch you in the next one.


Hi, in this lesson, we're going to talk about primitive types in TypeScript. Okay, let's make a new file. Let's save it as types.ts and let's start talking about primitive types in TypeScript. First type that we have in TypeScript is number type. That number type is very similar with float or double types in a lot of programming languages. For example, cc++, csharp, java and so on. Let's use it in a simple example. Let's define variable x which will be a number and let's put as a variable for example 4.3. You also must notice then in TypeScript and also in Javascript, you do not have integer type of numbers. All numbers are float or double numbers. Okay, the second primitive type in TypeScript is string. You have it in almost all programming languages. Let's use it for example hello variable. Let's make hello variable which will be string and let's populate it with some text. For example, hello world. Okay, the third primitive type is boolean. You also have it in a lot of programming languages. Its value can be just true or false. Let's make a variable as an example. Let's say variable having money. It's boolean type and its value is true or it could be false. And finally we have null type and undefined. We will talk a little bit about them. Let's first talk about undefined type. Let's make new variable. Let's make it for example variable my money. And it's undefined and let's make variable for example my car. And let's say that it's null. A lot of people are confused with undefined and null. How to use them and where to use them. You need to keep an on mind one thing and that is that undefined is a value while null is an object. So if our variable my money is undefined that means that variable have no value. And when we have my car that means that this variable has been assigned to the object but that object is null. So in TypeScript we have five primitive types. First one is a number. Second one is a string. Third one is boolean. And we have also undefined type for working with variables and null type for working with objects. Undefined is when variable has no value and null is when our object is null. That's all in this lesson. Thanks for watching.


Okay, folks, I want to tell you something that you're not going to believe. This is one of the most happiest days of the year for all of you technicians that like Fibonacci, because today is Fibonacci Day. Mr. Fibonacci, Leonardo da Pisa da Fibonacci. He lived in Pisa, Italy, and his family name was of course Fibonacci and has nothing to do with the Leaning Tower of Pisa that was done 100 years before him. It's still there, but it's held up by cables because of the earthquakes that they've had over the years, but today is in fact Fibonacci Day. The other thing that I wanted to remember to you, someone was kind enough to forward the statistics since 1972 on the market, whether it's going to be up or down the day after Thanksgiving. And as you can see here, as we look at this, you'll see that the percentage is it's up about a half a percent and it's up considerably percentage wise. It's up quite a bit. It's the most positive day of the year. Now we had the Fed coming out today from what I understand that's what's going on right now in all the markets are jumping around quite a bit. We've had a big move in the Dow Jones. So it's dropped off about 250 from its high. The S&P dropped about 30 handles from its high. We got up to that almost to the old magical level of 4065. We got up to 4035 and then it has sold off a considerable amount. Actually, we're down as from what I heard just a little while ago was 408. 4008 is where we're looking at. So we're having some pretty great volatility in some of these markets. And folks, the reason why is it's pretty thin out there. TFNN is closed tomorrow. Many places are closed. In fact, I had to spend some time with Jim Twentyn today working on an order.  And I said, well, it's not the same as when we were at Drexel because we were Drexel. We didn't work Thanksgiving week. And then from the 15th of December until the 4th of January, nobody worked.  If you hadn't made it by the 4th of December, you were probably in pretty big, pretty big trouble. So that's what we're watching here today. So we'll see everybody on Monday, of course. But my show is coming up and next week we've got some great guests. We're going to have Stam Harley, Tim Boss, and also Peter Lides should be coming along as well as Rich Anderson talking to us about the grains. OK, we'll be right back, folks.<PHONE_NUMBER>.


What up?  We're gonna be talking about everything today guys So if you guys can see me if you guys can hear me leave a like on the video right now Subscribe to the channel and we will get started in five minutes How'd you guys do today? How'd you guys trade today? How is everything today? today AERC rdbx Indio, baby Let's talk about see some zombie moves happening on IMDO Best day of the month. Nice shot Short AERC according to the watch is green on the day. Go figure Awesome watch us an awesome commentary. Thanks guys. We're really doing really well in this market We're doing really well in this market So we're gonna get started here about a few minutes again. I'm just turn back looking back seeing what's moving what's happening Yeah, today was a great day So yeah, we're just being a start a few minutes here again This is a live video.    And I post that on Instagram comm slash my investing club and what I want to talk about today guys I want to talk about front side versus backside of the move Okay, this is a common question that a lot of people ask, you know, what's front side? What's backside? What's front side? What's backside all this stuff and the truth of the matter is guys. It's kind of for new traders It's very hard to determine, you know, when a stock is uptrending and when a stock is continually downtrending So let's start off the morning with what happened on these stocks and then we're gonna take it from there We're gonna start with our DBX So our DBX if you pull up a chart has been squeezing from like two dollars all the way to like 18 dollars and Yesterday when it hit around like 18 dollars, it was the blow-off day It was the day where everyone said, you know what this thing is going to 20 is going to the moon It's going whatever and then it kind of slowly starts to do in the lower and closed around I think it was Around 15 bucks right close around 15 bucks and you know, okay from 18 to 15. That's not really a big deal You know, okay, maybe it's just a trap whatever maybe But today there was a catalyst on the stock There was something that changed the dynamic of the stock that Turned it from front side of the move to the backside of the move and now what was that catalyst? So that catalyst today was the effect filing the effect filing So we have videos on this in the fundamental analysis series But the very easy way to understand what an effect filing means is that now this stock could dump shares The insiders the all people running the offering the bankers can now sell shares That it is effective that they are allowed to sell shares now The interesting part about our DBX is they have warrants at eleven dollars and fifty cents So with this filing that just came out They are now allowed to sell Those warrants at eleven dollars and fifty cents and every penny above eleven dollars and fifty cents is profit Right, so they've been trying to pump up the stock. There's been an agenda They've been trying to pump up the stock every single day to get it to above eleven fifty Because if it's above eleven fifty those warrants are profitable. Okay, they're profitable So on our DBX when the motherfuckers trading at eighteen dollars a share That's seven dollars and fifty or six dollars and fifty cents worth of profit, right per warrant And I think they had millions and millions and millions of warrants, okay So the agenda for our DBX is get it as high as possible Whatever number you could get it to above eleven fifty as high as possible and then get that effect filing That says alright motherfuckers now we could sell right now we could sell and what ended up happening is that stock got the effect filing the stock collapsed and Rebounded in the morning and our plan this morning was to short a bounce towards 1250 and $13. Okay, and the stock hit a high of $12 and 90 cents That's pretty spot-on right our plan before the open before this happened in the watches was 1250 to 13 And it hit 1290 so you get the perfect entry on the stock and now it's trading at $10 and 27 cents So what changed our DBX from front side to back side? It was the effect catalyst that said now they could sell stock and some of these bankers are very sketchy Some of these bankers are very shady What they could do is when they get this filing they could short the stock as well So the bankers running the deal could also short the stock because they're hedging their position It's totally legal, but a lot of these people they might know the news a little bit early So they might have been hedging since yesterday, but I don't want to get that That's like that's almost like conspiracy theory shit But point is that now our DBX after it had a parabolic move to 18 After it came down got the effect filing now instead of demand Instead of too much demand on the stock now There's too much supply on the stock and if there's too much supply on the stock aka warrants Aka profit takers aka shorts feeling comfortable stock price goes down and stock is trading down 30% today and that was a solid trade on the day You know that was actually the trade that I made the least amount of money on because I made more money on a separate trade So before I get into the big trade of the day does that make sense? Does that concept make sense and I can't believe we're giving that concept away for free, okay? Now let's talk about the next stock on the day, which was INDO INDO is an oil and gas sector small-cap garbage stock INDO was not on my radar today until it was being pumped So whenever the stock is being pumped, I like to see all right Is the pump gonna last or is the pump not gonna last in this specific scenario my plan was if the stock tanks at the open I Was short of bounce to 10. I stock tanked the 940 in the morning Went back up to 990 10 bucks and I shorted at 10 bucks and I got out at 940.  Oh our dbx is at $9 and 50 cents now down 36% on the day We mentioned the effect filing at 7 a.m 7 a.m. Is what we noticed that anyway INDO was a pump that failed I shorted the bounce and made money that was a pretty simple play That was probably my second biggest trade of day my biggest trade of the day that accounted for like $6,000 of the $9,000 in profits I made today was a stock AERC So if you look at AERC, it's a very simple scenario to our dbx stock went from two dollars All the way to $18, but this was a little bit different. So This had a catalyst as well, right? So So something to go from front side to back side usually needs some sort of catalyst It doesn't have to be news, but it could be some sort of catalyst and let me explain that AERC was a stock that was you know being jammed up a couple days in a row And today was almost up to $20 pre-market and what ended up happening today's pre-market There was a catalyst the stock was downgraded Okay, and usually in the stock market guys upgrades downgrades.  Okay, something's going on here, right? Maybe this firm is a little bit more important Maybe someone knows something that I don't but what that told me on AERC today was hey This stock is has a catalyst for profit-taking. It was downgraded. This stock went red on the date It could be a potential first red day, you know, it's not an A plus first red day I mentioned in the watches. It's like a B minus first day first red day But hey stock had a catalyst which was a downgrade stock went red And my thought process was if this thing bounces towards like 1650 17 this is when the stock was trading around 15 dollars So when the stock was training at 15 dollars instead of it bounces to 1650 or 17 I'm gonna look to short it it hits 17 bucks and Collapsed all the way down to 13 dollars right 13 dollars What I did really really good on this stock is I shorted 1650 and 17 it collapsed to 430 I covered at 430 you could see my fills on Instagram I covered at 430 and then I said if this thing bounces to 16 dollars again I'm gonna reshorting it bounces 16 dollars and now it's back down to 13 So I did really well shorting the high covering the low and reshorting Oftentimes what I would do is I would just short and hold and on stocks like this is now trading at 1350 Jesus Christ a stock like this I've like shit if it goes to 1430 and then bounces back to 16.  I should have just covered and then I cover at like 1550 and then I missed the move to 1350 So what I did really really really really well today is Identify the backside of the move on the stocks the catalyst the red Whatever it may be I did very good covering on dips and reshorting bounces and then at 10 30 a.m Based on my process. I walked the hell away, right?  So today was picture freakin perfect pre-planned executed Unbelievably perfect and hey, I left a dollar or two dollars a share on rdbx. That's totally fine It's still taking tonight 30.   Oh my god.  That's some crazy meltdowns guys So do you guys have any questions on that before I continue?  I mean on Instagram comm slash my investing club So do you guys have any questions again? This is a live video. So I'm fielding questions from the live audience right now Do you guys have any questions for me? What was the catalyst on AERC again? The catalyst was a downgrade and the catalyst was the stock went red Why was an avoid on dawn today? If you watch my video watch list today that I put out to members at like 9 a.m You would have found and you would have saw seen that I said that dawn isn't a void because it had an offering I don't want to short stocks that have offerings. It's already too late. I'm not gonna get involved So if you watched the video watch list, you would have seen that you probably didn't watch it Can you explain what a downgrade is Jesus go on Google man Google? What is a downgrade in the stock market? I mean come on guys.  Maybe they're going short guys Maybe they sold their warrants and they're going short now Why'd you say AERC was a B minus first red day and not an A plus is because I if it went a little bit higher If it didn't move to like 30 and then did a first red day, it would be even better But it didn't really extend too much What is backside trading? Do you now watch this video? Am I am I the metaverse what's going on here guys?  Do you trade only one strategy? No, I try multiple strategies guys. We teach multiple strategies in MIC the first red day It's just my best strategy Do you use level 2 to pick the spots on AERC? No, I use the chart the chart How am I gonna know what the level 2 is the stock was trading at $15 stock was trading at $15 when I made my plan How am I supposed to know what the level 2 is doing, right? I'm looking at the chart. The chart told me 16 50 and 17 guys All right guys, so this brings me on to my next announcement of the day So as you guys know on June 22nd, we are hosting a live trading event What a live trading event means is if you are an MIC member or if you are a success trader client on June 22nd, you get to watch me about trade live. We're gonna have a zoom webinar We're gonna have everything where you guys get to watch us trade You guys get to watch us make our plan live and then we're gonna have a Q&A So this is open for MIC members and non and success trader clients If you are a non-member then you will not be having access to this You will not get anything and there will be a replay for this for MIC members. Okay Now that brings me to the next subject is we want to do something really special for you guys is We have decided that we're gonna be raising our prices in July Probably in about two or three weeks. We're gonna be raising our prices and what we want to do guys We want to offer our existing member base a very big discount on lifetime membership What we want to do guys is for how long you've been an MIC whether you paid monthly or annual We are gonna discount your monthly and annual payments from the price of the lifetime membership, right? So this is gonna be a one week long promotion that ends on June 22nd Okay, so if you guys are interested in upgrading to lifetime if you've been here for monthly if you've been here for annual Whatever you paid for X amount of months X amount of years We're gonna subtract from the price of lifetime and we're gonna give you an additional discount as well So that's gonna be a one week long promotion. This is your chance to stay in MIC for life It's a one-time payment.  So we're probably gonna be raising the price of lifetime to double in July So if you guys are interested you can hit us up in chat. You can text Tosh at<PHONE_NUMBER> You can email him at Tosh at myinvestingclub.com and we've actually never done this before where you get to discount your entire Membership from MIC. So let's say you've been an MIC member for two years You're gonna have two years worth of payments removed from your lifetime membership.  We do more things every year. So we want to be able to you know help So, yeah guys if you've been an MIC member and you want your MIC membership discounted from the lifetime Contact us if you are a non MIC member and you're interested in joining a lifetime I'm sure we could work on something as well.  So this promo is gonna end June 21st Okay, it's pretty much a one week long promo and I mean just ask anyone at MIC what they think of the community guys This is your opportunity to sign up and be here for life No more monthly payments no more annual payments one payment and you could pass it down to your kids You could pass it down to your friends. You could do whatever you want with it, right? Maybe you have a friend that wants to learn how to trade to you guys could pull it together and have one account Yeah, the one-time payment is for lifetime guys. So this is something that is You know unique we want to try to be able to help you guys We want to try to be able to discount what you guys already paid and shit Man if you already been a month a monthly MIC member for a year or two years as a pretty substantial Discount and like I said guys you could pass it down to your friends You could pass it down to your family if you have a friend that wants to trade you could split it 50-50 and Every single price is gonna be case-by-case You know if someone's only been here for a month if someone's only been here for a year It's gonna be very different pricing guys. So let me know if you guys have any questions feel free to leave a comment on this video and That's pretty much it guys So today was a solid day made a pretty decent amount of money And I remind myself every single day that you know $4,000 a day is a million dollars a year and I just made $8,000 today, which is almost $2 million a year So I'm gonna keep it up. I hope this video helped I think this is the best video that we have on front side versus back side in a long time and that's pretty much it guys So hit us up two one three four five eight five nine nine seven text us that you're interested in a lifetime Email us or if you're already an MIC just direct message Tosh and yeah Can you pull up the charts when you go over the trade so we could see all my charts all my fills all my Executions are inside MIC. I give you guys way too much gold here for free So if you want to get the extra stuff you got to join at that point man at that point you got I can't help you Right, so thanks guys. I really hope you enjoyed this video. I will see you back in the room to help the members


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