Welcome to the weather forecast for another week beginning. No, it's not another week, beginning Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. This is chief meteorologist John Anzworth for Longmont Public Media.  Tuesday, April 23rd, we are two weeks out from the Solar Eclipse. We're at the 100% beautiful moon, full moon rising at 7.51 p.m. So a beautiful light for hiking all night long. The sun has got a single spot or two, one facing us, not too big of a threat. Looking at drought conditions, we have a little lessening of drought down the southern mountains. The entire state is doing pretty well, drought free for these two thirds of the area, abnormally dry for most of the rest. Nationally, let's see a little bit of relief. Let's go back again, look at the northern Rockies, a little bit of relief. Southern Rockies, not much change and the Great Plains, a little bit of lessening. So, wintery springtime still, not until the heat really pulls down do you start to see things change. Lots of smoke in the south, but nothing in Colorado. Again, our quasi-animation of the snowpack depth, swooping along below and then crossing to above normal. And in the latest, that's it. Nope, there's one more. We've dropped down with the heat. We hit 80s down here, so our temperatures are above freezing and a lot of the snowpack got cut back. So we're back down to normal. That's our median, so that's okay. We're not going to complain. This is a precipitation map for last week and entire tools broken. The whole website is grayed out. So I don't know what's going on there, so sorry about that. Looking at the severe weather chances, this is the third week of April and look at that. We have a 1% chance of severe weather now sneaking quite close to the I-25 corridor. So, hey, spring, it's on. Keep an eye open for stronger storms as the temperatures climb. And looking at that, we have marginal risk of severe weather just about touching the state. Chance of storms up there today or Wednesday. And Thursday pulls away and Friday pretty much out of the state. Looking at cold front coming down on Wednesday, sweeps down to Texas, some severe weather ahead of it on Thursday. And then we had light snow Thursday morning and still a little bit possible Friday evening. So pretty good chances of Thursday and Friday precipitation, a little better Friday than Saturday morning. Temperatures definitely drop down close to freezing. Then we bounce right back up to warm to above normal. 62 to 65 for the high, 34 up to 37 now for our expected low temperature. Yep, we're definitely leaving winter behind.  Lots of moisture streaming into the state from the west, dry air to the south, subtropical stuff across the southern states.  And the, I think that's, that's a typo. So this is Friday night, Saturday morning, ignore that. And we have this other trough coming through and a pretty good chance of showers, maybe morning snow on Saturday. Okay, let's put this in motion, take a look at this all happening. We have zonal flow at the beginning here with a trough deep to the south, a ridge building in the west, giving us warmth by the end of the weekend into the next week. So another old trough sliding by to our northeast and a big ridge pops in the middle of the week next week. Something coming in the southern branch here, but yeah, we'll see what happens. End of next week, there's a possible another system coming in. Something giant barreling down on the west coast, but that is at the end of the month, and quite uncertain. That could be our first severe weather right there. Here's our Wednesday front into Thursday, spring down into Texas. And then for the first part of the weekend, this kind of, that's pretty chilly, yeah. Pretty far below normal. Normal's a lot warmer than it's been, and we warm up right away, Sunday night into Monday morning. You'll feel that warm front come rocking in. Another cold front Tuesday, Wednesday. And then we're a quick warm up right after that. Looking at atmospheric moisture, it's a pretty good amount. It remains over the states, or if we get some ripple in the atmosphere, we can get that kickoff showers and storms. It never really clears out. There's a Tuesday system. This has pretty good moisture there. Let's take a look what happens during the end of the week. So you see signs of some thunderstorms or so. And then the end of the month. So low there, wrapping up. So it's kind of an active pattern. Not super wet maybe, but definitely lots of systems moving around. This is a surface moisture dew points. And this is really interesting that this little tongue of moisture remains and just keeps flowing back and holding on on the east side of the Rocky Mountains. You can see moisture going way up into Canada even from the Gulf. This is a very strong low level jet in the evening, transporting deep moisture back into Texas and up. And we are right on the edge of it. Sometimes you dry out briefly and then the moisture pushes back in. So again, get a storm above and there's moisture for it to act upon. Nice. Okay, looking at, this is the Wednesday into Thursday morning. It's a very small bit of upslope Friday Saturday. It's a little more significant. And then it clears out for the rest of the weekend. The low forms there. And Tuesday, little upslope stuff there, but it's just not much. All this is pretty disorganized. That looks great out on the plains, but not for Colorado there. Okay, taking a look at Sunday next week. And we did see all that upper level energy coming out of the Southwest, but it doesn't seem to do much. So for the next five days, maybe half inch of precipitation. We got very little Thursday, Wednesday into Thursday morning. I am recording on Thursday. But the most significant water might come in Friday night into Saturday morning. It should rain and then change over to snow. You might see snow coating cars and roofs and grass like this, but maybe another inch or so along that 25. Then up the next 10 days, maybe another half inch or quarter inch gets added to the total, but not much more snow. So it's probably gonna be warmer. So drop out of the 70s on Wednesday to the 40s on Thursday. Climb into the 50s into the weekend and then back to the 70s for the start of the week. With pretty good chances of Friday night, Saturday morning rain and snow. This has been a check out the long-month leader for frequent weather updates as needed and great local news. This has been Chief Meteorologist John Innsworth, urging you to keep looking up.


Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Reyes Academy. Displayed are the list of news articles selected for today's analysis and their page numbers in Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore and Tiruvannanthapuram editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the displayed articles are provided in the comment section for the benefit of mobile phone viewers and the time stamping is also provided in the description. Now let's move on to the analysis of first news article. This news article is about the statements made by India in the 42nd regular session of United Nations Human Rights Council. This regular session is being held in Geneva in Switzerland. The syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article and the syllabus that can be linked to the analysis has been highlighted here for your reference. So this news article talks about United Nations Human Rights Council, shortly called as UNHRC. This council was established in the year 2006 by the United Nations General Assembly. We know that UNGA is one of the six principal organs or one of the six main organs of United Nations organization. See this UNHRC reports directly to UN General Assembly. So whether we had any other entity responsible for human rights across the world till 2006, yes we had UN Commission for Human Rights. See this commission was established in the year 1946. It was established as the main United Nations legislative body so as to work to promote and to protect human rights. The commission has provided policy guidelines with respect to human rights. It has studied human rights problems. It has developed and codified new international norms and it has also monitored the observance of human rights around the world. This commission also acted as a forum for states, civil society, you know, who are represented through non-governmental organizations and it has also provided a forum for international organizations to raise and voice their concerns about issues related to human rights. The most important achievement and which is also the first significant achievement of the commission was the careful drafting of UDHR, Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The commission met for the first time in 1947, though it was established in 1946. And within a period of one year, they have completed the task of drafting this UDHR and this declaration, Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948. See this date on which the declaration UDHR was adopted by UNGA was remembered and celebrated as Human Rights Day. This day will be remembered and observed in most of our almost in all state human rights commissions in our country and also in National Human Rights Commission. So what happened in 2006? This commission was replaced by United Nations Human Rights Council in the year 2006. So what is this council? This HRC or Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental body that was established by General Assembly as a body that will be responsible for human rights. It is made up of 47 member states of United Nations and these member states are elected by UN General Assembly. With respect to India's membership in this council, as of now, India is a member since 1st January 2019 and this membership will be for a period of 3 years. So we saw that the members of Human Rights Council are member states of United Nations. So that means if India is a member, it will have a representative from Indian state or Indian government and therefore UNHRC said that it is a council that consists of state representatives and therefore it is primarily a political body with a comprehensive human rights mandate for the world. Now let us come to the most important activity of the council. This is conducting sessions, both regular and special. Mostly they will be conducting regular sessions. Special sessions will be conducted when one third of the member states request to organize a special session. Maybe to address some human rights violations immediately or whenever there is some emergencies with respect to human rights, say one third of member states may request to conduct a special session. If you look at regular sessions, see these are conducted for a minimum of three times in a year. That is, they will conduct at least three regular sessions in a year. That means we will also be reading at least three times in the newspapers. So we can revise whenever they conduct regular sessions. They will conduct these sessions in the months of March, June and September. See as a part of this activity, the UNHRC is conducting 42nd regular session in Geneva. In this session in September is for a period of almost three weeks. They are scheduled to conduct from 9th September till 27th September. The schedule will be the same three weeks, also in the month of June. For March it will be for four weeks. So overall we can say that the Council dedicates around 10 weeks of time in a year to discuss human rights situation in the world through regular sessions. So these information are about the UNHR Council. Now in newspapers you may also read the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Sometimes they use the word UN Human Rights. See the word UN Human Rights is addressed to the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and it is not a term that is used to address UN Human Rights Council. So we will see the difference between the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights and Human Rights Council. See the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights is a part of UN Secretariat. It is one of the offices that will be part of UN Secretariat that reports or answers to the UN Secretary General. This office will be staffed by international civil servants who will be working on human rights activities, human rights activities across the world and they will be headed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The High Commissioner for Human Rights is called as the Principal United Nations Human Rights Official. The headquarters of this Office of High Commissioner is located in Geneva in Switzerland. One of its offices is also found in New York. Now in what way the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Council can be related, both of them work for human rights, promotion and protection of human rights across the world and this UN Office of High Commissioner, they provide technical support, substantive and secretariat support to the UN Human Rights Council. So in this way they are related. Now let's come to the news article. We have been seeing several news articles with respect to the statements made by the Pakistan Government and the Pakistan Prime Minister about the internal decision that India has made with respect to the territory that is an integral part of India, the Jammu and Kashmir. Even in the regular session that is being held in Geneva, Pakistan has raised multiple Kashmir centric statements and this news article talks about the statements that were made by Indian Government, countering Pakistan's statements on JMK. So we have said that we have been seeing several allegations with respect to human rights violations for those people who are minorities in terms of religion living in Pakistan. But while Pakistan could not guarantee human rights for minorities, Pakistan is focusing on India's internal affairs in Jammu and Kashmir and this amounts to interference and India has said that terrorism is the worst form of human rights abuse. The Secretary for the Ministry of External Affairs who has led the special diplomatic team to Geneva has also stated that democratic processes have been initiated in Jammu and Kashmir. We know that the panchayat elections took place in JNK in December 2018 and the news is that by the end of September, most probably there will be elections for block development councils and after the formal declaration of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on October 31, most probably we can expect an election for the Assembly of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir by March next year. So these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article. We saw about the UN Human Rights Council, we saw about the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and how they both differ and we saw the statements made by India in the 42nd regular session of Human Rights Council in response to the Kashmir centric statements made by Pakistan. Now let's move on to the next news article. This news article talks about Apple procurement from Jammu and Kashmir. It states that the famous Kashmir Apple will be procured by the National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation of India shortly called as NAFED that is the Kashmir Apple from JNK will be procured by NAFED and this is because NAFED has been appointed as the central nodal agency for procurement of apples in JNK for the apple harvesting season 2019-2020. The apples will be procured under a special market intervention price scheme of the central government. See after the abrogation of temporary provisions for JNK under article 370 in the constitution One of the primary plans of the central government is to ensure that the apple produced in the Kashmir Valley are bought and the right prices or remunerative prices are paid to the local farmers. But the farmers there are actually struggling to export the apples from the state to other states due to many reasons. Say the lockdown in the Kashmir Valley as a result of the lockdown we could see less availability of a number of trucks. It is also reported that militants are campaigning against the export of fruit from JNK to other states. They are also forcing the growers to stop exporting apple this year to break ties with other states of India. See this is one of the strategy used by the militants. But we should know that apple production is the mainstay or the backbone of incomes of farmers in Jammu and Kashmir region. Therefore particularly this needs to be protected otherwise it will drive a large population of farmers involved in production of apples will be pushed to extreme poverty. So to address these concerns to solve this problem the government has announced the procurement plan. See according to the officials Kashmir has produced 20 lakh metric tons of apple in the year 2018. This amounts to 73% of total apple production in the country. This means that in the year 2018 the top producer of apple in the country is the state of Jammu and Kashmir. This is in 2018. So now the government is planning to procure almost 12 lakh metric tons of apple from JNK in this season. So this means nearly 60% of the estimated annual apple production will be procured from the apple grovers of JNK. The procurement will be made directly from genuine apple grovers. Direct payment in the bank accounts of apple grovers will be made through DBT that is Direct Benefit Transfer and it is expected that the scheme will enhance the income of farmers by about 2000 crore. This is overall that means those farmers who are engaged in the production of Kashmir apple for all the farmers there as a total overall there will be increase in 2000 crore. The period of procurement is for 6 months. The procurement will start in September. The total cost incurred for the scheme by the government is expected to be around 8000 crore. Now this is because anyway government has to spend money to purchase apple from the farmers then the apples has to be transported there will be storage cost and there will also be damages there will also be losses because these are perishable products. So that is why there will be a total cost of around some 8000 crore to the government. The news article mentions that the fair prices of various categories of apples will be fixed by the price committee and this price committee includes a member from National Horticulture Board. So as we saw earlier the nodal procurement agency from the central government or from the government of India will be NAFED and from the side of government of JNK the nodal procurement agency will be the directorate of horticulture of Kashmir and others. So we saw that the apples will be procured under a special market intervention price scheme. So now let's see about this MIS.  It is a temporary scheme or otherwise called as ad hoc scheme. Here it means it is created or done for a particular purpose when it is necessary. So what are they doing here under the scheme horticultural commodities and other agricultural commodities that are perishable in nature are covered and if certain commodities are covered under MSP scheme that is minimum support price scheme these commodities are not covered under MIS scheme that is the market intervention scheme. This scheme is actually to protect the growers or farmers of horticultural or agricultural commodities from making distressed sale. When we say distressed sale it means urgent sale of goods or commodities made by farmers at deeply discounted prices that is the price may go below the level of input cost means there will be no remuneration for the farmer for all the hard labor here his family has endured in the production of the crops. Distressed sale happens in the event of bumper crop production that is when a crop has yielded an unusually agricultural productive harvest that is during a peak arrival period. Peak arrival period also means peak harvesting period due to bumper production there will be reduction in the fall of prices sometimes it will go to very low level for example a farmer spends some 30 rupees for production of particular commodity but due to bumper production he has to sell it below the input cost that will make the life of the farmer miserable. So therefore the scheme intends to protect the farmers from making distressed sale. So the basic objective of market intervention price scheme is to provide remunerative prices to farmers in case of glut or surplus in production and also during the fall in prices of commodities. The central government implements the scheme for particular commodity on the request of a concerned state government or concerned union territory. See these state governments or union territories they should be willing to share the losses that arises as a result of the procurement here the losses could be because of transport loss or because of damage because these are perishable items and these losses suffered has to be shared on 50s to 50 basis between central government and the state government but there is also a special consideration for northeastern states because for northeastern states central government will take 75% of the losses suffered and states will be a 25% that is 75s to 25 basis and the share of losses is restricted to 25% of the total procurement value of that particular product. Say for example the total procurement value is rupees 100 and the losses come at say rupees 20 then for other states for states other than northeastern states central government will take the burden of 10 rupees and state government will take the burden of 10 rupees. Say if the burden if the losses come around rupees 60 now in that case for other states it will be divided into 30s to 30 30 30 this 30 is more than 25% of the total procurement value therefore central government will not take this share of losses or it will take only the share of losses up to 25% that is what we mean when we say the share of losses is restricted to 25% of total procurement value of that product. Now there will be losses because these horticultural commodities are highly perishable in nature they have short shelf life and there will be transit loss and transportation to distant markets is not possible since transportation to distant markets is not possible the quantities procured are dumped in the same market which will create a situation of glut or surplus in the market this leads to heavy loss to the central and the state governments. Now let's see two situations in which MIS is applicable and sanctioned first when there is an increase of at least 10% in the production over the previous years normal production now here we have to understand so there is a possibility of farmers not receiving remunerative prices whenever there is increase of at least 10% in the production so that government has to intervene see the name of the scheme is market intervention scheme so as to provide remunerative prices to the farmers secondly when there is reduction in market prices by at least 10% over the rates of previous normal season so these are two situations when MIS is applicable and sanctioned the scheme also provides for a capping on the period of stocking after procurement the period of stocking after procurement should not be more than three months generally under the scheme the central procuring agency will be NAFED and the state government will designate their procuring agency so far MIS has been implemented for commodities like apples, Kino, Malta, garlic, oranges, grapes, mushrooms, clove, black pepper, pineapple, ginger, red chilies, coriander seeds, onions, potatoes, cabbage, mustard seed, castor seed, palm oil etc we are saying these things to get some idea about some of the commodities the scheme was also implemented in many states in our news today we saw about JNK, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and also in union territories now let's see few facts with respect to NAFED see this national agricultural cooperative marketing federation of India limited was established in 1958 it is registered under multi-state cooperative societies act of 2002 it was set up with the objective to promote cooperative marketing of agricultural produce so this was done to benefit the farmers see the agricultural farmers are the main members of NAFED they have the authority to say in the working of NAFED in the form of being the members of general body of NAFED this means the membership of general body of NAFED is extended to farmers also now let's see some of the objectives of NAFED first to organize promote and develop marketing in agricultural commodities horticultural commodities other commodities articles and goods and then to process and to store agricultural, horticultural and forest produce and thirdly to distribute agricultural machinery agricultural implements and other inputs then to undertake interstate import and export trade see this trade may be wholesale or retail now one another objective of NAFED is to act and assist for technical advice in agricultural production in horticultural production these are some of the information with respect to NAFED with this we come to the end of analysis of this news article we saw about the market intervention price came and we saw few facts of NAFED with respect to the analysis of this news article now let's move on to next article this editorial article deals with the subject of promoting occupational and industrial safety in other words safety in workplace environment there have been several scientific studies that have proved that safety in a workplace environment promotes productivity of a particular workforce that works in the particular company or industry or for that matter any workplace India's structure with respect to occupational and industrial safety remains weak even though there is a direct correlation between productivity and safety in work environment we could see a low priority is being given to bringing safety in a workplace ensuring safety health and welfare of the workers will create a healthy and a more productive workforce and it will also prevent accidents and it will also minimize the damages that means there will be no or less loss to the company or the industry in that way it will add economic benefits to the employers so what will happen if a workplace environment is weak in terms of safety there could be large number of accidents that will lead to fatalities that means deaths and also injuries here when we say safety it could mean you know the safety norms with respect to handling machinery or laying down electricity lines or various safety norms that a particular workplace has to adhere when we say about safety it also means a safe workplace for women this means there will be establishment of internal complaints committee there will be reporting mechanisms for women to report if at all there is any allegations of sexual harassment etc here when we say safety it means the safety norms with respect to the machinery plant etc the author says that the policy makers and also the employers tend to ignore the losses that arise as a result of accidents in a workplace that may result into fatalities and injuries and this is because of a steady supply of labor the author cites two recent industrial accidents if a man's question is asked with respect to such occupational safety you could cite these two accidents as example one is with respect to death of four people say in human rights parlance it's killed they were killed in an accident at a fire that happened in oil and natural gas corporation facility in Navi Mumbai there have been several locations the human rights commissions have awarded compensation government authorities for not following safety norms that has resulted into injuries and deaths so first example is that the fire at the ONGC facility in Navi Mumbai which has killed four people the next tragedy that happened in Punjab in a firecracker facility where we saw that more than 20 people died in that accident the author states that the central government should learn from these incidents and should engage in serious reforms to prevent any such incident in future and to minimize the damages to human lives with respect to this the author talks about a bill called us the occupational safety health and working conditions code bill of 2019 this bill had been drafted after the amalgamation simplification and rationalization of various provisions given in 13 central laws with respect to labor we know that with respect to labor laws the government has initiated drafting four codes one is code on wages 2019 then the code on industrial relations code on social security and also code on occupational safety health and working conditions we know that of these the code on wages 2019 has become an enforceable legislation after receiving the ascent of the president but the remaining codes say the code on industrial relations the code on social security and the code on occupational safety health and working conditions are still in the form of bills only the author talks about one or two provisions mentioned in this bill related to the occupational safety health and working conditions that is with respect to the formation of safety committees and appointment of safety offices author states that one of the major shortcomings in the particular bill is with respect to the formation of safety committees and also in the appointment of safety offices if you take clause 22 of this bill it states that the appropriate government may require any establishment to constitute a safety committee that means the state governments are given the discretion it says the government may it is not saying as the government shall require every establishment to constitute a safety committee so that is why we say it is left to the discretion of state government and in the same clause 22 sub clause 2 says that in every establishment relating to factory and building and other construction work wherein there is 500 workers or more there the employer shall appoint safety officers and they will be performing their duties as prescribed by the state government and there shall be safety officers in mines if there is more than 100 workers or even 100 workers there shall be safety officers in mines even if there are 100 workers or more here the bill says they shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the appropriate government or the appropriate state government this means that there could be variations among the provisions governing the qualifications and duties of these safety officers in different states because each state government may prescribe different provisions with respect to these matters that means there will not be uniformity in this provision of safety under the clause 22 sub clause 2 with respect to safety officers and we saw that if it is a factory or a building or any other construction work if there has to be safety workers then number of workers has to be at least 500 or more the author calls this stipulation on safety officers as a very narrow minded stipulation this is because if we go according to this norm only a small fraction of industries will be there that employ more than 500 workers that means any industry that has less than 500 workers will not have a safety officer or it will not have a required number of safety officers the author considers this as one of the major shortcomings one we saw with respect to constitution of committee it is also in description of the state government two with respect to the safety officers the provision may apply to very few industries and there could be variation among the states with respect to safety standards then the article talks about a provision in the factories act of 1948 in contrast to the discretions provided in the occupational safety health and working conditions code bill of 2019 this provision is nothing but section 41 capital G of the factories act of 1948 where it says that every occupier shall in every factory where there is hazardous processes or where there will be usage of hazardous substances or handling they shall set up a safety committee that will have equal number of representatives of workers and management this is to maintain proper safety and health at work the author states that this provision given under 41 capital G is missing in the code bill that is proposed or introduced in the parliament in the name of occupational safety health and working conditions code bill of 2019 even in the factories act of 1948 there is an exemption that is yes it says every occupier must set up a safety committee but the state government by order in writing can exempt an occupier of any factory or class of factories from setting up such safety committee so if you have to carefully adhere to the safety norms there should not such exemptions and every factory irrespective of such exemptions has to have a safety committee where there shall be equal number of representatives of workers and employers or management that is why news article mentions it as a bipartite committee one party will be from workers one party will represent the employer or employers so this means the author demands the code bill to include mandatory provision of setting up of safety committee in a workplace with special considerations to those workplaces where there will be hazardous processes or handling of hazardous substances the author states that a safe work environment is a basic right of a worker that is one of the reasons why the international covenant on economic social and cultural rights has recognized safe and healthy working conditions under article seven we should know that India is also a party to this international covenant on economic social and cultural rights now with respect to the provisions under the Indian constitution if you see the directive principles of state policy it talks about right to work under article 41 according to international human rights standards right to work also includes right to work in a workplace that is safe article 42 talks about just and human conditions of work and article 43 states that the state shall endeavor to secure conditions of work to ensure a decent standard of life now we saw certain provisions with respect to the committees they are saying that the committee should have equal number of representatives on both sides both from the side of workers and also from the side of management this is because of article 43 capital A it states that the state shall take steps to secure the participation of workers in the management or establishments or any other organizations engaged in any industry the author states that even though there have been high growth in the recent decades the governments have not felt it necessary to ratify many international conventions of international labor organization now the understanding here is that if India has ratified these conventions India has to strengthen the safety standards otherwise there would be international pressure the author states that India has not ratified many conventions one such convention is the occupational safety and health convention of 1981 we could see overlapping of areas of activity in this occupational safety and health convention of 1981 and also the occupational safety health and working conditions code bill of 2019 the author states that the bill has been drafted without including certain enabling provisions to empower workers so that we could be able to tell that systemic reform has taken place with this with the drafting of this bill therefore the author asks for a proper scrutiny of the new code bill by experienced parliamentarians and they also have to get new inputs from employees employers and also and experts working for labor rights the author asks for giving special attention to those industries that use hazardous processes and hazardous chemicals and the code bill in future should have clear definitions and should specify limits of exposure for workers who work in such hazardous environments and if safety is compromised in such environments such hazardous environments it could lead to extreme consequences like a black mark in the nation's memory as in the case of Bhopal gas disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy for the case of Soviet Union the black mark is the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster we saw the accidents happened in Navi Mumbai and Punjab and we saw the provisions with respect to safety committee and also the safety offices in the proposed occupational safety health and working conditions code of 2019 we saw about international conventions and we saw about proposals made by the author of this editorial and with this we come to the end of analysis of this news article now let's move on to next article this news article states that two new species of ginger have been found in the state of Nagaland these species are zinjiba provenance and zinjiba demoparence these species were identified by the scientists from the botanical survey of India zinjiba is commonly known as zinja zinjiba is the genus name of ginger species it comes under the family of zinjiba ACA when we say genus in plural that is janira it means ranking in the biological classification it comes after family and before species comes between family and species now this genus or janira is a group of animals or plants that are more closely related than a family but less similar than a species within a family we can find more than one genus and within a genus we can find more than one species now the new species zinjiba provenance this was discovered from proven district of Nagaland that is why they have named it as provenance now the another species was discovered from demapur district of Nagaland then they have named as zinjiba demoparence these are the reasons behind the scientific names if you take this zinjiba genus it has around 141 species these species are distributed throughout Asia Australia and South Pacific regions but they say that the center of diversity of this genus is in southeast Asia so when we say center of diversity or it is also called as center of origin so when we say center of origin or center of diversity it refers to geographic region where we can find the greatest variability of a particular crop in northeastern India so far more than 20 species of ginger have been discovered if you take the plant of zinjiba provenance this species was found growing in moist shady places particularly on the bank of a small stream and this small stream is found in hilly terrain forest of tessin village under this proven subdivision so we saw that even within this northeast in India more than 20 species of ginger have been discovered or found so this high diversity of ginger species in the northeastern region of India it shows that the climate in the northeastern region is conducive for the growth of the genus zinjiba now let's see one species of ginger that is known all over the world for its therapeutic properties many of us would have heard from the family members that the ginger has medicinal properties now the species known for this purpose is called as zinjiba officinale rasco here officinale indicates medical properties of the particular species this ginger is consumed as a delicacy or as a medicine or even as a spice this plant is sterile in nature that is it does not produce any seed and it only propagates or it only grows by its rhizomes rhizome is a horizontal underground plant stem that is capable of producing the shoot and root systems of a new plant like ginger the underground stem or the rhizome of this plant has been used as a medicine spice and food in asian indian and arabic traditions since ancient times now let's come to the extent of cultivation of ginger in india ginger is cultivated in many parts in our country it is said that it is cultivated throughout india but large-scale cultivation can be found in south india in warm moist regions it's cultivated relatively lesser extent in bangal and panjab as we saw it also found in northeastern region the ginger species has specific medicinal properties as we have told earlier see in unani classical literature some properties of ginger were mentioned one is that they are good for digestive action then they are good for carminative action now this means it relieves flatulence flatulence is nothing but buildup of gas in the digestive system that can lead to abdominal discomfort so it relieves this abdominal discomfort or this flatulence and it is also an appetizer so if you take it before a meal it will stimulate people's desire to eat more or it will stimulate a person's appetite it is laxative that means it will facilitate proper and healthier bowel movements therefore helping in relieving constipation then it is also anti-emitic that means it will prevent vomiting then it is also anti-tussle that is it will be helpful to prevent or to relieve cough and it also has the properties of vermicide that is it will kill parasitic intestinal worms now if you look at the extracts of ginger say for example ginger oil they exhibit certain properties these are anti-inflammatory properties antioxidant anti-fungal anti-mycobacterial and anti-carcinogenic properties also so this means that they also prevent or delay the development of cancer they work effective against mycobacteria they reduce inflammation or swelling and they can prevent or slow the damage to cells that can be caused by free radicals now the purpose of antioxidant that is they can slow down the damage to cells that can be caused by unstable molecules produced as a reaction to environmental and other pressures these unstable molecules are called as free radicals as we said they are also used to treat fungal infections they are anti-fungal these are some of the medicinal properties of the ginger species and also the extracts from the ginger now we saw it is also used as a spice there are three main products of ginger one is fresh ginger and dried whole ginger or dried powdered and also finally preserved ginger fresh ginger is used widely for cooking in southeast station region and it is also used as a flavoring agent or even also used as a vegetable so these are the uses with respect to the uses spice now it is also applied as a antidote against snake poison this usage of ginger we can find in indonesia and in china there are some poisonous fishes and some poisonous crabs as an antidote against these poison they are applying ginger they are providing ginger so these are some of the uses of this species now let's see the botanical survey of india we saw that the new species of ginger were discovered in nagaland by the scientists from the botanical survey of india it's the topmost or apex taxonomic research organization in our country it works under ministry of environment forest and climate change it was established way back in 1890 at that time the mandate was to explore to collect to identify and document the rich plant resources of erstwhile british india so at that time the objectives was to explore the plant resources and identify plant species with economic value but in 1954 the government of india reorganized this organization botanical survey of india now the objectives are firstly to undertake intensive floristic surveys and to collect accurate and detailed information on occurrence distribution ecology and economic utility of plants in the country and then collecting identifying and distributing materials that could be useful for educational and research institution and it also acts as the custodian of authentic collections in a well-planned herbaria that is it is acting as a custodian of authentic collections of preserved plant specimens and these collections are preserved in botanical museums are maintained in botanical gardens they will also document plant resources in the form of local flora district flora state flora and also national flora so these are the objectives and the functions performed by botanical survey of india now these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article we saw the discovery of two new species of ginger in northeastern region of india then we saw about the medicinal properties we saw that there are around some 20 species of ginger in northeastern region that means climatic factors are favoring growth of ginger in northeastern region then we saw various uses of this ginger we also saw that it is also used as antidote against poisoning by snake or fish or crab then we saw a few facts about botanical survey of india now let's move on to next news article this news article talks about the china pakistan economic corridor see recently the chinese foreign minister has visited pakistan and the china and pakistan have issued a joint statement on cpik and it is reported that this statement had reference on jammu and keshmir and in a response to a query on reference to jnk in the joint statement the official spokesperson of ministry of external affairs he has responded that india rejects the reference to jammu and keshmir in the joint statement issued by china and pakistan after the recent visit of chinese foreign minister and jammu and keshmir is an integral part of india and therefore india has called on both the countries to stop activities related to cpik in pakistan occupied keshmir see india has consistently expressed concerns to both china and pakistan on cpik this is because it passes through the territory illegally occupied by pakistan since 1947 this illegal occupied territory is called as pakistan occupied keshmir see cpik is a part of china's ambitious one-belt one-road initiative it is reported that it's around some nearly 50 billion dollars project it connects kashkar in zhinziang province of china with the guadar port in balochistan pakistan from kashkar to guadar port is cpik it is connected through a vast network of roads and other infrastructure projects such as dams railways pipeline now let's see pakistan's interest with respect to cpik cpik is also associated with energy projects so using those energy projects that are associated with cpik pakistan can meet its energy requirements and it is said that it involves hydro projects nuclear projects and also solar energy projects so from the side of pakistan this corridor is expected to enhance the infrastructure capacity it will also boost its road and rail network in addition to this it will offer employment opportunities these are some of the interests of pakistan in addition to this it will reinforce or strengthen pakistan's claim on the region in which the cpik corridor passes through now coming to china's interest see if the project materialized china will get alternative and reliable access to the middle east since it gets access to guadar port it will give china access to the persian gulf china is the leading funder of this project and it will give china huge commercial benefits and also geopolitical and strategic advantage in this tense neighborhood now from indian side the main concern or probably the most important concern is that it passes through indian territory that is it passes through pakistan occupied kashmir the problem here is by this pakistan violates the shimla agreement signed between india and pakistan it tries to legitimize its climb over pok it wants to internationalize the kashmir dispute which from indian side is not warranted and any dispute related talks with kashmir will be only on pakistan occupied kashmir which india claims as indian territory because of illegal occupation by pakistan since 1947 china may also establish a naval base at guadar port and this will increase the maritime hegemony of china in the indian ocean region and if this materializes it will be a very important part of string of pearls theory as well these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article now let's move on to practice question discussion session this question is with reference to market intervention scheme they have given three statements and are asking to select they're asking to select the correct statements first statement it is a price support mechanism announced by government of india at the beginning of the sowing season for certain crops see if you see the first statement it can be divided into two say first it is a price support mechanism next at the beginning of sowing season for certain crops now regarding this market intervention scheme during the discussion we saw that it is to protect the growers of horticultural or agricultural commodities from making distrust sale so the scheme will provide remunerative prices to the farmers whenever there is surplus in production and whenever that results into fall in prices of commodities prices do not fall in sowing season there is no logic behind it and surplus in production means obviously harvesting season not sowing season so what is the price support mechanism that is announced by government of india at the beginning of the sowing season for certain crops see it is the minimum support price scheme or msp scheme so therefore the first statement is incorrect now the second statement it covers the horticultural commodities and other agricultural commodities that are perishable in nature this statement is correct now let's come to third statement the losses suffered under this scheme or shared on 50 is to 50 basis between central government and all the state governments and union territories this statement on an overall seems correct but we discussed that the share of losses for northeastern states is on 75 is to 25 basis this means all states does not share losses in 50 is to 50 basis therefore third statement becomes wrong so the only the second statement is correct therefore the correct answer is option c to only now this question the term zinziba recently seen in news is related to which of the following the first option talks about vaccine to prevent tuberculosis so what is the vaccine to prevent tuberculosis it is basil galmat gairan or shortly called as bcg vaccine so the second option states it is an exoplanet discovered by Kepler spacecraft of nasa generally normal parlance exoplanet the term is not given to those planets that revolve around the sun so exoplanet is a term that is given to those planets that orbit around other stars or stars other than sun so in the year 2009 nasa launched spacecraft called as kepler the purpose is to look for exoplanets that is to look for planets that revolve around certain stars other than sun the mission has come to an end in the year 2013 in a real exam environment when the time is running out you could seem this option is correct but it is not during today's analysis with the discovery of two ginger species in nagaland in parain district and in demapur district the discovery by botanical survey of india scientist we saw that zinziba is commonly referred as ginger and zinziba is the genus so therefore the correct answer for this question is option c a plant genus now option d talks about a unified mobile application for new age governance launched by the central government they are talking about umang app the app you know the full form of umang is unified mobile application for new age governance so the correct answer is option c a plant genus now this question is with reference to botanical survey of india they have given three statements and are asking which of the above statements are correct now the first statement it is the custodian of authentic collections in well-planned herbaria see in an exam environment you can state whether statement one is correct or not only if you know the meaning of the word herbaria see herbaria consist of the term herb so that is one way we can relate it is talking something with respect to plants we are talking about botanical survey of india see botany is the scientific study with respect to plants so that could be one of the objective of botanical survey of india and it is one of the objective of bsa so that is one way now the actual meaning of herbaria is it means a collection of preserved plant specimens again botanical survey of india is related to botany which is the scientific study of physiology structure genetic psychology distribution and classification and economic value of plants so we can relate it to herbaria therefore the first statement is correct it is one of the objective of bsa and bsa is a custodian of authentic collections in well-planned herbaria so even if you don't know the objective of bsa if your vocabulary is good you can answer this statement so by this we can eliminate option d as it does not have statement one because statement one is correct so now your probability of attempting correct answer has increased from 25 to 33 percent now let's see the second statement it has a mandate to train government and non-government personal carry out research and advise on matters of conservation and management of wildlife resources see it tells that it is training personal it sounds like a duty of an institute because an institute trains personal here the institute they are referring to is wildlife institute of india it doesn't match very well with the survey botanical survey of india and the given statement is the mandate of wildlife institute of india therefore the statement two becomes incorrect so the option b can be eliminated now your probability has increased to 50 percent because you have to attempt either option a or c third statement it works under ministry of earth sciences now this statement is wrong even if they give ministry of agriculture the statement is wrong even if they give ministry of science and technology the statement is wrong this is because bsa comes under ministry of environment forest and climate change so the third statement is also incorrect so only the first statement is correct that means the correct answer is option a one only with this we come to the end of today's the hindu news analysis if you like the video click the like button comment share and subscribe to shankarae's academy youtube channel for more updates and content on civil service exam preparation


Did you know that the Bible reveals five different types of prophetic gifts? Let's look to the Scripture now as we explore these fascinating expressions of the Holy Spirit's power. But first, tell me in the comment section what is your most powerful encounter with the prophetic? Let's look now at the first type of prophetic gift, the Word of Knowledge. We see reference to this found in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verses 7 and 8. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit with all, for to one is given by the Spirit the Word of Wisdom, to another the Word of Knowledge by the same Spirit. The Word of Knowledge is the supernatural acquisition of knowledge. It's the ability to by the Holy Spirit see the situation. I'll give an example. Years ago I was ministering in a house church, and when I looked at the pastor, the Holy Spirit spoke to me. The moment I looked at the pastor, I saw in my mind flashed before me a silver car, and I saw the silver car get into a car accident. And I knew by the Spirit that the person in the car was a woman. And so I asked the pastor, Pastor, do you know a woman who drives a silver car who was recently in a car accident? His jaw dropped, his eyes opened wide, he was shocked. He said, yes, my sister drives a silver car, or she drove a silver car. And she was in a car accident just a couple weeks ago. And then the Holy Spirit gave me the next instruction. You know, we prophesy in part. He showed me why he revealed that. The Holy Spirit in that instant gave me a word for his sister. So he called his sister on the phone. She couldn't believe that the Holy Spirit had revealed that she thought that they had told me. But of course it came by the Holy Spirit. It was the word of knowledge in action. So I was able to give her a prophetic word.  That was knowledge that he had acquired through natural means. Someone told him that his sister was in a car accident. All of the family members present there knew that the sister drove a silver car and that she had been in a car accident. They had the natural acquisition of that knowledge. But the Holy Spirit gave me that same knowledge through supernatural means. So the word of knowledge is knowledge about a situation, the past and the present, and he gives you that knowledge through supernatural means. So it's something that you could otherwise know, but that you know instead by the Holy Spirit. An example of this is found in John chapter 4, when Jesus is ministering to the woman at the well. He, by the Spirit, was able to tell her all about her past and her present. And in response to that supernatural demonstration, the woman believed the gospel. In both the Old and New Testament, we see examples of prophetic figures revealing information about people's past and present through supernatural means. So the word of knowledge is the ability to by the Holy Spirit see the situation. It's the supernatural acquisition of knowledge, and it has to do with the past and the present. Let's look at number two. The second type of prophetic gift, the word of wisdom. Now the word of wisdom uses the same reference as the word of knowledge, 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verses 7 and 8. And the word of wisdom is very similar to the word of knowledge in that people can acquire wisdom through natural means. There's worldly knowledge and there's worldly wisdom. There's supernatural knowledge and there's supernatural wisdom. So the word of wisdom is the supernatural acquisition of wisdom. With the word of knowledge, you can see the situation by the Spirit. But with the word of wisdom, you can see the solution by the Spirit. The word of wisdom empowers us to operate in God's instruction. It is that purposeful pool by the Holy Spirit on our lives. Examples of this are Solomon and Joseph, dream interpretation. Anytime that we saw the Holy Spirit helping an individual navigate a difficult circumstance, they were operating in something like unto the gift of the word of wisdom, which is a prophetic expression. It's to receive something from God that becomes useful information in the natural realm. So that is the word of wisdom, the ability to by the Spirit see the solution. So far we have number one, the word of knowledge, the ability to see the situation. Number two, the word of wisdom, the ability to see the solution. Now number three, we have the gift of discernment. This is the ability to see the Spirit. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 10 says to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another diverse kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. The gift of discernment is the ability to see the Spirit behind the message, behind the motive, and behind the ministry. Really, categorically speaking, every message, every motive, every operation will fall under either the satanic, the secular, or the Spirit. Now the gift of discernment is that prophetic ability to be able to tell where it falls in its category. Is it satanic? Is it of the world? Or is it of the Holy Spirit? Now people who operate in the gift of discernment usually see things before others see them. They usually catch things that no one else catches. Having said that, let me make this clear. The gift of discernment is not the gift of criticism. The gift of discernment is not the gift of suspicion. All too often I think that people have issues with the way ministries operate in their methodology or style. And because it contradicts their own personal preference, some people try to excuse their dislike of a ministry or of an individual by saying something like, well, something just doesn't sit right in my spirit. Well, first of all, the Holy Spirit is specific when he reveals these things to you. It's not as if he's just whispering, I'm not going to tell you what it is, but something isn't right about this. No, the Holy Spirit will be able to use the Scripture to pinpoint what the problem is. So when something is vague, it's likely that it's your own preference or your own emotions that you're confusing for the voice of the Holy Spirit. You know, the gift of discernment doesn't just point out the negative. The gift of discernment can also point out when something is positive. So if all you ever do is point out the negative, if all you ever do is criticize, then it's likely not the gift of discernment because if it was the gift of discernment, you would also often say this is of the Holy Spirit. It would be specific and it would include all of the different things that can be discerned, the secular, the satanic, and the spirit. The gift of discernment is more than just personal preference. It's not your own suspicions and it always goes below the surface. It is not surface level analysis. It's the ability to see the spirit behind what's going on. Number four, insight, and this is the ability to see the soul. I'll explain that in a moment. Matthew 12, 25, Jesus knew their thoughts and replied, any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A town or family splintered by feuding will fall apart. First Corinthians chapter 14, verses 24 and 25. But if all of you are prophesying and unbelievers or people who don't understand these things come into your meeting, they will be convicted of sin and judged by what you say.  Now, let me make this clear. I am not saying that anyone has the ability to read minds. You do not have the ability to read people's minds and if anyone ever claims that they're not being biblical. Rather, what you're seeing is what God reveals. God sees what happens in the mind. God sees what happens in the soul and he can share this with you if he so chooses. Years ago, I was ministering in Southern California and I gave an altar call. The people packed the altar and as I ministered, walking back and forth across the platform, I was praying for them, asking for God to give them an encounter in his presence. And as I'm pacing back and forth, I hear someone shout, show me your glory, show me your glory, show me your glory. They were asking the Lord to reveal his glory to them. And then I looked over and I saw the boy who was praying that prayer. I pointed my finger at him and I said, you just asked God to show you his glory and so now you're going to have an encounter in his presence. While the power of God came over him, he hit the floor and was completely transformed by the Holy Spirit's power. After the service, he comes up to me and he said, how did you know what I was praying in my mind? I said, what do you mean? He said, how did you know what I was praying in my mind when I was asking God to show me his glory?  You were shouting it out. You were praying it aloud. He said, no, I never said that out loud. It's what I was praying in my mind. Now, again, I do not have the ability to read minds. So that's not where I'm going with this, nor is this a story about my ability to hear God. This is simply a story about the demonstration of power that comes only by the Holy Spirit. It's his power. It's his demonstration. It's his glory. But this is a great example of how this might work. The Holy Spirit can reveal the thoughts and intents of the hearts of others. This doesn't mean that you yourself can see that. It means that the Holy Spirit can, and when he so chooses, he can reveal it to you. That's a great advantage in life that you know the one who knows the hearts and minds of others. So far, word of knowledge, see the situation. Word of wisdom, see the solution. Discernment, see the spirit. Insight, see the soul. Number five, prophecy, see the future. Now, this is probably the one that most people are familiar with when we talk about prophetic ministry, the ability to see the future. Mark chapter 8 verse 31 says, He then began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. Now, there are many examples that I could have given you from the Scripture, but this is the example of Jesus describing his future. He was prophesying what would happen to him. When you flow in the prophetic gift that is prophecy, the traditional gift that we're all familiar with, this is the ability to see the future as God reveals it. Now, as I mentioned with the previous point, this is not your ability. This is not your insight. This is God's insight that is sovereignly revealed as he desires to give the prophecy is the ability to see the future.  Let's pray right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, we thank you for these beautiful expressions of the prophetic ministry. Lord, help us to keep these gifts in the right perspective that we might continue to seek you above all else. And Lord, as we seek you, reveal to us the prophetic gifts and abilities that you've placed in us. Father, I pray for that when receiving this now and I ask you to begin to show them, reveal to them the prophetic gifts you've placed within them. We thank you for these wonderful gifts, Lord. Help us to use them unto your glory. We pray in the mighty name of Jesus. I want you to say, because you believe it, say amen. Well, if you enjoyed this teaching, don't forget to leave a like and also make sure you're subscribed to EncounterTV. Click the notification bell when you do subscribe. And before you turn this video off or click on the next thing, I want to challenge you to get involved. Look, we have thousands of supporters all around the world who are all doing their part. We need you to do your part too. Consider today supporting the work of this ministry through giving a one-time gift or becoming a monthly ministry supporter. For more information on how you can support the ministry, just go to davidhernan as ministries.com slash donating. 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Who is one athlete that you could always count on to cash out your bets? OBJ and OBJ. I got to go with J-Mon Green. He always gets those 10 assists from me at 10 rebounds every game. Awesome, Matthews. For sure. 100%. Jalen Brunson over assists. Recently, Joe Burrow this season. I don't know, maybe some Patty Mahomes action in this group. Patty Mahomes touchdowns or passing yards? Passing yards, passing yards.


behind us yesterday. If you haven't watched yesterday's video, don't forget to go back and check that one out first. Gotta watch them in order, otherwise nothing makes sense. There's only, what, 2000? What are we on? 2084 today? I've been doing this a little while. If you're new, good luck. You can just start from here if you want to. Got lots of stuff for you to watch. So from here, we're going into Ontario. And I'm going to find a spot to sleep. Somewhere up there tonight, not too sure where. I'm going to cross through Detroit into Windsor. We'll see what life brings us. It's another exciting day. I have eight drops on this load, all in Ontario. Starting in, I have one in London, Oshawa. I think there's one at Brantford and then Oshawa. There's a couple more. Carmichael, I think. North Bay, Ottawa, and then we end off in Dorval, Quebec. So it'll be most of the week. It'll be most of the week. A lot of them are very small deliveries, just like two or three boxes. And there's a couple of them that are like a hundred and some boxes. So it's all on the floor. I've got a hand bomb at all off, or at least tailgate it, bring it to the back for them. So I'll get my workout out of it as well. It should be fun. Let's get on the road, shall we? Not going anywhere without first dust in this place. Man. Diesel, I'm going to have to start charging you. He goes outside and somehow collects every morsel of dust that he can in his fur. And then he comes in here and he shakes, and somehow it is evenly dispersed and spread over the entire truck. It's a talent of his. I'm actually pretty proud of him. It's very nice. Everyone's got to be good at something, right? All right. Now we're ready to go. Travel center number 468 in Gilman, Illinois. Grab a shower here. The parking is to the left, but the only parking they have? I guess the parking is to the left. What a weird parking lot. Weird parking situation here. Where's their parking over there? Oh no, they got more parking over here. Okay. Some of these truck stops are uniquely set up. That's okay as long as we can figure it out. It's hard to eat healthy on the road. It really is. I got a fridge in the truck here where I can keep some groceries. Not too much though. You got to stop pretty often to get groceries if you want to make food for yourself in the truck all the time. I try to do that as much as possible, but I do find myself eating out every now and then in a restaurant maybe twice a month. A good majority of the time, I'll be grabbing stuff like this right here. These are my favorite. They're not really the best for you, but it's a barbecue rib sandwich. It's not an ad, but they're delicious. They're just not the best for you. It's sometimes tough to find good food that's healthy that you can make for yourself in the truck because if you eat out every meal every day, you're going to be spending a fortune on food. However, you stop at a Walmart. You stock up on some groceries. You make the food for yourself in the truck. You'll save yourself hundreds and hundreds of dollars every month, if not every week. To get on the border here, the last state to go through before Ontario, beautiful state for colors in the fall. This part of the state hasn't quite changed. You can see a little bit of red poking through here and there already, but like I said, the other day in Wisconsin, give it a couple of weeks. Brightly colored. Entering Michigan, changing time zone. Michigan changing time zone. Okay. Eastern time now. Good to know. Good to know. Clocks just jumped an hour. You on this road for 121 kilometers. I don't think so. Okay, Diesel. No steps this time, Kay. Got a nice soft landing right on the grass. Sometimes I don't make them use the stairs. If I can park up right against a curb like this, then the drop isn't very far down to the grass and it's softer than landing on cement, right? And I want them to still be able to jump up and down every now and then. I don't want to totally baby him and make him use the steps all the time and then have his body get even weaker. It's good to use your muscles every now and then. He's nine years old now, so we'll see. I'm careful with him. I don't want him to have any back or shoulder issues and part of staying healthy is staying active. I realize that we live in a truck and that's not very active. So every day, if we can, especially when the weather is nice, we try to get out and get moving at least.  We at least walk, you know, try to get a couple of miles in or like today I'm not going to be walking a couple of miles around this rest area, but just to get out of the truck, you know, smell the fresh air, let him sniff around. It's good for you, especially as truck drivers. We have to keep ourselves active. You know the average lifespan of truckers in the United States at least? I'm pretty sure it's the same in Canada. The average lifespan is 65 years old. That's the life expectancy. And that has a lot to do with the fact that we sit for a living.  Sometimes it's difficult to remember to get active, get your heart pumping. The way I like to say it or the analogy I like to use is, you know, before we had DEF, if you let your diesel engine idle overnight, maybe to stay warm or cool overnight so you don't, so you get a good sleep in the morning, when you would start that engine working or when you would start working that engine, you'd get out onto the highway, you get all that blue smoke pouring out behind you, right? It's all that crud that gets built up inside your engine when you idle. Now we have exhaust systems and emission systems and stuff that prevents it from doing that, but that doesn't mean it's not still doing that. It's really not good for a diesel engine to idle. It's not good for your heart to idle either. You know, the more you let your diesel engine idle, the more crud and garbage that gets built up in there, plugs things up, starts running at lower capacity, starts burning more fuel, and eventually, you know, it can cause some bigger problems.  You guys know what I'm talking about, right? If you just let your heart idle all the time and you never get your heart beating day after day after day for years, some of us drivers you have to admit we don't get our heart pumping for years, maybe even for decades. Some guys never get out of their truck really and it's really bad for you.  The statistics show that a truck driver's life expectancy is 65. If you want to beat that and live longer than that, you have to get your heart pumping.  You don't have to have this big routine. You don't got to get out of your truck and do push-ups and jumping jacks. It just means get your body moving. We can't sit. We're not designed to sit. The human body is designed to work. But enough on that. I think you guys get the point. That's why we try to get out and walk as much as we can and I'm not the expert on this. I'm not the best at this. We don't get out nearly as much as we could. I'm working on my belly as well but I try to anyways and it's important for diesel too, right? It's not good for anybody. All organisms and all bodies are meant to be moving, not sitting. That's my lecture for today. I hope you liked it. Diesel, diesel, hold on. I'm wearing these like crocs. I use them because they're really convenient. You can just slip them on and off and I like to try to save my work shoes because they're sketchers and they're very expensive. So when I'm just going out of the truck for a short walk or going into the truck stop, I just slip on my crocs and they're waterproof, right? They don't got those holes in there. Sure they look ridiculous and my wife makes fun of me relentlessly for wearing them. But they're pretty comfy and they're quick to put on and off and they're cheap. You can get them at Walmart. I know. I talk about the trees a lot but I like nature. I do. Look how huge these trees are here. Look at that thing. Wow. I kind of want to climb it. Diesel, should I climb a tree? I don't think I will. But look at that. Wow. How old do you guys think this tree is? Diesel, what do you think? No, no, no, not that one Diesel. Not that one. That one's mine. That one's mine. It says the dog run is along the back fence. Well here's the back fence. I don't know if dog run means something different here but where I'm from, a dog run would imply that there is a fenced in area for a dog to run around in. Even if they do want them on a leash, like the sign said, they want them on a leash. I don't see a dog run here anywhere.  I'm expecting a fenced in area. A lot of truck stops are actually installing those kind of dog runs now. It's really cool.  Got little water bowls there for them and everything. It's pretty cool. All right. So this is where we are. We're still I guess in western, southwestern Michigan here. You can see the great lakes there. That's what we're headed to. So got little ways to go yet. This is 383 kilometers. I hear you. I hear you. What's that in my little trucker, Josh? I know. You guys in your system of measurement, I'm telling you. You guys are pretty awesome but your systems of measurement are interesting to say the least. So what did I say? 383 kilometers divided by 1.61. About 238 miles. That's much we've got to do today yet. Let's get out of here. Well, we're here in Detroit. Detroit, Michigan. We're about to, there it is, bridge to Canada. They're going to charge me again. They're going to pay, I have to pay to leave. 500 meters. Key to the right on I-96 and N. Key to the right in 200. Or maybe you said I have to pay to go home. I've mentioned this before, right? Where do I got to turn right here? Yeah, this is a, here we go. We don't want to go to Lansing. We want to go to Canada. 200 meters. Key to the right on I-96 east. Where's the dotted line start? There we go. There you go. See, I don't know if, like I mentioned it before, I don't know if Canada is charging me to go home because they don't want me back, or if America is charging me to go home because they don't want me to leave. I don't know. But the bridge costs, I don't know what it costs. It gets billed straight to the company through the license plate, I think, or I don't know. Most toll booths now don't have actual people in it anymore. Just get straight billed to the company. I think it's something like what, 25 bucks or something? Somewhere in there. 20, 25 bucks. Bridge to Canada. This away. And one more. Find South I-96 and then change to the left at 650 meters. Why does that say South Toledo? Tuladu. I don't want to go to Tuladu. You can see the bridge already off to the left, just ahead of us out there. The Ambassador Bridge. The most busiest border crossing between Canada and the United States. The busiest commercial. I think, what did they say? Like a billion dollars worth of trade crosses this bridge every day? Or is that along the whole border? I forget what the stats are. I think it's a billion dollars a day. I don't know, lots. Not too many cars going over the bridge anymore, though. I can't wait until this whole thing is over and everything goes back to normal. I just stopped in here at the parking. I guess this is the duty-free parking. Make sure I get all my paperwork and everything in order. Everything all ready for them. So when I get to the window, I'm not scrambling, looking unorganized. That's always fishy. You always want to know where you went, where you're going, who you are. If you have any suspicious things with you. I'm just joking, but I'm getting tired. You want to know how many days you've been outside the country, where you went, where you're going, what you're hauling. You don't want to be sitting there with your tongue tied at the window at customs. It just doesn't look good for you. So we came down. When did we leave? We left. Let's look at the calendar here. The calendar, it is Saturday today and I left on, what? Didn't I leave on, often Wednesday, right? So one, two, three. We've been in the US for three days. We went down to Rosane, Wisconsin and then picked this up in Arthur, Illinois. It's going up in Ontario here, eight drops. Let's go. What's really interesting at this board, I've noticed that I know about, they want us to wear our masks. When you get to the window and until you leave, they want you to have your mask on. But I'm wondering, how do you know it's me then? They don't ask to confirm your identity or anything. They just, you just wear them. Anybody can steal my ID and use it to get across the border. All they got to do is put on a mask and have like similar eyes to me and that's kind of sketchy. If you ask me, I don't know. I think it'd be better to have no masks because the borders I cross that usually in like Pemberton, Emerson, no masks are allowed there because they want to see your face, obviously. This one's different and this was the busiest one too. That's weird. Hasn't turned his lights on. There's no idea. Try to signal them, turn my lights off, turn them back on. Okay, so I went a little overboard. I regret nothing. Sometimes you just get the sugar cravings.  I get it. The irony did not pass by me there. Well, another day is done. I'm gonna vacuum up Diesel's bed here and then take this sheet off of here. I had an interesting experience just now. Let me tell you about it. Let's sit down for this. This is kind of freaky. So we parked here for the night, found a good spot and I put the steps out for Diesel and he crawls down. I'm taking him for a walk and I'm about to have the big open grass area, right? Nobody's around. Walking on my... Maybe I'll take him off the leash. Middle of the night, you know. What could possibly go wrong? So as I'm thinking about this, I'm turning around to look at Diesel to go and take his... Take the leash off, right? And unclick it so he can run. I turn around and Diesel is staring at something in the distance. I'm looking at him like, what are you looking at?  It was like a gang of skunks.  And I'm like, oh no. I thought they were going to go running away. So I was trying to yell at them without waking up everyone around here. I was yelling at them, trying to like, you know, intimidate them to get them out of here.  I don't know.  They didn't run away. They started moving towards us, staring me straight in the eye, slowly walking closer and I had to lunge at them and come back and lunge at them and come back. I was trying to get them to get away from me and get away from my truck, right? They were sitting right outside the truck here and they just kept marching towards me, staring me down. All of them. I didn't think, I don't think they wanted to play. So we didn't literally run. We walked briskly away, even though Diesel didn't want to. And they just kept following us. The skunks here are different. A different breed, I think. Usually wild animals would run away. No. This guy, he wanted to fight, prowling around and marauding around the parking lot here. I went around the corner and there's a driver sitting out there just relaxing outside his truck. I guess he's a night owl just like me.  He's like, oh, I know I've seen them. They've been prowling the parking lot. Like really? So he's seen them too and he's been had his eye out for them because they're a little aggressive. They'll come at you. We're being terrorized by a gang of skunks. Do skunks usually act like this? I don't know much about skunks. Don't they avoid humans? Do they like hunt us down in packs now? 2020 can't get any crazier. So they're around my truck here right now. They went around and underneath and I quickly got diesel in the truck and I threw the steps in underneath there. I took a look around. I couldn't see them where they went. So I quickly jumped in his door. I didn't even go around to my side because they were probably waiting there for me to ambush me. So I got in diesel side over here and I closed the doors and I locked the door so they couldn't get in. But they're out there.  What is this place coming to? Ontario. You've got a gang problem. Yikes. So that's my story. I figured that'd be kind of entertaining for you. I've been talking for like five minutes now. I've never had that happen before. Every time I've seen a skunk in the past I just, you know, sort of yell at them, wave my arms and they go running off. Oh, these guys came. They came towards us and another driver said he came at them too. Or that the gang of skunks came for him too. They'll chase you down. What do they want? What are they going to do when they catch you? Surround you and like just like take turns spraying you? That's just mean. I'm going to take you guys out with me in the morning. Okay. And we're going to find these buggers. Diesel. I think I'm going to leave you inside for this one because I don't actually want to fight with them but I do want to get them on the vlog. I don't know where they went now. They did go all around my truck. I've been waiting for them to pop out again so I can show you. But I guess tomorrow or skunks, are they nocturnal? Do they come out just at night? I hope so because I don't want to deal with them all day tomorrow too.  Seriously, a gang of skunks. How many diesel? How many do you think there were? There had to have been at least six? Seven? Half a dozen? Full grown skunks just prowling. Never seen that. I've been trucking for nine years over the road now. I've seen all kinds of stuff. Never seen a gang of skunks that are aggressively chasing down drivers. It's kind of funny but caught me off guard. Got my heart pumping a bit. Why are you coming after me man? What do you want? I've got nothing for you. So tomorrow I'll try to find them without getting sprayed. See if I can get them on the vlog. I don't know if they're nocturnal. I'm pretty sure they only come out at night. During the day they're probably going to be sleeping but we'll see what we can do. If I see them around here again I'll pull out the camera. I don't smell them so that's good. Maybe they moved on to the next driver already. It's like they wait in like the bushes here until the driver gets out of their truck. For me it was when I was walking diesel. The other guy it was when he went to go take a shower. The other guy was out of his truck. Who knows? Probably went inside got a probably a shower as well.   Threaten to spray you if you don't give them a give them your wallet. I don't know. We're gonna figure this out tomorrow though. I'm gonna stay inside my truck for now. I'm not really scared of skunks. I just really don't want to get sprayed and it was kind of weird how they were aggressive. Oh well. All is good now. It's 2020. I'm not really surprised anymore. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit the like button.