Hello everyone, welcome back again to the Indian News Analysis by Shankar Iyer's Academy for the day 15th April 2021. These are the list of news articles that we will be discussing today and they are provided along with the page numbers of different editions. And also the link for the Android and Notes in media format and the time stamping for the discussed articles is given in the description box as well as in the comment section for the benefit of our aspirants. Now let us move on to the analysis of the first news article. Now look at this article. This article is about the judgment of Supreme Court regarding professional education. See according to the Supreme Court the access to professional education is not government largesse. See here largesse means generosity or gift or charity. So in this context let us see in detail about the Supreme Court's observations regarding the access to professional education. The syllabus covered by this article is given below. Now before going into the observations let us see why this case was filed. See two students from Ladakh they were nominated by the Union Territory Administration for MBBS studies and they were allocated seats in the prestigious Lady Hardinjant, Maulana Asad Medical Colleges. But the problem here was they weren't admitted. So following this the students moved to the Supreme Court claiming that the fundamental right to education was at the whims and fancies of the government authorities. So what happened is a bench was set up to take up this case and this bench pronounced the verdict in favor of the Ladakh students. Also the bench ordered that the students should be admitted within a week to the respective colleges to which they were assigned. Now along with the judgment the Supreme Court also made some observations which will play a huge role in accessing professional education. So now we will be looking at the observations made by the Supreme Court in this regard. See according to the Supreme Court the state has an affirmative obligation to facilitate access to education at all levels. In addition to that court also stated that this affirmative obligation assumes far greater importance for those students whose background imposes formidable obstacles on their path to accessing quality education. To put it in simple words if caste, class, gender, religion, disability and geographical region obstructs a person from getting educated then the government has got greater responsibility in providing access to quality education. Note that the Supreme Court also took this case as an opportunity to highlight the importance of creating an enabling environment to make it possible for students to pursue professional education. See the right to pursue higher or professional education has not been explicitly spelt out or mentioned as a fundamental right in path 3 of the constitution. When you look at article 21a guaranteed in the path 3 of the constitution it only talks about free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of 6 to 14 years as a fundamental right. So we can see here that it doesn't mention professional education. But according to the Supreme Court just because the professional education is not explicitly spelt as a fundamental right the access to professional education cannot be at governmental charity or generosity. And to support its stand the Supreme Court also referred to the vision that was envisaged by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. See the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a UN body of 18 independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its states parties. And this International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a multilateral treaty that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly back in 1966. And this Covenant commits its parties to work towards the granting of economic, social and cultural rights. And you should remember India is a signatory of this Covenant. Now on coming back to the article, see one of the clauses of this Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states that as an empowerment right education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalized adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities. See this clause stresses the importance of education especially in the upliftment of weaker sections of society. And the Supreme Court has aptly referred this clause to support its judgement. Now finally the Supreme Court recommended for the appointment of a nodal officer to ensure that the students were duly nominated where admitted in their chosen course of study. See according to the Supreme Court such an institutional framework will ensure that students are not left out due to the lack of help in securing their legitimate admission to the appropriate course. So with this information let's now move on to the next news article. Our next discussion will be based on this news article. See the issue is on April 7th the freedom of navigation operation was conducted by the U.S.'s John Paul Jones which is U.S.'s 7th Fleet Destroyer and this operation was conducted in just 130 nautical miles west of Lakshadweep but without India's consent. And this invited controversy taking ground from the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The syllabus relevant for this news article is given below for your reference. On a 10th April in the news analysis we had a discussion on the freedom of navigation operation. So now let's take a moment to refresh on it. First of all freedom of navigation simply means the freedom of movement for ships. It is a principle of customary international law that ships flying the flag of any sovereign state shall not suffer interference from other states apart from the exceptions provided in the international law. We know that they are one of the principle tools by which the United States challenges maritime claims deemed excessive under international law. And the United States Navy has conducted the freedom of navigation operations all over the world for nearly the past 40 years. And as we know this freedom of navigation operation was conducted well within India's exclusive economic zone. Already on a 13th April discussion we saw about the exclusive economic zone briefly but today let's go slightly deeper into it. See the exclusive economic zone is defined under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea which is commonly called as the Law of Seas. This convention gives four fold classification of marine resource and they are internal waters, territorial waters, contiguous zone and high seas. And now let's see about them one by one. Internal waters encompasses those areas with a land boundary of the sovereign state and this can be estuaries, lagoons etc. And note that the nation has got complete jurisdiction over it whatsoever. However innocent passage is permitted. You can have a look at this image for better understanding. Next comes the territorial waters. See the baseline measurement of 12 nautical miles constitutes territorial waters. Note that 1 nautical mile is equal to 1 degree of the latitude and it is equivalent to 1.15 mile or 1.852 kilometers. See remember the coastal states have got jurisdiction over the area not only on the surface but also over the soil, under the water, the subsoil as well as airspace. But the sovereignty is limited by innocent passage. Next is the contiguous zone and this zone extends by 24 nautical miles from the coast that is 12 miles from the point where the territorial waters end. And in this contiguous zone the coastal nation doesn't enjoy airspace sovereignty that is any aircraft can fly over the space but the coastal state reserves the right over and under the ocean. And then comes the exclusive economic zone. As you can see in the picture it lies adjacent to the territorial water and even the contiguous zone forms a part of this exclusive economic zone. See this exclusive economic zone extends by 200 nautical miles from the baseline measurement. See here the influence of the coastal state is severely limited but the coastal state can exploit the resources from the seas. And also the right of innocent passage exists. But provocative manoeuvres like that of US's are however prohibited. Last comes the high seas that is the area beyond the exclusive economic zone and this belongs to the global commons. So based on this we can infer that the passage of 7th fleet close to Lakshadweb Archipelago that is 130 nautical miles range seems like a clear violation of the convention. Now on coming to the article the authors have given a brief run through regarding the question of controversy in the article before they get into the details. We already know from the previous discussions that India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea but US isn't. But however the customary international laws bind every country by convention. So the present tussle brings into picture the articles 58 and 87. See article 58 talks about the exclusive economic zone and article 87 talks about the freedom of navigation. When you look at article 87 it states that the high seas are open to all states whether coastal or landlocked. And the freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by this convention and by other rules of international law and it has listed down a few freedoms. And in the second clause it states that these freedoms shall be exercised by all states with due regard for the interest of other states in their exercise of the freedom of the high seas and also with due regard for the rights under this convention with respect to activities in the area. But when you look at clause 3 of article 58 it states that in exercising their rights and performing their duties under this convention in the exclusive economic zone states shall have due regard to the rights and duties of the coastal state and shall comply with the laws and regulations adopted by the coastal state in accordance with the provisions of this convention and other rules of international law in so far as they are not incompatible with this part. So as we can see the freedom of navigation in article 87 is limited by article 58 clause 3 that is by the relevant domestic laws. And remember the Indian law relevant in this regard is the territorial waters, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone and other maritime zones of India Act of 1976. And note that section 7 subsection 9 of this act recognizes the freedom of navigation of the ships of all states but it makes them subject to the exercise of rights by India within the zone. And further for any international convention the nations are permitted to make declaration regarding their acceptability and non-acceptability in tandem with the domestic laws. And the UN convention on the law of the seas provides it under article 310 and in that line even India made a declaration in 1995 reiterating its terms as mentioned in the statute. So rating article 58, article 87 and article 310 together it becomes obvious that United States should have taken Indian consent before performing such maneuvers. This is because arriving at international agreements on crucial issues is difficult and also such violations can make the hard earned international consensus less credible. So therefore it is important for nations to take a responsible course of action. So with this let's move on to the next part of the discussion. Now let's take up this editorial article which talks about citizens trust in public institutions based on the data from the IHDS or the India Human Development Survey. The relevant syllabus is highlighted below for your reference. See trust is the foundation upon which the legitimacy of public institutions is built. And it is very important for the success of a wide range of public policies that depend on behavioral responses from the public. Now for example public trust leads to greater compliance with regulations as well as the tax system. Now in this editorial the authors have taken the data from the India Human Development Survey 2005 and 2012 in order to highlight on how the trust over public institutions varies with each caste. Before moving further let us now have a brief understanding about this IHDS or the India Human Development Survey. See it is a nationally representative multi-topic survey and it is conducted by the scholars from the University of Maryland, the National Council on Applied Economic Research, Indiana University and also the University of Michigan. And this survey was conducted in two rounds and the IHDS I was conducted in 2005 to 2006 and IHDS II was in 2011 to 2012 and IHDS III is yet to come and it is slated for release in the year 2023. Now here you should note that the topics that were covered in the survey were with respect to health, education, employment, economic status marriage, fertility, gender relations and social capital. Here a unique feature of the 2005 and 2012 round of this IHDS is that they provide caste wise data on the trust over different public institutions. See in the survey the trust in public institutions is measured in terms of confidence level which are divided into three categories and the three categories include a great deal of confidence, only some confidence and hardly any confidence. As we know caste hierarchy reflects the socio economic status of the society. When you take India, Brahmins are at the top and they are followed by the high caste and then the other backward caste and all of them that is the Brahmins high caste and other backward caste, they come under the general category and then they are followed by the deprived section which includes the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes and then there is also the residual category termed as others which is mixed but closely related to high castes. Now let us see how these categories trusted institutions. In the 2012 round of the survey a vast majority of households that were surveyed lacked confidence in state governments and compared to the general category OBCs and STs, a higher proportion of under 45% of the scheduled caste displayed a great deal of confidence over state governments and only a very small proportion of the scheduled caste showed hardly any confidence. Now here you should think why SCs or the scheduled cast display so much confidence in state governments when compared to OBCs and STs and for this one of the reasons quoted by the authors is Kota's but here we should know that Kota is accessible even to OBCs and STs. So the main reason for this trend is the reliance on government. See the scheduled caste people are largely reliant on the welfare schemes provided by the state but in contrast to this the scheduled tribes are very much isolated from state schemes that means they are not able to adequately access or avail the social safety nets that are provided by the government. So this can be one of the reasons for their limited trust in the government but when you take judiciary the case is entirely different because a large majority reported a great deal of confidence on the judiciary and when we take caste-wise statistics a large majority of every caste displayed a great deal of confidence and in fact nearly 3 fourths of the scheduled tribes reported a great deal of confidence in the judicial system of the nation and when you look at the trust in the Polis system it is totally opposite because only a lower proportion showed a great deal of confidence in Polis and the lowest trust was found among the scheduled tribes and in fact a high proportion of the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe displayed hardly any confidence over the Polis system. According to the authors this lack of trust is due to the rampant corruption that is happening in the Polis system and also because of its discrimination against lower caste. So based on the data we can infer that the most trusted was the judiciary and it was followed by the state governments and the Polis. Here the authors opined that even though the trust in these institutions rose between 2005 and 2012 the recent accounts indicate a sharp erosion of trust and they point out three reasons for this. They are the lack of inclusivity in state government policies the judicial verdicts that do not confirm to high standards of autonomy and fairness and also because of the brutal Polis actions that violates the rights of citizens. So the author conclude by saying that the government should focus more on inclusion, transparency and accountability and moreover there is an increasing need to educate the citizens and only if all these are implemented seriously the trust of citizens and the public institutions will increase. With this we have come to the end of this news discussion let's now move on to the next news article. Now this news article is with reference to India Russia Defence Day. The article says that both the nations are committed to completing their contract for the HES 400 missile system due to be delivered to India at the end of this year and this comes despite America's repeated threat that the $2.5 billion deal could attract sanctions under its CARSA law. So in this context let us have a brief understanding about S-400 and the CARSA. See the S-400 is one of the most sophisticated surface to air defence systems in the world and the S-400 Triumph is a mobile that is a moving multi-channel air defence missile system and it is designed to engage current and future threats. Know that it has got aircraft jammers, early warning and direction aircraft and also recognisance aircraft. Adding to this it has got the potential to attack strategic aircraft carrying airborne missiles, medium range ballistic missiles and other air attack vehicles by its every electronic countermeasure environment. And remember that it has a range of 400 kilometers and can shoot down more than 50 targets simultaneously. Now to understand how this S-400 works, have a look at this picture. Here the long range surveillance radar will track the objects and it relays information to the command vehicle which assesses the potential targets and then the target is identified and command vehicle orders missile launch and the launch data are sent to the launch vehicle and it releases the surface to air missiles and the radar will help to guide the missiles towards the target. So in brief this is about the missile. Now let's see about the card sound. See it is a short form for countering America's adversaries through sanctions act. Know that it is a specifically enacted legislation of USA and according to some sources its ultimate goal is to prevent the revenue from flowing to the Russian government. So towards that aim the sanctions were meant to deter American transactions but this term has not been defined by the legislation. However the US government classified the purchase of the S-400 system as a significant transaction when it had put sanctions over China. Know that US had already sanctioned China over its purchase of this S-400. Therefore India's purchase of this S-400 system from Russia would also be regarded as a significant transaction and invites mandatory sanctions. And as stated by the legislation the sanctions are to be imposed on the person who knowingly engaged in a significant transaction. So in that case if India purchases S-400 then the person to be sanctioned could either be the Defence Acquisition Council that is added by the Defence Minister or the Defence Procurement Board that is added by the Defence Secretary. I note that the choice of person to be sanctioned would be made by the US President or the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Treasury who has been delegated with these powers. With this information let's now move on to the next news article. Look at this news article. We by now are aware that the newly elected US administration is pulling out from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of long drawn war with the Afghanistan Taliban group. And in this context along with the US the NATO is also withdrawing. Statistically speaking, US is the second largest troop contributor right now in the Afghan which is around 2,500 troops and NATO has got about 7,000 troops on ground. Most of the NATO troops they rely on the American air province not only for firepower but also for moving in and out of the landlocked nation through the difficult terrain. With US pulling out NATO pulling its troops out also becomes a necessity on considering this technical difficulty. The troop withdrawal however hasn't been a quick one and the reduction in presence has also been gradual. With the withdrawal of US and NATO henceforth the security will depend on the Afghan police and military forces that were trained through Operation Resolute Support. So what is this Operation Resolute Support? See the Resolute Support is a NATO led mission to train, advise and assist Afghan national defence and security forces and institutions and this Resolute Support operates with one central hub in Kabul and four spokes in Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Kandahar and Lagman. Note that this mission has even been ratified by the Afghan Parliament. Now through this article it is also known about NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation which was officially laid down on 4th of April 1949 of the North Atlantic Treaty which is more popularly called as the Washington Treaty. Now this treaty sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies that were stationed in Central and Eastern part of Europe after World War II and this NATO has got its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. At present it has got 30 members and in 1949 there were 12 founding members of the Alliance which included Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, UK and the US. And apart from these the other member countries include the Greece and Turkey, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, Albania and Russia and Montenegro and North Macedonia. But here you should know that major countries like Japan, Australia, India, China, Russia, Sweden and Finland are not its members and you can look at the map for a better understanding. You should also remember one more thing the essence of NATO is enshrined in Article 5 of the treaty wherein the attack on one member is perceived as an attack on every other member and this article for the first time was invoked following the 9-11 attacks. Having done with the news discussion let us now move on to the practice question discussion. Now look at this question consider the following statements with reference to S 400 triumph sometimes seen in news. Statement 1 it is a surface to air missile system. Statement 2 it is capable of destroying incoming or style aircraft, missiles and even drones within a range of up to 1500 kilometers. So we need to find the incorrect statement. So when you look at the first statement it is correct but the second statement is incorrect because the maximum range of S 400 missiles are 400 kilometers and not 1500 kilometer. So therefore the right option is option B that is 2 only. Look at this prelims practice question with reference to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Consider the following statements. Statement 1 it was formed in heights of cold war during 1970s. Statement 2 it is headquartered in Washington. See NATO was formed in 1949 after the World War II in order to counter the Soviet influence. So therefore statement 1 is wrong. And when you take statement 2 as we saw in the discussion, the headquarters of NATO is in Brussels, Belgium and also in Washington. So statement 2 is also wrong. And since the question wants us to find the correct answer, the right option is option D that is neither 1 nor 2. The list of main practice questions is displayed here. You can write your answers and post them in the comment section below. And with this we have come to the end of today's video. So if you like the video, don't forget to like, comment and share. 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The general superintendent of Assemblies of God Church has condemned the persistent widespread insecurity across Nigeria. Speaking in Orly, Rev. E. G. K. M. A. Jim lamented that the situation has led to loss of lives and other vices across the country. The Collegiate Men and his colleagues called on government at all levels to be productive and tackle the menace in the country. They also called on all men of God to intensify prayers ahead of the general election to come next year. The person we don't need to call to come into our church, the person in secret society can come into our church, somebody with witchcraft society can come into our church, the armed number can come into our church, everybody living with the freedom and the help of God, and they can come into our church, the kidnappers can come into our church, even men of this church is here. The man that kept him will not be the savior that will be buried in. We see today in the United States and the world, the nation at large, it's just confirming the end time. The Bible says in the end time, in liberty shall abound. So when it is said in liberty, it is all around liberty. If we didn't kill it, if we didn't kill it, we didn't just want to do it without regard in God. What we see today in the United States is insecurity. It's a clear thought mark that people have no regard for God. If there's God in them, if there's the life of God and the world of God in them, you can't see what you're seeing. When you see people who are killing each other in all kinds of things, you're not sure that they don't have God in them, they don't regard God. And they need God.


This study proposes a machine learning based approach to detecting and mapping liquefaction ejecta from aerial imagery using advanced image processing techniques and compares its performance with supervised and semi-supervised learning methods. The proposed methodology considers available partial liquefaction labels as high certainty features and uses a combination of color transformation bands, statistical indices, texture components, and dimensionality reduction outputs to improve classification accuracy. Building footprints are also used to mask out building roofs from the classification process. The study shows that the semi-supervised method performs best when selected high-ranked features of statistical indices and dimensionality reduction outputs are used and can better augment the liquefaction labels across the image in terms of spatial completeness compared to supervised learning. This article was authored by Adela Sadi, Laurie Gaskins-Bays, Christina Sanon, and others.


Okay, so you wanna know if a general studies major or a general studies degree is worth it. Is it gonna be worth going $40,000 in debt and spending four years of your life to get this college degree? All right, so you know the drill, gently tap the like button and we are gonna get right into it. We are gonna answer this question. The first thing we need to think about is what exactly is a general studies degree? Well, of course, I always consult the Oracle, aka Google to figure out what the definition of these different degrees are. And when you type this into Google, inu.edu says what is general studies? It's an extremely flexible focus for a college degree that enables you to strengthen important skills such as communication, analysis, and problem solving. So that doesn't necessarily define exactly what a general studies degree is because there's a lot of different degree paths where you can work on those skills. So in layman's terms, a general studies degree is what you take when you have no idea what you wanna do.  You get to sample a little bit of everything and then figure out what you like later on. Now, I think that's a great idea for you to get into at the beginning of college. You might wanna take a bunch of different classes just to figure out what you like. But in this video, we're gonna talk about whether that's a good idea for you to actually major in. Because here in the United States, there's around 14,000 people every single year that graduate with a bachelor's in general studies. Now, as you can imagine, the typical career paths they end up going down are extremely broad. There's a ton of different ones they could potentially go into. Now, usually these websites will tell you specific career paths that a lot of people who graduate with certain degrees end up going down. But as you can imagine with this one, it's not so simple. However, when I was researching, looking at different videos and different forums of people who've actually gotten this degree, a lot of them ended up becoming paralegals or public relations specialists. But that could have just been by chance that people mentioned those. Now, when it comes to earning potential or salary with a general studies degree, you can expect to make around $41,000 a year starting out and 63,000 in mid-career pay. Compare this to a really good one and a bad one and you'll see that it is definitely on the lower side. So let's say you became a paralegal, for instance. The salary there is gonna be $51,000 a year or $24 per hour. Or you might become a public relations specialist. That one is $61,000 a year or $29 per hour. And this degree would likely fall under the category of a liberal arts degree which they make around $2.1 million over a lifetime which is lower than the average of $2.4 million for all types of degrees. So all of those were below average and think about it, it kinda makes sense. If you were a business owner or a hiring manager, how are you gonna tell what a general studies degree is going to bring to the table? What kind of skills are they gonna be able to do for you? What job would you even put them in? Let's assume that you did have the skills. The whole hiring process takes so much time and energy that they're probably just going to assume that you don't and they're not even gonna give you a chance. So overall the salary here is going to be 4.5 out of 10. Now when it comes to satisfaction, I think there's two important things to consider. And the first one is gonna be meaning or how much you think your career positively impacts the world. So for this degree you can see that the meaning score is around 53% on pay scale and you can compare that to a good one and a bad one and you'll see that it's pretty average. Let's say you become a paralegal, the meaning score is actually gonna go down to 45% which is below average. Cover when you look at job satisfaction which is the second factor which is pretty much just how much you enjoy doing your career on a day to day basis. That is gonna go up to 69%. So that's a little bit above average if you compare it to a good one and a bad one. Now when it comes to how much people regret getting a college degree, it's pretty tough to put this one in a category but social science degrees are probably gonna be the most common classes you take here and that is the fourth most regretted type of degree. Around 29% of people regret it and the main reason is because it's too general and practical and hard to find a job without further studies. Now when the issue is that it's too general and then you're gonna take a general studies degree beyond that, that might become a bit of an issue. Now that being said, when it comes to job satisfaction, there's a lot of things that you have to think about. It could have a lot to do with where you live, the people you work with, your boss, the company you work for, you know all kinds of different things that are pretty much outside of the scope of this video. So this is an extremely subjective section for one person it might be amazing and for another person it might be awful but overall I'm gonna give this one a six out of 10 when it comes to satisfaction. So now we're gonna be talking about demand and let's go back to the paralegal. There is around 337,000 paralegals here in the US and it is expected to grow about 10% over the next 10 years which means 35,000 new jobs will be created. For a public relations specialist, there's 274,000 and it's growing at 7% over the next 10 years. So the jobs themselves are pretty decent when it comes to demand but like I said before there's not really any careers that they commonly go into. Now when you type in general studies degree on monster.com you're gonna see that around 6,000 job listings pop up. You can compare that to an anthropology degree with 800 and that's a pretty bad one and a computer science degree with 141,000 which is a good one and you'll see that it is on the lower side especially with how many people end up graduating with a bachelor's every year. So this one would be considered a liberal arts or a humanities degree and a lot of the time when companies are surveyed about what type of majors they want to hire the next year. Generally speaking, business, engineering, mathematics, technology, those are the ones that are gonna be at the top. Liberal arts, humanities, these degrees tend to be at the bottom. So a lot of the time, business degrees, 80% of the companies are gonna be hiring business degree grads and only around 10 to 20%, sometimes even less than that are hiring liberal arts graduates. And usually the reason is because they're just extremely general. The company is gonna have a hard time figuring out exactly what your skills are and in this case it's even more general because it's a general studies degree. The overall when it comes to demand I have to give this one a four out of 10. Next we're gonna be talking about X factors and this is another relatively subjective section but it's gonna be anything that didn't fall into the other ones that I still think is important. Now when you see how much a degree makes over a lifetime your average degree is gonna make around 2.4 million. If you look at a liberal arts degree which would be probably the closest to this one you'll see that it makes around 2.1 over a lifetime which is lower than average. Keep in mind a lifetime of working would probably be around like 40 years or so and so this is the last 40 years and maybe 40 years from now it could be completely different, who knows. Now I will note here that if you're gonna do a general studies degree you probably wanna have some kind of concentration on something that's on the left side of this chart and not something on the right. So for instance, engineering degrees make 3.5 million over a lifetime and you can see that it doesn't matter pretty much any career path you go down they make pretty decent money. Even if they become an artist they're still gonna make around $3 million over a lifetime for instance. Now when you look at these Zippercruiter skills index there'll be no surprise here that general studies is not on there. However, let's choose that career path that we keep talking about, paralegal studies. That one has a score of 57 out of 100 and you can compare that to a high one and a low one and you'll see that it is on the slightly higher side of things, it's a little bit average maybe slightly above average.  And the main purpose in my opinion especially if you're gonna go $40,000 in debt for college is to learn specialized skills to get specialized knowledge.  There's also a ton of free videos online that are offered by some of the best universities in the entire world. So a lot of Ivy League universities like Harvard for instance offer many of their classes online and they'll even tell you what textbook they're using and they'll give you problems so you can pretty much just go along with them. So if you wanted to be a jack of all trades you could likely teach yourself 99% of these skills on your own. Now we are entering into the age of automation and when it comes to automation and outsourcing the thing that's going to save you from not losing your job is having specialized skills. Same thing for outsourcing. Now you could argue that getting a general studies degree is gonna teach you a lot of intangible or soft skills that are gonna help you in your life in other areas besides financial. And it's possible that they might even help you financially it'll just be a little more indirect.  However, later on in your life when you have those skills it might indirectly help you. Now the thing about a degree being extremely general is the flip side to that is they're also pretty flexible as well. So you're not gonna be pigeonholing yourself into one career or another career but in this particular case it's general but not in such a good way. So I would say if you are gonna get a general studies degree I would highly recommend that you focus on an area that's a little bit more practical so you can get your foot in the door, get your first job. Once you get a few years of experience and you do a good job you probably won't have an issue finding another job. So overall with this one I'm gonna give it an X factor score of six out of 10. So doing the math here all four of them add them up divided by four you're gonna have a score of 5.125 out of 10. You guys know I try to be very fair with these videos and I tell it to you straight that is not very good. I think it's a great idea to take entry level classes and a bunch of different things. Usually the 101 classes especially are really entertaining. I enjoyed taking all kinds of entry level classes and a bunch of different subjects. It was a lot of fun. But this is one of those degrees that's likely not going to be very well respected on the job market and it doesn't really teach you specialized skills. So if you are gonna major in this I would highly recommend double majoring in something else that's gonna be a lot more practical. Better yet it would be a good idea to either minor in it or just take extra classes on the side and things that you enjoy. If money isn't an issue and you don't have to worry about going deep in debt maybe you can consider getting this degree and I'm sure there are some people out there who got general studies degree and it turned out really well for them. But for the most part for the average person I would say this is probably not going to be a good idea. Now if you're somebody watching this video who's already gotten the degree and you want my advice on what you should do at this point I would say focus on learning skills, getting work experience, you know, internships are great and then networking. There are quite a few jobs out there that do require a college degree but don't care which major it is. And so I would look out for those types of jobs. There's a lot of government jobs for instance and those can be really good depending on your personality and what kind of job you're looking for. Now if you want help doing more research on these college degrees I did create a college degree ranker in my Patreon down in the description. In my opinion this is a really convenient tool that will make the whole process much easier and I am going to be updating it in the near future and making it even better. If you haven't done it already go ahead and gently tap the like button, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, comment down below and leave thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera that you have on the video. Share the video that actually helps quite a bit when you do that and don't leave. Check out my other videos right here. I made them just for you.


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Hello everybody, it gives me immense pleasure to be associated with Maddie's 2019 which recognizes mobile marketing excellence across sectors and brands. Mobile for me is becoming a more than a second screen, it's becoming a highly personalized screen that's part of the multi-screen consumption habit that you see everywhere as you look. I think the erstwhile direct marketing is taking a complete leap with mobile being able to deliver high quality audio visual and interactive messaging one on one directly to the consumers. So I am really looking forward to seeing work that's at the cusp of creativity and technology but more importantly that's able to customize to the consumer and is able to touch them enough to become part of not just a one-on-one direct communication that a mobile can deliver but then is shareable across their groups, across their social networks which kind of then takes off and creates the saliency for the brand that it requires. So all the very, very best and I think passion and curiosity to completely experiment is what I think will stand out and create great work. So looking forward.


Well hello and welcome to the vlog! It's Thursday! I've been home for a little while and I am just getting, well I'm on my computer right now but I'm getting stuff ready for the electrician. He is coming over tomorrow morning at 6.30 and I am replacing that fan with this fan. But what I'm doing is I'm actually pulling out all the components and I cleared this thing off there. So I'm going to put everything up here so it's just so much easier for him. He doesn't have to waste his time you know opening up boxes and stuff. So yeah I am replacing the light also in the closet and also the same light in the master closet and then in the master bedroom it'll be a very similar fan as well. They didn't have the same, like I wanted the same fan in the master as here but they didn't have it. Like they only had one. I'm like oh that's weird and then like I think it was like a discontinued one or something but anyway whatevs. So yeah and then um sorry I'm looking at an email or um the there's a fan with like a long tube or whatever um in the lofted area kind of. I don't know I guess it's more in the kitchen if you will. I don't know it's in a weird spot but anyways um that one I love that fan but again it's just like the plain white one and I wanted like all the fans to kind of be cohesive. So that one's getting changed as well and then I've got a couple of things in the garage that I need them to change out. So anyway tomorrow's an electric day and I will be working from home in the morning and then running to the office after that. So yeah that's kind of that's what's going on here. I'm like looking at things on the internet while I'm vlogging multitasking guys, multitasking. So yeah ooh somebody from work friend requested me. I must be real friends now. All right and then oh I was gonna look at this. Okay so I have a meet-up this weekend but I wasn't sure if it was Saturday or Sunday. I'm like I don't really know. Anyway um it's Sunday so that's good at least I know. All right I need to see where this is like I like how you go to this like place that we're supposed to be going. Go to their Facebook page and there's like a map but there's like not a map. It's weird. Oh goodness. All right let's take a peek here. Okay now I see where it is. All right okay it's not I mean everything's kind of far away from me but so yeah it's on Sunday because I was like is it Saturday? I don't know thank goodness I looked.  It's like an unboxing video but it's clearly not. I have a remote for my garage so that um it's gonna get done as well and then this light it's the Patriot Lighting. I got everything at Menards which is like a local hardware store in Minnesota. I don't know if they have them all over the place but they do have Menards.com and um yeah this is the light I got it's very fancy and this is the same light that is in the hallway downstairs as well as the hallway upstairs too. So anyway it's like a hallway light and now going to be a closet light so let me show you what I'm replacing in here. It's just basic lights I don't know they're just very yellow and I really like this one it's an LED one so it doesn't need any light bulbs or anything like that. Wow I just look really red. Whoa um so yeah I don't know I just think that the light quality is going to be so much better and so much brighter and that's what I'm looking for. So yeah these these little bad boys and then where is so I bought this thing on the internet now let me take this down with me because I need this I bought where is it um so my uncle unfortunately uh ruined my what is it called you know like the garage door opener that's on the wall he somehow magically ruin that so I have oh there it is um I was like where is that thing so I'm gonna put this oh and then here is the dismantled one that I just took out of the box um that's gonna go right there that's where it's gonna go and that one's gonna have a light in it as well and all of the fans that I got because I guess we're now in the modern age have remotes so that's exciting so anyway the little you know like the little pad that's on the door or not the door but the wall in your garage I don't know he hit it and then it got ruined um a piece broke off so then now I have a different one to be installed as well so I figured if they were doing that I wanted another garage remote which probably taken like two seconds to put together so it's just all my electrical things but I think I'm just gonna do the one take vlog here because I have um a bunch of stuff to do I mean I just have to like unbox some things and whatever and it's already like 8 30 anyway Doyle dog is over there judging the world and my battery light just started flashing so I've clearly been talking for a little too long and I haven't changed my battery in a couple of days oopsies um so yeah but I will um take you guys along tomorrow tomorrow's vlog will actually be probably a little bit interesting because I am gonna be home and I just might pick up the camera and like do like one minute check-ins and just like show you you know the progress and before and after isn't like that kind of stuff so anyway I'm gonna go and I will see y'all in tomorrow's video and so will Doyle Doyle see you guys tomorrow bye well folks it's time to kick it old school


Hi guys, welcome to Sugar MD channel. Today we are talking about how to kill your sugar addiction naturally. Now some of us are guilty as charged and we know that we have a problem, but we cannot give up on the sugar. Now, how do we really do that? Let's talk about it. I'm Dr. Ahmed Ergen. I'm an under-connologist and a diabetes education specialist and today we are going to kill those sugar cravings. Hi guys, thank you for watching. Quickly, I have a quiz for you in the description below. So after you watch this video, take the quiz, answer the questions. The more questions you answer correctly, the higher the chance and one in three will win a chapter from my book. It's going to be delivered electronically to you, a real chapter from my The Ultimate Diabetes book. So go ahead, finish the video, take the quiz and win. All right guys, so right, so you're diabetes, right? Or insulin resistance or you cannot lose weights and you are looking a way to stop that sugar cravings. Now, number one we have to start with is not eating sugar. Oh, well, it's easier said than done, right? So not eating sugar. That's like a dream to some of us, right? But it is doable and how do you do that? Well, most of the time you have a choice to either go for something just sweet and sugary or something else. Well, if you can tell yourself that this sugar and sweet can wait until after I eat this other food and you can wait. Wait. So they can wait. The thing is, the trick is you are going to trick your body. I don't believe in willpower. There's no such thing as choosing just sugar over something else if the sugar is right in front of you, right?  So you're not staring at them, right?  Take that away from me. That's not what I want to see because it's very tempting. Now what you're going to do, though, I'm going to say, okay, well, let's have a good dinner and we'll think about that dessert.  And in that food, you're going to have a lot of good fat, healthy protein and healthy high fiber, low glycemic index food in that dinner or breakfast, whatever it may be. So you will incorporate these good fats like avocado, olive oil, coconut oil. Some butter is okay. All this is not my favorite, but canola oil, for example, is not too bad either. But again, I think your best best are olive oil and the avocado. Avocado oil, whatever it may be, and then healthy, healthy protein as well. And you are going to, and then a lot of fiber, right? So the salads and stuff like that.  Ta-da! The cravings are gone. So the cravings are gone. Now what's the next step? Now the next step is especially for the bun cheese that comes later during the night, for example, then you sit down in front of a TV and you just want to start eating something. Just want to munch on something. Well, guess what? You should prepare yourself. So when you get up from that couch, go look at the pantry.  You want to grab something because you're craving. It may be due to medications. Again, it's not your fault. It is there. You have to address it. Now you can definitely go for something like carrots and peanut butter. It's definitely going to be better than grabbing some cookies, right?  It will keep you busy. It will keep you satisfied. It will keep you full. Will be a good option.   Now, the most importantly, you don't want to go to bed late because think about this. You know, we normally eat what every, you know, four to six hours. Well, if you're eating dinner at six o'clock, by 10 o'clock, you may start, you know, getting really hungry again. So what's the solution? Go to bed at 9.30. That way you're not going to necessarily wake up from your sleep unless you're extremely hungry or dying and you didn't eat for a day. Maybe you will wake up from the sleep, but typically people don't. So that's going to give you a nice stretch of not eating, which you can call an intermittent fasting, you know, that fasting period. But again, staying late, staying up is just not going to help your cravings because you don't want to be constantly in battle. The best battle, the best war is not going into that war. So that's another suggestion that you need to keep close attention, that you have to time it where you have to be in bed by certain time. Another couple of things you can consider in your diet, you can have to manage your insulin resistance. You can incorporate chromium, magnesium, probiotics in your diet. If you incorporate that, your gut health will improve. And believe or not, the bacteria in our intestinal system determines our fate when it comes to insulin resistance and cravings and so forth. So you need to feed your gut with healthy things, with the healthy bacteria, which is probiotics. And chromium and magnesium is important because they are important in regulating your overall insulin metabolism. So you have to make sure that you're getting either from natural sources or from supplements, preferably from natural sources. Now our supplement, Sugar MD Advanced Glucose Support is also very effective in cutting the cravings. And that is because of the banaba we have in that supplement, quite a bit of amount. And that definitely I get feedback all the time from my patients that the cravings are gone, which is another way to deal with it if you think that you cannot apply all the other principles we already talked about. And finally, make sure you stay hydrated with non-caloric beverages because, you know, when you are thirsty, your body sometimes feels like you're actually hungry, not thirsty. So for example, if you're not thirsty, you're not going to crave for fruits as much or sweets as much versus when you are dehydrated. So keep that in mind as well. 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